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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39367	Reflections upon several passages in a book entitled, The reasonableness of a personal reformation, and the necessity of conversion with a letter to Mr. John Galpine, concerning his printed encomium of J.F.	Elys, Edmund, ca. 1634-ca. 1707.; Galpine, John.	1692 (1692)	Wing E688; ESTC R41123	6,865	24

he inveighs against are the English Clergy in that he Marks them by the Character of those that Live upon the Profits And in that he gave the Whole Church of England the same Character in such plain terms in the Year 1669. There is no marrow in the bone no milk in the breast c. Is not this the same with what he now tells us viz. They Preach they Pray because they must do so but none are the better for their Prayers or Preaching They seem to labour an hour or two in a week but their labours turn to no account Nor can be expected to turn to any good account whilst they are neither animated by Faithfulness nor guided by Prudence Agricola writing De Amantibus Subterraneis tells us of a certain kind of Spirits that converse in Minerals and much infest those that work in them They seem to busy themselves according to the custome of Workmen They will digg and cleanse melt and sever the Metals Yet when they are gone the Workmen do not find that there is any thing done I Challenge You and All your Brethren to Say any thing Like Truth Against what I Say in Defence of the Church of England viz. That it is most Evident that those Men are Guilty of Abominable Iniquity who Endeavour to Seduce any People from the Communion of this Church in which the Fundamental Articles of the Christian Religion are so clearly and fully Exprest and those most Important Expressions so frequently Repeated that Persons of the lowest Intellectuals who do not Rebel against the Light in frequenting our Religious Assemblies may more easily attain to the Knowledge of all things that are Necessary to their Salvation than by Hearing or Reading the best Sermons that have been or shall be Preacht by any of the Non-Conformists to the End of the World Which Assertion is as Evident as it is That any Illiterate Persons may more easily Meditate on Truths plainly Exprest and frequently Suggested to their Remembrance than Collect the same Truths out of divers large Discourses if they were therein Imply'd So that it can hardly be imagined how any Man can be in any thing more Serviceable to the Destroyer of Souls than by Teaching People to Despise our Catechism and Common Prayer As to Your most SLANDEROUS Insinuation that We who have Warn'd the Country against the Wicked Errors that have been Publisht by I. F. do not heartily desire the Prosperity of the Church of Christ and of the Souls of Men we APPEAL to the Iudge of All Men Considering that within a very short Time we must Appear Before His Iudgment Seat And we all Concurr with Dr. MAVRICE in the Ardency of that Devotion which He Expresses in his Book Entitled A Defence of Diocesan Episcopacy pag. 443. Lord How long shall mean Delusions be permitted to have so powerful and prevailing influence How long shall the Woolf possess the Sheep against their Shepherds and break into the Folds under the disguise of Sheeps-Cloathing How long shall the deluded have eyes and not see and the Souls for which Christ Died be under the Power of Deceivers How long will it be e're the Hypocrite be disrobed and the People see through the disguise of those who abuse them Surely there will come a time when God will hear the Prayers and Expostulations of his Servants When the faithful Shepherd shall gather together those that are scattered and bring back those that are gone astray When he shall carry them on his shoulders rejoycing and triumphing in the disappointment of the beasts of prey But who shall live when this comes to pass Blessed surely shall their Eyes be who shall enioy the sight a joyful and pleasant thing beyond expression it will be to see Brethren dwell together in Vnity I Pray God to Bless You and to Turn You from your Iniquities And to Bring into the Way of Truth al● those that Err and are Deceiv'd by You. Your Servant and the Servant of All Men for Christ's Sake E. E POSTSCRIPT YOU say that all that have seriously perus'd Mr. Flavel's Books must needs suffrage with you that He was a Man of a sound and solid Iudgment I have perus'd divers of his Books with this Serious Consideration That I must give Account to Almighty God what Censure I pass on them Amongst many Remarkable Passages I have taken particular notice of this in his Husbandry Spiritualiz'd p. 187. When Fruits are shaken down from their Trees then the Husbandman separates them the far greatest part for the Pound and some few he reserves for an Hoard which are brought to his Table and eaten with pleasure This excellently shadows forth that great separation which Christ will make in the end of the World when some shall be cast into the Wine-press of the Almighty's wrath and others preserved for glory Those fruits which are preserved on the tree or in the hoard are comparatively but an handful to those that are broken in the pound Alass 't is scarce One of a Thousand and such a small remnant of Elected Souls hath God reserved for Glory Can you in good earnest conceive it was Judiciously done of this Famous Man thus to Compare the Wrath of God against the Damned and his Mercy to those that are Sav'd to the Pounding and Hoarding of Apples To any man that so Blasphemes the Divine Philanthropy as to say that God has Absolutely Reprobated All Mankind except such a small Number as One of a Thousand I shall give no other Answer but this The LORD Rebuke Thee FINIS