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A62901	A word of information to them that need it briefly opening some most weighty passages of God dispensations among the sons of men, from the beginning, and insisting a little upon the state and condition of the nations, wherein they now stand, and particularly of England : for this end, that men may remember themselves, and turn unto the Lord, and seek to be delivered from the mysteries of iniquity, to walk with God in fellowship and communion : to which (as pertinent hereunto) is annexed, An addition concerning Lord-Bishops, and Common-prayer-book : with a tender admonition to those called priests, or ministers : and also, a loving exhortation to those that have separated from their superstitions / by W.T.	Tomlinson, William.	1660 (1660)	Wing T1854; ESTC R16928	33,341	46

are rendred nearer to the Greek who have spoken to you the Word of God whose faith follow considering the end of their conversation what 's that Jesus Christ the same yesterday and to day and for ever And Vers 17. he bids Obey such Leaders and submit your selves for they watch for your Souls they break their sleep and ease for your Souls as they that must give account that they may do it with joy and not with grief for that is unprofitable for you See they were such men whom the Apostle bids remember and follow and submit to as were of an exemplary Faith and of an exemplary Conversation which had Christ the Meek Lambe of God for the end of it Now such Leaders as these the Lambs are ready to follow and to submit to and obey them that thus go before them leading them by an unblamable Conversation and by the wholesome word of Truth But a Stranger they cannot follow they cannot follow a Proud Man a Scornfull Man an Earthly-minded Man a Deceitfull Man a Lording Spirit that seeks an Earthly Kingdome and Dominion and to have preheminence here Such they cannot follow As they are Babes and Little Children themselves so a Little Childe must lead them And so the Scripture of the Prophets is fulfilled which Prophesying of the Kingdom of Christ saith A Little Childe shall lead them Isa 11.6 One that 's Innocent Humble Meek Lowly in heart like Christ Pure Faithfull Unblamable in his conversation Such a One shall lead and such a One must he be that 's a Leader in the Kingdome of Christ Not a Great pufft up proud Lord. For he by his Example leads quite from the Kingdom of God whither the Lambs are going and leads into the Pomp and Vanities of this present world from which they are flying and against which he made others to promise and vow though he be the forwardest to lead into them How should the Lambs follow such a one judge you and judge as you will be judged Again further The Faith of our Lord Jesus Christ which is the evidence of things not seen and the substance or being of things hoped for This Faith I say is not consistent with Exaltation and Greatnesse and Lordship among the Ministers of Christ Therefore saith Christ Jesus to such How can ye believe who receive honour one of another and seek not the honour that cometh of God only John 5.44 You may see he looks upon such as out of the Faith For observe the ground of it lies thus His Faith or the Faith that he works which is the Faith of his Kingdome is not a dead blind thing such as the Faith of the world is But it is a clear sight Evidence or Demonstration of things not seen even of the things of his Kingdome which the carnall eye sees not nor the bodily eye Now where doth a man come to this Sight or evidence this open view as I may say of things spiritual wherein the Faith of Christs Kingdome consists Christ himself hath told us It is in a Low Place that is in a Low Condition the state of a Little Childe as of one new born And except a man come to this He cannot see the Kingdome of God For while the minde and heart of the Creature is pregnant or filled with desires and affections that are of this world there is no room for things spiritual and eternal to enter Neither doth he obtain the sight of them from the Lord for It 's to Babes that he reveals them Therefore a man must be emptyed and brought down as a Childe before God open to him the Treasures of his Kingdome God hides the things of his Kingdome and keeps them back from the High and Lofty who are big with Wisdome and Prudence and Learning and reveales them unto Babes praised be his Name therefore He replenishes the Humble and Hungry with Good Things but the Rich he sends Empty away The Proud he beholds a farr off his Eye is upon such a one to bring him low and abase him So that as men grow great and high and lift up themselves they go out from the place or condition of seeing the things of the Kingdom of God they go from the condition to which God shews them and to which he gives the evidence and demonstration of them inwardly by his Spirit and so this is to go out from the Faith of Christ which consists in this evidence or sight or demonstration shining into the soul and giving possession of the thing seen unto the soul And therefore how can ye believe who receive Honour one of another and go up into Greatnesse out of the sight of the Kingdom which is Spiritual The lower that the Creature becomes the more capable he is to receive of the Spiritual Treasure and the further he enters into the Kingdom that is Spiritual and not of this World but the higher he grows in this Worlds Pomp and Greatness and Glory the further off he goes from the Faith of Christ So that one may say to such How can ye believe And here we stand upon firm ground in denying the POPE who takes the title of Vniversal Bishop and in denying all other Lording Bishops followers of his steps I say we stand upon firm ground in denying them all as men gone far far far off from the Paths of such Bishops as the Scriptures own and are fallen under the temptation which Satan presented before Christ even the glory of this World And whither then can they lead us by their Example Consider it well The Kingdom of God consists of little Children saith Christ and a little Child must lead them and not such as are great and seek preheminence such are gone out from the Faith and follow the steps of Diotrephes who loved to have the Preheminence that thing which Christ had forbidden 3 Epist Joh. ver 9 10. shews you what he did He began to be a Wolf in the Church of Christ when he had entred into the love of Preheminence And so it must be with those that follow his steps It cannot be otherwise especially now since the Mystery of Iniquity hath formed and founded a Politick Kingdom for their great spirits to rise in in the similitude of the World though under the pretence of Christs Church And so they cannot be Examples to the Flock if they would but must be Devourers thereof The very Mystery that they have given up themselves into will force them to be Devourers and Scatterers of the Flock though some of them may have a pitty arising sometimes in their hearts and would not yet the Mystery of Iniquity is so deeply founded that it carries them on who come into it whether they will or no to help to bear it up against the Lambs of Christ As a Wheel in a Clock is forced on by the motion of other Wheels So it is in this great Mystery And so the Lambs cannot look upon any that manage a

