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A26347	The necessity of the pouring out of the spirit from on high upon a sinning apostatizing people, set under judgment, in order to their merciful deliverance and salvation as it was delivered in part, upon 21. 9. 1678 being a general fast throughout the united colonies of N.E. / by William Adams ...	Adams, William, 1650-1685.; Torrey, Samuel, 1632-1707.; Flint, Josiah, 1645-1680.	1679 (1679)	Wing A499; ESTC W34144	49,745	57

will of the Lord Jesus heartily giving thanks to God and the Father by him Col. 3 17. The Spirit of God and of holiness will breath and be manifest in them There will be a godly sorrow and mourning for sin in All Ezek. 7.16 But they that escape of them shall escape and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys all of them mourning every one for his iniquity A hearty grief that they have displeased dishonoured and provoked God by their sin And a sincere and earnest care and endeavour to repair the honour and glory of Gods Name by future holy obedience These are the immediate effects and fruits of the pouring out of the Spirit And till the Spirit be thus poured out and these gracious effects of it in some good measure obtained to the Conversion and Sanctification of a people under Judgement their misery and sorrow will be like to procead and continue And that 1. Because the profaneness unbelief and impenitency of sinners and the unholiness and unfruitfulness of Christians are the causes of these sorrows and miseryes And as till the causes be removed there is no probability that the effect should cease Josh 7.12 neither will I be with you any more except ye destroy the accursed from among you So in order to the removal of these from a people the pouring out of the Spirit from on high upon them to their sound conversion and sanctification is the grand expedient And therefore till this be they will remain a generation of Gods wrath His anger will not be like to be turned away from them till this work be wrought in and for them 2. Because till the Spirit be in some measure poured out upon them they will not be fit for mercy They will not duely acknowledge nor improve it but profane and abuse it Till by the gracious work of Gods Spirit in them they be brought to a complyance with his will they will not be in a posture to receive mercy They will not carry it aright under mercy Psal 106.8.13 21. Nevertheless he saved them for his Names sake But they soon forgat his works they waited not for his Counsel They forgat God their Saviour which had done great things And therefore there is little probability that God will bestow Salvation upon such a people 3. Till then they will be provoking God Though the Lord be striking them they will certainly be adding new provocations Jer. 5.3 Thou hast stricken them but they have not grieved thou hast consumed them but they have refused to receive correction they have made their faces harder then a rock they have refused to return Isai 57.17 For the iniquity of his Covetousness was I wroth and smote him I hid me and was wroth and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart After this manner will they certainly do till Soveraign grace heal them till such time as there be a gracious effusion of the Spirit from on high upon them to change convert and sanctifie them And therefore notwithstanding all the evil God hath done unto them it will be probable that his Anger will not be turned away but his hand stretch-out still against them Prop. IV. When the Spirit from on high is poured out upon a People to their sound Conversion there will be a restoration and multiplication of sure mercyes and blessings upon them Though such a people were under affliction and expressions of divine displeasure before The Seal of Gods providence would then turn towards them and there would be a remarkable glorious and happy change among them Text ver 16 17 18. Then there should be a new face and aspect of divine providence upon them and the clouds of divine displeasure would blow over What before was taken away or withheld from them should be then restored or given and what mercy they want bestowed upon them They should have mercyes and blessings indeed that are worthy the name of blessings store of sure mercyes and blessings 1. There would be great holiness Holiness would abound There would be Holiness to the Lord as it were engraven in bells and pots Zech. 14.20.21 Holiness would be conspicuous both in persons and actions Judgment and righteousness would dwell and remain every where both in the wilderness and in the field Text ver 16. Then Judgement shall dwell in the wilderness and righteousness remain in the fruitful field 1. We should then see sinners studying and following after Holiness Christians might then see those ignorant profane wicked creatures whom they now with grief behold or hear of that they mind nothing but their vanity their pride excess intemperance disorder who now will not be perswaded to pray to read or hear the word of God with diligence reverence and obedience who will be profane wanton