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A95744 To Friends in Ireland, and elsewhere a mournful word to the merry-hearted in Zion; with a word of comfort to her bowed down mourners. Written in great exercise of soul and spirit in obedience to the Lord. By Thomas Upsher. Upsher, Thomas, 1672-1704. 1699 (1699) Wing U123; ESTC R230513 5,651 20

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TO FRIENDS IN IRELAND And elsewhere A Mournful Word to the merry-hearted in Zion with a word of Comfort to her Bowed down Mourners Written in great Excercise of Soul and Spirit in obedience to the LORD By THOMAS UPSHER Wo to you that laugh now for you shall mourn and weep Luke 6. vers 25. Neither filthiness nor foolish talking nor Jesting but giving thanks Ephes 5. vers 4. Blessed are they that mourn for they shall be comforted Matth. 5. vers 4. These are they which came out of great tribulations and have washed their Robes and made them white in the Blood of the Lamb. Rev. 7.14 Printed in the Year 1699. A mournful Word to the merry hearted in Zion with a Word of Comfort to her Bowed down Mourners FRIENDS that profess the self-denying way of the Lord JESUS CHRIST who was a Man of sorrows and deeply acquainted with grief and yet are of a jolly spirit and of a merry heart who can laugh and jest at pleasure saying There is no harm in it I have this to say to you whether you will hear or forbear that the Lord is displeased with you and calls for Mourning and Weeping in secret places instead of Laughter and Jesting in Company And I must needs tell you that if ever you were rightly bowed and humbled in a sence of your lost and undon states and were made to lament and mourn in the sight and feeling of your wretchedness you have too soon quitted that Exercise you have not past often enough through the fire neither have you been baptized enough with the Waters of many tribulations You have not drunk sufficiently of the Cup of trembling at the hand of the Lord and therefore you must come down from your pleasant and delightful Seats and be humbled as in Dust and Ashes before the Lord of Hosts whose fire is in Zion and his furnace in Jerusalem and you must pass through it again and again till all your dross is taken away and all your light chaff be burnt up O Friends you are those that are at ease in Zion and have taken up a rest too soon and now the Lord is about to disturb you and rouze you up out of your false security Blessed are those that are willing to come forth to Judgment at the sound and Alarum of the Trumpet of his eternal Word for I proclaim in the Lords power that the time hastens and draws on apace that Judgment shall eminently and searchingly begin at the House of God in his Sanctuary amongst his people that are peculiarly called by his name and the unfaithful the Hippocrite and Rotten-hearted shall tremble with the shaking horror of his searching Judgments And you that are jolly spirited merry hearted and that take liberty to laugh joque and jest at pleasure the very Pillars of your House shall tremble you shall weep and mourn in solitary places and strow your tears in secret Corners Therefore take warning I pray you and be humbled before the Lord and cry mightily to him night and day that he may take vengeance speedily upon that idle and airy Spirit from whence springs these things that are contrary to the mournful followers of the Lord Jesus Christ O I entreat you watch and pray yea cry mightily to the Lord God of Heaven and Earth that he may crucify and utterly slay this Nature in you which hath often lead you to forgetfulness of God and hath vailed and darkned you many times Is it not think you very sorrowful to consider how a great many in a little time after they have come out of a good Meeting where they have been under a sence of the Lords power and have been reach'd with a tendering Visitation fall to idle silly needless discourse and it may be to laughter and jesting which I declare is as contrary to what they were before as darkness to Light and tell them of it they will say they think no harm Well I tell you there is harm in it you hurt your selves and others and you lay a stumbling block in the way of the weak you are bad Examples you give occasion to them that are without for tho' they may seem to be pleased with your Company and Conversation they will slily ridicule and slight you as to Religion and will as I have heard some say such an one is as merry as we for all his serious Principles he will jest and laugh and joak and speak at large as well as we These things are not of a good savour how do you think this will answer the End of your holy calling which is to be the salt of the Earth as Lights in the World as a City set on a hill that cannot be hid Trees of Righteousness bringing forth much fruit to the glory of God fruits of self-denyal heavenly fruits while you are on Earth giving a manifest Testimony that you are true followers of the Lamb through great tribulations I would have you consider Christ's Words in the 6th of Luke wo to you that laugh now for you shall-weep and mourn And also the Apostles Words Ephesians 5th where he speaks of Fornication Covetousness Uncleanness and Filthiness telling them these things do not become Saints neither foolish talking nor jesting but rather giving of thanks And consider Christ Jesus your Captain and Saviour of whom it is said he was never seen to laugh but had often been seen to weep It is to be feared some of you will harden your hearts and put at least a silent slight upon this Warning and Counsel But such shall know assuredly in a day of distress and bitter adversity which shall certainly be their portion that these sayings are not idle tales nor yet such little matters as some would make them tho' while they are far and full and in a day of prosperity they may kick against Reproof and puff up their hearts in wantonness against this tender advice Methinks some will be ready to say What would'st have us Melancholly Morose always reserved and shut up from innocent Communication I answer no for that would be an extream on the other hand that which I am deeply concerned to speak against is Laughter foolish Talking and Jesting and such like And that which I am speaking for is Temperance Sobriety and Moderation with watchfulness over our Words Actions Deportment and behaviour at all times and in all places upon all occasions remembring the saying of our Lord Jesus Christ That we must give an account at the day of Judgment for every idle Word we shall speak I do tell you again in much assurance that the great God of the Spirits of all flesh calls for mourning at your hands and happy shall they be that answer his Call in time And now I am under a necessity to remind you of the late Prophecy of that antient eminent and faithful Messenger and Minister of Jesus Christ William Edmondson in Dublin at this half Years Meeting The substance of which was