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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 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 because they refused Communion with the Church of England by reason of the many Popish Corruptions in the Ministry and Worship retained therein And also for bearing their Testimony against the same which is still the Cause many Thousand Protestants refuse Communion with the Church of England at this day 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 Prov. 31. 8. Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such a● are appointed to destruction LONDON Printed for William Marshall at the Bible in Newgate-street 1681. To the most Noble and Sincere hearted Protestants Grace Mercy and Peace be multiplied IT may seem a thing very strange in nature for a Lamb without fear to meet a Lyon in the open field As it was in Little David when by faith he Encountered with great Goliah the Champion of the Pblistines even so it may seem strange to some that so mean an instrument shall without fear meet Dr. Stillingfleet fo great a Champion in the open field But seeing he hath with Goliah despised or desied that little flock of Christ's faithful Servants the heavenly Armies of the living God therefore I cannot keep silent having with David the Lord on my side his Truth for my Sword and Buckler therefore for the Honour of the Lord Jesus Christ and love I bear to all his Servants I shall herein defend the Rights and Prerogatives of my Lord and Saviour That he is the only Archbishop Lord Spiritual and Lawgiver to his Church in all things appertaining to the worship of his Father And shall stand by the same testimony which any of the Lords Servants have born against the Doctor and all the Canons of his Church to the contrary Secondly Among all the Enemies of Gods people the most wicked'st are those that under the Visage of Christianity would be reckoned among the Lords Protestant people in word declaring they are on Christs side but in their Works and Writings manifest their hatred against him and all his faithful Servants for no other cause but by manifesting their love to Christ in keeping his Commandment in Gods Worship and bearing their testimony against all mens inventions to the contrary such an enemy hath the Doctor manifested himself to be to the Christians herein mentioned in the false Reports published against them to the Defamation of their persons their Writings and the Truth they professed and maintained as is hereafter plainly discovered concerning their Faith in the Description of the true Church of God with all her Officers and in what order Christ hath commanded in his Testament for them to walk therein with Church State Ministry together with its holy Order I desire the Doctor to compare with his Church and Ministry and then declare to the world which he believeth in his conscience is the true Church of God If God be pleased to open his eyes and carry him above all earthly Wisdom by his Spirit unto an exceeding high Mountain the height Rev. 21. 10. of Israel to behold the City filled with the glory of God and unless God doth be his Ezek. 17. 22 23. 40. 2. Rev. 21. 11. Eccl. 10. 15. help he with the Apostate Israelites will still weary himself and not know how to find the way to the City in which City by the Canon or holy Rules thereof Christ hath appointed for her Officers Pastors Teachers Elders and Deacons Ephes 4. But the 7th Canon of the Doctors Church saith Whosoever shall affirm that the Government of that Church by Archbishops Bishops Deans Archdeacons and the rest that do bear office is Antichristian or repugnant to the word of God let him be excommunicated ipso facto and so continue until he repent and publickly revoke his wicked Errors Christ Jesus hath appointed the whole form of Gospel-worship to be learned out of his Testament and that it be agreeable to the Isa 8. 20. Act. 20. 27. same upon pain of all the Curses in Gods Book to him that addeth or diminisheth to Rev. 22. 18. Prov. 30. 6. or from But the 4th Canon of the Doctors Church saith Whosoever shall affirm that the form of Gods worship established by Law and contained in the book of Common-prayer is a corrupt and superstitious or unlawful worship of God or containeth any thing in it that is repugnant to the Scriptures let him be excommunicated ipso facto and such like wherein is preferred the Traditions and Orders of men to be equal to the inspired Rules in Christs Testament Now let me ask the Doctor whether he believeth in his conscience that when he cometh to appear before the Lord Jesus the chief Judg that he shall be judged for the breach of his Church Canons or for the breach of Christs Canons in his Testament seeing the word of God telleth us that whatsoever man that hath engaged himself to be a worshipper of God and shall break the holy Rules in Worship he hath promised to keep and after Gods order by brethren used for his recovery Matth. 18. if he stand obstinate then that which the Church by the Rules of Christ doth by excommunicating him on earth is confirmed in heaven but the curse for the breach of mans Canons in worship though pretended to God in worship is the curse causeless which shall not come Prov. 26. 2. But the curse turn'd into a blessing upon all that do Rev. 22. 11. to wit the Commandments of the Lord Jesus they only have right to the Tree of life and may enter in through the gates in the City So that it is not enough for the Doctor to think it is sufficient for him or his hearers to believe verbally that Christ is the Son of God come in the flesh as the only foundation of Religion but they that do expect salvation by Christs Merits must not only believe he is the Son of God but by their obedience confess the same that as a Son was he faithful in his house or Church as Moses the Prophet like unto Moses the only Law-giver for Gospel

