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A55570	Tsofer bepaḥ, or, The bird in the cage, chirping four distinct notes to his consorts abroad I. of consideration, counsel and consolation, II. some experiences and observations gathered in affliction ..., III. the lamentations of Jeremiah ..., IV. a true Christians spiritual pilgrimage setting forth his afflicted and consolatory state in another metre : and as a preface hereto, an epistle to the Welsh churches, and a brief narrative of the former propagation and late restriction of the Gospel ... in Wales ... / by Vava. Powell.	Powell, Vavasor, 1617-1670.	1661 (1661)	Wing P3078; ESTC R19436	71,339	204

whole glory i. e. the whole Church 2 Cor. 8.23 shall be a defence therefore be comforted that the counsel of God the Priesthood of Christ and the Covenant of peace are unchangeable and abide for ever which is the sure foundation of every true Christians confidence and comfort Be not slothful in proving your knowledge of faith in love towards walking after and suffering for Christ For the visible and seeming differences are little and smal between the right Christian and the Hypocrite therein But in the Anointing Spirit Vertue Power and Life within which like the oyl in the Lamp feeds the wick of profession I beseech you also in the Lord Heb. 6.2 2 Jo. v. 9. Pro. 4.2 1 Tim. 4.6 1 Tim. 1.10 Tit. 1.9 and 2.1 as dear Brethren that you be not moved from the Doctrin which was delivered to you which is the same with the Doctrine of the Apostles called the Doctrine of Christ good Doctrine and sound Doctrine In opposition to these are the Doctrines of Devils 1 Tim. 4.1 Mar. 7.7 Col. 2.21 Heb. 13.9 1 Jo. v. 10. Rev. 2.14 15 24. and the Doctrines of men which either directly deny Christ or much derogate from him who is the perfect Law-giver And that Satan and his Instruments may the better introduce their own Doctrines they make it their design and indeavour to batter down the Scriptures for their Dagon cannot stand before Gods Ark. As the Jewes make it death for any of their Religion to read and keep the New-Testament The Papists also make it an Article of their Creed that unwritten verities as they call them and the Canons and Traditions of their Church are of equal authority with the Scriptures hold that they should not be translated into vulgar Languages nor the Common-people be permited to read them † Contrary to Dut. 6.6 to the 10. Josh 1.8 Ps 119.19 16 105. Joh. 5.39 Act. 17.11 and 18.24 Ro. 15.4 2 Tim. 3.16 17. Col. 3.16.17 Rev. 13. 22.10 Also the Quakers generally deny the Scripture to be the Word of God * which are so called See and compare Mat. 15.6 with Mar. 7.13 Lu. 8-11 with Mat. 13. 37 Ro. 10.8 with Deu. 30 14 See also Jo 10.35 Act. 4.31 12.49 13.44 46. 19 20 Eph. 6.17 1 Tim. 4.5 H.S. in his book called the Everl Rule pa. 28. or a Rule affirming there is no other Rule Way or Means c. but that which is manifest in men And one of the learned'st of them disdainfully calls the Scriptures broken Cisterns your Scripture your Word your Letter † S.F. In his book cal'd Rust ad Acad pa. 115.116 117. These 3 last instances I divers others heard from the Parties owne mouths and some upon that account call it the great Idol others affirm the writings of their Teachers to be of equal inspiration and Authority with it and that which is yet worse one woman put her Bible under her foot another Burnt it and yet these two were great Quakers but now are turned Singers a degree as they concieve above them But beloved you are better taught I hope will still retain your love of diligence and delight in and zeal for this word of God And especially to walk more according to it then those that pretend to experience alike power with a greater mesure of perfection than either the Prophets or Apostles ever did I am fearful and jealous that this attempt of taking away the authority of the Scriptures will end in takeing away the very Bibles from us Therefore I exhort you again in the words of Christ and Paul Search the Scriptures and give attendance to Reading be stedfast in those truths which you have been taught from them by the servants of the Lord some whereof are now glorifyed and others through grace ready to seal it with their blood Concerning God and his Atributes Christ and his Offices the Holy Spirit and it's manifestations the decrees of God before time the two Covenants viz. the Law and the Gospel the wreched state of all men by Nature and out of Christ the freeness of Gods grace Joh. 5 39. 