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A89640	The proud pharisee reproved: or, the lying orator laid open. In an examination of some passages in a book, entituled, precepts for Christian practice, or, the rule of the new creature new model'd. Written by one Edw. Reyner, who calles himself a minister of the Gospel in Lincoln; but is found a lyar / by a Child of the light, who is known to the world by the name of Martin Mason.	Mason, Martin, fl. 1650-1676.	1655 (1655)	Wing M933; Thomason E851_6; ESTC R207419	44,305	59

abominated Thou saies A Scriptum est Thou begins with that which thou calls the word of God viz. the Scriptures Thou bids heare it read it As it is written will put sin and Satan to flight and hide it in your hearts There are words many but the Word is but one Iohn 1.1 The Scriptures I own more truely than thou does or any tithe taking Preist in England yet I deny it to be that which thou callest it but protest not In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God Are the Scriptures God Were they in the beginning Was not Moses the first Man that writ Scripture Is it not Christ that 's clothed with a vesture dipt in blood is not his name called the Word of God Are the Scriptures Christ Rev. 19 13. 2 Pet. 3.5 Doth not Paul say the Word of God is quick and powerfull sharper than any two edged sword peircing even to the dividing a sunder of Soule and Spirit and of the joynts and Marrow and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart Can the dead doe all this Is the letter quick and powerfull Hath it the vertue force and operation written in that verse Or is it the work of a God Is any printed book a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart Peter saies by the Word of God the Heavens were of Old and the earth standing out of the water and in the water Were the Heavens and the earth made by the Scriptures or by God Paul saies every creature of God is good and nothing is to be refused if it be received with thanksgiving for it is sanctified by the Word of God Luke 1.1 Can any thing sanctify a creature but the Omnipotent God and Creator of all things 2 Iet 1 2● Whether does he owne the Scripture who calls it his rule and lives contrary to it or he that calls it not soe yet lives according to it Yet I own the Scriptures as they are a declaration a record the writings of the holy Men of God who spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost But I dare not Deifie or equall them with God nor pretend to make them my rule and walk contrary to them as thou and all thy generation doe Thy second Antidote thou calls the Sacraments A word of an old stamp coyned by thy Fore-Fathers at the Romish-Mint which it seems thou reservest as a holy Relique for its Antiquity not for any Sanctity that is in it I am sure Art thou not ashamed to use such rusty dark language at this time of the day P. 28.29 Thou saies Sacraments are instituted to be instruments for conveyance of vertue from Christs death into your Soules to mortifie your sins How many sins can the people truely say are mortified in them by thy Sacraments If thou wilt not answer for them say for thy self speak and lye not Channels through which streams of blood flow from the sides and heart of Christ into your hearts to carry away your sins Name what sins thou canst witness either of thy owne or the peoples that are carried away by those pretended streams flowing through the Sacraments Then thou bids make use of Sacraments against sins as men doe of Assizes against Malefactors get them condemned and cut off He that drinks at the pure Fountaine savours thy muddy language to streame from the corrupted Sea of Rome But all this while thou hast been talking of Sacraments thou hast lost thy Scriptum est What old Authors hast thou been ransaking up for this Sacrament all stuff Dares thou come into the feild thus to fight against the Lamb and his Saints and not bring one weapon out of thy Scripture Magazin to defend thee How canst thou hope to return a live to thy Camp Is the name of a Minister Armour of Proof to secure thee Dost thou not say the Word is a sheild to defend you against all the assaults of Sin and Satan or Batteries of Yentations The heart fenced with it thou saies is Cannon Proof I know thy meaning is the Scriptures Thou counts it the Word Ah silly blind Soul that art thus groping in the dark when the Sun of righteousness shines so gloriously Art not thou and the people provided of Bibles How are you defended against the assaults of Sin and Satan t is seene how open you are to the Batteries of tentation And for all thy flourishes thy heart is not fenced with one Scripture for all this folly thy tongue hath uttered