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B04844	The case considered & resolved: whether Mr. Brooks his pills to purge malignants were prescribed from ignorance, malice, or both, or, (Mr Tho. Brooks his inside turn'd outward). Wherein all godly, humble, and ingenious Christians, whether in a congregational way or other, are concerned, to inquire into the truth ... presented in generall to the inhabitants of Margarets New Fish-street, but more particularly for the consideration of himself, and those of his congregation ... also friendly advice to an unfriendly neighbour, desiring him for the time to come to abstain from reviling such persons as he never spake word to, nor they to him. / By Richard Parham, a parishoner of the said parish.	Parham, Richard.	1653 (1653)	Wing P356B; ESTC R187021	27,320	39

worship and ver 21. Jesus said unto her woman believe me the hour cometh when ye shall neither in this mountain not at Jerusalem worship the Father c. and ver 24. God is a Spirit and they that worship him must worship him in Spirit and Truth Certainly where much is given much is required and so on the contrary but if by reason of the overspreading of abomination God hath withdrawn those visible gifts from the Ministery must we presently make us Gods to go before us let us rather a little consider what the Lord speaks by the Prophet Isaiah chap. 50.11 behold all ye that kindle a fire that compasse your selves about with sparks walk in the light of your fire and in the sparks that ye have kindled this shall you have at mine hand you shall lie down in sorrow When Moses for a while had left the Israelites and was gone into the Mountain Exodus 32. as you may read at large it was a woefull worship they performed to their god-calf and surely Aaron made a bad bad exchange of his Priesthood in making an Altar and proclaiming a holy day to it I might instance in divers the like particulars but I hasten yet let me offer one thing to consideration which hath been a brand fixed on divers holy conscientious persons that they are a people that despise the Ministery and live above Ordinances no certainly it is their grief and sorrow of heart that they live below and without them and think you any persons professing Christ Jesus dare be such rebells to him as not to yeeld obedience to his commands especially when he tells them that his yoke is easie and his burden light but blame them not for not believing Michals image to be Davids person 1 Sam. 19.13 And now let us consider what gracious promises are made to such a people that see themselves at so great a losse read Isaiah 50.10 Who is among you that feareth the Lord that obeyeth the voice of his servant Isaiah 41.17 18. Ch. 42.7.40.31 that walketh in darknesse and hath no light let him trust in the name of the Lord and stay upon his God chap 30.18 and therefore will the Lord wait that he may be gracious unto you and therefore will he be exalted that he may have mercy upon you for the Lord is a God of Judgement blessed are all they that wait for him chap. 42.16 J will lead the blind by a way that they knew not I will lead them in paths they have not known I will make darknesse light before them and crooked things streight these things will J do unto them and not forsake them And did not Christ come to fill the empty to cloath the naked to feed the hungry and to set at liberty those that were bound Without controversie if ever we intend to be partakers of these gifts before spoken we must be first sensible of the want of them Thus have I briefly and faithfully to my own understanding given you a small tast which upon your farther consideration I hope you will enlarge and then I believe you will clearly discerne the shadow from the substance which is to know the difference of the Baptism of Christ from Iohns or of water from the Spirit of speaking from study art and learning or from the gift of the Spirit to Prophecy as 1 Cor. 12.10 and of all the rest of the gifts of the Spirit reckoned up in that chapter and be assured it is a duty that highly concernes us all to try by Scripture the Spirits of those we hear and it was that which was commendable in the noble Bereans that they searched the Scriptures to see whether the things Paul spake were so or not Act. 17.11 Nay it is the high commendation which God himself gives to the Church of Ephesus Revel 2.2 I know thy works and thy labour and thy patience and how thou canst not bear with them which are evill and thou hast tried them which say they are Apostles and are not and hast found them liers Now for those that desire to know and to be throughly acquainted with the practise life and power of Christian Religion may find it laid down in that incomparable Sermon preached by Christ himself in the Mountain Mat. 5. to the 8. chapter wherein the former part of the 5 chapter the qualifications of Saints are discovered to verse 12. and that their Religion might not rest in formality he tells them verse the 20. that except their righteousness