refined subtilty who pretends much in words but brings forth the same evil fruits from the same old birth and evil Spirit as they and such did that drew neer to God Isa 29.10.11 12 13 14 15 16. Isa 59.23 4. c. with their mouthes and lips when their hearts were farr from him and devising mischief and bringing forth cruelty and wickednesse like you and your hearers that are asleep or in the sleepy security and in Ignorance in sin unturned to God and you their teachers neglecters of the work of God and in the miscarriages wrongers of them and of Christ as you say and yet in your self commendation you are not ashamed to call your selves the Lords labourers when you are wrongers of him and the people and neglecters of his work also living in the miscarriages and where you tell of a land of light and a garden you are found to be out of both and in darknesse and the field of wickednesse in whose hearts the miscarriages and weeds grows and where you say The Lord hath not dealt so with every Nation I say Mark 7.21.22 22. Rom. 1.28 29 c. not so much yet as to discover to the inhabitants their teachers abominations and miscarriages and cause their own mouthes to utter and their pens to write the same against themselves and their fruits to confirme it as in this Nation you and yours doth and hath done which is but the fore-runners or first discovered and so much made manifest before other Nations who have not yet heard and seene what we have done Most of the world you say page the 17. do lie in the darknesse of Heathernisme Idolatry Infidelitie and Mahometanisme and too much of Christendome in the darknesse of Popery and Heresie True all the world lieth in wickednesse I say and so saith the Scriptures I Joh. 5.19 but we know that we are of God and you in that wickednesse and Popish darknesse that are in the miscarriages are of the world c. And what can Heathenisme Idolatry Infidelity Mahometanisme Popery and Heresie though by pretended Christians bring forth more against the honour of God c. then to live in the miscarriages keep alive in killing ignorance wronging both men and Christ and neglect the work of God according to his word c. growing worse and yet run further from God as you do and if Papists Idolaters Infidels Mahometans and Heretiques can bring forth nothing more against the honour of God and destruction of souls then to live in killing ignorance unkilled and in miscarriages unpardoned and in sin unturned to God in sleepie security wronging both God and men and neglecting the work of God according to his word growing worse and running yet further from God then you and your hearers are found in the same and so agreeing in that old nature from whence ariseth negligence miscarriages Idolatry Poperie Infidelity Heathenisme and Mahometanisme Heresie c. and being out of the new birth in the old guided by that nature and Spirit do you not with Heathens Popes Turks Heretiques and Infidels agree in the maine for they can but live in the miscarriages asleep in security works of darknesse in sin unturned to God in killing ignorance unkilled neglecting the work of God according to his word to wrong Christ men growing worse and running futther from God which you and your hearers are found in and doth the same as your fruits and book called Agreement doth against you stand witnesse c. and here by your fruits spirits and your words you are left amongst your own with infidels idolaters Popes Turks and Heretiques that are of the old birth and wicked seed out of the way of salvation neglecting Gods work and persecuting or doing the work of the Devill in a high measure amounted so high as to turne wrongers of Christ and of men and so are deceivers of souls and therefore instead of a pardon expect judgment greater condemnation like such Mark 12.38.39.40 Math. 23.31.32 33. c. Behold are you not left desolate being shut out of Christs Ministry and from amongst Christians and are in the nature of Popes Papists Idolaters Infidels Heretiques and the Mahometans c. that are upon the same evill root living on the evill tree and bringing forth the evill fruit though you differ in some words and Colourable Glosses Math. 7.15.16.17.18.16.20 Isa 29.14.15.16 you are of the cursed root and beares that fruit that is aâ—cursed and can deceive none but the deceived such as are of that evill seed bearing evill fruit who are strangers to the new birth and without the true knowledge of the living God and now your vizors or covers are too narrow and all your garnishing and Colourable Glosses will not maske nor hide you Act 20.28.33.34 ver Act 26 26. 1 Tim. 3. Tit. 1.7 1 Pet. 5.1.2.3 2 Cor. 6.3.4 5.6 but leaves you naked and bare In that which you call your Warrant you say the Holy-Ghost made you overseers c. but you have proved your selves liers for the Holy-Ghost makes those overseers that do not neglect the work of God and such as are out of miscarriages that shun not to declare the Counsel of God freely and covets no mans Silver nor Gold who are not persecuters nor wrongers of God but such as are blamelesse as the stewards of God c. Tit. 1.7 But you that are wrongers of men and of Christ and neglecters of the work of God according to his word growing worse and running yet further from God 2 Cor. 41.2 2 Tim. 3.10 11.12.13.16.17 1 Thâ—s 4.7 you never were made overseers by the Holy-Ghost therefore you have lied of or against the Holy Ghost so are liers against God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ for in page 3.4 you tell of your unfaithfulnesse or negligence and are bewaileing the same as you say and wanting a pardon and yet you confute your selves in uttering your lies for your own ends where you are seeking your praise in that called your Exhortation c. page 17.18.19 c. Saying it hath pleased the Lord of the Harvest to send forth laborers into this part of his Harvest though you confesse too weake and imperfect yet more numerous and faithfull and diligent then most of his Churches elsewhere proportionably can show That God hath sent forth labourers into his Harvest is true and they are strengthened by him to labour against your deceipt and they are both diligent and faithfull in his work who neither wrong Christ nor men but if you meane that you are those labourers or would have people to believe that you are your own words and fruits do witnesse against you that you ave not labourers in the Lords Harvest nor sent by him that are neglecters of his worke and in miscarriages not pardoned for the same and then not sent neither are you faithfull and diligent that are in the miscarriages and negligent your own
for the killing of ignorance which your preaching could not do And yet it hath been used by the Popish Race and your forefathers the Bishops and Prelates and were not killed thereby but is found living amongst you their children and off-spring And you are found in the deceit and would keep people in the same by your flatteries and inventions which will all be to no purpose that is acted by the spirit of deceit and miscarrying nature which you are in And leaves the same ignorance unkilled by your familiar and personal Instructions as your forefathers have done you being in the miscarriages wronging men and Christ and not guided by the true spirit but by the false as your fruits as well as your Agreement maketh it manifest Concerning your warrant You have gathered certain verses of the Apostles words and calls them your warrant from God when you are found our of the Apostles practice and order and not at all warranted by them to wrong men and Christ as you have done and confessed the same you also are in the miscarriages and disobedient nature neglecters of the great works of God and therefore you being in that deceit are out of the counsels of God and liars like the false prophets whose examples ye follow that stole the true prophets words and were ready like you to call them their warrant from God or saying they spake from the Mouth of the Lord when the Lord did not warrant them in it no more then he doth you but witnessed against them by the true Prophet And said he had not spoken to them but they ran unsent as you have done and therefore they should not profit the people at all no more then you shall though they spoke the true Prophets words as you may do yet they was not guided by the true Prophets spirit no more then you are And though they spake their words for their own ends as you do yet for all that they were without Warrant from God as well as you are and also found out of his Counsel in their inventions and speaking for their own ends and for mony as you do and they caused the people to erre by their lies and by their leightnesse as you do and the Lord by his Spirit in his Servants witnessed against them as he doth against you saying I sent them not nor commanded them and so they were without warrant from God as you are though they could speak the true Prophets words as you do yet running unsent as you have done The Lord said they should not profit the people at all Jer. 23.16.21.30.31 32. Mi cah 3.5.11 No more do you who are as you say neglecters of the works of God and in the miscarriages unpardoned as well as wrongers of men and Christ as you your selves in your Agreement have all so acknowledged therefore your gathering of Pauls words and the true Prophets words being out of their life and spirit to paint and garnish your selves withal and are found persecuting the truth as your forefathers the false Prophets and Scribes and Pharisees did their words gather together with your dark minds and no warrant to you from God so to do nor to be called of men Masters Matth. 