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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52179	A loving invitation, and a faithful vvarning to all people, who believe they must give an account to the righteous God for the deeds done by them in the flesh that they speedily seek to make their peace with the living God, who made them, before the stroak of his justice come upon them, which is the breathing of my life, even to all who resort unto, or be separated from the House of Rimmon, but are not yet truly come to own the seed of life, the light of Christ in their consciences, to be their teacher, and so to believe in it, as they may be saved by it / by Martin Mason.	Mason, Martin, fl. 1650-1676.	1660 (1660)	Wing M931; ESTC R15731	8,619	15

its own but we are not of the World therefore the World hates us Is it not so let that of God in your Consciences arise and judge between us and our Enemies But the little Flock are fill'd with an holy Resolution in this holy War against the Beast and False Prophet who seek to poison the King in his Affections to this Innocent People The Righteous Innocent Seed though it suffer unto Death cannot bow to the Unrighteous Law of Man though not a People in the Nation more willing to submit to Just Government than they are O let the Sufferings of the Innocent come before you be tenderly affected by you and a Warning to you that you may hasten to the righteous God that made you and be faithful to his Witness within you in whatsoever it requireth of you And be not discouraged because Tryals seem near unto you they will not harm you but rather be good for you What if the Rod of the Wicked reach you and for a season be laid upon you 't is but to try you It shall not alwayes rest upon the back of the Righteous Sion shall not alwayes sit in the dust Faint not I say nor be discouraged There is a Remnant that cannot bow the knee to Baal yet are we no Enemies to Caesars Person nor good Government for we cannot fight with a Carnal Weapon neither for him nor against him but desire to live peaceably under him in the exercise of our Tender Consciences towards God and towards man and for that end do we willingly pay Tribute to him But in the Kingdom of our Consciences he must not come to rule Christ Jesus alone the Prince of Peace and Lord of Righteousness must king it there and not King Charles no nor the greatest Monarch upon Earth Therefore let not this dark cloudy day be any discouragement at all unto you in the exercise of your Consciences towards God This Day must have a Night Cold Winter will away The Sun of Righteousness will arise and shine gloriously in the hearts of the People Sufferings cannot fright the Suffering Seed nor Death it self if it come cannot daunt them For Sions King is with them the God of Israel is in the midst of them and speaks Comfort to them their Joy and Peace in God no mortal can take from them Dear Friends yet a little while and the Clouds will clear again God will plead the Cause and Innocency of his People in the Consciences of his and their Enemies What though they seek to weary out the Saints with Sufferings their expectations shall fail them for God is the Supporter of his People in all their Tryals for the Work is the Lords 'T is in vain for Antichrist to make War with the Lamb he shall find him a Terrible Lion 'T is the last Blow that ever the Beast and False-Prophet shall be able to give to the Royal Seed of Sions King the Rage of the Heathen will hasten and help forward their own Ruine The strength of Egypt is but as straw the fire of the Lord shall consume it and till then we do not expect to be delivered from it but are contented patiently to suffer under it what ever God shall suffer Man to inflict upon us In the mean time Friends let not Bitterness be in your hearts towards us nor any prejudice rise up in you against us because the Decrees of Men who are now in Authority do not favour us The righteous God knows the innocency of our Sufferings and that we are neither Caesars yours nor the Nations Enemies but your harmless Friends Wherefore let your Moderation appear towards all men and do no otherwise to us than you would have us or others do to you That 's the Royal Law of Sions King whom both you and we do owe subjection to in all things Come O come I say to Gods Witness in your Consciences and that will teach you the Fear of the Lord to Depart from Iniquity which is the beginning of Wisdom No true Wisdom can be possessed until the Fear of God be truly witnessed which cannot be unless Iniquity be departed from Dominion over sin you can never get until you come to Gods Witness which in your Consciences declares against it and are willing to submit unto the Light that it may lead you over all the Mountains of Iniquity and overturn all the strong-holds of Satan and destroy his kingdom within you For you have no other Armour to use against him but the Light which if you truly love and believe in will like Davids sling and stones hit the Uncircumcised Philistine in the Forehead with the Light must you overcome him and mortally wound that Man of