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A89640	The proud pharisee reproved: or, the lying orator laid open. In an examination of some passages in a book, entituled, precepts for Christian practice, or, the rule of the new creature new model'd. Written by one Edw. Reyner, who calles himself a minister of the Gospel in Lincoln; but is found a lyar / by a Child of the light, who is known to the world by the name of Martin Mason.	Mason, Martin, fl. 1650-1676.	1655 (1655)	Wing M933; Thomason E851_6; ESTC R207419	44,305	59

Book James 1.26 therefore thy Religion is vain After Edmond Calamies Approbation and thy Preface follows a beg'd letter of commendation from one Thomas Manton witness his own words towards the latter end of that Epistle which are these Having thus signified and that upon Request the pleasure I took in this undertaking I take my leave c. Is it the property of a Minister of the Gospel to use such left-handed courses for a commendation Did ever any of the Apostles use such a practice But if thou hadst ten thousand such hands to thy Book as his they might dazle the eyes of the weak but not adde one grain of true worth to thy Book when it comes to be weighed in the ballance The Flatterer begins in a soothing strain Good Reader and tells of intimations in Scripture of a libertine spirit that shall prevail in the latter dayes That 's true And how this is accomplished by thee Manton and thy Genetation all honest hearts do see to their sorrow Who takes more licentious liberty to live in pride oppression and satisfying the lusts of the flesh then the Ministers of England and their Favorites that maintain them He talks of a Note found in Luthers study after his death wherein was written That within a small space of time the temper of the world should be for breaking yoaks what does that trouble thee thou shews what thou art insomuch that they should not only cast off the Canons and Traditions of men but the very Lawes and Ordinances of God And that a sort of men should arise that would be under no other Law and Rule but their own lusts and interests It seems Manton and Edward Reyner are sory Luthers words prove so true concerning the casting off the Canons and Traditions of men And no marvel-great is your Diana the Tithes of England or other set maintenance instead thereof But it must down for it s not a Plant of my Heavenly Fathers planting and therefore shall be rooted up Heb. 8.10 Now who is it that casts off the Law of God written in the Heart that slights the pure Counsel of the living God the light in the Conscience but the Ministers of the World and Men of that Generation pretending to walk by the Scriptures calling them their rule yet walk clear contrary to them and live under no other Law so far as they dare but their own lusts and interests I know they that are Libertines in opinion are in the road way to turn Libertines in practice if there be not something to restrain them But 't is seen who they are that be Libertines both in Opinions and practice an untoward Generation of deluding Priests and their flatterers countenanced at present by some great Ones in the world who throwe the Odium upon the Innocent But this is no new thing for Christ himself was counted Belzebub Mat. 12.24 Order and Rule I own and all such who walk contrary to the Law of God or any just Law made by man such I utterly disown be they Priest or People Dan. 4.30.31 Rev. 18.2 Isa 1.20 Thus having past the Porch I am entred into the Palace Babylon or building which this Nebuchadnezer hath built by the might of his Power for the honour of his Majesty as he vain gloriously hath conceited But this mans Kingdom is departed from him Babylon is fallen is fallen The mouth of the Lord hath spoken it His first Rule is Be sensible of Original corruption whereby you are deprived of the Image of God and of Communion with him and wholly defiled and depraved in all the powers and parts of soul body with a proneness to all evil and averseness to all good continually and made subject to the wrath of God to bondage unto sin and Satan and to all Gods judgements here and hereafter A sad sentence if it were as thou sayes but he that runs in the dark may stumble Dost thou teach another man not to steal and wilt thou play the Thief Dost thou preach and perswade others to walk by Rule and wilt thou walk without where hast thou brought one proof out of Scripture for any one of thy expressions above mentioned Is there such a word as Original Corruption in all the Bible How dares thou thus impudently blaspheme the infinite goodness of the living God as to set him forth so severe a God as to make man subject to his wrath to bondage to sin and Satan and to all Gods judgements here and hereafter before he actually commit sin How many millions of sweet innocent Children would this mans Doctrine damn to all eternity O thou bloody minded blasphemous man blush and be ashamed of this detestable Tenet Ezek. 33.11 Is it not written As I live saith the Lord God I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked but that the wicked turn from his way and live Turn ye turn ye from your