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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

begotten of him And to speak truth it is ordinarily the clearest signe that many poor Christians can find in their own breasts Upon the hazard therefore of your own peace and assurance be it if still you continue to bite and devoure one another 2. I will farther and that this endeared and mutual love of the Saints is the charge yea the dying-charge of Christ to them they were some of the last words of Christ in this world Iohn 15.12 This is my Commandement that ye love one another as I have loved you Dying charges are commonly received with geatest Veneration and men what ever they neglect will be sure to ful●fill the will of the Dead So Gen. 50.10 When Iosephs Brethre● were affraid lest his father being now dead he would remembe● the old injuries they have done him urge this pacifying argumen● upon him Thy Father did command before he dyed saying Forgive ● pray thee now the trespasses of thy Brethren And ver 21. you see how it prevailed with him He comforted them and spake kindly to them O my brethren will you not lay down your private differences and animosities when God threatens you with a common ruin whe● a common danger is upon you all In the year 1607. when by th● irruption of ●he Severn sea the Country in Sommersetshire was over flown almost 20 miles in length and four miles in breadth and many persons drowned it was then observable saith Mr Fuller that Creatures of contra●y Natures as Dogs and Hares Foxes and Conies yea Cats and Mice getting up to the tops of some Hills dispensed at that time with their Antipathies remaining peaceably together without sign of fear or any violence one toward● another My Readers thoughts will doubtless anticipate me in th● application of this strange passage Our want of love hath cut th● banks and let in an inundation of Calamities upon us and a more fearful flood of judgments is yet expected and will not such publick dangers yet cause us to depose our private Differences shall we act below Dogs Cats and Foxes shall we prefer private revenge before common safety If so I much doubt God will still us and part the fray in a more terrible manner then most think of I doubt it may be said of us ere long as he said who saw the dead carcasses of Enemies that had been slain in a duel lie quietly together as if they had embraced each other quanta amicitia se invicem amplectantur qui mutua implacabili in m●citia perierunt How lovingly do they embrace each other being dead who perished through their mutual and implacable enmity how justly may the Lord sweep away this generation of Professors and raise up others in their room who will agree and love one another better What shall I say more If there be any consolation in Christ if any comfort of love if any fellowship of the spirit if any bowells and mercies fulfill ye my joy that ye be like minded having the same love being of one acccord and of one mind Phil. 2.12 Strive day night with God by importunate prayers for the prevention of those eminent judgments but strive no more one with another no more of that work I pray O 't is a thousand pities to see the sheep 〈◊〉 ●●rist to push and go●e each other Non Secu● ac Cum duo conversis inimica in prelia tauri Frontibus incurrent O rather put out as the Elect of God bowels of mercy and compassion let the ●●ople of God be but once heartily united and then Rome do thy worst Associ●te ●●out selves O ye people and you shall be broken in pieces and give ear all 〈◊〉 of far Countrys gird your selves and ye shall be broken in pieces take ●ounsel together and it shall come to nought speak the word and it shall ●ot stand for God is with us ●ye day and night at the throne of Grace interceeding with God for your ●●ves and for the Nation What Mr. P●rkids said of his times it i● no less sui●●●●le to these Non sunt istae litigandi sed orandi tempora these are not times for ●●tention but Prayer This will be a good omen of mercy and deliverance at ●●nd we may say of the spirit of Prayer as Christ said of the budding of the 〈◊〉 tree Mat. 24. when ye see the Fig-tree and all the trees of the field put forth ●nder leaves ye know that Summer is nigh So the reviving and budding forth the spirit of Prayer is a sign that Salvation is nigh The Psalmist knew the ●●ne to favour Sion was come and that God would arise and have mercy upon 〈◊〉 because he found a spirit of compassion and prayer for Sion poured out ●s ●2 13.14 When the decree for judgment is gone forth and God will not be ●●pt he usually shuts up aud straitens the spirits of praying ones Jer. 7.16 he ne●●r shuts out prayer till the case become desperate and ●emediless Jer. 15.1 O ●●●ds great is the efficacy of prayer prayer will rain all your enemies David 〈◊〉 up but one petition against Achitopnel ' Lord turn the councel of Achitopnel into foolishness and it ruined both him and his design 2 Sam. 15.3 Prayers ●nd tears will do more then Guns or swords 2 chron 14 9. O be not discouraged because you presently see not the effects and returns of ●ur Prayers your prayers are heard though their answers be suspended and 〈◊〉 confident in due time they shall be answered also O how many millions of ●●ayers are upon the file in Heaven as a Memor●al before God upon this accoun●●●ot a good man all the world over but joins with you in this cry Lord raze the ●oundations of Antichrist pull down Babylon and build up Sion Yea the pray●●s of thousands who are now in heaven are yet to be answer'd in that matter● or though we may say of their persons as the Church speaks of Abraham they ●now us not yet me may say of their prayers as the Church speaks of Abel though ●●ey be dead their prayers are not dead they live and yet speak O then stir up ●our selves to take hold o● God weep and make supplication Two things exceedingly discourage our spirits in prayer great guilt in u● and ●●ng delayes of answers from God against both these shé Lord hath laid up encouragements and sweet support● in the word are we undèr great guilt have we abused mercies so did Israel Ps. 106.7.8.16.17 18.19.28 Yet mercy comes tri●mphing over all their unworthiness with a non obstante ver 44. Nevertheless he regarded their affliction when he heard their cry What though England like Israel be a polluted Nation yet Israel hath ●ot be●n forsaken nor Judah of his Go● though their land was filled with sin against the holy one of Israel Jer. 515. or doth God exercise your faith and patience by delaying the returns of praye● so that you are ●eady to look at your prayers as lost See

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