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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54962	The Plague checkt, or, Piety will either prevent or alter the property of the plague ... together with sundry other things in a letter written by a friend to sundry of his godly friends ... with respect to the present times ...		1665 (1665)	Wing P2336; ESTC R8032	44,854	85

the whole earth And is this matter for you to scorn at Let me further tell you that please your selves in a scornfull spirit and in the out-going of it that delight your selves in your scorning and will not turn at Gods reproof by his Word and by his judgements by both which he loudly cals but ye refuse to answer he stretches out his hand but you will not regard but set at naught all his counsels and will none of his reproofs He also will laugh at your calamity and mock when your feare cometh Prov. 1. 24. and so forward and know as the Lord speaks by his Prophet Ezekiel chap. 7. These things have a reality in them and are not as an eccho the sounding againe of the mountaines While I am declaiming against such a Generation of men as is before mentioned I see cause to be under such a sad seizure as was holy David who gives us this account of himself Psalm 55. Psalm 119. Fearfulness and trembling did come upon him that horrour had taken hold of him and overwhelmed him and wherefore all this what was it that troubled him he tells us it was because of the wicked that had forsaken Gods Law By the way observe what a contrary spirit most men yea men professing Godliness are possessed with and acted by that can see and hear the abominable impieties committed in the Land and not be moved at all and is it not almost grown quite out of fashion to lay to heart other mens sins and high horrid provocations they think its well if they take any notice of their own but this is it I drive at It may well raise up wonder and astonishment to consider that any such persons should be found in this Nation after such a time of Gospel Light and Grace and plentifull means of Salvation which one might think would have levened the land all over and Sainted the whole Kingdom and as after such means so under such dispensations as at this day are ordered out that should bear so high and drive so desperately so furiously as many do in City and Country carring as if they would dare God to his face make a challenge to him and as it s said in Job 15. 20. They stretch out their hands against God and strengthen themselves against the Almighty they run upon him even on his neck upon the thick bosses of his bucklers such are men of high dareing spirits I should think it would do well for them to take up a little and when they are in their fullest career to make a stop and pause somewhat of consideration and moderation would not do amiss nor would I ever wish a man to provoke the Lord unless he first be sure of this that he is stronger then he for so the Apostle Paul argues 1 Cor. 10. 22. Do we provoke the Lord to jealousie are we stronger then he I would wish such kinde of persons to consider o● Pharoachs case and Gods expostulation with him Exod 9. 17. As yet exaltest thou thyself against my people I will smite thee and thy people with pestilence c. If any shall reply and say but wha● occasion is there thus to speak I answer it well known observed what cruel actings there are at this day on the part of under-officer against their fellow subjects such as perhaps hi● Majesty and the Parliament would not so well like of as being supra statutum and that to a high degree But what is the day and dispensations of it that w● speak of I answer It is not the day of Judgment the Doctrine whereof is the terrour of the Lord 2 Cor. 5. Concerning which I have often thought that arming our selves with that and other weapons of our spiritual Warfare which are not Carnal but Mighty through God we may be bold to encounter and graple with the proudest and stoutest of the sons of men upon the earth This Terrour of the Lord is that which where it comes in the power of it upon a defiled Conscience will make a man to be a Magor Missa bib i. e. a terrour to himself as Jeremiah speak Chap. This day of Judgment we all ought to be perswaded of and to be in a daily expectation of and preparation for But though this present day be not the day of Judgment yet it is a day of Judgment and many Preludiums there are both in Scripture and in the course of Providence which we may look upon as anticipations of that Great and Terrible day We have somthing signified to such a purpose in Psal 50. 3 4 5. verses Our God shall come and shall not keep silence a fire shall devoure before him and it shall be very tempestious round about him He shall call to the heavens from above and to the earth that he may judg his people Gather my Saints together unto me those that have made a Covenant with me by Sacrifice Where the Lord calls upon the sons of men from one end of the earth to the other and makes a general citation of them to gather themselves together he himself being upon a solemn appearance with devouring fire As for the present day I call it a day of Judgment the Lord whose fire is in Zion and whose furnace is in Jerusalem Esai 31. 9. hath kindled his fire and is heating his Furnace in England and London its good for us to strike while the Iron is hot we may be guided so to strike as that our Iron may be turned into Gold and by means of this firy furnace well improved many rusty Vessels may come forth as Vessels for the finer and fitted for the masters use We have these latter years had an account of many terrible Apparitions and Prodigies and other stupendious acts of providence which have caused much amazment and amuzment for the present But the impression of them are almost quite worn out the remembrance of them is past and gone and we are yet to seek as to a genuine interpretation of them There is Mistery Christ Mistery Gospel Mistery Zion Mistery Godliness Mistery Sin Mistery Babylon so is th Mistery Providence that God that hath his way in the Sanctuary hath his way in the Sea and his paths in the great Deeps and his footsteps are not known Psalm 77. the scriptures have their 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is things hard to be understood so hath the book of Providence there are Misterious Texts in it the holy Prophet found it so Psalm 73. It was dolor in Oculis in the study of which his eyes were made to water his head and heart to ake again And perceiving how apt he was to run upon dangerous mistakes he calls himself a Behemoth a foul beast and acknowledging his Ignorance and folly recovers himself and sees it to be his best course to draw neer to God and so he did and found the benefit and comfort of it to his dying day The sword of Warr hath lately been drawn and