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A44327	New-Englands sence, of Old-England and Jrelands sorrowes a sermon preached upon a day of generall humiliation in the churches of New-England : in the behalfe of Old-England and Jrelands sad condition / by William Hooke ...	Hooke, William, 1600 or 1601-1678.	1645 (1645)	Wing H2623; ESTC R10758	17,779	37

tents and the people of God are encamped in the open fields what comfort can we have in our houses food or wives What though we are so farre from them in place The needle in the Compasse is never quiet till it pointeth to the North at a thousand times greater distance Affections touched with grace stand firme from one end of the World to the other Nehemiah's heart stood right towards Jerusalem when he was in Persia and though hee was not in an humbling Wildernesse but an alluring Pallace even in Shushan yet Jerusalem came into his minde For when Hanani and certaine men of Iudah came thither to him he asked them concerning his brethren that were left of the Captivity and concerning Ierusalem And when they told him of the great affliction and reproach he sate downe and wept and mourned many daies and fasted and prayed before the God of Heaven Neh. 1.1 2 3 c. Wherefore let that Word of the Lord sound often in our eares Ye that have escaped the Sword go away stand not still remember the Lord a farre off and let Ierusalem come into your minds Ier. 50.51 And though we have but a day or two wherein to joyne all our Forces in the Land together and to give the Adversaries a broad side Yet let us now and then make excursions by our selves in private now that the Lord cals for help against the Mighty Are we not all the Voluntarie of IESUS whose People shall be willing in the day of his power neither is there any restraint unto the Lord to save by many or by few by whole Churches or by single persons Let us therefore be often adventuring by our selves like Ionathan and his Armour-bearer against the Philistims If ever we afflicted our soules let it be in these daies for we may partly understand by Bookes the number of the yeares which God will accomplish in the desolations of Ierusalem So that we set our faces unto the Lord God to seek by Prayer and Supplications with Fasting Sack cloth and Ashes There is at this time a great battell between Michael and the Dragon and the Angels The Beast and the Kings of the earth and their Armies have gathered themselves together to make warre with the Lambe All the Principalities and Powers and Rulers of the Darknesse of the World and Spirituall wickednesses in High places are up in Armes this day and there is scarce a Devill left behind in Hell If ever therefore now Let us quit our selves like men the weapons of our Warre-fare are not Carnall but mighty through God Let us pray against them as Moses against Amalek and Preach against them as the Priests under the Law when the Host went out against the Enemy and sing against them as Iehosophat and the men of Iudah did against Moah Ammon and Edom and live against them as it is written When the Host goeth forth against the Enemy then keepe thee from every wicked thing Deut. 23.9 Every Ordinance of God is a deadly murtherer O let us walke and sleep in our Armour and never be unfurnished of promises touching the confusion of Babel and her builders Let the cause of God affect us deeply and the people and Cities of our God be alwaies in our eyes And let the desolations of Christendome awaken us to frequent Prayers and constant sympathy and the bloud of Gods people particularly in Ireland be to us as the bloud of Grapes and Mulberies are to Elephants to provoke them to fight Oh those incarnate Irish Devils let them be often in our sight Their blasphemies their burnings their robberies their rapes their rostings their strippings rippings hangings drownings dis-membrings butcheries the very shambles of the Devil erected in Ireland would be alwaies in our eyes and eares And yet when we have done all let us referre the issue to the Almighty saying Let the Lord do what seemeth him good The last thing is their resigning up their wills into the hands of GOD whereof a few words and I end Ioab is not wanting in the use of all meanes to obtaine victory yet lookes above them and refers the issue to the Lord of Hosts teaching us Doctrine To neglect no meanes of Victorie yet to depend upon the Lord onely for a gracious issue For there is no trusting in our bows or swords it is the Lord that saveth us from our enemies It is not the race to the swift for then Ioab knew that his brother Asael had not dyed by the hand of Abner Neither is it the battel to the strong for then he knew that Goliah should never have fallen by the hand of David The Horse is prepared against the day of Battell but victory is of the Lord. Vsc First Let this teach us to seeke the Lord that none of this may ever rest upon the arme of flesh nor number the people as once David did Hee had a Catalogue of all the mighty men 2 Sam. 23. and now too he will have