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A62534	Tydings from Rome: or, Englands alarm Wherein several grounds to suspect the prevalency of the popish interest are seasonably suggested; Londons ruine pathetically lamented; arguments to disswade from the popish religion, are urged; and the duties of Christians in this time of common danger, and distraction, perswaded.		1667 (1667)	Wing T1160; ESTC R11783	29,044	33

Christian eares with more of their Blasphemous Tenents this is enough to turn the stomacks of Christians with indignation aginst them 4. 'T is a most uncomfortable Religion it is impossible to get or keep true peace of Conscience in that way Rev. 9 5 6. And their torments was as the torment of a Scorpion when he smiteth a man And in those dayes s●all men seek death and shall not find it but death shall flie from them That is saith a worthy Divine the Consciences o● poor sinners being stung with guilt and horror of sin and finding no satisfaction nor remedy in their way shall be endlesly perplext tortured with inward troubles of spirit which are like the stinging of a Scorpion so that they shall chuse death rather then life For do but consider 1 They are enemies to free-grace and all Gospel-preaching Gardiner would not have this gap of free-grace opened to the People See saith ●ont●●● a Jesuit The fruit of Protestantism and their Gospel praeching 2 They deprived the people of the Scriptures wherein are treasured up all the Cordial and soul-reviving Comforts of a poor distressed sinner If th● Law saith David had not been my delight I should have perished in my affliction and again This is my comfort in my affliction thy word hath quikned me Psal. 119. 3. They lay the stress of their hopes for salvation as you have heard upon their own merits and the merits of others like themselves so that all the comforts they build upon that foundation must needs be loose and delu●ory things debile fundamentum fallit otus every thing is as its foundation is Lastly they deny the possibility of the assurance of ●alvation in this life so coseq●ntly their Consciences must be alwais cauterized dead or fluctuating dubious O what a religion is this 5. Lastly it is a Damnable religion we have no ground from Sripture to conc●ude the salvation of any among them that know the depths of Satan and live and dye in destructive Opinions Hear what the Scriptures say Rev. 17.8 The beast that thou sawest was and is not and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit and go into perdition and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder whose Names are not written in the Book of L●fe from the foundation of the Word when they see the beast that was and is not and yet is 2 Thes 2.21 And for this cause God shall send them strong del●sions that they should beleive a lye that they all might be damned that beleeved not the truth but had pleasure in unrighteosness When their sorest plague shall come upon them they shall not have a heart given them to repent but shall blaspheme the Name of God because of them Rev. 16.9 And therefore to shut up this first Counsel you that love the Lord hate that by which he is so much dishonoured it will make your blood boil in your veines to see how he is Crucified Dethroned and trampled on by these his Enemies 2 COVNSL Use all proper preventive means to avert this threatning judgement of which sort I shall recommend these three in speciall Mourn for the abuse of former Light and Liberty and say O remember not against us former iniquities let thy tendeo mercy speedily prevent us for we are brought very low Psal. 97.8 O England What a day of Mercy hast thou had how hast thou been exalted to Heaven with Capernaum thou mightest once have worshipped God as purely as thou wouldest you might have been as holy as you would the lot of this generation was cast upon such an happie nick of time as is scarce to be found in the history of Ages past but the most glorious morning hath its evening the brightest Sun its clouds and time of setting We know not the time of our Visitation but were both wanton and barren under those precous Mercies God is now coming with his Ax in his hand to hew down barren Trees Nothing but unfeigned repentance and speedy reformation can reprieve us Romanae leges ●●nam pregnanti deferunt Nothing but those fruits can be a good signe of mercy to England And will you not yet mourn for the loss of such a day such peace neglected and not mourn such liberties abused and for their abuses removed and not a tear So many flourishing Churches broken and the heart not broken So many shining Lights extinct and none lay it to heart Such black clouds of Popish darkness and blood gathering over us and none tremble Lord what hearts have we how wonderful is the stupifying power of sin O ye Professors of England that ye had known at lea●● in that your day the things of your peace but now they are hid from your eyes You once had those mercies now you have them not and the Lord only knows whether ever you shall see them again I am out of hopes of them till I see the people of God more humbled for the sins that removed them Make up your breaches speedily it is time I think when the enemie is entring in at them Hear me all ye friends of Christ by what names so ever distinguished among your selves Will you some and be friends one with another have you yet enough of your Divisions how do the fruits of your Animosities Contentions and Reproaches relish now with you do you see who God is sending to part you can●t you yet pray together mourn together strive with God together Why then can you go to Prison together Will you stand quietly at the stake together What say you friends you profess to be the children of the God of Peace and I am sure Christ is the Prince of Peace and the Gospel the Gospel of Peace and will not you be the Sons of Peace if you will not yet unite let the ruine of England lie upon your score Do you make no more of the Commands of Christ the Credit of Religion the safety of the Nation Ah! methinks as Tertullian told Scapula Si non vis tibi parcere parce Corthagim If you have no pitie for your selves have pitie for the Nation dont sacrifice all to your unruly lusts If you profess love to Christ and yet have no love for those in whom is his Image if you pretend to be Saints and yet had rather hazard the honour of Christ then denie your passions and lusts pray pull off your Vizards fall into your places and appear as you are Brethren I beseech you seriously to consider these three Particulars and if there be any force in them or tenderness in your Consciences let them at last perswade you to love one another 1. That Scripture makes your love to the Brethren a positive mark of your Regenration 1 John 3.14 We know that we are passed from death ●o life because we love the brethren He that loveth not his Brother abideth in death And 1 Joh 5.1 Every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is

