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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33462	Capel's remains being an useful appendix to his excellent Treatise of tentations, concerning the translations of the Holy Scriptures : left written with his own hand / by that incomparably learned and jucicious divine, Mr. Richard Capel, sometimes fellow of Magdalen-Colledge in Oxford ; with a preface prefixed, wherein is contained an abridgement of the authors life, by his friend Valentine Marshall.	Capel, Richard, 1586-1656.; Marshall, Valentine.; Capel, Richard, 1586-1656. Tentations.	1658 (1658)	Wing C471; ESTC R5922	60,793	168

tempests be tender of that that might be in such stead for poore trembling hearts in a stormy day Get to God then as thou canst sad distempers be upon our people Spiritual judgments be the sorest judgments What if thou hast but the a self-same words The song of Moses was a b new song tendered to God with new affections What if the petitions be c broken confused This poore d man cried saith the Text when he was in a poore case indeed like a e bedlam and yet he was heard The lesser lisping children some-whiles have the grant when those that be of greater maturity seeme to be fet aside Whilest Moses his hands were up though in a poor way Israel had the better Who can tell what God may do Abraham left asking ere God left granting even for a filthy Sodome Remember Latimers f once-again once-again tugg and wrastle We may come to see and our people may be made to know that their heart is g turned back-again to the God of their fathers For the soundnesse and settlednesse of his judgement He pitcht at first upon a good foundation and being h nourished up in the words of faith He continued in the things he had learned and beene well assured of knowing from whom he had received them He was with Socrates an a {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} grounded in his opinion one that stood like a brazen wall as firme as a very rock with Virgils b Latinus in the midst of all the dashings and clashings of tempestuous times He saw with a cleare eye thorow all the painted glosses of those that were given to change and therefore was not moved at all with any thing said or done in that kinde He was true to his Religion and clave close all along to his first principles holding fast the faith that was c once and as he himself would often expresse it but once delivered to the Saints He lived and died a true Orthodox Divine according to the knowne doctrine of the Church of England He knew full well for all the great talk of the Gosspel as though it were but newly dropt out of the clouds that there is not any other Gosspel then the everlasting Gospel that was preached before unto Abraham and hath been entertained all along still by Gods faithful people and shall be so continually to the worlds end But some there be no mean pretenders to the Gospel that be in great danger of perverting the Gospel of Jesus Christ This stable man was set up as a sure Sea-mark Stand to his steps though we stand alone God and a good conscience be very good company Elijah was but one yet did very good service One d Athanasius in the East one Hilary in the West was of mighty great use in a staggering time What if we meet with stormes 'T is but a poore Religion that 's not worth suffering for 'T will turn to a a testimony When the wilde humour is spent men will look home againe A Mercuries statue will be lookt upon then Those poor silly souls that be tossed to and fro and b whirl'd about and about again with every winde of doctrine will be glad of such a sight in the day of their visitation Whereas if they that know or should know more of God be not steady in their steering but varying their course poor bewilder'd hearts will be at their wits ends not knowing which way to turne nor to whom to goe nor whom to walke after As there is but one God so there is but one Faith one Baptism c one way to eternal life one Rule for us all to walk by Why be we not then all of one heart all in one tract so many men as we see so many mindes there be Every e moneth almost a new faith 'T is easie to swim with the tyde to perswade the heart of the rectitude of that that 's turn'd up trump by the times and yet to pretend still 't is from more light We may talk of the Spirit but f Schism is a fruit of the flesh The old way is the good way he shal stumble and hamper his feet that swerves from the g ancient pathes What 's got by gadding men itch for change still There 's no rest but with our first a husband 'T is good to be all of one minde in God Where 's not unitie in judgement there 's scarcely unity in affection Too fierce we be against such as close not with our notitions It was b Bell Book and Candle once 't is not much better now Wild-fire flies amaine We cannot all cut to a thread there will be some variation in the compasie but whilest we aime at the white the c oddes is to be passed by without bitternesse Why should there be such huge rents and divisions in the Church Where 's our forbearance We have not yet learnt our lesson well to wait one for another till God shall reveale Phil. 3. 15. Whilest we be so sharp in our contests Satan makes his Markets d Religion goes to wrack our differences e widen Some be ready to give up all seeing there's no better harmony others could wish themselves well out of the world that they may be delivered as Melanchthon saith from the d implacable differences even of some Divines Hearken to God He would have the truth g followed but in love If the Word will not sway the crosse will come and set an h Hooper and a Ridley to the embracing of one another Fall upon that one and only solid way of God and stick there Be we stedfast men It was once the Martyrs a stile it will ever be the good mans glory Get we then to God he can stablish the shuttle heart 2 Cor. 1. 21. See the judgement be so rightly set Is 33. 6. and the heart so firmly knit to God and his Truth he that b loved his Master would not leave his Master Tamper we not with opinions 2 Pet. 3. 17. nor with opinionative c men Rom. 16. 17 18. nor yet with books that scatter Tares This grave d Divine himself gives very good caution to this purpose from famous e Mr. Dod a man of that vast experience An honest heart may be sorely puzled with a forked Argument The Martyr could die for Christ that could not f dispute for him Some pretend they must trie all things but they speak besides the g book Who will try Ratsbane or a sharp sword whether it will pierce into his bowels Some think to withdraw when they see danger but Satan is subtile venome will get in we know not how and errour will h stick and eate What gets the flie that goes whisking by the Candle They that nibble at the bait shall hardly ' scape the hook Again gingle not with termes that be