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English Cretes and atheistical Christians describ'd and instanced with directions for the reformation of all, from St. Paul's Epistle to Titus, the first Bishop of Crete : wherein is intimated the sacred order, and supreme power of episcopacy in the church, with the inferior ministry : concluding all with supplemental instances, and a lamentation of the churches present miseries.
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1695
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Wing W117; ESTC R31986
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him by committing sin to shun some outward Suffering 5. Not trusting on God in Dangers and Distresses Using unlawful means to bring us out of them c. Not looking up for his Blessing on our Honest Endeavours Overcarking c. 6. Not acknowledging his Wisdom in choosing for us but having eager and impatient desires of our own 7. Not honouring God by a reverent usage of the things that relate to him Behaving our Selves irreverently in his House Robbing God by taking things that are Consecrated to him Prophaning Holy Times the Lord's day and the Feasts and Fasts of the Church Placing Religion in hearing of Sermons without Practice Breaking our Vows made at Baptism Prophaning the Lords Supper Prophaning God's Name by Blasphemous Thoughts and Discourse Giving others occasion to blaspheme him by our vile and wicked Lives Taking unlawful Oaths Perjury Swearing in our Ordinary Communication 8. Not Worshipping God Omitting Prayers publick and private Not Praying in Purity Faith Humility Attention nor Reverence 9. Not Repenting Fasting Mortifying nor solemnly Humbling c. 10. Placing our Love and other Affections more on Creatures than the Creator which is inward Idolatry 11. Unthankfulness to our Benefactors especially those that admonish us Not amending upon their reproof Being angry at them for it Not Reverencing our Civil Parent the lawful Magistrate Despising our Spiritual Fathers the Bishops and Pastors of our Churches Not loving them for their Works sake Not obeying those Commands of God they deliver to us Seeking to with-hold from them their Just Maintenance Forsaking our lawful Pastors to follow Factious Teachers Not loving our Spiritual Brethren i. e. our Fellow-Christians Having no Fellow-Feeling of their Sufferings Causelesly forsaking their Communion in Holy Duties Not taking deeply to Heart the Desolations of the Church which are now Calamitous and deplorable indeed 12. Being puft up with high conceits of our selves Carnal and Spiritual Pride greedily seeking the praise of Men. Directing Christian Actions as Prayer Alms c. to that end Committing Sins to avoid the reproach of wicked Men. Anger Inconsideration c. Uncontentedness in our Estates Greedy desires after Honour and Riches Seeking to gain them by sinful means Envying the condition of other Men. Not improving God 's Gifts outward or inward to his Honour Abusing our natural Parts as Wit Memory c. to Sin Neglecting or resisting the motions of God's Holy Spirit Uncleaness Intemperance Pampering the Body not subduing it c. 13. Being Injurious Unjust Cruel and Malicious to our Neighbour Oppressing by Violence and Force or colour of Law Theft Deceit false Witness Lying Ingratitude Want of true Love and Affection in Husbands and Wives Not bearing with the Infirmities of each other So in Friends Tyranny or Remisness in Parents and Masters Disobedience and Stubborness in Children and Servants Ill-nature in all 14. Want of Bowels and Charity to our Neighbours Not heartily desiring their good Spiritual or Temporal Not loving and forgiving Enemies Taking actual Revenges upon them Professing Kindness and acting none Backbiting c. 15. Not loving Peace Going to Law upon slight occasions Bearing inward Enmity to those we Sue Not labouring to make Peace among others Now let this short dismal Catalogue which is all a plain Contradiction to our most Holy Christian Profession with those Instances of Sins and Contrarieties to God and all True Religion before-mentioned be seriously consider'd bewail'd and reform'd in every guilty Soul then shall we soon be happy in our publick and private State here and more hereafter THE LAMENTATION c. BUT alas Since Christendom continues the vilest part of the World a Sink of all those abominable Pollutions which even Barbarians detest Since our Profession and our Practice are always at so wide a distance Since the Disciples of the Holy and Immaculate Jesus be of all others the most Prophane and Impure and the Subjects of the Prince of Peace be of all others the most contentious and bloody Since the Church in general is become an Aceldama a Field of blood and this particular true Catholick Apostolical Episcopal Church is so miserably dissected so shamefully over-run with Blasphemy Sacrilege Hypocrisie Covetousness and all manner of Prophane and beastly Licentiousness Uncharitableness c. is so maliciously undermined every where so cruelly oppressed and insultingly trampled upon in one place and so fatally surrounded with Enemies on all Hands Since her Sabbaths are Polluted her Ministry Contemned her Sacred Ordinances Prophaned and Slighted her Primitive Discipline Despis'd c. by her own sworn Members Since many of these are constant bosome Foes the most treacherous and irreclaimable sensual and worldly making no Conscience of religious Concerns and Duties much less of Defaming Injuring or Defrauding their own lawful Pastors especially the Inferior and most Laborious As if they had neither Divine nor Humane Right to their most reasonable Dues As if neither Christ nor his Apostles had given any Orders about the Reception Reverend Estimation and Maintenance of his Ministers Matth. x. 1 Cor. iv 1. and cap. ix 7. 11.14 Heb. vii to 10. As if Christians were herein allowed to be worse than either Jews or Heathens As if Sacrilege were no Sin As if the Curse of God did not attend it c. though he cursed a whole Nation for the same Mal. iii. 8 9. Since Christianity the best and purest Religion in the World is thus notoriously and uncontroulably scandalized even by the very Devote's and boasting Professors Since Matters are at this dreadful pass among us under the best establishment too What alas Can become of us What Judgments may we not justly hear What sad Calamities expect under such an universal decay of Christian Piety and all true Vertue and good Nature Yet shall we not mourn for Sion And pray for the Peace of Jerusalem This seems to be all left us to do O then let the Priests the Ministers of the Lord herein unite at least and weep between the Porch and the Altar and cry spare thy People O Lord and give not thine Heritage to reproach O Save Cleanse Enlarge and Defend thy Church good God In all time of our Tribulation in all time of our Wealth in the hour of Death and in the day of Judgment Good Lord deliver us Amen FINIS