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A44930	Munster and Abingdon, or, The open rebellion there [brace] and [brace] unhappy tumult here (bred in the same wombe) that from Sleidans Comm. L. 10. [brace] [brace] this from eye and eare witnesses : with marginal notes of Mvncer and Mahomet, faithfully communicated to English readers, in a booke and postscript, for a seasonable caution to the British nation and a serious check to rash and giddy spirits / by W.H.	Hughes, William, fl. 1665-1683.	1657 (1657)	Wing H3344; ESTC R39005	45,813	124

you but at the last reach but to liberty in Gods worship you should sit downe as at your journeyes end This O this the very darling of our hearts and life of soules the speech then went would make amends and over measure to sighes and groanes to prayers and teares to coyne and blood adventured for it And now the treasure is landed with Interest for its stay so long and both injoyed not yet to be contented nay to cry out all 's lost and ship wracked whom doth not this amaze who can unriddle it Say yee had something we know not of to stop our mouthes withall will it serve to silence Providence also What think ye Sirs when Egypt is left the wildernesse over the Sea passed the Egyptians dead upon the shoare yea the land of promise viewed already and ready to be entred on if the people now prompted by an unhappy faction will be complaining still as if they were at their brickes and lash if Moses and Aaron the instruments of their deliverance must be kicked off with scorne for all their service if through their sides by mutinous murmures and seditious practises the face of heaven be flowen against and the whole bundle of deare bought mercies quite unravelled to the very end of the bottome what think ye if the Lord distast this course and declare from heaven against the Abettors of it in a dreadfull posture will such a doctrine learne us nothing in the Application Could there be nothing said in their behalfe who serve Christ Jesus in his Gospell publickly but that you might adde farther to your present work of letting fly whole quivers of arrowes even bitter words against them without distinction notwithstanding their bespeaking you in the Apostles language where is the blessednesse you sometime spake of for I beare you record that if it had been possible you would have plucked out your eyes and given them us Are we therefore become your Enemies because we tell you the truth I say but that you might adde farther oh most sad endeavours to fulfill the prophecy John 16.2 He that killeth you shall think he doth God service Yet Sirs to raise your selves upon the ruines of your other Brethren for these you will not take into the number or both to fall as footstooles to a worser third besides the riotous wasting such a stock of pretious mercies and making all profession a hissing and a by-word unto scorners cannot me thinks but be of dismall consideration to your owne retired thoughts Whether the face of things now carrying on amongst you look not this way too wishly who is it almost but can resolve it oh that your selves would timely look to it §. 16. For what you talke of enough at randome truly Old principles are apostatized from Consideration of their Objections 1 Old principles departed from and If humane frailties in your supposed Adversaries although our Rulers must have hard measure no benefit of Clergy at your hands if the blessing upon Sem and Japhet when Ham was cursed Gen. 9. be not at all regarded if the weapons of the Ancient Church pretended to by none more then your selves in former daies Prayers and Teares must be quite throwne downe as never more to be taken up yet at the least be coole a little whilst I aske you Will not all principles and engagements spoken of be easily in your owne sense resolved into this one PROMOTING SIONS INTEREST I am confident you do admit it Then further tell me Is not encouragement of Gods people in their worshiping of him according to their different light I appeale unto your selves according to what you hither to have spoke and wrote most eminently the life and soule of SIONS INTEREST I take this also granted And I beseech you now if taking breath a little you put us to the proofe that this is as the apple of the eye unto our present Governours do ye not bethink your selves make question whether fire be hot or which comes to one doubt of the Suns being up at noone All other principalls engaged to from whence you say departure is made when once you make the world acquainted with them till when I hope your charity must excuse a non-attendance on them if they prove such indeed as can find their Register amongst the rest of kin to Sion I think a private person may undertake either to shew them swallowed up as rivers in this Sea or craving leave in the states behalfe to promise a seasonable retrivement of them Meane while 't would well become us private persons to look to our exemplar who made me Judge and move within our proper sphere by minding of that worke our calling doth cut out unto us §. 17. And for the tenour of all your moanes 2 Christs visible Raigne neglected Christs raigne is not regarded For my part I must tell you it hath beene oftentimes refreshment unto me the rather I confesse for yours and some other angry peoples sakes that I see just cause even at this day to pronounce it after David The Lord doth reigne let the earth rejoyce and the I sles bee glad thereof As for the visible kingdome whereof you are in travaile in the expectation at least you may be told that It is of later date I meane as to your common taking notice of it than those Engagements spoken of as revolted from and so were not in view when they were entred It lies upon you therefore to acknowledge the dealing is not faire to raise your level for it on that ground making complaint of being false if I mistake not to what was scarcely thought on much lesse engaged to Besides I hope your selves allow that many eminent soules in grace Whereof many godly doubt not cleare therein although not simply contradicting it are yet as heartily desirous as your selves both of their Masters exaltation and their owne most neare injoyment of him who consequently did it appeare his mind could bid as welcome to it though it may be to their costs in some respects as others seeme to do and therefore do not deserve such weight and measure at your hands or tongues as yet they find But you may know it hath no litle influence on them to suspende about it when besides what ever may be said as to the season §. 18. First Why 1 t is as bright as day to them that the designe wherewith the Gospell is filled up to the very top lookes at a kingdome not consisting in meates and drink in worldly power the like sufficiently pleasing doubtlesse to the fleshly part but of another nature Righteousnesse and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost To make us Kings and Priests not among men but unto God triumphers through believing one Hell and curse and sin not by a carnall weapon over all men else though nere so godly if not complyers with our perswasion And then remember 2 their Lord according to the prophecy of him that

