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A66550	A seasonable vvatch-vvord unto Christians against the dreams & dreamers of this generation delivered in a sermon November 16th. 1665 / and being the last lecture, which was preached by that reverend, faithful and eminent man of God Mr. John Wilson ...	Wilson, John, 1588-1667.	1677 (1677)	Wing W2897; ESTC W3002	10,284	16

receive you and to p●otect you but if you hearken to these Dreamers God will turn to be your Enemy and will testifie against such as against A●ab and Zedec●ia● spoken of in the Chapter where our text is that were left to commit villany in Israel even to commit A●… with their Neighbours Wives and that is the 〈◊〉 of 〈◊〉 and those Sects and Errors that such shall be left to com●… 〈◊〉 like uncleanness and the King ro●sted these Dreamers 〈◊〉 the 〈◊〉 as one would roast ●n hog and this did become 〈◊〉 Proverh The Lord make th●e like Z●dechia● and like A●ab c. And so I say m●●k what will come on such like Dr●●me●● and so saith the Apostle mark those that do cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned and avoid them ma●k them so as to avoid them and mark the course that the Lord will take with them and with those that will follow after them There are many D●●●mers in these times the Q●●ker hath his Dreams and the S●●ker hath his Dreams and I cannot reckon up all of them and one Dream doth beget another but the Lord doth testifie against them all and the Lord calls them bad Fig● none so bad a● those Figs were that did thus despise the Lords Prophets and Messengers or Ministers the Dreamers would take you off from them but I be●eech you that you would not hearken to those Dreamers but hea●ken to the voice of the Lord by his Ministers in their speeches in their writings I have known New-England about thirty six years and I never knew such a time as this is that we live in you came hi●her for your Children Sons and Daughters and for your Grand-children to be under the Ordinances of God that they might be as Plants in the Lords house was not this a great end in your coming hither now if you love your selves y●ur Families your Children if you love God if you love Christ if you love Heaven then hearken not to Dream●●s no● cause them to Dream that would corrupt the People of God and that would take them off from the holy and blessed will of God in these things you would not suffer any to come and ●ob you of your Money or your Jewels c. would you let them come into your Houses and take them away by force from you no you ●…d thrust them away and what have you to do here O much more so when they come to rob you of the O●d●n●nce● of God and of his faithful Ministers this is as much as in them lies to take away our God from us and communion with him go serve other Gods said Saul by his acting in his thrusting poor David away from the Ordinances of God and so the two Tribes and a half were very careful about their Children that it might not be said to them what have you to do with the Lord God of Isra●l and you have no part in the Lord and ●o their Children should be made to ●●ase from fearing the Lord and when they saw any thing that did look like a new Religion and like a superstition now the people of God arm themselves and let us go every one and suppress and destroy those that would be the Authors thereof unless they did repent and what do they say the Lord God of Gods he knoweth this and that wha●… go and set up an Altar against Gods Altar O w●e●ches that we were if so●…e should do but we were afraid left in time to come your Children might speak unto our Children saying what have you to do with the Lord God of Israel and therefore that Altar was only a memorial that we and our Children are in the Covenant of God so it should be we are to be zealous for God and zealous for his Ordinances that we our selves may injoy them and also our Children after us and that none might thrust them from their part in the Lord and from their enjoyment of the Ordinances of God We are afraid sometimes of Turk or Pope or these and those be you afraid of nothing but as our Lord Saviour Christ saith I will tell you whom you shall ●ear do not fear 〈◊〉 that kill the body but fear him that can kill the soul and love the Lord fear God and honour the King that is the duty of every good Christian above all fear and obey the Lord hea●k●n to the good word of God that is able to save your souls and build you up and give you an inheritance among them that shall be saved that when the Lord Jesus shall come in flaming fire he may have nothing to say against you but ●ay say to you come ye blessed inherit the Kingdome prepared for you and here is life and death set before you New-England here is life and death set before thee choose which you will Let the Governour choose which he will let the Church of Bost●… choose which they wi●…et us all choose life and choose 〈◊〉 the Lord we and our Houses as Joshua and then God 〈◊〉 with us and if God be with us who is there 〈◊〉 be against us to 〈◊〉 and so be for God 〈◊〉 to live to God and to be willing to d● for him also if he call us to it O be willing to submit to his will that we may be able to kiss the stake and the 〈◊〉 if the Lord call us to it There is no ●…ng in the World that hath such a Crown at that would be we are 〈◊〉 up our reckoning before hand as John Frith did what it way cost us to be for and to serve the Lord trust not in men trust not in the Governour trust not in the Magistrates trust not in your Captains trust not in your Castle or Amunition trust not in your own righteousnesse but trust in this that if the Lord be your God and if you walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing that he will be with you and say as the holy Prophet David Here we are Lord and thou knowest that we came hither to shroud our selves and our Children under thy wings and leave our witness behind us when we are dead but here we are and do to us even as is good in thine eyes and yet as he said who knoweth but we shall finde mercy in his sight but then walk as David did that though not afraid of the Lyon or Bear or of ten thousand of his Enemies yet he flies from his Son and then what did he truly he went bare-headed by the ascent of Mount Olivet weeping as he went and Kingdome or no Kingdome he left that to God but there prayeth to God and that was a Prayer against Ahitophel Lord curse the 〈◊〉 of Ahitophel and God did hear him and restore him to 〈◊〉 House and Kingdome and Glory again so let us all pray and repent Governour repent Magistrates repent Ministers repent People eve● all repent young and old repent and then it shall go well with us FINIS

