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A26347	The necessity of the pouring out of the spirit from on high upon a sinning apostatizing people, set under judgment, in order to their merciful deliverance and salvation as it was delivered in part, upon 21. 9. 1678 being a general fast throughout the united colonies of N.E. / by William Adams ...	Adams, William, 1650-1685.; Torrey, Samuel, 1632-1707.; Flint, Josiah, 1645-1680.	1679 (1679)	Wing A499; ESTC W34144	49,745	57

and eyes opened to understand the truth and will of God to give all credit and yield all obedience thereto and shall be brought out of that spiritual mist and darkness wherein they were before involved And Isai 29 24. They also that erred in Spirit shall come to understanding and they that murmured shall learn doctrine Such as were wandring out of the way of understanding into wayes of error and wickedness and were ready to murmure be impatient and discontented to have their hearts rise against any that went about to stop them in their evil courses and thence were ready to quarrel or speak untowardly of the messages or messengers of God these shall come to themselves and set themselves to seek wisdome and understanding to learn the doctrine and will of God and shall betake themselves to and walk in the wayes of wisdome More passages to the same purpose we have in Isai 35.5 6.7 Then when by the foregoing afflictions Gods people being now fitted for mercy God shall be pleased to afford it The eyes of the blind shall be opened Those that were spiritually blind before shall now being enlightned see conceive and understand both the mystery of Godliness revealed in Gods word and his mercy and goodness manifested in his works And the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped They shall now listen to the word of God speaking in his book and by his messengers that had no list to hearken to either before Then shall the lame man leap as an Hart Men shall be cured of such spiritual defects in their Souls whereby they were disabled unto sincere upright constant and chearful walking in Gods wayes And the tongue of the dumb sing Those that have least tongue or had no tongue at all to ought that is good yet shall they for joy sing and chant out the praises of him that had done so great things for them For in the wilderness shall waters break out and streams in the desert A type of the spiritual watering whereby such persons and places become fertile and fruitful that were barren of all grace and goodness before And the parched ground shall become a Pool and the thirsty Land springs of water In the habitation of dragons where each lay shall be grass with reeds and rushes The same thing in other terms Engl. Annot. Thus do these Scriptures hold forth to us the great alteration that should be wrought in sinners by the pouring out of Gods holy Spirit upon them One might then see them lamenting and abandoning their former folly and vanity and minding heaven in good earnest acknowledging and confessing their iniquity begging pardon with great earnestness flying to Jesus Christ relying on him and faithfully endeavouring to live the life of Christ to exalt him by a gospel becoming conversation Oh what a wonderful sight would this be to see such dead bones live How would this effect and ravish the hearts of those that are good How would the heart even the heart reins of godly parents rejoice when the heart of their children shall be thus wise and their lips speak right things Prov. 23.15 16. What think you of this you whose hearts are mourning for the dissoluteness of or at least that you can see no more of godliness or hopefulness in your children You are now often ashamed and your face waxes pale with care fear and distress for your poor wandring children but if you could once see them thus the work of Gods hands being formed moulded and fashioned for God how full would your hearts and mouths then be of the praises of the holy one of Israel How would you sanctify and glorify him Isai 29.22 23 Jacob shall not now be ashamed neither shall his face now wax pale But when he seeeth his children the work of my hands in the miast of him they shall sanctify my Name and sanctify the holy One of Jacob and shall fear the God of Israel 2. We should then see Christians perfecting holiness in the fear of God Making Religion their business Studying to keep all Gods commandments and ordinances blameless and to do all those things that are pleasing in his sight Labouring to be eminently holy both in their religious and civil actions Careful to prepare and dispose themselves to wait upon God in his service conscientiously rising up to meet with God in the attendance on his Ordinances Humbly reverently religiously attentively waiting upon God that one might see that the service of God is heartily intended by them and that communion with God is sincerely breathed after by them in duties and Ordinances Then we might hear them full of heavenly spiritual and