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truth_n	john_n	spirit_n	worship_v	7,067	5	9.7470	5	true

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A83980	Englands new-yeares gift, or, A pearle for a prince: with such grapes from thornes, and fruits from foes, to the whole land, as none shall be worse for wrongs, nor hurt by any but themselves, though the times should prove worse and worse.		1648 (1648)	Wing E3004; Thomason E424_4; ESTC R204545	38,288	40

true Mother and the false in Solomons time contesting for one Child or betwixt Caesar and Pompey bandying bloudy blows for one Supreme Power or betwixt the seven Cities that contested for one Homer or then was in Rome Papall when three Anti-Popes siring the whole Christian world run at Tilt for one Triple Miter or then was betwixt Henry Monmouth the right Heir to an Albion Crown and Richard the Usurper when the sword decided the undivided Scepter in Bosworth field yea no more probable peace amongst many Religions or indeed many painted errours vanities and grosse Heresies if not such blasphemies as in the Jewish Thalmud or Turkish Alcoran which as our late powder Treason the Irish Rebellion Absaloms conspiracy Ahabs assasinating of Naboth Read instances in Tholosanus de rep lib. 13. pag. 878. c. 7. pag. 909. c. 8.903 904 905. Bodin de rep lib. 7. c. 7. pag. 547. Eusebius lib. 2. c. 13. Scorates lib. 5. hist c. 16. Herods intensive butchering of the Bethlehem Babe and the most pestilent plots and designes for vile and sinister ends ever amongst Jews Turks Christians and Pagans have ever been palliated and cloaked and vailed in the habit of Religion and in the helmet of holinesse and honesty I say all these Hydra-headed errours different from truth and from themselves will no more gain or retain any peace with one true Orthodox and Uniforme Religion then there was peace amongst the diversified lustfull Lovers of one Penelope all hating Vlysses her legall husband as well as one another or then peace betwixt Agamemnon and Achilles about Briseis Troilus and Diomedes about one Cressida Turnus and Aeneas about one Lavinia alas such Peace as any may foresee a storm that sees the pendent pitchy Cloud as hath been ever among the Turkish Ottomans when he that prevailed in the Throne whether justly or unjustly ever either imprisoned exoculated or executed all the rest of the Bloud-Royall as Abimelech the bramble dealt with all his Brethren the sons of Gideon Judg. 9.5 and Jehu with all the sons of Ahab 2 Kings 10.17 or such Peace between Heresie and Truth as will set all on fire Luk. 12.47 as would be between 6 or 7 Cocks of the game in one Pit where they will either be all victors or all die though upon no other quarrell then Ambition which domineers in Beasts and men but most in men metamorphosed to Beasts by being brutized either by lusts in their life and conversation or drunke with errours and strange opinions as a Crow with Nux vomica even to reeling and staggering and occasioning or causing a whole Kingdom to reel stagger and totter with them to probable ruination quod omen avertat Deus which to prevent let us halt no more betwixt two opinions nay betwixt more opinions then colours in the Rain-bow if not then Argus eyes in the Peacocks traine if every Babilon and every Baal every reared Dagon be God or for God or from God adhere to it 1 Kin. 18.21 but if God be God and there be but one God ipsissima veritas as one essentiall soule saving truth and but one true way of worshipping this God in spirit and truth John 4.23 24. as there is but one soul and spirit in man to be saved by this right worship without will worships Papisticall Pharisaicall or Schismaticall and if this God will admit no corrivalls in a Church or state as was told the Romane Senate that Christ would have no copartnership with their Paganish Gods yea if this God hate all plowing with an Oxe and a Horse all sowing with miscellanian seeds all linsey-woolsey weavings all compounded interwoven intermixed Worships in a hotch-potch and a galley-mawfrey Religion as hee is a pure and simple Spirit no more mixing with false Spirits of lies and errours then fire with water oyle which ever swims above with any poysoned liquids if it be thus with God then let my pen as well as tongue in presse pew and Pulpit preach to all John-indifferents all Scepticks all Seekers for any new Religion as if they went yearly or monethly to Poland or Amsterdam or Holland to seeke a new one or were white paper fit to take any print or blot or wax for any seale new vessels for any