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spirit_n	aaron_n	bring_v	put_v	25	3	4.2963	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43579	Israel's lamentation after the Lord, or, A discourse, wherein every well-wisher to Zion is excited, and directed how to lament after the Lord with prayers and tears, to maintain the ordinances of God, or God's presence with his ordinances amongst us being some meditations upon 1 Sam. 7.2.	Heywood, Oliver, 1629-1702.	1683 (1683)	Wing H1768; ESTC R22352	67,400	163

waste and ye run every man to his own house Self-seeking here is self-undoing Men ruine themselves by neglecting God's Interest If men will not lament the Ark's Captivity God will make Judah go into Captivity If men lay not to heart the mourning waies of Zion God hath a way to make them go without strength before the pursuer Men can well dispense with the loss of the pleasant things of the Sanctuary it shall be tryed how they will resent the loss of their temporal pleasant Enjoyments If men lament not the Gates of Zion the Gates of the City shall lament mourn and being desolate shall sit upon the ground If professing People lay not to heart sad and silent Sabbaths God may make the Land to keep her Sabbaths Great and fair Houses must be desolate without Inhabitant because God's House is desolate and none regardeth God can tell how to meet with the selfish heedless persons If they regard not God's Interest God will care as little for theirs He can tell how to come near you in matters of sense that can make nothing of what concerns your Souls And Ordinances of God will then be good when sickness pain poverty death arrest you Or these spiritual things will be good when out of your reach and you shut up in the Prison of Hell where there is weeping wailing and gnashing of teeth Psal 141.6 When their Judges are overthrown in stony places they shall hear my words for they are sweet When that sad Plague of Sweating Sickness was here in England how much were proud Nobles in seeming love with faithful Ministers how glad were they of advice from them then Ordinances were of more worth than purses full of gold God can make his Ministers to be prized by the prophanest Scorners yea he knows how to make a wounding Sword to make way through their bleeding sides for instructions to enter the most flinty hearts as Bernard told his ranting Brother 9. How long must the Lord wait for your sensible lamentings we are soon weary of the yoak and think it long to wander in the wilderness Sometimes we are for returning back into Aegypt and then all in post-hast for Canaan as Israel in the Desert The captive exile hasteneth that he may be loosed that he should not die in the Pit but then we would break Prison and are loth to take God's way or stay God's time this retards us rather than quickens our deliverance God puts us to our how longs because we put him to his how longs How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee How long will it be ere you attain to innocency Oh Jerusalem wilt thou not be made clean when shall it once be We were in post-hast for a Restitution many years ago as Moses for Miriam Heal her now O God I beseech thee God saith If her Father had but spit in her face should she not be ashamed seven daies But our heavenly Father hath spit in our face in the open sight of the world we have been shut out of his house well near three times seven years yet alas it 's to be fear'd we are not Evangelically ashamed Absalom was three years at Geshur and two years at Jerusalem and saw not the King's face and pretended dissatisfaction therewith Oh! but where 's our real longing to enjoy the Lord in his Ordinances Alas it's not length of time that will put our hearts into frame When at last will God raise up some awakening Samuel that shall sound the Alarum in the Ears of all Israel Oh! when shall we awake out of our long sleep when shall we see our need of God in his Ordinances when shall our Souls lament after God to purpose Surely it 's time to bestir our selves once at last 10. Can we lament to any else that will or can hear or help us May not Kings or great ones say as that King once to that crying Woman that said Help my Lord O King he said If the Lord do not help thee whence shall I help thee Alas we may say Truly in vain is Salvation hoped for from the Hills and from the multitude of Mountains Truly in the Lord our God is the Salvation of Israel Jer. 3.23 The greatest Princes are not to be trusted in God thinks fit to frustrate our expectations from men to confute our carnal confidence in man Surely men of low degree are vanity if they have a mind to help they cannot and men of high degree are a lye if they can help yea if they promise to help they will not our best course then is to pour out our hearts before him and say God is a refuge for us Selah Psal 62.8 9. For all Power is God's v. 11. We may say as David I looked on my right hand and beheld but there was no man that would know me refuge failed me no man cared for my Soul I cryed unto thee O Lord Psal 142.4 5. The Comforter that should relieve our Souls is far away There 's none to guide poor Zion of all the Sons whom she hath brought forth neither is there any that taketh her by the hand of all the Sons that she hath brought up Isa 51.18 As for us our Eyes as yet failed for our vain help in our watching we have watched for a Nation that could not save us We are as Napthali and have been struggling as sore for a Masculine Parliament as the Antient Primitive Church long travelled for a Man-child a Christian Emperour we had one they also struggled for uniting the Protestant Subjects and alleviating our grievances they were broken off by breaking up We had a second which set themselves to help us but the Children were come to the birth and there was no strength to bring forth all Attempts prov'd abortive since our Moses and Aaron by Votes or Disputes have represented our case sought favour and used means of help our Bricks are doubled Spirits are more inraged and our savour is abhorred and a keener Sword is put into some mens hands to execute the Law with more severity and is it not time to have recourse to God We are not permitted so much as to petition to men and make a true representation of our case that way is barred and all other doors are lockt up what else can we do but lament after the Lord he is able to help he is willing and hath promised Oh! let 's go to our God There and there only we may ease our hearts and find help let us lift up our Eyes above the Hills from whence cometh our help Our help cometh from the Lord which made Heaven and Earth Psal 121.2 2. Head is Who are the Persons People that are to lament after the Lord I answer 1. Graceless persons these have the greatest reason to lament after the Ordinances of God and the God of Ordinances For alas these poor

