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A67317	A Christian warning-piece for all true Protestants by way of Christian counsel and advice to the King's most excellent Majesty, and all his good Protestant subjects, founded forth out of the written word of God : wherein is clearly shewed ... / by Thomas Wall.	Wall, Thomas.	1680 (1680)	Wing W476; ESTC R34705	36,250	36

of all yet none can believe and obey but the Elect whom God giveth † 2 Tim. 2. 25. Repentance to and to them only the Word is the savour of Life unto them that are saved by Faith in Christ Jesus Yet the Preacher knowing not who are the Elect doth apply the Word as generally calling all Persons to believe and obey in his Message As saith the Lord to Paul when he sent him to Corinth I have much People in this City So Act. 18. 10. John 10. 20. not all for they could not all believe because they were not all Christ's Sheep as it is written All Men have not Faith 2 Thess 3. 2. For these and the like errors in Faith and corruption in Worship which were too tedious here to refute about the state of Infant-Baptism and the Seventh-day Sabbath of the gross mistake in them that deny the one and keep the other largely handled by me not long since printed in a Book intituled Ancient Truth Revived Wherein is also in 22 Articles every true Protestant's Faith inserted the State of a true Church and how every Ordinance and by whom and in what Order they were performed in the Primitive Churches containing six Sheets of Paper unto which I refer the Reader is one cause why God hath not before this destroyed the false Ecclesiastical power of the Romish Babylon because as the Sins of God's People of old were the cause why old Babylon was not sooner destroyed even so is it See and read Jer. 25. now That as then God did first give his own People a Cup to drink and then Shishack did drink after them So Judgment must first begin at the House * 1 Pet. 4. 17. of God unless there be a speedy Repentance Else surely the time is come as that Servant of God Mr. Beal hath noted on Rev. 20. in his Book called The Image of both Churches That when the 1000 Years of the Beast's Raign was expired Satan the common Adversary of Man shall be loosed out of his dark Prison and set at large by the sufferance of God Mans wickedness deserving no other strongly deluding the Unbelievers for their unbelief-sake to deceive the Universal People of the World through the operation of Errors He shall cause them to give credance to Lyes that they may be damned for refusing the Truth So that the abomination of Desolation shall be set up in the holy Place meaning in the Heart where Christ by faith should dwell to the utter destruction of Faith Which People of him thus deluded is called in a mystery Gog and Magog that is as much as to say Covered and Off-covered For both the grand Captains of them depending doth these two words comprehend the one covering the Devil with many false Religions meaning Loe here is Christ and loe there is Christ the other in his sort following the same wicked consent these two Tyrants the Romish Pope and Mahomet with the whole generation of like Spirits with them mark that have gathered themselves together against God and his Christ to destroy the whole face of Christianity Now the woful experience of the beginning of these things is seen among us so that our Condition looketh too like the state of the Jews When Titus Vespasian the Roman Emperor came and besieged Jerusalem the Jews by reason of their many Errors were divided into sundry * Mark 12. 13 18. Sects and their dividing in Faith divided them in Heart that they destroyed one another So the words of Christ were fulfilled on them that despised his Counsel as it is written Every Kingdom divided against it self is brought to desolation Mat. 12. 25. How then doth it behove all Protestants to be by Christ's Words warned with speed to examine whether they be in the Faith of God's Elect * Tit. 1. 1. Heb. 11. and worship God by Christ's † Rev. 14. directions only that there be no dividing in Judgment and so not in Heart considering what * In his Book called the Card and Compass of Life presented to Prince Charles the first one hath noted That the Jews affirm the first Blood split in the World was by reason of the differences in Judgment among Brethren for so all that bear the name of Protestants ought to be in these words Cain was so possessed with Covetousness that he believed there was no Life after this But Abel believed there was after this Life a reward for the Good and punishment for the VVicked in which Contention Cain slew Abel So that Cain was of the Wicked one For to Persecute Imprison or kill any one for Conscience sake is a work † 1 John 3. 