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cause_n	death_n	life_n	sin_n	9,880	5	5.5192	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55996	A call in the universal spirit of Christ Jesus to all the wicked and impenitent sinners in the world, but more especially to the inhabitants of England, with the city of London, that they all may repent and turn to God, with all their hearts, before his wrath be more kindled, and his future judgements more appear to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their manifold horrible sins and transgressions : this came upon me to write, at the apprehension I had of that sudden fear which many people were suprised with, at the late earthquake, of what would befall them / [by] J.P.	Parke, James, 1636-1696.	1692 (1692)	Wing P366; ESTC R32315	7,878	11

from you that declare your Sin as Sodom what know you how swiftly the Destruction may come O! remember and forget not that great Calamity which God Almighty of late brought upon Port-Royal in Jamaica and how many Persons in a moment perished who may be were not more wicked then many in England are O! why will you dye in your Sins by remaining and abiding therein Why do you retain your Hardness and Impenitency of Heart treasuring up Wrath against the Day of Wrath and the Judgment of the great Day Will neither past present nor future Judgments alarum or awaken you Will you still stop your Ears close your Eyes and harden your Hearts against the Lord Have not many of you made your Hearts as an Adament Are you not past feeling of what God intended for the awakening of you out of your sleep in Sin and Death by that great and lamentable Plague and Fire in this City and other Places And is not War a heavy Judgment and Calamity where-ever it continueth long Do you forget these things and him that sends or suffereth them to come in any Nation as he pleaseth O! tremble before the Lord fear and dread his holy Name Weep and howle for the Misery that will come upon you speedily except you Repent except you Cease to do Evil and Learn to do Well in your time and day given you of God to Repent in you seed of Evil-doers and Children that are Corrupters you Proud and Wanton Ones you Stiff-necked and Rebellious Ones you Drunkards Swearers Lyars Whoremongers and cursed speakers who call God to damn your Souls Cease from the Evil of your cursed speaking with all the Evil of your Ways and Doings Repent repent and lament bitterly for so often Pierceing Villifying and putting to shame the Lord of Life and Glory Christ Jesus of whom you make some outward Profession but God searcheth and knoweth your Hearts he heareth all your cursed blasphemous Words and seeth all your wicked Ways and Doings whereby you provoke the Lord to wrath in a great degree of Wickedness and foul Abominations acted and committed daily by many against the Lord which will prove your Ruin who do not take warning in your day and time which is but short that God will allow you in this World consider the precious time God already hath afforded you and call to mind the many Warnings you have had from God through his faithful Servants who have been stirred up in the Spirit of the Lord to pronounce his Woes and Judgments that should fall upon the Wicked and Ungodly that did refuse to take warning and amend their ways Consider the Eternal Power of the Lord which he is come to make known in the Earth and in the Kingdoms of men and over all he hath appeared to shake the Earth and the Heavens and all Nations the Lord is come with Power and great Glory to shake the Earth inwardly that is set in mans Heart that it may be removed out of the Heart and so preparation may be in the Heart for the Lords appearance to shake and remove that which is to be shaken either inwardly or outwardly and so People may come to the Knowledge of that which cannot be shaken with the Wind. O Earth hear the Word of the Lord and be astonished ye Heavens fear and dread before him all ye Nations of the Earth and People of all Languages and Perswasions whatsoever put no longer the Evil day afar off from you you high and low rich and poor bond and free that have caused the Seat of Violence to draw near but put far from you all your Envy Wrath Bitterness and Cruelty that so long hath had place in you and hath been vented forth by many of you in Words and Actions against the appearance of the Lord and that which is good wrought by him in People and in the World which you should have received loved and made choice of you that have been and are Gainsayers and Opposers of the Appearance and Work of the Lord in your day how have you called good evil and evil good put Light for Darkness and Darkness for Light Sweet for Bitter and Bitter for Sweet being unacquainted with the Eye-Salve you cannot see aright into the things of God nor distinguish them from the contrary So you Justifie the Wicked and would take away the Righteousness of the Righteous from them in your Blindness and Darkness that you are in you have shut the Kingdom of Heaven against men would neither enter in your selves nor suffer them that would Wo unto you whited Walls and painted Sepulchres you appear beautiful to People led into and kept in Darkness by you but the Lord hath a Controversie with you you Idol-Sheepherds who seek your Gain from your Quarter but seek not the Iost Sheep nor watch for the Soul What account can you give of your Flooks which you are set over by men and come to them as sent of men by whom you expect to be upheld Are not many of your Flocks starved instead of being fed by you Wherewith will you have to Answer the chief Sheepherd and Bishop of Souls Christ Jesus whose Ministers followed his Example and fed the Sheep and Flock of Christ with Spiritual Meat whom they had the oversight of they laboured with great diligence to beget People that heard them to God that they might believe to the saving of the Soul they did not turn any from but to the Light of Christ Jesus that they might love it believe and walk in it and become Children of it But the Ministers made and sent by Man have stumbled at hated and rebelled against this Light and some in their blind Zeal without divine Knowledge have contemned it and incouraged there Hearers in their contemning of the Light of Christ with which they are lightned instead of turning People from Darkness to the Light of Life which is the Cause why so many Nations Peoples Kindreds and Tongues yet sit in Darkness and under the region of the shadow of Death and is the very Cause why so much Sin and Errour is spread over the Nations and Kingdoms of this World Now are the Nations and People made Drunk and stagger with the Whore's Cup which she hath put into their Hands to drink which is the cause of there stumbling and so much falling into the Pit and why so many are still snared and taken in that which is Evil which by the Light of the Lord the Light of the World if they would turn to it they might all see and also avoid the appearance of Evil in the temptation thereunto and Peoples being in Darkness from this Light is the cause why they do not see the Hand of the Lord when lifted up in Judgment 't is but few will regard it before they feel it come heavy upon there Heads altho' God be laying waste Countries near us and hath brought Desolation in the Earth yet little is this laid to Heart