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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A68281	Certayne reasons and arguments proving that it is not lawfull to heare or have any spirituall communion with the present ministerie of the Church of England.	Johnson, Francis, 1562-1618.	1608 (1608)	STC 14660; ESTC S103950	70,851	120

Levite and Dathan and Abiram of the tribe of Reuben with other famous men of the Congregation conspire and strive against Moses and Aaron touching the Priesthood challenging them that they took too much vpon them because as they thought the Priesthood belonged not to Aaron and his sonnes onely as Moses had appointed it but seing all the Congregation was holy and that the Lord was among them therefore others of them also might have and execute it Where further it is to be noted that Corah Dathan Abiram and the rest differed not from Moses neyther strove with him in any point of Religion but towching the Priesthood and Ministery onely They held that the true God onely was to be worshipped and not after any idolatrous maner but according to his owne will with the sacrifices and the incense which he had appointed and in all other points of Religion accounted fundamentall they agreed with Moses Onely in this they differed opposed concerning those offices and Officers by which the incense was to be offered and other duties of Gods worship to be performed that is as towching the Priests office Moses holding that the Priesthood perteyned to Aaron and his sonnes Corah his company thinking otherwise The matter is brought by Moses before the Lord to be decided He ended the controversie first by bringing destruction vpon Corah Dathan Abiram and such as abode in their tents secondly by the budding of Aarons rod and the not budding of the other rods of the Princes of Israel and herevpon also giveth strait charge that no straunger come neare to do the Priests office or if any do come neare that he dye for it Num. 16. 17. and 18 1-7 Now to apply this to the question in hand we may thus consider of it That now the controversie conspiracy being not against Moses the servaÌ„t but against Christ the sonne not about the persons who are to be in the true offices but about holding keeping in of false offices not by Corah Dathan AbiraÌ„ others sometymes visible meÌ„bers famous men in the true Church but by the officers of Antichrist the great enemy of Iesus Christ yea by Antichrist himself in his officers in the false Church That therfore if the people then were bound to hearken vnto Moses â€ Num. 16.25.26 perswading theÌ„ to depart from the tents of those wicked men and to touch nothing of theirs least they perished in their sinnes then it behooveth the people of God now to obey Iesus Christ â€– Rev. 18.4 requiring vs to depart out of Babylon and not to partake in her sinnes least we receive also of her plagues and therfore not to abide or have any spirituall communion within the tents that is vnder the jurisdiction in the conspiracy of Antichrist yea not so much as to heare the word or receive the Sacraments ministred in a true Church of Christ by any officer of the kingdome of Antichrist such as the present Ministery in question hath been proved to be For if at that time none of the children of Israel might execute the Priests office being strangers as touching it then now may no Canaanite no stranger specially by office administer before Iesus Christ nor be received into his Church But all the vessels brought before the Lord must be holy vnto him and therfore must be clensed first and purged from the filthynes of Antichrist before they may be vsed in the house of the Lord of hosts Numb 16.40 with Ioel. 3.17 Zach. 14.21 Esa 35.8 52.11 and 66.20 with Heb. 3.1.2.3 and 5.4 If any think that yet notwithstanding they may present their bodyes at these assemblies so as they do not hearken nor coÌ„sent with the heart to that which is done among them they both deceive themselves and dissemble with others and above all sinne against God who in the second commandement hath straitly forbidden vs to submit eyther body or soule to any straunge worship or inventions of man in religion Exod. 20.4.5 As accordingly the Prophets in the defection of Israell taught the people not to come to Gilgal nor to go vp to Beth-aven vnles they would multiply their transgressions Hos 4.15 Amos 4.4 and 5.15 And the Apostles likewise have taught all Christians what to do in such cases Save your selves from this froward generation Come out from among them and separate your selves and touch no vncleane thing And Goe out of Babylon that ye be not partakers in her sinnes Act. 2.40 2 Cor. 6.17 Rev. 18.4 Even as in the history of Corah DathaÌ„ Abiram the rest hath ben seen what heavie destructioÌ„ came vpon such as departed not from their tents but continued with them Neyther wil it help to say that they which were in that company of Corah and his complices consented with them in their conspiracy which these pretend they do not For it is playne notwithstaÌ„ding that when once they were warned to depart from their tents such as departed not were destroyed in that destruction all of them even to the young children who having not vnderstanding could not give consent to that which was done Num. 16.26.27.32 c. Neyther can the example of Naaman sometymes alledged warrant such practise For first it is manifest that Naaman spake of two things wherevnto the Prophet giveth but one answer The first that there might be given him two miles load of the earth of Israel because he would thenceforth offer no burnt offring or sacrifice vnto any other God save vnto the Lord. The other that the Lord would be mercifull vnto him when his Maister went into the house of Rimmon to worship there leaned on his hand he bowed downe in the house of Rimmon that when he bowed downe in the house of RimmoÌ„ the Lord would be merciful to him in that matter Which two things when Naaman had propounded Elishaes answer vnto him was thus Goe in peace 2 King 5.17.18.19 Now whatsoever men would think of the latter of these yet the first is such as all will graunt to be superstitious and vnlawfull For there was no holynes in the earth it self and Ierusalem onely was the place appointed for sacrifice at that tyme. So as by the Prophets answer whether it were onely according to their woonted maner of bidding one another farewell or to be further otherwise mynded yet there cannot be proved a consent approbation given to the things spoken of Next let vs suppose that Naamans bowing down in the house of Rimmon may have a double consideration one as being a religious action the other as being civill Religious if Naaman himself worshipped there Civil if the King onely worshipped and no other with him so as Naaman now was with him but for to leane vpon there as in other places at other tymes Which being admitted yet then if it be considered as a religious action in him all know it to be vnlawful * 1 King 19.18 Rom. 11.4 to bow the knee

