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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89640	The proud pharisee reproved: or, the lying orator laid open. In an examination of some passages in a book, entituled, precepts for Christian practice, or, the rule of the new creature new model'd. Written by one Edw. Reyner, who calles himself a minister of the Gospel in Lincoln; but is found a lyar / by a Child of the light, who is known to the world by the name of Martin Mason.	Mason, Martin, fl. 1650-1676.	1655 (1655)	Wing M933; Thomason E851_6; ESTC R207419	44,305	59

being willing to die for thy Saviour thou chusedst to live in thy sins shall such a cowardly Priest claim the priviledge of a Paul Thou talks of erecting Christ a Throne and giving him a Crown and Scepter in your hearts Priviledge Was it Christ or Antichrist that had a Throne erected and a Crown and Scepter in thy heart when thou fled from thy flock P. 51. Does not Antichrist reign in the Kingdom of thy heart while thou pins thy sheep on thy poor Commons and poysons them with thy corrupt Doctrine both in Pulpit and print P. 61. Thou sayes You dwell in Christ and Christ in you as a man in his house and p. 65. Christ toucheth the soul by his spirit Is not his spirit of the essence of the Deity Dost thou not say p. 72. The substance of the Deity is incommunicable P. 67. Thou queries what kind of union is this between Christ and a believer and thou answers it is a reall or substantial total and spiritual union and that it is a union of substances essences and persons Can this be true and yet the substance of the Deity be incommunicable P. 69. Thou sayes Christ is in a believer and a believer is in Christ and in-being is mutual and conformable between them and Christ and a believer are in one another really And yet thou sayes the substance of the Deity is incommunicable 2 Cor. 13.5 Col. 1.27 Thou goes on saying Christ himself is in a Believer not his graces onely so is the spirit it self in a Believer dwells in him not his fruits or operations onely yet thou sayes the substance of the Deity is incommunicable is not this to make the spirit not to be of the substance of the Deity Thou runs on saying This union of Christ and a Believer is a totall Vnion the whole person of a believer is united to the whole person of Christ both Soul and Body with his Deity And that whole Christ both his God-head Manhood is united to the whole Christian both his soul and body And yet for all this thou shames not to say The substance of the Deity is incommunicable Page 70. Then thou brings in Rom. 8.11 saying That the spirit of Christs unities the body of a Believer to Christ as well sa his soul and inhabites or dwells in his body as well as in his soul and that the Saints bodies are the Temples of the Holy Ghost And yet thou blushes not to say the substance of the Deity is communicable An infallible signe thy body was never yet the Temple wherein that pure Spirit hath lived in Certainly some of thy Hearers will not credit thee in this particular and if they will any longer be led by such a filthy Lyer and Blasphemer if they will still dote upon thee and thy Dreams I shall pitty their sad condition that they are thus given up to believe such strong delusions P. 79. A fourth obstruction in receiving Christ thou sayes is fear of suffering for Christ of bearing his Crosse that Christ may prove costly or his wayes and cause cumbersome that you may leave or lose Father Mother Wife Children House Lands Goods c. And Selfeness stands thou sayes in Diametrall opposition to Christ and must be receded from and renounced before Christ can be approached or received Deal honestly with thy own soul was not fear of suffering for Christ of bearing his Crosse the cause that made thee leave Lincoln and go to Norwich is not fear of losing House Lands Goods Gratuities yearly Revenue reproach of the world the losse of the name of a Minister of the Gospel the cause that hinders thee from taking up the Crosse of Christ Canst thou not say from thy own experience as in p. 80. O the difficulty of self-deniall and mans naturall aversness to it it is next to ceasing to be himself especially thou sayes when a man hath a great Self to deny as great parts power and wealth But what 's thy meaning to call the Idolls Temple a Church and breed and wine a Sacrament as thou dost in thy 80. page How many rest sayes thou in comming to the Church and not to Christ in receiving the Sacrament but not Christ Fond man how should they finde him where he is not Away with this Popery thou painted Priest thy Tongue is tipt with Romish poyson Thou tells of Peters prohibiting Cornelius p. 82. when he worshipped him but when dost thou forbid thy flatterers when they come bending and bowing before thee curtesing unto thee Thou wants that true humility Peter had thy counterfeit stuffe shall yield no contentment That self-pleasing Mantle called the Custom of the Nation shall contribute no comfort to thee in the time of thy Tribulatiō