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A26409 A declaration of a small society of baptized believers, undergoing the name of Free-willers, about the city of London Adis, Henry. 1660 (1660) Wing A576; ESTC R211455 11,743 4

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peaceable Lambs of Christ Iohn 21.15 the great Shepheard and Bishop of our souls 1 Pet. 2.25 1 Pet. 5.4 Heb. 10.22 Who doth require us to learn of him for he is lowly and meek Mat. 11.29 yet notwithstanding we do declare when or wherever some of us shall conveniently meet with any of them either in private or in publick we shall resolve God assisting us to contend earnestly with them for the faith once delivered to the Saints according to that exhortation of the Spirit of God by his Apostle Iude 3. and against them and all oppositions and opposers wha●soever as good Souldiers of Iesus Christ 2 Tim. 2.3 fight the good fight of faith 1 Tim. 6.12 In which combate we are confident we neither shall hazard life nor draw blood for through mercy we can say with our Apostle 2 Cor. 10.3 4 that though we live in the flesh yet we warr not after the flesh for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal To the third That we countenance the people called Quakers in their Irregular practice To this we answer and God is our witness we lie not that we are so far from countenancing the Quakers or our selves in any Irregular practice as that if we our selves be found in any such actings we shall not violently oppose but patiently subject to such penalties as the breach of such Laws cals for it would have been well if the assertors had declared wherein this Irregular practice doth consist that so we might have given a more particular answer yet we hope by what hath and shall be declared it will easily be judged that we for our parts are not such people as the Baptists generally are reported and some shew themselves to be To the fourth That we endeavour a tolleration of all miscarriages in things Ecclesiastical and Civil under pretence of Liberty of Conscience If by indeavouring a tolleration of all miscarriages in things ecclesiastical the assertors intend amongst our selves in our own assemblies we shall answer them as in the presence of God the searcher of all hearts That we are so far from any such toleration as that we at this very day go under a reproach by that people we formerly walked withal because in the reality of our souls and the integrity of our hearts we cannot allow of some things that we judge to be of that nature amongst them we well knowing that the Lord Christ requires a perfect observation of and a universal obedience to all things whatsoever he commanded Mat. 28.20 And that as well to what hath been laid down by his Apostles given in by the incomes of that Spirit that was to lead them into all truth and to shew them things to come Iohn 16.13 which are also the commands of Christ 1 Cor. 14.37 as to those that were laid down by himself Iohn 18.12.15 so that we positively say that if we shall allow of any miscarriages either in Doctrine or Discipline amongst our selves to thwart the mind of Christ revealed in his Scriptures of truth we can expect no better answer from him then a proclamation of our worship to be a vain worship as once he declared against the Jews Mat. 15.9 And therefore if miscarriages rise amongst us we are to bring such miscarriages to the touch-stone of Gods word and so weigh them in the ballance of the Sanctuary and finding them either too heavy or too light that is either adding or diminishing from or to the mind of Christ we are then to repair to those wholsome laws left us in Scripture record for the regulating of such miscarriages according to the nature of them as they are private or publick or more or less in their several agravations and as they are committed by persons standing in such or such relations we say the more of this because most persons think and many do not stick to say that we live and act in things Ecclesiastical as Libertines and without Church government because we withdraw our selves from the publick assemblies But did such persons rightly consider what the discipline of the Ministry of the Nation is in their Parochial assemblies who profess themselves to be the true Spouse and Church of Christ and compare It with the mind of Christ revealed in the Scriptures of truth who gives Laws to his Church which is that body of which he himself is the head Ephes. 4.15.21.22 Col. 1.18 ● 19 They would then find themselves to be the Libertines and not we and therefore we shall earnestly desire all that are unacquainted with the true discipline of the Church of Christ well to weigh and seriously to consider these statute Laws of Christ in that case provided 2 Tim. 3.16 2 Tim. 4.1 2. Ephes. 5.11 Mat. 18.15 1 Tim. 5.12 19 20. 1 Tim. 6.5 1 Tim. 1.20 Tit. 3.10 2 Thes. 2 15. 2 Thes. 3 10. 1 Cor. 5 4 9 11. The which as we will answer the contrary at the great day of account we dare not in the least wilfully violate or neglect But if by miscarriages in things Ecclesiastical they mean that we endeavour a Tolleration of all miscarriages amongst them in their assemblies we shall in the presence of God clear ourselves and say we have nothing at all to do with them in such matters for we say they are without as to us 1 Cor. 5.12 13. And so we look upon our selves to be as to them And if any one shall seem to be troubled at this term Without and object and say that we are all the Creation of God and what need these expressions of stand at a distance I am more holy than you To such we shall answer in the Spirit of Love and Meekness and God is our witness without AUSTENTATION That it is true all the Sons and Daughters of Adam are the Sons and Daughters of God by creation but few by regeneration and adoption for many are called but few are chosen Mat. 20.16 for not the hearers of the Law but the doers shall be justified Rom. 2 13. And not every one that saith Lord Lord shall enter into the Kingdome of Heaven but he that doth the will of the Father Mat. 7.21 We well know that many will say these are hard sayings and cannot well bear them But to such we shall give a direction in our Post-script where from one of us they may expect and we hope also find good satisfation as to the tearm Without That we own Liberty of Conscience we confess but under that or any other pretence to endeavour a toleration of any miscarriages either in things Ecclesiastical or Civil we have given we hope full satisfaion for seeing it is the will of our Master to have the Tares and the wheat grow together till the Harvest Mat. 13.30 And that our Heavenly Father doth exercise his long suffering to the whole bulk of man-kind not willing that any●…d perish but that all should come to Repentance 2 Pet. 3.9 We look upon it to be our duty to follow
