by their means and my people loves to have it so But what will ye doe in the end thereof a Jer. 14.14 The Prophets prophesie lies in my name I send them not they prophesie unto you a false vision and devination and the deceit of their own heart b Jer. 7.8,9,10,11 Behold ye trust in lying words that cannot profit 9 Will yée steale murder and commit adultery and sweare falsly and walk after other Gods for ye cannot serve God and Mammon Mat. 6.24 10 And come and stand before me in this house which is called by my name and say wée are delivered to do all these abominations 11 Is this house which is called by my name become a den of théeves in your eyes Behold I have séen it saith the Lord. c Jer. 25.29 Therefore I will call for a sword d Isa 34.5 My sword shall be hathed in Heaven it shall come downe upon the people of my curse to judgement e Isa 17.10.14 And because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation and hast not béen mindfull of the rock of thy strength therfore behold at eventide trouble and before the morning he is not this is the portion of them that spoile us and the lot of them that rob us f Zeph. 13.13 Their goods shall become a booty and their houses a desolation they shall also build houses and net inhabit them and they shall plant vineyards but not drink the wine thereof For g Ier. 51.56 The Lord God of recompences shall surely requite h Isa 29.13,14,9,10 Wherefore thus saith the Lord forasmuch as this people draw néer unto me with their mouth and with their lips do honour me but have removed their heart from me and their feare towards me is taught by the precepts of men 14 Therefore behold I will proceed to do a marvelous worke among this people even a mervelous work and a wonder for the wisdome of their wise men shall perish and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid 9 Stay your selves and wonder cry yée out and say they are drunken but not with wine they stagger but not with strong drinke 10 For the Lord hath poured out upon them the spirit of déepe sleepe and hath closed your eyes your Priests and your Rulers hath hée covered i Tit. 3.3 For they are foolish disobedient deceived serving divers lusts and pleasures living in malice and envy hateful and hating one another But if yee bite and deuoure one another Take héede ye be not deuoured one of another for thus saith the Lord I will call for a sword and euery mans sword shall be against his brother For the sword shall deuoure from the one end of the land euen unto the other end of the land and no flesh shal haue peace m Ja. 5.1,2,3,4,5 Go to now ye rich men wéep and houle for your miseries that shall come upon you 2 Your riches are corrupted and your garments motheaten 3 Your gould and silver is cankered and the rust of them shall be a witnesse against you and shall eate your flesh as it were fire ye have heaped treasures together for the last day 4 Behold the hire of the labourers which have reaped down your fields which is of you kept by fraud cryeth and the cryes are entered into the eares of the Lord of Sabbath 5 yee have lived on earth and béen wanton ye have nourished your hearts as in the day of slaughter Therfore n Ezek. 7.5,6,17,18,19 Thus saith the Lord an evill an only evil behold is come 6 An end is come it waiteth for thée behold it is come 17 Al hands shall be féeble and all knées shall be as weak as water 18 They shall gird themselves with sackcloath horrour shall cover them And shame shall be upon all faces and baldnesse upon all their heads 19 They shall cast their silver into the stréets and their gold shall be removed their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliuer them in the day of the wrath of the Lord they shall not satisfie their souls nor fill their bowels because it is the stumbling block of their iniquity o Mat. 27.6 Because it is the price of blood p Amos 2.6 for they haue sould the righteous for siluer and the poore for a paire of shooes q Pro. 1.19 So are the ways of euery one that is gréedy of gaine which take away the liues of the owners thereof r Zep. 3.7 I punished them but they rose early and corrupted all their doings ſ 2 Kin. 17.17 and sold themselues to do euill in the sight of the Lord. t Ps 62 4,9 they delight in lyes they blesse with their mouthes but curse inwardly Surely men of low degrée are vanity and men of high degrée are a lye To be layd in the ballance they are altogether lighter the◠vanity u Rom. 3.10,11,12 13,15,16,17,18 As it is written there is none righteous no not one 11 There is none that séeketh after God 12 They are all gone out of the way they are altogether become unprofitable there is none that doeth good no not one 13. Their throate is an open sepulcher with their tongues haue they used deceit the poyson of aspes is under their lips 15 Their féet are swift to shed blood 16 Destruction and misery are in their ways 17 And the way of peace they haue not known 18 There is no fear of God before their eies w 1 Tim. 3.1,2,3,4,5 For this know that in the latter days perilous times shall come 2 For men shall be lovers of their owne selves covetous boasters proud 3 Without natural affection Covenant-breakers false accusers incontinent fierce dispisers of those that are good 4 Traitors heady high minded lovers of pleasures more then lovers of God 5 having a forme of godlinesse but denying the power there of x Mat. 18.7 For it must be that offences come saith our Saviour but wo unto them by whom they come y Mat. 23.13,14 Therefore Wo unto you scribes and pharisées hipocrites for ye shut up the Kingdom of Heaven against men for ye neither go in your selves neither suffer others yea them that are entering to go in 4 Wo unto you scribes pharisées hypocrits for ye devoure widowes houses and for pretence make long prayers therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation z Ps 10.7 The Lord will abhor the bloody and deceitfull man Even so yee also outwardly appeare righteous unto men but within ye are full of hypocrisie and iniquity a Deut. 27.17,18,24 Therefore cursed be hee that removeth his neighbours land-mark cursed be he that maketh the blind to wander out of the way cursed be he that smiteth his neighbour secretly and all the people shall say Amen Amen Amen FINIS Imprimatur Iohn Downame
