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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40932	Gospel liberty sent down from heaven in a suffering time, or, Christian toleration given and granted by the Lord, about the worship of God ... by R.F.	R. F. (Richard Farnworth), d. 1666.	1664 (1664)	Wing F484; ESTC R24320	17,187	30

their ministry of God to minister from him to the soules of the people are in preaching the word to be instant in season and out of season according to the charge given before the Lord as by the Scripture is plain And when is preaching the word out of season but when it is either forbidden by men 2 Tim. 4.1.2.3.4 or when they will not endure sound doctrine but after their own lusts shall heap up to themselves teachers having itching ears as by the Scripture appears The Scriptures declare that the time will come when people will not endure sound doctrine but after their own lusts shall heap up to themselves Teachers having itching ears and they shall turn away their ears from the truth and shall be turned unto fables and if that time be already come or be yet to come at such a time the Ministers of the gospel of Christ who have received their ministry of God are not to change their religion and turn away from the truth and worship of God like the Priests of this Priest turning time but the ministers of the gospel are to watch in all things and endure afflictions do the work of Evangelists and make full proof of their ministry as it appeareth 2 Tim. 4.1.2.3.4.5 Concerning the godly meetings of the Primitive Christians and Saints in Christ Jesus and people of God in former Ages We do not read in the Scriptures of truth that the people of God and true Christians did ever imprison fine and banish or sell one another for their religion and worship but we read that Haman did envie the good and welfare of the Jewes and said unto the King there is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of thy Kingdome and their lawes are divers from all people neither keep they the Kings lawes therefore it is not for the Kings profit to suffer them if it please the King let it be written that they may be destroyed and I will pay ten thousand talents of Silver to the hands of those that have the charge of the businesse to bring it into the Kings treasuries and the King consented unto him and they were designed for destruction as by the Scripture is plain Ester 3.8.9.10.11.12.13.14.15 But it pleased the Lord to let the King know the innocency of his people and how they were not so dangerous unto the welfare and safety of his Kingdome as Haman had informed him and the King changed his purpose revoked what he had signed against them and became under God a preserver of them and the King declared and said oftentimes fair speeches of those that are put in trust to manage their friends affairs hath caused many that are in authority to be pertakers of innocent blood and hath enwrapped them in remedilesse calamities beguiling with the falshood and deceipt of their lew'd disposition the Innocency goodnesse of Princes now ye may see this as we have declared not so much by antient Histories as yee may if yee search what hath been wickedly don of late through the pestilent behaviour of them that are unworthily placed in authority and we must take care for the time to come that our kingdome may be quiet and peaceable for all men both by changing our purposes and alwayes judging things that are evident with more equal proceeding See it in the Apocrypha as appeareth in the letter of Artaxerxes wherein he taxeth Haman and revoketh the decree procured by Haman to destroy the Jewes Ester 16 Chapter Would it not be good in the sight of God and very profitable to this Kingdome and commendable also if the King and the Parliament did under God take such a care for the time to come as that the Kingdome might be quiet and peaceable for all men both by repealing that law made against liberty of conscience and allowing an equal liberty to all men in the exercise of their consciences as to God-wards in matters of faith and salvation and alwaies by judging things that are evident with more equal proceeding There was a time in the dayes of the Prophet Malachi wherein the words of some were stout against the Lord Mal. 3 13. yet they would have excused themselves saying what have we spoken so much against the Lord to the which the Lord answered them by his Prophet saying Ye have said it is in vain to serve God and what profit is it that we have kept his Ordinance Mal. 3.14 and that we have walked mournfully before the Lord and they called the proud happy Mal. 3.15 and they that wrought wickednesse were set up and they that tempted God were delivered Then they that feared the Lord separated from the Iniquities of the time met often together and spoke one to another and the Lord was present in their assemblies after a spiritual manner Mal. 3.16 and did own them and their meetings for he both hearkned and heard them and a book of remembrance was written before the Lord for them that feared him and thought upon his name and the Lord made promise to such for their encouragement and comfort Mal. 3.17 and they shall be mine saith the Lord in that day when I make up my jewels and I will spare them that serveth me as a man spareth his san that serveth him then shall ye return and discern between the Righteous and the Wicked between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not Mal. 3.16.17.18 When Christ Jesus was come in the dayes of his humiliation and were conversant amongst men after that John was cast into prison for preaching and performing the Office and duty of a Minister Math. 4.12.13.14.15.16.17 or delivering that message which he was sent about from the Lord to perform as a foreruuner of Christ then Christ Iesus himself began to preach and say Repent for the kingdome of Heaven is at hand and there followed him great multitudes of people from Galilee and from Dicapolis Mat. 4.25 and from Judea and from Hierusalem and from beyond Jordan and seeing the multitude he went up into a mountain and when he was set he opened his mouth and taught them as you may read Mat 5.1.2 c. But if there had been a law made against meeting to the number of five or above and not in Parish Churches or Chappels and contrary to the common way of meeting preaching and hearing under pain of Imprisonment Fines and Banishment then Christ and the multitude must either not have met after that manner or else they might have suffered as his Saints and servants are like to do now but it is evident by the example of Christ that he never intended any such law to be made in such direct opposition to his example and practice and though the people came from many places and parts of the Country to that meeting with Jesus upon the mountain there was no danger to the safery and happinesse of the

