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A91075	The prophets Malachy and Isaiah prophecying to the saints and professors of this generation of the great things the Lord will doe in this their day and time. Shewing (amongst other things) the nature and quality of the apostachy. The judgement of the Lord upon the leaders of the apostacy. How the Lord will deale with, and carry himself towards, others guilty of the apostacy. The certainty of deliverance at hand for the true seed. / By a wel-wisher to the kingdome of our Lord Jesus. To which is prefixed two very useful epistles, by Christopher Feak, and John Pendarves, ministers of the Gospel.	Wel-wisher to the kingdome of our Lord Jesus.; Pendarves, John, 1622-1656.; Feake, Christopher, fl. 1645-1660.	1656 (1656)	Wing P3687; Thomason E888_2; ESTC R207362	83,871	109

sits as a Refiner in and through those discoveries of soule-searehing truths Jer. 23.29 which he brings to light daily His word that goeth forth out of the mouth of his witnesses is like fire refining the precious Sons of Sion Rev. 11.5 who are compared to Gold but consuming Lam. 4.2 or threatning to consume the wicked who are like stubble The Sword that proceedeth out of the mouth of Christ Rev. 2.12 is sharp and two-edged if it doe not convert from sin it will condemne for continuing in sin Such as are disobedient to his word are inexcusable fitted for ruine as stubble fully dry And have not some cause to fear that if after many reproofs Exod. 23.28 they goe on hardning their necks their fall will be sudden 1 Pet. 2.7 8. and their sad condition remedilesse Prov. 29. 1. Isa 30.10 11 12 13. Yea and then shall the Lords people who have testified against them rebuking in the Gate Jer. 7.16 and exhorting to repentance keep silence in that day Jer. 11.14 ceasing to plead with them or with God for them Amos 5.13 thereby justifying the hand of God in bringing his judgements on them And whoso is wise let him observe That when those backsliders spoken of Isa 29.20 21. proceeded to that degree of imimpiety to watch for iniquity to make a man an offendor for a word and lay a snare for him that reproved in the Gate by such acts as these they perfected their iniquity and filled up the measure thereof The following Discourse sets forth in a Type by comparing together many remarkable words in the Prophecy of Malachy and Isaiah A most refined Apostacy of a professing people after a Reformation begun Their words though first spoken to others are declared to light on us the Saints and Professors in this Generation who having greatly sinned num 32.23 may justly say Our sins have found us out Now as relating to this Apostacy or Backsliding with the cause and cure thereof I shall offer these things to be considered As this backsliding is either totall and finall in those who perish or partiall in the Saints so also is the cause thereof two-fold First Hypocrites who fall away in time of temptation have no root in themselves Luke 8.13 They are not partakers of the Divine nature neither are they regenerate wherefore such Professors notwithstanding for a time they may appear with clean outsides are fitly compared by the Spirit of the Lord to the Sow which being washed turns again to her wallowing in the mire 2 Pet. 2.22 Secondly That Backsliding which is not totall ordinarily springs from Saints forgetfullnesse of Gods great love in Christ revealed to them and his wonderful works done in them and for them as also the love of their espousalls their first love to God their relations vowes and engagements to him Of this Backsliding both of sinners and Saints and the judgements thereunto belonging doe these Prophets treat The Saints themselves Gods Children and his Jewells shall not escape a trying refining day which will be terrible to them yea and as they are or may be found in unbelieving earthly sensuall forms of Spirit consulting with flesh and blood unsufferable Who shall stand when he appeareth Mal. 3.2 3. His presence to the carrying on of this work of reforning will be to some who may be judged good men no lesse grievous but rather more then fire is the flesh of a man As for Hypocrites and Sinners in Syon their dreadfull doom and just sentence that goeth forth out of the mouth of those two Witnesses is that they shall be consumed Isa 1.28 Mal. 4.1 The fiery day shall burn them up that it shall leave them neither root nor branch According to that word of God to Jer. 15.19 If thou take forth the precious from the vile thou shalt be as my mouth This Prophet Malachi speaking as the mouth of God puts a difference as also doth the Prophets and Apostles generally between the two Seeds The Seed of the Woman and of the Serpent between whom God did by his own mouth first put the difference Gen. 3.15 To all which agrees that clear distinction between the Son of the bond woman and of the free Gal. 4.22 23 which things saith the Apostle v. 24. are an Allegory for these are the two Covenants viz. The one of Works the other of Grace The two grand Characters whereby the two Seeds are here distinguished are 1 A true filiall fear of God 2 A sincere love and respect unto the name of God above all things These two choyce effects of a lively faith are such things as Hypocrites are strangers to such singular things as doe infallibly accompany salvation In these things the carnal seed under the Law and the formall Professor under the Gospel come short of the Israelite in deed and being weighed in the ballance of the Sanctuary are found wanting And although such may be in a