in the next place that I may shew you my Commission to bear me out in this my enterprize besides that call that I have from your selves in your Remonstrance p. 4. The publique affairs in your hands being brought to the utmost Crisis of danger calls upon every man to contribute what help he can Behold I have it written in such a book as is more authentique then yours Levit. 19.17 Thou shalt not hate thy Brother in thy heart thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour and not suffer sin on him The morality of which precept in regard of its equity and necessity being of more force under the Gospel as the bonds of the Brother-hood are now more strong and spirituall Besides which I find in the Gospel that we are not only to mourn for other mens sins Philip. 3.18 but to reprove them Ephes 5.11 And that by the communion of Saints we are not only to exhort and admonish one another Rom. 15.14 But that it is the duty of all that are spirituall to restore those that are overtaken with a fault Gal. 6.4 That they may be set in joynt again after a dislocation Now that you may be restored set in joynt again I shall present you with a Scripture expedient by which you may be recovered out of that dangerous condition in which you have involved your selves and the whole Kingdom in walking by providence without a precept And because that it is more then evident that by those great Victories and Successes wherein God hath used you to be instruments for the Kingdome Your hearts with Vzziahs are lifted up to your own destruction 2 Chron. 26.16 and of the Kingdom Medling with those matters and affairs for which you have no more Commission then hee had for the Priests Office I shall present you with a History out of the truest Chronicle wherein if you will but weigh it as I have done you shall find That which may cure you of your spirituall Tympany As first That successe in Civill warre to prevaile over our Brethren by the Sword is not alwayes a signe of the Conquerours Saintship Secondly That Conquerours that have found good successe in the field are very backward to beleeve that they are Sinners And Thirdly That a sound Conviction of it that there are sins in a prevailing party over their Brethren is an excellent expedient to alter cruell purposes and intentions and beget a brotherly union Now because that I desire nothing more then that you may parallell that Army in the History both in the change of your purposes and desisting from your practises as they did upon a sound Conviction I shall a little amplifie the following History and become not only your Remembrancer but Observator also for want of a Better Because that our Odeds our Prophets that should come to you with the Message I now bring you are like to have but little acceptance Because you are not only apt to question their Commission whether lawfull Ministers but musing as you use to conclude it might come from self-interests and by-respects To detain you no longer therefore from this story you shall find it 2 Chron. 28.6 There wee read of a cruell warre which ended in a bloody slaughter made upon the people of Judah by Pekah the King of Israel who all came out of the loyns of Jacob and were all one Kingdome till through sin seperated and rent asunder by whom was slain in Judah one hundred and twenty thousand in one day which were all valiant men because they had forsaken the Lord God of their fathers vers 6. At which time the Kings Son was slain and two of his Councellors and two hundred thousand women sons and daughters were plundred and brought captive to Samaria But in the midst of this great victory and conquest over their brethren had they an Euge from their Master was it looked upon as that which called for a solemne day of thanks-giving No such matter for behold a Prophet of the Lord was there whose name was Oded and he went out before the Hoast that came unto Samaria and said unto them Behold because the Lord God of your fathers was wrath with Judah he hath delivered them into your hands and yee have slaine them with a rage that reacheth up to heaven vers 10. and now you purpose to keep under the children of Judah and Jerusalem for bond-men and bond-women unto you Now if you wil consult with the story you shal ther see by what argument he diverts them from this cruell purpose of theirs to prosecute this victory with a cruell captivity Saith he But are there not with you even with you sins against the Lord your God This interrogation begot a sound conviction that they notwithstanding their successes were sinners as well as their brethren But how by a particular application of sin unto them with a double interrogation Are there not with you even with you implying how hardly those which are victorious and successefull will bee convinced of their sinfullnesse Had not the Prophet Oded come with this seasonable conviction they might have been puffed up with pride and self-conceitednesse at their successe and have looked upon their conquered and captivated brethren as those Jewes did upon the Galileans whose blood Pilat had mingled with their sacrifices to be greater sinners then themselves They would have said oh these vile wretches these cursed Apostates these having forsaken the Lord God of their fathers are therefore justly delivered as a prey into our hands who are more righteous then they Their King would have introduced idolatry Or at leastwise innovations in the worship and service of God and therefore when he went unto Damascus to strengthen