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death_n	beauty_n	glory_n	zion_n	18	3	8.3286	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67637	Suspiria Ecclesiae & reipublica Anglicanae The sighs of the Church and common-wealth of England, or, An exhortation to humiliation with a help thereunto, setting forth the great corruptions and mseries [sic] of this present church and state with the remedies that are to be applyed thereunto / by Thomas Warmstry.	Warmstry, Thomas, 1610-1665.	1648 (1648)	Wing W891; ESTC R27115	155,583	724

God Wherewith they were wont to be cheered up and beautified Because none came to the solemne Feasts which were laid downe as it were in the time of the captivity And doe not we see the like sadnesse and mourning solitarinesse in the wayes of our Sions which lead unto the holy Mountaines and Sanctuaries of the Lord whilest the solemne Feasts and Memorials of the Holy Saints of God are abolished which were so many Schooles of Holinesse unto the people calling to their minds the excellencies of the Graces of those eminent and resplendent Lights of Piety for their imitation and the Memorials of the most glorious mercies of the Lord are rejected even of the Incarnation the Nativity the Passion the Resurrection and Ascension of Christ Jesus and of the Glorious Fruite of all The sending of the Holy-Ghost with so many Treasures of divine Graces and mercies to the enriching of the Church which were of such excellent use not only to stir up the people unto thankfulnesse or to revive the comfortable sense of Gods mercies in their hearts whilest they were so often and in such solemne manner presented unto their apprehensions by the Church but were also so many blessed opportunities gained to draw the people together unto the solemne Exercise of Religion toward God and of Christian Love and Charitie to one another so many dayes of mercy to the poore beasts and toyling servants And were of excellent use for the instilling and preserving of the Fundamental Doctrine of Christianitie in the hearts of the people Which served in stead of an easie Catechisme unto the simpler sort whilest if they were but wise enough to know what day went over their heads they could not be utterly ignorant of the great Mysteries of Salvation An use of solemne dayes which God himselfe ordained partly for that very purpose in the Church of the Jewes See Exod. 12.26 27. and so warranted sufficiently unto us And which indeed is of great necessitie in regard of the great ignorance and ineptitude that is in many for the apprehension of the profound mysteries of Christianitie Which being so great strangers unto Nature and their naturall apprehensions would not so easily have been entertained by them but that they were by this Ordinance of the yearly solemnities of the Church made familiar unto them by custome which being as it were another nature facilitated by use the admission of that high and misterious knowledge unto their soules These these alas are all now cast away as if the Church could not be reformed unlesse Christ Jesus and his glorious mercies were forgotten amongst us I deny not indeed but those daid● were much abused by some unto loosenesse and licentious Liberty But then it had beene true Reformation to have sought the remedy of those miscariages and to have reduced those daies unto their proper and holy use by making more strict rules for the direction and restraining of men unto the right observation of them and so to have retained them to the honour of God and edification of his people in the due exercise of the workes of Piety towards God charity and love one to another and of mercy and release to our poore Beasts and Servants But alas if the matter be rightly examined I doubt we may find that the Workes of Piety Mercy and charity are only cast away and the licentiousnesse and lawlesse liberty of those daies is still retained at least that there is no such watch set against the latter as against the former And I can hardly forbeare to tell you that it is the right method of the devils Reformation to cast away the good and retaine the evill They winnow with Sathans Sieve that shake out the good Gorne and retaine the Chaffe and offall so hee would have winnowed S. Peter no doubt so some have now winnowed the flower of our Church This whirlewind-Reformation of ours hath even blowne a great deale of the Wheate from us by casting out the holy Ordinances of God the beauty and Order of his Service together with the Government of the Church and instead thereof hath left us I know not how many great heapes of Chaffe of Corruptions Confusions and Depravations amongst us which are ground and ministred unto the poore deceived people who whilst they expect Bread to nourish them finde Huskes to choake and destroy them I confesse heretofore there was some Chaffe in our heapes which did deserve a winnowing but with a more moderate wind But we had better have eaten the Wheate and the Chaffe together then to have had the Wheate taken from us and so much Chaffe left us in the stead of it I should be too voluminous in this sad Subject should I draw out the Paralells of our Evils and those of the Jewes Through the whole Booke of the Prophets Lamentations should I shew you every face of our miseries in those waters of Marah or bitternesse Those flouds of affliction wherewith they were overwhelmed I might tell you of the Exaltation of the Adversaries of each Church The prosperity of their Enemies Ver. 5. But they themselves will no doubt bee your remembrancers of that Of the Princes of our Nation as well as of theirs yea the King himselfe as we all know amongst the rest become like harts poore chased Harts hunted up and downe by the bloud-hounds of our times like Harts that finde no pasture and gone without strength before the pursuer Vers 6. I might present this poore Church neglected in her Afflictions bemoaning her selfe unto you because none of you will bemoane her In the sad Dialect of Ierusalem there ver 12. Is it nothing unto you all yee that passe by Behold and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow wherewith the Lord hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger c. And set her before you like poore forsaken Sion spreading forth her hands whilst there is none to comfort her ver 17. I could tell you but what need I of the Sword that hath been bereaving abroad and of the Plague or death that hath been destroying at home v. 20. Chap. 2. ver 1. c. The cloud of Gods Anger wherewith Sion was vailed The casting downe of the beauty of Israel from heaven unto the earth That is from a state of happinesse and glory to a state of misery and contempt The Lords forgetting of his footstool his swallowing up of the Habitations of Iacob the throwing downe of the strong holds of the daughter of Iudah the polluting of the Kingdome and the Princes thereof treading them as it were in the mire in his fury The cutting off the horne That is taking away the strength and glory of Israel The drawing back of his right hand from before the Enemy That is the withdrawing of his protection and defence and his giving of them over to the fury of the Adversary The burning flame and the bent bow The powring out of fury like a streame or floud