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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42952	Trade preferr'd before religion and Christ made to give place to Mammon represented in a sermon relating to the plantations : first preached at Westminster-Abbey and afterwards in divers churches in London / by Morgan Godwyn ...	Godwyn, Morgan, fl. 1685.	1685 (1685)	Wing G974; ESTC R15652	53,257	54

occasion to magnify that King 's spacious Dominions He in answer thereto was pleased to reply That 't was true God had entrusted him with divers Nations and Countries but that his Advantage thereby was to have opportunity to propagate Christian Religion It is to be presumed that as Your Majesty's Dominions in the Parts we speak of are in extent not much short of perhaps a great deal larger than that Princes So your Majesty's Piety will not suffer You to be wanting to Your Self and People in reaping the like blessed and glorious Advantage thereby So prayeth The most unworthy and meanest of Your Majesty's Subjects MORGAN GODWYN The PREFACE I Cannot but foresee that I shall fall under no small danger of Censure as well for my first preaching as now publishing this Discourse For besides the sinister Surmises of divers here at home such who like the Curr in the Manger will neither eat Oats themselves nor suffer those that would I must also look to undergo as far as is possible the utmost Effects of the Rage and Malice of those incensed MAMMONISTS from abroad who I am to expect will not fail by their Agents and Partizans to dispense to me the sharpest Revenge and Mischief that such Enemies of Christianity can contrive against a Promoter of it And when they thus see me upon taking away their Gods it will be but a very sensless and unreasonable Question to demand What aileth them But as there was no temptation from the thing it self as being likely to prove so invidious and costly an Undertaking what I have but too much already felt and it being on the behalf of such who are never like to make me any amends and I am sure that no body else will So I hope that others better disposed will in charity which thinketh not the worst rather believe that what I have herein attempted doth proceed from no worse Motive than from a sense of my Duty as not knowing otherwise what I yet knew was most necessary how to reprove the BARJESVITISM and base Mammonism so openly practised in our Plantations and even at Home too of which I shall presently give some Instances At least certainly I can deserve no blame for thus opening my Mouth for the Dumb and becoming their Advocate who are appointed to Eternal Destruction For that I have as it were put my Life in my hand to oppose those Elymas's who do not cease to pervert the right Ways of the Lord and to obstruct Christianity when no body else either durst or would And since the more Learned and Prudent who never use to lay out themselves but to some purpose and this 't is too well known known is but a barren Theme had hitherto been silent therein that I thought it no disparagement to become a Fool for Christ's sake and conceived that it might better be done by me than not at all These in truth were my Reasons in general for this Undertaking but there was withal a more particular And that was hereby if possible to put some stop to and to abate the arrogant and proud vauntings of that new Sect of American Anti-Religionists the Barjesuits and Elymases before mentioned for their Victory over Christianity by LVCYfer and his fellow Agents here sometime since obtain'd which very triumphantly like pure uncircumcised Pagans pardon the Expression for in this Case Difficile est Satyram non scribere and not to be angry had been to sin they have not forborn to publish in the Houses of their Idols if I may so speak and by insulting Letters to set forth in their Assemblies therein proclaiming how they have worsted Christianity and for ever quash'd all future hopes of advancing its Crest and of further entrance into those Parts A most glorious Victory doubtless it was and which none besides the Devil and themselves but would have been ashamed to have boasted of A Victory where there was no Adversary to contend with and of which as the case stood if they could but talk considently and affirm lustily without blushing they could not easily fail Upon this I could no longer be silent but as the Holy Psalmist expresseth himself My heart grew hot within me and the fire was kindled and at the last I spake with my Tongue declaring from the Pulpit as oft as I had opportunity what I have now delivered from the Press I considered the thing as a Duty indispensible and having before put my hand to the Plow I determined not to look back Yet I must confess I attended a while to see whether any abler Advocate would appear in the Cause and happily have saved me both the trouble and the envy of it But when I had thus waited and could see no appearance of any no not at the greatest distance for they were all amazed they answered no more they left off speaking or rather we may say did never begin it was not in my power to refrain but I resolved that I would answer for my part I would speak on God's behalf I would open my mouth and answer let come on it what would But he that ploweth should plow in hope as saith the Apostle Now to what purpose is it to speak further hereof since so slender Advances have been hitherto made therein by what has been before spoken will some be apt to demand And indeed it was the Advice of one when I first adventured upon this Work never to trouble my self about it for said he Tho your Design be never so Christian and good yet the least grain of Interest lying in the way shall quite ruin and overthrow it And I wish his words had proved less true But truly I am full of power by the Spirit of the Lord to tell Jacob of his Transgression and Israel of his Sin as saith the Prophet Micah And Isaiah tells us That the Watchmen upon the Walls of Jerusalem were not to hold their peace notwithstanding the greatest discouragements day nor night nor to give even the Almighty himself any rest until he had established and made Jerusalem a praise in the whole Earth Rather the deafer Men are the louder we are to cry For Truth however opprest will have some Followers The sturdy Youth in the Gospel that at first did so peremptorily refuse to go and work in his Father's Vineyard afterwards repented and went And even the unjust Judg by much importunity and for his own quiet was we read at length wrought upon to hearken to the Widow's complaint and to do her right And tho these we speak of have had this untoward Character viz. of being such who will do no right nor take any wrong fixed upon them yet who knows how far our Assiduity may in like manner prevail At least 't is certain we have no Dispensation for our silence For truly unto this most unchristian Silence must in a great measure be ascribed the large spreading of this Leprosy of

