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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94350	Banners of love displaied over the Church of Christ, walking in the order of the Gospel at Hexham: by the out-stretched arm of the King of Saints, against the jesuitical design lately attempted by the false Iew. Or, An answer to a narrative stuff'd with untruths, by four Newcastle gentlemen.	Tillam, Thomas.	1654 (1654)	Wing T1164; Thomason E726_8; ESTC R206787	37,383	49

their profession After such a people I especially enquired 1. the Lord having convinced me that there was no way of becomming a visible Disciple of the Lord Jesus but by Baptism and that Faith was necessarily to precede the administration of it The Scripture through which the Lord was pleased to break in with a conviction in this particular upon my spirit was that of Mark 16.16 confirmed by the constant practice of the Disciples in the History of the New Testament neither did I ever meet with any plain Scripture thwarting this light but many concurring to confirm me in the truth I had received So that Hic sisto pedem till they who walk by a rule preposterous to this can shew me a clear and plain Scripture for such their walkings To bottom Ordinances upon mens inferences how rationally soever deduced is not to me consistent with the faithfulness of the Messiah who was the great Apostle and Prophet of his Church and left not his houshold without plain directions how he would have them to go in and out before him in all wel-pleasing and not to depend upon the extracts of the wisest of Mens Reasonings For Moses who was but a Servant in whose House from my youth up I have been educated was so faithful as in plain terms to lay down every Ordinance which God would have us to make the Rule of our obedience And shall we suspect his Master would be less faithful or deficient No in no wise But secondly I did the rather enquire after such a People because their manner of Administring of Baptism is very clear to me to be most consentaneous to the mind of the Lord Christs institution which is by a total immersion of the Party baptized under water When I consulted with the best Phylologists in the Greek tongue whether Sacred or Prophane I found all Vno Ore profess That 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to dip or put over head as the Dyar doth his Cloath into his Liquors which is confessed to be the genuine meaning of the word even by those who are professed Adversaries to the carrying on of Baptism by immersion Let me give you one instead of many and that an eminent one it is learned Spanhemius in his Dubia Evangelica Dub. 24. Partis tertiae Thus much the Gent. had in print which they willingly concealed ad calcem where having discussed ex professo quid 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifie concludes that this exposition is to use his very terms Syncera conformis significationi verbi communi Christianorum immo omnium Graecè doctorum calculo comprobata And this sense of the word is received and retained by the learned Translators in the most eminent Languages of West Christendome The Italian and the Spanish retain the Greek word Baptesimo The High and Low Dutch render it Doop and Tauff which signifie a total immersion and Eu tauffen to baptize as is well known to those that are knowing and acquainted in these Languages Add hereunto the conformity between the Greek Word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and tebilah in our Language which is a total Immersion as appears by that expression our Nation gives concerning a Woman going to purifie her self in Water after the daies of her separation because of her uncleanness she is said to go lattevillah to be hid over Head and Ears I shall only add this one Testimony of our Rabbines which when I found comformable to the practice of the Disciples of the Messiah in the carrying on of this Ordinance of Baptism as it is held forth in the Scriptures by immersion of the Parties to be baptized it was of great weight and authority with me and it is this In sepher Jalkut O nitzachon set out by R. Mulhusino argel letalmidei talui lalechet litvilah it is a custome of the Disciples of the hanged man for my Nation in mentioning of Christ Periphrase him by contempt talui the hang'd man to go to the place of Immersion to be hid over head and ears in Water And thus the Lord having made plain my way before me and bringing me to a people walking according to the light which through the Scriptures confirmed by the Testimony both of the learned in my own and other Nations who was I that I should resist God and turn away from those whom God had discovered to my poor wandring soul to be a people walking in the way of his own appointment and according to those convictions that were upon my spirit For whose Communion I do exceedingly bless God and wherein I greatly rejoice The Lord Christ having given into my spirit abundance of joy and refreshing as a signal token of his good liking and gratious approbation of this my undertaking warming my heart under the full discovery of that Promise made good to me both in the union