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city_n	great_a	part_n	town_n	5,791	4	6.1013	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95618	A lamentable representation of the effects of the present toleration. Especially as to the increase of blasphemy and damnable errours by the liberty of teaching and printing of them, to the great damage of religion, and the provoking the Lord Jesus to destroy the present government, and to inflict ruine and desolation upon these nations. Together with a proposal of some good work for Christian legislators. Humbly laid at the feet of His Highness the Lord Protector, and every member of the High Court of Parliament. / By a friend of true reformation, and his native countrey.	U.T.	1656 (1656)	Wing T64; Thomason E891_5; ESTC R203702	18,662	32

and Promises yea compelled to hear and set themselves to learn that so their minds may be better exercised and through Gods blessing their hearts wrought upon to be both good Christians and good Subjects And for ill manners Who are the unruly crue that have no command over either their tongues or hands and that put the Magistrate to such great trouble to keep men from ruining each other but untaught people for the most part What a vast charge do such people put the Land too to keep them quiet and the innocent from being wronged by them Whereas if all persons were compelled to be under the rule of some good Teacher or other How easily might as we may hope through Gods blessing one quarter of the Magistrates and Officers of the Land that are govern the people or the same number that are govern them with one quarter of the trouble Oh that these miserable men were more pi●ied than they are Many have taken compassion on the poor Indians in New-England and with the concurrence of the Magistrate do use means for their conversion a blessed work that deserves the praiers and furtherance of all Gods people and must the ungodly Christians of Old-England be neglected and cast off the mean time Are those Indians more dear to us then the men of our own Land and of our own bloud and bone The Lord put it into the hearts of all the Lords people both Magistrates Ministers and others to pity poor ignorant ungodly ones as well as take care of those that are religious thereby will God be honoured souls saved the Land blessed themselves comforted when they shall perceive how God hath enlarged their hearts desire after the advancement of the Kingdom of Jesus Christ our Lord Amen An Humble Proposal of the Remedies of the forementioned evils and some more good work for a Parliament That Laws may be made I. AGainst speaking or printing the Blasphemies mentioned in the Act of August 9. 1650. and in the Ordinance of May 2. 1648. which were chiefly made against the Blasphemies of the Ranters and Socinians II. Against the Blasphemies and Errors of the Quakers III. Against reviling the Ministry and Ordinances of the Gospel IV. Against the printing or publishing any Book or sheet in print at least Divinity that is not first Licensed by such fit men as by Authority shall be appointed for that end V. Against Ministers delivering the Sacrament to the grosly ignorant and scandalous To the Encouragement of the Ministry and furtherance of the Gospel I. By confirming the Ordinances of his Highness for the ejecting of scandalous and insufficient Ministers II. And the Ordinance for the dividing and joyning of Parishes where need is III. To impower some in every City and market-Market-Town in England where the common Tythe of the place is not sufficient to maintain the Ministry of the place to revise correct and augment the Parish-rols of the rates set upon each house for the Maintenance of Ministers that there may be an equality and a sufficiency and a standing Power to rate men according to their houses or estates by some Rule or other The Reasons of that motion are these 1. Most Parishes in London and other Market-Towns consisting of Merchants Shop-keepers and handy-craft Tradesmen who hold no Lands are sufficient easily to maintain a good Minister and many of them two or three or four the want is hearts or a Law to order it so 2. Many Parishes have through the Malignancy carelesness and death of their Officers quite lost their Tythe-Roll so that nothing can be recovered by Law 3. Where Tythe Rols are and can be proved ancient and good in Law yet there many houses upon new foundations are not assessed at all and many houses through the altering bigning and lessening of houses are very unequally rated insomuch that many houses of 10lb per annum are rated at more than other houses of 30lb per annum and many a man that is worth but a hundred or two of pounds in money debts and ware rated at as much as some others that are worth twice so many thousands of estate in the same kinde 4. By this means many very great Parishes may be divided into more Parishes and have means enough for Ministers to them so divided whereas now the means is but enough to maintain one 5. In one considerable City of this Nation and it 's probable it is so in many more Cities and market-Market-Towns there is no Tythe-Roll at all but all are at liberty to give any thing or nothing whereas if all were rated Then 6. A great part of the Augmentation-money which is a blessed Gift might be saved or disposed of to such other places that being Impropriate or otherwise unable to maintain a Minister are in great need of an Augmentation III. A Law to compel all persons whatsoever that are in health to hear two Sermons of Gods Word every Lords Day from some approved Preacher or other except such as shall be allowed by a Justices Licence to stay at home to dress meat or to look unto children or sick persons For surely God would have men compell'd to hear that Word whereby he useth to make men willing to be saved Oh blessed Severity that drives undone men and women to hear tenders of grace and mercy from an offended God that forces them from the very brink of Hell How can sinners believe in Christ unless they hear him preached Without knowledge the heart cannot be good and where there is no vision the people perish The Officers of the Army in their Letter from a general meeting at Jameses Jan. 28. 1652. to all the Souldiers of England Scotland and Ireland Profess That it is a duty very much incumbent upon them by all lawfull wayes and means to endeavour the procuring That the Gospel of Jesus Christ may be dispensed to all the people of this Commonwealth It was worthily said of them And no doubt but the Lord Protector and the Parliament do believe that the same duty is much more incumbent upon them I know they will say so The great Question is When may it be said that his Highness and the Parliament have by all lawful wayes and means endeavoured that all might hear the Gospel Is providing able pious Ministers all they can do I le tell a Story A godly Citizen of London took to be his Apprentise an ignorant prophane Lad out of the Countrey as void of Christ and grace and of divine knowledge as any Heathen His Master was very instrumental in procuring to the Parish where he lived a Spiritual Soul-searching Minister to his more than ordinary cost much hoping that God would bless it to the new moulding of his Servant he tels him what good means he had provided for him if he would go and make use of it and after he had gone once or twice alas poor boy his heart was opposite to such holy matter as preaching and praying so he would come