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A56033 The hour of God's judgments come and coming upon the wicked world shewing how iniquity will prove the ruin of all people, who do not repent and turn to God, whilst yet they have time : with an exhortation in the love of God to people of all nations, to cease to do evil, and to forsake those provoking sins, that hath kindled the wrath of God, that the judgments now threatning many nations may be turned away. Parke, James, 1636-1696. 1690 (1690) Wing P373; ESTC R7298 20,874 26

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or evil to them How have the Righteous been made the Song of Drunkards debauched Swearers and Damners who scarce could speak but in a Cursed and Danming manner What scorn and derision hath the Just met with in these latter days with the many Perils and Dangers on every side and from all sorts of wicked Men Women and Children is very well known to the Lord God who is coming with Power to take Vengeance upon his Adversaries and to Recompence all such according to their works you who are guilty every where your wickedness will not go unpunished it will come upon your own Heads and your treacherous dealing will pursue you and fall heavy upon you when the Righteous Judge shall judge and condemn you for it the Lord will not spare such who in their abominable Pride Debauchery and Filthiness walk the Streets as if they would out-dare the Most high that gave them Breath and Being in this world with their Pride and Filthiness And now Destruction to the Wicked is threatned how hath Fear surprised Multitudes not the fear of God but the fear of Destruction or some other Evil to overtake them and they cannot be quiet nor at rest they disturb and disquiet one another because the Way of Peace is hid from their them and also the Sinners in Sion are afraid and fearfulness surpriseth Hypocrites who cannot abide the day of the Lord 's coming nor stand when he appeareth for his appearance is and will be very dreadful to all the Workers of Iniquity to whom the Lord will say Depar● from me I know you not Such shall by no means escape the Wrath of the Lamb who is a righteous just and equal Judge and will Judge with Equity and do all Men Right in Judgment and is no respecter of Persons but in every Nation such as fear God and work Righteousness are accepted of him but they that fear not God nor work Righteousness will be rejected condemned and punished by him of what Nation Kindred People or Tongue soever Papish or Protestant or what Name and Profession soever they may go under or be known by for that will stand them in no stead when the Lord pleadeth with them and cometh to punish the Inhabitants of the Earth for their Iniquity that will prove the Ruin of them who are then found therein the Rich Mens Silver and Gold will not be able to deliver them from the Wrath of the Lamb now appearing as an Angry Judge Go too now therefore ye Rich Men that trust in uncertain Riches and in an Arm of Flesh but not in the living God Weep and Howle for the Misery that is coming upon you who are lovers of Pleasures more than lovers of God And you that have oppressed others to advance your selves by defraud and dishonest Gain and wronged the Poor to set your Nests on high the Righeous Lord God will Visit for these things and Recompence the evil of your wayes and doings upon your Heads if you do not cease therefrom and truly repent thereof while you have time Oh the manifold Provocations by which the Lord hath been and still is provoked to Wrath and Indignation by a sinful People and seed of Evil-doers laden with Iniquity and some are wise to do evil become Serpents and as a Generation of Vipers in imagining and doing evil but to do good they have no knowledge and it is sad and grievous to see the Brutishness Sensuallity and Devillishness many appeared in filled with Envy and Enmity against that which is good and them who keep therein from day to day and still such profess Christ Jesus in words and call him Lord and Master but do not honour him nor fear him neither keep his Commands but with their wicked works Spit upon him Grucifie him afresh again and how hath he been put to shame all Christendom over by them that seem to be Christians in words but are not so in deeds Did not Christ Jesus testifie against the Scribes Pharisces and hard hearted Jews that set themselves against him with the Chief Priests to take away his Life because their deeds were evil and he tould them They were of their Father the Devil and did his works Although they owned and professed God the Father that would not hide them or cover them from the Wrath of God when it was kindled and broke forth against them to punish and scatter them for rejecting and hating of him without a cause yet no less punishment would satisfie them but Crucifiing of him puting of him to Death who laid down his Life to give them Life Eternal and to redeem their Souls out of Death and Damnation if they would have received him then at his coming but because of the hatred they had to him and the cruel usage that spotless Lamb had from that Generation God was Wrath with them continuing his displeasure upon their Prosterity unto this day And may not you expect as sore a punishment who own him in words profess him and call him Lord and Master yet notwithstanding by your wicked works you slay him ye condemn and kill the Just and he doth not resist you you dishonour him and put him to shame plainly shewing that you are of the Generation of them who killed the Prophets Christ Jesus and his Apostles and