23.8.10 Nor to preach for tithes or hundreds a year Paul did not do it but preached freely coveting no mans silver or gold but hath shewed an example which you refuse to follow Act. 20.33 34 35. therefore his words is no warrant for you to do as you do As in pag the 1. or 2. of your Agreement neither did Paul go to take a ground from the Pope or sixth general Councel held either at Trent or Trull and say from thence that they that are baptized ought to learn the Belief and on the fifth day of the week say it over to the Bishops c. as you do which you lay down as the ground of your Catechisme and familiar and personall instruction and so build upon the Bishops and old popish root as you have done But Paul as he was a Minister of Christ Act. 26.16 17 18. he was sent to turn people from darknesse to the Light and from the power of Satan unto God and not to keep them in darknesse and sin unturned to God as you and your Minister doth therefore you are out of this life and not guided by the Spirit of God as he was And Paul as he was a Minister of Christ and the Gospel he were called of God and appointed to preach by the power of the holy Ghost Gala. 1.1 Gala. 1.11.12.15 16. Act. 13.2 3 c. Act. 18.9 10 11 c. Act. 16.9 10. Colo. 1.25 26 27 28. who was not made a Minister by the will of man as you are but by the Will of God Gala. 1.1 2. in which his Ministry stood who had the mystery of godlinesse and Christ the Son of God revealed within him Ephe. 3.2 3. c. Gala. 1.15 16. And so had his warant from God and after Christ and the Ministry were so revealed in him then he went forth immediately and not before for to preach him as he hath certified to the brethren Gala. 1.11 12. And he preached the Light 2 Cor. 4.5 6. Law Rom. 8.3 Hebr. 8.10 11. And heavenly treasure within 2 Cor. 4.6 7. And the word in the heart Rom. 10.8 by which faith is wrought and Christ the Mistery and hope of glory within them Col. 1.25 26 27. And they that believed and were baptized into him they put him on Gala. 3 27. As Paul the Gospel-Minister hath certified but he did not make a ground of Catechisme and familiar personal instructions from the Pope or general Councels held at Trent or Trull as you do for the cutting down of Ignorance Heresie and wickednesse as you pretend you will do but Paul was to turn people from the darknesse in which errour heresie and wickednesse was and so turning them from that he turned them to the light and power of the Spirit of God which was the way and means whereby Ignorance Errour and wickednesse was to be cut down crucified and killed which you are yet ignorant of as your Agreement doth manifest as well as your fruits who lives in ignorance Miscariages Error Heresie and wickednesse uncrucified or killed And was not the same way and meanes which you pretend to kill it by used by the Pope Bishops Prelats c. or at the Councell at Trent or Trull and by your fore-fathers the old out-rooted Bishops and Episcopals before you and yet it left the Ignorance Errors Miscariages Heresies and wickednesse amongst you Living and had no power to crucifie the same and you say your preaching this many years hath not yet killed it and therefore you have agreed to use the same Antidote or means for the killing of it as they did and if it could not expell and kill it by them useing the same before you as you also have done do you think to blind
the wrong c. If you walk in that wrong way wherein you miscarrie and wrong God and Men growing worse and running further therein do not the Papists the same and are not you and they therein one and so walk with them in that way whose actions proceed from one ground and Spirit though in some words and formalities you differ but in the evill and wronging God and Men c. are Joyned together and therefore may stop your mouths of condemning others for that which you are found guilty of your words as well as your actions beare witnesse against you and your bitternesse and persecuting the servants of Jesus as your Prisons and barbarous or cruel usage at Evesham and other places may witnesse for the truth and against your deceit and wrong done to men and God as you say in your agreement therefore you and the Papists goes on in one nature together the Papists you say bring all â—he people to confesse their most secret sins unto their Priests and do not you labour to bring the people to do so unto you the Parish Masters idle Shepherds and hireling Preists and then are not you and the Papists therein both one in nature and property Ezâ—k 3â— â—â— â— though differing a little in words and colourable clauses And where you tell of creeping into houses who more then you creeps into the Popes houses which you with and from them call Churches but let me aske you that run so out of them from whence you sprung wherein do you and they differ in worships and practise therein Whether in manner or matter if in manner onely you differ and not in matter then do you not agree in the maine if so then are not you and the Papists in religion and worships as well as nature and property one though differing in some words formalities c. but both in the vaine traditions and observing your fancies and braine imaginations as the Serpents seed did in all ages You resolve in your wills to set on a worke in your imaginations promising salvation upon the performance and damnation upon the refusall page 30. and so would merit Heaven by your actings in the nature from whence ariseth negligence and miscarriages page 3 4. and wrong to men and to Christ page 19. and do not the Papists hold the same thinking to merit Heaven by their own actings in that nature and spirit of deceipt which guides them to neglect the work of God and also into miscarriages and to wrong men and God like you and persecuters and seed of evill doers If so then are not you and the Papists one therein and why do you crie out against that so much in others your selves being guilty of and found in the same and doing their work onely differing here and there in words formalities some colourable glosses c. You say page 23. you have all need to joyne heart and hand to help one another safe to heaven and all little enough you say I answer yea and too little too for in that nature in will not be done which teacheth you to wrong Christ and Men for if in that nature you could do it why might not the Papist in the like nature with you do the same and are not you therein with the Papists one or if any get out of your ignorance and come from under the wrong and out of the miscarriages in obedience to the teachings of Christ the true teacher and Saviour whom you wrong that they get into Heaven before you or sit with Christ Jesus in heavenly places whilst their bodys are on the earth as the Saints at Ephesus did whil'st their bodys were there and such as are saved by grace having their souls purified in obeying the truth through the Spirit where selfe is denyed are not you through ignorance of the way that leads out of error heresie miscarriages Popery and darknesse ready to call such hereticks as are come out of that and into the glorious light and injoyments of the sons of God to worship the Father in Spirit I say are you not ready to call such hereticks who are come out of it viz the darknesse Eâ—he 1.6 Co. 1.13 1 Pet. 1.22.23 24. Reve. 21.3.23.24 Joh. 4.23.24 2 Cor. 3.16.17 Gal. 4.4 5 6 7.8 1 Cor. 4.6.7 and heresie which you live in and would rank them with the Papists under that denomination to cover and shelter your selves thinking to cast that upon them which they are freed from and you and the Papists are found in union with and guilty of being both of you out of the right way and in the wrong that are neglecters of the work of God and wronging God and men and living in the miscarriages and so in the heresies error and disobedience to the truth following your own Spirits and obeying the imagined fancy formed up in your own wills and living in the vaine traditions and customes of the Heathen as you and they do but your mist dazels the eye of none but the willfull blind and such as are in sleepy security and in sin unturned to God who are already deceived and the eye covered or blinded by which they should see both delusion and heresie in which you and they therein agree who grow worse and run yet further from God c. For the Papists believe they shall never be free from sin here in this life and therein they are reprobate concerning the true Gospel soul-saving and purifying faith and you believe the same viz that you shall never be freed from sin here in this life and then must not you with the Papists have a purgatory seeing that nothing which is uncleane shall in any wise enter into the holy City Rev. 21.27 and the unrighteous shall not inherit the Kingdom of God as it is said and by the Ambassadour of Christ declared 1 Cor. 6.9 10. and are not you reprobate concerning the true Gospel Gal. 5.20 21. soul-saving and purifying faith who denieth the property of it in denying purity of heart and abiding in darknesse and the nature opposite to the true light believing or saying you believe you cannot or shall not be free from sin here in this life and therefore are not you and the Papists both one and your faith and theirs in nature and property being dead and corrupt therein agreeth together but I deny the Papists and you the wrongers of Christ and Men and that faith which doth not purifie the heart witnesseth that faith and power which doth Act. 15.89 Hâ—b 2.10.11 and as the Saints did as the Scripture witnesseth and God which searcheth the hearts beareth me witnesse as he did them who giveth the holy Ghost that purifieth the heart by faith and we know that we were not redeemed with corruptible things as silver and gold from that vaine conversation which had been received by tradition from your fore Fathers c. Who received Silver and Gold and did not the work which
