FOR ENGLANDS Information Reformation great Joy Peace and Consolation And for her great Honour and Exaltation and for the great Shame Contempt and Terror OF THE TVRK the POPE AND THE DEVIL And all the WORKERS of EVIL The Labour of the Righteous tendeth to Life the Righteous is an Everlasting Foundation and Righteousness will in time exalt a Person and in due time enable him for to exalt a Nation when it may be in a Weak and Low Condition LONDON Printed in the Year 1679. FOR ENGLANDS Information c. IN these days of the Gospel and in the Reign of our Royal Soveraign His Majesty of Great Britain great things are to be done and brought about for the Glory and the great Glory of the God of Heaven for the Credit of his Holy Gospel for the great Honour and Renown of the Protestant Religion for the great Exaltation of our Royal Soveraign His Majesty of Great Britain above all Heathen Popish Kings Priests Princes and Emperors in the World that so many Nations may be freed from Slavery and throughout the whole World there may be great Joy Peace and Prosperity which will be brought about in these days of the Gospel and in the Reign of our Royal Soveraign but not by the Wisdom and the Power of Mortal Men but by the Wisdom and the Power of the God of Heaven but he has stirr'd me up for the Glory of his great Name to have his Enemies brought to shame and his Annointed His Majesty of Great Britain and the Church of England throughout the whole World to great Honour Renown and Fame for to make use of the Wisdom the Power and the Strength of Men but not to trust to any of them In these days of the Gospel and in the Reign of our Royal Soveraign will the Righteous Flourish and in his days there will be abundance of Peace so that Righteousness will run down like a mighty Stream and Truth and Peace will kiss each other so that His Majesties Royal Throne will be established in Righteousness and the Workers of Iniquity the Seed of Evil Doers the Children of Disobedience who are Unbelieving Jews Brutish Atheists Wicked and Bloody Papists and Rebellious Dissenters and Sectaries will be afraid and ashamed to come into His Majesties Royal Presence so that His Majesties Royal Court will be the most Holiest Court in the World and these sinful and divided Kingdoms that have for a long time been vexed and perplexed with Contentions and Divisions will become the most Renowned Kingdoms under the Heavens for Unity Peace and Concord for Piety and Vertue for Wisdom Power and Strength for Honour Riches and great Glory so that in these days of the Gospel and in the Reign of our Royal Soveraign we shall soon become the Wonder and the Glory of the World the Crown of Kingdoms the Desire and the Delight of Nations the Joy of the whole Earth and the City of the Great King who can and will give us every good thing that is suitable and seasonable profitable comfortable and advantagious for the great Honour and Exaltation of his Annointed His Majesty of Great Britain and for the great Joy Peace and Prosperity of many Kingdoms which will bring great Joy and Triumph to the Church of England and great Shame Contempt and Terror to the Turk the Pope and the Devil and all the Workers of Evil to him that believeth all things are possible though to the Eye of Sense and Reason it may seem very difficult that which is above Nature will be brought about by him that is partaker of the Divine Nature and that without having a Sword in the Hand or Men or Money at Command Mans Extremity it is Gods Opportunity for to help a Person a Family a City and a Kingdom when that many Wise Strong Rich and Learned Men may be at a stand for to bring Order out of Confusion Light out of Darkness Good out of Evil and Peace out of Trouble then the Lord of Hosts who has all Power in his own Hand and all Men and Angels at Command knows when how and by whom he pleaseth for to make bare his Arm though it be by a weak and an unlikely Man for his Arm is very long and very strong and that his Enemies will know in these days of the Gospel and in the Reign of our Royal Soveraign to their great shame and overthrow Carolus jj Rex HONI SOIT QVI MAL Y PENSE The Power of Faith it is not in making of many words or in taking up the Sword that is made by Mortal Men. But the Power of Faith it is the Power of God making use of the Word of God which is the Sword of the God of Heaven which is sharper than any Two-edged Sword made by Men Because it is Piercing even to the dividing a sunder of Soul and Spirit and of the Joynts and Marrow and is a descerner of the Thoughts and Intents of the Hearts of all the Sons and Daughters of Men that are that have been or ever will be in the World This Word of God which is the Word of Life and the Sword of the Spirit it will Prevail when that the Traditions the Inventions and the Lying Wonders of the Church of Rome shall fail The Word of God abideth for ever therefore that shall prevail when that all Unbelieving Jews Bruitish Atheists Wicked and Bloody Papists and Rebellious Dissenters and Sectaries that do trust to Carnal Wisdom Power and Strength to this Party or that Party to this Opinion or that Opinion to their Estates or their Swords their Hearts shall fail Therefore in these Days of the Gospel of Peace and in the Reign of our Royal Soveraign His Majesty of Great Britain Let all that handle the Sword perish with the Sword that do not use it in a right manner and to a Right End that do not use it for the Glory of the great and Mighty God who is a Man of War and the God of Peace and for the Credit of his Holy Gospel which is the glad Tydings of Salvation and for the great Honour and Renown of the Protestant Religion for the great Joy and Triumph of the Church of England for the great Exaltation of His Majesty of Great Britain and the great Peace and Prosperity of his Kingdoms in these Days of the Gospel which is the Day of Gods Power and the great manifestation of his Patience Wisdom and Glory Let not any despise the day of small things For by Carnal Wisdom Power and Strength shall not Unbeleiving Jews Bruitish Atheists Wicked and Bloody Papists and Rebellious Dissenters and Sectaries prevail but against all these will the Lord of Hosts prevail and that when he please and by whom he please As it is the Prayer of the Ministers of the Gospel so it ought to be their great care in these Days of the Gospel and in the Reign of our Royal Soveraign His Majesty of Great Britain for to mind
of a good Matter and their Tongue to be as the Pen of a ready Writer that that so they may declare the thing that they have framed for the great Honour and Renown of the King our Royal Soveraign His Majesty of Great Britain and the great Joy Peace and Prosperity of his Kingdoms How welcom should because how Beautiful are the Feet of him that bringeth good Tidings that publisheth Peace that bringeth good Tidings of good that saith unto Sion the Church of England Thy God Raigneth Awake awake put on thy Strength O Zion put on thy Beautiful Garments O Church of England shake thy self from the Dust from the Reproaches that thy Enemies have cast upon thee Loose thy self from the bands of thy Neck for thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left and thy Seed shall inherit the Gentiles and make the desolate Cities to be inhabited in Righteousness shalt thou be established thou shalt be far from Oppression for thou shalt not fear and from terror for it shall not come near thee so as to hurt thee the Sons of them that have afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee and all that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the Soles of thy Feet And thy Enemies shall call thee O Church of England the City of the Lord the Zion of the Holy One of Israel Sing O Barren thou that didst not bear break forth into Singing and cry aloud thou that didst not travel with Child for more are the Children of the Desolate than the Children of the Married Wife saith the Lord Rejoyce ye with Jerusalem with the City of London and be glad with her all ye that love her Rejoyce for Joy with her all ye that have mourned for her for the Lord will extend Peace to her like a River and the Glory of the Gentiles like a slowing Stream then shall ye suck and be satisfied with the Breasts of her Consolations with the Means of Grace which God has appointed for he will give unto thee O Church of England more and more Teachers after his own heart which shall feed his people with Knowledge and Understanding so that they shall milk out and be delighted with the abundance of thy Glory And when you see this you that are full of Fears and Doubts what will become of Zion What will become of the Church of England Your Hearts shall rejoyce and your Bones shall flourish like an Herb for the Hand of the Lord the Power of the Lord will be known towards his Servants and his Indignation towards his Enemies The Nations that know not thy God O Church of England who is the true and the ever-living God will be ashamed and confounded for all their Wisdom their Power and Strength they shall lay their hand upon their Mouth their Ears will be deaf they shall lick the Dust like a Serpent they shall move out of their holes like Worms of the Earth they shall be afraid of the Lord our God and shall fear because of thee O Church of England The Lord will be terrible unto thy Enemies he will famish all the Gods of the Earth that men may worship him every one in his place even all the Isles of the Heathen then the rejoycing City that dwelt carelesly that said in her Heart I am and there is none beside me how will she become a Desolation a place for Beasts to lie down in every one that passeth by her shall hiss and wag his head for the Pope of Rome who is the Whore of Babylon and the Man of Sin will become the Man of Sorrow for the Lord will pour Contempt upon them that have poured Contempt upon his Word and Sacraments as all unbelieving Jews bruitish Atheists wicked bloody and deceitful Papists proud Dissentors and rebellious Sectaries have done But if that they will not learn in these days of the Gospel to be humbled and reformed they will be ashamed and confounded Fear not O Land but be glad and rejoyce for the Lord who is most wise and most strong will do great things for thee O England for thee O London above other Nations for as thou hast had great sorrow and misery so thou wilt have great honour and prosperity The time is come in these days of the Gospel and in the Reign of our Royal Soveraign His Majesty of Great Britain that for thy shame the Lord will give thee double Honour and for Confusion thou shalt greatly Rejoyce everlasting Joy shall be unto thee Thou hast drunken deep of the Cup of Gods Anger but thy Enemies they that hate thee O Church of England will drink the Dregs of it Be glad then ye Children of Zion and rejoyce in the Lord your God for thou shalt be no more tearmed Forsaken for thou shalt forget the shame of thy Youth and shalt not remember the Reproach of thy Widow-hood any more for thy Maker is thine Husband the Lord of Hosts is his Name The Lord thy God in the midst of thee O Church of England is mighty he will save he will rejoyce over thee with Joy he will rest in his Love he will joy over thee with Singing and the Gentiles shall see thy Righteousness and all Kings thy Glory for thou wilt be as a Crown of Glory in the hand of the Lord and as a Royal Diadem in the hand of thy God For as a young man marrieth a Virgin so will thy Sons marry thee and as the Bridegroom rejoyceth over the Bride so will thy God rejoyce over thee Therefore ye that make mention of the Lord keep not silence and give him no rest till he establish and till he make Jerusalem the City of London a Praise in the Earth Praise the Lord O Jerusalem praise thy God O Zion for he hath strengthned the Bars of thy Gates he hath blessed thy Children within thee he maketh peace in thy Borders and filleth thee with the sinest of the Wheat He sheweth his Word unto Jacob his Statutes and his Judgments unto Israel He hath not dealt so with other Nations and as for his Judgments they have not known them Praise ye the Lord that be wise for it is good to sing Praises unto our God for it is pleasant and praise is comely For great is our Lord and of great Power his Understanding is insinite he lifteth up the meek with much ease when they be brought low he casteth the wicked down to the ground when they be so proud as not to know him and so high as not to fear him O that all the Sons and the Daughters of Men in these days of the Gospel and in the Reign of our Royal Soveraign His Majesty of Great Britain would learn to be wise and to know those things that do concern their Everlasting Peace before they go hence and be seen no more for Time flies and Man daily dies there is not an Hour in a Day but many have their Breath taken away All flesh is grass
