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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

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

〈◊〉 make that division as if death were more powerfull then the word of God oh ye● 〈◊〉 and ignorant Priests and people how long will yee regard lying vanities expec●●●● 〈◊〉 where it is not to be had and like the Pharisees of old think to have eternall 〈…〉 Scriptures but will not come to Chri● whose life is your light turn in your mind 〈…〉 own hearts and feele if Gods word which is as a hammer be not striking at 〈…〉 ●●ther of your sins and corruptions and wait then to feel the sharpness of it to cut and 〈◊〉 you from your sins that so you may witnesse the word in your flesh and not in a Book destroy the works of the Divell that the word in the heart yee may know which liveth 〈◊〉 abideth for ever when that by it is destroyed which cannot abide for ever which is your which hitherto hath separated you from the knowledge of God and of his powerfull w●●● 3dly Your Doctrine of faith is reprovable and you in it found contrary to the 〈◊〉 Ministers of Christ for you preach that faith cannot be without sin and you say it is h●●●sie and error in any to say that it can now this I say if ye knew the true faith whic● saving ye would see that it is contrary in all things to sin and would know that in 〈◊〉 of an impossibility to seperate them it would be impossible to unite them for faith 〈◊〉 the scriptures is the gift of God and the gift of God is perfect and God nor his gift 〈◊〉 no concord with sin but giveth the true believe victory over it But as for your faith which ye say cannot be without sin is therewith corrupted a●● not the like precious faith which the Saints obtained by which they wrought righteous● were accepted with the Lord without which it is impossible for you to please him th●● yee performe never so many performances for this faith which is mixt with sin whi●● the faith of the Church of Scotland is not that by which the just lives but among 〈◊〉 professe this faith is the just slain in your owne particulars by the sin which ye con●● in and say ye must continue in as long as yee live so yee are fur short of the Saints hope ●o brought them to purifie themselves as God is pure and your faith and hope and confi●●e which is thus mixt with sin and unrighteousnesse is excluded from leading any of you in●●e inheritance of the promise which is eternall life for it is the faigned or made faith 〈◊〉 hardens the heart and continues you in the transgression and begets in you a bold confi●●e in your dark imaginations which shortly shall faile you and yee shall be strict of 〈◊〉 saith and hope and be left naked to your perpetuall shame and confusion and ●●esore all that desire to come to the true faith which gives victory over the 〈◊〉 and that which is in the world they must first come to that which true faith is placed in 〈◊〉 is the light wherewith Christ Jesus hath enlightened every one that commeth into the 〈◊〉 and that all men through him might beleive and Christ himselfe said that they should ●●ve in the light and this is it which doth secretly make manifest and reprove the workes ●arkenesse which are done out of the faith and are displeasing to God and who beleeves in 〈◊〉 light they must beleive against sin and the power of it and so as they abide stedfast in the 〈◊〉 watchfull to that in which they have beleived then the power of this faith comes to be in the creature that as they have beleived against sin so they come to receive power a●● sin for according unto their faith so happeneth it unto them and according unto your faith 〈◊〉 ●ive you can never be made free from your sins so also will it happen unto you so long ●●●de in that beleife yee shall abide servants of sin and so free from righteousnesse ●●●bly Concerning election and herein have yee erred exceedingly from the truth and 〈◊〉 truth ought yee to be reproved and judged who holds forth in your Church that God 〈◊〉 ●●pected a certaine number of persons to himselfe without cause or quality in them scene ●sidered and that these he hath elected unto salvation by an unalterable decree that they be saved from the wrath of God and that all the rest are under an irrevocable decree of nation for when no way of salvation is left nor no effectuall meanes found for the salva●● of them that doctrine is not of God but of your Father the Devill who was a lyer from beginning if he telleth a lye it is of himselfe but if yee tell a lye it is of him and from is thy doctrine sprung who rules in the Kingdome of darknesse and desires that none might 〈◊〉 to the knowledge of the truth nor be saved and so hath set you to preach this doctrine ●●rdly unto ignorant people who generally have believed it while he in the meane time ●●relly suggesting in some of them that they are elected and so what sin soever they live in of mar their election seeing it is without condition or qualification and mans workes of alter nor change Gods decrees and many such like reasonings as this learn they from deceiver within and from the deceivers without and he also is perswading others that they not elected but are of the greater number which the Priests saith no salvation nor re●●●tion is for and so they may take their course and spend their time in pleasure for can but go to hell in the end and all their godlinesse and soberness and strickt●●● and abstinence from pleasure and whatever they can do cannot change the purpose of God concerning their damnation and so by these and such like meanes and instruments doth the devill uphold his Kingdome and keepe you from preaching him or believing on him who is the way to the Father Christ Jesus the light of the world who lighteth every man with the true light with which he may see that which was wrought in darknesse which is the reprobate state and be led out of it according to Christs words who said I am the light of the world he that believeth on me shall not abide in darknesse but shall have the light of life he said not if the elect beleive on me but he that a generall terme to every one that cometh into the world and is enlightened with this true light and this is the love of God to the Sons and Daughters of men who wills not the death of them that doe dye marke them are reprobated that doe dye but God wills it not but rather that they should turn and live but yee that preach this doctrine yee would live without turning but the Sword of the Lord is drawne against your life and shall cut it off for it stands but by an imagination of such a decree as by which sinners might be

