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B22780	Englands deplorable condition shewing the common-wealths malady, by [brace] sacriledge, and want of duty in the people, contention, want of charity in the ministery, perjury, and want of truth in both : and its remedy by [brace] the peoples obedience and liberality, the ministers love and unity, both their repentance and fidelity : briefly declar'd in three treatises of [brace] the ministers patrimony and peoples duty, proposals to reconcile such as are for lordly episcopacy and un-ordain'd presbytery, for popular independancy and upstart antipædobaptistry, and against perjury : also, a petition for the Jews.	E. F.	1659 (1659)	Wing F18	72,509	69

our weak Brother b Rom. 14 per totum Phil. 3. 15 16 for if it be necessary for him God will sooner or later reveal the same unto him nevertheless whereunto we have attained we should walk in love and speak the truth in love c Eph. 4. 15 2 John 1 and love one mother in the truth Thirdly But for those who have been Baptized in their Infancy and through ignorance shall not be able to give a reason of the hope that is in them nor do not know how to examine themselvs nor undeastand nor in any competent measure the Covenant of Grace nor the nature use and end of receiving the Lord● Supper d 1 Cor. il 28 29 26 27 or are scandalous in their Lives and Conversations and so unfit to eat with the Godly e 1 Cor. 5. 11. 13 or through prophaneness carnal shame or fear or out of hardness of heart or perverseness of spirit shall refuse to give an account of their Faith or to obey and submit unto their Guides cleaving unto them f Acts 17. 34 will●ngly freesy and sincerely g Psalm 110. 3 Mark 8. 38 Luke 14. 23 Philem 14 let them be suspend●d from receiving the Lords Supper that they may be ashamed yet let not the communicates count them as enemies but admonish them as Brethren 2 Thes 3. 14 15. and the Rule by which all Members are to walk is the Scriptures which ●s able to make the Man of God perfect throughly furnished to every good work h 2 Tim. 3 16. 17 hereby the Spirit is to be tryed by which we speak i Esay 8. 20 1 John 4. 1 for if any speak not according hereunto 't is because there is no light in him nay if an Angel from Heaven should bring anothsr Doctrine than that which is to be plainly proved by the Scriptures we are to repute him accursed k Gal. 1. 8 9 Christ and his Apostles have already revealed the whole Will of God to the Church and who so shall add to it or diminish from it shall be damn'd for it l John 17. 6 Acts 20. 20 21 Rev. 22. 18 19. 4. In all cases of Offence between Brethren let that golden rule of Christs be observed m Matt. 18. 15 16 c. If any be obstinate in any scandalous sin or fundamental error after the first and second admonition reject him and repute him as a publican n Tit. 3. 10 11 Mar. 28. 17 If he shall refuse to hear the Church after that the Presbitery gathered together in the Name of the Lord Jesus have by Christs power delivered him over to Satan for the destruction of the flesh o 1 Cor. 5. 4 and the people have put away from themselves that wicked person p 1 Cor. 5. 1. 3 until he shall to the whole Church shew evident testimony of his Repentance after his Excommunication as the incestuous pe●son did q 2 Cor. 2. 6 7 c to 1● But if he shall Apostatize from the Christian Faith and become an open and wilful blasphemer of the Truth or an Idolater and false Teacher seducing others from the Faith to believe and receive his fundamental Errors and blasphemies he ought by the civil Magistrate if he be a Christian to be put to death as God commanded r Levlt 24. 16 Deut. 12. 6 c or at least to be severely punished ſ Zach 13. 3 as Pious Kings in Israel and Christian Princes in the Primative times have done t Euseb Eccles Hist 2 Chron. 15. 13. But in superstructive Points of Doctrine each man ought to walk according to his knowledge and conscience Phil 3. 15 16. Rom. 14. 22 23. Si●h whatever is not of Faith is sin and we ought to bear with the weak and not to judge each other about meats or dayes or such like things u Rom. 15 1 14. 3 ● c. If any man be overtaken in a fault such as are spiritual ought to restore such an one with the Spirit of Meekness considering himself lest he also be tempted Gal. 6. 1. Each man should abide in that Vocation wherein he is called with God w 1 Cor 7. 20. 24. 14. 33 12. 17 25 and not usurpe each others Calling or Office no more than the Members of the natural Body do but having Gifts differing according to the Grace given us so let us use them x Rom. 12. 6 Ephes 4 2 3 for the profit of the whole Body endeavouring in all lowliness meekness and long-suffering forbearing one another in love to keep the unity of the spirit in the bond of peace Every one should observe those general rules Rom. 12. 1 9 c Phil. 2. 