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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86651	A lamentation for the scattered tribes, who are exiled into captivity, and are now mingled among the heathen, and are joyned to the oppressor, and refuses to return. Presented unto all the separated congregations, under what name or form soever, in love to the lost. Shewing, the difference betwixt them that were separated by the word of faith, and them who have separated themselves, in imitation from the letter: ... / By a servant of truth, and a friend to righteousness, who suffers with the seed, which is held in oppression, waiting and labouring for its return; called Francis Howgill.	Howgill, Francis, 1618-1669.	1656 (1656)	Wing H3170; Thomason E885_1; ESTC R204835	28,211	39

A LAMENTATION FOR THE SCATTERED TRIBES Who are exiled into Captivity and are now mingled among the Heathen and are joyned to the Oppressor and refuses to return Presented unto all the separated Congregations under what Name or Form soever in love to the Lost SHEWING The difference betwixt them that were separated by the Word of Faith and them who have separated themselves in imitation from the letter And how they differ both in Doctrine in Matter in Form and so not the same with the Churches of Christ in the Unity The difference between the true and false Ministery The difference betwixt the Faith which is feigned and the Saints Faith The difference betwixt true and false Hope A few words to the Ministery in all Sects and to all the mingled people who dwell in the Land of Darkness and are tossed up and down and knows not where the power is which is of God which gives Victory A few words for your Information Thy prophets have seen vain and foolish things for thee and they have not discovered thine iniquity to turn away thy captivity but have seen for thee false burthens and causes of banishment Lament. 2. 14. By a Servant of Truth and a Friend to Righteousness who suffers with the Seed which is held in oppression waiting and labouring for its return called FRANCIS HOWGILL London Printed for Giles Calvert at the Black-spread-Eagle at the West end of Pauls 1656. The Contents Concerning the word of Christ which the Apostles and Ministers preached who had it in them revealed which did gather them into One that believed in it and its effect and operation that it had And the difference shewed betwixt that M●nistery and the Ministery of them that preach the Letter for the Word The difference between them that were separated by the Word and them who have separated themselves The difference shewn betwixt them that are taught of Christ and them that follow the principles of Darkness that leads into Error The difference betwixt the Faith which is feigned which is the worlds and the Saints Faith Concerning Hope and the difference betwixt true and false Hope True Faith how it s wrought and what it is and its operation A word to all the Ministers of the world in all Sects and to all People in every Sect. A few words to all you who put out the eye through long accustoming unto sin who are near utter darkness With some Information to them who are tossed and findes no rest nor knows not where the Power of God is that gives dominion over sin the Power declared and the way to Peace TO all you who profess the name of our Lord Jesus in words and makes mention of his words and of his Ministers words who had the everlasting Gospel and the word of reconciliation and of those practises which the Churches of Christ had in their day committed unto them after they were gathered out of the world and had denied it and its nature and were not conformable to it but were changed in their inward man fruits of righteousness were brought forth and they were as lights in the world and did bear witness against the world that they were evill and said they were of God and had the witness in themselves and were bold to say the whole world lay in wickedness To you who are called separated Churches and fellowships under this or that name to you I write my soul pities you above the rest of the world and in love to those desires which was once among you I write that so if it be possible you may come to see your selves and the foundation on which you stand that those desires which was after God begotten may not wholly be slayn extinguished and betrayed through the subtiltie of the serpent whose wayes are crooked and whose subtiltie is great to keep man under his power This I have to say unto you There was and is a zeale in you but not according to knowledge bear my words and judge that in your selves which would be angry There was that which shewed you the Nationall way of worship under Episcopacie and Prelacy and Presbyterie which is one in the ground and nature that this was the broad way and not according to the mind of the Lord neither was it according to precept nor the practises of the Churches of Christ which is cleare from the Scripture Now you seeing this was not according to Christ nor his Ministers nor the Churches you began to separate from them into this or that body under this or that name as a body separate from the world and their worship because you found in the writings of that which is called the Gospel people be gathered out of the world now your eyes being still without you conformed to their practises as you judged both in matter and manner and practising those things which you read in the Scripture that the Churches practised and so some zealous did go forth and gather people together in this or that forme and here was your beginning and so here you set up your rest that you walk according to the most exact patern that is visible or written yet since this you do not agree but are divided in your selves one sets up this and another that thing which you in your reason judge right Now many things I might write unto you which you cannot bear but rather in love a few words that you may see the vast difference betwixt your assemblies and Churches and the Churches which you say is your example And first of all I will show in the ground how far you fall short although it may be you may hate my instruction yet I say Suffer me a little for I am one who have obtained mercy after a long and a sore travel and tossed up and downe in great tempests but at last entered into the everlasting rest and do not desire to contend with you for out of debates carnal I am brought but rather in love to the honesty in you all which is not of this world I speake First they received power from on high and commission given to preach the Gospel to all nations I speak of the Ministers of Christ and those things which they had heard and seen and felt and tasted of and had handled of the word of life which life was manifest in them this they preached and were sent to turne people from darkness to light and from Satan's power unto God's power and as many as received and believed the word which they preached which was the word of faith and faith was begotten by the preaching of it and they heard and learned of the word of life fayth came by hearing that word and this word which they preached unto them was nigh them in their mouth and in their heart which as people turned to it and received it and believed so a change was wrought in the hearers of it and they were turned from dead workes unto the measure

