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A89640	The proud pharisee reproved: or, the lying orator laid open. In an examination of some passages in a book, entituled, precepts for Christian practice, or, the rule of the new creature new model'd. Written by one Edw. Reyner, who calles himself a minister of the Gospel in Lincoln; but is found a lyar / by a Child of the light, who is known to the world by the name of Martin Mason.	Mason, Martin, fl. 1650-1676.	1655 (1655)	Wing M933; Thomason E851_6; ESTC R207419	44,305	59

no man Doth true honour consist in such hollow deceitfull unwarrantable titles inventions of the beast as are given by the world one to another * Is not your Lordship your Honour your Worship and the like a flattering Title Ester 3.2 How contrary art thou to Elihu who said Let me not accept of any mans person neither let me give flattering titles unto man for I may not give flattering titles unto man in so doing my Maker would soone take me away And Mordecai he would not bow unto Haman though the Darling of a King * Mind that you idolatrous and dissembling complementers who are bowing to and sawning on one another when in your hearts you are fit to murd●r one another Psal 2. But while thou feeds thy Magistrates with such food as their crazie carnall stomacks gape after while thou feasts them with such fare I say thou fattens the enemie and pines the pure but read thy reward and take it with thee The Lord shall cut off all flattering lips and the tongue that speaketh proud things Psal 123. Thou tells them Full 28 years are run out since thou was called to this City by the general vote of all the godly in it It seems this was all the call thou had'st the vote of men Thy confession makes it manifest thou had'st no call from God How hast thou proved thy generall vote of all the godly in this Citty Must thy bare word be taken when thou hast already been proved a lier Was there not one whose heart was towards the Lord not one Child of God in all the Citty but those that gave their vote to thee The Baptized people will not credit thee in this thing but look upon it as an uncharitable censure a presumptuous Boast and will ranck it amongst the rest of thy Lies Full 28 yeares are run out c. all which time together with my spirits and strength I have pent amongst you and upon you but for about 2 yeares in the heat of the late unhappy broyles when the good hand of providence removed me to a Citty of Refuge to wit Norwich Thou art Master of thy Trade A smooth tongue oylie words thou wantest not But this will not doe thy varnish must be washt off under this painted stufflies Poyson Hast thou spent 26 yeares upon those to whom thy book is dedicated with thy Spirits and strength what 's that which speaks so lustily in the Pulpit and walks so lively in the streets Is it not Edward Reyner his own self Hath the Mayor and divers more to whom thou dedicates thy book lived 26 yeares in Lincolne If they have not and I am sure t is so how hast thou spent thy spirits and strength amongst them and upon them all that time Besides hast thou had no journeys out of the Citty in all these 26 yeares Hast thou spent none of that time in bowling musick feasting at home or abroad If thou confessest then that time was not spent upon thy freinds for the good of their Souls whilst thou was Pampering thy own body Dives like with dainty fare and carnall pastimes not becoming a Minister of the Gospell But if thou denies this many in Lincoln can witness against thee So that turne which way thou wilt the hand of the Lord is against thee thou art found out a lyer in this particular also Wee to the Idoll Shepheard that leaves the Flock c. 11 Zecha 17. verse Then thou talks of the good hand of providence c. Deale honestly with thy own heart was it the good hand of Providence or the left hand of slavish feare and self ends that made the Hireling leave his Flock when the Wolf came What an unkind requitall did'st thou make them for their generall vote to preach amongst them Was thou so honest or so hardy to stay and desire their generall vote to leave them Was there not many a Soul in that Citty who thought well of thee yet knew not of thy flight till the Bird was flowne Hee 's blind that sees not this to be Blasphemy Thou goes on calling an Abridgment of thy Doctrine heart renewing life reforming soule saving truths Here 's three lies in a little roome canst thou prove that the Bible much less thy Babell book can renew the heart reforme the life and save the soule of any sinner Is it not the living God alone can do these things The leaest Child in the Schoole of Christ that reads this stuff of thine sees thy sottish error but 't is just that thy lying spirit should be laid open O that ever such a lying man as thou art should take upon him the name of a Minister of the Gospel What a Saviour is it which thou trustest in cannot he renew the heart reforme the life and save the soule Then surely thou art in a sad condition being so great a sinner and hast so lame a Saviour But if he can then see what wrong hast thou done him to make a meere useless Cypher of him and place salvation in printed leaves and abominable lies But this makes it manifest thy heart is not renewed nor thy life reformed nor thy soule saved were it so thou would'st not have printed such dark Popish stuff in such a time as this when light breaks forth in aboundance Soone after thou begs leave of them to leave that little Peice of thine in their hands as a light to guide them c. John 8.12 John 19. Christ Jesus is the light of the world does not he inlighten every one that comes into the world is he a perfect light or not wilt thou say there is imperfection in Christ Jesus Luke 1. 