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A42672	Tears shed in the behalf of his dear mother the Church of England, and her sad distractions gathered and brought into this small paper vessell for the use of the vulgar, and common people, not to play with religion / by her adopted son, Daniel Getsius ...	Getsius, Daniel, 1592-1672.	1658 (1658)	Wing G632; ESTC R31519	48,008	156

Edward the VI. decease did not the Lord threaten this land and Church in and by Qu. Mary vvhose heart did not then faint and quaile vvithin him for the little hope that vvas left vvas it any lesse then desolation hee did threaten in LXXXVIII by that same blasphemously so called invincible Armado were not Church and State as a firebrand snatch'd out of the fire of that hellish Powder plot I confesse these are mercyfull Terrors and threatnings because turn'd off by mercy into mercies But I pray what meant the building of Iames Chappel by King James and afterwards sending his sonne the late unfortunate King into Spaine contrary to the advice of learned Divines and States-men at home and Ambassadors from abroad residing here who were rejected as men out of their little wit because out of their estate by Gods visitation of the Church in forreign parts Did not the Lord play the Lion amongst us by suffering our sinnes to prevaile to an unnaturall civill war wherein father and sonne imbrewed their hands in each others blood brethren did butcher one the other of all the Vials of the wrath of God powred down upon sinners it is one of the forest when a man is fed with his own flesh and made drunke with his own bloud as with sweet wine Isa 49.26 I conceive none will deny this to be a generall token of Gods vvrath with this whole nation Again usually before some great calamity good and vvorthy men are taken away Isa 12.3.2 3. this is a fearfull presage saith godly Dr. Gibbs now with God that calamity is comming Hence at all times the surviving godly have lamented the death of such Psal 12.1 as David Help Lord the righteous are failed amongst the children of men Micah 7.1.2 Woe is me for I am like the summer Gatherings and the Grapes of the Vintage the good man is perished from the earth the reason of this mourning is rendred by Isaiah Isa 57.1 The righteous perish and noe man considereth it in heart and mercifull men are taken away and no man understandeth that the righteous is taken away frō the evill to come their death presageth an evil to come You will say it is a mercy for them to be taken away from evill but what hurt commeth to us Let Ioash a great wicked one because a wicked King shew the reason in his Lamentation over old Elisha now departing 2 Kings 13.14 O my father my father the Charet of Israel and the horsemen thereof They are the pillars of the Church and the Strength of the Weale publike they are those who make good both places and time wherein they live they keepe away evill and doe good by example and prayers Iob. 22.30 the innocent shall deliver the Iland the good man delivers his neighbours amongst whom he liveth by his prayers or it may be read he shall deliver him that is not innocent a good man by his prayers sometimes turnes away Gods judgments from the ungodly We see how farre Abraham prevayled with God for Sodom Gen. 18.32 Also Moses for a whole sinfull nation Exod. 32.11 to ver 14. A good man is Gods favorite see Ier. 5.1 What he will doe for the same even spare the whole City It is also a signe of Gods anger with a nation when he suffereth the Church in the same to be corrupted either in purity corrupting the doctrine with heresy All politicians hold this as a signe of a Churches and Lands falling vvhen the old Enemyes of truth encrease Or vvhen the worship or service is corrupted by Idolaters and Schismatikes who by division break the unity which is a preserver dissention in judgment will soone come to dissention in affection and ruine vvill be the end Hos 10.2 Their heart is divided their accord is gone that cord is untwisted they cannot stand As soon as men divide from God he takes avvay his spirit for he is the spirit of peace and concord and then they give themselves to seditions and factions never contented vvith any present state and condition till they have ruined all and themselves vvith it CHAP. VIII The meanes to recall God from departing further from us and to keepe him still with us 1. THe first is fruitfullnes Is God provoked with our barrenness and begins to depart from us then certainely fruitfullnesse vvill keepe him vvith us and stay him from