Mr. WAKE 's SERMON BEFORE THE House of COMMONS June 5th 1689. Jovis 6 o die Junii 1689 Resolved THat the Thanks of this House be given to Mr. Wake for the Sermon he Preached before them yesterday And that he be desired to Print the same Ordered THat Mr. Grey do give him the Thanks and acquaint him with the Desires of this House accordingly Paul Jodrell Cl. Dom. Com. A SERMON Preach'd before the Honourable House of Commons AT St. MARGARET'S WESTMINSTER June 5th 1689. Being The FAST DAY Appointed by the KING and QUEEN's Proclamation TO Implore the Blessing of Almighty God upon their MAJESTIES Forces by Sea and Land and Success in the War now declared against the FRENCH KING By WILLIAM WAKE Chaplain in Ordinary to their MAJESTIES and Preacher to the Honourable Society of Gray's-Inn LONDON Printed for Ric. Chiswell at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul's Church-yard and William Rogers at the Sun over against St. Dunstan's Church in Fleet street 1689. JOEL II. 12 13. Therefore also now saith the LORD Turn ye even to Me with all your heart and with Fasting and with Weeping and with Mourning And rent your heart and not your garments and turn unto the LORD your God for He is Gracious and Merciful slow to Anger and of great Kindness and repenteth Him of the Evil. THough the time of this Prophecy be uncertain so that neither the Jewish Rabbins nor Christian Antiquaries are able to give us any tolerable account of it yet is the Design plain and the words of my Text a most proper and pathetick enforcement of the Great duty of this day to turn unto the Lord our God with all our Heart and with fasting and with weeping and with mourning for he is Gracious and Merciful slow to Anger and of great Kindness and repenteth him of the Evil. If we look into the foregoing Chapter we shall there find an astonishing Account of the great Evils that were just ready to befall the Jewes for their Sins But that which is yet more surprizing is That though all this was about to come upon them yet were they nevertheless insensible of their danger nor took any the least care to prevent their utter desolation To awaken a stupid and inconsiderate People a Nation dead in Sin and Security in the beginning of this Chapter he prepares a lofty and magnificent Scene He sets before them a Prophecy of yet greater dangers than any they had hitherto experimented and that in a manner so unusual with such a Pomp of Words and in such Triumphant Expressions as carry a terror even in the Repetition of them Blow ye the Trumpet in Zion sound an Alarm in my holy Mountain Let all the Inhabitants of the Land tremble for the day of the LORD cometh for it is nigh at hand A day of darkness and of gloominess a day of Clouds and of thick darkness as the Morning spread upon the Mountains a great People and a strong there hath not been ever the like neither shall be any more after it A fire devours before them and behind them a flame burneth The Land is as the Garden of Eden before them and behind them a desolate wilderness The Earth shall quake before them the Heavens shall tremble the Sun and the Moon shall be dark and the Stars shall withdraw their shining Whatever be the Import of these Phrases whether by the mighty and terrible Host here spoken of we are only to understand that swarm of Locusts and other Insects that we are before told were utterly to devour all the Fruits of the Land Or whether under the Character of these we shall with most Interpreters comprehend the numerous and mighty Armies of the Chaldaeans and Babylonians which at divers times brought such Desolations as we read of upon the Jews This is plain that we have here the denunciation of some Judgment worthy of God and great as the sins and incorrigibleness that occasion'd it And now who would not here expect the final desolation of such a People as this But behold God even yet in his Anger remembers Mercy and tho they had hitherto neglected all the Calls and Invitations of his holy Prophets to Repentance yet He resolves once more to try whether they would now at least in their dangers hearken to his Admonitions He raises up Joel at once both to set before them his Judgments if they continu'd still impenitent and to encourage them by repenting not only to prevent their Ruine but to assure themselves of his Favour That though they had so long neglected him yet if they would now even now at the last return with a true Zeal and a sincere Affection to their Duty they should not fail to meet with a favourable acceptance from him Therefore also now saith the LORD Turn ye even to me with all your heart and with fasting and with weeping and with mourning And rent your heart and not your garments and turn unto the LORD your God for he is gracious and merciful slow to anger and of great kindness and repenteth him of the evil It is not my intention to seek a Parallel of all this either in the sins or in the danger of our own Countrey I would willingly hope that neither our Guilt nor our Incorrigibleness have been so heinous as theirs nor shall any such deplorable Judgment as this ever I trust be made the punishment of what our Iniquities have indeed but too justly deserved No blessed be God who by a wonderful Concurrence of great and singular Mercies seems rather to call upon us to celebrate his Goodness than to deprecate his Judgments to praise his Name in Hymns of Triumph and Eucharist than to weep between the Porch and