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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

of Measure covetous and so palpably out of the Doctrine of Christ and so Idolaters seeing the Apostle saith Covetousness is Idolatry Ephes. 5. 5. 5. Whether did ever any Minister of Christ's sending preach up the Tenth of Peoples of Labour or Encrease of the Earth and earthly things as a standing Gospel-maintenance for his Ministers seeing the Apostles VVritings are wholely silent in the thing And now if any of you in your high Minds think much or strange to be question'd concerning these things such may know that these are the latter Dayes spoken of by Jeremiah Chap. 23. 20 21. wherein God hath done and is doing great things for his People And in the latter Dayes saith the Prophet there you shall consider perfectly of the pouring forth of God's Wrathful Indignation upon the false Prophets and Teachers who have run and God never sent them as also throughout that whole 23d Chapter of Jeremiah is to be seen also concerning the false Prophets and Teachers you may read John 10. 1. c. Isa. 56. 9. c. Ezek. 34. 1. Mic 3. 2 Pet. 2. with divers other Scriptures which speak of the false Prophets and Teachers also of the true ones from all which these few amongst many plain necessary Conclusions following may be gathered viz. 1. The true Prophet Messenger or Teacher is sent of God as before in the Power and Spirit of God with the living VVord of God which is as a Hammer and a Fire to break the hard Hearts in sunder and to burn up the Chaff and Dros in the Minds of disobedient People who know God's VVill but do it not but hold the Truth in Unrighteousness The false Prophet or Teacher he runs in his own Will having stoll'n the Word from his Neighbour useth his Tongue to say the Lord saith when the Lord never sent him so with good Words fair Speeches deceives the Hearts of the unwary Hearers making glad the Hearts of Hypocrites crying Peace when the Lord hath not spoken it 2. The true Prophet Teacher or Minister as he hath received freely so he ministers freely but the false Teacher as he runs in his own VVill so he ministers for a Self-End and if People put into his Month he cryes Peace but if otherwise he prepares War against them out of his corrupt Heart cryes Give can never have enough 3. The true Minister hath a Mouth alwayes open for God and against Sin and Evil in every Appearance of it without Respect of Persons and like a true Watcher gives notice of the Wolf's Approach and doth not flee when the Wolf comes but opposes him in the Loss of all because Christ's Sheep are dear to him But the Hireling fleeth because he is a Hireling and careth not for the Sheep and as concerning Sin it may live in People forever for him for he cannot bark against Sin he is so full of it himself for how can he that is an unclean covetous proud Person himself with a Face stand against such Sins in others nay nay the barking of such must needs be against such as do from the Heart depart from Iniquity and so separate from such as live in it according to the Call of the Lord. 4. The true Prophet Minister or Teacher fights the good Fight of Faith and his Weapons are spiritual and not carnal and so he fights not with Flesh and Blood to destroy Mens Persons Liberties or Estates but his War is with the wicked Devil the Power of Darkness in men that separates mens minds Hearts and Souls from God and brings them into Sin 's Captivity and so under God's Wrath and so the true Minister's Work is to preach People out of that woful Condition into the Liberty of the Sons of God But the false Teacher or Minister hi● Weapons are carnal and he runs to the worldly Powers to help him against such as oppose his evil Doctrine and Practice crying Men of England c. help as the Jews cryed out against Paul Men of Israel help and so matter not though they weary the Magistrate and set all the World in an Uproar to keep themselves up in their high Places of Deceit and so prove the greatest Enemies against God's Truth and his Servants of all other as is abundantly to be seen in Scripture concerning the Priests and their Confederates who persecuted Christ to Death and raged against his Followers because of their holy Testimony for God against their Soul-destroying Wayes 5. The true Messengers and Ministers of Jesus Christ as they are powerfully sent of God so they work effectually for God for the edifying of the Body of Christ and perfecting of his People in Holiness to God But the false Teacher as he hath run without God so his Work is for strengthning that Part in man to wit the Serpents Wisdom which is against God and wars against the Simplicity of Christ and Good of the Soul in all and so they being themselves out of that heavenly Power which perfects the Soul to God and gives it perfect Victory over all Sin they cry No Perfection here no perfect Victory over Sin on this Side the Grave and so they lead about a People laden with Sin and Lust filly as Woman in the Transgression ever learning and never able by their Means to come to the Knowledge of the Truth it self which sets the Soul free from all Sin for how should People ever come to the Knowledge of the Truth by following such Teachers as are out of the Truth for if the Blind lead the Blind must they not both fall into the Ditch Also seeing you profess the Scripture and not unwritten Traditions to be your Rule and would have people to believe that what you do is according to Scripture therefore it s demanded in a few Words further 1. What Scripture have you for your Sprinkling of Infants and Signing them with the Sign of the Cross and telling people That thereby they are made Members of Christ Children of God and Inheritors of the Kingdom of Heaven when in your own Catechism in Contradiction to your practice you teach That Children by Reason of their Infancy or tender Years then cannot perform the Requests of Baptism to wit Faith and Repentance 2. And what Scripture have you for your Sureties so called which you most unscripturally call the Childrens God-fathers and God-mothers which you pretend to make up the Defect in the Infants by and for putting these Pretended Sureties upon such bold Undertakings and unadvised Promisings of that for the Child which they never yet did for themselves nor indeed have Faith to believe that so great Works can be done in any upon Earth to wit to forsake the Devil and all his Works c. seeing that such generally hold That none can live without Sin Is not Sin the Devil's Work yea yea and is there any Undertaker for man to God-ward but Christ and was there ever any Surety betwixt God and Man but

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