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A33474	Vox corvi, or, The voice of a raven that thrice spoke these words distinctly, Look into Colossians the 3d and 15th : the text it self look'd into and opened in a sermon preached at Wigmore in the county of Hereford : to which is added serious addresses to the people of this kingdome, shewing the use we ought to make of this voice from heaven / by Alex. Clogie.	Clogie, Alexander, 1614-1698.	1694 (1694)	Wing C4724; ESTC R26607	70,214	178

she that is your Enemy may see it and shame may cover her Mic. 7. 10. That she may be removed that nothing of her be left amo 〈…〉 of her Idolatry and Superstition 〈…〉 your selves in array against Fren 〈…〉 abylon round about all ye that tred the bow shoot at her spare no Arrows for she hath sinned against the Lord saith the Prophet Jer. 50. 14. Some rubbish that escaped our first Reformers was left in the fall of so ancient and great a Building which remains yet untaken away but incumbers the Ground which in the Prayers that we are commanded to use in our Monthly Fasts run thus namely in the Prayer for the High Court of Parliament That all things may be so ordered and settled by their endeavours upon the best and surest foundations that Peace and Happiness Truth and Justice Religion and Piety may be established among us from all Generations Now another Foundation of Peace and Happiness can no Man lay than Christ and his Word We need not send to Rome nor any where else for any thing that concerns Religion The word is nigh thee even in thy mouth and in thy heart saith the Apostle Rom. 10. 8. and we are built upon the foundation of the Apostles and Prophets Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone Eph. 2. 20. In the Prayer for the reformed Churches Purge all thy Churches from their Dreggs and make them meet for a glorious Deliverance that all the World may see that Salvation belongs to our God In the last Prayer Give us Grace Lord seriously to lay to heart the great dangers we are in by our unhappy Divisions take away all hatred and prejudice and whatsoever may hinder us from Godly Union and Concord that as these is but one Body and one Spirit and one Hope of our Calling one Lord one Faith one Baptism one God and Father of us all so we may henceforth be all of one Heart and of one Soul united in one Holy Body of Truth and Peace of Faith and Charity and may with one Mind and one Mouth glorifie thee O God through Jesus Christ our Lord Amen The like Expressions are in the Prayer for the whole State of Christ's Church Militant here on Earth Let us deal plainly with God and our own Consciences and those to whom these Prayers are recommended unless we think to please God and Men with a few fair words of Devotion when our Heart is far from him and the performance of these things we pray for as the East is from the West Be not deceived saith the Apostle God will not be mocked Gal. 6. 6. however we may deceive Men with words smoother than butter but war is in the heart with words softer than oyl yet are they drawn swords Psal 55. 21. Is not this a casting of God's words behind us and taking his name in vain That lays us open to that surprizing expression of our Lord ex ore tuo est have ye not reason to fear the Lords Censure of the Elders of Israel that came and sate before Ezekiel in Babylon concerning whom the word of the Lord came unto him saying Son of man these men have set up their Idols in their hearts and put the stumbling block of their iniquity before their face should I be enquired of at all by them Exek 14. 3. And that of the Prophet Jeremiah that from the Prophets of Jerusalem hypocrisie is gone out into all the land Jer. 23. 15. If we build continually by our practice that which wont seem to destroy so solemnly by our Prayer what do we make of our selves in the Eyes of the World but Transgressors Gal. 2. 18. Children in whom is no faith Deut. 32. 20. What then are these Dreggs we desire God to deliver us from Are they not the remainder of our natural Corruption and the sin which doth so easily beset us within and of Popery without that have been a snare to us and removed our Souls far from Peace that we may be delivered from them as well as other reformed Churches Again What are these great dangers that we are in by our unhappy Division for the laying of which seriously to Heart we beg God's Grace Are they about matters of no value that in the ballance of the Sanctuary have Tekel written on them as being altogether higher than Vanity Are we like the Man lying in a ditch praying Lord have mercy upon me and yet will not stir Hand nor Foot to help himself out If we will not prevent these dangers when we know what the late attempt to remove the occasion of them cost these Nations that were sore afflicted and sorely tossed with the tempest of a long bloody War and not fully comforted to this day Again Take away all Hatred and Prejudice and whatsoever else may hinder us from Godly Union and Concord And we will part with nothing by our good Will that may please many good people and can never tend to the real damage of any but add more fuel still to the old hatred and prejudice until that be taken out of the way by which the offence cometh that may kindle a fire that will never be quenched and feed a worm that shall never die Mar. 9. 