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woman_n	enmity_n	seed_n	serpent_n	8,737	5	10.2957	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89499	Englands spirituall languishing; with the causes and cure: discovered in a sermon preached before the Honorable House of Commons, on their solemn day of fast, at Margarets Westminster, June 28. 1648. / By Thomas Manton, minister of Stoke-Newington.	Manton, Thomas, 1620-1677.	1648 (1648)	Wing M523; Thomason E450_4	33,495	42

ENGLANDS Spirituall Languishing WITH The Causes and Cure Discovered in a SERMON Preached before the Honorable House OF COMMONS On their Solemn Day of FAST at Margarets Westminster June 28. 1648. BY THOMAS MANTON Minister of Stoke-Newington London Printed by R. Cotes for John Clarke at the lower end of Cheapside in the entrance to Mercers-chappel 1648. TO THE HONORABLE HOVSE OF COMMONS NOW Assembled in Parliament YOU were pleased to require my service on your late day of Fast as you had done on the same occasion just a Twelve-moneth before I desired to speak seasonably then and now too The Lord directed my thoughts then to a subject of peace our distractions were great and now to treat of Zeal our destruction we fear draweth nigh These two things may well stand together Love and Zeal and if men were wise 1 James 3.18 the fruit of righteousness might be sown in peace and such concord effected between Brethren wherein Religion may not suffer I know there are two Parties that will never be accorded the seed of the Woman and the seed of the Serpent there will be enmity But is not there a wise man among us not one that shall be able to judge between Brethren I speak not this to 2 1 Cor. 6.5 flatter with a generall offer I have alwayes disliked generall invectives against Errour and generall Proposals of Peace 3 Qui pacem tract at non repetitis conditionibus dissidii is magis animos dulcedine pacis fallit quàm aequitate componit This were to deale in names rather then things and to seduce the Soul into an hope of that which is farre enough from being accomplished Neither doe I speak it to cool any mans zeal the drift of this Sermon is to kindle it Godliness cannot be without an holy heat those that suffer under persecution will contend against delusion that 's but a duty and 't were to be wished it were more done and more regularly Certainly some have been too silent whiles the truths of God have been made void 4 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Naz. Orat. de moderat in disput therefore we are farr from condemning any such vigorous opposition of the present Errours I onely mention it as an expression of my desires and hopes For the present Discourse the stile of it I confess is too turbid and hath too much of inculcation in it to be fit for the Press and therefore I should have adjudged it to keep company with some other neglected Papers But that in obedience to your Order and condescension to the requests of some Friends I have now made it publick and my employment being much am forced to send it forth without refining I doe not know what blessing the Lord whose power is usually 5 2 Cor. 12.9 perfected in weakness may ordain by it I desire to wait upon him commending it to his Grace In many things I have freely expressed my self and possibly some may think uncovered our own nakedness the mouth of iniquity is soon opened and 't is hard to speak against the Sins of religious persons without giving some advantage to religions enemies All that I shall say to this is That offenders give the scandall not the reprover I confess I like rouling in the dust at Aphrah 6 Micah 1.10 that Gath may not know it but when offences are publique 't were an injury to religion to be silent we cannot doe it a greater right then to declare and witness against such miscariages and therefore when the house of Jacob offendeth it must be told its own with a 7 Isa 58.1 opened to this purpose by Mr. Richard Vines in the morning full throat 't will be our honour to shake off the Vipers upon a discovery though they would still stick on But for the enemies 8 Horatius Nulláne habent vitia immo alia haud fortasse minora are they so innocent as to be able to 9 John 8 7. cast the stone at us shall they that have wounds 10 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Nazianz. de inimicis Ecclesiae Orat. l. 13. upbraid us with skars and they that halt downright charge us with tripping or the Blackmore object spots to a fair woman Let them first pluck out their own beam and then possibly they may understand what an injury it is and a wicked malice to throw personall guilt in religions face and out of a dislike of one Mordecai to seek the destruction of all the Jewes Esth 3.6 and to charge that upon the order which is but the just blemish of some persons sheltred under the name and pretence of it As Nazianzen speaketh of some 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 11 Naz. Orat. 14. That for some Bishops sake accuse Christianity it self as an evill law For your selves Right honourable I beseech you remember Religion flourishing will be your defence and that it is better trust God with your protection then to fly to 12 Admonendi sunt pa●is Authores ne dum pacem nimis diligant cum omnibus quaerāt consentiendo perversis ab Authoris sui se pace disjungunt ne dum humana foris jurgia metuant interni foederis discussione feriantur Ambros ill Counsels or condescensions whereby you may gain the respects of men The Lord grant that you may live up to such a principle and in these Times of violence doe nothing unworthy of God or of his Oath that is upon you So prayeth Your meanest Servant in the Lords work THO. MANTON Englands Languishing WITH The Causes and Cure of it discovered in a Sermon Preached at Magarets Westminster before the Honorable House of Commons on this Solemn Day of Fast Iune 28. 1648. Revel 2.3 Bee watchfull and strengthen the things which remain that are ready to dye for I have not found thy workes perfect before God IN Scriptures wherein the expression is any thing more difficult wits are most ranke and luxuriant every one taking a liberty to affixe his owne sense there where the true and genuine sense is not so obvious and easily found out and because two or three false interpretations may bee asserted with equall probability the Scriptures have suffered as an uncertaine rule or nose of Waxe 't is the blasphemy of the Papists which is ductile and plyable to every fancy and purpose The truth is wee are more happy in discovering falshood then in clearing truth and those which come after can more easily discern wherein others have halted and are defective then reach the truth themselves I have alwayes looked upon that as a grave observation (a) Observatum seapius a Wendilino in lib. de caelo Facilius est aliorum convellere sententias quam stabilire propriam Men are alwayes better at confuting then confirming In which thought I am strengthened by the censure of Hierom on Lactantius (b) Lactantius quasi quidam flunius Tullianae Eloquentiae utinam tam nostra potuisset