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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33503	A song of the judgments and mercies of the Lord wherein the things seen in secret are declared openly : being a brief demonstration of the secret work of the Almighty in me, his servant, given forth at the movings of the spirit of the Lord and is to go throughout the world ... / by Josiah Cole.	Coale, Josiah, 1632?-1668.	1663 (1663)	Wing C4756A; ESTC R26612	15,087	17

and that by men of all professions as they have come into Authority one after another and many and seeming fair promises have been made by them all That free Liberty of Conscience in things relating to God should be granted and allowed to people of all sorts for the breach of which engagements with many other divers have already been rooted out and overturned and yet thereby men have not taken warning though besides warnings have oft been given them in tender love to perform their promises and engagements in these things and all other though much consisteth therein as to their establishment and on the contrary to their ruination Neither have they learned to give the same liberty to others in things relating to the Conscience as themselves would desire to have and this is not to do as they would be done unto and therein they are short of fulfilling the Royal Law of God Wherefore let all people who are making Laws to compel mens consciences consider how they are degenerated from God and how darknesse hath covered them and hardnesse of heart hath seized on them so that they cannot have regard unto tender consciences but in the pride of their hearts would be Lords over the Consciences of others Surely they are not guided by the same Spirit that the Apostle was in the primitive times who said Let every man be fully perswaded in his own Conscience and this was true liberty of Conscience And notwithstanding all the profession that there hath been and yet is in the World and the talk of God and Christ and redemption and salvation by him yet now when the Son of God is come is there faith to be found on earth or are people redeemed from the earth or saved from the polutions of the world I tell you nay for all who are from the light of the Son of God in them they are in the alienation and degeneration and are strangers unto God and his Covenant of peace and reprobate concerning that faith which gives the Saints victory over the World and so are drove out into the earth not redeemed from it but are bond slaves to corruption and live in the polutions of the World and in this state the whole World lieth notwithstanding all their profession and talk of Religion which is amongst them and so their fruits plainly manifest it and thereby it is clearly seen that their Teachers were not sent of the Lord neither have they had his Word nor stood in his counsel therefore have they not profited the people nor turned them from the evil of their ways neither are they brought to the knowledge of the truth by which freedom and redemption is witnessed So their preaching is vain and their Faith is vain and they remain in their sins which separates them from God and are dead while they live and are unrestored and unreconciled and have no assurance of their eternal well-being And when any come into a serious consideration and unto a true sence of the sad state they are in and how they have lived and spent their time all their life long then judgement and wrath condemnation and pangs and the sorrows of Hell compasseth them about and then seeing themselves in the perishing state they are even ar their wits end yet these things they consider not in the time of their prosperity Wherefore all people every where who desire to come out of these distractions and confusions and hurryings and contentions about Faith and Worship and Ordinances and out of the polutions which the world lives in and to come into the spiritual Worship which is in the spirit and in the truth To you I say that is the Spirit of Truth in you all in which God will be worshipped which reproves you of sin in your hearts and as you come into obedience to that it will bring you into the spiritual Worship for the spiritual Worship consisteth in obedience to the Spirit and this is the everlasting Ordinance of God viz. Christ the Light the quickening spirit for him hath God ordained of old to all that believe and work righteousness for salvation So all being exercised in the Light and with the quickening spirit here you are exercised in the Ordinance of God and here the living substance is known in which the shadows types and figures end and here the hand-writing of Ordinances is blotted out and here the Law ends which was contained in Ordinances mark that in Christ the everlasting Ordinance Concerning FAITH ANd the living Faith which gives the Saints victory over the World this cometh by hearing of the Word which is nigh unto you all even in your heart and in your mouth and as every one comes to hear and obey it you will thereby be begotten into the Faith which was once delivered to the Saints by which they wrought righteousness and that is the Faith which giveth victory over the World and which worketh by love for the purifying of the Conscience from dead works to serve the living God and without this Faith it is impossible to please God for whatsoever is not of faith is sin So search your selves and see whether you are in this Faith yea or nay or whether your faith be not a dead faith for that which doth not lead to work righteousnesse is a dead faith for as the body without the Spirit is dead so faith without works is dead also yet by works only there is no●e iustified and faith without works is dead for the faith of Abraham wrought with works and by works faith is made perfect So let not any deceive themselves with a feigned Faith or framed in the imagination for that is a vain faith and notable to save you Also beware that your faith towards God be not taught by the precepts of men for that will stand you in no stead neither wil it give you victory over the polutions of the world nor purifie your hearts from sin Wherefore mind the Word which is nigh by the hearing of which faith cometh even the living Faith by which the just lives which was once delivered to the Saints and which we earnestly contend for Concerning HOPE ANd the living Hope which maketh not ashamed but purifieth the heart even as God is pure This is not witnessed nor known but through the tribulation and patience in the experimental working and operation of the spirit of life in the inward parts and Word of Life for by the Word of God which lives and abides for ever are we begotten again unto a lively hope which we have for an anchor both sure and stedfast in all our tryals tossings and hurryings which we meet withal in the World and amongst the hypocritical professors thereof whose hope wil perish in the day when the wrath of God is revealed from Heaven upon all who hold the Truth in unrighteousness but he whose hope is begotten by the operation of the Word and Spirit of Life even he it is that purifies himself

