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A38374	England's alarm, or, A most humble declaration, address and fervent petition to His Most Excellent Majesty, Charles the Second, King of Great Britain and Ireland, and to his most honourable and grand council the Parliament of England, as also to the city of London, and the whole nation in general concerning the great overtures, catastrophe's and grand occurrences about to inundate and pour in upon us as the judgments of Almighty God upon Antichrist and his adherents, and the pride, nauseancy and errour of professors in the years 1680 and 1681 / written by a true lover of the true Protestant religion and of his tottering poor native country of England, Johannes Philanglus.	Johannes, Philanglus.; Charles II, King of England, 1630-1685.	1679 (1679)	Wing E2939; ESTC R4913	7,768	13

England's Alarm OR A most Humble DECLARATION ADDRESS and fervent PETITION To his Most Excellent MAJESTY Charles the Second King of Great BRITAIN and Ireland AND To his most Honourable and Grand Council The PARLIAMENT of ENGLAND AS ALSO To the CITY of LONDON AND The whole NATION in general CONCERNING The great Overtures Catastrophe's and grand Occurrences about to inundate and pour in upon us as the Judgments of Almighty God upon Antichrist and his Adherents and the Pride Nauseancy and Errour of Professors in the years 1680 and 1681. Written by a true Lover of the true Protestant Religion and of his Tottering poor Native Country of England Johannes Philanglus LONDON Printed for Thomas Pasham in Fleet-lane 1679. England's Alarm TO THE KING Most Excellent and Dread Soveraign THE meanest Creatures have access and admittance to the Throne of the King of kings by the Bloud of Jesus may I the meanest of your Subjects have admittance to your Temporal Throne by the Dreads and horrible Fears of the secret Effusion of your own and our Bloud by the unprevented Conspiracy of Bloud-thirsty Papists The meanest Star as it hath dependance on and influence from the Sun hath liberty to dart forth its Nocturnal Beams when great Phoebus the Titan of the World submerses his refulgent Rays on the Neptune-waves and now your glorious and Princely Rays are feared dayly to set continually in the Horizon and Neptunian-Sea of Popish and Jesuitical Subtilty and bloudy Cruelty Shall faithful Subjects be afraid of a Frown when Church State and Crown are by Papal Violence Tumbling down Inter majora sydera minora lucerent The poorest Subject in the Primitive Raigns of the glorious Kings of Israel have been permitted to cry in times of extremity Help O King 2 Sam. 14.4 And though your magnificent Majesty be ambiently attended with so many Stars of the first magnitude yet a poor Micaiah may prophecy to the King and have a clearer prospect of the Coelestial Councels upon the heavenly Throne than the Zedekiah's with their iron horns 1. Kings 22.11.24 though he be fed with Bread and Water till these Euroclydons be blown over So most excellent and glorious Prince I beg Pardon as prostrate at your most Soveraign feet for this act of seeming-presumption while I acknowledge my self nothing yet in the hand of God things that are not may instruct things that are Beside the present Necessity the horrid and trembling sounds of the Plot and Plotters Alarming my Ears my obsequious duty to my King and love to my Native Country is the Womb that hath conceived and brought forth this Trembling Babe Which although in its Infancy may to the future admiration of the securest Lethargists in this Nation be credited as a Child of Truth by that time bright Phoebus hath twice mounted the twelve Herculean Pillars I remember it was asserted by that Reverend Bishop James Vsher Bishop of Armagh sometimes in Ireland That those Predictions that fell from him most of which are fulfilled already were imprinted and engraven on his Spirit even so are these things that now I write to my Soveraign Lord the King and Country And moreover if it be true or like to be true that is reported to us by the Speech of the Dead in Nocturnal Visions as is famously reported by antient Philosophers as Artemidorus and the famous Remembrances of Julius Caesar his Warning before his Death and fatal Stab in the Roman Senate cum multis aliis then have I reason to fear the Impression of these things on my Spirit and these scaring Visions of the Night which for some years past I have sustained concerning the Person and Crown of your Sacred Majesty and also of him and them who have raised the Thunder and Tempest in this our Horizon As also the just fears we may have of the sudden Fall of your Life and Crown by the hand or hands of Papists And that except your Majesty be miraculously defended by supream Providence and the timely Remissions by his mighty hand and also your Royal Adherence and just and methodical Conjunction to your great Council the Parliament and so joyntly removing the Nations Grievances and those things offending the King of Kings and timely and speedily executing Justice upon the notorous Offenders of your Majesties Crown and State and of the Church of Christ it cannot be but that before either your Majesty or we are well aware they you now by your boundless Clemency indulge beyond Necessity will give the fatal stroak