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A01281	Englands sicknes, comparatively conferred with Israels Diuided into two sermons, by Tho: Adams.	Adams, Thomas, fl. 1612-1653.	1615 (1615)	STC 114; ESTC S100411	68,934	100

this Easter Feast of the Resurrection of our Sauiour Iesus ouertake take the Resurrection of all his Saintes Grant this O Father for thy mercies Oh Christ for thy merites Oh blessed Spirite for thy holy names sake To whom three persons in glorious Trinity one onely true and immortall God in vnity be all power prayse maiesty and mercy acknowledged for euer Amen ENGLANDES SICKENES THE Second Lecture IEREM CHAP. 8. VER 22. Why is not the health of the daughter of my people recouered WE haue described the Person the Church of Israel as she is her own as shee is her owners what in regarde of her selfe what in respect of her God It remaines now only to enquire how shee is affected Shee is Sicke which is necessarily implied from Gods complaint Why is not the health of my daughter recouered She was sicke and so sicke that the Prophet complaines Her wound is incurable for it is come euen to the heart vnto Iudah Incurable in regard of her owne misery not of her Sauiours mercy She was low brought in the Babilonish Captiuity Except the Lord of hostes had left vnto vs a very small remnant wee should haue beene as Sodome and like vnto Gomorrah It is of the Lords mercies that wee are not consumed because his compassions though our obedience faile not But her honour lay in the dust when her Apostacie had forfeited her happinesse Superstition taking the vpper hand of Deuotion and the traditions of man getting the start and ascendency of Gods precepts When her disease grew too frenzy and her sicknesse so excluding from it selfe all recouerable hope that shee had slaine her Physitian and killed him that should haue carried her Whence it appeares that a particular visible Church might and may fall away from grace and haue the Candlesticke remooued The Papists bragge of their numerous multitude and promontorious celsitude Rome boasts that their Church stands vpon an hill So it doth on six hilles too many Shee is mounted high enough if this could iustif●e her She had better bate of her height and ●ise in her goodnesse There may be a locall succession but if not in faith and doctrine mole ruit sua her toppe-heauy weight ouerthrowes her May it not be said of her as Ieremie of Egipt Goe vp into Gilead and take balms Oh virgin the daughter of Egipt in vaine shalt thou vse many medicines for thou shalt not be cured It is no wonder then no wrong if we depart from her that hath departed from the truth of the Gospell and faith of Christ. I will not descend into the view of her apostacie though iust occasion may seeme heere offred but turne my selfe and speech to our selues who are sound in doctrine sicke in conversation but I trust not without good hope of recouerie But so soone as the Romish malignancie heares me say wee are sicke they instantly insult reproching our doctrine But doe men try the faith by the persons or the persons by the faith It is a silly argument à moribus ad doctrinam from the life to the doctrine Yet though we desire and striue to haue our owne liues better we feare not to match them with theirs Our sicknesse would be esteemed lesse if we would goe to Rome for a medicine For the Papist may better steale the horse than the Protestant looke on But so long as we haue approoued Phisitions at home what need we walke so farre to a Mountebanke It is a false rumour there is no sound ayre but the Romish Is it not rather true that thence comes all infection And that they who haue forsaken vs to seeke health there haue gone out of Gods blessing into the warme Sunne Our liues trouble them this they obiect this they exprobrate ad nauseam vsque But do they not stumble at our strawes and leape ouer their owne blockes cauill at our motes and forget or iustifie their owne beames The swelling on the Foxes head shall be a horne if the Pope will so iudge it a Catiline Lopus Garnet Faulx an honest man a Catholike a Saint if hee will so interpret so canonize him If I should but pricke this ranke vein how would Rome bleed Would not haec prodidisse be vicisse as Erasmus said of Augustines dealing against the Maniches the very demonstration of these things be a sufficient conuiction Vnnaturall and hideous treasons conspiracies against whole kingdomes deposing dethroning touching with a murderous hand Christos Dei the Annointed of God oathes vncleannesses periuries from whom are they produced by whom practised if not mostly if not onely by Papists They prie search deride censure the forepart of their Wallet wherein they put our iniquities whiles their owne sinnes are ready to breake their neckes behinde them The greatest euils wee haue are theirs father'd by those that will not be mother'd of our Church Haec non ad frument a Christi sed ad eorum paleam pertinent These belong not to Christs wheate but to the ch●ffe of Antichrist These are ●onsters bred of that viperous dam that haue shooke hands with huma●ity with ciuility though they reserue the forme of Religion Si quid in his possem facerem sterilescere matrem as one of their owne said It were well if either the children would forsake their kind or the mother become barren Yet must these men be Saints and stand named with red letters in the Popes Calendar red indeed so dyed with the Martyr'd bloud of Gods seruants But I am not delighted to stand vpon comparisons if their exclamations had not put me to them that like blown Pharisies they cry out with ostentation of sanctity God I thanke thee that I am not as other men are or as this Publican What age people Church were euer yet so holy that the Preachers found no cause of reproofe of complaint against it Chrysostome speaketh of his times Christians now are become like Pagans or worse Yet who will say that the Religion of Pagans was better then the Christians The Priest and Leuite had no mercy the Samaritane had yet their Religion was the true and not the Samaritans If some Papists amongst vs and those very few liue in more formall and morall honesty et this commendeth not their whole Church They are now in the time of their persecution as they take it though their prosperity and numbers euince the contrary wee are in our peace and who knowes not that an easie occasion of wantonnesse I deny not that wee haue grieuous offenders wee mourne and pray for them Doe the Papists reioyce at this Woe to him that is glad of Gods dishonour Let them brag their peruersion of some which were ours but such and so affected to viciousnesse If wee had lost more of Atheists sacrileg●ous Adulterers l●centious hypocrites we had as little reason to complaine as they to be proud We are the fewer they not the better We desire endeauour reproue exhort