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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66772	A proclamation in the name of the King of kings, to all inhabitants of the isles of Great Brittain and especially to those who have hypocritically pretended to justice, mercy, honesty, and religion (as also to them who have lived in open prophaness and impiety) summoning them to repentance, by denouncing God's judgements, and declaring his mercy, offered in the everlasting gospel / warrantably proclaimed and preached by Geo. Wither ... ; whereto are added, some fragments of the same authors, omitted in the first imprinting of the book, intituled Scraps and crums, and a few which were collected since that impression, and during his imprisonment.	Wither, George, 1588-1667.	1662 (1662)	Wing W3181; ESTC R12240	34,610	74

mercy without excepting any who returns unto him by hearty repentance yea he takes all opportunities whereby he may shew Compassion with preservation of his Justice and is so inclinable to Mercy that he oft withholds his Judgments from wicked persons and places for the sakes of a few Righteous men among them though they persecute and seek to destroy them for whose sakes they are preserved and vouchsafes temporal Blessings as he did to Ahab for outside Humiliations He is not as his Enemies do scandalously report of him a hard Master who looks to reap where he sowed not and to gather where he strewed not but so just that he will require no more at any mans hands but according to what he hath given nor punish any one for the sin of another There is no better means for us who are Subjects to live safely in Holiness and Righteousness without fear than to adhere constantly to GOD's Commands without dread of men and to obey our Superiours in obedience to the LORD Nor any surer way for Kings to possess the Thrones of their Kingdoms upon Earth in honour and safety without jealousies than to provide as much as in then lieth that GOD may possess his Throne in the Hearts and Consciences of Men without Rivals and to endeavour to be just as he is just and to be merciful as he is merciful acording to their measure For whatsoever the Parasitical Flatterers of Kings would make them believe they may be more secure from dangers at home abroad by those poor consciencious men who are despised than with twenty times so many Ruffians and God-damn-me's though assisted also by the formal devotions and fained sanctity of superstitious worshippers who seem glorious and powerful in outward appearances I have observed by what Histories testifie that those great Kings and Conquerors of the world to whom GOD heretofore translated the Kingdoms of men from their former possessors when he changed Governors and Governments enjoyed them in peace and honour so long and so far forth as they tolerated the Servants of GOD to worship Him according to their Consciences though they themselves were Heathens and false worshippers The Mercy of GOD leadeth to Repentance and extendeth to and over all his Works This I am warranted to proclaim by vertue of his grand Charter and by his Commissions heretofore issued-out for the comfort and encouragement of every true penitent Believer in the days of his fiercest Indignation These are the glad Tydings of the Universal Gospel which caused the Angels to rejoyce and sing at the birth of Jesus Christ this song Glory be to GOD on High On Earth peace good will towards men Let us joyn with that celestial Quire in magnifying of this great Mercy which so much concerns us for it is our noblest Interest and that which most advanceth GoD's Glory Let our Burthen to that Song be Amen Hallelujah Praise the LORD Let us be zealous in defending this Universal Charter and not be seduced by those who seek to abridg itto such a narrowness and to such an uncertainty that if they should be believed we had more cause to howl and lament than to sing This Gospel is the sum and scope of that Testimony which was and is given by those two Witnesses the two Olive Branches and two Candlesticks which stand before the God of the Earth bearing witness against the Beast rising out of the bottomless-Pit who was to war upon them and slay them and leave their Bodies as a dead Letter unburied three dayes and an half in the Streets of the great City until the Spirit of Life from GOD should enter into them and make them ascend up into Heaven in the sight and to the amazement and vexation of their Enemies Therefore they whosoever they be though pretending to be of GOD's Counsel and to be acquainted with his Eternal Decrees shall preach contraty hereto and think they honour GOD by bounding His universal and infinit Mercy deal with Mankind concerning His Charter of General Redemption as many among us now do concerning the Kings late Act of Indempnity and general Pardon pretending thereby to do him honour where●● intends both to his dishonour and disservice It is this mis-understanding and limiting the infinit Love of GOD which hath been the chief occasion of the narrowness of mens love to each other and of much of that discord and bloodshed which hath been in the world For such as men make their Gods to be such will they themselves be in regard as David saith They who make them are like unto them This I adde not impertinently nor by the suggestion of a contentious spirit in opposition to the judgment of others or with an uncharitable censure of those who do yet think otherwise But I have thus in my mode preached it in zeal to GOD's Truth and Glory who sees my heart and will punish me for it if it proceed from any other cause He is perfectly merciful so merciful in his Justice and so just in his Mercy that neither of them infringes the other and hath left us upon record two unquestionable exemplary Evidences which manifest that his Mercy is sincerely intended to every true penitent to be his Consolation when Judgements are epidemical and universal For though he spared not the old world but brought a general flood upon all the ungodly yet he even then spared Noah and his family and when he made the Cities of Sodom and Gomorrah an example to wilfull transgressors he then also spared Lot who lived among them and whose righteous soul they had vexed with their filthy and wicked conversation Thus will he likewise deal with all those in all times who have an upright and contrite heart though they have been grievous offenders so far forth as it shall be for his Glory and their eternal happiness Hear and heed this Proclamation for it is of GOD who is pleased in these dayes to preach Mercy by his most contemned Servants and cause them otherwhile to act in such Modes and by such Dispensations as to the world seem ridiculous and as probably he did in most mens eyes when his beloved Son rode meekly through Jerusalem on the foal of an Ass at the time wherein he first came to take a visible possession of his Kingdom upon Earth which humble deportment his now pretended General Vicar and the proud Kings of the Earth would have scorned upon the dayes of their Inauguration Which the Prelats though raised out of the lowest of the people as Jeroboams priests were and though pretending to be the successors of Christs humble Apostles would have disdained to be carried in that meek manner to their Instalments But many other things appearing contemptible to flesh and blood will be permitted ere long to make preparation for the coming of King JESUS whom they scoff at who sit in the Chair of the Scornfull It hath pleased GOD in this unusual manner to make me though unworthy to be his