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A92204	The fiery change: or, Almighty God, his melting and refining of his people, purging out their drosse and drossy metals, making them like unto himself and to his Son who is the pure Word. Wherein is discovered, by the comparison of metals, how the visible church is corrupted, consisting of men of all degrees and conditions and how God hath begun to refine them: which have past in the world a long time for good metal: but now is discovering by fire. / By Robert Read.	Read, Robert, fl. 1653-1656.	1656 (1656)	Wing R440; Thomason E899_3; ESTC R206741	92,260	122

I had been undone Consider how fit this resemblance is Man is as drossy metall that must be melted refined and purified These metalls are all generated and bread in the earth and they are no way usefull or serviceable as they come forth of the earth but must passe through a strong blowing fire before they can be made perfect or usefull for the Artificer Even so it is with man being brought forth into this world he is not fit for any thing nor to have to do with his Maker untill he hath past through the fire that all the earthy disposition and incapable substance of drosse that fixeth to him be clean taken away A man canno● commune with his Maker nor offer any sacrifice to him as he is in nature untill he is new born he cannot enter all that earthinesse and drossinesse that is in the internall part must by fire be scummed cleared and utterly taken away and consumed hence it is that Saint John the Baptist saith John 3.3 I Baptise you with water but there is one that cometh after me who will baptize you with the Holy Ghost Matth. 3. and with fire the baptisme of fire is that that will be hereafter for the Whore sits upon the many waters and she is in discovering What is there in the world that is fit for use and service as it is brought forth Children are apt and prone to all evill and disobedience and do whatsoever is contrary to right if they be not educated taught corrected and instructed the naturall disposition must be subdued and kept under that the direction to a good demeanour may work upon them and they grow up into it Survey the whole creation and see where there is any thing that is fit in its body naturall by reason of its afaffixes to make use of before there is a change Corne canot be made into bread before it be threshed winnowed ground sifted and baked no flesh can be fit to nourish before it hath been ordered dressed by fire Trees cannot serve for building but they must be squared sawed and fitted stones must be hewed and so must all things that doth belong to meate and drink apparell and manufactory there must be a change of them or an abatement from them the earth it self canot yeeld forth fruits before it be tilled and manured Canst thou then Oh unbeleeving man conceive although thou art lord of the Creatures that thou art cleaner then other creatures canst thou approach neer to canst thou serve and obey thy Creatour in that nature of thine thou wast brought forth in before thou art cleansed purified purged melted plowed winnowed and sifted before thy self thy will wisdome understanding desires Psal 51.8 and all in that nature be dead and a new birth be witnessed that the broken bones may rejoyce over the dead body of sin which is called the old man because it is as old as thy self having all the parts of a man a head to imagine mischief and vanity to plot and contrive against his Maker a stiffe neck arms and hands full of oppression and guile and stretched out against the innocent feet swift to shed blood heels to kick against the law of God eares to hear folly eyes to behold vanity if this old man be not dead in thee and thou art not a new creature nothing that thou doest can be accepted thou mayest dream of a happinesse to be had when thou hast gotten an artificiall tongue like a newborne creature and art through education and thine own wisdome Esa 1. civilized in the outward garbe but if thy heart b● not changed thou art farre off from happinesse Judgement must passe over thee yea the fire of the Lord must burn out thy drosse or else thou wilt be miserable poor blinde and naked Thou must yeeld and submit thy self to thy God bring thy cursed nature to him there to be slain come willing y Psal 10. humble thy self under the mighty hand of God and he will exalt thee learn of thy Maker to know him and to beleeve in him that for the love of the world gave his onely begotten Son that they should not perish but obtaine through him everlasting life Thinke on this O man of the great love of God to thee what satifaction could the whole world give for the Redemption of one soul and hath Christ Jesus equall to God his Father purchased Redemption for the whole world and art thou so far from prising it that thou wilt not accept of it but think to live happie without change in thy naturall unclean unpurified and unrefined condition Consider in thy hought it to minde did thy Saviour Jesus Christ that be no robbery to be equall to God as it were un-God himself becomming man and suffering a shameful death to recover and Redeem thee and art thou so desperately wicked and so fool-hardy that thou wilt not unman thy self to be like God that is to say to put off thy will wisdome righteousnesse thy pride lust and carnall minde to be invested into a kingdom of righteousnesse peace and holinesse and to be made like unto Christ in whom all fulnesse dwels and to be in union and communion