12. Rev. 2. 10. of the Devil and a Wo is pronounced against them As it is written Wo to them that follow the way of * Jude ver 11. Cain they shall perish So that Protestants may be ashamed to own that evil Spirit to force Men to believe when it is written That it is God shall † Gen. 9. 27. perswade Japhat to dwell in the Tents of Shem. Therefore to force Men to believe or practise in things Divine before God giveth them Faith is but to make a Church of Hypocrites whose Sacrifice is * Prov. 15. 8. Abomination to the Lord as their Father Cain's was Now if any Protestant should be offended like * Amos chap 7. Amaziah the Priest of Bethel with this Christian Warning-piece as he was with the Prophet Amos's Warning to King Jeroboam and his People and say The Land cannot bear these words against the Inventions of Men in the Worship of God charge me as Amaziah did Amos the Prophet with Conspiracy against the King when but for declaring the only means then from the immediate Mouth of the Lord to preserve the King and the Nation as this is from the mediate written Word of God to preserve our King and the Nations from the Judgments threatned I say if we like them will regard no Christan Counsel all Scripture being written for our Admonition then in all likelihood the Judgments threatned on them will fall upon us that God will darken * Amos chap. 8. the Earth in a clear day by sending a Famine in the Land not of Bread nor thirst for Water but of hearing the Words of the Lord. For by reason of so many false Teachers in Judah their Silver became † Isa 1 22. dross their Wine was mixt with Water and they were fed with * Jer. 23. 28. Chaff instead of Wheat As is now seen by woful experience whilst God's Word is not truly Taught but corrupted with Errors under the colour of Christianity with Lo here is Christ and lo there as they said of old The Temple of the ‖ Jer. 7. 4. Lord the Temple of the Lord are these Nevertheless they were told Thy Prophets † Lam. 2. 14. have seen vain and foolish things for thee for they have not

with the Covenants whereby they were bound unto their People The Laws of this Land are so full this way as no Man conversant in them can be ignorant that our Princes have preferr'd the observing of those equal Covenants whereby they are tied unto their People before the accomplishing of their own private Affections yea and Commandments in some Cases Hence it is that the Judges of this Land are bound by Law to administer Justice and Equity unto the poor Subjects notwithstanding that the Prince's Letter be directed to them to the contrary And as to the Law of God all Kings and Princes are bound thereby to be so far from thinking themselves tied by no Bonds unto their Subjects as they are plainly forbidden to be lifted up in Mind above their Brethren Deut. 17. 20. For so the word in that place calleth their Subjects and Servants The Kings of Judah who had the greatest Priviledges and Prerogatives both Ecclesiastical and Civil over their People that ever any Kings or Princes can have because they were Types and Figures of that Great King of Kings the Lord Jesus yet entred into Covenant notwithstanding with their People even particularly besides the general former Law whereby they were bound unto them Yea the Prophet Jeremiah being in no less danger and disgrace with all Estates than I and my Brethren are at this present required his Soveraign Lord and King Zedekiah to promise that he would do him no Violence nor Wrong nor yet suffer others to do the same for telling him the truth of the Word in the things wherein the King required to be resolved at his hands The which thing Zedekiah yielded unto and that by an Oath and Covenant of the Lord Jer. 38. 