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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52032	A tender visitation in the love of God unto all people everywhere particularly unto the inhabitants of Wiltshire, Gloucestershire, and Bristol, and to my neighbours in and about Tetherton, Calloways, and the adjacent towns and villages / by Charles Marshall.	Marshall, Charles, 1637-1698.	1684 (1684)	Wing M744; ESTC R28809	14,556	25

of the expectation we had from some Relations and should we go to Markets and Fairs Psal 24.11 and use but few and savoury Words in our Dealing as the fear of the Lord teacheth and refuse to drink to Excess Psal 5.8.12 beyond what Nature requires for its nourishment and refreshment and not be vainly Merry as in times past we were Prov. 2.15.20 Prov. 4.19 should be a Derision and a By-Word and scorned by such who have been our Companions in those things in times past And this might be very hard to bear not only to us but also some nearest Relations To which I Answer If any should meet with such Exercises as these for turning from Sin and Evil Ps 139.24 and ceasing to walk in the Broad Way which many walk in as aforesaid there is no cause to be discouraged Ps 119.104 for those saith the Scripture that depart from Iniquity make themselves a Prey Psal 69.12 And the Servants of the Lord were the song of the Drunkard And the Apostle saith 1 Pet. 4.1 2 3 4 5. Wherein they think it strange that you run not with them to the same excess of Riot speaking Evil of you who shall give an Account to him that is ready to judge the Quick and Dead Psal 58.11 So look over all the Reproaches you meet with for Righteousness sake Prov. 2.12 13. Psal 71.7 Psal 71.8 Mark 8.34 Luke 9.23 Rom. 8.18 For ye may remember how Christ Jesus the Lord was Reproached for following whom ye may be reproached But after ye are exercised in the Narrow Way taking up the Cross of Christ Jesus despising the shame you will feel that Soul-satisfaction inward Peace and divine Consolation that will administer that heavenly Content that will out-ballance all Exercises and Tryals of this Nature so that you will have often cause to magnifie the Lord Psal 71.15 16. and to say He is good and abounding in his Love and Tender Mercies over the workmanship of his own Hand who hath visited our Souls when we were posting on in the Broad Way of Destruction Rom. 3.16 17. and had only a Profession by the hearing of the Ear of God Christ and his Kingdom Scriptures Religion and once a Week confessing We were miserable Sinners erring and straying from the right Way of the Lord but knew not the True Repentance Acts 3.19 which is alwayes accompanied with a true forsaking Sin and Iniquity But the God of the Hebrews hath met with us Acts 17.30 31. Joh. 1.1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8. who beheld us as Bond-Slaves in spiritual Egypt and he hath visited our Souls with his heavenly Morning of Light by which we have seen our sinful Ways and Life in Iniquity and vain Worships which was so far from being performed in the Spirit that we were some of that number in our Parish that despised the Spirit Luke 10.16 and mocked them that worship in it which is the Antient Worship Christ Jesus set up above sixteen hundred years ago as ye may read Jefus said unto the Woman John 4.23 24. The hour cometh and now is the true Worshippers shall worship the Father in Spirit and in Truth for the Father seeketh such to worship him for God is a Spirit and they that worship him must worship him in Spirit and in Truth So we see now that all Worship not performed thus in the Spirit and Truth hath no Acceptance with the holy righteous and equal God of tender Mercies and Compassions through whose favour we contemn and despise all the Reproaches for his Name-sake Heb. 11.26 1 Pet. 4.14 rather chusing to suffer Reproaches with a People truly fearing God and eschewing Evil than live in the Pleasures of Sin which is but for a season 2 Thes 1.6 7 8 9. Luke 16.23 24 25 28. and then ends in Torment Pains Miseries and Astonishment beyond all expressions of Words c. Now where any poor travelling Souls are thus exercised in coming out of the Broad Way into the Narrow Way of Life Eternal and inwardly waiting on the Lord receiving the Instruction of his Heavenly Gift Prov. 10.17 such will see and understand more and more of the Heavenly streight Gate and narrow Way and it will be daily more and more