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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A84228	An examination of the Seasonable and necessarie warning concerning present dangers and duties, emitted from the commissioners of the General Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland, unto all the members of that Kirk. June 25 1650. Which was printed at Edinburgh by Evan Tyler, by a servant of the Common wealth of England, and a lover of the armie.	Servant of the Common wealth of England, and a lover of the armie.; Church of Scotland. General Assembly. Seasonable and necessary warning and declaration.	1650 (1650)	Wing E3729; Thomason E608_13; ESTC R201955	37,035	48

this honor and for this Kingdom According as wee have been taught of God wee believ that herein is our heavenlie Father glorified that wee bear much fruit and become the Disciples of our Lord Jesus and for that purspose that wee nourish the springings up from that root of life which of his Free grace by the Spirit hee hath planted in our souls and ever keep them open to receiv in those divine influences and emanations of life and light that flow forth from him for the irrigation of that root of life when once planted whereby hee prepare's further communications of truth and light in which everie soul is capable of an increas and ought not to bee stinted by anie humanely imposed forms The Kingdom of Jesus Christ which hee exerciseth in this state of things for of that which is to com there is no occasion here to speak is not of this world nor after the pattern or manner of administration of the Kingdoms of the World which lye in the evil one and are acted by the prince of the power of darkness but it is altogether spiritual managed by the irresistible power of his Spirit in the hearts of men according to his manifold wisdom and the various proportions in several subjects that hee hath conceived in the eternal Idea's according to which that work proceed's by his own efficiencie even according to that way of working in which hee invisibly effect's and work 's all things in the visible Physicall world which is a thing known onely to a few of the children of wisdom unknown to you and therefore you will blaspheme it and put that also into the Catalogue of Errors as you use to do all things that either pass your understanding or cross your carnal Interest But those who are thus made the subjects of Christs Kingdom are enabled with a principle to walk worthie of it in all wel-pleasing They have received an unction even the falling down of that Spirit which was shed upon their head abundantlie for hee received not the Spirit by measure this annointing teacheth them all things even all things necessarie for everie calling degree state of life or condition whatsoever either as single men or as they constitute Common-wealths or Governments And when they meet quatenus Christians which are called Churches in all these conditions they who are subjected to the Kingdom of Jesus Christ are instructed how to walk in the beautie of holiness The first lesson taught them by this annointing is to denie themselvs and not seek their own things but those of Jesus Christ and to walk in love becaus God is love This is the Kingdom of Jesus Christ to which wee desire to subject our selvs and wee long for a further manifestation of the power of it appearing in all fruitfull productions in the eyes of men to the prais of God Wee hope there are manie who propound this end and press on to this mark and through mercie wee hope wee may say manie among us have atteined som weak degrees of it But indeed wee confess wee do not strive to advance your forms in which wee can discover no beautie but everie day doth more and more discover to us your gross hypocrisie under them and their rank savor of the flesh and carnalitie And wee doubt not but the Lord will go on to perfect both what hee hath begun to do in us and work by us and to make a more full discoverie of the unprofitableness of your Forms by the dailie increas of new light to those who have been nuzl'd in darkness and shortlie abolish them all at the brightness of his coming And indeed though wee dare not denie but several among you have the seed of God in you and a foundation laid through grace whereby you are in a salveable state yet you have built so much hay and straw and stubble upon that foundation and so choaked the work of God by your self-superstructions and exaltations and so grieved that good Spirit of God by which you were to bee built up by your pride and hateful hypocrisie that the effects thereof do not very beautifully appear in you so as those who shall compare your proceedings with the word of God for your ensnaring and Apocryphal Covenant wee shall not admit to fit on the same seat as a co-judg with the sacred Scriptures and look to the effects that thereupon have followed especially as to the souls of men must needs notwithstanding anie of your pretences abhor and abominate your hypocritical formalitie And God will execute his judgments too upon those who imprison and obstruct the free passage of truth as wel as upon those which corrupt it How far som of you have been heretofore Seducers in England wee well remember know also the tendencie of this your seasonable warning that way Remember too when men will not love truth becaus it crosseth their carnal Interest they are given up to the worst practice