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A67324	More work for the dean in a brief answer to some scandalous reports published by Dr. Stillingfleet in his book entituled, \"An impartial account of the history, nature and pleas of the present separation from the communion of the Church of England\" against some of the Lords faithful servants, namely, Mr. Henry Barrow, Mr. John Greenwood, Mr. John Penry, who by the bishops means, after long imprisonment, were put to death, contrary to Queen Elizabeths mind; in the year 1593 ... : as likewise here is word for word the petition of those persecuted Christians, wherein is shewed the barbarous usage of the bishops to them : together with the refutation of the then esteemed Bishop of Winchester's blasphemous doctrine, by Mr. Henry Barrow, with the description of the true Church of God, according to Christs Testament, by the whole Church at London, whom the doctor calleth Brownists; with the reason why they were so nick-named by their enemies : very needful for all true Protestants to know / by Thomas Wall.	Wall, Thomas.	1681 (1681)	Wing W485; ESTC R20458	32,462	49

more of malice than of any just matter he had against him And why at this time Because the memory of Mr. Barrow Mr. Greenwood and Mr. Penry was lately revived in a Christian Warning-piece presented to the Kings Majesty last April so that if Mr. Barrows Books therein mentioned should be again sought after which doth so lively discover the abomination of that Ministry of which the Doctor is one therefore he hath endeavoured to disgrace their persons that their labours might not be regarded and therefore it will not be amiss by the way to note what Mr. Barrow hath written in one of his Books called the Discovery which the Doctor called seditious for comparing the true Ministry of Christ and the Ministry of Antichrist together that as light maketh manifest so in laying down Christs true Ministry the abomination of all other by it may be discovered of which subject in particular Mr. Barrows words are these in his Discovery page 46. The Ministry appointed by Christ unto the Government of Church be of two sorts Elders and Deacons Phil. 1. 1. 1 Tim. 3. Tit. 1. 5. Rom. 12. Acts 20. 28. 1 Tim. 5. 17. 1 Cor. 12. 7 8. Acts 6. The Elders some of them to give attendance unto the publick Ministry of the Word and Sacraments as the Pastor and Teacher the other Elders together with them to give attendance to the publick Government of the Church The Deacons office to attend to the gathering and distributing the Contribution of the Church for the maintenance of the Ministry and Poor 1 Cor. 16. Now saith Mr. Barrow to come to the Ministry of the Church of England which is so manifold and divers as I know not how to begin to describe it but let it first be divided in these three sorts 1. Reigning or governing 2. Serving and 3 Collegiate 1. Of the reigning and governing Ministers are Arch bishops Lord Bishops Arch Deacons Chancellors Commissaries all of the High Commission as likewise such Civil Doctors Proctors Registers Scribes Pursevants Sumners as attend upon their Courts of Faculties Prerogative Archees Delegates 2. Of the serving sort are Parsons Vicars Curates Hireling Lecturies Vagrant and Mercenary Preachers House priests Chaplains half priests or Catechisers Churchwardens Side men Quest-men Parish-Clarks 3. Of the ministry Collegiate are Lord Bishops Deans Sub deans Prebendaries Canons Petit Canons Gospellers Epistlers Singing-men Singing boys Vergers Sextons This division I suppose will well near suffice for their Officers But now how to divide or distinguish their Offices I know not I am so unlearned and ignorant of such great secrets and high mysteries neither yet have I skill to marshal them in their degrees of honour which I have heard say they have both in the Commonwealth and in their Schools as their Primate their Metropolitan Graces their Palatine Lord Bishops and their Barony Lordships all which I wene be Peers of the Realm and Estates of the Land Now there are also certain Doctors of Divinity and Batchellors of Divinity which have many great priviledges and prerogatives of the Cap the Scarlet Gown the Hood the Habit the Tippet the Ring the Chair the one of them being a Knights fellow the other an Esquires in any ground in England also how capable these are by Statute of how many Benefices I cannot tell Now surely this discovery doth not a little torment the Doctor to cause him to be so malicious against Mr. Barrow to disgrace him now he is dead Papist like who burnt the bones of