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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

to answer necessities Did you think that he who had given you so much had drained his treasure by his beneficence and if you lost any thing for his interest that he was not able to make you amends The Histories of Abraham Jacob Joseph and of Job who were richer after banishment after affliction after losses and so many examples ancient and modern of the care God takes of those who fear him were they not powerfull enough to make you understand what you were to hope from him if you had confessed his name and suffered for his sake You thought perhaps that the present was more sure then the time to come and by a carnall prudence you loved rather to Keep what you had then to renounce them for uncertain hopes But why do not you use that prudence to a better purpose to Keep the pledge of the Heavenly truth that was committed to you Why dit you not hear Jesus Christ calling to you from heaven where he sits at the right hand of the Father (c) Apoc. 3. Hold fast that which you have and let no man take your Crown You might then have been assured that this precious treasure had not been taken from you But for those goods of which you said (d) Job 31. You are my trust who promised you that they shall not be taken away Should you think that God will suffer you to enjoy them peaceably who have don such an injury to him by denying his truth I should lament your condition if I saw you continue without being partakers of the Rod which a good Father spares not to the Children he loves (e) Hieron in Ose lib. 4. c. 4. The wrath of God is then great when after we have sinned God (f) Nihil inselicius co cus nihtlevenit adversi Senec. de Prov. treats us as if we were not worthy of his anger It is the greatest proof of his severity when he will not lead us to repentance even by Chastisements (g) August in Psal 98. As for him to whom God is truely mercifull not only doth he pardon his sins that he may not suffer for them in the world to come but he afflicts a sinner that he may not take pleasure in his sin He tells you that he rebukes and corrects those whom he loves It would be a token of his love if he appeared to you with a rod in his hand And where could the effects of his vengeance fall more justly then on the cause of your sin then on those good things you have loved better then him Thus he may make you know your errour In departing from him You have lost that Good which God would not and no power on earth could ever take from you and have preferred to it riches that he can take from you when he pleases For the Lord gives them and the Lord rakes them away You have them from him and by him only you can preserve them Perhaps he forbears the rod to invite you to repentance by the riches of his patience long suffering and bounty but let not this delay deceive you (h) Cypr. de Lapsis You must not thinke you have escaped because the punishment is delayed There is so much the more reason to fear the effect of this forbearance that he seems thereby to reserve the sinner to more severe judgments You have by you those whom God wil make use of to Chastize you those Priests and Monks those Officers of the Religion you have embraced will be the procurers and instruments of your ruine They have a mind to your Estates after they have devoured your souls Hitherto they have had no advantage by your professing their errors Your pretended conversion is not the least aime of their interessed politiques According to the genius and maximes of their religion which breaths nothing but riches and grandour they will after they have deprived you of the Heavenly Treasure deprive you likerwyse of your earthly riches Do not think that your obsequious complyance to their Worship will content them they never pardon that which they call Heresie and when one has once undergone that Character there is no conversion will reconcile him to their jealous Politiques Heresie they think is a discase that is never well cured and Chiefly those Heresies which stop up the springs of their immense riches or overturn the foundations of their tyrannicall authority The reconcilement of Henry the IV. to the Roman Church was not able to secure him from a thousand conspiracy's nor at last from death The Jesuits first suggested that Wicked Counsell in Charles the IX tyme of massacring those who turnd Catholicks through fear of death Do you think they have not still the same mind and the same opinions yet I know not if they have a design on your life God only knows that It may be the present Constitution of the state agreeth not with their violent designs Men arrive not to the highest degree of mischief on a sudden Perhaps they are preparing greater stroaks as may be collected from the experiments of inhumanity which have desolated so many Provinces It was by degrees they came to the perfidious revocation of the Edict of Nantes They passed from a secret hatred to an open war from war they came to manifest injustice and from injustice they came again to secret craft and in the end having renounced all Modesty from Craft they came to a publick breach of faith and from thence to force pillaging and dragoons You may by this Lamentable gradation judge what they are like to do who have published their designs by so dreadfull beginnings You have reason to fear they will not stop here on the occasion of supposed new crimes the difficulty is only to begin after the first step the progress is easy and great way is made in a short time in the rode of iniquity But tho it were not thus do you thinke those men who gape after confiscations and look on you that are rich with the same regrate envy as we look on Usurers that they will suffer you to enjoy your riches Do not you know the depth of their Moralls and maximes Must you try experiments to be convinced of their inhumane intentions Call to mind what you have read of the expulsion of the Moor 's The time that passed from their Baptisme to Phtl. 3. could not cure the jealous and distrustfull minds of the Catholique King They were made believe from time to time that the Moriskos were still Mahometans in their heart and that they kept intelligence with the ennemiesof the State and on the pretence of such crimes that very often were but Calumnies they took occasion to spoil pillage and banish them and to ruine them by prisons and punishments The miserable remnant of the Jewes who had setled in Spain were used after the same manner (a) Isidor Chron. Sisebut whom their own Historians say had a zeal without knowledge began

