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A67045	A word in season: or, A discourse of the three estates to wit, the truly civil, truly spiritual, and false ecclesiastical estate: shewing, that this last, or third estate, is a remainder of popery, and ought to be taken away. Presented to the King and Queen's most excellent Majesty, together with the right honourable the Lords and Commons assembled at Westminster.		1689 (1689)	Wing W3547A; ESTC R220041	9,613	16

Inheritances between Brethren so that when there arose Strife among his Apostles which of them should be accounted the Greatest Christ the Lord reproved them and said unto them the Kings of the Gentiles exercise Lordship over them and they that exercise Authority upon them are called Benefactors but ye shall not be so That is to take on you the Title of Politick Princes neither to be Lords Spiritual in nor over Churches Thus we may clearly see why the Lord divided his Law into Two Tables because the One appertaineth to the Spiritual State in those things which belong to the Kingdom of Christ in his Worship and Government and the Other is as a perfect Rule to all Civil States Government teaching all thereby that the Civil and Spiritual States neither in their Offices nor Administration may be join'd together in One Person so that the Offices being so different they may not meddle with the Work in Government that belongeth to the Other because it is forbidden not only by Gods Word but also it is against the very light of Nature as the Philosopher saith It cannot stand with the Actions of these Two Offices namely the Civil and Spiritual so different the One from the Other that one Man should perform both Works together but must needs fall out when both Duties are to be done the one would be omitted so either God is not duely Serv'd or the Civil State must suffer Damage Seeing then that these are the Two States ordain'd of God and that they may not be mixt together without the breach of Gods Order How cometh it to pass that there is a Third State in the Nations never Ordain'd of God nor found to be approv'd of God by his Word which is a State partly Civil and partly Spiritual under the Tides of Arch Bishop Lord-Bishop who fit in the Civil States Privy Councils and in their great Council of Parliaments and also they sit as Lords Spiritual in and over many Churches or Congregations Now from whence took this State its Original or Beginning who sit as Law-Makers in the Civil States Councils and also do sit as Law-Makers in Worship to God in their Ecclesiastical Assemblies surely this is a Monster of a State partly Civil and partly Spiritual yet neither really Civil nor Spiritual but a counterfeit compound of both first brought forth in its infancy among the old Heathenish Egyptians who would have their Priest Princes and the Scripture is witness to it as it is written Priest of On Prince of On Gen. 41.45 so when the Church of God at Rome fell into deep Apostacy from Christ soon after she was deliver'd from the cruel rage of the Heathen Roman Emperors Constantine the Emperor being converted to the Faith under whom great comfort and peace was injoyed by the Church of God so that then the Bishops were Bishops of particular Congregations as their name signify'd so was their charge an Overseer to so many as could meet in one place and communicate together in partaking of the Ordinances of the Gospel but in a short time about the middle of the fourth Century Bishops of particular Congregations were not contented to be an Overseer to One no nor to Two nor Three Cities but Diotrephes-like strove to have the Preeminence over all the Congregations which at last was obtained by Sylvester the first Pope and hereupon saith John There arose another Beast out of the Earth having two horns like a Lamb So as Horns signifyeth Power so this beastly third State the Pope the head of the Clergy of his own making was proclaim'd as Writers say for a Vice God the Invincible Monarch of the Common-Wealth and vehement Conserver of the Popish Omni-potency So that although by his two Horns like a Lamb he pretended Power from Christ he began to speak like a Dragon against the sealed number of Gods Elect which departed from the iniquity of his invention in Worship and Ministry and so refused to receive this Beasts mark in their right hand or forehead that is privately or publickly to submit to his decrees in Worship so that the Beasts decree was so hot against the Godly as by the like High Commission Court in England of the same Authority some time past that no man might buy or sell save he that had the mark of this beastly Clergy or the name of the Beast or the number of his name now what is the Beasts name or marke but his Law Decrees and Orders he commanded to be obey'd in Worship for so the name of Christ is his Law Power that all his People are commanded by their Obedience to set their seal that Christ is the True God and the only Law-giver in Worship so that hereupon we read that the Dragon was wroth with the Woman and went to make War with the remnant of her Seed which keep the Commandments of God in worship and have the Testimony of Jesus yea so enraged was one of the Limbs of this beastly Clergy as he raileth against the Laws and Ordinances of Christ in his Testament which Christ hath commanded to be observed in the Worship of God to the Worlds end namely T. C. the then esteemed Bishop of Winchester in his answer to Martin Marprelate saith That the Orders and Ordinances Christ hath in his Testament left to his Church were but temporary while the Church was under heathen Tyrants and where the Gospel is embraced by a Christian Prince they are not only not necessary but inconvenient yea intolerable as bringing in the subversion of the Land raising up tumults and uproars and withdrawing the People from obedience to their Magistrates by this we see how this beastly Clergy inveigheth against Christs holy Orders and Ordinances in Worship and do not the same Clergy in this our day by their actions speak the same words so long as the service-Service-Book taken out of the Popes mass-Mass-Book is obeyed and the Holy Orders and Commands the Primitive Christians obey'd in the Worship of God is not suffered to be practis'd in Protestant Churches according to Christs Testament so that as the Civil State hath their Books Statutes and Records Esther 6.1 Charters together with the Second Table of the Moral Law to instate themselves in their Civil Rights and Privelidges under their Supream Head and Governour The true Ecclesiastical State have Laws and Statutes contain'd in the Old and New Testament to be observed under the Government of Christ their Supream Head in these the Charter of the Rights and Priviledges of the Citizens in the New Jerusalem are found The false Eclesiastical State under their head the Pope Apollion that Destroyer together with their Arch and Lord Bishops they have Books of Cannons and Articles Book of Ordination Book of Homiles and Book of Common-Prayers so that the Citrizens under this State are strictly commanded to keep and observe them so that as one of their Clergy complain'd in their second Admonition to the Parliament in Queen Elizabeth's time no

