A96104:65
Jerusalems glory, or, the saints safety in eying the churches security, wherein is showed…Jerusalems glory, or, the saints safetie in eying the churches security, wherein is shewed…
Jerusalems glory, or, the saints safety in eying the churches security, wherein is showed the captives redress: being an invitation to all the different minded men in the world to become one; with the advantage of unity, and the danger of variety from the example of the saints and servants of God, as well in former as these latter times. Offered to the view of the 97 builders employed in that work, for the building of the true temple, and all others. / By Thomas Watson, a lover of peace.Jerusalems glory, or, the saints safetie in eying the churches security, wherein is shewed the captives redress: being an invitation to all the different minded men in the world to become one; with the advantage of unity, and the danger of variety from the example of the saints and servants of God, as well in former as these latter times. Offered to the view of the 97 builders imployed in that work, for the building of the true temple, and all others. / By Thomas Watson, a lover of peace.
London: printed by J.C., 1661
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but if one must be left, then farewell Prayer, and farewell Praises, for I can Pray as well in another Dispensation, but I shall get nothing but the ill will of men, and the loss of honour and estate if I continue in this way, it was good and honourable, but now it is base, I have have had the company of my Friends wealth, and honour, and applause, ⟨p. 26⟩but I must now follow them further, or else they will leave me; O it is a sad thing when Religion, says God, is one thing to day, and a contrary the next day, only for money and self-ends: This is one way of worshipping God, so called; but I fear it is no better than a worshipping of thy self, and that in the worst sense too, for thou dost but herein toil to gather Coals & Faggots to consume thy self in the last day without the great mercy of God, for this manner of serving God or rather thy self; it may be performed in any Dispensation, or any sort of profession; but if thou takest up thy rest in any such like abbess or Centerest thy self in any fabric of this nature, know assuredly, God will blast it in the end, if it be builded upon no surer a foundation than self-ends and notional expressions; it may be God may let thee alone for the time that thou hast to spend in this world, but the end will prove the bitterer; the wickedst of men may seem to have a rest, yea, a pleasant one to their minds and desires it may be, but it is not lasting, it is not abidable, as the Prophet hath it, Isaiah 48. the last verse, There is no peace to the wicked, sayeth my God; That is, no abiding nor continuing peace; therefore value thy future peace beyond any present seeming content in this life, for thou must give an exact account of all thy actions in the end; do but mind what Solomon says of it, ⟨p. 27⟩Eccles. 11.9. Rejoice O young man in thy youth, and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine own heart, and in the sight of thine eyes, but know thou that for all these things, God will bring thee into Judgement; therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thee: Therefore I say, look well, yea narrowly to thy ways, lest whereas you think to build a Tabernacle fit to entertain the Holy Ghost in your Professions, you deceive your selves, and build an Altar to sacrifice to the Prince of darkness, in deceit to thy Souls ruin, and eternal torment: