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A warning piece to England, or, The wrath of God revealed against sinners his judgments being already entered upon the nation / by S.T.G.
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S. T. G., Lover of truth and peace.
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presence of the Lord and the glory of his Majesty and for ever to be cast into that lake that burneth with fire and brimstone in those easeless endless remediless torments where there is weeping and gnashing of teeth Math. 25. 41. Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand depart from me ye cursed into everlasting fire prepared for the Devil and his Angels Isa 66. 24. And they shall go forth and look upon the carkases of those that transgress'd against me for their worm shall not die neither shall their sire be quench'd and they shall be an abhorring to all flesh 1. Vain Swearing when men so commonly swear that they cannot ordinarily discourse but they must swear nay it is the fashion to swear and if a man cannot swear he is not fit company for some Gentlemen Oh poor miserable man is it thy common practice delight to blaspheme and take the great and dreadful name of God in vain Oh what wilt thou do when thou shalt appear before him at the last Day as thou certainly must surely thou wilt tremble desire mountains and rocks to fall upon thee to hide thee from him that sitteth upon the throne and from the Lamb Revel 6. 16. See those Scriptures that prohibit vain Swearing James 5. 12. But above all things my brethren swear not neither by Heaven neither by the Earth neither by any other Oath but let your yea be yea and your nay nay lest ye fall into condemnation Mat. 5. from the 33 to the 38 verses Surely such words are nothing but the speakings of the Devil in thee 2 Sort of swearing is for-swearing thy self when thou art call'd before a Magistrate this is a great sin that brings judgments upon the Nation for oaths the Land mourns How many poor creatures are hired to for-swear themselves and how many do it to pleasure great men and others wickedly for-swear themselves for to get their Neighbours goods and to defraud their neighbour of his right Levit. 6. 3 4 5. chap. 5. 1. Jere. 23. 10. For the land is full of Adulterers for because of swearing the land mourneth the pleasant places of the wilderness are driedup and their course is evil and their force is not right Hose 4. 1 2. Hear ye the word of the Lord ye children of Israel tel for the Lord hath a controversie with the inhabitants of the land because there is no truth nor mercy nor knowledg of God in the land By swearing and lying and killing and stealing and committing Adultery they break out and blood toucheth blood Chap. 10. vers 4. They have spoken words swearing falsly in making a covenant Zach. 5. 3 4. Mal. 3. 5. And I will come near to you in judgment and will be a swift witness against the Sorcerers and against the Adulterers and against the false Swearers Doubtless this is a very great sin that brings judgment upon the nations families and persons 3. That wicked sin of Cursing parents cursing their children servants some children curse their parents servants curse their Masters Nay I have heard wicked men curse themselves their cattel Oh how common is it for men to bid the pox take them Foolish ignorant persons they cry out with pain and anguish several of them yeild up the ghost and if they do not repent go quick down to hell they that curse themselves and their cattel at last bring a curse upon all they have Math. 15. 4 For God commanded saying honour thy Father and Mother and he that curseth Father or Mother let him die the death Rom. 3. 14 15 16 Whose mouth is full of cursing destruction and misery are in their ways and the way of peace have they not known vers the 18 There is no fear of God before their eyes Jame 3. 10 Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing my brethren these things ought not so to be Several other places of Scripture I might produce but these may suffice Oh what mad blindness is this that rational men and those that have lived under the sound of the Gospel so long shou'd be so ignorant and wicked as to desire the plagues of God to be poured upon them and theirs Oh that my head was water and my eyes a fountain of tears that I might weep night and day for the sins and sorrows of poor distressed sin-sinking England 7. Sin is Adultery and had I time and a heart I might be very large to enumerate the multitude of transgressions of this nature surely this sin is grown so common that it is open before the Sun and men plead for it and very much extrenuate it Nay I question whether some are not so notoriously wicked to urge Scripture for their abominable uncleanness Know O thou prophane Atheist the Scriptures give thee no liberty but will judg thee for thy sins at the last and great day of account when you shall certainly give an account for all your actions done in the body and how will you answer the taking your neighbours wife from him it may be thou wilt instance David's adultery but consider if thou wilt commit David's sin then thou must expect David's punishment which was very severe See Psal the 32 from the 1 to the 6 vers vers the 3 When I kept silence my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long vers the 4 For day night thy hand was heavy upon me my moisture is turned into the drought of summer vers the 5. I acknowledg my sin unto thee and mine iniquity have I not hid I said I will confess my transgressions unto the Lord and thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin Psal 51. from 1 to the 13. vers Have mercy upon me O God according to thy loving kindness according to the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out all my transgressions vers the 2. wash me throughly from mine iniquity and cleanse me from my sin for I acknowledge my transgressions and my sin is ever before me vers the 4. Against thee only have I sinned and done this evil in thy sight that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest and clear when thou judgest vers 5. Behold I am shapen in iniquity and in sin did my Mother conceive me vers the 7. Purge me with hyssop and I shall be clean wash me and I shall be whiter than snow Make me to hear joy and gladness that the bones that thou hast broken may rejoice vers the 9. Hide thy face from my sins and blot out all mine iniquities vers 10. Create in me a clean heart O God and renew a right spirit within me vers 11. Cast me not out of thy presence and take not thy holy Spirit from me vers 12. Restore to me the joy of thy salvation and uphold me with thy free Spirit See what misery this sin of Adultery brought upon King David that made him cry out in the bitterness of his soul and allmost