2 c. Eph. 4. 31 32. Heb. 3. 10 11. 10 24. 12. 1. 14 c. ad finem Epist 1 Cor. 1. 40. in particular for our thoughts all of us should observe those two rules Pro. 4. 23. Phil 4. 8. Col. 3. 1. for our words those two Eph. 4. 29. Col 4 6. remembring that he whatever he be in his seeming Devotions that bridles not his tongue his Religion is vain y James 1. 26 And for our actions those rules of the Apostle Col. 3. 16 17. Heb. 11. 6. Matth 7. 12. 1 Cor. 16 14. 1 Cor. 10. 31. doing all things in Charity and in Faith in Christs Name to his glory denying our selves taking up our Cross le ts follow Christ z Mat. 16. 24 and deny all ungodliness and worldly lusts and live soberly godly and righteously a Titus 2. 14 following God as dear Children b Ephes 5. 1 walking in love as Christ hath loved us being ready to lay down not only our Goods but our Lives for the Brethren c 1 John 3. 16 and le ts abstain from the appearance of evil 1 Thes 5. 22. Le ts do nothing doubtingly against Conscience or undutifully against Authority for Conscience sake Rom. 13. 5. 14 22. or uncharitably against our Brother in things that d 1 Cor. 8. 7 c. Rom. 14. 5 c are indifferent but le ts walk as Children of the light circumspectly as wise men Eph. 5. 15. daily growing in grace and in the knowledge of Jesus Christ abounding more and more in well-doing and persevering therein unto the end e Mat. 10. 22 being faithful unto the death that so we may receive the crown of life f Revel 2. 10 In observing of these things through Gods blessing the Churches of Christ which are amongst us shall be edified and walking according to these rules and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost Acts 9. 31 be multiplyed and all the Saints be in one united to serve God with one lip g Zeph. 3. 9 and shoulder h Zach. 14. 21 and no Canaanite shall dwell in the House of the Lord unwarn'd or unpunished which is the earnest Desire and shall be

the fervent Prayer of thy Souls Friend whosoever thou art that readest these Proposals so thou be Christs under what form soever thou livest A TREATISE AGAINST PERJURY SIth any way to take Gods Name in vain is such a sin that God will not hold the Offender guiltless a Com. 3 And God hath absolutely forbidden swearing falsly b Levi. 19. 12 Numb 30. 2 and Christ and his Apostle forbids us to swear at all c Mat. 5. 33. James 5. 12 not that he doth hereby abolish any part of his Fathers divine Worship commanded in the Law Deut. 6. 13. but to prevent all occasions of Perjury and rash and presumtuous swearing which is a sin sticks so fast unto the Soul that without a great deal of washing it will not out d Psal 51. 2 Therefore above all things St. James dehorts from it following herein the counsel of the Hebrew Rabbies e Maimon Trea. of Oathes c. 12 who advised their Scholars to beware of this sin more than of all transgressions it being one of the heavie iniquities greater than all iniquities St. Paul tells us the Law was made to condemn such f 1 Tim. 1. 9. 10 Zach 5. 1 c. Jer. 23. 10 for God sends his flying Roll against them which shall enter into the house of him that sweareth falsly to consume the stone and the timber of it yea the whole Land shall mourn because of it g Mal. 3. 5 Christ in Judgement will come near to such and be a swift witness against them g. he will make the Land desolate and deprive it of man and beast for swearing is the Captain in that cursed company of Vices Hos 4. 2 3. The Heathen accounted it a fearful sin and therefore the wisest of them allowed it not but in great and weighty matters as in the vindication of a mans fame or preservation of his own or friends life h. St. Augustine called Isecrat in St●baeo ser 25 it a dangerous Medicine never to be used but in a desperate Disease i August ser 28. de verbis Apost Deut. 28. 59 And indeed God threatens to make their plagues wonderful and of long continuance that fears not his great and glorious Name He knows not how to spare that People that persist in this sin k Jer. 5. 7 11 for they shall fall and not rise again l Amos 8. 14 he will surely cut them off m Zeph. 1. 4 5 Sith therefore punishment inseperably follows at the heels of this sin and lighteth either invisibly on the Souls of men as namely by Gods with-drawing his Grace and favours from them as from the ten Tribes that revolted from Davids house to whom they had sworn Allegiance for which they are said to rebel because of the Covenant they had made with David before the Lord n 1 King 12 19 compared with 2 Sam. 5. 3 although it be said the cause was from the Lord that Rehoboam hearkned not unto the people 2 Kings 12. 15. which was the ground of that Rebellion or else God permits Satan to blind and harden their hearts and to take full possession of their Souls as he dealt with Ananias and Sapphira who agreed together to tempt the Spirit of God and to lye unto the Holy Ghost o Acts 5. 