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A89640	The proud pharisee reproved: or, the lying orator laid open. In an examination of some passages in a book, entituled, precepts for Christian practice, or, the rule of the new creature new model'd. Written by one Edw. Reyner, who calles himself a minister of the Gospel in Lincoln; but is found a lyar / by a Child of the light, who is known to the world by the name of Martin Mason.	Mason, Martin, fl. 1650-1676.	1655 (1655)	Wing M933; Thomason E851_6; ESTC R207419	44,305	59

P. 130. can the Spirit of God be limited to set times Does the Scriptures limit the Saints to pray morning and evening He that prayes without the Spirits help his prayers are an abhomination to the Lord. The Apostle bids pray continually Away thou Legalist thou painted Pharisee blush and be ashamed P. 134. Thou calles the word meaning the letter I know assuredly food for the soul Manna from Heaven but where is thy Scriptum est for this can any thing but the living God satisfie the soul Had not the Scribes and Pharisees the writings of the Prophets the presence of Christs person and his Apostles and their preaching too yet Christ complains that they would not come to him that they might have life They had the letter yet wanted life they Page 134. had the Husk yet wanted the Kernel Whether is the Husk or Shell or the Kernel Meat Is it not said He satisfies the hungry with good things does he call the Scriptures those good things where is it said that they satisfie But the rich he sends empty away Is this the doctrine of Christ to say reading of Scripture is that to the Soul which Dinner and Supper is to the body How many poor pined starved soules in this City will witnesse against thee herein when the book of Conscience comes to be opened Thou goes on calling the Scripture under the name of Gods Word the Christians Armory or Magazine saying Reading of Gods Word is a Means of putting on the whole Armour of God of girding the sword of the Spirit upon the Thigh of the soul And that it 's like an Apothecary shop wherein are healing Medicines for all sorts of Spirituall Diseases Thou pretends one thing and does another thou seems to make the Scripture The Rule for men to walk by but not it seems for thee to talk and prate by who preaches and prints such stuffe as neither thee nor all the Priests in England can prove by plain Scripture P. 140. He that brings any other Doctrine then what was delivered by Christ and his Apostles Is he not accursed Thou calls Conscience a good Monitor and so it is but thou dares not serve so good a Master Pag. 143. Thou calls it a Principle of Joy O that thou wouldst make it thy joy to obey that pure Principle thy joy would be then unspeakable and full of glory but thou treads it under foot and dares not give it the uppermost Room nor let it Rule in the Kingdom of thy Heart It is my witnesse I speak the Truth and lye not P. 145. Thou makes confession against thy self but forsakest not Family-Duries superficially performed cannot kill disorders in thy house Are the best of Your performances any better What means then the reigning of your Headstrong Lusts as Pride Passion Envy Covetousnesse c Art thou not ashamed still to limit Prayer to Morning and Evening The 5. Psal 3. verse which thou brings 1 Thess 5.17 for thy proof mentions Davids exercise in the Morning onely Does thou bring in His practice against a Gospel-precept Pray continually or without ceasing Thy calling that day of the Week thou Worships on the Sabbath shews thy ignorance of the True Sabbath Is this the language of A true Minister of the Gospel Thou sayes all Relations Domestical Ecclesiastical and Political are founded and established in the Law of God and Gospel of Christ But shouldst thou never have penny for thy preaching till thou proves this in that sense thou takest Ecclesiastical Relations The Fox would soon say his Spirits and strength were spent Take the Pulpit who would the Priest would be gone either to Norwich or some such other Place or City of Pecuniary Refuge Thou brings in for a Proof of thy Bold assertion Thou shalt not covet thy Neighbours Wife nor his Man-servant nor his Maid-servant c. But what 's this to Ecclesiasticall Relation as thou calls it Is it not like a Spiders Webb finely spun yet so weak that a feather will fell it down Is not this to cast an Odium upon the late Parliament and present Authority for abolishing Bishops Dean and Chapters were not they counted Ecclesiastical Relations Art not thou and thy Generation of Priests built upon the same foundation they were Is not your life in the letter as theirs was Their Doctrine and yours the same Do you not plead for the same maintenance of