the Altar in melancholly Litanies to avert his Anger and implore his Mercy But yet since the Goodness as well as Judgments of the Lord are designed to bring us to repentance and that whether we look back into our own particular Actions or consider those Publick and National Transgressions whereby we have so long and loudly call'd to Heaven for vengeance we must with shame and indignation confess our selves some of the greatest of Sinners I cannot but think both the Solemn Occasion of this Day and the Design of my Text to be a most proper and seasonable Admonition to us to turn unto the Lord our God and to implore his Blessing upon our present Enterprises that those vile Insects the Locusts and Caterpillars that have so barbarously consumed our Neighbours round about us our worse than Assyrian or Babylonian Enemies may not be able to prevail against us And indeed however it has pleased God as at this time to give us some Encouragement to trust in his Mercy yet we cannot so soon forget that we have also born the punishment of our sins For not to repass upon the things that are at a greater distance from us let the Instances still fresh in all our
Memories speak to us What just Apprehensions did we but very lately lie under of our Lives and of what is yet dearer to us than our Lives our Liberty and our Religion How did our Enemies not only project our Ruin but as if it were already accomplished begin to say in their hearts nay they began freely to speak it out to us Aha! so would we have it Persecute them and take them for there is none to deliver them And if now we are no longer exposed to those dangers that so lately threatned us if God has begun upon our late more serious Concern for Religion and more general return to him to give us some Testimony of his gracious Designations towards us This certainly ought to be so far from lessening our solemn Humiliation at this time that it should rather engage us to be the more forward in perfecting our Repentance the greater Encouragement we have to hope that it shall be accepted at our hands And I must now beg leave with so much the more Earnestness to enforce the Duty of my Text Therefore also now saith the LORD turn ye even to me with all your heart and with fasting and with weeping and with mourning And rent your hearts and not your garments and turn unto the LORD your God. By how much I hope I may with the greater assurance propose to you the Promise of it for your Encouragement For he is gracious and merciful slow to anger and of great kindness and repenteth him of the evil I have already pointed out to you the two great parts of my Text and which must therefore be the Subject of my Discourse upon it viz. I. The Address of the Holy Prophet to his Country and in that the Exhortation which I am earnestly in the Name of God to recommend unto you this day To turn unto the LORD your God with all your heart and with fasting and with weeping and with mourning II. The great Encouragement which he offer'd to induce them and which ought to be of no less a force to stir up all of us to a serious and diligent performance of it For he is gracious and merciful slow to anger and of great kindness and repenteth him of the evil I begin with the former of these the Exhortation of my Text I. To turn unto the LORD your God with all your heart and with fasting and with weeping and with mouring And here I presume I shall not need to tell you That all this is but a larger Paraphrase of what I may in other Words call a General and National Repentance of those Publick and National Sins which had provoked God Almighty to send down so many Judgments upon them and to threaten them with yet greater if they continu'd still in their Impenitence And indeed what could be more reasonable than by such a Solemn and Universal Acknowledgment both of the Evils they had committed and of the Judgments which they deserved and of the sorrow they were now touch'd with for their Offences to appease God's Anger for that General Incorrigibleness by which they had so long exposed both his Goodness and his Justice to Contempt among the Heathen round about him For however it be very certain that all the outward pomp and solemnity of Repentance the fasting and the weeping and the mourning are at best but a form of Godliness empty and unprofitable unless there be also added to these that true and inward change of Mind in which alone consists the Power of it yet there may be such Circumstances and Cases put wherein this Duty must pass beyond the Heart and the Closet and the Humiliation will be imperfect if it be not as publickly set forth to the Eyes of Men as it is sincerely perform'd in the sight of God. And such especially must be the Repentance for National Sins Where Mens Transgressions have been open and notorious there their Return also must be no less Solemn and Evident that so the Honour as well as Justice of God may be vindicated in their Forgiveness and some sort of Reparation made not only for the Guilt which they have contracted but also for the Scandal which they have given to his Honour and Religion in the World. Now 't is this which at once both declares the Piety and commands the publick Humiliation of THIS DAY And for the due discharge whereof I must intreat you to go along with me in these following Reflections 1st That though as I have just now shewn there must be the publick marks of Sorrow and Humiliation in our publick