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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34990	A description of the Church of Scotland with a word of reproofe to the priests, and teachers, and officers therein, for their many corrupt doctrines and practices, also a warning and a gentle invitation to all people, that lives under their tyrannicall government, to come to the truth ... : herein is their church made manifest ... : with an exhortation to all people to come out from amongst them ... / written in love to the simple-hearted in that nation ... by one who desires that people might be brought to the truth ... who am known among men by the name Stephen Crisp.	Crisp, Stephen, 1628-1692.	1660 (1660)	Wing C6928; ESTC R40352	17,808	15

to raile and to curse and to stir up people 〈◊〉 ●●mults and to stoning those who are not of your judgement this is evill behavi●u● then giv●● to hospitality as to this let the poor people who in your Parishes goes in cold and hunge● while you live in fulnesse and idlenesse beare witnesse against you then apt to teach in th● also are ye far short who must take a weekes time to study to teach the people two or thr●● houres and yet cannot get your devised studyed stuffe to hold together but one while is co●firming that which it may be the same day or shortly after you will deny againe then 〈◊〉 given to wine no strikers how many of you have beene guilty herein in drunkennesse a●● striking and setting others on to strike would be too tedious to mention here but who desi●● to be informed of them and their manners let them in sincerity take notice of th m a●● they shall come to understand their spirit also some of their workes of this nature are alre●● printed and presented to publick view then not greedy of filthy lucre and in this particul●● how far your greedynesse hath appeared beyond all that have gone before you let the sufferi●● of them who for conscience sake could not put into your mouths beare witnesse against y●● again saith the Apostle in the 7th verse of that 3. Chapter of the 1st Timothy he m●●● have a good report of them that are without but how far are yee short of this who can●●● keepe up a goood name amongst them of your owne Church but your covetousnesse and dece●● is mannifest among them notwithstanding your tiranny doth much stop their mouthes and bl●●● ●heir eyes that they yet see not so much of your deceipt as shortly they will come to see But in briefe the description of the Church-officers in the whole Scriptures of the Apo●tles is that they be blamelesse which ye say none now can be and that they be filled with the holy Ghost and with saith which yee say they cannot be for sin must have a room ●n them then they cannot be filled with the other and that they hold the mi●tery of faith ●n a pure conscience which yee say they cannot doe for some sin must remaine and that defiles the conscience that they should be gentle towards all Men in meekenesse instructing ●hem that oppose themselves But out of this and all these qualifications yee being found ●our officiating must be like your Officers and your Officers are like the Members a body ●it for destruction together which the Lord is appearing against in his mighty power to ●ut of head and tayle root and branch together 4thly The Doctrines of your Church also are reprovable and corrupt in many things contrary to the Scriptures and first in your Doctrines of God whom you say is to be known and believed on as in the distinguishmant of three Persons and herein yee teach contra●y to the Scriptures of truth which yee say is your rule and by it are all such Dreamers ●nd Deceivers judged and by the spirit which gave them forth which speakes no where 〈◊〉 three Persons as yee imagine and teach but declares of the only wise God who is one 〈◊〉 being and subsistence individuall infinite who divideth all things and to every 〈◊〉 ●●eir portion who limiteth all things and is not limited whose power and spirit is 〈◊〉 ●able from him who is the Father of the spirits of all flesh who by his power 〈◊〉 ●●th and by his spirit quickeneth all living Creatures whose power is the Christ 〈◊〉 whose spirit is the holy and eternall life which they partake of who waites for his ●ppearance in his power and these doth not the Scriptures call three Persons but the one witnesse in the Heaven which you are all ignorant of who dreames and divines to the people of a distinguishment of Persons in the God-head therefore cease your deceipt yee Deceivers and Sooth sayers of Egypt and come to the light that shines in the heart that by it yee may come to the true knowledge of God your Creator and of his power by which ●●e were created and of his spirit by which he quickens into newnesse of life all those who ●eares him and waites for his salvation which now by the light is makeing manifest 2dly Your Doctrine concerning the word of God is altogether reprovable who teach people to beli ve that that is the word of God that can be bought and sold for mony and the knowledge thereof attained by humane learning namely the Scriptures of the Prophets and Apostles that you say is the word of God and they that say otherwise you say must be cursed but I tell you this curse will returne upon your owne heads who preach contrary to the Scriptures which saith Christ is the word of God now if he be the word ●f God then the Scriptures is not except they be Christ which if you thinke they be de●lare your meaning plainly and if you know any other Christ then the Scriptures then ●all yee him the word of God and call the Scriptures a Declaration according as they are ●alled by them that wrote them who knew the word of God it selfe which yee being ignorant of have as it were changed the glory of the incorruptable and immortall word of God which abides for ever into the similitude of writings which had a beginning 〈…〉 and must come to an end and in the end shall you know the word of God to be that wh●●● searches your hearts and Judges your ungodly thoughts and purposes this shall abi●● with you in the end for this was in the beginning which the Scriptures was not a●● this is it by which the Scriptures and all other things came to have a being so th●● if the Scriptures must be called the word of God because the word came to 〈◊〉 Saints and bid them write them then might Noahs Ark or Solomons Temple 〈◊〉 the Priests Garments or any other thing of the like nature be called the word of Go● because by it they were commanded to make them and furthermore that which the word of God is that which was made flesh and if you can tell how or wh●●● the Scripture was made flesh then declare it or else let that be called the word of G●● henceforth that did become flesh againe without the word was nothing made that 〈◊〉 made and if the scriptures be this word then declare to us how you know that they w●●● before the creation for that which maketh must needs be before the things that by it 〈◊〉 made farther the word of God saith the Apostle is quicke and powerfull and shar● then a two edged sword deviding betweene the soule and the spirit but if this be 〈◊〉 Scripture then tell us what is the reason that your soules are not thereby divided from 〈◊〉 spirit of iniquity and d ceipt that rules over them but yee imagine that death onel●