concerning thy second Antidote Therefore thou art neither sword nor pistoll-proofe much less Cannon-proofe by thy owne confession Prov. 12.22 Pro. 28.9 Thy third Antidore is Prayer to God of the wicked are an abomination to the Lord. To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me saith the Lord when ye come to appeare before me who hath required this at your hand the calling of Assemblies I cannot away with * It is iniquity even the solemne meeting when ye spread your hands I will hide my eyes from you yea when you make many Prayers I will not heare Isaiah 1. and what 's the reason of this your uncleaneness Wash ye make ye cleane put away the evill of your doings from before mine eyes cease to do evill learne to do well seeke judgement Releive the oppressed judge the Fatherless Plead for the Widdow Loe here 's work for thee and thy Mayor and Aldermen O that you would set your hearts to doe it till then all your Prayers are but vaine babling till then there is no reasoning with God If ye be willing and obedient yee shall eate the Fat of the Land but if ye rebell ye shall be devoured with the sword for the Mouth of the Lord hath spoken it page 30. Speaking of the spirituall combat thou saies The life or exercise of grace puts sin to death in the duell betweene Flesh and Spirit as humility doth Pride and sincerity doth hypocrisy Ah poore Soul that it were so with thee and where there is no opposition there is no restraint where there is no contrary Principle of grace to cross and curb sin there sin overflows like a River without Bancks Grace thou saies will drive out sin as one pin doth another yet for all this page 28 thou calls Duties and Ordinances Weapons edgewise to cut and kill lusts Antidotes to expell the Poyson of sin especially the Word that is saies thou Scriptures Sacraments and Prayer for dost thou not say a Scriptum est As it is written will put sin and Satan to flight Here thou laies all the weight and power of killing sin upon duties ordinances and the letter and page 30. thou saies 'T is the life of grace puts sin to death and grace will drive out sin but what that grace is thou hast not mentioned 1 Cer. 12.9 The Lord saies to Paul my grace is sufficient for thee

houses of Prayer that Church being nationall and so there was a certaine place appointed for that purpose but were they not unconverted do not you by imitating them therein and by your lives make it manifest you are the Jews now who are unconverted Doe you not hold up the letter * In opposition to the Spirit calling the letter your Rule and persecute Christ in spirit Have you any other than common or formal prayers before and after Sermon a meer Popish Custom And when that is done then comes a formal benediction or blessing the people a meer cheat wherewith you delude the ignorant but the light hath discovered that and all the rest or your deceits What the people are better for that blessing their lives make it manifest Acts 3 2● Did not Christ that High Priest cease this Ceremony when he blest his Disciples and afterwards came in spirit to blesse his people were not Christs and his Apostles prayers very short plain and to the purpose are not yours long vain glorious without the spirit and understanding Does that pure spirit live in you when you perform such lifeless exercises and deliver such deceitful Doctrine and is not your singing a confused noyse of lying Thou tells of Christs invitation of all poor souls to him who feele a need of him then see from henceforth thou hinder none keep none back let all that will go freely Does Christ call them and wilt thou by the ringing of a Bell call them to thy self Art thou Christ art thou the way the truth and the life Thou sayes Christ stood and cryed so does he still if any man thirst let him come unto me and drink so let him that is a thirst come But canst thou and thy fellow Priests satisfie the thirsty souls of poor sinners with the water of eternal life if thee canst not call them no longer to thee but send them to Christ the light of the world that pure Fountain and delude them no longer by letting them drink of the long standing corrupted putrified pool of mens traditions Christ sayes Come unto me all ye that labour and are heavy laden and I will ease you Can thee and thy Generation give ease to that soul that labours under the heavy load and burthen of his sins Do ye not instead of taking off the burthen lay more weight on Christ he gives ease and you sell what 's a Burthen Page 117. Thou talks of Christs cheapness of all soul Commodities as Grace Peace Spirit joy you may buy them without money or mony worth Hoe every one that thirsteth come ye to the waters and he that hath no money for