in the Law These having not the Law are a Law unto themselves which shew the works of the Law written in their Hearts their Conscience also bearing witness and their Thoughts between themselves accusing or excusing one another And now this being considered what right can we have thus fiercely to declaim against these Mahometans concerning whom were St. Paul alive to determine the matter if but for their Zeal for their Religion even false as it is in respect of our selves he no doubt would pronounce them Saints So that to bring down this Text to Christianity and our own times we are the Jerusalem therein charged and in our Skirts also is this Blood most eminently discernable And when God shall arise to make Inquisition for it as most certainly he will at our Hands it must be required For we are the Watchmen which should have warned those wicked Men from their evil ways the Sword came and we have not blown the Trumpet nor warned the People and therefore their Blood must be upon our Heads And then it must needs go hard with us and that chiefly upon the score of that abundant Light and Knowledg and that Purity of Religion we so much boast in For Atrocius sub sanctinomine peccamus saith one and that Servant which knew his Masters will but did it not shall be beaten with many Stripes saith our Blessed Lord. And you only have I known of all the Families of the Earth therefore will I punish you for all your Iniquities saith God by his Prophet And who knoweth but that our prophane Silence and unchristian connivance thus long together at those Spiritual Murthers and Soul-depredations are the very accursed thing which hath caused us hitherto not to prosper And that for this our supine and shameful neglect of Religion and that when those Elymas's abroad and their wicked Agents here Those Enemies I say of Righteousness that do not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord those Soul-Merchants that in the very Letter of the Text do tread under Foot the Son of God and as it were crucify him afresh and put him to an open shame and that account his Blood an unholy thing and do each hour do dispite unto the Spirit of Grace I say when these like Eli's lewd Sons have made themselves vile by the Blood of so many Innocent Souls and we restrained them not no not by Word or Writing and so far at least to have vindicated God's Honour and Truth against them Who I say knows but for this Our God hath hitherto put us to Silence and given us Water of Gaul to drink and that when we looked for Peace no good came and for a time of Health and behold Trouble And that he hath sent those Serpents and Cockatrices among us which will not be charmed and that he hath hedged up our way with Thorns and caused all our Mirth to cease That he hath set us against each other every one against his Brother and against his Neighbour yea City against City and even these against themselves And that our Spirit doth fail in the midst of us That God hath destroyed our Counsels and mingled a perverse Spirit in the midst of us and hath caused us to err in every work and that we are afraid even in our selves And then might it not to be demanded of us as our Prophet here doth of Jerusalem Hast thou not procured this unto thy self in that thou hast forsaken the Lord when he led thee by the way and had done such great things for thee I shall not here stand to enquire how agreeable to Christianity which commands us First to seek the Kingdom of God and his Righteousness and then afterwards to look after other less necessary things a Precept very idle and ridiculous amongst this sort of Christians Nor how suitable the pretence of Trade and Commerce is to that undergoing of the Cross and self-denial and to that condition of forsaking all by our Lord prescribed to all his Followers but shall only observe that if St. Peter was by the same meekest Lord termed a Devil for his too carnal respecting not his own but the same blessed Masters outward Ease and Tranquility to the prejudice of the World's Salvation he will certainly for ever disclaim those Mammonists who prefer their Trade and their Merchandise before him as unworthy of him And if Job's Inference be good that to make Gold our Hope is to deny the God that is above doubtless their Christianity must be very desperate who do the same by their Trade Christ will one day deny all such denyers of him before his Father and the Holy Angels Wherefore since God hath signed this eternal Precept of Blood for Blood and hath as it were sworn That he will require the Blood of our Lives at the Hand of every Man's Brother yea and of the very Beasts too and hath also in several places no less positively declared That no satisfaction shall be accepted for the Life of a Murtherer and that a Land defiled with Blood cannot be cleansed of it but by the Blood of him that did shed it all which is to be referred only to the Body What Punishment can we suppose answerable to this so much more horrid Crime of murthering of Souls If Blood for Blood and Life for Life must go for the one certainly then Soul for Soul here is the least that can be required How long Lord God holy and true dost thou not judg and avenge our Blood upon them that dwell upon the Earth was the incessant cry of the Souls under the Altar And Abel's Blood is said to have pursued Cain to his very Grave 't is certain it cryed for vengeance against him And yet 't was but Abel's Body not his Soul that was murthered Had Cain been guilty of this Lamech's revengeful hand had made but a very defective and sorry expiation The Brimstone-lake must then have been his Portion as undoubtedly it will be of all impenitent Murtherers of Souls And then How will those Mammonists remain in the gaul of Bitterness and in the bond of Iniquity And our Apostats and Hypocrites be confounded and tremble when they shall most sensibly feel themselves perishing together with their impious Money which was the price of Souls And then they shall be admirably convinc'd that they were but Fools indeed for thus determining their Hopes and fixing their whole expectation upon the things of this Life for the getting whereof they sinned against their own and murthered their Peoples Souls And finally they shall be pronounced Children of the Devil because Enemies of Righteousness that is of the Gospel And Christ himself whom they thereby have so Impudently affronted and denied not ignorantly and as the Jews who knew not what they did shall speak them into an Hell as black as that