Repentance yet we must by no means stop in these nor think that this is all that God requires of us in order to our forgiveness This was indeed the Vanity of the Jews heretofore and is too much the folly of some misguided Christians now Their Indignation against their Sins and against themselves for having committed them was spent especially in the outward appearance of sorrow They rent their Cloaths and put on sackcloath they wept and fasted and went softly and then they supposed they had done their business though it may be their Souls were not yet Humbled nor their Hearts at all broken with any true Contrition for their Sins And so among those of the Church of Rome at this day If we may believe some of their greatest Casuists an external Worship is sufficient to carry a man to Heaven without the trouble of the true inward Devotion of the Soul He may repent without Contrition may fast with a full Meal Nay and if the Pope pleases may obtain a plenary remission of his Sins se ancho non fosse confesso ne contrito though he has neither confess'd them to any Priest nor finds in his own Heart any manner of Contrition for them I shall not need to say how many new ways of Salvation of this kind they have found out by wearing a Leathern Girdle about their Loins or Scapularies over their Shoulders by listing themselves into such or such certain Fraternities by dressing of Altars and going on Pilgrimages by Holy Water and Agnus deis And all which and infinite more of the like kind if as our late Masters tell us they are not Authorized by their Church yet I am sure are publickly Recommended by their Greatest Men and generally practised too without any censure or contradiction among them This is certain that all these and whatever Artifices of the like kind Men may please either to flatter themselves or to delude others withal without a true Contrition and a serious Reformation they are all but Vanity They make a shew of Piety in the Eyes of Men but they avail nothing to our forgiveness with God. I will not dispute of what use some of these External Performances may be to assist our Repentance and render our Sorrow for Sin the more solemn and so in some Cases as I have before observed the more pleasing to God. I know
well enough that St. Paul has told us that Bodily Exercise where 't is discreetly order'd does profit a little though it be not like Godliness profitable for all things But then as 't is plain that the greatest part of those Follies so much magnified and recommended in the Church of Rome are but vain and ridiculous Impositions to cheat the silly and superstitious Multitude so 't is certain that the best of these things are neither in themselves Meritorious much less Satisfactory for Sins as they pretend them to be nor otherwise of any value at all with God than as they are attended with that true Repentance which alone can either incline his Mercy or obtain our Forgiveness If we will therefore make our solemn Humiliation this day acceptable to God and available to our selves our Country and our Religion we must take the Method of the Prophet in our Text We must turn unto the Lord our God with all our Heart and then our fasting and our weeping and our Mourning shall indeed be pleasing unto him We must rent our Hearts and not i. e. rather than our Garments must humble our Souls first and then the violence we do our Bodies will be consider'd by him When Jonah denounced Gods Judgments against Niniveh we read in his 3d. Chapter That the People of Niniveh believed and Proclaimed a fast and put on Sackcloath from the greatest of them even unto the least But was this therefore that Repentance for which he spared them No it is not so much as once mentioned among the Reasons of it It was the Reformation of their Lives that tied up his Hand and sheathed his Sword ver 10. And God saw their Works that they turn'd from their Evil way and God repented of the Evil that he said he would do unto them and he did it not 2. And this brings me to a second Remark for the farther clearing of this great Duty viz. That not only these outward marks of penitence are not sufficient to the discharge of it but though we should to these add a true and real sorrow of heart for the Sins we have committed even this would not be sufficient to purchase our forgiveness Now by true sorrow I do not mean that little imperfect sorrow which looks rather to the danger of our Condition than to the heinousness of our Offences and bewails our Transgressions more out of an apprehension of those Judgments that may be the Consequence of them than out of any real regret that we have sinned against a most Gracious and Merciful God. For however those of the other Communion out of their great tenderness to Sinners have declared such a sorrow as this if accompanied with Confession to be sufficient for Mens Salvation and therefore have resolved that true Contrition or a sorrow for sin comitted with a purpose of sinning no more is not necessary to the Sacrament of Pennance after the Commission of mortal Sin but that Attrition is sufficient though a Man knows it to be no more Yet I suppose it needless in this place to obviate any such gross Error however otherwise of very great danger in the Practice of this Duty Be the sorrow for sin never so sincere and our Resolutions thereupon no more to return to the Commission of it never so firm and well grounded yet if instead of making good these Resolutions