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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

say to those that fear the Lord those blessed servants of the Lord who are exercising themselves in that Work so welpleasing to God about the concernments of the name and interest of the Lord at this day and I would reduce that I have to say into Instruction Exhortation First for Instruction And 1 Be instructed in the certainty of deliverance at hand that day of the Lords judging your enemies and bringing forth your deliverance is at hand even at the door Although the Wheel seems to run so fast back again and men are unraveling that bottom the Lord hath been winding up for some years last past and the powers of Heaven be shaken and mens hearts fail them for fear looking after those things that are coming on the earth though the face of things at present be thus sad and calamitous yet lift up your heads for your redemption draweth nigh know that the inexpressible wickedness and sadness of the times at this season is an unerring sign token of the certainty neerness of deliverance my thinks vvhat hath been already said in the preceding interpretation of the Scriptures handled proves this sufficiently but to strengthen your faith and increase your joy if the Lord please I wil offer some further proof That an hypocritical Apostacy after reformation is an unquestionable evidence that the Lord is at hand and wil delay no longer but suddenly deliver the true Seed to the glory and praise of his holy name wil be out of doubt if we consider That this vvas the state and condition of the old World vvhen Judgement took hold of it and the condition of the Jews our Lord found them in vvhen he first came in the flesh also that it is the state and condition of the present professing Gospel-Church when the day of the Lord of hosts shal come upon her wherein he wil be to her as a Refiners fire and as Fullers sope That it was the state and condition of the old world is clear for after that great defection and fal of man from his first purity had proceeded to blood manifested it self in that evil effect the slaughter of righteous Abel by his wicked Brother Cain and Seth the succeeder of Abel had preacht many years to the fallen world by that time Enoch was born a Gen 4●●● Men began to call upon the name of the Lord or as it it in the Margent of some Bibles to cal themselves by the name of the L. here was a reformation wrought by the preaching of the righteous the breach that Cain the seed of the Serpent had made was now made up again men would be no longer murderers as the children of the Serpent but they would be the Lords people called by the name of the Lord here is a notable reformation indeed one would have thought that there had now been a sure reconciliation made between God and man that there was an inseperable union of friendship entred into but behold the inconstancy of the nature of man afterward b Ch 6.1 2. it came to pass when men began to multiply on the face of the earth and daughters were born to them that the Sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair and they took them Wives of all which they chose they degenerated from their former reformation they kept not themselves the seperated people of the Lord but mingled themselves with the seed of men the Serpents brood and through this defection the wickedness of man was great in the earth and now every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually c V 5 this moved the Lord greatly d V. 6 7. and it repented the Lord that he had made man on the earth and it grieved him at his heart and the Lord said I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth The nature and quality of this Apostacy the Evangelists Matthew e Mat. 24 38.3● and Luke tel us They did eat they drank they married Wives they were given in marriage until the day that Noah entred into the Ark and the flood came and destroyed them all it was not a defection to Caines gross prophaneness Luke 17.26 27. but their hearts ran loose from God to the good things of this world they went backward and apostatised from God to the world made Idols to themselves of the lawful things of this World no doubt they solved their consciences with the lawfulness of the things in themselves their hearts ran out so unworthily after and could find much to say for their practice against any that should charge them with evil The curious refinedness of the apostacy appears by this that but eight persons could attain to escape the temptation the hypocrisie of it was such that it swept away all that called themselves by the name of the Lord except upright Noah and his Family that by close walking with God obtained deliverance And which is very observable in the reformation these men exalted the name of the Lord called themselves by the name of the Lord they buried their own name and would become as nothing that the Lord might have all the honour they would have no name but the name of the Lord serve him and none other owned none to be their Lord but him exalted the Lord alone they called themselves by the name of the Lord but in the apostacy they forget that name of the Lord they forsake the interest of the honour and name of God and set up their own name and their own honor f Gen 6● 4● became mighty men men of renown exalted their own name their own renown and honour to the dishonour of God and that glorious name of his they formerly called themselves by give me leave to repeat a little observe the two grand remarkables in this notorious apostacy They assotiate and mingle themselves with that sort of men the seed of the Serpent with that interest they formerly seperated from out of a profession of love to God and his name their calling themselves by the name of the Lord import so much And secondly they set up their own name renown and honour in the place and room of Gods whereas before they would call themselves by no name but by Gods name novv they come under the mighty and renowned names of men how neer these last dayes of this evil world come to these men in manners lest those who have a seeing eye judge This grieves the Lord at his heart and heresolves to exalt that blessed name of his they formerly exalted and now dispise and trample underfoot to serve their lusts in their destruction none shal escape but Noah and his Family that Just and upright man who vvalked vvith God kept close to the good old principle the Sons of God walked in exalting the name of God When the old World came into this frame and temper the Lord would bear no longer but