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A85151	A true testimony against the Popes wayes, &c. In a return to that agreement of 42. of those that call themselves ministers of Christ (but are proved to be wrongers of men and of Christ) in the county of Worcester, and some adjacent parts, who subscribe their agreement and catechisme with the names and the places where they are pastors, teachers, and rectors, &c. as they say: or as followeth: Richard Baxter teacher of the church at Kiderminster. John Boraston pastor of Ribsford and Bewdley. Richard Eades pastor of Beckford Glocestershire. ... Joh: Dedicote preacher at Abbotesley.	R. F. (Richard Farnworth), d. 1666.	1656 (1656)	Wing F509; Thomason E870_6; ESTC R202116	86,932	79

day of the 11th month in the yeare 1655. Richard Farnsworth To the Catechisme c. Set forth by the 42. Priests c. ANd in your Catechism you say you believe there is one only God in 3 persons I answer That there is one God is true and you are proved and have confessed that you are wrongers of his Son Christ Jesus and then of him for he and his Father is one Joh. 10.30 And there is three that beare witnesse in Heaven the Father the word and the Spirit and these three are one 1 Joh. 5.7 but where is those three persons you speake of are you not liers therein for he that abides in the doctrine of Christ hath both the Father and the Son 2 Joh. 9. and the Holy Ghost remaines within in the Saints Joh. 14.15 16 17. and these three are one and agree in the unity 1 Joh. 5.7 8. and as Christ hath said I in them and thou in me that they may be made perfect in one Joh. 17.23 and the unity stands in the eternity which is shut out of the reach of your carnality that are out of the unity and in the enmity and selfe separation wrongers of men and of Christ as you say you are therefore you speake of things which you are not in the true knowledge of and feeds peoples fancies with your conceivings and imaginations you say also that God made man for himselfe but you are gone farr from the end for which you were made that are turned wrongers of him in wronging people and his Son and in running further from him as your selves confesse and so under the curse for you say that he gave a law requireing perfect obedience upon paine of death and if he requires you perfectly to obey him upon paine of death are you not under that penalty and lyable to that paine and punishment that instead of yeilding perfect obedience denieth it in denying perfection and so perfect obedience who live in miscarriages growing worse and worse and running further from God and saying that the doctrine of God the Father and his Son viz the doctrine of Sinlesse perfection were bred by the Devil and detested by Christ and never received by any that had grace c. When the same doctrine was preached and commanded both by God and Christ and both believed in and received by such as had grace guiding them and such as yeild perfect obedience to the divine will and law of God them you revile and are not ashamed to call them heretiques and cast them into Prison if they do but walke up into the same things which you preach in words and speake of and seeing you out of the life of the same tell you of it though now you have confessed it that you are of what you set others to get instead of owning perfection and yeilding perfect obedience to the law and will of God you persecute them that do and lives your selves in the disobedience to the divine law and will of God and are in your covenant with sin and imperfection in the miscarriages and as you say wronging both Christ and men as thou Richard Baxter and you 42 hath done but thou and you all are seen and your covers will not hide you but leaves you bare who are out of the doctrine of Christ and under condemnation and in danger of stverlasting paine and death due to the disobedient except you consider betime and truly repent give over deceiving of soules yeild perfect obedience as you say that you may come out of imperfection and persecution and forsake your miscarriages and give over wronging Christ and men make restitution and humble your selves under the mighty hand of God and make it manifest not by your flatteries and excuses serpent-like and still continue or grow worse and worse in the miscarriages and wronging God men c. but by ceaseing your persecution and your preaching for hire and beareing rule by your meanes c. and turning to that of God which reproves in secret for your miscarriages and forsake them and your lusts and make your amendment and returne manifest by your fruits and live not in your flatteries but as you have confessed your wrong to the people and promised your amendment make good your word and go make restitution for them for the same and give over your trade of d●ceit there is many Scriptures which you have summed together and set people to get over mixing your deceipt and imaginations amongst them and hath not the Pope and Bishops as you do garnished and painted themselves in their masse books Pulpits and Catechisms c. with the Saints