Pallace with King Belshazzar if they look narrowly into this Prophecy of Malachy as here explained and presented to their view it may be with them if they be not miserably hardned no better than with him when beholding the writing on the wall his countenance was changed and his thoughts troubled him so that the joynts of his loines were loosed and his knees smote one against another Dan. 5.6 As for the former of these viz. A filiall fear of God upon the account of their lack of this one thing the Prophet Malachy reproves the people saying Chap. 1.6 If I be a Father where is mine honour And if I be a Master where is my fear saith the Lord of Hoste whereas on the contrary he commends his beloved Remnant for their fear of him Chap. 3.16 and of his Name Chap. 4.2 Yea Christ himself the everlasting father of that chosen Generation is extoll'd and found worthy to be entrusted with the greatest of Gods work on the account of this blessed qualification viz. the fear of God Chap. 2.5 My Covenant was with him of life and peace and I gave them to him saith God for the fear wherewith he feared me and was afraid before my Name These things well weighed may through the blessing of the Lord give some check to that unseemly lightness which often appears in the shamelesse foreheads of many noted Professors Oh! where will such appear if they repent not seeing God hath not entred them on his Book of Remembrance which is written for those only who fear the Lord Chap. 3.16 and tremble at his word How shall they escape that dreadfull day mentioned Chap. 4.1 Seeing then our God is a consuming fire let us then take hold of his grace in Christ Jesus whereby to serve him acceptably with reverence and godly fear He who is risen up to shake hereby the Earth and also the Heavens will certainly ere long shake off and cast out as it were out of his lap a Generation of light and

to finish let those who would follow Christ in the Regeneration or their Generation work sit down first and with serious spirits count the cost Take that word of Christ for your help Luke 14.26 If any man come to me and hate not father and mother and wife and children brethren and sisters yea and his own life also he cannot be my Disciple The Law and Testimony of the Lord is bound up and sealed with such Disciples-indeed who chuse rather to loose their ALL in this world than to doe any thing contrary to the mind of God contained therein As for others the Lord counts them unworthy and if they be enlightned they cannot but judge themselves unworthy of so great a trust But why doe I detain the Reader thus long from that discourse which may afford more profit and delight The work is before thee goe on to it in the fear of the Lord onely this I shall say further viz. That I doubt not but men who will reject a good work as the manner of some is for some small and it may be meerly supposed Errour may find whereat to be stumbled in reading this Book and so this as many other worthy works be rendred uselesse and an offence to them whilest honest hearts who having the love of truth cannot easily be prejudic'd against it Psal 119.165 are like to reap precious benefit hereby And here let it be noted also That God is not a little jealous for the glory of his great Name in the work he hath begun Though he will use man in his work yet so as that his Imperfection shall appear that we may cease from man and from glorying in men our selves or others and that we may give all the glory to him whose due it is Amen Blessing and glory and wisedome and thanksgiving and honour and power and might be given unto our God for ever Having thus far enlarged as being engaged to bear my Testimony in love to those truths contained in the ensuing worke I commend it to the Lord for his blessing adding this onely that I am Thine if thou rejoycest not in Iniquity but in the Truth JOHN PENDARVES The 10 day of the 6 Month. 1656. Errata PAge 2. line 14. for vissitudes read vicissitudes p. 9. l. 3. r. are not l. 36. r. heart-feuds p. 11. l. 8. r. they give him the honor p. 13. l. 40. r. as at p. 15. l. 36. r. is in Zion p. 16. l. 31. dele abide the day p. 17. l. 4. r. he tells us p. 64. l. 12. r. secondly p. 65. l. 8. dele of p. 77. l. 34. r. swiftnes Many other literall Mistakes have escaped the Press but these above written are some of the chief of which the Reader is desired to take notice The Prophets MALACHY and ISAIAH PROPHECYING to the Saints and Professors of this GENERATION Of the great things the Lord will do and bring to pass in this their day and time MAL. 3.16 17 18. Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another and the Lord hearkned and heard it and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord and that thought upon his Name And they shall be mine saith the Lord of hosts in that day when I make up my jewels and I will spare them as a man spareth his own son that serveth him Then shall ye return and discern between the righteous and the wicked between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not THE State of the Nation and Common-wealth of Israel their Worship and the dispensation of their God towards them were Tipes of the better condition he would bring his Children into of those clearer discoveries the Lord would make of himself and his Glory and after what manner he would carry himself towards his Chosen in the Gospel-day And it 's as true that the backslidings and apostacies of that Tipical Common-wealth and people with their corrections bondages and captivities were Tipes also of the state and condition