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spirit_n	covenant_n	heart_n	new_a	6,959	5	6.8797	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30530	A just and lawful tryal of the teachers and professed ministers of his age and generation by a perfect proceeding against them, and hereby they are righteously examined ... : whereunto is added, A short description of the true ministry of Christ ... justified by the people of God called Quakers, in England / by ... Edward Burrough.	Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.	1660 (1660)	Wing B6010; ESTC R14657	26,375	26

in the wisdome of God to bring people out of the wayes of sin and death unto the knowledg of God to the things that belong unto their peace such who have no respect to large places or great benefits to seek after that who will not have hire for preaching nor be hired by great sums of money from one Country to another such as makes the Gospel of Christ free and without charge who will not be burthensome to any but walks in all wisdom as examples of righteousnesse to all people whose conversati●ns are in heaven and holdeth forth in life and practice unto all men what they professe in words and by doctrine and conversation holding forth the light of the glorious Gospel which they have received from God being patterns of all holinesse of peace and long-suffering of meeknesse and patience unto their flocks even such who walks in Christ and shews ●o●●h good works and the fruits of his spirit causing his light to shine forth among men in humility and sobernesse and in all the fruits of peace and truth and such are approved of God and of the saints even they that preach Christ freely to all people and holds forth the light of the world which lighteth every one in the world the free gift of God to all mankind that all may believe and come to the knowledge of the truth and be saved and 〈◊〉 Ministers respects not the persons of any man for advantage neither respects dayes nor places nor things but worships God in spirit and in truth and teacheth that worship unto all people and they gather people into the new covenant where Christ is the high Priest and our bodies the Temples of God and the circumcision in the heart and in the spirit for such are Ministers of the spirit and not of the letter and they divided the Word of God a right they feed the hungry and the rich are sent empty away they cry not peace to the wicked neither doth justifie the unconverted neither do they condemn the righteous nor such as are of an upright heart but Christ they preach to justifie all that do believe and are obedient to him and to condemn all that believe not but are disobedient and such Ministers hath the word of reconciliation their Ministry is made effectual to accomplish the work of God sinners are converted and brought to God thereby and to be taught of him alone and the Saints through that Ministry may obtain to the Holy Ghost and to need no man to teach them but as the annointing within teacheth them which they receive through the Ministry whose labour is and the end of it to present every man perfect in Christ and this Ministry and such Ministers we approve of and they are approved of Christ and we would have them established and who are such will not take care for an outward maintenance neither what to eat or what to put on neither will they Petition to Magistrates for tithes augmentations but are without care as for a livelyhood in this world they will not remove from one Town to another for a better Parsonage or place for such as do so are not the lawful called Ministers of Christ but have run were never sent for Christs Ministers takes no thought for any outward maintenance but approveth themselves in patience in all conditions and sometimes are in want and cold and hunger and nakednesse and in persecutions and tryals and afflictions and suffereth all things for the Name of Christ and yet we do believe and know that such have power to eat and to drink may receive carnal things where they sow spiritual things but as a free gift and not by compulsion or force we do allow that the Ministers of Christ may eat of the milk of the stock which they keep and feed and they may eat of the fruit of the vineyard which they have planted and which they labour in and they may supply their necessities from them whom they have begotten in the faith and whom they labour among in life and doctrine who are sheep of the fold and plants of the vineyard of Christ Jesus but I say as a free gift may they receive the fruits of their labours and not as a debt or any title claimed thereto by the Law of the Nation neither may they receive it by force or compulsion but who are the truly called Ministers of Christ are so far from this or forcing maintenance from any that they will not make use of their power in taking what may be freely given them for they will not make the Gospel burthensome by any means and this is the maintenance we do allow the Ministers of Christ they may eat such things as are set before them in any house which they enter into which is worthy and they may supply their necessities in food and raiment as a free gift from them whom the Ministers are made stewards to watch over them to exhort them to instruct them and to edifie them but not from the World who continues in unbelief and disobedience to the Gospel may they receive any outward maintenance by compulsion or by a free gift neither may they receive great sums of mony by the year or Tithes or other offerings to maintain themselves and their families in pride and idlenesse and lust and excess and superfluity in meats and apparel such a maintenance is by free gift much lesse by force that is not allowed by Christ and his Saints but is the maintenance of Antichristian Teachers which never were sent of Christ and such cannot be content with his allowance and wages but lives in pride and pleasures of this world and in vanity and maintained they say they must be and if they be so they care not from whence it come nor by what means and that is the reason wherefore so many hundreds of honest people are so spoiled in their persons and estates the bodies of some being cast into prison and many others having their goods taken from them by force and distraint and all this is to maintain Antichrists Ministers who neither cares how they have it nor from whom or to what evil use they improve it and this plainly appears in this Nation by many evidences but the Ministers of Christ doth deny such a maintenance and such practises and are come to that life which judgeth all these things And as concerning compelling of maintenance and forcing of it from people this is utterly against the Law of Christ and condemned by him and denyed by the Saints for it is unreasonable and no equality in it that people should be compelled to maintain a Ministry especially such a one as they know is not the Ministry of Christ neither is profitable to them and which they receive no fruits from for the Ministers of Christ doth not desire maintenance from the people of the world neither can receive any from them neither in justice and equity should