reproached the primitive Christians were by the Priests and Pharisees called a Sect of Nazarens Acts 24. 5. every where spoken against Acts the 28. 22. as at this day Protestants are by the Papists called Calvinists Zuinglians Heugonots 2dly Mr. Brown from whom this by-word was taken is Minister of Mr. Jacob's Church and so of Mr. Hildershams all Ministers of the Church of England and not of ours yet holding as we hear in his Judgment the truth we profess but for his practice in Worship rem●ineth still in Apostacy wherein they are So then not we but Mr. Jacob and Mr. Hildersham may if any be called Brownists See Francis Johnson's Answer to Mr. Jacob Intituled A Treatise of the Church of England page 2. And A Treatise of the Ministry of England in Answer to Mr. Hildersham page 94. Moreover because Doctor Stilling fleet durst not in his Conscience fight against the Cause of God these Servants of Christ maintained after the way of plain dealing therefore fighteth covertly under the Banner of other men yet of the same mind with himself and among the many Mr. Gifford another Minister of the Bishops making whom he maketh one of his chief Armor-bearers in this railing fight Dragon like with floods of reproaches against Gods Servants which keeps the Commandments of God and have in their Writings the Testimony of Jesus Rev. 12. 16. And it was not so bitter then but it would be as bad now if the earth did not by more than by an ordinary providence help the Church the Woman Rev. 12. 15. Moreover this man the Doctor as I remember maketh no less than Eight times mention of Mr. Gifford in Twelve Leaves of his Book against the forenamed Christians Now if he would have the world believe that what Mr. Gifford hath wrote against them to be as Oracles undeniable truths surely I may by the same Rule desire all men likewise to believe that to be a truth what Mr. Gifford hath wrote against the Doctors Church and Ministry and the rather to believe in the latter because who can tell better the evil of their ways than he who was a Bird in the same Cage of confusion with them Rev. 18. 2. Mr. Giffords words are these Through want and absence of a sincere Ministry there is a flood of ignorance and darkness overflowing the Land for the most part the fear of God is banished from the greatest part The wonderful heaps and piles of sin which should be washed away by the Word do undoubtedly cry aloud in the ears of the Lord for vengeance upon the whole Realm The Devil saith he is content those Preachers should ride upon his back because he is sure they will spur-gaul him but a little they be very gentle Riders Do you not think if they should set forth Gods word as they ought and spread the Light that all wicked men of which their Parishes be full would storm and fret against them The Devil himself would fisk about if they spur gaul him but a little but they can tell a smooth tail in the Pulpit garnished with some merry Story for to make the people merry or else some old rotten Allegory or some far-set matter out of some great Writer that their people might be at their wits end to admire them A man would think to see the people come out of the Church blowing that they were fed as full as ticks when they go home with empty Bellies This I dare warrant you if it be not so let me lose both my ears go through the Parishes of these Learned Divines and except such as fetch their Victuals otherwhere ye shall not find Five among Five-score able to understand the necessary grounds and principles of Religion y●a the people will say they be excellent deep men but I love not those Wells that a man can draw no Water out of them See Mr. Giffords Book Intituled Country Divinity noted by Henry Ainsworth in his Counterpoyson page 101. Thus it is to be hoped if the Doctor cannot refute this Testimony he will never hereafter speak against the forenamed Christians Testimony which in this particular said no other thing in effect concerning the Doctors Church and Ministry than Mr. Gifford did Moreover the Doctor is not satisfied to shoot his Arrows of bitter words against the Ancient Seperation but through their sides against all the Nonconformists in this day envying at their due birthrights and priviledges given them of God and man in freedom to serve the Lord as they are inlightened and if in any thing as doubtless none but cometh short in a perfect understanding in all