he should not cry nor lift up nor cause his voyce to be heard in the street as the mode of earthly Princes is not only did refuse to be made a king on earth but seemeth elsewhere to give the reason of it My kingdome is not of this world And it doth not yet appeare that ever he changed his mind Beside it is no doubt with them but that it was the disciples weaknesse before the powring forth of the spirit on them which they also had received by tradition from their Jewish fathers to expect Messiah's reigning in an earthly kingdome 3 Adde hereto that the proofe of such a kingdome is borrowed onely from darker prophecies and obscurer passages 4 in the booke of God not written with that Sun-beame the other is wherewith their hearts are taken up And it is worth your heeding that as t is past excuse in them who wretchedly sport the Scriptures into a very Allegory so they must beare their blame who in the prophecies thereof will looke no further than the earthy side of promised mercies The Holy Ghost so cloathing spirituall blessings then as likely most to take on children in the Churches non-age yet when she is growne up in Gospell daies would have her understand them in the sense he meant them And therefore more than once we find such prophecies of the old Testament as seeme to speake of glory and advantage to the outward yet in the New interpreted by himselfe of those belonging to the inward man And lastly 5 their great experience of small advantage by injoying so the world at will unto the spirituall part the reason why so many good words in the booke of God we find bestowed on afflictions and sad observations of their unhappy fate through an apparent hand of God therein who in an over hot pursuit of an earthy kingdome quite lose so it falls out the way onto the heavenly witnesse the former story These things cast up together are thought by some to come to somewhat that may make a sober Christian pause upon the businesse §. 19. But put the case 't were past all question that such a kingdome should sometimes be If granted not by Sin to be promoted therefore May we the while do evill that good may come upon it Or needeth the Lord Jesus our lye unto his glory Or do ye thinke and I beseech you to be serious in it it is his mind we should pull downe HIS WRITTEN LAWES IN SCRIPTVRE to set up a kingdome so darkely written there as next to not at all That nothing lesse than this way laies you in the road you travaile was seene before and I therefore hope you neede no Monitor afresh If my words will not take upon you at least let the Apostles have their errand with you They are Exhorted We beseech you BRETHREN study to be quiet doing your owne businesse Beware of suffering as evill doers or which is all one as busy bodies in other mens affaires perswade your selves 't were much more happy with us would we all make conscience more to tend the duties of those Places wherein we are than quarrell by our carriage even at Providence for placing us unto such duties Come Sirs le ts never pawne the publique peace the comfort of our soules the credit of our dearest Lord for satisfaction to a discontented humour which when it hath devoured them all will ne're be full whilst we have flesh to feede it My heart doth give me that if many of you did but see unto the end that way you enter now so boldly on doth lead 't would make your soules ride post with switch and spurre craving all helpe of heaven and earth untill you were got out againe Remember Sirs it is not usuall for men at once to arrive at the very worst No our malignant Enemy Satan leads by steps but when t is downe a steepe t is hard recovering for him especially that is far gone One evill spirit once bad welcome makes roome with ease and speede for seven other worser than himselfe Who hath not heard that litle boyes creep in at windowes to open dores for bigger theeves Why do we not lay to heart how great a matter a litle fire kindleth Sirs be intreated in the bowels of Jesus Christ to stoop betimes to Solomons counsell let thine eye looke right on and thine eyelids strait before thee Ponder the path of thy feet and let thy waies be stablished §. 20. May the Lord arise to favour Sion and repaire those saddest gaving breaches The Lord intreated and Ignorance and errour with the want of Christian love on every hand have either made upon her or do keepe open in her and turne unto his people a pure language that with one consent his Name be called on amongst them and no rest given him till he make Jerusalem the praise of all the the earth And May the same Lord in mercy rescue the honest upright soules amongst you not yet acquainted with the depthes of Satan from that unhappy snare of being longer made the staulking horse unto the Jesuiticall and Satanicall designe of those who prostitute Religion Conscience what not for homage to their accursed IDOLS ADVANTAGE and AMBITION The whole concluded This is the Authors fervent prayer for Her and you a freind how ere you take him affectionate unto Both and whose soule desireth ever to be found in doing nothing against the TRUTH but for it Hinton Berks. December 26. 1656. W. Hughes FINIS Mistakes of the Presse Epist p. 5. l. 23 d. y. ibid. l. 25. r. no. Book p. 2. l. 1. d. ta p 49. l. penult r. clashing p. 50. l. 6. to honest ad people Postscr p. 1. l. 1. marg ad P. 1. An Apology p. 2. Title r. Abington Tumult ibm l. 26. r. fire p. 4. l. 12. r. ehuseth p. 68. l. 26. after one ad once p. 69. l. penult ad 1. By their owne report p. 75. l. 1. in too d. o. p. 79. l. 7. d. the pag. 85. l. 16. r. passing p. 95. l. 7. r. title