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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04379	Newcastles call, to her neighbour and sister townes and cities throughout the land, to take warning by her sins and sorrowes Lest this overflowing scourge of pestilence reach even unto them also. As also a direction, how to discover such sins as are the procurers of Gods judgments by divers methods. By R. Jenison, Dr. of D. Whereunto is added, the number of them that dyed weekely in Newcastle and Garth-side, from May 6. to December 31. 1636.	Jenison, Robert, 1584?-1652.	1637 (1637)	STC 14492; ESTC S107703	57,340	278

Now this is 1. It is frō his 1. Iustice from his Iustice who as hee punisheth all sinne even originall alone with Death so some sinnes with more grievous and remarkeable death and with exemplary judgements Howsoever God doth not inflict either this or any of those other his sore judgements without cause and so hee would be acknowledged whilst hee concludes the mention of these inevitable sentences Ezek. 14.21 23. saying And yee shall know that I have not done without cause all that I have done Of which cause in us more in the next point 2 Wisedome 2. This is also from his wisedome punishing sinne with sutable punishments wee infect one an other by evill example Retaliating sinnes with semblable punishments communication Company-keeping though we call it good fellowship by tempting and inticing one another to sinne by unprofitablenesse in company whereby wee edifie not one an other in the best things so by excesse and abuse of Gods good creatures by Pride in apparell and garishnesse whereby we insnare and tempt others to sinne so by covetousnesse and abuse of trading and such like How wisely then as well as justly doth God meet with us by such a judgement as whereby wee infect one another in body by our breathing touching and accompanying with them and whereby hee breaketh those cursed knots of good fellowes so whereby our very clothes in which we pride our selves doe infect our selves and others to the apparant danger of life it selfe and whereby through famine and poverty which commonly accompany the Plague our excesse and abuse both of Gods good creatures and of trading by oaths cousenage false wares at least covetousnesse and our pride and confidence in regard of our wealth are justly met withall This consideration concerning Vse 1 the Authour of Pestilence To looke chiefly to God is of Vse to us 1. to acknowledge Gods hand providence in it and not to ascribe it either to Chance as the Philistines were ready to have ascribed the disease of Emerods 1. Sam. 6.9 and that great death that did befall them or to second causes or instruments so as to rest in them or to expect helpe from them these are but instrumēts in Gods hand And not 〈◊〉 the Instr●ment whether they be Angels by whom God often smites with Pestilence Or occasion as in the first borne of Egypt and in Davids people or whether it be the Ayre which is infected or any other Person or thing which wee occasionally received infected or by whom or who it at first was brought to our Towne or place or whether the unseasonablenesse of the weather helpe to continue or increase it In all these and the like wee are chiefly to looke to God and not either to complaine or cry out on and curse such as by whom it might seeme first to bee brought unto us though wilfull or rash spreaders of this infection It is his hand which both wounds and must heale should and ought both be inquired after and severely punished or much to hope that when the dog-dayes end or cold weather or winter approacheth then wee shall heare no more of it or at least have it to abate no no wee must both looke higher and expect helpe from an higher hand then all these It is Gods hand that smites whosoever or whatsoever be the rod as Exod. 7.17 compared with 19. and Esay 10.5.6.7 unto this hand wee must chiefly looke This is the hand which is now stretched out against us and which will be stretched out still whilst wee turne not to him that smiteth Isay 9.12.13 neither seeke the Lord of hosts Vse 2 2. This consideration that this wrath and plague is gone out from the Lord Comfort to Gods people in covenant with God and is sent by him as the Author of it may bee for the Comfort of all such as whose God is the Lord and generally of all such as by true sorrow and penitencie by faith by hearty confession of sinne prayer and sacrifice shall seeke unto him as did David this being even in this respect one of Gods gentlest judgements such as holy David did chuse before sword and famine 2 Sam. 24.14 saying Let us fall now into the hand of the Lord for his mercies are great and let me not fall into the hand of man Oh beloved wee have yet to deale with God and not with mercilesse men who have so long waited their time and sought what by open violence as in their Spanish Navie and Forces in Ireland what by secret underminings Pestilence is often a mercy to them as in their Popish Powder-plot