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A67326 A second Christian warning-piece wherein is shewed the first and chief cause of England's present misery, proved to be the chief magistrate's neglect, in not fully doing that work God hath commanded, that must yet be done, because God hath said it, before this nation can expect deliverance. Humbly presented to the Parliament. Wall, Thomas. 1681 (1681) Wing W487; ESTC R218348 8,614 8

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A Second CHRISTIAN WARNING-PIECE wherein is shewed the first and chief Cause of England's present Misery proved to be the Chief Magistrate's Neglect in not fully doing that Work God hath commanded that must be yet done because God hath said it before this Nation can expect Deliverance Humbly presented to the PARLIAMENT Right Honourable THe most wise God who useth the Ministry of his glorious Angels in the Government of the World hath also ordained some Men to be Governours in the Nations in which weighty Work that wise King Solomon had some of the prudentest Men in his Kingdom to give counsel in times of greatest danger for the Preservation and Peace of his People 2. Your Honours by the Providence of a gracious God are the King's Majesty's most grave Counsellors in Parliament gathered together at such a time when this if not three Protestant Nations are in most apparent danger of Desolation not only by the many Judgments of Plagues and Fires already come but many more threatned by reason whereof the Nation as it is a Body Politique its whole Head is sick and Heart faint so that from head to foot there is nothing but Wounds and Bruises and putrified Sores full of Corruption which in the eye of Reason cannot be cured only by cutting off some dead fleshly Traitors and so think thereby to heal the Nation 's Wound when as the chief Cause hath not yet been look'd into not known and so cannot be removed therefore it still breaketh out afresh more dangerous than at former times as hath been proved by many years wofull experience Therefore it is the opinion of the ablest Physicians when a Body is desperately diseased the Cause must be enquired into and when known the Means ordained of God used for removing it before there can be a Cure either in the Body of a Man or a Nation 3. The truth of this your Honours may see in Holy Writ that the Lord in the days of David King of Israel sent a sore Judgment on that Land of three years Famine and so long it continued until the Cause was inquired into by the King and his Council and when it was known to be for the sin of King Saul's bloody house for destroying the Gibeonites his Subjects whom by Oath according to the Covenant made with them by Joshua and all Israel before the Lord he ought to have defended and preserved But so soon as King David gave order that Judgment should be executed God was immediately entreated for the Land O that this may be well minded by your Honours 4. Because the Lord sendeth not his sore Judgments either of Famine Sword or Pestilence on a Nation especially on his own People without a just Cause as is proved by another President When God commanded King Saul utterly to destroy Amaleck because he murdered the Lord's People when weary and faint in the Wilderness as they journied to the promised Land and for the negl●ct hereof God suffered an Amalekite to kill King Saul and also by reason the Lord's Work was done so negligently the whole People of the Jews in King Ahasuerus his Country were near to be destroyed in a day by the Plottings and Contrivances of that wicked Haman the seed of Agag the King of Amaleck had not the Lord marvelously prevented it And whether these things in a figure are not the cause of the present Misery and Danger this Nation is in let your Honours be Judges 5. Because the Lord having commanded the Kings of the Earth especi●lly Protestant Kings to hate the Whore to wit of Rome utterly to make her desolate according to Rev. 17. because she as a second and spiritual Amaleck murdered the Lord's People making her self drunk with the Blood of Saints as they are travelling in the Wilderness of this World towards their everlasting Rest so that because a part of this Work was done by King Henry the Eighth K. Edward the Sixth and Q. Elizabeth of happy memory when they abolished out of this Nation the Lord Abbots Cardinals Jesuits with some other of her Abominations and is not fully finished but neglected by the King and his Parliament God had almost suffered the Kings Majesty whom God preserve to be murdered by four Ruffians the seed of the spiritual Whore because all the Romish Inventions either in Ministry or other of her yet remaining Abominations imposed by Law of oversight on the Consciences of the King's Subjects in Protestant Churches is not abolished and for this same Neglect whether the whole Nation is not in as much danger to be destroyed as the Jews were in Mordiea's days by the Plottings and Contrivances of the wicked Hamans of that Popish blood-thirsty Generation your Honours can best judge Lastly Because the King's Majesty together with your Honours will not bear with such an affront from any foreign Princes or States to impose upon you some of their Laws and Officers to be joyned with yours in any of the Offices Customs or Orders in Government of the Nation No more will the Lord Jesus have imposed on him in the spiritual affairs of his Church any of the Offices or Traditions of the Popes Prelats or any other not warranted by the Word of God without incurring his high displeasure And for Confirmation hereof I shall make bold to lay before your Honours these four Reasons 1. As light and darkness can have no communion together no more saith the Apostle 2 Cor. 6. can Christ and Belial that is Christ in his Ordinances and the Pope or his Prelats in their Traditions and Inventions joyn'd in Worship together but as the Lord destroyed them that set the Ark of God and Dagon together and consumed his own People in his Anger that saith the Lord Ezek. 43. 