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A52574	New-Englands duty and interest to be an habitation of justice and mountain of holiness containing doctrine, caution, & comfort : with something relating to the restaurations, reformations, and benedictions promised to the church and world in the latter dayes : with grounds of hope, that America in general & New-England in particular may may have a part therein : preached to the General Assembly of the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay, at the anniversary election, May 25, 1698 / by Nicholas Noyes ...	Noyes, Nicholas, 1647-1717.	1698 (1698)	Wing N1461; ESTC R16814	53,865	112

cure the Lukewarmness of professors and recover the Power and Life of Godliness in them and to Convince Convert and Reform Ungodly Sinners it had need be done that the Land become not more Sinful and more Miserable I beseech also the Churches of Christ and exhort them to do their utmost that this land may be an Habitation of Righteousness and Mountain of Holiness They must excel abound in Holiness and Righteousness themselves or it can not be so Jerusalem was a Type of the Christian Church The mountain of the Lords House must be a Holy Mountain I beseech you walk worthy of your holy Vocation You are Saints by Calling Eph. 4.1 compared with Eph. 1.1 To the Saints which are at Ephesus Phil. 1.1 To all the Saints which are in Christ Jesus at Philippi Colos 1.2 To the Saints and faithful Brethren in Christ which are at Colosse Rom. 1 7. To all that be in Rome beloved of God called to be Saints 1 Cor. 1.2 To the Church of God c. called to be Saints You ought to be Holy in all manner of Conversation yea to perfect holiness in the fear of God to be blameless and harmless and to shine as lights in this evil Generation and by your Example to shew others the Amiableness of the ways of holiness and righteousness and by your extensive Charity be ready to entertain into your holy Fellowship such whose hearts God shall prepare and incline to seek it Let the Church of God be swept and kept clean by the besome of Discipline Let the hearts and hands of your Ministers be incouraged in the work of the Lord Let the Elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour especially they that labour in the word and doctrine Obey them that have the rule over you and submit your selves for they watch for your Souls Keep the Worship and Ordinances of God pure from humane inventions as well as from prophaneness And let the Church be built up in the most Holy Faith and be a pillar of Truth and not removed from her Stedfastness Walk in your Houses in a perfect way bringing up your Children in the Nurture and admonition of the Lord. And for reading the Word of God Prayer Family-instruction and Discipline and holy Example Let your Houses be as so many Little Churches Finally be ye● followers of God as dear Children in Holiness Righteousness and Charity Love at Brethren yea as holy Brethren partakers of the Heavenly Calling Love one another Care for one another and the things each of other Admonish one another Exhort one another Forgive one another Pray one for another Let all Ranks and Orders of men seek the Increase and Advancement of Holiness and Righteousness and mourn for and turn from and seek the pardon of all our Unholiness and Unrighteousness and that through the plentiful Effusion of the Holy Spirit the Skyes may as it were pour down and Shower down Holiness and Righteousness that this Land may be an Habitation of Righteousness and Mountain of Holiness FINIS Typographus Lectori The Reverend Mr. Grindal Rawson Pastor of the Church in Mendon and the Reverend Mr. Samuel Danforth Pastor of the Church in Taunton spent from May 30. to June 24. 1698. in visiting the several Plantations of the Indians within this Province And the Remainder of this Sheet may be well employed in giving an Account of it IN pursuance of the Orders and Instructions given us by the Honoured Commissioners for the Propagation of the Gospel among the Indians in the American Plantations in New-England and parts Adjacent We have given the said Indians in their several Plantations in the Province of the Massachusetts-Bay a visit and find as followeth At Little Compton we find two Plantations of Indians who keep two distinct Assemblies for the worship of God and according to the best information we could have are constant therein The first Assembly dwells at Saconet Samuel Church alias Sohchawahham has for more than one year past endeavour'd their Instruction and is best capable of any in that place to perform that Service He has ordinarily forty Auditors many times more of these above twenty are Men Diverse here are well instructed in their Catechisms and above ten can read the Bible Here are likewise two Indian Rulers John Tohkukquonnoo and Jonathan George the first of which is a man very well spoken of At Cokesit in Little Compton Daniel Hinckley hath taught here four years twice every Sabbath Eleven families are his Auditors Most of the men here can read and many young ones of whom we had an instance can say their Catechisms Of this Company three persons are in full Communion with the Church settled