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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30287	Seasonable words for English Protestants a sermon from Jer. 51, 5, setting forth, 1. When a land is filled with sin? 2. What evidences we have that England is not forsaken yet by God? and, 3. What is required of us, that we may not be given up to destruction.	Burgess, Daniel, 1645-1713.	1690 (1690)	Wing B5717; ESTC R3911	15,773	37

against our sin having declared the Sentence in his Word yet he hath visibly granted an Arrest of Judgment The Sentence shall not be put in Execution saith God while I give this People a time and space and season of Repentance and Reformation Alas If God had utterly forsaken us he would have taken us off in the midst of our Security Evil would have risen and we should not have known the morning of it Destruction would presently have overtaken us But now God hath given us various Calls various Warnings and leaves us a space as yet to see what we will do and what will become of us I will give them a Tryal saith God the Decree shall not yet go forth Judgment shall not yet come forth to Execution I will give them a space for Repentance And this consideration hath a double corroboration of this blessed space and season God hath given us for to apply our selves so far to his Call as to remove his Judgments that are impending over us The first is That he hath reserved a Remnant among us that do make use of this space and season to apply themselves unto the Throne of Grace and to cry mightily for mercy God hath not taken his Holy Spirit from us God hath not said by any open Work or secret Intimation of Providence Pray no more for this People my heart shall not be toward them He hath not said so And therefore there are yet among us precious Souls who do lift up prayers to God night and day not only for themselves and Families not only for the Church of God but for this poor Land of our Nativity that if it were the will of God we may not see it soaked in Blood that God would not come forth to destroy it with a Curse that God would pity and spare and have mercy upon it that he would not make it an Aceldama a Field of Blood There are many Cryes to God to this purpose So that there are some by whom this space and season God hath given us is made use of Secondly It hath strength from this That there is an Invitation and Encouragement given to the whole Nation to joyn together in their Cryes to God this day for the same end and purpose I confess to you give me leave to speak it I am afraid the Body of the Nation considering their Conduct in this sort of Duty will make no great work of it towards the averting of Judgments in such a day as this is And I am afraid also that the approaching Carnival or time of Feasting will quickly blot out all Impressions that ought to be in the minds of men from such a day as this is This is all I can say God is publickly acknowledged and what Influence that may have into a further suspension of Judgment till the Nation be better prepared to seek unto him I know not Methinks these are Evidences to me they are that England is not yet utterly forsaken of the Lord its God The miraculous Discovery of the Plot for our Destruction The pursuit of it by some of our Rulers and the Body of the Nation The Embroilment of Forraign Nations in their own concerns The prefervation of the Political Interest and Body when all the Ligaments of Law and Love and Trust were dissolved The space and season that God gives us that we are not immediately hurried into Blood and Confusion attended with a Spirit of Prayer in some of God's own People And with a publick Acknowledgment of God in this day in the Nation I should now proceed to my last thing to shew you that in this State wherein a Land is so filled with sin as absolutely to put the determination of all things into the hand of Soveraignty And where yet there remains some Evidences that God hath not utterly forsaken us What is required of us What is expected from us that may be a means to turn away the Wrath and Displeasure of God from this poor Land and Nation I should have spoken to three things 1. That whatsoever be the Language of God's Calls unless there be a general Compliance with them this Land cannot be saved 2. I should have shown you That all the Diligence and the Courage and the Watchfulness of the Rulers shall not be able to preserve us from that Destruction which we have deserved unless something else be done e're long their hearts will faint and their hands fail and their thoughts be divided For that alone will not do 3. Prayer will not do it in this case though that be necessary and required it will not do it God doth not cry to us meerly that we should cry to him Why cryest thou said God to Joshua there is an