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A87123	The harmonious consent of the ministers of the province within the county palatine of Lancaster, with their reverend brethren the ministers of the province of London, in their late testimonie to the trueth of Jesus Christ, and to our Solemn League and Covenant : as also against the errours, heresies, and blasphemies of these times, and the toleration of them.	Heyrick, Richard, 1600-1667.	1648 (1648)	Wing H800A; Thomason E434_7; ESTC R7597	26,660	31

of light and reason in other things God hath put the sword in the Parliaments hands for the terror of evil doers and the praise of them that do wel c. See a Letter sent to the House of Commons and printed 1645. going under the name of Oliver Cromwel and set down by Mr Rutherford in his survey of the spiritual Antichrist page 250. part 1. that do conceive that in things of the mind the sword is not put into the hands of the civil Magistrate for the terror of evil doers and the praise of them that do wel Yet because we judg the Toleration of all kind of opinions and professions in matters of Faith Errours therein being in the number of those evil works to which the Magistrate is to be a terror k Row 1● 3 4 to be impious and wicked and would be a tender nurse to give suck to cherish the foul ugly monstrous and mis-shapen births of our times as it would bealso desturctive to the Common wealth though we shall easily grant men are not to be punished by the Magistrate for their internal opinions which they do not discover l his 〈…〉 adjlipulamun qui sicuti beminum 〈…〉 is esse ajust it a 〈◊〉 de side opiniones a magis●●●ain 〈◊〉 esse 〈…〉 quanves 〈…〉 bo miman 〈◊〉 non esse puniendas largiamur 〈◊〉 tamia de rejpubluae exitialem religlonis proseljiunem a magistratu quibuslibet civibus ese ●●mitterdam negamus Synops purior theolog disput 50. thes 60. yet with our reverend brethren we do here profess to this Church and to all the Churches of God throughout the whole world That we do detest the forementioned Toleration m See a Yestimony to the Trueth of Jesus Christ page 34. And what ever others may expect to the contrary yet we hope that God wil never suffer the Parliament of England ever to be so unmindfut of either solemn League and Covenant or of their own formet Declarations and Remonstrances n The bonoiable House of Commans do thus remonshare They insuse into the people that we mean to abolish all Church Government and leave everyman to his own fancy for the service and worship of God And then afterwards they dicl●re And we do here declare that it is farfiom our purpose and desire to let loose the golden telns of Di●cipline and Government in the Church to leave private persons or particular Congregations to take up what form of diviven service they please for we hold it requifie that there should be throughout the whole Realm a consormity to that order which the Laws enjoyn according to the Word of God See the Remonstrance of the State of the Kingdom Decemb 15.1641 Protestations and Professions as once to give a liltening car to such as might move for such a thing and that they might be kept from being guilry of so great a sin shal be out earnest prayer for them unto God continually night and day IV. And thus having expressed our deepest sence concerning the Errours and Heresies of these times and the Toleration of them which to us is so hateful and abominable we are now carryed on to declare what we conceive to be the cause of the spreading of our freting leprosie and eating gangrene If we make inquiry into our selves we must needs acknowledg our not prizing trueth as we ought not improving precious opportunities for good that have been put into our hands the great decay of the power of godliness leaving first love lukewarmness sleighting and undervaluing the means of grace and barrenness under them faults generally to be found in the better sort of people together with the many other grievous sins that are commited in the Land are just causes why we should be scourged with such a spiritual plague but yet these hinder not but that we may also as truly number the not fettling a wel ordered Church Government for so long a time after the old rotten building was polled down amongst the causes of the growth and spreading of pemicious Errours Anarchy wil cause confusion in the Church as wel as in the Common wealth And therefore we do profess that without a wel ordered Church Government that we here may use the words of the general Assembly of the Church of Scotland o See the Exhortation of the general Assembly of the Church of Scotland page 12. where they use these expressions in reference to the Preshyterial Government which we do also with them fully and freely own We know no other proper and effectual remedy against the present dangers of Religion in this Kingdom or for purging the Church from Scandals which are destructive either to sound doctrive or godliness and are therefore thankful to the Parliament for ordaining of late the speedy divission of all the Counties of the Kingdom into Classical Presbyteries ★ See the Ordinance of Pailiament for the speedy dividing and settling the several Counties of this Kingdom into distinct Classical Presbyteries and orderedd to be printed Jan. 29. 1647. Discipline and Government in the Church being the golden Reins whereunto this present Parliament hath wel likened it serving to curb and restrain men who are by nature like a wilde asses colt p Iob 11 12. affecting unbridled liberty it is the rod wherewith to correct petulant and froward children the shepherds crook which the faithful Pastors cannot want but to the spiritual prejudice of their flocks the keyes opening the doors for the admitance in of those whom Christ would have to be admited into his Church and the shuting out of whom he would have kept out it is the hedg or wal to keep the ravenous beasts from entering into Gods garden and vineyard the means to take the soxes the little soxes that spoil the vines ●s q Cant. 2 15. and to purge out the leaven that other wise though but little yet would leaven the whole lump r z Cor. 5.6 And if not a little Family no Common wealth or society of men can consist without the bond of Laws or Discipline ſ Steri a societ●● into 〈◊〉 a demus quae vel 〈◊〉 samiliam ●●beat comtinon in recto statu sin dis●po●●● potell eam esse multo magr●●● 〈…〉 esse Calvin lto 4. insti● cap. 12.1 ct 1. Si●ut use samiliane● respublier 〈…〉 societas sine legum dise●pl●●● 〈◊〉 ●●●do consistere potest 〈◊〉 ●●●lesae ch●●●li 〈…〉 in hoe 〈◊〉 po●●st constare a●st ●●rto ●g●●ini at queidoreis legibus in adsba●● per quae ordoejus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 adverj●● c●ms mondi sathanae f●aues ac m●i●●toc●●●●rvlatè consirve●ui Synopsis pu●or the dog Disp 48. thef 1. how can it be expected but want of Church Government will soon bring the Church to ruine Therefore seeing Government is so neccessry for the Church we cannot but judg that the want of it for so long a time hath been and is one main cause of those great evils with which