of this age agrees with the false Prophets of Israel can any man be so blind that doth not see it doth any man stop their ear so as that they cannot hear this to be true they shew themselves in all things to be one with the false Prophets of Israel when justly they are tryed by their own rule as they say and so let them bear this judgement which their own professed rule judgeth with 7. Again the Priests and false Prophets of Israel thus it is said of them that as troops of Robbers waits for a man so the company of Priests murders in the way with consent for they commit lewdnesse Hos. 6. 9. and what less may be spoken of the teachers of this age spiritual men shall judge for if any man do but cease from their abominable worship their deceitful worship and Idolatry and come to the knowledge of God they even seek to murder in the way cries out against them for being deluded and deceived such like so that like as troops of Robbers wait for a man so it may be said of the teachers of this age for they take away the key of knowledge will not enter in themselves to the knowledg of the truth nor suffer them that would and indeed whatsoever abomination the Teachers and Prophets of Israel were found guilty of the Teachers of this age doth not come short but rather abound let search be made thr●ugh the Scriptures see whether there was any evil committed by them I mean the false Prophets of Israel that is not committed by the Teachers of this age what were they guilty of that these can free themselves from If any man hath a word to say let us hear it and come out with your Arguments you wise men and let us hear your plea and they doing the same works which the false Prophets of Israel did must needs be concluded to be followers of the same spirit and that they are no less than they were whose examples they follow which are followers of the false Prophets and not of the Ministers of Christ 8. Again Christ in his warning to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees who gives the description what they were and what their practices were and he saith they meaning the Pharisees did bind heavy burdens grievous to be born and they laid them on mens shoulders but themselves would not move them with one of their fingers and their works they do to be seen of men and loves the uppermost rooms at feasts and their chiefest seats in Synagogues and greetings in the Markets and to be called of men Masters Now the Teachers of this generation are like unto these they do succeed the Pharisees in bringing sorth the same fruits for do not these build heavy burdens grievous to be born and laying them oft mens shoulders making them suffer grievous things through their cruelty as imprisonment and spoiling their goods these are grievous burdens which they lay upon men but they will not touch them with one of their fingers and their works are done to be seen of men for they think to be heard for their much babling and we know they love the uppermost rooms at feasts and hath it often and the chief place of the Synagogue they love that and have it and to be called of men master which Christ forbids his Ministers to be they love that and they have it and herein they do agree with the Pharisees and in other things if we should duely examine the Scriptures shewing that they are of the same spirit which the Pharisees were of which crucified Christ 9. Again the Pharisees and deceivers were persecutors such as complained to the Magistrates as you may read through all the new Testament and the book of the Acts and elsewhere How the Chief Priests caused the Saints to be persecuted by lying informations and grievous complaints to the Elders and Rulers they sought to take Christ by subtilty and kill him and they persecuted the Apostles to prison and some to death and others to bonds and cruel sufferings And this was done chiefly by or through the complaint of the Priests it was Amaziah the Kings Priest that complained to Jeroboam and informed against the poor Prophet Amos and it was Shimshia the Scribe that complained to the King against the building of the City of God And it was the Sonne of the Priest that persecuted Ieremiah and herein also the teachers of this generation doth agree and concord with the Chief Priests with and in persecuting the innocent shewing that they are of the same spirit for now they complain and inform against the people of God and through their information evil is done against them and it is they through their lying and false accusation to the Magistrates by whom the Saints do suffer and in all these things they do fully agree and concur with the deceivers of old 10. Again the false Apostles they were such as went for filthy lucre and through covetousnesse with seigned words made merchandize of souls and denyed the Lord that bought them and brought in damnable heresies and they walked after the flesh in the lusts and uncleannesse and despised government and were presumptuous and self willed and sported themselves with their own deceiving and they could not cease from sin but beguiled unstable souls and an heart they had exercised in covetous practices and they went astray loving the way of Balaam loving the wages of unrighteousnesse and they were wells without water and were clouds that are carried with a Tempest they spake great swelling words of vanity and allured through the lusts of the flesh through much wantonness those who were escaped from them who lived in errour and they promised others liberty and themselves were the servants of corruption Now the Teachers of this age are sound guilty of and in all these things they agree which the false Apostles were guilty of for they through covetousnesse with seigned words do make merchandize of the people if any will give them more mony at the next Town they will sell the people where they are and go where there is more money and seeing they are out of the doctrine of Christ it is no lesse then denying the Lord that bought them And that they hold damnable errors this I can prove for one † of them said in my hearing That the Scripture was the Foundation of Foundations And † another said That the Scripture was both the writings and the thing signified and these are as damnable errors as ever the false Apostles brought in And these they walk after the lust of the flesh in pride and fulness thereof and despise the government of Christ and are presumptuous self-willed lofty high-spirited men and as the false Apostles did so do these speak evil of things they know not of things they understand not and no lesse can be said of these but that they spo●t themselves with their