a list of all the Souldiers in his Kingdome 2 Sam. 24. He Idolized the carnall strength of Israel and remembred not the Word of the Lord which said When thou takest the summe of the children of Israel after their number then they shall give every man a ransome for his soule unto the Lord that there bee no plague among them when thou numbrest them Exod. 30.12 Let us remember England in this particular It lyeth under great temptations to this kind of Idolatry The Union of the two Nations two Houses all or most of the Shires by Petitioning for Reformation the setling of the Warrefare of the Kingdome at Sea and Land the mervellous wisdome and undaunted resolution of Parliament their successe in many matters the eyes of many on them and the applause that is given them besides whatsoever other temptations and armes of flesh may soone solicite the hearts even of the godly much more of others to carnall confidence that they may never lift up their eyes unto the hilles from whence commeth their helpe Sisera Midian Goliah Senacherib Zerah fall by their carnall props when Barak Gedeon David Jonathan and Asa resting upon the Lord in the use of small meanes returne victorious Two dayes weeping fasting was little enough for the eleven Tribes to gaine the day of Benjamin O let not Gods people rest in Councell Number Courage Ammunition but in the Lord of Hosts Secondly Let not us then place any affiance in our Fasting daies but refer al to God when we have ended them If the Devill cannot make us convert our Prayers unto Idols he will see whether hee cannot convert them into Idols Lastly Let us lay our hearts this day in the Lords hand as once Eli Hezekiah being threatned as here Ioab ready for the onset did The People of God both in old England and new have waited on his providence both by earthly and heavenly meanes Now let the Lord doe what seemeth him good If it shall seem good to him that England Ireland or Scotland shall suffer yet further the will of the Lord be done What remaineth but for us to magnifie Gods justice and to put our mouthes into the dust Especially as for England considering how long the Prelacie hath fought against Christ and kept him out of his Kingdome What bloody brazen-faced Idolatries have bin committed there What Atheismes Blasphemies Adulterie Prodigies of pride grinding of faces selling of the Poore countenanced Sabbath breakers derision of holinesse shedding the blood of the Saints have been common in that Land and in a speciall manner considering the sinnes of Gods deare people there particularly of his Messengers in their lon● continued subjection unto the power of Antichrist in the Prelacy the warpings and shrinkings of some the fearefulnes and cowardize of many for which for mine own particular I desire to be humbled while I live the reading of that abominable Booke of cursed liberty contributing to the Superstitious Pompousnesse of Paules and to the raising of Forces against the Scots a dreadfull bloody sin reading or permitting to be read Proclamations and Prayers in the Churches against them I say considering all this to mention no more though we have used what meanes we can and though they should doe the like yet let our expectations of successe be low let us humbly submit our selves to the will of the Lord saying Let him doe what seemeth him good If it seem good to him to pardon the Land O blessed be such gentlenesse If otherwise it seem good to him to correct it blessed bee his justice What soever he doth is good therefore let him doe it And any mercy at any time is enough for great transgressors FINIS

peace and homage from forreigne States and of great emploiments and of mighty men of valour Wherefore seeing God is come neerer to England then formerly and hath of late made such gracious tenders of himselfe and hath found better acceptance then formerly O let us conclude in dayly prayer and this day especially for his presence to be continued and more cleerely manifested then ever For if he should now withdraw againe wee are to expect no glory to rest among them You know how little honour hath been visible in that Land of late yeares It hath for a long time beene a Land of sorrow of mourning and not of joy and rejoyceing It hath not been called Naomi but Marah it hath not been a Crowne of Glory nor a Royall Diadem in the hand of the Lord but been termed for saken and desolate But now the day hath begunne to dawne yea the Sunne seemes to be ris●n on it if it strike nor in againe and a Tempest ensue upon it which the Lord forbid O why should we give the Lord any rest till it be called Hephzibah and Beulah My delight is in her because she is marryed to the Lord. For when once a Land is joyned to the Lord hee is married to it and then his delight is in it and hee will cloath it with honour and glory And thus much for the first ground of the Exhortation Secondly the other is the State and Common-wealth which lye ingaged our people and our Cities Even Politick Priviledges are of weighty consequence and moment