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A91881	John the Baptist, forerunner of Christ Iesvs: or, A necessity for liberty of conscience, as the only meanes under heaven to strengthen children weake in faith; to convince hereticks mis-led in faith; to discover the gospel to all such as yet never heard thereof; and establish peace betweene all states and people throughout the world; according unto which, were both our Saviours commission, and the apostles practice for the propagation of it peaceably: as appeares most evidently by sundry Scriptures digested into chapters, with some observations at the end of every one; most humbly devoted to the use and benefit of all such as are zealously inquisitive after truth; piously disposed to imbrace it, and constantly resolved to practice it in their lives and conversations; to the honour of God, the edifying of their brethren, and their owne salvation unto eternity. The contents of the chapters follow in the next leaf. This is licenced, but not permitted to be entred according to order.	Robinson, Henry, 1605?-1664?	1644 (1644)	Wing R1673; Thomason E9_13; ESTC R15393	119,971	135

whom the way of truth shall be evill spoken of 1. Joh. 4.1 Many false prophets are gone out into the World Gal. 1.7 There be some that trouble you and would pervert the Gospel of Christ 2 Tim. 4.3.4 The time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine but after their owne lust shall they heap to themselves teachers having itching eares and they shall turns away their ears from the truth and shall be turned unto fables 1 Cor. 11.19 It is necessary there should be heresies that they which are approved might be made manifest 1 Tim. 4.1.6 In the latter times some shall depart from the faith giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of divels if thou put the Brethren in remembrance of these things thou shalt be a good Minister of Jesus Christ Jude 17. to 23. Remember how the Apostles told you that in the last 〈◊〉 there should be makers of sects but keepe your selves in the love of God of some have compassion making difference and other save with feare pulling them out of the fire 2 Thes 2.7.8 The mystery of iniquity doth already worke only be who now letteth will let untill he be taken out of the way and then shall that wicked one be revealed whom the Lord shall consume with the Spirit of his mouth and shall destroy with the brightnesse of his comming 2 Pet. 2.9 The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgement to be punished 1 Tit. 10.11.13 There are many unruly and vain talkers deceivers especially they of the circumcision whose mouthes must be 2 stopped who subvert whole houses teaching things which they ought not for filthy ●ucre sake wherefore rebuke them sharply that they may be found in the faith 2 Tim. 4.2.5 But watch thou in all things endure asslictions doe the worke of an Evangelist make full proofe of thy Ministry reprove rebuke with all long suffering and doctrine Rom. 16.17 Marke them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned and avoid them Tit. 2.15 These things speake and exhort with all authority let no man despise thee 2 Thes 3.14 If any man obey not our words by this Epistle note that man and have no company with him that he may be ashamed yet count him not as an enemy but admonish him as a brother Rom. 15.1 If a man be overtaken in a fault ye which are spirituall restore such a one with the spirit of meeknesse considering thy selfe lest thou also be temped Tit. 3.10 A man that is a hereticke after the first and second admonition reject 1 Cor. 5.5 Deliver such a one a fornicator unto Sathan for destruction of the flesh that the spirit may be saved in the day of our Lord Jesus 2 Thes 3.6 We command you brethren in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ that you withdraw your selves from every brother that walketh disorderly Matth. 18.15,16,17 If thy brother shall trespasse against thee goe and tell him his fault between thee and him alone if he shall heare thee thou hast gained thy brother but if he will not heare thee then take with thee one or two more that in the mouth of one or two witnesses every word may be established and if he shall neglect to heare them tell it unto the Church and if he neglect to heare the Church let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a Publican Joh. 16.2 The time commeth that whosoever killeth you shall thinke he doth God good service Rom. 10.2 I bear them record they have a zeale of God but not according to knowledge Gal. 1.14 Phil. 3.6 I Paul profited in the Jewes Religion above many of my equals in mine owne Religion being more exceedingly zealous of the 3 traditions of my Fathers I persecuted the Church Acts 26.9 I Paul verily thought with my selfe that I ought to doe many things contrary to the Name of Jesus of Nazareth Gal. 4.17,18 They zealously affect you but not well but it is good to be zealously affected alwayes in a good thing Phil. 1.9 I pray that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in judgement Observations upon CHAP. XI 1 THese breaking in of wolves upon the flocke of God and dayly multiplying of new heresies is granted to be understood of our times as well as of the Apostles or any other and yet we have here no other order then Take heed and watch nor in any other passage of the Gospel then exhort reprove rebuke with the like spirituall proceedings this is all the Ministers of the Gospel have warrant for if it be too little our Saviour and his Apostles must excuse us at the throne of God for leaving us no larger and if we exceed it we shall doubtlesse be found guilty of adding to the Word of God and must expect that God will adde unto us the