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A63155	The Trial and condemnation of the two false witnesses unto the late Midnight-cry published by Mr. Mason, the author of that great present assembly in Buckinghamshire who are met together under a deluding expectation of Christ's coming to judgment on Whitsunday approaching : shewing of what dangerous consequence this may prove to the present government ...		1694 (1694)	Wing T2156; ESTC R37897	23,791	34

in the same twelfth Page he is resolved to die a Martyr for this Fundamental Point or Article of his Religion Now you see it is come to this Issue that I am to maintain this Faith even unto the Death But the best of all is in p. 14. This is to be seen only by an Eye of Faith A little before he spake of Armies of God's sending which we suppose he did not mean of Locusts except the French Locusts nor yet of swarms of Flies c. and though his natural Eye-sight could not look cross the Seas into France yet it is difficult to perswade us that he had not heard what great Preparations Lewis le Grande had made by Sea and Land for giving us a Visit to destroy the Northern Heresy so called cum multis aliis and then his Faith is but a moral Perswasion and no Divine Revelation Now if he hath never heard of these things we may safely conjecture he hath slept for some Years like Epimenides and might also fall into a Dream But if he hath heard thereof and believes the same then his Faith is no more Divine than that of every Philonides as to these things and if there is a Peculiarity in his Faith as he will needs have it to be we find no foundation for it it in all the Scripture viz. That England hath out-sinned her Day of Grace and that all our most hearty Endeavours to Repent and Turn to God will not prevent the Infallible Certainty of our immediate Destruction Or indeed that any Nation or People though never so wicked did ever lie under such a Doom And though Christ's Words unto Jerusalem O that thou hadst known in this thy Day the things that belonged to thy Peace but now they are hid from thy Eyes seems to come nearest hereunto yet we are to note 1. That Expression had not a direct tendency to the Salvation of their Souls as if thereby they had been laid under an utter Impossibility of Repenting for the Words are an Appendant to that Expression before How often would I have gathered you together as a Hen her Chickens under her Wing which some eminent Divines together with Mr. Baxter also understand of our Saviour's intentions of gathering them into a National Church under the Gospel Administration and under a most peculiar Protection as of old they had been in the Legal Administration 2. Christ exhorts them afterwards as a collective Body to Repent and turn to God Daughters of Jesus weep for your Sins c. 3. And he prays for them as a Nation considered who were guilty of his Death in the whole Body Politick viz. in the Chief Priests and Elders or ruling Sanedrim and in its Members also when all the People cryed out unanimously Crucify crucify him and yet he prays Father forgive them i. e. if they will afterwards repent by the preaching of the Gospel 4. Christ sent his Apostles and Ministers to preach Repentance to the whole Nation else why did they enter into the Jews Synagogues from time to time on their Sabbath Day Forty Years after his Death before their City was destroyed and about Sixty Years to the Remnant afterwards before they were totally destroyed from being a Nation But Mr. W. will needs have this Faith and Belief of his thus riveted into his Head by strong impulse to be the Standard or Touchstone not only of his own Faith and Christianity but for his Apprehensions of others Christianity also pag. 15. They seem all of them to have a Principle of Grace in them who have this Faith though they may not have great Parts And that their Faith should not prove a Choak-Pear to any of us they interlard their Divinity with a seeming regard unto the Scripture in the same 15th page And they all seem to have some Impression made upon their Heart from Scripture One great Argument for the Authority of the Word of God is That all Hereticks and Sectaries will allow thereof and fetch their Proofs even from Sacred Writ though it is evident that the Church of Rome and some of her Children who hang on her Skirts though in Disguise to captivate silly Souls use the Holy Bible as the Philistines did the Ark who being perplext and sometimes smitten in their Consciences thereby hoise it up as decently as they can on their Wooden-Cart Tradition c. and drive it out of their