Trade preferr'd before religion and Christ made to give place to Mammon represented in a sermon relating to the plantations : first preached at Westminster-Abbey and afterwards in divers churches in London / by Morgan Godwyn ...
Godwyn, Morgan, fl. 1685.
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Trade preferr'd before religion and Christ made to give place to Mammon represented in a sermon relating to the plantations : first preached at Westminster-Abbey and afterwards in divers churches in London / by Morgan Godwyn ...
Godwyn, Morgan, fl. 1685.
[6], 12, 34 p.
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Trade
preferr'd
before
Religion
,
AND
Christ
made
to
give
place
to
Mammon
:
Represented
in
a
SERMON
Relating
to
the
PLANTATIONS
.
First
Preached
at
WESTMINSTER-ABBY
,
And
afterwards
in
divers
Churches
in
London
.
By
MORGAN
GODWYN
,
sometime
Student
of
Christ-Church
in
Oxford
.
St.
JOH
.
4.
35.
Say
not
ye
,
There
are
yet
four
Months
,
and
then
cometh
Harvest
?
Behold
,
I
say
unto
you
,
Lift
up
your
Eyes
,
and
look
on
the
Fields
,
for
they
are
white
already
to
Harvest
.
Equidem
nescio
utrum
potius
faciam
,
querarne
nostrorum
temporum
calamitatem
,
&
charitatem
refrigescentem
,
fidemque
raro
in
quoquam
inventam
juxta
Domini
Verbum
,
tot
animarum
millia
ut
Christo
lucrifiant
,
non
satis
merces
videri
quae
nostrorum
animos
excitent
,
auri
argentique
cupiditatem
longè
plus
valere
apud
nos
,
ut
ista
si
desint
animarum
salus
pro
nihilo
fiat
.
Acosta
de
procur
.
Ind.
Sal.
l.
3.
c.
18.
London
,
Printed
for
B.
Took
at
the
Ship
in
St.
Paul's
Church-yard
,
and
for
Isaac
Cleave
at
the
Star
in
Chancery-Lane
,
1685.
Taken
out
of
one
of
the
Homilies
for
Whitsunday
.
Christ's
Spirit
it
is
,
that
engendereth
a
burning
zeal
towards
God's
Word
,
and
giveth
all
Men
a
Tongue
,
yea
a
fiery
Tongue
,
so
that
they
may
boldly
and
chearfully
profess
the
Truth
in
the
Face
of
the
whole
World.
—
The
Mystery
of
the
Tongues
betokeneth
the
preaching
of
the
Gospel
,
and
the
open
Confession
of
the
Christian
Faith
,
in
all
those
that
are
possessed
with
the
Holy
Ghost
.
So
that
if
any
Man
be
a
dumb
Christian
,
not
professing
his
Faith
openly
,
but
cloaking
and
Colouring
himself
for
fear
of
danger
,
he
giveth
Men
occasion
,
justly
and
with
good
conscience
to
doubt
,
lest
he
have
not
the
Grace
of
the
Holy
Ghost
within
him
,
because
he
is
Tongue-tyed
and
doth
not
speak
.
To
the
King.
May
it
please
Your
Majesty
,
THIS
Discourse
,
which
first
came
to
life
in
Your
Royal
Brother's
,
his
late
Majesty's
Reign
,
(
of
most
happy
memory
to
these
Nations
)
being
now
of
Age
to
appear
abroad
,
doth
humbly
prostrate
it self
at
Your
Majesty's
Feet
;
not
doubting
Your
most
gracious
Acceptance
,
if
but
for
the
End
and
Design
it
proposes
and
carries
with
it
:
Which
is
no
other
,
than
to
stir
up
and
provoke
Your
Majesty's
Subjects
Abroad
,
(
and
even
at
Home
also
)
to
use
at
least
some
endeavours
for
the
propagation
of
Christianity
among
their
domestick
Slaves
and
Vassals
;
(
together
with
the
other
numerous
Heathen
in
Your
Majesty's
Colonies
)
who
for
the
general
are
most
ambitious
thereof
,
were
their
Desires
seconded
by
suitable
Inclinations
in
their
Owners
,
so
as
to
afford
it
to
them
.
A
Duty
most
certainly
so
indispensibly
necessary
,
and
absolutely
incumbent
upon
all
,
but
especially
the
most
reformed
and
refined
Christians
,
that
it
may
justly
seem
a
Matter
of
greatest
admiration
and
astonishment
,
to
but
observe
that
it
has
hitherto
been
so
much
neglected
;
yea
,
and
not
only
neglected
,
but
(
I
cannot
express
it
without
shame
and
horror
!
)
even
scoffe
at
and
opposed
by
them
.
An
impiety
,
which
tho
before
not
wholly
unknown
to
Your
Majesty
,
(
as
having
been
,
by
a
very
reverend
and
worthy
Person
,
of
near
Relation
to
Your
Majesty
,
some
time
since
represented
to
Your
Majesty
)
is
yet
but
newly
arrived
within
Your
Power
to
remedy
.
But
for
the
which
we
have
the
greatest
assurance
,
to
wit
,
Your
Majesty's
Royal
Word
then
passed
upon
that
Your
first
notice
thereof
.
Your
Majesty
being
thereupon
pleased
,
not
only
to
testify
Your
highest
resentment
and
abhorrence
of
so
prophane
an
Abuse
,
but
withal
giving
most
manifest
Indications
of
Your
Desires
for
its
reformation
and
redress
.
And
like
a
most
religious
Assertor
,
and
zealous
Patron
of
the
Faith
once
delivered
to
the
Saints
;
Your
Majesty
declaring
it
most
reasonable
,
that
all
Men
should
be
made
to
partake
of
the
Grace
of
God
,
so
freely
in
Christ
tendred
unto
them
;
and
that
none
should
be
debarred
of
the
common
Salvation
,
especially
such
who
do
so
much
hunger
and
thirst
after
it
.
And
at
the
same
instant
,
no
less
admiring
,
that
any
pretence
of
Reason
should
by
Christians
(
and
those
too
of
the
best
sort
)
be
offered
to
the
contrary
;
much
less
so
resolutely
,
and
with
so
much
pertinacy
be
defended
and
persisted
in
.
And
when
in
refutation
of
that
no
less
impudent
than
most
impious
Assertion
,
of
the
Impracticableness
thereof
,
at
least
in
those
Parts
;
it
was
answered
and
urged
,
that
it
could
not
possibly
be
less
practicable
to
us
,
than
to
other
Nations
;
particularly
to
the
French
,
who
in
the
Island
of
St.
Christophers
,
(
half
whereof
is
peopled
by
that
Nation
,
but
the
rest
possessed
by
your
Majesty's
Subjects
)
without
finding
any
either
mischief
or
inconvenience
consequent
thereupon
,
are
known
to
confer
Baptism
upon
all
that
sort
of
People
:
Whilst
the
English
upon
the
same
Spot
,
do
most
sacrilegiously
reject
and
give
it
up
for
impossible
:
Upon
the
hearing
whereof
,
Your
Majesty
being
fully
convinced
and
satisfied
,
was
pleased
to
allow
the
Argument
for
unanswerable
;
and
withal
to
add
,
That
if
ever
it
should
happen
to
fall
in
Your
way
,
Your
Majesty
would
further
it
all
you
could
.
The
due
performance
whereof
,
no
one
that
understands
Your
Veracity
and
Zeal
,
will
in
the
least
suspect
.
As
for
this
so
absurd
an
Impiety
,
their
pretence
is
,
the
advance
of
Trade
and
Commerce
,
which
they
are
not
ashamed
to
set
up
in
opposition
to
Christ
and
Religion
.
But
Your
Majesty
cannot
but
know
how
unworthy
(
even
at
the
best
)
this
Plea
is
of
a
Christian
Nation
:
and
withal
,
how
incongruous
and
mean
it
is
that
for
Trade
(
even
allowing
the
Pretence
for
good
)
the
Work
of
God
should
be
destroyed
;
and
those
Myriads
of
Souls
be
made
to
perish
,
for
whom
Christ
died
,
no
less
than
for
the
residue
of
Mankind
.
It
would
be
also
considered
,
as
we
doubt
not
but
Your
Majesty
will
,
what
returns
,
after
so
long
possession
,
we
have
made
,
or
rather
,
what
despite
to
the
Spirit
of
Grace
we
have
done
,
in
hindring
those
poor
Heathens
Salvation
,
which
we
ought
with
our
utmost
Zeal
and
Industry
,
to
have
promoted
;
The
very
end
,
as
must
be
piously
supposed
,
for
which
it
at
first
pleased
Almighty
God
to
discover
to
us
,
and
to
possess
us
of
those
many
large
and
fruitful
Countries
:
Whilst
we
prefer
our
Trade
and
our
Mammon
before
it
,
as
of
the
greater
value
.
And
when
all
other
Religions
,
even
to
the
very
Turks
and
New-England-men
,
do
compass
Sea
and
Land
to
create
Proselites
;
we
only
do
seem
to
fetch
the
same
compass
to
continue
them
Heathens
.
An
abomination
which
both
threatens
and
calls
aloud
for
Vengeance
from
Heaven
upon
the
most
wicked
Authors
:
Unless
Your
Majesty's
extraordinary
Piety
and
Goodness
shall
suddenly
interpose
,
and
so
at
once
put
a
stop
to
the
Sin
and
to
the
Judgment
.
And
who
knows
whether
Your
Majesty
be
not
come
to
the
Kingdom
for
such
a
Time
as
this
?
I
shall
only
be
bold
to
detain
Your
Majesty
with
a
short
but
pious
Speech
of
a
certain
great
Prince
,
one
of
the
late
Kings
of
Spain
,
uttered
to
Your
Majesty's
blessed
Father
,
of
most
glorious
memory
,
whilst
residing
in
that
Kingdom
;
Who
indiscourse
,
taking
occasion
to
magnify
that
King
's
spacious
Dominions
;
He
,
in
answer
thereto
,
was
pleased
to
reply
,
That
't
was
true
,
God
had
entrusted
him
with
divers
Nations
and
Countries
;
but
that
his
Advantage
thereby
was
,
to
have
opportunity
to
propagate
Christian
Religion
.
It
is
to
be
presumed
,
that
as
Your
Majesty's
Dominions
,
in
the
Parts
we
speak
of
,
are
in
extent
not
much
short
of
,
perhaps
a
great
deal
larger
,
than
that
Princes
:
So
your
Majesty's
Piety
will
not
suffer
You
to
be
wanting
to
Your Self
and
People
,
in
reaping
the
like
blessed
and
glorious
Advantage
thereby
.
So
prayeth
,
The
most
unworthy
and
meanest
of
Your
Majesty's
Subjects
,
MORGAN
GODWYN
.
The
PREFACE
.
I
Cannot
but
foresee
,
that
I
shall
fall
under
no
small
danger
of
Censure
,
as
well
for
my
first
preaching
,
as
now
publishing
this
Discourse
.
For
besides
the
sinister
Surmises
of
divers
here
at
home
,
(
such
,
who
like
the
Curr
in
the
Manger
,
will
neither
eat
Oats
themselves
,
nor
suffer
those
that
would
)
;
I
must
also
look
to
undergo
,
as
far
as
is
possible
,
the
utmost
Effects
of
the
Rage
and
Malice
of
those
incensed
MAMMONISTS
from
abroad
;
who
,
I
am
to
expect
,
will
not
fail
,
by
their
Agents
and
Partizans
,
to
dispense
to
me
the
sharpest
Revenge
and
Mischief
,
that
such
Enemies
of
Christianity
can
contrive
against
a
Promoter
of
it
.
And
,
when
they
thus
see
me
upon
taking
away
their
Gods
,
it
will
be
but
a
very
sensless
and
unreasonable
Question
to
demand
,
What
aileth
them
?
But
as
there
was
no
temptation
from
the
thing
it self
,
as
being
likely
to
prove
so
invidious
and
costly
an
Undertaking
,
what
I
have
but
too
much
already
felt
;
and
it
being
on
the
behalf
of
such
who
are
never
like
to
make
me
any
amends
,
and
I
am
sure
that
no
body
else
will
:
So
I
hope
that
others
better
disposed
,
will
in
charity
,
which
thinketh
not
the
worst
,
rather
believe
,
that
what
I
have
herein
attempted
,
doth
proceed
from
no
worse
Motive
,
than
from
a
sense
of
my
Duty
;
as
not
knowing
otherwise
,
what
I
yet
knew
was
most
necessary
,
how
to
reprove
the
*
BARJESVITISM
and
base
Mammonism
so
openly
practised
in
our
Plantations
,
and
even
at
Home
too
;
of
which
I
shall
presently
give
some
Instances
.
At
least
certainly
I
can
deserve
no
blame
for
thus
opening
my
Mouth
for
the
Dumb
,
and
becoming
their
Advocate
,
who
are
appointed
to
Eternal
Destruction
:
For
that
I
have
,
as
it
were
,
put
my
Life
in
my
hand
,
to
oppose
those
Elymas's
,
who
do
not
cease
to
pervert
the
right
Ways
of
the
Lord
,
and
to
obstruct
Christianity
,
when
no
body
else
either
durst
or
would
.
And
since
the
more
Learned
and
Prudent
,
who
never
use
to
lay
out
themselves
but
to
some
purpose
(
and
this
,
't
is
too
well
known
known
,
is
but
a
barren
Theme
)
,
had
hitherto
been
silent
therein
,
that
I
thought
it
no
disparagement
to
become
a
Fool
for
Christ's
sake
,
and
conceived
that
it
might
better
be
done
by
me
,
than
not
at
all
.
These
in
truth
were
my
Reasons
in
general
for
this
Undertaking
;
but
there
was
withal
a
more
particular
.
And
that
was
,
hereby
,
if
possible
,
to
put
some
stop
to
,
and
to
abate
the
arrogant
and
proud
vauntings
of
that
new
Sect
of
American
Anti-Religionists
,
the
Barjesuits
and
Elymases
before
mentioned
,
for
their
Victory
over
Christianity
,
by
LVCYfer
and
his
fellow
Agents
,
here
sometime
since
obtain'd
;
which
very
triumphantly
,
like
pure
uncircumcised
Pagans
,
*
(
pardon
the
Expression
,
for
in
this
Case
,
Difficile
est
Satyram
non
scribere
,
and
not
to
be
angry
had
been
to
sin
)
they
have
not
forborn
to
publish
in
the
Houses
of
their
Idols
,
if
I
may
so
speak
;
and
by
insulting
Letters
,
to
set
forth
in
their
Assemblies
;
therein
proclaiming
how
they
have
worsted
Christianity
,
and
for
ever
quash'd
all
future
hopes
of
advancing
its
Crest
,
and
of
further
entrance
into
those
Parts
.
A
most
glorious
Victory
doubtless
it
was
!
and
which
none
besides
the
Devil
and
themselves
,
but
would
have
been
ashamed
to
have
boasted
of
.
A
Victory
where
there
was
no
▪
Adversary
to
contend
with
;
and
of
which
,
as
the
case
stood
,
if
they
could
but
talk
considently
,
and
affirm
lustily
without
blushing
,
they
could
not
easily
fail
.
Upon
this
I
could
no
longer
be
silent
,
but
as
the
Holy
Psalmist
expresseth
himself
,
My
heart
grew
hot
within
me
,
and
the
fire
was
kindled
;
and
at
the
last
I
spake
with
my
Tongue
;
declaring
from
the
Pulpit
,
as
oft
as
I
had
opportunity
,
what
I
have
now
delivered
from
the
Press
.
I
considered
the
thing
as
a
Duty
indispensible
;
and
having
before
put
my
hand
to
the
Plow
,
I
determined
not
to
look
back
:
Yet
I
must
confess
,
I
attended
a
while
to
see
whether
any
abler
Advocate
would
appear
in
the
Cause
,
and
happily
have
saved
me
both
the
trouble
and
the
envy
of
it
.
But
when
I
had
thus
waited
,
and
could
see
no
appearance
of
any
,
no
not
at
the
greatest
distance
,
(
for
they
were
all
amazed
,
they
answered
no
more
,
they
left
off
speaking
;
or
rather
,
we
may
say
,
did
never
begin
)
;
it
was
not
in
my
power
to
refrain
,
but
I
resolved
that
I
would
answer
for
my
part
,
I
would
speak
on
God's
behalf
,
I
would
open
my
mouth
and
answer
,
let
come
on
it
what
would
.
But
he
that
ploweth
,
should
plow
in
hope
,
as
saith
the
Apostle
.
Now
to
what
purpose
is
it
to
speak
further
hereof
,
since
so
slender
Advances
have
been
hitherto
made
therein
,
by
what
has
been
before
spoken
,
will
some
be
apt
to
demand
?
And
indeed
it
was
the
Advice
of
one
,
when
I
first
adventured
upon
this
Work
,
never
to
trouble
my self
about
it
;
for
,
said
he
,
Tho
your
Design
be
never
so
Christian
and
good
,
yet
the
least
grain
of
Interest
lying
in
the
way
,
shall
quite
ruin
and
overthrow
it
.
And
I
wish
his
words
had
proved
less
true
.
But
truly
I
am
full
of
power
,
by
the
Spirit
of
the
Lord
,
to
tell
Jacob
of
his
Transgression
,
and
Israel
of
his
Sin
,
as
saith
the
Prophet
Micah
.
And
Isaiah
tells
us
,
That
the
Watchmen
upon
the
Walls
of
Jerusalem
,
were
not
to
hold
their
peace
,
notwithstanding
the
greatest
discouragements
,
day
nor
night
;
nor
to
give
even
the
Almighty
himself
any
rest
,
until
he
had
established
and
made
Jerusalem
a
praise
in
the
whole
Earth
.
Rather
,
the
deafer
Men
are
,
the
louder
we
are
to
cry
.
For
,
Truth
however
opprest
,
will
have
some
Followers
.
The
sturdy
Youth
in
the
Gospel
,
that
at
first
did
so
peremptorily
refuse
to
go
and
work
in
his
Father's
Vineyard
,
afterwards
repented
,
and
went.
And
even
the
unjust
Judg
,
by
much
importunity
,
and
for
his
own
quiet
,
was
,
we
read
,
at
length
wrought
upon
to
hearken
to
the
Widow's
complaint
,
and
to
do
her
right
.
And
tho
these
we
speak
of
,
have
had
this
untoward
Character
,
viz.
of
being
such
,
who
will
do
no
right
,
nor
take
any
wrong
,
fixed
upon
them
;
yet
who
knows
how
far
our
Assiduity
may
in
like
manner
prevail
?
At
least
,
't
is
certain
,
we
have
no
Dispensation
for
our
silence
.
For
truly
,
unto
this
most
unchristian
Silence
,
must
in
a
great
measure
be
ascribed
the
large
spreading
of
this
Leprosy
of
Barjesuitism
and
Irreligion
,
not
only
in
America
,
(
where
,
as
I
have
*
elsewhere
mentioned
,
a
poor
Slave
was
in
effect
whip'd
to
death
for
being
baptized
)
;
but
of
its
crossing
the
Seas
into
Europe
,
and
from
thence
passing
to
the
Eastern
Indies
:
As
by
a
most
dreadful
Story
(
related
to
me
by
one
that
had
spent
some
time
in
those
Parts
)
of
the
behaviour
of
some
of
our
Factors
towards
the
Natives
of
a
certain
place
there
called
Jackatrâ
upon
Java
,
will
appear
;
who
desirous
to
be
instructed
in
Christianity
by
the
English
,
were
most
unchristianly
denied
the
favour
:
they
,
forsooth
,
dreading
lest
their
apt
Scholars
should
thereby
come
to
improve
their
Faculty
in
the
Mystery
of
Buying
and
Selling
,
(
as
if
that
also
were
a
Mystery
of
the
Gospel
)
,
which
in
time
might
lessen
their
Gain
,
and
so
spoil
all
.
However
,
what
these
refused
,
certain
*
Mahumetans
,
(
see
here
how
much
their
Zeal
for
their
Superstition
surpasseth
ours
for
the
Truth
)
;
who
soon
after
arrived
at
the
same
place
,
did
more
generously
offer
them
;
and
of
their
own
accord
,
without
any
of
our
Mens
Scruples
upon
the
score
of
their
Mammon
,
freely
communicated
to
them
their
Religion
;
which
that
People
then
embracing
,
are
said
to
retain
to
this
very
day
.
But
to
leave
these
remote
Parts
,
where
Men
may
perhaps
be
supposed
to
act
what
they
please
,
without
controul
,
let
us
come
nearer
Home
,
to
our
own
most
Protestant
Island
,
and
even
to
England
it self
,
and
there
see
how
much
better
the
case
is
,
to
is
in
time
like
to
prove
amongst
our selves
;
where
we
shall
find
this
superlative
Wickedness
to
have
spread
amain
,
even
from
Sea
to
Sea
;
infected
both
the
East
and
West
,
and
gotten
possession
of
the
very
heart
of
this
Kingdom
.
I
have
been
told
,
that
when
this
Sermon
was
first
preached
in
London
,
the
Parish
Clark
,
after
all
was
done
,
fell
to
wondring
that
I
should
thus
trouble
my self
to
preach
against
Negro's
and
Indians
,
for
that
he
said
,
there
were
none
of
that
Religion
in
this
Nation
.
But
how
much
this
poor
Clark
was
mistaken
,
I
shall
from
some
four
or
five
Instances
,
out
of
a
great
many
which
I
have
heard
,
soon
discover
.
Whereof
the
first
that
I
shall
mention
,
is
of
a
Gentlewoman
,
who
commending
a
certain
Negro
Wench
that
she
had
,
for
her
towardliness
and
other
good
qualities
,
in
the
hearing
of
a
Minister
;
he
demanded
of
her
,
why
she
made
her
not
a
Christian
?
Whereat
,
casting
her
eyes
strangely
on
him
,
and
greatly
wondring
,
she
replied
,
That
she
had
thought
he
would
have
given
her
better
Counsel
.
The
next
shall
be
of
a
poor
Wretch
of
the
like
sort
,
belonging
to
a
certain
Lady
,
at
that
time
residing
in
a
place
some
seventy
miles
distant
from
London
:
With
this
Negro
,
a
certain
religious
Gentlewoman
condescended
to
discourse
,
and
to
perswade
to
Christianity
,
unto
which
she
found
him
very
inclinable
;
but
was
interrupted
by
the
Lady
,
who
overhearing
the
Discourse
,
thereupon
ran
in
;
and
,
as
in
a
most
hideous
affrightment
,
cryed
out
,
O
,
for
God's
(
she
might
better
have
said
the
Devil's
)
sake
,
say
no
more
to
him
of
that
.
And
so
the
Discourse
ended
.
The
third
Instance
shall
be
of
a
Negro
,
whose
Owner
lived
nearer
London
,
viz.
within
some
four
or
five
miles
distance
of
it
.
This
Negro
presented
himself
to
the
Minister
,
I
think
not
of
his
own
,
but
of
a
neighbouring
Parish
,
desiring
Baptism
at
his
hands
;
For
which
the
Minister
finding
him
not
unqualified
,
did
not
absolutely
refuse
it
,
nor
yet
at
present
grant
it
him
;
't
is
possible
,
as
being
of
another
Parish
.
But
however
,
the
Master
coming
to
the
knowledg
thereof
,
forthwith
sends
a
peremptory
Message
to
the
Minister
,
charging
him
upon
his
peril
not
to
proceed
.
The
fourth
is
of
a
Negro
,
whose
Owner
resided
somewhere
near
Bristol
,
(
the
places
name
I
have
forgotten
)
;
This
Negro
also
addressed
himself
to
the
Minister
,
beseeching
Baptism
;
For
the
which
the
Minister
finding
him
not
incompetently
fitted
,
did
not
deny
it
him
;
only
deferred
it
for
the
present
.
All
which
soon
after
arriving
to
the
Master
's
jealous
ear
,
he
,
with
the
like
terrible
Menaces
,
dehorted
the
Minister
;
adding
withal
,
this
insolent
enquiry
,
Whether
he
would
baptize
his
Horse
?
