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death_n	glory_n	life_n	sin_n	8,915	5	4.4862	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A82014	The humble petition or remonstrance of Rich: Day of Eton neer Windsor, to the Parliament of the Common-wealth of England. I. For the repairing of the decay of wood and timber. II. For the planting of an able preaching ministry throughout the land. III. For the working of the works of mercy and charitie: and for an act against the pride of apparell.	Day, Richard, of Eton.	1652 (1652)	Wing D470; Thomason E668_4; ESTC R206968	8,683	14

so upon all the actions of men and women on earth as to mark and take notice what apparell they weare and what gesture of body they use he might be satisfied in it by the perusall of that place of Scripture In the end and close whereof there is no lesse punishment threatned then the destruction of the Land And did God so hate the pride of women in those dayes and will he tolerate it now in the people of this our Nation If the misery of a civill warr which did manifestly threaten our destruction cannot serve to bring downe our pride how doe we thinke should God deale with us For in respect of our obstinate rebellion and disobedience we doe none other in the effect then make this the question Whether we shall humbly submit to God and feare before him as we ought or that he should yeeld to us to give us leave to live and doe as we list Doe we provoke him to anger saith the Apostle are we stronger then he And both in Leviticus and Deuteronomy God threatneth the Israelites that if they will not turne and repent upon his first chastising of them he will encrease their plagues seven-times more Our blessed Saviour in his divine Sermon upon the Mount pronounceth them blessed that are mercifull as it is in the sixt Chapter of the Gospel of St Matthew Blessed are the mercifull for they shall obtaine mercy If they are blessed that are mercifull then they are cursed that are unmercifull and cruell It is a true inference and it is Englands case concerning alms-deeds and the reliefe of the poore In the proud carriages of men in these dayes and their vaine foolish and garish attire as there is a bold audacious presuming against God himselfe for it is done in his sight so moreover there is a mercilesse cruell persecuting of the poore whose eyes cannot but behold it to the griefe of their hearts according to that saying The poore are persecuted in the pride of the ungodly I know there are divers other ungodly and uncharitable wayes of misspending the good gifts and blessings of God in the world besides the vanity of apparell But I insist upon this because I hold it for the most generall expensive way Concerning my poore and unworthy selfe I declare my conscience in this respect I would not desire to be the Planter of wood no nor of the Word of God it selfe without exercising the works of mercy and charity to the poore according to that ability and meanes which God should please to put into my hands Considering how the Son of God the second person in Trinity was content to make himselfe poore that he might enrich others and how the diffinitive sentence of absolution and condemnation shall goe upon it at the last day It is not Popery to relieve the poore as some are pleased to account it now adayes It is pride covetousnesse and cruelty not to doe it No man possibly can know aright how to give almes or to doe any good worke whatsoever save onely the true Protestant who beleeveth and knoweth that salvation life and glory are already purchased by the death and merit of Christ and therefore good workes must be done to the glory of God and Christ to testifie our faith in him and our love to him who hath so loved us that he gave himselfe a propitiation and ransome for our sins These things I am bould to propose because I hold my selfe bound thereunto in the behalfe of God and for the publique safety of the Land that the loving favour of God may rest upon it I might enlarge this Discourse to a very great length but I will rather abridge it In the first Covenant that came forth from the Parliament divers yeares agoe this reason was given of all the common calamitie that hath befallen us namely this that we have not received Christ into our hearts And I doe verily believe it to be so For if the love of Christ had been shed abroad in our hearts it would have kept us from those great and manifold transgressions which we now stand guilty of It would have led us into all good wayes and learned us to keepe his Commandements Nothing in the world would have been sweeter and dearer to us Since I knew this world in which I have lived a long time I never heard the name of Christ so much in the mouths of men as it is now adayes and hath been of late yeares That great and holy and excellent Name is worthy to be mentioned and had in honour and to be exalted and magnified at all times and in all places throughout the world But God grant we may have him in our hearts as well as in our mouths least otherwise our deepe hypocrisie should be discovered at the last and we be found to have collogued with the world and dealt untruly with God Amor si est mira operatur si operari renuit amor non est The love of Christ if it be in us indeed will constraine us to doe those good things which will seeme strange unto the world but if we refuse to propound him to us as an ensample that we may tread in his steps how then abideth his love in us If we have yet received Christ into our hearts or if we will yet receive him I am very sure the things that I have here proposed will be readily assented unto and put in due execution Wherefore I will not doubt of the integrity and sinceritie of the Superiour Powers under which we live but that they will set themselves with all faithfulness and diligence to doe the will of God in all things It was the voyce of an envious malignant Papist namely the Cardinall Matheolangi that was heard in the Councell of Trent speaking thus to some of his intimate friends as concerning Luther That Luthers demands and his vehement complaints against the abuses of the Court of Rome were just and reasonable but that a poore Fryar should reforme all this was not to be endured I am not so jealous of my poore credit in the world but I can be content to be neglected and despised of all that are of it of all that are in it so that God may vouch safe to have respect unto me as to one that desireth to feare his Name in truth and sinceritie and to seeke his glory and the good of his people Although Monarchy were still on foote and in place and power yet neverthelesse I would be bold to affirme thus much being able to prove it that if this State and Common-wealth shall be preserved from ruine and destruction it must be by the benefit of Parliaments in ordaining good and wholesome Lawes and not onely so but seeing them put in due and strict execution partly by imitating the office of Censorship among the old Romans whereof we read in their History I will shut up all with little more then the recitall of a very briefe saying