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A56457	Seasonable counsel to an afflicted people in a letter to the distressed inhabitants of Wem in the county of Salop, after the dreadful fire, which consumed that market-town, March 3. 1676/7. Written by Andrew Parsons, M.A. and sometime minister there.	Parsons, Andrew, 1615 or 16-1684.	1677 (1677)	Wing P559D; ESTC R220462	17,781	51

glory to spend time and strength about that which is a heap of vanity and which is worse to purchase it with the hazard of everlasting happiness Such a one is to purpose an Object of pity whose riches are gone but the sinful getting of them remains to be a witness against him before that Judg of quick and dead For a man to get riches and lose them and after lose his soul for getting them is desperate folly and madness and the ●orriblest cheat that the Devil can put ●pon man and therefore for time to ●ome I hope you will forsake him and ●ake the Scripture for your guide for ●eeking the things of this world Matth. ● 33 John 6.27 To seek them for Gods sake not for their own because ●e commands and in the order he appoints giving them such estimations and ●ffections as he allows and if you would do so my friends and return in your duty and prime love to God you would had you little or much live far happier lives than if you should have for the future much more than ever ye did possess I beseech you in dear compassion to your souls take heed of chusing that way which makes the getting to Heaven so difficult which is blockt up by the love and cares of this World I beseech you my dear Friends joyn your earnest prayers with mine to God to give you new hearts that through his assisting grace henceforward ye may seek the things that are above the fiery Region things that ye cannot lose You have lately experienced the sad di●appointment of laying up treasure 〈◊〉 earth the Scripture when you have do●● all will prove your best counseller 〈◊〉 lay up your treasure in Heaven You have served a bad Master all th● while Mammon hath put you all thi● while to drudg and labour in the Fire and now behold the fire hath devoure● your labour I pray you now stedfast●● resolve one by one to change your Master chuse God for your Master Dot● not his word tell you Him only mus● thou serve This is your best Master return to him from whom thou hast ru● away ever since the Covenant thou mades● with him in baptism pray him again to receive thee into his service and thou shalt be sure of better work yea better and surer wages also Is not this hi● Covenant with all his servants not only as Isa 33.16 Thy meat shall be given thee and thy drink shall be sure But also to give thee grace and glory and to withhold no good thing from thee Do you not remember what hath been told you and where that God will be your Father Christ your Saviour the Holy Ghost your Comforter Angels your Guardians Saints your Companions that Manna shall be your food and like the Kings daughters Psal 45.13 Your cloathing shall be of wrought gold the world shall be your servant the Devil your slave death shall be your friend and heaven shall be your home serve the King of Kings and this shall be your ●●ire Good sirs will you with full purpose of heart resolve to serve a good God It shall never repent you of his service when you come to dye O it ●●s brave resolving upon that which a man needs never repent of I know it ●●rks you much that you have risen early ●ayen down late to get something together which with bleeding hearts ye saw burning together O foolish and foolish again have we all been that our lusts should guide our lives and order our labours Now we see what 's come on 't we were deaf to the word all this while that cri'd O ye fools when will ye be wise We hope through the blessing of God this Fire was good to make us wise and the Lord being with us w● will make proof of it for time to come Now most amiable true and lovely Religion the everlasting doors of our soul● are open to give thee entertainment We will set thee up and thou wilt se● up our houses or settle us in a house which we shall never go out of after we are once in it Now say one by one let your souls say I 'le be servant to no creature on earth I tell you I will serve the God of Heaven My Maker shall be my Master and then I am sure I am made for ever Well my dearly beloved Friends whose eternal happiness my soul indeed yearns after you have resolved now put your hands to the plow and what your hearts find to do do it with all your might you must put your All to it All is too little yet the good God will graciously accept this little All. But let me tell you before-hand there be some in the world that will give you discountenance and discouragement that will think it strange that ye run not with them as of old to the same excess of ●iot that will persecute you by mocking as Ismael did the Son by promise What you mean to grow pure after the Fire do you Thou that wast as honest a fellow as lived before I know not what to make of thee now I am afraid you will turn Changeling and grow mad I doubt you will not find me a false Prophet you will if you be real be put to this test you are permoniti but are you permuniti Do you know your posture and guard if the sword of the tongue should make this pass upon you Will you say or to the same purpose thus I did use to do so my self time was and that while sure I was doing service under the Devil whose great business in the World is to hurry some to Hell and hinder others all he can from going to Heaven But these things do not move me now I thank God that ego non sum ego here am I but not the same I am resolved to serve God if I dye for 't I shall dye the worst of deaths if I do not I am sure there is none so wicked as to except against him who said Away from me for I will keep the Commandments of my God and why then against me for saying with the same heart the same words jeer me for this and jeer the Scripture and none but Devils in the shape of men dare do so Let men continue to be godly till I reproach them for their godliness for time to come Well then having this encouragement I call you all together and desire you to make profession what you will do to glorifie God and save your Souls Shall one speak for all and the rest say Amen He that speaketh for you methinks says in the sincerity of his heart as Paul I was a blasphemer I was a Persecutor I was injurious I was this and that and what not to demonstrate the heart of man to be deceitful above all things and desperately wicked but God in mercy did bring this late Fire to enlighten me what he did upon mine was but a means his end was me He

