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A41785
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The prisoner against the prelate, or, A dialogue between the common goal [ie. gaol] and Cathedral of Lincoln wherein the true faith and Church of Christ are briefly discovered & vindicated ... / written by a prisoner of the baptised churches in Lincolnshire.
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Grantham, Thomas, 1634-1692.
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Heaven Christians must not be compelled to give their substance XX. Article I do believe through Christ the Dead shal rise Because he lives who once did not despise To die for them Yea from the graves of earth Each individual body shall come forth Both just unjust though when they were sown Weakness and all Infirmity was shown Yet in the Refurrection they shall be Made strong and firm to all eternitie Each pious man body and spirit joyned To their desired place shall be assigned The test of Antiquity Every part of the bodies perishing either in death or after it in the grave or wheresoever shall be restored renewed and of a natural and corruptible body it shall become immortal spiritual and incorruptible Be it all made into pouder or dust or by chance or cruelty dissolved into air or water yet can it not be kept hid from the omnipotency of the Creator who will not have one hair of the head to perish Thus shall the spiritual flesh become subject to the spirit yet shall it be flesh still XXI Article After the dead are come forth of the graves Whether of Earth or Seas fierce raging waves A Judgment that 's eternal shall be given At Christs appearing coming down from Heav'n Which Judgment which everlasting Sentence Can never be revoked by repentance Then good and bad each must rewarded be As Christ the nature of their work shall see The test of Antiquity In all these Chapters Augustine asserteth and proveth the resurrection of the Bodies of all men from the graves of earth or howsoever consumed and he proves the Bodies of the Saints shall be spiritual and glorious in the Resurrection and yet that they cease not to be bodies of real flesh And he proves that a body of flesh and living may endure in the fire unconsumed and yet tormented There are saith he a kind of Worms that live in the fervent Springs of hot Baths whose heat is such as none can endure it at certain times and yet those Worms do so love to live in it that they cannot live without Whence he observes seeing bodies of flesh may live in fire and be nourished by it 't is easie to believe that a body of flesh may live in the fine and be tormented by it because to nourish is not proper to the fervent heat of fire but to torment is proper thereunto XXII Article I do believe the same Christ which did shew Himself alive by tokens plain and true Who was beheld ascending into Heaven Quite from the sight of the select Eleven The same the very same shall come again In the same manner wherein he was ta'ne Up from the Earth And when he shall appear The Saints their fruits of Faith shall richly wear For Christ the King of kings and Lord of lords Shall reign according to the holy words Of these great Prophets in the Margent quoted For every Kingdom under Heaven 's allotted Unto our Christ yea and unto his Saints Whose heads a place to rest sometimes now wants Yea God hath said they then shall rule the Nations Though here erst while they meet with Tribulations The test of Antiquity John's mention of a thousand years Rev. 21. and Christ's words I will not drink henceforth of the fruit of the Vine until the day that I drink it new with you in my Father's Kingdom with many Prophecies touching Christ's Kingdom in Jerusalem made some think that Christ would return into the World raise the Saints in their Bodies and live a thousand years here on Earth in all joy peace and prosperity The first Author of this Opinion was Papias Bishop of Jerusalem who lived in the Apostles times He was seconded by Irenaeus Apollinarius Tertullian Victorinus Picktaviences and Lactantius And many Martyrs and righteous persons held this opinion XXIII Article The holy Scriptures are the Rule of Saints In Faith and Life sufficient for their wants Through Jesus Christ Yea they are profitable To all good works God's servants to enable The test of Antiquity The error of our forefathers ought not to be followed but the Authority of Scripture and the Commandments of God which he teacheth us Truly through ignorance of the Law they receive Christ for Antichrist I dare not use to receive that which I read not Think not that it is in any other writing if it be not in the Scripture Let us seek to be resolved in the Gospel If we find it not there where shall we find it XXIV Article In Gospel-times I do believe men ought In things Religious to be forc'd to nought Against their Consciences by Persecutions Or Penal Laws ' gainst Gospel-Institutions But all should have like liberty as those Who in like cases do desire to chose What they think near'st the Truth But if the Pow'rs Wil take what 's theirs not give us what 's ours We say they act not as the Lord directed When he bad do to others what 's expected By us from them And tells us Tares with Wheat Must grow together till the Harvest great The test of Antiquity Ambition doth aid it self by the Name of Christ The Church doth fear and compel the people She that was made holy by Persecutors terrour now persecuteth c. Let them both grow together until harvest Which thing he spake to forbid the shedding of Bould for if the Hereticks should be put to death War should be without Truce c. This is then our desire unto your Reverence if it may be that you would confer with our Bishop peaceably to the end that Error might be taken away and not Men taken away But we to the contrary do not desire any will he nill he to worship or adore our God for we trust in his Majesty that he hath great power to avenge himself on them that contemn him XXV Article This I believe concerning Magistrates In every Nation should be Potentates For punishment of all that do transgress By sleshly lewdness or dishonestness And that in order thereto Civil Laws who 're just wholsome ought ' decide the cause ' Mongst Men as such ' thout having vain respect Of persons or to this or t'other Sect. Due Punishment and likewise due Reward Each one should have ' thout partial regard And we believe Christ's Gospel doth enjoyn Our selves and all men freely to resign Our selves as Subjects unto Magistrates In their appointments Only what relates Unto God's Worship wherein this we say That there such Rulers have no power to lay Their Edicts on men's Consciences by force But if they do yet shall we take 't no worse Than humbly tell them we must needs obey What God commandeth rather than what they Herein appoint us and shall never bow To Men in these concerns Nor shall we show Our selves rebellious though they go to wrong us But bear with patience what 's