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A61699	New-Englands true interest not to lie, or, A treatise declaring from the word of truth the terms on which we stand, and the tenure by which we hold our hitherto-continued precious and pleasant things shewing what the blessing God expecteth from his people, and what they may rationally look for from him / delivered in a sermon preached in Boston in New-England, April 29, 1668, being the day of election there, by Mr. W. Stoughton ...	Stoughton, William, 1632-1701.	1670 (1670)	Wing S5765; ESTC R9808	34,209	43

Gods forsaking of a people Jer. 2. 17. 2 Chron. 15. 2. 3. Hence there is a Probation-time belonging to the Covenant-state of a people The Lord will make a triall whether they will keep and be stedfast in his Covenant yea or no. He will not fail on his part but he will be that unto a people which he hath engaged himself ●● be by Covenant He will nourish and cherish He will instruct and teach He will save and shine upon a people and keep the path of a gracious Covenant without turning aside from the same and in such a course and way as this he will make a full proof and trial of them He will afflict in mercy whilest his hopes of them continue He will bring many special hours of temptation upon them one way or another He will nourish and keep up his hopes and expectations as long as may be untill he hath a full proof of them and now if they fail him there is a critical season of altering and changing the course and way of his Providences towards them From such an hour or day or year is such a person or people forsaken of God Probation-time ceaseth and blinding hardning ruining time comes in the room of it Luk. 19. 42. O that thou hadst known but now they are hid from thine eyes Jer. 6. 27 28 29 30. Reprobate silver shall men call them for the Lord hath rejected them Thirdly The third thing is the Reason which shall be onely this one Because in such a way as this the Lord doth wonderfully glorifie the wisdome and sweetness and righteousness of his Administration and Government The Cords of such a dispensation are the cords of a man Hos 11. 4. The Lord acts towards us in a sutable way as we are intelligent creatures made after the image of God capable of judging and discerning the Reason and Equity of things and of arguing one thing from another and choosing and preferring one thing before another As to his El●ct the Lord reacheth their Souls with effectual grace in this way As to others the Wisdome and Justice and Holiness of God shine forth in their hardning and preparation before-hand to destruction This is a way wherein there can be no exception laid against the Lord by any but he alone shall overcome in judgement When the Lord shall triumph most in the ut●er ruine of a gainsaying backsliding despising people yet he shall also retain the name and glory of a gracious and mercifull God because He often would have gathered Jerusalem Matth. 23. 37. and there was nothing more to be done to his vineyard which he did not do Isa 5. 4. II. Observ The Lords great Expectation of his people and the promise which he makes to himself concerning them is principal●y this That they will be children that will not lie and so he becomes their Saviour That which the Lord doth chiefly desire and require in and from his people that he doth chiefly expect and promise to himself That which he most abhors and abominates he least of all expects from them that are his Now Truth is that which the Lord desires Psal 51. 6. but the Lie is that which he hates Prov. 6. 17 12. 22. Isa 30. 8 9. Quest 2 What is it to be children that will not lie Answ The general meaning of this expression hath been already given Such as are lying children they are also styled corrupters Isa 1. 4. unstedfast ones flatterers whose hearts are not right who keep not the Lords Covenant Psal 78. 10 36 37. Treacherous dealers Hos 6. 7. A deceitful bow Turners back c. Psal 78. 57. Hos 7. 16. By the contrary unto these we may know what it is not to Lie Thus we reade of faithful children Tit. 1. 6. the Generation of the just or Righteous Psal 14. 5. such whose hearts are not turned back and whose st●ps do not decline Ps 44. 18. More particularly there are these six things that the Lord requires from a Covenanting people that this Lie may not be charged upon them 1. Purity of Doctrine and Worship Mixtures and corruptions in these are expresly called a Lie in Scripture-phrase Hos 11. 12. Ephraim compasseth me about with Lies i. e. with false Worship Antichristianism is therefore called a Lie 2 Thess 2. 11. because it is a mixture of false Doctrines and false Worship There are the lies of Errour and Heresie and the lies of Superstition and Idolatry the Lord in his Covenant engageth his people against both There is no Errour in Doctrine or in Worship and Ordinances but it tends some way or other to alter pervert and corrupt the Lords Covenant with his people By this we are to judge of the danger of Errours and erroneous practices and answerably to watch against the infection of them 2. Inward heart sincerity or Covenant truth within Psa 51. 