intemperate negligent irreligious who will do any thing but what they should and every thing that they should not But then we might see them serious humble attentive to what is good acting in the fear of God diligent and studious to know the will of God careful to please God fearful of displeasing him circumspect in their actions Christian in their behaviour adorning the doctrine of the Gospel denying all ungodliness and worldly lusts and living soberly righteously godly in the world Tit. 2.12 Isai 32.4 The heart also of the rash shall understand knowledge Such as were heady and inconsiderate as fond and foolish persons usually are shall then be better advised and by attending to the word of God come to understand aright the will of God And the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly Men by their religious speech and communication at which they did but stammer when they assayed ought before shall now manifest the inward alteration and change of their hearts Engl. Annot. There are many who having little or nothing of Religion in their hearts little or no discerning or taste of things of the Spirit of God when they are put upon it to speak of any spiritual matters or to perform any religious duty they do miserably stammer sumble and falter they cannot speak or but very brokenly though it may be they can speak fast enough and are of voluble speech in other things But were there abundant effusion of the Spirit upon these it would loose their tongues and make them able to speak distinctly understandingly and feelingly of spiritual and holy things Isai 29.18 And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity and out of darkness Those that were deaf to all the calls and warnings of God by his word and rod they would not hearken that were blind that could not would not see notwithstanding all that glorious light of Gods truth was held forth before them they shall be recovered of those their former maladies and by the Spirit of God effectually working with his word they shall come to have their cars

and eyes opened to understand the truth and will of God to give all credit and yield all obedience thereto and shall be brought out of that spiritual mist and darkness wherein they were before involved And Isai 29 24. They also that erred in Spirit shall come to understanding and they that murmured shall learn doctrine Such as were wandring out of the way of understanding into wayes of error and wickedness and were ready to murmure be impatient and discontented to have their hearts rise against any that went about to stop them in their evil courses and thence were ready to quarrel or speak untowardly of the messages or messengers of God these shall come to themselves and set themselves to seek wisdome and understanding to learn the doctrine and will of God and shall betake themselves to and walk in the wayes of wisdome More passages to the same purpose we have in Isai 35.5 6.7 Then when by the foregoing afflictions Gods people being now fitted for mercy God shall be pleased to afford it The eyes of the blind shall be opened Those that were spiritually blind before shall now being enlightned see conceive and understand both the mystery of Godliness revealed in Gods word and his mercy and goodness manifested in his works And the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped They shall now listen to the word of God speaking in his book and by his messengers that had no list to hearken to either before Then shall the lame man leap as an Hart Men shall be cured of such spiritual defects in their Souls whereby they were disabled unto sincere upright constant and chearful walking in Gods wayes And the tongue of the dumb sing Those that have least tongue or had no tongue at all to ought that is good yet shall they for joy sing and chant out the praises of him that had done so great things for them For in the wilderness shall waters break out and streams in the desert A type of the spiritual watering whereby such persons and places become fertile and fruitful that were barren of all grace and goodness before And the parched ground shall become a Pool and the thirsty Land springs of water In the habitation of dragons where each lay shall be grass with reeds and rushes The same thing in other terms Engl. Annot. Thus do these Scriptures hold forth to us the great alteration that should be wrought in sinners by the pouring out of Gods holy Spirit upon them One might then see them lamenting and abandoning their former folly and vanity and minding heaven in good earnest acknowledging and confessing their iniquity begging pardon with great earnestness flying to Jesus Christ relying on him and faithfully endeavouring to live the life of Christ to exalt him by a gospel becoming conversation Oh what a wonderful sight would this be to see such dead bones live How would this effect and ravish the hearts of those that are good How would the heart even the heart reins of godly parents rejoice when the heart of their children shall be thus wise and their lips speak right things Prov. 23.15 16. What think you