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England's faithful monitor being the works of that suffering Protestant Mr. Stephen Husnance when under exile and confinement in the years 1685 and 1686 : wherein popery is briefly demonstrated to be a wicked religion ...
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Husnance, Stephen.
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will put in the rear Because little of real love doth appear And 't is that our Saviour hath foretold Mat. 24.12 In the latter days love should wax cold Yet Christ commands love may see it true In Scripture Joh. 15.17 love as I have loved you Who writes after this Copy age or youth That love is real 1 Joh. 3.23 in deed and in truth In time of prosperity many pretend love Then what they will do self-ends move He never lacks shall never lack a friend If rich Prov. 14.20 then friendship enough pretend But if in trouble Micah 7.5 their Love is at an end Whosoever in his need a feigned friend try Instead of friendship Zech. 13.6 finds him an enemy But as none look on a Dial when the Sun Is under a cloud Prov. 19.7 so if try their love 's done 'T is true Reader as clear's the Sun. When Paul before Nero for 's Life was try'd All men forsook him 2 Tim. 4.16 their love to hide Before Paul came to his Answer they cry'd They would stand by him as is imply'd Such love in our days hath been descry'd Many pretend love but when need it deny'd A friend loves at all times Prov. 17.17 and a brother 's born For adversity this love out the world 's worn For the least difference doth passion move Into anger then farewel all pretended love Love without dissimulation not for self-ends Rom. 12.9 18. Love is now for self ends or farewel friends 'T is not according to Christ's Rule shall I move You to press after this virtue God is love 1 John 4.20 21. Can you love God and not love one another 'T is not love of God can't hold together He that saith loves God and hates his brother Is a Lyer Oh then love and from malice sever Follow peace and love Heb. 12.14 Oh that I could hurl This ball love and peace thorow the world 'T is not a love to sin I press don't mistake That I am against for my Saviour's sake Pray for their Conversion don't carry hate To their persons in their sins be separate Eph. 5.11 12. Keep universal love and peace unto all As occasion offers do good to great or small Rom. 12.18 27. Don't live in envy that pleaseth the Devil Then love one another times are evil Days we live in call for love together Eph. 5.16 Our Cause dangerous from love don't sever Hold in love together now love or never Do good to all especally the houshold of Faith Gal. 6.10 Love your Enemies as the Scripture saith Much more Christ's Image where you it see Mat. 5.44 By the fruit holiness may know the Tree Mat. 7.16 Without partiality high or low degree Heb. 13.1 If Christ's Image let love impartial be 1 John 5.1 Love Christ's Image but don't be so Apish To love a Picture and hate Christ like a Papish They pretend love to Christ's Picture so free Yet malign Christ in his Members in high degree Luke 6.35 36. The difference between God's Children see And Satans I will briefly lay before thee As God and 's Children are known to be one Jam. 3.17 In love mercy pity in their lives doth run Patience long-suffering love wishing the health Life and welfare of all as himself So Satan and his Children are known one Prov. 12.10 In envy cruelty oppression is by them done Malignancy revenge murder tyranny Improverishing Psal 74.20 and undoing many a family See how God's Children by love are known From Satan's James 3.14 15 16. they for malice every one Oh! then love one another don't be so evil To live in malice the mark of the Devil Oh! Rev. 12.13 17. love one another 't is my earnest suit Herein's God glorified John 15.8 if you bring love's fruit Sect. 2. INstead of love Mat. 18.15 backbiters our times afford If a brother sin who according to the word Of Christ go tell him his fault Scripture record In love tell him his sin 'twixt him and thee If canst gain thy brother verse 16. if not try see What canst do then take more with thee Take heed let not backbiting in thee lurch Perswade in love before tell it the Church verse 17. How few observe this Rule in our Nation No their love is now for information Scripture