things how they ought to walk with God the Doctors duty was then to have by the evidence of Gods written Word wherein they failed in the spirit of Love to have better informed their understandings and not as an enemy to his dissenting brethren as he calleth them to infinuate into the Magistrates minds by publishing to the world that Liberty of Concience hath occasioned the growth of Poperty in this Nation but how greatly hath the Doctors heart deceived him in this as in the former is not my judgment only that the occasion of the growth of Popery is by reason of so many corruptions retained in his Ministry and Worship in his Church as is noted in the Two Christian Warning pieces one to the King the other to the late Parliament but it is confirmed by his Right hand man and chief Armor bearer in this Battel against the Lords Servants Mr. Gifford in a Dialogue between a Papist and a Protestant in the Epistle Dedicatory word for word thus set down by Henry Ainsworth in his Counterpoyson page 19. Some do wonder how it should come to pass that among us there should be so many which being born since the Gospel was restored in this Land are so zealously addicted to Popery which they never did know and so utter enemies to the Gospel which they hear but if they weigh the cause of this deadly mischief they would cease wondering and rather wonder that there be no more For how can it be so long as there be so many abuses in the Ministry but that many shall stumble and loath the Gospel for from hence as it is manifest the chief cause of this evil doth spring True it is that our ministry doth fight against them but in such sort that it doth greatly encrease them seeming and pretending to tread upon these Cockatrice eggs for to break them and to destroy utterly the Viperous generation when as indeed they sit upon them and so hatch the brood of this evil kind and bring them forth in great plenty for behold a number cry out against Popery and proclaim utter defiance in speech but their doings are such that for every one they convert to the Gospel they cause an hundred to revolt to be hardned in their errors or to fall into flat Atheism while many contrary to the profession which they made when they entred

form order and ordinances which shall abide to the worlds end than he was of the other which consisted but of wood and stone and was to abide but for a time being but a type and shadow of the spiritual if we think so let the New Testament convince us wherein is left unto us a most exact lively and express pattern for all things concerning the ministry ordinances maintenance time and order therefore Christ is said to be faithful Heb. 3. 6. in his own house as a Son who is the head of his body the Church Col. 1. 18. of the living God the only Lord spiritual and Archbishop of their soul 1 Pet. 2. 25. If the Dr. be as may be supposed he is of the Bishops mind by imbracing an Office not once named in Christs Testament to wit a Dean by it allowing that the Orders appointed by Christ were but temporary so that Christs Offices of Pastors Teachers Elders and Deacons is not allowed by the Doctor to remain perpetual When he hath proved it he may be believed and until then Mr. Barrows testimony herein is truth and the contrary seditious And they that own any other Ministry Order or Ordinances in Gospel-worship than Christ hath appointed is intollerable to the utter subversion of all good orders in Christs Church and precurer of the Judgments to come on that Land Now if the Doctor will not believe this to be a truth though a truth proved by Scripture because those he calleth Brownists declare it I hope he will believe it if some of the Ministers of his own Church saith it in the Admonition to the Parliament in the Thirteenth year of Queen Elizabeths Reign they in opposition to the Ministry of Arch and Lord Bishops declare in the Epistle Either we must have a right Matt 9. 37 Eph. 4. 11 12 Ministry of God a right Government of his Church Matt. 18. 15 16 17. according to the Scriptures both which we lack or else there can be no right Religion nor yet from the contempt thereof can Gods Plagues be from us any while deferred And further they say in Page 2. We allow and like well of Popish Mass-mongers men for all seasons King Henries Priests Queen Maries Priests who of a truth if Gods Word were precisely kept should from the same be utterly removed Now to leave this to the Doctors consideration I shall in the next place better inform the Doctor what end Mr. Barrow made that so the Doctor may be ashamed to own his false report in his Book I find in a book Printed a little after Mr. Barrows death in the year 1593 Intituled Henry Barrow's Platform by reason of some things Mr. Barrow had Written was after his death Printed In which the Publisher declareth in these words A Gentleman of a good House told me that Queen Elizabeth asked the Learned Doctor Raynols what he then thought of those Two men Henry Barrow and John Greenwood he answered her Majesty that it could not avail any thing to shew his judgment concerning them seeing they were put to death and being loath to speak his mind further Her