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church_n	day_n	lord_n	sabbath_n	19,256	5	10.0267	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B08981	A sharp arrovv darted against the anabaptists, &c. being an apology, or defence of the visible church upon Earth, and an objection to all such persons as doe rebaptize men and women, and against being covered at the divine exercise of preaching the word of God to the people, as also against those that deny to say the Lords Prayer / David Edmonds.	Edmonds, David, fl. 1652.	1652 (1652)	Wing E177B; ESTC R233358	12,532	20

service of his God and the duty that hee was to performe to the great charge under him then his second reason was if he should mary hee could not be a supporter to many of his friends which he was to divers of them nay he took more pains in his Calling to Preach the word of God in his two Parishes then any two Clergy men in the County of Glamorgan and for this man to bee thrust out of his Benefices and still to be kept from them t is great pity indeed for the rest of the former Clergy of the County of Glamorgan they be of age let them speak for themselves I should have made the fourth part of this weake and unworthy work which I have already penned that is concerning the Lords Prayer and against such persons as doe deny the saying of it loath I was to make description of it in regard that it is as it were the master piece of Christ Jesus his own words lest that God should be so offended with me as he did strike Uzzah for touching the Ark of the Covenant But upon a Sabbath day being the 19. of Sept. 1651. to heare one Mr. ELLIS make an Exposition on part of the Lords Prayer in the Church of Cardiffe the words thus Hallowed bee thy Name thy Kingdome come thy will be done in Earth as it is in Heaven where he sayd that people did tempt God to say the Lords Prayer why sayd he because the Angels and Saints in Heaven do pray and serve God perfect and we unperfect that is most true but I hold his and others coverture and debarment in it to bee to think it as it were a certaine imbecillity or weaknesse in our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ to command his Apostles to say it and that we should not imitate them to say it likewise Doth he or any other of the sons of men thinke that our Saviour Jesus Christ when he said thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven did meane that mortall men that are conceived and borne in sinne and all their dayes live in sinne and altogether polluted with corruption and uncleannesse can execute the good will of the Father as well as those celestiall Saints and Seraphins that do dayly and hourely reape the fruition of the heavenly Deity and habituall society with Almighty God no no the meaning of our Saviour Jesus Christ was that the sons and daughters of men should doe their best endeavour to execute his will and pleasure upon earth and that which they should be defective in the rest should be supplyed out of his blessed merits for Zacharias and Elizabeth were said to walke in all the Commandements of the Lord no question but they both one time or other had abridged the Lords Commandements but such lapses were not attributed unto them why because they did their best endeavour to execute the will of their God for God requires no more at our hands but to do our best to serve him in uprightnesse of hearts and willingnesse of spirits and the defects as be are to be supplyed out of the blessed merits of Jesus Christ and withall I shall conclude this sentence with the words of that sweet singer of Israel David the King he knoweth whereof we are made he remembreth we are but dust 'T is true the both Evangelists do not concurre or agree in the writing of the Lords prayer the one hath it when ye pray pray ye thus verbatim word by word the other hath it when ye pray pray ye as thus and in these times those that debarre it followe neither for why we should either say it word by word as the one hath it or else take it as a modell or as it were a Text to pray by it for assuredly our Saviour did not speake it vainely but that either of the both should be followed in it nay he much disdained the vaine babblings and long prayers of the Scribes and Pharisees and comprehended the prayers of his servants in this short prayer Our Father c. and did compose it to six Petitions the first three for the glory of God the other three for the necessity of man and the best Divine in this Land may preach a whole twelvemonth twise every Sabbath day and perhaps not consumate or end all the Doctrine of this good and godly Prayer I could have made this Booke three times as long but as far as I am called to be a Christian though a great sinner I hope I have declared my selfe to God and the world of and concerning the principles of my tenents in Religion in these foure things and whoso will question me for it for I shall think my selfe happy to sacrifice my bloud in the quarrell of my Lord and Master Jesus Christ that spared not his sacred hearts bloud for my redemption from the thraldome of Satan that old enemy of mankinde that still goeth about the world like a roaring Lion seeking whom hee may devour Great bloudshedding the more the pitty hath beene in this Land of and concerning such differences as are now between Mr. ELLIS and my selfe Counsell what we may fight about it as long as we please we are all proclaimed in the word of God to be unprofitable servants the proudest of us all and it will be one day said unto us give account of your Stewardships you shall be no longer Stewards who shall end this controversie between Mr. ELLIS and my selfe shall the Commissioners of Array end it no I challenge them for they did imprison me for nineteen weekes and foure dayes in Cardiffes Goale for my affection to the noble Parliament and the Army and gave away my meanes 100l per annum to one Major WINSOR a ranke Papist shall the Gentlemen that beare the rule and the sway now in the County of Glamorgan end it no I challenge some of them likewise for they did me greater wrongs then the Commissioners of Array have done me formerly but for my owne part I shall rest my selfe contented about such injuries untill my Redeemer comes in the aire in the very Clouds themselves to judge both quick and dead and then if I shall not obtaine mercy at the sweet hands of my Saviour I shall be sure to have justice administred to this my tired soule upon earth I have had neither of them both here below I am sure of it Then there will be no Bishop favouring Popery no Mechanicke Tradesman preaching Heresie no Lawyer pleading nor no Attorny prating for the dissolution of the vast world and all that is therein wil be like the unrowling of an Exchequer Writ when that it is fully opened it roules it selfe up againe and the Judiciary Sentence is ready for us all Come ye Blessed and go ye cursed yea and happy will that servant be when that his Master commeth he shall finde to be watchfull for he shall receive that comfortable Benediction Euge bone serve well done good and faithfull servant thou hast been faithfull in a little be thou ruler over much enter thou into thy Masters joy To the which joy of our Lord and Master Iesus Christ make us all to be partakers To whom as is most meet be ascribed all Honour Glory Might Majesty Dominion and Thanksgiving both now and for evermore Amen FINIS

