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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86571	Inclosure thrown open: or, Depopulation depopulated. Not by spades and mattocks; but, by the word of God, the laws of the land, and solid arguments. And the most material pleas that can be brought for it, considered and answered. / By Henry Halhead.	Halhead, Henry.	1650 (1650)	Wing H284; Thomason E619_2; ESTC R206364	16,888	23

which God himself hath promised to devise an evil against as more at large shall appear God willing And to the end it may appear in its colours I pray you take some paines to let the State know how many men women and children horse beast and sheep swine and pullen have been usually maintained upon such Villages and Towns and Houses of Husbandry now decayed which by proportion you may know counting how many Plow-land there where and how many do usually go with a Plow That so the number being guessed at the Parliament may see the mighty decay there hath been and is in this Land that their hearts may be wrought upon And you may and ought to complain for there is none that can better tell where the shooe pincheth then those that weare it And they are your mouthes in Parliament the highest Court of Justice in the Land who ought to seek your good and keep you from Tyranny and Oppression And if by this lawful meanes you can finde no redress do not Murmure nor Muteny against God or them But silently sit down and waite upon God who hath promised For the oppression of the poor and the sighing of the needy he will arise and set at liberty those whom the wicked have snared For be you well assured that if help come not by these lawful meanes and wayes God will send help and deliverance another way And then let those Oppressours with their houses and posterity look to it If thou seest the oppression of the poor and violent perverting of jugdment and justice in a Province marvel not at the matter for he that is higher then the highest regardeth and there be higher then they Moreover the profit of the earth is for all the King himself is served by the field that is tilled Yet through the extream wickedness of man who hath perverted the course of Almighty God the inferiour creature comes to be preferred above man who is made after the Image of God Which is a sin of a very high nature all the Prophets crying out of it and denouncing fearful woes against it For God tenders the good of his people now as well as ever he did before-time He calls the house of Israel his Vineyard and the men of Judah his pleasant plant he looked for judgment but behold oppression for righteousness but behold a cry And is it not so in our dayes And as then the Lord did by his Prophet denounce woes against the oppression of those times even so doth he now against all the oppressions of these times for the righteous Lord hates and abhorres all manner of Violence Cruelty and Oppression as much now as ever he did Furthermore God would have men grow increase and multiply replenish the earth and subdue it But the Oppressors of our times do what in them lieth to diminish men women and children by whom God is honoured and the Common-wealth sustained And therfore The Lord is risen up and standeth to plead for his people and to judge their cause He will enter into judgment with the ancients of the people and the Princes thereof for they have eaten up the Vineyard and the spoile of the poor is in their houses And the Lord will know what they mean in dealing so with his people Vers 15 What mean ye that ye beat my people to peeces and grinde the faces of the poor saith the Lord of hosts Much like to the times wherein we live Also in her skirts is found the blood of the soules of the poore Innocents Looke to the end of the Chapter The kings of the earth and all the inhabitants of the world would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy should have entered into the gates of Jerusalem Yet For the sinnes of the Prophets and the iniquities of the Priests that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her it was done Therefore let none of us make to our selves any vain confidences or put our trust in any arme of flesh or the strongest Fortifications that can be made by any of the sonnes of men For Jerusalem was a famous City and very strongly fortified so that it would hardly have been believed that that should have befallen it that did But we see as aforesaid that for the sinnes of the Prophets and for the iniquities of the Priests the Lord laid it waste And it is further shewed concerning those Rebellious children spoken of in the 30 Chapter of Isaiah that strengthened themselves in the strength of Pharaoh and trusted in the shadow of Egypt The Lord saith by his Prophet Vers 8 Now go write it before them in a Table and note it in a book that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever That this is a rebellious people lying children children that will not hear the Law of the Lord And that their downfall will be sudden like a swelling wall Read also from this Chapter to the 31 32 and 33. where it is declared in vers the 14 who shall be surprized with feare and those are there said to be Hypocrites And also who shall stand in the trying-time which the Scripture there holds forth to be Godly men by this Signe He that walketh righteously and speaketh uprightly he that despiseth the gain of oppressions that shaketh his hands from holding of Bribes that stoppeth his eares from hearing of blood and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil It is said of him verse the 16 He shall dwell on high his place of defence shall be the munitions of rocks bread shall be given him his water shall be sure Lay not wait O Wicked man against the dwelling of the Righteous spoile not his resting place Remove not the old Land-mark and enter not into the field of the fatherless for their Redeemer is mighty he shall plead their cause FINIS Gen. 6.13 Isa. 58.12 Psal. 12.5 Eccle. 5.8 Vers 9. Isa. 5.7 Isa. 59.14 15. Isa. 3.13 14 15. Ier. 2.34 Lament. 4.12 13. Isa. 30.1 2 c. Isa. 33.14 Vers 16.