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A40772	The faithfull pastor his sad lamentation over, heart-rending challenge and dreadfull thunders against, sharp reproof of, and seasonnable warning to his apostat-flock. In a letter written by a French minister to those over whom the Holy Ghost had made him an overseer upon their wofull defection, renouncing the faith, and joyning in idolatrous worship. Now carefully translated. Together with a word to mourners in Zion who by grace have kept the faith, to sleepers under the storm, and to the almost Christian; Sad lamentation over, heart-rending challenge and dreadfull thunders against, sharp reproof of, and seasonnable warning to his apostat-flock.		1687 (1687)	Wing F279; ESTC R216409	68,644	59

exhortations David had continued almost a year in his sin without perceiving it when Nathan came to break the Charme that allured his Conscience this Prophet raised his voice that he might succeed the more he used both reproaches and threatnings he displayed before him a long train of judgments and threatnings but yet he carryed the peace of God under the severity of his words and David no sooner had said I have sinned then he declared Thy sin is pardoned Imitate this sinner in his repentance and I will imitate the Prophet for your Consolation David was struck down with a word one word made him sensible of the horrid guilt of his crime which a flattering illusion had disguised to him On a sudden being convicted he confessed his fault and was ashamed to have committed it Acknowledg yee therefore yours after so many words of reproach after so many stroakes and what I have brought to describe it It is true Nathan does not speak to you but perhaps he is greater then Nathan for the least in the Kingdom of Heaven is greater than the greatest that is born of a woman such as I am I speak to you as if God spoke to you by me By the authority of the holy function which I a long time discharged among you whose honor I have preserved notwithstanding all the storms that have beaten upon me I may be bold to say that you hear Jesus Christ when you hear me and that you cannot despise my exhortation without despysing his word But if this be not enough hear Jesus Christ himself He still speaks to you in his Gospell he speaks to you from Heaven by those motions he excites in your souls Do not you hear your own hearts speak to you in his name (a) Psal 27. seek ye my face Have I shed my blood says he to be trampled under foot by a people whom I have (b) See pag. 25 marg redeemed Have I sanctified the cross by my sufferings that you might be ashamed to carry it after me Have I carryed your sins in my body on the cross for you to lose the courage of bearing my reproach and of confessing my name was I humbled and emptied did I bear your burden your infirmities and miseries for you to refuse to fulfill for my sake the rest of my sufferings Return unto me O ye people whom I have so mush loved and let me not loose the fruit of my sorrows and blood Come unto me you whose consciences are wearyed and heavy Loaden I will yet ease you I will yet give you rest and safety under the shadow of my pastorall staff and under the resuge of my sold In the Religion you have embraced there is nothing to satiate your hungrey soul but I have yet bread for its refreshment and balm for its cure The words of others do poison and kill but in me only will you find the words of eternall lyse Therefore Obey God who wills not the death of a sinner One look of Jesus Christ was enough to raise a fallen Apostle and this (a) Petrus a Petra nomen habuit Rock at a look as with a stroak of thunder was beat in peices and melted down into a stream of bitter tears God doth now look down on you from the throne of his glory and his looks are mixed with indignation for your sin and compassion on your weakness Does not the power of them break your hearts Can you not shed such aboundance of tears as to deface the memory of your sin (b) Cler. Rom. ad Cypr. Ep. 31. Send your tears to Heaven as Ambassadours of your grief Plead your Cause by Groans drawn from the bottom of your heart and for the reparation of your Crime let your shame and sorrow for it thus appear Let your eyes be a flood of tears and your heart by painfull sighs (c) Vide pag. 21. marg expiate your Crime either of (d) Vid. Ep. 26. Confess ad Cypr. beholding or kissing Idols Strengthen your weak hands and feeble knees and make your paths straight Harden not your hearts at the voice of God which this day resounds in your ears after you have been so long deprived of the Word of Consolation Must the weak sex every way surmount you They resisted better then you did and of those of them whorevolted one has given the first example of repentance Imitate her courage and be bold to do that which awoman did What a shame is it for a dying woman to have had more courage and zeale then strong and vigorous men Learn by the inhumanity you saw exercised on her body what you are to expect and withdraw in time from those among whom such cruelties are accounted pious meritorious actions Be not Scandalized because you see the Gospell of Jesus Christ out of fashion Think it not strange that Judgment has begun at the house of God and that you see the Disciples of our Lord undergo the firy tryall the servant is not better then the Master You must not murmur against God because he Leads his Children to Glory by tryalls seing he has consecrated the Prince of our Salvation by afflictions He does you no wrong to treat you as he treated his only Son And to remove every thing in the afflictions of the Church that may offend you look unto Jesus Christ the finisher of your faith who suffered on the cross and despysed shame who has been accompanied with a great cloud of witnesses whose constancy God has proposed for you to imitate Is it not certain after all (e) 2 Tim. 2. That if we suffer with him we shall also reigne with him How infinitely doth the recompense exceed the Sufferings (f) 2 Cor. 4. A light affliction which passe●h away works in us a far more exceeding and eternall weight of Glory Bring forth therefore fruit worthy of Repentance that we may judge of your sincerity by your diligence till then I cannot speak to you as ye would nor ought you to expect of me words of consolation untill you be fitted to receive them by Repentance (g) Bernard 10. Serm. in Cant. In vain do you lift up your eyes to behold the Heavenly treasures that are the delight of the soul if you have not first received the light of spirituall confort by the remission of sins which disturb your spirituall peace Seek therefore for pardon by sorrow for your sin (a) Id. lib. medit c. 4. and be so troubled for your past sins that it may forewarn you for the future Do not think that the Repentance you stand in need of consists in a bare sorrow for your sins past You are never true penitents till you recover out of the condition which you are in It is most true (b) Id. Ibid. that to continue in the sin which you Lament is to mock God and not to repent In a word If you would repent either confess your sin and Lament the mortall