own fingers by our flames they have anima●ed and fomented that spirit of bitterness and wrath among us as one that s●ts two Cocks a fighting● that having kill'd each other he may sup upon them both at night This was the sad posture of Ierusalem when the Enemy entred in her Gates O England England thy destruction is of thy self If the hearts of the fathers be not turned to the children and the hearts of the children to the fathers what can we expect but that God should come and smile the earth with a curse Mal. 4. ult Lord heal the breaches of England for it shaketh Psal. 60 2. 4. Fourthly and lastly that which much appals and daunts my spirit is they find us as deeply guilty of the abuse of the best merc●es as ever any Nation was So that I am afraid this enemy will prove the H●gel um Dei the scourge of God as Totila of old from his cruel persecution of the Christians was called to avenge our unthankfulness for those choice favours which Heaven hath showered down upon this ungrateful Nation Saint Ierom● speaking of the Churches enemies By our sins saith he our enemies are made str●ng and History tells us that when Ves●asian had conquered Ierusalem he refused to have the Crown set upon his head saying I ind●ed am the rod in the hand of God but it is their sins onely that have subdued them Vpon what Nation under Heaven hath God more richly heaped his blessings than upon England and ●ha● people have more wantonly abused them or more comtemptuously spurned at the tender mercies of him that conferr'd th●m what blessing is it which deserves to be stiled matchless transcendent glorious that England hath not enjoyed If ●eace be it we have had it if Plenty we have had it if the Light of the blessed Gospel shining in its Meridian Splendor be it we have had it But Iesurun waxed fat and kicked O dreadful fore runner of National ruine What was it that gave the Sa●acen● footing in the Eastern Empire but the wantonness of those Churches abusing the Light which they enjoyed how impatiently did the people of God in former times thirst for liberty to worship God purely and when they had obtained it What was the use they made of it horresco referens I tremble in speaking it Did we not play with our Light fight with our brethren by it till God blowed out the Candle and so I wish I could say ended the quarrel We may say of our liberty as the Philosopher speaks of waters Suis terminis diffisile continentur they are difficultly kept within their bounds why brethren did you think that God could suffer such precious mercies to run at the waste spout much longer Did you think he was weary of his mercies to continue them to such as little regarded them or that it was not as grievous to the blessed God that his children should smite one another as to see the Enemy smiting them no darkness is more formidable then that of an Eclipse which assaults the very vessels of light no taste more unsavoury then that of sweet things when corrupted and no sin more hideous then that which darkens the brightness of Gods love and corrupts the sweetness of his mercy O England thou hast abused a darling attribute of God thou hast sinned against the most d●eply ingraven Principle and Law of Nature The very irrational creatures yea the heaviest and dullest among them the Ox and Ass are not so deficient in gratitude to their owners as thou hast been to thy God Isa. 1.3 justly therefore may he upbraid thee and say be astonished O ye Heavens at this and be ye horribly afraid c. Sic ne repend●s Is this thy kindness to the God of thy mercies marvel not then if God pluck up the hedge of his protection from about thee and let in cruel foes upon thee to chastise thee for thine ingratitude and though he will not make a full end of thee yet may he say concerning thee as of Israel 2 Chro. 127 8. I will not utte●ly dest●oy them but will grant them some deliverance and my wrath shall not be poured out upon Jerusalem by the hand of Shishack nevertheless they shall be his servants that they may know my service and the service of the Kingdoms of the Countries The Lord I tru●t will not utterly forsake his dwelling place in England but verily I fear he may permit Antichrist for a time to afflict us that we may know the difference between the sweet and easie yoke of C●rist which we would not endure and the yoke of Antichrist that shall gall our necks and consciences with cruel servitude And because we served not the Lord our God with joyfulness and gladness of heart for the abundance of all things that therefore ●e shall serve our enemies which the Lord shall send ag●inst us in hunger and thirst and nakedness and the want of all things Deut. 28 47. that so we may return to God with the Church and say as it is Isa. 26.19 O Lord our God other Lords besides thee ●ave had dominion over us but by thee only will we make mention of thy Name and as Hos. 2.7 I will return to my fi●st husband for it was better with me then than now These are some of the principal grounds of Englands fear at this day in reference to the Popish Party Let the serious and considering Reader lay them together allow them but a just and even ballance and doubtless it will hereby appear that how great soever our fears are yet our dangers much exceed them Having thus hinted the grounds of our fears what remains but that next I address my self to the principal work design'd i● these Papers which is to call upon England to awake out of her destructive security and not to suffer her enemies to surprize her sl●eping and I would do it in the words of the Prophet Zeph. 2.1 2. Gather yourselves together yea gather together O Nation no● desired before the decree bring forth before the day pass as the chaffe before the fierce anger of the ●ord come upon thee O that I could ●ound this Admonition so loud that all in the Nation might hear it Had I any hopes that these poor Papers might be honoured with a glance of His Majesties Eye I would as it were prostrate my self at His feet and cry as that woman did 2 Kings 6.26 Help my Lord O King Great Sir the Lord hath done great thin●s for you and You are scarcely capable doing a g●eater service for him and his people then v●go●ously to withstand the Attempts and Encrochments of thi● subtil and formidable Enemy in that it hath pleased the Lord to move Your heart to send forth Your Royal Proclamation aginst them we accept it alwayes and in all places with all thankfulness and pray That he would not only secure Your Royal Pe●s●n from their attempts but also make You a Shield to his