coming is buying and thirsting is the price I will give to him that is a thirst of the Fountain of water of life freely Now see the difference between Christ and Antichrist Christ he gives grace peace spirit and joy freely Antichrist he sells his graceless inventions deluding deceitful Doctrines and Traditions the enioyment whereof brings no peace his dead performances wherein is neither spirit nor life his loud singing wherein is no joy nor comfort These he sells at as great rates as he can either by payment of Tithes or so much a year be it one hundred and fifty pound a year more or lesse what he can get Yet he tells you that your not comming to Christ for what ever you want is your condemnation and he bids you Take it out of Christs own mouth Ye will not come to me that ye might have life but the Serpent is so subtle He would have you take Him in your way make him your Guide but while you do so ye shall never see your Saviour Well friends the Priest hath told you plainly your not going to Christ is your condemnation Luke ●1 21 Now unlesse ye be Reprobates past reproof you may know that Christ is within you The Kingdom of God is within you therefore turn aside from your worldly Teachers and turn to the pure light of God in every one of your Consciences Take counsel of that trusly faithfull and most wise Counseller yield obedience unto him Behold to obey is better then sacrifice and to hearken better then the fat of Rams You shall never witness the life of a Saint never truly loath all manner of sin till you be in perfect love with the pure light of God within you And that will give you power over your corruptions abiding in it being obedient to it The least measure thereof if you be faithful to it shall make you experience this for truth if you say to this or that Mountain or hill of sin Be removed it shall be removed and le●ei'd Christs precept is thou sayes when thou prayest enter into thy Closet and shut thy door This thou calles his Rule for private prayer Shew then his Rule for thy long vain glorious publick prayers before and after Sermon where do the Scriptures mention any Rule for private publick prayer such as thine then thou talks of praying with others c. 1 Cor. 14.15 'T is an easie matter to patter out many words but which of you prayes with the spirit and understanding Thou confesses before They that have not the spirit of Christ are none of his And they who have that spirit living in them need none of thy Rules or direction how when or with whom to pray The spirit he helpeth our Rom. ● 26 infirmities for we know not what we should pray for as we ought but the spirit it self maketh intercession for us with groans which cannot be uttered P. 124. Thou plainly shewes thy self a Son of the Church of Rome Houses thou sayes as well as Temples were and are to be dedicated to God Thou sayes the Jewes were commanded to do it Hee 's as blind as thy self who knowes not that but what of this After the Destruction of the Temple was there ever any other commanded to be set up Acts 7.47.48 Acts 17.24.25 John 4.23.24 Prove this if thou canst God dwells not in Temples made with mens hands And ye that worship in the Idols Temple ye worship ye know not what for God is a Spirit and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth 1 Kings 18.27.29 Should I say to you concerning your worshipping in your Steeple-houses as Elijah did would you not be angry Cry aloud for he is a God either he is talking or he is pursuing Or he is in a journey or peradventure he sleepeth and must be awakened But is there any voice any to answer or any that regardeth Anos 6.1 Rom. 12.2 Where is the man or woman amongst you that turneth from the evil of his wayes that ceaseth to do evil and learns to do well that lives not at ease and woe be to them that live at ease that fashions not himself according to the World that can truly witness self-deniall that takes up his daily Crosse and follows Christ

P. 130. can the Spirit of God be limited to set times Does the Scriptures limit the Saints to pray morning and evening He that prayes without the Spirits help his prayers are an abhomination to the Lord. The Apostle bids pray continually Away thou Legalist thou painted Pharisee blush and be ashamed P. 134. Thou calles the word meaning the letter I know assuredly food for the soul Manna from Heaven but where is thy Scriptum est for this can any thing but the living God satisfie the soul Had not the Scribes and Pharisees the writings of the Prophets the presence of Christs person and his Apostles and their preaching too yet Christ complains that they would not come to him that they might have life They had the letter yet wanted life they Page 134. had the