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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53112	The complaint of English subjects delivered in two parts. First part, is the complaint, of the poor, middle, and meanest sorts of subjects, concerning their bodily assistance. Second part, is the true Christians complaint, against vice, and wickedness, for the good of their soul's health. Also, werein is set forth, the late prodigious growth, of atheism, errors, and vice: with a call to repentance. As also, how needful it is, in these times, for every one of us, first of all, to look into our own hearts, and endeavour to amend what is their amiss. And lastly, a brief discourse, concerning our late unfruitful, and cold summers: as also, what is thought to be the real causes of it, by way of opposition, to the opinion of astrologers. By Richard Newnam of Tiverton in Devonshire.	Newnam, Richard.	1700 (1700)	Wing N935; ESTC R218651	71,890	130

Cheats Oppression Vices And now I say God who is the searcher of all Hearts doth know that in and by the setting forth of this whole Treatise in both parts I aim at nothing more than the glory of God the honour and safety of the King and the good and welfare of all good Subjects And according to the Apostle Paul his saying in his 16th Chapter of his Epistle to the Romans vers 19. To the best of my Capacity I can truly say that in the doing of this I have only endeavoured to be wise concerning what is good and I am simple in any thing that is or can be evil in the doing of it And therefore I hope all Men whatsoever will have so much Charity for me as to believe me in what I here say for the God of Heaven doth know that I speak the truth And now 2dly I say as to Preaching this Treatise of mine I think hath not in it in the least any thing of that nature that may any way properly be called Preaching for I dare not take upon me to mention any particular Scriptures only to raise other Discourses from them nor do I take on me to raise from them Doctrines or Observations but I only use them as supports to strengthen these my several Arguments and that only on such several occasions as their is as I think extraordinary occasion for it and that only to stir up the Hearts of men to do what is good for I think with my self this that tho' some men may not believe these my Arguments alone yet my hope is that when my Arguments are agreeable with God's Word that then Men may the sooner embrace them and believe in them But as for Preaching I dare not think my self any way qualified so to do yet nevertheless I think that this my Treatise may modestly deserve the Name or Title of a Friendly Admonition and for such a thing as that with all humble submission to better Judgments I presume so to offer it And in so doing I hope I have not done any way amiss in it for it is our Imcumbent Duty every one of us to advise and admonish one another and in so doing we ought to do it in Word and Deed with all our Hearts in the name of the Lord Jesus without respect of Persons as we may read it in the 3d. Chapter of the Epistle of Paul to the Colossions the 16 17 23 24 and 25. Verses And also to the same purpose you may read it in the second Epistle of Paul to the Thessalonins the third Chap. the 13 14 and 15 Verses And now I most humbly Beseech the Great God of Heaven to bestow his Blessings upon these my weak Endeavours and also to give you all a Right understanding of this my Poor Mean yet well intended Treatis now offered unto Your Greatneses with an Heart full of Integrity and true Loyalty both towards God the Protestant Religion my King and Country I am Your Majesty's Loyal Subject and the Honourable Parliament's devoted Servant Richard Newnam of Tiverton in Devonshire And now at Last With all Humble Submission and true Loyalty I here present unto Your Most Gratious Majesty and the Parliament the Abstract of my whole Treatise which I have endeavoured to set forth in these plain low stile following Verses whose Sound to the most Learned and Eloquent must needs be very uncouth yet are in their own simple Nature truly Cordial And if but rightly applyed as they are by me Innocently offered then I shall gain my desired end in hopes of which I farther say WE have of late found Nature out of frame The Stars lookt Blunt the Sun shin'd not the same To warm the Earth as did some Years ago Summer from Winter we did hardly know But by green Leaves which did to us appear To shew the Revolution of the Year But Grass Herbs Fruits came scant in their due Season What Star-gazar can give for this a Reason 'T was from disorder of the Heavenly Bodies But how or why past knowledge of such Noddies As took on them such Secrets to discover They fail'd in that as they do in the Weather As Gadbury in the late James's his Reign To him predicted Conquest all in vain And so Partridge the French King quite cry'd down And meant as if he needs must lose his Crown Which if he had then England might Rejoyce But more I le say now with a chearful Voice God grant our King by God protected be Not fear nor trust doubtful Astrologie But now again to my intended Theme We yet may feel what God by this doth mean Mens wickedness God's Blessings do withstand And bring sore Evil's on a fruitful Land (a) Read the 5th Chap. of Jeremiah more particularly the 25th vers O England leave thy Swearing Cursing Damning (b) Matthew 5.34 Thy monstrous Pride thy Drunkenness and thy Whoring (c) 1 Cor. 6. Chap. 9.10 Jer. 5.8 Thy Cheating Thieving Filching and False Coining Thy Undermining Falshood and Purloining (d) Amos 5.12 Dost thou not Fawn Flatter Lye Bribe and Juggle Such Evil Deeds may bring on thee much trouble (e) Read Amos 8. the whole chapter Stop now in time God's Eye looks on thy score (f) Amos 9.8 1 Pet. 3. Chap. 12. When it is full he 'll visit thee therefore (g) Jer. 5.29 More Dearth great Want more Troubls not less one jot May fall on thee if thou Repent thee not (h) Amos 4. the whole chapter Be thou now wise to play the surest Game Serve God in Heart and not only in Name (i) Prov. 23.26 Deut. 5.29 Deut. 6.5 Be Faithful Just Upright in every thing (k) Amos 5.24 Give the poor Subject right so give the King Give God his due the like give unto Caesar (l) Luke 20.25 Take thy own due do right unto thy Neighbour (m) Luke 6.31 Luke 10.27 28. Prov. 22. Chap 22 23. Fear thou God honour the King wish all men health Relieve the Poor love thy Neighbour as thy self (n) 1 Pet 2. Chap. ●7 Men rule on Earth but God doth rule in Heaven Expecting Men to act both plain and even (o) Rom. 13. the whole chapter AND now may 't please Your Gracious Majesty My Muse prompts me to sing another alay For with my Soul in love I write to You And now will say no more than I think True (p) Prov. 14.25 If You have Foes whose hatred You may dread It s now high time poor Subjects to regard In your defence by Foes they 'l not be Branded If Poverty don't make them too weak-handed But pinching pineing starving Misery (q) Prov 14. Chap. 18. and 28. Hereafter may drive some from Loyalty Some Men there be that have abus'd Your Trust Which makes the Poor within them take disgust Your Laws are just Your Taxes just but then Unjustly laid on some by Unjust Men. (r) Prov. 14.34 The