46. from which Judgment the Lord deliver us Lastly All the terms of Union of Peace and Love in Heaven and Earth are mustred up together one Lord one Faith one Baptism one God c. many Vanities that we may with one Mouth and one Mind glorifie God c. Here a Man would think If there be any consolation in Christ if any comfort in love if any fellowship of the Spirit if any bowels or mercies if any truth in men Phil. 2. 1. that we are resolved now to fill the Evangelical Prophecy of Zephany to serve the Lord with a pure lip and with one shoulder Zeph. 3. 9. with Uniformity of Doctrine Worship and Discipline that there may be one Lord and his name one according to that of the Prophet Zach. 14. 9. Lord put this heart in those that have commanded us to put up those sweet words to God in truth and simplicity of Heart Amen That we may not be said to have a form of godliness 2 Tim. 3. 5. is an outward delineation of piety of peace and unity denying the power and practise of it as the Apostle speaks or as Jeremiah They have healed the hurt of the Daughter of the my people slighted saying peace peace when there was no peace Jer. 6. 14. and those that are required to make their Addresses to God in these words say Hast thou utterly rejected Judah hath thy soul loathed Zion why hast thou smitten us and there is no healing for us we looked for peace and there is no good and for a time of healing and behold trouble Jer. 14. 19. Then said I ah Lord God surely thou hast greatly deceivid this people and Jerusalem saying ye shall have peace whereas the sword reacheth unto

Look into Colossians the 3. v. 15 IF a dumb Beast cou'd Natur●s Silence break And Bal●am's Ass at Heaven's Command cou'd speak Let 's wonder less that the same God cou'd reach The Voice of Ravens his great Truth to Preach ●ut 't is his own kind Call no less a Grace Than to invite us his Rich Peace ●'embrace V●ion and Love Oh happy Is●ael When in Thy Gates such Heavenly Guests can dwell VOX CORVI OR THE Voice of a Raven That Thrice spoke these Words distinctly Look into Colossians the 3d. and 15th The Text it self look'd into and opened in a Sermon Preached at VVigmore in the County of Hereford To which is added Serious Addresses to the People of this Kingdom shewing the use we ought to make of this Voice from Heaven By Alex. Clogie Minister of Wigmore c. Licensed according to Order Matth. 21. xviii And Jesus saith unto them Yea have ye never read Out of the M●uths of Babes and Sucklings thou hast perfected Praise London Printed by W. B. And are to be sold by R. Baldwin at the Oxford-Arms in Warwick-Lane and by most Booksellers in London and Westminster 1694. TO THE Christian Reader THis following Discourse is presented to thy Perusal under a double Recommendation not only as containing so Evangelical a Blessing as the Peace of God in the Text offer'd to thee our heartiest endeavours for the obtaining whereof is so much our highest Christian Importance and Duty but likewise more particularly the Occasion that gave the Reverend Preacher the choice of this Text which first in the plain matter of Fact take as follows On the 3d. of February 1691. about Three in the Afternoon this Reverend Divine a Person of the venerable Age of Eighty Years and Forty of those a Laborious Teacher of God's Word in the Parish of Wigmore in the County of Hereford being in the Hall of his own House being with the Pious Matron his Wife some Neighbours and Relations together with two small Grand-Children of his in all to the number of Eight Persons Thomas Kinnersley one of the said Grand-Children of but Ten Years of Age starting up from the Fire-side went out of the Hall-Door and sate himself down upon a Block by a Wood-pile before the Door employing himself in no other Childish Exercise than cutting of a Stick when in less than half a quarter of an Hour he returned into the Hall in great Amazement his Countenance pale and affrighted and said to his Grand father and Grand mother Look in the Third of the Colossians and the Fifteenth with infinite Passion and Earnestness repeating the Words no less than three times which Dep●rtment and Speech much surprizing the whole Company they asked him what he meant by those words who answered with great Ardency of Spirit That a Raven had spoken them Three times from the Peak of the Steeple and that it look'd towards W. W.'s House and shook its Head and Wings thitherward directing its Looks and Motions still towards that House All which words he heard the Raven distinctly utter three times and then saw it mount and fly out of sight His Grand father hereupon taking the Bible and turning to the said Text found these words And let the Peace of God rule in your Hearts to the which you are also called in one Body and be ye thankful Upon reading