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glory_n	knowledge_n	light_n	shine_v	6,882	5	9.8263	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96887	A conference of some Christians in church-fellow-ship, about the way of Christ with his people, and the result therefrom. This serveth only by way of introduction to take off the reproaches, that are cast upon pastour and people, whose earnest care and endeavour is to walke with a right foote in that holy way. Which is held forth here by the light of the sacred Scripture, as it appeares unto them, and how curious and circumspect their walke should be, who pretend to it, and to walke therein. The scandalls in and against the way are removed as they could be.	Woodward, Ezekias, 1590-1675.	1656 (1656)	Wing W3485; Thomason E868_4; ESTC R207653	29,701	36

that wee humbly conceive you should have Commended him for vvee must take leave to set it downe because that brought him upon the stage where he at this time stands covered-over with as much filth as uncleane Mouthes most nasty and filthy hands and some pretty cleane too in comparison can possibly cast upon him You must remember what you cannot forget nor wee neither the Towne and Country taking notice of it so visible it was being not done in a corner when he preached first your Lecture at the Chappell neare him we thought and thinke so still part of his charge Not to mention the affronts against him at that time before he came to the Pulpit His text you know was Hos 12. 10. I have also spoken by the Prophets having cleared the knowne Doctrine of the text and grounded it and comming to make Application of it A Consectary two or three he pressed first and this for one That the Minister of Christ being the Mouth of Christ and standing in his stead must speake and doe in the matters of Christ as the Lord Christ would speake and doe if he were here upon Earth You know and wee know he spent but few Minutes upon this indeed he spake feelingly as one that felt the weight of his charge and smartly and was there not a cause being in his owne place and knowing full well the horrid doings there Sir wee make bold to tell you and in as much love as you can conceive is due to you from us had your force been right and your way good and not complying too much with the Ministers way of that Chappell You had commended our Minister given him the right hand of fellowship and taken him at that time into your bosome But what agreement when your wayes lie so crosse which will appeare we conceive through-out the following discourses to the way of Holinesse you and we are charged to walke-in Till you shall take this into your thoughts and muse upon it things will be as they are carried on headlong to the great dishonour of God reproach of His Word and scandall of His people as we suppose for the close of this in much love we entreate you to examine what an affront was put upon the Word when at your earnest request our Pastour tooke a turne in that Lecture you know when and where examine we pray you what the man did you commonly call the Clerke but might as truely call a Beast If he turne his backe upon the Word as he more than seemed so to doe then going forth of the place as others did at the time when the said Minister went up into the pulpit And upon your examination of the matter we know what is your duty to doe if you will doe it For Sir it is our perswasion did your Brethren whom we honour we thinke as much as you doe understand well and thorowly how matters are carried there how unbecoming the Gospell and crosse to the prosperity of the same they would have things corrected or they would not we thinke they should not unlesse they be of your perswasion take their turne there Looke to it Sir and be perswaded that for the Glory of God and our Deare Saviour and that His Gospell may run and be glorified and that you may correct what is amisse and have peace at the Last have we spoke hitherto and shall speake for God forbid we should be silent in such matters as these being called upon to speake and give our opinion SECT IV. IN the next place we come to speake a little for our selves our matters so requiring yea constraining for we are as unwilling to doe it as you can thinke us in some respects but in some other most willing Wee are Sir and you know it and wee blesse God from our hearts He hath made us know it too most unworthy ones Truely Sir our inward thoughts are all thoughts are inward but these are closest unto us and most fixed there that we are such unworthy ones in and of our selves confidered that we cannot thinke we have thought our selves low enough till we have thought our selves to nothing yea worse than nothing as in our selves still and if such nothings now now that He hath pleased to reveale His Son in us to plucke us out of our blood to wash us thorowly and so to sloud it away looking upon us and accepting of us in Him in Whom to be accepted is our Labour our ambition the topp of our glory and crowne of rejoycing we were saying If such Nothings now what were we then when we lay-in Evill like a Carrion in the Ditch but more corrupted and corrupting being under the power of a lust within and that wicked one without What were we then better than others Children of wrath so soone as we were the Children of men And had not Grace withheld us and an All-mighty-Hand raighned us-in we had been as mad with rage against the Saints and stood as crosse to their way of Holinesse as once Paul was before he came to his right mind And in every myre of sin we could have reached unto we had wallowed with great delight as a swine doth and as they now doe who lye with the world in wickednesse for thitherto our will hurried-us driving us as fast from God as doth the most impetuous streame run from its fountaine And all this while pertaking by priviledge of our Infant Baptisme of all Gospell Communions we should have thought our condition unquestionably blessed taking Sanctuary under the shaddow of a Church whose height like that Tree reacheth unto heaven and the sight thereof to the end of all the Earth But He from Whom wee were running by His Spirit in His Word laid-hold-on us and so being mercifull to us delivered us out of our own hands and from our selves as Lot out of Sodom the greatest Enemies to our soules we know in the world the God or Spirit of the world not excepted and gave us an and gave us an hand of faith whereby we laid hold on Him And now He vvill hold us fast and give us power to hold Him and to vvalke in all pleasing before Him And now vvhat shall we say Even so Father because it pleased Thee Who at first spake light out of Darknesse and caused it to shine into our hearts even the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ The thoughts of this comming strongly upon us at the time vvhen wee vvere seeking His face engaged us being so pressed unto it from vvithout to give an account of the Truth of the way our walke and practise in it And so having beleived we shall speake This then was the prime and chief prevailing motive to make further enquiry into these things and to give our experiences about them as we are perswaded duty bindeth us and our engagement is to doe for If these things be so as even now we have spoken and the