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B04886	No power but of God, and yet a power in every creature, or, A word in season, to all men not void of grace, or deprived of reason wherein is held forth that the Almighty God is not wanting to us in impowering of us, but we are wanting to him, in not improving our talent for him ... / by Robert Purnel.	Purnell, Robert, d. 1666.	1651 (1651)	Wing P4238A; ESTC R187132	119,586	280

Hope your Patience and Sel●… denyal is not the Faith Hope Patience and ●…elf-denial of the Gospel your assurance 〈…〉 r Heaven is unfound you have been daw 〈…〉 d with untempered mortar the day is al●…ost come that thou must die after death 〈…〉 me to judgment and then be judged ac●…rding to thy works Then if thou doest ●●ant Oyle in thy Lamp which is Grace in 〈…〉 e heart thou wilt be shut out it will be 〈◊〉 vaine then with Balaam to fall a praying 〈…〉 ord let me die the death of the righteous and let 〈◊〉 latter end be like his No no He that will 〈◊〉 the death of the righteous must live the life of 〈◊〉 righteous Those that he appointed for ●●ory hereafter shall have the beginning of ●●ace here for they be chosen to salvation ●…rough sanctification of the Spirit and be 〈…〉 ef of the truth and without holinesse no man ●●all see the Lord. Your Leaders have caused 〈…〉 ou to erre the blinde hath led the blinde and 〈…〉 th will fall into the ditch unlesse you be●…are in time O poore Souls I cannot blame you to ●…omplain of bad suffering times to be thus ●…heated on every side you have but a Body ●…nd a Soule and to be deceived and depri●…ed of the comfortable being of the one ●…here and to have no assurance of rest for ●…he other hereafter is a sad condition indeed Oh how be the people destroyed for want of knowledge Like Priest like People as in Hos 4. 6 9. The Prophets there of doe teach for hire and the Priests divine for money and you poore simple ones love to hav●… it so O you simple ones how long will yee lov●… simplicity and you scorners delight in scorning 〈◊〉 you are deceived and by those that you least mistrusted namely the Prophets Mich. 3. 5. Do 〈…〉 but spend a little time and tracethis Trib●● from the Prophet Isaiah's dayes untill now 〈…〉 First Isaiah complains of them in his dayes Isai 28. 7. Jeremy complains of them in hi●… dayes J●● ●…0 6. and Ezekiel the Prophe●● complain of them in his daies Ezek. 22. 26. So the Prophets Daniel Hosea Joel and Amos these also complains of the badnesse of this generation Then the Prophet Micah he complains of their sins and prophesieth of their judgements Mich. 3. from v. 5. to the end of the Chapter Then when Christ came in the flesh h●… was opposed by them and complains o 〈…〉 them Matt. 23. 13 15 16. then the Apostles themselves were continually persecuted and afflicted from time to time by them as you may read in the Acts of the Apostles And if there be any truth in Histories see what a sort of Ministry there were in Henry 〈…〉 eighth's dayes when the King denied Popes Supremacy how soon did this 〈…〉 be face about and side with the King 〈…〉 en again in the dayes of Edward the sixt ●●reason of his pious resolution though 〈◊〉 young the Clergie feared a turn and ●●esently fell a preaching against the Masse 〈…〉 ok and it was soon abolished and the ●●mmon-Prayer-book set up in its place ●●d these men zealous Common-Prayer●●ok men And then about three or foure ●…ars after that Queen Mary was made ●…ueen the Clergie bethought themselves ●●d presently the greatest part of them tur●●d about again from Common-Prayer●●ok to Masse-Book for say they the diffe●●nce is not great Then after Queen Mary was dead and Queen Elizabeth had the Crown●… pre●…ently the whole tribe of them except some ●●w turned Protestants again under which shape and in which visage they have ●…ontinued untill the beginning of this pre●…ent Parliament Well the Parliament had not sate long but the Wolfe covered with Sheeps cloathing was discovered and after a little consideration it was put to the Vote and suddenly after tumbled down the Prelatical discipline root and branch Wel what follows why our Clergie for 〈◊〉 most part threw aside their Surplisse Hoods and Tippets Organs and Altar●● Bowings and Cringings Tapers and Ca●…dles and perk up into the Pulpit an●… lifts up their voices and preach again those things and so became the reveren●● laborious zealous Ministers of England thou desirest a fuller discovery of this look into what I have written before ca●…led A word to the pretended Minister and neither of these will _____ satisfie thee if thou wil●… see the Wolfe stript of his Sheeps cloathing indeed then look into the Chronicles 〈◊〉 England Scotland and Ireland Mr. Fox hi●… book of Acts and Monuments of th●… Church and his History of Martyrs c. O then take heed how you hear Luke 8. 18●… take heed whom you heare Jer. 27. 9. take hee●… what you hear Mark 4. 