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A56434	A shield of the truth, or, The truth of God cleared from scandals and reproaches cast upon it by scandalous and reproachfull tongues which the devil in all ages did make use of, whereby he blasphemed the truth of God, striving to present it odious in the eyes and ears of all people, that so he might uphold his own kingdom, but the day hath made him manifest, & the Lord is come, & is coming to make war with him, and bind him, and cast him into the bottomless pit and all who bears his image, and under his dominion is written by ... Iames Parnel.	Parnell, James, 1637?-1656.	1655 (1655)	Wing P533; ESTC R20838	39,279	50

Devil whereby he exalts himself in man but James the Apostle of Jesus Christ witnessed against it as in Jam. 2. 1 2 3 4 5. and so on and said He that respects persons commits sin for there is no respect of persons with God and therefore saith James Howle ye rich men and here your professed Ministers abides not in the doctrine of Christ and so hath not God but the Devil and his Ministers they are whom they exalt And now you shall see the partiality of the names in this your breeding and manners First from a poor man to a rich man it is called honour and due respect and manners from a rich man to a poor man it is called curtesie and humility but amongst the Rich and Nobles of the earth it is called courtlike breeding but of those of lower degree it is called country breeding and amongst the lower sort of the world it is called neighbourhood and civil respect one to another and so the Devil hath covers for all his deceit and so he is honoured and exalted both in Court and Country but the highest in the Court and therefore they have the highest title But wo unto them that hides their sinne and covers with a covering and not of the spirit of the Lord But this is the riches of the world the devil that makes so many degrees as between Dives and Lazarus and Hamon and Mordechai for the Lord hath made all the Nations of the earth of one mold and one blood but we who are redeemed out of his kingdom he cals us clowns and fools and saith our Religion is built upon such smal and frivolous things stumbles at straws and leaps over blocks this saith his wisdom but it is even death to him to bear these straws especially where he is the highest exalted for it puls down all his honour and therefore doe Rich men and Great ones of the earth and Rulers and Priests and Pharisees persecute and oppresse us and draw us before judgement seats and would root us out of the Nation as Hamon would have done by Mordechai and the scattered Jews because they cannot bear those straws but I say whatsoever it is that comes to be forbidden in the Conscience it becomes a weight and a burden though it be never so small a thing in the eye of a Pharisee so set none despise the day of small things but some will call it stubbornness obstinacy pride and presumption but the same nature would have called so in Mordechai who could not bow to Hamon as the rest did that sate by and so let every one take heed of speaking evill of that you know not lest you call good evill and evil good for the woe is pronounced against such but they that were after the Flesh alwaies in all Ages persecuted them that were after the Spirit And so it is not many mighty nor many noble nor many wise after the flesh are called but God hath chosen the foolish things of this world to confound the wise and the weak to confound those that are mighty that no flesh should glory in his presence 1 Cor. 1. 26 27 29. We are accused that we say we are perfect without sin I answer Man was perfect without sin before the Fall or else he could not have been the Image of God for God is pure and perfect and he made man after his own Image pure and perfect without sin but when he sinned he defaced his Image and lost his pure estate and was drove out of Paradice and became the Image of the Devil for sin is the Image of the Devil and here all sin is in the Fall and who are in the Fall are in the Devils kingdome which is impure and imperfect and unclean but God promised the seed of the woman shall bruise the Serpents head and Christ the seed sayd he was come to preach deliverance to the captive and to heale the broken hearted and to seek that which was lost and to bring againe that which was driven away and this was his work to redeem to man that which man had lost Now consider what man hath lost and I shall leave this as Querie with all both Priests and People who deny perfection from sinne here whether Christ is but a p●rt of Redeemer or a perfect and full Redeemer and which is the place betwixt heaven and earth where man shall be made free or cleansed from sin if not upon the earth seeing that no unholy nor unclean thing can enter the kingdome of God But who can witnesse this hath passed through death and that hath none who plead for sin neither can they witnesse Christ come but for some simple ones sake I shall speake more clearly of this for it is a great delusion of the Devil to keep people in sin to tell them they shall never be made free from sin so long as they are upon the earth and brings this Scripture to maintain it He that saith he hath no sin deceiveth himself and is a lyar but he