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A67324	More work for the dean in a brief answer to some scandalous reports published by Dr. Stillingfleet in his book entituled, \"An impartial account of the history, nature and pleas of the present separation from the communion of the Church of England\" against some of the Lords faithful servants, namely, Mr. Henry Barrow, Mr. John Greenwood, Mr. John Penry, who by the bishops means, after long imprisonment, were put to death, contrary to Queen Elizabeths mind; in the year 1593 ... : as likewise here is word for word the petition of those persecuted Christians, wherein is shewed the barbarous usage of the bishops to them : together with the refutation of the then esteemed Bishop of Winchester's blasphemous doctrine, by Mr. Henry Barrow, with the description of the true Church of God, according to Christs Testament, by the whole Church at London, whom the doctor calleth Brownists; with the reason why they were so nick-named by their enemies : very needful for all true Protestants to know / by Thomas Wall.	Wall, Thomas.	1681 (1681)	Wing W485; ESTC R20458	32,462	49

reproached the primitive Christians were by the Priests and Pharisees called a Sect of Nazarens Acts 24. 5. every where spoken against Acts the 28. 22. as at this day Protestants are by the Papists called Calvinists Zuinglians Heugonots 2dly Mr. Brown from whom this by-word was taken is Minister of Mr. Jacob's Church and so of Mr. Hildershams all Ministers of the Church of England and not of ours yet holding as we hear in his Judgment the truth we profess but for his practice in Worship rem●ineth still in Apostacy wherein they are So then not we but Mr. Jacob and Mr. Hildersham may if any be called Brownists See Francis Johnson's Answer to Mr. Jacob Intituled A Treatise of the Church of England page 2. And A Treatise of the Ministry of England in Answer to Mr. Hildersham page 94. Moreover because Doctor Stilling fleet durst not in his Conscience fight against the Cause of God these Servants of Christ maintained after the way of plain dealing therefore fighteth covertly under the Banner of other men yet of the same mind with himself and among the many Mr. Gifford another Minister of the Bishops making whom he maketh one of his chief Armor-bearers in this railing fight Dragon like with floods of reproaches against Gods Servants which keeps the Commandments of God and have in their Writings the Testimony of Jesus Rev. 12. 16. And it was not so bitter then but it would be as bad now if the earth did not by more than by an ordinary providence help the Church the Woman Rev. 12. 15. Moreover this man the Doctor as I remember maketh no less than Eight times mention of Mr. Gifford in Twelve Leaves of his Book against the forenamed Christians Now if he would have the world believe that what Mr. Gifford hath wrote against them to be as Oracles undeniable truths surely I may by the same Rule desire all men likewise to believe that to be a truth what Mr. Gifford hath wrote against the Doctors Church and Ministry and the rather to believe in the latter because who can tell better the evil of their ways than he who was a Bird in the same Cage of confusion with them Rev. 18. 2. Mr. Giffords words are these Through want and absence of a sincere Ministry there is a flood of ignorance and darkness overflowing the Land for the most part the fear of God is banished from the greatest part The wonderful heaps and piles of sin which should be washed away by the Word do undoubtedly cry aloud in the ears of the Lord for vengeance upon the whole Realm The Devil saith he is content those Preachers should ride upon his back because he is sure they will spur-gaul him but a little they be very gentle Riders Do you not think if they should set forth Gods word as they ought and spread the Light that all wicked men of which their Parishes be full would storm and fret against them The Devil himself would fisk about if they spur gaul him but a little but they can tell a smooth tail in the Pulpit garnished with some merry Story for to make the people merry or else some old rotten Allegory or some far-set matter out of some great Writer that their people might be at their wits end to admire them A man would think to see the people come out of the Church blowing that they were fed as full as ticks when they go home with empty Bellies This I dare warrant you if it be not so let me lose both my ears go through the Parishes of these Learned Divines and except such as fetch their Victuals otherwhere ye shall not find Five among Five-score able to understand the necessary grounds and principles of Religion y●a the people will say they be excellent deep men but I love not those Wells that a man can draw no Water out of them See Mr. Giffords Book Intituled Country Divinity noted by