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A66932	A little stone, pretended to be out of the mountain, tried, and found to be a counterfeit, or, An examination & refutation of Mr. Lockyers lecture, preached at Edinburgh, anno 1651, concerning the mater of the visible church and afterwards printed with an appendix for popular government of single congregations : together with an examination, in two appendices, of what is said on these same purposes in a letter of some in Aberdene, who lately have departed from the communion and government of this church / by James Wood ...	Wood, James, 1608-1664.	1654 (1654)	Wing W3399; ESTC R206983	330,782	402

A LITLE STONE Pretended to be out of the MOUNTAIN Tried and found to be a Counterfeit OR AN EXAMINATION REFVTATION OF Mr. LOCKYERS LECTURE Preached at Edinburgh ANNO 1651. Concerning the MATER of the VISIBLE CHURCH And afterwards Printed with an APPENDIX for Popular Government of single CONGREGATIONS Together with an EXAMINATION in two APPENDICES Of what is said on these same purposes in a LETTER of some in Aberdene who lately have departed from the Communion and Government of this CHURCH By JAMES WOOD Professor of Theol. in S. Andrews EDINBVRGH Printed by ANDRO ANDERSON for George Suintoun and Robert Broun and are to be sold at their Shops 1654. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE JOHN EARLE of CASSILS LORD KENNEDY My Lord WHat the wise observing King uttered long agoe that of making of Books there is no end was never more verified in any then it is in the present age wherein scribunt docti indoctique every smatterer and every fancie-full head must have the Presse travel to bring forth their froathy conceptions And Presses by many are made use of as engines to discharge revylings reproaches and blasphemies against the God of Heaven his blessed Truths wayes and Ordinances For my self I can say in truth it hath not hitherto been my ambition to increase wearinesse of the flesh by much Reading And that now I come this way to the worlds view 't is not of mine own meer choise but because a necessity was laid upon me The Author with whom I have to do in this ensueing debate having not only opened his mouth to Preach in the most eminent-place in this Land but also adventured to Write and Print against the Orthodox Doctrine touching the constitution and Government of the Visible Church of Christ revileing in speciall the Church in this Land yet through its side also stricking at all the Orthodox Churches in Europe as no Church but a dead carcasse having neither matter nor form of a true Church a nest of unclean birds idolatrous c. And thereupon charging with a great deal of confidence and big words all truely Godly to come out of it and to separate from it It was by some Reverend and Godly men thought expedient that altho there appear little or nothing in what is said by him which may brangle the mind of any judicious Reader Yet because it is a thing usuall to adversaries of the Truth if what they say be it never so weak get not an Answer to brag of it as unanswerable And unsettled minds that have not their senses exercised to discern good and evill are ready to be taken with any thing busked up with gay words and so to be carried about like weather-Cocks with every wind of Doctrine as many sad examples of this time prove an Answer should be returned to him lest truth should so much as seem to suffer prejudice any way And this taske they were pleased to lay upon me Who albeit I do and cannot but ingenuously acknowledge my self one of the least and weakest Servants of Christ and that many others there are in this Church who might far more worthily acquit themselves in this service Yet durst not withstand the motion having so clear a Calling and considering withall how I stand oblidged in my station to maintain the true Religion in Doctrine Worship Discipline and Government by the mercy of God established amongst us in common with the rest of the Lords people in the Land by Solemn Vow and Covenant and more particularly by the Lords bringing me who had been in my younger years educated as to many things in a contrary way to the acknowledgment of ●he truth in a very gracious manner with a strong hand and in much long-suffering patience whereby he waited to be gracious that he might be exalted in shewing mercy on me Haply it will be matter of talking to some that this of mine has been so long in coming forth after Mr. Lockier published his But it is not unknown to many who have been witnesses to my diligence that my Answer was in readinesse within a few Moneths after his Peece came to my hands and the task was laid upon me And had come abroad if several difficulties had not interveened Now when it is to be published I desire humbly to present it to your Lordship first and under your Honourable name to the view of the world I must spare to expresse all the great causes oblidging me so to do Because to expresse them would not only be haply inexpedient But also would be I know unsavoury to your self whom I have alwayes found desirous to aprove your self in reality of wel doing but never liking well to hear of other mens euges Only this much I cannot forbear and must begge your Lordships leave to say The personall obligations which you have laid upon me by a continued tract of undeserved respects ever since the first time I was known to your Lordship would require a worthier testimony of acknowledgment then is this mean present or any thing else my small store of abilities can afford But to speak truth it is not so much any personall concernment that hath engaged my heart to your Lordship as that which hath endeared you to all who know the truth and you That grace which God hath vouchsafed upon you to walk in tendernesse and closenesse with himself in your privat course and with constant zeal to improve your publick station wherein ye have stood for promoving the interest of Religion and righteousnesse and the good of Gods people without byasse or wavering in any revolution of times wherewith many turning upon the axletree of their own self-interests have whirled about the sweet fruit whereof I doubt not but you find in these glowmie dayes and trust shall abide with you to the end through the mercy of the Lord whose gifts and graces are without repentance I will not adventure upon such severe self-denyednesse to speak more of what I have had the happinesse to be acquainted with in your Lordship I hope this testimony of my sense of the obligation I ly under to honour your Lordship shal finde favourable acceptance at your hands I will not presume for indeed it were presumption to commend my work in it I pretend to nothing therein but that through the Grace of God I have ingenuously and in simplicity tho in much weaknesse spoken for truth But the matter it self is precious and of great weight consisting of two great interests of Christ Jesus his Visible Church which is his Visible Kingdom on earth The one touching the qualifications of the persons that are to be acknowledged members of his Visible Church and so in effect comes to be a Question de sinibus of the marches of his Visible Kingdom The other touching the matter and way of the externall Visible Government thereof As to the former my Author has so straitned the bounds of Christs Visible Church that by his sentence none are to be

