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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94750	A vvord of reproof to the priests or ministers, who boast of their ministery and ordinances, and yet live in pride, disdain, persecution, &c. Shevving what such are; and how little cause they have to exclaim against those who separate from them. As also a word to the papists discovering their foundation to be carnal and sandie. In a letter sent to some supposed priests or Jesuites in the north, by William Tomlinson.	Tomlinson, William.	1653 (1653)	Wing T1855; Thomason E691_9; ESTC R206966	29,084	49

seeming affections and such like you hereby deceive the hearts of the simple But these will not serve your turnes now your Covering is too narrow it will not hide your nakednes You are brought to the touch stone Your work Your works they are your discovery Your workes are the works of Sodom pride idelnes fulnes of bread covetousnes wrath malice backbiting persecution disdainfulnes Oh the proud disdainfull spirit that is among you Is it not just so with you as it was with the Pharisees What dost thou teach us said they and is not the same in your hearts also against all that say any thing against you if they appear not to be brought up in your Schooles But by such as you so scornfully disdain even by such shall you be overthrown and confounded You have clamoured against others calling them wandring Stars and falling Stars as if the region of your traditions and humain inventions had been the firmament of truth and as if all that fell from these things had falne from Heaven and from grace But it will be made manifest to all men that you are falne from the firmament of truth from the wayes and from the words of the Apostles and are found wandring in the foggy mists of humain inventions You have had a whores forehead impudent and bold to cast those names upon others which do most properly belong to your selves Whether are they the falling Stars who arise in their spirits casting off every weight that bindes down to the earth that they may walk up closer to the example of their Lord Christ and his holy Apostles or they who fall downwards towards the earth with Demas loving this present world but forsaking the footsteps of the Apostles fixing their roots into the earth being held fast with the allurements thereof You have called every one Deceivers and Seducers who have stepped forth from you groping after the truth But consider well whether you your selves shall not be found Grand Seducers First consider the Multitude of Deceivers how many they are whom this whorish spirit of fornication seducing doth possess It sitteth upon many waters Rev. 17.1 And those waters are Peoples and Multitude and Nations and tongues v. 15. And again it s said all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication Rev. 18.3 And again By thy sorceries were all nations deceived v. 23. Now at whose hands do all nations receive this cup of fornication but at the hands of the nationall ministeries and who are the sorcerers who deceive all nations but their nationall teachers who in some things imitate the true messengers of the Lord but thereby take advantage to oppose them the more strongly in other things and even in such things as wherein their removing out of Egipt spirituall lyes and so keep them as fast lockt up in the house of Bondage as they can Even as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses to keep Israel after the flesh still in Pharaohs house of Bondage A few that start aside out of these generall Delusions cannot be they who thus deceive and seduce all nations Again look upon the spirit of Persecution the Bloody spirit stained with blood and where find we that Who are the persecuters and who the persecuted Are not those whom the nationall teachers call seducers the Persecuted and are not the nationall teachers themselves the Persecuters Judge by this where to find the seducers for this is none of the least Characters It s not the nature of the lamb to persecute nor of them that follow the lamb No they come out of great tribulation They are nailed to the Cross of Christ and for his sake are slain all the day long and are as sheep appointed to the slaughter But on the other side the Seducers and Deceivers drink blood They thirst after and procure the blood of saints not under the notion of saints that was never known but under the notion of Deceivers and Blasphemers and Hereticks and such like And so in her is found Blood Blood Blood even all the blood of any that are slain upon the earth Blood of Prophets Blood of Saints Blood of the witnesses of Jesus Rev. 17.6 Chap. 18.24 Again we may guesse at the Seducers and Deceivers by the worldly pompe and Riches which they fall down to and deck themselves withall for the whorish spirit which seduceth is an earthly spirit and so delighteth in an earthly kingdom in the pretious things of the earth Rev. 17.4 They are every one for their gain from their quarter they can remove from worse quarters to better for a little more mony at their pleasure and this