Henry Ainsworth in his Counterpoyson page 101. Thus it is to be hoped if the Doctor cannot refute this Testimony he will never hereafter speak against the forenamed Christians Testimony which in this particular said no other thing in effect concerning the Doctors Church and Ministry than Mr. Gifford did Moreover the Doctor is not satisfied to shoot his Arrows of bitter words against the Ancient Seperation but through their sides against all the Nonconformists in this day envying at their due birthrights and priviledges given them of God and man in freedom to serve the Lord as they are inlightened and if in any thing as doubtless none but cometh short in a perfect understanding in all things how they ought to walk with God the Doctors duty was then to have by the evidence of Gods written Word wherein they failed in the spirit of Love to have better informed their understandings and not as an enemy to his dissenting brethren as he calleth them to infinuate into the Magistrates minds by publishing to the world that Liberty of Concience hath occasioned the growth of Poperty in this Nation but how greatly hath the Doctors heart deceived him in this as in the former is not my judgment only that the occasion of the growth of Popery is by reason of so many corruptions retained in his Ministry and Worship in his Church as is noted in the Two Christian Warning pieces one to the King the other to the late Parliament but it is confirmed by his Right hand man and chief Armor bearer in this Battel against the Lords Servants Mr. Gifford in a Dialogue between a Papist and a Protestant in the Epistle Dedicatory word for word thus set down by Henry Ainsworth in his Counterpoyson page 19. Some do wonder how it should come to pass that among us there should be so many which being born since the Gospel was restored in this Land are so zealously addicted to Popery which they never did know and so utter enemies to the Gospel which they hear but if they weigh the cause of this deadly mischief they would cease wondering and rather wonder that there be no more For how can it be so long as there be so many abuses in the Ministry but that many shall stumble and loath the Gospel for from hence as it is manifest the chief cause of this evil doth spring True it is that our ministry doth fight against them but in such sort that it doth greatly encrease them seeming and pretending to tread upon these Cockatrice eggs for to break them and to destroy utterly the Viperous generation when as indeed they sit upon them and so hatch the brood of this evil kind and bring them forth in great plenty for behold a number cry out against Popery and proclaim utter defiance in speech but their doings are such that for every one they convert to the Gospel they cause an hundred to revolt to be hardned in their errors or to fall into flat Atheism while many contrary to the profession which they made when they entred

More Work FOR THE DEAN In a Brief Answer to some Scandalous Reports Published by Dr. STILLINGFLEET in his Book Entituled An Impartial Account of the History Nature and Pleas of the present Separation from the Communion of the Church of England against some of the Lords faithful Servants namely Mr. Henry Barrow Mr. John Greenwood Mr. John Penry who by the Bishops means after long Imprisonment were put to death contrary to Queen Elizabeths mind in the year 1593 because they refused Communion with the Church of England by reason of the many Popish Corruptions in the Ministry and Worship retained therein And also for bearing their Testimony against the same which is still the Cause many Thousand Protestants refuse Communion with the Church of England at this day As likewise here is word for word the Petition of those persecuted Christians wherein is shewed the Barbarous Usage of the Bishops to them Together with the Refutation of the then Esteemed Bishop of Winchester's Blasphemous Doctrine by Mr. Henry Barrow with the Description of the true Church of God according to Christs Testament by the whole Church at London whom the Doctor calleth Brownists with the reason why they were so Nick-named by their Enemies Very needful for all true Protestants to know By Thomas Wall Prov. 31. 8. Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such a● are appointed to destruction LONDON Printed for William Marshall at the Bible in Newgate-street 1681. To the most Noble and Sincere hearted Protestants Grace Mercy and Peace be multiplied IT may seem a thing very strange in nature for a Lamb without fear to meet a Lyon in the open field As it was in Little David when by faith he Encountered with great Goliah the Champion of the Pblistines even so it may seem strange to some that so mean an instrument shall without fear meet Dr. Stillingfleet fo great a Champion in the open field But seeing he hath with Goliah despised or desied that little flock of Christ's faithful Servants the heavenly Armies of the living God therefore I cannot keep silent having with David the Lord on my side his Truth for my Sword and Buckler therefore for the Honour of the Lord Jesus Christ and love I bear to all his Servants I shall herein defend the Rights and Prerogatives of my Lord and Saviour That he is the only Archbishop Lord Spiritual and Lawgiver to his Church in all things appertaining to the worship of his Father And shall stand by the same testimony which any of the Lords Servants have born against the Doctor and all the Canons of his Church to the contrary Secondly Among all the Enemies of Gods people the most wicked'st are those that under the Visage of Christianity would be reckoned among the Lords Protestant people in word declaring they are on Christs side but in their Works and Writings manifest their hatred against him and all his faithful Servants for no other cause but by manifesting their love to Christ in keeping his Commandment in Gods Worship and bearing their testimony against all mens inventions to the contrary such an enemy hath the Doctor manifested himself to be to the Christians herein mentioned in the false Reports published against them to the Defamation of their persons their Writings and the Truth they professed and maintained as is hereafter plainly discovered concerning their Faith in the Description of the true Church of God with all her Officers and in what order Christ hath commanded in his Testament for them to walk therein with Church State Ministry together with its holy Order I desire the Doctor to compare with his Church and Ministry and then declare to the world which he believeth in his conscience is the true Church of God If God be pleased to open his eyes and carry him above all earthly Wisdom by his Spirit unto an exceeding high Mountain the height Rev. 21. 10. of Israel to behold the City filled with the glory of God and unless God doth be his Ezek. 17. 22 23. 40. 2. Rev. 21. 11. Eccl. 10. 15. help he with the Apostate Israelites will still weary himself and not know how to find the way to the City in which City by the Canon or holy Rules thereof Christ hath appointed for her Officers Pastors Teachers Elders and Deacons Ephes 4. But the 7th Canon of the Doctors Church saith Whosoever shall affirm that the Government of that Church by Archbishops Bishops Deans Archdeacons and the rest that do bear office is Antichristian or repugnant to the word of God let him be excommunicated ipso facto and so continue until he repent and publickly revoke his wicked Errors Christ Jesus hath appointed the whole form of Gospel-worship to be learned out of his Testament and that it be agreeable to the Isa 8. 20. Act. 20. 27. same upon pain of all the Curses in Gods Book to him that addeth or diminisheth to Rev. 22. 18. Prov. 30. 6. or from But the 4th Canon of the Doctors Church saith Whosoever shall affirm that the form of Gods worship established by Law and contained in the book of Common-prayer is a corrupt and superstitious or unlawful worship of God or containeth any thing in it that is repugnant to the Scriptures let him be excommunicated ipso facto and such like wherein is preferred the Traditions and Orders of men to be equal to the inspired Rules in Christs Testament Now let me ask the Doctor whether he believeth in his conscience that when he cometh to appear before the Lord Jesus the chief Judg that he shall be judged for the breach of his Church Canons or for the breach of Christs Canons in his Testament seeing the word of God telleth us that whatsoever man that hath engaged himself to be a worshipper of God and shall break the holy Rules in Worship he hath promised to keep and after Gods order by brethren used for his recovery Matth. 18. if he stand obstinate then that which the Church by the Rules of Christ doth by excommunicating him on earth is confirmed in heaven but the curse for the breach of mans Canons in worship though pretended to God in worship is the curse causeless which shall not come Prov. 26. 2. But the curse turn'd into a blessing upon all that do Rev. 22. 11. to wit the Commandments of the Lord Jesus they only have right to the Tree of life and may enter in through the gates in the City So that it is not enough for the Doctor to think it is sufficient for him or his hearers to believe verbally that Christ is the Son of God come in the flesh as the only foundation of Religion but they that do expect salvation by Christs Merits must not only believe he is the Son of God but by their obedience confess the same that as a Son was he faithful in his house or Church as Moses the Prophet like unto Moses the only Law-giver for Gospel

