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A92315
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A warning from the Lord to the city and nation, in mercy to the people, to see if they will yet seek him.
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Redford, Elizabeth.
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1695-1696
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Wing R661A; ESTC R229144
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A WARNING from the Lord to the City and Nation in Mercy to the People to see if they will yet seek him WAtch and Repent Repent and turn to the Lord with Fear and Trembling cease from all Evil for the Lord is greatly at work amongst the Nations and will yet bring the loftiness of Man low and all Nations to bow and tremble before him for distress of Nations is come and yet coming as sure as the Lord hath both gently and terribly shook the Earth and hath appeared yet and again for the Honour of his great Name by his Judgments that are in the Earth if the Inhabitants thereof would yet bow in Mercy the Lord hath I say gently shook the Earth in our parts as a Warning and Call to Repentance and if there be not a repenting the Spirit of the Lord will not always strive with Man he will yet terribly shake the Earth as he hath done in Nations abroad the Vials of his Wrath is almost full and the Angel of his Presence stands ready to pour them forth therefore bow in Mercy and come to a search for the Lord will yet and again try the Standings and Foundations of Men and they that trust in the Lord they shall see his great Salvation but they that joyn with Babylon which is Confusion thus saith the Lord they must both fall together and they shall be made a Scourge one to another for the Lord is come and yet coming to make War with the Beast and false Prophet that would not that Christ should Reign in his peaceable Kingdom and the deadly wound in the Head of the Beast shall not be healed in some and the Lord hath warned and is warning all Nations Kindreds Tongues and People that are joyned in a Warlike Spirit by his Judgments from his own Almighty Power and Arm as he did when he gently shook the Earth that all might come to see his Judgments in Mercy and not partake of the mark of the Beast which is Confusion Blood-shed Sin and Wickedness which is the cause of Calamity upon Calamity and how the Lord hath pleaded with this City is yet in remembrance the great Plague when the cry was bring forth your Dead bring forth your Dead And after that our great City in Flames very dreadful to behold and the Sword also which is not yet departed and it is much to be feared will conclude with greater Sorrow than is yet seen if there be not a speedy Care and Repentance Go forth as Niniveh did not such a Fast to smite with the Fist of wickedness to the destruction of their fellow Creatures but that they may be one in Love for God is Love and if not found in this then the Lord is yet at work amongst the Rocks and will lay desolate great and high Mountains and as he hath done great and fenced Cities and he is also at work at work amongst the Hills and there will be no Hill too high for him and he will yet cleave and rent the Rocks in sunder and universally the vail of the Temple shall come to be rent and Christ's peaceable Kingdom shall be set up and all shall come to see him whom they have pierced and they that stand upon great and high Mountains and Rocks will be cast down and the little Stone which Daniel's Saw cut out of the Mountain without Hands which should become a great Mountain and fill the whole Earth this little Stone will yet fall upon many till they are ground to Powder and great will be yet the desolation that will be in the Earth therefore Oh Remember The Angel of God's presence hath fled through the midst of Heaven and gently shook the Earth and we have felt it and now the cry is fear God give glory to his Name for the hour of his Judgment is come and yet coming fear him that made the Heavens and the whole Earth the Sea and Fountains of Water fear him give glory to him worship God in Spirit watch and repent for the Lords dreadful Judgments is at hand and as we have felt his gentle stroke and warning if there be not a speedy repenting we shall feel as other Nations hath done his terrible stroke for the Lord will yet visit again and again till the displeasure of the Almighty is seen by the Sinners in Sion and they come to obey our Lord Jesus Christ whose Command is love one another that the Covenant of his precious Blood to them may not be shed in vain for our Lord came not to destroy Mens Lives but to save them that obey and are willing to bow to him in Mercy to themselves and that his other Sheep may be gathered into the one fold in peace to worship God in Spirit and in Truth that his Israel may be comforted to gather as many as obey the Truth and so brought forth to shine as Lights to the whole World But methinks I hear some say who do you call Israel To that I answer with my Souls satisfaction all they that fear God and work Righteousness shall be excepted and are willing to cleanse their Hands from shedding of Blood and keep themselves unspotted from the World for the Blood that is shed in the Earth is displeasing the Lord and a great account there is to give for the creation of God in whom he hath breathed the Breath of Life and Man thereby became a living Soul and the Seed Christ is sown in them and that Law written in their Hearts that will be read against those that are instrumental and leading such poor Souls by thousands to destruction and to destroy their Fellow Creatures sheathing their swords in one anothers Bowels till the stink of their Camps comes up into their Nostrils and for all this there is no compassion as Man to Man therefore the Lord by his Judgments since the name Christian is doing one to another as the name Turk doth therefore I say the Lord by his Judgments is getting himself a Name amongst the Heathen and such as know not God shall be brought to know him that Rules by his invisible Arm and Strength and those shall enter the Kingdom before many that have a name to live and are dead and this word further is to all professions under what name soever it may be that is whereas Men are making a destinction between Silver and Silver and Coin and Coin and in the end both by their appointment accounted Reprobate so that the best of their old Coin will be good for no more then as it is found in substance so no more will the highest out-side profession when it comes to be tryed for there is nothing can make a Man live to God and be serviceable to Man but that which stands in God's Power which all the dwellers of the Earth shall come to be tryed by and they that are found too light Jer 6.32 to be accounted as the Prophet saw in his day Reprobate Silver shall