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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65843	A brief treatise on the truths behalf in discovery of falshoods which are dispersed abroad in two papers of Richard Baxters ... the one intituled One sheet for the ministry, the other A second sheet for the ministry, and he hath pretended the one against malignants among whom he hath numbred them called Quakers and uttered forth his envy in several lies and revilings against that people called Quakers, whose known integrity shall stand a witness against all such deceivers and revilers as he is proved to be perpetually ... / by George Whitehead.	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.	1658 (1658)	Wing W1897; ESTC R26353	18,488	26

Titus had power to ordain Elders Acts 14. 23. Titus 1. but this was in the Church whom Christ presented blameless and fitted for himself Ephs. 5. 26 27. and Chr●st had fitted them that were Elders Bishops or Deacons for himself before they were allowed of for their Office by the Apostles who were first to be tryed and then they were to Minister now that which presented them blameless was the gift of God and they had the gift revealed in them and a Bishop and a Decon must be blameless not given to wine no striker not greedy of filthy Lucre but patient not a brawler not covetous and apt to teach and so must Elders for they were Bishops Titus 1. 5 6. 7. Priest Now seeing this said priest professeth the Ministry in England to be of this sort for he saith in page the tenth for qualifications they have first competent knowledge secondly and utterance thirdly and godliness Answ. That 's all false For first how can they have competent knowledge seeing that they deny revelation and immediate teaching when as Christ saith no man knowes the father but the Son and he to whom the Son will reveal him Mat. 11. here they that denies revelation knowes neither the father nor the Son Let Christs own words stand a witness against this lying Priest and the rest of them Secondly true utterance they are far from seeing that they deny immediate teaching by the spirit for true utterance was a gift of the Spirit the Saints spoke as the spirit gave them utterance and the spirit word of God was revealed in Timothy Titus who were owned for Ministers by the Apostles Timothy had the gift of God in him and unfeigned faith in him and that gift was given by Prophesie with the laying on of the hands of the company of Elders as it is in some translations recorded now his call was not like the call of these Priests of England for the Prophefies that went on Timothy they came not by the will of man neither was the laying on of Elders hands according to mans will So that though the Priests would put themselves in number with Timothy and the Elders yet we find them shut out from their call and Ministry for we never understood that they that set up these priests were called as Peter or Paul or the Elders who had power to lay on the hands that the holy Ghost fell on the party on whom they laid on their hands and thus much will some of the Priests confess which may be to the shame of him that here professeth himself to be called as Timothy was And further this man aforesaid hath confessed that the Ministers for whom he pleads are brought up at the Universities as he calls them where they have bestowed labour and cost to bring them up to the Ministery which might have fitted them for a more gainful trade so that here their education is not to the true Ministry but to a trade but Timothy and Titus and the elders in the true Churches on whom the Apostle laid hands did not make a trade on their Ministry nor on the Scripture though they knew the Scriptures and did preach the word of God according to the Scriptures by the gift of God in them and who was to do the work of Evangelists whom Christ had endued with gifts from above neither was the holy Ghost to be bought with mony though it fell on several who believed when the Apostles laid their hands on them for he and his mony was to perish who would have bought the holy Ghost with mony Acts 8. 19. 20. So all the cost that the priests bestowes at Oxford or Cambridge it doth but purchase them a trade and that a deceitful one too it cannot purchase the holy Ghost nor the gifts of the spirit which Bishops Elders and Deacons in the true Churches were indued and fitted with but not made Ministers at Schools nor by the will of man as the priests are now Thirdly Neither are they in godlinesse nor qualified as a true Bishop or a Deacon or Elder seeing that the Priests in England are covetous greedy of filthy lucre and many of them given to wine and envious men and brawlers and novices as many in this nation can witness but the true Elders were not such and the man of God was to flee from the desire of mony and they that went in the error of Balaam for reward and in the way of Cain to envy and through covetousnesse made merchandise of people were ungodly men ordained of old for condemnation Jude 11. 