But
perceiving
that
the
Minister
little
regarded
his
Menaces
or
Arguments
,
he
goes
home
,
and
instantly
chains
the
Negro
under
the
Table
among
his
Dogs
,
and
there
continues
him
in
that
double
bondage
for
some
time
;
till
finding
him
thereby
to
become
unserviceable
,
which
is
all
they
regard
;
he
at
length
releaseth
him
of
his
Chain
,
but
with
this
strict
charge
,
not
to
go
any
more
to
the
Minister
.
Which
the
Negro
not
observing
,
the
Minister
,
like
one
that
understood
his
Office
,
and
that
believed
himself
obliged
to
pay
a
greater
respect
to
Christ's
Commands
,
of
baptizing
all
Nations
,
than
to
that
Infidel
American's
forbidding
it
,
publickly
admits
him
into
the
Church
by
the
Sacrament
of
Baptism
;
After
having
purged
him
,
by
demanding
of
him
,
whether
his
Desires
herein
did
proceed
from
any
hopes
of
temporal
advantage
,
as
for
the
obtaining
of
liberty
,
or
the
like
?
Which
the
Negro
utterly
renounced
,
declaring
that
he
desired
it
only
for
the
Salvation
of
his
Soul.
This
again
coming
to
his
▪
Masters
knowledg
,
as
it
could
not
well
be
kept
from
him
,
the
Negro
upon
his
return
,
was
welcomed
with
his
former
Chain
,
wherein
he
was
soon
after
conveyed
on
Shipboard
,
and
so
to
America
:
Where
't
is
to
be
presumed
,
that
according
to
the
general
custom
there
,
he
shall
never
more
hear
of
Christianity
.
Three
of
these
Passages
I
had
from
the
Ministers
themselves
,
even
as
the
other
was
told
me
by
the
Gentlewoman
,
an
eminent
Clergy-man's
Wife
in
those
Parts
.
I
have
heard
also
of
a
parcel
of
Negro's
brought
into
England
,
concerning
whom
an
especial
charge
was
in
the
first
place
given
to
the
Servants
,
not
to
mention
any
thing
of
Religion
to
them
:
Together
with
an
intimation
,
(
which
was
no
other
,
than
to
invite
some
lewd
fellow
to
the
Villany
)
how
acceptable
a
piece
of
service
it
would
be
,
to
have
a
certain
young
Negro
Wench
of
the
Company
got
with
Child
.
It
seems
they
take
this
▪
Fornication
to
be
no
sin
,
no
not
so
much
as
Venial
.
To
these
I
may
add
,
what
I
have
heard
,
and
do
believe
to
be
too
true
,
viz.
That
the
Grandees
of
one
of
these
Colonies
,
were
not
long
since
so
hardy
,
and
withal
so
impious
,
as
to
produce
▪
Articles
against
their
Governor
Sir
J.
H.
for
his
intended
kindness
to
these
People
upon
this
account
;
How
far
their
Complaint
was
admitted
,
I
cannot
tell
.
It
was
certainly
an
Innovation
,
and
for
which
he
could
produce
no
President
in
those
▪
Parts
.
So
that
Mr.
*
Herbert
seemeth
to
have
been
directed
by
a
fallible
Spirit
,
when
in
certain
prophetic
Lines
,
foretelling
the
large
and
speedy
progress
of
Religion
in
America
,
he
thus
sung
,
Religion
stands
a
tiptoe
in
our
Land
,
Ready
to
pass
to
the
American
Strand
.
And
a
little
further
;
Then
shall
Religion
to
America
flee
,
They
have
their
Gospel-times
as
well
as
we
.
The
contrary
being
here
most
visible
;
for
instead
of
our
carrying
Christianity
thither
,
they
are
upon
bringing
over
the
blackest
Irreligion
and
Gentilism
hither
.
Now
if
the
cause
of
this
their
so
great
spite
against
Christianity
,
and
cruelty
to
the
Souls
of
Men
,
even
of
their
own
Slaves
,
who
wear
out
their
days
in
perpetual
toil
and
labour
for
them
,
should
be
enquired
into
,
it
would
not
be
easy
to
give
a
suddain
Resolution
.
Some
indeed
here
at
home
,
have
been
ready
to
form
Excuses
for
them
,
and
to
urge
the
danger
of
loosing
their
Slave
by
his
admittance
to
Baptism
.
But
this
certainly
cannot
be
the
true
Cause
,
at
least
as
to
those
parts
.
I
my self
was
accidentally
present
at
the
signing
of
an
Act
of
Assembly
by
the
Governor
of
Virginia
,
for
the
Security
of
this
Interest
.
The
like
Laws
I
have
been
assured
were
enacted
in
the
rest
of
the
Plantations
.
And
Sir
Robert
Southwell
,
upon
some
discourse
about
this
very
thing
,
some
five
Years
since
,
was
pleased
to
inform
me
,
That
he
had
heard
the
late
Lord
Chancellor
Finch
declare
,
that
he
did
not
know
of
any
Law
now
in
force
in
England
,
(
or
words
to
that
effect
)
whereby
a
Slave
was
released
from
Servitude
by
Baptism
.
And
certainly
he
,
if
any
Man
,
must
have
known
it
.
Others
will
tell
us
,
that
Christianity
will
make
them
more
crafty
and
cunning
,
and
withal
,
more
tumultuous
and
rebellious
.
But
this
Argument
equally
fights
against
Christianity
in
all
other
places
,
and
renders
it
intollerable
to
all
Conditions
and
Degrees
alike
,
as
well
to
Freemen
as
Slaves
,
and
at
Home
as
well
as
Abroad
;
and
at
this
rate
it
must
be
banished
out
of
the
World.
Others
again
are
ready
to
suggest
the
Factors
of
Jackatra's
Reason
:
But
what
have
Slaves
to
do
with
buying
and
selling
,
who
have
nothing
of
their
own
to
dispose
of
?
So
that
if
the
Reason
were
good
,
and
of
force
against
other
freer
Gentiles
,
(
not
to
mention
that
Christians
ought
not
,
upon
any
account
whatsoever
,
to
put
themselves
into
a
condition
or
course
of
Life
,
which
carries
with
it
an
inevitable
necessity
of
perpetual
sinning
against
God
)
;
yet
it
makes
nothing
against
our
▪
Negro-Slaves
admittance
to
Christianity
.
So
that
for
my
part
I
can
deduce
this
cursed
aversion
in
our
Planters
,
from
no
other
cause
,
than
from
their
brutish
and
Atheistical
*
temper
,
which
they
are
willing
to
shift
off
and
to
excuse
with
such
Pretences
,
as
knowing
how
easily
they
will
be
here
swallowed
.
To
this
I
might
add
that
filthy
Principle
,
which
I
think
is
almost
universally
received
,
and
currant
amongst
them
,
That
whatever
conduceth
to
the
getting
of
Mony
,
and
carrying
on
of
Trade
,
must
certainly
be
lawful
.
As
to
instance
in
their
trapanning
and
spiriting
Men
out
of
England
,
with
sugar
Promises
of
large
kindness
to
be
exhibited
to
them
at
their
arrival
in
those
Parts
:
whilst
at
the
very
instant
they
intend
nothing
else
but
to
expose
them
to
sale
,
and
to
make
Slaves
of
them
,
at
least
for
some
term
of
Years
.
This
,
with
other
the
like
practices
,
I
have
heard
justified
and
defended
,
and
that
by
Persons
who
appeared
very
honest
Men
for
those
Places
,
and
that
withal
would
seem
to
have
at
least
some
little
sense
of
Religion
above
their
Neighbours
,
(
for
a
great
deal
would
quite
undo
them
)
;
who
yet
because
they
never
hear
them
contradicted
,
may
possibly
be
perswaded
of
their
lawfulness
.
And
by
the
same
Principle
I
suspect
it
may
be
,
that
even
those
do
permit
Polygamy
to
their
Slaves
,
and
also
put
them
upon
a
necessity
of
labouring
upon
Sundays
,
to
prevent
their
starving
all
the
Week
after
.
Now
all
this
,
must
in
a
very
great
measure
be
ascribed
,
to
their
want
of
being
at
first
better
instructed
,
and
their
not
having
the
contrary
Doctrines
often
inculcated
to
them
,
as
well
from
the
Pulpit
as
elsewhere
.
These
Tares
were
sown
whilst
the
Watchmen
slept
,
or
possibly
when
there
were
none
at
all
;
Then
they
grew
up
and
got
strength
,
and
took
deep
root
,
and
now
it
is
thought
too
late
to
weed
them
up
.
Which
notwithstanding
I
must
affirm
to
be
beyond
all
peradventure
their
strickest
Duty
.
And
the
total
omission
whereof
,
for
I
never
heard
it
mentioned
,
will
one
day
prove
a
sharper
Thorn
in
their
Sides
,
than
that
innocent
Paper
,
which
some
have
by
Letters
to
England
so
fiercely
complained
of
.
Thereby
,
as
it
were
,
strengthening
the
hands
of
those
wicked
Men
,
as
the
Prophet
speaks
,
and
hardening
them
in
their
evil
way
.
Who
instead
of
encouraging
,
do
talk
of
nothing
but
the
difficulty
*
of
the
thing
;
when
not
one
has
,
as
I
could
ever
hear
of
,
so
much
as
tried
or
endeavoured
it
,
no
,
not
in
their
own
Families
.
For
this
had
been
to
invite
a
heavy
Persecution
,
not
of
Fire
and
Faggot
,
but
which
is
much
worse
,
of
being
sleighted
and
neglected
in
their
ordinary
Treats
and
Invitations
:
To
have
been
look'd
upon
askew
by
their
Patrons
and
Grandees
of
the
Vestries
;
to
have
had
some
Affronts
put
upon
them
;
and
to
be
a
little
wondered
at
by
the
World.
All
of
them
very
worthy
Pretences
,
for
those
should
glory
in
such
Sufferings
,
and
rejoice
that
they
were
accounted
worthy
thereof
;
that
by
their
exemplary
patience
,
under
the
greatest
Pressures
,
should
instil
Resolution
and
Courage
into
others
,
and
not
only
be
contented
to
suffer
,
but
to
die
for
the
Cause
of
Christ
:
Which
this
certainly
is
,
if
ever
there
were
any
such
.
It
is
indeed
difficult
,
as
some
have
made
it
;
but
surely
not
so
difficult
as
it
was
,
when
Christianity
was
every
where
spoken
against
,
and
the
whole
World
was
set
to
oppose
it
;
being
not
befriended
by
Authority
,
nor
having
so
much
as
one
single
Person
to
countenance
or
stand
by
the
Promoters
of
it
.
It
is
indeed
more
difficult
than
could
be
wished
,
at
least
to
be
gone
thorow
with
at
present
:
But
yet
methinks
something
might
be
endeavoured
,
if
but
for
the
good
it
has
done
,
and
to
shew
our
good
will
towards
it
:
And
something
also
might
as
certainly
be
effected
,
were
it
but
set
about
,
and
suitable
means
used
for
its
carrying
on
.
Nothing
of
which
,
besides
the
besprinkling
of
it
with
a
few
good
Words
,
the
precious
holy
Water
of
the
Times
,
that
I
know
of
,
was
ever
yet
attempted
or
offered
at
.
Some
indeed
have
bespoke
it
as
a
very
Apostolick
Work
,
and
a
worthy
Design
;
Whom
I
should
believe
to
have
been
serious
and
in
earnest
,
could
they
but
have
kept
their
Countenances
whilst
they
spoke
.
So
that
,
to
use
the
Prophet's
Language
,
I
may
say
,
When
I
looked
,
there
was
none
to
help
;
and
I
wondered
that
there
was
none
to
uphold
.
And
whilst
divers
do
,
in
plain
down-right
terms
,
determine
it
to
be
wholly
needless
;
or
if
at
all
needful
,
yet
no
way
to
concern
us
;
those
Elimases
in
the
mean
time
are
not
wanting
,
with
their
utmost
industry
,
to
oppose
it
as
a
most
wicked
Work.
But
it
was
St.
Paul's
case
,
at
whose
first
Answer
he
complaineth
,
that
no
Man
stood
with
him
,
but
that
all
forsook
him
:
for
whom
yet
he
prayeth
God
,
that
that
Sin
might
not
be
laid
to
their
charge
.
What
Advantages
our
Adversaries
do
reap
hereby
,
and
how
they
make
this
Neglect
,
as
a
Shoeing-horn
to
draw
on
their
Proselytes
,
is
not
,
I
suppose
,
unknown
.
And
I
have
some
cause
to
believe
,
that
it
has
lately
proved
an
Argument
of
no
small
validity
,
to
draw
one
of
our
Church
into
their
Toyles
.
The
Party
little
less
than
acknowledging
as
much
in
my
hearing
,
at
least
that
it
went
a
great
way
towards
it
.
And
even
their
Women
have
gotten
it
by
the
end
,
and
can
make
use
of
it
as
dexterously
as
their
ablest
Men.
It
being
not
long
since
,
that
a
very
smart
Dialogue
happened
between
two
of
that
Sex
;
the
one
a
strict
Protestant
,
and
the
other
a
zealous
Romanist
:
Who
demanding
of
her
,
When
any
of
her
Church
had
attempted
any
thing
for
the
conversion
of
Infidels
,
in
Foreign
Parts
,
or
even
in
our
own
Plantations
;
And
the
Protestant
thereupon
producing
a
small
Treatise
to
that
purpose
,
she
replied
,
That
,
that
truly
was
the
first
she
had
either
seen
or
heard
of
of
that
kind
among
us
:
But
withal
further
added
,
What
hath
been
since
done
therein
,
or
what
encouragement
given
for
others
to
tread
in
that
Author's
steps
?
At
which
demand
our
poor
Protestant
Respondent
was
upon
a
sudden
quite
struck
speechless
.
I
confess
I
should
be
no
good
Christian
,
if
I
did
not
desire
a
better
Subject
to
write
upon
,
than
the
Reproaches
of
the
Protestant
Religion
,
such
as
all
these
foregoing
Passages
are
:
But
,
Si
natura
negat
,
sacit
indignatio
scriptum
.
And
yet
,
if
by
turning
away
mine
Eyes
,
I
could
better
suppress
the
Irreligion
,
which
this
supine
Carelesness
and
Neglect
has
occasion'd
and
introduc'd
;
I
should
have
wholly
abstained
from
troubling
the
World
with
any
thing
of
this
Discourse
.
But
the
danger
and
miserable
condition
of
those
People
(
if
at
least
it
be
thought
to
be
such
)
calls
for
Action
to
all
those
who
had
not
rather
see
Christianity
lie
wast
,
and
so
many
Souls
to
perish
irrecoverably
;
than
to
hazzard
their
petty
Interests
,
or
disturb
their
Rest
for
the
redress
thereof
.
But
to
this
some
will
object
,
that
the
Times
are
not
seasonable
:
Neither
have
they
ever
yet
been
so
,
that
I
could
hear
of
.
Others
again
will
demand
,
'
What
have
they
to
do
with
those
Abroad
?
let
them
look
to
their
own
at
Home
,
where
the
state
of
Religion
is
so
visibly
declining
;
Atheism
,
Ignorance
,
Error
,
Prophaneness
,
Popery
,
and
Superstition
,
encreasing
,
and
getting
up
so
fast
▪
as
may
deserve
our
whole
care
to
put
a
stop
to
,
and
will
suffice
for
Conversions
,
without
looking
Abroad
,
&c.
As
I
find
it
especially
urged
in
opposition
to
this
Work
,
by
a
N.
C.
as
I
suppose
,
in
a
certain
Reply
made
to
the
Reverend
Dean
of
St.
Pauls
.
Now
,
doth
not
this
too
strongly
favour
of
Cain's
surly
reply
to
God
Almighty
,
demanding
,
Whether
he
were
his
Brothers
Keeper
?
Had
it
not
been
much
more
proper
for
them
to
have
asked
,
What
have
we
to
do
with
their
Land
and
Labour
,
or
thus
to
captivate
and
oppress
them
?
And
for
our
Home
Conversions
,
methinks
it
looks
like
the
Welch-man's
putting
off
his
Trial
till
the
Day
of
Judgment
;
for
so
long
,
it
may
be
feared
,
it
will
be
,
before
most
of
those
will
be
converted
.
But
did
not
the
Apostles
(
most
of
them
at
least
)
leave
▪
Judea
to
preach
to
the
Gentiles
;
when
in
all
probability
not
one
tenth
Person
there
could
be
converted
;
leaving
others
to
build
upon
that
.
Foundation
which
they
had
before
laid
?
And
at
this
rate
,
the
rest
of
the
World
must
have
remained
Infidels
till
this
day
:
There
being
no
Place
nor
People
ever
yet
so
perfectly
converted
,
but
that
abundance
of
Chaff
did
always
remain
amongst
the
Wheat
,
even
after
the
finest
winnowing
.
And
then
,
why
may
not
these
Conversions
also
be
carried
on
both
together
?
And
whilst
our
Reverend
Brethren
are
in
their
several
stations
here
,
perswading
those
home-different
Parties
,
would
it
be
all
incongruous
and
impossible
,
that
some
few
,
out
of
our
many
supernumeraries
,
should
be
appointed
to
preach
to
the
Gentiles
abroad
,
both
English
and
others
,
(
for
neither
the
Blacks
nor
Tawnies
only
are
the
Heathens
there
)
at
the
same
time
.
Certainly
,
if
the
one
ought
to
be
done
,
the
other
ought
not
to
be
left
undone
.
Besides
,
we
should
employ
our
Talent
to
the
greatest
advantage
for
our
Lord's
Honour
,
and
this
unquestionably
is
amongst
the
unprejudiced
Heathen
.
And
therefore
St.
Paul
refused
to
trifle
away
his
time
amongst
his
perverse
and
blasphemous
Countrymen
,
when
he
saw
no
good
could
be
wrought
upon
them
,
(
who
had
already
judged
themselves
unworthy
of
Everlasting
Life
,
)
but
turned
to
the
Gentiles
,
unto
whom
he
tells
them
,
That
the
Salvation
of
God
was
sent
.
There
being
,
as
Solomon
saith
,
more
hopes
of
Fools
,
than
of
those
that
are
conceitedly
wise
.
And
saith
Almighty
God
to
Ezekiel
,
Thou
art
not
sent
to
a
People
of
a
strange
Speech
,
and
of
a
hard
Language
;
For
,
surely
had
I
sent
thee
unto
them
,
they
would
have
hrarkned
unto
thee
.
But
the
House
of
Israel
will
not
hearken
.
And
St.
Paul
likewise
had
the
same
assurance
touching
his
Gentiles
,
viz.
That
they
would
hear
him
.
I
know
nothing
to
oppose
this
,
besides
provision
for
their
Maintenance
,
who
shall
be
employed
upon
this
Errand
:
Which
,
if
the
common
way
will
not
suffice
,
yet
,
God
be
blessed
,
we
are
not
so
utterly
destitute
and
spoiled
,
but
that
of
that
little
which
remains
,
something
might
be
allotted
and
bestowed
as
a
grateful
Acknowledgment
upon
the
Service
of
that
Faith
by
which
we
received
it
.
I
shall
not
mention
from
whence
this
is
to
arise
,
because
it
may
possibly
give
offence
.
Tho
certainly
the
choicest
of
our
Stores
cannot
be
too
good
to
be
laid
out
upon
that
which
at
first
brought
us
whatsoever
we
have
.
And
our
chearful
and
ready
compliance
,
will
be
an
infallible
Argument
of
our
affection
to
it
.
But
if
we
spend
much
time
in
resolving
,
(
as
too
much
hath
been
already
!
)
questioning
and
disliking
this
and
that
Proposal
and
Method
,
perchance
the
Season
may
be
over
,
and
it
may
never
more
come
into
our
power
to
do
any
thing
in
it
at
all
.
Dum
quid
sis
dubitat
,
iam
potei
esse
nihil
.
And
here
I
should
judg
,
that
our
Charity
in
this
Case
,
ought
most
properly
to
begin
at
home
;
I
mean
,
amongst
the
Subjects
and
Tributaries
of
our
Plantations
;
and
not
rather
(
as
some
I
have
heard
have
projected
)
in
such
*
remoter
Places
where
we
are
less
related
.
Others
again
will
suppose
this
Work
not
to
be
effected
,
but
by
the
Countenance
and
Encouragement
of
a
Parliament
.
But
,
God
be
thanked
,
the
Laws
in
force
,
are
all
in
favour
of
Christianity
,
nor
is
there
any
want
of
such
Laws
.
So
that
the
true
Servant
of
Christ
may
,
without
hazard
,
either
of
Life
or
Liberty
,
preach
pursuant
to
any
Text
in
the
whole
Bible
,
without
any
need
of
new
Laws
for
his
justification
.
But
if
a
Parliament
be
of
such
absolute
necessity
for
the
carrying
on
thereof
,
blessed
be
God
we
have
one
at
hand
;
who
doubtless
,
upon
a
due
Application
,
will
not
be
wanting
to
contribute
their
utmost
assistance
to
so
religious
and
good
a
Work.
However
,
at
the
worst
,
we
are
in
no
worse
condition
than
the
Apostles
,
and
first
preachers
of
Christianity
were
.
And
should
it
happen
,
which
God
forbid
,
that
even
the
whole
Civil
Power
should
neglect
,
or
even
prohibit
this
preaching
,
yet
I
cannot
believe
that
to
be
a
sufficient
Plea
for
our
Silence
.
And
I
must
no
less
declare
my self
of
a
different
Judgment
from
those
who
hold
the
contrary
,
tho
unfurnish'd
with
Miracles
;
as
presuming
the
Service
of
Christ
,
and
Salvation
of
Souls
,
to
be
of
much
greater
consequence
than
any
worldly
Concern
can
possibly
be
;
and
being
no
less
perswaded
that
neither
Secular
Interest
,
Reason
of
State
,
nor
any
prudential
Consideration
whatsoever
,
can
in
the
least
justify
such
a
Neglect
,
or
Silence
.
But
there
are
no
less
than
four
potent
Objections
against
this
Work
still
remaining
to
be
considered
.
As
,
First
,
That
this
kindness
,
especially
to
Slaves
,
will
make
them
Hypocrites
only
,
and
not
Christians
.
They
will
be
apt
,
notwithstanding
the
Laws
before-mentioned
,
to
run
to
Baptism
in
hopes
of
Liberty
,
having
hitherto
flattered
and
hugged
themselves
with
such
thoughts
.
Secondly
,
It
will
displease
the
Merchants
.
Thirdly
,
This
is
only
some
petty
Design
,
which
I
am
hereby
managing
for
my self
.
Fourthly
,
What
I
have
both
formerly
and
now
said
herein
,
is
all
Lyes
;
The
Planters
,
Men
of
extraordinary
Credit
,
having
so
declared
.
A
Man
would
judg
that
Christianity
were
grown
extraordinary
cheap
,
and
of
low
esteem
with
those
Objecters
,
when
such
groundless
Slanders
,
and
blind
Shifts
,
shall
be
admitted
to
its
prejudice
;
and
its
Cause
quite
given
up
by
them
upon
such
empty
Suggestions
.
But
,
to
begin
with
the
last
.
What
?
is
all
but
Lyes
?
Is
not
that
true
,
touching
the
Negro's
not
being
admitted
to
Christianity
?
Why
then
did
those
very
Planters
themselves
,
at
least
by
their
Agents
,
both
own
and
defend
it
,
some
time
since
,
before
the
Council
;
And
even
then
giving
in
their
Reasons
,
such
as
they
were
,
for
the
contrary
?
Admit
but
this
one
piece
of
monstrous
Absurdity
,
this
so
impudent
Impiety
,
which
is
too
evident
to
be
denied
,
and
the
rest
may
,
without
any
great
difficulty
,
be
supposed
;
at
least
,
it
will
not
be
for
their
credit
to
put
me
to
prove
even
the
worst
of
them
.
The
next
to
it
is
of
the
like
force
and
nature
,
wherein
the
Argument
thus
runs
,
That
to
defeat
and
spite
me
,
Christianity
is
not
to
be
promoted
,
nor
the
Souls
of
Men
saved
.
Very
Christianly
both
spoken
and
concluded
!
