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A54006 Arrowes against Babylon, or, Certaine quæries serving to a cleere discovery of the mystery of iniquity whereunto are added endeavours for reformation in saints apparrell : with some quæries for the people called Quakers / by John Pendarves. Pendarves, John, 1622-1656. 1656 (1656) Wing P1136; ESTC R27463 44,087 53

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may they not boldly conclude from many promises to beleevers that their soules are in a safe condition But it may now be said they have laid by that Catechisme and now they preach to them a necessitie of regeneration But seeing they have been trained up from their infancy in this beleife which they have by heart as wee say that they were regenerate in their Baptisme long wnce Is it probable that the old evill sent which hath remained in the vessell for so many yeares will be removed by telling them now and then they must be borne againe Although many declare this to them in the Pulpit and so wound them a little for the present time yet doe they not quickly heale them againe at the Font or Bason Is not this to justifie the wicked that evill condemned Prov. 24.24 accepting them there for beleevers by administring that to the children of all or most of them that which they declare to be the priviledge of the Children of godly beleeving Parents Doth not this easily help them to conclude that whatsoever they say in preaching their Ministers by their practise declare them to be beleevers And have their Ministers notwithstanding so much talke of reformation at any time plainely solemnly and openly declared their repentance for this their sin or the sin of their predecessors in this thing whereby they have deluded thousands of soules Have they declared it so that the common people might run and read their meaning should not the playster be made as broad as the soare If so then 13. Would it not be a praise-worthy deed and that which would much tend to free the present Parish-Ministry from being guilty of the blood of their people for them to confesse openly the great sin of their predecessors and their sin so far as they have partaken with them in declaring the people to be borne againe in Baptisme and made inheritors of the kingdome of heaven discovering the danger of this horrid delusion giving them plainly to understand that they the generality among them who say they are Christians are not such but are of the world as appeares by their hatred of those whom God hath chosen out of the world And should they not doe well to informe the godly among them that they are in no visible orderly Church-state provoking them to arise and measure the patterne and sending them forth by the footsteps of the flocks in the primitive times and would it not well become them having thus borne their testimony in word against the aforesaid evill to back the same in their practise with a plaine deniall to administer any Ordinance of Christ to the common multitude more then such as are for conversion which belong to Heathen and Publicans Luk. 6.44 till they see them bring forth fruits meet for repentance Good and bad men must be knowne by their fruit Luk 6.44 The Parish people are a people of mans forming by such meanes whereby a man may probably know and warrantably judge them to be converted and brought to the most holy faith of Christ And as for their present profession taught them by the tradition of fathers and by the customes and precepts of men not by the mighty power of God through the Word what solid satisfaction can it administer whereon to ground a probable judgement that they are in the faith Considering that in this Land there is now no persecution as in the Apostles dayes but on the contrary many worldly advantages attending the common profession of Christ And except some such effectuall course be taken as is before commended in this Quaery can the Ministers of such a people by all their faire glosses and subtill arguings acquitt themselves from the blood of soules Is it not their duty to take up the stumbling blocks out of the way of their people Are not many thousands of poore ignorant soules by looking at such things as these their supposed Christning and Church-state together with their dead saith hindered from receiving Christ and strongly armed against the sight and sence of a lost estate to their eternall undoing Shall God make inquisition for the blood of mens bodies and shall he not one day make inquisition for the blood of soules and require it of those who have holpen them to and strengthened them in such delusions Woe to them that call evill good Isay 5.20 If that old saying Quod fieri non debet factum valet will justifie such an unlawfull act why may it not justifie any other act of will-worship when it is done 14. And if so Whether the Ministry and people in some Congregations seperated from the Parish way may not doe well to consider whether they be not found accessary to the aforesaid great transgression of the Parochiall Ministry in justifying the sprinckling of ungodly prophane and Popish Parents Children as a sufficient obedience to Christs command of Baptisme doctrinally discharging from the obligation of that command the consciences of such of their Members as have no other visible Baptisme Is not this to call evill good will-worship service to Christ and by mans tradition to make a command of God of none effect Doe they not by such a practise though themselves refuse to sprinckle such Children yet strengthen the hands of those who doe And whether this be not more then a touching even the retaining an unclean thing forbidden to those who come out of Babylon the command requiring to destroy her utterly Let nothing of her be left Jer. 50.26 Whilest this unlawfull sprinckling of the seed of the ungodly is thus set up may it not stand in their way as an obstruction to the sight and acknowledgement of the truth concerning the true visible Baptisme Can it be true Baptisme according to rule without a right visible subject And whether all their arguing to prove that sprinckling before spoken of which themselves say hath not warrant for it to be sufficient obedience to the command be not that which will be found wood hay and stubble when every mans worke shall be tryed by fire 15. Whether the unwarrantable mixture of Legall and Gospel-worship and worshippers accounting this Nation a Church after the likenesse of the Jewish Nation not by regeneration Antichrists device to forme a false Church but by fleshly generation gathering together into a pretended Church-body the visibly Godly with the ungodly withall promoting againe tythes offerings consecrated places Altars with many other such like Jewish Ceremonies which were typicall The Priesthood being changed there is made of necessitie a charge also of the Law Heb. 7.12 and to cease in Gospel-dayes the joyning with all these a shew of the Ordinance of breaking bread and Baptisme Whether I say may not such a mixt worship and the worshippers be fitly termed Babylon or confusion And whether to establish such a worship be not to deny in a Mystery as doth Antichrist Christs greatest professed friend that Christ 1 Joh.