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fire_n	aaron_n	altar_n	people_n	238	4	4.8366	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A97171	Pax vobis or a charme for tumultuous spirits. Being an earnest and Christian advice unto the people of London, to forbeare their disorderly meetings at VVestminster, least they prove to the disturbance of the great businesse in hand, pressed by divers waighty and considerable reasons offered to their serious thoughts. Together with a motion for the speedy reliefe of the poore distressed Protestants in Ireland : and for a publike fast that we may all joyne in harty supplications to God for them. / By Thomas Warmstry Minister of Gods word.	Warmstry, Thomas, 1610-1665.	1641 (1641)	Wing W886; Thomason E180_24; ESTC R12759	20,943	42

there bee any ground for our feares therein I hope God will be the Physitian we have had I hope many good experiences both of the integrity and wisedome of the Parliament that may keepe us from being over-carefull for preventing mistakes either in the end or the meanes Their uprightnesse I hope will fixe them steady upon the one and their prudence guide them in the other yet I wish they may remember too that they are men and there are clowdes of corruption which may produce evill or hinder good even in the greatest concurrence of the the best and wisest mortalles if God be not moderatour of their workes and therefore even in this our joynt dependance must be upon him Since it is the generall valuation that our praved natures have set upon us and which the spirit of God hath truely taken of us and recorded in the holy writ that the children of men are deceitfull upon the waights For the third there is onely one thing in which I could willingly presse for speed if I might be heard because every moments delay may be paid for too dearely with the losse of Christian blood and that is in the designe for the releife of Ireland It was the saying of the Poet that nulla unquam de morte hominis cunstatio longa est But I may say as truely herewith a lettle alteration nulla unquam de morte hominis cunctatio parva est where the slownes of the proceedings leaveth mens lines unto the spoyle There every little deferring is too much Mee thinkes when that poore Church and Kingdome lyesa bleeding to death and every minute may give advantage unto the fury of the adversary consultaion had not need too take up to much of the time least the opportunity of action and application may be lost in it Too much caution is no part of wisedome where necessity is urgent for a speedy redresse and in this case wee had all need to be speedy and earnest in this matter every one of us in our prayers and supplications unto God when the fire of Gods wrath was broken out upon the Israelites It was no time for Aaron to dally he must goe in all hast See how Moses posts him forward Numb 16.46 Take the censer and put fire therein of the Altar and put therein Incense and goe quickly unto the congregation and make an Attonement for them for there is wrath gone out from the Lord. One fire must quench another the fire of the Altar even of new devotion the fire of Gods wrath is judgement and affliction and truely a speedy devotion should set us all upon an Active and earnest intercession to God for the deliverance of thole distressed people from the rage and duty of their adversaries To the furtherance whereof if the King and Parliament would be pleased to enjoyne a publique Fast amongst us for that purpose it might have a good savour in it of Christian compassion and might by Gods grace be a praevalent meanes to draw downe the showers of his heavenly mercy to quench the flames of that Tyranny and inhumane cruelty in which our poore Brethren there are schorched and consumed But yet the hast must not be onely in this while Moses prayeth Ioshua must fight too there is great neede of a timely reliefe even in outward succours and supplyes least our idle devotion render our Prayers like unto that fruitlesse Charity of which Saint Iames speaketh that dwelt onely in the tongue and had nothing of the hand could say depart in peace be ye warmed and filled but afforded nothing I wish therefore God may put it into our hearts to second our prayers with a voluntary contribution which would be an exceptable sacrifice to God And that the Parliament would thinke of a speedy course to send them supplies and truely I am glad you made this a part of your late Petition to the Parliament and I hartily wish it may take with them so that they may consider of it in time least their blood cry against us for our slownesse in relieving as well as against them for their fury in destroying Our patience may perhaps be as offensive to God as the rage of the Adversary It is no time to stand discussing of niceties to stand upon ceremonies and formalities when a whole Church and Kingdome is under a desperate disease especially when every delay makes the evill the more remedilesse In such a case we should deale as a Physitian adviseth if my memory faile not In morbis Astralibus in Appoplexies and such like importunate and sudden distempers not stand too much upon Election and Composition but apply that which is next at hand so it bee proper for the disease Oh take heede I beseech you of the curse of Meroz and remember that saying of the wise man Prov. 24.11.12 If thou forbeare to deliver them that are drawne unto death and those that are ready to bee slaine if thou sayest Behold we know it not doth not hee that pondreth the heart consider it and hee that keepeth thy soule doth not hee know it and shall not hee render to every man according to his worke I confesse I would beg on my knees for speede here a holy rashnesse in this case would be more tollerable then to be overwse in deliberation But for other matters I hope their softnesse is for safety Since for ought I know they may not onely admitt of a considerate proceeding but receive it And though the current of the businesse may bee something slower then perhaps the too speedy expectations of some that doe not so well consider the greatnes of the body which commonly moves more slowly if not lesse securely the weight of the burthen and the businesse that they have upon them which may well forbid them to make use of their wings or the great intricacy and perplexity together with the many difficulties unto which it is exposed Yet I hope in the end they may beare that Motto Sat citò Si sat benè And that it will appeare to have beene not delay but deliberation And to have proceeded not from any dulnesse in the body or from any coldnesse or indefferency in the prosecution of those happie ends which the present necessity of Church and State presents unto their wisedomes but rather from a serious and watchfull care to bring accounts and opportunities together and to avoyd precipitancy and prevent the halfe vertue of repentance which divides it selfe betweene Glory and Ignominie in the worke yet it is my prayer and therefore my hope that this Procastination of theirs if wee bee not too impatient may prove like the contagion of Fabius Maximus the delay of whose proceedings was the speed of his enterprize and that it may Restituere rem for so it is said of him by the Romane Orator unus homo nobis cunctando restituit rem Non ponebat enim rumores ante salutem Ergo postque magisque viri nunc Gloria claret Give me