See
here
of
what
different
Tempers
these
Objectors
are
,
from
that
of
St.
Paul
;
Some
,
saith
he
,
do
indeed
preach
Christ
for
Envy
and
Strife
;
and
some
also
of
good
Will
:
What
then
?
notwithstanding
every
Way
,
whether
in
Pretence
or
Truth
,
Christ
is
preached
;
and
therein
do
I
rejoice
,
yea
,
and
I
will
rejoice
.
It
seems
,
so
that
the
Work
were
done
,
which
he
so
passionately
pursued
and
laboured
for
,
he
did
not
so
much
regard
the
undue
Motives
by
which
Men
were
induced
and
perswaded
to
it
;
which
these
here
do
wholly
seem
to
do
.
For
the
next
;
I
would
fain
know
what
kind
of
Merchants
these
are
,
who
will
be
displeased
upon
this
occasion
?
Either
we
must
please
,
or
displease
them
.
But
St.
Paul
assures
us
,
(
and
I
suppose
in
this
very
sense
)
that
if
we
please
Men
,
we
cannot
be
the
Servants
of
Christ
.
At
this
rate
,
Elijah
was
not
to
have
displeased
Ahab
;
nor
St.
John
the
Baptist
,
Herod
;
In
the
Collect
for
whose
day
,
we
are
yet
taught-to
pray
,
That
after
his
Example
we
may
constantly
speak
the
Truth
,
boldly
rebuke
Vice
,
and
patiently
suffer
for
the
Truth
's
sake
.
So
that
it
is
evident
,
we
must
,
as
the
case
stands
,
either
displease
them
or
act
contrary
to
our
Prayers
,
and
disobey
Christ
.
We
are
not
to
please
our
Neighbour
,
but
for
his
good
to
edification
,
saith
St.
Paul.
Lastly
,
Why
should
these
be
any
more
Hypocrites
than
themselves
?
since
that
God's
Grace
is
free
,
and
may
be
bestowed
upon
whom
he
pleaseth
.
He
can
raise
out
of
those
Stones
,
Children
unto
Abraham
:
And
his
Spirit
bloweth
where
it
listeth
.
Besides
,
a
very
short
space
would
confute
that
foolish
Opinion
of
their
Freedom
,
when
they
had
seen
some
of
their
Fellows
continued
in
their
former
State
,
even
after
Baptism
.
One
would
think
,
that
Men
were
ashamed
and
weary
of
their
Religion
,
that
can
admit
of
such
Flams
against
it
.
But
now
after
that
,
all
their
pittiful
Reasonings
are
vanquish'd
,
and
their
Arguments
put
to
flight
,
yet
nevertheless
it
cannot
still
be
other
with
them
,
than
impracticable
;
nor
are
there
wanting
some
that
,
to
save
trouble
,
from
amongst
our selves
are
inclined
to
believe
as
much
.
Good
God!
that
Christianity
,
after
its
continuance
in
the
World
for
near
two
thousand
Years
,
should
now
at
last
be
excluded
for
its
impracticableness
.
A
Position
which
every
Man
,
endued
but
with
common
sence
,
may
at
once
see
as
well
the
wickedness
as
the
folly
of
it
.
The
Disputer
that
denied
Motion
,
and
was
not
to
be
confuted
but
by
practice
,
(
which
these
also
must
)
was
not
half
so
ridiculous
.
But
perchance
they
will
say
,
't
is
only
impracticable
to
Slaves
.
If
so
,
why
are
the
Native
Indians
upon
the
Continent
,
who
are
only
Tributaries
,
and
whose
Habitations
are
many
of
them
environ'd
by
the
English
,
equally
neglected
,
and
their
reduction
to
Christianity
as
much
scofft
at
as
the
other
?
And
why
were
not
those
poor
Barbarians
of
Jackatra
(
before
mentioned
)
admitted
thereto
,
when
so
earnestly
importuned
and
besought
by
them
?
But
to
answer
the
Objection
.
If
Christianity
be
impracticable
as
to
the
condition
of
Slavery
,
why
then
did
the
Apostles
both
preach
and
write
,
to
and
concerning
*
Slaves
,
either
for
their
Conversion
,
or
Confirmation
in
Christianity
?
For
either
they
therein
did
well
,
or
ill
:
If
well
,
then
ought
we
to
imitate
them
therein
:
But
that
they
did
ill
,
was
never
,
that
we
find
,
once
suggested
,
no
not
by
the
Heathen
Masters
themselves
.
For
those
still
remaining
as
much
their
Slaves
as
before
,
of
what
wrong
could
they
complain
,
unless
of
their
being
made
better
and
more
faithful
Servants
by
Christianity
,
than
they
were
?
But
if
by
Baptism
they
were
set
at
liberty
,
(
which
the
Example
of
Onesimus
,
and
the
express
words
of
their
several
Epistles
,
do
prove
that
they
were
not
)
then
it
is
evident
that
the
Apostles
did
not
suppose
the
Master's
Interest
in
his
Slave
to
be
of
greater
account
than
the
Slave's
Salvation
:
Nor
that
they
ought
to
value
his
Displeasure
or
Profit
,
thus
standing
in
competition
with
their
Duty
;
which
is
exactly
our
Case
.
Again
,
if
those
of
other
Religions
do
,
with
great
Industry
and
Zeal
,
both
endeavour
and
effect
,
(
as
it
is
plain
that
they
do
,
whilst
ours
do
not
only
neglect
,
but
forbid
it
)
;
then
it
is
clear
that
therein
those
do
act
more
agreeably
to
the
Apostles
and
Scripture-Rule
,
than
our selves
;
whom
yet
we
so
frequently
charge
in
other
things
of
less
moment
,
with
deviating
from
it
;
And
so
forgetting
how
we
condemn
our selves
whilst
we
blame
them
.
However
since
these
do
it
,
where
is
then
the
impracticableness
thereof
?
or
how
comes
it
to
be
less
practicuble
to
us
,
than
to
them
?
If
they
do
it
less
perfectly
,
as
is
suggested
,
yet
still
they
do
it
.
*
If
amiss
,
let
us
do
it
better
:
Only
let
us
not
under
that
pretence
be
said
never
to
do
it
at
all
.
If
any
Man
have
not
the
Spirit
of
Christ
,
he
is
none
of
his
,
saith
the
Apostle
:
Now
Christ's
Spirit
was
to
promote
the
Salvation
of
Mankind
.
But
of
what
Spirit
must
those
then
be
that
do
neglect
and
hinder
it
?
And
if
any
Man
love
not
the
Lord
Jesus
Christ
,
let
him
be
Anathema
;
that
is
,
utterly
accursed
from
him
:
But
what
love
can
there
be
in
endeavouring
to
rob
him
of
that
which
he
so
dearly
purchased
with
his
Blood
?
All
Knowledg
,
all
understanding
of
Mysteries
,
and
all
Faith
,
without
this
Charity
is
nothing
;
Yea
,
the
bestowing
of
all
our
Goods
to
the
relieving
of
the
Poor
,
and
even
the
giving
our
Bodies
to
be
burnt
,
withoat
it
,
will
profit
us
nothing
.
This
is
a
thing
which
all
Sects
and
Parties
do
most
generally
agree
in
:
No
Scruples
to
tender
Consciences
will
from
hence
arise
;
it
being
impossible
that
any
should
oppose
it
,
but
such
only
who
have
lost
all
Conscience
.
And
certainly
,
if
Christianity
and
the
Souls
of
Men
be
worth
our
care
,
it
cannot
be
but
that
something
in
order
thereto
will
speedily
be
endeavoured
;
the
thing
in
its
self
being
most
easy
,
and
there
wanting
nothing
,
but
some
resolute
and
wise
Agent
to
push
it
forward
.
As
for
the
impotent
railing
of
those
Barjesuses
and
Elymases
,
(
for
God
be
thanked
that
is
the
worst
they
can
do
)
it
is
to
be
pitied
and
contemned
,
rather
than
dreaded
or
regarded
by
us
.
Or
at
the
worst
,
a
vigorous
pursuit
would
in
a
short
time
both
disarm
and
silence
them
.
There
being
no
Strumpet
so
impudent
and
void
of
shame
,
as
to
assert
and
practice
her
lewdness
in
the
presence
of
more
vertuous
People
.
Nor
has
it
been
heard
that
any
Thief
has
been
so
confident
,
as
to
defend
his
Rapines
and
Slaughters
before
an
upright
Judg.
And
it
being
a
thing
so
utterly
incongruous
and
contradictory
in
it self
,
for
Men
to
call
themselves
Christians
,
yea
,
and
of
the
most
refined
sort
too
,
and
yet
at
the
same
time
to
oppose
Christianity
,
that
it
is
impossible
but
at
the
first
manful
onset
,
they
must
needs
be
baffled
and
shamed
out
of
it
.
For
,
Wickedness
,
as
the
wise
Man
saith
,
condemned
by
her
own
Witness
,
is
very
timerous
,
and
being
pressed
with
Conscience
,
always
forecasteth
grievous
things
.
So
that
there
seemeth
nothing
more
to
be
needful
,
but
the
Watch-word
from
our
vigilant
and
prudent
Leaders
,
to
the
faithful
Souldiers
of
Christ
,
boldly
to
fall
on
,
and
to
attaque
them
:
The
Victory
cannot
but
be
easy
over
those
that
fight
against
God.
And
pitty
,
yea
infinite
pitty
it
would
be
,
that
so
Holy
and
Righteous
a
Cause
,
should
be
so
slightly
lost
;
and
that
a
Matter
of
such
Eternal
Consequence
,
so
much
tending
to
our
Redeemer's
Honour
,
and
to
the
good
of
those
many
Myriads
of
Souls
,
viz.
of
our
Negro's
and
Indians
,
Slaves
and
Tributaries
,
all
of
them
the
Subjects
of
this
Kingdom
(
and
should
be
also
of
our
care
)
should
be
suffered
to
miscarry
,
only
through
the
want
of
a
few
words
speaking
,
a
little
endeavour
,
and
of
so
much
courage
,
as
but
to
look
the
Enemies
of
Christ
in
the
face
;
and
where
the
Act
it self
doth
carry
its
Recompence
,
and
makes
us
full
Amends
.
For
,
whilst
we
become
Eyes
to
the
Blind
,
as
holy
Job
speaks
,
and
Feet
to
the
Lame
;
delivering
the
Poor
that
crieth
,
and
those
that
have
none
to
help
them
:
Whilst
we
put
on
Righteousness
,
and
it
cloaths
us
;
and
Judgment
as
a
Robe
and
a
Diadem
:
Whilst
we
break
the
Jaws
of
the
Wicked
,
and
do
search
out
the
Cause
that
we
know
not
:
Whilst
we
become
valiant
for
the
Truth
,
and
do
rebuke
these
Blasphemers
to
the
face
:
Then
the
Ear
that
hears
us
,
shall
bless
us
;
and
the
Eye
that
sees
us
,
shall
give
witness
to
us
;
our
Glory
shall
be
fresh
in
us
,
and
our
Root
shall
spread
out
by
the
Waters
:
The
blessing
of
those
that
are
ready
to
perish
shall
fall
upon
us
,
neither
shall
we
be
afraid
of
destruction
when
it
cometh
:
For
we
shall
be
in
league
with
the
Stones
of
the
Field
;
and
the
very
Beasts
of
the
Field
shall
be
at
peace
with
us
.
In
Famine
we
shall
be
redeemed
from
Death
,
and
in
this
REBELLION
from
the
Power
of
the
Sword.
All
which
will
be
consummated
and
made
up
in
that
Repute
,
Honour
,
and
Stability
to
our
Church
and
Nation
,
which
will
hereby
be
undoubtedly
procured
.
Amen
.
1
St.
John
3.
18.
Let
us
not
love
in
Word
,
neither
in
Tongue
,
but
in
Deed
and
in
Truth
.
ERRATA
.
IN
the
Title
Page
,
line
4.
read
reprehended
.
P.
3.
l.
7.
for
assert
,
r.
set
off
.
l.
8.
r.
Arguments
.
P.
9.
l.
17.
f.
Disciples
,
r.
Apostles
.
l.
37.
r.
in
▪
bef
.
snob
.
P.
27.
l.
20.
r.
extant
.
P.
29.
l.
11.
f.
it
s
,
r.
his
.
P.
31.
l.
2.
dele
be
,
l.
9.
dele
the.
P.
32.
l.
15.
r.
Industry
.
P.
33.
l.
19.
r.
Hypocrisy
.
Add
,
P.
28.
ad
finem
,
Wickedness
burneth
as
the
Fire
;
it
shall
devour
the
Briars
and
Thorns
,
&c.
Isa
.
9.
18.
Errata
in
the
Margent
.
P.
4.
insert
Acts
18.
6.
bef
.
Acts
20.
Likewise
the
same
again
p.
6.
P.
16.
r.
Cupiunt
.
P.
24.
after
Miracles
,
add
c.
6.
n.
1.
P.
25.
f.
answer
,
r.
refute
;
also
insert
,
p.
573.
disc
.
3.
c.
19.
P.
26.
r.
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
.
Likewise
add
this
of
E.
W's
,
Protestants
that
never
did
,
nor
shall
hereafter
do
good
,
to
either
Christian
or
Heathen
.
Trade
preferr'd
before
Religion
,
AND
Christ
made
to
give
place
to
Mammon
:
Represented
in
a
SERMON
,
relating
to
the
PLANTATIONS
.
JER
.
Chap.
2.
Part
of
the
34th
Verse
.
Also
in
thy
Skirts
is
found
the
Blood
of
Souls
;
&c.
The
whole
Verse
runs
thus
;
Also
in
thy
Skirts
is
found
the
Blood
of
the
Souls
of
the
poor
Innocents
;
I
have
not
found
it
by
secret
search
,
but
upon
all
these
.
THis
Particle
[
Also
]
standing
at
our
first
entrance
into
the
Text
,
requires
us
to
raise
our
Eye
to
the
foregoing
Words
,
both
of
this
,
and
of
the
former
Chapter
.
In
the
first
of
which
we
find
our
Prophet
,
as
it
were
opening
his
Commission
,
asserting
his
Authority
as
derived
to
him
from
God
himself
.
Before
I
formed
thee
in
the
Belly
,
I
knew
thee
;
and
before
thou
camest
forth
out
of
the
Womb
,
I
sanctified
thee
,
and
ordained
thee
a
Prophet
unto
the
Nations
:
Therefore
thou
shalt
go
unto
all
that
I
shall
send
thee
,
and
whatsoever
I
command
thee
,
thou
shalt
speak
.
And
the
better
to
qualify
and
enable
him
for
this
great
Work
,
it
is
added
,
Behold
,
I
have
put
my
words
into
thy
Mouth
.
And
then
to
create
a
Resolution
and
Courage
in
him
suitable
thereto
,
and
that
he
might
go
on
with
a
steady
boldness
and
assurance
in
this
so
hazardous
and
thankless
an
Imployment
,
it
is
promised
that
he
should
be
an
Iron
Pillar
,
and
a
brazen
Wall
,
yea
,
a
defenced
City
against
them
;
And
that
therefore
he
was
not
to
be
afraid
or
dismayed
at
their
Looks
,
(
that
being
the
worst
they
should
be
able
to
do
against
him
,
)
for
that
God
himself
would
most
certainly
be
with
him
,
to
preserve
and
deliver
him
.
In
confidence
whereof
,
we
find
him
in
the
next
Chapter
betaking
himself
to
his
Function
;
and
in
charity
to
his
own
ungodly
Nation
,
beginning
with
them
first
,
unto
whom
indeed
he
was
especially
sent
:
Where
after
a
brief
rehearsal
of
the
many
benefits
conferred
upon
them
by
God
himself
,
as
that
he
had
broken
their
Yoke
,
and
burst
their
Bonds
,
had
brought
them
into
a
plentiful
Countrey
,
which
he
had
designed
for
them
,
to
eat
the
fruits
thereof
,
and
the
goodness
thereof
.
That
he
had
there
planted
them
a
noble
Vine
,
wholly
a
right
Seed
,
instructed
them
in
the
best
and
purest
Religion
;
with
abundance
of
the
like
Privileges
and
Immunities
,
which
by
his
especial
Favour
and
Munificence
,
they
enjoyed
above
all
other
People
;
I
say
,
after
this
,
the
Prophet
at
last
bespeaks
the
Almighty
as
falling
thus
to
expostulate
with
them
:
What
Iniquity
have
your
Fathers
found
in
Me
,
that
they
are
gone
away
far
from
me
?
And
,
Hath
a
Nation
changed
their
Gods
,
which
are
yet
no
Gods
?
but
my
People
have
changed
their
glory
,
for
that
which
doth
not
profit
:
Charging
them
that
they
had
turned
their
Backs
to
him
,
had
spoken
and
done
evil
things
with
their
utmost
might
,
and
as
far
as
they
could
▪
Adding
,
that
they
were
become
cruel
,
and
unthankful
,
and
(
which
was
worst
of
all
)
incorrigible
;
and
in
a
word
,
worse
than
the
very
Heathen
.
That
by
their
customary
and
long
Practice
in
that
cursed
Trade
of
Sinning
,
they
had
attained
a
notable
aptness
and
dexterity
therein
,
even
beyond
the
proficiency
of
the
most
wicked
,
whom
,
it
seems
,
they
were
able
to
teach
.
In
fine
,
they
are
told
that
they
were
wholly
turned
into
a
degenerate
Plant
of
a
strange
Vine
;
had
defiled
the
Land
which
he
had
brought
them
into
,
and
made
God's
Heritage
an
Abomination
.
And
now
after
this
so
large
and
foul
a
Catalogue
of
their
Impieties
,
one
would
have
thought
that
the
Prophet
must
have
been
at
a
stand
,
and
could
have
proceeded
no
further
;
when
to
compleat
the
charge
,
and
to
render
them
for
ever
both
inexcusable
and
infamous
,
he
adds
to
it
a
certain
new
,
and
before
unheard-of
Villany
,
viz.
of
exercising
those
their
Hellish
Cruelties
,
not
only
upon
the
Bodies
,
but
extending
them
to
the
very
Souls
,
and
that
of
poor
Innocent
Men
:
Which
,
as
bad
as
it
is
,
is
yet
exceedingly
aggravated
by
their
Impudence
in
the
perpetration
,
shewing
that
it
was
grown
into
a
Fashion
,
and
become
costomary
amongst
them
;
not
committed
in
private
,
or
in
the
dark
,
as
if
ashamed
of
it
;
nor
yet
detected
by
any
laborious
Search
,
or
Scrutiny
,
but
acted
openly
,
and
in
the
Face
of
the
Sun
,
like
Absalom
upon
the
House
top
;
and
even
owned
and
justified
by
them
to
the
whole
World
:
They
did
,
as
the
Prophet
speaks
,
TRIMM
,
that
is
,
by
false
reasonings
and
Sophistry
,
and
probably
sometimes
by
the
loudest
Lies
defend
and
assert
their
Impiety
;
nor
could
by
any
Argument
be
persuaded
to
acknowledg
it
to
be
so
:
But
on
the
contrary
,
boasted
themselves
Innocent
,
proclaimed
that
they
were
not
polluted
,
and
that
they
had
not
sinned
,
notwithstanding
that
their
way
in
the
Valley
,
as
the
Prophet
speaks
,
was
so
notorious
.
They
might
perchance
have
an
Eye
unto
their
MAMMON
,
and
belike
,
deemed
that
the
necessity
and
benefit
arising
to
them
from
their
Trade
and
Commerce
with
Forreign
Nations
,
would
not
barely
excuse
,
but
even
consecrate
the
Villany
.
This
then
,
in
short
,
was
their
case
;
God
had
most
mercifully
and
wonderfully
delivered
them
out
of
Egypt
,
and
not
only
so
,
but
had
likewise
brought
them
into
a
Land
,
which
,
as
the
Prophet
Ezekiel
expresseth
it
,
he
had
espied
for
them
,
and
which
was
indeed
the
Glory
of
all
Lands
;
the
entire
and
full
possession
whereof
was
given
them
upon
this
sole
Consideration
,
and
these
only
Terms
,
viz.
That
they
should
cast
away
all
their
Abominations
,
and
become
Trumpets
of
God's
Praise
,
and
declare
his
Glory
among
the
Heathen
,
Psal
.
69.
no
doubt
for
the
Salvation
of
their
precious
Souls
.
But
instead
thereof
,
even
from
the
very
time
of
their
first
entrance
into
that
Land
,
they
practised
all
their
former
Abominations
,
and
that
with
both
Hands
earnestly
;
and
instead
of
declaring
,
they
stifled
and
concealed
his
Eternal
Counsel
,
forbidding
the
preaching
of
it
to
the
Heathen
,
that
they
might
[
not
]
be
saved
;
and
so
they
pleased
not
God
,
and
became
the
murtherers
of
Souls
.
Which
very
thing
in
this
Charge
doth
seem
to
have
been
their
singular
and
grand
Crime
,
viz.
Their
acting
in
and
connivance
at
the
most
open
and
prophane
effusion
of
the
Blood
of
Men's
Souls
,
and
that
too
in
that
very
Land
which
God
had
given
them
to
a
contrary
end
and
purpose
:
And
the
not
decrying
nor
discountenancing
of
which
Wickedness
,
by
such
other
of
them
who
possibly
might
be
less
active
in
the
perpetration
,
bringing
them
also
in
as
Associates
and
Partizans
with
the
rest
,
and
rendring
them
thereof
equally
guilty
.
But
here
methinks
I
perceive
my self
ready
to
be
interrupted
,
and
told
,
that
this
is
a
forced
Interpretation
,
and
cannot
be
the
proper
meaning
of
the
Text
,
which
,
say
they
,
was
intended
only
to
reprove
those
bloody
Immolations
of
Children
,
offered
without
the
Gates
in
the
Valley
of
Hinnom
(
and
so
as
it
were
in
the
Skirts
or
Suburbs
of
Jerusalem
)
unto
Moloch
;
the
Words
,
Innocents
,
and
Poor
,
manifestly
implying
no
less
.
Further
adding
that
there
can
be
no
such
Sin
as
shedding
the
Blood
of
Souls
,
properly
so
taken
;
They
being
,
as
the
Poet
speaks
,
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
destitute
of
Blood
,
and
Immortal
.
Unto
the
first
of
which
,
I
answer
,
That
the
Words
in
the
Hebrew
here
rendred
by
Poor
,
and
Innocents
,
do
not
necessarily
import
the
same
signification
with
the
English
,
where
Time
and
Custom
have
made
Innocents
,
and
Infants
(
or
little
Children
)
to
be
almost
synonimous
and
convertible
;
and
the
Adjunct
,
Poor
,
to
represent
one
afflicted
in
Mind
or
Body
,
as
well
as
Estate
or
Fortune
;
one
that
groans
under
Oppression
or
Sickness
,
or
some
other
such
like
Calamity
,
and
not
under
bare
Poverty
only
,
which
is
the
most
natural
import
of
that
Adjunct
,
and
under
which
Children
or
Infants
cannot
so
well
be
said
to
fall
;
who
,
as
they
are
not
capable
either
to
gather
or
use
Riches
,
so
neither
can
they
properly
be
said
to
be
either
rich
or
poor
.
These
Sufferers
therefore
were
not
Children
,
but
Men
;
possibly
,
as
poor
in
Fortune
,
as
miserable
in
Condition
.
They
were
Pauperes
&
Egentes
,
as
the
Vulgar
Latin
and
Tremelius
do
render
the
Word
,
which
is
wholly
omitted
in
the
Greek
;
where
they
are
only
called
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
(
without
any
mention
of
their
other
condition
;
)
signifying
insontes
,
Indemnes
,
damni
expertes
,
plagis
intactas
,
as
well
as
Innocentes
.
All
which
can
hardly
be
understood
of
little
Children
:
And
therefore
I
cannot
so
readily
assent
that
our
Prophet
here
intended
these
.
And
then
to
the
second
part
of
the
Objection
,
I
likewise
answer
,
That
this
expression
of
Blood
,
with
relation
to
the
Soul
,
is
divers
times
used
in
Holy
Scripture
;
particularly
by
Solomon
,
Prov.
