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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31454	A preparation for martyrdom a discourse about the cause, the temper, the assistances and rewards of a martyr of Jesus Christ : in a dialogue betwixt a minister, and a gentlemanhis [sic] parishioner.	Cawdrey, Zachary, 1616-1684.	1681 (1681)	Wing C1648; ESTC R8822	35,036	47

corrupted our common conversation but vitiated the very vitals of our Government by the Ascendent it hath on so ●special a Part of our security as are the Elections of this so great and honourable Assembly of Knights and Burgesses in Parliament I remember to this day the sharp and just reprehension which the present most Pious learned and right Reverend Father in God Dr John Pierson Lord Bishop of Chester gave to us debauched Cavaliers in his Sermon to General Gorings Army in the West If said he one Achan was enough to trouble a whole Army of Israelites what trouble will an Army of Achans create to themselves and those imbacked with them If therefore there should by the miscariages of some inferior Corporations whose meaner Burghers are ready to sell their Consciences their Religion and their Souls for drink and whose Richer Burghers are as ready to do the same for the custom of a great House but two or three Achans debauched Atheistical Hobbists be shuffled with our House of Commons though consisting mostly of faithful wise and Religious Patriots is it not enough to cause God to blast the Sessions wherein such are mingled Nor can any good be expected from such though as is pretended their Estates cheifly consisting of Abby Lands Impropriations c. they are high Zealots against Popery for such will compound underhand to save their own stakes But besides as God declares he hath no fellowship with Mammon nor Christ w●th E●lial so neither will he vouchsafe to use the help of either in the cause of his truth and Church Hath not also the most Pious Learned and Reverend Prelate the best of Collegiate Governours Dr. Fell Lord Bishop of Oxford in his Sermon then before the Lords set it out with the Zeal of a Prophet how Lust and Uncleanness are Rampant amongst us For indeed Adultery hath not only taken the place but Usurps also the Title of Marriage And Whoredom claims to be Honourable amongst all Men. So that he is esteemed mean both in Purse and Spirit who keeps not his Brace of Misses and hath also the repeated Marks of the Stews upon his Body Add to these the loud crying Sin of Murder Unrevenged Murder committed in Duels and Drunken Assassinating of Peaceable Men without a Quarrel Add the general prevailing of a Spirit of Prophaness amongst us just as it did before the late Wars For I remember how then every man who was serious and orderly in his Conversation and every Minister who was Diligent and Laborious in his Ministry though they conformed as high as any and many of them were afterwards as early and deep Sufferers for the King as any of the Royal Party yet were called Puritans and used as such not only by us the Prophane Rabble but even by some great Church-men and others and is it not so in a great measure at this day The Conforming Ministers who are most Holy in their Lives and Diligent in their Labours and their most orderly Parishioners are Reproached as Phanaticks for that very Reason because they are not Prophane Yea though those Ministers are as Regular Conformists as any and have Writ and Disputed for the Diocesan Episcopacy and Conformity to the Legal Ecclesiastical Settlement than any of their Neighbours So that if we estimate the Present Quarrel by the Practice of many both of the loosest Layety and Clergy who yet confidently call themselves Sons of the Church it is not Conformity and Episcopacy but Profaness which seems to be the great Paliadium those Men strive to secure and shall not God again Visit for these things Add to these the Common and Unrelented Perjuries of most Officers as Constables Church-Wardens c. Besides the Horrid Blasphemies of the Wretched Dammees With many other Sins So that I fear the removing of our Candlestick from before the Lord and Redeemer of the Church who purchased it and every part of it to be Holy unto himself Minist I pray you Sir let us not make such Desperate Conclusions against our selves We have Blessed be God more than Fifty Righteous in every City both Conformists and Nonconformists who cry Night and Day for the Averting of Gods Wrath the Reforming our Manners the Healing our Divisions and the Continuance of the Publick Profession of his truth amongst us And I hope he will in Mercy hear them Parish Amen! The Lord Merciful and Gracious hear them and us But I fear our Sins are more Vocal than our Prayers Minst Besides I have not such dreadful Apprehensions of the Cruelty of the English Papists as you seem to have For both you and I know some of that Profession who are as kind and obliging Neighbours as most about us Parish I do readily grant it but then they are those who have not known the depths of Satan as they speak Rev. 2. 24. They acting therefore according to the Benevolent Principles of our Common Christianity and the sweet Candor of their own Natural Temper are very lovely and I use to bless God when I observe any Papist to be such an Heteroclyt and to differ from the generally prevailing Frame of Fierceness that most of them their Regulars at least do evidence And oh What a Triumphant Day will it be both in Heaven and Earth when all such Holy Meek and Humble Papists shall flee out of Babylon But alas these very Persons themselves know not what they shall be when Power is in their hand at least when the Priest and Confessor shall get astride their Consciences and spur them on both sides with the sharp Rowels of these Popish Maxims No Faith to be kept with Hereticks And He that Conceals an Heretick is liable to the Inquisition as an Heretick Queen Mary her self is reported to have been a Princess of an excellent Temper had not Gardener Bonner c. pressed her to those Cruelties exercised under her as the only Evidence she could give her Holy Father the Pope and her Holy Mother the Romish Church That she was a Defender of the Catholick Roman Faith And so in Ireland the poor Protestants found that their Popish Neighbours formerly obliged and obliging by receiving and giving all Reciprocal Kindnesses were either forced by their Priests or willing to be bitterly cruel to their Protestant Friends and so I believe the poor French Protestants find it at this day But if any good natured Papist either in Piedmont Ireland France or otherwhere have ever shewed any tenderness towards suffering Protestants in a day of Persecution I pray the God of all Mercies and Consolation to return that Mercy seven-fold into the Bosom of them and theirs in the time of their need But still I fear Be pleased therefore to lend me your direction and assistance how I may bear up against the Storm if it come The Prophet Isaiah bids us hearken and hear for the time to come And Jeremiah taught the Jews whilst they were in Judea what they should do and say when they came into