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and lusts, yea, and often falling into gross outward sins, as David, Peter, Magdalene, and others; to rise again also thereout with a mighty crying for mercy, with many other causes: let us also consider what he hereafter doth with the said enemies, into whose hands he hath given his tenderly beloved darlings to be chastened and tried.

Forsooth, whereas he but chasteneth his darlings, and crosseth them for a small while, according to his good pleasure, as all fathers do with their children (Hebrews xii. Proverbs iii.), he utterly destroyeth, yea, and everlastingly damneth the unrepentant enemies. Let Herod tell me what he won by killing James and persecuting Peter, and Christ's tender darlings, and beloved spouse and wife-his church. Verily, God thought him not worthy to have death ministered unto him by men or angels, or any worthy creatures ; but those small, and yet most vile vermin, lice and worms, must consume and kill his beastly, vile, and tyrannous body.

Pharaoh and Nebuchadnezzar, for all their pride, and most mighty power, must at the length let God's darling's go freely away out of their land, yea, out of their bands and tyranny. For when it could not be obtained at their hands, that God's congregation might have true mercy ministered unto them, but the counterfeit mercy of these our days, that is to say extreme cruelty, and even the very and most horrible and cruel death, God arose and awoke out of his sleep, and destroyed those enemies of his flock with a mighty hand and stretched-out arm.

'Pharaoh did with most great and intolerable labours and burdens oppress and bring under the poor

Israelites, and yet did the courtiers undoubtedly noise abroad that the king was merciful unto them, to suffer them to live in the land, and to set them awork, that they might get their own livings. If he should thrust them out of his land whither should they go, like a sort of vagabonds and runagates? This title and name of mercy would that tyrant have, and so did his flattering false courtiers spread his vain praise abroad.

Have not we the like examples now-a-days? O that I had now time to write certain things pertaining to our Winchester's mercy! How merciful he hath been to me and to my good brethren, I will not speak of; neither yet the Duke of Suffolk's most innocent daughter, and to her, as innocent, husband. For although their fathers were faulty yet had their youth and lack of experience deserved a pardon by all true merciful men's judgments. O that I had time to paint out this matter aright! but there be many alive that can do it much better when I am dead. Pharaoh had his plagues, and his most flourishing land was by counterfeit mercy (which was indeed right cruelty and abominable tyranny) utterly destroyed. And think ye that bloody butcherly bishop of Winchester and his most bloody brethren shall escape? Or that England shall for their offences, and specially for the maintenance of their idolatry, and wilful following of them, not abide a great brunt? Yes, undoubtedly.

If God look not mercifully upon England the seeds of utter destruction are sown in it already by these hypocritical tyrants and antichristian prelates, Popish Papists, and double traitors to their natural country. And yet they speak of mercy, of blessing, of the catholic church, of unity, of power, and

strengthening of the realm. This double dissimulation will shew itself one day when the plague cometh, which will undoubtedly light upon those crown-shorn captains, and that shortly, whatsoever the godly aud the poor realm suffer in the mean while by God's good sufferance and will.

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Spite of Nebuchadnezzar's beard and mangre his heart, the captive, thrall, and miserable Jews must come home again, and have their city and temple builded up again by Zerubbabel, Ezra, and Nehemiah, &c. And the whole kingdom of Babylon must go to ruins, and be taken of strangers-the Persians and the Medes. So shall the dispersed and English flock of Christ be brought again into their former state, or to a better, I trust in the Lord God, than it was in innocent King Edward's days; and our bloody Babylonical bishops and the whole crown-shorn company brought to utter shame, rebuke, ruin, decay, and destruction. For God cannot, and undoubtedly will not suffer for ever their abominable, lying, false doctrine; their hypocrisy, blood-thirst, whoredom, idleness; their pestilent life, pampered in all kinds of pleasure, their thrasonical boasting pride; their malicious, envious, and poisoned stomachs, which they bear towards his poor and miserable Christians.

Peter truly warneth, that if judgment beginneth at the house of God, what shall be the end of them that believe not the Gospel? If the righteous shall scarce be saved, where shall the ungodly and sinful appear? Some shall have their punishment here in this world and in the world to come; and they that do escape in this world shall not escape everlasting damnation. This shall be your sauce, O ye wicked Papists, make ye merry here as long as ye may.'

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PUT off the old man, Ephesians iv. 22; Put on the new, Ephesians iv. 24.

Put off pride, Jeremiah xiii. 15;
Put off passion, Colossians iii. 8;
Put off covetousness, Hebrews xiii. 5;
Put off contention, Genesis xiii. 8;
Put off murmuring, 1 Corinthians, x. 10;
Put off melancholy, Psalm xlii. 11;
Put off vanity, Ecclesiastes ii. 2
Put off uncleanness, Galatians v. 19.
Put off drunkenness, Luke xxi. 34.

Put on humility, 1 Peter v. 5.

Put on meekness, 1 Peter iii. 4.
Put on contentment, Hebrews xiii. 5.
Put on peaceableness, James iii. 17.
Put on patience, Luke xxi. 19.
Put on cheerfulness, Psalm xxxvii. 4.
Put on seriousness, 1 Peter iv. 7.
Put on chastity, 1 Thessalonians iv. 4.
Put on temperance, 2 Peter i. 6.

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Sanctification.

Put off deceitfulness, Colossians iii. 9.
Put off hatred, Leviticus xix. 17;
Put off hypocrisy, Luke xii. 1 ;
Put off bad discourse, Ephesians iv. 22;
Put off bad company; Psalm cxix. 115;
Put off slothfulness, Romans xii. 11;
Put off security, 1 Thessalonians v. 6;
Put off folly, Psalm 1xxv. 4;
Put off fear, Genesis xv. 1;
Put off a life of sense, 2 Cor. iv. 18.
Put off self, Matthew xvi. 24

Put on honesty, 1 Peter ii. 12.
Put on love, John xv. 12.

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Put on sincerity, Joshua xxiv. 14.
Put on good discourse, Ephesians iv. 29.
Put on good company, Psalm cxix. 63.
Put on watchfulness, I Thessalonians v. 6.
Put on diligence, 2 Peter iii. 14.
Put on prudence, Proverbs xiv. 8.
Put on hope, Proverbs xiv. 32, 2 Pet. i. 13.
Put on a life of faith, Galatians ii. 20.
Put on the Lord Jesus Christ, Rom. xiii. 14.
Christian Remembrancer.

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