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A88104	The a fury of vvarre, and b folly of sinne, (as an incentive to it) declared and applyed. For caution and remedy against the mischiefe and misery of both. In a sermon preached at St. Margarets Westminster, before the Honourable House of Commons, at their late solemne and publike fast, Aprill 26. 1643. By Iohn Ley Minister of Great Budworth in Cheshiere.	Ley, John, 1583-1662.	1643 (1643)	Wing L1879; Thomason E103_1; ESTC R11792	61,846	83

give in the * First Remonstrance p 18 19. first Remonstrance of the Parliament in these words The Popish party enjoyed such exemptions from the Penall Laws as amounted to a Toleration besides many other encouragements and Court Favours They had a Secretary of State Sir Francis Windebank a powerfull Agent for the speeding of all their desires a Popes Nuntio residing here to act and governe them according to such influences as he received from Rome and to intercede for them with the most powerfull concurrence of the Forraigne Princes of that Religion By his autherity the Papists of all sorts Nobility Gentry and Clergy were convocated after the manner of a Parliament New Iurisdictions were erected of Romish Arch-bishops Taxes levyed another State moulded within this State independant in Government contyary in interest and affection secretly corrupting the ignorant or negligent professours of our Religion and closely uniting and combining themselves against such as were sound in this posture waiting for an opportunity by force to destroy those whom they could not hope to seduce If compliance with Popery should advance so many degrees in every 12. or 13. yeares space as it hath done since the yeare 1628. they that have been solicited for above threescore yeares in vaine to abate some at the best indifferent Ceremonies for more conformity with the reformed Protestant Churches might within a Jubile of the † A Iubile of 25. yeares shortened from 50. by Sixt 4. Anno 1475. Bucholz p. 425. shortest size become as compleate Papists as any reside at Rome or Rhemes And what an incentive of wrath Idolatry is we may conjecture by the neere relation betwixt God and his people as by the conjunction of Wedlock Hose 2. ver 16 19. whence Idolatry is accompted by God spirituall whoredome Ezek. 16. ver 22 26 28 32 35 38. Hose 2.1 2. which enkindleth the rage of jealousie against the disloyall party for jealousie saith Solomon is the rage of a man therefore he will not spare in the day of vengeance he will not regard any ransome neither will he rest content though thou givest many guifts Prov. 6. ver 34 35. And that the wrath of a jealous God is not more remisse in such a case then that of a jealous man we may be sure of by the patheticall expression of the Prophet Nahum God is jealous and the Lord avengeth the Lord avengeth and is furious the Lord will take vengeance of his adversaries and he reserveth wrath for his enemies Nah. 1.2 and he counteth those rather his adversaries and enemies who breake covenant with him as the Iewes did in their Idolatrous desertions of him then the most notorious transgressours that never entred covenant with him as the Sodomites and therefore doth Ierusalem or the Prophet in her Name complaine the punishment of the iniquity of my people is greater then the punishment of the sinne of Sodome Lament 4. ver 6. and so indeed it was if we limit our consideration of it to a temporall calamity for that of Sodome in that respect was but of one sort and it was sodaine quickly at an end whereas the Jewes by warres famine and captivity indured many kinds of misery vehement in degree permanent in time whereof they would have taken a sodaine death for a certaine remedy by what Element or instrument soever The second particular sinne is the breach of the holy rest of God in the violation of the Sabbath which was never so prophaned with heart and hand and foote and tongue and pen and presse as of late yeares it had beene sixteene hundred yeares from Christ downeward have not disgorged so much gaule against the Sabbath nor spent so much Inke or brought forth so many tracts of detraction of the divine dignity and holy duties of that day as these last 40. yeares have done and is it not just with God that those who would justle his religious rest out of it's right should be restlesse in their condition as the Jewes complained our necks are under persecution we labour and have no rest Lam. 5.5 by continuall agitations of hostility The reformed Churches never throughly reformed in this point though of late better then they have beene have been grievously scourged and the more it is like for this sin and we since we have been deformed like them and would conforme to them in their liberty on the Sabbath but will not indure any of their strict discipline of manners we have beene made partakers of their pressures The third provoking impiety is the contempt of the Ministery wherein the dishonour of the divine Majesty is involved Luk. 10.16 and with him his ordinances his word and Sacraments and whatsoever he hath consecrated as serviceable to the glory of his name and salvation of his people and when were Ministers more contemned then of late yeares they have been when by greater numbers or by greater persons or in deeper degrees of disgrace and disdaine and yet are even at this day I deny not but divers of our Tribe have been entertained with a civill respect in regard of their good parts as for their wit or learning eloquence of speech elegancy of carriage perhaps somewhat too Court-like and for their riches or refference to great persons their siding with some potent party in times of faction And I confesse the Bishops have found great friends to support their preeminency as well the Temporall as Ecclesiasticall which of old and even of late at the “ Praedicationis munus quod Episcoporum praecipium est Concil Trident Sess 24. c 4. Councell of Trent was thought to consist rather in the Pulpit then in the Chaire But abstracting from these and such like secular plausibilities if a Minister have set himselfe in good earnest to preach and presse sound doctrine to the conscience and punctually to exemplifie it in his owne life and conversation if as an Embassadour from Christ as he is by his calling 2 Cor. 5.20 and as in duty he ought he deliver all the councell of God Act. 20.27 lest keeping back any part of it he should be guilty of the blood of souls v. 26. if he have taken the boldnesse to admonish and rebuke the rich as well as the poore as he may and must doe 1 Tim. 6.17 Iames 5. ver 1. if in the administration of the Sacrament he have endeavoured to put difference betweene the holy and prophane the uncleane and the cleane Ezek. 44.23 to keepe such as are like doggs and swine Mat 7.6 from the holy Table of the Lord least they should eate and drinke their owne damnation 1 Cor. 11. and have not denyed to deliver the consecrated symboles of the body and blood of Christ to such as made scruple of the gesture enjoyned by the Canon though otherwise most worthily prepared for the receiving thereof * That this is no time-serving Denet my discourse is witnesse penned and perused by divers learned Divines 14 years ag●● to prove that ●h