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world_n	darkness_n	light_n	shine_v	11,650	5	9.6082	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89638	A faithful warning, with good advice from Israel's God, to Englands King, and his council that they may wisely improve this little inch of time which the God of their life as yet affords unto them, before the day of their approaching misery come upon them. Which may serve as a caution to all others in authority within the nation. Sounded through one of the mourners in Sion, known by the name of Martin Mason.	Mason, Martin, fl. 1650-1676.	1660 (1660)	Wing M927; ESTC R202015	13,569	23

will give your Power to the false Prophet and let him ride upon you and make you his Vassels to afflict and torment the Innocent if instead of helping the Woman against the Dragon who is now casting out the Floods of his Wrath and Mischief against the Lambs of Christ and help the old Dragon to cast the harmless into nasty Holes Caves and Prisons If you will not quit your selves like men of Honour and shew your selves to be of a good understanding fearing God and hating Cruelty If you will not look into the Royal Law of God and do to us and all men as you would have us and all men do to you But if you will suffer us to fall into the hands of our Enemies whose very mercies are cruelties and you stand by and rejoice at our Calamity If you will not while you have Power be a bridle to the Wicked nor Rebuke this Exalted Spirit that seeks to Raise and Enrich it self in the Ruines of the Lord's People but give your Consent and Countenance to the Wicked in their Cruelties against us if you will stop your ears at the cry of the Righteous and suffer our Adversaries to oppress us all the day long and plow great furrows upon our backs and make our Afflictions grievous to be born Then know this assuredly The Lord will remember the afflictions of Joseph and though our Brethren sell us into the hands of the Aegyptians and intend our utter Ruine though you and they in your secret Contrivances and Imaginations devise mischief in your Beds against us yet the Righteous God will not forsake us he will stand by us in all our Troubles and his blessing upon us his presence with us his comfort to us nor you nor any Mortal can take from us In all our sufferings he is and will be with us and in his due time he will work Deliverance for us and in the mean he will support us in all our Tribulations he will fill our hearts with joy when the hearts of the wicked shall faile them he cannot forsake his own He will fill us with Divine Wisdom and give us Courage to bear all the Wrongs and Injuries which the Wicked shall be suffered to lay upon us He will Arm us sufficiently with his Patience and give us such Spiritual Weapons as shall wound the Head and Heart of the Wicked The innocency of our Sufferings shall kindle a Fire in the Hearts of our Adversaries that shall burn like an Oven and shall not be quenched The more you strive to suppress the Truth by persecuting those who live in it the more shall Truth prevail and prosper And if you should seeke to fill all the Prisons in the Nation with us or to take away that from us which is not dear unto us if the God of our Life require it of us For We our Life our Goods our All is freely given up unto our God when he requires them of us We can in his Strength glory over your Weakness and in the hight of your Fury we fear you not We know him to be with us who is greater than he that is against us and He will not faile us in the time of our greatest need That way you think to Raise your selves and Ruine us shall be the Ruine of your selves that very Way shall Deliverance come out of Sion to the Captive SEED For alas poor men you strive not onely against us but you contend against your Maker the God of Israel is engaged with us he Fights our Battels for us for he is within us then why should we fear what man can do against us Did ever any of Cain's Brood you are no better who ere ye be if you join with the Beast and false Prophet against the Lamb prosper long in their afflicting of God's People Why should you wilfully throw away the Mercies of your Maker Are you able to contend with him Or did ever any strive against him that were not broken and confounded by him If you can pluck God Omnipotent Eternal from his Throne and raze his Witness out of your own hearts utterly extinguish his searching shining Light in your own and the Peoples Consciences Then may you go on in your persecuting of the Saints and challenge the Peace of God to be your Portion But if not What is Man that he should Vye thus with his Maker Therefore be perswaded yet while the Light of God does shine in your hearts to be guided by it least for your disobedience to it the Lord God Omnipotent the Lyon of the Tribe of Judah who now suffers as a Lamb within you Arise in his fury and put on Strength If he Roar out of Sion he wil make all the Beasts in the Field to Tremble he will be dreadful to the Wicked If you persist in your Impenitency Cruelty and hard heartedness and seek to dye your selves in the Blood of the Innocent Then Know this assuredly from the Lord The Righteous God will visit you for your Iniquity the Blood-thirsty Men shall not live out half their dayes A short work will the Lord make in the Earth Vengeance Vengeance from the Lord God shall speedily overtake you though we forgive you and never lift up a hand against you The Dreadful God in his Terrible Wrath. will be avenged on you you shall all surely surely perish both YOU and your KING The LORD hath spoken it O that Men would yet let the Fear of God take place in their hearts it would Deliver them out of the Snares of the Cunning Hunter who continually goes about like a Roaring Lyon seeking whom he may devour O that men would once learn to be wise and cease from their Worldly Wisdom and seek after God's pure Wisdome which is only found and obtained in the Light Surely they might do wel to take heed unto his Light which shines in their hearts which secretly reproves all the Deeds of Darknesse And would draw them from Iniquity unto Holiness from Pride into pure Humility and from under the Power of Satan unto God But this is the Misery and Condemnation of the World That Light is come into the world and men love Darkness rather than Light because their Deeds are evil 'T is but now as it was ever The Seed of the Serpent cannot love or be at peace with the Seed of Life for Truth ever bears its Testimony against the World That the Wayes Customs Worship and Traditions thereof are evil And that 's the reason why the Heathens rage and the cause of the Enmity between the two Seeds even from the time of Righteous Abel to this day Search the Scriptures and there you may find plentiful proof of this true Assertion Never did the Light of the Gospel since the Primitive Times shine in more purity than now it does Never had the Lord a people since the dayes of the Apostles who walked more innocently and inoffensively as to God and Man than he hath raised