was they not both wrongers of men and of Christ and cut off or turned out for their Miscarriages c And by the late Parliment they were dis-annulled and rendered uselesse and they are cryed down and their mouthes stopt viz. the Arch-Bishops and Bishops c. who cryed themselves up with as wide a mouth as you can do saying they was the Ministers of Christ and Jure divino c. and were ready to call all hereticks and the like that dissented from them and witnessed against their deceits and how did they punish afflict them for the same And have not you learned to walk in their steps And did not the Episcopals and Prelates those that were branches of the Bishops as you are â—o as you do and cryed up themselves by the name of the Ministers of Christ and counted others Hereticks and were ready to rank them with Papists as you do But was not the Prelates and Episcopals sound to be in the Miscarriages and wrongers of God and Men as you are and was not they cut off and turned out for their Miscarriages c And are not they silent and their mouths stopt and cryed down though they were forward to cry up themselves as you do and to call others Sectaries and Hereticks that are not so as you are but though you now open your mouthes wide to cry up your selves as your fore-fathers did being a bough or branch from them yet with the Light you are now seen and if they was cut off or turned out for their miscarriages and wrong done to Christ and to men do you deserve to stand who are found in and confessing the same But when you have filled up your measures and comes by all to be seen in the same must not you then descend and turn back from whence you came and be as you are men in miscarriages and neglecters of the great work of God wronging men and Christ as you say and your fruirs with your Agreement stands witnesse against you but in patience let all that see your deceits possese their soules and praise God for the riches of his love that hath led them out of your miscarriages and from under your mist or popish darknesse into the pure and glorious light and teaching of Christ wherein they are growing in grace Col. 2.3 4 5 6. Eph. 3.17.18 19 Col 2.7 8 9. Col 3.12 13 14 15. Ephe. 5.11 Rev. 3.9 being rooted and grounded in the true Gospel soul-saving purifying faith in which their soules are purifyed whose loves runs out unto the bretheren from a pure heart being of the new birth 1 Pet. 22.23 and denying your deceits and dead doctrin who witnesse against the works of darknesse and all that which proceeds from your Miscarrying nature and from the popish root and that spirit of deceit by which you wrong men and Christ and are neglecters of his work and without pardon for the same c. Rev. 14.9 10 11. Growing worse and runing yet further from God as you also say And you say page 19 It astonished you many times when you have occasion to talke with your hearers page 19. to perceive that they know very little of the doctrin which you say you have been preaching to them so many yeares there The people may take notice of the unprofitablenesse of your preaching and ministry and that they have spent their money upon you for that which is no bread and doth not after long time hearing and living under little or not at all profit them Luke 16 15. but how should it profit Them when it hath not taught You to come out of your miscarriages and that cursed nature from which your wrong to Christ and men doth proceed in which wrongfull and miscarrying nature your ministry stands and therefore is not like to profit the people But you speak in your own behalf as self justifyers Pharisies false Prophets and Hypocrits use to do and you say you know that they must understand it or perish yet though they have made use of you and spend their time and money upon you you have not nor doth not bring them to understand it and then with you their miscarrying and untaught teachers them to understand it and then with you their miscarrying and untaught teachers they accordingly as you say are like to perish yet you cry up your own way at a very high rate for your own ends and sets the price of a perishing condition without the understanding of your brain Imaginations which you call your preachings or your humane Inventions and poor people your hearers c. that after they have spent their labour and meanes or money upon you this many years yet want their understanding and benefit from you therefore it is high time for them to cease from you and hearken to the light of Christ in their conscience that calls to repentance that it they may obey and thereby come into the teaching of God Isa 54.13 Joh. 6.46 which causeth all to profit 1 Cor. 12.7 that obey the true light and follow the same Ioh. 8.11 Heb. 5.8 9. But people have many yeares heard you and are yet little or nothing at all as you say benefited by you for they remain yet in Ignorance c. you say and are like to do so for you I say Whose ministry stands in your wills and not in the will of God and can alter and change as times and mens wills alter and change but now that you see your ministry doth not kill Ignorance c. you are using the same meanes which your fore-fathers did to do it but left undone and is found with you in the Error Heresies and Miscarriages but you say that Catecthisme and personall Instruction is a great meanes to overcome that killing Ignorance c. page 9. If so how was it that the same meanes viz. personall Catechizing and familiar Instruction from the same spirit that led into miscarriages and to wrong men and Christ as you do did not kill that killing Ignorance in the time of the Pope Prelates Episcopalls and old out-cast or rooted out Bishops whose branches from that body are you and did not they set people on the same work and to use the same meanes as you do which did not kill it c. they set them to get the Creed as you call it and the same Creed as you do and the Lords prayer ten Commandements and those Catechismes which they as well as you call Orthodox Catechismes and their old Expositers as you do and yet the killing Ignorance is unkilled amongst you their off-spring that growes a little more into subtilty and gets words to talk of and sets people to get a few words by you summed together to talk of but are out of the life of them and are in pride coveteousnesse vain glory self conceitednesse Error and Heresies persecution and commiting abomination in as high a degree as your fore-fathers did though under a
people by casting a mist before the eyes of their understanding seeking to insinuate into them by flatteries and garnishing your flatteries with colourable glosses to cause them to think that your reviving that which hath been used amongst them with out-side Matth. 23.27 28.30 31 c. will now from you receive life to do that which it could not do neither by the Pope or Bishops nor by you their off-springs And with the Light are you seen at your witts end and troubled that you cannot have your wills fulfilled who are the enemies of the Living truth and wrongers both of men and God as you also in your Agreement acknowledge and therefore all your Evasions and Colourable glosses must fall with your Image and Imaginary worships as in your fore-fathers before you and the Ministry that stands out of mans will which you are yet Ignorant of must through the crosse cut down and crucifie and kill that which your Ministry doth not nor your fore-fathers or the Pope or Bishops before you and that Ministry which comes forth from the Light and power of the Spirit of God is for the discovering and killing of the Error Heresie and Miscariages which yours hath and doth leave people in and so as it kills that and the Ignorance Gala. 3.4 5. Eph. 2. Iohn 8.12 1 Iohn 3.8 9. 1. Pet. 1.18 19 22 23 1 Iohn 4.16 17 Iohn 14.20 it quickeneth and raiseth the soul out of death destroying the Ignorance Error Heresie and Miscariages and all the works of the Devill and so bringeth soules out of death and from under the power of darknesse to live in the life of the Eternall truth in the Injoyment of the Fathers love and to Enjoy and walke in the liberty of the Sons of God And saith John We know that the Son of God is come and hath given us an understanding to know him that is true and we are in him that is true even in his Son Jesus Christ and this is true God and life eternall 1 John 5.20 Whose Ministry without your familiar personall Instruction discovereth and killeth sin Error and Miscariages which you live in unkilled and therefore out of his Minstiry who killeth that and quickeneth the other that hath suffered under it raising that and them together with it saving them by grace and causing them as they at Ephesus did to sit with Christ Jesus in the heavenly place Ephe. 2.1 2 4 5 6. For by grace were they saved ver 8th Through faith and not of themselves nor of works lest any should boast Eph 2.8 9. As Paul the Gospel-Minister doth witnesse in his Affirmation who did not as you do in your confusion set up a form of words without Spirit and Life grounded upon the Popes practice or generall Councell held at Trent or at Trull And bid people get these to say and be catechized c. And say them over to the Pope or Arch-bishops Persons Preists Rectors and Curates upon pain of damnation neither doth his words warrant you so to do Therefore are they not your warrant from God for that work Neither did Paul go and write out a few words out of the 20. Chap. of Exodus and the 6. Chap. of Matthew and set the people to get them upon pain of damnation and salvation Which words he had before you and witnessed the life in the spirit and power of Christ for the killing of Ignorannce Sin Error and Miscarriages Eph. 5.13 Eph. 6.10 11 12 13 14. Gal 2.19 20. and to quicken the mortall body Rom. 8.10 11. as well for the purifying of the heart and the soul 1 Pet. 1.22 23. Which you have shewed your Ignorance in and to be out of And therefore Pauls words is not your warrant from God who are out of that righteous life And Paul said they were delivered from the law that being dead wherein they had been held their service stood in the newnes of the Spirit and not in the oldnesse of the Letter Rom. 7.6 But your service stands in the oldnesse of the Letter and the old Law and not in the Gospel and newnesse of spirit Rom. 1.16 16. as your fruits and Agreeement doth manifest Therefore you that serve in your wills and set people to serve in theirs and in the oldnesse of the Letter without the Gospel and power of God to salvation and the newnesse of Spirit Clo. 2.21 22 23. Eph. 2.14 15 16. Rom. 1.26 you are not by Pauls words warranted from God to do it who was himself a minister not of the Letter but of the Spirit as he hath witnessed 2 Co. 3.6 c. Therefore your garnishing your selves with his words and wanting his ministery and spirit to guide in the ministration and worship of God that spirit John 4.23 24. 2 Cor. 3.17 18. you are but as founding Brasse and tinkling Cymbals being in the envy and out of love the of the Father as the false Prophets was therefore let Pauls words rest where they are 1 Cor. 13. H s 16.9 Mic. 3.11 Iude 11. till you depart from your lusts and go make restitution for the Lord is against you and all such who are yet without warrant from God for all your stealing of words to garnish your selves as your fore-fathers did But thus saith the Lord therefore behold I am against them that steal my words from his neighbour I sent them not nor commanded them Therefore they shall not profit the people at all Ier. 23.30 c. And now that you are without warrant from the Scripture being out of the life of truth and reviving your fore-fathers works taking a ground from the sixth-Generall Councell held at Trent or at Trull in the time of the Pope or Bishopps Matth. 7.15 16 17 20 22 22 26 27. ver 2. and are you not also left without warrant from them then where are you now and what ground do you stand on are you not without ground or bottom and on the Sandy foundation ready to be washed away when the floods come c. Whose fall as Christ saith therefrom is like to be great and as may be Read Math. 7.26 27. Let the Priests minde and see If they know From whence they came BEhold and see from whence you came and minde your return was not your Original I head root and foundation the Pope or Arch-bishops and Bishops amongst which was not the Bishop of Rome called the Pope Chiefe Supreame head c. Untill the time or raign of Henry the 8. Late King of England as by the Lawes of this Nation may appeare c. And the Called Arch-Bishopps and such as received Orders from them to be Priests Ministers Deacons and Clarks c. Were they not called the body Spirituall and were and are they not called the English Church c. And after the Pope was put out of Tythes and that which he had begott by Henry the 8 the Arch-Bishopps your fathers Priests Ministers Deacons Rectors Clarks