and certainly the practical abominations of Antichrist as you call it I would rather say that the state of the Apocalyptical Beastianism are among them by them by just judgment of God for a punishment of their persecution of truth for Interest sake God branding them to all the world for none of his because holiness is not written in their fore-heads and engraven upon the palms of their hands and held out to the world in profession and practice but they have a spot which is not the spot of his children Hee that saith hee remaineth in him ought so walk even as hee hath walked And indeed wee must tell you you are justly subject to a jealousie that there is somthing of Antichrist among you there is such an universal wickedness among you prophane swearing is your dialect and lying hath put you into a Proverb uncleanness blusheth not in your Stools of Repentance perhaps an ill remedie for that sin to expose them to view that unclean and wicked persons may know and learn where to finde one another have not the spuings of your Bacchanals lately flowed in your streets And whether they do not yet run down wee know not But 't is like there will bee a Coronation-Torrent as well as an arrival-puddle Your Armie had one other singular good qualitie when they were in England by virtue of the Covenant that nothing could escape their fingers at the remove of a march but what was too hot to handle or too heavie or troublesom to carrie or drive away For your telling us of the manie Antichrists in England wee shall return you this Wee have in England som new lights concerning Antichrist which you are not acquainted with there are several things in which you know vvondrous little becaus you shut all nevv light out of Scotland it 's too large to bee told you in a digression and wee shall not go so far out of our cours to make you at present that discoverie onely let us give you a seasonable warning to

and Declarations which you have filled with impertinencies calumnies and slanders against the people of this Nation obtruding without blushing objections formerly answered to abuse the simple and draw them into capital danger And indeed you should have don well to have spared this time from such imploiment and bestowed it upon that in which at present you are more concern'd And whereas you say The reformation of the Kirk of England wee suppose you mean it in your own sens the work of uniformitie c. was the great dutie that God called this Land unto c. Wee cannot but lament to see how miserably you are enchanted and imprisoned within your circle of forms so as you can neither speak nor think of anie thing but this nauseated stuff how great is the judgment of God upon your hypocritical formalitie that hee hath taken from you the sens of everie thing els Can you think that Presbyteries whether in Kirk-Sessions Classes or Provincial or General Assemblies is the great Work of Reformation that God call's men to and to the exercise of your effectless Discipline as to all true Reformation What is the uniformitie of Doctrine and Discipline you speak of is it that conteined in your Catechism and Directorie can you persuade us to believ there is such a perfection in these as there is no possible discoverie beyond or may none adventure to make it unless you bee the Pilots Wee like better St Paul's profession of his judgment and practice hee forgat what was behinde and pressed forward to what was before and did not think hee had yet atteined And upon that ground wee dare not think you have But you quarrel the light which you cannot comprehend and press for an Vniformitie of vvhich your selvs vvill bee the Measure and set the Rules lest if anie should presume to knovv more and hold it forth to the vvorld the appearance and Coruscation of these clearer Beams should demonstrate the light that is in you to bee Comparative darkness Wee rather believ the great Work that God call's everie Man unto is to bee holie as hee is holie in all manner of conversation And for an atteinment of it by a full and unreserved self-denial to go out of himself and all self-value and by a most intimate retirement into himself and impartial search of his own heart to take a view of his own corruptions and bee humbled at that sight and seek for pardon in the blood of that one sacrifice of Expiation and to bee clensed from filth by the sanctification of his spirit To have no further a vvill of his own but with an unrelucting Liquescencie to melt it down into the vvill of God mainteining still a filial implicit resolution to conform to all the revelations of that vvill searching the Scriptures vvith praier and humilitie for a discoverie of that will from those full and divine Treasuries and keeping the soul ever open and without prejudice for recieving in the divine Illuminations of the infinite Spirit to vvhatsoever measure of light and taking heed of clouding that light by indulging of Lust but vvith a resolved strife against all opposition walk up to that Light in all holiness of Conversation according to the Word of God This vvee think to bee the dutie of a Man and this is his happiness And hee that thus hath to him shall bee given and hee shall have abundance his talents shall bee multiplied and so shall his joie There are discoveries in divine things which the Eagles eie hath not yet made The divine and infinite goodness from whom are perpetual Emanations hath no where limited