seasoning sweet or sower with wine or vinegar let me say to such even what Christ preached to Sathan himselfe who is a liar in the tongues of Hereticks as well as a murtherer in the swords of Tyrants John 8.44 doe thou worship the Lord thy God and him only do thou serve Mat. 4.10 so shalt thou gain such figs from thistles such fruits from foes both to thy body and soul goods goodnesse and good name that though the Land should be darke like Egypt yet thou shalt find a lightsome Goshen in thine owne soule Exod. 10.23 thy fleece should be wet like Gideons with the dews of grace though the whole Kingdome should be as dry and barren as the sands of Africk thou shouldst be as a cube or square undique quadratus to fall right and straight which way soever the many headed multitude moved right or wrong thou shouldst bee fixed as the two poles the Axhurried as in a ratling Coaeltrees of Heaven which way soever the scopperill and whirligig times did volve and rowle thou shouldest cast the Anchor of truth in our tempestuous seas in the high swoln waves of all windblown-opinions ruffling in such fierce and furious opposition yea if thy wayes do please the Lord thy enemies shall be at peace with thee Let these curative cordials be as words spoken to the weary in dueseason let them be as apples of gold with pictures of silver to refresh him who saith with Gideon if the Lord be with me why then is all this evill befallen me Judg. 6.13 why goe I thus heavily oppressed with my foe as Hannah was provoked by her adversary to make her fret 1 Sam 1.6 how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me Psa 13.2 how long shall my false familiar friend my Junior Achitophel plot mischiefe against me yea being unequallly yoaked with a Zipporah or a Xantippe my uxor my vexer how doe I wear a strait pinching shoe yet unlesse I goe barefoot and wear upon the hoof I cannot put it off no more then the horse in the Fable could put out of his mouth the curbing bitt or throw off the saddle of servitude which man his rider and derider put upon him when he was once as free as the wild Stag and Buck upon the wide mountaines ere he foolishly vassalized himselfe like an infranchized free-man made a slave Oh how long shall I hold a Wolfe by the eares if I hold him he bites if I let him goe and resist him he worries how long shall I be hurried as in a ratling Coach or tossed ship which way I would not yet if I leap out I break my leg or neck by land or drowne by sea quo me vertam nescio doe what I can I

loving member of the same Hos 2.19 Eph. 5.23.24.32 now thou art ingrafted into Christ as a wild Olive by nature into a good Olive tree Rom. 11.24 and in him brings forth much fruit John 15.4 5. this is one fruit amongst the rest which growes on the tree of thy penitence and patience that if thou stand for Christ for his Truth for his Religion as once that Athanasius called the Atlas of the Faith he will be sure to stand for thee and to be with thee as thy Champion and deliver when thou passest through the waters and through the rivers that they doe not overflow thee as he was with Moses and Aaron and Israel in the red Sea Exod. 14. and with Noah in the first universall Deluge Gen. 7.1 and he will be with thee when thou walkest through the fire as he was with the three Jewish Martyrs in the furnace Dan. 3.25 and with S. Iohn in the furnace into which Domitian cast him a Tert. in praescrip adversus Haeret. according to his promise to all true Israelites the spirituall sonnes of Iacob Esay 43.1 2 3. yea he will be with thee as he was with wrestling and conquering Iacob Gen. 32.24 when any Laban or Esau comes against thee for any intended mischiefe Oh assure thy selfe he will be with thee when thou art amongst Lions as he was with Daniel cap. 6. and when thou fightest with such beasts as Paul fought with at Ephesus 1 Cor. 15.32 with Beares as David 1 Sam. 17. with young Lions as Sampson Judg. 15. and with men whose tongues are swords and sharp arrowes and under whose lips is the poyson of Asps yea if thy enemies with the horne of their power push thee into prison he is with thee there also as with Ioseph in Putiphars Goale Gen. 29.21 with Ieremy in the dark Dungeon Jer. 32.2 with Paul and Silas in the Philippian Prison Act. 16.25 26. yea with pious Philpot once in the Bishop of Londons Cole-hole and with that Martyr in Mr. Fox his Martyrologie who writ from his prison his delectable Paradise in Argiers yea if thou beest exiled and banished from thy house and harbour he is with thee where ever thou art racketed and