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A36444	Martyrion Christianon, or, A Christian and sober testimony against sinfull complyance wherein the unlawfulness of hearing the present ministers of England is clearly demonstrated, severall weighty queries proposed, objections impartially weighed in the ballance of the sanctuary and found wanting / by Christophilus Antichristomachus.	Douglas, Thomas, fl. 1661.	1664 (1664)	Wing D2039; ESTC R26734	81,925	102

〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Or A CHRISTIAN and SOBER TESTIMONY AGAINST Sinfull Complyance WHEREIN The Unlawfulness of Hearing the present Ministers of England is clearly demonstrated Severall weighty Queries proposed Objections impartially weighed in the Ballance of the Sanctuary and found wanting By Christophilus Antichristomachus a Mourner in Sion waiting for the day of her Salvation and coming of her King Rev. 14. 9 10 11. If any man worship the Beast and his Image and receive his Mark in his forehead or in his hand the same shall drink of the Wine of the Wrath of God which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his Indignation and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy Angels and in the presence of the Lamb. And the smoke of their torment ascended up for ever and ever and they have no rest day nor night who worship the Beast and his Image and whosoever receiveth the Mark of his Name Acts 2. 40. Save your selves from this untoward generation John 10. 3. The Sheep hear his Voice v. 5 and a stranger they will not follow 1 Joh. 4. 5. They are of the world therefore speak they of the world and the world hears them Printed for the Author in the Year 1664. To the READER Candid Reader VVE are almost at the end of these Paper-Contests which are daily preaching their own Funeral 'T is in another way that Jehovah will shortly appear for he hath already sent his Harbingers before him to convince the world and worldly Church of their Wickedness and Adulteries whereby they provoke the pure eyes of his glory For behold the Lord cometh with Fire and with his Chariots like a Whirle wind to render his Anger with Fury and his Rebuke with flames of fire For by Fire and by Sword will the Lord plead with all flesh and the slain of the Lord shall be many Happy art thou if in the number of those that shall be able to live when the Lord doth this Alas Who may abide the day of his coming and who shall stand when he appeareth Men as men will be at their wits ends when they behold the Earth to reel to and fro like a drunken man its foundatious being out of course the Mountains to Smoake and the Hills to melt away because of the terribleness of his Anger The Kings of the Earth who now as Pharoah of old are with delight drinking the blood of the Saints as sweet Wine and refuse to let them go from under their bonds to Sacrifice to the Lord according to his appointment and the Great men and the Rich men and the Chief Captains and the Mighty men and every Bond-man and every Free-man will then hide themselves in the Dens and in the Rocks of the Mountains and cry to them to fall upon them and hide them from the Wrath of the Lamb. The day of whose Wrath is ready to spring forth though the wicked world think not so all the signs of the near approach thereof are already visibly fulfilled What Wars and rumors of Wars Nation fighting against Nation what strange Signes in the Heavens and in the Earth with great Earth-quakes in many places what a spirit of Persecution and Offence Brother even betraying Brother to death what declension and decaies of love to Jesus Christ amongst not only a professing but an once Zealous professing People do we daily see and hear of how doth Iniquity abound so that the Worlds fields are even white unto the harvest the Voice of the Daughter of Sion is louder than than ever crying out My flesh and my blood be upon the Daughter of Babylon the souls under the Altar are groaning How long O Lord God Holy and True will it be ere thou avenge our blood upon them that dwell on the Earth and will the Lord refrain himself and shut out the Prayers of his Prisoners of Hope I tell you nay but as a Lion and as a young Lion roaring on his prey when a multitude of Shepherds is called forth against him he will not be affraid of their voice nor abase himself for the noise of them so shall the Lord of Hosts come down to fight for Mount Sion and for the Hill thereof Vtterly to dethrone the Antichristian Beast and Whore who have made themselves drunk with the blood of the Saints for which he will make them drunk with blood even their own blood for they are worthy and to cause his poor oppressed ones to inherit the Throne of Glory in despite of their Oppressors Reader whoever thou art into whose hand this little Tract may come I cannot but crave thy stay out of pure love to speak a few things to thee in the Portal If thou art one that art a Scorner Derider Persecutor of the Saints under what denomination soever if thou art glad in thy heart as was wicked Edom and Ty●us of old at the sufferings of the People of the Lord yea if thou art but a civilized person or a meer outside Professor without any acquaintance with the work of Regeneration upon thy spirit and the Power and Mystery of Christianity and Godliness whatever thy enjoyments comforts hopes or confidences be know of a certainty that this day of the Lord's Wrath will sweep them away all and thou wilt utterly perish in the flames of his Indignation Oh then thou wilt cry out I Fool accounted their life madness and their end to be without honour but now they are numbred among the Children of God and crowned with glory but I am cast out to be tormented millions of millions of ages O that I could prevail with thee seriously to consider of thy state art thou able to meet and contend with the Most High to proceed no further in rebellion treasuring up wrath against the day of wrath and the revelation of the righteous Judgment of God O fling away thy Weapons kiss the Son that he be not angry with thee and thou perish in the way Content not thy self in being accounted a Christian that thou hast escaped the pollutions of the World nor in the performance of some dead formal sapless and spiritless service to the Lord which profiteth nothing Get an Interest in Christ freely tendred in the Gospel deep humiliation for thy former iniquities a spirit of Grace and Supplication inward Purity and Heart-uprightness or perish for ever Oh see that thou hast Oyl in thy vessel as well as in thy lamp or thou wilt not be able to dwell with devouring fire and everlasting burnings If thou art a Child of Light indeed begotten of the Lord acquainted and holding communion with him in his Ivory Pallaces O what cause hast thou to tryumph in God for his wonderful wonderful Grace to thee O how should'st thou love him how should'st thou praise him with what eagerness shouldest thou be prosecuting the concerns of his Glory how tenderly should'st thou be affected with his dishonour how full of Supplications and heart-groans

