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A29268	God magnified, man dethroned presented to the Parliament, and synod of England : who sit as if judges for saints, as if leaders, and guides unto the generation of Jesus Christ, the body of the communion of God / by W. Bray.	Bray, William, 17th cent.	1647 (1647)	Wing B4302; ESTC R159	47,757	62

erroneous out of the fire with violence instead of feare malice hatred imprisonments bonds Endeavouring to pull others out of the fire and save others with a love respect affection to their fallible mutable garments spotted with the flesh But oh immutable unspotted undefiled God! thou who art able to present me faultless before the presence of thy glory with joy let me not be seperated from any or joyned to any when thou shalt seperate till thou seperatest and joynest that so seperation may be of thee uniting may be of thee and that I may hold forth the interior teachings the hidden unspeakeable mysterie of calling and enjoying Let me not walke according to the minde and will of the men of the world that are something and nothing that live and command according to the will of the flesh let me not walke according to the way of the wandring stars the wonders of the world of mountains of Thrones of Principalities and powers of the aire of the Gods of nations preistly Counsels and Magistrates of the earth chosen by men of the earth But oh Lord let my Exterior be what the Lord and not what the Lords will But methought I saw the preists of the nation in Pompe and glorie in kings Monarches and potentates Courts and methought I saw them instigating the Civill Magistrates of the world and I saw the persons and their waies to be the Preistly Lineage and the successours of the Lord Iesus his and his Apostles and Saints enemies who crucified the Lord Jesus did kill and slay the Apostles and Saints of the most high God and being convinced of the glorie power and truth of God manifested in those Apostles Saints did endeavour to extripate root them out from off the face of the earth made them to wander up down destitute afflicted and tormented And when they thought they had extinguished them and rooted them out of the world they stiled themselves the Apostles successours Ministers of the Lord Jesus and Priests of the high God like certain of the Jews Acts 19.13 yea Vagabond Jews Exorcists who tooke upon them to call over them that had evill spirits the name of the Lord Jesus whom Paul Preached But here I was cast into admiration why the world should ever the more admire the Preists of nations and their adherent that are the scourgers of Saints the incensers of Magistrates because they pretend to the Lord Jesus whom Paul did enjoy and whom Paul did preach But preists but Ministers of the Gospel as you call your selves though I can say in some measure Iesus Christ know somewhat by the power of that eternal spirit I know which Paul know But who are ye But though you are in my apprehension the great enemies of the Lord Jesus and though I shall be accounted an evill spirit by you a Devill or what not I would not insult over you though I had power over you But it 's I can onely say that many of you may be saved it 's the eternall absolute and onely wise can say you shall But yet I think you shall suffer the losse of your craft for many persecutors both before and in the Marian persecution became persecuted ones the Father called some of them from queenly fleshly carnall Antichristian glory to the fire I desire that you would not be offended with words for I profess seriously I speak not out of hatred but out of pitie to you that are in contrarietie to the Lord Jesus You often say you acknowledge a God therefore expect not that I should call you gods that have hands nor your works gods that are made with hands nor any or all your minds or understandings Gods even a whole Synod or Counsaile But the absolute supreame God shall be when you are not to be seen Time may be when your Craft as well as your predecessors craft may be set at nought and your gods and goddesses despised and all your magnificence destroyed though there were as many more eager and violent persecutors and worshippers are not you the cause whilst you have the power in your hands whilest you have the Kings Lords and Potentates of the earth to act for you that there is so great a stir about that way which you partiall fallible Judges call Heresie What though you cry out great is Diana of the Ephesians what though you are full of wrath and bitterness so that fire proceeds out of your mouth and as much malice envy and divellish contrariety to all except your selves as can be supposed to be in the most barbarous and cruell yet your Kingdom is not an everlasting Kingdom nor your Dominion an everlasting dominion but the supream infallible Judge will come gloriously will not tarry It is but a Marian Trick to persecute a poor man and to hale him or indeavour to bring him before you Commanders in chief your Magistracy and Counsels for Preaching as you call it I will acquaint you with one thing I providentially saw not long since in the Book of Martyrs of one Rawlins White a Fisher man of Cardiff who was burnt for an Heretick a little before the fire flasht up to his body many of his friends came to him and took him by the hand and one held held him till the flame arose and seperated friends but a Priest said it was not lawfull to take him by the hand for he was an Heretick and condemned by the Church I wonder Mr. Pryn doth not insert this as of divine Authority to prove the lawfulness of persecution and violence to be used to Hereticks But Nationall Ministers you are the Children or the Childrens Children of those that were so constituted and did Act according to an