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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

have persisted in this sin and forgotten God lest he tear you in pieces and there be none to deliver you and confess and forsake your sin then shall you obtain mercy Prov. 28. 13. Having food and rayment be ye therewith content for he hath said He will not leave thee nor in any wise forsake thee p Heb 13. 5 Mat. 22. 21 Render thou to Caesar the things that be Caesars and unto God the things that be Gods and owe nothing to any man but this That ye love one another q Rom. 13. 8 and whatever ye would were you in the Ministry that others should do unto you the same do ye unto them for this is the Law and the Prophets r Mat. 7. 12 But he that doth wrong shall receive for the wrong he hath done and there is no respect of persons with God s Col. 3. 2 The Lord open the eyes of those that have been blinded with self-love and with the love of the world or been deceived with humane laws customes and evil examples of the mulitude that have been guilty of this sin that they may see it and repent of it remembring Christs saying It will profit a man nothing to gain the World and lose his own soul t Mark 8. 36 Now that I have shewed you the light do not walk in darkness and hate the light because your deeds are evil for to him that knows to do well but doth it not to him it 's sin with a vengeance u Jam. 4. 17 The wrath of God being revealed from heaven against all unrighteousness of men who detain the truth in unrighteousness w Rom 1. 18 And if you shall not speedily repent the same judgement may befal you which befel Ananias Sapphira or Simon Magus for their covetousness and sacriledge for such impenitent persons are in the gall of bitterness and bond of iniquity x Acts 8. 23 as they were by reason of those sins And the Lord avert his wrath from this Land and Nation which hath been horribly guilty of this sin to that end let the Magistrates find out some way or means for the Reformation of this sin as Nehemiah did in his Reformation y Neh. 13. 10 11 12 who caused the portions of the Levites to be given to them and the Tythes to be paid to the Priests and Levites for their service in their Churches according to their Courses As also zealous Hezekiah ordered it z 2 Chron. 31 12 13 c. and appointed Officers to see them faithfully distributed which thing was good and right and truth before the Lord his God z verse 20 For the Lord had blessed his people Mal. 3. 10 12 Deut. 26. 10 12 Prov 3. 9 10 Mat. 10. 40 Psal 4. 18 and brought a blessing on the Land and people z. Secondly Let those Impropriations whose heard-hearted Owners tremble not at Gods Word nor fear his threatning be bought in at the Wisdom and Discretion of the Honorable House of Parliament which I conceive in a short time may be effected by the Revenue coming into the Honourable Trustees for Bishops and Dean and Chapters Lands over and above what they now pay for Augmentations Lastly for the right ordering of Ministers in every Church for to receive these Tyths and devoted Lands and Goods and to perform the work of the Ministry and for the gathering and building up of Gods Church Let these proposals be considered by them To the Magistrates of England E. F. on the Jews behalf Humbly D●clareth THat si●h its apparent by the Scriptures That the Jews Gods ancient People shall be converted to the Faith as these Scriptures testifie Rom. 11. 25 26. Psal 5● 6 67. 5. 6 69. 35 36. Isa 1. 25 26 11 1. Zeph. 3 9 c. And being converted they shall be a blessing unto the Godly amongst whom they live they ministring to them exceeding cause of joy for if their Fall be the Riches of the world and their Diminution is the riches of the Gentiles how much more their fulness For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world what will their Assumption be but life from the dead Rom. 11. 12. Zach. 8. 13. And sith by our mercy they shall obtain mercy Rom 11. 31. And many shall seek their favour as it s prophesied Z●ch 8. 23. And God will execrate and destroy th●se Nations that have been enemies to them as the Prophets fore-tell Isa 11. 13. Gen. 12. 3. Jer. 3. 16. Zeph. 3. 19 20. Isa 51. 21 22. 47 6. Jer. 2. 3. Zach. 1. 12 15. And sith in our Directory made by the late reverend Assembly and confirmed by the High Court of Parliament the Ministers of the Gospel were commanded to Pray for their conversion and so to use all means to effect the same unless we will flatteringly m●ck God in our Prayers especially sith they are beloved according to the Election for their Fathers sake of our heavenly Father wh●m we are to imitate and whose gifts and callings are without repentance Rom. 11. 28. and wh●m we are to follow as dear Children sith from them came the Adoption and the Glory f●●m them we received the Covenants and the Law the Worship of God and the Promises for theirs were the Fathers and from them Christ came who is ●od ●ver all b●●ssed for ever Rom. 9. 4 c. Lastly Sith they abound in Wealth Arts and Sciences and excel in ingenuity and Tongues and God is able to graft them in again and the Redeemer shall come to Zion to turn away iniquity in Jacob and the time of fulfilling this is by the common suffrage of the Godly at hand Rom. 11. 26. Therefore to hasten their Conversion and to procure the Blessing and life to us and our Posterity to have the honour and glory to be happy instruments of their Conversion through out mercy spread towards them to get to us and our Posterity deliverance from the evil threatned to fulfil the Prophesies avert all Judgements and to obtain our Petitions for ingrafting and Salvation Therefore your Petitioner humbly prayeth That they may have Liberty as well as other Nations to Trade and Traffick in our Common-Wealth without peril of their lives To that end let the Statutes of Bannishing them be Repealed And if the Parliament think fit let them on good Cautions and Conditions as shall seem meete●t to their wisdom be suffered here to Continue and Dwell amongst us as formerly before the Conquest that so living with us they may with the Sweetness and Fatness of our Land receive into their Souls the wholsome and saving knowledge of the Gospel which in no Country under Heaven blessed be God and continued still be this Mercy to us and ours till Christ come is so purely and powerfully preacht and held forth as in this Common-Wealth To effect which Your Petitioner shall alwayes Pray c. The Proposals 1. SIth by the

