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A63767	A trumpet blown in Sion, sounding an alarm in Gods holy mountain: or, A voice lifted up as a trumpet crying aloud, and not sparing, to shew the Lords people their transgressions, and the house of Jacob their sins. By a poor worm, that through the Lords great grace, hath found great blessings among the Presbyterian ministry, and by conversing with some of the Lords upright ones of the Presbyterian way; and also choice blessings among the ministry of the Independant and Baptized congregations, and some of the faithful with them.	Poor worm.	1666 (1666)	Wing T3142C; ESTC R220929	125,364	105

have committed two evils they have forsaken me the Fountain of living Waters and have hewed them out Cisterns b●oken Ciste●ns that can hold no water My People have changed their Glory for that which doth not profit What a ho●rible thing was this That you that are called the Lo●ds People that yo● that once professed that the Love and Favour of God was more desuable to you then ten thousand worlds and that you could trample upon the Worlds Wealth and Honours and Profits and Pleasures and count them but as dung in comparison of enjoying but one days communion with your God and that though you should always be an afflicted and poor People yet if you could but have the happiness and the priviledge to be in the house of God and in the Assemblies of his Saints and to hear his Word and enjoy communion with him in Prayer you would reckon your selves exceeding happy yea in better case then the highest Emperour upon Earth How horrible and astonishing a thing was this that those that once made these great professions that they should so extravagantly set their hearts upon this World as to forsake their God their King their Rock their Shield and their exceeding great Reward their Father and the Guide of their youth their Strength their Glory their all in all to dig and hew them out the vain perishing things of this World which cannot afford them one drop of true comfort Would not this make the glorious and beautiful Angels in Heaven to blush to think of it and the blessed Saints that shine as the Sun to be astonished and all the Hosts of Heaven to be horribly afraid at such unworthy such mad and distracted deeds of the Sons of men ten thousand times worse then him that is so bewitched with a painted Strumpet that is a filthy Harlot as to forsake a truly beautiful and faithful Bride O consider this all ye that have so much forgotten God Consider how he disgusts this Sin of loving this World this Sin of Covetousness Consider what title he gives it by his Servant and Apostle Paul Col. 3. 5. he tells you it is Idolatry So that in loving this World you have set up an Idol in 1 John 2. 15. Matth. 6. 24. Luk. 16. 13 1 Tim. 6. 10. your heart And you are also told by his Word that If any man love the World the love of the Father is not in him and ye are told by his Son himself That ye cannot serve God and Mammon But O what gross Idolaters have ye been that have so served the World as you have done and so much neglected the service of your God O consider how that Word hath been verified in you that the love of Money is the Root of all Evil You have so loved and adored and admired and set up the World in your hearts as it hath been the root of all your neglect of publick service to God and to his People for his sake even of your neglect of visiting the Fatherless and Widows in their affliction of your neglect of visiting the Lords Prisoners of the neglect of Family-Duties two or three times a day of neglect of taking pains with Children and Servants and other Relations to bring them up in the nurture and fear of the Lord of neglect of Closet-performances and of enjoying many sweet and blessed seasons in secret of conversing with your God that should have been your chief Joy Consider how this love of Money hath been the Root of all your sparing to deal your Bread to the hungry and to cloath the naked and to bring the poor that were cast out to your Houses of neglect of drawing out your Soul to the hungry and satisfying the afflicted Soul Consider how the love of this World and coveting it hath almost estrarged you wholly from God and from every good Work wherein he might be glorified and ye might have Peace O consider ye Lovers of Gold and Silver what Moses speaks of such as you Exod. 32. 31. O this People have sinned a great sin and have made them Gods of Gold Did they sin a great Sin You have much more They made them Gods of Gold but it was a sudden Temptation and an Evil of a short continuance and it appears not that they set their hearts and affections upon them But you have set up your Bags of Gold and Silver your Land and your Wealth so in your Hearts as to forsake your God and to love your Gold more then your God and if it were not so your actions would witness the contrary but your actions have testified and do testifie to your Faces whom you love most O foolish People and unwise Do ye thus requite the Lord Is not he thy Father Deut. 32. 6. that hath bought thee Hath he not made thee and established thee O this People that are called by the Name of Is●ael they have sinned a great sin they have made them Gods of Gold and their very Hearts are set upon them so as they have forsaken the Fountain of Living Waters they Deut. 32. 