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A78218	[Baʻal-samz] or, Soveraigne balsome, gently applied in a few weighty considerations (by way of quærie) for healing the distempers of such professors of religion as Satan hath wounded and drawn aside (under the notion of living in God) to the utter renouncing and casting off the use of divine ordinances, and Gospel-institutions of worship. With an apendix by way of postscript to such professors, wherein the most principall grounds upon which they build their practise, are fully answered and removed. And a catalogue of the errors that many of them hold since they left the ordinances, discovered. As also a true relation of Gods extraordinary working upon one of this way very lately in Plimouth, to the sight of his error, for the good of others published. / By Will. Bartlet, an unworthy minister of the Gospel, and lecturer at Bytheford in Devonshire.	Bartlet, William, 1609 or 10-1682.; M. P.	1649 (1649)	Wing B987; Thomason E549_19; ESTC R209139	79,502	81

sanctifie to himselfe a people zealous of good workes where he gives us also a character of those that are the peculiar redeemed ones of Christ that they are such as are not onely freed from the power and thraldome of their lusts but are made zealous of good works To this place many more might be added as Luke 1.74 75. Jam. 2.8 9 10 11 12. Ezek. 11.14 6.27.37 But thirdly it 's considerable to examine and enquire what this Liberty is which the Gospel brings with it to beleevets now without question it cannot be meant of a lawlesse liberty a carnall sensuall sinfull liberty a liberty and freedome to dishonour Christ to cast his Lawes and Ordinances behind our backes and to live as we list It 's as cleare as the Sunne at noon day that the Gospel brings no such liberty with it to the world indeed the Devils Gospel doth and Antichrists and Mahumets they give to people elbow-roome enough as we use to say in the wayes of sinne but not so with the glorious Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ Tit. 2.14 Rom. 6 14. 2 Tim. 2.19 1 Ioh. 3.3 Rom. 6.1 2. for this saith Christ came to redeem us from iniquity this sayth sin shall have no Dominion over us this saith whosoever names the Name of Christ must depart from iniquity this saith hee that hath true hope in Christ purifies himselfe as Christ is pure this saith we are not to continue in sinne that grace may abound nay it demands a reason how men can imagine that those that are dead to sinne through interest in Christ should live any longer therein * 1 Pet. 1.14 15. 1 Cor 15. ult Phil ● 11. T it 3.8 2 Cor. 7.1 Phil 3.13 14. and doth not the Gospel of Christ say also that wee should be holy as Christ is holy that we should abound in the work of the Lord that we should be filled with all the fruits of righteousnesse that we should bee zealous of good works and maintain good workes and perfect holines in the feare of the Lord forgetting what is behinde and pressing after what is before c. 4 Besides fourthly the use of Ordinances and performance of duties under the Gospel is to bee lookt upon as a Beleevers priviledge not as his burthen and if the commands and service of Christ be called a Yoke and a Burthen and Bonds and Cords in the judgement of men yet it 's an easie yoke and a light burthen such cords and bonds as are gentle so that as the Apostle saith his commandements are not grievous 1 Joh. 5 3. The pedagogy of Moses indeed was burdensome and grievous so that our fore-fathers could not beare it but not so with the service of Christ under the Gospel when heavenly and spirituall soules are in it Indeed when carnall hearts enter upon or tarry any time in and under the service of Christ they are as under a burthen and the worke they are about is a burthen to them and what 's the reason but this that there is an unsuitablenesse between the work and their hearts neither come they to enjoy communion with Christ in Duty but come to the very duty as men do to their task or daily labour Vide Bolt true Bounds of Christians Freedom p. 213 214. now that person that hath to doe with nothing but duty in duty cannot chuse but finde that duty tedious and irksome to him as the ordinances under the Law were to the carnall Jewes that did not eye Christ in them But now on the other side when a gracious spirituall heart comes to a spirituall duty not to the duty so much as to God and Christ in the duty to converse with the Father and the Sonne in the Spirit how sweet and delightfull then are times of duty unto such soules so that the performance of duties in a right manner is no Legall thing nor matter of burthen and griefe to the Saints but that which affords them the greatest sweetnesse content and satisfaction that is to be enjoyed on this side glory and so is to bee lookt on as matter of priviledge not of bondage 5. To say no more whereas it is said that the Gospel requires beleeving not working if by working you understād the purchasing of life and salvation at the hands of God by our performances the justification of a sinner before God c. it 's granted the Gospel requires it not at the hands of sinners because it offers more grace that is it shewes us the work is done to our hands by Jesus Christ he hath procured our ransome satisfied his Fathers Justice appeased his wrath procured peace and reconciliation and that firmly through his own blood and wrought all our workes for us