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<P>Englands Summons: OR, LONDONS ALARUM FROM HEAVEN.</P>
<P>With a Caveat to all Cities, Towns, Coun|ties, and Families in the &s;ame.</P>
<P>Collected by J. W.</P>
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<FIGDESC>emplem of two hands holding sword and whip descending out of fiery heavens</FIGDESC>
<P>Repent</P>
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<P>LONDON, Printed for <HI>W. Gilbert&s;on,</HI> at the &s;ign of the Bible in Gilt&s;pur-&s;treet. 1650.</P>
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<HEAD>THE EXPLANATION of the Emblem.</HEAD>
<P>BEhold the Emblem, and con&s;ider what hangs over thy head (Oh <HI>England</HI>) with all thy fruitfull Counties, glorious Cities, and plea&s;ant Townes.</P>
<P>The Trumpet &s;ounds a Summons from Heaven, and bids us to repent. The Sword drawne, &s;ignifies Gods vengeance, (as we have partly felt already) and when it will be &s;heathed none but the Lord doth know. The three-fold Scourge &s;ignifieth War, Famine; and the Pe&s;tilence, of which likewi&s;e wee have already had a portion, and (without Gods great Mercy,) it is likely to continue and increa&s;e for our Iniquities. The flames &s;ignifies the wrath of God, as he de&s;troyed <HI>Sodome</HI> and <HI>Gomorah,</HI> with other Cities, being al&s;o a Memento of the Latter Day, &amp;c,</P>
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<HEAD>Englands Summons; Or, Londons Alarm from Heaven.</HEAD>
<P><HI>_SEarch your &s;elves, even &s;earch you, O Nation, not worthy to be be|loved, before the decree come forth and you be as chaffe that pa&s;&s;eth on a day, <HI>Zeph.</HI> 2.1, 2.</HI></P>
<P><HI>The pride of thy heart hath deceiveved thee, thou that dwelle&s;t in the clefts of the Rockes, who&s;e inhabitants is high, that &s;aith in his heart Who &s;hall bring mee downe to the ground? though thou exalt thy &s;elfe as an Eagle, and though thou &s;et thy ne&s;t among the Starres, thence will I bring thee down, &s;aith the Lord, <HI>Obad.</HI> 3.4.</HI></P>
<P><HI>For I will gather all Nations again&s;t Jeru&s;a|lem to battell, and the City &s;hall be taken, and the hou&s;es rifled, and the women ravi&s;hed, and halfe the Citie &s;hall goe forth into captivitie. <HI>Zach.</HI> 14.2.</HI></P>
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<P> <HI>And &s;uddenly &s;hall the &s;owne places appeare un&s;owne, the full Store-hou&s;es &s;hall &s;uddenly be found empty: And the Trumpet &s;hall give a &s;ound, which when every man heareth, they &s;hall &s;uddenly be afraid: At that time &s;hall friends fight one again&s;t another like enemies, and the earth &s;hall &s;tand in feare, with tho&s;e that dwell therein, 2 <HI>E&s;dras</HI> 6.22, 23, 24.</HI></P>
<P><HI>For the Sword and their de&s;truction draw|eth nigh, and one people &s;hall &s;tand up to fight again&s;t another, and &s;words in their hands; for there &s;hal be &s;edition among men, and invading one another; they &s;hall not regard their Kings nor Princes, and the cour&s;e of their actions &s;hall &s;tand in their power, 2 <HI>E&s;dr.</HI> 15.15, 16, &amp;c.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Now is the Ax laid unto the root of the tree, every Tree therefore not bringing forth good Fruit, is hewne downe and ca&s;t into the fire, <HI>Luke</HI> 3.9.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Make no tarrying to turne unto the Lord; Neither put it off from day to day, for &s;ud|denly &s;hall the wrath of the Lord breake forth, and in thy &s;ecurity thou &s;halt be de&s;troyed, and thou &s;halt peri&s;h in time of vengeance, <HI>Eccle&s;.</HI> 5.7.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Wherefore (as the Holy Gho&s;t &s;aith) to day, if ye &s;hal hear his voice, harden not your hearts; yea, this day, if yee heare his voyce harden not your hearts, <HI>Heb.</HI> 3.7, 8. &amp; 4.7.</HI></P>