and secret workings to bring us under their tyrannie and to judge us with their judgements Great are the mercies of the Lord that we are not as yet given into their hands as too justly we deserve Dying by it as freeing them from greater evils Now if God have a purpose to bring this extreamest of evils upon us of this place or nation and why should wee secure our selves in these our defections from him will it not then bee a mercie to such as are in Christ to bee taken away by this more gentle correction and hand of a mercifull God from greater wrath to come The Lord in mercie took away good King Iosiah even by the sword which he made use of to remove him from those greater and more spreading evils which by the sword also were to befall his people and posterity for no sooner was hee so taken away by the sword of Pharao Necho but his successours and sons and Judah after some bondage under Necho were destroyed many of them by the bands of the Chaldees of the Syrians 2 King 24.2 Moabites and Ammonites but the land was wholly overrun destroyed captived by King Nebuchadnezzar How much rather may he remove his chosen from the raging evills of the sword and fury of the oppressour by withdrawing them with his owne hand and fetching them home to himselfe by this messenger of Death the plague 2 Chron. 7.13 for what is pestilence else but a messenger of Gods sending now if God please to call home any of his children by it why should they be afraid or too much dismayed true it is a messenger of a grim countenance and knocks at the doore somewhat fiercely and so before it bee acknowledged or well considered of it may terrifie a beloved heire but when hee shall perceive it is no other but his fathers servant to fetch him home and that from greater dangers where he is the feare abates and he goes with him cheerfully In this case our chiefe businesse will be to see that God be ours in Christ and to make our peace with him This once done we need not fear what kind of death we die seeing it befals us by the providence appointment yea hand of our mercifull father That which is sent in wrath to others shall befall

grounds of it and 3. The use of all by way of Inference which we must chiefly insist upon though the former haue their speciall reasons and uses also 1 The Malady The evill is here called with respect to God Wrath or hot anger with respect to man a Plague 1 Wrath. First by wrath here we understand some judgement and effect of such anger and displeasure as is in God himselfe What is meant by wrath wherby being truely and inwardly displeased within himselfe with sinners and alienated in his loue from them for their sinn hee manifests so much by some reall tokens of the same Quest 1 Quest 1. How is wrath in God How is wrath in God Answ Answ Not properly as an affection though even so it was in Christ God Man yet without sinne or perturbation and as pure water put into a pure and cleane glasse which being jogged and moved retaines its clearenesse still and not as commonly it is with us who sin in our anger through the muddinesse which i● in us through natural corruption It is said to be i● God in regard of that tru● displeasure and dislike o● our sin whereby he truly hates it and is contrary to it and to sinners ready to extirpate both sin and sinners yet without any perturbation griefe or disquiet within himselfe howsoever what God speaks after the maner of men we must understand so as becomes the high holy majestie of God Quest 2 Quest 2. How goes wrath out from God Answ Ans How goes wrath forth from God When hee manifests this his inward dislike of sin and contrariety against sinners by some outward token of his wrath wherby he would be knowen to be displeased as on the other hand Luk. 8.46 vertue was said to be gone out of Christ when his power and mercy was manifested in healing the woman which had the bloody issue of her plague Mar. 5.30 33. which thing immediately upon her touching of him was made known unto her So here therfore as men being angry shew their anger by some evill lookes words or blows deed● so God is said to bee ●●gry and wrath to goe o● from him when especialy he inflicts some punishment or calamity wher●by he shews his dislike our sinne So Math. 3. Rom. 3.5 4.15 5. ● Doctr. God is truly displeased with sin and sinners why Now this may teacht● that sin is truly displeasi●● unto God hee neither approoves of it nor of us 〈◊〉 our sinne The Reason is 1. sin is impuritie and uncleanness and therfore 〈◊〉 that regard both sinn and sinners are most contrar● to his most holy nature● immaculate essence 2. S● 〈◊〉 disobedience and so op●●seth and withstandeth his holy will which is Soveraign no marvell then if God oppose and resist such proud sinners and walke contrarie to them that walke contrary to him 〈◊〉 Sin especially in these daies of grace is unthankfulnes and therefore justly hated of him 4. In a word it is dishonor to him especially such sinnes as now are sinned when all our sins are in a manner against all his attributes of goodnes mercy grace justice and against his works and manifestation of his attributes as also again the light of his Gospel● of our consciences c. 