A Word of Information To Them that need it Briefly opening some most weighty Passages of Gods Dispensations among the Sons of Men from the beginning And insisting a little upon the State and Condition of the Nations wherein they now stand and particularly of ENGLAND For this end That Men may remember themselves and turn unto the Lord and seek to be delivered from the Mysteries of Iniquity to walk with God in Fellowship and Communion To which as pertinent hereunto is annexed An ADDITION concerning LORD-BISHOPS and COMMON-PRAYER-BOOK With a Tender ADMONITION to those called PRIESTS or MINISTERS And also A Loving EXHORTATION to those that have SEPARATED from their SUPERSTITIONS By W. T. LONDON Printed for Robert Wilson at the sign of the Black-Spread-Eagle and Windmil in Martins Le Grand 1660. A Word of Information To Them that need it c. GOD made Man at the first Upright and Innocent and Pure and Holy walking with him in his pure Nature in perfect peace and in boldness before him having his Understanding filled with Light and Knowledge from the Lord and his spirit possessed with the Spirit of the Lord. And therein he walked before the Lord in great liberty only in one thing the Lord laid a Restraint upon him Thou shalt not eat saith he of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil neither shall ye touch it for in the day thou eatest thereof dying thou shalt dye Gen. 2.17 and 3.3 Now there was no way for that old enemy Satan to rob Man of this happy peaceable innocent Condition but by getting him out of the bounds where God had set him for where no Law was there could be no transgression and where no transgression was death could not enter for death came in upon Man by sin Rom. 5.12 Therefore Satan that old Serpent sets upon Man here to allure and entice him and flatter him into a tryal of that which God had forbidden him by presenting a pleasurableness and profitableness in it Man yeelding the bound was broken that kept Man with the Lord and kept out death and misery And now Sin entering that is transgressing of Gods will and pleasure here with Sin Death entered and another spirit than before had possession in man even the spirit of the Serpent that got in and became Ruler in the Disobedience And now Death came over all in Man and over all Men. The flourishing state of his soul in Righteousness and Innocency that dyed a spirit of shame and fear that covered him and he now fled from the presence of the Lord. And death also must now come upon his body as well as upon his soul for to dust that must return Thus dying Man dyed according to the Word of the Lord. Yet now the Lord's mercies were not clean shut up from his Creature which he had made so excellent and given dominion unto over all other Creatures upon the Earth Gen. 1.28 but he leaves a way open still for Mans return unto himself thorow a promised Seed which was contrary to the seed of the Serpent and should bruise the Serpents head that enticing spirit that leads to Disobedience Gen. 3.15 So then here 's no returning now for Man back again from Death to Life but through that Seed that breaks the head of the winding disobedient spirit Now in this faln state Man lives and begets Sons and Daughters and multiplies and replenishes the Earth Thus the Earth is filled with Men and Women begotten in the faln condition And so as Men encreased and multiplied Sin also that encreased until the Lord repented that he had made Man and so drowned every living Creature wherein was the breath of life that lived and moved upon the face of the Earth Gen. 6.5 6 7 17. Yet in this sinking dying condition a Seed there was from the beginning that served and obeyed the Lord whose hearts were after him to return again unto him who wrought works of Righteousness and walked with the Lord as righteous Abel and Seth and holy Enoch who was translated that he should not see death And besides these a Generation that called upon the Name of the Lord and so were called the Sons of God Gen. 4.26 Yet these also in process of time wore out after that they began to corrupt themselves mingling themselves with the Daughters of Men Gen. 6.2 So that in the dayes of Noah only Noah was found Righteous in his Generation Gen. 6.8 9. whom the Lord therefore with his family reserved from the Flood to plant the Earth with after he had drowned the old world of the ungodly Gen. 7.1 Then again after the Flood as Men began to multiply so they corrupted their wayes again before the Lord so that in Abraham the eleventh from Noah which was about three-hundred sixty seven years after the Flood God began to gather to himself a People again out of the rest of the world who should bear his Name and so he called Abraham out from his fathers house and out of his own Country to walk with him where he would appoinc him Gen. 12.1 When Abraham was come out then the Lord blessed him and promised him to make of him a great Nation and that he would blesse him that blessed Abraham and curse him that cursed Abraham And said furthermore to him In thee shall all families of the Earth be blessed Gen. 12.2 3. So his Posterity in Isaac and Jacob were counted for the Lords Inheritance and owned by him above all the World and called his Son his First-born And by that name he required them of Pharaoh when he sent to deliver them out of the house of bondage Exod. 4.22 23. Then when the Lord had delivered them by an out-stretched Arm from under Pharaohs Bondage to lead them into the Land of Canaan which he had promised to Abraham When he had separated them from Egypt and brought them into the Wilderness of Sinai There he gave them Statutes and Ordinances a Miuistration of Laws written in Tables of Stone Of this Ministration Moses was made the Mediator between God and them and it was confirmed by many mighty Signs and Wonders The Miracles done in Egypt by the hand of Moses their passing therow the Red-Sea as on dry land Moses his fasting forty dayes and forty nights The terrible and dreadful Presence of the Lord on the Mount besides his going before them in a Pillar of Cloud by Day and in a Pillar of Fire by Night And many other Signs and Wonders all confirmed this Ministry given in the hand of Moses Notwithstanding all this and many moe great Signs and Wonders which they saw yet this People rebelled against the Lord and did not walk with him with all their heart but grieved him continually as he complained of them by Moses and afterwards by all his Prophets So that in the fulness of time God sought out another People to bear his Name and turned over the Promises made to Abraham to a spiritual Seed Children