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Quaking principles dashed in pieces by the standing and unshaken truth. Being an examination of the tenents held forth by certain northern people, viz. 1. Slighting of the written word. 2. A speaking to that within man. 3. Denying the use of reason in the matters of God. 4. A denying of the ascension and being of the body of Christ. 5. A denying of all the ordinances of Christ. 6. A denying honour to men. 7. Affording absolute perfection at one instant. / By Henoch Howet.
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Howet, Enoch.
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Wing H3152; Thomason E821_2; ESTC R207358
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unto them which way of righteousness standing by a command of Christ must needs be the order of the Gospel of God Their spirit will perswade them that they are not fallen from righteousness and therefore would justifie them But he cannot justifie them in denying the way of righteousness that was commanded by Christ and his Apostles And it is apparant before God and Angels to all knowing men in Religion but themselves they or some of them are fallen from that But I shall write no more at this time about the denial of Ordinances being I have writ more largely before in a little Treatise called Disobedience detected And now we come to the sixth of their mistakes which at the outward or overly looking upon it one would think it were a small slight thing but when we come to weigh it with It is written it is an heavie and sad offence I mean the not giving honor to men which is contrary to the examples of good men and command of Scripture First for the example of good men Sara called Abraham Lord. The Angel of God which would not from God mistake his message counselled Hagar to submit her self to her Mistris Gen. 16.9 Abrahams servant when he prayed to God and was heard called Abraham his Master Gen. 24.11 And when his soul was in a spiritual frame and his heart filled with praises to the living God called him Master v. 27. And to man also when he was declaring his message he called Abraham Master v. 34.35 Jacob when he had been newly wrestling with God for a blessing bowed himself seven times to Esau Gen. 33.4 and all his familie did obeysance Iosephs brethren by revelation of his Dream and that from God which after came to pass did obeysance to him Gen. 44.14 15 16. David a man after Gods own heart that had the Kingdom given him but not yet in possession called Saul My Lord the King 1 Sam. 26.17 So that if these men should tell us honoring one another will vanish away in the restoration of all things I let these men with David tarrie their time that is till they be in possession of the restoration and this did Christ though he prophesied of the downfall of Iewish Ceremonies and was that Christ that fulfilled them yet he worshipped in the Temple whilest they received Paul after him And by the way here is one note for the non-churches though it be true that Forms and Ordinances shall cease yet let them tarrie their time and worship in them till Christ become David calleth himself Sauls servant 1 Sam. 17.23 and Davids wife by the counsel of the Prophet Nathan 1 Kings 1.15 called My Lord the King And Nathan the Prophet speaking to David called him My Lord the King in v. 24. And Daniel the Prophet of the Lord speaking to a Heathen saith O King So did the three Children at a time when Nebuchadnezzar was in the height of his wickedness Dan. 3.17 18. And Daniel at a time when he had received the greatest mercie from God of salvation from the Lions said O King live for ever Dan. 6.21 And Paul called Agrippa O King Acts 26.13 19. and called Festus Most noble Festus So that we may see what was the practice of holie men Angels and Prophets and Apostles and that upon remarkable times upon serious occasions How far are these men from following the examples of holie Writ Surely as they denie the virtue of It is written so they are very careless in reading and observing what is written And they that are their Proselytes will be less knowing being that their converters or rather perverters cast an odium upon what is written But now to come to the commands that they disobey in this their practice First the Law that Gods finger writ Exod. 20. Honor thy Father and Mother Lev. 19.31 32. we finde these words Regard not them that have familiar spirits neither seek after wizards to be defiled by them I am the Lord thy God Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head and honor the face of the old man and fear thy God I am the Lord. Now the speaking against familiar spirits c. immediatly before the giving honor to men may intimate that wizards and such as have familiar spirits use not to honor men but I am sure these two are linked together being both sins alike for the command of honoring and fear thy God are joyned together in a sentence and these men by this Scripture denying to honor men in their several relations do also therein denie to fear God And you cannot say this command was abolished since Christs time for the Apostle still approves of it Ephes 6 2. And Peter whose spirit of Prophesie was much opposit to these kinde of men in 1 Pet. 2.16 17. hath these words As free and not using your liberty for a cloak of maliciousness but as the servants of God Honor all men Love the Brotherhood Fear God Honor the King Which may prove that the malitious Libertine feareth not God nor careth for man I could here bring a cloud of witnesses but let this suffice as Iude speaking of persons I hope more filthie than these Iude 8. v. addeth this to fill up their Ephah of wickedness They speak evil of Dignities and despise Dominion Also Paul saith Give honor to whom honor belongeth And in giving honor Go one before another But you see there is enough in It is written to reprove those that care not for It is written if they be not uncapable of reproof And now I come to the last of their mistakes in admitting of none but perfect men into conjunction In the first place we are sure that Iohn writes to children young men and fathers and mindes degrees of attainment 2 Iohn 12.13 but these at one time wrought upon say that they are perfect not minding such a perfection as is spoken of in Phil. 3.12 where a gradual attainment is spoken of not as though I had already attained either were already perfect but I follow after if I may apprehend that for which I am also apprehended of Christ where he seemeth to state the matter thus 't is true I am confident of Gods mercies the act of Christ is done for me he hath apprehended me but I am not perfect but I am a follower after perfection and desire and labor earnestly to apprehend him And in v. 13 14. he saith Brethren I count not my self to have apprehended but this one thing I do forgetting those things which are behinde and reaching forth unto those things which are before I press toward the mark for the price of the high calling of God in Jesus Christ. In which Verses for fear any should think he spoke in the person of another in the way of teaching in v. 12. he avers it solemnly of it self In v. 12. as if he should say The price is great of that Calling of God in which onely is perfection the Calling he had