saith Psal 15.3 who shall dwell in salvation He that backbiteth not with his tongue And Paul also reckons a backbiter among 2 Cor. 12.20 Worst of sinners Rom. 1.29.30 and shall have damnation Without repentance and real reformation The evil of backbiting is it hurteth love And doth antipathy and hatred move Prov. 15.1 Brings in dissention and at long run By this evil 26.28 backbiting many undone Sin of backbiting hath this peculiar evil It hurts a man absent Prov. 11.9 as bad's the Devil Doth covertly undo men before aware Therefore of backbiters had need take care For many times it dissevers friends asunder Gives such a wound as makes some wonder and 18.8 Therefore Scripture saith Better an open enemy Than a secret friend a backbiter undoes secretly What greater prejudice can be than Infame A man in 's credit reputation and good name To rail and backbite common in woman Prov. 9.13 But Scripture saith Speak evil of no man Tit. 3.2 3. Yet common in our days men are so base Jam. 4.11 Their love is for one anothers disgrace Like Jeremiah's familiars he doth them call Pretend love that watch one anothers fall Jer. 20.10 I heard defaming of many on every side This comes from Satan and dissembling Pride Jam. 3.15 For the Hypocrite and Backbiter are twins Mat. 24.51 Shall have Hypocrites portion for their sins Oh! give off backbiting and for mercy call Judge not thy brother Rom. 14.4 12. Unto God who will judge thee and all Cast off backbiting whiles hast breath Set love to work save a Soul from death Jam. 5.20 Consider worth of Souls let love move In thy generation this way employ love Mat. 16.26 Not in backbiting cast it off don't delay Do it in love to Christ 't is thy best way The wages of backbiters is very bad pay Take heed of false hope and presumptuous play Rom. 6.23 Sect. 3. IN Scripture I read Luke 13.26 27. many in the last day Will presume on their familiarity and say They had eat and drank in Christ's presence Some expostulating with Christ from hence Have prophesied cast out Devils in thy name Mat. 7.22 23. Done wonderful works shall we have blame Can this be without love to Christ true Had we such ground should say so too Yea confident if such evidence of union With Christ think us safe of communion With God hereafter could we say as they verse 23. Consider of it Reader and mind I pray Yet
Rev. 20.12 then don't delay To make thy peace with God in Christ pray The Judge to befriend you in that day Consider what would'st wish had'st done When come to die therefore to Christ run God will not be pleas'd but in his Son. Mat. 17.5 Depend on Christ in life and he will smile Make us happy tho' by nature Sinners vile Therefore watch saith Scripture and pray For to Salvation Christ is the only way Act. 4.12 For mercy you will cry when come to die Oh! then take the way of Mercy speedily Psal 119.60 You know not how unfit you may be For Repentance when death shall seize thee Luk. 19.6 This for truth you may see very plain Many in sickness are overcome with pain All friends can do is often in vain Can 't ease the Body Job 16.2 much less the Soul Miserable comforters they may be all What tumblings what pains in the head And can't make use of a bit of bread Is this a time to repent Is this a season To believe when often depriv'd of reason And assaulted by the King of Terror Job 18.4 With thoughts of sin fill'd with horror Then Satan and all Powers of Darkness swell Against thee to bring thy Soul to Hell When in sickness thou art near thy end Then will Satan to accuse thee attend Satan is call'd the Brethren's Accuser Rev. 12.10 he Envies Man's happiness in Scripture see Satan goes to and fro the World's Globe To destroy Souls see in the cause of Job And others Job 1.7 His name Legion many at command To resist or accuse stands at Saint's right hand Oh! fear his snares don't thy self delude He 's a lying Spirit Zech. 3.1 hath destroy'd a multitude Satan like a roaring Lion doth not delay To destroy Souls then in this thy day Whilst hast health keep out of his way In sickness 1 Pet. 5.8 not capable to defend his Play Acts all his subtilty to make thee his Prey Like a cunning Gamester 2 Cor. 2.11 at a dead lift stand Against thee unless Christ hold thy hand Wilt be cast Luk. 22.32 then obey Christ's Command Work out Salvation in fear and trembling Live to Christ cast off dissembling No Repentance after death in way of Salvation Therefore live holy in thy Generation Consider when in this life run thy race Thy Soul carries nothing with it but grace When separate from the Body comes in place To receive Sentence according to its deed Done in the Body 2 Cor. 5.10 false hope do not breed Make thy peace with God on good ground No Salvation without in Christ found Walk by Christ's rule and daily direction Joh. 14.6 Watch thy heart depend on Christ's protection Mortifie thy Members which to sin move Col. 3.5 Pride Covetousness and also self love Strangle thy lusts fear God and herein Stand at Sword 's point against beloved sin Those sins to which by nature most prone Prov. 14.12 13. Let not any loved sin in thy Soul alone Those sins which did'st delight with gladness At death turn into sorrow and sadness Luk. 6.25 No more pleasing the flesh no more joy In sin those things will thy Soul Destroy All vain pleasure and sinful laughter At death depart and Judgment comes after Heb 9.27 Then all thy secret sins at Death stand Conscience open'd with a Sword in 's hand To accuse of the breach of every Command Rom. 2.15 Without an int'rest in Christ understand All thy thoughts words and sinful actions Rom. 2.16 Yea thy secret sins and vile affections Will be presented to thy view and memory Before death begins to close a Sinner's eye His Conscience is open and begins to cry Oh! quiet it now with Christ's Blood say I. Heb. 9.14 Get an int'rest in Christ before thou die His merit to thy Soul by faith apply For without the Wedding garment mute Mat. 22.12 Go ye cursed is a very sad salute Eternal death and misery is sin's fruit Rom. 6.23 Oh! live to Christ before it be too late On a moment depends thy eternal State Jam. 4.14 Whilst hast life consider this word Everlasting Mind Death for when thy eyes are blasting To all worldly comforts death puts an end Take Christ for Refuge make him thy friend By holy resignation unto Holiness attend Heb. 12.14 Prize time and life also remember this After death no mending what is amiss In thy Soul for as the Tree doth fall So it lies Eccl. 11.3 as death leaves us so we shall Receive Sentence Rom. 14.12 accordingly be judg'd all Then live to Christ Act. 17.31 whilst here remain That after death with Christ may'st live again SECT XLIX Consider farther what 's said concerning body 2 Tim. 2.14 As well as Soul don't live a wicked noddy Observe not only thy Soul is immortal But also thy Body understand this exhortal Tho' thy Body die as to its first being Yet intentionally is immortal seeing It lies in the Grave but till the Resurrection None but Sadduces can deny it by rejection For this mortal 1 Cor. 15.53 54. must put on immortality This is a Mystery which Scriptures discry That the Body doth not die eternally Col. 1.26 But in the Grave till Resurrection doth lie And then Soul and Body 't is very plain In Scripture shall be reunited again Oh! Col. 1.21 to the 23. verse happy if in Christ Oh! then what joy To Soul and Body nothing shall annoy If lived holy then Soul and Body rejoice As a Bride doth Joh. 3.29 to hear the Bridegrooms voice Happy then those Bodies that do not yield Their Members Rom. 7.12 13. as Instruments of Sin 's Field But unto Righteousness their Members apply If not Soul and Body must eternally die The Body by Christ's power shall appear The Soul come with trembling and fear The Body from the Grave Joh. 5.27 to the 29. verse the Soul from Hell If wicked consider this and mind it well What 's to indure God's wrath none can tell Dreadful for Body Psal 90.11 and Soul to live in Hell. What a woful and miserable salutation When Soul and Body must to desolation Oh labour how to prevent it in thy Generation Mat. 10.28 That forever have their eternal doom Oh! 25.6 then whilst life meet the Bridegroom Christ Jesus unto him by saving faith fly Get Oil in thy lamp Christ's merits apply Live in life unto Christ by holy dependancy Remember thy Body lives again tho' it die Job 14.14 Then not only for thy Soul's Salvation reflect But also thy Bodies eternal welfare respect Consider this do not think 't is a Story If no grace whilst in this Body no glory Heb. 12.14 Let me tell thee they are as Brother One can't be happy without the other Rom. 6.12 Seeing the Body must have an eternal being With