Tithes they did Did not thee and thy Presbyterian Generation preach against Prelacy because you would be the Prelates your selves Art not thou and thy fellow Priest paid for your preaching out of that yearly Revetiue which was formerly paid to your Elder Brethren the Bishop Dean and Chapter of Lincoln Three hundred pounds a year between you If these Relations had been grounded upon the Law of God and the Gospel of Christ Was it well done of them who abolished them But that Man's blind who sees not thee to be a Minister of Antichrist quarrelling so far as thou dares and shewing thy discontent at what the Lord hath done in hastening the Downfall of the Devils Kingdome P. 156. Thou presses the people with their duty to their Ministers Due respect and love to their persons and thou brings in 1 Thess 5.12 13. We beseech you Brethren to know them that labour among you and are over you in the Lord. Now prove thy self and the Priests of England if thou canst to be such as Paul was to be in the Lord and fill'd with the Holy Ghost Did ever Paul or any of the Primitive Saints preach such Doctrine as thou and thy Fellow Priests do and live in such pride pomp idlenesse and oppression as you do Thy next proof is 1 Tim. 5 17 18. Let the Elders that Rule well be counted worthy of double Honour Name me those Elders among you who rule well Old in folly deceit and filthinesse there are many but young and green to any thing that is good Who are they that labour in the Word Thee and thy Generation are not true Labourers in the Lords Vineyard but lazie idle loyterers Greedy shepherds None of you abide in his Doctrine nor hold fast the form of sound words The next is due Maintenance for their pains Gal. 6.6 Let him that is taught in the Word Communicate First prove your selves True Teachers such as Paul and the Apostles were Produce your Commissions from Christ Jesus Prove your Call That you ran not before you were sent That you abide in his Doctrine Till that be done there is nothing due unto you but Judgment And should thy self and the Priests of this Nation who preach for Reward be forced to make but bare restitution of all that they have received and robb'd the people of under the Notion of Christs Ministers they would be the most beggerly contemptible People in the World But observe the word Communicate a voluntary Contribution or free Cift Is this the best prop you have for compulsive

And Paul said when Iames Cephas and Iohn who seemed to be Pillars perceived the grace that was given unto me they gave unto me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship 2 Gala. 2.9 And by the grace of God I am what I am And his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vaine but I laboured more abundantly than they all yet not I but the grace of God which was with me 2 Titus 12. And the same Apostle saith that the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men teaching us that denying ungodliness and worldly lusts we should live soberly righteously and godly in this present World a Scriptum est 2 Cor. 13.3 You seek a proof of Christ speaking in me 1 Iohn 9. Know ye not that Christ is in you If not you are Reprobates Hebr. 13.5 1 Tim. 6.9 The seed of singularity is Is this grace any duties or ordinances Scripture or a Scriptum est as thou calls it or Sacraments Is not this grace Christ Iesus himself The light that inlightens every one that comes into the world even the Mystery which hath beene hid from ages and generations but now is made manifest to his Saints Thou goes on using many good expressions in the Scriptures I should rejoyce to see thee live the life of those that writ them then would thy conversation be without covetousness Thou wouldst see he that will be rich falls into temptation and a snare and into many hurtfull and foolish lusts which drown men in perdition and that the love of mony is the root of all evill Ah friend love thy own soul and set thy heart no longer upon silver and gold that lofty Salary thou receivest for thy lying Oratory Do not for the love of money delude the souls of so many as thou dost any longer If thou does it will be bitterness unto thee at the latter end Thou art discovered by the light of God and condemned by that pure principle of himself within thee As yet thou art rich in thy own conceit thou hast built thy nest high in the Airy wisdom of the world which is foolishness with God therefore art thou sent empty away Luke 1.53 Read James 4.6 Psal 138.6 Page 34. As for Verbosity whether that be not a weed in thy own Garden an error thy self art deeply guilty of the very babes and sucklings in Christ can witness against thee In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin Thy vain glorious