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A47177	A sermon preached at the meeting of Protestant dissenters called Quakers in Turners-Hall, London, on the 16th of the second month, 1696 : being the publick day of thanksgiving for the deliverance of the King and Kingdom : to which is added a testimony ... to King William the III from the aforesaid people ... / by George Keith.	Keith, George, 1639?-1716.	1696 (1696)	Wing K208; ESTC R28960	18,109	32

Heart of Stone None but those which know themselves to be of the New Creation of God have experience of a Heart of Flesh given them and a Heart of Stone taken away It is they only that have the Law written upon the fleshly Tables of their Hearts that are washed and purified though I cannot say there is a Well of Living Water in any that do not believe yet there is something placed by God in every one towards it like the Ministry of John the Baptist which was a preparing the way of the Lord he was spoken of by the Prophet Isaias saying the voice of one crying in the wilderness prepare ye the way of the Lord make his paths straight Our Saviour said to the Woman of Samaria if thou knewest the gift of God and who it is that saith unto thee Give me to drink thou wouldest have asked of him and he would have given thee living water And in another place it is said In the last day that great day of the feast Jesus stood and cried saying if any man thirst let him come unto me and drinke He that believeth on me as the scripture hath said out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water but this he spake of the spirit which that believe on him should receive not Unbelievers You that sincerely and truly Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ without all peradventure you have something of this Well of Living Water within you you have the gift of God O give thanks to God through Jesus Christ our Lord for this great and unspeakable Gift Some may say if I have a Well of Living Water in me what is the reason I feel so little comfort my soul thirst and I want this Living water to drink O that I had some drops of it to cool and quench my thirsty Soul I Answer Thou dost not diligently watch thy Heart thou sufferest thy Sins those Philistins to prevail over thee and stop up thy Well When Abimelech's Servants had stopped the Wells which were digged in the days of Abraham Isaac digged them again I say unto you throw away the Rubbish and Earth and Dirt that is got into your own Hearts and every thing that the Light in your own Consciences tells you in evil and then the Waters will spring forth Then you will experience a Well of Living Water springing up in you unto Everlasting Life The Prophets of Old David and Samuel Isaiah and Jeremy and Daniel and all other Holy Men of God they had experience of this Well within them springing up unto Everlasting Life and all true Believers before Christ came in the Flesh they did all eat the same spiritual meat and drink the same spiritual drink For they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them and that Rock was Christ and they had all those Spiritual Blessings we enjoy upon the account of Christ his most Holy Obedience and Death There was this difference between us and them We believe in Christ that is already come and they saw Christ in the Promises and in Shadows Types and Figures and believed in Christ that was to come Under the Law they were under a Yoke of Bondage but we have cause to bless the Lord that hath taken that Yoke from off our Necks that neither they nor their Fathers were able to bear We Read in Act. 15. 5. There rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees which believed saying That it was needful to circumcise them and to command them to keep the law of Moses And the apostles and elders came together for to consider of this matter And when there had been much disputing Peter rose up and said unto them Men and Brethren ye know how that a good while a go God made choice among us that the Gentiles by my mouth should hear the word of the Gospel and believe And God which knoweth the hearts bear them witness giving them the holy Ghost even as he did unto us And put no difference between us and them purifying their hearts by faith Now therefore why tempt ye God to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved even as they Blessed be God that hath delivered us from that burden of Ceremonies and multitudes of Rites and Observations that were continued till the clearer times of the Gospel when all the Males before that time went every Year up to Jerusalem to worship which was many Miles distant from many of their Habitations The Lord hath been pleased to make the Christian Service under the Gospel much more easie to us upon an outward account and likewise more advantagious as well as more easie and Delightful upon a Spiritual Account God hath given us more of his Spirit in these times of the Gospel not that God hath given us a greater Measure of his Holy Spirit than he gave unto the Prophets for they had greater gifts of the Spirit but there is now generally given more abundant measures of the Spirit to Gods Poople under this Dispensation of the Gospel there were then in general but lower and lesser Measures and as it were some droppings of the Spirit upon them that lived in former Ages but in the latter days after Christs ascension there hath been the powring out of the Spirit that as the Apostle speaks God might in ages to come shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness towards us through Christ Jesus And if any do not now witness the powring forth of the Spirit they may find the cause in themselves they are not careful and diligent to improve the Means and Advantages that God hath given to them and that is the reason of it In the close of the 18th Psalm David speaks some things concerning himself and other things relating to Christ speaking of himself as he was a Type of Christ Thou hast delivered me from the strivings of the people and thou hast made me the head of the heathen a people whom I have not known shall serve me Assoon as they hear of me they shall obey me the strangers shall submit themselves to me This was but little fulfilled in David the Type but was largely fulfilled many hundred years after in Christ the Antitype VVhen the Apostles came to Preach Christ Crucified then very many that heard believed in Christ and obeyed him submitted themselves to him and many afterwards laid down their Lives for him My Friends ought not we be very Thankful when we consider and call to mind what a sad condition England was in many Hundred Years ago when the Inhabitants worshipped Diana and other Idols and false Gods Jerom saith the Britains were so Savage and Barbarous that they did eat Mans Flesh Blessed be God for his abundant mercy and kindness to us that hath brought many in this Nation to the