79. John 16.13 2 Pet. 1.19 What need is there of thy dark Lanthorne when the glorious Sun it self shines so comfortably doth not Christ give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death and guide their feet into the way of Peace And John saith when the spirit of truth is come he will guide you into all truth and Peter saies we have a more sure word of Prophecy whereunto ye do well that ye take heed as unto a light that shineth in a dark place untill the day dawne and the day star arise in your hearts Away thou blind guide that book which thou begs leave to leave with them as a light to guide them will lead all such as are guided by it into the ditch there 's a multitude of lies contradictions false doctrine and blasphemies in it of the Serpents invention mixt and interwoven with severall places of Scripture which thou wrests and pervertest explicating of them according to that deceitfull principle that is predominant within thee thereby hoping more plausibly to put off thy counterfeit ware and false doctrine for current truth but the light hath discovered thy delusions and thou art seene and judged Is thy book able to preserve from errors in opinion and looseness in conversation as

thou hintest does not that which guides into all truth preserve from all errors in opinion and loosness in conversation John 16.13 and is it not the spirit of Christ that guides into all truth O the impudency of this Antichristian Minister Would be not fain be counted infallible that dares thus arrogate and assume that to him and his lying Legend which is onely due to the infinite God of life and love does not this clearly demonstrate that the Papall honour is eagerly pursued by this purblind Preist Children of the night may be misled but the Children of the day do discern them But this doting Dreamer is through the goodness of God discovered to be a twig sprung from the root of old Antichrist and there 's none but Bats and Owles will beleive the lies and blasphemies which he hath written in his book At last he concludes his Epistle with a lying complement I am your servant Hypocrisy is spun with a fine thred and yet thou suffers them to call thee Master thou paintest thy self with Pauls language as if thou had'st been and still wert desirous to seek them not theirs and willing to spend and to be spent for them blush and be ashamed of thy deceitfull mystery art thou guided by that pure principle that unerring spirit which Paul was That of God in thee knowes thou lyest hast thou that pure love to thy Auditory which he had to his Corinthians be ashamed thou Hypocriticall lying blasphemous man repent repent Hints that Now I am come to Edm Calamies Epistle or approbation commendation of this mans doctrine who hints that Edw Reyner is excellent in picking out choyce subjects to write upon are lies contradictions blasphemies such choyce subjects to write on to write much in a little the man indeed hath writ three grosse lies in three lines in his Epistle Dedicatory where he calls an abridgment of his doctrine Heart-renewing life-reforming soule saving truths there is much Antichristian deceit discovered in that little Letter He goes on saying The subjects he viz Edward Reyner treats on are very usefull seasonable and spirituall but t is in advancing of Antichrist and his Kingdom And his manner of handling them very solid substantiall accurate and succinct and calls it much plaineness and much satisfaction to the godly learned But babes and sucklings in Christianity discerne this Orator to be a lying wretch He saies I have read it considered it and approved it more shame for thee but Simeon and Levi will take part one with another and so he hopes will every juditious and pious Reader But the hope of an hypocrite shall perish See how one Preist paints another with flattering commendations he saies Edward Reyner will appeare like Bezaliell and Aholiab who were fill'd with wisdom of heart to work all manner of work of the cunning workman c. Were they fil'd with more wisdom of heart than this Fox is with deceitfullness A cunning workman he is seene to be but the Mystery of his iniquity is laying open Read it saith Edmond Calamy and it will make thee very holy here and perfectly happy hereafter Is not