evil wayes for why will ye die O house of Israel Is there one syllable of original sin mentioned in this place Wilt thou make God a lier like thy self and forsworn too Ezek. 13.20 O the height of blasphemy Is it not elsewhere said the Son shall not bear the Iniquity of his Father And again the soul that sinneth it shall die Rom. 4.15 And where there is no Law there is no transgression Do not these places throwe down the Babel of thy soul-destroying God-blaspheming Doctrine of original sin Is not that place fulfilled in thee Prov. 10.19 In the multitude of words there wants not sin who but a foolish man like thy self would have brought in that Ephes 2.12.13 for the proof of original sin Paul in that Chapter sayes thus You hath he quickened who were dead in trespasses and sins wherein in time past ye walked according to the Prince of the power of the Aire the spirit that now worketh in the Children of disobedience Amongst whom also we had our con●ersation in times past in the lusts of our flesh Does not he all this time speak of actual sin is there one word of original corruption verse 11. Remember saith he That ye being in times past Gentiles in the flesh c. at that time ye were without Christ being Aliens from the Common-wealth of Israel having no hope and without God in the World But does Paul say this was because of Original sin does not the Chapter make it manifest it was their sinful lives Thou sayes Paul calles this corruption of Nature which thou countest Original sin the old man and body of sin Rom. 6.6 Is the corruption of Nature named in that verse why dost thou adde to the Scriptures He sayes indeed thus Knowing this that our old man is crucified with him that the body of sin might be destroyed that henceforth we should not serve sin This place speaks of a body of sin but does it not imply a living in and a serving sin Does it once mention Original sin for

shame man be silent thou brings in Pauls warfare A Law in the Members c. Rom. 7. A state or condition of sin it does hold forth A Combate between flesh and Spirit betwixt the seed of the Woman and the Serpent but does it mention that Original sin does deprive of the Image of God and of Communion with him That original sin makes subject to the wrath of God and to all his judgements here and hereafter Thou brings in Psal 51.5 David saying Behold I was shapen in iniquity and in sin did my Mother conceive me He makes a deep confession of his sins and acknowledges the weakness of his Parent Behold I was shapen in iniquity and in sin did my Mother conceive me she was a sinner when I was shapen conceived in her wombe 1 Cor. 2.14 Gen. 40.8 Isa 29.11 But that spirit by which thou art guided cannot give the interpretation of Scripture The same that gave it forth must open it To thee and thy Generation it is sealed but to the Saints it is given to understand Thou asks Who could sleep in the night that carrieth a Toad in his breast to bed with him and sin is as full of poyson as a Toad O minde thy own condition see how many Toads thou bearest-about thee in thy own breast Page 4. How full of poyson is the Doctrine thou delivers Of Originall sin and such like stuffe page 5. Thou sayes Every beloved sin or Master lust is a Belzebub or Prince of Devils Ah how many Belzebubs dost thou harbour in thy bosom as pride applause desires of silver and gold and a great estate See if these and a Nest of such like Serpents be not within thee if these be not the Dalilahs thou delightest in Thou sayes God joyns pardon of sin and power over sin together c. Page 18. Page 21. That sin makes ugly in Gods sight That it kisseth and stabbeth putteth out your eyes cuts your throats c. Art not thou and thy Generation of Pulpit-talkers the Devils seeds-men that sowes his tares among the wheat his Servants to put off his cheats and false counterfeit ware of original sin sprinkling Infants taking a bit of bread and a sup of wine roaring and singing in your Synagogues Pharisaical Prayers Hour-glasse Oratory and the like Do you not with such as these kisse and stab the people and with the hony fine names of Christs Ordinances Gospel-duties coming to Church the Baptism of Christ and the supper of the Lord which you put upon them sting the people to death for which of them can witness the life of a Christian Do you not by these put out the eyes of the peoples understanding that they see not the sun of righteousness the light so they live in Egyptian darkness under the Priests their Taskmasters Do you not set them to grinde at your Mills as the Philistins did Sampson puts them upon Pharisaical duties at set times coming to your Steeple-houses using hypocritical prayers promising them liberty but brings them into snares suffering lusts and sins to lie in their bosom unreproved and cut their throats do they not draw the people backward from Christ the light of the world in every mans Conscience and so hales them to Hell while they think they are going to Heaven See the end O friends of this praying and preaching if it be not to preach up the Priests to make them your Masters and you their Servants that they may live upon other mens