plagues which are threatned in the Revelation● c. 22.18 ● neither doe I apprehend how Civill Magistrates can interpose otherwise then Ministers of the Gospel their most glorious title being but nursing fathers and nursing mothers unto the Church of God Esa 49.23 and all of us are or ought to be Ministers in or for the Gospel though one may have a more excellent calling then an other according as God hath given him more excellent faculties and gifts But if any Christian goe beyond his calling beyond his gift he is blameable and if the disturbance be only Ecclesiasticall the censure is to be the like if a breach of peace the Civill powers ought to redresse 1 Tim. 2.1.2 but for the Magistrate to interpose in matters meerly Ecclesiasticall otherwise then Spiritually and as a Minister of the Gospel I finde no warrant for it in all the Gospel 2 This stopping of mouthes was not silencing as has beene used of late and appeares so in that the Apostle afterwards v. 12.18 having proved them to be guilty by the confession of one of themselves explaines himselfe prescribing them to be punished by a sharpe rebuke so that by stopping of their mouthes can be signified nothing else but convincing them by instruction and reproofe in demonstration of the Spirit and as the same Paul saith v. 8. by sound doctrine that their owne fond fancies being overcome and satisfied might not have further matter to suggest or their mouthes words to utter wherewithall to gainsay the truth Rom. 3.19 3 Here we see that Pauls adhering so much unto traditions was the cause his knowledge could not keep company with his zeal which in that respect seduced him to persecute the Church of God would not the inraged zelots of our times oh it grieves me to use the word zeale or ze lot to its least disparagement or blemish if they had heard Paul say he found himselfe bound in conscience to oppose the Name of Iesus and hale his servants up and downe the streets from one Magistrate unto another at last

uphold the Great Diana of their severall advantages to magnifie the Idols of their owne imaginations when faire meanes will prevaile no longer they forthwith flye to their instruments of persecution Matth. 23.29,30,31 We unto you Scribes and Pharisees Hypocrites because you build the tombes of the Prophets and garnish the Sepulchres of the righteous and say if we had been in the dayes of our Fathers we would not have beene partakers with them in the bloud of the Prophets wherefore ye be witnesses unto your selves that ye are children of them which killed the Prophets c. Observation OUr Saviour was but once crucified in his Person but such as crucifie him in his Saints doe multiply the sinne and by so persecuting him in his Saints whom we have seen we expresse how much greater our malice is to Christ whom we have not seen 1 Joh. 4.20 but behold our sentence If they escaped not who refused Christ when he spake on earth how much lesse shall we escape if we turne away from him that speaketh to us from heaven in his Saints on earth Heb. 12.25 thousands are now persecuted under the Gospel for every one that suffered under the Law and many adhere unto such exquisite Inquisition principles and government as that if all the Prophets that ever were or if our Saviour himselfe should come upon the earth againe they must of necessity be conformable or according to these rules be persecuted but how can such escape the damnation of hell as our Saviour said unto the Jews Matth. 23.33 and we finde in 1 Thess 2.15,16 The Jews killed the Lord Jesus and their owne Prophets and have persecuted us and they please not God and are contrary to all men forbidding us to speake to the Gentiles that they might be saved And if we looke well upon the words we shall finde not pleasing God and being contrary to all men inclosed by persecuting the Apostles in the 15. v. and forbidding the Gospel to be preached unto the Gentiles in the 16. v. relating unto them both As if Paul should say the Jewes doe not only displease God by persecuting Gods Saints and forbidding to preach the Gospel but are therein contrary to all other people of the world They were the Jewes which put our Saviour and the Saints to death they and not the Nations were guilty of all the bl●udshed from the bloud of righteous Abel to that of Zacharias Mat. 23 35. they were the Jewes which forbad the Gospel to be preached unto the Gentiles not the Gentiles themselves and yet according to the poli●ies of these times one would thinke it should have more concerned Caesar then any body else to have his native subjects seduced by preaching of the Gospel as they apprehended it however we do not find that in those daies the Powers and Magistrates did so much hinder the propagation of it as the Jewes once Gods chosen people but is it not strange that the Jewes who then lived in a kinde of bondage having no King but Caesar the Roman Emperour Joh. 19.15 and therefore might have beene in continuall feare of having the freedome of their goods and consciences impaled by their owne example towards others should yet be ringleaders and fomenters of persecuting the persons and consciences of such as differed from them no doubt they did it out of zeale and like enough the Gentiles did not love themselves nor one an other so well as to take any care at all of what Religion they were of a desperate condition no indeed and yet we may gather from this passage of Pauls as if the Gentiles were in the better of the two th●s character which Paul gives the Iewes of being contrary to all men in that they persecuted and would not suffer the Gosp●l to bee preached unto the Gentiles over whom they were so far from having any command that they had not so much as any relation besides living in a degree of subjection to them was so peculiar to the Iewes and so strange a one as Paul had not such another remaining for any other people and if he were now on earth would wonder so much more that such as professe Christianity should have learnt this discipline of the Iewes and that Christians only by their example should have taught it unto all other Nations which are knowne to practise it in what proportion soever but 't is alleadged that necessity constraines them thereunto and men will not be otherwise reclaimed as lesse fearing the keyes of Heaven then either of the stocks or prison I am tired with this objection but yet to shut up all I answer The Lord saies He that offends one of these little ones it were better a milstone were hung about his necke and cast into the sea Matth. 