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A91075	The prophets Malachy and Isaiah prophecying to the saints and professors of this generation of the great things the Lord will doe in this their day and time. Shewing (amongst other things) the nature and quality of the apostachy. The judgement of the Lord upon the leaders of the apostacy. How the Lord will deale with, and carry himself towards, others guilty of the apostacy. The certainty of deliverance at hand for the true seed. / By a wel-wisher to the kingdome of our Lord Jesus. To which is prefixed two very useful epistles, by Christopher Feak, and John Pendarves, ministers of the Gospel.	Wel-wisher to the kingdome of our Lord Jesus.; Pendarves, John, 1622-1656.; Feake, Christopher, fl. 1645-1660.	1656 (1656)	Wing P3687; Thomason E888_2; ESTC R207362	83,871	109

This Witnesse or Testimony whereof we are speaking from John 7.7 is not the witnesse of a man a mortall man but the witnesse of God the witnesse of one who is God and man and so it is most Authentick And how often Doth our Lord in his Ministry and Testimony inculcate this upon his hearers That he spake nothing of himself but as the Father gave him Commandement John 12.49 50. And again John 8.38 I speak that which I have seen with my Father So that when the Lord Jesus testified it was the highest Testimony which could have been given to the truth His Testimony was an unquestionable Testimony a righteous Testimony a witnesse which will carry the cause against the whole world for Let God be true but every man a lyar as it is written that thou mightest be justified in thy sayings The sayings of Christ from the father concerning this present evill world and the wicked works thereof will be made good at the last day Let no powers on earth think or hope to enervate his Testimony in the least by any pretences excuses or distinctions whatsoever Now as Christ Himselfe was in the world so ought those who are Christs Ministers and Witnesses to be in the world likewise Those whom he sendeth were born and anointed to this end viz. to bear witnesse to the truth in his sted and on his behalf and let the Princes of the world and the people of the world assure themselves The Lord never did nor ever will leave himselfe without witnesse Some of his Servants shall be stirred up by his Spirit to plead the Cause of their Lord against his adversaries altho they know before hand that through the hatred of the world they shall be exposed to a thousand dangers distresses deaths for the truths sake The Dragon the beast the scarlet Whore the false Prophet the Kings of the earth although by a complication of interests they are desperately ingaged and inraged against the Lamb and his followers against the Lord and his witnesses neverthelesse the wrath of God hath been and now is revealed from heaven to their very faces against all their ungodlinesse and unrighteousnesse by those witnesses which he hath raised up and furnished with Heroick spirits to contend with the whole earth and that wrath so revealed by his Servants the Prophets shall be executed likewise for The Testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of Prophecy which the true Church is never destitute of altogether So that I am perswaded and I believe many others that Matters are carried at this day betwixt the Servants and Spirit of Christ and the Servants and Spirit of Antichrist as they were carried in those dayes betwixt the Spirit person of Christ and the Spirit and persons of the Priests and powers of the earth It is not to be expected that his Highnesses Court Chaplaines who are fed at his Table should lift up their heel against their Good Lord and Master in testifying openly that his Counsells are evill that his Instrument is an ugly Idol and an Image of Jealousie that his Government is evill that his workes in imprisoning the Servants of Christ without Just Cause are evil that his Extortion and Rapine in Imposing and gathering in all his Taxes by an Arbitrary power contrary to the Law of God and the Land is evill that his devouring whole families in sending thousands to the ends of the earth and multitudes against their wills upon a base and beggerly Designe that stinkes in the nostrills of God and good men is evill and abominable And which of his City and Country Clergymen fed and Cloathed by his Tyrannicall execution of the Popes Cannon Law will declare against him for maintaining the Relicts and Remainders of Popery and for his setting up New-Carnall spirituall Courts of Prelaticall Tryers or Comissioners to reigne over the Parish Ministers in the Byshops stead Which of those Inslaved Preachers Lecturers and Augmentation-Men who come cap in hand to their Inferiors or equalls for their Approbation and a box full of Orthodox Orders to preach in such or such a steeple House and to receive the ancient profits and perquisites of the parish for their paines dare to turn head upon their Ecclesiasticall Lords and joyn with Christ and his spirit to testify against these New invented Babylonish Abominations Alas poor wretches they have no heart no spirit for the Interest of Christ they are ashamed of the testimony of our Lord and of us his prisoners who by the most powerfull Illapses and influences of his spirit are inabled and Constrayned to bid Defyance to the scarlet coloured Beast and to all his 7 heads of Blasphemy and to all his ten homs of persecution to all the Kings of the earth which commit fornication with the mother of Harlots and with all her danghters But because these Men thus lamentably yoaked by their new Lords Spirituall and Temporall dare not particularly and couragiously in the power of the Spirit bear their Testimony for Christ against the world or world like Church that their deeds are evill therefore the Lord will raise up others to supply this defect And be it known to all the Kings and Princes which oppresse and persecute the Children of the free woman that the Lord will furnish himself with a sufficient Number of faithfull Servants who shall in his strength maintain that Conflict and Combate which is needful till the great of the Battel of the Almighty God As Christ told the Chief Priests and Scribes who were displeased that the Children cryed Hosanna to the Son of David If these should hold their peace the stones would immediately cry out so I say in words of truth and sobernesse seeing the Chief Preachers Pastors and Teachers are dumb and connive at the present Apostacy Hypocrisie Oppression Tyrannicall Government and going back to AEgypt the Lord is as it were compelled to furnish himself from among the private Christians and the weakest and meanest of the Brethren to bear a Testimony against this wicked Generation of Backsliders and if they likewise should hold their peace altogether the stones of the streetes and the very bruite Creatures would immediatly cry out for the Lord will not altogether and utterly leave himselfe without witnes This Insuing Treatise was not Composed by any of the University-scarlet Doctors nor by any Batchelour of Divinity or Master of Arts and sciences I am perswaded their Acadenicall Vnction will teach them to practice complyance and to sing Placebo But surely this is some Honest Sool who observing the Common Clergy to be as mute as Fishes when they should have cryed aloud and have lifted up their voyces as a Trumpet to shew the Apostatized Christians their transgressions and the Hypocrites their sins hath so far layed their Abominations to heart that he cannot for bear to speak a word for God against such an adulterous Generation and to encourage that little Remnant which speak often one to another and think upon Jehovah's

