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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61699	New-Englands true interest not to lie, or, A treatise declaring from the word of truth the terms on which we stand, and the tenure by which we hold our hitherto-continued precious and pleasant things shewing what the blessing God expecteth from his people, and what they may rationally look for from him / delivered in a sermon preached in Boston in New-England, April 29, 1668, being the day of election there, by Mr. W. Stoughton ...	Stoughton, William, 1632-1701.	1670 (1670)	Wing S5765; ESTC R9808	34,209	43

In the further pressing of this Exhortation let me a little more particularly direct my self 1. To the Remainders of the Ancient Stock amongst us 2. To the present Generation 3. To our Honoured Leaders and Rulers First Vnto those who are yet abiding with us of the first generation of the Lords faithful Servants those Plants of Renown wherewith God set his Garden here at the first Let me speak a few words unto you Fathers because you have known that which was from the beginning you may take up the Apostle John's expressions and say That which was from the beginning which we 1 Joh 1. 1 3 have heard which we have seen with our eyes which we have looked upon and our hands have handled of the Cause and ●nterest of God in this Wilderness You have had a long and large Experience of things you have seen all the great works which the Lord hath done for this people you have been long rooted and satiated in the House of the Lord As you ought to be and are so we esteem of you and account you to be as a Crown and an Honour in the midst of us Trials you have seen and trials you may yet further see but your Triumph is now at hand You have by this time parted with the most and the choicest of your Contemporaries your Companions in the foundations of the work of Christ here And your eyes behold this day that another Generation is risen up and begin to stand thick upon the Stage and that even of them there is one to whose lot it falls to speak to you in the Name of the Lord this day Now what is the sum of your desires and would be the chief and top of your joyes as to those you must shortly leave behinde you Is it not that your children after you may be found walking in the truth 2. Joh. 4. 3 Joh. 4. owning the Covenant of God maintaining and upholding the same Interest of Holiness and Reformation wherein you have been engaged before us Then suffer the word of Exhortation in a few words And the Lord help you to consider the season Your season who have not long to be Examples and as the Salt in the midst of us and our season who have not long to enjoy you O believe much and pray much for your Successors in the Cause and work of God shew forth and declare all the works Exod. 10. 2. Ps 78. 4 5 6 7. of God unto your Children Charge and adjure them to keep the Covenant of the Lord their God forewarn them of such wayes and courses and persons as you know upon sufficient experience to be destructive to the peace and beauty of our Zion As long as you are in this Tabernacle stir them up by putting them 2 Pet. 1. 13. in remembrance that they may be established in all those truths and practices which to own and abide in hath been New-Englands glory and must be its preservatian and safety in whatever times are coming upon us You know what Examples unto this purpose you have in Moses and Joshua and David The Deut. 29 c Josh 23 24 1 Kings 2● 1 Chron. 28. Lord plant in you the same love and zeal and care for the Name of God and the welfare of your Posterity before you go hence and be seen no more Secondly Vnto those who are the Generation risen and rising up in the midst of us Suffer me my Brethren and Companions who am one of you to direct this word of the Lord unto you also this day It is we that begin now to be the Body and Bulk of this people every where and to stand up in the room of those that are gone before us How well we do or shall fill the same the Searcher of all hearts he knows This is sure that the work of God and his Name and his Expectations of great things do this day descend upon us even of us hath the Lord also spoken it Surely These are my people too children that will not lie for his Covenant is commanded unto many Generations It is high time then for Psal 10● ● us to be thorowly awakened It is high time for us to stand up solemnly to receive the charge and blessing of the Lord our God and of his faithful Servants that are departing from us It is high time for us to prepare the shoulder in good earnest and to give our necks to the yoke of God that we may not be a fruitless a faithless a perverse Generation It is true indeed that Mat. 17. 17. Deut. 32. 5 20. there are through grace some first Ripe Grapes to be found amongst us though of such the Lord hath been snatching away some as of late clusters in which the new wine was found and Isa 65. 8. much of the blessing of our Vine contained but why should we frustrate the Lord of that full vintage which he justly expects from our Generation My Brethren we are the Seed of such as are and have been the friends of God we are the Children of the Covenant and of the Kingdome O that all that see us might acknowledge that indeed we are the seed which the Lord hath blessed Isa 61. 9. O that we might be as that seed spoken of and promised Isa 44. 3 4 5. upon which the Lord will pour his Spirit and they shall spring up among the grass as willows by the water-courses One shall say I am the Lords and another shall call himself by the name of Jacob and another shall subscribe with his hand to the Lord and surname himself by the name of Israel O inexcusable we if it be not thus Were our fathers as a noble vine and shall we be as the degenerate plant of a strange vine shall our vine be of the vine of Sodom and of the fields of Gomorrah were they as the best and choicest wine cheering God and man and shall we be as the sowrest vinegar shall our wine be as the poison of dragons Shall Deut. 32. 32 33 all those precious things of God in this Wilderness which were so savoury and sweet unto our fathers and for the enjoyment of which they made their bargain with God and gave up their All elswhere shall these be unto us their Children as sapless savourless Psal 106 13. Exod 32. 8. Judg 2. 17. husky things so quickly shall we so soon say of them What good shall this Birthright do us Shall the world and lusts and sins and vain liberties and new notions be more sweet unto us and thirsted after then Christ and Word and Ordinances then strict and godly Government then the wings of Gods Covenant then the labour and service of the House of God God forbid When God first began to keep House in this Wilderness it was furnished with the choicest Houshold-stuff He had much Plate and Jewels and other such precious things Vessels of Gold and of