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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43621	Gregory, Father-Greybeard, with his vizard off, or, News from the Cabal in some reflexions upon a late pamphlet entituled, The rehearsal transpros'd (after the fashion that now obtains) in a letter to our old friend, R.L. from E.H.	Hickeringill, Edmund, 1631-1708.	1673 (1673)	Wing H1808; ESTC R7617	145,178	344

require of thee but to do justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with thy God And when the Pharisees that prided themselves so much in looking so carefully after Gods worship and Gods day were offended so highly with the liberty which our Saviour and his disciples took to themselves upon the Sabbath-day in not keeping it so strictly as these Hypocritical Puritans deemed they ought to have done our Saviour tells them of a superiour Law and of far greater concernment than the four first Commandments put together Mat. 12. 7. and that was the Law of charity and mercy which if the Pharisees had understood they would not have condemned the guiltless Even God himself dispenses with his own Law for worship in the old Law when mercy and charity plead against it for sacrifices and offerings were then part of Gods worship which were very chargeable therefore for mercys sake and charitys sake at the Purification whereas the woman by Law ought to offer a Lamb for her cleansing yet if she was a poor woman and not of ability Almighty God abates of his due and is content with what without any great charge or trouble she might easily get in that Country namely two Turtles or two young Pigeons So that the Question is not so much which are Gods Commandments as which are the greatest Commandments and best deserve preferment not the first Table but the second for to do justice and judgement is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice Prov. 21. 3. and to obey is better than sacrifice 1 Sam. 15. 22. Therefore we must conclude That though the worship of God be good yet to do good and communicate good to others is better though to observe the four first Commandments be good yet to observe the six latter is better Though faith in God be good yet charity to our selves and others is better 1 Cor. 13. 13. and all faith and worship without this charity is not worth a pin nay is just nothing at all though a man preach like an Angel 1 Cor. 13. 1 2. This being granted for a great Truth and which all the whining Tribe though they lay all their heads together are not able to disprove or gainsay may silence the Non-conformists Prayers and stop their mouths more than St. Bartholomew yet has done For though to meet together to pray and preach and worship God according to the four first Commandments be good yet to obey the Commands of a Christian Magistrate and submit to his Laws according to the first Commandment in the second Table is better and ought to be preferr'd by every truly Conscienc'd Christian and in so doing he is safe in that submission and obedience But Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God judge ye saith St. Peter Acts 4. 19. For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard This Text has been damnably abused and as the same Apostle says of other Texts of Scripture in St. Pauls Epistles wrested put upon the rack as the word signifies and made to speak what it never thought and will never justifie our Non-Conformists either before God or man in the least To whom does the blessed Apostle speak Act. 4. 5 6. to the Rulers and Elders and Scribes and Annas the High-Priest and Caiaphas c. who condemn'd our Lord Jesus to be crucified and if they might have had their wills would have been the death of all Christianity with him And is his Sacred Majesty and his two Houses of Parliament no better in your esteem than Annas and Caiaphas they are mightily beholden to you for your good opinion of them And if that be not your opinion that Text is nothing to your case nor to the purpose but point-blank against you For whether it be right to hearken unto God judge ye God had never given Laws for his own worship to mankind but for the good peace and welfare of mankind God had never made the first Table of the Law but in order to and for the better observance of the duties of the second Table If Subjects would never have been disobedient to their Prince and Governours nor children disobedient to their Parents nor servants to their Masters if men would never have coveted their neighbours goods nor their neighbours wife nor servant nor have rob'd and murdered one another but would have liv'd soberly righteously and therefore godlily in this present world the Allelujahs of Angels had been the great worship of men But since it is otherwise and that the wickedness of man is great in the earth and the imagination of the thoughts of his heart so bent to evil and that continually therefore God establish'd his Laws in the first Table by worship sacrifices c. Typically in the Old Testament for expiation of the guilt of sin and justification and sent his Son who was made a sacrifice for us antitypically in the New Testament for expiation of the guilt of sin and justification as our Priest and to show us how to live well as our Prophet and to exact our obedience as our King But none are benefited by his Priestly Office but such as obey his princely Laws according to his Prophetical Injunctions none are justified but such as are sanctified for this is the great will of God our sanctification Our Sanctification therefore is the grand design of the Law and Gospel Prophets and Apostles and that sanctification being summarily concluded by our Saviour in doing as we would be done by and all lesser holy duties of prayer praising hearing Sacraments being in order to the great holy duty of doing as we would be done by and particularized in and reducible to the second Table prove in all cases of conscience the truly godly must do the greater duty rather than the less and the duties of the second Table rather than the first so that he do but continue his faith in Christ the while and in so doing Now cannot the Non-conformist Preachers continue to be Christians though they do obey the fifth Commandment and submit to their Governors Injunctions nay can they obey God who is the author of the fifth Commandment if they do not obey their Christian Governors does not God prefer the peace and tranquillity and welfare of mankind before his own worship and will not you prefer it In obeying and submitting in quietness to the supream and Christian powers you obey God and that obedience is better than sacrifice and proves evidently that that which Greg. sets down p. 100. for Apochrypha in the Ecclesiastical Politician is an undoubted truth namely that moral vertue being the most material and useful part of all Religion is also the utmost end of all its other duties And all Religion must be resolv'd into Enthusiasme or Morality The former is m●…er Imposture and therefore all that is true must be reduced to the latter In an unlawful and forbidden Conventicle you may

