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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44594	A wonder of wonders: or, Gods people the worlds wonder, or They are men wondred at very profitable for these times, wherein men take so much liberty to sin and dishonour our God. Written by Roger Hough a lover of the truth.	Hough, Roger.	1666 (1666)	Wing H2915; ESTC R215376	12,204	27

from the Lord of Hosts that dwelleth in mount Zion It is the lot of Gods people to be for signes and wonders God in his secret wisdom hath so appointed it therefore be contented with it all you that fear God it was to old in time and it is so in our time we may sée it by experience God people are wondred at Secondly worldly wise men that are blind in their judgements they are as men blind-folded they do not sée nor discern the wayes of God and his people 1 Cor. 2.14 there is a natural blindness in natural men that makes the things of God dubious unto them they cannot understand them and so they become foolishness unto them and they esteem them not Beloved consider it this is the condition of natural men and worldly minded men Heaven is lest in their thoughts and they look very little after Heaven but let a man discourse with them and this for the most part they will reply that they hope they shall be saved as well as the best that make much ado and they know God is mercifull and they rest themselves upon the Lords mercy but the whole course of their desires is after the world and worldly profit all their affections are upon things below but the word and the message of God by his spirit in the mouths of his Ministers they count parables Ezek. 20. ver 49. Mark 12. ver 24. wicked men as naturall bruit beasts speaking evil of the things they understand not 2 Pet. 2. v. 12. Beloved the men of the world they never understand nor séek after God O consider this all you that forget God Psal 50.22 Consider this all you that speak proud words against the Lord Mal. 3.13 You whose words have been stour against the Lord Consider this all you that are naturally blinded in your sins if you did but know the danger you were in you would not do as you do Thirdly There is a principal of Irreligion in wicked men rather then they will condemn themselves they will condemn all the wayes of Gods people nay rather then they will condemn their own sins they condemne the ways of holiness nay rather then they would forsake their sins and become new creatures they will rather seek to perswade others to sin with them there is so few in the world that are really godly that they may well become a wonder though many profess Christ yet there are but a few that truely rest and acquiess themselves in Christ Beloved there are many men in the world that are Religious but there are but few in the world that are truely and really religious Many are called but few are chosen the whole world lyeth in wickedness 1 John 5.19 Whole Nations lie in wickednesse whole Countries Cities and Towns lie in wickednesse Beloved wickedness is the fashion of the world and he that is most wicked is most in fashion a man that hath his cloaths out of fashion is a man that is sore looked at and wondred at Beloved he that is a true Saint of God is like a man out of fashion with his cloaths he is a man sore looked at and wondred at godly men they are but few and as we may say they are thin sowed they are but here one and there another one in a City and two in Tribe it may be a man can scarsly find one in a City in some places in the world the Lord was ever so merciful that if there had bin but ten righteous persons found in Sodome the Lord would have spared Sodome for their sakes but there was not ten to be found in the whole City that were righteous persons we do not read of any but Lor and his family Gen. 18. ver 32. And that very moment that Sodome was destroyed Lot entred into Zoar and that City was saved for Lots sake Gen. 19.21 22 23. Beloved if it be so that godly persons are so few to be found as indeed it hath been so formerly and I pray God for his mercies sake it be not so amongst us at this present day Ier. 5. ver ● Run ye too and fro throughout the streets of Ierusalem and know and seek in the broad places of the City and see if you can find a man if there be any that executeth judgement and that seeketh the truth and I will pardon it And thus ou may see they that are really the people of God they are but few in number godly men are v●ry few and they have many Enemies affronting them wicked men they are a great numbers and stand stiffly in opposition against them and when they have nothing else to say they can affront the people of God with their holy carriage towards God what they say do you think that none must go to Heaven but you we make not such a do and yet we hope to be saved as well as you what say they shall no one be saved but such as you shall no one never come to Heaven but such as make so much a do of praying and preaching as you do as if we were ready to die every moment soul whoever thou art that thus reasons against God and his people thou if ever the Lord opens thy eyes will repent of the folly and at the hour of death when thou knowest that thou must die and can live no longer thou wouldst give all the treasure in the world if it were in thy power to be in such a condition as the poorest soul is in the world that hath feared God truly yea thou wouldest wish then that thou hadst lived as such a one hath done when thou formerly hath despised mocked and jeered thou could be willing new to change condition with him Fourthly Goods People are become the worlds wonder because there are many great men that are wicked men many great men are wonderers there are many great men and but few great men that are good men great men are either proud or presumptuous for the most part Jer. 5.5 I will go unto the great men and speak unto them for they have known the way of the Lord and the judgements of their God but these have altogether broken the Yoak and burst the bands Great men are great enemies to God and his people But beloved consider if it be so as you chance to see a great man to become a good man that indeed is a mighty forceing argument to encourage people in the ways of God and a mighty help to Religion and thus you see godly persons are men woudred at for these ends First God hath ordered it Secondly Worldly wise men are blinded in their judgements Thirdly There is a principal of irreligion in most men and Fourthly Few great men are good men And now Beloved to apply this truth to our selves consider that he that the world most wonders at and esteems the least and counts the most unhappiest it s most certain that that man is the most happiest of all other Soul