lively discourse sweet and savoury words and speeches flowing from the good treasure and abundance of the heart See them edifying teaching and admonishing one another Col. 3.16 considering one another exhorting and provoking to love good works Heb. 10.24 25. Then you might see sweet agreement affection cordialness faithfulness and peaceableness among brethren bearing and forbearing one another in love Then you might see Christians amiable and exemplary in their civil conversation not in the least seeking to defraud or go beyond others not unsteady in their words or promises not conforming themselves to the world or the customes or manners thereof not disorderly not proud not froward not unmerciful not churlish not intemperate not ungrateful not worldly nor any way at least not so many wayes unbeseeming in their carriages or actions but carrying an even thred of holiness and spiritualness throughout the whole of their conversation Herein exercising themselves to have a conscience altogether void of offence both toward God and toward man with a single eye and exactly minding the Rule in all their carriage towards both Oh what desireable times would these be when piety and holiness should thus flourish When those many and grievous and too just complaints as of the profaneness and dissoluteness of many unruly and ungoverned persons so of the unchristian and unworthy carriages of Professors in many respects should cease and be no more to be found And the glory of God the honour of his Name and esteem of his Ordinances and wayes should be highly advanced by the holy and amiable lives of all his Servants This would be the consequent of an abundant gracious effusion of the Spirit upon a people 2. There would be great happiness Happy would the people be that were in such a case Their condition would be exceeding comfortable And that 1. In the enjoyment of inward peace quietness and assurance Text ver 17. And the work of righteousness shall be peace and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever They should be kept in perfect peace Isai 26.3 Their Souls setled in quiet assured apprehensions of the grace and favour of God to them enjoying that great peace which they have that love the Law of God without any offensive disquietment There should not then be such dismal horror feizing the

saw that there was respite he hardned his heart and hearkned not Renewal of stroaks hath not done it After respite and deliverance granted God hath taken us into his hand again But alas that it should be too truly said of us We set not our hearts to this also So that there is little or no hope till this be till God by his Spirit work a saving through change in our hearts Truly we are grown so irrational as to spiritual concernments that it is not Gods working upon us only in a rational way that will reclaim us or bring us to his will There must be in a more then ordinary manner the real energetical operation of his Spirit in us to make us other men and women then we are first 3. An universal languishing in the inner man is and will be upon us for want of this pouring out of the Spirit You your selves Christians by your own confession are not so capacitated to the exercise of grace duty for want of this Things go hard with your Souls Those things which remain are even ready to dy As Rev. 3.2 Faith love and other graces they are as it were under a Consumption very feeble and languid Iniquities prevail corruptions get loose and waste the strength and vigour of the Soul And will not you stir up your selves to pray for the Remedy This is lamentable Isai 64.6 7. We all do fade as a leaf and our iniquities like the wind have taken us away And there is none that calleth upon thy Name that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee And how do sinners pine away in their iniquities not regarding God nor their own state and condition whilest they are without the effectual strivings of the holy Spirit with them Will you not pity them and earnestly pray for this healing Remedy to be given to them Can you see your own Souls pining and others Souls perishing and not be importunate with God to put forth his hand to revive and save respectively what will become of faith holiness love to God his word Ordinances wayes and one another unless God be pleased to pour out his Spirit on us 4. The work of Christ is like quickly to ly by unless this be If God do not graciously appear to give forth his holy Spirit the work of Christ will be like ere long and it may be not long first to fall to the ground for want of persons spirited to manage it and carry it on And can you be willing to see that day or that it should come though you do not see it and not improve the utmost of your interest with God to prevent it Are you Christs and not concerned that the work of Christ should or should be in danger to lye by Indeed we are like to run all to confusion and misery if God doe not wonderfully and graciously appear this way to work for us