tels them Christ dyed for all and if they can but lay hold on him by Faith he will not impute their sins unto them though they sin daily for the righteous man sins seven times a day and all the holy men of God sinned and so he takes Scripture to maintaine his kingdome and this he delivers by the mouth of his Ministers which he sends abroad to deceive the Nations leading people in blindness ful of sin and corruption ever learning and never comes to the knowledge of the Truth nor never shall doe for them and here he carries them to an easie delightsome way to the Flesh but the end is death and so heals them up in their sin with a feigned formed faith which perisheth and here they settle upon the Lees and set up a rest in the Devils Kingdom which is sin and here many are meerly blinded and hardned and all tenderness of Conscience is done away But you shall finde that he that sooths you up in this Faith is the greatest enemy of your soules and whosoever witnesseth Christ their Redeemer shal witness that he is come to destroy the works of the Devil which is sin and to redeem out of the fall out of sin and out of the Devils kingdome which is sin and all sin is in the Devils kingdome which is in the fall but for this end Christ is manifested to destroy the works of the Devil and to redeem out of the fall out of the Devils kingdome into his own kingdom and no unclean thing can enter therein but none can witnesse this Redemption but through the death and through the Crosse which Paul rejoyced in by which he was crucified to the world and the world to him and had put off the body of sin and was made free from the Law of sin which once warred against his mind which once he complained of which Scripture

satisfying of the proud mind also following the new fashions inventions of the world they and their wives and children decking and adorning themselves according to their proud mindes to make the creature seem something in its own eyes and in the eyes of others and those are the outward signes of pride which lodgeth in their hearts and they are called of men Masters and have the chiefest places in the assembies uppermost rooms at feasts and love greetings in the markets such Christ declared against See whether these be outward signes of pride yea or nay but you will say that one may have as proud a heart in plain Apparell I Answer but where pride is it will vent forth its self either lesse or more according to the outward ability of the creature but it showes it selfe the most in apparell but the light of God makes manifest the heart where lies the root Covetousnesse is a fruit of the corrupt tree see whether your Teachers be covetous yea or nay who have some fifty some sixty some an hundred or two hundred pounds in the year more or less as they can get it and some have mony for smoake passing up the chimnies and for piggs geese eggs and chickens and many other such like things which are too tedious to reckon but your herelings will reckon them when they come to take them to seek for their gain from their Quarter and this gain they make of the letter which was spoken forth freely by the true Prophets Apostles of God where there is the greatest benifices there will they be so are like the false prophets which Ezekiel declared against who seek for the fleece and regard not the flock now see whether your teachers be covetous or we who have left our countries our lands and livings and possessions and have forsaken all and have not where to lay our heads but as the Lord provides for us neither covets any mans silver nor gold gifts or rewards for freely we have received freely we give for we come not to seek yours but you God is our witnesse and our justification then who art thou that condemnest Drunkenesse is a fruit of the corrupt tree now see whether we or your teachers be guilty of this he that hath an eye to see let him see Envy is a fruit of the corrupt tree now see whether your teachers be guilty of this who sue men at the law for their own estates and earthly things and trifles though they be of their own flock or we who sue no man at the Law but are sued by them because we cannot maintain them in their pride and idlenesse by the sweat of our browes contrary to the Scripture which saith he that will not work let him not eat and if they did administer to us spirituall things they would reap our carnal now see if these be not the ravening wolves in sheeps cloathing for so long as we put into their mouths they cryed peace peace and told us we were Christians when we were heathens and knew not God so sewed pillowes under out arme-holes and appeared to us in sheeps cloathing but now that we are reduced into the flock of Christ by Christ our eyes are opened and now we see that we profited nothing by them but were deceived by them so we cannot put into their mouthes nor maintain them any longer in their deceipts but testifie against them and so they sue us at the Law and hale us before Magistrates and takes treble damage and appears ravening wolves and would destroy us and our families and would live upon our estates by compulsion and an outward Law and some of us they cause to be put in prison and call us hereticks deluders and deceivers false prophets and yet could live on our estates and