such as they call Hereticks many years after they have murder'd them when as they did as Mr. Barrow hath done that is bear their testimony against the Rabble of Antichrists ministry as is noted out of the Book of Martyrs in the foresaid Christian Warning-piece to the King p. 23. for what comfort can those have which call themselves ministers and cannot prove their Ordination to be according to Gospel-order when at the last day they will say Lord Lord we have prophesied in thy name and cast out devils in thy name and have done many wonderous works when Christ shall say to them I know you not depart from me ye workers of iniquity For is it not iniquity for any to take upon them the name of a Dean instead of a Pastor and to be a persecutor rather than a preserver and so contrary to Gods plain Law to be a tale-bearer as it written Levit. 19. 16 17. Thou shalt not go up and down as a tale bearer among thy people yea to reproach the deceased Saints of the Lord calling their Books seditious not only for pleading that the ministry appointed by Christ might by Protestants be embraced but also for reproving the blasphemous Doctrine of T. C. the then esteemed Bishop of Winchester in his Book against Martin Marprelate namely this that the Orders and Ordinances which Christ hath in his Testament left unto his Church were but temporary whilst the Church was under Heathen Tyrants and that where the Gospel is embraced by a Christian Prince they are not only not necessary but inconvenient yet intollerable as bringing the utter subversion of the Land raising up rumults and uproars and withdrawing the people from obedience unto their Magistrates Unto which Mr. Barrow replieth that there ought throughout all ages and estates of the world in all places to be one and the same form of outward Government in all true Churches of Christ unto the worlds end scil that Apostolical primitive pattern left unto us in Christs Testament and none other which undoubted truth Mr. Barrow against the Bishops confirms both from the Law and Gospel in these words The Lord when he erected his Tab●rnacle among the Israelites gave them a perfect pattern in all things even to the least instrument hook or tape therein as also the whole composition of every thing belonging thereunto with all the Ordinances thereof and left nothing to the will and discretion of Moses whose commendation was that he was faithful in all his house as a servant for a testimony of these things that were to be spoken after Exod. 25. Heb. 8. 5. Heb. 3. also we read of David in the distribution of the order and functions of the Priests and Levites and likewise of Solomon and Zerubbabel in building the material Temple how perfectly the Lord set down the matter form number size place order and use of every thing belonging thereunto 1 Chron. 28. 11. as also what perfect Laws was given by God for every thing to be done and likewise how jealous the Lord was over his Sanctuary and what severe judgments was upon all them that transgressed the least of his Ordinances as is seen in Nadab Abihu Lev. 10. Corah and his company Numb 16. on Eli and his sons 1 Sam. 4. and sundry the like Now may we suppose God is less jealous careful provident over his glorious Temple of lively stones which consisteth of the bodies and souls of his Saints for the structure instruments

worship as aforesaid which the Doctor doth not obediently believe so long as he retaineth the Popish Office of a Dean for one of Christs Gospel-Ministers as though Christ was not wise enough to give Titles fit for his Ministers But as we read of the Romish Church that woman which sitteth upon a sear let coloured beast full of the names of blasphemy this name Dean proceeding from thence may be reckoned among them Rev. 13. 1. 17. 3. And lastly as every true Christian must not only believe that Christ is the Son of God come in the flesh but also they must walk in him rooted and established following Christ by the example of the Primitive Churches commended in them As when Israel had gone from the pure keeping in worship to God his Ordinances and the Cove-Hant Mal. 2. 8. of Levi the call of the Lord to them to reform their ways by the prophet Malachi was to remember the Law of Moses and not Mal. 4. 4. the Tradition or Canons of men and until this was done they that feared the Lord had separated from them and spake often one to another and a book of remembrance was Isa 42. 4. written for them that thought on his Name even his Law and partook not in the evil of the transgressors Even so when after the long Mat. 12. 