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spirit_n	apostle_n	ghost_n	holy_a	16,837	5	5.3256	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30523	A faithful testimony concerning the true worship of God what it is in it self, and who are the true vvorshippers : in opposition to all the false worship in this nation, which is idolatry, which is discovered in its foundation, and in its manifestation, not to be ever commanded of God, or practised by his apostles and saints, but it is declared to consist chiefly of such things and practises as had their first beginning and ordination in the Church of Rome ... and this is written for a general good to all such as are worshipping in temples made with hands / by E.B.	Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.	1659 (1659)	Wing B6002; ESTC R36302	11,877	16

if they had not that yet did they not cast men into prison and spoyle their goods that would not give it them as this generation of Teachers do and the Lord God is risen to confound this Worship and this Ministry which is Idolatry and this Church which is but a false feigned imitation and he will establish his true Worship that is in spirit and in truth and his true Ministry that is by the gift of the Holy Ghost and his true Church and this shall be brought to pass in his day But again there is another practise which you have which the Church of Rome and the Prelates had your predecessors if any come in the Name of the Lord to declare against you and against your abominations to cry against your sin and cry repentance among you that you may be converted to God this you account a great Transgression and persecutes them that doth it by imprisoning and whipping and stocking and by imposing great fines upon them and causing them to suffer cruel things and this did the Papists and Prelates in like manner as you do if any was moved to cry against them they indeed rewarded them even as you do at this day the same thing you do against such as are moved of the Lord to come among you and herein you succeed them and brings forth the same persecution in your Churches as they did in their Churches and this is the defence of your Church and of your Ministry Carnal Weapons Imprisonment and Whipping and Stocking and causing the bodyes of people to suffer through cruelty and injustice and by this means is your Church Ministry defended preserved or otherwise it would presently fall as not being able to continue nor resist nor gain-say the spirit power of God which now is risen to oppose them if they had not carnal Laws and Earthly Powers and Gaols and Houses of Correction to defend themselves by And is this the Church of Christ And is this Christs Ministry that have need of such weapons as these The Apostles nor true Churches never did thus neither sent people to prison that opposed them nor had such cruelty to execute upon the bodyes of people though many did oppose them out of wickednesse but the Spirit and Authority of the Lord did defend them from all their Enemies But your Church and Ministry is manifest to be another then that was and to be defended by another means even by the same means that the Papists and Prelates of old were of a long time defended by but when the measure of these things are fulfilled they will come to an end as the measure of that generations iniquity was fulfilled which went before you so in the Lords season will your measure be fulfilled and the Lords people shall be free and all bonds of iniquity broken And thus it is manifest that this Church and Ministry succeeds the Church of Rome and her Ministers far more then the Church of Christ and its true Ministers to that it is not equal in any thing but to the Church of Rome it is comparable in many things so that it is manifest that this Church and Ministry are not quite another then the Church and Ministry of Rome but such as hath dissented from them and are truly sprung out of that root and is the same still in substance though differing in some practises having cast out some old inventions and brought in some new but as I have said remains still the same in nature and substance though dissented in some particulars yet succeedeth in many particulars as I may shew more fully hereafter And though you bare the Name and stile your selves The reformed Churches you mean reformed from the Church of Rome but how are you reformed but by some visible appearances and not in the ground having put off but some of her garments and remains the same body for substance in nature and matter though differing onely in appearances For the Church which is the true Church of Christ is not thus reformed onely changed in part and altered in degrees but the true Church denies the Church of Rome in her very being and ground and in all her practises whatsoever for though many Sects have risen one from another yet all the same for substance onely differing in particulars But as for you to whom this particular is written that worship God in Steeplehouses you are not so much differing from the Church of Rome as many others are which are not true Churches neither but the Lord God is now gathering his people wherefore come out of your Idol-worship and Idol-Temples for God dwells not in them nor is not worshipped there but he dwells and walks in his Saints and is worshipped in spirit and in truth and his day is dawned and his glory is risen and he will confound this Church and Ministry which bears the marks of the Romish Whore hath her symptoms and characters remaining upon them unto this day as it is manifest And though some may object and say That God commanded a Temple to be builded for the worship of his Name and Ordinances to be practised in the time of the old Covenant To which I do say Yea it was so a Temple was builded by Solomon for the seed of the Iews to worship in and to come to sacrifice to the Lord in and there was an outward worship and ordinances But it is many hundred years since this Temple was destroyed and worship and ordinances thrown down which God once commanded and his people once practised and Christ the life the power and wisdom of God was the substance thereof and unto whom he was made manifest and in whom he was revealed in the spirit they utterly renounced and denyed the Temple and the Worship therein though God once had commanded it and the Saints after the manifesting of Christ to them in spirit and after that the Holy Ghost was given we do not find through all the Churches of the Saints that they worshipped in the Temple of the Iews but witnessed against it and said that God dwelt not in Temples made with hands neither was he worshipped in Temples made with hands but in the spirit and in the truth their worship consisted therefore were persecuted but they bare witnesse against the Temple the worship those Ordinances which God once had commanded which once his people practised though it was to the peril of their lives but as for these Temples and these Ordinances and this worship which are now on foot they were never brought forth by any Ordination or Commandment of God but the foundation of them was the inventions of men and mens traditions taught them and not the spirit of the Lord and therefore against those things those Temples and those Ordinances and VVorships much reason have we to cry against them all as being neither sign nor substance of good but wholly inventions of men The Jews Temple

