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A48465	The lamb calling his follovvers to retirement Being a gumble enquiry into the duty of churches, ministers, and all that fear the Lord, under the present dispensation of God. By one that would be found (though unworthy) the Lords witness and servant, and of all his saints.	One that would be found the Lords witness and servant.	1662 (1662)	Wing L213A; ESTC R221678	38,215	130

Administrations of Worship are cut off and laid dead wherein the last slaying of the Witnesses doth specially consist yet the main body and generation of the Saints preserved but so as they are in all respects either Civil or Ecclesiastical call'd off from the publike Stage to a retired condition and do lye as dead men onely they are not buryed but are as it were still kept above ground till the Spirit of Life from God enter into them So at the Text when the People of God are called into their Chambers he said in the 19th verse of the 26. chap. of Isaiah Thy dead men shall live c. while in their captivity they lay as dead men So Hosea 6. 1 2. When smitten and wounded in their captivity they shall lye as dead but after two dayes he wil revive them But more particularly when doth the Lord call them thus to retirement call them off from the publike stage and bids them enter into their Chambers 1. In the case of the text When the wrath of man is kindled against them when the Nations and people among whom they converse are in a confederacy against them and say of Zi on Let her be defiled and let our eye look upon Zion Micah the 4th and the 11th Verse Then he knoweth how to hide his people as in his Pavillion then shall they be his hidden ones Psal 83. So he hid the seven thousand in Samaria that did not bow the knee to Baal whom the text saith He reserved to himself Rom the 11th chap. ver 4. And yet that people at that day were under an obligation of Worship at the Temple at Hierusalem but God did indulge them as may further bee shewed So as hath been hinted the Lord hides the Woman in the wilderness from the Wrath of the Dragon who casts a Flood after her 2dly Jesus Christ calls his people to retirement when he reserves them for a Day of Mercy and greater Service and a more pure Reformation when hee thus layes them dead in order to a more glorious resurrection So in severall Ages have they been wonderfully kept under the variety of the Lord's Dispensations to them as in Egypt and David and the remnant of Judab that adhered to them Many instances might be given 3dly The Lamb calls to retirement when he hath been contesting with the Spirit of the Beast in any of the Nations by the called and faithful and chosen Rev. 17. 14. When he hath set on foot his controversie with any of the Horns and hath overcome them hath often carried it against him yet hee suffers his Enemies to rally again and his own followers are scattered when he seems to turn aside from the pursuit to drink of the Brook in the way as it were to refresh himselfe and then makes a short turn to the Prey again Psalm 110. Verse the last that hee may gather his Enemies as sheaues into his floor Micah 4. 12 13. and will make the Horn of the Daughter of Zion as Iron to thresh them in such a day The Lamb withdraws and retires and calls his Saints to retire with him And this is to follow the Lamb wheresoever be goeth Revel 14. to go as he goeth and to retire as he retires and not to run out without him upon any account whatsoever In such a season the Lamb doth indulge them nay call them off from their publike Administrations and Services and Prophesyings and they are to wait till the Cloud appear and goe before them in which they can see the Presence of the Lamb and heare his Voice calling them thereto 4thly The Lord as it follows from the former calls them to retirement when hereby he will fit and separate a genetation to follow him in his next appearing when hee will prepare them in the fire melt them and try rhem Jer. 9. 7. I will melt them and try them for how shall I do for the Daughter of my people Then he will cast out the treacherous dealers from among them as Verse 4. of that 9th of Jeremiah Take heed every one of his Neighbour and trust ye not in any Brother for every Brother wil supplant c. And they will deceive every one his Brother and will not speak the truth ver 5. Now God will discover and cast out such a mixture and spiri● from among his people in the day that he will melt them and try them v. 7. and Ezek. 22. 18 c. When the Lord is doing this work by letting out the wrath of man upon them he then calls them to retirement 2. Why doth the Lord thus call them c. 1. The Lord calls his people into their Chambers into a retired condition to express his tenderness of them as he calls them the Apple of his Eye Zach. 2. 8. He that toucheth you toucheth the Apple of mine eye c. Keep me as the Apple of thine eye Psal 17. and his peculiar Treasure Exod. 19. 5. Psal 135. 4. Such a day is a day of making up his jewels Mal. 3. 17. referring to a day of retirement when the wicked were set up v. 15. then when he makes them up he not onely purifies them and puts a lustre upon them but spares them as a Father spares his Son and doth not spend them but rarely upon the rage of men 2. The Lord thus takes them into his Chambers that the glory of his Power may be seen in restraining the wrath of man and causing it to praise him that his people should be in the waters and not be overwhelmed and in the fire not be consumed this is because the Lord is with them because he is the Lord their God the holy One of Israel their Saviour Isa 43. 2 3. That the Enemies of his People should not be able to act their own counsels nor to execute their own rage by a mighty hand of God restraining This is and should be marvellous in the eyes of his people 3dly The Lord calls to retirement when the generation of the ungodly and oppressors are ripening for wrath then doth the Lord lay up his people in the secret of his Presence so Psal 91. which is a word holding out the Lord 's hiding of his people as hath been hinted So see verse 8. 9. Onely with thine eyes shalt thoubehold and see the reward of the wicked c. Thou shalt tread upon the Lyon and Adder the young Lyon and the Dragon shalt thou trample under foot v. 13. Now the People of God will discern through the light of the Spirit in the Word the Marks and Characters of a generation of God's Wrath which in this place I shall not insist on They are such as these When a generation of men do worse then their Fathers Jer. 7. 2. and chap. 16. 12 13. Ye have done worse than your Fathers for behold ye walk every one according to the imagination of his evil heart c. therefore will I cast you out of this Land