labours Come but to them on their Market dayes do as they do eat drink and be merry with them in their Idols Temple and pay them Tithes for their Heathenish Oratory Then they 'l account you good Christians But if you withhold your hand and draw back feed them not with Tithes or other allowance The Priests will Laban-like cry out Gen. 31.30 wherefore have you stolen our Gods and sue you at the Law till by their Ordinance for troble dammages they have drawn blood But surely the eyes of those Gentiles shall over long be opened The dead shall hear the voice of the Sonne of God and live and no longer be deluded by those doting Babylonish Dreamers Acts 26.19 But the City of Lincoln hath a paire of proud Pharisees two subtle Antichristian Foxes who pretend they minister not for money yet either of them can dispence and dispose of one hundred and fifty pounds a year for their vain babling John 5.25 They seem as if they mattered not Tythes what need they when they have so much mony a year duly payd them without any cost or care of theirs Do they not preach the same Doctrine and tread in the same steps which the tyrannizing blood-sucking Tithemongers do Do they not account them their Brethren in the Ministery when do they publiquely preach against Tithes or disown them in print or Pulpit Is it enough to mutter out a word or two sneaking in holes and corners as if they could not digest their unrighteous Mammon If they are convinced of the unjustness of the thing Why do they not proclaim it on the house top In so doing they should offend their ungodly Brethren bar themselves for the time to come in case their present pay should be taken from them Page 23. The man writes thus Hare sin perfectly perpetually then you will not spare it but kill it presently till sin be hated it cannot be mortified Do they so with Tithes and yearly maintenance hate them perfectly and thou wilt preach against them presently O thou teacher of others first cast out the beam in thy own eye away with thy Pharisaicall righteousness begin at Christs Crosse and practise that unpleasant Sermon of self-denyal what sin soever thou lovest though it be thy Absolon either the maintenance of thy Son at the seminary of Satan or thy repute of a godly Minister thy lofty wages of unrighteousness thy deluding the ignorant and proyhesying lies unto the people the pampering of thy body with superfluous dainties what ever it be that is thy Dalilah deal not gently with it but hate it perfectly and perpetually for till it be hated it cannot be mortified Page 28. Now thou art got to thy old trade againe talking of holy duties or ordinances improved as weapons edgewise to cut and kill your lusts How these unholy duties and ordinances of thine have cut and killed lusts in thee or the people your lives make it manifest Have these as Antidotes for so thou hintest expeld the Poyson of sin The impurity of your lives your lusts being still living speaks the contrary Pag. 302. But self-love as thou saies in another place of thy book is a false glass which you commonly look your selves in that makes all seeme good you either have or doe But thy painted language can deceive non but the silly Nahū 3.4 The vizard of the welfavoured harlot must be puld off that her ugliness may be seene and

abominated Thou saies A Scriptum est Thou begins with that which thou calls the word of God viz. the Scriptures Thou bids heare it read it As it is written will put sin and Satan to flight and hide it in your hearts There are words many but the Word is but one Iohn 1.1 The Scriptures I own more truely than thou does or any tithe taking Preist in England yet I deny it to be that which thou callest it but protest not In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God Are the Scriptures God Were they in the beginning Was not Moses the first Man that writ Scripture Is it not Christ that 's clothed with a vesture dipt in blood is not his name called the Word of God Are the Scriptures Christ Rev. 19 13. 2 Pet. 3.5 Doth not Paul say the Word of God is quick and powerfull sharper than any two edged sword peircing even to the dividing a sunder of Soule and Spirit and of the joynts and Marrow and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart Can the dead doe all this Is the letter quick and powerfull Hath it the vertue force and operation written in that verse Or is it the work of a God Is any printed book a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart Peter saies by the Word of God the Heavens were of Old and the earth standing out of the water and in the water Were the Heavens and the earth made by the Scriptures or by God Paul saies every creature of God is good and nothing is to be refused if it be received with thanksgiving for it is sanctified by the Word of God Luke 1.1 Can any thing sanctify a creature but the Omnipotent God and Creator of all things 2 Iet 1 2● Whether does he owne the Scripture who calls it his rule and lives contrary to it or he that calls it not soe yet lives according to it Yet I own the Scriptures as they are a declaration a record the writings of the holy Men of God who spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost But I dare not Deifie or equall them with God nor pretend to make them my rule and walk contrary to them as thou and all thy generation doe Thy second Antidote thou calls the Sacraments A word of an old stamp coyned by thy Fore-Fathers at the Romish-Mint which it seems thou reservest as a holy Relique for its Antiquity not for any Sanctity that is in it I am sure Art thou not ashamed to use such rusty dark language at this time of the day P. 28.29 Thou saies Sacraments are instituted to be instruments for conveyance of vertue from Christs death into your Soules to mortifie your sins How many sins can the people truely say are mortified in them by thy Sacraments If thou wilt not answer for them say for thy self speak and lye not Channels through which streams of blood flow from the sides and heart of Christ into your hearts to carry away your sins Name what sins thou canst witness either of thy owne or the peoples that are carried away by those pretended streams flowing through the Sacraments Then thou bids make use of Sacraments against sins as men doe of Assizes against Malefactors get them condemned and cut off He that drinks at the pure Fountaine savours thy muddy language to streame from the corrupted Sea of Rome But all this while thou hast been talking of Sacraments thou hast lost thy Scriptum est What old Authors hast thou been ransaking up for this Sacrament all stuff Dares thou come into the feild thus to fight against the Lamb and his Saints and not bring one weapon out of thy Scripture Magazin to defend thee How canst thou hope to return a live to thy Camp Is the name of a Minister Armour of Proof to secure thee Dost thou not say the Word is a sheild to defend you against all the assaults of Sin and Satan or Batteries of Yentations The heart fenced with it thou saies is Cannon Proof I know thy meaning is the Scriptures Thou counts it the Word Ah silly blind Soul that art thus groping in the dark when the Sun of righteousness shines so gloriously Art not thou and the people provided of Bibles How are you defended against the assaults of Sin and Satan t is seene how open you are to the Batteries of tentation And for all thy flourishes thy heart is not fenced with one Scripture for all this folly thy tongue hath uttered concerning thy second Antidote Therefore thou art neither sword nor pistoll-proofe much less Cannon-proofe by thy owne confession Prov. 12.22 Pro. 28.9 Thy third Antidore is Prayer to God of the wicked are an abomination to the Lord. To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me saith the Lord when ye come to appeare before me who hath required this at your hand the calling of Assemblies I cannot away with * It is iniquity even the solemne meeting when ye spread your hands I will hide my eyes from you yea when you make many Prayers I will not heare Isaiah 1. and what 's the reason of this your uncleaneness Wash ye make ye cleane put away the evill of your doings from before mine eyes cease to do evill learne to do well seeke judgement Releive the oppressed judge the Fatherless Plead for the Widdow Loe here 's work for thee and thy Mayor and Aldermen O that you would set your hearts to doe it till then all your Prayers are but vaine babling till then there is no reasoning with God If ye be willing and obedient yee shall eate the Fat of the Land but if ye rebell ye shall be devoured with the sword for the Mouth of the Lord hath spoken it page 30. Speaking of the spirituall combat thou saies The life or exercise of grace puts sin to death in the duell betweene Flesh and Spirit as humility doth Pride and sincerity doth hypocrisy Ah poore Soul that it were so with thee and where there is no opposition there is no restraint where there is no contrary Principle of grace to cross and curb sin there sin overflows like a River without Bancks Grace thou saies will drive out sin as one pin doth another yet for all this page 28 thou calls Duties and Ordinances Weapons edgewise to cut and kill lusts Antidotes to expell the Poyson of sin especially the Word that is saies thou Scriptures Sacraments and Prayer for dost thou not say a Scriptum est As it is written will put sin and Satan to flight Here thou laies all the weight and power of killing sin upon duties ordinances and the letter and page 30. thou saies 'T is the life of grace puts sin to death and grace will drive out sin but what that grace is thou hast not mentioned 1 Cer. 12.9 The Lord saies to Paul my grace is sufficient for thee