setting aside the care of souls not esteeming nor regarding what became of them study most how to climb high and to satisfie their ambitious desires of honour raking together Livings cove● ously and greedily not caring who feed the flock so they may come by the fleece Moreover the door hath been opened also to let into the Church a rout and swarm of such as are more like the priests of Jeroboam than ministers of the Gospel not only unlearned Idols which have mouths and speak not which being weary of their occupation and covet to live easily and to that end entred but also riotous dicers gamesters quaffers quarrellers adulterers and such like if the matter were secret I should do amiss to make it manifest but when it is open in the sight and view of all men who can complain justly Now let the Reader observe thus saith the Apostle If one of themselves even a prophet of their own saith it therefore this witness is true Tit. 1. 12 13. and indeed what have many of their ministers said less in the first and second admonition to the Parliament in the 13. year of Q. Elizabeth's reign 1530. p. 49. in these words What encouragement and favour have they shewed the Papists when the Papists have been complained upon how have they opened their ears meaning the Bishops to their complaints against the ministers and shut their ears when the Papists have been complained upon yea some have said that conformable Papists were more tollerable than these Precisians and godly men that seek for Reformation Who be their Chancellors but most suspected Papists And where have they their most countenance but of the Bishops I hear not of one of them but is a briber Who be their Sumners but very Varlets What are their Canonists but suspected Papists They wring their brethren if they be Gods children and let the papists go scot-free or be punished but lightly And what more is expresly forbidden in the Scriptures than those names and offices which Christ hath forbidden his ministers to be called gracious Lords Luke 21. 25. 28. and many such things worth the observing by all those that have the Book by them Thus I hope it is sufficiently proved that it is not liberty of conscience that is the cause Popery hath increased in this land but the gross abuses in the Doctors Church and Ministry Moreover if the Lord of old was not against liberty of conscience in things spiritual who compelled not the Gibeonites Hittites Gergashistes or unclean Israelites that lived in the Lords Land to keep his Fast or Feast or to do any part of his worship by the Civil Sword no more it is the mind of God under the Gospel Josh 16. 10. Lev. 15. 44. 2 Cor. 7. 8. neither could the Doctor have been so ignorant of that or so plain a Gospel doctrine if his study were spent as much in the book of God as in History for as much as Christ Jesus Creator and Lord of the whole earth hath divided it freely to all Nations under the whole heavens to dwell therein and appointed the bounds of their habitations Gen. 10. 32. Acts 17. 26. and accordingly Christ hath expounded the parable that the field is the world Mat. 13. 38. wherein the good seed children of the kingdom and the tares children of the wicked one are allowed by Christ to grow together though not in the Church Mat. 18. 17. 1 Cor. 5. Prov. 25. 4 5. Gen. 4. 6. Gal. 4. 30. but in the field unless the Doctor thinks the whole world be the Church until the Harvest or end of the world for the Lord doth cause his Sun to shine on the evil and the good and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust how then dare mortal man by persecution debar his fellow creatures from the liberty given them of God so long as they do to all men as they would have others do to them but when they do otherwise contrary to the second table of Gods law the Magistrate beareth not the sword in vain Rom. 13. 4. For he is the minister of God a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doth evil surely then it may be said to such that seek to have their brethren persecuted they do therein as it were call for fire to come down from heaven to destroy them Luke 9. 54. unto such Christ saith they know not what spirit they are of for who is he O man that maketh thee to differ from another 1 Cor. 4. 