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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66475	A sermon preached before his Grace the King's commissioner, and the three estates of Parliament: June the 15th. 1690. By David Williamson, Minister of the Gospel at Edinburgh	Williamson, David, d. 1706.	1690 (1690)	Wing W2796; ESTC R219573	24,635	21

abolish any Ordinance of Christ either because of some outward Evil they bring with them or hope of some outward Advantage by casting them off● 6ly Mens driving the Lord Jesus out of his Ordinances by secret and spiritual pollutions thereof either by secret contempt and weariness of them or by unbrokenness of heart in the enjoyment of them when people live not in the dayly sense of an extreme need of Mercy 7ly When people go to Ordinances and go not to the Lord of Ordinances for the blessing 8ly When the People are unwilling and careless to receive the stroak of the Eternal Power of the Life of Jesus in their hearts 9ly When people do not only sin but grow to that height to cast off all reprooss and christ-like admonitions for sin 10ly When Men cast off secret Dread Fear and Reverence of the Majesty Dominion and Soveraignity that God stamps on Authority Jude 8. and have low despising thoughts of Magistrats and seek to pluck the Sword of Revenge for sins that hurt the Common wealth out of their hands without which the greatest Power and Authority is but a Vanity and Nuility 11ly Whoredom and uncleanness tho rise among us for which the Lord will Judge Heb. 13.4 12ly Swearing and Corsing too rise also among all sorts prosaning the Lords holy Name Men and great Men thinks Oaths the flowrish of their Discourses and that then they speak with Power and Authority But I tell them be of what Quality they will they are Gods enemies who take His Nar●● in vain Psalm 139.20 13ly Frequent Familiar needless haunting with persons perverse in principles and practices by which many learn their way● get a snare to their Soul and partaking of their sins receive of their plagues Prov. 22.25 Rev. 18.4 This has been the neck break o● this Generation Prov. 13.20 by which companions of Fools have been destroyed 14ly Much unrepented of guilt in the Persecuters of these bygone years I am afraid till there be more resentn●●nt of these things Gods wrath will not be paci●ied We have been deeved with the noise of some abusively called the Cl●●●y their Suffering● in Pamph●●●s with Attestations justly jealoused which will be overthrown ●re long by a true Relation I am not speaking by way of Approbation of Injuries But how tender the Consciences of Authors are you may conjecture from their wide speaking likening their Flea bit Sufferings in comparison of ours to the Dragooning in France What shall I say it would consume time to reckon up so much as the kinds of the Sufferings we have been trysted with Some of all Degrees and some of the best Quality sha●●d deeply in Suffering even unto Blood Banishment and Confinement and Imprisonment and Ministers among others to pave the way to Prelacy and make its introduction the more easie and al● the Ministers of Edinburgh save one who had little cause to boast of any outward advantage by Conformity summarly warned by the States to remove from their Charges without Citation o● Accusation and by the dash of one Act a little after about 300 Ministers removed from their Congregations without Citation or Accusation It were easie for me to prove the sufferings of sour o● five Presbyterian Ministers to surpass what a hundred of them has met with What shall I say o● the Sufferings before and in the year 1666 a few pages in that once forbidden Book Naphtali will far surmount all the Accounts of their Sufferings what vast sums of money exacted pillaging of houses preferring their Dogs to the Children of the Family in sharing of the provisions of the house besides unheard of Barbarities Mockings Threatnings when the people went about the Worship of God c. And the shedding of the blood of many and since that time what Intercommuning of many denying them the use of things useful and comfortable some of whom were strangely circumstantiat blind and imprisoned who could not move for their own rellef cru●● Imprisonment in unwholesome Prisons Minister and others some several months some severa● years two three five seven some eleven years in Prison which usage has occasioned Diseases and the death of many and not a few Ministers and others dying in their Prisons for whom no Intreaties could prevall for getting them out of prison where they might have been better attended many shut up in closs Prisons and no cause made known and one among the rest above 20 weeks shut up for 13 weeks whereof his nearell relations not admitted to see his Face nor so much as speak to him through the lock of the Door though he was in great indisposition none allowed to do him any service and to this day the cause never signified what Finings Confinings Forseltures and Banishments what Tortures and unheard of Tortures and some of these multiplied upon one person and men without bowels beholding them Tormented What killing in cold blood and women execute meerly for their Opinion who were no Idolaters nor abettors of Idolatry some after Sentence not getting leave to draw their breath before execution what barbarous beating of Drums at Scaffolds what hunting of Ministers and others like Partridges on the Mountain● night and Day lying whole Nights Summer and Winter in woods and open fields What violent driving of Families from their Houses driving and selling of their Goods and Cattel laying many Families waste violent intruding possessing their Houses Lands and Goods withou● any sentence in Law There be hundreds of unquestionable witnesses of all these thing● What Cruel Urging the Consciences of People Men and Women who had but a free Cottage with a Bond to give such and such Ministers and others not so much as a Nights Lodging or 〈◊〉 meal of Meat which appeared to be heavy on the Consciences of many overtaken with the Temptation that when awakned they had no rest till they made a publick Consession before Congregations of People I knew a Minister speak to above 80 of them who with Grief and Tears confessed their Guilt before the People At one Meeting 39. Men and Women not above two known to the Minister before resolving their appearance rose up in all quarters crying Guilitie Guiltie What Exorbitant Exactions and Vast Summs before some Noble Men and Gentlemens Families could be Relieved by any access to their own Estates not to speak of the Barbarous Highland Host nor of that Violent Pressing of the Oath of the Test a perplexing Oath● on many even beyond Lew to the pressing of their consciences and that Pitisul consequences followed on it amongst the rest the Cuting off of one of the greatest men of our Israel the late Noble Earl of Argyl What Volumes beyond Foxes monuments might be Written there is but one ●nstance that were it meet to relate the circumstances thereof which I know from a Minister and another person of Credit both sharing in that deep di●●ress would make hearts that were not rocks to rent A number in prison taken from Dumfries some