this way Esay 26.12 And our duty is primarily and above all to beleeve this and accept this as it is held forth in the Gospel Iohn 6.29 1 Iohn 3.23 because the great work of God and commandement of the Gospel is to beleeve in the Name of the Lord Jesus that we may be saved But if by working wee understand the fruit that flowes from our beleeving in Christ and taking hold of him to justification and salvation viz. a holy study in all our wayes to please God and doe his will to walk in a childlike fear and reverence before God and have respect to all his commandements that in all things we may be found to the honour and praise of him that hath loved us and called us out of darknesse into his marvellous light c. then I suppose there is none whatsoever that pretends to Christianity especially if he have in an experimentall manner felt the love of Christ shed abroad in his heart but will acknowledge the Gospel requires such working And the whole scope of the New Testament is so cleare and plain for this as that none but such to whom the Gospel is hid can be ignorant of it If any desire further satisfaction herein for it would be too large for me to produce all that might be spoken to this particular let him read those Gospel * Downam of Iustification l. 7. c. 1. p. 434 435 436 437 438. Bisco's golrious mystery of Gods mercy p. 298 299. Eatons Hony-comb Boltons bounds of Christians freedom Burges Vindidiciae legis p. 39 40 41 42 43. with many other c. Treatises that are abroad concerning this poynt 8. Another ground upon which people build their casting off the use of Word and Ordinances is this Because the Word and Ordinances are nothing without the Spirit They can never work any impression upon the soule or acquaint the Spirit of a man or woman that the Lord is his God or that Christ is his Saviour c. but this belongs to the office of the Spirit of God the Word and Ordinances of themselves are never able to work such an impression in the soule Answ I find an answer to this objection in Doctor Crisp vol. 3.

in the use of those duties and Ordinances of worship which the eternall God himselfe doth not refuse to own and to act in and work by to the end of the world d The word is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 rendred by Hen. Stepb Consummatio Matth. 13.39.49 Matth. 28. 0 And whether that place of our Saviour in * Exhortatio hinc sumatur ut nos verae Ecclesiae adjungamus sententia voluntate confessione cultut 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sejungamus nos ab illis coetibue qui vel in totam doctrinam Ecclesiae abjiciunt u Mahometistae vel fundamentum hoc est doctrinam articulos fidei verum Dei cultum subruunt quovis modo ut Papistae Heming in loc Iohn 4 22 23 24. doth not hold forth thus much unto us in that he saith to the Woman of Samaria that the Father seeketh after such to worship him as worship him in Spirit and in Truth 16. Whether the clearest demonstration that can possibly be given of a persons living in God be not his holy walking with God and living to and for God as the Saints have done in former ages and as the Scripture is cleare for Gen. 17.1 Rom. 14.8 2 Cor. 5.15 Gal. 2.19 And whether to walk with God and live to God be not to deny our selves and all that is ours in opinion or practise and to subject our selves to the obedience of all that is his that in all things he may be honoured by us according as he is worthy And whether the subjecting of our selves to all that the Lord hath made known to be His in his Word touching matters of Doctrine and Worship be not the next way to honour and exalt his great Name before the world Mat. 5.16 1 Pet. 2.9 17. Whether a person as he is a Beleever and a Christian hath not a generall calling to walk in in which he is in a more immediate and speciall manner * 1 Cor. 7.24 to walk with God and doe him service in the duties of his worship publickly and privatly as well as a particular calling as they are men in which they have more immediate commerse with the creature And whether the duties of their generall callings as they are beleevers are not of as great a consequence and as much to be lookt after in order to the honour and glory of God and their own spirituall welfare as the duties of their particular callings for the good of the Common-wealth in which they live and their own temporall welfare and if that a persons living so highly in God as the casters off of holy duties and Ordinances speak so much of doe not take us from nor destroy the performance of the duties of our particular callings as we are men which are the lesse how can they or why should they take us from or destroy the performance of the duties of our generall callings which are the greater 18. Whether there be not sinnes of omission as well as sins of commission mentioned in the Scriptures which Christians may become guilty of And whether the rejecting and casting off the duties of Gods Worship either in publique or private or both be not a sinne of this Nature in a high degree And whether such a sinne of omission reigning in a person that pretends to godlinesse doth not declare him to be e The wicked in Scripture are characteriz'd by such kindes of sinnes as the sinne of omission Jerem. 10.25 Psalm 10.4 Hosea 4.1 Eccles. 9.2 Malach. 3.18 Matth. 25.41 42 43. Vide Reig. vol. 2. p. 297. Vid. Quaest 26. out of Christ and the state of grace seeing that no reigning sinne can possibly stand with a persons being in Christ according to Rom. 6.6 7 11 12 13 14. 