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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

Destruction upon this Nation to our Religion to our Liberties to our Lives Is it not from the Papal Interest There is it stated by our Rulers and in the thoughts of all sober persons And had we been wise we might have seen it many years ago But what have we been doing for some Ages deserting our Principles forsaking the Foundation we stood upon against the Papacy foregoing those avowed Principles of the first Reformers pleading for compliance pleading for a possibility of Reconciliation avowing them to be a true Church And in one word if the Power of the Protestant Religion had not been preserved in the Body of the People it had by some been long ago given up to the Papal Interest and this at a time working effectually among us when we were in dread all that were wise and considerative that there would from thence arise the Desolation and Destruction of this Church I have given you these Evidences that this Land of ours is so filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel And if any can answer it and disprove it no man shall more rejoyce in it than my self I should in the next place shew the danger that Land is in when things lie in this equal Ballance For I pray observe I have not given these things to prove the Land hath filled up its measure of Iniquity and must certainly be destroyed I have not given them to prove absolutely that there is a Decreed Judgment that cannot be diverted that there is no Remedy that notwithstanding Reformation God will say I will not turn away the fierceness of mine Anger But I have given them only to prove that we are in that state and condition wherein there is no certain Rule of the Word no Indication of Providence no rational consideration of the state of things that can give us any Security of Protection or Deliverance but that we are absolutely resolved upon Soveraign Grace and Mercy and without Relief from thence I shall only say as to the proof of the Proposition what the Prophet saith Isa 34.16 Seek ye out of the Book of the Lord and read not one of these things shall fail To omit all the considerations and all the proof I intended That Soveraign Grace and Mercy must be our Relief if ever we be relieved I proceed unto the Second thing which is to give in Evidences That England is not yet utterly forsaken of the Lord his God the Lord of Hosts though the Land be thus filled with sin So that there is ground of Encouragement yet remaining to apply our selves to God And in truth I will tell you the best I can think of 1. The large and wonderful Discovery of the horrible Plot of the horrible Popish Plot laid for the Ruine Destruction and Desolation of this Nation is an Evidence that England is not yet I say utterly forsaken of the Lord its God It was not discovered by our Rulers from whom it was hid It was not discovered by the severe Indagation and Watchfulness of Ministers of State from Forreign Intelligence the usual way of discovering such Plots It was not discovered by Persons of Authority and Interest to warrant the Discovery It was not so in a time when the Nation was awake and looked about them and were jealous of such things but in the deepest Security It hath admitted it hath met with all the endeavours of Hell and Men for the covering of it yet through the Conduct of the holy Providence of God it hath broke forth to that Discovery as that it is publickly proclaimed to all the Nation I say with the Wife of Manoah If God would have destroyed us he would not have shewed us this thing If he had utterly forsaken us he would have left us to have been swallowed up when we should not have had leisure to have cryed Alas To me I say it is an Evidence that England is not yet utterly forsaken 2. That God hath stirred up some at least of the Nobles and our Rulers to follow on this Discovery to bring it forth to Light and to pursue them to Condign Punishment who were the Contrivers Authors Abetters and Carriers on of that Bloody Design I will not speak one word or syllable to their dishonour or disrespect who deserve both honour and respect from us But this I will say that if I know them or any thing of them this is not from themselves this is from the cloathing of the Spirit of God and anointing to this very work and is not from themselves nor their own Principles nor their own Inclinations but the hand of God in them and upon them Add here unto the strange and wonderful quiet disposure of the Magistracy of this City into the hands of Persons prudent diligent and watchful whom we have reason to pray for and bless God for And it is strengthened by the stirring up of a Spirit in the common People unto an unheard of Heat and earnestness in bearing Witness and Testimony against Popery and all their Abominations in such a manner as hath not fallen out in any Nation under Heaven and this acted above and beyond their Spirits and Principles These things to me are some Evidences that England is not yet utterly forsaken of the Lord its God though the Land be full of sin 3. I could instance in the Embroilments of Forraign Nations abroad At this time they are all quiet but who is there that doth not know that they all stand as it were upon the tip-toe looking who shall first begin to cut Throats and kill men Even all the Nations in Europe are in this posture at this day Though they are quiet this cold Weather yet who shall begin first who shall make the Attack and who shall defend is the talk of all Europe whereby some of them may have been hindred from a publick contributing to the Ruine of this poor Nation 4. It is an Evidence that England is not yet forsaken in that a secret efficacious Influence of Divine Providence hath preserved the Body Politick of the Nation in its Being and Union when all the Ligaments of Law and Mutual Trust have been broken There hath been such a Dissolution of Mutual Trust and all ordinary Ligaments of the Politick Union of a Nation that if God had not powerfully grasped the whole in his hand we had long since been in confusion and every man's Sword had been in the side of his Brother and his Neighbour But to this day we are preserved in Peace by a secret Influential Power of Divine Wisdom and Providence whose Footsteps I would adore more and more which is so much the more excellent in that it is not visible and by outward force but meerly upon the minds of men It is to me another Evidence that England is not yet forsaken of its God the Lord of Hosts 5. My last is this That after God hath by so many ways and so many means declared unto us his Displeasure