other than Jeremiah to be the Prophet These Ministers what are these Ministers but if you would go to such a manner of Meeting and h●ar what things are spoken there you would like others better then your Minister and so are men ready to cry up these as the great power of God as was of him said Act. 8. thus 't is here but I beseech you my Brethren if men will cast off the Lord and his Ordinances and follow their own humours let them alone as Mat. 15. they are 〈◊〉 leaders of the blind but yet notwithstanding the Lord hath pitty upon his poor people when he sees them thus taken in the net and the Lord comes in now to give them warning O do not hea●ken to these Dreamers but he●●ken to the holy Word of God even as in the Psalm now sung Psal. 〈◊〉 ●9 The Word the Word the Word and the Statutes the Statutes the Statutes of God and the Ordinances of God c. Oh these are the things which we are to observe one word from the Lord is to be preferred before all other matters You may think it a strange thing that thus they should speak against the faithful Ministers of God but thus it hath been with the Prophets of old yea and with our Saviour Jesus Christ himself who did not preach as the Scribes did but with authority and it was sp●ken of him that God would raise up a Prophet like to Moses c. but yet when he comes into his Ministry to draw all men to the faith and obedience of his holy name yet He O they would have made a King of him when as he did so wonderfully feed them and never man spake as he c. but afterward what was our Lord Jesus in their account even a Wine-bibber and a Glutton and a man that did practise with the Devil himself even with ●elzeb●● himself thus did they speak against our Saviour Jesus C●… and yet Christ did labour among them and gave them many warnings Wo be to Coraz●… and wo be to thee B●…ida and wo be to these and wo be to those but at length they came to that to cry up ●arrabbas before him yet Christ did not leave giving warning O Jerusalem Jerus●… I would have gathered thee as a●●e● gatheret● her Chicke●● under her wings and 〈◊〉 did weep over them that they would not know the things of 〈◊〉 peace and that though he came to them yet they even his own did not receive him but were weary of his Ministry and the Romans say they will come and destroy us they thought it would be their u●ter undoing whereas indeed that wa● 〈◊〉 cause of their overthrow that they did reject him yet still our Saviour Jesus Christ goes on to preach to them and so it is in ou● dayes and there be those that go about and give it out as though they were Christ and how many are ready to hearken to such 〈◊〉 consider what came you into this Wilderness for did you come to gaze upon one another c. no you came to see and hear that great Prophet even the Lord Jesus in his Ministers that you might have the Ordinances of God in his Churches rightly gathered and the holy Sacraments rightly administred I trow you did not come hither for the World to scrape the World much less to put your necks under these and those tha● would overturn all order among you but O fool●sh Galatians who hath bewitched you you come hither to hear the blessed voice of Je●us Christ and you did make account that when you came hither O how holy should you be c. and we came not to separate from the Churches in Old England God forbid but we did indeed only separate from the polutions there but alas who hath bewitched you that there should be any found to leave the blessed Ordinances of God and to follow these and those and if he be a new one and have new things to teach them that is enough to many but the word of God will not spa●e any in their sin nor let men sleep quietly in their sin will not let the Drunkard alone nor the Swearer alone c. but these D●eamers have their soft Pillows to place under mens Elbows that they may not be hurt by leaning thereon but see here the mercy of God that would not have men let alone and run to hell in such way of their Dreams O do not this abominable thing that my soul hates and did not the Lord give warning to K●rab and his company and so to the People that they might not follow them but away away save your souls and come not near them if you love your lives if you love your souls come not near to th●se men but hearken to the voice of God so here c. And therefore hearken not to the Dreamers and Dreams which you have caused them to Dream but if you have been deluded come out from those delusions if by your connivances or entertainments and the like we have encouraged such Dreamers O continue no longer so to do And if these would not in our T●… 〈…〉 Dreamer● yet 〈◊〉 here come 〈◊〉 the name of the 〈…〉 ●o you to give y●u warning O 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not to th●se 〈…〉 God will tell you 〈◊〉 day you had you 〈…〉 Norton and your Hoo●●r ●●d your 〈…〉 a●● 〈…〉 and these and those you had ●y Ministers and 〈…〉 Minister that God hath 〈◊〉 ●●t the t●●e will com●… 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 if you have he●●d them and 〈◊〉 them O what a ●weet meeting will that be and then may they say Lord ●ere we are and the Children that th●● hast given us c. But otherwise God will say why did you not receive them when they come to d●spise the Proph●●● of the Lord 〈◊〉 it but the least of the holy Prophets and Messengers of the Lord the wrath of the Lord rose against his People so that there was no remedy hea●ken not therefore to these o● those Dreams or Dreamers but stop your ears against them 〈◊〉 the Adder that keeps her self from being ●harmed she is said to stop her ear with the ground on which she lyeth and the other ea● with some other part of her body so in this case stop your ears against them and take heed in this case else Conscience will fly in your faces another day and say I told you of it and I checked you for it and you would not regard But therefore hea●ken to those that do in a right manner speak to you the word of God that are fitted for it and are called of God to that work of the Ministry hea●ken to these And have you not many of you been converted by the Ministers of God and have you not been comforted by them many a time c. and will you now cast off the Lord and 〈◊〉 ●ervants O to day while it is called to day hea●ken to the Lord● voice the Lord is yet willing to