rise up in Judgement against those that fear not to offend the true God by Perjury who will not acquit an offender z Exod 34 7 The like dread of Perjury is reported to be in the Saguntines who chose rather to have their City ruinated than their Faith violated which they had made to the Romans a Aug. de Civitate Dei lib 3 cap. 20 Did not Amurath ubbraid the Christians with Vladislaus Perjury and will not both Turks and Heathens condemn our Religion as false when they shall hear that there is such Perjury and Falshood continued in amongst us that is not to be named amongst the Heathen as St. Paul speaks in another case b 1 Cor. 5. 1 What can this work amongst them at this day but obstinacy in their infidelity and blasphemy of that Faith which is the life of our Souls Dr Mortons Confutat of Equivoca● part 3 cap 20 Therefore Thirdly Let there be a day of Humiliation appointed by the Three Nations that every man guilty of this sin may smite upon the thigh and be ashamed and so may confess and forsake it but especially let such deeply humble themselves whose mouths have been full of Cursing and bitterness swearing on every light occasion powdring in their common talk as they they think their discourse but indeed putrifying it with prophane and cursed language and Oaths as the Devil that rules in them gives them utterance their tongue in St. James his phrase being set on fire of Hell c James 3 6 sc i●citata A diabolo Gebennoe inferni civi Gagneu● scol in loc Also let us bewail our wicked absolute and impossible Vows and Oaths which are not to be kept but broken d A turpi Voto muta de cretum quod iniquiter jurastine persolve James 4 17 if the Lord will saith St. James d. and so far as conveniently we may as well as lawfully saith St. Paul e 1 Cor. 10 23 are requ●red in those that promise ought Saul sinned in his rash Vow of killing him that tasted meat that day f 1 Sam. 14. 24 So did David in his passionate Oath to destroy Nabal and his Family for their Masters incivility and want of charity g 1 Sam. 25. 21 worse did those Forty that bound themselves in an Oath not to ●●t till they had killed the holy Apostle h Acts 23 12 this the very Papists condemn i Dr Saunderson de jurament sect 13 lect 2. for in an Oath we are to have regard as well to the matter what we swear as to the manner how we swear So said the Dr. of the Chair An unlawful Oath in respect of the act of swearing obligeth although it be certain what ought not to be performed ought not to be sworn nevertheless it may come and doth often come to pass that what ought not to have been sworn ought notwithstanding to be performed the thing being lawful not of it self but by accident viz the Persons swearing so it obligeth the Person swearing to his promise unlesse there appears some other sinful impediment as he instanceth in the Oath of the Israelish Princes given to the Gibeonites before mentioned they ought not to have sworn to them but having sworn they ought not to break their Oath which Sauls Posterity found true to their sorrow as well as all Israel k 2 Sam 21 1 2 c in this the Schoolmen are right l Aquin 2d● quest 88 Ar 2 3 Fieri non debet sed factum valet To prevent Perjury in the Universiries and Cities and Courts let the Statutes Laws and Customs which they are sworn to observe be set down in a Book or Table for Publick use to be made and truly used by all men in some Common Place where all may have liberty to read and know them that so men may swear in Judgement Justice and Truth m Jer 4 4 And to prevent this sin in Judicature at our Assizes and Quarter-Sessions let there be no Tales-men returned by the Sheriff or his Bayliffs nor no Jury-men allowed of but such as are approved of by the Testimony of the Minister and Church where they live to be wise and able men sound in the Faith fearing God and hating covetousness of knowledge in the Laws of the Land of holy life and conversation unto the Justices of the Peace in each County to serve as Jury-men who confirming them and allowing of them let these freely for their Countries good serve in all Juries without taking Reward for their pains on the penalty of Bribery unlesse what may be allowed by the Common Purse of the said County this will I believe destroy all our Hackney Jurors and prevent abundance of Injustice and Perjury now perpetrated in Courts of Judicature Fifthly Le ts all Repent of our rash swearing without Judgement and submission to Gods will whereby we have made our Wills superior to Gods whose counsel alone shall stand and he will perform all his pleasure who hath lately shewed our vanity and prophannesse herein in dis-enabling most of us to do what we absolutely Covenanted and swore to perform yea let there be no swearing but on weighty Causes n James 5 12 Mat 5 34 Aug lib 19 contra Faustum they ought to be used only in cases of necessity as men use dangerous Medicines Sixthly Let the Laws already made against rash Swearers and Perjured persons be put better in execution and let more encouragement be given to those shall discover them And let such as hear them swear rashly and falsly and know it so but shall not reprove them or see them punished let them undergo the same punishment as being partakers with or approvers of the same sin o Agentes Consentientes pari paena pu●ie●di sunt Linwood Lastly Let all sorts of Persons in the Three Nations faithfully perform their Vows Oaths and Covenants made with submission to Gods Will to their utmost power in their vocations and so far as lawfully they may though it be to the losse of their honors places offices or riches for what will it profit a man to gain the world and to lose his own soul as every perjured person that remains unrepentant in this sin doth p Mark 8 36 1 Tim. 1 10 Psal 24. 4. Therefore let every man do this seriously as in Gods presence who seeth him and beholds all his wayes before whom shortly he must appear and give an account for these Oaths and Covenants read over and piously meditate on the Oaths Protestation and Covenant he hath sworn unto and then let him pay what he hath promised and vowed without delay especially such things as concerns the glory of God the honor of Christ the good of the Church the maintenance of Truth Unity and Love the punishing of Hereticks Scismaticks and such as cause War and Division in the Nations and the flying of the sins we have sworn to forsake