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Certaine aduertisements for the good of the church and common-wealth well worthy the serious consideration of the most honourable High Court of Parliament late assembled, and hereafter to be assembled againe.
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doe vtterly cry down and forbid fasting and thereby that helpe from Heauen as much as in them lyeth that the said Prince and Princesse Palatine need abroad and consequently our King and his most Noble Sonne also and therefore likewise all their Kingdomes the good of the one being the good of the other Such I say are not only all they that so oppugne fasting but they also that doe what they can to with-hold all and of man from them neither so only but that also be Instruments for sending ouer more helpe to their Enemies Num. 33.55 Iudg. 2.3 Spinola and other Thornes in the sides of the Church that bestur their stumps what they can for vp-holding the cursed Kingdome of the Romane Antichrist the Man of Sinne the Child of Perdition now drawing towards his end and therefore gasping striuing and strugling for life and that with all their might oppugne the Kingdome of Christ Iesus and vnder-hand also the Kingdomes of all other Princes aboue whom the said Antichrist exalteth himselfe 2 Thes 2.4 Ps 118.12 Act. 9.5 So they compasse the little Flocke of Christ about like Bees not knowing for all that that they shall all Spinola and his Mates be quenched as the Fire of Thornes because it is as hard for them as before it was for Saul to kick against the prickes Touching Fraies Quarrels Fraies and quarrels Preu 14.28 and Murders within and without the Land I shall not need to say any thing for more seueritie for preuenting the like though the honour of a King consist much in the multitude of the people and by the want of people destruction commeth to a Prince because his Maiestie by publique Proclamation hath signified his Princely indignation against the same since which we haue not heard of so many such things as before yet a Law being more certaine and memorable then a Proclamation it were better to make some more seuere Law against such outrages Hose 6.6 because as mercie is better then sacrifice so crueltie especially sheading of Innocent blood is more odious to God then euer was the neglect of such sacrifices Blood touching blood Hose 4.2 may we not feare a controuersie of the Lord with the whole Land I haue credibly heard of sixe strange Murders tried at one Summer Assizes at Exceter anno 1613. First Of an Husband poisoning his Wife Second Of a Wife murdering her Husband Third Of a Father killing his Sonne Fourth Of a Sonne killing his Father Fifth Of a Master killing his Seruant Sixth Of a Seruant killing his Master How strange also was that threefold Murder at Halsworth in Suffolke committed foure or fiue yeeres since but discouered the last yeere Two of the Murderers were executed the last Summer 1620 and the third repriued for a longer time As by euerie Murder God is bereaued of one of his principall Creatures and the King of a Subiect so also many times a Father looseth his Child the Husband a Wife or the Wife her Husband a Brother and Sister a Brother or Sister many Children their Father or Mother many Friends and Neighbors a Friend and a Neighbor and somtimes the Church a good Minister and the Common wealth a good Magistrate or Officer Can there therefore be too much care for preuenting of such mischiefes All such persons as commit the same doe manifestly bewray themselues to haue no feare of God in them Gen. 20.11 Many times also some wilfull Murders are cleard vnder the name either of chance-medly or at least of man-slaughter All kind of bodily filthinesse euerie where so much abounding Against Adulterie Num. 25.7 8. 1 Cor. 5.6 Heb. 12.15 16. hath not your Honourable Court need to be put in mind of making a Law without further delay for punishing Adulterie with death Who of any zeale can but burne to heare and almost to see as much as Phineas saw If one Incestuous person and one Fornicatour be dangerous for a whole Church oh how much more dangerous are many The more we professe and some of vs boast of the profession of the Gospel and of the glorious state of our Church the more need we haue to purge our Land of such euils As death according to Gods Commandement is the punishment of Adulterie in most other Countreys and so ought to be by the iudgement of most Diuines none almost being so bold as to write to the contrarie so why should it not be in this Kingdome Our Lawes inflict death vpon some transgressions