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A06121 The confession and conuersion of the right honorable, most illustrious, and elect lady, my Lady C. of L. Linlithgow, Eleanor Livingston, Countess of, attributed name. 1629 (1629) STC 16610; ESTC S108285 9,122 30

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power over the spirituall and temporall And where the Evangelist sayeth Doe this in rememberance of mee the Romish Church expoundeth thus sacrifice my body in a sacrifice propitiatorie for the quick and the dead And another falshood I remember is where our Saviour speaking of the Cuppe in the Sacrament sayeth This Cuppe is the new Covenant in my blood which is shed for you But the Bible of the Romish Church hath into it This Cuppe is the new Covenant in my blood which shall bee shed for you least a man should perceaue that IESVS CHRIST spake of a sacramentall shedding of his bloode For as yet hee had not then really shed his bloode which hee had begunne to shed in his passion These and many other falshoods did I many tymes remarke as they were objected vnto me yet did I ever misregard them being ever discontented that any should speake to mee of such hereticall opinions as I called them because my ghostly fathers assured mee continually that it was a deadly sinne any wayes to doubt or to let it so much as once enter into my thought that ever the Church might or could erre continually dinging in my eares a warrant out of the Prophet Malachie cap. 2 verse 8. that the Preists cannot erre where it is thus read The Preists lips shall keepe knowledge and they shall seeke the law at his mouth This many yeeres contented mee till at last in my old dayes GOD so happily moved my heart to heare the trueth of better and sounder instructers and their warrand I praise GOD for it who sheweth to me that the words of the Prophet are and ought to bee translated thus yet men that are ledde with an opinion that the Kirk can not erre will never consider this The Preists lippes should keepe knowledge For they that translate thus the words and that they shall seeke the law at his mouth they did never intend to shew thereby that GOD did make heere a promise that so it shall bee for ever but onely to shew that this it the law and commaadement of GOD teaching what the Preists and people should doe and ought to doe even as in the Commandement Thou shall haue no other GODS but mee Now I find that the words doe not promise that the Israelites should alwayes acknowledge and worshippe IEHOVA the true GOD alone for as may bee seene in the text within fourtie dayes the event shewed the contrarie but shew what they ought to doe but the wordes are a Commandement recited not a promise made For the words of the fourth verse did show it Therefore men not partially led may easily perceaue that the translation of the reformed Kirk is most perfect of all showing not onely the sense and meaning of the law but also how it did bind the people and Priest and how they ought to obey it By this I thinke it no heresie and I beleiue with the reformed Kirk that it is GODS holy trueth that Preists succeeding in the place and office of Aaron and Moses may erre and haue erred yea I thinke it the greatest error of all errors to thinke that a man can not erre were hee never so holie I perceaue now Moses Chayre in the which the Scribes and Pharisees did sit was the seate wherein they were wont to read the law of Moses and the expositions thereof to the people for what they there did teach was true and therefore CHRIST commanded them to obey it To sitte in Moses Chaire I vnderstand is to teach Moses doctrine but as the Iewes made GODS law voyd by their owne glosses traditions they erred most damnablie and were no more in Moses Chaire and so the people were no more bound to obey it For at that tyme CHRIST himselfe called their doctrine sowre leaven and warned his Disciples to beware of it I know also and fimelie now belieue that it was never the purpose of GODS Spirit in that place or by these wordes to teach that the Law should alwayes bee taught truelie and infallablie by the Priests and Pastors who succeede Moses or the Apostles in the Church by a continued succession For that is a falshoode contrare to experience in all ages That this is most certaine I desire but any of a contrare opinion to read but the same verie place with an indifferent and vnprejudged minde which confutes it most evidently For in reading the same attentiuelie I find the Priests vnto whom the Prophet there speaketh in these places were Levits and directly succeded Aaron in the Preisthood And yet yee see by the plaine text they were departed out of the way they caused many fall in the law by their corrupt glosse and their abuse of the Covenant of Levi as it appeareth most clearely into the next words following immediatly Yea some of them yee see had sacrificed to Idolles which I haue read my selfe in Iosephus historie of these tymes and therefore the LORD threatneth to corrupt their seede by cutting off the male progenie and to cast the dung of their sacrifices in their faces Finally I hope now in the mercie of GOD yet before I die to heare a hundreth sermons in GODS true Kirk for now my onely joy is my new birth that by the mercie of my GOD I am regenerate and of a daughter of darknesse and death that haue beene from my naturall birth am now made a daughter of light and lyfe in my old age and my setled peace and comfort is my spirituall marriage with my head and husband the LORD IESUS CHRIST who hath marryed mee to himselfe in trueth and everlasting compassion and will take from mee my old corrupt garment and clothe mee with the white robe of his righteousnesse so that my nakednesse shall never appeare any more Now O LORD my GOD and gracious Father in thy CHRIST my sweete SAVIOUR let thy Spirit quicken mee more and more thy wisdome guide mee thy grace sanctifie mee and thy Word instruct me Let the holy Ghost of whom thy Sonne my SAVIOUR was conceived beget in mee and mee in thee by the immortall seede of thy Word Let my faith conceaue my repentance honour thee my loue embrace thee my zeale continuallie keepe thee with mee till the comming againe of thy Sonne for my ever hoped glorification So come vnto mee LORD IESUS come quicklie Amen Blessed be the LORD for he hath shewed me his mercifull kindnesse Psal 31.21 Why art thou cast downe my soule and why art thou disquyeted within mee hope in GOD for I shall yet praise him who is the hope of my Salvation and my GOD. Psal 42.11 PSALME XLI.I. I Waited patiently vpon the LORD and hee inclyned vnto mee and heard my cry Hee brought mee also out of the horrible pit out of the myrie clay and set my feete vpon the Rocke and ordered my goings And hee hath put into my mouth a new song of Praise vnto our God Many shall see it and feare and shall trust into the LORD Blessed