yet you say you and all the adjacent-churches will set apart a day publickly to fast and pray for a pardon c. I say the church in God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ 1 Thes 1.1 Which is the pillar ground of Truth 1 Tim. 3.15 doth deny you and all wrongers of God and men and persecuters of the Innocent and such as are called of men masters professing themselves Christs-Ministers and all such as deceive souls for dishonest gain and lives in perfection and such and the like miscarriages as you and your generation do and the prayers of the wicked are sin such as turneth their care from hearing the Law in the heart and of God Jer. 31.33 their prayer is an abomination to the Lord God Pro. 28. and 9. ver And such as you that neglect the work of God and lives in persecution the work of the Devill and in the miscarriages wronging God and men as you do they are those that turnes their care from hearing the law and their hearts from receiving the truth standing in opposition aganst it as you do and therefore their prayers are abomination to the Lord as yours and all that work such wickedness as you do is for thus faith the Lord unto such Isa 1.15 when ye spread forth your hands I will hâ—de mine eyes from you yea when you make many prayers I will not heare your hands are full of blood and hearts as well as houses are full of deceit and over passeth the deeds of the wicked Ier. 5.26 27. and such like and they that neglect the work of the Lord are cursed children having hearts exercised with covetuous practices 2 Pet. 2.3 13 14. And what Churches are you and you that are such who are in the cursed nature and wicked practices in sin and unturned to God Isa 59.2 What is your fasts worth that lives in strife and debate persecution and wickednesse behold in the day of your fasts do you not find pleasure And are you not bringing forth persecution as in this Nation is manifest as well as you exact all your labours Isa 58.3 behold do not ye fast as hypocrites and persecuters do that fast for strife and debate Matth. 23.4 5. c. who smite with the fists of wickednesse causing your voice to be heard on high afflicting the soul for a day and hanging down the head as a bullrush and instead of loosing the bands of witkedness you strengthen the hands of evil doers instead of undoing the heavy burthens you bind them Pharise-like upon mens shoulders and will not your selves touch them with one of your singers sueing some for Tythes and taking treble dammages c. And instead of letting the oppressed go free you and your generation cast the Innocent into prisons-holes and dungeons as your prisons in these parts against you may sufficiently witnesse and are not these the fruits of Jezabel and of the Hypocrites fast and not that which the Lord doth require Isa 58.3 5 6 7. Wherefore be ye witnesses against your selves that you walk in the false Prophets and Pharisees your fore-fathers steps as your fruits make you manifest and as you may read Math. 23.31 32 33 34. c and you have under a cover confessed the same who wants a pardon for your negligence in the work of God as you say for your former miscarriages which was before the 4. day of May as aforesaid and therefore you want a pardon for your perfecting and imprisoning of Tho. Goodaire once in Kiderminster twice in Worcester before that time and some others hath been imprisoned at Worcester and in Worcest Anne Himing Richard Keâ—bey for Tyths c. and many at Evesham since your hypocriticall false hearted and deceitfull confession promising amendement and rather growes worse and worse so manifesting your hypocrisie and filling up your measure of iniquity as your forefathers did leaving both your words and actions to be standing witnesses against you as they did that it may appeare for all your Evasions and Colourable glosses that you are their off-spring and beareth their marks by which you are known Maâ—th 7.20 Matth. 7.15 c. And seeing that your ministry takes little place in working any good effect in your hearers but leaves them ignorant in matters of salvation page 19. of your Agreement you are resolving in your wills and miscarrying wombe or nature and Spirit from whence your continued miscarriages proceeds to revive your fore-Fathers worke and set up a forme of words for them to get to say over to you as was used to be done to the Bishops at Trent or at Trull and you promise salvation upon the performance and threatens damnation upon the refusall Pope-like saying that that way of using Cathechising familiar and personall instruction and to have the people to get the Creed the Lords prayer and ten commandements or any other * And is not those which you call any other Orthodox Catechisme such as were set out by he old Bishops and their off-spring that were in the miscarriages as you also are c. And confesse page the 4. of your Agreement Orthodox Catechisme and your expositions to say over to you and so that will be a meanes you say to kill ignorance But the same meanes hath been used by the Bishops and Prelates and yet it hath not done that which you would have it to do and do you think that if it did not do it by your fore-Fathers applying that it receives any more vertue or power from you to do it by your revieing their work and useing the same meanes and with the same miscarrying nature and wrongfull Spirit which they did make use of it with all but your covers are too narrow and leaves you bare and ignorance remaines still amongst your hearers Math. 11.27.28.29 Act 4.11.12 Heb. 7.25 and the miscarriages amongst you their untaught teachers as it did with your fore-Fathers And you say the diligence of Papists and Sectaries will condemne you if you will not do halfe so much in a right way to save mens soules Math. 6.24 Math. 7.13.14 â—5 16.17.18 â—9 28 as they will do in a wrong way to pervert them would you not here have people to set you up as their saviour and so cause them to neglect coming from you to look unto Christ for teaching who is a true Saviour and teacher of his people and perfectly able to save all that come unto God by him without you but your designe is seeme and all your covers will not hide you who seeks to cast that off from you to the Papist and Sectaries which your selves are guilty of and found in for if the way of neglecting the work of God and living in miscarriages wronging Christ and Men growing worse and running yet further from God as you do and have done be not the wrong way and destructive to mens souls what is for there is but two waves the right and
the rule of creating of Priests Ministers Pastors Teachers and Rectors or ordering amongst them c. untill the raigne of Henry the 8th in this realme and then did not he cut the Pope out off that which he had brought forth into Parochiall rights so called as Tithes Obventions c. And did not he set up Arch-bishops and Bishops and they created or called your fore-Fathers the Priests Pastors and Rectors and Teachers c And were not the Arch-Bishops their and your Creators or Callers cut off by the late Parlirment and rendered uselesse and do not you now call and create one another and if so are not you selfe-callers to selfish Ministry and how can you cleare your selves from being instead of young Popes or like the young Bishops that were before you creating or making and calling Priests Pastors Teachers and Rectors and so self-callers of self-seekers putting out and in at your pleasure displeasure so are creating begetting or calling one another for your own ends now are found as you say wrongers of Christ and men and therefore may well fear that God will require their blood at your hands and so you are on uncertain grounds men also as you say of miscarriages growing worse and are yet without pardon for the same The papists sets up a worship in their wills and in that nature which teacheth them to neglect the great work of God according to his word and do not they excommunicate such as will not walk with them in their inventions and worship their Imaginary worship set up in that nature out of which ariseth all Miscarriages c. and do not you promise the same And then wherein do you and the Papists differ but onely in the maner if you do so agree in the matter and be all one in the main c. It is not your calling others Papists that are not that can cleare you from that root neither doth your saying that you are the Ministers of Christ prove you to be so who are found out of his doctrin and not knowing his commandes or call his ministry and worship that refuse his way and walk in the practice of his ministers who your selves are Lords and Masters and called by man approved sett up and are receiving your wages of the world and persecuting Christs messengers that are sent to witnesse against deceits and deceivers and would think to make people believe you to be that which you are not by casting that upon others which is yours received from your fore-fathers and returns upon you and Papists again to remain from whence it came and the burthen you are like to bear and judgment from God expect for the wrong against him and men which you do and have done And now that your deceits is made manifest and testified against you are seeking to revive your former work to deceive people by your flatteries and false confessions and Colourable glosses for you set up your will-worships in the nature which is contrary to God and hath taught you to neglect his work as you say according to his word in that nature by which you have been led into your miscarriages and promiseth salvation upon the performance and damnation you threaten upon the refusall and say you shall proceed with those that refuse and deal with them as the obstinate despisers of Instruction ought to be dealt withall but are not you the obstinate despisers of the Instructions of the Lord who have neglected his work c. and lives in the miscarriages wronging Christ and men c then expect to be so dealt withall in the first place your selves for all this you say you will do to others c. whilst you are bewailing your own negligence in the work of God and confessing your Miscarrigaes and wrong by you done to God and men and telling of the little effect which your ministry hath wrought and of your peoples sleep in security and being in sin unturned to God and you had then to go a begging for your pardon May 4. 