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lord_n	abhor_v	heart_n	zion_n	24	3	8.4912	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44930	Munster and Abingdon, or, The open rebellion there [brace] and [brace] unhappy tumult here (bred in the same wombe) that from Sleidans Comm. L. 10. [brace] [brace] this from eye and eare witnesses : with marginal notes of Mvncer and Mahomet, faithfully communicated to English readers, in a booke and postscript, for a seasonable caution to the British nation and a serious check to rash and giddy spirits / by W.H.	Hughes, William, fl. 1665-1683.	1657 (1657)	Wing H3344; ESTC R39005	45,813	124

mouse As for their parts when they complaine of hard measure that their nakednesse is so taken notice of and withall acquit themselves of the imputation of immodesty so too themselves uncover it in publique view we are content to stand obliged for giving better satisfaction to them Meane while having but once enquired what else should meane this querulous and unreasonably whining spirit save to lay low with those tame soules they deale with blindfold for an open eye sees in it nothing else but very chaffe the reputation of our Magistrates who give such hardest measure and to raise their owne who quietly put it up and added that if ever those worthies Heb. 11. to looke no further suffered but at and yet complained after such a rate I le never trust mine eyes againe We will hearken unto what comes next §. 7. Then whether Truth and conscience do not suffer somewhat more than meere restraint 2 Falsehood I meane flat banishment at the hands but of too many passages in that Paper could I be heard I would beseech themselves well to consider To take the testimonies but of two or three enough to make a valid proofe if they speake home to the point in hand if not I must professe they are Barbarians unto me or mute as fishes For instance First where they call it now a day of their sore calamity In notorious misreports of their-owne and elsewhere amplified as t is well knowne by words of heaviest weight and saddest import contempt reproach persecutions c. But is the matter thus indeede Or is it possible themselves alone of all the world should see t is so What are those pressures lying on them that fetch such sighes and groanes from their very hearts againe If we go round the Nation and aske their Neighbours in every tything who can acquaint us with them May we not Reader must we not say unto them as the Apostle did to others who is he that will harme you if ye be followers of what is good Are not their liberties their Properties ascertained to them by as good a title as any other persons whatsoever Yea by as good a title as unto the Present Government it selfe I meane the Instrument Who doth not know that theirs and its must live and dye together unlesse themselves lay violent hands on either before the time And are they not in possession of them Ah worst ingratitude to the hand of mercy that puts sweete for bitter and bitter for sweete that nicknames light darknesse and darknesse light good evill and evill good And can a gracious soule forget or slight the bitter word against that evill frame of spirit Isay 5.20 All that is said or possibly can be whereof I am aware which whether heavier than the dust of the ballance is quickly tryed comes but to this some very few of their freinds are kept in Prison And must their freinds if one should aske them of all the world alone be lawlesse Is this the liberty contended for to put that also that they speake what they please do what they list and no man dare to call them to account Or if once more yet Authority shall make so bold and with their freinds for preservation of the whole as to command the paring of a nayle or cutting of a corne is all then gone to wrack immediately The tender usage of that very small and inconsiderable number if now at all a number under restraint is just so far their miscarriages duly measured from laying ground of halfe those clamours gone abroad about it that it irresistably obligeth unto gratitude all ingenuous spirits Sympathizing with them He that heares any thing without his owne doore cannot be ignorant that nothing lesse than flat defiance of Authority with us brought them where they are A lesson sure enough nere taught them by the blessed spirit Rom. 13-1 whose language is let every soule be subject to the higher powers because they are the Ordinance of God §. 8. Nor doth it serve the turne Sions present condition specially only to call it now a day of their owne calamity but Sion also must be intituled to that complaint Sions tribulation so the subscription to the first epistle hath it Is Sion only among themselves Let any shew me how that phrase will fairely beare another sense There is then but little Truth in that I thinke all other men will say and lesser love me thinkes I may but that alas t is no such newes to find it so with them Or if we straine their Sion that there may be roome for other all Saints else besides themselves within these Lands to shelter under it t is still as much an Alien unto Truth as formerly Had indeed the Lord caused the wayes of Sion to mourne because none came to her Solemne Assemblies had the Lord abhorred his Sanctuary that his voyce from thence were no more heard had the Lord given her walls into the hand of her Enemy that shee must hold her tongue and not make mention of the name of Lord. VVere this or worse the case of the Sion here with us who of her sons but his eye must needs affect his heart unto a dolefull lamentation for and with her But whilst our eyes behold our teachers and see the beauty of their feet that bring glad tydings whilst we sit under our vines and fig-trees none making us afraid Whilst Kings are nursing fathers to us and Queenes our nursing mothers as here 't is thus with Sion yet and somewhat better adored be that grace from whence t is so it cannot sinke into our thoughts but as her heart is filled with joy and mouth with laughter hereupon so her complaints will find some fitter matter to spend themselves upon most likely that untoward frame of spirit that doth not duly prize and make a just improvement of those signall mercies injoyed by her §. 9. I shall passe by their frontispeece implicite accommodation of the 3 of Malachy and 15 verse unto our times and discharge the second parties claime upon the hearing only of one evidence more given in The grosse untruth in pleading not guilty under such apparent misbehaviour in one halfe line in their last page And thus it sayes Little against any was spoke or done at the meeting But where is now the soft and tender Conscience that will not beare false witnesse and dareth thus deliberately in the face of heaven and earth and by so many hands how few soever were the heads about composing right hearts for certaine herein being fewest of all to cast up in print so vast a bill of venomed provocations into very ciphers All was but litle say they but what that litle was it seemes they have more wit at least than tell A little truly of their little Reader thou mayst expect to heare anon Meane while I would aske themselves Is this the part of faithfull Historians but no more of that doth

