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A13082	Scotlands warning, or a treatise of fasting containing a declaration of the causes of the solemne fast, indyted to bee kept in all the Churches of Scotland, the third and fourth sundayes of this instant moneth of May Anno 1628.& the weeke dayes betwixt them, as they may be goodly keeped in Townes. Together with a direction how to proceed in the religious obseruation of any soleme fast. Written at the appointment of superiors by Mr. W. Struther, preacher of the Gospel at Edinburgh.	Struther, William, 1578-1633.	1628 (1628)	STC 23370; ESTC S120441	41,231	90

it and so vnder Gods processe for our sins And it is a great mercie of God that hee hath spared vs so long and giuen vs so large a time of Repentance When hee might haue begunne his Iudgement at vs hee hath begunne at other that by their example we might turne in time preuent his heauie strok If forraine miseries beyond Sea will not moue vs to sorrow let our own home sins dāgers moue vs to repētance And for this ende wee haue to consider our owne state in this Land as the second cause of our Humiliation God hath blessed vs with his Law Gospel but we haue sinned against them both There is no precept of the Law whose breach is not shameleslie practised avowed 1. Euerie one maketh himselfe his owne god and seeketh themselues their owne glorie and gaine directing all their wayes from their own heart and turning all to themselues 2. Idolatrie once alluterlie banished is cropen in and setteth vp the head in this Land and manie who professed the Trueth are gone backe to Poperie They close their eyes from the shining light that is readie to resolue and reforme them And are so possessed by errors and darkenes that they abhorre the light which wold pull them out of their fleshly delights Their case is to be pitied who so wilfullie losse themselues refusing Saluation and running head-long to Hell 3. The abuse of the glorious Name of the Lord our God is growen a popular disease reigneth in all Estats the better sort out-run the common people in so grieuous a sinne And the rifenesse of it hath put it out of the respect of a sinne and hath turned it in the flower of their language as though all speech were but wersh and could neither fill the mouth of the speaker not the eare of the hearer except the Name of GOD bee profaned and God himselfe thereby thrust through If the flying Booke of the curse of God light vpon the house of euerie swearer to destroy the Timber and stone Zach. 5. How few houses shall escape the curse of God in this Land which groaneth vnder the multitude of oathes 4. The profanation of the Lords Day is vniuersall and no difference made betwixt the obseruation of it and other dayes But rather more libertie is taken in vaging in drinking chalmering wantonnesse in idle and profane speaking in it than in other days As if God had set it a part not for his owne honour but for the workes of the flesh Though wee bee not bound to judaize in the Sabbath yet are wee bound Christianlie to spend the Lords day in abstaining from euill and busying our selfe in the works of Pietie Charitie as the Sabbaths proper Exercise as a memoriall of the Resurrection of Christ our Redemption perfected thereby and a token of our eternall Sabbath rest in heauen 5 Disobedience to Superiours is a reigning sinne Though God for their further honouring hath placed the Precept that commandeth their obedience Next to the Precepts of Pietie and calleth the dueties of it by the Name of Pietie yet it is least respected Parents naturall are misregarded Pastours who beget and feede people in Christ are contemned And supreme Authoritie disobeyed of the most part 6. Innocent blood is shedde in many places as water and the Earth groaneth vnder it and the cry of it ascendeth to Heauen to bring down a judgement vpon vs all 7. Filthinesse hath layed off the former vaile of shame and is now impudent Fornication Adulteries Incests out-face the Light and multiplie out of number And the couenant of God in marriage is lesse respected and keeped then light promises amongst men Whereby thogh their were none other sinnes a way is made to ouerthrow families for God cannot blesse Inheritance in the hands of wrongous Heires 8. Secret and open hurting of the lots of men is a common practise and no man standeth in awe to make his Neighbours ruine a stepping stone to his owne exalting The most part without regarde of God Conscience or humanitie lose their Soule and quite the Heauen for the baggage of this life 9. And Calumnies are now so frequent that their is no godlie man who findeth not the scourge of the Tongue And no man almost who lendeth not to Sathan his eare to heare and his heart to belieue lies and his tongue to bee a scourge to his Neighbour 10. As for the abominations of the heart though they bee hidde from vs yet they are manifest to God and by these and the like fruites the world may see that the heartes of the most parte are voyde of God and are vyle puddles to defile themselues and ouerflow this Land with sinne These filthie fountaines are not