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A63767	A trumpet blown in Sion, sounding an alarm in Gods holy mountain: or, A voice lifted up as a trumpet crying aloud, and not sparing, to shew the Lords people their transgressions, and the house of Jacob their sins. By a poor worm, that through the Lords great grace, hath found great blessings among the Presbyterian ministry, and by conversing with some of the Lords upright ones of the Presbyterian way; and also choice blessings among the ministry of the Independant and Baptized congregations, and some of the faithful with them.	Poor worm.	1666 (1666)	Wing T3142C; ESTC R220929	125,364	105

thing done in a Corner but was such a Publick and Solemn Act as was made manifest to all the Nations in Europe whose eyes were then gazing upon us and observing of us and the entering into that Covenant was greatly cryed up as a most worthy Act that might conduce much to the happiness of those Nations had it been inviolably kept to the utmost of every mans capacity But when a Nation shall solemnly enter into a Covenant with hands lifted up to God as if they desired his Blessings and Favours no otherwise then as they performed and faithfully kept it to the utmost of their capacitie and then per●idiously in a few years shall wittingly willingly and resolvedly break some great and considerable parts of it in the fight of God Angels and Men and yet profess to be the People of the Lord and the Children of God How greatly do they dishonour his Glorious Name whose People ought to be Children that will not lie much less break a Solemn Covenant of whose Servant it is said Psal 15. 4. That he sweareth to his own hurt and changeth not And it well becomes him so to do for it were better for him to chuse affliction rather then sin to suffer prejudice and loss and great disadvantage then in any measure to break his Promise much less his Oath For what if he lose outward things God is ab●e to make up that ●hundred f●ll to him again But if he sin against the Lord Who shall intreat for him But this Sin of false Swearing or breach of an Oath is a great and horrible s●n which as it greatly dishonours the Name of the Lord doth greatly provoke the Eyes of his Glory as appears Because it is evident in Scripture that the Lord doth very severely punish his people for that sin that have been guilty of it bringing dreadful judgments upon them for that sin in particular as is evident in Ezek. 17. The King of Babylon having come up against Jerusalem and taken away the King thereof and carried him to Babyl●n he being one of the Sons of Josiah and having set up a Brother of his to be King of Judah in the stead of him that he carried away to Babylon he made him whom he set up to be King to en●er into a Covenant of Subjection unto him But in●●ead of keeping his Co●enant he rebelled against the King of Babylon as you have the History 2 Chron. 36. 10 11 12 13. 2 Kings 24. 17 18 19. Jer. 37. the whole Chapter And sent to Egypt for help But saith the Lord Ezek. 17. 15 16. Shall he escape that doth such things or shall he break the Covenant and be delivered As I live saith the Lord God surely in the place where the King dwelleth that made him King whose Oath he despised and whose Covenant ●e brake even with him in the midst of Babylon shall he die Neither shall Pharoah with his mighty Army make for him in the War Seeing he despised the Oath by breaking the Covenant when loe he had given his hand and hath done all these things he shall not escape Therefore thus saith the Lord God As I live surely my Oath that he hath despised and my Covenant that he hath broken even it will I recompence upon his own head and I will spread my Net upon him and he shall be taken in my snare and I will bring him to Babylon and will plead with him there for his trespass that he hath trespassed against me and all his fugitives with all his bands shall fall by the sword and they that remain shall be scattered toward all Winds And ye shall know that I the Lord have spoken it Here we see when the King of Judah had sworn to the King of Babylon though it may be he might think himself not bound to keep Covenant with him being a Heathen and an Idolater and though it may be when he took the Covenant he took it unwillingly yet having taken it he was indispensibly bound to perform and keep it For if the consideration of the quality of the Persons whether Heatheus or Turks or Atheists should null the Covenants or Promises that are made by the People of the Lord to them then the Name of the Lord would be greatly blasphemed amongst the Heathen by such Deeds for it would justly open the mouths of such to say That there is no Truth no● Righ●eousness amongst such as profess to be the Lords Servants For among all sorts of men in the World Truth and Faithfulness in Promises and Covenants and Just and Righteous Dealings among Men is highly esteemed and the contrary condemned much more among the People of the God of Truth for Just and Right is He therefore if any such do Deut. 32. 4. break a Covenant a solemn Oath God is more dishonoured by them then by others and he will not bear with it in them but usually doth severely punish it as in this King Therefore saith the Lord Shall he escape that doth such things Shall ●e break the Covenant and be delivered He shall not escape 2 Kin 25. 