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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80537	The last, and highest appeal. Or, An appeal to God, against the new-religion-makers, dresters, menders, or venders amongst us. Wherein is evidenced, amongst other things, that they have not true faith, true repentance, or true charity. Likewise, that the seven heads of sin, commonly called, the seven deadly sins, are manifestly apparent in the lifes of their preachers. / By Richard Carpenter.	Carpenter, Richard, d. 1670?	1656 (1656)	Wing C623; Thomason E1650_2; ESTC R209117	20,505	52

hold fast Saint John writes here unto the angel of the Church in Sardis And the Reason why Scripture is so various and uses all these Helps Waies and Weapons is Because if we do not abide in the most ancient Doctrine we do not abide in the ancient of Daies who is God Which is easily deduced from these holy words Let that therefore abide 1 John 2. 24. in you which ye have heard from the beginning if that which yee have heard from the beginning shall remain in you ye also shall continue in the Son and in the Father Here is my Plea To thee O only wise God I appeal CHAP. V. The Second Matter in Question THe second Matter of the Appeal is These prodigious Christians call themselves Saints and the only-Believers I avouch That they have not Faith much lesse any kinde of Saintship And I am steered hereunto by this Description of Faith answerable to thy Word and accepted by the whole truly-Christian world Faith with respect unto the Giver is of God with relation to the manner of giving is an infused Grace and in the Exercise of it is a firm and immovable Adhesion or Assent of the Vnderstanding to the Truths revealed by God and proposed by the Church of God as the Spouse of his only-begotten Son Christ Iesus First Faith differeth from Opinion which is a pendulous or wavering Assent and easily movable Secondly Faith is a Vertue of the Understanding and by the Power of God infused into it the Understanding being the first Faculty of the Soul or Spirit and Faith being a Spiritual Grace yea the Basis and Foundation of all other true Vertues and Graces Yet Faith works not but adjunctâ Voluntate our Will concurring and moving appliably to the working of Grace Thirdly The Truths believed must be revealed Because the Power that gives a supernatural Grace or Vertue must likewise present the Matter or Object that these may be proportionable and stated in the same Order and because we cannot in any kind please God in order to Glory without God and without Faith the Apostle plainly teaching Without Faith it is impossible to please God Heb. 11. 6. and Faith hath necessary reference to it's Object Fourthly Here these religious Juglers are plainly discovered to the Sense and this was the regulated and orthodox Divinity of honest and quiet Old-England The true Church and Spouse of Christ which hath from God the promise of divine assistance and is actually assisted by the holy Ghost and guided into all Truth must propose the Truths otherwise Jo. 16. 13 how shall we know in any Church or how shall it be certain to us certitudine Fidei by the certainty of Faith that our Translators being fallible Men have done us right in their Translation of the Scriptures which we receive and believe as the word of God Selah O Meditation For Whatsoever was promised to the Apostles as principal Members of the Church must it self pertain to the Church for whose cause and sake it was promised And there is alwaies the same need of divine guidance or assistance because the holy Scriptures cannot be rightly Understood but by the assistance of the same Spirit according to whose Dictates they were first written And the Scriptures being publikely given and to all the direction likewise for the right Understanding of them must be proportionaeble that is be publike and uuiversally proposed even in the view of all to all Moreover Interpretation is a Gift given for the good of the Church as also all such Graces are and is not a Gift ending in the good of the Person to whom it is given Hence it stands upright that Faith is divine in the Cause or Author divine in the Infusion divine in the Adhesion and lastly divine in the reason of the Adhesion For therefore we must firmly assent and inviolably adhere unto the Truths of God because they were revealed by God who can not erre in himself or directly cause others to erre and proposed by his Church to the which he hath given and promised the Holy Ghost and which he certainly assisteth according to his gracious Promise all ordinate Proceedings being alwayes conformable to their Beginnings And moreover the Gospel of St Matthew ending thus And lo I am Matth. 28. 20. with you alway even unto the end of the World also this promise being then made when our Lord Christ commanded his Disciples in the same Verse that they should teach all Nations to observe all Things commanded by him Which evidences that his efficacious assistance was promised as necessary to the observation of all those Things My Appeal is at thy Bar O God give Sentence CHAP. VI. The Third Matter in Question THe third Matter of the Appeal is I maintain That as these disfigur'd-fac'd and unlucky-look't Hypocrites neither Preach nor have true Faith so they neither have nor Preach true Repentance And I am so tongu'd and faith'd Because these devout Mountebanks have not the least knowledge of or acquaintance with true Evangelical Repentance or with the true Conditions and Properties of it as it is manifest by the Consideration of Repentance thus represented in it's own and proper Colours Repentance is a gracious Gift of God being a most hearty sorrow for our Sins past which hath for it's motive the pure love of God and is joyned with a firm Purpose of not sinning hereafter The Sorrow Repentance hath à se ex suâ naturâ as it is Repentance and the purpose Repentance hath as Repentance is connexed with Prudence whose genuine and proper work is to beware of Evils which may come hereafter The Sorrow discovers it self inwardly and outwardly inwardly to the Person in whom it is and outwardly to all people scandalized or farther injured by our Sins that our Repentance may in some sort adequately answer to and even our Transgressions The Sorrow discovers it self inwardly first by a most hearty Wish that we never had sinned against our most good God whereby as far as in us lies we unravel and cancel our Sin yea revoke and in a manner render undone the Act of it this being the most eminent reason that Repentance is accepted and required as the reconciling Vertue and secondly the Sorrow discovers it self inwardly by a most vehement Hatred and abomination of sin according to the Scripture-Psalmist Psa 119. 163. Text Hebr. I hate and abhor lying but thy Law do I love The Original word here translated lying is aven and signifies lying not as such a sin distinguished from others by that name but as Sin in common and as all kinds of Sin are a kind of lying against God who is Primum Ens prima Veritas prima Bonitas the first Thing the first Truth the first Goodness And therefore the Vulgar Latin unsheaths it Edit Lat. Iniquitatem odio habui abominatus sum I hated and abominated iniquity And as a man abominates a Toad as contrary to his

