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A treatise relating to the call, work & wages of the ministers of Christ as also to the call, work & wages of the ministers of antichrist : wherein a testimony is born ... / Thomas Lawson.
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Lawson, Thomas, 1630-1691.
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be the true Light the Way to the Father the Tree of Life in the Paradise of God and Paul was sent to turn People from Darkness to Light from the Power of Satan unto God Peter exhorted To take heed unto the sure Word of Prophecy as to a Light shining in a Dark Place until the Day did dawn and the Day-star did arise in their Hearts John 1.9 John 8.12 Acts 26.18 2 Pet. 1.19 But Man-made Ministers say The Scripture is the Light Such walk in the Region of the Shadow of Death the Scripture was given out by the Eternal Light a Declaration of it of God whence it came 6. The Apostles preached up the Baptism by one Spirit into one Body 1 Cor. 12.13 as the permanent Baptism of the Evangelical Dispensation the Heart-cleansing and Soul-saving Baptism the Substance 1 Pet. 3.21 Man-made Ministers Sprinkle Infants saying thereby they are made Members of Christ Children of God Inheriters of the Kingdom of Heaven Thus the Visible is inthroned and the Invisible is dis-throned which truly makes Members of Christ Paedorantism that is Sprinkling of Infants came not in till Hundreds of Years after the Apostles dayes 7. The Apostles knew Christ to be the Bread of Life the Soul's Food heavenly Manna here they fed at the Table of the Lord had fellowship one with another were written in one anothers Hearts these knew the Table and Supper of the Lord. Man-made Ministers tell of a Sacrament for which there is no Scripture 't was the old Heathen Roman Military Oath their Communion is in visibles Meat that perishes Christendom Professing this Communion is become as Golgotha a Place of Skulls as Aceldama a Field of Blood 8. True Minsters knew the Lamb of God that takes away the sins of the World to be the Everlasting Covenant Glad Tidings to Captive Souls to Prisoners of Hope this Gospel was preached to Adam Gen. 3.15.10 Abraham Gal. 3.8 Man-made Ministers say Matthew Mark Luke and John is the Gospel Their Writings are a Declaration of the Everlasting Gospel Luke 1.1 9. The Apostles preached Christ the Fountain of Life the Treasury of Wisdom and Knowledge in whom the fulness of the Godhead dwells Bodily Man-made Ministers say That Oxford and Cambridge are the Fountain Well-spring or Well-head of Divinity the two Eyes of the Nation Though founded in Popish Times for the Propagation of their Doctrine and Religion 10. The Apostles preached the Word which was in the beginning to be the Original which was before Babel many Languages by which the Prophets and Apostles were called and drew others into the one pure Language to know the Virtue of the Everlasting Gospel Man-made Ministers say that Hebrew and Greek is the Original The Hebrews persecuted Christ the Greeks accounted the Cross of Christ Foolishness Pilate who had Latin Greek and Hebrew the World 's Original he crucified Christ Alpha and Omega the Beginning and Ending the First and Last the Original the Author of the pure heavenly Language 11. The Apostles preached the Saints to be the Temple of the Living God Christ the Anti-type reigning in their mortal Bodies Man-made Ministers say That a House of Lime and Stone is the Temple An Imitation of Solomon's Temple a Type fulfilled and ended in Christ the Substance Stephen was stoned to Death for witnessing against the Temple the Figure when Christ the Substance was manifested 12. The Apostles preached Christ the one Offering perfecting forever them that are sanctified Heb. 10. They preached Christ the end of that Priesthood that took Tythe the end of the Law that gave Tythe Heb. 7.12 Man-made Ministers preach up Tythe the Heave-offering Numb 18. the Shadow so deny Christ the One Offering And by the same Rule they may introduce and uphold all the other Offerings of the Aaronical Priesthood 13. The Apostles as Freely they received so they Freely gave Mat. 10. 1 Pet. 4.10 Buy the Truth but sell it not saith Solomon Prov. 23. The Wine and Milk of the Kingdom is to be bought but how Without Money and Price Isa 55.1 Man-made Ministers say They are gifted men but will not part with their Gift but for a certain yearly Sum Wisdom the Gift of God is Free and cannot be bought and sold for Money Wisdom saith Job cannot be ' gotten for Gold nor Silver nor for Coral Pearls nor Rubies cap. 28. Who think to purchase it they are in the Gall of Bitterness in the Bond of Iniquity as Simon was Acts 8. 