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A78018	Conformitie's deformity. In a dialogue between conformity, and conscience. Wherein the main head of all the controversies in these times, concerning church-government, is asserted and maintained; as without which, all reformation is headlesse, and all reconciliation hopelesse. Dedicated by Henry Burton, to the honour of Jesus Christ, as the first-fruits of his late recovery from death to life; as a testimony of his humble and thankfull acknowledgement of so great a mercy: and published for the service of all those, that love the Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity ...	Burton, Henry, 1578-1648.	1646 (1646)	Wing B6160; Thomason E358_20; ESTC R201164	26,532	40

truth in the glory and excellency of it this being that very Kingdom of which Christ said Woe be to you Soribes and Pharisees hypocrites for ye shut up the Kingdom of Heaven against men for ye neither go in your selves nor suffer ye them that are entring to go in But my Lord you are a lover of Peace as that part of your Speech upon your Election in the Hall declared and we all believe it when you said That you would endeavour to have Vnity for which you propounded two wayes either by Intreaty or by Force Indeed in such a case and for your place Intreaty is very commendable but if you think by Force to compose the differences that will prove none of Gods wayes nor to lie within your sphere as I dare say you abhorre to be a persecutor of those that are the promoters of Christs honour And being a thing not pertaining to the office especially of a Christian Magistrate I need not tell you what befell Vzzah for stretching out his hand to stay the trembling Ark And now that I have been thus far bold with your Lordship which hath proceeded meerly from a hearty desire that you may not be carried with the strong tide of the times by any malignant spirit filling your sailes through many under-water Rocks and Shelves endangering not only the splitting of your own Vessel but the total ship wrack of this floating State Give me leave further to beseech you that as you love your own self and soul and family and posterity your native Country the Honour of this City and Nation you would improve the whole power of your Office among other evils for the not only suppressing but utter obliterating out of all records of memory or mention that late Remonstrance of London which like the Trojan horse is stuffed with such matter as if the importunity of some might have its desire would unavoidably hale in ruine both to City and Country Nor doth any thing more clearly demonstrate that spiritual Judgement of blindnesse and hardnesse of heart to be upon all those who have their heads and hands in that Remonstrance and wilfully still persist in the prosecution of it now in cold blood Than the unnaturall hating and hunting after the destruction of those very men as our mortal enemies who have with the extreme hazard of their lives been honoured of God to be the Preservers both of Them our City and Country and on the other side the high esteem and honouring of those as our faithfullest friends who are part-takers with Murtherers with Rebels with Traitors Incendiaries Underminers of our Parliaments and consequently of the State of the Kingdom Dividers between the Parliament and City that themselves may reigne whose violent and fraudulent practises proclaim them to be not friends but such as in whom to put the least confidence is to trust in the Reed of Egypt whereon if a man lean it will pierce him through And therefore for these many and weighty considerations both in a due respect to your Lordship and hearty zeal for the honour and safety both of Parliament City Kingdome fuller of dangers and enemies at this day then by reason of that spirit of blindnesse and deep sleep wherein our City hath of late been sweetly lulled by the strong charms of fair false friends flatteries we are aware of I have in the name of Jesus Christ humbly commended this small Book to your Lordship that therein I might discharge the duty of a poor Watchman to awaken you in the first place and consequently all of that Court and Counsel with you to look out and inward too for the speedy preventing of all those imminent dangers which otherwise will suddenly surprise us and take us napping in the deep of our too credulous security For the Spirit of that Ten-horned Beast is now making war with the Lamb which is likely to be his last war Babylons fall following in the next chap. this Spirit warreth under new colours not red but white whose Word is REFORMATION and this under a fair colour of a Covenant by vertue whereof pretending a just title to the War he hopes by the help of the Remonstrance and the prime authors thereof and their adherents to erect a new Bestial tyrannie over souls bodies estates under new names and notions But the issue is The Lamb shall overcome them for he is Lord of Lords and King of Kings and they that are with him are called Chosen and Faithfull And my Lord you shall find in this Book Conformity to be the Mystery of iniquity the mother of all mischief the cause of all our present calamities and the forerunner and hastener of our ruine if we repent not if our Lord Iesus Christ prevent not which certainly he will because himself is the Great and Almighty General whose Cause and Name is mainly engaged in this warre Now the Lord Iesus Christ give you the Spirit of wisdom well to consider and lay to heart these things which that you may do is and shall be the hearty prayer of Your Lordships most humble servant HENRY BURTON A DIALOVGE Between CONFORMITY and CONSCIENCE Conformities Soliloquie Conformity Who is this that comes along Surely by his habit and gate it should be one that according as I have often heard him described by many is called Conscience And to be sure I will be so bold as to salute him and ask his name And if it be indeed that Conscience I mean and that he will afford me so much patience I will enter into further discourse with him Conformity YOu are well met Sir Conscience And you also Conf. Sir I pray you pardon my boldnesse to crave your Name For as I came along I conceived from what I had heard that you should be the man called Conscience Consc My name is Conscience Conf. Now I am glad of this happy opportunity to meet you of whom I have heard so much talk abroad in the world Consc Why what talk hath the world of me Conf. Sir I pray you be not offended and I will tell you The World generally saith of you that you are the only troubler of the State Consc Is it therefore true because the world saith it So Ahab called the Prophet Eliah the Troubler of Israel so the Jewes said of Christ that he was a perverter and stirrer up of the people So when this Lambe of God the King of the Jewes was born Herod and all Jerussilem were troubled at it Why so Was it this King that troubled them or their own guilty consciences in usurping this Kingdom Alas Sir this is no news that where ever the fame of this King and of his kingdom commeth in the powerfull preaching of the Gospel of the kingdom it brings with it trouble and terrom to the world or to any State And as it was with Herod and the Priests at Jerusalem at the birth of this King so at his death they could

