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A80782	An abstract of some late characters. Or, how the principall means appointed for our reformation is become the maine fuell of our wickednes. Laid downe in sundry characters of L. Bishops. Dumb dogs. Non-residenciaries. Men-pleasers. Unpreaching ministers, that edify to damnation, by their scandalous living. false wresting. mis-applying the Scripture. So turning the truth of God into a lye, that they may discourage the godly; incourage the wicked. In which the blind world may see, to their shame, how Satan guls them with a multitude of misprisions, and false surmises against the godly; that so he may barricado [sic] their hearts against all good. Necessary to be knowne in these times of discovery.	Cranford, James, d. 1657, attributed name.; Craufurd, James, 17th cent, attributed name.	1643 (1643)	Wing C6851B; Thomason E67_35; ESTC R7704	68,958	47

as zealous obe-dience to him hereafter as we have done to Satan formerly Which is the way to Cheat the Devill And thus did Paul who when his zeale was turned the right way did not so much hurt before as now he did good Indeed Notorious offenders may not thinke to sit downe with the task of ordinary services but the retributions of their obedience must be proportionable to their crimes As was that of Saint Pauls Who as he had done more evill to the Saints then all the rest of the Apostles So He Laboured more then they all in adding to the Church such as should be saved Yea saith our Saviour speaking of him to Ananias I will shew him how many things he must suffer for my names sake Acts 9. 16 Which was much the case of Arch-Bishop Cramner who could never satisfie his conscience after his Recantation till he had burnt that hand to ashes with which he had subscribed So taking an holy revenge of himselfe by suffering in a manner Two Martyrdomes one whereof he put himselfe to by burning his right hand the other which the Papists put him to by burning his whole body True It is one of the Madde Principles of wickednesse that it is a weaknesse to relent And rather to die then yeeld yea even the worst causes once undertaken must be upheld to the Death But a Gracious heart when it shall find its owne mistaking will not only remit an ungrounded displeasure but studies to be revenged of it selfe and to give satisfaction to the offended Wherefore art thou a Wise man or a Foole Yea a Man or a Beast For shame either be a Man or confesse thy selfe to be a Beast A Wise man or acknowledge thy selfe a Foole. If thou beest a Wise man it will be seene by this He that is Wise saith Solomon is wise to himselfe He is not Wise against himselfe as thou hast beene hitherto And in another place A prudent man seeth the Plague and hideth himselfe that is Flieth to GOD for succour But the foolish goe on still and are punished Prov. 22. 3. Thou hast deferred it too long already Thus having made a Discovery of thy sinne together with the infection and dispersion of it I should proceed to the Meanes of thy Recovery But I spare my Reader Besides should Suada the reputed Goddesse of perswasion never so much admonish thee It were in vaine For thou art like the Deafe Adder that stops her eare and will not hearken to the voyce of the Charmer though he be most excellent in charming Psal 58. 4. 5. And thy heart is like a stone which being throwne up ten thousand times will never learne to ascend Or Iron quencht often in Vineger which will not yeeld to the hammer nor be forged to any good use or once change its fashion Saul was so eager in the pursuit of David and thirsted so after his bloud that having sent first one company to apprehend him then a second after that a third It being told him That GOD had changed every of their hearts and turned them into Prophets that he might be prevented He could not cease but goes himselfe 1 Sam. 19. 20. 23. The Jewes would not Beleeve in CHRIST after so cleare predictions of the Prophets after so miraculous demonstrations of his Divine power after so many graves ransackt Dead raised Devils ejected limbs and eyes new created after such testimonies of the Star Sages Angels GOD himselfe after such triumphs over death and hell But obstinately reject him for their Messias So shouldst thou see some of thy fellowes struck dead in the Pulpit as they are belching out their spleen against Religion and goodnesse as it sared with Nitingall Parson of Crondall in Kent All were one As when the neighbouring Ammonites heard of GODS fearfull vengeance upon the Philistims they could not be warned but must be taking up the quarrell against Israel 1 Sam. 7. 