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A62960	An exhortation unto reformation amplified, by a discourse concerning the parts and progress of that work, according to the word of God, delivered in a sermon preached in the audience of the General Assembly of the Massachusets colony, at Boston in New-England, May 27, 1674, being the day of election there / by Samvel Torrey ...	Torrey, Samuel, 1632-1707.; Mather, Increase, 1639-1723.	1674 (1674)	Wing T1916; ESTC R13732	47,259	54

possession of my House Worship and Ordinances protected you in the enjoyment and improvement of all my precious and pleasant things carried you as upon Eagles wings pitied you pardoned you spared you and saved you and superadded Peace Plenty and all temporal mercies O foolish people and unwise will you thus then requite the Lord your God Be astonished O Heavens at this and be horribly afraid and be ye very disolate saith the Lord O how will New-England be able to stand before the Lord when he shall thus contend with us and that in order unto the vindication of his Justice proceeding unto the execution of his destroying and desolating Judgements as Psal 81.12 But my people would not hearken unto my voice and Israel would have none of me so I gave them up O we to New-England when God comes to the parting blow with us But must God and New-England part thus O God for bid Why should we not then now standing in the presence of God in our hearts and with our Souls say Behold we come unto thee for thou art the Lord our God and take with us words and say Take away iniquity and receive us graciously for in thee the fatherless finde mercy O with what open out-stretched Arms of mercy would God receive and entertain his poor backfliding people so returning to him and say I will heal their backslidings I will love them freely for mine anger is turned away from them O how would God rejoice over poor returning New-England and rest with Divine delight and Complacency in his love unto us O what a blessed glorious Change would such a work of Reformation work in New-England How would these Churches revive and flourish and recover their first Beauty and Glory again be replenished with the gracious Presence of God and of Christ again the Worship and Ordinances of God be restored unto their Spiritual Power and Purity and be accompanied in all Administrations with a plentiful dispensation of Gods Spirit and Grace Sinners be converted Saints edified and comforted in Communion with God and one with another the great and crying sins of the Times suppressed Holiness both in heart and life increased our Controversies issued Contentions ended our Breaches and Losses repaired out Wounds and Sicknesses healed Gods Covenant renewed and confirmed with us and we in all respects made a blessed and happy people in the full enjoyment and improvement of our most precious and pleasant things O then New-England would be New-England again What a rejoicing would this be to the Churches of Christ and what an advantage and advance to the Cause and Kingdome of Christ in the World O if it please God to give us in this our most hopeless and helpless estate the valley of Achor for a door of hope then shall N. E. sing as in the dayes of her youth as in the day when God first brought her forth into this Wilderness as Hos 2.15 Then shall all the lovers of Zion rejoice with us and for us with acclamations of Blessing as Jer. 31.23 The Lord bless thee O habitation of Justice and mountain of Holiness It was a great refreshing to this weary and weeping Prophet to see Visions of peace and prosperity unto the Church and therefore he adds v. 26. Vpon this I awaked and beheld and my sleep was sweet unto me O it is a sweet and pleasant thing by faith and hope to believe and hope for such prosperity unto these Churches Let it ever be our Prayer which was the Prayer of the Church Psa 90.16 17. Let thy work appear unto thy Servants and thy glory unto their Children and let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us and establish thou the work of our hands upon us yea the work of our hands establish thou it FINIS

At a General Court held at Boston May 27. 1674. THis Court Orders That the Reverend Mr. Samuel Torrey be Thanked from this Court for the great and acceptable pains which he took in his late Election Sermon And that he be desired to Print his said Sermon with as much speed as may be And that William Stoughton and Thomas Clark Esqs Capt. Hugh Mason Mr. William Parkes and Mr. Peter Bulkley be Appointed in the Name of this Court to give him Thanks accordingly By the Court Edward Rawson Secret AN EXHORTATION UNTO Reformation AMPLIFIED By a Discourse concerning the Parts and Progress of that Work according to the Word of God Delivered in a SERMON Preached in the Audience of the General Assembly of the Massachusets Colony at Boston in New-England May 27. 