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A13082	Scotlands warning, or a treatise of fasting containing a declaration of the causes of the solemne fast, indyted to bee kept in all the Churches of Scotland, the third and fourth sundayes of this instant moneth of May Anno 1628.& the weeke dayes betwixt them, as they may be goodly keeped in Townes. Together with a direction how to proceed in the religious obseruation of any soleme fast. Written at the appointment of superiors by Mr. W. Struther, preacher of the Gospel at Edinburgh.	Struther, William, 1578-1633.	1628 (1628)	STC 23370; ESTC S120441	41,231	90

it and so vnder Gods processe for our sins And it is a great mercie of God that hee hath spared vs so long and giuen vs so large a time of Repentance When hee might haue begunne his Iudgement at vs hee hath begunne at other that by their example we might turne in time preuent his heauie strok If forraine miseries beyond Sea will not moue vs to sorrow let our own home sins dāgers moue vs to repētance And for this ende wee haue to consider our owne state in this Land as the second cause of our Humiliation God hath blessed vs with his Law Gospel but we haue sinned against them both There is no precept of the Law whose breach is not shameleslie practised avowed 1. Euerie one maketh himselfe his owne god and seeketh themselues their owne glorie and gaine directing all their wayes from their own heart and turning all to themselues 2. Idolatrie once alluterlie banished is cropen in and setteth vp the head in this Land and manie who professed the Trueth are gone backe to Poperie They close their eyes from the shining light that is readie to resolue and reforme them And are so possessed by errors and darkenes that they abhorre the light which wold pull them out of their fleshly delights Their case is to be pitied who so wilfullie losse themselues refusing Saluation and running head-long to Hell 3. The abuse of the glorious Name of the Lord our God is growen a popular disease reigneth in all Estats the better sort out-run the common people in so grieuous a sinne And the rifenesse of it hath put it out of the respect of a sinne and hath turned it in the flower of their language as though all speech were but wersh and could neither fill the mouth of the speaker not the eare of the hearer except the Name of GOD bee profaned and God himselfe thereby thrust through If the flying Booke of the curse of God light vpon the house of euerie swearer to destroy the Timber and stone Zach. 5. How few houses shall escape the curse of God in this Land which groaneth vnder the multitude of oathes 4. The profanation of the Lords Day is vniuersall and no difference made betwixt the obseruation of it and other dayes But rather more libertie is taken in vaging in drinking chalmering wantonnesse in idle and profane speaking in it than in other days As if God had set it a part not for his owne honour but for the workes of the flesh Though wee bee not bound to judaize in the Sabbath yet are wee bound Christianlie to spend the Lords day in abstaining from euill and busying our selfe in the works of Pietie Charitie as the Sabbaths proper Exercise as a memoriall of the Resurrection of Christ our Redemption perfected thereby and a token of our eternall Sabbath rest in heauen 5 Disobedience to Superiours is a reigning sinne Though God for their further honouring hath placed the Precept that commandeth their obedience Next to the Precepts of Pietie and calleth the dueties of it by the Name of Pietie yet it is least respected Parents naturall are misregarded Pastours who beget and feede people in Christ are contemned And supreme Authoritie disobeyed of the most part 6. Innocent blood is shedde in many places as water and the Earth groaneth vnder it and the cry of it ascendeth to Heauen to bring down a judgement vpon vs all 7. Filthinesse hath layed off the former vaile of shame and is now impudent Fornication Adulteries Incests out-face the Light and multiplie out of number And the couenant of God in marriage is lesse respected and keeped then light promises amongst men Whereby thogh their were none other sinnes a way is made to ouerthrow families for God cannot blesse Inheritance in the hands of wrongous Heires 8. Secret and open hurting of the lots of men is a common practise and no man standeth in awe to make his Neighbours ruine a stepping stone to his owne exalting The most part without regarde of God Conscience or humanitie lose their Soule and quite the Heauen for the baggage of this life 9. And Calumnies are now so frequent that their