〈◊〉 regard whereof no m●●●vell if hee both threa●●● sin in his Law Gal. 3.10 annexin● curse to the breach of 〈◊〉 and daily even in this li●●● plague and punish sin a●● sinners Vse 1 To see what wee get by sin Vse See then what 〈◊〉 doe when we sinn again God see what wee gai●● by doing our owne wi●● and following our ow● counsels contrary to God wee being our selves u●der his displeasure we●● provoke a gracious Go● yea the great and drea●full Majestie of Heaven and that to the confusion of our own faces At this time hee manifests much wrath against us of this p●ace as also in part the whole kingdom for wrath is gon out from him against as the plague is begun and renued Ann. 1625. after such havock as it hath formerly not many yeares ago made amongst us especially in the Mother citie but never the like with us to that it is like to doe now But oh the stupidity grosness 2. To bewaile mens senselesnes under wrath and senselesnesse of our hearts here I may take up Moses his complaint in like case Who knoweth th● power of thine anger Psal 90.11 eve●● according to thy feare so●● thy wrath Whose heart●● smitten with feare answerable to the terriblenes 〈◊〉 thy wrath by occasion of thy feareful judgment as yet they should bee who so feares thee fo●● this thy wrath Deut. 13.11 Psal 119.120 Ion. 1.16 Prov. 16.6 as by it 〈◊〉 depart from evill for 〈◊〉 the feare of the Lord wher● it is indeed men depart 〈◊〉 evill oh that this terro● of the Lord wherby 〈◊〉 are even at this time some regard made to appeare before the judgement of the Lord 3. To learn true wisedom the feare of God frō it wh● now sets our iniquities before him Psalm 90.7.8 2. Cor. 5.10.11 our secret sinnes in the light of his countenance who are now consumed by his anger and troubled by his wrath oh I say that this terrour of the Lord could drive every one of us to our dutie as the terrour of the last judgement did Paul and could bring us in time to true repentance and humiliation of soule And here let us take up Moses his Prayer also oh that wee did it with like heart and true desire Psalm 90.12 So teach us to number our dayes that wee may apply our hearts unto wisedome For indeed it is God only who by his Spirit accompaniing his Word and Iudgements can free us from this stupiditie and bring us to a due consideration of our wayes and repentance for the same then and not till then Vers 8. may wee with comfort hope and good confidence make that his next petition Vers 13. Returne O Lord his long and let it repe●● thee concerning thy servants and so on as the●● it followeth CHAP. 3. That this Wrath was Pestilence That Pestilence is an effect of Gods wrath and therefore not to be dallied withall yet Gods displeasure more to be looked unto and prayed against then the Pestilence it selfe NOw this Wrath in particular 2. It is a Plague which generally is a stroke and with respect to man is here called a Plague or a Stroke from a word which signifieth to smite and that to death and so it signifieth generally any judgement of God which is to death as a slaughter by the sword and by hanging Iosh 22.17 with Numb 25.3.4.5 And generally of Aegypts plagues it is said Exod. 9.14 I will send all my Plagues upon thine heart or Origen turnes the word Confraction or breaking Confraction and so the Greeke here hee hath begun to breake that is

agree with our owne liking and fancies I shall strive to give satisfaction in this point both negatively and affirmatively 1. Let us generally know that the meanes of pacifying Gods wrath Difference of meanes are no meanes of our owne prescribing or which mans wisedom directs unto There are meanes I know which may ought be used in case of Pestilence as of other publick evils but ought not to be rested in there are againe Meanes which are meerly of mans devising and therefore such as may neither be rested in nor so much as used especially so as man prescribes them being in that regard lesse or more sinfull and unlawfull Lastly there are meanes of pacifying Gods wrath and of avoyding his judgements or at least of escaping the evill sting or hurt of them which may and ought bee used yea being rightly used may be rested in so far as a blessing by vertue of Gods promise may be expected frō God one way or other 1. Some meanes may be used but not rested in 1. The common rule of the world as also of Physicians in case of Pestilence is to flee or to withdraw a mans selfe quickly from places infected Pestis tempore fuge citò procul ●ardè revertaris Marsil Ficin Epidem antidot cap. 1. yea to remove farre off and not to returne hastily but at leisure This I deny not to be lawfull yea necessary where and so far as mens callings especially publicke will permit them How farre publicke persons especially Ministers who take themselues charged with cure of soules whether from God alone or from man also may