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A87004	A discovery of the latitude of the loss of the earthly paradise by original sin. Occasioned by a disputation betwixt Mr. Matthias Rutton, min: of Boughton Munchalse in Kent, and the author hereof; branched out in these particulars, as followeth: I. First, an examination of his apologetical letter, with a full answer thereunto. II. Secondly, six arguments to prove that original sin exposed Adam and his posterity but to the first death. III. Thirdly, a discovery of the false and corrupted ministers by ten characters. IV. Fourthly, a discovery of the true ministers by ten characters. / By George Hammon, pastor to the Church of Christ meeting in Biddenden in Kent.	Hammon, George.	1655 (1655)	Wing H502; Thomason E1680_1; ESTC R209154	79,445	216

The first is Infants Baptism which never had a footing in Gods Word nor their Custom which is of late by sprinkling Another Tradition of Man is their separating from their antient Churches as they so call it and make a kinde of new Garment with old Cloth my meaning is this that many of the best sort of Priests as they so think themselves although I look upon them to be the very worst separate from their antient Church for all they own their Fundamentals to be true both in Faith and Practice will not the old Episcopals rise up in Judgement and condemn you O yee wise Presbyters that have learned to separate from a Church true in Fundamentals as you say when Shee fails in no hing but Circumstance is this not getting out of one shape into another and yet still hold correspondency with the Customs of the Limes would you not fain shape your selves into the likeness of the Gospel Ministery if you could No marvel for Sathan also would transform himself into an Angel of Light and thus by your Traditions you make voyd the Commandement of Christ which did not command the Minister of the Church of Pergamus to separate from the aforesaid Church although some of them held the Doctrin of Balaam and also of the Nicolaitans but that which he was to do was to repent and help reform Time would bee too short for me to speak of your old Traditions even the Customs of the Church of England and your crossings in Baptisms and such foolish tricks which you your self are almost ashamed of although it be part of your Trade by which you have had your living or your Traditions whereby you have deceived Souls for many Generations The second Character by the which you may know a false Minister is They are such as are Men-pleasers they will speak as great men will have them speak that thereby they may keep in favour with them howsoever this you may see by Ahabs false Prophets in that of 2 Chron. 18.10 and thereby will be a means to imprison the true if it be possible as you may see Vers 23 24 25. Chap. 24.20 21. Also see it pertinent in Jerem. 27.14 15 16. So are also our corrupted Ministers in the time of the Gospel the Priest-hood there were the cause of Christs being taken and the Ministers of the Gospel to suffer and so it is in our days the Priest-hood get in favour with the great men of the times and by their means the Ministers of the Gospel and the rest of their poor afflicted Brethren suffer both in Person and Estate as by that Human Tradition of theirs as namely Tithes or forced Maintenance which never was appointed by God for the maintenance of a Gospel-Minister The third Character whereby you may know the false corrupt Ministers Christ tells you in Matth. 7. They come in sheeps cloathing but inwardly they are ravening Wolves that is to say they make the people beleeve that they are the Ministers of Christ and have great care of the Flock but inwardly they are ravening Wolves that is in their hearts they intend to make a prey of the flock so that their greatest care is for to get the fleece although they pretend great care of the flock and they may be very well likened to the false Prophets of Old that the Lord complains against Jer. 13.4 O Israel thy Prophets are like the Foxes in the Desart yee have not gone up in the gaps neither made up the hedges for the House of Israel they did not care to come where there was any work for them to do but every one looked for gain in his quarter wherefore the Lord cals those Priests of old greedy Doggs that will never have enough Even so it is with the Priesthood in our days they stand not up in the gap to defend their cause neither to safe-guard their people from the Wolves as they call them Peradventure you hear them often rail in their Pulpits but if they meet any of them that they call Wolves although many of their flock be there present they will not stand in the gap to defend that which they call truth this makes it appear they are but Hirelings and care not for the flock but look after the fleece so that let their flock be where they will or do what they wil if they meet with them at Shering time it is as much as they care for The Fourth Character is You may know a false Prophet by the ignorance of their people they are such as lead silly women captive who are ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth This wee may see by the poor National people that go to Church as they so call it some forty fifty years and upwards and when all is done they can scarce render an account of the hope that is in them they know not as to say their right hand from their left in the things of God Obj. If it be Objected and said That it cannot be meant the Priests of the Nation because they that are reproved there are of that sort that creep into Houses which lead silly women captive which the Priests of the Nation think they are not and so lye not under that reproach Ans. To which I answer That the Scripture doth not reprove such as preach in Houses but such as creep into Houses but I shall a little shew you what creeping Creatures are and that I finde are Froggs Hence it came to pass that the Froggs of Aegypt did not abide in Pharaohs Court only but also they crope into his Kneadingtrougles and I finde in the sixteenth of the Revelations that those unclean spirits like Froggs went creeping unto the Kings of the earth to gather them together to Battel which hath been the trade of the Priest-hood all along to beget warre in the Nation to use the privatest and subtilest way to bring about their enterprise which may be called ereeping and further though they come not much amongst the poor of the flock in their Cottages yet in the Houses of the rich they will creep often enough The second thing in order to the answering of the Objection is this That Paul condemned not preaching in Houses for then he had condemned his own practice for he preached from House to House often and often in his own hired house as Acts 28.30 31. And further he tells them in Chap. 20. ver. 20. I have kept nothing back but have shewed you and taught you publickly and from house to house And Chap. eight and the last And in every house they ceased not to preach Jesus Christ So that they are not counted Leaders of silly women that preach from house to house or in their hired house but they are Leaders of sillly Women that creep into Houses as I have afore shewed you This might also serve to reprove another sort of false Prophets but I pass and hasten to the Fifth

