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A78218	[Baʻal-samz] or, Soveraigne balsome, gently applied in a few weighty considerations (by way of quærie) for healing the distempers of such professors of religion as Satan hath wounded and drawn aside (under the notion of living in God) to the utter renouncing and casting off the use of divine ordinances, and Gospel-institutions of worship. With an apendix by way of postscript to such professors, wherein the most principall grounds upon which they build their practise, are fully answered and removed. And a catalogue of the errors that many of them hold since they left the ordinances, discovered. As also a true relation of Gods extraordinary working upon one of this way very lately in Plimouth, to the sight of his error, for the good of others published. / By Will. Bartlet, an unworthy minister of the Gospel, and lecturer at Bytheford in Devonshire.	Bartlet, William, 1609 or 10-1682.; M. P.	1649 (1649)	Wing B987; Thomason E549_19; ESTC R209139	79,502	81

casting off of all Duties and Ordinances or Institutions of Divine Worship ordained by Christ himselfe to be observed in the dayes of the New Testament unchurching the right constituted Congregations and Assemblies of Syon dna plucking up the publick Ministery of the Gospel by the roots and this not so much in some respect as those that are called Seekers who deny publick Churches Ministery c. for want of Apostles and other like extraordinary gifted men to administer c. but absolutely looking on the performance of Duties and use of Ordinances Ministery and Churches as poore low weake Dispensations Childish things not fit for such as live in God to stoop so low as to make use of And so under a pretence of living in God they teach poore weake soules that there is a life to be attained unto wherein they may live i That there is a life to be obtained by Beleevers here on earth that is above ordinances is not denyed But that this life is without ordinances altogether when they may enjoy the use of them and that puts them necessarily upon the renouncing and casting them off is that which we flatly deny as being contrary not only to the sacred Scriptures but experience of the soundest Christians as I have shewed in the following Discourse without the use of Ordinances or performance of Duties without observation of the Lords day or Sabbath without Church-fellowship without instructing their children in the knowledge of the Scriptures without craving a blessing on the Creature when they make use of it or returning thankes for it And that which is most abominable that they may attain and enjoy such a liberty as to be under no law but that of the Spirit as they say and so may perpetrate any impiety without controll or check of God or Man for they live in God alone and so are above all things here below so would make a persons living in God living in the practice of sin to consist stand together These are the men that the following Discourse concernes and whom I cannot but look on especially those of them that out of a professed judgement and fixed selfe-will doe in a high and peremptory manner proceed in their way as the dangerous pests that can be both to the State as well as to Religion for take away true Christian Religion or the true worship of God and power of godlinesse out of a State or Common-wealth and what do you therein but as it were take the soul from the body For what is the sincere practise of sound Religion and godlinesse in a State but k There is nothing in a true Christian Common-wealth that can onely direct it self to the benefit of State onely but that Religion must bee also respected the care of State being but the By and Religion the main of every Christian intendment And ther fore oftentimes even in those things which seem most properly to concern the State is Religion in them most regarded the care of State in respect of Religion being like the care of our bodies for which holy men care but so only as for the houses of their soules c. Levers History of the Defend of the Cath Faith the life and soule of it Let that be once neglected corrupted or extirpated and the other cannot long stand after and when is Religion destroyed but when we make it to patronize impiety And hence it is that such as are guilty of the forementioned abomination in renouncing Ordinances c. are so frequently described by such Epithites as shew nothing but confusion and destruction to betide those places and persons where they are entertained and countenanced It is sufficient in this place having spoken more largely hereof in the cōclusion of the Appendix to shew you that the Apostle Peter calls them l 2 Pet. 3.17 Lest ye be led away with the error 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 so in chap. 2.7 c 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 dicuntur homines qui volunt esse fine lege qui emnia legum repagula perfringunt ab 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quod legem praesertim drvinam significat homines qui nec jus nec fas curant c. Ger in loc vocat 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 quos prius 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ostendit hos nullo jure nullis ne legibus posse in ordine retineri sed perumpunt omnia jura quid vis enim sibi licere putant Scripturasque sibi subjiciunt Horum exemplum valdè est perniciosum etiam piis ideo cavendum ne horum erroribus abrepti veritatem fidei amittant Aret. in loc ut supra 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which Lorinus and other more sound Interpreters doe translate ex-leges or lawlesse Libertines such as under a pretence of Christian liberty allow themselves in the practice of all manner of sensuall lusts to the disgrace and scandall of the Gospel for through their occasion the way of truth is evill spoken of 2 Pet. 2.2 Yet whiles I am opposing the opinion and practice of such New though no True Gospellers c. I would not have ye the pretious servants of God that keep his Commandements and the Testimony of Jesus Rev. 12.17 to conceive that I doe in the least goe about to plead for any ordinances or worship of mans invention or making for false ordinances and worship that are forged in Antichrists shop and beare no other stamp upon them then the Image of humane Authority For I know as it 's all one to m Lever ut supra p. 366. deny God and to deny his Service so I do latry is as wel in false worship as in no worship I am assured that Ordinances of divine worship that are of mans making though never so wise or great are no plants of Gods planting neither doth he accept of them or of those that make use of them but n Matth. 15.8 9-13 Col. 2.20 21 22 23 24. Ezek. 20.39 lookes on them as vain worshippers and will-worshipers polluters prophaners of his glorious reverend Name Or 2. that I allowed of theuse of true ordinances and worship that Christ himselfe hath instituted and commanded in a false way or contrary to the right order which Christ hath prescribed to his people in the Gospel and was in use in the primitive and Apostolicall times for our example viz. a Society and Combination of Saints in which for the most part they subsist properly and are to be performed as I have at large shewed in another o Modell of the Congregational way where this matter is fully handled and cleared in the two first Chapters place For I know that the same God that hath called his people to worship him doth require them to take the same way and order he hath p As God hath not left it indifferent whether he be served and worshipped or not so he