himselfe by the King of Assiria 2 Kings 16.1 he there saw an alter with which he was enamored and by it corrupted the worship and service of God And Vrijah his Cheife Priest was as forward in adulterating the same as he v. 16. And all the people were like their Priest all had forsaken the Lord God of their Fathers and turned Apostates But it appeareth that upon this sound conviction by Odeds interrogation the pride of their spirits upon this mighty successe was much abated their cruell purposes and intentions were changed And therefore we read of no reply made unto it no studying for evasions to keep off the blow not a word in the aggravation of their brethrens wickednesse or by way of extenuation of their owne rage and cruelty with which they were charged by the Prophet But to shew the tractability of convinced sinners the Heads of the people instead of arguing they fell to acting and that in opposition to the Army that had been so victorious and were now returned with such a numerous company of prisoners They use no carnall reasonings they consult not with flesh and blood Wee must not discourage the Souldiery they will not ingage for us another time No But in the 12. v. certain of the
THE Armies Remembrancer WHEREIN They are presented with a Sight of their Sinnes and Dangers And also with a Scripture Expedient For their Preservation REVEL 2.5 Remember therefore from whence thou art falne and Repent Bernard in Dedic Ecclae Serm. 3. Non miremini fratres si durius loqui videor Quia Veritas neminem palpat BY A Cordiall Friend to the Kingdomes welfare Rr. LONDON Printed for Stephen Bowtell 1649. TO HIS EXCELLENCY THOMAS LORD FAIRFAX Generall of the Parliaments Forces and to the Generall Councell of Warre Much Honoured Sirs HAving beene a sorrowfull observer of your Unworthy walking both formerly and of late And taking notice of Gods displeasure against you for it so as not to be inhappied by a faithfull Admonisher or Remembrancer of your sinner and dangers I durst not finding the Holy-Ghost bringing this to my remembrance to become a Remembrancer to you bee disobedient unto that Heavenly Vision by consulting with flesh and blood Our blessed Saviour tells us that in some cases if men should prove stones and hold their peace the stones should prove men and immediately cry out Luke 19.40 And truly did you but know me as well as I doe my selfe you would look upon mee as such a miraculous Monitor One the string of whose tongue is unloosed that never spake in this kinde before But not upon the sight of the murther of Craesus but of the utmost crysis of danger wherein you have involved your selves and the Kingdom Though the Sceane be altered the Court turned into a Councell of Warre and the Court Parasites vanished away yet am I jealous over you with a Godly jealousie that it is your great unhappinesse not to be so free from Flatterers and Flatteries as I could wish But not knowing how to give flattering titles least in so doing my Maker should soone take me away Iob. 32.22 I have declined in what I humbly present your Lordship and your Councell of Warre in what followeth as your faithfull Remembrancer Not only those affirmative flatteries which are too often sounded in your eares by way of incouragement in this your present undertaking but also that Negative flattery consisting in the silencing or extenuating the sinnes and miscarriages of those whom by the Law of Love we are bound to deale faithfully withall Your Lordship and Councell well know that in Fortifications that Engeneer is a Traytor that conceales or lessens a places weaknesse and he is no lesse to be condemned that shall with a negative flattery conceale or extenuate the sinnes and miscarriages of such persons as may indanger the publique safety I have therefore in the integrity and sincerity of my heart for prevention of those miseries and calamities that are like to come upon your selves and the Kingdome by your meanes indeavoured by a sound conviction to make you sensible that there are in you even in you sinnes against the Lord your God of which you are guilty either actually or accessarily 2 Epist John 11. And because they are such as have beene committed in the sight of the Sunne before all therefore I have remembred and reproved you before all that others may feare 1 Timothie 5.20 Wherein as I come not out against you shod with indignation and scorn being pleased to pour contempt vpon you as you know who Sedg nor yet with Lilburnian language but with a spirit of meekenesse to restore you So doe I hope for and earnestly desire your favourable acceptance and candid interpretation Beseeching your patience to read over and ponder what I have sincerely and seriously propounded for yours and the publique good and your pardon for any un-intended failings of mine in my expressions And having by prayer put this blunt weapon into an Omnipotent hand that can make it cut indeed I bow my knees to the Father of our Lord Jesus that bee would grant you according to the riches of his glory to be strengthened with all might by the spirit in the inward man that so you may conquer your present temptations and be recovered out of Satans snare into which he hath brought you by transforming himselfe into an Angell of Light even so prayeth againe and againe Your most humble Servant in the Lord Rr THE ARMIES REMEMBRANCER BEEing under a sad Apprehension of the great indignation and displeasure of our God who manifests himself to bee a Consuming fire not only by