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death_n	jesus_n	law_n	spirit_n	7,842	5	6.0757	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44802	One of Antichrists voluntiers defeated, and the true light vindicated. In answer to a book called Ignis fatuus, published by one R.I. Wherein he vindicates Edward Dod and Samuell Smith (of the county of Salop) in their lyes, folly, and wickedness, and hath added more of his own, with divers of his false doctrines, lyes and slanders, &c. brought to light, and reproved: As that the law of the spirit of life, is imperfect, and not fit to be a Christian rule, and also, humane nature may be taken for the regenerate part of man, and the soul, &c. And likewise calls idolatry, civillity, and heathernish complements courtesie. His vindication made voyd, and his weapons broken, and he taken captive, and left with E.D. and S.S. among the slime pits of Siddim near Sodom, with his Ignis fatuus. / By F.H., a witnesse to the perfect law, of the spirit of life.	Howgill, Francis, 1618-1669.	1660 (1660)	Wing H3175; ESTC R16812	30,660	33

I would have R. I. to understand that here was 17. yeares that he preached publickly before that and where was his ordination Many of the Brethren who was scartered abroad in the persecution that was at Jerusalem went every where preaching the word of God and when or where was these ordained and who ordained the Brethren that was persecuted after Stephens being put to death who travilled as far as Phenecia and Cyprus and Antioch preaching the word and the hand of the Lord was with them and a great number beleeved and turned unto the Lord Acts 17 19 20 21. Yet these things I bring not as to deny but that many went out with the consent of the Church and many were ordained Elders who were grown up in the truth and established who had received the Holy Ghost by whom many was confirmed and strengthned in the faith but what is all this R. I. to your ordination and who ordained you the Pope a Bishop or a Councell or a Parliament and what are they you irdaube such as learnes the art of speech seaven yeares at Oxford who hath read Homer and Aristotle Plato and Diogenes and learned to play on a Fiddle These are no Mechanicks but gifted men indeed and quallified and fit to be ordained and made Ministers Pastors and Elders to carry a broad the Traffique of Mistery Babylon but this R. I. is very peremptory and saith it is utterly unlawfull for any that are gifted to preach the word Contrary to the Apostles doctrine who saith as every one hath receiveth the gift so let him administer and not such as R. I. would have to be Ministers who hath learned an art to speak and this must be called a gift and a quallification and a fit man to be a Pastour and thus they have ordained one another and hath set up a trade of preaching and with their confused stories hath fill'd the world with darknesse And as concerning an infallible Spirit saith R. I. None except Christ who was without sin can challenge it or lay claime to it and I may say of such runnagates and wandering starrs as this F. H. and the Quakers are as John did 1 Joh. 2. 9. They are gone out from us because they were not of us Answer However this R. I. hath cleared himselfe and the rest of his brethren for being Ministers of Christ for they doe not only deny an infallible Spirit neither look to be made partakers thereof but quite shut out all the Saints from enjoying it and though in Christ the fullnesse of the Godhead dwelt who was full of grace and truth he is the Root from whence all that believe come to be made partakers of his virtue and so many of his members may lay claime to it as they have received it by a free gift according to the promise of Christ I will send you the Spirit of truth which shall lead you into all truth and the Apostle had received the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus who had freed him from the Law of sin and death and the sons of God had received it and they were led by it and the Ministers of Christ was made Ministers of it who hath made us able Ministers as it is written not of the letter but of the Spirit and that Spirit was infallible and true and that Spirit which they declared of was an unerring Spirit and as they were led by it they erred not but were kept by it that the evill one touched them not and they spoke from it and ordered the Church in it in the wisdome of God But what doth these men minister from who waits not to be made partakers of this but denyes that ever any had it or even shall have and so are but a company of dreamers and tells their dreame that they dreamed in the night or at best steales the words from their neighbour and saith Thus saith the Lord when God hath never spoken to them And though thou may say we are runnagates because we sit not dreaming over 30 or 40 families 20 yeares but travills from city and from country to country to publish the word of truth freely as the Apostles and Ministers of Christ did We must by such as this R. I. and his Brethren who hath gotten holes and nests in the earth to creep into be counted as runnagates and though John said they are gone out from us because they were not of us this he spoke of them who went out of the light in which he and the rest of the Disciples had fellowship with God and one with another and they that went out from this went into the spirit of the world and you are such as they that are gone out already and blasphemously calls the light of Christ Ignis fatuus and so all that fear the Lord will come out from you and out from Babylon where the blood of the prophets hath been shed and the witnesses kill'd you who deny an infallible Spirit is like to be in blindnesse and follow the spirit of errour for you have nought else to cleave unto And further R. I. saith When the Lord said by Joell that he would pour out his Spirit upon all flesh and his sons and daughters should prophesie the prophet speaks not of a ghostly power to open the Kingdome of Heaven given by Christ to his Apostles and Successors but of an extraordinary measure of enlightning grace and a more copious effusion of the Spirit and also to pastors to whom more is given more is required and this Text doth not prove that all sheep shall be Pastors and all schollars Teachers Answer Nay this Text doth not prove all Sheep to be Pastors neither all that are taught to be teachers for all are not Prophets neither Pastors nor teachers for as Christ said the Labourers are but few but this man is afraid that there should be too many and indeed there are too many hireling loyterers that are ready to supplant one another for filthy lucre and though many may be said to beleeve yet all have not received the Spirit of prophesie or a gift to be pastors but onely they to whom it is given of the Lord for the worke sake yet notwithstanding they who have received it ought not to be limitted either Son or daughter for them who doe quenches the Spirit and despises prophesie as this R. I. doth and how should he doe otherwise seeing he hath denyed the infallible Spirit from which all the Ministers ministred and all the prophets prophesied and spoke as they were moved by the holy Ghost But R. I. saith the Prophet spoke not of a ghostly power to open the Kingdome of heaven if by ghostly power he meane the Spirits power as I beleeve he will not deny then was it not by a spirituall power sons and daughters prophesied and did not this power open the Kingdome of Heaven and if it be a more Copious effusion of the Spirit which is given under the Gospell then

