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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88307	A true ministery anatomized Where it is clearly proved by scripture, I. What a true ministery is, and what a ministery God set in the church. II. A ministery not so set, is not the ministery of Christ. III. Our ministers of England have not the gift of tongues. IV. Truth is not obtained by studie. By Thomas Lipeat, not the author, but the actor.	Lipeat, Thomas.	1651 (1651)	Wing L2357; Thomason E1378_3; ESTC R209313	7,833	20

A True MINISTERY ANATOMIZED Where it is clearly proved by SCRIPTURE I. What a true Ministery is and what a Ministery God set in the Church II. A Ministery not so set is not the Ministery of Christ III. Our Ministers of England have not the gift of Tongues IV. Truth is not obtained by Studie By Thomas Lipeat not the Author but the Actor LONDON Printed by J. C. and are to be sold at the Black Spread-Eagle at the West-end of Pauls 1651. Gentle Reader HAving a cloud of Witnesses to witness with me the Truth contained in this little Treatise and having a great Battel to fight even with beasts after the manner of men The weapons of our warfare are spiritual warranted in Scripture And these our enemies are Merchants that make the Nation believe they trade in Divine things Indeed they have large Shops their Shops are an evil Conscience the things which they sell is frothie stuff foaming out their own shame Envie Hatred and Malice poysoning the understandings of them that trade with them yea they trade in the Temple we buy and they sell but both buyer and seller shall be whipt out And gentle Reader my desire for thee is that if thou hast bought a cup of Poyson of these Merchants here discovered in this little Treatise That thou mayst drink a cup of Blessing to cure thee withal Thus leaving thee I desire thou mayst be so wise even with Wisdom it self to discern the Truth to believe it and love it and to hate even the appearance of evil with a deadly Hatred Fare ye well Yours in all Love and tenderness of spirit Thomas Lipeat A Clear description of a true Ministery differing from the Ministery of Antichrist and this Ministery of Antichrist is that which overfloweth this Nation from the one end to the other as it will appear proved in Scripture which Record is true The Apostle Paul doth clearly set down what a true and faithful Ministery is as we finde in 1 Cor. 12.28 saying God hath set some in the Church as first Apostles secondarily Prophets thirdly Teachers after that Miracles then gifts of Healing helps in Government diversity of Tongues some of every sort according to the express words of the Apostle As also the same Apostle doth further declare in Ephes 4.11 saying God gave some to be Apostles and some Prophets and some Evangelists and some Pastors and some Teachers As if the Apostle had said If any man desire to know the Ministery of Christ from the Ministery of Antichrist here it is recorded by me Paul which am also a Minister of Christ This is the Ministery that is set in the Church this is the Ministery that did plant the Churches in that Order of whom we finde in record of Scripture This Ministery is infallible this Ministery spake as the Spirit gave them utterance this Ministery is able to deliver the minde of God in the purity of it for they were vessels in whom God did speak they spake by the inspiration of the holy Ghost We finde not in all the Scriptures that any Ministery was short of this that is here recorded We never finde in Scripture that any Churches were planted or that any did administer the Ordinances but this Ministery that is infallible as Paul declares in 1 Cor. 11.23 saying That which I have received of the Lord I have delivered unto you But there is a Ministery in this Land which hath deluded this Nation making men believe that they are the Ministers of Christ and that they have the gift of Tongues when indeed they do but tell you a false thing Also they make men believe they are Divines when it is clear in Scriptures there is no Divine but God alone Indeed if they be Divines it is but as the maid did divine in Acts 16.16 And it came to pass as we went to prayer a certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination met us which brought her master much gain by soothsaying So indeed they get to themselves great Livings by the spirit of Divination by deluding and bewitching the Nation with their Sophistry and cunning and making men and women believe they have the gift of Tongues when at the best and the most that can be said of all they have it is but humane Learning We finde in Scriipture that Simon Magus could not buy the gift of the holy Ghost with money but when he did desire to purchase this gift what was the answer of Peter to him Thy money perish with thee But to make it appear that our Priests of England have not this gift of Tongues is to be proved I first prove this to be true from this ground All that they have more then other men have it is but to read the Hebrew and Greek Tongues and this is learned for money even as a childe learns to read the English Tongue thus Antichristian Ministers indeed have this Humane Learning But Humane Learning is no help to the understanding of the mystery of salvation this is bought with money and therefore no gift it is at the best but a practice and not a gift If you will know what a gift of Tongues is look into Acts 2. there it is said that when God was pleased to give the gift of Tongues then they spake as the Spirit gave them utterance We do not finde that these Galileans went to Schools of Learning to speak the wonders of the Lord in so many several Languages Now the text saith There were of every nation under heaven as we see in the fifth verse And when this was noised abroad the multitude came together and were confounded because they heard him speak in his own tongue wherein they were born This indeed was the gift of Tongues it was not bought with money as their Humane Learning is which is but a practice and not a gift as is before declared Oh that the Nation had that discerning spirit to discern the true Ministery of Christ from the Ministers of Antichrist These Ministers of Antichrist under this notion of the gift of Tongues make poor ignorant men and women believe that they are able Ministers to define an infinite God poor finite creatures as they are they know not what God is in Himself nor what he is to his Creatures Christ saith No man knoweth the Father but the Son and him to whom the Son will reveal him The Ministers of Christ did not studie to finde out truth as Christ said to his Disciples To you it is given to know the mysteries of salvation And yet thus Ministers of Antichrist make men believe they finde out truth by studie I remember there is a saying in Scripture where the Lord said I was found of them that sought me not and I was made manifest to them that asked not after me where then was Studies where then was Humane Learning which is the God of the Nations And again we find in Gal. 1.11 12. But I certifie you brethren that the

