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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

against it and can they do any lesse now For they find it not suitable to that Spirit which they are born again of Judge in your selves by the Light of Christ Jesus and according to the Witnesse of God Is it suitable to the New Covenant a Covenant inwardly written in the heart by the Spirit of the living God in which a Creature is to be led of the Spirit and guided by the Spirit and in which he stands in Communion with God having accesse to God in that Spirit that gives him the feeling of his presence and teaches him what to pray forming in his heart strong desires and earnings after God and his Righteousnesse and forming in him a filial frame of Spirit in which he cryes Abba Father and in which he can draw near unto God as a Father Is it suitable to such a Covenant as this wherein God doth thus set at liberty inwardly his Sons and Daughters and enlarge their priviledges in the Spirit and give them such access to him to worship him in Spirit Judge in your selves is it suitable to this Covenant to annex to it a dead literal formal Common-Prayer-Book the Ministry of which may be performed without any measure of the Spirit of the New Covenant yea by such as are so far off from that Spirit in which the New Covenant and its Ministry stands that they make a mock thereat But the Common-Prayer-Book standing in Opposition to that Spirit which they mock at and despise and stand in opposition to themselves hence both standing in one ground They love it and hug it for being in the same ground that unites Hence it is that the Common-Prayer-Book gets so much affection and approbation from all sorts of debauched and wicked livers they can generally flock to that as to their own for it sprung from that root in which they stand both out of the New Covenant both strangers to the Spirit of God They being dead to the Life of the Spirit and not knowing what it is to be led thereby and it also being dead as to the ministring of the Spirit a dead thing which any dead man may perform and be accepted of by them that impose it though he be a Hater of the wayes of the Spirit of God A Drunkard Swearer Lyar any Prophane Person that hath not tasted of the Gifts of the Spirit of God given for Edification of the Body Yea Scoffers Scorners Deriders at the Spirit such as are so far off from the New Covenant of the Spirit that they taunt and kick at the very owning of the Spirit and blaspheme them that own it as may be proved by several Testimonies Yet such can perform that Ministry of the Common-Prayer-Book because it 's a dead thing suitable to their dead hearts and which they can do in their dead condition and well admit of without disturbing of themselves in their dead condition and can please their dead consciences therewith because it lets them be at rest in the death of sin where they delight to be unwakened under death And so Death is ministred unto by Death and Death delights in Death and the Dead are kept in their Graves by that which is dead As common experience hath daily given testimony For where are they that are awakened out of the death of Sin into the life of the Spirit by that dead thing But it 's even as a long over one asleep to keep them in that sleep It pitties my heart to see what deep Aegyptian Darknesse is upon the Hearts of many who thrust themselves into the Ministry as pretending for CHRIST And yet are so ignorant of the things that pertain to the Kingdome of God as that they understand not by what ability that Ministry is to be upheld But set upon it as in pursuit of an earthly Kingdome to themselves as indeed theirs is and that with such carnal supplies and furniture wherewith they have furnished themselves as any meer carnal Man may have who hath no savour of things spiritual Thou blind man that darest uphold such a dead Service and Worship Dost thou not know that CHRIST JESUS ascended up on high and gave Gifts to men for the work of his Ministry under the New COVENANT And were not all they that did Minister to minister as of that ability which God gave in and by the Spirit as a fruit of CHRISTS Ascention And so were not now to be Ministers of a dead Letter but of the Spirit by ministring to others in the Spirit as the Spirit ministred to them And so as the Covenant is spirituall so is the Ministry spirituall As the Covenant is not a Covenant written in Tables of Stone or Brass or Paper or Wood but in the heart by the spirit so the Ministry must answer it It must be also a Ministry not standing in Books and Writings outwardly read but in Gifts of the same Spirit And this the Apostles held out clearly in their Practice and Doctrine And let the Wisdome of Men reason what it will to the contrary and plead according to its carnal Understanding Yet seeing Christ our Lord and the Mediatour of the New Covenant and Establisher of the Ministry thereof hath appointed that it should be so namely that his Ministry should be performed by the Abilities of the Spirit which he ascended to give We ought therein to rest and not to strive against his Will and Wisdome nor to impose Inventions of men into any part of his Ministry So setting our will against his and our Wisdome against his For so to do is Whoredome of Spirit from Christ its Will-worship Idolatry Stubbornnesse Rebellion and the Prop of Antichrist a Cup of Fornication such as the Nations are made drunk with and upon which the wrath of God will come because of Rebellion therein against his Son Even as his wrath came upon Israel after the flesh for their wilfulnesse in following their own Wisdome and Traditions of other Nations and would not be guided by his Directions then under the First Covenant And their Examples are written for our Admonition If any say to me That Good men and some Martyrs have suffered for the Common-Prayer-Book I Answer I deny not but Good Men and Martyrs have suffered thus far on the behalf of it that is They have testifyed against Service in another tongue which they understood not and so born testimony for the Common-Prayer-Book against the Masse-Book which was in Latine that is as much as to say They have testified for the having it in a known Tongue against the having it in an unknown Tongue And so here was one step forward from the dismall darknesse of Egypt spirituall And their faithfulnesse in that was accepted of God and the rest winked at But now that the true Light makes more still manifest we are to testifie against that which is further opened to be evil in it and to be faithfull to that as they were to what they saw A Tender ADMONITION to

