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A92015	The sins of a gainsaying and rebellious people laid before them ... Also a word to foolish merchants ... / Written at the command of the Lord, by one of his servants called, John Rous.	Rous, John, d. 1695.; Fox, George, 1624-1691.	1659 (1659)	Wing R2044; ESTC R182860	10,953	8

and impudence and take unto you modesty and talk not of the condition of the saints no further then you can vvitness them fulfilled in you call not God Father till you can vvitness that vvhich is begotten of God doth rule you consider hovv ye have blasphemed the name of God vvhile you have called him Father and Lord but have done the vvorks of the Divel consider hovv the vvay of truth hath been evill spoken of through your loosness vvho have called your selves by the name of God and Christ yet novv are found talking of and pleading for the liberty of the flesh O be ashamed and confounded is this the end of your profession is this the end of your talk is the liberty of the flesh that wch ye have been contending for all this while will God be thus served will not he be avenged on such a generation as this who hath thus deceitfully dealt with him take heed ye are not stronger then God what will become of this chaffe when he who is a consuming fire shall plead with it will this abide the fire will this stand before the Lord pure is his name pure is his power let all that defiles and works abominations depart from him for it cannot dwell vvith him neither doth he delight in it therefore O ye professors vvho are lifted up in a dead unsavoury and putrified profession come dovvn and depart from your filthiness which ye have long lived in or for ever you must depart from the presence of God ye are like tall Cedars but your boughs vvill be lopped and your beautiful branches wherewith you have deceived many who have admited your beauty shall be taken from you then shall the old stump from whence these branches have grown be seen to be as wood fit for the fire your profession is discovered and your nakedness is seen therefore repent while you have time and it is a day of visitation to you And now O ye parents who have many children consider vvhat it is children are given you for is it to bring them up in pride and idleness vvantonness and luxury do ye herein discharge the duty of parents should ye not have sought the Lord your selves and have instructed your children in his fear this ye should have done but contrarily you have forsaken the Lord your selves wrought wickednesse and have brought up your children in your own abominations in pride in wantonesse in disdain in deceit and whatsoever is abominable in the sight of God must ye not give an account for these things must ye not answer for your children whom ye have caused to go astray how hath goodness been hated by you even so that many of you yea for the most part if there hath ben any tender in any of your children and if any of them have turned abside in any measure from following your wicked steps then hath it been your work to smother those desires and have cryed out of melancholy and say that children should be merry and laugh and such like and thus vvalk in the broad way your selves and bring up your children to follow your own steps how will ye give an account before the Lord how will you answer for these things before him who will punish you for these things How many is there among you who have been forward in teaching their children to curse and swear and in hearing them to be ready at it have been delighted have not many of you taught your children to lye and dissemble and have called them good children wh●n they have been expert at it O horrible wickedness vvas ever any like this is it not a shame that such a thing should be named much lesse practized by those who call themselves christians will not the Heathen who have not heard of God rise up in iudgement vvith this generation and condemn them for their filthiness Now to the light of Christ in all your consciences do I appeal which doth condemne these wicked practises before mentiond whether these things be not so the testimonie of that seek for that will not lye though yee will and is a teacher to all who follow it and are guided by it but is for ever the condemnation of all who despise and disobey it and remember that your sins have been laid before you ye stubborn ones who hate to be reformed and now the time is past and ye are in the pit out of which there is no redemption remember that a day was profered to you and that there was a time wherein it was said to you to day if you will hear his voice harden not yur hearts So I rest This written to the uncircumcised in hearts and ears who go on in the Stiff-neckedness of their own hearts despising the Love of the Lord and doing despite unto his Spirit A sufferer for the sake of the seed of God and a friend of Sions peace for which I am hated by the inhabitants of Babylon both priests and people prophesors and prophane known by the name John Rouse A Prayer concerning such as are made Ministers by the II of man and a n● exhortation to all sober minded people to come out from among them Vhat ministery is that which is upheld by a Law given forth in mans will contray to the Law of God if it be not Antichristian and whether or no their Ministery was from God that haled out of the Synogoues or those that were haled And whether Paul's Ministery was not according to what you now persecute who went into the Synagogues to reason with them after the same manner as wee doe novv vvho received not his Ministery from man neither had it by man though he was brought up at the feet of Gamaliell he counted that which he learned there as dung and drosse in comparison of the excellency of Jesus Christ and now with the Same light your form of prayer and form off preaching without the power it is as drosse and dung to me and to all that live in the life who know Christ to be the high Priest over the houshold of God whose Government is on his shoulders who will not acquit the wicked neither shall the evill doer escape his hand for the hand of the Lord is streched out and by the bareing of his arme are we Saved from all our trang●essions which by no other means could be done for when I wallowing in my blood and no eye pittied me nor none could cure my disease when I went through the vale of misery in the cloudy and dark day when no light appeared then was I following men but darkness was over the whole earth in me which was my great sorrow but sometimes hope was an anchor that it should not be alwaies so but when the flood came I was as one overwhelmed with sorrow for all my actings and my prayers returned in vain while I was acting for life the living suffered in me which groaned for deliverance and the groans of that

