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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89640	The proud pharisee reproved: or, the lying orator laid open. In an examination of some passages in a book, entituled, precepts for Christian practice, or, the rule of the new creature new model'd. Written by one Edw. Reyner, who calles himself a minister of the Gospel in Lincoln; but is found a lyar / by a Child of the light, who is known to the world by the name of Martin Mason.	Mason, Martin, fl. 1650-1676.	1655 (1655)	Wing M933; Thomason E851_6; ESTC R207419	44,305	59

Tithes or other set maintenance Thy next place is 1 Cor. 9.11 But what spiritual things have ye sowne unto the people unlesse spiritual Delusions Teaching for Christs doctrine the Traditions of Men calling Sprinckling Infants the Baptisme of Christ and roaring out Lyes in the Idols Temple spiritual melody and eating a bit of bread and drinking a sup of wine feeding on the Body and Blood of Christ Is Original Sin the Doctrine of Christ Is Denying the Deity to be Communicable the Doctrine of Christ or Antichrist Is not he that denyes Jelus to be come in the flesh an Antichrist Then Edward Reyner hath no wrong done him to be called Antichrist for He denyes the Substance of the Deity to be communicable Is not Christ Jesus of the Substance of the Deity Is it not said Christ in you the Hope of Glory Paul tells us he used not this power but suffered all things lest he should hinder the Gospel of Christ If the Ministers of England were such as Paul was they would be content with Paul's Reward and what was that Verily saith he 1 Cor. 9.18 That when I preach the Gospel I may make the Gospel of Christ without charge Paul he kept under his Body and brought it into subjection lest that saith he when I have preached to others I my self should be a Cast-away 1 Cor. 9.27 O that when thou preachest Self-Denyal to others thou wouldest make Paul thy President and practise it thy self and not cry out of the difficulty thereof as thou dost page 80. and so be discouraged and never take up the Crosse but live in such pomp and pride as thou does nor call for respect to thy person as thou does like a Proud Pharisee as thou art Do either of the places in Scripture thou produces prove that the Apostles called for that respect to their persons which thou receivest Or does either of the places mention respect to their persons The Pride of thy Heart is seen in thy third proof I saiah 52.7 The words are these How beautiful upon the Mountaines are the feet of Him that bringeth good tydings that publisheth peace that bringeth good tidings of good that publisheth salvation that saith unto Sion Thy God reigneth Come down thou proud Son of Ambition that aspiring spirit in three shall be level'd with the Dust 1 Pet. 5.5 For God refuteth the proud and gives his grace to the Humble Page 174. Thou counsels Masters and Mistreffes to Make their Servants read Scriptures and Bring them to the Publique Ordinances He that dares use such lofty language now when Liberty to tender Consciences through the infinite love of the living God is allowed how would he thunder would he not prove another bloody Bonner if ever power should be put into his hands Art thou a Minister of the Gospel and thus seeks to dethrone him by taking his Golden Scepter of Loe from him and wouldst rule thy self over his Saints with thy rod of iron thy persecuting spirit Is not Christ alone King of the Conscience Away thou Traitor to the King of Saints Thy Treason is discovered against him and his Tender Lambs but it shall not prosper Page 217. Thou talks of Contempt of the World of all the Wealth Pomp and Glory in it and sayes it is Christian Magnanimity to contemn silver and gold 'T is such Magnanimity as neither thee not the Priests of England who preach for Rewards are indued with What people lives in more pomp and glory of the World than your selves according to your outward estates who coret silver and gold more then your selves Page 219. Paul thou sayes was singular in Self-Denyal 1 Cor. 9.27 O that Edward Reyner could truly say so of himself but while he preaches this to others he himself becomes a Cast-away for he like a Coward cryes out of the difficulty thereof and never yet durst deal with it Page 80. P. 225. Ah that thou hadst eyes to see who it is that rests in the Name without the thing who it is that Sardis-like hath a Name to live but is dead and who they be that are the Synagogue of Satan But this is hid from thy eyes for thou delightest in darknesse and loves not but loathes the light an infallible sign thy Deeds are evil Revelat. 3. 