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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65548	Miserere cleri, a sermon, presenting the miseries of the clergy, and assigning their true causes in order to redress preached before the right honourable Sir John Vaughan Knight, Lord Chief Justice of His Majesties Court of common pleas, and Sir John Archer Knight, one of the justices of the same court : in the cathedral of Saint Peter, Exon, at the Assizes, on Sunday, July 26, 1688 / by Edw. Wetenhall ...	Wettenhall, Edward, 1636-1713.	1668 (1668)	Wing W1505; ESTC R3625	18,089	31

for them Or the people easier Or would what is left satisfie And how long You see I repress my self and to the end you may conceive our Misery is great I shall onely adde that besides what we have lamented to you there is yet much remaining which we keep to our selves intending our complaint shall be like Jeremie's moderate not exorbitant which I shall briefly touch on as being the second thing promised Our Prophet seeing so much contention so much scorn so much obloquy attend him and that meerly because of his Office and care in its discharge which as to himself had so much pains and thanklesness in it yet so happy a design as to others thus bemoans himself Wo is me my Mother that thou hast born me a Man of strife c. In other words Miserable woful man that I am He doth not say Wo is me that I was born but that I was born a man of strife and contention that is a Priest and sanctified from the womb to be a Prophet He complains his office had much of Wo in it and the premises considered Had not his Hath not ours Yet 1. As Jeremy did not so neither do we relinquish our Office for its burden Such regards of Fame we leave as proper to many of our Factious Detractours being resolved our selves to bear the Clouds as well as Heat and burden of the day Being therefore we are through Divine grace thus resolutely diligent in our Lords vineyard we hope neither he nor any just judge will reckon it to us as a crime that having such a load on us it presseth from our labouring hearts now and then a groan Especially when we 2. Do not as nor here doth Jeremy accuse our God that he hath laid our burden so heavy Possibly 't is our unskilfulness or miscarriage that hath as to our sense inhanc't its weight Our sins haply have added unto its pressure and the load would sit much easier were our shoulders better qualified or had we laid aside every other weight At the worst the day hastens apace when we persevering shall rest from our labours and then no more weight but that of glory which the present pressures that then will seem not onely light but sweet in their memory and rewards shall exceedingly and eternally adde unto Wherefore as we faint not so neither do we murmur or 3. Nor yet do we inveigh against men who thus load us with strifes slights and calumnies except the meer letting them know their sins ours as well as their own miseries be so interpreted And as long as thus only with Jeremy we complain with all submission to God meekness to men and resolved diligence in our troublesome work we trust we shall never be adjudged in any measure excessively querulous But if these be not expressions of discontent what design have they They have the same design as had Jeremy's complaint in the Text the View of which was the last thing propounded and intended as the Application of all First then as Jeremy so we thus publish our miseries to bring men to Relentings of heart and to Repentance for these stubbornnesses and irreligiousnesses which will otherwise deprive them of Eternal life as at present they hinder those who design their happiness and watch over their souls of a quiet life This is the reason of our vehemency and clamours as some may esteem them Alas we have no displeasure no enmity or quarrel with the persons of any men we are adversaries onely to their adversaries that is their vices Let men renounce but these and we forthwith quit not onely all we seem'd to have against them but our very opinion sense and complaints of our own abovelamented misery We change our Wo is me into Blessed me and Blessed my mother that hast born me a man of so happy strife and contention for I have converted a sinner from the errour of his wayes Let me then most passionately importune and beg of our opposers and detractours if not for their own sakes and out of a regard to the immortal souls they wear yet that out of ingenuity out of generous and good natures to which they generally pretend they will a little abate of their affronts and contempts of religion for upon that fall all the sleights and reproaches which are cast on us for our Professions sake that they will think men who are ready to lay down their life for the truth of it believe really what they teach of the truth of Religion that they will exercise so much of sobriety and good manners as not always to answer onely with laughter serious reasons and