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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87180	The prerogative priests passing-bell. Or Amen to the rigid clergy. Shewing the usefulness, equity, lawfulness, and necessity, of private persons to take upon them preaching or expounding of the scriptures, having a call thereto by the word of God, and agreeable to the practise of the best reformed churches of Christ, and judgment of judicious divines both forraign and domestick. Being a brief reply to that discourse intituled The pulpit guarded with 17 arguments, and owned by Tho. Hall. Calculated on purpose for the metropolis of Northamptonshire, and may serve indifferently for those parts that are in conjunction with the northern climate. / By William Hartley.	Hartley, William, of Stony-Stratford.	1651 (1651)	Wing H975; Thomason E637_6; ESTC R206608	11,574	16

mans use thy mind forgeth Truths as fit Nails to fasten Christs building Tho Palmer a Baker Preacher Well done Baker Bread for the Body and Bread for the Soul thou servest both God and men Tho Hinde a Plowwright Preacher A most useful Artificer not onely Macrosmos pondrous Earth but Microsmos Mankind are endeavored to be fertile by thy industry Henry Cakes a Weaver Preacher A very ingenuous Craftsman the Web thou warpest is all home-spun pure Linnen thou weavest no Woolsey nor Scotch-cloth Humphrey Rogers lately a Bakers Boy publique Preacher A hopeful Lad How many aged persons can scarce say their prayers and thou art able to make a Sermon certainly it is the work of God who out of the mouths of Babes and Sucklings doth ordain strength Peter was a Catcher of fish by nets and men by preaching and both allowable by Jesus Christ Therefore trading and preaching is legitimate in the self-same person As for that you call humane learning we judg it good in its sphere but that learning which truly qualifies a person to the preaching of the Gospel is Love meekness temperance patience c. and where Christ dwells in this nature these things will be preached and exhorted to Be it granted that humane learning rightly sanctified may help the sight yet in it self it gives no more light then spectacles to a blind man That we burn all Books save the Bible that 's your say-so we are not of so fiery temper but those writings wherein we find no resentment may be reserved for officious uses 6 Absurd That preaching praying Sacraments singing of Psalms and all Ordinances are legal the Spirit is all Reply We answer That for preaching or declaring what we apprehend of the mind of God praying or speaking forth our desires to God Sacraments or Ordinances of Jesus Christ in their proper sphere are Evangelical or Gospel duties happily we may not be harmonious with you in the formality and for Davids Psalms we delight to read and repeat as they are consonant to occasion but for singing of Davids Prayers in Meeter seeing most part of the Book though entituled Psalms consists of Petitions we see neither Precept or President in Scripture or Reason to back such an elaborate Organ-like practice That the Spirit is all it is answered That God observeth the Spirit in an action more then an action in it self 7 Absurd That Christ hath removed the Law and now the Gospel is our only Rule Reply We answer That Christ hath removed the formalities of the Ceremonial Law himself being the Substance or Antitype of those Representations and now pure Gospel or the manifestation of Gods Love in Jesus Christ apprehended by faith is the only Rule or Line which directs our hope to eternal life 8 Absurd That the Saints are freed by Christ from all Laws Covenants Vows paying of Tythes or Debts Reply We answer That the Saints are not freed but taught by Christ obedience to Laws Covenants and Vows either in relation of God or man so they stand not in direct opposition to his glory As for paying of * Tythes it is with an ill will it being not the tenth but the † third part of our livelihoods and heartily wish that the Governors of this Commonwealth would resent those moderate Petitions which encline to ease the Nation of this heavy pressure providing reasonable satisfaction for Impropriators For paying of debts we say with the Apostle Owe nothing to any man saving love There are many more Absurdities inserted in Mr Halls Book to which be quoteth Authors but because I am unacquainted with their writings I omit for if due circumspection be not had to the precedent and subsequent part of a Discourse an absurd Construction may be collected from a clause or sentence As for instance In the Book of Psalms is written There is no God now the words or sence was not Davids but a fool said so I had thoughts to have made some Paraphrase upon Mr Halls coyned Tryal or Arraignment of the Lay Prophet of the City of Amsterdam in the County of Babel c. but that in such an Inscripture-like method there appeared more vanity then Reason it being in my understanding an apt Representation of a Puppet-play where Appolonius Zanchy King James Kirk of Scotland c. as several Apparitions in various dresses make a squeaking and Mr Halls mouth the Oracle for Interpretation Where Judg Jury and Evidence center in a single person the sentence or such a Court is illegal and tyrannical Now to the Ordinances of Parliament Mr Hall is pleased to present April 26. 1645. Decemb. 31. 1646. April 26. 1645. It is this day Ordained and Declared by the Lords and Conmons assembled in Parliament That no person be admitted to preach who is not ordained Minister either in this or some other reformed Churches c. Decemb. 31. 1646. The Commons assembled in Parliament do Declare That they do dislike and will proceed against all such persons as shall take upon them to preach or expound the Scriptures in any Church or Chappel or other publique place except they be ordained either here or in any other reformed Church c. We reply That if these Ordinances had or shall standing yet unrepealed be produced as an Evidence against us I am confident all ingenuous spirits in the way of the Separation will yeeld peaceable Obedience thereunto either doing or suffering But I have it from rational and intelligible persons That divers Votes in this nature were meer Ingredients to set up a rigid Presbytery the onely stalking-horse to uphold Monarchy being the last refuge in order to the Kings re-investigation But now it 's evident though the devices of mans heart are many yet the counsel of the Lord will stand and neither that * farthing Directory or Monarchial Interest are like to receive resurrection the vanity of those Idols being ex superabundanti manifested to every unbiassed person and the heart of the Magistrate seemeth to cast a more favorable aspect then formerly witness that Act entituled An Act for the relief of peaceable People to which I add that candid expression mentioned in the Parliaments Declaration in answer to the Scots Papers Febr. 17. 1648. pag. 16. For the Toleration of all Religions and Forms of Worships that their Letter objects we known not whom they intend in that Charge as for the truth and power of Religion it being a thing intrinsecal between God and the Soul and the matters of Faith being such as no natural light doth reach unto We conceive there is no humane power of coertion thereunto nor to restrain men from beleeving what God suffers their judgments to be perswaded of But if they mean onely the outward and publique Forms of Profession or Worship we know no such Vniversal Toleration endeavored or intended amongst us neither yet do we finde any warrant to persecute all that do not worship God or profess to beleeve in the same Form that