the shinings of his glorious Light It shine's in darkness though the darkness comprehend it not There may bee a veil upon the heart even of great Rahbies and that in reading the Lavv. Light and Truth is received by a principle of Light from the Spirit of Truth And vvho dare's saie hee hath clearly and without aenigma seen all the Treasures laid up in the Sacred Scriptures Doth not one daie add to another in the knowledg of particular men doth not this daie teach us even from the Scriptures the things that yesterday wee knew not Hee take's little notice of his own Progress or make's but little that dare at anie time of his life saie hee know's all or that som other may not communicate to him a light which hee hath not received wee could therefore wish you would once forbear these unsavorie words of Vniformitie in Doctrine Worship Discipline and Governments as beeing things not edifyng in these times especially to men whom the gracious flowing out of the Spirit of Light and Holiness hath qualisied as above If these things bee profitable in Scotland wee envie not your enjoiments though wee wish you better Truely wee have reason to suspect you have not the best waie of spiritual edification your people are generously so barbarously brutish in all moralitie and in so unthriving a condition in spiritual things theit leanness wherein make's it probable you feed them with shells and husks and deceiv them with formalities and Covenants and such outside-stuff and endeavor not to discover the Divine Beauties shining forth in the face of Jesus Christ and the glorious garments which they wear that are clothed with a Spirit of holiness who worship God in the Spirit and rejoice in the Lord JESVS and have no confidence in the flesh and who make no provision to fulfil the lusts of it If this Beautie were discovered it would irresistably draw a love for faculties are ever stronglyest carried to their more excellent objects they would then loath your Onions and Garlick after their relish of Manna in a spiritualized taste onely the danger is perhaps they would not so dreadfully adore you but look at you as their deceivers rather then their teachers while you have put your own Dixi in the place of the Scriptures or of the self-evidencing discoveries of the Spirit of God But you heavily complain that these your formalities which you say are so much desired and longed for by all the lovers of Sion and all that concern's Religion lie's in the dust altogether forgotten and despised by these men Wee know not well whom you mean by the Lovers of Sion but it seem's by your description they should bee som that are in love with your outside Worship nor what you mean by that Religion which lie's so forgotten and in the dust Wee desire to bless God that through his goodness and free discoveries of himself there are great numbers among us that are lovers of the beautie of holiness and by the power of that love carried out to the contemplation of that glorie of him who is glorious in holiness shining forth in the face of Jesus Christ so as they are transform'd into the Image of it from glorie to glorie by the Spirit of the Lord and by this means they give up themselvs to a willing subjection to the power of

all the people of GOD throughout the Land would bee careful to discern of dangers and avoid snares from and compliances with both Sectaries and Malignants so would Ministers bee diligent and faithful in pressing of these duties and that in a solid and convincing way and labor to make it appear that they speak not against the one or the other from passion or interest but upon the grounds of divine reason and from the light autoritie of Gods Word that so they may make themselvs manifest to the consciences of their hearers stop the mouth of gain-sayers Finally all the inhabitants of the Land should beware of pride and carnal confidence and in an humble way should wait upon the LORD and tread the steps of holiness and righteousness and hee who hath don great things for us shall yet save us A. KER 10 You judg rightlie that there bee store of Malignants it may thank you and your Cabals The Answer that wee have so manie among us your joyning with them and espousing their Interest hath more strengthened their hands than anie proceedings of the Sectaries Hath not your receiving the head of Malignants for your King who hath been bred up in no other companie nor followed other counsels and whose heart is with them though hee came to you to serv turns upon you more hardened their hearts in their way and animated them in their proceedings than anie thing that the Sectaries have ever don toward them Wee com now to the particulars of your recommendation 1. And to this first wee have nothing to say but desire that you and wee also may without hypocrisie do the thing you advise unto 2. To the second if you mean by contending earnestly for the faith not anie use of outward carnal strife but an earnest strife of the soul in it self in the spirit with God for his gracious manifestation of the matter of our faith wee agree for so much onely wee must expunge your there last words conteining a limitation to your Land for you maie no more make your selvs a Catholick rule then Rome maie do 3. Wee desire you impartially to examine your hearts and see if there bee not in you a great deal of enmitie against the work and people of God which is ordinarily the work of an Antichristian