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truth_n	false_a	religion_n	true_a	4,673	5	5.0261	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34713	England's restoration parallel'd in Judah's, or, The primitive judge and counsellor in a sermon before the honourable judge at Abington assizes, for the county of Berks, Aug. 6. 1689 / by Francis Carswell ...	Carswell, Francis, d. 1709.	1689 (1689)	Wing C649; ESTC R222147	22,865	40

Judicium redimetur Sion When Judgment shall be administer'd in her Sion shall be redeemed Or as the Arabick Version Post Judicium salvabitur Sion After Judgmen texecuted Sion shall be saved So that 't is plain there must be Judges restored before Judgment and that Judgment must be executed before Sion can be redeemed And 't is repugnant to Sense and Reason as well as Religion that since not a Nation much less a Church can be restor'd and flourish but by executing Judgment in Righteousness because sin and injustice are the dishonour and shame of a People Every unjust Act is a blow at the Root and high affront to the true Religion which was planted in Righteousness and must be built up in Judgment Rapines Perjuries Violence and Injustice are proper Materials for the building up of Babel the Synagogue of Satan not of Sion the Temple of God. Truth and Falshood Good and Evil Light and Darkness Righteousness and Injustice will never Cement but like contrary Qualities they 'l dissolve or blow up the whole Fabrick We may as easily bring together in a Building the North-Pole and the South and raise it up by heaping on Banrels of Gunpowder intermix'd with flaming Fire-brands instead of Bricks and cement it with Pitch and Sulphur for Mortan False Religions I know are founded and propagated on Maxims and Practices of Injustice and barbarous Cruelties Thus the Worshippers of Baal are bound to launce themselves with knives The Worshippers of Moloch must make their Sons pass through the Fire for Burnt-Offerings to him The Americans sacrifice Men to their Viracoca And most of the Islanders in the Bay of Mexico did both eat and sacrifice Men to their Idols And at this day Mahomet's Alcoran instructs his Votaries by Fire and Sword Devastation of Cities and Kingdoms with all manner of inhumane Barbarities to force Men to embrace his impious execrable Religion But above all the Romish in these things seem to exceed Their Purgatory Penances Whippings Fastings Pilgrimages Watchings with multitudes of other childish senseless unwarrantable Fopperies of the Devil's invention to plague or imploy their Votaries about tho intolerable in themselves yet are as nothing when compared with their bloody Inquisition their Heretick-burning Doctrines and bloody Massacres As of Scores of Thousands at Rochel and in Ireland in the Vallies of Piedmont and England too as well as other places in the Ages just past Their yesterdays brutish Cruelties in Savoy and in Franoe by Sword by Fire by Tortures by Imprisonment by Banishment by Dragooning Men out of their Houses Lands Estates Country and Lives too And he knows little of Rome that doth not know that Death and She are like in this that one spares no Man Living and the other no Heretick breathing as she calls the best of Christians A Religion so diametrically opposite to the true that 't is the very reverse of all that the holy Jesus instituted taught or practised of whom it was prophesied that he should judge the People with Righteousness and the Poor with equity and break in pieces the Rod of the Oppressors so that the Mountains should bring Peace and the little Hills Righteousness Which was fulfilled when he came For the Angels celebrating his Birth proclaimed Perce on Earth and good Will towards Men. And after he himself declar'd his Burthen to be light his Yoke easie That he came not to destroy but to save Mens lives by destroying the works of Darkness and bringing in a holy spiritual Worship of the one only living and true God to the utter extirpation of all Idolatry and final destruction of all their Apollo's and Jupiter's Temples and silencing their Oracles and from thenceforth to establish a more entire union between Man and Man founded in Innocence Charity Mercy and Justice So that it plainly appears from the Nature Principles Doctrine and Practices of true Religion and false being so contradictory to each other that the proper Methods and Instruments for the building up of the one are and must be destructive to the oother and that the true being founded on principles of Truth Righteousness and Judgment the Restoration of such Judges as duly execute these must influence and conduce to the prosperity of the true Church for Sion must be redeemed with Judgment and her Converts with Righteousness As the Result of the whole I descend to my Fourth and last Inference 4. Since both Church and State reap so great Advantages by the Restoration of primitive Judges and Counsellors a People are highly obliged when thus restor'd without Murmuring to bless God for both And our Nation being thus restor'd from such forlorn Circumstances as we were lately in a Man would think there was no room left for Murmur or Scruple about this our blessed Restoration urged by Necessity carried on by Miracle and perfected by the Universal Consent of all that love God their Religion and Country Wherefore Justice Equity and Gratitude calls upon us to give the Glory Honour and Praise to that God who is the primary Author of all and next under him to acknowledg that glorious Instrument in his Hand by which he hath wrought for us so great Salvation and teach us a ready submission to one who under God hath snatched us out of the Jaws of so great Destruction and put us into the actual possession of our Laws Liberties Religion and Properties and all that was dear to us in this World and we hope may make us happy in the next and still weilds the Sword to support and defend us in the enjoyment of all that he has thus acquir'd for us Is it now possible that from Dan to Beersheba from Berwick to the Mount there should be found amongst us one Tobias or Sanballat who when they heard that the Walls of Jerusalem were to be made up and the House of the Lord to be repair'd should conspire to hinder and repine at it O my God saith Nehemiah think thou upon Tobias and Sanballat Had the greatest Deliverance which ever God vouchsafed to Mortals wanted such it would have been too strange to have been believ'd now O horrendum infandum Nefas But as there are a sort of Men that no Man nor themselves know what they would have or what to make of so not Heaven what to do with how to satisfy or humour If they are distress'd they groan complain and cry for Deliverance But when deliver'd they clamour at the Method Manner or Means That God deliver'd them in his own way not in theirs Thus Naaman is angry at the Means of his Cure why God would not make the Waters of Damascus as effectual as those of Jordan Dathan Abiram and Corah quarrel with the Instruments of their Deliverance Moses and Aaron why they must be the Men rather than others When Israel was in Egypt they groan'd under their slavish Burthens When deliver'd ungratefully said Would to God we had not come up thence When they