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A53112	The complaint of English subjects delivered in two parts. First part, is the complaint, of the poor, middle, and meanest sorts of subjects, concerning their bodily assistance. Second part, is the true Christians complaint, against vice, and wickedness, for the good of their soul's health. Also, werein is set forth, the late prodigious growth, of atheism, errors, and vice: with a call to repentance. As also, how needful it is, in these times, for every one of us, first of all, to look into our own hearts, and endeavour to amend what is their amiss. And lastly, a brief discourse, concerning our late unfruitful, and cold summers: as also, what is thought to be the real causes of it, by way of opposition, to the opinion of astrologers. By Richard Newnam of Tiverton in Devonshire.	Newnam, Richard.	1700 (1700)	Wing N935; ESTC R218651	71,890	130

THE COMPLAINT OF English Subjects Delivered in Two Parts First Part Is the Complaint of the Poor Middle and Meanest sorts of Subjects concerning their Bodily Assistance Second Part Is the true Christians Complaint against Vice and Wickedness for the good of their Soul's health ALSO Werein is set forth the Late prodigious Growth of Atheism Errors and Vice With a Call to Repentance As also How needful it is in these Times for every one of us first of all to look into our own Hearts and endeavour to amend what is their amiss And Lastly A Brief Discourse concerning our Late Unfruitful and Cold Summers As also what is thought to be the real Causes of it by way of Opposition to the Opinion of Astrologers By Richard Newnam of Tiverton in Devonshire Prov. 30.14 There is a Generation whose Teeth are as Swords and their Jan-teeth as Knives to devour the Poor from off the Earth and the Needy from among Men. Prov. 31.9 Open thy Mouth judge Righteously and plead the Cause of the Poor and the Needy Prov. 20.28 Mercy and Truth preserve the King and his Throne is upholden by Mercy Ecclesiastes 4.1 2 3. Eccles 5.8 Come see and Read and ponder well behold I le shew you Dross that 's mixt with pure Gold See that with care this Gold from dross you sever Do as I say and you may live for ever London Printed and Sold by the Booksellers of London and Westminster 1700. TO THE READER Courteous Reader I Have here undertaken the doing of that which was the Duty of some one or other that is much more Eminent and better Learned than I am For mean was my Education and Scholar I am none farther than the English Tongue and that I understand but Imperfectly And therefore through weakness I may err in many of my Expressions but however I hope the most Learned and the most Ingenious will have so much respect for me as to deal with me in the Examination of my following Discourses as the upright Judge doth in the Examination of Witnesses who regardeth more the Truth of their Evidences than the manner of their Dialect when spoken but with a home-bred Tongue For Truth is Truth still as well that which is spoken in a plain Dialect and homely Speech as that which is spoken in the most highest Rhetorick or most sweetest Eloquence It is only Plain Truth and Naked Truth that I now intend to speak and only such Truth as hath in it true Honesty true Christianity and true Loyalty Thus refering to your Judgments and Censures these and all other of these my following Discourses or Sayings with all humble Submission and true Devotion subscribe my self as really I am obedient to my Superiours truly Loyal to my King and a Well-wisher to my Country whilst I am Yours Richard Newnam THE Epistle DEDICATORY To His Most Gratious Majesty William the Third King of England Scotland France and Ireland Defender of the Faith And also to the most Honourable Parliament these I most humbly dedicate AND now with all humble Submission say what I have here done I think is but my Duty so to do for the strict Ties of the Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy requires me not to conceal any thing that may prove detrimental to my King and Country Your Majesty is much abused the Country most grievously injured and opprest their Trade is meerly lost and in their Estates and Minds they are much decayed and this at last must needs be highly Detrimental both to Your most Gratious Majesty and the most Honourable Parliament and to all others that are Your Majesty's true Loyal Subjects And therefore however so illy or foolishly I have either managed or worded this my following Treatise yet nevertheless I hope Your Greatness will be pleased to accept of my Good-will as these are intended by me no otherwise than for the Advantage Honour and Safety of Your most Gratious Majesty as also for the general Good of all Your Majesty's faithful Subjects who I fear are now much more liable to the malice of Enemies than otherwise Your Royal Self or they could ever have been had not such men as I have herein described done from time to time such things as they always have done yet nevertheless by the Power of the Almighty God and Your Assistance it is yet an easie matter to amend what is amiss and thereby wholly put a stop to all the Designs of Your Enemies which God by his infinite Power with Your means grant it to be done is the earnest Prayer of him who is Your Majesty's true Loyal Subject and the Honourable Parliaments devoted Servant RICHARD NEWNAM AND now before I proceed on the main of my Discourse by way of Introduction I shall give you a brief Account of the Heads of all my following Discourses And first of all herein is set forth the Great Abuses that of late hath been done and still is done both to Your Majesty and the Country by means of the undue Execution of Your Majesty's and the late Parliaments several Acts made for the raising of the several Sums of money from time to time on the several Lands and Stocks of all Your Majesty's Subjects within this our Nation 2dly The unspeakable Losses and Damages that of late hath and still doth lie on our whole Nation by means of the most Wicked Actions of some men who in the time of the Revolution of our late Coin made even as it were a meer Prey on all Your Majesty's good and faithful Subjects and thereby made themselves extreamly Rich and our Nation in general very Poor And also herein is set forth by what means they accomplished their wicked Designs as also how they Truckt Bartered Changed Sold and Disposed the greatest part of it and where they lodged it at last 3dly How all manner of Trading is decayed and even as it were meerly come to nothing and all this is mostly occasioned in and by the means of the several Losses and Damages which all sorts of honest Trades-men of the middle and meaner sorts of them have received in and by the Revolution of the late Coin which hath ever since put them to great streights through want of money so as that by means thereof they are now many Thousands of them throughout England for ever made uncapable of a comfortable Living here on Earth except some speedy Course be taken for their Relief 4thly How sorely and grievously the Taxes of Births and Burials do gaul and pinch the poor and meanest sorts of Your Majesty's good Subjects But on the contrary herein is set forth how desirable a thing it is for the Rich and great Ones of our Nation to have the opportunity to pay Birth-Taxes And also for Death-Taxes amongst them how then 't is in their own power to make themselves no losers by any such Taxes as shall at any time hereafter become due from they or any of them 5thly What a most wicked Trade is now of

