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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88307	A true ministery anatomized Where it is clearly proved by scripture, I. What a true ministery is, and what a ministery God set in the church. II. A ministery not so set, is not the ministery of Christ. III. Our ministers of England have not the gift of tongues. IV. Truth is not obtained by studie. By Thomas Lipeat, not the author, but the actor.	Lipeat, Thomas.	1651 (1651)	Wing L2357; Thomason E1378_3; ESTC R209313	7,833	20

A True MINISTERY ANATOMIZED Where it is clearly proved by SCRIPTURE I. What a true Ministery is and what a Ministery God set in the Church II. A Ministery not so set is not the Ministery of Christ III. Our Ministers of England have not the gift of Tongues IV. Truth is not obtained by Studie By Thomas Lipeat not the Author but the Actor LONDON Printed by J. C. and are to be sold at the Black Spread-Eagle at the West-end of Pauls 1651. Gentle Reader HAving a cloud of Witnesses to witness with me the Truth contained in this little Treatise and having a great Battel to fight even with beasts after the manner of men The weapons of our warfare are spiritual warranted in Scripture And these our enemies are Merchants that make the Nation believe they trade in Divine things Indeed they have large Shops their Shops are an evil Conscience the things which they sell is frothie stuff foaming out their own shame Envie Hatred and Malice poysoning the understandings of them that trade with them yea they trade in the Temple we buy and they sell but both buyer and seller shall be whipt out And gentle Reader my desire for thee is that if thou hast bought a cup of Poyson of these Merchants here discovered in this little Treatise That thou mayst drink a cup of Blessing to cure thee withal Thus leaving thee I desire thou mayst be so wise even with Wisdom it self to discern the Truth to believe it and love it and to hate even the appearance of evil with a deadly Hatred Fare ye well Yours in all Love and tenderness of spirit Thomas Lipeat A Clear description of a true Ministery differing from the Ministery of Antichrist and this Ministery of Antichrist is that which overfloweth this Nation from the one end to the other as it will appear proved in Scripture which Record is true The Apostle Paul doth clearly set down what a true and faithful Ministery is as we finde in 1 Cor. 12.28 saying God hath set some in the Church as first Apostles secondarily Prophets thirdly Teachers after that Miracles then gifts of Healing helps in Government diversity of Tongues some of every sort according to the express words of the Apostle As also the same Apostle doth further declare in Ephes 4.11 saying God gave some to be Apostles and some Prophets and some Evangelists and some Pastors and some Teachers As if the Apostle had said If any man desire to know the Ministery of Christ from the Ministery of Antichrist here it is recorded by me Paul which am also a Minister of Christ This is the Ministery that is set in the Church this is the Ministery that did plant the Churches in that Order of whom we finde in record of Scripture This Ministery is infallible this Ministery spake as the Spirit gave them utterance this Ministery is able to deliver the minde of God in the purity of it for they were vessels in whom God did speak they spake by the inspiration of the holy Ghost We finde not in all the Scriptures that any Ministery was short of this that is here recorded We never finde in Scripture that any Churches were planted or that any did administer the Ordinances but this Ministery that is infallible as Paul declares in 1 Cor. 11.23 saying That which I have received of the Lord I have delivered unto you But there is a Ministery in this Land which hath deluded this Nation making men believe that they are the Ministers of Christ and that they have the gift of Tongues when indeed they do but tell you a false thing Also they make men believe they are Divines when it is clear in Scriptures there is no Divine but God alone Indeed if they be Divines it is but as the maid did divine in Acts 16.16 And it came to pass as we went to prayer a certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination met us which brought her master much gain by soothsaying So indeed they get to themselves great Livings by the spirit of Divination by deluding and bewitching the Nation with their Sophistry and cunning and making men and women believe they have the gift of Tongues when at the best and the most that can be said of all they have it is but humane Learning We finde in Scriipture that Simon Magus could not buy the gift of the holy Ghost with money but when he did desire to purchase this gift what was the answer of Peter to him Thy money perish