accounted them not fit to live upon the Earth of whom the World indeed was not worthy My Heart truly is sorrowful and I am in pain to consider of what I see coming upon this evil and untoward Generation now O that they had an Ear open and a Heart to understand the Voice of the Lord and his Counsel to them before it be to late and the Door of Mercy and Favour from God be shut against them that they might repent that the Lord God may turn away his Wrath that they perish not For the Sword of the Lord is drawn forth forbished and made bright to make a sore Slaughter in many Nations and Countries by his Powerful Hand although People will not see it when 't is lifted up they shall see it and be ashamed astonished and confounded and by the immediate Hand of the Lord many People will fall and be cut down as the Grass whilst the carnal Sword also doth its part what the Lord permits and suffers to be acted by it in any flourishing City or strong Nation and he can raise up whomsoever he pleaseth as Instruments in his Hand to make his Power known that his Name may be declared throughout all the Earth therefore he pulleth down one Prince and Potentate and raiseth up another in his stead in the Kingdoms of this World that they may know that the Most high rules in the Kingdoms of men and giveth them to whomsoever he will and who shall say unto him What dost thou when he poureth out Contempt upon Princes and causeth them to wander where there is no way for he hath their Hearts and all Men in his Hand he can hold
glory appears for his Day will dawn and break in Peoples Hearts in all Nations of the Earth when he shall terribly shake the Earth and all Nations and the keepers of the House will tremble and all proud Flesh shall be made to tremble before the Lord at hi● appearance he will make known his Voice he will make the Earth to hear and the Heavens shall be astonished at his Power Glory and Majesty and every false Foundation shall be shaken and every high Tower and fenced City built upon a false Foundation will fall and tumble down tho' never so strong and lifted up in their forms of Worship and formal Profession without Life and Power that will not be able to stand in the Day of the Lord 's fierce Wrath which is against that City of Confusion which the Lord God will break down and race it to the Ground then will her Merchants and such as have traded with her lament and cry Alas alas none will buy her Merchandize of us any more Thus will the Lord bring down and destroy Babylon that great Whore that hath with her Cup of Fornication made drunk the Kings of the Earth who have committed Fornication with her and her Merchants that traded with her with great endeavours and all their Babylonish Skill and Trumpery have brought Darkness and Ignorance over the Earth and so would still keep People but the Day of the Lord is come and coming and the Knowledge of the Lord shall cover the Earth and many shall hate the Whore and burn her Flesh with Fire for by Fire and Sword will the Lord plead with all Flesh where-ever the Flesh of the great Whore is the Sword and Fire of the Lord of Hosts will find it out and pursue it till it be devouered to the end that the which is for the Sword and Fire of the Lord may be cut down burnt up and consumed then Envy Malice Cruelty Hatred and Unrighteousness so much abounding in Man and Woman will have an end and People will not be over-come of evil but over-come the evil with good and provoke one another to Love and good Works and not to Hatred Cruelty all manner of Unrighteousness which is Sin and punishable by the great Judge of Heaven and Earth that cometh quickly and his reward is with him although many shut their Eyes against his Appearance are so blinded by the God of this World that you do not see or behold him tho' his Light shines in all your Hearts by which you may all see behold him who is not far from any one of you yet you do not see him nor know him and that is the Condemnation of the whol world that lieth in wickedness that Light is come into the world but darkness is loved rather than Light because their deeds are evil Now it is as if I heard the noise of Trumpets sounding and Drums beating an Alarm to battle in many Kingdom and Nations and the Sword drawn to execute the Wrath of God for Sin and Transgression by the ungodly committed to the great displeasure of the Almighty God who now will shew himself a terrible God to the Workers of Iniquity by Wars Famine and Pestilence with other Judgements and Calamities that God will bring upon many Cities and strong Nations to bring down their Pride and Haughtiness and to abase them for their sleighting and Contemning his Appearance in the Light of his Glorious Gospel which shines in their Hearts to give them the Knowledge of the Glory of God to humble you under his mighty Hand that all might turn to him who smites and corrects Men and Women that they might see his Hand and acknowledge his Power and Soveraignity over all and what we can do with strong and fenced Cities and indeed with all Nations that are but as the drop of a sucket and the small dust of the Ballance to the Lord and his strength and great Power when in his sore displeasure he gives them up to the Sword Famine or Pestilence how soon can he make of a fair and flourishing City on heaps and a strong City a desolation when they Inhabitants thereof will not be reformed from the evil of their Ways and doings nor Repent of the same how often hath the Lord brought Plagues and heavy Judgments upon such Cities and Nations how glad should I be to see the Inhabitants