1 9. Page 227. Priest Thou sayes Neither is that Baptisme sufficient to Salvation which is outward only of the flesh Ans Why dost thou use it then sprinckle Infants being thou hast neither precept nor president for that practice Priest Baptisme is that of the Spirit thou sayes in the Heart Ephs 4.5 If this onely be Christs Baptisme Whose is the other Paul owned but one Lord one Faith one Baptisme Page 244. Thou talks of that thou never tasted of from God in thy own not his Ordinances the Letter not the World Hebr. 4.12 for the Word is quick and powerful Sacraments Away with that Romish Word it shewes what thou art and Wouldst be Prayer Prov. 12.2 Prov. 28.9 The prayers of the Wicked are an abomination to the Lord All thy babling is but a Pharisaical Vain-glorious Boasting a meer flourishing of a Formalist Ephe. 4.12 13. Thou sayes in Heaven is perfection of grace obedience Paul is speaking of perfecting the Saints for the work of the Ministery for the edifying of the Body of Christ till we all come in the Vnity of the Faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God unto a perfect Man unto the Measure of the Stature of the fulnesse of Christ That we henceforth be no more children tossed to and fro carried about with every wind of Doctrine by the sleight of men c. Paul writes to such who had not yet attained to such a Measure But does Paul say that perfection of Grace and obedience is in Heaven as thou wouldst have it understood Does he not plainly signifie that the coming unto a perfect man unto the measure of the stature of the fulnesse of Christ is to be while we are on Earth Else what mean the following words That we Henceforth be no more children tossed to and fro c. Can the Saints in Heaven be tossed to and fro What wind of false Doctrine is there in Heaven What cunning craftinesse there Are there any in Heaven who lye in wait to deceive Heb. 12.23 Then thou tells them That in Heaven the spirits of just men are made perfect The Apostle speaking of the Administration of Moses c. Tells them that they are come unto Mount Sion and unto the City of the living God the heavenly Jerusalem and to an innumerable Company of Angels to the Assembly and Church of the first-born which are written in Heaven and to God the Judge of all and to the spirits of just men made perfect If the man were not blind he might see the Apostle sayes That they are come c. But he that 's in

houses of Prayer that Church being nationall and so there was a certaine place appointed for that purpose but were they not unconverted do not you by imitating them therein and by your lives make it manifest you are the Jews now who are unconverted Doe you not hold up the letter * In opposition to the Spirit calling the letter your Rule and persecute Christ in spirit Have you any other than common or formal prayers before and after Sermon a meer Popish Custom And when that is done then comes a formal benediction or blessing the people a meer cheat wherewith you delude the ignorant but the light hath discovered that and all the rest or your deceits What the people are better for that blessing their lives make it manifest Acts 3 2● Did not Christ that High Priest cease this Ceremony when he blest his Disciples and afterwards came in spirit to blesse his people were not Christs and his Apostles prayers very short plain and to the purpose are not yours long vain glorious without the spirit and understanding Does that pure spirit live in you when you perform such lifeless exercises and deliver such deceitful Doctrine and is not your singing a confused noyse of lying Thou tells of Christs invitation of all poor souls to him who feele a need of him then see from henceforth thou hinder none keep none back let all that will go freely Does Christ call them and wilt thou by the ringing of a Bell call them to thy self Art thou Christ art thou the way the truth and the life Thou sayes Christ stood and cryed so does he still if any man thirst let him come unto me and drink so let him that is a thirst come But canst thou and thy fellow Priests satisfie the thirsty souls of poor sinners with the water of eternal life if thee canst not call them no longer to thee but send them to Christ the light of the world that pure Fountain and delude them no longer by letting them drink of the long standing corrupted putrified pool of mens traditions Christ sayes Come unto me all ye that labour and are heavy laden and I will ease you Can thee and thy Generation give ease to that soul that labours under the heavy load and burthen of his sins Do ye not instead of taking off the burthen lay more weight on Christ he gives ease and you sell what 's a Burthen Page 117. Thou talks of Christs cheapness of all soul Commodities as Grace Peace Spirit joy you may buy them without money or mony worth Hoe every one that thirsteth come ye to the waters and he that hath no money for coming is buying and thirsting is the price I will give to him that is a thirst of the Fountain of water of life freely Now see the difference between Christ and Antichrist Christ he gives grace peace spirit and joy freely Antichrist he sells his graceless inventions deluding deceitful Doctrines and Traditions the enioyment whereof brings no peace his dead performances wherein is neither spirit nor life his loud singing wherein is no joy nor comfort These he sells at as great