1655. And yet you being in the old birth and the fall in the evil nature bringing forth such evill fruits and whilst unpardoned you frame your Image resolves to go on and states your time layes your penalty and promise how you will deal with those that refuse to worship your Image set up in your wills the old nature and will not submit you threaten to deal with them as obstinate refusers of Instructions but is but such instructions as proceeds from your obstinate spirits which hath kept you in the Miscarriages and neglect of the work of God Luke 16.11 15. Luke 12.45 46 27. Math. 25.41 42. Matth. 7.21 22 23. c. wronging both Men and his Son and wants your pardon then as you say for the same and I say you cannot tell whether the Lord in the first place will deal with you as obstinate refusers of his Instructions and cast you out as unjust stewards for both your obstinacy neglâ—gence and wrong done to men and to Christ his Son he hath good grounds to proceed against you on and needs little evidence from others for your own mouths and tongues hath confessed the same and it had been wisdom to had waited till the triall had been over and to know whether you should have a pardon or be cast out for what you in the rebellion of your hearts against the Light and Living truth of God c. have already done And to see how you should have been dealt withall your selves for the same before you should have threatened what you would do to others Rom. 2.5 6 8 9. Rev. 14.9 10 11 Rev. 20.10 13 14 15. that refuseth your Instruction Remember That when you so said you was not then in the counsel of the Living God and therefore you spake it without the fear of God rashly out of a reprobate sence presumtuously saying so before your pardon for your high contempt that wronged Men and Christ c. and knew not but that you might be condemned at the judgment seat and cast out as reprobates and neglecters of the work of God and for your Miscarrariages c. into perdition and receive according to your deserts and into the pit which for others you have digged you your selves to be cast and be tormented for Joh. 16.13 Heb. 5.8 9. at the last In page the 4. you set up your will-worships which you call Catechisme end personal familiar instruction not being then pardoned nor knowing the Spirit of Christ to guide you out of your Error Heresie Miscarriages and Wrong by you done to men and to Christ page 19. to guide out of deceits flatteries into the truth which spirit is for instruction to guide all that obey it you say that Catechisme personal Instruction is for the killing of Ignorance and quickning the understanding and so puts that instead of the Spirit Eph. 2.1 Col. 3. Rom. 8.13
14. 1 Joh. 5 20 Joh. 14.26 which is to Instruct and kill Ignorance and quicken the understanding by bringing the things of Christ to remembrance as Christ hath said Joh. 14.26 but wanting the Spirit you set up your personal and familiar Instruction to do it as it appeares by page 21. you Intreat them there to come for some familiar conference and personal instruction for the lesse they know and remember the more help they need and you are there calling them to come to you that are untaught to deny your Miscarriages c. And coming from the sprituall teaching to your personall Instruction they come from the true meanes and helps and that is the cause why they do not profit andy on set up your paper and personal Instruction instead of the spirit of truth which is the guide into all truth John 16.13 and the remembrancer also killing Ignorance and is the meanes that prevents and keeps from it c. but you say your Catechisme and familiar and personall Instruction is so because you are Ignorant of the same you say you observe that the younger when they are once married will come no more to be Catechised publiquely and too many forget that which before they had learned which this course you say may prevent but it hath not prevented you the personall familliar structers for running into miscarriages and doing wrong to others neither doth it lead you out of it who are therein and without pardon for the same c. and is people so silly to think it will do it in them your hearers when it hath not yet done it in you their teachers and wrongers whereby you manifest your selves to be meer deluders and also deceivers though the blind see you not yet are you seen and your wayes and windings with the true light are discovered comprehended and with the light which you act contrary unto Joh. 8 12. stoh 14.6 Joh. 15.6 Heb. 5.8 9. Heb. 7.25 are you to be condemned You say page 4. that Catechising and personall Instruction is the doctrin of salvation You speak you know not what and without understanding of the way of salvation putting that in the rome of Christ who is the way to salvation John 14.6 he is the way to the father Then your Catechisme and familiar personall Instruction is not the way for it is not Christ and no man can come to the Father but by him John 14.6 And he is perfctely able to save to the utmost all those that come unto God by him Gal. 1.9 10. Heb. 7.25 without your Catechisme or personall and familiar Instruction which is set up in your old evil and miscarrying nature Prge 19. and 29. who yet know not the way of salvation that are seting up a way of your own and turning thereby people as much as in you lieth from Christ the true way to walk in yours who are cursed Children neglecters of the work of God and in your miscarriages wanting your pardon for that and your wrong done to Christ and to men c. when you so said and then you set up your Image and stayed your time saying you would set a convenient stated time for that work in your Parishes telling people you will grant their desires and examine some privatly some openly or as they please and so manifest your selves to be men pleasers and time-servers when you will and as you will to please people for your own ends rather then lose your gain and if their soules perish you will take their moneyes and meanes and tell them on their death bed when you visit the sick that you dare not speak a word of Comfort unto them yet you dare take their money in their life time for your deceiving and dead dark dry barren and uncomfortable doctrine and now that your preaching is found so useless you cry up your Catechisme and personal familiar Instructions at a very high rate saying it is that which life or death must depend upon page 10. but what will it effect more then your preaching hath done even leave people as they was except in conceits higher and grow into Ignorance of the power of truth and way of salvation for all that when they have done as they yet are and also Ignorant of what you your solves have many years taught them whose doctrin deceives their soules and deprives them of understanding the same And if they perish in their Ignorance are not you the cause of it who sayes in page 11. you find by experience that the people understand not your publick preaching though you study to speak as plain as you can Isa 55.2 Jer. 23.30 31 32. c. but do you not take their money for the same and so for that which is not bread neither doth it profit their souls and that after many years too many you say can scarce tell any thing you have said therefore you and they may see how little they are benefited by you and what little use your studied stuffe is of and how uselesse that is which you study and invent in that old miscarrrying nature which doth deprive peoples understandings of knowing the truth and so keeps them in blindnesse and Ignorance of the onely true God And therefore as you say in page 19. you are wrongers of Christ and of them and may well fear that God will require their blood at your hands who make it manifest that you have run unsent and your ministry doth not profit the people at all And how should it be otherwise being untaught your selves to come out of your self-ends but are in the negligence of the work of God and the miscarriages c. ministring from the same spirit your fore-fathers time servers and men pleasers did Jer. 23.1.16.20 21 ver it appeares by the Statute of 25. H. 8. Cap. 21. The Pope cast out for his miscarriages and usurpation and beguiling the people c that were not the servants of Christ and now you are mainfest to be the unprofitable servants and ministry for to be accounted or rendered vselesse as theirs is or be holden accursed as it is said in Gal. 1.8 9. 2 Cor. 16.22 The Pope that had the rule amongst Tythes and such like things c. till Hen. 8. here in England was not he put out for his miscarriages and after the Pope was put out by Hen. 8. did not then the Arch-Bishops bear rule in his stead and set up Priests Rectors and Curates and did not they as you do and all their Branches as Prelates Episcopals Priests Rectors and Curates c. open their mouthes wide to speak first in their own cause and behalf to cry up themselves by the name of the Ministers of Christ as you do and did not they cry up their ministry and meanes as Jure divino but they were discovered and made manifest that they was not so And your fore-fathers the Arch-bishops Bishops c. were found in Miscarriages
