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A36273
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Once more a warning to thee O England but more particularly to the inhabitants of the city of Bristol.
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Dole, Dorcas.
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1683
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Wing D1834; ESTC R32763
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Once more A VVARNING To Thee O ENGLAND But more perticularly to the Inhabitants of the City of BRISTOL Amos Chap. 6. Vers 1 3 4 5 6 7. Wo to them that are at ease in Zion ye that put far away the Evil Day and cause the Seat of Violence to come near that lye upon Beds of Ivory and stretch themselves upon their Couches and eat the Lambs out of the Flocks and the Calves out of the midst of the Stall that Chaunt to the sound of the Viol and invent to themselves Instruments of Musick like David that drink Wine in Bowles and anoynt themselves with the cheif Oyntments but they are not grieved for the Afflictions of Joseph therefore now shall they go Captive with the first that go Captive and the Banquet of them that stretched themselves shall be removed Printed in the Year 1683. A Warning to England c. NOtwithstanding many Warnings in the true love of God have been sent to thee O Nation of England from the highest to the lowest yet once more in the tender Love of God is my heart opened for thy Everlasting Welfare and Prosperity that so the day of Gods Judgments may not overtake you at unawares And thee O City of Bristol in perticuler for thy â—nhabitants have greatly provoked the Lord against them and without they do speedily return unto the Lord with true and unfeigned Repentance the Wrath of God will break forth upon thee and there shall be none able to deliver thee from the Stroak of his Hand of what he hath decreed to bring upon thee for thy Sins have reached unto Heaven and thy Abomination stands as a great Record against thee for some of thy Inhabitants have committed no less Evil then Great Rebellion against the God of Heaven in that they have not only rejected but also despised the Appearance of Christ in themselves and others who is come and comeing to Overturn Overturn and Overturn till he come whose right it is to take unto himself his great Power and Reign in every Conscience according to the Promise of God in Psal 2. 8. Ask of me and I shall give thee the Heathen for thy Inheritance and the uttermost parts of the Earth for thy Possession O therefore be ye warned you Great Men of the Earth from the highest to the lowest what Laws and Decrees you make and execute against the Lords Innocent People whom you have nothing against but in matter of Worship to our God as Daniels Enemys had no other cause who drawed in the King by their Flatterys pretending Honour for him to fulfil their hearts Lust and so caused him to Seal the Decree against Daniel which made the Kings heart sorrowful but mark what became of them that laid the Snare privily to destroy the Innocent for the Snare that they had laid for him became a Pit of Destruction to them and the Kings Eyes were opened to see who was his greatest Friends and could do no less then testifie That Daniels God was the Lord of Lords and king of kings and hath all Power in Heaven and Earth in his Hand O therefore Fear and Tremble before the Great God of Heaven and Earth whose Almighty power is able to dash you in pieces like a Potters Vessel and to cast you as Dung upon the Face of the Earth and give your Flesh to the Fouls of the Air for asuredly the God of Daniel and of Shadrach Meshach and Abednego is our God and his Arm is not at all shortned that it cannot Save nor his Ear heavy that it cannot Hear but he will asuredly hear the Cry of the Oppressed and will deliver us in his own appointed time as he did Israel of Old for he is a God hearing Prayer and to whom every Knee must Bow O therefore take Warning you Inhabitants of this Nation of England before the day of your Visitation be quite over for without speedy Repentance be found in thee the overflowing Scourge will asuredly pass through thee as it did over Jerusalem of Old For what Sins were there committed in her that are not found in thee at this day for they pleaded highly for the Law and the Prophets and had the Scriptures of Truth and said Had they been in the dayes of their Fore-Fathers they would not have killed the Prophets yet being ignorant of what the Prophets testified of in the Scriptures of Truth concerning Christ they Reviled him and Despised him and put him to Death notwithstanding he turned them to the Holy Scriptures and bid them Search them for they are they said he that testifie of me but you will not come to me that you may have Life and he also said That he was not come to destroy the Law nor the Prophets but to fulfil them And he was the end of the Law for Righteousness sake to all that did believe in him and to as many as did believe in his Name in that day to them he gave Power to become Sons Daughters of the most high God established his second Covenant in them according to his Promise by writing his Law in their hearts and putting his Truth in their Inward parts and so they were no more under the Law but under Grace and for this end was the Gospel Preached that Sin might be condemned in the Flesh that we might be justified in the Spirit The Law of the Spirit of Life which Christ Jesus our Lord is setting up in the Hearts of his People is beyond the outward Law for thereby he purifieth the Conscience and makes it void of Offence towards God Man it is beyond the Law of Moses which the Jews appeared so strickt for which was Gods Ordinance in its time till Christ came who is full of Grace and Truth to put an end to Sin and finish Transgression and bring in everlasting Righteousness and set up his everlasting Government in his People of which there is to be no end and those that do live under his Government can do no less then Fear God and Honour the King giving unto God that which is his and to the King that which is his but as pertaining to the Conscience it is the King of Heavens Prerogative alone to sit upon his 〈◊〉 in every one of our Hearts and to rule and reign there and to lead and guide us in his Counsel that after we have obeyed him in all his Commandments he may bring us unto Glory and therefore we dare not bow to any other Worship but the Spiritual Worship that Jesus spake of to the Woman of Samaria when he found her out there in her Ignorance by Jacobs Well whose Meat and Drink it was to Preach the Everlasting Gospel which is the Power of God to Salvation was to the poor Woman that she might be an Instrument in his hand to go Preach unto her Neighbours to call them unto him that they might hear him themselves is the same Christ that we do invite
