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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89638	A faithful warning, with good advice from Israel's God, to Englands King, and his council that they may wisely improve this little inch of time which the God of their life as yet affords unto them, before the day of their approaching misery come upon them. Which may serve as a caution to all others in authority within the nation. Sounded through one of the mourners in Sion, known by the name of Martin Mason.	Mason, Martin, fl. 1650-1676.	1660 (1660)	Wing M927; ESTC R202015	13,569	23

A FAITHFUL WARNING WITH GOOD ADVICE FROM ISRAEL'S GOD TO Englands KING AND HIS COUNCIL That they may wisely improve this little Inch of time which the God of their Life as yet affords unto them before the Day of their approaching Misery come upon them Which may serve as a Caution to all others in Authority within the Nation Sounded through one of the Mourners in Sion known by the name of Martin Mason Hear ye and give ear be not proud for the Lord hath spoken LONDON Printed for Robert Wilson at the sign of the Black spread-Eagle and Wind-Mill in Martins l' Grand A FAITHFVL WARNING WITH GOOD ADVICE FROM Israel's GOD to England's KING AND HIS COUNCIL c. BEhold to obey is better than sacrifice and to hearken is better than the fat of Rams Listen therefore and encline your Ear be attentive and read without prejudice For the Righteous God hath laid it upon me once more to Warn the Men in Authority the Rulers of this Nation even from him that fits upon the Throne to the inferior Governors of the people that they cease from their iniquities and fear the living God Know ye therefore large hath the love of God been towards you and with wonderful loving-kindness hath he visited you his patience verily is beyond expression for your iniquities have highly provoked him How many Warnings hath he given you all which hitherto have been but little regarded by you O let his righteous Witness in all your Consciences arise and it will testifie the wonderful Mercies of your Maker towards you Have you answered the End and Requirings of the Lord from you in his Overturning your Enemies for you and thus setling the Government of the Nations upon you Came you not in without any Conquest Can you justly glory in your own strength that it was your own Arm that hath done this for you Was it your own Valour that vanquished your enemies Or is it not the hand of the Lord that hath thus exalted you and abased them that had the Government before you I say Have you answered the Requirings of the Lord Let his Witness be awakened and arise in all your consciences and answer to me Did he lay no injunction upon you when his heart was enclined to exalt you Did he not enjoin you to amendment of Life to shew mercy to glorifie your Maker to be Patterns of Piety and good Examples to the People to let Mercy Truth and Righteousness live amongst you and be exercised by you towards the people who are now fallen under you to shew favour to the Righteous to help the helpless and to remedie the wrongs of the poor and needy to suppress Vice and Vanity in Court City and Countrey to be a terror to evil doers and a praise and encouragement unto them that do well And have none of you in the time of your distress promised to the Lord the performance of these things Did the Lord I say set you upon the Throne and thus restore you to outward Dignity when you seemed to be going down into the place of forgetfulness when you had little hopes to have such a Day without a secret enjoining to these things Did he give you the desire of your hearts onely to be revenged of your Enemies and to aggravate and multiply the miseries of his People If his Witness were awakened in your Consciences surely you would say Let God be justified and sinful man condemned Oh my Friends how haue you trifled away God's precious time and your own Deliverance How hath Vice and Vanity abounded in the Nation since the Day of your Exaltation in England Does not Iniquity Pride and Luxury Lord it amongst you both in Court City and Countrey with an impudent forehead Is not Prophaneness countenanced by you Are not the wicked and ungodly had in estimation with you Do not the unrighteous boast in your strength And hath not your Horn exalted them throughout the Nation Are not the Merchants of Babylon grown familiar with you and the Sons of Belial advanced by you Or is there any people receive such favour from you as the Rotten Interest who are now indulged by you What 's become of Sion Are you acquainted with her Do you minister true comfort to her Is she advanced or discountenanced in your Court and the Kingdom Are you true Subjects to Sion's King Rules he as Caesar in the Kingdom of your hearts Do you know Him and pay Tribute to Him Do you observe His Laws Statutes and Ordinances Do you own His Light in all your Consciences to be your Leader Judge and Lawgiver Oh happy were England had she such a King and happy were Englands King had he such Counsellors But alas alas Sion is in the Dust and no man regards her her Enemies now seem to be too many for her and make themselves merry over her They who should be as Nursing-Fathers to her withdraw their affections from her she sits weeping in the House of Mourning for the misery that is coming upon this People while the drunkards of Ephraim tunn themselves with Wine and intoxicate their Brains with strong Drink and the greedy Shepherds devour the silly Flock and the lustful ones love to have it so while the Priest and People conspire together against the Lord and his Annointed Jewels to stop the Mouth of Truth and fill their prisons with innocent people yet can they not center here Mordecai's Seed is a great Mote in the Devils Dish which the old Dragon seeks to devour by some unrighteous Decree from Caesar For the Crown they count sure of their fide and that 's the top-stone of Egypts strength To the Refuge of Lyes they now betake themselves and by their Majestical Craft do abuse both their Prince and the Countrey Cum Privilegio and all for want of a good Understanding For would but Caesar and his Council stop their Ear to their Trencher-Chaplains and the alluring inchantments of such devouring Monsters who seek to subvert and murther the Innocent I say would but the King and his Council once be perswaded to come into calmness and take counsel of God's ORACLE the Light in their Consciences and by it be guided how soon would the dark misty Fogs of Egypt and her Magicians be dispel'd and driven back into the bottomless pit No croaking Frogs durst then come forth to abuse the Honor of a Prince nor wound his Reputation by enticing him to Cruelty nor scrue his Prerogative above the Peoples Tranquility For the End of all Government appointed by God next to his Glory is the good of the People † Salus Populi Suprema Lex For the great God of Heaven and Earth so loved the world that he sent his Son a Light into the world not to destroy mens lives but to save them yet to punish the evil-doer according to the nature of his Crime but not with Imprisonment Death or Banishment for every small offence much less for that wch