7. or hast thou any good in thee since thy fall that thou hast not received therefore man ought to know that it is God only which perswadeth Japhet to dwell in the tents of Shem Gen. 9 27. so that to force men to be religious before God giveth them faith is to make a Church of hypocrites such as all persecuting spirits are and this spirit was ever seen in Lordly Prelates and their accomplices as by woful experience the fore-named Christians felt whom the Dr. hath reproached as it is to be seen in a Petition in Q. Elizabeths days they presented to the Parliament aforementioned seasonable in this day for all Protestants to be acquainted with concerning the Bishops cruelty to the Nonconformists then that would neither touch tast nor handle any popish tradition or corruption either in Ministry or Worship The Petition word for word as followeth The humble most earnest and lamentable Complaint and Supplication of the persecuted Church and Servants of Christ called Brownists THE most high God possessor of heaven and earth bringeth at this present before your Lordships and Wisdoms Right Honourable his own cause his own people and his own sworn and most treacherous enemies together with the most shameful usage of his truth and servants that ever hath been heard of in the days of Sions professed peace and tranquility His cause and people he offereth unto your consideration and defence in our profession and persons his enemies and their outrage against his truth and servants in the persons and bloody proceedings of the Prelates of the Land and their Complices We profess the same faith and truth of the Gospel which her Majesty and your Honours the whole Land and all the Reformed Churches under heaven this day do hold and maintain we go beyond them being our only fault even in the judgments of our tyrannical and most savage enemies in the detestation of all Popery that most fearful Antichristian Religion and draw nearer in some points by our practice unto Christs holy order and institution this is our faith this is our cause in our sinful hands and for the profession and maintenance of which faith the forenamed enemies of God detain in their hands within the prisons about London not to speak of other Gaols throughout the Land about threescore and twelve persons men and women young and old lying in cold in hunger in dungeons in irons of which number they have taken the Lords day last past being the

perverted e every one here hath freedom and power not disturbing the peaceable order of the Church to utter his complaints and griefs and freely to reprove the transgression and errors without exception of persons a 2 Cor. 2. 17. 3 John 9. b 1 Tim. 4. 2 3. and 5. 21. and 6. 14. Gal. 6. 12. c 1 Cor ●5 d Jer. 23. 28. 1 Tim. 3. 15. e 1 Cor. 6. and 14. 30. Col. 4. 17. Here is no a intrusion or climbing up another way into the sheepfold than b by the holy and free election of the Lords holy and free people and that according to the Lords Ordinance humbling themselves by fasting and prayer before the Lord craving the direction of his holy Spirit for the trial and approving of Gifts c. a Joh. 10. 1. b Acts 1. 23. and 6. 3. and 14. 23. Thus they orderly proceed to Ordination by fasting and prayer in which a action the Apostles used laying on of hands Thus hath every one of the people interest in the election and ordination of their Officers as also in the administration of their Offices upon b transgression offence abuse c. having an especial care unto the inviolable order of the Church as is aforesaid a 1 Tim. 4. 14. and 5. 22. b Luk. 17. 3. Rom. 16. 17. Col. 4. 17. Likewise in this Church they have holy a Laws as limits and bonds which it is lawful at no hand to transgress They have Laws to direct them in the choice of every Officer what kind of men the Lord will have Their Pastour must be apt to b teach no young Schollar c able to divide the word aright d holding fast that faithful word according to Doctrine that he may be able also to exhort rebuke improve with wholfom Doctrine and to convince them that say against it● He must be e a man that loveth goodness he must be wise righteous holy temperate he must be of life unreprovable as Gods Steward he must be generally well reported of and one that ruleth his own houshould under obedience with all honesty he must be modest humble meek gentle and loving he must be a man of great f patience compassion labour and diligence he must always be careful and watchful over the flock whereof the Lord hath made him overseer with all willingness and chearfulness not holding his office in respect of persons but doing his duty to every soul as he will answer before the chief Shepherd c. a Matt. 5. 19. 1 Tim. 1. 18. b Deut. 33. 10. Mal. 2. 7. 1 Tim. 3. 1 c. c 2 Tim. 2. 15. d Tit. 1. 9. 2 Tim. 4. 2. e Tit. 1. 7 8. f Numb 12. 3 7 Isa 50. 4 5 6. Jer. 3. 15. Ezek. 34. 18. Acts 20. 1 Pet. 5. 1 2 3 4. 1 Tim. 5. 21. Their Doctor or Teacher must be a man apt to teach able to divide the Word of God aright and to deliver sound and wholesom Doctrine from the same still building upon that sound ground work he must be mighty in the Scriptures able to convince the gainsayers and careful to deliver his Doctrine pure sound and plain not with curiosity or affectation but so that it may edifie the most simple approving it to every mans Conscience he must be of life unreprovable one that can govern his own houshould he must be of manners sober temperate modest gentle and loving c. 1. Tim. 3. Titus 1. 2 Tim. 2. 15. 