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A86199 The backslider bewailed, the careless warned: and the faithful encouraged. With true desires, and living breathings for the preservation of the whole Israel of God. / Written by P. Hendrick... ; translated into English by W.C. Hendricks, Pieter.; Caton, William, 1636-1665. 1665 (1665) Wing H1448; ESTC R229321 8,941 12

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THE BACKSLIDER BEWAILED THE Careless Warned AND THE FAITHFUL ENCOURAGED WITH True desires and living breathings for the Preservation of the whole Israel of God Written by P. Hendrick who is a stranger in England but a fellow Citizen of the new Jerusalem and a member of the true Church of which Christ is the Head Translated into English by W. C. Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed least he fall 1 Cor. 10.12 Of a truth I perceive God is no respecter of persons but in every Nation he that feareth him and worketh righteousness is accepted with him Act. 10.34 35. There is neither Jew nor Greek there is neither bond nor free there is neither male nor female for ye are all one in Christ Jesus Gal. 3.38 Where there is neither Greek nor Jew circumcision nor uncircumcision Barbarian Scythian bond nor free but Christ all and in all Col. 3.11 For by one spirit are we all baptized into one body whether we be Jews or Gentiles whether we be bond or free and have all been made to drink into one spirit 1 Cor. 12.13 Printed in the Year 1665. MY near and cordially beloved friends Although for the present I have no new thing nor any thing else to declare unto you then what you have heard from the beginning from our dear brethren the faithful servants of the Lord nevertheless I cannot omit to write these few lines unto you which may serve for a token of our peculiar fellowship and feeling one of another in that whereby we are so often made sensible one of another Oh! blessed be the Lord who through his unspeakable love and infinite mercy hath made us so often sensible of that from which the world is alienated and of which it is ignorant to wit the revelation of his holy eternal spirit and divine power in us through which we could have no peace day nor night while we walked in the dayes of our ignorance alienated from him in the time of our nakednesse and misery but he often revived his own spirit as a living witnesse in our conscience to the reproving convincing and judging of us for our known and some then unknown corruption of our hearts besides often did he with friendly exhortation beget such good strong and pretious desires after himself and after the redemption from the garment of sin the old garment of the flesh and not alone so but often hath he powerfully drawn us yea and in a manner constrained to subjection obedience and fulfilling of his will and commands and this hath he done of himself not onely when we have found no power in our selves nor of our selves but also when our hearts have in a manner consented to the evil and our minds in some measure captivated by the enemy yea he himself in such a time I say hath kept us from the evil when we our selves nor no man else could not preserve us And in this manner hath he thus very meekly handled with us when we daily resisted his spirit through disobedience and when and that almost perpetually works were brought forth which grieved his spirit neverthelesse through his unspeakable mercy hath he as it were looked over them things and hath reached over them to his own seed and hath sought to raise and revive that and hath tenderly nurtured and cherished it as a mother nurtures her child or as a hen her chickens And now oh his mercy that the should even chuse us as the first fruits from among so many thousands yea ten thousands which are yet walking in the enmity and alienated from him that gives them breath and life and who hath born with them until this very day against which they have heaped up a treasure of wrath through their disobedience and obstinacy in which condition they are often cut off and so rewarded according to their work And if the Lord had dealt so with us how could we have accused him nay in the depth of our misery must we have justified his Judgments But oh how contrarily yea how fatherly how gently and how graciously hath he dealt with us what tongue with words can declare the same oh the depth of his mercy and unspeakable goodnesse yea the consideration of the same doth so overcome the hearts of his children that often times they cannot expresse that which they see and feel that the Lord hath done for them and now through the same love and free grace hath he called us out of the world and separated us from the same through his power which in a great measure hath redeemed us from the same in many respects both inwardly and outwardly and having shewed and opened unto us a place of holinesse in which as we abide we shall be kept unsportted from the world And all yea all this hath the Lord done for our good that he might have cause to manifest his love the more unto us and to make us partakers of his heavenly vertues yea of his fulnesse of his love peace joy consolation and gladnesse in his holy spirit of his long suffering loving kindnesse forbearance and mercy yea in short to make us partakers of his own nature And many who have taken to heart this acceptable day of friendly visitation and time of great mercy and have esteemed the day of grace more precious than all that is in the world yea than their own life and who also have continued stedfast in the time of tryal for so certainly as the Lord hath ordained a gracious and merciful day of visitation so assuredly hath he prepared a time of trial and I say these that have continued stedfast in the same and through the same have been confirmed in the Lord oh how well is it with them yea how well is it with such but on the contrary those who have not regarded the day of visitation which was for their good but have despised the same and carelesly have let it passe by not sufficiently laying to heart their eternal peace nor considering how tenderly the Lord hath dealt with them and born with them and how fatherly he hath cared for them yea if it had been possible and that they had been worthy he would have constrained them to have entred into his rest but alas they looking at the visibles and not giving up their old and evil accustomed life to the Judgment which was so near unto them and ruling in them shunning the Cross and following the vain imaginations of their hearts and the lusts of the world and so have let the day of their visitation which was out of love unto them passe over their heads Oh! in what a miserable condition have they remained and what a precious thing have they neglected but yet a greater misery is to be observed which is come over some such which have not absolutely refused the day and time of their gracious visitation but embraced the same with joy being powerfully convinced of the truth of God in their own consciences