rates as he can either by payment of Tithes or so much a year be it one hundred and fifty pound a year more or lesse what he can get Yet he tells you that your not comming to Christ for what ever you want is your condemnation and he bids you Take it out of Christs own mouth Ye will not come to me that ye might have life but the Serpent is so subtle He would have you take Him in your way make him your Guide but while you do so ye shall never see your Saviour Well friends the Priest hath told you plainly your not going to Christ is your condemnation Luke ●1 21 Now unlesse ye be Reprobates past reproof you may know that Christ is within you The Kingdom of God is within you therefore turn aside from your worldly Teachers and turn to the pure light of God in every one of your Consciences Take counsel of that trusly faithfull and most wise Counseller yield obedience unto him Behold to obey is better then sacrifice and to hearken better then the fat of Rams You shall never witness the life of a Saint never truly loath all manner of sin till you be in perfect love with the pure light of God within you And that will give you power over your corruptions abiding in it being obedient to it The least measure thereof if you be faithful to it shall make you experience this for truth if you say to this or that Mountain or hill of sin Be removed it shall be removed and le●ei'd Christs precept is thou sayes when thou prayest enter into thy Closet and shut thy door This thou calles his Rule for private prayer Shew then his Rule for thy long vain glorious publick prayers before and after Sermon where do the Scriptures mention any Rule for private publick prayer such as thine then thou talks of praying with others c. 1 Cor. 14.15 'T is an easie matter to patter out many words but which of you prayes with the spirit and understanding Thou confesses before They that have not the spirit of Christ are none of his And they who have that spirit living in them need none of thy Rules or direction how when or with whom to pray The spirit he helpeth our Rom. ● 26 infirmities for we know not what we should pray for as we ought but the spirit it self maketh intercession for us with groans which cannot be uttered P. 124. Thou plainly shewes thy self a Son of the Church of Rome Houses thou sayes as well as Temples were and are to be dedicated to God Thou sayes the Jewes were commanded to do it Hee 's as blind as thy self who knowes not that but what of this After the Destruction of the Temple was there ever any other commanded to be set up Acts 7.47.48 Acts 17.24.25 John 4.23.24 Prove this if thou canst God dwells not in Temples made with mens hands And ye that worship in the Idols Temple ye worship ye know not what for God is a Spirit and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth 1 Kings 18.27.29 Should I say to you concerning your worshipping in your Steeple-houses as Elijah did would you not be angry Cry aloud for he is a God either he is talking or he is pursuing Or he is in a journey or peradventure he sleepeth and must be awakened But is there any voice any to answer or any that regardeth Anos 6.1 Rom. 12.2 Where is the man or woman amongst you that turneth from the evil of his wayes that ceaseth to do evil and learns to do well that lives not at ease and woe be to them that live at ease that fashions not himself according to the World that can truly witness self-deniall that takes up his daily Crosse and follows Christ

his Servants to wait on God in the Eye of his Ordinances O subtle Antichrist under this paint of thine lies deadly poyson when was the preaching of the letter for thou calles that the word appointed by God for the souls of the people and prove thy self appointed by God to be a Preacher * If thou canst Clear this bold assertion of thine and that thy empty lifeless Ordinances the Traditions of men are the eye of God on which the people are to wait Do this and live without ever being contradicted by my tongue or pen. In the mean time it will not be amiss for the Reader to search the place or foundation whereon the man seems to build his Babel Isa 50.10 Who is among you that feareth the Lord that obeyeth the voice of his Servant that walketh in darkness and hath no light let him trust in the name of the Lord and stay upon his God He that hath any understanding in the things of God will say this seeming Saint is wresting and twining the Scripture out of joynt to maintain his tottering Trade of talking in the Pulpit but Dagon cannot stand before the Ark. His Diana must down The mouth of the Lord hath spoken it 302. Self-ignorance thou sayes made Laodicea think her self rich And self-love is a false glasse thou sayes men commonly look themselves in which makes all seem good that they are have or do Answ Art not thou and thy flock a Laodicean Assembly that thinks her self rich and hath need of nothing that sits as a Queen and sayes she can never be moved Is not self-love and self-righteousness the fruits of thy Ministry