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heart_n	according_a	holy_a	spirit_n	3,056	5	4.8732	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96069	VVater upon the flame: by XX. queries propounded in the spirit of love and meeknesse, to the serious consideration of all Gods people; principally to the fifth monarch men, commonly so called. / By one that loveth the truth, and all good men; and one that neither hath, nor ever had, nor never intendeth to have the least place of profit, or worldly advantage by any change of government whatsoever.		1659 (1659)	Wing W1042; Thomason E989_12; ESTC R204047	13,299	16

it is because there is no light in them 6. Gal. 16. As many as walk according to THIS RVLE peace be on them who ever sindeth peace in a way contrary to Gospel Rule may be sure t is not the Peace of God Phil 4.7 but the peace of Satan which he is wont to give poor creatures that he hath in fast possession Luke 11.21 19. John Becaldus Redivium Or the Enlish Quaker you may read at large Whether that Spirit that worketh mightily in you in these smighting resolutions be not the same that wrought in Munster and others that at last issued in all manner of ungodlinesse and confusion which I believe is farre from your hearts to design Do you complain of Princes Tyranny and Luxury to the People So did they Do you cry up the Kingdome of Christ on Earth and pretend for Righteousnesse So did they Do you cry up your selves for the little remnant the refined People that are appointed to smiting work So did they Do you revile the reputed Orthodox Ministery for Antichristian Carnall So did they Do you open the Pulpit to common men of all Trades So did they Do you go much by inward impulses So did they Do you use the Scripture Instances of Jonathan his Armour-Bearer Gideon against the Midianites David against Goliah to heighten the Peoples Spirits to fight So did Munsters in his Oration before the fight with the Princes use the same Do you abound with comfort peace confidence of successe so did they Munster to encourage the People to fight told them he was sure of Victory Now then consider in the fear of God whether this similitude doth not evince that they then and you now are acted much by oneand the self-same Spirit and if so Whether you have not cause to judge that you have gotten the wrong Spirit for your guide and your foot in a most dangerous snare notwithstanding all your confidence to the contrary since not only Gods Word but Gods fearful Judgements upon the Ringleaders of the German Rebellion did do with a loud voice declare his dislike of their actions there not being one Head-manamongst them according to the Story but proved forsaken of the good and holy Spirit and struck with Blindnesse of Mind and Hardnesse of Heart And whether you have not just cause to fear the like fearfull judgements of God to befall you if you should persist in obedience to the motions of that evil Spirit that now prompteth you to leap out of your Places and Callings to meddle with Persons and Things you have nothing to do with Since God is the God of order and not of confusion And the Father that without respect of persons judgeth every mans work 1 Pet. 1.17 20. Whether your Contempt of the godly learned Ministry of the Nation be not evidently of the evil Spirit since all the great ends for which Christ ordained a Gospel Ministry is not onely endeavoured but actually effected by many of them and consequently the Marks and Characters of the Ministers of Christ are upon them since it is impossible such work should be done but by the concurrence of Gods holy Spirit with them For though Paul plant and Apollo water T is God must give the increase If you could shew half so much for your Governing the World as they can for their Ministry you might the better expect Subjection by the Inhabitants of the Earth There are Four things chiefly to which the work of the Ministers of Christ by divine appointment may be reduced First Conviction of Sin Righteousnss Joh. 16.8.18 Act. 28. Secondly Conversion 26. Acts 18. Thirdly Edification 4. Ephes 12. Fourthly Protection 20. Acts 28 29. None of which can be denied to be wrought by many of them The truth of which is manifest 1. By the multitude of bils of spiritual complaints requests and thanks givings made evident daily by such as wait on the Publick ministry 2. Particular addresses of persons to their houses to be resolved in cases of conscience upon their Ministry 3. The constant early chearfull attendance of multitudes of Christians upon their Ministry daily to receive their Fathers bread by their hand 4. The holy Conversation of many that are fed by them 5. The freedome of such from the grand Heresies of the Time wherewith divers others are infected Hereticks having little to do with any but such as have first fallen in their affection to them and at last turned their backs upon them 6. The tears sad hearts of many godly souls at the