Prayers and Houre-glasse Oratory do confirm it but he that refraineth his lips is wise Prov. 10.19 Page 35. Thou bids Furnish and fortifie your selves with spirituall weapons out of Gods Armory against your speciall corruptions every morning Dost thou not here set up the Scriptures to be Gods Armory and spiritual Weapons Where are they called so in the Bible Thou would seem to be religious but how short thou comes of brideling the tongue thy Verbosity in thy Book and thy Tautologies in thy Pulpit exercises clearly manifest And therefore is thy Religion vain James 1.26 Let the tender spirits feare with me herein I must deal with him a little in his own Weapon In the 41. page thou playes the Critick with the Greek word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 John 3.9 where John sayes He that 's born of God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 doth not commit sin that is sayes Thou He does not work sin as a man on his Trade c. What 's thy meaning to carp at the Translators rendering of that word Scapula's lexicon approves the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 committere peccatum He shews it to be a word of a various signification as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Servare legem and divers others But thy end is seen and thou art judged herein to be under-propping that which the pure and powerful God of Heaven and Earth is throwing down So thou canst not prosper Read Ephes 4.32 The English runs As God for Christs sake but see if it be not in the Greek As God in Christ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Is The Sophister would not cavill at this place it was not for his purpose this truly translated But this blind Guid strains at a gnat and swallows a Camel Mat. 23.24 Page 49. Thou directs them to receive Christ as held forth in an Ordinance to wit in the Ministry of the word and in the Sacraments Thou mightest have done well to have shewne who are the true Ministers and what the word is But I know thy meaning and do deny thee and thy Generation who run before you be sent Jer. 23.21 to be Ministers of Christ John 2.9 All his Ministers abide in his Doctrine but so do not you and therefore the Ministers of Antichrist you all are Where dost thou finde the word Sacrament in the Scriptures Thou holdest not fast the form of sound words 2 Tim. 1.13 Prove thy Traditions to be the Ordinances of Christ if thou canst and that they are appointed as means to convey Christ as thou affirmest Or else thou art so well known thou mayst not be trusted Thou hast an itching desire to be counted and received as an Apostle and be esteemed amongst thy unbelieving Jews as Peter was amongst the faithful and as Paul was amongst the Colossians For thou abidest not in his Doctrine 2 John 9.10 witness thy preaching of Original sin c. For thou sayes He that receives Christs Ministers receiveth him But then they must not receive thee for thou art no Minister of Christ Thou wouldest fain weare the Crown but cannot carry the Crosse yet thou sayes They must take Christ as Wives do their Husbands for better or worse for richer or poorer Does not this expression favour of the Popish Service-Book P. 50. Does it not argue thou still hast an affection to the Traditions of thy Romish Fore-Fathers but secretly for fear of thy Jews Mat. 19.27 Dost thou deserve to be received as a Minister of Christ like Peter and Paul for this Canst thou witness thy willingness to lose for Christ as well as to gain to suffer with him as well as to reign with him Peter could say Loe we have left all and followed thee Canst thou say so Thy Norwich journey will rise up in judgement against thee Peter was imprisoned with two Chains Acts 12.6 Pauls sufferings was foreshewed him and when some heard those things they wept and besought him not to go up to Jerusalem But Paul answered what mean ye to weep and to break my heart for I am ready not to be bound onely but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus O valiant Champion for Christ and his Cause Hadst thou been with Paul not ready onely to be bound but to die for the Doctrine thou hadst delivered thou wouldst have had more colour to have pleaded for Pauls Reception but instead of being ready to be bound thou runs away instead of

