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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39313	Hereticks, sectaries, and schismaticks, discovered to be the Antichrist yet remaining and the great enemies of the peace of this kingdome the question rightly stated and debated ... : with a hint about ordination and the covenant.	Ellyson, John.	1647 (1647)	Wing E631; ESTC R23279	25,773	37

Sects and Heresies these vain words will not save us whilest we foment this spirit of Antichrist this principle of hatred persecution division in one another that some of us must judge for our selves and others too in the things of Christ that we must interpret the Word as if we were infallible when we acknowledge we are not so and must impose our own fullible sences and interpretations upon others and in case of non-Conformity must force obedience from them whilest we thus bite and devour one another let us take heed that we be not devoured one of another this Reformation is not after the Gospel God is love and he that dwels in love dwels in God and God in him and Christ so loved us as to lay down his life for us leaving us an example that we also ought to lay down our lives for the brethren and not to take away the lives of the brethren because they differ from us our Lord Jesus Christ and his Ministers are of another minde all the New Testament over the weapons of our warfare saith St. Paul are not carnall but mighty through God and not through the arme of flesh So 2 Tim. 2. 24 25. the servants of the Lord must not strive but be gentle unto all men patient with meeknesse instructing them that oppose themselves if God peradventure will give them repentance And Tit. 3. 2. shewing all meeknesse to all men look also into the 14. chap. of the Romans and you shall see of what different judgement and practises the Saints were there as they held contradictions so did they practise them too one would eat another would not eat one would regard a day and he did this to the Lord i. e. Because he was perswaded the Lord had so Commanded another would not regard a day and he did this to the Lord too being perswaded the Lord required no such observations friends here were contradictions amongst Saints in things of the highest nature in point of Worship most of the old Puritans and non-Conformists of this Kingdom know well what it is to keep or regard a day they can tell you that the most spirituall worship and the highest and chiefest service of Iesus Christ was concerned in it and was meant by it It was surely no indifferent thing as we have been perswaded to believe matters of religious cognisance were contained in it the Apostle speaking of it as done unto the Lord men observing or not observing as conscious of that duty which the Lord had enjoyned them or of that liberty wherewith Iesus Christ had made them free Now what is the Apostles councel in this controversie doth he advise to censuring condemning fining Imprisoning or killing one another no such thing but the contrary let not the weak Judge the strong and let not the strong despise the weak Chap 14. ver. 3. which he confirms with severall reasons every man stands or fals to his own master ver. 4. according to that of our Saviour Christ Math 23. 8. call no man Rabbi for one is your master and all ye are brethren and ver. 10. we shall all stand before the Judgement Seat of Christ and then ver. 12. every one shall give an account of himself to God and Chap. 15. 1. The strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak and not please themselves and ver. 2. let every one please his neighbour for good to edification which he backs with this inforcing reason ver. 3. for even Christ pleased not himself and the conclusion of the whole matter is this ver. 7. Wherefore receive you one another as Christ also received us to the glory of his Father if Christ love receive and imbrace you although of differing Judgements and practises go ye and do likewise do ye love receive and imbrace each other These Scriptures are full and if opened would spin the thred of my discourse longer then I intended but there is very much in them if the Lord would give us an understanding that we might beleeve them● Friends they are our Gospell and I shall leave them with you as those which shall one day rise up in Judgement against such as have imbraced them and yet walk contrary to what they report unto us Undoubtedly the meanes that Christ hath appoynted to propagate his Gospell and to advance his Kingdome is the sword of the Spirit and not the sword of St●●le by this it is that Antichrist hath so enlarged his dominions as you may see Revel. 13. 7. and therefore heare his Doom which shall surely be accomplished on him and all such too as in this kind take part with him ver. 10.th that leads into Captivity must go into Captivity and he that kills with the sword must be killed with the sword here is the patience and faith of the Saints according to that of our Saviour Matth. 26. 52. they that take the sword shall perish by the sword and before I shall passe from this I beseech you as you tender the comming of Iesus Christ his Kingdom which you daily pray for and the peace and welfare of this your own native Kingdome where you live that you would seriously consider with your selves whether this usurpation of power over the bodies of the Saints in respect of spirituall things as Antichrist himself hath done in all ages may not be the true and adequate cause why the Lord hath suffered the sword to bathe it self in blood and to make it selfe drunk with the blood of the slain in these parts for divers past and for many more in the parts beyond the seas so Rev. 16. 6. They have shed the blood of Saints and Prophets and thou hast given them blood to drink for they are worthy and what improbability is there of Peace amongst us whilest this devillish spirit of hatred and persecution for the devill was a murtherer from the beginning which hath given Antichrist his denomination life and being doth yet abide is nourished and maintained by us And so I come to the second Point wherein I shall be brief which is That though the Presbyterian Churches were truly constituted and ordered according to the rule of the word as indeed they are not yet maintaining any errour either in judgement or practise that the rest of the Christians in the Kingdom who joyn not themselves to them cannot truly and properly be termed Schismaticks for this I have told you formerly in this discourse whilest I opened the severall words that according to the true nature of the word Schisme signifies a dis-union division or cleaving asunder of parts which were before united in a solid body Let us apply this to the businesse in hand and Schisme is nothing else but a division or separation in judgement and practise of persons from some Church or body to which they were before united and when I pray was it that those who are now called Hereticks Sectaries and Schismaticks were joyned together in a body with those who

