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cause_n	call_v	great_a	part_n	2,184	5	4.0120	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31222	Castigio temporum, or, A Short view and reprehension of the errours and enormities of the times, both in church and state and what is the most probable means to cure the distempers in either.		1660 (1660)	Wing C1231A; ESTC R28548	14,568	28

of a full and free Parliament or that the Secluded Members might be admitted to sit againe After he arrived at London the first service these worthy Patriots put him upon was to make War upon the City Gates and Portcullices a thing as ill relishing the greatness of his spirit and undertakings as hateful and ridiculous to men in general the baseness of which Action together with the Reasons alledged by the Secluded Members it may be was the cause of their re-admission and Session Upon the 16 of this Month of March this many Tailed and many Headed thing although they by a most unparallel'd fact among them had cut off their Head called Parliament which had in so many shapes acted Tragedies the greatest part of 20 years was dissolved having against all Law and Justice not only been the ruine almost of infinite Families of all sorts of men and not only caused the Fields of the three Nations to run with more streams of humane bloud then ever was before mentioned by any story of the Nations in many years but also erected new and unheard-of Courts after the War was done to ensnare and take away mens lives having not only taxed the Subject fourty times more then all the Kings of this Nation have done in 500 years before but also embezel'd and sold all the Publick Revenues both of Church and Crown and yet left a greater Debt upon the Nation then all the Parliaments except the Sacrilegious gift of Church-Lands have given to the Kings of this Nation these 400 years having made the honour of the English Nation vile and contemptible to all Nations abroad having not only lost all faith at home but kept none abroad whereby the Publick Trade and Traffick of this Nation is interrupted and lost and yet have left above 50000 armed men besides the ordinary Militia to be maintained by the Nations yet as an Epicedium to manifest their Saintships to the world and how ill the Cavaliers have deserved because guilty of none of these things they not only exclude them but their posterity from being elegible in what they call this next Parliament Since it is impossible that any differences can be composed What are the most probable means to cure the distractions in the State where men will not submit to some certain and known rule to which the men differing ought indifferently to submit themselves and since all Factions have plaid reaks at the Helm and Imperiously without all Title or President not only arrogantly dominered over one another but also the rest of their fellow-Subjects and since the forsaking our known Governours to whom by all Laws of God and man we did ow our obedience and those known Laws which should be the Rule of the Subjects actions and put a period to their differences hath been the cause of all our civil distractions and since there is no other probable means under heaven to cure our distractions and compose our differences but by returning to our known Governours and Laws then at last let men lay a side all further animosities take hold of those means which may save the Ship of this Commonwealth before it utterly sinks to the Publick ruine of the Inhabitants But how the wounds of this distracted Nation may be so healed and the breaches so cemented that though all be sufferers yet the Nation redeemed will doubtless require the wisdom of a Full and Free Parliament duly constituted by whose judgement all the differences and civil distractions of the Nation ought to be determined and decided Qui molitur insidias in Patriam id facit quod infaelix Nauta perforans navem in qua ipse vehitur Let us see whether as the case now stands with us the condition of this Nation be any better in Religion then Government Credere Deum esse non est articulus fidei To believe there is a God is an Article of no mans Faith nor is that act Religion to worship serve God with which every individual man frames and purposes to himself as useful and expedient for him to do yet indeed it is very requisite that every man should every day with his private worship and service implore Gods preventing and assisting grace all the day after because no man or men can tell another man what he wants and to what sin by nature he is evilly prone to so well as himself for then all men who worship one God were of one Religion and of one Faith Let us therefore see what is Faith what Religion Who an Atheist and what Atheism Faith is an act of Beliefe in God as he hath revealed himself to mankind extraordinarily What is Faith and so as by nature no man could possibly without Gods grace attain to the knowledge or belief of it It was therefore an act of faith in the Children of Israel to believe in God as he had revealed himself to Abraham Isaac and Israel to the evidence of which no man inspired with all the knowledge and learning of Pythagoras Socrates Plato Aristotle and all other Philosophers could possibly by those helps onely attain and to believe in God as known to them and their Fathers by the name of Jehovah was an Article of Jewish Faith and to believe in God the Father as he hath revealed himself to mankind in his Son Jesus Christ God and Man is the sum of Christian faith and by doing in this faith ought every Christian man to seek out his Salvation with fear and trembling By Religion What Religion all men generally Christians Jewes Mahometans and Infidels who though misplacing the Deity in the Creatures as the Sun or Moon an Oak Apollo c. understand the restraining or binding men to the Publick worship and service of God in such an unity form and communion And so zealous were the Druides 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Nicias Orat Thuc. l. 7. in their Rites and Forms that none but their Priests and Scholars might learn them nor would they commit them to Letters both because they would not have them divulged lest they should grow contemptible by being exposed to the view of the rude and ignorant multitude and because their Scholars might the better retain and keep them in their memory Selden annal Anglobr l. c. 4 Cesar li. 6. de bell Gall. Camb Br. p. 13.14 If then Religion be the binding men to worship God in such a form c. let us see what makes and alters forms Forma rerum sicut numeri according to Aristotle consistunt in indivisibili Tho forms of things as numbers do consist indivisibly or integrally for as in numbers if you add to alter or diminish ought from any number it ceases to be the number it was before so in forms if you add diminish or alter ought it ceases to be the form it was before therefore St. Paul exhorts 1 Tim. 2. That first of all because there can be no Religion without it prayers and supplications