covet our silver and gold and estates and by law and Justices Warrants straines upon them and so seeks ours and would destroy us like the false prophets which Hosea declared against who as a company of robbers wait for a man so the company of Priests murders in the way by consent and also the false teachers which Peter foretold of who through covetousnesse with feigned words make merchandize of the people or we who are made merchandize of though we take none of their stoln wares and make merchandize of none God is our witness and so if these be not the false teachers which Paul foretold of to come in the last times covetous proud boasters blasphemers disobedient unthankfull unholy without naturall affection truce-breakers false accusers incontinent fierce despisers of those that are good traytors heady high-minded lovers of pleasures more then lovers of God having a form of godlinesse but denying the power thereof from such turn away for of this sort are they that creep into houses who lead silly women captive full of sin and corruption divers lusts ever learning and never come to the knowledge of the truth now as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses so do they withstand the truth men of corrupt minds reprobate concerning the faith 2. Tim. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Now see if your Teachers be not lovers of their own selves who seek for the fleece and regard not the flock but feed with the fat and cloath with the wool and live by the sweat of others browes living at ease devouring the creation and spending it upon their lusts they and their wives and Children nourishing their hearts as in a day of slaughter and of changeable minds according to the government of man that they may save shelter themselves under the power and will of man as the false prophets did by which they stood and were upheld and the same that prayed for the King and Realm and the same prayes now for the Lord Protector and the State of England Now see whether these be false Prophets or we who have forsaken our outward livings and estates and countries and acquaintance and comes into strange countries and light among dogs and wolves and heathens as Christ saith he sends us forth as sheep among wolves which are of the Priests flock and suffers our bodies to be stock'd and ston'd reproached reviled imprisoned and shamefully intreated and loves not our lives unto death for Christs sake he is our witnesse and onely Protector in whose power we stand and are upheld contrary to the will of man and see whether we or your Teachers be covetous as it is before proved and proud as it is before proved and see if they be not boasters who boast that they are the Ministers of Christ and sent of God when as they are come but from Oxford and Cambridge approved by the will of man and boasts of gifts and sels them for money when the Scripture saith the gift of God is not to be bought with money And they boast they are the mediate meanes ordained by God when as they are

is the Baptism of Christ with the Holy Ghost and with fire but we deny all other for there is but one Lord one Faith one Baptism one God and Father of all and they who would have one Baptism outward and another inward would have two Baptisms when the Scripture saith the Baptism is but one and whosoever hath the Baptism outward are the same they were before but the Baptism of Christ makes a new creature and this I witnesse for I received water upon my face as my Parents told me which they called Baptism but I grew up an heathen as all other children doe and no new creature though my parents were counted believers amongst the world and their Priests but now I witnesse the Baptism of Christ by one spirit into one body and now I witnesse a new creature old things are past away and all things become new And now I see the other to be formal imitation and the invention of man and so a meer delusion and all are heathens and no Christians who cannot witness this Baptism who can witnesse this denies all other for the Scripture saith the Baptism is but one and who can witnesse this are believers but who cannot witnesse this are no belivers and so it is that water or no water availeth nothing but a new creature for all by nature are the children of wrath and except they be born again they cannot enter and as for the Baptism of Water which the Apostles used it being a command of Christ for its time the power went along with it and the Disciples received the Holy Ghost when they were baptised but none can witnesse this who sets their selves of acting or imitating the Apostles and so takes it up by imitation and their ground is the letter and are not guided to it by the same spirit which guided the Apostles and so they are the same after water as before and so now water or no water availeth any thing but a new creature for water was but for its time though many in darknesse have now gotten the form and are groping in it for life but wants the life and power and so from such turn away We are accused to deny the Supper of the Lord The Supper of the Lord we own which is the body and blood of Christ which the Saints feed upon and this is eternal food and life and here they all feed upon one and are of one heart and minde and here is