Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
Alas! Sirs, you may make a shift to pass through this world unsuspected; many Moralists, yea, Christians, may subscribe their Names to your Testimonial, and give you the Right Hand of fellowship in this world, when you must be set at the Left in the next: Things will not then be carried as they are now. Deal faithfully with God and your own Souls; see you have the Root of the Matter, the Life of Grace: you may herd amongst the Sheep now, and be found amongst Goats at last.
A King will give his Subjects liberty to travel into another King’s Dominions, reserving their Loyalty to their own King: Papists in Queen Elizabeth’s days, being commanded to go to Church, or be punished, sent to the Pope for a Resolution of this Case of Conscience: His Answer was, They might comply; but Fili, da mihi cor, My Son, give me thy Heart: Thus the Devil will give you leave to read, pray, hear, receive, attend on Ordinances; but as long as he hath you fast by the Heart-strings, you are still his Slaves, none of God’s Servants: for the Soul is the Man: As a man thinketh in his Heart, so is he, Prov. 23.7. ...
For more, see Oliver Heywood on being the genuine article.
A King will give his Subjects liberty to travel into another King’s Dominions, reserving their Loyalty to their own King: Papists in Queen Elizabeth’s days, being commanded to go to Church, or be punished, sent to the Pope for a Resolution of this Case of Conscience: His Answer was, They might comply; but Fili, da mihi cor, My Son, give me thy Heart: Thus the Devil will give you leave to read, pray, hear, receive, attend on Ordinances; but as long as he hath you fast by the Heart-strings, you are still his Slaves, none of God’s Servants: for the Soul is the Man: As a man thinketh in his Heart, so is he, Prov. 23.7. ...
For more, see Oliver Heywood on being the genuine article.