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A50148 A pastoral letter to the English captives, in Africa, from New-England Mather, Cotton, 1663-1728. 1698 (1698) Wing M1137; ESTC R19432 8,003 18

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proved our JESUS to be the Messiah This Declared Him to be the Son of God with power Now that our Lord Jesus Rose from the Dead you must needs own beeause He show'd Himself alive after it by many Infallible proofs After His Resurrection He Exhibited Himself unto those Good men who Saw Him Heard Him Felt Him and convinced all their Senses that i● was He. This He did no less than Ten several Times and unto no less than Five Hundred at a Time the Witnesses thereof went over the Earth asse ting it in such a manner that the most Judicious Examiners of their Testimony could not but acknowledge that they were neither Deceivers nor Deceived in the Thing which they Asserted Yea our Lord since His Ascension into the Heavens and as a Fruit and a Proof of His Ascension sent His Church a Letter which we have in the Book of The Revelation wherein He foretold a Thousand Things that we have seen exactly come to pass but He particularly foretold The Rising of the Mahometan Religion it s being propagated by the Arabian Arms it s obscuring the Christian Religion with an horrid Smoke and its Tormenting the Professors of the Christian Religion after the Union of the Four Turkish Kingdoms in the one Ottomian Family for Three hundred Ninety seven years together Besides all this The First Publication of the Christian Reagion was attended which the Mahometan Religion has never been with Miracles that were a Demonstration given by the Holy Spirit of God unto it Astonishing Miracles were done by our JESUS before His Retiring from us into the Heavenly Regions Those Astonishing Miracles are so undeniable that the Writings both of the Jews and of the Turks do at this day confess them nor were the Pagans of the First Ages in the Volumns which they wrote against Christianity still Extant able to deny them And the like Miracles were continued among the Apostolical Preachers of the Christian Religion after our Lords Departure from us for Two hundred years together They spoke with Tongues which they had never Learnt before they Help'd the Blind they Heal●d the Sick they Rais'd the Dead and they Cast out the Devils from the Possessed No History can be True if This be not so Now these things are Seals from God unto the Christian Religion I beseech you Do not harbour the least suspicion of a Religion so Sealed by the God of Heaven with Ungainsayable Confirmations But if any Mahometan Tempters do assault you Let the words of their own Alcoran serve to Answer them The words of the Alcoran or Turkish BIBLE are The Spirit of God hath given Testimony to CHRIST the Son of Mary He is the Messenger of the Spirit and the Word of God His Doctrine is perfect And Mahomet in this his Alcoran calls the Gospel expresly The Right way to Fear God says That God sent the Gospel for no other end but that they might obtain by it the Love and Grace of God Let the Mahometans now know That you cannot forsake your Christ because the Spirit of God hath given Testimony to Him and that you cannot forsake His Doctrine because it is perfect and that you cannot forsake His Gospel because 't is the Right way to Fear God as They Themselves have confessed My dear Friends The Lord preserve your Souls chast unto Him and make you Faithful to the Death and give you a Crown of Life May you be able to say Lord Tho' thou hast sore broken us in the place of Dragons yet have we not forsaken thee nor dealt falsely in thy Covenant But while you hold fast the Profession of the Christian Religion it is of infini●e concern for you to Experience also the Power and Practice of it And it may be the dismal Affliction of your present Captivity is come upon you to Convince you of and Convert you to those things in Religion whereof you were too insensible when your heard them dispensed unto you in the Ordinances of the Gospel which you sometimes Enjoyed Yea t' wil be an happy Captivity that is now come upon you if the Ears of your Souls be now open to the Discipline of Christianity of which it may be the Lord from Heaven sayes unto you I stake unto thee in thy Prosperity and thou wouldest not hear me You have been particularly told of your Misery by reason of your Slavery to your Interiour Adversaries being Sold under Sin and being Taken Captive by the Devil at his Will But alas alas have you hitherto been deeply sensible of that Misery You were in the worst sort of Slavery before ever the Corshires of Africa Siezed upon you Every Sinful Child of Adam is by Nature so It is an horrible thing to be continually at work for Satan Tempted and Blinded by him and held fast in the Chains of Lust And it is of more than a Million Times greater Consequence to be Redeemed from this cursed Slavery than from that other wherein Turks and Moors do now trample upon you Your Slavery to the Monsters of Africa will be but short and you may Serve God under it and See God after it But your Slavery to the Powers of Darkness whereinto you are by your Fall from God precipitated This alienates you from the Knowledge and Favour of God and Eternal Confusions in another World will be the Wages of it And that which ha's left you in this Condition of Slavery is The Justice of the Holy God which hath arrested you in dreadful Bonds for the Wrongs that your Sins have done in Denying in Defying of His Majesty Methinks It should fill your Hearts with wonderful Joy to have the Tidings Offers of a Redemption from that your Spiritual Slavery This Letter now brings them to you The Lord JESUS CHRIST is that Strong Redeemer who is Able to Save you unto the uttermost and who ha's Engaged Him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out This gracious Lord hath paid a Sufficient Ransome unto the Justice of God for the Souls of His Chosen His very Life even the Life of that Man who is God as well as Man and therefore One of infinite Value ha's been given by Him as a Ransome for them They to whom the Vertue of this Ransome is actually applyed are set at Liberty from the Hellish Thraldome wherein the Enemies of their Souls have Enslaved them The Prey is taken from the Mighty and the Lawful Captive is delivered Come then my Afflicted Friends In your Captivity let it be your first Care to Commit your Enslaved Souls into the Hands of the Lord JESUS CHRIST With whom there is Plenteous Redemption for He will Redeem His People from all their Iniquities And Cry unto God that through the Ransome which the Lord JESUS CHRIST hath paid for you even that Blood which is more Precious than Silver and Gold and all the Corruptible things of this World you may have your Souls Redeemed from all the