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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44803	One warning more unto England before she gives up the ghost and be buried in the pit of darkness to awaken the inhabitants thereof out of their deep sleep, to see themselves what misery is coming upon them through their degeneration and horrible ingratitude, that the people therein may be let without excuse in the day of the Lord / by him that pities thee in this languishing state, F.H.	Howgill, Francis, 1618-1669.	1660 (1660)	Wing H3176; ESTC R6654	12,877	16

Oyl and their hearts full of rottenness and through fair pretences of Liberty and Freedom and Sanctity and Holiness People have been led up and down like Horses and tossed up and down like a Tenis-ball Or was it a Form of Religion which might be set up by this or that Party that tender People did seek after so as to be bound to this or that Form by an outward Law by compelling and forcing Was it not Reformation according to the Scriptures which was spoken of and intended by the upright-hearted and behold how have we been Cheated here Was this the Liberty of Conscience that was pursued after to set up Popish Tithes which no true Christian can Pay for Conscience sake Or to set up a Company of Men to be Teachers to learn seven Years the Art of Speaking to borrow their words from Homer or Aristotle and Heathen Authors or to rake up a company of Errors decreed at Cha'cedon Neece Latren or Trent for Articles of Faith or to get words from Astrologers and Southsayers and mingle this with the Scripture and call them The Gospel and to have set Wages by a Law given unto them and to have Traditions of Men brought in for the Ordinances of God such as the Baptizing of Infants which Glaudius Espencius a Popish Bishop confessed that this was to be believed by Tradition for it could not be proved by Scripture that such a Company I say as these should be forced upon the Nation as Godly Ministers and their invented Worship to be acknowledged as Divine and to maintain the old Masse-Houses and Pay Clerks Wages which the Scriptures makes no mention of and all this must go in the Nane of Pure Reformation according to Scripture to gather Money from house to house to buy bread wine then a Priest to patter a few words over it then say its Consecrated and call it a Sacrament and that Priests should have Money for Marrying of People and for Baptizing of Infants or for Burials or to pay for the Ground in which the Dead is buried this was reprehended and Condemned by the Council of Trent in the height of Popery in the year 1547. and many such bad Impositions is daily holden up and they that holds them up must be accounted as Godly Ministers and many more things of this Nature are continued which is so far against the Consciences of many whom God hath enlightened so that they are a great offence Oh this is quite contrary to that which was intended and that which is the worst of all many of these things are forc'd upon the People by a Law And now Oh Heads of the Nation how do you think to be believed or who can trust you any more Obligations Covenants Oaths and Promises all broken and falsified and as soon as the Common Enemy was subdued and brought under when you had time to have prosecuted the aforesaid things Declared for purchased at a dear rate through much expence and bloodshed and suffering you let most of all their corrupt Laws stand many of which is good for nothing but fire and it became as hard if not harder to obtain any Right by Appealing to the Law or Judges thereof then it was before and the vast Lands and Revenues of your Enemies you divided amongst you and sold it at inconsiderable Values and giving great and large sums to a company of Dreamers and blind Watchmen and so wasted that which might have well maintained an Army in the Nation for many years as though the work and the lives of many pretious men and the shedding of the blood of thousands had been only to purchase Wages for the greedy Priests and Hirelings who can never have enough and so all the pretious Treasure which became a booty and a prey for you is exhausted and gone and greater Pressures upon people then was before and now the Nation more in poverty and need then ever and the people more in thral'd in bondage then ever And Queen Maries Act for guarding Jesuites and the Masse stands yet in your Law Books as though it were a heavenly Oracle and yet you cry out of Popery and so when your hearts was not right with the Lord he set you one against another and you came to be divided amongst your selves and set up and pull down and Ordain and Repeal and so brittle and changable that none did lean upon you but he was hurt by you and yet every Party crying like Absolom Oh that I were a Judge in the Gate how righteously would I do And so every Party have stoln away the hearts of people after them for a while and at last betrayed them and thus every one hath been seeking his own Interest and not the Lords till the Lord hath left you and the line of Confusion is stretched forth over you and you bring forth the stones of Emptiness And every Party when he is got up into the Seat of Government seeks Vengeance on him that hath Opposed him and blowes the sparks which sets all of a flame and only for Self and Honour and Exaltation and Interest and thus have you led People up and down like Animals till they are weary and saith It was better with us in Egypt though in hard servitude then to have Yoaks multiplied upon us and cannot see when they will cease Oh how unstable are you in your minds and runs like a swift stream till you be lost and know not how to return And Flattery and Deceit that must go under the name of Civility and one while calling this his Highness and the other his Excellency and the next Month proclaim him Tyrant and Traytor And so if the wills of a Party be but crossed or opposed though honoured a Week afore for good Service and Applauded and in a moment then proclaim him Traytor and so betrayes one another and are treacherous one to another and in rage would eat up one another Are you like to help the Nation and Decree one Week and throw down next Week and so runs to and fro like drunken men and how are you like to do any thing that 's good The Lord hath tryed most sorts of men especially the great Ones and the Heads of the People and they are become just all dross and little or no Vertue is found in them at all and so is the Nation like to be established in Freedom while Policy Craft and Treachery and Wrath are the chiefest Instruments in the Work but the day of many is past wherein they might have done good to the Nation and to the people of the Lord therein but their Sun is gone down and their day is done and night come upon them And Oh People Will nothing satisfie you but Egypt again that you run so fast that way that you have forgotten all Gods wondrous Works in this Land Will nothing but the Iron Furnice satisfie you and the heavie yoak of Bondage which in former years you