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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56457	Seasonable counsel to an afflicted people in a letter to the distressed inhabitants of Wem in the county of Salop, after the dreadful fire, which consumed that market-town, March 3. 1676/7. Written by Andrew Parsons, M.A. and sometime minister there.	Parsons, Andrew, 1615 or 16-1684.	1677 (1677)	Wing P559D; ESTC R220462	17,781	51

would have me see one Fire that I might never feel another I thank God for ever it was a good Fire for me I find as Sampson's Riddle hath it Judg. 14.14 out of the eater comes meat The Fire like Pharoah's lean kine did eat all the fat of my substance but it made ready the Passover for me and I have eaten the Lamb of God that taketh away the sins of the World And now I will tell you what I will do for this God who while I thought he was undoing me hath done so much for me I will receive him into my heart and walk worthy of him in my life and if ever God send me a new house if ever I have one it must be of Gods sending as Ahasuerus did command the Governors Neh. 2.8 to supply Nehemiah that he might build so God must command his Almoners concerning Wem that it be built also I will dedicate it to the honour of God in my calling and relation What was Joshuah's resolution shall be mine As for me and my house we will serve the Lord My serving of God in his House will be but a mock-service if I do not serve him in my own There will I pray and not be ashamed I will rejoyce with singing and this shall be the burthen of my Song For his mercy endureth for ever God might have said Ashes to Ashes House and Houshould burn together The Fire began at eight at Night If it had kindled in the dead of the Night we might have been presently in the chambers of Death It is a night therefore much to be observed to the Lord a Night from which we may date our new life there was nothing but this caused joy in the Morning after heaviness enduring all Night but that we had our lives for a prey when we saw no houses left yet what cause of adoring with thankfulness that we were all alive before the Lord then our selves And doth not this lay an eternal obligation to serve him who was the preserver of us our wives and little ones After such deliverance as this given to us shall we again provoke him Can we expect to escape another time if we should slight so great salvation Make vows and pay them serve God at home and serve him in the Congregation keep his Sabbath be afraid because of the power when the Magistrate shall contend with you as Nehem. 14.17 and say what evil is this that ye do and profane the Sabbath I am afraid Sabbath-sins have been a chief cause of consuming the Timber with the Stones of thousands of goodly Houses in England within these few years How many in Shropshire where many Fires have been kindled and burning upon the Lords day so in the great City and other great places in the Nation Keep within on the Lords day your own and Gods house to keep out the flying Roll and the burning Curse O that all places round about might have a pattern of Universal Reformation in Wem as well as an instance of doleful Desolation And therefore how much doth it stand our Ministers upon to walk circumspectly to preach powerfully to preach as if they would save themselves and them that hear them As they know they are directed by their Superiors to pray so they must know it will be expected one day from the great shepherd that by Life and Doctrine they set forth Gods true and lively word Thou that teachest another teachest thou not thy self Are such like to prevail with others to bear heavy burthens when they that bind them will not touch them themselves The Prophet Isaiah thought otherwise and therefore would not give the people Precepts without joyning his own examples Isa 2.5 O house of Jacob come ye and let us walk in the light of the Lord. Good Ministers say their people shall not go to Heaven alone they will go with them and be their leaders that Church had but a name to live whose Angel was dead If the Minister be dead how should the people be lively My beloved Friends God sent this Fire to awaken us all Three Fires in Wem in three quarters of a year Ministers and People watch therefore against all sin to all duty you will say they are incorrigible offenders who will commit iniquity to be punished by the Judges after they are once burnt in the hand What mercy can you expect from your Judg who have been burnt thrice God expects superlative sufferers should be ever after incomparable reformers and to have no more to do with the unfruitful works of darkness We read in the Gospel the last shall be first Who knows but by the power and grace of God scoffers of godliness having now known the terrour of the Lord may be the first to encourage and promote it He that made so good a Paul of so vile and wicked a Saul can do this when men have been melted in such a Fire they may be moulded and fashioned by him who made all things vessels of Honour fit for their Masters use Could I see this that one hours burning hath done more for conviction and Reformation than twenty years preaching I would say God spake to such out of the Fire indeed By this Fire God hath laid a deep Foundation and if you be not wanting to your selves you may build high and make Wem a place of Renown If you would take my counsel it should be this presently get the start of all places about you and set up the Staple-trade of practical godliness there is such a mystery in this Trade that it would make you all presently rich you would have the blessings of the upper and nether springs and your latter end like Job's would be far better than your beginning Wem hath ever wanted a good Trade I am sure this course will bring one Scripture rules and examples will direct you in this Practise of Piety be much therefore in reading the sacred Book other books may be of great use but this is of infallible verity let the word of Christ therefore dwell richly in you in all Wisdom Teaching and Admonishing one another Love as brethren and companions in Tribulation let all bitterness envy and malice be put away Seek not your own things but every one anothers good grudg not brethren one against another live in peace and the God of peace be with you Take heed in the last place of grudging and murmuring against God God will not be cal'd in question for any of his works All souls are his and so are all houses to let him do his pleasure to one or t'other who shall say unto him what dost thou You must needs say he hath punished you less than ye do deserve and then there is no wrong done stand still and see the Provision God will make for you if you will vow to God that when he shall again build your houses you will write Holiness to the Lord over your doors God will delight over you to