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A60170	A new naked truth, or, The sandy foundation of the Sacramental test shaken, by a warning-piece discharged from heaven against all sorts of persecutors wherein you may hold Christ crucified mystically and sacramentally, upon the cross of the sacramental penal test, with all the rest of the penal laws and tests attending thereon, and contributing thereunto / by Giles Shute ...	Shute, Giles, b. 1650 or 51.	1688 (1688)	Wing S3709; ESTC R11222	67,483	56

is an old trick of the Devil And thirdly and lastly binding over Persons for Worshipping God is a very ancient thing also A Persecutor is one that must abandon all moral Honesty he must do as he would not be done by he must sacrifiee his Conscience and pawn his Soul in the Hands of the Devil for he must persecute Christ Acts 9.4 5. and fight against God Acts 5.38 39. A Persecuter is one that bids Defiance to Heaven and is in open Hostility and Rebellion against the Almighty and he is striking at the Apple of God's Eye Zech. 2.8 For thus saith the Lord of Hosts after the Glory hath he sent me unto the Nations which spoised you do you hear you persecuting Spoilers of the Nation for he that toucheth you toucheth the Apple of his Eye that is of God's Eye Again A Persecuter is worse than the Devil in some Respects for the Devil cannot force a man to sin he can but tempt and suggest to Sin but the Persecutor does both he tempts them to conform to a Religion or Worship that they are convinc'd in their Consciences is not right because it has none of the Sanction of God's Authority upon it and if they refuse then he does what he can to force them by Indictments and Fines and Excommunications and Plundering and Imprisoning them and the like Now this the Devil cannot do himself personally therefore they are worse then the Devil Again Fourthly A Persecutor or one that hath this Cain-like Spirit in him every time he saith the Lord's Prayer he speaks Blasphemy for he does blaspheme the Name of God the Father the first Person in order in the Blessed and Glorious Trinity for he begins it in Blasphemy for he saith Our Father which art in Heaven And the holy Word of God saith That no man can call God Father but by his Spirit for let him that taketh the Name of the Lord in his Mouth Depart from Iniquity and the Apostle saith Know ye not that the Spirit of Christ is in ye except ye be Reprobate And our Lord Jesus Christ told the old Sect of Scribes and Pharisees that were Persecuters as our New-Gospel-Sect of the same Leven are in John 8.44 Ye are of your Father the Devil and the Lusts of your Father ye will do He was a Murtherer from the beginning and abode not in the Truth Why So all his Children departs from the Truth when they turn Persecuters they do not do as they would be done by they depart from that Truth which the very light of Nature doth teach us as well as the Word of God. Now can it ever be possible that a Child of the Devil can call God Father without being guilty of Blasphemy at the same time for he saith Our Father which art in Heaven when as his Father is the Devil so that by his Lye he does tacitly and consequentially pull God out of his Throne of Mercy and place his Father the Devil in his room upon the Mercy Seat in Heaven and puts up his Petition to the Devil instead of Praying unto God his Maker And is not this a dreadful Case Nay further in the fifth place for I have not done with ye yet When a Persecuter doth say the Lord's-Prayer he doth say Thy Kingdom come thy Will be done in Earth as it is in Heaven And no Persons are so great Opposers of Christ's Gospel-Kingdom coming as the Persecuters are and none does oppose the doing of God's Will in Earth as it is in Heaven like them of a persecuting Spirit for in Heaven there God's Will is done uninterruptedly by Angels and all other Glorified Spirits there they Praise God in perfect Peace Love and Union there is no Persecuter there nor none to disturb nor make them afraid for there they are all of one Heart and of one Mind But so it cannot be done in Earth by the Persecuters who cannot sleep unless they do Mischief and they do hinder others from doing the Will of God in Earth as it is done in Heaven therefore a Persecuter cannot be sincere and in good earnest when he saith Thy Kingdom come thy Will be done in Earth as it is in Heaven Therefore all they of a persecuting Spirit do but dissemble and mock God and tell him a parcel of Lies to his very Face for they do say in Words that God's Will must be done in Earth as it is in Heaven but in Works they do utterly deny it for they Dethrone the Almighty who is King of Kings and Lord of Lords as much as in them lyes And the proud Persecuters do mount God's Throne here on Earth namely the Souls and Consciences of men and say to their Souls Bow down that we may go over They do rob God of his Sovereignty and become spiritual Legislators to make Laws and give Laws unto their Fellow-creatures to Worship God by as they pretend and so do wrest the Government out of God's Hand over the Souls and Consciences of men which is peculiarly belonging to the Great and Dread Sovereign Majesty of Heaven and Earth which is to do their Father the Devil's will on Earth as it is done in Hell And not to do God's Will in Earth as it is in Heaven Again Sixthly A Persecuter as often as he saith the Lord's Prayer does in Effect Pray that God would not forgive him his Sins for he saith Forgive us our Trespasses as we forgive them their Trespasses against us Now a Persecuter cannot say this heartily and sincerely because that instead of praying to God he does imprecate the forest of Judgments upon himself for he saith Forgive us our Trespasses as we forgive them their Trespasses against us and the Persecuter did not nor yet does not forgive the Dissenters though but pretended Trespasses against them when some Persons have fallen into their hands by their Nonconformity in the matter of Worshipping of God when they have desired them to be favourable unto them and have told them if they did proceed to the Rigour of their Law they would ruine them and their Wife and Children they would not hearken unto them unless they would bow down their Soul unto them that they might go over namely to Conform so that they must Trespass against God or else they would not forgive them their pretended Trespasses against them which made the Remedy infinitely worse than the Disease and so they chose rather to lay their Bodies with the Ground and as the Street for them to go over then that they would sin against God by conforming which was passive Obedience of the right kind therefore the Persecuters do Pray that God would not forgive them their Sins for Christ hath said But if ye forgive not men their Trespasset neither will your Father forgive you your Trespasses Mat. 6.15 Now if the Persecuters did run their Hatred and Malice to the very uttermost Extent of the Persecuting Laws and further too and are now contending to keep the