to your sacred Life and in yours to all your Subjects who have the Breast-plate of Christs Righteousness upon them and the marks of the Whore of Babylon cashiered from you to the Conformists and Nonconformists and that I trembling fear in the 1680th year O! would your Majesty please speedily to extirpate out of your Royal Territories and this City of London all those Amalekites that trouble Israel I mean the French that devour and eat the bread out of your Subjects mouths and may you ever remember that King Saul for neglecting the Word of the Lord and not totally destroying Amalek had his life dishonourably taken from him by a Chip of that block 1 Sam. 15. compared with 2 Sam. 1.13 Antiquity tells us our English nation was never more blessed with Peace and Prosperity than when the French Nation were conquered by us as by Henry the fifth of famous memory and Henry the sixth who was crowned in Paris and planted the Flower-de-luce in Englands garden But now it is to be feared that the French King will be crowned not in the French but our English Paris London except the providence of the King of kings divert present occurrences and the prudence of your most Excellent Majesty in happy Conjunction with your prudent Parliament prevent it which that you may the God of Heaven grant 'T is a Curse in Gods Word to be governed or counselled by the Spirit of Jezabel or by a wicked woman Isai 3.12.15 16. Hence hath arose monstrous Pride and intolerable Oppression the very bane of Church and State Who knows but by the hands of such your Majesty may sustain a Stab or fatal Stroak And nothing would more draw the hearts of your Subjects up to the height of true joy than if it may please your Majesty to abandon such morning-clouds from the Mountain of your Throne O how glorious would the day shine It is expressly said by God the King of kings Deut. 17.17 The King shall not multiply wives to himself that his heart turn not away And though Solomons Throne was established by God himself yet it was strange women made his Crown to totter and his Kingdom to rend asunder 'T is the greatest interest to Kings and Princes to treat the Lords people kindly who are still by the Papists and Popish affected called in scorn and derision Hereticks for he reproved Kings for their sakes Psal 105.14 15. 'T was the Prodromus to the destruction of Ireland formerly as

found fulness of Bread Pride and Wantonness Extortion Whoredoms Drunkenness Errour and Heresies None have partaken more of Christ and none have more slighted and abused Christ and the means of Grace and because thy heart is lifted up and thou saidest I am as God Therefore thus saith the Lord Behold I am against thee O London I will cause Ezek. 26.3 many nations to come up against thee as the sea causes his waves and tydes to come up to thee And they shall destroy they walls and break down thy towers God will scrape thy dust from thee and make thee like the top of the rock And because thy Children are settled up the Lees Zeph. 1. God shall search thee with Candles and purge thee with Nitre and Soap and cast thee into the Furnace that his Sons among thee may be tryed Neither will thy Gold or thy Silver preserve thee in the day of wrath Zeph. 1.18 because thou hast been wanton and decked thy self in thy Attires while thy poor Brethren have wanted Bread and Arraiment to cover their Nakedness And thou hast professed a Faith that had nor love nor bowels in it but hast cried out Isai 66. with the Proud Stand far off for I am more holy more rich more honourable than thou and hast respected the persons of the rich and great while thou hast contemned the brother of low degree Therefore Isai 3. shall thy Jewels and Ear-ring thy Head-attires and Paintings thy French fashions and uncivil and unseemly Dressings prostrating thy self to Strangers and discovering thy Nakedness by thy French unseemly Robes and Dressings God will send thee yea by that Nation whose folly thou hast impudently followed Baldness for hair Stink for perfumes and Sack-cloath for cloathing War for peace and Bloud for water till thou return and acknowledge thy iniquities and break off thy whoredoms and impieties and be found in the way of repentance But for the hidden ones in thee the Children of the Covenant who have the Faith of Jesus and the Commandments of God who have not exacted the labours but freely followed the Lord the Lamb and have cloathed the naked and fed the hungry and scorned the fashions and despised the glories and have been transformed in the renewing of their minds who have disdained the Babylonish Garment and the wedge of Gold the Lord will hide them in the hollow of his hand and say to them Come my people Isai 26. into your several Chambers until the indignation be over But you that drink Wine in bowls and sport your selves on Beds of Ivory while the afflictions of Joseph are not minded suddenly will come your Calamity as the pains of a woman in Travel and as the Storm and Thunder in a clear day A day of wrath a day of trouble and distress a day of wastness and desolation a day of darkness and gloominess and a day of clouds and thick darkness And you Canaphims and Kenites that for your Atheistical Self-interest that God of the world so you may keep but your Pride your Honours