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A53265	New-England pleaded with, and pressed to consider the things which concern her peace at least in this her day, or, A seasonable and serious word of faithful advice to the churches and people of God, primarily those in the Massachusets Colony, musingly to ponder, and bethink themselves, what is the tendency, and what will cetainly be the sad issue, of sundry unchristian and crooked wayes which too too [sic] many have been turning aside unto, if persisted and gone on in delivered in a sermon preached at Boston in New-England, May 7, 1673, being the day of election there / by Urian Oakes ...	Oakes, Urian, 1631-1681.	1673 (1673)	Wing O21; ESTC W23179	65,078	72

weak and despicable and obnoxious to great Danger they make us hang loose one from another and from the general interest of Religion and civil Liberty and render us like● Fig trees with the first ripe Figs which if they be shaken will even fall into the mouth of the eater Nah. 3.12 Yea they do as it were Arm our Adversaries against us and in a manner tempt them to set upon us A Mutinous Army and a Divided People are easily made a prey to their Enemies Scripture Reason and Experience attest unto the truth of what I say Again well it is if whilest we are contending about the preservation of the purity of Churches and Church-Administrations we are not laying a foundation for the corruption of them and that our Contentions and Divisions which naturally lead men in policie to endeavour the enlarging of their respective interests do not make more Church-members then the conviction or evidence of their fitness for such a priviledge May not that be the issue of these differences that Adherence to a party or to be a Darling of the Faction will become as p●ssant a Qualification with this or that party or Faction for admission into the Church of God as visible Saint-ship hath been among us And that Who are you for will be in reality the only Test and Tou●h stone of the sufficiency of persons for Communion with us in Church ordinances Nay further as I remember it hath been said of Lawyers and too much verified in the men of that profession that Contention maintains them and they maintain Contention so may it not be truly said of many men in Churches that have few commendable Qualities in them whether you consider them as men or Christians that Contention maintains them in Credit and Reputation with their party and they maintain Contention in heart and vigour among us This is the way whereby some men that are men of no remark for the practice of Piety or real Worth and Abilities in any respect do signalize themselves with their Brethren in Con●ention even by floating upon the top of these waters of strife and appearing with the foremost in the Defence of the Divided narrow Interest of this or that party amongst us Moreover it is a very great provocation to the God of peace that you should strive and contend judge and despise one another and fall out so unreasonably about lesser matters and such things as are forreign to the Bond of Christian-Communion When you should be blessing God that you agree so far you are wrangling because that you disagree a little when you should thank God that you agree so much you quarrel because you agree no more Certainly God is displeased Christ dishonoured Religion as to the Course and Race Reputation or Glory of it 2 Thess. 3.1 Disadvantaged Malicious Enemies Encouraged the World Offended the Rising Generation and your own Souls unspeakably prejudiced by these Divisions And what will the End be It is commonly observed by those that are conversant in Ecclesiastical Histories that in the Primitive times when the Churches had Peace and Rest and Respiration from the heat of Persecution they soon grew Quarrelsome and Contentious And the● God in a little time raised up some Persecutor or other to chastise them for their faults in that kind and whip them together again and then SEE could their Enemies say how these Christians love one another the contentions of Gods people in times of liberty make way for Persecution or some dismal Catastrophe The Divisions among us some whereof seem to admit no Help or Healing but are rather heightened and exasperated by the best Applications are in my eye like any Comet or Blazing-star or Prodigious Apparicion direfully portending woful Calamities What the Latter End will be our Saviour hath told us Mat. 12.25 Every Kingdome divided against it self is brought to Desolation and every City or House divided against it self shall not stand Divisions are sad presages of misery and lead the way to dreadful