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
him for the reward of his hands shall be given him Å¿ Ps 7,16 His mischeife shall returne upon his own head and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate t Deut. 32.41,42 If I whet my glittering sword and mine hand take hold on indignation I will render vengeance to mine Enemies I I will reward them that hate me 24. I will make mine arrows drunk with blood And my sword shall devoure flesh u 1 Sam. 15.33 And as thy sword hath made women childlesse so shall thy mother be childles among women w Rev. 13.9,10 If any man have an eare to heare let him heare 10 Hee that leadeth into captivity shall goe into captivity And hee that killeth with the sword shall be killed with the sword x Mich. 7.13 The land shall be desolate because of them that dwell therein for the fruit of their doings y Pro. 12.14 And the recompence of a mans hands shall be rendered unto him z Iudg. 1.6,7 And Adonibezeck said threescore and ten Kings having their thumbes and their great toes cut off gathered their meate under my table as I have don so God hath requited me a 1 Sam. 7.9 10,11,12 And Nathan said unto David 9 Thou hast killed Vriah the Hittite with the sword and hast taken his wife to be thy wife and hast slaine him with the sword of the children of Ammon 10 Therefore the sword shall never depart from thy house 11 And I will take thy wives before thine eyes and give them unto thy neighbour and he shall lye with thy wives in the sight of the sunne 12 Thou diddest it secretly but I will doe it before all Israel and in the sight of the sun b For there is nothing hid that shall not be manifested neither any thing kept secret but that it shall come abroad c 1 Cor. 3.8 And every man shall receive his owne reward according to his own labour d Ps 18.25,26 With the upright man thou wilt shew thy selfe upright and with the froward thou wilt shew thy self froward e Mat. 7.2 And with what measure you mere it shall be measured to you againe f Gen 9.6 Whoso sheddeth mans blood by man shall his blood be shed for in the Image of God made he man g Mat. 26.52 And Iesus said put up againe thy sword into his place for All they that take the sword shall perish with the sword h Jam. 4.1,2,3,4 From whence commeth wars and fightings among you come they not hence even of your lusts 2 Yee lust and have not ye kill and desire to have 3 That ye may spend it on your lusts 4 Ye adulterers and adulteresses Know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God Therefore i Ps 68.30 scatter thou the people that delight in war yea Thus saith the Lord. k Amos 9 1. I will slay the last of them with the sword he that fléeth of them shall not flée away and he that escapeth of them shall not bee delivered For * Ezek. 6.12 He that remaineth and is beseiged shall die by the famine thus will I accomplish my fury upon them l Mic. 2.1,2,3 And now Oh ye Princes this commandement is for you if ye will not heare to give glory to my name saith the Lord of Hostes I will even send a curse upon your blessings yâ—… I have cursed them already Because yee did not lay it to heart 3 Behold I will corrupt your séed and spread dung in your faces even the dung of your solemn feasts m Hos 9.9 For they have déeply corrupted themselues as in the dayes of Gibiah Iudges 1 Therfore he will remember their iniquities he will visit their sinnes For n Job 35.9 by reason of multitudes of oppressione they make the oppressed to cry they cry out by reason of the arme of the mighty o Job 20.19 Because he hath oppressed and forsaken the poore because he hath violently taken away an house which he built not p Ps 94.9.10 He that planted the eare shall not he heare he that formed the eye shall he not see He that chastiseth the Heathen shall he not correct Hee that teacheth man knowledge shall not he know q Isa 49.26 For the oppression of the poore and for the sighing of the needy I will arise saith the Lord. r Ps 12.5 And I will féede them that oppressed thée with their own flesh and they shall be drunke with their owne blood as with new wine * Isa 10.13,14 For he saith by the strength of my hand have I done it by my wisdome I have removed the bounds of the people and have robbed their treasuries I haue put down the Inhabitants of the land as a valiant man 14 And my hands hath found as a nest the riches of the people and as one gathereth egges that are left have I gathered all c. * Hab. 1.16 Thus they sacrifice to their net and burne incense unto their Drag Because by them their portion is fat Therefore Å¿ Ezek. 21.9,10,11,28,30,31 Thus saith the Lord a sword a sword is sharpened and four bished 10 It is sharpened to make a sore slaughter it is fourbished that it may glitter 11 And it is fourbished to give into the hands of the slayer 28 For the slaughter it is fourbished to consume because of the glittering 30 I will judge thée in the land of thy nativity 31 And I will powre out mine indignation upon thée I will blow against thée in the fire of my wrath and deliver thée into the hands of brutish men and skilfull to destroy t Deut. 28.10 A Nation of a fierce countenance which shall not regard the person of the old nor shew favour to the young u Ezek. 21 32. For Thou shalt be as fuell to the fire thy blood shall be in the middest of the Land w Isa 10.5,6 Oh Assirian the rodde of mine anger and the staffe in their hand is mine indignation 6 I will send him against an hypocriticall Nation And against the people of my wrath will I giue him a charge to take the spoyle and to take the prey and to tread them downe like mire in the stréets x Ps 149.8 To bind their Kings with chaines and their nobles with links of iron y Hos 4.1,2,3,9 For the Lord hath a controuersie with the Inhabitants of the land because there is no truth nor mercy nor knowledge of God in the land 2 By swearing and lying and kiling and stealing and committing adultery they breake out and blood toucheth blood 3. Therefore shall the land mourn and all that dwelleth therein shall anguish 9 And there shall be like people like Priests and I will punish them for their ways reward them for their doings z Jer. 5.31 The Prophets prophesie falsly and the Priests beare rule