Canst thou and thy Hearers witness in the presence of God a love to and delight in him a fear to offend him or to grieve his holy spirit what means then the loosness of your lives your conformity to the world in your conversations your frowardness pride envy and passion Do you not even in your best performances draw neer him with your lips when your hearts are far from him which of you forsakes the evil of your doings your deceit and dissimulation Every man search and examine his own Conscience and let the witness for God give your answer to me P. 309. Assurance thou sayes does not fear or fly Tryall whether it be sound or no but presumption shuns examination and cannot endure to be searched Is not this your own condition Are you not like him that hath counterfeit Coine which will not abide the Touchstone Or him that puts off bad Ware loves the dark and loaths the light * Didst not thee use these words when a Woman came into the Minister and would have-testified against thy deceit If any Saint of God be moved to come into your Assemblies to testifie against your deceitful Doctrine Do you not bid presently take them away Is not advantage taken by the outward Law against them Or do you not rage revile beat and persecute them Have not some been persecuted in thy Assembly by some of thy own fellowship or hearers If thou hast the impudency to deny it or canst by Plain Scriptures vindicate the Action do it Art thou not ashamed to compare Calvins care with the Apostle Pauls Canst thou boast of Calvins sufferings for the Gospel and equall them with Pauls Did Calvin work with his own hands day and night as Paul did Did he live in such outward want as Paul did Was he filled with the Holy Ghost as Paul was Did not Calvin live in pomp and state at Geneva as thou does at Lincoln But thou matters not it seems what thou sayes so thou mayst advance the Reputation of Calvin because he was of thy own Brother-hood Thy third signe shews thy subtlety contempt of Gods Ordinances of Magistracy Ministry Scriptures Sabbaths When Authority is trampled upon and men sleight hate him that rebuketh or judgeth justly If thou knowes any that do so charge them with it Name that Magistrate that judgeth justly in the Gate and is for so doing hated by that People against whom thy heart in secret shoots the Arrows of its poyson That true Magistrate that would judge justly upon the wicked One is by thee and thy Generation trampled upon and persecuted Then thou tells when Israel mocked the Messengers of God and despised his words and misused his Prophets Then the wrath of the Lord arose against them Thou and thy Generation have an itching desire to be counted the Messengers of God But what is the Message you deliver Is it not false Doctrine lies and blasphemies witness thy Book and your Pulpit exercises such as the Prophets Christ nor his Apostles never preached nor practised but cryed woe against Isa 56.11 Jer. 5.31 Jer. 14.14 Isa 48.22 Mat. 10.34 Do you not seek for gain from your Quarter prophesie lies unto the people run before you be sent speaking peace to them to whom the Sword is due for there is no peace to the wicked And Christ he came not to bring peace to such but a Sword What are the mockings and misusings thou complainest of who live at more ease in worldly credit and take lesse care and labour for an outward livelihood than the Priests who live upon other mens labours Acts 13.32 Luke 9.3 Acts 20.33 But the true Messengers of God who declare of his word in sincerity preaching the glad tydings of the Gospel without bagg or scrip who covet no mans silver or gold nor make the Gospel chargeable to the world These precious Saints and Sons of the living God are reproached and persecuted by this sinful Generation Who are they that contemn the Scriptures but those who in words seem to make them their Rule but in their life and practice tramples them under foot even thy self and all those that preach for Rewards and they that prize them for Apollo's Thou and the world shalt finde that the contempt of The Word not the Letter though we contemn not that but own it and His Ministers but not the Priests of England is a provoking sin and a presaging Symptom of Ruine to a People P. 322. Thou talks of a Spirit of error and delusion and contradiction Is not error Delusion and Contradiction the poyson poor people suck from the paps of their Pastors instead of Wine Milk and Honey Eccles 2.14 Thou and thy fellow Priests are seen by every one whose eye is in his head to be possessed with that spirit of error delusion and contradiction which thou wouldest cast upon the Saints of God Do you not teach for Christs Doctrine the Traditions of men Mat. 15.3 Mark 7.7 Are you not Antichrists denying Christ to be come in the flesh when you deny the substance of the Deity to be communicable Do you not call sprinkling of Infants the Baptisme of Christ Are you not called of men Masters contrary to Christs Command if you be Christs Disciples that 's a Command to you Mat. 23.10