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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55805	The unequal unyoked, and the equal yoked, and light separated from darkness, & darkness and blindness joyn'd together in answer to a paper that would joyn together truth and untruth, the true worship and the false : and here it is discovered, and the author thereof in part rewarded, by joyning him justly to those he unjustly joyned others to / by a lover of justice and equity and hater of the contrary, Peter Price.	Price, Peter, 1600?-1691.	1683 (1683)	Wing P3397; ESTC R9270	17,524	21

Priest having not the Sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God cannot subsist without Law in their own Courts carnal Weapons or help of Magistrates so Pope and Papists 12. Bishop and Priest cannot live by the Gospel which they have not but by the Tythes which they will have while they can so Pope ane Papists 13. Bishop and Priest count all Faction Sedition Heresie and Separation that separate from them and cannot feed their Lusts and Pride so Pope and Papists that will not joyn with them in their Mass Bishop and Priest in what do you differ from the Pope and his Deputies Had it not been a shorter work to shew in what you do differ than in what you are one with them Wherein doth your Worship and Discipline differ from the Pope and Papists 14. Bishop and Priest you may be joyned with Pope and Papists in your Bowings Bendings Stoopings and vain Gestures and Postures Forms Traditions Customs Fashions and Ceremonies which do not at all concern the Worship of God which is to be in the Spirit and in Truth and not in the aforesaid vain things or the like 15. Bishops we are not against the Name for such a Bishop as is allowed by the Scriptures of Truth we allow of read 1 Tim. 3. but such you are not but Persecutors of the Life and Godly Condition that they did live in and you and your Families are more like proud Morriee-dancers than modest civil orderly Christians And seeing you and your Followers in a sad desperate Condition I cannot chuse but in love acquaint you with it and declare against it that you may be left without excuse and keep my Conscience clear towards God and you And what I say in this case to you I say to all that are in your Condition Repent Repent Repent in time before it be too late and the Door of Mercy shut and you kept out with the wicked World which go the broad Way and wide Gate that leads to destruction where many do go for the narrow Way and strait Gate that leadeth to Salvation where the little Flock hath and doth strive to enter in you do not love but speak evil of for Covetousness Pride Malice and Selfishness cannot enter in there These and the like are the burdens which hinder and must be cast away or else no entring in for such so Pope and Papists 16. Oh! how my Heart doth pity the People which by you Bishops and Priests are deceived of such there was a Complaint and of you there is a Complaint 2 Cor. 4.3 4. But if our Gospel be hid it is hid in them that are lost in whom the god of this World hath blinded the Minds of them which believe not lest the Light of the glorious Gospel of Christ who is the Image of God should shine unto them The Gospel which is hid is the Power of God and the God of the World that doth hide it is the Devil and the means that the Devil hath to hide the Gospel and to blind the Mind is Sin Your Sins have separated you from God and your Sins do ●cause him to hide his face from you and your Sins hinder good things to come unto you and he that committeth sin is of the Devil and we know that we are of God and the whole World lieth in Wickedness John 5.19 And the holy men of God in all Ages did declare and cry against the Sins which you now live in and they that can truly witness a godly Life now do deny you and cry against you And as the Godly by the Ungodly formerly did suffer even so it is now so one with Pope and Papists in Persecution 17. Bishop and Priest have Organs and Singing-Boys in their Worship so Pope and Papists 18. Bishop and Priest do take to themselves what belongs to God to judge of Conscience in matter of Religion so Pope and Papists 19. Bishop and Priest are for Churching of Women so Pope and Papists 20. Bishop and Priest do idolize the Parish-house where they meet to Worship and call it a Church and hold it to be a more holy Ground and virtuous Place than other Ground and Places witness what a vain Meeting Preaching Blowing and Praying there was the Service cannot be acceptable where the end is not right to consecrate and sanctifie the new builded Church as they call it at Glaisbury in Radnorshire by William Lucy Bishop of St Davids so called and his Hireling Priests as it is generally reported there was so much Idolatrous Practice Ceremonies and unprofitable Worship there then as if it had been by the Pope in Rome for their old Church being on the Sandy Foundation was undermined by the River Wey which hath made a separation between the Priest and his Church so that he nor his Parishioners cannot go to their Church nor their dead Church to them but the Gates of Hell the Devil and all his Power cannot prevail against the true Living Church in God but the River Wey is too strong for the old House falsly called a Church The true Church from the false you may know if you read and believe the Scriptures Mat. 16.18 18.17 Acts 2.47 and 20.28 Ephes 5.24 25. Col. 1.24 1 Tim. 3.15 compare what Christ and his Apostles did declare the Church to be and what the Priests do call a Church and you shall or may see great disserence and the cause of my Writing is that you may come to be Members of the true Church where Christ is the Head 21. Bishop and Priest do pretend to keep Holy dayes in remembrance of some holy men that are dead these many hundred years ago so Pope and Papists for by the Pope they were set up 22. Bishop and Priest many of your Forms Customs and Traditions are contrary to the Scriptures of Truth so Pope and Papists 23. Bishop and Priest do compel the Country in their Parishes to buy and keep them sine Linnen Cloth as much as will make them a Garment to cover their black Clothes but it will not cover their black ugly Sins and they call it by the Name of a Surplice that they wear during their common Service and burying their dead and Churching their Women as they call it Oh the blindness of Popery 24. Priests in our Country do go from house to house to Church Women with their Sexton to carry their Book and Surplice and to say Amen and they will have Money for so doing so by report do the Papists their pretended holy Water 25. Bishop and Priest do keep Courts to punish Offenders and when they do appear they must contract for a Sum of Money and it must be such a sum that every Member according to what he paid for his place must have such a Sum that he may live by it and then the Offender shall have forgiveness of his Sins and pardon under Hand and Seal Lest I should mistake and the Papists not be so bad as you