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

Church to be called and counted Seducers by a violent Generation for so were the Saints accounted in the Primitive times by a like Generation as you are And whereas some may say It s but the rude Rable that use violence I answer It s manifestly proved by their Actions that not only they but their Teachers also are guilty of the same violence partly by stirring up the Rude People and encouraging them thereunto and partly also by exercising it with their own hands as some of them have done and partly also by unjust proceedings through Covetousnesse and Desire of filthy Lucre mingled with a wrathfull raging implacable cruel unjust and unmercifull Spirit having spoiled Families making a prey of their Goods Judg in your selves Is this like the Saints in the Primitive Times or like the World Is this like the Sheep or like the Wolves that devour Again your principal men in many of your Congregations have had a deep hand in these Actions of Violence even your JUSTICES and other OFFICERS among you who have sometimes encouraged the Rude Rabble in their Violence against the Innocent and oftentimes even themselves buffetted and abused and whipped and stocked and thrust out from among them those that harmed them not yea often have sent them to Prison and there most cruelly entreated them during their pleasure and that without any just crime or breach of any of their Lawes many times even thus have they dealt to such as have wronged no man but only sought to informe you of your dangerous state in which you stand as enemies to God and his Truth and wayes wading in Superstitious Inventions which will not profit you For this thing have you thus abused them and you are all guilty from top to toe from highest to lowest who have consented in your hearts to the violence done So see your state where you stand See by your Antipathy to such as fear the Lord and by your Agreement with the world where you are You are yet even of the world though you be counted a Church You have the Name but not the Thing You have not the Spirit and Life of the Saints And so we have good reason to separate from you and to come out from amongst you as we are commanded by the Lord 2 Cor. 6.17 18. Revel 18.4 For your Comparison holds better with the Synagogues of the Jews than with the Churches of Christ and yet you fall short of them also In them there was Haling Pulling Beating Thrusting forth Abusing using Violence as you may read in the Acts of the Apostles And so here is your pattern even the Synagogues of the Jews where the Servants of the Lord were abused for holding forth the Truth But herein you excel those Synagogues in Wickedness and fall short of them in Moderation In that they gave liberty to men to speak among them and to reason and dispute among them as you may read Act. 13.14 15. and Act. 17.1 2. and in many other places in that Book Where you may read what liberty they gave unto the Apostles and Saints in those times though they came with a new Doctrine to them which overturned all their former state of a Church yet did they not abuse or molest them until they heard Doctrine delivered which they accounted dangerous and erroneous But you with open mouth and violence are ready to swallow men up before they can well speak a sentence out to be understood yea though you your selves cannot deny the truth of that which is spoken So that you fall far short of the Jews Synagogues in moderation and sobriety even short of those whom you your selves count Persecuters of the true Church How should you then be the true Church Your Violence breaks out before you understand wherefore so did not theirs So you are worse than they And this is your state and condition So see your selves herein and see your Ministers what they are that encourage you herein The Old World which was destroyed by water and Sodom and Gomorrah which were destroyed by fire are revived in your Streets and Assemblies yea in your solemn Assemblies in the point of Violence which was a principal thing topping up all their wickedness for which they were destroyed The Old World was full of Violence Gen. 6.11 and so was Sodom unto strangers And so are your Streets and Synagogues and therefore spiritually you are more like Sodom and Egypt where our Lord is crucified than to the Church of Christ Therefore take not your selves any longer to be that you are not nor blaspheme the Name of Christ any longer by calling your selves his Church while you live in such wickedness but rather fear his Indigation lest that or some like judgment come upon you which came upon those who lived in Violence as you do The Church of Christ is pure And whoever gets the name and yet lives in impurity shall be kept out from entring into the New Jerusalem which is now coming down from God out of Heaven not seen with outward eyes nor known to carnal hearts nor entred into by the unclean and yet her gates stand open day and night But to keep lower to your capacity In the Primitive times the Church was patient under their sufferings 2 Thess 1.4 Are you so Or are not they rather found such who suffer by you Do not ye cast out hard speeches with your Violence against them that are found in the like patient suffering with the Saints in the Primitive times So see and judge impartially Is it you that resemble the Church of Christ or is it those that you rage against that resembles it Again Is not your Church made up of such persons as fear not God ungodly men and women Sweaters Drunkards Cursed speakers Revilers of those that are good Proud and haughty and high-minded Persons glorying in Apparrel and gay clothing other than what the Apostles of our Lord approved of conceited persons yet dark and ignorant in the things of God men that take pleasure in Wantonness and Vanity and Pastimes as they call them who count foolish talking and jesting an ornament to their speech and grace to their behaviour being past feeling in themselves of the things that displease God and quench the Spirit men that savour not the things of God nor have any pleasure and delight in Holiness and Righteousness to whom it 's a burden even to hear of things spiritual that belong to the Kingdom of God out of whose communication spiritual things are banished so that it 's uncouth and distastful to them to confer of the things of the Kingdom of God before them and especially when they are feeding themselves without fear upon the good creatures of God Others are carnally minded worldly minded having their spirits eaten up with the Thoughts of the world and Cares of the world and Love of the world and Honour of the world and Lusts of the world Covetous persons who dare lie one to another