11. chap. Nothing but Grace can teach us to make use of others judgements And shouldst thou like those Sodomits be struck blind in thy pursuit of some Lot thou wouldst still persist Though they gnaw their tongues for paines yet they repent not of their Deeds Revel 16. 8. 9 So Hard a Task is Repentance And the reason is Custome is not onely a Grave to Bu●y the Soule in But a Stone rolled to the mouth of it to keep it downe Wherefore I leave this Moth labouring to extinguish the light of other mens goodnesse I know in the end he will singe his owne wings Onely remember that Warning not taken is a certaine Presage of Destruction A Man that hardneth his necke when he is rebuked shall suddenly be destroyed and that without remedy Prov. 29. 1. 1. 24 to 32. The sonnes of Eli would not hearken unto nor obey the voyce of their Father Why Because saith the Text The LORD was determined to destroy them 1 Sam. 2. 25. I know saith the Prophet to Amaziah That GOD hath determined to destroy thee Because thou hast done this and hast not obeyed my counsell 2 Chron. 25. 16. 20. But in the meane time many suffer the Godly are discouraged the wicked are hardned by thy false wresting and misapplying the Scriptures Wherefore GOD of his goodnesse grant that all false Prophets may be either inwardly Lambs as they are not or appeare outwardly Wolves as they are Either to turne their hearts from their Wolvish condition or to pull their Sheepskin over their eares That no Juglers may privily by their mists and mysteries pervert the flock of JESVS CHRIST Nor let any that feare GOD or care for the welfare of his Church in the least measure further their bringing in nor hinder their Casting out of the Ministery Be they Brethren Children or Nephewes No vouchsafe not to open thy lips for these Marble-hearted and Savage-minded men saying How shall they and theirs live if they be turned out of their Livings For better Starve then be Fed with the Bloud of Soules Neither did the Prelates thinke this Argument of either Force or Weight when they turned GODS Faithfull Ministers out and put these Ministers of Satan in Besides there is no Safety for the Lambs but by the Death or Removall of the Wolves And when the Seed of the Serpent fight against the Seed of the Woman That which helps the one must needs hurt the other He Threatneth the Innocent who Spareth the Delinquent Which made GOD to reject Saul and take away his Kingdome for shewing mercy to Agag 1 Sam. 15. I know it is not honest to use armes as the Bishops did where the controversie may be ended with Treaties But there is no hope of their reclaiming or amendment as we have found since the Parliament by an hundred For you can hardly name one of the generation that have changed their minds though they feared every day to lose their means I confesse they have a Strong Hope that if they stand out the losse of a Vicarage

thou but One of the former Number viz. of Non-preaching Ministers who come farre short of thee and have much lesse to answer for whensoever thou shouldst heare the Bell toll for a wicked man Thou might'st cry out There is a Soule going to Hell whose bloud will be required at my hands because I was not faithfull and did not give him warning Ezek. 3. 18 19. 33. 7 8 9. Whereas Thou hast preached Lies in CHRISTS name and sought to winne as many to hell as thou couldst Consider of it I beseech you Thou art appointed a Spirituall Nurse to seed the people of GOD with the Two Breasts of the Old and New Testament and hast thy wages to that end Now if a Nurse should for Wages take in hand to nurse but one Child who having either no Milke or having Milk enough should give it None In so doing she were a Murtheresse much more if she should give it Poyson which yet would but Kill the Body But thou givest thy whole Flock Poyson in stead of Milk which is enough without GODS over-ruling Providence to poyson all their soules Thou art appointed by GOD the Spirituall Physitian of their Soules Now a Physitian that takes charge of a sick Patient may be guilty of his death either by giving him No Physick or Improper Bhysick or Poyson Every of which wayes thou art guilty though principally in the Last and Worst of them Yea thou givest Two sorts of poyson that if the one should not speed the other may The one is Flattering men in sinne a sweet poyson The other is Bitter Girding at holinesse the best and mildest whereof is Bad enough aad so thou wilt finde one day For in that thou Soothest them up in their sinnes thou makest them all thy owne Isa 9. 16. Heb. 13. 17. Beatificant populum istum Psal 10. 