one day or in a moment yet he doth it gradually in the space of ten Months God could make a Corn or Grain of Wheat to grow up in a moment but he hath appointed a season for it The Errors and Corruptions of the Church of Rome are such that she may well be called the Mother of Harlots and Abominations of the Earth She hath her Daughters that tho they profess to be different from her yet they are too much of her Spirit All that Worship Idols of Gold and Silver VVood and Stone And likewise those that although they do not Worship Images yet if they love Money more than God they are guilty of Idolatry and will be numbred among her Daughters at the great Day of Account As also all Persecuters and false Worshipers It was a mighty Work of God that hath broken the Ice in that that hath been already begun and brought to pass and is yet further to be carried on till it be compleated and accomplished It was a wonderful Discovery and Revelation that God made to the Apostle John who by the Light of Prophecy foresaw things to come many Hundred Years before they were fulfilled wonderful things respecting Worldly Governments relating to the State and Condition of the Church and People of God And there appeared a great wonder in heaven a woman cloathed with the Sun and the Moon under her feet and upon her head a Crown of twelve Stars And she being with child cried travailing in birth and pained to be delivered And behold a great red dragon having seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns upon his heads And the Dragon stood before the woman that was ready to be delivered for to devour her child as soon as it was born And she brought forth a man child who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron and her child was caught up unto God and to his throne And the woman fled into the Wilderness c. And the dragon was worth with the woman and went to make war with the remnant of her seed which keep the Commandments of God and have the Testimony Jesus Christ The Apostle John by the Light of Divine Prophecy he foresaw how long the Woman should continue in the Wilderness and when the Scarlet Whore should be Judged that had made her self drunk with the Blood of the Saints and Martyrs And after these things saith the Apostle I heard a great voice of much people in heaven saying Alleluja Salvation and Glory and Honour and Power unto the Lord our God For true and righteous are his Judgments for he hath judged the great whore which did corrupt the earth with her fornication and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand And the four and twenty elders and the four living creatures fell down and worshiped God that sat on the throne saying Amen Alleluja And the four living creatures and the four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb having every one of them harps and golden vials full of odours which are the prayers of the saints And they sang a new song saying Thou wast slain and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred and tongue and people and nation And every creature which is in heaven and on the earth and under the earth and such as are in the sea and all that are in them heard I saying Blessing and Honour and Glory and Power be unto him that sitteth upon the throne and unto the Lamb for ever and ever So that this I say by way of Testimony out of the Holy Scripture that it hath been the Work of Gods people to praise God for all his Mercies Blessings and Deliverances and this is that which God expects from us that we should Magnifie and praise him when he is pleased to work great Deliverances for us according to those Words of the Psalmist Offer unto God thanksgiving and pay thy vows unto the most high And call upon me in the day of trouble I will deliver thee and thou shalt glorifie me This is the just Tribute that God requires who is the Great Deliverer and Preserver of Men to glorifie and praise him and give him that honour that is due to his Great and Excellent Name and not only to praise him with our Tongues and Lips but with our Lives Whoso offereth praise glorifieth me saith the Lord and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I shew the salvation of God And our Saviour commandeth this and chargeth it upon us as our duty Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorifie your Father which is in heaven Now as concerning the praises of God all Gods praises which are acceptable to him they are to be in Spirit and in Truth God is a Spirit and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth The father seeketh such to worship him The praises of God are of a higher and lower degree We find there are in the Book of Psalms Songs of degrees so there are the high Praises of God when the Soul is raised up by Gods Power and Spirit from a deep and profound sense of his Mercies and great Deliverances to render Thanksgiving and Praise For thou hast delivered my soul from death mine eyes from tears and my feet from falling The Psalmist praised God for Spiritual and Temporal Blessings for Mercies both to his Soul and Body I will sing unto the Lord as long as I live I will sing praises unto my God while I have my being My meditation of him shall be sweet I will be glad in the Lord. When the Psalmist comes to utter the high Praises of God these words are going before Let the sinners be consumed out of the earth and let the wicked be no more bless thou the Lord O my soul Praise ye the Lord. When the high Praises of the Lord are to be in our Mouths then all evil thoughts and wicked imaginations and sinful motions such as hinder Gods Praises are to be put far from us that we may worship God in Spirit and serve him with Sincerity and Purity of Heart O give thanks unto the Lord call upon his name and make known his deeds among the people Sing unto him sing psalms unto him talk ye of all his wonderous works Glory ye in his holy name let the heart of them rejoyce that seek the Lord. Seek ye the Lord and his strength seek his face evermore Remember his marvellous works that he hath done Let the saints be joyful in glory let the high praises of God be in their mouth c. Blessed are they that can witness to this Truth that upon receipt of great Mercies do render praises to God If real gratitude be in our Hearts and the high Praises of God in our mouths this is a token for good it is like the white stone and new