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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30556	The true state of Christianity, truly discribed, and also discovered unto all people what it was in its beginning and purity, and what it now is in its apostacy and degeneration ... / written by ... Edward Burrough.	Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.	1658 (1658)	Wing B6047; ESTC R12629	29,962	40

guiding them therein but in such a manner as they set unto themselves or as the custom of the Country instructs therein and knows not the 〈◊〉 of the Spirit of the Father in them nor knows ●…ot the praying in the Holy Ghost and as for the preaching of Christians it is not now practised as the Christians of old practised it nor by the same Spirit now they study for what they speak and gathers out of the Scriptures some having it written in a book what they will preach to the people and this is not to preach as the spirit gives them utterance neither 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from the teaching or moving of the Spirit of God but by humane Art and humane 〈◊〉 knowing before hand 〈◊〉 and how much to speak so much as they have collected in their thoughts from such a verse and how long to preach til a glass be run knows what to have for preaching a●…d this and such like is the manner of the preaching now 〈◊〉 Christians which hath no savour in it of Gods Spiri●… o●… of the teachings or leadings of Gods Spirit in it but altogether contrary to wit this practise savours of idolatry and of vain traditions and superstitions And in short this practice of preaching amongst the Christians now is not in the same manner neither by the same spirit nor for the same end as the preaching of the Christians was in the dayes of the Apostles which sheweth that the Christians now are Apostatized and greatly degenerated from what the Christians were then For again the Christian Ministers now doth not go as they were moved of the Lord up and down from countrey to countrey to convert people to God as the Christian Ministers did then but inquires for places of great maintenance where there is great store of Tithes and set wages and if they can there they settle themselves and preaches in manner as I have said and this practice savours nothing of the teachings of the spirit of God nor of the movings of that spirit whereby the Christian Ministers of old were guided which sheweth that the Christiam Ministers now are in the Apostacy and in the degeneration from God and from what the Christian Ministers were then And as concerning the practice of singing now amongst Christians it is not in the spirit nor with a good understanding but in a vain form and tradition and not in the spirit of the Lord for now the Christians many of them in a form sings the conditions of others as Davids prayers and praises and troubles and afflictions when as themselves are in a condition quite contrary to what David was and so singeth that which unto themselves is false as being out of that condition of which they sing and this is not singing with the spirit neither is it to sing spiritual songs and others of Christians have another manner of singing 〈◊〉 which singing of Christians now hath no ●…avour of the teachings of Gods spirit in it neither is it according 〈◊〉 by 〈◊〉 ●…e spirit as the singing of the Christians once 〈◊〉 A woful Apostacy is fallen among you ye Christians through the world and you are fallen you are fallen from the life of Christ and from the true practice of Christianity 〈◊〉 the first Christians were in then their praying was in the spirit and in the Holy Ghost but now without the spirit in forms and traditions their preaching then was as the spirit led them and as it gave them utterance but now by humane learning and policy a●… such a place for so much a y●…ar an hour by a 〈◊〉 what they have gathered by 〈◊〉 upon 〈◊〉 m●…ns wolks 〈◊〉 the singing of Christians was in the spirit and their whole worship was spiritual in the spirit and in the truth but the singing of Christians now and all their worship is in vain traditions exercised without the leadings and movings of the spirit of God then the worship of Christians was one and by one spirit now it is divers and in division in many contrary spirits Alas oh ye Christians consider how 〈◊〉 is your fall and how woful your degeneration in respect of your worship fallen greatly from the teaching of the Spirit of God in your praying in your preaching and in your singing to follow humane learning and worldly policy and vain traditions the customs of the Country and your own imaginations in your praying preaching and singing as I have proved unto you Oh consider how great is your Apostacy from the true life of true Christianity greatly do you erre from the pure way wherein the true Christians walked and being truly paralel'd with them and measured with the spirit of true judgement you are sound not equall to them in any measure but rather contrary altogether shewing you are guided by another spirit then once the Christians were that you follow another teacher then once they did your practices doth make it manifest which are contrary and not according to what the practice of the Christians once were is not my judgement just upon you have you not lost that and are departed from it which gave the name of Christian and so hath the name without the thing a profession of Christianity but no true title therein but having lost that which gave the true title to the name so 〈◊〉 this is your state and this is your condition generally ye Christians through the world a name you have of Christianity but to the true life therof in every particular are you dead And now all ye Christians upon earth behold behold how you are fallen and degenerated in all these things and many more which might be named fallen I say from the true Christian life and practice wherein the Christians once were shewing fully to all the world that the spirit of Christ doth not now guide ye Christians but another spirit which brings forth through you other works and fruits and of another nature then what the Christians once brought forth and being compared with them you are no whit equal in the very way and means whereby you are made Christians you differ from them and in all your practices and in life and conversation you are contrary to them and in respect of your worship and Ministry in every part thereof are you altogether contrary unto what the Christians once were yea in your very apparel you shew a degeneration from the true life and practice in Christianity for the Apostle exhorted the Christians to adorn themselves in modest apparel with shamefac'dness and sobriety not with broidred hair or gold or pearls or costly array 1 Tim. 2. 9. And the Christians were there exhorted that their adorning should not be the outward plaiting of the hair or of wearing of gold or putting on of apparel But now amongst ye Christians is a practice found quite contrary what vanity and excess is in your apparel striving to excel one another in pride and vain glory in your gold and silver and costly