Sin If you use any other Weapon in this Spiritual War you cannot prosper nor prevail against him but must be overcome and conquered by him The Scriptures nor any other outward thing are not able to grapple with him you must put on the Armour of Light and with that resist him or else be taken Captive by him 'T is the Power of that righteous Spirit that must prevail against him O let not Sin any longer be kept alive in you for 't is that which keeps Gods blessing from you and hinders him from being reconciled unto you and is the cause of all the trouble that comes upon you Sin brings a weight which will be too heavy for you Hast hast and meet the Righteous God by a true Repentance and forsaking of your sins that he may shew mercy to you before his judgments be poured down upon you For verily in the Fear of the Lord I testifie unto yon Gods heavy Indignation his hot Displeasure will speedily overtake you if your Iniquities be not speedily forsaken by you Gods dreadful Vengeance is near unto the Wicked in the Fear of the Lord I declare it to you O that you may hear and fear and sin no more against the God that made you O be not so vainly presumptuous as to trifle away your precious time O put not the day of the Lord afar off for lo I tell you it is very near unto you it is even at the door The time is nigh at hand when God will visit for the Iniquities of the people and wound the hairy scalp of the wicked Then shall the Drunkards Mirth be turned into Howling and the Oaths and Curses of the Wicked be a weight upon their Consciences too heavy for them to bear Then shall the Proud and Lofty be laid in the Dust and those that fare deliciously every Day by grinding the faces of the Poor shall be fed with Torment and the Glutton in sorrow be sent into his Sepulchre The wrath of the Wicked against the Innocent shall then meet with Judgment from the Dreadful God though his suffering Lambs do freely forgive them yet the Fire of the Lord shall be kindled within them and burn in their bowels till it have consumed them And the Lukewarm Professors who are neither cold nor hot who stand gazing at the Innocent afar off and in the secret of their hearts do little better than count the Crosse foolishness these will the Lord recompence according to their Doings He will stain the Pride of their Hearts and spue upon their Glory and their Hypocrifie and meer out-side Profession shall stink and be an ill favour to all sober people Ah! how Terrible will this approaching Day of the Lord be unto the Wicked Verily they shall be turned into Hell and all that forget God The greedy Priests shall then be utterly confounded the Merchants of Babylon shall weep and lament bitterly day and night Sorrow and Angish shall come forcibly upon them the Worm in their Consciences which never dies shall then begin to gnaw them yea that never-dying Worm shall then fearfully torment them and never leave till it have utterly consumed them All the Strength of Egypt shall then be terribly shaken and the Pillars of Persecution shall be broken in pieces Then shall Sion be raised out of the Dust and sing Hosanna's to her King Then shall Gods Truths which is now so unworthily contemned in the hearts of the Wicked be highly honoured and advanced his suffering Seed exalted the garments of Mourning shall then be laid aside Mordecai shall then be cloathed in Royal Apparel and mischievous Haman shall receive a Reward according to his Deeds The Righteous shall then rejoyce and be exceeding glad Prisons then shall not be the Portion of Gods People Then shall it be known how innocently we have suffered Then will God put a difference between the Precious and the Vile betwixt him that sweareth and him that feareth an Oath Till then O thou Righteous God we commit our Cause to Thee and shall through thy strength in patience bear the Yoak which our Adversaries shall be suffered to lay upon us Till then we are contented to be the Sheep whom the Wicked intend for the Slaughter and we shall not with any carnal weapon make resistance against them but pray for them In the integrity of our hearts O Lord we do forgive them and desire if it may stand with thy good will and pleasure thou wouldst shew mercy to them In thy strength O God are we bold to meet them and in the patience which thou givest us we shall weary them who seek to weary us Through thy assistance we shall not bow unto them thy Arm supporting us Lord we shall overcome them Thou art our stay our strength our shield our All Thou art with us Thou art good unto us Thou fights our Battels for us Thy living Presence is amongst us Thou hast promised to be yea Lord thou art and wilt be the Preserver of us Thou daily ministers thy Joy and Peace unto us Thy Blessing is not wanting upon us Thy Love and Mercies cannot fail us nor shall ever be distrusted by us The Dew of Heaven descends upon us Shall we then fear what man can do unto us O Righteous God let that for ever be far from us Glory Glory Hallelujahs to the God of Heaven for ever From the City-Gaol in Lincoln second day last moneth 1660. Written by a Sufferer for Righteousness sake M. M.