as men hath set up in their own wills and wisdom and not in the Lords As for your sprinkling of Infants which is a chief practise of your Worship was not this first ordained at Rome Read the Records And was it not a Popish invention which you are thus zealously reforming as if it were indeed required of the Lord Can the unconverted and unregenerated be truly baptized into the faith of Christ No but the unconverted and unregenerated are partakers of your baptism into the faith which you profess There was no such practise in the Christians Church before the Apostacy but when the Apostacy came in then came up these inventions and imitations which you practise as the Worship of God whenas he never required it neither did his Saints and his Apostles ever give your example for it And by it nor in it God is not worshipped neither is it in it self nor as practised by you any part of the Worship of God but stands in the inventions of man and is after their traditions and not after the Commandments of the Lord And as for your singing of David's Experiences in the form and manner as you do practising it as another main part of your Worship this is the same with the former neither ever commanded of the Lord nor in the course and manner as you do it was it ever practised by the Saints of old and is it any better then a Popish Invention For was the Nation in any better state then Popery when that practise was first instituted and begun to be performed you your selves will confess that it was in the time of darkness and through the ordination of the Bishops and Prelates whom you your selves say were little better then Papists in their worship and practise and yet this you practise at this day as a part of your Worship which hath no better beginning then as I have said and from them you have received it to wit from the Bishops and Prelates yea the chief part of your Worship consists of the performances of such things as you have received traditionally from them and from ●ome for all these things they instituted And as concerning your Ministry is it any other with that then with these particulars as I have mentioned Is it not the same Ministry in substance though in some particulars altered as was in the dayes of Popery and Prelacy Have not your Ministers the same Call to their Ministry and the same practise in their Ministry and the same Maintenance at this day as was in generations past when this Nation was under the Cloud of darkness and ignorance as your selves will confess Are not they made Ministers now by natural learning receiving ordination from man through the attainments of such Arts and Sciences Degrees through natural learning and humane policy not having their Ministry by the gift of the Holy Ghost no more then the Papists and Prelates had before them who were made Ministers by the same power and after the same manner as these are And it was the Church of Rome and by the Popish Authority that Colledges and Schools to make Ministers by them were first ordained and set up and as that Ministry was sent forth in the time of Popery by the same way and means generally as to substance are your Ministers now sent forth though in some particulars differing in matter of form yet the same for substance But Christs Ministers in the time of the true Church were not thus sent forth but had received power from on High and the gift of the Holy Ghost whereby they were made able Ministers and not by any other thing nor by any such means or way as your Ministers now are set up and established and this Ministry is differing from the true Ministry which Christ sent forth and is not according but contrary in all things and it is not the Ministry of God which brings people to God but by this Ministry people are not converted but such it is that the true Prophet cryed against They have run saith the Lord and I have not sent them therefore they shall not profit the people at all And as for this maintenance of the Ministry of the Church of England is it not the same as was in the days of Popery Prelacy Was it not by the Popes Authority that Tythes were first established set up to be the maintenance of his Ministry did not the Romish Church first ordain that the people should give the tenth to the use of Religion and to maintain their Ministry If you search the Records you will find it so And was it not the very practice of the Papists and Prelates Ministers to have hire and great sums of money by the year and stipends and large benefits for preaching and the same things are practised by these Ministers which they have borrowed from the Papists and Prelates which went before them for are not these Ministers maintained by Tythes as the Popes Ministers were And have they not hire and great sums of money by the year or quarterly even as the Papists and Prelates had Wherefore it is plain that the maintenance of your Ministers is the very same for substance as theirs were that went before you which you your selves say were Idolaters and if they were Idolaters how can you Ministers be free which doth practice the very same things unto the very same end And doth not the Priests of this generation far exceed the Papists and Prelates Was there ever in generations past such casting people into prison and spoyling peoples goods as is at this day through the means of these Priests and all about their maintenance and for their Tythes and Hire and yearly stipends and quarterly gain Did ever the Papists or Prelates worse in this particular with any people that denyed them wages then these do that denied ●hem Oh! great blindness and ignorance is over your hearts and great hypocrisie among your Ministers who profess a denial and dissenting from the Church of Rome and cryes against them as Hereticks and that they are in ignorance and yet practises the very same things their Call is the very same to their Ministry and their Maintenance the same and practise in many things the very same as theirs were which they seem to deny and this is great hypocrisie to cast out and kill their persons and yet to uphold in many things their practise relating to their Worship and their Ministry Oh abominable Idolatry the hand of the Lord is against it But this is not the way that Christs Ministers were maintained they had no such hire nor great sums of money nor yearly Tythes as these Ministers have through the Popes Institution but into whatsoever house they entered that was worthy they might eat such things as were set before them and the Apostles might freely reap carnal things where they had sown spiritual things but this was after another manner and after another nature for