will give your Power to the false Prophet and let him ride upon you and make you his Vassels to afflict and torment the Innocent if instead of helping the Woman against the Dragon who is now casting out the Floods of his Wrath and Mischief against the Lambs of Christ and help the old Dragon to cast the harmless into nasty Holes Caves and Prisons If you will not quit your selves like men of Honour and shew your selves to be of a good understanding fearing God and hating Cruelty If you will not look into the Royal Law of God and do to us and all men as you would have us and all men do to you But if you will suffer us to fall into the hands of our Enemies whose very mercies are cruelties and you stand by and rejoice at our Calamity If you will not while you have Power be a bridle to the Wicked nor Rebuke this Exalted Spirit that seeks to Raise and Enrich it self in the Ruines of the Lord's People but give your Consent and Countenance to the Wicked in their Cruelties against us if you will stop your ears at the cry of the Righteous and suffer our Adversaries to oppress us all the day long and plow great furrows upon our backs and make our Afflictions grievous to be born Then know this assuredly The Lord will remember the afflictions of Joseph and though our Brethren sell us into the hands of the Aegyptians and intend our utter Ruine though you and they in your secret Contrivances and Imaginations devise mischief in your Beds against us yet the Righteous God will not forsake us he will stand by us in all our Troubles and his blessing upon us his presence with us his comfort to us nor you nor any Mortal can take from us In all our sufferings he is and will be with us and in his due time he will work Deliverance for us and in the mean he will support us in all our Tribulations he will fill our hearts with joy when the hearts of the wicked shall faile them he cannot forsake his own He will fill us with Divine Wisdom and give us Courage to bear all the Wrongs and Injuries which the Wicked shall be suffered to lay upon us He will Arm us sufficiently with his Patience and give us such Spiritual Weapons as shall wound the Head and Heart of the Wicked The innocency of our Sufferings shall kindle a Fire in the Hearts of our Adversaries that shall burn like an Oven and shall not be quenched The more you strive to suppress the Truth by persecuting those who live in it the more shall Truth prevail and prosper And if you should seeke to fill all the Prisons in the Nation with us or to take away that from us which is not dear unto us if the God of our Life require it of us For We our Life our Goods our All is freely given up unto our God when he requires them of us We can in his Strength glory over your Weakness and in the hight of your Fury we fear you not We know him to be with us who is greater than he that is against us and He will not faile us in the time of our greatest need That way you think to Raise your selves and Ruine us shall be the Ruine of your selves that very Way shall Deliverance come out of Sion to the Captive SEED For alas poor men you strive not onely against us but you contend against your Maker the God of Israel is engaged with us he Fights our Battels for us for he is within us then why should we fear what man can do against us Did ever any of Cain's Brood you are no better who ere ye be if you join with the Beast and false Prophet against the Lamb prosper long in their afflicting of God's People Why should you wilfully throw away the Mercies of your Maker Are you able to contend with him Or did ever any strive against him that were not broken and confounded by him If you can pluck God Omnipotent Eternal from his Throne and raze his Witness out of your own hearts utterly extinguish his searching shining Light in your own and the Peoples Consciences Then may you go on in your persecuting of the Saints and challenge the Peace of God to be your Portion But if not What is Man that he should Vye thus with his Maker Therefore be perswaded yet while the Light of God does shine in your hearts to be guided by it least for your disobedience to it the Lord God Omnipotent the Lyon of the Tribe of Judah who now suffers as a Lamb within you Arise in his fury and put on Strength If he Roar out of Sion he wil make all the Beasts in the Field to Tremble he will be dreadful to the Wicked If you persist in your Impenitency Cruelty and hard heartedness and seek to dye your selves in the Blood of the Innocent Then Know this assuredly from the Lord The Righteous God will visit you for your Iniquity the Blood-thirsty Men shall not live out half their dayes A short work will the Lord make in the Earth Vengeance Vengeance from the Lord God shall speedily overtake you though we forgive you and never lift up a hand against you The Dreadful God in his Terrible Wrath. will be avenged on you you shall all surely surely perish both YOU and your KING The LORD hath spoken it O that Men would yet let the Fear of God take place in their hearts it would Deliver them out of the Snares of the Cunning Hunter who continually goes about like a Roaring Lyon seeking whom he may devour O that men would once learn to be wise and cease from their Worldly Wisdom and seek after God's pure Wisdome which is only found and obtained in the Light Surely they might do wel to take heed unto his Light which shines in their hearts which secretly reproves all the Deeds of Darknesse And would draw them from Iniquity unto Holiness from Pride into pure Humility and from under the Power of Satan unto God But this is the Misery and Condemnation of the World That Light is come into the world and men love Darkness rather than Light because their Deeds are evil 'T is but now as it was ever The Seed of the Serpent cannot love or be at peace with the Seed of Life for Truth ever bears its Testimony against the World That the Wayes Customs Worship and Traditions thereof are evil And that 's the reason why the Heathens rage and the cause of the Enmity between the two Seeds even from the time of Righteous Abel to this day Search the Scriptures and there you may find plentiful proof of this true Assertion Never did the Light of the Gospel since the Primitive Times shine in more purity than now it does Never had the Lord a people since the dayes of the Apostles who walked more innocently and inoffensively as to God and Man than he hath raised