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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28167	A lamentation over England and faithful warning to the inhabitants thereof by William Bingley.	Bingley, William, 1651-1715.	1682 (1682)	Wing B2920; ESTC R25929	19,983	29

of hearkening thereunto you have evilly intreated them with Whipping Stocking Stoning spoiling of their Goods to the Ruining of many Families Imprisoning some to Death and Banishing others with many other gross and horrid Abuses wherewith you have entreated the Servants of the Lord for no other Cause than for the exercise of their Consciences towards God and reproving you for your Sins and crying to you for Amendment of Life which bespeaks you to be a People that hate Righteousness and love Iniquity chusing your own Vanities and slighting the Tender Mercies of the Lord God treasuring up to your selves Wrath against the Day of Wrath and so are bringing swift Destruction and Misery upon your selves Oh! My Soul mourns in the sight and sence of that dreadful Day which is coming upon you for your Transgressions and Rebellion against the living God and for your thus abusing and shamefully entreating them who have been sent unto you by the Lord who sought nothing but the good and everlasting Peace of your immortal Souls But none of these things have prevailed upon many of thy Inhabitants O England to soften your hard Hearts and to tender them before the Lord. For instead of ceasing from your Sins and Abominations which abound amongst many of you by true Repentance and Amendment of your Lives and Conversations and turning to the Lord who hath cryed to you many a time saying Turn you turn you why will you dye as he did to Israel of old but you have stopped your Ears as they did who were compared to the deaf Adder that would not hear the Voice of the Charmer charming never so wisely and so continuing still in your Abominations which the Lord would have gathered you from had you obey'd his Voice manifold Sins and Wickedness encrease amongst you as Swearing Cursing Damning Revelling Drunkenness Whoredoms and Murders with many other gross and shameful Impieties yea almost all manner of Wickedness Rebellion and Treachery both against God and Man abounds amongst many of you the Inhabitants of England for which God will bring Judgment Sorrow upon you yea such Sorrow as shall never have an end except you speedily Repent And those that can act these horrid Wickednesses and crying Sins which indeed make the Land Mourn without fear or shame as if they did not consider that there is a God who will punish for them are they not most esteemed and set up amongst many of you now a days and so that is seen to increase amongst many of you the Inhabitants of ENGLAND to the grief and sorrow of the hearts of many which the Prophet saw and concerning which he cryed out of old saying The Proud are counted Happy yea they that work Wickedness are even set up and they that tempt God are even delivered Mal. 3. 15. But let all such know who are guilty of these Evils your everlasting Thraldom and eternal Misery is coming on and will overtake you if ye speedily Repent not out of which you shall never be delivered And such as cannot run with the Multitude into those Evils and Abominations which provoke the Lord God of Heaven and Earth to Anger but live in the fear of God and a Life becoming Christianity as knowing they must give an Account and so must all the Sons and Daughters of men to God the Judge of all both quick and dead and must receive a Reward at his hand according to their Doings whether they be good or evil and so cannot rush into Iniquity with them as the Horse rusheth into Battel are become a Prey to the Ungodly and as objects of Scorn and Derision on whom the Wicked and the Ungodly execute their Cruelty and grievous Oppression yea Godliness and Piety is so little regarded amongst many who profess Christianity that a sober Life and a godly Conversation is become a Derision its Crime enough now a days among many for a man to have a civil Carriage and a sober Behaviour and to walk as one who fears the Lord to be scoffed at and vilified with reproachful Names as he passeth through Town or City So that Wickedness and Debauchery Looseness and Prophanness is encouraged and abounds Virtue and Sobriety are discouraged and decryed among many of you the Inhabitants of ENGLAND For we see many of you are living and spending your days here in this World in those things which are so contrary to Christianity Purity and Holiness without which none shall see the Lord as if there were no such thing to be known or minded by you And all those holy Admonitions in the Scriptures of Truth and the threatnings of Punishment and eternal Sorrow to the Wicked and Ungodly which the Scriptures are full of if timely Repentance be not known are slighted and disregarded by you as if they should never be fulfilled nor executed upon you And these are the Practices that have been and yet are found amongst you encouraged and upheld by you to this day against an innocent and harmless People whom God Almighty hath gathered and chosen out of the World the Ways and Abominations thereof to be a peculiar People to himself zealous of good Works who have always sought the good and peace of the Nation and the abounding of Justice and Equity therein and have often entreated the Lord and supplicated God on your behalf That he would not break in upon you the Inhabitants of ENGLAND by his fierce Wrath and sore Displeasure lest he should consume you all at once for your Sins and Transgressions against him who hath tendred Salvation but you refused it And many have laboured faithfully among you to turn you from Darkness to the Light of Christ which now shines blessed be the Lord forever and from Satans Power by which you have been and yet are captivated and prevailed upon to work Iniquity with greediness to the Power of God which would have Redeemed out of that Slavery and Captivity into the glorious Liberty and Freedom of the Sons of God had there been Obedience and Subjection yielded to it But this also hath been slighted and set at nought by many of you And those who have thus laboured and travelled among you for your good you have rewarded with Stocking Stoning and Imprisonments with many other gross and horrid Abuses as Jerusalem did of Old them that were sent to her And instead of turning to Christ the true Light that enlightens every man that cometh into the World John 19. You have made a scorn and a derision of it and have loved Darkness rather than the Light which manifests to you the Wickedness of your Evil Hearts and the Abominations that have lodged there because there Deeds are Evil John 3. 19 20. And so have hated the blessed Light that doth reprove for Sin loving your Sins for which you have been reproved better than the Light who hath reproved you And so have manifested your selves to be such as the Apostle spoke of Lovers of your own Pleasures Proud Blasphemers