21. Apostacy of Christians the Lord called them to come out of Babylon and to reform their Rev. 18. 4. ways but not by the Canons of men but by the everlasting Gospel taught by the Servants of God in King Edward Queen Elizazabeth King James and in King Charles the 1st and 2d to this day and until this work be done all that fear the Lord do separate themselves and speak often one to another for which they are and were still persecuted reproached and defamed but by whom but by the Devil called the Dragon and Serpent Rev. 2. 10. in his servants out of whose mouths comes floods of teproaches to destroy the woman Rev. 12. 15. had not the earth then and still doth by more than an ordinary Providence help the woman in drinking up or rather hindering the work Verse 16. of persecution Thus hoping the Doctor will lay these things to heart and who knoweth seeing among Adams Sons some men for their malice and fury are compared to Lions 2 Tim. 4. 17. but God in his mercy may give him grace to the changing of his fierce nature If the Lord by the Arrows of his Truth prick his heart Psal 45. 5. Acts 2. 37. Heb. 4. 12. that so he may yield obedience to Christ Jesus and lie down with the Lambs in the Lords holy Mountain even Sion his true Church Isa 11. 7. Heb. 12. 22. where it is said the Lords people shall be all Righteous Isa 60. wise as Serpents harmless as Doves men in understanding children in malice 1 Cor. 14. for such only can have right to enter into the Kingdom of God Mat. 18. 3. that so he may for the time to come see himself in the glass of Gods word new born all his fleshly glory and honour fading away by the Spirit of God blowing on him so shall he beat his sword of bitter words into plough-sheares that by the word of God the fallow ground of his uncircumcised heart be broken up the seed of Gods truth sowed therein watred by the heavenly dew of his grace that he may bring forth the fruits of righteousness Jam. 3. 18. Heb. 12. 14. which is peace with all men and holiness without which no man shall see the face of God which is and shall be the prayers for the very enemies of him who is the Lords unworthy servant Tho. Wall More Work FOR THE DEAN Or A brief ANSWER To some Scandalous Reports published by Dr. Stillingfleet c. THerefore among the many sore Travels King Solomon beheld among the Sons of men this saith he is one That for every right work a man is envied of his neighbour Eccles 4. 4. Psal 106. 16. Numb 11. 29. Matt. 26. 7 8 9 10. Now if that were a right work in the Lords Servants of old in calling the Lords people out of the temporal Babylon to separate themselves from all the filthiness of those Heathens Ezra 6. 21. that they might enter into Covenant with the Lord to serve or worship him as he had given commandment by the hand of Mose's both in Ministry Ordinances and Order for which work they were envied of their Neighbours Nehem. 4 and 5 Chapters even so it was a-like right work in these latter days for the Lords Servants to call his elected ones out of the Romish Sodomy Egyptian and Spiritual Babylon Rev. 11. 8. and 18. 4. that they might separate themselves from their abominable filthiness in worship and nature that so with the Lord they might enter into the Covenant of the Gospel Acts 2. 47. 2 Cor. 11. 2. Isa 62. 5. Ezek. 16 8. to worship him as the Son of God Christ Jesus had appointed in his last Will and Testament both in Ministry Ordinances Time and Order and for this right work among others was Mr. Barrow Mr. Greenwood and Mr. Penry envied then to death by their Neighbours and now again after their death envied by Dr. Stillingfleet to the desamation of the memory Prov. 10. 7. of those whom God had blessed and are now at rest in the Lord Rev. 14. 13. 2dly The evil way this Doctor hath taken to vent his envy against these Servants of God is first in calling their Books seditious and therefore because he could not prove it he is driven to make use of the false reports of their Enemies such as never disclaimed against the succession of their Ministry received from the Bishops nor yet their vain School Titles of Batchelor in Divinity a Title not found in Christs Testament set in the front of that Book called the Bloody Tenet out of which Book the Doctor tells us that Mr. Cotton said Mr. Dod told him that when Mr. Barrow was under the Gibbet he lift up his eyes and said If I be deceived thou hast deceived me To which I answer If Mr. Barrow did say those words it might be draw̄n from him upon the same occasion the like words were drawn from the Prophet Jeremiah when the Priests and false Prophets seeing his constancy and faithfulness in the Lords message against their evil doings Jer. 20. 8 10. derided him which occasioned him to say O Lord thou hast deceived me and I was deceived thou art stronger than I and hast prevailed I am in derision dayly every one mocketh me Even so some of the Clergy being present when Mr. Barrow suffered death seeing his constant testimony against their evil doings might deride him and so might occasion those words from him Surely if the Doctor had had any thing worth noting against this man a few Pages in his Book should not have contained it Thus all may see it is