of Faith which is the Power of the God of Heaven Men of Renown have Subdued Kingdoms wrought Righteousness Obtained Promises Stopped the Mouths of Lyons out of Weakness were made Strong have waxed Valiant in Fight and turned many to Flight Divine Faith which is more Precious then Gold will Enable a Man to be as bold as a Lion stronger then Samson and Wiser than the Devil in the overcoming of Evil and the doing of Good in his Generation for the great Honour of God the King and Nation but the want of so Excellent a Jewel as Divine Faith which is a Supporting and a Comforting Grace will make all the Workers of Iniquity throughout the whole World to Tremble for all their Carnal Wisdom Power and Strength it is not said that a Man shall Overcome the World by his Wisdom Power and Strength but by his Faith by Beleiving in the Son of God and owning of him and appearing for him It is by Faith I stand and by Faith that I do Understand the Mind of the God of Heaven what is to be done among the Sons of Men the Wisest and the Chiefest among them in these Days of the Gospel for the great Honour and Renown of the Protestant Religion for the great Joy and Triumph of the Church of England for the great Honour and Exaltation of our Royal Soveraign His Majesty of Great Britain and for the great Joy Peace and Prosperity of many Kingdoms To Write and to Speak the same thing again and again it is needful when it is Suitable and Seasonable Profitable Comfortable and Advantageous to a Person a Family a City or a Kingdom In these Days of the Gospel and in the Reign of our Royal Soveraign His Majesty of Great Britain it will be known who are Sons of the Church of England and who are Sons for the Church of England many may be Sons of the Church of England that be a Burden and Reproach to the Church of England but to be a Son for the Church of England doth Imply to seek the Good and Welfare of the Church of England the Peace and Settlement of the Church of England the great Joy and Triump of the Church of England which will bring great Honour and Exaltation to His Majesty of Great Britain and great Peace and Prosperity to his Kingdoms There is a Generation among the Sons of Men that have a Name to Live and are Dead that be pure in their own Eyes but yet not Cleansed from their Iniquities these are too Wise for to say our Saviours Prayer and the Church of England's Prayer because they have been so long Ruled by the Prince of the Air who Rules in the Children of Disobedience and is Active with them in all their Treasons These have made the Church of England Black with Reproaches cast upon her but she is Comely in her Graces before the God of Heaven and in her Carriage before Wise and Understanding Men but before them that be more Nice then Wise she is Despised in their Eyes But in these Dayes of the Gospel the Lord who is most Wise and most Strong will make it appear who be for him or against him and his Annointed our Royal and Gracious Soveraign The Lord whose Wisdom is unsearchable and his Power unresistable is a Wonder-working God the Wonders that he has wrought for his Children when they have been Sould and Bought is to be Admired and Remembred by all Persons in all Nations How was the Jews sold and bought to be destroyed by that wicked Haman and flattering Courtier But what did he get but shame and confusion for he was taken in his own Net did fall into his own Pit and his violent Dealings came down upon his own Pate for he was hanged upon the same Gallows that he built for faithfull and honourable Mordecai What got the Spanish Aâ—adâ— and the Gun-powder Traytors against Englands Royal Church and State Were they not ashamed confounded and many destroyed O that men would praise the Lord for his goodness and for his wonderful works unto the children of men How many times has the Lord of Hosts saved and delivered England again and again when that they have been sold and bought to have been destroyed by the Pope the French King and the King of Spain But the God of Heaven doth Night and Day watch over and defend this Nation to bring the Enemies of his Gospel to thame and desolation that will not conform and reform to the Pretestant Religion as it is Established in the Church of England For a long time the Turk the Pope the French King and the King of Spain have kept many Nations in slavery for the Devil and their own lust But the time is come that in these days of the Gospel and in the Reign of our Royal Sovereign will their Wisdom their Power and Strength their Honours and Riches their great and high Places be soon laid in the dust but for the great Honour and Renown of the Protestant Religion for the great Joy and Triumph of the Church of England for the great Peace and Prosperity of many Kingdoms will His Majesty of Great Britains Crown and Kingdoms flourish among all Nations while there is a Generation So that the God of Heaven will bless the Earth with great encrease and among all people in all Nations there will be a Free Trade great Joy and a lasting Peace It becomes all the Ministers of the Gospel all wise strong rich and learned men that will prove themselves faithful to the God of Heaven to His Majesty of Great Britain to the Protestant Religion and to the Church of England for to countenance and encourage this Noble Design that Divine Wisdom and Power has enabled me for to make known in time for the great Joy Peace and Prosperity of Mankind Let the man be what he will or whom he will whom the great Great and the Mighty God doth stir up to engage with him for to make known his Mind for the great Honour and Exaltation of a Kings Person and the great Peace and Prosperity of many Nations that Man ought to be minded and regarded by the Wise Godly and the Learned because that his Work is high and honourable Work pleasant prositable and delightsom Work and will prove victorious glorious and crowning Work it will Crown the God of Heaven with much Glory among the Sons of Men and our Royal Sovereign His Majesty of Great Britain with great Honour and Power over them over all Heathen and Popish Kings Priests Princes and Emperours in the world That this may be done and well done let all that do profess the Protestant Religion that can pray pray for the long life and prosperous and victorious Reign of our Royal Sovereign his Majesty of Great Britain that the Lord would enable him to be as Good as Great and keep him at all times and in all places as the Apple of his own Eye the Lord deliver him always
service of the World the Flesh and the Devil and that how few do readily and willingly and cheerfully engage in the service of the God of Heaven whose service is perfect freedom and his work and reward is most honourable They do well that do love their Enemies that do often feed them and relieve them for the Lord doth make his Son to shine both on the Evil and on the Good and sendeth Rain on the Just and on the Unjust To do good to all Men it is commendable but to do good to the Houshold of Faith it is most profitable and will prove most comfortable A Friend loveth at all times but a true and a faithful Friend may be so much displeased as not to manifest his Love at all times Joseph loved his Brethren when he stormed at them spake roughly to them put some of them in Prison and caused Simcon to be bound before their Eyes But as after Storms and Tempests the Sun doth shine most clearest so after great and long Trials Troubles and Afflictions Deliverance will be the sweetest both to a Person a Family a City and a Kingdom Let not any therefore despise the day of small things let not any slight and undervalue the small beginnings of Grace in themselves or others for a spark of Grace well proved and improved will break forth into a flame for the Glory of Gods great Name and to bring a King and Kingdom to great Honour Renown and Fame The greatest Tree was a Plant and the Wisest the Strongest the Richest and most Learned'st Man was a Child They that have truth of Grace let them labour to grow in Grace by improving the means of Grace which the God of Heaven has appointed and the Church of England has ordained for they that do labour to grow in Grace will have increase of every Grace and so will grow in the favour of God and good Men and of the Angels in Heaven They that have truth of Grace and do improve it will have increase of Grace and will never lose it but will know when and how for to use it in the worst of times and before the best of Men for the Glory of the most High and the great Honour and Exaltation of Englands Royal Majesty Were there as many Nations as many Worlds as there be Men there is a way to subdue them for the Glory of the great and mighty God for the Credit of his Holy Gospel for the great Honour and Renown of the Protestant Religion for the great Joy and Triumph of the Church of England for the great Exaltation of his Majesty of Great Britain and the great Joy Peace and Prosperity of many Kingdoms and that is by daily getting Wisdom Power and Strength from him who gives to the whole Creation a Being which Divine Wisdom Power and Strength will inable a mortal Man to prepare high and honourable Works to be managed by many Wise Strong Rich and Learned Men that have their Wisdom their Power and Strength their Honours Riches great and high Places from the God of Heaven The Lord is a high and strong Tower and a Shield to all them that trust in him Great Deliverances giveth he unto his King and sheweth Mercy to his Annointed to David and to his Seed for evermore And who dare say that our Royal Soveraign his Majesty of Great Britain is not of the Seed of David Spiritually the Lord who is most great and most good has known his Soul in Adversity and did bring him to his Throne in great Peace and Prosperity The King trusteth in the Lord therefore through the Mercy of the most High he will not be moved but the right Hand of the Lord will find out all his Enemies he will find out all them that hate him he will make them like a fiery Oven in time of his Anger the Lord will destroy them in his Wrath and the Fire will devour them but the King our Royal Soveraign his Majesty of Great Britain will rejoyce in the Strength of the Lord yea how greatly will he rejoyce in his Salvation the Lord has given him his hearts desire and hath not denied him the request of his Lips but hath given him liberal Blessings and hath set a Crown of pure Gold upon his Head He asked Life of thee and thou Lord of Life hath given it him when he was pursued by unreasonable bloody and deceitful Men for which let all People in England Scotland France and Ireland and in many other Nations praise God and be very thankful The Lord who has wonderfully preserved his Majesties Royal Person for the great Joy Peace and Prosperity of many Nations and has set him and sent him as a Blessing among his People make him glad with the light of thy Countenance Remember him O Lord with the favour of thy People and visit him with thy Salvation that he may see the Felicity of thy Chosen and rejoyce in the Joy of thy People and glory with thine Inheritance in thine everlasting and most glorious Kingdom when this mortal Life will be at end The Lord preserve him both at home and abroad both by Land and Water that so he and his throughout the whole World may bear the greatest sway while time and all things under the Sun doth pass away Make known in time this noble Design for the great Joy Peace and Prosperity of Mankind by John Varney a Member of the Church of England and a Subject to his Majesty of Great Britain but such a Subject that the God of Heaven has honoured among the Sons of Men for to engage with him for to bring about such high and honourable Work pleasant profitable and delightsome Work victorious glorious and crowning Work for the great honour and renown of his Majesty of Great Britain and the Church of England which has not yet been done by all the Parliaments that have been since England has injoyed a King Shall the Church of England which is the Spouse of Christ bring forth Princes each one resembling the Children of a King and she sit in the Dust slighted and reproached by her Enemies both at home and abroad This ought not to be this must not be but the Sons of the most High must appear for her readily willingly and cheerfully As our Royal Soveraign his Majesty of Great Britain has been the greatest Prince in the World for suffering so I shall endeavour in these days of the Gospel by the power of Faith which is the power of God that he may be the greatest King and Emperor in the World and over the World for Wisdom Power and Strength for Honour Riches and great Glory so that those Nations which have paid Tribute to the Church of Rome to their great loss and shame will be glad to pay Tribute to the Church of England for the great Honour and Renown of the Protestant Religion and the great Exaltation of his Majesty of Great Britain because it will be