when the book of Conscience coms to be opened Thou often hintest to the people they should readily receive Christs Ministers and counts thy self and the Tithe-taking Priests for Christs Embassadors I am sure But that covetous griping Generation who are alwayes crying give give who love the flock meerly for the fleece are none of the Ministers of Christ Jesus Read Isa 56.10.11 and see if that place be not a pretty Representative of the Priests of our time Isa 56.10.11 worth reading Page 56. Thou tells of Christs Proclamation of himself and his Commodities free access to all commers and of all plentifull supply to all hungerers and thirsters after him and his good things wine and milk c. to come and buy of him without mony and without price Page 80. Why dost not thou and thy fellow false Ministers make Christ your pattern O the difficulty of self-denial and mens naturall aversenes to it Yea even such men who would be counted the Ministers of Christ Jesus These are so farre from calling people to take their counterfeit ware without mony or price that they think they can never get money nor price enough Are such the Ministers of Christ Priest Thou Queries whether it be not the great condemning sin that Men will not receive Jesus Christ seeing that is the great command of the Gospel and Christ sayes thou will come in flaming fire to take vengeance on them that obey not the Gospel This is the great salvation tendered to you in the Gospel which if you refuse how can you escape great damnation Joh. 3.19 This is the condemnation that light is come into the world and men love darkness rather than light because their deeds are evill What will become of thee and thy generation of teachers who doe not receive the light but reject it Who instead of yeilding up your selves to it you set your selves to preach against it Ye will neither obey it your selves nor are willing that others should Math. 23.13 Wo and misery will be the portion of such men who instead of opening shut up the Kingdom of Heaven against men and neither goe in themselves nor suffer them that are

P. 130. can the Spirit of God be limited to set times Does the Scriptures limit the Saints to pray morning and evening He that prayes without the Spirits help his prayers are an abhomination to the Lord. The Apostle bids pray continually Away thou Legalist thou painted Pharisee blush and be ashamed P. 134. Thou calles the word meaning the letter I know assuredly food for the soul Manna from Heaven but where is thy Scriptum est for this can any thing but the living God satisfie the soul Had not the Scribes and Pharisees the writings of the Prophets the presence of Christs person and his Apostles and their preaching too yet Christ complains that they would not come to him that they might have life They had the letter yet wanted life they Page 134. had the Husk yet wanted the Kernel Whether is the Husk or Shell or the Kernel Meat Is it not said He satisfies the hungry with good things does he call the Scriptures those good things where is it said that they satisfie But the rich he sends empty away Is this the doctrine of Christ to say reading of Scripture is that to the Soul which Dinner and Supper is to the body How many poor pined starved soules in this City will witnesse against thee herein when the book of Conscience comes to be opened Thou goes on calling the Scripture under the name of Gods Word the Christians Armory or Magazine saying Reading of Gods Word is a Means of putting on the whole Armour of God of girding the sword of the Spirit upon the Thigh of the soul And that it 's like an Apothecary shop wherein are healing Medicines for all sorts of Spirituall Diseases Thou pretends one thing and does another thou seems to make the Scripture The Rule for men to walk by but not it seems for thee to talk and prate by who preaches and prints such stuffe as neither thee nor all the Priests in England can prove by plain Scripture P. 140. He that brings any other Doctrine then what was delivered by Christ and his Apostles Is he not accursed Thou calls Conscience a good Monitor and so it is but thou dares not serve so good a Master Pag. 143. Thou calls it a Principle of Joy O that thou wouldst make it thy joy to obey that pure Principle thy joy would be then unspeakable and full of glory but thou treads it under foot and dares not give it the uppermost Room nor let it Rule in the Kingdom of thy Heart It is my witnesse I speak the Truth and lye not P. 145. Thou makes confession against thy self but forsakest not Family-Duries superficially performed cannot kill disorders in thy house Are the best of Your performances any better What means then the reigning of your Headstrong Lusts as Pride Passion Envy Covetousnesse c Art thou not ashamed still to limit Prayer to Morning and Evening The 5. Psal 3. verse which thou brings 1 Thess 5.17 for thy proof mentions Davids exercise in the Morning onely Does thou bring in His practice against a Gospel-precept Pray continually or without ceasing Thy calling