28.
17.
if
we
consult
the
Original
;
In
several
places
also
of
*
Ezekiel
;
and
in
the
†
Acts
by
St.
Paul
,
which
I
shall
have
further
occasion
to
mention
.
And
for
the
Translation
of
this
Text
,
it
exactly
agrees
with
the
Letter
of
the
Hebrew
;
and
that
,
I
doubt
not
in
its
most
primitive
signification
;
both
the
‖
Septuagint
and
*
Latin
Versions
(
as
in
the
former
)
answering
thereunto
.
And
therefore
should
our
Prophet's
intention
herein
happen
to
be
other
,
(
which
there
is
no
convincing
Argument
or
reason
to
prove
)
yet
I
shall
not
in
the
least
scruple
to
follow
the
Letter
both
of
the
Original
,
and
the
rest
of
the
Translations
,
especially
our
own
.
But
from
the
Words
,
as
I
here
find
them
,
shall
conclude
,
that
there
may
be
and
is
,
at
least
in
some
sense
or
other
,
such
a
Sin
as
this
reprehended
in
the
Text
,
viz.
of
shedding
the
Blood
,
and
murthering
of
Souls
.
And
upon
this
Foundation
it
is
that
I
intend
to
raise
my
ensuing
Discourse
;
and
therein
shall
observe
this
Method
,
and
shew
,
I.
What
this
Sin
is
,
and
wherein
it
consists
.
II.
The
several
ways
by
which
it
is
committed
.
III.
What
are
the
common
Inducements
thereto
.
IV.
The
most
horrid
Nature
thereof
,
and
how
infinitely
displeasing
to
Almighty
God.
V.
The
Place
and
Persons
here
especially
charged
.
VI.
I
shall
enquire
what
Relation
this
Text
may
have
unto
us
,
and
how
far
this
Church
and
Nation
may
be
chargeable
with
this
Sin.
VII
.
Which
being
dispatch'd
,
and
having
discovered
some
,
and
those
no
small
spots
and
stains
of
this
Blood
upon
our
own
,
no
less
than
upon
Jerusalems
Skirts
and
Garments
,
viz.
by
our
neglecting
the
Souls
of
the
poor
Heathen
in
our
Plantations
,
(
and
even
here
at
home
.
)
I
shall
from
the
hainousness
of
the
Sin
,
and
from
the
Prophet's
severe
reprehension
of
it
in
Jerusalem
,
in
the
seventh
and
last
place
,
infer
the
most
indispensible
and
absolute
necessity
of
our
speedy
redressing
this
abuse
and
neglect
of
our
duty
to
God
,
and
to
our
own
,
no
less
than
to
our
Peoples
Souls
.
I.
FOR
the
first
of
these
.
I
have
before
shewed
,
that
in
Scripture
Language
,
there
is
a
Blood
of
Souls
;
but
then
what
that
Blood
is
,
and
wherein
the
Crime
of
shedding
it
doth
consist
,
will
need
some
further
Explication
.
As
for
the
Phrase
,
it
must
be
supposed
to
be
an
Hebrew
Idiotism
,
or
a
Metaphor
taken
from
the
Function
and
Imployment
which
the
Blood
sustains
and
exerciseth
in
the
Body
,
which
Moses
saith
,
is
the
Life
thereof
.
So
that
to
shed
the
Blood
,
the
Crime
here
charged
,
is
to
take
away
the
Life
,
whether
of
Soul
or
Body
.
Now
God
Almighty
being
the
sole
Life
of
Man's
Soul
,
the
very
Fountain
of
living
Waters
,
and
in
whose
light
only
she
can
see
Light
;
the
miserable
deprivation
of
his
Favour
can
be
no
less
than
the
shedding
of
her
Blood
,
and
the
taking
away
the
Life
thereof
.
It
is
to
subject
her
to
God's
Eternal
Wrath
and
Curse
,
the
true
second
Death
,
spoken
of
by
St.
John
in
the
Revelations
;
the
same
also
which
St.
Paul
terms
to
be
accursed
from
Christ
,
and
even
to
be
blotted
out
of
God's
Book
,
which
Moses
,
Exod.
32.
in
that
mighty
Zeal
for
his
Nation
,
sued
for
.
In
short
,
it
is
the
sum
total
of
whatsoever
is
deplorable
and
wretched
,
and
to
be
deprecated
and
avoided
by
all
Mankind
.
Which
loss
of
God's
Favour
,
with
the
dismal
Consequences
thereof
,
is
solely
occasioned
by
an
ungodly
course
of
Life
,
and
by
Infidelity
:
Piety
and
Vertue
,
being
the
same
to
the
Soul
,
which
good
Blood
is
to
the
Body
;
and
what
the
mischievous
effusion
thereof
is
to
the
latter
,
the
same
must
the
profusion
of
evil
manners
be
to
the
former
:
So
that
this
shedding
of
the
Soul's
Blood
,
is
nothing
else
but
a
spiteful
captivation
and
detaining
of
Men
under
God's
Wrath
and
Displeasure
,
a
permitting
or
forcibly
compelling
them
to
persist
in
Infidelity
,
and
a
wicked
Life
,
the
most
natural
effect
thereof
,
and
which
is
therefore
the
first
Root
or
Spring
of
Misery
and
Death
to
the
Soul
of
Man.
From
whence
it
is
that
when
Almighty
God
in
the
3d
,
18th
,
and
33d
Chapters
of
Ezekiel
,
threatens
to
require
the
witless
Offender's
Blood
at
the
Watchman's
Hand
,
't
is
plain
that
thereby
was
meant
,
such
Sins
and
Enormities
,
which
he
,
through
the
want
of
timely
notice
from
the
Watchman
,
had
run
into
.
And
when
Job
(
Chap.
16.
)
forbad
the
Earth
to
cover
,
or
conceal
his
Blood
;
't
is
understood
that
he
then
made
his
Purgation
,
as
to
the
foul
suggestions
of
his
Enemies
;
wishing
therein
that
his
most
secret
and
concealed
Sins
,
there
stiled
his
Blood
,
might
be
laid
open
to
the
view
of
the
whole
World
:
so
plainly
would
his
innocence
then
appear
,
at
least
as
to
the
Crimes
,
by
his
back-Friends
,
so
unjustly
charged
upon
him
.
So
also
St.
Paul's
attestation
of
himself
,
as
to
his
being
pure
from
the
Blood
of
all
Men
,
is
to
be
understood
of
his
being
no
way
chargeable
with
their
Ignorance
and
Infidelity
,
nor
with
the
Consequences
thereof
,
viz.
their
other
grosser
Impieties
;
as
having
even
day
and
night
with
Tears
warned
them
thereof
,
at
no
time
shunning
to
declare
unto
them
the
whole
Counsel
of
God
,
nor
keeping
back
any
thing
that
was
profitable
for
them
.
And
so
much
for
the
Nature
of
this
Sin
,
and
wherein
it
consists
.
I
proceed
unto
the
next
Particular
;
II.
WHICH
is
to
shew
the
several
ways
by
which
this
Sin
is
committed
;
and
this
I
intend
for
a
Light
or
Sea-Mark
,
by
the
help
whereof
Men
may
avoid
the
danger
of
running
upon
it
:
And
they
are
especially
two
.
Whereof
The
first
is
by
publishing
of
false
Doctrine
,
which
by
debauching
of
Mens
Minds
and
Judgments
with
evil
Principles
,
doth
necessarily
lead
them
into
Immorality
,
and
a
wicked
Life
,
which
,
as
I
have
shewed
,
is
the
most
certain
ruine
of
the
Soul.
For
if
,
as
our
blessed
Saviour
testifies
,
the
Truth
doth
make
Men
free
,
then
must
Falshood
be
the
occasion
of
their
Bondage
;
and
if
right
Principles
be
the
only
sure
Guides
and
Conducters
to
Happiness
,
the
contrary
must
needs
lead
us
to
Misery
and
Ruin.
For
he
that
believes
amiss
,
will
consequently
act
so
;
it
being
most
natural
for
Men
to
act
according
as
they
are
inwardly
persuaded
.
False
Doctrine
then
must
be
confessed
to
be
the
Bane
and
Poyson
of
the
Soul.
The
Publishers
and
Promoters
whereof
,
can
therefore
be
no
other
than
its
most
perfect
Betrayers
and
Murtherers
.
For
which
reason
doubtless
it
was
,
that
our
Lord
Christ
in
his
Gospel
commands
us
to
take
heed
,
both
how
,
and
what
we
hear
:
confirming
Solomon's
advice
,
thus
warning
us
,
Cease
,
my
Son
,
to
hear
the
Iustruction
that
causeth
to
err
from
the
words
of
Knowledg
,
as
being
so
destructive
to
the
Soul.
And
no
less
,
in
the
second
place
,
may
this
guilt
be
contracted
by
prohibiting
and
concealing
the
Truth
;
this
being
a
sacrilegious
robbing
the
Soul
of
her
necessary
Sustenance
,
and
is
not
so
much
a
stabbing
or
a
poysoning
,
as
a
starving
of
her
;
The
knowledg
and
practice
of
the
Truth
being
that
alone
which
can
reconcile
her
unto
God
,
and
entitle
her
to
his
Favour
,
which
is
the
Life
thereof
.
For
,
as
Syracides
saith
,
The
Bread
of
the
Needy
(
as
well
the
Spiritual
as
the
Temporal
)
is
their
Life
,
and
he
that
defraudeth
him
of
it
,
is
a
Man
of
Blood
:
And
he
that
taketh
away
his
Neighbours
Living
,
slayeth
him
;
and
he
that
defraudeth
him
of
his
Hire
,
is
a
Blood-shedder
:
So
likewise
,
That
the
Soul
should
be
without
Knowledg
,
it
is
not
good
,
saith
the
wise
Solomon
.
Indeed
it
is
no
other
but
to
murther
her
.
And
therefore
he
saith
again
,
That
the
Lips
of
the
Wise
disperse
Knowledg
,
the
most
proper
and
necessary
Food
for
Men's
Souls
.
This
was
it
which
Almighty
God
complained
of
by
his
Prophet
Hosea
,
That
his
People
were
destroyed
for
lack
of
Knowledg
;
Instruction
,
the
means
thereof
,
being
withholden
from
them
:
And
likewise
in
Isaiah
,
where
it
is
lamented
,
That
they
were
gone
into
Captivity
,
and
their
honourable
Men
were
famished
,
and
their
Multitude
dried
up
with
Thirst
,
because
they
had
no
Knowledg
.
This
also
was
the
sad
condition
of
the
poor
Flock
in
Zechariah
;
They
fell
into
distress
,
because
there
was
no
Shepherd
,
or
such
only
as
did
not
regard
nor
pity
them
;
no
not
when
they
were
sold
and
slain
.
For
those
that
were
cut
off
,
they
did
not
visit
,
they
neither
sought
out
the
young
,
nor
healed
the
broken
,
nor
fed
that
which
was
still
;
But
that
that
dieth
,
let
it
die
,
was
all
they
cared
,
so
they
might
but
eat
the
flesh
of
the
fat
;
retain
the
Oppressors
Favour
,
and
so
thrive
and
grow
rich
.
Wherefore
,
to
obviate
this
sore
evil
for
the
future
,
Almighty
God
in
the
Chapter
ensuing
the
Text
,
promiseth
to
give
them
Pastours
after
his
own
Heart
,
which
should
feed
them
with
Knowledg
and
Vnderstanding
,
the
only
sure
Preservatives
of
the
Soul.
Nor
let
any
one
here
think
to
shift
off
this
Guilt
,
by
lessening
this
Sin
into
an
Omission
only
(
even
where
it
so
happens
,
which
is
seldom
;
)
It
being
our
very
great
Crime
to
but
omit
what
is
our
strictest
duty
to
perform
;
as
most
certainly
it
is
to
persuade
others
to
both
believe
and
practise
whatsoever
we
hold
our selves
obliged
to
.
The
forbearance
whereof
was
,
in
Moses's
Esteem
,
no
less
than
a
hating
of
our
Brother
,
who
therefore
thus
directs
us
;
Thou
shalt
in
any
wise
rebuke
thy
Neighbour
,
and
not
suffer
Sin
[
to
rest
]
upon
him
;
or
(
as
't
is
in
the
Margent
)
that
thou
bear
not
Sin
for
him
;
intimating
therein
the
danger
of
that
Omission
.
That
all
connivance
at
Wickedness
,
is
an
encouragement
to
it
,
especially
in
such
who
both
can
,
and
ought
to
prevent
it
,
was
the
opinion
of
a
virtuous
Heathen
.
Agreeable
to
that
of
St.
James
,
To
him
that
knoweth
to
do
good
,
and
doth
it
not
,
to
him
it
in
Sin.
Solomon
did
not
hold
him
excused
who
had
[
only
]
forborn
to
deliver
those
that
were
drawn
unto
Death
,
and
that
were
ready
to
be
slain
;
no
not
tho
he
pleaded
Ignorance
,
and
should
say
,
that
he
knew
it
not
:
For
,
as
it
follows
,
Doth
not
be
that
pondereth
the
Heart
,
consider
it
,
and
he
that
keepeth
the
Soul
,
doth
not
he
know
it
?
And
shall
not
he
render
to
every
Man
according
to
his
works
?
The
Piety
of
the
great
Artaxcrxes
,
would
not
allow
that
any
should
remain
ignorant
of
the
Laws
of
the
God
of
Heaven
:
And
therefore
in
his
Commission
to
Ezra
,
he
gives
an
especial
charge
for
the
careful
instruction
of
those
who
knew
them
not
.
It
was
not
enough
in
our
blessed
Saviour's
esteem
,
for
St.
Peter
to
be
converted
himself
,
but
that
being
accomplished
,
he
was
to
employ
the
like
charitable
endeavours
for
his
Brethren
also
.
And
upon
that
so
prevalent
motive
of
Charity
,
our
Blessed
Lord
urgeth
to
all
in
general
a
seasonable
Reproof
and
Admonition
of
our
Brother
;
For
,
if
he
hear
thee
,
thou
hast
gained
thy
Brother
,
and
thereby
saved
his
Soul.
This
is
that
perfect
love
of
God
and
of
our
Brother
(
or
Neighbour
)
which
cannot
be
separated
;
and
which
whosoever
wanteth
,
is
at
once
an
Enemy
both
to
God
and
to
his
Brother
:
For
,
he
is
a
Lyar
and
a
Murtherer
,
saith
St.
John
;
He
walketh
in
Darkness
and
not
in
Light
;
He
abides
in
Death
,
and
can
have
no
hopes
of
Eternal
Life
;
withal
adding
,
that
such
a
Person
is
not
of
God
,
and
cannot
love
him
,
that
hates
(
or
doth
not
love
)
his
Brother
;
confirming
his
Assertion
with
a
most
substantial
Reason
,
demanding
,
How
he
can
love
God
whom
he
hath
not
seen
,
who
hateth
his
Brother
whom
he
hath
seen
?
For
whom
he
ought
to
lay
down
his
Life
,
but
much
more
to
extend
his
Charity
,
and
to
open
his
bowels
of
Compassion
to
him
,
being
in
need
,
whether
of
Spiritual
or
Temporal
Assistance
.
So
that
this
Omission
,
as
they
term
it
,
which
,
of
a
charitable
pious
Christian
,
renders
a
Man
a
Lyar
,
a
Murtherer
,
and
an
Apostate
,
&c.
is
but
a
bad
Plea
,
and
very
far
from
an
extenuation
of
our
Crime
.
But
then
if
this
love
of
our
Brother
by
admonishing
and
reproving
him
be
thus
every
Man's
duty
,
much
more
must
it
be
of
such
,
who
are
peculiarly
ordained
and
appointed
to
that
work
;
as
we
read
the
Watchman
in
Ezekiel
was
,
against
whom
it
was
determined
,
That
he
should
surely
die
,
if
he
did
not
speak
to
warn
the
wicked
from
his
way
.
Wherein
it
is
observable
,
that
nothing
of
any
Crime
actually
committed
by
the
Watchman
is
therein
mentioned
,
but
only
an
Omission
of
his
Duty
;
nor
was
this
Penalty
to
be
inflicted
for
any
treacherous
correspondence
with
the
Enemy
,
or
for
betraying
his
Cause
or
Party
,
but
only
for
holding
his
peace
in
a
time
of
danger
.
From
hence
alone
could
St.
Paul
acquit
his
Innocence
,
as
to
the
Blood
of
all
Men
,
because
he
had
not
omitted
to
declare
to
the
Souls
under
his
charge
the
whole
counsel
of
God
,
nor
any
thing
that
was
profitable
unto
them
;
Of
which
yet
his
partiality
or
silence
must
have
impleaded
him
deeply
Guilty
:
For
it
had
been
a
concealing
of
the
Truth
,
and
therefore
confessedly
a
shedding
of
their
Blood
,
and
a
murthering
of
them
.
This
was
that
Fruit
which
our
Lord
Christ
acquaints
his
Disciples
,
that
they
were
to
go
and
bring
forth
,
and
that
their
Fruit
might
remain
;
and
which
alone
could
qualify
them
for
that
honourable
Title
of
his
Friends
,
viz.
by
an
industrious
and
active
conformity
to
all
his
Commands
;
of
which
,
this
we
are
speaking
of
,
was
none
of
the
least
.
And
how
far
those
shifts
and
excuses
,
which
upon
this
occasion
are
usually
produced
,
will
avail
us
at
the
last
day
,
the
sad
doom
both
of
the
slothful
Servant
,
and
of
the
sleepy
Virgins
may
serve
to
inform
us
.
And
so
much
for
my
second
Observable
.
I
proceed
now
unto
III.
THE
Third
,
which
is
to
represent
the
most
usual
and
common
Inducements
to
this
Sin
;
And
they
are
four
:
Whereof
The
first
is
that
root
of
Bitterness
,
or
spirit
of
Unbelief
,
attended
with
a
most
violent
Spite
or
Enmity
to
Religion
inwardly
lodg'd
in
the
Heart
;
such
as
is
generally
observable
in
Atheists
and
Anti-Religionists
,
especially
where
Religion
doth
happen
to
sute
less
with
their
Secular
Interests
and
Designs
.
Or
else
,
such
as
was
visible
in
Amaziah
,
the
Idolatrous
High-Priest
of
Bethel
,
or
in
Elymas
the
Sorcerer
,
in
Jannes
and
Jambers
,
and
divers
others
;
who
possibly
might
resist
the
true
,
only
for
the
sake
of
their
false
Religions
.
Or
,
lastly
,
such
as
are
possessed
with
a
Spirit
of
Gallionism
and
Indifferency
which
or
what
Religion
shall
prevail
;
whether
Jesus
or
Mammon
,
Barabbas
or
Christ
,
so
that
they
may
be
at
ease
,
it
is
the
same
with
them
.
But
against
whom
our
blessed
Lord
hath
positively
declared
,
saying
,
He
that
is
not
with
me
,
is
against
me
;
and
he
that
gathereth
not
with
me
,
scattereth
.
Now
the
foundation
and
root
of
this
,
is
nothing
else
but
Infidelity
;
They
act
against
,
or
neglect
Religion
,
because
they
believe
it
not
.
For
,
as
the
Prophet
Micah
observes
,
All
people
will
walk
every
man
in
the
name
of
his
God
,
and
of
that
Religion
which
they
are
perswaded
of
.
As
for
instance
;
a
Jew
will
make
his
boast
of
the
Temple
of
the
Lord
,
and
stand
up
for
his
antiquated
Ceremonies
;
A
Turk
will
assert
his
Alcoran
,
and
rather
than
fail
will
buy
over
Proselytes
to
his
Superstition
.
And
some
Christians
there
are
too
,
who
(
to
the
shame
of
others
who
do
oppose
or
neglect
it
)
will
do
the
same
for
theirs
.
The
Ephesian
Craftsmen
would
adventure
upon
an
Uproar
,
rather
than
suffer
their
Diana
to
be
blasphemed
.
Yea
,
the
silly
Worshippers
of
Baal
could
cry
aloud
from
morning
till
noon
,
not
sparing
their
flesh
from
Knives
and
Launcers
for
the
honour
of
their
paultry
Deity
;
Nor
would
the
Gentiles
change
their
Gods
,
of
whose
Divinity
they
were
before
perswaded
,
as
our
Prophet
observes
.
But
these
,
as
saith
the
same
Prophet
Micah
,
know
not
the
ways
of
the
Lord
,
nor
understand
his
Counsels
:
Yea
,
they
vilify
and
cast
Dirt
upon
that
Religion
,
they
would
be
thought
to
profess
.
A
most
evident
sign
that
they
believe
it
not
.
Secondly
;
Pride
and
Ambition
are
too
frequently
the
occasions
of
this
Sin.
As
when
in
the
Church
,
some
fanciful
Humourists
,
or
stiff-necked
Enthusiasts
shall
turn
Reformers
;
and
,
upon
their
own
Heads
endeavour
to
make
Alterations
in
things
setled
and
agreed
upon
by
the
best
Authority
,
and
after
the
maturest
Deliberation
.
Or
when
some
little
Dwarfs
or
Pygmies
in
worth
and
abilities
,
shall
set
up
for
themselves
,
and
by
dispersing
Heterodox
Opinions
in
Religion
,
shall
aspire
after
fame
and
greatness
amongst
their
Party
and
Followers
.
Or
in
the
State
,
when
any
dissatisfied
Achitophel
shall
plot
revenge
against
it
:
And
to
that
vile
end
shall
side
with
,
and
encourage
the
idle
Dreams
and
Dotages
of
those
empty
Votaries
,
as
hoping
to
compass
that
by
the
new
Religion
,
which
he
could
never
effect
by
the
old
.
'T
is
Pride
,
saith
an
ancient
Greek
Proverb
,
that
is
the
Parent
of
Superstition
;
the
very
same
with
that
of
St.
Paul
,
If
any
Man
teach
otherwise
,
and
consents
not
to
wholsom
words
,
he
is
proud
,
knowing
nothing
.
The
third
Inducement
is
Avarice
,
and
a
never
satisfied
Thirst
after
filthy
Lucre
:
When
wicked
Mammonists
,
(
such
who
do
account
their
Life
here
to
be
but
a
Market
for
gain
,
and
that
resolve
they
must
be
getting
,
tho
it
be
with
the
ruine
of
their
own
,
and
their
Peoples
Souls
)
shall
begrutch
the
time
and
expences
laid
out
upon
the
Service
of
God
,
and
the
Work
of
Religion
.
Who
finding
their
Trade
and
Religion
to
be
inconsistent
,
and
having
purposed
in
despite
thereof
to
carry
on
their
ungodly
Interests
,
will
not
scruple
to
turn
their
Backs
to
the
one
,
for
the
advantage
of
the
other
,
and
so
as
much
as
in
them
lieth
shall
make
their
God
to
truckle
under
Mammon
.
Or
when
Cheats
and
Impostors
to
furnish
themselves
of
a
livelyhood
,
and
finding
Preaching
to
be
the
only
Trade
they
can
set
up
for
,
without
serving
an
Apprenticeship
,
shall
subvert
Order
,
draw
Disciples
after
them
,
and
preach
a
Nation
into
Desolation
.
Such
,
as
St.
Peter
describing
,
warns
us
against
,
who
through
Covetousness
,
with
fained
words
,
should
make
Merchandise
of
us
:
And
whom
S.
Paul
bids
us
to
mark
and
avoid
;
for
that
they
did
not
serve
our
Lord
Jesus
Christ
,
as
they
falsly
pretended
,
but
their
own
Belly
;
and
by
good
Words
and
fair
Speeches
did
deceive
the
Hearts
of
the
simple
:
But
for
which
,
(
as
St.
Peter
in
the
forementioned
place
,
to
their
small
comfort
,
assures
them
)
their
Judgment
did
not
linger
,
nor
their
Damnation
slumber
.
This
is
that
Covetousness
which
St.
Paul
terms
Idolatry
.
