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A26347	The necessity of the pouring out of the spirit from on high upon a sinning apostatizing people, set under judgment, in order to their merciful deliverance and salvation as it was delivered in part, upon 21. 9. 1678 being a general fast throughout the united colonies of N.E. / by William Adams ...	Adams, William, 1650-1685.; Torrey, Samuel, 1632-1707.; Flint, Josiah, 1645-1680.	1679 (1679)	Wing A499; ESTC W34144	49,745	57

of God in you But they in whom the Spirit of God dwells they are the excellent upon the Earth Psal 16.3 They are Gods Jewels Mal. 3.17 In that day when I make up my Jewels Mot. 3. If you do not get the Spirit of God to be in you you will be like to be guilty of New-Englands ruine I speak now to the Generation coming on upon the Stage if you or a considerable number of you do not take care to be right spirited for God that you may duely manage his work and carry it on and serve the God of you Fathers with a perfect heart and willing mind you will be like to destroy and lay this pleasant land desolate your irreligion will be an occasion thereof Psal 107.34 He turneth a fruitful land into barrenness for the wickedness of them that dwell therein Your sin your degeneracy your not owning and worshipping God in Spirit will provoke God to lay it desolate and then it will be charged upon you you will be reputed guilty of it as being you who have done it Zech. 7.11 14 But they refused to hearken c. for they said the pleasant land desolate There is the fault and there will it be charged And what a dreadful thing will it be to have the spoiling of such a blessed work as God hath here begun to ly at our door Mot. 4. While you are without the Spirit of God you are in extream danger You go in jeopardy of your lives the lives of your Souls every hour If this night thy Soul should be called for what would become of thee who hast none of the Spirit of Christ Assuredly Christ will say of you I know you not depart from me ye workers of iniquity And then how fearful would your condition be There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth This is the danger you are in while the Spirit is not given to you There is but a step betwixt your Souls and eternal death Sentence of condemnation is past upon you already Joh. 3.18 He that believeth not is condemned already Hell does as it were gape for you your condition is extreamly perilous Did sinners know in what danger of the lives of their immortal Souls they walk in every hour they are without the Spirit of Christ they would never sing care away with vain mirth and pastime or please themselves with some shew and formality of Religion only Oh the fearful amazing security of men and women that can sleep quietly and take their ease upon the brink of eternal misery Mot. 5. Consider you know not how little time you may have for the getting of the Spirit And therefore labour to get it quickly It is certain you have but a short time to work in but how short is uncertain We have seen and see dayly how suddenly they are cut down by the Sword and now by this sore disease God hath sent among us who in probability might have lived many dayes These especially are times wherin none can promise himself continuance of life Thou hast this day an opportunity of hearing the word of the Gospel and it may be mayst be something moved by it But who knows but that some of us here may never have another Oh that the present time could be improved by us all to strike the stroke for Eternity The present time is only ours and to know and improve that is our wisdom and duty 2 Cor. 6.2 Behold now is the accepted time now is the day of Salvation If we now improve it it shall be a day of salvation to us Heb. 3.15 While it is said To day if ye will hear his voice barden not your hearts If we neglect making out after the Spirit to day we know not what shall be on the morrow Jam. 4 14. None knows what a day may bring forth Prov. 27.1 Another day may bring the impenitent sinner into eternal flames God tells us that his Spirit shall not alwayes strive with men Gen. 6.3 And if the Spirit of God have once done striving with us then the time and hope of our getting the Spirit is past and gone also Now therefore while time and the day of grace lasts look about you lest the opportunity be lost and you be undone for ever If any shall now ask How shall we do to get the Spirit of God poured out upon us and dwelling in us There is a great deal of duty incumbent upon us in this respect We must not sit still and say It is not in our power to get the Spirit God expects that his word should stir us up to careful endeavours that we should up and be doing if so the Lord will be with us If we sit still we are sure to perish but if we stir up and set our selves to seek him who knows but the Lord may help us so to seek him as that he may be sound of us Something therefore of our duty in order hereto I shall endeavour to set before you in these following Directions And the same course is to be taken for the obtaining an encrease of the graces of the Spirit Direct 1. Labour for a serious considerate frame Duely to pender and weigh things especially matters of Eternity Seriously mind what your state what your danger what your work is That is the woful bane of many a Soul they do not consider Isai 1.3 My people doth not consider They do not throughly think of things some slight notions and workings they may have about them but it is not to purpose I believe there are many who think they are converted and have the Spirit of God who never set themselves to purpose to think what conversion was what sin is from which they should convert what God Christ and holiness is to which they should convert and what it is to have the Spirit of God It is a dreadful Judgement of God upon Gospel sinners that in seeing they see not they have some flighty sight and apprehensions of things but they do not see them really and to purpose They know every thing almost about Christianity but they feel nothing and so indeed know nothing Did men and women see things really and consider things serionsly and to purpose we should have other manner of endeavours for the Spirit for Conversion and Salvation then there are It would be a good step if sinners could get their hearts set upon and their thoughts seriously busied about those matters that lye betwixt God and their Souls and take up right and through apprehensions of those things which are of spiritual and everlasting concernment Hence is it wont to be said Consideration is half Conversion A giddy slighty generation that can scarce be serious or fixed in any thing that cannot get their hearts fixed seriously to think of things especially of a spiritual nature are not like to be a converted generation to he the subject of the pouring out of the Spirit We must therefore labour to set our

