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A91475	Good tydings for sinners, great ioy for saints; or, A word to the world, and two to those that are chosen out of the world. Wherein is held forth, first, the sweet tenders of grace from the father through the son to all dejected sinners; he invites them, he woes them, he intreats them, nay, he beseecheth them to accept of mercy. In the second part of this book, called, Two words to those chosen out of the world, is spoken to the saints under their severall forms, taking notice first of the things commendable in them: and in the second place reproving them for things amisse among them. With a short prophesie of the downfall of presbyterie, independencie, anabaptismie, vaine notions, free-will. With a brief description of a true church-state, against which the gates of Hell shall not prevaile; it being founded upon a rock, it will stand against all waves and storms, that either men or devils can raise against it. I will give you all one heart, and one way. Then the Lord shall be one, and his name one. / Robert Purnell.	Purnell, Robert, d. 1666.; Parnell, Robert, attributed name.	1649 (1649)	Wing P542; Wing P4234; Thomason E557_12; ESTC R27528	60,728	77

joy upon their heads They shall obtain joy and gladnes and sorrows and sighing shall flie away Doest thou believe the Lord will heal all our backslidings all our distractions and compose all our differences and give all his people one heart and one way Jer. 32.39 Read understandingly that 11. Isa 6.7 8 9 The Woolfe also shaell dwell with the Lambe and the Leopard shall lie down with the Kid and the Calf and the young Lion and the fatling together and the Cow and the Beare shall feed their young and lie down together And the Lion shall eate straw like the Oxe and the sucking childe shall play on the hole of the Aspe and the weaned childe shall put his hand on the Cockatrice den They shall not hurt nor destroy in all mine holy mountain for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the Sea Light is sown for the righteous and gladnes for the upright in heart Isa 79 11.12 Therefore rejoyce in the Lord yee righteous and give thanks at the remembrance of his holines These and many scriptures more which for brevity I omit doe shew thee ô most noble overcomming Saint that glorious times are comming wherefore gird up the loins of thy minde be sober and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto thee at the revelation of Jesus Christ 1 Pet. 1.13 And when he is revealed amongst many mercies which thou shalt receive I will onely mention two First he shall appear without sin and thou shalt appear so in him Hebr. 9 the last Secondly Thou shalt be like him for thou shalt see him as he is 1 John 3.2 c. Then when thy soule apprehends this it will even break forth into praises and songs of deliverance as once David God let in a light whereby he saw his sins pardoned Psal 103. 1 2 3 4. Blesse the Lord O my soul and all that is within me blesse his holy name Blesse the Lord O my soule and forget not all his benefits Who forgiveth all thine iniquities who healeth all thy diseases Who redeemeth thy life from death who crowneth thee with loving kindnes and tender mercies If thou ask why I doe ci●e so many scriptures and not explain them I answer Remember to whom I speak that is to the chosen generation to the Saints enlightened and they have the sum of them opened to them already or at reast they have the spirit of God in them which is the truest Key to unfold or unlock the mysterie of them unto them Object 2. But I suppose that many of these forementioned promises were made unto particular Saints as to the Jews or the like And so have been fulfilled to them And if so Then what matter of comfort can they administer unto me Answer Suppose it were so That they bee fulfilled already which I know most doe say yet in some measure through Gods goodnes I doe know the contrary they are wholly or for the greatest part yet to be fulfilled as I could prove by scripture but I forbear because I would not be tedious But suppose they were made to some particular Saints and fulfilled to them yet they are in whole or in part appliable to thee as to instance in one scripture for all Josh 1.5 The Lord promised Joshua that he would never leave him nor forsake him And the Apostle in Heb. 13.5 presseth the Saints to make use of and to lay hold on that promise as made to them though it was made to Joshua many hundred yeares before Object 3. If they be yet to bee fulfilled it is a great question whether I shall live to see any of them fulfilled and then what comfort doe they hold forth to mee Answ If thou doest not live to see them fulfilled with thy bodily eyes yet with the eye of Faith which is the evidence of things not seen with naturall eyes Heb. 11.1 Thou mayest see them fulfilled to thee as the Saints Hebr. 11.13 They all dyed in the Faith not having received the promises but having seen them a farre off and were perswaded of them and embraced them that is They lived in the enjoyment of them in the Spirit Again 1 Thess 4.16.17 There are promises made one That the dead in Christ shall rise first and another That we shall ever be with the Lord. And in the 18. vers He commands the Saints that they should comfort one another with these words Then in one word this is the summe to be learned from hence that we should not onely rejoyce in the present enjoyments but live in a full expectation of and comfort in what wee shall shortly enjoy and comfort one another with these words Is not that time drawing neare which is prophesied of Rev. 11.15 And the seventh Angel sounded and there were great voyces in Heaven saying the Kingdomes of this world are become the Kingdomes of our Lord and of his Sonne Christ and hee shall reigne for evermore Wherefore most noble over-comming Saints Servants of the most high and mighty God looke for great alterations and mighty changes See what desolations God will make in the earth when he hath accomplished his worke upon mount Sion then hee will Judge the Mountaine of Esau that is when God hath fully brought up his people to enjoy nothing but himselfe then he will declare himselfe to be a God taking vengeance on his and our enemies Wherefore rejoyce O you Saints for the time of your singing is come The day of our redemption is appearing Howle oh Babylon Mourne oh thou proud opposer of Christ thy pride is falling thy end is comming Who will mourne for thee Then shall all thy lovers stand a farre off for feare of thy torments they stand farre off they will not come neare to comfort thee Bee silent then oh all flesh for the Lord is risen out of his holy habitation Then wilt thou break forth as in Isa 25.9 And it shall be said in that day This is our God wee have waited for him This is our Lord wee have waited for him we will bee glad and rejoyce in his salvation Then by this glorious appearing hee will destroy the face of the covering cast over all people and the vaile that is spread over all nations and hee will swallow up death in victory and the Lord God will wipe away teares from off all faces and the rebuke of his people shall be taken away from off all the earth for the Lord hath spoken it Isa 25.7 8. Oh Saints lift up your heads your redemption draws nigh and now will our God make good to us that which is written Zephe 3.9 I will turne to the people of pure Language and they shall serve me with one consent This pure Language is the Language of the Spirit Is appointed by God to put an end to these divisions not till then shall the envy of Ephraim depart and the enemies of Judah be cut off Ephraim not