But in what a way both people and Cities in that Land have beene dealt with for many yeares past we need say nothing when it is clearely represented to the view of the whole world in the late Remonstrance of the state of that Kingdome When men judge unjustly and accept the persons of the wicked and rid not the poore and needy out of the hand of the wicked nor do justice to the afflicted when they will not know nor understand but walke on in darkenesse what followeth All the Foundations of the Land are out of course Psal 82.5 The Heavens Sea and dry Land have been shaken and there hath been both a Church-quake and a State-quake in that Land which hath removed Foundations and swallowed up both people and Cities For when Foundations are not onely shaken but out of course and removed what have people and Cities to stand upon There is no man in such a case who can say I stand upon sure ground I feare no colours I am able to beare out my just actions For if they should say we will have recourse to our Foundations alas they are out of Course they are removed and none knowes where to find them Beloved It is a fearefull thing to have but the foundation of an house undermined the corner stones removed and the pillars pulled downe but when whole Cities and Townes and Shires of people shall be undermined and neere blown up oh how dreadfull is it When a People who can say We are Romans neither did we buy our freedom but are the lawfull and legitimate heires of Liberty shall be scourged uncondemned and when Cities that were formerly Cities of Refuge where the afflicted might find succour under municipall Laws shall be invaded by destroyers what cause have men to doe as David and his followers when they had recourse to Ziklag thinking to have found shelter there but loe the Citie was burnt and their wives and sons and daughters taken Captives Even lift up their voices and weepe untill they have no more power to weepe When a man may say as David In the way wherein I walked they privily laid a snare for me I looked on my right hand and behold there was no man would know mee refuge failed me this is miserable For a man thinkes himselfe safe in his way and if he be in the Kings high way he thinks much to have a snare laid for him and none but Cutters will way lay a man there For Edom to assault Israel when they promised to walke on only in the Kings high way O barbarous and inhumane Numb 20 17 20. But when a man shall be assaulted in such a case and he looks on his right hand and on his left for help and can see none then his purse if not his throat is indangered Surely it is uncomfortable travelling in such Countries Brethren Liberty is more precious then life inasmuch as death is the cōmon lot of all men but servitude the portion only of men destined to misery And if a people be sold for bondmen and bond-women what can countervaile the Kings damage And seldome is it that cruelty rests satisfied with bondage but makes his progressions to further degrees of blood When people Cities cannot say Municipia but Man●ipia what remaines but death as when the Ephramites could not pronounce Shibboleth but onely Sibboleth presently they dyed for it If goods and liberty be in the power of mens wills why not also life There is much comprized in people and Cities even all that is Politick Oeconomick or Private but I instance onely in the greatest mischiefe Let us therefore use the words of Queene Hester vnto Ahasuerus and direct them unto God If we have found favour in thy sight O Lord and if it please the King let our lives be given us at our petition and our people at our request for our people are sold to bee destroyed and slaine and perish If any say How are we concerned in the miseries of other men so long as we are free I say It toucheth us as Lots captivity touched Abraham who mustred up his men and took his confederats along with him Mamre Eshcol and Aner and delivered him out of bondage And if we forbeare to deliver them that are drawne unto death and those that are ready to be slaine if wee say we knew it not or what did it concerne us He that pondereth the heart confidereth it and hee will render unto us according to our workes Prov. 24.11.12 Wherfore Let us play the men for our people and Cities What though it be well with us Let us yet remember the afflictions of Joseph yea and the words of Ioseph to Pharaoh's Butler Thinke upon me when it shall be well with thee and shew kindnesse I pray thee unto me and make mention of mee unto Pharaoh and bring me out of this house For thus in effect speaks England and Ireland to us this day and all the Cities in them now that it is well with you think upon us and shew kindnesse unto us and make mention of us unto the God of heaven that we may fully once be delivered out of the house of bondage Oh saith such and such a Citie there are so many thousand soules in me who cannot discerne between the right hand and the left But if it be not well with them how can it bee well with us If the Arke and Israel and Iudah abide in