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conscience_n	faith_n	heart_n	sprinkle_v	2,758	5	11.3113	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34990	A description of the Church of Scotland with a word of reproofe to the priests, and teachers, and officers therein, for their many corrupt doctrines and practices, also a warning and a gentle invitation to all people, that lives under their tyrannicall government, to come to the truth ... : herein is their church made manifest ... : with an exhortation to all people to come out from amongst them ... / written in love to the simple-hearted in that nation ... by one who desires that people might be brought to the truth ... who am known among men by the name Stephen Crisp.	Crisp, Stephen, 1628-1692.	1660 (1660)	Wing C6928; ESTC R40352	17,808	15

planted together with Christ in the likenesse of his death which is unto sin verse 10. and such also come to partake of the resurrection and life which is in Christ Jesus and in that they live they live unto God and not unto themselves having crucified the old Man with his deeds and hath the body of sin destroyed and henceforth being dead unto sin they serve it not but witnesseth the Baptisme which now saveth makeing cleane the conscience in the sight of God by the washing of Regeneration Now all people that desire farther to know of this one Baptisme which is a dyin●● unto sin and a cleansing or washing from the filthinesse both of flesh and spirit you must turn your mindes to the manifestation of Gods spirit within which is given freely of God for you to profit withall and with it will you see the spots that remaines upon you notwithstanding your outward traditionall Baptisme of what sort or manner so ever it be and also it will give you to understand that the Baptisme which is the answer of a good conscience and which is the similitude of Christ death which is unto sin is yet wanting and so by waiting in that which maketh manifest those things which yee should dye unto then will yee feele the name of God revealed in you which is the strength and power which only is able to kill sin and trusting and believing in this the true faith comes first to be witnessed and then the one Baptisme which cleanseth and purifieth will be witnessed which bringeth into the everlasting Covenant which God is makeing with his holy Seed which he is now gathering from ●●●der all the shaddowes and also from among all the inventions of Men to serve him in meeknesse and feare in that worship which is inward in the spirit and in the truth 2dly The next thing is your imitable custome of eating and drinking Bread and Wine which you call a Sacrament of the Lords Supper and in this imitation stands much of your darke fellowship and communion but no warrant from Scripture have you for any such practise for Christ nor his Apostles never commanded Swearer and Lyers and covetous Persons and Fighters and Persecutors that they should observe any such thing at any time such as yee are for when ever yee eat or drinke it is unworthily as yee your selves sometimes confesse and so your damnation must needs be the greater Notwithstanding Christ the same night he was betrayed gave his Disciples his flesh to eat and his blood to drinke who afterward was to partake and injoy him in that which was signified by the Bread and the Cup when he tooke Bread and blessed it and said take eat this is my body which they tooke and eat and discerned his body of which they were Members and as oft as they did this they remembred him who said I goe away but I come againe and so also the cup he said was the new Testament in his blood which they then participating of and keeping in remembrance him who dyed who was to be raised up from the dead through faith and patience they came to have the new covenant in their hearts which was the substance of the figure in the blood they being first therwith sprinkled from an evill conscience and washed in their bodyes with pure water which is one with the blood but ●ow far yee are from this state let Gods witnesse in your consciences and your owne mouthes beare witnesse Now notwithstanding Christ did institute such a thing as this among his Disciples who had followed him in the regeneration and had continued with him in his temptations this was nothing to them who believed not on him neither is it any thing to you who are cursing them that beare witnesse to him that he is come a light into the world and hath lighted every man that cometh into the world and that witnesse he is come againe the second time without sin unto salvation according to his promise these you curse and persecute so your cup is not the cup of blessing which the Apostle speakes of 1 Cor. 10.16 Which is the Communion of the blood of Christ which cleanseth from all sin neither is that bread which they breake the Communion of the body of Christ for Paul saith they them selves were the bread and the body which is but one but this he said he spake to wise men and if any have an eare let them heare but as for your part yee are so foolish and unwise that the bread yee breake is carnall loaves which feedes nothing but the carnall body which is no part of Christs body that is hid from your carnall eyes and sealed from your carnall imaginations and his second comming which is without sin yee cannot believe and so his first comming will do you no good and your carnall bread and wine will never bring any of you to know nor remember his death nor to shew it forth for in that he dyed he dyed unto sin neither will his comming be unto salvation when he appears again unto you but unto damnation who discer●●●●ot his body but curseth and persecuteth his members but all that desires to know the Supper of the Lord in sincerity they must come to the light in the heart which cometh from Christ and that will shew them that which hath crucified Christ and slaine the Lambe and opprest the just in their own particulars and then the fear of God being placed in the heart and the want of Christ being felt who by sin and through transgression is crucified then shall you secretly come to feele a hope of his resurrection and so then as oft as yee eate and drink it will be in the fear of God and in remembrance of your own unworthinesse and also in rememberance of him who is to come to sanctifie the creatures which as he comes to be raised to life which hath been slaine in you this appearance is the second appearance which is without sin unto salvation and till yee witnesse this as oft as yee eat and drink doe it in the fear of God and in remembrance of Christ so shewing forth his death till he comes who when he comes will shew forth his owne life who is God over all blessed for ever Amen And these two you call Sacraments which you have as little ground for out of the Scripture as you have to practice them but are delighting your selves in the workes of your owne hands and giving names to your Idolls like the Heathens and Idolators before you But if you say they are obliging misteries I answer how comes it to passe that you who have beene so long exercised therein is no nearer obliged to God but remaines in the alienation of your mindes such strangers to him that one of your owne Preists said to a company of you in my hearing that the lowing of Oxen and the blee●ing of Sheepe would give as good an account of what God and