exceed the righteousnesse of the Scribes and Pharisees they should not enter into the Kingdome of heaven and to the end that they might not be unacquainted with the difference between a legall and Gospell obedience he layes it forth in sundry particulars unto the 28. ver of 7. chap. wherein as by a most perfect rule we may be able to judge between Saints in word and notion and Saints in life and power for understanding whereof let us weigh and seriously consider one instance of many where Christ tells the people ver 43. of of 5. chap. ye have heard that it hath been said of old thou shalt love thy neighbour and hate thine enemy v. 44. but I say unto you love your enemies blesse them which curse you do good to them that hate you and pray for them which persecute you v. 45. that you may be the children of your Father which is in heaven for he maketh his Sun to arise on the evill and the good and sendeth rain on the just and the unjust for if you love them which love you what reward shall you have do not the Publicans do the same v. 47. and if you be friendly to your brethren only what singular thing do ye do not even the Publicans likewise if then this be the doctrine of Christ and that which his Disciples ought to practise shall we not be ready to cry out with them who then can be saved the world at present is full of Professors and they full of fine words such as may justly be called inticing words of vanity but I desire that we may all weigh our selves at this balance and measure our selves by this Standard so that when we find our selves qualified as is here more at large in Scripture expressed we may justly expect the performance of the promises in being made partakers of the like gifts as the believers were in the primitive time And thus at present I have done with this desiring the Lord in mercy to give us a right understanding in all things A POSTSCRIPT THat the Gentleman and others may not be deceived in thinking those of the Parish who were not Petitioners against him are for him in approving his book if they think so it is a grosse mistake for to my knowledge divers of them did conclude it to be a great abuse to the whole Parish and when I spake of answering it they did presse me exceedingly to it not that I have any thing whereof to glory but considering their earnestnesse which I could not judge but to be in sincerity of heart it put me in mind of a passage which when I was a School-Boy I then learned and have not yet forgotten it is Virgil Liber 2 Aene●d where Aeneas though very unwilling yet being earnestly entreated by Dido Queen of Carthage makes relation of the Trojan warres and give this reason as you may read at large Sed si tantus amor casus cognoscere nostros Et breviter Trojae supremum audire laborem Quanquam Animus meminisse horret luctuque refugit Incipiam c. But I shall say the contrary ità finem facio that though I abhorred to discover my mind in print yet a just cause and friends perswasions were two prevailing arguments to do it I shall only add one word more and leave it to the consideration of him that hath most right to it and the riddle may be unfolded hereafter I can assure you that in this discourse I have not to my knowledge made any false Muster neither have I like some Commander scrambled a pack of strange faces together to march through the City with as much confidence and little credit as if they were his own listed company FINIS

guilty of The one in being Stubborne and Rebellious against the Will and Councell of God declared by his Messengers and Ministers The other delight in believing and trusting in Lying Vanites viz. the Dreames and Divinations of mens hearts whom God never sent And to the end we may not fall under either of these extreames it is our duty to take a survey of both these particulars and to inquire by that perfect rule of Scripture so farre as we are able to understand and try who are true and who are false Ministers and Messengers That so as on the one hand we may not be found Fighters against God or Contemners of his Ministers so on the other we might not by blinde obedience be so led by blinde guides that at last both we and they fall into the ditch As to the first of these we finde the people of Israel to be greatly guilty of both before in and after the Captivity You cannot be ignorant of divers examples in that kinde Jer. 7.13 14 15. Therefore now because ye have done all these workes saith the Lord. and I rose up early and spake unto you but when I spake you would not heare me neither when I called would you answer c. And I will cast you out of my sight as I have cast out all your brethren even the whole seede of Ephraim verse 26. Chap. 7.8 Chap. 17.23.44.16 As for the word that thou hast spoken unto us in the name of the Lord we will not hearken unto thee c. And so all the other Prophets declare the peoples Obstinacy Contempt and Rebellion to the Commandements of God declared by his Messengers But afterwards more especially in abusing those gracious tenders