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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81459	Dictated thoughts upon the Presbyterians late petitions for compleat and universall power (in divine ordinances) to be conferred upon the presbyters by humane authority.		1646 (1646)	Wing D1413; Thomason 669.f.10[48]; ESTC R204497	9,153	1

right in his own eyes and there is no course to reclaim them do thereby cast an aspersion not only upon the people in generall but on the magistrates and ministers in speciall And such fire-brands as these Presbyterians cause the unnaturall stames of division especially about Church government In the same kingdom betwixt people and people In the same City betwixt minister and minister in the same congregation betwixt Pastor and flock yea in the same family betwixt master and servant betwixt Parents and children betwixt husbands and wives And it appeareth thus because when some differ from othersome and walk up to their light then do the Presbyters teach the Presbyterians to persecute them divers waies seeking to draw them back by carnall compulsion and the tender consciences not being willing to be forced further then the light of reason in them immediatly the fire of contention proceeding from the Presbyterians secred consciences breaks forth into a flame as it is spread over Kingdoms betwixt people and people in the same City one minister vilifieth another in the same congregation or parish the minister and the people are at it yea in families the Presbyters set the master to persecute the servant and incourage the servant to despise the master who is not of their mind hence ariseth persecution against the children by the father and against the father by their children yea the husbands are taught by the antichristian Presbyters to lord it over the consciences of the wives and wives to persecute their husbands insomuch as when any one declareth himself to be a separate or an independant immediatly their neerest Presbyterian friends alienate their affection because he differs from them in judgement and break out into many bitter and reproach full contentions and open persecutions no marvell then that God hath of late manifested divers sad and remarkable tokens of his displeasure against England and Scotland both by sword and pestilence and destroyed many thousands what may the impenitent remnant then expect who are not killed by these plagues Rev. 9. 20. but the cup of the wine of Gods wrath to be powred out without mixture Rev. 14 10 judgement without mercy upon them who shew no mercy Iam. 2 13. Surely it is laid up in store with God and sealed up among his treasures To him belongeth vengeance and recompence their foot shall slide in due time for the day of their calamity is at hand and the things that shall come upon them make hast Deut. 32. 34. 35. And surely the divisions between minister and minister pastor and flock is not amongst the separates but rather in the Church of England neither do the separates despise Orthodox ministers nor discourage them in their ministry nor disharten or deterre hopefull plants from the ministry But it is the monopolizing Presbyters who seek to bind all preaching in their own hands as if none had the spirit of God to divide the word aright but they and such as are authorized by their patentee-licencers for preaching even like unto those 4. Angels which John saw standing upon the four corners of the earth to hold the 4 winds of the earth that the wind should not blow on the earth nor on the Sea nor on any trees Rev 7. 1. Therefore if it were tryed and examined the Orthodox all ministers would prove to be the independant preachers and not the Presbyterian praters that think when they have got up in the pulpit they may crow without controul And insteed of godly ruling fall to ungosple like railing at the people of God to the sadding of the hearts of their owne hearers and causing the best affected amongst them to forsake their publike assemblies of England and go where they may be better edified even amongst those who are by the Presbyterians pretended to be teachers of new Gospel but as the Presbyterians do by the separates so the Epicurian Athenians did by Paul some said what will this babler say othersome he seemeth to be a setter forth of strange Gods because he preached unto them Iesus and the resurrection Acts 17. 18. But Paul was not so as they would have had him to be but reproved their superstition even so the separates are not as the Presbyterians would have men think them to be they plead not for the universall toleration of all religions and opinions but would have all to professe and practize the true Religion not that any religion is to be persecuted but all rebellions prosecuted neither do they wilfully contemn the sabbath and month-daies of humiliation backt by the authority of Parliament much lesse do they open a wide door to all prophanesse and licentiousnesse as these Presbyterians maliciously speak if that were true the hearts of the truly godly would groan more then they do and our brethren of Scotland would have more cause of astonishment then they have And as for the enemies scorning and insulting we are not to regard it but walk so in offensively that they may be convinced and acknowledge the Spirit of God in us and not aspirit of giddines which if these speak true they say the Presbyterians are given up to And whereas these say those look at this City as a stage of faction and herifie that is a slander put upon this honourable City for no better end as may be well conceived then to breed a combustion amongst the Citizens by rasing persecution against honest well affected men under the notion of independants meerly out of spight to mischief the City which hath been so active in defence of the Kingdom against those rebels and traytors and their assistants who irriligiously scorn and inhumanly fight against both Church and State the true Religion and professors thereof But herein the proverb is verified he that walketh uprightly in his way is an abhomination to the wicked And yet though their distempers should grow more incurable and the reformation of the generality of the people every day more difficult and improbable yet no doubt but God will have his number in spight of all malignant opposers the remnant shall return to the mighty God of Jacob and he will save them The consumation decreed shall overflow with righteousnes from God to them which people he hath formed for himself and they shall shew forth his praise and hastily according to their holy Covenant when the great mountainis become a plain compleat the reformation in all the desireable perfections of it not by might nor by power but by the Spirit of the Lord. Surely if these Presbyterians did but seriously consider these things they would do what they say they could do even pour out their very souls in them and be in bitternesse for their sweet Saviour the crimson blood of whose tender heart they have spilt by their piercing spear of persecution and in this concerning cause of God and Religion they would joyn peaceably and unanimously with the Parliaments cordiall friends against their mortall enemies and spare neither their