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A63767	A trumpet blown in Sion, sounding an alarm in Gods holy mountain: or, A voice lifted up as a trumpet crying aloud, and not sparing, to shew the Lords people their transgressions, and the house of Jacob their sins. By a poor worm, that through the Lords great grace, hath found great blessings among the Presbyterian ministry, and by conversing with some of the Lords upright ones of the Presbyterian way; and also choice blessings among the ministry of the Independant and Baptized congregations, and some of the faithful with them.	Poor worm.	1666 (1666)	Wing T3142C; ESTC R220929	125,364	105

And how came you to attain to an infallibility and none but you onely being the Churches of Christ And the Quakers arising after them they swell high in their apprehensions and they despise and contemn the Baptised Churches and account them to be as mean and low and poor People and as e●onious and as much out of the way as any others and as much in Babylon and the Presbyterians Independants and Baptised are all alike with them and all out of the way and they † And how came you to attain to an infallibility and none but you onely are Gods holy Mountain and the Kingdom of Christ is onely among them and all others are out of that Kingdom And the Presbyterians they boast of their way an● that they * And how came you to attain to an infallibility and none but you onely are the Church of Christ and all others are Hereticks and Schismaticks and deluded persons and none of the Is●ael of God but are Moabites and Ammonites and Edomites and Canaanites and are to be destroyed And the Independants they judge that they are in a righter way then any others and that all others are in Errors and in darkness in many things and that they † And how came you to attain to an infallibility and none but you onely are the true Churches of Christ Thus each of them glory in Gods holy Mountain being among them and not among others Each of them saying of themselves in particular The Temple of the Lord the Temple of the Lord are we lifting up themselves onely and slighting all others as not worthy to be compared with them But this is from their Pride for else they would humbly conclude and say Surely the Grace of God shines as much in some of these as in any of us and we are not better then others but they may be better then we and may be more dear to the Lord then we for though we walk in that way which as we judge is most agreeable to Truth as it is to be hoped all of them do or else they would not walk in it yet we dare not conclude we are better then others for Truth is not revealed to any man for his Goodness but of meer Grace for we are poor unworthy wr●tched sinful Men and have manifold Weaknesses among us for which we deserve to be set in the lowest Rank and it is certain that many of them that differ from us do out-shine us in Holiness and more of the Glory of God appears upon some of them then on most of us They are more cloathed with Humilty they have the Robes of Righteousness about them they have the Ornament of a meek and quiet spirit shining in them they have some of them the Spirit of Love in power in them and have Hearts inlarged to good Works in all which most of us come short And therefore though we think we have more Light and Knowledge in some things yet if they have more power it is an argument that the Grace of Christ is more in their hearts and consequently they are deare● to him then most of us And therefore far be it from us to despise them or to say they are not as truly the Subjects and Servants of Christ as we seeing we differ not in our Judgements about the Power of Godliness but about some part of the Form in which the Lord may so enlighten us all as we may be also all of one mind when we are once brought to love and honour each other truly and intirely and notwithstanding our difference we do all come to the perfect pra●●ise of that blessed Rule Rom 12. 10. Be ye kindly affectioned one to another with Brotherly Love in honour preferring one another But the contrary to this appearing in all Distinctions discovers their great Pride and Haughtiness so far as they persist in it whether Presbyterians Quakers Independants or Anabaptists But first all these several Understandings are not hereby justified as if one of them were not in respect of the plain Scripture-Rules more nearer to the practise of the primitive Churches then all the other three are for of that there is no question for one of the four must be the most near though they may come much short of the Primitive Times Secondly Nor is it hereby intended that Persons ought to be doubtful of the way they walk in but they ought to walk in the way that they are perswaded in their own minds is nearest the Rule and though it may prove in the day of D●cision to be furthest from the Rule of all the rest yet ought a man to cleave to that way un●il he is otherwise perswaded as appea●s Rom. 14. 5 22 23. And Thirdly It must be acknowledged that it is not what our Judgement at present is but what the Lords Judgement will appear to be that shall de●ermine the question in his time which of them all is nearest the Rule and although a man know nothing by himself but that he walks nearest the Rule of all the ●est yet is he not always hereby justified before God though he is hereby justified in his own Conscience But Fourthly All that is hereby aimed at is that no one should think of himself more highly then he ought to think but to think soberly that is as often to think of his own imperfections ●n many things as of his supposed and believed Perfections in that point of coming nearest the Rule in forms that so he may be kept from being pusted up and f●om insulting over others who notwithstanding their darkness in some things may be as dear to Christ as himself that so he may not be haughty because of Gods Holy Mountain And the Lord tells his People Zeph 3. 11. that the time shall come when this shall not be But The Day shall come saith the Lord in which I will take away out of the midst of thee them that rejoyce in thy Pride and thou shalt n● more be haughty because of my holy Mountain Another Demonstration of that horrible Sin of Pride to be in many of the Lords People is their aptness to Passion Frowardness and Contention but that is also another of their great Evils which I shall now come to declare unto them which will also further discover the odiousness of their Pride VI. Another Sin in the Lords People of which too many of them are very guilty VI. PASSIONATE WRATH is their being so propense unto hasty Frowardness Passion Bi●terness Wrath Anger Clamour E●il speaking and Malice the apparent Fruits of the Flesh and Works of the Devil That this is the Sin of too many of the Lords People is too well known for many of them do frequently upon very slender occasions break out into such disturbing Passions as do very much disturb their own spirits and put them out of tune for any good service for God or man besides the disturbance and trouble they make in the Family