A Warning Piece TO ENGLAND OR THE WRATH of GOD Revealed against SINNERS His Judgments being already entered upon the NATION By S. T. G. A Lover of Peace and Truth Psal 40. 10. I have not hid thy righteousness within my Heart I have declared thy faithfulness and thy Salvation I have not concealed thy loving kindness and thy truth from the great Congregation London Printed for D. Newman at the Kings Arms in the Poultry 1676. THE PREFACE Christian Reader AS far as the Author knows his own heart the main end of righting this small Treatise is that God may have all the glory and this Sin sinking Nation may have some benefit and so undoubtedly they will if they hearken to Gods Counsel to repent and turn from their evil ways to the Lord with their whole heart the consideration of the present confused state of this poor Nation caused me seriously to mind the next way how they might be brought into a better condition and I know no other way that God hath shewed us but by humbling our sâ—lves before the Lord to escape destruction and ruin For God will not always bear but then the Anger of the Lord will break forth in fury if a people do not amend their ways and doings which are not good God hath been earnestly calling unto us and lifting up his voice and by his Word and Dispensations perswading us to return unto him He hath tryed all sorts and all ways both Mercies and Judgments Surely it is very sad that the hand of the Lord hath been so greatly lifted up and that England should be so blind as not to take notice of his displeasure in afflicting us with Sword Pestilence and Fire and threatning Famine but gratiously holding his hand like a tender-hearted Father unwilling to destroy us except by our persisting in Sin we as it were force him utterly to consume us from the face of the Earth I humbly beseech you seriously to read and ponder what is said in this little Book And let not Satan perswade you to throw off those wholsom Exhortations and Instructions contained therein So with my earnest prayers at the Throne of Grace for Rulers and Ruled that the God of all Grace and Mercy would enable us to see the filthy nature of every Sin to repent of all our false ways as David saith in in the 119. Psal Through thy Precepts I get Understanding therefore I hate every false way I remain thine in all truth and righteousness S. T. A Warning piece to England or the wrath of God revealed against Sinners his judgment being already entred upon the Nation IT is very certain out of the Scriptures of truth that sin brings the judgment of the great God upon Nations Families and Persons Sin crys aloud for Vengeance Wrath and Desolation upon wicked and ungodly men Oh! let every one seriously consider the dreadful effects of sin it destroyed the old world Gen. 6. 5 6 7. And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the Earth and that every Imagination of his heart was only Evil continually Vers the 6. And it repented the Lord that he made man on the Earth and it grieved him at his heart Vers the 7. And the Lord said I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the Earth both man and beast and the creeping thing and the fouls of the air for it repenteth me that I have made man Likewise those five Citys in the plain were destroyed by fire Gen. 18. 20. And the Lord said because the cry of Sodom is great and because their Sin is very grievous Chap. the 19. 24 25. Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven he overthrew those Citys and all the plains and all the inhabitants of the Citys and that which grew upon the ground Consider what desolations and depopulations sin did bring upon Gods beloved People as you may read Lament 1. 2 3 4 5 7 8. verses She weepeth sore in the night and her tears are on her cheeks among all her Lovers she hath none to comfort her all her friends have dealt treacherously with her they are become her enemies Judah is gon into captivity because of affliction and because of great servitude she dweleth among the Heathen and she findeth no rest all her persecutors overtook her between the straits the ways of Sion do mourn because none come to her solemn feasts All her Gates are desolate her priests sigh her virgins are afflicted and she is in bitterness Her adversaries are the chief and her enemies prosper for the Lord hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions her children are gone into captivity before the enemy and from the Daughter of Sion all her Beauty is departed her Princes are become like Harts that find no Pasture and they are gon without strength before the pursuer Jerusalem remembred in the days of affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old when her People fell into the hand of the enemy and none did help her the Adversaries saw her and did mock at her Sabbaths Jerusalem hath grievously sined therefore she is removed all that honoured her despise her because they have seen her Nakedness yea she sighed and turned backward her filthyness is in her skirts she remembreth not her last end therefore she came down wonderfully she had no comforter Chapt. the 2. 1 2 3 4 5 6. verses and 3 4 5. Chapters of the book of the Lamenta as in the 5. Chapt. 16 vers The Crown is fallen from the head and wo to us that we have sined I might multiply Scriptures to shew the displeasure of God against Transgressors and after those many premonitions when they would not be forwarned God cast them off making them a by-word to all the Nations round about Oh England hear and tremble for the fiery anger of the Lord will burn like an Oven and none shall be able to quench it see Malachi 4. 1. For behold the day cometh that shall burn as an Oven and all the proud yea and all they that do wickedly shall be stubble and the day that cometh shall burn them up saith the Lord of hosts that it shall leave them neither root nor branch Qu. What sins bring National judgments Ans 1. Slighting and rejecting the Law and the Prophets and especially Jesus Christ in the time of the Gospel 2. The sins of Rulers 3. Idolatry 4. Adultery 5. Pride 6. Swearing and Cursing 7. Murder 8. Drunkenness and excess 1. Sin Slighting the Law and the Prophets which God complains of in the 1. of Es 2 3 4. vers I have nourished and brought up a People but they have rebelled against me The Ox knoweth his owner and the Ass his Masters Crib but Israel hath not known me Ah sinful Nation a people laden with iniquity a seed of evil doers children that have