were buried with him in baptisme baptized into the death and sufferings of Christ such a baptisme as the Priests never administred with their hands and the Spirit of the Lord was wont to be the seal of the Covenant to them that did beleeve but now it must be turned out of doors for visible water hath taken up its place in R. I. his judgement which is corrupted and how doth sprinkling answer to circumcision the Males onely were circumcised and not the Females and why doe you sprinkle Fenales if baptisme must answer to circumcision and if the extent of the one must be as large as the other and as for mortification of the flesh and remission of sins that which mortifies the deeds of the flesh hath life in it and that gives a living testimony within and remission of sins is in the blood of Christ and the seal thereof is by the Spirit unto them that beleeve but this Popish tradition hath a●en up all in R. I. his account if his argument be true Nay the Papists themselves who are as zealous for sprinkling of infants as R. I. or any of his brethren can be yet one of their own Bishops at a Council in France of both Protestants and Papists at Pisoy 15 61. Claudius Espencious saith Many things are to be beleeved by tradition only as the baptisme of infants which cannot be proved from Scripture but this R. I. would have the Scripture to be a Cloak and a cover not only for Popish Traditions but for his own invented imaginations which he hath set forth to blind people withall The next thing that R. I. goes about to vindicate is swearing which their Ministers teach men to sweare which ought to be in righteousnesse and truth and for his proof Deut. 10. 20. he brings and he saith Christ only prohibits rash and vain swearing and superfluous oaths Answ Unto this much hath been said and answered allready by many pens and so that in the answer thereof I shall be brief in the first Covenant it was lawful to swear in truth and righteousnesse and likewise all rash and vain oathes under the Law were forbidden but Christ who is the end of the Law for righteousness who is greater then the Prophets and greater then Moses and Solomon and greater then the Angels unto whom they all worship he saith expressely swear not at all Now whereas R. I. and others have said Christ onely in these words prohibits vain oaths or false oaths then he had reproved nothing but what the Law had reproved but he saith It hath been said of old time thou shalt not forswear thy selfe but Christ saith I say swear not at all so that it is manifest that all oaths are forbidden by him who is the oath of God and why saith R. I. it is not contrary to the Gospel of Christ for to swear and yet doth account the writings which is called the New Testament the Gospel wherein Christ hath expressely forbidden it and therefore those Ministers that teach men to swear are not the Ministers of Christ but teach those things that are repugnant to the Gospel of Christ For he that breaks one of the least of the commands of Christ and teacheth others so to do is least in the Kingdome of God The next thing that R. I. would vindicate is their singing of Davids Psalmes in invented Tunes such as pleaseth the carnal mind and for his proof he brings Matth. 26. 30. They went out and sung a Hymn and Paul and Silas sang in prison and singing is divine worship for the praise of God and the comfort of our soules and it is a soul-ravishing and heart-raising ordinance Answ It is acknowledged and allwayes hath been by us that praises belongs to the Lord and that they that are made alive whose souls are raised out of death can and doth praise the Lord and they that sing with the Spirit and with understanding are acceptable unto God and they that are in the Spirit doth that which the Spirit moves unto and so worships in the truth and is accepted of God and Christ and Paul and Silas and many more praised the Lord and many now doth praise the Lord and he that hath a Psalme may sing but what of all this what doth this prove for R. I. and the rest of the Masse-house-singers and what doth this prove as to the singing of them that is void of understanding who sometime sing I go mourning all the day long and just at that moment are singing and what doth R. I. think it cannot be a Psalme unlesse it be in Meeter or doth he think it is not accepted except it hath a Tune with so many stops and to sing Davids prayers and call it praises is this with understanding and even to return R. I. his words upon himselfe A more ungrounded opinion was never invented by the Devil For them to sing or to pretend to praise God whose soules lyes in death and do not know what it is to partake of Gods benefits neither the unsearchable gift This kind of singing and imitation doth not comfort the soule but burden it and this doth not raise the witnesse but kills it and you make merry over it and this kind of singing must be turned into howling and lamentation And saith R. I. Our worship doth not differ neither in whole nor in part in matter or manner from the Saints worship in the Primitive times Answ. This mans confidence or rather impudence is in opposition to knowledge and wisdome for it were easily proved that it neither in whole nor in part neither in matter nor manner agreeth with the Primitive times as for example it is no where recorded in the Scripture that any Apostle Minister or Ministers did take a little water and did sprinkle a few drops on a childs face and call'd this an ordinance of God and say it is a seal of the Covenant and mortification and remission of sins neither any such doctrine did they declare neither did any of the Ministers and Apostles of Christ cause people to buy them bread and wine and then give it the people back again a bit of bread and a sup of wine at the middle of the day and call this the Lords Supper or a great Sacrament neither had they bels in their Churches to call people together neither had they soft cushions and pulpits and a hour-glasse hanging by them neither did the primitive Churches prohibit or limit the Spirit of the Lord God amongst any but if any was moved to speake any thing or had any thing revealed from the Lord the first was to hold his peace These and many more things you differ in both in matter and manner which largely hath been declared by other pens and so in this I shall be briefe neither had the Ministers of the Gospel their maintenance by force neither had they Easter Reckonings Midsummer dues Mortuaries money for Churching of women Marriages nor for the burials of the