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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A92204	The fiery change: or, Almighty God, his melting and refining of his people, purging out their drosse and drossy metals, making them like unto himself and to his Son who is the pure Word. Wherein is discovered, by the comparison of metals, how the visible church is corrupted, consisting of men of all degrees and conditions and how God hath begun to refine them: which have past in the world a long time for good metal: but now is discovering by fire. / By Robert Read.	Read, Robert, fl. 1653-1656.	1656 (1656)	Wing R440; Thomason E899_3; ESTC R206741	92,260	122

I will pardon all The same that Israel was in her time the same is the Church now scattered upon the face of the whole earth the Gentiles being succedaneous to Israel whereof England is a particular How hath God dealt with this Nation from time to time delivered it out of the hands of the Romish power Antichristian heresies and worship and from all the tyrannicall government and lords over our consciences Heavie things were upon us and some of us not sensible of it the innovations bowings and cringings at the name of Jesus and to the Altar Jure divino like to be long lived reformation feared as much as vassallage yet Almighty God with his own arm saved us and snatched us as brands out of the fire from the violence that was lately and delivered us from our enemies and hath wrought some reformation for us he lookt upon us as a people that were drosse and hath begun to refine But we like the Egyptians love the garlick and onions of our Countrey that that hath been vomited out would we willingly take up again And these few yeers wherein God hath shewed us much mercy and love both to our spirituall and temporall beings in much tranquillity and peace we have abused to our own lusts and have not followed that light which God hath sent amongst us but the dark and foggie mists of our own carnall hearts despising and persecuting the same so that we have given the Lord just occasion to complain of us that we we the church of England is drosse as the house of Israel was yet neverthelesse take comfort thy God wilt melt thee and thou shalt be as the word pure silver Secondly The house of Israel is drosse to me saith God as drosse and the drosse of silver Almighty God is a pure a holy and a good God there is nothing can remain or dwell with God but holinesse and purity holinesse becomes his habitation Hag. 2.9 the gold and the silver are his the drosse and drossie metals are ours By gold is understood the gifts and graces of Gods holy Spirit and by silver the word of truth the word of God yea the word God There can be no union between gold and silver and drosse for drosse is that imperfect matter which doth accompany metals and is to be severed from them at the first rise of them out of the earth and taken from the metall as the scum and film of the metall by a refining and a purging fire Drosse likewise is found among metals subject to rust and apt to receive into it self corruption being in vessels and this likewise by melting and refining is cleansed and made clear Drosse of it self is worth nothing yet it fixeth and abideth in metals and may be by the skilfull refiner brought to something being washed and purified Is England drosse see are they not like the house of Israel that were Idolaters and other kindes of sinners what sin is there that is not committed in England Hath not God lately and now at present made triall of us Mark 12.1 ● as the Husbandman did of those that kept his Vineyard he hath sent his servants to see what fruit we have for him and we yeeld him none at all but beat revile reproach and persecute his servants That light that he hath sent amongst us our fathers scarce heard of it but never saw it that discovers Antichrist the Beast and the Whore Antichrist to be man exalted in the flesh man the righteousnesse of man in us the Beast to be the man of sin that is man deceiving himself Gal. 6.3 thinking to be something when he is nothing for man of himself is nothing without God but as a beast and the Whore to be man that seems to live with God in the outward appearance or Church and lives on the traditions and inventions of men cleaving onely to the wisdom and fashions of men and not desiring God to be all in all Do we not hate the messengers of truth and sin with an high hand against the bounty and love of God falling to spirituall whoredoms and fornications like the Concubines and Harlots having a seeming heart for God but wholly yeelding of it up to the service of the Devil the world and the flesh hating those that tremble at the word of God casting them out for his names sake and say Esa 66.5 Let the Lord be glorified but mark the end the one shall have the appearance of God to their joy and they the others shall be ashamed What is the demeanour of the people of England in their profession Is it not meerly outside The more mercy and love God doth bestow on us the more we lift up our heels against him when we should live and praise him in the admiration of his bounty beholding our great dignity in and through Christ he hath called us to be his sons heirs of a Kingdom that cannot be shaken and fellow-heirs with Christ in that Kingdom he calleth us unto a union with himself my Tabernacle shall be among men Ephes 1. ult Col. 2.19 as he hath said We are his portion and he is our portion we are his fulnes having the increases of God yet notwithstanding all this we are wedded to fleshly services and forms and content our selves with the bare names of Christians denying the life and power of Christianity and do hate those that live in that power Our services and worship of God are as dead things not being done by our selves but by an Attourney we do not call on God by a dead Saint but by a living man who may be as dead having not the life of God in him neither hath attained to the first resurrection a poor service that is not in our own persons with our own hearts Many there are that neither call on God themselves neither do assent to the prayer of another but custom and fashion causes them to bring their bodies to a publike place where the poor blinde heart cannot tell what he comes for neither is he carefull being benummed what the issues of his sencelesse comming will be Is this the coming to Christ for life Is this the way to get acquaintance with God No this is that drosse and more there is like to it that doth accompany the good metall but it shall in time be cast out and then we shall learn of Christ for he is meek and not learn of those that are proud boasters haters of God inventers of evil things and despisers of the pure light and truth O that the Lord would shew men the deceitfulnesse of their own hearts that can be content with the husk and shell of Religion be ful of glorying in that Righteousnesse which they have gotten by outward meanes in their own wisdoms and imaginations and utterly neglect refuse and abhor the inward binding of their souls up in union by Christ with the Father in the free Covenant of Grace and

