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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54917	Nil novi This years fruit, from the last years root. The souldiers posture, to the right, to the left, faces about, as yee were. The royall maxime, no bishop, no king. The first-fruits of new prelats, amounting to as much as the tythes of old bishops. All summed up in an impartial relation of the partial proceedings, and uprighteous rumors raised against Henry Pinnel, concerning his endeavouring to get a parsonage. Occasioning a sudden glance upon the true resurrection, present perfection, and perfect obedience. Written in a letter to a friend.	Pinnell, Henry.	1654 (1654)	Wing P2278A; ESTC R221490	41,685	60

nought they set upon an unfeasable and unarcheivable designe they will be like those silly women 2 Tim. 3.7 ever learning but never attaining Hath this doctrine of iniquity any fellowship with righteousness Psal 94.20 wo to the foolish prophets that have seen nothing Ezek. 13.3 that have nothing but the instruments of a foolish and Idol-shepherd the decisions consultations determinations conclusions and results of Synods Convocations Councels Zach. 11.15 17. Assembly of Divines so called to make up a confession of their faith and model of doctrine for them to deceive others withal The Lord by the prophet Jeremy complaines of and reproves such as did pilfer begg borrow and steal his word from their neighbor these he disowns as none of his prophets Jer. 23.30 31 32. and sets himself against them cursing their Ministry with barrenness and unprofitableness to the people No marvel if men be generally such starvlings in Religion and godliness when their Pastors feed them with chaffe instead of wheat and drive them to broken cisterns instead of the fountain of living waters shall Gods field be left for a rock and the running waters be forsaken for the strange cold waters Jer. 18.14 I say not that it is unlawful to make use of and apply the grave and wise sayings of good and holy men but to transgress and make the commandments of God of none effect by teaching for doctrines the traditions of men is too much like a Scribe and Pharisee Mat. 15 3 6 9. Paul cited Moses and the Prophets and heathen Authors too Act. 17. Tit. 1. yet would not have our faith stand in the wisdom of men 1 Cor. 2.5 then we trust too much to man when we preach or believe that which man commendeth to us as an article of faith or practice cannot find it commended of God and to which the Scriptures give no testimony The wise Scribe and a good man bringeth forth good things out of a good treasure Mat. 12.35 13.52 the non-perfectionableness of the Saints and their imperfect obedience proceedeth from the evil treasure of evil mens hearts and are not to be found in the good treasure of the Scripture or a good mans heart I have one caution to cast before Mr. Goffe and all other yong and inconsiderate preachers viz. Whosoever shall break one of the least commands and shall teach men so to do he shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven Mat. 5.19 't is our Lord and Masters Law look to it God hath marryed faith and love what he hath joyned together let no man put a sunder Gal. 5.6 faith is the father love is the mother obedience the off-spring both parents are alike impatient of issue like Abraham and Rachel Gen. 15.2 30.1 That our faith may be perfect in this life or never none doubteth and that our love should be with all the heart with all the soul and with all the strength to God and without dissimulation fervently without mixture with a pure heart one to another is as certain If Abraham be our father and Sarah our mother Isa 51.2 if our faith and hope be in God 1 Pet. 1.21 then we shall purifie our selves according to the pattern in the mount 1 Joh. 3.3 4 5 6 7 c. Our faith like Adam is first formed out of which our love is taken our love like Eve is that by which faith worketh and becomes fruitful Gal. 5.6 1 Joh. 5.2 3. this man is not without this woman nor this woman without this man in the Lord but both joyned in one spirit bring forth much holiness and obedience of life to the perfecting of themselves in the sight of God Children in the Hebrew tongue are called banim which in the root signifieth to edifie or build up 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them Psal 127.5 Children are the ornament beauty and complement of a family Psal 128. in them a man is built up and his name continued Psal 72.17 by works is our faith made perfect Jam. 2.22 pure obedience in love and perfect holiness in fear are inseparable accidents I may say essential properties of the adoption where the promise of the father is really replyed upon the practice of the Son is undoubtedly performed for God to be our Father for us to cleanse and perfect our selves in holiness doth not much differ one is not far asunder from the other see 2 Cor. 6.18 7.1 where we finde small store of holiness we may conclude there is but little faith and love but when we see holiness in all manner of conversation we may point out the obedient children 1 Pet. 1.14 15 16 17. who fashion not themselves to their former lusts but to him that calleth them T is too presumptuous for any to excuse or mince a duty which God injoyneth to the full and too dishonorable to God to distrust what he hath promised If the faith of God be within us the obedience of Christ will not be without us He that hath no Christ but that without him needs no devil but that within him If Christ be in heaven and Satan in the heart no marvel if men live as if there were nor heaven or hell nor God or devil or resurrection from the dead Miserable days when it shall pass for Orthodox doctrine to dispense with perfect obedience in us and rely on a Christ without us Our fathers would have blusht at such loose notions and we their children may bewail the Apostacie we are faln into in the Poets complaint Damnosa quid non imminuit dies Aetas parentum pejor avis Tulit nos nequiores mox daturos Progeniem vitiosiorem Unhappy times when ●ransires sins In parents are brought forth by twins Whose children their bad lives exceed And leave behind a far worse breed Men forsake the good old way of obedience and holiness wherein the faith of our fathers walked and turn aside to the fruitless fancies of new notions forming to themselves a faith and works in speculation and discourse onely denying the power of godliness Hor. filthy dreamers immundo somnia visu nocturnam maculant vestem who corrupt themselves in the dark dreams of their night-visions Jud. 10. through the ignorance and brutish knowledge of their natural reason and fleshly wisdom whereby they glorifie not God as God Rom. 1.21 but are vain in their imaginations of him and their foolish hearts are darkned cursed children seed of the adulterer and whore generation of vipers that eat through the bowels of truth chasing the new birth like Herod out of their own land and nature into a strange country denying the in-born power and holiness of God Which take away the Law or its best fruits As not performable by best recruits In vain 't was writ man made and grace distill'd If by Christs help it cannot be fullfill'd Which say The Saints may will not further go

