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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B09905	The possibility of God's forsaking a people, that have been visibly near & dear to him together with the misery of a people thus forsaken, set forth in a sermon preached at Weathersfield, Nov. 21. 1678. Being a day of fast and humiliation. / By Mr. Joseph Rowlandson ...	Rowlandson, Joseph, 1631?-1678.	1682 (1682)	Wing R2091; ESTC W4600	12,066	30

THE Possibility of Gods Forsaking a people That have been visibly near dear to him TOGETHER With the Misery of a People thus forsaken Set forth in a SERMON Preached at Weathersfield Nov. 21. 1678. Being a Day of FAST and HUMILIATION By Mr. Joseph Rowlandson Pastor of the Church of Christ there Being also his last SERMON 2 Chron. 15.2 The Lord is with you while ye be with him and if ye seek him he will be found of you but if ye forsake him he will forsake you Hos 9.12 Wo also to them when I depart from them BOSTON in NEW-ENGLAND Printed for John Ratcliffe John Griffin 1682. To the Courteous READER especially the Inhabitants of the Town of Weathersfield and Lancaster in New-England Gods forsaking of such as he hath been near to is a thing of such weight and solemnity and hath such bitter effects that it is a meet Subject especially in a dark and mourning day for Ministers to speak to and for People to hear of that the one may warn of the danger and the other avoid the judgement As Gods presence is the greatest glory to a People on this side Heaven so his absence is the greatest misery on this side hell this therefore must needs be a concerning point to such as will concern themselves in their concernments The ensuing Sermon will appear a solemn word if duely considered the subject matter is very solemn and weighty Treating of Gods being with or forsaking a people the time when it was delivered was a solemn time a day of FAST throughout the Colonies the Reverend Author that Composed and Preached it was one solemn and serious above many others and that which adds one great circumstance to its solemnity is in that it was the last word he spake to the World being but about two dayes before he left it As it is solemn so 't is seasonable and pertinent It is a time wherein we have given God just cause to forsake us a time wherein God is threatning to forsake us A time wherein God hath in some measure forsaken us already and what can be more seasonable then to shew the evils that befall a forsaken People that we may yet be awakened and return that the Lord do not forsake us utterly As for the Reverend Author there needs nothing to be said in his commendation he was known amongst the Churches in the Wilderness and known to be a workman that needed not to be ashamed That his Name which was sometimes precious amongst those that knew him may not be forgot and that being dead he may yet speak to a land that have in some measure forsook their God and are in danger of being forsaken is the ground work of the publishing this small part of his labours It is commended especially to the perusal of the Inhabitants of Lancaster and Weathersfield He was a Man well known to you the one had his Life and the other his death and both his loss you cannot easily forget his name and 't is desired that you may not forget the labour and travel he hath had amongst you the word which he Preached to you was acceptable whilst he was living and it is presumed it will be accepted with the like candor now he is dead Indeed had it been intended and fitted by himself for the Press you might have expected and found it more large and polished but as it is it is thought fit not to be lost and may be of great use and benefit to open to us the danger of forsaking God to humble us for all our coolings and declinings from God to quicken us in our return to and close walking with God and that it may attain this end is the hearts desire and prayer of him who abundantly wishes thy welfare and prosperity in Christ Jesus B. VV. Ieremiah 23.33 And when this People or the Prophet or a Priest shall ask thee saying what is the burden of the Lord thou shalt then say unto them what burden I will even forsake you saith the Lord. IN the Words there lies before us First A Question supposed to be propounded wherein there is two things 1. The Questionists this People or a Prophet or a Priest 2. The Question it self or the matter of it What is the burden of the Lord Secondly There is an Answer and a solemn Answer too which is put into his mouth by the Lord and which he is to return as the Lords Answer to the Question thou shalt then say unto them what burden I will even forsake you saith the Lord. In which Answer there is three things 1. An expression of Indignation What burden 2. An assertion by way of Answer to the question I will forsake you 3. A Seal of ratification in the last words Saith the Lord. God having before dealt with the Pastors that did destroy and scatter the flock as in the beginning of the Chapter Wo be to the Pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture ver 2 I will visit upon you the evil of your doings saith the Lord and also with the false Prophets that prophesied lies in his Name as ver 9. My heart within me is broken because of the Prophets ver 32. Behold I am against them that prophesie false dreams saith the Lord and do tell them and cause my people to err by their lies and by their lightness which sort of Prophets went without their Commission as ver 21. I have not sent these Prophets yet they ran He proceeds from the head Rulers to the people that were seduced by them for by this means their hands were strengthened in sin so as that they did not return from their wickedness as ver 14. It was a usual thing for the Prophets of the Lord to begin their Sermons the matter whereof was minatory wherein the Lord threatned them with just judgements with that Phrase the burden of the Lord as will easily appear if you consult Isai 13.1 15.1 22.1 30 6. Now they do in the words of the Text or are supposed in mockery to demand what Burden he had from the Lord for them For the opening of the words And or moreover because he here enters upon new matter this People or the prophane sort of them whom the false Prophets had secuced to which he joyns the Prophet and the Priest in hit they were alike prophane as ver 11. for both Prophet and Priest are prophane yea in my house saith the Lord and when Prophets are prophane there is wont to be a pack of them as Jer. 5.31 The Prophets prophesies falsly and the Priests bear rule by their means and my people love to have it so shall ask thee saying viz. in a deriding way not out of a holy end or desire What is the burden of the Lora or from the Lord so were the Prophesies stiled that contained in them Threatnings Judgements and Plagues 2 King 9.25 as if they had said what hast thou