of my soul to himself and giving me into the imbraces of and communion with his People Him that commeth to me I will in no wise cast out John 6.37 Now to God onely wise who hath shewed me these grear things the God of my Fathers keeping Covenant for ever who hath not taken his mercy from me nor suffered his Truth to fail but hath taken one of the out-casts of his antient Israel and brought it home to himself To him be glory and Dominion throughout all Ages Amen Amen Tamvenishlam tehillah leel barach Josephus Ben Israel ex Judaeo Christianus The Administrators Animadversions upon this Declaration and Confession wherein the glorious Order and Method of the Highest shines forth 1. IT is observable that the Lord Jesus Christ was pleased to manifest himself to this poor soul that asked not after him to advance him as a living Monument of free grace and mercy like as the Woman of Sychar comming to Jacobs well to draw water for her bodies comfort met unexpectedly with a living Fountain of distinguishing grace freely streaming out to her soul So was the Lord pleased while this Jew was pumping the water of Philosophy for the accomplishment of the outward man to open the glorious Fountain of the Divine Nature for the blessed information and to the great admiration of his Spirit until that happy season blinded with the Traditions of his Fathers O the distinguishing love of God! Rom. 11.7 2. The Gospel-like order of this great work deserves our most serious thoughts that high and wonderful doctrine which the Almighty laies for a sure Foundation in his heart is it whereon eternal blessedness depends And this is life eternal That they might know thee the onely true God and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent Joh. 17.3 He is first awakened as it were by Esays Vision the discovery of that glorious infinite blessed Three in One Holy Father Esa The Lords antient people the Jews have ever accounted it great blasphemy to call God a Person 6.3 Holy Son John 12.41 Holy Spirit Acts 28.26 and other Foundation can no

ever since I came to Hexham They cannot make it good That we own Persons as living monuments of free grace only upon closing with our opinion They cannot make it good That I have charged many gratious Saints with making no conscience of lies These and other gross Untruths of these Gent. being considered I suppose I have more cause to bewail their sad condition as being given up of God to believe to make and to publish lies so that their own Pen drops their own doom 2 Thes 2.11 both in their Title Page and the closure of their tenth Consideration But time and occasions call to a Conclusion And therefore to their eleventh Consideration enquiring Whether the work upon my heart be any better than the Jews I have already answered That if it be not their skil in heart work is as little as they say mine is seeing they have judged me truly gratious Their 12 Consideration I shall leave to my beloved Brother and faithful Fellow-labourer to which he answers That the twelfth Consideration hath as much of the Serpent in it as any of the former For whereas they mention his present station he apprehends it to be inserted by them 1. Either to his disparagement which is the grand design carryed on through the false Jewish Pamphlet and if so he must tell the Gent. it is their weakness so to judge they not knowing wherof they affirm For as the Office relates to a person of no mean quality but one eminent and honorable in his Country so also it is a place of considerable credit and no mean trust though they would present it to the world as despicable 2. Or secondly If they insist upon his Office as an impediment so that he cannot labour in the Lords work this mistake is equal with the former For his Office does not like their fat Lots at Newcastle for which they take occasion in their first Epistle to give God thanks pag. 2. l. 23. make him so corpulent or unwieldy but he can once or twice a fortnight lanch out to preach the Gospel in the dark parts neer adjacent where are divers Parish meeting-houses which stand as so many dark Lanthorns and which these Gents present pomp and greatness will not vouchsafe them to visit no not once in a Summer to hold forth their light to some thousands of poor souls which sit in darkness and may for all them perish without understanding But to proceed As for his great change which these Gent. charge him lately to have professed He doubts not but in the day of the Lord Jesus his appearing it shall appear that he possesses what he hath professed And that it is of a former date than since their Bugbear Articles of Scandals which they say were shown him though he never got a sight of them to peruse them wherein what was of truth he neither then did nor will deny But what he then granted had it amounted to a Charge he makes no question but he should have heard of them long ere now he having appeared in two Publique Disputes with the Administrator against them at Newcastle even before the expiring of their Commission So that concerning these Articles he hath ground to conclude That either there was self-conviction upon these Gent. that