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<P> Therefore now, oh now remember fruitfull and plea&s;ant <HI>England,</HI> and ye famous Cities and Townes, which like &s;o many rich and glo|rious Diamonds embrodered, and garni&s;hed the garment of your Nation in every Shire and County; You <HI>that had a Land that flowed with Milke and Honey; being a Land of brookes of Waters, and Fountains, and depths that &s;pring out of Valleyes and Hills; a Land of Wheat and Barley; &amp; Wines and Fig-trees, &amp;c. Built good|ly hou&s;es; thy Heards and Flocks multiply, with thy &s;ilver and gold, &amp;c. But beware that thou forget not the Lord thy God, in not keeping his Commandements and his Judgements, &amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>Oh wretched &s;inners that we are that delay|eth the amendment of our wicked lives by our incredulity: For &s;urely if w&eacute;e did bel&eacute;eve tho&s;e things which are written in the &s;acred Scripture <HI>of the judgement to come, of the voyce of the Arch-Angell, and Trumpet of Cod: of the Tri|bunall feare of Chri&s;t. before which we mu&s;t all appeare, of the paines of the reprobate, of the endle&s;&s;e condition and felicity of the righteous: of the Re&s;urrection to come of Body and Soule, to an a&s;&s;ured part either of Glory or &s;hame:</HI> did w&eacute;e believe the&s;e things? &s;urely I am per&s;wa|ded w&eacute;e would &s;tu&s;tie to live after another &s;ort, and not defer the amendment of our lives as w&eacute;e doe from day to day.</P>
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<P> Remember that at the la&s;t Day our reco|nings mu&s;t be ca&s;t up, we &s;hall be called to an account, <HI>we live here in the &s;ight of God and Man;</HI> and therefore w&eacute;e ought with St <HI>Paul,</HI> herein exerci&s;e our &s;elves, <HI>that we may have a good Con&s;cience, void of offence towards God and toward man. Act. 24.16.</HI></P>
<P>But we now live in all voluptuou&s;ne&s;&s;e and (I believe that) all the &s;ins that ever raigned upon the face of the Earth doth now abound both in City and Country, but e&s;pecially in this City: Never was there more Pride, Ambition, ba&s;e Flattery, Drunkenne&s;&s;e, Bla&s;phemy, Luxurie, Deceit, Avarice, In-ju&s;tice, Prodigality, Mur|ther, and Perjury: but true Religion (among&s;t two many) not regarded.</P>
<P>The&s;e &s;innes, with a number more, fills the Land full of Trea&s;ons, the Subjects full of im|piety, and in the end, may ruinate a State, and batter down the walls of &s;w&eacute;et Peace, (if pro|vidence in time prevent not &s;o foule a mi&s;chief) That Common-wealth is mo&s;t mi&s;erable, that hath her Foes within her &s;elfe: and now mode|&s;ty and civility are changed into all manner of di&s;&s;olution and vanity.</P>
<P>As for Charity, that is bani&s;hed the Land, witne&s;&s;e the lamentable cries of the poore dayly pre&s;ented to our eyes and eares, who are ready
<PB N="6" REF="5">to &s;tarve for lack of food: <HI>But know, that wee ought not to turne our eye from the poore, but be carefull of them: And he that &s;toppeth his eares at the cry of the poor, &s;hall cry him&s;elf, and not be heard. We ought to give to the poore cheerfully, and not to di&s;pi&s;e them, have we not al one Father, hath not one God made us? 1 Cor 9.7. Why doth every one de&s;pi&s;e his own bro|ther, (&s;aith Malachi 2.) And S. John &s;aith, God is charity, and he that dweleth in charity, dwel|leth in God, and God in him.</HI></P>