of this you whose hearts are mourning for the dissoluteness of or at least that you can see no more of godliness or hopefulness in your children You are now often ashamed and your face waxes pale with care fear and distress for your poor wandring children but if you could once see them thus the work of Gods hands being formed moulded and fashioned for God how full would your hearts and mouths then be of the praises of the holy one of Israel How would you sanctify and glorify him Isai 29.22 23 Jacob shall not now be ashamed neither shall his face now wax pale But when he seeeth his children the work of my hands in the miast of him they shall sanctify my Name and sanctify the holy One of Jacob and shall fear the God of Israel 2. We should then see Christians perfecting holiness in the fear of God Making Religion their business Studying to keep all Gods commandments and ordinances blameless and to do all those things that are pleasing in his sight Labouring to be eminently holy both in their religious and civil actions Careful to prepare and dispose themselves to wait upon God in his service conscientiously rising up to meet with God in the attendance on his Ordinances Humbly reverently religiously attentively waiting upon God that one might see that the service of God is heartily intended by them and that communion with God is sincerely breathed after by them in duties and Ordinances Then we might hear them full of heavenly spiritual and lively discourse sweet and savoury words and speeches flowing from the good treasure and abundance of the heart See them edifying teaching and admonishing one another Col. 3.16 considering one another exhorting and provoking to love good works Heb. 10.24 25. Then you might see sweet agreement affection cordialness faithfulness and peaceableness among brethren bearing and forbearing one another in love Then you might see Christians amiable and exemplary in their civil conversation not in the least seeking to defraud or go beyond others not unsteady in their words or promises not conforming themselves to the world or the customes or manners thereof not disorderly not proud not froward not unmerciful not churlish not intemperate not ungrateful not worldly nor any way at least not so many wayes unbeseeming in their carriages or actions but carrying an even thred of holiness and spiritualness throughout the whole of their conversation Herein exercising themselves to have a conscience altogether void of offence both toward God and toward man with a single eye and exactly minding the Rule in all their carriage towards both Oh what desireable times would these be when piety and holiness should thus flourish When those many and grievous and too just complaints as of the profaneness and dissoluteness of many unruly and ungoverned persons so of the unchristian and unworthy carriages of Professors in many respects should cease and be no more to be found And the glory of God the honour of his Name and esteem of his Ordinances and wayes should be highly advanced by the holy and amiable lives of all his Servants This would be the consequent of an abundant gracious effusion of the Spirit upon a people 2. There would be great happiness Happy would the people be that were in such a case Their condition would be exceeding comfortable And that 1. In the enjoyment of inward peace quietness and assurance Text ver 17. And the work of righteousness shall be peace and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever They should be kept in perfect peace Isai 26.3 Their Souls setled in quiet assured apprehensions of the grace and favour of God to them enjoying that great peace which they have that love the Law of God without any offensive disquietment There should not then be such dismal horror feizing the

hearts to the words of God to feel them in through meditation that they may be our life One Truth felt in Meditation is worth a world Mr. Mitchels Let. Hence David Psal 39.3 My heart was hot within me while I was musing the fire burned A religious pondering frame would greatly make way for the presence of the spirit of grace in the Soul Psal 119.59 I thought on my wayes and turned Direct 2. Be sure not to resist or quench the Spirit When the holy Ghost is moving upon or towards you beware of opposing or stifling its motions As they did Act. 7.51 Ye Stiff necked and uncircumcised in heart and cars ye do alwayes resist the holy Ghost If persons will alwayes resist the holy Ghost when it is moving towards them how should they come by it to be partakers of it Hence are we so expresly charged 1 Thes 5.19 Quench not the Spirit If when the Spirit moves by the word or moves in your hearts to leave sin to follow God and after holiness if now you withstand refuse or neglect to attend its motions you are not like to obtain the Spirit If you will not give entertainment to the Spirit of God nor embrace its motions how can you be like to receive it Therefore be very attentive to embrace its motions and obey them Hearken diligently to his Counsel and Commands When the Spirit of God is knocking at your hearts