with the Father Let him that hath ears to hear hear what the Lord hath said Know ye not that Christ is in you except ye be reprobates and except your righteousnesse exceed the righteousnesse of the Scribes and Pharisees you cannot enter if you are the servants of sin your wages is death if you live after the flesh you shall die for they that are in flesh cannot please God for the wisdome of the flesh is death but the wisdom of the spirit is life and peace all that you can do in the raw unquoth earthy rough drossy vain darke uncircumcised unprepared and dead condition of nature though never so much beautified and adorned with art learning and outward wisdom and glory it is but hypocrisie we are onely Christians portraied and as it with a diamond if not right it is worth nothing and as in a picture if it be not to the life then it hath no regard so except we are really changed and metamorphosed from that we were borne in and are made like the Son of God we are not free from the law of sin and death but it hath power over us to eternall death Will the almighty God melt his people let them be of what sort soever in their outward callings either men of authority men of the world teaching men or mean men Then here Behold the great love of God unto you he will will melt you he will make you pliable tractable and vertible that what you cannot do your selves he will do for you Can the Leopard change his spots or the Blackmore his skin no more can a man change his nature of himself or by any power within himself but God onely is the changer of all Are his people Brasse Tin Iron and Lead such metalls

life Many will say What shall we we not pray when they neither know what God is nor what themselves are such as presume to pray without knowledge do break the command of God in taking his Name in vaine when the heart is not according to the tongue and sound yea when their Company or their Congregation agreeth not for there is the hater and the hated the oppressour and the oppressed the rich that cares not for the poor and the poor that curseth the rich What congregall prayer can there be in this mixture when mens hearts are one aginst the other The rich and the poor goes together but the Lord is the maker of them both he knows their hearts their ends in comming to publike places every sound noise is not a prayer then the Pharisee had been commended for his long one but it is the inward and deep sighings of the heart in the singlenesse thereof and being fervent We are commanded to pray continually and they that make long prayers are condemned being in ostentation as in publike congregations once or twice in a week and have little converse with God all the rest of the week be not deceived God is not mocked Whatsoever ye sow that shall ye reap Decipies alios verbis vultuque benigno Sed mihi jam notus dissimulator eris Be ashamed and stand amazed all ye that are under the great Light that God hath caused to shine forth in this Nation You will say that you are the people of God and that you know him but it appears by your actions that you know him not for a man to know a thing is to know the condition of it as to know a peece of coine To know God is another manner of businesse than the world makes it to know God is to have experience of him and of all his Attributes his Mercy his Love his Goodnesse his long suffering c. To know God in Christ is the true knowledge of him to be in Union and Communion with him to obey him love him and fear him to honour him and glorifie him this the world knoweth not for the world seeks its own Therefore many that do professe that they know God and in their works do deny him are not onely Heathens but they are worse then the heathens Cato for they say If there be a God he ought to be worshipped with a pure minde miserable is the condition of many that think it sufficient to have the bare name of a Christian and say Christ died for me and rose again for me and never felt the power of Christs death killing sin in them nor the vertue of his Resurrrection quickening and raising them to a new life that cannot witnesse a new birth a separation But live in the old nature and the old man of sin remaining still Deale plainely with your selves ye sons of men for the case doth require it do not lose your precious time here and say I hope to go to Heaven whereas you know not what heaven is neither are you fit for it for heaven is a Condition rather then a Local place and the heavenly condition stands not in outward things as to satisfie the flesh neither is it found any otherwise then in the Crosse here in this World but it doth appear in us by Peace of conscience and joying in the Holy Spirit of God being perfectly assured and having a firme testimony of our Resurrection being Adopted and made the Sons of God 1 John 1.3 and having fellowship with the Father and the Son Deceive not your selves but strive to enter in at the strait gate Go not the broad way of the Worlds profession but the strait and narrow way of the Crosse Deny your selves your own works your own righteousnesse and whatsoever pleaseth and agreeth with your own wills and wait at Wisdoms gate examining your selves whether you be not that that cleaves to the pure Metall and makes it the worse whether you are not the corrupt matter of Silver and not Silver it self if you be the corrupt matter if you be the drosse you must be purged out you must be spewed out if you come to the porch onely and go no further if you come not to