and Gold care not though you set to your slavish hands and help to pull down the Church and State and swallow Bribes as Children Plumb-stones be it known to you if God be true a double portion of divine Vengeance shall be your lot in the day at hand And note that Unanimity not Uniformity is most remote from Papistry c. To the NATION in general Ah England THou hast had thy Name from thy Angelical State and Beauty but thou art fallen like Lucifer Thou wast an inexhaustible pit of Treasure and his Devilish Holiness in quondam times hath licked his Neapolitan fingers of thy Sweetness and now he remembers thy Delicacies and would attempt to ravish thy Wardrobes and drain thee dry with his insatiable Bucket if for thy Iniquities thy God gives him leave For the Pope like the Devil his Father cannot come one link of his chain unless thy God suffer him for thy unrepented Sins and while thou art crying out against the Jesuits and other the Incendiaries thou forgettest to cry to him whom by sin and dishonour thou hast provoked to send the Wolf and the wild Boar of the Italian forrest into thy Vineyard Remember England if thou art not mad drunk with the Whores Charms how that thy Preaching-Ministers are turn'd into dumb Dogs and ravening Wolves And they bear rule by thy means and thou lovest to have it so Jer. 5.31 And you that are of the Ecclesiastick Function that not long since if you do remember did cast out the Labourers of the Lords work in the Lords Vineyard and got the Fleece and turned the Flock to the Devil and set up your drunken mad Arminian Pelagian and Pope-poisoned Sons to ensnare the Flock You hate the Pope but have received Popery Arminianism Free-Will General Redemption Falling from Grace denying a free personal eternal Election are all hatched in Hell and are the Popes foundation that which the Martyrs abhorred c. and in those days Papists only asserted and in your bringing in of this Serpent of this Army of Vipers in the belly of the Trojan Horse painted o're to the Peoples view with a shew of Zeal Religion and Purity yet the ground of Popery in England and of our Desolation and Destruction and this brand will lye on you Gentlemen when England is wallowing in her bloud And have raised up Persecutions and Acts of Parliament against the Lord's Lambs for serving their God and preaching Christ to the People whom you have famished with your Assyrian and Roman dishes and driven them from post to pillar while you suffered the Romish Leopard to lye in your houses in your Territories and in your Pulpits And now you are come up in remembrance before God and she I mean the whore whom you have adored and jussled so nigh to will jussle you out of your States Dignities and Honours for though you turn she 'll no more trust you you shall burn Behold I am against thee O thou most proud Jer. 50.31 and 51.44 and you shall spew out again all the Dainties you have swallowed down by iniquity Your Wall shall fall Break off your Iniquities by Repentance if happily the Lord may accept you and turn to the Bloud of Jesus and acknowledge your Errours your Covetousness your Persecutions of Christs Lambs your feeding your bellies and famishing the Flock with Popish Trash and dry Ceremonies and cast from thou that Babylonish Garment you have bespotted your selves with and let not the dust of an Idol lie in your Gowns in your Families in your Churches and in your Pulpits My Soul mourns for you because you have the name of Protestants O that you had the Spirit and Doctrine and Gifts of Protestants Gather your selves together yea gather together O Nation not desirous before the decree bring forth before the day pass as the Chaff before the fierce anger of the Lord come upon you Seek the Lord all ye meek of the Land that have Christ's imputed Righteousness for your Wedding-garment and his Bloud alone for your Laver It may be ye shall be bid in the day of the Lords fierce anger Zeph. 2. Repent of your fulness of Gospel-bread your forsaking the pure Doctrine of Christ and his Messengers and giving heed to lyes and sables ever learning and running up and down but never attaining to the faith of Gods Elect and to the Love that covers a multitude of sins who justifie your selves and cloak over your enmity malice and implacable spirits with fair words and soft speeches and voluntary humility while within you are Pride Covetousness Revenge Lust and all manner of wanton filthiness The Lord hath made bare his holy arm and will take away your Cloak that you have deceived with and you shall seek from sea to sea for the pure Word you have contemned with its dispensers while you have laid out your money for that that is no bread that is not Christ And you shall know that the Lord hath spoken to you but you have refused the still Waters and chosen the swift streams There is no Peace to the wicked in their own righteousness out of Christ imputed Righteousness but it shall be well with the Righteous even in the day of the greatest distress Then lift up your heads and rejoyce for the day of your Redemption draws nigh For in twenty four years to come there shall be neither Pope nor Popedomes but the Lord shall reign in Mount Zion before his Antients gloriously Dan. 7. 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