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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45380	Englnads [sic] alarum-bell to be rung in the eares of all true Christians, to awaken them out of dead sleep of sin and securitie, that they may arme themselves by prayer and repentance, and seek the Lord while he may be found, before the evill day commeth / written by Charles Hammond.	Hammond, Charles, 17th cent.	1652 (1652)	Wing H492; ESTC R39229	6,857	16

ENGLNADS ALARUM-BELL To be rung in the eares of all true Christians to awaken them out of dead sleep of Sin and Securitie that they may arme themselves by Prayer and Repentance and seek the Lord while he may be found before the evill day commeth Written by Charles Hammond Joel 2.1 Blow the Trumpet in Sion and sound an Alarum in my holy Mountaines let all the Inhabitants of the Land tremble for the day of the Lord commeth for it is nigh at hand LONDON Printed for Richard Burton at the signe of the Horse-shooe in Smithfield 1652. ENGLANDS Alarum-Bell THis Alarum-Bell I have sent to be rung in the ears of all true Christians whereby it may arowse them from the dead sleep of sin security to beware of Gods Iudgments which he threatens against all obstinate presumptuous stiff-necked people behold friends I would not have you thinke that I will take upon me to Prophesie or Prognosticate any thing in this Booke but what is warranted me by the Scriptures That little Talent that the Lord hath lent me I would not hide it but willingly so lay it out that ye use may redound to the glory of God the good of all those that fear him my desire is that this my small Book cald Englands Alarum-Bell may be as powerfull in your eares work so much for your souls to stop Gods wrath by Prayer and Repentance as the Preaching of Jonah to the Ninivites as the Lord commanded him who at the hearing of Jonah when he said Yet forty dayes Niniveh shall be overthrown they fasted and mayed with such earnestnes sincerity to ye Lord that God repented him of ye evill that he said he would doe did it not as you may read in the 3 of Jonah You have heard lately do hear by the Iudgemēts Prognostications of many mē now lately of many sad things that are like to befall not onely this Nation but all Christendome besides whether they will prove true or false none but ye Lord knows the stars planets I must confes are ye Messengers of God are sent as fore runners of many things which they do dive much into yet faile in their judgements many times many times I am perswaded that the Lord doth call back ye terrour of those signes and tokens that he sends to make them know that they are but men There is many I am perswaded ye did look to sée the 29 of March last to be a terrible day as all writers did prognosticate I must confes the Eclipse was true both of the Moon the 15 day the Sun the 29 according as they had written the Moon indéed a very sad one great winds rose upon her eclipse according as M. Culpepper writ in his Almanack For the Sun 't was eclipsed so much as ye appearance of it was like a new Moon 9 parts of 12 of her were darkned or more but ye splendor of that that did appear of it was so bright and glorious so clear the aire was that the day was not so terrible to behold But the power of the Lord was admirable in this Eclipse I would desire all you yt have séen this Eclipse to consider this thing ye power of God over man was this that I may with Reverence say He caused light out of darknesse for the splendor of ye part of the Sun that was not eclipsed was so glorious that it gave a luster on earth frō the dark heavens which if the Lord had suffered the clouds to have covered ye part of the Sun that was not eclipsed wt such clouds darknesse that was in the morning before she was eclipsed it would have bin then I think a dismall day to look on indéed then perhaps more glory would have bin given to some men on earth then to God above and afterwards would have bin so extolled for their prognostications by so many silly people in these times yt they would have took their Almanacks for Scripture have looked more in them thē in ye Bible They writ very largely of the effects that will follow what the effects will be the Lord knows if they do know by ye stars planets that the Lord doth intend those things that they writ on yet let this my Alarum-Bell sound so much cōfort in ye ears of all true Christians that if we wil but truly with a sincere heart repent us of our sins leave them ye Lord will repent him of the evill that hée pretended leave punishing you shall find in the 13 of Hosea the 9 10 ver. the comfortable words of ye Lord which he spare to his people after he had aflicted thē saith he O Israel thou hast destroyed thy selfe but in me is thy help I will be thy King where is any other that may save thee in all thy Cities by this you may sée the Lord hath no delight to the destruction of a nation or people I desire you likewise yt the brightnes of the Lords mercy in this eclipse of the Sun may not be a means to harden your hearts as I am afraid it doth too many in this Land that makes a laughing at it thinks because it was not so dismal a day as it was spoke of by ye Astrologers yt God sent those signs tokens in vain I desire you to be carefull what you do scoffe not at the wonders of the Lord for though he lightened the glory of the Sun in the eclipse without repentance he will darken the glory of this Nation we may féele ye effects Remēber what the Lord saith by the mouth of his Prophet Isaiah cap. 5.12 They regard not the workes of the Lord neither consider the oppression of his hands therfore my people are gone to Captivity