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tradition_n	church_n	rome_n	rule_n	1,674	5	7.3405	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A71198	For England's information, reformation, great joy, peace, and consolation; and for her great honour, and exaltation, and for the great shame, contempt and terror of the Turk, the Pope, and the Devil, and all the workers of evil	Varney, John.	1679 (1679)	Wing V114B; ESTC R203878	63,496	118

loth and forsake them In these Days of the Gospel the Lord who is most great and most good most wise and most strong is very angry and has been for a long time with this Generation but most of all with the Ministers of the Gospel throughout the whole Nation for not minding and regarding who hath believed their Report and to whom the Arm of the Lord is revealed for his Arm is very long and very strong and that his Enemies the Workers of Iniquity will know in these Days of the Gospel to their great shame and overthrow Ought not the Ministers of the Gospel to mind what they sow in weakness in whom the Great and the Mighty God doth raise in Power or else they do but undervalue their own Labours and encourage their Adversaries who labour to undermine and overthrow the Protestant Religion His Majesty of Great Britain and the Church of England What have the Ministers of the Gospel to mind Who ought they to mind more than that man whom the Lord of Hosts has made strong for himself and his Anointed when that too many have made themselves strong in Parts against him and our Royal Soveraign His Maj●sty of Great Britain But what will they get but shame and confusion for they will be brought down and that with a witness Though it is not in the power of the Ministers of the Gospel to beget so Renowned a Grace as precious Faith where it is not yet ought it to be their great Care to countenance incourage and take notice of that person in whom it is wrought because it is such a spark that it will in time break forth into a slame for the Glory of Gods great Name and to put the Enemies of the Gospel to shame It is high and honourable Work that the God of Heaven has stirr'd me up for to make known his Mind for the great Joy Peace and Prosperity of Mankind And I have endeavoured to deny my self to overcome my self and to lay out my self in so noble a Design I have ventur'd my Life endangered my Liberty and have exposed my self to many Losses Crosses and Reproaches to be blam'd sham'd and condemn'd by many men But I had rather be condemn'd for doing well though I do it not so well as I should do by the Sons of Men than to be condemn'd by the God of Heaven for not making known his Mind as well as I can do The Lord is merciful and will pass by many Weaknesses and Infirmities of his Children but he is just and righteous and will punish severely them that be rebellious and disobedient They that know their Lords will and do it not will have stripes enough for though the Lord be slow to anger yet is he great in Power They that do slight and under-value me it is not so much me as they do the Wisdom and the Power of the Almighty who works with me and in me and for me for the Glory of his great Name for the Credit of his holy Gospel for the great Honour and Renown of the Protestant Religion for the great Exaltation of His Majesty of Great Britain above all Heathen and Popish Kings Priests Princes and Emperors in the World which will bring great Joy and Triumph to the Church of England and great Peace and Prosperity to many Kingdoms which will be brought about in these days of the Gospel in spight of the Turk the Pope and the Divel and all the Workers of Evil. It is the Power of Faith which is the Power of God that doth set a-work the Powers of the Soul and the Powers of the Soul set a-work by the Powers of Heaven will be inabled to prepare high and honourable Work pleasant prositable and delightsom Work victorious glorious and crowning Work to be managed by the Powers of the World for the Glory of the most High and the great Honour and Renown of Englands Royal Majesty That all Strife Contention and Wars throughout the whole World may cease that so among all People in all Nations there may be a free Trade great Joy and a lasting Peace The Religion of the Church of Rome must not be Countenanced Encouraged or Tolerated among the Sons of Men in any Nation City Town or Corporation under the Canopy of Heaven because it is a Religion full of Deceit and throughout the whole World the greatest Cheat It is a Religion that is an Idle Fowl that doth at once pick the Purse and damn the Soul It is a Religion managed with all the Crafts of the World the Flesh and the Devil therefore it is a Religion full of Pride Vain glory Hypocrisie and Treachery It is a wicked Religion because it makes them that Conform to it to be seven-sold more the Children of the Devil than they were by Nature All the Sons and the Daughters of Men are bad by Nature