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truth_n	church_n	part_n	true_a	3,915	5	5.1797	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93860	Reflections upon the occurrences of the last year from 5 Nov. 1688 to 5 Nov. 1689. Wherein, the happy progress of the late Revolution, and the unhappy progress of affairs since, are considered; the original of the latter discovered, and the proper means for remedy proposed and recommended.	Stephens, Edward, d. 1706.	1689 (1689)	Wing S5437A; ESTC R188769	30,811	50

they call it enough to make him look big and be admired in the World and yet be very unskilful in the other It is a Divine Wisdom a quick Understanding in the Fear of the Lord not to be learned in Schools but taught of God a Divine Ray cast into and kindly received in a well purified Soul which gives it a clear distinct Sight and true Estimate of the different value and worth of things an Abhorrence of what is really Evil a Contempt of what is splendid and gaudy but empty and vain the Pomps and Vanities of the World and a just Esteem of all that is really Good according to their different degrees of God above all and therefore with a great care and concern for his Honour and Service of the blessed Creatures above us that they may be gratified and not grieved or offended and of the Souls of Men that they may be rescued from Perdition but of the Temporal Concerns of Men as they are subservient to this directs it to act as a Child of Light discerning what is acceptable to the Lord and what is displeasing to him It is not to be attained by Men whose affections are intaglned in the things of the World nor constantly enjoyed by such as are immersed in the business of it and yet without it no man let his Natural Parts his acquired Accomplishments his Degree in Holy Orders and his Preferments in the Church be what they will can be a true Divine but is in truth so much the greater Impostor appearing in Habit and External Form what he really is not a carnal sensual or animal man at the best not having the good Spirit but in many things obnoxious to the Impressions and Deceits of the subtle Evil one and therefore most dangerous to Princes and Persons concerned in the great Affairs of the World to be relied on But this I intend only for a general Caution not to reflect upon any particular person much less upon him before mentioned for I do not know how he may have behaved himself But of those about the King they who have been accessary to this Summer's ill Success especially by evil Counsels or Recommendations of evil Men may be best known to himself It is true at his first coming he was under a great disadvantage that he had not so full knowledge of persons as was necessary for the State of his Affairs but such hath been the business which since hath been in agitation as cannot but have given him a competent Experimental Knowledge of those who have been concerned in the most important parts thereof If he do but consider the Success of his Affairs and then recollect by whom and whose Counsel or Recommendation they were managed he may in a good measure perceive the Disposition of the persons and what they designed or aimed at Of the Parliament I have already mentioned some things with respect to the unsuccessful and retarded course of our Proceedings We are now enquiring into the Original and first Cause of this great Change which is not to be imputed to the King only The Parliament also have been Principals in it and that by great and notorious defects of Religion Gratitude and Piety towards God and of Justice Charity Providence and Unanimity and Courage for their Country They are the Representative Body of the Nation To them it belonged to have well considered the admirable Mercy and Favour of God in our late Deliverance and to have made return of real Gratitude and not put off that with a superficial Formality to have well considered the defiled and sinful State of the Nation as well as the State of its Affairs and to have endeavoured the Recovery of the Favour and Blessing of God upon those by an essectual Purgation and Reformation of that and to have begun with some good Orders for correction of the Profaneness and dissolute Manners of their own Members which had been an Act of Charity and Providence for the good of their Country and of themselves as well as of Religion and Gratitude to God. For his Blessing is not to be expected upon their Consultations now till the Impieties and Wickedness of their own Members be reformed or removed And to them it belonged also to have made some Examples by Justice upon the Betrayers of the Rights of their Country as well to assert the Justice of their own Proceedings against the late King as to prevent encouragement to the like Practices for the future by their Connivance And to them it belonged to have made a timely Enquiry into the Mismanagement of Affairs whether by Ministers Counsellors Officers or by the King himself and to have plainly that is faithfully represented the same to the King and desired Redress of what had been done amiss by himself and proceeded against the rest according to their desert This was their Duty This had been like a true English Parliament And this doing we might have expected God's Blessing For he favours not the Wicked nor Fools who mind not their own business But such a Pusillanimity and Baseness has possessed our Parliaments of late since the dissolute Manners were so encouroged by Ch. II. that they have been more apt to complement away the Rights of their Country to gratifie the Humour of the King and the Safety and Honour of the King himself to please his Minions and Favourites than do any honest faithful and generous Act for the preservation and real benefit of either Before I quite leave the Parliament it may be fit to remember the Bishops who make a part thereof and in this case deserve a special Consideration They are the Chief Governours of this Church To them it belongs by their Office to take care of the Manners of the People to be concerned at great common and notorious National Sins to admonish and importune the Civil Magistrate and being moreover Members of Parliament to propose and promote good Laws for the Correction and Reformation thereof And all matters of Religion do so peculiarly belong to their Care that the Neglects before mentioned in the King and in the Parliament are with no less Reason but rather more especially chargeable upon them And it is an ill sign of the great prevalence of Impiety and Wickedness in the State or Parliament it self if they durst not or of Laodicean Coldness and insensibility in themselves if they would not for certain it is they did not do in their station in the House what so singular a Mercy of God the so sinful State of the Nation this late great Change we have suffered in the course of our Affairs and the present cloudy Face of things do so plainly require Such a Neglect at such a time as this may justly move us to reflect upon former times and the many and great Advantages Opportunities Occasions and Provocations they have long had to do Good both at home and abroad and considering notwithstanding how little hath been done to suspect that