permitting the beginning but the continuance of these cruell and bloody civill Warres amongst us Being also much affected with a tender sense of the glory of our gracious God and the honour of his blessed Gospel which suffereth much by your present miscarriages being truely touched with an unfeigned desire of yours and the Kingdoms welfare and preservation which are exceedingly indangered by your unsaintlike practises having also a clear vision of that confusion that is like to come upon you and this miserable Kingdome by your means except speedily prevented I am compelled to break through many intrinsecall and extrinsecall obstructions and though a very unable and unworthy instrument to undertake so great a service Yet in the strength of the Lord Jesus Christ my Redeemer to lay before you in all humility sincerity and fidelity what I hope he by his holy spirit hath suggested unto my most sad serious thoughts But before I begin I must necessarily doe these two things First indevour to remove what-ever may occasion any prejudice against me or the insuing matter And then Secondly open my Commission before you that gives me warrant for this my enterprize That I may doe the former I must at this time walk rather by the President of David then the Precept of Solemon his Son His precept is Let another man praise thee and not thy self Prov. 27.2 But his Father practises to prevent a prejudice that was taken at his person which was to praise himself and boast of his valour and magnanimity 1 Sam. 19.36 whose example I must so farre follow in the commendation of my self to you being a stranger as I may present the integrity and sincerity of my affections towards your persons though not your sins as you are Souldiers and Saints by profession which I have not only testified before God and man in my prayers and Petitions for your Modellizing but could produce many comfortable evidences that I have upon Record of Gods hearing my prayers for you when you have been engaged about his work in the field And that you may not look upon me as an Apostate Round-head in referrence to your selves I could produce witnesses that could testifie that I have not been wanting in shewing my respects and affections even since your first grand disobedience of which I shall humbly minde you by and by All which and more I could speak to this end that I might prepare your hearts and eares to receive without prejudice what I have to propound as comming from a Christian a Friend one that loves you and desires your welfare And now
joynt again I shall endeavour by hard arguments and soft words to convince you from your owne Papers your practizes and declared purposes by all which it will appeare that though by many you have beene most miserably flattered yet besides those manifest fruits of the flesh which are predominant in many of you as Wrath Strife Sedition Heresie Gal. 5.20 There are likewise many other sinnes to be found amongst you that will declare that the Spots that are upon you are not the spots of Gods Children But before I begin besides what I have already sayd in my Preamble to take off all prejudice and that you might see into my heart and behold the Rise of this conviction which is the truest love that can be manifested I doe in the Bowels of Christ not onely desire your patience to reade over and over what I am now to lay before you though it may seeme to be expence of time and a diversion from your weighty imployments Because if effectuall may save you a great deale of time which otherwise you are like to spend in the undoing of your selves and the Kingdome But as I desire your patience to reade it so to be Patients And if to restore you and set you in joynt againe I should handle you hard to your feeling Consider I beseech you it is not intended to hurt you but to helpe and heale you If the Lord Jesus by the ligament of his convincing Spirit be but pleased to binde on that which I onely can apply to your dislocations I begin therefore with Oded to aske you this question Are there not with you even with you sins against the Lord immediately Are not you who doe expresse so much bitternesse of spirit against others as Apostates Are not you guilty of Apostacy both Dogmaticall and Morall Have you not beene so farre from walking worthy of that liberty the Lord hath given us from Prelaticall Persecution by holding fast the forme of sound Doctrine of Faith and Love 2 Tim. 1.13 and that faithfull word you have beene taught As not onely to be carryed about with every wind of Doctrine to bring the Mysteries of faith unto the Barre of shallow and corrupt reason that incompetent Judge And to disgust and dislike those Ancient Truths of Humiliation for sinne and mortification of the same but also from these beginnings of Dogmaticall Apostacy into small errours proceeding unto such as doe race those very Fundamentall Poynts and Principles of Religion which have the greatest influence into practicall Holinesse Therein verifying Mr. John Goodwins assertion in his booke of justification in his Preface to the Reader Page 13. sayes he Lots plea for Zoar is it not a little one is at no hand to be admitted for the sparing of any errour A small errour cannot lightly be favoured or connived at but that great errours will be comprehended in the Indulgence Oh Brethren I beseech you be but serious in a selfe reflection in this particular who by Sathans subtlety and sophestry are so beguiled as that though your Gold be turned into Tynne your Silver