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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91430	The copy of a letter written by Mr. Thomas Parker, pastor of the church of Newbury in New-England, to his sister, Mrs Elizabeth Avery, sometimes of Newbury in the county of Berks, touching sundry opinions by her professed and maintained. Novemb. 22. 1649. imprimatur John Downame.	Parker, Thomas, 1595-1677.	1649 (1649)	Wing P475; Thomason E584_3; ESTC R206220	9,411	20

The COPY of a LETTER Written by Mr. Thomas Parker Pastor of the Church of Newbury in NEW-ENGLAND TO His Sister Mrs Elizabeth Avery Sometimes of Newbury in the County of BERKS Touching sundry OPINIONS BY HER Professed and Maintained Novemb. 22. 1649. Imprimatur JOHN DOWNAME London Printed by John Field for Edmund Paxton at Pauls-Chain over against the Castle Tavern near the Doctors Commons 1650. The Epistle to the Reader BEsides this ensuing Letter I have also received other Letters to my dear Friend Mrs Avery which for sundry Reasons are not Printed from Mr. Cotton Mr. VVilson and Mr. Noyes all which bear the like aspect as this Letter doth in opposition to her Opinions herein Refuted That if so be the will of God she may be reduced to her former Faith and Profession from which she is so strangely turned away I forbear to acquaint the Reader with the transcendent worth of the Reverend Author of this Letter partly because I know it will be unacceptable to him and unnecessary in respect of them that have any knowledge of him and partly because I am unwilling to follow the Devils method in these days of Error who by raising an admiration of mens persons in the hearts of the simple disposeth them to a present compliance with their pernicious Doctrines Such flattery is below the gravity of a spirit established in the Faith of Christ whose Genius it is not to glory in Man forasmuch as whether Paul or Apollo or Cephas all is yours 1 Cor. 3.21,22 Benjamin Woodbridge To my very loving Sister Mrs Elizabeth Avery LOving Sister for yet you are my Sister according to the flesh and I am not yet without hope but that you are my Sister according to the Spirit for it is possible that God may bring you back again from your Heretical Opinions The Lord of his mercy grant That what I shall now write may be acceptable unto you and may be effectually prevalent for your seasonable reduction that you may not dye away in this lamentable Belief You will not come to Ordinances nor willingly joyn in private Prayer with your own Husband but onely to condescend to his infirmities for you say you are above Ordinances above the Word and Sacraments yea above the Blood of Christ himself living as a glorified Saint and taught immediately by the Spirit Who would have thought or dreamed that such expressions should have ever come out of the mouth of Sister Avery What will you make your self to be What higher then Moses and any of the Prophets above the holy Apostles and Primitive Saints which all were under Ordinances What higher then Christ himself who subjected himself to Ordinances while he was upon the Earth Acts 2. Did not Christ when he ascended up on high institute Ordinances for this end that by them his Saints and Churches and all of them without exception should be builded up until his second coming Eph. 4. Surely then if you will not be at Ordinances publique and private you forsake the way of Christ and withdraw your self from the way and means of Edification by him and Communion with him by the Spirit And what maner of Christian will you make your self to be For all the Saints and Churches from the Apostles until this time have constantly subjected themselves to the Ordinances of Christ as Histories do shew and the Prophesies in the Revelation What can you say to prove that Christ will bring forth Christians in this age differing from all that went before You go the very ready way to exclude your self from the sheepfold and from among the sheep of Christ when you do exclude your self from Ordinances and from the common way and path of all Saints yea and the glorious Church of New-Jerusalem to be raised up in the last time is said to be builded upon the Foundation of the twelve Apostles namely upon their Doctrine and in way of the holy Ordinances instituted by them You cannot possibly say That you are above the glorious Church of New-Jerusalem whose glory here is the height of grace upon the earth But it is marvellous that you are not afraid to say That you have more of the Spirit then the Apostles Be not offended that I tell you This is a horrible delusion of Satan and Luciferian pride Why do you not then dictate Oracles immediately from Heaven Why do you not infallibly Prophesie of the Times Why do you not work Miracles as they did Did any of the holy Martyrs ever say so or think and do as you The time was when you honored the memory of them and could humble your self to their imitation But that is above the rest That you are above the Blood of Christ Surely Satan the cunning hunter of souls doth labor to divide you from Christ and from his Blood that you should have no share at all in him when he moveth you to conceive and utter such things Saints are never above the Blood of Christ they are kept and maintained by his Blood even in their glorified estate as well as thereby promoted thereunto And if the Blood of Christ doth not keep you here on earth and wash you daily and further you on in the way of all Grace and in opposition to Sin and Satan you shall certainly never enjoy his presence and communion in the world to come To put the Blood of Christ out of the honor of employment and not to depend upon it is a fearful way to be utterly rejected Christ of his mercy preserve you dear Sister But I may say with Isaiah Stand and wonder they are drunken but not with wine Is any such language to be found in any corner of the Scripture or did any of the Apostles ever say they were above the Blood of Christ would they not have defied such a speech But unto all this you adde That Christ hath no humane body and that he shall not appear to the world any more in a visible maner that his second coming is his coming in his Saints whereby they are taken up into the nature of God and are as truly Christ as Christ himself and partake in the fulness of the Godhead no less then Christ yea that they are one with God their very Being is God Dreadful to think upon much more to speak or write or meditate upon Who hath bewitched you that you should fall into such Errors Hardly any in the world which have known you in former time would have thought or dreamed that you should ever have faln so deeply from your Faith If this be your New Light God preserve me and all good people from it But you will say I am in darkness and you in light and that I am no meet Judge The time was you would not so say But if you question it now how shall it be tryed Is not the Scripture to be our Rule To the Law and to the Testimony if they speak not according to the word it is because