we shall stop here we are but half Penitents we yet want that change of life which alone is able to compleat the Nature and render the Practice of our Repentance acceptable unto God and available to our forgiveness 3. In short thirdly if we will truly discharge that Repentance to which we are here called we must do it not by being sorry for our Sins or by resolving against them but by an effectual forsaking of them i. e. as our Text speaks By turning unto the Lord our God. This is that which alone can implore his Favour and commend us to his Mercy And this was what I before observed in the Case of Niniveh When God saw their works that they turned from their Evil way then he repented him of the Evil that he had said he would do unto them and he did it not Nay but it is not any turning unto God that will suffice neither We must turn even unto him and with all our Heart Words very Emphatical and which offer to us two great Conditions which are absolutely necessary to render our Conversion every way such as it ought to be First That it must be hearty and sincere There must be nothing of the Hypocrite mix'd with it our Souls must go along with our outward Performances and these penitential appearances be the true Declarations of that real inward sorrow which we feel in our Hearts for our Offences For God is not a Man that he should be mocked He sees into our very Souls and knows the secrets of all the Children of Men. And Secondly That it must be intire and without reserve As we must be sorry for every Sin we have already committed so we must resolve against ever committing any for the time to come For God is of purer Eyes than to behold the least Iniquity and if our Repentance be sincere so shall we be too The same Piety which moves us to hate any Evil will equally fill us with an Aversion against all And if we desire to continue but in one Offence it is because that we do truly repent of none So that now then if we will answer the design of this day if we will render our fast such as the Lord has chosen and has promised to reward with the Blessings both of this life and of that which is to come we must not think it enough that we comply with the outward Ceremonies and shew of Repentance but we must indeed resolve to bring forth the fruits of it Whilst we Address our selves to God for Pardon we must take heed to dispose our Souls in such a manner that we may be fit to receive it And if we thus improve the great Solemnity of this day we shall not fail to meet with a favourable acceptance at the Throne of Grace God will be jealous for his land and pity his People He will perfect the great Deliverance he has begun for us and once more render us the fear and the terror of all our Enemies round about us Our Faith which has so often triumph'd over all the Arguments of its Adversaries shall now no less triumph over all their black Designs to root it out and to destroy it and shew to all the World that though for our Tryal God may sometimes permit the Winds to blow and the Flouds to rise and the Storms to beat against our Church yet has he founded it on that Rock that shall never fail Nor shall the gates of Hell either the Power of France or the Cunning of the Jesuit or the Malice
dangers in which but for his Providence over us we must long since have perish'd That he has smitten us in Mercy not in Judgment to correct and admonish not to ruine and destroy us That upon our deprecating his Anger he has at any time heard our Prayers and answer'd our Desires What is this but a plain Evidence that he smites not willingly nor loves to afflict the Children of Men and so is a God repenting him of the Evil that he is at any time forced either to threaten us with or to bring upon us And if we look into his Dispensations towards us in the common concern of our Country and our Religion How slow must that God have been to Anger who after so many years Attendance nevertheless still calls upon us as at this day to turn from our Evil way and from the violence that is in our Hands that our Iniquity may not be our ruine And for his repenting him of the Evil which we have sometimes forced him by our continual Provocations to send upon us Let the Instances which we our selves have known suffice to tell us how unwilling he has shewn himself to bring us to an utter desolation When it pleased God for our iniquities to despise in his indignation both the King and the Priest and by the deplorable Judgment of Civil Confusions had proved and exercised us about Twenty Years with what a Miracle of Mercy did he turn again the Captivity of Sion and restore to us both our Government and Religion as before When this would not do but our Sins and our Prosperity return'd together so that we were again in a very few years become ripe for judgment He called forth a destroying Angel He put a new Sword into his Hand and commanded him to slay his Thousands and Ten Thousands in our Streets The PLAGUE consum'd our Strength and hardly was that pass'd when another Vengeance a devouring FIRE such as scarce any Age or Country has ever heard of burnt down our Dwellings And had not the Hand of God wonderfully interposed we must have been as Sodom and we should have been like unto Gomorrah And yet how did he then cover us with his hand in that day of his displeasure He neither suffer'd our Enemies to invade us from abroad nor any Domestick Quarrels to embroil us at home He preserved us in Peace he sent