19. Whether there be not a marvellous slighting and undervaluing of the f Pro. 9. ● 2 3. Wisdome bath built her House i. Christ who is the wisdome of the Father in whom are hid 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. All the treasures of wisdome and knowledge Coloss 2.3 wisdome and faithfulnesse of Jesus Christ to cast his holy g Heb. 3.2 5 6. If Moses the servant was no couseuing Merchant but faithfull to him that intrusted him in appointing the ordinances of legall service how much more faithfull was Christ the Sonne in appointing the ordinances of Evangelicall service Ordinances of divine worship which he himselfe hath instituted and given a Being unto in his kingdome behind our backes And whether it be little lesse then blasphemy to speake disgracefully of the sacred things of his House h The word signifieth to speake disgracefully or to take away the fame credit or good name of another from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 famam alterius laedere Vide the workes of Mr. Sedgwick Mr. Saltmarsh Mr. Wilk Mr. Avery c. and the Scriptures in which they are recorded calling them poore low dispensations childish things gold and silver Idols empty formes and such like ignominious speech●s if not a great deale worse though the least of them doth not become any much lesse those that pretend to live in God to utter and make use of And yet further whether such practises of casting off and reviling the Ordinances and Churches of Christ if willingly and knowingly done be not a high step to that i Commendat igitur nobis c. He therefore commendeth to us love and reverence to the Ministery of the Church and the study of frequenting Church-Assemblies from the danger of those who neglecting them doe wander away and tempt God Paraeus in loc And then sheweth what the particular steps to the unpardonable sinne are 1. A defection from the Assemblies of the Saints or Church-communion 2. A voluntary abnegation of the truth formerly acknowledged 3. A malicious opposing and persecuting it 4. A defection joyned with scorning and deriding 5. A finall persisting and persevering in such a defection c. id ibid. unpardonable sinne against the Holy Ghost according to Heb. 10.25 26. 20. Whether such persons as cast off and contend against the use of divine Ordinances doe not ex diametro i. directly crosse and goe against not onely others but their own former experiences if ever they had any of those inexpressable Incomes of the Spirit and discoveries of Divine love and favour which they have enjoyed both in publique ordinances and private duties of worship which time was they would not have given nor parted with for all the treasure and pleasure of the whole world though now they judge lightly of them and look upon as delusions of their own hearts or things of no account or value 21. Whether casting off of Divine Ordinances and forsaking the Assemblies of the Saints that have fellowship together in the worship of God be not so farre from living in God as 't is rather in the Scripture sence a living * 2 Cron. 15.3 Eph. 2.12 without God yea a departing from him according to that of the Apostle Heb.

p. 93. 94. 95. which because his workes have been of great esteeme amongst such people not long since and because he speakes fully to the point in hand I will here transcribe as they are in the book set downe the words are these p. 94. What serve all the Ordinances for will you say Is not here a crying down of Ordinances There will be still this scandall cast upon us But let me tell you there is a most comfortable use of Ordinances though they serve not to such high purposes as these are I say though they are not efficient to beget and finde out and reveale to the spirits of men the things that concern God yet beside the efficient revelation of God to be out God from the Spirit alone there is a passive Instrument by which the Lord doth make himselfe known to be the God of his people but that way is meerly passive not active 1. Passively God makes himselfe known to be the God of his people by the word of his grace and faith laying hold on the word of grace revealed and more subordinately in prayer fasting receiving the Lords Supper and such ordinances so farre as they are mixed with faith Now give me leave to communicate to you the full use and utmost extent of Gods thoughts concerning the ordinances that he hath propounded how farre forth he would have the creature look upon the ordinances and as much as may be put upon the use of them so farre forth as they are usefull Know therefore as I said before that all these ordinances are but passive wayes of conveying this great gift the knowledge of God to be our God I mean more plainly thus These ordinances are onely of and in themselves empty dry Channels or Pipes through which the Spirit of the Lord brings from God himselfe the Spring those riches and conveyes the same into the Spirit of a man Look as a channell digged in a dry ground is the way through which the Spring conveyes his water unto a cistern the channell it selfe communicates none of its own onely it is a passage through which the Spring conveyes his water So are all the ordinances even faith it selfe prayer and all other Services they are but channels through which the Spirit of the Lord passeth and bringeth from the Lord himselfe the Spring