1674. BEING THE DAY of ELECTION THERE By SAMVEL TORREY Pastor of the Church of Christ in Waymouth Isa 30.15 For thus saith the Lord God the holy One of Israel In returning and rest shall ye be saved in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength and ye would not Ver. 18. And therefore will the Lord wait that he may be gracious unto you and therefore will be be exalted that he may have mercy upon you for the Lord is a God of judgement and blessed are all they that wait for him Jer. 3.22 Return ye backsliding Children and I will beal your backslidings Behold we come unto thee for thou art the Lord our God Rev. 2.7 He that hath an ear let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the Churches Cambridge Printed by Marmaduke Johnson 1674. To the Reader THe God of our Fathers hath done great things for this his people in the sight of the Nations We have heard with our ears our fathers have told us what work God did in their dayes how he did drive out the Heathen with his hand and Planted them how he did afflict the people and cast them out for they got not the Land in possession by their own Sword neither did their own Arm save them but his right Hand and his Arm and the light of his Countenance because he had a favour to them Yea the Lord hath given us his good Spirit to instruct us and hath not withheld Manna from us but hath turned this Wilderness into a Canaan and here hath he given us Rest the Land of Israel seldome rested longer fourty years and more and all this while hath he been feeding and leading of us by the hands of Moses of Aaron It would fill a Volume to declare in how many respects the Lord hath dealt with us as he did with his people in the dayes of old He that hath said I will make the Wilderness a Pool of water and the dry lands Springs of water I will plant in the Wilderness a Cedar hath in an eminent degree fulfilled that word before our eyes And we may conclude that the Lord intended some great thing when he planted these Heavens and laid the foundation of this Earth and said unto New-England as sometimes to Sion Thou art my People And what should that be if not that so a Scripture-Pattern of Reformation as to Civil but especially in Ecclesiastical respects might be here erected as a First fruits of that which shall in due time be accomplished the whole world throughout in that day when there shall be one Lord and his Name one over all the earth Upon all which accounts our not answering Divine Expectations concerning us hath the more of evil and of dangerous consequence in it Apostacy in any people is a great provocation to the eyes of Gods glory but much more in a people whom he hath brought under such manifold Engagements to the contrary as is to be affirmed of us in these goings down of the Sun It must be confessed to the praise of his glory that the Lord is not yet wholly gone from us and there are grounds of hope that he will not leave us nor forsake us at least-wise that as yet it shall not be For there are some though alas now but few of the first Generation still surviving who went after the Lord into this Wilderness when it was a Land not sown whose kindness God doth remember and it may be hoped that there shall be Peace and Truth in their dayes It must likewise be acknowledged that as for our Israel the Leaders thereof both in our Civil and Ecclesiastical state are in some measure faithful Scandalous evils when they break forth are born witness against and therefore the Lord will not impute them to the Land where they are committed When did the Lord ever give up any people to utter destruction but that first their Magistrates and Ministers were become corrupt Therefore as yet our Jerusalem shall not become heaps and the Mountain of the Lords house as the high places of the forrest Also the Lord who was still wont as there were any beginnings of Apostacy in his people of old to testifie against them by his Spirit in his Prophets hath raised up those in this Land unto whom he hath given grace and a Spirit of faithfulness to do the like witness the ensuing Sermon which is a token for good Nevertheless there are on the other hand awful Considerations which may cause us to fear vvhat the end vvill be O that vve vvere vvise that vve understood these things We have been and through grace to this day are a people near unto the Lord but in that respect vve have the greater cause not to be secure It is a very solemn Observation vvhich I remember Commenius hath speaking of those once-famous and glorious Churches in Bohemia viZ. That they were nearer to the Sanctuary then other Churches by reason of a more pure Discipline by them owned and professed and therefore when Contentions and Apostacies prevailed amongst them the Lord poured down his righteous Displeasures on them and hath set them forth as sad Examples before other Churches Let us lay it to heart And it greatly concerns us so to do for that there are sad evidences of our departures from the Lord in a woful degree and awful symptomes of the Lords departure from us Churches are not wont to cast off the good wayes of God at once but gradually it may be more generations then one may pass away first so neither doth the God of all patience and grace cast off them but in a gradual way of procedure How many stands did the glory of the Lord make e're it was quite removed never more to return in the former lustre Is it not so with this people In what place can vve behold the glory of the first Temple Do not the ancient men that have seen the first House weep over this If vve be not at all sensible of these things our case is no less desperate then Ephraims vvhen gray hairs vvere upon him but he knew it nor That people vvho vvere newly come out of the hands of those that sometime