of England in general and the City of London in perticular bringing forth Fruits meet for Repentance that they would whilst they have time be Afflicted Mourn and Weep for the great Evils that daily are committed by many of them that your Laughter might be turned into Mourning and your Joy into Heaviness that those great Calamities which threatens both City and Nation the mercisul God might turn away from my Native Country and every Inhabitant may be humbled for their Transgressions that the Lord may repent of the Evil that doth so much threaten this and many other Kingdoms O that there were such a Heart in all People of all Nations that they would seek after the living God and that they might know him and receive everlasting Lise by Christ Jesus and leave off doing Evil and learn to do Well that instead of hating and killing one another about Religion and worldly Glory and Honour they might feel the Love of God shed abroad in their Hearts and in that love God above all and one another as the Children and Off-spring of God for all Nations upon the face of the Earth being of one Blood made by the great and heavenly Creator all were created by him to fear reverence and serve the eternal God So all you who do pretend that you are Servants of God and Christ Jesus sear reverence serve and obey him in a measure of that Love of God wherewith he hath loved you and all mankind and desireth the Salvation of all men and not the death or destruction of the Wicked but rather that they would turn from their Wickedness and live for evermore to serve worship and obey the living God whose Servants you call your selves and think you worship him and serve him whilst you are out of his holy Spirit and Godly Fear in your vain superstitious and idolatrous ways of Worship which are so unprofitable and of no berefit spiritually to you that vainly pretend to worship the living God who is a Spirit and will be worshipped and served in the Spirit and in the Truth as it is in Jesus for their is no other acceptable worship or serving of God but in his holy Spirit and Truth which the Devil is out of and all his Servants are erred from the Spirit of God and doth imagine that God acceptably may be worshipped and served well enough by them is another Spirit than his own holy Spirit then it must be an unholy Spirit in which you can offer toe God no Worship or Service but what is vain unprofitable and unholy which is rejected of the Lord God as but vain worshipping of him and for this many spend their Money and Labour many Years together but gain no advantage or satisfaction to their immortal Souls being from the Spirit of God and Word of Life that was in the beginning and which is eternal so obtain not Life or true satisfaction to their Souls and therefore cannot livingly move or act spiritually in the service or worship of God but it seemeth to them as a strange thing and the pure God hath but blind and dead service and worship from such and indeed it is no marvel that so many wise and learned men in Arts Sciences and natural Tongues are unskilled and ignorant in spiritual waiting upon serving and worshipping the living God whilst they question whether any doth receive from God the gift of the holy Spirit now in these dayes then let such men in coolness of mind consider with what they adventure to serve and worship God and approach before him not receiving the spirit but will draw nigh to God serve and worship him out of the spirit and what may you expect who are in that deplorable state but that the Lord should say unto you Who hath required such Worship or Service from you now in this Gospel day the spirit of God being poured fourth Do you think People that God will be mocked with such service or worship to be offered to him that doth appear but the fruits of the Flesh or sowing to the Flesh O that you would come to see and seriously consider that the Flesh profiteth nothing nor any of the fleshly motions ways services or worships of fallen man performed in the Wisdom of the Flesh although performed in never so much skill and cunning outwardly can give man acceptance with the Lord nor can at all give Life to the Soul for its the spirit that giveth Life and this Spirit first must be received by you and work in your Hearts to will and to do before your Hearts can be fitted or prepared to serve or worship God acceptably so all of you wait upon God for his holy spirit receive it into your Hearts and no longer reject it but in the silence of all Flesh feel the spirit of God to quicken your mortal Bodies that in and by the spirit you to God may present your Bodies to him and draw night to him with your Flearts fitted and spiritually prepared to offer to God spiritual sacrifice holy and acceptable in his sight who cannot be pleased with Iniquity nor the Works of it in their service or worship for Sin and Iniquity must be done away before you can graciously be received of the Lord or know how to render to him the calves of your Lips or draw nigh to him aright with your Tongues or Lips why should you hate to be reformed or cast off from you that which is good to cleave to the evil and perish therein Beware of that left the Lord utterly reject you and cast you out of his fight and deprive you of his Mercy and Favour that he upon your real Repentance and Amendment of Life would bestow upon you Which is the fervent Desire of a cordial Well-wisher of all your Souls who seeketh the Glory of God the Peace of all Nations and the general good of all Markind to Eternity James Parke Hostedown the 7th day of the 3d. Month 1690. THE END