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A57327	Confirmation revived, and, Doom's-day books opened in two sermons, the one preach'd at Coventry before the Right Reverend Father in God, John, Lord Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, upon his first performance of confirmation in that city, June 23, 1662 : the other preach'd at Warwick before the Right Honourable the judges of Assize for that circuit upon the 2d of July next following / by John Riland.	Riland, John, 1619?-1673.; Riland, John, 1619?-1673. Doom's-day books opened.	1663 (1663)	Wing R1518; ESTC R26991	41,777	76

that way were nothing How many of us have been set it a Rich Soile and yet have hitherto afforded little else but a Fruitless shade and so only Cumbred the very ground that bears us What saies S. Bernard Securis ignis debetur c. S. Bernard nothing but the Axe and the Fire is that sad Debentur due to such unfruitful Trees In that parable God was coming and going Three yeares seeking Fruit of that Luke 13. 7. Fig-tree and found none He comes in our Child-hood there 's nothing but Folly he comes in our youth there 's nothing but vanity he comes in our man-hood that 's his Tertio jam venit and there 's little else but Greg. in loc Villany what has he found by these three years coming Hos 6. 7. but that now at last we can Transgress like Men Or however otherwise we Reckon those three years Certain it is that to some amongst us he has come year after year now for these many three years and has not found so much as leaves upon us Now since it cannot be said for us as it was said for that Tree The Mar. 11. 13. time of Figs was not yet What can we expect but the doom of that unhappy Tree that at Christs coming was Laden with nothing but Leaves Let no fruit Mat. 21. 19. grow on thee henceforward for ever For as the Thirst of a love-sick Soul must be stayd with Full Flagons not empty pots so the hunger of a love-sick Saviour must be Refresht with Apples not deluded with Leaves Stay me with Flagons comfort Can. 2. 5. me with Apples Besides we observe Christs travail had got him an early appetite He was hungry betimes in the Morning Mat. 21. 18. when he came for food to that False Deceitfull Tree suppose we he had come to many of us in the morning of our dayes Alas How sorrily had we treated him unless he could make a meal of a few Green leaves our childhood and youth has nothing else to entertain him If he please to come and take a short Supper with us when we are old and have little else to do perhaps we may think of Receiving him at least so far as a Lord have mercy or a few good words and 1 Sam. 2. 10. wishes will go then if Deus judicabit extrema terrae Aug Civ Dei ●● 7. c. 4. be onely Extrema hominis as St. Augustine would have it we may do well But to come and take us in the morning of our age and think as it were to find a Breakfast and satisfie those his early hungerings upon us alas we should utterly disappoint him unless like Iohn Baptist he can feed upon Locusts and that Wild honey which onely grows upon those our greener years Although we are not of their mind that say Confirmation necessarily carry's an Indeleble character along with it yet sure now it is high time by some mark or other to be known whose servants we are and to whom we belong If any Baal whatever be our God then serve him saith the Prophet but if the Lord be our God let him alone have our service For as the Tree is known not by its Leaves nor its Blossoms but by its Fruit of what sort soever it is so the true Christian is not discernible onely by pious professions fair shews or the like these are mere leaves and blossoms but by a life full of Obedience Humility Charity and Purity c. These are those Distinguishing Fruits not such as onely drop from the lips but grow upon the hands of a Christian Therfore when I read of that Tree in Ludolphus whose leaves resembled a man's hand it presently minded me of a Christian indeed all whose words promises and professions which are in themselves but light and leafy-things should be constantly referr'd to holy practises Leaves like the tongue of a Man we see enough upon any tree but every leaf of this tree must be like the hand of a Man and not so only but the Hand of a Christian We have been all I presume Baptiz'd into Christ Conclusion and what he said to Saint Peter about His washing What I doe thou knowest not now but shalt know hereafter the same may be sayd concerning Ours though John 13. 7. we knew not then what was done yet now I hope we do know and yet as if that Baptismal vow had been only wrote upon the Baptismal water too many make a sad shift easily to forget themselves and their Saviour You have now been Christs Probationers a long time and have had many years of tryall If you cannot away with this or have found out some better service say so and be gone to it If not then let your Renouncement in Baptism be this day renewed bid a considerate and fresh Defiance to the Devil c. and take upon you the yoke of Christ Jesus When you were Infants others took it for you now you come to take it from off their Necks and put it on your own and to say to your God-fathers and God-mothers as they did to the Woman of Samaria Now we believe not because of thy saying for we have John 4. 