again the Blessings of Plenty and Prosperity among us and our City is risen more Great and Glorious out of its Ashes What shall I say to the fears and jealousies we have labour'd under since from a restless Party Enemies to the Name of Protestant and by Principle conjured if they can to root it out of the World In how many dangers has God delivered us And how many Designs for ought we know may he have prevented which have not yet been brought to light And when at last either to awaken us the more effectually to a Repentance of our sins or it may be to accomplish the number of their Iniquities he deliver'd us over for a little while into the hands of our Enemies and to convince the most incredulous among us what the true Spirit of prevailing Popery is suffer'd them with such an inconsiderate Fury to pursue our Ruine that no Ties either of God or Man were sufficient to restrain them but all Obligations whether of Justice or Conscience were equally trampled under their feet How did it then please our Almighty Defender to assert his Character of being a God repenting him of the evil that he had brought upon us in a manner that is the Wonder and Astonishment of the present and that I am perswaded shall be the Praise and Triumph of his Church in all succeeding Generations He raised us up a Deliverer out of the House of his Servant David He touch'd his Princely Heart with a Generous Sense both of the Evils which we had suffer'd and of the greater that we apprehended His Honour and his Zeal enflamed him to do somewhat worthy Himself and that might answer the mighty Hopes God had prepared us to conceive of Him. He meditated the great Work of delivering our Countrey from Oppression and our Religion from Destruction And by the Blessing of God he accomplish'd it in a manner so extraordinary in all its Circumstances as I think should not suffer us to doubt from whose Providence it was that this Redemption was sent to us This was the Lord's doing and whatever it is I am sure ought to be marvellous in our Eyes And may I think be a final I hope it shall be an effectual Confirmation to us of this Great Engagement of our Text to turn to him with all our hearts viz. That he is a God repenting him of the evil and therefore whose Mercy if we now truly do so we may securely depend upon both for the forgiveness of our sins and for our deliverance from those dangers which our sins have so justly exposed us to And now what remains but that having all these great Encouragements such Promises or rather such an Earnest of God's Favour to us we resolve every one of us seriously to comply with the great Design both of this Day and of this Discourse and by our sincere Repentance for our past Offences obtain that Blessing we so much desire both for our Countrey and for our Religion Never was there a time wherein we had greater Reason to hope for God's Acceptance than at this Day and such an Occasion as this to implore his Favour there may not perhaps again occur in the Course of many Ages For indeed what is it that we are now assembled to recommend to His Mercy but in Effect the preservation of our Selves our Laws our Liberties and our Religion against the Violence of those who have long conspired both Their and Our destruction That he would preside in our Councils and go forth with our Armies and so direct the one and prosper the other that we may again enjoy the Blessings of Peace and Security that there may be no decay no leading into Captivity and no just complaining in our Streets And this he will do if we be not our selves wanting to our own preservation Only let us act as becomes Good Christians and True Englishmen let us do all things for the Glory of God and for the Safety Honour and Welfare of our Country In the words of Joab to his Brother Alishai upon an Occasion not much different from our own at this time Let us be strong and of good Courage and let us play the Men for our People and for the Cities of our God and then he will not fail us nor forsake us But if instead of pursuing the things that make for our Peace we shall still go on to precipitate our own destruction If when we are call'd this Day to turn unto the LORD our God with all our hearts and with fasting and with weeping and with
mourning we shall instead thereof fast only for strife and for debate If when we should be here prostrating our selves before the LORD to implore the Completion of that Great Deliverance he has begun to work for us we shall on the contrary continue ungratefully to murmur against his Providence and be ready almost to implead his Justice for what he has already done and with those repining Israelites of old be looking back again to our Egyptian Bondage when we are brought even within prospect of the Promised Land In a word If when we should be uniting our selves against the Common Enemy of our Country and Christendom we shall suffer a Spirit of Faction and Sedition of Mutiny and Discontent of private Interests and unseasonable Resentments to distract our Councils and divide us against one another What can we then expect but that God should at last give us over into the hands of our Enemies and make those that hate us to rule over us Wherefore now arise O ye Worthies ye Chosen and Counsellours of our Israel Consult consider and resolve And may the God of Heaven the God before whom we are here assembled this Day He who has and does and we trust will still deliver us our Rock