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A76758	Mene tekel, or, The council of officers of the Army, against the declarations, &c. of the Army. Wherein is flatly proved by the express words of the Armies declarations, that the sixth article of the * late address of the said council of officers to the Parliament, point-blank changeth the cause of liberty of conscience, from the good old one, to a bad new one; from that which at first, and all along the Army engaged in, and for, and declared to that which they engaged against. Moreover, that the imposition therein is agreeable neither to the Armies solemn declarations and engagements, nor to liberty of conscience, nor to the Scriptures of truth, but is contrary to them all ... Geo. Bishop.	Bishop, George, d. 1668.	1659 (1659)	Wing B3000; Thomason E999_13; ESTC R207833	40,890	51

and different That viz. the Settlement hath onely these viz. That such as professe Faith in God by Jesus Christ words few and simple The Addresse That all persons who professe Faith in God the Father and in Jesus Christ his eternall Son the true God and in the holy Spirit God coequall with the Father and the Son One God blessed for ever Which because they are not all of them the words of Scripture for where saith it God coequall with the Father the Son And for that those of them which are Scripture words are no where spoken by the holy Ghost in the Scriptures so together as Ye have set them nor for that purpose viz. to hold forth a Distinction of Persons of three Persons in the Godhead or Trinity which the Imagination of Man hath formed of God which knowes not God And in regard these Your Tearms are laid as so many Shibboleths or Snares for the tender Consciences of those who cannot speak of God in the will and words that Mans wisdome teacheth which must be confounded but in the will of God and the words which the holy Ghost teacheth And forasmuch as ye are notwithstanding so Dogmaticall and peremptory therein as that ye make the Confession of this your Faith to be the Quallification sine qua non without which there is no Protection And have placed it as the bound or limit of Conscience-Liberty under which it must come or suffer which indeed destroyes Liberty of Conscience for where it is bound in any one Particular there it cannot be said to be Liberty of Conscience And inasmuch as Ye seem to set such a high value on the Scriptures that ye make the acknowledging of what ye have pleased to call it though not in its own words nor have ye made it to appear that it saith so of it self essentiall to Protection of which in the next particular And finally in that ye exact this Profession as the issue and fruit of all the bloud and Warrs and your late Deliverance I say upon these Considerations in the Name and dread of the Eternall God I do require you and all your Doctors and both their Mothers the two Universities and all their Children the Priests to prove in Plain and expresse Scripture words together where the Scriptures do attribute Faith or believing to the holy Spirit as a distinct Person as here ye have set it Or confesse that ye cannot and so raze out with your own Pens your new Confession of Faith contained in this Article which ye seek to enforce as the fruit and issue of all and with such a Penalty Or if ye are silent ye shall be taken pro confesso that is to say by your silence to confesse that ye cannot True it is the Scriptures bear Record of Christ that he said to his Disciples Ye believe in God believe also in me John 14. 1. And He that believeth in me as the Scripture hath said out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water this spake he of the holy Spirit which they that believe on him should receive for the holy Ghost was not yet given because that Jesus was not yet glorified John 7. 39. And no man knoweth the Father but the Son and he to whomsoever the Son will reveal him The Comforter when he is come even the Spirit of Truth which proceedeth from the Father he shall testifie of me John 15. 25 26. And Paul said unto them at Ephesus Have ye received the holy Ghost since ye believed And they said unto him we have not so much as heard whether there be any holy Ghost And when Paul had laid his hands on them the holy Ghost came on them Act. 19. 1 2 6. And again In whom also after ye believed ye were sealed with the holy Spirit of promise Ephes 1. 13. And There are three that bear record in heaven the Father the Word and the holy Ghost and these three are one And there are three that bear witnesse on earth the Spirit the Water and the Bloud and these three agree in one 1 John 5. 7 8. And this we believe and set our seals to But where say they as ye have exacted it Now the words of Mans wisdom concerning God which knowes not God which must be confounded which must be brought to nought which the holy Ghost teacheth not and the Doctrines which are not from the Spirit of Truth we reject Secondly that the words viz. And do acknowledge the holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament to be the revealed or written word or will of God Are wholly added as so many Shibboleths or snares also for those who in tenderness of Conscience to God cannot say of the Scriptures what they say not in their own words of themselves And that there be who in tenderness of Conscience to God cannot do thus is known by the sufferings of many in divers parts of the Nation because of it True it is the Scriptures say of Christ Jesus that in the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was God the same was in the beginning with God All things were made by him and without him was not any thing made that was made And the word was made flesh and dwelt amongst us and we beheld his glory as the glory of the only begotten son of the Father full of grace and truth John 1. 3 14. Vpholding all things by the word of his power Heb. 1. 3. His name is called the word of God King of Kings and Lord of Lords Revel 19. 13 16. And of this Word the Scriptures are a true declaration Luke 1. 1. And all Scriptures is given by inspiration of God and is profitable for Doctrine for reproofe for correction for instruction in righteousness that the man of God may be perfect throughly furnished unto all good words 2 Tim. 3. 16. And the Prophesie came not in old time by the will of man but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the holy Ghost 2 Pet. 1. 20 21. And this the Scripture saith of it self and this we own and testifie and our Testimony is true but as for the terms revealed or written word or will of God where sayes the Scripture such words I require you and your Doctors again to prove it for we cannot take a testimony of the Scripures which is not from the Spirit that gave it which spake its own words and its words we receive who have received the Spirit which cannot be imposed upon by the wisdome of man which must be confounded 'T is strange and a thing to be noted that ye your Priests and Doctors who keep such adoe about the Scriptures and who have put you upon this and so magnifie the Letter cannot make four lines of a Confession of your faith in the Letter of the Scriptures as appears by this your Article and that those whom ye seek to ensnare with terms about the Letter which it