1 Cor. 17. and 2 4. Their Elders must be of wisdom and judgment endued with the Spirit of God able to discern between cause and cause between plea and plea and accordingly to prevent and redress evils always vigilant and intending to see the Statutes Ordinances and Laws of God kept in the Church and that not only by the people in obedience but to see the Officers do their duties These men must be of life likewise unreprovable governing their own families orderly they must be also of manners sober gentle modest loving temperate c. Numb 11. 24 25. 2 Chron. 19. 8. Acts 15. 1 Tim. 3. and 5. chap. Their Deacons must be men of honest report having the mystery of the saith in a pure conscience endued with the Holy Ghost they must be grave temperate not given to excess nor to filthy lucre Acts 6. 3. 1 Tim. 3. 8 9. Their Relievers or Widows must be women of Sixty years of age at the least for avoiding of inconveniences they must be well reported of for good works such as have nourished their Children such as have not been harbarous to Strangers diligent and service able to the Saints compassionate and helpful to them in adversity given to every good work continuing in supplications and prayers night and day 1 Tim. 5. 9 10. These Officers must first be duely proved then if they be found blameless administer c. 1 Tim. 3. 10. Now as the persons gifts conditions manners life and proof of these Officers is set down by the Holy Ghost so are their Offices limited severed and divers 1 Cor. 12. 12 18 28. The Pastours office is to feed the sheep of Christ in green and wholesom pastures of his Word and lead them to the still waters even to the pure Fountain and River of life He must guide and keep those sheep by that heavenly sheephook and pastoral staff of the Word thereby drawing them to him thereby looking into their souls even into their most secret thoughts Thereby discerning their diseases and thereby curing them applying to every disease a fit and convenient medicine and according to the quality and danger of the disease give warning to the Church that they may orderly proceed to excommunication Further he must by this his sheephook watch over and defend his flock from ravenous beasts and the Wolf and take the little Foxes c. Psal 23. Lev. 10. 10 11. Numb 18. 1. Ezek 44. 23 and 33 and 34. Joh. 21. 15. Acts 20. 28. 1 Pet. 5 1. 4 Zach. 11. 7. Rev. 22. 2. Luk. 12. 42. 2 Cor. 10. 4 5. Heb. 4. 12. John 10. 11 12. Song 2. 15. The Doctors Office is already set down in his description His special care must be to build upon the only true groundw●ork gold silver and precious stones that his work may endure the trial of the fire and by the light of the same fire reveal the Timber Hay and Stubble of false Teachers he must take diligent heed to keep the Church from errors And further he must deliver his Doctrine so plainly simply and purely that the Church may increase with the increasing of God and grow up unto him which is the Head Christ Jesus 1 Cor. 3. 11 12. Levit. 10. 10. Ezek. 33. 1 2 c. and 44. 24. Mal. 2. 6. 1 Cor. 3. 11. 1 Cor. 1. 17. 1 Tim. 4. 16. and 6. 20. Ephes 2. 20. Heb. 6. 1. 2 Pet. 2. 2. The Office of the Ancients is expressed in their description Their especial care must be to see the

the sincerity of the Gospel let us remember that great is our reward in heaven if we endure unto the end I testifie unto you for mine own part as I shall answer before Jesus Christ and his elect Angels that I never saw any truth more clear and undoubted than this witness wherein we stand first against false Offices 2. Callings 3. Works 4 Maintenance left and retained in the Land and I thank my God I am not only ready to be bound and banished but even to dye in this cause by his strength Yea my brethren I greatly long in regard of my self to be dissolved and to live in the blessed kingdom of heaven Thus having from my heart with tears performed it may be my last duty towards you all in this life and remember to stand fat and faithful in Jesus Christ as you have received him unto your immortality and confirm and establish you to the end for the praise of his glory Amen The 24th of the 4th month April 1593. He suffer'd death May 24. next after Now if these be not with his former testimonies sufficient to clear Mr. Penry from the Doctors calumniations all written we see a little before his death I shall add a third testimony which as Solomon saith a threesold cord is not easily broken even the last words to his Wife when close prisoner looking every day to be carried to the place of Execution all in print presently after his death and yet to be seen at this day in these words To my beloved Wife Hellen or Penry partaker with me in this life of the sufferings of the Gospel in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ and resting with me in undoubted hope of the glory that shall be revealed all strength comfort with all other spiritual blessings be multiplied through Jesus Christ our Lord I see my beloved my blood is layed for so my days and testimony is drawing to an end for ought I know and therefore you so dear a sister and so loving a wife in the Lord as you have been unto me first then I beseech you stand fast in the truth which you and I profess at this present in much outward discomfort and danger let your soul and your body be far from those Assemblies which yield either known or secret submission unto the ordinance of the beast that is to receive his marks either in the right hand or in the forehead as the spirit of God saith Rev 13. 