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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A38109	The first and second part of Gangræna, or, A catalogue and discovery of many of the errors, heresies, blasphemies and pernicious practices of the sectaries of this time, vented and acted in England in these four last years also a particular narration of divers stories, remarkable passages, letters : an extract of many letters, all concerning the present sects : together with some observations upon and corollaries from all the fore-named premisses / by Thomas Edwards ...; Gangraena. Part 1-2	Edwards, Thomas, 1599-1647.	1646 (1646)	Wing E227; ESTC R9322	294,645	284

conversion and what Peter did in this kinde after his foul fact of denying his Master issued from the weaknesse of his faith 79. That Gods children are not to aske the pardon and forgivenesse of their sins they need not they ought not and 't is no lesse then blasphemy for a child of God to aske pardon of sins 't is infidelity to aske pardon of sins and Davids asking forgivenesse of sin was his weaknesse 80. That when Abraham denyed his wife and in outward appearance seemed to lie in his distrust lying dissembling and equivocating that his wife was his sister even then truly all his thoughts words and deeds were perfectly holy and righteous from all spot of sin in the fight of God freely 81. The called of God have sin in the flesh they have sin in the conversation but they have no sin neither can they have any in the conscience for the true faith of Gods elect and sin in the conscience can no more stand together then light and darknesse and this reconciles those two Scriptures If we say we have no sin we deceive our selves and He that is borne of God doth not commi● sin neither can he because he is borne of God 82. The great Antichrist is that mysticall body of iniquity which opposeth Jesus Christ and not the Pope of Rome or any particular succession of men only he is a part of Antichrist Denn makes the opposition of Antinomian errours to be the man of sin and the great Antichrist as is to be seen in severall pages of his Man of sin discovered And Sectaries make them who deny Christs dying for all to be Antichrist others make Antichristianisme to consist in the coercive power of the Magistrate in matters of Religion 83. That the soul of man is mortall as the soul of a beast and dies with the body 84. That the souls of the faithfull after death do sleep til the day of judgement and are not in a capacity of acting any thing for God but 't is with them as 't is with a man that is in some pleasing dreame 85. That the bodies of the faithfull shall not rise again at the resurrection namely the same that died but their soules shall have other bodies made fit for them either by creation or faction from some preëxisting matter and though the bodies be new yet the men are the same because the same souls remaine still 86. Infants rise not again because they are not capable of knowing God and therefore not of enjoying him 87. That the perfection and resurrection spoken of by Paul 1. Cor. 15.51.52.53.54.55.56.57 the hope set before us the eternall inheritance a City having foundations whose builder and maker is God are to be attained in the fullnesse and perfection of them now in this present time before the common death of the body 88. That none of the soules of the Saints go to Heaven where Christ is but Heaven is empty of the Saints till the resurrection of the dead 89. There is no resurrection at all of the bodies of men after this life nor no Heaven nor hell after this life nor no devils 90. There shall be in the last day a resurrection from the dead of all the bruit creatures all beasts and birds that ever lived upon the earth every individuall of every kinde of them that died shall rise again as well as of men and all these creatures shall live for ever upon the earth 91 There is no hell but in this life and that 's the legall terrours and feares which men have in their consciences 92. That there is no Church of Christ upon the earth no true Ministery no Sacraments no Gospel no faith because there are no visible nor infallible gifts 93. No man is damned but for rejecting the Gospel and none can reject the Gospel but those who have it tendred unto them as they had in the Apostles dayes being confirmed by miracles 94. That the pure preaching of the Word and righ administration of the Saments are no notes nor signes of a true visible Church 95. 