of glory in the hand of the Lord and a royal Diadem in the hand of their God Isa. 62.3 And they shall call them the Holy People the redeemed of the Lord and thou shalt be called Sought out a City not forsaken vers. 12. So having shewed you by these Scriptures that the Jews shall return and build their City upon her own heap I shall now also shew you that there shall be a Temple built at the last and general return of the Jews from these three Reasons as followeth The First is from the Vision that the Lord shewed Ezekiel in the time of Israels Captivity for it is usual with the Lord to follow his people with Mercy so that in the valley of Achor there may bee a door of hope so the Lord dealt with John when he was driven into the Isle of Pathmos But to pass to Ezekiels Vision Wee may take notice that in the fortieth of Ezekiel 1 2 3 4 5. Verses that the Lord brought Ezekiel in a Vision into the Land of Israel and setting him upon an high Mount shewed him the frame of a City in the which City also he saw a man whose countenance was like Brasse and hee had also a measuring reed in his hand Moreover that this was a Prophecy of the last and general return see chap. 37.38 and that also without controversie Ezekiel did see a Temple built as well as a City as you may see proved already from Chap. 41.1 and vers. 4. from which we may see clearly there was a Temple and so as I said before so I say now read and consider well the three precedent Chapters and you shall see that it was the last and general return out of Captivity that there was Prophesied of from the same account it is clear That there is to be a Temple as well as a City Obj. If it be objected and said That there were Priests and Sacrifices mentioned in that Prophecie to that I answer and say It is true but after the Jews return out of their Captivity they shall wait for their Messiah in their Sacrifices untill such time as the Man of Sin shall spoyl them and take it away and place up abomination in the room for I cannot finde from Scripture that the Jews shall be converted by a Gospel-preaching although I know the two Witnesses shall prophecy one thousand two hundred and sixty days Now that these two Witnesses shal preach Gospel-Ordinances or a Crucified Christ Repentance and faith to the Jews in such a manner and way as he was or is preached to the Gentiles that I much question for as much as I see not the Scripture making good such a thing but in many places doth crosse such an Opinion as to my understanding for the Lord Christ said They should see him no more till they said Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord as for the Gospel they are enemies for your sake but as touching Election they are beloved for the Fathers sake for the Gifts and Callings of God are without repentance So that when they see the Lord come in the Clouds even the great King that they lookt for then they shall know that it was he that they and their Fathers have rejected as well as Peter knew Moses and Elias which he never saw before so that at that time the Spirit of Prayer and Supplication shall be poured out and they shall mourn So when the Redeemer cometh to Sion at that time shall transgression be turned from Iacob Matth. 23.39 Rom. 11.25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33. verses Isa. 27 6. compare vers. 9. chap. 25.7 8 9. Zech. 12.10 Moreover if it should be demanded of me What shall be the work of the two Witnesses I answer That their work will bee to establish the Iews against the slights of the Man of Sin that shall affirm himself to be the Christ and disswade the Iews from beleeving in him reviving those old Prophecies which have been in obscurity by reason of the mis-understanding of the people to whom they were made for doubtlesse the Iews at this time do earnestly expect their King and should they not have some to instruct them and to expound the Prophecies or Prophesie of them It is very like they might do ill enough especially because of that great appearance of the Man of Sin what by his great Armies and the false Signs that shall bee wrought by his false Prophets that shall cause Fire to come down from Heaven in the sight of men to deceive them that dwell upon the earth so that their work will not be to preach Ordinances but to prove that the great person that then shall be exalted amongst them is not the Christ that they look for but the Antichrist or the vile Person or the first Gog or the Man of Sin though he have several Names yet is he but one Person which was fore-told by Enoch the seventh from Adam and also by Ezekiel and Daniel Esay and Joel and also by Peter and John which was to stand up in the last days and also fall upon the Mountains of Israel and so I shall passe both from the Answer to the Objection and the first Reason and come to a Second to shew you why there is to be a Temple built as well as a City A second Reason is because Iohn in his Revelation saw a Temple and was to measure it Revel. 11.1 2 3. in these words And there was given to me a Reed like unto a Red and the Angel that stood by said Arise and go measure the Temple of God and the Altar and those that worship therein but the Court which is without the Temple leave out and measure it not for it is given into the hands of the Gentiles and the Holy City shall be trod under foot forty two Months Hence you may also see there was a Temple which Temple Iohn was to measure now that this was a Prophecie of the last times is clear from verse 18. and as the text reads it the Court without leave out and measure not the antient Translations read it the inner Court or the Court within the Temple leave out and measure it not for it is given into the hands of the Gentiles and the Holy City shall they tread under foot forty and two Months the which if so it may appear to us clearly That before the Iews have finished their inward Court which is the Holiest of Holiest the Man of Sin will take it out of their hands and spoyl them of the injoyment of it for the term of forty two Months which is three years and a half upon the account of thirty days to a Month the which time and times and half a time the travelling Woman will be drove into the Wilderness and the remnant of her seed persecuted and this vile Person shall then set up his Image which shall by the power of the Devil speak and cause as many