Master at his return the Child saith he is religion which is like to perish by our debates and devisions hence 16. Let us mourn for our sinfull foolish Church destroying and self destroying divisions which have been both the meritorious and Instrumental cause of so much ruin by these we have provoked God to wrath against us reproacht the truth we profess and made our selves a reproach have played the Adversaries Game have encouraged and strengthned their hands in their attempts against us weakened our own hands and have not pondered what our Lord Warned us of tho so clear in it self Mark. 3. v. 24 25. nor the saying not more common then manifest Divide impera O then Mark them that cause Divisions and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple Rom. 16. v. 17 18. and if there be any consolation in Christ if any comfort of love if any fellow ship of the spirit if any bowells and Mercies let nothing be don through strife or vain Glory having the same Love and being of one accord Philip. 2. v. 1 2 3. O how are we engaged to love these Ministers and esteem them highly who are for peace unity moderation charity and love among the faithfull Such Ministers being a blessing to the Church while they live and their Memory precious to posterity the ornament of a meek humble and quiet spirit being in the sight of God and man of a high price and may be called the truly zealous sincere Christian his Crown the character of a Gospel like frame the comfort of the Bretheren and a noble attractive to allure and draw in those who are without 1 Pet. 3. v. 4. Coloss 3. v. 12 13 14 15. O then have no hand in renting and dividing the Church is it not Christs body Ah while the enemy is seeking to destroy it wilt thou cut it in pieces How much so ever of zeal may be pretended for such a work yet we are persuaded from the word of truth that only by pride cometh contention Prov. 13. v. 10. the zealous M. Firmin speaking of the wofull divisions and many sects then abounding in England and the abominable blasphemies vented by these who once seemed to have been most zealous and eminent professors think it not strange saith be to see it so for I knew the most famous and who seemed the most zealous among them and saw the bones of pride shamfully stick out in them all Litle good can be expected from a prond zelot O then while ye are asserting standing in defence of and suffering for the faith study to keep the unity of the spirit the unity of the faith the † Eph. 4. v. 3. unity of the Church in the bond of peace If any would but reflect on Christs legacy and last words to his disciples his farewell Sermon and solemn prayer Joh. 14 v. 27. Joh. 15 v. 12 17. Joh. 17. v. 11 21 23. Or if any would seriously ponder the Apostles most pathetick exhortations and the Arguments whereby he presseth these 1 Cor. 1. v. 10. Eph. 4. v. 33 c. Philip. 2. v. 1 c. Phil. 3. v. 15 16. Rom. 12. v 9 10. 1 Thess 4. v. 9. with many more to that purpose and if any will call to mind the sharp rebukes and checks given to and the dismall characters of separatists and Church dividers with the sad regrate and Lamantations over them 1 Cor. 1. v. 11 c. 1. Cor. 3. v. 31. 1 Cor. 11. v. 18. Gal. 5. v. 20 Jud. v. 19. who I say considering these things could imagine that the tares of division and discord among Bretheren could be sown by any but the envious one and his factors Yet for the further conviction of Schismaticks let us add somewhat more begining with that Gospel like prophecy of Christs Kingdom that under it those who are by nature wild like wolves Lions and boares shall ly down together sweetly feed Isa 11. v. 6 c. did not Zacharias Prophesy of Christ that he should guide our feet in the way of peace Luc. 1. v. 79. 2 is it not a special promise in the Covenant of grace that the Lord will give us one heart and one way Jer. 32. v. 39. Ezek. 11. v. 19. and O what a stumbling block is it to the Jewes that they see not these prophesies and promises fullfilled in those who are called Christians 3 is not Christ the prince of peace Isa 9. v. 6. is not his gospel the Gospel of peace Rom. 10. v. 15. is not peace included in our Christian calling 1 Cor. 7. v. 15. did not Christ die with peace in his lips Joh. 14. v. 27. Joh. 17. v. 21. and after he arose from the dead did he not salute his disciples with the blessing of peace Ioh. 20. v. 19. and did not the Angles at his birth proclaim peace as to so among the saints on earth Luk. 2. v. 4. 4 has he not made love and concord the badge whereby his Genuine followers may beknown and appointed it to be worn as his Levery Joh. 13. v. 35. and hath he not made it a gagge for stoping the mouth of adversaries who are ready blasphemously to say he was not sent of God Joh. 17. v. 21 23. 5 is not the Communion of saints an article of our creed and engraven upon and sealed by the Lords supper which therfor beareth the name of COMMVNION as with Christ our head 1 Cor. 10. v. 16. so among our selves v. 17. 6 how pithily doth the Apostle as at one breath hold forth so many and such strong bonds of peace and for keeping the saints in unity that it might be supposed the Divell the world the pride of mans heart could not be able to burst these asunder Eph. 4. v. 4 5 6. O precious and noble unity and Love which makes us Look like Christs disciples and Christians indeed which is so beautifull and amiable in it self and so sweet and comfortable to those who follow it which is such a noble attractive and loadston to draw in those who are without the strength and ornament of the Church and a terrour to enemies such a noble guard against heresies and errour and as for preventing much mischief from men so many sad judgments and stroaks from God and what shall I say more It is the bend of perfectness above all things to be put on Coloss 3. v. 14. 1 Cor. 13. v. 13 O then wouldst thou see God 7amp wouldst thou have God to bliss thee follow peace and holyness Heb. 12. v. 14. Rom. 12. v. 18. Psa 133. v. 1 3. Psa 34. v. 12 14 and as the Lord from time to time hath visibly blessed his people when they walked together in unity and love so when divisions and contention once entred the Church it proved a forerunner of judgements Gods wrath to break out against his people of sad persecution from adversaries the judgements on tragical ends of