Coasts sending it away from them to take its Lot with the detestable Offerings of their Golden Mice In the last-mentioned Page Mr. Th. Ward gives us a Copy of his Countenance which looks Janus-like with a double Face Modest● on one side and presumptuously Arrogant on the other In the first he tells us that he and those of his Way are not Learned Doctors as to the Revelation Prophesies But on the other side his Countenance looks with such an Aspect as if he expected the World should take Him and his Brother Evans for those Two Witnesses Apoc. 2. and therefore prepares us all to behold them as shortly to be Slain and to Rise again in Three Days and to Ascend up into Heaven c. As by their own Words And though we cannot fathom those Depths in th● Revelations as being indeed uncapable of them I mean as ordinary People yet such is the goodness of God to condescend to do it in a way we are most capable of and can best defend our selves so that we are now loudly called on to believe the Revelations are fulfilling in Them and have prepared us to entertain venerable Thoughts of themselves though they cannot tell us how we are to understand these Mysteries And lest we too closely intrude M. Ward defends himself as with ● Quadrter-Staff and lays about him with big Words to maul dow● all our Arguments and Objections which we have in his Postscript telling us that this Faith or Doctrine of his Christianity is Infallible and hath No If in it or can admit no possibility of Frustration so that hereby he seems in Capital Letters to tell the World that this sacred Creed of his touching England's Immediate and Irrevocable Destruction is built upon a more firm Foundation than that Great Oath of God which the Apostle comments on in Heb. 3. 2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. who sware that his Backsliding Church should not enter into his Rest or the promised Land yet not in that Simple or Absolute manner but that he reserved a Condition for its non-accomplishment namely If they Repented not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Another Fencing-Blow Mr. Ward gives us in the same Postscript as if he meant to affright us into his Belief He that opposeth it viz. the aforesaid Article of his Faith opposeth the Seal of God and since God hath sealed it it is done When he shall please to come forth next he would do well to explain his Meaning and whether he apprehends this Answer is the Sin against the Holy Ghost Valentine Evans

38. 17. 5. What looks more like a positive Decree for Destruction than Gods Command to the Prophet not to pray for that People Jer. 17. 16. as if they had Sinned that Sin unto Death 1 Joh. 5. 16. and yet we find Jeremy very affectionately drawn out from them Jer. 9. 1. c. and the effect was a farther time for tryal v. 7. 6. What Decree more Express and Irrevocable than that against Amalek Ex. 17. The Lord hath Sworn that he will utterly blot out all the remembrance of Amalek from under Heaven 1st Moses is Commanded to write it in a Book 2d And to rehearse it before Joshua 3d. An Altar is built to perpetuate the Memory thereof called Jehovah-Nissi and Balaam rememembers their Tremendous Doom Numb 34. 20. His end shall be to perish for ever And yet they are a Nation many Hundred Years after this and though one of the Confederate Enemies of the Church for whom the Prophets are so much concerned to Lament and moved thereto by God himself as in the 5th Consideration yet David prays that this Nation also with other of the Churches Enemies might come to seek the Name of God Psalm 83. 16. 7. What Doom more positive than Ninive's Destruction in Forty Days this was without an If as to the Prophet or any Man 's present apprehension when Jonah denounced that VVo after he had escaped that Storm at Sea though he soon found it otherwise and was made to understand that God's most Severe and Positive Threatnings always presuppose a Tacite Condition of Final Obduracy and Impenitency and that they are not otherwise to be understood 8. What more plain and express than Babylon's Destruction in Jer. 50. and yet God expected Repentance that he might have healed her or at least a deliberate Act of Reason in her hearty desire for her own Salvation VVe would have healed Babylon but she would not be healed Jer. 51. 19. 9. Those Two famous Texts following are a Sacred Coment to confirm the Argument and speak the same in Capital Letters That in Jer. 18. 7. At what time I say to a Nation or Kingdom to pluck it up or to destroy it yet if that Nation turn from their evil and repent they shall surely live The other in Zeph. 2. 