seasoned with the salt of Grace but send out the deadlie waters of filthienes to burden this Land and make it spew vs out These and the like grieuous sinnes against the Law doe swarme in this Land But the sinnes against the Gospel are more grieuous both because of their kind and because they are sinnes against the remeede of sinne Faith a speciall part of our Euangelicall duetie is rare to bee found God day lie is offering Grace Saluatiō in the Gospel yet few do receiue it by Faith And so his greatest mercie in offering Christ is mett with greatest wickednesse on our parte in not belieuing Wee count Fornication or Thift or Murther to bee sinnes but Infidelitie worse than anie of them is counted no sinne and yet it is among the greatest pardonable sinnes This Infidelitie bringeth out all sortes of Disobedience When the heart by Faith is not purified and ioyned to God it is casten loose to all kinde of iniquitie without any restraint of euill or constraint to good Our hearing and reading is not mixed with Faith and so bringeth not out the obedience of faith if wee neither belieue the promised reward nor threatned punishment wee cannot obey the directing Precept With these sins is a fearefull Apostasie to Poperie in many partes of this Land Many these of the better sort are seduced and drawen away to Romish superstition and that because they were voyde of the Trueth of God and beeing ledde with their owne lustes they haue rendered themselues to that fleshlie Religion which giueth them libertie to sinne I speake of you and to you O seduced Papists how long will it bee ere yee open your eyes to see how your blinde Guides are leading you to damnation If yee will not try this matter by Conscience try it at the least by common sense see what sort of Guides these are who take you by the hand with this condition to close your eyes that yee neither inquire nor care whether they lead you Tell mee if you would commit your selfe in a dark Night to such a Guide as would close your eyes put out the Lanterne in your hand not suffer you to know how what way

SCOTLANDS WARNING Or a Treatise of Fasting Containing a Declaration of the causes of the solemne Fast Indyted to bee kept in all the Churches of Scotland the third and fourth Sundayes of this instant Moneth of May Anno 1628. the Weeke dayes betwixt them as they may be goodly keeped in Townes Together with a Direction how to proceed in the Religious Obseruation of any soleme Fast. Written at the appointment of Superiors By Mr. W. STRVTHER Preacher of the Gospel at EDINBVRGH Printed at Edinburgh by the Heires of Andro Hart. Anno Dom. 1628. Ieremiah 36. 5. 6. 7. And Ieremiah said vnto Baruch I am shut vp I cannot goe into the house of the Lord. Therefore goe thou and read in the roule which thou hast written from my mouth the words of the Lord in the eares of the people in the Lordes House vpon the Fasting day and also thou shalt read them in the eares of all Iuda that come out of their Cities It may bee they present their Supplications before the Lord and will returne euerie one from his euill way For great is the anger and wrath that the Lord hath pronounced against this Place 2. Chron. 34. 27. 28. Because thine heart was tender and thou didst humble thy selfe before God when thou heardest his wordes against this Place and against the Inhabitants thereof and humblest thy selfe before me and diddest ren● thy clothes and weepe before mee I haue euen heard thee also saith the Lord. Behold I will gather thee to thy Fathers and thou shalt bee put in thy graue in peace neither shall thine eyes see all the euill that I will bring vpon this Place and vpon the Inhabitants of the same SCOTLANDS WARNING Or a Treatise of Fasting Containing a Declaration of the causes of the solemne Fast indyted to be keeped in all the Churches of Scotland IT is the duetie of the LORDS Watch-men whom hee hath sette on the Walls of Ierusalem Ezech. 3. 33. To consider diligentlie both the estate of it within and the dangers imminent from without And according as they see to giue faithfull and tymous aduertisement to the people Habac. 2. 1. Isa. 21. 8. That thereby they may both deliuer their owne Soules and direct the people by speedie Repentance to preuent the approaching wrath This their Calling craueth for they stand betwixt God and his people as the Interpreters of his will to them Iob. 33. 23. And as their Remembrancers to God to present them and their necessities to him continuallie Isa. 62. 6. 7. Hee calleth them vp to the Mountaine to see further than other and beside their giftes ând graces as Christians giueth them a Pastorall eye to see and a pastorall heart to consider and a pastorall mouth to declare what they see and consider This also he commandeth them vnder a most heauie paine Sonne of man I haue sette thee a Watch-man vnto the House of Israel therefore thou shalt heare the word from my mouth warne them from mee When I say to the wicked O wicked man thou shalt surelie die if thou doest not speake to warne the wicked from his way that wicked man shall die in his sinne but his blood will I require at thine hand Ezech. 