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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A71198	For England's information, reformation, great joy, peace, and consolation; and for her great honour, and exaltation, and for the great shame, contempt and terror of the Turk, the Pope, and the Devil, and all the workers of evil	Varney, John.	1679 (1679)	Wing V114B; ESTC R203878	63,496	118

they that profess the Gospel of Peace by their Pride Envy and Hatred are ready to devour one another It doth provoke the God of Heaven to send great and heavy Judgments to Amaze Confound and Consume and Destroy one another Was there ever such a Plague and such a Fire as was in London 1665 and 1666 I hope it will never be forgot nor the Popish late Plot in 1678 against his Majesties Royal Person and to ruin many Thousands in the Nation but blessed and praised be the God of Heaven who doth daily watch over his Majesties Royal Person and the whole Nation Therefore let all that do profess the Gospel learn to live in Love and Peace to be of one Mind and to speak the same thing for this is the best way and the soonest way that the Name of God may be more and more known upon Earth and his saving Health among all Nations that so the People may praise him yea that all People may praise him with new obedience then will the Earth bring forth great Increases and among all Nations there will be a free Trade great Joy and a lasting Peace Let all them therefore that love the Lord be joyful in the Lord let them servet he Lord with gladness and come before his Presence with a Song for the Lord is a great God and a great King above all Gods The Sea is his and he made it and his Hands prepared the dry Land Therefore let all People in all Nations worship and fall down before the Presence of this great Lord Maker and Possessor of Heaven and Earth and kneel before him for he is the Lord our God and we are the People of his Pasture Therefore let us go into his Gates with Thanksgiving and into his Courts with Praise Let all People in all Nations be thankful unto him and speak good of his Name for the Lord is gracious his Mercy is everlasting and his Truth endureth from Generation to Generation Therefore let all the Sons and Daughters of Men praise his great and glorious Name from the rising of the Son to the going down of the same Let every thing that hath Breath praise the Lord for his Greatness and Goodness for his Name is most excellent and his Glory is above the Heavens As this great and mighty God stirr'd me up in time to make known his Mind to prevent much Ruin to Mankind that so among all Nations there may be a general Reformation then let all Dissentors and Sectaries readily and willingly conform and reform to the Government of the Church of England which will encourage many Atheists Papists Jews Turks and Infidels to be in love with the Protestant Religion as it is establisht in the Church of England A Friend loveth at all times and a Brother is born for Adversity and the Wounds of a Friend are better than the Kisses of an Enemy God in Man and God with Man will bring about great and wonderful things not onely for the great Honour and Exaltation of a Kings Person but for the great Joy Peace and Prosperity of many Nations and that without making of many Words or having the Voice much heard Pleasant words they be as a Honey-comb sweet to the Soul and health to the Bones And as Ointment and Perfume doth rejoyce the Heart so doth the Sweetness of a Mans Friend by hearty Counsel in these days of the Gospel and in the Reign of our Royal Sovereign his Majesty of Great Pritain All unbelieving Jews bruirish Athiests wicked and bloody Papists and rebellious Dissentors and Sectaries will be ashamed and confounded that have not improved their time to know and to understand the great Mystery of Godliness God manifest in the Flesh who was justified in the Spirit seen of Angels preached unto the Gentiles believed on in the World by many both Jews and Gentiles and is received up into Glory and there is preparing a place for them that do believe in him and appear for him but he will pour contempt upon all them that will not know and obey him who is the Lord of Life the King of Glory the Prince of Peace the Captain of Mans Salvation the Son of Righteousness that can and will heal all their Diseases and pardon all their Sins that come unto him and well he may because he is the mighty God the everlasting Father the wonderful Counseller the Lord of Hosts who is strong and mighty in Battle that can readily and easily by weak and unlikely means confound and consume the Enemies of his Gospel that do slight and undervalue him be they never so many be they never so great But he will not break a bruised Reed nor quench the smoaking Flax till it bring forth Judgement unto Victory It is not a thing of indifferency but it is of absolute necessity for the Sons and the Daughters of Men the Wisest the Strongest the Richest