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truth_n	spirit_n	temple_n	worship_v	2,613	5	9.6572	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86654	The visitation of the rebellious nation of Ireland. And a warning from the Lord proclaimed, to all the inhabitants thereof, to make their peace with him before hislong [sic] suffering come to an end. With a lamentation over its unfruitfulnes and rebellion after so many visitations. And an exhortation to all the honest hearted, to meet the Lord by repentance, while the patience of the Lord continues. Or the sealing of the Lords testimony unto all sorts of people in that land, by his servants, after their several months sore labours, and travells, and sufferings therein, who loved not their lives for the seeds sake. Also some particular papers, written in that nation, to severall sorts of people. I. A warning, to the heads, and rulers, and people of Dublin. ... VII. An invitation to all the poor desolate souldiers, to repent, and make their peace with the Lord, and their duty shewed them, what the Lord requires of them. By them who are sufferers, for the seeds sake; waiting for the building of distressed Sion: F.H. E.B.	Howgill, Francis, 1618-1669.; Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.	1656 (1656)	Wing H3188; Thomason E880_6; ESTC R202550	29,686	40

wickednesse and in the steps of all the false Prophets and of the Scribes and Pharisees fulfilling their measure of wickednes and persecution against them is the wrath of God kindled to consume them as stubble they preach for hire and they divine for money and they seek for their gaine from their quarter and they run and was never sent and you are not profited by them but are ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth Awake ye Professors God calls unto you give eare unto his voyce Come out of Babylon and turne unto Sion that her desolate places may be builded you wander abroad in the darknesse groping as blind men your profession will wither and all your knowledge will consume away and your righteousnesse is abomnation to the Lord your praying God hates and your oblations is a wearinesse to him for you are in the enmity against God and the Serpents head is not bruised Come down ye Cedars who are exalted above the Crosse of Christ and make not a cloak of the Saints words to cover your unrighteousnesse grievous is your Idolatry who have painted your selves with the likenesse of the Saints life and bows to the Image set up in your imaginations drawing near God with your mouths but with your hearts going after your coveteousnesse Repent the day of the Lord is coming upon all flesh and meet the Lord and prepare his way and bow your heads you lofty Oakes who saith in your hearts you are the onely people but your lying hearts deceives you and you are found naked and without a covering All ye that desire after the way of the Lord of all sorts of people who are simple and honest hearted whether prophane or professor you have a day of visitation from the Lord yet stretched forth unto you Come ye unto the Lord and forsake all your lovers lay aside your evill hearts which hath led you aside from the way of salvation and now learne the fear of the Lord which is the beginning of wisdome and mind the one thing needfull which is of great prize even the salvation of your soules presse after and come out of the broad way of perdition wherein the world goes on to destruction and enter into the straight way where the unclean walks not cease from all the deceitfull wayes and worships of the world and love truth and walk in simplicity Cease from all your Idoll Temples for God dwells not in them but his Saints are his Temples wherein he dwells and walks cease from all your Idoll worships and feigned prayers and praises for God is not worshipped in vaine traditions as in observing dayes and times and outward things but in Spirit and truth is he worshipped and such he seeks to worship him and a broken spirit and an upright heart is accepted with him Cease from all your Idoll Shepheards and Priests of Baal that preaches for hire and divines for money and seeks for their gaine from their quarter for they profit not the people at all who are ever learning while they live upon earth and none able to come to the knowledge of the truth therefore cease from man and wait upon the Lord who is now risen to teach his people by his Spirit in his way of truth and righteousnesse in his peace and purity where his blessing is received from his presence which is with all that fear him Therefore awake awake out of darknesse and love not to slumber in the dark night which long hath ruled over you this is the day of your returne and of your visitation wherein the Lord would gather you Therefore resist not the love of the Lord wherein he calls you to repentance from dead works to serve him in righteousnesse but every one turne your minds inward to the light of Christ Jesus wherewith every one of you is lightned which light is it which convinceth you of sin and lets you see your evill deeds and whom you have served and how you have spent your time the light shines in darknesse and reveals unto you the secret intents of your dark hearts and doth secretly reprove the wicked purposes of your minds with this light in your consciences your sins are written and all that ever you have done is recorded and this light shall be the swift witnesse of the condemnation of the wicked in the day of the Lord and by it all your works will be brought to remembrance and your sins will be set in order before you to receive judgement by Christ Jesus And here is the free love and gift of God unto you who hath given you a light to guide you in his way if you own it and wait in it it will manifest the judgements of God against sin in you and will condemn sin in your flesh and will reveal the righteousnesse of God to be your covering if you dwell in the light it is your teacher and way unto life eternall and if you bring all your deeds to it it will reprove every evill word and work and give you discerning of things that differ it will manifest the secretest deceit of your hearts and the windings of the Serpent and will be judge thereof till unrighteousnesse be taken away and a birth brought forth from above and born of another nature and seed which if you be not born againe you cannot enter into the Kingdome of God Therefore in the fear of the Lord all consider and search your selves in tender love to all your soules I write You must be judged in the flesh that you may be justified in the Spirit and you must be made poor and emptied of all your knowledge and wisdome that you may be filled and made truly wise So if you believe in Christ Jesus the light and life of the world your hearts will be cleansed by the word of God which endures for ever and the Covenant of peace will be established with you where sin is no more remembred being condemned so now you have all time this is to you all a warning as I was moved of the Lord Repent the dreadfull day is at hand and meet the Lord by confessing and forsaking your sins and prepare the way of the Lord his coming draweth near least his judgements come upon you unawares and his wrath sweep you away in fury and your Nation become more cursed then the rest All your applying of Christs righteousnesse while your selves are sinners is to no purpose for no hypocrite can enter into life nor none that works wickednesse hath eternall life abiding in them but are in the death which hath passed over all men and the curse remaineth upon the disobedient and all in the first nature are children of wrath Therefore every one wait in the light that you may be changed and take up the daily Crosse of Christ that your own wills affections lusts and desires may be crucified and you may become dead to the world and may live unto God in his