6. Rom. 2. 29. Prov. 3. 1 3. This the Lord hath promised Deut. 30. 6. Jer. 31. 33. and calls for Deut. 10. 16. Jer. 4. 4. and bitterly complains for the want of Isa 29. 13. Hypocrisie is a Lie yea a fountain of Lies A company of formal custome-born Christians what are they but an heap of Lies in the sight and esteem of God Now this inward heart sincerity it consists in Right principles 1 Tim. 1. 5. Right aims and ends Mat. 6. 22. and a Right dependance or trust Isa 26. 3 4. as a mans trust dependance and shelter is so is his uprightness and sincerity Such as have lying Refuges are lying children 3. A conversation flowing from and suiting with truth and sincerity within That the power and life of practical godliness should be entertained into the whole of our course and way before the Lord. To fail in this is to lie loudly 1 Joh. 2. 4. 4. 20. 4. A visible and open profession and holding forth of and witness-bearing to the truths wayes of God before the world Rom. 10. 10. David did not onely hide the word in his heart but saith he with my lips have I declared all the judgements of thy mouth Psal 119. 11 13. The Lord Jesus witnessed a good confession 1 Tim. 6. 13. and herein we must also follow him that we may be true and faithful unto God The danger in this matter will not excuse us from the duty There were an hundred forty and four thousand Rev. 14. 1. that had the Fathers name written in their foreheads they did not conceal nor hide themselves Hence Gods faithful ones during the whole reign of Antichrist are styled the Lords witnesses They are such as have their Banner of witness displayed ●evel 11. 3. notwithstanding all the bloody rage of Antichrist To deny the name of Christ or to wave the publick owning of truths and wayes which the Lord Jesus owns and contends for this is to be Lying children and dreadful will be the issue if the word of Christ be true Mat. 10. 32 33. Mar. 8. 38. Many cases

or man What the Lord expects from us hath been laid down before I shall not enlarge upon those several Particulars again That which I have in my aim is not any thing of doubtful disputation not meerly Civils or Prudentials but the sure and certain the often acknowledged and stated common Interest of the people of God and of you the Lords People in special The Interest of Practical Piety and Holiness so much reproached at this day The Interest of unmixed spiritual Gospel-worship and of the sincere and open profession and owning of the truths and wayes of Christ though persecuted and trampled on at this day in the world The Interest of Unity and Peace in the wayes of Reformation and of expecting and waiting for the issue of all those great and Astonishing Providences that are working every where The Interest of these things and of just and Righteous Liberties in order hereunto is all that which I intend The times are come and hastning more and more wherein faithfulness to God in all these things will be the most glorious Crown that can be worn upon Earth A Crown upon which it shall be graven Here is the Faith and Patience of the Saints This then Rev. 13. 1● 14 1● is the word of the Lord unto his New-England Churches and People this day Let no man take this your Crown from you No Temptations no Corruptions no Insinuations no Threatnings no Fears no Adversaries If God had betrusted us here but with a little yet he that is Luk 16 1● Mat. 25 21. 23. unfaithful in a little would be so in much and he that is faithful in a little shall be made ruler over much But the Lord hath betrusted us with much with a very choice and considerable part of the Interest of his Name and Glory and that too in the view of the world and upon manifold Advantages in our upholding and cleaving to the same God hath thrust down his people from their Advantages in other places we have sinned against ours but the Lord yet continues them as the Liberty and Priviledge of this day doth testifie aloud to us New-England hath yet its Advantages as well as its Engagements in this great matter of Owning the Cause of God and standing their ground for God and Christ and the Gospel And this we must know that this is the time wherein he that is not with Christ is against M●● 12. ●● him the reason is because the Controversie comes now to be stated more openly and to be avouched more professedly in the world Antichrist is now displaying his Colours setting up his Standard and so is the Lord Jesus Christ the Anointed King and Priest and Prophet the Fathers Heir of all things The field is large whereinto the Forces on both sides are drawing but the fight will be very close and the quarrel in the issue finally decided there can be no neutralizing therefore in this day He that gathereth not with Christ scattereth abroad we must declare for whom we are and choose our side there will be no other Remedy We indeed of these ends of the Earth have long since made our choice we have given up our selves to the Lord Jesus as to our Spiritual King and Law-giver to be his portion and inheritance Now that which the Lord expects is that we stick to this our choice that we give not back a whit so as to become Liars unto that God who unto us hath not been as waters that fail A poor man saith Solomon is better then a liar Prov. 19. 