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A63155 The Trial and condemnation of the two false witnesses unto the late Midnight-cry published by Mr. Mason, the author of that great present assembly in Buckinghamshire who are met together under a deluding expectation of Christ's coming to judgment on Whitsunday approaching : shewing of what dangerous consequence this may prove to the present government ... 1694 (1694) Wing T2156; ESTC R37897 23,791 34

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38. 17. 5. What looks more like a positive Decree for Destruction than Gods Command to the Prophet not to pray for that People Jer. 17. 16. as if they had Sinned that Sin unto Death 1 Joh. 5. 16. and yet we find Jeremy very affectionately drawn out from them Jer. 9. 1. c. and the effect was a farther time for tryal v. 7. 6. What Decree more Express and Irrevocable than that against Amalek Ex. 17. The Lord hath Sworn that he will utterly blot out all the remembrance of Amalek from under Heaven 1st Moses is Commanded to write it in a Book 2d And to rehearse it before Joshua 3d. An Altar is built to perpetuate the Memory thereof called Jehovah-Nissi and Balaam rememembers their Tremendous Doom Numb 34. 20. His end shall be to perish for ever And yet they are a Nation many Hundred Years after this and though one of the Confederate Enemies of the Church for whom the Prophets are so much concerned to Lament and moved thereto by God himself as in the 5th Consideration yet David prays that this Nation also with other of the Churches Enemies might come to seek the Name of God Psalm 83. 16. 7. What Doom more positive than Ninive's Destruction in Forty Days this was without an If as to the Prophet or any Man 's present apprehension when Jonah denounced that VVo after he had escaped that Storm at Sea though he soon found it otherwise and was made to understand that God's most Severe and Positive Threatnings always presuppose a Tacite Condition of Final Obduracy and Impenitency and that they are not otherwise to be understood 8. What more plain and express than Babylon's Destruction in Jer. 50. and yet God expected Repentance that he might have healed her or at least a deliberate Act of Reason in her hearty desire for her own Salvation VVe would have healed Babylon but she would not be healed Jer. 51. 19. 9. Those Two famous Texts following are a Sacred Coment to confirm the Argument and speak the same in Capital Letters That in Jer. 18. 7. At what time I say to a Nation or Kingdom to pluck it up or to destroy it yet if that Nation turn from their evil and repent they shall surely live The other in Zeph. 2. 2. Before the Decree bring forth seek the Lord. 10. What can be more positively spoken of the certain and infallible Damnation of any than Christ himself is pleased to express against the Scribes and Pharisees who had wilfully and maliciously Blasphemed that Holy Spirit by which they were convinced he did those great Miracles among them In short Isaiah is foreshewn the Jews final rejection of Christ by reason of that height of Impiety which should amount to no less than The Sin against the Holy Ghost which the Prophet gives us very Emphatically Isa 6. 10. Make their Hearts fat and their Ears heavy and shut their Eyes lest they see and hear and understand and convert and be healed And our Saviour often reminds them of this Prophecy telling them it was then fulfilled by their hei●t of wilful Impiety which through Gods Righteous Judgment rendred his Gospel which he Preached unto them in his own Sacred Person The Savour of Death unto Death although it came amongst them for this Primary End that it might Enlighten and Convert Now that these Jews had actually sinned The Sin against the Holy Ghost and so were given up afterwards unto that Judicial Blindness and Obduracy as issued in the Crucifixion of their Messias Christ expresly tells us in Mark 3. 30. touching which Matthew Chap. 13. 32. says It shall never be forgiven and what can be a more positive Doom And yet the Evangelist Mark Chap. 3. 29. renders it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which we Translate Is in danger of Eternal Damnation and this agrees with Isaiah who expressing the most dangerous State which this Nation of the Jews could be in on this side Hell as in the Text before and so remarkable that each of the Four Evangelists quote it against them Matth. 13. 14. Mark 4. 12. Luke 8. 10. John 12. 40. Besides St. Paul also Acts 28. 27. yet leaves them not without a possibility of Salvation lest they should Convert and be healed And if we compare the former Scriptures with Rom. 11. 7 8. we may find that this Judicial Blindness is a Mark of their own Self-reprobation and in Contradistinction from those other Jews who were of the Peculiar Election of Grace The Summary gathered from the whole Premises is this that as on the one hand none can be encouraged to think that any living and dying in final Obduracy and final Unbelief can have any possibility of Salvation being a flat contradiction in Terminis so on the other hand there is no Scripture Ground for any Person City or Nation though lying under a Positive and seeming Irrevocable Decree of Wrath to pass a Definitive Sentence against themselves Which to do is to enter into Gods most secret place of Thunder into which he would not suffer any of his dearest Favourites no not the Holy Prophets or Penmen of his Word to enter And the reason is very plain For that Discovery who for certain shall live and dye in Final Unbelief or in other words who they are that will be Self-murderers which is the true Cause and Ground of Gods Vnchangable and Irrevocable Decree for their Damnation would forthwith drive them into Final and Irrecoverable Desperation and Condemnation and which is contrary to Gods Great End in all his Severest Threatnings even in those Cases which seem most forlorn in Man's Eye the whole Scripture throughout all its parts declaring that it is thereby to raise them up to such an awakning sense of the exceeding greatness of their danger as thereby to provoke them to do their whole endeavour and to continue therein to cry to God with great Impunity for Converting Grace and to plead his Sacred Oath who hath Sworn by himself As I live saith the Lord I delight not in the Death of a Sinner but had rather he should live and not dye Ezek. 33. 11. And this most plainly appears yet farther when we consider how unkindly God takes it from degenerated Judah and Jerusalem that they concluded that their State was such as was without hope Jer. 2. 25. although the Prophet had just before told them their Sin was of a most deep dye insomuch that much Nitre and Soap would not fetch it out for that their Iniquity was marked before the Lord. Jer. 2. 22. nay and that their bruise was incurable Ch. 30. 12. yet for all there was Hope These things rightly apprehended may not only be sufficient if God please to Silence and Shame those Two Presumptuous and most Confident Persons who call themselves The Witnesses and who make it one chief Article of their Faith or Religion to believe Englands Immediate and Irrecoverable Destruction but likewise to confute that dangerous Muggletonian