1 Tim. 4.13 in opposition to mans free-will The Doctrine of Justification by the imputed Righteousness of Christ apprehended and received by Faith Sanctification distinct from Justification wrought by the Spirit in us Perseverance Assurance and growth in Grace by vertue of our union with Christ and his spiritual in dwelling and operating in us Living Godlily Righteously and Soberly in this present World Denying our selves following Christ shunning sin resisting Satan separating from the world in matters of Gods worship not medling with nor mingling the Traditions of men with Gods truths joyning your selves to and continuing in the fellowship of Saints and using carefully and conscientiously all the Ordinances of Christ as Preaching Hearing and expounding Scriptures keeping up publick family and private prayers Prophesying and singing of Psalms Hymnes and spirial Songs in the Churches Repetition of Sermons Observing the Sabbath Baptism and the Supper of the Lord and upon occasion dayes of solemn fasting or Rejoycing visiting one another especially the tempted and the sick relieving the poor and in case of scandal and heresie to deal with offending members by Admonition Suspention or Excommunication according to the Nature of the Offence and carriage of the Offender doing all your duties to magistrates Masters Parents Husbands Brethren Neighbours and Enemies according to the blessed commands of Jesus Christ Withall expecting the destruction of Antichrist the Restauration of the Jewes the Coming Kingdom and Raign of Christ still remembring your latter end the immortality of your precious Souls believing the Resurrection of the Body the Judging of all and the Salvation of the Righteous Finally my Brethren the hour of temptation being come upon us let us redeem time be watchful and sober keeping our lights burning our Lamps shining our Loyns girded our consciences awakned our garments unstained Let us fear God more than men Sin more than suffering self more then others living basely more than dying Christianly and Nobly Let us wisely consider Gods works Ps 64.9 Esa 5.12 and wonders though others should slight them and maintain Gods Wayes and Cause though they be despised by most and let us not carnally comply with nor superstitiously conform to the world to save our estates Liberties or Lives Nor yet forsake the assembling of your selves together but edifie confirm and comfort one another Encouraging the weak helping to restore those that are faln and to establish those that yet stand Doing your duties commanded by God what ever danger may come thereby Keeping your selves from error and every evil thing by the holy spirit in you And as our Saviour commands John 14.1 be not troubled praying also earnestly that neither I nor you may suffer for sin or sin in suffering not be sensless under present or faint under future tryals Let us

Sin is Soul-Restorative-Phyfick Consider that when you are not assaulted with Temptations Satan is damming and pounding and he will suddenly draw up his sluce and let loose upon you Satan doth not like God warn before he strike Christs Work is Wages and his Service perfect Freedom The Love of the Master the Sweetness of the Service and the Greatnesse of the Reward are sufficient Encouragements to serve Christ Afflictions sink the flesh and raise the Spirit To receive Evil viz. Affliction for doing Good is sweet A Christians security and safety is in doing his duty and he should study his duty more then his safety He that loves not Christ more than his lust or his life is like to lose Christ and his life but he that loves Christ more then his life will be sure to save and keep both Strive greatly to have and to exercise a good Conscience towards God and men to commit thy soul life and cause to the Lord and to expect the worst of men and the best of Christ Some Saints do ill in seeking to do well espeially in provoking and pressing other Christans in dark and doubtfull things beyond their own Apprehensions Consciences the bent of their spirits and abilities This is Com. As a man that is Exceedingly well-hors'd travelling with others that are but meanly hors'd drives too hard for his Companions who yet intend to go to the same Place and endeavour to travel as fast as they can Com. Christ is unto the soul as the Load-Stone to the Iron dawing it to it Self or the Chrystal to other stones putting beauty and lustre on them Sence over-rules Imagination Reason Sence and Faith all