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cause_n	good_a	lord_n	sin_n	3,005	5	4.4939	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86696	Væ-Euge-Tuba. Or, The vvo-joy-trumpet, sounding the third and greatest woe to the Antichristian world, but the first and last joy to the church of the saints upon Christs exaltation over the kingdomes of the world. Unfolded in a sermon before the Honourable House of Commons assembled in Parliament, at their late solemne fast, May 26. 1647. / By G. Hughes Minister of the Gospell in Plymouth. Published by order of the House.	Hughes, George, 1603-1667.	1647 (1647)	Wing H3310; Thomason E389_9; ESTC R201523	30,609	48

it is thus with you I know great affaires and difficult have been and are upon your hands that may hinder quick dispatches and great Bodies can move but slowly and it may answer much for you But yee Rulers of God bee active seek no delayes Judge while it is morning If yee doe not so farre yee deny the government of the Lord and this will be lad 5. It 's lamentable for a Kingdome to have perfidious and Covenant-breaking guides Our Lord is not so nor inveed may his deputies bee so Hee is a God keeping-Covenant faithfull and true Neh. 9.32 Deut. 4.23 and hee leaves the charge upon all his to doe so Yet it is Printed to the world That yee are all perjur'd persons and Covenant-breakers I like not reproaching of Rulers Paul acknowledged it Gods Words Thou shalt not speak evill of the Ruler of thy people Acts 23.5 He that doth shall suffer from the Lord yet yee Christian Senators it concernes you nearely to be humbled for all slips of infirmity about the Covenant of your God from which what flesh can keep free and vindicate your selves from grosser evills by a true justification or else in all the Countries it may get a common faith Weare the girdle which Christ weares Isai 11.5 Righteousnesse is the girdle of his loynes and faithfulnesse the girdle of his reines Let it be yours too and yee shall prosper but unfaithfull and treacherous Rulers woe to them and their Kingdome God will ease himselfe of such adverlaries and avenge him of such enemies This is wofull 6. It 's lamentable with a State to be remisse and carelesse of Gods affaires in reforming his House and setling his Ordinances and giving up the Kingdome to our Lord and his will revealed yet to be active and mindfull about their owne matters The Lord made the returning State of the Jewes smart for this and he points at the matter Hag. 1.4 5 c. It is time for your to dwell in your sieled Houses and thu house lye waste Consider this is the reason yee sow much and bring in little c. A woe was upon them for they did not minde to exalt the Lord above themselves And the advise to remove it is to fall about the worke Hag. 1.8 Gods Reformation worke was the end of his calling you together that your affairs might thrive in the prosperity of his for sute Gods matters going well make the Kingdome glorious this doth not make that Let not God lost the glory of the small beginnings visible toward that work But is this laid to heart and is it contended for as your glory It is said by some that yee will never reforme up to Gods Word though yee bee ingaged by Covenant to doe so I dare not believe this I pray for the strengthning of your hands to this work and wait working in my place if I might there give helpe and at last receive more from you for the purging of Congregation and keeping the holy things of God from being defiled Yet great Remoraes keek back the Fabrick Carnall and Spirituall wickednesses though not tolerated by a Law yet connived at or not reproved as God would have them Doctrines against the eternall Son-ship of the Mediator published and assertions against the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the selfe-credibility of Scripture maintained the very prime errour that brought in the great Apostacy Our Lord and his Christ hate such things as these no Lawes of his Kingdome tolerate contradictions to his owne being his prime Ministers would not vouchsafe a God-speed to such as those Yet the world knowes a Joh. v. 10 11. with what ardency the toleration of those and other Heresies as bad are striven for A timely Item may be given An admission of Doctrine devilish and destroying the saving revelation of God in his Sonne is an emission of Christ and so the losse of him I would not be severer then God would have me against any that pretend Conscience in matters circumstantiall and that divide not from the head therefore can I not cry That nothing must be tolerated in lesser differences but this Christ saith That the woman Jezabel must not bee suffered Rev. 2.22 who could not vent worse lies under lesse paine then the losse of God and his Christ and the ruine of Churches And I must say that the Toleration of all things must be a destructive principle to the State or Church where-ever it be allowed Experience hath shewed us no lesse in Kingdomes and Churches called by Gods Name These are only suggested which need a larger Treatise to State fully ye Servants of Christ take heed of yeelding to these pretences of Conscience the Devill and not Christ hath his throne there And no stronger hold for him than Conscience if he once take it Christ will not suffer him to shelter here therefore ye may not so much as in you lyeth if ye doe the Lords Trumpet sounds Woe upon you Doe not other States Dub. as some of the united Provinces tolerate all these heresies and protect them and yet they prosper Who more I desire not to deale with other Srates Sol. unlesse I might doe them good I am now onely called to our owne yet others being made exemplary a word in sobernesse and truth may not offend I suggest onely these thoughts 1. Can any man say that prosperitie is a sign peculiar unto Truth Then let Rome come in and speake more than any for outward prosperitie Ecles 9.1 No man can know the love or hatred of God by all that is before him 2. Are not spirituall wickednesses as odious to God as carnall Gal. 5.20.21 And are not these Heresies such which God condemnes as workes of the flesh inconsistent with the Kingdome of his Christ 3. Hath God made an end yet of visiting Nations for the sinnes of them When God hath done judging were a better time to urge this example than now I pray God the evill day may not overtake those States The good Lord cause the Cup of trembling to passe by them and purge their iniquities peaceably But I am pressed in spirit to say 1 King 12.26 c. 1. King 13.24 Qui non vetat peccare cum patest jubet Sen. God hath not spared such State-Polities which have sought their own rise by the ruine of God and his Truth Witnesse Jeroboam the sonne of Nebat who made Israel to sinne And he bids sinne that doth not hinder it when he can I feare their sorrowes may begin in the day of their confederacy with Spaine But Gods Truth my beloved and not mans example must be the rule strive up to the perfection of God If none of these lyes must be in Heaven it is mans dutie not to allow them on earth If Heresies yet must be let us mourne for what we cannot helpe It is a miserable necessitie when not allowed it will be rejoycing in iniquitie either for Stute