words when they was as farr from the Saints Spirit life and practise as you are and you for all your painting and garnishing your selves are as farr from the Saints life and practise as they were And if the people get all your words to say over will that change their nature which hath not yet changed yours and did not your Fore-fathers use it before you and yet left you where they was except more painted outwardly and grown more subtle but within full of venome cruelty and persecution and out of the life and power of truth as is made manifest for you say in your third Answer where you speak your own condition that as men did willfully sin and fall from God and happinesse you say in your 19 page that you are wrongers of Christ and men and in the neglect of the work of God and in miscarriages c page 3.4 in your Agreement then are not you in that condition entered willfully into them through Satans temptation and are not you in that condition under the wrath in the fall under the curse nay do I say any more herein then you have confessed for you say that man being tempted did willfully sin and I say you that are wrongers of Christ and of men you have done the same and so fell from God and hapinesse into miscarriages persecution and wickednesse under the wrath of God and curse of the law and the power of the Devill through disobed●ence as you are so say you in your third answer we are by nature dead in sin I say then you are not by grace yet quickened who are from the divine life and what can dead men act in that death and life of sin for God but against him and is not that the cause that the killing ignorance you speake or remaines yet unkilled amongst you and your people that are asleep as you say in security in sin unturned to God ignorance of that which concernes their salvation and therefore doth make it appeare that you are strangers from the life of Jesus and the covenant of promise and knoweth not the life of truth nor the quickening of the soule nor yet how to kill the killing ignorance that remaines amongst you unkilled and dead men that are dead from the divine life set up dead Papers and dead words without life

people by casting a mist before the eyes of their understanding seeking to insinuate into them by flatteries and garnishing your flatteries with colourable glosses to cause them to think that your reviving that which hath been used amongst them with out-side Matth. 23.27 28.30 31 c. will now from you receive life to do that which it could not do neither by the Pope or Bishops nor by you their off-springs And with the Light are you seen at your witts end and troubled that you cannot have your wills fulfilled who are the enemies of the Living truth and wrongers both of men and God as you also in your Agreement acknowledge and therefore all your Evasions and Colourable glosses must fall with your Image and Imaginary worships as in your fore-fathers before you and the Ministry that stands out of mans will which you are yet Ignorant of must through the crosse cut down and crucifie and kill that which your Ministry doth not nor your fore-fathers or the Pope or Bishops before you and that Ministry which comes forth from the Light and power of the Spirit of God is for the discovering and killing of the Error Heresie and Miscariages which yours hath and doth leave people in and so as it kills that and the Ignorance Gala. 3.4 5. Eph. 2. Iohn 8.12 1 Iohn 3.8 9. 1. Pet. 1.18 19 22 23 1 Iohn 4.16 17 Iohn 14.20 it quickeneth and raiseth the soul out of death destroying the Ignorance Error Heresie and Miscariages and all the works of the Devill and so bringeth soules out of death and from under the power of darknesse to live in the life of the Eternall truth in the Injoyment of the Fathers love and to Enjoy and walke in the liberty of the Sons of God And saith John We know that the Son of God is come and hath given us an understanding to know him that is true and we are in him that is true even in his Son Jesus Christ and this is true God and life eternall 1 John 5.20 Whose Ministry without your familiar personall Instruction discovereth and killeth sin Error and Miscariages which you live in unkilled and therefore out of his Minstiry who killeth that and quickeneth the other that hath suffered under it raising that and them together with it saving them by grace and causing them as they at Ephesus did to sit with Christ Jesus in the heavenly place Ephe. 2.1 2 4 5 6. For by grace were they saved ver 8th Through faith and not of themselves nor of works lest any should boast Eph 2.8 9. As Paul the Gospel-Minister doth witnesse in his Affirmation who did not as you do in your confusion set up a form of words without Spirit and Life grounded upon the Popes practice or generall Councell held at Trent or at Trull And bid people get these to say and be catechized c. And say them over to the Pope or Arch-bishops Persons Preists Rectors and Curates upon pain of damnation neither doth his words warrant you so to do Therefore are they not your warrant from God for that work Neither