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A77378	The loyall convert, (according to the Oxford copy.) A convert will be loyall: or, some short annotations on this book; / by W. Bridges. Published by authority.	Bridges, W., fl. 1644.; Quarles, Francis, 1592-1644. Loyall convert.	1644 (1644)	Wing B4483B; Thomason E257_2; ESTC R210047	51,595	31

justly feares it And so long as we feare it shall we abjure peace the blessed meanes to prevent it He that seekes to settle Truth by the sword distracts it Or is it a Truth ye want If so Is it of Doctrine or of Discipline If of Doctrine Actum est de nostra Religione Farewell our Religion Or is it of Discipline Discipline is but a Ceremony And did the Lord of the Sabbath dispense with a morall Law for the preservation of an Oxes life or an Asses and shall we to alter some few indifferent Ceremonies allowed by the Parliaments of three pious and wise Princes and the practise of many holy Martyrs who sealed the true protestant Religion with their blood cry down Peace and shed the Blood of many thousand Christians Our seduced Protestants will have no set Forms of prayer but what proceed immediately from their own Fancies This is their Truth Our Semi-separatists will hear our Sermons if they like the Teacher but no Divine Service This is their Truth Our Separatists will not communicate in our Churches nor joyne in our Congregations That is their (*) Truth is one as is the God of truth And as for the Separatists Anabaptists Antinomians c. What the State thinks of them and how it proceeds against some of them you should seek to know before you seem to censure We contend not Sir for such a truth as must have a touch of an Irish toleration The Independants those Gentlemen do differ in judgement in that point t is true yet modestly and without morosity Reckon them with reverence Sir I pray you they shall for learning go check by jowl with your side of the first form And if you take them in their Pulpit imployment beleeve me none of yours are to be compared with them Alas Sir preaching that is to say opening the whole counsell of God hath been out of fashion at Court ever since I was born More the sinne and shame of some body And the judgement which is denounced Amos 7.12.16.17 Reader observe if it be not accomplishing Neither is the quarrell for a few ceremonies we contend for substance For all our liberties as we are men and Christian men do lie now at stake and we hope the Lord will discover himself to be for ●is therein Truth Our Anabaptists will not baptize till yeares of discretion and Re-baptize That is their Truth Our Antinomians will have no Repentance This is their Truth Our Independants will have an universall Parity This is their Truth Good God when shall we have peace if not till all their Truthes meet Obj. But Christ sayes Mark 10.34 I come not to bring Peace but the sword therefore for the Propagation of Peace it is lawfull to use the Sword Ans So he is tearmed 1 Cor. 1.23 a stumbling block and does that warrant to stumble So He sayes Mat. 26.31 All you shall be offended because of me and doth this Patronize our Offences The Law is good and just Because Rom. 7.7 then we had not knowne sin but by the Law Is it therefore lawfull for us to sinne God forbid Our Saviour brings the Sword among us as wholsom meat brings sicknesse to a weakly sick stomack or Physick to a body abounding with Humors not intentionally but occasionally Thus by your erroneous and weake mistakes you make the Prince of Peace the Patron of your unnaturall War and the God of Truth the president of your (a) This hath been answered before and if an accusation against us were enough who should be guiltlesse If you think Sir you can yet bring any thing against our proceedings which hath not been said and deserves the name of any more then such a cavill as this you have your liberty unexamined errors But Almighty God the Champion of his owne Truth and maintainer of his own Cause hath to more then common admiration appeared in this great Enterprize He that delivered Israels handfull from the hand of Pharaohs Host hath shewed himselfe in the almost incredible proceedings of this heaven displeasing Warre the briefe Relation whereof may move those hearts that are not seared or stone to melt into a thankfull acknowledgement of his Power and remaine as Monuments of his Mercy that children yet unborn may say hereafter God was here viz. The two Houses of Parliament made first (b) That is to say before the Papists could get them for indeed they were design'd to have had them that we might have had what they have in Germany that is to say neither house home nor habitation The tender mercies of the wicked are cruelty for this Parliament therfore and that seisure We humbly blesse the name of our good God But good Sir not first before the plot for bringing of an Army against the Parliament Nor first before many other things which conscience hath not silenced among some of you and in due time the Kingdome will take notice of Sir with all your tricks and ambiguities you dance in a Net and your dissimulation and prevari●ation cannot be hid a generall seisure of all the Armes Ammunition Castles Forts Magazines and Ships being the whole visible strength of this unhappy Kingdome to whom having now setled the Militia both by Sea and Land in their owne hands tides of Proposition gold came in upon the (c) Truely our gold came not in as it ought to have done We had then and yet have too many amongst us whose earrings were laid by for an Idoll of their owne making But now you speak of our Incomes for the Warre Remember I pray you Sir that we do not forget some of your Receipts also First The Lands and Money of almost all the Nobility and Gentry of the Land Secondly Malignant Merchants and Citizens not a few Thirdly All the Civilians in the Kingdome and Reader into their hands all the treasure of the Kingdome was running out of all their Cossers you expend And indeed it must be so for it was ill got and must not be better spent Fourthly You received one summe from beyond Sea upon a good Pawne Fifthly And 100000 l. came in they say elsewhere that was holpen to be gotten by us and now is spent to fight against us Sixthly All the wicked ones which are scummed off the three Kingdomes are on your side these usually love not any thing better than that which God hateth and will give their first borne to a Moloch The Gentleman observes it well we are fain to straine hard for monies every thing expended in the things of God came too too hard But to Idolatry every thing comes easie the health 1 King 18.28 they cut themselves with knives c. the wealth Exod. 32.6 they pluck'd off a heir earrings the ease Exod. 32.6 rose early their very children too Psal 106.37 They offered their sonnes and daughters to devils Seventhly All the Papists in Christendome yeeld you their prayers and purses then I shall desire thee good Reader to marke