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A93743 Jeremiah VI.4. Wo unto us for the day goeth away, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out Stafford, Richard, 1663-1703. 1700 (1700) Wing S5121A; ESTC R184558 19,699 26

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use is of instruction As John Baptist said in his Preaching O generation of vipers Who hath warned ye to flee from the wrath to come Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance So if I could speak to them all O that the several Copies of these words might be made known unto them all I would use a like form of speech O ye Inhabitants of the Earth Who hath warned ye to flee from the wrath to come If ye say the written word of God who thereby warns us of thing not seen as yet Heb. 11. 7. and the preaching of it by others Ay But here I would ask ye again Have y● taken the warning Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance and such fruits in your Life and Conversation as are sutable and agreeable to those that are indeed warned to flee from the wrath to come Are ye indeed and truly warned to flee from the wrath to come What meaneth then that bleating of the sheep in mine ears and th● lowing of the oxen which I hear What meaneth then throughout the Earth this joy and gladness slaying Oxen and killing Sheep eating Flesh and drinking Wine Let us eat and drink for to morrow we shall die Are ye indeed truly warned to flee from the wrath to come What meaneth than thi● iniquity of thy Sister Sodom which is almost in all Cities Towns and Villages but more especially in the House of rich People Pride fulness of Bread and abundance o● Idleness was in her and in her Daughters neither did sh● strengthen the hand of the poor and needy Are ye indeed throughly warned to flee from the wrath to come Wh● then do so many say in their hearts My Lord delayeth hi● coming and they begin to beat the Men servants and the Mai● servants or what is to the same effect they torment and oppress their fellow Creatures and they eat and the● drink and are drunken Take heed therefore least this b● literally fulfilled upon ye to your endless misery and condemnation And as it was in the days of Noah so shall i● be in the days of the Son of Man They did eat the● drank they married wives they were given in marriage unti● the day that Noah entred into the Ark and the flood came and destroyed them all Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot they did eat they drank they bought they sold they planted they builded It is now the very same in these our days But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained Fire and Brimstone from Heaven and destroyed them all Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed If the reasonable inhabitants of this Earth were like Noah here mentioned warned of God of things not seen as yet or if they did so take the warning of things as they are made known in the Scriptures then they would not seek to an Arm of flesh or to Creature comforts and Creature contentments as now they do to drive away the griefs and sorrows of a short but yet a tedious and irksom life They would not then so much resort to Ale Houses Taverns carnal company idle recreations the continual hurry of Wordly business as now they do only to forget and make themselves unmindful of that Wo which hangs over their heads because the day of their life goeth away How can such Hear or Read such a Scripture without trembling Ye have lived in pleasure on the Earth ye have been wanton ye have nourished your hearts as in the day of slaughter Jam. 5. 5. For though there is as earnest a desire in the reasonable Creature after happiness and satisfaction as Rachel had after Children Give it me or else I die I had rather not be at all than not be happy yet here they would do well to understand and seek after God and to know the order of his Dispensation and dealings towards the Children of Men that is to say to give them a being here and a well being hereafter to uphold them here and make them happy and blessed for ever They should believe in God and trust in his Salvation Have recourse to his word and pacifie themselves with hope and expectation of better things to come look back upon the example of Saints heretofore who were our Brethren in the flesh and are now partakers of the Heavenly calling Hence would spring up greater and more enduring comfort than from Wine strong drink or from the outward divertisements of Wordly recreations or company And be not drunk with Wine wherein is excess but be ye filled with the Spirit For as that same Spirit gives us a knovvledge of the good things of God vvhich he vvill give unto those vvho Love Fear and serve him and as the same Spirit Sealeth unto us an Interest and Propriety in them It takes of from and secures against the Wo for the day goeth away much more than all the outvvard things of this World O that these vvords might go out unto the ends of the Earth Why vvill not Men vvho are made as Angels of God knovving Good and Evil knovv these things before hand Especially vvhen they are capable to knovv these things before hand as they stand in the order and determination of our God Yea the stork in the Heaven knoweth her appointed times and the Turtle and the Crane and the Swallow observe the time of their coming but my people know not the Judgment of their God The Svvallovv hath lately observed the time of her going avvay again bu● People do not observe or they do not lay it so throughly to heart as they should the time of their going out of this World and their coming to appear before God This vvill be the condemnation of Mankind that they vvill not do according to the knovvledge and reasons given them as Beasts and Birds go and move according to that instinct implanted in them Hovvever as God speaks by Ezekiel Son of Man I have made thee 〈◊〉 Watch Man unto the House of Israel Therefore hear this word at my mouth and give them warning from me God hath made the Ministers and Preachers of his vvord Watch-Men unto the Inhabitants of the Earth and accordingly vve hear the vvord at his mouth as it is vvritten in the lively Oracles the Book of the Lord and out of that vve give them vvarning as from God So that let people do as they will Whither they will hear or forbear for they are most Rebellious Yet still the Scriptures vvith the true and faithful Preaching thereof are a standing and continued vvarning unto the Inhabitants of the Earth that all things are indeed so as they are therein spoken of Be vvise therefore O ye Children of Men Be instructed ye Inhabitants of the Earth to order your conversation for the time to come according to the tenour and requiring of the same vvords Blessed is he that readeth and they ●hat hear the words of this prophecy and