but the Religion of the Church of Rome makes Men worse by Practice But God so loved the World that he has sent the Gospel of his Son which is taught in the Church of England that Men might be turned from a state of Nature into a state of Grace and from the power of Sin and Satan into the Glorious Liberty of his Children which is to injoy Power against Sin and Victory over the World the Flesh and the Devil and all the Workers of Evil. But the Religion of the Church of Rome makes her Children Servants to Sin Slaves to the World and the Devil and Enemies to their own Souls and so being hardned in Sin by Custom and Practice they are not afraid nor ashamed to Combine and Design from time to time to undermine and overthrow the Protestant Religion His Majesty of Great Britain and the Church of England But for ever blessed and praised be the God of Heaven who to Admiration from time to time has watched over this Nation that it has not by unreasonable bloody and deceitful Men been brought to Desolation but no thanks be to them that have made a Separation for they have done what they can to put a Sword into our Enemies hand By their Pride and Contention Sedition and Rebellion many have turned Atheists and Papists so that the Church of Rome has been strengthned and encouraged from our Selves Ever since the Church of Rome has made Shipwrack of Faith and of a good Conscience and has preferred their Traditions Inventions and lying Wonders above Gods Commandments which is the Rule of Faith and Manners their Religion has been an abominable Reproach unto Christ and his Gospel They do profess Christ but they do deny him because they will not be ruled by his Word nor have him rule in them by his Spirit They do mock Christ in their Sacraments and persecute him in his Members so that the Religion of the Church of Rome is a bloody Religion upheld by Tyranny and Oppression The Blood that the Church of Rome has caused to be shed in the World from time to time by

what they Sow in Weakness in whom the Great and the Mighty God doth Raise in Power or else they do but Undervalue their own Labours and Encourage their Adversaries For it is not enough for the Ministers of the Gospel to Preach the Word of God in Season and out of Season but they ought to mind who hath Believed their Report and to whom is the Arm of the Lord Revealed For his Arm is very long and very strong and that his Enemies will know in these Days of the Gospel and in the Reign of our Royal Soveraign to their great Shame and Overthrow The Great and the Mighty God that gives Life to a Worm can give Power to a Man to make all his Enemies throughout the whole World to Tremble And that without having a Sword in his Hand or Men or Money at Command Therefore as my Heart is Ingaged for the God of Heaven so it is Inraged against all them that do Slight and Undervalue his Holy Word and Question his Mighty Power By the Power of God I am what I am and will Labour to do what I can that his Name and Works throughout the whole World may be known to be most Glorious and His Majesty of Great Britain's Royal Person Crown and Kingdoms most Renowned and Famous among all and above all Heathen and Popish Kings Priests Princes and Emperors in the World If ever there was a time for to manifest the Power of Faith for the great Honour and Renown of England's Royal Church and State it is in such a time when that too many do Question the Truth of it and few brings forth the Fruit of it which is Love and Obedience to God and Man Great is the Power of Faith that doth inable a Mortal Man to have Power with the God of Heaven to get Power from him and to Act with Power for him and that in the worst of times and before the best of Men in these Days of the Gospel and in the Reign of our Royal Soveraign His Majesty of Great Britain That among all People in all Nations there may be a general Reformation Throughout the whole World there must be but one Religion and that is the Protestant Religion as it is Establish'd in the Church of England for it is the true Religion because it doth hold forth and declare the knowledge of the true God and Jesus Christ whom he hath sent without Believing in him and willing to be Ruled by him there is not any of the Sons and Daughters of Men that can be Saved As for the Church of Rome her Children cannot Learn true Religion because their Teachers are False Prophets and Deceivers Instead of Consolation they do many times meet with Condemnation and instead of Salvation they be Exposed to great Damnation When the Blind Lead the Blind they do fall into the Ditch When the People are Ignorant and their Teachers not Sound in the Faith there cannot be a true Church nor a good State The Church of Rome will in these Days of the Gospel and in the Raign of our Royal Soveraign His Majesty of Great Britain be soon brought down because that they stand upon a Sandy Foundation as Tradition and Lying Wonders And their