with thee But to make it appear that our Priests of England have not this gift of Tongues is to be proved I first prove this to be true from this ground All that they have more then other men have it is but to read the Hebrew and Greek Tongues and this is learned for money even as a childe learns to read the English Tongue thus Antichristian Ministers indeed have this Humane Learning But Humane Learning is no help to the understanding of the mystery of salvation this is bought with money and therefore no gift it is at the best but a practice and not a gift If you will know what a gift of Tongues is look into Acts 2. there it is said that when God was pleased to give the gift of Tongues then they spake as the Spirit gave them utterance We do not finde that these Galileans went to Schools of Learning to speak the wonders of the Lord in so many several Languages Now the text saith There were of every nation under heaven as we see in the fifth verse And when this was noised abroad the multitude came together and were confounded because they heard him speak in his own tongue wherein they were born This indeed was the gift of Tongues it was not bought with money as their Humane Learning is which is but a practice and not a gift as is before declared Oh that the Nation had that discerning spirit to discern the true Ministery of Christ from the Ministers of Antichrist These Ministers of Antichrist under this notion of the gift of Tongues make poor ignorant men and women believe that they are able Ministers to define an infinite God poor finite creatures as they are they know not what God is in Himself nor what he is to his Creatures Christ saith No man knoweth the Father but the Son and him to whom the Son will reveal him The Ministers of Christ did not studie to finde out truth as Christ said to his Disciples To you it is given to know the mysteries of salvation And yet thus Ministers of Antichrist make men believe they finde out truth by studie I remember there is a saying in Scripture where the Lord said I was found of them that sought me not and I was made manifest to them that asked not after me where then was Studies where then was Humane Learning which is the God of the Nations And again we find in Gal. 1.11 12. But I certifie you brethren that the

Ministers of Jesus Christ and that they are Divines indeed if they are Divines they are divelish Divines as hath been proved in Acts 16.16 There is one thing more to be noted by this Ministry of Antichrist which is worthy of observation the thing to be noted is this Oh say they None can declare the mind of God but we that are men of Learning Illiterate men cannot find cut the Mysterie of Truth they cannot understand the Hebrew and Greek Tongues as we can therefore notable Ministers of Christ But I pray mark the cunning of the men of this Craft They say men that are not learned in these Tongues cannot find out the Truth for there are things in the Hebrew Tongue which must be interpreted into English which they cannot do that are illiterate men But I desire that all the Nation did but understand their craf they say the Hebrew and Greek must be interpreted into English and yet they say we have the word of God in our own Tongue perfectly if that be perfectly the word of God in our own Tongue which they say it is then what need any further Interpretation And if it need to be interpreted then it is not perfect But the word of God is as pure and perfect in our English as ever it was in the Hebrue and Greek Tongue Therefore it need not help of the Hebrue and Greek Tongue to interpret it into our own Tongue The word of God is one intire being it cannot be so divided as they make men believe the Word that was in the beginning and was made flesh and dwelt amongst us as we finde in John Cap. 1. and the beginning cannot be divided The word of the Lord doth endure for ever This which they call the pure word of God which is the Scripture these silly Drones count it impure themselves from this ground and yet do not see it themselves The Reason is because there must be made a more clear interpretation from the Hebrue and Greek into our own Tongue But if they were the true and faithfull Ministers of Christ as they say they are then I wonder how they dare be so unfaithfull in their office that they do not let us have that which they call the word of God without further interpretation in our own Tongue But if you have any conference with them they will tell you it is the pure word Now mark I beseech you in the former part of this Treatise it hath been proved by divers places of Scripture what a true Ministry is and where it followeth on the contrary part that whosoever he be under the Sun that is not thus warranted in Scriptures and that delivers not the mind of God with that infallible spirit