at least in the spirit of the person against whom the offence is taken whether justly or unjustly And these sudden passions and heats and that anger whether against one or mo●e persons seldom goeth alone without Bitterness and heart-rising and a kind Jam 3. 6 14 15 16 17 18. of malice against the Party or Parties For when that Evil One hath kindled that fire he bloweth it up to the utmost he can for all this kind of heat and disturbance of spirit that appears in any is that which is set on fire of Hell for it never comes from Hea●en But The Wisdom which is from above is first pure then peaceable gentle and easie to be intreated full of Mercy and good Fruits Jam. 3. 17. And this is the ble Ted Ru●e that o●r Lord him●elf gives us Lea●n of m● for I am meek Mat. 11. 29. and lowly in Spirit and ye shall find rest to your Souls And his meekness and lowliness was such as he was led as a Lamb dumb before the Shearers and opened not his mouth and when he was reviled he reviled not again This i● the blessed P●●te●n that we ought to follow and whosoever professes to be related to him and that Jesus Christ dwelleth in him as he doth dwell in persons except they be Reprobates I say he that saith Jesus Christ dwells in him and he abideth in Christ he ought himself also so to walk as he walked 1 John 2. 6. And therefore saith James Who is a wise man and endued with Knowledge Let him shew out of a good Conversation his Works with meekness of Jam. 3. 13 Wi●dom But where is the meekness of Christ manifested when small matters in trivial things such as would not at all move or d●stu●b Men or Women of no Principles or Profession at all shall set a Professor into such an unkindly heat a● shall multiply words of Contention and make meer vain People that are about them to account them very unlovely Persons to live with and to be a burden to them This hath been found in some Servants Men and Women Servants that have been Professors and Members of Churches some of them that are so p●●T with Pride and conceitedness of themselves either for their abilities for Service or for their Knowledge and their Privi●edges in that they are professing Persons and therefore think themselves far above others better then their fellow-Servants better then their Masters and Mistre●es and have had such high conceits of themselves as if all others were inferiour unto them and therefore every wo●d that is spok●n to them or every action they are put upon that they think is an underva●uing to them or a slighting of them they cannot bear but fly out into heats and discontents and unsober carriages so that those that are about them whether Equals or Superiours know not how to speak to them they are of such unmeek and impatient spirits and if a word of Reproof or Dislike wherein they deserve Reproof or deserve it not be spoken to them they are of such hot and high spirits as they will give ten words for one making no conscience at all of observing that Rule Tit. 2. 19. where Servants ar● required to do faithful Service in all things and not to be answering again But as if this were no Rule at all or were not worthy to be minded they will in their heat and pride and passion multiply words of contention to the burdening and disturbing those that have to do with them as if they were like the t●oubled Sea which cannot rest whose Waters cast up mi●e and di●t and such prove a great blot and shame to their Profession and cause Professors in general to be evil spoken of many times and make the hearts of People to be offended with Religion it self if they have not good knowledge of other Professors that are of a better spirit And as there are such Servants so there are Masters and Mistresses and Husbands and Wives that are very guilty of this hateful Evil and therefore some Mistresses and some Masters also that have high and swelling thoughts of themselves either as they are or would be thought to be some-body in the World above others or as they have a high esteem of themselves for their Place or Birth or Degree or Quality or for their Knowledge and Parts or for their being long Professors of Religion or for the Abilities they ha●e above others in spiritual Things for one or more of these Reasons or for no Reason rathe● being pu●t up they cannot bear or endure with any patience any Word or Action that tends as they think to their undervaluing from Neighbours or Relations or Acquaintance or Servants but sly out into great heats and passions and discontents to the great disturbance of themselves or others and those fires are not easily quenched And if it were not for Pride they would never be blown up for that is a true word Prov. 13. 10. Onely by Pride cometh Contention but with the well-advised is Wisdom But many impatient Men and Women do not think they are proud But will say It is my hasty nature and my cholerick temper of Body that causeth me to transgress and to be apt to be soon angry for which I am afterward troubled but they little consider that that passionate nature cometh from a p●oud nature from a self-loving and self-conceited disposition that is as natu●al to them as their Choler But let them consider this Word tha● saith Only by Pride cometh Contention And then consider what it is to ●● proud And what it is to be humble First To be Proud is to think a mans self to be Rich in something o● other to be Good to be Worthy to be Deserving and that he ought to be honoured Now for a poor Man or Woman or Child that 's come to undestanding to think themselves to be better then others and to entertain thoughts that they are persons of Worth that they must be esteemed and ought to be honou●ed is a Character of a proud person And this wretched unworthy base vile nature we shall have some to manifest more then others by their Actions and Carriages from their Childhood whether they or their Parents have litle or much of the World whether they are Rich or Poor or whether they have Wisdom Parts and Abilities or not are Wise or Fools for a proud Heart is as well under a Beggars Cloak many times as under a Lords and in a Fools Brest as in a Wise Mans. Now to be proud is for a man to think himself somebody to be better then others whether the●e be seeming reason for it or not I say whether there seem to be reason for it or not for to have the Riches of this World to be born to great Estates to come of that which is called g●eat Parentage or to have great Beauty and Comeliliness of Person or great Wisdom Understanding Parts and Abilities in