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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37901	A letter of examination to all who have assumed the place of shepherds, herdsmen, and overseers of the flocks of people of all sorts in Christendom : to see if your accounts be ready and what order the flocks be in : with a few lines of good news to the several flocks.	Edmundson, William, 1627-1712.	1672 (1672)	Wing E179; ESTC R25572	5,307	10

A LETTER OF Examination TO All you who have assumed the place of Shepherds Herdsmen and Overseers of the Flocks of People of all sorts in Christendom to see if your Accounts be Ready and what Order the Flocks be in With a few Lines of Good News to the several Flocks Wo be to the Shepherds that feed themselves Should not ye Shepherds feed the Flocks Ye eat the fat and ye cloath with the wool ye kill them that are fed but ye feed not the Flocks The Diseased have ye not strengthened neither have ye healed that which was sick neither have ye bound up that which was broken neither have ye brought back that which was driven away neither have ye sought that which was lost But with force and cruelty have ye ruled them and they were scattered Ezek. 34. 3 4 5. Jer. 23. 12. Therefore I come against the Shepherds saith the Lord I will require my Sheep at their hands and cause them to cease from feeding the Sheep Neither shall the Shepherds feed themselves any more for I will deliver my Sheep from their mouths Ezek. 34. 10. Printed in the Year 1672. A LETTER of EXAMINATION TO All you who have assumed the place of OVERSEERS of the Flock c. COME all you that have assumed the title of Shepherds Overseers and Herdsmen of the Flocks of people of all sorts in Christendome you have had the Oversight Herding and Ordering of the multitudes of people for a long time and the Lord hath been as a man in a far Country and now he is coming to call you to account and he will require the Flocks at your hands and the time is near that you must give account of your charge and receive a recompence of reward from him according to your deeds This is a Warning to you all to have your Accounts ready and see that the Flocks be in good order and that nothing be wanting for you will not have any to meddle with the Flocks but your selves so at your hands the Lord will require them Have you kept a dilligent Watch Night and Day with Carefuln●s for their Soules Have your Locks been wet with the Dew and the Hairs of your Heads with the Frosts to preserve their Feet in the way of Peace and from the Devourer and out of all fil thy and unclean wayes Have you been as good examples before the several Flocks in all things walking before them as good patterns Have ye led them to the pastures of Life and fed them in due season Or have yee not played the Careless Idle Shepherds Sitting in your Fat places and Lying upon your Soft pillows at your e●●e Feeding with the Fat and Sporting your selves in your day and time whils't the several poor Flocks go astray in the by Paths and are scattered in the bar●en Wilderness as Sheep wanting a Shepheard and as a People lost their Guide where their poor Soules are starved for want of the Bread of Life Have yee led the severa● Flocks to the Fountain of Living Mercies and Wel-spring of Life and caused them to drink Freely without Money and be Refresh●d wh●reby they all become Fruitful and none Barren as the Flocks in Solomons Song chap. 6. ver 5. or are they not dryed up Head and Tayl for want of the Springs of Life and so Unfruitful in any thing that is Good And have not you in this condition led and drove them by your Example and Perswasion to the dirty Paddles and Kennels of Sin and Uncleanness And have not you the pretended Heardsmen of all sorts perswaded the Flocks that this is that they must Dr●nk and Lick up whilst on this side the Grave And is not your Flocks as you call them by that means fallen into grose disseafes as Rottenness of Heart Unsoundness of Mind Blindness and Deafness from seeing th●ir Salvation and Hearing the Voice of the Lord Jesus And are they not fallen into Lameness of Feet and Hands and cannot walk upright in the just mans path which is a Shining Light but stumbles at it nor cannot handle the Sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God by which they should war against the Man of Sin and break down his strong holds And by drinking Iniquity Sin and Uncleanness is not all the Flocks fallen into grose disseases that there is no health in them and become weak and feeble in the Faith that they should resist the Devil in and overcome him And have lost their tast smell and savour in the things of God and every thing that is seasoned with his Spirit and Power become loathsome to their tast by reason of the Diseases and Rottenness wanting Salt in themselvs to Savour withal by which they should be a sweet savour of a sweet smelling Sacrifice to God and to season the Earth And through want of i● is not the Earth Corrupt and the Creation Burde●ed and Grones and wai●s to be delivered from under that Bondage And see now what you have in your Hoc● as you call them to Offer to the Lord that may find acc●ptance w●●h him will he accept of the Uncleane Sick 〈◊〉 or Blind must no● the Church that is presented to God b● wi●hout Spo● Wrinkl● or any such thing And nothing that is unclean can e●ter into his Kingdome And have you Shepherds and Heardsmen so called of all sorts loo●ed ●ar fully to the sever●l Flocks to keep them from the spots of the world or are they not run all over from head to tayle with a Scab as a Leyrosy And have you not played the lazy S●epheards that looks not 〈◊〉 to the Flocks or else the soph●sters For you have said That you have the care and cure of Souls and that you are the Phisitians and your Flocks as you call them falling into such grose disseases and uncleanness are not you the careless Shepheards and Phisitians of no vallue And would not you blame and be angry with the Herd●men of your Flocks and require your Flocks at their hands and throw them into Prison till they made satisfaction that should deal so badly with you conc●rning your Flocks and Heards And will not the Lord do so by you and is it not reasonable just and equal that he require the Flocks at your hands For you have been well payd for the looking to them as you very well know and the Nations can witness Have you kept one certaine voice as the good Shepheard doth that the Sh●ep might hear his voice and come together and not stray and straggle nor fall into Pits Or have not your voices been variable and changable as the wind and given an unc●rtain sound And your Flocks as you call them never find a certain voice amongst you and so are scattered into sects devisions and parties pushing one another with Head Horn Arm and Shoulder into the Pit and into the M●re inftead of helping one another out of the Mire and out of the Pit Againe have you been careful to count