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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33503	A song of the judgments and mercies of the Lord wherein the things seen in secret are declared openly : being a brief demonstration of the secret work of the Almighty in me, his servant, given forth at the movings of the spirit of the Lord and is to go throughout the world ... / by Josiah Cole.	Coale, Josiah, 1632?-1668.	1663 (1663)	Wing C4756A; ESTC R26612	15,087	17

giveth grace unto the humble by which he teacheth them his precepts even by his good Spirit of Grace which brings salvation and which hath appeared unto all men by this I say he teacheth them that denying ungodliness worldly lusts they should live soberly and righteously and godly in this present world mark the Grace which teacheth this and which brings salvation hath appeared unto all men so that which brings salvation is nigh you the Grace of God which hath appeared unto you so every one mind that and none turn it into wantonness nor into lasciviousness but every one give up to be taught by it that the precepts of God you may come to know walk in them And so here is the great salvation of God God's Covenant of Light which lighteth every man that comes into the world I have given thee saith he a Covenant of Light to lighten the Gentiles that thou maist be my salvation to the ends of the Earth Mark God's Covenant of Light for salvation which lighteth every man that comes into the World in which Light the Nations of them that are saved must walk and saith God who is Light I the Lord search the heart and try the reins look unto me and be saved all ye ends of the earth mark again unto him that searcheth the heart and trieth the reins all the ends of the earth must look for salvation so that it comes not from the Mountains nor Hills but salvation is of the Lord and God is Light and in him is no darkness at all and this is the Father of Lights and is in the Son and the Son in him the Father Son are one who lighteth every man that cometh into the world wherefore dwel in the Light walk in the Light that you may be children of the Light for the earth shall be covered with darkness and gross darkness shall be over the people but the Lord shall become the Light of his Israel and his God his glory Wherefore come out of the gross darkness with which the Earth is covered and walk in the everlasting light of the Son of God wherewith you are enlightened and walk no longer in the dark paths of ignorance neither follow the blind guides of the World any more who have fed you with their own airy imaginations and conceptions and brain-study and have spoken unto you a divination of their own brain and not from the mouth of the Lord and your souls are not satisfied with all that ever you received from them and why will you spend your money for that which is not bread ann your labour for that which doth not satisfie your soul● Oh hearken diligently unto the voice of God who is Light that you may eat of that which is good and your souls may be satisfied for why should your souls be in poverty and dry and barren now the Fountain of durable riches is open but because you are alienated from the Lord and strangers to his Covenant of Light Wherefore the restoration all wait to know by him who brings back again that which hath been driven away that the return of your captivity you may come to know and witness out of Babylon that great City whose desolation cometh suddenly and be ye separated from the abominations thereof and touch not the unclean thing that you may be received of the Lord into my Father's House where my dwelling is in which there is no want of any good thing for here is all plenty of Heavenly rich virtue and sweet consolation wherefore I cannot but invite all who are hungry to come freely for the Fountain is open and whosoever thirsts may drink of the water of life freely But now my Friends this know That the way that leads to this Ocean of Rest Kingdom of peace and Fountain of life is strait and narrow and none can walk therein but through self-denial and taking up the daily Crosse to the carnal mind vvhich may seem hard to such as enter into Reasonings and Consultations vvith the vvrong nature vvhich vvould still live but that being denied and the light being joined unto vvhich manifests the vvay and the Cros● being taken up and the yoke submitted unto then the Povver of the Lord you vvill feel vvhich vvill subject the contrary nature and vvil make the vvay easie plain before you yea and delightful unto you though it be in the midst of the paths of Judgement for the righteous wil rejoice therein though many oppositions and sometimes many difficulties you may find in the way yet keeping to the Light in singleness feeling the power of God and the secret working thereof it will keep the mind cool and exclude the Consulter and then the way thou wilt see open clear before thee through all difficulties and as thou waitest in the pure fear of the Lord keeping thy mine staid upon him thou wilt feel his good hand of love reaching unto thee daily administring renewedness of strength unto thee whereby thou wilt be sufficiently encouraged to press on in the strait and narrow way and the way of his commandments wil be delightful unto thee and not grievous and he wil replenish thy heart with his grace make thee know the aboundings of his love which vvil exceedingly enlarge thy heart So let none stumble or start aside at the straitness of the way but be vvilling to submit to the Cross that the Crovvn thou maist come to receive which is immortal and eternal and then it vvill never repent thee vvhatsoever thou art made to deny for an hundred fold thy revvard vvil be in this life from the hand of the Lord and peace and life everlasting thou vvilt have the assurance of and it thou vvilt possess and enjoy and tbis is of more value vvith the upright in heart then all the love glory or friendship of the World for that lasts but for a little season and then passeth avvay but this Inheritance is everlasting and never hath an end Wherefore let not your minds be captivated vvith any perishing thing vvhatsoever but in that vvhich vvil redeem the mind out of all that is perishing in that dvvel and you vvil knovv a daily dying unto sin and to all things of that nature vvhich keeps the soul in death and thereby you vvil be quickened unto God and the desires and secret breathings vvhich are in you after God vvil more and more encrease be renevved and fervency of heart and zeal for the Lord will encrease also and where these fervent desires and breathings are in any one nothing wil satisfie it but the presence of the Lord and as this is dwelt with in sincerity and singleness the Lord in his own time will manifest himself to thy everlasting satisfaction and comfort and joy and everlasting content Wherefore let not any thing be accounted dear for his sake for he that loveth father or mother wife or children or any thing more then me saith Christ is not worthy of me Wherefore I now publish the Decree of the Almighty unto all Nations That whosoever will not serve worship and obey the God of Heaven who is Light and searcheth the heart of man even he shall dye and darkness shall be his covering and gross darkness his pavillion and death shall be his life and the Terrours thereof shall compass him about world without end Josiah Coale THE END Pag. 3. lin 25 for truly read freely lin 28. for a read is

