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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

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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