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A29626	The famine of the word threat[e]ned to Israel, and Gods call to weeping and to mourning being two sermons preached on the fast day, Novemb. 13, 1678, and on the fast day, April 11, 1679 / by James Brome ...	Brome, James, d. 1719.; Brome, James, d. 1719. Gods call to weeping and to mourning.	1679 (1679)	Wing B4856; ESTC R18967	48,082	74

they felt the flames about their ears and themselves perishing in the ruins of their City And should we calculate the number of such like persons amongst us I am afraid we should find so large a roll of them as might justly induce us to believe that their great Security is too fatal a Prognostick of our approaching Destruction for some there are who unless they saw with their eyes the Popes Standard set up in England and the Jesuits washing their hands in the reaking blood of those who are its Natives will not believe that those Religious Persons by any means can be such sanguinary and cruel Butchers notwithstanding the killing of Hereticks and we know whom they are pleased to asperse with that title is a Doctrine taught in their Schools justified by their practices and maintained in their writings as might be made appear from Ribadeneira Becanus Windeck Stapleton and the rest of that lawless herd of Ignatian Casuists nay is a Doctrine whose bloodiness they can neither be able to conceal nor wash off from their Church whilst the Triumphant Oration of Pope Sixtus the fifth continues extant in the world which he made to his Cardinals in the Consistory at Rome upon the barbarous Assassination of Henry the third of France after he was stabbed to death by Clement the Dominican Fryar But others there are who though they are persuaded that if indeed the power of the Jesuits was as extensive as their malice and their interest as strong as they could wish it were in England both King and People might then suffer indeed as the Protestants in France and in Ireland have done before them but it being next to an impossibility for them ever to effect what we imagine they design their caballs being now so narrowly watched their secrecies disclosed their interests weakned and their own parties many times countermining their projects besides the grand and most certain opposition they would be apt to meet withall from the greatest part of this Nation who 't is to be hoped will never more be reconciled to their monstrous Doctrines and Tenents These things being considered and they upon these grounds having such unlikely hopes of success why men should afflict themselves with the terror of them or dread their power or be uneasie and concerned at their wild and extravagant attempts argues too great levity and imprudence in them that do it and therefore they resolve as for their own parts let the Pope do his worst to consult still their own ease and gratifie their own humours and follow their own ways Judg. xviii 7. and like the men of Laish live careless and remiss under all the revolutions that may happen in the Kingdom To such men I answer that such Security is the readiest inlet to the mystery of Jesuitism for supposing that every body was as supine and careless as they who would be left to search into the intrigues to obviate the designs or to countermine the plots of these politick adversaries And then indeed would they triumph over our carelesness and security and we should as easily fall into their hands as they could desire and nothing could prevent this but omnipotency it self but why God should take care of them who are so unwilling to take care of themselves why God should not suffer them to make use of such advantages as we afford them but interpose his providence betwixt our Security and Ruine is no way to be answered unless we will admit God to be the Patron of the slothful or a Protector of those who yet by their supinity fling themselves out of the covert of his most sacred Wings so that if upon such terms as these are men will promise themselves safety they are farther from it than they suppose or imagine for if a man will still compose himself to sleep when the floods are rushing in upon him he must needs perish by his foolish security and if when dangers are impendent men will feed themselves with hopes of escaping and avoiding them and yet use no means in order to prevent them and though God calls to them will not step one inch out of the way not part with one sin not relinquish one lust not abandon the least pleasure though they are sure to gain thereby Gods favour and protection no wonder he at last suffers them to fall by their folly and to perish in those calamities of which they thought themselves most secure this was the Jewish crime for which God did justly upbraid and punish them and is a second aggravation of their Ingratitude towards him 3. The third thing to be taken notice of was the insufferable height of Voluptuousness and Luxury to which they were arrived the most powerful calls the most amazing judgments the most awakening menaces could not reclaim them from such abominations but being resolved to take their fill of pleasure before God cut them off in defiance of him they give their wills the full swing indulge themselves in all manner of sensuality crying out in the Epicurean dialect Let us eat and drink for to morrow we shall die But he that considers how far the doctrine of Epicurus hath prevailed in this Age how Gods Judgments which have been very dreadful and astonishing amongst us have wrought clear contrary effects to what they were designed and having wasted the Seeds of natural Piety in us have erected Academies of downright Atheism and Voluptuousness in the room may justly conclude that as we have out-vyed all the Jewish race of sinners so ought we likewise at last to transcend them in our punishments Look we but upon the practices and manners of this Nation and we shall find this truth too sadly exemplified that the generality of men look upon themselves no otherwise than as creatures sent into the world as the Leviathan into the deep to take his full career of pastime and pleasure in it that they make it their business first to excite and cloy the flesh to spur it on to riots even beyond its own propensions by which means the year becomes but one mad Carnival and all the Elements are mustered up and yet nec Aer nec Aqua nec Terra sufficit all are not enough to caress and satisfie their craving appetites Aude aliquid brevibus Gyaris carcere dignum Si vis esse aliquid To be aggrandized for wickedness was not only the great ambition of many Romans in Juvenal's days but is the desire and chief aim of too many amongst us and he is reputed a man of excellent parts a person of a very refined and delectable conversation who dares venture to pull down the pale or lay open the inclosures of Religion by the hellish art of scoffing or prophane jesting at it nay are there not some who are so bold as to ungod the world and out-hector the devil and reduce both to nothing but imaginary phantasms Who endeavour to make Hell no more than some painted fire and a future

