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truth_n	according_a	scripture_n	spirit_n	3,143	5	5.2045	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44829	England's lamentation, or Her sad estate lamented as also a call to the heads and rulers, and all sorts to repentance, and shewing them the cause why so many disasters, and the judgements of God which are in the earth, and also a way how to remove the same, with an answer to some objections. Through the servant of the Lord, S.H.	Hubbersty, Stephen, 1632?-1711.	1665 (1665)	Wing H3213; ESTC R215979	8,829	14

in the Communion which saith It is our aboundant duty at all times in all places mark that to call upon God c. and the Scripture is so full and pregnant in that behalf that I need say little to the proofe of it for all wise men know how that the Saints Mat. 5.1 Acts 20.20 Act. 5.42 Apostles and Christ Jesus our Lord himself used Prayer or Preaching sometime by the Sea side and sometime on the Mountain and the Apostles 't is evident that they Preach'd the Gospel in the Temple and in every House what is that lawful now to preach the Gospel in a House Nay say they Yes saith we 't is both agreeable to the Apostles Spirit and practise and the Liturgy also But wo and alass what shall I say my heart is even troubled within me and my Bowels is even pained to see what persecution of late hath attended the people of God for this very thing it would fill up a Chronicle and deserves to be Chronicled and is in the Book of Life Oh what treadings and what stampings there hath been and daily is of the people of God and oh what knocking 's and beating down the peaceable people of the most High for Worshipping the Lord no wonder if the Plague be begun and Gods wrath be gone out against his Adversaries who hath grumbled at us as you say in your Prayer-book and hath despised our peaceable Meetings and worship of God it self no wonder if God smite the Nation And oh what calls and crys hath been from us the peaceable people of God even with our lives in our hands that thou oh England might be reconciled to God but oh how stiffe hath thy neck been and how dull thy ear and how hard thy heart against all reproofe that even so many of thy Inhabitants hath chosen the worse way and hath refused to be reproved and would have none of his Councel when his Messengers hath rose early and gone late to bed I know to this very end that thou mightest be reclaimed who have preached the Gospel freely unto thee Oh but many of thy Nation O Engl. hath refused and hath hearkned to the dumb hireling that neither can nor never will gather you to God Isa 56.10 11. but to themselves that they might have their bellies filled this is the way of them O England and they have made the World like a Wilderness full of briers and thorns that so the Lambs of Christ who only hears him Christ the true Shepherd can scarce go up and down now for the Wolves though in sheeps cloathing the Scriptures which were not given to be made a trade of but to be fulfilled which the Saints lives in the life of for which life sake in us we are a suffering people at this day But woe and alass beside all these aforementioned evils inflicted upon our Estates and Bodies not only in treding upon and knocking down in our peaceable Meetings but also to adde unto these grievous sins against the Lord they have not only done so but they have taken the peaceable people of God and thrown them in Holes and Dungeons and all this for practising that which is as I said before both according and agreeable to Liturgy and Scripture 't is no wonder if the Lord send a Plague into the Land who resists the spirit of truth which is according to Scripture the justest Authority which is to be obeyed above all Authorities for mark Christ is to be the head of the Church Col. 1.18 that in all things relating thereunto he may have the preheminence as the Husband is to be the head of the Wife so 't is a vain thing to cause people to worship contrary to their Consciences 't is but to make people hypocrites to make people to Worship or not to Worship contrary to the work of God and spirit of truth in our hearts who leads us only to Worship God in his own way I say unto you all and that in the name of the Lord you that are found opposers heerin you shall be broken to pieces for God will have his own way and not his way set out by you who are in the fallen estate who are miserable sinners as you say how are you like to prescribe the way of the pure God and limit the Holy one to your forme and none else methinks you might see your selves blind in this thing for there is a way which no Fowl knoweth nor which no Vulturs eye hath seen nor Lions Whelp trod in who are in the uncircumcised nature who are miserable offenders and doth those things you ought not c. and those have never seen the way of God nor know it what Vulturous eyes hath been in this Nation that they can scarce let a Man go on the street but they will have a by-word for him people is so full of the venome of Aspes even under their tongue and these are not like to prescribe wayes for God to be Worshipped who are so like the Lions Whelp tearing and rending and puting people out of the Church before they be got in nay but these are like the Beast and his Followers Rev. 13.15 who would compell all both small and great to worship him into the wrong way from the right this is the Beast indeed And oh what killing hath been this day about Religion and Worship and forcing to or fro to the false from the true and what killing and knocking down in the very streets as I said before quite contrary and opposite to the Apostles Doctrine who saith touching Religion Phil. 2.3 saith he do nothing by strife but in love and gentleness instruct c. If God will give them repentance to the acknowledgment of the truth 2 Tim. 2.25 mark that ye Heads and Rulers of England for God yea even our God hath a controversie with you and be not proud for the Lord hath spoken for he can bring down the high and the mighty and raise them of low degree for them he will exalt for we have seen the mighty abased and the loftiness of the lofty laid low and what was the cause of this to wit sin and transgression and afflicting the just and limiting the Holy One to their own wayes which was not Gods way for Gods wayes is to love enemies which is the badg and true Cognisance as you say of a Christian and have you not manifested this love of yours what it is that it is but in word and in tongue not in deed for love thinks no evil love kills not about Religion and Worship Church and Faith but your love as I said before is manifest and the Nations have seen it and the blood of many Martyrs Saints shall be required at your hands even you the Heads and Rulers of this Nation who hath drunk the blood of the Saints and now God is giving you something else to drink and will do even the reward of