of the Church of God under that Gospel-administration yea their very Enemies were no less than Tippical pointing out to us those adversaries the Serpent would raise up against the seed of the Woman the true Church and people of God in that divident of time called the last dayes Their servitude and sore bondage in Egypt was a general Tipe of the malitious practises of the seed of the Serpent against the Womans seed all the Serpents day long til the appointed time comes wherein the Lord wil judge them and deliver his people with a mighty hand with signes and with wonders after the manner of Egypt But in a more particular way After many vissitudes and changes fals and risings backslidings and reformations wrought in this Common-wealth which also are not without their Tipical significancies when those two admirable excellent Tipes David and Solomon had run their race this people of one Nation became two which tipically is very significant to us For as those 10 Tribes who made the fraction presently turned aside from their God and through their backslidings and apostacies after many warnings from Heaven brought a destroying enemy upon them that their place and name was taken quite away they were a Tipe of those ten parts if I may so express it of the professing Gospel-Church who through their backslidings and apostacies a 2 Thes 2.3 falling away made way for the man of Sin the Babylonish power to exalt it self over them to their ruine And as the Lord for his servant Davids sake and for Jerusalems sake promised to preserve one Tribe that David might have b 1 King 11.36 a light before the Lord in Jerusalem notwithstanding their backslidings and apostacies yet upon the pure account of his Covenant with David the Lord preserves this one Tribe according to his promise til Shiloh came this Tribe was a Tipe of that smal part of the professing Gospel-Church which the Lord will preserve for David his Sons sake and for Jerusalem his true Churches sake that the seed of the Woman may not be quite extinct nor our Lord Jesus the Son of God left without his Remnant in the world notwithstanding all the deviations backslidings and apostacies of Kings Rulers and people yet there is a cluster in the midst of it that hath such a blessing in it that it shal be preserved and continue til he comes the second time whose right it is to Reign But for the iniquities backslidings and Apostacies of this one Tribe the Lord delivers them for a season into the hand of the King of Babilon and after a certain term of time by a Cyrus he opens away for their coming out of Babilon and return to their own Land to Worship the Lord God of their Fathers at Jerusalem in the true Church now they apostatising after this super-abundant grace and favour stopping their ears against the Lords Messengers he withdraws God leaves them to themselves their Prophets cease

return to for they are not gone from God but are as neer to him as ever they were although it be the most wicked apostacy that ever this Common-wealth was guilty of yet the most refined of any insomuch as a great part of those guilty of this Apostacy are such as are great pretenders to the love of and delight in the day of the Lords appearance hence it is that the Prophet tels them The Messenger of the Covenant whom ye delight in behold he shall come saith the Lord of hosts O the curious wrought net-works of this apostatising day howneatly are the wicked actions of this day clothed with glorious pretences for the Temple people of the Lord their outside seems so clean and clear in this twy-light day that they will dare any to prove them in an error that they are out of the way of the Lord or to shew them a better way 3. For the Persons apostatising they are of two sorts 1. The leaders and causers of the apostacy those leaders that not content to depart out of the way themselves but cause the people to err that n Ch. 2.8 corrupt the Covenant of Levi and cause many to stumble at the law of God laying stumbling-blocks of hypocrisie before the people to ensnare them even to the causing the worship and service of the Lord to be an abhorring a loathsome contemptible thing upon the head of these men with their proud and stubborn abettors will the Lord the jealous God send down his cursing Judgements he wil be a swift witness against them wounding their hairy scalp saith the Lord of hosts concerning these o Isai 1.24 Ah I will ease me of mine adversaries and avenge me of mine enemier p Amos ● 10 all the sinners of my people shall dye by the sword which say the evil shal not overtake nor prevent us 2. There are another sort of persons that keep not their garments clean from the polutions of this Apostacy though they are not so far engaged as the other they are those that please and delight themselves in the thoughts of the coming of the Lord the Messenger of that Covenant by which the Father hath engaged himself to do great and glorious things for his people these being pur-blind through the glory of their Ceiled houses the convenient accomodations of this life are not able to see the plain characters of a loathsome apostacy written in the forehead of the Times and so run along in that dirty channel with the rest they hear the Prophet cry out amain An Apostacy an Apostacy an Apostacy and ye are cursed undone forever the Lord will raise up another people q Mal. 1.11 My name shal be great among the Heathen and cast you off if ye repent not and they hear those that fear the Lord speaking often one to another of the evil of the Times and the sufferings