at Nukkehkummees A person call'd Aham is Schoolmaster here and as we are informed performs his work well Here are likewise two persons improv'd as Rulers Preaching here the two forementioned Teachers at our direction pray'd very soberly and understandingly they gave very diligent attendance and were handsomely cloathed in English Apparel At Dartmouth We find two Assemblies of Indians at Nukkehkummees William Simons ordain'd by Japhet of Marthas Vineyard three years since is their Pastor In the Church here are forty Communicants part dwelling in Nukkehkummees part in Assameeskq Cokesit Acushmet and Assawanupset Here are many that can read well The Word is Preached here twice every Sabbath Twenty families in which one hundred and twenty persons at least are for the most part constant hearers almost all their Children can read Johanan hath been their Schoolmaster but ceases now for want of encouragement We propose his continuance as a person well fitted for the employment William Simons informs that here are four persons annually chosen as Rulers They are well clothed and gave good attendance whilest we dispensed the Word to them Their Pastor praying with good Affection and Understanding and is likewise well reported of by the English At Acushmet John Bryant their Teacher for five or six years past Here are fourteen families unto whom William Simons once in a month ordinarily comes and Preaches some of those who belong to the Church at Nukkehkummees being here settled viz. five men and ten women We find that Scandals are among them reflected upon if any exceed the Rules of Sobriety they are suspended until repentance is manifested By the best intelligence we could arrive to from sober English dwellers on the place we understand they are diligent observers of the Sabbath they are generally well clothed diligent labourers but for want of Schooling their Children are not so well instructed as at the other places though they earnestly desire a Remedy At Major Winthrops Island Mr. John Weeks an English man teaches them on the Sabbath An Indian named Asa chief Ruler among them and a person well reported of teaches them when Mr. Weeks cannot attend it Here are but about nine families most of which can read well are diligent in their callings and generally go well in cloathing

of the heavenly Courtiers that wait round the throne of God is their holiness and yet that is dim in comparison of the HOLY JESUS who is the Fountain of all the holiness righteousness the Saints on earth have There are some few Saints whose bodies as well as Souls are already glorifyed and the Spirits of just men made perfect who have received perfection of holiness Oh! what a holy place is heaven that is full of holiness yea so full that it doth as it were run over The skyes pour down holiness and righteousness there is none upon earth but what comes down from Heaven even from the God of all Grace and the God of Glory who is glorious in Holiness 2. To teach us what a wicked and woful estate man fell into in the primitive Apostasy He fell from a state of holiness and righteousness into a state of unholiness and unrighteousness If man had continued in the state wherein he was created every Man and Woman and Child had been a habitation of righteousness and mountain of holiness Every Family every Society had been a habitation of righteousness and mountain of holiness for God made man upright or right that is holy and righteous Eccles 7.29 Man was then a Vessel of honour sanctified and meet for the masters use Holiness and Righteousness were Concreated with and Connatural to him but alas it is far otherwise now Though it be our duty to be habitually and actually holy righteous yet we are stript of the moral Image o● God empty of G●a●e bent to act according to the corrupt Bials we have derived from the first Adam which warps us away from God and his holy ways and strongly inclines us to Unholiness and Unrighteousness Instead of being a habitation of righteousness the heart of man is become a cage of every impious unclean and hateful lust Mat. 15.19 Men ate by nature since the fall full of enmity against God inordinately and idolatrously in love with themselves and uncharitable and injurious unto others How miserably were our first Parents deceived Under a pretence of being like to God they lost his image and favour 3. To teach us That the grace and love of God towards fallen man is very wonderful in that God gave his only Son to recover poor lost sinners out of that wicked and woful estate of unholiness and unrighteousness that such as believe on him may be pardoned and justifyed freely through the Redemption that is in Christ Jesus and that by the Grace of God bestowed on them in Regeneration and Sanctification they might be recovered to the Image of God again to put off the old man the corrupt nature derived from the first Adam to put on the new man the grace and holiness that is from Jesus Christ the second Adam whereby they become again after the Image of God in holiness and righteousness Eph. 4 22 23 24. There had never been among the Posterity of fallen man a habitation of righteousness and mountain of holiness had it not been for this