three in a true Christian A Christian beholds Christ in the deepest affliction as well as in the most spiritual Ordinance Com. As one beholds the Sun in looking upon a deep Pond as well as in looking up to heaven A true Christian when he goes hence changes neither his Work nor Company but his Place and Condition only God leads many of his best friends by the hand without Candle light or assurance to their rests Com. To dye should be no more to a Christian then to breath Com. or to pass over a great River on a Sure Bridge Com. or in a Safe Boat or to return from a Field where a man hath been working to his own house to take his rest To be able to refist strong Temptations there must be either store of in-laid Grace or faith must fly quickly to that Grace laid up in Christ for it Com. Christ is like a tender Parent that is carefull to bring up his Children but many Professors like Undutiful and Unnatural Children forget them in their straits Contented to be maintained by Truth in Prosperity but not to maintain Truth in Adversity Com. Corruptions are like Wormes in the maw or stomach which will eat through the soul unless scattered killed and purged out Com. The only way sometimes for a Christian to avoyd the force of temptation is Soulderlike to fall down on his face when he sees the Cannon or Musket fir'd against him Com. A Christians eye should be like the Adamant turning only toward one Point even Christ Com. Much grace especially zeal and exercised brings persecution As the sweeter and better the Fruit is the more flinging there is at the Tree Make hast to doe thy work Christian and God will make haft to give thee thy wages On Christian why should not that please thee who art but finite that pleases God who is infinite even Christ Pray that thy last dayes and last works may be thy best ☜ And that when thou com'st to dye thou mayst have nothing else to do but dye Thou must dye once whether thou Suffer or no and thou canst dye but once if thou suffer The sins of Saints are new Sufferings to Christ and the Sufferings of Saints are the wounds of Christ A Saint should desire to die that he may be fully freed from sin have a full fruition of Christ that he may be above all fears and doubts and able to serve the Lord uncessantly and unweariedly Reading the Scriptures helps Metitation Meditation Prayer and Prayer every good Work When you come to die it will trouble you not only that you liv'd sinfully or in doing evil but sloathfully in not doing good nay not only that you were sloathfull in good but that you spent so much time in things lesse profitable which should have been spent about and in the things which were most advantagious Man may come too late to God when the door is shut but God never comes to late to men Christ may come in to afflicted Souls through some back-door or Affliction which they do not expect him to come through or in at Com. Let the Child be contented to take the breast the Mother will give it and then it shall have both so be contented with what Christ gives you and you shall want nothing To see the want of Grace is much the worth of Grace more 'T is hard to get Grace hard to get assurance of Grace hard to use it and not abuse it 'T is very hard to behold our own gift without pride and the gifts of others if they excel ours without envy Com. As a little Candle-stick becomes a small Candle so a litle Church a Pastor or Teacher that hath but little grace and weak gifts It is better and surer for thy self to be a Toe than an Eye a Member then a Teacher in a Congregation And this I often wish'd might have been my condition Take heed of covering any mans good with his Evil but let the one plead for him as well as the other against him Do not commend thy friend nor discommend thy foe too much lest thou be judg'd to be partial Lose not thy reward by seeking thy self in thy work Com. I have oft observed that some old welstor'd Christians are like Merchants who have full ware-houses but will sell but in Whole-sales And other young Professors like pidling-pedlers crying about the streets every trifle Com. I have observed that men of great learning and parts or of great wealth and power have for the most part disturbed and devided Churches Also that those Churches never stood long that made Opinion and not Godl-fess and Christianity the foundation of their nellowship The best way for a Teacher and his Congregation to live quietly and comfortably together is for either of them to give to the other what God requires and not to demand expect or exact one from another and so Husband and Wife and all other Natural Relations He commands most and best that commands in love humility and self-denyingly He is most a Master that is most a Servant Be not ye Christians call'd Masters yet the People give them honor according to their place grace years and labours He hath not learned to rule that hath not learned to obey An even through-pac'd self-fearing heart-melting Christian is