2. Before the Decree bring forth seek the Lord. 10. What can be more positively spoken of the certain and infallible Damnation of any than Christ himself is pleased to express against the Scribes and Pharisees who had wilfully and maliciously Blasphemed that Holy Spirit by which they were convinced he did those great Miracles among them In short Isaiah is foreshewn the Jews final rejection of Christ by reason of that height of Impiety which should amount to no less than The Sin against the Holy Ghost which the Prophet gives us very Emphatically Isa 6. 10. Make their Hearts fat and their Ears heavy and shut their Eyes lest they see and hear and understand and convert and be healed And our Saviour often reminds them of this Prophecy telling them it was then fulfilled by their hei●t of wilful Impiety which through Gods Righteous Judgment rendred his Gospel which he Preached unto them in his own Sacred Person The Savour of Death unto Death although it came amongst them for this Primary End that it might Enlighten and Convert Now that these Jews had actually sinned The Sin against the Holy Ghost and so were given up afterwards unto that Judicial Blindness and Obduracy as issued in the Crucifixion of their Messias Christ expresly tells us in Mark 3. 30. touching which Matthew Chap. 13. 32. says It shall never be forgiven and what can be a more positive Doom And yet the Evangelist Mark Chap. 3. 29. renders it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which we Translate Is in danger of Eternal Damnation and this agrees with Isaiah who expressing the most dangerous State which this Nation of the Jews could be in on this side Hell as in the Text before and so remarkable that each of the Four Evangelists quote it against them Matth. 13. 14. Mark 4. 12. Luke 8. 10. John 12. 40. Besides St. Paul also Acts 28. 27. yet leaves them not without a possibility of Salvation lest they should Convert and be healed And if we compare the former Scriptures with Rom. 11. 7 8. we may find that this Judicial Blindness is a Mark of their own Self-reprobation and in Contradistinction from those other Jews who were of the Peculiar Election of Grace The Summary gathered from the whole Premises is this that as on the one hand none can be encouraged to think that any living and dying in final Obduracy and final Unbelief can have any possibility of Salvation being a flat contradiction in Terminis so on the other hand there is no Scripture Ground for any Person City or Nation though lying under a Positive and seeming Irrevocable Decree of Wrath to pass a Definitive Sentence against themselves Which to do is to enter into Gods most secret place of Thunder into which he would not suffer any of his dearest Favourites no not the Holy Prophets or Penmen of his Word to enter And the reason is very plain For that Discovery who for certain shall live and dye in Final Unbelief or in other words who they are that will be Self-murderers which is the true Cause and Ground of Gods Vnchangable and Irrevocable Decree for their Damnation would forthwith drive them into Final and Irrecoverable Desperation and Condemnation and which is contrary to Gods Great End in all his Severest Threatnings even in those Cases which seem most forlorn in Man's Eye the whole Scripture throughout all its parts declaring that it is thereby to raise them up to such an awakning sense of the exceeding greatness of their danger as thereby to provoke them to do their whole endeavour and to continue therein to cry to God with great Impunity for Converting Grace and to plead his Sacred Oath who hath Sworn by himself As I live saith the Lord I delight not in the Death of a Sinner but had rather he should live and not dye Ezek. 33. 11. And this most plainly appears yet farther when we consider how unkindly God takes it from degenerated Judah and Jerusalem that they concluded that their State was such as was without hope Jer. 2. 25. although the Prophet had just before told them their Sin was of a most deep dye insomuch that much Nitre and Soap would not fetch it out for that their Iniquity was marked before the Lord. Jer. 2. 22. nay and that their bruise was incurable Ch. 30. 12. yet for all there was Hope These things rightly apprehended may not only be sufficient if God please to Silence and Shame those Two Presumptuous and most Confident Persons who call themselves The Witnesses and who make it one chief Article of their Faith or Religion to believe Englands Immediate and Irrecoverable Destruction but likewise to confute that dangerous Muggletonian