Desolations 6 Consider what will be the latter end of your unreasonable Iealousies abusive calu●●nie● or other ill Vsage of persons of great worth use and Interest among you Consider I beseech you in the fear of God what will be the end of the ill entertainment of the best men among you Who sees not that is not wofully blind that no men are more suspected and taken up in the lips of talkers Ezek. 36.3 calumniated and-abused then pious and faithful Magistrates and Min●sters Moses and Aaron of old as Meek and Humble and Faithful and Innocent as they were yet were suspected and traduced by many Male-Contents in Israel You take too much upon you Numb 16 3 Good Moses must still bear the murmurings of that discontented unruly people If the Lord cross them in denying them any thing they wanted or lusted after Moses presently must pay for it If they wanted flesh or water then presently they fly out against Moses We may thank you Moses for this would God we had stayed by the flesh-Pots in Egypt and dyed there have you brought us into this wilderness to starve us to death and kill us wi●h hunger Exod. 16 3. And if the Lord vindicate the cause of Moses and Aaron against any Rebels among them and destroy them in such a miraculous and extraordinary manner that one would have thought it should have for ever silenced all their murmurings and taught the survivers submission to the Authority of God vested in Moses and Aaron yet soon after the very next morning in cold blood as it were they are making head against them again and charging them with the murthe● of their Brethren Ye have killed the people of the Lord. Numb 16.41 It is the hard condition of Magistrates and Ministers that they must bear all the murmurings of discontented people and belo●d●d with all the obloquies and injurious reproaches that can be They had need be men of great meekne●s and patience able to bear much that are Pillars in the Church and Common-wealth But great is the sin and unworthiness of those that put them to such an exercise of meekness and patience And are not many among us guilty in this respect It is a sad time when a lying Spirit is gone forth into the mouths of many Professors when lyes are invented to the disparagement of Rulers and Ministers and calumnies and base Reproaches are vended and put off and dispersed through the Countrey with much subtlety and industry as if there were some Lying Office set up in New England It hath been my observation since I came among you that almost all the 〈◊〉 in this poor Countrey is made and carryed on by Lying Tale-bearer or Slanderer in the Hebrew RACHIL hath its Origination from ROCHEL a word which signifies a Merchant quasi fame as honoris p●oximi nu●●●ator Buxt●● one that sets to ●a●e the name and honour of other men We have many such Merchants or Pedlars rather that go

sin not repented of Consider what will be the end of thy Unbelief thy contempt of Jesus Christ thy comparative hatred of him and preferring thy base lusts before him The end of Faith is the salvation of the soul 1 Pet. 1.9 therefore the end of Unbelief will be the perdition of the soul. The end of neglecting great salvation will be unavoidable misery Heb 2.3 How shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation Yea the end of thy positive U●belief in rejecting the Lord Jesus Christ revealed and off red in the Gospel shall be a more intolerable condition then that of Tyre and Sidon Sodom and G●morrah the Cities which God overthrew and repented not Turks and Indians Heathens and Infidil● Mat. 11.21 22 23 24. Oh play the men act the part of rational Creatures set your rational Faculties your Vnderstandings and Consciences awork consider and know whither you are going and what the issue of your wayes is like to be As Solomon saith of the house of the strange woman that it enclineth unto death and her paths to the dead Prov. 2.18 so may I say of the sinful courses and practises of men What are the sons of men generally doing but laying wait for their own blood Prov. 1.18 plotting as it were and projecting contriving and accomplishing their own destruction and know it not Wicked men are inconsiderate men and their way is as darkness they know not at what they stumble Prov. 4.19 The end of their way is bitter as wormwood sharp as a two-edged sword their feet go down to death and their steps take hold of hell as Solomon speaks to another sense Prov 5.4 5. Can a man take fire in his bosome or go upon hot coals and not be burnt Prov. 6.27 28. You would account him a poor distracted creature that should so do and think to escape without harm and inconvenience Sinners are as irrational and as