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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67326	A second Christian warning-piece wherein is shewed the first and chief cause of England's present misery, proved to be the chief magistrate's neglect, in not fully doing that work God hath commanded, that must yet be done, because God hath said it, before this nation can expect deliverance. Humbly presented to the Parliament.	Wall, Thomas.	1681 (1681)	Wing W487; ESTC R218348	8,614	8

love their Brethren doing to all as they would be done unto and in this is the whole duty of Man comprehended 3. Seeing God hath shewed unto man what is good Mic. 6. 8. and then especially unto Kings the Lord's Lieutenants who with their great Council in Parliament are 1. to do justly 2. love mercy 3. and to walk humbly with God This will be 1. when the Romish Whore is by Act of Parliament abolished out of this Land not in destroying the lives of the Papists that transgress not the Laws but live peaceably as loyal Subjects to the Government in all Civil things as well as other Perswasions but to destroy all Popish Abominations out of Protestant Churches 2. In loving Mercy when the King's Majesty with his Parliament shall make an Act That no Protestant or any other living peaceably of what Nation soever they are shall not be imprisoned for Conscience sake in things spiritual especially in the matter of Tithes considering how many are daily cast into Prison because they cannot in conscience pay them for these Reasons 1. Because Tithe was an heave Offering under the Law abolished by Christ who was the end of the Ceremonial Law for Righteousness to all that believe The Priesthood being changed so of necessity the Law Heb. 7. 2dly Tithes were never payable but in the Land of Canaan so never commanded of the Gentile Churches 3. Tithes were not paid by any Christians for eight hundred years after Christ as antient Writers say and then Pope Pascalis appointed Tithes should be paid to his Priests Therefore in paying Tithes Christ is denied to be faithfull in his House as Moses was to appoint a Ministry and not their Wages and the Pope made equal with Christ in giving Laws to his Church O that your Honours would find out a way to remedy this great evil and take off this yoke from the necks of all Protestant Subjects seeing Solomon saith To punish the Just is not good c. Prov. 17. 26. Then the 3d thing God requires is That both King Parliament and all the King's Christian Subjects walk humbly with God and this will be when they shall worship him in Spirit and in Truth according to his directions in his last Will and Testament That so Christ Jesus may in all things spiritual reign in his Church which was and is the true foundation of all promised Peace to the Lord's People As for example under the Law So long as Israel worshipped the Lord as he commanded them by his Servant Moses in Ministry Ordinances Time and Order God promised that they should dwell in the Land in confident safety Lev. 25. And when all Israel's Males went three times a Year to Jerusalem to worship and left none to guard their Dwellings but very aged Men and young Children the Lord was a Wall of Fire about them Zech. 2. in making their enemies to be at peace with them And so long as the primitive Christians feared the Lord and worshipped him as Christ Jesus had appointed in his Testament the Churches had rest throughout all Judea Galile and Samaria And thus when the Lord giveth quietness who can make trouble but when be hideth his face for the reasons aforesaid who can behold him whether it be done against a Nation or a Man only Thus I have discharged my humble duty first unto his Majesty and next unto your Honours and lastly to all the Nation though the unfittest of many in a work of this nature beseeching your Honours not to despise it coming from so unworthy an Instrument but remember that there were many wise Men in the City Abel for renown termed a Mother in Israel who despised not a Womans Counsel when it was for the preservation of that City and this of a whole Nation if God so bless it And because the Work your Honours are herein moved to do is but what the Lord commandeth to be done though great and glorious in removing all Popish Rubbish out of Protestant Churches that a throrow-Reformation may be made that so the Anger of the Lord may be turned from this Nation Therefore let not ten to two discourage you who have God's Promise on your side that the Whore must be made desolate that the Canaanites or Popish Walls are strong and that your Opposers are powerful as Giants Neither let the opposition of the Tobiass s and Sanballats of the Times hinder the Work seeing God opened the King of Assyria's heart to strengthen the hand of the Lord's People in the figurative Work of the Lord's Building And what hath the Lord done less on the heart of his Majesty and we are bound to believe it is real that hath encouraged your Honours to take care of the Protestant Religion and what care can be like that to cleanse it from all Popish Inventions either in the Ministry or Service or any other thing whatsoever in Worship which is not found agreeable to the Rules of Christ's Testament which God hath appointed in the Work of Reformation from Antichrist's Apostacy the Golden Reed of God's Word to measure the Spiritual Altars Temple and Worshippers therein For so long as the forbidden thing hid in the Camp of Israel remained in Achan's Tent Israel could not stand before their Enemies how then shall this Nation so long as the forbidden thing of Popish Abominations is retained in the Camp or Tents of Protestant Churches stand before their Enemies which the Doctrine of the Gospel forbiddeth all Christians not to taste touch or handle in Worship The neglect of this glorious Work commanded of God in not making the Romish Whore utterly desolate in the Nation hath been the chief cause God is angry with us in not only suffering so many Plots to be contrived to the utter ruine thereof because there is still retained so many Popish Abominations in Ministry and Traditions as aforesaid the Fire of which hath kindled in the Bosom of Protestant Churches at this day all the Contentions in Religion to the dividing Protestants one from the other into so many diversities of opinions Also it hath given strong confidence to the Papists to believe that such Protestants as can without scruple of conscience adhere to and imbrace again so many Popish Abominations in Worship which they once vomited up shall in God's just Judgment be made either by fraud or by force to imbrace all the rest of the Popish Abominations which our former Governours abolished to wit the Lord Abbots Cardinals Jesuits Friers and all other Reliques expelled with them seeing the Meat is not worse than the Broth that so the head and tail of that beastly Clergy may be joyned together when they are united to their younger Brethren the Arch and Lord Bishops as the Proverb is Birds of a feather will not rest in their motion till they come together and then the deadly wound of the Beast will be again healed to the Scorpion-like tormenting Plague Rev. 9. of all true Protestants if the King