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A84228	An examination of the Seasonable and necessarie warning concerning present dangers and duties, emitted from the commissioners of the General Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland, unto all the members of that Kirk. June 25 1650. Which was printed at Edinburgh by Evan Tyler, by a servant of the Common wealth of England, and a lover of the armie.	Servant of the Common wealth of England, and a lover of the armie.; Church of Scotland. General Assembly. Seasonable and necessary warning and declaration.	1650 (1650)	Wing E3729; Thomason E608_13; ESTC R201955	37,035	48

this honor and for this Kingdom According as wee have been taught of God wee believ that herein is our heavenlie Father glorified that wee bear much fruit and become the Disciples of our Lord Jesus and for that purspose that wee nourish the springings up from that root of life which of his Free grace by the Spirit hee hath planted in our souls and ever keep them open to receiv in those divine influences and emanations of life and light that flow forth from him for the irrigation of that root of life when once planted whereby hee prepare's further communications of truth and light in which everie soul is capable of an increas and ought not to bee stinted by anie humanely imposed forms The Kingdom of Jesus Christ which hee exerciseth in this state of things for of that which is to com there is no occasion here to speak is not of this world nor after the pattern or manner of administration of the Kingdoms of the World which lye in the evil one and are acted by the prince of the power of darkness but it is altogether spiritual managed by the irresistible power of his Spirit in the hearts of men according to his manifold wisdom and the various proportions in several subjects that hee hath conceived in the eternal Idea's according to which that work proceed's by his own efficiencie even according to that way of working in which hee invisibly effect's and work 's all things in the visible Physicall world which is a thing known onely to a few of the children of wisdom unknown to you and therefore you will blaspheme it and put that also into the Catalogue of Errors as you use to do all things that either pass your understanding or cross your carnal Interest But those who are thus made the subjects of Christs Kingdom are enabled with a principle to walk worthie of it in all wel-pleasing They have received an unction even the falling down of that Spirit which was shed upon their head abundantlie for hee received not the Spirit by measure this annointing teacheth them all things even all things necessarie for everie calling degree state of life or condition whatsoever either as single men or as they constitute Common-wealths or Governments And when they meet quatenus Christians which are called Churches in all these conditions they who are subjected to the Kingdom of Jesus Christ are instructed how to walk in the beautie of holiness The first lesson taught them by this annointing is to denie themselvs and not seek their own things but those of Jesus Christ and to walk in love becaus God is love This is the Kingdom of Jesus Christ to which wee desire to subject our selvs and wee long for a further manifestation of the power of it appearing in all fruitfull productions in the eyes of men to the prais of God Wee hope there are manie who propound this end and press on to this mark and through mercie wee hope wee may say manie among us have atteined som weak degrees of it But indeed wee confess wee do not strive to advance your forms in which wee can discover no beautie but everie day doth more and more discover to us your gross hypocrisie under them and their rank savor of the flesh and carnalitie And wee doubt not but the Lord will go on to perfect both what hee hath begun to do in us and work by us and to make a more full discoverie of the unprofitableness of your Forms by the dailie increas of new light to those who have been nuzl'd in darkness and shortlie abolish them all at the brightness of his coming And indeed though wee dare not denie but several among you have the seed of God in you and a foundation laid through grace whereby you are in a salveable state yet you have built so much hay and straw and stubble upon that foundation and so choaked the work of God by your self-superstructions and exaltations and so grieved that good Spirit of God by which you were to bee built up by your pride and hateful hypocrisie that the effects thereof do not very beautifully appear in you so as those who shall compare your proceedings with the word of God for your ensnaring and Apocryphal Covenant wee shall not admit to fit on the same seat as a co-judg with the sacred Scriptures and look to the effects that thereupon have followed especially as to the souls of men must needs notwithstanding anie of your pretences abhor and abominate your hypocritical formalitie And God will execute his judgments too upon those who imprison and obstruct the free passage of truth as wel as upon those which corrupt it How far som of you have been heretofore Seducers in England wee well remember know also the tendencie of this your seasonable warning that way Remember too when men will not love truth becaus it crosseth their carnal Interest they are given up to the worst practice and certainly the practical abominations of Antichrist as you call