the Holy of Holies you were better not come neer at all Psal 119.119 for the Lord will take away the wicked like drosse The Lord will not have to do with such corrupt impure and unclean matter Prov. 25.4 Take the drosse from the silver and there will proceed a vessell fit for the refiner when the Almighty God hath purged and purified the silver and ejected and cast out the drosse then there is a vessell for himself a temple for himself to dwell in for the Lords delight is in his Saints and among them and silver is as his Word is when it is refined Meddle not nor have to do with the most Holy and pure God upon any account living in your own wisdome wills and lust for it had been better for Cain that he had offered no Sacrifice then to account the best too good for God and to offer the worst better not to come to any Table then to the Table of the Devils the end of all Religion is to bring soules to God not to make a greater separation by it from God You were once a far off but now ye are made nigh by the Blood of Christ that onely brings us neer to God draw neer through his Blood and he will draw neer to us look to your hearts and to the issues of all exercises not what the exercise is but to what it tendeth for it is either life or death If you serve God in the flesh you shall have corruption and death for your reward if you live to the flesh you shall die but if through the Spirit you mortifie the deeds of the flesh you shall live God accepteth no sacrifice done in the flesh but as he is a Spirit most holy so he must be worshipped in Spirit and in Truth which was the Legacy Christ Jesus left with his Disciples when he left them We cannot come to the Lord with anything of our own to be acceped of him but what we come to him with must be his he heareth nothing but his own Spirit and that he wil not deny What saith Christ In vain do they worship me c. The Lord Esay 1. saith What have I to do with your Sacrifices and in the same first of Esaiah I hate your new Moons and your appointed feasts they are a burden unto me I am weary to bear them All the devices of men all their art all their invention proceeding onely from them in drawing neer to to God is nothing worth for it cannot but differ from the will of God in Gods worship the more of mans wisdom the lesse of Gods respect the more plainer and simplier we worship him the more hope of acceptance The ordinances of man or of any Churches

to the wedding now the dinner is ready make no worldly or flesh-pleasurable excuses get among the people of God into his Sanctuary stand not gazing about expecting happinesse without you by other ways and means than by the death of sin within you and a resurrection from that death of sin to a life of God within you for there are none saved by the report of Christs dying at Jerusalem and of his resurrection and ascension into Heaven but by the vertue and efficacie of it within them finding the powers of sin and darknesse by his death to be utterly vanquished within and a new creation a new life within Examine your selves and see whether you are yet still as you were born and brought forth into the world whether there be the same terrene thoughts affections 2 Cor. 13.5 and actions the same will and wisdom whether the old man be dead or no Thou maist by the light of Christ keep court within thine own self thou mayest Apprehend Arraign Try Judge and Condemn thy self that thou mayest be freed from the judgments of the Lord what is done by the light within thee is of and from the Lord and the judgement is his which passeth 1 Cor. 11 ●1 and delivereth thee from wrath Wilt thou then be tried in this court what thou art what thou dost deserve thou shalt cry out what have I done what am I become and what shal I do Thou shalt see thou hast offended a most gracious a most mercifull and a long suffring God That thou art a filthy a polluted defiled and a disobedient wretch and knowest not what to do running up and down in disquietnesse of minde not finding any comfort at all in any creature but wait in patience the Lord is nigh when thou thinkest he is farthest off in thine own apprehension then is he neerest Psa 34.18 145.18 Luke 21.18 yea to them that are afflicted in spirit he will come in and be thy peace after thou hast had a conflict in thy self and hast made war aginast thy self If thou dost examine thy self thou shalt finde what thou art better then an another can tell thee whether thou hast observed the checks of thy conscience wherefore thou didst restrain from committing sin at any time whether for the love of God or for fear of outward disgrace discredit or repute among men what thy end is in all thy actions whether thou art offended with thy self after sin committed whether thou dost cover or hide any sin or defection in thy self or whether thou dost let loose the rains of thy affections to all impiety not caring to be changed but in the outward Garbe only Civilized without the powers of darknesse raigning and ruling within thy desires after carnall treasures thy confidence on that that fadeth thy felicity and joy in the prosperity of the world When thou hast found what thou art and that thou art not willing to unvail strip and lay thy self open before thy maker hear then thy doom thou shalt be cast into utter darknesse for thou hast not obeyed the light of Jesus within thee and darknesse will for ever overshadow thee that thou shalt not see thy self but in a condition of peace gotten by outward observances