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A79988	The cry of a stone, or, a treatise; shewing what is the right matter, forme, and government of the visible church of Christ. How, and wherein the present Church of England is wanting and defective, both in the body of the land, and in the parochiall branches thereof, with divers reasons and grounds taken from the Scriptures, to perswade all that feare God, rather to suffer any afflictions at the hands of men, than to submit to mans carnall policy and humane devices in the worship of God, or be deprived of the sweet fellowship of the saints in the right order of the Gospel. Together with a just reproofe of the over-strained and excessive separation, contentions and divisions of such as commonly are called Brownists. By Robert Coachman.	Coachman, Robert.	1642 (1642)	Wing C4746; Thomason E137_32; ESTC R208315	72,606	82

liers drunkards oppressors slanderers c. but would have them know that as they live and delight in sinne and hate to be reformed so no comfort no priviledge nor favour belongs Psal 50. 16. unto them in that estate but till they repent and breake off their ungodly courses no peace can be to them nor no fellowship in the seales and badges of Saints can be had with them but as they are of the world so we must account them and under the kingdome of darknesse Ephes 2. 2. Ezra 4. 3. and it belongeth not to them but unto us to build an house to the Lord our God unto them belongs no promise of any favour till they repent but onely the Law thereatnings judgements comminations and sharpe rebukes which they are alwayes to heare both publikely and privately upon all occasions but nothing must ever be said or done to them by which they have any cause to thinke they are in Gods favour before they turne from their sinnes for if the 1 Pet. 4. 18. most righteous scarcely and with much adoe be saved where shall such wicked and sinners appeare and what hope is there for them And seeing in the things of this life they have their ease pleasure and priviledges above the godly what are then the priviledges of the Saints Psal 73. 2. 3. Iob 21. 9. 10. if also in spirituall ordinances and heavenly prerogatives they are equallized with them alas the men of this world feast and laugh and dominere in their purple scarlet and fleshly wantonnesse when many 2 Sam. 15. 23. 30. 1 Cor. 4. 11. 12. Rom. 5. 2. Ephes 3. 12. of Gods deare children weepe and mourne in secret before the Lord and are faine to pinch hard goe thin lie in prison and sometimes goe to the shambles that they may be tryed as gold in the fire and all the privileges of the Saints is their free accesse to God their fellowship in their Sabbaths Sacrifices Prayers blessings seales and new songs of praise in all which they meet with Christ their Saviour Psal 99. 1. Phil. 1. 21. and so gather new comfort and refreshing daily amidst the many crosses and troubles of this transitory world It is best for wicked men to be kept from the comforts of salvation untill they repent IF wicked men be offered no meanes whereby to apply comfort or SECT 6. the favour of God to themselves then they are driven presently into consideration with themselves what the reason should be that they may not enter into the Sanctuary and touch the holy things and why they may not feast with Christ at his Table as well as others Luke 22. 30. and why their fellowship is shunned in such exercises wherein wee draw neerest unto God and converse familiarly with him Why their seed may not bee baptised nor themselves accepted as the Lords guests but are excluded from all such things as may encourage and comfort them being as it were bound hand and foot and may Mat. 22. 12. 13. 1 Tim. 1. 7. 10. heare of nothing but of the Law judgement and threatening against them and in this every mans heart shall answer him and hee shall say it is because I walke in fleshly libertie and give my selfe to vaine and evill courses I am a common swearer a lyer a dissembler a wanton a drunkard a griper after the world or some such evill for which as God hath said I shall not enter into his Kingdome 1 C●● 6 9. so his people shun mee and get them from mee and had rather have my room than my company I must know nothing of the Lords secrets Psal 25. 14. because I feare him not they will tel me nothing of their sweet comforts but I languish about temporarie toyes and fleet up and downe as the world favours and frownes and the height of all my comfort is but to have my cattell my corne my trade and my wealth increase or if these faile to cheere up my heart with a cup of strong Psal 4. 7. liquor or to heare or see some Tragedie or merry conceit and if these things helpe not mee I am left remedilesse but I see there are others that can comfort themselves in God when the world failes them and can rejoyce in tribulation and mocke the world as scorning to 1 Sam. 30. 6. Rom. 5. 3. Iob 1. 21. have their hearts moved much with any such transitory things Now surely these men have found some extraordinary matter to rest and stay themselves in and if I were reformed restrained from my evill life and did become a new man I should know what it is and they would be right glad of my fellows●●● 〈…〉 embrace me and honour me as the Disciples 〈…〉 I must even Gal. 1. 22 23. goe onely with a few 〈…〉 idle dreames and walke up and downe as a thiefe with a halter condemned of God and his people and if death seize on me in this estate before I amend as I am excluded from all fellowship of Christians here so shall I for ever be shut from them in the kingdome of glory and if there be a hell surely I shall fall into it And this will worke repentance in many and in others a restraint and as for Atheists and Hypocrites which are in league with hell and Iob 21. 14. have sought against the light of reason and conscience till they are past feeling they will hereat the more discover themselves and foame out Ephes 4. 19. Iude. 1. 13. their owne shame that the faith patience and sincerity of the godly may the better appeare and be approved and the condemnation of the other the more just Whereas contrariwise when all manner of gracelesse men are fed with the seales and pledges of Gods fauour and invested into the full It hinders wicked mens conversion to give the Sacraments privilege and highest prerogative with the most godly in the Church and that it is daily told him there is the body and blood of Christ given for him how presumptuous doe they grow and how confident of their owne excellency how audacious in evill and how scornefull against Psal 14. 6. Psal 123. 4. men of a strict and sober life no reproofes nor counsell nor exhortation can take effect with them nor scarce have an eare lent it Tell them of wicked men and damnation they 'll send you to Rome or Turkie or India amongst the Heathens or Papists for why they are Protestants and have a sound Religion and are borne baptized and brought up in a Christian common-wealth and Church and eate the Iohn 6. 53. flesh and drinke the blood of Christ in whom they say they trust to be saved though they never imitate his examples but notwithstanding all 1 Iohn 1. 6. Hebr. 12. 2. Acts 8. 23. their presumption they have not stroke one true stroke at sinne nor begun the worke of mortification nor crauled one