withdraw themselues in case of grievous and raging Pestilence Flight o● removall from pla●● infected I rather leave to casuists and their owne consciences to determin Conscience I suppose will not so farre and so soone dispence with some in this case as man will Yet how farre God and conscience will dispence with humane fears where hee either denies such a measure of faith or would overcome al feares and yet not presume or where hee both opens a way ●●w far a ●●ister ●●ing ●eerly a Lecturer may flee and some other way cals a man out and restraines him for a season from the ordinary and appointed place of Gods worship and exercise of his function or how farr such an one having otherwise no pastorall charge may both with faith and a good conscience during apparant hazard to his person withdraw himself and so reserve himselfe to better times meerely out of respect to their good who for the present seeme a while neglected I leave this also to others judgement least in mine owne case I may seeme too partiall who hitherto have been as much if not more guided by the judgement yea importunitie also of many godly and unpartial Christians and so I take by direction from God then by mine owne either judgement or will at the first Onely Davids case is made by many heere considerable of all Christians whether Teachers or others who in time of pestilence was directed by God to purchase Ornans threshing floore 1 Chron. 21 14-18 19 26-28 29 30. and there to build an Altar and there to sacrifice for the present and that acceptably whilst that hedg or breach is not made up it s in vaine to think by bodily flight to escape or flee from Gods wrath when it is once gone out We must either humble our selves for our Sins Which is to leave their Sins behind them or never account our selves safe by fleeing Pestilence is sent for our sins to separate betweene us and them therefore if yee will flee either leave your Sin behind you as a Sacrifice to that destroying Nemesis or to Gods vengeance or looke not to escape Redeeme the life both of body soule by parting with your Sins even such as are dearest most delightsome most gainefull or otherwise advantageous to you in worldly respects And imitate herein the wisdom of the Beaver which hunted for his stones which formerly have beene accounted of more price than his skinne or wooll now and finding himselfe hotly pursued bites off the same and leaves them to the Huntsman as a ransome of his life Now it is not our life which this Nimrod and pursuer the Pestilence comes for it is only our right eye of offence or our right hand or foot that is som sin or lust yet unmortified which is as deare to us as our right eye or as gainefull as our right hand or as usefull otherwise in our sinfull aymes as our right foot Let us but mortifie these and utterly in purpose of heart resolution of will and in a true hatred abandon them then may wee with more comfort and confidence flee from the contagion of pestilence and more securely cast our selves into the armes of Gods providence but not till then It will little avayle us to be spared and respited a while seeing God when we thinke all perils past Otherwise there is no fleeing frō Gods wrath can either call us to an after reckoning in the same kinde or in some other Looke we into the same Chapter and wee shall see this verified The whole Congregation of the children of Israel had made themselves some way guilty in the rebellion of Korah insomuch as God was ready to have consumed then in a moment Numb 16.21 22 had not Moses and Aaron interceded and prevailed for many of them Well the Congregation according to Gods appointment get them up from about the Tabernacle of Korah 24 26 Dathan and Abiram 27 on every side after which the earth opened her mouth and swallowed these up who perished from among the Congregation 32 33 34 Now all Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them for they said lest the earth swallow us up also Thus they flee further off and seeme more safe then before Yea but they repented not of their sinne by which they had deserved like destruction they left not their rebellion behind them when they fled and therefore though thus farr they were safe yet obserue what presently followes And there came out a fire from the Lord 35 and consumed the two hundred and fiftie men who were Princes of the assembly men of renowne that offered incense verse 2. Loe these gained but little but even a little time by their fleeing from the former judgment And what did many of the rest of them who also fled from the opening of the earth and escaped this fire first it is said verse 41. On the morrow all the Congregation murmured against Moses and Aaron Loe they carry their old sinne of murmuring with them and this brought new wrath upon many of them al deserving it even the Plague in my text 45 in which there died foureteene thousand and seven hundred 49. after which the rest returning to their murmurings and other sinnes were all destroyed in the wildernesse