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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

God ready to destroy them all in a moment presently fell upon their faces and obtained this answer and direction an● consequently sparing fo● the present to the most o● the Congregation bu● else where when once h● perceived the Lords anger was kindled against the people for the golden Calfe which they made and worshipped whilst he was absent from them with the Lord in the Mount Exod. 32.8.9 10 11-14 he presently as it were caught hold on the Lords hand which was lifted up against them to consume them and besought the Lord urging him with many arguments 2. Sam. 24 16.17-25 Isa 38 1.2.3-21 so that hee repented him of the evill which hee thought to doe unto his people King David smitten in his people by Pestilence did likewise so did King Hezekiah smitten therewith as is probably thought in his owne person Now why wee at this time should doe likewise I shall endeavour to shew by such arguments Why as the Text will afford and after that I shall direct generally to the Meanes and Remedies which more particularly and severally I shall handle on other grounds of Scripture 1. Why we are speedily and carefully to use all lawfull meanes to pacifie Gods wrath now gon● out by Pestilence against us of this place and nation Foure motives from the text the text will afford us foure Arguments whilst wee shall consider that this Pestilence is 1. Wrath or a signe of Gods displeasure 2. Wrath gone ●ut or manifested 3. Wrath gone out and as yet but gone out and begun and therefore such as first by speedy and timely repen●ance and reformation may bee stayed from proceeding farther or secondly being not so stayed will proue but the beginning of wrath and will not end where it begins 4. It is wrath begun and gone out from the Lord and therefore such as can no way bee withstood unlesse the Lord be ●acified 1. Because Pestilence is a signe of Gods wrath 1. Plague here is made an effect and signe of Gods wrath and anger which therefore is not to be neglected but to bee laid to heart and apprehended yea and pacified in time lest wee perish by it Here I may say Bee wise O ye● Kings bee instructed ye● Iudges of the earth serve the Lord with feare and rejoyce with trembling Psal 2.10.11.12 kisse the Sonne lest hee be angry and yee perish from the way when his wrath is kindled but a little blessed are all they that put their trust in him How unhappy dismall dangerous at least and fearefull is the case and condition of such as under such wrath remaine secure and continue unhumbled Is it not high time to looke out when wrath is gone out to look about us when the sparkes of Gods vengeance flie so about our eares in a word to look to our selves and to our owne safety when Gods heavy wrath is like to meet us at every turne why then doe we not in time humble our selves Which is as the sword of the Angell Is not the destroying Angell gone out and doe we not heare morning by morning concerning this house and that yea those many houses where not a night or day passeth Smiting in every house almost but some one at least or moe are struck dead in it and will wee yet bee secure what are we doing what vvill vve doe here I may say as Pharaoh his servants to him Exod. 10.7 know wee not yet that New-castle that England that such and such a Citie novv undervvrath is destroyed hovv long shall this svvord of the Angell devour And calling for our sinnes How long shall our sinnes bee a snare unto us hovv long vvill it bee er● vve let our sinnes goe tha● vve may serve the Lor● our God acceptably Fo● God novv sends this Pestilence to us as formerly both the like and other judgements vvith this message Let your sinnes goe that you may serve mee and not sinne For othervvise I will at this time send all my Plagues upon thy heart and upon thy servants and for now I will stretch out mine hand that I may smite thee and thy people with Pestilence Exod. 9.13.14.15 10.3 and thou shalt bee cut off from the earth How long wilt thou refuse to humble thy selfe before me even thus may God speak to Pride vvithin us to Selfe-love let thy beloved sin goe or I will fall upon thee with Pestilence or with the sword And novv beloved tha● this vvrath is gone out already vvhy doe vve not part vvith and send avvay our sinnes as at length Pharaoh vvas forced to let goe the people and the Philistines the Arke of vvhom to our shame vve may learne what to doe for being forced by judgements to send backe the Arke their Priests advised not to send it away empty but in any wise to return God a trespasse offering that so they might be healed 2. Sam. 6.3 and that it might bee made knowne unto them why his hand was not removed from them Thus say they which words are also appliable to us yee shall give glory to the God of Israel peradventure hee will lighten his hand from off you and from off your land Vers 4. 