3. 17. 33. 7. 8. And God commnendeth this as wisedome in Pastors according to his heart Who is the wise mā to vnderstand this and who is hee to whome the mouth of the Lord hath spoken that hee may declare it for what the Land perished Ier. 9 12. Vpon these considerations the Clergie of this ●and taking to heart the Estate of the Church of God both in this Kingdome and other reformed Countries haue thought it necessa● Suppreme authoritie commanding also the same That all the Congregations of this Land keepe a solemne and publicke Fast the third and fourth Sundayes of this instant Moneth of May and the weeke dayes betwixt these two Sabbaths To intreat GOD in all humilitie and repentance for pardon of our sinnes and for auerting of his just wrath where it is alreadie begunne and to hold it off these who are threatned with it And for the better informing of euery one in the equitie necessitie of that religious work of Fasting and Prayer and their better stirring vp therevnto The just and weightie causes thereof are to bee considered which may bee reduced to these heads 1. First the most lamentable estate of the reformed Churches of Germanie and other Countries in Europe Where the Gospel did shine and Gods worshippe was exercised fruitfullie to his glorie But nowe by the crueltie of the preuailing Papists fearefull desolation is wrought in these places GODS Sainctes bereft of their liues their blood spilt as water in the streetes their women shamefullie abused their goods taken from them And the estate of them who haue escaped the rage of the sword worse than the slaine Their liberties lost and themselues either driuen from their dwellings or compelled to forsake their God Religion take themselues to Romish Idolatrie or to banishment And vnder the name of an Imperiall reformation there is nothing but a Godlesse deformation setting vp the abomination of ignorance and errour where the light hath beene How many Prouences sometimes pleasant in a peaceable professing of the Trueth as the Paradise of God are now turned in a wildernesse And the Houses of God prepared sometime on the top of the Mountaines and exalted aboue the Hills wherevnto people did flowe are destroyed And the Lords displayed banner vnder which many did merch in comelie order is cast down manie mothers in Israel famous Colledges and Universities are scattered and the abomination of desolation erected in them So wee may say with the Prophet Come behold the workes of the Lord what desolations hee hath wrought in the Earth Psal. 16. 8. The Heathen are come in the inheritance of the Lord his holie Temple haue they defiled and made Ierusalem heapes of stones The dead bodies of Gods Saincts haue they giuen to bee meate to the Fowles of heauen and the flesh of thy Saincts to the beastes of the earth Their blood haue they shed as water about Ierúsalem and there was none to burie them They haue deuoured Iacob and made his dwelling place waste Psal 79. 1. 3. 4. God hath forsaken the Tabernacle of Shiloh the tent which he placed among them He deliuered his strength in captiuitie and his glorie in the enemies hand Psal. 78. 61. And wee may lament with Ieremie How doeth the Citie remaine solitarie that was full of people Shee is a widow Shee that was great among the Nations And Princesse among the Prouince is made tributarie And wee may wish with that same Prophet Oh that mine head were waters and mine eyes a Fountaine of teares that I might weepe day and night for the slaine of the Daughter of my people Ierem. 9. 1 This worke is a part of Antichrists persecution for now hee is both breathing threatnings slaughter against

plainelie hee vvould cast them off as hee did Shiloh The Iewes had his presence and now they are casten off The Greeke Church in Asia Africke and the Easterne partes of Europpe had the Gospel but abused it and now are giuen ouer to Mahumets carnall and absurde delusions And the Westerne places of Europ and Rome at the first did shine as a glorious Church It vvas then an hammer of Heretickes and an harbour of distressed and persecuted Sainctes and yet falling from that Trueth is novv for manie Ages the nest of Antichrist And this Nation at the first inlightned with the Gospel enjoyed Peace when other Nations were ouer-runne with Warre and had almost lost both learning and Religion Then this Church proued a Mother Church and sent out her Schollers as Apostles to conuert the most parte of England and other Nations beyond Sea But when shee was therafter first compelled and then willingly yeelded to Romane superstition God put out that candle of the Gospel which had shined some seuen or eight Ages And now since many Ignorants relapse to Poperie and the most part fall in Atheisme who are we after so many fearfull examples to thinke that God will still dwell amōgst vs not withstāding of all our rebellions This fleshly conceat is an high degree of fleshly securitie as odious to God as our other sins for it would blemish him whose eyes are purer than that they can behold iniquity as a fauourer of sin As though he were tyed to dwell