departing further fruitfullness in good vvorkes must make amends for our former barrenness not one fruit or the other or one good vvorke or as many as may be numbred as many content themselves vvith and anticipate their revvard by glorying all their life time in one good vvork or the other but as our bad fruites our sinnes are without number so much more must our good fruites be numberless In fruitfullness is a fullness 1. Fullness of Duty or Dutifullness 2. Fullness of shame for our former barrenness that is shamefullness 3. Fullness of care or carefullnes for our former negligence 4. Fullness of pitty or pittyfullness for our former harshness 5. Fullness of mercy or mercyfullness for our former unmercifullness 6. Fullnes of joy or joyfullness for Gods sparing us 7. Fullness of thanks or thankfullness for loading us notvvithstanding our unvvorthiness vvith the choicest of his mercies and favours It is observable in the Scripture that the Children of women long barren proved most famous and excellent 1. Of Sarah Isaac from whose loynes were multitudes deduced 2. Of Rachel Joseph that wonder of men and Angells 3. Of Hannah Samuel that great Prophet and Priest of the Lord. 4. Of Elizabeth John the Baptist of whom the Lord himself testifieth among them that are born of women Mat. 11.11 there hath not risen a greater So these Saints that have been begotten of spirituall barrenness and converted from a sinfull life have proved most notable instruments of God glory As 1. Mary Magdalene the receptacle once of Seaven divels after she was freed from them had the honour to be the first Messenger of Christs resurrection and to have her memory propogated with the glorious gospel Mat. 26.13 2ly Zacheus a publican an extorting publican yet how gratious was he to Christ yea how gratious was Christ to him Luk. 19. 3ly Paul born out of due time 1 Cor. 15.8 yet outstript the rest and was in labours more abundant then they all vers 10. Thus the last have been the best as the last grapes make sweetest wine It is fruitfullness the Lord lookes for the same must be answerable to our former vanities 4ly Adde to the former Converts Manasses 2 Chron. 33.6 5ly Holy Augustine a great sinner first wrote after his conversiō twelve books of repentance Is Sion the Church his Vineyard the same must be fruitfull Is the Church his garden he goes thither to gather fruites Can. 6.11 Are we the spouse of Christ wee must be fruitfull for we are married to Christ that we should bring forth fruit unto God Rom. 7.4 But what are

noe certaine stay Therefore the winde of Gods wrath will suddenly scatter and drive them away The Apostle 2 Joh. 10. directs his blessed Lady 1 Not to participate with such indeed that bring not the doctrine of Christ Receive him not into your house why this seemes incivility may we not receive such till they discover what they are and then turne them out Turpius ejicitur quam non admittitur hospes You shall have more a doe to eject such then to keepe them out at first therefore shut up the doores of your house against them 2. Not to participate with such in word ver 11. neither bid him God speed as if he should say be sofarre in shewing him any kindness in deede as vouchsafe him not a kind word or greeting wish him no joy no comfort afford him not a good word or familiar speech shew no token of familiaritie to him He renders a reason for he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds and if we be partakers of their sins we shal be partakers of their plagues Salutation is a sign of love we may not love them therefore not so much as salute them Marcion the heretick meeting Iohn the Euangelist and asking if he knew him I know thee replyed the other to be the first born of the Devil Wee must not salute such familiarily as we do the saints of God and Brethren in Christ but rather shew a detestation of them and their Doctrine As they be our enemies we ought to love them and may salute them as they be Gods enemies we must hate them David Psal 129.21 Shews the manner do not I hate them O Lord that hate thee yes I hate them with a perfect hatred Wee must love the nature which God made hate the evil which the Devil made Our houses should be open to the Preachers and Professors of the Gospel but not so to corrupt teachers Reasons given are these 1. It is a thing displeasing to God to give entertainement to his Enemies Iehu the seer reproved King Iehosaphat for joyning with Ahab wouldst thou help the wicked and love them that hate the Lord 1 Chro. 19.2 God gave us our houses they must be for his friends and not for his Enemies 2. The Godly will grieve at it and shall we grieve them for whom Christ died Rom. 14.15 3. It may bring a bad report upon our selves that we like of them and approove them whereas wee ought to abstain from all appearance of evil 1 Thes 5.22 And provide things honest before God and men 2 Cor. 8.21 4. It may endanger our own souls their word fretteth as a canker 2 Tim. 2.17 It may overrun us and infect us ere we bee aware 5. It may encourage them in their wickednesse Ezech. 