Gospel which was preached of me is no after 〈◊〉 For I neither received it of man neither was I taught it but by the revelation of Jesus Christ. But it may be it will be objected that i● these times revelation is ceased there is to such revelation now in our days as hath been in former time Answ There is the same Revelation and Inspiration as was in former time else how can finite creatures know the mind of an infinite God and his love to them in Christ from all eternity Truly those that deny Revelation and Inspiration must also deny the Scriptures and in Jer. 31.33 34. the Lord declares that he will make a Covenant with his people and will put his Laws into their hearts and write them in their inward parts and there the Lord saith by the witness of his Spirit witnessing to our spirits that we are the children of God And in ver 34. the Lord saith And they shall teach not more every man his Neighbour and every man his Brother saying Know the Lord for they shall all know me from the least of them unto the greatest of them saith the Lord. And again mark that saying in 1 John 2.27 But the Anoynting which we have received of him abideth in you and ye need not that any man teach you but as the same Anoynting teacheth you of all things And truly if these immediate Teachings of God be not by Revelation nor by Inspiration I wonder how it will be made to appear that these Scriptures are true seeing it is not in the power of any finite creature to make known the mysterie of salvation or the love of God in Christ according to the purpose of God from all eternity We find in 1 Cor. 2. to the fourth verse the Apostle declares that he came not in the excellency of mans wisdom declaring unto them the testimony of God declaring that he did desire to know nothing but Christ and him crucified even to preach a naked Christ to declare nothing but a bare Christ upon his own terms and truly he did not come with inticing words of mans wisdom but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power Where is there such a Ministry now with us in England as this is The Apostle saith in vexse 7. We speak the wisdom of God in a mysterie and in the ninth verse declares that eye hath not seen neither hath it entred into the heart of man the thinge which God hath ●rep●●ed for them that love him And in the tenth verse he saith But God hath revealed them to 〈◊〉 by 〈◊〉 ●pirit for saith he the Spirit searcheth 〈…〉 of God Yet our Ministers of A●●christ which 〈◊〉 with us in England say We must study to find out Truth Truly this is contrary to he Ministry which is recorded in Scriptures as clearly hath been proved Truly our Ministers study how to 〈◊〉 the Rich of the world to be their friends and how to have the sword to befriend them and study to get fat Livings and study how to rail against men that walk not in the same form with them even with madness and bitterness of spirit where is there a Minister in England that is familiar with the poor as they are with the rich no they are for the most part proud persons haughty high minded g●rmandizing greedy belly gods a false dissembling lying generation they are such as are spoken of in Hosea 6.9 saying and as Troops of Robbers wait for a man so the company of Priests murder in the way by consent for they commit lewdness Truly so is it with our Priests of England how many yeers have they committed murder by consent they live like dro●es and ly in their dens to study mischief and to set the Nation a burning with Madness one against another But some may say why do you term them to drones Truly I understand this term to be most fit and sutable for them and for the most part you shall find but one in a parish as commonly you shall see but one drone in a Hive of Bees But we see in a hive of Bees where a drone is that lives upon the honey that the poor Bees work for The nature of the Bee is they with one consent will take the Drone and drag him out they will not suffer the Drone to live there to eat up the honey that the labouring Bees work for Oh the Wisdom of God to behold in these little creatures that they should be so wise in their generation it is a wonder of wonders to consider of in these small creatures and truly I can but wonder to see how this Nation is besotted to maintain in every Parish one Drone and in some Parishes two Drones to eat up the honey that all the labouring Bees work for and as it is with these Drones in a hive of Bees they will not work so is it with our Drones they will not work but they will compel the poor Bees to work for them and they will eat of the best honey too and when these Drones ly upon their beds of Doun the Ministers of Christ must ly in a Dungeon or some stinking prison as Paul declares in 2 Cor. 11.23 saying Are they Ministers of Christ I speak as a fool I am more in labours more abundant in stripes above measure in Prisons more frequent in deaths oft And so the Apostle goes on from this 23. verse to the end of verse 27. and in verse 27. he saith In weariness and painfulness in watchings often in hunger and thirst in fastings often in cold and nakedness and in verse 28. he concludes Besides all these things he had the care of all the Churches Thus you see what Paul did undergo being a Minister of Christ Peter also in Acts 5.18 Paul and Silas Acts 16.24 This is recorded of the true Ministry of Christ and what they did undergo for the Truth Whereas our Drones ly lurking in their dens studying how to get the fat of the Land and how to rail against the people of God But I pray mark they are not set in the Church according as that Ministry was which is recorded in Scripture by the Apostle Paul and which is mentioned in the former part of this Treatise as we find in 1 Cor. 12.28 there the Apostle faith God hath set them in the Church And again in Ephes 4.11 he saith God gave some to be as it is there declared Here is as great a difference betwixt these that God gave and that God set to be in the Church and these Drones of England as there is between light and darkness the one is given of God and s●●●b God the other stusty to be as he is and he is ordained of Antichrist in that place he is The Ministry which was given of God or set in of God s●●●k as ●●e Spirit g●ve them ●●terence these study what they must speak and yet they are not ashamed to say they are fit and able