15 16. have lightly esteemed the Rock of their Salvation they have provoked him to Jealousie with strange Gods Of the Rock that begat them they have been unmindful and have forgotten God that formed them Now consider O House of Jacob and ye that profess to be the Lords People whether this great Sin of yours be not as great if not greater then the Sin of the prophane wicked Worldlings Are they Idolaters So are you They have made themselves Idols For as Paul speaks of some They made Phil. 3. 19 their Bellies their Gods so it may be said of their Lusts after other things even the things of this World their Gold and Silver and Treasures they have made them their Gods also but in that you have made you Gods of Gold your Sin is greater then theirs because it is against greater Knowledge and greater Light and against greater Grace O what great aggravations have your Idolatries beyond theirs Your Sin is verily double to theirs for you have in this committed two Evils You have forsaken your true Glory your dear and gracious and glorious Lord the Fountain of all Good of all that 's lovely and precious of durable Riches and substantial Good for a Shadow for a Trifle for a fading Leaf for that which hath no substance Who would part with a substantial good thing for a shadow of it What is a shadow A shadow is nothing as soon as the light surrounds a thing the shadow is vanished and is not but appears to be nothing So are all your Idols whether Bags of Silver or Gold or Merchandizes or Stocks in Bank or at Interest or Houses and Lands and Gardens and Orchards and pleasant Walks Are they any more then a shadow of true Riches of durable Riches and Substance Are they so much Can there be any kind of shadow of that Inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and

that fadeth not away reserved in Heaven for you in these These Earthly Vanities if they are a shadow it is a poor shadow But is it not an astonishing Error that rational Creatures should grasp after the Shadow so eagerly as to leave and forsake the Substance to embrace the Shadow Now this is your double evil that you for sake your God the Fountain of all Goodness and dig out of this Earth for your selves such Vanities as cannot give your precious Souls one grain of Peace or true satisfaction in the enjoyment of them and yet they are your Gods and you their Servants and all or most of your Care Parts and Abilities and your precious Time are speht in the service of them Now the Sin of the poor blind World is far less then yours If they do serve these Idols as you do yet they are not such Sinners as you are For they have not that knowledge of the true God and Jesus Christ whom he hath sent as you have had They never had such tastes how good the Lord is as you have had They never saw his Glory and Excellency and unexpressible Loveliness as you have seen it They never had such blessed entertainments into his holy presence as you have had But YOU you are the double-dy'd Sinners the crimson Sinners the scarlet Sinners that though the Lord hath appeared unto you twice yea ten times yea ten hundred times have yet departed f●om him and have sinned this great Sin and made you Gods of Gold You are most horrible Idolaters your sins have over-passed the deeds of the Wicked Jer. 5. 28. But some may say This Trumpet sounds aloud and with a very piercing and shrill Voice shews us our Transgressions and the vileness of them which we cannot deny for we cannot hide them They are open to the view of God Angels and Me● though we have not so clearly seen them our selves as we should see them though it might have been our happiness to have seen them clearly long ago The Reply whereunto is That the Trumpet must yet sound louder and louder and must cry aloud and not spare for any account to shew the Lords People their Transgressions and the House of Jacob their Sins NOT upon the account of hiding them from the World that they may not see the nakedness of Jacob for that nakedness hath been too visible already to them NOR yet upon the account of the Name of the Lord lest it should be more reproached by the sinfulness of the Lords People for that blessed and glorious Name hath been and is greatly prophaned thereby already BUT on the account of the Name of the Lord that it may be hallowed that it may be sanctified and glorified in all his righteous Judgements that are come one upon the neck of another upon his People are these Transgressions of Jacob to be shewed to them and to the World with a SPARE NOT. Spare not especially this great S●n the Root of many Sins Covetousness wherein the great and glo●ious Na●e of the Lord hath been so much dishonoured Nor yet to spare those o●her Sins of which they are to be declared guilty great numbers of them to the end the Lord may be justified when he speaketh and be clear when he judgeth Therefore O House of Jacob to speak yet a little louder in your Ears that Psal 51. 