42. heard him our selves This day thou doest avouch the Lord to be thy God Deut. 26. 17. c. and to let the world know thou doest not repent of that Blessed bargain made for thee in thy minority behold thou art here ready by Gods help to make good those undertakements of others As said the blind mans parents so say yours He is of age ask him let him John 9. 21. now speak for himself Only be well advised what you speak or have spoken for as the Psalmist saith of his Tongue It is as the pen of a writer so should yours be Nil agat incompositum tanquam amus scritis c. ar in loc c. Do nothing speak nothing but with great deliberation and composedness as the same Father hath it You are now upon building a Towre whose Top will reach heaven sit down first and consider what it will ●●ke 14. 28. cost you to be a Christian and that you 'l have by and by Those that are to be numbred must be from twenty years ●●m 1. 3. old and upward provided they are able to goe forth to war in Israel-whereupon Origen observes All Women Children slaves old Men that is all womanish Childish Slavish decrepit Souls such as were below the heathen Agones they are Divinis Calculis prorsus indigni-unworthy ●●e● super ●●m to be Reckon'd up by Gods Counters So that such as those like Gideon's Supernumeraries may be spared and sent every man to his own place ●dg 7. 7. For our business here this day is about a Spiritual warfare such as are able for war in Israel our Meeting a kind of Mustering Behold here pardon the expression the Infantry of the Lord

the stubborn sullen old Trunk dyes in the removal Isa 60. 21. Thus we find the Church is styled of God not the full grown Tree but the Branch of my Planting and to let us know what kind of Branch it is and how it comes to Thrive so well there he tells us in the 22 v. A little one shall become a thousand and a small one a strong nation c. These thousands and Ten thousands this strong and mighty Nation of Christians all sure we are most of all arose from these small ones these little ones these little little ones or the least of small ones as the doubling of the words may their force in Hebr. do's imply These are they who in great multitudes Follow the Rev. 14. 4. Lamb wherever he goes These have Fill'd up the Companies of Saints These have Recruited and Compleated the Armies of Martyrs ever since the first footing of Christianity most of the Churches Additions have been made up of These Little ones whereas your Great ones those that choose the time of full-grown Christians for their implanting have never since the time aforesaid come in any such considerable numbers nor are they ever likely to doe so For if we look upon the present Face of that way though 't is confess'd much wash'd of late smooth'd over and made Fineish in comparison of those ugly Outlandish looks which at first it began withall however they may seem to have got the start of others in some flashes of Zeal and Knowledge with some little shewes of Outward Holiness yet it may be feared that Ambition and Self-Love Perversness and Disobedience Fierceness and Scornfulness Implacableness and Unpeaceableness yea Robbing and Murdering of men rather than fail to make Sacrifice and Burnt-Offerings for God I say all these and more such as these if lay'd in the other Ballance I doubt will weigh down all those Light flashes and Insubstantial shewes of a welpersonated Piety which seem to Stuffe and Fill up the other Scale But if any still be otherwise minded God I hope will in his time reveal this unto them To our business a business of Religion though sometimes necessarily folded up in these Garden-figures wherein whatever Improprieties have been or may be met withall I beg your pardon as being a profess'd stranger to those kind of studies For the Earliness of our Admission the subject now in hand let us consider our being Christians is not only a Planting or Transplanting both which bespeak the young and yielding Tenderness of the thing so planted or transplanted but it also supposes a sacred kind of Engraffing as our Church teaches us to say of Baptized Children They are Graffed into the body of Christ's Congregation Which Engraffing may be signified by the Hebr. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 here in the Text as well as Implanting yea if that Rule be true that your choicest Fruit-trees are still Engraffed the Psalmist here speaking of a Fruit-bearing tree and that of the best sort it must needs presuppose this Engraffing and be thus resolved viz. That this blessed big-grown Tree in the Text here before us was at first but a little tender Twig graffed into such a Stock as was Planted by the Rivers of Waters c. And if so then it must be a little one indeed for I think men don 't usually Engraffe your Thick truncheon-Trees or your Tall full-grown Branches but your lesser younger Springs of a span-long according to that other Rule which I am told of that the least Twig that grow's on the Trees top and looks Easterly and first sees the Morning-Sun such a one qualified with all these combinations of Early circumstances is absolutely the best for that purpose all which does secretly insinuate the Earliness of our Spiritual Engraffing And as this Early-Engraffing was here thus prefigur'd by our Prophet so was it uninterruptedly practised down along all the Primitive times For this even that of Tertullian Quid festinat innocens aetas c. His nice questioning why it should be so contains a solid Proof that indeed it was so I will say no more of the Earliness of the time but whereas the Lord hath spoken by the mouth of his servant David Those that be planted in the house of Psal 92. 