they were false or their proof shrunk in and sailed them being ashamed to justify such untruths or there hath been corruptness on some hands since that a business which the world must be made believe was so wicked hath been neer upon 3 years pocketed up in silence and if a truth hath bin withholden in unrighteousnes Any of these being granted which the impartial Reader in reason can't deny there was doubtless no such necessity as these Gent. pretend for him to strike in with the Administrator and his way who came not into these parts for many moneths after to secure him from the stroke of these Gent. Mock-Articles of Scandals they having had time will and power sufficient had they but had sufficiency of truth and integrity to have drawn up a charge against him But by the way let the Reader take notice that the Administrator and his way holds a rod over these Gent. and teaches them moderation He was struck in with the Administrator and his way therefore these Gent. waved their Articles Doth not such an inference well become Gent. that profess to be valiant for the Truth upon the Earth Oh blessed be our God who hath raised up such Professors of the Administrators way as have chained up men of persecuting Prelatical spirits so that they cannot act up to the height of mischief against the truths of the Lord Jesus Christ and the Professors of them as they would But say the Gent. We desire to see further c. Ans They have their desire but upon this condition That he may prevail with them for the like liberty before he lay the weight of infallibility in a work of grace upon any or all their judgements since that experience whereof sundry instances may be given hath taught him that these Gentlemen are not acted by an infallible spirit but are men subject to the like Passions Delusions and Mistakes as he is Optimus ille Qui minimis urgetur S. A. As to their last Consideration the Administrator can through mercy cheerfully bear all the affronts derisions end abuses of it and all the rest though temptations have not been wanting to answer these Gent. Rom. 12.17 18 19. in another way but Christ hath taught me better 1 Peter 2.23 so that when they say I speak in the same Language which the spirit of Satan breathed out of the mouth of my Dear Brother the Counterfeit I can patiently bear it Mat. 10.25 and leave it to the Lord who was tearmed Beelzebub before me and told me what I should meet with But whereas the Gent. confidently tell their Reader That the Counterfeit could never dissemble so handsomely in the Ordinance of Prayer and thereupon deride me thus Yet this is the Saint that the Administrator saies he had not found the like no not in England Let me tell the Reader what I shall punctually prove whensoever I am called to it That this is another gross untruth Vntruth 13 and a farther evidence that the judgement which the Gent. say is fallen upon us hath manifestly seized upon themselves namely To be given up of God to believe lyes Really Christian Reader this wretched Impostor whom these Gent. say at adventure could not dissemble so handsomely in the Ordinance of Prayer could speak sweetly soundly affectionately feelingly in Prayer so as to draw forth the heart exceedingly of such as are richly experienced in the things of Christ But it is manifest how readily yea and greedily the Gentlemen embrace whatsoever the false Jew speaks that may any way wound us wheras all other things that seem to appear for us they brand as Lyes Forgeries Deceits c. The Gent. close leaving the Administrator upon the Stage in his relation of the false Jews joy and spiritual sweetness after Baptism and they affirm its true He was observed to smile as he came out of the water and being asked the reason why he smiled it was as easily believed as spoken by him to be the joy of the Holy Ghost And I shall conclude also with declaring That I am certain these Gentlemen themselves are no other way able to discern or know where the joy of the Holy Ghost and Heavenly incomes are but by the expressions and actions of the party which were not wanting in this exquisite Hypocrite As for his smiling as he came out of the Water it is as easily believed by these Gentlemen it seems as spoken to use their own words But I perceive these Gentlemen little know what it is to be buried in Baptism that can believe a Person baptized is so suddenly in a smiling condition I was as neer to him as any and helping him out of the Water I heard him pray as soon as he could take breath I leave all to the Lord and his Saints it is their work to judge the World let them judge between us whether is guilty of believing Lyes as easily as spoken We in giving credit to the false Jews holy humble Confession when he appeared to us to be adorned with the pure Robes of Snow-white innocence no guilt at all or these Gent. in embracing whatsoever he told them against us after his notorious falshood was detected and they knew him to be an abhominable Lyar Therefore thou art inexcusable O man whosoever thou art that judgest for wherein thou judgest another thou condemnest thy self for thou that judgest doest the same things Rom. 2.1 FINIS