and Fountaine the revelation of God to be our God In all the rest of the gifts of God which he hath so freely bestowed never a gift of Gods Spirit procures any thing of its own our faith hath nothing of its own fasting and prayer have nothing of their own but as the Lord hath been pleased to make these ordinances to bee passages to convey himselfe to the sonnes of men and so they are to bee made use of by the sonnes of men Faith as it apprehendeth the Lord Jesus and other Ordinances as therein true faith is exercised and no otherwise And indeed beloved this is the loadstone to provoke persons to the use of all ordinances God hath ranked them together that the Lord hath so much and so often promised through them to convey himselfe You are kept through the power of God through faith saith the Apostle unto salvation As if he should have said The Lord doth convey himselfe and the manifestation of his own salvation through our beleeving The Spirit of the Lord passing through the Ministery of the Gospel as the breath of man passeth through a Trumpet the Trumpet is the instrument the breath is the Spirit of the Lord the Trumpet adds nothing to the breath Now know beloved so far as you wil attend the Ordinances because God calls out to Ordinances and because you have heard the Lord to promise to bestow such things upon you in the ordinances so farre you shall attend the ordinances according to his pleasure but when you ascend so high that the ordinance doth get things then you rob the Lord and give more to ordinances then God hath given Now though the ordinances have no efficiency of their own in the nature I have spoken yet there is good cause for all Gods own people to esteem very highly of ordinances and to be joyfull of ordinances and to long much after ordinances to make much of them for why the Lord hath made his promises to be found of them to be with them in ordinances In the day of adversitie call thou upon me and I will deliver thee And here by the way know from hence what is the expectation of beleevers themselves which they ought to have of the Lord for such things when they come to such ordinances that so when we attend the Lord in his ordinances we may find him in them c. Therefore as the poore man lay at the Beautifull Gate not because the Gate would relieve him but because it was a place of concourse where honorable men resorted from whom he might have Almes so in the Ministery in fasting and prayer and all other services there is the gate of the Temple of the Lord there is the place the Lord makes usually his concourse and resort there is the place God appoints to give the meeting therefore in expectation of the Word of his grace that we may find him in Ordinances we doe resort to them Now what derogation is there all this while from the Ordinances while we make the but thus passive The richest treasure in the world may come to a man through the poorest vessell the treasure is never the further off nor never the worse because the vessell is poore It is no matter of what price the meanes of conveyance is so that the thing we desire be conveyed to us by it onely we must not give it that which is above its due c. And this shal be encouragement sufficient to wait upon all ordinances of all sorts where the Lord appoints that he will for his owne sake give you a gracious answer and bestow all good things upon you that you stand in need of in ordinances This is motive sufficient I say to stirre you up to attend upon ordinances and yet not to make Gods of them to ascribe that to them which belongs alone to God who doth all ordinarily through ordinances which is the only way to disappoint you of your hope when you expect help from them 9. The 9. ground upon which people build their casting off the use of Ordinances is the severall Texts of Scripture which seem to plead for the Non-performance of duties and laying aside of all ordinances in the ties of the Gospel As They shall not teach every man his neighbour and every man his brother saying Know the Lord For all shall know me from the least to the greatest Heb. 8.11 We have also a more sure word of Prophesie whereunto yee doe well that yee take heed as unto a light that shineth in a dark place untill the day dawn and the Day-starre arise in your hearts 2 Pet. 1.19 But the

now dealing with the great and mighty ones of the earth for their slighting of him and rebellion against him And why should you be found in the number of them you I say that have made profession of him and sworne fealty to him If such shall have stripes that have not done their Masters will though they have been ignorant of it what will become of those then that have known it and yet have not done it nay wilfully neglected the doing of it O consider it betimes for it 's a fearfull thing to fall into the hands of the living God Heb. 10.31 If those that despised Moses law died without mercy c. of how much sorer punishment suppose yee shall they be thought worthy that trample under their feet the Sonne of God c. Can you think that your profession of holinesse and pretence of living in God can beare you out while your practice is clean contrary using your liberty as an occasion to the flesh O consider whether you be not within the number of those which are prophesied shall come in these latter days of the world in which we live 1. Men that shall have a form of godlinesse The prophesie of the Apostle Paul but denying the power thereof 2 Tim. 3.5 that creep into houses and lead captive silly women laden with sinnes led away with divers lusts ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth verse 6.7 resisters of the truth as Jannes and Jambres men of corrupt mindes reprobate concerning the faith who shall proceed no further for their folly shall be made manifest unto all men as theirs also was v. 8 9. 