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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37474	The speech of the Right Honourable Henry Earl of Warrington, Lord Delamere, to the Grand Jury at Chester, April 13, 1692	Warrington, Henry Booth, Earl of, 1652-1694.	1692 (1692)	Wing D883; ESTC R24883	10,473	34

those who take offence at the late Act of Indulgence which tends so much to our Peace by quieting the Minds of the People as to their Religion which hath ever been the handle to our intestine Troubles the Incendiaries of the State having ever made use of it as the best pretence to embroyl the Nation And therefore I for my part do think that the Act of Indulgence was a necessary and Pious Work and cannot imagine why any man should think that to be a disservice to the Church that tends to the Peace of the Nation They who do so I must believe are not much concerned in the Cause of the Chureh and their Country and care not what is uppermost provided they can but make fair Weather for themselves Therefore Gentlemen if any speak to the disadvantage of the Act of Indulgence you ought to present them as disaffected to the Government and sowers of the seeds of Division in the State But I desire to be rightly understood I do not say this to disswade any man from coming to the Church For I go constantly thither my self and I wish every body could do it as easily as I do and I wonder 't is otherwise for I never yet heard any good reason for the practising the contrary Yet I think unless a man be satisfied in that way of Worship it is better to keep away than to come for otherwise it is to mock and not to Serve God and on the other hand it is no less a mocking of God when a man from an over-assurance of the Gift of Prayer shall adventure to Pray in Publick without having before-hand well digested his Matter and Words and therefore may happen to let fall crude and nautious Expressions such as would be ridiculous in private Conversation for I am far from believing that Nonsence can be the effect of Fervency but rather of Affectation or something that is very reproveable And here it will not be amiss or improper to take notice of those Persons who go to no Church at all but spend the Lords day commonly called Sunday as the Statute hath it in an Ale-house or otherwise idle it away very unprofitably against such as these was that Law of Twelve-Pence a Sunday intended and were it duly put in Execution a great deal of that dishonour that is done to God by such Profanation would be prevented and the Poor would be relieved with less charge to their respective Parishes I wonder the Petty Constables are not more careful to make true Presentments at every Petty Sessions of those who herein offend the Glory of God and their own Interest being so nearly I may say so immediately concerned The next thing I would recommend to you is As far as in you lies to suppress that horrible Sin of customary Swearing whereby the Tremendous Name of God is every day Blasphemed It is too true that scarce any man when Provoked or in Passion has guard enough over himself to prevent his taking the Holy Name of God into his Mouth and if any of us fall into that sad misfortune we ought solemnly to beg forgiveness of it But yet that whereby God's Honour suffers most is customary Swearing when men do not think they express themselves handsomely without an horrible Oath or more to fringe off their Sentences It is such a daring familiarity with God Almighty as no man would allow to his best Friends I believe there is not any of you Gentlemen but would be very angry to have your own Names used upon every slight and trivial occasion and if so I will not imagine that you will be less concerned for God's Honour than for your own It is a shameful thing to see how very much the High ways are generally neglected and out of Repair the fault of which does mostly lye at the door of the Overseers whose chiefest care in them now a days is how to shuffle off the matter for their time being very little concerned for what comes after them and by this means they bring at last a great burthen upon their Townships which would have been prevented by a small charge if but taken in time and so the Township suffers through their neglect There are very good Laws against Vagabonds but the Execution of them is shamefully neglected and it is strange it should be so considering what Incouragement the Law gives for the apprehending of such idle People For who ever brings any of those Wanderers before a Justice of Peace The Towns through which they last past Unpunished is to Pay Two Shillings a piece to him that apprehended them Though this Reward carry no weight with it yet the great Mischief that those sort of People bring upon the Publick should make every body vigilant It is an incredible Sum that they cost the Nation in a year and considering how many Townships and Parishes are oppressed and almost ruined by the Accidents that are hereby brought upon them it is wonderful that People should rather chuse to Forswear themselves than do their Duty but so it is in this Case Were these Wanderers duly Punished it would reform many of them and discourage others from following so bad an example whereas the great remisness of Constables and other Officers in this point is a great temptation to many who otherwise would think of some more Lawful as well as Profitable ways of living A neglect and slowness to Punish increases the number of Offenders These things Gentlemen I in particular recommend to you not as all your business but yet as things that cry aloud for redress for there does fall within your Enquiry High-Treasons Petty-Treasons Felonies of all sorts whether against the Person Possession or Goods of a man Riots Routs and unlawful Assemblies and every thing that is an Offence against the Publick Peace in which I am not more particular because I fear I have held you too long already and therefore I will trouble you no farther but pray God to direct you in your Business FINIS BOOKS Printed for R. Baldwin ME●ourius Britannious Or the New Observator Containing Reflections upon the most Remarkable Events falling out from time to time in Europe and more particularly in England The Fifth Volume Printed for Rit Baldwin where are also to be had the First Second Third and Fourth Volumes with the Appendix to them The Speech of the Right Honourable Thomas Earl of Stamford Lord Gray of Gr●●●y c. at the General Quarter-Sessions held for the County of 〈◊〉 at Michaelmas 1691. His Lordship being made Gustes Rot●●rum for the faid County by the late Lord Commissioners of the Great Seal Bibliotheca Politica Or a Discourse by way of Dialogue Whether Absolute Non-Resistance of the Supreme Powers be enjoined by the Doctrine of the Gospel and was the Ancient 〈◊〉 of the Primitive Church and the 〈◊〉 Doctrine of our Reformed Church of England Collected out of the most approved Authors both Ancient and Modern Dialogue the Fourth Printed for R. Baldwin where also may be had the First Second and Third Dialogues A Project of a Descent upon France By a Person of Quality A True Relation of the Cruelties and Barbarities of the French upon the English Prisoners of War being a Journal of their Travels from 〈◊〉 in 〈◊〉 to Th●●lon in Provence and back again With a Description of the Scituation and Fortifications of all the Eminent Towns upon the Road and their Distance Of their Prisons and Hospletals and the number of men that died under their Cruelty 〈…〉 Europe 's Chains broke or a sure and speedy Project to rescue her from the present Usurpations of the Tyrant of France Reflections upon the late King James's Declaration lately Dispersed by the Jacabites Truth brought to Light or the History of the first 14 years of King James I. In Four Parts I. The happy state of England at his Majesty's Entrance the corruption of it afterwards With the Rise of Particular Favourites and the Divisions between this and other States abroad II. The Divorce betwixt the Lady Frances Howard and Robert Earl of Essex before the King's Delegates authorized under the King's Broad-Seal As also the Arraignment of Sir Jer. Ellis Lieutenant of the Tower c. about the murther of Sir Tho. Overbury with all Proceedings thereupon and the King 's gracious Pardon and Favour to the Countess III. A Declaration of his Majesty's Revenue since he came to the Crown of England with the Annual Issues Gifts Pensions and extraordinary Disbursements IV. The Commissions and Warrants for the burning of two Hereticks newly revived with two Pardons one for Theophilus Higgons the other for Sir Eustace Hart. A Sermon preached before the General and Officers in the King's Chappel at Portsmouth on Sunday July 24. 1692. Being the day before they Embarqu'd for the Descent upon France By Willam Gallaway A.M. Chaplain to Their Majesties Sea-Train of Artillery