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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55996	A call in the universal spirit of Christ Jesus to all the wicked and impenitent sinners in the world, but more especially to the inhabitants of England, with the city of London, that they all may repent and turn to God, with all their hearts, before his wrath be more kindled, and his future judgements more appear to punish the inhabitants of the earth for their manifold horrible sins and transgressions : this came upon me to write, at the apprehension I had of that sudden fear which many people were suprised with, at the late earthquake, of what would befall them / [by] J.P.	Parke, James, 1636-1696.	1692 (1692)	Wing P366; ESTC R32315	7,878	11

by such as at present are spared from being so smitten as some Countries have been and still are although possibly not greater Sinners or more sinful Nations then this and yet sorely punished wasted and spoiled by the present Hand of the Lord in Judgment And if the People of this Nation go on in these grievous Sins and Trespasses in Rebellion against God he will certainly make them sick in smiting of them and put them in Fear and Astonish them more and more and lay their Honour and Glory in the Dust as he hath done in other Countries already for how soon can he work Wonders to the Amozement of People and Nations How soon can he lay a City on Heaps and make a strong Nation desolate What is a fenced City or strong Nation before the Lord when he in his Wrath entreth into Judgment and pleadeth with People in his sore Displeasure who can turn away his Wrath or stop him from pouring out his Fury and Indignation of which now the Inhabitants of this City and Nation are apparently warned by the late dreadful Earthquake that you all might prepare for whatsoever may follow after it and not perish in your Pride you Proud Ones nor you Drunkards in your Drunkenness nor you filthy unclean persons in your Filthiness and Debauchery nor you Swearers Lyers Cursed Speakers or Covetous Ones might dye in your Iniquity nor any Evil which the City and Nation even so horribly abounds with And Repent Repent all you Backsliders who are revolted and slidden back from the Truth and Way of God and love and have chosen the Way of the Wicked which is Darkness whereby you have been led and have walked in Crooked Ways and By-pathes and taken a liberty out of the Truth and use it to your own and other Peoples hurt and to the grief of the pure and holy Spirit of the Lord God eternal I have Compassiod truly in my Heart towards some of you that have a Sincerity remaining yet in you that know the Truth and that no Lye is of it how beit ye do not obey it nor do after the pure Requiring of it the Lord is angry with you and will now plead with you in his Wrath except you Repent and turn to the Lord and his Truth with your Hearts which you own and profess in Words but are gone from the Life and Power of it I know some of you began well to run in the Heavenly Race that God by his Light set before you and walked many Years on with the Flock of God in the Path of the Just in much Love Unity and Concord but afterwards departed in your Hearts from the Lord his Truth and the comfortable Society of his People and the Lord is much displeased with your Spirit of Seperation and Division and you Backsliders in heart shall be filled with your own Wayes and Evil Devices your seperation will become Loathsome and an Abhorrence to all who are spiritually minded and the longer you cleave to it the worse you will be more hardened and separated from God and your own good being seperate from the Spiritual Fellowship and Communion of the faithful Flock of Christ Jesus the only Saviour and Redeemer your shelter in the World and spirit of it will fail when Calamity cometh upon Evil-doers lean thereon never so much and flee to it as much as you will for help that help will stand you but in little stead in this dreadful Day of God's Judgments you will be judged and your Works of Darkness punished by the great Judge of Heaven and Earth who will Reward every man according to his Works And all you great Pretenders to Reformation who are out of the Life and Power of God and are even strangers to the divine Nature of Christ Jesus and know not him within you the Hope of Glory being Ignorant of the Life and Power of Christianity which you do profess in Words and outward Appearance Repent repent the Lord hath a Controversie with you he will afflict and punish you yet more and more for your Sins which you stand charged with and are found guilty of in the Eye of the great Judge of Heaven and Earth especially you that have afflicted or helped forward the Afflictions the of Righteous and their Sufferings as Evil Instruments in the hand of Satan and by his Power the Lord will afflict you and sorely punish you for your Iniquity and Wickedness which you have acted and committed against the Lord and his Faithful Servants when Persecution did arise because of the Word How many pretend Preachers or Ministers of the Word who