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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61467	England's faithfull reprover and monitour	Samwayes, Richard, 1614 or 15-1669.	1653 (1653)	Wing S547; ESTC R1746	86,140	264

the Evangelist speaketh Luk. Luk. 1. 1. that he prayed to the Father when he lived on the earth See especially Luk. 6.12 22.42 with 44. Is not this then unheard of and more then Pharisaical pride in you Mat. 10.24 25. For the Disciple is not above his Master nor the servant above his Lord. It is enough for the Disciple that he be as his Master and the Servant as his Lord. Not unlike this is your assuming to your selves the honourable and glorious title of Saints and yet refusing to own the Apostles by this name as if their Saintship were questionable yours certain and without all doubt neither can the Popish custome any waies plead for or excuse this disuse for that they were Saints as well as you ye durst not deny why then ye may not call them Saints you have nothing to affirm especially considering that the holy Ghost doth bestow the honour of this appellation upon them See Eph. 3.5 with 1.1 2 Cor. 1.1 and not upon them only but upon their disciples also far inferiour to them in grace and holinesse And now consider with me I pray you the perilous consequence of your schisme or separation from the Church to the renouncing of the ministry and baptisme which ye received first from it For if our Church be indeed a true Church what have ye done lesse in thus deserting it then renounced Jesus Christ himself as appeareth from 1 Thess 1.1 where we plainly see the ground and foundation of every true Church and likewise from Luk. 10.16 where we perceive the first originall of ministeriall power in the Church and how far the contempt thereof reacheth even unto God himself There can be no salvation then out of the true Church this alone like Noahs Arke doth preserve us by Baptisme from the deluge of divine wrath 2 Pet. 3.20 21. Act. 27.31 or like the Ship Act. 27. in which we must abide at any hand or cannot else be saved In like manner none can publickly teach none can baptize without commission and authority from Christ the head of the Church as is manifest from Mat. 28.18 19 20. where we may evidently discern that the Apostles authority to teach and baptize vers 19 20. is immediately derived from the supreme power of Christ which the Father gave him by vertue of his office vers 18. Wherefore no man can teach with profit as a Minister no man can baptize but a Minister in the Church of God who hath by the Apostles and their successours received this power of the Lord Jesus who did not preach himself before he was sent Joh. 20.21 and but for that he was sent You see then clearly how much you hazard your most precious souls in forsaking our Church if it be a true Church and in case it be a false one ye have neither judgement to discern nor reason to prove that it is so either for your own or other mens satisfaction in this point and as I do beleeve no man living upon the face of the whole earth And indeed to say the truth your ignorance and want of due instruction at the first was the true and main cause of your seduction and schisme for who have more fallen off from fellowship with us then those that were never yet acquainted with the principles of our faith and grounds of the doctrine which we professe And though ye pretend indeed that the Antichristian calling false teaching and scandalous living of our Ministers gave you just cause of separating from us the former upon examination would prove loud and lewd slanders of ignorance or of malice and as for the latter it cannot excuse you in this matter before God as appeareth from a like case Mat. 23.2 3. Wherefore God hath suffered that curse 2 Tim. 3.13 to light upon many of your seducers 2 Tim. 3.13 Chap. 2.16 and also upon you who are deceived by them in whom their word doth eat as doth a canker For who hath yet given in a full catalogue of all your errours and heresies So many and manifold are they and yet encreasing more and more every day whereby the truth of God is almost denied in each part and article thereof the authority of the Apostles questioned by some vilified and derided of others as I may be bold to speak upon mine own knowledge For I wel remember that a certain woman of your faction in discourse at the table with my self and others maintaining a point of doctrine not agreeable to the Analogie of faith and being urged to the contrary by us with the words of Christ and of his Apostle St. Peter replyed that she did regard what Christ spake but as for that which Peter said she gave no more heed to it and cared no more for it then if it had been spoken by some other man As for the Apostasie of some it is so great and generall that they seem wholly to degenerate from the profession of Christ Jesus or to Atheisme and utter unbelief of the truth For who can excuse them that are termed Ranters from this dreadfull imputation that shall recount the damnable tenents which they maintain and practises wherein they glory the which to mention or expresse were to defile the paper whereon I write surely these if any now are the men whom God hath given over to a reprobate minde Rom. 1.28 to do those things which are not convenient Wherefore ye that are more sober minded then your fellowes and not so much forsaken of divine grace as they be admonished by their follies to relinquish that profane society to which you have adjoyned your selves through the deceitfulnesse of errour and sin under the colour of truth and holinesse the new but false lights which these ill guides hold forth unto you lest as ye do partake in their abominations so ye partake with them also of the judgements and punishments which they have deserved 2 Cor. 6.15 For what concord hath Christ with Belial Wherefore come out from among them Vers 17 18. and be ye separate saith the Lord and touch not the unclean thing and I will receive you and will be a Father unto you and ye shall be my sons and daughters saith the Lord Almighty Now consider what I say and the Lord give you understanding in all things As for the rest who oppose themselves 2 Tim. 2.25 26. God give them also repentance to the acknowledging of the truth and that they may recover themselves awake out of the snare of the devill who are taken captive alive by him at his will Amen To the whole Body of this Nation HE that doth but indifferently observe the manner and course of your lives O ye sinfull English people shall generally finde you to be such as walk quite contrary to the light and truth of the Gospell which ye do professe and have vowed to maintain For first ye are either openly profane in your conversation