Leaves thereof do now begin to overshadow the Glory and Brightness of the true Protestant Religion Gospel of our most Blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ which is yet by some good men's endeavours devoutly upholden within this our Land which God of his great Mercy always grant unto us and amongst us to send many more such faithful Labourers to prevent the farther growth of this now mighty Tree of Atheism that so at last for want of future nourishment it may at last perish by the root and so at last dye evelastingly away is my Prayer But 2dly I say from this pernitious Root of Atheism springs forth Errors For no sooner can a Traveller be out of his right way but he must inevitably be in a wrong Path that will lead him aside or backwards so that by means thereof it may be a long time before he will be able to reach to his Journeys-end Again I say Natural Philosophers do hold this for a Maxim tha● there is no Vacuum in the Globe of the whol● World which if so then comparatively I may say that in the whole Body of Divinity ther● can be no Vacuum but it must be full of Truth or Truth mixt with Error Again I say a● likely a thing it is that if Truth in any Cause Matter or Things whatsoever fly from or give ground to Error then consequently Errors wil● step into Truth 's Ground and so possess Truth● place which things of late Years by sad experience hath been found to true For through th● Erroneous Lives of some Men that do profess themselves to be true Church of England Men Truth by means thereof hath of late Years been a great Sufferer whilst Errors in the mean time hath gained great Applauses amongst sim●le and weak Ones And no wonder is 〈…〉 made of it if we do but consider how man● 〈◊〉 there be that do profess themselves to be of and for and belonging to the Church of England that can say no more in the defence of their Faith than to say Here is a Health to the Church of England with confusion to all them that are of any other Opinion But such Expressions and Sayings are not only foolish and bruitish but they are very uncharitable also and the Doctrine of the Church of England teacheth such Men as so say better Principles for it teacheth all Men to have Charity for all Persons and all sorts of People as well for such as are not of that Faith as for those that are within the Pale of that Church And therefore I say great pity it is and much to be lamented and I my self cannot otherwise but be much troubled for it to see and hear such a most worthy honourable excellent and authentick Religion so much slighted undervalued and despised as now our most honourable Church of England is by many poor simple and weak Creatures who through want of Right Understanding stumble at Truth in the very plain Ways and Paths of Righteousness it self and that only because some of the Pastors of our Church are now become foolish bruitish and very loose Livers throughout their whole Lives and Conversations But the greater is the shame to all such of them as so do and so live and a great Account one Day for it they must all give And now with all my Heart I could wish that all such Evil Members were cast out of our Church for they do meerly thereby Eclipse the very Glory of our Religion and such Men cannot be otherwise but like great Stumbling-blocks which still lie in the very middle way of our Church-Paths which leads towards our several Sanctuaries and thereby keep back many Simple Ones from going to hear God's Word truly preach'd by other worthy Members of the Church of England whose Lives and Conversations have always adorned their Preaching But yet nevertheless notwithstanding all this yet such are the weak Capacities of many People that when they see such stumbling-Blocks lie in the way before them and just in the very Church-Path it self then rather than they will step over them or endeavour to avoid them by their going onward by either of the sides of them they will rather go back again or turn in to some other unknown ways wherein it may be at last they many of them do stumble indeed and many times thereby fall in Head-long into that most dangerous Gulf of Atheism it self And such things as these I my self do much lament them as I my self am one of that Faith which is of and belonging to that Church known by the Name of the Church of England from which Faith I hope I shall never waver But again it may be said What are there none that do live in Lewdness and lead wicked prophane Lives but such Men as are called by the Name of Church of England Men To this I Answer There be some of all Opinions and Professions that are altogether so vile and as filthy in their Lives and Conversations as any Church-men whatsoever only they have a way of carrying it off more privately to the World for what they do is more secretly and more Hypocritically so that I cannot decide the matter so as to say which is the worst of them both of them and all of them are all to bad and I heartily wish that they may all and every one of them amend and turn from their evil ways as I my self shall endeavour to amend my own evil ways for I acknowledge my self to be a great Sinner And now I say to you my Native Country-men of our Town of Tiverton in Devonshire spare me not but either exclaim against me or reprove me in or for any thing that is Evil that you either know in me or of me or against me and if it be true that you lay to my Charge I will patiently bare your Reproof and endeavour to amend what is in me amiss to the best of my power and for what is wanting in my self to be enabled so to do I shall desire God to assist me so as that I may be the better able to eschew all manner of Evil and follow nothing but what is Good And the same Resolution in every thing I advise all and every of you and all other Persons whatsoever that hope to be saved in and through the Love of God and the Merits of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ you all of you and every of you ought to take which Resolution so taken and so put in Practice then we shall all of us at last reap the benefit of it and not otherwise But again something more I must say concerning Errors and Erroneous Livers and that is this I say take this for certain that amongst all our Opinions Sects and Religions their are some Errors For their is but One true God but One true Religion but One true Faith and but One true Way to serve this true God Then how can so many Ways as we profess in and