Husk yet wanted the Kernel Whether is the Husk or Shell or the Kernel Meat Is it not said He satisfies the hungry with good things does he call the Scriptures those good things where is it said that they satisfie But the rich he sends empty away Is this the doctrine of Christ to say reading of Scripture is that to the Soul which Dinner and Supper is to the body How many poor pined starved soules in this City will witnesse against thee herein when the book of Conscience comes to be opened Thou goes on calling the Scripture under the name of Gods Word the Christians Armory or Magazine saying Reading of Gods Word is a Means of putting on the whole Armour of God of girding the sword of the Spirit upon the Thigh of the soul And that it 's like an Apothecary shop wherein are healing Medicines for all sorts of Spirituall Diseases Thou pretends one thing and does another thou seems to make the Scripture The Rule for men to walk by but not it seems for thee to talk and prate by who preaches and prints such stuffe as neither thee nor all the Priests in England can prove by plain Scripture P. 140. He that brings any other Doctrine then what was delivered by Christ and his Apostles Is he not accursed Thou calls Conscience a good Monitor and so it is but thou dares not serve so good a Master Pag. 143. Thou calls it a Principle of Joy O that thou wouldst make it thy joy to obey that pure Principle thy joy would be then unspeakable and full of glory but thou treads it under foot and dares not give it the uppermost Room nor let it Rule in the Kingdom of thy Heart It is my witnesse I speak the Truth and lye not P. 145. Thou makes confession against thy self but forsakest not Family-Duries superficially performed cannot kill disorders in thy house Are the best of Your performances any better What means then the reigning of your Headstrong Lusts as Pride Passion Envy Covetousnesse c Art thou not ashamed still to limit Prayer to Morning and Evening The 5. Psal 3. verse which thou brings 1 Thess 5.17 for thy proof mentions Davids exercise in the Morning onely Does thou bring in His practice against a Gospel-precept Pray continually or without ceasing Thy calling that day of the Week thou Worships on the Sabbath shews thy ignorance of the True Sabbath Is this the language of A true Minister of the Gospel Thou sayes all Relations Domestical Ecclesiastical and Political are founded and established in the Law of God and Gospel of Christ But shouldst thou never have penny for thy preaching till thou proves this in that sense thou takest Ecclesiastical Relations The Fox would soon say his Spirits and strength were spent Take the Pulpit who would the Priest would be gone either to Norwich or some such other Place or City of Pecuniary Refuge Thou brings in for a Proof of thy Bold assertion Thou shalt not covet thy Neighbours Wife nor his Man-servant nor his Maid-servant c. But what 's this to Ecclesiasticall Relation as thou calls it Is it not like a Spiders Webb finely spun yet so weak that a feather will fell it down Is not this to cast an Odium upon the late Parliament and present Authority for abolishing Bishops Dean and Chapters were not they counted Ecclesiastical Relations Art not thou and thy Generation of Priests built upon the same foundation they were Is not your life in the letter as theirs was Their Doctrine and yours the same Do you not plead for the same maintenance of Tithes they did Did not thee and thy Presbyterian Generation preach against Prelacy because you would be the Prelates your selves Art not thou and thy fellow Priest paid for your preaching out of that yearly Revetiue which was formerly paid to your Elder Brethren the Bishop Dean and Chapter of Lincoln Three hundred pounds a year between you If these Relations had been grounded upon the Law of God and the Gospel of Christ Was it well done of them who abolished them But that Man's blind who sees not thee to be a Minister of Antichrist quarrelling so far as thou dares and shewing thy discontent at what the Lord hath done in hastening the Downfall of the Devils Kingdome P. 156. Thou presses the people with their duty to their Ministers Due respect and love to their persons and thou brings in 1 Thess 5.12 13. We beseech you Brethren to know them that labour among you and are over you in the Lord. Now prove thy self and the Priests of England if thou canst to be such as Paul was to be in the Lord and fill'd with the Holy Ghost Did ever Paul or any of the Primitive Saints preach such Doctrine as thou and thy Fellow Priests do and live in such pride pomp idlenesse and oppression as you do Thy next proof is 1 Tim. 5 17 18. Let the Elders that Rule well be counted worthy of double Honour