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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78018	Conformitie's deformity. In a dialogue between conformity, and conscience. Wherein the main head of all the controversies in these times, concerning church-government, is asserted and maintained; as without which, all reformation is headlesse, and all reconciliation hopelesse. Dedicated by Henry Burton, to the honour of Jesus Christ, as the first-fruits of his late recovery from death to life; as a testimony of his humble and thankfull acknowledgement of so great a mercy: and published for the service of all those, that love the Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity ...	Burton, Henry, 1578-1648.	1646 (1646)	Wing B6160; Thomason E358_20; ESTC R201164	26,532	40

truth in the glory and excellency of it this being that very Kingdom of which Christ said Woe be to you Soribes and Pharisees hypocrites for ye shut up the Kingdom of Heaven against men for ye neither go in your selves nor suffer ye them that are entring to go in But my Lord you are a lover of Peace as that part of your Speech upon your Election in the Hall declared and we all believe it when you said That you would endeavour to have Vnity for which you propounded two wayes either by Intreaty or by Force Indeed in such a case and for your place Intreaty is very commendable but if you think by Force to compose the differences that will prove none of Gods wayes nor to lie within your sphere as I dare say you abhorre to be a persecutor of those that are the promoters of Christs honour And being a thing not pertaining to the office especially of a Christian Magistrate I need not tell you what befell Vzzah for stretching out his hand to stay the trembling Ark And now that I have been thus far bold with your Lordship which hath proceeded meerly from a hearty desire that you may not be carried with the strong tide of the times by any malignant spirit filling your sailes through many under-water Rocks and Shelves endangering not only the splitting of your own Vessel but the total ship wrack of this floating State Give me leave further to beseech you that as you love your own self and soul and family and posterity your native Country the Honour of this City and Nation you would improve the whole power of your Office among other evils for the not only suppressing but utter obliterating out of all records of memory or mention that late Remonstrance of London which like the Trojan horse is stuffed with such matter as if the importunity of some might have its desire would unavoidably hale in ruine both to City and Country Nor doth any thing more clearly demonstrate that spiritual Judgement of blindnesse and hardnesse of heart to be upon all those who have their heads and hands in that Remonstrance and wilfully still persist in the prosecution of it now in cold blood Than the unnaturall hating and hunting after the destruction of those very men as our mortal enemies who have with the extreme hazard of their lives been honoured of God to be the Preservers both of Them our City and Country and on the other side the high esteem and honouring of those as our faithfullest friends who are part-takers with Murtherers with Rebels with Traitors Incendiaries Underminers of our Parliaments and consequently of the State of the Kingdom Dividers between the Parliament and City that themselves may reigne whose violent and fraudulent practises proclaim them to be not friends but such as in whom to put the least confidence is to trust in the Reed of Egypt whereon if a man lean it will pierce him through And therefore for these many and weighty considerations both in a due respect to your Lordship and hearty zeal for the honour and safety both of Parliament City Kingdome fuller of dangers and enemies at this day then by reason of that spirit of blindnesse and deep sleep wherein our City hath of late been sweetly lulled by the strong charms of fair false friends flatteries we are aware of I have in the name of Jesus Christ humbly commended this small Book to your Lordship that therein I might discharge the duty of a poor Watchman to awaken you in the first place and consequently all of that Court and Counsel with you to look out and inward too for the speedy preventing of all those imminent dangers which otherwise will suddenly surprise us and take us napping in the deep of our too credulous security For the Spirit of that Ten-horned Beast is now making war with the Lamb which is likely to be his last war Babylons fall following in the next chap. this Spirit warreth under new colours not red but white whose Word is REFORMATION and this under a fair colour of a Covenant by vertue whereof pretending a just title to the War he hopes by the help of the Remonstrance and the prime authors thereof and their adherents to erect a new Bestial tyrannie over souls bodies estates under new names and notions But the issue is The Lamb shall overcome them for he is Lord of Lords and King of Kings and they that are with him are called Chosen and Faithfull And my Lord you shall find in this Book Conformity to be the Mystery of iniquity the mother of all mischief the cause of all our present calamities and the forerunner and hastener of our ruine if we repent not if our Lord Iesus Christ prevent not which certainly he will because himself is the Great and Almighty General whose Cause and Name is mainly engaged in this warre Now the Lord Iesus Christ give you the Spirit of wisdom well to consider and lay to heart these things which that you may do is and shall be the hearty prayer of Your Lordships most humble servant HENRY BURTON A DIALOVGE Between CONFORMITY and CONSCIENCE Conformities Soliloquie Conformity Who is this that comes along Surely by his habit and gate it should be one that according as I have often heard him described by many is called Conscience And to be sure I will be so bold as to salute him and ask his name And if it be indeed that Conscience I mean and that he will afford me so much patience I will enter into further discourse with him Conformity YOu are well met Sir Conscience And you also Conf. Sir I pray you pardon my boldnesse to crave your Name For as I came along I conceived from what I had heard that you should be the man called Conscience Consc My name is Conscience Conf. Now I am glad of this happy opportunity to meet you of whom I have heard so much talk abroad in the world Consc Why what talk hath the world of me Conf. Sir I pray you be not offended and I will tell you The World generally saith of you that you are the only troubler of the State Consc Is it therefore true because the world saith it So Ahab called the Prophet Eliah the Troubler of Israel so the Jewes said of Christ that he was a perverter and stirrer up of the people So when this Lambe of God the King of the Jewes was born Herod and all Jerussilem were troubled at it Why so Was it this King that troubled them or their own guilty consciences in usurping this Kingdom Alas Sir this is no news that where ever the fame of this King and of his kingdom commeth in the powerfull preaching of the Gospel of the kingdom it brings with it trouble and terrom to the world or to any State And as it was with Herod and the Priests at Jerusalem at the birth of this King so at his death they could