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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A79826	The abuse of Gods grace: discovered in the kinds, causes, punishments, symptoms, cures, differences, cautions, and other practical improvements thereof. Proposed as a seasonable check to the wanton libertinisme of the present age. By Nicholas Claget, minister of the Gospel at Edmundsbury in Suffolk, M.A. of Magdalen Hall, Oxon.	Clagett, Nicholas, 1610?-1662.; Wilkinson, Henry, 1616-1690.	1659 (1659)	Wing C4368; Thomason E978_2; ESTC R207811	268,515	321

THE ABUSE OF GODS GRACE DISCOVERED In the Kinds Causes Punishments Symptoms Cures Differences Cautions and other Practical Improvements thereof Proposed as a seasonable check to the wanton Libertinisme of the present Age. By NICHOLAS CLAGET Minister of the Gospel at Edmundsbury in Suffolk M. A. of Magdalen Hall Oxon. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ●●st Mart. Malorum morum licentia Pietas erit occasio Luxuriae Religio deputabitur Tertul. Apol. adversus Gentes c. 35. Shall we continue in sin that Grace may abound God forbid Rom. 6. 1 2. OXFORD Printed by A. Lichfield for Thomas Robinson and Samuel Pocock 1659. To his honoured Cosen WILLIAM CLAGET Esq And his dear Consort the Lady SOUTHCOATE Dear Cosen YOur Friendship to me which was of old and yet is not gray hair'd but flourishing knows no Winter but a constant Spring In both your Universitie Citie life the Rayes of your favour have shoone on me It is above twenty years since we were Contemporaries at Oxford under our Reverend Pious Sound and Learned Tutor Dr. Edw. Corbet who was a real Saint on earth and is now a glorious Saint in heaven The mercy of our Tuition is not to be forgotten of us nor can I forget your kindness to me which hath not been Aeffaeta gignendo barren by Production like pregnant Animals and vegetative Trees I am your Debtor besides the due Debt of my Prayers for you I here present to you this 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Thank-offering that it may from your Christian candor find acceptance and a sweet savour We live in an unhappy Age wherein by many the Form by most the Power of Godlyness is neglected Though t is a Mercy Religion is in some Forme and Fashion yet 't is a misery the Fashion is so Multiform in every different dress so Obnoxious that Words and Works are too common Antipodes Wronging Gods Grace is Englands Epidemical sin None of the quarrelling sides among us can plead Innocence Though the spots of Gods children and the Devils are not the same yet to our shame be it spoken all sides have too much darkened the glory of their profession obscured the lustre of the Gospel Sun and laid the Honour of Gods name in the dust Seeing our streets are so foul I would mind every one to sweep their own doors that the times of Liberty may no longer be reproached as they are with a dirty wanton unjust Licentiousnesse in Opinions and Practises The sad experience that the old man is in my self too much a Libertine and what I have seen and heard of others put me upon large Meditations sundry years ago in my Lordsday Sermons to mine own Auditory concerning the Pest of the Times Spreading At Edmondsbury in Suffolk Disease Bane of Profession Disgrace of Religion Remora of Conversions Affliction of best hearts Occasion of Blasphemy Temptation to Atheisme Merriment of Rome which consists in the Abuse of Grace Could I upon Englands tallest Mountain speak with the loudest noise of Thunder and articulate my mind to every ear I would say the Abuse of Grace is Englands sinne Repent of it O England repent repent These were the words of that faithful Martyr Mr. Bradford when he was burning in the flames Though it is not possible I should be so loud vocal and monitory yet incouraged by some pious and judicious friends I am imboldned to take the benefit of the Presse and to communicate thoughts in season to as many hands eyes and hearts as Providence shall guide them to I beseech you Sir the happinesse of whose Consanguinity and Amity I have experienced peruse and improve what you shall read to an holy conviction serious bewailing and deep abhorrence of an odious sin which hath too black a guilt and is loaded with many aggravating circumstances This will be a choice divine Blessing on the Tractate the Authors Reward and a Testimony of the Grace of God in you The Gospel the precious Gospel that hath cost the Blood of Christ and Christians the sweet word of Grace the power of God unto Salvation let it be precious in your holy esteem And though Papists Qui de evangelio Christ facium hominis evangeliū vel quod pejus est diaboli Hier. Epist ad Gal. by their Derogatory Antichristian Traditions Worldly Polititians and Hellish Libertines doe in Hieromes tearms make of the Gospel of Christ the Gospel of men or which is worse the Gospel of the Devil Do you speak it and live it the Gospel of God and Grace The things I would offer to mine own soul I tender to you Be inquisitive what may deservedly bear the brand of Gospel Wantonnesse when it appears and interpret it as the Messenger of Hell the Artifice of the Devil turned Angel of Light the not more subtile than pernicious Engine to ruin souls Be one of Zions Mourners in your Closet Retirements to look over this worst of sins the predominant wrong of Grace with a mourning spirit Endeavour to live a severe exact spiritual heavenly frame of heart that when you are to give up your Death-bed account the Spirit of Truth Peace Puritie and Comfort may witness with yours that the Gospel hath transformed you into the Image of it's Glory and hath taught you to deny that ungodlyness and those wordly Lusts which shrowd themselves under the protection of Grace And Noble Madam as the Tye of Marriage and the Union I hope of Grace hath made you and my dear Cosen one so have I made you one in my Epistolary address If the divine principle of the love of God and his Gospel be implanted in you it cannot but urge you to the detestation of and lamentation for the prodigious sin of Gospel Wantonness whilst some Femal vvantons study their senses and faces not their souls who beautifie their out-sides whilst their insides are altogether dis-regarded be pleased among other spiritual Looking-glasses which religious Artists and faithfull Writers have with elaborate thoughts composed to honour this so far as often to look on it to dress your better part by it that when it shall reflect and reverberate your gracious beauty you may praise the infinite Beauty and Fountain of Holiness you may be Great and Good too and this is a most rare and happy combination A few there are in the words of an Ancient that are eminent in both In utroque tulo primi worlds and but a few Not many Noble 1 Cor. 1. 26. are called to eternal Honours Goodness enamels Greatness and shines like a precious Stone in a Ring I like not but altogether abhorre that morose Stoicisme and Quakerisme that frowns on the Titles of worldly precedencies as unbecoming Christians eares tongues Due Titles are no crimes of Language nor unconsistent with Piety yet I hope you have learned the vast distance between the stile of Madam and Christian and that in the divine Heraldry the heavenly Descent of Grace will out-shine all the Escutchions and the