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A96097 The arch-rebel found, or An answer to Mr. M. H.'s Brief enquiry into the true nature of schism By T.W., citizen of Chester ... T. W. 1690 (1690) Wing W111A; ESTC R43946 21,021 35

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this digression which I think not impertinent and then I 'll close The Prayers made for the the Wednesday Fast cannot be Charged with Popery as your Party have the Liturgy Supplications fitted to the Occasion and for all capacities imposed by Lawful Authority by them who have the Rule over us What account can you give to God to the Government and to your own Conscience why you omit or refuse so indispensible a duty The Apostle saith Obey them that have the Rule over you and Commands this duty of Obedience to our Governors upon the Severest and Highest Penalties Rom. 13. v. 1 2. Whosoever therefore resisteth the Power resisteth the Ordinance of God and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation How can you reconcile your Practice with this Apostolical Injunction Unless you can charge the Prayers with something not lawful or not reasonable to be offered to God you are highly Criminal in the Apostles Judgment God Almighty hath now settled the Government where there is as true and real Abhorence of Popish Delusions as you or any of your Party can pretend to yet you yield not obedience to them even in a Religious Duty All your pretence is that your Prayers are more purely Spiritual you seek God in more apt and pleasing words words which immediately flow from the Spirit What is this but to limit and restrain the Holy Scripture to your way and to your Faction as if no Prayers but those hammered out of your own Brains could bear the stamp of the Holy Spirit of God and is it * Swoppery in Robbery not highly Prophane if not Blasphemy to impure all your Levites and Impertinencys to the immediate dictates of the Spirit of God though this Holy Spirit you pretend to can no where be found but in the Holy Catholick Church and Communion of Saints where alone our Blessed Lord hath Promised it shall be to the end of the World All the Impostors in the world who have set up before you even Mahomet himself and a great number of Hereticks and Schismaticks in the Christian Church pretended to inspiration and by it have deceived many But this your pretence to inspiration can never proselyte any but the Ignorant and Undescerning and those who are given to Change unless you can produce the Credentials of a Miracle All our Prayers in our Liturgy are directed to God Almighty and are presented in the name of the Blessed Jesus and all we supplicate for are for no other things but what is allowed of and required in our holy Religion Now why any but Atheists and those that are Antichristian joyn not with us in those Prayers and Praises especially considering that it is the Apostle Saint Paul's Judgment Rom. 15.6 That we might with one mind and with one Mouth glorifie God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ I know not unless for the same Reason that you refuse those Prayers for the Fast added to the Liturgy viz. Obstinacy and Disobedience Now Sir to close up all you cannot but see your Guilt I Address to you in all Meekness and Christian Charity that you will seriously consider the dangerous and desperate State and Condition you are in for all the great and precious promises made by God in Christ Jesus are only to them who are Members of the Mystical Body of Christ the Holy Catholick Church and Communion of Saints they who are not of the Catholick Church and Communion of Saints may flatter themselves with Unwarrantable and Groundless Fancies but can have no real Title or Right to any of those precious Promisses and therefore as you love your Soul suffer not filthy Lucre Interest or Pride to with-hold you any longer out of the Catholick Church wherein alone Salvation can be had it is not your purer Administrations or any other pretence can avail or stand you in any stead they only who are of this Society which is the Mystical Body of Christ here on earth have any Right Heb. 12 vers 22.23.24 to come to the Mount Sion and unto the City of the living God the Heavenly Jerusalem and to an innumerable Company of Angels to the General Assembly and Church of the first born which are Written in Heaven And to God the Judge of all and to the Spirits of just men made perfect And to Jesus the Mediator of the New Covenant that you may have Right and Title to all this I heartily Pray with the Church in the Liturgy That it may please God to bring you into the way of Truth and all such as have erred and are deceived Amen FINIS