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A47851	Dissenters sayings the second part : published in their own words, for the information of the people : and dedicated to the Grand-jury of London, August 29, 1681 / by Roger L'Estrange.	L'Estrange, Roger, Sir, 1616-1704.	1681 (1681)	Wing L1245; ESTC R2228	59,550	94

us so they fled before us Sterry to the Commons No. 26. 1645. P. 23. 22 When Christ was Crucifi'd did not all forsake him Had but a few of that Inconstant multitude which but a while before had cry'd Hosanna stuck close to Christ in likelyhood they had deliver'd him Carter to the Commons Aug. 31. 1642. P. 12. 26 This year God by a Providence hath buryed this Feast Christmas day in a ●…ast and I hope it will never rise again Calamy to the Commons Dec. 25. 1644. P. 41. 27 I ask whether the Repetition of these words Our Father c. after men have been long praying for the things contained in them as the manner of some is be not so remote from any Pretence or Colour of Warrant in the Scripture as that it is in plain Terms RIDICULOUS D. Io. Owen Vindiciae Evangel P. 669. 28 As men set Traps to catch Vermine so God appoints Heresyes to Insnare Arrogant and Self-presuming or Vicious and Self-defiling men Bagshaw of Heresyes P. 8. 26 Where is the God of Marston-Moor and the God of Nase●…y is an Acceptable Expostulation in a Gloomy day O what a Catalogue of Mercyes has this Nation to Plead by in a time of Trouble God came from Naesby and the Holy One from the West Selah c. D. Owens Eben-Ez●…r P. 13. 30 God had so wonderfully wrought upon the Spirits of men particularly on those Soldiers who were to fight the Bishops Battels in Scotland that they pull'd down the Railes threaten'd the Priests and kept such a Visitation in their Progress as the Bishops hardly ever had done since Q. Elizabeths days Case to the Commons Gods waiting 1642. 31 Let me tell ye if ever Gentlemen you might use this Speech O happy penny you may use it now Happy money that will purchase my Gospel happy money that will Purchase Religion and Purchase a Reformation to my Posterity O happy Money and Blessed be Cod that I have it to Lend E. Calamy's Speech at Guild-Hall Oct. 6. 1643. 32 The Lord Iesus hath his Concubines his Queens his Virgins Saints in Remoter Forms Saints in Higher Forms Saints Unmarried to any Forms who keep themselves single for the Immediate Embraces of their Lord. Sterry's Englands Deliverance Epistle 33 God did not Measure Iob in his Wallops but when he was Cold As we do not measure Milk when it Wallops and Seeths but when it is Cold Bridge's First and Last in Suffering P. 47. 34 I will gently lead those that are with Young that is saith he Christ will be very kind to those Saints that step aside and he thus Comforts those that are big with young in a sinfull sense O ye Sinning Ewes who have been big with young hath not he gone after you and sound you and laid you upon his shoulders rejoycing It may be thou hast been wand'ring like Dinah from thy Fathers House and art big with young and afraid to go home but fear not Go and Try he will not cast you out of Doors though you come with Big Bellyes he will deal gently with you though with Young And then It is our Glory to be Christs Ewes and that when a MAN is Big with Young and Cryes out O my Belly my Belly here is a Point of Comfort that Christ is Sweet to such Persons Afterwards He cryes out O Blessed Ewes O Believing Ewes And O Believing Bees that suck the Hony of Sin-Hatred out of the Wormwood of Sin-Acted In another place he tells us that Christ accounts their very Stammerings sweet Meih Meih saith the Little One and the Mother Counts it musick Durant's Sips of sweetness upon Isaiah 40. 11. Reprinted 1662. 35 I dare speak it as Confidently as I Believe the Revelation to be Divine Scripture that what Viol soever is pouring out the Issue will be Anti-Christ shall loose and Christ shall gain Marshall to the Commons Iune 15. 1643. P. 45. 36 Not only is that Covenant which God hath made with us founded in the Bloud of Christ but that also which we make with God Caryl Oct. 6. 1643. P. 33. 37 Beloved can ye forget the Soldiers I say the Soldiers who have spent their Bloud for Christ as Christ did for them even their own Precious Bloud in Gods Cause at Newbery Evans to the Earl of Essex at St. Clements Sept. 26. 1643. 38 You who sit at the Right hand of the Lord Iesus in this Common-wealth as the Lord Jesus sits at the Right Hand of his Father in that Kingdom which is over all c. Sterry to the Commons No. 26. 