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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37536	The present interest of England in matters of religion, stated wherein is clearly demonstrated that the Protestant religion may be fully secured from popery, though the penal laws be taken away / by W.D., alover of liberty for conscience sake.	W. D., lover of liberty for conscience sake.	1688 (1688)	Wing D99; ESTC R21223	21,170	32

THE Present Interest OF ENGLAND IN Matters of Religion Stated Wherein is clearly demonstrated that the Protestant Religion may be fully secured from Popery though the Penal Laws be taken away By W. D. a Lover of Liberty for Conscience sake Rev. 2.7 He that hath an ear to hear let him hear With Allowance LONDON Printed by T.S. and sold by most Booksellers 1688. The Present Interest of England in matters of Religion stated c. BOoks are now written to instruct the present Age and to inform the future that this may know what ought to be done and that may see what has been done and in this lies the great skill and wisdom of good men to know and understand the work of God in their day that they may be labourers together with God and workers together with him 1 Cor. 3.9 and serve their generation by the will of God. 2 Cor. 6.1 Sometimes men do not know nor understand the work of God in their day Jacob staid so long in Canaan till he wanted bread God sent a Famine upon that Land that Jacob and his Family might go down to Egypt and to eat bread to the full God remembred him in his low estate but he remembred not the mighty works of God that he had seen nor that experience he had of his love and grace his mercies and goodness that had followed him all along he looked upon the providences of God and they seem'd to run cross to the promises he looked upon the work of God and that seem'd to be so dark that he could see no beauty nor glory in it He looked upon the things that then befel him and they seem'd to work together for his hurt And Jacob said All these things are against me Gen 42.36 He look't upon Simeon that was left behind in Egypt to be a dead man Joseph is not and Simeon is not and the going down of Benjamin with the rest of his Brethren to be nothing but a trick and a design of the Egyptians to get all his Sons into their hands that they might be Bondmen and Slaves at the least And he said Me have ye bereaved of my Children When Jacob saw the glory of God's work appear then he rejoyced but the way to that glory he did not understand Now that which God intended and designed by all this was the fulfilling of his word the glory of his holy name the increase of his Church that he might make of them a great Nation as he had promised And the Lord said unto Abraham Know of a surety that thy Seed shall be a stranger in a Land that is not theirs and shall serve them and they shall afflict them four hundred years and also that Nation whom they shall serve will I judge and afterwards shall they come out with great substance Gen. 15.13 14. When men do not understand the work of God in their day then they censure and arraign and condemn that wisdom and power that love and grace that goodness and mercy that is moving towards them and breaking in upon them God can do whatsoever he pleaseth and he will do whatsoever he hath promised Sometimes men leave the work of God and forsake it and turn their backs upon it after they have been ingaged in it Numb 13.26 So did the Children of Israel when they were in the Wilderness of Paran God had taken them out of the Iron Furnace and had brought them up from the House of Bondage and saved them from the Swords of the Egyptians and seal'd his truth to them by Miracles and Wonders in the Wilderness as they past along And now they being come near Canaan the Lord commanded them by Moses to go in and possess that good Land Ezek. 20.6 a Land that flowed with Milk and Honey the glorious Land and the glory of all Lands And this was the work of God in that day but they rebelled against the Lord and would not hearken unto his voice And all the Children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron and the whole Congregation said unto them Would God that we had died in the Land of Egypt or would God we had died in this Wilderness and wherefore hath the Lord brought us unto this Land to fall by the Sword that our Wives and our Children should be a prey Were it not better for us to return into Egypt And they said one to another Let us make a Captain and let us return into Egypt Numb 14.2 3 4. You see here they were for Egypt and not Canaan For a new Captain to lead them and not Moses For Bondage and Slavery and not Liberty and Freedom And God Almighty took them at their word As truly as I live saith the Lord as ye have spoken in mine Ears so will I do to you Your Carcases shall fall in this Wilderness and all that were numbred of you according to your whole number from twenty years old and upward which have murmured against me verse 28 29. Their Egypt was the Wilderness their Captain was their punishment and forty years was the time of their misery But with many of them God was not well-pleased for they were overthrown in the Wilderness 1 Cor. 10.5 They that will not hear the word of God that is spoken to them shall feel the wrath of God that is spoken of them There is a way of flying to God but there is no way of flying from God. Sometimes men despise the work of God and look upon it as a very small thing not worthy of their acceptance this did the Jews that were in Captivity which Nebuchadnezzar had carried away from the land of Judea to Babylon And after they had been there threescore and ten years 2 Chron. 36.21 the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus King of Persia that he made a Proclamation thoughout all his Kingdom and put it also in Writing saying Who is there among you of all his people His God be with him and let him go up to Jerusalem which is in Judah and Build the House of the Lord God of Israel he is the God which is in Jerusalem And whosoever remaineth in any place where he sojourneth let the men of his place help him with Silver and with Gold and with Goods and with Beasts besides the Free-will Offering for the House of God that is in Jerusalem Ezra 1.1 3 4. Now what did these Jews do after they had seen the Kings Proclamation which was so full of Love and Goodness Did they go up to Jerusalem and Build the House of God Their Yokes were now broken their Bands were loosed their heavy Burdens were removed Liberty was proclaimed a Door was opened of Mercy and Grace the Call of God was clear the Work of God was great and glorious Ezra 7.7 Ezra 1 5● Some of them did go up They were only them whose spirits God had rais'd to go up but the most of them did not as