4 it may sink down into your Hearts you are to be informed further That as you have been Idolaters and such Idolaters as have exceeded the Wicked in Idolatry so you have been also Adulterers Adultery is a Sin that is very hateful and loathsome to many People that know little of God or have little or no love to h●m and it is a Sin that is very shameful It is a very shameful thing that it should be said among m●n That such or such a man is an Adulterer a Whoremonger If any man be so he is counted a filthy fellow a vile fellow As odious as an unclean filthy Adul erer or Fornicator is in the Eyes of all civil People so odious hath you● Sin been in playing the Harlot with this vain World this deceitful World who hath bewitched you with her painted Face as if she were some great Beauty whereas when her Vizard is off she appears to him that looks upon her in true light but a mi●erable worthless thing in which there is no true felicity at all no beauty at all but appears to be vanity and vexation of Spirit But O how have you most of you been deceived by her Have you not thought and do you not think that there is much sweetness and pleasure in taking your fill of the love of her Are not your Hearts so far gone to her as that you are her constant Servants her humble Servants her diligent Servants Are you not continually imbracing of her hugging of her in your Bosoms Can you easily or willingly be out of her company Can you find in your heart to part with her though on a good account Is not the thought of that unpleasant to you Will you not strain your Consciences so far as to make them crack rather then part with this Paramour of yours Will you not rather make Shipwrack of a good Conscience then be deprived of this Harlot Have you not many of you already suffered many a bleeding wound in your Consciences rather then you would part with her Are there not some things which some of you have done full sore against your minds and Consciences within these five or ten years on purpose to keep your beloved Mistress in your Bosome which without wounding your Conscience you thought you could not so safely keep O how hard how grievous is it for you to think of parting with her though on the very best ac●ount O consider this all ye that too much forget God Consider this ye Adulterers Ps 50. 22 Jam. 4. 4. and Adulteresses know ye not that the friendship of the World is enmity with God Whosoever therefore will be a Friend of the World is the Enemy of God Consider how ye are inslaved by this deceitful Strumpet and how hateful your Adulteries have been how your whorish Hearts have grieved the good Spirit of God how you have gone a whoring from under your God what filthy Adulterers and Adultere●ses you have been Consider whether your Sin of Adultery be not more ha●eful and more odious then the Adultery of an unfaithful Husband and or Wife that goeth to another Bed Their unfaithfulness is hateful but it is but unfaithfulness unto a poor mean Creature whatever their quality be but yours is unfaithfulness to your glorious and ever blessed Creator to him that is never unconstant to you nor never gave you any temptation so to be to him but is most lovely in himself and is the same yesterday to day and forever But vile Wietches that you are how great have been your Whoredoms notwithstanding Had you any pretence for

never go to seek their stragling Souls by going to their Houses to endeavour their Return not once in twelve months but if they be lost lost they may be for you especially if they be some of the Poor of the Flock if mean in the World and they may wander from Mountain to Hill and be devoured of wild Beasts for you have neither cared to seek that which was lost nor to bring again that which was driven away nor to heal the Sick c. And WO BE TO YOU ye Shepherds of Israel saith the Lord Ezek. 34. 2. that do not the work of a Shepherd but take care to feed your selves and cloath your selves and if that be done whether you have it of the Sheep or any other way you are satisfied though you do not those Offices of Shepherds of the Flock as those that should watch for their Souls as those that must give an account of them to God O how sad an account have ye to make for these things Heb. 13. 17 These Sins of your Omissions unto whom so great a Charge is committed have been very great provocations of the Eyes of his Glory of whose blessed Service you have been so negligent and you must be told of it with a SPARE NOT. Again As this hath been the Sin of Prophets and Teachers so it hath been the Sin of others also even of many of all distinctions Presbyterians and Quakers c. for it is the concern of all that fear the Lord to endeavour the Reclaiming and Recovery of any that are fallen or overtaken with a fault and to endeavour the restoring of them with the spirit of Meekness But this hath been a general Sin among very many viz the Omission of this Duty It is true that many Professors are not gifted for such a Work as ●ohers are but every one ought to be found performing it according to their capacity as need ●equires and neglect of the discharge hereof in any of the Lords People hath been their sin which the Lord will have them humbled for But the great Sin among the Sins of Omission of the Lords People is the Sin of Omission of the constant attending of the Assemblies of the Saints in all times wherein that Assembly whereunto a person appertains doth appoint any solemn Assembly for the publick worshipping the Lord together waiting on the Lord to see his goings in the Sanctuary to behold the beauty of the Lord and to enquire into his Temple For the Lord is pleased to declare Rev. 1. 