15 16. Whereby it appeareth that it is not without great Warrant of the Lord that Princes should enter into Covenant with their Subjects and that Subjects should require Promise and Oath to be kept with them otherwise Whereto serveth the Covenant But alas I enter not to scan her Majesties Oath I only tell you what her Laws allow me and my poor Brethren and I am assured if her Majesty knew the equity and uprightness of our Cause we should not receive this hard measure which we now sustain seeing we and our Cause are never brought before her but in the odious weeds of Sedition Rebellion Schism Heresie c. therefore it is no marvel to see the edge of her Sword turned against us Quest 3. Hath not her Majesty by her Laws established these Offices and this Order that now is in the Church of England Answ Her Laws have I grant of oversight as taking them for the right Offices and Order which appertain unto the Church of Christ which because we evidently see that they are not therefore flie we unto her former Promise and Act whereby she granteth us the enjoying of all the Priviledges of the Church of God In the next place There be other Protestants that have come yet farther out of the Romish Babylon in disclaiming the service-Service-Book Surplice Organs Cross in Baptism Priests Garments and the like because they were Popish Yet it is to be admired why such cannot as well disclaim the Order of the Ministry received from the Bishops as the Bishops received it from the Pope one Minister ordaining another without the Congregations knowledg where they are to take Charge and likewise pay and receive Tithes for their Ministers Maintenance which Pope Pascalis 827 Years after Christ * Qu. 19. cap. 1. Decimus a populo first ordained for his Priests These Protestants cannot think to escape the Judgments of God who † 2 Cor. 6. 17. Rev. 18. 4. touch the unclean things forbidden and are not fully come out of Babylon as Judah our Figure was who sent away all Babylon's filthiness ‖ Ezra 6. 2. Zech. 5. 8 9 11. with the Wings of a Stork into the Land of Shiner or Babylon where they were hatched as afore-shewed Moreover There are other Protestants who though they have forsaken the Ministry Service and all the fore-named Romish Inventions yet they retaining the Romish Errors of Free-will falling from true Grace general Redemption and denying that glorious Doctrine of Election cannot think to escape the Judgments of God because Error in Faith is so heinous in the sight of the Lord being likened to Leaven * Mat. 16. 6 12. 1 Cor. 5. Darkness † Luke 11. 34. 35. and Poyson ‖ Deut. 32. 3. that God threatned the Church of Pergamos to fight against them for not punishing them by Excommunication that maintained the Error or Doctrine * Rev. 2. 14 16. of Balaam and the Church at Thyatira for suffering the Women Jesebel to teach † Ver. 20. and to deceive them All which came on the Churches afore-shewed in Pag. 13. also Junius on Rev. 2. 10. Again There are other Protestants that are not guilty of the fore-named Errors yet for other sins of disorder in making * Gen. 6. 4. Ex. 34 16. 1 Cor. 7. 39. Marriages with them they cannot joyn with in the Ordinances of Worship and their walking in the shame of Nature long Hair † 1 Cor. 11. 14. and Perriwigs which Evils as well as other sinful Conversations not in God's Order punished the whole Church becomes ‖ 1 Tim. 5. 22. Ps 26. 5 6. Pro. 11. 21. Josh 22. guilty of one anothers Sins As saith the Law Whatsoever the unclean Person toucheth shall be unclean and the Person that toucheth him shall be unclean Numb 19. 22. Again There are others that would be called they know not what who refuse the use of God's Ordinances in Worship to wit Baptism of Water and the Lord's Supper and suffer their Females * 1 Cor. 14. 34 35. Jesebel like to teach their Imaginations For no Person can teach any other thing concerning God or Christ in the work of Man's Redemption to Salvation that own not the written Scripture as the † John 5. 39. Gal. 6. 16. 1 Kings 8. 25. with 2 Chron. 6. 16. Ground of Faith and the Rule to try all Doctrine and Worship by who as it is said do deny the Resurrection of the Body Unto such the Apostle hath said If the Body rise not then is not Christ risen and so to them All Preaching is vain and they are yet in their Sins ‖ 1 Cor. 15. 14 17. and of all Men most miserable Another great mistake is among many Protestants in understanding the Prophecies and Mysteries in the Prophets literally concerning the Spiritual Glory of the Church under the Gospel or Christ's Reign with the Saints on Earth I would fain have these Protestants first to remember that Christ's Kingdom * John 18. 36. is not of this World neither the Warfare nor Weapons † 2 Cor. 10. 4. Carnal and in all things exemplary to the Church under the Gospel we are exhorted to behold Israel ‖ 1 Cor. 10. 18. our Figure