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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A84677	An alarm to trumpets or, Mounte chival to every dejected, remisse, and secure trumpet, either in England, Scotland, or Ireland. By E. F.	E. F. (Edward Ford), fl. 1630?-1660.	1651 (1651)	Wing F1458A; Thomason E1361_3; ESTC R209188	12,639	31

or Horse Lament i' th field and low for want of grasse The reason is because thy Leprous lust Has burn'd the grasse and hay so neare to dust That they can get no food for to suffice Their bodies without which thy body dyes In brief since we perceive the efficient cause Of all our sorrowes is the breach of Lawes 'T is meet we doe repent while we have breath Before the Nation bleed it selfe to death And that we seriously reforme our wayes Before the Sword and Famine end our dayes Look North-ward and behold a cloud of bloud And then look South-ward and behold no good Take a Prospective-glasse and view the West Alas the East and that is like the rest Now seeing that no safety can be found On Irish Scottish no nor English ground Let 's goe to Christ for it is he will teach us Away to live where Armies cannot reach us And therefore in all dangers let 's imbrace And make the King of Kings our hiding place So shall we be secure when stormes arise Living in blisse when our poore bodies dyes Let me crave your patience to peruse a few lines more and I have done Deare friends According to my meane ability you have had a little taste of the Lords extraordinary love and lenity to us and our empty returnes of obedience to him againe Now as we have had a feast of his favour could he but have a little relish of our love to him it would doe well it is not unknowne to you that there is but three paces more especially that doth direct a man either to paine or Paradise He that by his little and small sins as he accounts slowly creeps to Hell doth very bad but he that by his more known and scandalous offences goes a round pace thither doth a great deale worse but he that by his more profuse and riotous living runs thither doth worst of all So on the contrary he that by his small and feeble faith endeavours for to creep to Christ doth well but he that by a stronger faith goes lustily doth better but he that by the mighty power of God with cheerfulnesse and alacrity doth sweetly run his wayes doth best of all O that we could so run as through the strength of Christ we might obtaine Deare Sirs let us consider and a little recollect our memory what we came into this world for was it doe you think to sport like the Leviathan in the Sea and for to wast our dayes in wanton dalliance surely no alas you know our errand hither was to get God glory and to save our poore soules but how neglective we have been in he one and constantly remisse in the other ●s you know knowne unto the Searcher and Trier of the reines farre better then to us for we doe finde by sad experience Judgements has not deterr'd us Menaces has not warn'd us nor many mercies won us and though the Sword be drawne yet we cannot be drawn from the vaine vanities of this present life and fading pleasures of this wicked world There is a notable passage in the second of Kings the fift chap. and about the 26 27 ver where covetous Gehazi abusing the name of his kinde Master to Naaman the Syrian by which meanes he receives of him two tallents of Silver in two baggs and the two changes of Garments without the consent of the good old man but the businesse being understood and clear'd up to him he sharply doth reprove him for his fault saying unto him Is this a time to receive mony garments olive-yards vine-yards sheep oxen men servants and maid servants and in few words told him that the Leprosie of Naaman should cleave to him and his posterity and strait way he went out of his presence a Leper as white as Snow Why even so might all the good Elisha's the Ministers of the truth justly reprove say to us when in our frantick mood we are no whit ashamed to knock and call for Wine when wee have Wine enough and with our Trumpet openly proclaime our follies to the world may they not then alleadge is this a time for to drink wine in Bowls and sound shril healths til we are sick againe is this a time for to spend all our time to purchase change of Garments for the body and to neglect the covering of the soule is this a time to ravell out our dayes in filthy idle jests and spend our precious minuts in obscene and scurrilous discourse is this a time to visit Theators sit in a Tavern sing rejoyce and laugh when as the pious party and holy people of the Land sit by the Waters of Babylon weeping and have hung their Harps upon the Willows and wil not be comforted because God is displeased One pregnant passage more betweene David and Vriah and I shall conclude it is in the second of Samuel the 11. Chap. the 8 9 10 and 11. verses After the Prophet David had demanded of Vriah how Joab did how the people did and how the wasting Warre did prosper he being willing to