thee I hearkned and heard this Sabbath and that Sermon by former and latter calamities when shall it once be never if not after this fire They shall be smitten no more they shall be awakened no more sleep on now but this know your damnation sleepeth not I called far and near lowder and lowder all to no purpose I 'le hold my peace till the day I say Go ye cursed into everlasting fire I hope my dearly beloved Friends you will take the course before prescribed to prevent this sentence and to escape that punishment but if not know assurely the fire of Wem was purposely to make the fire of Hell hotter than else it would have been Can you bear with my using this sharpness will ye indeed bear with me I use it because of my hearts desire unto God that you may be saved I love you therefore you will bear with me and therefore I warn you saying Miss the wise improving of this hour of fire this firy tryal and it may be as much as your immortal souls are worth Good sirs good sirs Do not return to folly again lest Satan should beguile you of this golden opportunity to work out your salvation with fear and trembling O should I hear or see that Wem which hath been a boyling-pot over so fierce a fire yet still doth retain her scum to mix and settle again I should cry out beware there is death in the pot Should I live again among you though I should see goodlier houses yet I would lye in ashes if those that owned them did not more own Religion and the good ways of God than for some years before the fire they have done if they did not return from their sins to the Lord after they had so fallen by their iniquity In the mean time God forbid that I should sin against the Lord in ceasing to pray for you till God open a door that I might teach you the good and the right way 1 Sam. 12.23 that the greatest sense of this dismal Fire may continue upon you lest you come under the same condemnation with them Psal 28.5 They regard not the works of the Lord nor the operation of his hands therefore we will destroy them I need not tell you again there is a worse Fire yet the Fire that burns souls is a thousand times worse than yours yea than that which must burn the World Let your fire put you in mind of that Did you run to and fro in the streets while the flame did fly as fast on the top of your houses sighing sobbing and at last swooning What Town so miserable as ours for behold in one hour we are poor and miserable and naked Was there at once a common screeking-cry O my house is burnt the cruel flames are eating quite up my habitation All is gone saith another I am as poor as Job saith a third all undone all undone What a dreadful time and cry will that be then when the whole world shall be burnt up O what weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth will there be then when the Lord shall come from Heaven in flaming fire and render vengeance to them that know him not and obey not the Gospel of his Son burning the World first and then the Throne for Judgment shall be set God knows where that the wicked and unbelieving inhabitants of all the earth may be doomed and burnt with everlasting fire Yours was a sad cry at the general conflagration it will be sadder but the saddest loudest and killing screek of all will be at the pronouncing upon Reprobates that dreadful sentence Go ye cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the devil and his angels I hope also by this Fire you will be convinced as the people were 1 Kings 18.38 39. When the fire of the Lord fell and consumed the sacrifice with the wood the stones and the dust took all as yours did They fell upon their faces and said The Lord he is the God the Lord he is the God So say you verily there is a God that judgeth in the earth that is long-suffering but not ever suffering who if he be not sanctified by a people will sanctifie himself upon that people God will come and right himself although he may be slow yet he will be sure you have often heard by the hearing of the ear that there is a great and terrible God now your eye have seen Oh fall down and kneel before everlasting burnings and a consuming fire the Lord of hosts who hath all creatures of his Army to fight against them that fight against him will overcome when he judgeth Fire and Water Flies and Frogs Men or Angels good or bad what Regiments he pleaseth to Muster and Commission must and shall accomplish that whereto he send them If God said to those Male-contents Numb 12.8 Were ye not afraid to speak against my servant Moses one i● Commission under him Well then must you be afraid to sin proudly and presumptuously any more for ever agains● the Mighty God and Lord of Hosts himself Do not begin again to provok● him I hope God hath put the sword up into the scabbard and there it wil● rest and be still if you do not draw it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 should be sorry and tremble to hear ●fter this fire of any Flagrans peccatum ● e. debauched practises to bear date af●er the 3d of March 1676 then that ●ire was Upon your repentance you are purged from your old sins God repents and ●s he repented and said he would drown ●he World no more so if Wem thus sin ●o more then he will burn it no more And therefore I beseech you prepare no fuel for a second burning if you do who knows the Power of Gods anger he may second it with the second death You must sin wickedly no more against a God that hath you at Command to do with you in two Worlds what he will By the light of this Fire also you may see to write vanity and folly upon all things in this life and upon the ●nordinate loving caring and seeking after them that which did full your heads and your hearts imploy your hands and six days in a week were too little for Body and Soul to be extended to the utmost for them but Gods day and all must be taken in the snatching flames have caught hold on and they are yours no more May not some Neighbours take one another by the hand and bring them to their respective Ruines and say Neighbour if that was a mans God he loved most then here in this heap of rubbish and ashes lyes my God to whom I did sacrifice rising early and lying down late I see by this Fire my God was a dunghil God and to the dunghil it must go O the folly the fol●● of a mortal man thus to busie an immortal soul which is to stay in the body but a little while and that a purpose to get grace to make it meet for