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A34990	A description of the Church of Scotland with a word of reproofe to the priests, and teachers, and officers therein, for their many corrupt doctrines and practices, also a warning and a gentle invitation to all people, that lives under their tyrannicall government, to come to the truth ... : herein is their church made manifest ... : with an exhortation to all people to come out from amongst them ... / written in love to the simple-hearted in that nation ... by one who desires that people might be brought to the truth ... who am known among men by the name Stephen Crisp.	Crisp, Stephen, 1628-1692.	1660 (1660)	Wing C6928; ESTC R40352	17,808	15

A DESCRIPTION of the CHVRCH OF SCOTLAND WITH A Word of Reproofe to the Priests and Teachers and Officers therein for their many corrupt Doctrines and Practises also a warning and gentle invitation to all People that lives under their Tyrannicall Government to come to the Truth which will free them from the Bondage they have long laine under and to the light which will shew them the way to escape being longer Partakers of their sins and so they shall escape being Partakers of the Plagues which shall shortly be poured forth without mixture upon them which continue in their ungodly Deedes and Workes of darknesse in Rebellions against the light that makes them manifest Herein is their Church made manifest 1 In its Foundation 2 In its Members wherewith it is builded 3 In its Officers 4 In its Doctrines of God of Gods Word of Faith and of Election 5 In its Ordinances of Baptisme and the Lords Supper as they call them 6 In its Discipline With an Exhortation to all People to come out from amongst them to that which makes them manifest which is the true Light that lighteth every Man that cometh into the World Written in love to the simple-hearted in that Nation and in witnesse of the T●uth and in Testimony against the false Teachers and their false Doctrines Way●s and Worships by One who desires that people might be brought to the Truth in their inward parts to worship God in that by the leading of his own spirit that so they might be accepted _____ who am known among Men by the name Stephen Crisp. Printed for M. W. in the first Moneth 1660. A Description of the Church of Scotland c. TO the severall Presbetryes in Scotland and to every Member of them and to the Scottish Church in generall is this directed and sent as a word of reproofe and warning from him who is the head of the true Church which is pure and underfiled and sent by and given thorough his Servant who being a Member of that Church and participating of the power and wisedome of the Head according to the proportion of 〈◊〉 Member doe thereby comprehend your Church of which I am not a Member and in obedience to the Lord Jesus Christ the true Head doe hereby reprove you of your adultery and hypocrisie and severall other spots and wrinckles that are in and upon your Church which now with the light are made manifest And in the feare and name of the Lord doe warne you to returne and come to that which maketh manifest and maketh cleane before yee be cast upon the bed of misery and perpetuall sorrow with Babilon your Mother and Jezebell your Prophetesse by the power of whose sorceries and inchantments in and among her Merchants and Disciples many p or people in thi● Nation are seduced and deceived and kept from the anoynting which teacheth freely the truth which no lye is of nor springs from and they whom you keep from this which teacheth freely that so they might buy or hire teaching of you among whom they are ever learning and never learned nor brought to know the truth which makes them fre● that abides in it These I say can never know the true Church which is the ground o● truth in which none can be Pillars but such as overcome sin and transgression and death which entred thereby and came over all Men in which state Gods Church is not and there is but two states namely the state of sin and transgression the wages whereof i● death and the state of redemption from sin which is thorow the power of the resurrection from the dead which is the state of the Church between which two states is an absolute antipathy for they that are in the transgression are not in the Church for then i● would be spotted and they that are in the Church are not in the transgression because the Church is in God where transgression cannot be and they that are holden in sin and death are not risen from the dead and they who are made partakers of the resurrection and life which is Christ they are not holden in sin but the same power that raised 〈◊〉 Jesus from the dead raised them from the power of sin and death and being thus raised makes them Members of the Church which is pure and undefiled which is separate from the sinners and from the sin by the mighty operation of the crosse which is th● power of God by which we are translated from death to life from sin to righteousnesse from being Members of the Harlot and her Church to be Members of Christ and h●● Church and this is the Church which we owne and witnesse Now as concerning your Church I have not a few things against it but even many where in you are to be reprooved and must be amended or rather changed before you can justly b● called and accounted the Church of Christ or any part thereof Therefore listen a while and give attention ye Priests and Presbetryes of Scotland who hath a long time beene talking of reforming and amending and purging and making cleane your Church and I will declare unto you your way which ye ought to take to accomplish that which you so much pretend for and cannot yet accomplish nor indeed never can till that be removed which hath and doth hinder a right and thorow reformation Now the first thing in your Church that is presented to my understanding to be repoved is the foundation thereof upon which it is builded it not being the same which the Church of Christ was and is builded upon as will thus appeare The foundation of your Church is that which stands in the fleshly part of man namely formes and names of the things the Saints wrought off without the power which are attainable by the fleshly wisedome of this world by which God is not known nor the body which is the Church discerned but he that can get the Saints words to speake although he be out of their life yet such are accounted fit members of your Church and of such members and upon this foundation is your Church builded the Saints words being the chiefe corner stone therof but Christ said be would build his Church upon that which the knowledge of came not by flesh nor blood but revelation from God his Father which is in heaven as you may read in the 16. Math. 17.18 And this is the rock which is now made manifest by revelation thorow the spirit which thing you deny to be in these dayes and so are not builded upon what comes to be known so but upon that which the knowledge of comes by flesh and blood and you that have laid another foundation for your Church then what is by revelation your foundation must be raised and your Church must fall the Pillars whereof are already shaken and shall shortly be removed Therefore come all to the true foundation which was and is the foundation of the true Church which is

