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An earnest exhortation to a true Ninivitish repentance. VVherein is briefly declared: 1. What true repentance is. 2. How a man should perceive it wrought in him. 3. Exhortation to a due examination of everie ones self. 4. A right penitentiall prayer. 5. The barres which hinder Christs working in the soul. 6. What true and living faith is. Also two questions resolved: 1. From whence warre doth spring. 2. By what means it ends. Together with other considerable matter fit for the times.
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and Schismatical religion consisting meerly and altogether in outward things as externall ceremonies Articles and Opinions without any true inward and experimentall fear of God perfect obedience or keeping of Gods Commandments and thus without any true either inward or outward conformity to and with the life and conversation of Jesus Christ which properly is called and really is true Religion according to which these divided Religionists ought to prove and examine their Name-Religions now adayes So also is the rejection or neglect of this placed by God in men Foundation stone of all happinesse life blessing peace and holinesse c. the onely cause of all inward and outward Warres jarres miseries calamities desolation destruction confusion and fundamentall alteration of all the Foundations or Kingdoms of the Earth whereby it is come to passe that men which ought to be vessels of Jesus Christ that is remain in the Love grace goodnesse and mercie of God beare one an other in the bond of Love and be united each to other in the Spirit of Peace turn and become fierce vessels of wrath through hatred envie enmitie desire of temporall honour or perishable goods raging even with swords one against another insomuch that the one falls by the others sword in wrath and self-willed revengefulnesse and thus the soul must come to her end with horrour whereof the holy Scripture thus testifieth Since ye have rejected him out of you whom I have sent unto you and in you viz. Jesus Christ the onely Prince of Peace Behold therefore I have slinged and cast you out of my grace life and blessing into wrath death and curse and given you up to do things that are nought and unseemly full of unrighteousnesse and ungodlinesse yea I rejoce therein that one falls by the sword of the other so that Countreys and people are made waste and the Earth laid desolate For this is the effect and operation of the strong delusions wherewith I have threatned you when ye should forsake and suffer to be pulled out of you the King of Truth by whom I would have ruled you with the staffe of meeknesse and directed the Rod or staffe of wo against mine Enemies which staffe now for the unbeleef unrighteousnesse and hypocucies sake must begin at mine Own House and continue forwards since there is no conversion or returning to me or my living Fountain Therefore to day to day whilest ye hear my voice and find the strokes of my wrath which could not hit nor touch you if my Child Christ Jesus had ruled in you and established anew again the inward peace betwixt Me and you for we are separated one from another by the kingdom of sin go out of Babell put away the high places which in you have exalted themselves against the kingdom of my Son and erected outward Idoll-houses and committed therein the abomination of desolation according to my Sons prediction through the motion and deceit of the holy-seeming devill that yet the inward temple of your souls may be opened and a pure holy and righteous dwelling in which I the LORD your holy and righteous God may go out and in may be prepared therein for Me through Christ Jesus and so the inward peace be established and then I will according to my righteous judgement give unto you all the Heathen and mine Enemies which would not kisse Christ for a prey and spoyl that you may according to my righteousnesse reward them double as they have deserved it of me and my Son Jesus He that hath eares to hear let him hear he that will not hear he shall feel it temporally and eternally saith the LORD God For I am strong enough to judge and avenge my self The principall causes why the Devill doth make all Visions and Divine Revelations contemptible and suspected are these 1. THat the extirpation of Jesus Christ and his holy Office in the Devils own members might not be revealed and discovered to the world which needs must come to passe if the Devils disciples or apostles should allow or approve the works of the holy Spirits Office of which the holy Scripture witnesseth 1 Joh. 16. v. 13 14. Amos 3. v. 7. Apoc. 1. v. 1. Joel 2. v. 28 29. Phil. 3. v. 15. 1 Cor. 2. v. 10. Which works of the holy Spirits office are no where abrogated and therefore a man hath the more cause to observe and beware of the Devils craftie subtiltie for he is a seeming holy Angel as his Ministers now adayes in doctrine and life do sufficiently shew and therefore he cavilleth and slandereth the Ministerie of the true Angels and Gods works 2 Secondly that the Devils kingdom of darknesse which he hath gotten in men may not be discovered the which yet every man discerns and perceives by the works of darknesse which bear sway everie where and confesses that all things are naught with the children of Men yet notwithstanding none will go out of this darkned Babel lest he should loose the worlds friendship its honour profit and love c. for it is a hard and troublesome thing for the old Adam and goes to his very heart when he shall be counted a Fool and a Beast which he notwithstanding is by his highest wisdom And to this scope