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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53263	The old leaven purged out, or, The apostacy of this day further opened being a true and faithfull narrative of the orderly prooceedings [sic] and dealings of the lesser part of the congregation formerly walking with Mr. John Sympson, with and against severall souldiers of the army, who (being fallen in with the apostacy of this day, contrary to professed and declared principles, and the many out-goings of the Lord thereupon) are withdrawn and separated from, together with Mr. Sympson their chief abettor, and others, after neer two years labouring whilest while we were in the congregation, and neer two years more since : as also the true coppies of seven of the letters which Mr. Sympson wrote with his own hand, and sent to the congregation an answer to several objections that have been, or may be raised against printing and published the whole : all humbly presented to publique view, not in strife, vain-glory, or to be seen of men, but we hope out of conscience, to endeavor a recovering of the name of the Lord ...	Hathorn, Humphrey.	1658 (1658)	Wing O205; ESTC R32246	96,744	101

shame of Profession not onely in this but other Nations also Wherefore it is much upon the hearts of some of us That if our Transactions in this kinde had not been published we should not have been able to free our selves from the guilt of the blood shed in the late Wars In regard we have hereby a price put into our hands and so are called to serve the Lord there with Object Notwithstanding what hath been spoken we are not satisfied as to the Printing and publishing of the said papers for it seemes to us to savour of vain-glory at the least and therefore were desire that 2 Sam. 1.20 concerning the death of Saul may be considered where David makes use of these words concerning him Tell it not in Gath publish it not in the streets of Askelon lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoyce lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph Now if Sauls iniquity ought not to be published who had so foully backslidden from the Lord lest the enemies of the Lord should triumph then surely the Souldiers evil ought not to be published which we think doth not exceed Sauls though we are satisfied that the Lord is greatly dishonoured by them Answ For a right understanding of this Scripture and thereby a due answer unto this objection we desire that 1 Sam. 31.8 and 9 verses may be weighed Where it will appear that the Philistines the next day after the battel finding Saul among the slain of Israel out off his head and sent it into the Land of the Philistines round about to publish it in the house of their Idol Gods and among the people so that Sauls death was alreadly published all over the land of the Philistimes and therefore as it ought not so it needed not to be published by Israel for he had not sinned against the Philistines But the Souldiers have sinned not onely against the people of God but the whole Nation and in this wickedness keep the Nation under their oppressive power and not onely so but cover their evill to many Godly as well as Carnall men saying They have done no evil and therefore their iniquity ought to be published to undeceive the people and many gracious hearts who still follow them as some did Absolom that rebelled against David In the next place though Saul had back-slidden in a particular command about saving Agag alive and preserving the Cattell of the Amalekites to offer Sacrifice with yet still he fought the Lords battells and rul'd by the same Lams as before so that though his sin was known in the Nation where he dwelt yet it was not as we can read known to any other Nation for Israel held correspondency then with no Nation but were a distinct people separate from them all so that it would indeed have savoured of vain-glory to publish his evill to such But the Souldiers have ingaged to stand by the grand Apostate who hath sworn to maintain the body of the old Beastly Antichristian Laws contrary to the end of the Lord and his people in the late War and their own Declarations and Ingagement so solemnly made in the day of their straits Also they fight Antichrists battells and not the battell of our Lord Christ and so their sin exceeds Sauls and if they persist therein so also wil thei Judgement And therefore may and ought to be published within the bounds of our own Nation against whom they have sinned Moreover Saul was Gods anointed and therefore he was ingaged to stand by