death of them as lately at the death of Mr. Jacombe Now then if they do all the work of the Miuisters of Christ and all the ends for which Christ ordained the Ministry be accomplished by them which could not be done without God why then God owneth them Christ owneth them and the Spirit of God owneth them Whence then can it be but from the evil Spirit that you disown them and pour contempt upon them Now the Lord give you to consider this and in the spirit of love meekness I speak to you remembring what poor weak creatures we are all and that I my self have been in the like kind tempted to some degree overcome for which I abhor my self in dust and ashes I further intreat you to consider if God peradventure will give you repentance to the acknowledging of the truth that as in the contempt of the godly learned Ministry you fall OVT of the company of God OVT of the company of Christ OVT of the company of the Spirit as hath been shewn OVT of the company of the blessed Martyrs and glorified Saints who greatly reverensed the godly Ministry of their time OVT of the company of almost all the people of God upon the face of the whole earth at the present time so on the other hand I intreat you consider whose company you fall INTO even all sorts of persons enmptty of the good and full of the evil spirit comrades of Satan who are like to be throne into the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone for ever these all as one man hate the godly Ministry and most violently set themselves against them yea 't is remarkable that the further men are from God the greater is their hatred of them and can you find in your heart to be found in such company 1. All sorts of prophane wretches in whose Souls the good spirits never lodged such as resist the holy Ghost and will not that Christ should raign over them these all hate a puritan Minister because he cannot Prophesie to them of Wine or strong drink or any thing that will please them Secondly all Apostates from the faith of Gods elect out of whose souls the good spirit is departed as the Ranters and Quakers that have let go the head there are no persons so venemously set against them as these as appeareth by their Pamphlets and WHY but because those greevous Wolves cannot devour the Lambs of Christ so freely as they would while the poor people have the wings of godly and learned men to shelter them Thirdly the Pope with his Colledge of Jesuites these strive all they can to hinder the success of their Ministry and indeed to ruin both them and their standing insinuateing to the people that they are no Ministers only lay-men Their standing in the Ministry naught because they have not their Ordination from Rome while you on the other hand say their standing is naught because they have their Ordination from Rome But besides all this HE by all base means reproacheth them as carnal vitions and if he can light of them he burneth them and why doth be all this Is it because their Ministerial standing is Antichristian think ye as you suggest or the quite contrary the Pope and you are of two minds in this were the Ministers of England bone of his bone and flesh of his flesh as you are apt to think he would norish and cherish them not bu●n ruin and destroy them no man ever hated his own flesh but nourished and cherished it the truth is his hatred to them is founded upon his knowledg of the quite contrary Namely that if he cannot procure them to fall off their standing wherein you work hard to help him though not intentionally he is never like to get up his in England he knoweth well enough that as they ever have been so still are under God the Walls and Bullworks of the Protestant Religion and that besides them he hath no considerable adversary hear there not being many besides able to read one line nay not one word of the Bible but by their help now then if they have God Christ Spirit with them and the generality of the godly over the face of the whole earth with them and against them all sorts of ungodly wretches as in a conspiracy methinks it should rationally put you to a stand and make you tremble when you or any other go about to speak evil of such dignities Again is it Satan in them that 's certain because they have no other guide and because he seeketh the destruction of Souls and can it be God in you to destroy the Saviours of Souls You cannot swear with them norly with them nor be drunk with them nor commit uncleaness with them nor blaspheme God nor commit Idolatry with them how cometh it that you can revile the Godly learned Ministry with them For the Lords sake the Gospel sake the poor divided Church people of Gods sake and for your own eternal Savlation sake consider what you do in this great matter lest you be found fighters against God whilst you think to fight for him and fighters for the Pope whilst you think to fight against him Blessed are the Pace-makers for they shall be called the Children of God Matt. 5.9 FINIS