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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A82014	The humble petition or remonstrance of Rich: Day of Eton neer Windsor, to the Parliament of the Common-wealth of England. I. For the repairing of the decay of wood and timber. II. For the planting of an able preaching ministry throughout the land. III. For the working of the works of mercy and charitie: and for an act against the pride of apparell.	Day, Richard, of Eton.	1652 (1652)	Wing D470; Thomason E668_4; ESTC R206968	8,683	14

There is nothing dearer to God then his sacred Word and the saving of soules for which the Son of God was incarnate and suffered shame reproach and a cruell death Now when once the true Religion is established in a Nation the planting and propagating of it is of all religious causes the next in order by the necessity of just consequence For otherwise we make our selves unworthy of so great a benefit and at length we hazard the losse of it As for this our Nation it hath abounded in wealth and peace heretofore and that of a very long time together through the great and rich blessing of God upon it Wherefore it is much to be lamented that in all that peaceable time a pious learned Ministery hath not been planted and setled throughout the Land as it might and ought to have been For this cause especially as I in my conscience am perswaded is the wrath of God incensed and stirred up against the Land Other sins there are very great and many even a multitude and heape of them But the neglect and contempt of the Word of God in this kinde overthroweth all in the foundation Under correction it may seeme to overthrow the ground of publick proceeding in the late lamentable warre Which I could declare more particularly if I thought it convenient Sure I am if we refuse to plant our own and the onely true Religion when God giveth time and meanes to doe it our consciences if we aske them will tell us that we doe altogether deserve to be plagued with the contrary It is Gods exceeding great mercy forbearance that the true Protestant Religion which we praise and professe is not utterly taken from us a good while agoe and the Antichristian placed and set up in the roome thereof Wee have wanted neither time nor means to do the will of God in this kinde but we have wanted love and good will to stirre us up thereunto If we have found and known the sweetnes of the Word of God in our selves and for our own particulars how is it that we have not earnestly sought to communicate it to others When thou art converted sayth he convert thy Brother It is extreame cruelty thus to neglect the soules of our Brethren and Neighbours which ought to be as deare unto us as our owne He liveth not the life of a Christian but a dead dull uncomfortable being he hath in this world whatsoever he is that enjoyeth not the benefit of the word of God duely preached taught in the dayes of solemne Assemblies I meane the Sabbath dayes in the publique Churches according to the Ordinance and appointment of God There is nothing under heaven that may be compared to the benefit thereof It is the ease and release of all weekly labour all worldly sorrow misery and trouble And in some degree it is a lively representation of the Kingdome of heaven where the Psalme-singers the holy Saints and Angells are filled with unspeakable joy gladnesse by their continuall beholding of the glorious presence of God and giving him thankes and praises As it is written in the booke of the Psalmes In thy presence is the fulnesse of joy and at thy right hand there is pleasure for evermore I will shortly conclude this point with a briefe recicall of that which was uttered at the Councell or rather the Conspiracy of Trent It is well knowne that that Councell was packt and plotted for the Pope Neverthelesse there were divers grave learned judicious and religious men convened therein and no great favourers of the Pope Amongst whom the Bishop of Toledo sitting as Ambassadour for his Maister the King of Spaine spake thus I have heard it often said that if there were yet but one soule to be saved supposing that the propitiation for sins were not throughly made as it is Christ would descend againe and suffer Wherefore quoth he I marvaile with what Conscience the Pope can give himselfe any rest having the cure of so many Churches lying upon him and no course taken to discharge the same Thus spake he according to the common error and opinion of the deluded Princes and people of those times as touching the unlimited power and jurisdiction of the Pope over all Churches The application whereof were easie to be made in regard of those many desolate and unprovided Churches in this our Land but I omit it for brevity sake humbly referring it to all pious prudent serious and religious consideration For the longer that this matter is deferred the more pernitious it is to the State God never yet left the contempt of his holy word and the holy Ministery thereof unrevenged nor never will From hence I shall humbly crave leave to descend to the third and last particular which I had in mine intention to have proposed to the said late King that is to say for the working of the works of mercy and charity towards the poore in a magnificent sort answerable to his regall estate and in some degree to the exigency of the people For otherwise as for the distributing of small summes of money at certaine times we know there was an ordinary course setled in the office of the Kings Almoner About a yeare or two agoe I heard of somewhat that was intended by the Parliament to be done in this kinde within the Citie of London Which gives me the greater encouragement to speake and treate of the matter here I would not presse this duty to the present State in these so chargeable times but that I know most assuredly how it may be most easily and conveniently performed notwithstanding any taxes or payments now already imposed upon the people or ever likely to be imposed It may be done in a privative way in a positive In this place I shall onely insist upon the privative for the encrease of the workes of charitie by substracting and taking away from the works of superfluitie vanity and overflowing wickednesse My most humble and earnest request now therefore is that a strong permanent Act may be framed and put forth against the pride of apparell As I conceive it the pride of this Land will be the destruction thereof if it be not timely repressed It is so excessive that I suppose the divine justice of God cannot beare it Let not my fancy or folly be objected against me in this case but let the matter be examined by the Word of God which is the rule of truth In the third Chap. of the Prophecy of Isaiah there is a particular enumeration and recitall of those proud fashions and gestures which were used among the Israelitish women in those dayes If any man should goe about to doe the like among us as the Prophet doth there he would seeme to trifle and to deale absurdly and ridiculously But the Spirit of God doth not trifle neither is any Word of God idle or vaine If any man should doubt whether the eye and observation of God were