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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34747	The nail & the wheel the nail fastned by a hand from heaven, the wheel turned by a voyce from the throne of glory / both described in two severall sermons in the Green-yard at Norwich by John Carter, pastor of Great St. Peters.	Carter, John, d. 1655.	1647 (1647)	Wing C654A; ESTC R34786	76,219	107

in this tenth chapter sure God sees some disorder in the motion of Jerusalems wheels for which he gave them a check in the Prophets hearing O Wheel And what disorderly motions are there in all our wheels great and smal high and low Magistrates Ministers and Commons they have not moved in an uniform and constant way Truly the greatest part of our people have turned like weathercocks to and again this way and that way and every way they go forth one way and presently return another way As the times turn they turn when Popish Innovations and Prelatical Tyranny brake in upon us as a ●●ood then all turned Eastward wheeled about in the house of God now they were at the desk by and by in the middle alley anon bowing and cringing at the altar How did the Priest and Clark take their turns and answer one another in Psalms and prayers running out of one thing into another and all the people sometimes sitting sometimes standing sometimes kneeling sometimes making courtsie and ever changing their postures and this way was cryed up by Baals Prieste for the beauty of holiness it was countenanced by the scarlet robes and magnified by the luke warm Protestants thus moved the wheels a great while But now the times are turned and they are turned yea turned the quite contrary way Separation is now grown into great request and they that but the other day were driving on towards Rome as fast as they could have now altered their course and are hurrying towards Amsterdam they are gotten out of the Church of England already and the superstitious Malignant hath given the right hand of fellowship to the Separatist O wheel thou movest irregularly According to the change of place and companies they turn and Proteus-like are any thing amongst Papists they are Catholiques amongst Brownists they are Independents In the Congregation they are seeming Saints in the tavern with lewd company they change their behavior as if they were mad their speech faulters and their spittle runs down by their beards to all these turning-temporizing Wheels it is cryed in my hearing O Wheel the Lord abhorrs thee But do we not see other irregulat motions oh how confusedly do wheels move before mine eyes How many gathered Churches or Congregations are there So many wheels they are and every wheel must move his own way and no hand must touch them to turn them all the same way Luther was of another mind he determins that these wheels did signifie particular Churches And the similitude of the wheels they were all alike in colour bigness height motion they turned all the same way did represent the Uniformity of Churches that all the churches of Christ in the whole world have and must have fimilem incessum the same goings in the sanctuary namely Uniformity in Religion confession of faith form of Church government Worship and Catechizing But on the confusion of our newgathered Churches not two scarce of those wheels move in the same way To these I cannot say O wheel for they will not be all one Catholike Church made up of many particular congregations but I must cry to them Oh Wheels your motions are various different contrary confused irregular the Lord approves them not Do you not see abundance of false prophets run up and down like wheels Seducers that compasse sea and land to make one of their own profession and when he is made they make him two-fold more the child of hell then they themselves these wheel about irregularly the spirit of Satan is in these wheels and here 's a check for them O seducers come back why do you turn the people of Christ out of the right way There are a generation of Seekers so they call themselves Saint Paul gives them their true charcter Ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth These are wheels that turn strangely and preposlerously out of one thing into another they are ever finding and ever losing they fasten upon no certain way but ever seeking for something and they know not what The Poets fain that Ixion for his slander of Juno was in hell fastened to a wheel and perpetually turned about upon it described thus by Ovid Volvitur Ixion se sequitur que fugitque In English you may take it thus Ixion's turn'd upon a wheel an●●●ee Follows himself and from himself doth flee And are not these Seekers just so upon Ixion's wheel ever following the truth and ever slying from the truth and never catch it or if they do they let it go again these move irregularity and here they have a check Oh wheel thy motion is tormenting and the end of it will be the losse of truth of Christ of heaven There are abundance of other wheels that move disorderly the drunkard reels and turns round in the streets the proud Phantastick gallant is ever turning out of one fashion into another but the most prodigious sight your eyes have yet seen is a deformed monster called Liberty of Conscience it is a spirit of confusion which moves every wheel to turn according to the dictate of its private spirit as it lists These Libertines must be left wholly to the freedom of their own consciences Oh conscience say they is a tender thing and therefore to impose a rule to regulate their motion is no lesse then tyranny Church-government and a coercive power to restrain and check their motion is no lesse then persecution Every man must hold what opinion he will joyne to what Church he will worship God as he will and do what seems good in his own eyes Oh prodigious O woful spectacle so many wheels and scarce two of them have the same motion but they move like scattered feathers in a wind or as Pharaohs Chariot-wheels in the red sea smitten one from another one this way another that way These wheels move irregularly a good rule would guide them all the same way they wil at last clash one against another and break in pieces in the mean time it is cryed unto them in my hearing from the God of Unity peace and order O Wheel thy motion and turning is as of the children of Belial that shake off the yoke 4. A fourth and last thing which seems to be amiss in the wheels is this They stop sometimes A while they move prettily wel and on the sudden they stand stock-stil Oh what stoppings are there amongst our great Wheels Just this day twelve moneth my reverend brother performed the work which I do at this time in his Sermon he did exhort the people to do something to the utmost of their power which might conduce to the publick good and setlement of truth peace this was interpreted that the City would strike in with some petition tending to the Kingdoms peace and wel-fare To this purpose a Petition was drawn or a Remonstrance if you please to call it so to back Londons Remonstrance then newly come forth which