7. Jer. 39 6 7. he shall be carried captive and he shall die in Babylon seeing he despised the Oath by breaking the Covenant And accordingly he was carried to Babylon and all his Sons were there slain before his Eyes and then his Eyes were put ou● and he was blind to the day of his death And it is much to be observed That the Lord calls the Covenant that this King entered into HIS Oath and HIS Covenant Thus saith the Lord God As I live surely MY Oath that he hath despised and MY Convenant that he hath broken even it will I recompence upon his own Head For we find in Scripture that the entering into a Covenant or Oath is a great and solemn Appointment of the Lord for the ending of Controversie and for the confirming Heb. 6. 16 of Truth and therefore it is called in Scripture The Oath of the LORD as Exod. 22. 10. 11. If a man deliver unto his Neighbour an Ass or an Ox or a Sheep or any Beast to keep and it die or be hurt or driven away no man seeing it then shall an OATH OF THE LORD be between them both that ●e ●ath not put his hand unto his Neighbours Goods and the Owner of it shall accept thereof c. And 2 Sam. 21. 7. But the King spared Mephibesheth the Son of Jonathan the Son of Saul because of the LORDS OATH that was between them between David and Jonathan the Son of Saul The like Eccles 8. 2. And so here As I live saith the Lord surely MY Oath that he hath despised and MY Covenant that he hath broken even it will I recompence upon his own head And it is plain that in an Oath or Covenant the Party doth in word or gesture call the Lord to witness to the Truth of it either by Hands lifted up to Heaven or by kissing the

Church-Assemblies where we have heard the good Word of God in the Parish-Assemblies and in other Assemblies and the Word of the Lord hath been sweet unto us And we have been Partakers of that great Ordinance of the Lords institution at his Last Supper frequently wherein we have endeavoured to do it in remembrance of him and to shew forth his death until he come And we have upon several occasions kept days of Fasting and days of Thanksgiving both publickly and more retiredly And wherein have we not walked in the Ways of God nor been obedient unto his Laws The answer to these things is this It is true O House of Jacob that ye do many of you seek the Lord dayly and delight to know his ways as a Isa 58. 2. Nation that did Righteousness and forsook not the Ordinances of their God yea ye ask of him the Ordinances of Justice and ye take delight in approaching to God and ye come and sit before the Prophets and Ministers of God as his People and ye say the Word of the Lord is good and it is sweet Ezek. 32. 31 32. and with your mouth you shew much love But notwithstanding all this you are a People that have greatly sinned against the Lord for you would not walk in his ways neither were you obedient unto his Laws and you must be shewed wherein And you must know this O House of Jacob though there be many sins that ye cannot be said to be guilty of living in the constant practice of as those others do that cannot in any sence be called by the name of the House of Jacob or Israel because they do not so much as pretend to be Professors of being the Lords servants or being as they call some Puritans but despise being such Yet there are some sins that you the generality of you are as guilty of as the generality of those others are and those sins that you are guilty of are as odious and hateful in the sight of God as the other sins they live in are as you will see by the Testimony of his Servants the Prophets The sins that you are not guilty of or at least cannot be said to live in them as others do are these 1. The Sins of common and prophane swearing and taking the Name of God in vain and of horrible and blasphemous speeches The Sins of this sort are not your Sins that are Professors of the Fear and Love of God in your hearts but are the Sins of wicked prophane loose Creatures that make no profession of the Fear of God 2. The Sin of a common prophane idle loose spending the Sabbath-day or the first day of the Week in sports and plays and dancing and drinking and vain discourses This hath not been the Sin of any of them that have professed the fear of the Lord But they have generally in their measure though not without their weaknesses endeavoured conscionably to spend that ●ay in exercises of another nature Yea they that profess the fear of the Lord have generally a desire to keep as a day to the Lord one day in seven at least either the first day of the week or the seventh day and some of them have conscionably observed and kept both the seventh day and the first day of the week So that this hath not been your sin O ye that may be called by the name of the House of Jacob or of the Lords People but the sin of the prophane World 3. The Sin of unconscionable and wicked lying and deceitful words in jest or earnest in the common manner of some that make no conscience at all of telling Lies is not a sin that they that fear the Lord live in but their words and their reports of things have generally been such as have credit upon the account of their profession and they are known to be such as will not lie and men will take their words in the things which they say or promise 4. The sin of stealing and common cheating and deceiving which many make no bones of is not a Sin that they live in that fear the Lord but if before Conversion they have cheated any yet when they come to fear the Lord they do restore it again 5. The Sin of Adultery or Fornication or Whoredom is a Sin that they do not live in that fear the Lord but they abhor such beastliness such filthiness as knowing that Whoremongers and Adulterers God will judge Heb. 13. 