wonderful love of God in Christ Jesus for mankind was all gone aside they were altogether become filthy there is none that doeth good no not one Psa 14.3 If therefore any of the race do become holy and righteous and do good again we may conclude that they were created in Christ Jesus to good works for by nature they are dead in trespasses and sins 4. To teach us That it is a vile abuse of Christ and his Gospel and the doctrine of the free grace of God to make as if C●●●stians were thereby freed from the direction and authority of the Moral Law or that the motives to Obedience to it were abated by the Gospel It is certain that Christ did not Obey the law that we might have liberty to Break it nor did he suffer that we might have liberty to violate it with impunity but that we might be saved from the Curse of the law and from the dominion of sin and might be the Servants of God and have our fruit unto holiness and the end everlasting life Although the law was never given to fallen man as a Covenant whereby he could be justifyed yet doth it continue as a Rule of life And the Lord Jesus is so far from abolishing it that he puts it into the inward parts of believers and writes it in their hearts Jer. 31.33 It was the error of the Jews in the Apostles time to think the law was given as a Covenant of Works by the keeping of which they might be justifyed and have eternal life Against this the Apostle argues that the inheritance was by Promise and that God gave it to Abraham by promise and the law which was given at Sinai 430 years after could not disanul it and makes it an absurd thing for any to think that righteousness comes by the law and if so saith he then Christ is dead in vain Gal. 2.21 Gal. 3.17 18 21. The Jews took the law in that sence as when Luther calls it Moses Mosissimus a strict Covenant of works but had lost that sence of it wherein Luther calls it Moses Aaronicus A ●●arker dispensation of the Covenant of grace a Schoolmaster to bring them to Christ The Apostle knew now to urge Obedience to the moral law and to lay men under obligation to holiness and righteousness by its authority and motives without urging a necessity of perfect and personal Obedience to it in order to Justification and eternal life He could and did urge it as a Rule of life without making it a Covenant of life and rule whereby men could be justifyed Acts 13.38 39. Through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins and by him all that belive are justifyed from all things from which you could not be justifyed by the law of Moses He could deny the law to justify and yet not make Christ the Minister of sin He could preach the free grace of God without casting any blemish upon the law or incouraging Sinners to continue in sin because grace had abounded Rom. 6.1 Compared with the foregoing Chapter and did maintain that the grace of God which bringeth Salvation agreeth with the law in this it teacheth men to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts and to live soberly righteously and Godly in this present world Titus 2.11 12. 5. To teach us That Christians in the times of the Gospel may and ought to make use of the Scriptures of the Old Testament for their Instruction Example Comfort Although the Ceremonial law be totally abolisht as to its Practice yet forasmuch as it typed out or prefigured Christ his Graces Actions Sufferings and benefits and was some way instructive about moral duties the understanding of it is many ways useful to Christians as might be shewed in Apostolical argumentations So Heb. 9. throughout 1 Cor. 9.8 9 13 14. The judicial law so far as it was local and peculiar to the Jews binds not yet

growing worse There are other designing persons that are no great friends to holiness and righteousness that are of a vulture Spirit that fly hastily over all the fair meadows and fields without eying of them that they may pitch and prey upon some Carrion These find nothing but faults in the Government Churches Ministers and Good people of all ranks Sport themselves with the falls of here and there an Eminent Professor or the infirmities real or supposed mistakes of men much better than themselves These fools make a mock of sin and it serves their occasion to blaspheme all the Work of God in the Wilderness and traduce for Hypocrites all those that their evil example can't make loose or prophane All I shall say to this latter sort is That I have no design to justify our selves Shame and blushing and confusion of face belongeth to us for we are sinners Yet if a comparative goodness would serve our turn as it will not we might possibly pass in this degenerate Age. We acknowledge we are very bad but yet not so bad but we are afraid of being worse 2. Others make speak as if we were as miserable already as miserable we could be To which I reply I have no design to speak diminitively of the Judgments of God I acknowledge they have been very terrible At this also my heart trembleth yet I think we ought not so to pore upon the Judgments of God as to forget the Mercies of God for in Judgment God hath remembred Mercy I am sure such Speeches forget Thanksgiving Unhumbled Unthankful and peevish men think to