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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25483	Annus Sophiæ jubilæus, The sophick constitution, or, The evil customs of the world reform'd a dialogue between a philadept and a citizen concerning the possibility of the sophick transmutation, the probability that there are adepts in the world ... : to which is added, A summary of some conferences with an artist, &c.		1700 (1700)	Wing A3248; ESTC R18888	53,097	90

the Gates thereof shall be made of entire Stones and most precious Ones and the Tree of Life in the midst of Paradise shall give Leaves for the healing of the Nations These things will accompany our so long expected and suddenly approaching Redemption O Blessed the Governour and State to whom they shall come Now if there came never so many I would associate them to me if I were an Adept and had Power for there were no reason I should have more Authority than they Contrariwise they being my Elders in Philosophy should have the preference of Seniority and I would undoubtedly yield it them only all should have equal Priviledges and equal Votes in determining of publick Benefits c. Secondly Touching Religion Supposing I had to do with Protestants I would have the Protestant Principles exactly considered and followed that Scriptural and Comprehensive Terms of Union being agreed unto there might be Love and Peace among those that walk by the same Rule there being no Edification where there is no Charity and where Partiality Animosity and Contention is preferred before the Simplicity of the Gospel it being also a shame to hold Principles in the Theory and visibly to contradict them in the Practice this in fine being the cause of all the Confusion among Protestants and being such a Scandal as infinitely prejudiceth those from without against the Reformation and even against Christianity in general The common Principles of Religion should be chiefly insisted on and all Men should be carefully taught them and obliged to live according to ' em No body should be forced in Matters that are controverted for all Religion is taken away if it be performed contrary to the inward Persuasion Liberty of Conscience should therefore universally be allowed to all that are Religious and sollicitous to worship God after that manner which they sincerely believe to be most agreeable to his Will But on the other hand no Person should be suffered to live irreligiously and without God in the World for that is even contrary to the common Light of Nature and right Reason All in every Parish should declare before the Officers of the National Church what Persuasion they are of and what Sect they will adhere to If any did not belong to any Sect that is known in the Country where he liveth he should be examined to see if he is sincerely of his Profession with knowledge of the cause and if he can give an Account and Reason of his Faith then he should be instructed in the Principles of the Protestant Religion and made to understand them and to be able to judge of them and should be exhorted to Unity in fine if he persisted in his Superstition it should be considered First Whether no part of his Worship were contrary to the Duties of a peaceable Subject for if it were so he should be kept under restraint otherwise he should enjoy his Liberty Secondly it should be considered whether he be a religious and sincere Man that abstains from the publick Worship thro' tenderness and scruples of Conscience and not out of Libertinism for if a Libertine and an irreligious Person he should be fined and corrected noted with Infamy and declared uncapable of any Trust 'till a known and lasting Repentance if a pious and conscientious Man he should be tolerated tho' never so erroneous in his Speculations Those that adhered to some Sect of which there were some Congregation within or near the Parish should be obliged to learn their Principles well and particularly the common Principles of Religion to be able to give a good account of them they should be obliged to fix upon some Congregation of which they should be Members to frequent constantly the publick Worship in the said Congregation and the Officers of that Congregation should be bound to give an account of those Persons to the Parish-Officers of the National Church that if they gave not attendance to or behaved not themselves well in their Congregation they might be accordingly punished Those that are Members of the National Church should be obliged to frequent it constantly No Parish should be larger than to be able to contain all the Parishioners in the Church with ease and the Church should lie the most convenient in the middle of the Parish There should be publick Worship in every Church constantly four times a day every day of the Year and every Parishioner should be present to the publick Worship twice a day constantly otherwise he should first be subject to the Church-Censures and should be admonished openly in the Church and sinally if he repented not after warning he should be sined by the Civil Power as a scandalous and obnoxious Person It were a shame for Christians to plead Occupations to excuse them from worshipping God publickly one half hour twice a day or to offer any Plea for not using a short Prayer in their Families particularly when they receive God's Creatures when Jews and Turks when in their own Countries would blush to shew so little Devotion But it is yet a greater and more burning shame that among Christians there should be millions of Men that are ignorant of the first Elements of Christianity and are not taught to give one Reason why they should be of the Christian Religion I would therefore that Protestants should be constantly Catechised publickly or privately all the year round 'till they were thirty years of Age or knew their Religion well and were able to give a good account of it not by Rote but by Reason and Discourse Custom would make it easie to them There should be several sorts of Catechisms printed and used not only for the youngest Children but some also for more aged Persons where the Prooss of Natural Religion of the Resurrection of Christ and the Truth of Christianity were clearly taught And they should have Discourses read to them in an exact order upon all the Duties of Religion and all the parts of Virtue upon the Creed the Lord's Prayer and the Decalogue the 5th 6th and 7th Chapters of St. Mathew 1 Cor. 13 c. Preachers generally preach upon arbitrary Subjects without Order or Regularity so that a Preacher shall have lived ten years in a Parish without having explained to his Auditors one half of their Duties commonly contenting himself to exhort them to Obedience in general in every Discourse whereas they should understand well every Command which they ought to obey and should have represented to them the several Considerations and Motives to Obedience necessary as to every particular I would therefore that the Book of the whole Duty of Man and the best Books that should be printed from time to time upon all the Parts of Religion should be read in an exact Order one after another in every Church every Lord's Day in the Afternoon And then as for the morning Exercise it might be left to the Parish-Minister to chuse what Subject he would enlarge upon There are several Points

