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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60170	A new naked truth, or, The sandy foundation of the Sacramental test shaken, by a warning-piece discharged from heaven against all sorts of persecutors wherein you may hold Christ crucified mystically and sacramentally, upon the cross of the sacramental penal test, with all the rest of the penal laws and tests attending thereon, and contributing thereunto / by Giles Shute ...	Shute, Giles, b. 1650 or 51.	1688 (1688)	Wing S3709; ESTC R11222	67,483	56

said Laws for Persecution sake in hopes to revenge themselves upon the Dissenters by venting their Envy and Malice against them who desires that no worse thing may come unto them then that they may all turn to be honest Men and Good Christians which while they are Persecutors they are neither therefore while the Spirit of Persecution is in them I would advise them to forbear saying the Lord's Prayer which is too Holy and Sacred a Prayer for such profligate Wretches to take into their Mouths But let him that taketh the name of God in his Mouth Depart from Iniquity for if God should forgive the Persecuters no more than they forgive the Dissenters then they must perish and be Damned for ever Therefore instead of Praying to God for pardoning Mercy they do imprecate the worst of Judgments to come upon them namely that God would not pardon them Look to it all you Persecuters for the Lord is at hand and you will be the first that will be called to the Bar to take your Tryal Luke 19.27 But those mine Enemies which would not that I should Reign over them bring hither and slay them before me Ay! Christ will see the Execution done upon them himself for they are the greatest Enemies that Christ has upon the Face of God's Earth Again Seventhly Persecuters are the very Pest of a Nation or Kingdom for they separate Subjects from their Prince and from their Native Countrey and so Depopulate Kingdoms and destroy Trade and impoverish Nations and they do separate Parents from their Children and Husbands from their Wives and causes Rebellion and Wars First They do separate Subjects from their Prince and Depopulate their Kingdoms and Impoverish Nations by destroying Trade for Persecution does always drive out and drive away many of the Inhabitants of the Land into other Countries besides what they ruine and destroy at Home in nasty Goals and with Grief and Poverty for when they are persecuted at one place they fly to another And the Wiseman saith Prov. 14.28 In the Multitude of People is the King's Honour But in the want of People is the Destruction of the Prince And by this means Trade is destroyed and the Peace disturbed and the Treasure of a Nation or Kingdom is Exhausted and Dreined away which is the very Sinews and Veins and Blood ay and the Life too of the Body Politick of a Nation And that Nation that giveth Liberty is thereby Inriched for by that means they become a Drein unto those Kingdoms or Nations that do persecute For first they drein away their People which is the Honour and Glory and Strength of a King For what is a King or Kingdom without People It is like a Gentleman without Means or Wealth Secondly Those that give Liberty of Conscience they drein away the Wealth and Treasure of a Nation that does persecute which does mightily Inrich the former and Impoverish the latter and this is the very cause that makes our Eastern Neighbours stickle so much as they do against the Establishing of our Christian Liberty by a Magna Charta and that is the Reason why that East-Wind does bring over so many Locusts and Catterpillers to eat up every green thing of this our Christian Liberty Namely Their Pamphlets that are stuft with frighful Notions to Create and Foment Fears and Jealousies to infuse hard Thoughts into the Minds and Hearts of the People concerning his Majesties Intentions and Designs in giving this Liberty unto us I do not remember that ever they were so kind to the Dissenters in the late horrid Persecution as to interceed with the Church of England on their behalf to abate their Rigour O no for that Northerly Wind blew them a great deal of Corn for by this Craft or rather Cruelty of the Persecuters here they got a great deal of Wealth there as well as our Crafts-men that belongeth to Diana here and that maketh them and the other stickle as they do at this time against the Abolishment of the Penal Laws and Tests but it is my Opinion that both the one and the other might be far better Imployed in humbling themselves before the Lord for their own Sins let them both look at home let them pull the Beam out of their own Eye before they go about to pull the Mote out of their Brothers Matt. 7.5 Thou Hypocrite first cast out the Beam out of thine own Eye and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the Mote out of thy Brothers Eye I say again Let them both begin at home for God hath a Controversy with them both against the one for their Bloody Persecution and prophaning the Sacred Ordinance of the Lord's Supper and their grievous Oppression And God hath a Controversy against the other for Prophaning the Lord's Day and for Swearing Sacramento and for their Drunkenness and let them repent of it all and of their great Unheard-of Epicurian Abominable Gluttony and let them repent of their Whoredoms and Uncleanness and all other Abominations that is to be found amongst some of the Magistrates themselves which should be the Reformers of a Nation unto whose Care the sanctifying and keeping holy the Sabbath is committed Jer. 17.20 21. Neh. 17.18 I have been Credibly Informed That the Magistrates themselves do countenance and indulge men to work upon their own Ships to fit them to Sea on the Lord's Day and to do any other Work or to Feast and Riot on that Day without Countroul and will not God Visit for these things think ye Notwithstanding the great stickling of the North Country Gentlemen that has formerly been of another Religion Surely if Noah Daniel and Job could not prevail with the Lord to turn away Wrath from a People I cannot think that he can be very acceptable with the Lord who hath put off his Coat and grasp'd another Religion then what he was Born and Bred to Rev. 2.4 5. Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee because thou hast left thy first Love remember therefore from whence thou art fallen and repent and do the first Works or else I will come unto thee quickly and will remove thy Candlestick out of his place except thou repent And what is said here of a Church and to a Church is applicable also to particular Persons And let him return to his first Love and not stickle so much against our present Liberty least he and all that taketh that course be found even to oppose or fight against God Mind what Counsel that honest Man Gamaliel gave to the Old Persecuting superstitious Jews in almost a parallel case Acts 8.38.39 And now I say unto you Refrain from these men and let them alone for if this Counsel or this Work be of men it will come to nought but if it be of God ye cannot overthrow it least haply ye be found even to fight against God. O! that we might all repent and return to our Allegiance to God especially such as have and are yet