Christ was as your answers would doe if yee were asked but your Idolls shall be broken and their names shall you be ashamed off as they were ashamed of the Groves and the greene Trees under which they had worshipped their Idolls whom God confounded before you and then your Water and Wine and Cakes and such like things which you call Sacraments and your Masse-houses which you call Churches signed with the Popes Grosse your predecessors these things will but all adde to your shame and sorrow Therefore whilst you have time lay aside these carnall and foolish traditions and come to the light which lets people see over them all to the one Baptisme it selfe and to the Supper and Table of the Lord it selfe and to the Church it selfe which is in God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ as you may read 1 Thess 1.2 And lastly the Discipline of your Church doth appeare contrary to the Discipline of the true Church and in this particular yee have so far proceeded already within these few yeares that yee have thereby much manifested your selves even to many who did not before see you for this many hath looked upon as a taile of a Scorpion with which yee have sought to bend that sting and venome which lodged in your hearts against the true Church which yee could not vent with your tongue nor hands but this also will the Lord cut off that the Scorpions shall hurt no more your sting begins to decay and your force to faile you and people begins to walke safely in the path of peace and in the way of righteousnesse notwithstanding your taile or your tongue to the greife of your hearts which is filled with mischeife against the righteous in the Land But the Lord is their deliverer and according to the evil of your desires against the innocent even so shall your reward be Now the true Church they did observe that if any that was called a Brother should be a Fornicator a Railer and Extortioner a Covetous person an Idolater or a Drunkard with such a one not to eat now if you would observe this in your brother-hood yee would quickly be scattered one from another your Preists suspended for their Coveteousnesse and Drunkennesse and Railing the people suspended for their Fornication and Idolatry and Extortion and Railing and Fighting and many other misdemeanors your Communion would soone fall but you who are a body or Church so called made up of such as these yee take another course to uphold your fellowship for if any who hath beene one with you in these things before mentioned doth come to see with the light wherewith Christ hath lighted them that these things are displeasing to God and so dares not goe on with you any longer in them but declares against your Idolatry your covetousnesse your railing and it is with such a one that you will not eat nor drinke nor buy nor sell Oh abominable depth of Satan this is the way you have found out to keep people from believing in the truth and from departing from your corrupt and cursed practices In short this is as your Fathers the Jewes did who were the crucifiers of the Lord of life if any then did confesse him to be the Christ that said I am the light of the world who lighteth every man that cometh into the world they must be cast out of their Synagogue marke out of the Synagogues of the unbelievers and crucifiers such as yee who cannot nor will not have any fellowship with them that beleives in the light that they may be made Children of the light your latter end shall not be like unto theirs Furthermore the Apostle exhorted the Corinthians to deliver the incesteous persons to Satan for the destruction of the flesh that his soule might be saved in the day of the Lord but he did not intend the destruction of his body as yee wickedly doe who thirsts after blood to asswage the flame of your envy but the Lord will quench that flame and yee that desires blood yee shall have blood to drinke but the Apostle fought not with flesh and blood but against spirituall wickednesse and against incestion and fornication and Idolatry but yee make war against the flesh and blood and seekes the destruction of the outward bodyes as much as in you lyes but those who believes in the light and trusts in the Lord the God of our salvation the power that saveth out of sin and unrighteousnesse them will he deliver out of your bloody hands and from your cruell teeth and from the reach and venome of your hurtfull taile but it may be you will say although we have no criminall fact to lay to their charge whom we have cast out of our Church of whom you speake yet they are Heretickes and it was Pauls councell that one that is an Heretick after the first and second admonition Reject I answer if this were observed among you there would be none found to reject for all would be found to be rejected and this is the reason that whosoever comes to be members of the true Church doth reject you because of your Heresie in doctrine and corruption in conversation but after that way which you call Heresie worship we the God of our Fathers who wrought the holy Scriptures by inspiration of the holy spirit and according thereunto we believe in the true light that lighteth every man that commeth into the world which our beleife you call Heresie and we beleive that this light wherewith every man is enlightened is a sufficient light to lead all that follow and obey it to eternall life and this you call Heresie and that this light is the perfect and beavenly gift of God and whosoever yeilds himselfe into the obedience of it shall thereby be translated from darknesse and the workes thereof which is sin and be brought to live righteously and holyly in this life and this also you call Heresie and many more things which in the Scriptures are declared and by us believed and witnessed doe you call Heresie as may appeare in a booke lately published by the Presbitery at Edenborough to their shame called a testimony against the petition for tolleration wherein your envious and bloody spirit is sufficiently set forth to every judicious Reader against the life of the Scriptures and whomsoever into it is come But your cainish spirit is seene and your end is at hand and your reward shall be according to your workes And now all yee people of Scotland in whom is sincerity and simplicity unto whom this shall come consider in the feare of the Lord where you are and who you are joyned with and against whom yee take part while yee abide in this Church and search the Scriptures your selves and see whether these things be so or nay and come out from amongst them and partake no longer of their sins least you partake also of their plagues which is neare comming upon them and praise the Lord who hath spared you untill now and caused his light to breake forth to discover their wayes and workes of darknesse before yee are overwhelmed by his judgements and as in sincerity yee come to try these things with the light in it yee will see more light and by it an understanding will be opened in you to see into their abominations and deceits beyond what is heare declared but if yee reject this the day of your visitation then shall yee be shut up in darknesse and your ignorance shall increase and your hearts shall be heardened and yee made fit for the indignation and wrath of God to be powered forth upon when the measure of your iniquityes shall be fulfilled While you have time prise it and while you have light love it and beleive in it that you may be made Children of it S. C.