EXAMPLES FOR LONDON Or a Parallel between the evill-affected Malignants of this City, and the seditious Jews in Jerusalem.  
Also Declaring the miserable estate of this City if this war should continue, there being so many potent Enemies within the Confines of the said City, which seek to destroy the same.   printer's or publisher's device 
London Printed, for Henry Hatton 1642.   

Examples for LONDON  
Several say of Gods chosen servants in whom the Holy Ghost itself speaketh, are worthy perpetual remembrance, and if they be not regarded, the godly are taken away to their rest and joy, and then followeth a plague unto the people, the miseries and calamities that before was threatened by the mouths of those his messengers, so after the death of St. ●mbrôse, followed the vastigation of Italy, after the death of St. Augustine, the Vandals entered Africa, and then sprung up the Arian-Herisie after the death of johannes Huz, the fierce Battles of Bohemia, after the death of Martin Luther what terrible troubles and cruel calamities happened who in his life time amongst all other of his Works left in memorial This notable pophesie, that these 3. things would be the destruction of Christian religion.  
The first is forgetfulness of benefits that we reseved at God's hands by the Gospel, and unthankfulness for the same. The second is carelessness. The third, that we l●ke better of the world's wisdom, then of Godly wisdom, within the compass of our foolish brains we would Comprehend the Reason, Rule, Order, and end, of every thing, ungodly counsel is aprop and stay unto our determinations, we depend not upon the Lord's providence we ask not counsel at the mouth of the Lord, if the Lord guide not the world after our own will we like no longer to be governed by him, we forsake the Lord, we fly strait to flesh and blood, the prosperity of the world is our delight, and therefore we say simply as did the prophet jeremiah we remember what we have done and lived merrely by it, when we sacraficed to the queen of heaven, now we live in lack and feel much woe, even so say we, if we should live according to the Gospel we should leave of our crafty cunning in getting, and perchance become beggars, we should leave our fa●se swearing, and not sell our wares.  
We should leave our access in vanity, which is our chief delight.  
We should labour earnestly and leave our slloathful rest.  
We should give to those that want and have no certainty our serves.  
But still weight until the Lord shall give us more  
Flesh and blood is our delighr the glory of the world is our joy, and this is contrary thereunto.  
Thus we forsake the Lord, and cast of the yoke of of Christian profession, nay of Christian Religion, I may say, for we profess somewhat, but express nothing in our lives and conversations, but Envy, Hatred and Malice, and all uncharitableness, we profess purity, but our hearts are fraught with Hypocrisy.  
'tis horrible to be feared, because of the ungodly, who for all they have so many labonrers from the Lord with his directions to teach the way to Heaven, who I am sure with earnest groan, pray that his blessed spirit would teach them what to spoke, but they, by their neglect and slight regard, the nerears I do mean, forces them often to prenounce this woe, to have the Kingdom of Heaven taken from us, to have the gracious Gospel the emmortali seed and spiritual food of our souls taken quite a way from us, so long as I think on it, I fear and tremble to think how soon that terrible hunger may come, for now us set on foot, than we shall go, rune, and seek earnestly, and yet not find the food of our souls wherewith to be comforted: If we will fully forget God's glory will he care for us. wherefore for London's example, there was never a godlier City on the earrn, than was Jerusalem, and yet when they refused to be Obedient unto the Lord, and began to wax forgerfull of his great benefits, when they left of to ask counsel of the Lord, and trusted to man's vain strength, even than they were destroyed.  
Even than they were begirt with death and Desolation.  
Even than did all their Channels flow with Blood.  
Her STREETS were filled with Scarlet.  
Her precious palaces was filled with groans and howl.  
Her Temple Doores were blocked up with Priests, decked in their Golden Copes.  
Fired were their Barns and Garners stuffed with Corne.  
