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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A71022	Some notes or heads of a preface and of a lecture Preached at Distinckorn--Hill, in the parish of Gaastoun. April 15. 1688. By master Alexander Shields preacher of the gospel.	Shields, Alexander, 1660?-1700.	1688 (1688)	Wing S3435B; ESTC R184108	30,397	24

of br●ach of Covenant for ye strengthen the Hand● of Papists 〈◊〉 ye cannot endeavour the Ex●irp●tion of Popery when ye are at peace with Papists And then we are to Repeat and turn to the LORD and Acknowledge our Sins and engage to our Duty Well have we performed this what means then our justifieing of our se●ves in main●aining of this presen● course For that is inconsistent with true Repentance and mourning for sin which is clear from ●7 Cor. 7. 10 11. If we had mourned for the sin of forme● Indulgences we could not 〈…〉 on this Tolleration but with Detestation for it has lo●ded us with many Reproaches 〈…〉 may pretend to what they will it is impossible that they shall be ●ound among the 〈◊〉 of Zion while they continue in that Course which is clear from that forecited place of 〈◊〉 For you give all that that is Required of you and by so doing you make your 〈◊〉 guilty of the bre●th of Covenant O consider the sin thereof and the Judgement that GOD will ass●redly pursue for such a● Indignity done unto Hi● Remember Si●s and take Warning And I Charge you to take Warning For if ever there was a Defection in Scotland this is one For this hundred and Twenty Years there hath not a Testimony been wanting to the Truth And this Tolleration Condemns them all O will not the s●a of Hearing the Curats make us guilty of the sin of Prelacy And will not the hearing of these Tollerated Meetings make us guilty of the sin of this Tolleration I am no● imposing upon you my own N●tions I invite you to nothing but the Scripture 〈◊〉 For if you will search them and the Antient Records of our C●urch the Acts and Constitutions of her General Assemblies and the Writings of True and Faithfull Champions you would 〈◊〉 these things not to be my Whimsi●s but to be the Truth which I tell you I invite you the● to se●rch them and I 〈…〉 The Fourth Thing in the Words 〈◊〉 be spoken unto is Sou●s Excuse and Extenuation of his Sin ● and there is a Fourfold Excuse in i● I shall Observe this from it in general whatever Men as Hypocrites pretend to in Excusing their Sin it will not do the Turn but it makes it th● mo●● 〈◊〉 N●w the first Excuse 〈◊〉 Saul makes is ●his the● have brought them from the Amal●kites and this doth discover his ignor●nce For i● was 〈◊〉 to spare them they should all have been 〈◊〉 For the Amalekites were Devoted Enemies among o●her N●●ions They might have 〈◊〉 these things 〈◊〉 they had an express Charge Deut. 25. 17 18 19 Verses To blot out the Remembrance of Amal●k from under Heaven Fo● they were accursed Enemies of GOD and they were Idolaters and they ought not to have been sp●red by tampering with them No no they were all to be cut off M●n Woman and Child and all that belon●ed to them nothing was to be sp●red The Children of Israel was to keep up and to have mantained a War against them without any Cess●●●on Peace or T●●●saction with them And if it was S●ule sin to sp●re Agag and the best of the Sheep and of Oxen and if it was Israels Interest to have ma●ntained a Wit aga●nst Amalek It is as 〈◊〉 our duty and the duty of all the People of CHRIST to keep up and maintain War without any Cess●tion Peace or Transaction against Antichrist ●nd ag●inst Papists now under the New Testament as it was theirs under the Old For they are great Enemies to Truth and as great Idolaters as they were it was Israels sin to spare Agag But we have not only spared the Papis● but we have set up a Papist over us And if it was Sauls sin and th● peoples sin to sp●re Agag So it it would have been greater sin and a shame to have set up Agag on the Throne of Israel So it was cut sin to spare Papists but more to set np a Papist over us so 〈◊〉 is our sin surpassing theirs Well remember Sir● you have many Oxen and many Sheep bleeting but will you Examine how you got them there are many of you that h●s p●ace uo● you have Houses and L●nds well got you them and your Consciences keeped both was you Wiser than other Folk or was you Honester nor others or was you more False an others have been some will say I got mine keeped by hearing the Curats others will say I got mine keeped by countenancing this Tolleration Well you got it from the Amalekites the Enemies of GOD and you may have little Peace by reflecting on the Way that you have them and them you have it from O consider 〈◊〉 sinfuln●ss of making Pe●ce with Papists these Enemies of God against whom we are to maintain a War wi●hout any Cess●tion For CHRIST has proclaimed a War ag●inst all such Look and ye will see the Declaration of War in the 14 of the Revelation 9 verse And any of you that have got any thing that you have this way O strive to get a better ●●ck of them The second Excuse which Saul makes is this That it was the People did it and not he just like many in out day but he lied like a Traitor for it was by his Command Whence we Observe that Hypocrites will ay lay the Blame on others For if he asked at the People they would haue laid the Blame on Saul So in our day spe●r at the Ministers who is to Blame for all ●his Defection and they will say the Blame lyes upon the people and if we spear at the people they will the say Flame upon the Ministers and say they left them and would not preach to them in the 〈◊〉 of Temptations and Trials and Ministers will say that they would h●ve preached if the people would have heard them But where these Excu●es are there is little Sense of sin and Humiliation for si● and little fear of the Judgements of GOD that will pursue such sits where every one is laying the Charge off themselves For Ministers say they would have keeped their Kirks and preache● but the people would not bide with us and what could we do For we wanted our Judg●●g 〈◊〉 and what could we do It is not the Ministers it is the people Come to the people and they will say the Ministers went to the Kirks and heard the Curats and we went too and the 〈◊〉 counselled us to take the Bond and what could we do But God will lay the blame upon the whole Ware both Ministers and people A Third excuse that Saul makes is that he spared the Sheep and Oxen for a Sacrifice to the Lord thy God. Whence we Observe that it is the Mark and Psea of Hypocrites to justifie all their Detections from the good end that they have in going about them We are ready to justifie our Actions tho they be bad because of the good end we think we have in going about them A good end will not