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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91075	The prophets Malachy and Isaiah prophecying to the saints and professors of this generation of the great things the Lord will doe in this their day and time. Shewing (amongst other things) the nature and quality of the apostachy. The judgement of the Lord upon the leaders of the apostacy. How the Lord will deale with, and carry himself towards, others guilty of the apostacy. The certainty of deliverance at hand for the true seed. / By a wel-wisher to the kingdome of our Lord Jesus. To which is prefixed two very useful epistles, by Christopher Feak, and John Pendarves, ministers of the Gospel.	Wel-wisher to the kingdome of our Lord Jesus.; Pendarves, John, 1622-1656.; Feake, Christopher, fl. 1645-1660.	1656 (1656)	Wing P3687; Thomason E888_2; ESTC R207362	83,871	109

Southsayers like the Philistines notwithstanding all their glorious hypocritical professions and outside worship that men cannot discern what they are without digging very deep yet they are guilty of some of the wicked and provoking abominations of their predecessors whom the Lord drave out before them 2 Because n Verse 7. their Land is ful of silver and gold neither is there any end of their treasure their time is spent in getting and their hearts run a whoring after the riches of this world as it was in the dayes of Noah so it is now they are wallowing in the delights and pleasures of this world they are so swallowed up in the love of the fading glory of this miserable world that they cannot find their rest but there is no end of their treasures they wil never with the rich man say it is enough soul take thy rest so insatiable are they that the treasures of the world are not able to satiate their boundless lusts there is no end of their desires the more they get the more they would have there is no end of their treasure their Coffers wil never be filled so long as any thing is behind that may be gotten by any way or means 3 Their o Verse 7. land is ful of Horses neither is there any end of their Chariots and they please themselves in the children of strangers to secure themselves in the enjoyment of their carnal and unworthy pleasures they erect a Mercenary and powerful Militia a thing of such a wicked and destructive tendency to the good and wel fare of the people that the Lord doth expresly command that man whom he shal chuse to be Ruler over his people that p Deut. 17.16 he shal not multiply horses to himself and the wickedness of its tendency is exprest in this that it causeth the people to return to Egypt into an Egyptian bondage and slavery when the Lord hath said Ye shall henceforth return no more that way the Lord knew ful wel that man though a holy man of the Lords own chusing qualified according to the mind and wil of God so as that he wil chuse him before all others yet man so qualified man in the highest state of grace while this old World standeth would not be able to bear up against the temptations of the evil one and his own heart vvhen once he hath gotten a multitude of Horses and chariots a powerful mercenary Militia at his ownvvil and devotion David that upright heart after he vvas grown great by many Conquests could not withstand a Temptation of this nature numbring the people and such a power vvil necessarily cause the people to return to Egypt that is into bondage and slavery for it is the high way to oppression and injustice To make this Militia wholly his own to serve his interest to be for him him against all his enemies he must be bountiful and liberal to them bestow great gifts upon them and having not of his own so to do he must rob and oppress the pople this course Saul took 1 Sam 8.14 15 and 17 verses And he wil take your fields and your Vineyards and your Olive-yards even the best of them and give them to his servants and he wil take the tenth of your seed and of your Vineyards and give to his Officers and to his servants he wil take the tenth of your sheep and ye shal be his servants And least any should have better thoughts of Saul and think this might be meant of some other read what himself saith Chap 22.7 Then Saul said unto his servants that stood about him hear now yee Benjamites will the son of Jesse give every one of you fields and Vineyards and make you all Captains of thousands and Captains of hundreds implying as strongly that he had done so as that David could not nor would not do so O the deep gulf of wickedness and misery the horrid Temptations that mans heart vvil hurry him into who fals down to commit adultery vvith this filthy Idol But these men wil multiply horses and Chariots to themselves that they may be a sure defence to them in their ways of vvickedness yea they so dote upon this Idol that they never think they have enough of her there is no end of their Chariots horse upon horse Chariot upon chariot force upon force there is no end of them they never think themselves strong enough and great enough and this brings a necessity for Oppression upon oppression without end for these must have their feilds and their Vineyards and their Olive-yards and their tenth part of the seed great possessions and riches otherwise there is no life in this defence without this Oyl the chariot-wheels vvil not run and they please themselves in the Children of strangers men of a strange degenerated spirit that chuse to serve the Wil and lust of the Prince before the true interest of their countries good the vvelfare of the people men of so strange a spirit and principle that they truly deserve the name of strangers and not Natives of the good Land of such a degenerared unworthy principle that teaches them obedience to the Imperious wil and unlawful commands of their Prince although with Doeg the Edomite they fal foul on the servants of the Lord in such Children of strangers do these men take pleasure and with them is their delight and therefore wil the Lord arise to shake terribly the earth and bringing down the lofty looks of these proudmen save his righteous remnant and get himself a name excellent in all the earth These wickednesses are guilty of such aggravations that they so provoke the eyes of Gods glory as he wil not forgive them by no means wil he pass them by but wil deal with them in that dreadful manner spoken of But this is not all the Prophet in the 16 verse of this 3d. Chapter comes with a MOREOVER Moreover the Lord saith because the daughters of Syon are haughty and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes walking and mincing as shey go and making a tinckling with their feet therefore the Lord wil smite with a scab the crown of the head of the daughters of Syon and the Lord wil discover their secret parts in that day wil the Lord take away the bravery of their tinkling Ornaments about their feet and their Cauls and their round tires like the Moon the chains and the bracelets and the muflers the honnets and the ornaments tf the leggs and the headbands and the tablets and the ear-rings the Rings and the Nose jewels and the changeable suits of apparel and the mantles and the wimples and the crisping pins the glasses and the fine linnen and the hoods and the vails and it shal come to pass that in stead of sweet smel there shall be stink and instead of a girdle a rent and instead of wel-set hair baldness and in stead of a stomacher a girding with sackcloth and burning