it I would rather say that the state of the Apocalyptical Beastianism are among them by them by just judgment of God for a punishment of their persecution of truth for Interest sake God branding them to all the world for none of his because holiness is not written in their fore-heads and engraven upon the palms of their hands and held out to the world in profession and practice but they have a spot which is not the spot of his children Hee that saith hee remaineth in him ought so walk even as hee hath walked And indeed wee must tell you you are justly subject to a jealousie that there is somthing of Antichrist among you there is such an universal wickedness among you prophane swearing is your dialect and lying hath put you into a Proverb uncleanness blusheth not in your Stools of Repentance perhaps an ill remedie for that sin to expose them to view that unclean and wicked persons may know and learn where to finde one another have not the spuings of your Bacchanals lately flowed in your streets And whether they do not yet run down wee know not But 't is like there will bee a Coronation-Torrent as well as an arrival-puddle Your Armie had one other singular good qualitie when they were in England by virtue of the Covenant that nothing could escape their fingers at the remove of a march but what was too hot to handle or too heavie or troublesom to carrie or drive away For your telling us of the manie Antichrists in England wee shall return you this Wee have in England som new lights concerning Antichrist which you are not acquainted with there are several things in which you know vvondrous little becaus you shut all nevv light out of Scotland it 's too large to bee told you in a digression and wee shall not go so far out of our cours to make you at present that discoverie onely let us give you a seasonable warning to

and Declarations which you have filled with impertinencies calumnies and slanders against the people of this Nation obtruding without blushing objections formerly answered to abuse the simple and draw them into capital danger And indeed you should have don well to have spared this time from such imploiment and bestowed it upon that in which at present you are more concern'd And whereas you say The reformation of the Kirk of England wee suppose you mean it in your own sens the work of uniformitie c. was the great dutie that God called this Land unto c. Wee cannot but lament to see how miserably you are enchanted and imprisoned within your circle of forms so as you can neither speak nor think of anie thing but this nauseated stuff how great is the judgment of God upon your hypocritical formalitie that hee hath taken from you the sens of everie thing els Can you think that Presbyteries whether in Kirk-Sessions Classes or Provincial or General Assemblies is the great Work of Reformation that God call's men to and to the exercise of your effectless Discipline as to all true Reformation What is the uniformitie of Doctrine and Discipline you speak of is it that conteined in your Catechism and Directorie can you persuade us to believ there is such a perfection in these as there is no possible discoverie beyond or may none adventure to make it unless you bee the Pilots Wee like better St Paul's profession of his judgment and practice hee forgat what was behinde and pressed forward to what was before and did not think hee had yet atteined And upon that ground wee dare not think you have But you quarrel the light which you cannot comprehend and press for an Vniformitie of vvhich your selvs vvill bee the Measure and set the Rules lest if anie should presume to knovv more and hold it forth to the vvorld the appearance and Coruscation of these clearer Beams should demonstrate the light that is in you to bee Comparative darkness Wee rather believ the great Work that God call's everie Man unto is to bee holie as hee is holie in all manner of conversation And for an atteinment of it by a full and unreserved self-denial to go out of himself and all self-value and by a most intimate retirement into himself and impartial search of his own heart to take a view of his own corruptions and bee humbled at that sight and seek for pardon in the blood of that one sacrifice of Expiation and to bee clensed from filth by the sanctification of his spirit To have no further a vvill of his own but with an unrelucting Liquescencie to melt it down into the vvill of God mainteining still a filial implicit resolution to conform to all the revelations of that vvill searching the Scriptures vvith praier and humilitie for a discoverie of that will from those full and divine Treasuries and keeping the soul ever open and without prejudice for recieving in the divine Illuminations of the infinite Spirit to vvhatsoever measure of light and taking heed of clouding that light by indulging of Lust but vvith a resolved strife against all opposition walk up to that Light in all holiness of Conversation according to the Word of God This vvee think to bee the dutie of a Man and this is his happiness And hee that thus hath to him shall bee given and hee shall have abundance his talents shall bee multiplied and so shall his joie There are discoveries in divine things which the Eagles eie hath not yet made The divine and infinite goodness from whom are perpetual Emanations hath no where limited the shinings of his glorious Light It shine's in darkness though the darkness comprehend