For
whatsoever
a
Man
magnifies
and
admires
most
,
that
certainly
must
be
his
God
;
And
in
Christianity
,
wheresoever
practised
,
't
is
no
doubt
a
renouncing
of
it
:
It
being
no
less
true
,
than
Truth
it self
,
That
no
Servant
can
serve
two
Masters
,
for
either
he
will
hate
the
one
,
and
love
the
other
,
or
else
he
will
hold
to
the
one
,
and
despise
the
other
.
Now
to
despise
and
hate
,
what
is
it
but
inwardly
to
renounce
?
And
therefore
,
a
little
to
invert
our
Saviour's
Words
,
I
must
in
this
case
declare
,
That
we
cannot
serve
Christ
and
Trade
.
The
last
Inducement
I
shall
mention
is
Sloth
,
and
a
supine
carelesness
and
neglect
of
Religion
,
and
of
the
Souls
of
Men
:
When
to
avoid
Clamour
and
Obloquie
,
or
being
willing
to
shift
off
Business
,
or
to
flatter
a
few
Atheistical
Apostates
;
(
Such
I
fear
,
to
make
a
fair
shew
in
the
Flesh
,
would
,
with
St.
Paul's
prudent
and
moderate
Galatians
,
scarce
stick
at
Circumcision
,
if
thereby
they
might
escape
suffering
persecution
for
the
Cross
of
Christ
;
)
Or
because
it
is
a
barren
Theme
,
and
nothing
is
to
be
got
by
the
preaching
or
promoting
of
it
,
but
may
rather
prove
some
impediment
to
their
Profit
:
Or
lastly
,
because
there
is
some
labour
or
trouble
in
it
;
I
say
,
when
for
these
doughty
reasons
,
Men
shall
suffer
Religion
to
lye
waste
,
and
poor
Innocent
Souls
to
perish
,
without
any
pity
or
regard
;
and
then
to
excuse
this
their
Sloth
,
or
whatever
worse
Name
it
deserves
,
shall
declare
it
a
needless
Service
:
And
so
strike
Hands
with
the
Adversary
,
to
the
great
discouragement
and
weakning
of
those
who
are
more
hearty
therein
;
whom
they
ought
in
Duty
to
both
strengthen
and
assist
.
And
so
I
proceed
to
IV.
THE
Fourth
Observable
,
which
is
to
shew
the
horrid
and
almost
most
unpardonable
Nature
of
this
Sin
,
and
how
infinitely
displeasing
to
Almighty
God.
Which
will
be
made
appear
from
these
five
following
Circumstances
,
whereof
,
The
first
is
its
evil
and
lewd
Society
,
and
that
foul
herd
of
Sins
,
which
it
is
mustered
and
mated
with
,
in
this
and
the
foregoing
Chapter
.
For
even
Words
and
Sins
,
as
well
as
Men
,
may
be
judged
of
by
the
company
they
go
in
.
Secondly
,
It
will
appear
from
the
Site
and
Order
in
which
it
is
placed
,
as
being
made
to
close
up
this
grand
Charge
,
brought
in
in
the
last
place
,
which
in
such
cases
is
usually
the
Principal
,
as
being
apt
more
thorowly
to
affect
the
Judgment
,
and
infuse
a
Sense
and
Tincture
of
the
like
hainousness
into
the
whole
Accusation
.
Thirdly
,
By
considering
the
Vehemency
here
used
by
our
Prophet
,
or
rather
by
the
Holy
Ghost
,
both
in
and
preparatory
to
this
grand
Charge
;
Whereas
at
the
12th
Verse
,
he
breaks
forth
into
this
mighty
Exclamation
;
Be
astonished
,
O
Heavens
,
and
be
horribly
afraid
,
yea
,
be
very
desolate
,
as
it
were
at
the
consideration
of
this
new
and
strange
Impiety
:
And
at
the
22d
Verse
it
is
resolved
,
that
tho
they
should
wash
themselves
with
Nitre
,
and
take
to
them
much
Soap
,
yet
that
it
should
not
avail
them
,
as
to
any
expiation
;
For
that
their
Iniquity
was
marked
before
the
Lord.
The
Conjunctive
,
Also
,
carrying
with
it
a
fearful
Aggravation
.
Fourthly
,
from
the
clamorous
and
revengeful
nature
of
Blood
above
all
other
things
,
and
from
the
high
detestation
wherewith
the
Holy-Spirit
of
God
in
Scripture
hath
declared
against
that
Sin
,
when
committed
simply
against
the
Body
alone
,
without
any
respect
or
relation
to
the
Soul.
As
when
in
the
Levitical
Law
we
read
of
an
especial
Service
and
Sacrifice
appointed
for
the
expiation
of
but
an
uncertain
murther
:
And
of
Abel's
Blood
crying
from
the
Earth
for
vengeance
against
Cain
;
and
so
of
the
Souls
under
the
Altar
crying
aloud
unto
God
to
judg
and
avenge
their
Blood
upon
those
that
dwelt
upon
the
Earth
.
And
of
the
Gibeonites
,
and
Naboth's
Blood
,
pursuing
Saul's
and
Ahab's
Families
,
when
themselves
were
extinguish'd
,
even
to
the
utter
extermination
of
the
latter
.
And
,
lastly
,
of
God's
determining
to
avenge
even
that
Blood
,
viz.
The
Blood
of
Jezreel
,
upon
the
House
of
Jehu
,
tho
commanded
to
do
it
.
From
all
which
Instances
we
may
easily
conclude
the
horridness
of
this
Sin
;
Of
which
nevertheless
I
shall
yet
say
something
more
in
another
place
.
But
,
The
fifth
Circumstance
will
yet
more
abundantly
make
appear
the
horridness
of
this
Sin
above
all
other
,
from
the
consideration
of
the
nature
and
excellency
of
the
Soul
of
Man
,
which
as
much
exceeds
his
Body
,
as
a
living
Creature
is
preferrable
to
so
much
inanimate
Clay
.
The
vast
distance
between
which
,
Solomon
,
the
ablest
Judg
,
will
best
inform
us
,
when
he
pronounceth
,
A
living
Dog
to
be
better
than
a
dead
Lion.
And
surely
then
a
living
and
immortal
Soul
,
capable
of
Eternal
things
,
and
destined
to
the
highest
Happiness
,
must
be
allowed
a
proportionable
share
of
preeminence
,
above
a
perishing
and
dying
Carcase
.
Hence
it
is
that
our
Blessed
Saviour
doth
so
much
postpone
the
danger
of
the
Body
to
that
of
the
Soul
,
preferring
this
last
above
the
World.
Now
Offences
do
usually
receive
much
of
their
aggravation
from
the
worth
and
quality
of
the
parties
injured
;
as
our
Laws
for
Treason
,
and
defaming
of
Noble-Men
do
manifestly
prove
.
I
conclude
therefore
,
that
all
Injuries
and
Wrongs
done
against
the
Soul
must
from
the
supereminent
and
transcendent
excellency
of
her
Nature
,
take
their
truest
estimate
and
value
,
as
to
the
Actors
both
Guilt
and
Punishment
for
the
same
,
whether
inflicted
in
this
,
or
in
the
Life
to
come
.
And
as
upon
a
just
ballancing
of
the
merits
of
each
,
such
Offences
will
be
found
infinitely
to
outweigh
all
other
,
so
they
do
seem
to
require
an
equal
proportion
of
Evil
for
them
.
And
,
to
speak
in
the
Scripture
Language
,
if
the
one
deserves
to
be
avenged
seven-fold
truly
the
other
not
so
little
as
seventy
and
seven
fold
.
V.
NOW
for
the
Place
and
Persons
here
charged
,
which
is
the
fifth
particular
to
be
considered
;
the
Place
is
Jerusalem
,
and
the
Persons
her
Elders
and
Rulers
,
or
else
together
with
them
the
Body
of
her
People
also
.
These
by
their
Ignorance
and
grosser
Stupidity
,
or
by
wicked
Principles
instilled
into
them
;
and
the
other
by
their
Connivance
and
Example
,
or
by
their
Precepts
to
the
contrary
;
such
as
we
read
were
afterward
decreed
by
Antiochus
and
other
Heathen
Princes
.
But
be
the
fault
where
it
will
,
whether
in
Jerusalem's
Rulers
and
Elders
,
or
in
her
People
,
or
in
both
;
't
is
certain
from
our
Prophet's
Charge
,
that
this
at
this
time
was
most
eminently
the
Sin
of
Jerusalem
.
A
place
where
Knowledg
did
so
abound
,
that
was
so
thorowly
acquainted
with
the
Will
of
God
,
at
least
in
this
particular
;
that
had
had
so
many
Prophets
to
instruct
her
,
and
for
a
long
time
had
lived
under
so
much
excellent
Preaching
;
had
had
Precept
upon
Precept
,
and
Line
upon
Line
;
were
God's
peculiar
People
,
and
did
glory
so
much
in
her
alone
profession
of
the
Truth
,
and
her
being
(
which
was
but
true
)
the
best
Reformed
Church
in
the
whole
World
:
And
lastly
,
that
had
been
gratified
and
obliged
by
so
many
Blessings
,
such
a
Train
of
Deliverances
,
and
no
less
admonish'd
by
as
many
severe
Judgments
from
Heaven
:
That
she
should
become
guilty
of
the
stifling
and
suppression
of
Religion
,
at
least
by
her
connivance
and
permission
,
and
thereby
of
the
murthering
of
Souls
;
and
that
with
that
daring
Impudence
,
till
her
Sins
,
this
especially
,
became
so
conspicuous
,
that
there
was
no
need
of
search
;
and
yet
at
the
same
time
,
with
such
a
stiff
Forehead
,
could
so
boldly
affirm
that
she
was
Innocent
,
and
had
not
sinned
:
These
,
I
say
,
were
Sins
of
such
a
Sanguine
Complexion
,
and
such
a
Scarlet
Dye
,
that
the
Almighty
begins
to
look
upon
himself
as
concerned
to
vindicate
his
Honour
by
a
severe
castigation
of
her
,
lest
otherwise
the
very
Heathen
should
assume
the
boldness
to
demand
,
Where
was
now
their
God
,
and
the
Reformation
they
so
much
boasted
of
?
And
hereupon
he
resolves
to
be
unto
them
as
a
Lion
,
and
to
observe
them
as
a
Leopard
in
the
Way
:
To
meet
them
as
a
Bear
bereaved
,
and
to
rent
the
very
Caul
of
their
Heart
,
and
to
devour
them
.
And
he
purposeth
to
destroy
the
sinful
Kingdom
,
and
to
deliver
up
the
City
,
and
to
cause
wailing
to
be
in
every
Street
;
and
they
shall
go
into
Captivity
with
the
first
that
go
Captive
;
and
he
determines
to
lay
waste
the
Sanctuaries
of
Israel
,
and
to
make
desolate
the
high
places
of
Isaac
.
To
smite
the
greater
Houses
with
Breaches
,
and
the
little
with
Clefts
,
so
that
if
ten
Men
should
remain
in
them
,
they
should
die
.
This
was
the
Place
,
and
these
the
Persons
upon
whom
this
Blood
was
charged
;
and
these
the
Plagues
allotted
for
it
,
as
to
their
cost
they
afterwards
felt
.
VI.
BUT
here
in
the
sixth
place
,
methinks
,
I
espy
some
one
ready
to
stand
up
and
to
demand
of
me
,
To
what
purpose
is
all
this
stirr
,
this
fierce
declaiming
against
the
Murtherers
of
Souls
?
Where
are
the
guilty
Parties
amongst
us
?
If
the
Jews
in
Jeremiah's
time
or
since
,
have
defiled
their
Skirts
with
this
precious
Blood
,
what
is
that
to
us
,
who
never
were
concerned
with
them
therein
?
Let
them
look
to
it
,
we
for
our
Parts
are
clear
.
But
,
Nos
utinam
vani
!
would
to
God
my
complaint
were
groundless
,
and
that
this
Guilt
had
for
ever
stuck
to
those
first
Skirts
only
of
the
Jewish
Church
and
Nation
!
For
whether
we
take
these
[
Skirts
]
as
a
Metonymie
of
a
part
for
the
whole
(
which
some
do
seem
to
favour
,
)
and
so
to
imply
them
all-over
,
and
even
throughout
polluted
:
Or
if
with
the
Septuagint
,
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
we
refer
them
to
the
Hands
,
which
amounts
to
almost
the
same
with
the
former
:
Or
if
,
in
the
third
place
,
we
take
them
in
a
more
restrained
Sense
,
and
thereby
shall
understand
the
out-borders
only
,
and
Confines
of
their
Government
,
(
the
Skirts
being
the
utmost
and
extreamest
parts
of
a
Garment
:
)
In
all
these
Sences
the
Text
will
be
applicable
,
and
the
Crime
chargeable
upon
us
also
,
no
less
than
upon
Jerusalem
.
For
to
understand
the
Word
in
the
first
Sense
,
it
were
easy
to
expatiate
into
too
many
Instances
,
which
will
make
good
that
Sense
against
us
.
As
in
the
many
large
Parishes
,
and
the
slender
(
or
no
)
provision
found
in
the
greatest
part
;
The
small
care
that
is
taken
for
the
instructing
of
Youth
,
and
the
more
ignorant
both
at
home
and
abroad
:
The
grand
License
allowed
to
the
dispersers
of
whatsoever
false
doctrines
the
Enemy
of
Goodness
shall
inspire
his
Apostles
and
Disciples
with
.
And
lastly
,
in
the
open
venting
and
defending
of
Blasphemy
and
Atheism
,
without
any
hazard
to
the
Blasphemer's
Person
or
Reputation
:
All
which
,
as
they
are
in
some
sort
near
universal
,
so
they
have
a
most
direct
and
immediate
tendency
to
the
murthering
of
Souls
.
And
yet
not
so
much
to
insist
upon
these
,
I
shall
instance
in
another
,
more
suitable
to
my
purpose
,
and
to
the
Subject
in
hand
;
and
which
,
the
wholly
unknown
to
the
former
Ages
of
Christianity
,
is
now
become
frequent
in
this
City
and
Kingdom
:
And
that
is
,
the
compelling
of
Persons
imported
out
of
Africa
,
and
other
remoter
Heathen
Regions
,
but
residing
in
our
Families
,
and
Vassals
to
us
,
to
remain
in
their
native
Gentilism
;
without
any
regard
to
the
honour
of
our
Religion
and
Nation
,
any
more
than
to
the
good
of
their
,
or
our
own
Souls
.
An
Impiety
that
even
here
some
fifty
or
sixty
years
since
(
and
at
this
day
in
other
Countries
)
would
render
the
Authors
obnoxious
,
not
only
to
the
publick
Censure
,
but
to
the
Peoples
Fury
.
But
with
us
,
even
amidst
this
mighty
Zeal
,
and
stirr
for
Religion
(
an
evident
sign
that
we
indeed
have
none
)
is
suffered
to
pass
on
without
contradiction
.
No
one
once
daring
to
open
his
Mouth
against
it
,
or
so
much
as
to
look
the
Impiety
in
the
Face
:
They
are
not
so
valiant
for
the
truth
.
Whilst
its
Enemies
have
the
confidence
and
courage
openly
to
bid
desiance
to
it
,
by
this
their
hindring
and
opposing
of
it
.
But
I
rather
choose
to
take
the
Word
in
the
more
contracted
Sense
,
and
so
to
understand
by
these
Skirts
,
the
remoter
parts
only
,
some
out-Provinces
of
the
Hebrew
Government
.
And
then
this
Text
will
seem
not
only
an
History
or
Narrative
of
this
Jewish
Impiety
,
but
also
a
Prophecy
of
our
times
,
too
plainly
and
eminently
by
our
People
acted
and
fulfilled
in
our
Plantations
.
Where
you
shall
see
this
Blood
of
poor
Innocent
Souls
wasted
and
poured
out
like
so
much
Water
spilt
upon
the
Ground
;
and
that
Sin
,
which
at
home
seems
to
be
as
it
were
lock'd
up
under
the
darkest
Cyphers
,
and
here
attains
only
the
notice
of
a
few
,
is
there
legible
in
Capital
Letters
,
made
evident
to
the
most
incurious
Observer
,
and
entred
into
their
very
Laws
and
Records
.
Thereby
striving
to
out-do
the
Jewish
Impudence
,
I
have
not
found
it
by
secret
search
,
as
being
so
publick
and
notorious
to
the
whole
World.
They
are
not
ashamed
at
the
committing
these
Abominations
;
nay
,
they
are
not
ashamed
,
neither
can
they
blush
.
Again
,
there
you
shall
see
Myriads
of
poor
hungry
Souls
imploring
the
Bread
of
Life
,
but
no
compassionate
Christian
affording
it
to
them
;
Whole
Multitudes
of
St.
Paul's
Macedonians
calling
for
our
help
,
but
finding
none
:
Not
so
much
as
that
Hypocritical
Charity
of
,
Be
ye
warmed
and
filled
,
being
once
extended
to
their
distressed
and
starved
Souls
.
It
falls
not
within
the
compass
of
their
thoughts
or
wishes
,
the
very
naming
of
it
being
grievous
to
their
cruel
Ears
.
And
thus
whilst
like
the
Man
in
the
Gospel
,
fallen
amongst
Thieves
,
they
there
lie
weltering
in
their
Blood
,
they
meet
with
no
tender-hearted
Samaritan
to
bind
up
their
Wounds
,
and
to
relieve
them
:
No
compassionate
Angel
inviting
them
to
live
;
No
Messenger
nor
Interpreter
,
not
even
one
of
a
thousand
(
yea
,
I
may
say
,
not
of
ten
thousands
,
)
as
Elihu
in
Job
speaks
,
to
shew
unto
them
his
uprightness
,
nor
to
direct
them
in
the
way
,
to
deliver
their
Souls
from
going
down
into
the
Pit
,
nor
to
make
known
unto
them
,
that
God
hath
accepted
a
ransom
for
them
;
and
this
,
even
whilst
they
are
drawing
nigh
unto
Hell
,
and
their
Life
unto
the
Destroyers
.
For
,
as
our
Prophet
laments
of
hi●
People
,
They
are
all
grievous
Revolters
(
Apostates
)
and
Corrupters
:
From
the
least
of
them
to
the
greatest
of
them
,
every
one
is
given
to
Covetousness
:
They
overpass
the
deeds
of
the
most
wicked
,
of
other
Sects
and
Religions
:
They
judg
not
the
cause
of
the
Fatherless
,
and
the
right
of
these
needy
Souls
do
they
not
judg
.
Yet
they
are
become
great
,
and
waxen
rich
;
they
are
waxen
fat
,
they
shine
and
prosper
:
And
,
O
,
where
is
the
God
of
Judgment
!
Nor
is
this
the
case
of
the
remoter
Natives
of
those
places
,
such
as
with
whom
they
have
little
intercourse
;
nor
yet
of
their
Borderers
and
Tributaries
only
,
(
both
which
might
justly
claim
a
share
in
our
Spirituals
,
whilst
we
enjoy
so
much
of
their
Temporals
,
)
but
of
their
very
Domesticks
and
Vassals
,
those
poor
captive
Slaves
,
out
of
whose
Labours
they
live
,
and
do
thrive
into
vast
Estates
.
Nor
may
this
be
said
to
be
occasioned
through
any
want
of
Language
,
at
least
in
some
thousands
of
them
;
nor
any
Stupidity
,
greater
than
is
found
amongst
our
own
People
:
Nor
any
irreconcileable
aversion
to
Christianity
,
as
is
most
falsly
alledged
(
the
contrary
thereof
being
most
true
;
)
but
through
their
Owners
enmity
and
disaffection
thereto
.
Thereby
testifying
themselves
as
wretched
Christians
,
as
they
are
unconscionable
and
unjust
Masters
.
And
tho
our
Blessed
Lord
has
positively
declared
,
that
No
man
cometh
to
the
Father
,
but
by
himself
;
and
his
Apostle
also
hath
renounced
all
other
ways
or
means
of
Salvation
,
but
by
Christ
only
;
yet
as
if
in
Contempt
and
Defiance
thereof
,
they
purposely
conceal
from
them
this
so
absolutely
necessary
Knowledg
of
Christ
,
and
,
for
the
general
,
do
even
forbid
the
mention
thereof
amongst
them
,
that
so
they
might
[
not
]
be
saved
.
And
thus
in
one
and
the
same
Act
,
they
contrive
their
own
,
and
their
Slaves
Damnation
.
Who
,
so
that
their
Portion
may
be
fat
,
and
their
Meat
plenteous
,
and
that
Trading
may
flourish
,
(
the
advancement
whereof
doth
,
it
seems
,
justify
the
grossest
Villanies
)
,
they
are
not
ashamed
to
debase
Men
,
made
in
the
Image
of
God
(
no
less
than
themselves
,
)
and
whose
Flesh
is
as
their
own
;
even
to
the
Fishes
of
the
Sea
,
and
to
the
creeping
things
which
have
no
Ruler
over
them
.
Being
frequently
heard
to
confess
and
to
glory
,
that
they
came
not
thither
to
promote
Religion
,
nor
to
save
Souls
,
but
to
get
Money
and
Estates
;
That
is
,
like
to
the
Beasts
of
the
Field
,
only
to
devour
;
and
,
as
the
Prophet
speaks
,
Looking
every
Man
for
his
gain
from
his
quarter
.
And
yet
,
whilst
like
Sodom
,
they
stick
not
to
declare
their
Sin
,
nor
do
dread
to
triumph
and
boast
of
their
so
detestible
Abominations
;
shall
neverthelss
presume
themselves
Innocent
,
and
not
doubt
to
affirm
that
therein
they
have
not
sinned
;
nor
will
be
persuaded
that
they
are
at
all
(
therefore
)
to
be
reputed
the
worse
Christians
.
And
here
,
to
omit
all
enquiry
into
the
Equity
and
Right
of
the
first
purchase
,
where
Parents
do
sell
their
Children
,
Husbands
their
Wives
,
Brothers
their
Sisters
,
and
so
on
the
contrary
:
(
A
most
blessed
Trade
for
the
best
Reformed
Christians
to
be
conversant
and
imployed
in
!
)
and
in
a
Word
,
where
every
Man's
strength
is
the
Law
of
Justice
:
I
say
,
to
omit
all
this
,
they
hold
all
their
other
Cruelties
and
Oppressions
,
for
nothing
;
unless
to
the
enslaving
of
their
Bodies
,
and
wasting
them
with
unmerciful
Labour
and
wretched
Vsage
,
they
bring
into
final
Destruction
and
Bondage
their
very
Souls
also
.
And
here
,
before
I
can
proceed
a
step
further
,
I
must
be
so
bold
as
to
demand
of
whomsever
shall
please
to
resolve
me
,
whether
the
Jews
offering
up
a
few
Children
to
Moloch
(
which
some
will
have
this
Text
to
reprove
)
the
Papists
Superstitions
,
(
against
which
so
many
Volumns
have
been
wrote
;
)
the
old
Gentiles
Idolatry
,
or
even
the
Turks
worshipping
Mahomet
(
all
Circumstances
considered
;
)
be
comparable
to
this
Sin
,
among
us
,
viz.
of
continually
sacrificing
so
many
Bodies
to
Mammon
,
and
Souls
to
the
Devil
;
against
which
no
one
hath
hardly
ever
yet
opened
his
Mouth
.
And
thus
I
think
it
doth
but
too
plainly
appear
,
that
these
Skirts
are
not
so
much
spotted
or
stained
only
,
as
thorowly
wrenched
and
dyed
in
this
precious
Blood
of
Souls
.
And
those
our
out-Provinces
are
most
evidently
chargeable
with
this
most
foul
and
horrid
Guilt
;
far
,
I
dare
affirm
,
beyond
whatever
hath
by
Fame
been
storied
to
have
been
practised
,
or
but
permitted
by
any
,
besides
(
yea
hardly
by
)
the
most
openly
avowed
Enemies
of
Christianity
.
And
,
which
is
yet
more
astonishing
,
All
this
and
much
more
,
we
find
to
be
tolerated
and
acted
under
Magistrates
,
and
by
persons
outwardly
professors
of
it
,
and
that
in
the
most
refined
and
purest
way
.