said to be given only to God and the holy Church which is in the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ and both without corruption and sinister affection whose ministry is free and not put to sale as yours is which is not the true Church but the false whose Teachers are men of miscarriages wronging Christ and men growing worse prone to do more evill as well as their people running yet further from God and so themselves making manifest or rendring their ministry to be unprofitable and uselesse and how should you chuse but have untaught Children and families where there is such untaught Teachers and men of miscarriages c as you are And you may see what disorder you are in now that you begin as you say to be awakened It doth appeare you were asleep in security or in the sleepie dreaming condition desiling the flesh which Jude speaks of and in sin unturned to God Jude 7.8 Isa 59.2.3.4.5 6. like those the Prophet Isaiah speaks of that saw it not before and did not the Lord send his servants to awaken you and complaine against you for it and for your own disorderlinesse first before you confessed the same which since you covertly have done but when will you amend and returne for as there is untaught Teachers men of miscarriages and growing worse c. so is there untaught Children and Families also in other places under the same professed Ministry of yours Children howling and yelling like young bruites casting stones and dirt at Christians in the streets and parents looking on countenanceing the same and some of those untaught Children confessing that there was of the magistrates also that did encourage them in it and likewise some of the Teachers hath been heard to say when boyes stoned and abused the servants of Jesus which were sent to declare against their deceipts Let the boyes alone with them and they will order them c. when they were stoning and abusing the Babes and Lambes of God And is not these boyes and untaught Children and familyes you speake of encouraged in their miscarriages unmannerlinesse and misbehaviour c. both by their parents as well as Preists their teachers and also by some of the magistrates and doth not those that are the molt untaught Children and families who lives in unmannerlinesse disorder misbehaviour and miscarriage like you their teachers that therein groweth worse and runneth further from God the most act with club and fist stoning and reviling for you the Parish Masters and untaught teachers and are they nor a great help to you and such as are in union with deceipt unmannerlinesse misbehaviour and miscarriages to help to support the Kingdom of darknesse and to help to carry on the work of Antichrist but when will you teach them better or indeed how should they do otherwise whilst they have and follow for their example such untaught teachers and men of miscarriages c. that are the cheife actors themselves in persecution and lives in miscarriages growing worse therein and wronging Christ and them as you say you do and therefore the Scripture is fulfilled upon you where it saith The leaders of the people cause them to erre and they that are led of them are destroyed Isa 9.16 For there is like Preists like people as saith the Prophet Hosea 4.9 therefore the Lord will have no joy in their young men neither will he have mercy on their Fatherlesse and widows for every one In the miscarriages wronging Christ and men growing worse and running further from God c. is an hypocrite and an evil doer Isa 9.16.17 like you the blind leaders of them and evill examples that causeth them to erre who your selves are in the miscarriages as you say wronging Christ and them c. And so it is manifest as your Agreement doth declare as well as your fruits who your selves say instead of amending and turning to God you grow worse and run yet further from him therefore may it not be concluded that the Lord will have no joy in you nor mercy on you whil'st you do so who are the hypocrits and the evill doers And you say when you come to visit the sick you would faine speake a word of comfort to their departing souls but dare not do it page 29. of your Agreement but had it not been more honest for you to have delt plainly and say when you goe to visit the sick you would speake comfort to them but cannot do it because you were never appointed for it being in the miscarriages and growing worse and wrongers both of them and of Christ But you say you dare not do it because you find them so carnall and ignorant therefore I say they are most like unto your selves naturally dead in sin as you say prone to do more evill daily growing worse and running yet further from God Therefore as the people are carnall Isa 9.15.16 Hos 6.9 Hosea 4.9 and ignorant so are the Priests and like unto like being of one evill nature and guided by a wrongfull Spirit likewise your people they may see that though they fight with club and fist for you yet you cannot help them nor speake any comfort to them when they are on their death beds and stand most in need of you if you could do them any good but cannot who in that miscarrying nature and Spirit by which you wrong Christ and them never were appointed for it And as your ministry hath not profited them in their life time so it is as uselesse to them on their death beds and yet you would not dare to take Wages and Tithes c of those that were and are so carnall and ignorant which you cannot speake a word of comfort to on their death beds because you want it for them and therefore you make it manifest that instead of preaching for the good and comfort of souls you preach for Tithes and your own ends and if they perish so that you have but your own ends accomplished and earthly gaine advanced what matter you even nothing at all for when they are on their death bed you come off with a shuffle or a shifting trick saying you dare not speak a word of comfort to them when indeed you cannot but when did you say you durst not take Tithes and hundreds a yeare because your people are carnall and ignorant but you dare take that though jour ministry profit them nothing neither in their life-time nor at their latter end Therefore it is high time for them to looke about them and cease from you that they may forsake the evill and turne to God the teacher of his people and waite upon him for instruction the manifestation festation of whose Spirit is given to such as obey him to profit withall 1 Cor. 12.7 though your ministry be uncomfortable uselesse and unprofitable yet his is usefull comfortable and profitable and also free without sale and to be had without mony or mony-worth Isa 55. 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are Satanical for all their colourable glosses being in the miscarriages charging God with an Imperfect work page 18.19 of their Agreement wrongers of him of men and of Christ his Son but they are seen and made manifest and wo will be your portion that knowingly in their deceits joynes with them doth uphold them and did not the cheif Priests or the Devill in them and in the Scribes and Pharisees preach the letter of the Scriptures Isa 9.15 16. Isa 3.11 Hos 6.9 Joh. 5.39 40. Isa 2.12 Luke 20.12.19 20 21 23 27 28 45 46 47. verses but wanted the life of them as your Priests do who are wrongers of Christ and of you as they say and made use of it to tempt Christ withall but they and such like were and are for the greater condemnation as Christ hath said Marke 12.38 39 40. And doth not the Devill now in the chief Priests Persecuters Proud Covetous Envious ones and their disciples preach the letter of the Scripture and are out of the life of them seeking honour one of another as the enemies of Christ did that had the letter but wanted the life Joh. 5.39 40 41 42 43 44 And do not they make use of the letter that are out of the life make use of it to oppose the naked truth withall Do not Proude ones preach the letter of the Scripture yet live in Pride and Coveteousnesse or in union with the life of the Devill who is the King of Pride and enemy of all unrighteousnesse c. And doth not the Devill in Proud and Covetous ones as well as Envious and persecuters c. teach them to wrest the Scriptures for their own ends and to plead for pride c under such covers which are not with the spirit of the Lord though the woe from God be against them denounced Isa 3.11 Isa 20 Isa 30. 2 Pet. 3.16 Isa 30.1 c. And doth not the Devill in Covetous ones teach them to break the command of God which forbids covetousnesse And doth not the Devill in Covetous ones and self-seekers c. 2 Tim. 3.1 2. c. now in these latter dayes teach them for their own ends to make use of and preach the letter of the Scripture when they are transgressors of the commands of God and persecuting and killing the Innocent for he that persecutes and Envies the righteous seed he is a murtherer and is out of the life of the Spirit of God as faith the Scriptures 1 Joh. 3.22 15 And so in the lust of the Devill Joh. 8.44 And in union with the Image of Pride in proud flesh and bowing to it with capp and knee as well as worship an Imaginary and false worship and transgresseth the commands of God and therefore must drink deep of his wrath Rev. 14.9 10 11. And if covetousnesse is Idolatry then both Covetous Priests and People are Idolaters and therefore are they and all false worshippers and bowers to the Image of Pride one in another who are persecuters of the righteous seed both transgressors of the commands of God and out of the new bath new nature and out of the new Covenant and life of God and in old envy Wrath Lust Self-Love pride vain glory and then are they not still in union with the life of the Devill which evill fruits floweth there from and doth not the Devil in Pope Papist as well as in prelates persecuting self-seeking Priests Pastors Vicars Rectors and Proud painted Antichristian Ministers make use of and preach the Letter of the Scripture being without the life of truth and in the nature of the Devill and are not you that are wrongers of Christ and in Miscarriages c. and they guided by an evil spirit Joh. 8.39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48.52 verses and in union with that evil nature as the Jews and cheif Priests and such was that persecuted Christ Jesus yet they preached the letter and spake of Moses and the prophets for their own ends by the Spirit of the Devill Joh. 8.39 and would not receive the truth nor forsake their Sins Pride Will-worship Self-love Covetousnesse Self-righteousnesse vain glory and honour of the world but refused to deny self take up the daily crosse and come unto the life and power of truth so that Christ complained against them Joh. 5.40 and letting their visitation slip he wept over them Joh. 5.40 41 42 43 44. and therefore that you may come to understand the truth learn to pray and preach aright minde to be obedient to the Light of Christ in your consciences which reproves in secret for evil and doth convince you of sin self righteousnesse unbeliefe Pride Covetousnesse Persecution the love and honour of the world unrighteousnesse and your Miscarriages and of the wrong you do to Christ and men and as your duty is to depart from iniquity so you are to yield unto the light and follow the same that you may come out of your miscarriages and cease doing wrong to Christ men forsake the evil of your wayes by the