1645. Epistle 39 All you that have Contributed to the Parliament come and take this Sacrament to your Comfort Case 40 One Redman of Castle-Dunnington in Leicester-shire in Opposition to the Order of the Church deliver'd the Sacrament in the Afternoon in Ale Notes upon §. 2. TOleration will make way for False Christs and False Prophets 1 Destroy all Government 8. Introduce Schisms and Heresies 3. 4. Authorize Mechanicks to Preach 5. Tear the Church to peices 6 Divide us from God 7 Give Encouragement to Blasphemy Prophaneness and Dissolution of manners 8 And so to the End How can the Dissenters Press for a Toleration now after this agreement among themselves that it must Inevitably draw after it the Ruine and Confusion both of Church and State §. 3. The Dissenters Harmony among themselves 1 Does not the Apostle Prophesy That in the last days Perillous Times shall come for men shall be lovers of themselves Covetous Boasters Proud Heady High-minded having a Form of Godlyness but denying the Power thereof Ever learning but never able to come to the Knowledge of the Truth Yea such as will not Endure sound Doctrine but after their own lusts will heap to themselves Teachers having itching Ears turning away their Ears from the Truth and will be turned into Fables and Fictions New lights and Revelations And are not your thus pretended New-lights the very Persons thus delineated by your own Confessions and practices too even Murmurers Complainers desirous to walk after your own lusts and having mens Persons in admiration for Advantage Yea take heed I say ye be not found to be those Clouds without water carried about with W●…des and those wand'ring Stars which the Apostle Iude speaks of which know not when or where Immutably to fix your faith and Judgments Whereas our Presbyterians and all other True Believers are allways 1. Cor. 15. 58. Phil. 1. 27. and Chap. 4. 1. c. stedfast Unmoveable standing fast in the Lord in one spirit and in One mind striving together for the faith of the Gospell and not tossed to and fro like Children carried about with Every Wind of Doctrine by the slight of men as too many Scepticall Independents are to the Great Obloquy and Scandall of Religion Picture of Independency P. 9. Independent 2 You complain of your Misery and Bondage Sorrows and Oppressions and Troubles of the Church What ails you What Troubles

to Grant This shall suffice as to their Iudgement of a Toleration in it self We 'le take it next in the Consequences and Effects §. 2. The Fruits of a Toleration 1 THe Incursions of the wild Boars of the Forest upon the Vineyard of the Lord cannot but flow from the not setting up of the Hedge of Discipline and that when in the Kirk of Christ there is not one Lord one Faith one Baptism there must arise many False Christs and False Prophets insomuch that if it were possible they should deceive the very Elect. The Kirks Testimony against Toleration to the London Ministers 2 Will any Parliament State or Nation think you suffer such a Government to take Root among them which will Un-King Un-Parliament Un-Church Un-Nation them altogether and make Each several Congregation an Absolute Monarchy c. Prins full Reply upon Io. Goodwin P. 8. 3 Satan and his Ministers Transform themselves into Angels of Light false Teachers usually come to Seduce men in sheeps Cloathing there is no Heretique Schismatique or Sectary whatsoever so Pernicious Gross and detestable but pretends his way Doctrine Practise to be the way and Truth of Christ. Prinns full Answer Cited by Io. Goodwin Innocency and Truth P. 33. 4 This New way and the Separation of Independents from their Parish Churches is an Encouragement to all the Separatists Brownists Anabaptists Antinomians Socinians and Libertines that are in and about the City The Antidote against the Contagious Air of Independency P. 12. 5 All sorts of Mechanicks take upon them to Preach and Baptize as Smiths Taylers Shoomakers Pedlers Weavers c. Edwards Discovery of Sectaries P. 26. 6 From all these Errors Here syes Blasphemyes and Practises of the Sectaryes you may see what a great Evil and Sin Separation is from the Communion of the Reformed Churches and how highly displeasing to God for men to make a Schism and Rent in the Church of God in a time of Reformation God punishing the Schism Separation of our Times with so many Heresyes Blasphemyes Wicked Practises c. Edwards further Discovery P. 195. 