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end_n	day_n	lord_n	week_n	2,734	5	9.9831	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57946	A vvarning to England: or, The nations looking-glass Wherein they may plainly see what are those good things, that are with-held by the sins of the nations. Also, vvhat are those national sins, which withold good things from us. Some of these have been lately endeavoured to be surprest by act of Parliament. To which is added, An earnest exhortation, to break off our sins by a timely repentance, least the Lord break forth in wrath against us. By Robert Russel, in Sussex, author of the Book of the unpardonable sin against the Holy Ghost. Licensed according to order.	Russel, Robert, fl. 1692.	1695 (1695)	Wing R2348D; ESTC R220004	13,301	25

outward gestures of the body O let the great ones of this Land have a care that they do not lye under that threatning denounced against proud persons Isa 3. from ver 16. to the end That because the Daughters of Zion are haughty and walk with stretched forth weeks walking and mincing as they go and making a tinckling with their feet therefore in that day the Lord will take away their bravery their chains brasless and mufflers their Rings and changable suits of Apparel their mantles wimples and crisping pins their glasses fine linnen hoods and vails c. But this is not all there is a worser judgment threatened in the two last verses Their Men shall fall by the sword and their mighty Men in War c. O that the Inhabitants of this nation would break off this sin by Repentance least the like Judgment should speedily fall upon them for sure pride is a great sin that hinders good things from us Seventhly and lastly I will name but one National Sin more that with-holds good things from us and that is Sabbath-breaking and this is a sin that reigns very much in this land tho ' there has been good and wholesome Laws set out by Act of Parliament against the common prophanation of the Lord's day yet I think the generality of people now a days do but little regard either the laws of God or Man and a great many there be tho they dare not work at their callings on the Lords day yet they will besure to chuse that day above all the rest to go and visit their friends and to make merry amongst their sinful Companions and sometimes ride abroad about unnecessary ●u●iness because they cannot spare time on other days O how careful are a great many to pise early on the week days and work later than ordinarily on Saturday nights thinking that when the ●ords day comes then they may that morning rest themselves in their beds never considering to what end that day was given them nor what is to be done on that day and when the King and Parliament was graciously pleased to set a part days of fasting and humiliation for the sins of the nation that by fasting and praying God might avert and remove those judgments that bang over our heads yet these days were but little minded by a great many for when a fast day came they could not spare time from their worldly imployments to attend on God in publick and many others tho' they do go to church as soon as publick exercise is ended away they go to the Ale-house to drinking thus they seem to keep a fast but it is but a mock fast instead of keeping that day in offering up unto God an humble and contrite heart-for their sins and the sins of the nation and importuning of God by their earnest prayers to remove those Judgments which hang over their heads instead of that they must go to satisfying of their lust Ah sinful people ah nation laden with iniquity will you thus continue to provoke the Lord at all times will not the Lord be avenged on such doings as these but praised be the Lord that there are many in this nation that do keep a sincere fast unto the Lord and by their fervent and hearty prayers stand in the gap and stop God s Judgments from falling upon this sinful nation otherwise Woe had it been to us long before this time Beioved people you that are the inhabitants of this land if our gracious King and Governours will be pleased to set a part at any time another day of humiliation for the Lords sake let me prevail with you to spend that oue day wholly in exainining your hearts and lives in confessing and mourning for your sins and for the sins of the nation and resolving to break off your sins by repentance as the people of N●nive did that God may yet turn away from the sierceness of his wrath that we perish not A word or two of Application and I have done Beloved Friends you have seen here what those sins are that with-hold good things from us not only so but pulls down most heavy judgments upon our heads and I think these sins never so much abounded in this nation as they do now never was there so much swearing lying oppression cheating pride drunkenness and Sabbath-breaking as there reigns among us now in these days Beloved Friends for the Lords sake let us set upon the reforming of these sins break them off by a timely repentance I say for the Lords sake who is still patient and is loath to strike but forbears to the very utmost if it may be that we will yet turn to him methinks the Lord at this day is bemoaning England as once before I told you he bemoan'd Ephraim How shall I give thee up England how shall I deliver thee up into the hands of thy Enemys O that thou wouldest once reform and amend that my wrath may not yet break forth against thee Consider how the Lord hath timely given us warning by his word by signs and by his servants and still he forbears to strike and shall not we yet take warning until destruction comes at our backs O for the Lords sake reform amend if not for the Lords sake yet let us do it for our own sakes nay for the nations sake what pitty is it that we should by our sins pull down vengeance upon the whole nation nay lastly Friends let us all be prevailed with to break off our sins by repentance and amend our lives for the sake of William our King and Governour A few years ago when we were even at the brink of utter ruine and destruction and he out of tender love to these nations was graciously pleased to leave his habitation 〈◊〉 Holland and did venter thro' many difficultys l●wgers and did hazard his own life that he might ●ome to deliver us from bondage and slavery and ●et must we take this love and good-will so unkindly and so unthankfully so as to do what in us lyes by our sins and iniquities to pull down Gods judgments upon his head and the whole nation besides O what a dreadful thing this is to consider of Friends we have provoked God so much by our sins that God has threatened several times to remove him from us how often has he been very near to have been shot and yet for our sakes he preserved him and praised be his name still preserves shields him from the hands of his enemies It was but a little before the Queens death that there was a day of thanksgiving appointed for the Kings return home which was on the Sabbath-day but O how sad it was to behold how the Lord's day was profaned in many Towns and Citys by Ringing shouting and making of bonfires but alas how soon was this our mirth and jollitry turn'd into mourning and truly friends I cannot out look upon the death of our gracious Queen which happen'd soon after no other wise than as part of Gods just Judgments to this nation as for their many other provocations so-particularly for that one abuse of the Lord's day and yet people will take no warning but run on still in the same prophanation of the Lord's day beloved Friends and inhabitants of this nation we have if I may so speak but one string to our how and if the Lord should be provoked by our sins by any means to remove from us our gracious King what can we look for then but utter Ruine and Destruction my Friends if ever the King and Parliament should appoint at any time another day of thanksgiving he exhorted to spend it in publick prayers and praises the rest of the day spend both in meditating and also in discoursing one another concerning God's wonderful works his mercies and miraculous deliverances in all Ages of the world particularly of our Redemption by Christ and of God's mercys to this nation And towards the end of the day let it be concluded in reading in your familys in expounding in singing Psalms in praying and praises now a day thus spent would resemble the life of the Saints in Heaven If this day of thanksgiving be on the Lord's day for the Lord's sake do not prophane it by drinking ringing shouting and bonnring as the custom has been and if our Rulers would be pleased to set a part a day in the week time which I think most convenient pray let it not be spent in such vanity and sooleries but in spiritual exercises and what money you intend to bestow in drinking and ringing and faggots you intend to give to be consumed in bonfires be exhorted to offer up these as a thanksgiving offering to God by beslowing them upon the poor and needy to feed and warm them with such sacrifice God will be well pleased such a thanks offering as this will ascend up as a sweet savour unto God whereby God's wrath will be pacified and will remove his Judgments from us and delight to do us good To conclude let us be exhorted to break off our ●ins by repentance and to amend our lives then God will bless and prosper our King and the whole nation and deliver us from all our Enemies then we shall yet see Happy Days and be blest with a lasting Peace and Plenty Which the Lord of his Insinite Mercy grant Amen