is no godlie man who findeth not the scourge of the Tongue And no man almost who lendeth not to Sathan his eare to heare and his heart to belieue lies and his tongue to bee a scourge to his Neighbour 10. As for the abominations of the heart though they bee hidde from vs yet they are manifest to God and by these and the like fruites the world may see that the heartes of the most parte are voyde of God and are vyle puddles to defile themselues and ouerflow this Land with sinne These filthie fountaines are not seasoned with the salt of Grace but send out the deadlie waters of filthienes to burden this Land and make it spew vs out These and the like grieuous sinnes against the Law doe swarme in this Land But the sinnes against the Gospel are more grieuous both because of their kind and because they are sinnes against the remeede of sinne Faith a speciall part of our Euangelicall duetie is rare to bee found God day lie is offering Grace Saluatiō in the Gospel yet few do receiue it by Faith And so his greatest mercie in offering Christ is mett with greatest wickednesse on our parte in not belieuing Wee count Fornication or Thift or Murther to bee sinnes but Infidelitie worse than anie of them is counted no sinne and yet it is among the greatest pardonable sinnes This Infidelitie bringeth out all sortes of Disobedience When the heart by Faith is not purified and ioyned to God it is casten loose to all kinde of iniquitie without any restraint of euill or constraint to good Our hearing and reading is not mixed with Faith and so bringeth not out the obedience of faith if wee neither belieue the promised reward nor threatned punishment wee cannot obey the directing Precept With these sins is a fearefull Apostasie to Poperie in many partes of this Land Many these of the better sort are seduced and drawen away to Romish superstition and that because they were voyde of the Trueth of God and beeing ledde with their owne lustes they haue rendered themselues to that fleshlie Religion which giueth them libertie to sinne I speake of you and to you O seduced Papists how long will it bee ere yee open your eyes to see how your blinde Guides are leading you to damnation If yee will not try this matter by Conscience try it at the least by common sense see what sort of Guides these are who take you by the hand with this condition to close your eyes that yee neither inquire nor care whether they lead you Tell mee if you would commit your selfe in a dark Night to such a Guide as would close your eyes put out the Lanterne in your hand not suffer you to know how what way

bloodie persecution of Antichrist are cleare documents to vs in this Land commanding vs in time to turne to God lest the like or a worse befall vs. Wee can no wayes compare with these worthie Churches neither in Grace nor in the fruites of the Gospel And yet God hath begunne at them If hee haue done so to the greene tree what will hee doe to vs who are a dry and a barren tree God in our sight and hearing these eight years hath smitten seuerelie thogh justlie these Churches and that to teach vs Repentance But wee are as Iudah who mended not at the captiuitie of Israel VVhen I had put away backslyding Israel for all her iniquities and giuen her a bill of diuorcement then trecherous Iudah seared not nor turned not to mee with all her heart but fainedlie Ierem. 3 8. 9. Though euerie report of their calamitie bee Gods calling vs to sack-cloth and mourning yet for all the newes of their trouble wee are not turned to Repentance They were not the greatest sinners in Ierusalem on whome the Tower of Siloh fell neither were they the worst Galileans whose blood Pilate mingled with their sacrifices They are not the worst Protestants whose blood is shed by this Romane Tyrannie and persecution but except we repent we shall all likwise perish Luk. 13. Their tryall is our lesson and their chastisement is our document VVee shall learne it and tak it out wiselie if their example turne vs to God But if we doe not so the heauier judgement abideth vs They haue drunken the brimme of the Cup of wrath ●●t the dregges of the bottome are reserued for 〈◊〉 except in time wee repent Neither let v●●●inke that their affliction doeth not concerne vs because they are farre distant from vs For the communion of Saincts knoweth no distance of place and the Church of Christ which is his Bodie as it hath him for the Head so his Spirite for the life and that Spirit quickning all the Bodie indueth it with a fellow-feeling of others miseries If wee haue fellowship with them in Christ vve must feele their troubles and mourne with them If wee doe not so wee proue wee haue no fellowshippe with them Let such hard-hearted and sensles Christians reade their Doome and dittay in the Prophet Amos Woe to them that are at ease in Sion they put the euill day farre from them They lye on their beddes of Yvorie and stretch themselues on their beddes and eate the Lambes of the Flocke the Calues out of the midst of the stall They drink wine in bowles but no man is sorie for the affliction of Ioseph Therefore now shall they goe into Captiuitie with the first that goe captiue the sorrow of them that strech out themselues is at hand Amos 6. 