in this day of so great Deliverance already begun that God would be pleas'd to put into the hearts of the Supream Power in this Nation to make the People Free Freeing them from the Yoke of Spiritual Bondage that we may see in this our day that word fulfill'd that Kings shall be Nursing Fathers as was King Jehosaphat King Ezekiah and that young King Josiah and in so doing will bring their Glory and Honour to Christ in his Church which is Christs Mystical Body who hath the Sun for her Cloathing the Moon for her Footstool and the Twelve Stars for a Crown upon her She having by Faith and Holiness put on Christ the Son of Righteousness that is risen unto her as she hath learnt him of his Apostles so is she hereby advanced to heavenly Dignity her Conversation being in Heaven She loveth no more this world of which her self is not but Travelleth with pains of Child-Birth that Christ may be form'd in his Elect calling them out of Babylon this false Ecclesiastical State of Egyptian Darkness into his Marvellous Light to shew forth the Praises of the Lord in Sion where the Lord God is a Sun and Shield the Lord will give Grace and Glory and no good thing will he withold from them that walk Vprightly Therefore Oh that all would lay to heart these things and examine themselves whether they are in the Broad Way that leadeth to Destruction or the Strait and Narrow Way that leadeth to Everlasting Life seeing how many sorts of People do plead that they are worshipers of the living God not considering as every one ought by whose appointment and directions they do worship God for the Turks boast how that they worship the Living God and concerning Christ as one saith the Turks are well contented that Christ be a Holy Prophet and a most Worthy Creature yea the Word of God the Soul of God and the Spirit of God conceiv'd of the Holy Ghost and Born of Mary the Virgin but will in no case grant him to be the Son of God therefore no Law-Giver to them in Worship so that they worship God by the directions or appointment of Mahomet according to his wicked Alcaron therefore both they and their Service or Worship is not accepted of God Secondly The Papal Religion boast That they are Worshipers of the Living God and do in word Profess Jesus to be the Son of God yet they by no means will acknowledge in Works that Christ is the Son of God Law-giver to them in Worship but do Worship God by the Counsel and Direction of sundry Popes and Prelates as Lord-Bishops so that for this reason among others neither themselves nor their Worship can be accepted of God Thirdly And will not Protestants consider then that as aforesaid there is but one Law-giver in Worship that is Jesus Christ the Prophet Priest and King in his Church who was Faithful as a Son over his own House if he be so why then is the Service Book the whole form of Worship in Protestant Churches which Christ hath not given for directions in Worship in his Testament but is taken out of the Popes Mass-Book as when it was translated into English the Men in Devonshire Rebelled supposing their Service was altered to whom King Edward answered If the Service in the Church was good in Latin it remained good in English for nothing is alter'd but to speak with knowledge that which was spoken in Ignorance and to this agreeth the words of the Papists in their Supplication to King James the First Anno. 1604. Reasons of Religion They insult against Protestants faying That from their Treasure-house the Religion now Established hath learn'd the form of Christening Marrying Churching of Women Visiting the Sick Burying and sundry other like as the Bocks Translated out of theirs do declare These being so gross that the Lord Jesus should be so despised who is the Wisdom of God that Protestants should despise-the Holy Order of Worship in Christs Testament and so deny him to be the Son of God Law-giver in Worship which the Primitive Christians walked in for the first three hundred years un●ill about the middle of the fourth Century until Pastors or Bishops sought after Dignities to be Church Princes as aforesaid they about that time begun to take upon them the office of Christ to be Law-Makers in Worship Oh therefore that the Lord would open the Eyes of all Protestants to consider these things before it be too late and c●st off from them the Romish Service-Book together with that Prelatical Priest-hood whose Ordination successively they have receiv'd from the Pope as well as that Jewish and Ceremonial Heav Offering of the Law of Tythes remembring what the Lord said to Israel when they came out of old Egypt left Written for our Admonition that are come out of the Spiritual Egypt After the doings of the Land of Egypt wherein ye dwelt shall ye not do neither walk in their Ordinances my Judgments shall ye do my Ordinances shall ye keep to walk in them I am the Lord your God Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the World are ye Subject to Ordinances touch not tast not handle not which all are to perish with the using after the Commandment and Doctrine of Men and as a warning to all Christ saith In vain do such Worship God whose fear towards God is taught by the Precept of Men so then the sure Rule is given by Christ who saith Blessed are they that do his Commandments that they may have right to the Tree of Life and enter in through the Gates into the City Seeing then all mens Traditions in Worship it Idolatry and no Idolator shall inherit the Kingdom of God c. as there is Men Idols as well as Idols made of other matter For when Israel had made to themselves a new Ministry in Worship to God not mentioned in the Law of Moses These were called by the Word of the Lord Hol-Shepherds Zach. 11.17 even so whatsoever People shall make to themselves now in days of the Gospel if another Ministry than Christ hath appointed in his Testament in the Breach of the second Commandment they are Idol Shepherds so that hence it is saith John Many Deceivers are entred into the World and the World heareth them so that after many Exhortations to the Churches of God one was Little Children keep your selves from Idols Amen 1 John 5.2 FINIS