setting aside the care of souls not esteeming nor regarding what became of them study most how to climb high and to satisfie their ambitious desires of honour raking together Livings cove● ously and greedily not caring who feed the flock so they may come by the fleece Moreover the door hath been opened also to let into the Church a rout and swarm of such as are more like the priests of Jeroboam than ministers of the Gospel not only unlearned Idols which have mouths and speak not which being weary of their occupation and covet to live easily and to that end entred but also riotous dicers gamesters quaffers quarrellers adulterers and such like if the matter were secret I should do amiss to make it manifest but when it is open in the sight and view of all men who can complain justly Now let the Reader observe thus saith the Apostle If one of themselves even a prophet of their own saith it therefore this witness is true Tit. 1. 12 13. and indeed what have many of their ministers said less in the first and second admonition to the Parliament in the 13. year of Q. Elizabeth's reign 1530. p. 49. in these words What encouragement and favour have they shewed the Papists when the Papists have been complained upon how have they opened their ears meaning the Bishops to their complaints against the ministers and shut their ears when the Papists have been complained upon yea some have said that conformable Papists were more tollerable than these Precisians and godly men that seek for Reformation Who be their Chancellors but most suspected Papists And where have they their most countenance but of the Bishops I hear not of one of them but is a briber Who be their Sumners but very Varlets What are their Canonists but suspected Papists They wring their brethren if they be Gods children and let the papists go scot-free or be punished but lightly And what more is expresly forbidden in the Scriptures than those names and offices which Christ hath forbidden his ministers to be called gracious Lords Luke 21. 25. 28. and many such things worth the observing by all those that have the Book by them Thus I hope it is sufficiently proved that it is not liberty of conscience that is the cause Popery hath increased in this land but the gross abuses in the Doctors Church and Ministry Moreover if the Lord of old was not against liberty of conscience in things spiritual who compelled not the Gibeonites Hittites Gergashistes or unclean Israelites that lived in the Lords Land to keep his Fast or Feast or to do any part of his worship by the Civil Sword no more it is the mind of God under the Gospel Josh 16. 10. Lev. 15. 44. 2 Cor. 7. 8. neither could the Doctor have been so ignorant of that or so plain a Gospel doctrine if his study were spent as much in the book of God as in History for as much as Christ Jesus Creator and Lord of the whole earth hath divided it freely to all Nations under the whole heavens to dwell therein and appointed the bounds of their habitations Gen. 10. 32. Acts 17. 26. and accordingly Christ hath expounded the parable that the field is the world Mat. 13. 38. wherein the good seed children of the kingdom and the tares children of the wicked one are allowed by Christ to grow together though not in the Church Mat. 18. 17. 1 Cor. 5. Prov. 25. 4 5. Gen. 4. 6. Gal. 4. 30. but in the field unless the Doctor thinks the whole world be the Church until the Harvest or end of the world for the Lord doth cause his Sun to shine on the evil and the good and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust how then dare mortal man by persecution debar his fellow creatures from the liberty given them of God so long as they do to all men as they would have others do to them but when they do otherwise contrary to the second table of Gods law the Magistrate beareth not the sword in vain Rom. 13. 