he applieth to and also for and in the behalf of Episcopals Independants and Presbyterians who are opposite both to the Doctrine and disipline of those Churches he intendng thereby to perswade us if possible to a beliefe that they are the true and visible members of that body of which Christ is the head the which book by Gods assistance is intended suddenly to be answered by one of our soceity who resolveth to intitle it The Retractators work Scaned or the conceptions and supposals of Mr. William Alleyn regulated by Scripture record in which with other things a Gospel believer or a true Church of Christ upon a Gospel account is intended to be stated the which is hoped will be so plain that it may prove instrumental to the undeceiving of some that are under a deceipt by meanes of that and such deceiptful discourses as that is in which answer it is farther hoped that those that are unsatisfied with our tearme Without in our answer in our Declaration to the fourth particular may receive also good satisfaction and in the mean time we desire all to take notice that though we thus speake yet we have good thoughts of those friends that go under those denominations and do own them and all others of all other opinions whatsoever in union so far as they own God Christ and their truthes but to own the best of men to be members of that body of which Christ is the head and so to have communion with them either to make them our mouth in Prayer to God for us or Gods mouth in speaking forth his truths to us or in breaking of bread at the table of the Lord we cannot own them in the least our reasons we hope will be fully laid down in the answer to the said book Henry Adis Richard Pilgrim William Cox In the behalf of themselves and those that walk with them And if any man shall question the reason why there are no more Subscribers to this long Declaration we must answer them in the sorrow of our hearts in the Language of the Prophet Micah 7.1 Woe is us for we are as when they have gathered the Summer fruits as the grape gatherings in the Vintage there is no clusters to eat vers 2. The good man is perished out of the earth and there is none upright amongst men they all lie in wait for blood they hunt every man his Brother with a net vers 3. That they may do evil with both hands earnestly the Prince asketh and the Iudge asketh for a reward And the great man he uttereth his mischievous desire so they wrap it up vers 4. The best of them is as a brier the most upright is sharper then a thorne hedge the day of thy watchmen and thy visitation cometh now shall be their perplexity For thus saith the Lord by his Prophet Isa. 59.2 Your iniquities have separated between you and your God and your sins have hid his face from you that he will not hear vers 3. For your hands are defiled with blood and your fingers with iniquity your lips have spoken lies your tongue have muttered perverseness vers 4. None calleth for justice nor any pleadeth for truth they trust in vanity and speak lies they conceive mischief and bring forth iniquity vers 5. They hatch cockatrice egs and weave the spiders web he that eateth of their eggs dieth and that which is chrushed breaketh out into a viper vers 6. Their webs shall not become garments neither shall they cover themselves with their works their works are works of iniquity and the act of violence is in their hands vers 7. Their feet run to evil and they make hast to shed innocent Blood their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity wasting and destruction is in their paths vers 8. The way of peace they know not and there is no Iudgment in their goings they have made them crooked paths whosoever goeth therein shall not know peace vers 9. Therefore is judgment far from us we wait for light but behold obscurlty for brightness but we walk in darkness And so read on to the 18. vers and vers 18. According to their deeds accordingly he will repay fury to his adversaries recompence to his enemies to the Islands he will repay recompence But lest any man should think us to be what we are not by what hath been inserted in our paper after our subscriptions we shall in FINE declare that in the presence of God we fight not against sinners but their sins against sinful Actions and not persons as they stand in such or such relations in this Land of our nativity And therefore shall earnestly beg all of all ranks and qualities to set themselves upon the work of self examination and to take that good advice from the Lord by his Prophet Isa. 1.16 Wash ye make ye clean put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes cease to do evil and learn to do well seek judgment relieve the oppressed judge the fatherless plead for the widdow TO WHICH if ye be willing and obedient ye shall eat the good of the Land but if ye refuse and rebel ye shall be destroyed by the sword for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it vers 19 20. And to our dissenting Brethren we shall give that Christian advice that the Apostle Paul once gave to the Corinthians 2 Cor. 7.1 That they cleanse themselves from all filthiness of flesh and spirit perfecting holiness in the fear of God LONDON Printed for the Author Henry Adis Uphouldster living in Princes Street and Published the 13. day of the 11. Month Heathenishly called in honour to their God Ianus Ianuary 1659.