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A52032	A tender visitation in the love of God unto all people everywhere particularly unto the inhabitants of Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, and Bristol, and to my neighbours in and about Tetherton, Calloways, and the adjacent towns and villages / by Charles Marshall.	Marshall, Charles, 1637-1698.	1684 (1684)	Wing M744; ESTC R28809	14,556	25

appears amongst men in sinplicity bringing forth the Fruits of the Spirit Love Joy Peace Long-suffering Gal. 5.20.25.22 23 24. Gentleness Goodness Faith Meekness Temperance Mercy and good Will to mankind And so persevering in the Way of the Lord thy Experience will increase in the knowledge of the Foot-steps of the Flock of Christ Jesus Cant. 1.8 seeing first how thou wast turned from Darkness unto the marvelous Light of God's Holy-Day Acts 26.18 with which thy Heart was searched and sin became exceeding sinful and unexpressibly burdensom And then thy Soul cryed out in distress unto the Lord God for Deliverance Psal 12.5 who hath heard the Cry of the poor in spirit and sighing of the needy and made bare his delivering Arm and in due time gave Remission of sin and a blotting out of Transgression Acts 3.19 And then Times of Refreshment came from the Presence of the Lord and from the Glory of his divine Power that hath wrought effectually for the cutting off from the Wild Olive and brought thee out of the Broad Way and planted thee into the heavenly Vine of Life that is the Way and made thee a Branch of the heavenly Vine daily receiving heavenly Sap and divine Virtue from this heavenly holy Root and then lets thee see thy daily spiritual incumbant Duty which is to abide in the Vine Christ Jesus Joh. 15.4 5. For as the Natural Branch cannot bring forth Fruit except it abide in the natural Vine no more can any bring forth Fruit to God acceptable except they abide in the heavenly Vine Christ Jesus So Neighbours and Country-men thus coming out of the Broad Way of Sin and Iniquity Mathew 7. and walking in the Narrow Way of Righteousness and Holiness following the Lamb of God Christ Jesus in the Regeneration ye are fitted for his glorious Kingdom and they are indeed blessed that are come to that state who can in truth say For them to live is Christ and to dye gain Phil. 1 2. Surely these have put off the sins of the flesh the old Man with his Deeds and have put on the New Man who is created after God in Righteousness and Holiness Ephes 4.24 For our Life here is very uncertain and momentary so that when we lie down in the Evening we are uncertain of rising in the Morning and when we rise in the Morning we are uncertain we shall live until the Evening so as the Servants of God said Our Life is like Water spilt on the Ground that cannot be gathered up again it is like unto a Weavers shuttle quickly displayed and cut off Job 7.6 and like the trace of a Bird through the Air. Well therefore since our Life is so uncertain and Death so certain dear Country-men and Neighbours in the tender Bowels of Christ Jesus I beseech you for your own poor Soul's sake whilst you have time a very little time so to number your days and remember your latter End Psal 90.12 as to apply your hearts to that heavenly Wisdom which teacheth and instructeth to walk in the Narrow Way of Self-Denyal which leads to Life Eternal that when the Messenger of Death comes the King of Terrors to all Evil Doers it may meet with you walking in the Way of Life that endures forever Job 18.14 Joh. 14.6 which will be the Comfort Joy and Satisfaction of all Men and Women that have prized their precious time that God Almighty hath given them in the Riches of his Infinite Love to obtain the heavenly Translation out of the Kingdom of Darkness Col. 1.13 into the Kingdom of his dear Son Christ Jesus and thereby is fitted for that Huor Psal 146.4 5 6. that when nothing but DEATH is expected every Moment thy Breath in thy Nostrils withdrawing and thy dear Relations Friends and Acquaintance are about thy Death-Bed Mourning and Lamenting thou canst comfort them with telling thy spiritual Experience that thou art passed from Death unto Life spiritually Joh. 5.24 and that thou art assured when this Earthly Tabernacle is dissolved thou hast an House from Heaven made without hands eternal in the Heavens 2 Cor. 5.1 2 3 4. an Eternal Immortal Mansion of Joy and Ever-blessedness that having fought the good Fight 2 Tim. 4.7 1 Pet. 18 19. thou hast overcome Sin Death Hell and the Grave through him that hath loved and redeemed thee with his precious Blood Christ Jesus the King of Eternal Glory and the Seal of God's Favour is upon thy Soul and the Joy of his Salvation on thy spirit Heb. 11.25 And callest thy Neighbours that are ignorant of this precious Work Oh Neighbours do not content your selves with the Pleasures of Sin which are but for a season Oh! a little season indeed and lose your own souls and be shut out of the Paradise of God Oh! but redeem your time spend no more of it in sin and Iniquity in vain and foolish Discourses but prize every hour Matthew 7. 