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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89638	A faithful warning, with good advice from Israel's God, to Englands King, and his council that they may wisely improve this little inch of time which the God of their life as yet affords unto them, before the day of their approaching misery come upon them. Which may serve as a caution to all others in authority within the nation. Sounded through one of the mourners in Sion, known by the name of Martin Mason.	Mason, Martin, fl. 1650-1676.	1660 (1660)	Wing M927; ESTC R202015	13,569	23

A FAITHFUL WARNING WITH GOOD ADVICE FROM ISRAEL'S GOD TO Englands KING AND HIS COUNCIL That they may wisely improve this little Inch of time which the God of their Life as yet affords unto them before the Day of their approaching Misery come upon them Which may serve as a Caution to all others in Authority within the Nation Sounded through one of the Mourners in Sion known by the name of Martin Mason Hear ye and give ear be not proud for the Lord hath spoken LONDON Printed for Robert Wilson at the sign of the Black spread-Eagle and Wind-Mill in Martins l' Grand A FAITHFVL WARNING WITH GOOD ADVICE FROM Israel's GOD to England's KING AND HIS COUNCIL c. BEhold to obey is better than sacrifice and to hearken is better than the fat of Rams Listen therefore and encline your Ear be attentive and read without prejudice For the Righteous God hath laid it upon me once more to Warn the Men in Authority the Rulers of this Nation even from him that fits upon the Throne to the inferior Governors of the people that they cease from their iniquities and fear the living God Know ye therefore large hath the love of God been towards you and with wonderful loving-kindness hath he visited you his patience verily is beyond expression for your iniquities have highly provoked him How many Warnings hath he given you all which hitherto have been but little regarded by you O let his righteous Witness in all your Consciences arise and it will testifie the wonderful Mercies of your Maker towards you Have you answered the End and Requirings of the Lord from you in his Overturning your Enemies for you and thus setling the Government of the Nations upon you Came you not in without any Conquest Can you justly glory in your own strength that it was your own Arm that hath done this for you Was it your own Valour that vanquished your enemies Or is it not the hand of the Lord that hath thus exalted you and abased them that had the Government before you I say Have you answered the Requirings of the Lord Let his Witness be awakened and arise in all your consciences and answer to me Did he lay no injunction upon you when his heart was enclined to exalt you Did he not enjoin you to amendment of Life to shew mercy to glorifie your Maker to be Patterns of Piety and good Examples to the People to let Mercy Truth and Righteousness live amongst you and be exercised by you towards the people who are now fallen under you to shew favour to the Righteous to help the helpless and to remedie the wrongs of the poor and needy to suppress Vice and Vanity in Court City and Countrey to be a terror to evil doers and a praise and encouragement unto them that do well And have none of you in the time of your distress promised to the Lord the performance of these things Did the Lord I say set you upon the Throne and thus restore you to outward Dignity when you seemed to be going down into the place of forgetfulness when you had little hopes to have such a Day without a secret enjoining to these things Did he give you the desire of your hearts onely to be revenged of your Enemies and to aggravate and multiply the miseries of his People If his Witness were awakened in your Consciences surely you would say Let God be justified and sinful man condemned Oh my Friends how haue you trifled away God's precious time and your own Deliverance How hath Vice and Vanity abounded in the Nation since the Day of your Exaltation in England Does not Iniquity Pride and Luxury Lord it amongst you both in Court City and Countrey with an impudent forehead Is not Prophaneness countenanced by you Are not the wicked and ungodly had in estimation with you Do not the unrighteous boast in your strength And hath not your Horn exalted them throughout the Nation Are not the Merchants of Babylon grown familiar with you and the Sons of Belial advanced by you Or is there any people receive such favour from you as the Rotten Interest who are now indulged by you What 's become of Sion Are you acquainted with her Do you minister true comfort to her Is she advanced or discountenanced in your Court and the Kingdom Are you true Subjects to Sion's King Rules he as Caesar in the Kingdom of your hearts Do you know Him and pay Tribute to Him Do you observe His Laws Statutes and Ordinances Do you own His Light in all your Consciences to be your Leader Judge and Lawgiver Oh happy were England had she such a King and happy were Englands King had he such Counsellors But alas alas Sion is in the Dust and no man regards her her Enemies now seem to be too many for her and make themselves merry over her They who should be as Nursing-Fathers to her withdraw their affections from her she sits weeping in the House of Mourning for the misery that is coming upon this People while the drunkards of Ephraim tunn themselves with Wine and intoxicate their Brains with strong Drink and the greedy Shepherds devour the silly Flock and the lustful ones love to have it so while the Priest and People conspire together against the Lord and his Annointed Jewels to stop the Mouth of Truth and fill their prisons with innocent people yet can they not center here Mordecai's Seed is a great Mote in the Devils Dish which the old Dragon seeks to devour by some unrighteous Decree from Caesar For the Crown they count sure of their fide and that 's the top-stone of Egypts strength To the Refuge of Lyes they now betake themselves and by their Majestical Craft do abuse both their Prince and the Countrey Cum Privilegio and all for want of a good Understanding For would but Caesar and his Council stop their Ear to their Trencher-Chaplains and the alluring inchantments of such devouring Monsters who seek to subvert and murther the Innocent I say would but the King and his Council once be perswaded to come into calmness and take counsel of God's ORACLE the Light in their Consciences and by it be guided how soon would the dark misty Fogs of Egypt and her Magicians be dispel'd and driven back into the bottomless pit No croaking Frogs durst then come forth to abuse the Honor of a Prince nor wound his Reputation by enticing him to Cruelty nor scrue his Prerogative above the Peoples Tranquility For the End of all Government appointed by God next to his Glory is the good of the People † Salus Populi Suprema Lex For the great God of Heaven and Earth so loved the world that he sent his Son a Light into the world not to destroy mens lives but to save them yet to punish the evil-doer according to the nature of his Crime but not with Imprisonment Death or Banishment for every small offence much less for that wch

