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A96623	The gadding tribe reproved by the light of the Scriptures. Wherin the true Protestants are encouraged to hold fast their Christian profession, maugre the Beast (i.e.) the pope; or the image of the Beast (i.e.) the Quakers, and their followers: to whom is given a mouth to speak great things. / By George Willington, schoolmaster in the city of Bristoll.	Willington, George.	1655 (1655)	Wing W2802; ESTC R186606	17,221	35

place ye call me Master and Lord and ye say well marke that ye say well for so I am If I then your Lord and Master have washed your feet ye also ought to wash one anothers Rom. 14.4 Who art thou that judgest another mans servant To his own Master he standeth or falleth Eph. 6.5 6. Servants be obedient to them that are your Masters according to the flesh and so forward to the end of ver 9. Masters give unto your servants that which is just and equall Col. 4.1 I shall name one Scripture more which alone of it selfe is enough to overthrow the whole body of the Quakers and to lay them upon their backs but I pray God it may bring them upon their knees to beg pardon of God for breaking the peace of the Church upon such a false ground 1 Tim. 6.1 2 3 4 5. Let as many servants as are under the yoke count their own Masters worthy of all honour that the name of God and his doctrine be not blasphemed And they that have beleeving Masters let them not despise them because they are brethren but rather do them service because they are faithfull and beloved partakers of the benefit These things teach and exhort Marke what followes ver 3. If any man teach otherwise and consent not to wholsome words even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ and to the doctrine which is according to godlinesse he is proud knowing nothing but doting about questions and strifes of words whereof commeth envy strife railings evil surmisings perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds and destitute of the truth supposing that gaine is godlinesse from such withdraw thy selfe To which we may adde two Tenets of theirs of a higher nature 6. That Infant Baptisme is no Ordinance of Christ and therefore of no use in the Church of God Proofe That this is theirs doth appeare by Iohn Audlands lastbook against M. Farmer and also in Richard Farnworths book intituled the heart opened by Christ Confut. 1. An expresse command I grant is not to be found in the New Testament for Infant-Baptisme no nor yet an expresse command against it Infants under the Law were circumcised at eight daies old Gen. 17. And this Circumcision was a seale of the righteousnesse of faith Rom. 4.11 even of that righteousnesse of Christ made ours by faith And in the roome of Circumcision under the Law is ordained Baptisme or washing with water as a seale of the same righteousnesse of faith now if it had been the will of God that Infants should not have been sealed or this righteousnesse of faith sealed to them by Baptisme under the Gospell as well as by Circumcision under the Law he would have given an expresse command to the contrary which neither Christ nor his Apostles have done therefore Infants are to be baptized 2. If Baptisme should be denied to Infants under the Gospell more than Circumcision under the Law this inference must of necessity follow That the Covenant of grace now under the Gospell would be of a farre more narrow extent than the same Covenant or dispensation of grace was under the Law Ergo Infants are to be baptized 3. The Apostle Saint Paul saith That the blessing of Abraham comes on the Gentiles Gal. 3.14 Now a part of the blessing of Abraham and a great one too was this That his Infants or male-children for the female were uncapable of Circumcision should be circumcised the eighth day as a seale of the Covenant Gen. 17. or as a seale of the righteousnesse of faith Rom. 4.11 Now how can the blessing of Abraham come on the Gentiles if their Infants under the Gospell should not have the seale of the Covenant by Baptisme as well as Abrahams had under the Law by Circumcision Since Baptisme is commanded to us under the Gospell in the roome of Circumcision and doth seale the same Covenant Thus we have Scripture for Infant-baptisme but you that deny it have none 7. That the Lords Supper is of no use in the Church of God since the resurrection of Christ Proofe That this is theirs is evident by the writings of one Richard Farnworth who is a professed Quaker in his book intituled The heart opened by Christ And he seems to prove it by 1 Cor. 11.26 For as often as ye eate this bread and drinke this cup ye do shew the Lords death till he come that is saith he till he come from the dead Confut. This Scripture 1 Cor. 11.26 doth plainly shew that this Ordinance of the Lords Supper is to be continued in the Church of Christ till the second comming of Christ to judgement for first this Epistle was not wrot till after both the Resurrection and also Ascension of Christ and also the comming down of the Holy Ghost for it was written by Saint Paul and Saint Paul was not converted till after the comming down of the Holy Ghost and therefore could not write it till after he was converted and it was a present duty in the Church of Corinth when the Apostle wrote this Epistle as appeares ver 20. to the end of the Chapter see Acts 2.46 and 20.7 So it is cleare that this Ordinance is to continue in the Church of Christ till the second comming of Christ to judgement Reverence therefore deare Christians the antiquity of this so high and heavenly a mystery for it was ordained by our Saviour Christ Jesus himselfe when the world was three thousand nine hundred fourescore and five years old the foure and twentieth day of March and in the three and thirtieth yeare of the Nativity of Jesus Christ our Lord above sixteen hundred yeares ago and hath been continued in the Church of Christ ever since and must till his second comming as hath been shewed 1 Cor. 11.26 For as often as ye eate this bread and drinke this cup ye do shew the Lords death till he come It was never my purpose Christian Reader to have wrote a Treatise of this Subject till of late firding none that have answered that Pamphlet set forth by Iohn Audland full of malice and spleen against our Magistrates and Ministers When I see two Hebrews strive together I cannot but say to him that did the wrong why smitest thou thy fellow Exod. 2.13 Not out of any pragmaticall disposition or love to contention as all that know me can witnesse and God the searcher of the heart is witnesse but out of a heart unfeignedly affecting the Peace of Sion Remember I pray you that of Saint Austine there are some who defend their opinious not because it is true but because it is their own for so selfe-love doth draw men into errours I doubt not but I shall heare from some what Moses did from the Hebrew who made thee a judge over us But Saint Ierome hath taught me not to regard subtill disputes nor reproaches My conscience beares me witnesse that I have in this matter dealt sincerely And if I should be smitten with the tongues and pens of any yea of many yet the reducing of a few that erre or satisfying of some that doubt shall be a sufficient comfort to me It is an excellent speech of a worthy servant of Christ prayers are fitter for these times than controversies I would to God we were all effectually perswaded of the truth hereof for so controversies might be easily decided opinions might be turned into unity contention into amity and these lamentable digladiations which afflict the Church into the precepts and practice of piety and charity which blessing of peace the God of peace grant unto his Church in his own good time and I beseech the God of peace and truth to bring into the way of truth all those poore soules that have erred and are deceived Amen FINIS