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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55858	A looking-glass for a proud pharisee (very zealous and very ignorant:) as also for a true Christian (very meek and very mercifull:) discovering an effectual way (by the mysterie of God) for the healing of the land, through the uniting al sides to God, and one to another, by Jesus Christ. Humbly presented to the city of London, by Robert Prier, a memeber of it.; Cristall looking-glass for a proud Pharisee.	Prier, Robert.	1648 (1648)	Wing P3451; ESTC R217467	193,143	501

in the same condition now in our days Have not we them that plead for divine Right And time was that these men or the most of them were the Bishops servants in observations and now I think they wil be our Masters But let me which am the least among all the sons of men advise a little with you and let us consider wel what is Divine Right and how far it doth extend and whether it doth belong to the Clergy alone and not to the people or whether it doth belong to the people as wel as the Clergy and whether the people in particular Congregations or Parishes have not power to cal to account either Minister or Church-Officer that walks contrary to sound doctrine and depose them and put them out of their places if need so require with the advice of moderate men I mean those honorable Commissioners who could have no place among our rigid Clergy Let me I pray you once more give you advice when you truly know what Divine Right is then yeeld subjection unto it nay I know you that fear God it is your delight so to do and as for your Ministers and Church-Officers they ought to be in subjection to the Church for the Minister and the Church-Officers are not the Church but members of the Church and the Church cals them to be Officers and gives them power to officiate in their places Therefore they that cal are greater then they that are called I speak of an outward cal and this is the Churches Divine Right and no no particular mans right Apply your selves to the Church saith our Savior and if he neglect to hear the Church the Church hath power over him read Mat. 18.17 1 Cor. 5.13 And so likewise if you have any that would be great over all let him be servant unto all saith our Savior Mark 9.35 The Church of Christ knows the voyce of Christ and the mind of Christ therefore they are able to discern the inward indowments of a Minister The multitude of this Kingdom take al upon trust and cry out O! he is a brave scholer he is a great learned man and so they swallow down all without any dislike at all Now you that are the freemen of Christ endeavor to know the freedom that Christ hath purchased even with an unvaluable price and be not the servants of men for ye are bought with a price 1 Cor. 7.23 I shal now set forth three paths and those that walk in them I think they are not like unto the Ministers of Jesus Christ The first is this There is much talk now adays in publick of those that creep into houses and lead captive silly women But I think never any crept more into houses then those that would have had two shillings and nine pence in the pound and so likewise those that labor in the first place to make sure their tithes unto themselves which both City and Country complain of I ask the question Do not these creep into houses and lead captive silly men as wel as women Mistake me not it is fit that those that be Ministers of the Gospel indeed should have means to live on that they and theirs may live comfortably in this world yet the people ought to be free and not constrained The second path is this He that soweth discord among brethren his way is an abomination to the Lord Pro. 6.16 19. I ask the question Do not many of our Ministers walk in this way O it would be a sweet thing if our Ministers were men of peace and would labor to make peace among the people but I think they are unfit men because they cannot agree among themselves many of them The third path is this Those that bind heavy burthens and lay them upon mens consciences such men are hinderers of a Christians joy and faith for a man ought to be perswaded in his own heart For whatsoever is not of faith is sin Rom. 14.5 23. And such Ministers as compel mens consciences are not like the true Ministers of the Gospel For Paul proved himself to be a Minister of the Gospel in these words We were gentle among you even as a nurse cherisheth her children and ye are dear unto us as our own souls and this is the language of the true Ministers of the Gospel 1 Thes 2.7 8. And as for us saith the Apostle we have not dominion over your faith but are helpers of your joy for by faith ye stand read 2 Cor. 1.24 We have an old Proverb amongst us Sect. 6 The burnt child fears the fire We are newly come out from Prelacy and from the High Commission Court of bondage which was at Lambeth house where the Bishop of Canterbury did sit and impose an Oath upon mens consciences and if they did scruple at it then he did send them unto a reverend Divine as he said who did live in London Dr Gouge Dr Gouge by name and he said he would resolve them of the lawfulness of it and if they could not be resolved by him then they were sent to prison except they would take that hellish Oath to accuse themselves But I hope it wil not be so now yet this man is one that would sit at the stern of our Reformation But I hope he and the rest of our Learned wil not strive for preeminence or domination as Diotrephes did over the Church of Christ read 3 John 9 10. I desire likewise that there may be no fierceness of spirit in our Ministry or Ministers to command by force or to compel by violence and so put a yoke upon the people of God which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear and thus the Apostle complains of a sect of Pharisees that would have commanded the Church by force in his time Acts 15.5 10. And so likewise the chief Priests and the Pharisees cryed out against Jesus Christ that there might be some speedy course and strict way considered of against him and his followers for they were Sectaries and would draw the people after them and spoil their Kingdom and then the Romans would come and take away both their place and nation Joh. 11.47 48. Now if those that profess themselves to be the Ministers of the Gospel desire to be great either over mens persons or over mens consciences let them wel consider these two or three places of Scripture The first is this Our Savior cals his Disciples and tels them The Kings of the Gentiles exercise Lordship over one another and they that are great in authority are called Benefactors And thus the Disciples though they were with Christ had foolish thoughts about greatness but saith Christ it shal not be so amongst you for ye are brethren and I have given you an example that ye should go before one another in holiness and meekness of spirit But he that wil be greatest among you let him be as the younger and he that is chief as he that doth serve