1 Pet. 1.8 walking in the Narrow Way that ye may enter in at the strait Gate into the Kingdom of Joy and Immortal Glory where the Redeemed enjoy endless Blessings of Peace and unspeakable Consolations in the beholding the Amiable Coelestial Beauty of him who sits at the Immortal Table of divine ●ove saying Eat O Friends and drink O Friends Cant. 5. of the Bread of Life and let your souls be satisfied with the fatness of the House of God Oh! Here in this Kingdom is an end of all pains Sorrows Burdens Tears Rev. 2.10 Mat. 5.11 12. Conflicts Cruelties of Wicked Men an end of Inhuman Ungodly Imprisonments and here the Redeemed of the Lord are out of the reach of all cruel Hard-hearted men yea here the Weary are at Rest in an Immortal Sabbath beholding him who is a Fountain of Gardens Cant. 4 15. and Well of living Waters and divine streams And here the New Song is sung before the Throne of God in the springing up of endless encreasing Joy and divine Refreshments Rev. 7.12 in which ariseth Blessings and Glory Wisdom Thanksgivings Honour Power and Might be unto our God foreyer and evermore Amen Friends Neighbours and Country-men who may have any doubt which are true Prophets Ministers or Teachers of Christ Jesus and which are false Prophets Ministers and Teachers of Antichrist since there have been both through many Ages of the World unto all such I make this friendly reasonable and Christian Proposition namely to do like the noble Bereans who were desirous of Truth search the Scriptures from Genesis the first to Revelations the last and mark in what Way they walked and what Fruits they brought forth that were true Prophts Ministers or Teachers both under the Law and Prophets and on the other hand what Way they walked in and what Fruits they brought forth that manifestly were declared to be the false Prophets Ministers and Teachers by the true Prophets

Man on Earth and it grieved him at his Heart This is the Broad Way in which Israel walked when they had forsaken the Lord the Fountain of their living Mercies Jer. 17.13 and provoked him to Anger both in the Wilderness and through several Generations as you may read in the Prophets whom the Lord sent to testifie against them 1 Cor. 10.22 Psal 119.104 Mat. 27.46 This is the Broad Way the Scribes and Pharisees were walking in notwithstanding all their great Professions of Religion who killed the Lord of Life and Glory Christ Jesus This Broad Way is that which the apostatizing Christians walked and are walking which Jude pronounced Wo against Jude 11. because they walked in the Way of Cain It was a going out of the Narrow Way of Obedience and walking in the Broad Way of Disobedience that brought the Judgments Plagues and Calamities Lamen 2. Miseries Exhaustings and Depopulations of Nations and Kingdoms from Adam's day to this day 'T was going out of the Narrow Way of Obedience into the Broad Way of Disobedience Gen. 3.17 18. Gen. 4.11 12 Gen. 6.5 6 7. Exod. 32.3 4 5 6. Isa 34.1 2 3 4 5 6. that brought Misery on Adam the Curse on Cain Destruction by a Flood on the Old World Judgment on the Children of Israel in the Wilderness and sore Plagues and Calamities through several Generations as you may read even all along in the Prophets and then what befell Jerusalem and that People and since through the Ages and Generations to this day Now having in short said something of the Broad Way and Wide Gate and of the Walkers therein I am to write something of the Narrow Way and Streight Gate which Christ Jesus saith John 14.6 Jer. 6.16 few find This is the Way called in Scripture the Antient Way of Holiness and is called Narrow and the Gate Streight because no double-minded Man can walk therein James 1.8 Prov. 10.29 For all mankind that come to walk in this way must leave their Iniquities behind for there is no coming out of the Broad into the Narrow Jer. 10 2● but by putting off as the Apostle saith the Old Man with his Deeds and this is effected by adhearing Ephes 4.22 joyning and obeying the Grace that came by Christ Jesus Tit. 2.11 12. which the Apostle saith bringeth Salvation teacheth to deny Vngodliness and worldly Lusts and not only so but leads into a living Godly Righteously and Soberly in this present World This makes manifest the Broad Way gives a sense of the Destruction it leads to Isa 30.20 21. and leads out of it into the Narrow Way And albeit this Way is narrow and the Gate streight to mankind in the Fall and Alienation from God walking in the Broad Way laden with Sins Jer. 22.36 as before-mentioned yet as Men and Women come out of the broad Way and from delighting in Unrighteousness and come to