all his works in and for God Joh. 3.21 Rom. 6.10.1 Cor. 10.31 4. To bring his will to submit to the will of God in every thing Mark 26.42 Heb. 10.7 Take heed of sinning presumptuously i.e. 1. Knowingly Luke 12.47 Heb. 6.4 6.2 Pet. 2.20 2. Willingly and wilfully Hos 5.11 Heb. 10.26 3. By contemning the Law and Love of God Prov. 3.13 Rom. 2.4 4. By flighting Jesus Christ's Person Power and his Blood Mat. 12.24 Luke 19.14 Heb. 10.29 5. By blaspheming and doing despight to the Spirit of God Luke 11.15 Heb. 10.29 6. By falling into the hands of God without Christ and true Sanctification Heb. 10.29 Com. A Christian in Affliction if he understand not what God intends thereby should believe God intends not to hurt him As a Wife or a Child that a Husband or Father brings into a Wood or Water ☜ yet they are confident it is not to hang or drown them It is a sign that People do not repent when they grow worse Rev. 16.9 11. A passionate and troubled spirit is like a little Pryll of Water which every showre of Rain or Beast that passes thorow doth change the colour of it and make muddy Quick Onsets and Endeavours to Reform are far better than many Purposes and Resolutions It should trouble a Christian much to have such Graces which he receives from God beget so little good in him Oh my soul will neither great Love great Mercy great Forbearance great Intreaty nor great Wages prevail with thee to serve Christ freer and better A deep sence of sin begets deep sorrow for sin and true sorrow for sin leads to wel-grounded Faith from hence flows inward Peace Joy and Holiness The Lord would soon turn from his Wrath if men were turned from their Wickedness A Christian is not only to be contented with any condition but he is to be religiously contented or in a religious manner not as a meer man and to see that the least things he hath more than he deserves and the worst things that he endures yet sweetned and sanctified to him Com. As a Husbandman when great Rain comes unyoaks his Oxen and turns them home where they are feeding and gathering new strength to work again So God doth his Children in time of Affliction and Persecution Com. A Christians time of Affliction is like to a Womans washing or scouring day when the Cloaths or Vessels are all out of order but it is in order to set them in a better frame speedily Of all men a Christian may be freer to lose or to part with any thing than another man for he loses nothing but either what is hurtful to him to wit his sins or what he shall regain and recover of a better sort and in a more abundant degree As if he lose a small temporal ESTATE he hath in reversion an Eternal INHERITANCE If he lays down a body that is full of Corruption he shall have another free from Corruption and therfore he may say better than the Heathen could What I keep I lose and what I give or lay out I save The Lord hath I am perswaded done more by the Afflictions which he hath lately brought upon his People than either was done or like to be done by any other wayes or means Viz. 1. He hath driven his People more together and made them more one * Vnio in Larine signifies Vnion or a Pearl Oneness among Saints is a Pearl of great value 2. He hath separated more between them and the World like winnowing drives the Chaff further from the Wheat 3. He hath convinced them more of their miscarriages both towards him and toward one another 4. He hath made them to know persons and things better 5. To prize Spiritual Priviledges and Ordinances more Such a fulness as Christians had of Ordinances made them despise them like the Israelites the Manna 6. To experience their own weakness of Faith together with their great misbelief by checking the over-much Confidence of his Saints 7. To cry more earnestly to him and wait more constantly on him 8. They are unloaded and much discharged of the burden of the World A Christian should take heed lest he be giving way to his heart to steal out now and then to sin and get some sweet-bits thereof between Duties He should be