the Lords fury is filled for you who have made your faces as brass and hearts as stone against the Lord ye shew by your perversness what generation you are of ye are of that generation which alwaies resisted the holy Ghost who alwaies fought against God who alwaies reproched the truth who alwaies were enemies to God and children of the Divel ye bear the image of him who hath begotten you and ye cannot abide to hear his kingdome declared against and therefore do ye imagine a vain thing and are gatherd together against God and his Christ but kiss the son lest he be angry and ye perish from the way for if his anger be but a little kindled blessed are those that put their trust in him but woe unto them that trust not in him save your selves by speedy repentance and think not because repentance is profered unto you therefore it may be time enough to repent when ye have served the Divel so long as ye can for verily none of you know how soon ye may be cut off none of you can say ye shall live a month longer and how can ye then say ye will repent half a year or a year hence or more this is the way where in the divel leads you ye put off repentance till such a time and think ye will repent then but when the time is come the abominable practises are beloved as much yea it may be more then they were before and none of you are so ignorant but ye know that except ye repent ye shall all perish and consider what a sad condition that will be would it not make you tremble and quake if you did truely consider of it though none now are more the objects of your reproch and scorn and malice then those that tremble at the presence of the Lord take heed to your selves it is better to lose the joye of the world for a time then lose your own souls for ever will flattering of your selves save you will saying that the Lord is with you and no evil shall befall you while you live in filthiness and uncleanness deliver you will not the Lord punish you and your shepheards together for the abominations of your holy things will crying Lord Lord we have professed thy name and talked much of the Scriptures and have spoken much of thy truth save you in the day of the righteous judgement of God from going into hell with the Divel and his Angels which is a just reward for all the wicked nay be not deceived ye must be regenerate and born again or cannot inherit the kingdome of God your proud hearts ye proud ones must come down before ye receive Christ who is humble without whom no salvation ye can witness ye envious ones your envious natures must be abhorred and forsaken before he who is the Covenant of God who is love is received in you drunkards you must forsake your drunkenness and learn moderation before Jesus Christ ye do witness who teaches moderation in all things without vvhom ye cannot please God and ye who are covetous who are griping for the earth your idolatry you must come to forsake before ye knovv Jesus Christ who is the Common-wealth of Israel vvithout vvhom all is accursed and ye will be left poor and naked and miserable though by violence you have inlarged your possessions and made your selves great in the earth O consider ye Merchants who are selling that which is spiritual for that which is carnal who are selling the health of your souls to satisfie your covetous minds and are selling the everlasting inheritance to get wealth in the earth ye are foolish and not wise ye have not yet learned the true wisdome ye have spent your time in vain if ye come to cast up your accounts ye will find it so ye have lost by your trading and not gained there is a pearle whose price ye know not seek after it for it is pretious and when ye have found it sell all ye have as yet got to purchase it so shall ye have gain enough and abundance of riches yea the price of that pearl cannot be cast up therefore no longer spend your time for that which is not bread and your labour for that which satisfies not but come unto him where ye may have enough of all things and aboundance of riches for while ye come not to witness the godly pearl ye never have enough though you could purchase the whole vvorld but being possessed of this pearl you will have enough of all things truely I cannot but sorrow for you who despise it and think that a little of the earth is better then this pearl it is because you are ignorant and sottish and have not accounted right you have overprised that which is not worthy to be esteemed and have undervalued that which is alone to be prised like Esau sell your birthright for a mess of Pottage cast up your accounts again and reckon rightly for the Lord is coming to call you to an account then will it be known whether ye have been faithful servants who have gained with your Lords money by trading consider betimes for he is near at hand who will call you to an account it will not be enough for you to say that the Lord is a hard master that will not save you from being cast into utter darkness who are wicked and sloathful servants if there be any among you who is wise let his wisdome appear in preparing to meet the Lord by speedy repentance by putting away drowsiness and doing that which is just And now ye drowsy professours who are found in the abominable practises before mentioned who have tasted of the goodness of God and have made much mention of his Name ye are to be sharply reproved above others for ye have known that which others for want of the knowledge of have perished your sin is greater then others your abomination is aggravated in a far higher measure then others for others have beenbold to do wickedly having you for an example to them others have said within themselves may not I be covetous proud wanton and scornful for such a one is so who hath more knowledge then I have and thus through your looseness have ye caused the name of the Lord to be blasphemed yea are to be beaten with many stripes because ye knew the masters will out did it not ye knew that ptide the Lord did abhorr ye knew you should not be wanton ye knew that covetousness is idolatry these things ye knew but practised not therefore your condemnation will be greater cease from your dead images which you are seeking to put life into by your subtile inventions your images are to be broken and ye are to be scattered if there be any of your former honesty and zeale towards God remaining in you return before the fury of the Lord break forth to consume his enemies vvho trust not in him be ash●med of your levvdness