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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34730	A word to the LII London ministers shevving that the most zealous professors of religion in all ages have been the greatest persecutors of Christ and his most spirituall members, illustrated and proved / by Nicolas Cowling.	Cowling, Nicholas.	1648 (1648)	Wing C6514; ESTC R3567	8,345	24

A WORD To the LII LONDON MINISTERS SHEVVING That the most zealous Professors of Religion in all Ages have been the greatest Persecutors of Christ and his most Spirituall Members illustrated and proved By Nicolas Cowling IOH. 16. v. 2. They shall put you out of the Synagogues yea the time commeth that whosoever killeth you will think that he doth God service IOH. 7. v. 48. Have any of the Rulers or of the Pharises beleeved on him LONDON Printed in the Yeare 1648. A Word to the 52. London MINISTERS HAving seen of late a little Book entituled a Testimony to the Truth of Jesus Christ and finding my selfe by name listed for an Heretick in that I have formerly Asserted that a Beleever is perfect in this life or never which I yet hold for a truth seeing that as the tree falleth so it shall lie and it hath been the Doctrin of reverend Hierom Bolton Dod and others As the day of death leaveth thee the day of judgment shall find thee but to be convicted for an Heretick by no other Argument but that female one it is so because it is so I cannot so be satisfied therefore my humble desire unto you is that some one amongst you will be pleased to set forth from the letter of the Holy-Scriptures without any of your fallible interpretations The time when the place where and the means by which a man that before hee dyes is not perfectly made one with the Father and the Sonne by the Spirit but shall be made so after death It shall be sufficient unto me to retract my opinion although I have nothing asserted but is Scripture phrase in the letter thereof if you please to consider the same seeing the Apostle affirmeth on the behalf of his brethren the Iewes I bear a them record that they have a zeal of God but not according to knowledge Giveme leave to set before you that glasse that hath plainly shewn me my former mistakes when I was zealus in my conformitie unto that administration of the Prelacy since of that covenanted form of Independency those that did know mee in either can bear me witnesse of the truth of my zeal unto my principles but having a clear manifestation of the true ground and cause from whence ariseth all the revylings bitings and devourings that is amongst brethren to be no other but that old root of bitternesse which separated Adam from his Maker namely Ambition and Covetousnes his Ambition led him no higher than God but to be equal with him in knowledge his Covetuosnesse led him out to that which was none of his either by gift or purchase the same principle of Ambition and Covetuosnes remaineth but in a different manner no more ascending up so high as God for that way our necks were broken but now the designe is we will fetch God down as low as our selves or we will have none of him nay wee will knock him out of the country if he dare to manifest himselfe in any other way then wee prescribe him As wee may plainly see in Cain when hee had formed a sacrifice in which he thought GOD was bound to meet him and the way of Abel was accepted and his rejected how was his countenance cast down and wrath encreased against his brother so that nothing could satisfie his disconted soule but the death of his brother that so hee might no more be troubled with such a manifestation of God as appeared in him which was contrary unto his for me b Korah because all the people were holy would not allow that manifestation of God unto Moses to be any whit superlative unto him or any of the people and therefore stubbornly wee will not come up a more particularly come and see the reason why the Prophets of the Lord could perish no where but at Ierusalem where the temple of God was the high Priest that was anointed with holy oile the Tabernacle the Mercy seat the Altar of Incense the daily sacrifice and the Holy of Holies where were the Oracles and yet in this place must the Prophets fall Vndoubtedly for no other cause but that the Lord was pleased to manifest himselfe in them unto the people in a more spirituall and salubious manner then he did appear in the Scribes who were their expositers of the law of Moses seeing therein no farther than the bare letter the Prophets being no weekly Lecturers nor Masters of any Synagogues but spake only when sent and as the Spirit gave them utterance It may seem strang that Isaiah a Prophet of so long standing as to prophesie unto foure Kings should in his old age be by the learned Rabbies awarded no better death than to bee sawed in peices It must needs be for some grievous blasphemy two of which yee may find in his prophesie a according to their expositions the first was that the Gentiles should be a glorious Church the second was that which raigneth so much amongst us now namely hee preached down b Ordinances Hee that killeth an Oxe as if he slew a man he that sacrificeth a Lamb as if he cut off a Dogges neck he that offereth an oblation as if hee offered swines blood he that burneth incense as if he blessed an Idoll this was blaspheming enough to deserve the Sawe and that the first was blasphemous enough to deserve death may appeare by that of St. Paul Act. 22. 21. And he said unto me depart for I will send thee far hence unto the gentiles v. 22. And they gave him audience unto this word and then lift up their voices and said away with such a fellow from the earth for it is not fit that he should live so that to all such now as are yet in the ministration of Moses no farther can and will kill any that live higher above Ordinances in the Spirit if they can but get Pilate to give judgment for the like causes did all the rest of the Prophets suffer the being more spirituall God bearing witnesse in them did out-shine those that lived in the bare letter of Ordinances and therefore could not bear such doctrines that did crosse their mouthes First their Sacrifices and their standing before the Lord to enquire after his wil their hypocritical humiliations and bowing downe the head like a bulrush These things with many other spoken of by the Prophets and sharply inveighed against many more which I could mention but for brevity I omit were the only causes why those godly men according to the letter did deale so inhumanely barbarous with those deare servants the Prophets of the Lord but you will say if the whole Sannedrim of the Iewes did consent how came their Prophesies to be enrolled in the cannon of holy writ It is probable that in all ages there were some few that had their negative voice and did survive the execution of those horrid councells and when good Magistrates reigned then were those records reveiwed then was enquiry made for