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Show Tbe AuT H o R's L I F E. VoL. I. 138 1688. ' by Cbrifiians, that Men may bold the Truth i~. Unrighteoufnef5 ; that ~ ' they may be Onbodox, and not know what Sp1nt tlJty arc of;_ So were • the Apoflles of our Lord, they bdi~ved in him, yet let a falie Z~al do , Violence to their ]~tdgment, and thetr »nwarrantabk Hcdt conrrad1CI:tbe , Gre11t End of their S:~viour's Coming, Love. . . . , Men may be angry for God's Sake, and kill People ~o~. Cbrifi fa1d It, and , too many have praCHfcd _ir.· But what So~t of Cbrifttans muft ~hey be,. [ , pray, that can /1ate inh1s Name, who b1ds us, Love; a1~d K~lJ for hts Sake that forbids KiUing; and commands Love, even to Enem~cs? ' Let ~ot Men or Parties think to fhift it off from themfel \'CS: 'T1s not this ' 'Pri1rciple or that Form, to which fo great a Defe8:ion is owing, but a ' Drgener;(y of Mind ftom God. Cbri.flinnity is not at Heart, No Fear of ' God in the Inward Parts: No .Awe of his Divine Omniprefence. Self ptt· ' vails, and breaks out more or lefs, through all Forms ._but too plai~ly, " (Pride, Wratb, Luft, Avarice) fo that tho' People fay to God, T!Jy Wzll be 'do11e, they do their own\ which {hews them to be true Henthen.r, _under ' a Mark ofCbri/linnity, that believe without Work.r, and repent wuhout ' For faking, bufie for Forms, and the Temporal Benefiu ?f them, while tr11e ' Religion, which is to vifit the. Ftuherlefs, and the Wr~ote, and to J.:~epour 'fe/ves unfpottedfrom the World, goes bare-foot, and Like LnztJfll~ _1s def' pifed. Yet this was the Definition the Holy Ghoft gave of Rrbgzon 'be· ' fore Synods, aud Councils had the Medling with it, and Modeling of it. ' In thofe Days Bowels were a good Part of Religion, and that to the Fa· ' rher/efs and Widow at large. We can hardly now extend them to thofe of ' our own Way. It was faid by him that could not fay amifs; Bccaufe lniqui· ' ty abounds, t1Je Love of many waxtlb Co/d. Whatfoever divides Man's ' Heart from God. icparates it from his 1\"'eigbbour; and he that loves Self ' more than God, can never love his Neigbbo11r as himiClf. For (as the A' poftle i3.id) Jf we do not love bim wbom we hilve Jeen, How can we love God ' wlJom we have not f un ? ' 0 that we could fee fame Men as eager to turn People to God, as they ' a-re to blow them up, and fet them one againfr another. But indeed ' thofe only ca:nhavethat pure and Pious Zeal, who :ue themfelves tnrned ' to God, and have rafted the Sweetnefs of that Converfation, which is to ' Pocur, not Form; to Godlinefs, not Gain. Such as thofe do bend their ' Thoughts, and Pains to appeafe not Increafe HeJtS and Animofities, to ' ex_hort People to look at Home, fweep their own Houfcs, and weed ' their own Gardms. And in no Age or Time was there more need tofet 'Men at Work in their own Heans, than this we live in, when fo bufy, ' wandering, licentious a Spirit prevails, For whatever fOme Men may ' think, Tbt Difeilje of this Ki11gdom is Sin. Impiety againfi God, and want ' of Charity to .Men. And while tli.is Guilt is at our Door, ]14dgment can· ' not be far oi£. ' Now this being the Dijeafe, I will brieRy offer two Things for the 'Cure of it. Thefirft:is, David's Clean Heart and Right Spirir, which he ' a!ked and had of God: Without this we rnult be a Cbm !till. For rhe ' Diftemper is within; and, our Lord faid, All Evil comes from tbtnce. ' Set the Inward Man ,-igbt, and the Outward Alan cannot be wrong: That ' is the Helm that governs the Humane Veifel: And this Nothi~~ can do : but an ~nward Principle, ~he Li,&ht and Grace that came by Chrijt which the Scnptures tell us, en!tghrem every one, and htub appet~red to all Mrn. ' It is prepofterous to rhink that he, who made the World, fbould fho\t : leaft Care _of tke heft Par~ of it, ou: So11ls, No, he that gave us an out· Wtlrd LumznRry for our Bodzes, hath g1 veu us an ba.oard one for our Alinds ' to a a hy. We have it; and 'tis our Condemnation that we don't love it, : and bring our Deeds to it. 