free forgiveness out of Folly or Worldly Wit into Divine Wisdom Who would not go after such a Guide Who would not serve such a Noble Lord that sends not his servant upon any service by himself alone but goes alongwth him or rather before him and is a Guide unto him What he commands him to do he onely requires the heart a willing mind and does the thing himself or gives power to perform it Such a Lord is Israel's God all the gods of the Heathen are not to be compared unto him He calls My Son give me thy heart and Come unto me all yee that are weary and heavy laden with the load of your iniquities and I will give you ease O Golden Promise of a gracious God! which he freely performs to all his people To as many as receive him and believe in him and are willing to be guided by him to leave Lust and walk in the Light which makes war against it he gives power to become the sons of God mark to these he gives power to become the Sons of God O bountiful God! O merciful King of Saints worthy of all Honour Glory and everlasting Praises Thou gives power to those that have rebelled against Thee and have been Traytors to Thee to be at peace with Thee to be reconciled to thee and receive pardon from thee yea to become thy Children upon their submission to thee 'T is thou Righteous God works all our good works for us and in us and then acceptest of thine own Here is a pattern for all Princes and great ones to forgive your Enemies O! let Revenge live no longer in you but be buried in the grave of eternal forgetfulness Let the Immortal Witness of God arise in the Court of your Conscience that Love and Innocency may live and the contrary Nature dye 'T is time yea high time for every Individual of you to turn your minds to God's gracious Gift his Light in your Consciences that all Arbitrary Power and Oppression may be turned out of your hearts that bitterness of spirit may no longer live or burn in your breasts O beware beware of the Spirit of Revenge and down with all Idolatry and Idolatrous Superstition for Dagon cannot nor must not stand before the Ark of God O come to the Grace of God in your own particulars you that are the Council to Englands King you inferior Officers come I say receive the wholesom Instructions of that Divine ORACLE of God in your Consciences which brings Salvation with it to all that are willing to be saved by it and love the Light better than their Lust which beats down the Devil's Kingdom and teaches and will teach you be you but willing to be taught by it to deny ungodliness and all worldly lusts Pride Arrogancy Scorn Frowardness Covetousness vain-idle-talk Drunkenness Swearing Passion Cruelty Luxury and all Superfluity of Naughtiness Revenge Hatred Malice these are all Ungodliness and makes that man who lives in the commitment of them unlike to God You being willing to bear the Reproof of the Lord for these and what other sins your hearts are addicted to and in love withall you being willing to part with these Whorish Lovers base Lusts who have stoln away your hearts and separated you from your God the Light of God in your Consciences which testifies against these things that they are evil will beget in you a dislike and loathing of all these filthy noysome lusts which defile the soul because they grieve the Holy Spirit of the Righteous God then you wil see every sin as it is to be ugly Pride to be an Evil Seed which the Enemy hath sown in the heart Riotousness Luxury Lust Revenge Swearing Drunkenness and the like to be all fruits of the Devil 's begetting generated in the heart of man in the time of darkness and ignorance Then shall you see the wrath of God due to that Nature which delights to wallow in such miry wickedness so shall you come to know the holy Fear planted within you that when the Tempter comes to assault you he cannot enter upon you The faithful Souldier and follower of the Lamb is kept upon his Watch he sees the Thief comes to rob and steal the heart from the Lord but consents not to the Thief but resists the Tempter who then flies from him He dares not do such a wickedness and sin against his God This would be a blessed Condition and happy are all they that are found therein And verily my friends it is high time that you meet the Lord by unfeigned Repentance and forsaking of your sins for his wrath is kindled against you because your hearts are not right before the Lord. How long Ah how long have you sought to hide your Counsels from the Lord and to beguile the Children of the Light and deceive the Simple with fair sugred words when the poison of Asps hath been under your tongue but the Sons of Wisdom the true Children of the Day have not been deceived by you Think you the Lord is well pleased with you Can you be perswaded that he sees you not or that he reveals not your vanity and subtilty to his Seed Or do you believe that he winks at your wickedness and will not visit for all your iniquity O be not so foolish and unwise for verily such as you sow such shall you reap and if you persist in your obstinacy against the Lord and withstand the Day of your Visitation if you will still run on in the race of iniquity and cast the Testimony of his Law-behind you if you will let your minds still pursue the pleasures of this world and prefer the transitory things of this life before your souls Peace if you will count worldly gain to be godliness if you will speak smooth things to your King deceitfully and counsel him to rejoice and make merry over God's Witness in his Conscience as if he should never come to judgement if you will lend your ear to the Charming Sorceries of the Hireling Priests the English Rabbies who now are doting upon Romes Trash and Trumperies who preach for Hire and Divine for Money and Proyhesie lyes unto the people who chiefly seek for their gain from their quarter and greedily hunt for the Golden Fleece but profit not the Flock but leave them as they found them if not worse ever learning but never able to come to the knowledge of the Truth if you will make Covenant with Death and confederate with Amaleck in his cruel Conspiracy against the Innocent If you will be one with Haman in helping the wicked one to obtain the help of Caesar against the Helpless if you will involve your selves into that cursed League and bind your selves as it were with an Oath against the Innocent if you will be on the Serpent's side against the Seed of the Woman and strengthen the hands of the bloody Shepherds who seek to devour and woory Christ's sheep if you