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A30271 Causa Dei, or, Counsel to the rich of this world to the highest part of the dust of the earth : to which is prefixed an humble address to the King's Majesty. Burgess, Daniel, 1645-1713. 1697 (1697) Wing B5696; ESTC R15481 49,787 144

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Guide while you travel in Turky This World is Turky a wild and strange Countrey And he who has opened you a way through it unto Heaven he has appointed you Ministerial Guides to lead you therein Guides guided themselves by that Heavenly infallible One whose Conduct you may expect in your due use of them Guides of whom your Saviour hath said He that heareth them heareth him and he that despiseth them despiseth him To be very often upon bended Knees To pray is to desire as Malefactors desire their Pardon and as Lepers desire their Cure A short-liv'd Vapor cannot be such a Prayer But what is sincere and without ceasing it is never failing It hath the promise of the King and therefore is sure to take the Kingdom of Heaven Ask and ye shall receive To take the Oath of Allegiance i. e. Your Baptismal Covenant and Oath Whereto your thorow Consent and sutable Walk are all real Religion The Lord have Mercy on the mad Multitudes of which some do place their Religion in no better than the very Spots and Blemishes of Religion And others in no more than the meer Fashion and Dress of it Vain is their Religion by whom this Oath is not taken tho their Sect be ever so strict Be their Christianity of this or that Form Christ shall profit them nothing Their Hearts be not cleansed by the Inspiration of the Holy Ghost but deluded by some Angel of Light or of Darkness Baptism doth now save us not the putting away of the filth of the Flesh but the answer of a good Conscience towards God by the Resurrection of Jesus Christ Finally it shall not be lost Labour To keep your Hearts at your right Hands To join Contemplation and Action in all things of Religion Not to consider what you do is most Inhumane and not to perform the Duty you have considered is most Profane It is an Unclean Creature that either chews not the Cud or if it does divideth not the Hoof. To act without Counsel is to go upon four Feet To consult and not to act is to send your Brains a Woolgathering Whatever your Hand finds to do do it with all your Might Your Holy things you must do with Holy Thoughts and Pains Strain the Nerves of your Mind and of your whole Man And of all things look you well to your Aims Never go ye into the Church as Boys go into the Thames not to wash and cleanse but to divert themselves Hear Sacred things striving to understand make Religious Vows resolving to perform them desiring no longer to live than you do so Look on Flatterers as so many Murderers turn you from them and from your very selves when you turn Flatterers to your selves Be not the Apes of such a Monster as Vitellius who upon the Approach of his Ruin raised no other Fortification but that of a drunken Mirth which kept out the Noise and Report but hastned the Stroke of it Remember that wilful Sin if any must be your Death Being that neither God's Decrees or Satan's Devices do commit any rapes on your Souls If you do not all that is here named as many as are themselves any wiser must pronounce you Wilful and tremble at your hastning Wo Every Prisoner in Hell cries out of his Will Not complaining that his Judg was an hard Master but his Heart was an hard Milstone Not able to say that he perished thrô meer Deceivableness or otherwise than thrô his willingness to be deceived And may it not now be hoped that your Minds are inlightned too much to be incensed against this Advice That your Enmity against your God is abated and your Fear of him encreased Justly or otherwise it is hoped so And for the just and true Conquest of both your Fear and Enmity you are presented with these Considerations The God to whom you are called is as merciful as can be desired For he is Infinitely so Indeed our Misery and not our Sin is the Object of his Mercy Sin is most contrary to his Government yea to h●● Godhead and cannot but be the Ob●ect of his vindictive Hatred Pecca●um est Deicidium Sch. Our Misery is the Object of his Mercy Of the blessed Compassion of which he provideth a new and living Way of Salvation and being provided he is most ready to save the very chief of Sinners turning into that way Insomuch that let us suppose any single one to have committed all the Sins of Adam and of his whole Progeny The vast Ocean would not so easily and presently quench one spark of Fire as the Divine Mercy would forgive all those Sins upon the Sinner's believing on Christ Jesus The Blood of our Saviour is as Satisfactory and Meritory as can be desired For it is as the Holy Oracles name it the Blood of God i. e. of him who is God equal with the Father as well as Man like unto his Brethren And this hath given more honour to God than hath been taken from him by the Sins of Devils and Men. So that without the least loss to his Glory God may save the worst Soul that Repents and Believeth on him that shed this Blood And in giving the Crown of Heavenly Glory God giveth no more than his Son hath bought and paid for The Power of the Holy Ghost to convert and to comfort is as great as can be desired For he is God equal with the Father and Son and cannot but be Omnipotent If we are Hells of Sin and of Sorrow he can make us Heavens of Purity and of Joy Of Satan's Dunghils he can make us God's Temples There be no Hearts but what he can cleanse by his Inspirations The Precedents and Examples of the most bloody Sinners saved are as great as can be desired Sirs as bad as your selves have been saved by the Mercy of the Father by the Merits of the Son and by the Power of the Holy Spirit For Manasses a Monster of Impiety and Villany is now a Star in Glory And not a few of them who murdered our Redeemer on Earth are now with him in Heaven What a Catalogue have we 1 Cor. 6.9 10 11. Fornicators Idolaters Adulterers Effeminate Abusers of themselves with Mankind Thieves Drunkards Revilers Extortioners The Promises made to save other Rebels are as great as can be desired For there is not any one sort of them to be named but upon their Repentance and Faith have Salvation promised to them Yea as great Salvation as any other And lest any should imagine themselves to be excluded most if not all sorts are expresly mentioned Mentioned in the great and precious Offers and Promises of Salvation upon their Conversion The very Name of God is as sweet and encouraging as can be desired The Name expressing his good Affection towards the most hainous Sinners when relenting and returning For it was this that was given his Servant Moses for the heartning of such Merciful and Gracious Longsuffering and abundant in Goodness and