this a Chicken of the Serpents hatching can lies contradictions and blasphemous Doctrine make very holy here and perfectly happy hereafter And now he concludes with an old Sacerdotal Complement Your Servant in the work of the Ministry Your Teacher thou mightest more truly have said in the Mystery of Iniquity His Letter is short but I cannot say sweet yet he hath a notable faculty of writing much in a little many filthy lies are laid down in his little letter Babylon he loves Babylon he lives in and in Babylon I leave him The God of life and love be merciful unto him The next thing I meet with is Edward Reyners Preface to the Reader where he sayes After serious consideration and consultation with flesh and blood what consult with flesh and blood about the things of God Did Paul so Gal. 1.16 Nay he conferred not with flesh and blood but it seems thou didst whether Paul or thee better deserves the Name of a Minister of the Gospel in this particular let the wise man judge Yet thou sayes thou found thy heart inclined thou hopes by the good hand of God to take those ten Rules into second thoughts upon two grounds especially That in the review of them they appeared to thee too short and defective The other was that notwithstanding the tenuity and imperfection of them God hath as thou was informed its likely by such flatterers as Calamy made them instrumental for the good of others But it is the good hand of God to make it clear thy hope was the hope of an Hypocrite desiring to seem what thou wert not a Minister of the Gospel Hadst thou been a true Minister of the Gospel thou wouldest not have consulted with flesh and blood Thou couldest not have preached that which was defective and imperfect did ever any of the Apostles deliver such Doctrine as thou hast done How wert thou guided by what Rule not by that Rule which Paul was Could the Holy Ghost give out that which was defective and imperfect Wilt thou make that pure spirit the Authour of that filthy Book He that is so weak as to believe thee or thy Dreams is not guided by wisdom so I pitty him Thou beseeches the Reader to take thy ten Rules out of thy Book into his bosom Thy meaning is to believe and practise them What believe lies contradictions and blasphemies live and die in ignorance They have little reason to answer thy request otherwise than Get thee behind me Satan John 16.13 1 John 3.9 What if a man could repeat all the Bible that 's larger and better then thy Book yet if the Vnction within the spirit of Christ live not in him all will avail him nothing If that seed remain not in him how can he be guided into all truth how can he keep himself and not sin Pen and Inck shall never make a sinner become a Saint Calling it a Delusion and they that are guided by it thou countest deluded The true Rule but not thy ten Rules will if observed keep from wandring stumbling falling and halting But thou art not yet in the way to Heaven for Christ is the way He is the light and him thou lovest not but to thy power dost persecute him both in print and Pulpit He is the Guide into all truth and him thou followest not but flyest from He is the Rule and him thou walks not by but delightest in the dark Dungeon of self-inventions Luke 13.24 The way seems to thee so narrow and strait thou dares not Amos 1.6 strive to enter in but takes pleasure in the broad way because its easie to the flesh But woe be to them that are at ease in the flesh Thou art not come to the brideling of the Tongue witness the many lies in thy

entring to go in how can such escape the damnation of Hell Prov. 28.13 John 8.12 Not without confessing and forsaking their sins and receiving the light of the world Christ Jesus P. pa. 89. In t●e 89 page thou tells of a fulness of force and efficacy in the death of Christ to crucify the Old Man and destroy the whole body of sin and page 90 Thou brings in this Scripture 5 Iohn 18. He that is begotten of God keeps himself and that wicked one that is Satan who is the worst of all bad ones toucheth him not This keeping of Satan and his temptations out of the Soul thou saies conforms a Christian unto Christ who said the Prince of this world that is Satan comes and hath nothing in mee he cannot tempt me to sin I have no dry tinder of corruption within me to kindle with the sparks of his tentations all this is thy owne language thou hast here said enough to shake thy own Kingdom and confound all the Preists in England who preach against perfection Prov. 25.13 Jer. 2.13 Be your selves O people darken not your understandings by doating any longer upon these dreaming Preists who are Clouds and Winds without raine Cisterns that hold no water Judge O ye wise in heart whether he that is begotten of God that keeps himself and that wicked one the Devill cannot tempt or overcome him to commit sin whether that man be not perfect and free from sin yea or nay Was not Christ perfect and without sin Whether he that is conformed unto Christ be not perfect yea or nay and without