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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87427	A judgment & condemnation of the Fifth-Monarchy-men, their late insurrection. Also, how far the guilt of that fact may justly be imputed to those that are commonly distinguished by the names of Independants, Presbyterians, Anabaptists and Quakers. Set forth in a letter to a friend. . By a moderate gentleman.		1661 (1661)	Wing J1171; Thomason E1055_13; ESTC R208005	5,010	11

A JUDGMENT CONDEMNATION Of the Fifth-Monarchy-Men THEIR Late Insurrection ALSO How far the Guilt of that Fact may justly be imputed to Those that are commonly distinguished by the Names of Independents Presbyterians Anabaptists and Quakers Set forth in a LETTER to a Friend By a Moderate GENTLEMAM Let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall The Throne shall be established by Righteousness LONDON Printed in the Year MDCLXI A Judgement and Condemnation Of the Fifth-Monarchy-Men THEIR Late Insurrection VAnity of vanities saith the Preacher vanity of vanities All is vanity and saith the Psalmist Man is like to vanity his dayes are as a shadow that passeth away But man that is born of a woman is not onely of few days as Job saith but also full of trouble Who is able to reckon up the manifold Calamities Evils and Miseries that poor man doth necessarily yeild to yea even wise men as well as fools good men as well as evil But how infinite and hideous are those evils that men expose themselves to through the Prevalencie of their own lusts and appetites which when they have once conceiv'd and brought forth sin do afterward bring forth death And besides these there is yet another sort of evils which helps to fill up the measure of mans misery and which befall him as he is a man for Humanum est errare and that is error of the mistake of the understanding fa●lty in iudging Truth to be falshood or Falshood Truth The first sort of 〈◊〉 is common to most 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈…〉 These 〈◊〉 is in the fullest sence peculiar to bad men who are habituated to the following of the allurements of the flesh rather then the dictates of reason and true religion But good men are not wholly free from the mischiefs that attend their negligence and remisness in admitting even presumptuous sins But the third sort of evils that proceed from Ignorance both wel-minded and ill-minded men are subject to with this difference that the goodness and compassion of the Almighty will not suffer the well-minded to erre damnably and finally An Example of one sinning damnably through Ignorance we have in the Apostle Paul who saith of himself that he was a Blasphemer a persecutor of the Church and injurious but he obtained mercy because he did it ignorantly in unbeliefe And whose heart that hath yet any humane blood doth not bleed within him to behold the most deplorable Effects of the damnable ignorance of some men in this our day who professing themselves to be servants and subjects of Jesus who is Prince of peace do notwithstanding through mistaken zeal expose and destroy both themselves and others in breaking peace and making war Thus though the Gospel is a Gospel of peace yet accidentally it brings not peace on earth but a sword and that which makes it most sad is this that the injury is done not by the world against the professors of Christ as it was wont to be but by those miserable professors against the world yea even their brethren The Moralists and Divines too divide ignorance into two kinds vincible and invincible ignorance invincible is that when the Truth lies so deeply hid and is so subtle and intricate or at least our means of information or Capacities are so slender and weak and on the contrary the arguments for Error so plausible and our education and converse so prevalent that it is either utterly impossible or very near an impossiblility for such men to find out the truth In this case according as it comes neerer to or is more remote from absolute impossibility it doth more or less excuse But where there are sufficient means of knowledge a competent capacity the truth is obvious and no greater impediments then such as good men do commonly overcome in this case the ignorance is vincible and if it be a matter of necessary concernment there must needs be some secret lust or vice or notable negligence in men that hinders them from the knowledge of the Truth in that particular and so they are found defaulty in their wills and demeriting punishment more or less according to the degree of their voluntary malignity These things premis'd and consider'd the horrid facts with the great pretensions of the Fifth-Monarchy-Men aforementioned to the Reign of Christ proclaiming Jesus King even with despair of life and the violent impulse they appear to have had to this strange worke as also their dayly converse with holy Scriptures frequent watchings fastings and prayers it will easily appear that what they have done they have ignorantly done and as sometime the Jews yea Paul himself having a Zeal of God but not according to knowledge But if we weigh on the other hand the means they have had of knowing the truth in this point the many grave men and elaborate Treatises of a contrary judgement with which they might and ought to have convers'd the Emergent Acts of Divine Government amongst us crossing their imaginations and frustrating their expectations the clearness and perspicuity of the contrary duty of peaceableness patient suffering loving their enemies and the like it may as readily be concluded there was some inordinate lust of Domination Envie Rashness Impatience or the like which they ought to have mortify'd and did not that led them into this gross mistake Upon the whole matter my Judgement is That instead of insulting and railing upon them in Accusations which the Angels would not use when contending with the devil Let our hearts melt over them in pity and compassion Let us pray for them that yet remain in the Land of the Living as our Lord did in a much worse case Father forgive them for they know not what they do As for our own part let us lay our Hands upon our Hearts and diligently consider with sobriety and modesty what our Opinions are in matters of Religion especially such as are of great concernment to the Honour of God and our own and others welfare Let us examine our selves by their Ensample Do we not entertain and severely hold and think them justly deserving punishment that hold the contrary to some Doctrines and Practises which perhaps we never took half the pains to search into nor made a third part of those Prayers to beg direction in as these have done that are thus mistaken Let us not then think that to kill men by an unjust Law or starve them in Prison or otherwise destroy them though therein we are perswaded we do well as these did are infinitely less evil then what they have done Much less let 's imagine that because men are sometime mistaken in their Zeal that therefore it 's good to be luke-warm or to cast on Religion as a melancholy fancie and which exposes men to needless Hazards and Self-denials Let 's not tread the Blood of Christ under our feet or count it a common thing because of some Mens folly who adore it Neither let us shut our eyes and