men under the Heavens are bound to know their Creator so as to fear him but there be many of the Sons and the Daughters of Men that will labour to know him so as to love serve and to honour him which will prove most comfortable to themselves and most profitable to others Let the man be what he will or whom he will in these days of the Gospel and in the Reign of our Royal Soveraign His Majesty of Great Britain in whom the Lord of Hosts doth arise his Enemies shall be scattered and they that hate him shall flee before him as Wax melteth before the sire so will all the workers of iniquity at the presence of the Lord but the Righteous shall be glad and rejoyce for a long time The Church of Rome the King of Spain and the proud French King has endeavoured to undermine and overthrow the Protestant Religion His Majesty of Great Britain and the Church of England but the time is come that they are to know that they are to be brought very low if that they will not Conform and Reform to the Protestant Religion to the Nine and thirty Doctrines of the Church of England There is no man worthy to be a Minister of the Gospel in England Scotland France and Ireland that doth or should oppose gain-say or preach against any of the Nine and thirty Doctrines of the Church of England The Enemies against the Church of England are many both at home and abroad but I shall endeavour by the power of Faith which is the power of God for to do what I can to over-throw them as one man and to set a-work they that have power in their hand that they may be subdu'd both by Sea and Land that so the people may know the true and the everliving God and Jesus Christ whom he hath sent then will the Earth bring forth great increase and among all people in all Nations there will be a free Trade great Joy and a lasting Peace The Lord who is most Great and most Good knows when how and by whom he pleases for to speak peace to a Person a Family a City and a Kingdom and when he speaks peace to his People to any of his Saints let them not turn again to Folly but let them renew their Obedience and double their Diligence The Lord will satiate the Soul of the Priests of his Ministers with Fatness and the people with his Goodness surely his Salvation is nigh them that fear him that Glory may dwell in our Land Mercy and Truth are met together Righteousness and Peace have kissed each other Truth shall spring out of the Earth Righteousness shall look down from Heaven yea the Lord will give that which is good so that our Land will yield her Increase Righteousness will go before him and set us in the way of his Steps The Lord who is most Great and most Good will be known by his Judgments and his Mercies for he is a God that judgeth the earth for the Lord is a God of knowledge and by him all mens Thoughts and Actions are weighed That our Royal Soveraign his Majesty of Great Britain may be willing to countenance encourage and set forward this Noble Design that Divine Wisdom and Power has enabled me to make known in time for the Glory of his Great Name and to have his Enemies brought to shame His Royal Majesty will find that many Princes and Nations will assist him and that which is more than all them the God of Heaven who has all Power in his own hand and the whole Creation at Command will in these days of the Gospel and in the Reign of our Royal Soveraign make bare his Arm and manifest his Wisdom Power and Strength to bring down the Turk the Pope the French King and the King of Spain that so many Nations may be freed from slavery and throughout the whole World there may be great joy peace and prosperity Sing unto the Lord thy God O Church of England for he hath done excellent things this is known in all the Earth for among the Gods there is none like unto him there is not one that can do as he has done Say to them therefore that are of a fearful Heart be strong fear not for the True and the Everlasting God will come with vengeance and rebukes upon his Enemies but with great recompence and rewards will he come and save and deliver his People that wait upon him and put their trust and confidence in him therefore cry out and Shout thou Inhabitant of Sion thou Church of England for great is the Holy one of Israel in the midst of thee for to bring thee to great honour renown and fame and thy Enemies to great shame Behold the Whirl-wind of the Lord goeth forth with fury a continuing Whirl-wind it will fall with pain upon the Head of the Wicked the fierce anger of the Lord will not return until he hath performed the intents of his Heart in these latter daies many will see it and consider of it thy God O Church of England is my God thy cause is my cause thy troubles have been my greatest trouble and thy Enemies are my worst Enemies I have laid to Heart more the troubles of the Church of England and of his Majesty of Great Britain than the Death of a Wife and seven Children I have laid them more to Heart than all the tryals troubles losses crosses and reproaches that I have met withal from my Youth to this present time I have laid them so to Heart that many will be made to smart that have endeavoured to undermine and to overthrow the Protestant Religion his Majesty of Great Britain and the Church of England I have laid them so to Heart that many will be made to smart that will not conform and reform to the Protestant Religion as it is establisht in the Church of England When the Lyon Roars all the Beasts of the Field tremble the Lord has not been much minded nor regarded by his Judgements of Plague Fire and Sword but he will be minded and regarded by a still Voice by inabling of me for to make known his mind for the terror of Evil doers the Voice of the Lord is powerful the Voice of the Lord is full of Majesty the Voice of the Lord breaketh the Cedars yea the Lord breaketh the Cedars of Lebanon The Lord thy God O Church of England who is most great and most good will be known to be the True and Everlasting God among the Sons of men for by terrible things in Righteousness will he answer them For a long time the Lord has holden his peace he has been still and refrained himself but now will he cry like a Travelling Woman he will destroy and devour at once and that without making of many words or having the Voice much heard The time is come that in these Gospel days and in the Reign of our Royal Soveraign his Majesty of
Great Britain that the Lord of Hosts will go forth as a mighty Man he will stir up jealousie like a Man of war he will cry yea Roar but he will prevail against his Enemies as the Turk the Pope and the Devil and all the Workers of Evil. Who knoweth the power of Gods anger according to his fear so is his wrath for he is terrible out of his Holy places therefore tremble thou Earth at the presence of the Lord at the presence of the God of Jacob tremble therefore all you Heathen and Popish Kings Priests Princes and Emperors in the World that do slight and undervalue the Word of God and question his mighty power tremble therefore all you unbelieving Jews Bruitish Atheists wicked and bloody Papists and rebellious Dissentors and Sectaries that have not made the Word of God your Rule nor his Spirit your Guide nor his Glory your Aim Tremble therefore all you Earthly and Carnal-minded Men you Self-sekers and Men-pleasers Lovers of your selves more than Lovers of God your King and Countrey Tremble all you that have a Name to live and are dead that have called your selves Saints but have acted like Devils Incarnate against the God of Heaven the Protestant Religion his Majesty of Great Britain and the Church of England but let the Righteous be glad and rejoyce all ye that do truly fear God and Honour the King and are faithful to the Protestant Religion This Noble Design that Divine wisdom and power has enabled me to make known in time it will be as a hand-writing upon the wall against all the Enemies of the Gospel both great and small so that many will fall in love with the Protestant Religion and will be ready and willing to serve and to honour his Majesty of Great Britain both at home and abroad Light is sowen for the Righteous and Gladness for the upright in Heart ye that love the Lord hate Evil for he preserveth the Souls of his Saints he delivereth them many a time out of the Hands of unreasonable bloody and deceitful men that lie in wait for to destroy them Therefore rejoyce in the Lord ye Righteous and give thanks at the remembrance of his Holiness for the Lord who is most good is most great therefore is greatly to be praised and to be feared above all Gods therefore let all wise strong rich and learned Men declare his Glory among the Heathens and his wonders among all People for honour and Majesty are before him strength and beauty is in his Sanctuary therefore let all People in all Nations learn to know the true and the everlasting God and to worship him as they do in the Church of England with Reverence and with a holy Fear They that fear the Lord who is most great will love him because he is most good and they that love him will delight in him and he will give them the desires of their Hearts and that is truth of Grace strength of Grace and increase of Grace It is commendable and will prove very profitable and comfortable to the Sons and Daughters of Men for to delight in the Word of God so that it may richly in them dwell then their sleep will be sweet and they will have great Joy Rest and Peace that Peace which passeth the understanding of Men and Angels to declare what it is it is the Peace of God which is better felt then exprest that peace which the World cannot give nor take away They that do injoy much of God must lay out themselves much for him in these days of the Gospel and in the Reign of our Royal Soveraign his Majesty of Great Britain That Man which will make his graces to appear for the great honour of God the King and Nation He must charge to the Front and to the Rear he must charge and charge again and that with might and main that 〈◊〉 the Turk the Pope and the Devil and all the Workers of Evil to shame and that without making a noise about Religion for this Party or for that Opinion without making of many words or having the Voyce much heard without having a Sword in the hand A Christian Souldier that is engaged in holy War against the World the Flesh and the Devil must quit himself like a man and when he has done all for to stand by the power of Faith which is the power of God in man the power of God for man and the power of God with man Who knows what is in the Womb of a Day or in the Heart of a man Not any but the God of Heaven who can when he will and by whom he will bring Order out of Confusion Light out of Darkness Good out of Evil and Peace out of Trouble for the great Honour and Exaltation of a Kings Person and the great Peace and Prosperity of many Nations As the highest Member under the God of Heaven doth give Protection for the Safety of the meanest Member in the Church of England so sometimes the meanest Member with the God of Heaven may give Direction for the great Honour Exaltation and Consolation of the Highest in the days of the Gospel and in the Reign of our Royal Soveraign His Majesty of Great Britain Cursed be that Man that dare lift up his hand against the Lords Anointed by Sea or by Land against the Lords Anointed whom the Most High hath made Great in Place and Inriched with his Grace Is it not the Prayer of the Church of England for His Majesty of Great Britain that the Lord would hear him in the day of trouble and send him help from the Sanctuary and strengthen him out of Sion For his Majesty can have no such Help as from the Sanctuary nor no such Strength as out of Sion The God of Heaven has promised whose Promises are all Yea and Amen in Christ That the Deliverer shall come out of Sion which shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob But Sion which is the Church of Christ throughout the whole World and the Church of Christ in England Scotland France and Ireland must not look for the Deliverer of Sion to come in greater Pomp than the Saviour of Sion came but he that shall come whom the God of Heaven will send will come and will not tarry for the Tree will be known by his Fruit for he will purifie the Sons of Levy and purge them as Gold and Silver that they may offer unto the true and everliving God who is most Great and most Good an Offering in Righteousness which will be pleasing and exceptable to him The Stone which the Builders refused is it not become the Head-stone of the Corner This is the Lords Doings who is Great in Counsel and Mighty in Power therefore let it be marvellous in the Eyes of them that be most wise And let not any despise the Day of small things for as the Lord of Hosts is above all so he is more than all and can be with all in
