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A38025 The Great question, or, How religion, property, and liberty are to be best secured humbly offered to the consideration of all who are true lovers of the peace of church and state... N. E. 1691 (1691) Wing E21; ESTC R17143 33,752 50

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Lord knowest me thou hast seen me and tried mine heart towards thee Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter and prepare them for the day of slaughter But this I hope is what we would not have to be our case it imports us therefore that laying aside all the flatteries of present Success were that as great as our hearts could wish we would consider a little who they are by whom we may hope to establish our Religien Property and Liberty by whom either Prince or Subject may hope to be thorowly settled And who can those be but the Just the Chaste the Temperate the Pious those especially who according to the Rule given Deut. 23.9 When the host goeth forth against the enemy keep them from every wicked thing for we know what one Achan did to the troubling of Israel Josh 7.25 And if an Army be made up of such with whom the Wedge of Gold and the Babylonish Garment weigh more than either Religion Property or Liberty what can be expected but that every Valley should be that of Achor only trouble and disappointment accompany our Arms it being what will be always true That Righteousness a word that will take in our Obedience to the whole Law of God exalteth a nation but sin is a reproach to any people Prov. 14.34 It was promised to the Jews If they walk'd in God's Statutes and kept his Commandments Levit. 26.3 that he would give them peace in the land and they should lye down and none should make them afraid ver 6. And ver 7 8. That they should chase their enemies and they should fall before them by the swo●d and five of them should chase an hundred and an hundred of them put ten thousand to flight And when at their great Solemnities of Religion they should be obliged to absent themselves from their Borders which lay most expos'd to the In road of the Enemy 't was likewise promis'd That no man should desire their land Exod. 34.24 And what was thus promis'd God never fail'd to make good to them while they held to this Rule And is it not he who hath asserted to himself to be the Lord who changeth not Mal. 3.6 Why then should we think that any thing else but this should qualifie for Success Why should we be such Infidels as to doubt that if thus qualifi'd He who is immutable always the same and cannot deny his Word should do it for us Would we know the Reason why the great Monarchies of the World have successively felt their Changes we have it Dan. 2.44 'T was because in the days of those Kings the God of Heaven set up a Kingdom which should never be destroyed a Kingdom that should not be left to other people but should break in pieces and consume all these Kingdoms and it should stand for ever 'T was this Kingdom a Kingdom of Righteousness that they oppos'd and therefore could not stand Had they submitted to this Kingdom as thus set up by the God of Heaven Mene Mene Tekel could never have been the Hand-writing upon the Wall against them Dan. 5.25 And may it not be for this very cause that Men submit not to this Kingdom the Kingdom of our Lord the Messiah or anointed one as he is stiled Psal 22. as 't is to be a Kingdom of Righteousness as this is his Scepter Heb. 1.8 That the Potters Vessels are dashing in pieces Psal 2.9 For I cannot otherwise express those Catastrophe's we in our days have seen in Christendom and are like I fear to see more such if a timely Reformation do not prevent I know to Men of common Politicks all this and could a Man add to it all that the Prophets of God have said on the same Argument for they met with the same Treatment when they did it will be lookt upon as Cant and Enthusiasm or whatever other reviling style those who know how to ridicule every thing that looks towards true Religion shall think fit to bestow on such as sigh and cry for all the abominations that are done in the land Ezek. 9.6 And whatever you shall talk of Reforming 't is their Armies and Stores their Friends and Alliances their worldly Interests they will still relye on Give them but the longest Sword secure them but the strongest Party if with all their Wisdom they could tell which that is I am sure 't is hard to do it here and hath been the constant Experiment to look no farther back than these last Thirty Years that hath been still trying among us and hath as often failed and they will give themselves Success But then I cannot but ask Where is Religion where is Property where is Liberty whilst Men act by such Principles 'T is Oppession 't is Cruelty 't is Injustice 't is Pride 't is Ambition 't is Vncharitableness the highest Prophaneness and Infidelity where ever Men thus steer And I doubt not if Men still will hold to these weak Designs God will in his due time infatuate all such Achitophels and let them see what 't is to leave Him out of their Councils But what is it then you offer will Men say that at length we may be in the harbour that we may fit out our Vessels and list our Soldiers and promise Success to either Why who can offer more than God and his good Spirit have been pleas'd to offer And what is that but what I have already enlarged on that we return to the Lord our God and be obedient unto his voice Deut 4.30 Or as 't is given in the last Prophet before the coming of the Messias That we should remember the Law of Moses the servant of God which he commanded him in Horeb Mal. 4.4 as being that alone by which the hearts of the fathers are to be turn'd unto the children and the hearts of the children to their fathers or as 't is in St. Luke's Paraphrase The disobedient to the wisdom of the just and that as it there follows to make ready a people prepared for the Lord Luke 1.17 As what so likely to prepare us for a settled Peace exprest thus by the turning of Mens Hearts towards one another what so likely to prepare us for Christ and his Kingdom as thus to make his and our paths straight Luke 3.4 to rectifie every thing that is crooked by this right line and make the rough ways smooth by submitting every one his Passion and disorderly Appetite to the plain Rule of God's Law What so like to advance the Throne of that King whose Royal Character 't is to reign in righteousness Isa 32.1 as the Justice and Vprightness the Holiness and Purity of his Subjects Saith the Apostle Rom. 14.17 The kingdom of God is not meat and drink but righteousness peace and joy in the Holy Ghost For he that in these things serveth Christ is acceptable to God and approved of men let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace and things wherewith we may