THE LAMB CALLING HIS Follovvers TO Retirement Being an Humble Enquiry into the duty of Churches Ministers and all that fear the Lord under the present dispensation of God By one that would be found though unworthy the Lords Witness and Servant and of all his SAINTS 1 COR. 4. 5. Judge nothing before the time Printed in the year 1662. TO THE READER THe different apprehensions of the People of God in this day concerning their present duty being cut off from their publick liberties of Worship gave occasion to the ensuing Enquiry some judging it of absolute necessity to assemble openly though they expose themselves or at least their Teachers to the utmost hazard others that Retirement is that which the present dispensation calls for which later this brief Discourse endeavours to prove as justifiable from the Scripture and the practise of the People of God in former Ages but more especially to be the voice of the Lord to his people in the present day in which there is a concurring judgement of many But that Retirement which is first called to namely unto the Lord Jesus himself which is briefly prest in the former part is that which is commended to all as absolutely necessary as ever they expect to be found under his wing at his coming and appearing and Reader hear the call of Jesus Christ therein that thou mayst lay up thy immortal soul with him that when storms are coming upon the World thou mayst be found in thy Sanctuary in thy Chambers of Rest and Safety where they shall not reach thee As to the Case of Retirement from open Assembling it is plainly stated from Scripture evidence as is humbly apprehended wherein if there be not enough said to satisfie a doubting Conscience yet at least there may be sufficient to engage humble and sober minds to a mutual forbearance The duties of all Saints under this Retirement are but briefly hinted because of brevity and in that they have been more at large prest by the Servants of God in the two years of mercy we have enjoyed as the peculiar blessing of this City to the honour of the Lord Jesus the establishment of the Saints in the faith and worship of the Gospel and in the Resurrection of the Cause of the Kingdom of Christ in these Nations the vindicating and asserting whereof hath as is hoped left a gratious and powerful impression and savour upon the Spirits of the Lords people that so they may be found the more quietly submitting to the dispensation of the Lord as blessedly establisht in the forementioned truths and may in those holy principles in which they have been built up continue in a more private way edifying one another in love as those in this their retirement that are waiting for the speedy return of their Lord that when he comes he may find them so doing This you may do as under the wings of the Almighty in a probable security and not hasten your selves into your own sufferings and if the providence of God single out any of you to a suffering testimony in the loss of liberty or goods or to banishment verily you will know the tender heart of Jesus Christ towards you and his faithfulnesse in making up all to you and yours and that in this life a hundred fold Be quiet you Captives of hope for in returning and rest shall ye be saved in quietnesse and confidence shall be your strength And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity and the water of affliction yet shall not thy Teachers be removed into corners any more but thine EYES SHALL SEE THY TEACHERS Do not think that the Lord is now at the end of twenty years work and that the present dispensation is the last issue of all his glorious providences you have sometime believed that the Exaltation of the Lord Jesus would be the issue of all the shakings the Lord hath made in these Nations and you have as great if not a greater ground to abide in the same Faith as ever Take heed of a bewildred Spirit under the dark providences the Lord is leading us but consider what the Lord hath been doing and what work hath been upon the wheele and by faith labour to look to the end of the Lord and you will be able quietly to wait for him I wish the Case in hand had been stated by an abler hand but finding nothing herein I have found my Spirit often looking for light from the Father of lights drawn out to cast in this mite to the present Generation of the righteous as hoping that the voice of the Lamb is in it in the main scope of it And though it may be in what is hinted about the death of the witnesses I may differ from some of the Lords Servants yet I promise my self their forbearance it being an houre of enquiry and we would be all glad to know the mind of Christ in our day Something more may be offerd to consideration to clear those hints and of the nature of the Kingdom of Christ in this World if the Lord permit Now the blessed God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ preserve all his in this houre of temptation and lead us into his whole Counsel and Will to whose immutable grace I commend thee in the patient waiting for Zions Redemption The 25. of the 5. Month 1662. Resting Thy Brother and Fellow-Servant in the Patience of Christ ESAY 26. 20. Come my People enter thou into thy Chambers and shut thy doors about thee hide thy self as it were for a little moment untill the indignation be overpast THE special Wisdome of the People of God in all Generations under the variety of his dispensations hath been to know what the Lord hath spoken and called his People to under them in the knowledge of which hath been bound up their mercy and peace in every Generation All their miscarriages have been for want of attending hereunto either in a day of peace and outward blessing or in a day of affliction and judgement The safety of this people to whom this word was spoken Enter into thy Chambers c. did lye in the obedience thereof at that day which let us a little more particularly consider This Prophet though many years before the day of it spake of the Captivity of Judah and also of her return and restauration with the blessings that should attend it which restauration he more at large begins to discover at the 14. Chap. For the Lord will have mercy upon Jacob and will yet chuse Israel and set them to their own Land c. Upon which the Prophet having denounced the burden of the Lord against Babylon Chap. 13. threatens all other Nations to the 25. Chap. that but helped in or rejoyed at the day of his Peoples Captivity as Moab and Syria and Egypt and Tyre c. As is more generally exprest ch 17. 12 13 14. Wo to the multitude of many people which make a noise like