and our Defence against the Face of our Enemies so direct and prosper all your Consultations that the Children which are yet unborn may rise up in their Generations and call you Blessed when they shall enjoy the Benefits of that Peace that Security which we trust shall descend to them through your Wise and Vigorous Resolutions Behold this day the Eyes not of your own Nation only but of all the Nations round about us fix'd upon you The Fortunes I do not say of every single Person among you though that were somewhat nor of your own Country and Religion only which ought to be much more valued but what is yet more considerable the Fortunes of all the Reformed Churches and distressed Countries of Europe depending on the success of our present Enterprizes This is the fatal Crisis that must secure or ruine both them and us for ever May the Consideration of all these things inspire every one of you with a Spirit suitable to that great Trust that is here committed to you A Spirit of Wisdom and Understanding a Spirit of Prudence and Discretion a Spirit of Charity and Moderation but above all with a Spirit of Piety and Unity that being endu'd with all these excellent Qualities ye may become the Repairers of our Breaches the Restorers of our almost lost and trampled Liberties the Defenders of our Faith the Support of your Country the Avengers of your barbarously abus'd Allies the Scourge and Terror of the Universal Enemy of Truth Peace Religion Nature In short of all the common Laws and Rights of God and of all Mankind May your Councils be Govern'd with such a Calmness and Temper as may settle and compose all the unquiet and dissatisfied Spirits if there be any yet remaining among us and suffer none to regret our wonderful preservation but those only whose fury had once prompted them to attempt and whose Principles still carry them on to desire our Destruction May your Resolutions be as speedy as the publick Necessities are pressing and their Execution be accompanied with a Fidelity and Success that may equal not only our Expectation but even our very Hopes and our Desires And for the accomplishment of all these Blessings and whatever else may serve to make these Kingdoms Happy May We all this day fast the fast which the Lord has chosen to loose the bands of wickedness to undo the heavy-burdens and to let the Oppressed go free Let us confess our wickedness and be sorry for our sins Let us turn to the LORD our God with all our heart and with fasting and with weeping and with mourning Let us deal our Bread to the Hungry and bring the Poor to our Houses Then shall we call and the Lord shall answer we shall cry and he shall say here I am Our light shall break forth as the Morning and our righteousness as the Noon-day God shall come and shall not keep silence He shall save us from our Enemies and put them to shame that hate us He shall arise and all our Adversaries shall be scatter'd they also that hate us shall flee before us Like as the smoke vanisheth so shall we drive them away terror and dread shall fall upon them So shall all our Mourning be turned into Laughter and our Heaviness into Joy and we shall yet sing the Song of Moses and of the Lamb when he shall have given us rest from all our Enemies round about us Salvation and Glory and Power and Praise and Thanksgiving be to him that sitteth upon the Throne and to the Lamb for Ever and Ever Amen FINIS BOOKS Published by the Reverend Mr. WAKE Printed for RICHARD CHISWELL AN Exposition of the Doctrine of the Church of England in the several Articles proposed by the late BISHOP of CONDOM in his Exposition of the Doctrine of the Catholick Church 4 o. A Defence of the Exposition of the Doctrine of the Church of England against the Exceptions of Mons. de Meaux late Bishop of Condom and his Vindicator A Second Defence of the Exposition of the Doctrine of the Church of England against the new Exceptions of Monsieur de Meaux late Bishop of Condom and his Vindicator The FIRST PART in which the Account that has been given of the Bishop of Meaux's Exposition is fully Vindicated the Distinction of Old and New Popery Historically asserted and the Doctrine of the Church of Rome in point of Image worship more particularly consider'd Second Defence of the Exposition of the Doctrine of the Church of England against Monsieur de Meaux and his Vindicator the SECOND PART A Discourse of the Holy Eucharist in the two great Points of the Real Presence and the Adoration of the Host In Answer to the Two Discourses lately Printed at Oxford on this Subject To which is prefixed a Large Historical Preface relating to the same Argument Two Discourses of Purgatory and Prayers for the Dead 4 o. A Continuation of the Controversie between the Church of England and the Church of Rome being a full account of the Books that have been of late written on Both sides An Historical Treatise of Transubstantion Written by an Author of the Communion of the Church of Rome rendred into English. With a Preface Preparation for Death being a Letter sent to a Young Gentlewoman in France in a distemper of which she died Printed for WILLIAM ROGERS A Discourse concerning the Nature of Idolatry in which a Late Author viz. the Bp. of Oxford's true and only Notion of Idolatry is considered and confuted 4 o. The Sum of a Conference between Dr. Clagett and F. P. Gooden about Transubstantiation Publish'd by this Author And to be added to Dr. Clagett's Sermons now