demonstrations in the verity of which ages and multitudes of most learned men have acquiesced and not proceed to vex the souls of them who most passionately desire their welfare with such insolent tramplings Another design which we may have in indulging these complaints which it is not improbable too Jeremy might have in his eye is the putting our selves on a strict enquiry whether we owe not our miseries to our crimes The Prophet seems I say to have searched when he pronounces I have neither lent on usury nor have men lent to me on usury And I beseech in all reverence all my brethren that I may speed in this design on them if any of us particularly apprehend our selves men of strife c. in the sense insisted on let such be pleased impartially to enquire if themselves be guiltless as to their own misery If they are not as to their own it is certain they cannot be as to their brethrens I know none of those whom at present I address my speech to want abilities to suggest more heads of sacerdotal miscarriages then I have touched Those abilities and divine grace which will be wanting to none in such designs improve to an honest scrutiny and Reformation and it will undoubtedly much remedy both your own and others Woe A third design which in these complaints we truly have and Jeremy might have is to move Persons of Power and Place to our pity and Relief Nor can I but perswade my self I have already sped in my request where I am so confident justice dwells The summe I crave is all possible encouragement to serious Religion and especially to the profession of it at present settled With many all Religion is decryed as an abuse of credulous mankind with others either the present Religion amongst us impugned or the strictness as is pretended of its present settlement Now nothing can contribute so much to the interest of Religion in common as the countenance of great and grave persons Nothing can do this particular profession of it more service than their vigorous adhaesion to its laws And remember I beseech you our late confusions Can any sober man be fond on Hemms and Expletives and Non-sense for Prayers of confused Noises for Praises of Ruines for Churches or blue Aprons and such like cattle for Preachers Behold the goodly majesty yet gravity and modesty of our present Order The place august the prayers and Hymns certain devout complete the Harmony full they who minister in a reverend decency and each instructed and exercised in his faculty The whole striking a sacred Awe and Veneration upon the Enterer and so fitting him with an holy fear and transport of mind to fall down and worship the unseen Beauty of Holiness the essential glory of the infinite God Behold I say and consider all and let your souls seriously deprecate and abhorre the day that ever the Axes and the Hammers should be at work again in the Temple except it be to repair its deficiencies or that for want of bread unto its Ministers the glory of Mount Sion should become desolate and as a lodge in a garden of Cucumbers In case these designs should fail which God forbid we have yet one more and that is by this view of our miseries and these complaints and lamentations of it to move our own and all pious brests to a most affectionate ardour and intensness of Devotion and thereby Him to pity whose pity is together help and alone powerful to turn our Lamentations into Hallelujahs of joy our fears into safety and to make our mountain stand fast And to him are our eyes We have looked for peace but behold tottering for the time of healing but behold trouble See O Lord we beseech thee we are become vile We acknowledge O Lord our iniquities and the iniquity of our forefathers for we have all sinned against thee Yet do not thou abhorre us very much For thy names sake do not disgrace the throne of thy glory Or if so it is decreed for our sins that we shall be scattered Scatter us O Lord but let our dispersions intirely praise thee and find us out some Wilderness where we may in Order if not Decency sing Glory be to the Father Son and Holy Ghost Glory be to God on high and on earth Peace Goodwill towards mankind Amen Amen FINIS Books printed and sould by James Collins at the Kings Head in Westminster-Hall FOurty Sermons of that famous Preacher Mr Anthony Farindon Folio The Triumphs of Rome over despised Protestancy written by Bishop Hall 8o. Flora Ceres Pomona or A Compleat Floriledge by F. Rea Gent. Fol. Considerations touching Witches and Witchcraft with the fam'd Disturbance of the Demon at Tedworth and some other reflections on Drollery and Atheisme Plus ultra or the Advancement and Progress of Knowledge since the days of Aristotle both written by Jos Glanvil Fellow of the Royal Society 8o. A Discourse of Subterraneal Treasure 12o. The Experienc'd Angler the most ingenious on that Subject 8o. The Serious Practice of Godliness 12o. The Countess of Mortons Prayers 24o. Sure Footing in Christianity examin'd by G. H. 8o.