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A76055 A breif narration of the truth of some particulars in Mr. Thomas Edwards his book called Gangræna. Concerning one Nichols an Anabaptist, some opinions he maintained to Master Greenhill, and a discourse that passed between Master Greenhill and Master Burroughs upon occasion of those opinions. / By the author Thomas Alle. Alle, Thomas. 1646 (1646) Wing A953; Thomason E341_24; ESTC R200919 4,658 8

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together to keep such persons out of their families 'T was granted so they might Again he said a whole Town might joyn together and so a whole County and then a whole Kingdome might do the same to which some standers by seemed not to assent but said Master Burroughs it is as lawfull in the last place as at the first This is the naked truth a neer as I can remember of the discourse about these Errours And I hope in all this there is no just cause given by me of offence to these two Worthies Mr. Burroughs and Master Greenhill But when I first spake it upon just occasion I did it to their honour and so I hope the printing of it will be to shew their soundnesse in judgement against such Errours Now if Master John Goodwin do bundle up such horrid Errours as these to amount to no more nor higher rate then the infirmities of the Saints as in the beginning of his Pamphlet doth appear for he saith Satan hath been this foure yeers sifting up the Authour might have taken in with the same breath the old Serpent himself into the Catalogue of such Saints as well as such that held such damnable Errours as are testified in this Relation For the Serpent was more moderate and said unto the woman yee shall not surely dye and did not so impudently say as this Nichols did who said all lyes come out of the mouth of God But it may be the man upon second thoughts will see his mistake as that there is no such infirmities as these to be found in the Saints not in the whole Book of God Now for such a man of Learning and parts to vent himself with such vain words and jeers and to make use of Scripture language to serve his own brain and humor is not as becomes the Gospel of Christ as will appear if the Reader well weighs his ensuing words as followeth Wherein he saith the Authour of the said Treatise known by the mark of a Gangraena or Cancer in the forehead of it being as it seems of Satans counsel and partaker of his intentions against the Saints hath diligently swept his floore gathered together his siftings all that drosse and beggery of weaknesses and infirmities which Satan meaning Master Edwards within the compasse of four yeers by his own confession was able to sift out of them and he to come to the knowledg of and hath ground kneaded and hath bak'd it and made shew-bread of it for such of the Presbyterian sonnes of Levi and their retinue to eat as are of his own diet and constitution Certainly this language of Master John Goodwin is not becoming the Minister of the Gospel Having faithfully related the truth of some particulars in Master Edwards Book touching Nichols the Anabaptist I thought good for a closure to speak something of a Toleration which is too much by Master Goodwin and others in Pulpit and in printed Pamphlets pleaded for I have heard some presse it from the example of Amsterdame that it is so there and I can helpe them to one place more which is at Constantinople where the Turks have places for Mahomet to be worshipped and they allow the Jewes their Synagouges for worship And also the Greeks have their publike places for worship so the French Italians and English have all their liberty of Conscience Now if the Turks follow the Hollander in this particular or the Hollander taketh it from the Turks In them both it is but for mony and Trades sake and not for the honour of God Which God forbid should ever be so in England But rather let us follow the best examples of the Saints out of the Word of God where good Nehemiah would not suffer the Sabbath to be violated by selling of wares and commodities Which some in my hearing and not dwelling far off from me do plead for and practise working on their callings on the Lords day and do this out of pretence of Conscience I pray was it a good law or no in Nebuchadnezar in Daniel 3.29 where he made decree against any which spake any thing against the God of Shadrach Meshech and Abednego should be cut in peeces Much more it would hold good against any that act against the known lawes of God To come nearer the Gospel you may finde in that Evangelicall Prophet Zachariah 13.3 It is said thou shall not live for thou speakest lyes against the Name of the Lord. So that I do not find that pretended Consciences have any allowance in the Word of God neither did the Apostles and Holy men of God when they suffered use this Argument You Magistrates have nothing to do with our Consciences But pleaded the justnesse of their cause and innocency of their persons Yet not that I would have any man that is a Native English one though a Jew in opinion or a Papist or any else that now are to be banished nor imprisoned nor fined for his Conscience and opinion But that I would not have them to Congregate and draw others after them but if it be their Light as they pretend or their Faith let them as the Apostle saith have it to themselves And that there may be a stop to these floods of Errours that are cast out against the Church and truth I conceive this course might be taken that no man should take upon him nor be suffered to Officiate in a Ministeriall way as a Pastor over a people but such as shall be approved on and allowed by Authority as I conceive it is so in New-England And not a Toleration for every man to vent his own brain and Errours For where then will the guilt of the bloud that hath been shed lie If Toleration might be suffer'd the Papists sure would never have gone in the feilds to have their bellies shot through with bullets nor our ignorant Country people in Counties and Shires would never have risen by thousands if they might have had the Service Book and good old Prayers as they call them still continued unto them So I conclude praying for a Reformation and not a Toleration and rest a well wisher to Truth and Peace FINIS Imprimatur James Cranford Aprill 24. 1646.