eye and a blubbered cheek a mournful heart and an afflicted spirit a mortified body and a penitent soul which I confess must be indispensably superadded to all the rest must needs become Sacrifices acceptable to God and will at any time no doubt be very available to avert all present danger to prevent all future punishment or at least to secure such safety and deliverance as may be most necessary and expedient in the dismal times of calamity 1. Such humiliation is very necessary to avert all present danger though the hand of vengeance be lifted up this can hinder the stroke though the sword of justice be drawn this can hold it back though the decree be issued forth this may prevent the execution for so saith Jeremiah Chap. xviii 7 8. At what instant I speak concerning a nation and concerning a kingdom to pluck up and to pull down and to destroy it If that nation against whom I have pronounced turn from their evil then I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them I cannot give you a better instance than in that of Nineveh God sends his Prophet to them to assure them that they had but forty days space allowed them either to repent in or to be destroyed Jonah iii. 3. upon this they being immediately struck with the guilt of their own sins and the terror of this judgment set a part a solemn day without any further delays for fasting and humiliation for they put on Sackcloth from the least to the greatest and caused their very beasts to fast as well as themselves that so as St. Gregory observes the bleating of the Sheep and lowing of the Cattel with such other doleful notes might move the hearts of men still to further sadness which is a great preparative to repentance and how did they speed upon this What success did their contrition and humiliation meet with even with the greatest their hearts could wish or desire for God altered his purposes forthwith concerning this people the Text saith Vers 9. He repented of the evil he said he would do unto them and did it not We are all alarum'd at the news of great dangers which hang over our heads and who is so obdurate and insensate amongst us as not to be affected with the horror of them I am apt to think that the yoke of Rome is as dreadful to us as ever that of Egypt was to the people of Israel nor did they more tremble at the name of the Aegyptian Task-masters than we do when we hear of the leagues and frauds the treacheries and conspiracies the seditions and insurrections the butcheries and massacres of the Popish Emissaries but will our fears prevent our dangers or our jealousies become a bar to our miseries Will a bare antipathy against them keep us out of their reach or a few weak sighs or insignificant groans blow away those storms that threaten both Church and State with inevitable destruction No the only certain way to be eased of our cares and have our fears abated is to gain God on our sides by a timely humiliation and then we need not fear what the malice of man can do unto us indeed we are too apt to rely upon a weak arm of flesh to confide in the strength and the policy in the counsel and advice in the consultation and resolutions of those who preside over us thus we feed our selves with fancies that if our Senators be but quick and sagacious in making a thorough discovery of these wicked incendiaries if our Magistrates be but speedy in the execution of the Laws against them if these Traitors be but brought to condign punishment for the present and severe Laws be enacted for the security of the King and the preservation of the State for future Generations all things yet will go well and we may hope still for glorious days of peace and tranquillity but then we do not consider that when those are dispatched we have Traitors still amongst us at our own homes within our own breasts I mean our Sins which if not executed likewise with no less rigour and severity will open still a door and let in others from abroad no less dreadful and pestilential than those are when we think our selves most secure and out of danger It was a smart answer which an English Commander gave a French Captain in Normandy who asking him when he thought their Forces which were called back for England by King Henry the sixth would return into those parts again replyed When their sins called for them Yea 't is they which are the inlets to all the evil in the world 't is they make a gap open the avenues for our Enemies to come upon us armed and never believe the Seminaries of Rome will desert this Nation till by unfeigned repentance we have obstructed their passage and God by reason of that shall think fit not to suffer them any longer to torment and persecute us Humble then you selves under the mighty hand of God 't is the best way to avert present danger 2. 'T is as expedient likewise to prevent all future punishment Repentance is not only an antidote against present evils but a most certain defensative against all future calamities we are very ready to believe that if this Plot could be but thoroughly fifted if the bottom of it could be dived into the chief Abettors of it discovered the Confederates laid open the Associates brought to light the whole Popish Faction would be so bafled and disappointed and their motion for the future watched with such vigilancy and caution that they could never be able to do us any more prejudice But put the case this were true suppose we could obviate all their designs countermine all their Plots be privy to all their Cabals and receive weekly Bills of Intelligence from all their Consults in Spain Italy France or Flanders suppose they should still be so infatuated in their Counsels divided in their interests and so weakened by their ill success as nothing could come to any maturity which they projected against us yet can we be so foolish to imagin that God hath no other workmen to make him Darts and Arrows than Papists or no other executioners of his vengeance but Jesuits Alas if our offences require it there are instruments enough befide to serve God in his purposes he can raise up wicked Agents within our own Kingdom to ruin and destroy us he can if he please make a Synedrial Classis of Geneva become as fatal to us as a Conclave at Rome and permit a trumpet of Sedition in order to our downfall to be blown as loud out of a Fanatick Conventicle as a Jesuits Cloyster he can crumble us into Factions and Divisions amongst our selves and make every Schismatical Sect amongst us become his rod and scourge to chastise our wickedness and folly nay he need not go so far for executioners to dispatch us for he can raise up