it not There may bee a veil upon the heart even of great Rahbies and that in reading the Lavv. Light and Truth is received by a principle of Light from the Spirit of Truth And vvho dare's saie hee hath clearly and without aenigma seen all the Treasures laid up in the Sacred Scriptures Doth not one daie add to another in the knowledg of particular men doth not this daie teach us even from the Scriptures the things that yesterday wee knew not Hee take's little notice of his own Progress or make's but little that dare at anie time of his life saie hee know's all or that som other may not communicate to him a light which hee hath not received wee could therefore wish you would once forbear these unsavorie words of Vniformitie in Doctrine Worship Discipline and Governments as beeing things not edifyng in these times especially to men whom the gracious flowing out of the Spirit of Light and Holiness hath qualisied as above If these things bee profitable in Scotland wee envie not your enjoiments though wee wish you better Truely wee have reason to suspect you have not the best waie of spiritual edification your people are generously so barbarously brutish in all moralitie and in so unthriving a condition in spiritual things theit leanness wherein make's it probable you feed them with shells and husks and deceiv them with formalities and Covenants and such outside-stuff and endeavor not to discover the Divine Beauties shining forth in the face of Jesus Christ and the glorious garments which they wear that are clothed with a Spirit of holiness who worship God in the Spirit and rejoice in the Lord JESVS and have no confidence in the flesh and who make no provision to fulfil the lusts of it If this Beautie were discovered it would irresistably draw a love for faculties are ever stronglyest carried to their more excellent objects they would then loath your Onions and Garlick after their relish of Manna in a spiritualized taste onely the danger is perhaps they would not so dreadfully adore you but look at you as their deceivers rather then their teachers while you have put your own Dixi in the place of the Scriptures or of the self-evidencing discoveries of the Spirit of God But you heavily complain that these your formalities which you say are so much desired and longed for by all the lovers of Sion and all that concern's Religion lie's in the dust altogether forgotten and despised by these men Wee know not well whom you mean by the Lovers of Sion but it seem's by your description they should bee som that are in love with your outside Worship nor what you mean by that Religion which lie's so forgotten and in the dust Wee desire to bless God that through his goodness and free discoveries of himself there are great numbers among us that are lovers of the beautie of holiness and by the power of that love carried out to the contemplation of that glorie of him who is glorious in holiness shining forth in the face of Jesus Christ so as they are transform'd into the Image of it from glorie to glorie by the Spirit of the Lord and by this means they give up themselvs to a willing subjection to the power of

were sure you meant to keep wee might believ your musters would not exceed in numbers Gideon's lapping Armie and one Regiment of Hors and one of Foot might serv our turns If the minde of God bee so clear unto you in this point take heed of going against it this book of yours will bee a witness against you before the world as your consciences will bee before God take heed of your apostacie after your so solemn engagement hazard not your selvs and bee not desperately pervers You confess the Malignants have often fallen before the Sectaries and you would not give them viz. the Sectaries encouragement by your junction deceiv not your selvs hypocrisie provoke's the all-seeing Majestie as much as open profaneness and perhaps the Sectaries may receiv in their spirits a great encouragement that they are sent by God against an hypocritical Nation Deceiv not your selvs with the Temple of the Lord the Temple of the Lord manie so exclaim and boast who are not that Temple Your selvs in this paragraph confess you have a great scarcitie of men rightly qualified and can hardly expect a blessing in the fellowship of anie other take heed you do not as well procure as proclaim a judgment against the Land which shall consume it without remedie Wee earnestly wish the Estates of Parlament would bee ruled by you and purge your Armie of all scandalous men sure you would have verie thin Troops and Companies Wee would ask you if manie have not given scandal by their drunken-healthing thanks-givings for your Kings arrival or whether drunkenness bee not a scandal there in the Sectarian Armie 't is counted one and through the mercie of God is not frequently committed and when it is is duly punished The close of your paragraph is verie orthodox which wee close with and embrace as a savorie truth But before wee leav you seeing you are so tender of closing with Malignants let us ask you how came you to woo the King so earnestly to agree with him and bring him among you and make such great demonstration of jole at his arrival with more drunken bone-fiers then ever were seen there before Is not hee a Malignant sure hee was one when hee gave Montross his Commission to subdue you his Rebels of Scotland wrote his Letters of special favor and gave him that Order of the Garter how corn's hee to