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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54917	Nil novi This years fruit, from the last years root. The souldiers posture, to the right, to the left, faces about, as yee were. The royall maxime, no bishop, no king. The first-fruits of new prelats, amounting to as much as the tythes of old bishops. All summed up in an impartial relation of the partial proceedings, and uprighteous rumors raised against Henry Pinnel, concerning his endeavouring to get a parsonage. Occasioning a sudden glance upon the true resurrection, present perfection, and perfect obedience. Written in a letter to a friend.	Pinnell, Henry.	1654 (1654)	Wing P2278A; ESTC R221490	41,685	60

Doth not God grant to will and then to do Which in believers all good works destroy While it their fancy filleth with this toy Faith alone saveth do but this believe Do not thy self with further trouble grieve Which call the called to security Saying None such though they may step awry Can finally or totally relapse With such soft pillows some men get long naps Which say What hurt doth sin Christ for't was kill'd What need obedience he hath all fulfill'd Which Satans kingdom stronger make then Christ For not till death his kingdom is dismist Thus death a passive stronger is then life Then Christ himself to end this ghostly strife Go on with this thy Christ drink rant and whore He is the purs-bearer and payes the score He is thy Porter all thy burdens bears But all without thee nought within repairs c. See these verses and the rest of them before the examination of the Assembly of Divines Faith written by Master Parker and read that unanswered I had like to say unanswerable book 7. Lastly he that denyes full and compleat obedience in this life smels too ranke of Popery and may be suspected to be of a Jesuitical judgement which Master Goffe would be unwilling to own or be charged with while he seems to insinuate a Purgatory hereafter to purifie us from those sins from which we have not been purged here If we dy imperfect we cannot rise perfect as the tree falls so it lyeth Or can the common death of the elemental body take away the relicks of sin which were unmortified in the life then we need not make such hast to repent amend in our life time but put it off till death and so save a labor and do all our work at once in the mean time eat drink and be merry if death do away sin who will rise guilty what wicked man will not be clean and good enough to enter into the holy City no dogs sorcerers lyer c. shall be kept out Soft pillows for the elbows Who would part with such bedds of Down Obedience was required of Christ in the volume of the book it was written Psal 40.7 it was learned and performed by him Heb. 5.8 Joh. 5.30 Phil. 2.8 and recompensed to him vers 9. the height of his obedi●nce was on the cross let us be his disciples and Luk. 9.23 let us take up his Baptism indeed and in truth and be planted into his likeness Rom. 6.3 5 8 c. read the chapter If we be willing and love not our lives unto the death we shall eat the good of the land and be free from the curse of the earth Isa 1.19 Rom. 6.7 Rev. 12.11 The Lord worketh as some say Lammagnanehu for the humble or obedient Prov. 16.4 He that is blind and cannot see the salvations of God the cross will cure his eye-sight vinegar and gall will make a good Collyrium or medicine for the eyes the mystery of Christs sharp and bitter passion is the history of our sweet and pleasant possession buy this eye-salve Rev. 3.18 it will do as much good as that of Tobit to his fathers eyes Tob. 11.11 Luk. 19.4 Zacheus could not see Jesus till he climed into the Sycomore-tree that is the tree of a foolish fig or fruit signifying the cross of Christ which to the Jew that hath too much false righteousness is a stumbling-block and to the Gentile 1 Cor. 1.23 that hath too much fleshly wisdom is foolishness The garment wherewith the Divinity of Christ is clothed and covered is his humanity the hem or lowest part thereof is his humiliation unto the death of the cross by this the bloody issue of our diseased and corrupt nature is stopt and cured Mat. 9.20 14.36 1 Joh. 1.7 the blood of Christ cleanseth us from all sin There be too many that slight the inward cross of Christ as an Allegorical and Seraphical doctrine looking upon it as foolishness being not able to indure sound doctrine that which is spiritualized and brought home and close to the conscience because it layes the ax to the root of the tree and makes the yong man sorrowful Mat. 3.10 19.22 but know you that there is no clear fight of Christ but from the cross Blessed be the death and cross of Christ by which the world Gal. 6.14 and all that is of the world may be crucifyed unto us and we unto it and thanks be unto God who giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ therefore honored Sir be you stedfast unmoveable always abounding in the work of the Lord 1 Cor. 15.57 58. forasmuch as you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord. Farwell Yours in and for the Lord HEN. PINNELL Brinkworth July 18. 1654. Postscript SIR I Could gladly make a retractation of what I have written not that I am conscious of overlashing with my pen or overcharging any person but because the occasion hath put me into an habit too Martial and made me appear more Polemical then I desire Jer. 15.10 Wo is me that my mother hath born me a man of strife and of contention I was content to lie like the flint with my fire within my self but the steely tongues of men tipt with unrighteous censures and hard speeches against me have knock't and forc'd the fire abroad If any sparke catch and kindle to a flame to enlighten some and burn others let those bless God and these thank themselves My purpose hath been for many moneths and some yeers past to have undertaken a task of another nature and as much useful but my unsetled condition hath let in so many interruptions and avocations upon me that I am discouraged to begin it I pity wy generation and would fain be serviceable to it I have now lived so many yeers as to learn to measure my life by dayes that little if there be yet any of my time to come bids me not be idle and that little leasure I have in my short and maintain time tells me I cannot do much The people in four places though I am neither Parson Vicar nor Curate have some expectation of me but my bodily infirmities get so much ground of me that I think sometimes I shall have enough to do to look to my self Whatsoever clamors hereafter arise I mean not to quell with my pen but practice I bless God I have a conscience and conversation inreadiness to answer all gain-sayers I resolve by Gods help to clime and creep further into the inward hidden and secret world the glimpse I have of it sets me all on fire Let me not go alone afford me your company and perswade as many as you can to go along with us Faustum iter foelix det bonus ille Deus The God of Truth guide us and then ●e shall no● err even so Amen FINIS