24. Beloved I have not written these things to take off your affections from the true Ministers of the Gospel but to disengage your hearts affections from the ravening Wolves that the Lord Christ hath commanded me and you to beware of Matt. 7. 15 and Acts 20. 29. and Joh. 10. 12. Again Believe not every spirit but try the spirits whether they be of God 1 Joh. 4. 1. For many deceivers are entred into the ●…orld 2 Joh. 7. These things have I written ●…nto you concerning them that seduce you 1 Joh. 〈◊〉 26. Now that you might take heed whom you hear how you hear and what ●…ou hear and that you might not believe ●…very spirit but try the spirits whether ●…hey be of God I shall under correction ●…nd with submission to better judgements ●…ive my thought of the one of the other ●…nd endeavour to put a difference between 〈◊〉 Prelate and a Pilate a Feeder and a Flee●…er a Blinde-beetle and a Seer a Butcher ●…nd a Shepheard a Destroyer and an Instru●…ter a Tyrant and a Father a Thief and a Keeper a Seducer and a Leader a ravening Wolf and a moderate Shepheard that so ●…ou might cast off the one and embrace the other and truly herein I cannot speak in ●…allibly but give my thoughts at a distance ●…or Satan hath transformed himself into an Angel of light and his works are more my●…terious then ever the Lord cannot have ●…is Church but the Devil will have his Chappel if they will have Ordinances he will have them too if they will congregate themselves together by uniting in one spirit Sathan and his company will unite together in one form of communion and afterwards teach union If the true Church of Christ will teach first the Doctrinal par 〈…〉 and then the practical part Sathan wi 〈…〉 allow his Ministers to preach the same on●…ly with this difference he will put the●● upon building before they have laid th●● foundation if the true Chruch will buil●… upon the rock Sathan and his compan●… will build too but his foundation must 〈◊〉 laid on sand I shall now endeavour 〈◊〉 give my judgement of the pretended Min●…ster first and then of the true Minist●● next that so you might hold to the o 〈…〉 and forsake the

No Power but of God And yet a Power in every Creature OR A word in season to all Men not void of Grace or deprived of Reason Where in is beld forth That the Almighty God is not wanting to us in impowering of us but we are wanting to him in not improving our talent for him The Almighty gives to every man some talent or talents viz. To some Natural to others Spiritual talents or gifts But there is no man that improves his talent so well as he might in point of obedience to him Which appears In our not doing so much good and refraining so much evil as by the power he hath given us we ought and might have done And That the Ordinances Institutions appointments of Christ held forth in the Gospel are still in force so that to slight them is to slight our own priviledges and to forsake them is to forsake our own mercies The abuse of Gospel-Ordinances by some doth not take away the lawful use of them to others By ROBERT PURNEL Isa 28. 7. The Priests and Prophets they erre in vision and stumble in judgment Psal 140. 11. Therefore let not an evil speaker be established in the earth Isa 28. 11. But wi●…h a stammering lip and another tongue speak to thy people London Printed for Samuel Newton dwelling in Wine-street in Bristol 1651. THE EPISTLE to the Impartial READER Courteous Reader TIme is one of the most precious Herbs in the Garden of the World so that there is nothing more precious and yet by most men there is no one thing more slighted Wherefore if I shall here give thee the fruits of a little redeemed time think not hardly of me but let it have acceptance with thee I must confesse that I am the most unmeet of many which this Age doth afford to write or speak of things of so great concernment Yet I suppose this will be granted by all men rational that he which hath but a little strength and improveth that to the uttermost to doe good withall is more acceptable in the sight of God and sincere-hearted men then he which hath ten times the strength and useth it not And although in me there is the least Candle that ever God enlightened yet I shall not put it under a Bushel and although I have but one Talent I will not hide it in a Napkin it 's true the Candle of the Lord cannot burn with a more dim light then in my selfe Though a little truth liveth in me yet clouds and darknesse are round about me So that I have but a little of the Spirit in abundance of weaknesse Wherefore if any of the glory of Christ break forth in the ensuing discourse let him have the glory who hath chosen the weak things of the World to confound the wisdome of the wise and although these things be not broug●… forth in the painted Dish of Human Learning varnished and coloured over with the wisdome of man yet if the fruit be good in the taste though the Tree be not so beautiful in the eye reject no the fruit for the Trees sake but rather consider that which is most unpleasant in the eyes of men is for the most part most