hate which is Sin You not believing in the Infallible and Discerning Spirit of God cannot judge the things of God 〈◊〉 right but do as it is written Wo unto them that call evil good and go●● evil that put darkness for light and light for darkness that put bitte● for sweet and sweet for bitter Isa 5.20 You may here read you● selves and see your condition you do as in vers 23. take away th● Righteousness of the Righteous from him and it is our desire to take aw●● the Vnrighteousness of the Vnrighteous from you and that all may co●● to know the Righteousness of Jesus Christ and in him to witne● their Souls Health and Salvation and with us to partake of the heavenly Enjoyments that in the Treasure-House of our God is to be enjoy'd and thus we wish that all men may come to the acknowledgment of the Tr●●● that they may receive Forgiveness of their Sins and be saved from the Wrath of God that cometh on the Children of Disobedrence Col. 3.6 Rom. 1.18 ch 2.5 6 7 8 9. Here you may see that the portion of the Disobedient is the Wrath of God and you must all be either obedient or disobedient to Christ Oh! that you would mind it consider it truly weigh it and lay it to heart whether of these you are that ye may not deceive your selves in thinking to be what you are not and so come short of your expectation for you must reap of what you sow and how can ye expect to sow one kind of Seed and reap of another as it s written Be not deceived God is not mocked for whatsoever a man soweth that he shall also reap for he that soweth to the flesh shall of the flesh reap Corruption but he that soweth to the spirit shall of the spirit reap Life everlasting Gal. 6.7 8. People come to Christ the Light that ye may see what Seed ye sow and be no longer deceived by the windy Doctrine of ungodly men who draw nigh unto God with their Mouthes and with their Lips but their Hearts are far from him teaching for Doctrine the Traditions of men this is Scripture and these are the Deceivers which the People are to draw from and to come to the Grace of God to be taught which was and is the Teacher of the Godly For the Grace of God that bringeth Salvation hath appeared to all men teaching us that denying Vngodliness and worldly Lusts we should live soberly righteously and godly in this present world Tit. 2.11 12. This is the true Teacher the Grace of God and the true Messengers of Christ did and do direct the People to the Grace of God which will not deceive them And these that in truth do direct them to that which will not deceive cannot be Deceivers but those that do direct the People to any other thing or things from the living Teacher that will not be removed into a corner are Deceivers and deceived Isa 30.20 21. Bishop and Priest the living God saith of Christ This is my beloved Son in whom I am well-pleased hear ye him And you have that which ye have received of men who have set you at work and it doth well please you and if we will not hear and pay you you persecute and brand us with Names of Reproach and will stir up the Magistrates against us thus you have done and this you are yet like to do But this is the Work of Christ who did and doth work love peace and good will towards me● and forgive Enemies or is it not the Devil's work to make strife and ill will destroy Goods cast to Prison and stir up the Magistrates against a peaceable People If this be not the Devil's work whose work is it for I am sure it is not of God for the righteous God by his Word in his People in all Ages did declare against those things and the like of your Practice And as for those People formerly which did the same work as now you do who may be call'd your Fathers John said to them O generation of Vipers altho they did come to his Baptism not having fruits meet for Repentance● were not accepted but call'd Generation of Vipers Mat. 3.7.8 And wo unto you Scribes Pharisees and Hypocrites for ye shut up the Kingdom of Heave● against men for ye neither go in your selves neither suffer ye them that are entring to go in Mat 23.13 Is not this now your work you will neither enter in your selves nor suffer them that are entring to go in Can you say● that you have entred into the Kingdom or can you deny that you do no● seek to hinder others to enter in and keep them in the Kingdom of th● World where you are or can you give a true account of the Way to th● Kingdom or of the Government therein or how and when you did enter into the Kingdom and what you did meet with by the way or who o● your followers did follow you then or can witness that ever you did direct them then and how could you direct others where you your selves are strangers And so as it written The People do perish for want of knowledge and the Leaders of the People do cause them to err and they that are led by them shall be destroyed And as Elymas did turn away the Deputy from the Faith so do not you now turn the People from the living Faith which is the gift of God to a dead form of Worship and why may no● we say thus to the Guilty now sith it was said to one of old more sharply if ye do the same work as he did and pervert the right way of the Lord 〈◊〉 Acts 13.7 8 9 10. I can plainly make it appear that you I speak to the guilty do the same works as your Fore-Fathers the ungodly Generation did and is not their reward due to you and did not Christ and Paul hi● true Messenger say that the ungodly in the Ages before were fathers of th● ungodly in their age even so may we say now And it was not their saying that they were Abraham's Children made them so to be while they were 〈◊〉 their Father the Devil as Christ said and doing his works neither will 〈◊〉 serve your turn to say that you are Children of God while you do hate and hurt his People which is the work of the Devil as hath been proved Speaking when God requires Doing is not regarded when the works are co●trary to the words the heart is deceitful and from the old heart that is n●● by God renewed cannot proceed any thing to please God for when th● old corrupt Nature speaketh true words they are not accepted with God and although they say The Lord liveth surely they swear falsly Jer. 5.2 F●● what soever is not of faith is sin Rom. 14.23 But without Faith it is impossib●● to please God Heb. 11.6 Faith is the gift of God and is within to be found and the meek mild lowly and single 〈◊〉 hearted ones do sind the precio●● Peace and are enriched with th●● 〈◊〉 Riches that shall never be tak●● from them But greedy Worms 〈…〉 and feed themselves with th●● which will not serve in time of ●eed and necessity THE END