whereof the Child was fully satisfied and his Countenance perfectly composed agen Now as the Voice of a Ràven to speak in such a marvellous manner may seem an incredible Relation especially in an Age of such little Faith yet we do here offer these serious Considerations for the Manifestation of this real though amazing Truth First What may stagger some People viz. That the greatest and indeed only Authority in so weighty a Concern is only from the Testimony of a Child of but Ten Years old is upon due and full Examination one of the strongest Arguments of an undoubted Truth For first here were no less than Eight People of honest Credit and Reputation that heard this Declaration of the Child and were all Witnesses and Observers both of the Childs Countenance Gesture and Behaviour in the whole thing Now tho' but a Child of no more than Ten Years to come running from his Play with so alter'd and changed a Countenance and so much Vehemence of Spirit and Earnestness of Expression to press an aged Grand-father and Grandmother to so serious a work as the search of a particular Text of Scripture had something extraordinary in it Now had any Person of riper Years or any other single Authority come in the like manner and with the same Vehemency advised the Inquiry into such a Text and given any such credible Relation of hearing a Raven speak here might have been some Grounds of Suspicion in the Veracity of such a single Testimony for at those elder Years the change of Face and passion of Expression might possibly be Vizor and Artifice and consequently afford matter of Doubt and Scruple Nay possibly a Person of Maturity as knowing the Fewds and Jarrs of the Family towards which the Raven directed this Text might even out of a good and honest design have feigned such a Relation as thinking thereby to have reconciled the long Disunion and Discords of a Neighbour's House by so amazing a warning-piece for Peace and Concord as coming from the Mouth of a Raven tho' in reality a Fictitious story But in the case of a Boy all this shadow of Doubt is utterly removed for both the forementioned change of Countenance and importunate Earnestness together with the Child 's constant Asseveration of the Truth of this astonishing Accidents were all beyond the capacity of a Child to feign or counterfeit as being a Masque morally impossible for his young Face to wear And not only so but the matter and manner of his Delivery were Alien to his Years for a poor Infant then out of doors a whitling of a Stick or some such piece of innocent Childhood to come running home on such an important Errand as indeed no less than a Message from God take it in all the Circumstances was beyond the possibility of Art or Cunning. And moreover as a thing done at Noon-day here was the plain and sensible Conviction both of the Child's Eye and Ear in the case and not as people in the Dark many times frighted and Bug-bear'd into the seeing imaginary Chimeras and Fantoms To sum up the Evidences therefore Here is possibly a full Testimony even to demonstration it self And undoubtedly the Almighty was particularly pleased to deliver this unusual Warning from Heaven only to the Ear of a Child that Innocence and Simplicity might be the greater and stronger Commissioner of his Divine Will and Pleasure on such an occasion Now the Reasons why this Reverend and Pious Divine has appeared thus in publick and so long after now above Two Years since the thing was done are these As a modest sober good Man it

never entred into his Thoughts of appearing in Print as contenting himself with doing his Duty to God in teaching of his Flook at home and preaching Christ and him Crucified with in his own Precinct and Province the care of those Souls under his Tuition being the ultimate of his VVork and Study where accordingly he took occasion to lay hold of so Heavenly an Admonition and Preached to his Parishioners on the very Text so warn'd by the Voice of a Raven but when in a remoter station in the Country he had understood that several little trivial Penny-Books and Ballads had been printed and dispersed here in London giving a Narration of the said wonderful thing and considered that so great a Truth was published in such a manner hereupon as he very well knew how many Notorious Fictions and Fooleries are daily imposed upon the VVorld in such trifling Pamphlets searce one in three truth Therefore to rescue this serious Narration from falling under Scandal and Reproach from such a Publication as such may render it doubted and suspected he perswaded himself together with the prevailing importunity of Friends to let this Discourse of his contrary to his usual modesty be made publick in the VVorld as indeed hoping in some measure to do some good Christian Service therein as far as lay in his Pow●r 'T is on this Account Christian Reader that this following Discourse is presented to thy Hand and under such Credentials 't is hoped with the Grace of God that the seasonable Precepts contained therein may be of Efficacy and Force to work a