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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78562	A narrative plainly shewing, that the priests of England are as truely Antichrist (who got up since the dayes of the Apostles) as the pope and his clergie denying Christ to be both a king, a priest, and a prophet; : with a serious warning to the Parliament not to uphold and maintain them by a law, under any pretence whatsoever ... / By one who ... hath escaped the snares of sin and deceit, and bin [sic] brought ... into His pure fear, known by the name of John Chandler.	Chandler, John, 17th cent.	1659 (1659)	Wing C1927B; ESTC R171147	13,008	16

A NARRATIVE PLAINEY SHEWING That the Priests of England are as truely Antichrist who got up since the dayes of the Apostles as the Pope and His Clergie Denying Christ to be both a King a Priest and a Prophet With a serious warning to the PARLIAMENT not to uphold and maintain them by a Law under any pretence whatsoever As also a warning to all People that upon peril of their immortal souls they be no longer deluded and bewitched by their Sorceries But that they come to Christ the true Light which will lead them out of the paths of sin into the way of peace By one who through mercy from the Lord hath escaped the snares of sin and deceit and bin brought through Judgement into His pure fear known by the Name of John Chandler LONDON Printed for the Author 1659. A Narrative plainly showing that the Priests of England are as truly Antichrist who got up since the daies of the Apostles as the Pope and his Clergy c. GIve ear Oh all ye Priests of England for this word is to you to shew by the true light which hath enlightned me that ye are Antichrist and that the Spirit of spiritual Whoredome and Fornication is in and upon you as truly as in and upon the Pope and his Clergy so called For ye deny Christ the Son of God to be both a King Priest and Prophet both by your words and actions and what doth he or they more First Ye deny Christ to be a Priest who by the eternal Spirit hath offered up himself once for all to put an end to all carnal Covenants National Churches Ministry and Maintenance and to perfect for ever them that are sanctified Now ye uphold by Doctrine and practise the Covenant with the seed after the flesh as it was with the Jew outward of old of which Circumcision in the flesh was a signe which were both but figures of the Jew inward who was to be circumcised without hands by the circumcision of Christ in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh Ye uphold this I say by sprinkling of Infants under the former pretence which ye apply to them as a Seal of the said Covenant so accounting them as Christians Members of your Church which is according to generation and not according to regeneration which thing alone gives persons a right to be Members of Christ's Church which is his body so the matter of your Church is the World and not the Saints And as for a National Church before Christ the true light was manifested in that body which died at Jerusalem there was but one in the whole World to wit in the Land of Judea which was a figurative State to hold forth that the Saints of Christ in his day wherever they were gathered out of the World were a royal Nation and peculiar people unto him as Peter calleth them after Christ's departure when the Apostles and Saints had received power from on high they went forth in that power and by their Ministry gathered the Seed of God out of several Nations Cities and Places who were the Churches of Christ but ye in stead hereof have raised by your carnal Covenant with the carnal Seed many National Churches as ye call them and ye neither tremble nor are ashamed to father them upon Christ who is a pure holy and spiritual head and must have no other body But these are seen in the light to be but so many Cities of the Nations which John in his Revelation mentioneth which he saith fell when great Babylon came into remembrance before God to give her the Cup of the Wine of the fiercenesse of his wrath As for a Nationall Ministry or Ministry setled all over the Nation which are your selves it is suitable to a National State to wit a certain peculiar Tribe known by distinct Garments and appropriating the exposition and opening of the Scriptures to the people to themselves as the Priests the Tribe of Levi were and did under the Law before Christ by God's command which first Priest-hood there was a necessity of disanulling saith the Apostle by reason of its faultinesse imperfection and unprofitableness wherefore Christ whose Father 's Law to do was within his 〈◊〉 heart came and offered up himself once for all and so put an end to that first Priest-hood which ye most wickedly and ungodlily still endeavour to hold up together with its maintenance Tythes or the Tenth of the encrease which ceased with the first Priest-hood most wickedly unjustly forcing the same from People by a Law of Man and punishing the refusers whereas the Jewish Priest-hood had it by the Law of God Neither give or allow ye one penny out of it to the Fatherlesse Widow or Stranger So that are ye not rightly called Priests Surely ye need not snuff at it for Ministers of Christ ye can in no wise be called who thus so visibly withstand his everlasting Priesthood Ye are also seen to deny the Faith of and on Christ the everlasting High Priest though ye will acknowledge his person in words for how else should ye be Antichrist and the false Prophet who entring himself once for all into the holy of holies doth give forth living vertue to all his Members who wait in his light to feel his pure life whereby they are purged and purified thoroughly from sin by the living Faith and Hope which entreth within the Vail and all your vailes and coverings and so are perfected for ever for Christ's work is perfect and everlasting But ye cry out Blasphemy Blasphemy To say that Christ thoroughly freeth or purgeth any Man or Woman from Sin while they live here but in part onely so denying the efficacy of Christ's blood which is his life which cleanseth those who sincerely confesse their sins from all sin so making them perfect as pertaining to the conscience which I testify none can ever be while any sin is standing which while so will certainly raise up guilt and condemnation there through God's pure witnesse shewing the evil wherefore since ye being out of the Faith of our Lord Jesus Christ cannot witnesse Victory over sin and transgression ye enter not into the true spiritual and eternal rest prepared for the people of God but maintain and uphold a natural day to wit every first day of the week as for an outward Sabbath or Rest which ye are not ashamed to call the Christian Sabbath or Rest Is this day the true Christian's rest or have they peace with God all the week and all their daies and for ever standing in his everlasting Covenant which is to give them Rest from their labours and sore bondage But the Sabbath day which we sanctify not speaking our own words or thinking our own thoughts on his Holy day which is one continual day known to him and his people that stand in obedience ye Priest's know not and how then should ye declare it to others but your Sabbath which is a