'T is the will of God that miracles should attend the Ministry the Apostles make a marriage of doctrine and miracles so that they who preach the Gospel must be so gifted as to confirme it by signes and wonders 96. That many Christians in these dayes have more knowledge then the Apostles and when the time is come that there shall be true Churches and Ministery erected they shall have greater gifts and do greater miracles then the Apostles ever did because the Christian Church was but then in its infancy 97. That there ought to be in these times no making or building of Churches nor use of Church-ordinances as ministring of the Word Sacraments but waiting for a Church being in a readiness upon all occasions to take knowledge of any passenger of any opinion or tenet whatsover the Saints as pilgrims doe wander as in a Temple of smoak not able to finde Religion and therefore should not plant it by gathering or building a pretended supposed House but should wait for the coming of the Spirit as the Apostles did 98. There is a salvation that shall be revealed in the last times which was not known to the Apostles themselves 99. That within a while God will raise up Apostles men extraordinarily endowed with visible and infallible gifts to preach the Gospel and that shall precede the fall of Rome 100. That in points of Religion even in the Articles of faith and principles of Religion there 's nothing certainly to be beleeved and built on onely that all men ought to have liberty of conscience and liberty of prophesying 101. That the Scriptures no where speak of Sacraments name or thing 102. That the Covenant whereof Circumcision was the seale was onely of temporall promises as Ex. G. of the land of Canaan that the Covenant God made with Abraham had nothing spirituall in it and that Circumcision was a seal of the righteousnesse of faith to no other but to Abraham alone quatenus a father and not to his children 103. That Baptism is not a seal nor signe of the Covenant of grace 104. That Poedobaptisme is unlawfull and Antichristian and that 't is as lawfull to baptize a Cat or a Dog or a Chicken as to baptize the Infants of beleevers 105. 'T is as lawfull to break any of the ten Commandements as to baptize an Infant yea 't is as lawfull to commit adultery and murther as to baptize a childe 106. That baptizing belongs not to Ministers onely all gifted brethren and preaching Disciples though no Ministers may baptize 107. Baptizednesse is not essentiall to the Baptizer nor essentiall to preaching so that persons not onely not in office but not so much as baptized may both baptize and preach 108. Miracles are essentiall to the administration holden forth in the commission of Baptisme Matt. 28.19 109. That none are to be admitted to the

conceits That there is a Prophet arisen who is shut up for a time but at the end of this Summer is to come forth with power to preach the generall Restauration of all things which Prophet hath given a roll forth already into some hands in which roll many things are written and whoever hath that roll hath the spirit of prophecie He hath appointed some to be Publishers and Prophets and to go to Jerusalem to build it up where Abraham Isaac and Iacob shall meet them from Heaven and these persons thus sent unto Jerusalem are assured they shall never dye with many other of this kind But I will reserve these to make another book of and come to give the Reader some Corallaries drawn from the whole matter Certain Corallaries and Consectaries drawn from the Errours Heresies Blasphemies Practices and Stories of the Sectaries laid down in this present Book CORALL I. HEnce then from all these Errours Heresies Blasphemies Practices c. laid downe both in the first and second part of Gangraena we may see how far the Sectaries of our times have proceeded and how high they have risen In a word to summe up in one page what more at large is expressed in many sheets the Sectaries are gone verie farre both in damnable doctrines and wicked practices in holding principles and positions destructive to Church and State against all Government both Civill as well as Ecclesiasticall and that not only for the matter but in the 〈◊〉 and way of propagation and 〈◊〉 of them They have questioned and denyed all the Articles of faith and have justified and pleaded for all kind of errours and abominations They have denyed the Scriptures Trinitie the God-head of the Son and Holy Ghost Justification by Christ the Gospel Law holy duties Church Ministerie Sacraments and all Ordinances They hold there are no Devils no sin no Hell no Heaven no Resurrection no Immortalitie of the Soule And together with these they are against all Kingly government the King Lords the House of Commons as to have any thing to do in matters of Religion or in Civill matters any longer than the people who chose them think fit and to be chosen yeerly or of●ner according as they carrie themselves yea against all kind of Civill government and Magistraticall power whatsoever as appeares by denying the power of imposition of taxes and assessments in denying the power of Magistrates over Church-members in cases of murther treason c. And as they have denyed all these so on the contrarie they have maintained and pleaded for all kind of blasphemous and hereticall opinions and loose ungodly practices yea they have publikely in print justified there should be an open Toleration for all these and if any man should so far degenerate as to beleeve there is no God nay come to bl●spheme God and the Scriptures yet hee should not be troubled nor molested but enjoy the libertie of his conscience And they have not only pleaded thus but some of them