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An answer to the eight quæries propounded by the House of Commons, to the assembly called divines, sitting at Westminster, April. 22. 1646 never to this day by them answered, nor they called to an accompt by the Parliament, for their ignorance or negligence therein.
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Barber, Edward, d. 1674?
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AN ANSWER TO THE Eight Quaeries propounded by the House of Commons to the Assembly called Divines sitting at Westminster April 22. 1646. never to this day by them Answered nor they called to an accompt by the Parliament for their ignorance or negligence therein Psal 31.6 I have hated them that regard lying vanities but I trust in the Lord. Jonah 2.8 They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy Psal 82.6.7 I have said ye are Gods and all of you are Children of the most high But ye shall dye like men and fa l like one of the Princes Jer. 5.30 A wonderfull and horrible thing is committed in the Land the Prophets prophesie lyes and the Priests receive gifts in their hands and my people delight therein what will ye then do in the end thereof Cor. 1.14.36 What came the word of God out from you or came it unto you only Gal. 4.16 Am I therefore become your enemy because I tell you the truth 2 Cor. 4.2 But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty not walking in craftinesse nor handling the word of God deceitfully but by manifestatioÌ„ of the truth coÌ„mending our selves to every mans Conscience in the sight of God Col. 2.8 Beware least any man spoil you through Philosophy and vain deceit c. 1 Tim. 6.20 Oh Timothy keepe that which is coÌ„mitted to thy trust avoiding profane vain bablings By Edward Barber Freeman of England Citizen and Marchant-Taylor of London 1648. To those Noble Senators the chosen Stewards and Servants of the freemen of England the Commons assembled in Parliament with that Right Noble Generall the Lord Fairfax and Lieut. Gen. Crumwell RIGHT HONORABLE TAking into consideration the Quaeries so long since propounded by your Honours to the Assembly called Divines at Westminster desiring their Answers therein as once Nebucadnizer did of his dream from his Magicians Astrologâ—rs Sorcerers and Caldeans whom he had chosen and to whom was appointed a dayly provision of the Kings meate and of the wine which he drank Dan. 2. That so being nourished at his Table at three years end they might stand before the King But they being called forth to satissie the Kings desire in telling c. as Ier. 51 6.7 compared with Isaia 21.9 and Micha 2.10.11 Arise ye and depart for this is not your rest because it is polluted it shall destroy you even with a sore destruction if a man walking in the spirit of falshood do lye saying I will prophesie unto thee of wine and strong drink he shall even be the prophet of this people compared with 2. Cor. 6.14 to 18. and Revel 18.4 come out of her my people that ye be not partakers of her sinnes and that ye receive not of her plagues Now as the people of God were thus called forth of temporall and spirituall Babylon so the instruments by which the Lord will do this great work shall be by dispised persons that so the great wise men of the world may stay themselves and wonder who are blind make you blind instead of this they render it cry ye out and cry Isai 29.9 to 15. also that the whole glory may be given to God only not to men and as for such as have received their Call and Ordination from the beast or no calling at all as some now pretends if ever they should be converted and to submit unto the Order and Government of King Iesus in the Gospell way yet will these be the unsittest for the carrying forth of that rich treasure of the Gospel they having formerly sworn themselves Servants unto Antichrist and therefore will be but as the Gibiouites who although by their craft had saved their lives yet were by Josuah that glorious Tipe of Christ appointed to be hewers of wood and drawers of water Josuah 9. or Lovies Sonnes Sam. 1.2.36 who at that time when the Lord shall raise up his faithfull Priest shall come and crouch for a peece of silver or a morsell of bread saying put me I pray thee into one of the Priests Offices that I may eat a pecee of bread or with those Merchants of the earth who when the Kings and Magistrates of the earth who have committed fornication with the whore and lived deliciously at her overthrow shall bewail her and lament for her Revel 18.9 then also shall those Merchants of the earth weepe and mourn for no man buyeth their Merchandize any more vers 10. This will cause them as the Jewes Acts 22.22 to discover their madnesse who east dust upon their heads so these crying weeping wayling saing alas alas that great City wherein were made rich all that had Ships in the Sea by reason of her costlinesse for in one howre is she made desolate vers 19. and vers 20. the Church holy Messengers and Prophets are called forth to rejoyce over her for God hath avenged them on her when all profit and delight is taken away from her verse 22.23 the Reason is layd down vers the last because in her was found the blood of Prophets and of Saints and of all that were slain upon the earth oh that therefore your honours would give liberty for publike disputes that thereby the truth might be tryed and that there might be some time allowed after the publike Exercises is done wherein the hearers those whose mouthes the Lord by his spirit shall open might have liberty to adde to what is delivered or contradict if irronious and that there might be some places that are vacant as Paules or the like appointed for such exercises and tryalls of the truth according to Iohn 1.4.1 where he saith believe not every spirit but trie the spirits whether they are of God because many false Prophets are gone out into the world and Thes 1.5.21 The Apostle exhorts the Saints to prove all things and to hold fast that which is good which cannot be done in that way that is practised by them they tying up the mouthes of all but themselves by their Antichristian power and practice that therefore the Kings of the earth and you the Majestrates would be wise and consider your wayes know as it was once said to Saul as he was going to Damascus having received Authority from the High Priests to persecute and hale to prison all that called upon the name of the Lord Jesus Saul Saul why persecutest thou me it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks so it will one day be said to all those that persecute Christ in his Members which through the subtelty of Antichrist is usually done under the name of Heriticks and Sectaries as in Queen Maries dayes c. for know as the Prophet David saith Psal 2.2 to 6. although the Kings of the earth set themselves and the Rulers take Councel together against the Lord and against his Christ saying let us break his bonds asunder and cast away his cords from us but he that sits in Heaven shall laugh the Lord shall have them in