much bereaved of sense and understanding that dally with sin and play with the Serpent that hath a speckled skin and consider not that it will sting them to death at last Thou goest after thy Lusts as the Ox to the slaughter or as the Bird hasteth to the snare and knowest not that it is for thy life Prov. 7.22 23. Remember and judge aright that the end of your natural lives will be death and the end of your sinful lives will be Hell Take heed lest thou mourn at last as Solomon speaks Prov. 5.11 though thou rejoyce at present Make a right Judgement in this respect 2. Fix and dwell upon the consideration of the latter End of your wayes Settle it upon your hearts by frequent and thorough Meditation that it may stick by you and abide with you hold your hearts to it and let not your thoughts easily divert and slip aside from the serious consideration of it Do not rest in a slight and sudden apprehension of it but roll it in your mindes and ponder it throughly that you may la● the whole weight of this consideration upon your Souls Do not men know very well that the end of Swearing and Drunkenness and Vncleanness and Disobedience to Parents and Profanation of the Sabbath and Vnfruitfulness under Ordinances and of deriding and maligning the wayes of godliness and those that walk in them will be death and destruction from the Lord Yes verily but they do not consider it and revolve it in their mindes so as to affect their hearts with it Oh ponder the path of thy feet and consider much and often whither it will lead thee in the conclusion 3. So consider the end of thy way of sinning as to put an end to thy way of sinning So as to break off thy course of sinning by sound Repentance serious Application to the blood of Christ for forgiveness effectual Conversion to God and thorough Reformation of thy Life and Conversation Consideration is not meer speculative Contemplation but practical Reformation must be the end of it as it was of David's consideration Psal. 119.59 I thought on my wayes and turned my feet unto thy testimonies The Iews report it for a saying of Adam that No man would sin if he saw from the beginning to the end of things But I shall not stay longer on this Branch of the Exhortation Secondly As the words of my Text respect the Body of a Nation even Israel that were sometimes the peculiar people of God So give me leave to direct my Exhortation to the People of New-England or the Representative Body of the People of this Colony and to perswade the New-England-Israel to get and improve this Spiritual wisdome Vnderstandingly and judiciously to consider what will be the latter End of your sinful wayes and unworthy deportments before the Lord. As you are a people of many Mercies and Priviledges so I may well parallel you with Israel a people graciously conducted and carried by the mighty hand of God to a place of Rest and Peace and Safety and Liberty and setled in the possession of singular Mercies and Advantages and I wish with all my heart that we could not see a cast of their countenan●e in our own faces that as in water face answereth to face Prov. 27.19 so our spirits and wayes did not answer theirs that our misdemeanors and unsutable deportments were not commensurate correspondent with theirs as our mercies are I make out the Parallel thus 1. You have been conducted to a place of Rest and Liberty and setled in the possession of very choice and singular Priviledges Enjoyments The Lord hath brought you over the great Ocean from your Native Land the Land of your Progenitors to a place of Rest where you have enjoyed singular mercies As when there was a Division made of the habitable parts of the Earth to the sons of Adam there was an Assignation of that good Land of Canaan in the purpose of God to the Children of Israel which seems to be the sense and importance of that difficult place Deut. 32.8 which hath put Expositors as the body of Asahel in the way did the people 2 Sam. 2.23 to a stand so was there an Allotment in the Counsel of God of these Ends of the Earth unto this part of our Nation for the Bounds of their Habitation This Wilderness was the place which God decreed to make a Canaan to you and what he thought in his heart he hath fulfilled with his hand in bringing you to this good Land and providing wonderfully for your well-being here Many and wond●rful are the Favours and Priviledges which the Lord your God ha● c●nferred upon you 1. As to your Civil G●v●rnment You have had Moses Men I mean of the same spirit to lead and go before you The Lord hath not given Children to be your Leaders and Babes to rule over y●● which is the eatned as a great Judgement portending and making way for the ruine of Ierusalem and fall of Iudah Isa. 3.4 8. but Pious Faithful Prudent Magistrates