have in their Malice and Envy raised or spread abroad false Reports against the Truth and Innocent Professors thereof to hinder the progress and spreading of the Truth of God with their Lyes and Scandals against the Upright and the Just who have been and are Doers of the Truth and Faithful Followers of Christ Jesus Wo wo from him is coming upon you you whited Walls and painted Sepulchres and all you Daubers with untempered Morter your inward Darkness and Blindness of mind is seen that you are black inwardly you whited Walls your Whitening wherewith you white your outside is seen and discovered with the Light of Christ Jesus your painting your selves with the Prophets Christ's or the Apostles Words whilst you are from the Life of the Word and the safe Guidance of the Spirit of Truth that will profit you little nor cover you in the day of the Lords Wrath God will shake and undo your Directory or church-Church-Faith made by Men whereby many have been kept from waiting for the Spirit of God and to receive Faith from him which purifieth the Heart whereby the only true God is pleased you may appear fair and beautiful before men you Idol-Sheepherds and principal of the Flocks and gatherings together about worship of God whilst you do not Spiritually know him the Shame of your Nakedness will shortly appear to the People blindly led and deceived by you and daubed over with your untempered Morter howling and bitter Lamentation will come upon you many are desiring Eye-Salve that they may see and such who buy that will see and more loathe and hate your Merchandize how finely painted or daubed soever it may appear outwardly to Men you Wolves in Sheeps cloathing many do see and Nations will abhor you and your dishonest Gain which so long you have sought and gaped after People comes to see your Deceit and are ashamed of your Covetous Practices and your Works of Darkness I was constrained in the Spirit of the Lord God at this time to write and upon the occasion and Remembrance of the Judgments of the Lord already past as well as what now is with a deep Consideration of what may yet proceed from God as Threatned by the late Dreadful EARTHQUAKE to call all People to Repentance and Amendment of Life speedily before it be too late that those so very grievous provoking Sins and Abominations now committed in this City and Nation with many other Cities and Nations may be Repented of which indeed hath kindled Gods fierce Wrath to that degree which may bring great Ruin and Desolation if you continue therein but if by Repentance Weeping and Lamentation you yet turn to God with all your Hearts and put away the Evil of your Ways and Doings from before the Eyes of the Lord from the highest to the lowest both Rich and Poor Bond and Free and not add Sin to Sin as you have long done and which now abounds almost every where who knows yet but God may turn away his Wrath now threatned to be poured forth and executed So Rent your Hearts and not your Garments be truly humbled under the Hand of the Lord that is now lifted up in Judgment Fear the Lord and believe in his Name cease from Evil and do Good in your time for upon such the Lord will have Mercy they will not dye in their Sins when they dye but will dye in the Lord the Death of the Righteous and will have the Reward of the Righteous even Everlesting Rest and Peace Which that you all may come to know and Inherit and that it may go well with you in this World and that which is to come is the real Desire of your Friend and a faithful Well-Wisher of all Mankind James Parke THE END

A CALL In the Universal Spirit of CHRIST JESUS TO ALL THE Wicked and Impenitent Sinners in the World But more especially to the Inhabitants of England WITH THE City of LONDON That they all may Repent and turn to God with all their Hearts before his Wrath be more kindled and his future Judgments more appear to Punish the Inhabitants of the Earth for their manifold horrible Sins and Transgressions This came upon me to write at the apprehension I had of that sudden Fear which many People were Surprized with at the late Earthquake of what should befall them J. P. Isa 29.6 Thou shalt be visited of the Lord of Hosts with Thunder and with Earthquake and great Noise with Storm and Tempest and the Flame of devouring Fire Rom. 2.5 But after thy Hardness and Impenitent Heart treasurest up to thy self Wrath against the Day of Wrath and Revelation of the Righteous Judgments of God London Printed and Sold by T. Sorole at the Crooked-Billet in Holywell-Lane in Shoreditch 1692. A Call in the universal Spirit of Christ Jesus to all the Wicked and Impenitent Sinners in the World c. O! Fear Tremble Quake and be Astonished all ye Inhabitants of the Earth and the Sea unto whom Wo and Calamity belongeth when you perceive or hear of the Lords shaking the Earth and causing it to quake Quake and Tremble you that so much have scoffed at and contemned Quaking and Trembling at the Word of the Lord now he is come terribly in his Judgments and his Hand is lifted up in Judgment he causeth the Earth to tremble at his dreadful