4 6. The sin of Drunkenness and excessive abuse of those good Creatures that are given for the refreshment of our Bodies and not for intemperancy nor for the destruction of the health of the Body as intemperancy in the use of them is to many This is not a Sin of the House of Jacob. They that profess the fear of the Lord do not live in the practice of it But their sobriety and moderation therein is known unto all men These six great Evils and the Evils of the breach of the fifth and sixth Commandments which some others make no Bones of are Sins that are not at this day chargeable upon the People that profess the fear of the Lord. It cannot be said that they do live in the Practice of them Though it cannot be denied but in most of these very Sins some or other of them that fear the Lord have sometimes miscarried But it may not be said that they or any of them do constantly live in these Sins from day to day or week to week as they do in some other Sins but t●eir miscarrying in these things is very rare and when they do they are grieved and troubled for and repent of their so doing with all their Souls And as for some of these Sins very many of them that profess the fear of the Lord were never guilty of the commission of them in all their Lives and if any of them ever were it may be it is not one of a hundred or one of a thousand of them that have so bin guilty and they have truly repented of them and turned from them as Stealing Cheating Adultery Fornication or Murder or common Swearing I say these Sins that have been named are not the Sins of the Lords People at this day But if such things be discovered in any that profess to be the Lords People and are Members of Sion of the Churches of Christ they soon come under Reproof and Censure and if they live in them they are frequently Excommunicate or cast out of the Churches as unfit to have the Name of living in Sion or of being accounted the Israel of God But O House of Jacob and you that are called by the Name of Israel you are generally guilty at this day of great and horrible Evils for which the Lord hath brought upon you one Judgement after another and his anger is not yet turned away but his hand is stretched out still Therefore O Israel consider Isa 9. 17 21. well

Book of the Scriptures which is the ●ord of God or by saying SO HELP ME GOD. So that it is properly called The Oath of the Lord because the Lord is solemnly owned as a Witne●● to it and it is a dreadful thing to break it Another Scripture that manifests the dreadfulness and the hor●ibleness of the evil of the Breach of an Oath is that in 2 Sam. 21. where it is plain that whatever the Persons are to whom it is made though Heathens and though a man be drawn into that Covenant by Fla●teries or by the deceitful words of the person or persons that drew him into it that yet he is indispensibly bound to perform it and the breach of it is a great Provocation of the Lord. For it is there said That there was a Famine in the days of David three years year after year and David enquired of the Lord and the Lord answered It is for Saul and for his bloody House because he slew the Gibeonites Now we know how that by deceit and guile the Gibeonites had drawn Joshua and the Elders of the Children of Israel to swear to them that they would not destroy them So that the Gibeonites though they were Idolate●s and of the sinful Nations that the Lord would have destroyed yet they had that sence of the weight and reverence and streng●h and force of an Oath solemnly taken by the Lords People that they knew it would not be broken by them and accordingly it proved unto them for though they had obtained this Oath by deceit and guile yet the Princes of the Children of Israel would not recede o● go back from it nor break it in killing of the Gibeonites but said Josh 9. 