of reading hearing praying discoursing disputing and talking of Heaven not knowing what it is so that notwithstanding all things that seemeth to be of God and in power is not thou art in death and art a stranger to the life of Jesus Consider this ye that smother dimme and put out the light in you and will not be guided by it to walk up to the everlasting light for the time will come that there will be no remedy the gates will be shut and cannot be opened Awake therfore thou that sleepest stand up Christ shal give thee light Jer. 50.5 defer no time make no delay but ask the way to Sion with thy face thitherwards get out of Babel the place of confusion waite onely on the teachings of God be renewed in the spirit of thy minde exercise thy self in all low and humble matters lean not to thine own understanding be meek to all men render good for evill despise not prophesying quench not the spirit pray continually that the Lord would give thee an understanding heart and inlightened minde to abhor the Whore with all her gay glitterings and smiling inticements to alienate from the true enjoyments Now to conclude let England in generall and every man in perticular learn what to do Remember thy Creatour in the dayes of thy youth Eccles 12.1 before the evill dayes commeth while liberty strength peace and opportunity is imbrace that that customary and stiffe old age cannot embrace let no man marvell when he heareth that the church is impure or that being a member of the church he is in controversie with other members for so it is we are under the changing and overturning arm of God and we must dash one against the other Rev. 12.1 untill the time come that we shal know the Lord and shal be clothed with the Sun having the Moon under our feet all these sublunary metalls and things before mentioned shall ly beneath our affections being not worthy of them although much of Gods glory is seen in them there lies in them the tempter and subtill enemy that it is a hard matter to escape by the use of them or any terrene things from the defilement and corruption Be therefore lifted up oh thou dejected soul that waitest on the Lord Thy God O Israel raigneth in Sion Psa 39.1 Do waters and the overflowing floods trouble thee God will come with his fire and dry up all those waters and floods thou thoughtest that thou didst well to be washed and cleered by water being an element of refreshing But thou shalt now understand from the Lord Mat. 23.25 26. that the element of fire is the most excellent to purg refine thee the element of water hath had its use and its time which did very well clean the outside of the vessell but it is the fire that purifies the inward body of the metall whereof the vessell is made wherein corruption lieth and water cannot wash scour rinse or purge it out It is fire that will consume all thy tin base metal within thee or amongst thy Silver the seeing of thy God to be such a consuming fire within thee is the greatest matter that can be for thee to lift the head and rejoyce When the brook in the way is drunk up it will be otherwise with thee Psal 110.7 then when thou wast in the watery element for then thy Christianity was in shew and Christlesse in power within in profession then the beleeving the report of a Saviour dying for thee was faith but now the entertaining the receiving in and possession of Christ within hath made thee faithfull and faithfulnesse to appear within thee O ye despisers tremble before the Lord

being of drossy earthy substances and qualities that are not fit for his service that will be served with Gold and Silver how then can these metalls be melted and purified and be made fit vessels for the Lord They cannot melt themselves neither is it in the power of one to melt another no more can man be humbled mollified or be made capable tractable or vertible of himself by himself or by any other man bur onely by the Lord himself who saith I will melt them Behold then I say the goodnesse mercy and love of God that doth such great things for us as to melt us himself we are still in his hands we cannot do amisse no hurt shall come to us we have his presence his love his bounty although in the Furnace he owns us he will not depart from us what greater love then this to be with us when we have most need when we have the bitter cup presented to us then then is our sanctification neer then the Lord is making of us like to Himself and like to his Word to be righteous as he is righteous pure as he is pure Therefore those that have gone through this fire and have been melted humbled broken and refined sound fort the praises of God and declare as David did what the Lord hath done for your soules how he hath severed and separated you from the world and hath made you fit to have fellowship with the Father and with the Son which is a mystery to the World 1 John 1.3 and to those that have not past from death to life that have not past through the fire and known the indignation of the Lord but liveth in the vanity of their mindes serving their lusts cohering to the corrupt formes fashions and customes of the world which have no life in them but have the issues of death proceeding from a raw earthy drossy unmelted and unpurified root holding and continuing in it self no true peace nor joy but what nature or art hath Let the people who have been dead and are now alive that were darknesse and are now light in the Lord that are made conformable to the Death and Resurrection of Christ being dead to