presence and now his Judgments are in the Earth that the Inhabitants thereof may learn Righteousness and be awakened to Righteousness by the many Warnings that the Lord gives this Generation of Evil-doers Ah! quake and tremble in this hour of Gods Judgments all you Proud and Wanton ones you Stiff-necked and Rebellious ones you Drunkards Swearers Lyars and Cursed speakers who call God to Damn your Souls Howle howle lament lament with great Lamentation and Weeping you Covetous ones whose Hearts and Affections are set upon the Earth and Earthly things and all you High-minded Heady Mockers and Despisers of those who are good the Lord is much grieved with your Works of Darkness and great Abominations which you continue in filling up the measure of your Iniquity wherewith you cumber the Ground and many appear as if they were fitted for Destruction What know you how soon the Earth which God hath shaken may open upon you and swallow you up quick and you come to perish in your Sins you who have in a high degree abused and sleighted the Lords Mercies For bearance and Long-suffering to you-ward and set at naught his Counsel and would have none of his Reproof you have despised his Correction refusing to take Warning from the Lord God who sent many faithful Servants in his Name and Fear to warn you Therefore is the Righteous and Just God filled with Indignation and come to plead with you in his Wrath and Vengeance for Vengeance is his and he will repay it for the Evil and Wickedness done and the Provocations wherewith the Inhabitants of the Earth have provoked God to wrath for the Wrongs and Injuries against him and one to another for they that do wrong shall receive for the Wrongs that they do for God is no respecter of Persons nor Parties such as every one soweth such must he reap from the righteous Judge of Heaven and Earth who will do all men Right and is Equal in all his Ways and will be Righteous in all his Judgments for evermore when his Judgments are in the Earth He will punish the Wicked in his Wrath and vex them in his sore Displeasure Although the merciful God hath a long time strove with you by his good Spirit and spared you you will not always find it so you Mockers at Quaking and Trembling at the Word of the Lord now is the Lord making you to quake and tremble and Pailness of Face and Horror must come upon you and take hold of you suddenly In the time of the EARTHQUAKE that came from God the 8th Day of the 7th Month 1692. in London and many other places of this Nation of England as well as other Countries I saw in London many struck at that present with a sudden Fear of what might come upon or befall them but few minded or rightly considered what they had done against Almighty God to provoke him to Anger and great Displeasure few were prepared to dye the death of the Righteous then if Death had come upon them which many feared greatly when by the Earthquake so many Houses in the City of London with the Subborbs were so terribly shaken that many People were in expectation that their Houses would fall down upon them and others fearing that the Ground would have opened to sink them down I was in a great concernment and trouble of mind for to hear and behold so many People in a sudden expectation of the Death of their Bodies whilst unsensible of there being dead in their Sins and Trespasses and so much unprepared for such a final Change or Dissolution of their outward man they having not Repented of their Wicked Works nor turned from the Evil of their Ways and Doings and but few did I see that did turn their Minds towards the Lord to feel him inwardly or that did turn to him with all their Hearts who by his great Power did shake the Earth outwardly but few Rent their Hearts or considered their Ways to turn to God to look to him and wait upon him in Humillity Reverence and a Godly Fear but many did I behold with stretched out Necks and wanton Eyes full of Pride Vain Glory and great Abominations were acted and committed in the Fairs at Smithfield and Southwork and other places as if God did not see nor yet regard it Ah! sinful City and Nation will you not see will you not consider nor lay these things to Heart and Repent of your Crying Sins and great Abominations Have not your Sins long cryed for Wrath and Vengeance to fall heavy upon you O! that you would once come to hear obey the Voice of the Lord and his threatning more Judgment and greater Calamity yet to come upon this City and Nation if speedily you do not Repent and turn to God from all your Transgressions and horrible Abominations where-with he is so much provoked and the Name of Christ Jesus which you profess in Words dishonoured Be ye all asured that the Judgments come and threatned are not intended or sent where they come that any should sleight or disregard them but seriously to consider them as so many Warnings from God to the Wicked for them to beware and take heed how they continue any longer in Sin Rebellion and hard Heartedness against the Lord lest sudden Destruction come upon you that you will not be able to escape or flee