<P>Then let not the fire of Zeale drink up the dew and moi&s;ture of Charity, as the fire from Heaven dried up the water at <HI>Eliahs</HI> Sacrifice, <HI>1 King. 18.38.</HI> Nor let not Sacrifice turn mercy out of doors, as <HI>Sara</HI> did <HI>Agar, Gen. 21.14.</HI> But remember the &s;p&eacute;ech of our Savior in <HI>Matthew,</HI> to tho&s;e on the right hand, wher he &s;aith, <HI>Com ye ble&s;&s;ed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom pre|pared for you, from the fondation of the world For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat. I was thir&s;ty, and ye gave me drink; I was a &s;tran|ger, and ye took me in; naked, and ye clothed me; I was &s;ick, and ye vi&s;ited me; I was in pri|&s;on, and ye came unto me, &amp;c. Mat. 25.34 35, 36. In as much as ye have done it to one of the lea&s;t of the&s;e my Brethren, ye have done it unto me.</HI> But I am afraid there are too many on the left hand, that hath done none of the&s;e things, to
<PB N="7" REF="5">whom Chri&s;t &s;aid, <HI>In as much as yee did it not to one of the lea&s;t of the&s;e, yee did it not to me. And the&s;e &s;hall goe away into everla&s;ting pu|ni&s;hment; but the Righteous into life eter|nall, <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 45, 47.</HI></P>
<P>O <HI>England,</HI> both Shires, Cities and Towns, there be too many fal&s;e Brethren fo&s;tered in your bo&s;ome; Wolves clothed in Lambskins, that doe &s;&eacute;em, by the preci&s;ene&s;&s;e of their habit, and demurene&s;&s;e of their behaviour, to be truly mor|tified to the World; They will reprove &s;in, re|fraine from &s;wearing, celebrate the Sabboth. yea many houre of the w&eacute;ek-daies in hearing of the Word, labouring (if they like the Mini&s;ter) to dige&s;t it into their memories by penning and conference: In a word, they will pretend a great deale of faire and religious dealing, and &s;&eacute;eme to be Gods white Children, but they are little better then black Divels transformed in|to Angels of light, <HI>2 Cor. 11.14.</HI></P>
<P>The&s;e are they that make Religion a cloake, wearing Chri&s;ts Livery for their own conveni|ency, that &s;o they may the more &s;afely and un|&s;u&s;pectedly compa&s;&s;e their &s;ecret and un&s;acred end; For there are none that are more unju&s;t in their dealings, none more covetous, deceit|full, full of pride, hatred malice, and all uncha|ritablene&s;&s;e then they: For Hypocrites &s;eeme to &s;eek God in trouble, but not from the heart,
<PB N="8" REF="6">and &s;&eacute;eme Godly, but their deeds bewray them.</P>
<P>And thus doth Hypocri&s;ie flouri&s;h, to the great reproach of &s;incere Profe&s;&s;ours: For wee may ob&s;erve that all ungodline&s;&s;e hath advanced it &s;elfe and taken heart in our Nation. Iniquity hath put on a brow of Bra&s;&s;e, and impiety like a &s;hamele&s;&s;e Strumpet, attended by Impudency, hoth taken up her &s;tanding in every &s;treet and corner of City. Town and Country: It is al|mo&s;t impo&s;&s;ible to relate the &s;innes and wicked|ne&s;&s;e that raigne in this Land: Thus ungodli|ne&s;&s;e is become a contagious Lepro&s;te, it hath infected and runne over the whole body of this Land, and no part more then this City; in&s;o|much that it may truly be &s;aid of us, as the Pro|phet of the Iewes; <HI>We are a &s;infull people la|den with Iniquity: The whole head is &s;ick, the whole heart is heavie, from the &s;ole of the foot to the crown of the head, there is nothing whole therein, but wounds and &s;wellings, and &s;ores full of corruption. I&s;a. 1.4.5.6.</HI></P>
<P>Alas poore <HI>England,</HI> thou ha&s;t cau&s;e to be|moane thy &s;elfe; <HI>For the eyes of the wicked &s;hall faile, and their refuge &s;hall peri&s;h, and their hope &s;hall be &s;orrow of mind; his owne coun&s;ell &s;hall ca&s;t him down, his rejoycing is but &s;hort, and the joy of an Hypocrite is but a moment; For the wickeds light &s;hall be ta|ken away, they are &s;nared in the works of their
