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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

saved in their sins and then you shall know that the way of salvation was set open to you in that the light shined in your hearts but yee rejecting that way and seeking to establish a way of your owne so yee became excluded and shut out of the Kingdome after long talking of it And therefore all yee people of Scotland and to whomsoever this shall come of wh●● people or country soever yee be consider in the feare of God whether yee be lighted 〈◊〉 a light that doth make manifest your evill deeds and words and purposes in the secret 〈◊〉 your hearts yea or nay and if yee find such a thing then mind diligently its working in you for in it is reproofes of instruction which the Scriptures saith is the way of life and the way of life is but one and having found it every one in your owne particulars then no longer follow nor harken to the deceivers who for a long time hath beguiled you leading you from the light the way the truth and the life of men and so kept you in death and darknesse where salvation is not to be found and these have told you that they have preached the Gospell to you for the salvation of your soules and yet tells you also that as many of you as ever shall be saved were saved before you were borne then to what purpose is all their preaching to you if they cannot convert a reprobate nor an elect person cannot sin unto condemnation where then is the use of their ministry which they have so many thousands of marks and hundreds of pounds a yeare for if they answer and say this is the meanes to gather in them that are elected I answer God will not loose any for want of meanes and therefore he hath afforded the meanes freely without mony or prise to all the sons of men who bath so loved the world that he hath given his onely begotten Son a meanes and a way of salvation for as many as believe on him and he is the grace by which the Saints were and are saved which appeareth to all men and bringeth salvation nere unto all without respect of person who are taught by him to deny ungodlynesse and wordly lusts and to live soberly and righteously in this present World but if yee still continue to be taught by them that turne the grace of God into wantonnesse and despise that which shines in the heart to lead out of sin which it makes manifest then shall you perish in your gainsaying and in the day of your calamity and misery yee shall know and confesse to your unspeakable sorrow and torment that a prise was put into your hands and a way of life was declared and made manifest but yee loving your sins and iniquitys your delights and pleasures which the light and way of life appeared against were unworthy of this free salvation and so your condemnation yee shall confesse to be of your selves in that day when God the righteous Judge will be cleare of all your blood and then saying God is partly too blame and man is partly too blame that Men goe to Hell will not serve turne which one of the chiefe Priests of your Scottish Church affirmed Henry Foreside Priest of Lingich but his folly and many such blinde guides is now made manifest with the light which they are risen up against but they shall not proceed much farther for their skirts are discovered to their shame Many more of the Doctrines of your Church are reprovable and for condemnation with the light which light as the diligent Readers comes to mind in its working and breaking forth they shall see and be able to measure and to trye your Doctrines therewith and will be able to comprehend your deceipt in many other of your Doctrines which now I am not free to insist upon As of sanctification in which yee allow an 〈◊〉 sanctified part to remaine and so never brings people to know nor to hope for the ●●●row cleansing which the Saints witnessed except it be after death when no such ●●rke can be wrought and also your Doctrine of justification in sin will be seene ●nd Gods righteousnesse will be cleared against your lying and deceipt and so of Adoption and Resurrection and Glorification and what else is preached amongst you will be seen with the light by them that loves it to which I commend them in whom is sincerity of heart and shall proceed a little further to your Ordinances 1st And first concerning that rotten tradition which you call an Ordinance or Baptisme namely your casting a few drops of water upon the face of an Infant of about eight dayes old this you call an Ordinance but could never yet finde out the institution thereof by Christ nor his Disciples for any signe or signification whatsoever much lesse can you prove it to be the one Baptisme neither can you prove that ever any such thing was done by any of them so yee have neither precident nor precept from the holy men of God and therefore well may I call it a rotten tradition that hath not so much as a president to support it except it be a Popish one from whence it was derived from the Whorish Church of Rome your Mother whome you raile against in words and obey in her unwarrantable practises and with her shall you have your portion now this conceited charme or tricke of casting a few drops of water upon Childrens faces you call Baptisme wherein you have proclaimed to all understanding people that from the greatest of you to the least you are all ignorant of the Baptismes the Scriptures speakes of which had a time and service and ended it that which abides for euer and so being ignorant of them have in their roome set up a conceit and tradition which hath not so much as the least ground in the Scriptures of truth neither is mentioned therein nor was it invented many yeares after and th●● was it instituted by the Pope obeyed by the Papists and since continued and observed in your Scottish Church which from thence is sprung but the true Baptisme is that which was instituted by Christ and is owned and witnessed by the Saints and denyed by the Romish and Scottish which Baptisme is into the name of the Father Son and Holy Spirit which name is a strong Tower and all that are baptised into it find strength in it and help against temptations and in the time of trouble findes deliverance by it and this the Saints witnessed who witnessed the one Baptisme by one spirit into one body for saith the Apostle in the 6 Rom. 3 4. for so many of us as were Baptised into Jesus Christ were baptised into his death that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father even so we also should walke in newnesse of life now in that he dyed he dyed unto s●n and they that are baptised with the one Baptisme they are

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