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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A75899	An admonitory letter vvritten by an old minister of the new combinational church, and sent to divers ejected minsters of those parts in which he lives. In which is not boldly and barely affirmed, but also offered fairly to be confirmed by unanswerable arguments. I. The right constitution of a combinational church. II. The corruptions that crept in upon it from the parochial, cathedral, provincial, national, and oecumenical Roman church. III. Who were the heads of these several churches, and what were the qualities of them. Published I. For to inform the ignorant. II. For to reduce the errant.		1658 (1658)	Wing A599; Thomason E934_1; ESTC R207674	9,007	16

friends because an exile newly arrived to the land of my nativity safely appeal to any person that hath either conscience or common sense whether Christ Jesus our supreme Lord Protector upon whose shoulders the government of the Churches is laid hath not of late years borne a loud witness against every one of those five afore mentioned kinds of deformed Churches and that in those very countries which are counted and commonly called Christendom If so God forbid that there should be any Christian man and more especially any Clergy man so carnal and so careless in all these coasts as not to be both able and willing to conceive and conclude himself to be called upon for to consider of and to lay to heart the great and grievous desolations which his hand hath made amongst the most and mightiest of the sons of men First hath not the long provoked Lord begun in this Island and in Ireland to pull down lowest that loose that lofty and lawless Church which the corrupt Clergy had lifted up highest namely the Oecumenical or Roman Catholike Church whereof the sin-pardoning or rather soul-poysoning Pope was the vile and virulent head who was therefore and upon that account publickly declared and generally though not universally believed to be a very horrible Monster as well as a very abominable beast because of its ten horns witness what is written Rev. 17.3 5. Secondly Hath not Christ hid his face from and bent his brow against the National Church as being the very next in naughtiness whereof the British King was although not an invincible yet a violent head which was therefore the less victorious and more vincible partly because the head not only of a very uncanonical but also of a very unspiritual corporation and partly because of the said National corporations inconsistency with the Scripture precepts Mat. 18.17 1 Cor. 14.23 which do require its ordinary congregating in one place seconded and aggravated by its notorio us inconformity to the Scripture patterns Ephes 2.16 22. Phil. 2.15 Rev. 9.5 where the Christian Combinational Church is called not a whole Nation but a holy City a growing Temple a spiritual House or a finenlightning and a soul-enlivening Church gathered built framed cul'd and called out of and from a carnal and crooked Nation which was both dark and darkness it self witnesse what is written Ephes 5.3 Thirdly Did not Christs own mouth marvellously condemn the prevailing corruptions of the Provincial Church whereof the chief Prelate or Arch Bishop was the haughty and horrible head which was therefore so much the more absurd and bold head because of its base and blasphemous blindness in daring to take up and ascribe to its self such a style title as is not communicable to any creature but is proper and peculiar to Christs own sacred person being that besides himself none can be safely said to be an Arch-Bishop or Chief-shepherd If one of the eminentest Apostles may be believed whose words imply no less 1. Pet. 5.4 When the chief Shepherd shall appear ye shall receive an incorruptible crown of Glory Who was that Church-Minister what was his name or where did he dwell who came once into a capacity to be accounted such a superlative Counsellor or comforter as was endued either with ability or authority to confer a spiritual crown on any one of the sincere Elders of a Church of Saints which is such a matter as a dying son of man should not dare to hear much less to make any mention of without some measure of amazement in his very soul Fourthly was it not Christs own hand that did pour out a dreadful Vial of visible vengeance upon the Cathedral Church whereof the lordly Diocesan was not so much the Idle as the Addle head which therefore and under that notion was not venerable nor tolerable because of its direct and point blank opposition unto divers and down right peremptory prohibitions at Mat. 20.26 Ye know that the Lords of the Gentiles exercise domination over them but it shall not be so among you And 1 Pet. 5.3 feed the flock of God which depends upon you not as though you were Lords ever Gods heritage Which royal Laws do testifie all such lofty Lords and Lordless out-lawes to be such illegal and irregular livers as that their unhallowed dwellings appear to be long since destined and appointed for Hedge-Hogs to house and harbour at yea for Jim and Ohim with the wild Satyrs to dance in and for Owles and Vultures to dung on being afraid of none to drive them away Thus verifying that terrible threat to be performed and fulfilled at length which was prophesied of old witness what is written in Isa 13.19 Fifthly and finally was it not Christs own foot that hath kicked at and cast contempt and that not a little upon those evil favoured and condemned Churches which are yet standing in many Countreys though they are remarkably reeling and ready for to fall Is it not Christs own voice that is at this time and in most places audibly pleading his own cause against the Parochial Church whereof the preaching Parson being it must not be denied that divers of the parish Parsons are not any preaching Parsons witness all the oppressing Impropriators is openly seen to stand upon his trial as the odd and eldest evil head And though this head be the last head and did the least hurt of all the other heads yet the Almighty Lord hath as yet lift up his hand against him yet at this time 't is his turn to lie down under the lash and like the luke-warm Angel of Laodicea by taking shame and confusion of face unto himselfe to receive whatsoever sharp correction shall as a cordial of love be administred unto him for the preventing of the spewing of his name out of Christs mouth as is manifest from what is foretold Rev. 3.19 therefore the whole half blind Political body of the Parish Church doth openly appear to be though not utterly uncurable yet in respect of its present posture in its numerous abominations altogether unapproveable because of its rejecting the commandments of God that it may observe the traditions of men Against which hateful offence Jesus Christ doth sadly complain Ma●k 7.7 9. and concerning which offensive hatred Christs sincere servant doth seriously caution Col. 2.8 18. Beware left there be any man that spoil you through Philosophy and vain deceit through the traditions of men according to the rudiments of the world and not after Christ Let no man at his pleasure bear rule over you by humbleness of mind c. Which holy watch-words and wholsom warnings had they been heedfully hearkened unto by all such as were Church-officers would without question have restrained the multitude of Church-hearers from many such observations and alterations as must of necessity be either amended timely or mourned for eternally witness what is written Rev. 14.9 c. If there were nothing amiss or out of order to be observed