7 The Punishment of Schism and Separation from the Church is Separation from God Heresy Blasphemy Atheism Uncleanness Unrightcousness c. Ibid. P. 167. 8 One ask'd what kind of Bird the Holy Ghost was The Virgin Mary hath been call'd a They could write as Good Scriptures as the Apostles Paul was a Novice and understood not Christ in the Promise Edwards Gangrena P. 33. 9 One W●…b Blessed God that he never trusted in a Crucify'd Christ nor did he believe him to be the Son of God nor the Scriptures Divine but Human Invention He affirm'd there was no more Resurrection of a Man then of a Beast Edwards Catalogue and Discovery of the Sectaryes P. 5. Christs Human Nature is De●…il'd with Original Sin as well as ours P. 6. 10 One maintain'd that God was the Author of sin that all Lyes came out of the mouth of God and quoted a Place in the Book of Kings sor't that no man was sent to Hell for any Sins but cast thither only because God would have it so Edwards Catalogue of Errors P. 24. An Anabaptist and a great Sectary came to Mr. Greenhill and said he might as safely baptize a Dog as a Believers Child Ibid. P. 25. 11 A Brick-layer of Hack●…ey affirm'd that he for his part understood the Mystery of God in Christ better th●…n St. Paul and he sayd of the Scriptures they were as other writings of men Every one writ as they had Conceiv'd Ibid. P. 26. 12 On February 27. 1644. It was Deliver'd at a Conventicle in Bell-Alley that Christ was no more God then he or any of them there and that they were as much God as Christ was And Mr. Noy spake it in the hearing of some Divines of the Assembly that to his knowledge the denying of the Divinity of Christ was a Growing Opinion Ibid. 13 One S. O. a Dipper is Reported by Mr. Edwards after he had Baptiz'd a woman to bid her Gape and she Gap'd and he did blow three times into her mouth saying words to this purpose either Receive the Holy Ghost or now thou hast Receiv'd the Holy Ghost The same Person was also Question'd at Ch●…lmsford 1646. for the Death of a Young woman that dy'd upon Dipping Gangr●…na Part. 2. P. 147. 14 A Preacher at Sandwich in Kent a Washball-maker pray'd to the Trinity to take care of these Three Kingdoms God the Father of One God the Son of the Second and God the Holy Ghost of the Third ●…b P. 150. 15 Where is your God says one B●…ggis In Heaven or in Earth alo●…t or Below or where doth he sit c. Gangraen P. 163. Par. 2d 16 A Woman having a desire to be Re-baptiz'd and having pull'd off all her Cloaths to the naked skin ready to go into the water but forbearing during the time the Dipper pray'd she cover'd her secret Parts with both her hands the which the Dipper Espying told the woman that it was an unseemly sight to see her hold her hands downward It being an Ordinanee of Jesus Christ her hands with her heart should be lifted up towards heaven as he shew'd her how he did but she Refusing for Modesty's sake could not be Re-baptiz'd Edward's Catalogue of Errors P. 5. 17 Christmas day is a Superstitious day and will if observ'd bring in Idolatrous Worship Pearn at S. Dunstans in the West De. 24. 18 O Lord thou hast given us never a Victory this Long while for all our Frequent Fasting What dost thou mean O Lord to fling us in the Ditch and there leave us Vines at St. Clements Temple Bar. 19 O Lord do not thou stand a Neuter but take One side that we may see which it is that is thy Cause Cradock of Nun Eaton Aug. 1. 1647. 20 If the Devil the Turk and the People should think to Compound with Christ and say Thou Christ Thou shalt have so many Kingdoms ond let us Enjoy the rest quietly Christ will never do 't He will either have All or None He will either Kill or be Kill'd Feakat Black-Fryers Aug. 8. 1653. 21 I Prosess Saints we must go lay our heads together and Consult what we shall ask God next for he will give us whatsoever we Ask and so he hath done these Seven years Id. Ibid. 22 We must agree together to ask something now for Iesus Christ for we have enough for our selves already We have Peace enough prosperity enough and enough of every thing Feake Aug. 11. 1653. 23 O Lord when shall we hear the sound of Christs Horse-heels Feakat Black Fryers Sep. 5. 1653. 24 What ailed you ye Mighty Armies at Keinton Newbery York Naesby that ye fled and were driven backwards What ailed you ye strong Treasons Close Conspiracyes that ye trembled and Fell and your Foundations discover'd before you could take Effect They saw thee O Jesus They saw thee appearing in the Midest of