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A26412 A fannaticks mite cast into the Kings treasury being a sermon printed to the King because not preach'd before the King / by Henry Adis. Adis, Henry. 1660 (1660) Wing A581; ESTC R28080 68,628 81

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of the bare Subjection to the Ordinances as it was under the Law but upon the account of their Faith for saith the Apostle Ye Members of the Church of Galatia are all the Children of God by Faith in Christ Jefus which Faith working by love hath evidenced it self to be true by working you to obedience to Gods Ordinances for so many of you as have been Baptized into Christ have put on Christ And as no uncircumcised person was to ●…at of the Passeover under the Law Exod. 12. 48. So of Christ our Passeover who is Sacrificed for us under this Gospel-dispensation 1 Corinth 5. 7. is no unbeliever to have Communion 2 Corinthians 6. 14. to 17. And as under the Law it was charged upon the Jews as a sin to bring the Uncircumcised into the material Temple Ezek. 44. 7 9. because Circumcision was the inducting Ordinance of Cod under that dispensation So also under a Gospel-dispensation we dare not administer that Inducting Ordinance of Baptism without Faith in God be firct begotten So that if persons shall require from us the Administration of that Ordinance we shall no more dare to do it than Philip who first would have an account of the Eunuch's faith before he Baptized him for so saith the Text Acts 8. 37. If thou Believest with all thy heart thou mayest who immediatly made a Confession of his Faith and this is according to the Commission of Christ Mark 16. vers. 15. which saith not that he that is Baptized but he that Believeth and is Baptized shall be saved So that it is a dangerous thing to make the strait Gate that leads to life wider than God hath made it Therefore know O King that thou art under that dispensation in which the Ax is laid to the root of the Tree and wherein every tree that brings not forth good fruit is to be hewen down and cast into the fire Mat. 3. 10. Under which persous are forbidden to plead their Birth-Priviledges V. 9. as that they are Children of Believing Parents or Sons and Daughters to Abraham but under that dispensation by which they are all the Children of God by faith in Christ Iesus as aforesaid who have actually manifested their faith by their obedience in their putting on of Christ by Baptism as that Church did Gal. 3. 26 27. Such as are chosen out of the world John 15. 19. John 17. 6 14. Separating themselves according to the requirements of God from false and Babylonish worship Revel. 18. 4. 2 Cor. 6. 14 17. Being begotten to the faith Philemon 10. 1 Tim. 1. 2. 2 Tim. 1. 2. Titus 1. 4. By the Preaching of the Word James 1. 18. 1 Cor. 4. 15. And quickned by the Spirit John 6. 63. Rom. 8. 11. Eph. 2. 1 5. Col. 2. 13. Being born again 1 John 4. 7. 1 John 5. 1. 1 John 3. 9. Not of corruptible séed but of incorrup●…ible 1 Pet. 1. 23. Not of flesh nor blood nor after the will of man but of God John 1. 13. Being born of water and the Spirit without which if we may believe our blessed Saviour himself John 3. 5. no man can enter into the Kingdom of Heaven the necessity whereof is fully laid down by the Apostle 1 Pet. 3. 20. who speaking of the preservation that Noah had by the Ark from that deluge of water Gen. 7. 17. The like figure whereunto even Baptism saith he doth now under this Gospel-dispensation save us not by washing away of the filth of the flesh but the answering a good Conscience towards God by the Resurrection of Jesus Christ as if the Apostle should have said it is not the washing the body in Water that is of this saving nature but it is the going into the Water in a Conscionable obedience to the Command of God to have our sins mystically washed away by Faith in the blood of Christ and so also saith the Apostle Acts 22. 16. And now why tarriest thou arise and be Baptized wash away thy sins calling on the Name of the Lord and the same Apostle writing to Titus makes a clear discovery by what means God on their parts saved them Titus 3. 5. Who hath 〈◊〉 us saith he not by deeds of Righteousness that we have done but by the washing of Regeneration or as the old Translation renders it by the fountain of the new birth and renewing of the Holy Ghost by Water-work and Spirit-work the Spirit operating upon and working up a Soul conscionably to obey God in that holy though amongst men that much despised Ordinance of Water-baptism And thus the Apostle tels us by what means Christ hath clenfed his Church viz. with the washing of water by or according to the Word Eph. 5. 26. And thus some in the Church of the Corinthians who formerly were unrighteous even Fornicators Idolaters Adulterers Effeminate Abusers of themselves with man-kind Thieves and Robbers were by this Spirit and Water-work washed and clensed For so saith our Apostle 1 Cor. 6. 11. And such were some of you but ye are washed but ye are Sanctified in the Name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God So that a Church of Christ or House of God under a Gospel-dispensation is to be built up of lively stones a spirituall House an holy Priesthood to offer up spiritual Sacrifices that will be acceptable to God by Jesus Christ 1 Pet. 2. 5. Of which the building of the Material Temple was a Type for as the House which Solomon built 1 Kings 6. 7. was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither so that there was neither Hammer nor Ax nor any tool of Iron heard in the House when it was in building So in the gathering or building a Gospel-Church persons are to be fitted hewen and squared before they are laid into this Building they are to repent from dead works and to have Faith in God before they be Baptized that as that was a Material so this a spiritual House as those stoues were dead these lively as those stones so soon as they were laid into the building and the work finished they became a House fit to sacrifice in so these lively stones being brought together are fit presently actually to offer up spiritual Sacrifices such as God will accept they being in Jesus Christ first mystically by Faith and secondly actually by their Obedience and Faith and Obedience being Gods Twins we dare not in the least entertain so much as a thought to separate them So that O King if thou with Hezekiah wilt open the Door of the Lords House it is not a National but a Congregational Door thou art to open which is not to be compulsive but perswasive for so saith a true Gospel-Minister Knowing therefore the terrour of the Lord we perswade men 2 Cor. 5. 11. Now then we are Ambassadors for Christ as though God did beseech you by us We pray you in Christs stead be ye reconciled to God v. 20. Whence we may