Wars Treachery and Cruelty is more than there be men in England Scotland and Ireland And yet the Church of Rome the Mother of Harlots that Scarlet Whore is not satisfied but the Righteous God to whom Vengeance doth belong though he be slow to Anger yet is he great in Power therefore he will give her Blood to Drink because she is worthy The Day of thy Calamity O Church of Rome is at hand that so many Nations may be freed from Slavery and throughout the whole World there may be great Joy Peace and Prosperity For thy Pride and Vain-glory thy Formality Hypocrisie and Treachery the Misery that will come upon thee maketh hast Therefore Cry and Howl you Inhabitants of Rome for Antichrist must come down and all those that will uphold his Crown to that end the Lord of Hosts who is Strong and Mighty in Battel who has all Power in his own hand and the whole Creation at command has stirr'd me up to engage with him to stir up all the Kings and Princes in the world that will own him to bring down his Implacable Enemies that be against him as the Turk the Pope the French King and the King of Spain because they be Enemies to his Gospel and his Children who are as dear unto him as the Apple of his Eye because they be his purchased ransomed and redeemed Ones they be his justified sanctified chosen and beloved Ones they be his choice Jewels and his great Treasure As for the Workers of Iniquity the Seed of Evil Doers the Children of Disobedience the Enemies of his Gospel who be unbelieving Jews bruitish Atheists wicked and bloody Papists and rebellious Dissentors and Sectaries they be but Lumber and Cumber in the world till they do Conform and Reform to the Lord of Life who is the King of Glory and the Prince of Peace who knows when how and by whom he please with much ease to bring great Peace and Prosperity to a Nation as to a Person happy be they that live to him and live for him they will live for ever with him they will be in his Favour in whose Presence is Fulness of Joy and at whose Right Hand are Pleasures for ever-more It is a great Priviledge to be in the Favour of an Earthly Prince but it is the highest Honour and the greatest Safety to be in the Favour of the God of Heaven who is the Lord of Life and the King of Glory A man may want Money sometimes to help himself when he may be rich and strong in Faith to help others A man may want Money to Trade with men when he may be rich and strong in Faith to engage with the God of Heaven for the Glory of his great Name to have his Enemies brought to shame and His Majesly of Great Britain and the Church of England throughout the whole world to great Honour Renown and Fame True Faith which is more precious than Gold will make a man seeming poor to make others really rich and it will inable a man to make himself in the world of no Reputation to bring others to great Honour and Exaltation Let all that want so rich a Jewel as precious Faith labour to get it from the Lord of Life in the use of those means that he has appointed and the Church of England has ordained and they that have it let them labour to prove it and improve it because it will innoble the Mind and inable the Mind to frame some noble Design and to bring it about in due time for the great Joy Peace and Prosperity of Mankind It has been want of Faith and Love to God our Brethren and Enemies that has caused so much Strife and Contention Sedition and Rebellion which has brought great Disorder and Confusion from time to time among Mankind But the God of Wisdom and Power knows when and how for to bring among the Sons of Men in many Nations Order out of Confusion Light out of Darkness Good out of Evil Peace out of Trouble in the worst of Times and by the weakest of Means that Strife Contentions and Wars throughout the whole Earth may cease All People in all Nations must strive to live in Love and Peace because God is Love who is the Creator of all Men and the Preserver of them That this may be done and well done the Gospel that bringeth Glad-tydings of Salvation must Run and be Glorified where it is not and must flourish where it is that so they that do not know the true God and Jesus Christ whom he hath sent may labour to know him and they that know him let them labour to love him and they that love him let them labour to keep his Commandments because they be not grievous but most pleasant profitable and comfortable But the Traditions of the Church of Rome are burdensom unprofitable and uncomfortable they do deprive Kings of their Priviledges And that is the greatest Freedom which is the Freedom of the Mind and the greatest Liberty which is the Liberty of the Will and the greatest Power which is over Sin the World and the Devil The Church of Rome is too cruel to her Children because she will not let them injoy the Jewels more worth than three Kingdoms And that is a sound Heart which is the life of the Flesh a wholsom Tongue which is a Tree of Life and righteous Lips which are the Delight of Kings but to lye slatter and dissemble is the Church of Rome's Religion The Lips of Truth will be establisht for ever but a lying Tongue is but for a moment Times may be so bad and so sad that many may be brought into such great straights that they cannot tell how to live well by their Estates or their Trades by their Houses or Lands or Offices or great Places but in the worst of Times that can come the Just shall live by his Faith because it is more precious than Gold In time of Famine he will be fed in time of Plague he will be hid in time of War he will not fly in time of Fire he is provided for all Eternity when the Heavens shall pass away with a great noise and the Elements shall melt with fervent heat and the Earth and all the Works that are therein shall be burnt up then the Just and Righteous have an Inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and that fadeth not away reserved in Heaven for them Faith that works by Love will inable the Sons and the Daughters of Men to bear much to suffer much to want much and to enjoy much and to do much good in their Generation for the great Honour of God the King and Nation they that can love the God of Heaven for himself will serve him for his Kingdom and they will know that the God of Heaven loves them but not for what they have done and suffered but he loves them for his Son and for what he has done and suffered They that do love God
for Christ and the Lord Christ as God and Man in one Person will find that the Father and the Son will manifest themselves unto them and by their Spirit will revive refresh counsel comfort and strengthen them in every State and Condition under every Tryal Trouble and Affliction that the Sons and the Daughters of Men are exposed unto in the Wilderness of this World The God of Heaven who is most Great and most Good most wise and most strong is Love and he that dwelleth in Love dweleth in God and God in him which will enable a man to bring about great and wonderful things for the great Honour and Exaltation of a Kings Person and the great Peace and Prosperity of many Nations Man's loving of God who is most good is a Fruit of Gods loving of him though he be very bad but not the Cause Gods Love to Man is free he don't deserve it neither can any of the Sons and Daughters of Men merit it by all their Works and Duties Mans love to God is a Duty the God of Heaven doth require it because that he is most worthy of it to be beloved above all and more than all They that love the God of Heaven most will serve and honour him best and they that honour him he will them to some he doth it in this World with Honours Riches and a long Life but to all that be faithful and fruitful in good Works such works that be pleasing to him and profitable to others he will honour in his own Kingdom with Glory Immortality and the Crown of Lise O Great is the Power of Faith which is the Power of the God of Heaven which doth inable a weak and an unlikely man for to prepare high and honourable Work pleasant profitable and delightsome Work Victorious Glorious and Crowning Work to be managed by many Wise Strong Rich and Learned Men for the Glory of the Great and Mighty God for the Credit of his Holy Gospel for the great Honour and Renown of the Protestant Religion for the great Honour and Exaltation of our Royal Soveraign his Majesty of Great Britain above all Heathen and Popish Kings Priests Princes and Emperors in the World so that we shall become the wonder of the World and a wonder to our selves the Desire and the Delight of Nations the Joy of the whole Earth and the City of the great King for Unity Peace and Concord for Piety and Vertue for Wisdom Power and Strength and for Honours Riches and great Glory which will be brought about in these days of the Gospel but not by the Power of the Sword made by Men but by the Power of Faith which is the Wisdom and Power of the God of Heaven Therefore Glory be to God most high great Joy Peace Prosperity and good will towards Men on Earth Glory and great Glory from all Men and Angels to the most High Great Honour and Renown great Joy Peace and Prosperity is for Englands Royal Majesty Therefore with Angels and Archangels and all the Company of Heaven the glorious Company of the Apostles the goodly Fellow-ship of the Prophets the noble Army of Martyrs the Holy Church of Christ throughout the whole World let us all laud and magnifie praise and glorifie the God of Heaven the Father of an infinite Majesty for his unspeakable Love and innumerable Mercies from time to time bestowed on Mankind for the sake of his beloved Son our blessed Lord and only Saviour Jesus Christ who ever liveth and ever loveth and will take great Delight and Pleasure to reward them that be Wise Faithful Valorous and Couragious to the end But they that draw back unto Perdition and unto the Church of Rome's Tradition his Soul will take no pleasure in them but they that honour him he will honour them not onely before Mortal Men but before his Father and Holy Angels in the highest Heavens Therefore Glory and great Glory be to him and great Honour and Renown to England's Royal King our Gracious Soveraign Charles the Second by his Grace and Favour his Majesty of Great Britain above all Heathen and Popish Kings Priests Princes and Emperors in the World that so all Strife Contention and Wars throughout the whole World may cease and among all People in all Nations there may be a free Trade great Joy and a lasting Peace POSTSCRIPT WHat the God of Heaven has promised in time for the great Joy Peace and Prosperity of Mankind it will be brought about in due time for all his Promises are true and faithful every one more precious than Gold or the Gold of Ophir The Crown of Glory is in a promise them that be faithful to the Death will he give the Crown of Life The God of Heaven promised to send his Son and in the fulness of time he did come who is and was and ever will be the chiefest of Ten thousands in the highest degree and in these days of the Gospel the Lord will give unto him the Heathen for his Inheritance and the uttermost parts of the Earth for his Porfession for the Glory of his great Name to have his Enemies brought to shame and many Kings and Kingdoms to great Honour Renown and Fame To him that believes and knows he believes all things is possible to be done that is lawful commendable and most honourable under the Sun By what Divine Wisdom and Power has inabled me for to make known in time for the great Honour and Exaltation of his Majesties Royal Person and the great Joy Peace and Prosperity of many Nations the Reader that is Ingenious may learn to be good and to know when and how for to do much good in his Generation for the great Honour of God the King and Nation and that in the worst of times and before the best of Men and that without making of many words or having the voice much heard These days of the Gospel are times that will try the Wisdom and the Skill the Valour and the Courage of many Wise Strong Rich and Learned Men what they can do and what they will do for to bring about that noble Design that Divine Wisdom and Power has inabled me to make known in time for the Glory of his great Name for the Credit of his Holy Gospel for the great Honour and Renown of the Protestant Religion for the great Joy and Triumph of the Church of England which will bring great Peace and Prosperity to many Kingdoms which is to be brought about in these days of the Gospel for the Glory of the most High and for the great Honour and Exaltation of Englands Royal Majesty that so many Nations may be freed from Slavery and throughout the whole World there may be great Joy Peace and Prosperity The great and the mighty God who is most Wise and most Strong doth what whatsoever will in the Heavens above and in the Farth beneath and that when he please and with whom he please and that