careful also to fence that Gap most by which the strongest Temptations do enter oftenest in There will be a reviving of old sins if there be not effectual Repentance for them and a care by Faith through all Duties and Ordinances to get new strength against them and a constant watch kept over them When God makes the World too hot for his People to hold then they will let it go A Christian comes not to know the weakness of his Grace till the Spirit ceases to work in and by it nor the power of his Corruption till Satan works therein by his Temptation A Christian's flesh shonld keep from the shew and his Conscience from the guilt of Sin Sin 's best is before but its worst is behind and the sting and tayl of it longer than it self Where Sin is not killed it will kill Sin was condemned by Christ to save the sinner Rom. 8.3 Oh then let not the Sinner seek to save the Sin to condemn Christ again As the natural Sun the nearer it is to us and the more direct over us the less shadow it casteth So Christ the nearer he is to us the less Darkness and Sin we have Christians should account restraints from Sin great Mercies to them but Recoveries out of Sin with advatage greater Sin hath no mother but a man's heart nor father but Satan Sin draws the Soul into it either by power of policy by force or by fraud Christians should not give offence carelesly nor take offence causelesly Fear thy Friends more than thy Foes thy Sins more than thy Sufferings and Liberty more than Bondage Some Christians have four Thorns that grieve them a Thorn of Affliction from God a Thorn of Persecution from men and a Thorn of Temptation from Satan and of Corruption in themselves which is the worst and that which should trouble them most Though a man may be bled in time of self-ostentation both by God and men by God in Affliction and by men through Persecution Reproaches c. yet that Vein is apt to fill up still Christians should desire to be handfasted and heart-tied to the Lord and to be strong in Faith on Christ Love to him and Resolution for him Self-loathing destroyes self-love much and the more we loath our selves the better we love others Christians should not envy the patience of God towards their Enemies for it is nothing in comparison of what grace he shews to them If Affliction doth us good we should not desire to be free from it till it does us more good much less if it hath not done us any good at all The reason why men do not more magnifie GOD's Grace

temptation God hath heard me and frightned away the Temptation The wonderful work of God is much seen in preserving the Saints from the worship of the Beast Rev. 15.2 3. Be sure to praise God when you receive power agaist Sin and Temptation and you shall be sure to find God ready to give you power another time when you want it When thou art talking with thy Eenemy be sure to have thy eye upon his Sword and thy hand upon thy own watch how Satan or Sin intends to overcome you and how you may best disadvantage them Be still imployed in doing good and you shall not be much tempted or troubled with Evil. Some Christians have more trouble from and for temptation and Sin in one day than they have for suffering many Months Though a Christian should not adventure or dare to do or commit the least evil to gain the greatest good yet sometimes God makes some sin to do more good to a true Saint than many Ordinances and services Com. As a man that hath had great Plague-sores after they have been broken and healed the party becomes more healthy many years after or as some of the Physicians say the strongest poyson as Opium if it can be mastered and corrected it becomes the most Soveraign Physick But no other Physician but Christ can make Sin work good to the Godly as that expression of the Apostle Rom. 8.28 All things work together for good Perkins in his Case of Cons is judged by many Interpreters to comprehend Sin in it as well as suffering as the same words All things are taken in other Scriptures Act. 13.39 Eph. 5.13 And some say that the drinking of the wine wherein the Viper which is one of if not the most poysonful Creature hath been drowned will cure the Leprosy But this Viperous Poyson Sin is warily to be thought on and understood and 't is as when a Husband-man sees a Mole spoyling his ground he is moved the rather to turn water over it which is a means to kill and drown many more So a true Christian sometimes at the sight or sence of one corruption maketh search for and finds out many which puts