of the name of God at this day yet through dimness of sight and dulness of heart they know not what to think of these things they are not able to adjust the controversie and pass a right sentence upon the case only they please themselves in the thoughts of the coming of the Lord and that then he wil put an end to these dubious controversies and hearts-feuds between Brethren and right the wronged punishing the oppressor when he comes with the breath of his lips he wil destroy the wicked and wipe away all tears from the face of his people when the Sun of Righteousness arises his bright bcams wil disperse all these clouds and mists of darkness that we shal see the way of the Lord clearly therefore it is good for us to keep our station and abide in the condition we are in til our Lord himself comes and O that he would come how would it joy our hearts to behold him but ah saith the Prophet r Ch. 3. ● Who may abide the day of his coming and who shal stand when he appeareth notwithstanding this curious profession of theirs he gives them to understand they would neither stand in that day nor abide it These have so far bespotted their garments with the apostatising defilements of the Times that they need the Refiners fire and Fullers sope to parge and purifie them the Lord of hosts wil turn his hand upon these after the manner of purifying gold and silver to purge away their dross and take away all their Tin Yet in the midst of this dismal Age there is a handful that fear the Lord they keep their garments clean and pure from the polutions of this their day speaking often one to another about these things Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another and the Lord hearkned and heard it c. In the words we have 1 A description of some persons that exercise themselves in a work wel-pleasing to the Lord in this provoking day of apostacy they that feared the Lord. 2 The work it self set down in two expressions they spake often one to another and they thought upon his name 3 The Lords acceptation of this work which is held forth 1 By a double Act of the Lord he hearkned and heard it and a Book of remembrance was written before him 2 By several rich and glorious promises made to these sincere hearts and they are of two sorts 1 Such as concern reward for work done which are two 1 They shall be mine saith the Lord of hosts 2 And I will spare them as a man spareth his own Son that serveth him The excellency and worth of which promises are heightned by the aggravation of the time when in that day when I make up my Jewels 2 A promise that is not only a bare reward for work done but contains qualification and fitness for the performance of a succeeding glorious work immediatly to come forth then shal ye return and discern between the righteous and the wicked between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not Would you know the persons that are thus valued and prized by the Lord of Heaven and earth in such a day as this we have three characters of them in the Text. 1 They fear the Lord they worship him and give glory to him and none other they give honor of a Father and the fear of a Master they sanctifie his name giving him those dues which these despisers of his great Name wil not they fear the Lord not man not those great masters of apostacy that dare to speak proud and stout words against the Lord and prophane the name of God nor those workers of wickedness that are set up on high above their fellows who by their Oppressions make their Brethren to howl covering the Altar of the Lord with tears and with weeping and with crying out they fear not nor care not for those that can only kil the body but they fear the Lord who can slay both body and soul the Lord alone is their fear 2

They are so heartily and throughly sensible of the sufferings of the name and honour of their God that their care for that swalloweth up all other cares they minde not so much their own sufferings under the oppressions of these workers of wickedness as the sufferings of the name and interest of their dear Lord under that dishonour and shame these wicked tho refined hypocrites throw upon it their careful thoughts are solely taken up about the concernments of the name of their God They thought upon his name yet notwithstanding these excellencies they are not per-sect But 3 They are subject to many insirmities for they stand in need of the sparing mercy of their God and Father and I wil spare them as a man spareth his own son that serveth him 2 The work it self which these sincere hearts exercise themselves in as the great duty incumbent upon them in this their day is Consultation about the concernments of the great name and cause of the Lord at this time They think and they speak both parts of counsel they thought upon his name they consult in their own own hearts and thoughts about the name and interest of God and they speak often one to another about it they are often enquiring of and communicating their light to each other that if possible by such communications they may be able to find out something of the mind of their God and Father they could not by their more private consultations in their hearts and thoughts the subject of these their so serious consultations is the name of their God they thought upon his name their care is not how shal we get from under the unsupportable oppressions of these workers of wickedness that are set up nor how shall we free our selves and our Posterity from the bondage and slavery of these sons of violence nor so much how shal we bring down