pride whereby you are apt to think that you are and that there are no other the people of God but your selvs And this causeth your jealousie of and discontent and enmitie against anie other that laie claim to that priviledg if they bee not also of the same complexion with you with whom you will not convers least you should bee unprejudiced and so run in danger of a Kirk-censure by having a better opinion perhaps of a Sectarie and thereby have your zeal brought to a Christian temper and directed to move rationally according to its object Wee must tell you too that there are som of your faction in this Land Malignants jure divino who by their insinuations and secret infusions do foment faction and sow division and disobedience to the Government of this Common-wealth and while they will pretend a conscientiousness do more harm to the Peace of the Land then the worst of the old Malignants These wee shall mark and caus them to avoid or otherwise put them into a condition not much capable of doing us mischief 4. It had been much more your wisdom and your happiness if you had taken diligent heed to have had nothing to do with your King who is not like to bee much bound up by the desires of your Kirk though you recede nothing from them or will your Religion bee verie secure by it As for the peace of your Kingdom lookers on think you have by espousing his quarrel made it verie difficult to establish and settle Wee in England think you have more waies then one provoked God and you are like enough to bee plunged into a deep pit of a lasting miserie 5. Wee have onely here with sad and tender hearts to lament the woful blindness and unsavouriness that your formalitie and hypocrisie by the just judgment of God hath brought upon you That upon so serious an occasion as this is you should have no other rule to direct your actings and forbearings by but the condemnations of your Kirk and your Covenant Wee blush and mourn while wee read these passages Wee Sectaries are scandalized at it 't is not your waie to make us your Proselytes For wee believ and hold forth that the sacred Scriptures are the rule of all things to bee believed and to bee don Obtrude not your Covenant nor the Kirk upon us wee shall condemn them both if they either bee or do anie thing that is contrarie to that sacred rule Are these expressions becoming these times of light wee thought them times of darkness when the Scriptures were forgotten and the sentences the decrees the decretals and extravagants were made the rule of a Christian faith and practice How come's your Church to have gotten such credit that it should bee emulous with Rome for infallibilitie Accustom your selvs therefore to Canonical language and talk not of Gods interest while you measure it not by God's Word though by the waie wee must tell you that word Interest sounded with God is hardly concord in our ears 6. You lost your advantage and defence when you became Invaders you should have needed no defence against us if you had not begun to invade and proceed in such waies as declare you still enemies If you had been righteous it had been well for your selvs and us too and when you are brought to a condition to bee so unrighteous no more and that wee have such an assurance of it as you cannot break wee shall not desire longer to pursue you and if this tenderness of not moving till God goe's before you had possessed your Parlament in 1648 wee are confident you had never invaded England 7. By this it seem's you are not sure of your King your selvs doubt whether hee bee real or not and free from malignant principles What meant you to bee troubled with him upon these uncertain terms here was somthing at the bottom wil finde you out at last You were in the beginning of you paper verie tender of joining with Malignants or having anie in your Armie why not so as well as have an Armie for a Malignant for it seem's your selvs dare not undertake hee is not one 8 Wee wholy like your Counsel to your Ministers and wish you would take the same Cours the next Papers you Emit then perhaps wee might receiv som information or conviction for wee profess our selvs readie to receiv it when from those grounds and principles and wee would have you define or describe a Seclarie and tell us wherein is the poyson of their opinions and practice for the name hath no harm in it And wee begin to take it up and wear it verie contentedly it seem's to us also that manie of those men you so call are of the best among us God hath honor'd them to do great service to this Nation for that caus wee both love and honor them and think wee have greater reason to do so becaus you hate them for wee know you pursue an interest quite contrarie to ours 9. In this you are short you should have added hypocrisie to your pride and carnal confidence And truly if they would leav off their swearing uncleanness and drunkenness among you which is so verie general it would do well And if in a deep and true humilitie they would retire into themselvs and search their hearts and turn from all their evil waies and walk in the waies of righteousness and holiness a thing much spoken of and arrogated by manie that neither have it nor understand what 't is and meet the Lord in the waie of his judgments and endeavor to agree with their adversarie while hee is in the way yee may vet bee safe which would bee verie desirable so wee may bee satisfied and safe also FINIS