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A94196 Good counsel with a seasonable warning to all the inhabitants of Wells in Somerset-shire and elsewhere Read and consider, and the Lord give you an understanding heart. Sandilands, Robert, of Aberdeen. 1683 (1683) Wing S659; ESTC R232159 2,224 1

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GOOD COUNSEL WITH A Seasonable Warning TO ALL THE INHABITANTS of WELLS in Somerset-shire and elsewhere Read and Consider and the Lord give you an understanding Heart THis day passing by your City I was moved of the Lord God to come amongst you to proclaim the terrible great and notable Day that 's hastening on apace upon this and other Nations And since I came from you I felt a concern upon my Spirit to Communicate this and send unto you as Good Counsel and which may prove if duly regarded a seasonable warning both to Priests Professors and Prophane That you all may be humbled this day under the mighty hand of God and unseignedly Repent of the Evil of your ways and turn therefrom Oh hasten hasten speedily to meet the Lord in the way of his Righteous Judgments by the which he is bringing down the haughty looks of proud Flesh abasing that which is exalted and raising up that which is of a low degree hearken diligently to his Call and be concerned to answer him whilst he cries unto you both inwardly and outwardly to be Reformed from those many gross abominable unworthy practices you are found guilty of for which the Good Spirit of the Lord strives in you to be Redeemed and because of which the weighty vengeance and fierce wrath of God is ready to break forth upon you aed though he hath spared long and may hold it off for a time yet assuredly at last he will be provoked and when it comes then it 's so much the heavier by how much the longer he hath waited to be Gracious as it s said Because sentence against an evil Work is not executed speedily therefore the Hearts of the Sons of Men are fully set in them to do Evil. Oh! I beseech you in the tender love of God consider and follow these things now in time that belongs to your Eternal welfare least they be hid from your Eyes as it did befall that great City Jerusalem over which the Lord Jesus wept and said If thou hadst known even thou at least in this thy day c. so they had their day of Gracious Visitation but because they knew not the time thereof so as to be gathered by him who often would have gathered them even as a Hen doth gather her Chickens under her Wings but they would not and therefore that dreadful desolation came upon them as the Consequence of their grievous Rebellion and continued Provocations Now observe if you do not regard the Lord in his time of Love afforded to you in which you are rendered capable to be Gathered by his Divine and Almighty Power out of all the Vanities Pollutions Hypocrisies Formalities and Will-worships of the World into Holiness and those Virtues of true Christianity If you do not now remember the Lord and heat his Voice whilst ●…s called to day I tell you of a certain truth you may in your own time when Distress Anguish Terrour Sorrow Wo and Misery overtakes you cry loudly in his Ears and call earnestly upon him but not heard or regarded by him as it s said concerning those who hate the Good and love the Evil If they cry unto the Lord he will not hear them he will even hide his Face from them at that time as they have behaved themselves ill in their doings see Micah 3. verse 4. and read Prov. 1. 22 c. Because I have called saith Wisdom upon you simple ones Fools and Scorners but you refused I have stretched out my Hand and no man regarded but ye have set at nought all my Counsel and would none of my Reproof mind now what follows I also will laugh at your calamity I will mock when your fear cometh how cometh even as desolation and your destruction as a Whirlwind you know that 's a sudden thing Then shall they call upon me but I will not answer c. and the sad conclusion of all is Therefore shall they Eat the fruit of their own way and be filled with their own devices for the turning away of the simple shall slay them and the prosperity of Fools shall destroy them Certainly such as every one Sowes of that must they Reap wherefore all High and Low Rich and Poor Fear the great God and give Glory to him for the hour of his Judgment is come and Worship him that made Heaven and Earth and the Seas and Fountains of Water whose overflowing scourge and dreadful Beasom of his sore displeasure must pass over and sweep away this Prophane Atheistical Hypocritical and Hard-hearted Persecuting Perverse and Adulterous Generation of Vipers whose Cup now is almost quite filled up with all manner of Abominations and the Consumption determined on the Earth must be accomplished therefore be not Mockers least your Bands be made strong and surely the terrible overthrow of the powers of Death and Darkness is begun and will more and more appear so that all must be overturned and brought to an utter desolation which opposeth either through the Rage Malice and Envy of the Devil that Grand Persecutor or of the Violence and Cruelty of his wicked Agents who oppress the Lords faithful innocent People and would stop the Glorious advancement of the peaceable Kingdom of holy Jesus and of his Righteous Government whose right it is to Raign and Rule spiritually in the Hearts of the Sons and Daughters of Men and of the increase of whose Peace and Dominion there shall be no End Which is over all opposition prevailing and shall more and more and that universally in the Lords due time be exalted to the great shame and confusion of all his Enemies to the unspeakable Joy and satisfaction of the Righteous and to the Glory Praise Honour and Renown of his worthy Name for ever and evermore Amen This is the Word of the Lord God Everlasting whether you will hear or forbear from his Servant and your sincere well-wisher and who heartily prays for the good of all Robert Sandilands Streat near Glastonbury being the 31 of the 11th month 1682. For in the hand of the Lord there is a Cup and the Wine is Red it is full of mixture and he poureth cut of the same but the dregs thereof all the wicked of the Earth shall wring them out and drink them LONDON Printed for Benjamin Clark in George-Yard in Lombard-street 1683.