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A67324	More work for the dean in a brief answer to some scandalous reports published by Dr. Stillingfleet in his book entituled, \"An impartial account of the history, nature and pleas of the present separation from the communion of the Church of England\" against some of the Lords faithful servants, namely, Mr. Henry Barrow, Mr. John Greenwood, Mr. John Penry, who by the bishops means, after long imprisonment, were put to death, contrary to Queen Elizabeths mind; in the year 1593 ... : as likewise here is word for word the petition of those persecuted Christians, wherein is shewed the barbarous usage of the bishops to them : together with the refutation of the then esteemed Bishop of Winchester's blasphemous doctrine, by Mr. Henry Barrow, with the description of the true Church of God, according to Christs Testament, by the whole Church at London, whom the doctor calleth Brownists; with the reason why they were so nick-named by their enemies : very needful for all true Protestants to know / by Thomas Wall.	Wall, Thomas.	1681 (1681)	Wing W485; ESTC R20458	32,462	49

Ordinances of God truly taught and practised as well by the Officers in doing their duty uprightly as to see that the people obey willingly and readily It is their duty to see the Congregation holily and quietly ordered and no way disturbed by the contentious and disobedient froward and obstinate not taking away the liberty of the least but upholding the right of all wisely judging of times and circumstances They must be ready assistants to the Pastor and Teachers helping to bear their burden but not intruding into their Office Numb 11. 16. Deut. 1. 13. and 16. 18. 2 Chron. 19. 8. Exod. 39. 42. 1 Tim. 3. 15. 2 Tim. 1. 13. 1 Cor. 11. 16. and 14. 33. Gal. 2. 4 5 14. Col. 4. 16 17. Acts 20 1. Pet. 5. 1. Rom. 12. 8. The Deacons office is faithfully to gather and collect by the ordinance of the Church the goods and benevolence of the faithful and by the same direction diligently and trustily to distribute them according to the necessity of the Saints Further they must enquire and consider of the proportion of the wants both of the Officers and other poor and accordingly relate unto the Church that provision may be made Acts 6. Rom. 12. 8. The Relievers and Widows office is to minister to the sick lame weary and diseased such helpful comforts as they need by watching tending and helping them Further they must shew good example to the younger Women in sober modest and godly conversation avoiding idleness vain talk and light behaviour Rom. 12. 8. 1 Tim. 5. 9. c. These Officers though they be divers and several yet are they not severed lest there should be a division in the body but they are as members of the body having the same care one of another jointly doing their several duties to the service of the saints and to the edification of the Body of Christ till we all meet together in the perfect measure of the fulness of Christ by whom all the Body being in the mean while thus coupled and knit together by every joynt for the furniture thereof according to the effectual power which is in the measure of every part receiveth increase of the Body unto the edifying of it self in love neither can any of these Offices be wanting without grievous lameness and apparent deformity of the Body yea violent injury to the Head Christ Jesus Luke 9 46 47 48. John 13. 12 -- 17. 1 Cor. 12. 12 25 28. Eph. 4. 11 12 13 16. Thus this holy Army of Saints is marshalled here in earth by these Officers under the conduct of their glorious Emperor CHRIST that victorious Michael Thus it marcheth in this most heavenly order and gracious array against all enemies both bodily and ghostly peaceable in it self as Jerusalem terrible to the enemy as an Army with Banners triumphing over their tyranny with patience their cruelty with meekness and over Death it self with dying Thus through the blood of that spotless Lamb and that Word of their Testimony they are more than Conquerors brusing the head of the Serpent yea through the power of his Word they have power to cast down Satan like lightning to tread upon Serpents and Scorpions to cast down strong holds and every thing that exalteth it self against God The Gates of Hell and all the principalities and powers of the world shall not prevail against it Rom. 12. 1 Cor. 12. Rev. 14. 1 2. Song 6. 3. Rev. 12. 11. Luke 10. 18 19. 2 Cor. 10 5. Mat. 16. 18. Rom. 8. 38 39. Further He hath given them the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven that whatsoever they bind on earth by his Word shall be bound in Heaven and whatsoever they loose on Earth shall be loosed in Heaven Mat. 16. 19. John 20. 