1 c. So it happened to Judas the Traytor after he had perfidiously betrayed his Master Satan was permitted by Christ after the Sopp to enter into him and to fill him with all impiety and then to hurry him to the halter and Hell or else God suffers Satan to seduce them to beleeve those that speak lyes in hypocrisie and to credit his strong delusions which is a judgement threatned on all that receive not the love of the truth p 2 Thess 2. 9 10 11 And that are traytors truce-breakers lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God having a shew of godliness but denying the power of it q 2 Tim 3. 2 3 Or Lastly God departs from them for detaining the Truth in unrighteousness and so gives them over to a reprobate mind and vild affections r Rom. 1. 21 24 26 St. Augustine tells us That the life of the Body is the S●ul and the life of the Soul is God the Body dieth when the Soul departs but the Soul dieth when God depa●ts when the Body is wounded with a sword the Soul departs and doth not God depart when the Soul is wounded with perjury s Or else visibly August in Epist Iacob Gods Judgement falls on the persons estates goods or good-name of the prophaners of his Name or they fall into condemnation and pit of destruction before they have lived out half their dayes t James 5. ●● P●a 55. ●0 23 for God is jealous of his honour and will not suffer it to be prophaned by any man but will have it recovered by their conversion or confusion Peter Martyr from the Rabbins tells us That when the Law was given in Mount Sinai against Perjury Heaven and Earth shook trembling at so horrible a crime u Martyr loc Com clas 2. c. 7 Cum in Sinai darentur tabulae statim ut lata lex est de perjurio totue orbis est concussus for to prophane Gods Name is the proper dialect of the damned in Hell who speak as the Devil gives them utterance their tongues being set on fire of Hell and fearful without repentance will their doom be w Rev. 16. 11. Mat. 5. 37 James 3. 6 Psal 109. 27 God is known to abhorre this sin by the judgements he hath in this world executed on such as have been guilty of this sin as in the three years Famine in Davids dayes which came on Israel for their breaking the Oath with the Gibeonites x. Sauls Family felt the y 2 Sam. 21. 1 vengeance of their Fathers folly And the Kingdom of Judah and Israel mourned because of this sin y Jer. 23. 10 Hoses 4. 2 God removed the Diadem took off the Crown and over-turned the glory of King Zedekiah and brought shame and confusion on his posterity and Army for his prophanness and perjury z Ezek. 21. 23 25 c Ezek. 17. 18 19 And what hapned to the late unhappy King and his damning cursing and perjured Army is too fresh in memory to relate I have read of a Soul●●er in Germany who being sick gave his Money to the Host w 〈…〉 e he lay and being recovered he demanded it which he denying the Souldier sued him but the Host forswore it against his Conscience and presently the Devil carried him away in the presence of the Court nor could he ever after be heard of a Fincelius libr. 1 demirac 'T is as one calls it A God provoking and a Devil impowering sin b Heavens Alarm to Jurors It so provoked the Lords wrath against the Christians in the Holy Land and so impowered the devilish Turks

1 Harm of Confes sect 10 Mockets Book of God the King I fidore Beda Dr. Featly Saunderson c. Yea and the very Heathen too c As Menander Plato Cisero Aristotle Seneca Plutarchs Lives c. for not only Gods Name is abused whom they invocate to witnesse which is most fearful and glorious but also men are hereby cheated and deceived and made to beleeve a Lie instead of Truth God much complains of this sin d Jer. 3. 10. 2 Cron. 34 32 and threatens severely to plague it e Ezek. 17 15 Jun. Annot. in locum It provoked the Lord to break forth as a man in passion shall he break the Covenant and be delivered Nay God swears in his wrath as one mightily offended severely to plague Zedekiah though a King for desp●sing the Oath and breaking the Covenant which God calls his Oath and his Covenant because as Junius observes was sworn in his Name and he was the Author of it by his Prophet f Jer. 34. 11 Aecolam Exp. in loc As also to shew as one saith Tthat he will revenge the breach of Oath and Covenant made o men as much as if it had been made to himself he had prophaned Gods Name and God would not hold him guiltless but his imprecation shall fall on his own head for his perfidiousnesse which indeed was fulfilled on him and his in severity g 2 King 25 6 7 Jer. 52. 