is great want of a sound Principle But as the wise Physician coming to a sick-man first examines his Tongue because the Evil of the Body there quickly discovers it self so the corrupt souls of these Night-born Mushroms in Religion these Glow-worm-Lights soon appear in their foul tongues with the which they lash and beat down all that walk besides their new Adder-haunted pathes with a purpose to set up themselves and their most impure pretended Purity Yea with these their Evil Tongues which are set on fire of Hell they set on fire the course of Nature and James 3. 6. moving all Things which are in the World being the Theater of Nature out of their natural and proper Courses render the World the very Suburbs of Hell Against these I appeal to Thee O Thou who art the living God and the natural Matth. 16. 16. Coloss 2 3. Father of him in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge For his dear sake Arise and in thy Wisdom and according to thy Knowledge Plead my cause I poor Man know that we may not call thee to witness in a false Matter much less in such a Matter appeal to thee as a Judge Concerning the Matters of Faith all Antiquity thy present Church and thy own Word witness for me With reference to the Matters of Fact speak thou for me or against me and relieve my Conscience which cannot speak beyond my hearing And here I will boldly stand-up and with a Christian confidence and in the Power which I received from thee pronounce the sacred Verses with which they used in the Primitive Church to chase away the Noon-day Devils Let Psal 68. 1. ver 2. God arise let his enemies be scattered let them also that hate him flee before him As smoke is driven away so drive them away as wax melteth before the fire so let the wicked perish at the presence of God CHAP. IV. The Appeal with a finger directed to the first Matter in Question THe first Matter of the Appeal is I affirm That these our New Lights and walking Lanthorns are a notable part of the Wandring and Separating people of the last daies concerning whom the Scripture is so various and so wonderfully admonishing These bold people deny it My Reason is If these be no part of those people we shall never sufficiently know where when or how to discover such a people and all the Scripture-Lessons handed to us for that purpose shall vainly fall to the Ground and a foul aspersion be cast upon God the Author of Scripture as insufficient in his admonishments And that which animates my Reason is the most exact Conformity which these people have with the many Discoveries and characters made and given of Wanderers and Seducers in holy Scripture Here it is excellently worthy our Observation that Scripture is scarcely so various and wonderfull in any Matter as in this For first Scripture commands Thus saith the Lord Stand ye in the waies and see Jerem. 6. 16. and ask for the old paths where is the good way and walk therein and ye shall find rest for your Souls The old Latin Bible reads Vetus Interpres State super vias Stand ye upon or over and above the waies that is take a view survey of all waies that ye may discern between the old waies and the new but amongst the old paths ye shall find the good way wherein ye must walk that your Souls may rest in God as in their proper center Secondly Scripture intreats Now I Rom. 16 17. beseech you brethren mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned and avoid them For they that are such serve not our v. 18. Lord Iesus Christ but their own belly and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple Mark them that is observe them to avoid them or if ye please mark them nigro carbone with a black coal or know them for black Sheep Thirdly Scripture exclames and makes an out-cry O Timothy keep that which is committed to thy trust avoiding 1 Tim. 6. 20. prophane and vain bablings and oppositions of Science falsely so called which some v. 21. professing have erred concerning the faith The Apostle cries out as men do when they warn a Friend that is near the mouth of a deep pit or in some other great danger of Destruction Fourthly Scripture gives warning concerning future Times and Prophesies In the last daies perillous times shall 2 Tim. 3. 1. v. 2. v. 3. v. 4. come For men shall be lovers of their own selves boasters proud blasphemers Without natural affection truce-breakers false accusers O the divine Truth of sacred Scripture heady high-minded Having a form of godliness but denying the v. 5. power thereof from such turn away For v. 6. of this sort are they which creep into houses and lead captive silly women laden with sins led away with divers lusts ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of v. 7. the truth Behold a most lively Picture of our captive-silly-sin-laden-led-away-lustful-everlearning-ignorant women Again For the time will come when they will 2 Tim. 4. 3. not endure sound doctrine but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers having itching ears And they shall v. 4. turn away their ears from the truth and shall be turned unto fables This Prophecy is made History amongst us Also S. Jude Jude v. 17. But beloved remember ye the words which were spoken before of the Apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ How that they told you v. 18. there should be mockers in the last time who should walk after their own ungodly lusts These be they who separate themselves sensual v. 19. having not the Spirit These mockers and Separates pretend that they have the Spirit but St. Iude declares that they are sensual and have it not Fifthly The Scripture exhorts Ye therefore beloved seeing ye know these 2 Pet. 3. 17. things before beware lest ye also being led away with the errour of the wicked fall from your own stedfastness But grow in v. 18. grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ to him be glory both now and for ever Amen The Apostles commonly end their Epistles with this Matter that they may imprint it the more into the Hearts of those unto whom they write And St. Jude But Jude v. 20. ye beloved building up your selves on your most holy faith praying in the Holy Ghost Keep your selves in the love of God looking v. 21. for the mercie of our Lord Iesus Christ unto Eternal life This Faith must be the first and most ancient in it's Order or it cannot be the most holy Faith Sixthly The Scripture awakes our memory which applies it self to past Things Remember therefore how thou hast Revelat. 3. 3. received and heard and