him more earnestly to wrestle with God for more of his Spirit Power and grace against them all A Hypocrite knowes more than he is willing to do but a true Saint desires to do what he knows and to know more that he may do more and better The liberty of a Saint is not to be indifferent to do this or that but to be free in things that are excellent The actual sins of Men do not so much offend Christ as that they will not have him to be their Saviour Some means to help on Assurance and Holiness 1. Labour after a clearer knowledge of the Covenant of Grace and Testament of Christ as what Christ hath done and suffered for whom and upon what conditions men come to partake thereof 2. Consider these two works of Holiness and Assurance to be the proper works of the Spirit of God and therefore is called the Spirit of Holiness and of Grace because it doth sanctify and Seal the people of God Rom. 1.7 Zach. 12.10 2 Thes 2.13 Ephes 4.30 3. The Soul is to be perfectly off from beholding or depending upon any thing in self or done by self Esa 64.6 2 Cor. 1.9 Rev. 3.17 When the spirit of God seals our Souls as witnesses we do believe and are Gods Children Eph. 1.13 Rom. 8.16 there will be none of our own Signs or qualifications seen but like the Stars they will disappear when the Sun shines yet are still Stars and fixed so are Graces in believers 4. Be diligent in praying for Assurance and in using other means epsecially self-examination Heb. 6.12 2 Cor. 13.5 5. Take heed of all Sins for they put back the Soul both in beleiving and holiness Psal 51.8 11. Luke 22.31 32. 6. Give not way to hard thoughts of God neither entertain that principle of falling from Grace which cannot possibly consist with Assurance See Esa 63.16 and 64.8 Jer. 3.19 and 32.40 Phil. 1.6 Rom. 8.35 36. 7. Look narrowly to your Hearts Tongues Steps and Waies and keep a Diary of Gods dealings and your own walkings Prov. 4.23 Psal 24.25 26. Heb. 12.13 8. Exercise Repentance constantly upon every slip and fall into sin confess them mourn for them be ashamed and humbled for them and labour to hate them and loath your selves for them Lev. 26.40 41. Psal 32.15 Jer. 3.21 Ezek. 7.19 2 Cor. 7.11 Jam. 4.8 9. Eze. 20.43 THE Lamentations OF JEREMIAH IN MEETER CHAP. I. HOw doth the City sit alone that full of People was How is she become a widdow she that was great alas Among the Nations and Princess in Power and Glory Among the Provinces Is she become Tributary 2 She weepth now sore in the night and on her checks are teares She hath none for to comfort her among all her Lovers All her Friends have dealt treach'rously with her and now they are Become her real Enemies she could not them beware 3 Judah is gone into Bondage because of Affliction For their greatness of Servitude how sad is dear Zion She dwelleth among the Heathen she finds no rest but waits Her Persecutors overtake her between the sore straits 4 The ways of Zion do mourn much because none come of late Unto the solemn Feasts but all her Gates are desolate Her Priests do sigh her Virgins are afflicted too no less And she Jerusalem her self is in great bitterness 5 Her Adversaries are the chief her Enemies prosper Because the Lord himself for sins hath so afflicted her For her many Transgressions into Captivity Her little children are now gone before the Enemy 6 And from the Daughter of Zion all her beauty departs Her Princes have lost their Courage and are become like Harts That find no pasture any where and they are gone fainty Without strength before the face of the Pursuer they be 7 Jerusalem minded in the days of her Affliction And of her Miseries all her pleasant things that are gone That she had in the dayes of old when her People did fall * Dutch Transt By the hand of the Enemy and none help'd her at all The Adversaries look on her and at her Sabbaths mock'd 8 Jerusalem sin'd grievously therefore she is remov'd All that did honour her before hate her and not regard Because they saw her nakedness she sighs and turns backward 9 Her filthiness is in her skirts she her last end not minds Therefore she came down wonderfully no comforter she finds O Lord behold my affliction for the proud enemy Against thee and against me Lord himself doth magnifie 10 The adversary hath spread out his hand on all strongly Her pleasant things for she hath seen into the Sanctuary The heathen entred whom thou didst command that there should none Of them at all enter into thy Congregation 11 All her People do sadly sigh they seek bread