when once it 's kindled in you nor in your heaviness take the burden from you nor overcome the least corruption for you No verily nothing then but a Christ within you can give the least dram of comfort to you Had you ten thousand Bibles with you in the time of your distress they would be nothing worth unto you if the Presence and Comfort of a Christ be taken from you I appeal to your very Consciences if this be not true which is here declared to you Come then O come with boldness unto God's faithful Witness within you and bear with patience the sentence which that shall passe upon you It must and will first or last be a Condemner of you but it will only reprove that which is for Condemnation in you You may believe me it will not flatter you nor indeed render your condition worse than it is with you but speak the mind of God in plainness to you and that 's the reason why it is now so little regarded by you bear I say in patience its gentle Reproofs within you it will but purifie and not destroy you Christ must first be known a Judge within you a Condemner of every idle thought word and deed before he be a Saviour to you let him be your Law-giver what he commands you in your Consciences that submit and be obedient to and he gives power if it be to part with your dearest Dalilah your bosom sins stoop unto and live in the Crosse to your crooked wills and take up the Crown for then he is a Saviour to you Be you but willing to part with that which grieves his righteous Soul and brings a weight upon you so shall you never want his Power to execute his Command to overcome and part with first one sin then another I speak my own experience Let but your crooked wills be subjected to Christs Crosse and then his Yoak is easie and his Burden light then will you run with chearfulness the race of his Commandments If ever man be otherwise justified by his Maker than by believing in Gods Covenant of Light which in the Conscience bears its Testimony against all Iniquity and leads those out of sin who are willing to forsake sin and believe in him and be guided by him then let me be for ever condemned from the presence of the righteous God This is the chief Corner-stone the Rock which every wise man builds upon This is that which the Learned Rabbies of this Ages and all outside peevish Professors stumble at and will not have to reign over them but make war against him and this is that which will grind them to pouder This is that Holy Seed which from righteous Abel to this very day hath ever been persecuted by Cains Brood who can do no better while they live in that persecuting nature This is that innocent Lamb who now suffers by the devouring Lions in most of the Prisons of this Nation in the Persecuted People called Quakers for not bowing to the will of man which speaks contrary to the Law of God Those are they who in all these Overturning times since they were turned to the righteous God who have been cryed up as Jesuitical the Spawn of the Papists Enemies to all Government Plotters Conspirators Rebels Traitors yet none of all this Trash ever was nor ever can be justly proved against them Who more peaceable in the Nation than this People who live in obedience to that just Principle of God within them whose Kingdom is not of this World and therefore with a carnal worldly weapon they neither do nor can sight for it Who does the Rage of the Heathen who know not God sooner reach or fall upon than this Innocent People Who does the young Nurseries of our English Rabbies yea those who should be taught better manners and use more manhood rail revile imprison and in many places of this Nation unreasonably wound abuse and persecute so much as this innocent harmless People who never yet could nor ever shall lift up a hand against their Enemies Tell me now O ye Professors of this Nation is not Innocency now counted for a Crime And what have you got by warring writing or bending your tongues against this People and their Principle Is not the Rod which many of you in the secret of your hearts prepared or desired might be laid upon them very near to come upon your selves Is it not just with the righteous God to let in this Flood upon you even for the secret malignity which lodged in many of your hearts against this People Hast hast I say into the Ark of God Else verily I see this Deluge will overtake you sink and drown you They who feared the Lord did gather and assemble themselves together and spake often one to another But this is now counted a Crime for this Innocent People to meet peaceably together in their own hired houses to wait upon the living God and as the Lord giveth utterance to edifie one another And Christ the Son of God said Swear not at and James his Apostle said Above all things my Brethren swear not But now 't is counted worthy of Imprisonment Confiscation of Goods and Banishment for the Children of God to be obedient to God in his fear to assemble together and wait upon him and not to Swear at all Is it not a sad thing that obedience to the living God should by the sons of men who would be counted Christians be thus taken for such a heinous Crime little lesse than Treason and so severely punished What think you of this Is Caesars Proclamation grounded upon Christs Religion or were they Christs friends who advised Caesar to take this course It is not a high breach of the Priviledges of Gods People Whom shall we obey herein God or man judge ye O ye wise in heart Behold and see all you that passe by Did ever any People suffer more innocently than we do at this day Because a handfull of rash inconsiderate men rise up against Caesar shall therefore the Sons of Innocency be numbred amongst Transgressors and thus undeservedly be proclaimed for Plotters O the hastiness of men and unadvisedness of such Counsellors verily they are Enemies to God and to his Kingdom the Lord forgive them O that they may see their Error and be ashamed If we now assemble together in Gods fear to wait upon him and cannot for Conscience-sake any Oath at all then Bonds to be sure are like to abide us next Confiscation of Goods and Imprisonment at Caesars pleasure if not Banishment to boot And if we submit to man herein we offend God Do you not see the Snare which unreasonable men have laid for the Innocent Do you not see Vice and Vanity abounds abroad and rants it with Impudence and Prophaness hath liberty while the Suns of Innocency God's harmless Flock are shut up in Prisons Were we of the World the World would love us for the World loves