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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29185	The ministers of England which are called, the ministers of the gospel vveighed in the ballance of equity: by way of consideration, whereby it plainly appears, whether they be the ministers of Christ, or of antichrist. And also, whether to bear a testimony against a setled maintenance, either by tyths or any other way which may be invented to uphold that ministry, be any way dangerous to destroy the gospel of Christ; resolved. With a serious meditation upon the dealings of God with England, and the state thereof in general. Published for the satisfactiou [sic] of such as desire to prove all things, and are willing to hold that fast which is good; by a friend unto the faithful ministers of the gospel of Christ, John Braithwait.	Braithwaite, John, fl. 1660.	1660 (1660)	Wing B4206; ESTC R221651	16,773	40

he will in those things will not this bring all into confusion do not we see that the granting the liberty of Conscience hath brought much distraction in this Nation of England and therefore we judge it best that all People be brought into a Conformity again at the least let there be limits and Laws that no man may question our Ministers Answ Let every man be fully perswaded in his own mind Read Rom 14. Ephes 4.13 for whatsoever is not of faith is sin and the unity is in the faith and whatsoever is out of the faith is in the Confusion and it is not the compelling of men that brings into unity and fellowship but the love of God doth whose arm and power is stretched over this Nation through whose love Liberty of Conscience hath been proclaimed which was long waited for and this hath done no hurt to any but the Whore and the Merchants of Babylon and distraction and desolation is coming upon her from the Lord God Read Rev. 18. for strong is he that judgeth her And so you that would have People brought into a Conformity again and have Laws to limit the holy one again this I say you are such as have drunken of the Whores Cup of abomination and must drink of the Cup of the indignation of God poured out without mixture What have you forgotten since you your selves desired Freedome you that are called Presbyters would you not have been from under the yoak of Episcopacy and would you desire that your selves which you are not willing to grant to others O ye hypocrites how can you judge and speak against the Whore of Rome Rom 2.21 22. and you your selves guilty of the same thing who would rule over the Consciences Psal 78.41 42. and conform People to your faith limit the holy one that none may speak or question your Ministers what doth the Whore of Rome more she may laugh to see your folly and madness what are you and your Ministers afraid of that they may not be questioned what have they done that they are ashamed of if they have done evil is it not just that they should be confounded and if they have done well they need not be afraid Isa 33.14 but fear surpriseth the hypocrites and the sinners in Zion are afraid for the anger of the Lord is kindled and his jealousie burns like fire and the torment of the Whore is begun and her Merchants have cryed Alas that great City c. and both they that help Isa 31.3 and they that are holpen shall fall together for the Lords Decree is sealed against Babylon and her Merchants and his purpose is to exalt his own Name in righteousness and break the peace of the wicked Resol And having thus viewed and compared the Ministers of England I mean the Parish Teachers with the true Ministers of Christ in their Call Practise Doctrine and Maintenance and finding them clean contrary in all those things to the holy men of God Therefore in the fear and dread and presence of the Lord God of Heaven and Earth I bear my Testimony they be Antichristian Ministers their forced Maintenance is Antichristian for if it was such a great sin in the Sons of Eli in the time of the Law to force Maintenance much more now in the time of the Gospel And it is said concerning them 1 Sam. 2.16 17. because of this thing to wit because they said nay but thou shalt give it me now and if not I will take it by force wherefore the sin of the young men was very great before the Lord for men abhorred the offering of the Lord and besides Christ is come who is the end of that Priest-hood who had a Commandement to receive Tythes and the Priest-hood being changed there is made of necessity also a change of the Law Heb. 7.12 and therefore this forced Maintenance by Tythes is not to be upheld but testified against by the true Christians who worship God in the Spirit and in truth And to take away this forced Maintenance is no way dangerous to destroy the Preaching of the Gospel of Christ because he unto whom the Gospel of God is committed to Preach must Preach it 1 Cor. 9 16 or else woe unto him it is not then I will Preach unto you if you will give me such a price by the Year for a necessity is laid upon him and he must Preach or give in his Testimony whether People will hear or forbear he must not then confer with flesh and blood but as Paul said so the Ministers of Christ should do when it pleased God who seperated me from my mothers womb Gal. 1.15.16 and called me by his grace to reveale his Son in me that I might Preach him among the heathen immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood And therefore all People upon the Earth who understand and knows those Parish Teachers in England are Antichristian Ministers and their Cristening and many such like things are of no necessity as to the Salvation of the Soul but are inventions and institutions of the Pope in the dark night of Apostacy 2 Cor. 6.17 Come out from amongst them and be you seperated wherefore do you spend your money for that which is not bread Isa 55.1 2 3. and your labour for that which doth not satisfie Come buy wine and milk without money and without price hearken diligently that your Souls may live eat that which is good and let your Souls delight in fatness mind the Testimony of Gods Spirit whether that be for you or against you and weigh all things in the just Ballance wich God loveth and slight not the day of your visitation Prov. 11. i. 16.11 wherein God proffereth his love unto you to draw you unto himself with his loving kindness who is come to gather his sheep together with his everlasting Arme Ezek 34. and to stretch out his hand against those Shepheards that have fed themselves and not the Sheep his Indignation is kindled against them because they have ruled over the Sheep of his Pasture with force and cruelty therefore will he deliver his flock out of their hands and they shall be a prey to them no longer he himself will gather them together as a Shepheard doth his Sheep and lead them into good Pastures and feed them upon the Mountains of Israel by the rivers and he will make all the places round about them a blessing and they shall rejoyce in his goodness for evermore Many shall run too and fro Dan. 4.12 Isa 15. ● J● 3.23 and knowledge shall be encreased and it shall even be fulfilled that is writen the knowledge of the Lord shall cover the Earth as the waters cover the Sea and Israel shall be saved in the Lord with an everlasting Salvation and then shall people say Salvation is not in the Hills or Mountains but Salvation cometh from the Lord