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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

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. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 LONDON Printed for Iohn Coleby at the signe of the Vnicorne neere to Fleet Bridge 1637. and there told of the Meanes both of the Safetie and also Ruine of Cities and whole Kingdomes Be yee pleased now to take in good part a word or two spoken I hope not out of season in the mournfull and sad condition of this my Mother and Nurse Foelix ●uicumque ●olore Al●erius dis●es posse ca●ere tuo in whose name I make bold to salute you all in the Lord and to wish you the happiness to be warned in time by that bittercup of ours wherin God by Pestilence seemeth to have begun to you all The times require every ones helpe to seeke to quench this fire of wrath begun in the Land I heartily wish that manie others of much abler parts would in this kind of popular and familiar Discourse and Exhortation put forth themselves and stoope to such necessarie and edifying Arguments For my part as the case is I though the meanest of most expect not who shall begin God hath begun with us here The Lyon hath roared the Lord hath spoken I cannot according to my abilitie setting aside all respect of credit with men of the world but prophesie that not by word here onely but by writing such is my desire of the publicke good and such is the occasion here offred by Gods beginning in this fierce manner with us The benefit you may by Gods blessing and your own good indeavour reap hereby will be either a prevention of and freedom to you frō this spreading evill which I chiefly by this Dedication do desire and intend or a Direction how to carry your selves that with comfort under Gods hand if it reach also unto you 〈◊〉 26.9 ● The truth is When Gods judgments are in the earth the inhabitants of the world ●ill at least should learne ●●ghteousnesse The wise and just will so doe Who wait for God in the way of his judgements Amos 4.12 opened They will prepare to meet God and to prevent judgments which othervvise are threatned and seeme to make towards them How wee may prevent Gods judgments Which they doe or should doe by these meanes 1. By taking warning by judgements inflicted on others 1 Cor. 10.5 6 7-11 Luke 13 3-5 The want whereof God takes speciall notice of Ierem. 3.8 9 10 11. 2. By doing that in our 4. By seeking and obtaining the pardon of Sin upon Repentance Sinne once pardoned is neve● more remembred or punished Isa 43.25 Go●● so forgives as hee als● forgets 5. By mortifying such sinnes as raigne in us or among us Rom. 6.12 Coloss 3.5 c. Seeing such exemplary judgements a Pestilence war c. com●● not for smaller faylings but for sinnes against conscience Rom. 1.18 and fo● grosser evils Ephes 5.5.6 6. By newnesse of life and by bringing forth fruit meet for repentance so w● escape wrath to come and cutting downe Math. 3.7 8-10 By these meanes it will concerne you to prepare to meet God whom ●o you will find to meet you in mercy as the father of the Prodigall ran to meet his sonne and to welcome him Men have not heard neither hath the eye seene O God besides thee what hee hath prepared for him that waiteth for him Thou meetest him that rejoyceth and worketh righteousnesse those that remember thee in thy waies Isa 64.4 5. Now because men are apt to make ill use of Gods judgements on others to mis-judge them and to harden themselves in their security Four Con●usions ●ut of Luke 13.4 5. touching the use of Gods judgments on others consider we what our Saviour teacheth us Luke 13.1 2 3 4 5 Think yee that these were Sinners above all men that dwelt in Ierusalem I tell you nay but except yee repent yee shall all likewise perish Whence these Conclusions doe readily offer themselves Conclus 1 1. Extraordinary uncouth yea and sudden death doth sometime befall such as are not the greatest Sinners I suppose those seventie thousand of Davids Subjects who died by Pestilence among the other Tribes were not greater Sinners than Ierusalem it selfe Vpon which the Angell stretched out his hand to destroy it Yea the good King vvould make these in that case especially more innocent than himselfe saying Loe I have sinned but these Sheepe what have they done when God shewed his severitie against Samaria and Israel having removed them out of his sight and when the Tribe of Iudah onely was left and spared 2 Kings 1● 18 19. Eze● 16.51 ● yet saith God to Iudah They are more righteous than thou 2. On the other hand it Conclus 2 is in thee my power and that my name may be declared in all the earth ●et 2.9 Howsoever God Reserves the unjust unto the day of judgement to be punished ●●●s 17. ●● 31. hee hath appointed a day of purpose for them 3. God in some cases respects his owne Glorie more then mens deserts so spares them a while though unworthie See Deut. 32.26 Ezek. 20.8 9-13 14-21 22. 4. Chiefly God remembers his covenant and promise who will reserve to himselfe a Church on earth in the greatest defections provocations and destructions of his people he will Ezek. 14.19 20 21 and doth ever reserve a remnant who otherwise deserve ill at his hand Ezek. 16.59 with 60. See Isa 6.13 Rom. 3.3 What if some did not believe shall their unbeliefe make the faith of God of none effect Si quoties peccant homines If God in generall defections and judgements thereupon should consume in his wrath all that deserve it where should hee have a Church on earth to serve him hee must and will have some in whom hee wil magnifie his mercie It is of the Lords mercies said Ieremie in the time of the captivitie when so many had perished that wee are not all consumed because his compassions fa●le not ●et 2 ● Here is no merit to bee pleaded in such case ●om 2.4 Gods sparing mercies leade the way to his pardoning mercies Hee often spares the unworthy that they overcome with his kindnesse 9 6. might relent repent seeke and find mercie and that so his covenant and word might take effect in that remnant which is according to the Election of Grace 11.5 Hence it is that even among those in Ierusalem on whom Gods irrevocable sentence of famine Ezek. 14.19 20 21 22. noisome beasts sword and pestilence had passed