23. Mat. 18. 19. Now this power which Christ hath given unto his Church and to every member of his Church to keep it in order he hath not left it to their discretions and lusts to be used or neglected as they will but in his last Will and Testament he hath set down both an order of proceeding and an end to which it is used Mat. 16. 16 19. and 18. 15 16 17 18. and 28. 20. Deut. 12. 31 32. Rev. 22. 18 19. If the fault be private holy and loving admonition and reproof is to be used with an inward desire and earnest care to win their Brother but if he will not hear yet to take two or three other brethren with him whom he knoweth most meet for that purpose that by the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be confirmed And if he refuse to hear them then to declare the matter to the Church which ought severely and sharply to reprehend gravely to admonish and lovingly to perswade the party offending shewing him the heinousness of his offence and the danger of his obstinacy and the fearful judgments of the Lord. Lev. 19. 17 18. Mat. 18. 15. Deut. 19. 15. Mat. 18. 16. All this notwithstanding the Church is not to hold him as an enemy but to admonish him and pray for him as a Brother proving if at any time the Lord will give him repentance For this power is not given them to the destruction of any but to the edification of all 2 Thes 3. 15. 2 Cor. 10. 8. and 13. 10. If this prevail not to draw him to repentance then are they in the Name and Power of the Lord JESUS with the whole Congregation reverently in prayer to proceed to excommunication that is unto the casting him out of their congregation and fellowship covenant and protection of the Lord for his disobedience and obstinacy and committing him to Satan for the destruction of the flesh that the Spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus if such be his good will and pleasure Mat. 18. 17. 1 Cor. 5. 11. Further They are to warn the whole Congregation and all other faithful to hold him as a Heathen and Publican and to abstain themselves from his society as not to eat or drink with him c. unless it be such as of necessity must needs as his Wife his Children and Family yet these if they be members of the Church are not to joyn to him in any spiritual exercise Mat. 18. 17. 1 Cor. 5. 11. If the offence be publick the party is publickly to be reproved and admonished if he then repent not to proceed to excommunication as aforesaid 1 Tim. 5. 20. Gal. 2. 14. Jos 7. 19. 2 Cor. 7. 9. The repentance of the party must be proportionable to the offence viz. If the offence be publick publick if private private humbled submissive sorrowful unfeigned giving glory to the Lord. Lev. 19. 17 18. Prov. 10. 12. Rom. 12. 19. and 13. 10. and 14. 1. There must great care be had of admonitions that they be not captious or curious finding fault where none is neither yet in bitterness or reproach for that were to destroy and not to save our Brother but

the sincerity of the Gospel let us remember that great is our reward in heaven if we endure unto the end I testifie unto you for mine own part as I shall answer before Jesus Christ and his elect Angels that I never saw any truth more clear and undoubted than this witness wherein we stand first against false Offices 2. Callings 3. Works 4 Maintenance left and retained in the Land and I thank my God I am not only ready to be bound and banished but even to dye in this cause by his strength Yea my brethren I greatly long in regard of my self to be dissolved and to live in the blessed kingdom of heaven Thus having from my heart with tears performed it may be my last duty towards you all in this life and remember to stand fat and faithful in Jesus Christ as you have received him unto your immortality and confirm and establish you to the end for the praise of his glory Amen The 24th of the 4th month April 1593. He suffer'd death May 24. next after Now if these be not with his former testimonies sufficient to clear Mr. Penry from the Doctors calumniations all written we see a little before his death I shall add a third testimony which as Solomon saith a threesold cord is not easily broken even the last words to his Wife when close prisoner looking every day to be carried to the place of Execution all in print presently after his death and yet to be seen at this day in these words To my beloved Wife Hellen or Penry partaker with me in this life of the sufferings of the Gospel in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ and resting with me in undoubted hope of the glory that shall be revealed all strength comfort with all other spiritual blessings be multiplied through Jesus Christ our Lord I see my beloved my blood is layed for so my days and testimony is drawing to an end for ought I know and therefore you so dear a sister and so loving a wife in the Lord as you have been unto me first then I beseech you stand fast in the truth which you and I profess at this present in much outward discomfort and danger let your soul and your body be far from those Assemblies which yield either known or secret submission unto the ordinance of the beast that is to receive his marks either in the right hand or in the forehead as the spirit of God saith Rev 13. 