pleasant in the sight of God for man is apt to love that which God abhors and to abhor that which the Almighty loves For this Treatise as much as in me lieth I have avoided the crying up of any party or opinion and endeavoured to own truth and deny untruth wheresoever it is found either in noble or ignoble old or young weak or strong learned or unlearned wishing with my whole heart that there were but only these two names under Heaven to know the sons and daughters by viz. Saints and Sinners for there is but light and darknes heaven and hell truth and errour sheep and wolves But the muddy waters of Babylon have run so long in the channels of our understanding that it hath blinded our judgements and disordered our affections Understanding Reader the things that I have written of are many the method which I have observed is familiar and plain the rule which I have endeavored to walk by is the word of truth the end I have aimed at is the glory of God in the good of his people and wherein I have come short of my end attribute that to my weaknesse and not the truths asserted The fore named considerations have enflamed my desires and winged my endeavours to cast in this mite also into the Cabinet of thy soule And although I have met with some discouragements already and do suppose I shall have many more when this comes to publike view Yet if any man doe reap any spiritual benefit by it though I may suffer reproaches for it I have not lost my end in it I have endeavoured according to the measure of light and strength that is in me to speak the words of truth and sobernesse unto thee But that I might not spin out my Epistle beyond the staple I will endeavour to give thee a brief sum of what I have written and leave the farther enlargement of these things to every one that shall reade this book I have written these things not as so many Infallibilities but under correction with submission to beter judgements I have given mine and that I hope without a preingaged affection honouring the things of God as well in those under one form as those under another And as in every place and amongst all sorts of people he that feareth God and worketh righteousnesse is accepted of him so I would endeavour to love any in whom I see the least appearance of Christ let them go under what name or notion the Prince of darknesse and his children please The sum of what I have hereafter written in brief is this First I have laid before thee the several Temptations that doe surround thee on every side next I have exhorted thee to put on all the armour of God to defend thy self and offend thy enemies and that thou mightest so doe abide in the Doctrine of Christ which is a City of Refug●… and then love in the will of God which is the strong Castle of content Improve thy power whether natural or spiritual for him who gave it thee ●…n whom are all our springs from whom are all our supplies yet let our omissions and commissions be charged upon our selves that God may be true and every man a liar There is darknesse in the Prophets and grosse darknesse in their Flock●… and but a little light in any of the Saints A few words to the preiended Ministery with a brief Epistle to the World whom they have deceived with a discovery of them and how thou mayest easily know them Of our fall in the first Adam and of our recovery by the second Adam The glorious state of those restored the deliverances they have already had are great and greater then these be at hand onely the Saints be too suddain in their

the hardships that ●…acob a man chosen of God went through ●…e is threatened by his brother banished ●●om his Father abused by his Uncle ●…efrauded of his Wife in the day he is ●…corched with heat in the night troubled ●…ith frost as you may see at large Gen. 31. ●…ers 40. Then see the divisions between his tw●… Wives two Sisters baulling for one Husban●… after this they both went from their Fathe●… and now see a fresh pursuit behinde hi●… Laban follows Jacob with a Hue and Cry before him Esau is marching up to him wi●● four hundred men so to go forward were intollerable to go backward un●…vailable Well after the Almighty had d●…livered him and he marched into his ow●… Country his Wife Rachel dieth his daughter Dinah is ravished his Son Reuben lie with his Concubines then his most beloved Son Joseph they report is dead the●… soon after this arose a Famine and another of his Sons in prison and nothing can redeem him but his onely Benjamine here is the losse of son after son Gen. 42. 36 And Jacob said unto them Me have ye bereave●… of my children Joseph is not and Simeon 〈◊〉 not and you will take Benjamin away 〈◊〉 these things be against me But there was 〈◊〉 time then drawing neer that Jacob should b●… delivered from his troubles and enjoy the company of all his Sons again The way to true happinesse is through many difficulties you must suffer a while before you shall be established strengthened and setled God is unstripping thee of thy riches and righteousnesse as he did Job that he may give thee twice as much and ten times better in its room the Vision is yet for an appointed time Hab. 2. 