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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26295	Vox clamantis, or, An essay for the honour, happiness and prosperity of the English gentry, and the whole nation in the promoting religion and vertue, and the peace both of church and state. / by P.A. ...	Ayres, Philip, 1638-1712.	1684 (1684)	Wing A4314; ESTC R32826	52,049	117

the next place look among our selves with an impartial eye and see how little of this excellent Religion is to be found among us in our lives and conversations may we not cry out with him that said Quid verba audiam facta non video Oh how little of the footsteps thereof is to be found among the greatest part of Christians and us also in this Nation Is there not an apparent defection among us either to Atheism and Prophaneness on the one hand or else to Hypocrisy and Fanatiscism on the other hand if we do not wilfully shut our eyes and will not see Alas may we not behold the Ambitious man by proud Atheism dethroning of his Maker carrying on his Ambitious designs in our days per fas nefas by troubling the quiet of his Neighbours by oppression violence and wrong yea sometimes proudly contemning his Prince Gods Vicegerent by Seditious and Rebellious practices shaking the Crown and Government exposing the peace and welfare of the Nation speaking out aloud Christian Religion stand by I will have nothing to do with thee thou wilt trouble my conscience and hinder me in my designs I am resolved upon The unjust man says I have an Estate to get in haste and I must of necessity use tricks and devices I must cousen lye oppress and devour the Poor thou Christian Religion art an enemy to these things and thou wilt by thy niceness and scrupulosity trouble my conscience and hinder my profit and unjust gain therefore stand by The greedy covetous Usurer saith I am resolved to increase my heaps and fill my Bags for however I have thousands lying by me I am still very poor and therefore am resolved to have more the Grave and the barren womb shall be sooner satisfied than I I can never be otherwise satiated let who will suffer for it therefore Christian Religion except thou wilt allow all these my darling Lusts I will have nothing to do with thee Stand aside The Drunkard and Glutton saith I neither will part with my Cups or my Delicacies my Feasts Banquets and Debauches depart therefore from me Christian Religion with thy Temperance and Fasting and thy thin Chops I hate to give thee entertainment The Adulterer says What shall I part with my sweet dalliances my unlawful Embraces my delightful Company and be subject to the strict Laws of Chastity I cannot abide to think on it What not so much as to look on a Woman to lust after her Away Christian Religion I abhor thy Doctrine and Precepts I am resolved not to part with my Whore yet The Prophane Atheistical Swearer and Curser saith although I get nothing by my Oathes and Hectoring but dishonour and contempt and although I have no temptation to it possible I will not part with my beloved custom because I will appear to be of a great and bold Spirit that dare defy even God himself yea Hector Iupiter himself when he thunders Stand far off from me therefore Christian Religion thou pitiful and despicable thing fit only to cheat and cousen Fools The Malicitious and Revengeful man says I am resolved to be even with may Adversary I will revenge my self to the utmost for I love to gratify my passion do you think that I will ever stoop to that cowardly despicable rule of loving Enemies speak no more of it avoid hence Christian Religion I will have nothing to do with thee The Seditious and Disloyal Person says I abhor that folly of Loyalty und Subjection I am resolved to be aut Caesar aut nullus or however at least to be Ego Rex meus I am as fit to Govern as the best and am therefore resolved not to be a Subject but as soon as any opportunity offers it self by Sedition and Rebellion to carry on my design to attain my ends away therefore Christian Religion except thou wilt suffer Iulian to be thy Expositor The Proud Peevish Self-conceited Non-conformist the Plague of the Reformation says I will hug my darling Scruples and Opinions although never so absurd I am resolved never to be satisfied never to be reconciled and never to be at rest until I have pulled down the Antichristian Hierarchy of Prelacy and laid it level with the ground together with the Church of England that hath its dependence thereupon for let there be ten thousand of the clearest Arguments possible brought against me I can quickly resolve them all with this Answer that nevertheless it is against my Conscience to conform and until I have my will and my end to be obtained I am resolved never to be satisfyed Stand by Christian Religion except thou wilt say as I say and come over to my Conscience and Subjection And very many of the Traders of all sorts among us every one in putting off his Wares saith how shall I trade and get what I would have if I should entertain this Christian Religion It would hinder much my gains and my Lying Swearing and Forswearing and all my tricks of Over-reaching Cheating and Cousenage alas I cannot then live therefore of necessity I must renounce this Christian Religion Come therefore not near me I will have nothing to do with thee for fear of troubling my Conscience and hindering my Profit and Livelyhood The Hypocrite crys out Thou Christian Religion art too honest for me to deal with I hate sincerity therefore I will have nothing more to do with thee but to flea off thy Skin to be a covering for my Knavery and some other of my Brethren aforesaid And so farewel Christian Religion I matter not what becomes of thee I might have instanced in many more particulars but this may suffice to guess at the the rest Thus alas How many in this Nation are guilty of defying God of renouncing their Christianity he that hath but half an eye may easily discern and that this is really the voice of their actions which I have represented to you And now let us be sober wise and serious and judge truly of things was it ever known in any age that a Nation and People ever prospered that contemned God and Religion Hath it not been well and truly observed that the Roman Empire always best flourished when it was the greatest Reverers of the Gods So that what can be a more fatal and prodigious prognostick to us in this Nation than this great and general contempt of God and his Laws and of his Vicegerent How can we expect to have the holy Christian Religion the Reformed Christian the Protestant Religion continued to us any longer when we defy reject reproach and dishonour it by our wicked lives How many of the Heathens will rise up in Judgment against us at the last that had only the light of nature to direct them as the Apostle speaks Rom. 2.14 The Gentiles which have not the Law do by nature the things contained in the Law As for instance Aristides is famous for Justice Epaminondas for prudence and all moral vertues