cause before you and to the light of Jesus Christ in all your consciences we appeal in this our cause of righteousness and innocency to be judged thereby We are men fearing God and working righteousnesse and are friends to the Common-wealth of Israel and are exalters of justice and true judgement in the earth and are subject to all just power and to every just ordinance of man for conscience sake and have suffered the losse of all and have borne part of the burden with you that we might obtaine the freedome of the righteous seed and the liberty of tender consciences to serve the Lord in his own way and we are well known to the Lord though strangers to you and are free men in the record of heaven though now sufferers unjustly under your present authority who hath taken the place of exercising Lordship over our pure consciences and hath imprisoned us and endeavoured to give judgement of banishing us onely upon false accusations and informations and slanders without the proofe or testimony of any accusation of evill justly laid to our charge And to you hereby be it known that not for evill doing doe we thus suffer for to this present no man hath convinced us of any evill nor justly proved the transgression of any Law martiall or civill against us though we stand accused of many grievous things of which we are clearly innocent in the sight of him that lives for ever and doth nothing more desire herein but to be tryed by the Law of equity and righteousnesse and judged according thereunto By vertue of command given unto us by the eternall Spirit of the Lord came we into this Land of Ireland contrary to the will of man not to seek our selves nor our own glory nor to prejudice your Nation nor Government nor to be hurtfull to your Common-wealth but with the message of the Gospel of Christ Jesus we came to turn from darknes to light and from the power of Satan to the power of God and to minister the word of reconciliation and salvation freely without a gift or a reward unto lost soules and hereof God is our witnesse and also we have the seals of our Ministry which unto us herein can give testimony by the same Spirit and this are we ready to seal with our blood And these six months and upward have we laboured in travells and sufferings and reproaches and have passed through your Cities and Towns in sobernesse and meeknesse have we preached the kingdome of God and have holden forth the word of truth and the testimony of Jesus and our lives have we not loved till this day though sometimes dangers on every side hath beset us that we might hold forth the faith of Jesus the author of our profession in the exercise of a pure conscience both by doctrine and conversation and herein we are justified in the sight of God and who is he that condemns us and doth call heaven and earth to record and the light in all mens consciences who have heard our doctrine or seen our conversation to witnesse for us herein and we challenge all you Nation of Ireland our very enemies to prove the contrary though otherwise we stand falsly accused and falsly reputed to be disturbers and makers of disorders to the breach of publique peace and such like grievous things upon the false information whereof a Warrant was issued out from the chief Ruler and Counsell of Ireland and we thereby was apprehended in the City of Corke and haled by guards as malefactors to before the Counsell in this City where none of all these false accusations was or could be proved against us nor the transgression of any known Law could we be convicted of and though occasions was sought against us yet none could be found and though snares was laid for our feet yet were we not entrapped but was cleared in the sight of God witnessed by the light in all their consciences and was found innocent and without reproofe in the eye of the Lord and by our innocency was their orders of false accusations made of none effect and we thus far proved to be guiltles before the throne of true judgment yet notwithstanding contrary to the light in their own consciences and contrary to the just Laws of the Nations which afordeth freedome to the freeborn and righteous were we committed to prison without conviction or any guilt charged upon us or the least appearance of evill towards any mans person though falsly accused yet nothing given true testimony of against us whereby our boldnesse in the way of the Lord could be discouraged as having the testimony of the Spirit of God bearing us witnesse in the Holy Ghost that in all good conscience towards God and towards man we have lived unto this day and so are without reproofe in the sight of God and all just men and though upon search and examination we were found guiltles thus far yet further hath the enemy the Devil prevailed in cruelty against the innocent that it is endeavoured that we be banished under the account of vagabonds which last accusation is the most false and urighteous for we challenge this of whom have we begged or to whom have we been burdensome or whose bread have we eaten for nothing or what evil have we done where is the testimony of your slande●s but innocently doe we suffer these things bearing reproaches and binding the cruelty done unto us as chaines about our our necks and as crowns upon our heads having the assurance that for well doing we suffer these things from the hands of the Rulers through the lies and slanders of the teachers who are in Cains way of persecution till they have fulfilled their measure of wickednesse and be laid wast as the wildernesse And this is our cause and hereby it comes before you by the light of Christ in your consciences to be judged if your hearts be not altogether hardned and your minds wholly blinded and we lay it at the doore to receive sentence from you and without respect of your persons holds forth our guiltlesse cause before you not begging any thing from you but herein to clear our consciences that you may save your selves from this untoward generation whose root is corrupt and fruit bitternesse for while we have breath from the Lord and injoynment of his presence our duty is to serve the Lord in bearing witnesse against injustice and all cruelty and oppression and shall appeal to receive justice from the present power which now rules for in the name of the Lord we challenge our priviledge of freedome as being freeborn till we be accused guilty by the just Law of equity unto which we are subject for conscience sake and not to any mans will but by word and writing is bound by the Law of God to bear witnesse against the unjust proceedings herein of the Heads and Rulers of Dublin and shall seale our witnesse against them and against their unrighteous decrees