worldly honour and power earthly riches will they preach if their profit invite them not Doe they reckon themselves rewarded if they receive not money Is not their cry great and their labour extream for Mammon judge you But these Ministers are made such in a way of imitation They say they follow the pattern of the Apostles But is it so The Apostles had a glorious Spirit of light and power poured out upon them mightily manifested in them so that they were in a holy extasie seeming as men drunk filled not with Wine but the Spirit that they plainly saw the promises and prophesies fulfilled in them and the world also might see and say that God was in them because of the works that were done by them They professed and declared that they had not their doctrine of man nor by man but by God they were not instructed through or by means of the fleshly Organs or faculties of their bodies or any fleshly or outward forme But say they the Gospel of God is revealed in us from Faith to Faith the Spirit of God doth reveale it to us we have tasted and seen and felt of the Word of Life The things of God knows no man but the Spirit of God but we have the Spirit c. And now are the pourings out of the Spirit upon all flesh heretofore prophesied and promised c. By all which and other expressions of scripture which are many and abundant it is apparent that the Apostles had a ministration of light life power and efficacie in them which went forth by them in marveilous operations Now they could with great boldnes and clearnes declare and Preach the mysteries of the Gospel because they had a clearnesse of sight of them by a proper demonstration and immediate manifestation the Spirit of God dwelt in them taught them plainly and they certainly knew that he taught them they had sure experience as wee by our bodily sight have experience or knowledge that the Sun shineth But amongst all these pretenders to the ministry and that appropriate to themselves that function so distinct as being the true and singular Apostle-imatators or as if they were thereunto anointed and sanctified above the rest of Christians their brethren where is he that God hath made so distinct by any guifts or endowments which either are comparable to those of the primitive Christians or doe competently inable him to declare the mystery of the Gospel which as spirituall so deepe and mysterious Or wherein is he a Minister more than an ordinary Christian Nay I will be bold to say that if they that are called the Ministers had but so much true light of the Gospell revealed in them as many private weake Children of God it would cause them absolutely to be ashamed to be termed Ministers so unlike are they to and untruly counted such Can their humane wisedome their schoole-learning and arts which are flesh and of the world unfold unto them the mystery of Godlinesse so great If so then the Apostle said not truly That God hath hid the things of his Spirit from the wise and prudent of the world and revealed them to babes And then also may the naturall man perceive the things of God though Paul saith he cannot And now if all your worldly and fleshly wisedome be no more to be accompted of what then is your ministry What is your complaint and murmuring against the Authority of the Nation What are they pulling down Apostles of Christ or imposters of Antichrist Shepherds that feed the Sheep or Wolves that devoure them do they pull downe their feeders or else their fleecers Are they pulling downe leaders or seducers May I not say to you in this case as our blessed Lord said to Nicodemus in another case John 3.10 Are you Masters in Israel and know not these things Indeed they are pulling downe such a ministry as is spoken of by the Prophet Micah Micah 3.5 Thus saith the Lord concerning the Prophets that make my people erre that bite with their teeth and yet cry peace and he that putteth not into their mouths they even prepare warre against him And in the next verse you may reade their judgement at large Well then will you be offended with Parliament and Army for pulling downe such a magistracie and ministry as this let me beseech you Give over with speed least you fall with them Againe My friends I doe admire that you complaine of the badnesse of these times surely you doe but dreame for if you doe awake you shall plainly see that they are the best times with us in England that ever we had to live by faith what Hath the Lord with the Besome of destruction swept away the head of the enemies of truth And yet sad times What Doth hee take Princes and Lords which were so high and bring their Heads so low as the Blocke And yet sad times What Have the Saints in obedience to the command of their Father given them to drink of the bitter that they have given you so long And yet sad times What Is the Lord making inquisition for blood and meeting the same measure to his enemies as they have meeted to his people And yet sad times What Is the Lord magnifying the attribute of his Justice upon his and our implacable enemies And yet sad times What Is the Lord pulling downe the powers of the world and the Kingdomes of men and setting up or at least making way to set up the Kingdome of his owne deare Son And yet sad times Hath the Lord prospered our Armies and given us so many Victories over them that would have devoured us And yet sad times My Brethren I am afraid you did not mourne with Jerusalem because you doe not now r●joce with her It is true unto some the times are sad but to whom Answ To the deceivers of our nation for these times doe discover them and plainly it is a bad time for false Prophets and corrupt Judges for God hath threatned their ruine it is bad times for Babylon and all her brats for the day of her destruction is dawning and the houre of her plagues is comming when Kings and Princes Nobles and Merchants shall all lye howling weeping and wailing crying alas alas And all the Saints shall stand before the presence of their tender Father singing rejoycing and praising the Lord for his judgements upon their enemies Againe You Ministers of the Presbiterian Congregations methinks you have lost your beauty I doe not see you in the affections of the Heires of promise the Sonnes of Sion as formerly the cause of this must be in the people or in your selves and I have spent a little time and made diligent search for to finde where the cause lyes and have with an impartiall heart weighed the Saints in one ballance and you in another And I finde you not them to light I meane I finde the cause of your being sleighted to be in your selves wherefore let me