and the Learned'st and Poorest among them for to believe in the Son of God for whosoever believeth in him whether they be Jew or Gentile hath everlasting Life begun in them but they that will not believe and obey him will not see Life but the Wrath of the ever living God abideth on them Condemnation or Salvation will be the lot and portion of the Sons and Daughters of Men that ever have been or over will be in the World O that none might miscarry because the Lord has laid help upon one that is mighty both able and willing to save unto the uttermost all that come unto him and he will in no wise cast out for God the Father sent not his Son his beloved Son into the World that he should condemn the World but that the World through him might be saved Therefore he that believeth in him is not condemned for he hath the witness in himself but he that believeth not is condemned and there is not any that can be a witness for him or them but all their works and duties will be witnesses against them This made the Apostle St. Paul that great and eminent Saint count all his Righteousness Works and Learning to be loss and dross in comparison of that excellent most profitable and comfortable knowledge that he found in Christ The fruit of the Righteous is a tree of Lise and he that winneth Souls is wise and they that turn many to Righteousness shall shine as the Stars for ever and ever This is a high and honourable work pleasant profitable and delightsome work victorious glorious and crowning work that will crown the God of Heaven with much Glory among the Sons of Men and our Royal Soveraign his Majesty of Great Britain with great Honour and Power over them over all Heathen and Popish Kings Priests Princes and Emperors that so many Nations may be freed from slavery and throughout the whole World there may be great Joy Peace and Prosperity It is sad to consider how that too many do make themselves poor and miserable in the

have cast off the good Prayers of the Church of England which are profitable and comfortable the God of Heaven has made their Friends as Enemies to pursue them For if a mans ways please the Lord he will make their Enemies to be at peace with them or with him but if they do not God will make their Friends their Enemies nay the great and good God who is the best Friend will become unto them that do provoke him the worst Enemy They that walk contrary unto him he will walk contrary unto them and will punish them seven times more he will heap mischief among them and spend his Arrows upon them And who will have pity upon thee or bemoan thee Art thou not gone backward O Dissentor since thou hast broken thy Covenant with the Lord in not endeavouring to keep the Unity of the Spirit in the Bond of Peace And have not you broken your Covenant with Men O Rebellious Sectaries in taking away the Life of our late Royal and Gracious Soveraign therefore the Lord hath framed Evil against you and devised a Device against you Unless that you do return every one of you from your Evil Ways and make your Ways and your Doings good the Lord will bring an everlasting Reproach upon you and a perpetual shame which will not be forgotten Nay the Lord will make you Sick in smiting you in making you desolate because of your sins if you will not turn unto him in conforming to the Government of the Church of England But I shall pray for the Dissentors and Sectaries as the Apostle St. Peter prayed for Simon That they would repent of their Wickedness and pray God if perhaps the thoughts of their hearts may be forgiven them For I am affraid that too many of them may be in the Gall of Bitterness and in the Bond of Iniquity for not keeping the Unity of the Spirit in the Bond of Peace but the Lord give them true Repentance which will take off the greatest stain and bring the Soul into the Favour of God Again Have not the Dissentors and the Sectaries by their falling from the Church of England Have they not weakened her and grieved her Have they not reproached and persecuted her both with their Tongues and their Hands Have they not encouraged and strengthened the Papists against her who are unreasonable bloody and deceitful men But the Church of England according to our Saviours Counsel prays for her Enemies Persecutors and Slanderers that the Lord would turn their hearts and have mercy upon all Men that the Lord would be pleased to give to all Nations Unity Peace and Concord that the Lord would give us all Hearts to love and dread him and to live after his Commandments And if this had been done the Dissentors and the Sectaries would not have fallen from God to displease him and grieve one another as they have done but they can condemn all but themselves but the God of Heaven has stirr'd me up for to reprove rebuke and to condemn them that they may condemn themselves for slighting the Prayers of the Church of England and trusting to Prayers of their own making and framing which are too many of them neither