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A64255	A few necessary questions & conclusions for the present parish-teachers of England, &c deeply to ponder and answer in God's fear, for the good of their own and the peoples souls that are under them, for the Lord is arisen to call all things into judgment.	Taylor, Thomas, 1618-1682.	1670 (1670)	Wing T573; ESTC R9060	7,076	16

Christ only who saith Without me ye can do nothing so then this evil Custom of your undertaking being derogagatory to the Honour of Christ who can say that God hath required it at your Hands but if you will yet plead for it shew us your Scripture for it if you would be esteemed to act as Protestants and not as Papists and to own Scripture above mens Inventions and Traditions 3. Also what Scripture have you for your Surplice Canonical Coats Typpets c. and for wearing Black rather then other Colours seeing the Apostle blamed such as placed Religion in Dayes Meats and the like surely he would not agre with such as place their Religion in Garments and Colours blessed be the Lord whose Day is dawned which makes all things manifest and none will hate the Light of it but Evil-doers 4. And what Scripture have you for your Tythes Easter-reckonings Mortuaries and the like now under the Gospel and for your Laws which you call spiritual to compel the People to pay you them seeing Christ is come the End of that Levitical Priesthood under which Tythes were payable by a Law 5. What Scripture have you who profess your selves to be Cbristians for your Swearing swearing in your Courts so called swearing in your Spiritual Courts so called the poor people called Church-Wardens groan under the Burden of this evil Custom O this is far from following Christ who said and saith unto his Swear not at all but you are grown to that pass that you cannot trust one another without Swearing no not in your Church-matters is not this a Fruit of Apostacy and departing from that ancient Faith which was once delivered to the Saints 6. And what Scripture have you forgiving David's Prayers Prophecyings Roarings Quakings Tremblings and Confessions in Rhyme and Meeter to the VVorld to sing who are of another Spirit then David was and so utterly unacquainted with David's Conditions and so instead of singing with the Spirit and Understanding as the ancient Christians did you sing in a Form without the Power thereby not honouring but rather dishonouring the Lord who is a Spirit and will be worshipped in Spirit and Truth 7. And what Scripture have you for teaching People to worship one another and for your Ring in Marriage where you teach them to say With this Ring I theewed and with my Body I thee worship Is not God alone to be worshipped how then are such to be accounted Christian Ministers who abide not in his Doctrine 2 John 9. And lastly seeing you pretend to be Christ's Ministers and so God's Free men I ask you these few plain Questions further Gal. 1. 10. viz. 1. Why do you limit your selves or suffer others to limit you to such and such Forms of Words and Gestures and Apparel as is in Use amongst you in all your Services is it from any Excellency you see in those Words or Forms more then in any other or is it because you are so weak of Judgment or brittle of Memory as that you can do little without Book or is it not rather for filthy Lucre sake you are willing to be so ty'd because you know that without Conformity to the Wills of the great Ones in this Matter you can get no Power to compel Peoples earthly things from them O what will not the Love of Money compel covetous minded People unto 2 Tim. 6. 10 11. 2. What is it that makes you go to the Bishop rather then any other Man or Men for Ordination as you call it Is it because you know or believe that he is more holy then any other or hath more Power to confer any spiritual Gift upon you by Imposition of his Hands more then any other If you say he hath where had he it and wherein doth it appear or is it not rather that you go now to the Bishop for Ordination as you or your Brethren went formerly to the Classical Presbytery so called in Oliver's time because this is the Way now as the other was formerly to impower you to come into Parishes be their Teachers and command their earthly things from them by Force whether you do any spiritual Work for them or no yea from such as in the Lord's Light see you to be no Ministers of the Spirit and therefore not able to minister spiritual things and therefore deny you Oh that ever such a thing should be among such as profess to be Gospel Ministers 3. Whether do you believe that all things in the Church ought to be done and spoken in the alone Power and Spirit of the Lord Jesus and if so then how can you expect but that God will overturn overturn all Things until he to wit the Lord Jesus Christ to whom all Power in Heaven and Earth it given comes to rule in alland over all to whom of Right it belongs So be it And what is the Cause that you are so dark in your Minds as concerning the Mystery of Christ's Kingdom and the spiritual saving Power thereof if it be not that mentioned in the third Chapter of Micah 's Prophecy verse 5 6 7. where it is written Thus saith the Lord concerning the Prophets that make my People err that bite with their Teeth and cry Peace and he that putteth not into their Mouthes they even prepare War against him therefore Night shall be unto you that you shall not have a Vision and it shall be dark unto you that you shall not divine and the Sun shall go down over the Prophets and the Day shall be dark over them then shall the Seer she ashamed and the Diviners be confounded yea they shall all cover their Lips for there is no Answer of God So be not proud for the Lord hath spoken but see in the Dread and Fear of God how you can acquit your selves from the Charge against false Prophets and Teachers mentioned in this Paper and more abundantly in the Scriptures for if you be found in their Sins how can ye escape their Plagues Rev. 18. 4. For Wo will be to them that seek deep to hide their Counsel from the Lord and their Works are in the dark and they say who seeth us and who knoweth us see Isa. 29. from ver 10. to ver 16. Read and consider and be wise for your Souls From one who travails for the Prosperity of Sion Tho. Taylor