into Drosse Truth into Errour Verity into Here is yet to conclude your condition was never better and therefore doe account those Ministers or Christians your greatest Enemies that doe oppose you Especially in your endeavoured for Act of * Tolleration Indemnity for all Apostates that shall depart from the truth I shall forbeare in this place interrogating whether there are not in you sins against the Lord your God Not onely by your misbeleefe in point of Errour and Heresie but by your unbeleefe the universall Cause or Mother of that Morall Apostacy you are guilty of because I shall have occasion to mind you both of that and your abuse of the mercies and providence of God by and by And not to mind you at large of your grand and Originall disobedience unto the Commands of the Parliament in Refusing to disband May 1647. your surprizing and removing the Kings Person from Holdenby without and against the Parliaments pleasure or privity and after that your marching up against the House accusing their Members presenting the House with Messages so full of arrogancy as was altogether inconsistent with humble Saints prescribing them a time with menacing expressions to answer you before night as is to be seen in some of your printed Letters and Messages which are upon record to the scandall of Religion I say not to mention or remember you of these any further then to bring you unto a sound conviction of your unconformity unto the Rule of the word and the example of your Saviour Oh the sinnes that are with you even with you against the Lord your God Even since as it was reported to the gladding of the hearts of many that were truely godly that you did keepe a day of Humiliation for those forementioned offences Yea even since you have found the Lord graciously preserving you from being devoured by a fire of your owne kindling from ruine and destruction through those late Insurrections both in England and Scotland of both which you were the occasion by your not disbanding I beseech you aske your selves this Question Are there not with you even with you sins against the Lord your God Have not you abused the late mercies of God to your selves and this Kingdome those great Victories and speedy successes with which God had crowned you for the Kingdomes good Have not you crossed that providence of his by which as with a Sunne beame he writ his gracious intentions towards this Kingdome in ending their troubles by a Treaty having from so low a condition suddainely raised up our Representatives to a capacity of Treating upon Tearmes both Honourable safe and profitable for themselves and the Kingdome Have not you abused all by your practises and purposes declared in your Remonstrance That you have so I shall onely be your Remembrancer to remember you of an objurgation and expostulation with you of a Prophet of your owne Mr. William Sedgwick who though a very unlikely instrument yet in his Justice upon your Remonstrance in many places God hath opened his mouth as once he did Baalams Asse to reprove you Though now in his New view he would like that Prophets Animall carry you himselfe lest you should not move fast enough into those courses that are like to prove so destructive to your selves and the Cause of God But by the light he then had heare him from the quick stirrings of his owne conscience who professeth intimate acquaintance with your designes from the beginning pag. 23. Remon I say nay I pray heare his expostulation with you pag. 17. God hath beene gracious unto you and reprieved you for a while from destruction doe you thus abuse it to harden your hearts to pride malice and wicked insulting over your Brethren Is this the use of your Victories to have opportunities to doe more mischiefe and so treasure up wrath for your selves for all that you lay upon
of publique danger and the extremity thereof that yet from evill intentions and an inordinate temper of spirit you would breake those bonds of law and Magistracy which you finde to restraine you Besides which are not you 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 condemned of your selves even out of the words of your owne mouths as being defective as in that which you your selves doe propound must concur to their full justification that shall plead Salus populi for you say he that ingageth page 5. Vpon such pretences must do it really for publike ends and but upon publike necessity or extremity and with a sober spirit But whether you are not unquallified in all these I leave it to God the World and your owne Consciences when awakened to judge whether in your pleading of Salus populi and your actings upon it instead of reall publike ends private interest carnall feares ambition pride an apprehension of your neglect in the Treaty no assurance of pardon for your fore-mentioned practices against the King and Parliament without and contrary unto commission are not really your publike ends that put you upon this plea of Salus populi That it is not for publike necessity and extremity except to beget it you have the cry of the whole Kingdome against you for it and if you have the quallification of the agent a sober spirit for your iustification let your actions upon it in the violent seising upon the persons of so many grave godly and publike Patriots of the Kingdome with horrible indignitie by turning them into Hell with such unheard of taunts and reproaches as are upon record in your Moderate Intelligencer that came out the tuesday following plead for you These