13 20 that his presence is in the midst of the Churches in the Assemblies of his Saints and there his people may inquire may seek after may find and obtain the Knowledge of the great Mysterie● of his Gospel and Kingdom and there the spiritual Eye may behold his Beauty And if some cannot see any Beauty there it is because their Eyes are blinded But every spiritual Eye may and doth behold in some measure the Beauty of the Lord in his Temple in his Churches But the reason why those that are truly spiritual see but a little is because there is a great defection in the very best of the Churches and most of the Elders of the Churches have their blots and some in particular are very ●oul ones as hath been said and may appear before this discourse be ended it being to shew the Lords People their Transgressions and the Churches and the Elders of the Churches their Sins But though there be a very great defection and backsliding in the Churches and the very Elders of the Churches to their shame yet there the Beauty of the Lord is to be seen if any where upon Earth though it be very much beclouded But though there be but a little Light yet some-Light and some spiritual Beauty there is among many Churches and Congregations of Saints and let particular Souls know that then they shall know if they follow on to Hos 6. 3. Prov. 10. 4. Isa 32. 20 Prov. 2. 4 know the Lord And he that improves a little well shall gain much more The diligent hand maketh rich and blessed are they that sow beside all Waters Blessed are they that improve all opportunities in publick and private to search for the Knowledge of the Glory of the Lord as for Silver and dig for it as for hid Treasures In all places or means in which there is any ground to expect the obtaining of that blessed Treasure But this hath been the Sin of the House of Jacob or those that pretend to be of that House viz. of the Israel of God That they have greatly neglected not onely other Duties in the performance whereof they might have been blessed but also this great Duty of attending the Assemblies of the Saints wherein in an especial manner they ought to ●e diligent For in the Assemblies of the Saints God is most evidently and visbly honoured and glo●ified by his People in the Eyes of the World And the more they have been opposed the more ought his Saints to be diligent in giving up themsel●es by a faithful obedie●ce unto his Precepts in the observance of all his Ordinances and appointments blamelesly purely and not according to mens inventions for in vain do they worship him that teach ●or Doctrine the Precepts of men But instead of wai●ing on the Lord in the Assemblies of his Saints in former times wherein the Lords People enjoyed Prosperity and as much Liberty as they could desire they many of them followed the World and the Profits thereof and others for t●i●●●ng occasions neglected their Duties when it was not for matter of Gain unto them but meerly from a sluggish dull dead frame of spirit and Indifferency in the Lords Service And when Churches have appointed solemn days of waiting upon the Lord in solemn Assemblies besides the Sabbath or first day of the Week there have been slender app●●●ances of them of all Distinctions Even of some of the Baptised Churches I say not all of the Baptised Churches but some are very guilty hereof also and it is too well known to them that their solemn Assemblies being appointed have been slightly observed weekly ●n the week Days yea many times when days of Fasting and Prayer and days of Thanksgiving have been appointed upon solemn occasions they have been unworthily neglected by many Church-Members and by some Elders also some affording but half the day to the Lord and some no part at all O unworthy People Was the Lord a barren Wilderness unto you or a Land of Darkness Was there no pleasure to be found in waiting upon him Was he no more delightful to your Soul then a Land of Darkness which is very unpleasant to the Body Was he so to your Souls Was there no more in him then in a barren heathy Wilderness Who can chuse but have his heart rise against the unworthy doings of such a People as have by their A●●ions seemed to manifest no more regard unto the

And how came you to attain to an infallibility and none but you onely being the Churches of Christ And the Quakers arising after them they swell high in their apprehensions and they despise and contemn the Baptised Churches and account them to be as mean and low and poor People and as e●onious and as much out of the way as any others and as much in Babylon and the Presbyterians Independants and Baptised are all alike with them and all out of the way and they † And how came you to attain to an infallibility and none but you onely are Gods holy Mountain and the Kingdom of Christ is onely among them and all others are out of that Kingdom And the Presbyterians they boast of their way an● that they * And how came you to attain to an infallibility and none but you onely are the Church of Christ and all others are Hereticks and Schismaticks and deluded persons and none of the Is●ael of God but are Moabites and Ammonites and Edomites and Canaanites and are to be destroyed And the Independants they judge that they are in a righter way then any others and that all others are in Errors and in darkness in