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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55805	The unequal unyoked, and the equal yoked, and light separated from darkness, & darkness and blindness joyn'd together in answer to a paper that would joyn together truth and untruth, the true worship and the false : and here it is discovered, and the author thereof in part rewarded, by joyning him justly to those he unjustly joyned others to / by a lover of justice and equity and hater of the contrary, Peter Price.	Price, Peter, 1600?-1691.	1683 (1683)	Wing P3397; ESTC R9270	17,524	21

in this thing I shall not compare them with you 26. Bishop and Priest you and your Courts have been more troublesom and burdensom to some of us the People than all other Courts and Taxes that we have paid since your heavy Yoke and cruel Bondage came upon us which makes us to feel the weight and burden of it in our Estates and in our Consciences 27. Pope and Bishop Papist and Priest you are here and may be more at large so yoked together that you cannot be separated while you continue in your Will-worship and compelling Fellowship and carnal Ordinances and dry empty Forms and forcing People to joyn with you whether they will or no and your cruel Dealings with those that cannot for Conscience sake joyn with you in your Self-Worships which do not profit Soul nor Body I say while you do use the same means and live in the same Condition as Pope and Papists do what difference is between you and them And who will joyn in Worship with such a cruel merciless self-ended People as many of you are except it be some in a slavish Condition out of fear or some that make gain from your unchristian Wages or some other by-ends as it appeareth and as we find by the fruit of your corrupt Trees which you have been all this while planting and dressing and while they do feed you you are at peace with them be they never so bad and wicked for if you will tell them of one fault they can tell you of another if not of two so like Priest like People as the Scripture doth declare if you should deny this will not your Parishioners confess it Christ said When thou are converted then strengthen thy Brethren From what is evil and to what is good are you converted except it be from a small Means and Wages to a greater which is no Conversion but Promotion While you live in Covetousness you cannot do the People any good a good Tree cannot bring forth evil Fruit neither can a corrupt Tree bring forth good Fruit Mat. 7.18 and in vers 15. Beware of false Prophets which come to you in Sheeps Clothing but inwardly they are ravening Wolves V. 16. Ye shall know them by their fruits do men gather Grapes of Thorns or Figs of Thistles Here you are plainly seen and known to be the false Prophets your Fruit doth make you manifest to every honest single-hearted man And are not many of you as cruel as Woles and your good fruits a● hard to be had as Grapes of Thorns or Figs of Thistles And is there any in the Nations like you or to be compared to you i● Cruelty and Oppression And 〈◊〉 not they blind and want true Understanding that cannot see that you have the Marks that the false Prophets in all Ages had witness the Scripture from the beginning to the end where it speaks of false Prophets You cannot hide your selves in this the day of the Lords Power made manifest in and to his People for this is the day that the Lord God makes up his jewels and doth separate his People from amongst you the Goats Wolves Thorns and Thistles and we are his People and the Sheep of his Pasture and we know his living voice and the dead voices of you who to him are strangers we will not hear nor follow for you cannot ●ead us but where you are in the dark Kingdom of this World but the Lord who is our living Shepherd he hath and doth lead us to his Kingdom which is not of this World as Christ said and in his Kingdom he doth feed his little flock and there by him they are refreshed nourished and preserved out of your cruel hands and corrupt food that is to perish and cannot feed nor serve your turn in time of need And our food our rest peace joy comfort happiness fellowship and well-beeing is a hidden Mystery to you Priests if not you would not seek us to come to you back again where you have been too long already and are resolved in the Name of our God never to come back Go not to them but let them come to you saith the Scriptures Is there any reason that we should pay you wages while you do us no service and we deny you and your Service yet notwithstanding you would reap where you do not sow and have the wages where another doth the work and feed your greedy Bellies upon other mens Rights and Labours you make many poor in making your selves rich and many do go bare and fare hard to maintain your pride and fullness And thus you persecute Gods heritage and are the greatest Oppressors and Vexers of the People as any this day in this Kingdom And if he that had not the Wedding Garment was cast into utter Darkness where is wailing and gnashing of Teeth what will become of you that are clothed with the Garment of unrighteous Gains If he that was among the People of God and for them and as to outward appearance one of them was thus dealt with what will become of you that are against them and their Meetings and hinder them and break their Meetings And if Christ did say to them that in his Members did not visit him in Prison Depart from me ye cursed into everlasting Fire prepared for the Devil and his Angels what will he say to you that do cast him in his Members into Prison seeing that Christ said so to them that were too short in their Duty towards his People what will he say to you that are cruel and spiteful towards his People read Mat 25.32 to the end and you may see the reward of both the godly and ungodly the portion of the faithful and unfaithful And if the five foolish Virgins came too short the door shut and they kept out that were in company and profession with the wise Virgins what will become of you that do not only hate the company and profession of the godly but also set your selves to strive against them that they may not trim their Lamps and prepare themselves to make read to enter in with the Bridegroom And plainly this is your work to hinde the little slock to meet and follow the Lamb their leader And if th● Righteous scarcely be saved where shall the ungodly sinners appear I Pet 4.18 If those whom God hath separated from the ungodly world and united them to himself to witness for him and against the Sim of the World if they have nothing to spart but scarcely be saved Oh! where shall they appear that live in sin and plead for sin and say they must sin whilst they live in the earthly body No thanks to cease when you can sin no longer in the body If you must live in Sin whilst you are on thi● side the Grave when will you live in Righteousness seeing the Scripture saith Know ye not that to whom ye yield your selves Servants to obey his Servants you are to whom ye

