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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B02297	A comforting farewel-word, to the Lords trembling-hearted peoples, at the removal of the cloud of His glory from the sanctuary, applyed as a present cordiall, against their heart-faintings.		1664 (1664)	Wing C5538A; ESTC R174126	27,781	60

fear that our dear Lord Jesus is like to goe away and leave us And beside this there hath been many other dreadful abominations committed by night and day which would make Christian ears abhor to hear or tongues relate O but this is not all will you but hear a little farther and we will tell you of a greater abomination than this though little minded or laid to heart by many and that is the turning over of this holy Book into Stage-playes What is the holy Bible but the Eternal Gods Love-letter to his Church wherein his mind is written Yet is it turned over into Stage-playes For will you but walk down to the Nether-Bow and you shall there almost every night see some part thereof turn'd over into a Stage-play is not this a horrid blasphemy Yet this is not done in a corner they openly avow the same for while they stand at the Close-head calling in Passengers they proclame their wickedness saying Walk in Gentlemen walk in and you shall see a choice piece of Art and what is this choice piece of Art You shall see Adam and Eve Cain and Abel all walking in a lively manner to see how they were created naked and then deceived by the Serpent and how Cain slew Abel Oh Oh was it not this began all our miseries and woes did not this begin all our sorrow and lamentation and shall this be turned over into a Stage-play and sport to make people laugh and be merry O that some would cause plead for their Mother that that order might be taken with such abominations These things we could not but mention being so abominable in the sight of God And may not this say that he can have little heart to stay amongst us seeing we give so little esteem of his blessed Word that you see there is ground to fear his departure and going away from amongst us Evid 4. The fourth evidence of the Lords departure which we shall name is the corrupting of his Worship and overturning the comly order of his House in a violent way the setting up a few vain self-seeking men over the Inheritance of the Lord who have on the matter renounced their Ministers as not of God And if such men be fit for ruling the house of God let the Bible and unbiassed people of God be Judge of the matter This way was never blessed of God in our land formerly as to the conversion of souls and much less is it to be now expected that he will bless the same O how unbeseeming a title would Paul have thought it for him if any had come to him and called him your Lordship or your Lordships grace and how would he have abhorred himself if he had seen Prelats Mytre upon his own head and their syd robe upon him and some bearing up his taile no ground in the Bible for this yet it is done let this neither he looked upon as matter of Laughter to strangers nor of affrightment to friends being necessity constrains us to speak of these things unto you Now may not all this give sad ground of fear that the Lord will go away and leave us seeing such abominations are set up amongst us Vse 2. Now we would in the next place desire you that are the people of God to encourage your selves in him ye see as we have cleared That the assurance of Christs return is the choice only sufficient cordial against the heart faintings of the sorrowful soules of his people at his departure O therefore make use of this Cordial against the present distress and faintings of your heart in this hour of affliction because of Christs departure this is your present condition your hearts are sorrowful because your dear Lord is now shortly to be taken from you but let this hold up your hearts He will see us again therefore we say make use of this Cordial for you that are his people have no less to hold up your fainting discoveraged hearts then his Disciples got and that is the assurance of his return he will visit our land and so see us again Object But some of the Lords affrighted trembling-hearted people will here object alas that is the great thing in question and ye have spoken so much of his going away that we can hardly think he will return to us again and besides all he hath not tyed himself to any particular Church and therefore no particular Church can apply this promise to themselves and so what ground hath Scotland to apply this promise as a present cordial Vse 2. Though we have spoken much of his going yet we have not said that he will not come again and we spoke to somethings the last day for making it appear that he will come again As first our faithful Reformers Mr. Welsh Mr. Wishart Mr. Knox Mr. Hamilton c. others asserted that how be it Christ shall be crucified in Scotland yet glorious shall his Resurrection be and may we not make use of this as a cordial against our present heart-faintings 2. There are very many precious young men Students of Divinity whom the Lord hath fitted as polished shafts for the work of the Gospel and of whom he hath never as yet made use therein and shall we think that he will now lay them by and not imploy them in his service haveing been at great pains to fit them for the same 3. A faithful service of our Lord Jesus Christ who had this testimony that he feared God did lately amongst us before many thousand witnesses at his death openly declare his confidence as to this That how be it our cloud may be long and dark yet the Lord shall shine once more with the glorious light of his Gospel upon these Lands and shall we think that the Lord would have suffered his faithful servant to have brought himself under the imputation of a deceived Prophet at his death being in so great a strait for him if he had not had a mind to fulfill his servants word in seeing us again And we say now unto you that the Lord had never more precious people in Scotland then he hath now though there be many hypocrites neither hath ever had so many faithful Ministers in a suffering time for serving in the work of the Gospel as now he hath though there be also many that are unfaithful and we must think he will not lay them altogether byas useless but rather that he hath work for them and therefore we may take this as a ground of incouragement to confirme our hope of his seeing us again Object 2 But the Lord did cast of the seven Churches of Asia when in a very flourishing condition and did never visit them again with the Gospel and why then may he not also go away from us and never return nor see us again Ans There were never such a formal marriage contract passed betwixt God and the seven Churches of Asia in their most flourishing condition as heath passed