lust and have not then they kill and desire to have James 4. 1 2. and when the People of God shall act thus the Spirit of God brands them with those Ignominious Names of Adulterers and Adulteresses informing them that what they are fighting for is enmity against God and that if they obtain it they are enemies to God James 4. 4. and we well knowing that whilest we are Friends to the world we are Enemies to God dare not in the least have to do in the world so as to set up our selves or to side with any either in setting up or pulling down And how can a mans love to the world be evidenced more than in venturing his life for it according to that saying of our Saviour John 15. 13. And we further Declare That as we are to be a peaceable People upon the account of Action so we look upon it to be our Duty to keep our selves from Oaths Engagements and Covenants either For or Against this or that Person Government or Persons whatsoever For because of SWEAPING the Land mourneth Jerem. 23. 10. For the Lord hath a Controversie with the Inhabitants of the Land because there is no Truth nor Mercy nor Knowledge of God in the Land for by SWEARING and Lying and Killing and Stealling and committing Adultery they break forth and bloud toucheth bloud saith the Prophet Hos. 4. 1 2 3. And saith the same Prophet Hos. 10. 3 4. They have spoken words SWEARING falsly in making a Covenant THUS Judgement springeth up as Hemlock in the furrows of the field and we not knowing what the Cabinet Counsel of God is in this our day upon the account of Government dare not in the least have so much as a thought to Engage in any such thing lest we be found Fighters against God according to the saying of Gamaliel though in another case Acts. 5. 39. And therefore do Declare our Resolution herein That we shall not God assisting us enter into any Engagement whatsoever upon any such account Yet shall this say again That we shall not violently resist the Imposers of any such Engagements but shall patiently suffer the penalty of our non-obedience as aforesaid And we further Declare as in the presence of God who is the searcher of all hearts That as it hath been some of our great trouble for a long time to see some of those that are in the same Faith and Order with us so acting so it is now become even an overwhelming burthen upon our Souls to see them generally running such a precipitant course by which actings of theirs the mouths almost of all men are opened against them and that Truth they profess most ignominiously branded and reproached And therefore we further Declare That in the sight of God Angels and Men that we bear our Testimony against them in their present actings and cannot stand by them nor have Communion with them therein nor with those that strengthen their hands in standing by them and must tell them in the words of our Savior Luke 9. 55. That they know not what Spirit they are of for the Son of Man their Master came not to destroy mens lives but to save them The Premises considered we shall Appeal to the Judgement of all Rational men whether we are guilty of what we are Charged withal or not Yet if they shall still go on notwithstanding to use us Reproachfully for the Name of Christ we shall be so far from Endeavouring or Desiring a Revenge as that in the words of Christ we shall in our Requests at the Throne of Grace cry out and say Father Forgive them they know not what they do POST-SCRIPT FOrasmuch as the said Declarers in their Answer to the First Particular in their Declaration do call the Independants and Presbyterians their Christian Friends the which however it is they so complement with them yet in reality we judge they cannot own them as such upon a Scripture account as also because one Mr. William Alleyn in a Book lately by him Published Intituled A Retractation to Separation In which Book in the whole currant of it all the Scriptures that he brings which were written by the immediate directions and Incomes of the Holy Spirit of God to the Churches as they were in the Faith and Order of the Gospel he applyeth to and also for and in the behalf of Episcopals Independants and Presbyterians who are opposite both to the Doctrine and Discipline of those Churches he intending thereby to perswade us if possible to a Belief That they are the true and visible Members of that Body of which Christ is the Head the which Book by Gods assistance is intended suddenly to be Answered by one of our Society who Resolveth to entitle it The Retractators Work Scaned Or the Conceptions and Supposals of Mr. W. Alleyn regulated by Scripture Record in which with other things a Gospel-Believer or a true Church of Christ upon a Gospel account is intended to be stated the which is hoped will be so plain that it may prove Instrumental to the Undeceiving of some that are under a Deceipt by means of that and such deceitful Discourses as that is In which Answer it is farther hoped That those that are unsatisfied with our tearm Without in our Answer in our Declaration to the Fourth Particular may receive also good satisfaction and in the mean time we desire all to take notice That though we thus speak yet we have good thoughts of those Friends that go under those Denominations and do own them and all others of all other Opinions whatsoever in Union so far as they own God Christ and their Truths but to own the best of men to be Members of that Body of which Christ is the Head and so to have Communion with them either to make them our mouth in Prayer to God for us or Gods mouth in speaking forth his Truths to us or in Breaking of Bread at the Table of the Lord we cannot own them in the least Our Reasons we hope will be fully laid down in the Answer to the said Book Henry Adis Richard Pilgrim Abel Hutchins William Cox In behalf of themselves and those that walk with them LONDON Re-printed by S. Dover in Christophers Alley in Martins near Aldersgate 1660. And formerly Printed the 12th Day of the 11th Month Heathenishly called in Honour to their god Janus January 1659.