So
strange
a
mockery
and
abuse
,
as
by
no
Hypocrisy
to
be
parallel'd
,
but
by
the
Jews
crying
,
Hail
King
unto
Christ
,
when
they
were
going
to
crucify
him
;
or
by
those
who
murthered
their
Sovereign
to
make
him
more
glorious
and
renowned
!
They
might
doubtless
more
innocently
,
give
license
and
freedom
for
the
erecting
publick
Stews
,
and
Brothel
Houses
,
or
make
Proclamation
against
Justice
and
common
Honesty
,
than
thus
to
encourage
,
or
but
permit
,
such
Sacriledg
and
Prophaneness
to
pass
without
Controul
.
And
whilst
those
abroad
are
thus
acting
and
carrying
on
their
Butcheries
upon
the
Souls
of
Men
there
,
how
quietly
and
unconcernedly
in
the
mean
time
do
we
sit
down
here
,
and
take
our
ease
,
not
once
in
our
thoughts
reflecting
upon
this
Calamity
;
Perinde
quasi
,
cum
membra
nostra
putrescant
,
nihil
grave
acciderat
as
a
certain
Father
speaks
:
As
tho
,
like
Cain
,
we
esteemed
all
regard
of
our
Brethren
to
be
needless
;
or
like
the
vile
Oppressors
in
Nathan's
Parable
,
we
had
no
Bowels
nor
Compassion
;
or
that
we
believed
the
rotting
and
perishing
of
our
Fellow-Members
,
to
be
a
most
desirable
and
pleasant
Object
.
Yea
,
we
act
as
tho
the
Prophet
had
mistook
,
and
talked
impertinently
,
when
he
demanded
,
Have
we
not
all
one
father
,
and
did
not
one
God
create
us
?
And
also
Job
,
when
he
asked
,
Did
not
he
that
made
me
in
the
Womb
make
them
,
and
did
not
one
fashion
us
both
in
the
Womb
?
And
even
Solomon
too
,
as
wise
as
he
was
,
(
or
whoever
was
the
Author
of
that
Book
,
)
declaring
that
no
King
had
other
beginning
of
Birth
,
than
what
these
have
,
all
Men
having
but
one
entrance
into
Life
,
and
the
like
going
out
.
And
lastly
,
as
if
St.
Paul
had
uttered
an
untruth
,
when
he
bespeaks
us
all
,
as
Members
one
of
another
.
And
tho
in
the
Captives
of
Algier's
case
,
as
in
the
late
Brief
it
is
represented
,
this
cruelty
to
the
Souls
of
Men
,
is
*
termed
Tyranny
and
accursed
,
and
made
to
exceed
all
other
the
most
Turkish
Barbarities
,
and
is
therein
declared
a
Calamity
never
sufficiently
to
be
bewailed
;
yet
the
very
same
,
or
worse
,
is
allowed
in
our
own
People
;
that
is
,
by
Protestants
and
English-men
:
Our
profound
Silence
being
no
better
than
a
constructive
approbation
;
and
our
Connivance
a
consenting
thereunto
.
As
if
such
Tyranny
over
the
Souls
of
Men
were
Accursed
and
never
sufficiently
to
be
bewailed
,
only
in
Turks
and
professed
Infidels
;
or
that
the
same
Action
were
Vertue
in
us
,
but
accursed
Tyranny
in
the
other
.
Notwithstanding
that
those
do
therein
act
most
agreeable
to
their
Belief
,
and
for
the
promoting
of
their
Faith
;
which
if
true
,
as
they
suppose
it
is
,
is
a
pious
deed
,
and
but
what
they
were
bound
to
do
.
And
they
are
therefore
beyond
all
peradventure
more
justifiable
before
God
,
than
such
,
who
whilst
owning
(
I
dare
not
say
believing
)
the
Truth
,
do
yet
upon
pretence
of
Interest
(
which
those
do
therein
renounce
)
not
only
conceal
,
but
most
industriously
decry
and
oppose
the
advancement
of
it
:
Yea
,
and
than
such
other
too
,
who
,
tho
they
do
not
oppose
it
,
yet
have
never
entered
their
Protests
against
those
that
do
.
And
of
both
which
I
cannot
so
much
as
doubt
,
notwithstanding
our
accursing
the
other
,
but
that
these
shall
receive
the
greater
Damnation
.
And
certainly
,
(
all
being
impartially
weighed
)
these
Mahumetans
,
as
bad
as
they
are
,
for
any
thing
we
can
find
,
do
(
herein
at
least
)
appear
more
vertuous
than
our selves
,
and
must
in
the
last
day
rise
in
judgment
and
condemn
us
;
and
that
from
no
other
than
our
own
Mouths
.
For
,
if
they
be
accursed
for
promoting
what
they
think
is
the
Truth
,
what
must
those
be
that
do
oppose
,
(
or
at
best
neglect
,
)
what
most
undoubtedly
is
so
,
as
themselves
confess
?
For
tho
they
live
in
an
unpardonable
Errour
,
yet
because
they
do
it
Ignorantly
thro
unbelief
,
not
knowing
it
to
be
either
Sin
or
Errour
,
but
perswaded
of
the
contrary
,
they
are
certainly
the
more
excusable
.
And
it
were
an
unreasonable
incongruity
to
imagine
that
the
God
of
Mercy
and
Justice
,
should
be
more
ready
to
punish
Errours
of
Understanding
,
than
wilful
Impieties
:
But
that
,
if
those
that
have
sinned
without
Law
,
shall
also
perish
without
Law
;
much
more
those
that
have
sinned
in
the
Law
,
(
that
is
,
against
their
Profession
,
)
shall
be
judged
by
it
;
as
St.
Paul
argues
.
And
as
the
Wiseman
speaks
,
that
the
most
mighty
Sinners
should
be
mightily
tormented
;
whilst
Mercy
may
sooner
acquit
the
other
.
For
,
(
as
St.
Paul
go's
on
,
)
When
the
Gentiles
which
have
not
the
Law
,
do
by
Nature
the
things
contained
in
the
Law
;
These
having
not
the
Law
,
are
a
Law
unto
themselves
,
which
shew
the
works
of
the
Law
written
in
their
Hearts
;
their
Conscience
also
bearing
witness
,
and
their
Thoughts
between
themselves
,
accusing
or
excusing
one
another
.
And
now
this
being
considered
,
what
right
can
we
have
thus
fiercely
to
declaim
against
these
Mahometans
?
concerning
whom
,
were
St.
Paul
alive
to
determine
the
matter
;
(
if
but
for
their
Zeal
for
their
Religion
,
even
false
as
it
is
,
)
in
respect
of
our selves
,
he
,
no
doubt
would
pronounce
them
Saints
.
So
that
to
bring
down
this
Text
to
Christianity
and
our
own
times
,
we
are
the
Jerusalem
therein
charged
,
and
in
our
Skirts
also
is
this
Blood
most
eminently
discernable
.
And
when
God
shall
arise
to
make
Inquisition
for
it
,
as
most
certainly
he
will
,
at
our
Hands
it
must
be
required
.
For
we
are
the
Watchmen
,
which
should
have
warned
those
wicked
Men
from
their
evil
ways
;
the
Sword
came
,
and
we
have
not
blown
the
Trumpet
,
nor
warned
the
People
,
and
therefore
their
Blood
must
be
upon
our
Heads
.
And
then
it
must
needs
go
hard
with
us
,
and
that
chiefly
upon
the
score
of
that
abundant
Light
and
Knowledg
,
and
that
Purity
of
Religion
we
so
much
boast
in
.
For
,
Atrocius
sub
sanctinomine
peccamus
,
saith
one
;
and
that
Servant
which
knew
his
Masters
will
,
but
did
it
not
,
shall
be
beaten
with
many
Stripes
,
saith
our
Blessed
Lord.
And
,
you
only
have
I
known
of
all
the
Families
of
the
Earth
:
therefore
will
I
punish
you
for
all
your
Iniquities
,
saith
God
by
his
Prophet
.
And
who
knoweth
,
but
that
our
prophane
Silence
,
and
unchristian
connivance
thus
long
together
,
at
those
Spiritual
Murthers
and
Soul-depredations
,
are
the
very
accursed
thing
,
which
hath
caused
us
hitherto
not
to
prosper
?
And
that
for
this
our
supine
and
shameful
neglect
of
Religion
,
and
that
when
those
Elymas's
abroad
,
and
their
wicked
Agents
here
;
Those
Enemies
,
I
say
,
of
Righteousness
,
that
do
not
cease
to
pervert
the
right
ways
of
the
Lord
;
those
Soul-Merchants
,
that
in
the
very
Letter
of
the
Text
,
do
tread
under
Foot
the
Son
of
God
,
and
(
as
it
were
)
crucify
him
afresh
,
and
put
him
to
an
open
shame
,
and
that
account
his
Blood
an
unholy
thing
,
and
do
each
hour
do
dispite
unto
the
Spirit
of
Grace
.
I
say
,
when
these
,
like
Eli's
lewd
Sons
,
have
made
themselves
vile
,
by
the
Blood
of
so
many
Innocent
Souls
,
and
we
restrained
them
not
,
(
no
not
by
Word
or
Writing
,
and
(
so
far
at
least
)
to
have
vindicated
God's
Honour
and
Truth
against
them
;
)
Who
,
I
say
,
knows
,
but
for
this
,
Our
God
hath
hitherto
put
us
to
Silence
,
and
given
us
Water
of
Gaul
to
drink
,
and
that
when
we
looked
for
Peace
,
no
good
came
;
and
for
a
time
of
Health
,
and
behold
Trouble
.
And
that
he
hath
sent
those
Serpents
and
Cockatrices
among
us
,
which
will
not
be
charmed
;
and
that
he
hath
hedged
up
our
way
with
Thorns
,
and
caused
all
our
Mirth
to
cease
:
That
he
hath
set
us
against
each
other
,
every
one
against
his
Brother
,
and
against
his
Neighbour
;
yea
,
City
against
City
,
and
even
these
against
themselves
:
And
that
our
Spirit
doth
fail
in
the
midst
of
us
.
That
God
hath
destroyed
our
Counsels
,
and
mingled
a
perverse
Spirit
in
the
midst
of
us
,
and
hath
caused
us
to
err
in
every
work
,
and
that
we
are
afraid
even
in
our selves
.
And
then
,
might
it
not
to
be
demanded
of
us
,
as
our
Prophet
here
doth
of
Jerusalem
,
Hast
thou
not
procured
this
unto
thy self
,
in
that
thou
hast
forsaken
the
Lord
,
when
he
led
thee
by
the
way
,
and
had
done
such
great
things
for
thee
?
I
shall
not
here
stand
to
enquire
how
agreeable
to
Christianity
,
which
commands
us
,
First
to
seek
the
Kingdom
of
God
and
his
Righteousness
,
and
then
afterwards
to
look
after
other
less
necessary
things
,
(
a
Precept
very
idle
and
ridiculous
amongst
this
sort
of
Christians
:
)
Nor
how
suitable
the
pretence
of
Trade
and
Commerce
is
to
that
undergoing
of
the
Cross
and
self-denial
,
and
to
that
condition
of
forsaking
all
,
by
our
Lord
prescribed
to
all
his
Followers
:
but
shall
only
observe
,
that
if
St.
Peter
was
by
the
same
meekest
Lord
termed
a
Devil
,
for
his
too
carnal
respecting
,
not
his
own
,
but
the
same
blessed
Masters
outward
Ease
and
Tranquility
,
to
the
prejudice
of
the
World's
Salvation
;
he
will
certainly
for
ever
disclaim
those
Mammonists
,
who
prefer
their
Trade
and
their
Merchandise
before
him
,
as
unworthy
of
him
.
And
if
Job's
Inference
be
good
,
that
to
make
Gold
our
Hope
,
is
to
deny
the
God
that
is
above
;
doubtless
their
Christianity
must
be
very
desperate
,
who
do
the
same
by
their
Trade
:
Christ
will
one
day
deny
all
such
denyers
of
him
before
his
Father
,
and
the
Holy
Angels
.
Wherefore
,
since
God
hath
signed
this
eternal
Precept
of
Blood
for
Blood
,
and
hath
as
it
were
sworn
,
That
he
will
require
the
Blood
of
our
Lives
,
at
the
Hand
of
every
Man's
Brother
;
yea
,
and
of
the
very
Beasts
too
;
and
hath
also
in
several
places
no
less
positively
declared
,
That
no
satisfaction
shall
be
accepted
for
the
Life
of
a
Murtherer
;
and
that
a
Land
defiled
with
Blood
,
cannot
be
cleansed
of
it
,
but
by
the
Blood
of
him
that
did
shed
it
;
all
which
is
to
be
referred
only
to
the
Body
:
What
Punishment
can
we
suppose
answerable
to
this
so
much
more
horrid
Crime
of
murthering
of
Souls
?
If
Blood
for
Blood
,
and
Life
for
Life
must
go
for
the
one
,
certainly
then
Soul
for
Soul
here
,
is
the
least
that
can
be
required
.
How
long
Lord
God
,
holy
and
true
,
dost
thou
not
judg
and
avenge
our
Blood
upon
them
that
dwell
upon
the
Earth
,
was
the
incessant
cry
of
the
Souls
under
the
Altar
.
And
Abel's
Blood
is
said
to
have
pursued
Cain
to
his
very
Grave
;
't
is
certain
it
cryed
for
vengeance
against
him
.
And
yet
't
was
but
Abel's
Body
,
not
his
Soul
,
that
was
murthered
.
Had
Cain
been
guilty
of
this
,
Lamech's
revengeful
hand
had
made
but
a
very
defective
and
sorry
expiation
:
The
Brimstone-lake
must
then
have
been
his
Portion
;
as
undoubtedly
it
will
be
,
of
all
impenitent
Murtherers
of
Souls
.
And
then
,
How
will
those
Mammonists
remain
in
the
gaul
of
Bitterness
,
and
in
the
bond
of
Iniquity
?
And
our
Apostats
and
Hypocrites
be
confounded
and
tremble
,
when
they
shall
most
sensibly
feel
themselves
perishing
together
with
their
impious
Money
,
which
was
the
price
of
Souls
?
And
then
they
shall
be
admirably
convinc'd
that
they
were
but
Fools
indeed
for
thus
determining
their
Hopes
,
and
fixing
their
whole
expectation
upon
the
things
of
this
Life
,
for
the
getting
whereof
,
they
sinned
against
their
own
,
and
murthered
their
Peoples
Souls
.
And
finally
,
they
shall
be
pronounced
Children
of
the
Devil
,
because
Enemies
of
Righteousness
,
that
is
,
of
the
Gospel
:
And
Christ
himself
,
whom
they
thereby
have
so
Impudently
affronted
and
denied
(
not
ignorantly
,
and
as
the
Jews
,
who
knew
not
what
they
did
;
)
shall
speak
them
into
an
Hell
as
black
as
that
dark
Mist
,
which
fell
upon
Elymas's
Eyes
,
only
for
an
infinite
longer
continuance
.
Where
they
shall
know
and
see
,
to
use
our
Prophet's
Expression
,
That
it
was
an
evil
thing
and
a
bitter
,
that
they
forsook
the
Lord
,
and
that
his
fear
was
not
in
them
:
And
they
shall
too
late
come
to
understand
that
it
is
,
A
fearful
thing
to
fall
into
the
hands
of
the
Living
God
;
and
that
no
condition
is
more
insupportable
,
than
To
dwell
in
everlasting
Burnings
,
with
Hypocrites
and
Vnbelievers
;
where
there
is
no
rest
for
them
Night
nor
Day
,
and
the
smoak
of
their
Torments
ascendeth
for
ever
and
ever
:
And
from
whence
they
shall
enviously
behold
many
of
those
poor
Lazars
,
those
oppressed
innocent
Souls
,
who
by
God's
especial
Providence
may
have
escaped
their
merciless
and
bloody
Talons
,
resting
and
rejoycing
in
Abraham's
Bosom
;
and
singing
the
song
of
Moses
and
of
the
Lamb
for
their
wonderful
Deliverance
,
whilst
themselves
are
tormented
in
that
Flame
.
It
must
needs
be
,
said
our
Blessed
Saviour
,
that
Offences
(
that
is
,
whereby
Men
are
made
or
induced
to
Sin
)
do
come
;
but
wo
unto
that
Man
by
whom
the
Offence
cometh
;
It
were
better
for
him
that
a
Milstone
were
hanged
about
his
Neck
,
and
that
he
were
drowned
in
the
depth
of
the
Sea.
And
thus
I
have
made
good
my
first
six
Points
,
and
here
in
this
last
have
shewed
,
the
Relation
that
this
Text
hath
unto
us
,
and
how
far
our selves
are
chargeable
with
this
Guilt
of
shedding
the
Blood
of
Souls
:
Whereby
I
am
at
liberty
to
proceed
unto
VII
.
THE
seventh
and
last
part
of
my
Discourse
,
wherein
I
am
to
prove
from
our
Prophet's
severe
Reprehension
of
Jerusalem
,
(
no
less
than
from
the
reasonableness
of
the
thing
)
the
absolute
and
most
indispensible
necessity
of
our
speedy
Reformation
,
and
redressing
of
this
Abuse
(
this
being
the
true
end
of
all
Reprehensions
:
)
and
that
especially
upon
these
three
following
Considerations
:
First
,
In
respect
of
the
great
Impiety
thereof
.
Secondly
,
In
respect
of
the
Dishonour
from
thence
redounding
to
this
Church
and
Nation
,
and
to
the
whole
Reformation
.
Thirdly
,
In
respect
of
God's
Judgments
,
which
most
undoubtedly
must
be
the
inevitable
Consequences
of
our
longer
persisting
in
this
so
prophane
and
scandalous
practice
,
and
permission
of
such
an
horrid
Impiety
,
and
open
contempt
of
Christianity
.
I
shall
begin
with
The
First
,
which
is
the
Impiety
thereof
:
It
being
an
Injury
against
God
himself
,
who
is
a
lover
of
Souls
,
and
that
to
that
degree
,
that
he
above
all
things
desires
their
Happiness
and
Salvation
:
But
whos
's
gracious
design
of
bringing
those
Souls
unto
that
state
of
Bliss
and
Happiness
by
Christ
,
we
,
as
much
as
in
us
lieth
,
do
hereby
make
void
and
frustrate
,
and
do
even
defeat
that
his
blessed
purpose
,
for
which
,
as
must
be
piously
supposed
,
he
was
pleased
to
discover
unto
us
,
and
possess
us
of
those
many
rich
and
fruitful
Countries
,
viz.
*
The
publishing
and
spreading
abroad
of
the
Gospel
amongst
the
first
Inhabitants
and
Natives
there
,
with
other
like
Gentiles
,
who
might
arrive
thither
from
other
parts
.
It
is
a
most
vile
Affront
to
Christianity
,
as
implying
the
no
esteem
we
have
for
it
,
as
if
not
worth
the
troubling
the
World
therewith
;
which
disesteem
must
first
arise
from
a
Principle
of
Infidelity
and
Atheism
first
lodged
in
the
Heart
,
as
is
before
shewed
.
It
was
the
Barbarians
of
Japan's
Argument
,
in
behalf
of
our
trading
Neighbours
(
whose
Zeal
also
to
Religion
doth
not
much
out-strip
ours
)
that
,
according
to
their
Word
,
they
took
them
to
be
no
Christians
,
because
they
perceived
not
in
them
any
endeavours
for
the
promoting
of
that
Faith.
An
Indifferency
,
they
observed
,
not
usual
with
other
sorts
of
Christians
;
and
it
being
no
way
probable
,
they
thought
,
that
Men
should
so
much
neglect
and
slight
a
Religion
,
which
themselves
believed
.
It
makes
Christianity
inferiour
to
all
other
Sects
,
whose
Zealots
(
especially
)
are
known
,
even
to
compass
Sea
and
Land
to
make
Proselites
to
their
Opinions
.
It
makes
it
a
Religion
only
for
Trade
and
Commerce
,
and
even
Heaven
and
Salvation
to
be
of
less
moment
than
the
getting
of
Money
:
It
makes
it
a
Patroness
of
the
grossest
Immanities
,
for
filthy
Lucre
;
and
no
less
implies
an
Imposture
in
the
first
publishers
of
it
,
(
or
at
best
some
mistake
of
their
Errand
,
)
if
whilst
they
persuaded
Men
to
forsake
the
World
for
the
attaining
of
Heaven
,
they
only
designed
the
heaping
up
of
Riches
,
as
of
the
greater
Importance
.
It
also
destroys
Charity
,
which
is
the
true
mark
of
a
Child
of
God
,
and
the
badge
of
a
Christian
,
whose
proper
nature
and
quality
is
,
tho
to
begin
at
home
,
yet
to
enlarge
it self
to
others
,
even
our
very
Enemies
.
And
in
a
word
,
it
is
no
other
than
an
absolute
deposing
and
rejecting
of
Christ
,
for
the
Exaltation
of
Mammon
.
Lastly
,
It
is
a
reproach
to
Humanity
it self
,
and
a
Sin
of
the
blackest
quality
against
our
Neighbour
;
whom
we
herein
are
so
far
from
loving
as
our selves
,
that
it
rather
seems
the
utmost
effort
of
our
Malice
against
him
,
and
which
no
Revenge
could
satisfy
,
but
such
only
as
should
terminate
in
the
destruction
of
his
Soul.
And
so
much
for
the
first
.
But
then
,
Secondly
,
This
ought
to
be
reformed
in
respect
of
the
Dishonour
from
thence
redounding
to
our
Church
and
Nation
,
and
even
to
the
whole
Reformation
.
First
,
to
the
Church
:
For
it
occasions
her
Enenemies
to
blaspheme
.
Hence
a
certain
Romanist
demands
of
us
,
Where
are
the
indefatigable
Missioners
,
sent
by
you
to
the
remotest
parts
of
the
World
,
for
the
conversion
of
Heathens
?
A
noble
Function
,
wherein
the
Catholick
(
that
is
their
Roman
)
Church
only
,
and
most
justly
glories
;
whilst
you
like
lazy
Drones
,
sit
at
home
not
daring
to
wet
a
Foot
,
&c.
And
by
another
it
is
objected
against
both
our selves
,
and
our
equally
zealous
Neighbours
,
That
never
any
thing
for
the
propagation
of
Christianity
in
foreign
parts
,
hath
by
either
Nation
been
at
any
time
attempted
.
And
from
thence
,
a
third
Person
very
roundly
infers
the
Nullity
of
our
Church
and
Religion
,
viz.
Because
we
have
no
Zeal
,
therefore
no
Faith
,
and
therefore
no
Church
nor
Religion
among
us
.
Again
,
when
the
great
Industry
of
our
People
in
New-England
shall
be
rehearsed
,
their
converting
of
Nations
,
turning
the
whole
Bible
into
the
Indian
Tongue
;
their
Colledg
built
and
endowed
,
for
the
Education
of
Indian
Youth
:
Their
Missioners
sent
forth
,
and
Lands
purchased
for
their
Maintenance
;
and
all
this
out
of
a
barren
Soil
,
some
sixty
years
since
no
better
than
a
rocky
Wilderness
;
whilst
ours
out
of
better
Conveniencies
,
and
more
happy
Opportunities
(
such
are
our
grateful
returns
!
)
have
not
produced
the
least
Grain
of
Harvest
to
God's
Glory
in
those
Parts
.
But
upon
all
occasions
shifting
it
off
with
the
unfitness
of
the
Season
,
and
pretending
that
the
time
is
not
come
;
proclaiming
it
unpracticable
and
impossible
,
tho
effected
by
others
of
smaller
Abilities
:
Or
,
like
Solomon's
Sluggard
,
setting
up
Lions
and
Tigres
in
the
way
;
raising
Obstructions
and
creating
Difficulties
;
when
upon
experience
there
are
no
such
to
be
found
.
Now
when
these
mighty
Works
shall
be
hereafter
rehearsed
,
how
will
that
glorious
Name
of
the
Church
of
England
,
stand
as
it
were
in
disgrace
,
not
only
among
those
Primitive
Worthies
,
who
at
first
so
chearfully
entred
upon
this
Work
,
and
afterwards
indured
the
heat
of
the
Day
;
but
when
compared
even
with
these
Moderns
,
whom
we
bespeak
as
Schismaticks
and
Idolaters
;
yet
do
each
of
them
give
those
Testimonies
of
their
Zeal
and
Charity
,
which
are
equally
requisite
,
and
would
be
no
less
commendable
in
us
also
.