<PB N="9" REF="6">own hands.</HI> Therefore we ought to look about us, the dangers are many wherewith our &s;in|full Nation is threatned; God hath often fore|warned us, and given us gentle corrections; but we amend not our lives: But let us know that God is ju&s;t in all his wayes the eye of hea|ven is alwayes open he will bring all our deeds of darkne&s;&s;e to light, though we think to con|ceale them from him and the World: Let <HI>A|dam</HI> lurke never &s;o much among the Trees of the Garden of <HI>Eden,</HI> he mu&s;t come forth and be examined indited, convicted, adjudged: <HI>He that getteth up out of the pit, &s;hal fall into the &s;nare; he fleeth from a Lion, and a Beare meeteth him; leaneth his hand on the wall, and a Serpent bi|teth him.</HI> Thou maye&s;t e&s;cape &s;ix dangers, and the &s;eventh &s;hall &s;eize upon thee, as <HI>London,</HI> and other places yet have done:) But the Lord &s;aid; <HI>It &s;hall come to pa&s;&s;e, that him that e&s;ca|peth from the Sword of Hazaell, him &s;hall Jehu &s;lay: &amp; him that a&s;capeth the Sword of Jehu, &s;hall Eli&s;ha &s;lay.</HI> Al&s;o note what the Prophet <HI>Jeremiah</HI> doth &s;ay: <HI>Ca&s;t them out of my &s;ight, and let them depart; and if they aske whither &s;hall we depart? &s;ay, &s;uch as are appointed unto death, unto death; and &s;uch as are for the &s;word to the &s;word; and &s;uch as are for the famine, to the famine; and &s;uch as are for the captivity, to the captivity.</HI></P>
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<P> Let us but ob&s;erve how fickle the &s;tate of king|domes and Monarchs are as well as &s;mall ter|ritories: Can a man be &s;afe in his Cabin, when the whole &s;hip is drown'd under water? All mens e&s;tates are ventured in this great ve&s;&s;ell called the Earth, which was once &s;wallowed up in a deluge of water, and &s;hall (ere it be long) with a deluge of fire. If our State hath received any wound or the Church any blow, we know where to lay the blame; we may &s;ay with mournfull <HI>Jeru&s;alem, The Lord is righteous, but we have rebelled again&s;t him; God hath been good to us, but we unthankfull to him, Lam. 1.18.</HI></P>
<P>Let not the Devill deceive, in making thee imagine or hope to plea&s;e God, and yet to let thy corruptions lye un&s;een, and thy &s;innes un&s;ear|ched out, le&s;t thereby thou mar all; For none u&s;eth to lay up Wheat in their Garners untill it be purged from the Chaffe: &s;o think not to &s;tore up any &s;aving knowledge, or any other grace of God in thy heart, untill the chaffe of vanity be fir&s;t blown away, that &s;o the holy graces of God may be laid up in the Garners of thy &s;oule. Re|member Chri&s;t Parable of Tares and Wheat: <HI>Let both grow together untill the Harve&s;t, and in the time of harve&s;t. I will &s;ay to the reapers, Gather ye together, fir&s;t the Tares, and binde them in bundles to burne them; but gather the Wheat into my barne, <HI>Mat.</HI> 13.30.</HI></P>
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<P> Therefore, O wretched <HI>England</HI> bewaile for thy tran&s;gre&s;&s;ions and if God puni&s;h us, we our &s;elves are the cau&s;e that forceth him to doe it; God inflicteth &s;tripes, but we de&s;erve them; God &s;triketh, but we provoke him to it; God powreth out the Vials of his wrath, but it is we that fill them up to the brim, by our over|flowing iniquities: If we were not unju&s;t in tran&s;gre&s;&s;ing, God would not be ju&s;t in puni&s;h|ing; <HI>For he delighteth in mercy, and good|ne&s;&s;e is his Nature, Micah. 7.18.</HI></P>