things I say doe cry loud in the eares of God to whom you have appealed and as you acknowledge hath appeared as a severe avenger against such pretenders page 5. and without repentance will be a swift witnesse against you there being in you even in you sins against the Lord your God committed with this and many other aggravating circumstances For the Lords sake if you be Saints such as should be grieved at the least rise of corruption in your soules that should avoid all appearances of evill Oh let what I have propounded stay you in this your sinnefull progresse that you proceed not to fill up the measure of your iniquities Methinks it should move you if I should be your Remembrancer but of those miserable effects that are or may be the products of your abused trust and your unwarrantable walking by providence without a precept Should not the glory of God the honour of his great name be deare unto you Oh my soule thou hast heard the reproach of the adversary how are they confirmed in their profanenesse and superstition in their opposition unto the Reformation that hath cost so deare See See say they how all your hypocrisie is discovered and rather then they shall goe unpunished for their rebellion against their King those who were raised up to be their saviours shall be executioners of Gods vengeance upon them and though the Kings Party with his Cavaliers could not be avenged on this City the nursery of all this Rebellion yet it shall be done by an Army of their owne raising What is more common then such reproaches in the day of our calamity which you have brought upon us And is this nothing unto you Oh where I say is your zeale for God and his cause which you professe unto How is the name of God blasphemed amongst Atheists Papists Malignants profane and carnall persons by your fore-mentioned practises which hath opened their mouths against you how are your friends upbraided to the peircing of their souls when they say unto them Lo are these your Saints your godly and religious party which held forth nothing but justice Righteousnesse who were raised for the preservation of the fundamentall Lawes and of the priviledges of the Parliament and the liberty of the Subject and are now risen up in armes to ruine the King and his posterity to destroy the Parliament and give lawes unto the Kingdome did ever the profanest Officers or souldiers under Essex Waller or Massey attempt any of those things which they have effected Oh Sirs should not this be for a lamentation that instead of putting to silence 1 Pet. 2.15 the ignorance of foolish men by a conformitie unto those Gospell precepts 1 Pet. 2.13 Submit your selves to every ordinance of man for the Lords sake whether it be to the King as supreame or unto Governours You should open their mouths by your evill workes that they behold Oh Sirs consider at the last these true taunts of the adversary by which God is dishonoured and let them not only pierce your eares but your hearts Let me further I pray you be your remembrancer of another effect and a sad one too of these your present practises and that is this That you are not onely thereby cast out of the esteeme of Morall men as walking in such waies that by their light doe looke of an ill complexion But also out of the approbation of very many tender conscienced Christians who as they dare not say unto you in this your way we wish you will in the name of the Lord or bid you God speed least they should be partakers of your evill deeds 2 John ver 11. So they cannot remember you unto God in their prayers except it be that he would restraine you and hedge up your way with thornes and is not this a sad effect indeed Oh pray Sirs let this consideration take hold of your hearts and like Jeromes Surgite emortuis be ever sounding in your eares both in your Counsells and the execution of them That the arme of flesh being broken on which they trusted that staffe your selves on which they leaned having peirced them and gone into their hands they have betaken themselves unto the old and never failing weapons of the Church praeces lachrimae prayers and teares the mouths of which Cannons being turned against you Which I think though you are good souldiers should somewhat affright you and will if you are spirituall because they are spirituall weapons Besides which I pray let me remember you of another effect of your unwarrantable waies in relation unto the publicke now it comes in my minde and that 's this you have justified all the jealousies and feares that many dissenting from you had of you in your minoritie before moddellizing That if the power of the sword were wholly put into Independents hands they would abuse it for their owne selfe interest against the publicke have not you justified the Cities Remonstrance and their feares in this respect have not you made many supposed scandals in the Gangrend to be but true predictions But besides your justification of the feares of many which might fill your faces with shame As another effect of your miscarrages Have not you blasted the reputation of some eminent persons