22. to be called Poor New-England this may seem to be a Reproach but in truth is not for he that mocketh the poor reproacheth P●●v 1● ● his maker but to be called False and lying New-England this shall be a blot and a reproach never to be wiped away As Satan said concerning Job when God boasted as it were to him of his integrity Chap. 1. 11. Put forth thine hand and touch all that he hath and he will curse thee to thy face and so again Chap. 2. 5. So it may be Satan and his Instruments may be tempting and saying concerning us Let that people of so much Profession in the Wilderness be but thus or thus proved and tried let but this or that happen to them this or that Affrightment this or that Allurement Let but such and such be once removed by death or otherwayes and then it shall be seen what they will come to It will then appear how they will entertain the wayes of the world and give up Gospel and Ordinances and Liberties as well as others selling their Birthright-even for a mess of pottage But shall it ever be thus indeed God forbid We have been listed in the number of those followers of the Lamb who are called and chosen and faithful let us in the fear Rev. 1● 14. of God continue still to be of them Special marks of favour the Lord hath been pleased from time to time to set upon those faithful undertakings of his Servants in this Wilderness wherein keeping close to God in matters Civil and Ecclesiastical hath been the design in truth and in sincerity now the Lord evermore keep us from bringing the marks of infamy upon our selves in any contrary way of walking If the Lord hath named us his Witnesses and hath produced us as such unto the world we should be now sinfully silent or withdraw or alter our Testimony as to any truth or way or work of his O what a provocation would this be It is a day wherein the Lord hath been Riding Circuit and making proof of all Ranks and degrees of men and he hath found them Liars Mean men have been vanity Psal 62. 9. and men of high degree a lie they have professed for Reformation and to be for the interest of Holiness and Gospel-worship and for the just Liberties of the Lords people but in an hour of temptation he hath found them Liars Now what doth New-England say Will ye also go away Let such a question tend to establish your hearts the more as it was the issue thereof upon the Disciples Joh. 6. 67 68 69. It will be a woful day indeed when the Lord shall take up those words of witness against us Isa 1. 2 3. It will be a doleful thing to be of a broken credit with God and for the Lord to pronounce us B●nkrupts If we frustrate the Lords Expectations he will cut off ours The one contains in it the greatest aggravations of sin and the other of punishment We cannot make God miserable by the one for of these stones he can raise up children unto Abraham but we shall be miserable with a witness in the execution of the other upon us It hath been the glory and the glorying of the Lords people that they have made no defection from him no not in the saddest times Psal 44. 17 18 19. Let the same thing be our glory and our glorying

NEW-ENGLANDS True Interest NOT TO LIE OR A Treatise declaring from the Word of Truth the Terms on which we stand and the Tenure by which we hold our hitherto-continued Precious and Pleasant Things SHEWING What the blessed God expecteth from his People and what they may rationally look for from him Delivered in a SERMON Preached in Boston in New-England April 29. 1668. being the DAY of ELECTION THERE By Mr. W. Stoughton Preacher of the Gospel in Dorchester Isa 51. 7 8. Hearken to me ye that know righteousness the people in whose heart is my law fear ye not the reproach of men neither be afraid of their revilings For the moth shall eat them up like a garment and the worm shall eat them like wooll but my righteousness shall be for ever and my salvation from generation to generation Haggai 2. 4. Yet now be strong O Zerubbabel saith the Lord and be strong O Joshua the High Priest and be strong all ye people of the land saith the Lord and work for I am with you saith the Lord of Hosts Psal 81. 13. O that my people had hearkened to me and Israel had walked in my ways their time should have endured for ever CAMBRIDGE Printed by S. G. and M. J. 1670. An Advertisement to the Reader Christian Reader COncerning this Sermon which is now offering it self to thy hand and heart I must say what I am fully perswaded of viz. That it containeth words of uprightness and truth and such as to many Auditors present at the publick Preaching of it were very acceptable when they came warm from the mouth and spirit of the speaker I doubt not but they carried with them sweetness through the ear to the heart of each rightly prepared hearer To receive with affection is good but not all the entertainment we owe to messages sent by the God of Salvations to his Covenant-people Words of wisdome must be as Nails fastened Eccl. 12. 