have actually blasphemed God Christ the Spirit the Scriptures Ministers Sacraments and all holy Ordinances besides committing of horrible uncleannesses forsaking of husbands and wives as Antichristian being guiltie of thefts defraudings c. being partakers also of that horrid Rebellion of Ireland in justifying the Rebels that they did no more than what wee would have done our selves c. All these with many others as the pleading for stage-playes to be set up againe some or other of the Sectaries have been guiltie of and unto all these have added this moreover to canonize and cry up for Saints faithfull servants of God c. Antiscripturists Antitrinitarians Arrians Perfectists yea Blasphemers and Atheist ●o they be but for Independencie and against Presbyterie and particularly how is Paul B●st that fearfull Blasphemer now he is in question by the House of Commons pleaded for by many Sectaries of our times and bitter speeches spoken against the House of Commons for medling with him yea and in print too hee is pleaded for and compared in a sort with Paul the Apostle Certainly neither we nor our Fathers before us ever heard or saw such evils of blasphemie heresie c. in this Kingdome as wee have done within these two or three last yeeres The worst of the Bishops and their Chaplains when they were at worst were Saints in comparison of many of the Sectaries of our times and would have abhorred as bad as they were such opinions and practices which some of the Sectaries magnifie cry up and pretend to do by vertue of new light the Spirit and as a matter of great perfection as for instance A mans or womans forsaking their owne husbands and wives and taking others at their pleasure out of pretence of casting off Antichristian yokes the pleading for a general Toleration of all Religions yea Blasphemies denying a Deitie out of pretence of libertie of conscience But what speak I of the Bishops and their Chaplains I am perswaded all the stories and relations of the Anabaptists and Schwenkfeldians in Luthers time of the Popes and Papists blasphemies of many Heathens and scoffers of the Scriptures Christian Religion as Galen Porphirius Lucian Iulian the Apostate c. do fall short of the blasphemies waies of our Sectaries Which of all these ever so blasphemed as Boggis or what storie is there since the creation of the world that mentions a more horrid wicked blasphemy than that of Boggis a great Sectarie pag. 133 134 135 Or where is there a blasphemy to be found beyond that spoken of in pag. 116 of this Book In a word to conclude this first Corollatie The Sectaries of our times have in many respects as in regard of breach of Covenant ingratitude falsnesse c. gone beyond the Sectaries of other ages and Kingdomes and done worse than their fathers justifying them in all their abominations which they committed and have vented and spread so many poysonous and dangerous principles and positions as are enough to corrupt and infect all the Christian world if the Lord in mercie do not prevent it CORALL II. HEnce then from all that I have laid down of the Sectaries of our times of their errours heresies blasphemies strange practices and their wayes of managing them we may learne what is like to become of them and their way and what their end will be namely confusion desolation and being brought to nought suddenly as in a moment and if ever God spake by me I am confident he will curse this Faction of Sectaries in England and cast them out as an abominable branch Me thinks I see their day a coming and drawing neere Heretikes and Schismatikes do not use to be long-lived no heresie as Luther speaks uses to overcome at the last What is become of the Arrians Donatists Novatians Pelagians c though they were like a mightie floud over-running and drowning all for a time yet like a floud they

his people that he is the Authour not of those Actions alone in and with which sin is but of the very Pravity Ataxy Anomy Irregularity and sinfullnesse it self which is in them 12. That all Lyes come forth out of the mouth of God 13. 'T is the will and command of God that since the coming of his Son the Lord Jesus a permission of the most Paganish Jewish Turkish or Antichristian consciences and worship be granted to all men in all Nations and Countries and they are only to be fought against with the sword of Gods Spirit the word of God and for the Parliament to use any civill coercive meanes to compell men of different judgment is one of the greatest sins that can be named 't is committing a greater rape then if they had forced or ravished the bodies of all the women in the world Yea if it be mens consciences the Magistrate may not punish for blasphemies nor for denying the Scriptures nor for denying there is a God 14. That no man was cast into hell for any sin but only because God would have it so 15. That a man had life before God breathed into him and that which God breathed into him was part of the divine Essence and shall returne unto God again 16. That we should think of our selves no better then was meet for God loves the creatures that