Trust and Considence it is in an Arm of Flesh which is Carnal Wisdom Power and Strength which has Decieved many and will Deceive them What saith the Lord whose Word shall stand and prevail when all their Wisdom Power and Strength their Pride and Glory shall fail Thus saith the Lord Cursed be the Man that trusteth in Man and maketh Flesh his Arm Cursed be the Turk the Pope the French King and the King of Spain and all those that do use their Wisdom their Power and their Strength to hinder the Gospel in any Nation that it should not prevail The Jews that do slight the Gospel and deny Christ cannot be Saved but by looking up upon him whom they have Pierced and Crucified The Proud Turk cannot be Saved by his Mahomet It must be by the Gospel which doth hold forth Jesus Christ who is the Lord of Life and the King of Glory who is ready and willing in all Nations to save Sinners that will deny their own Carnal Wisdom Power and Strength he will give them Divine Wisdom Power and Strength which will Enable them that do Injoy it for to Understand the mind of God to do the will of God and to Injoy the Favour of the Everliving God which is better than Life or all the Delights of this World Because that the Church of England has kept the Word of Gods Patience he will keep her in the hour of Temptation which is come to try all Nations in these Days of the Gospel and in the Reign of our Royal Soveraign His Majesty of Great Britain Great will be the Peace and the Prosperity of the Church of Christ throughout the whole World For the Lord will Judge among al Nations by his Word and Spirit and will Rebuke all them that will not submit to the Gospel of his Son which is the only means that the Wisdom of the Father has appointed for the Saving of lost Man so that they that have trusted to their Wisdom their Power and their Strength will beat their Swords into Plow Shares and their Spears into Pruining Hooks For Nation shall not lift up Sword against Nation neither in these Days of the Gospel shall they learn War any more as they have done but great will be the Joy and Triumph of the Church of England Great will be the Honour and Exaltation of our Royal Soveraign His Majesty of Great Britain And great will be the Peace and the Prosperity of many Kingdoms So that in the Reign of our Royal Soveraign many Nations will be freed from Slavery and throughout the whole World there will be great Joy Peace and Prosperity This I Declare but not by my own Wisdom and Power nor by the Wisdom and Power of any Mortal Men but by the Wisdom and Power of the God of Heaven who doth all things in Heaven and in Earth according to the Counsel of his own Will and that when and by whom he will that so all the Glory may Redound to him and that no Flesh should Glory before him This great and mighty God who is the Searcher of all Hearts and has the command over all Spirits who can speak Peace when he please and by whom he please to a Person or to a Nation has stirr'd me up to Engage with him and has given me Wisdom Power and Athority from his Word and Spirit for to understand his mind and to make it known in due time for the great Joy Peace and Prosperity of Mankind Had any one have promised to give me Ten Thousand Pound for to Engage in so Noble a Design I should not have Ventured my Life Endangered my Liberty for to Engage in a Business of so High a Nature that I have neither President Example or

for Christ and the Lord Christ as God and Man in one Person will find that the Father and the Son will manifest themselves unto them and by their Spirit will revive refresh counsel comfort and strengthen them in every State and Condition under every Tryal Trouble and Affliction that the Sons and the Daughters of Men are exposed unto in the Wilderness of this World The God of Heaven who is most Great and most Good most wise and most strong is Love and he that dwelleth in Love dweleth in God and God in him which will enable a man to bring about great and wonderful things for the great Honour and Exaltation of a Kings Person and the great Peace and Prosperity of many Nations Man's loving of God who is most good is a Fruit of Gods loving of him though he be very bad but not the Cause Gods Love to Man is free he don't deserve it neither can any of the Sons and Daughters of Men merit it by all their Works and Duties Mans love to God is a Duty the God of Heaven doth require it because that he is most worthy of it to be beloved above all and more than all They that love the God of Heaven most will serve and honour him best and they that honour him he will them to some he doth it in this World with Honours Riches and a long Life but to all that be faithful and fruitful in good Works such works that be pleasing to him and profitable to others he will honour in his own Kingdom with Glory Immortality and the Crown of Lise O Great is the Power of Faith which is the Power of the God of Heaven which doth inable