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Considerations and exhortations to the serious and religious observation of the Lent-fast, enjoined by authority humbly proposed in tendency to promote a reformation of manners in the debauched age we live in / by P. A., Gent.
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common Man can skill of well enough needs never ask St. John or St. Paul what he should do but knows what he should do as well as St. Paul or St. John either and that it is not rather a matter wherein we need the Counsel and Direction of such as are professed that way Truly it is neither the least nor the last part of our Learning to be able to give an Answer and Direction in this Point but therefore laid aside and neglected by us because not sought after by you and therefore not studied but by very few because Nemo nos Interrogat i. e. No body asks us the Question because it grows quite out of request We have learned I know not where a new and shorter course which Flesh and Blood better like of viz. in the whole course of our Life not to be able to set down where or when or what we did when we did that which we call Repenting and what Fruits there came of it what those Fruits might be worth but even a little before death and that as little as may be not till the World hath given us over Lo then to come to our Quid faciemus i. e. to ask what shall we do when we are able to do nothing and then one must come and as we call it speak comfortably to us that is to say minister unto us a little Divinity Laudanum rather stupefactive for the present than doing any sound good and so take our leaves to go meet with Ira ventura i. e. the Wrath to come This way this fashion of Repenting St. John knew it not it is far from his Fructus dignus i. e. worthy Fruit. St. Paul knew it not it is far from his Opera digna i. e. worthy Works And I can say little to it but I pray God it do not deceive us for it is not good trying Conclusions about our Souls Now saith the Author This excellent Discourse is so fair an Item to a tender pious Christian from diverting him and thereby deferring the making of his Accounts even with Heaven till the Cross or Bed of Sickness call upon him sure that 's no Time or Place to contest with two such Enemies as Infirmity of Bodies and of Sins Unto which another worthy Author adds his Advice which is To renounce the Errors and Neglects of the Age we live in and imitate the Piety of those Christians who lived in the first Ages of the Christian Church if we will fight well in our Christian Combat And indeed the Truth of our Repentance is our All for as it hath been said we must have Innocency or true Repentance to make us acceptable to God As for the first no Man hath it and therefore we must trust wholly upon the latter I need say no more of this Subject of Repentance but to advise us all to hearken diligently to what our Mother the Church speaketh to us and adviseth in her Excellent Liturgy for this Time of Lent An APPENDIX to the preceding Discourse IN my Essay for the Promoting the Religious Observation of the Fast-Day January the 30th last past being streightned in Time I could not then fully express my Thoughts and have therefore annex'd them here viz. That in truth King Charles I. his greatest Crime was his managing a War against his Rebellious Subjects to uphold the Church of England and maintain Episcopacy according to his Coronation Oaâ—h and accordingly I have heard even that great Presbyterian Divine Doctor Cornelius Burgess in those times in his Pulpit term that Civil War Bellam Episcopale the Episcopal War which it truly was And may I recommend to the perusal of all ingenuous Persons that excellent Printed Sermon of Dr. Burnet now Lord Bishop of Salisbury which he preach'd at the Savoy Church January 30. Anno 1674. wherein they will find a sufficient Proof of the great Abilities of Mind of the Royal Martyr King Charles I. To which if they please to add his Disputation at Newcastle with Mr. Henderson as also his managing the Personal Treaty at Newport in the Isle of Wight Anno 1648. they may be fully satisfy'd of the little need he had of Dr. Gauden's or Dr. Bailey's Assistance who was also said to be the Compiler of the King's Book in former times and how then at last it should fall upon Dr. Gauden I cannot imagine when he had no need of any one to assist him and more especially of Dr. Gauden who had taken the Covenant as is affirmed and was also a Stranger to him when it is well known the said Prince had such an Antipathy against such as had taken the Covenant that he could not be persuaded at the Isle of Wight so much as to hear one of those Presbyterian Divines that attended the Parliaments Commissioners there to Preach before him although very great and celebrated Preachers viz. Mr. Marshall Mr. Vines Mr. Caryll and Mr. Seaman and he never all the time of the Treaty went to Church but heard his own Bishops and Doctors who preach'd to him in the Presence-Chamber all which I my self knew very well who was there all the Time of the said Treaty and some Days after it ended Which I humbly conceive makes it incredible that the King should admit of Dr. Gauden to be a Guide of his Conscience But to say no more but to end this Controversie What can be the meaning of the great Bustle about it and those concerned therein except it be to blacken the Royal Martyr and his Sacred Memory that they may whiten Bradshaw and the rest of the wicked Regicides which if so let them take the glory of it to themselves who delight in it God grant that all good and honest Christians may be free from having a Hand in the same For he that justifieth the wicked and he that condemneth the just even they both are abomination to the Lord Prov. xvii 15. Considering also that excellent Observation of a worthy Author That Innocency hath the nearest Resemblance of God and therefore to injure Innocence is more-especially to injure God himself FINIS