one that b Rev. 17.1 2 sits upon many water who hath the Kings of the earth for her servants to commit fornication with her as Babilon of old was the great and lofty City exalting it self above c Dan 4.1 all people Nations and languages that dwelt in all the earth so hath our Babilon exalted her selt above the christian world as they cal in So that 3 The Prophet here sets forth the joyful praising state of the true Church and people of God immediatly upon the destruction of Babilon then shal they be able to sing the songs of Syon again praising the Lord after this manner 3 Because in this state there is night as wel as day therefore there is the shining of a flaming fire prepared for the nights defence but the glory of the mountain state is such as There shall be d Rev 21.25 no night there Because in this state there is a Tabernacle appointed for its defence which is moveable and not fixed therefore not the mountain state for that is a fixed unmoveable state They that trust in the Lord shal be as e Psal 125.1 MOUNT ZION which cannot be removed but abideth for ever And seeing for these reasons it cannot be interpretred of the glory of the mountain state of Zion I shall lay it down as the And last ground why I apprehend Isaiah and Malachy to treat both of one and the same time That this glory here spoken of in this 4th Chapter is the glory of that state of Zion wherein it becomes Daniels stone smiting the great Image the Lords battel-ax and weapon of war breaking in pieces the Nations and destroying Kingdoms the Lords threshing instrument to thresh the mountains smal and to make the hils like chaff upon the glory of this state there shal be such a defence that neither the heat nor the storm nor the raine of their enemies shal hurt or touch it the reasons that move me to adhere to this interpretation are 1 This glory is no other but the fruit of Zions purging and purifying which in this Chapt is called HOLINESSE Every one that it left in Zion and that remaineth in Jerusalem shal be called holy it is upon this glory the defence is created now this purifying of Zion and cloathing it with this glory is performed before though but immediatly before the day comes wherein the transgressors and sinners shal burn together and none shall quench them that day that shal burn as an Oven burning up the wicked both smal and great leaving them neithergoot nor branch when Zion shal be redeemed and restored to this glory then shall the destruction of the wicked come 2 The defence that is created upon this glory carries a great similitude to the Isratites wilderness state a cloud and smoakby day and a shining of a flaming fire by night and a Tabernacle now it signifies thus much to me that as the children of Israel had these things for their defence and direction when they were travelling through the Wilderness to the Promised land so under these figures the Holy Ghost holds forth to us that defence the Lord wil create by a wonder working power upon this glory all the while his chosen are journying over the worlds hils and mountains towards that State which was tiped out by the Promised Land of Canaan so that in deed and in truth the glory of this State mentioned in this 4th chapter which shal have such a defence is no other but that qualification and sitness the Lord wil indue his Zion withall to enable her to carry on his great design and work in the world to bring all the Kingdoms of this world into subjection to his Son our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ Supposing I have sufficiently proved the truth of the assertion That Isaiah in these Chapters treateth of the same time Malachy doth in his Prophecy I shal proceed to consider the Terrors of this dreadful day as the Prophet holds them sorth which wil plainly appear to us if we confider 1 The dreadful work the Lord wil make in professing Zion at this day f Isai 2. he wil humble the lofty looks and bring down the haughtiness of man there is not a man that is proud and lofty and lifted up but shal be brought down in that day and the day of the Lord shal be upon all the Cedars of Lebanon that Timber of which once the Lord was pleased to make beams and rafters for his house becomes now the subject of the anger and displeasure of God by reason of its being high and listed up upon its own bottom and upon all the Oaks of Bashan those trees of strength that are so useful in the Common wealth and upon all the high mountains and hils that are lifted up those prodigious lumps of earth whose aspiring brows injuriously overtop their neighbouring levels and upon every high Tower and fenced wal those strengths and fortresses the works of mens hands in which they put their trust as in a sure place and upon all the Ships of Tarshish those waies and means by which these men gain their Idols of gold and their Idols of silver which they make each one for himself to Worship and upon all pleasant pictures those rare painted inventions the wits of the Times find out to please the childish world with now in its doting old age and these with all other Idols wil he utterly abolish they shal utterly pass away and which is worthy our serious noting and is very significant he doth all this as he is Lord of hosts for behold the Lord the Lord of hosts doth so and so it s the day of the Lord of hosts that fals upon the particulars fore-mentioned What a dreadful day of Terrors must this of necessity prove when the Lord of hosts ariseth out of his place to de I with such sturdy and potent enemies as these are shaking terribly the earth the dread of this glorious Majesty is such as puts all the Inhabitants of this professing world to the run they run into the holes of the rock and into the caves of the earth they then throw away their Idols of gold and their Idols of silver to the moles and to the batt's though their Whorish and adulterous hearts run out so strongly to them before yet then let who vvil take them that they may run the lighter into the clefts of the Rock and to the tops of the ragged rocks and poor Jacob he is put to the run too he enter into his rock the rock of Ages into those secret Chambers the Lord hath provided for him to lye hid in and all for dread and fear of the glorious Majesty of the Lord of hosts at this day and such glory wil be manifested at this day that those that are left to praise the Lord shal wholly cease from man all men all of man the best of men the holiest of men even the holy Inhabitant of Syon