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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26346	God's eye on the contrite, or, A discourse shewing that true poverty and contrition of spirit, and trembling at God's Word is the infallible and only way for the obtaining and retaining of divine acceptation as it was made in the audience of the General Assembly of the Massachusetts Colony at Boston in New England May 27, 1685, being the day of election there / by William Adams.	Adams, William, 1650-1685.	1685 (1685)	Wing A498; ESTC W12431	33,350	44

People of God though indeed too sadly declined and degenerate and therefore You are to take care to manage them so as may set and leave them under the highest degree of Divine Acceptation that is to be as humble and trembling under the word of God as may be What therefore may be done to convince of and deter and recover this people from Sin of all kinds and what may be done to encourage Draw on to and settle this People under a careful attendance to all good works in the Reverential ●…ear of God This is Your Work In which the LORD guide prosper and long continue You. II. This Exhortation may be proposed To the Lord's servants in the Ministry Fathers and Brethren suffer this word of Exhortation from the unworthiest of your Order or rather from your Lord Jesus Christ Sh●…w your selves Patterns as in other things so in the Humility and meekness of your spirits the contrition and brokenness of your hearts awful trembling at God's Word and in the Administration of His Worship and labour to promote this frame in the Lord's people by shewing them their sins in the vileness desert of them by setting before them the Majesty and Glory of God When God hath eminently improved succeeded and honoured to the last any of his servants in the work of the Ministry He hath given them a good measure of His Spirit Our Work is to receive the Word from God's mouth and to give His people warning from Him To both which a large measure of this spirit is necessary so much as is not easily or presently attained It was some time before Elijah's spirit at Horeb the mount of God was sufficiently prepared to an awful regard of the Divine presence and to the receiving the Lord's message First a great and strong Wind rends ' the mountains breaks in peices the Rocks before the Lord after the wind an earth-quake and after the Earth-quake a Fire and after all these the Lord appears in a small still voice and then Elijah wr●… his face in his mantle and in that awful posture receives the mind of God 1. King 19. 11 12 13. To Isaiah the Lord appears in such glorious manner as makes him cry out Woe is me for I am undone because I am a man of unclean lips and then He gives him and sends him upon his special errand to his people I●…ai 6. This spirit also is needful for the due delivery of the Lords mind to His people 2. Tim. 2. 24 25. The servant of the Lord must be gentle patient in meekn●…ss instructing c. Whatever message we have whether of Mercy or Judgment our souls should be feelingly and heart-breakingly concerned for those to whom we speak In the discharge of our Trust as we are special servants of Jesus Christ we should have much of His spirit who could not denounce Judgment against Ierusalem without many tears and heart-breakings for them Luk. ●…9 41 44. And when he was come near he beheld the city and ●…ept over it saying If thou hadst known even thou at least in this thy day the things which belong unto thy peace but now they are hid from thine eyes For the day shall come upon thee that thine enemies shall cast a tr●…nch about thee c. I need not say what present ●…ause there is for the Lord 's faithful Watch-men to be alike affected for Zion And in all our Administrations we be carried forth with a full sense of our own weakness worthiness What a nothing does the great Apostle Pau●… 〈◊〉 ●…f himself in the whole of his ministerial conversation I laboured more abundantly than they all yet not I but the graee of God which was with me 1. Cor. 15. 10. In nothing am I behind the very chiefest of the Apostles though I be nothing 2. Cor. 12. 11. III. Finally this Exhortation is proposed to all the People of the Land You are a professing People and do something in Religion externally but all your Profession and all that you doe will signifie and come to nothing if this spirit be wanting What One sayes of Thanks is true of all Worship and Service performed to God The value of it resolves it self wholly into the frame and Disposition of the heart You have the more need to be jealous of your selves for many times Christ's own Disciples don't know their own spirits There is a height of spirit sometimes that under a Zeal for the Lord's work and glory grows insensibly upon them notwithstanding their converse with and constant attendance upon the Lord insomuch that they doe hence expose themselves to the Lords rebuke Luk. 9. 