in pleasant places we have a goodly Heritage 4. Aged persons and housholders you that are Parents have reason to lament after the Lord of the Ark and the Ark of the Lord that the Waters of the Sanctuary may run both with a clear and strong stream to your Families and Posterity Alas we that have Children have been Instruments to propagate filth and guilt and wrath to our Off-spring and what can we do to heal and help them But if the Lord would be our God he hath promised to be the God of our Seed God forbid we should intail a Curse on our Posterity and give them occasion to curse us to all eternity What unworthy Parents are those that have fair Estates left them and by their Prodigality leave their Children Beggars or Bankrupts But oh how sad would this be to deprive our Posterity of this Gospel-Legacy it will be both their loss and our own Lord suffer us not to go off the Stage in a snuff and leave such a stink behind us Better we had never been born than to fry and blaze in Hell flames we and our poor Children bundled up in Faggots together God thinks good to bind up Parents and their Seed in the Bond of the Covenant Oh Lord we are resolved to follow after thee for the sure mercies of David Be thou our God and we shall have better hopes for our Seed O remember that word Isa 59.21 As for me this is my Covenant with them saith the Lord my Spirit that is upon thee and my words which I have put in thy mouth shall not depart out of thy mouth nor out of the mouth of thy Seed nor out of the mouth of thy Seeds Seed saith the Lord from henceforth and forever This word is full and satisfying 1. Thy Spirit shall be upon me and mine in Sanctification 2. Thy words in my mouth and Childrens mouths in profession solemn Worship 3. They shall not depart from my Seeds Seed to many Generations 4. No not for ever 5. God even Jehovah undertakes this 6. It 's through Christ the Redeemer that 's come to Sion 7. It 's a new Covenant-mercy 8. It doth concern all Converts and such as turn from transgression in Jacob and am not I one of these My dear Lord make thou this word good to me and mine thou that livest for ever and ever I shall live in my Posterity when I shall be here no more let the Gospel-message survive me and the Gospel-grace live in them when I am gone Oh! cut not off thy kindness from my Seed let not them that follow me be deprived of that which I have found so much sweetness in O that Ishmaels may live in thy sight What will become of such as are born in sin if they want means of Conviction and Conversion There 's much ado to awake the sleepy Consciences of our dead Posterity under quickening Ordinances Oh! what then will become of these when such helps are gone How can I endure to see or foresee the destruction of my own bowels Oh! it cuts me to the heart to think of the damning of any much more my own flesh Lord prevent I will pray in hope live in hope die in hopes of the continuance of Gospel-Priviledges 5. Ministers must make it their work to lament after the Lord You you are the Persons mainly concerned You must sound an alarum to awake others you are appointed by the Lord as Instruments to carry on this work and if ever God do return he will excite his Servants to quicken themselves and others to this work as Samuel here Gird your selves and lament ye Priests howl ye Ministers of the Altar come lye all night in sackcloth ye Ministers of my God Yea let the Priests the Ministers of the Lord weep between the Porch and the Altar and let them say Spare thy People O Lord and give not thine heritage to reproach that the heathen should rule over them wherefore should they say among the People Where is their God Alas my brethren have you been so long cast out of Gods publick Work and Worship even twenty long years and have you not yet leavned to lament shall our Master cashie us his service and not judg us worthy to blow our triumpets of Rams horns break a pitcher or hold the lamps for him Surely he is very sore provoked shall I say three Shepherds he cut off in one month nay near three thousand in one day And hath drawn out his wrath a great length and is there no fault in us Yes certainly our Father would not have spit in our face or poured contempt upon us upon us peculiarly but he hath found great fault in us he hath doubtless seen much amiss in us He doth not use to single out a sort of men to shoot his arrows at without fault we cannot excuse instruments but certainly we have deserved all this at God's hands is not God punishing Eli's house for the iniquity he knoweth of Let us my Brethren deal faithfully and impartially with our selves before God and the world cast the first stone at our selves at last justify the Lord by taking shame to our selves Hath God set us in this office only to tell others of their faults Have we not reason to call to remembrance our own faults this day I hope such as are truly gracious have made this reflection many times Nor is this my present work to rake in this dirty Channel only it becomes us to enquire why God hath made us contemptible and base before all the People Mal. 2.1 9. My present work is to quicken our lamenting after the Lord that if it be possible we may fetch him again I may say as Mal. 1.9 And now I pray you beseech God that he will be gracious unto us This hath been by your means O it 's well if our People have not reason to say so of their Ministers how beit sincere Repentance will not make men throw it off themselves by laying it on others but we may sadly eccho Yes yes it hath been by our means we have put out our Candles by the Thief we have lodged therein We having obscured our glory by sinning We have robbed our People of the Ark and exposed them to Seduction and destruction by the abominations that have been found amongst us Let us fall close to our work of Preaching reforming praying calling God again who knows but if we mourn to our People but they may lament Our watery eyes may affect Peoples hard hearts If the Fishers mourn and such as cast angles into brooks lament our People will be moved God will hear our universal cry and awake for us Some will needs have our wearing black to import our mourning If so let us not be Hypocrites but lament indeed not in shew Some observe that People are much formed after the preaching examples dispositions of their Teachers But it 's to be feared they