the same Heresies and Blasphemies when they published their Ordinance ' to that purpose As also for to seek Gods assidance for the suppressing and preventing the same and which put us in hopes that there would have been long before now an application of some effectual means of remedy And although we cannot but from the bottom of our hearts lament and pity all those that are intangled in the dangerous and deadly snares fo the Errours of these times yet considering that unsound and heretical doctrine Wil eat as doth a canker b 2. Tim 2.7 or gangrene and therefore doth manifestly tend to the razing down to the ground the true Christian Faith the extirpating of all true Religion and the power of godliness the poysoning and undoing of precions souls is the pest of a Church the weed that wil over-grow Gods garden and so choak the plants of the Lords own planting doth highly provoke God to anger and that the fuligmous vapors thereof which have of late risen up out of the bottomless pit as they have greatly eclipsed so are they in danger to grow into thick clouds to the utter datkening of the heavens over our heads that we should not behold any more the light of the glorious Gospel of Jesus Christ we do therefore hereby testifie with our brethren c Teslimony to the Touth of Jesus Christ page 33. to all our flocks to all the reformed Churches as our great dislike of Prelacy Erastianism ' Brownism and Independency so our utter abhorrency of Antiscripturism Popery Arianism Socinianism Arminianism Antinomianism Anabaptism Libertinism and Familism with all such like now toorife amongst us and more particularly all those Errours witnesses against by our brethren and recited by them in their Catalogue of infamous and pernicious Errours in their late Testimony And we do hereby as the Watchmen of God and Ministers of Jesus Christ give warning to our several flocks d Mat 7 5. That they take heed of the wolves in sheeps clothing of all e 2 Pet 2 1. false Teachers that do privily bring in dumnable Heresies even denying the Lord that bought them and bring upon themselves swift destruction and that therefore they follow not their pernicious ways that the way of truth may not be evil spoken of that f 2 Ioh. v 10 11 if any man come unto them and bring not the doctrine of Christ they receive him not into their house neither hid him God speed that so they be not partakers of their evil deeds that g Rom. 16 17 they mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which the they have learned and avoyd them And do earnestly exhort them in the bowels of Jesus Christ That they labour to get sound knowledg and to be wel grounded in the principles of the oracles of h Heb. 5.12 God the want whereof is the cause why so many are seduced and turned aside and being i Eph. 4.14 but children in understanding are tossed to and fro and carryed about with every wind of doctrine by the sleight of men and cuning craftiness of those that lie in wait to deceive k Acts 17.11 That they search the Scriptures with those good Bereans whether those things they hear be so or no l 1 Iohn 4.1 that they beleeve not every spirit but try the spirits whether they are of God because many false Prophets are gone out into the world m I Thes 5.20 21 that they dispise not prophecying but yet prove all things and hold fast that which is good n Eph 4.15 and that speaking the trueth in love they grow up into Christ in all things which is the head Most humbly beseeching o Eph. 1.17 the God of our Lord Jesus Christ the Father of glory that he would give unto all his people the Spirit of wisdoms and revelation in the knowledg of him p Eph. 3.16 That he Would grant unto them according to the riches of his glory to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man that they may be kept from every evil way of errour and sin and may always have something to say for the trueth and nothing against it that all those that go astray may be brought into the Way of trueth and that we our selves our several flocks and the whole Church of God every where may be found blameless at the day of Christ And however we cannot but for the present deplore the sad condition of the Church of God in this Kingdom in respect of the poysonful Errours it is infected with yet we hope that that God which often works by contraries making scandals the tryal and triumph of his chosen is for the present doing his people good by the means of Errours growth thereby ●tying their sincerity and love to trueth stiring them up to prize it the more and more to search after it There must be Heresies saith the Apostle that they that are appoved may be made manifest q C●s 11 19 Open enemies and false brethren by the wise ordering of God who can make soveraign mithridate of the flesh of vipers do always advantage the r Non 〈◊〉 do ●●slo q●od nes●unt s●d ad ●●●un qu●●readum ca●●●les ad 〈◊〉 ap●●●idu● scin●●tua●●●●●●●●cos exci●a●do An●u●●● de vera ●●li●● 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 cap. 8. Church And we do further trust that when God by his thus suffering the growth of abominable and pernicious Errours for a time hath thereby fully accomplished the work he hath to do upon the hearts of his people he that knows how to bring light out of darkness order out of confusion good out of evil as he made the pride and tyranny of the Prelates the means to cast them forth so also in much mercy to England wil at length by this most unlikely and contraty means in it self make the Reformation of these Kingdoms much more thorough and glorious III. But before we pass on any further we are here led to express with what astonishment and horrour we are struck when we seriously weigh what endeavours are used for the establishing of an universal Toleration of all the pernicious Errours blasphemous and heretical doctrines broached in these times as if men would not sin fast enough they were biden or as if God were not already enough dishonored except the throne of iniquity were set up framing mischief by a Law ſ Psa 94.20 or as if men were afraid that Errour a goodly plant to be cherished would not grow fast enough except it were made much of or as if it might as justly lay claim to the priviledg of being defended as truth it self or as if there were danger that Satan would not destroy souls enough except he might do the same without all restraint For our own parts as we can never sufficiently admire and wonder that any that have taken the Sole●● League and Covenant should either have so quickly forgo●●nit or else