obey whether of sin unto death or of Obedience unto Righteousness Rom. 6.16 For the wages of sin is death v. 23. They that serve sin or live in it are Servants to the Devil and cannot serve two Masters And is not the Lord God that made the Heavens and Earth and all things therein stronger than the Devil to lead out of sin for as God will not lead to sin so the Devil will not lead to any thing that is really good and many People are led by the Devil and not by God who made them And if they live and you dwell in sin what good do you to the People for your hire and wages They could live in sin and keep that to maintain themselves that doth maintain you and are not you the unprofitable Servants while you and your followers do live in Sin And are not you to receive your wages with the unprofitable Servants that did live in sin as you do Was it not sin that did separate from God and lead into the fall and doth separate from God And is it unpossible to remove that which did separate from God And must People still remain in the fall and from God And while you live in that which keepeth from God in the fall how can you come out of the fall to God again And can you obtain forgiveness of sin while you live in sin And must not sin be forsaken They that forsake their sin shall have mercy saith the Scripture bet do not you say to the People They have mercy though they live in sin A false Doctrine which proceeds from a dark unclean Spirit and not from the Spirit of God Bishop and Priest how can you but deny Perfection in this life while you deny the effects of Christs coming which doth perfect his work in his People and are not his works to be done within where the Serpents head is to be bruised And can his head be bruised without Christ the only means ordained of God to do it and so his work in you is not yet done but his Enemies work in you doth yet stand which is sin and uncleanness this makes you to oppose the work of Christ which is 〈◊〉 bind the strong man and to cast him out of possession and to lay the Ax to the Root of the unfruitful Tree which by God was never planted and the Serpent and his seed and all that doth belong to him turned out root and branch and all that belongs to the Enemy of God by Christ the higher Power destroy'd And then the Image of God wrought and the fruit of the Spirit known and witnessed as it is written And such were some of you but ye are washed but ye are sanctified but ye are justified in the Name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God 1 Cor. 6.11 And they said Christ in us the hope of Glory and know you not your own selves how that Jesus Christ is in you except you be Reprobates 2 Cor. 13.5 Thus Jesus Christ hath and doth do his works in his People whilst unbelievers do talk of his coming and sin in them still remaining which is the work of the Devil Bishop and Priest Christ saith Learn of me and you say learn of us and them that do not are prosecuted in your Courts and cast into Goal and goods taken from them And Christ said Feed my Lambs Joh. 21.15 Feed ye the Church of God Acts 20.28 Feed ye the flock of God 1 Pet. 5.2 Mind what Christ saith Feed my Lambs my Church my flock And in effect you say We will make you all feed us or else we will have a suit in Law against you and recover trible damage and drive away your cattel or goods or cast your Bodies to Prison until you pay us This we believe you will do and you have done already The People of God that had the largest measure of the Spirit of God and of the Virtue Wisdom and Knowledge of God were Servants to the rest and good Examples and did exceed others in meekness mildness lowliness and all manner of humility according to the largeness of that of God which they had received And you according to what of men you have received are by them preferred and entituled Lords Bishops Masters Priests So herein one with Pope and Papists and also one with the Heathen exercising Lordship over the People contrary to Christ and his Disciples who were all Brethren and he their only Master Mat 23. and so bear sway and rule over the People and compel them as Servants to you or more like slaves than servants for Servants may change their Masters if they do not like them but the People cannot change you be you never so cruel and bad although they do complain and deny you and your stolen ware out o● other mens works and not from the Spirit of God Is it not a slavis● condition to compel a People to what they know will not serve thei● turn to make them pay for that altho' they do refuse it If it we●● upon the account of worldly things it would be the better boren b●● it doth concern our Souls Health and Salvation and everlasting Happine●● and Well-beeing world without end And the Lord God whom we obe● can deliver us out of our merciless hands but if we should obey yo● you cannot deliver us out of the just hand of God therefore we little matter what you can or will do while we keep our Consciences void of offence towards God and men You are easily to be known your rising up hath brought many down You are black without and dark within your making thick hath made many thin those that do feed you you cry peace to and those that do refuse to follow you are your Adversaries be they never so good so that we do plainly see that you did not come for our good but for our goods not to feed the flock but that the flock may feed you as it is written Wo to the Shepherds of Israel that do feed themselves should not the Shepherd feed the flock ye eat the fat and ye clothe you with the Wool ye kill them that are fed but you feed not the flock Ezek. 34.23 Here you may see that you do the same works as the false Shepherds did before you and we declare against you as the godly did against them ye kill them that are feed mind that do not you seek to destroy that which is led by the Lord and by him begotten which is the New-birth wherein dwelleth Righteousness with it doth all things become new therefore if any man be in Christ he is a New-Creature old things are past away behold all things are become new 2 Cor. 5.17 Is there any thing in you become new or is the corrupt Birth still alive from which nothing that is good can proceed and so you cannot witness your selves to be new Creatures in Christ but in self and selfishness