being of drossy earthy substances and qualities that are not fit for his service that will be served with Gold and Silver how then can these metalls be melted and purified and be made fit vessels for the Lord They cannot melt themselves neither is it in the power of one to melt another no more can man be humbled mollified or be made capable tractable or vertible of himself by himself or by any other man bur onely by the Lord himself who saith I will melt them Behold then I say the goodnesse mercy and love of God that doth such great things for us as to melt us himself we are still in his hands we cannot do amisse no hurt shall come to us we have his presence his love his bounty although in the Furnace he owns us he will not depart from us what greater love then this to be with us when we have most need when we have the bitter cup presented to us then then is our sanctification neer then the Lord is making of us like to Himself and like to his Word to be righteous as he is righteous pure as he is pure Therefore those that have gone through this fire and have been melted humbled broken and refined sound fort the praises of God and declare as David did what the Lord hath done for your soules how he hath severed and separated you from the world and hath made you fit to have fellowship with the Father and with the Son which is a mystery to the World 1 John 1.3 and to those that have not past from death to life that have not past through the fire and known the indignation of the Lord but liveth in the vanity of their mindes serving their lusts cohering to the corrupt formes fashions and customes of the world which have no life in them but have the issues of death proceeding from a raw earthy drossy unmelted and unpurified root holding and continuing in it self no true peace nor joy but what nature or art hath Let the people who have been dead and are now alive that were darknesse and are now light in the Lord that are made conformable to the Death and Resurrection of Christ being dead to all sin and alive to all Grace who love not the world nor the things of the world but have attained the Kingdom of Grace Love Joy and Peace and have communion with their God have a reciprocall and correspondent love to God and to their brethren and eccho back everlasting thanks and praises to their God who hath freely communicated of himself unto them and hath made them as kings and priests who have not onely the fruits and effects of peace but peace it self Heb. 7.2 Ephes 2.14 Col. 1.27 for Christ in them the hope of glory he is their eternall Peace and their everlasting Light which proceeded from that fire in which they were melted and purified which hath consumed in them all their drosse and all manner of carnall lust concupiscence and self wisdom all righteousnesse invention and imagination that was in the will and carnall minde that led them into errour imitation and separation from the pure truth that comes from God the Fountain of all Truth and the very essence of all true religion and of all righteous living being derived from him and to be yeelded up to him with a pure conscience being divided and severed from the world which savours not of the things of God Eighthly and lastly The end They shall know that the Lord hath done it in his wrath in his indignation What my people Israel are they such abominable sinners as to commit such grosse sins blood-shed idolatry oppression disobedience uncharitablenesse covetousnesse and fornication I have great indignation against my people for these their great sins you may think that you are still in my favour and because your secret hiding of your sins makes the lesse cry among men you think by my silence that I am like unto you But I will reprove you and set your sins in order before you Psal 50.21 you shall know that I am angry and wrathfull against you you may apprehend in your carnall wisdoms and understandings that I still love you but you shall feel my fury I will melt you and then you shall know wherefore because you transgressed against me The Lord in the sixteenth of Ezekiel speaks much of his people how they were and what he did for them Ezek. 16. and what their behaviour was vers 48. As I live saith the Lord God Sodom thy sister hath not done neither she nor her daughters as thou hast done and thy daughters After many threats and menaces the Lord still owns them and in vers 62. saith that he will establish his covenant with them and they shall know that he is the Lord. The Lord here doth tell them that when he hath melted them they shall know that it is the Lord hath done it in his wrath they shall not say This fiery change came upon them by chance or fortune or out of the dust or by the transactions of differences that is among the Nations of the world or through the envie and malice of men against them and so blame the instruments as the ignorant world doth but they shall know that it is he that doth it and by the power of his arm and in his wrath See here and take notice of Gods love and mercy in the midst of judgement although he be angry and full of wrath yet he will not destroy his people in the midst of judgement he remembereth mercy Psal 83.3 that what he doth bring upon them is to change them not to confound them it is to purifie not to consume them it is that they may know the Lord as in many places in Isaiah Jeremiah and Ezekiel of their prophecies you shall find that after judgements denounced it is said And they shall know that I am the Lord. The knowledge of God is that that the world is not acquainted with although they talk much of it they have none of it Hos 4.1 God complains by his Prophet Hosea that there was no knowledge of him in the Land and that his people were destroyed for want of knowledge vers 6. We are Heathens by nature and by profession we declare it for we professe outwardly what is not inwardly It is the inward living the life of grace that makes us Christians to be ingrafted into Christ truly to be as the branches to the Vine to have experience of Gods mercy and love to us to know God by our acquaintance and fellowship with him is to know him aright as Christians not as the world that sayes they are Christians and know God no otherwise but as a dreadfull Judge by the flashings that they have in their mindes living in disobedience to the light and every thing that they do in profession is heavie irksome and burdensome to them they worship God because of his great power