18.6 The Lord sayes When ye depart shake off the dust from under your feet as a testimony against those that would not receive you nor heare you for I say unto you it shall be more tolerable in the day of judgement for 〈…〉 City Luke 10.11.12 The Lord sayes If thy brother shall 〈…〉 thee goe and tell him his fault betweene thee and him 〈…〉 thou hast gained thy brother but if he will not 〈…〉 or two more that in the mouth of two or 〈…〉 and if he shall neglect to heare them tell it unto the Church but if he neglect to heare the Church let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a Publican Verily I say unto you whatsoever you shall binde on earth shall be bound in heaven and whatsoever you shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven Matth. 18.15,16,17,18 O my Brethren are these Gods Word and Ordinances where have they beene so long exiled how came they to be so sacrilegiously banished from us why have we not practised them amongst us was this say you too milde a course and did it worke no good upon the people but tell me fond Christian where does it appeare that these meanes prevailed not so long as they were applied according to the purity of their institution and not adulterated by Antichristian inventions and additions or what commission hast thou to use other means if these prevaile not what more fearfull judgement can befall a sinner in this world then to have a milstone tyed about his necke and be flung headlong into the sea certainly thou knowest not any for what worse then sudden death unto a sinner yet God has prepared a greater for all those that offend his little ones wherewith thou art not content but wilt needs use another of thine owne coyning God sayes the dust shaken off as a testimony against those that will not heare his Gospel shall aggravate their case worse then Sodomes in the day of judgement and even those offending beleevers which will not be reformed by private admonishings of their brethren nor be humbled with the censures of the Church which casts them out shall be likewise cast out of heaven But thou as if thou wert master of Gods houshold or wiser then he that made thee declinest the mercifull Laws of God who in long-suffering meeknes preseribing such a course only to be taken for destruction of the flesh that the spirit may be saved in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ 1 Cor. 5.5 intrudest into Gods throne in the room of his sacred Ordinances thrustest in the daily more and more adultered off-spring of Antichristian traditions or the uncleane conceptions of thy more poluted phancie by imprisoning fining banishing dismembring and death as though these even according to thine owne carnall principles were not farre lesse capable of prevailing upon the spirit then those spirituall which God prescribes to worke upon the body when yet besides daily experience we have a divine Oracle for it that over much godly sorrow may swallow up 2 Cor. 2.7 and that even carnall sorrow may bring death 2 Cor. 2.10 whereas it is impossible to be made appeare to common reason that corporall or outward punishments have any the least capacity much lesse were ever commanded sanctified or connived at by God to worke upon the spirits of men which is a most pregnant and invincible testimony how grossely Satan deludes us to practise his lying suggestion so long together that the true Ordinances having beene so far stray'd and through Gods divine providence brought home againe though by reason of the Majesty of truth which still rests in them they be acknowledged agreeable to the Word of God and what we practise to be inconsistent with those Ordinances we should not yet be able to weane our selves and cast away the one as menstruous ragges that we might be reconciled to God againe in cleaving to the other But may He please who is the Father of lights Jam. 1.17 and only able to illuminate the darknesse of our understandings pardoning our innumerable infirmities and sins in his owne due time to lead us into all truth for his only Sonne Christ Jesus sake to whom with the Father and the Holy Ghost in Trinity and Vnity be ascribed all power and praise unto eternity Amen ERRATA THe Reader will doubtlesse find the benefit of it in reading if he first please to rectifie such errors as have been committed in the Printing viz. Page 10. line 4. read their ●b l. 30. be p. 12. l. 3. too p. 22. l. 17. with p. 23 l. 38. discerning p. 25. l. 6. death p 27. l. 30. texts p. 28. l. 17. eat p. 37. l. 19. to the. p. 40. l. 2. a subject ib. l. 18. O ingannar ●i ●…ole p. 41. l. 16. Discipline ●b l. 17. contrast p. 43. l. 17. one scale p. 52. l. 32. against the Civill Laws for which they suffer p. 53. l. 4. into two sorts viz. into such as r. and ibid. l. 18. selves p. 63. l. 1● th●y were to be p. 66 l. 20. choose p. 68. l. 22. ennobling p. 76. l. 36. whom p. 77. l. 5. power to do p 94. l. 8. done p. 99. l. 26. than