to finish let those who would follow Christ in the Regeneration or their Generation work sit down first and with serious spirits count the cost Take that word of Christ for your help Luke 14.26 If any man come to me and hate not father and mother and wife and children brethren and sisters yea and his own life also he cannot be my Disciple The Law and Testimony of the Lord is bound up and sealed with such Disciples-indeed who chuse rather to loose their ALL in this world than to doe any thing contrary to the mind of God contained therein As for others the Lord counts them unworthy and if they be enlightned they cannot but judge themselves unworthy of so great a trust But why doe I detain the Reader thus long from that discourse which may afford more profit and delight The work is before thee goe on to it in the fear of the Lord onely this I shall say further viz. That I doubt not but men who will reject a good work as the manner of some is for some small and it may be meerly supposed Errour may find whereat to be stumbled in reading this Book and so this as many other worthy works be rendred uselesse and an offence to them whilest honest hearts who having the love of truth cannot easily be prejudic'd against it Psal 119.165 are like to reap precious benefit hereby And here let it be noted also That God is not a little jealous for the glory of his great Name in the work he hath begun Though he will use man in his work yet so as that his Imperfection shall appear that we may cease from man and from glorying in men our selves or others and that we may give all the glory to him whose due it is Amen Blessing and glory and wisedome and thanksgiving and honour and power and might be given unto our God for ever Having thus far enlarged as being engaged to bear my Testimony in love to those truths contained in the ensuing worke I commend it to the Lord for his blessing adding this onely that I am Thine if thou rejoycest not in Iniquity but in the Truth JOHN PENDARVES The 10 day of the 6 Month. 1656. Errata PAge 2. line 14. for vissitudes read vicissitudes p. 9. l. 3. r. are not l. 36. r. heart-feuds p. 11. l. 8. r. they give him the honor p. 13. l. 40. r. as at p. 15. l. 36. r. is in Zion p. 16. l. 31. dele abide the day p. 17. l. 4. r. he tells us p. 64. l. 12. r. secondly p. 65. l. 8. dele of p. 77. l. 34. r. swiftnes Many other literall Mistakes have escaped the Press but these above written are some of the chief of which the Reader is desired to take notice The Prophets MALACHY and ISAIAH PROPHECYING to the Saints and Professors of this GENERATION Of the great things the Lord will do and bring to pass in this their day and time MAL. 3.16 17 18. Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another and the Lord hearkned and heard it and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord and that thought upon his Name And they shall be mine saith the Lord of hosts in that day when I make up my jewels and I will spare them as a man spareth his own son that serveth him Then shall ye return and discern between the righteous and the wicked between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not THE State of the Nation and Common-wealth of Israel their Worship and the dispensation of their God towards them were Tipes of the better condition he would bring his Children into of those clearer discoveries the Lord would make of himself and his Glory and after what manner he would carry himself towards his Chosen in the Gospel-day And it 's as true that the backslidings and apostacies of that Tipical Common-wealth and people with their corrections bondages and captivities were Tipes also of the state and condition of the Church of God under that Gospel-administration yea their very Enemies were no less than Tippical pointing out to us those adversaries the Serpent would raise up against the seed of the Woman the true Church and people of God in that divident of time called the last dayes Their servitude and sore bondage in Egypt was a general Tipe of the malitious practises of the seed of the Serpent against the Womans seed all the Serpents day long til the appointed time comes wherein the Lord wil judge them and deliver his people with a mighty hand with signes and with wonders after the manner of Egypt But in a more particular way After many vissitudes and changes fals and risings backslidings and reformations wrought in this Common-wealth which also are not without their Tipical significancies when those two admirable excellent Tipes David and Solomon had run their race this people of one Nation became two which tipically is very significant to us For as those 10 Tribes who made the fraction presently turned aside from their God and through their backslidings and apostacies after many warnings from Heaven brought a destroying enemy upon them that their place and name was taken quite away they were a Tipe of those ten parts if I may so express it of the professing Gospel-Church who through their backslidings and apostacies a 2 Thes 2.3 falling away made way for the man of Sin the Babylonish power to exalt it self over them to their ruine And as the Lord for his servant Davids sake and for Jerusalems sake promised to preserve one Tribe that David might have b 1 King 11.36 a light before the Lord in Jerusalem notwithstanding their backslidings and apostacies yet upon the pure account of his Covenant with David the Lord preserves this one Tribe according to his promise til Shiloh came this Tribe was a Tipe of that smal part of the professing Gospel-Church which the Lord will preserve for David his Sons sake and for Jerusalem his true Churches sake that the seed of the Woman may not be quite extinct nor our Lord Jesus the Son of God left without his Remnant in the world notwithstanding all the deviations backslidings and apostacies of Kings Rulers and people yet there is a cluster in the midst of it that hath such a blessing in it that it shal be preserved and continue til he comes the second time whose right it is to Reign But for the iniquities backslidings and Apostacies of this one Tribe the Lord delivers them for a season into the hand of the King of Babilon and after a certain term of time by a Cyrus he opens away for their coming out of Babilon and return to their own Land to Worship the Lord God of their Fathers at Jerusalem in the true Church now they apostatising after this super-abundant grace and favour stopping their ears against the Lords Messengers he withdraws God leaves them to themselves their Prophets cease