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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

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

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