are not soley of the Institution of the Lord Jesus but that National are also to be accounted as the true Churches of Christ though they have no footing in the Scripture of the New-Testament from whence the Pattern of Gospel-Churches is soley to be deduced Yea 4thly That the Officers of Christ's Appointment are not sufficient for the Saints but together with them the help of false and Idol-shepherds is to be sought after than which what greater contempt can be poured upon the forementioned Institutions of our dear Lord Yet who sees not all this to be the language which is heard and goes forth into the Nations from the practice of our Brethren in the matter we are debating If they look upon Separation in the sense before-minded to be of the Institution of Christ can they offer a greater affront thereunto than to run into the Assemblies of the Nation If they judge it their duty to meet together distinct from the World and its VVorshippers why run they thereunto If they apprehend National Churches to be the result of humane prudence without bottom in the Scripture and the Ministers of Christ to be onely in contradistinction to the Ministers that are not of his Appointment attended unto why give they the right-hand of fellowship unto such Assemblies as profess themselves to be parts of such a National Church and hear Ministers that have relation thereunto who have received as hath been proved no Mission from Christ to their Ministry If this be not evidently to pour contempt upon the Institutions of Christ and confessedly so we shall for ever dispair of success in the most facile and righteous undertaking As for the second Particular that hereby poor souls are hardened in a false way of Worship what can be thought less supposing the Worship in the Parish-Assemblies of England to be so as hath been proved when they shall see Professors that were wont to pray and preach together to profess and protest against Common-Prayer-Book-Priests and Worship to cry up or at least approve of Laws made for their ejection if guilty of no other crime than conforming to the Worship they now conform to and practise now flock unto their Assemblies and hear their Priests what can they imagine less than that these persons thus acting in a direct contrariety to their former judgement and practice do now see they were mistaken and are beginning at least to return unto those paths fom whence they departed and that these wayes in which they and their forefathers have walked are the Good Old Way in which rest is to be found Wo unto the world because of Offences wo also unto them by whom they come Nor is the third Particular viz. That hereby poor souls are hardened in their Rebellion and Blasphemy against God the Spirit his Tabernacle and them that dwell therein to be in the least questioned We every day hear to the breaking of our hearts stout words spoken against the Lord because of the practice of some in this thing What say the wicked of the world less than that Religion which many pretend to is but a Fancy that the Professors thereof are but a Generation of Hypocrites that will turn to any thing to save themselves that the spirit by which they are acted is but a spirit of Phanaticism and Delusion yea how do they bless themselves that they are not nor ever were and resolve so much the more they will never be of the number of such Professors Ask them a Reason of all this and they wonder you should ask them and speedily reply to you Do you not see how many of you for fear of Persecution have disserted your former Principles and are returned to our Assemblies and the Ministry thereof and that any of you stand out 't is from hence evident that it is from a spirit of Pride and Obstinacy and not as you pretend from Divine Tenderness and the Leadings of the Spirit of the Lord. And what can we say to all these things must we not with grief and sorrow confess that there is indeed too great an occasion administred to them for their thus speaking though this will be no plea for them in the day of Christ Blessed are they that are not offended in him It remaineth then that inasmuch as the hearing the present Ministers of England pours out contempt upon the Wayes and Institutions of Christ hardens persons in a false way of Worship Rebellion and Blasphemy against the Lord it 's utterly unlawful for Saints to be found in the practice thereof To all that hitherto hath been said we shall yet briefly add Argument 10. God calls his People out of and strictly charges them not to go to the places of False-Worship Therefore 't is unlawful for the Saints to attend upon the present Ministers of England The Antecedent is clearly proved Hos 4. 15. Amos 4. 4. The Reason of the Consequence is Because we cannot go to hear the present Ministers of England without we go to their places and assemblies of False-worship as the Common-Prayer-Book-Worship hath been proved to be Argument 11. That upon the doing whereof Saints have no promise of a Blessing not any ground to expect it is not lawful for them to do But in the hearing of these men the Saints have no promise of a Blessing nor ground to expect it Therefore The Major or first Proposition will not be denied As for the Minor or second Proposition That the Saints have no promise of a Blessing from God nor ground to expect it in the hearing of the present Ministers of England may many wayes be demonstrated If there be any promise of a Blessing upon them from God in their so doing let it be produced and we shall willingly confess there is no weight in this Argument But this we conceive to be no easie task for any to discharge and that for these Reasons 1. The Blessing of the Lord is upon Sion Psal 87. 2. and 78. 68. there he dwells Psal 9. 11. and 74. 2. Jer. 8. 19. Isa 8. 18. Joel 3. 17 21. the presence of Christ is in the midst of the Golden Candlesticks Rev. 1. 12 13. and 2. 1. 't is his Garden in which he feedeth and dwells Cant. 6. 2. and 8. 13. and we are not surer of any thing nor will it be denied by our Conforming Brethren many of them than we are of this That the Assemblies of England in their present constitution are so far from being the Sion of God his Candlesticks his Garden that they are a very Wilderness and that Babel out of which the Lord commands his People to hasten their escape Rev. 18. 4. 2. God never promiseth a Blessing to a People waiting upon him in that way which is polluted and not of his appointment as we have proved the Worship of England to be 3. The Lord hath expresly said concerning such as run before they are sent That they shall not profit the People Jer. 23. 32. 4.