bandied as he was with Abraham in a strange Countrey Gen. 12.7 with Isaac amongst the Philistines Gen. 26.12.24 with Jacob in Padan-Aram Gen. 20.43 and in Egypt Gen. 47.27 yea if thou beest led to execution and to suffering for his names sake to which there is a blessing pronounced Mat. 5.12 he is with thee there also as he was with Peter and Paul crucified with their heads downwards with Laurence roasted on a Gridiron with Polycarpus grinded to be pure Manchet for Christ with the teeth of Lions with Dagilla Tecla Quintilia Petronella pulled and torne in their flesh from the bone with burning Pincers yea with our Q. Maries Martyrs sincere Saunders blessed Bradford joyfully paying his vowes in Smithfield trusty Tailor skipping in joyfull Levaltoes when he was neere his burning sacrifice godly Glover sensible of the approach of the Spirit and with that young man who at the stake no sooner cryed Sun of God shine upon me but in a dark and gloomy day the Sun cast such gleames on him on a sudden as astonished all the Spectators yea as their last foe and enemy that is to be subdued is death 1 Cor. 15. Christ according to his promise Psal 41.3 is with his Saints they have him with old Simeon in the armes of their faith and with Paul live and die by faith both in their naturall death as he was with Jacob bowing and worshipping on his sick bed and with Theodosius Augustne Ambrose Luther Calvin Oecalampadius and others whose last spirituall breathings with Spirits surrendred into their Fathers hands are recorded to exultation and admiration by Grineus in his Apothegmata morientium amongst his Thesis in quarto as also he is with them in the most virulent violent deaths which cruelty and tiranny can invent as he was with every one of his Apostles who were martired excepting S. John whose acts lives and glorious deaths are fully recorded to any that will for consolation and imitation peruse them in Eusebius his first book of Histories cap. 25. his second book cap 1. his third book cap 1. his ninth book cap 1. Nicephorus his second book cap. 40. his fourth book cap. 7. Sabellicus his seventh book Eneid 4. Russinus his first book cap. 9. Hierom in the life of Paul the Magdeburgians in their Centuries Cent. 1. lib. 2. cap. 10. and Hosiander their Epitomizer Cent. 1. lib. 2. cap. 30. which I alledge as Inns by the way where the learned reader may drink if he will the unlearned passe by them if he like them not The result of all is this if thou be a Believer for I have Cordialls onely for such as corasives to the slaves of sinne and Satan if thou hast such relations to Christ as I have touched upon as to a head a husband a father a friend then let who will be the rod in Gods hand to afflict thee the instrument or executioner to torment thee be they Achitophels and Hamans for pestilent plots Judasses and Joabs for treachery Neroes Caligulaes and Perianders for cruelty Serpents for subtilty Lions for power Foxes for policie though they spin never such Spiders webs to catch thee set never so covered snares to intrap thee though they despise thee dispight thee vilifie thee nullifie thee revile thee peesecute thee and hunt thee as Saul did David as Iezabel did Elias and Pope Leo Luther though they defame thee and sleight thee as the false Apostles did Paul as the Pharisees did Christ as the Arrians the Orthodox Christians as the Papists all Protestants some calling their very hounds by the name of Luther Calvin and the like as the mad and unwormed whelps of Cerberus our Familists Fantasticks new Seekers and Anabablers terme now all zealous and judicious Divines no better then black Dogs barking in Pulpits in Steeple and Stone Churches as Satan speakes in them as at first so still in Serpents I fay if they could hate thee and howle at thee more then Iulian the Apostate Porphiry and Lucian the Atheist against thy incarnate Saviour yet neverthelesse I can give thee this mirth in mourning joy in tribulation light in darknesse rejoycing in suffering Act. 5.40 1 Cor. 4.9 10. honour in thy disgrace 1 Sam. 2.30 and such an Ariadnees thred to bring thee out of the mazes and Labyrinths of their perturbations as I have given Cordialls for every other crosse in the end of my seven helps to Heaven that thou mayest be sure of a good issue in a victorious Trophie and Triumph over all thy enemies if thou canst but rest and rely by faith and affiance on the Lord of Hosts who fights in thee with thee and for thee as he fought in and for David against Goliah 1 Sam. 17.45 in and for Ionathan against the Philistines 1 Sam.