<P>O then, let every one of us make a diligent &s;earch into his owne bo&s;ome, and judge him&s;elf, le&s;t he be judged of the Lord: Let us rip up that body of &s;in which is within us, not only that na|turall corruption, which we have all alike &s;uc|ce&s;&s;ively received from our fir&s;t Parents, but al&s;o tho&s;e per&s;onall tran&s;gre&s;&s;ions which every man hath made him&s;elfe guilty of. Then having faithfully laid open our &s;infulne&s;&s;e, let us looke on it with a loathing eye and lamentable heart, <HI>For an humble and contrite heart, O Lord thou &s;halt not de&s;pi&s;e.</HI> And the Lord &s;aid <HI>Call upon me in the day of trouble, I will deliver thee, and thou &s;halt glorifie me.</HI></P>
<P>Therefore let us goe with faith in the blood of Ie&s;us Chri&s;t to the Throne of grace imploring mercy at the hands of our heavenly Father who is ready and willing to imbrace with the armes
<PB N="12" REF="8">of his mercy, all &s;uch petitioning him for grace in the name of his Sonne.</P>
<P>And now (O <HI>England,</HI> Cities, Townes and private Families) let us for the time following, entertaine this &s;etled re&s;olution in|to our hearts, faithfully to labour in the refor|mation of tho&s;e &s;innes we have committed, by hearty repentance: and that wee may crowne our holy re&s;olutions, and putting them into action, <HI>By bringing forth fruit wort by amend|ment of life: Luke, 3.8.</HI> for true Repentance is the gift of God.</P>
<P>Let us therefore even now, while it is to day, begin to work our &s;alvation, with feare and trembling, and unfeignedly repent and call up|on God for mercy: for we have &s;pent our time pa&s;t upon the lu&s;ts of our owne hearts, in brin|ging forth the corrupt fruit of the fle&s;h; in drun|kenne&s;&s;e in &s;wearing, in prophanene&s;&s;e, in pride, in uncleanene&s;&s;e, and all other abbominable tran&s;gre&s;&s;ions, which are loath&s;ome to be nomi|nated. Therefore let us now walk in newne&s;&s;e of life, le&s;t the Lord doe &s;uddenly, before wee doe &s;o much as dream of it, <HI>hew us downe and ca&s;t us into the fire. Luke, 3.9.</HI></P>
<P>And for that wee are all members of the mi|&s;ticall Body of Chri&s;t Ie&s;us, we doe humbly make our reque&s;ts unto thee, O heavenly Fa|ther, both for our owne mi&s;erable &s;elves at
<PB N="13" REF="8">this pre&s;ent, and all others, as are afflicted with any kind of cro&s;&s;e or tribulation, as Warre, Plague. Famine, Sickne&s;&s;e, Poverty, Impri|&s;onment, Per&s;ecution, Bani&s;hment, or any o|ther of thy Scourges or Roddes; Whether it be griefe of Body, or unquietne&s;&s;e of Mind: and that it would plea&s;e thee to give us and them patience and con&s;tancie, till thou &s;end a full deliverance out of all our griefes and troubles, add &s;o at length bring us to eternall bli&s;&s;e.</P>
<P>Then heare what good comfort our ble&s;&s;ed Saviour Chri&s;t promi&s;eth, if we repent us of our &s;innes.</P>
<P><HI>Come unto me all that are weary and heavy Laden, and I will ea&s;e you. I came not to call the Righteous, but Sinners to Repentance. The Sonne of Man came not to de&s;troy, but to &s;ave. Mar. 2.17.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Come ye ble&s;&s;ed of my Father, po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e the Kingdome prepared for you, before the foun|dation of the World was laid. Mat. 25.34.</HI></P>
<P>The&s;e are Heavenly comforts for &s;uch as have for&s;aken their wickedne&s;&s;e, and turne unto the Lord, <HI>That when the chiefe Shepheard &s;hall appeare, you &s;hall receive a Crowne of Glory that fadeth not away. 1. Pet. 5.4.</HI></P>
<PB N="14" REF="9">
<P> Which, O dear Father of mercy, and God of all Con&s;olation grant, for the merit of IE|SUS CHRIST, To whom with the Father, and the Ble&s;&s;ed Spirit, be ren|dred all glory, prai&s;e, and thank&s;|giving now and for ever.</P>
<CLOSER>AMEN.</CLOSER>
<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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<P><HI>Imprimatur,</HI> Jo. Downeham.</P>
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