16. for this are you forbidden to do under the pain of Gods eternal wrath Rev. 14. 9 10 11. 2 Cor. 6. 14 15. 16. 1 Cor. 3. 16 17. Rev. 22 18 19. Deut. 12. 30 31 32. Again my beloved continue a member of the holy society whereof you and I are where the Lord in his Ordinances reigneth for here and in all such Assemblies the Lord dwelleth by his presence and power of his spirit Mat. 18. 2. ●●and 28. 20. and 29. 45 Lev. 26. 11 12 here he is a mighty protector and defonce ready at hand Isa 26. 1. and 4. 6. and his Ordinances you know hath he greatly commanded to be kept and observed Psal 119. 14. 1 Cor. 11. 1. 1 Tim. 6. 14. and the loving-kindness of the Eternal is for ever and ever towards them and their seed that remember to do them Psal 103. 17 18. whereas all those are accursed that err from his statutes and diminish from the obedience they owe unto his Majesty Psal 119. 2. Rev. 22. 9. Psal 119 118. I pray you work all these places with all such like in the word against those that make a slight matter either to walk in the ways of God or to be subject to small corruptions as they account them Be armed with the power of the word against all such lying delusions 2 Cor. 6. 14 15. 2 Thes 2. 9. In conclusion my dear wife and sister look not at any earthly thing consecrate your self wholly both body and soul husband children and whatsoever you have unto the Lord your God let them not be dearer unto you than his worship and service know it know it to be an unspeakable preferment for you that he vouchsafed to take either your self or any of yours to suffer affliction with him and his Gospel here on earth Luke 8 29 30. Mat. 19. 29. I am perswaded that you have undergone the profession of the truth set down by our Saviour Luke 14. 26 27. that is to hate all in respect of his Gospel fear not want of outward things for the Lord careth for you and yours remember what is set down Heb. 11. 5. Luk. 12. 31. the Lord is my God and yours and the God of our seed Thus with many sweet and heavenly admonitions and advice he saith I got means this day to write thus much unto you whereof no creature knoweth therefore in great haste with many tears yet in great spiritual comfort of soul your husband now for a season and your beloved brother for evermore John Penry an unworthy soldier sure of the victory in the blood of the Lamb 1 Cor. 15. 57. Rev. 12. 11. salute the whole Church from me especially those in bonds meaning those 56. members of the Church in London taken on a Lords day as they were serving God Now of the barbarous usage they sustained by the bishops I shall after herein set down word for word as themselves have declared in a Petition they presented then to the Parliament In the mean time let me beseech the Christian Reader impartially to judg by this testimony of Mr. Penry left behind him yet to be seen though printed in the year he suffered whether that Report the Doctor hath published to defame a worthy servant of Christ for no other cause but because he as well as other of the Lords servants contended against the ministry of lordly Prelates not once named in Christs testament and that Protest ants should not perswade themselves they were true worshippers of God until they had expelled out from among them the many corruptions in ministry and ordinances the neglect of which good work still calleth for the judgments of God to come on the Nation as was in a second Warning piece a few months ago proved to be the chief cause still why God is bringing his severe judgments on these three Protestant Nations presented to the late Parliament And now to add to all the former causes of Gods judgments threatned to follow Mr. Hildersham's footsteps the Doctor is not content to satisfie himself with that false report but to imitate him in publishing that scandalous name Brownist on all those people unto which scandalous name to shew the Doctor his false or rather his malicious spirit in saying Mr. Brown was one of those people I shall here for the Readers satisfaction set down what Answer to this Mr. Johnson Pastor of the people returned to Mr. Hildersham and Mr. Jacob both the Bishops ministers As for the name Brownist by which we are