14. Such as Christ sent they preached That every one had a measure of Light in him leading to Life such as received it the Condemnation of such as received it not Joh. 1.5.9 Joh. 3.19 Rom. 1.19 Luke 17.21 Man-made Ministers deny this Doctrine saying 'T is a Natural Light and belch out Approbious Language against it and that the Improvement of it advantages nothing And all this to keep People in a Reliance and Dependance upon them never to witness the new Covenant the Law written in the Heart the Spirit put in the Inward Parts 15. Paul told the Corinthians That they might all Prophesie that all might learn and be comforted and if any thing was revealed to him that sate by the first was to hold his Peace 1 Cor. 14. This was Order in the true Church Man-made Ministers accounts this Confusion and Disorder for if any should come in and speak while the publick Minister is speaking or when he hath done how cruelly such have been used I need not mention shewing that their Church-members are Branches of that old putred stock that they were of who stoned Stephen to Death Acts 7. 16. The Apostles preached Freedom from Sin Rom. 6.6 7 18. Freedom from the Law of Sin and Death Rom. 8.2 A Sanctified State 1 Cor. 6.11 A Cleansing from all Sin by the Blood of Jesus 1 John 1.7 Man-made Ministers teach another Doctrine That there is no Freedom from Sin in this Life and that a man must carry a Body of Sin and Death about with him while upon Earth 17. The Apostle James owned Christ's Doctrine who said Swear not at all Mat. 5. James 5. But Man-made Ministers plead for Swearing saying The Denyal thereof is an old Heresie yea and many eminent in the Church since the Apostles dayes have born faithful Testimonies against Swearing as Christ did who spake with Authority 18. The Apostles owned Revelation without it God is not known Mat. 11.27 Till this was witnessed Paul was Saul a grand Persecutor Gal. 1.16 Who are of God now they bear witness to this But Man-made Ministers say Revelation is ceased So conclude all to be excluded from the Knowledge of the Living God 'T is true who are in the Will of Man Night and Darkness is upon them the Sun is set Vision and Revelation such know not 19. The true Ministers of Christ preached Present Salvation Ephes 2.8 By Grace they were saved Tit. 3.5 1 Pet. 3.21 Man-made Ministers preach Christ and Salvation at a Distance telling
what Glorious things Christ will do and what Glorious things he hath done but to know his Energy inward effectual Operation at present a present coming out of Babylon to the new Jerusalem this is not preached up In a word they are such Trumpeters give such an uncertain Sound as that their Hearers are not at all Alarum'd not all Arm'd not at all Arm'd against Abaddon Apolyon the old Destroyer but the strong man Arm'd keeps the House hath rule in the Heart in this state man makes a shew of Religion and Worship Thus Man-made Ministers are stained with the Defilements of Doctrinal Errors and as John said Whosoever Transgresseth and abideth not in the Doctrine of Christ he hath not God 2 John 1.9 So consequently hath nothing Habet omnia qui habit habentem omnia that is He hath all that hath the Haver of all so such as are out of Christ's Doctrine they are Heterodox Heretical yea and according to John's Doctrine Atheistical 20. True Ministers were and are Instruments in the hand of the Lord to bring men to Righteousness and Eternal Life out of the Dungeon of Death Darkness and Unbelief Acts 26.16 17 18. If they had stood in my Counsel saith the Lord and had caused my People to hear my Words then they should have turned them from their Evil Way and from the Evil of their Doings Jer. 23. But Man-made Ministers who creep into the Ministry without a divine Call for earthly Ends through the strength of natural Abilities they are like the Mountains of Gilboa without Dew and Rain so barren and unfruitful and cannot enrich others 2 Sam. 1.21 Yea they are like the Cramp-fish whose stupifying and benumming Quality say Naturalists issues from the Fish to the Hook then to the Line then to the Angling-Rod then to the Hand then to the Body of the Fisher and so benums him and takes away all use and feeling of his Limbs such like is the benumming deadning and stupifying Quality of Man-made Ministers but such as come in the living virtue of Truth they make alive unto God such as receive their Testimony and bring them to have all their Sences exercised to the discerning of Good and Evil. 21. Such as are called of the Lord in the influence of his Power they are carried