might of the power with which you are endued and by which you are armed who can declare Oh! go on therefore you mighty men of warre you valiant Champions of the Lords Host lay wast the heritage of the wicked that the heritage of God may flourish Let the Nations feel the stroak of the hand of the God of David who is with you who smote the Philistine that defied the Armies of the living God that he dyed Let the enemies of Gods truth be smitten in the hinder parts that they may fall and never rise again For Gog and Magog have set themselves in battel against the Lord and the bryars and the thornes shall set themselves in array but Oh how will he dash them to pieces like a potters vessel of clay and how will he burn them up and consume them with the fire of his jealousie and fierce indignation and wrath how will he consume and lay wast until the spoyler be utterly spoyled and the devourer laid waste for the cryes of the oppressed and distressed suffering seed is entered into the ears of the Lord God of Sabbath and he hath assuredly regard thereunto and he hath awakened and made bare his arm that cut Rahab and wounded the Dragon in the dayes of old and he hath roused up himself as a man out of sleep and hath put on the Garments of Vengeance for cloathing and is clad with zeal as with a Cloak and fury to his Adversaries he will repay and he will certainly plead the cause of his own Elect who have no other helper in the Earth Wherefore all you suffering Lambs of the true Shepherds fold be of good chear and of good comfort and suffer patiently whatsoever the enemy shall be suffered or permitted to inflict upon you for the tryal of your faith and eternally I say unto you it wil be your Crown for ever an everlasting reward shall you receive from the hand of the Almighty when you have been tried throughly then shall you appear in the beauty of holiness and your sorrow shall be ●urned into rejoycing and for your afflictions you shall have the everlasting comf●rt of Gods good Spirit which shall abide with you for ever and the wicked and those that hate you shall be cloathed with sh●me and everlasting contempt and confusion shall cover them for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it Wherefore put on courage and strength in the name of the Lord and lift up your heads above all sufferings for these things last but for a moment and will pass away and be forgotten as they had not been and are not worthy to be compared to the glory that is to be revealed in them who abide faithful for their reward will be everlasting and will endure for ever wherefore above a●l have an eye unto the Lord and have respect unto the recompence of reward this will carry you through with chearfulness so that nothing will be dear unto you for his sake who shed abroad his rich love in your hearts the aboundings thereof I question not but the upright in heart feels daily For the Lord is not slack towards any of his faithful ones but is free large in his love rich in his mercies freely extends it even as a River into the hearts of his chosen Wherefore be replenished therevvith you suffering Plants or this I testifie unto you in the name of the Lord that the vertue of the life of holinesse issues forth freely tovvards you so that none needs faint under the Oppressor but may receive renevvedness of strength to bear yet a season And behold he in whom you have believed will be avenged on your Adversaries and will smite your enemies in the hinder parts and they shall fall and none shall help them neither shall they rise again If you walk humbly with the Lord and reverence him above all vvho is the God of your life then shall you have rest from all your enemies and your portion shall be the Lord your Kingdom shall be that vvhich is not of this World vvhich is an everlasting Kingdom and shall never have end So the Lord God of my life keep you all in lovvliness and faithfulness and true humility before him for he vvho is the Holy one of Israel dwels vvith such and unto them his goodnesse extends but especially to them of a clean heart Farevvel Written at the movings of the spirit of the Lord the Eighth day of the third Month 1662 as I was travelling in the Wilderness as without on Long Island in America and pondering in my heart the things of God and his dealings in times past and also present then the spirit of the Lord and the power of the Highest overshadowed me and his glory filled his temple and he shewed me things not now lawfull to be declared J. C. To all who desire to know the way to the Kingdom of Peace and Righteousness this to you is the Visitation of God THat which was in the beginning before the World was and is now made manifest which we have seen and which we have tasted of and which our hands have handled of the Word of Life and that which is revealed to us in secret by the Spirit of the Lord that do we declare openly even that which we are eye-witnesses of for the Word hath took flesh and dwells among us and we have beheld his glory as the glory of the only begotten of the Father full of grace and truth And this is he who is now appeared in the Spirit and made manifest for this end that the Works of the Devil might be destroyed and that by and through him the God of the spirits of all flesh might be revealed for want of whose knowledge the people perish and many in divers parts of the World as I have observed are in great perplexity and some even at their wits end because of the destractions and many cries that are in the World some crying This is the way and othersome That is the way and all of them from the Light of the Son of God in their own hearts and Conscience which leads in the way of Life and Peace all who are guided by it and out of all confusion and destractions about Religion and Church-Ordinances and Worship and such things about which the World is in heaps and confusion and are prescribing ways of Worship in their own fallen Wisdom and would compel all to conform thereunto and so would bind the Consciences of people to their wills which ought to be left unto the Lord to be exercised by his power in matters of Worship and obedience towards him and his prerogative is to rule there So that people must either disobey God or the Laws of corrupt fallen man and whether is better judge ye And this is sad to see and consider because there hath been for so many years by-past so much preaching and so much profession of Liberty of Conscience and the like