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A golden trumpet sounding an alarum to judgement the sound whereof was never more needfull though evermore profitable : dedicated and directed unto all the elect children of God which truly repent / newly published by Iohn Andrewes.
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Andrewes, John, fl. 1615.
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A Golden Trumpet Sounding an Alarum to Judgement the sound whereof was never more needfull though evermore profitable Dedicated and directed unto all the Elect Children of God which truly repent Newly published by Iohn Andrewes Minister and Preacher of Gods Word The nine and twentieth Impression LONDON Printed for Edward Wright and are to be sold at his shop in gilt-spur-street without Newgate at the signe of the Bible 1648. The Author to the Reader SOund to Judgment this Golden Trumpet Into the eares of every one Early be ringing here thine owne knell Or sound t' alarum for time will be gone Weep for thy sins and watch for the day Here of the coming of Christ our Judge Each day and houre slips quickly away No time is set therefore doe not grudge Make this Trumpet to sound in thine eare A day of Judgement is almost come Delay no time we all must appeare Now still prepare for the day of doome A Golden Trumpet CHAP. I. The first Chapter treateth of the sound of the Trumpet AS Adam sléeping securely in his transgression had great néed of that Trumpet from GOD to rowze him from the sléep of sin Adam ubi es Adam where art thou So necessary for every sinfull Adamite to raise him up from the sléep of sin is this notable memento this worthy sound of the Golden Trumpet Wherefore if ever there were a time for Gods Ministers to have their hearts like the Lions their face of brasse and their voice of stéele to sound this Golden Trumpet that they might boldly in the face of the Congregation cry and lift up their voice like a Trumpet with the Prophet Esay to shew the people their transgressions If ever there were a time for Ieremiah to cry in the eares of Hierusalm to declare amongst the Nations and to set up a standard to proclaim the fall of Babylon If ever there were time for Lot To reprove the Sodomites for Elias to reprove Achab Nathan to reprove David Ionah to cry to the Ninivites or Ieremiah to wish his head to be full of water and his eyes to be a fountaine of teares Yea David Esay Ieremiah Paul to wéep for the sins of the people then sure the time is now Yet nothwithstanding the Gospell hath béen long taught amongst us the sound thereof hath filled our eares but whose heart hath it pierced Whose life hath it bettered Sin is sharply reproved but iniquity still aboundeth To the briefe I néed not complaine with the Prophet of those gréedy dumbe Curres which feacute ed themselves and starve the soules of their flocke but onely recite Gods threatnings against them in a few proofes of Scripture and so I leave them for the Lord to require their bloud at their hands For I may boldly say the Lord be praised for it that we had never more preaching though never lesse following than we have now There were never more crafty worldlings and gréedy Nabals that love an ounce of Give me more than a pound of Heare me than be now O I feare that there were never more that have sold themselves and their very Soules for lucre sake than be now Wherefore I doubt not but the very iniquitie of the whole world is come to maturitie Therefore it is now high time to sound the Golden Trumpet and ring it with alarum that if ever they will be rouzed from the deadly sléep of sin to awake and repent now for Qui non est hodie cras minus aptus erit He that is not ready to repent to day will be lesse ready to morrow Oh now therefore while the Gospell soundeth now while Christ calleth now while he knocketh let us now repent let us take this present time while we have it time and tide staieth for no man the time past is irrevocable which cannot be recalled the time to come is full of uncertainty for it may be it never shall come Only the present time is ours but it is momentarie O therefore let us take and make good use of it To morrow some wil say I will a Convert be O when tell me I pray shall I this morrow see Let never wise man say to morrow mend I will Who is not fit to day is lâ—sse lâ—sse fit still Wherefore holy men of God urge still the time present Seeke ye the Lord while he may be found Turne ye now from your evill wayes Doe good while ye have time To day if ye will heare his voice hearden not your hearts Thus the converted heart séeketh the present time be cause it is a bléeding and a tender heart It trembleth at the word it is pricked when it is rebuked and inflamed with burning zeale when it is instructed O then take hold of this present opportunity so friendly smiling on thée and repent presently Let the sound of this Golden Trumpet be ever in thy eares For as our Saviour Christ said of Iohn Baptist This is Eliah if ye will receive him So say I this instant this moment is the time of repentance this is the day of salvation this is the time of grace this is the acceptable houre O therefore embrace it We read that the Ninivites were coverted at these words of Ionahs preaching Yet forty dayes and Niniveth shall be destroyed The sound thereof caused not onely the Subjects but the very King of that City to come from his Throne of Monarchie to cast off his Robes to put on sackcloth and sit in ashes with fasting wéeping and great mourning S. Peter at one Sermon converted thrée thousand soules unto Christ insomuch as they were so pricked in their hearts at his Doctrine that they came crying Men and brethren what shall we doe to be saved In another Sermon he converted Cornelius the Captain with a great multitude S. Iohn Baptist at one Sermon converted both Scribes Pharises Publicans Souldiers and Sinners insomuch as all that heard him preach Mused in their hearts whether he were not very Christ Paul converted many in Asia and also in Europe yea in all parts and quarters of the world Christ himself converted so many that it caused the Iewes to cry out Behold the whole world goeth after him O where is any such Conversion in these our dayes What drowsinesse is in us What carelesnesse Nay what madnesse is in us that we cannot be converted with all the preaching that is so often and continually preached amongst us Can we not remember Is our memory so short or have we drunke so much of the River of forgetfulnesse That wée remember not what our Saviour saith plainly Except ye repent ye shall all be damned Let us consider with our selves and descend into our owne Conscience and sée whether there be any Reason why God should spare us and deale so severely with others Saba the Queene of the South came from the furthermost parts of the world to