to raile and to curse and to stir up people 〈◊〉 ●●mults and to stoning those who are not of your judgement this is evill behavi●u● then giv●● to hospitality as to this let the poor people who in your Parishes goes in cold and hunge● while you live in fulnesse and idlenesse beare witnesse against you then apt to teach in th● also are ye far short who must take a weekes time to study to teach the people two or thr●● houres and yet cannot get your devised studyed stuffe to hold together but one while is co●firming that which it may be the same day or shortly after you will deny againe then 〈◊〉 given to wine no strikers how many of you have beene guilty herein in drunkennesse a●● striking and setting others on to strike would be too tedious to mention here but who desi●● to be informed of them and their manners let them in sincerity take notice of th m a●● they shall come to understand their spirit also some of their workes of this nature are alre●● printed and presented to publick view then not greedy of filthy lucre and in this particul●● how far your greedynesse hath appeared beyond all that have gone before you let the sufferi●● of them who for conscience sake could not put into your mouths beare witnesse against y●● again saith the Apostle in the 7th verse of that 3. Chapter of the 1st Timothy he m●●● have a good report of them that are without but how far are yee short of this who can●●● keepe up a goood name amongst them of your owne Church but your covetousnesse and dece●● is mannifest among them notwithstanding your tiranny doth much stop their mouthes and bl●●● ●heir eyes that they yet see not so much of your deceipt as shortly they will come to see But in briefe the description of the Church-officers in the whole Scriptures of the Apo●tles is that they be blamelesse which ye say none now can be and that they be filled with the holy Ghost and with saith which yee say they cannot be for sin must have a room ●n them then they cannot be filled with the other and that they hold the mi●tery of faith ●n a pure conscience which yee say they cannot doe for some sin must remaine and that defiles the conscience that they should be gentle towards all Men in meekenesse instructing ●hem that oppose themselves But out of this and all these qualifications yee being found ●our officiating must be like your Officers and your Officers are like the Members a body ●it for destruction together which the Lord is appearing against in his mighty power to ●ut of head and tayle root and branch together 4thly The Doctrines of your Church also are reprovable and corrupt in many things contrary to the Scriptures and first in your Doctrines of God whom you say is to be known and believed on as in the distinguishmant of three Persons and herein yee teach contra●y to the Scriptures of truth which yee say is your rule and by it are all such Dreamers ●nd Deceivers judged and by the spirit which gave them forth which speakes no where 〈◊〉 three Persons as yee imagine and teach but declares of the only wise God who is one 〈◊〉 being and subsistence individuall infinite who divideth all things and to every 〈◊〉 ●●eir portion who limiteth all things and is not limited whose power and spirit is 〈◊〉 ●able from him who is the Father of the spirits of all flesh who by his power 〈◊〉 ●●th and by his spirit quickeneth all living Creatures whose power is the Christ 〈◊〉 whose spirit is the holy and eternall life which they partake of who waites for his ●ppearance in his power and these doth not the Scriptures call three Persons but the one witnesse in the Heaven which you are all ignorant of who dreames and divines to the people of a distinguishment of Persons in the God-head therefore cease your deceipt yee Deceivers and Sooth sayers of Egypt and come to the light that shines in the heart that by it yee may come to the true knowledge of God your Creator and of his power by which ●●e were created and of his spirit by which he quickens into newnesse of life all those who ●eares him and waites for his salvation which now by the light is makeing manifest 2dly Your Doctrine concerning the word of God is altogether reprovable who teach people to beli ve that that is the word of God that can be bought and sold for mony and the knowledge thereof attained by humane learning namely the Scriptures of the Prophets and Apostles that you say is the word of God and they that say otherwise you say must be cursed but I tell you this curse will returne upon your owne heads who preach contrary to the Scriptures which saith Christ is the word of God now if he be the word ●f God then the Scriptures is not except they be Christ which if you thinke they be de●lare your meaning plainly and if you know any other Christ then the Scriptures then ●all yee him the word of God and call the Scriptures a Declaration according as they are ●alled by them that wrote them who knew the word of God it selfe which yee being ignorant of have as it were changed the glory of the incorruptable and immortall word of God which abides for ever into the similitude of writings which had a beginning 〈…〉 and must come to an end and in the end shall you know the word of God to be that wh●●● searches your hearts and Judges your ungodly thoughts and purposes this shall abi●● with you in the end for this was in the beginning which the Scriptures was not a●● this is it by which the Scriptures and all other things came to have a being so th●● if the Scriptures must be called the word of God because the word came to 〈◊〉 Saints and bid them write them then might Noahs Ark or Solomons Temple 〈◊〉 the Priests Garments or any other thing of the like nature be called the word of Go● because by it they were commanded to make them and furthermore that which the word of God is that which was made flesh and if you can tell how or wh●●● the Scripture was made flesh then declare it or else let that be called the word of G●● henceforth that did become flesh againe without the word was nothing made that 〈◊〉 made and if the scriptures be this word then declare to us how you know that they w●●● before the creation for that which maketh must needs be before the things that by it 〈◊〉 made farther the word of God saith the Apostle is quicke and powerfull and shar● then a two edged sword deviding betweene the soule and the spirit but if this be 〈◊〉 Scripture then tell us what is the reason that your soules are not thereby divided from 〈◊〉 spirit of iniquity and d ceipt that rules over them but yee imagine that death onel●