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heaven_n	earth_n	high_a	place_n	6,761	5	4.5017	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54151	The guide mistaken, and temporizing rebuked, or, A brief reply to Jonathan Clapham's book intituled, A guide to the true religion in which his religion is confuted, his hypocrisie is detected, his aspersions are reprehended, his contradictions are compared / by W.P., a friend to the true religion.	Penn, William, 1644-1718.	1668 (1668)	Wing P1301; ESTC R15309	49,937	66

Trencher-Chaplin Tutor c did he traverse the Country Sprinkling Marrying Churching Burying the common trade of those ejected Priests And can he say that whilst the King and Bishops were incapacitated by Exile to act as Officers in the Church and State he own'd the one for Supream in matters Civil and Ecclesiastical and the others for so many Apostolical heads in Christ's Church Did he protest against the Cruelty of those Powers in the clear subversion of both What Prison was he in what Bonds did he endure what Loss sustain Testimony bear and Loyalty express on the behalf of his Episcopal Faith and its Defender Alas But was he not in all those strange occurrences of times and variety of changes to be found Priest of Wramplingam in Norfolk At the beginning of the Wars a most precise Stickler for a Reformation extolling the great Necessity aswel as Righteousness of the Solemn League and Covenant encouraging others thereunto both by his example and doctrine Bold for the Directory and busie at chusing Elders and so went under the notion of a Presbyterian But 't was not long before the Independents through their greater Courage and Policy had undermin'd and vanquisht t'others Interest and when possest of the Authority he saw 't was folly to expect a Sallery as Guide in that way the Governing-Party of the Nations had rejected and therefore was obliged to list himself a Volunteer in Jo. Munny's Independent Congregation t was then the beheaded King was by this Guide both preach't printed as a Toe of that Image the little Stone cut out of the Mountain without hands was to smite and therefore says the fall of the ten Kingdoms was begun the Lord is risen out of his habitation gainsay not for who seeth not the alteration is of the Lord And in his Answer to an Objection that this Prophecy was accomplisht when this Nation fell from Popery sayes he Doctrinally it was but not Politically the Government hath continued the same yea and hard enough to the Saints alias NONCONFORMISTS none can deny it Now the Change this Prophecy speaks of respests the Government In another place sayes he There can be no clearer evidence that God is about this work of breaking down this great IMAGE and smiting the very Feet and Toes thereof than this present Victory over the Scottish Forces at Dunbar which we are now to render Thanksgiving to God for the cause of this War being Whether this IMAGE shall be upheld or the Feet and Toes be broken In short O ye Honoured Worthies whom the Lord hath raised up to effect these great Changes carry on the Lord's Work That your People may not have cause to say We have changed our TYRANTS not our TYRANNY Although Providence seems to put an Impossibility of setling Government in the Former way But time hath proved him both a Temporizer and a false Prophet 'T was also then he sought if possible to ingratiate himself with the Powers and People of the Land by his most invective and false discourse against the harmless Quakers with a large Dedicatory Epistle to O. Cromwel allow'd by him of England Scotland Ireland c. Protector to whom amongst other extraordinary Complements I cannot let pass these expressions where he invites him as God's Delegate in honour to Jesus Christ and out of love to the Churches of Christ for whose welfare you have this Great Power committed to You to stop these Seducers c. concluding thus The Lord of Heaven and Earth bless your Highness with the continuance of his gracious Presence with you that as you have done valiantly in the high places of the Field that is fought against King and Bishops so you govern as righteously and happily in the Gates of the City O gross dissimulation Now 't is he turns Engagement-man and is employ'd by the several Churches in Norfolk to R. Cromwel on the Death of Oliver as their Representative about that Petition or Address made by the Priests in general which terms the Father Moses and the Son the Joshua that should conduct them to the Holy-Land But he being by the Projections and angry resentments of the Long-Parliament divested of his usurped Authority this Guide finds out a very honourable Epithite for it which had not long tasted of Power before another Revolution took its place but I must needs confess that when 't was noised A King was coming in and the Church of England to be restored to all her ancient Emoluments so called this Guide grew seemingly dejected and very forward in expressing his dislike against their Spiritual Lordships and not less contumeliously as he now would think both of her Worship and Discipline hoping the Presbyterians Testimony of Allegiance in their zealously assisting to facilitate the King's Return would so far interest him in their concerns as not wholly to be excluded from the exercise of their Religion in the Land But when 't was manifest that nothing under an open Conformity would purchase the enjoyment of their Parishes whatever becomes of them this Guide slinks from his Independant Church and Presbyterian hopes reads the Common-Prayer-Book subscribes the Articles changes Oliver Richard or Parliament for Charles once a Toe of the Beast that the little Stone was to smite of England Scotland Ireland c. And in the place of Christs Churches the Church of England with the whole Tribe how ever dignified or distinguished the beheaded King once the first broken Toe of the Image now he commemorates with an Anniversary Sermon and as the top of all boldly renounces his so solemnly-taken League and Covenant What temporizing's this O what unheard-of Hypocrisie is here But Reader what 's thy opinion of the matter Can Oliver be Moses Richard Joshua and Charles Defender of the Faith altogether whose Interests were so opposite as the last to be exiled and kept so by both With whom was God's presence in all these times the Church of England If so then not with those that turn'd her out where Clapham had his Parish How plainly have his actions unmaskt the gross dissimulation of his heart and these corrupt fruits explain'd the poisonous nature of the tree that brought them forth But lest I may be thought to wrong him as if it were impossible for one who pretends himself a Christian Minister to be guilty of such abominable time-serving Reader peruse these passages where he confidently affirms such to have been the best wisest and most judicious Christians who under all those great Changes and Revolutions amongst us of latter times have endeavoured the maintaining the Fundamental Doctrines of the Gospel even to a degree of complyance in things of a lower nature in which he positively concludes all persons from Canterbury to the meanest Curat in the Nation as also Seculars in their respective places have been to blame both as to their understanding and wisdom in not yeelding with Clapham in those smaller matters viz. an expulsion of the