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cause_n	call_v	father_n	holy_a	1,482	5	5.1201	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81535	A discovery of the great fantasie, or, Phantasticall conceitednesse. That is to say, of the antichristian blindnes of those, that out of a meer false imagination and phantasticall conceitednesse, do hold themselves to be Christians, sprituall divines, deputies and messengers or spokes-men of Christ, and take upon them, as mediatours, to save others, whom they call the secular lay-men; therewithall, reviling, traducing, condemning, excommunicating, persecuting, exiling, and putting to death the true children of God, for not yeelding unto this phantasie of theirs, conceiving, that therein they do God great service, when they busie themselves in weeding the ground thus, according to their phantasies, and endeavouring to save the angels a labour against the time of the harvest. Together with a discovery of the great arch-whore, and her paramours or lovers, whereof the spirit of God beareth witnesse.		1642 (1642)	Wing D1651; Thomason E124_28; ESTC R6001	19,094	24

another and let this be a sure mark and character when thy Preachers tell thee that the kingdom of God is to be sought with them in their stone Churches in their Pubpits in the Chancell of confession and in the Lords Supper or at the Communion inveighing and railing withall against those that do not condemne the gathering of the congregations to heart the Word but onely blame and speaks against the false opinions and maintain with Christ that the kingdom of God is within man and that the Christians are the true Temples and dwelling houses of God the holy Ghost I say again be sure then Luk. 17.20 1 Cor. 6.19 Hebr. 3.6 that such are the many Phantasticks and false Prophets Antichristian and diabolicall Teachers and if thou suffer thy self to be deluded and conceited by their means that repairing to them in their Churches in thy carnall wayes and conditions and so hearing them and fetching the pardon of thy sins from them for money an Alms or some other outward respect thou hast there performed thy service unto God art reconciled with God hast been in the kingdom of God and at his great Supper and yet dost not find the kingdom of God in thine own heart and soul but goest on still in the old vanity of thy carnall courses Ioh. 14.21 2 Ioh. 5. according to the lusts of this world then thou art a Phantastick as they and mig●tily deceived for not those that heart the Word here or there from without but they that have it in their hearts that keep and do accord●ng to it and live no more in th●mselves and their own desires but in Christ in God and according to the will of God and likew●se do love one another from the heart in all uprightnesse and sinceritie th●se are the children of God in whom Christ doth dwell as in his house and T●mple Hebr. 3.6 2 Cor. 3.16 and guide and govern them by his holy and blessed Spirit As for those other although they shall say Lord have we not done great deeds in thy Name Have we not made excellent and powerfull Sermons driven out Devils have we not been constant daily and diligent frequenters of the Church have we not often confessed our selves and gone to receive the Communion and absolution and pardon of our sins by thy vicegerents this is the sentence they shall be doomed withall Get ye hence ye workers of iniquitie Matth. 7.21 22 23. I never knew you yet for none shall enter into the kingdom of heaven but such as do the will of my Father Now to speak of the Bond of Brotherly love in the Unity of the Spirit which is the Bond of Perfectnesse whereby the true children of God do love their very enemies and do good unto them for when all things shall cease yet love is to abide still and it is the onely infallible character of the children of God and Christs disciples But God himself is love 1 Cor. 13. Ioh. 13.34 1 Ioh. 4 17. and without him none can love either God or his neighbour Therefore true Christian love proceedeth from the gracious inhabiting of Christ who by his blessed spirit Rom. 5.4 Ioh. 16. doth powre out the love in our hearts which overcometh all crosses and afflictions and can be seperated from God by nothing Rom. 8.35 39. Consider and see now I pray whether thou canst trace out love in thy Preachers Verily if thou do not sufficiently honour them and fill their hands Luk. 20.45 46. or if thou discover but in the least degree or winke that thou dost not hold and esteam of them as of the Vicegerents of Christ Matth. 25. and such as are able to pardon thy sins or if thou agree and assent not unto their Phantastick opsnions but endeavour rather to draw and direct both them and thy neighbour out of a tender and brotherly heart unto that which is good even 1 Cor. 11.3.5 with Paul to Christ himself not assent to those Men or self-authorized Vicegerents thou shalt soon discover what love there is in them and by whom they are inhabited for they do testifie it by the practise of their abominable slandering reviling excommunicating condemning irritating and enraging of the silly multitudes that the Word and the Love of God have no dwelling in them Ioh. 5.41.38 ● Take a view of Love throughout St. Johns Epistle and according to that examine and try both thy self and Preacher then thou shalt be soon and easily able to discern between upright Christians and those Phantasticks or hypocrites and beware of giving credit to it that any one can be a Christian that walketh not in love 1. Ioh. 3. for he that loveth not hath not God abiding in him and he that hath not Christ in himself but notwithstanding his worldly course and conversation presumeth to comfort himself in the immaginarie conceitednesse of a false-Opinion-saith with the Merit of Christ the same doth deceive and delude both himself and others Therefore prove and try thy self and learn to discern and discover the Phantastery of th●se that conceive they may love both God and their neighbour well enough without Christs true inhabiting of them And by reason hereof now turn thy self unto God the source or stream and fountain of love 1 Ioh. 4.17 Ioh. 6.44 follow his drawings whither both M●●●s the Prophets and all the Apostles yea Christ himself and like●ise all sincere and upright Teachers and Preachers do lead and direct thee Psal 8.5 and so thou shalt find the Love of the Father to arise within thee by his living Word and thy heart seasoned and possessed throughly Rom 5.5 by this Love as the holy Ghost without which LOVE it will be utterly impossible for thee to love God and thy Neighbour for all perfect gifts do come from him as from the Father of lights Iam. 1.16 One thing more thou art to be minded of viz. that these modern Phantasts do mightily defame and vilifie as they conceive the true children of God by terming and calling them Enthusiasts But know that Enthusiasta in the Greek tongue doth signifie a man endewed with divine power governed and acted by the Spirit of God as were in former times the Prophets and Apostles and as all Saints and holy persons yet are according to the measure which the Spirit vouchsafeth unto them for which cause the World a●so doth account and call them distracted and stark mad f●ols and Bedlams Whereas indeed these are even they whom Christ together with his Father and the holy Spirit Ioh. 14.24 is come in unto having made there abode within them that same Spirit teacheth and lead●th them Ioh. 15.16.18 whom the world cannot receive neither see him And he doth dwell in them as in a holy Temple and thereby they are partakers of the divine nature 1 Cor. 3.16 2 Pet. 1.4 and members of the body of Christ flesh and bone of his flesh