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

to raile and to curse and to stir up people 〈◊〉 ●●mults and to stoning those who are not of your judgement this is evill behavi●u● then giv●● to hospitality as to this let the poor people who in your Parishes goes in cold and hunge● while you live in fulnesse and idlenesse beare witnesse against you then apt to teach in th● also are ye far short who must take a weekes time to study to teach the people two or thr●● houres and yet cannot get your devised studyed stuffe to hold together but one while is co●firming that which it may be the same day or shortly after you will deny againe then 〈◊〉 given to wine no strikers how many of you have beene guilty herein in drunkennesse a●● striking and setting others on to strike would be too tedious to mention here but who desi●● to be informed of them and their manners let them in sincerity take notice of th m a●● they shall come to understand their spirit also some of their workes of this nature are alre●● printed and presented to publick view then not greedy of filthy lucre and in this particul●● how far your greedynesse hath appeared beyond all that have gone before you let the sufferi●● of them who for conscience sake could not put into your mouths beare witnesse against y●● again saith the Apostle in the 7th verse of that 3. Chapter of the 1st Timothy he m●●● have a good report of them that are without but how far are yee short of this who can●●● keepe up a goood name amongst them of your owne Church but your covetousnesse and dece●● is mannifest among them notwithstanding your tiranny doth much stop their mouthes and bl●●● ●heir eyes that they yet see not so much of your deceipt as shortly they will come to see But in briefe the description of the Church-officers in the whole Scriptures of the Apo●tles is that they be blamelesse which ye say none now can be and that they be filled with the holy Ghost and with saith which yee say they cannot be for sin must have a room ●n them then they cannot be filled with the other and that they hold the mi●tery of faith ●n a pure conscience which yee say they cannot doe for some sin must remaine and that defiles the conscience that they should be gentle towards all Men in meekenesse instructing ●hem that oppose themselves But out of this and all these qualifications yee being found ●our officiating must be like your Officers and your Officers are like the Members a body ●it for destruction together which the Lord is appearing against in his mighty power to ●ut of head and tayle root and branch together 4thly The Doctrines of your Church also are reprovable and corrupt in many things contrary to the Scriptures and first in your Doctrines of God whom you say is to be known and believed on as in the distinguishmant of three Persons and herein yee teach contra●y to the Scriptures of truth which yee say is your rule and by it are all such Dreamers ●nd Deceivers judged and by the spirit which gave them forth which speakes no where 〈◊〉 three Persons as yee imagine and teach but declares of the only wise God who is one 〈◊〉 being and subsistence individuall infinite who divideth all things and to every 〈◊〉 ●●eir portion who limiteth all things and is not limited whose power and spirit is 〈◊〉 ●able from him who is the Father of the spirits of all flesh who by his power 〈◊〉 ●●th and by his spirit quickeneth all living Creatures whose power is the Christ 〈◊〉 whose spirit is the holy and eternall life which they partake of who waites for his ●ppearance in his power and these doth not the Scriptures call three Persons but the one witnesse in the Heaven which you are all ignorant of who dreames and divines to the people of a distinguishment of Persons in the God-head therefore cease your deceipt yee Deceivers and Sooth sayers of Egypt and come to the light that shines in the heart that by it yee may come to the true knowledge of God your Creator and of his power by which ●●e were created and of his spirit by which he quickens into newnesse of life all those who ●eares him and waites for his salvation which now by the light is makeing manifest 2dly Your Doctrine concerning the word of God is altogether reprovable who teach people to beli ve that that is the word of God that can be bought and sold for mony and the knowledge thereof attained by humane learning namely the Scriptures of the Prophets and Apostles that you say is the word of God and they that say otherwise you say must be cursed but I tell you this curse will returne upon your owne heads who preach contrary to the Scriptures which saith Christ is the word of God now if he be the word ●f God then the Scriptures is not except they be Christ which if you thinke they be de●lare your meaning plainly and if you know any other Christ then the Scriptures then ●all yee him the word of God and call the Scriptures a Declaration according as they are ●alled by them that wrote them who knew the word of God it selfe which yee being ignorant of have as it were changed the glory of the incorruptable and immortall word of God which abides for ever into the similitude of writings which had a beginning 〈…〉 and must come to an end and in the end shall you know the word of God to be that wh●●● searches your hearts and Judges your ungodly thoughts and purposes this shall abi●● with you in the end for this was in the beginning which the Scriptures was not a●● this is it by which the Scriptures and all other things came to have a being so th●● if the Scriptures must be called the word of God because the word came to 〈◊〉 Saints and bid them write them then might Noahs Ark or Solomons Temple 〈◊〉 the Priests Garments or any other thing of the like nature be called the word of Go● because by it they were commanded to make them and furthermore that which the word of God is that which was made flesh and if you can tell how or wh●●● the Scripture was made flesh then declare it or else let that be called the word of G●● henceforth that did become flesh againe without the word was nothing made that 〈◊〉 made and if the scriptures be this word then declare to us how you know that they w●●● before the creation for that which maketh must needs be before the things that by it 〈◊〉 made farther the word of God saith the Apostle is quicke and powerfull and shar● then a two edged sword deviding betweene the soule and the spirit but if this be 〈◊〉 Scripture then tell us what is the reason that your soules are not thereby divided from 〈◊〉 spirit of iniquity and d ceipt that rules over them but yee imagine that death onel●