easie and delightful to the Obedient so that such will Experience what Christ Jesus saith Take my Yoke on you and learn of me Mat. 11.29 30. for I am meek and lowly in Heart and ye shall find Rest unto your souls for my Yoke is easie and Burthen light The Yoke and Burthen of Christ Jesus is indeed easie when the Mind is subjected unto the saving Grace of God which teacheth as I mentioned before what to deny Ephes 2.5 6 7 8. Psal 119.265 and how to walk so as thou mayst have an answer of Peace in pleasing God the Fountain of all our Mercies and then when any mock or scoff thou wilt remember thou wast walking once in Ishmael's way of Scoffing as they are and thou wilt pity them and thy Soul will be concerned for thy Neighbours Relations and Acquaintance crying to the Lord that as he has visited thy Soul through his Grace that brings Salvation and shewed thee Kindness so he would do for thy Neighbours And this leads into the Christian Nature and Spirit not to render Evil for Evil 1 Pet. 3.9 Anger for Anger Scoffing and Reproathing for the same but Good for Evil Love for Hatred praying for them as Christ Jesus did Father forgive them they know not what they do So following this meek Lamb of God the Saviour of Mankind thou wilt have an encreased sight of the difference between a Christian in Name and a Christian in Nature A Christian in Name is such that have only an outside Profession of Christianity God Christ the Scriptures and Religion drawing near to the Lord with the Lips Isa 29.13 Mark 7.6 and honouring him with the Mouth whilst the Heart is going after Sin and Vanity and is far from Righteousness c. A Christian in Name and Profession of Christianity only is a Talker of the narrow Way and streight Gate but is a Walker in the broad Way having a Name to live Rom. 11.28 29. but is dead in Sins and Trespasses But a True Christian in the divine Nature is Circumcised inward and is a Jew inward one that is born again without which Christ Jesus saith there cannot be an entring into the Kingdom of Heaven Joh. 3.5 so is really changed in Nature Joh. 15.11 and cut off from the wild Olive and planted into the true Vine the Divine Nature from whence Fruits of Christianity are brought forth here the Circumcision is not that of the Flesh John 5.4 but that of the Spirit A Christian in the Divine Nature is one that hath followed the Lamb in the Regeneration and so hath put off the evil corrupt Nature and now

A Tender Visitation IN THE Love of God UNTO All People every where Particularly unto the Inhabitants of Wiltshire Gloucestershire and Bristol And to my Neighbours in and about Tetherton Calloways and the adjacent Towns and Villages By Charles Marshall 〈◊〉 21.8 And unto this People thou shalt say Thus saith the Lord behold I set before you the Way of Life and the Way of Death Prov. 6.23 For the Commandment is a Lamp and the Law is Light and the Reproofs of Instruction are the Way of Life Prov. 4.13 Take fast hold of Instruction let her not go keep her for she is thy Life Cor. 5.10 11. For we must all appear before the Judgment Seat of Christ that every one may receive the things done in his Body according to that he hath done whether it be good or bad knowing therefore the Terrors of the Lord we perswade men c. Rom. 2.9 10. Tribulation and Anguish upon every Soul of man that doth Evil of the Jew first and also the Gentile but Glory Honour and Peace to every man that worketh good to the Jew first and also to the Gentile for there is no respect of Persons with God London Printed and Sold by Andrew Sowle 1684. A Tender Visitation c. Friends Neighbours Country-men AMongst whom I have had my Conversation in times past in the sear of the Lord God of Heaven and Earth and now being a Sufferer in this Prison for Jesus Christ's sake I am constrained in his tender Love to visit you by these Lines stirring you up to a tender and serious Examination and Consideration What Way on are walking in seeing there is but Two Ways as Christ Jesus saith Mat. 7.13 14. Enter ye in at the strait Gate for wide is the Gate and broad is the Way that leadeth to Destruction and many there be that go in thereat because streight is the Gate and narrow is the Way that leadeth unto Life and few there be that find it Now commune with your own Hearts and be truly still in your Minds and say unto your own Souls Job 22.15 What Way are we walking in For Christ Jesus here takes no notice of the many