affected or engaged Hear and give ear unto the Word of the Lord and be not Proud Give Glory to the Lord your God by Confession Humiliation Repentance and Reformation before he cause Darkness and your Feet stumble upon the dark Mountains Jerem. 13.15 16. So Consider with Understanding and Judgement what is like to be the Latter end of your sinfull Dep●rtments before the Lord as to put an end to your way of sin and provocation and to return to the God of your Mercies whom you have forsaken and the Rock of your Salvation whom you have too lightly esteemed Jerusalem remembred not her Last End therefo●e she came down wonderfully and had no comforter Lam. 1 9. Not considering aright the Latter End of your Wayes will bring you down though you had set your Nest among the Stars but the due consideration of it will be the way to wonderful Exaltation I am not without some Hopes though many of your wise and faithful Ministers and Watchmen are almost weary and hopeless that men of all parties that are truely pious and serious will at last consider and reform what is ami●s and accept well what hath been spoken by way of Reprehension and Admonition And indeed it would be sad with us if our times should be like those which the Historian complains of Q●●bus nec vi●ia nostra nec Remedia pati possumus Our Distemp●●● such as will ruine us and yet our Temper Disposition and Frame such that we cannot bear the Application of the Remedy Then indeed we do infeliciter agrotare and may conclude that our sickness will be terminated in the Death and Dissolution in the Loss and deserved Bereavement of those Enjoyments that are dearest to us But if the Lord give you Hearing Ears and obedient Hearts that you Consider and Repent and turn to the Lord your God then will he be with you as he hath been with your Fathers and Predecessors those Worthies of the Lord that are now at rest whose Memory is blessed and whose Names shall be had in everlasting remembrance and no Weapon that is formed against you shall prosper Whether there shall be secret Plottings or open Assaulting and Running upon your Civil and Sacred Liberties God will either defeat the Counsels and frustrate the Attempts and Hopes of Adversaries Or turn all that may befal you in a way of Affliction to your singular good the great Furtherance of the Gospel and Advantage of the Glorious Interest of Christ among us Humbling and Sorrowful times may come upon you But the Lords design in humbling and proving you will be that he may do you good at your Latter End Though the Earth should tremble and reel to and fro the Sea roa● the Mountains be cast into the midst of the Sea and there be a Day of Gloominess and thick Darkness coming upon the Reformed Churches and there should be a Day of trouble and Treading down and Perplexity in this Valley of Vision yet I have Commission from the Lord to say It shall be well with the Righteous Isai. 3 10. Oh saith Baldam when enlightned Let me dye the Death of the Righteous and let my last end be like his Numbers 23.10 Mark the Perfect Man saith David and behold the Vpright for the end of that Man is Peace Verily verily saith our Saviour to his Disciples Iohn 16.20 You shall weep and lament but the World shall rejoice and ye shall be sorrowful but your sorrow shall be turned into joy All the Sorrows and Afflictions and Sufferings of the People of God shall end in joy They may sow in Tears but they shall reap in 〈◊〉 Psal 126●● 〈◊〉 their Troubles shall undoubtedly be concluded and issued in everlasting Consolation 〈◊〉 in the end will be the portion of such and we in pleasure 〈◊〉 but it will be the happiness of the Children of God to receive their Good Things at last Luk. 16.25 Whatever Dayes may come upon a sinful and secure World that lies in wickedness or upon a slumbring Slothful licentious Generation of Professors yet it shall undoubtedly go well with the humble waking faithful Servants of God that maintain or recover their first love to the person Truths Ordinances Messengers and wayes of Jesus Christ and walk with God in a course of Evangelical Obedience according to the Tenor of his Covenant having a sorrowful sense of the Sufferings of Gods people abroad and the Sins and provocations at Home Verily the Latter End of such men and Women shall be Vnspeakable peace and Happiness FINIS Errata Page 4 〈…〉 for yet read yea l. ult ● Incogitancy ibid. r. Pagni●● ● ● l. 15. ● a good s●ep p. ●4 l. 33 ● and to have p 4● l. 26. r. necessity p 4. ● l. ●● r. Government p. 53. l. 20. for have 1. having