CERTAYNE REASONS and Arguments Proving that it is not lawfull to heare or have any spirituall communion with the present Ministerie of the Church of England Ier. 50.14.15 Put your selves in aray against Babel round about all that bend the bow shoot at her spare not arrowes for she hath sinned against the Lord. Cry against her round about she hath given her hand her foundations be fallen her walles be destroyed because it is the vengeance of the Lord take vengeance vpon her as she hath done do vnto her Rev. 18.6 Reward her even as she hath rewarded you and double vnto her doubles according to her workes in the cup wherein she hath mixed mixe her the double Printed In the yeare of our Lord 1608. To the Christian Reader grace and peace in our Lord Iesus Christ THe Reasons following I have published gentle Reader for thy good and for the truthes sake which we witnes to the world The causes of our separation from the Church of England are divers as in other Books already printed may be seen This treatise handleth purposely but one of them which is concerning their present Ministerie and was for the substance of it written long synce in nine Reasons which now I have revised and reduced to seven In the propounding and handling whereof I have both inserted divers things which I met with in some writings of Mr Iohn Penry that faithfull Martyr of Iesus Christ and annexed sundry testimonies and Arguments out of the Books of the forward Preachers now abroad in mens hands The third Reason which is taken out of Rev. 14.9.10.11 hath his weight according to the right vnderstanding of that place Concerning which as Mr Ridley that blessed Martyr of Christ â€ See hereafter p. 59. did in his time I will commit the judgement thereof and of all the rest to the spirituall man to be tryed and judged by the word of God which is the onely rule of truth and so to be received and approved as they shal be found to beare weight being layd in the skoales of Gods sanctuary not any otherwise or further at all The Reasons are set downe in the forme of Syllogismes And the two first which conteyne in them the grounds of the rest have more specially the confirmation of them also handled after the same manner A course that some have desired for the further tryall of our cause Which now I wish it may help them forward to yeeld vnto the truth And if thy self Christian Reader reapest any fruit by our labours give God praise and pray for vs the vnworthiest of his servants who are every where contemned blasphemed and oppugned for the Name of Christ Ier. 30.17 Mat. 5.12 and 10.25 Heb. 12.2 1 Pet. 4.12 c. As hath ben the lot of the Churches and servants of God in all ages yea and of Christ our Lord himself But it is ynough for the disciple to be as his Maister and the servant as his Lord. Therefore will we beare it with pacience and rejoyce in it wayting till the Lord our God bring forth his truth as the light our judgement as the noone day Great we know is the truth and strong is the Lord that will destroy Babylon and will mainteyne the cause and avenge the blood of his servants Rev. 17. and 18. and 19. chap. with Ier. 50. and 51. ch Now therefore let me exhort all both Preachers and people high and low to compare together the Scriptures of the Prophets and Apostles concerning the work of God and fall of Babylon past and to come and to take heed vnto themselves that they harden not their hearts but whiles it is called To day to hearken vnto the voice of the Lord who sayth vnto vs concerning the spirituall Babylon all her assemblies and worship Go out of her my people that yee partake not with her sinnes and that ye receive not of her plagues as of old he sayd to the Iewes concerning Babylon in Chaldea Go out of the middes of her my people deliver ye every man his soule froÌ„ the fierce wrath of the Lord. Rev. 18.4 with Ier. 51.45 And let there be heard * Ier. 50.28 with Rev. 19 â— â— the voyce of them that flee and escape out of the land of Babel to declare in Zion the vengeance of the Lord our God the vengeance of his Temple For it is written Thus saith the Lord of hosts The thick walles of Babel shal be broken downe and her high gates shal be burnt with fire and the people shall labour in vayne and the folk in the fire and shal be weary Ier. 51.58 Which how true it is wil be found in the Antichristian Babylon as it hath ben in the Chaldean let all that are wise observe make good vse thereof vnto themselves And in speciall as now I have occasion let me intreat the Preachers seeking reformation seriously to mynd the Books which many of them selves have written against their present estate with indifferency to judge whether their owne Arguments howsoever intended or alledged otherwise by themselves rely not vpon such grounds as are in very deed against their Ministery aswell as against their Ceremonies against the executing of the one aswel as against the vsing of the other withall against the keeping of communion with them in such estate albeit they have not hitherto so applyed or acknowledged it theÌ„selves Which God in his tyme give them to do for their owne comfort benefit of others And the Lord guyde vs in these and all other things by his word and spirit in the way of his truth keeping vs from errour and every evill way and preserving vs to his heavenly kingdome by Iesus Christ who is the way the truth and the life Amen Thyne in the Lord Francis Iohnson REASONS and proofes from the Scriptures and other testimonies Shewing that it is not lawful to heare or have any spiritual communion with the present Ministerie of the Church-assemblies of England The first Reason ALl are bound in the worship of God to hear and communicate onely with that Ministerie which Christ hath given and set in his Church for that work But the present Ministerie of the Church-assemblies of England is not that which Christ hath given and set in his Church for the work of his Ministery Therfore it is not lawful for any in the worship of God to hear or communicate with the present Ministery of the Church-assemblyes of England The proof and declaration of this Reason in the several parts thereof THe Proposition or first part of the Reason is evident and certayn 1. Because Christ hath given his Ministerie to his Church as a fruit and confirmation of his ascension into heaven whose gift therfore cannot therin be refused without denying or derogating from the truth and benefit of that his ascension Ephe. 4.8 12. with Ps 68.18 1 Cor. 12.4 Rev. 1.13.16.17.18.20 2. Because he hath set his Ministerie in his Church

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