all sin and alive to all Grace who love not the world nor the things of the world but have attained the Kingdom of Grace Love Joy and Peace and have communion with their God have a reciprocall and correspondent love to God and to their brethren and eccho back everlasting thanks and praises to their God who hath freely communicated of himself unto them and hath made them as kings and priests who have not onely the fruits and effects of peace but peace it self Heb. 7.2 Ephes 2.14 Col. 1.27 for Christ in them the hope of glory he is their eternall Peace and their everlasting Light which proceeded from that fire in which they were melted and purified which hath consumed in them all their drosse and all manner of carnall lust concupiscence and self wisdom all righteousnesse invention and imagination that was in the will and carnall minde that led them into errour imitation and separation from the pure truth that comes from God the Fountain of all Truth and the very essence of all true religion and of all righteous living being derived from him and to be yeelded up to him with a pure conscience being divided and severed from the world which savours not of the things of God Eighthly and lastly The end They shall know that the Lord hath done it in his wrath in his indignation What my people Israel are they such abominable sinners as to commit such grosse sins blood-shed idolatry oppression disobedience uncharitablenesse covetousnesse and fornication I have great indignation against my people for these their great sins you may think that you are still in my favour and because your secret hiding of your sins makes the lesse cry among men you think by my silence that I am like unto you But I will reprove you and set your sins in order before you Psal 50.21 you shall know that I am angry and wrathfull against you you may apprehend in your carnall wisdoms and understandings that I still love you but you shall feel my fury I will melt you and then you shall know wherefore because you transgressed against me The Lord in the sixteenth of Ezekiel speaks much of his people how they were and what he did for them Ezek. 16. and what their behaviour was vers 48. As I live saith the Lord God Sodom thy sister hath not done neither she nor her daughters as thou hast done and thy daughters After many threats and menaces the Lord still owns them and in vers 62. saith that he will establish his covenant with them and they shall know that he is the Lord. The Lord here doth tell them that when he hath melted them they shall know that it is the Lord hath done it in his wrath they shall not say This fiery change came upon them by chance or fortune or out of the dust or by the transactions of differences that is among the Nations of the world or through the envie and malice of men against them and so blame the instruments as the ignorant world doth but they shall know that it is he that doth it and by the power of his arm and in his wrath See here and take notice of Gods love and mercy in the midst of judgement although he be angry and full of wrath yet he will not destroy his people in the midst of judgement he remembereth mercy Psal 83.3 that what he doth bring upon them is to change them not to confound them it is to purifie not to consume them it is that they may know the Lord as in many places in Isaiah Jeremiah and Ezekiel of their prophecies you shall find that after judgements denounced it is said And they shall know that I am the Lord. The knowledge of God is that that the world is not acquainted with although they talk much of it they have none of it Hos 4.1 God complains by his Prophet Hosea that there was no knowledge of him in the Land and that his people were destroyed for want of knowledge vers 6. We are Heathens by nature and by profession we declare it for we professe outwardly what is not inwardly It is the inward living the life of grace that makes us Christians to be ingrafted into Christ truly to be as the branches to the Vine to have experience of Gods mercy and love to us to know God by our acquaintance and fellowship with him is to know him aright as Christians not as the world that sayes they are Christians and know God no otherwise but as a dreadfull Judge by the flashings that they have in their mindes living in disobedience to the light and every thing that they do in profession is heavie irksome and burdensome to them they worship God because of his great power

be high minded but to do good and to distribute laying up in store a good foundation against the time to come c. The men of the world setteth their mindes on the world wholly Pro. 1.19 all their study and care all their diligence and watchfulnesse is to get gain to adde to what they have to make themselves great to be in esteem in the world to have an aboundance contriving to get large possessions great inheritances fair buildings store of monies potent friends all which is nothing this procures no inward peace no forgivenesse no spirituall satisfaction to the soul no communion with God but doth corrupt infect and mis-lead the soul into the snares of death for by loving affecting and delighting in the things of the world the poor soul is everlastingly captivated and hardened in the worldly walkings that they come to plead for their sins of covetousnesse calling it good husbandry and exercising of their talents Psal 73. and so the Lord God their Maker comes to be forgotten of them all things going well with them that they break out into