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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48760	A letter, written by that famous and faithful minister of Christ Mr John Livingstoun unto his parishoners of Ancram in Scotland, dated Rotterdam October 7. 1671.	Livingston, John, 1603-1672.	1671 (1671)	Wing L2599; ESTC R216776	17,702	19

Word and Discipline which terrified and tormented them and may now both swear terrible Oaths and drinke drunk which by some will be expounded as a clear evidence of their loyaltie they may now after the example of many Great ones walk in the lust of uncleanness mind nothing but how by any means just or unjust to get the World and then how to spend it on their lusts and hate and to their power persecute all who will not run with them to the same excess of riot Now as I have often in publick with as great earnestness and tenderness as I could warned these to flee from the wrath to come so I would yet desire them to stand still a little before they go to the pit and hear from a truely loving Friend a few words which I am confident in the day of the great reckoning shall be found a message from the living God Do you beleeve there is a God or Heaven or Hell or can ye with all your will and strength scrape the thoughts of these out of your sleeping consciences Or do ye in such sort hate God that because ye are his creatures ye will so far be avenged on your selves as to sell your selves to his enemie the Devil for nought to be tormented in all eternity I am most sure none of you all can be sure that ye are Reprobats and I can give you assurance greater than the stability of Heaven and Earth even the sworn word of him that liveth and reigneth for ever that if ye will forsake your wicked way and yet betake your selves to the only Saviour of lost sinners ye are no Reprobates O! what advantage have ye when ye have gained all the World and all the Pleasures all the Riches and all the Favoure of it and have lost your immortal and precious Souls It is utterly impossible but that sometimes your own heart tells you there will be bitterness in the end Doth not Whoredom and Drunkenness waste the body take away the Judgment and leave a sting in the Conscience Can any avoid the Curse that goods gotten by falshood or oppression bring upon the man and all he hath yea on his Posterity Is it not sad that Satan can prompt men to Swear Curse and Blaspheme and utter that which he dare not utter himself And although ye were free of all outward Outbreakings doth not an unrenewed estate the neglect of commanded duties Sabbath-breaking and such evils binde you over to the wrath of Him who is coming there in flaming fire to take vengeance on them who know not God and obey not the Gospel Ye may possibly think you reso far gone on that there is no retreat and the wayes of the Lord are such as your disposition can never agree with but how can your disposition agree to burn consume never consume in everlasting flames where each of all your fins shall have the own particular torment How can ye agree to dwell with Internal Furies Or will ye adde to all your other wickedness despaire despising of all the Lords loving loud and long continued Invitations What shall you answer if hereafter the Lord shall say to some of you I would have given thee both Grace and Glory if thou hadst but sough it thou wouldst not give once two or three knocks at my door thou wouldst not open when I knocked oft and long at thy door by so doing thou hast subscribed thine own Reprobation and Condemnation Oh let me obtain this much of all and every one of you for all the pains I have taken among you in preaching for all my Nine years banishment from you for all the prayer I have put up for you for all the love which he who knoweth all things knoweth I bear to you yea let your own souls and the love you have to your own welfare here and hereafter obtain it or rather let him who for sinners shed all his most precious blood at Jerusalem obtain this of you that you will take one day each of you alone from morne to evening forbearing both meat and drink and go apart rather into some quiet room in an house or unto some part of the fields where you may be most quiet and having before-hand marked in the Bible such Places as are fit to be read at such a time as also having somewhat searched your way toward God and his wayes toward you there set yourselves in his sight spending the time in Confession of sins and Prayer for Pardon and grace to serve him and save your own souls and if which is not readily to be supposed ye get no access on such a day yet continue thereafter in such exercise and suits for deliverance from Hell Enjoying of Heaven and the Favour of God are worth more pains then ye can take all our Life Now if this so easie and necessary advice shall be rejected without prescribing time and place or measure and manner but if the main intent of taking some time to humble yourselves before God and turning unto him be rejected I take instruments before Son and Moon and all the Creatures that I have left this warning as an indorsed summones fixed on the doore of your consciences to be called and judged before him who is ready to judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and in his Glory when beside the witnessing of all your sins of your own consciences and of all the Creatures I also as your lawful Minister sent to procure your Reconciliation with God shall appear to witness that ye got fair warning but did reject the same and would needs choose death Therefore while it is called to day take a trial of Christs Yoke do but put him to it and see whether or not he will open the windowes of Heaven and raine Blessings and Righteousness upon you come and see and tast the goodness of the Lord ye shall be made to say He is a rich and loving Master once engage your hearts to him and ye may defye Sathan and all the allurments and terrours of the World to draw you from him Glad would my heart be to hear before I go to the grave that some of you have begun a new course and if ye begin indeed ye will not get it supprest it will be heard I shall as I can pray for it and desire others here to pray for it It is not needful to multiply words I leave it with you as ye shall answer to Jesus Christ when he shall come in the clouds The Second Rank is of those who either had true grace or seemed to have it and who went a length beyond others in an orderly walk and following the Ordinances at home and abroad but since the late change have either turned loose and profane or so far sided with the corruptions of the time that not one footprint of their former stedfastness tenderness doth appear but they are justly reckoned among those who will obey whatsoever is

