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A82317	Right reformation: or, The reformation of the church of the New Testament, represented in Gospell-light. In a sermon preached to the Honourable House of Commons, on Wednesday, November 25. 1646. Together with a reply to the chief contradictions of Master Love's sermon, preached the same day. All published for the good of the faithfull, at their desire. / By William Dell, minister of the Gospel, attending on his Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax.	Dell, William, d. 1664.	1646 (1646)	Wing D927; Thomason E363_2; Thomason E363_3; ESTC R201227	36,729	61

Right Reformation OR The Reformation of the CHURCH of the NEW TESTAMENT Represented in GOSPEL-LJGHT In a Sermon preached to the Honourable House of COMMONS on Wednesday November 25. 1646. Together with a REPLY to the chief Contradictions of Master LOVE'S Sermon preached the same day All published for the good of the Faithfull at their desire By WILLIAM DELL Minister of the Gospel attending on his Excellency Sir THOMAS FAIRFAX Iohn 7. 12. And there was much murmuring among the people concerning him for some said He is a good man others said nay but He deceiveth the people Iohn 16. 3. And these things will they do unto you because they have not known the Father nor Me Credo me Theologum esse Christianum in regno veritatis vivere ideo me debitorem esse non modo affirmandae veritatis sedetiam asserendae defendendae seu per sanguinem seu per mortem Luther LONDON Printed by R. White for Giles Calvert at the Black-spred-Eagle near the West end of Pauls 1646. TO THE HONOVRABLE THE COMMONS Assembled in PARLIAMENT Honourable and Worthy AS the LORD represented these truths to you before in the Ministery of the Word so now again He offers them to your second consideration in this Printed Book because he hath a minde you should take notice of them And I must needs say it is the LORD's voyce to you and I hope he will move your hearts to regard it though Satan hath mightily bestirr'd himself by casting an ill Vizzard upon the Truth to make you dislike it But if you like CHRIST the worse for a Face spit on and buffeted you may want a SAVIOUR And if you like the truth of CHRIST the worse for a scratcht Face you may make your dwelling place with Errour Humane Doctrines wch are all one Micaiah had no sooner delivered the truth of GOD but there was a False Prophet to smite him on the face the LORD no sooner prepares Instruments to reveale his truth but Satan hath his instruments ready to turn the truth of GOD into a lye And this GOD suffers to be done to exercise your skill and wisdome that you might learn not to be offended at the truth with the World but to receive and love the truth notwithstanding all the indignities and reproaches of men When you reade what you have heard you must needs acknowledge it to be the minde of GOD if you received the anointing of the Spirit and the truth herein contained shall prevaile with all that belong to GOD For my part I am not carefull touching the successe of it I can trust GOD with that whose Word it is For as the Doctrine of the World hath the weak power of the World to carry on that so the Doctrine of Iesus Christ hath the mighty power of GOD to carry on that and the power of GOD in the World shall as soon be made void as the true Doctrine of the Gospel though called Errour Heresie Schisme and have all the misguises of Hell put upon it The truth you then heard delivered and may here reade again shall carry all opposition and opposers before it and none shall be able to stand against it that ingage against it And of this both your selves and this generation shall be Witnesses If any think that I gave too much power to CHRIST in the Reforming of the Church his own Body let them consider again that too much cannot be given to CHRIST in GODS kingdome seeing he is all in all in it Neither is that exaltation the Gospel gives to CHRIST in this Businesse any diminution to your selves neither by making CHRIST all in the Kingdome of GOD are you made ever the lesse in the Kingdomes of this World But what ever power the Word of GOD hath given you I will deny you none of it nay I will be among the first that shall attribute it to you And do desire you would no more any of you be displeased for attributing the Reformation of the Church to CHRIST alone then the Redemption Iustification Sanctification or Glorification of it to CHRIST alone The former being every whit as great and glorious a work of CHRIST as the latter I do most willingly allow you your Thrones in the Kingdoms of this World but only desire to reserve to Christ his own Throne in the Kingdome of GOD There are those indeed that would lift you up to this Throne not because they would have you sit there but place them there they would ascribe to you the power only due to the Sonne of GOD not because they would have you use it but would use it themselves they would derive power from you to do that which they say you cannot do and the power they attribute to you in the things of GOD they say is not well in your hands but in theirs And here I would desire you to take notice of the working of the Mysterie of Iniquity from the Head to the very Little-toes of the Man of Sinne At first you know the Pope interested himself in the Emperour and Powers of the World for his own advantage and support no doubt rather then for theirs after the Prelates successively said to worldly Kings Lend us your power and we will lend you ours Let our spiritual power deale in temporal things and your temporal power shall deale in spirituall things and still the Clergy-power which call'd it self spiritual so linkt it self with the temporal that the power that was not of God might be upheld by the power that was of God and having got this advantage they cried Destroy one Destroy both and so the Prelates were wont to say No Bishop no King And their successors in the Kingdome of Antichrist still cry No Minister no Magistrate and so still mingle interests and powers with the civil Magistrate that under the Magistrate the power of GOD they might cunningly shrowd that power that is not of GOD And thus they still under the name of the Magistrate seek themselves and the drawing of that power that is only his from him to themselves to whom it doth not belong Being in the mean time really against Magistracy further then it is serviceable to their own ends Whereas we reckon Magistracy not lesse Magistracy no lesse the Ordinance of GOD though we suffer under it and by it This Clergie-Antichristian power where ever it is will still sit upon the power of the Nation the power of Antichrist so domineering over the powers of the World that none but the power of CHRIST can cast it off That will still be uppermost what power soever is supream Besides all the experience of former Ages which is the greatest wonder in the World that men consider not GOD gives you sparklings enough of it in this Age some preaching That the government of the Church which they make outward and visible and over mens estates bodies and lives belongs not to King nor Parliament but to the Ministers and their