1 when his Children and Nobles were slain before his face and then his eyes put out and he himself carried Captive into Babylon and kept there till the day of his death And yet alas our Land is too much guilty of this crying scandalou● sin which cryes aloud for vengeance for such were and are for the most part the Oaths that have been taken by Papists and Church-Protestants against the Popes Supremacy the Oath of Abjuration which thousands never intend to keep they having their Dispensations Equivocations mental Reservations and secret Evasions to delude God the Magistrates but chiefly themselves for in their hearts they are still resolved to yield Obedience to the See of Rome and beleeve Transubstantiation and Purgatory use Pilgrimages and Prayers to and for the Dead yea some Protestants are too much Jesuited who took the former Oaths Protestation and Covenant when in the very taking of them I fear they intended not to keep them for generally the Country took one or more of these for fear rather than love by constraint rather than willingly for self-ends and not for Gods glory Generally the whole Nation feared not an Oath but some either ignorantly rashly or presumptuously took them or which is worse resolved prophanely and perfidiously not to keep them like those that took the Covenant in Josias dayes in falshood h Jer. 3. 10 returning unto the Lord feignedly Nor to this day is there any fit means used as I know of to remove the guilt of this crying sin from the Land which in the opinion of an enlightned Jesuite i Emman Sa. Aph●r tit de Jurament 26 Perjurium gravius est Homicidio c. is greater than Murther Therefore one long since wished That as the Murtherer in our Land for Murder was hanged by the Neck so the Perjured person for his sin might be by the Tongue k Dr. Mortons Confut of Equivocation c●p 5. And though we punish not so severely this sin as other Nations have done and God hath out of his patience and goodnesse forbore with us thereby leading us to Repentance yet their Damnation slumbreth not that shall to their lives end persist in the same God will hasten his vengeance and cast such out of his sight as the Prophet speaks l Ier. 14. 11 and if they continue in this sin God will not hear them God hath oft and clearly forbad this sin m Deut. 23 21 Numb 30. ● c. and th●eatned such with the losse of Heaven n Psal 15. 4 Revel 22. 15 And the truly godly have kept their Oath though it were to their own hurt as Joshua and the godly Princes Jephtah and others yea 't is the mark of a true Christian that he feareth an Oath o Eccles 9. 2 I have opened my mouth to J●hovah saith Jaepthah and I cannot recal it p Iudg. 11. 35 he was content to put an end to his Posterity rather t●en to commit Perjury And so zealous was Joshua and the Princes having sworn to the Gibeonit●s that when the Army would have destroyed them they cryed out We have sworn to them by Jehovah God of Israel and we may not touch them No though they were a people of the Hevites who were expresly and by name commanded of God to be rooted out q Exod. 23. 23 though they were Lyars Dece●vers and Counterfeits and over-reach●d and as it were derided Ioshua and the Princes by feigning themselves Embassadours from a far Country which they avowed by their vynowed Bread and patched Cloaths clouted Shooes and rent Bottles nay though Gods command of destroying them long preceded the Peace they had granted them of sparing them and though the Oath and Promise they made was with a People a far off for so the Israelites had told them r Iosh 9. 7 If they dwelt amongst them they could not make a Peace with them because God had forbidden it Nay though this Peace was made without warrant from the Lord ſ Iosh 9. 14 nor could they challenge as our famous Historian speaks the witness of the true God in whom they beleeved not t Rawleighs Hist of the World l. 2. c. 6. sect 3. and therefore if ever any man might have saved himself by Evasion or Delusion Ioshua might have done it without Equivocations or mental Reservations Yet to the end saith he that the faithlesse subtilty of man should borrow nothing in future from his example who knew well that the Promises made in the Name of the living God were made to God and not to the dying man he held his Oath and Promise firm and inviolable though they to whom he swore were worshippers of Devils for 't is not as faithlesse men take it saith he that he which swears to a Man Society State or King and swears by the Name of the living God and in his presence that the Promise if it be broken is broken to a Man Society State or Prince but the Promise made in the Name of God is broken to God 'T is him we neglect herein and professe we fear him not but set him at nought and defie him And not only the godly but the very Heathen abhorred breach of Oath and Covenant to men though they swore by false Gods Marcus Attilius Regulus is famous herein amongst the Romans who being taken by the Carthaginians prisoner in the War had leave to go back to Rome on his Parol taking his Oath That he would return again as their Prisoner if he effected not what