many things and that they † And how came you to attain to an infallibility and none but you onely are the true Churches of Christ Thus each of them glory in Gods holy Mountain being among them and not among others Each of them saying of themselves in particular The Temple of the Lord the Temple of the Lord are we lifting up themselves onely and slighting all others as not worthy to be compared with them But this is from their Pride for else they would humbly conclude and say Surely the Grace of God shines as much in some of these as in any of us and we are not better then others but they may be better then we and may be more dear to the Lord then we for though we walk in that way which as we judge is most agreeable to Truth as it is to be hoped all of them do or else they would not walk in it yet we dare not conclude we are better then others for Truth is not revealed to any man for his Goodness but of meer Grace for we are poor unworthy wr●tched sinful Men and have manifold Weaknesses among us for which we deserve to be set in the lowest Rank and it is certain that many of them that differ from us do out-shine us in Holiness and more of the Glory of God appears upon some of them then on most of us They are more cloathed with Humilty they have the Robes of Righteousness about them they have the Ornament of a meek and quiet spirit shining in them they have some of them the Spirit of Love in power in them and have Hearts inlarged to good Works in all which most of us come short And therefore though we think we have more Light and Knowledge in some things yet if they have more power it is an argument that the Grace of Christ is more in their hearts and consequently they are deare● to him then most of us And therefore far be it from us to despise them or to say they are not as truly the Subjects and Servants of Christ as we seeing we differ not in our Judgements about the Power of Godliness but about some part of the Form in which the Lord may so enlighten us all as we may be also all of one mind when we are once brought to love and honour each other truly and intirely and notwithstanding our difference we do all come to the perfect pra●●ise of that blessed Rule Rom 12. 10. Be ye kindly affectioned one to another with Brotherly Love in honour preferring one another But the contrary to this appearing in all Distinctions discovers their great Pride and Haughtiness so far as they persist in it whether Presbyterians Quakers Independants or Anabaptists But first all these several Understandings are not hereby justified as if one of them were not in respect of the plain Scripture-Rules more nearer to the practise of the primitive Churches then all the other three are for of that there is no question for one of the four must be the most near though they may come much short of the Primitive Times Secondly Nor is it hereby intended that Persons ought to be doubtful of the way they walk in but they ought to walk in the way that they are perswaded in their own minds is nearest the Rule and though it may prove in the day of D●cision to be furthest from the Rule of all the rest yet ought a man to cleave to that way un●il he is otherwise perswaded as appea●s Rom. 14. 5 22 23. And Thirdly It must be acknowledged that it is not what our Judgement at present is but what the Lords Judgement will appear to be that shall de●ermine the question in his time which of them all is nearest the Rule and although a man know nothing by himself but that he walks nearest the Rule of all the ●est yet is he not always hereby justified before God though he is hereby justified in his own Conscience But Fourthly All that is hereby aimed at is that no one should think of himself more highly then he ought to think but to think soberly that is as often to think of his own imperfections ●n many things as of his supposed and believed Perfections in that point of coming nearest the Rule in forms that so he may be kept from being pusted up and f●om insulting over others who notwithstanding their darkness in some things may be as dear to Christ as himself that so he may not be haughty because of Gods Holy Mountain And the Lord tells his People Zeph 3. 11. that the time shall come when this shall not be But The Day shall come saith the Lord in which I will take away out of the midst of thee them that rejoyce in thy Pride and thou shalt n● more be haughty because of my holy Mountain Another Demonstration of that horrible Sin of Pride to be in many of the Lords People is their aptness to Passion Frowardness and Contention but that is also another of their great Evils which I shall now come to declare unto them which will also further discover the odiousness of their Pride VI. Another Sin in the Lords People of which too many of them are very guilty VI. PASSIONATE WRATH is their being so propense unto hasty Frowardness Passion Bi●terness Wrath Anger Clamour E●il speaking and Malice the apparent Fruits of the Flesh and Works of the Devil That this is the Sin of too many of the Lords People is too well known for many of them do frequently upon very slender occasions break out into such disturbing Passions as do very much disturb their own spirits and put them out of tune for any good service for God or man besides the disturbance and trouble they make in the Family