13. the Lord shall flourish in c. Let us only turn that Promise into a Prayer and beg of God that those who have been thus planted in Gods House may not hereafter unroot and dance after the Pipe of any Orpheus whatever but still flourish in the Courts of that same House where at first they were planted Which brings me to the third thing proposed The Advantage of the place in these words By the Rivers of Waters He shall be like a Tree c. 3. As for the Hebrew here 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 whether it be best rendred by Divisiones as some Decursus as others or Rivos Aquarum Rivers of Waters as ours translate it we shall not Dive too Daringly nor be Curious in the Enquiry but content our selves to be like the Tree we speak of Secus non Intus stand by the Banks not Plunge into the Bottome of these Waters If Scriptures and Sacraments with the unwearied workings and strivings of Gods blessed Spirit if the former and later Rain of his preventing and assisting Graces together with the continual droppings of all his Ordinances I say if all these may pass for Rivers of Waters as the Word of God does frequently so call them surely then our standing is so advantageous and comfortable that blessed be God we have not wanted any of those Waters However we have been to God he has not been a Wilderness to us Rivers of such waters Running through every street Theophrastus cites it for an old saying 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ●ib 8. de Plant. 't is the Season not the Soyle the Heavens not the Earth that produces plenty and abundance as it is in the 65 Psal v. 9 10. Thou enrichest the earth Thou providest for it Thou waterest the Rigdes Thou softenest and settlest the Furrows yet for all that if the heavens Plow and do all for us 't is not without the Earth's Heifer using and blessing the means and a great matter it is when that Heifer is Tractable and Towardly I mean when the Earth is kind and good-natured I will hear the Heaven the Heaven shall hear the Earth ●os 2. 21. c. but then as the Heavens have an Eare to hear so the Earth must have a Tongue to speak which if like Davids It cleaves to the Roof of the mouth and be Parch'd and Dry'd up for want of Moisture so that the Lord doe's not Water it from his Chambers above nor yet from his Cellars below sure the Mower will nere fill his hand with That Harvest nor he that bindes up the sheaves his bosome To prevent which droughts and Barrennesses in spiritual concerns the God of heaven is never wanting the

Bottles of Heaven are never Empty Scriptures and Prayers Sermons and Sacraments an holy Discipline and decent Ceremonies Every lock of Christ is full of Can. 5. 1. dew-drops had we but the Hand of Faith and due devotion to Squeez and wring them When Solomon had made him Gardens and Orchards Eccles 2. 5. at the very next Verse saith he I made me Pools of Water c. In like manner our Saviour Christ in the 5th of Canticles when he had styl'd the Church An inclosed Garden and an Orchard of Pomegranats at the 12 and 13 Verses presently at the 15 Verse He calls himself A Fountain of Gardens A well of Living Waters to intimate unto us how that the One cannot be without the Other and that his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Pindar the Excellency and absolute necessity of VVater holds good not only in Earthly but Heavenly plantations But some kind of Biting there is by a Mad beast 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that presently causes the Bitten party to be a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he dares not come nigh any water And if any amongst us are yet affraid to come near the Publick Ordinances our Sermons and Prayers those wholsome stre●ms of Gods Church Alas poor souls they have been Bitten and Breathed upon it's doubt by some Venom-mouth'd creature or other hence it is they are affraid where no fear is but where the only fear is there alone they are confident What saith the Prophet Ho every one that Isa 55. 1. thirsts Come ye to the waters Blessed be God that we may come and having hitherto Escaped those Bitings Blessed be God that we dare come What with a wholsom Catechism to Water the Roots beneath and cherish the Foundations what with whole showres of Sermons still dropping upon the Branches above we have had our share in these waters and been like that Vineyard of which God sayes I will water it ●a 27. 