win him to his bed he doth use some modest motives to invite him thither but when his purpose would not take effect he uses another argument to perswade him that he had rid a very tedious and toylsome Journey and therefore thought it meet and necessary hee should repose and rest himselfe a while but pray observe his warlike answer to him And Vriah said unto David The arke and Israel and Judah abide in tents and my Lord Joab and the servants of my Lord are encamped in the open fields shall I then goe unto my house to eat and drinke and to lie with my wife as thou livest and as thy soule liveth I will not doe this thing The Application that we may easily collect from hence is this That if this gallant and heroick Christian did so readily refuse these pleasures and refreshments that were very good and lawfull of themselves as to goe downe to his house to eat and drinke and to embrace his Wife because the Arke Joab and many of Gods people were incamped in the open fields and might for ought he knew bee ingaged with the enemies of the truth before he might returne back to the Campe againe how should this move us then now that the Arke I mean the Cause of God is in dispute and many of Gods people hath bin encamp●d in open field many a Winters night and tedious stormie day how should this I say solemnly invite us to forsake our former foolish disports and utterly to abandon and relinquish every unlawfull lust pleasure whatsoever and if our hearts be so obdurate that we cannot bring them to suffer for the Lord in open field let us never suffer them to sin against him in a private roome and if wee cannot be wooed to joyne with the people of God for the testimony of the truth and a good Conscience let us never joyn with the people of the world

Grant me but this and truly though I 'm poore I le never begge of you nor yours more Against excessive mirth in mournfull times YOu Halcyon Lads that sings and joyfull are And very blithe will be despight of War Let me intreat this favour at your hand To think upon the misery of the Land And be not over-frolick till you see Some motives may induce jocundity For when the Churches head is sick or akes Then all her Members presently partakes Of her deplored griefe and doth bewaile Those sorrowes makes her look so wan and pale And truly methinkes 't is a grievous thing When God is angry for to sit and sing And when his Judgements are upon the earth To frame our selves to fond and foolish mirth Therefore let me intreat each one a while Forbeare to laugh till God is pleas'd to smile Necessary Aphorismes for a Trumpet to observe THree things very good for a Trumpet to practise to practise his Trumpet to practise the truth and to practise piety Three good things for a Trumpet to obey to obey his Creator to obey his Commander and to obey the Gospel of Christ Three good things for a Trumpet to remember to remember his Creator in the dayes of his youth to remember his youth in the dayes of his age and to remember his end in the beginning of his dayes Three things very bad for a Trumpet to forget to forget his great deliverances by Land his wonderfull preservation by Sea and his marvellous safety in the City Three bad things for a Trumpet to be full of to have his eyes full of adultery his head full of foolery and his mind full of mischiefe Three things very unfit for a Trumpet to begin to begin Healths to seeke Healths and to sound Healths Three good things for a Trumpet to find to finde mercy with God and honour him for it to finde favour with good men and respect them for it and to finde out his faults and obtain faith to mend them Three good things for a Trumpet to keep to keep a faire correspondency with those he deales withall to keep good company and to keep a good conscience Three good things for a Trumpet to set light by to set light by the losses of the world to set light by the crosses of the world and to set light by deeds of darknesse Three things very bad for a Trumpet to be an Artist in to be an Artist in the wayes of wickednesse to be expert in the paths of impiety and to be delightfully acute in the wiles and stratagems of sinne and Satan Three things very bad for a Trumpet to lose to lose his taste to lose his teeth and to lose his time Three things very dangerous for a Trumpet to look high to feed high and to climbe high Three things very good for a Trumpet good store of modesty good store of mercy and good store of money Three things very bad for a Trumpet to fall into to fall into a Pit to fall into Perjury and to fall into Poverty Three things very bad for a Trumpet a bad Moore a bad march and a bad mind Three very hard things for a Trumpet to learne to learne continency in the Stewes temperance in a Taverne and righteous actions amongst roaring boyes Three good things for a Trumpet to keep to keep touch to keep tune and to keep time Three things very good for a Trumpet a good colour good cordins and a good conscience Three other things good for a Trumpet good Lungs a good Lip and a good life Rom. 13. 