13.22 6. It may pull Gods wrath on our houses and us God blessed Potiphar and his house for Iosephs sake Gen. 34.5 c. 30.27 Laban for Iacobs sake So the Shunamitish woman for Elisha's sake 2 King 4.17 His curse will light on those houses where the adversaries of his Gospel are harboured Therefore when John the Euangelist heard that Cerinthus the Heretick was in the house with him let us fly saith he lest the bath fall on our heads this was the practise of Gods saints at all times Quest May we not at all converse with vvicked men and the Enemies of Religion Indeed the Apostle Paul 1 Cor. 5.11 Seems to affirm the like I have written to you not to keep Company if any man that is called a Brother be a fornicatour or covetous or an idolater with such a one no not to eat Did not our saviour eat with publicans and sinners Resp 1. The Apostles meaning is that we ought not to have any intimate familiarity or common usage and conversation with such other vvise in some case vve are not forbidden simply to eat with such Sith neither the bond of matrimony is broken by excommunication nor such duties hindred much lesse cut off thereby as vve owe one to another children to their parents subjects to their Prince servants to their Masters and neighbour to neighbour to win one another to God 2. Concerning Christs conversing with sinners and Publicanes this the Pharisees catch up to calumniate him to his disciples and so to alienate their affection which many now adayes make use of to excuse their dissolutnesse but let Christs answere serve both them and us They who be whole need no Physitian as if hee said I must converse with these because they are spiritually sick and I am the souls sole Physician They are sinners I am their saviour Christ then converseth with sinners not to approve their sinnes but to bring them off by his exhortations taking all occasions to do good so we should take great care to better man His nature was so pure that he could not be infected Take a Christall glasse pure and clean fill it with clear water shake it never so much it will continue clear but a little mudd in the bottome fouleth all especially being stirred so it is with us the originall dreggs of sin are in our nature and will soon marr all we must therefore take great care how we converse with others Lastly Let the great danger of false Doctrine perswade men to beware of false teachers like a canker it soon spreads and if not look'd into killeth eternalie breaks the bond of nature cuts all sinews of humane society puts variance and implacable discords in families soweth seeds of sedition in the state and ruineth all You will say God forbid I shall be brought to this I answere this is but your conceit 1. First when Religion is once gone humanity will not long stay after what can be look't for from inconstant persons those who cast off Religion and so their God will soon forget and so cast off their neerest and deerest friends Besides this Irreligion is the next way to disobedience 2ly Hazael conceived so well of himself 2. Kings 8.13 Elisha foretold all the evill he should doe to the people of Israel vers 12. burne their strong holds and slay their youth with the sword dashing their Children ripping their women with child Hazaell said but what is thy servant a dog namely as a dog fierce cruell merciless that he should doe this great thing such barbarous and inhumane cruelties as no reasonable man would doe but savage ravenous and unreasonable beasts Hazael at this time did not thinke he should doe such cruell acts The heart is deceitfull above all things and desperately wicked who can know it Ier. 17.9 The following history will confirme it The occasion whereof I shall shew 1. 2 Pet. 2.10 Jude 8. There is a generation of whom two Apostles Peter and Jude speake that despiseth all Government and speaketh evill of dignities out of an erronious judgement seduced by false teachers Anabaptists utterly mislike all Government and subjection amongst Christians It is not without cause that