no man Doth true honour consist in such hollow deceitfull unwarrantable titles inventions of the beast as are given by the world one to another * Is not your Lordship your Honour your Worship and the like a flattering Title Ester 3.2 How contrary art thou to Elihu who said Let me not accept of any mans person neither let me give flattering titles unto man for I may not give flattering titles unto man in so doing my Maker would soone take me away And Mordecai he would not bow unto Haman though the Darling of a King * Mind that you idolatrous and dissembling complementers who are bowing to and sawning on one another when in your hearts you are fit to murd●r one another Psal 2. But while thou feeds thy Magistrates with such food as their crazie carnall stomacks gape after while thou feasts them with such fare I say thou fattens the enemie and pines the pure but read thy reward and take it with thee The Lord shall cut off all flattering lips and the tongue that speaketh proud things Psal 123. Thou tells them Full 28 years are run out since thou was called to this City by the general vote of all the godly in it It seems this was all the call thou had'st the vote of men Thy confession makes it manifest thou had'st no call from God How hast thou proved thy generall vote of all the godly in this Citty Must thy bare word be taken when thou hast already been proved a lier Was there not one whose heart was towards the Lord not one Child of God in all the Citty but those that gave their vote to thee The Baptized people will not credit thee in this thing but look upon it as an uncharitable censure a presumptuous Boast and will ranck it amongst the rest of thy Lies Full 28 yeares are run out c. all which time together with my spirits and strength I have pent amongst you and upon you but for about 2 yeares in the heat of the late unhappy broyles when the good hand of providence removed me to a Citty of Refuge to wit Norwich Thou art Master of thy Trade A smooth tongue oylie words thou wantest not But this will not doe thy varnish must be washt off under this painted stufflies Poyson Hast thou spent 26 yeares upon those to whom thy book is dedicated with thy Spirits and strength what 's that which speaks so lustily in the Pulpit and walks so lively in the streets Is it not Edward Reyner his own self Hath the Mayor and divers more to whom thou dedicates thy book lived 26 yeares in Lincolne If they have not and I am sure t is so how hast thou spent thy spirits and strength amongst them and upon them all that time Besides hast thou had no journeys out of the Citty in all these 26 yeares Hast thou spent none of that time in bowling musick feasting at home or abroad If thou confessest then that time was not spent upon thy freinds for the good of their Souls whilst thou was Pampering thy own body Dives like with dainty fare and carnall pastimes not becoming a Minister of the Gospell But if thou denies this many in Lincoln can witness against thee So that turne which way thou wilt the hand of the Lord is against thee thou art found out a lyer in this particular also Wee to the Idoll Shepheard that leaves the Flock c. 11 Zecha 17. verse Then thou talks of the good hand of providence c. Deale honestly with thy own heart was it the good hand of Providence or the left hand of slavish feare and self ends that made the Hireling leave his Flock when the Wolf came What an unkind requitall did'st thou make them for their generall vote to preach amongst them Was thou so honest or so hardy to stay and desire their generall vote to leave them Was there not many a Soul in that Citty who thought well of thee yet knew not of thy flight till the Bird was flowne Hee 's blind that sees not this to be Blasphemy Thou goes on calling an Abridgment of thy Doctrine heart renewing life reforming soule saving truths Here 's three lies in a little roome canst thou prove that the Bible much less thy Babell book can renew the heart reforme the life and save the soule of any sinner Is it not the living God alone can do these things The leaest Child in the Schoole of Christ that reads this stuff of thine sees thy sottish error but 't is just that thy lying spirit should be laid open O that ever such a lying man as thou art should take upon him the name of a Minister of the Gospel What a Saviour is it which thou trustest in cannot he renew the heart reforme the life and save the soule Then surely thou art in a sad condition being so great a sinner and hast so lame a Saviour But if he can then see what wrong hast thou done him to make a meere useless Cypher of him and place salvation in printed leaves and abominable lies But this makes it manifest thy heart is not renewed nor thy life reformed nor thy soule saved were it so thou would'st not have printed such dark Popish stuff in such a time as this when light breaks forth in aboundance Soone after thou begs leave of them to leave that little Peice of thine in their hands as a light to guide them c. John 8.12 John 19. Christ Jesus is the light of the world does not he inlighten every one that comes into the world is he a perfect light or not wilt thou say there is imperfection in Christ Jesus Luke 1. 