3. every moment For in the 68 Psal v. 9. what is there spoken of the Lords own Inheritance may be said of us Thou O God didst send a plentifull Rain Thou didst confirm thine Inheritance when it was weary so that besides this Plentiful Rain there must follow a Confirming which brings us to the second General He shall be like a tree 'T is said of that half-light and half-dark man in the Gospel that in the first Peep-a-day and dawning of his Eye-sight he lookt up and beheld men as Trees ●ar 8. 23. And blessed were the Eyes of a Blindish generation whose eyes are yet but half-shut and half-way open if our beginnings to see might be hansel'd with such steady Objects that with him we could behold men as Trees not for their Stiffeness and unyeilding sturdiness too much of that but perfectly Fixed as to the Concerns of Publique peace firmly settled in the sense of duty and obedience to Superiours Rooted and Grounded in all charity and love unfeigned one towards another This were a Good Tree indeed but though every Reverst tree is like a man yet every Perverse man is not like this Tree for the more 's the pity such Trees as this have not of late grown so kindly upon our English ground in which whole Forests of Natives have only had this sad resemblance of a Tree that the Heels and Arms have Triumph'd above while the poor Head lay grovelling below The business whereupon we now are is that after all these Movings and Removings we may at last become well-grounded and Confirmed Christians For our furtherance wherein that the Good Lord might not be wanting by any means to Perfect that which concerns us and our Salvation and as we hope he has begun a good work in us so to Establish the same unto the Comming of the Lord Jesus Behold here this holy Apostolical Rite of Confirmation after a long and sad Interruption most justly due to our sins now at last Restor'd into its Ancient Channel through which it had run down from the first and best times till of late by an unbroken succession for many generations For as Aquinas sayes Epistola quae a Notario scribitur a Domino Signatur A Clerk may Write but the Master himself must Seal the Letter VVe are the Lord's Epistle however at first Written by the office of Presbytery yet 't is the Bishops own hand that renders us Complete and Authentick Christians which is no otherwise then what S. Cyprian long before had said speaking of being confirmed A praepositis Ecclesiae S. Cyprian Ep. 73. Dom. signacula consummantur It is one of the admired Excellencies of Christs Government that Those that dwell in the Wilderness Psal 7● 9. shall bow before him Though the Wilderness to some may seem a Paradise yet the most I suppose will say that for this 20 Years long we have dwelt in a Wilderness where we have not lived as Men by but as Wild-beasts upon one another For such to come and bow before him and be obedient to that Government he has set over us This would be the Lords doing and Marvailous in our Eyes And however when Gods Eye is good the Eyes of some will be Evill Yet I tell you of a truth Many good Souls and O that my Soul were where they are many good Souls I say have desired to see one of these daies and have not seen them which I speak the rather that none should despise the day of small things For the Solemnity whereof though I have not met with any that write exactly of it yet you may take a guess of it by this description viz. That it is an Ancient rite of the Church whereby Baptized Persons of good Life sound Faith and competent Knowledge when come to Years of discretion are brought unto the Bishop before whom or others deputed by him after some satisfactory Discoveries of their knowledge life and belief they make a Solemn and credible profession of their Faith acknowledge and renew their Baptismal Vow take upon themselves through Gods help the performance of the same and so by prayer and Imposition of hands Spiritual strength is implored and the said persons so admitted unto a Fuller Capacity of the Lords Supper and whatever priviledges belong to full-grown Christians For as * that Learned man affirms Sub his tantum auspiciis ad mensam Domini Dr. Hammond aspiramus This alone gives us a right Conduct and the most safe admission to the Lord's Table In speaking whereof I promised to say somewhat of these three things its Antiquity its Sacred Solemnity and its great Usefulness and Expediency which must be done very briefly First its Antiquity for that we may say of it as Saint Paul of Timothy Let none despise thy youth we meet with it often in the Acts of the Apostles Confirming the Souls of the Disciples c. Philip ●ct 14. 22. c ●ct 8. 15 17. Baptizes and the Apostles came after and Confirm'd And in that