unjust papall way and as one sayth of them Cujus faetor usque ad nubes fumum teterrimum exhalabat whose filthy stinck did fume even to the Clouds of Heaven but indeed you did still indeavour to cloth your selves finer and finer to make the world wonder at you and think you were really for Reformation but be not deceived so as to think that God can be mocked and deluded though you finde men almost the whole world very facile and easie to be deluded with a lye with a fancy It was formerly wont to be said Agnus dei qui tollis peccata mundi miserere nobis but must we take it in this acceptation Synodus Dei qui tollis peccata mundi miserere nobis Oh the intolerable pride of Lucifer O the Vanity of the high Priests who are made by the power of the great God to confess they are not infallible yet act as if they were But methinks I see and behold I thank my eternall life and only wise God my Lord to laugh at the Lords my God at the Gods the and my absolute immutable perfect infallible informer and Reformer to laugh at the mutable non-absolute imperfect fallible Informers and Reformers but it may be these men may be sealed up to

be honoured and to be dishonoured to have evill report to have good report to be buffetted scorned contemned despised and to be counted the off-scouring of the world to be courteously entertained affected delighted in to be out of prison when I am in and to be in when I am out to have all things when I have nothing and to see only that all that eternall wise God alone when I have any thing if he shall call me to speak of himself that I may not live to any thing under the Sun for I see vanity in all things I desired that I might see and live in the eternall life in the life supereminent and if I shall be called amongst the called Gods and Lords that I might speak as seeing truly but one eternall God and Lord For all the Gods and Lords of the earth shall wax old lik a garment and shall be folded up like a vesture this I know and see by experience Thou Lord makest the lords of the earth their name to rot and their memory to perish and what shall be to them in their severall particulars everlastingly thou LORD knowest In companie I desire to see thee and to look up to thee in the understanding as if I had none that so I might see and not see behold and not behold be thou my alone companion Here in the world men love one another because they are as to one another according to sence but let me not be to any but to thee alone let my life as the Apostle said be in the flesh by the faith of the Son of God in the Spirit In this world none must speak of the God but that those the gods will approve of none must speak of the eternal immutable incondemnable but those whom the mutable condemnable dying Lords please none must declare the eternal God to the world but those whom the Ministers or Synods of Nations or the Gods of the Nation pleaseth But if thou absolute infallible minister ministrests to me if thou committest a word unto me inflame me and let me be thy flame in the spirit though the world indeavour to drown to quench thy glory in me But if I am not manifested by thee let my hiding place be in thee and of thee so that let manifestation and cessation to be and not to be and again to be be all of thee who hast times and seasons comprehended in thy self But Lord if the lords of the earth imprison me visit me in the understanding and lay not if it be thy will that sin to their charge for I desire not to have pleasure in their horror when hel and death seizes upon them I desire not to be taken up with them nor to live unto them nor to rejoyce in their pains for I desire not to live unto my own pleasure in me nor any pleasure to me but be affected with pain to me from them if thou wilst it But let me wholly live to thee but Lord thy will be done for all things are of thee all things are for thee all things are to thee though particulars see it not 15. If it be supposed as there is great probability to suppose or if it hath been and be known as by experience that Magistrates Lords Potentates Counsellours Priests yea high Priests are swearers drunkards oppressors walkers after their own lusts blasphemous fallible men will-worshippers having none as they say to rule them contemners and despisers of that which is good unless it be from a Priest from a Carpenters son from a fisherman then Lords are you competent Judges May not a man say to you when you would punish such a one as you call a Heretick though a man doth not countenance Heresie no more then Christ did countenance adultery in the woman when they would have had her stoned Let him that is without sin cast the first stone at her so you that are without Heresie or without the same Heresie for many times expressions of formality do make a difference cast the first stone imprison destroy banish or take away the lives of those you call Hereticks whose life perhaps may be better then ten thousand of yours But precious in the sight of the Lord though not of the Lords is the death of his Saints but you may do such a thing in your dayes that you may never blot out of your consciences at such a time when you shall not be able to redeem your selves or others with ten Thousands of Gold or Silver or ten Thousand Rams or ten Thousand Rivers of Oyl or the first fruit of your body for the sin of your soul But the Will supereminent indescribable is that there must be persecutors and persecuted crucifiers and crucified Lords and high Priests look to your selves if you can God hath chosen the poor of the world rich in faith not many mighty not many rich not many Noble c. I exclude not all What eternity hath done that it self knows 16. A man for what he doth especially in a business of high concernment had need