is usually their call from one place to another There be few of them but one may hire them from one place to another for forty pounds more per annum if there be but equall honor and other accommodations in both places and thus are they the hirelings of men bought and sold for earthly riches even as bruit beasts in a market and they that give most get them Thus they press after the waies of Balaam tempting the Lord untill he give them up to the swinge of their own hearts as he did Balaam But it is otherwise with the true messengers of the Lord. They prophesie in sackcloth and the nearer that any one comes to the truth the more he is made to die to this world and to the things thereof You call others Hereticks Schismaticks Sectaries and Separatists which are termes that signify a separation and division from the truth from the saints who stand in the truth and from Christ You are full of names of Blasphemy and that 's one character of the deluding spirit your mouthes I say are full of such names but which of you shewes the people how they come to be worthy of such names to whom you apply them and why you call them so as you do It s an easy thing to call any one by any name or odious terme falsly and as you do without ground for it That we may therefore understand better who they are that are hereticks and schismaticks indeed let us mind where is the knot of all true union the center in which all must meet who do not separate and make schisme Is it not in Christ who is the Truth Suppose that Christ were here in person upon earth and a few despised men break off from the body of the Jews as once they did and follow him all the rest cleaving fast still to their Judaisme tell me now whether are these few who forsake the body of the Jews their rites and ceremonies to follow Christ or they who stick still in them the Hereticks and Schismaticks So when Christs comes in Spirit and calls a People out of Babylon from the confusion of mens inventions which hath overspread the Earth and wherewith all nations are made drunk a few in comparison of the rest come out by degrees the rest stick still in the Confusion Which of these

given to all his members namely Ye may all prophecie one by one that all may learn and all may be comforted You disown every gift that would bring to nought the magnificence of your Diana But what you can form to profit your selves withall that you retain And can adde also other things to make Merchandize of them which have no shadow of any footstep in the practises of the true Messengers of Christ as namely Your Marrying of Persons for mony your buryings for mony and your most absurd Mortuaries or stipend which you challenge for the dead Your funeral sermons for mony also I am weary with raking in these filthy puddles which are fit for nothing but swine to wallow in And thus though you both adde and diminish from the things of Christ and Counterfeit other things which you uphold for your gain yet all that separate from you must be cried against as Hereticks Sectarists Schismaticks Separatists Indeed there is a separation which I do not here plead for and that 's a separation upon conceit of ones own holiness because they are devout in some outward observations of worship more then other men such as are spoken of Isa 65.5 Stand by thy self come not near to me for I am holier then thou These are a smoke in my nose a fire that burneth all the day and these were devout in holding up Ordinances rather then they would have no sacrifice they would sacrifice in Gardens and rather then they would have no incense they would offer it upon Altars of Brick vers 3. They are charged to be a people who walk after their own thoughts vers 2. Such also were the Pharisees who stood glorying in their own outside painted holiness and thanked God that they were not as other men and even as this Publicane when as within they were full of rottenness and all uncleanness full of envy wrath malice persecution disdain covetousness pride and such like And all these they retained under a shew of godliness and outward observation of Ceremonies and traditions of their Fathers They were strict in washing off the defilement which they had any way contracted if water would have done it They bare great reverence to the sacrifices upon the Altar which were Ordinances then in force They made conscience of paying tithe of all they had even of Mint and Annise and Cummin They were not wanting in prayers and fastings to the Lord and their prayers were no short ones which gave all to think that they were not weary of serving the Lord. Yea they compassed Sea and Land too to beget people to the Lord to make proselites thus they appeared righteous unto men But yet for all that they were but whited Sepulchres full of Hypocrisie and iniquity when that light came which was able to discover them and to uncover their hearts by their works Even by their covetousness and hard heartedness to the poor Widowes by their love of honor by their neglect of the weightier matters of the Law Judgement Mercy Faith as also by that persecuting spirit which was in