are gathered together against us And then I find immediately upon the Gibeonites request Joshua with all the mighty men of valour ascended from Gilgal and then the Lord to encourage Joshua said unto them Fear them not for I have delivered them into thine hand there shall not a man of them stand before thee And thus Joshua was encouraged by the Lord and therefore he went up from Gilgal all Night and came suddenly upon them and then as the Scripture-Text saith The Lord discomfited them before Israel and slew them with a great slaughter at Gibeon and chased them along the way that goeth to Beth-horon and smote them to Azekah and unto Mak-kedah And more the Text saith this And it came to pass as they fled from before Israel and were in the going down to Beth-horon that the Lord cast down great Hail-stones from Heaven upon them unto Azekah and they died And then the Text saith in these words They were more which died with the Hail-stones than they whom the Children of Israel slew with the Sword And more the Text saith Then spake Joshua to the Lord in the day when the Lord delivered up the Amorites before the Children of Israel and be said in the sight of Israel Sun stand thou still upon Gibeon and thou Moon in the valley of Ajalon And the Sun stood still and the Moon stayed untill the People had avenged themselves upon their Enemies And then the Text saith Is not this written in the Book of Jasher So the Sun stood still in the midst of Heaven and hasted not to go down about a whole Day And there was no Day like that before it or after it that the Lord hearkened to the Voice of a Man All this at large you may read it in the 10th Chapter of the Book of Joshua And now the use that I shall make of this is as followeth And first of all I find that notwithstanding the Gibeonites several evasions which they used in making up their League of Peace with the Children of Israel yet God was pleased to own them because he knew that the Gibeonites in their Hearts believed in his Word and dreaded his People Israel and what they then did God himself knew that it was not to deceive the Children of Israel of any of their worldly Riches or to do them any bodily harm but that it was only out of an innocent fear to save their own Lives for they then thought with themselves that if they should then have appeared plainly unto Joshua that then they should not have obtained their Peace with Israel And by this we may see that in all things God observes the Wills of Men and that he takes for their Deeds whether it be in things that are good or whether it be in things that are evil 2dly I find that at any time whatsoever when God shall think it fit he can then immediately augment or diminish the Forces or Influences of all the Heavenly Bodies or change or stop the courses of the Sun Moon or Stars or he can continue or alter the whole Frame of Nature and from order turn into disorder all the other Elementary parts of this World whatsoever and how often soever and that to what use or purpose soever whether in ways of Mercy or Judgment And therefore I say again that it must by these Arguments consequently follow that all these our late Unfruitful Years were by the immediate and Providential Hand of God so ordered to be and Not by the Natural Courses of the Heavenly Bodies only and accordingly to their first Ordination as our Astrologers do affirm it so to be But how disagreeable such Opinions are to the Word of God I say judge ye But the Word of God is true and thereby I have made it manifest that the Art of Astrology is a fallible Art and for the better Confirmation of it I cannot well omit that President of good King Hezekiah for when the Prophet Isaiah told him Thus saith the Lord Set thy House in order for thou shalt dye and not live Then immediately Hezekiah turned his Face to the Wall and with Prayers and Tears pleaded with God how he had walked before him in Truth and with a perfect Heart Which prevailed so far with the Lord that he altered his Decrec and before Isaiah was gone out of the middle Court of the House or Palace of King Hezekiah the Lord commanded the Prophet Isaiah to return back to Hezekiah and to tell him That the Lord had heard his Prayer and seen his Tears for which he would heal him of his Sickness and also on the third day he should be able to go up into the House of the Lord as also that the Lord would then add unto the Days of Hezekiah Fifteen Years But Hezekiah having on his Spirit some doubt desired a Sign whereby he might know that the Lord would heal him which desire of good Hezekiah God complyed with and gave him a Sign which was that the Sun should go backwards ten Degrees which thing was made manifest by the Shadows going backwards ten Degrees after it was gone down ten Degrees in the Dial of Ahaz as you may read it at large in the second Book of Kings the 20th Chapter from the beginning of that Chapter unto the 12th Verse And this I offer at large only to prove that God can as well now in our days take off the warm Beams and most comfortable Influences of the Sun from the Earth by way of Judgment on the Wicked as well as to make the Sun go backwards from his Course by way of Mercy for a Sign only to satisfie the doubt of one single Man and that because he had in him an upright and perfect Heart And now I say by this place of Scripture as well as in several other places of Scripture we may see that Prayers and Tears prevailed much with God when they have been offered up unto him with a true devout and sincere Heart for were not David's Prayers heard by the Lord and his desires granted unto him from time to time when he Prayed that he might be delivered out of his Afflictions and from the Malice of his Enemies read all his Psalms throughout and in many of them you will find how much David depended upon Prayers and how often from time to time David's request was granted to him by Prayer Again I say read the first Chapter of the first Book of Samuel but more particularly observe the 10th verse and so onwards to the 21st verse and there you may find how much the Prayers of Hannah the Wife of Elkanah prevailed with the Lord when they were by her offered up with Tears in the bitterness of her Soul and altho' Ely the Priest thought she had been drunken yet at the same time she was earnestly muttering within her self in Prayer and tho' her Lips only moved yet in her Heart she spake unto the Lord and desired of him a Man-child