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A40772	The faithfull pastor his sad lamentation over, heart-rending challenge and dreadfull thunders against, sharp reproof of, and seasonnable warning to his apostat-flock. In a letter written by a French minister to those over whom the Holy Ghost had made him an overseer upon their wofull defection, renouncing the faith, and joyning in idolatrous worship. Now carefully translated. Together with a word to mourners in Zion who by grace have kept the faith, to sleepers under the storm, and to the almost Christian; Sad lamentation over, heart-rending challenge and dreadfull thunders against, sharp reproof of, and seasonnable warning to his apostat-flock.		1687 (1687)	Wing F279; ESTC R216409	68,644	59

the name of God and his doctrin may be blassphemed 1 Tim. 6. v. 1 Ah wilt thou dishonour and wrong the honourable cause for which thou sufferest by thy negligent walk and unsutable conversation O look to your selves that ye lose not those things ye have wrought but receive the great reward 2. Ioh. 8. there may be much done and much sufferred for a good cause and all amount to nothing 1 Cor 13. v. 2 3. O watch over your hearts and wayes ye are now placed sentinels the enemy is ready to break in and make a prey of all if he find us sleeping Satan will be now ready to tempt knowing what a provocation it is to sin in the face of judgements and in a time of wrath and indignation Remember Lots wif. 3. Walk prudently as wise not as fools Eph. 5. v. 15. hearken to Christs Counsell and joyn prudence with your innocency Mat. 10. v. 16. now satan will be ready to sow his tares to put on his surplice and transform him self into an Angel of light if he Cannot make thee split on the rock of profanity looseness he will strive to sink thee in the gulf of errour and irregularities O be Intreated therfore not to Believe every spirit but try whither it be of God or not 1 Joh. 4. v. 1. take heed what ye hear and how ye hear 1 Thess 5. v. 21. Act. 17. v. 11. O what a noble ornament is prudence to religion and how ready are imprudent Zelots to cast a stumbling block in the way of the profane and to furnish the triumph of Papists by their heady rash irregular actings and wild fancies O better you had never been born then thus to raise an evil report on Religion to cast a stumbling-block in the way of them who are ready to break their necks without your help and to harden those in their evil way who are but too resolute to go on therein 4. Redeem time from the world its work business fellowship and lay it out for God and for eternity and ye shal be ye can be no loosers for then ye will trade with Christ and for his gold that will make you Rich indeed you will not run as uncertain and beat the air you will not pursue shadowes and perish in the pursuit but will run and obtain fight and prevaile and carry the prize and Crown of Glory Eph. 5. v. 16. Rev. 3. v. 18. 1 Cor. 9. v. 26. 5. In a time of such perplexity and uncertainly Labour to secure 1. the treasure and pearle of prize 2 Pet. 1. v. 10. if it be in saftie what need we value the loss of perishing trifles 2. Provide a retiring and resting place and when you espy no city of refuge run to the strong rock and provid you Chambers there and however tempestuous the storm may become ye need not fear Isa 26 v. 20. Pro. 18. v. 10. Psal 61. v. 23. 3dly while there is so litle love and kindness to be pected from men and so litle truth and fidelyty among them so that we may take up the word Mic. 7. v. 5.6.4 rejoyce that ye have a friend in heaven to whom ye may run and whom ye may safely trust and when ye find litle comfort in conversing with men let your Conversation be in heaven be frequent and servent in your udresses to God and carefull to mantain a fellowship with the father his son Jesus Christ be much in prayer Meditation reading take heed how ye perform these duties Phil. 2. v. 20. Joh. 2. v. 3. Luk. 8. v. 18. Heb. 4. v. 2. Jam. 1. v. 2 22 23. but you will say what could discourage us if these were secured But how may that be don Ans as to the first an heavenly Conversation is the best way to secure the heavenly treasure Coloss 3. v. 2 4. As to the second run in to that rock and these Chambers of security by faith if thou thus cast thy self and all thy burdens on the Lord he shall sustain and care for thee Psal 55. v. 22. 1 Pet. 5. v. 7 If with him Psal 61. v. 4. thou trust in the Covert of his wings thou mayest with him Psa 63. v. 7. Rejoyce under their shadow O then when thy heart is overwhelmed say with that eminent Believer Psa 61. v. 12. Hear my cry o God and lead me to the Rock that is higher then I. As to the 3d our Blessed Lord assures you that ye are his friends and shal abide in his love if ye keep his Commandments and do what soever he bids you Joh. 15. v. 10 14. 6. Set the Lord allways befor you and walk as under his all seeing eye and as hearing the sound of the last trumpet in your eares and summoning you to judgement to give an accompt of all ye have don and said Psa 16. v. 9. 2 Cor. 5. v. 5 10. 7. Be tender and * Audaciam existimo de bono divini precepti disputare nec quia bonum est i. e. nobis videtur auscultare debemus sed quia Deus pracepit Tertul. de panit tremble at the word of God at the whole word not daring to cast any part of it behind thy back O said noble Luther let the word of God come and tho we had a hundred necks let them all stoop to it and O said Cypr loquere magister bone libenter te audio cum adversariis mihi cum irasceris O do not wound Conscience in the Least as knowing that ye Cannot please God in any thing unless ye carefully endeavour to please him in all things Coloss 1. v. 10. Jam. 2. v. 10 11. Act. 24. v. 16. and think it not enough to leave off the practise of some sins unless ye forsake all and unless ye forsake and loath and find in your selves that indignation and Revenge against and carefullness to avoid it 3 Cor. 7. v. 11. 8. Beware of doing any thing out of a doubting Conscience not being persuaded of its lawfullness Rom. 14. v. 14 23. and O beware of going against thy light if thou act against conscience thou art not subject to Gods authority but despisest him speaking as thou supposest by his deputy Jam. 1 v. 5. But saith Mr. Butroughs take heed the Devil be not in the Conscience as the place where he thinketh he may lodge with least suspicion that must be no sanctuary to him but he must be pulled from the horns of that Altar and saith he if a man be proud and turbulent in his Carriage 2. if he will not make use of means to inform his Conscience 3. if he Can give no rationall account for his actings 4ly if he go against his own principles c. we fear the Devill is in that mans Conscience 8. Let self deniall be thy dayly study that being the first Lesson of Christianity if we be Christians indeed it must be our dayly task it being so necessary so hardly Learned

