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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43821	The spring of strengthning grace in the Rock of Ages, Jesus Christ demonstrated in a plain and short sermon / preached at Twickenham in Middlesex, near Hampton-Court, April 16, 1648, by Thomas Hill ...	Hill, Thomas, d. 1653.	1648 (1648)	Wing H2029; ESTC R25713	49,510	59

Grave into Hell Also the Fourteenth of the Acts They ordained them Elders they loved to cry up Consecration of Churches and Dedication and such kinde of things and Episcopal Ordination too for these all advanced the power of the Priests and the Bishops which brought in Transubstantiation amongst Papists and therefore in the Geneva Translation that was render'd chosen by suffrages by lifting up of hands the word Primarily imports that it may be in some of the Fathers it includes both they will tell you because afterwards having chosen Elders by Suffrages or Voyces they did Ordain them Next I come to the first of the Corinthians 12.28 An abominable violence offered to the Original God hath set in the Church Apostles Teachers Helps Governments and you shall finde here a great imposture it may be now altered appearing so gross but I have seen it and read it in some Translations Helps in Government which is a most horrible prodigious violence to the Greek words for they are both the Accusative case Helps there are Elders Government there are Deacons now to obscure these you must put it helps in Government I had it related since the delivery of this plain Sermon by one who most confidently affirmed it That the learned man to whom it belonged to Translate the first Book of Samuel having rendred that which Samuel from God spake concerning Saul 1 Sam. 8.11 This shall be the maner of the King that shall reign over you He will take your sons c. He was sent for to Lambeth and there perswaded to make the words Will take your sons c. Shall take which he conscienciously refused well knowing it was not spoken by Samuel to Saul by way of direction for duty what he should do but Prophetically and Eventually what he would do And then lastly for Easter this was another place that was altered as you have heard to keep up that holy time of Easter as they would think it for herein was the innocency though unhappiness unto us of the Primitive Worthies and other Christians these had fair intentions in bringing in many things they thought to win upon the Heathen and therefore would not wholly anull but change things change some of their great Feasts into Christmas-time change now it may be Pentecost into Whitsontide and the Passover into Easter it had a good intent but minding their own intentions more then Gods Word their Rule you see how these constitutions of men are degenerated Now I beseech you let us not suffer our selves to be abused when a word Easter shall be thrust in for it was divers hundred years after Peter that the word Easter came in shall we therefore go and keep up an Easter Communion above all times else for such pretences as these are Brethren the more you joyn Truth and Love together the more you 'll be free from these fond kinde of Devotions And let me say this It is Blinde Devotion indeed and many men that are so zealous for these and women too they think to get protection for other courses It may be many a Lady that paints and spots and trifles away precious time if she be but zealous at an Easter Communion she thinks to get a protection for all vanities else A Citizen if he be a Patron to such a Minister frequent Lectures then he may be frollick and vain and loose c. Here is Love without Truth Let me adde this Truth without Love makes many swell and contemn others and Love without Truth edifies to Superstition and to Idolatry sometimes What brought in Praying to Saints but Love without Truth But you 'll allow me to be so indulgent to my self as that if either the ordinary place or the ordinary time be not observed to pity a man that hath seven moneths labored under a quartane Ague and had a fit late last night I might make three Uses and the first should have been this To shew you why many Professors are so barren and many Christians so dry and unstable amongst you because they have not minded this conjunction of Truth and Love which is the Gospel method to grow up into Christ and so to our Spiritual thriving For upon him all our fruit is found Hos. 14.8 Take this as a Use of Caution I beseech you would to God I knew what language to speak to win upon you I would beseech you this Honorable Representative City who have so great an influence have been so much concerned and are still so much interested to beware that you suffer not your selves by any policies of men or cunning undermining whatsoever to be cheated of your Truth and Love lest you lose your selves and Religion and City and Estates and indeed the Kingdom Brethren there are desperate Designs on foot and as so much good hath been brought to this Kingdom heretofore by the City and their Zeal and their Purses and their Courage and their Fidelity so now there hath been of late great tryings of conclusions how to work upon the City so far to make them instrumental for the destruction of all and the Devil hath many active Soldiers abroad First There is indeed one unhappy Regiment of those that are Erroneous though divers of them very honest-hearted and of those that are not such friends to love as they should be and certainly much hath been our misery by reason of uncharitable mistakes of Errors in matter of Faith and Schisms in point of Love Secondly There is another Jesuitical Atheistical Prophane Party that take advantage of these Errors and these Divisions as he saith They do fish in troubled waters that know how to improve all these Errors and Divisions to drive on their own Design and nothing more ordinary then for some Malignants though I love not names or disaffected persons call them what you will those that are no friends to Truth and Love nor Parliament nor Army nor any Scripture-Reformation they will come in one company and aggravate the Miscarriages of the Parliament and Army Now what is their plot to keep open the Breach that so at last Episcopacy and the old Common-Service-Book may come in again Who sees not this And I confidently say and pray God it may be considered in time that you out of any Discontent or out of any passionate Animosities I hope the Lord will keep so wise a City from it suffer not your selves to be ridden by them Do you not remember first they would have divided Army and Parliament there was a time God prevented that Do you not remember there was a time they would have divided City and Army the Lord keep you from that evil And now their last conclusion is to divide those that are Friends and engaged in one Covenant to try if they can set England and Scotland at variance and engage them in Blood again And this is their Plot and how shall they bring this about O by that malignant Jesuite