79. John 16.13 2 Pet. 1.19 What need is there of thy dark Lanthorne when the glorious Sun it self shines so comfortably doth not Christ give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death and guide their feet into the way of Peace And John saith when the spirit of truth is come he will guide you into all truth and Peter saies we have a more sure word of Prophecy whereunto ye do well that ye take heed as unto a light that shineth in a dark place untill the day dawne and the day star arise in your hearts Away thou blind guide that book which thou begs leave to leave with them as a light to guide them will lead all such as are guided by it into the ditch there 's a multitude of lies contradictions false doctrine and blasphemies in it of the Serpents invention mixt and interwoven with severall places of Scripture which thou wrests and pervertest explicating of them according to that deceitfull principle that is predominant within thee thereby hoping more plausibly to put off thy counterfeit ware and false doctrine for current truth but the light hath discovered thy delusions and thou art seene and judged Is thy book able to preserve from errors in opinion and looseness in conversation as

Book James 1.26 therefore thy Religion is vain After Edmond Calamies Approbation and thy Preface follows a beg'd letter of commendation from one Thomas Manton witness his own words towards the latter end of that Epistle which are these Having thus signified and that upon Request the pleasure I took in this undertaking I take my leave c. Is it the property of a Minister of the Gospel to use such left-handed courses for a commendation Did ever any of the Apostles use such a practice But if thou hadst ten thousand such hands to thy Book as his they might dazle the eyes of the weak but not adde one grain of true worth to thy Book when it comes to be weighed in the ballance The Flatterer begins in a soothing strain Good Reader and tells of intimations in Scripture of a libertine spirit that shall prevail in the latter dayes That 's true And how this is accomplished by thee Manton and thy Genetation all honest hearts do see to their sorrow Who takes more licentious liberty to live in pride oppression and satisfying the lusts of the flesh then the Ministers of England and their Favorites that maintain them He talks of a Note found in Luthers study after his death wherein was written That within a small space of time the temper of the world should be for breaking yoaks what does that trouble thee thou shews what thou art insomuch that they should not only cast off the Canons and Traditions of men but the very Lawes and Ordinances of God And that a sort of men should arise that would be under no other Law and Rule but their own lusts and interests It seems Manton and Edward Reyner are sory Luthers words prove so true concerning the casting off the Canons and Traditions of men And no marvel-great is your Diana the Tithes of England or other set maintenance instead thereof But it must down for it s not a Plant of my Heavenly Fathers planting and therefore shall be rooted up Heb. 8.10 Now who is it that casts off the Law of God written in the Heart that slights the pure Counsel of the living God the light in the Conscience but the Ministers of the World and Men of that Generation pretending to walk by the Scriptures calling them their rule yet walk clear contrary to them and live under no other Law so far as they dare but their own lusts and interests I know they that are Libertines in opinion are in the road way to turn Libertines in practice if there be not something to restrain them But 't is seen who they are that be Libertines both in Opinions and practice an untoward Generation of deluding Priests and their flatterers countenanced at present by some great Ones in the world who throwe the Odium upon the Innocent But this is no new thing for Christ himself was counted Belzebub Mat. 12.24 Order and Rule I own and all such who walk contrary to the Law of God or any just Law made by man such I utterly disown be they Priest or People Dan. 4.30.31 Rev. 18.2 Isa 1.20 Thus having past the Porch I am entred into the Palace Babylon or building which this Nebuchadnezer hath built by the might of his Power for the honour of his Majesty as he vain gloriously hath conceited But this mans Kingdom is departed from him Babylon is fallen is fallen The mouth of the Lord hath spoken it His first Rule is Be sensible of Original corruption whereby you are deprived of the Image of God and of Communion with him and wholly defiled and depraved in all the powers and parts of soul body with a proneness to all evil and averseness to all good