3. Nay That evill can scarce be named which thou art not the occasion of by thy thus preaching Yea which thou thy selfe dost not or hast not a will to doe were it in thy power For thou hast the same Heart-Burning against all the Religious that Haman had against the Jewes who would have cut them off from being a people Or Caligula against the Romans who wisht that They All had but one Head that so he might cut it off at a blow I have laid open some part of thy will and indeavour Satan who will one day be thy accuser knowes much more GOD that Searcheth the heart and trieth the reines knowes all who measures what we doe by what we desire to doe and punisheth the Action according to the Affection or Intention For Good or Evill Thoughts and Desires in GODS account are Good or Evill Works If thou wantest power it is enough thou Wouldst As I could largely prove But I am prompted to contract many things Onely take notice of this That every Sermon thou preachest will become one day a Bill of Enditement against thee And every soule that perisheth by meanes of thy Flattering sinne and Flouting holinesse will adde to the Pile of thy unspeakable torments For in that thou damnest many soules besides thine owne thou Super-erogatest of Satan and he shall give thee a Treble Portion of Hell-fire for thy paines They shall Perish for yeelding But thou for Tempting shalt be Punished farre above them As we read that when John A Camber was executed at Yorke it was in great stare For he was Hanged upon a Gibbet raised a Stage higher in the midst of a square Gallowes as a Traitor Paramount and a number of his men that were his chiefe Compl●ces were Hanged upon the Lower Story round about him True it is The Seed of the Woman is able to Bruise this Serpents head And we are in the hand of a Cunning Workman that of the Knottiest and Crookedst Timber can make Rafts and Sieling for his owne house That can square the Marble or Flint as well as the Freeststone Yea the GOD whom thou hast thus provoked is so abundant in grace and so great in Power and so expert for skill That as with a word of his mouth he Can create in thee a new heart for it is as easie with him to make a man righteous as to bid him be such So he is no lesse Willing As his entertaining of the Prodigall Sonne in the Gospel showes Luke 15. 20. If thou canst see how Desperate thy condition is Accuse and Condemne thy selfe Seriously Repent what thou hast done and never more doe what thou hast repented If thou canst lay hold upon CHRIST by a lively faith and manifest the same by a change to the contrary Isa 55. 7. Ezek. 18. 21 22 23. 27 28. 33. 11. Luke 15. 20. Joel 2. 12. 13. 14. which Scriptures shew That if the Summons of vengeance shall waken us to repentance we shall no sooner change our minds but GOD will change his sentence And though I read not of One like thee except Manasses that ever returned home by Repentance Yet it may be presumed That as many a man sends others to Heaven and yet goes to Hell himselfe So not a few having drawn others to Hell yet themselves returne by a late repentance to life So that there is a faire possibility of thy escaping that judgement which thy sinnes have deserved and nothing can hinder but thy want of accepting the free offer of mercy upon the conditions before exprest Which is worth thy speedy resolving For how justly might GOD have bereaved thy body of a soule thy soule of understanding thy understanding of all possibility of comfort long before this That thou hast space to repent a Tongue and Time to Call upon GOD for Mercy is a Blessing and farre more then he owes thee Which being so and that a Plaister is of no use unlesse it be Applyed Let my counsell be acceptable as Daniel said to Nabuchadnezzar And be intreated by the Mercies of GOD as Paul speaks Rom. 12. 1. As you would please him pleasure your self to redeem the time past with Serious Repentance the time present with Religious Diligence the time to come with Carefull Providence And when the LORD shall have accepted thee thou shalt have no cause to repent that thou took'st my counsell in preferring Heaven to Hell Otherwise when that fearfull houre comes which I before spake of then you would faine goe to Heaven by CHRIST But Alas as that Despairing Pope said The Crosse could doe him no good because he had so often sold it away So How should CHRIST doe you good who have Railed him away You have Vexed him so long as you lived and his justice shall Vexe every veine of your heart when you are dead The next to Not doing wrong is To make Amends And the only Amends we can make to GOD when we have not had the grace to avoyd sinne is To confesse and Forsake the sinne we have not avoyded To be as True servants to GOD as we have been Enemies and performe