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A40725 Concio ad magistratum a nations honour, and a nations dishonour, or, A kingdoms prospective-glass : discovering who are the most faithful friends, and who the most dangerous enemies to the peace and prosperity of a kingdom / written by P. Fullwood. Fullwood, P. (Peter) 1673 (1673) Wing F2522; ESTC R7022 26,022 48

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God and all good men then if any shall revive that old complaint what is the cause that the former times were better than these the Text gives Resolution it is sin sin is the snuff that dimmes all our light the leaven that defiles our passeover and renders us a Proverb and an hissing and astonishment to all our Neighbours Nations round about which to prevent currat paenitentia ne praecurrat sententia let us hasten our repentance that judgement do not overtake us before we be aware sin is of a shameful birth It is of the spurious race of Sathan the Father is an Amorite the Mother an Hitite ye are of your Father the Devil and his lusts will ye do he was a murderer from John 8. 44. the beginning and abode not in the truth because there is no truth in him when he speaketh a lye he speaketh of his own for he is a lyar and the Father of it Selivius the great Turk upon revenge of his loss received of the Battel of Lepanto was resolved to put to death all the Christians within his Dominions and such is the Devils malice against all mankind for the loss of the favour of God and eternal happiness he seeks the ruine and destruction of them all your Adversary the Devil as a roaring 1 Pet. 5. 8. Lion walks about seeking whom he may devour An Athenian Curtizan boasted she could get all Socrates Schollers from him and he could never recover one of them again such as are the Schollars of Christ School had need take heed they be not drawn from God to sin for it is as hard to get out of his claws as for the Israelites to get out of Aegypts Bondage Again sin is a shame to our Profession Religion never suffered greater ecclipse then by the interposition of the enormities of Christians examples are the greatest load-stones to draw our Souls and of all none more prevalent that those that are evil This was the aggravation of Davids sin urged by the Prophet Nathan by this deed thou hast given great occasion 2 Sam. 12. v. 14. to the Enemies of the Lord to blaspheme the enormities of Christians was a main ●ause of the Mahometan Religion if the light be darkness how great is that darkness if the Salt have lost his savour that there is little hope that the unsavoury lives of Heathens Pagans or Infidels should ever be reformed Hell is not more contrary to Heaven than such prodigious impieties as swarm amongst Christians are to the inlargement of the Kingdome of Christ to purge out these evil humours which endanger the mystical body of Christ let us take out the Apostles direction let your conversation be such as becometh Phil. 1. 27. the gospel of Christ Sin likewise brings men to shameful ends what became of Pharaoh the tyrannical Achittophel the crafty Ahab the covetous Nebuchanezzar the ambitious Judas the treacherous their end was bitter as Wormwood and sharp as a two edged sword sutable to that of the Prophet thou dost set them in slippery Psal 73. v. 18 19 20. places thou castest them down into destruction how are they bronght into desolation as in a moment as a dream when one awaketh Which made the Apostle break through the cloud of his sinnes into this Emphatical exclamation O wretched man that I am who sholl deliver me from Rom. 7. 24. the body of this death O death how bitter is the remembrance of thee to the impenitent when this Serjeant arrests them all the flowers of their Paradise fade away they that go out of this World without Christs pass-port shall go into another World without his wellcome shall be delivered up into the hands of that fearful sentence Depart from me ye cursed into everlasting flames prepared for the Devil and his Angles Consider with what shame and confusion of face impenitent sinners shall then appear before Christs Tribunal The Kings of the Earth and the rich men and the Revel 6. 15 16. chief Captains and the mighty men and every bond man and every free-man hid themselves in the Dens and in the Rocks of the Mountains and said to the Rocks and Mountains fall upon us and hide us from the face of him that sitteth on the Throne and from the wrath of the Lamb for the great day of the Lord is come and who may abide it Sin is like an old Bond that hath long lyen uncancelled when it comes to be called for the full will be exacted and use upon use therefore very seasonable was that advice of our Saviour agree with thine adversary quickly whilst thou art in the way with him least Mat. 5. 25. the adversary deliver thee to the Judge and the Judge to the Officer and thou be cast into Prison thou shalt not come out till thou hast paid the uttermost farthing Then let us be as fearfull of the commission of sin as of the shame and punishment of it and take heed of the love of sin as well as the commission of it Take away the cause the effect will fall of it self this was the Antidote werewith holy Joseph expelled the poyson Gen. 39. v. 9. of his wanton Mistress temptation how can I do this great wickedness and sin against God Sustinere as well as abstinere was a resolution becoming a Christian if the fear of sin be once laid aside we shall not want allurements to invite us to it Eve shall have an Apple Esau a mess of pottage Achan a golden wedg Jonah a ship Judas thirty pieces of silver but let us say to such as Luther did to the Pope when he sent Cardinals to tempt with promises of promotion valde protestatus sum me molle sic satiari I said flatly I would not be satisfied with such things So I come to the third and last step of this second General viz. The extent to any People sin is a shame to any People No Person of what quality or degree soever hath any toleration for sin nor exemption from the shame or punishment of it the revolting Jews Jer. 1. v. 9 10 11 12 13. having tasted a full draught of Gods tender love fall into the praemnuire of his sharpest censure I will plead with you saith the Lord and with your Childrens Children will I plead pass over the Isles of Chittim and see and send unto Kedar and consider diligently and see if there be such a thing Hath a Nation changed her Gods for them that are no Gods but my People hath changed her glory for that which doth not profit be astonished O yee Heathens at this and be horribly afraid be very desolate saith the Lord my People have committed two evils they have forsaken me the Fountain of living waters and chosen to them selves broken Cisterns that will hold no water Mans falling into sin is like the Children of Israels going into Aegypt they had all the favour that Pharaoh could extend to them all the