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christian_n	day_n	observe_v	sabbath_n	4,146	5	9.8777	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96594	Seven treatises very necessary to be observed in these very bad days to prevent the seven last vials of God's wrath, that the seven angels are to pour down upon the earth Revel. xvi ... whereunto is annexed The declaration of the just judgment of God ... and the superabundant grace, and great mercy of God showed towards this good king, Charles the First ... / by Gr. Williams, Ld. Bishop of Ossory.	Williams, Gryffith, 1589?-1672.	1661 (1661)	Wing W2671B; ESTC R42870	408,199	305

that the Herodians are his bitter enemies and do intend to kill him and therefore he should do wisely to convey himself out of their reach But of every such Pharisee Cum tibi dicit Ave tanquam ab hoste Cave 5. For their observation of the Sabbath they are so zealous or rather superstitious that the Disciples must not pick an ear of corn and put it in their mouth to asswage their hunger nor Christ speak a word to heal a lame or a blind man on that day without danger of a C●uncell to be severely censured and we read that if a barrell or vessel of wine leakt and run out on the Sabbath they would rather suffer the same to be all spilt then stop it on that day and Stow writes it in his Chronicle that one of them dwelling in the Old Jury in London happened to fall into a Privie upon the Saturday which was and is their Sabbath day and he refused to be pluckt out because he would not have his neighbour to prophane the Sabbath and his neighbour being a Christian denied to help him out on the Sunday which is the Christian Sabbath saying If thou art so precise to observe thy Sabbath I will be as zealous for my Sabbath and before the Munday he was stifled with the ill savour of his lodging So religious were these Saints in their superstition so fair in their outward holinesse of fasting praying and hearing Sermons exceeding all other men so far as Religion seems to exceed prophanenesse But he that is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the searcher of all hearts and seeth the secrets of all thoughts tells us plainly they were but meer hypocrites appearing unto men like silly sheep but were indeed ravening Wolves that devoured widowes houses and plundered all their poor neighbours not leaving to many of them bread to put into their childrens mouthes under the colour of their long prayers and the pretence of Zeal and Religion this is the very truth of the matter How mighty these hypocrites increased in number in power and authority And yet these wicked men these holy hypocrites by their dissembling and faigned holinesse grew so great both in number and power that they soon over-spread the whole land and became as it were the only Oracles of the people and their faction ruled upon the matter not only the City of Jerusalem but almost all the land of Jury so farre that as Josephus saith Herod himself was afraid to displease them they had so infinitely bewitched the people with the opinion of their knowledge in the Scripture and their zealous profession that nothing was thought well done but what they did or approved of as it appeareth by that question unto the Officers Have any of the Rulers or of the Pharisees believed on him But let such hypocrites go on in their hypocrisie John 7.48 ●●arth 5.20 and let them be deceived that will believe them it is not these outward shewes of holinesse and shadows of Religion that pleaseth God who is not mocked as the Apostle speaketh but requireth truth in the inward parts as the Psalmist saith and therefore tells us and we may believe him that except our righteousnesse exceed the righteousnesse of the hypocrites that do but deceive the world and bewitch the simple people we shall in no wise enter into the Kingdom of heaven 2. 2 The Scribes The next Sect that were most sedulous to betray Christ and to murder their King were the Scribes such as were the continual Writers not of Bills and Bonds Like our Presbyterians in dependants and Lay-Preachers as our Scriveners do but of the Holy Scriptures and therefore they pretended that they alone had the perfect knowledge and understanding of the same consequently that they alone were the only people of God all the rest no better or but little better then cast-aways so censorious were these scribling gnosticks But if you would examin their Exposition you should find that praeter falsitatem hypocrisin uihil habent they were such Interpreters of the Scripture as Hogs are dressers of Vines and when they stuffe their impertinent discourses with more impertinent Texts of Scripture 2 pet 3.16 they do but as Peter saith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 wrest it and pervert it and as the word implies deal with it as Shoemakers do with their Leather stretch it and tear it oft-times with their teeth when it is so that of it self it cannot reach to fit their purpose And truly the Church of God never wanted such Scribes in every place Tertullian saith credunt Scripturis ut credant adversus Scripturas they alledge Scriptures to overthrow the Scriptures and no Scripture shall be believed but as themselves interpret it and to give you a taste of their Expositions 1. When the Prophet Joel saith Your sons and your daughters shall prophesie Joel 2.28 they will justifie their Revelations and their speciall inspiration of Gods Spirit when as the Prophet meant it only of the Apostles and the immediate disciples of our Saviour 2. When the Prophet Hosea saith The children of Israel shall remain without King Hos 3.4 and without Prince many dayes this is a sufficient proof they shall be independent from all Government but their own and therefore being thus inspired by the lying spirit they were earnestly set on to kill their King and to abjure their Prince that they might still continue Independents without any regal Government 3. When Obadiah saith Thy mighty men O Teman shall be dismaid to the end that every one of the Mount of Esau may be cut off by slaughter Obadiah v. 9. Malach. 4.2 3. and Malachy saith To you shall arise the Sun of righteousnesse and you shall tread down the wicked as ashes under your feet this is a sufficient warrant to destroy all Malignants and to root them out of the world as the enemies of Gods people which they say are themselves and none else 4. Esay 61.6 When the Prophet Esay saith You shall eat the riches of the Gentiles and in their glorie shall you boast your selves this is a good warrant for them that take all the wealth and possession of their malignant neighbours they need no more but take them and seize upon them and never call them to answer Whether they have offended the Law and so forfeited their estates or not And is the world now free from such Scribes as do falsifie the sayings of the Apostles as these Jewish Scribes did the words of the Prophets No no for you may find many writings and Pamphlets of our Scribes that have most strangelie perverted the words of S. Paul Rom. 13.1 2 3. to cast off all Regall power and to establish the Democratical government and as peevishiy expounded the words of S. Peter to prove the lawfulnesse of deposing and decollating their Kings many more such Scriptures you may find perverted by our new-sprung Scribes if you cast your eye

