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A57738	Tragi-comoedia being a brief relation of the strange, and wonderfull hand of God discovered at Witny, in the comedy acted there February the third, where there were some slaine, many hurt, and several other remarkable passages : together with what was preached in three sermons on that occasion from Rom. 1, 18 : both which may serve as some check to the growing atheisme of the present age / by John Rowe ...	Rowe, John, 1626-1677.	1653 (1653)	Wing R2067; ESTC R6082	58,271	114

great mourning there shall be a fountaine opened for sin Zach. 13.1 and for uncleannesle Mourne you must mourne greatly mourne bitterly yea but it is the fountaine that must wash away sin it must be the fountaine of the Lord Christs blood that must wash away the fowle and horrible sins of Witney Come then wash in this fountaine wash and you shall be cleane In the 16 of Numbers we read of great wrath no sooner had God executed that fearfull judgment upon Korah and his rebellious compāy but the people fell to murmering immediately v. 41. But on the morrow all the congregation of the children of Israel murmered against Moses and against Aaron saying ye have killed the people of the Lord. Oh desperate and adventrous sinners that when they saw the judgment of God executed the very day before yet they fell into the same sins which they were guilty of which had been so plagued How angry is the Lord for this v 44 45. And the Lord spake unto Moses saying get you up from among this congregation that I may consume them as in a moment But what doth Moses do in this case v 46. And Moses said unto Aaron Take a censer and put fire therein from off the Alter and put on incense and go quickly unto the congregation and make an atonement for them for there is wrath gone out from the Lord the plague is begun This represented the mediation of Jesus Christ Isa 53.12 who is said to make intercession for the transgressors He is that Angell in the Revelation that stands at the Alter having a golden censer and much incense given to him that he should offer it with the prayers of thee Saints chapt 8.3 Now Moses saies to Aaron go quickly or as it may be read make to go with speed that is as the Chaldee and Greeke translateth it carry quickly or in haste 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Make haste to the Lord Jesus away to him every soule of you all you that have not known what the worth of the Lord Jesus is till this houre know now how to prize him it is he that must pacify the wrath of God that is gone out against thee for thy prophanenesse and thine uncleannesse and thy neglect of the word and thine Atheisme Oh fall in love with the incomperably pretious Lord Jesus this day as soon as ever thou commest home fall upon thy knees beg thou mayest have a Christ given to thee the wrath of the Almighty is gone out against thee and will otherwise certainly consume thee There is no dealing with a sin-revenging Majesty but only in by a Mediator As for you that have interest in this pretions Name O make use of it present the righteousnesse and satisfaction of the Lord Jesus Christ unto the father It is he that must stand betweene the dead and the living some are cut off already and the wrath of the Lord is not yet appeased If you interpose not the Lord Jesus you may expect more wrath and more plagues This I commend to you as the chiefe and maine direction of all the rest it is not all thy carelesnesse and security it is not all thy sleighting and despising the judgments of God that will be able to keep off the wrath of the Lord in the end No this will bring on thee so much the more wrath and heavyer vengeance Get into the Lord Jesus hide your selves in the clefts of that rock till this indignation be over past If ever Christ be worth having now is the time You that cared not for Christ when you were at ease and when you lived in pleasure my thinkes you should long after Christ and be restlesse till you have gotten him now judgment is come upon you Oh Brethren if the Judgments of God in this world be so terrible that they are enough to abash and appale the stoutest sinners how terrible and how dreadfull will that last and great day of judgment bee If thou canst not stand before an angry God now without a Saviour without an advocate to plead thy cause when he doth but manifest a little of his displeasure and gives but a gentle touch of his finger how wilt thou stand before him without a Saviour and an advocate when he shall come with millions of Saints and Angells when the Bookes must be opened and every mans life ripped open and it shall be said There wast thou drunk in such a corner there hadst thou thy wanton dalliances upon such a bed at such a time didst thou revile at the Ministers of God and mock at his waies and the professors of them so many yeares thou livedst in the world and yet never didst study how thou mightest come to the knowledge of God or the way to life and happinesse when all this and much more shall be said and then the Lord shall not come to let in a veine of his wrath only but he will pluck up all the sluces open all the floud-gates of his wrath and vengeance when that dismall place of torment shall be set before thee where those unquencheable flames are where thou shalt heare the devills roaring the damned yelling and see all this prepared for thee how wilt thou be able to hold up thy head at such a day Make sure of Christ betimes They were the last and dying words of one who in his life time was the Jewell and Paragon of Religion and piety in the country where he lived Make sure of Christ He is better then all the gold and treasures in the world better then the Rubies or the Onyx stone Thou art eternally happy if thou get him and Eternally miserable if thou come short of him 3. The next thing that is to be studied and endeavoured after is Reformation It is Reformation that the Lord looketh after Do you think that the Lord delighteth in the death of your children that he taketh pleasure in the breaking bruising of your bones is it matter of joy to him to see the hurts and heare the dolefull complaints of your wives servants and neere relations No no God is love as you have many times heard had not your sinnes put him upon it there had not been so sad a spectacle found amongst you Put away therefore that evill thing which is in the middest of you When the children of Israel had fallen before their enemies Achan who had taken the accursed thing and been the occasion of the misery and distresse that fell upon them must be found out and stoned You have seene already some of the Achans that have troubled your peace stone them now and put them to death You have heard it was the prophanenesse the ūcleannesse the contempt of the Gospell the Atheisme and irreligion that is among you that hath caused all your trouble put away these accursed things And here let me speake more fully to you under these foure heads 1. To the looser and prophaner sort 2. To them

