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A60206 To all the inhabitiants of the town of Youghal who are under the teaching of James Wood ... Sicklemore, James. 1657 (1657) Wing S3750; ESTC R24541 13,617 9

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condemns sin in every mans conscience and to be out of the ministry of God who is light and therefore though he thinks he hath sufficientlie proved his Call to this ministry of God I am sure he is mistaken and his thoughts deceive him for that in his conscience which is of God shal testifie to his face that he is a resister of it walks contrary to it to all who are come into the true fear of the Lord he is known I doubt not but to som of you in whom I know there are simple desires after God he is partly known and seen and many of his practises I know you cannot own let that of God in your consciences speak Yet neverthelesse J.W. hath little reason to desire that dayes work to be brought to remembrance for though he spent much time to tell a story of his inclinations to and qualifications for the work of the ministry from his youth up after such a manner as he never found any of the ministers of Christ boasting for they alwaies denied their former life which he called his inward call yet he told us also of an outward call which was by man as being approved of by man and for all his inward qualifications yet he attributed something to his humane art and learning of which though he spoke slightly seemingly yet he added it to all the rest as a help in the work and after all this large Oration which he made declaring how he was called to the ministry I leave it to you all who were there present to judge whether or no he did prove that his call to be according to the Scriptures which of the ministers of Christ did he instance or bring for an example that was so called though he professed that that should be the Rule to try both his and John Perrots ministry by The Discourse as I very well remember was much upon Pauls Call who indeed was an able minister of Christ and we find that although he was a man who was brought up at the feet of Gamaliel yet in all his speaking of his call to that work he never made mention of it any otherwise then declaring it to be his former life wherein he was zealous in persecuting the way of God and in his preaching also all that wisdom was laid aside for when he came to the Corinthians he came not with excellency of speech nor of wisdom nor with the enticing words of mans wisdom which is the worlds wisdom and if he would have boasted thereof he had much to speak of read Phil. chap. 3. v. 4 5 6 7 8. yet all that which was gain to him formerly he counted it losse for Christ and for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus wherein his Ministry stood neither would he at any time own his call or sending to be of men or by man but by Jesus Christ and by the will of God as you may read Gal. 1.1 and in the beginning of most of his Epistles though J.W. that day did endeavor to prove it to be by man by Acts 13.1 2 3. which is the place also he quotes in his Letter to me who ever can read that place with understanding will see it doth not contradict Pauls saying He was an Apostle not by man though it be alwayes the Priests work to make the Scriptures clash one against another that so they may get money of the people to reconcile them as they say by their moanings and interpretations But this is deceit and the Scriptures are true and agree in one being all given forth by one spirit which doth not contradict it self and by no other spirit can they be read nor understood but to all other spirits are a parable sealed It is there said That such and such who were in the Church as they ministered to the Lord and fasted the Holy Ghost said Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them here the Holy Ghost had called them and the Holy Ghost commanded the separation and the Holy Ghost sent them away as you may read in the fourth verse that they departed being sent by the Holy Ghost and this is one with what is written in the third verse but the unlearned wrest it for the Holy Ghost gave order for their separation and also sent them away And I 'le appeal to you all who were that day present did I. W. prove his call ●o be thus did he name any that were in the Church that were Prophets and Teachers that ministered to the Lord and fasted and as they did so that the Holy Ghost said separate me James Wood for the work whereunto I have called him he did not witness any such thing to us then yea and I question much whether his late ordination and sending was according to that of Paul and Barnabas some of you perhaps might be present you can tell whether that day was spent in fasting and praying or feasting and praying and if you can read with the spirit I defire you to compare Pauls separation in Act. 13. with J. W. his late separation I would ask whether those men who laid their hands on J. W. received an immediate command from the Holy Ghost so to do as those did who ministered to the Lord and fasted And though J. W. tells me that sure I know Paul had preached some years before that and so would fain cover his late sending forth with this practice and excuse it s not being done sooner yet the deceit is seen for the covering is too short for though Paul had been preaching before yet he was returned from Jerusalem with Barnabas having fulfilled their Ministry Acts 12.25 and that being done the Holy Ghost sends them another way to preach for we shall alwayes find that when the work was don in one place they departed to another and staid not in one place many years in a setled outward habitation they went still as they were sent by the Holy Ghost who never suffered them to be idle no not a day was allowed them for their recreation or the exercise of their bodies for their health for this was their daily exercise to be doing the will of him that sent him and Pauls body bore the marks of our Lord Jesus Now either J. W. must make it appear that he hath fulfilled his former Ministry as Paul and Barnabas had or else he cannot plead a right to this sending of Paul and Barnabas in Act. 13. whether he hath done that let that of God in his conscience judge and whether he hath manifested such a thing to any of you let that of God in your consciences speak and declare Nay it s much to be feared that instead of fulfilling his Ministry he is fallen back from much of it witness his sprinkling of infants which once he could not do even since he first pretended a call to the Ministry and his singing of Davids Psalms which once he