of the eighth Commandement why therefore should Adulterie be so lightly punished By the order of the Commandements and by the testimonie of Salomon Prou. 6.30 Adulterie plainly appeareth to be greater then Theft If the pronenesse of our Nation to Theft doe require the greater punishment of Theft are not the people as prone also to Adulterie and other carnall vncleannesse Oh let vs take need that as now we say that no man shall keepe his goods in safetie were not the punishment of Theft so seuere as it is so the time come not if further seueritie preuent it not when no man shall keepe his Wife or his Daughter or Maid-seruant from the violence of other The Lord that gaue the Morall Law and appointed punishment for euerie transgression 1 Sam. 2.3 being a God of knowledge knew before the inclination of all Nations to one sinne as well as to another And is not our Nation as much inclined to all breaches of the seuenth Commandement as vnto Theft At least to such Theft as by our Law is punishable with death Alas the poore chiefly doe offend in this kind but all sorts especially the greater are most prone to the other Moreouer by the sinne of Adulterie the eighth Commandement is broken in the highest degree Gen. 2.24 For first of all the heart of a mans Wife that is one Flesh with her Husband is stolen Mat. 19.6 Is not the Wife more then any goods Secondly by this sinne the whole state and the name it selfe of a man yea sometimes of Noble Houses is deriued to another euen of most base state and degree Thirdly Are not many Noble Houses and Families ruinated thereby Gen. 34.2 19. The example of Schechem the Sonne of Hamor and Salomon himselfe doe testifie these things Hamor was a chiefe Ruler and the Lord of the Countrey where he dwelt And of what King were there euer so great things spoken as of Salomon Yet the Fornication of Schechem was the ruine of all the Schechemites and the loue of many Wiues by Salomon was the desolation of his Kingdome in his Sonnes daies 1 Kin. 11.1 11.30 31. How many troubles also followed Dauids one Adulterie with Bathsheba Euen to the endangering of the losse of his life and whole Kingdome The Law alreadie made for death as in case of Felonie of any man that shall haue two Wiues liuing togither may the more perswade your Honourable Court to take order for death against
are discouraged and doe rather leaue their present preferments and betake themselues to some other state of life in the Countrey then they will so burthen their consciences Secondly In regard of the contempt that all sober well minded and well disposed young Students are in of what towardnesse soeuer and hope they be for Learning yea how learned soeuer alreadie Thirdly In respect of the excessiue pride and brauerie of the most though neuer so soberly brought vp before and neuer so vnable to maintaine the same Fourthly For their great excesse in drinking and tobaccoing in chambring and wantonnesse and in gaming carding and dising and in all manner of luxurie and lasciuiousnesse yea also for their common swearing swaggering and almost all manner of prophannesse hauing sometimes the Masters of the Colledges to be presidents vnto them in some of those things To dwell a little longer vpon the effects of the former seueritie against Ministers Many discouraged from the Ministery and the restraint of the preaching of the Gospel as though there were no need thereof how many worthy men are thereby discouraged from the Ministerie How many haue no vse of their gifts How many are turned Lawyers and Phisicians or at least are such that otherwise would haue beene Ministers They cannot be charged to hide their gifts in a Napkin Mat. 25.18 and 5.15 neither to put their light vnder a Bushell for who may enter into the Church without a calling or who may buy an Ecclesiasticall calling with the least sinne Or who for any such calling may giue the least wound to his conscience Rom. 3.8 Who also doe most obiect the hiding of their gifts to other Euen such as either haue no gifts at all themselues or that doe neuer or seldome imploy them To proceed yet further Great contention by conformitie may it please your most Honourable Court to consider of the great diuision and contention made by them that haue so much striuen and contended for subscription and conformitie with them that only of conscience haue not subscribed and conformed and that haue sufficiently testified their conscience in that behalfe so as before hath beene shewed Touching this diuision and contention where is it not Betwixt whom is it not The opposition of them that haue done the former