But
the
want
whereof
doth
furnish
them
with
such
Advantages
and
Arguments
against
us
,
as
would
become
our
Wisdom
,
no
less
than
our
Piety
,
to
remove
.
Who
whilst
themselves
do
thus
labour
,
and
are
at
charge
and
trouble
to
advance
[
their
]
Christianity
,
beholding
our
COLDNESS
and
INDIFFERENCY
(
not
to
say
Aversion
to
the
work
,
)
do
publish
their
own
Acts
,
but
at
the
same
time
first
at
our
(
too
much
!
)
secular
Affections
,
as
applying
our
care
more
to
the
promoting
of
Interest
,
than
to
the
advancement
of
God's
Glory
,
or
the
good
of
Souls
:
The
Poverty
of
the
Cause
,
that
is
,
say
they
,
the
want
of
Dignities
and
Preferments
(
tho
it
be
the
way
to
make
them
)
,
occasioning
it
hitherto
to
lie
fallow
.
And
they
are
too
apt
often
to
throw
out
something
like
that
of
Acosta
,
in
reproof
of
his
alike
rapacious
and
hungry
Spaniards
,
thus
speaking
;
At
si
metalla
curari
desierint
,
—
Actum
est
Indorum
negotium
,
&
respublica
interiit
.
Neque
alios
fructus
Hispani
quaerunt
,
neque
alia
ex
causa
vel
mercatores
negotiantur
,
vel
judices
praesident
,
vel
ipsi
quoque
plerunque
SACERDOTES
Evangelizant
,
&c.
Which
I
shall
not
English
.
And
this
hath
been
publickly
objected
by
those
of
the
lowest
from
and
order
of
Sectaries
,
as
I
have
in
*
another
Discourse
upon
this
occasion
,
before
remembred
.
And
not
only
these
extreams
in
Christianity
,
but
the
quite
different
behaviour
and
respect
of
the
very
Mahumetans
to
their
Religion
,
may
justly
stirr
up
shame
in
us
:
Whose
assaulting
their
Slaves
,
with
tenders
of
Liberty
,
thereby
to
induce
them
to
espouse
their
Superstition
,
is
by
us
complained
of
;
perhaps
for
the
example
,
and
because
the
like
Generosity
and
Zeal
for
Religion
is
not
found
among
our selves
;
nor
are
we
capable
of
being
provoked
to
the
least
Emulation
.
Thus
even
the
Sea-Monsters
draw
out
,
(
that
is
,
do
willingly
offer
)
the
Breast
,
and
give
suck
to
their
young
Ones
,
said
Almighty
God
by
our
Prophet
,
But
the
Daughter
of
my
People
is
become
cruel
,
like
the
Ostriches
in
the
Wilderness
.
Nor
doth
the
Dishonour
hereof
reflect
upon
this
Church
only
,
but
upon
the
whole
Reformation
.
Hence
the
forementioned
Roman
Author
thus
triumphantly
insults
,
If
you
cast
your
thoughts
upon
all
Sectaries
,
past
and
present
,
since
Christianity
began
,
you
shall
find
no
conversion
of
Nations
wrought
by
any
:
Which
he
elsewhere
further
explains
,
saying
,
That
never
any
Protestants
did
any
thing
like
them
,
for
the
conversion
of
Infidels
,
either
in
the
nearer
or
farther
parts
of
the
large
Vniverse
.
Hence
also
they
stick
not
to
affirm
our
Reformation
monstrous
,
and
from
this
so
apparent
Sterility
,
do
very
confidently
determine
of
its
short-livedness
;
because
that
things
by
God
and
Nature
designed
to
perpetuity
,
are
always
endued
with
a
Faculty
of
Generation
,
and
of
creating
their
like
.
So
that
our
Protestant
Churches
do
from
all
Hands
lie
under
most
heavy
Censures
and
Reproaches
,
for
this
neglect
,
and
(
as
it
is
represented
)
unfaithfulness
to
Christ
;
at
least
for
not
endeavouring
,
not
what
should
,
but
what
might
be
done
.
And
yet
,
to
our
honour
be
it
spoken
,
we
undergo
them
with
as
much
Patience
and
Vnconcernedness
as
if
the
Enemy
only
were
chargeable
therewith
,
and
our selves
were
Innocent
.
Altho
,
to
use
our
Prophets
Words
,
should
we
pass
over
to
the
Isles
of
Chittim
,
and
send
unto
Kedar
,
and
consider
diligently
;
that
is
,
should
we
consult
the
most
Pagan
and
Barbarous
Regions
,
and
even
ransack
thewide
Universe
,
searching
into
all
the
different
Sects
and
Factions
in
Religion
for
a
Precedent
,
we
should
hardly
find
the
like
Instances
of
Impiety
and
Contempt
of
the
Religion
they
profess
,
practised
and
persisted
in
by
the
very
worst
and
loosest
of
them
.
And
this
possibly
among
other
things
hath
rendred
our
Religion
(
as
reformed
)
less
esteemed
by
Strangers
:
unto
whom
,
especially
herein
,
we
seem
rather
Apostates
than
Christians
;
Zealous
of
Trade
and
Gain
,
but
not
of
good
Works
.
Which
doubtless
hath
been
no
small
Impediment
and
Hinderance
to
many
in
their
coming
over
to
our
Church
,
even
as
(
probably
)
it
may
have
scandalized
not
a
few
to
an
Apostacy
from
it
.
Lastly
,
It
is
a
dishonour
and
that
in
an
especial
manner
to
our
English
Nation
.
It
both
was
and
will
be
the
Eternal
Reproach
,
no
less
than
the
unpardonable
Sin
of
those
Styes
of
Filthiness
,
Babylon
and
Nineveh
,
that
the
first
,
among
her
variety
of
Merchandises
,
had
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
;
not
only
Bodies
,
but
Souls
of
Men
;
and
that
the
other
(
for
it
seems
they
were
both
great
trading
places
)
did
postpone
God's
Glory
to
her
Traffick
;
*
magnifying
,
or
preferring
,
her
Traders
(
or
Merchants
)
above
the
Stars
of
Heaven
.
And
certainly
it
will
be
no
great
Credit
for
us
to
have
thus
exactly
written
after
those
beastly
Copies
;
that
we
have
as
it
were
conspired
with
Satan
,
and
entred
into
a
confederacy
with
Hell
it self
,
upon
the
same
account
:
That
we
have
exceeded
the
worst
of
Infidels
,
by
our
first
enslaving
,
and
then
murthering
of
Mens
Souls
.
For
,
how
can
it
be
endured
that
a
Nation
once
so
famous
for
Zeal
and
Piety
,
should
now
at
last
become
infamous
for
Irreligion
?
That
she
should
prostrate
her self
to
that
foul
Idol
Mammon
,
and
worship
Trade
?
So
that
for
the
sake
thereof
Christianity
should
be
stifled
and
rejected
?
That
being
so
much
indebted
to
those
poor
Barbarians
,
for
the
Riches
,
Trade
and
Commerce
,
both
by
,
and
from
them
acquired
,
we
should
be
so
far
destitute
of
common
Justice
,
as
not
to
be
ready
,
as
much
as
in
us
lyeth
(
and
certainly
very
much
doth
lie
in
us
,
notwithstanding
all
our
vain
pretences
)
in
lieu
thereof
,
to
impart
some
spiritual
Gift
,
as
St.
Paul
speaks
,
and
to
make
known
the
Gospel
unto
them
?
Who
can
believe
that
a
People
formerly
so
mighty
in
Conversions
,
as
if
,
on
a
sudden
struck
with
Barrenness
and
a
Curse
,
should
become
so
utterly
fruitless
,
as
not
to
be
able
to
produce
the
least
Access
of
Souls
unto
Christ
,
out
of
such
Multitudes
and
Myriads
,
who
do
even
invite
,
and
offer
themselves
to
his
Service
?
That
we
should
be
so
much
out-done
who
formerly
did
so
infinitely
out-doe
all
others
?
These
,
if
true
,
are
I
fear
,
but
too
evident
Symptoms
of
a
strange
degeneracy
,
of
a
declining
old
Age
and
Decrepitness
in
us
;
and
which
cannot
be
far
removed
from
our
last
fatal
Period
,
and
final
Dissolution
;
and
that
God
is
determining
of
us
,
as
he
once
did
of
the
Barren
Fig-tree
,
Cut
it
down
,
why
cumbers
it
the
Ground
.
And
this
leads
me
to
The
third
and
last
Motive
to
this
Reformation
,
viz.
The
dread
of
those
Plagues
and
Judgments
,
which
this
Impiety
,
if
longer
persisted
in
,
must
necessarily
draw
down
upon
us
.
In
the
first
Queen
Elizabeth
Act
for
Vniformity
,
there
is
extent
a
certain
Clause
containing
an
Adjuration
,
in
God's
Name
earnestly
requiring
the
due
and
true
execution
thereof
,
as
they
should
answer
to
Almighty
God
for
such
Evils
and
Plagues
wherewith
he
might
justly
punish
the
neglect
of
it
.
So
that
it
seems
in
those
Days
,
there
was
some
apprehension
of
Plagues
and
Judgments
to
follow
Impiety
and
the
neglect
of
Religion
.
Nay
,
long
before
that
,
the
Persian
Monarch
Artaxerxes
,
was
not
wholly
insensible
of
the
same
,
when
he
issued
forth
that
strict
Decree
for
the
speedy
re-edifying
of
the
Temple
,
fortified
with
this
Reason
,
For
why
should
there
be
wrath
upon
the
Realm
of
the
King
,
and
of
his
Sons
?
'T
is
true
,
some
Apostate
Israelites
,
before
their
Captivity
,
(
to
save
themselves
the
labour
of
reforming
their
Lives
)
,
we
read
,
had
fallen
into
a
most
abominable
practice
of
scoffing
at
,
and
denying
Providence
,
affirming
,
That
the
Lord
had
forsaken
the
Earth
;
or
,
tho
he
had
not
,
yet
that
he
did
neither
good
nor
evil
.
But
these
,
it
seems
,
by
a
hard
Journey
they
afterwards
made
to
Babylon
,
became
in
a
short
time
better
instructed
:
For
upon
an
Appeal
,
which
the
Prophet
Zechariah
made
to
the
Children
of
these
prophane
Scoffers
,
whether
God's
Words
and
his
Statutes
,
which
he
had
commanded
by
his
Servants
the
former
Prophets
,
had
not
overtaken
their
stubborn
Fathers
;
They
,
in
despite
of
their
proud
Hearts
,
were
forced
to
confess
,
That
like
as
the
Lord
had
purposed
to
do
unto
them
,
according
to
their
ways
,
and
according
to
their
doings
,
even
so
had
he
dealt
with
them
.
And
,
Hast
thou
not
procured
this
unto
thy self
,
saith
our
Prophet
here
in
the
Text
,
in
that
thou
hast
forsaken
the
Lord
,
when
he
led
thee
by
the
way
?
And
hereupon
the
Prophet
Hosea
doth
not
doubt
to
declare
God's
Judgments
for
Sin
,
to
be
as
clear
as
the
Light
that
goeth
forth
.
There
are
then
Judgments
for
Sin
:
There
is
a
flying
Roll
which
brings
a
Curse
along
with
it
:
There
is
a
Leprosy
in
the
Wall
,
which
rotts
and
consumes
the
Timber
,
and
eats
out
the
stone-work
thereof
.
And
why
then
must
this
above
all
other
escape
,
this
so
black
a
Sin
of
Irreligion
?
which
striketh
directly
at
God
himself
;
and
therefore
as
good
old
Eli
reproving
his
wicked
Sons
,
saith
,
is
the
hardest
to
be
intreated
for
;
And
of
which
God
had
bound
it
with
a
most
solemn
Oath
,
that
it
should
not
be
purged
with
Sacrifice
nor
burnt-Offering
for
ever
:
And
rather
than
let
it
go
unpunished
,
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
as
St.
Gregory
speaks
,
God
doth
often
cause
even
Contrarys
to
unite
and
agree
together
,
for
to
effect
it
.
This
was
it
which
at
first
brought
the
Deluge
upon
the
Earth
,
and
reduced
the
whole
World
to
but
one
small
Family
.
For
before
the
Flood
,
saith
Berosus
,
the
Giants
were
,
Contemptores
Religionis
&
Deorum
:
Agreeable
to
that
of
Moses
,
God
saw
that
the
wickedness
of
man
was
great
;
whereupon
ensued
that
severe
Determination
,
I
will
destroy
Man
,
whom
I
have
created
,
from
off
the
Face
of
the
Earth
.
And
(
to
bring
one
Instance
for
all
of
our
own
Country
)
,
To
this
very
Sin
,
viz.
of
neglecting
to
preach
the
Gospel
to
the
Saxons
and
Englishmen
,
it
is
,
that
Gildas
ascribes
his
Britains
overthrow
.
And
can
we
then
persist
in
the
same
(
tho
clog'd
with
abundance
of
aggravating
Circumstances
,
)
and
not
live
under
a
fearful
expectation
of
God's
Judgments
due
for
it
?
How
can
we
read
of
Aaron's
Calf
,
of
Achan's
Wedg
,
of
Saul
s
massacring
the
Gibeonites
,
Israel's
Apostacy
,
and
Judah's
Abominations
,
with
the
various
Calamities
and
Mischiefs
pursuant
thereupon
;
And
,
if
we
believe
them
,
not
at
the
same
time
dread
the
like
or
worse
,
for
this
so
much
more
horrible
Irreligion
,
and
equally
Vniversal
?
And
since
these
did
prove
such
fatal
pull-backs
to
them
,
can
any
less
be
the
Issue
of
this
more
inexcusable
Wickedness
;
this
so
palpable
Elymasm
,
if
I
may
so
call
it
?
And
if
God
hath
been
pleased
to
chastise
meer
Heathens
for
their
Enmity
to
his
Religion
,
with
which
,
't
is
possible
,
they
were
wholly
unacquainted
,
and
has
threatned
to
smite
with
most
grievous
Plagues
,
those
Infidel
Regions
and
Kingdoms
,
who
have
not
called
upon
his
Name
,
of
which
haply
they
had
not
heard
?
what
portion
of
God
from
above
,
or
Mercy
can
be
extended
to
those
,
who
as
it
were
in
a
prophane
mockery
of
profesing
his
Name
,
(
and
that
too
in
the
most
refined
and
purest
manner
)
have
been
actual
Enemies
thereto
;
And
that
,
under
the
disguise
of
the
greatest
Zeal
for
it
even
in
this
its
Purity
,
have
been
the
Stiflers
and
Betrayers
of
it
,
only
in
favour
of
their
accursed
Mammon
?
Certainly
if
ever
Judgments
do
fall
,
it
must
be
upon
such
;
and
of
all
Judgments
,
none
beneath
the
most
calamitous
and
the
most
lasting
.
And
tho
other
Punishments
(
a
thing
next
to
impossible
)
should
fail
,
yet
the
divine
Vengeance
may
stir
up
these
very
(
Soul-oppressed
People
,
as
it
did
the
Arabians
and
the
Philistins
against
wicked
Joram
,
and
make
them
the
Rods
of
his
Anger
to
chastise
this
Sin
:
That
so
their
own
wickedness
may
correct
them
,
and
their
own
back-slidings
reprove
them
:
and
that
they
may
know
and
see
,
that
it
was
an
evil
thing
and
a
bitter
that
they
have
thus
forsaken
the
Lord
their
God
,
and
that
his
Fear
was
not
in
them
,
as
our
Prophet
speaks
.
And
that
by
such
a
severe
Discipline
(
nothing
less
being
like
to
be
of
force
so
as
to
work
upon
them
)
they
may
be
brought
to
understand
(
as
the
Holy
Scripture
speaks
of
Rehoboam's
Invasion
by
Shishack
)
the
difference
between
God's
Service
,
and
the
Service
of
the
Kingdoms
of
the
Countries
,
that
is
,
of
the
wild
and
barbarous
Heathen
.
And
that
what
they
do
so
frequently
most
blasphemously
give
out
,
as
the
mischievous
effect
of
Christianity
,
may
thro
the
want
of
it
,
be
brought
upon
them
;
and
that
,
by
the
same
Sin
wherewith
they
have
sinned
,
they
may
be
punished
:
And
so
in
the
end
,
they
may
with
that
inhuman
Tyrant
Adonibezeck
,
be
compelled
to
acknowledge
God's
Justice
in
requiting
them
,
even
as
they
have
done
unto
others
.
And
then
for
such
at
home
,
who
have
so
patiently
over-looked
the
Sufferings
and
Miseries
of
Religion
in
those
parts
,
and
have
been
at
least
unconcerned
Spectators
,
tho
perhaps
not
actual
Partakers
in
those
bloody
Tragedies
,
and
therefore
may
lean
upon
the
Lord
,
and
presume
,
that
no
evil
shall
happen
unto
them
;
those
soft
Pillows
which
they
thus
plant
under
their
seared
Consciences
,
will
but
deceive
them
;
and
the
untempered
Mortar
with
which
they
plaister
over
their
Impiety
,
will
be
in
like
danger
of
being
washed
away
by
the
overflowing
Showre
.
For
,
Jupiter
being
offended
,
doth
punish
all
,
said
the
Poet
;
and
in
common
Judgments
and
Calamities
,
't
is
not
only
the
most
guilty
that
are
seized
,
as
in
the
several
Captivities
of
Tobit
and
of
Daniel
are
to
be
seen
.
By
whose
means
the
Name
of
God
came
to
be
discovered
to
the
Heathen
,
who
might
otherwise
have
never
heard
of
it
.
Even
as
,
long
afterwards
,
the
Persecution
which
attended
S.
Stephen's
Martyrdom
,
was
an
occasion
(
for
by
nothing
less
will
Men
be
persuaded
to
adventure
abroad
,
tho
upon
never
so
important
an
account
)
of
dispersing
the
Disciples
,
and
thereby
a
happy
means
of
introducing
the
knowledge
of
Christ
into
remoter
Countries
.
Even
such
a
Fatality
may
this
unconcernedness
draw
upon
these
:
An
unexpected
Storm
may
force
them
into
the
parts
we
are
speaking
of
,
(
and
where
these
Impieties
are
so
eminently
practised
)
as
unto
a
Sanctuary
and
Refuge
;
there
,
as
our
Apochryphal
Esdras
relates
of
his
Captive
Israelites
,
to
keep
those
Statutes
,
(
I
shall
also
add
)
and
to
promote
that
Faith
,
which
they
neither
kept
,
nor
thought
needful
,
whilst
remaining
in
their
own
Land.
Wherefore
,
(
to
use
the
Prophet
Daniel's
Advice
to
King
Nebuchadnezzar
)
,
Let
my
Councel
be
acceptable
unto
you
,
O
my
Fathers
,
and
Countrey-men
,
and
let
us
break
off
our
Sins
by
Righteousness
,
and
our
Iniquities
by
shewing
Mercy
unto
the
Souls
of
these
poor
innocent
oppressed
people
,
if
it
may
be
a
lengthning
of
our
Tranquility
,
as
undoubtedly
it
will.
And
in
order
thereunto
,
let
us
lay
before
us
these
things
,
and
consider
within
our
own
Breasts
,
whether
this
dishonour
to
our
Religion
,
and
infamy
to
our
Church
and
Nation
,
this
canker
to
our
Estates
,
calamity
to
our
People
,
and
destruction
to
our
Country
,
hereby
threatned
;
these
plagues
to
our
Bodies
,
and
Damnation
to
our
Souls
,
be
things
so
worthy
our
standing
out
against
God
,
and
our
contending
for
.
Rather
let
us
endeavour
a
speedy
composure
and
reconciliation
:
At
once
striving
to
make
(
at
least
)
some
kind
of
reparation
for
what
is
past
,
and
no
less
joining
in
all
laudable
Proposals
and
ways
for
effecting
these
poor
Peoples
Christianity
,
without
any
further
delays
;
still
remembring
that
things
of
this
Consequence
are
not
to
be
made
light
of
,
(
as
was
very
piously
discoursed
to
the
great
,
and
no
less
zealous
S.
Athanasius
,
upon
the
like
occasion
;
)
and
considering
that
as
many
Souls
as
shall
perish
thro
our
neglect
,
must
be
charged
to
our
Account
.
And
first
let
us
search
into
the
Cause
,
that
so
we
may
the
easier
arrive
at
the
method
and
means
of
the
Cure.
If
it
be
Interest
,
let
it
be
satisfied
,
as
far
as
reasonably
it
may
be
;
if
Ignorance
,
let
it
be
corrected
by
better
advice
;
if
Sloth
or
Irreligion
,
let
it
be
check'd
and
disgrac'd
;
not
let
any
Obstinacy
or
Perversness
be
endured
.
If
*
ENCOVRAGEMENTS
be
needful
,
let
them
be
no
longer
wanting
;
if
Persuasions
,
let
them
be
discreetly
applied
;
but
above
all
,
let
us
shew
our selves
hearty
and
sincere
therein
:
armed
with
most
intense
resolutions
of
persistance
and
persevering
,
until
arrived
to
its
Accomplishment
.
That
so
we
may
silence
the
Slanderer
and
the
Blasphemer
,
stop
the
Mouths
of
both
Papists
and
Schismaticks
,
and
take
away
the
reproach
from
our
Church
and
Nation
.
That
those
Sanballats
and
Elymas's
,
the
restless
Obstructers
of
this
work
,
despairing
of
their
wonted
Success
,
may
be
wearied
out
of
,
and
be
made
to
desist
from
their
prophane
Opposition
;
even
as
the
old
Heathens
were
of
their
Persecutions
.
For
,
nothing
is
able
to
withstand
Zeal
,
saith
Solomon
,
Prov.
27.
For
,
Zelus
est
aestus
viri
,
Zeal
is
the
heat
and
ardency
of
a
Man
to
the
thing
undertaken
,
as
the
same
Wise-Man
hath
it
in
another
place
.
And
,
Cant.
8.
6.
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
Zeal
is
as
invincible
as
the
Grave
,
or
even
Death
it self
;
and
as
it
goes
on
,
The
Coals
thereof
are
the
Coals
of
Fire
,
which
hath
a
most
vehement
Flame
,
such
a
Flame
as
many
Waters
cannot
quench
,
nor
can
the
Flouds
drown
it
;
that
is
,
nothing
can
be
too
hard
for
.
And
here
let
us
call
to
mind
that
the
Gospel
hath
once
overcome
the
World
,
armed
with
its
full
strength
and
force
to
withstand
it
:
And
what
a
shame
would
it
be
now
,
after
so
long
possession
,
to
suffer
it
to
be
baffled
and
worsted
,
by
a
few
handfuls
of
scattered
Inerm
Out-laws
.
Nor
let
any
noise
or
pretence
arising
from
the
supposed
difficulty
of
this
work
,
(
which
Men
fuller
of
Mischief
,
than
of
Reason
or
Religion
,
do
create
)
affright
us
;
nor
any
excuse
from
the
remoteness
of
the
places
,
nor
the
condition
of
the
parties
,
be
at
all
mentioned
;
Our
God
being
a
God
of
the
Valleys
,
no
less
than
of
the
Mountains
;
and
afar
off
,
as
well
as
near
at
hand
;
and
it
being
not
to
be
doubted
,
but
that
a
most
plentiful
Harvest
might
be
thence
obtained
from
suitable
endeavours
,
edged
and
heartened
with
due
ENCOVRAGEMENTS
.
Nor
of
the
time
,
no
time
being
unseasonable
to
serve
God
,
and
to
do
good
in
.
Nor
from
the
present
posture
of
Affairs
,
which
this
very
neglect
may
have
but
too
much
influenced
,
and
given
occasion
to
;
And
then
the
cause
being
removed
,
the
effect
must
presently
cease
.