A SAD MESSAGE FROM HEAVEN Threatning Destruction to ENGLAND EXCEPT Speedily prevented by reall Repentance and amendment of LIFE Prov. 28.2 For the Transgression of a Land many are the Princes thereof But Woe to them for their day is comming the time of their Visitation Jer. 50.27 LONDON Printed for Tho. Vere and are to be sold at his shop at the upper end of the Old-Bayley 1648. Symptomes of Ruin OR The Sword and Famin the Attendants of Oppression VVHatsoever things wer written aforetimes wer written for our learning Rom. 15.4 But a Ier. 6.10,11,13 To whom shall I speak and give warnning that they may hear saith the Prophet Behold their eares are uncircumcised they cannot hearken The word of the Lord is to them a reproach they have no delight in it 11 Therefore am I full of the fury of the Lord I am weary with holding in I will powre it out upon the children abread 13 For from the least of them even to the greatest of them every one is given to covetousnesse And from the Prophet to the Priest every one dealeth falsly d Isa 1.23 A wonderfull and horrid thing is committed in the land Thy Princes are rebellious and companions of Theives Every one loveth gifts and followeth after rewards e Ier. 22.27 Their Princes in the middest thereof are like Wolves ravening the prey to shed blood and destroy soules to get dishonest gain f Micha 2.2 They covet fields and take them by violence and houses and take them away so they oppresse a man and his house Even a man and his heritage g Mark 12.40 Which devour widdows houses and for pretences make long prayers Yea thus saith the Lord h Ezek. 33.31 They come unto thee as the people commeth and they sit before thée as my people and they heare thy words but they will not do them for with their mouth they shew much love but their heart goeth after their covetousnesse i Amos 3.10 For they know not to doe right saith the Lord who store up violence and robery in their Palaces k Psal 14.4 Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge Who eate up my people as they eate bread and call not upon the Lord l Psal 53.4 Behold yée fast for strife and debate and to smite with the fist of wickednesse yée shall not fast as ye do this day to make your voyces to be heard on high m Hos 9.15 For all their princes are reuolters n Isa 56.11 They are greedy dogs which can never have enough o Hag. 1.7 Therefore Thus saith the Lord of hosts Consider your doings p Isa 58.5 Is it such a fast that I have chosen will ye call this a fast and an acceptable day to the Lord q Amos 5.16.21.22 Therefore the Lord the God of Hostes the Lord saith thus I hate and detest your Fast dayes and I will not smell in your Solemn Assemblies Though you offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings I will not accept them r Isa 66.3 He that killeth an Oxe is as if he slew a man He that sacrificeth a lambe is as if hée cut off a dogges neck He that offereth an offering as if hee offered swines blood And he that burneth Incence as if he blessed an Idol ſ Isa 1.15 And when yee spread forth your hands I will hide mine eyes from you yea when ye make many prayers I will not heare your hands are full of blood t Prov. 2.13,14 Who leaue the pathes of uprightnesse to walke in the wayes of darkenesse u Amos 5.23,24 Who rejoyce to do evil and delight in the frowardnesse of the wicked Therefore Take away from mee the noyse of your lying for I will not heare the melody of your Viols But let Iudgement runne downe as water and righteousnesse as a mighty streame w Isa 58.6,7 Is not this the fast that I have chosen to lose the bonds of wickednesse to undoe the heavy burdens and to let the oppressed goe frée and that ye breake every yoake 7 Is it not to deale thy bread to the hungry and that thou bring the poore that are cast out into thy house and when thou seest the naked that thou cover him x Mat. 9.13 Goe ye and learne what that meaneth saith our Saviour I wil have mercy and not sacrifice For y Ps 25.10 All the wayes of God are mercy and truth z Pro. 14.2 He that walketh in his uprightnesse feareth the Lord But he that is perverse in his wayes dispiseth him a Ezek. 2.3 4. But They and their fathers have transgressed against mee even to this very day for they are impudent children and stif-hearted b Deut. 32 5. They have corrupted themselves their spot is not the spot of his children they are a perverse and crooked Generation c Isa 66.3 Yea they have chosen their own wayes their soules delights in their abominations d Ier. 18.12 13. And they say But we will walke after out own doings and we will every one doe the imaginations of his evill heart 13 Therefore thus saith the Lord aske ye now amongst the heathen who hath heard such things * Isa 1.2 Heare Oh Hearens and give eare Oh Earth I have nourished children and they have rebelled against me * Isa 5.3 4 Iudge I pray you betwéene me and my Vineyard What could I have done more for them e Ps 107.6 When they cryed unto the Lord in their trouble hee delivered them out of their distresse f Mat. 11.21 And if the mighty workes which had béen done in you had béen done in Tyer and Sydon they would have repented long agoe in sackcloath and ashes g Iob. 37.14 Harken unto this consider the wondrous works of God h Hag. 1.7 And Consider your doings l Deut. 32.6 Do ye thus requite the Lord O foolish people and unwise m Ier. 5.29 Shall I not visit for these things saith the Lord shall not my soule be avenged on such a Nation as this n Deut. 23.25 I will heap miseries upon them I will spend mine arrows upon them o Ier. 13.14 25. And I will dash them one against another the father and sonne together saith the Lord I will not pitty nor spare nor have merry but destroy them 25 This is thy lot the portion of thy measure from me saith the Lord Because thou hast forgotten me and trusted in falsehood p Ier. 11.22 Therefore thus saith the Lord of Hosts Behold I will punish them their young men shal dye by the sword and their sons and their daughters shal dye by famine q Eze. 7.27 And the hands of the people of the land shall be troubled and I will doe unto them after their wayes and according to their doings will I judge them r Isa 3.11 Wo to the wicked it shall bee evill with