A NEW Naked Truth OR THE SANDY FOUNDATION OF THE Sacramental Test SHAKEN BY A WARNING-PIECE Discharged from HEAVEN against all sorts of PERSECUTORS WHEREIN You may behold Christ Crucified Mystically and Sacramentally upon the Cross of the Sacramental Penal Test with all the rest of the Penal Laws and Tests Attending thereon and Contributing thereunto By Giles Shute a Friend to Christian Liberty With Allowance London Printed for the Author and are to be sold by George Larkin at the Two Swans without Bishopsgate 1688. A New Naked Truth Or The Sandy Foundation of the Sacramental Test shaken by a Warning-Piece discharged from Heaven against all sorts of Persecutors GEntlemen of England who are of Right all free born Subjects I am sorry that I have so black an Occasion of Addressing my self unto you in this following Discourse in which I must of necessity lay Open and Expose some very horrible sinful Practices that has been among some who profess themselves to be Protestants namely to them which pretend themselves to be the Most Infallible Sort too that are amongst us or else that Practice and Principle of theirs in making all other peoples Spiritual Sheaves bow down unto theirs is very unjustifiable and also unwarrantable from the Law of God and the Law and Light of Nature Dear Friends I humbly beseech you all to read what I shall here offer unto you without prejudice and consider it without partiality and apply it without delay and I shall further more beseech you to hear the whole conclusion of the Matter and do not take it up and read a little and throw it away out of your hands in Contempt and Scorn or with Malice and Rancour of Spirit but be advised by the Wiseman who hath said That the latter end of a thing is better than the beginning And be not prejudiced against the Truth because it cometh naked unto you without the Garments of Rhetorical Expressions or in the Ornaments of Humane Learning For if you be a Lover of the Truth you will imbrace it and find Garments for it in your own hearts you will take it in there and cloth it for there is the best clothing for Truth when all is said and done that can be O my dear Friends set open the Doors and Windows of your Souls to receive this Blessed Light and do not despise your own Mercy because it cometh unto you by an Illiterate Hand for it is said in Dan. 12.3 4. And they that be wise shall shine as the Brightness of the Firmament and they that turn many to Righteousness as the Stars for ever and ever But thou O Daniel shut up the words and seal the Book even to the time of the end many shall run to and fro and knowledge shall be increased And also I precaution others that shall read this Book that they do not make so unchristian ill use of it as to take up any prejudice against any mans person who through Inadvertency are tardy of what this Discourse will find out and lay open for if you do though I write thus against their Principles and Practices yet I shall be a Witness against ye for I write in Love to their Souls and not in any prejudice to their Persons for that is no contradiction neither is it inconsistent one with the other to love a mans Person and yet at the same time to hate his Evil Principles and Practices It is a great Duty Incumbent upon every Christian so to do Matt. 5.44 But I say unto you love your enemies bless them that curse you do good to them that hate you and pray for them which despightfully use you and persecute you Here you see is an Express Command from our Blessed Saviour and Redeemer to love the Persons of our Enemies but yet we are not to love their sinful Practises and Principles for we cannot do that but in the very Act we must sin against God for we are commanded to hate every abomination and every false way We are to hate what is evil in our own selves yet it would be a sin for us to hate our own Persons If I had an own Father that was a Drunkard or Whoremonger I ought not to love his Drunkenness and Whoredom yet I must not hate my Fathers Person though I hate his Practice therefore I do not write this to incense people against any mans person though I must contess this has been a Reigning Sin among the Persecuters And indeed there is a proneness in the best of men to this sin Christ's own Disciples themselves were not clear of this sin when they would have prayed for fire to come down from Heaven to destroy the very persons of those churlish Samaritans that refused to give entertainment to our Saviour Christ they were for destroying their Persons and therefore Christ rebuked them saying Ye know not what spirit ye are of I bless God I have a higher and nobler End and Design in what I shall here write than to draw out prejudice against any mans person however I may be censur'd for it I can appeal to God in sincerity and uprightness of Heart in this matter for I would not that any man should be wronged of a Hair of his Head by what I shall here Declare to the World but to awaken all to Repentance For the Lion hath roared who will not fear The Lord God hath spoken who can but prophesie Amos 3. I am not for Diminishing any Gentlemans Title of Honour or Dignity where it is properly due Fear to whom Fear is due and Honour to whom Honour is due Though I must confess my Ignorance in this Matter at the same time I cannot understand the meaning of Spiritual Lords because I can find no Scripture Authority for it at all but rather against it Matt. 20.25 26 27. But Jesus called them unto him and said Ye know that the Princes of the Gentiles exercise Dominion over them and they that are Great exercise Authority upon them but it shall not be so among you but whosoever will be Great among you let him be your Minister and whosoever will be Chief among you let him be your Servant 1 Pet. 5.2 3. Feed the Flock of God which is among you taking the oversight thereof not by constraint but willingly not for filthy Lucre but of a ready Mind neither as being Lords over Gods Heritage but being exsamples to the Flock Our Saviour Christ does singnifie unto us that this Lording Spirit did proceed from the Heathen Idolatrous Gentiles and that it was a usage among them and therefore in my Opinion it is pity that any Christian Ministers or Pastors should take it up and exercise it among them And the truth on it is It is a very dubious point with me to determine or conclude whether the true Ministers of Jesus Christ can be Spiritual Lords or whether these Spiritual Lords can be true Ministers of Jesus Christ because I cannot find that it was so