that day of the Week thou Worships on the Sabbath shews thy ignorance of the True Sabbath Is this the language of A true Minister of the Gospel Thou sayes all Relations Domestical Ecclesiastical and Political are founded and established in the Law of God and Gospel of Christ But shouldst thou never have penny for thy preaching till thou proves this in that sense thou takest Ecclesiastical Relations The Fox would soon say his Spirits and strength were spent Take the Pulpit who would the Priest would be gone either to Norwich or some such other Place or City of Pecuniary Refuge Thou brings in for a Proof of thy Bold assertion Thou shalt not covet thy Neighbours Wife nor his Man-servant nor his Maid-servant c. But what 's this to Ecclesiasticall Relation as thou calls it Is it not like a Spiders Webb finely spun yet so weak that a feather will fell it down Is not this to cast an Odium upon the late Parliament and present Authority for abolishing Bishops Dean and Chapters were not they counted Ecclesiastical Relations Art not thou and thy Generation of Priests built upon the same foundation they were Is not your life in the letter as theirs was Their Doctrine and yours the same Do you not plead for the same maintenance of Tithes they did Did not thee and thy Presbyterian Generation preach against Prelacy because you would be the Prelates your selves Art not thou and thy fellow Priest paid for your preaching out of that yearly Revetiue which was formerly paid to your Elder Brethren the Bishop Dean and Chapter of Lincoln Three hundred pounds a year between you If these Relations had been grounded upon the Law of God and the Gospel of Christ Was it well done of them who abolished them But that Man's blind who sees not thee to be a Minister of Antichrist quarrelling so far as thou dares and shewing thy discontent at what the Lord hath done in hastening the Downfall of the Devils Kingdome P. 156. Thou presses the people with their duty to their Ministers Due respect and love to their persons and thou brings in 1 Thess 5.12 13. We beseech you Brethren to know them that labour among you and are over you in the Lord. Now prove thy self and the Priests of England if thou canst to be such as Paul was to be in the Lord and fill'd with the Holy Ghost Did ever Paul or any of the Primitive Saints preach such Doctrine as thou and thy Fellow Priests do and live in such pride pomp idlenesse and oppression as you do Thy next proof is 1 Tim. 5 17 18. Let the Elders that Rule well be counted worthy of double Honour Name me those Elders among you who rule well Old in folly deceit and filthinesse there are many but young and green to any thing that is good Who are they that labour in the Word Thee and thy Generation are not true Labourers in the Lords Vineyard but lazie idle loyterers Greedy shepherds None of you abide in his Doctrine nor hold fast the form of sound words The next is due Maintenance for their pains Gal. 6.6 Let him that is taught in the Word Communicate First prove your selves True Teachers such as Paul and the Apostles were Produce your Commissions from Christ Jesus Prove your Call That you ran not before you were sent That you abide in his Doctrine Till that be done there is nothing due unto you but Judgment And should thy self and the Priests of this Nation who preach for Reward be forced to make but bare restitution of all that they have received and robb'd the people of under the Notion of Christs Ministers they would be the most beggerly contemptible People in the World But observe the word Communicate a voluntary Contribution or free Cift Is this the best prop you have for compulsive

abominated Thou saies A Scriptum est Thou begins with that which thou calls the word of God viz. the Scriptures Thou bids heare it read it As it is written will put sin and Satan to flight and hide it in your hearts There are words many but the Word is but one Iohn 1.1 The Scriptures I own more truely than thou does or any tithe taking Preist in England yet I deny it to be that which thou callest it but protest not In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God Are the Scriptures God Were they in the beginning Was not Moses the first Man that writ Scripture Is it not Christ that 's clothed with a vesture dipt in blood is not his name called the Word of God Are the Scriptures Christ Rev. 19 13. 