faithful to the God of Heaven to the Protestant Religion and the Church of England Would Men be Wise Strong Rich and Honourable Persons most Excellent Persons more Precious than Gold or the Gold of Ophir they must labour to get and to keep a Sound Heart which is the Life of the Flesh a Wholsom Tongue which is a Tree of Life and Righteous Lips which are the Delight of Kings He that Loveth Pureness of Heart for the Grace of his Lips the King will be his Friend The Heart of the Wise teacheth his Mouth and addeth Learning to his Lips The Wise in Heart shall be called Prudent and the Sweetness of the Lips Increaseth Learning The Wise shall Inherit Glory but Shame will be the Promotion of all them that do prefer the Pleasures of Sin that lasts but for a Moment above the Gain of Godliness that lasts for Ever Godliness it is great Gain and will bring Men to great Fame that be Faithful to the God of Heaven to his Annointed our Royal and Gracious Soveraign His Majesty of Great Britain to the Protestant Religion and the Church of England To Fear the God of Heaven and to Honour the King His Majesty of Great Britain it is true Religion which is taught in the Church of England There is no Place Calling or Condition that will Honour Men if that they be not Careful to Honour God and our Royal King in them For what-ever Honours and Riches that Men do get if that they do not Honour the God of Heaven and His Majesty of Great Britain their Honours and their Riches will prove uncertain and their Lives will prove uncomfortable But if that Men will do that Worthy thing as to know when and how for to Honour the God of Heaven and our Royal Soveraign His Majesty of Great Britain in this World it will bring them to great Fame and in Heaven with Holy Angels for ever to Remain If there be Joy in Heaven at the Conversion of a Sinner how much more ought there to be in the Church of England when this Sinner shall bring forth the Fruits of Righteousness for the Glory of the great and Mighty God for the Credit of his Holy Gospel for the great Honour and Renown of the Protestant Religion and for the great Exaltation of His Majesty of Great Britain which will bring great Joy and Triumph to the Church of England and great Peace and Prosperity to many Kingdoms They that would bring great Honour to the God of Heaven and to His Majesty of Great Britain must get a Sound Heart and to get a Sound Heart Men must Labour to get a Sound Faith which is more Precious then Gold and doth require more Wisdom Power and Skill to Prove it Improve it and to know when and how for to Manage it than it is to Sway a Scepter and to Rule a Kingdom and more Honour than it is to wear any Earthly Crown This I declare that no Subject whatsoever should Desire or Covet after the Growns and Scepters of Kings and Princes in this World but if that Men will Covet after a Crown let it be an Immortal one which the Righteous Judge will give to all Faithful ones for those that be Faithful to the Death he will give the Crown of Life That Crown which will never Rust when all the Glory of this World will be laid in the Dust A Sound Faith is more Precious then Gold or the Gold of Ophir because it will purifie the Foulest Heart it will in time make a mean Man Honourable a Poor Man Rich a Weak Man Strong a Sick Man Well and a Dying Man Happy which all the things in this World cannot do Divine Faith which is more Precious than Gold it is the Gift and Power of the great and mighty God it is not in the Power of any Mortal Men to give it to their Nearest and their Dearest Friend Parents cannot give it to their Children nor Ministers to their People but the Lord gives it when he will and to whom he will in the use of those Means that he has appointed and the Church of England has Ordained and that is hearing the Word of God Preached Divine Faith which is more Precious then Gold comes by Hearing but not for Hearing Hearing the Word of God is the Instrumental Cause but our Saviour is the Original Therefore he is worthy for to have the Honour and the Glory of the Actings of every Mans Faith because that he is both the Author and the Finisher of it And though it is not in the Power of all the Ministers of the Gospel in London or in England to beget a Spark of Faith where it is not yet it ought to be their great care to take notice where it is wrought and to Countenance and Encourage that Person that has it for to bring it forth because that it is such a Spark that it will in time break forth into a Flame for the Glory of Gods great Name and to put the Turk the Pope and the Devil and all the Workers of Evil to Shame and to bring His Majesty of Great Britain and the Church of England throughout the whole World to great Honour Renown and Fame And that without having a Sword in the Hand of Men or Money at Command without making a Noise about Religion without making of many Words or having the Voice much heard As Divine Faith is a High and Honourable Grace because it is the Gift and Power of the Great and Mighty God so it will Enable a Man for to prepare High and Honourable Work Pleasant Profitable and Delightsom Work Victorious Glorious and Crowning Work that will try the Wisdom and the Skill the Valour and the Courage of many Wise Strong Rich and Learned Men what they can do and what they will do in these Days of the Gospel and in the Raign of our Royal Soveraign for the great Honour and Renown of the Protestant Religion for the great Joy and Triumph of the Church of England for the great Exaltation of His Majesty of Great Britain and for the great Peace and Prosperity of many Kingdoms that so many Nations may be freed from Slavery and in the whole World there may be great Joy Peace and Prosperity Faith that is true works by Love and Love seeks not her own but the great Joy Peace and Prosperity of many a one in Court City and Countrey As the God of Heaven is a Wonder-working God a Victorious and a Glorious God so Divine Faith which is more Precious than Gold is a Wonder-working Grace a Victorious and a Glorious Grace That Grace which will Enable a Man for to set a-work the Wisdom and the Power of the God of Heaven will Enable him to set a Work the Wisdom and the Power of Martial Men Great are the Noble Acts Recorded in Holy Writ that Gods Worthies have done by the Power of Faith not by the Power of the Sword by the Power
out of the hands of unreasonable bloody and deceitful men for all men have not Faith that do profess itâ— Let all pray that the Lord would by his wisdom and power establish his Majesties Royal Throne in Righteousness and enable his Royal Majesty to be a Terrour to all the Workers of Evil and a Praise to them that do well Let all pray that the God of Heaven and Earth would bless his Boyal Majesty with all temporal spiritual and eternal Blessings and when this mortal life of his shall be at an end that the Lord who is most great and most good would give him an everlasting Life and a glorious and unmortal Crown in his own Kingdom Let all that can pray pray that the Lord would bless our Royal Sovereign in all his Royal Relations thâ—â— the word would ennoble them to be true and fruitful Branches of the most Royal Vine that they may slourish in the Courts of Gods House and bring forth such Fruits as will be most suitable and seasonable pleasant profitable and comfortable to themselves and others Let all that can pray pray that the Lord who is most wise and most strong would bless our Royal and Gracious Sovereign with wise and faithful Counsellours that the Lord would counsel them with his Holy Spirit and enable them to be the Repairers of our Breaches and the Restorers of our Paths to dwell in It is the Blessing of the Lord that doth make rich and it is his Blessing that doth make weak and unlikely means effectual but without his Blessing neither Wisdom Power Strength or Counsel can be succesful Let all that can pray pray that the Lord would bless our Royal Sovereign with a wise godly and learned Clergy the Reverend Bishops and all the Ministers of Gods holy Word and Sacraments the Lord make them more and more faithful unto him to our Royal Sovereign 〈◊〉 Majesty of Great Britain to the 〈…〉 and to the Church of England To this end the Lord bestow a double portion of 〈…〉 upon them and grant that they may 〈…〉 of their Labours the salvation of many Souls which will be the Joy of Angels and a Crown to their Ministry Let all that can pray pray that in these days of the Gospel and in the Reign of our Royal Sovereign his Majesty of Great Bâ—â—â—ain the Lord would bless all people in all Mations with truth of grace strength of grace and increase of grace Let all pray that can that the Lord would raise up those that are fallen into the mire of Sin and that he would be pleased to strengthen them that do stand in the good old way of Piety and Honesty as it is taught in the Church of England Let all pray that in these days of the Gospel the Lord would forgive our Enemies Persecutors and Slanderers and turn their hearts That he would be pleased to have mercy upon all men that so his Mercy and Wisdom and Power may be more and more known upon earth and his saving health among all Nations that so among all people there may be a general Reformation which will bring great Joy Peace and Consolation And to his Majesty of Great Britain and to the Church of England great Honour and Exaltation Let not any despise the day of small things for what I have made known in much weakness and many infirmities against much opposition and contradiction I know that the God of Heaven will raise it with great power for the glory of his great Name for the credit of his holy Gospel for the great honour and renown of the Protestant Religion for the great joy and triumph of the Church of England the great honour and exaltation of his Majesty of Great Britain and the great peace and prosperity of many Kingdoms which will be brought about in the days of the Gospel and in the Reign of our Royal Sovereign Cryout and shout thou Inhabitant of Zion thou Church of England for great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee to counsel comfort and to strengthen thee in thy troubles and to bring thee to great honour and glory So that all thy Enemies that have been incensed against thee will be ashamed and confounded if that they will not Conform and Reform to the Protestant Religion as it is established in the Church of England which is for Vnity Peace and Concord the best which would have all the Sons and the Daughters of Men to live in the fear of God and to die in his favour then they will not be afraid to die nor asham'd to live but their last works and days will be best It is high and honourable work pleasant prositable and delightsom work it is victorious and crowning-work That the God of Heaven has stirr'd me up for to engage with him in this day of his power for the glory of his great Name for the credit of his holy Gospel for the great honour and renown of the Protestant Religion for the great joy and triumph of the Church of England and the great peace and prosperity of many Kingdoms It is such work that the French King with all his Men and Money has not done cannot do nor knows how to do And why because his Wisdom is Foolishness and his Strength is Weakness to bring it about his Wisdom and his Strength will deceive him and all that trust to their carnal wisdom power and strength in these days of the Gospel and in the Reign of our Royal Sovereign Their wisdom is foolishness and their strength is weakness who are not careful to make themselves strong in the Lord in the Lord Jehovah and in the power of his might O great is the power of Faith that doth inable a mortal man to know that his wisdom and strength is in the Immortal God and to get wisdom and strength from him to be useful and serviceable for him in his Generation for the great Honour of Him and the King and the peace and prosperity of many Nations O great is the power of Faith that doth inable the Sons of Men to be most useful and serviceable both in Church and State and that in the worst of times and before the best of men It is the power of Faith that doth inable the Sons of Men for to have power with the God of Heaven to get power from him and to act with Power for the great Honour of him and the King and the great Peace and Prosperity of his Kingdoms What I have done can do or shall do by the Power of Faith which is the Power of God in this Noble Design which I have made known in time for the great Joy Peace and Prosperity of Mankind I would have all Wise Strong Rich and Learned Men give all the Glory to the God of Heaven because all Glory is due to him both from Man and Angels And that continually the Lord who is most wise and most strong knows when an I how for to
