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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A79498	To His Highness the Lord Protector, &c. and to the Parliament of England. Valiant swordmen, and honorable gentlemen, ...	Chidley, Samuel.	1656 (1656)	Wing C3844; Thomason E896_9; ESTC R206683	4,466	8

PRotectors Parliaments and all see hear And quake for fear O do not jeer nor swear ' Gainst God who roars from Sion on your sin ' Gainst such High-places which you worship in Jah with his burning blasts of lightnings quells The Peoples Idols-Temples-Steeples-Bells A most prodigious fearefull storme of winde lightning thunder mightily defaceing With comb-comb-church in Deuon burneing and slayeing diverse men and women all this in service-service-time on the Lords day Octob 21 〈…〉 TO His Highness the Lord Protector c. AND To the Parliament of England Valiant Swordmen and Honorable Gentlemen NAaman the Syrian was a man high and honourable because by him the Lord had given deliverance to Syri● he was also a mighty man in valour but he was a leper And he was wroth against the Prophet of the Lord without a cause and so went away in a rage But his servants came neer and spake unto him and said My father if the Prophet had bid thee do some great thing wouldest thou not have done it how much more rather then when he saith to thee Wash and be clean Then went he down and dipped himself seven times in Iordan according to the saying of the man of 〈◊〉 and his flesh name again like unto the flesh of a little childe and he was clean And being thus cleansed of his leprosie he promised thenceforth not to offer unto other gods but unto Jehovah Yea he knew it was a sin to go into the house of R●mmon to wait upon his Master the King to be his leaning-stock in that Idols temple when he worshipped there 2 Kings 5.10 11 12 13 15 17 18. Sirs I presented you formerly with a Book intituled Thunder from the throne of God against the temples of Idols which the foolish people count a work of madness but indeed were solid words of truth and soberness yet such thundering and convincing Arguments were not acceptable nor delectable unto you being for the quite plucking down of the Idolatrous High-places which are still kept up under pretence of usefulness and convenience for Worship But humane pretences without divine precepts are like an empty Parliament-house without members or a Parliament without power even so is a bare name of godliness famous with men but infamous with God like that fear towards him which is taught by the precepts of men Tell me ye great men did not Constantine the great give the Heathens Idol-temples for Christians to worship in and was it not a snare to him and them like the Cross in his Banners And what followed at the last was not Constantinople lost and the head of Constantine held upon the top of a spear And how can such your frequent appearances of evil avail you in your Spanish Wars O ye mortal gods who must die like men and fall like one of the Princes Psal 28.7 Is it not remarkable that the Jews for the space of these 1600 years were not so totally blinded as to hold such a correspondencie with Gods enemies the Papists as to uphold their Idols or Idols Temples but do pray heartily for their utter destruction And the Law of God for the quite plucking down of all the Idols Temples is not repealed by Christ And although the Jews whom the foolish people would convert as the Spaniards the Indians are not permitted here by the Law of this Land yet I would not that ye should be ignorant of this mystery lest ye should be wise in your own conceits that blindness in part I say not wholly but in part ●●●●pened to Israel until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in and so all Israel shall be saved Rom. 11.25 26. But concerning the Idolatrous Gentiles who profess Christ but deny him in their works there is no such promise but contrariwise it is prophesied concerning them That after the destruction of the third part of men by the fire and smoke and sulphur the rest of the men which were not killed by these plagues yet repented not of the works of their hands that they should not worship devils and idols of gold and silver and brass and stone and wood which neither can see hear nor walk neither repented they of their murders nor of their sorceries nor of their fornications nor of their Thefts Rev. 9.18.20 21. The Jews at mount Sinai had Ten Commands given unto them from God Exod. 20. Deut. 5. the Gentiles in mount Sion had Four given unto them in charge Act. 15 20. for so it seemed good unto the holy Ghost and the holy separated Church to lay upon the Christian Gentiles no other burden then those four necessary things vers 28. amongst which to keep themselves from things offered to idols was one principal Acts 21.25 But the Idols Temples with the Steeples and Bells are so as may appear unto you by this ensuing Treatise and therefore they must be demolished that the names of the Idols may be utterly destroyed out of the Land O ye Senators of England you are raising money now to maintain Wars against the Spaniards and to Wars you will go Go and prosper But be well advised and take direction out of the book of the wars of the Lord for there it is written When the Camp goeth forth against thine enemies then keep thee from every evil thing Deut. 23.9 Idols Temples the Steeples and Bells are evil things and ought to be thrown down So long therefore as you will uphold them how can ye expect the victory for they are great stumbling-blocks to the Jews and hinder them from embracing Christianity and do encourage the Gentiles in their idolatry and do give offence to the Church of God yet you will uphold these Steeple-houses under pretence of usefulness and convenience for Worship But what have you to say to the Steeples themselves doubtless you cannot but confess they are very useless and unprofitable yea they are idolatrous and ought to be utterly destroyed Our first Parliament after seven years service and experience driving a great trade in that Ware-house of Justice which you keep began to be such perfect Crafts-men that they had no further need of their Masters cunning whereupon they were so witty as in the very nick of time to cut off his Royal head to strengthen themselvs in the Regal power and abolished the Kingly Office as useless and unprofitable How much more ought these Steeples to be demolished for the uselesness and unprofitableness thereof And therefore you ought to root them out lest the great God of heaven root you out as he did your predecessors They took away the Crosses from the tops of the Steeples as idolatrous but gave no order to demolish the Steeples for their judgments were not informed they saw not that the Steeples were idolatrous as the Crosses thereupon But it is no new thing for better wiser then they to be mistaken like the Scribes and Pharisees who held a tradition that Whosoever sweareth by the Temple it is nothing