'Tis by this we fee our Sins, are made fenfib\c of them, forry for them, and finally forfakc them. And he that thinks ' to go to Heaven a ]\·eartr Way, will, I fear, belate his Soul and be ir· ' reparably Miftaken. There are but Goats and Sheep_ at lad, whateVer ' Shapes we wear here. Let's not therefore, Dear Friegd, deceive out 'feh•es. .VoL: I. The AtriiloR's LIFE: :felves. Oitr&N!sanntStaM Gd 11 ' 139 -, muft expeO to reap. There's ,;o Reo e mo I ke mocked, What ue foW -- ' th~t if non_e there, then no wher: ei}:nceT m the Grave; which fho~e 1688. - ' Mme, It IS the Lzght of Je(lll in ours; 0 Sum. up this Dzvmu of ~ ' our S~lves, and that Sight that leads u ul~ that gives us a true Sig{t of '~;rp,tsJ!umdtt)', and HJtmt!ay that tru~Q, epenthnct, which Reptntanet , o; au ts, wh1ch l call God:s &pedJtnt a ~rf{, t a~ covers a Mulrztude ' cond Remedy,. to our prefent Difle ga_tn .Man .s Injirmty. The S . ' profefs to believe in GoJ, Cbrifi, the s~e:;; IS thts; Smce all of all Parti~ ' ~mortal, that the~e are Eternal Retard' an~ Scnprure, that the Soult$ ' fitrtRo~ Ch.all hreceive the One, and the sR};nk J"nni}hments, and that the ' mce t ts IS t c Common Fartb of Ch ;n J' e uffer the Other . I fi , ~treb1gth bt God toltve up to what we r;g~:e ~m, t~ us all Refolve in:{~ , era Y a ut the Refi: in which wed ffi In, ore We fa11 out fo · 'fanrdt~dfif6fi whicNh that pious Courfc ~~uldab_perfwadcd, the Cha~~ ' . I po e our atures to campo d fi nng us to, would go ve y , ~1ght hope yet to fee happy Days in"" "'£ly for all the Relt and ~e ' ave fo good a V/ork begun Andho P?O~ ngland i for there 'I would ' of,heverf ff.e!tgrous Perfwafio;, (efpeciall;\b poffible for the Emment MeR ' r'-!' ts o ngland) to thmk of givin a e prefent MmifiersofthePil• ' wtt.hbut ufing the utmoft of their E;d n Account to God at the laft Da ' ~e,I~ refpeEhve Commumons, toward~a;b~fl to bmoderate the Members~£ ' tlpery to me: But this I know and mull 1 e ~ at difFer from them ia a a o my own Soul wuh it God ay It at their Doors 1 h : for he is at hand, who will not'[.~~:~~ Moderation and Humibt} fr~ma~~~ no Pauence for one another Th p E {udge our Impattcnce if w h , : \Vrath of Man, and humble alleun~:~a God rebuke (I befee'ch hi~) ~h: ~ ~nt ~et (unwTorthyas we are) giVe us p::,~ ~nfh_of irhe Evil of this Day~ ' tIS now Ime to end this Letter d • ?r IS u oly Name's Sake , more than this: Thou feeft my De/e!: I w!n do it without faying'any ' feedfr What my Thoughts are of our C Je agamft Popular ealNmny. thou an thou feeft my heart d on tttan, and the Wa b ' . 'us to be "{4 'fi y an humble Prayer to J:il. b y to etter It, , I WI _e, t H were but for our ow S k 1111C ty God, toincline , F am extre1rnely fenfibh of the K' d ,", a es. I fball only add That ' RI'e~ds on thts Occafion, and th~~ j~s an~ ]ujlue lmended me'by my .. ea.1ons. am l"Or thar, and many more (Teddington OElober tbe 241J 1688. Thy Ohli,ted antl..Affe!lionott FrienJ, On the fifth of J\'Ov b . W. P.' Torbay in Dtvanfh em tr thts Year, Wtllinm p. f O ' YamelsOfficersande, to the gr~at loy of the En ~met o range landed at TkPritUeDf Hearts of the Peopl:rry foon JOyn d thePrmce, a~frh N;pon: M~ny of K. Or411gt'sl1f11: to France. and by a Q Icnatcd from him, Withdrew he r;,'iC percetvmg the dtng. and the P;meeji Ala ;'b':!ensron call'd fhortly after theif:·d ~and went over and ~uten of En 1. d IS poufe K. James's Da~ b al nnce of Orange called Febntary ~6a:s &::c,Und were proclaitned 0~ rr; werh declared Kmg Frtendjh1p at Court ·9. J?On this Turn of the Tit e 1 3t of the Month vernment fo that' 0 mate him fuspeEl:ed of Difaffi limes, our Author's late he was fe~t forb th n J. e Ioth of December 168: ton to the prefent Go-- thing appeared a~a· ft b?rds of the Counctl then tf ':"alking in Whue·HaU, w. ' · iu,; tbzng, bur what l m dIm, and himfelf alfured h nttng ; and though no-- ,,mml. .b{ rile that be loved b:e C~~~t nnfwed be/ore God, and~~~ ~~~ J!Jat be bad done ntJo ~~~~~~t _rbt never aEled agmnfl E h ry an the Proteftant Reli rbnces m the World, rJJM no other than // er, that aU ht ever aimed gion a ove bu Life, and was 1lfways bu R w aa the Prince bunfc/fbad de 7.r 'J b)s puhltdl Endeavours, King's and d d run' and hr.r Farber's Fr d& are JOr; That King James Notwirhft I ever as much as In hzm Ia Jen , and m Gratulldt be was the firft Day of"t'""~hey obliged him to gfv~ zf'Nenu hlln to hu true lnurrfl. t e txt Term; which he dtd Rrdze.r for hts Appearance the .. T' ~an then W3S connnued on the fame |