to your salvation doe it now to save the Kingdome if you debate this motion in the Court of carnall reason it will be cast over the barre and want of its due recentment and acceptance But if the Lord by his convincing spirit through those convincing interrogations which I have propounded shall but awaken your consciences as he wrought upon those armed men in the History by Odeds unexpected coming out to meet them I should then hope all carnall and fleshly reasonings being denyed you would prove as imitable a president to future generations as I desire that army in the History may prove a convincing paterne to you Upon a sound conviction that army was changed in their purposes delivered up their Captives forsooke their spoyle and submitted to their Princes Oh that God by what I have propounded to worke this sound conviction would make it effectuall Then would you deliver up your Captives submit to your Princes and that blacke and bloody cloud of raine and confusion that is like to come upon you and the Kingdome would be scattered And let me adde thus much further that if to what hath beene propounded the Lord shall graciously incline your hearts As you shall therby revive the hearts of this dying Kingdome with hopes of a joyfull accommodation betweene the King and Parliament which for the present is only interrupted by your meanes I make no question but as you shall finde the Lord accomplishing his promise to you that when a mans wayes please the Lord he will make his enemies to be at peace with him So likewise stirring up the hearts both of King and Parliament to grant you that liberty of conscience that Christ hath purchased for you and not only so but giving you such favour in their eyes as still to be continued in such numbers and for such time as shall be thought convenient for the publique safety and that for your maintenance the people will chearefully pay their Taxes when they are but in some hopes of a comfortable end of all their troubles Weigh this I beseech you and consider that there are many thousands that although they cannot close with you or approve of your sinfull waies yet would be exceeding sad to see any of you that are the eminent Officers and Commanders of this Army or the Souldiery either That have done such gallant service as Souldiers exposed unto such a miserable condition as this course you are in doth inevitably tend unto We would willingly save you and pluck you as firebrands out of the fire rescue you from that sentence of death that your unwarrantable actions have possed upon you We would say of you who are the Jonathans the Worthy Commanders of the Army Shall Jonathan dye that hath wrought this great salvation in Israel God forbid 1 Sam. 14.15 But Oh do not you by shutting your eares against the counsell now given you destroy your selves and become your own executioners expose the Kingdome to perpetuall wars both sorreign and intestine Which that it may be prevented do not study how to evade any Arguments that I have presented before you for your conviction that there are in you even in you sins against the Lord your God But follow the example of these Worthies here in the History leave arguing against them and fall to acting and let me but humbly adde one thing more That if you shall but find your hearts inclining to the counsell and advice that I have laia before you and that this Scripture Expedient hath taken hold of your hearts That you as Saints and Christians as plainly and lovingly would administer the same Physick to the City There is no question but you with Oded may say unto them Are there not with you even with you sins against the Lord your God and that not only absolutely but in relation to your selves and that the City with humilitie and due respects may tender the same expedient unto the Parliament to whom no doubt it may be said as unto the Souldiers and Governours in this Historie Are there not with you even with you sins against the Lord your God and they likewise may present it unto the King who stands in need of a convincing Interrogation also Which Scripture Expedient being sincerely and cordially laid before each other out of Principles of Love and an unfained desire of Reconciliation that there may be no more disterences amongst us that are Brethren by so many bonds We according to the Gospel-precept Confessing our sins one unto another and praying one for another James 5.16 We who have so wofully wounded one another with wounds of all sorts and kinds we may be healed and may find the Lord graciously returning unto his Jerusalem healing us with revealing abundance of Peace and Truth And thus hoping by what I have presented before you I shall administer occasion to you to make use of Davids benediction 1 Sam. 25.32 Blessed be the Lord which hath sent thee this day to meet us and blessed be thy advice and blessed be thou which hast kept us this day from coming to shed blood from avenging our selves with our own hands And that I shall receive as comfortable an Answer from you as did that weak instrument vers 15. Goe up in peace to thy house for we have hearkened to thy voice and have accepted of thy person We look not upon the weaknes or the unworthinesse of the Instrument nor any failings of his in the delivery of his mind in the discharge of his Conscience Which aforesaid favour I doe the more importunately desire being conscious to my self of my own weaknesse and dis-abillity for this Service which though I might have bin helped against by consulting with some of the godly and learned Ministry in it yet I purposely declined the same knowing your prejudice against them as those which trouble your Babel Thus humbly beseeching the Lord to give the Comforter to be your Convincer I leave you to the serious consideration of what I have said and the Lord give you understanding Jer. 13.17 But if you will not hear it my soul shall weep in secret for your pride FINIS