Name me those Elders among you who rule well Old in folly deceit and filthinesse there are many but young and green to any thing that is good Who are they that labour in the Word Thee and thy Generation are not true Labourers in the Lords Vineyard but lazie idle loyterers Greedy shepherds None of you abide in his Doctrine nor hold fast the form of sound words The next is due Maintenance for their pains Gal. 6.6 Let him that is taught in the Word Communicate First prove your selves True Teachers such as Paul and the Apostles were Produce your Commissions from Christ Jesus Prove your Call That you ran not before you were sent That you abide in his Doctrine Till that be done there is nothing due unto you but Judgment And should thy self and the Priests of this Nation who preach for Reward be forced to make but bare restitution of all that they have received and robb'd the people of under the Notion of Christs Ministers they would be the most beggerly contemptible People in the World But observe the word Communicate a voluntary Contribution or free Cift Is this the best prop you have for compulsive

Book James 1.26 therefore thy Religion is vain After Edmond Calamies Approbation and thy Preface follows a beg'd letter of commendation from one Thomas Manton witness his own words towards the latter end of that Epistle which are these Having thus signified and that upon Request the pleasure I took in this undertaking I take my leave c. Is it the property of a Minister of the Gospel to use such left-handed courses for a commendation Did ever any of the Apostles use such a practice But if thou hadst ten thousand such hands to thy Book as his they might dazle the eyes of the weak but not adde one grain of true worth to thy Book when it comes to be weighed in the ballance The Flatterer begins in a soothing strain Good Reader and tells of intimations in Scripture of a libertine spirit that shall prevail in the latter dayes That 's true And how this is accomplished by thee Manton and thy Genetation all honest hearts do see to their sorrow Who takes more licentious liberty to live in pride oppression and satisfying the lusts of the flesh then the Ministers of England and their Favorites that maintain them He talks of a Note found in Luthers study after his death wherein was written That within a small space of time the temper of the world should be for breaking yoaks what does that trouble thee thou shews what thou art insomuch that they should not only cast off the Canons and Traditions of men but the very Lawes and Ordinances of God And that a sort of men should arise that would be under no other Law and Rule but their own lusts and interests It seems Manton and Edward Reyner are sory Luthers words prove so true concerning the casting off the Canons and Traditions of men And no marvel-great is your Diana the Tithes of England or other set maintenance instead thereof But it must down for it s not a Plant of my Heavenly Fathers planting and therefore shall be rooted up Heb. 8.10 Now who is it that casts off the Law of God written in the Heart that slights the pure Counsel of the living God the light in the Conscience but the Ministers of the World and Men of that Generation pretending to walk by the Scriptures calling them their rule yet walk clear contrary to them and live under no other Law so far as they dare but their own lusts and interests I know they that are Libertines in opinion are in the road way to turn Libertines in practice if there be not something to restrain them But 't is seen who they are that be Libertines both in Opinions and practice an untoward Generation of deluding Priests and their flatterers countenanced at present by some great Ones in the world who throwe the Odium upon the Innocent But this is no new thing for Christ himself was counted Belzebub Mat. 12.24 Order and Rule I own and all such who walk contrary to the Law of God or any just Law made by man such I utterly disown be they Priest or People Dan. 4.30.31 Rev. 18.2 Isa 1.20 Thus having past the Porch I am entred into the Palace Babylon or building which this Nebuchadnezer hath built by the might of his Power for the honour of his Majesty as he vain gloriously hath conceited But this mans Kingdom is departed from him Babylon is fallen is fallen The mouth of the Lord hath spoken it His first Rule is Be sensible of Original corruption whereby you are deprived of the Image of God and of Communion with him and wholly defiled and depraved in all the powers and parts of soul body with a proneness to all evil and averseness to all good continually and made subject to the wrath of God to bondage unto sin and Satan and to all Gods judgements here and hereafter A