For
Piety
and
Holiness
,
saith
the
Orator
,
do
appease
God's
Wrath
;
and
saith
Solomon
,
When
a
Man's
way
do
please
the
Lord
,
he
maketh
his
Enemies
to
be
at
peace
with
him
:
And
likewise
Isaiah
,
The
work
of
Righteousness
is
Peace
,
and
the
effect
of
Righteousness
,
quietness
,
and
assurance
for
ever
:
And
saith
devout
Ezra
,
The
Hand
of
our
God
is
upon
all
them
for
good
,
that
seek
him
.
Nay
,
even
Heathen
Rome
went
not
without
her
Blessing
for
her
Piety
;
For
,
Diis
te
minorem
quod
geris
,
Imperas
,
Was
Horace's
Divinity
;
and
no
less
an
Article
of
Levie's
Faith
,
when
he
tell
us
,
that
during
King
Numa's
long
raign
,
this
very
thing
,
viz.
their
Piety
struck
their
(
before
troublesom
)
Neighbours
into
a
dread
of
molesting
them
;
for
fear
,
lest
at
the
same
time
they
should
be
injurious
to
God
,
unto
whose
Worship
and
Service
they
saw
them
so
intensely
addicted
.
Now
if
their
Piety
was
thus
rewarded
;
why
should
not
we
expect
the
same
?
our
Religion
and
Service
being
so
much
purer
,
and
infinitely
more
agreeable
to
God's
Will
,
than
theirs
,
in
probability
,
could
possibly
be
.
The
Prophet
David
assures
us
,
That
when
all
the
People
should
praise
God
,
then
should
the
Earth
bring
forth
her
increase
.
The
Jews
were
to
date
Their
Blessing
from
the
very
day
of
the
laying
of
the
Foundation
of
the
Temple
:
And
may
not
we
much
more
hope
for
the
like
Prosperity
and
Happiness
to
our
Church
and
Nation
,
for
our
laying
a
Foundation
,
and
setting
about
this
so
much
greater
and
more
glorious
Work
?
He
doubtless
that
blessed
Obed
Edom
for
his
Ark's
resting
in
his
House
,
and
Laban
the
Syrian
for
Jacob's
sake
,
will
send
his
Blessing
upon
us
also
;
whilst
by
our
charitable
and
pious
Labours
,
and
our
unwearied
and
faithful
Idustry
in
this
his
sacred
Vineyard
,
we
do
become
Instruments
in
God's
Hand
to
save
Men's
Souls
from
Hell
,
and
their
Lives
from
the
Destroyers
;
and
do
deliver
such
from
the
Snares
of
the
Devil
,
who
are
taken
Captive
at
his
Will.
And
no
less
also
for
his
Churches
establishment
in
those
parts
,
and
for
the
many
faithful
Israelites
,
with
which
it
will
be
replenished
,
thro
the
numerous
and
large
access
unto
it
from
these
Nations
.
The
happy
fruit
and
benefit
whereof
will
redound
,
as
well
to
the
Sower
as
to
the
Reaper
.
For
God
is
not
unrighteous
,
that
he
should
forget
our
Work
and
Labour
that
proceedeth
of
Love
,
which
we
have
or
shall
shew
for
his
Name
and
his
Gospel's
Sake
.
Nor
can
any
one
lay
out
his
Endeavours
to
greater
Advantages
,
either
of
the
increase
of
God's
Kingdom
,
the
glory
of
Christianity
,
or
the
good
of
Mens
Souls
;
If
we
consider
the
vast
multitudes
of
these
Nations
,
the
greatness
of
their
danger
,
and
their
both
aptness
,
and
readiness
to
embrace
Christianity
,
if
duly
applyed
to
them
.
For
as
Acosta
hath
proclaimed
it
to
the
World
long
since
,
Indorum
[
&
Aethiopum
]
certè
copiosissimam
&
paratissimam
segetem
cernimus
,
neque
aliud
quam
falcem
Evangelicam
expectantem
;
—
Alacritate
admirabili
sese
Coelorum
regno
aptissimam
proclamantem
,
invidorum
&
segnium
calumnias
facile
propulsantem
,
operarios
ipsos
laetissime
allicientem
,
&
multitudine
&
ubertate
oculos
omnium
ad
sese
atque
animos
convertentem
,
&c.
Which
is
no
less
true
of
them
in
every
particular
,
even
at
this
very
day
,
could
we
be
persuaded
to
use
the
means
,
and
to
set
about
it
.
But
Oh!
as
the
same
Author
doth
most
passionately
lament
,
(
tho
with
infinite
less
cause
than
we
have
here
,
)
When
will
it
come
to
pass
that
Men
will
cease
to
be
Men
?
When
,
&c.
This
will
be
the
true
removal
of
the
Accursed
thing
;
the
putting
away
those
Baalims
and
Ashtaroths
,
the
false
Gods
and
the
false
Religions
that
are
amongst
us
;
The
dismission
of
the
captivated
Ark
;
The
true
Brazen
Serpent
to
our
Israel
,
deriving
Health
to
our
Bodies
,
and
Prosperity
to
our
Nation
,
and
the
alone
means
both
to
secure
and
promote
our
Interest
in
those
parts
.
This
will
be
the
means
to
rid
our
Country
of
those
Vermin
and
Diseases
,
the
Mice
and
Emerods
,
that
do
so
vex
our
Persons
,
and
mar
our
Land
:
This
the
repairing
of
the
Breaches
,
and
the
rebuilding
the
shattered
Walls
of
our
Jerusalem
.
And
we
no
longer
deferring
to
give
to
the
God
of
Israel
the
Glory
due
unto
his
Name
,
he
will
lighten
his
hands
from
off
us
,
and
from
off
our
Gods
,
and
from
off
our
Land.
Lastly
,
This
will
be
to
comply
with
our
daily
Prayers
,
viz.
That
God's
Name
may
be
hallowed
,
and
his
ways
made
known
unto
all
Nations
and
Conditions
of
Men
therein
,
and
that
all
Jews
,
Turks
,
Hereticks
,
and
Infidels
may
be
converted
to
the
Faith
,
and
saved
among
the
remnant
of
the
true
Israelites
.
And
without
which
our
Prayers
are
but
a
very
Mockery
,
and
an
Affront
to
the
Diety
,
unto
whom
they
are
presented
.
Which
whosoever
utters
,
cannot
but
at
the
same
time
be
inwardly
convinced
of
that
Pharisaical
Hypocricy
,
which
our
blessed
Lord
so
severely
rebuked
,
of
drawing
nigh
unto
God
with
his
Mouth
,
and
honouring
him
with
his
Lips
,
whilst
his
Heart
is
far
from
him
;
and
for
which
,
Exore
tuo
,
will
be
his
Judgment
and
Condemnation
,
Out
of
thine
own-mouth
will
I
judg
thee
,
thou
wicked
and
slothful
Servant
.
To
conclude
,
It
is
the
nature
of
God
to
do
the
good
,
as
saith
St.
Dionysius
the
Areopagite
;
Every
one
then
that
will
be
like
unto
him
,
must
first
fall
to
the
Imitation
of
him
.
One
of
the
Fathers
hath
this
Note
,
That
the
Salvation
of
Man
,
was
,
Opus
dignum
Deo
,
an
Imployment
not
unbecoming
God
himself
;
It
cannot
then
be
beneath
even
the
best
of
us
.
And
there
is
a
saying
of
S.
Chrysostom
to
this
purpose
,
That
for
a
Man
to
know
the
Art
of
Alms
,
was
more
than
to
be
crowned
with
the
Diadem
of
Kings
:
but
to
convert
one
Soul
unto
God
,
was
more
than
to
pour
out
ten
thousand
Talents
into
the
Baskets
of
the
poor
.
And
if
the
Conversion
of
a
very
few
unto
Christ
be
worth
the
labour
of
many
all
their
days
;
what
must
it
then
be
to
be
the
Instruments
and
Means
of
converting
so
many
?
Solomon
ascribes
the
Epithet
of
Wise
,
to
those
that
win
Souls
:
And
saith
the
Prophet
Daniel
,
They
that
be
wise
,
(
't
is
Teachers
in
the
Margent
)
shall
shine
as
the
brightness
of
the
Firmament
,
and
they
that
turn
many
to
Righteousness
,
as
the
Stars
for
ever
and
ever
:
And
S.
James
makes
it
almost
meritorious
,
Let
him
know
,
saith
he
,
that
he
that
converteth
a
Sinner
from
the
Error
of
his
way
▪
shall
save
a
Soul
from
Death
,
and
shall
hide
a
multitude
of
Sins
.
I
shall
end
all
with
that
devout
Prayer
of
Syracides
for
the
Conversion
of
the
Heathen
:
Ecclus.
36.
1
,
&c.
Have
Mercy
upon
us
,
O
Lord
God
of
all
,
and
behold
us
:
And
send
thy
fear
upon
all
the
Nations
that
seek
not
after
thee
.
Lift
up
thy
hand
against
the
strange
Nations
,
and
let
them
see
thy
power
.
As
thou
wasty
sanctified
in
us
before
them
:
so
be
thou
magnified
among
them
before
us
.
And
let
them
know
thee
,
as
we
have
known
thee
,
that
there
is
no
God
,
but
only
thou
,
O
Lord.
Shew
new
Signs
,
and
make
other
strange
Wonders
:
glorify
thy
Hand
and
thy
right
Arm
,
that
they
may
set
forth
thy
wonderous
Works
.
Raise
up
Indignation
,
and
pour
out
Wrath
:
take
away
the
Adversary
,
and
destroy
the
Enemies
of
thy
Truth
.
Make
the
time
short
,
remember
the
Covenant
,
and
let
them
declare
thy
wondrous
Works
.
Smite
in
sunder
the
Heads
of
those
that
say
,
There
is
none
other
but
we
,
and
let
them
perish
that
oppress
thy
People
.
O
be
merciful
to
Jerusalem
thy
holy
City
,
the
place
of
thy
Rest
.
Fill
Sion
,
that
it
magnify
thine
Oracles
,
and
thy
People
,
that
they
may
set
forth
thy
Glory
.
Give
Testimony
to
those
whom
thou
hast
possessed
from
the
beginning
:
and
raise
up
Prophets
that
may
speak
in
thy
Name
:
and
let
thy
Prophets
be
found
faithful
.
O
Lord
hear
the
Prayer
of
thy
Servants
,
according
to
the
Blessing
of
Aaron
over
thy
People
,
that
all
they
which
dwell
upon
the
Earth
may
know
that
thou
art
the
Lord
,
the
Eternal
God.
Amen
.
FINIS
.
Notes, typically marginal, from the original text
Notes for div A42952-e220
Rom.
14.
15
,
20.
Esther
4.
14.
Howell's
Fam.
Letters
Vol.
1.
§.
3.
Lett.
33.
Notes for div A42952-e580
*
Acts
13.
6
,
7
,
&c.
Bar-Jesus
,
or
Elymas
,
did
oppose
Christianity
,
as
not
believing
it
;
but
these
whilst
they
profess
it
,
do
yet
oppose
it
.
Prov.
31.
8.
*
Alienus
ab
ira
,
alienus
à
justitia
.
Psal
.
39.
3.
Job
13.
13.
Mic.
3.
8.
Isa
.
62.
6
,
7.
St.
Mat.
21.
28.
St.
Luke
18.
5.
*
Viz.
In
the
Negro's
and
Indian's
Advocate
,
p.
111.
*
See
Mr.
Ricaut's
Maxims
of
the
Turkish
Policy
,
wherein
he
often
mentions
the
Turks
Zeal
to
promote
their
Faith.
Also
Pet.
Daniel
,
in
his
History
of
Barbary
,
tells
us
,
That
the
Turks
will
shew
you
kindness
,
to
make
you
embrace
their
Religion
.
Pag.
308
,
309
,
310.
311.
Quest
.
By
what
Authority
or
Law
,
he
could
do
this
to
that
or
any
other
Person
?
*
In
his
Temple
.
If
the
Negro
knew
his
Priviledg
,
he
need
not
to
desire
Baptism
for
the
obtaining
of
his
freedom
.
*
Impii
impie
agent
,
nec
intelligent
.
Dan.
12.
Phil.
2.
21.
All
seek
their
own
,
&c.
*
Plerique
rei
difficultates
causantur
,
socordiam
ignaviamque
suam
cum
accusare
potius
,
ac
dolere
deberent
.
Acost
.
de
proc
.
Ind.
Sal.
l.
3.
c.
22.
Acts
28.
22.
They
say
,
and
do
not
,
Mat.
23.
3.
Si
non
reipsâ
tibi
dolet
,
at
dissimulare
certe
est
hominis
.
Ter.
Isa
.
63.
5.
2
Tim.
4.
16.
Reply
to
his
Reflections
on
the
Rector
of
Sutton
,
p.
ult
.
Acts
13.
46.
&
28.
28.
Prov.
26.
12.
Chap.
3.
6.
Acts
28.
Mart.
Ep.
*
Viz.
In
the
East-Indies
.
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
The
Hypocrite
will
always
find
an
Excuse
.
Eccl.
32.
15
,
17
Phil.
1.
15
,
18.
Gal.
1.
10.
Be
not
ye
the
Servants
of
Men.
Rom.
15.
2.
St.
Mat.
3.
St.
John
3.
*
For
by
our
Spirit
we
are
all
baptized
into
one
Body
,
whether
we
be
Jews
or
Gentiles
,
whether
we
be
Bond
or
Free
:
and
have
been
all
made
to
drink
into
one
Spirit
,
saith
St.
Paul
,
1
Cor.
12.
13.
See
also
Chap.
7.
20
,
21
,
22
,
&
24.
See
also
Ephes
.
6.
5
,
6.
&
Col.
3.
22.
&
1
Tim.
6.
1.
1
St.
Pet.
2.
18
,
&c.
See
A.
B.
Abbot's
History
of
the
New
World
,
where
he
makes
often
mention
of
the
Jesuits
and
Friars
labours
in
this
kind
in
America
;
A
Prelat
that
was
never
suspected
for
any
friend
to
them
.
*
Si
tibi
displiceant
,
fac
meliora
,
precor
.
Mart.
Ep.
Rom.
8.
9.
1
Cor.
16.
22.
1
Cor.
13.
2
,
3.
Wisd
.
17.
11.
Job
29.
11
,
12
,
13
,
&c.
Ch.
5.
v.
22
,
&c.
Notes for div A42952-e5160
Chap.
1
ver
.
5
,
7.
Vers
.
9.
Vers
.
18.
Vers
.
19.
Chap.
2.
4.
Vers
.
7
,
20.
Vers
.
21.
Vers
.
5.
Vers
.
11.
Hâc
tuâ
impudentiâ
qua
omnes
superas
,
etiam
improbissimos
doces
improbitatem
.
Jun.
Vers
.
33.
Vers
.
7.
Vers
.
23
,
35.
Non
sun̄t
clām
peccata
tua
ut
pervestigatione
sit
opus
,
palam
sunt
,
omnium
oculis
exposita
.
Idem
.
Quid
bonam
praedicas
viam
tuam
?
Vulg.
Ed.
Quid
niteris
bonam
ostendere
viam
tuam
?
Jun.
Why
TRIMMEST
thou
thy
way
?
vers
.
33.
Chap.
10.
6.
1
Thess
.
2.
ver
.
15.
16.
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
&c.
Hom.
Il.
●
.
*
Ezek.
chap.
3.
18.
&
33.
†
Act.
20.
26.
See
also
Wisd
.
1.
11.
And
Ecclus.
21.
2.
In
both
which
we
read
of
the
Souls
being
slain
.
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
from
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
signifying
anima
,
animus
,
&c.
Pagn
.
Th.
ling.
sanct
.
‖
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
,
Sept.
Interp.
*
Sanguis
animarum
egentium
[
sanguis
]
innocentium
.
Trem.
Sanguis
animarum
pauperum
&
innotentium
,
Vulg.
Ed.
Gen.
9
4.
Psal
.
36.
9.
Chap.
20.
6
,
14.
Rom.
9.
3.
vers
.
32.
Vers
.
18.
Acts
20.
26.
Vers
31.
Vers
.
20
,
27.
St.
Joh.
8.
32.
St.
Mark
4.
24.
St.
Luke
8.
18.
Prov
19.
17.
Ecclus.
34.
21.
Prov.
15.
2.
Chap.
15.
7.
Chap.
4.
6.
Chap.
5.
13.
Chap.
10.
&
11.
Chap.
3.
15.
Lev.
19.
17.
Qui
non
prepulsat
inj●●iamicum
potest
insert
.
Tul.
Chap.
4.
17.
Prov.
24.
11.
Chap
7.
v.
25.
St.
Luke
22.
32.
St.
Mat.
18.
15.
1
Joh
chap.
2
,
3
,
4.
See
Chap.
3.
Vers
.
10.
&
chap.
4.
ver
.
20
Chap.
3
10
,
17
Chap.
33.
8.
Acts
20.
St.
Joh.
15.
16.
Vers
.
14.
St.
Mat.
25.
Amos
7.
12.
Acts
13.
2
Tim.
3.
8.
Acts
18.
17.
St.
Mat.
12.
30.
Chap.
4.
5.
Jer.
7.
4.
Acts.
19.
1
King.
18.
23.
Chap.
4.
12.
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
1
Tim.
6.
3.
Wisd
.
15.
12.
28.
Pet.
2.
3.
Rom.
16.
17
,
18.
Col.
3.
5.
St.
Mat.
6.
14.
St.
Luk.
16.
13.
Gal.
6.
12.
Vers
.
12.
Vers
.
22.
Deut.
21.
Gen.
4.
Rev.
6.
10.
2
Sam.
21.
1
Kings
21.
2
King.
9.
Hos
.
1.
4.
Eccles
.
9.
4.
St.
Mark
8.
36.
Gen.
4.
Isa
.
28.
10.
Psal
.
42.
3.
Hos
.
13
7
,
8.
Amos
9
8.
&
6.
8.
&
5.
16.
&
7.
9.
&
6.
9
,
11.
Nihil
est
in
te
,
aut
circa
te
,
non
commaculatem
sanguine
;
omnia
testificantur
adversus
te
,
&c.
Jun.
An.
Jer.
9.
3.
Jer.
6.
15.
Acts
16.
St.
Jam.
2.
16.
S.
Luke
10.
20.
Chap.
33.
23.
Jer.
5.
27
,
28.
Ch
6.
13
,
28
Mal.
3
17.
Barbaris
pro
agris
&
libertate
crepta
,
fidem
Jesu
Christi
,
&
vitam
hominibus
dignam
,
reddamus
.
A●
Infideles
nullo
modo
Christi
Baptismum
adversantur
,
quam
&
capiunt
&
petunt
.
Barbaris
revera●si
Christus
annuntiem
:
ut
opus
est
,
obsequen
es
&
ad
credendum
faciles
sese
exh●bent
.
Idem
.
St.
Joh.
14.
6.
Acts
4.
12.
Hab.
1.
16.
Vers
.
14.
Isa
.
56.
9.
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
Hes
.
Wisd
.
2.
11.
S.
Mat.
27.
29.
S.
Chrys
.
2
Sam.
12.
6.
Mal.
2.
10.
Job
31.
15.
Wis
.
7.
5
,
6.
Rom.
12.
5.
*
But
above
all
that
accursed
Tyranny
used
toward
the
Souls
of
these
miserable
Wretches
,
can
never
sufficiently
be
bewailed
,
who
are
daily
assaulted
by
these
professed
Enemies
of
Christ
to
turn
Apostates
to
the
Christian
Faith
,
and
to
deny
to
at
only
Name
given
under
Heaven
by
which
they
can
be
saved
:
whereby
they
lie
under
a
continual
Temptation
to
abandon
their
Religion
,
to
obtain
their
liberty
.
Br.
for
Capt.
of
Algeir
.
S.
Mat.
23
14.
Chap.
12.
41.
Wis
.
6.
6.
Rom.
2.
14.
Psal
.
9.
12.
Ezek.
33.
Salv.
de
gub
.
Dei.
S.
Luke
12.
47.
Amos
3.
2.
Josh
.
7.
11.
Acts
13.
Heb.
6.
6.
&
10.
29.
1
Sam.
3.
13.
Jer.
8.
14
,
15
,
17.
Hos
.
2.
6
,
11.
Isa
.
19.
2
,
3.
Vers
.
19.
St.
Mat.
6.
33.
S.
Luk.
9.
23.
S.
Mat.
10.
37.
S.
Mark.
8.
33.
Job
31.
24
,
28.
S.
Mar.
8.
38.
Gen.
9.
5
,
&c.
comp
.
with
Heb.
6.
13
,
14
,
17.
Num.
35.
31
,
33.
Rev.
6.
10.
Jos
.
Ant.
Jud.
Gen.
4.
Vers
.
23
,
Acts
8.
Acts
13.
S.
Luk.
23.
34.
1
Cor.
2.
8.
Vers
.
19.
Heb.
10
31.
Isa
.
33.
14.
Rev.
18.
9
,
18
,
&
Ch.
19.
20.
S.
Luke
16.
Rev.
15.
3.
S.
Mat.
18.
7.
S.
Luke
17.
1.
Wis
.
11.
26.
*
This
was
once
the
Sence
of
most
of
our
English
Writers
.
1
S.
Joh.
4.
E.
W.
in
his
Discourse
of
Miracles
.
Hag.
1.
2.
Prov.
22.
13.
De
procur
.
Ind.
Salut
.
l.
3.
*
Who
made
you
Ministers
of
the
Gospel
to
the
White
People
only
,
and
not
to
the
Tawneys
and
Blacks
?
Fox
the
Quaker
to
the
Ministers
of
Barbados
.
See
p.
4.
of
the
Negro's
Advocate
.
Lam.
4.
3.
E.
W.
in
an
answer
to
the
D.
of
S.
P.
Vers
.
10.
Rev.
18.
13.
Nah.
3.
16.
*
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
from
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
signifying
multus
,
magnus
,
honorabilis
,
inclytus
ob
multiplices
quibus
pollet
dignitates
.
Pagn
.
See
also
Job
.
32.
9
Psal
.
48.
2.
Isa
.
19.
20.
&
53.
10
,
&c.
Rom.
1.
S.
Luk.
13.
7.
Ezr.
7
23.
Ezek.
8.
12.
&
9.
9.
Zeph.
1.
12.
Chap.
1.
6.
Vers
.
17.
Chap.
6.
5.
Zech.
5.
1.
Lev.
14.
37
,
44
,
45.
1
Sam.
3.
14.
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
.
S.
Gr.
Naz.
loqu
.
de
Herod
.
&
Pilato
.
Gen.
6.
Ven.
Bed.
Hist
.
Eccl.
Angl.
Exod.
32.
Josh
.
7●
2
Sam.
21.
1
King.
12.
2
Chron.
36.
14
,
&c.
Zech.
14.
Job
31.
2
Chro.
21.
16.
Vers
.
19.
2
Chron.
12.
8.
Wisd
.
Judg.
1.
7.
Mich.
3.
11.
Ezek.
13.
Acts
11.
19.
2
Esdr
.
13.
42.
Chap.
4.
27.
Euseb
.
Hist
.
Eccles
.
*
Without
which
nothing
●herein
can
ever
be
expected
Neh.
2.
10.
&
6.
1.
Juxtâ
Septuag
.
v.
4.
Chap.
6.
34.
Cant.
8.
6.
1
King.
20.
23.
Jer.
23.
23.
Tull.
Off.
Prov.
16.
7.
Isa
.
32.
17.
Ezr.
8.
22.
L.
3.
Ode
.
6.
Liv.
l.
1.
Psal
.
67.
5
,
6.
Hag.
2.
18
,
19.
2
Sam.
6.
12.
Gen.
30.
27.
Job
33.
22.
2
S.
Tim.
2.
26.
S.
Joh.
4.
Heb.
6.
10.
De
proc
.
Ind.
Sal.
l.
6.
c.
ult
.
1
Sam.
7.
Num.
21.
9.
1
Sam.
6.
Prov.
51.
Orat.
Dom●
Coll.
for
all
Cond
.
of
Men.
Coll
for
Good
Friday
.
S.
Mat.
15
8.
S.
Luk.
19.
20.
Tertul.
Prov.
11.
30.
Dan.
12.
Chap.
5.
ult
.