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lord_n	command_v	day_n	sabbath_n	10,415	5	9.9260	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29218	Signes of the times, or, Prognosticks of future judgements with the way how to prevent them / by Edward Bagshaw ...	Bagshaw, Edward, 1629-1671.	1662 (1662)	Wing B425; ESTC R22957	20,184	37

highly provoking sins Isai 58.13 14. If thou turn away thy foot from the Sabbath saith God from doing thy pleasure upon my holy day and call the Sabbath a delight the holy of the Lord and honourable It follows Then shalt thou delight thy self in the Lord and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth i. e. I will signally bless and prosper thee Now we must take notice that whereever there is promise of a blessing for our obedience Ier. 17.21 there is alwayes threatned a curse for disobedience Therefore when Jeremy had commanded in the name of the Lord that they should carry no burden upon the Sabbath day but hallow it i. e. by forbearing such kind of employments according as God had commanded He concludes that if they would not hearken then saith God Verse 28. I will kindle a fire in the gates thereof and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem and it shall not be quenched From whence I infer that if to bear a burden which otherwise was lawfull and necessary be so severely prohibited upon that day How much more are sports and recreations which are alwayes needless and for the most part suspicious to be avoided then Ezekiel therefore having told the people of the Jews Ezek. 20.12 that God had given them his Sabbaths to be a sign between him and them that they might know saith he that I am the Lord which do sanctifie them But they by their profanation having polluted these Sabbaths Wherefore saith God I gave them statutes that were not good and judgments whereby they should not live i. e. I brought my judgments upon them to destroy and to overthrow them And since the parity of reason doth obliege us to the same observance of a seventh day or of one day in seven with the Jews we cannot doubt but our breach and violation of it will bind us over to the same punishment Having thus found out in general what are the certain and infallible signs of an approaching judgment the next part of our duty is to enquire how far these signs do concern us and whether we of this place have any just reason to be afraid of them And here I shall advise you not so much to cast your eyes abroad in beholding the state of others though that likewise is to be done as to turn your eyes inward and to consider with you selves whether any of these tokens of death be upon you Survey your past actions and discern what measure your sins in particular have contributed to fill up the Nations Cup. For as when the Sea roars and swels the parts of water which lye next the bank though they seem to be still and quiet yet do because of their contiguousness as much contribute to the noise and tumult of the Ocean as any of those which are more remote so your sins and mine though perhaps they make not that stir in the world nor flye up and down so much upon the tongues of men yet do indeed as much make up and complete the Nations sinnes as any of those that are more discoursed of Therefore run over these provoking transgressions mentioned a little before and see what is your part in them And when you have found them out then 1. Confess your guilt and give God the glory of his mercy in that he hath so long delayed to punish When Job would testifie his integrity and thereby use an argument why God should ease him a little of his heavy load Iob 31.33 he sayes I did not cover my transgressions as Adam by hiding my iniquity in my bosome And David praying likewise for respite useth this motive Psal 38.18 For I will declare mine iniquity I will be sorry for my sin As when God hath brought his judgments confession of sin is the best way to redress and remedy them as he tels the Israelites that when he had driven them out into forreign Lands yet saith he Levit. 26.40 If then they shall confess their iniquity with their trespass which they have trespassed against me and if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled and they accept of the punishment of their iniquity i. e. If they acknowledge that they did deserve whatever I laid upon them Ier. 3.13 then saith God I will remember my Covenant and restore them unto their Land So before a judgment comes confession is the best way to arrest and stop it As God himself prescribes the method return saith he to me and I will not let my anger to fall upon thee Only acknowledg thine iniquity that thou hast transgressed against the Lord thy God Till we confess we have sinned Ier. 2.35 the same Prophet tels us that God will continue to plead with us David no sonner confessed but he obtained pardon which when it is once gained no judgment either is or ought to be terrible Because then it looseth its name and instead of a punishment as from a Judg is only the Rod of a tender and compassionate Father 2. Prevent the growth of future judgments by a particular and serious repentance Confession and repentance must be joyned together like the purge and the plaister the one doth cleanse the wound the other cures it Confession is the sick and sinfull souls Vomit Repentance is its Diet the one doth stir the humours and discover the distemper the other begets new bloud and spirits and brings us to a more healthfull habit To encourage you to this consider First By this means you may be instrumentall in retarding Gods judgments as to the whole Nation Had there been but ten righteous men in Sodom Gen. 18. God would not have medled with it And when he came to punish Jerusalem he descends to a lower proportion and declares that if there had been but one but a man that executed judgment Ier. 5.1 and that sought the truth and he would pardon it And he often complains that he sought for a man amongst them that should make up the hedge Ezek. 22.30 and stand in the gap before him for the land that he might not destroy it but he found none Thou sinner whoever thou art that now lyest surfeiting in thy wickedness thou knowest not but thou maist be the man for whose sake if thou repentest God will save the Nation Thou maist be raised out of the mire wherein thou now wallowest and become a pillar to uphold a tottering state Or at least if Gods decree be gone forth and there be no reversing it yet Secondly Thou wilt be sure to save thy self though the sentence of destruction should be gone out of Gods mouth and we were a people utterly devoted to ruine nay though God was just now aiming his thunder and levelling his arrows yet could you suppose in that very instant that a sinner would repent the threatned and intended evil would not come near him Ier. 18.7 8. Thus God himself expresly At what instant I shall speak concerning a Nation and concerning a Kingdome to pluck up and to pull down and to destroy it If that Nation against whom I have pronounced turn from their evill I will repent of the evill that I thought to do unto them And the reason is clear because repentance changes the person God is angry only with sinners but he that hath once repented is no longer accounted a sinner Repentance evens all accounts and sin once truly sorrowed for is not only forgiven but remembred no more When we have once attained to such peace with God the tumults and stirs in the world may allarm but they ought not to affright us Therefore to conclude in the Prophet Zephanies words Before the decree bring forth Zeph. 2.12 before the day pass as the chaff before the fierce anger of the Lord come upon you seek ye the Lord all ye meek of the earth which have wrought his judgment seek righteousness seek meekness it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the Lords Anger FINIS ERRATA Page 1. line 2. for command read demand page 2● line 28. for observe read afford