of mercy unto eternall salvation by Christ himselfe and his Ministers as is testified John 1.11 He came unto his owne and his owne received him not And upon the first sending out of the Apostles Mat. 10.5 Goe not into the way of the Gentiles and into any of the Cities of the Samaritans enter ye not 6. But goe rather to the lost sheepe of the house of Israel Yet for all this mercy and loving kindenesse of Christ Jesus we finde their Obstinacy and Rebllion come to a heighth of Blasphemy when contrary to their owne consciences they told Christ that he cast out Devils by Belzehub Certainely a People come to such a fulnesse of iniquity cannot be farre from that destruction spoken of Proverbs 1.24 to the 31. Because I have called and ye refused I have stretched out my hand and none would regard but have despised all my Councell and would none of my correction I will also laugh at your destruction and mock when your feare commeth like sudden desolation and your destruction shall come like a whirle-winde when affliction and anguish shall come upon you c. I might much enlarge this but desire Brevity that the discourse may not shew the Writers Vanity or vex the Readers Patience Now as to the second thing which is the peoples trusting in lies and vanities even to their owne confusion Jer. 7.19 We shall finde if we serioufly examine whence it springs that the roote of all the mischiefes misery and destruction of Nations is from their wicked Priests lying Prophets and pretended Messengers and Ministers of God whom he never sent nor gave any Commission unto How sad was the case of Ahab Kings 22. to have the advice and be thrust forward by the councell of foure hundred lying Prophets to his owne destruction We finde when the Lord sent Jeremiah to declare his wrath against the people of Israel in chap. 2. ver 2. he mildly reasons with the people saying Thus saith the Lord I remember thee with the kindnesse of thy youth and the love of thy marriage when thou wentest after me in the wildernesse in a land that was not sowne Verse 3. Israel was a thing hallowed unto the Lord Verse 5. What iniquity have your Fathers found in me that they are gone farre from me and have walked after vanity and are become vaine But in ver 8. we have the reason fully The Priests said not where is the Lord And they that should minister the Law knew me not the Pastors also offended against me and the Prophets prophecied in Baal and went after things that did not profit And chap. 4.30 31. An horrible and filthy thing is committed in the Land c. Chap. 14.14 The Prophets prophecie lies in my name I have not sent them neither did I command them neither spake I unto them but they prophecie unto you a false vision and divination and vanity and deceitfulnesse of their owne heart Chapter 18.15 Because my people have forgotten me and have burnt Incense to vanity and their Prophets have caused them to stumble in their wayes from the ancient wayes to walke in paths and way that is not trodden Chapter 23.1.21 I have not sent these Prophets yet they ran I have not spoken unto them yet they prophecied I might bring a cloud of witnesses to confirme what hath beene asserted but you may read them at large But let us inquire whether they gave the people any better counsell in the time that Christ and his Disciples preached amongst them Truly all along the New Testament we finde them opposing the Doctrine and persecuting Christ and his Disciples in person and that they might be sure to fill up the measu●e of their transgression and to bring the Bloud of Christ and all the Prophets upon their own heads and unavoydable ruine on the Nation you may read their councell at large Mat. 27.1 When the morning was come all the chiefe Priests and Elders of the people tooke councell against Jesus to put him to death and in the 20. you may see the influence they had upon the people But the chiefe Priests and Elders perswaded the multitude that they should aske Barrabas and destroy Jesus But their wages was as sad as their worke when there was not one stone left standing upon another in Jerusalem that was not throwne downe But were not these people a zealous strict and exact people in their Religion and wayes of Worship Yea and we finde Christ often speaking of it but withall discovering the worme at the roote as their making of long prayers when they meant to devoure widows houses And their tything of herbs when they neglected Judgement and Righteousnesse c. Did they not condemne Christ for keeping company with the Publicans and sinners and yet did not they drive a trade of treason by whole-sale with Judas Thinke you they were not like to teach the people truth well when they had a Mint of Lyes going to furnish the Roman Soldiers with when they hired them to say his Disciples came by night and stole him away while we slept And were they not a people that boasted much in their Church and Ordinances John 8.33 Of being Abrahams children and free and yet at that time they would and afterwards did