creep upon the ground as well as the best Saints and there is no distance between the flesh of a Man and the flesh of a Toad 17. That the Prince of the ayr that rules in the children of disobedience is God and that there is no other spirit but one which Spirit is God 18. That God hath not decreed all the actions of men because men doing what God decreed do not ●in 19. That God was never angry nor displeased with man for if he were ever displeased and pleased again then there is a changeablenesse in God 20. That God loved not one man more then another before the world neither is there an absolute particular election but only generall and conditionall upon perseverance and the Scripture no where speaks of Reprobates or Reprobation 21. That the soul dies with the body and all things shall have an end but God only shall remain for ever 22. Every creature in the first creation was God and every creature is God every creature that hath life and breath being an efflux from God and shall returne into God again be swallowed up in him as a drop is in the ocean 23. That to a saving knowledge of God it sufficeth not to know him in the book of nature nor secondly as revealed in the holy Scriptures but that we must know him as abstract from his mercies and all his attributes 24. That in the Unity of the God-head there is not a Trinity of Persons but the Doctrine of the Trinity beleeved and professed in the Church of God is a Popish tradition and a Doctrine of Rome 25. There are not three distinct Persons in the Divine Essence but only three Offices the Father Son and holy Ghost are not three Persons but Offices 26. That there is but one Person in the Divine nature 27. That Jesus Christ is not very God not God essentially but nominally not the eternall Son of God by eternall generation no otherwise may he be called the Son of God but as he was man 28. That Christs humane nature is defiled with originall sin as well as ours Christ had from the birth to his death the same originall corruption as ours he took our sin into his nature as well as our flesh upon him Christ is not of a holier nature then we but in this appeares Gods love to us that he will take one of us in the same conditition to convince us of what he is to us and hath made us to be in him me thinks the beholding of Christ to be holy in the flesh is a dishonour to God in that we should conceive holinesse out of God and again a discomfort to the Saints that he should be of a more holy nature then they as being no ground for them to come neer with boldnesse to God 29. That we did look for great matters from one crucified at Ierusalem 16 hundred yeares ago but that does us no good it must be a Christ formed in us the deity united to our humanity Christ came into the world to live thirty two years and to do nothing else that he knew and blessed God he never trusted in a crusified Christ. 30. Christ was true man when he created us yea from eternity and though he had not flesh yet was he very man without flesh 31. That Christ died for all men alike for the reprobate as well as for the elect and that not only sufficiently but effectually for Iudas as well as Peter for the damned in hell as well as the Saints in Heaven 32. That by Christs death all the sins of all the men in the world Turks Pagans as well as Christians committed against the morall Law and first Covenant are actually pardoned and forgiven and this is the everlasting Gospel 33. That Christ did only satisfie for the sins against the first Covenant but not for the sins against the second Covenant as unbelief he died not for the unbelief of any 34. Christ died only for sins past i. e. before the Gospel is revealed to the sinner and the sins of men committed after conversion Christ died not for but they are pardoned by his being a continuall sacrifice 35. Every man satisfies for himselfe for the sins against the second Covenant namely unbelief because he that beleeves not the wrath of God abides upon him so that for a years unbelief a man beares a years wrath and this is all the satisfaction God requires 36. That no man shall perish or go to hell for any sin but unbeleef only 37. That the Heathen who never heard of Christ by the Word have the Gospel for every creature as the Sun Moon and Stars preach the Gospel to men and in them is revealed the knowledge of Christ crucified and sin pardoned if they had eyes to see it 38. Those Heathen that perish do perish only for not beleeving according to the Gospel they enjoy 39. Christ did not by his death purchase life and salvation for all no nor for the elect For it was not the end of God in the coming of Christ to purchase love and life but Christ himself was purchased by love that hee might make out love and purchase us to love 40. Christ Jesus came into the world to witnesse and declare the love of God to us not to procure it for us or to satisfie God as some say Christ was a most glorious publisher of the Gospel he was sent to preach the Gospel to heal the broken hearted to preach deliverance to the captives in all that Christ saith to be the end of