the assemblings of the Saints both publikely and privately as occasion serves seeing this can be no prejudice to the State but a great advantage in as much as they meet peaceably and make no tumults and in their assembling pray for the peace and welfare of this divided and distracted Kingdome And also that you take heed of scattering those Churches that meet in the Name and Spirit of Iesus Christ which are Christs own gathering tog●ther least Christ so scatter you abroad that you never be gathered together again 5. That you take heed you do nothing to the prejudice of the faithfull Gods own people as he hath warned you by the Spirit saying Touch not mine anoynted and do my prophets no harm This place hath been miserably mistaken for the Kings of the earth and the Clergie have shared it between themselves whereas indeed it belongs to neither for Gods anoynted are the faithfull that are anoynted with the Spirit the oyle of God and so are anoynted as Christ was anoynted And these anoynted ones are the Lords Prophets and the Lord hath no Prophets but such as are anoynted with the Spirit Thus Christ was made the Lords Prophet The Spirit of the Lord is upon me for he hath anointed me to preach the Gospell and thus are all his Brethren made Prophets being fellows with him in his Unction And therefore take heed how you meddle with the Lords anoynted ones and with the Lords Prophets for as it is said He suffered no man to do them wrong yea he even reproved Kings for their sakes saying Touch not c. So the Lord hath still the same care of the same people and will suffer no man to do them wrong but will reprove Kings and Parliaments and Kingdomes and Cities and Counties and Committees he will reproove them all for their sakes and say Touth not mine anointed and do my Prophets no harm for they rhat are anoynted with the Spirit are the flesh of Christ and the Prophets of God and therefore touch them and harm them a● your own perill It grieves me to see the rest of the Kingdome touching these anoynted ones of God and doing harm to these his Prophets abusing and spoyling and imprisoning them It would gr●●ve me much more if I should see you doing the same for this would bring you as well as the Kingdome under Gods own reproofe and the reproofe of God who can indure Sixthly and lastly Takeheed you do not hinder the free passage of the Gospell When God hath put his Spirit into the hearts of men take heed how you resist the Word in those mens mouthes for the Word of God in the meanest instrument can never be resisted but will carry all before it The Honour Power Dignity Authority Nobility Magistracy of the Kingdome if they should once stand up to hinder the Word of God the Word of God would carry them all before it And therefore it grieves me to see how the City Country Country Towns Villages do all rise up for the most part against the ministration of the Spirit for this is a certain signe of the undoing of them all God will suffer and indure any sin long but onely the contempt and opposition of the Gospel but when men once rise up against the Gospel in the Spirit and Power of it they are sure to be undone by it and to be shattered all in peeces for this brings swift Vengeance And therefore when I see the generality of the people of of all sorts rise up against the Ministration of the Spirit which God hath now in these dayes of ours set up even in every County for salvation to his people but for a stone of stumbling and a rock of offence to the rest I am then exceedingly distressed and pained at the very heart for thee O England and for all thy Cities and Towns and inhabitants for thou that dashest against the Spirit in the Gospell how shalt thou be dashed in peeces thy selfe and there shall be no healing for thee I could hope for Peace again and good dayes suddenly in this Kingdome but for this sin of the contempt and opposing the Gospel and this makes my hopes even at an end and the day of my feare is come forth upon me But oh you honourable and beloved Christians let not your soul enter into those mens secrets neither yet walk in their open and publike wayes for ruin and destruction are in their pathes and the way of peace they shall never knnw seeing God is about to enter into controversie withall flesh for their rising up against the Ministration of the Spirit And therefore be Wise here I beseech you that in the shattering of the Nation if there be no remedy you may be kept together as a blessed remnant and a hopefull seed of the following geneation To Conclude Honourable and Worthy we will be willingly contented to do and suffer all things with you we will cheerfully run through honour and dishonour with you fame and infamy gaine and losse trouble and quietnesse War and Peace life and death and do desire to reserve nothing to our selves Nisi unicum verbum domini but onely the Word of God in its own purity and liberty to preach it and to publish it and to professe it and practise it for the glory of God and his only begotten Son and for the good of his Kingdome and this Kingdome And thus much unto you from the Lord A REPLY To Mr. LOVE'S Contradictions Sir BEcause I would not wrong you in any measure in what you said I went to one who took your Notes in short-hand and hee gave mee what I here set down for yours which I well remember are the things you then spake for the substance of them To which I give you this following Reply Mr. LOVE Cast your eyes upon the begun Reformation though peradventure cried down with Confidence No such thing as the Reformation of the Church c. Reply I taught indeed That the Kingdome of Christ is a spirituall kingdome and the Reformation of it is answerable and that Christ himselfe who is the Lord the Spirit is the Reformer of this spirituall kingdome by his word and Spirit but little thought that any man would have been so blind or worse as to have affirmed the preaching of this spirituall and glorious Reformation was to preach against all reformation Is the Reformation of Jesus Christ which hee works by his word and Spirit in all the faithfull and in all the Churches of the saints no Reformation at all How durst you affirm this Mr. Love Mr. LOVE As if all were encompassed within the narrow heart of man Reply Yet I said plainly enough When the heart is reformed all is reformed and Gospel Reformation though it begins in the inward man ends in the outward Did you Sir accuse mee rightly then or no Mr. LOVE If this be so Race out the first Article of the Covenant Reply I had rather the whole Covenant were