sin whether he that hath no dry tinder of corruption within him to kindle with the sparks of Satans temptations be not perfect and free from sin yea or nay whether such a Soul I say hath not attained to that perfection which Christ commanded and Paul perswaded the Hebrews to press after Math. 5.48 6 Hebr. 1. Hebr. 12.23 4. Ephes 13. Is not the spirit of that just man made perfect Is not he then come unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ Read this without prejudice and consider that as the tree falls so it lies And 1 Iohn 4.17 As he is so are we in this world Was not Christ Jesus perfect Was not he without sin In the 91 page thou bids others not set their affection on things below nor to love the world or the things of it Learne this lesson thy self then preach it to others page 93. Thou talks of patient suffering the evills of the world to overcome them as persecution famine Nakedness Perill sword c. Is not he a cowardly Captaine that bids his Souldiers adventure further than he dares goe himself should not such a commander be Cashierd p. 94. 95. Thou bids them goe to Christ for his spirit to dwell in them to lead them as a guide in all their waies and into all truth To teach you all things as a Master bring al things as a Monitor into your remembrance What need is there then for thy defective and imperfect rules Why didst thou beg leave of thy Mayor and Aldermen and freinds to leave thy book with them as a light to guide them as a staff to stay and strengthen them If thou wouldst have them goe to Christ for his spirit to dwell in them to lead them as a guide in all their waies and into all truth to teach them all things as a Master and bring all things as a Monitor into their remembrance Is not this confused stuff But Babylons Brats can work no better Thou talks of self emptying and sense of emptiness makes Souls hungry and thirsty after the spirit Why then dost thou fill them with so many filthy-lies and contradictions as be in thy book The bottle that is full of bad liquor thou saies must be emptied to the bottom before it can be filled with the good Is not thy bottell full of the airy windy stuff of Popular applause of the filthy muddy waters of pride covertousness and self conceit of thy humane parts empty it soone that thy bottle may be fill'd with the sweet water of life for as thou saies if Laodicea do not know she is poore blind and naked her vessell is neither empty nor open but full and stopt or corkt up Now thou presses people to the conduit-pipes of the ordinances as thou calls them Especially word Sacraments and communion of Saints Thou maiest blush and be ashamed to call thy self-invented lifeless performances the ordinances of Christ Jesus where dost thou read in the Scriptures that the two Testaments as thou calls them are the two breasts of Christian consolation Are not the Saints bodys the Temples of the Holy Ghost Tell me does not a man draw and receive his consolation from the in-dwelling and living of the holy Ghost within his Body Is not this to rob God of his honour to attribute that to the letter which is due to the living God Thou saies Christ is a well of living Water didst thou live upon that living water thou couldst not delight in these dirty pudles of false doctrine and deceitfull devices of mans Braine as thou does Then thou comes to the Word which thou calls the Scriptures and bids them waite on God therein for the blessing of regeneration and growth in grace Both Priest and people have the Scriptures yet which of you can witness in your selves the blessing of regeneration and growth in grace He that 's borne of God doth not commit sin for his seed remaineth in him and he cannot commit sin because he is borne of God And dost thou not acknowledge that he that is begotten of God keeps himself and that wicked one toucheth him not 1 Joh. 3.9 Dost thou not goe on saying This keeping out of Satan and his tentations out of the Soul conforms a Christian unto Christ Art thou or any of thy hearers able to witness the new birth that you commit not sin that the wicked one toucheth you not that his tentations are kept out of your Soul and that you are conformed unto Christ Then thou goes to thy Sacraments and brings a peece of Scripture for thy sprinckling infants which plainly confounds the practice of thee and all thy generation of Preists He that believeth is and is baptized shall be saved Does not beleiving goe before baptizing Can a new borne Child beleive Produce either precept or president in the Scriptures for thy practice of sprinkling Infants or be ashamed Did the primitive Church when they brake bread receive a bit of Bread and a sup of Wine as the people in fellow-ship with thee and all those who live in formes do from the Preists Is not this a Popish invention they brake bread from house to house eating their meet with singleness of heart Was not this a full meale Did ever Christs Apostles use Prayer with preaching as you doe The Jews indeed had certaine