a weak and an unlikely man for to prepare high and honourable Work pleasant profitable and delightsome Work Victorious Glorious and Crowning Work to be managed by many Wise Strong Rich and Learned Men for the Glory of the Great and Mighty God for the Credit of his Holy Gospel for the great Honour and Renown of the Protestant Religion for the great Honour and Exaltation of our Royal Soveraign his Majesty of Great Britain above all Heathen and Popish Kings Priests Princes and Emperors in the World so that we shall become the wonder of the World and a wonder to our selves the Desire and the Delight of Nations the Joy of the whole Earth and the City of the great King for Unity Peace and Concord for Piety and Vertue for Wisdom Power and Strength and for Honours Riches and great Glory which will be brought about in these days of the Gospel but not by the Power of the Sword made by Men but by the Power of Faith which is the Wisdom and Power of the God of Heaven Therefore Glory be to God most high great Joy Peace Prosperity and good will towards Men on Earth Glory and great Glory from all Men and Angels to the most High Great Honour and Renown great Joy Peace and Prosperity is for Englands Royal Majesty Therefore with Angels and Archangels and all the Company of Heaven the glorious Company of the Apostles the goodly Fellow-ship of the Prophets the noble Army of Martyrs the Holy Church of Christ throughout the whole World let us all laud and magnifie praise and glorifie the God of Heaven the Father of an infinite Majesty for his unspeakable Love and innumerable Mercies from time to time bestowed on Mankind for the sake of his beloved Son our blessed Lord and only Saviour Jesus Christ who ever liveth and ever loveth and will take great Delight and Pleasure to reward them that be Wise Faithful Valorous and Couragious to the end But they that draw back unto Perdition and unto the Church of Rome's Tradition his Soul will take no pleasure in them but they that honour him he will honour them not onely before Mortal Men but before his Father and Holy Angels in the highest Heavens Therefore Glory and great Glory be to him and great Honour and Renown to England's Royal King our Gracious Soveraign Charles the Second by his Grace and Favour his Majesty of Great Britain above all Heathen and Popish Kings Priests Princes and Emperors in the World that so all Strife Contention and Wars throughout the whole World may cease and among all People in all Nations there may be a free Trade great Joy and a lasting Peace POSTSCRIPT WHat the God of Heaven has promised in time for the great Joy Peace and Prosperity of Mankind it will be brought about in due time for all his Promises are true and faithful every one more precious than Gold or the Gold of Ophir The Crown of Glory is in a promise them that be faithful to the Death will he give the Crown of Life The God of Heaven promised to send his Son and in the fulness of time he did come who is and was and ever will be the chiefest of Ten thousands in the highest degree and in these days of the Gospel the Lord will give unto him the Heathen for his Inheritance and the uttermost parts of the Earth for his Porfession for the Glory of his great Name to have his Enemies brought to shame and many Kings and Kingdoms to great Honour Renown and Fame To him that believes and knows he believes all things is possible to be done that is lawful commendable and most honourable under the Sun By what Divine Wisdom and Power has inabled me for to make known in time for the great Honour and Exaltation of his Majesties Royal Person and the great Joy Peace and Prosperity of many Nations the Reader that is Ingenious may learn to be good and to know when and how for to do much good in his Generation for the great Honour of God the King and Nation and that in the worst of times and before the best of Men and that without making of many words or having the voice much heard These days of the Gospel are times that will try the Wisdom and the Skill the Valour and the Courage of many Wise Strong Rich and Learned Men what they can do and what they will do for to bring about that noble Design that Divine Wisdom and Power has inabled me to make known in time for the Glory of his great Name for the Credit of his Holy Gospel for the great Honour and Renown of the Protestant Religion for the great Joy and Triumph of the Church of England which will bring great Peace and Prosperity to many Kingdoms which is to be brought about in these days of the Gospel for the Glory of the most High and for the great Honour and Exaltation of Englands Royal Majesty that so many Nations may be freed from Slavery and throughout the whole World there may be great Joy Peace and Prosperity The great and the mighty God who is most Wise and most Strong doth what whatsoever will in the Heavens above and in the Farth beneath and that when he please and with whom he please and that