all to this day that he may set your Sins in order before you and bring all to your Remembrance whatsoever you have done from your Youth unwards as he did to this Woman O therefore you that have any tenderness for your own Souls prize your time and the day of Gods Love to your Immortal Souls lest the Midnight Cry overtake you at unawares in the Night of Apostacy before you come to own and submit to the Ministration of Condemnation against Sin which is glorious in its time here is the strait and narrow way that is hard to that Birth that lives in Sin therefore this is the strait way that Christ spoke of that all must walk in that come to know the Ministration of Justification in the sight of God which is far more glorious in its time those who thus come to receive and submit to Gods Visitation the way that was once strait and narrow doth become a Path of Pleasantness to them and all his ways peace to that Birth which Christ spoke of to Nicodemus which is of his own nature and he that is begotten and brought forth in his Heavenly Divine Nature as the Scripture saith in 1 John 3. 9. Whosoever is born of God doth not commit Sin for his Seed remaineth in him and he cannot Sin because he is born of God So there is not a good Thought nor a good Desire but what is of the Lords begetting in us and he that begets these good desires in us is able to fulfil the desires of them that fear him according to his promise in the Holy Scriptures of Truth and those he makes able rather to chuse as Moses did to suffer Affliction with the People of God then to enjoy the Pleasures of Sin which is but for a Season O therefore you Priests and People of all sorts that are pleading for Sin term of Life search the Scriptures for they are they that testifie against you in all your Ungodly Actions for you are not only under the Condemnation of the Law of Moses but also Transgressors of the Law of Grace that do live and act in Sin in Persecuting your honest Neighbours who for Conscience sake cannot bow to the wills of Men in things relating to Gods Worship for the Law of Moses was added because of Transgression for before Sin entred there was no need of an outward Law to punish for Sin but to keep to the Law of the Spirit of Truth within in which state Man would have been happy had he kept therein for Christ is the Resurrection and the Life that was promised after the Fall of Adam and Eve that should redeem fallen Man out of that Estate into the Restoration and Image of God again Therefore you that are pleading to be saved by Christs Death and Sufferings and yet keep in the Image of the Earthly and are not come to suffer with Christ to be buried with him in Baptism that you may know the Resurrection of his Life to raise up your Souls that are dead in Trespasses and Sins that you may put off the Old Man with his Deeds and so come to bear the Image of the Heavenly and so live in newness of Life you are but deceiving your own Souls for the end of Christs comeing was To Redeem his People out of Sin and not to save them in their Sins for as Christ said If you Dye in your Sins whither I go you cannot come for he is of purer Eyes then to behold Iniquity as to let it go unreproved or to dwell with Uncleanness therefore as the Prophet said He was a Man of Sorrow and acquainted with Grief in that prepared Body of which it was said He went about doing good and healing all manner of Diseases for them that did believe in him but where unbelief was he did not many mighty works there for there is nothing unpossible to those that do believe in his Name O! therefore fear and tremble ye Inhabitants of the Earth and wait to know the Iudgments of the Lord to be set up in you that you may learn Righteousness through them for the unlimitted Power of the Lord is going through this Nation and it is in vain for mortal Men whose Breath is in their Nostrils to set themselves in battle array against the Lamb and his Followers for the Lamb and his Followers shall have the Victory for he is that great Prophet which Moses Prophesied of That should be raised up like unto him and said Him shall ye hear in all things and those that will not hear this Prophet shall be cut off from among the People For the mighty Power of the Lord is going through this Nation and the day that is at hand will burn as an Oven against all the Proud and all that do wickedly for they shall be as Stubble before Devouring Fire For the best of them is as a Bryar and the most Upright as a Thorn Hedge therefore the day will be very terrible in breaking down the Pleasant Pictures and Guilded Cup of vain Religion that have been held out to deceive the Nations full of Abominations And against you Priests and Teachers also that are not come so far as the Pharisaical Righteousness to make the outside clean for there is a fire kindled in the Wrath of God which will burn in his sore Displeasure against all you that are covering your selves with a covering but not of Gods Eternal Spirit for all other coverings will be too narrow and the Bed too short to stretch your selves on for there is a Cloud of Witnesses against you the Law the Prophets Christ and his Apostles your Persecution exceeds Sauls which was a Man that walked as to the Law blameless and he Persecuted in Zeal for the Law which Moses received from the Mouth of God and was Ignorant that Christ was come who was the end of the Law for Righteousness sake to as many as did believe in his Name and so his Zeal was for the Law and the Temple where Gods Holiness once appeared so the Lord smote him down in mercy that he might pass thorough the Ministration of Condemnation which is glorious in its time and be raised up in the Administration of Iustification which came by Iesus Christ which is far more glorious For the Law came by Moses but Grace and Truth by Jesus Christ and if they escaped not that refused him that spake on Earth of how much sorer Punishment shall they be thought worthy that refuseth him that speaketh from Heaven whose Grace hath appeared unto all Men to bring Pardon for Sin to them that do obey it and to teach them to deny all Ungodliness and Wordly Lusts and to live a Righteous Godly Life in this present Evil World And so such come to witness that Christ did not come to destroy the Law and the Prophets but to fulfil all Righteousness within and to cut down Sin in the motion by the true Circumcision within and then such