all exhortations do aime viz. that men should turn again to God and his Son Jesus Christ by true Repentance Now to hinder this true Repentance and to keep men in securitie by their own hypocriticall repentance the Devill thirdly doth cavill and blaspheme whatever God causeth to be told denounced and declared For the same course and processe is at this day in hand with the worse as was taken with the first world Sodome Gomorrha Jerusalem and other Cities and Countreys which perished in the wrath of God which also by the devils motion and instigation despised all things and relied upon their outward religion and their usuall insolent and domineering government and so by that means had no regard at all to the Day of the Lord which the servants of God were fain to denounce unto them O ye spirituall and corporall buyers and sellers O ye voluptuous eaters and drinkers O ye worldly and covetous planters and builders O ye fleshly and wanton woers men and women O ye stubborn and revolting children altogether will ye not at all have regard to the fearfull Day of the LORDs wrath unlesse it overwhelme you as a Lightning and destroy you from the earth will ye not learn to mark and observe by other mens harm and ruine the craftie subtiltie of the devil and the deceit of his apostles as from whom all calamitie and confusion hath taken its originall for they are those that have caused the poore people to sin and established hypocrisie by their witchcraft and idolatrie by which means the wrath of God hath begun to burn and shall not be quenched untill Babel be brought down and destroyed Now he therefore that will not fall with her from temporall unto eternall death let him erect and lift up his head in Faith observing and marking by all the works and signes of God that the Day of Redemption draws nigh and is even before the doore A Prayer for the Body of Jesus Christ in this troublesome and distressed time O Thou true and onely Head of thy in all the world dispersed Church Let to day the noble Balsam of thy holy Spirit flow down in full power into thy members that through the pure and sincere Milk the children may become young men young men through solid meat perfect men that we all may attain to the measure of thy perfect Age Be it O Lord Christ Jesus O let every member to day be right fruitfull in all works of Love which by thee are wrought in him to the honour of thy Fathers Name Let thy holy countenance shine in us that everie member may in all necessities of soul and bodie be powerfully healed Arme everie one with a new power of Grace that he may be strong against all high things which exalt themselves against thy holy and inward Knowledge and outwardly resist it Let the Light of the living Faith shine out of every one that people may see the works of thy inward Righteousnesse enter into themselves and receive thee into themselves the onely Worker of all Good that to the dispersed Church some may be daily added and gathered O thou true and onely Living Power of God drive away and repell all spirituall and corporall VVolves that they may not devoure not snatch away any of thy Members make void all wicked counsell which is consulted against thy Bodie that the raging and furious ones may perceive that all their consultations against thee are in vain O thou Father of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ work in everie man out of thy Grace the true knowledge of his sins the totall dying and the spirituall resurrection to a new holy and righteous life O LORD Jesus thou that therefore hast appeared in all men that thou mightest destroy and raze the kingdome of darknesse and manifest thy kingdome of Light and Grace in men apprehend we beseech thee vanquish the old craftie and deceitfull Serpent bruise its head to the purpose bind it with the promised chains of Darknesse that it may cease to seduce people in its seeming light of holinesse O God thou blessed holy Spirit since that thine is the Office of Judgement and Vengeance over all them that do evill rise up in thy Power arme thy self with might and utterly cast down them that revile and blaspheme thy holy Office Turn away ungodlinesse with the Scepter of Iron since that few or none from his heart will kisse the Child Jesus O let thy help break forth out of Zion Ah redeem thy poore distressed people Unite Heathen and Jews make one Sheepfold and let the Everlasting Gospel shine therein to the glory of thy holy Name Amen BE IT SO. 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houshold of Faith a Religionist a Christian an heir and child of God but he that hath not such a Faith nor suffereth the fruits of love to grow and blossome in a right godly and not seeming-holy way or nature he knoweth neither of Faith Religion nor Christianitie yea of no God in truth though he understood all the Scriptures all mysteries and Articles of beleef and could thereof talk and dispute eloquently and rationally even as an Angel of Light yet is he in Gods sight an unbeleever a miserable and contemnable man for he hath not in him the living power of the living Faith which alwayes is fruitfull in love therefore he talketh and prateth much of Faith and its righteousnesse yet he knoweth not what either Faith or Faiths works are whiles he doth not find and feel them experimentally inwardly in spirit and truth nor outwardly sheweth his talking and knowledge in deeds and works which God and good men may approve With such unprofitable Bablers is alas at this day all the world replenished namely with such as with open mouth cry Lord Lord prophesie and do signes and wonders but fulfill and accomplish not the will of