allyance you have made with errour or retire from those places where the temptation is stronger then you can resist How willingly would I then set forth the Comforts which the word of God bestowes on those who have a broken heart What pleasure would I then take to draw refreshment from the fountain of living waters to communicate them to your thirsty souls What contentment would I take to display unto you the promises of grace and speak of the praises of your courage How boldly would I speak of the assistance which he gives to these that fight for his cause How would I triumph in describing the prize of your labour and the delights of eternall rest where your light afflictions should happily bring you I would be transported with a holy joy in representing God unto you Comforting your hearts curing your wounds wiping away your tears satiating you with his presence and crowning you with his glory Give then O People who may yet be if you will the people of God give unto those who have watch'd for your souls the comfort of beholding with joy and glory your Conversion in stead of the shame and sorrow that we are pierced with by your sin I would willingly thus finish all that I have to say to you which is much more pleasant to me then reproaches and threatnings but my duty and the fear of favouring your security by flattering words oblige me to speak to you in other terms Think therefor seriously on your condition Your sleep will be mortall unless you speedily awake the care that is taken to invite you to Repentance will serve only to render you inexcusable They are many witnesses that God can bring together for your conviction and stop your mouth when you shall stand before him in judgment His word so often preached among you will witnesse against the hardness of your hearts which it could not overcome Your Churches twice demolished will witnes against you that you deserved not to enjoy them seing you have kept so ill the pledge of the truth that was there taught you so many Confessors who have forsaken all for Christs sake will accuse you of being unworthie of the name and Livery of Christ for whom you could not have the heart to forsake your goods All the means and occasions you have had of saving your selves from a perverse generation which you have let slip will rise in judgment against you and convince you of preferring the base interests of the world to that of your salvation I who now labour to bring you back must one day be obliged to declare against you that you would not hear my voice and that I had no fruit of my care and Counsells I shall then with regrate at the footstool of the Throne of God discharge the function of an accuser and witness and from a Herald of his grace I shall become a sollicitor of your deserved Condemnation Fear therefore these dreadfull effects of your hardness of heart and tremble at the terrours of God Think how terrible it is to fall into his hands think on the shame of being disown'd by Jesus Christ before his Father and before his Angels not to be Christs not to be known by him to be deprived for ever of his glory Can any thing be more amazing and frightfull Represent to yourselves how he will seperate the sheep from the Goats and think on the sentence which he will pronounce against those who are placed on the left hand of his throne Your business will not be then with a Regiment of Dragoons and Cuirassiers who can only hurt the body for a short time but with immortall executioners who will torment body and soul eternally The Action will not be then about some perishing goods but concerning the inestimable riches of the Kingdom of God the loss whereof can never be repaired Be astonished and tremble at the thought of this judgment and call carnestly to Jesus Christ who can deliver you from this body of sin and habituall corruption and pardon your late grievous transgressions You can neither do nor suffer too much to escape the terrible vengeance of God and the wrath of the Lamb. In fine it is infinitely better to be partakers for a few moments of the reproaches of Christ that you may afterwards partake eternally of the joy of your Lord than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season and afterwards to fall for ever into the horrors of the second death I pray that God would reach unto you the arm of his grace to draw you out of the mortall Condition you are in and would establish you in the way of Salvation that you may yet persevere with Jesus Christ in his Temptations and in the end may be partakers with him in his Kingdom and Glory AMEN Nam petest qui pati timet ejus esse qui passus est Tertul. de fuga in persecut Non admittit status fidei allegationem necessitatis delinquendi quibus una est necessitas non delinquendi Tertul. de Cor. militis Nostri ut de viris Taceam pueri mulierculae tortores suos Taciti vincuns expromere tllis gemitum nec ignis potest Lactant. Div. Instit lib. 5. c. 13. Ego non habeo alind Contra Papae regnum robustius argumentuns quam quod sine cruce regnat sed tandem cadet Babylon magna Rev. 18. vers 2. Luth. Tom. 2. Pag. 323. A WORD To MOURNERS IN ZION To SLEEPERS UNDER THE STORM And to the almost CHRISTIAN With directions to one and other IS it nothing to yow all ye that passe by behold and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow in this day of the Lords fierce anger against and heavy hand upon me may the Church now say with captive mourning Zion Lam. 1. v. 12. But whatever those do who have no Interest in Zion if her sons and daughters have no bowells of sympathy they must be spurious and but titular Children yea wo to him who ever he be who is not touched and grieved for the affliction of Joseph Am. 6. v. 1 seqq the evil day he puts far away is coming like an armed man to fall upon him and what will he do in that day to whom will he flee for help Isa 10 v. 13 Rev. 6. v. 15 c. Such shall mourn and mourn eternally when the Mourners in Zion shal be comforted yet among those who would be accounted Mourners there is so great a difference that many O if not the most part deserve not that name and honor Ah how many mourners are there in Zion who mourn not for Zion their reputation place estate ease liberty being in such hazard if they not already abridged or robbed of these they may with them Hos 7 v. 14. mourn cry and howl for such things yet not cry unto the Lord with their heart and for Zion yea they may add fasting to their mourning and crying yea set and monthly fasting the Pharisee