2 Pet. 2. Therefore the Priests being ignorant of Revelation immediate teaching from God and being out of the true knowledge utterance and godliness so strangers to the heavenly gift they are not fit to teach but are deceivers shut out from among the number of the true Elders of Christ for the ungodly shall not be numbered with the seed of the righteous but we look at the life and gifts of God which qualifies and brings into the state and condition that the true Elders Bishops and Deacons were in more then their names seeing that they could not have these names nor be ordained for their office by the Apostles till they were first fitted and tryed in the truth and by the gift of God which was in the Apostles and elders of the true Church who denyed not revelation and immediate teaching for they had that revealed in them which they taught and by that knew the holy scriptures which are able to make a man wise unto salvation through faith that is in Christ but without faith which is revealed and the gift of God the Scriptures cannot be known as they ought to be for it is the man of God that the Scriptures are profitable for the furnishing of and for our learning they are written who walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit Priest But we are not built on the foundation of every Pastor Teacher Elder Bishop or Deacon though both in their places Apostles Prophets Evangelists Pastors and Teachers are given for the perfecting of the Saints c. Answ. Here he would make two foundations the foundatition of the Prophets and Apostles not to be the foundation of the Pastors Teachers and Elders which were all given of God here he hath quite shut himself forth of the number of the true Church and hath shut himself out from being one of that sort of Ministers which before he pretended himself to be of so that this doth the more confirm to what I have written for how can he be either true Pastor Teacher or Elder when he is not built upon their foundation according to his own confession so he cannot be any Minister of Christ who is not built upon the true foundation which is but one so you may take notice of R. Baxters confusion for another foundation can no man lay then that which is laid which is Christ and they that were members

of the true Church were built upon the foundation of the Prophets and Apostles Christ Jesus being the chief corner stone who was is the saints foundation and that building which is not builded upon Christ shall as surely fall as R. Baxter is proved to be no Minister of Christ and that is sure enough Priest In page the 14 he brins an objection which is But you are not ordained by Bishops his answer is almost all in England are till of late if that will serve our parish Presbyters are Bishops c. Answ. Here he goes about to justifie the Bishops that was in England ordaining of priests so that in this he is setting up that which before he pretended they had taken down as in his other sheet in page the sixth he saith have not the Ministers themselves been the pincipal instruments of taking down Bishops Deans and chapters Arch-Deacons Prebends and all means of preferments and what have they got by it so he that is here setting up that which before he hath pretended that the Ministers have taken down here he makes himself a transgressor and people may take notice further against this priest for a lyar that all means of preferment which the Bishops was preferred in the Priests of England have not taken down seeing that almost all of them till of late are ordained by the Bishops so they are not Christs Ministers but Bishops Ministers and if all the Bishops means of preferment were taken down by the Priests then what means the Priests taking Tithes and upholding such great oppression as causeth the creation to groan and their suing people at Law and their causing of them to be imprisoned that refuse to pay the Priests Tithes for conscience sake surely here is Bishops Ministers upholding Bishops Tyranny and that by Bishops Lawes that are corrupt and unrepealed as may be made appear This Priest hath quite cast himself into the mire and hath made his call void for he saith in his 16 page the truth of our doctrine depends not on our calling Then it is manifest that their calling is a false calling for if it were of God it were according to true doctrine true doctrine that 's preached in obedience to a true calling depends on or hath unity with that calling Priest He that hath no just call shall answer for what he doth as an intruder but the people shall have for all that the fruit of his Ministration and preaching and Baptism and other acts shall not be null to them Answ. That 's false for they that ran and the Lord sent them not they had not a just call from God they could not profit the people at all therefore their teaching was null to the people as yours is who are not built upon the foundation of the true Prophets and Elders accordingly as it is made appear in the foregoing words as also is your unjust call and here thou goest about to vindicate an intruders preaching when as the Apostle witnessed against such Colos. 2. for intruders are mainly puft up in their fleshly minds and even so is he that would have them to be preachers Priest In page the ninth The necessities of the Church continue we still need a Teaching Ministry and for that he brings Heb. 5. 11. Ans. In Heb. 5. there is no such word as that the necessities of the Church continue here he is proved to be a perverter of the Scripture as it may be seen in that place for those unto whom the Apostle spoke was dull of hearing so he reproved them for when as for the time they might have been teachers they themselves had need to have been taught but he did not say they still needed teaching by Ministers as this priest would have the Church to continue in necessity and so then if the necessity of the Church continue the Church is not supplied Oh what blindness is here that ever people should be blinded and led by such blind guids as this they may be in want and necessity still ever learning never able to come to the knowledge of the truth indeed that are lead by them and never come to receive the promise while they are led by such but the promise of God was fulfilled in the Churches who were taught of God as he had promised they shall not need to teach every man his neighbour saying know the Lord but they shall all know me from the least to the greatest saith the Lord Heb. 8 and John wrote to them that needed not that any man should teach them for they had the annoiting from the father which taught them of all things but this said Priest hath been much pleading for himself and such as he is to be the principal members parts and supporters of the Church but it may be truly said that such Churches as have such as he is for their principal members and supporters that they are both blind and lame dumb from speaking any thing from revelation or immediate teaching from God but them of the true Church witnessed both for they might all prophesie one by one 1 Corinth 14. 