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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45529	A short relation of what is believed amongst the people of God touching the divers points of religion. 1. Concerning the Word of God, the fall of man, and restauration by Christ. 2. Concerning the Scriptures. 3. Concerning faith, love and works. 4. Concerning baptism and the Lords Supper. 5. Concerning the Sabbath. 6. Concerning tythes. 7. Concerning swearing. Although many of the servants of God have born a large testimony in these latter dayes, in which the Lord is establishing the mountain of his own house a top of all mountains, Isaiah 2. 2. ... therefore in love to the truth, and in the motion of the gift received, I give my testimony of these things in the year 1666. Peter Hardcastle.	P. H. (Peter Hardcastle), d. 1693.	1666 (1666)	Wing H697A; ESTC R221273	7,364	15

they had done their service to him and when the Lord made a covenant with the children of Israel he commanded them to observe every seventh day a Sabbath of rest and they were a sign of the everlasting rest Exod. 31.13 Ezekel 20.20 And now I bear my testimony that God hath prepared an everlasting rest for his people and saith Christ Come unto me all ye that are weary and heavy laden and I will give you rest Take my yoak upon you and learn of me and you shall find rest unto your souls Mat. 11.28 29. So they who are in the faith and comes to Christ and learns of him denyes themselves takes up the cross and ceases from their own works to do the Will of God these enters into the rest and sits down with Abraham Isaac and Jacob in the Kingdom of heaven but they who live and die in sin they come short of the rest which God hath ordained for the righteous and are shut out of the Kingdom of God For no unclean thing can enter therein therefore I say as the Apostle once said Col. 2.16 17. Let no man judge the true Christians in meat or in drink or in respect of an holy day or of the Sabbath dayes which are a shodow of things to come but the body is of Christ and Christ is the summe and substance of all Concerning Tythes THe Law was added because of transgression til the seed should come Gal. 3.19 and they that were of the Tribe of Levi who had the Office of the Priesthood had a Commandment to take Tythes of the people according to the Law which were of their brethren and came out of the loins of Abraham but the seed Christ is come an High-priest for ever after the power of an endless life so the Priest-hood being changed there is made of necessity a change also of the Law Heb. 7. The Priest-hood being changed and the Law fulfilled and the hand-writing of Ordinances taken out of the way which was against us nailed to the Cross of Christ Col. 2.14 Who is ordained an High-Priest over the house of God for ever a Minister of the true Tabernacle which the Lord hath pitched hath power to ordain Ministers to preach the Gospel which is the power of God By which Gospel of Glad-Tydings unto captivated souls the hearts of people comes to be opened and love springs up to minister carnal things to such as have need of them For so hath the Lord ordained That they who preach the Gospel should live of the Gospel thus it was with the primitive Christians before the Deceivers and false Prophets came in and the Apostacy entred but Christ declared of false Prophets that should come in sheeps cloathing but were inwardly revening wolves by their fruits they should be known And Peter saith in his second Epistle 2.3 That through coveteousness with fained words would they make merchandize of them And Paul said That grievous wolves would enter in not sparing the Flock Acts 20.29 And in his Epistles describes them more fully and calls them Covetous and proud Truce-Breakers without natural affection high-minded and lovers of Pleasures more then lovers of God And Jude declares in his Epistle They were entred in and said woe unto them they went in the way of Gain and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for Rewards And John saith in his first Epistle 2 chap. Little children it is the last time and as ye have heard that Antichrist shall come even now there are many Antichrists whereby we know that it is the last time they went our from us Now by these Antichrists false Prophets and Deceivers which entred in the Apostles time but more abundantly after came in the Apostacy they being gone from the life and power of God themselves drew others after them so when the life and power of God was departed darkness came over the night came over the day and people wrought in the dark and built Idol-Temples or Mass-houses and set up Crosses and Images and brought in Tythes again which the Lord never commanded them but now is the day dawned again after the long and dark night of Apostacy and the Son is risen and many are witnesses of him and such are made willing to suffer imprisonment of their bodies or spoiling of their goods rather than to pay Tythes to Priests or money to repair Steple-Houses and now many of them are wroth as Cain was and prepairs War as in time past Micha 3. and so they make it manifest by their fruits they are of the false Prophets and Deceivers that Christ and the Apostles told us of Concerning Swearing WHile man stood in the Counsel of God in righteousness and Innocency before the fall there was no need of Oathes but when man was fallen from God his Maker and lost the Image of God death came over and hardness of heart and unbelief came in and then oaths were used to confirm promises and end controversies and lest the Jews should serve other gods then he that brought them out of Egypt he commanded them to swear by his name but from the beginning it was not so but Christ is come the beginning and the end the first and the last to restore man again into that which he was in the beginning as it is written The Son of man is come to seek and to save that wich was lost so when the Image of God is restored again and man into the image there is no need of Oathes but every man will speak the truth and therefore said Christ unto his Disciples Ye have heard that it hath been said by them of old time thou shalt not forswear thy self but shalt perform unto the Lord thine Oathes but I say Swear not at all This is Christs command unto his own and Moses commanded to hear Christ Deut. 18. And when Moses and Elias talked with Jesus in the holy Mount Peter James and John heard the voice from the excellent Majesty which said This is my well beloved Son in whom I am well pleased hear him Now how can any Christian swear and not break the command of Christ And James saith Above all things my brethren Swear not neither by heaven nor by earth neither by any other Oath but let your yea be yea and your nay nay lest you fall into condemnation Hence it is that the true christians rather then break the command of Christ and fall into condemnation are made willing to suffer imprisonment or what may be permitted to come for the tryal of their faith knowing in themselves an induring substance And saith Christ Blessed are they that suffer persecution for righteousness sake for theirs is the kingdom of heaven The End