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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43579	Israel's lamentation after the Lord, or, A discourse, wherein every well-wisher to Zion is excited, and directed how to lament after the Lord with prayers and tears, to maintain the ordinances of God, or God's presence with his ordinances amongst us being some meditations upon 1 Sam. 7.2.	Heywood, Oliver, 1629-1702.	1683 (1683)	Wing H1768; ESTC R22352	67,400	163

we shall agree amongst our selves Lamenting together would clear up our eye-sight and beget an harmony of hearts 5. Other persons in all other cases do lament after the Objects that their hearts are set upon David followed his dead Friend Abner with sorrow and bitterly lamented his dead Son Absalom The Companions of Jephthah's Daughter yearly lamented her Yea David much lamented Saul though his Enemy while living and his sworn Brother Jonathan Jeremiah lamented for Josiah and all the singing-men singing-women spake of Josiah in their lamentations to this day Yea they made them an Ordinance in Israel 2 Chron. 35.25 And which of you are so hard-hearted but you would lament a dead Friend or Brother Sister Wife Child Parent And canst thou not find in thy heart to spend some sad thoughts on thy departing Lord or follow the sad Hearse of deceased Ordinances Ah carnal hearts Ah hard hearts Wo be to stupid wretches Shall a poor Idolatrous Micah cry out after his Teraphim And shall we let the only true God go with silence and dry eyes Is not our God worth lamenting after Will even careless women lament at last for the teats for the pleasant fields for the fruitful vine And shall not Gods Children lament for those full breasts of Gospel ordinances Shall not Children cry and long for the sincere milk of the word that they may grow thereby If you were sensible you would cry out my Father a little bread to an hungry Soul my Mother let me suck those breasts of consolation I am pining languishing famishing to death let me be nourished to eternal life 6. If we lament not after the Lord and his Ark he will go yet further from us if not totally leave us There was never such symptoms of Gods taking away the Candlestick and leaving us to the Idolatry and Cruelties of Popery in this Kingdom since the Reformation as there is at this day horrible Abominations and Atheism preparing for it our ingratitude for prevention thus long the general Antipathy to a Sound Ministry a Spirit of giddiness to entertain the most senseless fopperies a mincing some grosser Popish doctrines by pretended Protestants humane Inventions coyned in darkest times of Popery retained Courts Fees Officers Ceremonies Popish names places Customs defended Want of Sympathy with our suffering brethren abroad in that kind attempts for Reformation not succeeding opposed Instruments reserved prepared for Scourges denying plots as clear as the Sun Preferring Popish Tyranny before Christs Government most debauchery in some that should be best Popish Emissaries swarming Popish Families increasing Honest Ministers much laying aside Weapons Antidotes fearlesness in many unpreparedness of all for such a dispensation impressions on many of Changes Freedom of Ordinances to lay in for a storm unprincipled professors must pass an Ordeal-Tryal judgment beginning at God's house Choyce stakes taken out of the hedg transplanted to Heaven Witnesses prophecying in Sackcloth must be slain the Whore must sit as a Queen and see no loss of Children Antichrist must render himself more cruel and odious to stir up Kings hearts against the Church indifferency of great potentates in the cause of Religion Policy for outward security the compass that most stear by Christ's interest is low in Protestant Countries God's laying them under severe rebuke by his immediate hand Little notice taken of providences no publick fastings and humiliations former guilt of blood unwiped off Such things as these speak black showrs of Popish darkness and barbarous showrs of blood God almighty prevent But certainly these things call for bitter lamenting after the Lord either to prevent them or prepare our hearts for them or both I shall add 7. There is no way to bring our Lord or his Ark back to us but this course of lamenting after him God hath withdrawn himself purposely to make us follow him mourning And he seems to stand still and hearken what we do in this case Jer. 8.6 I hearkened and heard saith God but they spake not aright What was that certainly repenting of their sins lamenting inquiries after God And Jer. 31.18 19. If God can but hear persons bemoan themselves follow God desire the Lord to turn them and turn to them see what kind language he gives them ver 20. Is Ephraim my dear Son Is he a pleasant Child for since I spake against him I do earnestly remember him still therefore my bowels are troubled for him I will surely have mercy upon him saith the Lord. God doth carry in this case as a loving Father being provoked to Whip or leave his offending Child looks back on his sobbing broken-hearted lamenting Child saying Alas my Child what ails thee What 's the matter with thee What wantest thou Dost thou want an heart to repent friendship with me Dost thou lament so sadly after reconciliation with me and return to thee I am glad of it that was all I aimed at I have attained mine end come come thou art welcome to me come my dear my lovely Child let me wipe thy blubbered cheeks and kiss thee again I am glad my rod and anger work so kindly I will return to thee with love and sweetest embraces Thus doth our Lord return with loving kindness and mercies and they shall be as if he had not cast them off There 's no way probable or possible to bring God or his Ark back but this and shall we not take this course It 's true its a doubtfull and dangerous case we are not certain he will return but yet there 's a May-be a who can tell in it We are sure running from him and sinning against him with an hard-heart will undoubtedly rob us of him and ruine us but we have lost more labour to less purpose therefore let us turn to the Lord with all our heart with fasting with weeping with mourning c. Joel 2.12 13. and then say as Gods directs them v. 14. Who knoweth if he will return and repent and leave a blessing behind him even a meat-offering and a drink-offering unto the Lord our God Oh how well doth God take such a carriage How willing is he to return back to us Only he expects we should be sensible of his withdrawing and bitterly lament after him 8. If we do not lay to heart the loss of God's Presence and Ordinances God will make us to lament upon other accounts If he design us good he will pinch us till we feel and cry out if not we shall be left to lament hopeless and helpless in Hell torments If we will not lay to heart spiritual Judgments God threatens to send a Curse upon us and to curse our blessings Mal. 2.2 How why if men prize not their Temple Priviledges God can blast the fruits of the Earth Hag. 1.9 We looked for much and loe it came to little and when ye brought it home I did blow upon it or blow it away why saith the Lord of Hosts because of mine house that is