14. And make no provision for the flesh MAke no provision for the flesh why then I must forbeare to be or live ' mongst men And neither must I be or come by far In any company where women are Especially if they be pleasing to the eye For then I shall transgresse undoubtedly I must not think a thought that is uncleane Of any immodest Curtizanion Nor speake a syllable that may suggest There 's something that 's uncleane within my brest And then by consequence it will be wrought I must not act by no meanes what is nought Nor must I by my childish ignorance Vse any foolish wanton dalliance And prattle forth such talk as may impart My mouth is very foule and so 's my heart Againe if this be true why then I guesse I must not drink at no time in excesse No nor at no time eate a meale that may Provoke the flesh but rather it allay And if this Aphorisme I would keep I must be carefull too of too much sleep I must not condescend assent or please To give my mouldering body too much ease I must not goe too gorgeous in attire For that like Tinder sets mans Lust on fire But decently adorne my body so That all imperious thoughts may be kept low I must at no time looke too curiously Vpon a beauty whose attractive eye May render me obnoxious and impare My thoughts that should be chaste as Josephs were Likewise all objects I must still deny That doth but relish taste of vanity All curious Peeces pencild lively forth By me must be esteem'd of little worth All places too of pleasure I must shun And ne're to Theators or Pastime run I must not sport like the Leviathan My life away that is but like a span Nor come in company whose carryage may Tell me they doe not love a pious way And while I have a being here on earth I must not give my self to too much mirth But circumspectly keep my heart in awe And not like children laugh at every straw Working out my salvation while I am here With Saint-like sighs with trembling and with feare But stay my soule is this the way to blisse Then prethee say How far art thou from this For by thy scandalous and knowing sin Thou hast brought many a soule to suffering As first by thy presumptuous sins so rife Thou hast aym'd to crucifie the Lord of life And by thy breaking of his blest commands Thou didst surrender him into cruell hands And did not his great love thy hate repell Thou mightst have sought thy soule ere now in hell Likewise consider 't is for thy offence Gods people suffer for their innocense And many a Saint is brought in jeopardy Not for their owne but thy impiety Againe consider if thy patient Wife Doe not injoy the comforts of this life The fault 's thy owne that has so lavish been Feasting abroad when she oft fasts within Or doth thy Children want that nourishment That pretty babes expects to give content 'T is thy default that art so foolish grown To waste on wantons and neglect thy own And doe but think upon the little Lambs That harmlesly disports upon the Plaines Should they I say want of their usuall food It is because that in thy drunken mood Thou hast abus'd those mercies God has sent Both for thy owne and for their nourishment Or dost thou see the Oxen Cow

against our Conscience and its testimony Alas you see already here is three tottering Nations and a few stedfast soules many broken heads but a few bleeding hearts therefore it is very requisit that hereafter we doe walke more circumspectly not as fooles but as wisemen Redeeming the time because the dayes are evil in order hereunto it is very fit that we speedily frequently and fervently apply our selves unto the thron of Grace to obtaine mercie and find Grace to helpe in time of need imploring and beging of him for the sonne of his loves sake to infuse into us a principle of Life and Grace that we may bee his Children not onely by name but by nature also so shal we stand in awe and sin not commune upon our beds be still counting it indeed an ignominious shame that the Lackey should live more in awe of his Lord then we of Jehovah-●issi that the Servant should stand more in awe of his Master then we doe very often of our Maker and that the Child should stand more in awe of his earthly Parents then we of our heavenly Father T is time sayes David that thou have mercy upon Sion yea the time is come and in order hereunto it is time that wee forsake our sinnes yea the time is come it is time that we abandon our impiety when our impiety is about to abandon us it is time to forsake riotous and tippling houses when the Judge is at the doore high time to get Christ into our hearts when the Kingdome of heaven is at hand But I grow too tedious consider what is said and the Lord give us understanding in all things A few faire Caveats for secure Christians DEclare in Judah and publish in Jerusalem and say Blow ye the Trumpet in the Land cry gather together and say Assemble your selves and let us goe into the defenced Cities Set up the standards towards Zion retire stay not for I will bring evill from the North and a great destruction Jer. 4. 