agreeable to the Word of God nor made by the Spirit of God as the Prayers of the Church of England are they be suitable for all Persons for all Times and all Conditions they be such Prayers that the God of Heaven hath heard and answered and doth hear and will answer them that put them up to him in a right manner and to a right end For the hearing and reading the holy Word of God will not profit any unless they do mixt it with Faith no more will the Prayers of the Church of England This is the excellency of these Prayers that they are not so plain as profitable and comfortable for all both high and low rich and poor and young and old Were they but well put in practice they would soon inform and reform the World that lies and lives in ignorance and disobedience From all evil and mischief from sin from the crafts and assaults of the Devil from everlasting wrath and damnation it becomes all wise men to pray that the good Lord would deliver them Never more crafts and assaults of the Devil never evil more and mischief done and committed than by too many of them that have slighted undervalued and scorned these Prayers From all blindness of heart from pride vain-glory and hypocrisie from envy hatred and malice and all uncharitablness it becomes all the Sons and the Daughters of Men that would be good and do good to pray that the good Lord would deliver them from these sins But do not these sins too much abound among too many of them that have made Seperation from the Church of England Who are more ignorant and prouder than many of them Where is there greater Hypocrisie Envy Hatred and Malice than among too many of them But if they will not conform and reform to the Government of the Church of England in due time the Lord will not onely leave them but he will laugh at them when Distress and Anguish cometh upon them as Desolation and Destruction as a Whirl-wind then they may call upon the Lord but he will not answer them they may seek him early and yet not find him because they have slighted and hated knowledge which would have men to depart from evil and to chuse the fear of the Lord as without knowledge the mind cannot be good so without obedience the knowledge is not good for they that do flight and undervalue the Word of God and the Prayers of the Church of England they will eat of the fruit of their own way and be filled with their Devices for the turning away of the simple will slay and the prosperity of fools destroy them but who so hearkeneth unto the Lord and keeps in the good old way will dwell safely and be quiet from the fear of evil From Fornication and all other deadly Sins and from all the Deceits of the World the Flesh and the Devil It becomes all that would be saved to pray that the Lord would give them power against them and victory over them for the hearts of all men are deceitful and the best of men are subject to fall into the worst of sins But there is a generation of Men that will not say the Prayers of the Church of England but will take liberty to sin that Grace may abound but from such Men the good Lord deliver me From Lightning and Tempest from devouring Fire from Plague Pestilence and Famine from Battle and Murder and from sudden Death the good Lord deliver all that do desire and endeavour to fear love serve and honour him It becomes all wise and faithful Christians to do what they can to prevent Judgments and to remove them and not by Contentions and Divisions to hasten them and to bring them upon us when that

service of the World the Flesh and the Devil and that how few do readily and willingly and cheerfully engage in the service of the God of Heaven whose service is perfect freedom and his work and reward is most honourable They do well that do love their Enemies that do often feed them and relieve them for the Lord doth make his Son to shine both on the Evil and on the Good and sendeth Rain on the Just and on the Unjust To do good to all Men it is commendable but to do good to the Houshold of Faith it is most profitable and will prove most comfortable A Friend loveth at all times but a true and a faithful Friend may be so much displeased as not to manifest his Love at all times Joseph loved his Brethren when he stormed at them spake roughly to them put some of them in Prison and caused Simcon to be bound before their Eyes But as after Storms and Tempests the Sun doth shine most clearest so after great and long Trials Troubles and Afflictions Deliverance will be the sweetest both to a Person a Family a City and a Kingdom Let not any therefore despise the day of small things let not any slight and undervalue the small beginnings of Grace in themselves or others for a spark of Grace well proved and improved will break forth into a flame for the Glory of Gods great Name and to bring a King and Kingdom to great Honour Renown and Fame The greatest Tree was a Plant and the Wisest the Strongest the Richest and most Learned'st Man was a Child They that