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