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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65875	No remission without repentance nor will a bare confession withovt a real forsaking of sin avail to the averting God's heavy visitation and judgments from this nation of England, the cause whereof being somewhat more fully declared herein then is confessed in the fast which was appointed for the averting of the same heavy visitation and this concerns both the rulers, clergy, and people of London and Westminster and all parts of this realm to look into and lay to heart who are concerned in the observation of the said fast to consider what fruits they bring forth and whether the end of the true fast be answered by them yea or nea, according to Isa. 58.	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.	1665 (1665)	Wing W1943; ESTC R27068	10,104	16

ingratiate themselves into favour with them that were or like to be the uppermost and all for their own ends let the Nation herein testifie against them Again it s thus confessed viz. In sum the holy Word of God and the Ministry thereof is not justly reverenced but despised his holy Sacraments either totally neglected or abused in many places neither rightly administred nor ●eceived c. The holy Service and publick worship of God in the beauty of holiness not frequented as it ought c. To which I say indeed it 's very true the holy Word of God and the true Ministry which is not of man nor by man but appointed and sent of God has been very much despised and the true Ministers persecuted and imprisoned by the means or cause of such as are made Ministers by the will of man and their upholders who are like Priests and like people many of them given to surfeiting drunkenness making their belly their God and to idleness haunting of Taverns and Alehouses lacivious wantonness c. as is confessed whom we cannot look upon to be in the beauty of Holiness nor in the holy service or worship of God therein for who can b●●●g a clean thing out of an unclean And as for the word Sacr●●●nt it was reckoned by some of the Learned to belong to Divine things who put Sacrament for Mystery which is not outward or carnal things but if your Sacraments so called in many places be neither rightly administred nor received it is a very sad and unreasonable thing to compel people to receive them where they are not rightly administred or else to make them suffer imprisonment or spoyling of their Goods for not frequenting your Parish-Churches so called when in many of them there are no right administrators of those things you would force men to but such as are in hypocrisie and superstition as is afterward confessed again it s added viz. The Portion of God is invaded his Altars robbed of Tythes and Offerings and holy things of all sorts profanely and sacriledgiously devoured c. To which I answer many such things have the Priests brought forth pretended for their own ends as if their concernment herein were Gods concernment for them but they were Robbers of God in the time of the Law who with-held the Tythes from the Storehouse where the Fatherless Widows and Strangers were also to be relieved out of them Deut. 14. and so whilst the Law for Tythes upon a Divine account is owned by the Priests to be still in force though many of them have laid down that Plea are not they guilty herein of this Robbery and Sacriledge as they count it and so condemned out of their own mouths whilst they claim Tythes by Gods Law but will not suffer them to be disposed of according to the end for which they were first given for in the time of the Law it was said Ye have robbed God in Tythes and Offerings bring ye all the Tythes to the Store-house c. Mal. 3. And What havock and spoyle have they made of many poor men both in their persons and Estates by imprisoning many and spoyling their Goods far beyond the value of the Tythes demanded for that they for conscience sake could not put into their mouths nor pay them Tythes to satisfie their greedy insatiable desires they judging that they have no right to them by the Law of God for many reasons and that they proceeded from the Pope in their being imposed for the use of the Priests for before were they not deemed pure Alms whilst they were a free gift to the Church that was then and for the relief of the poor in it from whence was that saying in some old Laws derived viz. of their being due to God and holy Church till the Clergy robbed the Poo●●y procuring them into their own hands by the force of Law made in the times of Apostacy wherein the professed Christians became estranged from the Life and example of the true Christians and Ministers And while they force both the Tythes from people and from many take more by manifold then the Tythe amounts to why do they blame others for robbery when they have so robbed spoyled and oppressed them and have even burthened and caused the whole Nation to groan under their covetous practices and Antichristian yoaks they being against Christ and repugnant to his Law and the innocent Example of his Ministers so that the earth is grown so sick of them that its ready to vomit them out as it hath done with many that went in their steps before them and will do with all the workers of iniquity and Oppressors who are partakers with them against whom let the great cry of oppression testifie in most Country Goals in this Nation wherein many of the Innocent servants of Christ deeply suffered either because they cannot joyn with them in their worship or maintain them And against these Oppressors and Persecutors who have acted more like ravening Wolves then either like God's People or Sheep of his Pasture we must confess Christ in principle and example as he hath changed the Priesthood of Levi and disanulled the Law and Commandement which upheld the Tythes Offerings and Altars See Heb. 7 8 9 10th Chapters And in the Light and Spirit of our God we know an Altar one Offering and a Tabernacle Sanctuary or House that 's Heavenly which is the substance or Antitype and end of the outward or worldly Sanctuary Temple Tythes Offerings carnal Ordinances c. And moreaver it 's added viz. Our hypocrisie and superstition open profaneness and irreligion against God himself and generally for our dissolute and licentious and most unchristian conversation of all sorts most directly contrary to the righteous Laws and great Example of the most holy Iesus our Lord the Name of God is polluted and his blessed Gospel evil spoken of amongst the adversaries of Truth through us so that we néed séek no further the cause is apparent why the Plague is broken out amongst us God having threatned us in his Word as the people of Israel that because we will not obey the voice of the Lord to do all his Commandements and his Ordinances which he commands 〈◊〉 he will smite us with a Consumption and with a Fever and with a burning Ague and cause the Pestilence to cleave unto us until he hath consumed us from the Land and thus much of the cause of the Pestilence Now you that have such a large Confession and who are herein guilty both of hypocrisie and superstition open profaneness and most unchristian conversation of all sorts c. which is the apparent cause why the Plague is broken forth your own Confession will stand against you in the Judgement if you go on in that sinful state and persist in your unchristian conversation which greatly appears in your unchristian proceeding against such as are of tender consciences to imprisonment and banishment who dissent from you