him against his enemies had he not back-slidden so that had they published his death it was in a manner to have disowned the Lords Anointed upon which account it was as we conceive that David mourned for him after his death as being the glory of Israel but we hope there is none will be so void of understanding as to make such a comparison between the Souldiers and Saul Adding hereunto also that Saul by his death as the just hand of the Lord upon him was removed from any further dishonouring of his Name by his Apostacy And so there needed no testifying against him which was not in being no more then against Judas after the just hand of the Lord had reached him for his inquity But the Souldiers have the Power of the Nation in their hands and stout it out against the Lord and his People persevering in their evil and adding more and more to the dishonor c reproach they have already brought to the name of the Lord by covering their iniquity under a Form of Godlinesse and therefore their iniquity ought to be published to unvaile their hypocrisie and discharge a good conscience by a sutable testimony against them FINIS [a] Rev. 15.2 [b] Rev. 15.4 [c] Rev. 18.10 11. [d] Rev. 16.5 compared with ch 19.2 [e] Isa 8.18 [f] 1 Cor. 5.6 [g] 1 Tim. 5.20 com with Deur 19 20. [h] 2 Tim 2.8 comp with Num. 16.3 12 13 14. [i] Mat 27.19 24. [k] Mat. 23.34 35. [l] Mat. 23.30 [m] Rev. 3.15 16. [n] Rev. 2.2 3 10. [o] Judg. 5.9 ●3 [p] 2 King 9.32 [q] Isa 26.6 comp with Jer. 49 20. [r] Isa 30.1 2. [s] Jer. 15.19 20 21. com with chap. 1.17 18 19. [t] 2 Cor. 6.14 Phil. 4.8 [u] 2 Cor. 7.2 [⋆] Isa 5.20 [x] 1 Sam. 17.29 [y] 2 Sam. 6.20 [z] Luk 11.43 [a] Prov. 29 26. [b] Rev. 1.9 [c] Mat. 25.23 comp with Luke 12 from 35 to 45. [d] Acts 11.22 23 24. [e] Acts 15.38 [f] Rev 31.10 [g] 2 Tim 2 19 com with Jude 23 [a] Isa 26.21 [b] Isa 33.14 comp with chap 4.4 5. [c] Isa 4.4.5 [d] Psal 149 4. Gal. 2.18 Rom 21.32 Rom. 2.3 Phil 4.8 Mic. 2.2 Zeph. 3.4 comp with Ezek. 22.27 Ezek. 46.18 Pro. 22.22 Zech. 7.10 Neh. 5. v. 9 to 14. Iam. 2.6 2 Chron. 36.16 Matt. 23.30 31 34. 2 Chro. 19.2 Esther did otherwise chap. 8.3 5. com with chap. 7.3 4 6. yea she desired that the ren sons of Haman the persecutor might be hanged also Esth 9.13 Luk. 11.23 Mic. 6.16 2. King 10.29 30 31 32. Isa 29.13 14. com with Matt. 15.8 9. Lam. 2.15 16. Rom. 2.23 24. com with Isa 52 5.6 Psa 79.4 Dan. 9.16.2 Sam. 12 14 2 King 19 3 Jam. 2 7 Psa 69 9. Ezck. 13.22 Isa 10.1 ⋆ This also was by Kelzeys Order ⋆ To wit the time allowed them to look after their own occasions Matth. 18.19 20. Jam 1.5 chap. 5.16 Mal. 3.16 Luk. 24.14 15 17 32. Matt. 18.7 Rom. 16.17 1 Cor. 13.6 Matt. 18.16 17. [g] Gal. 5.13 ⋆ Brethren of the other part of the Congregation ⋆ The man in Powerbid Mr. Jessey others call him Iugler if tythes were not taken away by the third of Septem 1654. ⋆ Mal 18 16 ⋆ It being as he said so great a case of Conscience And which indeed is so to us [q] Isa 64.5 ⋆ Viz pag 38. of this Book [s] Those two Admonitions are contained in our first second paper delivered in unto them ⋆ Note ⋆ Captain Harrison kept Master Sympson Major Strange kept Major Generall Harrisou ⋆ To wit Mr Ecak at that time a Prisoner there for the same cause of Christ with him ⋆ The Man in Power judged the Ministry of England stood upon a Popish Bottom and none to be Christs Ministers but those who had received the Spirit for that use See his speech to little Parliament in Looking-glass Pag. 60. Note Note ⋆ The Man in Power was of this minde also See his Speech to Little Parliament Looking-glass p. 62. ⋆ Note ⋆ Note ⋆ Note Note ⋆ Note ⋆ Note Note Note Note ⋆ Note ⋆ Note Note ⋆ Note who doth so now VVho doth so now Note Note ⋆ Note Note Who is a Lecturer now Note ⋆ Note Note ⋆ Is not Kelzye Strange Harrison Ducker Sumner whom we have charged with this And others the willing Traytors according to his own words ⋆ Among other Scriprures see 2 Kings 21.11 12. Jer 15.4 Hos 1.4 (c) Mar. 27.19 24 (d) As by their Declarations doth appear ⋆ Isa 31.1 Hos 8.3 4 Hab. 2.6 9 15. Amos 6.1 3 4 5 12 13. Hos 5.7 Isa 19.15 21. Isa 30.9 10 11 12 16. 2 Chr. 36.16 Mat. 2.24 48 49. ⋆ The Judgements against Judah were written in a Roll and published in the Lords house and abroad to the people And their fins likewise the cause of those Judgements were there with declared see Jer. 36.2 4 6 28 31 32 comp with chap. 35.13.15 17. ⋆ Gen. 9.21 22. ⋆ Matth. 26.15 16 25 47 48 49. Mark 14.10 11 43 44 45. Luke 6.16 Chap. 22.47 48. John 18.2 3. 2 Tim. 4.10 14. ⋆ Acts 7.51 52. ⋆ Rev 17.13 14. compared Jer. 51.56 57. ⋆ 2 Tim. 3.1 2 3 4 5.