commanded by man although directly opposite to the will of God revealed in his Word to their own lawfully sworn Engagements These without Repentance Amendement are in a large worse condition than those of the first Rark for their practice proclameth that once they betook themselves to Jesus Christ his wayes and had some love and respect for him but now they repent that ever they did so for they have seen something in him for which they judge he is not worthie that they should either do or suffer any thing for him I am much assured that Sathan hath got such entrance in some of those who once had a profession and now are declined that they shall not again be renewed unto repentance but shall wax worse and worse having their consciences seared with an hote yron Oh that my fears may be prevented But I have good confidence that some who have gone a great length in this course of Apostacy shall yet before they go off the World glorifie God by a free and full Confession of their foule fall Yea I trust that sundrie of them want not a gnawing sting even all along but fear of shame before the World and fear of worldly loss and oh how small a thing of the World have any of these to have preferred to blessed Jesus Christ these hinder hitherto their coming off their dangerous way Let all who have declined and who have not willingly and wilfully chosen to remain in opposition to God and his righteous wayes and his afflicted People let them but compare their present state with what it was before and answer within their own heart to God which of the two they allow as best Ye had encouragement beyond many others in that the Lord enabled three or foure of that Congregation and these but boys chearfully to endure scourging and banishment rather then depart from their former Principles and Practice and most of these are now in a better outward condition than before these shall be witnesses against you if ye do not in time betake yourselves avowedly to your former profession I have yet by me the Subscriptions to the Covenant of all the men that were of the Congregation Not only that Paper but the hands of all both men and women which in swearing the Covenant after reading the Solemne Acknowledgement of sins and Engagement to duties were lifted up to God these hands because they will endure forever shall be everlasting witnesses either for you or against you Ye got warning that such trials would come as have since ensued and seemed to be fortified against them Remember the speech I had to you the Monday after the last Communion wherein presaging what would shortly follow I in a manner bid you farewel ye seemed then to be somewhat moved and to resolve on all hazards to abide by the Cause of God ye seemed to run well who or what hath hindered you that ye should not obey the truth It may be there are few or none in all the Land who in all points have kept their Covenant to God but have neglected some opportunities of their dutie and the good Lord will pardon such as see the plague of their own heart turne to him but to joine in the course of defection with those who have abjured that Covenant to countenance an intruded Hireling and join with him in that which they call Worship yea to sit and drink with him who was lawfully and deservedly Excommunicated by the Church of Scotland to keep Holy Dayes appointed by men to withdraw from the fellowship and meetings of those who in some degree continue in their integrity these are such gross and direct violations of the Oath of God as can proceed from nothing but a fearful deserting of God from a preferring the will of man to the will of the living God and preferring the ease and petty pelf of the world to the Salvation of your immortal souls I am fully sure ye dare not say before the Lord that although all feat of inconvenience from man were quite taken away yet conscience of obeying the will of God would make you do as now ye do If ye were sure within ten dayes by death to turn your back on all would ye not think it fitting that both God and the world saw a change on you from your present way and ye have no assurance of one day Think often on Christs Word that who deny him before men he will deny them before his Father It is impossible it is utterly impossible to be a Disciple of Jesus Christ or an heir of glory without a Resolution to quite all even Life it self for his sake when called to it I am much afrayed when the conscience of some of you shall waken that ye shall hardly be keeped from some degrees of despair Come off come off in time be not afrayed or ashamed to witness against yourselves and the wicked course of the time give Glory to God get peace to your own consciences strengthen the hands and make glad the hearts of those that are seeking God ye know not but if ye delay your wakening may come after the door is shut and that then shall be no times of refreshing from the presence of the Lord As for the poor wretch that is thrust-in upon you do not hate him do not injure him rather pray for him and ●●e means if it be possible that he may recover but do not countenance or join with him ye may easily be sensible he is not a messenger from the Lord for your spiritual good but a snare and hardener of you in unwarranted wayes I may by good ground from the Word of God affirm that unless a gracious change be wrought both he and all that follow him shall perish Eternally Now the Lord himself who only can do it open your eyes to see the danger of your way urge and enable you to take sometime to mourn before him in secret and openly to testify as occasion offers before good and evil that ye are returned to your former Profession then shall none of all your Transgressions be mentioned unto you The Third Rank is the little handful of those who in such an evil time have laboured to keep their garments clean to whom it is given in the behalf of Christ nor only to beleeve on him but also to suffer or at least expose themselves to suffering for his sake ye have great cause to bless the Lord I and many others will joine with you to bless his holy name that howbeit ye have but a little strength ye desire to keep his word and not deny his name ye have found and will finde yet more that Christ will not be behinde with you nor sleep in your debt I trust your consolations abound far beyond your fears or dangers or sufferings your hundred fold is going to the fore for you and yours in the Bank of Heaven when more than an hundred is the