entring to go in how can such escape the damnation of Hell Prov. 28.13 John 8.12 Not without confessing and forsaking their sins and receiving the light of the world Christ Jesus P. pa. 89. In t●e 89 page thou tells of a fulness of force and efficacy in the death of Christ to crucify the Old Man and destroy the whole body of sin and page 90 Thou brings in this Scripture 5 Iohn 18. He that is begotten of God keeps himself and that wicked one that is Satan who is the worst of all bad ones toucheth him not This keeping of Satan and his temptations out of the Soul thou saies conforms a Christian unto Christ who said the Prince of this world that is Satan comes and hath nothing in mee he cannot tempt me to sin I have no dry tinder of corruption within me to kindle with the sparks of his tentations all this is thy owne language thou hast here said enough to shake thy own Kingdom and confound all the Preists in England who preach against perfection Prov. 25.13 Jer. 2.13 Be your selves O people darken not your understandings by doating any longer upon these dreaming Preists who are Clouds and Winds without raine Cisterns that hold no water Judge O ye wise in heart whether he that is begotten of God that keeps himself and that wicked one the Devill cannot tempt or overcome him to commit sin whether that man be not perfect and free from sin yea or nay Was not Christ perfect and without sin Whether he that is conformed unto Christ be not perfect yea or nay and without sin whether he that hath no dry tinder of corruption within him to kindle with the sparks of Satans temptations be not perfect and free from sin yea or nay whether such a Soul I say hath not attained to that perfection which Christ commanded and Paul perswaded the Hebrews to press after Math. 5.48 6 Hebr. 1. Hebr. 12.23 4. Ephes 13. Is not the spirit of that just man made perfect Is not he then come unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ Read this without prejudice and consider that as the tree falls so it lies And 1 Iohn 4.17 As he is so are we in this world Was not Christ Jesus perfect Was not he without sin In the 91 page thou bids others not set their affection on things below nor to love the world or the things of it Learne this lesson thy self then preach it to others page 93. Thou talks of patient suffering the evills of the world to overcome them as persecution famine Nakedness Perill sword c. Is not he a cowardly Captaine that bids his Souldiers adventure further than he dares goe himself should not such a commander be Cashierd p. 94. 95. Thou bids them goe to Christ for his spirit to dwell in them to lead them as a guide in all their waies and into all truth To teach you all things as a Master bring al things as a Monitor into your remembrance What need is there then for thy defective and imperfect rules Why didst thou beg leave of thy Mayor and Aldermen and freinds to leave thy book with them as a light to guide them as a staff to stay and strengthen them If thou wouldst have them goe to Christ for his spirit to dwell in them to lead them as a guide in all their waies and into all truth to teach them all things as a Master and bring all things as a Monitor into their remembrance Is not this confused stuff But Babylons Brats can work no better Thou talks of self emptying and sense of emptiness makes Souls hungry and thirsty after the spirit Why then dost thou fill them with so many filthy-lies and contradictions as be in thy book The bottle that is full of bad liquor thou saies must be emptied to the bottom before it can be filled with the good Is not thy bottell full of the airy windy stuff of Popular applause of the filthy muddy waters of pride covertousness and self conceit of thy humane parts empty it soone that thy bottle may be fill'd with the sweet water of life for as thou saies if Laodicea do not know she is poore blind and naked her vessell is neither empty nor open but full and stopt or corkt up Now thou presses people to the conduit-pipes of the ordinances as thou calls them Especially word Sacraments and communion of Saints Thou maiest blush and be ashamed to call thy self-invented lifeless performances the ordinances of Christ Jesus where dost thou read in the Scriptures that the two Testaments as thou calls them are the two breasts of Christian consolation Are not the Saints bodys the Temples of the Holy Ghost Tell me does not a man draw and receive his consolation from the in-dwelling and living of the holy Ghost within his Body Is not this to rob God of his honour to attribute that to the letter which is due to the living God Thou saies Christ is a well of living Water didst thou live upon that living water thou couldst not delight in these dirty pudles of false doctrine and deceitfull devices of mans Braine as thou does Then thou comes to the Word which thou calls the Scriptures and bids them waite on God therein for the blessing of regeneration and growth in grace Both Priest and people have the Scriptures yet which of you can witness in your selves the blessing of regeneration and growth in grace He that 's borne of God doth not commit sin for his seed remaineth in him and he cannot commit sin because he is borne of God And dost thou not acknowledge that he that is begotten of God keeps himself and that wicked one toucheth him not 1 Joh. 3.9 Dost thou not goe on saying This keeping out of Satan and his tentations out of the Soul conforms a Christian unto Christ Art thou or any of thy hearers able to witness the new birth that you commit not sin that the wicked one toucheth you not that his tentations are kept out of your Soul and that you are conformed unto Christ Then thou goes to thy Sacraments and brings a peece of Scripture for thy sprinckling infants which plainly confounds the practice of thee and all thy generation of Preists He that believeth is and is baptized shall be saved Does not beleiving goe before baptizing Can a new borne Child beleive Produce either precept or president in the Scriptures for thy practice of sprinkling Infants or be ashamed Did the primitive Church when they brake bread receive a bit of Bread and a sup of Wine as the people in fellow-ship with thee and all those who live in formes do from the Preists Is not this a Popish invention they brake bread from house to house eating their meet with singleness of heart Was not this a full meale Did ever Christs Apostles use Prayer with preaching as you doe The Jews indeed had certaine