and stirs your hearts to accept of him and of his graces which he is willing and ready to work in you by no means neglect them or slight them but lay hold of them presently as one of the greatest mercyes that God is intending towards you bless him cherish them and beseech him to go on with his work in your Souls Do not reject any work of the Spirit neither grieve him by neglecting his good motions Prov. 1.23 Turn you at my Reproof behold I will pour out my Spi●●● unto you I will make known my words unto you Sedgwick on the Covenant p. 641. Direct 3. Remove all prejudices against the Spirit out of your hearts Our hearts naturally are full of prejudice against the Spirit and the wayes and workings of it of which we must labour to get them cleared There are those things wont to be mentioned as in the Author but now quoted p. 639 wherein we are apt to take up prejudice against the Spirit 1. Against the humbling work of the Spirit 2. The mortifying work of the Spirit 3. The sanctifying work of the Spirit 4. The Derisions that besal men for the Spirits sake That which I have especial reference to here is that we should get removed all prejudice against the mortifying and sanctifying work of the Spirit Beware of being offended at the way of walking in the Spirit for the strictness of it as if it were too streight to be restrained from these and those flesh pleasing actions and to be tyed to these and those religious dutyes and services Be so far from looking upon these as unreasonable as that on the contrary you may account them most equitable and indeed most pleasant As Prov. 3.17 Her wayes are wayes of pleasantness And account that it is your naughty heart only that makes you think them tedious and irksome By all means get your hearts reconciled to those wayes in which the Spirit of God leads those he dwels in that you may from the heart account those happy who by the help and grace of the Spirit can and do walk in them and that you should account it your own greatest happiness if you could obtain to have and walk in the Spirit and in all the wayes thereof and that every way and work of the Spirit of God may be very precious desireable to you They are the most excellent glorious profitable and desireable wayes and works and it is the perverseness of mans heart and will that makes them at any time seem otherwise which perverse esteem of them we must labour to get rid of Dir. 4. Get your hearts pressed with the intollerable load and burthen of sin of which you can no way be eased but by the presence and help of the Spirit of God Never rest nor be quiet till you come to see the intollerable infinite endless evil that is in sin to be sensible that it is an unsupportable burthen That is the reason why many are so little concerned about obtaining the Spirit of God to help and relieve them they are not duely sensible of the dreadful burthen and load of their sin that lyes upon them They have some lighter convictions and humiliations it may be for some grosser sins but they are not deep soaking nor through enough They are not sick unto death of their sin and hence they do not look for or not very earnestly for the Physitian It may be they have some physick of their own something compounded in their own Kitchin some course or work of their own that they account will do the deed expiate for their sin and preserve them from perishing and so they look no further Or if they do look out to this great Physitian of Souls it is only to get some directions what they may do themselves for themselves and they themselves will get it work it and administer it and so they rest still upon their own doing They are not brought so low in themselves as utterly and for ever to despair of their own strength and skill to recover themselves and hence they do not yield themselves wholly and fully to be healed by the Spirit of Christ they do not see such need of it Labour therefore by all means to see clearly the deadly wound that sin hath given you and to have your hearts broken all to pieces under the sense thereof So long as you are whole in your self or think you can make your self whole you will see no need of the Physitian But if you be thus sick heart sick of sin you will then feel an absolute need of the Physitian you will then prize and look after him Math. 9.12 They that be whole need not a Physitian but they that are sick Sit not down at quiet till sin become most exceeding bitter Go on humbling to be humbled and to see such intollerable evil in sin and to be so burthened with the wrath of God lying upon you for it as it may make sin everlasting ly odious to you force you to fly for refuge to lay hold on the hope sit before you and to have strong consolation there Mr. Mitchel Lee. Do not shun sorrow and mourning for sin Of necessity you must be troubled for sin in this life or in Hell and it is far better to come mourning to God for sin here then to go mourning from him for his Judgement hereafter If we be indeed cast down for sin be in extream bitterness of Soul about it from the sinfulness of it and its contrariety to God appearing to us