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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A10838	A manumission to a manuduction, or Answer to a letter inferring publique communion in the parrish assemblies upon private with godly persons there. By Iohn Robinson; Unreasonablenesse of the separation	Robinson, John, 1575?-1625.	1615 (1615)	STC 21111; ESTC S106681	22,876	24

A MANVMISSI ON TO A MANVDVCTION OR ANSWER TO A LETTER INFERRING PUBlique communion in the parrish assemblies upon private with godly persons there Stand fast in the liberty wherwith Christ hath made you free Gal. 5. 1. Be not partaker of other mens sinns keep thy self pure 1. Tim. 5. 22. By Iohn Robinson Anno Domini 1615. To the godly reader ALbeit I be justly sorry for all oppositions against the truth yet not so for this occasion of further manifesting that my formerly professed perswasion that publique communion with the parrish assemblies cannot be inferred vppon private with godly persons though members there the constitution and estate of the same assemblies rearing up a partitiō wall neyther so transparent as may be seen thorough m●●h lesse so open as may be passed no not in the best charity as this manuducent supposeth but on the contrary so grosse entyre in evill as that no engine of wit or art can so batter it as to make a safe passage through it for a good conscience Needfull it were in a matter of this nature and weight that the manuducent or hand leader should guide men by the playn and open way of the s●riptures as is the way of the Lord in them layd down open playn as the King high way and beaten by the feet of the Apostolicall churches not by subtile Quaerees and doubtfull Suppositions and such under hand conveyances as may lead the vnwary into a maze and there loose him but cannot clear the way for an vpright cōscience Of the way of Christ it was prophesied of ould An high way shal be there and a way and it shal be called the way of holines the vnclean shall not pase over it for he shal be with these the wayfareing man though fooles shall not erre therein But so many and doubtfull are the wyndeings of this mans way as that he who findes it had need be no wayfareing man but a town-dweller and well acquainted with all the secret turnings thereof nor a fool as the Prophet speaketh but one haveing wit indeed more then a good deal But let them in whose hearts are the highwayes of the Lord that they may goe frō strength to strength till they appear vnto God in Sion let them I say not suffer themselves to be led by the turnings of mans devise whatsoever but by the wordes of the wisdom of God which are all in righteousnes in which there is nothing wreathed or perverse but they are all playne to him that will understand and straight to him that would fynde knowledge Now for my persvasion about publique and private communion it is the same which I have manifested in my other book and that wherein so far as by the weak light which God hath given to shine in my heart I can discern I neyther wrong the good in that Church person or thing nor partake in the evill of eyther My trust is that God who hath given me my part though in great infirmity in the Prophets comfort with all my heart have I sought thee will also fulfill his request uppon me let me not wander from thy commandements IT was some addition of honour to Davids victory over the Philistime that he slew him with his own sword vpō which hope mine opposite as it seemes enterprizeth the beating down of the partition wall of our separation from the parrish assemblies in theyr publique communion government and ministery by the engine of mine own acknowledgment of private communion with the persons pe●sonall graces os many christians though otherwise members there uppon which acknowledgment he therefore propoundeth certeyn Quaerees or Demaunds in number seaven the first whereof is Suppose one of those many so qualifyed as that in the judgment of those that can dis●●rn he is competently fit to be employed in the publique ministery having his own 〈◊〉 given to th●t work and the hearts of many ●●a●ing his help suppose I say that such a man not fyndeing means for the present of a comfortable enterance into that calling shalby leav in a publique assembly where many like himself and many unlike are gathered togather without any further calling for a ●yme perform the actions of prayer pr●p●●sying without any addition de●ract●ion or alteration of that which he had lawfully done in private my demaund is whether it be not lawfull to communicate with him in his work I answer that these exercises of religion not performed by this persō by any publique calling or authority but onely by his personall gift desyre to do good are not publique or Church actions but private and personall nor communion with him therein publique but private communion no not though performed by him in a publique place which no more makes the action to be of publique nature or a Church action which in my whole book I make as they are the same then did the private chambers where the Apostles administred the word sacraments to the Churches make these theyr administrations private or personall Reason it self teacheth that publique actions are onely such as are performed by publique authority See Mr. Perkins in Treatise of Christian equity for this purpose The same answer serveth for the 2 d Qu which supposeth onely a longer continuance of tyme in the same course by co●nive●●y of them in authority since mere continuance in the same course especially as an ordinate means ●o the same end altereth not the nature thereof And so this as the former Quaere is besides the purpose in hand Onely I ad that no man can continue thus preaching in a publique place especially some years but under the cloak appearance of a Byshops minister though he be not such indeed Suppose yet the same man obteyneth a licence from the L. Byshop of the Diocesse without any unlawfull condition for to continue in that his course I ask whether that leav or licence given doth pollute the actions seing a man may ask leav of the great Turk to preach the Gospell within his dominions This Supposition conteyneth a contradiction for the very obteyning receiving of the Bishops licence which yet I think no man doth before he have receaved orders as they are called is a real acknowledgment that the Byshop hath a lawfull power to graunt it which is an vnlawfull condition John Claydon a martyr of Christ was otherwise minded then this man whē he witnessed that the Byshops licence to preach the word of God was the true character of the beast i. e. Antichrist Neyther is there the like reason of procuring the Byshops liecence to preach the gospell in his Province or Diocesse of asking leav of the great Turk to preach in his dominions For 1. he minceth the matter too much in making this obteyning of the Bishops licence to be nothing but the asking him leav as a man may ask leav of the great Turk that is desire