did Paul go and write out a few words out of the 20. Chap. of Exodus and the 6. Chap. of Matthew and set the people to get them upon pain of damnation and salvation Which words he had before you and witnessed the life in the spirit and power of Christ for the killing of Ignorannce Sin Error and Miscarriages Eph. 5.13 Eph. 6.10 11 12 13 14. Gal 2.19 20. and to quicken the mortall body Rom. 8.10 11. as well for the purifying of the heart and the soul 1 Pet. 1.22 23. Which you have shewed your Ignorance in and to be out of And therefore Pauls words is not your warrant from God who are out of that righteous life And Paul said they were delivered from the law that being dead wherein they had been held their service stood in the newnes of the Spirit and not in the oldnesse of the Letter Rom. 7.6 But your service stands in the oldnesse of the Letter and the old Law and not in the Gospel and newnesse of spirit Rom. 1.16 16. as your fruits and Agreeement doth manifest Therefore you that serve in your wills and set people to serve in theirs and in the oldnesse of the Letter without the Gospel and power of God to salvation and the newnesse of Spirit Clo. 2.21 22 23. Eph. 2.14 15 16. Rom. 1.26 you are not by Pauls words warranted from God to do it who was himself a minister not of the Letter but of the Spirit as he hath witnessed 2 Co. 3.6 c. Therefore your garnishing your selves with his words and wanting his ministery and spirit to guide in the ministration and worship of God that spirit John 4.23 24. 2 Cor. 3.17 18. you are but as founding Brasse and tinkling Cymbals being in the envy and out of love the of the Father as the false Prophets was therefore let Pauls words rest where they are 1 Cor. 13. H s 16.9 Mic. 3.11 Iude 11. till you depart from your lusts and go make restitution for the Lord is against you and all such who are yet without warrant from God for all your stealing of words to garnish your selves as your fore-fathers did But thus saith the Lord therefore behold I am against them that steal my words from his neighbour I sent them not nor commanded them Therefore they shall not profit the people at all Ier. 23.30 c. And now that you are without warrant from the Scripture being out of the life of truth and reviving your fore-fathers works taking a ground from the sixth-Generall Councell held at Trent or at Trull in the time of the Pope or Bishopps Matth. 7.15 16 17 20 22 22 26 27. ver 2. and are you not also left without warrant from them then where are you now and what ground do you stand on are you not without ground or bottom and on the Sandy foundation ready to be washed away when the floods come c. Whose fall as Christ saith therefrom is like to be great and as may be Read Math. 7.26 27. Let the Priests minde and see If they know From whence they came BEhold and see from whence you came and minde your return was not your Original I head root and foundation the Pope or Arch-bishops and Bishops amongst which was not the Bishop of Rome called the Pope Chiefe Supreame head c. Untill the time or raign of Henry the 8. Late King of England as by the Lawes of this Nation may appeare c. And the Called Arch-Bishopps and such as received Orders from them to be Priests Ministers Deacons and Clarks c. Were they not called the body Spirituall and were and are they not called the English Church c. And after the Pope was put out of Tythes and that which he had begott by Henry the 8 the Arch-Bishopps your fathers Priests Ministers Deacons Rectors Clarks

said to be given only to God and the holy Church which is in the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ and both without corruption and sinister affection whose ministry is free and not put to sale as yours is which is not the true Church but the false whose Teachers are men of miscarriages wronging Christ and men growing worse prone to do more evill as well as their people running yet further from God and so themselves making manifest or rendring their ministry to be unprofitable and uselesse and how should you chuse but have untaught Children and families where there is such untaught Teachers and men of miscarriages c as you are And you may see what disorder you are in now that you begin as you say to be awakened It doth appeare you were asleep in security or in the sleepie dreaming condition desiling the flesh which Jude speaks of and in sin unturned to God Jude 7.8 Isa 59.2.3.4.5 6. like those the Prophet Isaiah speaks of that saw it not before and did not the Lord send his servants to awaken you and complaine against you for it and for your own disorderlinesse first before you confessed the same which since you covertly have done but when will you amend and returne for as there is untaught Teachers men of miscarriages and growing worse c. so is there untaught Children and Families also in other places under the same professed Ministry of yours Children howling and yelling like young bruites casting stones and dirt at Christians in the streets and parents looking on countenanceing the same and some of those untaught