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truth_n	according_a	know_v	spirit_n	2,306	5	5.1083	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65851	Christian reprehension of confusion, ranterism, cruelty, and opposition to spiritual order and Christian liberty in brief reflections first on a conceited pamphlet untruly stiled Spiritual order and Christian liberty proved consistent in the Churches of Christ, and impositions upon the consciences of believers &c. found antichristian and destructive to both, signed R.G. : secondly on A brief history of the rise, growth, reign, supports, and suddain fatal foil of popery, and description of six popish pillars, by a hidden author / by G.W. and S.C.	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.; S. C.; Crisp, Stephen, 1628-1692.	1690 (1690)	Wing W1909; ESTC R27590	7,961	14

A Christian Reprehension OF Confusion Ranterism Cruelty and Opposition to Spiritual Order and Christian Liberty In Brief Reflections First On a conceited Pamphlet untruly Stiled Spiritual Order and Christian Liberty proved Consistent in the Churches of Christ and Impositions upon the Consciences of Believers c. found Antichristian and Destructive to both Signed R. G. Secondly On a Brief History of the Rise Growth Reign Supports and suddain fatal foil of Popery and Description of Six Popish Pillars By a hidden Author By Lovers of Truth and Peace G. W. S. C. Psalm 10. vers 8 9. He sitteth in the Lurking-Places of the Villages in the Secret Places doth he Murder the Innocent his Eyes are privily see against the Poor He lieth in wait secretly as a Lyon in his Den c. Printed and Sold by A. Sowle at the Crooked-Billet in Holloway-Lane in Shoreditch 1690. A Christian Reprehension of Confusion Ranterism Cruelty and Opposition to Spiritual Order and Christian Liberty c. WHerein the Author of this Treatise has seemed to plead for Spiritual Order and Christian Liberty as consistent in the Churches of Christ and against Impositions on the Consciences of Believers in Religious Practices without inward Convincement or Clearness to act therein and for the Principle of Immediate Inward Revelation of Light and Spirit c. and against the Roman Church-Popes c. usurping Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction and Power unto an implicit and blind Obedience Tyrannously usurping and exercising Government over the Consciences of Believers or Diseiples c. And yet that both Spiritual Order Christian Liberty were established by the Apostles in the first Churches pag. 5. and for Church-Government which is Spiritual pag. 9. And that it rests in the Power of any one perticular Church to make Orders for the better governing of the Church so as in the Exercise of Church-Government the Rules of Expediency Peace and Charity be observed page 10. And that Spiritual Government and Christian Liberty are not only Consistent and accordingly practised in the first Churches but also necessary for preserving Spiritual Vnity and Peace of the Churches from Confusion and Tyranny all things being decently and in order in Charity and to Edification pag. 6. With many more passages which in themselves being general Truths we should have let pass the said Treatise or Pamphlet without taking this notice of it if the Author had not perverted and contradicted the same Truths by some perticular corrupt passages and perverse Reflections and putting forth a sting of Envy and Bitterness in the Tail or Postscript of his Pamphlet against the Quakers especially and tauntingly and enviously telling of being alarmed with the loud Clamour of Church-Government Laws Orders of general and perticular Meetings of the Friends of the Ministry and others the necessity of one or more in the Church having Power infallibly to determine all matters Controverted therein to whom all must submit though unconvinced or unclear in themselves or else be branded with the odious Names of Schismatick c. p. 2. By all which it appears the man's wholly ignorant of the Intent Use and Service of those general and perticular Meetings of our Friends which he scornfully and enviously smites at He falsly Clamours herein for they have no Church-Government Laws or Orders now to set up being long since established by the Lord's Power and Council nor do they meet to determine all Controversies in them having no Controversie either in Doctrine or Discipline to determine the Lord having fully satisfied them in those things by his Light and Spirit nor yet to impose any matters upon any of their Society unconvinced or unclear therein But for the help and comfort of one another in the love of God and Unity of his blessed Spirit in all things proper to such Meetings which are not for Controversie nor to set up men over the Churches of Christ but for the help and comfort of one another in the Lord who is our Law-giver from whom true Wisdom and Counsel comes whose Presence and Power attends those our Meetings and is livingly felt in them and therefore we value not what Envy and Scorn can say against them in this or any other perverse Gain-sayers Apostates or others We being willing to search what are those Impositions on Believers Consciences What those Church-Orders Laws out ward Appointments Instructions New Papacy c. which he conplains of and derides as impos'd without inward convincement among the people called Quakers at whom he Smites Whether evil or unlawful in themselves or altogether unnecessary We would know what perticular order or outward appointments c. they are all his Clammour is against upon the search we find them mentioned and as he conceits strongly argued against page 7. 8. thus viz. The contradiction between this kind of Imposition and Immediate Revelation of the Light and Spirit of God in every Individual as his unering Rule c. is in this that this inward Revelation is asserted as being of it self sufficient if obeyed to lead into all Truth without any necessity of hearkening unto any outward Writings or Instructions whatsoever but as this Light leads thereunto which if it be so that a Society be united upon that Principle the uselesness of general or perticular outward Laws and Instructions and of the fore-appointed standing Meetings Weekly Monthly and Quarterly and the frequenting the Set-Time and Places of those Meetings further than it becomes necessary to every individual Person of that Society through the Immediate Revelation in his own perticular then received is so very Manifest that indeed it is a deserting the Case of Immediate Revelation and an Acknowledgement of the Insufficiency of that Light within c. This is such an Argument and Opposition as we have scarce ever seen before that because the Light within and Immediate Revelation is sufficient to lead into all Truth therefore all outward Writings and Instructions whatsoever for appointed standing Meetings Weekly Monthly c. and frequenting them at set-times and places are all useless to them of the same Communion we deny the Consequence First because the Light of Christ within hath directed ordered and setled such a Method and Order for these our Religions Meetings at Set-Times and Places to be known open and free both to them that are in Christian Society with us and others who are seeking after the Truth and not to leave them in uncertainties as to Time and Place when the Method is already setled as to both in God's Wisdom by his Light and Spirit according to the primitive Christians Practice who profest and knew the same Light and Spirit of Inward and Immediate Revelation as we profess Secondly When the Lord has taught us our duty and order of our Christian Meetings and Society for us to persevere in we have our Law Order therein Established by our great Law-giver which to decline and reject in pretence of leaving every one to an Immediate Revelation when and