truly whether their froward spirit did not principally raise these storms I leave themselves to judge They converted so many Malignants into Presbyterians e contra that if God had not been more gracious then they ingenuous they had undone themselves and others too Answ To this impertinent discourse in the generall if I shall say that it is nothing else but an issue of carnall bitternesse I think no ingenuous indifferent man will blame me or think I say too much For 1. True suppose Presbyterians began first to draw the sword which is false they were forced to it by others drawing it but was it not for their just defence in vindication and maintainance of the Truth of Jesus Christ and of their just liberty against oppression Prelaticall violence and arbitrary Government And must this be charged upon them as Mr. Lockier doth here as a crime Tell me Mr. Lockier what condition were you in and would been in to this day in all humane appearance had not Presbyterians begun to draw the sword in that quarrell Tell me what was the means under God that procured liberty for the sitting down of a free Parliament in England 1640 Belike you think it was a crime that you got not leave to crouch under the burden and Religion and Liberties were not suffered for Presbyterians to ly still under oppression and usurpation I believe the wisest and most ingenuous and those that are most eminent amongst them that now are in power amongst you and in these Lands will not approve you in their judgement for this challenge against us And unlesse I be misinformed when they were come to this hight of prevalency they are now in and we brought to this low condition we are now continuing in looking back gave testimony of their acknowledgement that our beginning to draw the sword did put the sword in their hand tho it was never our purpose to put it in their hand for the effect for which at last they have made use of it 2. Your attributing the hightning of the sword to that to which in likelyhood it would not have come to the bitternesse and basenesse of Presbyterians seeing ye give no proof nor the least evidence of it and indeed ye could not we must crave leave to say it is an injury Tell me Sir was it bitternesse of spirit or did it tend to the hightning of the sword that the Presbyterians in Scotland having but girded their sword to them Anno 1639. upon promises of tollerable satisfaction laid it aside again presently ere ever they drew it and having again in the Year 40. being forced to it by deadly preparations drawn it with advantage which they might have prosecuted yet as soon as they were secured by the treaty at ●ippon put it up into its sheath and retired again * Remember Mr. Lockier and read that speech of one of your own Jeremie Burroughs to the cōmon Counsel of London in Guild Hall Anno 1642. and blush I shal here insert but a few of his words for the Readers sake who may be he● not at hand a Cople of that speech Was their ever such an example seen since the world began of a people coming out of a poor country into a fat and rich country and having these opportunities to enrich themselves to go away so as they did Their greatest enemies they now admire at them A people that began to rise for their Liberties when the generality of this people here was ready c. I shall transcribe no more let Mr. Lockier read what followeth and what goeth before these words into their own land without any further molestation and having again drawn the sword for your assistance in great straits and upon your earnest suit Anno 1643. And having kept it in their hand for sundry years untill all enemies were husht and gone as soon as they were desired to return home did it in a peaceable way I pray you Sir tell me who were the men that kept up the sword then Whether Presbyterians or some others 3. Indeed these two latter Summer-wars have been the sharpest and we cannot but say that we have felt And it becometh us well to justifie the Lord our God in all that he hath brought upon us and to bear his indignation because we have sinned against him we and our Kings and our Princes and Rulers and the whole People of the Land But if as to the quarrell be-between us and man frowardnesse of spirit in us raised these storms tho we can justifie our selves before the world Yet we shall not take upon our selves to be judges of it But shall refer it to the Judgement of him who is the Judge of the World and though it should be his blessed good pleasure never to plead our cause by a sensible dispensation of providence in this world yet we will acquiesce in the approbation of his revealed will without quiting of our innocency be content to ly down in the grave and wait for his sentence in the mater when he shall come to Judge the quick and the dead And as for you Mr. Lockier I verily think he shall never let you go off this world without a challenge from himself for such unchristian uncharitable insulting over them whom the Lord hath smitten and talking to the grief of these whom he hath wounded 4. As to that which followeth they converted so many Malignants into Presbyterians e contra c. 1. 'T is upon the mater but an injurious scoffe smelling rank of a mind not purposed to reason but to reproach a thing unbeseeming a Minister of the Gospel especially in a Pulpit I will not pay you home in your coyne Mr. Lockier but I may say Quamvis dignus ego essem hac comtumeliâ indig●…is tu qui faceres tamen 2. T is utterly impertinent to the preceeding purpose he was upon Was this the quarrell that did principally raise these storms Where is ingenuity I beleeve we might had liberty to turn Malignants enough unto Presbyterians or any other thing we pleased without any quarrell had we been content but to have done some one thing which we durst not do because of the Oath of God And now I obt●st you Mr. Lockier say candidly if either then when these storms were raised or now since we felt the dint of them converting Malignants to be what they would for your designe be made bones of among you I 'le insist no more upon this invective but leave it spread before the Lord that he may in his time plead with the Authors heart for the unjustice and uncharitablenesse of it Come we now to the next Objection he meeteth with section 9 4. Object Simon Magus was a man in the gall of bitternesse and in the bonde of iniquity yet upon his profession of faith in Christ he was received into Church-fellowship Therefore meer profession is sufficient to this state and no more to be looked after de jure nisi