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A54962 The Plague checkt, or, Piety will either prevent or alter the property of the plague ... together with sundry other things in a letter written by a friend to sundry of his godly friends ... with respect to the present times ... 1665 (1665) Wing P2336; ESTC R8032 44,854 85

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may it be for a Lamentation that there is price upon price put into the hand of Fools and they have no heart unto them and we may reckon upon it that the many precious Sermons and Treatises which are abroad will come up in judgement against the men of this Generation and condemn them for that such blessed light hath been as by Preaching so by Books and Sermons Preached and published being conveyed into the world and especially into this Land and Nation and the community of people love darknesse rather then light for my own part I have been a poore Prophet of Anathoth a Preacher of the Gospel partly in the Country partly in and about the City of London between Forty and Fifty years most of my time even to above Forty years I have spent in and about London continuing in the City all the time of the great PLAGUE Anno 1625. and from that time having obtained help from God I have continued my relation and the exercise of my Ministery ever since in one place till an Act of Parliament put a stop endeavouring by plain and profitable Preaching by quiet and peaceable living to shew and set forth the glorious Gospel of the Great God and our Lord Jesus Christ by whose Death and Resurrection death and darkness and Mortality which the first Adam by sin had let into the World and opened a doore unto is swallowed up in Victory and Life and Immortality is brought to Light and is performing glorious Tryumphs in and by the Lord Jesus I have reduced the Main of my Preaching to the Apostle Pauls Dichotomy Repentance towards God and Faith towards our Lord Jesus Christ yet not baulking other Doctriner that are superstructory and necessary to be built on these Foundations as in particular obedience to Kings and Magistrates and that for Conscience-sake persuading and provoking people to pray for Kings and all in Authority under him that we may live under them a peaceable and quiet life in all Godliness and honesty So that I bless the living God I have no regret in my Conscience for having first or last driven in a way of Preaching or Praying any either Treasonable or Disloyal designs nor am I Conscious to my self that any thing hath been performed by me to the imbassing of the Spirits of his Majesties Subjects or debauching them or drawing them from their Duty and Allegience knowing how my Commission runs and what of the Counsel of the most high God is held forth in Prov. 24. 21. Rom. 13. v. 1. 2. Titus 2. v. 1. 1 Pet. 2. v. 17. But Knowing withal that it concerneth Magistrates and Rulers that they Rule in the Fear of God as King David acknowledged they ought to do 2 Sam. v. 23. And that they be not a terrrur to good works but to evil works Rom. 13. That they set themselves to punish evill doers and to be for the praise of them that do well and truly it is sad when such as are be trusted with Magistratical Power shew more severity against such as are Judiciously Consciencious and out of a Judicious and well-informed Conscience are a little crossing the Magistratical Impositions and Injunctions then against men of Grosest Immoralities openly Flagitious Profligate and Naught and run to all excess of Wickedness It were to be wished that in all Kingdoms and Common-wealths Drunkards and Swearers and Whormongers and Sabboath-breakers and unjust Dealers with all other of that black and ragged Regiment which is headed by the Devil the Prince of Darkness might feel the sharpest of the Magistrates Severity while Sober Judicious and Consciencious Christians partake of the benigne influencies of Magistratical Power and Goverments and sit quietly under their own Vines and Fig-trees and drink the Waters of their own Cystern They the mean while setting themselves to studdy their Duty and in Faithfulnesse to perform it There are the Duties of particular relations wherein and in the due management whereof the Beauty and the Power of Godliness doth very much discover it self as in the Relation between the Husband and the Wife between the Parents and their Children between the Master and the Servant between the Pastor and the People so are there between the Magistrate and the Subject The well answering of which will conduce very much unto the more comfortable enjoyment both of one and other and as it is much to be wished that Kings and Magistrates may have the Honour and Obedience performed to them which is their due So it is likewise much to le desired that the Subjects under their Government may have the Ease Freedome and Refreshment which is justly to be expected by them I live in the comfortable Hope and joyfull Expectation of a Time wherein the Church and People of God shall have a more Free and Comfortable Enjoyment of themselves then ever yet not Oppressions Persecutions Oppositions hard Usages as all along almost ever since the fall of Adam Surely the Godly shall not alway be under Hatches and Harrows and Wicked and Prophane Men that neither Fear God nor Reverence Men Ruffle and Rant it and poure out Scorn and Derision upon others that are as good as they yea it may be farr their betters in worldly respects but be sure their betters in Grace and Godlyness such shall not always behave themselves in such a manner Surely the wicked shall not alwayes lift up their Horn on high and push at the Godly with side and shoulder but the Lord will and we have his Faithfull Word and Promise for it lift up the Horn of his People keep the Feet of his Saints when the Wicked shall be silent in Darkness he will exalt the Horn of his Annointed whether Godly Kings or Godly People 1 Sam. chap. 2. Kings have in a civil way their anointing with material Oyle which the Subjects partake not with them in and in that respect they are peculiarly the anointed Ones but such as are really Religious and Godly have a spiritual annointing the Scripture speaks much of it 2 Cor. c. 1. 1 Joh. 2. ad fine You have an unction faith the Apostle from the holy One which unction as it is a teaching unction and conduces much to the accomplishing of the Saints as they are Prophets as there the Apostle expresses for faith he You have an unction from the holy One and ye know all things v. 20. And again v. 27. The annointing Teachers so is it a priviledging unction and conduces very much to the promoting of their Spiritual and Corporal Ease and Freedom from sore Burthens and Oppressions and accomplishes them for the Kingly Dignity understand it in the Mystery not in the Letter which the Lord Jesus hath by his blood purchased for them and hath raised them up unto us Rev. 1. v. 6. He hath loved us and washed us in his own blood and hath made us Kings and Priests unto God our Father This ease and freedome from what is Oppressive whether Imprisonment Impoverishment