wrongs vnto such Ministers is still such that although they had what they would from the said Ministers to their skin in a manner yet still they enuie them and as some haue accounted them as gangrens and therefore to be cut off neuer hauing written such bitter things against the bloodie brood of the Papists so some other are of the same minde and would doe accordingly did not the Princely grace and clemencie of his Maiestie restraine them This their minde they daily bewray by their continuall most bitter inuectiues against them This contention is so hot that young striplings in a manner hauing gotten orders as they speake feare not to disgrace and contumeliously to vse graue Diuines that were Preachers of the Word before their Fathers were borne and that not only publikely in Preaching thinking they neuer preach well without railing but also priuately in all meetings wrangling with them and audaciously vpbraiding them with want of Learning so sometime also tanting them as if they were not worthy to hold Booke vnto them and that because themselues may say any thing without controlment but the other nothing without danger The foresaid contention likewise is such that the Minister is against the People the People against the Minister and one of the People against another Kinsman against Kinsman Brother against Brother Father against Sonne Sonne against Father in word and practice Husband also and Wife somtime fall out one with another about Ministers subscribing and conforming and not subscribing and conforming What a rent likewise by subscription and conformitie and by stiffe maintaining of the Hierarchy hath beene made from our whole Church by some that therefore vtterly disclaime the same and denie it to be a true Church c. affirming our Ministers to be no Ministers our Sacraments no Sacraments c. How easily might an happie reconciliation be made by a wise and gracious reformation Or at least how iustly might they be punished that after such a reformation and causes of contention remoued should still remaine obstinate Neither is the former contention only betwixt our selues but also betwixt vs and other Churches euen by our great difference from them Est 3.9 Some with Haman thinking it not enough to lay hands on Mordecai at home except they doe also by word and writing strike through the sides of worthy Diuines in other Countreys As the Papists also searched the verie Graues for the bones of the Protestants long before dead so it were to be wished that some of our great Masters and Patrons of our Hierarchy and Ceremonies had not disgracefully traduced the honorable names of Caluin and Beza and in them of diuers other long since at rest with the Lord and that for their Iudgements in their Bookes against the said Hierarchy and Ceremonies It is easie to be shewed The former contention not iustly to be imputed to ministers not conforming but to the vrgers of conformitie by the Iudgement of our best new Writers our owne and other that the foresaid contentions are not to be charged vpon the foresaid Ministers but vpon them that vrge subscription conformitie namely out of Doctor Morton in the first part of his Catholike Apologie Lib. 2. of the Notes of the Church chap. 5. note 7. pag. 37. and that out of a Papist euen Cassander a kind of Mediator betwixt Papists and Protestants pleading for a kind of reformation of some things in the Romish Church Lib. Consult Articl 7 as also of diuers other euen maintaining the said Hierarchy and Ceremonies The same is the Iudgement of Peter Martyr as elsewhere so also in his Booke against Richard Smith de calibatu votis in his answer to the fourth Obiection of the said Smith for the single life and vowes of Priests The same is the Iudgement of honorable Philip Mornaeus lib. de Ecclesia cap. 2. The like say many other that affirme them to be contentious and Schismatikes which are the occasions of such contentions and Schismes by imposing things that they ought not to impose and that cannot be yeelded vnto with peace of conscience And that such Ministers as subscribe not and conforme cannot be iustly charged as Schismatikes and causers of contention Master Parker one of the said Ministers hath learnedly soundly and plentifully shewed and proued this in his Booke of Symbolizing Ceremonies part 2. cap. 9. sect 3. pag. 116. As the Lord shewed his displeasure against Abimelech for a small iniurie to Abraham ignorantly committed by Abimelech Euill to be feared Gen. 20 3. 1 Sam. 15.3 2 King 1.9 in respect that Abraham was a Prophet and against the Amalekits for stopping the way or withstanding