5 6. And the Word of the Lord came unto me the second time saying What seest thou and I said I see a seething pot and the face thereof was towards the north Then the Lord said unto me out of the north an evill shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the Land Jer. 2. 13 14. O ye children of Benjamin gather your selves to fly out of the midst of Jerusalem and blow the Trumpet in Tecoa and set up a signe of fire in Beth-haccerem for evill appeares out of the north and great destruction thus saith the Lord Behold a people commeth from the north Country and a great Nation shall be raised from the sides of the earth Jer. 6. 1. 22. The great Day of the Lord is neare it is neare and hasteth greatly even the voyce of the Day of the Lord the mighty man shall cry there bitterly that day is a day of wrath a day of trouble and distresse a day of the Trumpet and Alarm against the fenced Cities and against the high Towers Zeph. 1. 14 15 16. And behold God himselfe is with us for our Captaine and his Priests with sounding Trumpets to cry alarm against you O children of Israel fight not against the Lord God of your Fathers for you shall not prosper 2 Chron. 13. 14. Therefore behold the dayes come saith the Lord that I will cause an alarm of war to be heard in Rabbah of the Ammonites and it shall be a desolate heap and her daughters shall be burnt with fire then shall Israel be heire unto them that were his heires saith the Lord Jer. 49. 2. Blow ye the Trumpet in Zion and sound an alarm in my holy Mountaines let all the inhabitants of the Land tremble for the day of the Lord commeth for it is nigh at hand blow ye the trumpet in Zion sanctifie a Fast call a solemn assembly Ioel 2. 1. 15. For the Builders every one had his sword girded by his side and so builded and he that sounded the trumpet was by me and I said unto the Nobles and unto the Rulers of the people the work is great large and we are separated from the wall one far from another in what place therefore ye heare the sound of the trumpet resort ye thither unto us our God shall fight for us Neh. 4. 18 19 20. Shall a trumpet be blowne in the City and the people not be afraid Shall there be evill in the City and the Lord hath not done it Amos 3. 6. Sonne of Man speake unto the Children of thy people and say unto them When I bring the Sword upon the Land if the people of the Land take a man of their coasts and set him for their Watch-man if when he sees the Sword come upon the Land he blow the trumpet and warne the people then whosoever heares the sound of the trumpet and takes not warning if the Sword come and take him away his bloud shall be upon his owne head He heard the sound of the trumpet and took not warning his bloud shall be upon him but he that takes warning shall deliver his soule Ezek. 33. 2 3 4 5. A prudent man fore-sees the evill and hides himselfe but the simple passe on and are punished Prov. 22. 3. But stay MEthinks I hear poor Malachi complaine That Israel deales unkindly and prophaine Their irreligiousnesse he mentions too 'T is my default and sighing say 't is true For pray how many times have I declar'd That I 'de goe labour in Gods Vine-yard Supposing it indeed a great disgrace For to sit idle in the Market-place And strait-way has my nimble thoughts rid Post For to be there at nine a clock at most But sinfull spraines made both my feet so lame That it was near a leaven before I came Nay my luke-warm affections was so stal'd I had not then come had I not been cal'd And when I was arriv'd the heat of day Made me so faint that I could hardly stay And that which mov'd me chiefly to be gone Was ' cause I saw that some had almost done And ' cause that I so long had loytering been That I had all my labour to begin Yet to 't I fell and wrought some halfe a day But was asham'd to aske so much as they At night the Master cal'd to take our due And I receiv'd thank God a penny too Some of my neighbours mutter'd but sayes he You have a penny as we did agree Methinks it savours of corrupted bloud That your eye should be ill ' cause mine is good I must confesse the burthen of the day Has been borne out by you yet tell me pray Had not my loving grace assisted ye For ought I know you had come as late as he And in conclusion graciously did say 'T were hard all Loyterers should be cast away When I did heare the Master tell them this My soule was ravisht with his gentlenesse And thought it was great pitty men should be Backward to work for one that was so free Maker of Heaven and Earth if thou wilt hire A poore and sinfull soule that doth desire To work by 'th day I le promise faithfully To be laborious for no one but thee He make no bargain with thee but will stand To thy owne courtesie onely in hand I doe desire that thou wilt please to give An earnest penny that my Soule may live And to declare if I should question'd bee By any one I doe belong to Thee This through thy tender mercie being done For feare of night I le come no more at noone FINIS