have I undenyably proved out of your own mouths in your own plain express words that ye have changed the Cause from that which ye at first and all along engaged in and for and declared even to that of your Enemies against which ye engaged And here I might end but being desirous out of truth of Love and Tender Compassion to you if by any means ye may see your error and be recovered as I said out of the Snare in which ye are taken I shall yet produce for your further conviction some further passages of that your Settlement against your Address in the Case yea the very Article out of which this New one would seem to be drawn and unto it to allude but is no more it than an Harlot is a chast Spouse though it be got into the Bed of the Husband and hath bedeckt it self with some of the Spouses Apparrel the better to deceive as by comparing the one and the other I shall by and by make to appear Settlement Pag. 24 Art 9. Ye say Concerning Religion we agreeas followeth 1 It is intended that Christian Religion be held forth and recommended as the Publick Profession of the Nation Now Christian Religion or the Religion of the Apostles and Disciples of Christ never limited the holy one of Israel as doth the Religion held forth in that your Article but by the unlimited Spirit it testified against all the Worships whether such as were commanded of God and had their end or not I say all the worships of them even in their times and places who limited the holy one of Israel as the Scriptures testifie as also of the Beatings Tumults Stockings Mockings Whippings and Imprisonments which such received from those who limited as it is at this day and it is to be observed that the word Christian Religion is not to be found in this your new one your new Article nay the Father of it knew that the very sound of the name would quickly cause the vizor to be pluckt off and that by it viz. the Christian the Hopocrisie of this Antichristian would be seen and discovered Settlement Which we desire may by the grace of God be reformed to the greatest purity in Doctrine Worship and Discipline according to the word of God The Scriptures ye mean where such a Religion as of Christ is not to be found but of Idolaters and Antichrists as limits God stints his witness compels conscience with outward force and casts all such out of protection as this your new one doth even all those who by the grace of God are instructed and unto whom the Lord hath spoken with a strong hand and instructed them that they should not walk in the way of this people the way of the false worships and worshippers of this Generation out of which they are come but to reprove and who have and must if the Lord will yet strive with this People reprove and bear witness against them I say the Lord hath spoken to them saying Say ye not a confederesie to all them to whom this people shall say a confederesie neither fear ye their fear nor be afraid sanctifie the Lord of Hosts himself and let him be your fear and let him be your dread and he shall be a sanctuary but for a stone of Stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the Houses of Israel for a gin and a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and many among them shall stumble and fall and be broken and be snared and be taken The word of the Lord it is to them and to you and as concerning you in this matter Settlement The instructing of the People whereunto in a publick way so it be not compulsive as also the maintaining of able Teachers for that end for the confutation or discovery of Heresy Error whatsoever is contrary to sound Doctrine is allowed to be provided for by our Representatives The maintainance of which Teachers may be out of a publick Treasury and we desire not by Tythes In your New Cause and Profession there 's not a word of this viz. Able Teachers for the instructing of the People in a publick way so it be not compulsive the maintenance of able Teachers for that end and for the confutation of Heresie Error and whatsoever is contrary to sound Doctrine the maintenance of which Teachers we desire may not be by Tythes And as your Declaration to the said Settlement hath it Pag. 28. The taking away of Tythes the Sore suffering of Gods Witnesses and the Life of that Ministry which speakes in You and in the behalf of Its encouragement countenance and maintaining and putting that maintenance which shall be thought competent for able Teachers to instruct the People into some other way less subject to scruple and contention I say In your New Profession there 's not a word of this Nay the Spirit of it likes not this language it cannot speake it it 's too pure it 's Death to it it knows it not 'T is the voice of the chaste Spouse not of the strange Woman the Harlot whose bed is defiled Settlement 2. That to the publick Profession so held forth none be compelled by penalties or otherwise but onely may be endeavoured to be won by sound Doctrine and the example of a good conversation Pure Language indeed the voice of the Virgin of You in Your Virgin state but not of the Adulteresse of this Your adulterous state which compels by the high penalty of exclusion of Protection to the Bed of whoredomes out of which Protection it is cast as being too chaste and as Judging such a Defilement Now followeth the ARTICLE it self See the COMPARISON Settlement That such as Professe Faith in God by Jesus Christ Address That all persons who profess Faith in God the Father and in Jesus Christ his eternal Son and in the holy Ghost God coequal with the Father the Son God blessed for evermore However differing in Judgement from the Doctrine Worship and Discipline publickly held forth as aforesaid And do acknowledge the holy Scriptures of the Old New Testament to be the revealed or written Word or will of God shall not be restrained from but shall be Protected in the Profession of their Faith and exercise of Religion shall not be restrained from their profession but have due encouragement equal Protection in the profession of their Faith and exercise of Religion according to their Consciences in any place except such as shall be set apart for the publick Worship where we provide not for them unless they have leave   so they abuse not this Liberty to the Civil injury of others or to actuall disturbance of the publick Peace on their Parts whilst they abuse not this Liberty to the Civil injury of others or disturbance of others in their way of Worshipps Exceptions against this Article of Your New Faith First That in the first part of it concerning God the Tearms are more