continually and made subject to the wrath of God to bondage unto sin and Satan and to all Gods judgements here and hereafter A sad sentence if it were as thou sayes but he that runs in the dark may stumble Dost thou teach another man not to steal and wilt thou play the Thief Dost thou preach and perswade others to walk by Rule and wilt thou walk without where hast thou brought one proof out of Scripture for any one of thy expressions above mentioned Is there such a word as Original Corruption in all the Bible How dares thou thus impudently blaspheme the infinite goodness of the living God as to set him forth so severe a God as to make man subject to his wrath to bondage to sin and Satan and to all Gods judgements here and hereafter before he actually commit sin How many millions of sweet innocent Children would this mans Doctrine damn to all eternity O thou bloody minded blasphemous man blush and be ashamed of this detestable Tenet Ezek. 33.11 Is it not written As I live saith the Lord God I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked but that the wicked turn from his way and live Turn ye turn ye from your evil wayes for why will ye die O house of Israel Is there one syllable of original sin mentioned in this place Wilt thou make God a lier like thy self and forsworn too Ezek. 13.20 O the height of blasphemy Is it not elsewhere said the Son shall not bear the Iniquity of his Father And again the soul that sinneth it shall die Rom. 4.15 And where there is no Law there is no transgression Do not these places throwe down the Babel of thy soul-destroying God-blaspheming Doctrine of original sin Is not that place fulfilled in thee Prov. 10.19 In the multitude of words there wants not sin who but a foolish man like thy self would have brought in that Ephes 2.12.13 for the proof of original sin Paul in that Chapter sayes thus You hath he quickened who were dead in trespasses and sins wherein in time past ye walked according to the Prince of the power of the Aire the spirit that now worketh in the Children of disobedience Amongst whom also we had our con●ersation in times past in the lusts of our flesh Does not he all this time speak of actual sin is there one word of original corruption verse 11. Remember saith he That ye being in times past Gentiles in the flesh c. at that time ye were without Christ being Aliens from the Common-wealth of Israel having no hope and without God in the World But does Paul say this was because of Original sin does not the Chapter make it manifest it was their sinful lives Thou sayes Paul calles this corruption of Nature which thou countest Original sin the old man and body of sin Rom. 6.6 Is the corruption of Nature named in that verse why dost thou adde to the Scriptures He sayes indeed thus Knowing this that our old man is crucified with him that the body of sin might be destroyed that henceforth we should not serve sin This place speaks of a body of sin but does it not imply a living in and a serving sin Does it once mention Original sin for

abominated Thou saies A Scriptum est Thou begins with that which thou calls the word of God viz. the Scriptures Thou bids heare it read it As it is written will put sin and Satan to flight and hide it in your hearts There are words many but the Word is but one Iohn 1.1 The Scriptures I own more truely than thou does or any tithe taking Preist in England yet I deny it to be that which thou callest it but protest not In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God Are the Scriptures God Were they in the beginning Was not Moses the first Man that writ Scripture Is it not Christ that 's clothed with a vesture dipt in blood is not his name called the Word of God Are the Scriptures Christ Rev. 19 13. 2 Pet. 3.5 Doth not Paul say the Word of God is quick and powerfull sharper than any two edged sword peircing even to the dividing a sunder of Soule and Spirit and of the joynts and Marrow and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart Can the dead doe all this Is the letter quick and powerfull Hath it the vertue force and operation written in that verse Or is it the work of a God Is any printed book a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart Peter saies by the Word of God the Heavens were of Old and the earth standing out of the water and in the water Were the Heavens and the earth made by the Scriptures or by God Paul saies every creature of God is good and nothing is to be refused if it be received with thanksgiving for it is sanctified by the Word of God Luke 1.1 Can any thing sanctify a creature but the Omnipotent God and Creator of all things 2 Iet 1 2● Whether does he owne the Scripture who calls it his rule and lives