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death_n	darkness_n	light_n	shadow_n	7,372	5	9.4624	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30541	Some false principles and errors discovered and refuted in a short answer to a catechism book, which is said to contain the principles of religion, put forth by a namelesse authour, but is supposed to be the work of one Samuel Eaton ... but upon true examination he is found to be teaching the traditions of men for the commandments of Christ ... / by E.B.	Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.	1659 (1659)	Wing B6023A; ESTC R36303	12,581	15

Supper and are aseal of the Covenant also c. Ans. The supper of the Lord is the bread of eternal life the bodie and blood of Christ and who eats thereof shall never die nor hunger and thurst any more and as for bread and wine visible and carnal that is not the real Supper of the Lord and even the purest institution and practice thereof is but a representation of a thing and not the very thing and the end and substance being come the outward sign may be neglected But as for the manner and institution of that practice in the Church of England and the practise it selfe we deny to be either a sign of good past or to come but in an Idolatrous way it is leld forth and not in any true honour to God for he is thereby dishonoured for the false Church hath gotten the forme of that practice as well as of many others which the true Church once practised without the power and now doth practise many things in meer imitation and vain Idolatry and in form and tradition and without the teaching of the Spirit which sometime the true Church and the Apostles practised in the power and by the leading of the Spirit of God and what the command of God was unto them so that though you may in some things practice the very same which the Apostles did yet having not the same Spirit to lead you nor being guided thereby as the saints and the Apostles were your works are but Idolatry and formal and not accepted of the Lord but stinks in his nostrels and your covenant is outward and your seals outward your Baptism and Supper outward and carnal and while you are with zeal prosecuting your outward proformances and following them you neglect the inward and the substance which is Christ within you the hope of glory which if he be in you then the body of sin is put off and the vail is done away and the representations are done away and the substance and salvation is come and if Christ be not in you you are reprobates notwithstanding all your profession and practises of outward duties unto God without his Spirit And whereas thou hast quoted Col. 3. 10. Gal. 5. 17. Rom 7. 23. to prove that the new man the spirit or Law of the mind is called the imperfect Sanctification Ans. Hereby openly thou hast shewed thy self to be a perverter of the Scriptures and a wrester of them to thy own destruction for let but reasonable men peruse the Scriptures mentioned by thee and see if there be such a thing in them as held forth by thee that the new man the spirit or Law of the mind is called imperfect Sanctification which thou hast asserted and cited those texts to prove it but to as to the thing it self I have answered before onely this is to shew thy manner of perverting Scriptures which is the work of the evil spirit in thee and not the work of the Spirit of God And thus I have examined some part of thy principles of Religion which thou hast put forth into the world for others to learn and the error and falsness of them is laid open and how contrary to the Scriptures they are and in haste as it were I have passed over it not willing to rake into things which gave no just occasion against truth but have onely confuted a few of thy many particulars which had I narrowly sought into other things much unsoundness would have been discovered but what I have said is truly sufficient to discover unto sober persons the error of thy judgement and of thy principles and practices and of thy whole Religion and before ever thou be a true instructor of others in the way thou must first repent and believe and learn the way thy self which yet thou are ignorant of for thou hast shewed no knowledge but what is sensual and devilish and from below and meerly carnal and natural and meeting with thy book and enquiring what the Author was I was engaged to say something to it by way of Answer and to lay it to the line of judgement according to the Scriptures and it hath proved very guilty of error and perverting Scriptures and of corrupt principles and in justice I could not but condemn it and if thou shall receive the conviction of thy error and of thy false doctrines by my answer and repent it shall prove to thy good but if thou shalt be stiff-necked and harden thy heart then shall thy condemnation be the greater and thy Judgement the more just because God hath warned thee and given thee a day of visitation and shewed thee the error of thy wayes and judgement that thou mightest forsake thy transgressions and be converted and live but whether thou shalt harden thy heart and remain in error or repent or turn from it my reward is with the Lord and in him I have peace in this matter whatsoever thy mind shall be towards me in my work for I stand not to mans judgement while I cannot be convinced of error in this business and if thou shalt envy me and have wrath in thy heart towards me because I have dealt to plainly with thee in reproving of thee then thou wilt but add to thy own sin and add more wrath up in store against thy self against the time of thy judgement and a greater burden will lie upon thy conscience wherefore consider of these things and let not the day of thy visitation passe over and be shut up with the night of darkness and thou be everlastingly condemned And if thou shalt vindicate thy own false principles by answering to me again thinking to clear thy self and to reprove me that will not prove thy best way because thou wants the truth and righteousness to stand by thee and to appear bold in a bad cause will shew more wickedness then sign of repentance and if thou do answer a sound reply will further unfold the misterie of iniquitie that lyes hid in thee and be thy greater shame And as for thee and all the false Ministers God hath discovered you and you are made bare and naked and the false woman the Whore your mother her shame is discovered and her judgement is come and God is avenging us on her and great Babylon is now come into remembrance before the Lord to bring her down to the ground and you have long made a prey upon the heritage of the Lord and been spoilers thereof rather then builders of her breach and she hath been troden down and not pittied by you and as for your poor ignorant hearers they lie in thick darkness and loves to have it so and the blind hath led the blind and yet the light is arising out of thick darkness and its appearance shall be glorious to expell all your errors and that mist of darkness that doth now cover them and this light shall arise in mens consciences which shall discover the difference between every false and the right way and all that take heed to the light shall no longer sit in darkness nor in the shadow of death but their steps shall be directed in a perfect way and the glory of the Lord shall shine forth upon them and this will the Lord bring to pass and hasten his work and cut it short in righteousness for his elects sake The 21. of the 3. Mon. 1659. By a lover of thy soul and a seeker of the good and Peace of all men E. B. THE END