these proud and lofty men that speak such proud and stout words against the Lord his name and honour though possibly that may be more remotely in their thoughts too but all their cares are dissolved into a godly and holy carefulness for the name and honour of their dear Lord they thought upon his name how that was dishonoured the Lord had gotten himself a great name by delivering his people out of Babilon rearing up the glorious structure of his Temple and building up the ruined wals of Jerusalem setting up his true Worship again there in despight of all those great oppositions of his enemies round about and these backsliders dispise and dishonour this great name of the Lord of hosts doing what in them lies to bury it in Oblivion now these lovers of the Name of God think on this are very solicitous what they should do at this juncture of time to wipe off that dishonour is cast upon this great and glorious name in the view of the whole world O say they what shall we do for the name of our God wherewith shall we honour it what course shal we take to exalt and magnifie it in the eyes of the world before whom it hath been thus dishinored here 's the Center of all their thoughts and consultations They thought upon his Name 3 Let us see how exceeding kindly the Lord takes this at their hands 1 The Lord by two eminent acts manifests his great acceptance of them how is the heart of God taken with this blessed work The Lord hearkned and heard it as it implie the lowness weakness of the voice of these holy consultations that the Lord must hearken and listen to speak after the manner of men before he can hear it so it also implies great intensness of spirit with delight he hearkned the Lord is so wel-pleased with these blessed consultations that rather than miss hearing their voice he will hearken and listen with the greatest intenseness of minde the Lord hearkned as if the Lord had said stand aside Sathan cease thy accusing clamours in mine ears silence you exalters of wicked workers You are of your Father the devil and the lusts of your Father ye w ll do he was a lyar from the beginning and so are ye wrongfully charging the innocent with things they know nor peace ye waiward froward children through the noise and din of your peevish wranglings nothing can be heard be stil all I wil hear what these my Beloved ones say that stand up for my name and honour in such a day as this what though they discover much weakness and infirmity in the management of their work yet I delight in them and love to hear their voice The Lord hearkned and heard it he hearkens til he hears all and he takes special notice of what he hears let 's nothing slip and so delightful and pleasing to him is that he hears that as if he were distrustful of his memory A book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord and that thought upon his name here is the Lambs book wherein he sets down all the service his servants do for him that he may give them a suitable and ful reward when he comes into his Kingdom that possession his Father hath decreed to give him the Lord is so taken with what he hears that he wil book it all down set it all upon Record not a thought nor an expression not a word nor a sillable wil he loose the heart of God is so taken with these breathings that he writes a Book of Remembrance that when those Heavenly Records are read he may remember to do them honour then who thus honour him now by their loyalty and faithfulness cloathing them with his own Robes his own glory Thus shal it be done to the man whom the King delighteth to honour 2 The Lords acceptation of the work of these blessed souls appears by those rich promises he makes to them which are 1 Such as concern reward for work done As 1 They shal be mine saith the Lord of hosts this is a note of special peculiarity for as it hath relation to other persons it s put in opposition unto my Jewels in the next words saith the Lord of hosts there is a day a coming wherein I wil make up my jewels gather up my treasure and in that day they shal be mine mine in a more special and peculiar way and manner than my Jewels shal be as at the first when the children of Israel were in Egypt there were two Mines my people and my first born as as the first-born in whose stead the Tribe of Levi was chosen were Gods in a more special and peculiar manner then the rest of Gods people of Israel they were those whom he chose to be alwaies in his presence to serve before him continually his favorites to whom he manifested his glory and by whom he revealed his mind and Wil to the rest of their Brethren so here are TWO MINES too mine and my Jewels and this mine being put in opposition to my Jewels

not merit or desert but pure love vvil teach them another and a better lesson Cease ye from man whose breath is in his nostrils the Lord alone shal be exalted in that day a thing which never yet was done in any of the dayes this old World ever saw 12 Behold somewhat of the way and course the Lord wil take to do this great and marvellous work he wil cause the fire to break out from among themselves that shal consume them this Earthquake arises from the rending vvind pent up vvithin the concavities of its own earth as the scope and tendency of the Third Chap intimates and herein consists somewhat of the Wonder that a State defended vvith such a Force Cedars and Oaks Mountains and Hils Towers and fenced wals Ships and pleasant things even the mighty man and the man of War the Judge and the Prophet the Prudent and the Antient the Honourable man and the