to the Faint and to them that have no Might He increaseth Strength he discovereth deep things out of Darkness and bringeth out to Light the shadow of Death He increaseth the Nations and destroyeth them He enlargeth the Nations and straiteneth them again He taketh away the Heart of the Chief of the People of the Earth and causeth them to wander many times in a Wilderness where there is no way They grope in the dark without light and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man He breaketh down and it cannot be built Again He shutteth up a Man and there can be no opening He with holdeth the Waters and they dry up also He sendeth them out and they overturn the Earth when he pleases With him is Wisdom and Strength the Deceived and the Deceiver are his If he cut off and shut up or gather together who can hinder him He sitteth upon the Circle of the Earth and all the Inhabitants before him are as Grashopers He stretcheth out the Heavens as a Curtain and spreadeth them out as a Tent to dwell in Therefore let all the Sons and Daughters of Men learn to know fear love serve and to honour this great and mighty God whose Wisdom is unsearchable whose Power is unresistable whose Goodness unexpressible and whose Love is unchangeable and according to his Power so will his Anger and his Wrath be against the seed of evil doers and the workers of Iniquity Who can or will say that there is not a God that made the World and don 't govern the World Have ye not known Have ye not heard Hath it not been told you from the beginning Have ye not understood from the Foundations of the Earth that the Everlasting God the Creator of the Ends of the Earth fainteth not neither is weary There is no searching of his Understanding even the Youth shall faint and be weary and the Young men shall utterly fall but they that wait upon the Lord will renew their Strength they will mount up with Wings as Eagles they will run and not be weary and walk and not faint Let who will glory in their Wisdom Power and Strength in their Honours Riches great and high Places I will glory in my Weakness and Infirmities and in my Insufficiency that I that have nothing comparatively and am nothing seemingly yet from Gods All-sufficiency I have Wisdom Power and Strength for to understand his Mind for to make it known in due time for the great Joy Peace and Prosperity of Mankind in these days of the Gospel and in the Reign of our Royal Sovereign his Majesty of Great Britain Who will rise up for me against Evil Doers Or who will stand up for me against the workers of Iniquity Unless the Lord who is most Great and most Good had been my help my Soul before now had dwelt in Silence but the Lord of Hosts has been with me and is with me as a mighty terrible One Therefore they that be incensed against me for engaging with him for the glory of his great Name for the Credit of his Holy Gospel for the great Honour and Renown of the Protestant Religion for the great Joy and Triumph of the Church of England for the great Exaltation of his Majesty of Great Britain and the great Peace and Prosperity of many Kingdoms they will be ashamed if not confounded Let all praise him for their Wisdom their Power their Honours their Riches their Great and High Places Let all praise him daily for their Health their Strength their Liberty for their Food their Rayment their Habitation and for the Peace and Prosperity of their Friends and Relations yea of their very Enemies And praise him for all Losses Crosses and Reproaches for they will work for the good of them that love God for God had great love to the Sons of Men when they were Enemies unto him To this end the most Wise God who is the God of Love and Peace has sent and continued from Generation to Generation his Gospel which is the glad Tydings of Salvation That so among the Sons of Men and the God of Heaven there might be a great and a lasting Reconciliation God is Love he that dwelleth in Love dwelleth in God and God in him He that loveth not his Brother whom he hath seen how can he love God whom he hath not seen It is Love to the God of Heaven and to the Sons of Men that has enabled me to deny my self to overcome my self and to lay out my self in so noble a Design as for the great Joy Peace and Prosperity of Mankind as for the great Honour and Renown of the Protestant Religion for the great Joy and Triumph of the Church of England for the great Exaltation of our Royal Soveraign his Majesty of Great Britain and for the great Joy Peace and Prosperity of many Kingdoms They that will be willing to engage their Heart Soul Strength Will and Affection in the Service of God he will give them Wisdom Power and Strength to make them able As the Lord doth by his own Wisdom and Power rule and over-rule all Nations as one Man so he can with the same Wisdom and Power with one Man when he please to make bare his Arm for his Arm is very long and very strong and that his Enemies will know the Turk the Pope and the Devil and all the workers of Evil to their great shame and overthrow and that in these days of the Gospel and in the Reign of our Royal Soveraign his Majesty of Great Britain The Lord thy God O Church of England Reigneth be the People never so Impatient he whose Dominion it is from Sea to Sea and from one end of the World to the other Therefore let the Righteous rejoyce and be glad and shout for joy of heart but all the workers of Iniquity the seed of Evil Doers the Children of Disobedience will be ashamed and confounded if that they will not Conform and Reform to the Protestant Religion as it is Establisht in the Church of England when the Lord who is most Great and most Good doth inable a Mortal Man for to understand his Mind to have done what is remarkable he will inable him to make it known in due time that it may be recordable Wise Men lay up Knowledge till a fit time and he that hath Knowledge spareth his Words till a fit season and a Man of Understanding is of an excellent Spirit that knows what when and how that may be done which tends for the great Honour Joy Peace and Prosperity of a King and Kingdom How much better is it therefore to get Wisdom rather than Gold and Understanding above choice Silver because it will give unto them that do imbrace it an Ornament of Grace and a Crown of Glory How forcible are right Words but what doth Arguing reprove to contend for this Opinion and that Opinion It has been a great shame to the Protestant Religion and the
Church of England They that believe will be saved but they that will not labour and endeavour to believe in the Son of God who became the Son of Man will be ashamed confounded and at last destroyed For there is no other remedy for Mans Recovery but by obeying the Gospel Therefore consider what so great a Prince as the Lord of Life and the King of Glory has done for the Sons of Men Let all fall in love with him for if Unbelieving Jews and Bruitish Atheists and Wicked and Bloody Papists and Rebellious Dissentors and Sectaries do not endeavour to love him who is altogether lovely their condition is sad for the present and worse for the future but I hope that in these Gospel-days and in the Reign of our Royal Severaign his Majesty of Great Britain that Jews and Gentiles will come into one Fold and that all People in all Nations will know the True God and Jesus Christ so as to love serve and to honour him For the Lord has promised and he will make it good for to give unto his Son the Heathen for his Inheritance and the uttermost Parts of the Farth for his Possession And who knows but that the time is come that in these days of the Gospel and in the Reign of our Royal Sovereign his Majesty of Great Britain it is to be done This high and honourable work this pleasant profitable and long desired work this victorious glorious and crowning work that will crown the God of Heaven with much glory among the Sons of Men and his Majesty of Great Britain with great Honour and Power over them over all Heathen Popish Kings Priests Princes and Emperors in the World that will not submit to the Gospel and the Protestant Religion as it is taught in the Church of England That this high and honourable work may be brought about by the Lords Annointed his Majesty of Great Britain the God of Heaven has stirr'd me up in time to make known his Mind for the great Joy Peace and Prosperity of Mankind Therefore let the Righteous rejoyce all that be faithful to the God of Heaven to his Majesty of Great Britain to the Protestant Religion and to the Church of England but let the Wicked tremble and all the workers of Iniquity be ashamed for in his Majesties Reign will the Righteous flourish and in his days there will be abundance of Peace so that Strife Contention and Wars in these Gospel-days will cease and throughout the whole World among all People there will be a free Trade great Joy and a lasting Peace Therefore let the Heavens rejoyce and let the Earth be glad let the Sea roar and the fulness thereof let the Fields be joyful and all that is therein then shall all the Trees of the Wood rejoyce for the Lord who is most wise and most strong cometh he cometh to judge the Earth He will judge the World with Righteousness and the People with his Arise and shine thou Church of England thy Light is come the Glory of the Lord is risen upon thee to bring thee to great Honour and Exaltation and the Whore of Babylon the Man of Sin and the Church of Rome to great Shame and Desolation for her Idolatry and Abomination for her Lies and Fornication for the Blood of the Saints that she has slain Her time is come to be brought down with shame but the Lord will have mercy upon Sion upon his Church throughout the whole World the time to favour her is come so that great will be the Joy and Triumph of the Church of England great will be the Exaltation of his Majesty of Great Britain and great will be the Peace and and Prosperity of many Kingdoms Let not any despise the day of small things for that God that speaks peace to a Person can inable a Person to make known his Mind for the great joy peace and prosperity of many Nations Return Return O backsliding Children therefore and remember from whence you are fallen and do your first work for it was better with you than them Even since the Dissentors and Sectaries left off to be wise and to do good they have been the occasion of shedding too much Blood They left off to be wise when they made Separation which has caused Division Contention Sedition and Rebellion They left off doing of much good ever since they have refused to say the daily Prayers of the Church of England which Prayers are suitable and seasonable profitable and comfortable for all Persons in all Nations they tend very much to inform the Ignorant to Reform the Disobedient to Comfort the Weak Christian to Resolve the Doubting to Raise up those that be fallen and to Strengthen them that do Stand if they be but well used and practiced but these Prayers have been slighted and undervalued by them who are too much like many of the Children of Israel who was a proud froward and stubborn Generation Children that could talk of Faith but the Lord told them They had not Faith for they moved him to Jealousie with that which is not god they provoked him to Anger with their Vanities But what saith the Lord who has all power in his own hand and the whole Creation at command he told them that he would move them to Jealousie with those which are not a People he would provoke them to Anger with a foolish Nation And has not our Contentions and Divisions about Religion caused the Lord to afflict us and to scourge us with a foolish and ignorant People even the Papist They that provoke the Lord to Anger he will provoke them to the shame and confusion of their own Faces The Children of Israel did so far provoke to Anger the Lord who is not easily provoked that he did hide his Face from them and would see what their end would be And has not the Lord justly hid his Face from the Dissentors and Sectaries for a long time to see what their end will be How they will quit themselves like Men. They can talk like Men and walk like Men but they have acted too many of them like Children Fools and Mad-men but their own wickedness will correct them and their backsliding will reprove them for the Backsliders in heart will be filled with their own foolish ways they will lie down in sorrow And have not the Dissentors and Sectaries experience enough that have made Separation from the Church of England what it is to backslide from the Worship of God from the Word of God from the Prayers of the Church which tends to Edification Reformation and Consolation and from the ways of God whose ways are ways of Pleasantness and all his Paths Peace and from the Yoke of Christ whose Yoke is easie and his Burden Light And what have they got unto themselves but great Shame and much Confusion When Israel did cast off the thing that was good the Enemy did pursue them So since the Dissentors and Sectaries