be infallible be absolutely resolved it is the minde of God as in Jesus Christ for if you live not to the supream Originall according to the of knowledg God you judge the things so God with your own mindes you judge the supream so that it may be said as well that the lords Judge the Lord as that the Lord judges the lords But ye will not say so will ye neither wil you say you think so but whether you say or think so you do so 17. If you are infallible your infallibility must proceed from the most high immediately truly and understandingly if you will declare things without the Scriptures as you say you will not if you will be absolute Judges if you will have Hereticks depart out of your coasts if you will have them banished according to the minde of a Synodean Minister who declared himself so to me if you your selves are your own teachers you will not say you are infallible if the pretended Ministers of the Lord Jesus are your teachers they will not alwaies be so audacious thanks be to the most High to say that they are infallible so that you shall finde great cause to confess you are at a loss 18. If your infallibility depends upon the understanding of the Scriptures and so you as you say will walk according to the Scriptures you must have the infallible Teacher to teach according to them what is mysterious and what not to distinguish between the mysticall and the plain if you acknowledge that there is a plain and a mysticall and so to be more infallible distinguishers then others Suppose a Noble man should send a Letter to one that hath been an intimate friend of his in the Kings Army and they having had precedent intimacy know the minde one of another by this Letter but when this Letter is intercepted and comes to the hands of others every man interprets this

Letter as he pleaseth would you not esteem it an indignity when the supream Judge shall come to judge the world as the Apostle saith according to his Gospel when the supream God shall averr in the interiorest and say that indeed he sent his Son and anointed him with the Oyl of gladness above his fellows and gave him the spirit not by measure so that unmeasurableness and mysticalness was manifested in him and by him and he spake to a few Saints and gathered by the power of the Spirit a few poor men to teach the mysteries of Christ but there was one William Pryn Esquire a Lawyer I will not say Saint Pryn and the Lords of the earth and the Synods of the world proved interpreters with their own lusts according to their formall artificiall terms of distinction and so they said this must be the meaning to day this must be the meaning to morrow Procul dubio Lords is this not indignity But Christ will not be for ever crucified in his body the Church crucifying will be over may be in time but surely will when time shall be no more 19. If the Scriptures were so plain that he that runs may reade he that barely reads may understand to what purpose is the spirit promised to lead into all truth since the Ascention If I may absolutely knowingly understandingly infallibly Aopstolically Christ like know and understand all that I see and heare concerning my self and others But truly Lords and mutable Potentates though you reade hear see as you say you do you may say as the Eunuch how shall I understand without a guide But remember this the guides say and confess they are not infallible 20. If you do confess the spirit was promised to be given after the Ascention if it be given to ye it is a greater glory for you to tell us of it then laugh at it to tell of it how it came to you and when then to tell us what you have done for us if any thing in relation to civils Paul was not ashamed of it 21. If you confess that the spirit was promised to be given after the Ascension you had need to averr justifie and prove that it was promised to be given to Magistrats Lords and Synods not poore men not Fisher-men that the spirit went from the poore to the rich from those that the honourable count base to the honourable And though it were so it is no good Argument to convince a man even to strike him to imprison him and defame him as the false prophet did the true when he said when went the spirit of the Lord from me to thee 22. If you prove that the spirit was to be given to Magistracy Lords Nationall preists both you and the people had need know whether you in this age that now is more then any other are the Magistrates and the Preists For it was not promised to Magistracy in all Ages if it had it would have been performed for he promiseth nothing but what he performeth And that precedent Magistracy have been enemies and persecutors of the Saints of God under the notion of Heretiques or those that have been contrarie minded it is playnly apparent Historie declare it and you your selves confess it are convinced of it in your own hearts as you say therefore let that Magistracy as well as other men let that Synod that thinks he stands take heed least he falls or is already fallen or that he takes falling for standing in himselfe and standing for falling in others and so judges condemnes and persecutes 23. Me thinks I heare in my eares a urge saying and a voyce to my understanding declaring that there was a Nation or multitude of people met together as Episcopalls Presbyters and Independents so called and did convene from remote parts the East West North and South and these chose some to consult and debate what should be for the good of that Nation and kingdome and gave them power and honour and externall glory so much as they could or was in their power but the prevayling party tooke upon them the things of God and the place of God as much as in them lay and beat and wounded those that were contrary minded in their minds as to