54 55. And when his Disciples Iames and Iohn saw this they said Lord wilt thou that we command fire to come down from Heaven and consume them even as Elias did But he turned and rebuked them and said ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of O therefore look to your hearts take heed to your spirits that there be no Pride Loftiness or sinful Discomposure lodging there Labour to be within that promise which makes over the great Blessing of the Kingdom of Heaven of Comfort and an Inheritance on the earth to the poor in spirit that mourn and are meek Mat. 5. 3 4 5. As for your outward concerns those of this Day and the like seeing you have opportunity and so long as you shall have opportunity to be managing of them I wish you may shew your selves meek humble patient self denying forgiving supposed errors and wrongs Laying aside inconvenient or unreasonable disgusts not leting Anger to rest in your bosomes and that however God may further try you in these things that a spirit of patience and quiet submission to any such Dispensation as is according to God's Will may ever possess you while you both render to Caesar the things which are Caesar's and to God the things which are God's But your great business is with God and the most proper advice I have to offer therein is Get and be of a poor and contrite spirit and trembling at the Word of God Let your hearts come down and lye low before God and as the sheep of His hand hear his voice Psal. 95. 6 7 8. O come let us worship and bow down let us kneel before the Lord our maker For he is our God and we are the people of His pasture and the sheep of his hand to day if ye will hear his voice harden not your heart as in the provocation and as in the day of temptation in the Wilderness It is hardness and haughtiness of mens hearts that makes all Divine Exhortations ineffectual Oh beware of it in the least deg●…e of it Consider what God hath done to stain the glory of all flesh He will have no flesh to glory in his presence Conside●… the ax is now laid to the root of the tree Mat. 3 10. If we wil●… not lower to bring forth the fruit of true Humiliation and R●… pentance we shall be laid low even to the ground But thos●… that t●…ble when the Ax is at the root of the tree when Judg ment is gathering in the Cloud God will look to them that th●… Ax shall not cut them down nor the storm sweep the●… away Go●… will be to them a Sanctuary Isai. 8. 13. 14. Sanctifie the Lor●… of hosts Himself and let Him be your fear and let Him be yo●… dread and He shall be for a sanctuary And they shall have rest i●… the day of trouble either by escaping or having full suppo●… under it Hab. 3. 15 16. Thou 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 walk through the sea wi●… thy horses through the heap of great 〈◊〉 When I heard my be●… trembled my lips quivered at the voice rottenness entred into 〈◊〉 bones and I trembled in my self that I 〈◊〉 rest in the day of troubl●… We should therefore stand trembling before God under t●… sense and apprehension of present and impending Dispensation but more especially under the sense of whatsoever evils hav●… kindled the Lords Displeasure and made Him threate●… 〈◊〉 D●… parture from us Ezra 9. 4. and 10. 9. Let our whole Course Garb Guise Converse and Spirit spea●… Humility and Humiliation in so humbling a time as this is Carry it in all things as becomes a poor and an afflicted people I a●… sure you will be thereby better Disposed to trust in the Na●… of the LORD and have firmer ground to believe in His Sa●… vation The Subject therefore I have been discoursing is I trust thro●… Grace a suitable word from the Lord as I was desired to p●… pare for this Occasion I have not designed to gra●… or 〈◊〉 an●… have aimed to speak what may fall upon the consciences of us all a●… we are more or less guilty and I fear we have been 〈◊〉 in th●… thing one way or other most of us of wha●…soever 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 prehension Oh that we might now list up our s●…es no 〈◊〉 Th●… we might now lay our hands upon our mouths and put ou●… 〈◊〉 in the dust if so be there may be hope Famous remarkable a●… admirable might the Lord 's providential operations then be 〈◊〉 us in the eyes of others as well as comfortable to our s●… Isai. 14. 2. What shall O●… then answer the messengers of the 〈◊〉 That the Lord hath founded Zion and the poor of his people shall 〈◊〉 it Acclamations of joy for the Lord's Grace as in ●…aying th●… Foundation of so in strengthning defending carrying on and 〈◊〉 Temple-work among us should not be wanting It would ●…n be well yea it could not be otherwise At the worst though all passages for Comfort and Relief on Earth were block't up yet Heaven would be open to you whence you might receive Help And whatever should threaten yet you might say with him when demanded where he would be then if such a thing as was threatned should come to pass that you shall be aut in Coelo aut sub Coelo either in Heaven or under Heaven either under Heavens Protection while you live or in Heavens Possession if you should be moved out of this world FINIS Strong of Covenants page 26. S●… Mr. Oakes his 〈◊〉 S●…rm p. 25. Charnock Attrib page 657. Watson Niceph. p. 730. * Glanvil Cathol Charity * Arrowsmith Engl. Eben-iz p. 28.