which accuse me of no such thing and had they not been so Encomiastick and abounded with respects they might have seen the light In brief tell the Justice from me that he that shall go about to defraud and cheat another of his estate is one that yet lies dead in deceit and covetousness and practically denies the Resurrection The other Comrade is Master Goffe whom you heard report it 'T is no matter who invented it the Proverb is fulfilled Like priest Jer. 20.10 like people report and we will report it is no new thing If the Parson hath his Bible about him ask what is written and how he readeth Psal 15.3 desire him to turn to Col. 3.1.5 If he be risen with Christ how is it that his locorish and leacherous tooth remains yet in his head that he must needs force an unwilling people to fulfill his unclean desire that which is bred in the bone will hardly out of the flesh there 's no cure for him but death advise him to the cross perswade him to mortifie his covetousness after earthly things which is idolatry and minde heavenly things more else he will be censured for more then a verbal Sadduce and taken for one who in deed more then in word denyes the resurrection Let his life prove his faith 'T is nothing now there be so many good books abroad to borrow a Sermon or read ones notes to the people 'T is good to preach out of the Pulpit Bene loqui male vivere nihil aluid est quam suâ se voce damnare What I have here spoken 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Prosp cuttingly is to make him more sound in faith and practice Tit. 1.13 You are vehemently suspected Ob. 5. and it is secretly whispered that you are tainted and toucht a little with Master John Goodwins opinion Master Goodwin is able to answer for himself Sol. I need not plead for him nor am I ashamed to be named with him What mistakes he being but a man is subject unto I enquire not after he is no Pope to me nullius addictus inrare in verba I pin my faith upon no mans sleeve I fear those that dislike his doctrine do also disdaine his practice he that shall convince him of error and out-strip or but equal him in manners erit mihi magnus Apollo he shall be my Oracle I wish his Doctrine and life were better understood and imitated There is a great noise and stir now a dayes about judgement and opinions not but that there are many foolish and fantastical opinions abroad but little care is taken about reformation of life He that considers how difficult it hath been not to say still is to remove an adulterous drunken swearing idle lewd scandalous Parson and how easie it is to keep out a meerly supposed heretick never yet convicted of error will hardly be perswaded that the Saturnine region of the golden age is hard by in the Platonick revolution Were Colonel Goffe for one truly zealous for that he pretends viz. pure doctrine and a holy life were it not as easie for him to have his Spies and Setters for vitious Parsons as well as for great parsonages but the plot is plain he danceth in a net and yet thinks that no man can see that his design is not so much to oppose error and evil in any man as to create favorites and gratifie them with the fat benefices of the land as in this particular case if I will be quiet and let his Chaplain alone I may have what freedom I please in private to seduce men and sow any dangerous opinions among them there Whereas if I be not thought sit to exercise my Ministry in publike by reason of any error or vice in doctrine or manners I ought not to be tolerated in private and if Colonel Goffe c. are true to their principles or rather have any true principle in them they would convene me before some grave assembly and deal with me as an heretick if I so appear if they do not so I pronounce and proclaime them vain talkers abominable hypocrites and base dissemblers with God and men I flye not as guilty I stand my ground they may know where to finde me I seek no corners where I have been once I dare go again I live in my country where I am and have been known for as honest a man as any that shall asperse me But the truth is the main drift of these super-Seraphical men is to promote their minions and monopolize all places of profit while they make others bear the odium of desiring them Audacter calumniare c. is a threed-bare maxime of Machiavel what any knave dare to invent every fool is ready to believe Thus the Monkes and Fryers in Italy cry out against the Hugonites in France that they were not men but some strange kinde of Monsters with heads like asses snouts like swine c. the credulous popularity are possest with the perswasions of their priests and cry out Fie on them fie upon them c. the first and greatest faults were found with their heads their notions and opinions were monstrous they did not say they had splay feet bow leggs their conversation could not be blamed Many speak evil of the things they know not 2 Pet. 2.12 they must be ashamed and silenced by a good conversation in Christ 1 Pet. 3.16 Origen saith that of all torments to the damned spirits none is like to a devout and diligent reading of the Scripture and Solomon tells us that none torture the wicked like the righteous man with his conversation therefore the wicked lieth in wait for him because he is not for his turn Wisd 2.11 12 13 14 15 16 17 c. he is clean contrary to him he was made to ●eprove his thoughts he is grievous even to behold his life is not like other mens his wayes are of another fashion c. read the second chapter of Wisd though it be Apocrypha If men can swim with the stream as 't is hard swimming against it and make it an Article of their faith that Regis ad exemplum totus componitur orbis A State-Religion still hath been the size Who Non-conformes is thought to be unwise Such a one is filius alba gallinae a rising man of the times but to speak against the vice and baseness of a Prelate or potent man heretofore was alike dangerous Jer. 18.18 Amos 7.12 13. he that presseth holiness further then the extent of mens formality shall be smitten with the tongne and have devices devised against him as one too notional whimsical Seraphical an Arminian Ranter denying the Resurrection what not Let him be banished from Bethel and sent into the land of Judah A greed let it be so Bethel is the house of God in the literal ministration where Jeroboam the sighter against the people that resisteth their spiritual and pure obedience to God hath set up his