they that profess the Gospel of Peace by their Pride Envy and Hatred are ready to devour one another It doth provoke the God of Heaven to send great and heavy Judgments to Amaze Confound and Consume and Destroy one another Was there ever such a Plague and such a Fire as was in London 1665 and 1666 I hope it will never be forgot nor the Popish late Plot in 1678 against his Majesties Royal Person and to ruin many Thousands in the Nation but blessed and praised be the God of Heaven who doth daily watch over his Majesties Royal Person and the whole Nation Therefore let all that do profess the Gospel learn to live in Love and Peace to be of one Mind and to speak the same thing for this is the best way and the soonest way that the Name of God may be more and more known upon Earth and his saving Health among all Nations that so the People may praise him yea that all People may praise him with new obedience then will the Earth bring forth great Increases and among all Nations there will be a free Trade great Joy and a lasting Peace Let all them therefore that love the Lord be joyful in the Lord let them servet he Lord with gladness and come before his Presence with a Song for the Lord is a great God and a great King above all Gods The Sea is his and he made it and his Hands prepared the dry Land Therefore let all People in all Nations worship and fall down before the Presence of this great Lord Maker and Possessor of Heaven and Earth and kneel before him for he is the Lord our God and we are the People of his Pasture Therefore let us go into his Gates with Thanksgiving and into his Courts with Praise Let all People in all Nations be thankful unto him and speak good of his Name for the Lord is gracious his Mercy is everlasting and his Truth endureth from Generation to Generation Therefore let all the Sons and Daughters of Men praise his great and glorious Name from the rising of the Son to the going down of the same Let every thing that hath Breath praise the Lord for his Greatness and Goodness for his Name is most excellent and his Glory is above the Heavens As this great and mighty God stirr'd me up in time to make known his Mind to prevent much Ruin to Mankind that so among all Nations there may be a general Reformation then let all Dissentors and Sectaries readily and willingly conform and reform to the Government of the Church of England which will encourage many Atheists Papists Jews Turks and Infidels to be in love with the Protestant Religion as it is establisht in the Church of England A Friend loveth at all times and a Brother is born for Adversity and the Wounds of a Friend are better than the Kisses of an Enemy God in Man and God with Man will bring about great and wonderful things not onely for the great Honour and Exaltation of a Kings Person but for the great Joy Peace and Prosperity of many Nations and that without making of many Words or having the Voice much heard Pleasant words they be as a Honey-comb sweet to the Soul and health to the Bones And as Ointment and Perfume doth rejoyce the Heart so doth the Sweetness of a Mans Friend by hearty Counsel in these days of the Gospel and in the Reign of our Royal Sovereign his Majesty of Great Pritain All unbelieving Jews bruirish Athiests wicked and bloody Papists and rebellious Dissentors and Sectaries will be ashamed and confounded that have not improved their time to know and to understand the great Mystery of Godliness God manifest in the Flesh who was justified in the Spirit seen of Angels preached unto the Gentiles believed on in the World by many both Jews and Gentiles and is received up into Glory and there is preparing a place for them that do believe in him and appear for him but he will pour contempt upon all them that will not know and obey him who is the Lord of Life the King of Glory the Prince of Peace the Captain of Mans Salvation the Son of Righteousness that can and will heal all their Diseases and pardon all their Sins that come unto him and well he may because he is the mighty God the everlasting Father the wonderful Counseller the Lord of Hosts who is strong and mighty in Battle that can readily and easily by weak and unlikely means confound and consume the Enemies of his Gospel that do slight and undervalue him be they never so many be they never so great But he will not break a bruised Reed nor quench the smoaking Flax till it bring forth Judgement unto Victory It is not a thing of indifferency but it is of absolute necessity for the Sons and the Daughters of Men the Wisest the Strongest the Richest and the Learned'st and Poorest among them for to believe in the Son of God for whosoever believeth in him whether they be Jew or Gentile hath everlasting Life begun in them but they that will not believe and obey him will not see Life but the Wrath of the ever living God abideth on them Condemnation or Salvation will be the lot and portion of the Sons and Daughters of Men that ever have been or over will be in the World O that none might miscarry because the Lord has laid help upon one that is mighty both able and willing to save unto the uttermost all that come unto him and he will in no wise cast out for God the Father sent not his Son his beloved Son into the World that he should condemn the World but that the World through him might be saved Therefore he that believeth in him is not condemned for he hath the witness in himself but he that believeth not is condemned and there is not any that can be a witness for him or them but all their works and duties will be witnesses against them This made the Apostle St. Paul that great and eminent Saint count all his Righteousness Works and Learning to be loss and dross in comparison of that excellent most profitable and comfortable knowledge that he found in Christ The fruit of the Righteous is a tree of Lise and he that winneth Souls is wise and they that turn many to Righteousness shall shine as the Stars for ever and ever This is a high and honourable work pleasant profitable and delightsome work victorious glorious and crowning work that will crown the God of Heaven with much Glory among the Sons of Men and our Royal Soveraign his Majesty of Great Britain with great Honour and Power over them over all Heathen and Popish Kings Priests Princes and Emperors that so many Nations may be freed from slavery and throughout the whole World there may be great Joy Peace and Prosperity It is sad to consider how that too many do make themselves poor and miserable in the
for their great Joy Freedom and Gain so that the way of the Lord will be known more and more upon Earth and his saving Health among all Nations So that the People will praise him yea all People will praise him with new Obedience so that the Earth will bring forth great Increase and among all People in all Nations there will be a free Trade great Joy and a lasting Peace Let every Man continue in that honest and lawful Calling which Divine Providence has placed them in for it is unsuitable and uncomely for the Ministers to follow the Tradesmans Calling or the Tradesman the Ministers Work as too many have done in these days of the Gospel to the great shame of the Protestant Religion and the Church of England There is no Place Calling or Condition that will honour Men if that they be not careful to honour God and our Royal King his Majesty of Great Britain in them And when that the God of Heaven doth indue any Man with Divine Wisdom and Power for to understand his Mind what may be done and what is to be done for the great Honour Peace and Prosperity of a King and Kingdom let that Man make it known in time to that Minister whom God has set over him and the Minister to the Bishop whom God has set over him and the reverend Bishop in due time and season to the Kings most Excellent Majesty whom the God of Heaven under him has made among the Sons of Men Supream over all Persons and Causes But if that Man be not minded and regarded by the Wise Godly and the Learned whom the most Wise God doth enable in time for to make known his Mind to prevent much Ruin to Mankind then the Wise Godly and the Learned are guilty of those Troubles and Judgements that comes both upon themselves and the Nation and they may call and cry unto the God of Heaven to help to deliver them but he will not regard them because he will help save and deliver them when he will and by whom he will Every good and perfect Gift is from above from the Father of Lights in whom is no variableness or shadow of turning Both the preparation of the Heart and the answer of the Tongue it is from the Lord. Therefore let the Man be what he will or whom he will whom he doth indue with Wisdom and Power for to understand his Mind to do his Will and to injoy his Favour in his Calling let not that Man leave his Calling suddenly nor unadvisedly but let him prove and improve his Graces in his Calling till that Authority whom the God of Heaven has set over him commands him from it I have been very backward and very unwilling to have my mind made known in print and I have been much discouraged thereunto but true Valour will take Incouragement from Discouragement That which doth require it and puts me upon it to have it done in these days of the Gospel and in the Reign of our Royal and Gracious Soveraign it is the Glory of the great and mighty God the Credit of his Holy Gospel the great Honour and Renown of the Protestant Religion the great Joy and Triumph of the Church of England the great Exaltation of our Royal Soveraign his Majesty of Great Britain and the great Shame Contempt and Terror of the Turk the Pope and the Devil and all the Workers of Evil that so many Nations may by freed from slavery and throughout the whole World there may be great Joy Peace and Prosperity This is the Lords doings who is great in Counsel and mighty in Power whose Arm is very long and very strong though he doth make use of a weak and unlikely Man therefore let it be marvellous in the Eyes of them that be most wise I hope that our Royal Soveraign his Majesty of Great Britain will countenance encourage and set forward this Noble Design that Divine Wisdom and Power has enabled me for to make known in time for the great Joy Peace and Prosperity of Mankind As for the great Exaltation of his Majesties Royal Person and the great Joy Peace and Prosperity of many Nations Great has been the Trials and Troubles of the Church of England from her Enemies both at home and abroad so great will be her Joy her Triumphs and Victory over her Enemies both at home and abroad for the Lord will restore Health unto thee and will heal thee of thy Wounds therefore fear thou not nor be dismayed for the Lord who is most Great and most Good will save thee from afar and thy Seed from the Land of their Captivity and thou shalt be in Rest and Quiet and none shall make thee afraid for the Lord who is most wise and most strong is with thee to save thee though he should make a full End of those Nations that Worship Idols and Graven Images yet will he not make a full end of thee but he will correct thee in Measure and will not leave thee altogether unpunished therefore sing with gladness for Jacob and shout among the chief of the Nations Publish ye Praise and say O Lord save thy People the Remnant of Israel the Remnant of England the Remnant of London after such devouring Wars a wasting Pestilence and Consuming Fires for the Lord who is most great and most good he kills and he makes alive he wounds and he heals he casts down and he raises up a Person a Family a City and a Kingdom when he will and by whom he will The Lord that scattered Israel has scattered England and wounded London for is there any Evil in the City but the Lord has done it by inflicting of it and permitting of it for the Workers of Iniquity the Seed of Evil doers the Children of Disobedience are Gods Rod and Gods Sword to punish his Children when they walk contrary unto him but as the End of the Rod is to be burnt so the End of the wicked is to be cut off they are such Chaff that the Lord knows when and how to scatter them and such Briars and Thorns that he can when he please with much Ease consume them Who ever hardened themselves against God and prospered What got proud Pharaoh with his Six hundred chosen Chariots and all the Chariots of Egypt but sudden ruine and destruction What got Sizera with his Nine Hundred Chariots of Iron but shameful ruine and destruction For himself was killed by a Woman and his Army of a sudden routed and destroyed What got Sennacherib that proud King of Assyria who did insult and reproach against the living God and the good King Hezekiah but in one Night it pleased the Lord to send his Angel who did destroy a Hundred fourscore and five Thousand of his Men almost two Hundred Thousand a great Army but yet not Power and Strength enough to withstand one Angel And when the proud King departed and came to Nineveh as he was worshiping his Idol-God