God though they still continued loving and affectionate to them Is this good Oh! sad requitall may not you say woe to your owne soul for you have rewarded evill to your selves Isa 3.12 Oh! my people they which leade thee cause thee to erre and destroy the way of thy paths 24. Suppose that a multitude of faire complexioned men of straite deportment should choose and elect a companie and place them in honour and dignity above themselves but these poore creatures or some of them may be Iob in the paralell should have an affliction upon them their faces should be changed their bodyes should grow crooked and this should be inflicted by the God of all natures mutable glories and excellencies or suppose God should send Sathan to tempt them or some of them that they may consent to the temptation and whereas Iob had boyles and sores even from the Crowne of the head to the sole of the feet would it not be sad now that one should come and lay Iobs affliction more heavie on him whipp the man sting him with scorpions But would it not be as sad also to see two that were full of boyles and sores wounds of Sathan temptations of the Devill that contrarie that roaring Lion in the shape of man to whip one another and lash one another for I have heard many of the nationall preists confess themselves publiquely that they have been full of wounds and sores and putrifactions even from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot Oh! Preist it is better for thee to tell who healed thee then to wound another that is in thy former condition if thou art out of it and truly translated But would not this make a man to breake out after this manner and say O inhumanitie had I knowne this should I have been so inhumane to my selfe I am scourged because I am sore wounded because I have boyles because I am in temptation because I am in errours because Sathan that politique Devill that contrarie hath deceived me and I am deceived though I have boyles and sores from the sole of the foot to the crowne of the head sent me of the God of Gods and Lord of Lords the Ruler of Princes yet after the manner of men I might have spared the rending and tearing my owne bowells I cannot comprehend the heavens and the earth much less him that is greater then both I cannot change my selfe nor make him change me till he will But the will of eternitie be done why should I contend with the God of all changes when I did choose them I was weakness it selfe I was the weaker vessell and I am despised for being so yet I made not my selfe so neither can I add one Cubit to my stature reade 1. Isa 29.30.31 25. Admit that those that are generally called and doe call themselves Ministers of the Gospel and prophets of the most high God in an eminent and a supereminent manner have communion with God and should be told of God as the Prophet was what they should do 13 Kings reade the whole Chapter must we goe forward and backward because the Prophets do so But surely I hope there is the Lyon of the Tribe of Judah in the way I who am weakness desire of thee O Immortall strength that I may more and more walke as comprehended of thy divine will that I may neither goe backward and forward and forward and backward to the right hand and to the left hand because the Nationall preists and Prophets do so but that I may walke as became a child to thee the Father of spirits and the God of all consolation and therefore let me live to the willing life and living will of thee O supersupereminent God 26. Magistrates and ministers of God so called you are but men subject to like passions that other men are as well as an Apostle was as he confesseth if not much more and you were not long since under Episcopacy and owned it as of God many of you if not all did did you satisfie your selves or were you satisfied of God if you were can you or we that are contrary minded draw God to us to satisfie us when you or we will our selves your selves 27. You Magistrates and ministers so called are but at the most or the most you can say of your selves in your own applause is that you are but wise and prudent men But saith Christ Father I thank thee thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent Scribes Pharises Lawyers chief Priests and revealed them to babes but may be you will say now as Lloyden said the case is altered but many Scriptures will prove this 28. Magistrates and ministers so called you shall die as well as other men the King and the Beggar the Fool and the Achitophel the master and the servant ye shall go to one Tomb that contains all generations mystically in it self But I will not say you think you shall have a Pardon or a Purgatory or both 29. Magistrates and minsters so called the Kings the Priests and the people the beggar and the rich the wise and the foolish the abased and the abounding person the Lawyer with his terms fallacies and term-pleadings and the Divines so called with their formall Sophistical Criticisms shall appear if there be any judgement as indubitably there is and shall before the absolute perfect Tribunal all the restitution of all things when all things shall be brought forth according to the will powerfull Excellencie and minde of the supream Cause when the things that are mystically unsearchably brought forth and are again mystically hid in its proper center in a way of mutability shall be brought forth in everlastingness but this is a mystery of eternity at which time and in which appearance you Lords of the earth shall be judged in those things that ye judge questioned in those things that ye question others and be your selves examined whether you are in the faith in a supersuperlaive manner And so farewell mutable dying vain unholy unnaturall temporarie judging inconsiderable man FJNJS