〈◊〉 make that division as if death were more powerfull then the word of God oh ye● 〈◊〉 and ignorant Priests and people how long will yee regard lying vanities expec●●●● 〈◊〉 where it is not to be had and like the Pharisees of old think to have eternall 〈…〉 Scriptures but will not come to Chri● whose life is your light turn in your mind 〈…〉 own hearts and feele if Gods word which is as a hammer be not striking at 〈…〉 ●●ther of your sins and corruptions and wait then to feel the sharpness of it to cut and 〈◊〉 you from your sins that so you may witnesse the word in your flesh and not in a Book destroy the works of the Divell that the word in the heart yee may know which liveth 〈◊〉 abideth for ever when that by it is destroyed which cannot abide for ever which is your which hitherto hath separated you from the knowledge of God and of his powerfull w●●● 3dly Your Doctrine of faith is reprovable and you in it found contrary to the 〈◊〉 Ministers of Christ for you preach that faith cannot be without sin and you say it is h●●●sie and error in any to say that it can now this I say if ye knew the true faith whic● saving ye would see that it is contrary in all things to sin and would know that in 〈◊〉 of an impossibility to seperate them it would be impossible to unite them for faith 〈◊〉 the scriptures is the gift of God and the gift of God is perfect and God nor his gift 〈◊〉 no concord with sin but giveth the true believe victory over it But as for your faith which ye say cannot be without sin is therewith corrupted a●● not the like precious faith which the Saints obtained by which they wrought righteous● were accepted with the Lord without which it is impossible for you to please him th●● yee performe never so many performances for this faith which is mixt with sin whi●● the faith of the Church of Scotland is not that by which the just lives but among 〈◊〉 professe this faith is the just slain in your owne particulars by the sin which ye con●● in and say ye must continue in as long as yee live so yee are fur short of the Saints hope ●o brought them to purifie themselves as God is pure and your faith and hope and confi●●e which is thus mixt with sin and unrighteousnesse is excluded from leading any of you in●●e inheritance of the promise which is eternall life for it is the faigned or made faith 〈◊〉 hardens the heart and continues you in the transgression and begets in you a bold confi●●e in your dark imaginations which shortly shall faile you and yee shall be strict of 〈◊〉 saith and hope and be left naked to your perpetuall shame and confusion and ●●esore all that desire to come to the true faith which gives victory over the 〈◊〉 and that which is in the world they must first come to that which true faith is placed in 〈◊〉 is the light wherewith Christ Jesus hath enlightened every one that commeth into the 〈◊〉 and that all men through him might beleive and Christ himselfe said that they should ●●ve in the light and this is it which doth secretly make manifest and reprove the workes ●arkenesse which are done out of the faith and are displeasing to God and who beleeves in 〈◊〉 light they must beleive against sin and the power of it and so as they abide stedfast in the 〈◊〉 watchfull to that in which they have beleived then the power of this faith comes to be in the creature that as they have beleived against sin so they come to receive power a●● sin for according unto their faith so happeneth it unto them and according unto your faith 〈◊〉 ●ive you can never be made free from your sins so also will it happen unto you so long ●●●de in that beleife yee shall abide servants of sin and so free from righteousnesse ●●●bly Concerning election and herein have yee erred exceedingly from the truth and 〈◊〉 truth ought yee to be reproved and judged who holds forth in your Church that God 〈◊〉 ●●pected a certaine number of persons to himselfe without cause or quality in them scene ●sidered and that these he hath elected unto salvation by an unalterable decree that they be saved from the wrath of God and that all the rest are under an irrevocable decree of nation for when no way of salvation is left nor no effectuall meanes found for the salva●● of them that doctrine is not of God but of your Father the Devill who was a lyer from beginning if he telleth a lye it is of himselfe but if yee tell a lye it is of him and from is thy doctrine sprung who rules in the Kingdome of darknesse and desires that none might 〈◊〉 to the knowledge of the truth nor be saved and so hath set you to preach this doctrine ●●rdly unto ignorant people who generally have believed it while he in the meane time ●●relly suggesting in some of them that they are elected and so what sin soever they live in of mar their election seeing it is without condition or qualification and mans workes of alter nor change Gods decrees and many such like reasonings as this learn they from deceiver within and from the deceivers without and he also is perswading others that they not elected but are of the greater number which the Priests saith no salvation nor re●●●tion is for and so they may take their course and spend their time in pleasure for can but go to hell in the end and all their godlinesse and soberness and strickt●●● and abstinence from pleasure and whatever they can do cannot change the purpose of God concerning their damnation and so by these and such like meanes and instruments doth the devill uphold his Kingdome and keepe you from preaching him or believing on him who is the way to the Father Christ Jesus the light of the world who lighteth every man with the true light with which he may see that which was wrought in darknesse which is the reprobate state and be led out of it according to Christs words who said I am the light of the world he that believeth on me shall not abide in darknesse but shall have the light of life he said not if the elect beleive on me but he that a generall terme to every one that cometh into the world and is enlightened with this true light and this is the love of God to the Sons and Daughters of men who wills not the death of them that doe dye marke them are reprobated that doe dye but God wills it not but rather that they should turn and live but yee that preach this doctrine yee would live without turning but the Sword of the Lord is drawne against your life and shall cut it off for it stands but by an imagination of such a decree as by which sinners might be