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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56384	A defence and continuation of the ecclesiastical politie by way of letter to a friend in London : together with a letter from the author of The friendly debate.	Parker, Samuel, 1640-1688.; Patrick, Simon, 1626-1707. Friendly debate.	1671 (1671)	Wing P457; ESTC R22456	313,100	770

as the Capitol and you may sooner remove Mountains then shake their Confidence But is it not prodigious to see people so jocundly satisfied with a Book written with so much looseness as if its Author had either utterly forgot what I had utter'd or cared not what himself was to prove a Book wherein 't is hard to find a passage that is not coarsly false or impertinent and very few that are not apparently both a Book in which you shall meet with nothing singular and remarkable but horrid Untruths and Falsifications § 14. But however a Book he resolved to write without regard to Truth or Falshood and though he were not so lamentably costive as a late Brother of the scribling humour that was so far to seek for an Exordium that he was forced to take his rise at the day of the Moneth and the year of our Lord yet he was much more unhappy to make his entrance with such an awkerd acknowledgement as must for ever defeat and discredit the design of his whole performance by confessing that all his Pleas how solemn and serious soever he may appear are but dissembled and hypocritical Pretences When he tells us that 't is none of the least disadvantages of his Cause that he is enforced to admit a Supposition that those whom he pleads for are indeed really mistaken in their apprehensions But though this may seem a rash and unadvised Concession yet if you examine it you will find it a notable wily and cunning device For unless he will give place to such a Supposition or if he will rigidly contend that what he pleads in the behalf of is absolutely the Truth and that Obedience thereunto is the direct Will and Command of God there remains no proper Field for the Debate about Indulgence to be managed in For things acknowledged to be such are not capable of an Indulgence properly so called because the utmost Liberty that is necessary unto them is their right and due in strict Iustice and Law And yet the whole scope of his Apology and the onely Fundamental Principle upon which he builds is that they are obliged to do what they do out of Obedience to the Will and Command of God and by consequence the things they contend for are not capable of any Indulgence but are matters of indispensable duty and Divine right so that were the Government of Church-Affairs at their disposal they must establish the things that they desire to be indulged in as duties of strict Iustice and Law and restrain all other different forms and practices out of regard to the Divine Command and then to tolerate ours or any other way of Worship distinct from their own would be to permit men to live in open defiance to the direct Will and Command of God that has precisely injoyned a different Form of Worship So that it seems all pretences for Liberty of Conscience are but artificial Disguises for the advantage of farther Designs and when they gain it then the Mask falls off and the Scene is shifted and Petitions for Indulgence immediately swell up into Demands of Reformation So unfortunate is this Man in his whole performance that by all the Principles he has made use of to plead for Indulgence he is obliged to plead against it And there is not a more effectual Argument against Toleration of different Forms of Worship then their Fundamental Conceit that nothing ought to be practised or establish't in the Worship of God but what is precisely warranted and authorized in the Word of God For this restrains and disavows all Forms but one and ties all the Christian World to a nice and exact Conformity to that compleat and adequate Rule of Worship But suppose he were to speak to the Nature of the things themselves and not to the Apprehensions of them with whom he has to do Then farewel all soft and gentle Language and you shall hear nothing but Thundrings against Superstition Will-worship Episcopal Tyranny Popish Corruptions Rags of the Whore and the Dregs of the Romish Beast Then what is Prelacy but a meer Antichristian Encroachment upon the Inheritance of Christ And he that thinks Babylon is confined to Rome and its open Idolatry knows nothing of Babylon nor of the New Jerusalem the depth of a subtle mystery does not lie in gross visible folly it has been insinuating it self into all the Nations for 1600 years and to most of them is now become as the marrow in their bones before it be wholly shaken out these Heavens must be dissolved and the Earth shaken i. e. as he expounds both himself and the Text the setled and establish't Government of the West must be subverted Their Tall Trees i. e. Kings and Princes hewed down and set a howling and the residue of them transplanted from one end of the Earth to the other Or as the same Author expresses himself upon another occasion The Heavens and the Earth of the Nations must be shaken because in their present Constitution they are directly framed to the Interest of Antichrist which by notable advantages at their first moulding and continued insinuations ever since hath so rivetted it self into the very Fundamentals of them that no digging or mining with an Earthquake will cast up the Foundation-stones thereof And therefore the Lord Iesus having promised the service of the Nations to his Church will so far open their whole frame to the roots as to pluck out all the cursed seeds of the Mystery of Iniquity which by the craft of Satan and exigences of State or methods of advancing the pride and power of some Sons of Blood have been sown amongst them And then abundance of Scripture and dark Prophesie is pour'd forth to make good these mild and peaceable Doctrines It is the great day of the wrath of the Lamb. The Land shall be soked with blood and the dust made fat with fatness for it is the day of the Lords vengeance and the year of recompence for the Controversie of Zion All the Kings of the earth have given their power to Antichrist endeavouring to the utmost to keep the Kingdom of Christ out of the World What I pray has been their main business for 700 years and upward even almost ever since the Man of Sin was enthroned How have they earned the Titles Eldest Son of the Church The Catholick and most Christian King Defender of the Faith Hath it not been by the blood of the Saints And now will not the Lord avenge his Elect that cry unto him day and night will he not do it speedily Will he not call the Fowls of Heaven to eat the Flesh of Kings and Captains and great Men of the Earth Rev. 19.18 All this must be done to cast down all opposition to the Kingdom of the Lord Christ and to advance it to its Glory and Power That consists mainly of these three things that he there reckons 1. Purity and Beauty of Ordinances and Gospel-worship