5. Wherefore then doe you har●en your hearts as the Egyptians and Pharao hardned their hearts when he had wrought wonderfully among them did they not let the people goe and they departed And is it not time for us to do likewise even to give glory to God by taking shame to our selues and by offering our sinne offering no longer hardning our hearts but letting our sinnes goe when the destroying Angell thus laies about him And it is as a Messenger from God Here againe I may say our Enemy is gone out to seeke us and who a greater enemy to sinners then God him selfe and will wee cast to meet him in our sinnes here are Gods Messengers And as a storme as it were Pursevants sent out with warrant to arrest us and will wee not hide our selves here is Iudgement laid to the Line and Righteousnesse to th● Plummet Esay 28.17 From which wee should hide our selves and haile threatned to sweepe away the refuge of lies and waters to overflow all our owne hiding places whereby wee secure our selves against the overflowing scourge and will wee not bee so wise as most of Pharaoh his servants were who being told of stormes Exod. 9.19.20 of great haile in the field feared the word of the Lord and made their servants and their cattle flee into the houses And shall we so little regard the word and wrath of the Lord now gone out against us as not to renounce all vain confidences and refuges of our owne and to seeke forthwith by faith and Humiliation Isa 32.2 to hide our selves under the wings of Christ as under the shadow of a great rocke from the wind Zephan 2.1 2 3. As a roaring Lyon and as under a covert

the old World by water or as he destroyed Pharaoh and his whole Army at once in the red Sea or as it shall be at the last Iudgement But see instead of such sudden and universall destruction which being formerly so neere may seeme in regard of our deserts and for our great unthankefulnesse and forgetfulnesse of that and other mercies at this time to be much nearer The Lord did not onely then respite us but now when hee might justly give us over to their mercilesse hands to bee judged with their judgement that is to bee consumed at once in their boundlesse rage hee keeps the rod in his owne hand and begins as it were at an end of us smites some few in comparison of all and so gives warning to the rest hovering as it were Hee expects wee should meet him a far off and standing at our gates at our neighboring townes and cities expecting what we will doe to stay his wrath hearkning and listning as it were to heare what wee will doe what we will say to him whether wee will repent us of our wickednesse saying What have we done As hee meets us in our wayes of sinne or whether wee wil turn to our course as the Horse into the battell without all feare of his wrath as once hee did with the Iewes Ier. 8.6 in effect telling us it is much what in our power and so asking us whether he shall proceed in wrath against us or no whether this Plague now begun shall presently end or else proceed and make an end of us also notwithstanding our present seeming safety in places remote from the infection or whilst wee have removed and fled bodily from the same This is a mercy then not to be neglected that God gives us space and time to consider what we will do that hee gives us warning of his approach letting us know that hee our Iudge hath begun to ride his circuit As hee met with Balaam and is on his way already and hath sent out the destroying Angel before him with a sword of Pestilence in his hand to meet us in our sinfull wayes standing in our way for an adversary against us as once against Balaam in his way of ambition and covetousnesse being gone out to withstand us as once him Numb 22.22.32 because our way is perverse before him Oh that wee were not in this case more stupid blind then Balaams Asse which saw the Angell of the Lord standing in the way and his sword drawne in his hand and turned out of that way or would not go on but fall downe to the ground under Balaam Oh that the Lord would at length open our eyes as he did Balaams to see the Angell of the Lord standing in our way whatsoever it be whether that of Covetousnesse or whether it be Pride Ambition Malice hatred of the good defection from the goodwayes of God wearying of his yoke and Gospel sensualitie and love of pleasure selfe-confidence and carnall security feeding and feasting without feare profanation of Gods name Assuredly God by his sword and judgement is comming towards us and threatens us who once were as a fire-brand pluckt out of the burning to overthrow us Amos 4.11.12 as he overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah that is all at once and suddenly And shall wee not take that spoken unto us seeing we yet have not returned unto him which he graciously