a sool and glory a little What is it that hath lost me in the Army why am I a lost man there Is it because I promoted their design with two horses in the beginning of the war for which I have not seen penny unto this day an offence which Master Goffe was never guilty of I suppose Or was it because I preached in Beverstone Castle about twenty weeks for nothing or because I preached twelve moneths and more in Nottingham C●st●e at the same rate or because I gave the third part all that I could get of my Arrears in the Army to the wives and children of those that could get nothing for service Fool that I am though compelled to let my left hand know what my right hand hath done 2 Cor. 12.11 Or was it because I did reprove the recidination and Apostacy the dissimulation and hypocrisie of the Parliament and Army to that valiant modest and no way self-seeking General Fairfax If I am become an enemy for t●lling the truth let me be forgiven that wrong If it was not true for which I reproved them and b●re witness against them 〈◊〉 Windsor then why did the Parliament afterward in one of their Declarations against the Scots confess that the major part of them at that time were corrupt and the Army in their Remonstrance from Saint Albans acknowledge that they were faulty in too much compliance with the enemy and negligent in performance of their duty and ingagement If my reprehension was just why should I be lost in the Army for it Yea but if I were such a lost man there as Master Goffe saith then why did divers Officers since invite my return and why did L. G. Cromwell himself now his Highness send his letter from Newark by the Governor of Nottingham Castle to the Committee in my behalf that I might be considered in relation to the Garrison a thing desired by the Governor and souldiers their own voluntary motion once and again to me Thus far have I been a lost man in the Army farther then ever Master Goffe was found in it Nor am I yet afraid to look that ●ost of men in the face yea I openly send this challenge to the whole Army that if there be any error of judgement or matters of misdemeanor to be laid to my charge let all or any of them produce and prove it if they make it good I will be their close prisoner for ever But if any muck-minded man or men who like the mole are digging after the earthly advantages of great pay and places for little labor and service or if there be any among them who are dous'd over head and ears in the waters of worldly pleasures and carnal delight or dipped onely in the shallow fords of a hollow profession and faith or if there be any high soaring notionists hovering in the airy emptiness of subtle and lean speculations vanishing at last into a monstrous nothing and are not truely Seraphical purifying their hearts with the fiery law of truth and love with fervent charity and burning affection to the brotherhood whose Religion is but a sounding brass and a tinckling Cymbal such as these I esteem their words as winde and account none of their clamors or calumnies any of my guilt or sin With what indulgent Bull liberty of conscience some men can dispence with taking 10.20 30 40 shillings per diem to wear a sword by their side and walk up and down with a belt about their shoulders I know not I am to render a reason of mine own actions and to give an account for none but my self If I would I think I might as well take Tythes to which no particular man can lay claime for preaching as a Minister as receive eight shillings per diem as a Chaplain in the Army which is squeezed and issued out of the labor and sweat of indigent and more necessitous men then my self I impose nor reflect on any man my faith is unto my self and to God the danger makes me doubtful great gain is a gin and snare which few escape being taken with And therefore to such as ask why I cannot accept the Army-pay and promotion I answer Olim quod vulpes agroto cauta leoni Respondit referam Hor. quia me vestigia terrent Omnia te adversum spectantia nulla retrorsum What once the fox unto the lyon said To be excus'd from coming to his den That I the footsteps there make me afray Of all that go there com's not one of ten Covetousness and climing to great places is a leprosie if ten of a thousand be cured hardly one of ten acknowledge it When I see the irreversible footsteps of vanity I fear to follow I have heard many souldiers and officers in the beginning of their march in the Army cry out against Lords of Mannors for extortion oppression ambition c. as being but Williams bastards Captain and Colonel of the Norman conqueror but being advanced themselves to the same dignity can now make no bones to swallow Kings houses and whole Lordships at a bit when many of their fellows and companions in the same service hazard hardship cannot get a cottage to shelter them When I see such Patriots and pleaders of their countreys liberty involved and inextricably intangled in their predecessors snares and when I see those Gyants of the Gospel-profession some of them fluviatically Religious drowned in the dangers they seemed to avoid and building the things they pretended to destroy I am afraid what would become of me a feeble reed to those strong pillars if I should be exposed to the same temptations I remember Master Peters preaching his weekly Lecture at White-hall about November last was twelve moneths since taking a just occasion to rebuke the extravagant and luxuriant excesses of the souldiery he fell upon their exorbitant enormity handsomely and a his mode is wittily in this interlocutory passage i.e. You and you you I pray Sirs what were you what had you before the wars why truly Sir I was a poor Turn-spit a Taylor a Carpenters boy a Weaver an under-Clerk c. I had little or nothing to live on my hands were my lands c. Well but what are you What have you now He struts out his foot cocks his Bever sets his arm a kemboll and saith Why Sir I am a Captain a Major a Colonel a Major-General c. I have my Silkes Satan it should be Sattin Velvet Plush Scarlet Gold lace Cloth of Silver what not I am rich and fare deliciouslly every day c. Brave Sir the world is well amended but was this that you fought for where is the relief of the oppressed the supply of the needy What 's become of the wives and children of those that have loft more then you have their lives which you have saved is it enough that you give them one or two shillings for twenty shillings of their Arreares was the end of your Covenant