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A37498	The tryal of spirits both in teachers & hearers wherein is held forth the clear discovery and certain downfal of the carnal and antichristian clergie of these nations / testified from the Word of God to the university-congregation in Cambridge by William Dell ; whereunto is added A plain and necessary confutation of divers gross errors delivered by Mr. Sydrach Simpson in a sermon preached to the same congregation at the commencement, Anno 1653 ; wherein (among other things) is declared, that the vniversities (according to their present statutes and practices) are not (as he affirmed) answerable to the schools of the prophets in the time of the law, but rather to the idolatrous high places ...	Dell, William, d. 1664.; Simpson, Sidrach, 1600?-1655. A plain and necessary confutation of divers gross and antichristian errors.	1660 (1660)	Wing D933; ESTC R219079	121,760	168

out our Name as evil and to cast our Persons out of their Synagogues yea and also to kill us when they can get Power so if we be true Teachers must we be ready and willing to suffer all this for Christs Name sake Wherefore those Teachers who imbrace the heighth and Honour of this Life and will not own the Gospel of Christ farther than they may thereby procure to themselves credit reputation profit and preferment in the World and to this end in doubtful and difficult times carry themselves so subtilly that what ever Party shall prevail they may still stand on their leggs and injoy their present Prosperity and Preferment and so are neither hot nor cold neither truly for the Truth nor openly against the Truth but seek by all subtil means to decline the Cross of Christ. And though in Christ himself they praise his meanness plainness simplicity suffering and cross yet They themselves are delicate and cannot indure these things for Christs sake in Themselves but bend and frame the whole course of their Ministry so as they may obtain all Good things from the World and avoid and escape all Evil things from it these all are false Prophets and Ministers of Antichrist By these nine Signs for I shall name no more now may the true Prophets and Ministers of Christ be manifestly distinguished and discerned from the false ones of Antichrist by all the true people of God who have received his Spirit Now let God and his Word be true and every Man a Lyar. And now I shall make but two Uses of this Discourse briefly and so conclude for this time And the first shall be to Those of You who are spiritual Christians and the second to the carnal Clergy First You who are true believers and spiritual Christians may judge aright by what you have heard of the present Clergy or Common Ministry of the Nation and may see by the clear light of the Word that they for the Generality of them are not true but false Prophets not the Ministers of Christ but of Antichrist not sent of God nor annointed by his Spirit but ordained and appointed by Men at their own desire and seeking for Worldly Advantage sake men who stand and minister in the Church only in the strength of their Academical Degrees and Ecclesiastical Ordination but do not stand and feed the people In the strength of the Lord and in the Majesty of the Name of their God And this corrupt Ministry or carnal Clergy have deceived the People and Nations with a corrupt and carnal Understanding of Christ and of the Scriptures and of the Kingdom of Christ and of the Government of his Kingdom and of all the things of Christ Yea they have under the Name and pretence of Christ set up a Church to Antichrist every-where and do continually mislead thousands of poor souls and carry them captive to Hell and that under the colour and pretence of Religion And this I say is the great evil in these false Teachers that under the Name of Christ they fight against Christ and under the Name of the Word they fight against the Word and under the Name of the Church they fight against the Church And this is a grievous Abomination of Desolation in the Temple of God that they who should be the chief for the Truth are the chief against it and that they who should be faithfull Witnesses to the holy Truth of Christ should prove lying Witnesses against it If a prophane person or Heathen should do this it would be Wickedness and Impiety even in them but this is horrible Abomination and Antichristianism in the Church of Christ that They who are come into it as friends and have obtained the chief Places in it should yet under this vizard be indeed very Enemies and Seducers and Hinderers of the Word of Christ crucified Wherefore saith the Truth against such Psal. 55. 12. It was not an enemy that reproached me then I could have born it neither was it he that hated me that magnified himself against me for then I would have hid my self from him but it was Thou a man mine equal my guide and my acquaintance we took sweet counsel together and walked unto the house of God in company c. And so these false Teachers are these familiar Enemies who exercise all their hatred under the pretence of love all their enmity under pretence of friendship and practise all their wickedness under a form of godliness and by this subtilty have they deceived the World They will not plainly contradict the words of the Prophets Apostles and Christ in the Letter of it but will praise it and speak well of it but yet they are utter Enemies to the true and spiritual Meaning of it both in their Lives and Doctrine and the more these men make a shew of Religion and Holiness the greater Antichrists they be in the Church Wherefore to You who are true Christians and have received an Annointing from God this is the Word and charge of God Come out from among Them my People and touch not the Unclean Thing that is their carnal Doctrine have nothing to do with such Prophets and Ministers but remember what Christ saith John 10. that His Sheep hear his voyce and will not hear the voice of Strangers for they know the voice of Strangers And if any of you live in any Town or Parish where such false Prophets are though they go under the Name of Godly and Orthodox yet touch not the Unclean Thing but know that it is better for you Believers to assemble together among Your selves though you be but few than to communicate with the false Prophets in their false Ordinances seeing Christ hath promised his Presence to his Believers even where but two or three meet together in his Name yea hath said If any Two of you shall agree together to ask any thing on earth it shall be done of my Father which is in heaven And if you having these Promises shall meet together among your selves in the Name and Spirit of Christ in the use of the Word and Prayer of faith lo Christ himself will be with You and though you be but few yet are you the Church of the living God the Pillar and Ground of Truth and of that very Church against which the Gates of Hell shall not prevail And thus much to you spiritual Christians 2. And now for the carnal Clergy or false Prophets their burden is this from the Lord. You have run when You were not sent You have said thus saith the Lord when the Lord hath not spoken by You You have grieved the hearts of the faithfull and strengthened the hands of the Wicked You have been forward to advance the Form of Godliness whilest you have been bitter enemies to the Power of it You have deceived the Nations and made them drunk with the cup of the Wine of your fornications you have done