Majesty charged him upon his Allegiance to speak whereupon he answered that he was perswaded if they had lived they would have been Two as worthy Instruments for the Church of God as hath been raised up in this Age. Her Majesty sighed and said no more But after that she riding to a Park near the place where they suffered death called again to mind their suffering of death and being willing to take farther information concerning them demanded of the Earl of Cumberland who was present when they suffered What end they made He answered A very godly end and prayed for your Majesty the State moreover saith the same Author Mr. Philips a preacher famous both seeing and hearing Mr. Barrow his holy speeches and preparations for death said Barrow Barrow my soul be with thine By all which it appeareth that this report which the Doctor hath taken out of Mr. Cotton's book printed above 40. years after their death and then but that Mr. Cotten should say Mr. Dod told him so is very false and the rather to be believed it was false because Mr. Cotten though he went into New England yet could never forsake the order of his ministry received from the Bishops nor yet glorying in their vain School titles as in the title of his book afore noted he stileth himself John Cotten Batchellor in Divinity These fleshly titles Paul was ashamed of and accounted them but dung though he had as many to glory in as any man Phil. 3. all which Mr. Barrow reproved which Mr. Cotten did not like therefore could report a hearsay against Mr. Barrow though no more dishonour to Mr. Barrow nor the cause he dyed for than it was to the prophet Jeremiah Jer. 20. and the cause he suffered for both for the good old way of the Lord under the Law the other under the Gospel-worship In the next place the Doctor is pleased to publish against Mr. Penry That Mr. Hildersham should tell Mr. Cotten both ministers of the bishops order that Mr. Penry should say a little before his death That he had deserved death at the Queens hands for that he had seduced many of her loyal subjects to a separation from hearing the word of life in the Parish Churches which though himself had learned to discern the evil of yet could he never recover divers of her Majesties subjects whom he had seduced To which I answer as the wise man saith Prov. 18. 17. He that is first in his own Cause seemeth just but his neighbour cometh and searcheth him Now by search I find that report cannot in the least measure be true First being but the report of his enemy and why his enemy but as the Apostle was to some in the Church of Galatia for telling them the truth Gal. 4. 16. 1 King 22. 8. Mr. Penry as well as Mr. Barrow testified against Mr. Hildersham's ministry which testimony I shall easily prove he maintained to his death as appeareth by the consession of his faith his Letter to the Church at London he was a member of 3. His Letter to his Wife all written near that time of his death In his Confession he thus declareth himself I detest against the Pope his triple crown his usurped jurisdiction of either of both swords I detest the limbs of that body their spiritual power as Cardinals Archbishops Lord Bishops Suffragans Abbots Friers Deans this word Dean may vex the Dr. Arch deacons Commissaries Officials Monks Canons Pr●bends Priests Besides this testimony which is sufficient to prove the report false Mr. Hildersham raised against Mr. Penry let me here add what Mr. Penry wrote to the Church at London whereof he was a member in these words Beloved let us think our lot and portion more than happy or blessed that now we are vouchsafed the favour not only to know and profess but also to suffer for

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

their second admonition to the Parliament page 40. in the 13th year of Queen Elizabeths Reign in the year 1570. who have thus written We are so scarce come to the outward face of a Church rightly reformed that although some truths be taught by some Preachers yet no Preachers may without danger of the Laws utter all the Truths comprised in the Book of God it is so circumvented and wrapt within the compass of such Statutes such Penalties such Advertisements such Articles such Canons such sober Caveats and such manifold Pamphlets that in a manner if it doth bat peep out behind the skreen the Laws of the Land the Book of Common-prayer the Commissioners Advertisements the Bishops Canons Linwood's Provincials every Bishops Articles in his Diocess my Lord of Canterbury ' s sober Caveats his Licenses to Preachers his high Court of Prerogatives or grave fatherly faculties these together or the worst of them as some of them be too bad may not be broken or offended against but with more danger than to offend against the Bible To these subscribing and subscribing again and the third time subscribing are required for these Preachers and others are indicted are fined are imprisoned are excommunicated are banished or have some worse things threatned them and the Bible that must have no further scope than by these it is assigned Is this to profess Gods Word Is this Reformation Thus was fulfilled what was written under the names of Four evil Angels who should hinder the winds of Gods Spirit so much as in them lay that the true Preaching of the Gospel-should not blow upon any Tree Mat. 3. 