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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 ...
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Wilson, John, 1588-1667.
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receive you and to pâotect you but if you hearken to these Dreamers God will turn to be your Enemy and will testifie against such as against Aâab and Zedecâiaâ spoken of in the Chapter where our text is that were left to commit villany in Israel even to commit Aâ⦠with their Neighbours Wives and that is the ãâã of ãâã and those Sects and Errors that such shall be left to comâ⦠ãâã like uncleanness and the King roâsted these Dreamers ãâã the ãâã as one would roast ân hog and this did become ãâã Proverh The Lord make thâe like Zâdechiaâ and like Aâab c. And so I say mââk what will come on such like Drââmeââ and so saith the Apostle mark those that do cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned and avoid them maâk 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 Dâââmers in these times the Qââker hath his Dreams and the Sââker 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 Figâ none so bad aâ those Figs were that did thus despise the Lords Prophets and Messengers or Ministers the Dreamers would take you off from them but I beâeech you that you would not hearken to those Dreamers but heaâken 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 hiâher 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 yâur Families your Children if you love God if you love Christ if you love Heaven then hearken not to Dreamââs noâ 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 âob 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 ââ¦d thrust them away and what have you to do here O much more so when they come to rob you of the Oâdânânceâ 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 Israâl and you have no part in the Lord and âo their Children should be made to ââase 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 whaâ⦠go and set up an Altar against Gods Altar O wâeâches that we were if soââ¦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 âear do not fear ãâã 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 heaâkân 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 âay 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 Bostâ⦠choose which they wiââ¦et us all choose life and choose ãâã the Lord we and our Houses as Joshua and then God ãâã with us and if God be with us who is there ãâã be against us to ãâã and so be for God ãâã to live to God and to be willing to dâ 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 ãâã if the Lord call us to it There is no ââ¦ng in the World that hath such a Crown at that would be we are ãâã 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 ãâã of Ahitophel and God did hear him and restore him to ãâã House and Kingdome and Glory again so let us all pray and repent Governour repent Magistrates repent Ministers repent People eveâ all repent young and old repent and then it shall go well with us FINIS