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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

A DESCRIPTION of the CHVRCH OF SCOTLAND WITH A Word of Reproofe to the Priests and Teachers and Officers therein for their many corrupt Doctrines and Practises also a warning and gentle invitation to all People that lives under their Tyrannicall Government to come to the Truth which will free them from the Bondage they have long laine under and to the light which will shew them the way to escape being longer Partakers of their sins and so they shall escape being Partakers of the Plagues which shall shortly be poured forth without mixture upon them which continue in their ungodly Deedes and Workes of darknesse in Rebellions against the light that makes them manifest Herein is their Church made manifest 1 In its Foundation 2 In its Members wherewith it is builded 3 In its Officers 4 In its Doctrines of God of Gods Word of Faith and of Election 5 In its Ordinances of Baptisme and the Lords Supper as they call them 6 In its Discipline With an Exhortation to all People to come out from amongst them to that which makes them manifest which is the true Light that lighteth every Man that cometh into the World Written in love to the simple-hearted in that Nation and in witnesse of the T●uth and in Testimony against the false Teachers and their false Doctrines Way●s and Worships by One who desires that people might be brought to the Truth in their inward parts to worship God in that by the leading of his own spirit that so they might be accepted _____ who am known among Men by the name Stephen Crisp. Printed for M. W. in the first Moneth 1660. A Description of the Church of Scotland c. TO the severall Presbetryes in Scotland and to every Member of them and to the Scottish Church in generall is this directed and sent as a word of reproofe and warning from him who is the head of the true Church which is pure and underfiled and sent by and given thorough his Servant who being a Member of that Church and participating of the power and wisedome of the Head according to the proportion of 〈◊〉 Member doe thereby comprehend your Church of which I am not a Member and in obedience to the Lord Jesus Christ the true Head doe hereby reprove you of your adultery and hypocrisie and severall other spots and wrinckles that are in and upon your Church which now with the light are made manifest And in the feare and name of the Lord doe warne you to returne and come to that which maketh manifest and maketh cleane before yee be cast upon the bed of misery and perpetuall sorrow with Babilon your Mother and Jezebell your Prophetesse by the power of whose sorceries and inchantments in and among her Merchants and Disciples many p or people in thi● Nation are seduced and deceived and kept from the anoynting which teacheth freely the truth which no lye is of nor springs from and they whom you keep from this which teacheth freely that so they might buy or hire teaching of you among whom they are ever learning and never learned nor brought to know the truth which makes them fre● that abides in it These I say can never know the true Church which is the ground o● truth in which none can be Pillars but such as overcome sin and transgression and death which entred thereby and came over all Men in which state Gods Church is not and there is but two states namely the state of sin and transgression the wages whereof i● death and the state of redemption from sin which is thorow the power of the resurrection from the dead which is the state of the Church between which two states is an absolute antipathy for they that are in the transgression are not in the Church for then i● would be spotted and they that are in the Church are not in the transgression because the Church is in God where transgression cannot be and they that are holden in sin and death are not risen from the dead and they who are made partakers of the resurrection and life which is Christ they are not holden in sin but the same power that raised 〈◊〉 Jesus from the dead raised them from the power of sin and death and being thus raised makes them Members of the Church which is pure and undefiled which is separate from the sinners and from the sin by the mighty operation of the crosse which is th● power of God by which we are translated from death to life from sin to righteousnesse from being Members of the Harlot and her Church to be Members of Christ and h●● Church and this is the Church which we owne and witnesse Now as concerning your Church I have not a few things against it but even many where in you are to be reprooved and must be amended or rather changed before you can justly b● called and accounted the Church of Christ or any part thereof Therefore listen a while and give attention ye Priests and Presbetryes of Scotland who hath a long time beene talking of reforming and amending and purging and making cleane your Church and I will declare unto you your way which ye ought to take to accomplish that which you so much pretend for and cannot yet accomplish nor indeed never can till that be removed which hath and doth hinder a right and thorow reformation Now the first thing in your Church that is presented to my understanding to be repoved is the foundation thereof upon which it is builded it not being the same which the Church of Christ was and is builded upon as will thus appeare The foundation of your Church is that which stands in the fleshly part of man namely formes and names of the things the Saints wrought off without the power which are attainable by the fleshly wisedome of this world by which God is not known nor the body which is the Church discerned but he that can get the Saints words to speake although he be out of their life yet such are accounted fit members of your Church and of such members and upon this foundation is your Church builded the Saints words being the chiefe corner stone therof but Christ said be would build his Church upon that which the knowledge of came not by flesh nor blood but revelation from God his Father which is in heaven as you may read in the 16. Math. 17.18 And this is the rock which is now made manifest by revelation thorow the spirit which thing you deny to be in these dayes and so are not builded upon what comes to be known so but upon that which the knowledge of comes by flesh and blood and you that have laid another foundation for your Church then what is by revelation your foundation must be raised and your Church must fall the Pillars whereof are already shaken and shall shortly be removed Therefore come all to the true foundation which was and is the foundation of the true Church which is

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