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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85417	Synkrētismos. Or Dis-satisfaction satisfied. In seventeen sober and serious queries, tending to allay the discontents, and satisfie the scruples, of persons dis-satisfied about the late revolution of government in the Common-Wealth, and to guide every mans feet into the way of his duty, and the publique peace. Proposed by J.G. a cordiall friend, and well-willer to the interest of all men, consistent with the publique peace and safety.	Goodwin, John, 1594?-1665.	1653 (1653)	Wing G1205; Thomason E725_7; ESTC R202313	10,522	19

WELL that thou art a Samaritan and hast a Devil Or did they not speak very ignorantly wickedly and falsly when they pleased themselves with an high and confident conceit that they spake WELL and nothing but the truth Or are not the grounds of most mens confidence rather ignorance or want of consideration of such things which are strongly objectionable against their notions and apprehensions in conjunction with a vain glorious humor of being thought Demi-prophets and persons of a more familiar converse with God then other men then any well-grounded knowledg or comprehension of the certain truth of those things which they affirm XVII Whether is the Epocha or time of the first entrance beginning or setting up of the fift Monarchy in the World fixed and determined by God in the Scriptures so that no humane endeavors or contributions towards such a thing are any ways available to accelerate or hasten this period of time nor on the other hand any humane opposition or obstructions or unworthy actings of men any ways able to retard or set it back If neither why should any men trouble the World round about them and abuse the simplicity of inconsiderate people by an importune bearing them in hand that if they were but permitted to umpire the soveraign Affairs of their State and Nation they would out of hand bring the said blessedness of the fift Monarchy upon the head of the world even before the day thereof Or why should these men or any others clamor day after day in the ears of poor people against such persons who themselves acknowledg to be truly Godly as if they stood in Christs way and would not suffer him to set up his Kingdom or this fift Monarchy in the world only because they cannot be satisfi'd about the truth or soberness of their notions and refuse to steer a course threatening ruine and confusion to their Nation Or is it not the sence and declared opinion of these men that the day and hour at least the year wherein that Great Jubilee of the Monarchy they speak of shall begin is unchangeably unalterably unremoveably fixed by God Postscript I. MAy it not be yet further queried Whether such persons whether Ministers of the Gospel or others but especially the former who publiquely undertake or pretend to know and predict unto the people how long the present Government shall stand and after how many months or years it shall presently be dissolved and fall do not impose a kind of wretched necessity upon themselves to turn every stone for the raising of Tumults and Insurrections in the Land and to enrage the people against the present Government and Governors thus to make a covering for their own shame and to prevent the dishonor and reproach of false Prophets from lighting upon their heads Or did not the Wizard in France having engaged the reputation of his Art in foretelling the death of Duke Beron by a Bungurdian on a certain day and finding no likelyhood the day now approaching of the event otherwise resolve to make himself a true Prophet by doing the execution himself and accordingly murthered him II. Again Are not these passages ensuing published in print and subscribed by Mr John Simpson Mr William Greenhill Mr Thomas Brooks Mr Hanserd Knollys Mr T. Harrison Mr Christopher Feak Mr Richard Wollaston Mr Henry Jesse with several others about two years since viz. in November 1651. worthy to be engraven with the Point of a Diamond and written in letters of Gold If Cesar and Pagan Rulers under him in Judea and elsewhere were to be honored and submitted unto as both Christ taught and his Apostles Mat. 22. 21. Mark 12. 27. AND YET THEY CAME IN BY THE SWORD AND KEPT GODS CHURCH IN BONDAGE how much more should our Governors be honored by all people in our Nation The same Authors soon after express themselves thus In our days wherein persons truly fearing God are of divers forms dissenting in Church Government c. some that are termed Presbyterians some Independents some Anabaptists and some that are not so resolved with any of these the power of chusing Rulers or of being chosen should not be limited to any one of these forms or perswasions to the excluding of others excepting such WHO EITHER DENY PROPRIETY or Magistracy or who assert carnal liberty or Polygamy whom we have witnessed against in our former declaration or such AS HAVE OPPOSED Or DO NOT OWN THIS PRESENT GOVERNMENT A little before in the said printed paper having solemnly professed thus With one consent we do thus declare as in the presence of the Almighty who is the searcher of all hearts before whom the wicked and deceitful shall be confounded at the day of Judgment they lay down this Proposition That all people in every Nation as well members of Churches as others ought FOR CONSCIENCE SAKE to honour such as by the wise disposing Providence of God are their PRESENT RULERS and are to submit to the civil commands not only of such Rulers as are faithful but even to Infidels to omit several other things of like import in the said paper Are not the contents and substance of these sayings clearly and expresly founded upon the good Word of God which as the said Authors worthily and most truly inform us is the Rule and Standard for Faith and obedience If so must not all such men of necessity be false Prophets casting snares upon the people and leading them out of the ways of truth and peace who are so far from HONOURING THEIR PRESENT GOVERNORS though no Infidels but partakers of like precious faith with the Saints themselves though no keepers of Gods Church in bondage but most zealous and faithful Assertors of the entire liberties thereof that with open mouth they pour contempt upon them day after day consulting with their spleens or worse spirits how to make their savour to stink in the eyes of the people and so to arm them with discontents and indignation against them Or is this in the dialect or sence of the Holy Ghost to HONOUR GOVERNOURS III. Whether a mans conscience bearing him witness in the Holy Ghost that his heart is upright with God and that he unfeignedly purposeth and desires to do all the good upon Earth whilest he abideth amongst men which God shall any ways enable him unto ought not such a person even in conscience towards God and out of love and genuiness of affection to his generation embrace and accept of all such opportunities and advantages of standing for the promotion of his work which God shall by any providence of his offer unto him Or when God called Moses up to the top of the Mount Exod. 19. 20. had it been meet for him to have answered Nay but I will serve thee faithfully beneath in the valley Or is it not a grand detriment or loss unto the world when Princes as Solomon speaketh walk as servants on the Earth i. e. when men of noble Principles of publique Spirits whose hearts and souls are in travel with the wealth peace and prosperity of the world round about them who are shap'd and form'd as it were on purpose by God himself for Rule and Government shall want a stage whereon to act like Princes or be perswaded to enjoy themselves in privacy and retirement Or in case the Sun should be over-ruled to change place with the Moon should not the world have cause in abundance to lament the change Or had his tabernacle been pitch'd in any inferior Orb beneath that wherein it is now placed by God could the Earth have rejoyced in his light at that rate which now it doth Or had He been in any capacity to inrich the inhabitants thereof with his treasures as they are now inriched by him Or if a candle should creep under a bushel when there is a candlestick provided and set on the table for it should not they in the house have much more reason to be offended at it then well pleased Or is it not a secret guilt or consciousness in the generality of men of their own narrowchestedness and self-ward propensions which make them jealous that other men are and will be found in the same condemnation with them and that no man coming where he may without much danger serve himself will be much intent upon the service of other men further then his own secular interest shall superintend and advise him FINIS