light discovered cease to do evil and learn of that which is good for to do well which reproves you for the evil that you may come out of the wrong way unto the right and know the power of truth manifested and Christ at work in your hearts and soules destroying the Pride Lust Covetousnesse Self-love vain glory unbeliefe and so all unrighteousnesse as it is discovered to you and also beget you obeying and following the light into righteousnesse pure unfained love and out of the Hypocrisie into the faith unfained and true patience perfecting his work that it may possesâ— your soules and dispossess impatience and distrust that your soules may come into joy and peace through the working of the power of God killing sin and quickening you by his spirit begetting and bringing forth that which is pure holy just and good to be your rule and guide as in such it is where the birth is known that is of the spirit of Gods then might you call him Father by divine right and so in truth and righteousnesse with the spirit and true spirituall understanding might you pray with such a right as of Christ are taught and are guided by the Spirit of God c. to say Our Father which art in Heaven Hallowed be thy name and then would you hallow and so Sanctify the name of the Lord God in your hearts and be ready thereby without your Miscarrying priests to give an answer to every man that shall aske you a reason of the hope that is in you with meeknes and fear 1 Pet. 3.15 having a good conscience as the Saints and Children of God the Father hath and aforetime had 1 Pet. 3.16 in which the mystery of faith is held 1 Tim. 3.9 and not in your Miscarrying nature or a piece of paper from your untaught teachers that know not God nor his eternall Living word but are wrongers
as themselves confesse both of you and Christ and because they transgresse and abide not in the doctrin of Christ they have not God 2 Joh. 9. but are under condemnation condemned by that which their dark minde cannot comprehend and whilst they and you wrong men and Christ and so regard iniquity in your hearts God will not regard your prayers Psal 66.18 And let those that use the words and say Our Father c. learn to know whether or no they yet be Children and Sons of God For if lyers and wicked ones say Our Father which art in Heaven they are in the Miscarriages and speak without understanding And if Enviers Drunkards Proud and Covetous ones such as are persecuters and in the old nature not born again say our Father which art in Heaven do not they show their Ignorance of their Father who hath begotten them into Pride Covetousnesse Drunkennesse Lying and Dissembleing Isa 28. Mal 4. Rom. 1.18 28.29 verses and into all unrighteousnesse and the perfection of wickednesse and do they not pray without understanding for saith Christ to such Ye are of your Father the Devill take notice of that also read John 8.44 And know you not that the unrighteous ones are shut out of the Kingdom of God 1 Cor. 6 9.10 And the unclean abominable and lyers shall not in any wise enter as you may read Gal. 5.19 20 21. Rev. 21.8 27. And remember that the Devill who is the King of pride and Father of the unfaithfull such as are neglecters of the work of God and they that are wrongers of men and of Christ such as are in the Miscarriages Persecuters and unrighteous and the Father of lyers he is cast down out of Heaven Therefore when you that are such prayes as you say to a Father in Heaven do you not pray without knowledge of your Father Math. 25.41 to the end Psal 9.17 and so without understanding for the Devill is the Father of persecuters seed of evil doers and of lyers do you not know that he is in hell and the wicked as well as all that forgett God must be turned in thither Psal 9.17 And when you say Hallowed be thy Name such as do not sanctifie the Lord God in their hearts do not hallow his Name for to hallow is to sanctifie but liars swearers cursed speakers stoners revilers persecuters of the children of God and all covetous and malitious ones and such as are in the miscariages wrongers of Christ and of men c. that lives and acts in ungodlinesse deceit and filthinesse dishonours the Name of the Lord and therefore they do not hallow it but as James saith they blaspheme the worthy Name who have the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ with respect or persons and being out of the truth and partial Jam. 2.1 2 3 4 5 6 7. become Judges of evil thoughts who despise the poor and oppresse the saints and servants of God drawing them before the judgment-seat and blaspheming that worthy name by which they are called as it is written Jam. 2.7 And do you not know that when the name of the Lord is polluted and blasphemed that he is highly dishonoured and sore offended and Christ Jesus hath said that the sin of blasphemy against the holy Ghost shall never be forgiven neither in this world nor that which is to come therefore look to it all that are such and you that lives in persecutions and miscarriages who are wrongers of Christ and of men c. And when you say Thy kingdom come thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven I say such as are in the miscarrying nature and without the true Spirit and spiritual understanding and wrongers of the Lord Jesus how should you know it when and where it is both come and preached for it consisteth not in pride and vain glory persecution miscarriages wronging God and men and eating and drinking to satisfie the lust nor in unrighteousnesse for that is the kingdom of the devil which consisteth therein See if you know not that kingdom come and set up in your hearts though you be strangers to the other And how can you believe that seek honour one of another and doth not deny your wills and worldly honours c. to seek the honour that cometh of God only and do his will Joh. 5.44 Who instead of seeking his kingdom and doing his will are doing your own and seeking the kingdom of the world and the unrighteousnesse thereof and not the kingdom of God which consisteth in righteousnesse peace and joy in the holy Ghost and not in the miscarriages persecution and wronging men and Christ and growing worse c. And when you pray that the will of God may be done on earth as it is in heaven see that you do his will as it is of you required and bear not false witnesse against any the Lord doth forbid it nor envy in your hearts that is a killing and murdering the Lord is against it Matth. 19.18 1 Ioh. 3.12.15 and if you do the will of God persecution and lying will cease amongst you and so will the issue of slander and deceit be stopped and if you do the will of God swear not at all Iam. 5.11 then will oaths be cut off for remember that the Lord Jesus repealed oaths Matth. 5.34 And such as swear by the Lord shall be cut off Zepha 1.4.5 And lie not one to another Col. 3.9 then will truth take place Do not oppresse nor use any defraud nor deceit but do that which is altogether just for this is the will of God 1 Thes 4.3 4 5 6. And if you would have the will of God done it is his will that you should obey him and deny your selves and see that you do his will as it is required of you for he saith Let every one that names the Name of the Lord depart from iniquity and that is his will 2 Tim. 2.19 He hath so determined it in heaven left upon record in scripture and witnessed to with that in your consciences which calls for purity and equity and reproves for your miscarriages sin and iniquity but you and such as you are are ready to plead for iniquity and say they cannot depart from it here in this life c. though God requires it and command it And such as so rebelliously refuse to do the will of God are in danger of being guilty of the sin against the holy Ghost and their case is dangerous that sins wilfully after grace received who refuse to do the Will of God Heb. 10.26 27. And if you or any say Who hath resisted the will of God I say there is a question asked and it is answered that such as resists the holy Ghost resists the will of God but the uncircumcised in hearts and ears alwaies resists the holy Ghost Acts 7.51 52. Therefore they in that nature who wrong Christ and men and lives in miscarriages knowing the same
to God who scarse can speak a word of sence as in your accusation against them you say about the matters of Salvation and you are the wrongers of Christ and them page the 19. who ate dead in sin and prone to do more evil continually promising amendment but instead of amending are accusing your selves and sayes you grow worse and depart yet further from God Answer the third of your Catechisme therefore you do not truly repent that doth not heartily return out of your Miscarriages and from the flesh and the world unto God then you do not believe nor receive Christ by an effectuall faith who are turned wrongers of him and therefore in not loving the good and forsaking the evil to turn out of your Miscarriages and from the world unto God you that are wrongers of men and him and lives in such disobedience you are not doing all that which your selves say is to be done the which being neglected and undone is cause of damnation then are not you in that condition consider of it that neglects the work of God and leaves it undone and instead of doing it continues in your miscarriages the works of the Devill growing worse as you say and are running further from God therefore you are not running for him nor doing his work take notice of that And if your people get the words which you set them to get will those sayings bring them into the effectuall faith and out of their Miscarriages unto repentance and throughly to forsake the Devill the World the Flesh and heartily turn them therefrom unto God c Or may not an Hypocrite and a dissembler get the words to say over and for all that remain an Hypocrite and a dissembler still and so be a child of the Devill and if you and they get the words to repeate or say over and tell of forsaking the Devill the World and the Flesh and of turning from them unto God and do not turne from them unto him nor come out of Miscarriages but grow worse doing wrong to men and Christ as you do who are also running further from God c. saying in words and faigned flatteries they will turn from the evil to the good c. and do not forsake the Devill the World the Flesh Joh. 8.34 Math. 23.14 16 but refuses to turn from them unto God are not such Hypocrits and Dissemblers who are sayers and not doers And are not such three-fold more the servants of sin and children of the Devill consider of it and