them and such like and yet these men added one thing more to glosse all the rest over the better they abhorred to be companions to Publicanes and sinners and blamed Christ for eating and drinking with such Yea they made it matter of thankfulness to God acknowledging it to be his work that they were not such and thus they said in their hearts Stand by thy self for I am holier then thou There were some also spoken of in the Epistle of Jude ungodly men walking after their own lusts sensuall not having the Spirit ver 19. These separated themselves from the fellowship of those Saints who stood in the pure truth turning the grace of God into lasciviousness the pure Love into wantonness They crept in unawares and drew an image of the pure Love and grace of God shed abroad upon the Saints and in their carnall hearts it became wantonness and lasciviousness and so they withdrew themselves again and separated from that holy fellow-ship to follow their ungodly lusts of uncleanness covetousness gluttony and such like Now I say such separations as these I do not plead for But I own and defend that separation from the inventions and traditions and Formalities of men which is commanded in Scripture under the name Babylon Rev. 18.4 Jer. 50.8 Ch. 51.6 45. The whole chapters speak much thereof Oh ye Priests ye Merchants of Babylon out of the North there arised up a Nation against you which shall make your Land desolate Ch. 50.3 ch 51.48 It is time to separate from your Babylonish inventions for the hewers are already entered into your forrest Oh thou that dwellest upon many waters thine end is come and the measure of thy covetousness Jer. 51.13 Thy strength faileth the mighty men of Babylon have forborn to fight they have remained in their holds they are become as women Jer. 51.30 If my application fail it will not fail long Babylon the great is fallen is fallen and is becom the habitation of Devils and the hold of every foul spirit and a Cage of every unclean and hatefull bird All Nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornications and the Kings of the earth have committed fornication with her and the Merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies Rev. 18.2 3. And for this cause is she fallen Because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication Rev. 14.8 Therefore to obey that voice from Heaven which hath said in the hearts of many come out of her my people that ye be not partakers of her sins that ye receive not of her plague I say to obey this voice is not Heresie Schisme and such a separation as you have made it Heresie and Schisme and Separation and Sects rightly taken is this To separate divide or make a rent and breach from the truth and from them that dwell therein as namely from the Spirit and life of our Lord Jesus Christ and from such Apostles and servants of his as have walked or do walk in that spirit and in that life and from them in that thing wherein there is truth But you cannot be said to be such you are far enough from the pathes and spirit too that dwelt in them And therefore I leave it to the daylight which shall arise in mens consciences to discover whether you your selves be not Grand Hereticks grand Schismaticks grand Seperatists swarving from the Life and Spirit of them whom you cry up in words And such grand Schismaticks and Hereticks you are that you would stop up the way for ever if it were in your power to keep men from returning back again into the purity and Simplicity of that truth from which you are separated crying out to the people to take heed of Heresie and Schisme and separation scaring them with these termes when as you your selves are the

if that spirit of innocency finde nothing but an Olive leaf it must return again untill the waters be further abated these I write for those who understand And now I shall leave one Querie with you who are the Nationall Ministers I pray tell me who are those Sorcerers which have been so numerous that they have bewitched and deceived all Nations those Enchanters who have made the inhabiters of the earth drunke with the wine of their fornication and with whom the Kings of the earth have been so good friends that they have committed fornication with them Post-script THese things which I have written are not from an intention to draw people off from these men to follow or hing upon my self no but to witness with the rest of my fellow sufferers against Delusion and to help to bring down that proud Lording spirit which is in the new Prelates which would sit as God in the Temple of God Lording it over mens consciences through fained words and causing poor slaves and souls of men to dread them even as God himself I say my desire is to be helpfull to bring down to the dust that deluding Lording spirit That the Consciences of people may stand open and free to the voice of the Lord in them and may not be captivated with such who live in words And if after these others shall arise into the same spirit as these have risen into the spirit of the Prelates after their decease He that hath discovered them and these will also