that France where shall I stop I would offend none but give me leave to say O that every I had almost said O that any Part of the World had such unparallel'd helps means of Grace as you who yet are so unworthy as scarce to acknowledg the Mercy The Lord break the pride of your Hearts before it break the staff of your Bread and the help of your Salvation But as for us Poor nothings the Ministers of the Lord Christ in the Work of the Gospel we can spend our sweat and our Lungs upon the barren and the parched corners of the Land upon those poor Gospelless Creatures that as yet sit in darkness and the shadow of death and have none to hold out the bread of life to their fainting souls Does not Wales cry and the North cry yea and the West cry come and help us But this it is though the sound of the Gospel pass through all your streets though your Villages enjoy them who preach Peace and bring glad tidings of good things so that neither you nor your Fathers nor your Fathers Fathers and this God knows is a serious truth ever saw the like before us Though Manna fall round about your Tents every day yet Manna is loathed as light bread no the Presence of Christ it seems is not Recompence for the loss of your Swine yes you had rather be again in Aegypt than hazard a Pilgrimage in the Wilderness You forsooth boggle at tumults and disorders poor ignorant souls how unacquainted are you with the methods and workings of Providence For why these are the only signs and symptoms of Reformation great works for God will cause great troubles among men And for the carrying on of the Interest of Christ and the Gospel God is resolved to work wonderful Providential Alterations in the Governments of the Earth what replied brave Martin Luther when it was objected to him that that could not be the cause of God that was the cause of so much desolation Ego nisi tumultus istos viderem Christum in mundo esse non crederem I tell you he who is the only Potentate will sooner or later shake all the Monarchies of the Western World All the Kings of the Earth have suck'd in invented and what it seems with him is coincident Idolatrous Worship from the Cup of Fornication held out to them by the Roman Whore Shew me seven of them that ever yet laboured sincerely to advance the Kingdom of the Lord Jesus and I dare boldly say Octavus quis fuerit nondum constat The whole Constitution of the Governments of the Nations is cemented from top to bottom with the Interest of Antichrist and nothing but a thorough shaking can ever cleanse them And to this end has the Lord been pleased in his good Providence to hold forth a new light to his People of this Generation whereby they might discover the Mystery of Civil and Ecclesiastical Tyranny And you are called forth to punish Tyrants break the Jaws of Oppressours and disappoint the designs of Bloudy and Revengeful Persecutours and to roll up the Heavens of the Nations like a Scroll and to serve him in your several Capacities in the high places of Armageddon Does not the Lord think you require that in the great things which he has to accomplish in this Generation all his should close with him And what that is I have often and long since informed you out of his own Word and would you have greater Assurance Read the Prophet Isaiah 23.9 Verily the Lord of Hosts hath purposed to pollute the pride of all Glory and to bring into Contempt all the honourable of the Earth Now does God call forth his Saints to execute vengeance upon the Heathen and punishments upon the People to bind their Kings with chains and their Nobles with fetters of Iron Does he bring you forth to burn the Whore to fight with the Beast and overcome him with his Followers And will he not give glorious Assistances to your Undertakings I tell you you shall be assisted protected carried on though it cost him the making his Bow quite naked What though some prove false and treacherous some base and cowardly What though men every where combine and associate themselves against you What though whole Kingdoms and mighty Armies appear for your ruine help you need and help you shall have or I tell you once again God will make his Bow quite naked He will put on the Garments of vengeance for cloathing and cover himself with Zeal as a Cloak and according to their deeds accordingly he will repay them fury to his Adversaries Recompence to his Enemies to the Island he will repay Recompence Isa. 59.18 And though all other means should fail of success 't is in your Power to pray and believe the Beast into destruction Antichrist into the Pit and Magog to ruine Do but believe that the Enemies of Jesus Christ shall be made his Footstool that the Nations shall be his Inheritance that he shall reign gloriously in beauty that he shall smite in pieces the heads over divers Nations and live in the Faith of these things and as it will give you the sweetness of them before they come so it will hasten their coming beyond the endeavours of thousands yea Millions of Armed men But my Brethren if there be any of you here that do not only refuse to come forth to help the Lord against the Mighty but that entertain thoughts to give up the Worship of God to Superstition his Churches to Tyranny and the Doctrine of the Gospel to Episcopal Corruptions Let him give glory to God and repent speedily and passionately otherwise it will be Bitterness in the end it will it will And therefore as you tender the salvation of your poor souls and the continuance of the Gospel to your Families and Posterity not one syllable more of this Tumultuatingness of spirit against the Prophets of the Lord and so every man to his Tents O Israel § 5. Sir have you not read how that when discontent had shatter'd the Roman Legions into Mutiny and Sedition and that the Excesses of Outrage and Insolence like the violence of a resistless Torrent had broken down all the Banks of Government and Discipline amongst them yet at the presence of a Scipio or Fabricius they did immediately retire into place and order His look charm'd them into Obedience and with a Nod he awed away Confusion they that never dreaded Kings trembled at his voice that was more affrightful than assured death His Authority with three syllables stifled Sedition disarm'd and confounded the guilty and they could endure any thing rather than his frown and his displeasure And thus is all the noise and tumult of the discontented Churches hush'd into peace and order this great Commander looks the murmur of the People into silence and obedience and the Winds and Seas obey his Voice He can raise or allay storms and seditions with the breath of his