10. Luk. 6. 43 44 45. contrary to Cant. 4. 16. yet as the Word of God cannot be bound Isa 55. 11. there still was by the breathing thereof John 3. 8. a remnant of sanctified ones Trees of righteousness who lived and reigned with Christ by faith over Sin the World and the Devil all the time of the beasts reign Rev. 20. 4. Therefore what an evil hath the Doctor done in desaming such that desired to walk with Christ in his Commands in worship and refused only the inventions of men therein If he hath done this in blind zeal in ignorance as did Saul If with him he belong to Gods election Rom. 11 7. there may be hopes that as God did change Saul's heart from the symptoms of the Letters in his name which signified mortal so persecuted he the Saints to death Acts 7. 58. and 9. 1 2. Likewise Pontius Pilate the first part of his name signified cruel or inhumane the other part Pilate signifying a man Armed with a Roman Dart so was his nature Christ suffering under the Roman power was killed by the Dart of Pilates sentence he being Judge So likewise the drawn Swords of bitter words Psal 55. 2. against Mr. Barrow and others then Prisoners in the Fleet is the first part of the Doctor 's name through whose sides the Doctor still shooteth them against all the Nonconformists to the end he might have them Still-in-fleet the natural sense of almost every letter of his name which suiteth with the fruits of his nature until God giveth him a heart of true repentance 2 Tim. 2. 25 26. that so he no longer halt between two opinions holding the Popish office of a Dean and so fight against all true Protestants that shall bear their testimony against it and all such like Titles with mens Traditions in Protestant Churches and on the other hand would seem to fight against the Papists Surely this man is no Caleb nor Joshua in following the Lord fully but like the man in the Gospel that desireth to know what he should do to inherit eternal life yet can go no further than he can keep his revenues of great possessions Now if Balaam cold not cozen the Lord to prevail by his Altar and Sacrifices against Gods people no more shall the Doctor with all his bowing as some of his Clergy have been said to have done and so think thereby to prevail against the Lords people no sure Now who may without partiality be accounted the most truest Protestants but those that walk with Christ the most nearest to the Rules of his Gospel And is it not for so doing that these Christians aforenamed are hated by the Doctor I 'll leave the prudent to judge and the Doctor to shew the contrary if he can And wherefore are the Judgments of God threatned against this Protestant Nation but for the persecuting and so make a prey of those that depart from iniquity and bearing their testimony against all mans inventions in worship as was signified in a Warning-piece to the King last April 1680 and another to the late Parliament both to be had where this is sold published by the same Author Moreover is this a day for the Doctor to give incouragement to the Magistrate to persecute their loyal Subjects for matters of Religion No sure he should have looked to the state of his flock and see how it is commingled with all sorts of people as Mr. Gifford aforesaid hath testified when as God hath shew'd his Ministers that their Work was to put a difference between the holy and prophane the clean and the unclean and for the neglect thereof they were charged with violating Gods Law Ezek. 22. 26. unless the Doctor think there is no unclean visible wicked liver in his Parish Again saith the Lord to the Prophet Jeremiah If thou take the precious from the vile thou shalt be as my mouth let them return to thee but return not thou to them Jer. 15 19. Even so under the Gospel are the godly forbidden to partake with other mens sins 1 Tim. 2. 22. because in speritual Communion a little Leaven leaveneth the whole lump 1 Cor. 5. 6. Gal. 5 9. Numb 19. 22. So one sinner suffered unpunished not only destroyeth much good Prov. 8. 9. but bringeth that City or Church into a snare Eccles 9. 18. As Joshuah said to Israel If ye rebel the Lord will be wrath with the whole congregation Joshua 22. 18. What need then have all that have taken charge of the Souls of a Flock or People that if they neglect to put Gods Order Mat. 18. 1 Cor. 5. Lev. 19. 19. in practice to punish by the Church censures all obstinate sinners God will not only requite it at their hands Ezekiel 3. 17. 18. and 33. 7 Heb. 13. 17. Act. 30. but for the neglect hereof he will renounce that Churches Candlestick Rev. 2. 5. so fight against them v. 16. and cast them into a bed of great tribulation Job 33. 19 Rev 2. 2. and spue them utterly from him so that the remnant of Gods marked sealed ones known to be such by their departing from iniquity shall walk with Christ in white for they are worthy Rev. 3. 4. 2 Tim. 2. 19. Ezek. 9. 4. Rev. 7. 3. when the other that will not be admonished the Lord saith to them I have left my heritage