disobedient to Parents Vnthankful Vnholy without natural Affection Truce-breakers false Accusers Incontient Fierce Despisers of those that are good Treacherous Heady High-minded lovers of Pleasure more than lovers of God c. 2 Tim. 3. 2 3 4. And in these Evils above-mentioned you are satisfying your own Hearts Lusts living in all manner of Voluptuousness Pride vain Glory and forgetfulness of God and so are guilty of those Sins which Israel of Old were guilty of who sate down in forgetfulness of God to Eat and to Drink and rose up to Play Exod. 32. 6. And this is the State of too many of you the Inhabitants of England both Priests and People for which the Wrath of Almighty God is kindled against you and his sore Displeasure is nigh to break forth upon you in which he will trample you under his Feet and appoint you your portion in the Lake of Perdition forever if you Repent not and that speedily Oh England England How many Warnings have thy Inhabitants had And how long hath the Lord strove with you both by his Servants and also by the many signal Tokens that have appeared of his displeasure amongst you Yet none of those things have prevailed upon you to turn from the Evil of your wayes but you have hardened your Hearts and stiffened your Necks in your Wickedness and Rebellion against God though he has long waited to be gracious to you for which God will bring everlasting Misery and Sorrow upon you if ye continue in these Evils which have abounded and yet abound among you For although the Apostle saith expresly Know you not that the Vnrighteous shall not inherit the Kingdom of God Be not deceived neither Fornicators nor Idolaters nor Drunkards nor Revilers c. shall inherit the Kingdom of God 1 Cor. 6. 9 10. And notwithstanding these Testimonies which are certainly true and will be fulfilled upon all the Ungodly How many are living in these very Evils as Whoredoms Drunkenness Revilings with many other crying Sins which are expresly forbidden yet you continue in them as if all those Judgments and Torments threatned in the Scriptures of Truth against the Wicked were but meer Fictions And so you go on in your Wickedness and Ungodliness as if there were neither Punishment nor Torment to the Wicked and as if there were neither God nor Devil Heaven nor Hell But let all such know that the dreadful God of Heaven and Earth that rained Fire and Brimstone upon Sodom and Gomorrah of Old that punished the Wicked in every Age who hath promised and will perform it though the Wicked joyn Hand in Hand they shall not go unpunished but he will render the Recompence and Reward of your own doings into your Bosoms and if you do not turn to him while he strives with you ye shall feel the weight of his avenging Hand and Iron Rod with which he will dash the Rebellious Nations to pieces like a Potters Vessel And now my Soul desires that you may turn from your Evil Courses and no longer continue in your Exaltedness of mind and heart and in your Wickedness and Ungodliness lest you be brought down and turned into Hell with all Nations that forget God Psal 9. 17. to be tormented with the Devil and his Angels forever and evermore For the Lord hath often waited to be gracious unto you and hath born with you though you have greatly provoked him yet his Patience has lasted long and he hath held forth a Hand of love to many who have taken no notice of it But now his Patience is almost worn out and his long suffering well nigh come to an End yea I am afraid it s come to an end already to many of you the Inhabitants of England and his Indignation is kindled and burns hot against you who have refused to hearken to him who hath called you time after time and is nigh to break forth like a devouring Fire and before him the Wicked shall be as Hay and as Stubble whom God will consume and will leave them neither Root nor Branch For behold the Cry of your Iniquities hath reached unto Heaven and your Sins have come up before the Lord and into remembrance with our God and the Day wherein he will ease him of his Adversaries and avenge him of his Enemies maketh haste wherein he will pour out his Wrath Indignation and Judgment upon you the Inhabitants of England that continue in your Gain-saying and Rebellion against God without any mixture of Mercy Oh! you my native Country Men and People of England in general for whom a travail is upon my Spirit at present and hath been many a time that you might be prevailed upon whose Day of Mercy is not yet ended and over whom the shadow of Death and the Night is not yet wholly spread to consider your latter end before it be too late and to turn from your Sins and Transgressions your Haughtiness Pride and vain Glory and your abusing your selves with those things which God hath extended as Mercies unto you viz. your wasting abusing and spending the good Creatures of God to satisfie your Lusts which hath highly displeased the Lord and provoked him to Anger And that you may all come to learn that blessed Lesson which the holy men of Old learned who were taught by the Grace and Spirit of God a measure whereof is given to every man to profit withal 1 Cor. 12. 7. which was That denying Vngodliness and worldly Lusts they might live Soberly Righteously and Godlily in the present evil World Tit. 2. 11 12. Which all that ever come to inherit Rest and Peace with God and to have a habitation in his holy Kingdom of everlasting Joy must be found living in and to cry to God in a sence of your Miserable state and Deplorable Condition while the Ear of his tender Mercy is open to hear you lest such a Day come upon and overtake you as was threatned to a People of Old wherein you may Cry and the Lord will not hear you because you have not hearkened to him when he called you may Call and he will not Answer but will laugh at your Calamity and mock when your Fear cometh But that this Day may never overtake you to whom the Visitation of God is yet continued is the hearty Desire and Prayer of my Soul to God for you Therefore turn to God with all your Hearts while his Arms of tender Mercy are open to receive you and triffle not away your precious time that yet remains lest by so doing you bring the sentence of an eternal Exclusion upon your selves from God and the joy of his Kingdom forever and ever And Oh that a true Desire were begotten in all your Hearts and Minds to come to that blessed Fountain of God's free Love which he hath opened for all who are willing to come to it the Virtue whereof purgeth the Souls of all that wash in it from Sin and Uncleanness and so sprinkles the