Kingdom of your Hearts Keep the possession thereof no longer from him Will you not Reverence this Son O kisse him lest he be angry Blessed is the man that heareth This Welbeloved Son in whom Alone the Lord is well pleased Blessed Prov. 8.34 35. I say is the man that heareth Him not the false Prophets who preach for Reward watching daily at his gates waiting at the posts of his doores not at the gates of the Idols Temples or the Posts of their doores For who so findeth him findeth life and shall obtain-favour of the Lord Seek him and you shall find him but then seek right look within for there He is in every one of your Consciences bearing witnesse against all unrighteousnesse He that sinneth against it wrongeth his own soul All they that hate it love Death Prov. 8.36 Page 408. Thou sayes Aged persons are fittest to give Counsell having lived many years they have gained much experience and thou brings in Job 32.6 7. Dayes should speak and multitude of years should Teach Wisdom It s true They should do so But is it so with thee Thou hast lived many years Thou shouldst teach Wisdome but O the abundance of folly and filthinesse abounding in thy book the grosse darknesse and doating dreams thou delivers instead of sound Doctrine My soul pities thee and all that are deluded by thee Wert thou not blind thou wouldst not have brought this proof for thy Assertion for this makes against thee Job in his former Chapter spoke much of his Integrity Elihu not well pleased at Jobs Justification of himself rather than God And against his three friends was his wrath kindled because they had found no Answer yet condemned Job Now Elihu had waited till Job had spoken because they were elder then he when Elihu saw there was no Answer in the Mouth of these Three Men Then his Wrath was kindled and said I am young and ye are very old wherefore I was afraid and durst not shew my opinion I said Daies should speak and multitude of years should teach wisdome But there is a spirit in man and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding Great men are not alwayes wise neither do the Aged understand judgment Therefore I said Hearken unto me Titus 2.2 3. See thee here Elihu green in yeares was made to reprove gray haires And Titus must teach the aged Men and Women I know thy end is to make people believe Wisdome is lockt up in the lips of old men Long standing Teachers in the Pulpit but such Are Ancient in Deceit Multitude of years should teach Wisdome but the multitude of thy Eight and Twenty years Ministry hath brought forth a multitude of filthy lyes bound up in thy Babylonish Book of Doating Dreams instead of the Doctrine of Christ and his Apostles Priest pag. 409. Once more thou tells the people That experience of God and his Dealings will make men become Prophets to themselves and able to be Teachers of others This is true but thou darest not abide here for if they separate from thee thou cryes out of Faction and Delusion Ah how my soul thirsts after the Salvation of your soules who are thus drawn into the Chambers of Darknesse and Delusion by this Mans Doctrine and deluding Tongue O that I may see you withdraw from this filthy Dreamer and set forward towards the True Land of Canaan The light of Christ in your Consciences it will lead you to the Heavenly Jerusalem wherein there is no need of the dimme Candle-light of this Egyptian Priest Come out of Egypt dear Hearts do not delight to live and dye in the wild Wildernesse you at present are in The generation of Priests are the Hard-hearted proud oppressing Pharaohs that will not let the Children of Israel go free but fear them not onely be valiant and Turn to the Light And it love with all your hearts and your soules shall see Deliverance shortly and Pharaoh and his Host shall be drowned in the Red-Sea Exod. 13.27 28. Priest Page 249. In that part of thy Book called the Government of the thoughts Thou sayes Thoughts of the Vanities of the world with delight in them as fashions sports thou mightest have named Bowling and Musick Complements entertainments news jests the very froth and scum of wit and discourse these thou sayes are not worth thinking of Answ Are they then worth thy living in them Thou dost conform thy self to the fashions of the world Thou usest Bowling and Musick and livest in Complements and respect of persons Art thou not also one that givest entertainments listens after news and