2. Men that deny the Lord that bought them 2 Pet. 2.1 The prophesie of the Apostle Peter that walke after the flesh in the lust of uncleannesse that despise Government presumptuous selfe-willed and who are not afraid to speak evill of dignities verse 10. that count it pleasure to ryot in the day time and sport themselves with their own deceivings v. 13. that have eyes full of adultery not being able to cease from sinne beguiling unstable soules whose hearts are exercised with covetous practices vers 14. that have forsaken the right way and are gone astray following the wayes of Baalam the sonne of Bosor who loved the wages of unrighteousnesse verse 15. that speake great swelling words of vanity and allure through the lusts of the flesh through much wantonnesse those that were cleane escaped from them that live in error v. 18. that promise them liberty but in the meane while are themselves servants of corruption being overcome and brought into bondage v. 19. 3. Men that have a Spirit of Antichrist in them The prophesie of the Apostle Iohn that goe out from the Affemblies and communions of the Saints 1 John 2. 18 19. that deny that Jesus is the Christ that deny the Father and the Sonne v. 22 23. that will not acknowledge J. Christ to be come in the flesh 1 John 4.3 that are of the world that speak of the world and the world heareth them v. 5. that are not of God and therefore will not heare those that are sent of God being led by the Spirit of error v 6. 4. Men that turn the grace of God into lasciviousnesse The prophesie of the Apostle Iude. Jude 4. that are filthy dreamers defilers of the flesh despisers of dominion and speake evill of dignities verse 8. that corrupt themselves as bruit beasts in what they know naturally v. 10. That goe in the way of Cain and runne greedily after the error of Baalam for reward and perish in the gainsaying of Core v. 11. That are spots in feasts of charity feeding without feare that are cloudt without water carried about of winds trees whose fruit withereth without fruit twice dead plucked up by the roots v. 12 That are raging waves of the sea foaming out their owne shame wandring starres to whom is reserved the blacknesse of darknesse for ever v. 13. with much more to this purpose in v. 15 16 18. concluding all with this that they are such as * This place hath formerly been much abused by the Prelates and their creatures and still is by those that have changed the Name but not the Nature of them applying it to such as come out of Babylon and from the mixtures and corruptions of man in the worship of God to serve the Lord after his own minde and will made known to them in the word when the place is clean contrary to be understood and applied separate themselves viz. from the true ordinances from the comunion of the godly in the use of them as may be gathered from the following verses 20 21. being sensuall having not the Spirit v. 19. Now whether such as to this day under a pretence of living in God and enjoying Gospel-liberty doe cast off the use of ordinances deny Churches ministery c. and walk after the flesh to the fulfilling of the lusts thereof as they were wont to doe before they were first enlightned be not such as are before mentioned I leave to any that are unprejudiced men to consider Wherefore to draw to a conclusion of all in regard that the will of Christ is that we should have compassion on some making a difference Iude 22. thereby teaching us that some may erre out of infirmity and others out of wilfulnesse and so are not to be dealt with in the same way and manner I therefore in the last place humbly desire in the greatest meeknesse and bowels of compassion that such who have been carried away with this error of the wicked to renounce and cast off the use of ordinances and performance of duties which Jesus Christ hath commanded to be performed out of weaknesse and infirmity would be intreated timely to consider the evil of such a course and practise how much it derogates from the honour of Christ and happinesse of their own souls Deare souls for whom Christ died and to whom Christ hath possibly many times made known the kindnesse of his heart I beseech you weigh the former Considerations without prejudice and then tell me whether you are not out of the way Consider the answers to the severall grounds upon which you build the leaving off the practice of duties and ordinances and then see whether you have not cause to sit down with Ephraim and smite on the thigh and say every one to himselfe What have I done what an evill and bitter thing is this that I have cast off the wayes and meanes in which I formerly enjoyed such soule-satisfying ravishing melting communion with the Lord Jesus and the Father through him Pray give me leave to demand seriously of you whether it was not farre better with your soules when you kept close with God in the use of ordinances and were strict in closet converses with your beloved whether sin were not more irksome tedious grievous but then some to your