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A30900 A seasonable warning and serious exhortation to, and expostulation with, the inhabitants of Aberdene concerning this present dispensation and day of Gods living visitation towards them. Barclay, Robert, 1648-1690. 1672 (1672) Wing B734; ESTC R25909 4,320 6

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A Seasonable warning and serious Exhortation to and Expostulation with the Inhabitants of Aberdene concerning this present Dispensation and day of Gods living Visitation towards them GReat unutterably great O ye Inhabitants is the Love of God which flowes in my heart towards you and in bowels of unspeakable compassion am I opened am I enlarged unto you in the sight and sense of your conditions which the Lord hath discovered and revealed unto Me. O that your eyes were opened that ye might see and behold this Day of the Lord and that your ears were unstoped to hear His voice that cryeth aloud and calleth One and All of you to Repentance and that your hearts were softened enclyned to discerne and perceive this blessed hour of His present Visitation which is come unto you He hath lifted up a Standard in the midst of you and among your Brethren He hath called already a Remnant and inrolled them under His Banner and he is calling All to come he hath not left one without a witness Blessed are they that receave Him and hear him in this day of his appearance He hath sent forth and is daily sending forth his Servants and Messengers to invite you to come and partake with Him of the Supper of the Feast which he hath prepared and among many others whom at sundrie times he hath caused to sound sorth His Testimony I also have in the Name and Power and Authority of God proclaimed his everlasting Gospel among you and preached and held forth the glade tydings of this glorious dispensation which is Christ manifesting and revealing himself in and by his Light and Spirit in the hearts of all men to lead them out of all unrighteousness and filtheness both of Flesh and Spirit unto all righteousness truth holyness peace and joy in the Holy Ghost But because many of you have dispysed this Day and as ye have made mirry over Gods witness in your hearts not liking there to entertaine Him in his meek lowly yet lovely appearance so have ye despysed mocked and rejected that which testifieth to this witness without you Therefore was I commanded of the Lord God to pass through your streets covered with Sack-cloath and Ashes calling you to repentance that ye might yet more be awakned alarumed to take notice of the Lords Voice unto you and not to despyse these things which belong to your peace while your day lasteth least hereafter they be hid from your eyes And the command of the Lord concerning this thing came unto me that very morning as I awakened and the burden thereof was very great Yea seemed almost insupportible unto me for such a thing untill that very moment had never entered me before not in the most remote consideration And some whom I called to declare to them this thing can bear witness how great was the agonie of my Spirit how I besought the Lord with tears that this Cup might pass away from me Yea how the pillars of my Tabernacle were shaken and how exceedingly my bones trembled untill I freely gave up unto the Lords will And this was the end and tendency of my testimony to call you to Repentance by this signal and singular step which I as to my own will and inclination was as unwilling to be found in as the worst and wickedest of you can be averse from receiving or laying it to heart Let all and every one of you in whom there is yet alive the least regard to God or his fear consider and weigh this matter in the presence of God and by the Spirit of Jesus Christ in your hearts which makes all things manifest search and examine every one his own Soul how far this warning and voice of the Lord is aplicable unto them and how great need they have to be truely humbled in their Spirits Returning to the Lord in their inward parts with such true and unfeinged Repentance as answers to the outward cloathing of Sack cloath and being covered with Ashes And in the Fear and Name of the Lord I charge all upon this occasion to bewarr of a slight froathie jearing mocking spirit for though such may be permitted to insult for a season yet God will turn their laughter into howling and will laugh when their calamity cometh and such are seen to be in one spirit with those who spat in the face of the LORD JESVS and buffeting him bid him prophesie who smote him Therefore consider O Ye Inhabitants and be serious standing in fear Where are ye who are called Christians Among whom it is become a wonder A stone of stumbling or matter of mockrie or a ground of reproach for one in the Name of the LORD to invite you to Repentance in Sackcloath and Ashes Would not the Heathen condemne you in this thing And will not Niniveh stand up in judgement against you How is it that ye that are called Christians can willingly give room to every idle Mountebank and can suffer your minds to be drawn out to behold these sinful divertisments which indeed divert the mind from the serious sense of Gods fear The people can be gathered there and neither the Magistrats complaine of tumult nor yet Preachers nor Professors cry out against it as delusion or madness O my Friends consider can there be any more strongly deluded then for people daily to acknowledge and confess they are sinners and sinning in words and to startle at that which did so lively represent unto them what they owne to be their condition Were it in good earnest or were it from a true sense of your sins that ye so frequently seem to acknowledge them ye would not dispyse nor overlook that which calleth you to repentance for it How is it that you can so confidently array your selves in all manner of gaudy and superflous Apparel and exceed in lustful pouderings and perfumes and yet are ashamed and amazed at Sackcloath and Ashes which according to your own acknowledgement