B22970:166
An appeal to thy conscience as thou wilt answer it at the great and…An appeale to thy conscience as thou wilt answere it at the great and…
An appeal to thy conscience as thou wilt answer it at the great and dreadful day of Christ Jesus.An appeale to thy conscience as thou wilt answere it at the great and dreadfull day of Christ Iesus.
London : s.n., 1643
An Appeal to thy Conscience. › The Answer.An Appeale to thy Conscience. › The Answer.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The fifth and last remedy is, by flying unto God in prayer with a serious and unfeigned repentance for sin. This is the chief, the certain, and never failing remedy which Gods children have used at all times in their distresses. When the children of Israel sighed by reason of the Egyptian bondage, and cried unto God, then the Lord came down and sent Moses to deliver them, Exod. 2. 23. and Chap. 3. 7 8. 10. In the time of the Judges, when the Israelites repented of their wickedness, and cried unto the Lord, the Lord always raised them up deliverers, Judg. 3. 9 15. and Cha• 4. 3. 24. and Ch. 6. 6, 14. and Chap. 10. 15, 16. and Chap. 11. 29. After their return from Babylon, being in miserable slavery under the Kings of Assyria, they assembling with fasting and with sackcloths, and with earth upon them, repenting and acknowledging Gods goodness and their ingratitude, humbly craving his mercy. And then they made a sure covenant (not a Covenant of rebellion by force to resist their Sovereign, and to free themselves from oppression, as some corrupters of the truth would now a days persuade ignorant people) but a covenant or oath to walk in Gods Law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the Lord their God, and his judgements and his Statutes, Nehem. 9. 1, 2, 38. •nd Chap. 10. 29. The Psalms do plentifully show Davids practice in this kind, Psal. 108. 12. and 109. 26. and 1 12. 4, 7. and 142. 4. 5. The Prophet Micah having set forth the small number of the righteous, and the wickedness of these times concludeth with this, as the only sure remedy, Therefore will I look unto the Lord: I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me. I will bear the indignation of the Lord, because I have sinned against him, until he plead my cause and execute judgement for me, Mic. 7. 7, 9. Whereby it is clear, that the surest means of release from slavery, oppression, or any other misery whatsoever▪ which the vilest King can bring upon his Subjects, is by prayer unto God with a serious repentance for sin, and a patient expectation of Gods mercy until his time appointed.