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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40772	The faithfull pastor his sad lamentation over, heart-rending challenge and dreadfull thunders against, sharp reproof of, and seasonnable warning to his apostat-flock. In a letter written by a French minister to those over whom the Holy Ghost had made him an overseer upon their wofull defection, renouncing the faith, and joyning in idolatrous worship. Now carefully translated. Together with a word to mourners in Zion who by grace have kept the faith, to sleepers under the storm, and to the almost Christian; Sad lamentation over, heart-rending challenge and dreadfull thunders against, sharp reproof of, and seasonnable warning to his apostat-flock.		1687 (1687)	Wing F279; ESTC R216409	68,644	59

where these humble serious sincere Christians But now on the one hand profanity and open impiety and on the other pride animosity contention and saying stand by thy self for I am holier then thou hath suckt out the power and life of religion so that some have no more but and others not so much as a name that they live What may you say are these the words of one so often upbraided for his charity But 1 If I had more of Charity yet 2 what pretence to charity can these plead who so apparently walk in the broad way and carry their ditty in their forehead who will call these clean who are wallowing in the mire and lying in it but 3. as for others I judge not any as to their state there is one who knoweth and will judge 4. in the worst of times God hath his hidden and chosen ones his thousands who have not bowed the knee to any idol whether bodily or spirituall and the most sincere usually least seen and make litle noise with their feet while they are walking to heaven but of many who have taken on a bigge profession we may boldly with a zealous Ancient say vel hoc non est Evangelium vel isti non sunt Evangelici either this is not the Gospel that we preach or these have not embraced it and * Sinunc Adam resurger●t videret hanc insaniam omnium ordinum prosecto credo quod praestupore tanquam lapis staret Luth. in Gen. cap. 3. are not Christians If Adam were now risen again he would said Luther stand as astonished at the madness of all ranks of persons walking as if they did not mind eternity 1. Ye earthly minded ones who have Religion in your mouth and the world in your heart ye Mammon-worshippers cannot Worship God in spirit and in truth Mat. 6. v. 24. Eph. 5. v. 5 1 Tim. 6. v. 9. 2. Ye proud arrogant saucie supercilious ones who have not ●●●rnt of Christ tobe meek and lowly in heart Mat. 11. v. 29. Jam. 4. v. 26. Psa 138. v. 6. the factious turbulent implacable censorious uncharitable the evil speaker who cannot bridle his tongue not sparing the most innocent if not of his lure who is never so in his element as when sowing discord among bretheren and reviling the faithfull have abandoned the divine Character of those who will abide in Gods Tabernacle and who are precious in his sight Jam. 3. v. 14.15 16 17. Gal. 5. v. 22. 1 Cor. 13. Psa 15. v. 33. Pro. 6. v. 19 3. Ye Herodians who hear gladly and doe many things but your right hand and right ey must be spared saying Naaman-like in this Lord pardon thy servant and thou shalt be my master ye who have indented with Christ on terms of your own choice and with a reserve and the permission and consent of your darling and master lust may suppose ye have two masters but Christian be none of them ye cannot serve God and an idol-lust Mat. 6. v. 24 Christ must have the whole heart or he can have none of it if Satan get a part he hath all one lake and chink if not stopt will as certainly sink the vessel as a thousand Jam. 2. v. 10. If I might here insist how many particulars fall under this head But in a word how can these think to find life in the scriptures who will not acknowledge them to be the divine infallible unerring rule of life who dare presume to judge the rule by which they must be judged who reject and embrace so much of it as seemeth good in their eyes thou art inexcusable O man and self condemned who professest thou art a Christian and wilt hearken to Christs voice acknowledging all his commands and wayes to be equall and just and yet darst cast so many of them behind thy back and set up a new and Antiscripturall way to heaven in which thou and thy lusts may walk together Ah dost thou profess thy self to be one of those who tremble at Gods word and yet art not afraid thus to adde or take from it and dost not tremble when thou readest the dreadfull curse Rev. 22. v. 18 19. these few British wretches who having disowned the late King his authority dealt more ingenouously tho most balsphemously in razing out of their Bibles as I heard some sectaries befor them did the word King where ever they found it but before they arrived to that hight of impiety they had fallen into many vile and abominable errors at length burnt the whole scriptures now tho ye abhor the thoughts of doing such a wicked thing yet have ye not too far homologated with them have ye not rejected and cast Gods word behind your back so many clear and weighty commands so pithily pressed and so often inculcated ye durst not raze them on t of your Bibles yet would not suffer them to be written in your hearts may not ye who have thus taken a way from the word of life fear lest God take away your part out of the book of life and tho yo have some room and may be a name in the church here yet shall find no place in the assembly of the first born in heaven ye will be ready with the first sadly to regrate and complain of papall and Cefarian indulgences and dispensationes with lawes divine and humane and yet the pope and Cesar within your own bowells are cherished in their dispensing with so many expresse commands of God and in indulging you to live in those sins he hath so severely forbidden What hopes can there be of such almost Christians what hopes of ignorant and formall professours and what hopes of hypocriticall zelots self-seeking worshippers or scandalous ranters that they will stand and ride out the storm if the winds become more boisterous But supposing they may for a naturall conscience a name credit and reputation may engage to do and suffer much yet what credit gain or advantage to the Gospell could their sufferings bring but Oh what a sad reproach and discredit to the honourable cause for which they suffer must their unholy walk and conversation be and what a wofull scandall and stumbling block to those that are without while as the sufferings of the upright and sincere from time to time have proven such a noble attractive to draw such into Christ and a prevailing inducement to embrace the Gospell hence the saying not more common then certain sanguis martyrum semen Ecclesiae the blood of the Martyrs the seed of the Church plures efficimur quoties metimur the more as Tertullian said they were thus cut down they encreased and multiplied the more But Ah will ye thus put Christ and his glorious Gospell to an open shame while ye pretend to suffer for him and his cause will ye lose the honour and reward of your sufferings by your ungospel-like life and deportment But O ye in whom are any grains of sincerity and uprightness in