8. set my Threshold and theirs Me and Them mine Ordinances and their Abominations together in Worship How can Protestants for these things think to fare any better than those Idolaters afore-mentioned let the wise in heart judge 2. If God made the Canaanites as thorns in the eyes and sides of the Children of Israel because they defiled themselves with their Abominations and made a breach in the Covenant made between the Lord and them who commanded them not to meddle with their Inventions in Worship nor make Marriages with them May it not be even so with these Nations because Protestants have defiled themselves with many Popish Inventions in Worship and also because many do make Marriages with the Papists hath not God since the Reformation began even for these things made the Papists as thorns in the eyes and sides of this Protestant Nation I leave to your Honours to judge 3. If the Lord did vex the Children of Israel with all Adversity so that there was no peace to him that went out nor to him that came in because they worshipped God with another Ministry and Inventions of King Jeroboam's making and because they kept the Statutes of Omri and the manner of the house of
with your Honours be not the Physicians in God's hand to prevent it Now Right Honourable if something of this nature be not done for preventing the shedding of innocent Blood that if the Papists within us should rise or their Accomplices invade us from without the King's Majesty with your Honours would be pleased to make an Act that all Protestants now as was granted to the Jews in the days of K. Ahasuerus may without offence stand in their own defence in the preservation of the lives of themselves and their families in what manner your Honours shall think fit And this by God's Blessing will break the hearts of all Popish Plotters in their wicked designs who for madness instead of destroying Protestants like the enemies of Jehoshaphat will destroy one another O ●herefore that his Majesty with your Honours would remember to follow the Example of that wise and good King Solomon who first built the Lord's House before he built his own And K. David was grieved that himself should dwell in an House of Cedar when the Ark of God remained under Curtains Nehemiah could have no joy tho the Kings Cupbearer to see the City of Jerusalem lie waste If then the King's Majesty with your Honours would imitate these worthy Patrio's herein in seeking first the Kingdom of God and his Righteousness then all smaller things of Temporal Deliverances and outward Benefits shall be added Which God will still make good to all true Protestants if they prefer the Heavenly Jerusalem before their chiefest joy Psal 137. as was made good to Israel of old who were a Nation in the midst of Idolatrous Nations as the true Churches of God are now Holy Nations in the midst of the Nations And so long as Christians now as God's People of old do faithfully walk wi●h God in his true Faith and Worship they are said to dwell alone in respect of their Faith and Worship among the Nations Num. 34. 24. The want of these things now amongst Protestant Churches is proved by holy Scripture to be the same cause God is testifying to us as to Judah of old I have forsaken my House I have left my Heritage I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hands of her enemies Read Jer. 12 13. If there be not a speedy turning to the streight path of the Lord in executing Judgment and seeketh the Truth Jer. 5. 1. The deep sense of which may with the Prophet Jeremiah cause every true Christian to say O that my head were water and eyes a fountain of tears to weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people and that he had in the Wilderness a lodging-place that he might not behold the Sins bounding or the Judgments coming on the Land O then before it be too late that the King's Majesty with your Honours and also the whole Nation would lay these things to heart Seeing how unwilling the Lord is to destroy this Nation not only by discovering the Plots but also the Cause why God suffers them Now shall a Trumpet be blown in the City and the people not be warned Or is there any evil in a City to wit of punishment and I have not done it saith the Lord Hos 3. 6. Be wise therefore O ye Kings be instructed ye Judges of the Earth kiss the Son lest he be angry and ye erish from the way For he is the Prince of the Kings of the Earth who can only crown you with Glory which the Lord in his Mercy will bestow as he hath promised on all that love him and keep his Commandments Your Honours humble Servant in all Christian Duties THO. WALL