pure and eternal union and communion and this is not carnal but spiritual for Saints are spiritual and their communion is spiritual and eternal and this we witnesse who are of one heart and one minde who are in the new Covenant and herein we discerne the Lords body and here all drunkards are shut out and all lyars adulterers proud covetous lustful and envious ones and all backbiters revilers extortioners and all deceitful and unrighteous persons are shut out of the new Covenant and are without feeding upon the husk and shadow which is carnall for the bread which the world breaks is carnall and naturall and only feeds the outward carnall body and goeth into the belly and so passeth out into the dunghill and so likewise the cup which they drink and so the communion and fellowship of the world passeth away but this is no nourishment to the soul but still the soul lies in death and here is no communion but naturall outward and carnall of severall minds and hearts full of filthinesse and uncleannesse which is the table of Devils eating and drinking their own damnation not discerning the Lords body which is spirituall which the natural man discerns not And here stands the worlds communion and fellowship which is carnall and crosse but their carnall wills and it is turned into envy and for earthly trifles they will go to Law and cozen and cheat and defraud one another for earthly trifles and like people like Priest but if they lie in wait for revenge of one another then they will not take their Sacrament as they call it And here the Devill hath as great hold for he that envies is a murderer and here is the difference betwixt the worlds communion and the Saints communion life and death for to be carnally minded is death but to be spiritually minded is life and here they are without feeding upon the husk shadow without and would destroy the life and substance where it appears both Priest people and Rulers and so have a form of godliness and denies the life and power from such turn away for it is a mere delusion to take the shadow for the substance We are accused to deny all prayer The prayers of the wicked we deny and God denies for it is abominable for Cain the wicked one who was out of the commands of God who was the first birth hee offered up a sacrifice of the earth but GOD had no respect to it but Abel the second birth who was the righteous his sacrifice God had respect to so the prayers of the faithfull and righteous God doth accept they availe what comes from his own which is the second birth his own pure what comes from it is pure God who is pure doth receive that which is pure but he receivrs nothing which is polluted or unclean for he is of purer eyes then to behold iniquity for his sacrifice must be without spot or blemish and that which comes from an uncleane heaet is sported and defiled and uncleane for nothing that is pure can come forth of an unclean vessell but who can witnesse the second birth and that the seed of the woman hath bruised the serpents head which is the first promise and faith which purefieth the heart then that which comes out is pure proceeding from a pure single heart and this prayer God receives and he hath respect to it and this we own and witnesse and this comes from the second birth which is pure for the first birth is unclean and out of the command of God in the fall in the wrath in the peevishnesse and preversnesse and frowardnesse Cain like and the seed of the serpent is first in every one and rules the head but the promise is the seed of the woman shull bruise the serpents head so you who are not come to this are still in the fall and are not come to the first promise so all your self-acting and imitating thinking to merit with your prayers and praises singings and duties and worships and traditions which are all in vaine and you are sacrificing to an unknown God a sacrifice of the earth from the first nature which God hath no respect to and the flaming sword is set against that to keep from the tree of life for both drunkards and swearers liers proud coveteous and all manner of unrighteous persons are offering up sacrifices and are in their formall worships and duties thinking

the unlearned which are strangers from his conditions who reads them with the carnal eye now perverts and wrests to their own destruction and this we witness who through the Lamb our Saviour do reign above the World Death Hel and the Devil but none can witness this whose eye is outward looking at a Redeemer a farre off and still live in sin but who cannot witnesse this Redemption here must never witnesse it for as the tree falls so it lies and sin is the mark of the Beast and who lives in sin hath the mark of the Beast and bears his Image and it is written that the Beast and false Prophets and all that have his Mark or Image must be cast into the Lake that burneth and must drink of the wine of the wrath of the Almighty powred out without mixture But as for that Scripture that saith If we say we have no sin we deceive our selves and the truth is not in us All have sinned and fallen from the Lord and he that hath sin and saith he hath no sinne deceiveth himself and is a lyar but if he confesse and forsake his sin God is faithful and just to forgive him his sin and to