20. Let them live still lest Wrath be upon us BECAU●E OF THE OATH which we sware unto them Here the fear of the Lord was upon the Children of Israel when the power of the Lord and his Goodness had been much display'd unto them in making them Conquerours over their Enemies when they were newly come into the Land of Canaan O that it had been so upon others that have broken Covenants But Saul wicked King Saul made no bones of destroying the Gibeonites though it was cont●ary to an Oath that the Elders of the Children of Israel had solemnly sworn to the Gibeonites But the Lord would not ●ear this Sin in him but being hereby greatly provoked he sends a Judgment upon Israel for this even three years Famine until seven of Saul's Sons were cut off for this Sin of Saul So greatly is the Lord provoked by those that do break a solemn Oath or Covenant How greatly therefore doth it concern those that have been actually guilty of the breach of any Oath they have taken or any Covenant or any part of a Covenant they have entered into to whom soever they have sworn it though it should be to Unbelievers and Infidels that they greatly humble themselves for their so doing and repent unfeignedly of it and resolve for the future to perform all the Oaths and Covenants they have taken to the utmost of their Ability I say to the utmost of their Ability for God requires no more of any And it is certain that it was not in the power of some to hinder others from the breach of that Covenant which they had generally taken For in the great Breaches of the Solemn League and Covenant that have been made it was not in the power of men in a private capacity to hinder them It being carried on by them that were the Ruling Power of the Nation at that time but as many as did protest against it at that time did well and for those that did not they ought greatly to bewail it And though they were deceived and blinded by the subtile devices that were then used to put a fair colour upon those Actions by which the Covenant was broken so that many good People in but a common capacity were ignorantly led to acquiesce in what was done by those that were above them ●et they ought now sincerely to repent of what they did then ignorantly To that end let them consider how greatly the Lord hath been dishonoured by his Peoples breach of Covenant The Natio●s abroad that had their Eyes upon us might blush to behold that a People that so eminently professed to be the People of the Lord should so grosly and palpably break so solemn an Oath And what occasions of stumbling hath been given to them thereby and occasion to Enemies of blaspheming the Name of the Lord In which respect this breach of Oaths has been a great Sin of some of the Lords People But though it ha●h been the Sin of some yet I cannot say that it hath been the Sin of all and they may have Peace that have been kept clear from the breach of any Oath or any part of an Oath But I say I● greatly conce●ns those that have been guilty of this Sin unfeigne●ly to repent of it And though I mention no particulars of the breach of Oaths yet it concerns every one to consider their ways and wherein soever they have not kept to the utmost of their ability any part of th●● Oath or any other Oath they have taken to repent thereof whether it hath been done through ignorance or careless indifferency or any other way for it is a dreadful thing to break a Covenant and a Sin that brings the Judgments of God upon a ●eople that are wittingly and knowingly guilty of it and sometimes upon a whole Nation though it be but the Sin of some of the Nation as appears by the instances already given Now it is much to be desired that the Lord would please to help all his People that have been any way guilty hereof to lay it indeed to heart and truly to repent of it setting time apart to acknowledge it and to be humbled for it before the Lord with full purpose of heart to do no more so wickedly that if it may be the great Judgments of God that are already upon us and that may be coming on us may be diverted and the Plague may be stayed in all parts of the Land I mention this S●n as a great Sin of the Lords People because though it be but the Sin of some yet it is such a Sin as for which God hath brought Judgments upon a whole Nation though but a few of the Nation have been guilty of it And because it is a Sin which brings so great a blemish on true Religion when some of the Professors of it shall be guilty thereof as witness that dung that was by reason of the guiltiness of some Professors of this Sin spread upon the Profession of Religion by George Wharton in his Almanack for the year 1660. in his Verses for the Month of June that year His words are these But 't is the Mode Come come let 's all comply There 's no firm footing on Integrity For having said and done all what

that Word of the Lord already mentioned Isa 42. 24 25. Who gave Jacob to the Spoil and Israel to the Robbers Did not the Lord he against whom we have sinned This is spoken to you now and you have sinned against the Lord. And though you have not lived in these Sins that have been mentioned yet you have greatly sinned and your have lived in Sins which are as great as they Which are These 1. The Sin of COVETOUSNESS This Sin is and hath been thy Sin O House of Ja●ob and ye that are called by the Name of Israel This I COVETOUSNESS is a Sin of the Lords People Jer. 5. 28. hath been one of your Sins and this is one of your grand Iniquities and your horrible Sins as will be made to appear And this is a sin wherein you have equalized if you have not surpassed the deeds of the wicked As appears by what follows The Lord gave to the professing People of England Scotland and Ireland within these twenty years last past as much liberty to worship him as their Hearts could wish both in their Parish-Assemblies and other Assemblies They could not desire more liberty then was given to them for every one to worship him in that way in which they were perswaded in their own hearts was according to the minde and will of God And withal he gave to multitudes of them the additions of Health and Wealth and Riches What could have been done more for his Vinyard then he did for them But he looked that they should bring forth Grapes and they brought forth wild Grapes Instead Isa 5. 