probable that worldly interest is most predominant in the severall opposite parties yet every one is taught to open his mouth wide for the cause and truth of God and none more then they who most blaspheme his name by their impure doctrines which they commend to the world for those of Christ Jesus though as contrary to what he spake as darknesse is to light And because these are the fruits of faction and schism sometimes as it is now apparent with us as well as the causes thereof at other times I wish men all to remember how deep and sad their accounts will one day be who have any wayes procured these dangerous maladies to the State and Church or fomented the same by word or deed For wee plainly see to what condition both are reduced at this present and every man may be so far a Prophet as to soretel yet greater calamities like to come upon us except the Almighty doth wonderfully appeare for us and that speedily but I for bear neither shall I stirre the coals of their lusts nor strike the drunkards cup in indignation out of his hand nor rowse thy delicate Dames from their bed of pleasure and sloth whose life is nothing else but sleep and lust and putting on of apparell not becomming women professing godlinesse and costly fare with ease and sport 1 Pet. 3.3 with 1 Tim. 2.10 according to the severall varieties of them all Nor shall I labour to dissolve the Adamantine hearts of thy creditours into humane pity towards their poore obnoxious debters For have not these been the frequent and faithfull endeavours of thy learned and pious Ministers from time to time for many years together Jer. 9. ● But their habitation was in the midst of deceit Zech. 7.11 through deceit they refused to know the Lord yea thy children refused to hearken and pulled away the shoulder and stopped their ears that they should not hear Or were like those of whom the Lord complaineth and describeth to the Prophet Ezekiel chap. 33.31 32. who with their mouth shewed much love to the Prophet and to his message but their heart in the mean while went after their covetousnesse to whom he was as a very lovely song of one that hath a pleasant voice and can play well on an instrument for they heard his words but they did them not In like manner thy sons and daughters were onely hearers of the Evangelicall word but left the doing thereof to others who were better affected with the same then they contenting themselves with this empty shadow of godlines that they were continually present to the outward Ordinance of the word did countenance or favour the messengers thereof wherefore hath the Lord of hosts melted them and tryed them Ier. 9.7 for how should he otherwise doe for the daughters of his people And oh that thy children had been admonished and reformed by the corrections of their heavenly Father Isa 59. But alas their transgressions are multiplyed before the Lord and their sins testifie against them for their transgressions are with them and as for their iniquities they know them In transgressing and lying against the Lord and departing away from their God speaking oppression and revolt conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood And judgement is turned away backward and justice standeth a for off for truth is fallen in the street and equity cannot enter yea truth faileth and he that departeth from evill maketh himselfe a prey or is accounted mad yea they proceed from evill to evill and they know not me saith the Lord. Shall he not therefore visit for these things and though he defer his wrath for a season expecting with patience their repentance and conversion unto him will it not break forth at the last to consume his adversaries as in a moment For while they be folded together as thorns Nah. 1.10 and while they are drunken as drunkards they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry Thou hast occasioned and seen with mercilesse hearts and eyes the grievous sufferings of thy countrey and shalt thou goe altogether together unpunished is thy sinne lesse yea is it not much more then theirs have not thy lampes shined forth most gloriously to thy selfe and others when they have sate in darknesse And yet thou hast loved darknesse rather then light because thy works were evill For thou dost represent unto us the wickednesse of the whole Nation contracted indeed into a lesser volume but more polished and refined by the art of thine iniquity overlayed with the faire gilt of hypocrisy but underneath more foule and ugly then that of the people both in the sight of God and of those who know his wayes a right Thus deceit is with thee more elegant and smooth in expression but more dangerous and dark in the mystery then it is with those of the Countrey In like manner other sins goe more fine and trim in their dresse here then in the rurall Townes or inferiour Cities but the skin underneath is much blacker and the shape more deformed then it is with them Only impudence is more daring in thy children then in any of the Nation who generally are as yet uncapable of that immodesty which is every where common with thee And may they never learn more of that from thee of which perchance they have too much already Now as thou hast in thee the sins of those ample and glorious Cities which the Lord destroyed in times past for their wickednesse but are still set forth for example of his Divine justice to us that are alive this day as well as to them that have gone before us and to all generations to come so fear and expect their judgements and the more because his mercies of all sorts have been greater towards thee then them and thy warnings also of approaching vengeance more frequent signal then theirs and yet behold their memorial is perished with them Psal 3.6 But the Lord shall endure for ever the same in justice as in mercy to all men throughout all ages Take heed therefore lest with an overflowing floud he make an utter end of the place thereof Nah. 1.8 9. so that affliction rise not up the second time Security is the daughter of sin but the mother of danger Prov. 16.18 Pride goeth before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall Thou maiest happily as thy elder sisters did before thee dream of perpetuity when desolation is at hand But oh remember that there is no stability with iniquity no safety in sin no peace to the wicked Babylon thou knowest that was heretofore given to pleasures as thou art now dwelled carelesly as thou dost said in her heart as thou perchance speakest to thy self Is 47.8 9. at this time I am and none else besides me I shall not sit as a widow neither shall I know the losse of children But these two things came to her as the Prophet foretold