bee purified since can you persuade your selvs the taking of the Covenant will do it have you not found by great experience it doth hot cure but palliate why els such frequent Recidivations It is not well understood why yee should with so much furie and indignation execute Montross the servant and that becoming your selvs somthing barbarously for making a war upon you and then immediately embrace him for your King by whose Commission hee did it There is som mysterie in this if you would tell us what but perhaps it lie's deeper then your own knowledg why may it not bee that your own hypocrisie growing ripe for judgment providence hath ordered that by his permitting you one signal act of it more you should thereby espous the Interest and fate of that familie which lies under the wrath of God and which you will needs take upon you to defend though you see none have prospered that do so that even by your hypocrisie your hypocrisie might bee punished from the just hand of him who searcheth the heart and take 's pleasure in uprightness Though you are yet hee is not a respecter of persons no difference of degrees is anie thing to him who set's up and debaseth whom hee pleaseth hee somtimes give 's a King in wrath and perhaps when you well consider all things you may have som strange opinion that hee hath don so to you you have wooed and married an Interest attended with a Curs which will undo you It is no great trouble to us to hear from you the name of Sectarie having been long acquainted with the Titles and Attributes which the civilitie of your language hath been pleased to honor us with and wee bear it with the greater glorie for that it seem's there are few of them of your Nation and so may serv for a distinguishing Character that vvhere wee are not known vvee may not bee mistaken for Sots The Sectarie therefore wee take up for a glorie as imposed by you and shall labor to bring the Name beyond reproach not by masking under a veil of seeming holiness which wee wonder by what special guift they have discovered especially in those vvhom their consciences have compelled to confess that they walk circumspectly but by putting on the Lord JESUS CHRIST and beeing made conformable to the Will of GOD through the sanctification of the SPIRIT living in that Spirit wee desire to vvalk in it approving our hearts to God and our waies to Men desiring you would not go beyond your line and step into the Throne of God and judg hearts vvhere you cannot blame actions And wee must again desire you to laie down that your Antichristian practice of propounding your selvs as the Rule of Truth and judg of Error How com you to know truth better then other men to the Law and to the Testimonie for that Rule is common to us and you you must take a little more pains to satisfie us then you do your Scots you shall put it among our Errors that vvee hold if you will that wee ought to trie all things that wee may keep that which is good you are not sure but som of those things that you count Error may bee the Truth and why may not som among us have had the boldness or the happiness to know that to bee true which is not the opinion of the Church of Scotland And least you should claim a privilege for the vanitie of boasting give us leav to use it for once as well as you and to tell you that wee have reason to believ that there are som on this side Tweed to whom the Father of Lights by the Word and Spirit of Truth hath made as full and glorious manifestations of himself as hee hath don to you who dwell beyond And though you are pleased in your wonted usurpation of the Throne of God wherein you will sit and judg our affections to tell us wee love to walk in the imaginations of our own hearts and in the light of our own fires and the rest that follow 's wee tell you you should do better to leav our hearts to God but withal wee must walk according to the light that God is pleased to give us as it is in us it is our own light and if wee should go from that to follow your light becaus it is yours wee should sin against our light and against God and this wee are content you shall note for another of our Errors That wee dare not believ that either the dictate of anie of your Ministers or ours either nor the

determination of the whose Kirk of Scotland or of anie els ought to bee the ground of anie man's judgment bee the thing determined never so true until hee hath received the same truth into his own intellect and that it becom one with it And wee are of opinion there is no error wee hold that trouble 's you wors then this Wee denie not but there may bee manie among us in the Nation and in the Armie too that may bee more loos then wee desire they should It were to bee put among the wonders of the Age that there should bee an Armie so numerous as ours consisting all of men fearing God and walking accurately or to saie less fully-Civil yet this wee tell you they that are loos shall not bee encouraged in it by those who command them but where is your blushing all this while that you dare in this manner speak of the loosness of manie among us when all men know there are few among your selvs that are not so Did not you suppose that som of your books might com to bee read of those that have felt your Armies and conversed with your people and that know them as well as your selvs wee desire not to give you these close returns but wee may not hold our peace least wee bee thought to have nothing