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A63767	A trumpet blown in Sion, sounding an alarm in Gods holy mountain: or, A voice lifted up as a trumpet crying aloud, and not sparing, to shew the Lords people their transgressions, and the house of Jacob their sins. By a poor worm, that through the Lords great grace, hath found great blessings among the Presbyterian ministry, and by conversing with some of the Lords upright ones of the Presbyterian way; and also choice blessings among the ministry of the Independant and Baptized congregations, and some of the faithful with them.	Poor worm.	1666 (1666)	Wing T3142C; ESTC R220929	125,364	105

thorowly effectual to that blessed desired and longed-for end Now from the whole Premises these following Positions may be clearly laid down First That those Professors of the fear of the Lord that have been so polluted Position I as is declared and that do continue in those Evils whether of Commission or Omission are very unworthy and very unmeet to be accounted Members of his House and though they may be at present Members of several Congregations yet they are such as shall be cut off from the City of the Lord if they repent not when he shall come thorowly to pu●ge his Mat. 3. 11. Floor and gather his Wheat into his Garner Secondly That is the great duty of those that are gifted and gracious spirited Position II men and men that have obtained mercy to be faithfull that are in the several Congregations and Societies of them that profess the fear of the Lord whether they are Officers among them or † For some Officers may be ●● guilty of these Evils as some others any others that are so qual fied to do these three things First To promote and press with all earnes●ness and ●ervency of Spirit the work of unseigned Humiliation before the Lord and of true Repentance for all or any of these Evils that are found among any of them all yea to be lying at the Feet of the Lord continually and to give him no res● until he pour our such a po●tion of his Spirit upon them as may truly ●nable them to be ashamed of all the Evils they have done and to loath themselves in Truth for all their abominations I say To give the Lord no rest until Duty I he do these things for them and not to content themselves with keeping a day of Fasting and to think when that is done all is well but to be impo●tunate seckers of the Lord for such a truly broken and peniten● Spi●it as God will not despise that they may be truly as it is ●ai● Ezek. 7. 16. of them that shall escape from the Sword without and th●●●estilence and Famine within like Doves of the Val●eys 〈◊〉 of them 〈◊〉 every one for his Iniquity even for his and her part●cular In●qui●y most especially and also for all the abomi●ations of others also that they may have that special Mark chap. 9. 4. And Secondly It is the Duty also of such faithful Ser●ants of the Lord Duty II in the several Congregations to declare unto the Members of each Society that are guilty of such Evils and live in them That they ought not to be admitted to be pa●take●s of the great Ordinance of the Lords Supper unless they repent so as to reform and thorowly amend their wayes it being a very dangerous thing to approach to the Table of the Lord in these pollutions and deformities and not having on their beautiful Garments viz. The Royal Robes of Righ●eousness the Blessed Ornament of a meek and Isa 51. 10 1 Pet. 3. 4 1 Pet. 5. 5 Rev. 15. Psal 45. quiet Spirit and the precious cloathing of Humility even all those white Robes and Golden Girdles and Cloathings of Wrought Gold that do signifie all the Fruits and gracious Operations of the Holy Spirit And that it is dangerous appears 1 Cor. 11. 26 27 to 30. For as often as ye eat this Bread and drink this Cup ye do shew forth the Lords Death until he come Wherefore whosoever shall eat this Bread and drink this Cup of the Lord unworthily shall be guilty of the Body and Blood of the Lord. But let a man examine himself and so let him eat of that Bread and drink of that Cup for he that eateth and drinketh unworthily e●teth and drinketh damnation to himself not discerning the Lords Body For this cause many are weak and sickly among you and many are fallen asleep Where it is clear that it is a very dangerous thing for a man to draw near to the Table of the Lord without examination of himself whether there be any iniquity that he lives in whether he be a Vest●● on whom holiness to the Lord is visibly written or not It is very dangerous to rush unto the Table of the Lord without any fear or dread of coming unworthily not considering that such as have so done are guilty of the Body and Blood of the Lord and that such as have so done have for this cause been sick and weak and have fallen asleep And it is most certain That It is a dangerous thing to come to that Table without the Spirit of Love that ingages the Soul to true and u●feigned love to all Saints as Members of the same Body so as to communicate freely and liberally as God hath blessed as to Members of our own Body not like a Chur● It is a dangerous thing to come to that Table with hearts full of Adultery Mystical Adultery hearts given up unto other Lovers and not to the Lord. It is dangerous coming to that Table with froward hearts contentious spirits having any heart rising against any person or persons Or which is somwhat less It is a dangerous thing to come to that Table with slightings of any others that are members of Christ as truly as we for the Corinthians coming together and some having a fulness of outward things did eat and drink when others that were poor in this world had not and were hungry The Apostle calls these Actions in them that were full a despising of the Church of God the poor Members a● truly making up the Church of God as those that were rich and a shaming of them that have not The poorer sort it may be seeing their fulness having their Bottles of Wine and costly Cakes and dainty Viands being made ashamed that had it not Now their thus ●lighting the poor which Evil James also reproves as hath been shewed and shaming of them in that particular is the sin the Apostle here reproves and advises them rather to eat and drink in their own Houses then They it may be would tarry for the rich to grieve and shame the Poor and not to slight the Poor but to tarry one for another for sayes he verses 20 21. When ye come together therefore into one place this is not to eat the Lords Supper for in eating every one taketh before another his own Supper and one is hun●ry and another is drunken that is Hath drunk sufficiently and fed sufficiently And vers 33 34. Wherefore my Brethren when ye come together to eat tarry one for another and if any man hunger let him eat at Home that ye come not together unto condemnation It is a dangerous thing to come to that Table with a proud Heart Psal 101. 5. Him that hath an high look and a proud heart will not I suffer Such shall not be welcome to his Table In a word He that is guilty of and continueth in any Evil whether of Omission or Commission whether of the Evils that have been declared