more against Christ and his true Church and more for Antichrist and his false Church than all the People in these Nations besides Wherefore this is the Word of the Lord to You throughout all your quarters That the Nations shall not much longer be deceived by you nor buy any more of your Merchandize for your Wine is the poyson of Dragons and the cruel venom of Asps your Doctrine being the word of Philosophy and not of Faith after the mind of Man but contrary to Christs minde to set up Your selves and your own Interest to the prejudice of Christs Word and People Wherefore how much you have georified your selves and lived deliciously by this Trade of making Merchandize of the Word of God so much Torment and Sorrow shall God give you and your Plagues shall come upon you in a Day and your Judgement in an Hour and your Lovers shall not be able to help you nor the Petitioners for You to uphold You but God shall bring You down wonderfully by the clear light of his Word and his mighty and unresistable Providence accompanying it and the World shall tremble and wonder at the Noise of your Downfall and the Heavens and holy Apostles and Prophets shall rejoyce over You when God shall avenge their Cause upon you And the Lord will save his Flock and they shall be no more a Prey to You neither shall You any more serve Your selves of Them And he will set up one Shepherd over them even Jesus Christ and he shall feed them and be their Shepherd And till these things be fully brought to pass you shall be clothed with trembling when you shall perceive the Lord is risen up to perform all these things according to his Word And now for conclusion if any of You or most of You or all of You are offended at these things in such sort that you cannot contain your selves from anger and bitter zeal I do intreat you to consider seriously how much better and more profitable to your Eternal Salvation it would be for You to resist and to refrain from such evil and unchristian Passions and that You would rather if there be any hope return to your own hearts and try your works and repent before our holy and righteous Lord and return truly and speedily to Christ from Antichrist lest you be inwrapped both in his temporal and eternal Destruction And thus much was delivered to the University Congregation in Cambridge for a Testimony against them except they repent The rest for the substance of it was delivered elsewhere in the Town as followeth Anno 1653. THE TRYALL OF SPIRITS 1 John 4. 1 c. Believe not every spirit c. IN this Scripture we have noted these six things 1. That the Apostle gives the faithfull notice of a Great Evil risen up Many false Prophets are gone into the world 2. He prescribes them a sufficient Remedy against that evil Believe not every spirit but try c. 3. He gives them a right Rule for Trial vers 2. 3. 4. He shews with Whom those false Prophets who come in the Spirit of Antichrist should not prevail to wit with none of the true children of God ver 4. 5. With Whom they should prevail to wit with the Worldly and Carnal people ver 5. 6. He shews How the Spirit of Truth and Error may be known in the People as well as in the Teachers v. 6. Of the three first of these Points I have spoken already in the University Congregation The last time I spake of the third thing that is the Rule of Trial how the false Prophets may be known and discerned from the true And I gave forth clearly and plainly out of the word of God Nine signs to distinguish them not One of which can possibly be contradicted but by the Spirit of Antichrist or by the prophane and ignorant World And then I also delivered two Uses the one to spiritual Christians and the other to the Carnal Clergy all which you may have recourse to in the former Discourse But how these things have since vexed and tormented the false Prophets you very well know and how exceedingly grieved and angry they are that this Word of God should be taught the People and that in their Presence Unto which Word of Christ they say by their Deeds as Satan in the possessed said once to Christ himself in words Mark 1. 24. Let Us alone what have We to do with Thee thou Jesus of Nazareth Art Thou come to destroy Us I know thee who thou art the Holy One of God This Unclean Spirit knew and acknowledged Christ to be the Holy One of God and yet would have Nothing to do with Him because he was come to Destroy him So these false Prophets cannot choose but acknowledge in their Hearts at least that the Word that hath been taught them is the Holy Word of God but yet they say What have We to do with it for it is come to destroy Us. For the more the Word of Christ is held forth in the clearness and plainness of the Gospel the more doth it destroy Them and their Affairs Their carnal Clergy flowing from the Antichristian Fountain of the Universities their Ecclesiastical Assemblies arising out of the Clergy their Presbyterian Government springing up out of their Ecclesiastical Assemblies their National Church the product of their Presbyterian Government together with their worldly power and Domination their high Titles their Scarlet Robes their Divinity-Degrees c. I say the Word of the Gospel comes with full Might and Minde to destroy all these and all their other Things in which their souls delight as bringing worldly Profit Power and Honour to them Wherefore this Word which abases and casts down Them and all their Things and exalts Christ alone and all his Things they cannot endure but do account it their reproach and shame and say to it What have We to do with Thee thou holy Word of God! for thou art come to destroy Us and so against this Word they are angry and inraged at no ordinary or Humane Rate but as David saith Psal. 59. They belch out with their mouth and make a noise like a dog and go up and down full of pride cursing and lying But the Lord laughs at these Heathen and hath them in derision for he seeth the day is coming when they shall wander up and down for meat and grudge if they be not satisfied Now this behaviour of theirs towards the Word of God is plainly foretold Rev. 16. ver 10 11. where it is said that when the God of Heaven poured forth his Vial by the fifth Angel on the Seat or Throne of the Beast his Kingdom was full of Darkness and they gnawed their tongues for pain and blasphemed the God of Heaven because of their pains and their sores and yet repented not of their Deeds Now the Throne of the beast in these Nations are the Universities as the fountain of the Ministery