16. for this are you forbidden to do under the pain of Gods eternal wrath Rev. 14. 9 10 11. 2 Cor. 6. 14 15. 16. 1 Cor. 3. 16 17. Rev. 22 18 19. Deut. 12. 30 31 32. Again my beloved continue a member of the holy society whereof you and I are where the Lord in his Ordinances reigneth for here and in all such Assemblies the Lord dwelleth by his presence and power of his spirit Mat. 18. 2. ●●and 28. 20. and 29. 45 Lev. 26. 11 12 here he is a mighty protector and defonce ready at hand Isa 26. 1. and 4. 6. and his Ordinances you know hath he greatly commanded to be kept and observed Psal 119. 14. 1 Cor. 11. 1. 1 Tim. 6. 14. and the loving-kindness of the Eternal is for ever and ever towards them and their seed that remember to do them Psal 103. 17 18. whereas all those are accursed that err from his statutes and diminish from the obedience they owe unto his Majesty Psal 119. 2. Rev. 22. 9. Psal 119 118. I pray you work all these places with all such like in the word against those that make a slight matter either to walk in the ways of God or to be subject to small corruptions as they account them Be armed with the power of the word against all such lying delusions 2 Cor. 6. 14 15. 2 Thes 2. 9. In conclusion my dear wife and sister look not at any earthly thing consecrate your self wholly both body and soul husband children and whatsoever you have unto the Lord your God let them not be dearer unto you than his worship and service know it know it to be an unspeakable preferment for you that he vouchsafed to take either your self or any of yours to suffer affliction with him and his Gospel here on earth Luke 8 29 30. Mat. 19. 29. I am perswaded that you have undergone the profession of the truth set down by our Saviour Luke 14. 26 27. that is to hate all in respect of his Gospel fear not want of outward things for the Lord careth for you and yours remember what is set down Heb. 11. 5. Luk. 12. 31. the Lord is my God and yours and the God of our seed Thus with many sweet and heavenly admonitions and advice he saith I got means this day to write thus much unto you whereof no creature knoweth therefore in great haste with many tears yet in great spiritual comfort of soul your husband now for a season and your beloved brother for evermore John Penry an unworthy soldier sure of the victory in the blood of the Lamb 1 Cor. 15. 57. Rev. 12. 11. salute the whole Church from me especially those in bonds meaning those 56. members of the Church in London taken on a Lords day as they were serving God Now of the barbarous usage they sustained by the bishops I shall after herein set down word for word as themselves have declared in a Petition they presented then to the Parliament In the mean time let me beseech the Christian Reader impartially to judg by this testimony of Mr. Penry left behind him yet to be seen though printed in the year he suffered whether that Report the Doctor hath published to defame a worthy servant of Christ for no other cause but because he as well as other of the Lords servants contended against the ministry of lordly Prelates not once named in Christs testament and that Protest ants should not perswade themselves they were true worshippers of God until they had expelled out from among them the many corruptions in ministry and ordinances the neglect of which good work still calleth for the judgments of God to come on the Nation as was in a second Warning piece a few months ago proved to be the chief cause still why God is bringing his severe judgments on these three Protestant Nations presented to the late Parliament And now to add to all the former causes of Gods judgments threatned to follow Mr. Hildersham's footsteps the Doctor is not content to satisfie himself with that false report but to imitate him in publishing that scandalous name Brownist on all those people unto which scandalous name to shew the Doctor his false or rather his malicious spirit in saying Mr. Brown was one of those people I shall here for the Readers satisfaction set down what Answer to this Mr. Johnson Pastor of the people returned to Mr. Hildersham and Mr. Jacob both the Bishops ministers As for the name Brownist by which we are