11. the word of Christ must abide Joh 15. 7. and dwell richly in us Col. 3. 16. The helping forward of so good a work hath occasioned a Person of W●rth eminently aff●●cted to thine and this poor Countries best good in subserviency to the glory of the blessed God of Truth to adventure the publishing of what the pious Author was well-nigh invincibly unwilling should ever have come forth In hearing the attentive minde m●st hold pace with the speaker following him through all particulars from the beginning to the end of his Message but in reading we have this advantage that we may stay and dwell upon what we have first a minde to and by serious thoughts and humble prayer improve it to our good without depriving our selves of opportunity of doing the like with any other part of it afterward Thou hast now a help to reminde thee of many useful but possibly forgotten passages God whose Providence hath brought this to thy hands expecteth a sutable improvement an awakening humbling quickening is the best use we can make of it Visible benefit and fruit is like to prove the best expedient to ease the spirit of the too-unwilling Author of that trouble which an excess of modesty may have made him capable of for b●ing by a friendly vi●lence thus thrust out upon the Stage Some persons not born but cut out of their Mothers Wombs have proved considerable for Action if Histories may be credited That Heavens blessing may make this seasonable Sermon so is the hope and shall be the humble prayer of him who is unfeignedly Thine in the Lord Jesus J. S. New Englands True Interest NOT TO LIE Isaiah 63. 8. For he said Surely they are my people children that will not lie so he was their Saviour IN this Chapter to give you onely a very short view of the Context you may take notice of these three parts 1. An Interlocution or Dialogue between Christ and his Church contained in the first six Verses The unexpected appearance of the Lord Jesus Christ in his glorious works of Vengeance upon his peoples enemies and of Salvation to his Church it draws forth the Churches earnest Enquiries and these her Enquiries they draw forth Christs distinct Answers even as it is promised Jer. 33. 3. Call upon me and I will answer thee and shew thee great and mighty things which thou knewest not Christ loves to be questioned with concerning his great works of Providence because he desires to be known unto his people in them and to acquaint them with the great designs he hath in hand as here he is graciously pleased to do 2. An Acknowledgement of Praise from the Church in the recounting and calling to minde of eminent passages of former mercy and kindness extended to her from ver 7. to v●r 15. 3. The Churches earnest Prayer and pleading with God hereupon from v. 15. to the end Look down from heaven c. The Verse read comes under the second of these Heads Christ having declared not only his Person but also his present design and work to be the wonderful destruction of his and his peoples enemies and the salvation of his Redeemed ones The Church is presently striking upon the same string of Mercy and that her faith and hope might be further confirmed and her heart enlarged she presently ecchoes unto Christ by telling over the former stories of his loving kindness ver 7. I will mention the loving kindnesses of the Lord c. Now as one aptly notes upon the place As good Historians do not only relate meer naked matters of fact but the persons also and considerations moving so or so with the effects and resultances so the Church surveying here the loving kindnesses of the Lord from an ancient date suggests in the words read the Considerations upon which the Lord proceeded to be the Saviour of this people For he said c. The words of the Text may be thus divided We have in them 1. The Lords just expectations of his people and that promise which he makes to himself of great things from them He said Surely they are my people children that will not lie 2. The influence of these things upon the Lords Saviourly undertakings with and for his people So he was their Saviour Or a little more largely the words hold forth to us 1. The best Relation wherein any people can stand and that is to be the Lords people 2. That eminent Qualification which suits with such a Relation To be children that will not lie 3. The Lords solemn Assertion and Consideration of such a Relation and Qualification in the people spoken of For he said Surely they are my people c. He affirms such a Relation and he solemnly expects and promiseth to himself such an answerable Qualification 4. The Lords Engagements and Actings as a Saviour towards this his people hereupon or as influenced by these things Having such an expectation and conceiving such hopes of this people as to promise to himself such things from them The Lord