Counsellor the cunning Artificer and the Eloquent Oratour should be brought down and laid in the dust the Lord so impoverishes those of the excellent gifts and qualities they once had that being enfatuated they become as Children Babes and Women this alteration in the superior orbs begets another as dangerous in the lower regions the Lord stops the fountains of this professing earth and for want of those cooling waters that had vvont to keep things in some tolerable poise the fiery element prevails and breaking out of the earth begets its own likeness a fiery blaze in the fountains also as of old fire came out from Abimelech and devoured the men of Shechem fire came out from Shechem devoured Abimelech so here is fire against fire which continues burning til c Isai 3. ● Jerusalem be ruined and Judah be fallen in this fire wil the Lord avenge himself on his friend-like enemies those to whom the professing world give the right hand of fellowship as true Cittizens of Zion free denizens of the holy City in the management of this fiery work causing one fire to overcome the other consuming its own nature and over-ruling it to the carrying on his own design and work wil the Lord manifest such an exceeding glory above all former manifestations that the best of men shal enter into the rock and hide themselves in the dust for fear of the Lord and for the glory of his Majesty and he alone shal be exalted in that day 13 That the Prophets Isaiah and Malachy do not give us any ground as I can perceive to think the Lord wil make use of that beloved remnant of his that fear his name and speak often one to another about his name and honour at this day in this great work of his judging professing Zion in the manner treated of Malachy tels us The Lord wil spare them in that day and Isai saith it shal be well with them in that day but not a word do we read of any active condition they are in any otherwise than by the word of their testimony at that day I rather conceive that the state and condition of the remnant mentioned Isaiah 26.20 21. Come my people enter thou into thy Chambers and and shut thy doors about thee hide thy self as it were for a little moment until the indignation be over past for behold the Lord cometh out of his place to punish the Inhabitants of the earth for their iniquity the earth also shal disclose her blood and shal no more cover her slain 14 That none are under the saving influences of those rich promises made to the blessed remnant at this day but those who not only speak often one to another against the apostacies and evils of the times but think on the name of God have this as the moving cause in all their motions a holy carefulness for the interest and name of God for them and for them only is there a Book of remembrance written and they and they only shal be mine saith the Lord in that day and they and they only wil the Lord spare in that day when he makes up his Jewels and then shal they return and discern between the righteous and the wicked between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not 15 Here is a holy directory to guide and an unerring touchstone to try all our waies and actions by at this day that in all our motions against the apostacies and evils of the times the honour and interest of the great name of God move us if that be not our frame and temper of Spirit we are none of the number in whom the Lord so much delights and our work of counsel is not that which the Lord so earnestly lissens and hearkens after til he hears all noting it down in his book of remembrance and we have nothing to do with those high expressions of the Lords matchless love in his promises no if the name of God be not solely in our eye and the exalting the Lord alone be not all our aime and end in what we do in stead of Gods peculiars in that day of the Lord it wil be unto us d Amos 5.18 19. darkness and not light as if a man fled from a Lyon and a Bear met him or went into a house and leaned his hand on the wal and a Serpent bit him 16 That he high attainments the graces and excellencies the remnant have attained to at this day is far short of the glory of the Lord is about to reveal when it comes forth they wil be glad to run to their shelter the sparing love of their Father they themselves shal then be laid in the dust before the Lord and the glorious Lord alone shal be exalted and magnified 17 That the great designe of God upon professing Zion at this day is to purge and purifie wash and cleanse it from all its filth dross and tin that they may become a holy Generation a peculiar people formed for himself to shew forth his praise able to offer up an Offering in righteousness pleasant unto the Lord. 18 Behold the way and course the Lord wil take to purge and purifie his Zion at this day he wil do it by the spirit of Judgement and the spirit of burning by such a trying dispensation of fiery judgement as shal not only burn up their dross but their tin also that which now looks so like and goes for good silver for that which is acceptable in the sight of God 19 Syon thus purged and purified shal have the creating power of God to assist her as her defence upon all this glory the Lord hath now cloathed her with shal be a desence it is not poluted and impure Zion the Lord wil thus defend but it is that glory of holiness the counterpaine or image of Gods own holiness vvhich wil be upon Zion when the Lord shal have washed away the filth from the daughter of Zion and shal have purged away the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof then