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B04844	The case considered & resolved: whether Mr. Brooks his pills to purge malignants were prescribed from ignorance, malice, or both, or, (Mr Tho. Brooks his inside turn'd outward). Wherein all godly, humble, and ingenious Christians, whether in a congregational way or other, are concerned, to inquire into the truth ... presented in generall to the inhabitants of Margarets New Fish-street, but more particularly for the consideration of himself, and those of his congregation ... also friendly advice to an unfriendly neighbour, desiring him for the time to come to abstain from reviling such persons as he never spake word to, nor they to him. / By Richard Parham, a parishoner of the said parish.	Parham, Richard.	1653 (1653)	Wing P356B; ESTC R187021	27,320	39

still do know divers persons which are most zealous for a Congregationall way that were the greatest promoters of his interest of any people I knew in the City and such as were not ordinary members but Preachers so called I could name the persons time and places but shall only give a hint of something that I speak upon my owne knowledge that you may know and take notice how little the present Authority are beholding to some Churchmen though since I see the same persons are exceedingly countenanced and advanced About the time the late King was brought to Hampton Court these Churchmen had a Petition on foot to presse on a Personall Treaty they used all the prevailing arguments that might be to get hands to it and persons to own it Amongst the rest sayes a Preacher I see no safety nor how the breach can be made up without compliance with the King And said moreover that he had an oportunity to speak to him and that he thought there was much of God in him and that he would be willing to comply to any thing both religious and civill and abundance more that was very high in the commendation of him as in particular that he offered to grant the Militia for so many years c. Answer was made that he had no Militia left to grant for if it had been his before yet the right was onely by the power of the Sword and by the same power he had lost it but if he had a right to grant a term of years that then the power must rest in his person which was a doctrine contrary to all the Declarations of Parliament in that case He said moreover that he would grant Liberty of Conscience as much as could be desired with an Act of Oblivion and divers other things which are too long to insert But answer was made he was not in a capacity to grant for he was no better then a prisoner and that he had opposed so long as he had any power left and for him to grant an Act of Oblivion was for to lay all the guilt and bloud of the Nations on them that opposed his proceedings and how dishonorable it would be to ask forgivenesse of a conquered enemy let the world judge But after a large debate sayes the Gentleman I professe I thought not that what I propound might not be for a publike good I would never perswade to it I had never instanced this but that the vail might be taken off from some Churchmens faces that the world might not suppose they were the onely Promoters of the present Authority when indeed the fault of the Personall Treaty under which divers others suffered they were the most guilty of in pressing and perswading to it of any that ever I spake with But amongst all their pretendings to the annoynting of the Spirit and to make known the mind and will of God that there should not be one found amongst them that could read the hand-writing as it was done by Daniel when he told the K. Belshazzar this is the interpretation of the thing Dan. 5.6 God hath numbred thy Kingdome and finished it thou art weighted in the balance and found too light c. But truly I could not find any of our Churchmen who pretend so much to know the mind of God but were as ignorant of what God by his providence was about to do in overthrowing the late King and renting the Kingdome from him as any the Magitians Astrologians and Southsayers were to interpret the handwriting to the King of Babilon And as far from truth and the mind of God were they in prosecuting the personall Treaty as those Prophets that counsell'd Ahab to go up to Ramoth Giliad and prosper Friends I desire you would not look on me as an enemy to the wayes of Christ and Gospell obedience for I know divers persons who are eminent for a holy just and righteous conversation unto whom I stand greatly engaged upon the highest account of friendship that at this time and I believe according to their light do in sincerity of heart walk in Church-fellowship And divers others of my acquaintance who upon good grounds have forsaken those wayes though in the highest formes and yet retain the principles of a holy life to wards God and just dealings towards men and therefore why should we be ready to judge those that are either above us or below us in the practise of religious duties seeing the Apostle concluded that there was as well milk for babes in Christ as meat for strong men But to return to the thing in hand in the next place he sayes the Petitioners use to hear such whose malignant principles and practises are such as their own Truly whoever they hear I believe they may soon hear as true Ministers as himself but it is no wonder to hear those that are uppermost to be offended and angry with those that conform not to their way though the same persons whilest kept under were the greatest writers and pleaders for Liberty of Conscience in the largest extent of any people in the Nation but as the Proverb is the Priest forgets that he was Clark so when some have attained to what liberty themselves desire they are presently ready to tye up all others to their own humours as I might largely instance He tells us farther that they say they cannot find that comfort to their souls they hoped Truly this seemes to me that they would gladly hear a Gospell Minister by whose preaching and practise they might receive both profit and comfort and certainly there cannot be a surer sign of their desire to have it then their being sensible of the want of it But alas Christ tells the people Mat. 7.16 that they must not expect to gather grapes of thornes or figs of thistles In the next place he is pleased to Quaerie and runs a large circumference with inkhorn terms the substance whereof is to prove that the Petitioners have no right to Gospel comforts For a brief answer to which in generall I say if the largest and most gracious tenders of the free mercy of God for forgivenesse of sin and eternall salvation by Jesus Christ be not to be offered to the vilest of sinners I must unlearn divers Scriptures which I do believe expresly prove that not only the mercy of God is so infinite and the satisfaction of Christ so undeniably full and sufficient for the forgivenesse of sins and eternall salvation by him for all persons that it is to be tendred to all without exceptions unlesse such only who are so holy that they think they need it not for Christ himself speaks in the like case the whole have no need of the Physitian and that he came not to call the righteous but sinners to repentance yet still the proud Pharisees laid this to his charge that he was a company keeper with a friend to Publicans and sinners I speak not this to justifie any person

guilty of The one in being Stubborne and Rebellious against the Will and Councell of God declared by his Messengers and Ministers The other delight in believing and trusting in Lying Vanites viz. the Dreames and Divinations of mens hearts whom God never sent And to the end we may not fall under either of these extreames it is our duty to take a survey of both these particulars and to inquire by that perfect rule of Scripture so farre as we are able to understand and try who are true and who are false Ministers and Messengers That so as on the one hand we may not be found Fighters against God or Contemners of his Ministers so on the other we might not by blinde obedience be so led by blinde guides that at last both we and they fall into the ditch As to the first of these we finde the people of Israel to be greatly guilty of both before in and after the Captivity You cannot be ignorant of divers examples in that kinde Jer. 7.13 14 15. Therefore now because ye have done all these workes saith the Lord. and I rose up early and spake unto you but when I spake you would not heare me neither when I called would you answer c. And I will cast you out of my sight as I have cast out all your brethren even the whole seede of Ephraim verse 26. Chap. 7.8 Chap. 17.23.44.16 As for the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of the Lord we will not hearken unto thee c. And so all the other Prophets declare the peoples Obstinacy Contempt and Rebellion to the Commandements of God declared by his Messengers But afterwards more especially in abusing those gracious tenders of mercy unto eternall salvation by Christ himselfe and his Ministers as is testified John 1.11 He came unto his owne and his owne received him not And upon the first sending out of the Apostles Mat. 10.5 Goe not into the way of the Gentiles and into any of the Cities of the Samaritans enter ye not 6. But goe rather to the lost sheepe of the house of Israel Yet for all this mercy and loving kindenesse of Christ Jesus we finde their Obstinacy and Rebllion come to a heighth of Blasphemy when contrary to their owne consciences they told Christ that he cast out Devils by Belzehub Certainely a People come to such a fulnesse of iniquity cannot be farre from that destruction spoken of Proverbs 1.24 to the 31. Because I have called and ye refused I have stretched out my hand and none would regard but have despised all my Councell and would none of my correction I will also laugh at your destruction and mock when your feare commeth like sudden desolation and your destruction shall come like a whirle-winde when affliction and anguish shall come upon you c. I might much enlarge this but desire Brevity that the discourse may not shew the Writers Vanity or vex the Readers Patience Now as to the second thing which is the peoples trusting in lies and vanities even to their owne confusion Jer. 7.19 We shall finde if we serioufly examine whence it springs that the roote of all the mischiefes misery and destruction of Nations is from their wicked Priests lying Prophets and pretended Messengers and Ministers of God whom he never sent nor gave any Commission unto How sad was the case of Ahab Kings 22. to have the advice and be thrust forward by the councell of foure hundred lying Prophets to his owne destruction We finde when the Lord sent Jeremiah to declare his wrath against the people of Israel in chap. 2. ver 2. he mildly reasons with the people saying Thus saith the Lord I remember thee with the kindnesse of thy youth and the love of thy marriage when thou wentest after me in the wildernesse in a land that was not sowne Verse 3. Israel was a thing hallowed unto the Lord Verse 5. What iniquity have your Fathers found in me that they are gone farre from me and have walked after vanity and are become vaine But in ver 8. we have the reason fully The Priests said not where is the Lord And they that should minister the Law knew me not the Pastors also offended against me and the Prophets prophecied in Baal and went after things that did not profit And chap. 4.30 31. An horrible and filthy thing is committed in the Land c. Chap. 14.14 The Prophets prophecie lies in my name I have not sent them neither did I command them neither spake I unto them but they prophecie unto you a false vision and divination and vanity and deceitfulnesse of their owne heart Chapter 18.15 Because my people have forgotten me and have burnt Incense to vanity and their Prophets have caused them to stumble in their wayes from the ancient wayes to walke in paths and way that is not trodden Chapter 23.1.21 I have not sent these Prophets yet they ran I have not spoken unto them yet they prophecied I might bring a cloud of witnesses to confirme what hath beene asserted but you may read them at large But let us inquire whether they gave the people any better counsell in the time that Christ and his Disciples preached amongst them Truly all along the New Testament we finde them opposing the Doctrine and persecuting Christ and his Disciples in person and that they might be sure to fill up the measu●e of their transgression and to bring the Bloud of Christ and all the Prophets upon their own heads and unavoydable ruine on the Nation you may read their councell at large Mat. 27.1 When the morning was come all the chiefe Priests and Elders of the people tooke councell against Jesus to put him to death and in the 20. you may see the influence they had upon the people But the chiefe Priests and Elders perswaded the multitude that they should aske Barrabas and destroy Jesus But their wages was as sad as their worke when there was not one stone left standing upon another in Jerusalem that was not throwne downe But were not these people a zealous strict and exact people in their Religion and wayes of Worship Yea and we finde Christ often speaking of it but withall discovering the worme at the roote as their making of long prayers when they meant to devoure widows houses And their tything of herbs when they neglected Judgement and Righteousnesse c. Did they not condemne Christ for keeping company with the Publicans and sinners and yet did not they drive a trade of treason by whole-sale with Judas Thinke you they were not like to teach the people truth well when they had a Mint of Lyes going to furnish the Roman Soldiers with when they hired them to say his Disciples came by night and stole him away while we slept And were they not a people that boasted much in their Church and Ordinances John 8.33 Of being Abrahams children and free and yet at that time they would and afterwards did