him to the people but them to whom it is given and all have a true right given and allowed of God to minister from him to the people to whom that gift of Ministration is given and such ought not to be forbidden 1 Pet. 4.10 11. because there is a toleration to such given and granted in heaven as every man hath received the gift so let him minister the same one to another as good Stewards of the manifold grace of God If any man speak let him speak as the Oracles or Sayings of God If any man Minister let him do it as of the Ability which God giveth that God in all things may be glorified as 〈◊〉 is written 1 Pet. 4.10 11. Order of Baptisme And for as much as it is a Fundamental of the Episcopal or Protestant Religion and according to the Constitutions and Canons of the Church of England that all who are Admitted into Church fellowship must in order to their Admission and in order to the obtaining to themselves the honourable Title of Christians promise and vow unto God before many witnesses to forsake the Devil and all his Works and to keep Gods holy Will and Commandments and walk in the same all the days of their lives Are not the Protestants or Episcopals hereby bound from persecuting any for Conscience towards God in matters of Faith and Salvation Because it is acknowledged to be a work of the Devil and contrary to the will of God to persecute Christians for matters of Faith and Salvation in point of Religion and Worship of God And for as much as it is declared in the Common Prayer Book or Liturgy of the Church of England 2 Coll. for Peace that the Service of God is perfect freedom whether ought any to be forced either to it or from it by outward compulsion but rather left to their freedome that God may convince and perswade them Because whatsoever is not of Faith is sin and every man ought to be fully perswaded in his own heart in matters of Faith and Salvation and it properly belongs to she Lord to make known his own Worship who knows how to perswade the heart both to believe and close in with the same And whereas it is said in the Common Prayer that God is the Author of Peace and Lover of Concord ought not the Episcopals or Protestants to be like minded unto him If so they would see it to be below the life and spirit of a true Christian to force Conscience before they convince it And so ought to seek their peace and welfare and not their destruction and Ruine who are yet unconvinced or perswaded by them who themselves do not walk up to their profession Com. upon the Feasts of Trin. And whereas in the Liturgie of the Church of England it is acknowledged that it is very meet right and our bounden duty that we should at all times and in all places worship and serve the Lord or give Thanks unto the Almighty and Everlasting God why then should we be bound from doing that which is accounted and declared to be very meet right and our bounden duty at any time and in any place especially by them who do own and profess the same as aforesaid And whereas the Priests Bishops and Curates do declare and confess by the Liturgie of the Church of England that there is no health in them meaning no souls health nor saving health in any of them because it is generally acknowledged by them and upon a spiritual Account what Reason can be produced in Reason why any man should be forced against his Conscience to come to seek Cure of them who plainly say they have no health in them and if they have no health in them as they say they have not Have they any Cure of Souls in them If not to whom must the wounded souls go to be cured Is it not best to leave them to their freedome that the Lord may direct them to whom to go to be cured when they are wounded by sin and the Temptations of Satan that they may also be delivered from under the bondage of Corruption Concerning the Church according to the Constitutions and Canons or Liturgie And al o of practising according to the Liturgie of the Church of England 1. AS to the Church who are accounted true Members thereof and the Condition of their being admitted into Fellowship therewith according to the Constitutions and Canons or Liturgie None are to be Admitted into Church-Fellowship neither can any obtain to themselves the honourable Title of Christians but such as do Covenant with God by Promise and Vow before many Witnesses to be perfect and free from sin First by forsaking the Devil and all his Works And secondly by keeping Gods holy Will and Commandments and walking in the same all the dayes of their lives And seeing that none can be Admitted into Church-Fellowship nor obtain to themselves that Honourable Title of Christians but upon the aforesaid Conditions Have and Do not all thereby who have Entered and are Admitted as aforesaid both Covenanted and do Covenant with God against Persecution about masters of Religion And if they persecute any upon that Account Do they not break Covenant with God and Violate the Fundamentalls of their Religion Secondly None are accounted Members of the Church according to the Liturgie but such as are born again of Water and the Spirit and are by Regeneration made Members of Christ Children of God and Inheritors of the Kingdome of Heaven If it be true that the Priests did Regenerate and Invest us into a Right to God's Kingdome by that Act of Baptisme so called as they have told us they did What true Spiritual Power and Gospel Authority have the Bishops and Priests to dispossesse us of that Right to Gods Kingdome again either by Church Censure or Excommunication And if they made us Children of God Members of Christ and Inheritors of the Kingdome of Heaven by that Act of Baptisme so called as they say they did Then what Spiritual Right and Gospel Authority have they to persecute the Members of Christ and Children of God about matters of Faith and Salvation and things appertaining to the Kingdome of God Is not that to act contrary to the Liturgie of the Church And do not such actions staine their Profession and violate the Fundamentals of the Episcopal and Protestant Religion And if they made us Children of God Members of Christ and Inheritors of the Kingdome of Heaven by that act of Baptisme so called Did they but mate us so for that present time onely or for continuance and perpetuity By their own account they did not make us so for that present time onely but for continuance and perpetuity for they say they made us Inheritors of the Kingdom of Heaven and their Faith and Judgement is that we cannot Inherit the Kingdome of Heaven whilst in this Life till after Death and therefore it must needs be