2 Pet. 3.5 Doth not Paul say the Word of God is quick and powerfull sharper than any two edged sword peircing even to the dividing a sunder of Soule and Spirit and of the joynts and Marrow and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart Can the dead doe all this Is the letter quick and powerfull Hath it the vertue force and operation written in that verse Or is it the work of a God Is any printed book a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart Peter saies by the Word of God the Heavens were of Old and the earth standing out of the water and in the water Were the Heavens and the earth made by the Scriptures or by God Paul saies every creature of God is good and nothing is to be refused if it be received with thanksgiving for it is sanctified by the Word of God Luke 1.1 Can any thing sanctify a creature but the Omnipotent God and Creator of all things 2 Iet 1 2● Whether does he owne the Scripture who calls it his rule and lives contrary to it or he that calls it not soe yet lives according to it Yet I own the Scriptures as they are a declaration a record the writings of the holy Men of God who spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost But I dare not Deifie or equall them with God nor pretend to make them my rule and walk contrary to them as thou and all thy generation doe Thy second Antidote thou calls the Sacraments A word of an old stamp coyned by thy Fore-Fathers at the Romish-Mint which it seems thou reservest as a holy Relique for its Antiquity not for any Sanctity that is in it I am sure Art thou not ashamed to use such rusty dark language at this time of the day P. 28.29 Thou saies Sacraments are instituted to be instruments for conveyance of vertue from Christs death into your Soules to mortifie your sins How many sins can the people truely say are mortified in them by thy Sacraments If thou wilt not answer for them say for thy self speak and lye not Channels through which streams of blood flow from the sides and heart of Christ into your hearts to carry away your sins Name what sins thou canst witness either of thy owne or the peoples that are carried away by those pretended streams flowing through the Sacraments Then thou bids make use of Sacraments against sins as men doe of Assizes against Malefactors get them condemned and cut off He that drinks at the pure Fountaine savours thy muddy language to streame from the corrupted Sea of Rome But all this while thou hast been talking of Sacraments thou hast lost thy Scriptum est What old Authors hast thou been ransaking up for this Sacrament all stuff Dares thou come into the feild thus to fight against the Lamb and his Saints and not bring one weapon out of thy Scripture Magazin to defend thee How canst thou hope to return a live to thy Camp Is the name of a Minister Armour of Proof to secure thee Dost thou not say the Word is a sheild to defend you against all the assaults of Sin and Satan or Batteries of Yentations The heart fenced with it thou saies is Cannon Proof I know thy meaning is the Scriptures Thou counts it the Word Ah silly blind Soul that art thus groping in the dark when the Sun of righteousness shines so gloriously Art not thou and the people provided of Bibles How are you defended against the assaults of Sin and Satan t is seene how open you are to the Batteries of tentation And for all thy flourishes thy heart is not fenced with one Scripture for all this folly thy tongue hath uttered concerning thy second Antidote Therefore thou art neither sword nor pistoll-proofe much less Cannon-proofe by thy owne confession Prov. 12.22 Pro. 28.9 Thy third Antidore is Prayer to God of the wicked are an abomination to the Lord. To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me saith the Lord when ye come to appeare before me who hath required this at your hand the calling of Assemblies I cannot away with * It is iniquity even the solemne meeting when ye spread your hands I will hide my eyes from you yea when you make many Prayers I will not heare Isaiah 1. and what 's the reason of this your uncleaneness Wash ye make ye cleane put away the evill of your doings from before mine eyes cease to do evill learne to do well seeke judgement Releive the oppressed judge the Fatherless Plead for the Widdow Loe here 's work for thee and thy Mayor and Aldermen O that you would set your hearts to doe it till then all your Prayers are but vaine babling till then there is no reasoning with God If ye be willing and obedient yee shall eate the Fat of the Land but if ye rebell ye shall be devoured with the sword for the Mouth of the Lord hath spoken it page 30. Speaking of the spirituall combat thou saies The life or exercise of grace puts sin to death in the duell betweene Flesh and Spirit as humility doth Pride and sincerity doth hypocrisy Ah poore Soul that it were so with thee and where there is no opposition there is no restraint where there is no contrary Principle of grace to cross and curb sin there sin overflows like a River without Bancks Grace thou saies will drive out sin as one pin doth another yet for all this page 28 thou calls Duties and Ordinances Weapons edgewise to cut and kill lusts Antidotes to expell the Poyson of sin especially the Word that is saies thou Scriptures Sacraments and Prayer for dost thou not say a Scriptum est As it is written will put sin and Satan to flight Here thou laies all the weight and power of killing sin upon duties ordinances and the letter and page 30. thou saies 'T is the life of grace puts sin to death and grace will drive out sin but what that grace is thou hast not mentioned 1 Cer. 12.9 The Lord saies to Paul my grace is sufficient for thee