this bait 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 nothing but a few canting new-coyn'd words and with these they have made shift to get the good old Coyn out of their Pockets and sometimes Plate Bodkins Thimbles Horses Armes and Silver-spoons or whatsoever comes is welcome All is fish that comes to net whilst these Hugh Peters Baxters Marshals and Owens laugh in their sleeves to see how soon the fools and their moneys are parted and how parted do they not know of the going on 't and how it is laid out what they get for it Yes they tell the poor souls they get Christ for it Oh get Christ whenas indeed they get nothing but a little canting new-coyn'd Fanatick phrase or so there 's all Be not offended that I call this expression get Christ get Christ meer canting jugling and delusion beguiling unstable soules for I will give you a reason for it unanswerable by all the Canters and Cabala of Juglers in England with whom and the best of them or all their great heads put together I am not afraid to encounter in vindication of all and every thing in this Letter occasion'd by the bold undertaking of their friend Gregory Graybeard who puts for Apochrypha and so sets it down in a different Character the great Truth that Christ our Lord ever deliver'd to the world viz. To do as we would be done by which is the great end of the Law and the Gospel namely the best regulation of our manners or as p. 100. Moral vertue being the most material and useful part of all religion which has but two parts Phanaticism and Morality Which last is comprehended in that great way of Truth so much evil spoken of by some Christians as being the practice even of some heathens and therefore not the summ of Law and Prophets But let me live and die like such Heathens rather than live and die like such Christians as dare preferre any thing above this or any part of Religion above this which my Saviour has told me is the summe of all And he that believes Christ in this word as a true Prophet and conforms his life and conversation to this Law as given by his King Jesus shall assuredly find him a Priest to pardon and forgive him and bring him to glory where he now sits And this is that which in the beginning I call'd my Religion not but that many others are of it yet but few where I live For I dwell in New-Amsterdam where Satans seat is the Head-quarters of the Legions and the Randevouz of Hell the very Sink of all heresies and sects and the Kennel where all the neighbouring fil●…h of Religion disgorges its self and disembogues And as we never read of any Pharisee converted by our Saviour except one or two yet very many Publicans and Harlots so here we find true that of our Saviour that Publicans and Harlots shall get into the Kingdom of Heaven before these our modern Pharisees in English Separates or Schismaticks as the word signifies And the great Reason why this great Rule and summe of Christs Message or Gospel was no more believ'd by the Pharisees than now by our modern Pharisees or Schismaticks called now modern Orthodox is because the heart of this people is waxed fat and their cars are dull of hearing and s●…eng they see and not perceive and hearing they hear and not understand They say they believe Gospel show them Mat. 7. 12. and ask them if they believe that that Rule before their eyes is the summe of all and they 'l rail presently at you and cry out good works good works the man presses us to good works and merit Popery Arminianism and Manwaring They say they believe St. Paul's Epistles to be God's word shew them 1 Cor. 13. 1 2 3. and the rest of the Chapter and ask them do you believe that your Preacher you so cry up for a precious man when he tells you of incomes and experiences and getting of Christ is a meer empty Kettle a meer canting jugling noise a meer feign'd new-coyn'd sound if he does not preach up good works and charity to you all contain'd and included in doing as you would be done by They will presently fly out in rage and wrath against you saying you rail at Gods Ministers God ways and Gods people and look upon all you say as prophane and coming from a prophane and loose spirit Though with never so much meekness you entreat them to take heed how in so saying they blaspheme God and his holy spirit who says altogether so much as I have said in that first vers Though I speak with the Tongue of men and Angels and have not charity I am become as sounding brass or a tinkling Cimbal that is a meer empty Kettle sound and noise yet they see this with their eyes and yet will blaspheme and will not believe Tell them further that this precious Preacher does not yet speak with the tongue of an angel let his whinings and snivellings and gruntings and groanings be never so tuneable they will not believe you but when for the good of their immortal souls you bid them beware of the juggle and take heed they be not cheated with new-coyn'd and feigned words meer Canting as Gypsies that have a peculiar dialect and phrase of their own Yet then they will revile you rendring you hatred for your good will slandering you in blaspheming Christ and the truth you declare to them and think all this while they are lying standering and railing you which is far from Charity that they do God good service and vindicate precious men Ask them further whether those be not ●…eigned fictitious new-coyn'd words as the Apostle St. Peter says false prophets make merchandize or make good markets with through covetousness which the Holy-ghost in Holy Scripture uses not and which Gods Holy word is not acquainted with and they will confess that they must be new-coyned and feigned by false prophets and juglers if not coyn'd there by the Holy-ghost But then say these expressions viz. incomes get experiences look over your experiences get Christ and the indwellings of the spirit such like many hundreds of them produc'd with a wonderful long whine and twang are neither the words of the Holy Ghost Prophets Christ or his Apostles and therefore are feigned words which these spiritual merchants get money with as Gypsies do by Cantting and Singing And they will blaspheme and rail at you though you say no more than St. Peter has done and though they cannot find one such new-coyn'd word in all the Bible Is not the heart of this people hardned and seeing they do not see they will not see nor perceive but like the Pharisees look upon all your reproof to be a reproach to them and the ways of God They cannot be converted because not convinced they are not convinced partly by reason their Preachers are not faithful to their souls but instead of shewing them the