loth and forsake them In these Days of the Gospel the Lord who is most great and most good most wise and most strong is very angry and has been for a long time with this Generation but most of all with the Ministers of the Gospel throughout the whole Nation for not minding and regarding who hath believed their Report and to whom the Arm of the Lord is revealed for his Arm is very long and very strong and that his Enemies the Workers of Iniquity will know in these Days of the Gospel to their great shame and overthrow Ought not the Ministers of the Gospel to mind what they sow in weakness in whom the Great and the Mighty God doth raise in Power or else they do but undervalue their own Labours and encourage their Adversaries who labour to undermine and overthrow the Protestant Religion His Majesty of Great Britain and the Church of England What have the Ministers of the Gospel to mind Who ought they to mind more than that man whom the Lord of Hosts has made strong for himself and his Anointed when that too many have made themselves strong in Parts against him and our Royal Soveraign His Majâ—sty of Great Britain But what will they get but shame and confusion for they will be brought down and that with a witness Though it is not in the power of the Ministers of the Gospel to beget so Renowned a Grace as precious Faith where it is not yet ought it to be their great Care to countenance incourage and take notice of that person in whom it is wrought because it is such a spark that it will in time break forth into a slame for the Glory of Gods great Name and to put the Enemies of the Gospel to shame It is high and honourable Work that the God of Heaven has stirr'd me up for to make known his Mind for the great Joy Peace and Prosperity of Mankind And I have endeavoured to deny my self to overcome my self and to lay out my self in so noble a Design I have ventur'd my Life endangered my Liberty and have exposed my self to many Losses Crosses and Reproaches to be blam'd sham'd and condemn'd by many men But I had rather be condemn'd for doing well though I do it not so well as I should do by the Sons of Men than to be condemn'd by the God of Heaven for not making known his Mind as well as I can do The Lord is merciful and will pass by many Weaknesses and Infirmities of his Children but he is just and righteous and will punish severely them that be rebellious and disobedient They that know their Lords will and do it not will have stripes enough for though the Lord be slow to anger yet is he great in Power They that do slight and under-value me it is not so much me as they do the Wisdom and the Power of the Almighty who works with me and in me and for me for the Glory of his great Name for the Credit of his holy Gospel for the great Honour and Renown of the Protestant Religion for the great Exaltation of His Majesty of Great Britain above all Heathen and Popish Kings Priests Princes and Emperors in the World which will bring great Joy and Triumph to the Church of England and great Peace and Prosperity to many Kingdoms which will be brought about in these days of the Gospel in spight of the Turk the Pope and the Divel and all the Workers of Evil. It is the Power of Faith which is the Power of God that doth set a-work the Powers of the Soul and the Powers of the Soul set a-work by the Powers of Heaven will be inabled to prepare high and honourable Work pleasant prositable and delightsom Work victorious glorious and crowning Work to be managed by the Powers of the World for the Glory of the most High and the great Honour and Renown of Englands Royal Majesty That all Strife Contention and Wars throughout the whole World may cease that so among all People in all Nations there may be a free Trade great Joy and a lasting Peace The Religion of the Church of Rome must not be Countenanced Encouraged or Tolerated among the Sons of Men in any Nation City Town or Corporation under the Canopy of Heaven because it is a Religion full of Deceit and throughout the whole World the greatest Cheat It is a Religion that is an Idle Fowl that doth at once pick the Purse and damn the Soul It is a Religion managed with all the Crafts of the World the Flesh and the Devil therefore it is a Religion full of Pride Vain glory Hypocrisie and Treachery It is a wicked Religion because it makes them that Conform to it to be seven-sold more the Children of the Devil than they were by Nature All the Sons and the Daughters of Men are bad by Nature but the Religion of the Church of Rome makes Men worse by Practice But God so loved the World that he has sent the Gospel of his Son which is taught in the Church of England that Men might be turned from a state of Nature into a state of Grace and from the power of Sin and Satan into the Glorious Liberty of his Children which is to injoy Power against Sin and Victory over the World the Flesh and the Devil and all the Workers of Evil. But the Religion of the Church of Rome makes her Children Servants to Sin Slaves to the World and the Devil and Enemies to their own Souls and so being hardned in Sin by Custom and Practice they are not afraid nor ashamed to Combine and Design from time to time to undermine and overthrow the Protestant Religion His Majesty of Great Britain and the Church of England But for ever blessed and praised be the God of Heaven who to Admiration from time to time has watched over this Nation that it has not by unreasonable bloody and deceitful Men been brought to Desolation but no thanks be to them that have made a Separation for they have done what they can to put a Sword into our Enemies hand By their Pride and Contention Sedition and Rebellion many have turned Atheists and Papists so that the Church of Rome has been strengthned and encouraged from our Selves Ever since the Church of Rome has made Shipwrack of Faith and of a good Conscience and has preferred their Traditions Inventions and lying Wonders above Gods Commandments which is the Rule of Faith and Manners their Religion has been an abominable Reproach unto Christ and his Gospel They do profess Christ but they do deny him because they will not be ruled by his Word nor have him rule in them by his Spirit They do mock Christ in their Sacraments and persecute him in his Members so that the Religion of the Church of Rome is a bloody Religion upheld by Tyranny and Oppression The Blood that the Church of Rome has caused to be shed in the World from time to time by
have cast off the good Prayers of the Church of England which are profitable and comfortable the God of Heaven has made their Friends as Enemies to pursue them For if a mans ways please the Lord he will make their Enemies to be at peace with them or with him but if they do not God will make their Friends their Enemies nay the great and good God who is the best Friend will become unto them that do provoke him the worst Enemy They that walk contrary unto him he will walk contrary unto them and will punish them seven times more he will heap mischief among them and spend his Arrows upon them And who will have pity upon thee or bemoan thee Art thou not gone backward O Dissentor since thou hast broken thy Covenant with the Lord in not endeavouring to keep the Unity of the Spirit in the Bond of Peace And have not you broken your Covenant with Men O Rebellious Sectaries in taking away the Life of our late Royal and Gracious Soveraign therefore the Lord hath framed Evil against you and devised a Device against you Unless that you do return every one of you from your Evil Ways and make your Ways and your Doings good the Lord will bring an everlasting Reproach upon you and a perpetual shame which will not be forgotten Nay the Lord will make you Sick in smiting you in making you desolate because of your sins if you will not turn unto him in conforming to the Government of the Church of England But I shall pray for the Dissentors and Sectaries as the Apostle St. Peter prayed for Simon That they would repent of their Wickedness and pray God if perhaps the thoughts of their hearts may be forgiven them For I am affraid that too many of them may be in the Gall of Bitterness and in the Bond of Iniquity for not keeping the Unity of the Spirit in the Bond of Peace but the Lord give them true Repentance which will take off the greatest stain and bring the Soul into the Favour of God Again Have not the Dissentors and the Sectaries by their falling from the Church of England Have they not weakened her and grieved her Have they not reproached and persecuted her both with their Tongues and their Hands Have they not encouraged and strengthened the Papists against her who are unreasonable bloody and deceitful men But the Church of England according to our Saviours Counsel prays for her Enemies Persecutors and Slanderers that the Lord would turn their hearts and have mercy upon all Men that the Lord would be pleased to give to all Nations Unity Peace and Concord that the Lord would give us all Hearts to love and dread him and to live after his Commandments And if this had been done the Dissentors and the Sectaries would not have fallen from God to displease him and grieve one another as they have done but they can condemn all but themselves but the God of Heaven has stirr'd me up for to reprove rebuke and to condemn them that they may condemn themselves for slighting the Prayers of the Church of England and trusting to Prayers of their own making and framing which are too many of them neither agreeable to the Word of God nor made by the Spirit of God as the Prayers of the Church of England are they be suitable for all Persons for all Times and all Conditions they be such Prayers that the God of Heaven hath heard and answered and doth hear and will answer them that put them up to him in a right manner and to a right end For the hearing and reading the holy Word of God will not profit any unless they do mixt it with Faith no more will the Prayers of the Church of England This is the excellency of these Prayers that they are not so plain as profitable and comfortable for all both high and low rich and poor and young and old Were they but well put in practice they would soon inform and reform the World that lies and lives in ignorance and disobedience From all evil and mischief from sin from the crafts and assaults of the Devil from everlasting wrath and damnation it becomes all wise men to pray that the good Lord would deliver them Never more crafts and assaults of the Devil never evil more and mischief done and committed than by too many of them that have slighted undervalued and scorned these Prayers From all blindness of heart from pride vain-glory and hypocrisie from envy hatred and malice and all uncharitablness it becomes all the Sons and the Daughters of Men that would be good and do good to pray that the good Lord would deliver them from these sins But do not these sins too much abound among too many of them that have made Seperation from the Church of England Who are more ignorant and prouder than many of them Where is there greater Hypocrisie Envy Hatred and Malice than among too many of them But if they will not conform and reform to the Government of the Church of England in due time the Lord will not onely leave them but he will laugh at them when Distress and Anguish cometh upon them as Desolation and Destruction as a Whirl-wind then they may call upon the Lord but he will not answer them they may seek him early and yet not find him because they have slighted and hated knowledge which would have men to depart from evil and to chuse the fear of the Lord as without knowledge the mind cannot be good so without obedience the knowledge is not good for they that do flight and undervalue the Word of God and the Prayers of the Church of England they will eat of the fruit of their own way and be filled with their Devices for the turning away of the simple will slay and the prosperity of fools destroy them but who so hearkeneth unto the Lord and keeps in the good old way will dwell safely and be quiet from the fear of evil From Fornication and all other deadly Sins and from all the Deceits of the World the Flesh and the Devil It becomes all that would be saved to pray that the Lord would give them power against them and victory over them for the hearts of all men are deceitful and the best of men are subject to fall into the worst of sins But there is a generation of Men that will not say the Prayers of the Church of England but will take liberty to sin that Grace may abound but from such Men the good Lord deliver me From Lightning and Tempest from devouring Fire from Plague Pestilence and Famine from Battle and Murder and from sudden Death the good Lord deliver all that do desire and endeavour to fear love serve and honour him It becomes all wise and faithful Christians to do what they can to prevent Judgments and to remove them and not by Contentions and Divisions to hasten them and to bring them upon us when that