spake to Israel Because I will doe this unto thee prepare to meet thy God ô Israel ô England O sinfull towne citie or place will we yet sit still and settle on our lees through security and suffer the Destroyer to enter into our windowes our houses our bed-chambers yea our beds and bosomes will wee not run out with intreaty of peace fall downe before him and make supplication to our Iudge Let us not at least come behind Balaam who at length seeing the Angel his sword drawn in his hand bowed downe his head Numb 22.31.34 and fell flat on his face-saying I haue sinned now therefore if it displease thee I will get mee back againe This he said but it was not altogether in that sincerity seeing his heart still went after his covetousnes which his hypocrisie wee must take heed of but bee ashamed to come behind him and his Asse which also fel down before the Angell in humility whilst vve neither upon this occasion do or professe halfe so much Novv that the Angell discovered himselfe unto Balaam and hee hereupon humbled himselfe it vvas a mercy to him for othervvise Verse 33. the Angell had slaine him And as hee met with Ionah Ionah 1.1.2.3 c. So the Lord in like mercy and vvith an intent to bring to repentance reformation met vvith Ionah by stormes and tempests at Sea in the vvay of his disobedience and as I may cal it non-residence vvith Moses in the Inn With Moses in the vvay of Neglect vvhom by the way in the Inn the Lord met and sought to kill him for not circumcising through too much respect to his vvife his sonne in time And doubtlesse And the Iewes this is a mercy if vve could see it vvhen God by any judgement stands in our sinful vvaies and as the Prophet speaketh Hedgeth up our way Hos 2.5 6 7. that wee should not find our paths c. As Beastes are kept within their owne Pastures by sharp and thornie hedges least they breake out and lose themselves so the Lord when we are ready to goe astray from him proves in regard of some afflictions which he sends as a thornie hedge to us so that wee cannot offer to goe on in sinfull waies or to breake our bounds but wee runne upon the thornes And with Paul Act. 9.5 and kick against the pricks as it was told to Saul or Paul when Christ met with him in his way of Persecution and strucke him to the earth It was happy for Saul that God went out thus and me him And so it will be our happinesse if whilst God meets us by Pestilence in our evill waies as once hee met King David in the way of his Pride and selfe-confidence and vaine-glory wee would consider our waies which proove thus bitter and crosse to us and speedily turne from them lest wee meet with destruction in the same or goe on therein to perdition Wee may say and that truly that God now meets with us by this sword o● arrow of pestilence in ou● way of Sinfull companying one with another wherby wee infect one another i● soule by good fellowship 〈◊〉 wee call it by potting b●zeling gossiping excesse i● feasting excesse of wine● revellings banquetings c. So hee now meet with us in the way of ou● Idle discourses and unsavourie communication an● unprofitablenesse in companie of uncleane behaviour and adulteries of unlawful mariages of needlesse intertaining of Gods enemies and unnecessarie acquantance and familiaritie wit● ●●em So in our way

speciall reason Exod. 5.3 Exod. 8.25 26 27. Yet if the Plague and breaking out of wrath prevent our Humiliation And that speedily we must deferre our Humiliation no longer othervvise hovv soone may this spreading evill and overflovving Scourge or some other judgement sent to back it in Gods just wrath make an end of all save that God will have a remnant in whom hee will glorifie his Mercie and preserve his Church This is as the breaking out of fire or overflowing of waters unto which way and passage is not long to be given least the evill which at the first by a timely care might have beene prevented grow so great that it exceed the power and strength of man to withstand or resist it Whatsoever wee then doe in this kind Lest wee come too late it would bee done speedily and in time otherwise wee may come too late even when neither our own nor other mens prayers though never so holy will be accepted for us and when God will not be intreated for ●s See this in Gods dea●ing with the Iewes Pray ●ot for this people for their ●ood Ier. 14.11.12 said the Lord to Ieremie When they fast I will not heare their cry and when they offer a burnt offering and an oblation I will not accept them But I will consume them by the Sword and by the Famine and by the Pestilence Ezek. 14.19.20 So in Ezekiel If I send a Pestilence into that land and powre out my furie upon it in blood to cut off from it man and beast Though Noah Daniel and Iob were in it as I live saith the Lord God they shall deliver neither cleave unto the Lord according to his word in a perpetuall