instance we need not go beyond the seas or over our English bounds to fetch it What if the generality of the Ministers and people in England be found to be wrapped in such a destructive Heresie I call it destructive using the * Apostles word where he saith That there shall be false teachers among Gods people who shall cunningly bring in destr●ying Heresies And what are these Even denying the Lord that bought them bringing upon themselves * swift destruction And many shall follow their destructive wayes or their destructions by whom the way of truth shall be * evill spoken of or blas●hemed A Prophesie by the way which if well weighed and rightly applyed may be found to be in a great measure fulfilled in these our times For here is first a destructive or as our common Translation damnable Heresie Secondly this Heresie * is in deaying the Lord Jesus Christ Thirdly here is a many followers Fourthly among this many there be some at least who have their mouthes open in Pulpits Streets Tables and their Quils in Presses in Pamphlets blaspheming speaking all manner of evill against the way of truth even that way of truth which holdeth forth confesseth professeth maintaineth against all the worlds reproaches Jesus Christ in that very particular wherein he is at this day so mightily decried and denied by false Teachers and their followers Nor can any Age as touching this one particular be paralleld with this of ours for Pens and Tongues of blasphemy lashing out and running over all the bounds and banks not only of Christianity but even of common modesty and humanity as men bereaft of their wits and all this against the assertors and maintainers of the Kingly Office of Jesus Christ And lastly a destructive Heresie in that not only it destroyes soules but is in a precipice to destroy Kingdoms to such a height of rage it is now grown Conf. But Mr. Conscience what means all this What In that your generality do you charge as all Synod Sion City Countrey as lying under the guilt of such an Heresie What All denying the Lord Jesus Christ Consc Mr. Conformity cannot a man speak of a generality but he must needs name particulars And you know that generals have their exceptions And when a generality is mentioned let all particulars look to it But what if there be a generality and that of Protestants so called in the land which will be found to overthrow Christs Kingly Office Conf. What if say you what if the sky fall Nay I dare say yea and swear too that not any one of this generality you mean doth or dare deny Christs Kingly office and prerogative I have often heard them in publick to give Christ the title of King and to speak of his kingdom and they every where confesse and professe him to be King of his Church So as such a charge would argue as much malice as untruth Consc And I have heard them say as much as you say But is saying sufficient Yea I have heard them say That all Church-members must be Saints that all Churches be equal none have jurisdiction over other that Gods Word is the only rule of Reformation and many such principles about Churches they confesse in words So Christ to be King But if this be all it may prove little better then the Jews putting a purple robe upon Christ with a crown of thorns on his head and a reed for a scepter in his hand with Hail King of the Jewes but for all this crucified him so that you confesse Christ to be King and crucifie his true subjects Again you know the Pharisees said many things well but they did them not And doth not the Scripture speak of such as * professe they know God but in works deny him Whence we observe a twofold deniall of God one in words another in deeds Now I do not say that the generality doth in words deny Christs Kingly office but this I affirm that in works they deny him Conf. Sir how do you prove that or how doth that Scripture reach to those you speak of Consc A question opportunely put And therefore if you turn to the 14 15 verses immediately foregoing you may observe what manner of persons those were whom the Apostle there speaks of and upon what occasion For that Chapter being to set forth the office of a Bishop or Pastor of a particular Church or Congregation and how he should be qualified and gifted and the Church governed the Apostle willeth Titus to warn the Christians Not to give heed to Iewish fables and commandements of men that turn from the truth Where he ranks the commandements of men in Church-matters manners and government with Iewish fables as which do turn men away from the truth and so from Christ as he also sheweth at large Col. 2 8. 20. 22. and throughout the whole Chapter So as to set up the Commandements of men in formes of worship or of Church-government being Christs spirituall kingdom is to separate men from Christ Col. 2. 19. and to make them unbelieving Tit. 1. 14. and impure in minde and conscience V. 15. yea abominable and disobedient and unto every good work reprobate Vers 16. All which I commend to your more sad and serious consideration Master Conformity Conf. I confesse this is a terrible Scripture to those that lye under the condemnation of it But I hope those whom you mean are no such men for first you confesse they deny not in words Christs Kingly office and for any deniall in works you have not yet proved nor I hope can Consc I have nothing to do with your hope But whereas you would make it my confession that they deny not in words Christs Kingly office neither doe I absolutely confesse so much For though I confesse I have heard them upon occasion being put to it in words to confesse Christ to be King of his Church yet I have heard them again say and have read it in their books and they maintain it tooth and nail that Christ hath left the forms of worship and Church government unto men to be so framed as is most suitable to the conditions of the people or the laws of each State binding all the subjects thereof and that under severe penalties to an universall conformity or uniformity Conf. Why sir hath not Christ left that power and liberty to those that are in authority as Synods to frame and compose forms of worship and Church-government such as they judge fittest having an eye to the Scripture and the civill Magistrate to confirm the same by law Consc The Pope indeed arrogating to himself all power in Heaven and Earth over Churches and Kingdoms makes his claim from Scripture As * Thou art Peter c. Therefore his successor the Pope is the Rock whereon the Church is built So here are two swords therefore the Pope hath power of both the swords So