to revive us by his Spirit to set us into and keep us in that order which is according to his will There is therefore absolute necessity of the effusion of the Spirit for the continuance of Gods work and glory among us 5. This will be our great security against the expressions of Gods anger Ezek. 39.29 Neither will I hide my face any more from them for I have poured out my Spirit upon the house of Israel saith the Lord God And so it will be our security in the enjoyment of all blessings and mercies Indeed it is the only sure way we have to all or any good The nearer God the greatest good is to us the farther sin the greatest evil will be from us there will be peace quietness and rejoycing in the favor of God and in the gracious effects of it 6. It will be for the great honour of Christ By the pouring out of the Spirit is manifested the efficacy of his Redemption and the end and fruit of it obtained which redounds to his honour It is a great evidence of the power of Christs Redemption and demonstrates him to be a strong Redeemer when there is of the travel of his soul to be seen and his people are made willing in the day of his power hence is he glorified Joh. 17.8 10. I have given unto them the words which thou gavest me and they have received them and have known surely that I came out from thee and they have believed that thou didst send me And I am glorified in them And will not you pray that Christ may be honoured in his subduing the hearts of men to himself that this crown of Glory may be set upon his head 7. You have a promise to improve of Gods pouring out his Spirit This is that which the Lord hath spoken that he will doe especially under the Gospel Isai 44.3 I will pour my Spirit on thy Seed and my blessing upon thine offspring So Joel 2.28.20 Whence you have a bottome for faith to rest upon an argument to plead in prayer for your children of the rising generation You are the Lords people and to such God in these promises gives hold to be taken of himself in this matter Beg therefore that God would fulfil his own word accomplish his own promise Object But it may be some will say These promises and so the Text also respect the latter times and Gods pouring out his Spirit upon the Jews at their conversion and bringing home And therefore what improvement can we make of them for our times Sol. If it be granted that they do respect a signal dispensation of God to the Jews in the last times yet that hinders not but that there is many a like dispensation of God in accomplishing these promises under the Gospel Prophetical Scripture is often fulfilled And though there be in special one grand accomplishment of Scripture Prophesies and promises yet there are also many Specimens beginnings of fulfilling them partile accomplishments like dispensations of Gods providence wherein those prophesies and promises are fulfilled in their measure and degree And so this Prophesy and promise of Gods pouring out his Spirit however it may have its full and compleat accomplishment in some particular glorious time hereafter yet there hath been a glorious accomplishment of it already in the Apostles times as we are informed Act. 2.16 17 18. But this is that which was spoken by the Prophet Joel And it shall come to pass in the last dayes saith God I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh c. Yea and it is fulfilled in a degree wherever the Gospel comes with power Yea further it is observed by some that There is no particular Church where the light hath shined but hath had its special times some solemn day of the pouring out of the Spirit before the Sun went down Which may be observed either at the first breaking up of the Gospel or at some remarkable time and change of her condition Whence a great tack of Souls to Christ hath followed besides

the reaching of the Conscience and stirring the affection of many others under a common work of the Spirit which usually goeth along with solemn times Fulfilling of the Scripture pag. 142. Edit 2. Oh therefore pray that New England may have such or another such a solemn day before her Sun go down 8. It is necessary to evidence that you have the Spirit that you be earnestly desirous to have more of the Spirit and that both for your selves and others 9. If Christians would in good earnest set to pray for this there would be good hope that the Spirit would be poured out upon us The Lord is not wont to say to his people seek or to stir them up to seek him in vain Isa 45.19 I said not unto the Seed of Jacob seek ye me in vain 30.19 He will be very grasious unto thee at the voice of thy cry when he shall hear it he will answer thee More encouragement to instant prayer for the pouring out of the Spirit see in Mr. I. Mathers Sermon on Isai 44.3 pag. 14 to 19. By all let Christians be perswaded to lift up the hands which hang down and set to prayer with a deep sense of our want of the Spirit with a Soul humbling sense that we have so grieved the Spirit as thus to forsake and with