Bethshemites slaine for looking unreverently upon the Ark of the Covenant and Uzzah was strucken dead by the hand of the Lord for but touching the Ark as you may read Chron. 13. 9. 10. And when they came to the threshing floor of Chidon Uzzah put forth his hand to hold the Arke for the Oxen stumbled And the anger of the Lord was kindled against Uzzah and he smote him because hee put his hand to the Arke and there he died before God The Preacher is the Ark of the Covenant of the New Testament and when hee preaches unto us of Gods judgements wee should then pray in our hearts to divert those judgements from us and when he treats and speaks of Gods mercies we should then pray in our hearts to participate of those mercies you shall finde it in one place that S. Paul writes that it is a shame for a woman to bee uncovered in the Church as much as if the same Apostle had sayd that it is a shame for a man to be covered in the Church therefore I beseech all those that love God and the true Reformation of the Church of God to reform this enormous abuse lest wee should any further be evill spoken of and derided by Turks Papists Pagans and Infidels that are not enspired to make recognition of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ lest that their blind wayes should at the last day rise up in judgement against us for assuredly unlesse that this and other abuses that are now committed in the Church of God bee amended we shall be in great danger to bee those or like those that the Apostle Peter writes of 1. Pet. 5. the two last verses It had beene better for you never to have known the way of truth then to know it and turne from it For ye shall bee like a dog that turns againe to his owne vomit or like a sow that is washed in the River and goes wallowing againe in the mire I can in no wise bridle my tongue from speaking nor with-hold my hand from writing of the wrongs that are now done unto certaine Clergy men that taught and preached the Gospel in precedent times yet let no man conjecture that I by no meanes doe write of their sides in generall for I know abundance of them would not bee contented to walke upon the Battlements of the Church but did mount themselves up to the turrets of civill policy that did nothing belong unto them Some of them have been responsall for it before men already and suffered and therefore I shall conclude of such persons with the old Proverb which sayes de mortibus nil nisi bonum of the dead nothing but good I take God to Reco●d my Lord Generall CROMVVELL as his Excellency was going for Ireland upon the walls of Tenbigh told the Gentlemen there about him I cannot perceive sayes he but this man is of the selfe same Religion as my selfe is of meaning my selfe For my owne part I shall sooth no man be he ever so great if his Excellency do agree to extirpe out of the Vineyard all the Clergy in times past his Excellency is as wide from my tenents in Religion as the East is from the West but methinks as many of them should be thrust out of the Vineyard as had evill will at Sion and none of the rest for to put them all out we have no such warant neither out of the Old nor the New Testament for in the Old Testament we read that in the last request of Abraham to God for Sodome and Gomorrah if there sayes God be ten righteous persons in those two Cities I will not destroy it for the tens sake But there was found there but one righteous Lot and for that one righteous man God had provided a Zoar a City of refuge during the time that the Lords anger was kindled against those two great Cities in destroying of them with fire and Brimstone from his Celestiall habitation And now it should seeme that in a small measure his Majesty is offended with certaine men that he called to be his Ministers and especiall Members of his Church but it cannot be that all the Clergy in times past could be culpable of adhering to Popery or the like and in this fire from Heaven which is the Lords small anger or his small deluge emerging the former Clergy men if there I say be but one amongst them that can say and prove himselfe not guilty where is his Zoar or any City of refuge Elias a great Prophet and a chosen of the Lord desired of the Lord that he might be taken away from amongst the children of men saying they have killed thy Prophets c. and I onely am left and they seeke my life also in answer to Elias God saies I have reserved seven thousand chosen men in Israell that have not bended their knees to Baal It should seeme by those words though Eliah had the inspiration of Gods spirit in him in a high nature yet hee did not know the mentall reservations of all men and women towards their God in Israel And so according to morall reason that the noble Estates of the Land doe not know of every particular wrong that is now done to some of the former Clergy men every vessell should stand upon its owne bottome why because there is so much Drunkennesse must there be no wine nor strong drink and because there is so much Leachery must there be no women God forbid Now I prove that those Clergy men heeretofore that had not a hand to bring in Popery into the Church of God neither did in no wise intend to quench or put out the light of the Gospel but behaved themselves reverently and prudently in their vocations ought not to be put out of their Benefices nay if they had committed some faults yet they ought not to bee put and thrust out of the Vineyard in this kind for one particular fault for why let some of the sons and daughters of men but think with themselves ●hat if God in the dreadfull day of judgement should deale with us as we deale heere below one with another what would become of us assuredly wee should goe on the left hand with the Goats Goe ye cursed c. Concerning the remission that many of the former Clergy men should have to prove it We read that our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ when he came into the Vineyard and there found a Tree that bare no fruit he bad the Vineyard dresser cut it down why cumbreth it the ground Nay sayes the Vineyard dresser I will entrench and dig about it one yeer more wee doe not read that our Saviour did contradict the Vineyeard dresser in that busines For one particular man a Clergy man one Mr. FRANCIS DAVIES of Llangaine in the County of Glamorgane in Wales a man that would never hear of Mariage his reason was lest the care of a wife and children should in part take him off from the