derision then shall he speak to them in his wrath and vex them in his sore displeasure yet have I set my King upon my holy hill of Zion all which their doing was but a vane thing in Davids Accompt vers the first and vers 10.11.12 he exhorts them saying be wise now therefore on ye Kings be instructed ye Judges of the earth serve the Lord with feare and rejoyce with trembling kisse the Son least he be angry ye perish from the way if his wrath be kindled yea but a little blessed are they that put their trust in him compared with Prov. 16.20 Isa 30.18 Jer. 17.7 27 7. Rom. 9.33 and 10.11 1 Pet. 2.6 For saith the Lord Isa 60.12 The Nation and Kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish yea those Nations shall be utterly wasted on that England would consider this in time least one day it be said to it as was once said by Christ to Jerusalem Luke 13.34 and 19 41. where coming nigh to the City he beheld it and wept over it saying if thou hadst known even thou at least in this thy day the things that belong to thy peace but now they are hid from thy eyes So the Lord for many years having called upon this Kingdom of England for repentance and turning unto him by amendment sollowing us with mercies and deliverances fatherly chastizing us by pestilence sword and famine but what amendment is there of any since but that in justice pride cruelty neglect of the poore Idolatry covetousnes abounds as the proph saith Is 56.11 every one for ku gaine from his quarter that love of mony the roote of all evill remaining as much as ever 1 Tim. 6.10 That therefore we would turn unto him according to promise in keeping the Protestation and Covenant in standing for a reformation according to the word of God and institutions of Christ and not covetous mens desires and inventions who in all ages have been obstructers of the true worship of God persecuters of his servants as King 1 22.22 to 28. Ier. 18.18 Come let us smite him with the tongue Ames 7.10.11 Mic. 1.1 c. 3. Ier. 26.11 to 19. Mat. 23.13 who shut up the Kingdom of Heaven against men they neither go in themselvs neither suffer them that are entring to go in but as Theedoro Beza observes from Act. 6.9 to 15. that fals teachers because they will not be overcome flee from disputations to Magistrates open slandering and false accusations that the first bloudy persecution of the Church of Christ began and sprung from a Councell of Priests by the suggestion of the University Doctors that therefore we might beware of men and according to the command of God heat ken only to the voice of Christ Mat. 17.5 that so we obeying him the great Prophet and Anointed the Lord may be gracious unto us in causing the sword to be sheathed and that he may delight to dwell among us in turning the hearts of the Fathers unto the children and the hearts of the children to the Fathers which shall be the desire and prayer of him that desires the happines here and glory hereafter of you and all that love the Lord Jesus Christ in fincerity Whereas it is Resolved by the House of Commons that all persons guilty of uotorious offences shall be suspended the Sacrament of the Lords Supper the House of Commons desires to be satissied by the Assembly of Divines in these particulars 1. WHether the Parochiall and Congregationall Elderships appointed by Ordinance of Parliament are Jure Divino by the will and appointment of Jesus Christ 2 Whether all the Members of the said Elderships are Members thereof or which of them are Jure Divino by the will and appointment of Jesus Christ 3 Whether the Supreame Assemblies or Elderships viz. the Classicall Provinciall and Nationall whether all or any of them or which of them are Jure Divino and by the will and appointment of Jesus Christ 4. Whether appeales from Congregationall Elderships to the Classicall Provinciall and Nationall Assemblies or to any of them or which of them are Iure Divino and by the will and appointment of Jesus Christ 5. Whether oecumenicall Assemblies are Iure Divino or whether there be appeales from any of the former Assemblies to the said oecumenicall Assemblies Iure Devino by the will and appointment of Jesus Christ 6. Whether by the word of God the power of judging and declaring what are such notorious and scandalous offences as aforesaid and conventing before them trying and actuall suspending from the Sacrament such offenders accordingly either in the Congregationall Elderships or Presbytery or in any other Eldership of Presbytery presented to the House as the advice of the Assembly and whether such powers are in them only or any of them or in which of them Jure Divino and by the will and appointment of Jesus Christ 7. Whether there be any certaine and particular rules expressed in the word of God to direct the said Elderships or Presbyteries or any of them in the exercise and execution of the powers aforesaid and which are those rules 8. Is there any thing contained in the word of God that the Supream Majestracy in a Christian state may not judge and determine what are the aforesaid notorious and seandalous offencet and the manner of suspention from the same And in what particulars concerning the premisses is the said Supreame Majestracy by the word of God excluded In Answer of these particulars the House of Commons desires of the Assembly of Divines their proofs from Scripture and to set down the severall texts in the expresse words of the same Ordered that every particular Minister of the Assembly of Divinâ— that is or shall be present at the debate of any of these questions de upon every resolution which shall be presented to this House concerning the same subscribe his respective name either with the Affirmative or Negative as he giveth his Vote those that do decent from the major Part shall set down their possitive opinions with the expresse Text of Scripture upon which their opinion is grounded For Answer to the first Quaerie the Churches of Christ were constituted and gathered out of the world by the Ministry of the Gospel according to that great Charter thereof Mat. 28.19.20 Mark 16.15.16 Lu. 24.47 And not by any Authority or Ministry of the civill Magistrate and as they were thus gathered planted in the premitive times so are they in like manner by his Servants to be gathered after the Apostacie whom by his power he shall in an extraordinarie manner raise up and by the Servants of the Churches that shall be by them sent forth to preach the everlasting Gospel for the inlightening the earth discovering the Mistery of iniquity and the Ministry of Antichrist gathering his people out of spirituall Babylon as out of Babylon of old and planting them into Church fellowship and order having their Commission