conscience slay in Pharoahs Court when he beheld the affliction of his Brethren Heb. 11.24 25 26. though we think his condition there was more harmless and might more have been improved to the glory of God and the good of his Brethren then our Brethren imployment can possibly be and yet he forsook Pharoahs Court. Fifthly By this present Apostacy the whole body of the Laws r Upon search into the Laws Statutes and Customs of this Nation it will appear most of them are contrary to Scriptute as that of Felony which for stealing to the value of 5. s. is death but for further satisfaction see that Book called Examen Legum Angliae And indeed we may well wonder how any man pretending conscience could at once swear to maintain such a numberless number being most of them made in the times of popery It were likewise to be wished that all other subordinate Officers as Justices of Peace sider how they can with comfort take such Oaths as they do for it is time now for professors to look before they leap Statutes and Customes of this Land are sworne to be maintained without any enquiry into the equity or justice of them which brings in the support of many wicked and s We call that Antichristian which is set up for Christs institution yet hath no warrant in Scripture and surely it never entred into the heart of Christ to set up Patrons Parsons Viccars Curates Triers Deans Doctors Chancellors c. but are from the Pope continued by the succeeding popish carnal selfish kings Queens and Protectors of this Nation as will appear upon search wherefore let that Scripture Amos 8.14 compared with 1 King 12.26 27 28 29. be considered where Ieroboam set up two calves at Dan and Bethel to the end the people might not go up to Ierusalem to worship fearing the Kingdom would return to the house of David and thereby caused them to lay aside his true worship which thing became a sin and a snare unto Israel And doth not the upholding the National clergy c run parallel and as God was then greatly dishonored is he not so now for do they not by their practise declare that Christ as a Son in his house was not so faithful as Moses a servant whom first the Pope and all others to this day acting as Head of the church directly or Law received a just recompence of reward how shall this generation escape who maintain an invention of worship in opposition to Christ and force the people to bow down to it by the payment of rythes though the Tythes Tenths first Fruits which are claimed as the Magistrates Clergy and others due are no other in their rise then what King Harry the eighth took from the Pope and the Pope with his Priests had before cheated our forefathers of under pretence of good works and charity to merit heaven by and for saying prayers for their souls and the souls of their deceased ancestors that they might escape the torments of hell for further satisfaction see a Book called The Great Case of Tythes stated sold for 3 d. at the Black-spread-Eagle neer the west of Pauls which notably discovers how Parsons Viccars and Curates c with Tythes were at first brought in and have been continued to this day Antichristian Laws some whereof are already put in execution as that of Patrons parsons Viccars Curates Tythes together with the old Hierarchy of Bishops though couched under a new Name of Triers and in this we conceive our Brethren are guilty also for time was the Army did declare for removing every yoke from the necks of the Lords People whether Civil or Ecclesiastical and that they were not Mercenary to serve the lusts of men as now they are some of them also pleading for the Right of Tythes and by deceitful words excuse these abominations to the grief of our hearts and do stand by to maintain him who is the Head of this Apostacy Sixthly The great reproach t If what is reported from other countreys may be believed the reproach unto the Name of God by this apostacy is so great that it is sufficient ignominy to be known as an English professor And as for our own Nation all who joyned with the Army in the work according to their former good professions and Declarations are a stink in the Nostrils both of the late Kings party and others insomuch that in a deriding manner they say to our very faces c. Did we not tell you before how things would be carryed we knew the spirits of these men you followed better then you did as now you se● Did not we tell you they desired the destruction of the King that they might get into the Throne themselves is not Oliver Cromwell a greater Tyrant now then ever King Charles was You simply out of honest intents followed him thinking to have greater liberty and priviledges which we alwayes told you would be otherwise and we think you find our words true now You then scrupled the paying a little ship money and such small matters But what do you say to the great Taxes and Burthens laid upon the Nation now and yet know not what they will do further And say others of them Though we were grieved at cutting off the Kings head yet when we considered the honest things the army held forth in their Declarations against their own self-interest and for liberty in opposition to oppression we were the more quiet hoping they would have been as good as their words but now we see plainly you are all a company of juglers and intended nothing else in all you said and did but your own advancement this is the godly army we will never trust professors more for your sakes And many more of the like and worse expressions whereby Religion is made a scorn so that we may say in truth as Nathan said to David 2 Same 12 13. Because by this apostacy so great occasion is given the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme therefore shall not this iniquity pass away without some special judgement Adding hereunto the great reproach that is brought upon the wayes of Christ by the divisions and breaches among his own people such as hath not been for many generations past it puts that Scripture often in some of our thoughts Mat. 18.7 Offences will come but wo to that man by whom the offence cometh And is there not just offence given by the army and our Brethren in particular More especially Coll. Kelzey who said in the presence of the whole congregations That if any should rise up against the present Power under what pretence soever he would sheath his sword in their bowels though his own Brethren for he should look upon them as disturbers of the peace And have we not cause to be offended grieved at these things can we sit at Christs Table with such persons as he Surely no. brought to the Name of God his Cause and Son