contrary to it or he that calls it not soe yet lives according to it Yet I own the Scriptures as they are a declaration a record the writings of the holy Men of God who spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost But I dare not Deifie or equall them with God nor pretend to make them my rule and walk contrary to them as thou and all thy generation doe Thy second Antidote thou calls the Sacraments A word of an old stamp coyned by thy Fore-Fathers at the Romish-Mint which it seems thou reservest as a holy Relique for its Antiquity not for any Sanctity that is in it I am sure Art thou not ashamed to use such rusty dark language at this time of the day P. 28.29 Thou saies Sacraments are instituted to be instruments for conveyance of vertue from Christs death into your Soules to mortifie your sins How many sins can the people truely say are mortified in them by thy Sacraments If thou wilt not answer for them say for thy self speak and lye not Channels through which streams of blood flow from the sides and heart of Christ into your hearts to carry away your sins Name what sins thou canst witness either of thy owne or the peoples that are carried away by those pretended streams flowing through the Sacraments Then thou bids make use of Sacraments against sins as men doe of Assizes against Malefactors get them condemned and cut off He that drinks at the pure Fountaine savours thy muddy language to streame from the corrupted Sea of Rome But all this while thou hast been talking of Sacraments thou hast lost thy Scriptum est What old Authors hast thou been ransaking up for this Sacrament all stuff Dares thou come into the feild thus to fight against the Lamb and his Saints and not bring one weapon out of thy Scripture Magazin to defend thee How canst thou hope to return a live to thy Camp Is the name of a Minister Armour of Proof to secure thee Dost thou not say the Word is a sheild to defend you against all the assaults of Sin and Satan or Batteries of Yentations The heart fenced with it thou saies is Cannon Proof I know thy meaning is the Scriptures Thou counts it the Word Ah silly blind Soul that art thus groping in the dark when the Sun of righteousness shines so gloriously Art not thou and the people provided of Bibles How are you defended against the assaults of Sin and Satan t is seene how open you are to the Batteries of tentation And for all thy flourishes thy heart is not fenced with one Scripture for all this folly thy tongue hath uttered concerning thy second Antidote Therefore thou art neither sword nor pistoll-proofe much less Cannon-proofe by thy owne confession Prov. 12.22 Pro. 28.9 Thy third Antidore is Prayer to God of the wicked are an abomination to the Lord. To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me saith the Lord when ye come to appeare before me who hath required this at your hand the calling of Assemblies I cannot away with * It is iniquity even the solemne meeting when ye spread your hands I will hide my eyes from you yea when you make many Prayers I will not heare Isaiah 1. and what 's the reason of this your uncleaneness Wash ye make ye cleane put away the evill of your doings from before mine eyes cease to do evill learne to do well seeke judgement Releive the oppressed judge the Fatherless Plead for the Widdow Loe here 's work for thee and thy Mayor and Aldermen O that you would set your hearts to doe it till then all your Prayers are but vaine babling till then there is no reasoning with God If ye be willing and obedient yee shall eate the Fat of the Land but if ye rebell ye shall be devoured with the sword for the Mouth of the Lord hath spoken it page 30. Speaking of the spirituall combat thou saies The life or exercise of grace puts sin to death in the duell betweene Flesh and Spirit as humility doth Pride and sincerity doth hypocrisy Ah poore Soul that it were so with thee and where there is no opposition there is no restraint where there is no contrary Principle of grace to cross and curb sin there sin overflows like a River without Bancks Grace thou saies will drive out sin as one pin doth another yet for all this page 28 thou calls Duties and Ordinances Weapons edgewise to cut and kill lusts Antidotes to expell the Poyson of sin especially the Word that is saies thou Scriptures Sacraments and Prayer for dost thou not say a Scriptum est As it is written will put sin and Satan to flight Here thou laies all the weight and power of killing sin upon duties ordinances and the letter and page 30. thou saies 'T is the life of grace puts sin to death and grace will drive out sin but what that grace is thou hast not mentioned 1 Cer. 12.9 The Lord saies to Paul my grace is sufficient for thee