with inspiration or Revelation is not the true Ministers of Christ but the Ministers of Anti-christ And therefore I desire the Lord to set it home to the understandings of men to discern a true Ministry and the Lord say unto all those that desire to know a true Ministry as P●●● said in Collos 2. v 8. Beware lost any man deceive you through Philosophy and vain deceit after the tradition of men after the rudiments of the world and not after Christ to believe a Ministry not warranted in Scriptures for there it hath been proved that our Ministers of England hath not the gift of Tongues for their learning is bought with money therefore no gif● Again the glory of salvation is not obtained by study for it is a free gift also a finite creature cannot define an infinite God no otherwise then he doth discover himself by inspiration or Revelation as the Lord saith in divers places as in Isaiah 44 v. 13. Ier. 31. v. 33 34e Iohn 1. v. 20. and 27. Heb. 8. v. 10 11. Also Christ said to his Disciples To you it is given to know the Mysterie of Salvation And Christ declared the same thing in Iohn 6. v. 45. It is written in the Prophets and they shall be all taught of the Lord every man that hath heard and hath learned of the Father cometh to me Christ did not say He that doth hear this man or that man what they say shall come unto me And again it is written He that hath an ear to hear let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the Churches It was the Spirit that said in 1 Cor. 2. v. 12. God hath set that Ministery in the Church And in Ephes 4 v 11. God gave that Ministery there recorded to be in the Church But we never find in all the Scripture that God said that man shall go to Schools of Learning to be tutored by man to be made fit and able Ministers of Jesus Christ But in 1 Cor. Chap. 2 v. 4. My speech and my preaching was not with inticing words of mans wisdom but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power Paul that was a faithfull and true Minister of Christ exhorts the Collossians to take heed of a false Ministery saying to them Beware lest any man spoil you through Philosophy and vain deceit after the traditions of men and not after God Now it is not warranted in Scriptures that men must go to men to learn humane learning to be made able and fit Ministers of Christ therefore a Tradition of man and not an Ordinance of God But indeed these men are wise in their generation as Christ said The children of this world are in their generation wiser then the children of light For if they once leave interpretation then they know the hope of their gain is lost and then what shall they do work they cannot and to beg they are ashamed and they will not do as Paul did when he said These bands of mine have ministred to my necessitie and to those that are with me Truly if Paul were now alive this generation of Ministers would have judged him to have been a Ranter or some false Teacher when he became all unto all Now if men do not believe all they say to be true and not be in the same Anti-christian form with them then what followeth Oh such a one is a Rauter or a Blasphemer of God and of the wayes of God then they rail and revile such persons that will not own their worship and Ministery And truly it must be so for the Scriptures must be fulfilled as Christ said Ye shall be hated of many for my Names sake Indeed this stone is cast aside of you Builders Object But some may say Why do you call them builders In the former part of 〈◊〉 Treause you did call them lasie idle Drones that ea●●s be ●o●●y that the labouring Bee works for and in this place you call them Builders how can these two things stand together Answ Truly they are Builders and that according to Scriptures they are Builders that seeks to make up the breaches in B●b●l but we have a Proverb in England When men begin to justifie a bad matter we use to say The more they strive the more it stirks So is it with our Anti-christian brood with our crcking Frogs that came from the bottomless pit● the more they go about to prove themselves to be the Ministers of Christ the more it doth appear to the godly they are but the Ministers of Antichrist For when they build it is what they study and what they conceive or what they think will serve their own turn to maintain their standing in great pomp even to Lord it over others that for Conscience sake hold forth things contrary to their Light These things are declared not to envy the person of any in the Nation but that where a Candie is light it will shew ●ight to those that are in the house So now light is come amongst us in England even Truth it self is broke forth to us Notwithstanding mauger the malice of the Devill and envy of Truth Yet Truth shall never be ashamed THOMAS LIPEAT Not the AVTHOR But the ACTOR FINIS