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death_n	day_n	let_v	lord_n	4,658	5	3.8684	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86571	Inclosure thrown open: or, Depopulation depopulated. Not by spades and mattocks; but, by the word of God, the laws of the land, and solid arguments. And the most material pleas that can be brought for it, considered and answered. / By Henry Halhead.	Halhead, Henry.	1650 (1650)	Wing H284; Thomason E619_2; ESTC R206364	16,888	23

INCLOSURE Thrown Open OR DEPOPULATION Depopulated NOT By SPADES and MATTOCKS BUT By the WORD of GOD the LAWS of the LAND and Solid ARGUMENTS And the most material PLEAS that can be brought for it considered and answered By HENRY HALHEAD LONDON Printed by Ja. Cottrel for Giles Calvert at the Black Spread-Eagle at the West-end of Paul's 1650. Christian Reader BEing desired by the Author to make These of his against Inclosure common I shall as publikely expose the Reason of my undertaking the same I have known the Author from my childhood and have observed him ever since I observed any thing to be a constant and zealous Witness against Depopulation and no Encroachment of New Times Places or things could ever remove this Land-mark from off his spirit Yea now in his old-age his Courage and Hope against this is as fresh and green as ever So that this is no new nor sudden Conception of his Fancie but a setled and well-digested Principle in his Heart through a long tract of time observation Nor can any Particular interest of his own by those that know him be suspected to set him on work he living the best of his time in a Burrough-town where he was a Magistrate and exercised his Calling in the house as a Shop-keeper not in the field as a Husbandman Vntil Providence snatching him thence made him Governour of the onely Island called by her name where he continued until the Isle of Great Britain being about to be born again into a new and free state might deservedly be Christned The Isle of Providence whither he might be brought back as we may soberly judge for this end partly if not mainly to give in his witness and testimony against Depopulation And no sooner were his other travels ended but the pangs of this travel came fresh upon him though he had never been dischared of them and the office of delivering these his Meditations and bringing them forth to light he laid upon me for the long acquaintance he had with me charging me under a very great and solemn adjuration not to neglect the same Vpon this score do I put my hand to this work otherwise I confess it is a Question remote from my Cognizance which I should not therefore undertake to determine I skill onely the Equity of it and certainly that is obvious to All men Depopulation is odious and abominable both to God and men Therefore that Inclosure which is guilty of Depopulation must needs be unlawful Otherwise I suppose the Author himself is not against such Inclosure as is for the necessary accommodation of house-keeping The truth is the just Bounds and Limits cannot be set by me nor I think by any man yet all men may see there is a fault among us And when God comes to judge which how near that may be to us is not perhaps considered he will finde means in every mans Conscience to convince and reprove them wherein they have served their Covetousness in pretence of necessary Accommodation Did men believe they were Stewards and have for others sakes whatever they have more then food and raiment I am perswaded the heat of their covetous Ambition would soon be over We are taught by our Saviour to pray onely for our daily bread and that to be given us this day or from day to day It will not be a good Plea to say I inclosed my ground because though I could maintain my charge on my revenue yet I could not raise my family But were the Inclosure or Close-fistedness of mens Mindes thrown open into the largeness and bounty of a divine spirit we should not need to regulate the Inclosure of Land For I would not have any think it is the Form we strictly aim at but the Equity whether in the form of Inclosure or of Common field let men answer the End which is Charity The Law was not made for a righteous man but for the ungodly and sinners Those whom the Spirit of the Lord Jesus hath made free need no Law to prescribe them but to such as are not under that Law of the Spirit are these things intended and are profitable yet not for Righteousness as that they should think when they have answered this Letter they may rest therein but it is for a witness and testimony unto them of that inward spirit and power which they are humbly to wait for to come upon them in the exercise of this outward Rule that so what they do may be done in truth And those that are above the coercion of an outward Rule of this kinde yet will stoop to the observation of it for others sakes as hath been the practice of Christs free-men formerly For to him that is resolved of the End and principled to it whereto there are various Ways and Methods tending and serving equally though he be not simply in bondage to one more then another yet it is and must needs be to him indifferent any of them and that which through any advantage may be most conducing must needs be most acceptable They to whom this Counsel is the savour of death unto death let them remember the time is coming that their gold shall rust and their silver canker and that rust and that canker shall eat into their hearts for they are the last days Thine in the Lord JOSHVA SPRIGGE INCLOSURE thrown open OR DEPOPULATION depopulated ECCLES. 4.1 So I returned and considered all the Oppressions that are done under the sun and behold the tears of such as were oppressed and they had no comforter And on the side of their oppressors there was power but they had no comforter Chap. 5. vers. 8. If thou seest the oppression of the poor and violent perverting of Judgement and Justice in a Province marvel not at the matter for he that is higher then the highest regardeth and there be higher then they THe consideration of these and many more Scriptures hath put me upon consideration what might be the Causes of that Displeasure of God for it hath been a mixt Dispensation that hath appeared against this Nation in his late Administration And finding in the reading of the holy Scriptures by the Threats and Woes denounced by all the Prophets that amongst other things Violence and Cruelty of any sort hath been a most provoking sin much cried out of And observing in the late Experience the Woes denounced against such sin to have been fulfilled in part in these our Times I thought it my duty to hold forth my Observation that so in this time of Reformation there might be some lawful Remedy found out for the amendment of the provoking Evils before Desolation come upon us as it came upon the old world The end of all flesh is come before me saith the Lord for the earth is filled with Violence In the beginning of the world Almighty God after the rest of the Creatures made Man appointing him Lord over them all and giving him Dominion that he