of Implements In like manner we doubt not but God knows how to make use of the Warping Infirmities of his Saints and the Down-right Deformities of Sinners Those Crooked pieces may serve in an Arch or Vault which will not doe well in an Upright building yea the most Crooked Logs that are will be useful to Burn and bad Timber they say may yet make good Fewell Though some have wish'd to be no higher than Door-keepers and well if some others were so high as Door-sills in God's House yet for all that every Christian should Reach at Christ's promise and strive to be a Pillar in the House of God whose straight Top as it Exactly Poynts upward from Earth to Heaven so should our Eyes and Hearts be ever toward the Lord from whom cometh our Salvation 'T is observ'd by the Philosopher-de animalibus that whereas all Beasts in the closing of their eyes begin with the letting down of the upper eye-lid and so first lose the sight of heaven and all objects above But on the contrary Birds begin first to draw up the lower-lid and so by degrees grow dark to the Earth while the Upper part of the Eye has still some little Glimpses of Heaven For our parts let us be rather like the Birds of Heaven than the Beasts of Earth those beasts that perish Let us begin to Draw up the nether-lid provided the upper part of the Souls Eye be still uncover'd and Fixt above no matter though we grow dimme and darke unto all these dirty concernments here below Straight is the gate saith Christ and narrow is the way that leadeth unto life You may walk at large in Iat 7. 13. a Wide way and a broad Gate will admit of broad shoulders But we must strive to enter in at the strait Gate where none can enter but straight Souls nor they neither without striving The Hill of God is an High hill No Coming thither without Climing only here is the difference Men too oft make use of Crooked wayes and winding Circles as to Climb Hills so by degrees to Clamber up to Riches and Honours those Mountains of this world whereas none but the upright Walker comes none but the straight Walk brings directly to Gods Holy Mountain Let 's all Labour to be Straight and Upright Christians that 's the First 2. For the Second Having dispatch'd the Straightness I have therein Impli'd also the Strongness of this Tree which was the second Commendable property proposed unto you For as it is in nature the upright posture is the strongest posture And so in Art which imitates nature your straightest Tower stands the surest whereas on the other side Bowing and Tottering go both together Psal 62. 3. God has joynd them who can sever them And this we often see in your leaning buildings their own weight Confederates with the wind to their Down-fall The same rule also viz. that the uprightest is the surest posture holds good in Divinity He that walketh uprightly walketh surely and so in Philosophy Linea Recta est Firmissima your Prov. 10 9. Firmest bodies are made up of Direct lines insomuch that you would wonder what a load they say will lye upon a straight Needle whereas the least warping or bending presently betrays it to the mercy of its burthen To this purpose it is when the Prophet would set forth the Firm footing of God's servants in this or in the other life He thus expresseth it We are Risen Psal 20. 8. and stand upright whereas the wicked whose Souls grow Crooked by their Carnal pursuits and reliances set forth in those words Some put their trust in Chariots Vers 7. c. such trusts bring as it were the leaning and bowing of this Spiritual building what follow 's but this There are they brought down and fallen For further illustration of this we need not stir beyond the Root of this Tree here before us concerning which it is said that in a strong Tree the Root must look directly downward for if there be any Crooked up-turnings considerable the Tree will prove weak and improsperous The like we may say of many amongst our selves whereas we have perhaps a little loftily turned upward in some new toyes and Notions had we grown downward directly downward in all lowliness and humble mindedness sure we should not have had so many ill-grounded and slight Rooted Christians as it is at this day amongst us Let 's all labour to be Luke 13. 6. strong Christians that 's the second Third Property is an united Compactedness In a Vineyard where all should be Vines what makes the Fig-tree there No wonder 't is a barren one consider Luc. 13. 6. saith Christ the Fowles of the Ayre and the Lillies Mat. 6. 26 c of the Field c. As Christ send 's us to Birds and flowers to learn an holy Carelesness so he may send us to Stocks and Trees to take out a Lesson of Union and Compactedness As in the Tree there 's the same ground the same root the same stock the same Sap Body Bark and all so for us Christians do we not grow upon the same Ground of Faith Are we not Rooted in the same Brotherly Love and Charity Graffed into the same stock of Christianity nourisht with the same Sap of Scriptures and Sacraments One body of wholsome Doctrines that contains all the necessary juice of a Christian Soul One Bark of a Religious worship and Service through which the said juice is conveid to the supply and nourishment of every the meanest member For as it is said in the Art of Engraffing you must not Ruffle nor raise the Bark but the young Graff must be perfectly joined to the Old stock So the prudence of our Superiors in order to this perfect Juncture and Closure with the Church hath thought fit that even in these Externalls of Gods worship there should be an uniforme and compleat accordance amongst us For if but the Bark be once Raised the Tree will hardly ever Thrive and prosper Therefore God grant we may all be United and Compacted Christians That 's the third Fourth Is Fruitfulness Who plant's Vineyard ● Cor. 9. 7. and does not eat of the fruit thereof The Church has been at so great pains in Planting I have been at some small pains in Watering You I am sure have been at much Patience in attending Fit it is we should now Tast what Fruit may grow upon this our new plantation Come my Beloved Le ts get up Early to Can. 7. 11 12. the Vineyards See if the Vine flourish c. Trees if they be not good for Fruit they may be for Timber if not for Timber they may serve for shade and some are good for nothing else but shade and yet even those as I told you may be as good as any for the Fire so that the worst you see are good for something though better it were that such who are only good in

