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A53376 An epistle of information, exhortation, and consolation to all such as are distinguished by names of reproach and ignominy ... : containing also, a sober rebuke for former sloathfulness / by John Onley ... Onley, John. 1661 (1661) Wing O346; ESTC R10781 10,212 15

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their Cruelty upon us who would have devoured us quick whom yet the Lord would not suffer but was a brazen Wall round about us that we might have gone freely about the work of our God without molestation to have enlightned the eyes of the poor blind World enlivened warmed and strengthened the weak Saints confirmed the Feeble and rejoyced in and with the Strong in laying in all strength together with one heart and one shoulder to bear up increase and strengthen the Kingdom of the Lord Jesus rejoycing with the Strong and Honourable and weeping with the Poor and Miserable c. beating with the Weak and Feeble and as Members of one Body joyned together and compacted by that which every Joynt supplyeth according to the Effectual working in the measure of every part making increase in the Body unto the Edifying of it self in Love Oh! how negligent have we been in these necessary heavenly Duties bearing the name of Churches Saints and Christians when to the Life of Christ we have been almost strangers 8. How little have our hearts been rent our souls grieved and we sighed and cryed pouring out our souls before the Lord for the Abominations committed in these Nations not being inferiour if not exceeding the Wickedness of Sodom for and on which God rained down from Heaven Fire and Brimstone and made an utter desolation thereof How is the Name of our God every day blasphemed his Laws and gracious Precepts derided and his People shamefully entreated and as Mr. Baxter said of the Times some late years past That it was as much as a Mans Estate at least was worth to hear Saints Rest pag. 251. Part 2. a Sermon abroad when he had none or worse at home to meet for Prayer or any godly Exercise and that it was a matter of Credit and way to Preferment to revile at and be enemies to those that are most Consciencious and every where safer to be a Drunkard or an Adulterer than a painful Christian and that multitude of humane Ceremonies took place when the Worship of Christs Institutions was cast out So by reason of the abuse of the King's Indulgence of about Thirty Persons whom in that we had no compliance with nor knowledge of together with the over-violent activity of his Majesties subordinate Ministers in executing of his Proclamation against us though we believe they know in their own Consciences we are free from the first and consequently not concerned in the last with their negligence in not executing his Proclamation against Debauchery and Prophaneness such into many places having free liberty to act Villany It 's come to that passe that if a few sincere Christians meet together in the fear of God to build up one another in their most holy Faith to exhort comfort confirm and strengthen each other in the Wayes of God according to the Command of Christ and the Example of the Primitive Saints to which Work the Lord having promised and God's People sweetly experiencing his Presence We must be presently apprehended and carried to a Justice and so to the Jayl yea some of us threatned for reading the Scriptures in our Families when if we would swear game be drunk and lie at an Alehouse Twenty together day after day or stand in a Market an hour or two together to hear the Apostles of the Devil and Factors of Hell about and on the Market-Cross with their Ungodly Songs and Speeches and idle shameful Deeds and Gestures to provoke to vanity both Hearers Speakers and Singers shall have free Liberty when if in the same place as some with grief of heart can witness one doth but say Repent of this Folly and turn to the Lord His Day is at hand he shall have company about him presently to lag him forth of Town as not sufferable therein Which had it been amongst Pagans and gross Heathens we might have the less marvelled but to see it amongst those that profess in words to be Christians Oh! what Lamentations bitter Cryes Sighes and Tears and heart-rendings doth this call for what Humiliations Watchings Fastings Prayings Speakings often one to another and to the Lord to forgive to strengthen uphold and comfort his People in this day and to Inform counsel and direct the King with the Magistrates of this Nation in the performance of that which may bring down a Blessing therewith and a Settlement of Peace with Truth thereby and that they may see in what the Strength and Safety of a Nation stands in In the performance of Righteousness Justice and Equity breaking every heavy Yoak and letting the Oppressed go free in setting free the Gospel and the VVord of the Lord the Profession and Professors thereof that hath so long been confined within the narrow limits of some mens particular Apprehensions that it may run and be glorified and prevail and prosper in its own single Evidence and that the Lord would cause them to see the Hamon-like Designs that some purpose against all the Sons of Sion that refuse to bow to the Pride of their Hearts and that the Innocency and Righteousness of the Lords People may be brought to light in despight of those wicked Ones who seek to impeach and darken it that so their Covering may not prove like that of Judah's In looking to their Armour and making up the Breaches and fortifying of the Walls staying on Horses and trusting in Chariots because they are many and in Horsemen because they are very strong and then joy and be glad slay Oxen and kill Sheep eat Flesh and drink Wine thinking all secure when they should rather call to Mourning to Weeping to Baldness and to girding with Sackcloath if the Glory of the Lord and the saving strength of himself be not the Foundation thereof Isa 22.8 14.31.1 Oh! how little have we been sensible of affected with and imployed about these things though the Lord hath neither been a Wilderness nor a Land of Darkness to us but planting us a Noble Vine a holy a right Seed walling us about suffering no man to do us harm yet have we degenerated into a strange Plant our Silver become Dross our Wine mixt with Water c. Therefore the Day of Visitation is come it is come we shall know it We have dealt treacherously with the Lord we have begotten strange Children now shall a Moth devour them with their Portions for the Lord is arisen in the fury of his Jealousie being provoked through the abuse of his Mercy to lash us to himself and correct us for our out-goings from his Grace and hath prepared his Furnace in Jerusalem and his Refining Pot in Sion in which two parts may be consumed and a third brought through the fire being thereby made meet for our Masters praise we may serve him with one consent Wherefore dearly beloved Brethren you who Fellow-Citizens and of the Houshold of God Members one of another One Body of which Christ is the Head Children and Heirs Heirs of God yea