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A call to Christendom in an earnest expostulation with her to prepare for the great and notable day of the Lord, that is at the door / by William Penn.
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Penn, William, 1644-1718.
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Judgment is come and no more worship the Beast Do you fear God in Truth and in Sincerity Then are you fearful of offending the Lord and tender of God's Glory then are your Hearts kept clean then are you wise to Salvation and so you can glorifie God indeed otherwise your Prayers and Praises are not Evangelical in God's sight But tell me O ye Gospellers is the Hour of his Judgment come to you Is it begun at your Houses yet How do you feel it Hath it broke your Hearts Hath it contristed your Spirits Have ye known the Godly Sorrow The Chastisements of the Lord and Rebukes of the Almighty Hath his pure Eternal Word divided yet betwixt your Souls and Spirit the Joynts and Marrow Have you ever been weary and heavy laden with Sin Hath it been a Burden to you Did you ever cry out in the Agony of your Spirits yet Men and brethren what shall we do to be saved O! who shall deliver us from the Body of sin here and the wrath to come the Travel of the holy Antients if not you are yet strangers to Christ and his Kingdom And if you die in that state where he is gone you shall never come For Sion God's City must be redeemed through Judgments and her Converts through Righteousness Yea the House of God cannot escape it wherefore said one of old If Judgment begin at the House of God where shall the ungodly and sinner appear O Wo to them that live without the Judgments of the Lord Wo to them that cast his Reproofs behind their Backs and live in earthly Pleasures fatting up themselves in their Lusts and Pleasures as for the day of Slaughter and treasuring up wrath against the day of wrath O the Antient Saints lived not thus they worked out their Salvation with fear and trembling yea they gave all diligence to make their Calling and Election sure Which way do you work out yours Habakkuk that holy Prophet his lips quivered and his belly trembled that his Soul might rest in the day of trouble Is this your state Or are you not rather Worshippers of the Beast at this day Lovers of the worldly sensual voluptuous Life walking in the lusts of the Eye the lusts of the Flesh and pride of Life like Rebellious Israel of old forgetting God days without number But this know that All that forget God shall be turned into Hell Oh! what is become of the Fatherly Visitation made to your Progenitors those good beginnings sow'd in Persecutions and Martyrdoms Have you answered the Loving-kindness of God therein Have you advanc'd in the Way of Righteousness Are you become an holy Nation and a peculiar People to God Zealous of good Works But have you not betaken your selves to the Wisdom and Learning of this World to make Ministers and deserted the Spirit of the Lord and fled to the Power and Policy of this World to defend and protect you and not to the Name of the Lord which hath always been the strong Tower of the Righteous Nay are you not divided one against another and turned Persecutors for Religion your selves denying that Liberty to others you took for your selves Ah! Where is the Royal Law of Doing as you would be done unto Thus have you decayed and degenerated into a Worldly Clergy and a Carnal People holding and maintaining Reformed Words in an unreformed Spirit Yea are not the same evils Pride Passion Malice Wars Bloodshed Persecution Deceit fleshly Lusts Wantonness vain Pleasures and Sports yea all manner of Worldly-mindedness to be found in you that were in the Persecutors of your Fore-fathers and against which your most serious and best Ancestors faithfully testified So that the difference now is about Words and Sentences and not about the Life Nature and Spirit of pure and undefiled Religion and Men are to be known now by their Denominations and Subscriptions to certain Human Creeds Man-made Faiths and Forms and not by the Spirit and Image of Christ Jesus by the nature of the true Sheep and by that holy Vnction that was the Bond of the heavenly Fellowship of the Saints of Old And you that are called Reformed with the rest of the Subdivided Sects what better are you for your Names Are ye Regenerated yet Are you Reformed from the Lusts of the Eye the Lusts of the Flesh and the Pride of Life from the Devil and all his Works Are you born of the incorruptible Seed that liveth and abideth for ever And are you come out of the corruptible things and doth Christ lead you Is the Government of your Souls upon his Shoulders Tell me is it the New Birth that which is born of God through many Tribulations the New Man Created in Christ Jesus that calleth God Father in your Prayers and that maketh mention of him in your Preachings Or is it the first Birth of the earth earthly the old Man the corrupt and unregenerated Nature that which is born of the Flesh that is to say of the Seed of the Evil One the Father of all the fleshly Lusts Inventions Imaginations and Traditions of Men that taketh pleasure in the vain and wicked Sports and Pleasures of this Apostate World that forget God and turn his Grace into Wantonness reproaching nick-naming and persecuting the Children of Regeneration with scornful Names and cruel Punishments calling God Father as the Jews did and Crucifying Christ afresh by a vain Conversation at the same time O you Degenerated Christians of all sorts yea all the several Sects in Christendom that have deserted your first Love and degenerated from the Life and Power of Primitive Godliness with the Light of Christ Jesus in your Hearts examine your selves God hath lighted your Candle search and try your selves see how it standeth with you as to your Eternal Condition before you go hence and be no more in this World Consider are you in the true Faith of Christ or no For without true Faith none can please God and without pleasing him no Man can be saved The Devils believe yea and tremble too that is more than Thousands called Christians do and so far they are short of the very Devils Have you Faith Let 's try it in the Name of God What is it for Faith Doth it overcome the World Doth it live and depend upon God Can it forsake Country and Kindred Turn out Ishmael Offer up Isaac Live a Pilgrim a Stranger in the World Doth it work by that love which can forsake all for Christ's Names sake Doth it fight against the Devil Resist his fiery Darts Overcome his Assaults and Temptations And finally purifie the Soul to God's use Is this your Faith O you carnal outside-Christians No such matter for you live in the flesh fulfilling the Lusts thereof and your care is what you shall eat drink and put on and how you should get the Mammon Friendship and Glory of this World Examine your selves and prepare for the Day of the Lord hasteneth upon you And have a care