yet not a blow is struck but where 't is fully ripe for Execution and then as we tear not off a Nayle no nor Pluck up an Hair without Pain no more should the Vilest Excrement of a Kingdome the most wretched Miscreant that is perish without Pity After the flood GOD can smell a sweet Savour Gen. 8. 21. amidst a World of carkasses that were spread like Dung upon the face of the Earth but yet that Savour Arises not from the Reaking of the Bodies but the burning of the Altar And should the sword of Justice be never so much bath'd in Blood yet 't is not the Carkasses Ibid. 20. of the dead which smell well with God but the holy burnings of the Living such as alwayes warmed S. Pauls bosome who is not to say destroyed but offended and 2 Cor. 11. 2 I burn not If the Heavens will not the Earth must weep because they will not the Tears of a compassionate Judge may in a sacred manner * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Dr. Hammond out of Basil shame the dry Eyes of Heaven so that God can't chuse but make them * Then there had been a long time o● Drou 1● Weep with them that Weep and melt in showres with them that melt in Teares Ita feri non ut se sed ut te sentiat mori so to strike that he may feel his own death that 's the part of cruel Tyrants but so to strike as if we our selves felt it that 's the part of good Iudges who as you came with so we hope you come like the * Yesterday's Thunder-Showre Thunder and ●ain at the ●udges in●●ming not without a mixture of Majesty and Mercy But I see my self irrecoverably lost in this one leaf of Mercy what then will become of you your great Patience at present and your weighty Affaires now following all I doubt would be lost should we adventure upon the Turning over of the other leaves of these Books which in regard I perceive them of themselves most willingly opening at a Psalm of Mercy I shall here Fold down the Leaf for your more ready Finding and so at last close up the Books where First I found them open So much for the Text. An Address to the JVDGES WE have done Preaching and now must betake our selves to down-right Begging Indeed it falls out at such times as These that the Poor CLERGIE have this Advantage afforded them to become Publick Beggers And although our Honourable PARLIAMENT in their pious Care and Wisdome have Hedg'd up our Way with Thorns from all kind of Tumultuous Petitions yet here They have left us a Gap open and a faire passage to Touch the Top of The Royall Sceptre by our humble Approaches to You My Lords by whom That Sceptre is so Truly Represented Therefore Your patience and the Preacher having been Wrestling now This Hour We cannot yet let You Goe unless You Bless us with the grant of these particulars which so much concern the Honour of That Sceptre In order whereunto the First thing we beg and the Last we would be denied is that the Lord's Day may be more Religiously Observ'd and His Publick Worship more Devoutly Frequented 'T is sad to think that those who should alwayes be Ready for CHRIST'S Coming You know the Motto GALLUS SUPER TUBAM should never be more Unready then when we are chiefly to expect him as we should do on that day Heretofore Abuses of this nature were like the Pestilence that Walks in darkness Psal 91. 6. Betimes in the Morning or Late in the Evening but now Carts and Waggons c. are become daemonia Meridiana Destructions that Waste and reproach our Religion at Noon-day That condemnation must needs be grievous when Rebells shall rise up in Judgment against good Subjects Next we pray that all Perjuries Frauds Subornations c. which should not be named amongst Christian men may not be Impenally practised in Christian Courts That nothing be done through Strife or Revenge c. and that all lingring and Vexatious Suits be effectually prevented That the Poor be not oppressed in his Cause nor the face of any accepted against what is right That the sober and peaceable Learned and Loyal Clergie may still be Encouraged That the People those yet unsetled Souls be no longer poysoned for our * Sea-monsters ● Lam. 4. 3. ●uid lamias ●si Hereticos ●●p●llat huma●am faciem sed ●eluina corda ●stantes qui ●nc Mammam ●udant cùm ●rorem liberé ●aedicant ●reg in loc still Draw out their Breasts and in secret Suckle their Young ones but the best Milk they can give is poyson Lastly that all Sedition with the close Seminaries thereof may if possible be Repressed Love Peace Order with all that is true Godliness be heartily Promoted that so the God of Love Peace and Order in all things may be Magnified through Jesus Christ our Lord to whom with the Father and the blessed Spirit c. THE END