heare the wisdome of Salomon But many of us which live in this evill declining age are so over busied with worldly affaires that they have little or no time to come out of our doores to bestow one houre in the Church to heare the Wisedome of Christ The want whereof maketh many which neglect their comming to Bethel the house of God to starve their Soules in Bethaven the denne of iniquitie Yea too too many to become so godlesse so gracelesse so rooâ—ed in all sin and so fully resolved to live therein that if John Baptist were to preach Esay to cry King David Ieremiah and Paul to wéep for the sins of the people Yet they are so frozen in their sin and so wedded in their wickednesse that a Leopard may sooner change his spots and a blacke Moore become white nay as our Saviour saith It is easier or a Camell to goe through the eye of a needle than many to forsake their beloved sins to gaine the Kingdome of Heaven What shall I more say If Christ himselfe came from Heaven to cry unto the people for to repent in these our dayes it may be they would let him say what he would but I feare that too too many would doe what they list All his preaching and all his wonders would no more prevaile with the wicked in these our times than it did in his time with the Iewes To conclude then this point if any seeme to storme at my harsh writing let them amend their lives and not dislike these my lines For I openly protest I feare none but God whose truth I teach and hate nothing but sin which is the ruine and destruction of the soule I care not for my life so it were lost in the defence of the truth I looke not for preferment the world is so corrupted I desire not the praise of men it is but vanitie I ayme not at my owne good but to set forth Gods glory the discharge of my owne conscience and the benefit of Christ his Church and children CHAP. II Of the shortnes and uncertainty of mans life MAns life is but a pilgrimage a travell and a way and he is scarce entred into the world but he is admonished to remember to depart out of the same for all the world is mutable and of all the things in the world man is most mutable And as our dayes here are short and evill we ought alwayes to be prepared for the Lord For Nihil certius morte hora mortis nihil incertius as there is nothing more certaine than death so there is nothing more uncertaine then the houre of death We are all tenants at will and know not how long we shall remaine it this earthly Tabernacle All creatures waxe old with this aged world this is even the last houre the world cannot continue long Methusela lived 969 yeares If in our age we reach to 80. it is with sorrow and labour Thou hast made my dayes as it were a span long saith David All flesh is grasse saith the Prophet and all the glory thereof as the flower of the field The old world had 120. yeares given them to repent Niniveh 40. daies and Israel 4â— yeares but thou O man knowest not how long thou hast to live Some are wasted away by wantonnesse as Commodus Claudius Nero Alexander the Great and such like Some are shortned by ambition many will never leave climbing till they catch a fall This climbing by ambition cut off the dayes of Absalom and brought Haman to the trée Some God taketh away because the world was not worthy of them and some because they are not worthy of it He cut off Iosias for his soule pleased God therefore he made haste to take him away from the iniquity of the world He cut off Achab Agag and Herod because they were vile and ungodly men therefore they did not live out half their dayes Some God cutteth off suddenly in so much as they have not time to thinke on God or once to cry Lord help me The old world not thinking on death was suddenly drowned The Sodomites suddenly consumed by fire Pharaoh with all his Host swallowed up in the sea the Israelites gnawne of dedly serpents Corah Dathan and Abiram eaten up of the earth Herod suddenly devoured with lice The rich man suddenly smitten with death Lying Ananias and his wife suddenly fell downe dead Eglon the Moabite and Abner the Captaine were suddenly murthered with the sword To conclude all Histories in all ages are full of the like examples CHAP. III. Of the straight accompt we mâ—st give unto God at the day of Judgement TO draw every man to a better consideration of his time and of his accompting day our Saviour addeth a reason why we should be ready and alwaies prepared to render our accompt for saith he The Kingdome of God is at hand What will move a man to consider of himselfe and of his accompting day if this will not when he heareth that the same is at hand Mortall men in their accompts they make to their Lords and Masters will gather their Scrowles Bils Papers and other writings from hundreths to farthings lest they be found unworthy men to be put in trust with such worldly commodities If mortall men have such a care how to make their accompts to mortall Auditors what care nay what feare ought to be in all men and women when they are summoned by the eternall God to appeare before him and his Angels to give accompt how they have spent their time from their birth untill their dying day Here we are summoded to the high Imperial Court of eternall doome The time is come and the Kingdome of God is at hand O Lord who shall escape amercing here Nay who shall escape damnation here Séeke up your Scrowles search the Bookes of your consciences we are called to the Court where every mans conscience shall be laid open Wherefore unlesse we repent that our sins may be blotted out with the bloud of Christ Iesus the Lord will call us to accompt the Bookes of our Consciences shall be laid open and every sin both secret and knowne shall be brought to light and not one sinne shall passe but all our sinnes both past present and to come as well our rebellious thoughts as sinfull Acts committed Whereupon S Bernard saith Omne tempus tibi impensum requiretur a te qualiter fuerit expensum All the time that God hath given thée except thou repent shall be required at thy hands how thou hast spent it There shall inquisition be made for the thoughts of the ungodly There shall not a wicked thought passe in Iudgement CHAP IV. Now followeth the manner of this accompt I. Who must give accompt II. Of what things they must give accompt III. To whom this accompt must be made IV. When it must be made FIrst the persons that