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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40772	The faithfull pastor his sad lamentation over, heart-rending challenge and dreadfull thunders against, sharp reproof of, and seasonnable warning to his apostat-flock. In a letter written by a French minister to those over whom the Holy Ghost had made him an overseer upon their wofull defection, renouncing the faith, and joyning in idolatrous worship. Now carefully translated. Together with a word to mourners in Zion who by grace have kept the faith, to sleepers under the storm, and to the almost Christian; Sad lamentation over, heart-rending challenge and dreadfull thunders against, sharp reproof of, and seasonnable warning to his apostat-flock.		1687 (1687)	Wing F279; ESTC R216409	68,644	59

sasted twice in the week Luk. 18. v. 12. during all the time of the affliction and yet with them Zech. 7. v. 5 6. not fast unto the Lord and for Zion but for themselves Is it such a fast as I have chosen saith the Lord a day for a man to afflict his soul and not rather to loose the bands of wickednesse Isa 5 8. v. 5 6. to rent the heart and not the garments and to turn to the Lord Joel 2. v. 12 13. yea there may be a turning and yet not a turning with all the heart a loosing of bands but not all bands of wickedness the right hand and the right eye must be spared and kept no looseing of its band many will part with much yea with all but not with the idol itself a partiall repentance conversion turning cannot elevat a man a bove the state of corrupt nature and can be no evidence that a man is delivered from the power of darkness and translated into the Kingdome of our Dear Lord Jesus if thou be a son thou must give God thy heart Pro. 23 v. 26. thou must give him thine cum self 2 Cor. 8. v. 5 God must have all or nothing he will not part stakes with Satan nor dwell in that heart that hath reserved a room for an Idol a heart and a heart is the divine (a) Leb Veleb Hebr. Dipsychos Graec. Character of an unsound heart tho our sanctification will not be perfect till this tabernacle be dissolved yet no sin must live and reigne in us no Zoar tho thou call it a litle one must be spared 1 Joh. 3. v. 8 9. Gal. 3. v. 10 c. What doth your faint and partial striving availe and your being brought neer the Kingdome of heaven if ye enter not in as good never a white as not the better ye come to the free market upon the Gospel Proclamation Isa 55. v. 1. but ye do not offer freely Christ seeks none of your money or what may do you good but none of your idols no lust must be kept back he seeks not for use or what is to be kept but that which must be cast away or for which thou must be cast into hell and yet how many part with Christ and loose the pearle of price for a trifle they bide and offer and stand all day prigging with Christ and come short of the high prize and of salvation for a base lust almost perfwaded to be Christians and continue in unbelief almost escaped yet abide in Satans snare almost washen and not purged from their filthiness they have many sores cured and the plague of the heart not healed nor removed and thus are among those seekers to enter in Luk 13. v. 24. who can not because they will not they will not go alone and without their idols and among those seekers of Christ Joh. 7. v. 34. John. 8. v. 12. who shall not find him cannot come where he is and who living in hope shall die in their fins We are called to mourning but Ah where shall we begin what should most affect and most deeply wound our hearts where can we cast our eye on what Church not groaning under sad persecution felt or feared the precious people in the valleyes of Piedmount the progeny of these famous witnesses of Christ who in the night of papall darkness shined as lights and when all the world wondred after the beast followed Christ fully and sealed their testimony with their blood are now become a prey to the popish fury and are driven from their habitations and possessions and such as fell in the hand of their adversaries put to suffer such hard things as may make their eares tingle who hear and the famous Church of France renowned for their knowledge constancy zeal resolution sufferings and martyrs lying so long in the mouth of the Lion is now as it were devoured by it so that he who got his life for a prey and to whom a door was opened to flee did more rejoyce then they who seised on their forsaken dwellings and goods time would faile if we did enter on the particular methods of cruelty followed by their merciless persecutors that these who fell in their hands would have judged many deaths rather to be chosen then the barbarous usage and lingring torments they were put to so that many ready to seale the truth with their blood did faint denyed the truth fuccumbed under the temptation and defiled their conscience by an abominable renunciation of the truth and joyning in idolatrous worship whose case tho matter of sad Lamantation yet should not be improven to the reproach of that Church or for upbraiding those who have forsaken all for the Gospel tho the backsliders stand in much need of a word of warning which is so seasonably and zealously tendered in the fore-going Epistle But tho the state of the Church be so sad upon the account of grievous sufferings and temptation yet we should rather mourn for the transgressions provocations and corruption of sufferers then for their suffering that the furnace appeareth not to be for purifying and refining But as it was with that degenerat people Jer 6. v. 29 30. so it is now the bellows are brunt c. If we had once hearkened to the voice of the rod it would speak no more wrath to us if it had don its work it would quickly be gon and not quarter for one night But Ah tho we will not hear what it saith yet the Lord heareth what our frame and conversation muttereth under it Ah is not this its language why shouid we be smitten any more we will revolt more and more Oh that my head were waters and mine eyes a fountain of teares that I may weep day and night rather for the sin and provocation then the stain and oppression of the people called by thy name Ah what would a deliverance from trouble profit us if we were not redeemed and purged from our iniquity such a preservation would be but a reservation for a sorer stroak and more heavy judgment Ah our spots look not like the spots of Childeren the best now as the Prophet once sadly (a) Asich 7. v. 2 4. complained is as a briar and the most upright sharper then a thorn hedge the Good man is perished out of the Earth and there is none upright among men no Nathaniels no Israelites indeed in whom there is no guile no Calebs who follow the Lord fully no Zachariases and Elisabethes who walk in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord bleamless so that I may from a sad heart with (b) Ibid. Ver. 5. him fay trust not in a friend put no confidence in a guide the righteous man Perisheth and is taken to heaven and we lay it not to heart our Moseses and Samuels our Noahs Daniels and Jobs are departed and gon Ah where are these grave judicious sober zealous ministers I have seen in the Church