beseech Your Majesty to give me leave to make that Remonstrance to the World which I hope no man can contradict as That I was Your Father's Chaplain and waited on His Majesty six or seven years at least in the Moneth of December and when the Wars began though my ever honoured Lord and Master the Earl of Pembroke and Montgomery was mis-led contrary to his Childrens desire to adhere unto the Parliament which fault can no ways be excused though I could say very much to lessen it because I knew the Uprightness of that Noble Person that was hoodwinked by the Subtlety of his Adherents yet my self according to my duty stuck to his Majesty and perswaded some of his Children that were my Scholars to do the like and I wrote my first Book against the Parliament which is intituled The Grand Rebellion and being fetched by a Troop of Soldiers was carryed Prisoner to North-hampton where the Committee had The Grand Rebellion in their Hands and had not God most mercifully and very strangely turned away their eyes from looking on it to preserve me I looked for no other end then to be utterly ruined but the Lord preserved me and delivered me out of their hands and the next Winter being in Oxford I printed my Discovery of Mysteries or The Plots of the pretended Parliament to overthrow both Church and State and on that very day that I was preaching in Saint Marie's before the Parliament then sitting in Oxford the Soldiers from Northhampton came and plundred my house and all my Houshold-stuff and about eight milch Kine and all that I had in Abthorp where my Wife and Children resided and sequestred my Lands to the use of the Parliament yet this Breach could not break my Loyalty to my King or my Heart in my Body but by the next Winter after I had written my third Book intituled The Rights of Kings and the Wickednesses of the pretended Parliament c. And according to my poor Ability out of the Means I had from Wales I gave unto His Majesties own Hand every Winter for three years together the Testimony of my Loyalty and Affection to the uttermost of my Power and His gracious Majesty did like a most gracious King most favourably accept of that Mite which I offered Him as Sir Bryan O-Neal and others do very well know And when Major General Mytton came and subdued our Country of Wales though the Arch-Bishop of York was my singular good Friend and very earnestly perswaded me to submit unto the Parliament and to use his own words said that I should fare no worse then he did but should sail in the same Boat and so sink or swim and so be saved or destroyed together yet I answered that I would never trust them that they would be true to me that wrote so many Books against them when they were so false unto their King that had been so gracious unto them and therefore I went and gave ten pound to a Parliament Captain to let me pass into Ireland by a most desperate Attempt under the hands and through the Pikes of mine Enemies that would have destroyed me had they but known me and there how faithfully and freely I have often preached for Obedience to his Majesty and against both the Inglish Scottish and the Irish Rebels the most Honourable Duke of Ormond his Grace and all the rest of the Council at Dublin can sufficiently testifie And when the most noble Marquess could not possibly preserve Ireland any longer but was fain to yield it up unto the Parliament and I had the Benefit of the Articles of Ireland confirmed and allowed unto me under the Hands of all the Commissioners that signed them I was taken at Sea in my Passage into Wales and pillaged of all that I had my Books Goods Money and Cloaths to the full value of an Hundred Pounds and then coming to the Parliament for to have the performance of the said Articles one Scot since executed for a Traitour demanded if I wrote not The Grand Rebellion and the other Books that I had written against the Parliament and I confessing the truth he asked if I deserved not rather to have my head cut off then to have the benefit of any Articles so I was feign to make mine Addresse to Sir Thomas Fairfax who very honourably wrote two Letters which after I shewed them I got againe and do still keep them as a memorial of his just and great favour unto me one to the Committee of North-hampton who presently restored me to all the Lands I had in that County the other to the Committee of Anglesey who though they were my near Kinsmen and some of them descended from the House of Owen Tydder the Grand-Father of Henry the Seventh as well as my self yet very unjustly and unfriendly they denied to restore me to my Means in that County so that I was feign to make my second Address to his Excellencie Sir Thomas Fairfax who again as honourably as formerly wrote to Major General Mytton to put me into all my Possessions but before I could come to General Mytton Anglesey was revolted from the Parliament and besieged by Mytton and the Means of the Deanerie that belonged unto me was Alienated from the Church and taken quite away and so ever since I was forced to live upon less means then twenty pounds per annum though my ever honoured Lord the Earle of Pembrook and Mountgomery offered to procure me a Living in Lancashire worth 400. l. per annum so I would submit my self to the Parliament which with many thanks unto his Lordship for his favour I utterly refused and though other Bishops accepted and received each one 100. pounds a year from Mr. Henry Cromwell that offered the same very courteously unto me yet knowing how unjustly he had power to bestow it and how I should be fettered if I accepted it I refused to take it and resolved to accept of no Salarie Gratuity gift or Benevolence from any man to this very day but to be very well contented with the poor estate that God had left me and when as divers Royalists and other good Christians seeing my mean estate and considering my much Sufferings did offer me and sent unto me divers sums of Monies I refused them all and was faine before they left sending to me to desire them publikely in the Pulpit at Dublin to offer no more of their gifts and benevolence unto me for whose love and good will I did most heartily thank them because I Preached not in expectation of any reward but resolved to refuse the same in hope that they would the rather beleive the truth of my Doctrine as I thank God I saw many of them did though many others were much offended with me so that I was forced to leave Dublin and so fell to my Prayeres and Studies more and more to discover The Great Anti-Christ comforting my self herein that if I was not mightily mistaken in