hold its gracious operations from us and also with faith and expectation that God will do this for us for the sake and upon the account of Christ And then we might hope that it would go well with us and that that should be accomplished in us which is prayed for by the Psalmist Psal 90.14 15 16 17. O satisfy us early with thy mercy that we may rejoyce and be glad all our dayes Make us glad according to the dayes wherein thou hast afflicted us and the years wherein we have seen evil Let thy work appear unto thy Servants and thy glory unto their Children And let the beauty of the Lord our God be upon us and establish thou the work of our hands upon us yea the work of our hands establish thou it Exhortation 2. To All to labour that the Spirit may be poured out upon them that they may hoth have the Spirit and a plentiful measure of the graces of it Let every one endeavour to get the Spirit for himself and so there would be a general pouring out of the Spirit Would we be free from misery would we be happy make this our busmess Let all unregenerate persons rouze and stir up themselves and take the Kingdome of heaven by holy violence Sue and strive by all means that the saving graces of the Spirit may be given to you If we would have the Spirit poured out upon us upon our persons we must be in the way of waiting for it And O that we could use utmost diligence and endeavours in this thing It is a matter of most eminent and everlasting concernment I might here urge those two things hinted in the Text The misery of being without and the blessedness of having the Spirit poured out upon us which comprehend all can be said But more particularly by way of motive consider Mot. 1. If you have not the Spirit you are none of Christs you have no Christ you are Christless persons and have no more to doe with the Son of God in your present state as to any propriety in him then the Devils had Luk. 8.28 You may talk of Christ and it may be profess him but you have no right nor interest in him Rom. 8.9 Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ he is none of his The Spirit is the bond of union on Christs part and it is the Spirit which works Faith in us which is the bond of union on our part whence Christ dwels in his people by his Spirit Where therefore the Spirit of Christ is not there is no union of that Soul to Christ no faith wrought in the heart and so no Christ dwelling in that soul And now seriously consider what it is to be without Christ to be none of his 1. It is to have no pardon of sin No Christ no forgiveness You are yet in your sins under the guilt of them and can have no pardon so long as you are without Christ All the sins that ever you have committed they stand on file against you and you must answer for them You lye under the heavy load of the guilt of innumerable evils the which if you had any sense might-make your hearts to fail at the thoughts of it Psal 40.12 For innumerable evils have compassed me about mine iniquityes have taken hold upon me so that I am not able to look up they are more then the hairs of my head therefore my heart faileth me It is enough to make the heart of any person to fail indeed to see the load of all his sins lying upon him unpardoned What a dreadfull thing is it for us who have been Transgressors from the womb endless in acting of sin to have all our sins to answer for before God Job 9.3 If he will contend with him be cannot answer him one of a thousand We cannot give a satisfying Answer for one single sin of a thousand But we must answer that is we must be called to an account for them all if they be not pardoned and pardoned they are not if we have not Christ In him pardon is to be had Rom. 3.25 whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past through the forbearance of God But pardon is no where to be had without him 2. It is to have no favour with God No Christ no favour in Heaven The heart of God will never be towards any that are not in Christ and that continue out of him The world is at enmity with God and reconciliation is only to be had in Christ Jesus God will enter into friendship with or shew favour to no person but by the means and mediation of his Son And therefore if thou art and continuest without Christ God does and ever will look upon thee as an Enemy thou shalt find no favour in his eyes He that made thee will not have mercy on thee he that formed thee will shew thee no favour There will never be other then anger in the face and heart of God toward We are all by nature children of wrath and Enemies but they who are gotten into Christ they are thereby reconciled Col. 1.2 22. You that were sometimes alienated and Enemyes in your minds by wicked works yet now hath be reconciled in the body of his flesh through death c. But for others the wrath of God abides on them and there it will abide to Eternity for they can have no favour if they continue out of Christ Joh. 3.36 He that believeth not the Son the wrath of God abideth on him 3. It is to