my Wife and Children my Brothers and Sisters to go plain as the Quakers to see no Company but what I liked to forbear playing at any Game Dancing at least with Persons of different Sexes c. I would oblige them to keep such hours in the House as I thought best to receive no Visits before two nor after six of the Clock in the Afternoon and not to make the Business of Visits to consist in eating and drinking without need to accustom themselves to instruct their Servants exactly in the Christian Religion and to take delight in a grave and useful Conversation I would make them promise that in case I succeeded and gave them a considerable Sum they should not alter this way of living they should not use any Ostentation they should not consume their abundance in keeping a dainty Table they should not give any Liveries to any Servant they should educate their Children and oblige them to live after the same way bringing them up plainly without any Vanity and Superfluity accustoming them to serve others using them to work and labour and causing them to learn some Trade that they might not altogether depend upon their Estate but might be able in case of necessity to live of themselves they should teach them to fear God to love other Men as their Fellow-Creatures and to have always before their Eyes that all Men in most respects are equal without which there can be no Charity But in the first place I would make them oblige themselves that they should not enquire nor seek to know what I did and in case they hapned to perceive and discover the least thing or any part of it that they should ever keep it inviolably secret And in fine I would make many useless Operations and work often upon some wrong Matters purposedly to blind and to try them Cit. But what if you were to work with some Partners Phil. I would not chuse for that young and undiscreet Persons nor would do like some People who tell every Body what they design to go upon because they hope they may be a little helpful to them these Men how erroneous soever their Fancies be are as much guilty as if they had prostituted and made publick the Elixir for that which they divulge may be the way to make it for ought they know They should consider how enormous and of what fatal consequence is their Guilt and that they shall be answerable to God for all the Mischiefs that may ensue They should not forget how much secresie Adepts require I wish they knew what I have been told That an Adept not long since addressing himself to a Person in Town to whom he shewed his Powder offered to communicate to him the Secret on no other condition than that he should sacredly promise to chuse to die rather than reveal to any Body the least thing concerning it about which the other making some difficulties the Adept left him and taught him nothing They might remember what honest and pious Daulton did He said Lord Jesu blessed Thou be Methinks I have been too long from Thee A Science Thou gavest me with full great charge Which I have kept without out-rage I found no Man yet apt thereto To be mine Heir when I am go Wherefore sweet Lord now I am fain To resign this Thy Gift to Thee again Norton giveth a reason of this Secresie This Sience must ever secret be The cause whereof is this as ye may see If one evil Man had hereof all his Will All Christian Peace he might hastily spill And with his Pride he might pull down Rightful Kings and Princes of Renown Wherefore the Sentence of Peril and Jeopardy Vpon the Teacher resteth dreadfully Thus we see Sir George Ripley making these Conditions with Edward IV. the which probably were never agreed unto That to your self ye shall keep it full secretly And only it use as may be to God's Pleasure c. Thomas Charnock had these Terms offered and imposed upon him by his Master Will you with me to morrow be content Faithfully to receive the blessed Sacrament Vpon this Oath that I shall here you give For ne Gold ne Silver as long as you live Neither for love you bear towards your Kin Nor yet to no great Man Preferment to win That you disclose the Secret that I shall you teach Neither by Writing nor by no swift Speech The like Caution should be used with all Partners in the work in case any were taken and such Counsels and Exhortations as those of Bloomfield should be often given them to persuade them to Moderation and confirm them in all Piety and Vertue Be you Holy therefore Sober Honest and Meck Love God and your Neighbour to the Poor be not unkind Overcome Satan God's Glory see you seek My Son be gentle to all Men as a Friend Fatherless and Widow have alway in thy Mind Th' innocent love as Brothers the wicked eschew Let Falshood and Flattery go lest thou it rue Devoutly serve God call daily for his Grace Worship him in Spirit with Heart contrite and pure In no wise let Satan thy Prayers deface Look thou be stedfast in Faith and trust most sure Lay up Treasure in Heaven which ever shall endure These Words of Isaac Holland in his Work of Saturn should also be often remembred If God give you this Stone look diligently to it that you keep your self from offending God that you make not this Stone on Earth to be your Heaven govern and rule your self to God's Glory and to the Comfort of poor People that God's Praise may be augmented to the Defence of the Christian Religion and to the Relief of poor exil'd Christians I tell you My Child if you use it otherwise God will leave you here a little while to your own Will but afterwards he will speedily send a Punishment either you shall be struck dead or die by a Fall or die some other sudden death and go Body and Soul to Hell and be damned eternally And in another place Do not undertake this Divine Work if you find your self in deadly Sins or that your Intent be otherwise than to God's Glory and to perform those Things which I taught you before I tell you truly you may see the Work but I am certain you shall never accomplish it not enjoy it God will order it so one Disaster or other will happen After all things ought to be so ordered by a skilful Artist that his Partners or Fellow-Work-men if he take any may know little or nothing of the Process and be bound upon Oath never to work separately from him in this Art nor to communicate any manner of ways to any Person any thing they shall discover or shall think to have discovered of his Process that is of his manner of working or of the Materials he worketh upon Cit. If there was no such thing as the Philosopher's Stone as I know not whether there be yet I find