A CALL TO Christendom In an Earnest Expostulation with Her to prepare for the Great and Notable DAY of the LORD That is at the Door By William Penn. LONDON Printed and Sold by T. Sowle near the Meeting-house in White-Hart-Court in Gracious-Street and at the Crooked-Billet in Holywell-lane near Shoreditch 1694. A CALL TO Christendom AWake O Christendom Awake and come to Judgment for the Great and Notable Day of the Lord is drawing apace upon thee prepare to meet him thou and thy Children for the Hour of his Judgement hasteneth upon you as Travail on a Woman with Child in which all your Works shall be tried and that by Fire For the Day of the Lord shall burn as an Oven and all the proud and all that do wickedly shall be as stubble Yea by fire and by sword will the Lord God Almighty plead with all flesh with all fleshly Worshippers and Workers who live after the flesh to fulfil the lusts thereof And with the Spirit of Judgment and the Spirit of Burning that is with Spiritual Judgment and Burning will he visit all Ranks and Regions upon the Earth Yea his holy Terrors shall take hold of the Rebellious and Anguish and Distress shall fill the Souls of the Guilty The Faces of Nations shall gather paleness and their Knees smite together because of the Anger of God that is kindling against them and his fierce Wrath that is revealing from Heaven against all the ungodly but more especially against the Children of the Mystery of Iniquity 'T is in this day that the Kindreds of the Earth shall mourn with a great Lamentation O Christendom Thou hast long sate as a Queen that should never know sorrow Great have been thy Pretences and large thy Profession of God Christ Spirit and Scriptures come let me Expostulate with thee and thy Children in the fear and presence of him that shall bring every word and work to Judgment God is pure and the pure in heart only see him Now are you pure Do you see him God is a Spirit and none can worship him aright but such as come to his Spirit and obey it Do you so Christ is the Gift of God have you received him into your Hearts Does he rule there Then have you Eternal Life abiding in you If not you are not true Christians The Spirit of Truth leadeth into all Truth and the Children of God are born of it and led by it But are you led into all the holy ways of Truth born of this Eternal Spirit Then you follow not the Spirit of this World nor do your own wills but the Will of God You profess the holy Scriptures but what do you witness and experience What Interest have you in them Can you set to your Seal they are true by the work of the same Spirit in you that gave them forth in the holy Antients What 's David's Roarings and Praises to thee that livest in the Lust of this World What 's Paul's and Peter's Experiences to thee that walkest after the Flesh O you that are called Christians givâ— ear a little unto me for I am prest in Spâ—rit to write to you Read with patiencâ— and consider my words for behold what I have to say unto you concerneth your Eternal Good GOD hath so loved the World that he hath sent his only Begotten Son into the World that those that believe in him should have Eternal Life And this Son is Christ Jesus the true Light that lighteth every one coming into the World and they that abide not in him the Light dwell in Darkness in Sin and are under the Region and Shadow of Death Yea dead in Sin and see not their own states neither perceive the sad Conditions of their own Souls They are blind to the things of God's Kingdom and unsensible of true and spiritual Life and Motion what it is to live to God And in that state are alienated from God without true Judgment and living Knowledge and under the Curse For in Jesus Christ the Light of the World are hid all the Treasures of Wisdom and Knowledge Redemption and Glory they are hid from the wordly Christian from all that are captivated by the Spirit and Lusts of the World And whoever would see them for therein consist the things that belong to their Eternal Peace must come to Christ Jesus the true Light in their Consciences bring their Deeds to him love him and obey him whom God hath ordained a Light to lighten the Gentiles and for his Salvation to the ends of the Earth Light and Salvation are joined together and none can come to Salvation but as they come first to the Light and submit to the manifestation of it which leadeth to Salvation For the Nations of them that are saved shall walk in the Light of the Lamb Christ Jesus Light and Sanctification are also joined together If we walk in the Light as God is in the Light the Blood of Jesus Christ his Son shall cleanse us from all sin And Light and Life Eternal are joined together For in the Word that was with God in the beginning and was God by whom all things were made that were made was life and that life the light of men And this is the Testimony of Jesus I am the light of the world he that followeth me shall not abide in darkness but have the light of life Yea it is Eternal Life to believe in him in Christ the Light to receive embrace and to follow him And this is that true Light saith the same beloved Disciple that lighteth every man that cometh into the world Now this Light shineth in Darkness in the Children of Darkness in their dark Hearts in their black Souls and defiled Consciences but in this Darkness they comprehend it not Neither can man know the Nature and Benefit of it whilst he rebelleth against it for the Virtue and Excellency of it is shut up and hid from the Children of Disobedience To as many as received him of old gave he power to become the Children of God and they that did his Will knew his Doctrine to be of God and of Power and Efficacy to their Salvation But this is the great Condemnation of the World at this day that though God hath sent his Son a Light into the Hearts of all Men and Women to manifest and reprove their evil deeds and to save them yet they love Darkness they love the Lusts and Imaginations of their vain Hearts better than this holy Light that is given unto them for Salvation They chuse Barrabas rather than Jesus Yea they have set up other Lights than Christ Jesus God's great Light and other Prophets than Christ God's great Prophet and other Priests than Jesus the High-Priest of the New Covenant But they are dark Lights false Prophets and blind Priests All that came before me saith Christ are Thieves and Robbers And all that Pray Preach Sing Worship c. and not by the Light and Spirit of