you have abandonned Shew to me in that age any one Town that did not produce some example of constancy or any one Church that preserved none of her members in the persecution But not to go further search into the History of your own Town and families and ye will find there some examples that you ought to imitate for the most part of you do still bear the name and possess the goods of those that were then either Martyrs or Confessors you are doubly guilty to have forsaken the truth that of it self is so worthy to be preserved and to have so ill kept the pledge which your fathers left you when they had purchased it with their valour and blood But perhaps it is too great a trouble to you to consult former ages search in your own age and consider other Churches in your own Province if there be an example of Apostacy like unto yours The greatest part its true have fallen away but there is not any place but some one or other has stood when the battel was sharp and kept constant for some time and suffered to the utmost extremity before they were vanquish'd The most part yeelded not till they came to subscribe the sentence of their death They forced their enemies to exhaust their lasting torments and Cruel politiques before they could bear them down You see every where the spoiling of their goods and prisons with other violences and above all you see a great many penitents who have repared their forced fall by a couragions retreat who fill forreigne Countries and aedifie their brethren by a voluntary return to the truth which they had by constraint forsaken Is it possible that there is none but you that have given an example of a revolt without exception What dismall conspiracy of a whole Church against the Lord and against his Christ At all times and in all places during the most cruell persecutions there have been some saints some faithfull Christians who have carried upon their Unshaken Root the Heavenly Commands who having been fortified by the doctrine of the Gospell were not affrayed neither of Banishment to which they were condemned nor of the tortures that were prepared for them neither of the losse of their goods nor of the most frightfull punishments Among you only there is found so little love to God so little Zeal for his glory that you have not shown one instance of fidelity How will ye behave your selves in that day when it shall please God to restore peace to his afflicted Church To whom will you address for a reconcilement seing you have all revolted Where is the Church among you that may receive you into her besome upon your repentance and submission Seing you have as I may say extinguished it by your infidelity So far that there is not one living member remaining Whereas God has reserved some thousands of true Christians in the Kingdom where you are how comes it to pass that you cannot make one of the number Is there not one left that has not defiled himself with an idolatrous worship But I mistake there has been some examples of Christian Courage among you its true but they were such as might load you with shame and Confusion Five or six women and maids were more Zealous then you who chose caves and deserts rather than to submit to that sentence of death which you sealed to your own destruction (a) Id. Ibid. A holy Bishop of old Boasted that his Church produced women couragious enough to partake with men in the Victory and Crown of Martyrs but with you all the Glory was on their side That weak sex surmounted the temptations that men were affraid of We have seen women triumph over the vanquished men who resisted the evil example of their brothers fathers and husbands and raised themselves on the ruines of the stronger sex who by their constancy reproached the others weakness and cowardize ready to cry out with a famous Martyr of the first ages Farewell my life farewell my goods (b) Basil Serm. I love rather to loose all these then be guilty of blasphemy and impiety against God my creator by one single word Go on holy and generous women and if there be any whose constancy time and the example of their relations has not shaken perfect ye that which you have begun persevere to the end and your labour shall not be in vain in the Lord The Crown of life is prepared for you he is faithfull who has promised Love and know no more after the flesh Know no Father but God no Husband but Christ Keep for him your souls which he has redeemed And Crown with a Christian death your noble beginnings Call to mind what a holy woman ready to die for Christ said to those of her Sex that ran out to gaze on her as a Spectacle (c) Basil 16. Dot not alleadge said she to me the frailty of our sex thereby to shun the trouble that accompanies the profession of Piety We are made of the same matter men are of and created after the image of God as well as they He did not only take of the flesh of man to make the Woman But he has made us bone of his bone and therefore according to the design of God we ought to have as mush patience courage and Constancy as they Thus when Christ was taken by the Jews the most part of them abandoned him in the Garden others denyed him at the High priests house but the women were not affraid of his Cross and were ready to accompany him with the homage of their faith and love even to the grave Preserve the Glory of your sex and relent not when there remains but one assault more to obtaine a compleat Victory But as for you Husbands less couragions then your wives Fathers and Mothers more fearfull and luke warme then your Daughters was it not enough to commit so great a sin without making it greater by revolting considerately and advisedly Should you have submitted your salvation to the arbitration of men Did you use art and cunning that you might with more advantage betray the cause of God and Must you agree on terms to destroy your seves Some of you would not sin alone but chose rather than to want company to draw in others by your wicked Counsels But there was not one found among you who to restraine others from this shamefull action had the Courage to speak with Joshua to those that were going to betray the truth of God. (d) Jos 24.15 Choose you this day the God that you will serve but as for me and my house we will serve the Lord. So far alas were you from speaking thus that you encouraged one another to the mutuall ruine of your souls and to your bad example added your unmercifull exhortations When you saw any one whom the importance of the Change kept unresolved you determined him by your perverse Counsels and adopted the words which