Ways and Professions of Religion both among Jews and Gentiles Isa 45.17 but plainly concludes all People walking in one of these Wayes namely the wide Gate and broad Way or the streight Gate and narrow Way It s true Prov. 14.12 there are now many Wayes and Professions of Religion in this Age of the World but now as then they are all concluded under these two Rom. 8.6 Prov. 72.7 Matt. 3.8 John 15.2 The Way of Life and the Way of Sin and Death And as these Two Wayes are contrary one to another so are the Fruits different that are brought forth by Men and Women walking in these Wayes All that are walking in the broad Way are bringing sorth the Fruits of the broad Way which are Wrath Matt. 15.18 19 20. Gal. 5.19 20 21. Murder evil Thoughts Adulteries Thefts false Witnesses Blasphemies which the Apostle also summing up together saith are these Adulteries Fornications Vncleanness Lasciviousness Idolatry Witchcraft Hatred Variance Emulation Wrath Strife Sedition Heresies Envyings Murders Drunkenness Revelling * Mark Neighbours Revelling and such like and saith that they which do such things shall not inherit the Kingdom of God 1 John 15.2 Now these are the Fruits of the broad Way and of those walking therein And this Way is called Broad because here men may walk in their Sins and Iniquities Prov. 4.15 16. in the Pleasures and Vanities of their Minds and the Gate is wide to receive all that spend their precious Times both Morning and Evening of their Day Psal 86 11. and not in the Fear Awe and Dread of the holy God And here the Multitude as aforesaid walk in this Way Prov. 15.9 10. for the Enemy of Mankind the Devil cares not what men may profess in words of God Christ the Kingdom of Heaven Religion and Worship while they continue walking in the Broad Way which leads to his Kingdom of Darkness Prov. 4.19 Matt. 15.7 8 9. Hence it was that the great God by his Servants the Prophets and Apostles testified against their Worships and Performances and that of several things which were once commanded And why ye may see it was they had forsaken the Right Way of the Lord and were performing their Worship in the same Nature Psal 146.9 Spirit and Way they were sinning in against God their Hearts were corrupt and Consciences defiled And he complains by Isaiah chap. 65.2 I have spread out my Hands all the day unto a Rebellious and Gain-saying People which walk in a Way that was not good after their own Hearts Prov. 12.16 This Way that was not good was the Broad Way in which they were as now many are walking in notwithstanding all their out-side profession of Religion and as saith the Lord by his Prophet Isaiah chap. 1. v. 11 12 13 14 15 16 17. To what purpose is the m●ltitude of your Sacrifices unto me saith the Lord I am full of Burnt-offerings of Rams and the fat of fed Beasts and I delight not in the blood of Bullocks or of Lambs or of the Hee-Goats When ye come to appear before me who hath required this at our hand to tread my Courts Bring no more vain Oblations Incense is an Abomination to me the New Moons and Sabbaths the calling of Assemblies I cannot away with it is INIQVITY even the solmn Meeting your New Moons and your Appointed Feasts my Soul hateth they are a trouble unto me I am weary to bear them And when ye spread forth your hands I will hide mine Eyes from you yea when ye make many Prayers I will not hear your hands are full of Blood Wash ye make ye clean put away the Evil of your Doings from before mine Eyes cease to do Evil learn to do well seek Judgment relieve the Oppressed plead for the Widdow c. So you may see Acts 17.23 24 25 26 27. Isa 55.7 that no Performances of Worship or Service were any longer acceptable in the sight of God than they were performed by Men and Women walking in the Way of the Lord denying themselves and cleaving to the good Spirit of God which the Lord said by his Prophet he gave to instruct and guide them but they saith the Lord rebelled against it Gen. 3.17.18.24 Isa 43.27 28. Gen. 4.7 8. This is the broad Way Adam and Eve through Degeneration went into when they disobey'd God and transgressed his Righteous Law and Commandment This is the Broad Way that Cain walked in when he slew his innocent Brother Abel This is the Way that the Old World walked in Gen. 6.5 6 7. Gen. 6.3 when they had through disobedience turned aside so as that the Lord said My spirit shall not always strive with man and it repented the Lord that he had made