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A25298 A sound out of Sion from the holy mountain which the Lord is establishing above all the mountains declaring the salvation of God which is near to be revealed to the captivated seed that waits for redemption : and the deceit of sinners laid open and witnessed against who make a profession of God, and yet cannot believe that they can be saved from sin while they live / by William Ames. Ames, William, d. 1662. 1663 (1663) Wing A3008; ESTC R28292 10,529 16

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disobedience And yet wil you say you serve the Lord although you have given your selves over to serve Satan For sin is a Work of the Devil and where the Works are brought forth there is the Worker and you do believe you cannot be freed from sin and have you not then given your selves over to obey Satan Rom. 6. 17. and his servants you are to whom you obey and therefore when Satan moves you to commit sin you obey him because you believe you cannot do otherwise and so your Faith is so far from purifying your hearts that it leads you into impurity And although you are convinced by the Light of God in your Consciences that you should not sin yet you believe not in the Light which if you did it would purifie your hearts but you do believe and follow him who leads you to commit sin and you do not believe that that of God which convinceth you that you should not sin is able to deliver you from sin and so you are the unbelievers who make God a lyar in not believing the testimony which he hath given of his Son 1 Iohn 5. 10. And so to the righteousness of God are you disobedient you being the servants of sin for you cannot serve two Masters if you are servants of sin you are free from righteousness Rom. 6. 20. and are not the servants of Christ for he is not the Minister of sin Gal. 2. 17. but you serve Satan who is the Author of sin and your Faith leads you no further than to serve him and therefore that cannot be the Faith which gives peace with God for there is no peace from God to the wicked Isa. 48. 22. much less to those who believe they shall never be made righteous and so hath made a Covenant with death and Hell to commit sin so long as you live you are not those who do wait for the Saviour to save you from sin but do comfort your selves with your vain imaginations and being ignorant of the righteousness of God which is made manifest in all those who believe in the Light to take away sin You think to be saved by your own righteousnesse in making a profession from the words of the holy men of God although you are unholy and you do believe you shall never be made holy while you live and so you make likenesses and bow down to them although the Scripture which you professe saith Thou shalt not make the likeness of any thing that is in Heaven above or in the Earth beneath nor in the waters under the Earth Exod. 20.4 but you being ignorant of the substance have nothing but the likenesse which you bow unto and say Christ hath commanded you so to do when you have neither heard his voice nor seen his shape but that which you have you have gathered into your imaginations by reading the Scripture and do endeavour to get into a form of godlinesse but the Power you never look for while you live for they that have the power of godliness by it are they redeemed from sin but you believe that cannot be in this life And thus are you strangers to the life of Saints And yet you will own the Name of Christians and say you are baptized in his Name although you believe you shall never be partakers of his Life while you live And so it appears that your Baptism is not the Baptism of Christ for as many as are baptized into Christ are baptized into his death and are made partakers of the resurrection of his Life and are made free from sin Rom. 6. 3 7. but your Baptism cannot free from sin for we see drunkards swearers lyars thieves murderers and such like who are baptized with your baptism and yet remain so and therefore it is an abomination to God and it is a likeness which the Lord forbids who saith Thou shalt not make any likeness and this you have but the substance you never look for while you live and so your hearts being not circumcised by the circumcision of Christ in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh you cannot understand the things of God because you are not buried with him in baptism And yet will you boast of the Lord's Table although you believe you shall never be freed from the Table of Devils while you live for you believe you cannot be freed from sin and he that committeth sin is partaker with Satan and he that takes part with Satan is God's Enemy and is shut out from the Lord's Table And then you take Bread and Wine and eat and drink it and call that the Lord's Supper and say he did so with his Apostles the same night that he was betrayed and this is false for that Bread which he gave his Disciples was his Body Iohn 6. 51. Matth. 26. 26 27 28. Mark 14. 22 23 24 Luke 22. 19. 20. 1 Cor. 11. 23 24. which you are ignorant of who call outward Bread and Wine the Lord's supper for that is not his Body And Christ said The Bread that I will give you is my flesh And when the time drew near that he should go to the Father he brake that bread and gave it them and said Take eat this is my body and after they had eaten he took the Cup and gave it them and said Drink ye all of it this is my Blood which is shed for many for the remission of sins And this was the same that Paul did administer to the Corinthians and the Cup of blessing was the communion of the blood of Christ and the bread which they did break was the communion of the body of Christ and this did God ordain but yours is a likeness which God is against and it must be destroyed And because you read in Scripture that the holy men of God did sing because the Lord had redeemed them therefore you who are unholy have made songs of their words and you sing who never know what Redemption was Moses and the children of Israel did sing because the Lord had redeemed them out of the hands of Pharoah Exod. 15. and that which they spoke in their song in them was truth but if you sing their words and are not partakers of their deliverance are you not lyars Deborah and Barack sung Iudg. 5. because the Lord had delivered them and had destroyed the Enemies of Israel But what rule is this for you to sing who cannot believe that sin which is Israels Enemy can be destroyed in you while you live and they that were redeemed unto God out of Kindreds Tongues and Nations Rev. 14. 3. 15. 3. sung a new song the song of Moses the servant of God and the song of the Lamb because they were redeemed by him but what caufe have you to sing who are strangers to this redemption and the Apostle said Be not ov●rcome with Wine but be filled with the Spirit speaking to your selves in Psalms and Hymns and spiritual