delight in following the Lamb of God Mat. 19.28 Christ Jesus by his Spirit who leads the Obedient on in the blessed work of Regeneration Isa 42.16 he will see that the Way of the Lord is a pleasant Way and the Just man's Path a shining Light Prov. 4.18 that shineth more and more to the perfect Day and so shall drink of the Brook of Comfort and Consolation by the way and say with Solomon Ch. 12.28 In the Way of Righteousness is Life and in the Path-Way thereof there is no Death Mark Life to the Soul Ch. 13.15 is Death to Sin here the Ransomed by the precious Blood of Christ Jesus return to Sion with everlasting Joy upon their Heads But now all that come to walk in the streight Way Heb. 10.20 and enter in at the streight Gate Luke 9.23 24 25. must take up the Cross of Christ Jesus daily and deny themselves and in the strength received by the heavenly Grace of God resist and withstand all the Temptations of the Devil who Tempts most to that Sin and Iniquity he knows Man is most prone to but when he comes to Tempt Prov. 2.7 8. and thy mind exercised in the Light of Christ Jesus 1 Pet. 2.9 thou seest his Temptations and thy Soul's Desires and breathing Supplications ascend to the Lord God of Strength for the lifting up of his spiritual Standard in thy Soul against the Temptations and power of the Enemy in every evil Thought and Inclination 1 Cor. 10.13 in which the Enemy worketh first And therefore in Matt. 15. ver 18. thou mayst read Christ Jesus put Evil Thoughts first before Wrath Murther and Adultry James 1.15 c. for there is a time of Sin 's Conceiving in the inward parts before bringing forth and finishing which the Apostle observing saith When it is finished it brings forth Death for the Wages of Sin is Death but the Gift of God is Eternal Life through Jesus Christ c. Now the holy Light and saving Grace of God gives the sight John 1. and makes a discovery of Sin in its first arising even when the power of the Enemy worketh to Tempt and Allure man and draw him aside but now while it is only in the Temptation James 1.14 James 1.12.13 and man in the Spirit of his mind not joyned to the Temptation it is not charged as Sin but when man gives up and closeth with the Temptation so as to obey it then is Sin finished and brings forth Death Rom. 6.16 For his Servants ye are saith the Apostle whom ye obey whether it is of sin unto Death or of Righteousness unto Life Now read here a little Neighbours and Country-men How far reacheth your Experience in this Narrow Way where Men and Women with their sins cannot walk for this is the Holy Way and Divine Path Psal 16.11 Prov. 4.18 that man finds in his coming out of sin and departing from all Iniquity But some will be ready to say If we should hearken to this Counsel and obey the Grace of God thou art directing to Tit. 2.11 12. which brings Salvation which the Apostle says Teacheth to deny all Vngodliness and worldly Lusts and not only so but it brings to live Soberly Godlily and Righteously in this present evil World and so teacheth to forsake the Devil and all his Works tho Pomps and Vanities of this evil World and all the sinful Lusts of the Flesh Ephes 14.22 which many have promised in their Baptism so called and so have our whole Conversation changed and become other men not walking in the way most of our Country-Town or Village walks in we fear we should become a By-Word and Scorn of our Neighbours and Acquaintance nay Psal 27.10 11 12. we doubt our Kindred and near Relations would forsake us and we should become as strangers unto them and lose their Respect and it may be lose our Imploy and Trade and endanger a disappointment on our selves

men of the extending of which Love you the Inhabitants of that City have been large Partakers c. But now O Inhabitants of that great City how have ye answered the Lord for all his tender Mercies and undeclarable loving Kindness Hive you so hearkened to the Voice of Wisdom as to break off your sins by true Repentance Have you heard her cry and turned to the Lord Have you loved Judgment Mercy Truth and Righteousness Are ye of that Number that shall obtain Mercy because ye are Merciful In a word Have ye answered the Requirings of Almighty God and prized the Day of your Visitation and all the Mercies multiplied unto you honouring the great Creator of Heaven and Earth in bringing forth the Fruits of the Spirit Love Joy Peace Long-suffering Gentleness Goodness Faith Meeknoss Temperance c. But O Bristol Bristol have you not evilly requited the Lord Have ye not slighted the tender Day of his Loving-kindness Are not your Sins of a deep Die and your Iniquities of a Crying Nature like unto the Sins of Sodom and Gomorrah great and grievious And are you not bringing forth Fruits altogether contrary to those of the Spirit before mentioned which are these Adultery Fornication Vncleanness Gal. 5.19 20 