cleanse him from all unrighteousness and this John witnessed and he that can witness this is no lyar if he say he is cleansed from all unrighteousness but witness forth the truth and a perfect Redemption and the same John sayd He that is born of God sins not neither can he sin because his seed remaineth in him and he that sinnes is of the Devil and n●ver knew God By this are the children of God and the children of the Devil made manifest this John witnessed he was no lyar neither did deceive himself but spoke the truth and the same John said God is light and in him is no darkness at all If we say we have fellowship with God and walk in darknesse we lye and doe not the truth but if we walk in the light we have fellowship one with another and the blood of Christ cleanseth us from all sin this John witnessed he was no lyar neither did deceive himself and this John sayd He that hath hope in him purifieth himself even as he is pure and faith in God purifieth the heart Now try your Faith and hope who plead for sin for sin lodgeth in the heart and while there is sin the heart is unclean now here you may see al your faith is vain your hope which doth not purifie the heart and so it is feigned hypocrites faith not faith in God and so perisheth and who can witness Christ died for them have passed through death for none can live with him but those who dye with him and this is the true Baptism to be baptized into his death by one spirit into one body and how can they that are dead to sin live any longer therein and who can witnesse this hath faith in him which purifieth the heart and removes mountains and the pure in heart sees God and this the Apostles witnessed that he was made free from sin and more than Conqueror through Faith in Christ Jesus he was no lyar and said that Christ was come to redeem unto himself a pure Church not having spot or wrinkle and though once they were sinners like the world but they were washed and cleansed by the blood of the Lord Jesus and the spirit of our God and had put off the Old man and put on the New which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness but this you are strangers from who plead for sin are such as call your selves a Church and are not but the synagogue of Sathan in whom the Prince of darknesse reigns which ruleth in the children of disobedience and as for that which blinde people calls Scripture who sayes The righteous man that is sins seven times a day there is no such Scripture for it is false but though the righteous fall he riseth again by repentance and this the holy men of God witnessed and though David through lust disobeyed the Lord and forgot his God yet he rose again by repentance and after witnessed that he walked in the midst of his house in the purenesse of his spirit and though Peter sinned through weaknesse yet he rose againe by repentance and afterward exhorted the Church to be holy as God is holy but this you cannot witness who plead for sin and are not yet come to repentance but denies Christ daily and are convinced but doth not repent but they who dwel in the righteousness of Christ sin not for they that are alive in righteousness are dead to sin and they that live in sinne are dead to righteousness but how can they that are dead to sin live any longer therein and this is the Devil which pleads for sin the enemy of the soul for by sin did he obtain his kingdome and so his kingdome stands in sin and your Teachers which tels you you can never get out of sin nor be cleansed from sin here erres not knowing the Scripture nor the power of God but denies the end of Christs coming and brings another doctrine which they have from their Father the Devil and so are the deceivers which Paul speakes of who creep into Steeple-houses leads silly people captive full of sin and corruption ever learning and never come to the knowledge of truth and so are not to be received but held as accursed for they daub you up with untempered mortar seeing vanity and divining lyes who saith the Lord saith when he never spoke to them they have healed the hurt of the people slightly and have sowed pillows under their armholes crying peace when there is no peace because they put into their mouthes and they are not ashamed neither doe they blush therefore they shall fall amongst them that fall in the day that I visit them saith the Lord And these are your Teachers that makes you habitation in your sin while you are upon the earth and so your Leaders cause you to erre but when the day of account comes wherein the bookes must be opened and every one judged out of the books according to their works by him who sits upon the white Throne and all must be cast into the Lake that burneth but those whose names are written in the book of life and then you will finde those the utter enemies of your soules who perswades your hearts in sins and he that hath no sin will be in the best condition and here all your feigned formed faith is unbottomed and all your Priests found lyars deceivers and Anti-christs in whom the false Prophet rules which deceives the Nations who must be cast also into the Lake that burneth and there tormented for ever and all that uphold him We are accused to deny Christ come in the flesh We witness the same Christ which ever was