lively sense in thy Heart of that just and high value we ought to set upon the Peace of God here offered by the Apostle to thy most earnest seeking and desire And withal though this Voice of a Raven thus Commission'd from above in the utterance of such a Heavenly Admonition seemed to direct his stupendious Language to a particular private Family which Private Family through God's great Goodness and Mercy have since received the wonderful effects of the said Heavenly Admonition being all reconciled and united in a most perfect Love and Amity undoubtedly the purport of that Language so marvellous in our Ears had a further and larger Extent as being indeed a general Awakning Alarm to all Mankind Union and Concord being the fairest and largest Branches of that greatest of our Divine Apostolical Instructions Charity Most certainly this wondrous Warning piece though more immediately pointing to a single Family was intended for an Universal Call and Thou and We and all the Professors of Christianity are thus called by a gracious God from the highest to the lowest from the Cottage to the Throne to Unity and Love as the effectual means of attaining the Peace of God which is the Fundamental and Basis of our Happiness both in this VVorld and the VVorld to come the Blessing both of Heaven and Earth As such therefore kind Reader be pleased to accept it and if it may be any ways instrumental towards that great end the obtaining the Peace of God to thy Soul the Author has his Labour more than rewarded And so Farewel COL Chap. III. Ver. xv And let the peace of God rule in your hearts to the which also ye are called in one body and be yo thankful THese Words well Beloved in our Lord have ever since run in my Mind since we were in so unusual and miraculous a manner directed unto them by the unsearchable wisdom of God that doth nothing in an extraordinary way but for most excellent Ends and Purposes And although the more I have thought of them the more Difficulties have presented themselves unto me insomuch that I have endeavoured to remove my Thoughts from them to some other place yet I know not how I have been still rowled back to them again for to use the words of the Prophet They were in mine heart as a burning fire shut up in my bones and I was weary with forbearing and I could not stay Jer. 20. 9. I resolved at length to make them the ground of my Speech to you at this time which the Lord grant may be with as much profit to you all as both I bring desire unfeigned and the Scripture it self affords occasion thereto And that indeed is very remarkable in many regards They are first the words of God not only as all other holy Scripture from Divine Inspiration 2 Tim. 3. 26. in which sort the words of holy men yea of wicked men yea of wicked Spirits themselves at least as far forth as to the recital of them are the words of God but these of my Text have been pointed at of late by a new Inspiration from God in the Mouth of a Raven in a distinct and audible Voice He that spake of old from Heaven on Mount Sinai in the sight and hearing of all Israel hath commanded us to look seriously into this Scripture If Paul said to King Agrippa That he was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision Acts 26. 19. Why should I or you be disobedient to the heavenly Voice of this Text and not say with the Psalmist I will hear what God the Lord will speak for he will speak peace unto his people and to his Saints Psalm 85. 8. Never more necessary than in this Contentious Age but let them not turn again to folly Now because this Voice came not because of me or the Childs sake only that heard it but for your sakes also and for all that are a far off Isa 57. 19. that are concerned with us in this peace of God I will endeavour to look into and open this Scripture unto you that all that have an Ear to hear may hear with Reverence what the Spirit of God speaks to the Churches 1. Sam. 3. 19. Rev. 2. 17. in it that we may not let it fall to the ground That which Chrysostom hath in his Entrance to entreat upon this Epistle seems to me not untruly nor unfitly said These Epistles which the Apostle writeth out of Prison such as are to the Ephesians whereto this hath wonderful likeness to the Philippians to the Hebrews to Philemon the 2d to Timothy have I know not what more than ordinary Portion of the Power of Pauls Spirit appearing in them 1. Whether because he was now come near to the end of his Life and so the Graces of God's Spirit in him to perfection Or 2. that Afflictions have a special power to enlarge our hearts and make them apt for heavenly Exercises as indeed the Truth never thrives better than under the Cross Or 3. that the Auditor now conceives Paul as the same Chrysostom speaks like a noble Conquerour Inditing or Writing amidst his slaughter'd Enemies amidst his Trophies the durable Monuments of his Glory Now if you please I will add a word or two touching the Argument or general scope of this whole Epistle before I come to the particular handling of the Words of the Text It may appearby