4. of devoting themselves to Him and to his Service and of presenting their Bodies a living Sacrifice holy acceptable to God which was their reasonable Service they fell in love with this present World and the Wealth Profits Pleasures and Honours thereof as if there were more beauty in it then in him and as if the Pleasures Profits and Honours of the World did out-bid him and they have chosen to set their Affections upon it and to give up their Hearts to it and to spend their whole Time and Strength and Care and Parts and Abilities which were given for more Noble Ends to grasp much of it together And they have forsaken their God and retained but the Name of being his but he hath not been their Delight their chief Joy and Solace the chiefest of ten thousand But their profits and incomes of outward things they have been their delight and pleasure and they have been as Cordials to them But God hath not been in all their thoughts sometimes all the day long no they have had other Lovers this business to be done and that and t'other business by which outward profits might come in and they have been as meat and drink to them and they can many times forget to eat their Bread to do business of profit But the service of the Lord that what 's that That must not hinder this business and that business that may be done when they have nothing else to do How many days have been spent day after day and scarce half an hour spent in the service of God And that with coldness enough onely to keep the Name of being the Lords Servants and therefore when nothing else could be done that was for worldly profit then the Lord was served in such a manner as it was as on the first day of the week when worldly business could not be done then there would be a coming to the Assemblies of the Saints and a kind of worshipping ●od when the heart was f●r eno●gh from him for having been engaged in worldly business all the week long it was full of worldly contrivances for profit and gain and wandering up and down in the world as in its proper element when the bodily presence seemed to be before God And so if sometimes in the week days there were an hour or two or three spent in the service of God in a day though very seldom either at a Meeting or it may be in a Closet the world had so much of the heart as very little of it was with God all the while whether on the Sabbath day or any other day onely a conscience and a Name of being the Lords Servants put upon it more then love to it for other Lovers were set up in the hearts of Professors fine Houses were beloved and fine Gardens and Orchards and fine Trades that brought in profits by hundreds or five hundreds or thousands by the year O how sweet were these things O how pleasant for delights What for him that never enjoy'd fifty pound in all his Life that he could say was his own free of debt to fall upon such a Trade or to come into such an Office or Offices as now to have gained fifty pounds per year a hundred two hundred or three hundred per year O how sweet was this What pleasure was there in this What a delightful and desirable thing was it to be so much above those that were his Equals before To be now so and so advanced How sweet were these things So sweet as they were still more and more desired and when a man had so much then he would fain have so much and then so much and then so much and who was it that ever came to a stint to a satisfaction To say I have enough for me and mine I desire no more I will never neglect one days service of God any more to gain any more of this World which I must shortly leave and I know not when I leave it whether it will be a blessing or a curse to my Children I know not whether I do heap it up for to be Ecccl. 5. 13. the hurt and the damage of me and my Posterity after me to nourish them up in idleness and fulness of Bread and it may be in Sodomy even in all those hateful evils which I see many great mens Children are addicted to that it may be it were better my Children had never been born then to have such Temptations left to them as my Estate may be to them Who was it in all the three Nations that came to so much as this while Wealth did flow in upon them Who was it that had their hearts dis-engaged from the pursuit of it How small was the number of them But O thou that art named the House of Jacob how greatly hast thou provoked thy God by a perpetual backsliding Thou art gone away backward thou hast said in thy actions and thy deeds I have loved Strangers and after them will I go so that Jer. 2. 25. there seems to be no hope of thy return Now consider O thou backsliding Daughter how the Lord resents this evil of thine Hearken unto that Voice of his by Jeremiah his Prophet Jer. 2. 12 13. Be astonished O ye Heavens at this and be ye horribly afraid be ye very desolate saith the Lord For my People