thing done in a Corner but was such a Publick and Solemn Act as was made manifest to all the Nations in Europe whose eyes were then gazing upon us and observing of us and the entering into that Covenant was greatly cryed up as a most worthy Act that might conduce much to the happiness of those Nations had it been inviolably kept to the utmost of every mans capacity But when a Nation shall solemnly enter into a Covenant with hands lifted up to God as if they desired his Blessings and Favours no otherwise then as they performed and faithfully kept it to the utmost of their capacitie and then per●idiously in a few years shall wittingly willingly and resolvedly break some great and considerable parts of it in the fight of God Angels and Men and yet profess to be the People of the Lord and the Children of God How greatly do they dishonour his Glorious Name whose People ought to be Children that will not lie much less break a Solemn Covenant of whose Servant it is said Psal 15. 4. That he sweareth to his own hurt and changeth not And it well becomes him so to do for it were better for him to chuse affliction rather then sin to suffer prejudice and loss and great disadvantage then in any measure to break his Promise much less his Oath For what if he lose outward things God is ab●e to make up that ●hundred f●ll to him again But if he sin against the Lord Who shall intreat for him But this Sin of false Swearing or breach of an Oath is a great and horrible s●n which as it greatly dishonours the Name of the Lord doth greatly provoke the Eyes of his Glory as appears Because it is evident in Scripture that the Lord doth very severely punish his people for that sin that have been guilty of it bringing dreadful judgments upon them for that sin in particular as is evident in Ezek. 17. The King of Babylon having come up against Jerusalem and taken away the King thereof and carried him to Babyl●n he being one of the Sons of Josiah and having set up a Brother of his to be King of Judah in the stead of him that he carried away to Babylon he made him whom he set up to be King to en●er into a Covenant of Subjection unto him But in●●ead of keeping his Co●enant he rebelled against the King of Babylon as you have the History 2 Chron. 36. 10 11 12 13. 2 Kings 24. 17 18 19. Jer. 37. the whole Chapter And sent to Egypt for help But saith the Lord Ezek. 17. 15 16. Shall he escape that doth such things or shall he break the Covenant and be delivered As I live saith the Lord God surely in the place where the King dwelleth that made him King whose Oath he despised and whose Covenant ●e brake even with him in the midst of Babylon shall he die Neither shall Pharoah with his mighty Army make for him in the War Seeing he despised the Oath by breaking the Covenant when loe he had given his hand and hath done all these things he shall not escape Therefore thus saith the Lord God As I live surely my Oath that he hath despised and my Covenant that he hath broken even it will I recompence upon his own head and I will spread my Net upon him and he shall be taken in my snare and I will bring him to Babylon and will plead with him there for his trespass that he hath trespassed against me and all his fugitives with all his bands shall fall by the sword and they that remain shall be scattered toward all Winds And ye shall know that I the Lord have spoken it Here we see when the King of Judah had sworn to the King of Babylon though it may be he might think himself not bound to keep Covenant with him being a Heathen and an Idolater and though it may be when he took the Covenant he took it unwillingly yet having taken it he was indispensibly bound to perform and keep it For if the consideration of the quality of the Persons whether Heatheus or Turks or Atheists should null the Covenants or Promises that are made by the People of the Lord to them then the Name of the Lord would be greatly blasphemed amongst the Heathen by such Deeds for it would justly open the mouths of such to say That there is no Truth no● Righ●eousness amongst such as profess to be the Lords Servants For among all sorts of men in the World Truth and Faithfulness in Promises and Covenants and Just and Righteous Dealings among Men is highly esteemed and the contrary condemned much more among the People of the God of Truth for Just and Right is He therefore if any such do Deut. 32. 4. break a Covenant a solemn Oath God is more dishonoured by them then by others and he will not bear with it in them but usually doth severely punish it as in this King Therefore saith the Lord Shall he escape that doth such things Shall ●e break the Covenant and be delivered He shall not escape 2 Kin 25. 7. Jer. 39 6 7. he shall be carried captive and he shall die in Babylon seeing he despised the Oath by breaking the Covenant And accordingly he was carried to Babylon and all his Sons were there slain before his Eyes and then his Eyes were put ou● and he was blind to the day of his death And it is much to be observed That the Lord calls the Covenant that this King entered into HIS Oath and HIS Covenant Thus saith the Lord God As I live surely MY Oath that he hath despised and MY Convenant that he hath broken even it will I recompence upon his own Head For we find in Scripture that the entering into a Covenant or Oath is a great and solemn Appointment of the Lord for the ending of Controversie and for the confirming Heb. 6. 16 of Truth and therefore it is called in Scripture The Oath of the LORD as Exod. 22. 10. 11. If a man deliver unto his Neighbour an Ass or an Ox or a Sheep or any Beast to keep and it die or be hurt or driven away no man seeing it then shall an OATH OF THE LORD be between them both that ●e ●ath not put his hand unto his Neighbours Goods and the Owner of it shall accept thereof c. And 2 Sam. 21. 7. But the King spared Mephibesheth the Son of Jonathan the Son of Saul because of the LORDS OATH that was between them between David and Jonathan the Son of Saul The like Eccles 8. 2. And so here As I live saith the Lord surely MY Oath that he hath despised and MY Covenant that he hath broken even it will I recompence upon his own head And it is plain that in an Oath or Covenant the Party doth in word or gesture call the Lord to witness to the Truth of it either by Hands lifted up to Heaven or by kissing the