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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A82317	Right reformation: or, The reformation of the church of the New Testament, represented in Gospell-light. In a sermon preached to the Honourable House of Commons, on Wednesday, November 25. 1646. Together with a reply to the chief contradictions of Master Love's sermon, preached the same day. All published for the good of the faithfull, at their desire. / By William Dell, minister of the Gospel, attending on his Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax.	Dell, William, d. 1664.	1646 (1646)	Wing D927; Thomason E363_2; Thomason E363_3; ESTC R201227	36,729	61

sel their goods as is now practised in some parts of the Kingdom even upon the Saints and if men be wicked is it not misery enough for them to refuse eternal life except also they inflict on them Temporal death Is it not misery enough for men to refuse the good things of heaven except they also deprive them of the good things of this present life and yet as Luther said of the Clergy Quando non invocat brachium seculare morte utraque terrat mundum When doth it not cal upon the secular power and terrifies the world with both deaths Surely Christ and the Word approved not these ways For Math. 18. Christ imposeth no other punishment on them that would not hear the Church then that he should be reckoned as a heathen and Paul Titus 3. Teacheth us after once and twice admonition to avoyd an Heretick but not to imprison him or kil him or banish him and again they that do these things shal not inherite the Kingdome of God and again he that beleever not shal bee damned but not one word of outward or corporal punishment in all the Gospel 3. Yea Christ reproveth his Disciples for discovering such a spirit of tyranny as to punish men for not receiving him Luk. 9. when the Apostles of a Prelatical and Antichristian Spirit in that particular desired fire to come down from heaven upon them that would not receive him Christ did severely rebuke them saying Ye know not of what spirit ye are not of Christs Spirit which is meek but of Sathans who was a murderer from the beginning and of Antichrists his first begotten in the world and he adds the Son of man came not to destroy mens lives but to save them and therefore to go about to turn the Gospel not to save mens lives but to destroy them and so to change Christ himself from a Saviour into a Destroyer this is Antichrist Triumphant All these things shew that worldly power hath no place at all in the Reformation of the Gospel Now I should have proceeded here to answer some Objections as namely 1. That of Luke 14. compel them te come in this I forgetting named not May a Christian then live as he list No by no means for he hath the Word and Spirit in him to keep him from living as he list and he knows that no man in Gods Kingdom may live as he wils but as God wils But would you have no Law No Laws in Gods Kingdom but Gods Laws and these are a thausand times better then all the Laws of men and they are these three The Law of a new nature The Law of the spirit of life that is in Christ The Law of love But would you have no Government Yes but the government of Christ the Head and the Holy Ghost the Spirit in and over the Church the body They that would govern the faithful the Members of Christs own body make themselves the head of those Members and so Antichrist may as wel be found in a combination of men as in one single person But would you have no Order Yes the best that is even such an Order as is in the body of Christ where every Member is placed by Christ and none by itself The Order of the spiritual Church is a spiritual Order and not a carnal But would you have sin suffered No but more truly and throughly destroyed then any power of the world can destroy it even by the Spirit of judgment and burning But would you have sinners suffered No but punished more severely then any powers of the world can punish them For he shal smite the earth with the rod of his mouth and with the breath of his lips he shal slay the wicked And as for those that are outwardly wicked the Magistrate is to keep them in order for the quiet of the State he having power over their persons estates and lives I should also have proceeded to the next thing The advantages of such a Gospel Reformation where it is wrought together with the Vses but because I would not be over long I passe by these things and so proceed no farther in this Discourse But being brought hither by an unexpected providence I shal crave liberty to speak a few words to you in the behalf of two Kingdoms that is this Kingdom and Gods 1. That which I have to request of you for this Kingdome is that you would regard the oppression of the poore and the sighing of the needy Never was there more injustice and oppession in the Nation then now I have seen many oppressed and crushed and none to help them I beseech you consider this with all your hearts for many who derive power from you are great appressors And therefore I require you in the name of God to discharge the trust that God hath put into your hands and so to defend the poor and fatherlesse to do justice to the afflicted and needy to deliver the poor and needy and to rid them out of the hands of the wicked This is your businesse discharge your duty if you wil not then hear what the Lord saith Psa. 12. 5. for the oppression of the poor for the sighing of the needy now wil I arise saith the Lord and Gods rising in this case would prove your ruine If you wil not do Gods work in the Kingdome which he hath cal'd you too he wil do it himself without you as it is written He shal deliver the needy when he cryeth the poor also and he that hath no helper he shal save their souls from deceit and violence the common evils of the times And this is all that I have to say for this Kingdom 2. I have a few more things to say touching Gods Kingdom and the first is this 1. That as Christs Kingdom and the Kingdoms of the world are distinct So you would be pleased to keep them so not mingle them together your selves nor suffer others to do it to the great prejudice and disturbance of both 2. That you would be pleased to think that Christs Kingdom which is not of this world hath sufficient power in it self to mannage all the affairs of it without standing in need of any ayd or help from the world Seeing the power of man is of no place or use in the Kingdom of God which is not a Temporal or an Ecclesiastical Dominion but a Spiritual 3. That you would suffer the little stone of Christs Kingdom to be hewen out of the Mountain of the Roman Monarchy whereof this Kingdome is a part without hands even by the power and efficacy of the word and spirit seeing the hands of men cannot help but hinder this work which is to be done without hands And that your might and your power would please to let God do this work of his without might and without power and by his Spirit only 4. That you would be pleased to suffer