have truth of Grace let them labour to grow in Grace by improving the means of Grace which the God of Heaven has appointed and the Church of England has ordained for they that do labour to grow in Grace will have increase of every Grace and so will grow in the favour of God and good Men and of the Angels in Heaven They that have truth of Grace and do improve it will have increase of Grace and will never lose it but will know when and how for to use it in the worst of times and before the best of Men for the Glory of the most High and the great Honour and Exaltation of Englands Royal Majesty Were there as many Nations as many Worlds as there be Men there is a way to subdue them for the Glory of the great and mighty God for the Credit of his Holy Gospel for the great Honour and Renown of the Protestant Religion for the great Joy and Triumph of the Church of England for the great Exaltation of his Majesty of Great Britain and the great Joy Peace and Prosperity of many Kingdoms and that is by daily getting Wisdom Power and Strength from him who gives to the whole Creation a Being which Divine Wisdom Power and Strength will inable a mortal Man to prepare high and honourable Works to be managed by many Wise Strong Rich and Learned Men that have their Wisdom their Power and Strength their Honours Riches great and high Places from the God of Heaven The Lord is a high and strong Tower and a Shield to all them that trust in him Great Deliverances giveth he unto his King and sheweth Mercy to his Annointed to David and to his Seed for evermore And who dare say that our Royal Soveraign his Majesty of Great Britain is not of the Seed of David Spiritually the Lord who is most great and most good has known his Soul in Adversity and did bring him to his Throne in great Peace and Prosperity The King trusteth in the Lord therefore through the Mercy of the most High he will not be moved but the right Hand of the Lord will find out all his Enemies he will find out all them that hate him he will make them like a fiery Oven in time of his Anger the Lord will destroy them in his Wrath and the Fire will devour them but the King our Royal Soveraign his Majesty of Great Britain will rejoyce in the Strength of the Lord yea how greatly will he rejoyce in his Salvation the Lord has given him his hearts desire and hath not denied him the request of his Lips but hath given him liberal Blessings and hath set a Crown of pure Gold upon his Head He asked Life of thee and thou Lord of Life hath given it him when he was pursued by unreasonable bloody and deceitful Men for which let all People in England Scotland France and Ireland and in many other Nations praise God and be very thankful The Lord who has wonderfully preserved his Majesties Royal Person for the great Joy Peace and Prosperity of many Nations and has set him and sent him as a Blessing among his People make him glad with the light of thy Countenance Remember him O Lord with the favour of thy People and visit him with thy Salvation that he may see the Felicity of thy Chosen and rejoyce in the Joy of thy People and glory with thine Inheritance in thine everlasting and most glorious Kingdom when this mortal Life will be at end The Lord preserve him both at home and abroad both by Land and Water that so he and his throughout the whole World may bear the greatest sway while time and all things under the Sun doth pass away Make known in time this noble Design for the great Joy Peace and Prosperity of Mankind by John Varney a Member of the Church of England and a Subject to his Majesty of Great Britain but such a Subject that the God of Heaven has honoured among the Sons of Men for to engage with him for to bring about such high and honourable Work pleasant profitable and delightsome Work victorious glorious and crowning Work for the great honour and renown of his Majesty of Great Britain and the Church of England which has not yet been done by all the Parliaments that have been since England has injoyed a King Shall the Church of England which is the Spouse of Christ bring forth Princes each one resembling the Children of a King and she sit in the Dust slighted and reproached by her Enemies both at home and abroad This ought not to be this must not be but the Sons of the most High must appear for her readily willingly and cheerfully As our Royal Soveraign his Majesty of Great Britain has been the greatest Prince in the World for suffering so I shall endeavour in these days of the Gospel by the power of Faith which is the power of God that he may be the greatest King and Emperor in the World and over the World for Wisdom Power and Strength for Honour Riches and great Glory so that those Nations which have paid Tribute to the Church of Rome to their great loss and shame will be glad to pay Tribute to the Church of England for the great Honour and Renown of the Protestant Religion and the great Exaltation of his Majesty of Great Britain because it will be