with obstinate and impenitent sinners whom his Soule abhorreth to keepe his couenant with them who proudlie breake it which is all one as to make GOD and Beliall dwell together The discouerie of the Newe found Land reserued till the laste times offereth a remarkable consideration for this purpose Some doe rest vpon naturall causes as the perfection of sailing the inuention of the Sailers compasse and other naturall reasons But Diuinitie leadeth vs a steppe further in the cause of this diuine prouidence That as Light came out from Sion at the first and spred it selfe through all parts error and heresie came after treacing the steps of trueth to the out most-parts of the earth yet many Nations either remaining in or returning to Paganisme other falling in Mahumetisme other were caried in that horrible Apostasie within the Church to anti-christianisme The Kirk groning vnder these abuses heresies within it selfe did lute for Reformation In this mean time God discouered another world to tel this old one that if they wold not reforme thēselues he had prouided him a soyle dwelling place set vp a people that were not of our knowledge to prouocke vs to Iealousie God hath indeede taken vs by the hand but when nothing can moue vs to our duetie what can hee but giue vs a bill of deuorcement and put vs from him God this day and wee in his Name are speaking as hee did to the Church of Ephesus I haue something against thee that thou hast forgotten thy first Loue. Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen and repent and doe the first workes or else I will come against thee shortlie and remoue the Candlesticke out of his place except thou repent Rev. 2. 4. The Iewes promised continuance of all happinesse to themselues because they were Abrahams seede But Christ telleth them that God will not want a people though they were destroyed For hee could raise vp Children vnto Abraham out of the stones of the fielde And hee letteth them see if they would see it to the griefe of their hearte that hee is better serued of the Gentiles than euer hee was of them If we joyne to our other sins this fleshlie conceat also that hee will want a people if hee cast vs off He can make either Barbarians or Iewes or th●se who now are the enemies of the Gospel turning them to the Gospel better seruants to him than wee are And will teach vs to our by eternall sorrow that hee can haue a people though wee bee not his people But where shall wee finde a God if in his Iustice hee cast vs off for our sin He will euer prouide himselfe a Church But woe to vs when hee departeth from vs. Hos. 9. 12. The second plague to bee feared is the Sword of Man God hath shaken many roddes on vs and smitten vs with them but we mend not Hee hath broken the staffe of bread and giuen vs cleannesse of teeth in our Cities and multitudes in the streetes dying for famine Hee hath stricken vs with Pestilence and made that flying arrow rage fearfullie And great Mortalitie on men and beastes hath almost latelie taken the tith of this Land and yet wee haue not amended The Sword onlie remaineth as the last and most fearfull plague which God then useth when all other chastisements haue not wrought his end to bring vs to repentance Wee are as Israel whome God did smyte with plague after plague And yet for all this they returned not to me sayeth the Lord. Amos. 4. And therefore why should I smite them any more Isa. 1. 4. And thou hast forsaken mee saith the LORD thou art gone backeward Therefore will I stretch out mine hand against thee and destroy thee I am wearie with repenting Ierem. 15. 6. When hee had taken paines on them and they were not mended hee cast them a way The bellowes are burnt the Leede is consumed in the fire the Founder melteth in vaine for the wicked are not plucked away Retrobate siluer shall men call them because the Lord hath reiected them Ier. 6. ●9 30. It is now dangerous to sleepe in Securitie as though our enemies were farre off and wee cōpassed with the walls of a great Sea We haue our enemies within so long as sin increaseth is not repented we wāt not enemies to destroy vs God wanteth neuer instruments whē he wil punish a Land He can hisse on the Flee at the Riuer of Egypt and on the Bee in the Land of Ashur Isa. 7. 18. And though there were but men halfe wounded and halfe dead they shall rise vp euery man in his tent and burne Ierusalem with fire when God is angrie with her Ierem. 37. Grashoppers are but weake Creatures yet when God sent them on Israel they could not bee resisted because the Lord uttereth his voyce before his Armie for his camp is very great for he is strong that executeth his word Ioel. 2. 10. As for our walls of Water if our sinnes remaine they will bee Shippes and bridges for our Enemies to bring ouer the wrath of God vpon vs Though wee would build our nest into the toppe of Rockes yet the hand of God can pull vs downe where euer a man dwelleth hee is a blacke marke for God to shoote at and the arrowes of his wrath to light on so long as guiltines abideth in him Wee should not indeede neglect or contemne lawfull meanes of our defence