●●●ETICKS SECTARIES and Schismaticks ●…vered to be the Antichrist yet ●…ining and the great Enemies of the Peace of this Kingdome ●… Question rightly stated and debated ●…paration to the great day of Humili●…ation on March 10. next ensuing ●… a Hint about Ordination and the Covenant ●… them that call evill good and good evill that ●…esse for light and light for darkenesse Isay ●… ●…e good but if the Salt hath left its Savour where●…e salted it is good for nothing but to be cas●…●…oden underfoot of men Matth. 5. 13. with●…4 34. LONDON Printed in the Yeare 1647. To the right Honourable the High Court of Parliament NOble Princes and Patriots remember in all your Lawes and Ordinances that as Iesus Christ who is the faithfull witnesse and will be one day for his truth and People is the Prince of the Kings of the Earth and hath made the Saints who are his Anointed ones 1 Iohn 2 27. Kings and Priest to God and his Father so is he the one onely Law giver who is able to ●ee● and destroy and hath commanded the Kings of the Earth i 〈…〉 ch his Anointed nor doe his Prophets harme for he reproveth even Kings for their sak●● If Hee have made them first and Prophets who shall hinder them to offer up spirituall Sacrifices to God ● Pet. 2. 5 And as good Stewards of the manifold Grace of God to minister the gift one to another as every w 〈…〉 e received it 1 Pet. 4. 10. For every Scribe who is in 〈…〉 ted vnto the Kingdome of Heaven bringeth out of his treasury things new and old Matth. 13. 52. If the Saints as bottles be filled with new ●ine of the Spirit they cannot but poure it forth 〈…〉 e their friends that which they have seene and heard and in 〈…〉 ns soules have tasted of the word of life they cannot but declare and speake 1 Iohn 1. 2. 3. compared with Acts 4. 20. Iohn 7. 38. Have an eye therefore I beseech you to the designes of such men who would engage you to cast up bankes that you might stop the 〈…〉 ng of these waters for these floods will carrie all before him and who ever perswades you to it I tell you even weeping 〈…〉 of the Lord 〈…〉 and 〈…〉 to give 〈…〉 to Antichrist and the Image of the 〈…〉 that as many as will not worship the Image of the Beast 〈…〉 killed notwithstanding the dreadfull do●m● 〈…〉 himself Revel. 14 9. 10 11. If any man doe 〈…〉 Beast and his Image and receive his marke in his for the 〈…〉 his hand the same shall drinke of the wrath of God and they shall have ●o rest day nor night c. Be wise now therefore Oy●● Princes be instructed yee Iudes of our Earth Kisse the Sonne least he be angry and ●ee perish in the way though yee have already steered our weather beaten ship through many angry waves and billowes and thinke you are come neere to the faire Havens of peace and happiness as yet if instead of honouring Iesus Christ and submitting to his Royall 〈…〉 you shall be either flattered or threatned to set your 〈…〉 under any ●otin● or pretence whatsoever against the Saints and to kick against the pricks you will yet miscarry and split upon this Rock and in all your debates and consultations shall be dash't in p●ices like a Potters Vessel for whosoever shall full on that Stone shall be broken Grave Senators consider the Holy Spirit Zach. 12. 3. hath foretold that in the day of the Gospel the Lord will make Jerusalem viz. the Saints a burthen some stone to all people all that burthen themselves with it shall be out it peices though all the people of the Earth be gathered together against it● Those men who stickle most against the Saints under the name of Hereticks and Schismaticks shall be discovered to be such themselves but as our Saviour said they are wise in their Generations and they dealt with you herein as the crafty and ingenious Horse Courser with his untaimed and 〈…〉 ly pranser speaks ●●ire streak●● and scratches him whilst he bee mounted into the saddle and then he strikes and spurs and gallops till he have broken him to his will They be speake you as having a great power in the worship of God over the consciences of men but I beseech you receive no honour from these men who thus cry up your power and authority that they may be honoured by you and derive power and authority from you againe to be unrighteous Iudges both ●ver your selves and other men as their Reverend Fathers the Bishops were they seeke their owne things and not the thing of Iesus Christ but it concerne● their interest by this craft they have their livings and they know that if permission be once given to the Saints freely to make knowne the 〈…〉 of the Spirit which ●ath wrought so mightily in them their 〈…〉 of naturall reason though decked and ad●rned with systems 〈…〉 Philosophy and Schoole divinity will not be able to 〈…〉 in competion with it greater is he that is in the Saints then 〈…〉 that is in the world the teachings of the spirit shall be more 〈…〉 full and effectuall to take h●ld of the hearts of men then all 〈…〉 workes and writings of their Postillers and Commentators can ●● these cannot speake so to the consciences of poore Christians as the Spirit 〈…〉 And the feet of such as can bring glad tydings of 〈…〉 to such poore soules are exceeding beautifull and will bee 〈…〉 the opposition of these men Most honoured worthies pray observe with me how Babylon the Mother of Harlots Fornications and Abominations of the 〈…〉 which are chiefly spirituall and doe concerne our worship 〈…〉 this name written in her fore head MYSTERY her workings are and have been still MYSTERIOUS hardly to ●● found out and traced But I have indeavoured as a blood hound to pursue her for by those Characters of bloodinesse you shall be 〈…〉 to know her the beast whereon shee sits is bloody coloured her garments are dyed in blood Revel. 17. 5. 3. 4 6. in her habitation is found the blood of Prophets and of Saints cap. 18 24. her drinke where with she makes her selfe drunke is blood of the Saints and the Kings and Inhabitants of the Earth have beene 〈…〉 drunks with her wine England Oh England hath for●●●ly pl●id the beast with her if not the beast under her on which hath sitten and for this cause we have had of late blood given ●● to drinke for we were worthy let it oh let it be so no more let not England againe make war with the Lambe for 〈…〉 the Lord of Lords and King of Kings Revel. 17 14. Suppose grave Senators those men so much miscalled were indeed such as they are represented to be and their Presbyterian adversaries 〈…〉 their Churches without crime or Error which is most 〈…〉 and so might justly cast them out t● yet since our