21. Lasciviousness Idolatry Witch-craft Hatred Variance Emulations Wrath Strife Seditions Heresies Envying Murder Drunkenness Revelling as the Apostle saith they which do such things shall not inherit the Kingdom of God Read and consider whether many of you thy Inhabitants are not guilty of several of these grievous Sins summed up by the Apostle Is not Violence in your hands as it was in Nineveh Are not you cruelly Persecuting and Imprisoning those whose Cryes ascend to Heaven and are entred into the Ears of the most high Lord God of Sabbaths Are not vain Lifeless Professions and Prophaness multiplied in thee Oh! consider these things and be invited in the Bowels of Christ Jesus to break off all these Sins by Repentance and turn to the Lord God with all your Hearts and Repent as the Inhabitants of Nineveh did who cried mightily to the Lord and said Yea let them turn every man from the Evil of his way and from the Violence that is in their Hands who can tell if the Lord will turn away from his fierce Anger that we perish not but if ye shall still go on and persist in your Iniquities Prov. 1.24 25 26. and resist the Counsel of God against your selves then hear the Voice of that Wisdom that invited and invites Because I have called and ye have refused I have stretched out my Hand and no man regarded but ye have set at naught all my Counsel and would none of my Reproof I will also laugh at your Calamities I will mock when your Fear cometh as Desolation your Destruction as a Whirl-wind when Distress and Anguish cometh on you then shall they call upon me but I will not answer they shall seek me early but they shall not find me for that they hated Knowledge and did chuse the Fear of the Lord they would none of my Counsel therefore shall they eat of the Fruit of their own Way and ●e filled with their own De●i●es c. Ah poor Bristol what Lamentation shall I take up over thee First in the Consideration of the unexpressible Love Mercy Tender Dealings and Long-suffering of a tender Father secondly of thy Inhabitants grievous Sins Ingratitude and great Provocation which is a very unsuitable return to the Lord for all his tender Mercies And thirdly of thy deplorable estate on several considerations but mourn over thee in the Compassion of the Spirit of Christ Jesus who when he was come near Jerusalem he beheld the City and wept over it saying If thou hadst known even thou at least in this thy Day the things which belong unto thy Peace but now they are hid from thine Eyes c. My Soul is concerned for you deeply in the sence of the Lord 's being angry with you because you have and do continue to sin against great Mercies yea adding Sin unto Sin Oh! be prevailed with to go on no further in the Broad Way of Destruction before demonstrated lest you provoke the Lord more and more and he pour forth his Fury like Fire Oh! Inhabitants of Bristol Awake Awake high and Low Rich and Poor Male and Female Bond and Free consider your states in this Evening of many of thy Inhabitants Day Ps 2.11.12 before it be too late Return return and serve the Lord with Fear and Trembling kiss the Son lest he be angry and ye perish from the Way when his Wrath is kindled but a little blessed are all they that put their Trust in him Oh! that the Dread of the Most-High God might seize on your Spirits to give you that sence the Inhabitants of the City of Nineveh had John 3.5 6 7 8 9 10. and what Mercy and Kindness of the Lord followed the turning every man from the Evil of his Way and from the Violence that was in their Hand might be thy Inhabitants lot how should my Soul rejoyce and Spirit be right glad and bow before the Lord God of the whole Earth in Humility with Thanksgivings c. But if you will harden your Hearts and stiffen your Necks and will not hear my Soul shall mourn in the sight of your Distress that will overtake as Travail on a Woman wherein your Faces will gather Paleness your Hearts be filled with Anguish Fleet-Prison the 9th Moneth 1683. C. M. AH thou holy Most-high God of Mercy and tender Compassion look down with an Eye of Pity on the Inhabitants of the Earth and send forth thy Light and Truth more and more to guide the People out of the Broad Way of Destruction into thy narrow Way of Life which leads to thy Holy Mountain where there is no burting nor destroying O! that through the glorious out-stretched Arm of thy Salvation Sin may be finished and Iniquity brought to an end that the Righteousness of Christ Jesus the dear Son of thy Love may cover the Earth as the Waters cover the Sea Ah! for thy Name 's sake hear the Cry of the Poor and Sighing of the Needy and stretch forth thy Arm and deliver thy oppressed out of their Distresses that thy Creation O Lord may be eased and thy great Name and the Noble Acts of thy Almighty Arm and divine Power may be renowned gloriously through all Lands Amen Amen THE END