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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26347	The necessity of the pouring out of the spirit from on high upon a sinning apostatizing people, set under judgment, in order to their merciful deliverance and salvation as it was delivered in part, upon 21. 9. 1678 being a general fast throughout the united colonies of N.E. / by William Adams ...	Adams, William, 1650-1685.; Torrey, Samuel, 1632-1707.; Flint, Josiah, 1645-1680.	1679 (1679)	Wing A499; ESTC W34144	49,745	57

will of the Lord Jesus heartily giving thanks to God and the Father by him Col. 3 17. The Spirit of God and of holiness will breath and be manifest in them There will be a godly sorrow and mourning for sin in All Ezek. 7.16 But they that escape of them shall escape and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys all of them mourning every one for his iniquity A hearty grief that they have displeased dishonoured and provoked God by their sin And a sincere and earnest care and endeavour to repair the honour and glory of Gods Name by future holy obedience These are the immediate effects and fruits of the pouring out of the Spirit And till the Spirit be thus poured out and these gracious effects of it in some good measure obtained to the Conversion and Sanctification of a people under Judgement their misery and sorrow will be like to procead and continue And that 1. Because the profaneness unbelief and impenitency of sinners and the unholiness and unfruitfulness of Christians are the causes of these sorrows and miseryes And as till the causes be removed there is no probability that the effect should cease Josh 7.12 neither will I be with you any more except ye destroy the accursed from among you So in order to the removal of these from a people the pouring out of the Spirit from on high upon them to their sound conversion and sanctification is the grand expedient And therefore till this be they will remain a generation of Gods wrath His anger will not be like to be turned away from them till this work be wrought in and for them 2. Because till the Spirit be in some measure poured out upon them they will not be fit for mercy They will not duely acknowledge nor improve it but profane and abuse it Till by the gracious work of Gods Spirit in them they be brought to a complyance with his will they will not be in a posture to receive mercy They will not carry it aright under mercy Psal 106.8.13 21. Nevertheless he saved them for his Names sake But they soon forgat his works they waited not for his Counsel They forgat God their Saviour which had done great things And therefore there is little probability that God will bestow Salvation upon such a people 3. Till then they will be provoking God Though the Lord be striking them they will certainly be adding new provocations Jer. 5.3 Thou hast stricken them but they have not grieved thou hast consumed them but they have refused to receive correction they have made their faces harder then a rock they have refused to return Isai 57.17 For the iniquity of his Covetousness was I wroth and smote him I hid me and was wroth and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart After this manner will they certainly do till Soveraign grace heal them till such time as there be a gracious effusion of the Spirit from on high upon them to change convert and sanctifie them And therefore notwithstanding all the evil God hath done unto them it will be probable that his Anger will not be turned away but his hand stretch-out still against them Prop. IV. When the Spirit from on high is poured out upon a People to their sound Conversion there will be a restoration and multiplication of sure mercyes and blessings upon them Though such a people were under affliction and expressions of divine displeasure before The Seal of Gods providence would then turn towards them and there would be a remarkable glorious and happy change among them Text ver 16 17 18. Then there should be a new face and aspect of divine providence upon them and the clouds of divine displeasure would blow over What before was taken away or withheld from them should be then restored or given and what mercy they want bestowed upon them They should have mercyes and blessings indeed that are worthy the name of blessings store of sure mercyes and blessings 1. There would be great holiness Holiness would abound There would be Holiness to the Lord as it were engraven in bells and pots Zech. 14.20.21 Holiness would be conspicuous both in persons and actions Judgment and righteousness would dwell and remain every where both in the wilderness and in the field Text ver 16. Then Judgement shall dwell in the wilderness and righteousness remain in the fruitful field 1. We should then see sinners studying and following after Holiness Christians might then see those ignorant profane wicked creatures whom they now with grief behold or hear of that they mind nothing but their vanity their pride excess intemperance disorder who now will not be perswaded to pray to read or hear the word of God with diligence reverence and obedience who will be profane wanton intemperate negligent irreligious who will do any thing but what they should and every thing that they should not But then we might see them serious humble attentive to what is good acting in the fear of God diligent and studious to know the will of God careful to please God fearful of displeasing him circumspect in their actions Christian in their behaviour adorning the doctrine of the Gospel denying all ungodliness and worldly lusts and living soberly righteously godly in the world Tit. 2.12 Isai 32.4 The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge Such as were heady and inconsiderate as fond and foolish persons usually are shall then be better advised and by attending to the word of God come to understand aright the will of God And the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly Men by their religious speech and communication at which they did but stammer when they assayed ought before shall now manifest the inward alteration and change of their hearts Engl. Annot. There are many who having little or nothing of Religion in their hearts little or no discerning or taste of things of the Spirit of God when they are put upon it to speak of any spiritual matters or to perform any religious duty they do miserably stammer sumble and falter they cannot speak or but very brokenly though it may be they can speak fast enough and are of voluble speech in other things But were there abundant effusion of the Spirit upon these it would loose their tongues and make them able to speak distinctly understandingly and feelingly of spiritual and holy things Isai 29.18 And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity and out of darkness Those that were deaf to all the calls and warnings of God by his word and rod they would not hearken that were blind that could not would not see notwithstanding all that glorious light of Gods truth was held forth before them they shall be recovered of those their former maladies and by the Spirit of God effectually working with his word they shall come to have their cars