3. and at the end it will come wait for it nay it will surely come it will not tarry It may be thou and I have heard That the mountain of the Lords house shal be established upon the top of the mountains well it shall come to passe but the Vision is for an appointed time Hath the Lord promised that knowledge shall cover the Earth as the waters the Sea and that we shall all know him from the least to the greatest Wel God is faithful it shall come to passe but the Vision is for an appointed time Doest thou not read in Dan. 2. that there was a stone cut out without hands and became a great mountain and filled the whole Earth well the Vision is for an appointed time wait for it for it will surely come it will not tarry Hath the Lord indeed promised to take away thy filthy garments as once he did from Joshua Josh 3. 3 4. the Vision is for an appointed time it will speak and not tarry Hath he promised indeed that sorrow and sighing shall fly away and that all tears shall be wiped from thine eyes and thou shall have no more pain and sorrow why h●●s faithful that hath promised onely the Vision is for an appointed time it will speedily speak it will not tarry Do the Scriptures speak of the calling of the Jews and of the bringing in of the fulnesse of the Gentiles and of the restauration of all things the Vision is for an appointed time it will speak and not tarry Hath the Lord indeed promised that the light of the Moon shall be as the light of the Sun and the light of the Sun shal be seven-fold the Vision is for an appointed time it will speak it will not tarry Hath he said by his servant Isaiah c. 25. 7. And he will destroy the face of the covering cast over all people and rend the vaile that is spread over all nations He is faithfull so that one tittle shall not passe till all be fulfilled onely it shall be done in its appointed time How shall hope and patience be exercised if he should not make us wait and how shall we say as in Isai 24. 9. This is our God we have waited for him and he will save us this is the Lord we have waited for him we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation say not with Moses Neither hast thou delivered us at all Exod. 5. last vers but say with Paul 2 Cor. 1. 10. Who hath delivered us who doth deliver us in whom we trust he will yet still deliver us ●…e thankfull then for what is already done and believe and wait for what is ●…ow a doing I see the Saints saying with Abraham Gen. 15. 2. Lord what wilt thou give ●…e c. But methinks you should rather be saying with David Psal 116. 12. What shall I give thee for all thy benesits to me Again we read in the book of the Revelation of seven Seals and seven Vials and seven Trumpets If we compare these Seales Vials and Trumpets together I suppose we shall finde them hold forth one and the same thing And then if we consider what Seale is now opening what Trumpet is now sounding what Vial is now pouring forth thou wilt see what state the Church of Christ s now under and what the Almighty ●…s now doing for her deliverance Is not ●…he seventh Seal now opening is not the ●…eventh Vial now pouring forth Is not ●…he seventh Trumpet now sounding and ●…ome of the Saints begining to lift up their voices Rev. 11. 15. And the seventh Angel sounded and there were great voices in heaven saying The kingdomes of this world are become the kingdomes of our Lord and of his Christ and ●…e shall reign for evermore Rejoice O Sion ●…hy day is dawning Howle O Babylon thy plagues are comming he is gathering his wheat into the barn but he will burn the chaffe with an unquenchable fire It i●… true the Saints may be shaken once more as in Heb. 12. 26 27. that those things that may be shaken may be taken away and those and only those that cannot be shaken may remain But Babylon shall be shaken down to the earth and ground to powder and cast into the bottomlesse pit there to continue for ever Oh then lift up your hearts w th your hands unto our God in the heavens Oh lift up the hands which hang down and the feeble knees Take the two wings the one of Faith the other of Love and flie into the aire of Comfort where thy treasure is saying Come Lord Jesus come quickly take possession of that which is thine own I had many things more in my heart and mind to present unto thy consideration whosoever thou art that readest these words I will here but name them unto thee but in another Treatise shortly present them before thee which being done I shall apply those words of Solomon Eccles 12. 12 13. 1. Beware of extremes Men be very apt in this age either to cry up all Clergy-men or cry down all Clergy-men whereas we should endeavour the plucking up and rooting out all false pretended Ministers for they be the worst of men the Scripture calls them Dogs and Wolves and Cheaters and Deceivers