bring astonishing judgments Some sins of this nature were they that destroyed Sodom and caused fire to come down from heaven upon it viz the sin of uncleannesse and unnaturall lusts These things are too fowle to be named these things are enough to make the sun in the firmament to blush and be ashamed and the light of the day to hide and couer it selfe in which there is mention made of such things 3. A third sin which is too visible and apparent is Neglect of the word and ordinances Some of them that did attend upon the ordinances have turned their back upon them and the generality amongst you doe apparently sleight them Formerly what flockinge hath there been to sermons how hath this place been filled every Alley corner crowded No people so famous for readinesse diligence in hearing the word as the people of Witny Ministers that have occasionally preached among you have observed it your Name hath been famous amongst others How thin are your Congregations grown upō the lords day how small an handfull there are upon Lecture dayes I am to sad a witnesse Brethren suffer me to speak my feares I feare one of the great sins that bath pluct down this judgment was the neglect of the Gospell It was not long since the last time that ever I preacht amongst you on the Lords day in a full assembly I beseeched you I intreated you by all the arguments of love gentlenesse sweetnesse that possibly I could to attend upon the word I beseecht you by the love of God by the mercies of the Lord by the bowells of his goodnesse that you would not sleight the word The Text was from that of St. John 1 Iohn 4.8 9. God is love and the poynt from it was that the Love of God monifested to the world in the dispensation of himselfe by Jesus Christ it was the most peerelesse matchlesse incomperable love that ever was Hence were you called upon in such exhortations as these in the Applciation Oh do not grieve such a Love doe not sleight it doe not abuse it Oh unkind sinner Oh hard-hearted sinner worse then the blackest divell in hell that canst be drunk that canst sweare that canst laugh at holinesse in the face of that very Love which is come to save thee to pardon thee that hath sent the only begotten sonne that thou might'st have life through him Do not sin against this love do not grieve it suffer this love to attaine its ends to accomplish its desires The designe of love is to bring thee unto life and it hath cost it deare to bring about that designe the sonne of God must come downe from heaven to bring this to passe and is that so small a matter why should any of us be willing to stop this love in its workings to hinder it in its aimes and intentions all the designe of this love is to bring us unto life and is there any harme in that Ah my Brethren is Death spirituall Eternall death such a sweet such a pleasant thing that we should be in love with it Is wrath the wrath of the Almighty everlasting wrath a thing to be desired that we should refuse to accept of the offers of eternall love when it comes to offer life and salvation With many more Reasonings in this kind After this you were exhorted to make use of the meanes of life and of salvation in some such words as these If you are willing to come to the Lord Jesus for life you cannot be unwilling to attend upon those meanes and that word that holds forth Christ and salvation Will any one say that that man prizes a pardon that will not vouchsafe so much as to look upon it nor to read it when it is sent unto him Oh my Brethren the Gospell is the word of life the word of peace of pardon and of salvation can he be said to prize salvation and Christ that will not come to that word which brings Christ salvation and all Is that man willing in good earnest to be saved however all men say they are willing God forbid els but is he so in good earnest that will not step over his threshold to heare a Sermon where this gospell is brought the meās of salvation tēdred I beseech you suffer me to speake to you in the name of the Lord I beseech you in the name of Jesus Christ I beseech you in the bowells of Jesus Christ if you think this loue of God the greatest love that revealeth pardō life happinesse salvation do not think it much to wait upon the word that reveales it and makes it manifest Faith commeth by hearing and hearing is the ordinary meanes to beget Faith and so to bring to Christ and to salvation I beseech you do not sleight this Exhortation if you do I must tell you though I am loath so to do yet I am constrained this Sermon will rise up in judgment against you at the last day and I must come in as a witnesse against you These were some of the arguments wher-withall you were pressed yet not-with-standing all these beseechings and entreaties to my griefe I observed it scarce were there any that did the more frequent the word preached hath not the Lord shewen his hand severely whereas there are scarce many Scores that wil cōe to hear the word there are some Hūdreds will go to see a wicked an ungodly play Certainly the Lord hath bin avēged for this Do but read that 10. of Lu. frō the be ginning so on at the 5. verse it is said Into whatsoever house you enter first say Peace be to this house but what followes in the 10 verse it is said But into whatsoever citty ye enter and they recieve you not goe your waies out into the streets of the same and say even the very dust of your citty which cleaveth on us we do wipe off against you And then there is a sad close in v. 12. But I say unto you that it shall be more tollerable for Tyre and Sidon at the day of judgment then for you 4. Another provoking sin is the sin of Atheisme and irreligion Do but read what the Lord Jesus speakes to the Church of Pergamos Rev. 2.14 I have a few things against thee why what is the matter Thou hast there them that hold the Doctrine of Balaam and then againe at the 15. ve So hast thou also them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans The doctrine of Balaam is expressed He taught Balaack to cast a stumbling block before the children of Israel to eat things sacrificed unto Idolls and to commit fornication The Doctrine of the a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Epiphanius de Nicolao Nicolaitans was much of the same nature and I blush to tell you what it was they did not onely hold a liberty of uncleannesse but a necessity of it Now what was the quarrell which Christ had with this church thou hast