Children confessing that there was of the magistrates also that did encourage them in it and likewise some of the Teachers hath been heard to say when boyes stoned and abused the servants of Jesus which were sent to declare against their deceipts Let the boyes alone with them and they will order them c. when they were stoning and abusing the Babes and Lambes of God And is not these boyes and untaught Children and familyes you speake of encouraged in their miscarriages unmannerlinesse and misbehaviour c. both by their parents as well as Preists their teachers and also by some of the magistrates and doth not those that are the molt untaught Children and families who lives in unmannerlinesse disorder misbehaviour and miscarriage like you their teachers that therein groweth worse and runneth further from God the most act with club and fist stoning and reviling for you the Parish Masters and untaught teachers and are they nor a great help to you and such as are in union with deceipt unmannerlinesse misbehaviour and miscarriages to help to support the Kingdom of darknesse and to help to carry on the work of Antichrist but when will you teach them better or indeed how should they do otherwise whilst they have and follow for their example such untaught teachers and men of miscarriages c. that are the cheife actors themselves in persecution and lives in miscarriages growing worse therein and wronging Christ and them as you say you do and therefore the Scripture is fulfilled upon you where it saith The leaders of the people cause them to erre and they that are led of them are destroyed Isa 9.16 For there is like Preists like people as saith the Prophet Hosea 4.9 therefore the Lord will have no joy in their young men neither will he have mercy on their Fatherlesse and widows for every one In the miscarriages wronging Christ and men growing worse and running further from God c. is an hypocrite and an evil doer Isa 9.16.17 like you the blind leaders of them and evill examples that causeth them to erre who your selves are in the miscarriages as you say wronging Christ and them c. And so it is manifest as your Agreement doth declare as well as your fruits who your selves say instead of amending and turning to God you grow worse and run yet further from him therefore may it not be concluded that the Lord will have no joy in you nor mercy on you whil'st you do so who are the hypocrits and the evill doers And you say when you come to visit the sick you would faine speake a word of comfort to their departing souls but dare not do it page 29. of your Agreement but had it not been more honest for you to have delt plainly and say when you goe to visit the sick you would speake comfort to them but cannot do it because you were never appointed for it being in the miscarriages and growing worse and wrongers both of them and of Christ But you say you dare not do it because you find them so carnall and ignorant therefore I say they are most like unto your selves naturally dead in sin as you say prone to do more evill daily growing worse and running yet further from God Therefore as the people are carnall Isa 9.15.16 Hos 6.9 Hosea 4.9 and ignorant so are the Priests and like unto like being of one evill nature and guided by a wrongfull Spirit likewise your people they may see that though they fight with club and fist for you yet you cannot help them nor speake any comfort to them when they are on their death beds and stand most in need of you if you could do them any good but cannot who in that miscarrying nature and Spirit by which you wrong Christ and them never were appointed for it And as your ministry hath not profited them in their life time so it is as uselesse to them on their death beds and yet you would not dare to take Wages and Tithes c of those that were and are so carnall and ignorant which you cannot speake a word of comfort to on their death beds because you want it for them and therefore you make it manifest that instead of preaching for the good and comfort of souls you preach for Tithes and your own ends and if they perish so that you have but your own ends accomplished and earthly gaine advanced what matter you even nothing at all for when they are on their death bed you come off with a shuffle or a shifting trick saying you dare not speak a word of comfort to them when indeed you cannot but when did you say you durst not take Tithes and hundreds a yeare because your people are carnall and ignorant but you dare take that though jour ministry profit them nothing neither in their life-time nor at their latter end Therefore it is high time for them to looke about them and cease from you that they may forsake the evill and turne to God the teacher of his people and waite upon him for instruction the manifestation festation of whose Spirit is given to such as obey him to profit withall 1 Cor. 12.7 though your ministry be uncomfortable uselesse and unprofitable yet his is usefull comfortable and profitable and also free without sale and to be had without mony or mony-worth Isa 55. Mat.