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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A79229	A calme consolatory view of the sad tempestuous affaires in England.		1647 (1647)	Wing C307; Thomason E384_13; ESTC R201452	40,675	56

reasonably conclude that God hath set forth some more peculiarly inabled by one gift then others and therefore thinke it unfit to be equally claimed by all Wee are already in a Conflagration but we may remember that the whole world was set on fire when the Novice-Phaeton would needs hold the Reines and misguide the Chariot of the Sun If yet this Parlty must be inforc't I would desire that Church-man to ruminate the reply of Lycurgus one of the wisest Legislators that ever sate at Sterne who when he was sollicited to set up a Democracy slack't the importunity of the rash adviser with a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 whereupon he went away like the rich man in the Gospel very pensive for he had many Servants and shall Gods House indure that confused Anarchy which thy owne abhorres Certainely if wee thinke it meet to transcribe from Heaven wee shall finde that without repining of the starres 〈◊〉 ●● 10. God made two great Lights the Sun to rule the day and the Moone to rule the night and shall it be otherwise with those who are called the Light of the world Shall the seven Golden Candlestickes be remooved Mat 5 14. Rev. 2 22. or else a Blazing Star or a Rush be put into them Nay in Heaven amongst the very stars one differs from another in glory and when your selves come thither 1. Cor. 15 ●● though every one of you shall be full of glory yet there shall be a different measure according to your severall Capacities Christ hath told us there shall be a least in the Kingdome of Heaven and I have somewhere read it well illustrated by glasses of a different size Math. 11.11 dived into the River of which though one holds more none is fuller then another the Amphora and the Vrcens are both brimmed up and therefore no roome either for more Drops into it selfe or for Envy at anothers streame to which I may apply that of Seneca Hic plus edit ille minus quid refert Vterque iam satur est hic plus bibit Epist 85. ille minus quid refert Vterque non sitit Yet if the Episcopall word be only excepted at as I have heard some moderate judging adversaries give in their verduit that the Authority must be retained or else themselves shall fall out with any new intrusion and the name and thing may still be allowed us if a Pastour or a super-intendent the Latine-English of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 shall turne out the Notion and leave behind the Rem substratam I should not much straine at it though I know not how justly queazy others might be and feare the Title be onely parted with as an Earnest that all the Appendages shall follow though any Bargaine may be legally evacuated with the losse of Earnest such a Gnat though with reluctancy wee might perhaps at length swallow though the other Camell would down-right choake us and like the Picture of Jonah in the Whales mouth stick in our throat for ever it would neither feede us it selfe and would also stop up the Avenew that no other sustenance might have passage in this case I should blesse God for one of Jobs Messengers that the Caldeans had fell upon these and the like Camells and carryed them all away Job 1.17 as fearing also that such Beasts of space and compasse might fill up the narrow way and lie as another Gate before the strait-gate of Heaven to lock us out Math. 7.14 But it is of late said by the Compilers of the Annotations upon the whole Bible that this kind of Cleargy is inclined to Popery Preface pag. 2. and have used meanes for the introduction of it that I may not over-expresse any thing and my relation be charged with malice I will give it you in their owne language which is of it selfe so high that I confesse I have not fancy enough to soare at that rate And if ever those Masters of the Mystery of iniquity having a long since set on foote their designe to make the Kingdome retrograde in Religion in turning toward the Tenets of Doctrine and Forme of Worship of the Romish Church have any cause to mount it on horsebacke it must be by putting downe the most found sincere and zealous preaching of the Word as by some experimentall preparations wee have seene of late and our reason may fore-see and fore-cast for the time to come for this hath been and it is like may be hereafter their manner who labour to extinguish at least to eclipse the light of Evangelicall Doctrine first by picking a quarrell with the most sufficient diligent and conscionable Preachers to stop their mouthes imprison their persons or to drive them from their Country Pudet haec opprobria a heavy charge I confesse to betray the truth but since the bare assertion is the whole argument I shall thinke it an honest payment to returne that Romish answer Ais Nego unlesse themselves introduce a Doctrine of the R. Church and speake infallibly yet if these kinde of men thus insimulated of Apostacy have not beene the stoutest Propugners of our Religion against the Church of Rome many of them by writing some by sealing the Truth with their blood I have read no books to the meanes they are said to use for the incompassement of so darke a designe I will not returne that answere Quid minus est non dico Oratoris sed hominis quam id objicere Aduersario Tull. Philip. 2. quod ille si verbo negarit longius progredi non possit qui objecerit the times give me another reply and I am sorry I must par pari referre lay downe payment in the same coyne Mutato nomine de te fabula narratur that many sound sincere and zealous Preachers are put downe that the mouthes of the most sufficient diligent conscionable Preachers are stopt that the persons of many of thē are imprisoned here and many others have got leave to be driven out of their Country Servi ut taceant Jumenta loquentur Canis Postes Marmora of which though wee who are yours and would be their Servants in Christ should be as silent to you as wee are to our Flocke the stone out of the wall shall cry and the beame out of the timber shall answer it Habak 2 1● for want of the Antiphonaries the Vox clamantis in the Priest and the responsals of the people for that at the present there are many hundred Churches in England lye speechlesse or have no constant certaine known voyce for the sheep to follow the Epitome of it London can witnesse at large This Altum silentium is but a sad off-spring of Reformation especially when the generall cry of it in those common mouths where there is vox praeterea nihil and that not halfe so weet as the Nightingale does most vehemently breath it selfe against dumb dogs unlesse this late sacred silence be deem'd extaticall and a