sad sentence if it were as thou sayes but he that runs in the dark may stumble Dost thou teach another man not to steal and wilt thou play the Thief Dost thou preach and perswade others to walk by Rule and wilt thou walk without where hast thou brought one proof out of Scripture for any one of thy expressions above mentioned Is there such a word as Original Corruption in all the Bible How dares thou thus impudently blaspheme the infinite goodness of the living God as to set him forth so severe a God as to make man subject to his wrath to bondage to sin and Satan and to all Gods judgements here and hereafter before he actually commit sin How many millions of sweet innocent Children would this mans Doctrine damn to all eternity O thou bloody minded blasphemous man blush and be ashamed of this detestable Tenet Ezek. 33.11 Is it not written As I live saith the Lord God I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked but that the wicked turn from his way and live Turn ye turn ye from your evil wayes for why will ye die O house of Israel Is there one syllable of original sin mentioned in this place Wilt thou make God a lier like thy self and forsworn too Ezek. 13.20 O the height of blasphemy Is it not elsewhere said the Son shall not bear the Iniquity of his Father And again the soul that sinneth it shall die Rom. 4.15 And where there is no Law there is no transgression Do not these places throwe down the Babel of thy soul-destroying God-blaspheming Doctrine of original sin Is not that place fulfilled in thee Prov. 10.19 In the multitude of words there wants not sin who but a foolish man like thy self would have brought in that Ephes 2.12.13 for the proof of original sin Paul in that Chapter sayes thus You hath he quickened who were dead in trespasses and sins wherein in time past ye walked according to the Prince of the power of the Aire the spirit that now worketh in the Children of disobedience Amongst whom also we had our con●ersation in times past in the lusts of our flesh Does not he all this time speak of actual sin is there one word of original corruption verse 11. Remember saith he That ye being in times past Gentiles in the flesh c. at that time ye were without Christ being Aliens from the Common-wealth of Israel having no hope and without God in the World But does Paul say this was because of Original sin does not the Chapter make it manifest it was their sinful lives Thou sayes Paul calles this corruption of Nature which thou countest Original sin the old man and body of sin Rom. 6.6 Is the corruption of Nature named in that verse why dost thou adde to the Scriptures He sayes indeed thus Knowing this that our old man is crucified with him that the body of sin might be destroyed that henceforth we should not serve sin This place speaks of a body of sin but does it not imply a living in and a serving sin Does it once mention Original sin for

Isa 56.11 Mat. 23.14 Do you not seek for gain from your Quarters and use long vain glorious prayers in your Synagogues fashioning your selves Rom. 12.2 2 Tim. 1.13 according to the world not holding fast the form o● sound words suffering poor souls to commit sin in the best of their sacrifices by telling lies when they sing Davids Psalms Do they not preach against pride yet who more proud then the Priests Matth. 7.3 Do they not talk much against covetousness yet who more covetous than themselves Are not these the Pharisees of our age that can spy a mote in their Brothers eye but cannot see to pull out the beam in their own Jer. 23.21 These run and never were sent And for division and Contradiction let twenty speak all from one place of Scripture and you shall have so many men so many mindes and meanings opinions imaginations and contradictions Then for a spirit of giddiness who more giddy unsolid and more unstable then themselves Twenty or thirty pound a year more and some other conveniencies is a Call sufficient with most of them from one place to another To leave a poor flock for a richer fleece is an ordinary thing And as for bitterness and perversness let them preach where they will if their Tithes be not payd or their Doctrine be publiquely opposed let them shew patience and moderation that can The Priests have not such pleasant flowers growing up in their Gardens And as for falshood and deceit 't is too well known by some that they live in that Mystery of Iniquity and delight therein but this will be bitterness in the latter end when Conscience-Book comes to be opened Page 329. Phil. 2.16 Thou bids Be willing and ready to suffer for the Churches of Christ and Children of God as Paul was for the Philippians Not as Edward Rayner was for the Lincolners If I be offered