pride ambition cruelty and oppression all under the colour of living according to their degree and their calling Thus do men of the world that are without God in the world Ephes 5.17 demean themselves towards God ut Papa sic populus They still entertain the religion of the word that that is most in use and best agreeth with their palate although there is inwardly in them nothing but plotting contriving devising studying and indeavoring after the world the pleasures and profits thereof Yet they would be known to be of some religion as well as others and these times do afford them a receptacle they are welcome to the teachers of the world in all their exercises praying preaching singing and conference and have the chiefest room and the best applause for constant hearers and very good incouragement to rejoice and boast of their religious carriage especially because they pay thir dues keep their church being quiet and not medling with the differences that now are but takes all for good that the ministers saith or doth Be not deceived O worldling God knoweth the secrets of thine heart and seeth the bent thereof Thou canst not serve God and Mammon Luke 16.13 Although thou lovest thy minister plyest the Church and payest thy dues and all seems to be at peace with thee Thou art nothing but as earth thou mayest make a shew of some religion to men Jams 2.18 but the Lord seeth that thou hast no religion at all let it appear by thy works what thou art the Lord cannot endure a half Christian an outside one he requireth the inside the heart the Spirit of the minde there is nothing can make thee happy but the injoyment of the Lord Christ Ephes 4. and his benefits Silver and Gold cannot deliver thee in the day of the Lords wrath neither wil God be served but with the male of thy flock thou must sacrifice the best for an offering to the Lord and think nothing too dear to part withall Luke 16.9 in comparison of gaining Christ Make you friends of the Mammon of unrighteousnesse that when ye fail they may receive you into everlasting habitation make you friends Abraham beleeved God and was called his friend what great happinesse it is for a man to have God for his friend nothing can go ill with him if God be on our side who can be against us Make Christ thy friend Rom. 8.31 John 15.14 O worldly man the benefit of His friendship will be great he is thy Saviour Mediatour and Intercessour What priviledge like to this to be the friend of Christ we cannot but must participate of all he hath obtained for us and hath in store also Make the poor your friends give them of your substance and of your store spare something of your abundance visite the prisoner feed the hungry cloathe the naked take pity on the sick and entertain the stranger that their prayers to God and praises of God for such reaching of outward comforts to them by their frequency and fervency may cause the dew of heaven to distill down upon you Do not forget thy Maker O worldling but remember him and do works of pity and mercy of love and charity and as thou hast received freely from the Lord so for the Lords sake give freely that thou mayest not be liable to the sentence that God doth pronounce against the covetous not to enter into life nor to have the curses and the execrations of the poor to ly at thy door 1 Cor. 6.9 10. Make the people of God thy friends love them acquaint thy self with them Do not revile mock scoffe scorne and despise them either because of their plainnes Matth. 19.29 nor because thou art reproved by them nor because they love that thou hatest and hate that thou lovest but go to the Sanctuary of God and learn to love that that God loveth to forsake all and follow the Lord Christ not to go from that thou doest possesse but out of that covetous will that is within thee that will must be destroyed and brought to nothing thou must account thy Mastership thy Wealth thy Wisdome thy great Place thy Credit thy great Prosperity thy Authority and thy costly Garments to be all one as Service Poverty Plainnesse Disesteeme Disgrace Adversity and Scarcity such a temper should men that have the wealth of the world be of that they should be as willing to lose as win to wear coorse garments as fine garments and whatsoever is conferred upon them either of honour wealth or goods to return and give it back again to God and say unfainedly Lord it is thine I am unworthy to have the command over it but being thou hast put it into my hands make me to do thy will with it and that thou mayest have the glory of it and that all the exercises and undertakings I am called unto may produce good to thy people How far otherwise is the practice of worldly men that live in the anxiety of their Spirits both in the getting and keeping earthly treasure and how do they expatiate their desires the earthly father would have an earthly son nothing can bring an earthly worldly minded mans will to a limit but onely the love and power of God Man is apt to run all his stock out upon the world his confidence trust joy comfort his love and fear and all and wholly to forget God as if they were made for nothing else but to get the things of the world and joy in them which many through much care travell and watchings do not possesse but sees them a farre off and cannot attain to that joy miserable is the condition of earthly minded men some wanteth that they have and some are at an eternall losse by joying in them Let the advice of our Saviour Christ be followed by the men of the