to replie and least you should deceiv conscientious people amongst us and make them believ you are the Lord's Inheritance his peculiar people a holie Nation and an Armie of Saints and all becaus the Commissioners of the General Assemblie have Cannonized them Will you saie your almost general drunkenness and healthing for the welcom of your King is not loosness or hath loosness another signification in Scotland then it hath in England What think you by that Action of som of your people that having taken som of our Mariners ashore going for water they were detein'd prisoners till they would drink your King's health on their knees is this the received Form of praying for your King among you do you think our Mariners were much edified with this holy conversation of your people wee hope your Directorie of vvorship hath no prescription of this kinde of praying Pen your things hereafter a little more circumspectly and do not necessitate us to stir your dunghil vvhich vvill make you stink in the nostrils of all good men You imprison and restrein the spreading of truth and compel the poor people to your Forms in which there is nothing of the power of Godliness your people are still slaves to profaneness becaus the truth is not held out to them which should make them free They are nourished in an opinion that the Kirk of Scotland know's all things whom they may consult upon occasion and never endeavor to store themselvs with principles that would effect their Reformation they have onely heard of God by the hearing of the Ear but if their Eie might see him they would repent and abhor themselvs in dust and ashes There is a learning and knowledg which is kept in memorie and this may well bee called other men's learning this act 's but little upon the possessor There is a knowledg in the understanding that is given by the shining in of the beams of light from the Spirit of God for it is the spirit of the Lord that give 's understanding this act 's according to its proportion by vertue of its union with the Intellect produce's necessarie effects if you would dispose your people into the waie of those Noëtical receptions you would finde their profaneness by little and little wear away but perhaps then also that dreadful reverence toward you their Oracles which while they practise all lookers on laugh at vvould decaie too if the Samaritans once hear Christ who vouchsafe's his secret teachings to all who have ears to hear they have not much more need of the discourses of the woman You tell us also of approving of errors in our selvs Wee would wish you to mend the expression let your unsanctified zeal to multiply heads and common-places of calumnie against us run you out into such ignorant expressions certainly Approving in English use is an act of the practical intellect do wee approve them as errors If not you say nothing wee denie not but great darkness in manie things remaine's upon us and you verie manifestly discover it doth so upon you too Wee may and you do approve manie things that are perhaps errors in themselvs but apparent truths to us and you No man approve's of an error quatenus they are little acquainted with the proportion of the intellect to truth that will say it receiv's anie thing under other notion Indeed in practice Interest sometimes swaye's profession and practice against judgment But the single and intrinsecal act of the understanding in giving the judgment is alwaies for truth according to the degree of its appearance and the measure of its own apprehension As you when you make a single judgment of your King do verily believe him to bee a Malignant notwithstanding his Covenanting as you have reason having seen manie others so before as your selvs tacitly insinuate in this Paper of which wee shall remember you in due place yet in the mean time you offer him to the people as a Convert becaus you hope in time to draw some advantage from him in order to England Here you apprehend right that hee is a Malignant yet you practise as if hee were not you are not deceived in your judgement made in your understanding you understand him right enough and though you hold out to the people that hee is converted which you know to bee an error yet wee shall not say you approve this error that is receive it in your judgments for a truth for you perfectly judg the thing is fals and an error You proceed with your heavie charge generally Magisterially enough that wee altogether neglect those things that concern the honor of God and the Kingdom of his Son Jesus Christ What altogether Wee confess wee have neglected those things too much and have our frailties which wee do not approve wee are but men and may have too much looked after our outward safetie as you have done after a Carnal domination under pretence of a spiritualitie yet wee conceiv there is more in your charge then will bee in your evidence And if wee com to examine the matter wee believ there will bee a difference in interpretation What is meant by the Honor of Gold and the Kingdom of Jesus Christ Wee suspect wee may not have the same opinion of them here on the other side of Twede where wee have heard the meaning is to give power to the several Kirk-Tribunals in Parishes Classes Provincial and General Assemblies to dominere over their Brethren at their pleasure that it is the honor of God that the Gods-men bee honored indeed thus wee have not and are confident never shall do anie thing for