is so sutable to your states Is not this to glory in your shame and to be ashamed of that which ought to be and would be your greatest glory to wit true and unfeinged Repentance I shal add that which upon this occasion I declared unto you I was for a Sign from the Lord unto you I desire ye may not be among those that wonder and perish but rather repent and be saved And this is my Testimony unto you whither you will hear or forbear I have peace with my God in what I have done and am satisfied that his requirings I have answered in this thing I have not sought yours but you I have not coveted your gold or silver or any thing else nor do I retaine or entertaine the least hatered grude or evil-will towards any within or without your gates but continue in pure and unfeinged love towards all and every one of you even those who do most dispise or reject me and my Testimony being ready to bless those that curse and
to do good to those that dispitfully use me and to be spent in the will of the Lord for your sakes that your souls may be saved and God over all may be glorified for which I travel and cry before the Throne of Grace as becometh This came before Me to signifie unto you by writting at Urie the 12. of the first Moneth 1672. A Servant of the Lord Ies●s Christ ROBERT BARCLAY After this Paper was committed to the Press some Queries concerning this mattrr were sent to a Friend in Aberdene by One who in the inscription styles himself a sober Inquirer which maske he quickly pulled off either for want of wit or from too much malice against the truth by spreading these queries at the same time among several hands which no truely sober Inquirer would have done untill he had first received or been refused satisfaction from him to whom he particularly directed them In order therefore to dispell such cloudie Mists as the Enemie seeks to raise for darkning the day of Gods appearance through his Children These Answeres are judged fit to be here anexed THe Premisses and Queries following upon them being all one on the matter the first being positions in general and the other the particular application of them hereto they need not different answers both of them are herein comprehended and implyed as any that will be at the pains to look after the Queries and compare them may observe To the first is therefore answered 1. R. B. Denyes his Message to have proceeded from any Light or Illumination in him as a man but from the immediate Testimonie of the Spirit of God in his heart a manifestation of which Spirit is given to every man to profit withal accordnig to the plaine testimonie of the Scriptures 1. Cor. 12 7. 1. Iohn 2. 20. 27. Heb 8 10. 11. 12. The which Spirit and Anointing teaches all the Saints under the New Covenant whereunto an audible voice is not required for this is said to be within them and not without them nor can it be proven that God spoke alwayes to the Prophets by an audible voice or that such a thing is requisite to every true Revelation receaved from the Spirit els none could be truly certaine that the Scriptures came from the Spirit of God untill they received an audible voice by the outward ear confirming them of it nor could any have the assurance of Salvation without the same both which the generalitie of Protestants hold needful to Believers and Cal. Inst. lib. 1. cap. 7 sect 4. cap. 8 Sect 1. lib. 3. cap 1 sect 4. cap. 3. sect 39. that by the inward secret testimonie of the Spirit without an audible voice Nor was Iohn Hus his prophesie of Luther or George Wisharts of the Cardinals death alleadged to have proceeded from an outward audible voice and yet proved both true As likwise several others of latter years which might be mentioned 2. A Message thus delivered from the Testimonie of the Spirit of God in the heart reaches to the manifestation of the same Spirit in the hearts of those to whom it is delivered if they wilfully do not resist and shut it out Thus the Ninivits were reached at the call of Ionah and those who heard Peter were pricked in their hearts yet neither the one or the other had such an immediate particular call as Ionah and Peter had but the testimonie of the Spirit through these two touched reached and raised that of God in their hearts and made it applicable unto them Yet those that dispise this Light and manifestation of God in themselves may come to jeer and mock at a message proceeding from it through another even as the Scribs and Pharisees did at Christ and therefore were worthie of condemnation and judged by the Heathen such as Tyre and Sidon and Ninivie even as it is with those of the same spirit at this day who while they cry up the writtings of the Prophets other Scripturs as did the Pharisees are dispysing Prophesying or the teaching or leadings of the Spirit which the Apostle declared to be the nature of the New Covenant dispensation and therefore no wonder if according to the Scripture Pro. 28. 18. where there is no Vision the people perish 3. The Assisters to this Action having had the thing declaired unto them retiering to the inward Testimonie of the same Spirit in themselves did feell union therewith and such as went along did not onlie find a true liberty which might have sufficed but some of them a necessitie to concurr with it And as for the carrying of the Hat and Cloak it was altogether extrinsick being neither essential nor circumstantial to the thing nor so looked upon by these who did it Yet the carping thereat shewes in the proposer a critical mind very void of seriousness which the Lord as of purpose to starve hath permitted him to build that part of the Querie in relation to A. H. wife upon a false report the thing being a manifest untruth And in answere to the second proposition of the premisses it s the alone immediate testimonie of the Spirit of God that can truly discover all false pretenders and delusions which if any can let them deny without overturning the Basis of all Christian Religion and rendering the faith of the Saints in all ages uncertaine R. B.