1. 3. 4. 6. 7. These are twinne branches of a senslesse and carelesse heart in the day of the Churches affliction First they put the euill day farre from themselues maka couenant with Death as though it neuer should nor would come neere to them Next they put the affliction of their Breth●ē far from their feeling and affection as a thing that concerneth them not The first is a fleshlie dreame of their owne immunitie The other a senslesse mis-regarde of their Brethren and both of them a just cause and certaine presage of a grieuous ruine to come vpon them who are so graceleslie disposed But the godlie are otherwayes affected with the troubles of Syon For they take pleasure in the stones and delight in the dust thereof Psal. 102. Though Nehemiah was in the fauour of his King and great prosperitie yet when he heard that the Iewes were in great affliction and reproach and the wall of Ierusalem broken downe and the gates thereof burnt with fire hee sate downe and weeped and mourned certaine dayes and fasted and prayed before the God of Heauen Neither could all his courtlie happinesse smoother the griefe of his heart But when the King perceiued the sadnes of his countenance and asked the cause of it he said VVhy should not my countenance bee sadde when the Citie and House of the Sepulchre of my Fathers lyeth waste Nehemia 1. If hee was so grieued for the violation of the Sepulchres of the dead Shall not the cruell murther of the liuing Temples of the holie Ghost moue vs more And Ieremiah though hee was at libertie among the people and well looked to by Nebuzaradan yet when hee saw Ierusalems desolations For these thinges I weepe mine eyes casteth out water because the Comforter that should refresh my Soule is farre from mee my Children are desolate because the enemie preuaileth Lame 1. 16. Beside the respect of their persons their cause should also moue vs to this holy griefe The Gospel of Christ true Religion in them is persecuted and oppressed And if wee haue found grace and comfort in that Gospel should we not be grieued whē so glorious a meanes of grace is obscured and the cause of our good God borne downe by his enemies God hath lighted that candle to discouer the darknesse of Sathan and destroy his worke And when the prince of darknesse preuaileth so farre as to put out that Candle and to cast downe the Candle-stickes on which it shined if wee bee the Children of Light wee must sorrow for that change Therefore if vve feele not their sorrowes wee declare wee haue no communion with them in the Bodie of Christ and no part in the grace of the Gospel which in their handes is persecute No feeling no Communion and no Communion no vnion with them and Christ If wee haue no griefe for the Light put out vvee haue no part in the Life and Grace that the Light carrieth We ought then a brotherlie compassion to them vnder their trouble because they are Brethren and fellow members of Iesus Christ and the more because their affliction is not for ciuill or common causes but for Religion As wee are commanded to mourne with them that mourne so much more with them that suffer for the Gospel Bee partaker of the suffering of the Gospel according to the power of God 2. Tim. 1. 8. Shall Sathan make errour and heresie so forcible in his Supposts as to joyne their heartes and hands to giue their power to the Beaste to fight against the Lambe And shall not Trueth and Charitie in the Children of God procure at least a brotherlie compassion of the griefes of other The first is a wonder to see the Spirit of diuision make such an union among his adherents But it is a greater wonder not to see that compassion in them who are one Spirit in Christ Iesus But though wee would in the hardnesse of our heart cutte our selues off from all feeling of their miseries that would not secure vs from punishment but rather double our sinne and hasten a double punishment vpon vs Wee stand in that same case with them In a true Religion in the abuse of