be dimned as well as diminished Painted Glass obscures the Light So Humane Inventions corrupt God's pure Worship Jeroboam's Golden Calves hindered the purity of Ordinances so that Religious People and Priests fled to God's sincere Worship at Jerusalem 2 Chron. 11.13 16. This defilement of Ordinances makes God's poor Children cry out Death is in the Pot. Our Saviour saith of the Scribes and Pharisees Thus have you made the Commandments of God of none effect by your Traditions and therefore in vain did they worship God Mat. 15.6 9. God's Institutions are ours but men may mar and spoil them with their fond Additions or Alterations Ezek. 7.20 As for the beauty of his Ornament he set it in Majesty but they made the Images of their abominations and of their detestable things therein though they call and account them delectable things therefore have I set it far from them Men may be guilty of crimen laesae Majestatis treasonable practices by adulterating the King's Coin or setting their own stamp thereon or by Clipping it There 's a sad woe both in the beginning middle and end of the Bible against those that add to or diminish from God's Word or Institutions It 's a dangerous thing to think to mend what God hath thought good to enjoyn Antichrist hath so corrupted God's Worship as well as Truths that they that love their Souls or Safety are called upon to come out of her Rev. 18.4 God is a jealous God and will not hold such guiltless i. e. will deal with them as guilty malefactors as take his Name in vain Nay God bids men rather go serve their Idols than pollute his holy Name Ezek. 20.39 Yea some Shepherds also are said to tread down with their feet the residue of the Pastures and soul the Waters with their feet so that God's Flock is in danger of pining Ezek. 34.18 God's Children know how to avoid a sinful Separation on one hand and a Communion that necessitates them to sin on the other hand there 's danger of both extreams Poor scrupulous tender Consciences are too apt to run into the former and adventurous Spirits are too apt to run into the latter for by and base ends Sometimes the latter falls out as well as the former that godly Ministers and Christians must either sin or suffer and to a conscientious Soul the case is soon determined and hence it comes to pass that their Persons and Ordinances with them have been forced into retirements The Witnesses will rather chuse to prophesie in Sackcloth with purity according to God's Will than live in the greatest pomp and splendour in betraying the Truths and Appointments of God by Superstition or Idolatry to gratifie the flesh or comply with the humours of men They judge it safer to be banished from the Altar than bring strange fire to it they think it safer to venture on mens displeasure though the Furnace be heated seven times hotter than cast themselves into the dreadful vengeance of the great God by sinning against him and provoking the Eyes of his glory They resolve to stick to the Ark though in Abinadab's house and follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth rather than be dragg'd down to sin and Hell with the Dragon's Tail Though Persecution attend the former as in the Marian daies and Preferment wait on the latter 2. General Head to be explained in the Text and Doctrine is what is this lamenting after the Lord The word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 comes from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quiescere the same word with Noach which signifies rest They rested after the Lord it 's in Niph which encreaseth its signification and notes these seven things 1. They inclined after the Lord they had wandred away from the Lord and never thought after him they had turned aside after vain things but now they begun to hearken after Samuel's preaching and begun to look about them consider what they were doing had a months mind as we say after God and his ways and worship and a heart to inquire after the Lord is a good step as it 's said of the men of Shechem their hearts inclined after Abimelech or to follow him Judg. 9.3 It 's well so for when people stand still pose themselves what have we been doing have we done well or ill what course is best to be taken and begin to have some inclinations after God more than formerly this is the first step 2. They were setled established after the Lord they staggered formerly were but in suspence wavering like the Apostle James's double-minded man not knowing which way to take like those in 1 King 18.21 Why halt ye between two Opinions one while leaning to Baal another while to God reeling like drunkards halting like lame men whose Leggs are not equal fluctuating to and fro with divers thoughts But now this people is firm well resolved with purpose of heart determined to cleave to the Lord Acts 11.23 The trembling Needle fixeth towards its center the Tree is rooted the Will is bowed the Affections setled the Conscience resolved nothing shall obstruct their course they have set down the Staff and say as Ruth to her Mother-in-law Ruth 1.16 17. Intreat me not to leave thee or to return from following after thee for whither thou goest I will go c. So these though they had been haesitating and doubtful what to do yet jam in Dei obsequio gradum figunt stabilem certum they get a sure footing in their motion God-wards 3. They were congregated and assembled after the Lord so some read it they now begin to flock like Doves to their windows they troop after him collecti sunt post Dominum Jer. 3.17 All Nations shall be gathered to it to the Name of the Lord God yea Judah shall go with Israel v. 18. See also Jer. 50.45 They had been broken now they are united Some went after some mens commands and examples some after others but now the great God makes an Act of Uniformity and Unanimity Zech. 14.9 In that day there shall be one Lord and his Name one One Soveraign Commander one Way one Worship That great God doth not only injoyn one thing but doth joyn them in one bond and mind Oh happy day when the Grace of God heals the breaches that are in mens spirits and divisions in the Church 4. They groaned complained bemoaned themselves in their following the Lord as a Child followeth his departing Father and as Phaltiel followed his Wife Michal weeping behind her to Bahurim 2 Sam. 3.15 16. or as Micah followed the Danites that took away his Idols crying after them they said What aileth thee he said Ye have taken away my Gods and what have I more and what is this that ye say unto me What aileth thee Judg. 18.23 24. q. d. You could not have done me a worse turn lay your hands on your hearts ask your selves whether any loss can parallel this of losing ones God! You need