nullo fama rubore placet yet least some men swallow it as a rationall fancie I will a little melt off the paint and shew you its contrary face how it will looke most unlike it selfe and halt out of your sight from an apprehensive shame of its owne lamenesse at length only troubled that it cannot out-run the Chace Christ himself hath prescribed me a prayer a very set forme he hath givē me that as a guide to my devotiō wherby I might tread upright It is in this sense the foot of my soule that by it I may climbe those steps in Jacobs ladder which reach up to heaven just as he hath bestowed upon me fleshy limbs to trace that earth which he hath given to the sons of men Hee hath also inabled me with a gift and power to frame other supplications out of that fruitfull forme just as he hath imparted to me out of that equall docility indulged to the composition of whole mankinde how to make to my selfe a Crutch if he will be yet perverse and cry out still against my prescribed Iamenesse I shall satisfie my selfe in deeming it better to enter into life thus halt or maim'd rather then by having such feet of mine owne to be cast into everlasting fire But perhaps our Saviours owne prayer may escape scandall free and the blow be only meant at those of the Church because they say I have heard some say so the whole life of man must not be once guilty of repeating the same prayer twice and yet that part of our Letany O Son of David have mercy upon us was so farre from being reproved by Christ Math. 10.1.17.48 that I doubt not but the very repetition of it in the same words wrought the cure for the importunate persevering in his request under the very same formality and crying so much the more though many charged him that he should hold his peace though they had no commission for such a restraint upon his prayer did give a pregnant testimony of that strong Faith which our Saviour told him had made him whole and immediately he received his sight And that other part in the Te Deum prescribed to us Holy Holy Holy Lord God Almighty was more cheerfully entertained by that Lambe which sat upon the throne and his copartners in divine worship the Father and the Spirit for I may conceive there is a particular holy to each of them or else the prayer would be in a manner said thrice together which gives me the same advantage because the foure beasts did not cease day and night saying the same words Rev 4.8 concerning whom that reprooving prayer need not be used which is wont to impute darkenesse to us that God would open their eyes for as they were full of eyes within so none neede scruple but those eyes were full of light and illumination and in the holy Eucharist where wee use the same words we confesse them to be the voice of the Angels Archangels and all the Companies of Heaven I shall never conceive how any Companies upon Earth have better learnt to pray then all in Heaven But for the Church-prayers intirely as they lye for I would only speake of publique worship each mans private devotions I leave betwixt God and his Conscience as having no key to any closet but my owne If wee looke upon the naturall indowments of any single man be they as Mountainous as he shall please to thinke them I cannot in any reason but count it a deluded presumption that he would prefer his owne unpremeditated fluencies to the elaborate joynt-results of so many learned men who contrive ex instituto where he but stumbles or if the gift of the spirit be regarded I shall never doubt but God do's more plentifully powre out his spirit upon the legally representative Church imploring his aid then upon any one Member of it nor is this to shorten the hand of God which sure spreads it selfe farther in such a universall benevolence If he will still like the fained impotent not obtaining what he askes hold up his very crutch against me since to a resolved Contumacy a Sarcasme is more operative then a Conviction I shall only desire him to turne Baker as well as Canonist because else himselfe should only feed on crutches whilst the other eates up legs For these and many other reasons which you may more copiously imbibe from the obvious discourse of learned men then from the unaptnesse of my hand to write I would faine implore some liberty to tender consciences who are so well assured of the lawfulnesse and so much experienc't in the benefit of our Liturgy and wee hope this liberty will not be called licentionsnesse since wee rather conceive it a bridle then a spur to that because the property of that is to open an unlimited way for all to doe what is good in their owne eyes the uncheckt misdemeaning garbe of the very people of God when there was no King in Israel and this fixes its eye upon the establisht Lawes made by Protestants in defence of Protestanisme Judg. 17.16 and calls in them to succour T is St. Judes advice after he hath charged you to keepe your selves in the love of God looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus that your selves would shew love and mercy to your Neighbour that you would have compassion of some making a difference Jude 22. those towards whom the difference is recommended are they of a more tender nature then others as the late Annotations and certainely no tendernesse of so supple a nature as that of conscience declaring and proving it selfe to be only conscience without any adhesion of terrene mixture by the contented losse of all things else then which there is no higher 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 imaginable of sincere uningaged conscience which he that indeavours to force there may be an indeavour there cannot be a forcing will torture and vexe it as a thing that is rawe and make him cry out there is Death in the pot Idem facit occidenti I shall conclude this and leave all men to consider what that is they carry within their breast how blunt an argument the keenest sword will appeare when it incounters the minde which as no violence can kill so neither can it informe Those who have past their Minority in Religion and are growne up to the stature of men in Christ may be charitably presumed to have tryed and approoved their worship by fixt Principles which like the Rockes in the Sea are the same and unmooved what ever Waves oppose and breake themselves in the tumultuous conflict A Principle which I have already digested is not the lesse a Principle to me because some other man delights in contrary Rudiments the Milke of the Gospel is not the lesse sincere though it be not served after the Geneva-fashion those whose moderne yeasterdayes constitution of Government require it so let them have it as it trills from