31. And this priest also saith in the foresaid page that there is no salvation promised but to the Church and brings Ephes. 5. 23 25 26 27 and Mark 16. 16. to prove his deceit when there is no such word in these scriptures as he brings them for but if he had said that there are none in whom the promise of salvation is fulfilled but them of the true Church he would not need have been questioned for so saying but Christ who is the covenant and the salvation of God he is promised to be his salvation to the ends of the earth and he is given for a light unto the Gentiles and the scripture foreseeing or foretelling that God would justifie the heathen through faith Gal. 3. 8. and they shall be called the people of God that were not his people so that the promise of God reached unto a people before it was fulfilled and before that they were united into the Church but this blinde guide hath made manifest his ignorance concerning the promise of salvation as he hath done concerning many other things he hath given forth in his lying papers who saith that many thousands are damned for want of the light but in this he is also in errour for thousands are condemned by the light because they hate it and this is the condemnation that light is come into the world and men loved darkness rather then the light because their deeds are evil John 3. And this said priest in his second page would accuse them he calls Quakers for being the Papists Agents but this we deny and return it back again upon him for both the Papists their wayes worships superstition and deceits and adherents we clearly witness against in life conversation and doctrine as in many things is evident to the World in many of our books and manner of our life and for them he calls Seekers among whom he numbers us All that are seeking worshipping or waiting in their own wills and imaginations we deny but they that seek in sincerity so as to find the right way we own them according to the true light wherein the drawings of God is manifest unto them that believe in the Light which doth inlighten every man that cometh into the world And R. Baxter saith this is the saving Gospel that the Seekers Quakers and their brethren preach that the scripture is not the Gospel c. I answer If the Quakers preach a saving Gospel then out of thy own mouth art thou judged to revile and speak evil of the Ministers of the Gospel and then why hast thou written so much against the Quakers as thou calls them if they preach the saving Gospel which is everlasting which was before the scripture was But didst thou mean as thou hast spoken if thou did then why do not you Priests preach that which here thou saist we preach But what thou R. Baxter hath uttered in these two sheets is not the first time thou hast set thy self against the innocent and against the Truth with thy lies and confusions as the Reader may be further satisfied concerning thee if he read the Answer to thy book called The Quakers Catechism and that book tituled Many strong reasons confounded in answer to another lying sheet of thine against the Quakers And here thou art proved a Deceiver a Raylor and false accuser of the innocent a teacher and disperser of lies and false doctrines and thy call to be a false call and thou and the rest that own thee to be out of the true foundation Therefore stop thy mouth and give over thy trade for shame and be confounded for the light is risen and the morning is broken forth which discovers all you blinde guides and destroyers of souls and your filthinesse shame and confusion is made appear and your noysom smell of wickednesse oppression pride and deceit is come up before the Lord who will consume you by the breath of his mouth and will scatter you and break you and stamp you to pieces Dread and tremble you Babylons Tradesmen for the time is a coming that your ware shall not be esteemed of and you shall wail for the misery that is coming upon you and let all that love their souls save themselves from this wicked generation of deceivers and return to the Lord God and walk in his light which shineth in their hearts to receive the teachings of his wayes that the true promises and Ministry they may partake of and deny the false ministry and ministers which we are made through the truth to witnesse against and renounce with their dishonesty and we preach not to keep people alwayes learning but that they may bee turned from the darknesse to the light and come to see the true Ministry fulfilled in them by the spirit of Truth This onely lay upon me to give forth for the Truths sake to clear it and them that are in it from lies otherwise I should have been willing to have suffered under them for it is no pleasure nor advancing to me to search in the Priests confusion THE END And if the reader would be further satisfied touching the ground and rise of Tithes he may seriusly view a book called the great case of Tithes truly stated by A. P.