A Few Necessary Questions Conclusions for the present Parish-Teachers of ENGLAND c. Deeply to Ponder and Answer in God's Fear for the Good of their own and the Peoples Souls that are under them for the Lord is arisen to call all things into Judgment 1. WHether any can be said to be true Gospel Ministers who are not sent of Christ as Christ was sent of the Father seeing Christ said As my Father hath sent me even so send 1 you for all Power is given me in Heaven and Earth Joh. 20. 21. 17. 18. Mat. 28. 18. 2. Whether any can be justly blamed for not hearing or upholding such as are not thus sent of Christ seeing Christ said My Sheep hear my Voice and a Stranger they will not follow for they know not the Voice of a Stranger Joh. 10. 1 Joh. 4. 3. Whether it be not the greatest Presumption for any upon what Pretence soever to take upon them to be Embassadors for Christ the great King who were never authorized or commissionated thereto by Christ as aforesaid it being his proper Right to send forth his own Labourers 4. Whether any who are not thus sent of Christ as Christ was sent of the Father can profit the People at all though they have never so much Authority from Man or be furnished with never so much Oratory or Wisdom of Words or Excellency of Speech according to Man seeing the Scripture testifieth The World by Wisdom knew not God 1 Cor. 1. And if any should say How was Christ sent or can any be sent now as Christ was sent I answer Christ was sent in the Wisdom Power and Spirit of the endless Love and Life of the Father to preach the Kingdom of God and the everlasting Gospel thereof as it 's said Luke 4. 18. The Spirit of the Lord is upon me for he hath anointed me to preach the Gospel to the poor c. and so were the true Ministers formerly sent of Christ Luke the last 49. Acts 26. 16 17. Acts 20. 28. Joh. 16. 13 14 15. 2 Cor. 3. 5 6. And as in all former Ages all the true Messengers and Ministers of God and Christ were sent in the VVisdom Power and Spirit of God and Christ and thereby directed and guided in their Work both when to whom and what to speak Jer. 17. c. Ex. 3. 10. c. Ames 7. 14. 16. Acts 10. 19 20. Acts 8. 26 27 29. 1 Cor. 2. 12 13. Gal. 2. 7 8. Even so are Christ's true Messengers and Ministers sent now and alwayes must be because without Christ they can do nothing Joh. 15. 5. and because no Man knows the Things of God but the Spirit of God and therefore without that Spirit it must needs be impossible for any either rightly to know or minister the Things of God ● Cor. 2. 7. c. and so saith Christ I am with you not some but all my Servants Joh. 17. 20 21 22. not for a time only but alwayes even to the End of the World Mat. 28. 20. And therefore faith the Apostle How can they preach except they be sent to wit as Christ was Luke 4. 18. c. as is plain by the Apostle's applying that in general to Christ's Ministers which the Prophet speaks in the singular number of Christ Rom. 10. 15. compared with Isa. 52. 7. Again Christ was sanctified and sent so are also his Messengers and Ministers sanctified sent as Lambs among Wolves Joh. 17. 16 17 18 19. c. Isa. 6. 7 8. Let no unsanctified man here shelter himself under Judas who was only for the turn of fulfilling the Scripture numbred amongst the twelve but not at all for a Pattern of true Gospel-Ministers Again Christ came not to do his own Will but the Will of him that sent him and so it is with every one that Christ sends and who abide in his Doctrine and as Christ endured the Contradiction of Sinners against himself with all Patience even so do all he sends and who abide in his Doctrine not avenging themselves but committing their Cause to God who is the Avenger of all Wrongs done to his Servants Also seeing Christ said The Tree is known by its Fruits and by their Fruits ye may know such as come to you in Sheeps Cloathing but are inwardly ravening VVolves Mat. 7. 15. Therefore is is further asked of you 1. VVhether such as love to be called of men Master which Christ forbad Mat. 23. 10 11 12. or seek and affect other Titles of worldly Honour and to be great and to exercise Lordship in the Earth like the Gentiles do not plainly manifest themselves to be such as Christ is not with seeing he said to his It shall not be so amongst you Mark 10. 24. c. And how can they believe saith Christ who receive Honour one of another and seek not that Honour which comes from God only Joh. 5. 44. 2. Whether such as make Merchandize of their Words even selling them as it were for Money by agreeing with the People for so much a Year to settle at a Place for preaching c. and yet will not settle at a Place as Teachers but where they know before-hand so much Hire or certain yearly Maintenance provided for them seconded with the worldly Power to compel People to pay it them or by Force to take it from them whether they will or no I say is not this a manifest Token that such Ministers are not sent of Christ seeing he said to his Freely ye have received freely give and the Apostle said We seek not yours but you but if you say the same Apostle also said If we have ministred to you spiritual Things is it a great Matter if we partake of your carnal Things 3. The I query to let pass the Question here concerning what you minister whether it is spiritual or carnal whether ever the Apostle or any true Minister of God and Christ either under the Law or Gospel did ever use any other Means for that they had allowed them of God but the Power of the VVord only Or did ever the Apostle or any Minister of Christ receive much less compel by worldly Force any Maintenance for preaching from such as denyed them to be true Ministers And so such now as not only compel Wages from their own Hearers but even from such as they do no Work for do plainly manifest by their Fruits that they have run God never sent them and are so far from being Successors of the Apostles in their spiritual and heavenly Ministry as that they merit to be accounted of the Kind or old Eli's Sons who by their Doings caused the Offerings of the Lord to be abhorred 1 Sam. 2 from ver 12. to 18. 4. Whether such as cannot content themselves with the In-comes of one Parish though it be sixty eighty or one Hundred Pounds a Year but seek after one or more Parishes or Places of Revenue besides are not out