giveth grace unto the humble by which he teacheth them his precepts even by his good Spirit of Grace which brings salvation and which hath appeared unto all men by this I say he teacheth them that denying ungodliness worldly lusts they should live soberly and righteously and godly in this present world mark the Grace which teacheth this and which brings salvation hath appeared unto all men so that which brings salvation is nigh you the Grace of God which hath appeared unto you so every one mind that and none turn it into wantonness nor into lasciviousness but every one give up to be taught by it that the precepts of God you may come to know walk in them And so here is the great salvation of God God's Covenant of Light which lighteth every man that comes into the world I have given thee saith he a Covenant of Light to lighten the Gentiles that thou maist be my salvation to the ends of the Earth Mark God's Covenant of Light for salvation which lighteth every man that comes into the World in which Light the Nations of them that are saved must walk and saith God who is Light I the Lord search the heart and try the reins look unto me and be saved all ye ends of the earth mark again unto him that searcheth the heart and trieth the reins all the ends of the earth must look for salvation so that it comes not from the Mountains nor Hills but salvation is of the Lord and God is Light and in him is no darkness at all and this is the Father of Lights and is in the Son and the Son in him the Father Son are one who lighteth every man that cometh into the world wherefore dwel in the Light walk in the Light that you may be children of the Light for the earth shall be covered with darkness and gross darkness shall be over the people but the Lord shall become the Light of his Israel and his God his glory Wherefore come out of the gross darkness with which the Earth is covered and walk in the everlasting light of the Son of God wherewith you are enlightened and walk no longer in the dark paths of ignorance neither follow the blind guides of the World any more who have fed you with their own airy imaginations and conceptions and brain-study and have spoken unto you a divination of their own brain and not from the mouth of the Lord and your souls are not satisfied with all that ever you received from them and why will you spend your money for that which is not bread ann your labour for that which doth not satisfie your soul● Oh hearken diligently unto the voice of God who is Light that you may eat of that which is good and your souls may be satisfied for why should your souls be in poverty and dry and barren now the Fountain of durable riches is open but because you are alienated from the Lord and strangers to his Covenant of Light Wherefore the restoration all wait to know by him who brings back again that which hath been driven away that the return of your captivity you may come to know and witness out of Babylon that great City whose desolation cometh suddenly and be ye separated from the abominations thereof and touch not the unclean thing that you may be received of the Lord into my Father's House where my dwelling is in which there is no want of any good thing for here is all plenty of Heavenly rich virtue and sweet consolation wherefore I cannot but invite all who are hungry to come freely for the Fountain is open and whosoever thirsts may drink of the water of life freely But now my Friends this know That the way that leads to this Ocean of Rest Kingdom of peace and Fountain of life is strait and narrow and none can walk therein but through self-denial and taking up the daily Crosse to the carnal mind vvhich may seem hard to such as enter into Reasonings and Consultations vvith the vvrong nature vvhich vvould still live but that being denied and the light being joined unto vvhich manifests the vvay and the Cros● being taken up and the yoke submitted unto then the Povver of the Lord you vvill feel vvhich vvill subject the contrary nature and vvil make the vvay easie plain before you yea and delightful unto you though it be in the midst of the paths of Judgement for the righteous wil rejoice therein though many oppositions and sometimes many difficulties you may find in the way yet keeping to the Light in singleness feeling the power of God and the secret working thereof it will keep the mind cool and exclude the Consulter and then the way thou wilt see open clear before thee through all difficulties and as thou waitest in the pure fear of the Lord keeping thy mine staid upon him thou wilt feel his good hand of love reaching unto thee daily administring renewedness of strength unto thee whereby thou wilt be sufficiently encouraged to press on in the strait and narrow way and the way of his commandments wil be delightful unto thee and not grievous and he wil replenish thy heart with his grace make thee know the aboundings of his love which vvil exceedingly enlarge thy heart So let none stumble or start aside at the straitness of the way but be vvilling to submit to the Cross that the Crovvn thou maist come to receive which is immortal and eternal and then it vvill never repent thee vvhatsoever thou art made to deny for an hundred fold thy revvard vvil be in this life from the hand of the Lord and peace and life everlasting thou vvilt have the assurance of and it thou vvilt possess and enjoy and tbis is of more value vvith the upright in heart then all the love glory or friendship of the World for that lasts but for a little season and then passeth avvay but this Inheritance is everlasting and never hath an end Wherefore let not your minds be captivated vvith any perishing thing vvhatsoever but in that vvhich vvil redeem the mind out of all that is perishing in that dvvel and you vvil knovv a daily dying unto sin and to all things of that nature vvhich keeps the soul in death and thereby you vvil be quickened unto God and the desires and secret breathings vvhich are in you after God vvil more and more encrease be renevved and fervency of heart and zeal for the Lord will encrease also and where these fervent desires and breathings are in any one nothing wil satisfie it but the presence of the Lord and as this is dwelt with in sincerity and singleness the Lord in his own time will manifest himself to thy everlasting satisfaction and comfort and joy and everlasting content Wherefore let not any thing be accounted dear for his sake for he that loveth father or mother wife or children or any thing more then me saith Christ is not worthy of me Wherefore I now publish the Decree of the Almighty unto all Nations That whosoever will not serve worship and obey the God of Heaven who is Light and searcheth the heart of man even he shall dye and darkness shall be his covering and gross darkness his pavillion and death shall be his life and the Terrours thereof shall compass him about world without end Josiah Coale THE END Pag. 3. lin 25 for truly read freely lin 28. for a read is