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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17575	An exhortation of the particular kirks of Christ in Scotland to their sister kirk in Edinburgh	Calderwood, David, 1575-1650.	1624 (1624)	STC 4358; ESTC S116199	9,860	24

AN EXHORTATION OF THE PARTICULAR Kirks of Christ in Scotland TO their Sister Kirk in Edinburgh Printed Anno 1624. TO THEIR DEAREST AND WORTHIEST Sister the Kirck of Christ at Edinburgh Grace to you peace from God our father and the Lord Iesus Christ. WE may all of us discern by our unprepared mindes for suffering such evils as are dayly incident to all men as they are men how we are disposed to take up the crosse of Christ and to beate that other sort of afflictions that are proper to Christians as they are professors of the Gospel for albeit that all vices doe crie in our eares that we be woful creatures subjected through sinne to manie miseries albeit the lamentable example of others set the same lesson manie a time before our eyes albeit we doe often feele the sparkles of the fire upon our own bodies and may knowe the warning peeces before the Lords great ordnance yet when tribulation commeth within our doores we think it almost as strange and intertaine it as impatiently as if it had never knocked nor giuen a warning before the loue of the world the secure fruition of present prosperitie naturally so filling the heart that it leaveth no roome for the expectation of adversitie We may finde upon greater reason the like untoward disposition of heart when we are called to suffer for the profession of the gospell for we haue been taught from the beginning that all that will liue godlie in Iesus Christ must suffer persecution that the godlie shall weepe and lament but the world shall rejoyce often hath it been beaten in our eares that we would ere long be put to our triall We might also by the light of the fires of affliction in other Kirks beside us haue discovered our owne dangers and prepared our selues against them and which is more and draweth nearer in the tryall begunne and continued at home amongst our selues we might haue beholden the common case and condition of us all yet no sooner are we assayed a new againe with the smallest threatnings but we are put to such perplexitie as if eyther we of all Christians were excepted from affliction and to us onely Christ should be a Saviour without a crosse or els that for fear of the losse of some worldly dignitie or temporal commoditie we should so much as enter in deliberation whether to change anie part of our holy and comfortable profession Yee are set upon the stage at this time right reverend and dearest sister to act your part we are the beholders al our eyes round about are fixed upon you you are made a spectacle after a speciall maner to the world to angels to men your care must be so to carrie your selues that y●● drawe not on by your sinning against God a greater judgement then man can remoue againe that you commit not that which may be a blot to your profession and either a bleeding wound to your consciences while yee liue or the beginning of an endlesse defection Make not the faces of so manie as behold you and are readie to suffer with you to be ashamed because of you Beware to doe that which will make your friends and the followers of Christ to mourne and your enemies the favourers of Antichrist to rejoice We cannot denye most worthie Sister but both our pastors and professors haue beene watered manie times with that large river of Eden that gladded your citie and haue received both light and heate from your golden Candlesticks You may therefore without offence of anie ēxpect at our hands some thankfull reflexe and Christian reciprocation at this time We must first of al earnestly beseech you by the peace of your soules by the price of your redēption that ye chang nothing in the worship of God upon any suddain fear or perturbation of minde with a secret doubting and contradiction from your owne consciences for when the cloude of passion is past over and the light breaketh out again the accusations of conscience shall be more insufferable nor the importunitie of tentation is now the feares of the judgment of God shall be greater then now be the feares of the wrath of the world And when yee haue changed the comfortable worship of God with husks emptie ceremonies that nourish not either yee shal with remorse returne to eat bread in the old maner in your fathers house or els yee shall dolefully goe on from evil to worse your consciences which yee haue greeved perpetually tormenting you and the one fide whom ye haue hardened crying out upon your olde hypocrisie and the other side whome yee haue deserted upon your new apostasie That vvhich your conscience would not suffer you to doe for any pretended church authoritie for all the arguments reasons that haue been multiplied and for the doctrine and example of your own pastors if yee shall now through feare of anie worldly losse suddainly admit what shall al these who have been your witnesses from the beginning of this controversie judge but that yee are a multitude of wilful worldlings that yee haue in your prosperitie counterfeited the voice and caried the opinion of good Christians as the parrat can learne to imitate the voice of man but now when yee are beaten with the parrat yee returne to your own voice and manifestly declare of what kinde you are Secondly when you heare that suggested unto you which is the scope of the worldlings text Ioh. 11. 48. If we let him alone the Romans shall come and take awaie both our place and our nation if yee adhere to the reformation retain Christ as you haue learned him both Session and counsell will be removed and your towne will turne to nothing Remember that which was once taught you upon that place by your owne holie and heauenly preacher M. Rollock in his powerfull manner That the wisedome of the world looketh to the present estate and condition of things if with it Christ and the puritie of religion may subsist then will they embrace Christ religion otherwise they bidde them farewell But the wisedome of God saith he layeth Christ and the puritie of Christian religion for a ground and sinne closeth her eyes to all events whatsoever for Christ and religion should not be servants to policie but policie and this whole world should serue Christ and religion The Iewes preferring their estate to Christ and fearing ruine if Christ should liue they kill him to saue their nation but the same was the cause that in the justice of God the Romans came and destroyed their nation The Lord hath moe waies then your town hath ports to bring in his wrath and for magnifying his owne wisedom and snaring of men in their wisedome manie times judgment entereth by the port that pollicie hath locked fastest They wanted not in those daies their owne pretexts none of them was so shamelesse as to set himself against God as God they had