accursed thing Why dost thou lie upon thy face and cry and pray when Judgment is coming upon you There is an accursed thing got among you It is so with us 4. To speak very plain in a plain case The State of this Nation is such let our Expectations and our Hopes be what they will and Prognosticks be multiplied God can multiply upon another hand The case of this Nation is such that without Repentance evidenced and universal Reformation sincerely endeavoured England cannot be saved will not be saved God will forsake it Destruction from the Lord will overtake us I should have told you also what I judge indispensably necessary that any such Reformation may be obtained in this Nation As First That there be through the Providence of God provided another manner of Administration of the Word throughout the Nation than at present there is which is the only means of Conviction and Conversion unto God Signs and Wonders and Judgments they terrifie it is the Word that must reform and turn to God And if the State of things continue so that some who are able and wise for the work are forbid and others that engross all to themselves are either unable ornegligent in it I have no great hopes of seeing Reformation in this Land Secondly Unless the generality of Magistrates be better principled for and better instructed in their Office than as yet they seem to be a Reformation will not be carried through this Nation And Thirdly Which is the principal That those who have been examples in sinning and in drawing others to sin become examples in Repenting and Reforming and Turning to God Fourthly and lastly That the whole Nation be stirred up and do not faint in the pursuit of it I have scarce been able to speak the Heads of these things unto you I wish I had strength to speak all that is in my thoughts and heart upon this matter unto this whole Nation for hereon and not on any thing else depends the Deliverance and Safety of it A Catalogue of Books newly Printed and Sold by Tho. Parkhurst at the Bible and Three Crowns at the lower end of Cheapside ATreatise of Knowledge and Love compared In two Parts 1. Of Falsly Pretended Knowledge 2. Of True Saving Knowledge and Love First Against Hasty Judging and False Conceits of Knowledge and for necessary Suspension Secondly The Excellency of Divine Love and the Happiness of being Known and Loved of God The English Nonconformity as under King Charles II. and K. James II. truly Stated and Argued The Scripture Gospel defended and Christ Grace and Free Justification vindicated against the Libertines who use the Names of Christ Free Grace and Justification to subvert the Gospel and Christianity and that Christ Grace and Justification which they in zealous Ignorance think they plead for to the injury of Christ the danger of Souls and the scandalizing of the weak the insulting of Adversaries and the dividing of the Churches Cain and Abel Malignity that is Enmity to Serious Godliness that is To an Holy and Heavenly State of Heart and Life Lamented Described Detected and unanswerably proved to be the Devilish Nature and the Militia of the Devil against God and Christ and the Church and Kingdoms and the surest sign of a state of Damnation All four by Richard Baxter Man's whole Duty and God's wonderful Intreaty of him thereunto Set forth from 2 Cor. 5.20 and published at the Request of some Hearers Advice to Parents and Children The sum of a few Sermons contracted and published at the Request of many Pious Hearers Both by Daniel Burgess A Funeral Sermon for Mrs. Esther Sampson the late Wise of H … Sampson Dr. of Physick who Died Novemb. 24. 1689. By John Howe Minister of the Gospel Two Funeral Sermons of the Use and Happiness of Humane Bodies Preached on 1 Cor. 6.13 By Edward Lawrence Meetness for Heaven promoted in some brief Meditations upon 〈◊〉 1.12 Discovering the Nature and Necessity of Habitual and Act … Meetness for Heaven here in all that hope for Heaven hereafter Designed for a Funeral Legacy By O. H. an unworthy Minister of th● Gospel of Christ The Believers's Daily Exercise Or The Scripture Precept of being in the Fear of the Lord all the day long Explained and urged in fo●● Sermons By John Billingsley Minister of the Gospel A Brief Enquiry into the True Nature of Schism Or A Perswasi … to Christian Love and Charity A Seasonable Question in a Sermon on Josh 5.13 Art thou for 〈◊〉 or for our Adversaries Preacht on the 18th of June at Kingsnoth bei●● the Publick Fast And on the 27th of July at St. Peters Cornhill Lond●● By Timothy Wilson M.A. and Rector of Kingsnoth in Kent A Call to Humiliation for the Grievous Sin of Persecution in 〈◊〉 Sermons Preached at the Publick Fasts in Lemster in the County of H●reford Wednesday May 21. and June 18. 1690. By William Woodw … Minister of the Gospel FINIS