God in power all these are but external plaisterers external cryers and seekers of Christ and the Faith despisers of the inward power of God or of the living Word of Faith and the whole kingdom of God in men in whom and by whom is the fulfilling of the Commandements and also the true Christian freedome in holinesse and righteousnesse Therefore thou Faith-conceited Man beseech God that he would work this living Faith in thee and free thee from this damnable and wrath producing imaginarie faith since that thou by this faith prated into thee hast imagined to thy self a freedome to sinne to transgresse Gods Commandments relying upon Absolution according to thy accustomed manner whereby alas thou art verily free but not from sinne as Christs kingdom requireth but from God and the fulfilling of his will and the observation of his Commandements in perfect obedience and so art become truly a slave of Satan 1 Joh. 3. v. 7 8 9 10. Every one therefore that will be a master of Faith let him behave himself as a pattern unblameable inwardly by the office of the holy Spirit in doctrine and outwardly in life as a follower of Jesus Christ He that boasteth of faith let him shew the new obedience of faith by a new righteous holy and to Christ-conformable life and conversation in the Love of God and his neighbour He that vaunteth of the Articles of Faith let him shew them forth in deed and truth for God is served neither with knowledge babling nor disputation nor yet the Church of the Saints which overcometh all things with Love in Patience and consequently not with words but with power Therefore O beloved Man that sayest that thou beleevest in God or but that there is a God make thy faith appear with true fruit in the strict observation of his commandements otherwise is thy saying vain and thou in truth beleevest on no God nor that there is a God for otherwise thou wouldest tremble and shake at the breach of his Commandements Thou that sayest I beleeve that Christ is dead for me shew then by thy self in deed the death of Christ namely that thine old Adam is buried with him thy lust and desire is crucified with him and thou risen again with Christ in a new nature or life of the Spirit otherwise is thy faith of Christ an historicall knowledge without all power and propertie of Faith Thou that sayest I beleeve a Church of Saints which the holy Spirit enlightneth sanctifieth and purifieth examine thy self whether the holy Spirit doth inwardly enlighten teach chastise admonish anoint guide govern lead and direct thee and thou also hast by the power of the holy Spirit the kingdom of God revealed in thee so that thou resistest all that exalteth it self against Gods will his knowledge and confession through the office or power of the holy Spirit and that the tentation from the world flesh and blood and wicked enemie is a right hellish torment to thee so then art thou a true member of the true Church of Christ Sayest thou O Man so I am for I am a baptized Christian O beloved Man shew forth the drowning of the old Adam the mortification of his lusts and desires and the renuntiation which thou hast made to the Devill the World and the Flesh in truth so that they rule no more in thee nor move thee to sin though they entice stirre and egge thee on to it Doest thou not or findest thou not this so then art thou an unbaptized and unchristened man for thou livest in the old and not in the new birth therefore art thou a violator of the Covenant of God Sayest thou yet I partake of the flesh and blood of Christ If thou partake thereof then shew the living-making power of the flesh of Christ and that the blood of Christ hath cleansed thee from all sins in words and works so hast thou truly partaken of the flesh and blood of Christ otherwise goest thou to the Lords Supper to thy double condemnation In summe all the Articles must live sensibly in thee and outwardly demonstrate the living power of love otherwise is thy Christianitie meer hypocrisie seeming holinesse self chosen godlinesse and imaginarie faith which do but further the destruction both of body and soul as alas appeareth before our eyes and yet no man taketh it to heart or will duely examine himself Two Questions verie necessarie concerning these present and continuing Warres viz. 1. From whence Warre doth spring 2. By what meanes it ends AS the inward exterpation or rooting out of Jesus Christ with his holy and threefold office in mans soul which when she is obedient unto and receives him he then as the true and onely high-Priest perfectly reconciles sanctifies cleanses and presents her as a new creature to his heavenly Father in holy attire of Love and as the onely Master and Teacher in her sent from the heavenly Father makes her remember her miserie in penitencie chastises her instructeth teacheth guideth and preserves her from the spirit of errour and thus in her powerfully exerciseth his royall office as her Head and LORD to the utter ruine and demolishing of the Devils Sin pallace bruising the head of the subtle and holy-seeming Serpent quenching and suppressing of all that shall exalt it self against his inward kingdom of grace as also to the overcoming of all outward enemies through the Spirit of Prayer and his iron Rod or Scepter and thus killeth and crucifieth sin Death the Devill Hell the Flesh and Blood and break asunder the whole kingdom of sin so that it can no more bring under subjection or into darknesse the soul which he hath redeemed is the onely cause of unbelief and from thence springing unrighteousnesse wickednesse malice hypocrisie self-chosen godlinesse outward false worship of God or Sectarie