on in the Performance of their Testimonies contrary to the Stream and Current of mens Wills the Lord opens their Mouthes and Man cannot shut them they are not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Men-pleasers God rather than men is to be hearkned unto and obeyed But Man-made Ministers who intrude into that Work as a Trade to get a Living by eyeing the Fleece more than the Flock these have been and are like dead Fish driven on by the Stream and Current of humane Commands and Appointments as their Mouthes are opened by man so by the Injunctions of Man they are shut Such as have been called of man have done the Work of man hoisting up their Sails to every Wind complying with every Power that came up bending unto the Forms of Worship by them appointed as Records fully testifie King Henry the 8th denying the Popes Supremacy brought the Clergy of England into a Praemunire for their compliance with the Paepal Power the Clergy in a Convocation resolved upon a Humble Sumbmission in writing and gave the King one Hundred Thousand Pound for a Pardon in which Submission they stiled the King Supream Head of the Church Thus the Clergy being beheaded got a new Head denying the Pope acknowledged the King to be their Head Bakers Chron. Not long after the Clergy took an Oath To Renounce the Pope and his Authority and to be true and loyal to the King his Heirs and Successors So God me help and all Saints said they After him succeeded King Edward the sixth in whose Reign the Book of Common-Prayer was commended to the Nation and established and received by the Clergy instead of the Latin Mass Now upon the Translating of the Latin Mass-Book into English in this Edwara's days there was a Rising in Devonshire the King wrote in this manner to quiet them As for the Service in the English Tongue perhaps it seems to you a new Service when indeed it is no other but the old the self-same Words in English which were in Latin saving a few things taken out so fond that it had been a shame to have heard them in English Thus the Common-Prayer came to be established Histor Magdiburg After him succeeded Queen Mary who being a Papist commanded the Mass to be sung again in Latin and to be used in all Churches so called The Kingdom was absolved and reconciled to the Church of Rome by Cardinal Pool Monasteries were re-edified first Fruits and Tenths were restored to these things Priests and People generally complied they took an Oath to be true to St. Peter to the Church of Rome to the Pope their Holy Father and to Persecute to their power all Opposers saying So help me God and the holy Evangelists Notwithstanding all these Oathes and Resolutions in the Year 1559. Queen Elizabeth coming to the Crown she with her Parliament made an Act for Uniformity of Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments the Title of Supream Head of the Church was confirmed to her the Popes Supremacy denyed and of the Number of above nine Thousand Priests Bishops Deans Prebends Masters of Colledges Arch-Deacons Abbots formerly sworn to Popery not above one Hundred and twenty refused to take an Oath against Popery so turned from their Religion to the Protestants Religion because the Queen set it up notwithstanding in Queen Mary's dayes they had burned some Hundreds for resusing to bow to Popery After her King James confirmed the Common-Prayer-Book puting out Canons and Constitutions for Fonts Tables Carpets of Silk Pulpits Copes Surplices Hoods Gowns with standing Collars strait Sleeves wide Sleeves Tippets square Caps that People might know such and such and Honour them The long Parliament denyed the Common-Prayer and by a Synod of Priests set out a Directory for publick Worship in the Year 1644. the generallity of Ministers conformed and inveighed against the Common-Prayer-Book as Popish calling it Rags of Rome dregs of the Whores Cup the English Mass c. In the Year 1653. Oliver Cromwell being made Protector he made Provision for the Clergy for their recovering of Tythe and other Dues as they pretend upon which they called him A good Nursing Father In the Year 1658. Richard Cromwell was made Protecter the Clergy in a Petition called him their Joshua Petitioning him to lead them into the Promises Land and what was that but into rich Benefits and Augmentations The King being restored the Directory cast out as indirect and the Common-Prayer enjoyned how generally entertained by the Clergy notwithstanding the grievous Reflections of many of them against it I need not mention Aencas Sylvius a private Man wrote many things against Popery after being made Pope and called Pius he undid what he