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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37536	The present interest of England in matters of religion, stated wherein is clearly demonstrated that the Protestant religion may be fully secured from popery, though the penal laws be taken away / by W.D., alover of liberty for conscience sake.	W. D., lover of liberty for conscience sake.	1688 (1688)	Wing D99; ESTC R21223	21,170	32

appear'd afterwards by Haman's Plot Esther 3.8 9. And Haman said unto King Ahasuerus there is a certain people scattered abroad and dispers'd among the people in all the Provinces of thy Kingdom and their Laws are diverse from all people neither keep they the Kings Laws therefore it is not for the Kings profit to suffer them If it please the King let it be written that they may be destroy'd and I will pay ten Thousand Talents of Silver to the hands of those that have the charge of the business How sad is it then not to follow the call of God These Jews lookt upon the Way up to Jerusalem to be long the Journey dangerous the Success doubtful the King a Heathen the Enemy there before and therefore they despised the work of God and prefer'd their ease before glory and bondage before freedom and their little concerns before the great and glorious work of God. They chose rather to dwell amongst the Heathens and to see their abominable Idolatry than to go up with their Brethren to Jerusalem to worship the Lord. When men take their measures from their fears and jealousies and not from the word of God and his providences When men consult with Flesh and Blood and not the duty of their places and the work of God that lyes before them When men lean to their own understandings and reject the counsel of God When men rely upon an Arm of Flesh and not upon the mighty God of Jacob then they do despise the work of God in their day and cry it down and endeavour to bring an evil report upon it saying Ah this is not the time this is not the way these are not fit instruments to be imploy'd O vain man know and consider that Gods power is irresistible his wisdom unsearchable and his ways past finding out Sin at the first was the cause of all ignorance but now ignorance is the cause of all sin Our work below is then the best done when our work above is the first done Sometimes men resist the work of God and oppose it in their day and seek to overthrow it This the persecuting Jews did in the days of our Saviour and in the days of the Apostles For this man doth many Miracles Acts 5.39 if we let this man alone all men will believe on him and the Romans shall come and take away both our place and nation John 11.47 48. These words were spoken in Counsel and the design of them was to overthrow the work of God to persecute Christ Jesus to death and his faithful Witnesses Then from that day forth they took Counsel together for to put him to death verse 53. he came and preached peace to them but they proclaimed War against him He came to his own but they received him not He came to heal them but they wounded him He came to save them but they killed him He was full of love grace and truth but they were filled with rage malice prejudice and unbelief They clipped the wings of his mercy and clogged the wheels of his love and kindness They shut up the treasures of his grace against themselves and held the hand of his power by their unbelief And he did not many mighty works there because of their unbelief Matth. 13.58 That which the unbelieving Jews said then the unbelieving Gentiles say now We will not have this man to reign over us Sin and Satan shall reign the Law and the Letter shall reign But he that is Lord of life and gives life shall not reign over us The ways and methods that the Jews took to keep the Romans out brought the Romans in upon them For they persecuted Gods Faithful Servants and commanded them not to preach the Gospel not to speak in his name and that brought the wrath of God upon them Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved to fill up their sins alway For the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost 1 Thess 2.16 When men take evil ways to save themselves from the evil they fear that may come and may not come it is the ready way to bring that evil upon them they fear Take therefore no thought for the morrow for the morrow shall take thought for the things of it self sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof Matth. 6.34 When we make God our refuge and strength then he makes Heaven our inheritance and the Earth our passage to that glorious inheritance I have in the first place shew'd you what was done heretofore by the Jews and what that work of God was in their days For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning that we through patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope Romans 15.4 And now in the second place I shall shew you what that work of God is in our day that you that know may know more and do the things that are Just and best for your selves and others This then is a twofold work 1. A Salvation Work. 2. A Generation Work. 1. First a Salvation Work. Work out your Salvation with fear and trembling Phil. 2.12 I must work the works of him that sent me while it is day the night cometh wherein no man can work John 9.4 Death is a work but wants to be done the doing of it well then will require now our utmost endeavours our greatest diligence our always abounding in the work of the Lord a considering of our ways a right ordering of our conversations a running the race that is set before us a striving to enter in at the strait gate a giving all diligence to make our calling and election sure a growing in grace and a laying up a good foundation against the time to come and a labouring for that bread that perisheth not O consider this that Heaven and Hell will divide between them all the people that are now living upon the earth in a little time every man must shoot the Gulf of Eternity at Death and then another Gulf will be fixed And besides all this between us and you there is a great gulf fixed so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot neither can they pass to us that would come from thence Luke 16.26 They that dye in their sins God will never return to them to shew mercy and they shall never return to him to receive mercy O work therefore while it is called to day the day of mercy is yet continued and the day of grace is not yet ended he that will dye but once must dye daily he that will be delivered from the second Death must have a part in the first Resurrection He that will be equal with Saints in Glory must be eminent with Saints in Grace No Souls can live with God in Heaven but such in whom the Spirit of God lived whiles they were on Earth They that neglect the work of their Salvation cannot escape the punishment of their Damnation How shall