4. For he is the minister of God a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doth evil surely then it may be said to such that seek to have their brethren persecuted they do therein as it were call for fire to come down from heaven to destroy them Luke 9. 54. unto such Christ saith they know not what spirit they are of for who is he O man that maketh thee to differ from another 1 Cor. 4. 7. or hast thou any good in thee since thy fall that thou hast not received therefore man ought to know that it is God only which perswadeth Japhet to dwell in the tents of Shem Gen. 9 27. so that to force men to be religious before God giveth them faith is to make a Church of hypocrites such as all persecuting spirits are and this spirit was ever seen in Lordly Prelates and their accomplices as by woful experience the fore-named Christians felt whom the Dr. hath reproached as it is to be seen in a Petition in Q. Elizabeths days they presented to the Parliament aforementioned seasonable in this day for all Protestants to be acquainted with concerning the Bishops cruelty to the Nonconformists then that would neither touch tast nor handle any popish tradition or corruption either in Ministry or Worship The Petition word for word as followeth The humble most earnest and lamentable Complaint and Supplication of the persecuted Church and Servants of Christ called Brownists THE most high God possessor of heaven and earth bringeth at this present before your Lordships and Wisdoms Right Honourable his own cause his own people and his own sworn and most treacherous enemies together with the most shameful usage of his truth and servants that ever hath been heard of in the days of Sions professed peace and tranquility His cause and people he offereth unto your consideration and defence in our profession and persons his enemies and their outrage against his truth and servants in the persons and bloody proceedings of the Prelates of the Land and their Complices We profess the same faith and truth of the Gospel which her Majesty and your Honours the whole Land and all the Reformed Churches under heaven this day do hold and maintain we go beyond them being our only fault even in the judgments of our tyrannical and most savage enemies in the detestation of all Popery that most fearful Antichristian Religion and draw nearer in some points by our practice unto Christs holy order and institution this is our faith this is our cause in our sinful hands and for the profession and maintenance of which faith the forenamed enemies of God detain in their hands within the prisons about London not to speak of other Gaols throughout the Land about threescore and twelve persons men and women young and old lying in cold in hunger in dungeons in irons of which number they have taken the Lords day last past being the

they must be carefully done with prayer going before they must be seasoned with truth gravity love and peace Mat. 18. 15. and 26. 8. Gal. 6. 1 2. 2 Tim. 2. 24. Mark 9. 50. Ephes 4. 29 James 5. 15 19 20. Moreover in this Church is an especial care had by every member thereof of offences the strong ought not to offend the weak nor the weak to judge the strong but all graces here are given to the service and edification of each other in love and long suffering Luke 17. 1. Prov. 10. 12. Rom. 14. 13 19. Gal. 6. 2. In this Church is the Truth purely taught and surely kept here is the Covenant the Sacraments and Promises the Graces the Glory the Presence the Worship of God c. Gen. 17. Lev. 26. 11 12. Isa 44. 3. Gal. 4. 28. and 6. 16. Isa 60. 15. Deut. 4. 12 13. Isa 56. 7. 1 Tim. 3. 15. Isa 12. 8. Into this Temple entreth no unclean thing neither whatsoever worketh abominations or lies but they which are written in the Lambs Book of life Isa 62. 1. Ezek. 44. 9. Isa 35. 8. Zach. 14. 21. Rev. 21. 27. But without this CHURCH shall be Dogs and Enchanters and Whoremongers and Murderers and Idolaters and whosoever loveth and maketh lies Rom. 2. 9. Rev 22. 15. Now I leave the prudent to judge whether the Doctor be a friend or an enemy to Christs Truth and holy order of worship and also to his Servants by calling their Books or Writings seditious therefore it is high time for the Doctors followers to beware of such a guide for their souls Yea and whether such a man can be reputed a Christian that calleth the way of Gods Worship so agreable to Christ's last Will and Testament seditious Yea I say it is time as they tender their Souls eternal happiness to examine their present state in worship to God and measure the same by the golden seed of Gods Word Rev. 11. 