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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A37286	Truth shut out of doors being brief discovery of the partial and unjust proceedings of some formal professors, members of a church at Rumney in Kent, against John Day, the publisher hereof.	Day, John, 1574-1640?	1653 (1653)	Wing D468; ESTC R16961	10,852	16

day it is false except you mean in objecting when things appear to me to be false that you teach and that you injoyed no more teaching that day and many dayes it is a very lye except you were free to dispute as well as I. But indeed you would faine have people believe as you say and no more and none to question what you preach as your Canons you ordered maintain and this is one That no Brother should object till your whole days-work were ended or most people gone If I made a division or did cause a rent it were better for people to be broken to pieces then established upon your carnal legal Principles But how or for what I caused a rent you write not It is well you grant that some of those which side not with me are worthy of better terms from me but there are two lyes in your three terms for Calves I called Alexander not nor Alexanders in the plural number but onely the Smith one of the inditers or writers of that letter I called Alexander because he did me much evil nor called I any Devils so often as my most intimate friends and that never but in love when they reasoned fleshly or carnally from the spirit of Satan For the Fourth particular for my justifying my self in a lye and for the Elders admonishing me privately for charging them with partiality which I publickly proved for their disorderly admonishing me in private I told them it was disorderly and they came to intrap me which thing appeared by that odious untruth that they spake but twenty words they spake above halfe an hour and were not silent and spake above five hundred words and at least twenty false and that was all I charged them with But they hear with their harvest-ears too soon but when the great harvest is come I fear they will be sound some of them to be Apostles in shew but proved lyers in the mean time I leave them to God And for this Last I shall acknowledge that some times and in some cases I cannot but with the Saints of old closely check them for their carnal reason but for Exercising and reasoning about the things of God they do me wrong and are more exceedingly given to judge me and others and dote more upon our motes then behold the beams in their own eyes although I must confess I am too guilty of it yet I shall intreat them to bear with me a little for this time and further I shall intreat them to leave subscribing their names that appoint them not neither give consent as they have done in their Letter as for instance the last Elder mentioned in the Letter never subscribed to it but on the contrary told several friends they did it contrary to his will and also if he could see his name in the Letter he would blot it out These things an I prove by several witnesses of the Church to their faces Now judg I beseech you all that fear God whether this be just to subscribe mens names against me throughout the Country that consent not unto it Also in the second place they subscribed the Elders name which I proved chiefly guilty and I suppose he would not discover his folly so much as to subscribe his own name seeing it was to please his wilful and unjust minde they cast me out To the Pastor of the said Congregation Most learned Apollo I Beseech you not to despise the instruction of a poor Trades-man but in love and self-denial examine your heart and receive counsel from an inferiour I have been informed of your late danger you were in in Smithfield or thereabout which I am sorry for but your call you had to it is best known to God and your self You were a great Idol to many hearts before and since I fear you are more That which I have to say unto you is this I advise you to have a special care you be not listed high in your minde and so become an Idol to your self I am the more jealous of you because the more you are looked upon the more you are tempted to look upon your self Examine your heart and answer me these sew Queries at your leasure As first Whether those several score pounds gathered for you by the foresaid Elder and another were not a great cause of your doing that you did to please him Secondly Whether you did not object against and oppose my doctrine rather for fear your own would not be so much exalted as formerly it hath been then any just ground you could bring from Scripture seeing you confess'd the truth of it in dispute Thirdly Whether you did not sin against the light of your conscience in passing sentence against me to please others because when you were demanded by a faithful brother whether you did it not with abundance of passion you replyed with tears that you did and that you should not have proceeded against me so soon if at all but others provoked you to do it before you went to London Of this I was informed by faithful members of the Church The Lord open your heart for it is not impossible for you as well as Ephraim to have here and there gray hairs and see it not So farewel Let all Christian friends that shall read this Treatise consider this following discourse When Israel of old went out of his Maker God to live upon objects of his own self-righteousness he sacrificed unto Baal and burnt Incense unto graven Images but when he was a childe the Lord loved him and because Ephraim made many altars to sin altars were unto him to sin and that was the reason the Lord accepted them not but remembred their iniquities and visited their sins with their return into Egypt The reason why is rendered Hos. 8. the last verse For Israel hath forgot his Maker and hath built temples and multiplied fenced cities but I faith the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 send a fire upon his cities and it shall devour the 〈◊〉 thereof Now I consider Israel of old to be a real Type of the professed Church of God outwardly and as they were not all Israel that were of Israel then so as the Apostle saith they are not now but those that are circumcised in heart and love mercy and do justly and walk humbly with God and not with Ephraim build temples or Judah multiply fenced cities of their own righteousness nor with the last mentioned seed of theirs in Matth. 23. from vers. 27. to 31. where the wo is pronounced to men outwardly appearing righteous but inwardly are full of violence and build the Tombs of the Prophets Religion and garnish the Sepulchres of the righteous and say If they had lived in those days they would not have done that which their consciences were witnesses to themselves they did These later are the fleshly formal Israel now as well as then but the spiritual Israel is the fore-mentioned ones And the Lord is kindling a fire as I conceive with the sword of the Spirit to divide the mixt multitude that be the pro●essed Israel that those that be approved may be made manifest If I mistake not in the understanding God hath given me the Lord is not a shaking the earth onely but the heavens also that that which cannot be shaken may remain I mean the Churches of the professed Saints which are with Peter building tabernacles of contentedness in their mindes with that light or knowledge they have already or glory which they see of Christ which causeth many to differ because there is a longing in some to be clothed upon with their house which is from heaven more then others And because of the Tye of Conformity which is in Churches to implicite lights the Lord may justly break them to pieces for I conceive that by the kingdom spoken of by our Saviour to be divided against it self is not meant onely an earthly kingdom but may have reference to the visible Church or children of the kingdom of Christ and that fulfilled spoken by the Spirit If ye bite and devour one another ye shall be devoured one of another And I suppose the Lord doth set the pure Israel free he will destroy speedily or ere long the wisdom of the wise and bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent that those that the Son hath made free may be free indeed and the Lord that is the Spirit may give them the perfect law of liberty which he 〈…〉 the oppressed members and letting the captive free 〈◊〉 laine a long time under the bondage of their Brethrend yoak 〈◊〉 Spirit of Christ is now calling them to take his Yoak only 〈◊〉 is eafie and light and be weary in their minde of their old capti●●ty and joyfully embrace the rest and peace he giveth them yea I say he is breaking Congregations to pieces calling his out from among then commanding them to touch no unclean thing of mens traditions or Pharisaical self-righteousness having nothing to do any more with Idols and I saith Christ will reign you and will be a Father to you and ye shall be my sons and daughters saith the Lord Almighty The Lord Jesus Christ is now a destroying of Churches meerly formal and will gather the spiritual to himself● having therefore the aforesaid Promises let us cleanse our selves from all filthiness of fleshly self-righteousness and spiritual wickedness in high places of the flesh and perfect holiness in the self denial fear and real love of God so shall we rejoyce in the Lord alwayes and again I say rejoyce FINIS