covenant This the Lord expects from the whole nation when his wrath is but toward them Zephan 2.1 2 Gather your selue together yea gather together O nation not desired before the decree bring forth before the day passe 〈◊〉 the chaffe 3. before the fierce anger of the Lord come upon you before the day of the Lords anger come upon you Howsoever if this be no● done publickly it must no● be neglected in private by the meeke of the earth Seeke yee the Lord all y●● meeke of the earth which haue wrought his judgements seeke righteousnesse seeke meekenesse it may be yee shall be hid in the day of the Lords anger It is a wonderfull thing Examples to move us that now when Gods anger is so manifested and his wrath revealed from heaven men should so little seeke to pacifie his wrath and should shew themselves so little touched with these evident tokens of his displeasure never much seeking the meanes by which the cause of his wrath against us might be made knowne unto us nay wholly impatient of such discovery when by Gods faithfull messengers it is in some good measure made Both of the Godly Shall I send such to the godly examples of good and holy King David 2 Sam. 21.1 2 c. who in a famine of three yeares enquired of the Lord for what and whose sinne it was sent which when it was told him hee punished and so put away the evill or of tender-hearted Iosiah who conceiving by the booke of the Law that wrath was due to his people and towards them presently dispatched honourable messengers to Huldah 2 Chron. 34.19 20 c. 〈◊〉 prophetesse to enquire o● the Lord for him and the people concerning the words of the book which hee caused to be read in a solemne assembly and renued his Covenant vvith God If such examples prevaile not with us let us receive reproofe shame in this our sloth and negligence from the example of the very heathē And of the Heathen Illiad 1. Homer the Poet brings in Achilles advising the Greekes Who have in case of Pestilence sought to their Gods by solemne Supplications in a time of a sore Pestilence to enquire the cause thereof from God by some Prophet or Priest or Dreamer of dreams These being footsteps of those three waies by which Israel of old had Oracles or answers from God namely by Dreames by Vrim that is the Priest with Vrim and Thummim Numb 27.21 and by Prophets see 1 Sam. 28.6 7. Liv. l. 3. And Livie tels us that in case of common plague or other danger the Romans were by publick authority called out Ad id quod sua mala quemque coge●ant and cōmanded with their wives and children to make supplication to their gods for according to that which their owne proper sins and evils compelled them and thus filling all their Temples Stratae passim matres criminibus Templa verrentes v●● niam Irarum coelestium 〈◊〉 nemque pesti exposcunt their Matrons prostrate on the ground sweeping their Temples with the haire of their head sought pardon And Sacrifices of their children and the favour of their offended angry gods and an end to be put unto the Pestilence Many such like things hath Livie concerning their Supplications even for many daies together upon occasiō of war ●nd publike evils and dangers as I shew * A word in Season or Englands Summons on Iosh 7. ver 8 9. Virgil Aeneid lib. 4. lib. 3. elswhere So Virgil Principiò de●ubra adeunt pacemque per a●as exquirunt And elsewhere Exorant pacem Divum id est inquit No●ius propitiationem The first thing they use to doe is to frequent their Temples and from Altar to Altar to seeke Peace that is Propitiation So Plautus Plaut in Mercator Act. 4. sc 1. So the Carthaginians when they were plagued with Pestilence Aris impuberes admoveru● pacem Deorum sanguine c●rum exposcentes Iustin lib. 18. as Iusti● relates That is as th● Scripture expresseth th● like practise of the degenerate Iewes Psal 106.37 They sacrif●ced their sons and daughter unto devils seeking atonement with these their go● by the blood of their chi●dren of which practise 〈◊〉 the Heathen in sacrifici●● their children to the devill in case especially of distresse more * Israels Idolatry in sacrificing their children c. on Psalm 106.37 elswhere Now shall the Heathen ●n case of Pestilence desire to know from God the true cause therof that they might offer him acceptable Sacrifice and shal they accordingly by solemne Supplications and all expressions of sorrow and humilitie seeke the favour of their gods that with the blood of their onely children and shall wee Christians in like case of Pestilence be so far from searching into the true causes of the same as to take it ill and not willingly of his wrath and averting of his judgements If now wee aske what these Meanes or Remedies are as it is most needfull wee be aright directed herein I shall endeavour at this time at least in the generall to shew And because we are all of us apt to use such such meanes as most