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A04379	Newcastles call, to her neighbour and sister townes and cities throughout the land, to take warning by her sins and sorrowes Lest this overflowing scourge of pestilence reach even unto them also. As also a direction, how to discover such sins as are the procurers of Gods judgments by divers methods. By R. Jenison, Dr. of D. Whereunto is added, the number of them that dyed weekely in Newcastle and Garth-side, from May 6. to December 31. 1636.	Jenison, Robert, 1584?-1652.	1637 (1637)	STC 14492; ESTC S107703	57,340	278

Ierem. 5.7 Seeing thou wilt neither seeke pardon nor forsake thy Sin Tell me wouldst thou that I should violate my Iustice to spare thee in thy Sins How canst thou in reason expect it Will yee infect one another with your evill examples and company-keeping by tempting and inticing one another to Sin to my dishonour and shall I still fit still and doe nothing shal not I send my plagues among you to make you afraid one of another and to sever you one from another Shall I not multiply my plagues till you each of you see the plague of your owne heart and seeke unto me for mercie and for healing If otherwise Ierem. 5.9 Shall I not visit for these things Vse Vse 1 In our sufferings to justifie God his truth and people Now that Gods hand is so heavie upon us wee 1. See whom to thank none but our selves our pride our unfruitfulnesse our sensualitie our securitie our manifold defections from God both in his truth and holinesse have procured these to us The evils wee doe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and that willingly are the cause of all the evils wee suffer unwillingly Howsoever let us in this as in other evils ever justifie God ●ament 1.18 take blame to our selves and accept of the punishment of our Sins which Lesson wee may learn of holy David Psalm 119. ●5 who having by pride vaine-glorie and selfe-confidence provoked God to smite his people with Pestilence And to blame our selves is yet soone touched in conscience and being tender-hearted hee shewes himselfe also wise to see the cause in himselfe and unpartiall to judge himselfe taking the whole blame and shame onely to himselfe saying I have sinned 2 Sam. 2 10-17 Is it not I that commanded the people to bee numbred But these Sheepe what have they done I have sinned greatly in that I have done I have done very foolishly O worthy King O most worthy example even for Kings and Magistrates to imitate It becoms us at this time every man to search and look into his own heart to find out that Achan which troubleth the campe that Ionah who troubleth the sea and causes such storms of wrath that Sheba for whose cause God layes siege to our townes and cities How this may bee done or how we may find out our sinnes as causes of present judgements I shall indeavor hereafter to shew more fully Onely now take we heed that wee doe not so far goe about to justifie our selves as to translate the cause of our sufferings from our selves to other men whether forefathers Ezek. 18.2 superiours we being in a ranke of inferioritie Inferiors if we be governors and Magistrates who are ready to account and call the people accursed David did not so as vvee have heard Exemplarie judgements on a place befall chiefly for the sinns of exemplary persons neither doth God shew himselfe Judge from heaven till his Vicegerents here on earth too much and too long neglect to execute his righteous judgements or lastly to the holy Prophets of God 1 Kings 17.18 Numb 41. as King Ahab layd the famine upon Elias and the rebellious Israelites here the death of the conspirators upon Moses and Aaron Neither let us blame Gods truth and religion as causes of our sufferings as did the idolatrous women of old Ier. 44.18 and as did the heathen in primitive times of the Christian church Si coelum stetit si terra movit si fames si lues statim Christianos ad leonem acclamatur Tertul. Apolog cap. 39. proclaiming the innocent Christians guilty of death as oft as therwas either drought famine earth-quake or plague yea as some I doubt are readie now to charge the truth we maintain against outlandish 〈…〉 novelties with these present evils and to threaten the state kingdom with ruine though neither state nor Church were ever blessed with more peace plentie prosperity then when the ancient truth of God and doctrine of our Church was more unanimously taught and maintained then now it is We may rather retort upon them Ierm 4.21.22.23 as Ieremy did upon those women do not such things rather now come into remembrance with the Lord Howsoever be we sure wee doe not at unawares charge Gods justice in these our sufferings whilest wee goe about to justifie either our Church and nation as innocent guiltles never in better condition or our selves and persons whilest wee will see and acknowledge no sinne at least by name or in particular by our selves being ready to aske Ier. 16.10 Wherefore hath the Lord pronounced and done all this great evill against us or what is our iniquity c. The Lord in no wise can indure such pride for this layes the blame on God himselfe and amounts to no lesse then horrible blasphemy for in case of such common remarkable judgements either God or man must bee acknowledged unjust but proud man will rather have God to bee thought unjust then himselfe the sinner and so going from one to one we may find sin it may be in grosse confessed the cause of this like judgements but every man for his particular will bee without fault and will be ready to justifie himselfe in his place ranck and calling Now then where must the fault lie but in God himselfe what blasphemy is this against God when may wee once expect an end 2. Wee hence see how Vse 2 to get this wrath and great evill removed from us or else sanctified to us to see sinne and to purge it out is the spirituall cure of this and all other evils as wee shall see hereafter Vse 3 3. In the meane time wee not repenting may foresee our owne utter ruine wrath is now indeed gone out but when will it take up CHAP. VI. The main Duty concerning our speedy using of means to pacifie Gods present Wrath urged and pressed by divers Motives in the Text And first because this Pestilence is Wrath. NOw all I aime at from these severall points handled and from this text is by way of generall use to inferre and inforce upon us the use of the Remedy which we are taught from the first word For wrath is gone out the Plague is begun therefore run in with thy Censer c. Or take a Censer and goe quickly and make an attonement For there is wrath gone out from the Lord the Plague is begun The maine duty of the Text hath beene named already in the beginning which now must be prosecuted and it is The maine duty repeated and urged when God once manifesteth his wrath whether it bee by Pestilence or otherwise all lawfull meanes are speedily to be used for the pacifying of the same Meanes are speedily to be used for the pacifying of Gods wrath Aaron there receiving his Injunction presently obeyed and ran into the Congregation and made the attonement The like did Moses not only here with Aaron who perceiving