1. to see if it agree to the description of the visible Church aforesaid collected out of the holy Scripture both in the Ministry Ordinances and Order as Christ Jesus hath appointed and for the better observation in every particular and fundamental grounds therein to note these four things 1st As every building must have a foundation so every true Church must have Christ for the foundation thereof 1 Cor. 3. 11. Mat. 16. 18. 2dly The instrument in this building must be the written Word of God to wit the Doctrine of the Apostles and Prophets 2. 20. 3dly The matter in this building must be visible Saints 1 Cor. 1. 2. 4thly The way to begin this building must be answerable to the figurative building of Tabernacle and Temple that were built of the choicest things and costly 1 Kings 5. 17. Even so answerable hereunto the spiritual Temple was built of elect precious living stones 1 Pet. 2. 5. as was foretold in the Prophets I will lay thy stones with fair colours and thy foundation with saphire and all thy borders with pleasant stones Isa 54. 11. 6. 17 21. 2. As the materials of the Temple and Tabernacle were all made fit before they were joyned together so that there may be neither Hammer 1 Kings 6. 7. nor any tool of Iron heard in the building Even so in the spiritual John first preached in the Wilderness fitting and squaring a people by the Ax of Gods Word so that the crookedness by nature in Gods Elect was made straight and the rough places plain Isa 40 3. Mat. 3. 3. by being made new creatures 2 Cor. 5. 17. born again so made fit for the Kingdom of God John 3. 5. And this was Gods way in Grace and Nature in all the Apostles the wise Master-builder first in the Wilderness of the wold by the Preaching the Word to convince and by it the Lord converting and then by voluntary profession not by might or power of man Zach 4. 6. but by the Spirit of God were they joyned together by the Covenant of Grace in Christ with him their Lord spiritual Head and Husband of the Body the Church For so it is written As a young man marrieth a virgin so shall thy sons marry thee Isa 62. 5. 2 Cor. 11. 2. Acts 2. 45. And thus saith the Scriptures Prepare thy work without make it fit for thy self in the field and after build thine house Prov. 24. 27. But how contrary to this heavenly pattern was the Doctors Church constituted in every part the examiner may see if it were not too long here to insert but I refer the Reader to Henry Ainsworth's Counterpoison page 205. 127. comparing therewith Mr. Fox's Acts and Monuments Edit 5. page 1187. 1190. 1184. and for noting these and such-like things of the Doctors Church and Ministry the Doctor bespattereth Mr. Ainsworth in his Book with Words so that like Ishmael his hand is against every good Christian Gen. 16. 12. Moreover though the beginning of this spiritual building aforesaid it is but small compared to a grain of Mustard-seed Mat. 13. 31. the day of small things Zech. 4. 10. yet not to be despised if but two or three are gathered together in Christs name which is his Law Isa 42. 4. Mat. 12. 21. in the holy order of his Gospel to worship God by Christs direction they have the promise of Gods presence to be with them Mat. 18. 20. so waiting on the Lord until he multiply them to be not a few Jer. 30. 19. even like the flock of his pasture Ezek. 34. 31. Acts 2. 47. So that then out of themselves the Lord hath given them direction to chuse some into the office of Pastor and Teacher with Elders and Deacons as aforeshewed in the description of the true Church unto which Assembly thus gathered together in holy order Christ Jesus is their Prophet represented in the offices of Pastor and Teacher together with the membral right of the men-members in Prophesie by the word taught among them that they may discern sin Rom. 7. 7. and righteousness Phil. 3. 9. 2dly Christ is a Priest unto them working upon the will and affections killing them a sacrifices Heb. 9. 11. Rom. 12. 1. that so a reasonable creature by the operation of true faith may be given up to God in his service Joh. 4. 23. 3dly Christ is a King to them Psal 2. 6. by his power Phil. 2. 5. that the word taught by prophecy and applied by priesthood may be walked in Col. 2. 6. by a holy life and conversation 1 Pet. 1. 1 5. and the whole Church preserved from all adverse power of Sin the World and the Devil and after this manner seeing Christs Kingdom is not of this world John 18. 36. must he reign in the Church until he hath put all his enemies under his feet Rev. 19. 16. 1 Cor. 15. 25. Now it is evident that the Communion in the Doctors Church is not in this way and order of God the men of his Clergy will answer him in