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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B08578	An alarm to all impenitent [s]inners. Or, [T]he spirit of bondage raised up in judgement and allayed in mercy. [D]eclared in a short treatise of the sweetnesse of God's love discovered in the bitterness of his wrath. / [B]y Humphrey Browne ...	Browne, H. (Humphrey)	1650 (1650)	Wing B5114A; ESTC R173186	28,861	90

with the weapons of unrighteousnesse is our pastime and delight as if there were no God to revenge nor hell to torment Luke 18. 2. like the unjust Judge in Luke we feare not God neither regard man Animas mortuas multi in corpore vivo habent Aug. Alas we have dead souls in living bodies neither Gods mercie that sweet language of his love could woe us to repentance Isa 26. 10. nor can his judgements as a fierce Lion deterre us from O mentes amentes perdidistis utilitatem calamitatis Aug. de Civit. Dei lib. 1. cap. 33. running in the broad way of wickednesse insomuch that as Augustine complained of the Romans reason is sequestred from our minds and it is not so much our error as our fury which makes us loose the profit of our calamity Ah the trumpet is blowne Amor. 3. in the Citie and the people are not afrayd the Lion roareth and yet we tremble not so dead are we in sinnes and trespasses In this overflowing of our iniquity Quòd vivitis Dei est qui vobis parcendo admonet ut corrigamini paenitendo Aug. ibid. if we do not all perish as the old world did by deluge it is not because we are lesse sinful but because God is more mercyfull It is his mercie that we live and he spares us onely to admonish us how we should improve his patience and long-suffering by our repentance But God may justly complaine of us saying I Isa 65. 2 3. have spread out my hands all the day unto a Rebellious People which walketh in a way that is not good after their owne thoughts a people that provoketh me to anger continually to my face As Cyprian once complained Inter Populum frequente strage morientem nemo considerat se esse mortalem Cyprian of the plague of pestilence in Carthage saying that among a people continually slaine by the destroying Angel no man considereth himself to be mortall So we of this kingdome plagued with warre pestilence and famine turne not unto him that smiteth us neither do we seeke the Lord of Hosts as if we would make the Prophet a lyer Isa 9. 13. who saith when thy judgements are in the earth the inhabitants Isa 26. 9. of the world will learne righteousnesse Surely God hath a controversie with the inhabitants of this Land because by swearing and Hose 4. lying and killing and stealing and committing adultery they breake out and blood toucheth blood Therefore shall the land mourne When rebellion against Heaven blows the trumpet and beats up the drum desolation commonly begins the march destruction hangs over our heads as the sword over the head of Damocles but by a horse haire a twine thread I feare 't will suddenly fall upon us according to that of the Apostle When they 1 Thas 5. 3. say peace and safety then sudden destruction cometh upon them as travaile upon a woman with child and they shall not escape We have grieved Gods spirit by our multiplyed transgressions so that we may sighe out this lamentation The joy of our heart is ceased our dance is turned into mourning the Crown is fallen from our head Woe unto Lam. 5. 15 16. us that we have sinned Consider this therefore all ye that forget God stand in awe Rom. 6. 33. and sin not The nature of sin is deadly the least sin hath in it the stinge of death and I may say every sin is great because it is against the greatest It may seem at first a Zoar but at last it may prove a Sodome drawing a hell from heaven upon it The wicked shall be turned into hell and the Nations that forget God When the sentence is passed there is no reprieve to be expected Psal 9. 17. Nequaquam misericordia parcentis liberat quos semel justitia judicantis damnat Greg. lib. 9. Moral tears of blood cannot obtaine pardon there is no hope of mercie in the place of Justice nor of life in the Region of death Here in the world is the Sunne shineth on the just and unjust both but in the darkesome dungeon of eternall death it is not so darknesse and sorrow there barre out all light and solace In hell there is a towfold punishment 1. Paena sensus the punishment of sense which is so great that the heart of man cannot conceive it nor the tongue utter it the fire burnes but not consumes the worme gnaws but not devoures and as the joyes on earth were torments compared with the unspeakable joyes of heaven so the greatest torments in this world are very joyes in respect of the paines of hell in this lake that burneth with fire and brimstone the Rev. 20. 10. damned are tormented day and night for ever and ever death there alwayes begins and never ends 2. Paenadamni the punishment of losse which is the greatest punishment of all sinne at once opens the gates of hell and shuts the door of heaven the damned wretches feeling the horrible weight of Gods wrath then weepe gnash their teeth and roar in the bitternesse of their souls for the losse of his favour then by the Logick of Opposites they find there is a heaven by their being cast into hell O fearfull Topicks when they are taught pugno contracto with the fist of Gods fury Oh it is most lamentable to read sweet mercy lost by the bloody characters of an enraged justice and to measure the blessed estate of the glorified Saints by the want of that happinesse not by the fruition it is another hell in hell to know the love of Jesus Christ as a Saviour by his severity as a Judge only O how much would he Aquinas Maluer●●t Saguntini se suáque omnia igne consumere quàm aut faederati populi amicitiam deseretere c. Liv. Bell. lib. 1. that now lies frying in hell rejoice if he might have but the least moment of time wherein he might get Gods favour It is lamentable to hear much more to read the woefull Tragedie of Saguntus a City of Spaine destroyed by Hannabal saith Saint Augustine but I may rather say that it is most terrible to hear the story of hell but infinitely wretched to feele the fury of that unquenchable fire by reason of an immortall death and a deadly life ever dying and yet never dead What David Psal 55. 15. therefore wished unto his foes I will wish unto my best friends even that they may go down quick into hell by holy meditation to prevent their casting into it by condemnation with an Ite Imparati ad paratum go ye cursed souls which were unprepared for heaven to hell a place prepared for the Devil and his Angels ye have sinned without repentance and therefore ye must be damned without remedy Omnis anima aut Christi sponsa aut Diaboli adultera est Aug. in Gen. If the soul be Satans Adulteress and not Christ's Spouse then hell must