keep those things ●hich are written therein for the time is at hand Even nearer ●hen ever it vvas yet And further Blessed is he that doth according to all those thoughts of Goodness and Truth vvhich the Lord doth from time to time vvhen he wakeneth Morning by Morning put into our Soul Again on the other hand a Wo or Curse belongs unto them vvho do not For the time is at hand even just before us or as it is in the vvords of our Text The day goeth away and the shadows of the Evening are stretched out It is but a very little vvhile and the day vvill be quite gone avvay and the shadovv of Death vvill be upon our eye lids and each of us shall say or vve shall find it so Mine age is departed and is removed from me as a shepherds tent I have cut off like a weaver my life He will cut me off with ●pining sickness from Day even to Night wilt thou make an end of me Which as the everliving God doth by us poor dying Creatures We should strive and work together with his grace vvhich vvould work in us mightily if vve are obedient to it that as our outvvard Man perish the invvard Man is renevved day by day Blessed is that Servant whom his Lord when he cometh shall find so doing FINIS Practical Books Written and Published by Richard Stafford OF Happiness Wherein it is fully and particularly manifested That the greatest happiness of this Life consists in the fear of God and keeping his Commandments in opposition to the Pleasures of Sin or the pretended conveniency of Disobedience Rules and Directions for the preventing of and Recovery out of Sickness A Discourse against Partial Obedience Or that dangerous deceit so universal amongst them who call themselves Christians of keeping some of the Commandments of God and neglecting others Some Thoughts of the Life to come With a brief account of the State of Religion as it is now in the World The great Benefits of Christ to all that believe on and obey him Being a Treatise on Hebrews 2. 15. Wherein it is shewed and made known how People may be freed and delivered from that slavish fear of Death whereby they are subiect to Bondage throughout their Life-time and also how they may be saved and preserved from the Evil and danger of Death when it shall approach nigh an● come actually upon them An earnest call to all the inhabitants of the Earth to Turn immediately to the Lord their God An Exhortation unto all Dissenters however they are distinguished or named to return into the Communion of the Church o● England So far as all things are done therein according to the Pattern shewed to us in the Gospel Six several Sermons Preached on Isaiah 38. 1 Wherein that great Duty of setting our Body and Soul in order for we shall die is a● large opened and explained The doctrine of the Cross or the Duty of Christian suffering in a Sermon on Mat 13. 20 21. A Sermon on 1 Chron 29. 18. And another on Mark 8. 36. The Nature of God's Kingdom and Dominion over Men in a Discourse on Deut 8. 2. Divine Arithmetick Illustrated in the Right and Exact Numbrin● of our Days or a Discourse of the near and continued approache● of Death unto every one whatsoever The Extensiveness and Comprehensiveness of the future Judgment of God A Discourse of the Misery of Hell and Happiness of Heaven Grounded from Mat. 25. 46. A Discourse of God's hearing Prayer Grounded from John 9. 31. The observation of the three Great Festivals asserted in the Christian Church and also the Right manner of the observance of them made known in a Sermon on Col. 3. 1 Preached on Easter-Day A Sermon Preached unto the Inhabitants of the Town of Thornbury in Glocester-shire March 20. 1697. on Psal 143. 8. Two several Sermons on Phil. 4. 11 12. The necessity of keeping unto the Ordinances of Religion Prayer Hearing the word Baptism and the Lord's Supper in a Sermon on Acts. 6. 4. A Sermon of the devices of Satan on 2 Cor. 2. 11. The exceeding Great Comfort and Benefit of having walked before God in Truth and with a Perfect Heart and of having done that which is Good in his sight Set forth in several Discourses on Isaiah 38. 2 3. Another Sermon on Isaiah 38. 4 5. And another on Jer. 6. 4. Three several Discourses on Rom. 9. 6. Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect For they are not all Israel which are of Israel Two Discourses on Coloss 3. 1. and another on Acts 2. 11. The cause and cure of Divisions Or the way and means for all Christians to come to Unity The Great Useful and Blessed Duty of a Contentment Willingness and Desire to Die Set forth upon true and assured grounds Any of which aformentioned Books may be had at the Author 's Hired House in Ewers Street Southwark Advertisement THese are to give notice That I have several other Practical Sermons or Discourses of mine own Composing lying by me in Manuscript Which if they who have the Plenty or Competency of this World's Goods would According to their several Ability Acts 11. 29. Thus Consecrate some part of their gain and substance unto ●he Lord Micah 4. 13. So as to be ready to distribute and willing to Communicate towards the outward Labour and Charge of the Printing and Publishing of them it would be for the Glory of God in making known his Truth Isa 38. 19. And for the Edification and Benefit of his Church and People and consequently it would be a Good work in such Persons who shall be helpful and any ways assistant herein for which they would be rewarded by God in the Life that is to come And I say unto you Make to your selves Friends of the Mammon of unrighteousness that when ye fail they may receive you into Everlasting Habitations Luke 16. 9. Charge them that are rich in this World that they do Good that they be Rich in Good Works ready to Distribute willing to Communicate laying up in Store for themselves a good Foundation against the time to come that they may lay hold on Eternal Life 1 Tim. 6. 17. 18. 19. This is a faithful saying and these things I will that thou affirm constantly that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain Good Works these things are Good and Profitablsi unto Men Titus 3. 8.