discover such as shall succeed and so in this sense as well as in outward Governments Overturn Overturn Overturn untill he come into his Temple whose right it is You may call these things which I have written flashes of new light if you please for so you brand every thing that breaks forth now in this dawning of the morning after the sad night of Antichristian darkness But be it known to you it is not so to me being that same which hath been sprinking up in me and others these many years For you have been a long time represented to me as men under thick darkness which hath kept me off thorow the tender mercy of my God from entering into your wayes in which I could see no light I have been onely brought to the brink of your Babylonish Rivers which bring up your gain I mean your Ordinances that I might taste of the bitterness of them but there have I been made to sit down weeping in remembrance of Zion which Zion hastens to appear Allelujah Thou that readest these things and art convinced of the truth of them Boast not against these men But look towards the Lord who is making his righteous Judgements manifest and fear For he will in due time discover much more then this both concerning them and others He is about to fan the Nations and to gather his wheat into his Garner and to burn up the light chaff with unquenchable fire therefore Glory not But let him that thinketh hestandeth take heed lest he fall Be not high minded but fear For my part I write not these things out of bitterness against any of their persons or to boast over any of them for the Lord can soon make a blaspheming Saul to become a Paul But rather to let proud boasting reviling Preachers to see what little cause they have to carry so clamorously against those who withdraw from them In respect of my self I had rather be silent and let them plow all the day long upon my back with their revilings But if these things shall be instrumentall to bring some of them to consider their wayes and to look better to the foundation of their practises and to cease from beating their fellow-servants and be stirred up to seek the way to Zion that 's as much as I look for Farewell A Letter to the Papists SIRS HAving touched in discourse with you upon that which is the very foundation of your Religion and seeing it in my understanding to have nothing but the sands to stand upon I cannot but in love to you represent again before you the same thing that I then said to you that you may seriously ponder it for it overturns your Religion at the very root Your foundation is this that Peter must have a succession and secondly that the Bishops of Rome are the onely successors of Peter and so they being the successors of Peter are the Church built upon him the Rock and from them all Teaching must flow Here is your Basis or foundation on which you stand Now friends consider whether an outward succession of Bodies inhabiting the place where Peter lived if he lived at Rome be a good foundation for the Church of Christ to stand upon When Christ the promised seed came you know that the Church slipt away from the carnall seed to a spirituall leaving the carnall Jew boasting of its carnall succession when as yet God had departed from it Now shall we think that God would ever after tie himself to a carnall succession again having once cut off Abrahams who was the friend of God Certainly if any may stand upon an outward succession then Abrahams seed after the flesh may having so many Promises running to them in outward appearance But he is not a Jew now who is one outwardly neither is Circumcision that which is outward in the flesh but he is a Jew who is one inwardly and Circumcision is that of the heart and they who are of the faith of Abraham are counted for the seed So I say he is not of the succession of Peter who is one outwardly but he who is of the same spirit with Peter No Nation or place or outward order of men can confine the succession of Peter to themselves since God laid aside all such outward entailment from Abraham and hath betaken himself onely to a spirituall line a spirituall seed For it were contrary to all reason that God should lay aside or cut off Abrahams carnall seed of the Jewes to take in a spirituall seed out of any Nation and yet after that take up again a carnall or outward succession to Peter and that in one part of one Nation only namely at Rome For this were to build up again that which he had formerly destroyed and to destroy that which formerly he had built up To build up again a carnal succession to Peter which he had destroyed in Abrahams line and to destroy and keep out a spirituall seed fearing God in all Nations which once he had taken in The Progresse of the Lord with his Church is not a going back from spirituall to Carnall but a going forward from carnall to spirituall and after that to more spirituall Now that the Bishops of Rome are not the spirituall seed nor the spirituall successors of Peter nor the Rock upon which the Church of Christ is builded no nor the Church of Christ it self nor the sole feeders of the flock of Christ no nor