and faithfull witness the beginning of the Creation of God and all that waits in the light waits not in the grace of God but waits in that which turnes the grace into wantonness there Christ suffers and is denied and another is owned and learned of and another teacher and where the grace of God is not taught and learned of ungodlyness is not denied but ungodlyness is denied where the grace teacheth and where another thing is hearkened unto and learned of that which is not like God is learned and deceipt is brought forth and the Childe of fornication which must not inherit and all who learne of this nature they are blind and Ignorant of the will of God and so knows not the Doctrine of Christ but their eyes is without in the world where the false prophets are gone out into the world and there is the Errors and the Sects and the judgments which are many and the opinions which are out of the unitie and their vaine Imaginations and vaine thoughts lodges in the heart and there the light of Christ is not known but the woman speakes which ought to learn in silence who was first in the transgression And all you that put the letter for the light are blind and calls it the Word and the Gospel you are not knowing the Scripture nor the power of God for the word of God is the power of God which is immortal and eternal and all that which is visible stands in time and cannot lead to know him which was before time in the beginning and so all you who are in your earthly carnal minds Imagining a Rule without you and a word without you you have not learned of him who is entered with the veil you are hunting upon the wild mountains and forests and knows not the voyce of the true Shepherd who saith learn of me whose word is nigh thee in thy mouth and in thy heart and thou that hath not hearkned unto this a separation thou never didst see but darkness is upon the face of the deep and the Word of God is not known by which the heavens and the earth was made and all things therein are upholden by the word of his power which word of power is seen by them whose mindes are turned within and there the thoughts and intents of the heart is by it discerned and seen which word is quick and powerful and discernes the secrets of mans heart and is as a hammer to break the rocks and the hard hearts and this is immediate and eternal and all who knows not this your carnal minde stands wholly in your and your hard hearts is unbroken and the mountaines is unlevelled and you walke in the crooked ways of the old serpent in subtiltie and deceipt and stands covered before the Lord and the straight paths of righteousness you have not known Therefore awake out of deceipt and security all sorts of people where you have been making your rest in the lap of the adulterer and have drunken of the wine of fornication and of the old drags of unrighteousness whereby the whole man is in flamed and the whole course of Nature is set on the fire of hell and filth and abomination lodges in the heart and you talke of the word of God and of the law of God and of the new covenant and yet never see any thing in you which you can own to guide you which is contrary to your wills which is the will of God All sorts of professors whether Presbyters Independents Bapists or of what name soever you are called by who sayes you are separated let me ask this What are you separated from and what separated you If you deny the sufficiency of the Spirits teaching alone and it to be the rule and alone guide unto God who is separated from sinners and behold them a far off I say you who cannot own that which shews you your vain minds and vain thoughts and that discerns the thoughts if you cannot own this the word of God you never knew nor the Law written in your hearts nor the word of separation and all are in your imaginations and vain conceivings in your fleshly minds here and there setting up an Image raised from a dead letter and founded on your earthly Imaginations and they stands in the vallies of vain hopes and there is no life in nothing you worship and set up neither sight nor hearing and every one of you worship a dead thing and that which makes not the comers thereunto perfect but you are all pleading for imperfection and sin in the body and all joyne together to oppose the life and power of God which the Saints ought to press after and they that stand in the counsel doth obtain victory and witness of his righteousness which is perfect Are you not many of you turning into the old Bishops road who would tie all unto their Idols temple or parish-Church so called and are not you many of you going about to stop all from hearing any but you under payn of Excommunication Oh the gross darkness you are led in and the wilful blindness who have taken up your rest in that which is carnal and without where all the hypocrites may come verily I say unto you your rest will be but as the leaning upon a bowed wall or as a reed of Egypt for the ground of iniquitie stands whole and the whole body of darkness is not removed the earth is whole the fallow ground is not plowed up thornes and briers and fruitless trees which cumbers the ground of the Lord is not cut down and so the works of condemnation you are none of you brought from under but selfe stands and your wills is alive which is at enmitie against God only talking of a Christ at a distance and his righteousness as far from you as betwixt earth and heaven and here is your Justification applying this unto your selves while you are disobedient to the grace of God in you this is your fayth and your rest and this fayth all the world hath and this hope but this fayth cannot justifie nor not one of you hath assurance who hath but this who doth not witness Gods righteousness brought forth in you which is wrought by the word of fayth which is incorruptible which justifies and gives assurance and is witnessed through the death of the Cross And therefore I cannot forbear but to declare your Ignorance and shew you your deceipt you ly in and your ragged veiles you hide your selves under for I know your peace you have is that which will not last and therefore be not secure and careless nor obstinate but lay down your Crowns at his feet and come out of your ease and rest and fleshly exaltation puffed up by the wisdom of the flesh and that which you have gathered in and not witnesses of the same wrought in you all for the fire yet a little while and time shall be no longer for the end of time