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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94750	A vvord of reproof to the priests or ministers, who boast of their ministery and ordinances, and yet live in pride, disdain, persecution, &c. Shevving what such are; and how little cause they have to exclaim against those who separate from them. As also a word to the papists discovering their foundation to be carnal and sandie. In a letter sent to some supposed priests or Jesuites in the north, by William Tomlinson.	Tomlinson, William.	1653 (1653)	Wing T1855; Thomason E691_9; ESTC R206966	29,084	49

now are the Seperatist the Shismaticks the Hereticks in Scripture account making a rent and Schisme from Christ are not they the further off from Schisme and Heresie who obey Christ herein and come out of Babylon though they be but a few in comparison of the rest for they follow him herein who is the knot of union and so herein cannot be the Schismaticks and Hereticks and Separatists and Sectarists which the Scripture condemnes For their separation from the confusion and them that dwell therein is not a separation from Christ nor from truth being stricktly commanded and pressed both by promise and threatening Rev. 18. Come out of her my people that ye be not partakers of her sins and that ye receive not of her plagues And again 2 Cor. 6.17 Wherefore come out from among them 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 I say comming out from your Humane inventions and from all other inventions of man though never so finely guilded is here commanded being comprehended under the word Babylon I know that you will put off from your selves the word Babylon and apply it to Rome and they at Rome will apply it to something else for it is not to be expected that the Merchants of Babylon should confesse against themselves that they are so lest people should buy their Merchandize no more Tell us what is Babylon outward if it be not a building or frame of Humane inventions whose top pretends to reach to Heaven as the Tower of Babel was intended to do and so promises to set People in thither If it be any other thing tell us what it is Now you either trade in these Humane inventions or you trade with the pure Ordinances of Christ If you trade with Humane inventions and make sale of them then I think it will be found that you are in the number of the Merchants of Babylon enriching your selves with the abundance of her delicacies delicate carved images of your own brains and of other mens and if so it will be found no Heresie Schisms or unwarrantable separation to come out from amongst you If you say that you trade with the pure Ordinances of Jesus Christ for traders you are then I desire to know which one of them you will avouch to be the pure Ordinance of Christ answering the pattern as you uphold it Secondly I desire to know upon what ground you dare buy and sell any pure Ordinance of Christ or gift of the holy Ghost if it be so I know that you want not words to cry them up for the Ordinances of Christ As the Jews did with the Temple and as you do with your ministery so you cry them up for the Ordinances of Christ the Ordinances of Christ crying to the People Oh take heed how you turn your backs on the Ordinances of Christ But as I said of your Ministery so I say of your Ordinances It is not enough to say onely that they are so Which of you take the pains to shew the People what the Ordinances of Christ were and compares yours with them that the People may see them to be so The truth is you dare not bring them to the light nor suffer them to come to the light lest they should be made manifest For they are as far different from the pure Ordinances of Christ or practises of Christ and his followers as Nadabs and Abihu's strange fire was from the true fire if not further You say you have Baptisme you have prayer you have Preaching you have singing of Psalms and some of you have the Communion and were not these Ordinances of Christ I answer you Nadab and Abihu had their Censer they had fire and they had Incense which things were commanded by the Lord. Yet for all this they did that which the Lord commanded them not Levit. 10.1 And so you may have these things and yet be as far off from the right as they were First compare your Baptisme with that which the followers of Christ practised You Baptize Infants where did they Baptize any have you any example or any rule for the Baptizing of them Is not this built upon the sandy conjectures and consequences of your own imaginations I know that some of the acutest of you say That it is built upon the Promise which belongs to the children with their Fathers But let such consider whether it was the Promise belonging to them or their receiving of that Promise that was the ground of Baptisme Which of the Apostles did administer Baptisme to any of those to whom the Promise did belong untill they received that Promise by faith As for your Prayer which you use before and after your Sermons I know not one example left you for it either by Christ or by any of his Apostles What can you plead for it seeing they did not so Did they fall short in what they ought to do what was Christ and the Apostles unfaithfull in the work of their Ministery to leave such a thing out and to leave it unto you to amend what they failed in No no your praying before and after is for the honor and magnificence of your Idol which is to accompany it and that is your Preaching be patient with this expression untill you have the explication of it for I shall not onely call it so and there leave it as you do with many things I say your Preaching is an Idol I do not say that Preaching is an Idol Preaching is publishing or declaring abroad or telling to one another openly whether by conference or any other way Thus they preached or published or told abroad what Christ had done to one that was deafe and had an impediment in his speech Mark 7.36 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they preached it which word you know is used where preaching is expressed and yet it signifies no more here but telling abroad or publishing as it is rendered in the English So likewise the multitude of Beleevers who were scattered abroad Act. 8.1 Went every where Preaching the word vers 4. that is declaring it or telling it abroad where ever they came and this was Preaching and Preaching to conversion too So Pauls Preacling in the Synagogues was it not for the most part Reasoning with them Acts 17.2.3 that is speaking to them and suffering them to speak to him But you do Idolize the manner of the Heathen Oratorie made in Pulpits and all other speaking must give place to that and fall down silent before that Idol or else you will exercise Nebuchadnezzars Lawes upon them Dan. 3. If any manner of speaking will not be silent and fall down and worship that comely honourable manner of Oratory when it shall be set up then to Prison with him make him fast What 's this but to do as Nebuchadnezzar did when he had set