loves jests the very froth and scum of wit and discourse The living Principle of God within thee is my true witness and faithful Record in these particulars and shall rise up in judgement against thee for these things if thou repentest not The light will be thy condemnation if thou lovest it not P. 255. Thou sayes While you are thinking what gain you have got by such a Commodity you have fold of bargain of Land or Wares you have bought or at such a Faire or Market Think withall how little spiritual profit you have gotten for your souls at the many soul-fairs or Markets you have had as the Sabbaths Ordinances and Sacraments Let me answer for them herein Thou and thy Generation of Priests have gotten more temporall gains more Lands mony and goods by the bad Commodities and Wares and false Doctrine which you deliver at such Priest-Faires or Markets as thou calls Sabbaths and paintest over with the name of Christ Ordinances than ever their poor souls found comfort by them that bought them of you and traded with you Isa 55.2 Woe and misery will be the Portion of such Priests if they repent not who take money for that which is not bread and delude the ignorant with your insinuating Tongues calling light darkness and darkness light You are worse then Simon Magus for he would have bought the Spirit and ye sell the Letter adding thereto many lies of your own P. 375. Thou tells of the undaunted and insuperable courage of Paul whom neither bonds nor afflictions nor death could move or appale but the very thoughts of bonds imprisonment and afflictions made thee fly from thy flock in Lincoln to Norwich See what difference there is friends between Paul and your Priest Then thou brings in that of Nehemiah chap. 6. vers 11. shall such a man as I flee Hadst thou been as true a Minister of Christ as Paul was thou wouldest not have wantted Pauls insuperable courage but when the slavish fear was arising in thee Thou wouldest have said as Nehemiah did shall such a man as I flee But the Tree was known by its fruit shame cover thee thou cowardly Priest Mat. 12.33 Heb. 11. What dost thou talking of those Worthies in that little Book of Martyrs as thou calls it of whom the world was not worthy who subdued Kingdoms stopped the mouths of Lyons quenched the violence of fire escaped the edge of the sword Thou wouldst fain be ranked amongst those conquering Christians but it must be then in some unknown Land for here thy Cowardise is so well discovered thou canst not be counted such a Champion as those were P. 384. Thou bids the people As they have frequented Ordinances c. so do it still and hold on even till death and if these and the like things make you vile he would have you be more vile still P. 339. Is it not this mans design to keep you in darkness does he not deal deceitfully with you one while telling you That observing the soul and the affairs of it and Gods dealings with it will make a man a Divine to himself P. 409. and observing a mans course well and how God hath led him will make a man under God a guid to himself But he dares not centre here This Doctrine he sees would unroost him and all his Romish Generation Root Branch And though they may keep aloft for a little season yet they are not of the Lords planting and therefore shall be rooted up and so shall all other Formalists who stumble at the light Every knee shall bow unto my Jesus Here the man speaks plain English That unless you wilfully hood-wink your understandings you may easily discover The man is convinced That if you will but be so wise and wary as to watch over your own souls minding that principle of God within you which checks and convinces you of sin when no eye sees you nor eare heares you this will be a Divine a Teacher a true Prophet to every one of you This will speak truth when the false Prophet flatters you The light of Christ in your Consciences is the pure Divine The true Prophet the never erring Guid unto all goodness if you will yield obedience thereunto 'T is the desire of my soul you may no longer make this Dreamer nor any of this stamp your Darling Draw back from him for he is but a painted Sepulchre what good soever he promises you shall never be performed so long as his life is in the Letter he feeds on death Delight in that which draws out of sin unto holiness without which no man shall ever see God Feed no longer upon the Husks like Swine The Pearl of great price is set before you Christ Jesus the light of the world He is the way the truth and the life He is that bread from Heaven which who so feeds on shall never hunger He is that pure water of life which who so drinks of shall never thirst The light in your Consciences if you love it will preserve you pure and spotless and stablish you in that pure Religion which is undefiled But if you love Babylon and loath the light my Soul shall weep for you in secret Yet remember you have warning in your life-time prize it Much more of his filthy Rubbish might be gathered up but here is enough presented to the ignorant for whose sake this work was undertaken which may sufficiently render this Romish Orator an Antichristian Minister M. M. An end