he should not cry nor lift up nor cause his voyce to be heard in the street as the mode of earthly Princes is not only did refuse to be made a king on earth but seemeth elsewhere to give the reason of it My kingdome is not of this world And it doth not yet appeare that ever he changed his mind Beside it is no doubt with them but that it was the disciples weaknesse before the powring forth of the spirit on them which they also had received by tradition from their Jewish fathers to expect Messiah's reigning in an earthly kingdome 3 Adde hereto that the proofe of such a kingdome is borrowed onely from darker prophecies and obscurer passages 4 in the booke of God not written with that Sun-beame the other is wherewith their hearts are taken up And it is worth your heeding that as t is past excuse in them who wretchedly sport the Scriptures into a very Allegory so they must beare their blame who in the prophecies thereof will looke no further than the earthy side of promised mercies The Holy Ghost so cloathing spirituall blessings then as likely most to take on children in the Churches non-age yet when she is growne up in Gospell daies would have her understand them in the sense he meant them And therefore more than once we find such prophecies of the old Testament as seeme to speake of glory and advantage to the outward yet in the New interpreted by himselfe of those belonging to the inward man And lastly 5 their great experience of small advantage by injoying so the world at will unto the spirituall part the reason why so many good words in the booke of God we find bestowed on afflictions and sad observations of their unhappy fate through an apparent hand of God therein who in an over hot pursuit of an earthy kingdome quite lose so it falls out the way onto the heavenly witnesse the former story These things cast up together are thought by some to come to somewhat that may make a sober Christian pause upon the businesse §. 19. But put the case 't were past all question that such a kingdome should sometimes be If granted not by Sin to be promoted therefore May we the while do evill that good may come upon it Or needeth the Lord Jesus our lye unto his glory Or do ye thinke and I beseech you to be serious in it it is his mind we should pull downe HIS WRITTEN LAWES IN SCRIPTVRE to set up a kingdome so darkely written there as next to not at all That nothing lesse than this way laies you in the road you travaile was seene before and I therefore hope you neede no Monitor afresh If my words will not take upon you at least let the Apostles have their errand with you They are Exhorted We beseech you BRETHREN study to be quiet doing your owne businesse Beware of suffering as evill doers or which is all one as busy bodies in other mens affaires perswade your selves 't were much more happy with us would we all make conscience more to tend the duties of those Places wherein we are than quarrell by our carriage even at Providence for placing us unto such duties Come Sirs le ts never pawne the publique peace the comfort of our soules the credit of our dearest Lord for satisfaction to a discontented humour which when it hath devoured them all will ne're be full whilst we have flesh to feede it My heart doth give me that if many of you did but see unto the end that way you enter now so boldly on doth lead 't would make your soules ride post with switch and spurre craving all helpe of heaven and earth untill you were got out againe Remember Sirs it is not usuall for men at once to arrive at the very worst No our malignant Enemy Satan leads by steps but when t is downe a steepe t is hard recovering for him especially that is far gone One evill spirit once bad welcome makes roome with ease and speede for seven other worser than himselfe Who hath not heard that litle boyes creep in at windowes to open dores for bigger theeves Why do we not lay to heart how great a matter a litle fire kindleth Sirs be intreated in the bowels of Jesus Christ to stoop betimes to Solomons counsell let thine eye looke right on and thine eyelids strait before thee Ponder the path of thy feet and let thy waies be stablished §. 20. May the Lord arise to favour Sion and repaire those saddest gaving breaches The Lord intreated and Ignorance and errour with the want of Christian love on every hand have either made upon her or do keepe open in her and turne unto his people a pure language that with one consent his Name be called on amongst them and no rest given him till he make Jerusalem the praise of all the the earth And May the same Lord in mercy rescue the honest upright soules amongst you not yet acquainted with the depthes of Satan from that unhappy snare of being longer made the staulking horse unto the Jesuiticall and Satanicall designe of those who prostitute Religion Conscience what not for homage to their accursed IDOLS ADVANTAGE and AMBITION The whole concluded This is the Authors fervent prayer for Her and you a freind how ere you take him affectionate unto Both and whose soule desireth ever to be found in doing nothing against the TRUTH but for it Hinton Berks. December 26. 1656. W. Hughes FINIS Mistakes of the Presse Epist p. 5. l. 23 d. y. ibid. l. 25. r. no. Book p. 2. l. 1. d. ta p 49. l. penult r. clashing p. 50. l. 6. to honest ad people Postscr p. 1. l. 1. marg ad P. 1. An Apology p. 2. Title r. Abington Tumult ibm l. 26. r. fire p. 4. l. 12. r. ehuseth p. 68. l. 26. after one ad once p. 69. l. penult ad 1. By their owne report p. 75. l. 1. in too d. o. p. 79. l. 7. d. the pag. 85. l. 16. r. passing p. 95. l. 7. r. title