Their young Babes tossed upon their Enemy's Spears, Balls of wildfire hurled upon their lofty spires prided with golden weines, this City seated by the hand of Heaven, and fixed upon the Navel of the Earth, by her own dissension was thus destroyed, her Nobles forced daily to labour like the poorest slaves, no more account there was then made of them, but thirty there was sold for one poor penny, the rest were forced to live in woe and want, pinched with penury, oppressed with labour in most cruel boncage and perpetu●●● slavery. Oh London, take example, first by this glorious City Jerusalem, whose unnumbered Towers were built so nigh, that they seemed to touch, nay kisle the clouds, and now all lies flat, and not one stone left standing upon another? Wilt thou not pity Her.  
But to come nearer unto ourselves, how gallant and glorious a City was Antwerp of late days, how flourished some part of Germany and Flanders, but when the voice of the Gospel is not obeyed, when the Kingdom of heaven is not sought first, and before all things when God's mercy is despised, and his Gospel no more imitated, when the Spirit of the Creator is resisted and refused, then indeed we must needs loo●e for t●at which Martin Luther, that chosen Testament of the Lord, foretold us, That the Gospel should be ●ra●slated from u●, to some other Nation, or rat●er returned bacl from us Gentills, unto the jews, from the new chosen refusers to the old chosen proffessors.  
It hath a hid and a most a dark mystery, that many that proffesse themselves to be Christians, yet deny the Sacrament of Baptism, and some ●at● all Isralits-and carnal Jews, have erenestly desired ●●e Benefit of the same doubtless it is true that Christ said, you shall not finish all the Cities of judab, until the coming again of the Son of man. Somewhat willbe to do among them. God hath a work that he will do, he hath a remnant that he will call home, whereof P●ull speaketh saying blindness is partly happened unto Jsraell until the fullness of the Gentiles be accomplished, and so Jsraell shall be saved, hereof speaketh Hillarius all is not yet doneth Jsraell, after the fullness of the Gentiles is come 〈◊〉, there is a remnant yet left in Jsrael that shall be gathered unto the Lord.  
Our looseness of life is to any Christians conscience a terrible fear or rather ache part of any long continuance of the gospel amongst us that we are so different in show that it is hard to find many of one colour, of one Consent, or of one ●ike Dsposstion some are white, some are black, some are done, some eaten blue, some are Yellow, some are Red, but abundance brown, some are spotted, but some unspotted.  
On the other side one wolf is like another, seeking to deface God's glory blot out his name, and let up whom you will, let God and Moses be forgotten in the Mount; a●l 〈…〉 will pluck of their special jewis and ornament to ma e a molten Image, in this case help all you that are true protestants, lament all you good hristians, for reverend use of his name, spare no labour, speak, sue, entreat, encourage, your Knights of the S●ire, the Burgessecs of the parliament, the Clerks of the Convocation show your z●alo●● what you may to move, to procure son Godly law whereby the customary evil use, vain a●u●e of our sacred God, his most mighty name may be reform.  
The force of Papistry, with all their wisdom and power they labour to beat down our lack of good Life is still the greatest loss, the strongest ●●op, the unhappiest hindrance that now remaineth against the fullness and plenteousness of God's Kingdom, whose Kingdom if we build not to the end, whose spirit if we resist and refuse as heretofore (a fruit of infidelity) we are quite given over, the devil shall every where the terror of Conscience appear and show himself unto us (which God avert) and London be thou warned, oh think upon fernsalem, that was so fair, so beauteous, and so pop●ulus, her several Sects brought her to that confusion, which God defend but that thou shouldest live and flourish, and maintain the Church's glory, and be so he●d upon England, that the other Congregations in other Lands may confess the to be no whit inferior to any in the world, but rather a light and lantern unto the rest, and tread cowne them that seeks to raze out the.  
And last of all, to prompt the towards the imbraceing of an unity (the only means to obtain a religious peace) think of the late flourishing estate of the Kingdom of Ireland, there thou mayst see as in a glass the misery of War, the cosideration of which, I hope will prove a motive to repentance, and cause an union in Religion, and then we have no cause to fear but that God in his good time will give a period to all our fears, and rurne our mourning into a religious joy.   
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