upon the Sacrifice and service of your faith That is sayes thou if I seal my Doctrine with my blood and confirm your faith by my death I count it matter of joy both to you and me Page 330. But thou never hadst yet such Christian courage nor never wilt while thy heart dwells where it does Have not those Heathens thou tells of who suffered and dyed for the prosperity of the Publick shewed themselves better State-Martyrs as thou calles them then thou hast been a Gospel-Minister P. 333. Priest Thou complaines what a poor Account can rich men give of their goods who have done little or no good to others with them Can learned men give of their gifts Can Magistrates give of their power who have born the sword in vain who have taken to themselves the honour but not performed to others the duty of their place Should any of the Saints have spoken this language Thou wouldst presently have branded them with the Name of Busie-bodies and Contempt of Authority should have been cast upon them P. 318. A little before thou was muttering out and hinting That Authority was trampled upon that men sleight and hate him that rebuketh or judgeth justly in the Gate and here thou complaines of his bearing the sword in vain But no better can be expected from thee than thy bottles be fill'd with P. 335. Thou sayes it's a Mark of dishonour and a Brand of infamy to be a Self-seeker to be like a Hogg that does no good till he dyes and scarce then with his good-will Search and see how many such Hogs thou hast in thy Herd and thou shalt find more such Cattle than thou canst truly call Christians P. 339. Thou tells of Dorcas dying full of good Works and Paul full of Ministeriall Labours not full of filthy lyes Blasphemies and contradictions as thou art and of good successe or Gospel-fruits full of the Seales of his Ministery How many such Dorcasses hast thou in this City Wert thou now on thy Death-bed instead of good successe of thy Ministry mightst thou not justly complain as thou did a little before What a poor Account can rich men give of their goods learned men of their gifts and Magistrates of their power A vast difference between Paul's successe and thine And indeed it must Needs be so Paul was fill'd with the Holy Ghost and thou with the spirit of Deceit and Delusion Pag. 350. Speaking of the Return of Gods presence and his favour thou usest those words In giving you the Liberties of his House Acts 7.47 48. Act. 17.24 25. 1 Cor. 6.19 Thy end is seen in the use of that Language But the Lord dwells not in Temples made with hands The Saints Bodies are the Temples of the Holy Ghost Then thou talks of tasting the sweetnesse A fine expression if there were Truth in it and feel the power and efficacy rather the Flatness deadness and dulness the Beauty and Glory the uncomeliness and raggedness of all his holy Ordinances thy filthy Dreams and Traditions Rags of the Romish Whore and of the Assemblies of his people a mixed multitude of Presbyterians Independents and Cavaleers so called O that I could truly call you an Assembly of Gods people O that your hearts were upright before the Lord My soul pities all such who are thus led and nuzzled up in ignorance by a painted Pharisee who will neither enter into the Kingdome of God himself nor suffer them that would Matth. 23.13 And I hope ere long their Eyes shall be opened and they shall see his deceits discovered and escape them P. 356. Thou tells thou hast heard some say God hath used to resolve their doubts by the Ministry of the Word thy meaning is by such Priests as thy self And then thou Presumptuously and Blasphemously boastest saying Thus God fulfills this promise Isaiah 20.21 Thine Eares shall hear a voice behind thee saying This is the way walk in it when thou turnest to the right hand or to the left hand P. 399. Observing the Soul the affaires of it and Gods dealings with it will make a man thou sayes A Divine to Himself and observing a mans course well and how God hath led him will make a man under God a Guide to himself Ah Friends Be your selves and dote no longer upon this filthy Dreamer when every one of you by his own Doctrine may be a Divine to Himself and a Guide to Himself Will you be so foolish to be led any longer by such a false Prophet Exod. 21.5 6. Will you have your Eares bored through with an Awle in token of perpetual bondage Do not inslave your soules for ever Mind that Divine Principle of God within you and if you be willing to obey that faithful Counsellor it will be a True Guide to you it will be whispering the pure Counsel and Will of God unto you Ah yield up your selves to the light of Christ in all your Consciences Love it I beseech you Ezek. 21.26 27. This is the Right Heir give him the