deceive not your selves with shewes and pretences flatteries colourable glosses And do not you both tell the tale and give the answer and must not the people be bound by you to say as you say and speak your condition whether they be so or no for you speaking your own conditions saying you are dead in sin continually prone to evil growing worse yet runing further from God you would have all others to be or say so if they be not so but if they through the experience of grace and goodnesse received from God make reply and say we are quickened by grace and are growing in the same having received Christ by an effectual faith which purifieth our hearts and therefore we have forsaken the Devill the World and the Flesh and are unfainedly turned from them unto God and being born of God 1 Pet. 1.22.23 and guided by his Spirit we are made the Sons of God 1 Joh. 3.1 and so are heirs of Salvation Rom. 8.14 and are made pertakers of the Inheritance of the Saints in light for which we give thanks unto the Father who made us meet to be pertakers thereof Col. 1.14 and are come to the Spirits of just men made perfect and as we have received Christ Jesus the Lord so we walk in him rooted and built up in him and stablished in the faith as we have been taught Heb. 12.22 23. Col. 2.6 7. Col. 1.3 9 10. verses a-abounding therein with thanksgiving in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdome and knowledge for in him dwelleth all the fullnesse of the God-head bodily and the Saints are compleat in him who is the head of all principality and powers as the Scripture witnesseth and if they say so and say they witnesse with them would you not call such hereticks and say it were delusion or blasphemy and the like c And do not you in your Catechisme preach up the same in words as the condition of the obedient c. and if any witness the same condition which you tell them of and say I am a Son of God and heir of Salvation grow in perfection say you are out of the life of what you exhort to but are as you confesse wrongers of Christ neglecters of his work and therefore have not received him by the effectual faith neither have you forsaken the Devill that lives in perfection nor the flesh that are in Miscarriages nor the world that are prone to do evil and growing worse continually neither are you heartily nor in the least me a sure turned from them unto God who are as you say running yet further from him and therefore running from him are not sent of him and so cannot profit the people at all and in disobeying his law and wronging of him in wronging his Son and being still in the Miscarriages and growing worse c. you are not doing what you say is to be done upon pain of damnation and therefore not doing it but neglecting and leaving the same undone may it not be concluded from your own words being found in the neglect that you are for the damnation you speak of in your Agreement but would you not persecure them which witnesse the same in life and power which you speak of as the condition of the obedient who are Sons of God c. and tell you that you are out of the life of the same and are neither Sons nor Servants of God but wrongers of him and his who are in your Miscarriages and growing worse c. To speak Truth against deceit is no rayling And this is but according to what your selves say who are witnesses against your selves both accusing your selves your people in that called your Agreement who have fully laid open your deceit if you did but see it but is not the Serpent now as blind as ever he was Ignorant in the things of the Spirit of God Joh. 8.44 doth not well know his Fathers work and what he bringeth forth who assumed to call Abraham his Father when Christ sharply reproved him for it and said to the Serpents seed You are of your Father the Devill and his works you will do yet though he so said he did neither rail not revile neither were his sayings un Gospel like being thereunto guided by a gospel-Gospel-Spirit yet you will be ready to call that railing which is in reproofe to your deceit which
for the rich man to enter the Kingdome except he be stripped of his riches Pride Pompe and Vaine-glory and be thereunto fitted to enter by being made poore in Spirit and so it is said Blessed are the poore in Spirit for theirs is the Kingdom of God therefore before you enter the Kingdom you must be stript of selfe righteousnesse and come out of your miscarriages Math. 5.3 Math. 5.20 cease wronging Christ and men and be borne againe before you can enter the same Joh. 3.3.5 Joh. 3.9.10 therefore do not seeke to cover your selves and hide your miscarriages now that you have confessed them but come forth and forsake them for he that hides his sin shall not prosper and it is not sufficient for you to confesse your miscarriages and run on in them but after confession to forsake for he that confesseth and forsaketh shall find mery but so shall it not be with them that only confesse and grow worse who do not forsake them but run further on in them therefore consider and let truth and equity enter and do not account and reckon your selves to be dead unto sin and alive unto God whil'st you are naturally dead in sin and alive in persecution lust and miscarriages therein growing worse who are running yet fâ—rther from God least you make a wrong account and reckon amisse and though the man be blessed to whom the Lord doth not impute sin what is that to you to whom sin is imputed who are bewailing your negligence miscarriages and peoples ignorance who are growing worse and râ—nning further from God except you forsake your miscarriages and obey that which convinceth you of them that you may be led out of sin and turned to God and do not account the righteousnesse of Christ to be yours whilst you are holding the truth in unrighteousnesse which the wrath from God is revealed against for what fellowship hath righteousnesse with unrighteousnesse and what communion hath light with darknesse therefore turne to the light which shews you your darknesse sin and miscarriages and come out of fellowship with sin and unrighteousnesse as well as forsake your miscarriages and waite upon the light to know the righteousnesse revealed from faith to faith Rom. 1.18 2 Cor. 6.14 2 Coâ— 4 5 6 Rom. 16.17 Coll. 3. Rom. 5. â—7 Isa 55.6 7. for you must put off the old man with his deeds and come out of unrighteousnesse and put on the new man which after God is Created if you intend to be made partakers of his holinesse and the righteousnesse which is the gift of God therefore let the wâ—cked forsake his wayes and the unrighteous man his thoughts and turne to the Lord and he will have mercy on them but if you run on in your miscarriages and grow worse you run on in unrighteousnesse and forsake the mercy who instead of turning to God runs further from him therefore do not seeke to hide your sins any longer but come out of them and forsake them and thinke not to hide your selves and to make a cover for your miscarriages that you may grow worse and continue therein with saying Peter denied his Master and after found mercy but remember that when the Cock crew to put Peter in remembrace of what he had done he wept bitterly and made his returne manifest by coming out of his sin who did not afterward run on in the same nor any more deny Christ as he had done therefore if you take Peter for your example minde to follow his practice now that you are made sensible of your miscarriages weepe bitterly as Peter did humble your selves under the mighty hand of God be seperate from your sins and touch not the uncleane thing make your returne manifest as Peter did and cease doing wrong any more to Christ and men and instead of running from God turne to him that you may stand in awe and not sin and this is love to your soules if you can receive it The Vizard and Cover plucked off from the Wolves back under which he deceived and spoiled the sheep so that his envy and fury appeares or The tree is clearely knowne by the fruit which it beares c. You guilded Tombes and whited walls who have heaped up all the imaginations of all the generations of disobedience that have gone before who exceed in Arts and Notions and changeable religions who in your Townes have set up your severall likenesses so that of Images you have choice which you contend about and fight for and some of them you have set very high above the Gods of your Fathers their Surplesses Tippits and Alters Math. 7.15 16 17 18 19 20. c. But when will you behold what you haue brought forth more then another forme and likenesse in the same power is this all that you have been doing all this while to throw downe one Image and set up divers in the stead but no more life if theirs had lesse shew and as much life shall not they be your Judges when will you begin to judge the tree by its fruit Jer. 23.10 11.12 Isa 3.15 Jer. 5.1 2. Jer. 5.25 27 28 29 30 31. and manifest your God in power and not in words only when shall it appeare that your God is not an Image that he hath power in you over your wills and perverse wayes your lusts and pleasures and cursed covetous practices that the land may no longer mourne because of oathes not the poore groane because of oppression that the works of God may praise him through you in the streets and that it may he once said againe intruth The Lord liveth even the Lord our righteousness Immanuell who worketh all our works in us and for us and not your practices to testifie against you to your faces And you Teachers of all sorts who are trying one another in your selfish natures when will you try your own hearts Isa 56 9 10 11. and Judge and suffer the light of Christ to lay open your abominations to your faces that you may see and forsake that for which you have been so often reproved Mica 3.11 Jer. 29. Ezek. 34. Math. 23. and for which you are so much offended to heare of you that pretend to be in place to reprove others do you not reprove your own selves who are in the steps of the false Prophets Scribes and pharises Is it no sin to be called of men Masters nor to seeke for your gaine from your quarter to beare rule by your meanes to preach for hire and p ophesie for money will you live in these things which did ever burthen the Spirit of God And is this all your confession amendment to call them railers who tell you of it Are these wayes lesse horrible since the Scriptures did witness against them then they were in your fore-fathers which had none or is it more raling now then it was before the Scriptures were written can you stop the cry of God