receive only good from the hand of God and not evil and under a merciful moderate Affliction say it can't be worse But such ought to know that the holy and jealous God hath more and more terrible miseries mischiefs to heap and arrows to spend upon an Unreformable Covenant-people than ever yet have come upon New England The Example of the Jews is a dreadful instance of it We ought to justify God yea to praise him that hath punisht less than our Iniquities deserve and to mourn under our afflictions as they are evidences and effects of Divine Displeasure and to mourn for our Sins and beg the pardon of them for the sake of Christ Jesus and to reform our doings and not murmur at the Judgments of God And all this to prevent an experimental Conviction that there was real danger of being more miserable U. 8. To Encourage all good people to hope and pray for the Restaurations Reformations and Divine Benedictions promised to Jews or Christians or prophesied to come to them in the latter days and that we in New England may through the Grace of God have a share in the good things spoken of that are to be fulfilled in the latter days The proof of the Third Doctrine is pat to this purpose If God can do such things may do such things hath done such things already and will do such things again for his Ancient People the Jews and there be prophesies and promises that God will do such things not only for the Jews but for Christian places that are in ruines over-run with sin misery Why should we not hope and pray for the accomplishment of them Besides the fore mentioned Reasons I shall offer to consideration three particulars more which may animate faith prayer remove impediments objections 1. The Reformation is prophesied of as well as the Restauration and Benediction 2. The Reformation is promised as well as the Restauration and Benediction 3. That it is not absolutely necessary that the Reformation precede the Restauration 1. The Reformation is prophesied of as well as the Restauration c. Now prophesie relates to what is future and properly speaks of Event not D●ty If it speaks of Duty yet it speaks of it under the notion of Event Consequently if the Prophesie foretells Reformation than which nothing is more duty yet it speaketh of it under the notion of what shall certainly come to pass We must not therefore be discouraged from praying for it because we yet see not the Desolate Countreys inhabited as formerly and see not Religion reviving and thriving in them as formerly Were these things come to pass the prophesie were already fulfilled But we must believe it future because the Holy Ghost by the mouth of the Prophets hath foretold it Perhaps some could easily believe the Restauration if they could see the Reformation but both must be believed to be future though neither as yet be come to pass because both are foretold 2. The Reformation is also promised Many speak as if only the Restauration and Benediction were promised and look upon Reformation as the condition of the Promise And because they see not the condition fulfilled cannot believe the Restaurations Blessings When the truth is the promise that is contained in Prophesy as such is absolute not conditional When promises are annexed as Sanctions to the Laws of Christ they belong to the preceptive will of God and so are considered as Conditions But when Promises are infolded in Prophesies they belong to Gods will of Purpose therefore must come to pass For though Gods Commands are broken yet his Counsels are not they stand for ever and the Thoughts of his heart to all generations All such promises therefore ought to be considered as absolute and consequently the Reformations will certainly come 3. It is not absolutely necessary that the Reformation precede the Restauration or that the Reformation be sensibly advanced before God begin to plead the cause of his people against their Enemies and begin their Restauration I readily acknowledge that in point of Duty Reformation ought to precede and all the Religion justice and reason in the world oblige those that have made defection from God and his pure ways and are under dreadful effects of his displeasure should be speedy and thorough in their Repentance and Reformation But so desperataly wicked is fallen man that if God should not begin with man man would never begin with Him Men are dead in trespasses and sins and so cannot or so habituated and inclined to evil they will not return to God till God is before hand with them If God bring on Reformation upon the world that lieth in wickedness be is found of those that seek him not and if upon a deeply degenerate people he stretcheth forth his hands to a gainsaying and rebellious people And the Grace of God must be exerted in a victorious and irresistible way before Reformation can advance either in the Church or World Seeing then both Restauration and Reformation depend upon the good pleasure of God it is in vain for us to determine which shall precede though we know in point of mans duty which should be first That which we affirm is that we ought not to be discouraged in praying for these Restaurations or believing they shall come to pass till we see Reformation in