because they have no knowledge I look upon this eclipse in my opinion in two several ways that it is a fore-runner both of Mercy Iudgement First I take it as the Lords mercy that he shews these signs in heavē to forewarn us on earth of his judgments to come that all his people may prepare to méet him by repentance before the day of his wrath comes upon us Next I looke upon it as his judgments which he threatens by it for the Lord may say by us as he did by ye Children of Israel Amos 3.2 You onely have I knowne of all the families of the earth therefore I will punish you for your iniquities For truly I think no Nation under the Sun hath the Lord done more thē for us yet no nation hath provoked him as we have done Look again in the 4. of Amos 9 10 11. verses I have sent amongst you the Pestilence after the māner of Egypt your young men have I slaine with the Sword and have taken away your Horses and I have made the stink of your Corps to come up in your nostrills ye have you not returned

their house till it had destroyed both them it I desire you yt are addicted to that sin beware for it is such a sin that you can make no excuse for it it brings you neither pleasure nor profit unlesse it be the wrath of God which he threatens against presūptuous sins it is such a sin in this Nation the Lord be mercifull to us that you shall scarce walk the stréets but you shal hear little Children ye scarce knows the right hand from the left yet they can learn to swear their parents scarce correct them for it The Lord may well visit the sins of the father upon ye Children when you suffer your Children to take his most sacred Name in vaine The last sin which I have to name for indéed 't is not for me to number nor to reckon all the severall sins of this Nation for I think we exceed Sodom Gomorrah in our wickednes only I have toucht these four sins as namely Pride Covetousnes Blasphemy Drunkennes which is the foure crying sins of this Nation my Alarum-Bell rings loud in the ears of all those that loves ye sin of Drunkennesse sée what ye Lord saith by the mouth of his Prophet Joel 1.5 Awake ye Drunkards and weep howle all ye drinkers of wine because of the new wine for it is out off from your mouth Read ye Chapter you shall find what the Lord did doe for abusing those creatures for in time of plenty they made a wast therefore ye Lord brought a Famine scarcity because of their Drunkennes Gluttony Again look in Habakkuk 2.15 16. Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink that puttest thy bottle to him makest him drunk also that thou maist look on his nakednesse The cup of the Lord right hand shal be turned unto thee shamefull spung shal be on thy glory Let us take héed we have the Lord be thanked plenty but by our riotousnes drunkennes it is just with God to bring a scarcity How many poor souls in this natiō would be glad of a draught of Béer to quench their thrist when many thousands take so much they are fain to disgorge it up again worst then beasts most shamefully abuse those creatures that God hath sent for the nourishment of man I desire you to beware of that sin for a man is not himself when he is in drink he is subject to all kind of wickednes How many dangerous desperate sins hath many men fallen into when they have bin in ye case and such great ones too that hath indangered both soule and body Now I have given you warning by my Alarum-Bell that you may prepare your salves by flying from sin and flying to the Lord by repētance which if we undoubtly do we néed not fear what man prognosticates for the Lord hath promised At what time soever a sinner doth repent him of his sins from the bottome of his heart he will blot out all his iniquities But we must not delay our repētance take our own time for we know not how soone the Lord will come but let us be like wise Virgins to be ready at all times to méet him that we may enter into glory with him for thus much assure your selves there is like to be great troubles throughout all Christendome for all nations are preparing for the destruction of one another Iust as ye Lord speaketh shal be in the latter dayes There shall be great Tribulations such as was not since the beginning of the world Mat. 24.21 For Nation shall rise against Nation and Kingdome against Kingdome and there shall be Earth-quakes in divers places and there shall be Famines and great troubles these are the beginnings of sorrow Mark 13.8 And now to conclude desiring you to look in Amos 5.14 16. Seeke good and not evill that you may live and so the Lord the God of Hosts shall be with you as he hath spoken Hate the evill and love the go●d and establish Judgements in the gate It may be the Lord of God of Hosts wil be gracious to ye remnant of Joseph For the Lord hath promised he will hide his people in the day of his wrath Then let us séek the Lord while he may be found before the evill day cōmeth for if we get under the protection of his Wings we néed not feer the day of Doome nor the day of Death neither Sword Pestilence nor Famine shal hurt us for the Lord will bring his people out of all their troubles So the last sound of this my Alarum-Bell concludes with the swéet harmony of Saint Paul in his Epistle to the Romans Chap. 8. vers. 38 39. Which I would desire all Christians in these sad times to arme thēselves with the same resolution and then assure your selves you shall bée more then Conquerors For I am perswaded saith S. Paul That neither death nor life nor Angells nor Principalities nor Powers nor things present nor things to come nor height nor depth nor any other Creature shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord FINIS