Souls of poor creatures as now doth the Souls of some poor wretches that have hardly minded they had Souls to save till death hath awakned them There would not then be such doubtings discouragements difficulties temptations fears and faintings in persons labouring under Soul perplexities But it should be well with their Souls and they might walk up and down in the light of Gods countenance Psal 89.15 they should experience the tokens of Gods favour toward them and be gladded therewith Psal 21.6 Thou hast made him exceeding glad with thy conntenance Psal 6.7 Thou hast put gladness into my heart Whatever outward troubles forrows they meet with in the world yet they should have inward peace be singularly supported comforted carryed through all outward distresses Joh. 16.22 and ye now therefore have sorrow but I will see you again and your heart shall rejoyce As the sight of Christ after risen from the dead to his disciples comfortless and distressed upon their Lords crucifixion filled their hearts with solid and stable joy which none could take from them So the fight and gracious presence of Christ by his holy Spirit with his afflicted Servants will eminently support and rejoyce their hearts under all their sorrows when he shall provide them with the grace of the holy Spirit And this Diodate understands by Christs seeing his Disciples again in the Text now quoted Hence is it spoken of the Servants of Christ that they are As sorrowful yet alway rejoycing 2 Cor. 6.10 And not only so but we glory in tribulations also Rom. 5.3 I am filled with comfort I am exceeding joyful in all our tribulation 2 Cor. 7.4 They have the peace of God which passeth all understanding keeping their hearts and minds through Christ Jesus which eats out all their care fear and disquietment Phil. 4.6 7. 2. In the enjoyment of outward peace and quietness with the blessings of it God would give his people were they rightly spirited for God his work and service peace and rest round about Text ver 18. And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation and in sure dwellings and in quiet resting places Isai 48.18 Oh that thou hadst hearkned to my Commandments then had thy peace been as a River and thy righteousness as the waves of the Sea The Lord would give great prosperity to his people were they sanctified and filled with the graces of his holy Spirit at least what and how much would be good and best for them He would order their outward conditions for their good and comfort They should have his protection and blessing if that were best security from temporal evils Psal 91.9 10. Because thou hast made the Lord which is my refuge even the most High thy habitation There shall no evil befal thee neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling Enemies open or secret should not prevail nor their attempts prosper because the Lord of Hosts himself would be their defence and safeguard Isai 31.5 As birds flying so will the Lord of Hosts defend Jerusalem defending also he will deliver it and passing over he will preserve it Zech. 12.9 10. And it shall come to pass in that day that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem And I will pour upon the house of David and upon the Inhabitants of Jerusalem the spirit of grace c. Judgments that are destructive should cease and be removed from them Psal 85.1 2 3. Lord thou hast been favourable unto thy Land thou hast brought back the Captivity of Jacob Thou hast forgiven the iniquity of thy people thou hast covered all their sin Selah Thou hast taken away all thy wrath thou hast turned thy self from the fierceness of thine anger Psal 91.3 Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler and from the noisome pestilence And all convenient and comfortable mercyes and blessings should be conferred upon them Psal 85.12 Yea the Lord shall give that which is good and our Land shall yield her increase 1. VSE Hence learn That all Gods Dispensations are of exceeding great weight There is no one of Gods Providences especially that concern the body of a people more especially his people that is inconsiderable The condition of a people is much altered by the pouring out or with-holding of Gods Spirit it is of very great concernment in what manner the blessed God carries it to a people whether in a way of anger or favour Love or displeasure in the dispensations of Gods Providence hath an efficatious it fluence to the weal or woe of any If the Lord be with a person or people in the way of his gracious dispensation they will be blessed and magnified exceedingly 2 Chron. 1.1 and the Lord his God was with him and magnified him exceedingly Psal 65.4 144.15 But if God forsake and depart from them their case will be wosull Hos 9.12 Yea woe also to them when I depart from them There is a powerfull and irresistible officacy of Gods Providence whether mercifull or afflictive upon his people It will work upon them His favour will raise his anger will depress and sink them His dispensations are no vain things Psal 30.7 Lord by thy favour thou hast made my mountain to stand strong thou didst hide thy face and I was troubled Job 34.29 When he giveth quietness who then can make trouble and when he hideth his face who then can behold him whither it be done against a nation or against a man only VSE 2. Learn hence to be sensible of the misery and danger of our case whom as we may justly conclude God hath set under a dispensation of Judgment And there being such weight in Gods dispensations we had need be sensible hereof The righteous and holy God seems to be now weary of repenting concerning us as he hath oftentimes done and not to act towards us as formerly When his hand hath been upon us heretofore he hath repented and not stirred up all his wrath As Psal 78.38 But he being full of compassion forgave their iniquity and destroyed them not yea many a time turned he his anger away and did not stir up all his wrath And Psal 106 44 45. Nevertheless he regarded their affliction when he heard their cry And he remembred for them his Covenant and repented according to the multitude of his mercyes But now God in his providence seems to be speaking in the same language to us as to them Jer. 15.6 Thou hast forsaken me saith the Lord thou art gone backward therefore will I stretch out mine hand against thee and destroy thee I am weary with repenting The Lord is exposing us and laying us open to Judgment setting us in the way of misery watching over us for and following us with evil And our condition seems to be somewhat like what is expressed Job 30.15 19. Terrors are turned upon me they pursue my Soul as the wind and my welfare passeth away as a cloud