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A53406 Comfort in affliction, or, Advice to Protestant dissenters in times of persecution together with remarks on the just judgments of God upon this city and land, since the prohibition of the Gospel, by mulcts and penalties / by J.O. J. O. 1682 (1682) Wing O4; ESTC R32241 16,661 19

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Comfort in Affliction OR ADVICE TO PROTESTANT DISSENTERS IN Times of Persecution TOGETHER WITH Remarks on the just Judgments of God upon this City and Land since the Prohibition of the Gospel by Mulcts and Penalties By J. O. LONDON Printed for R. Jones 1682. COMFORT in AFFLICTION OR ADVICE TO PROTESTANT DISSENTERS c. THE Suppressing the Glorious Light of the Gospel and Banishing it out of Publique View the silencing the Grace of Christs own Lips and causing the Joyful Sound that Proclaims the Acceptable Year of the Lord to cease out of our Borders is the Evil of Evils and the Misery of Miseries which brings all other Evils and Miseries along with it yea this shuts up the Kingdom of Heaven from the World and sets Hell wide open for all men to run headlong into it as we see it done this day This excludes the Love Mercy and Goodness of God from the World as much as possibly it can and brings in his Wrath and heavy Displeasure to wast and consume it of which we have had the sad and most exquisite Experience now alas for several years together For since the Gospel under several Mulcts and Penalties hath been forbidden to be Preach'd how many Manifestations of Gods Just Anger have we seen in many strange and unusual Prodigies in the Heavens in the Waters c. Being loud Warnings of the Wrath to come What a griveous and desolating Plague the Scourge of the Almighty hath destroyed Thousands and Ten Thousands in that late great City and in many other parts of the Nation the like whereunto hath not been heretofore What a dreadful Conflagration hath devoured that Famous and Incomparable City the Head and Glory of these Nations and laid it in Ashes and Ruines like Sodom and Gomorah which Cities were set on Fire from Heaven but this from Hell by the Locusts of the Bottomless Pit the Emissaries of the Pope and his Clergy which Vermin have swarmed in this Nation since the removal of the Gospel And this provoking Sin is not so much the Sin of the people as of Evil Counsellors at the Helm who as it were have openly renounced Christ and desired Barabbas to be given to them in his stead they have rejected the sweet and Meek Gospel of Christ and have desired to be given to them the Cruel and Murderous Religion of Antichrist And this one thing carrys weight in it that they who tolerate Popery to take its ease among us and to lengthen its Cords and to strengthen its Stakes though it be directly against Christ and they who tolerate the open exercise of the Jewish Religion which denies and blasphemes Christ will by no means suffer nor endure the true and sincere Gospel of Christs Kingdom to be published but under great Penalties From hence follows the greatest and deepest ignorance of God and Christ that can be and of all their unsearchable Riches which the Gospel hath discovered to the World The greatest ignorance of the Law and of Gospel of Sin and of Righteousnes of Salvation and Damnation of Heaven and Hell in a word the grossest ignorance of all the Revealed Truths of God which concern us either to obtain Eternal Life or to avoid Endless Death Never was there such a Deluge of Sin seen upon Earth as now covers the Face of the Nation this is even become the covering of all Flesh All sorts of People of High and Low Degree whether Secular or Ecclesiastical are all drencht and dyed in it in such sort that Men live in this World in the manifest likeness of the Devil and if Satan himself were Incarnate you could not easily discern one from the other They set their Faces against Heaven and call out upon God to Damn them Soul and Body So Divelish they are that they would fain be tormented before their time and do often provoke Hell to swallow them up for because they can be no liker to the Devil in this World they would hasten to Hell that there they may be fully like him Oh Monsters of Mankind Oh the true Seed of the Serpent the right Generation of Vipers Ye have been fore-warn'd by God to flee from the Wrath to come but who hath warn'd you to flee unto it Who among the remote Nations would believe the report of all your Villanies The very rehearsal of them would put them into Pangs and the bare hearing of them into Tremblings their Sayings and Doings are such as are not fit to be mentioned or recited among Men but onely in the midst of Devils For who without horrible fear could either repeat or hear their desperate Blasphemies against God himself glorious in Holiness and against our Lord Jesus Christ whom God hath made his First-Born Higher than the Kings of the Earth and when he brought him into the World he said Let all the Angels Worship Him and against the Holy Spirit against whom whoever speaks a word it shall never be forgiven him against the blessed Gospel the great and onely Power of God to Salvation against the Kingdom of God on Earth and against them that dwell in Heaven Therefore O Lord forgive them not For their Vine is as the Vine of Sodom and of the Fields of Gomorrah their Grapes are Grapes of Gall their Clusters are bitter their Wine is the Poyson of Dragons and the cruel Venome of Asps The shew of their Countenance doth witness against them and they declare their Sin more than Sodom they hide it not they boast of it and every Man is famous as he can do most wickedly Wo unto their Souls for they have rewarded evil against themselves For therefore Hell hath enlarged her self and opened her Mouth without measure and their Glory and their Multitude and their Pomp and he that rejoiceth shall soon descend into it This their Day approacheth it comes it makes hast when they shall perish for ever like their own Dung and they that have seen them shall say where are they And therefore howl ye Profane Ones for the Day of the Lord is at hand it shall come as a Destruction from the Almighty then shall your Wicked Hands fall down and your Proud Hearts melt and you shall be sorely afraid Pangs and Sorrow shall take hold on you even Pangs as of a Woman in Travel and when ye shall look to one another ye shall be amazed at one another and your faces shall alter and change colour as Flames For behold the Day of the Lord cometh cruel both with Wrath and fierce Anger to lay the Land desolate for your sakes and he shall destroy the Sinners thereof out of it And he will punish the World for their evil and the Wicked for their wickedness he will make the Arrogancy of the Proud Ones to c●ase and will lay low the Haughtiness of the Terrible Ones In that day Sodom and Gomorrah shall rise up in Judgment against you and it shall be more tolerable for them than for you O Ye Profane Ones