And since we are commanded to _weep_ with them that _weep_; O that our _heads_ were _fountains_, and our _eyes rivers_ of _waters_, that wee might weep with _Germany_, weep with _Ireland_, yea, weep day and night with _England_ and _Scotland_ (to speake nothing of other remote _Nations_) in laying againe and again to _heart_ the stroakes of _Gods_ most righteous _judgements_, in their most fearfull slaughters and _desolations_. [Sidenote: The wonderfull spirituall judgements upon the Nations.] [Sidenote: The direfull judgement upon the Jewes.] The effects and marks of these most dreadfull _blowes_, every _eye_ is forced to see but yet there are some _stroakes_, more fearfull and yet not easily perceived; such are the righteous _judgements_ of _God_, giving up the _Nations_ of the _world_ to so many horrible and blasphemous _worships_, _idolatries_ and _superstitions_. To speak nothing of whole _Nations_ and _Kingdomes_, that know not at all the true and living _God_, how _cold_ and _hard_ is that _stone_ that lyes upon the _mouth_ of that wonderfull _grave_ of _unbeliefe_, wherein the _Nation_ of (_Gods_ choice and love) the _Jewes_ lye buried and o'rewhelmed to this day? [Sidenote: The direfull judgement of Mahumatanism, and Antichristianisme.] Who can but _wonder_ and _tremble_ at so many hundreth thousand and millions of men given up for so long a time (in so many and so mighty flourishing _Nations_ of the world) I say, given up to those two monstrously bewitching _Worships_ of _Mahumatisme_ and _Antichristianisme_, the dire effects of _Gods_ most righteous judgements upon the _Easterne_ and _Westterne_ professors of the knowledge of _God_ in _Christ Jesus_? [Sidenote: The lamentable captivity of Gods own people to Antichristian worships.] Adde to these that most fearfull and deplorable _captivity_ of the very _soules_ and _consciences_ of _Gods_ owne people (for so many hundred years) under false and superstitious _Worships_. A righteous _judgement_, though not so easily discerned, yet in it selfe most dreadfull, and exceeding all the temporall calamities in the _world_. [Sidenote: The dreadfull and eternall judgement yet to come.] But (thirdly) from these two times of _past_ and _present_, let us cast our eyes on the third which is yet to come, as _sure_ and _wonderfull_, will shortly be these two most wonderfull and dreadfull _downfals_ of those two so mighty _Monarchies_ (so great enemies to _Christ Jesus_) the _Turkish_ and the _Popish_: according to the Prediction of the holy _Prophets_. How fearfull the _effusion_ of the _Viols_, in part fulfilled, and yet to be powred forth in their season? And not a little wonderfull is that mighty _destruction_ of the _Nations Gog_ and _Magog_ gathered as the _sand_ of the Sea against the camp of the _saints_ of the holy _City_.