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A21069	Information for the ignorant, or, The applicatory part of a late printed book, called, A light for the ignorant containing a few observations upon the I Cor. 10, which doe strongly prove it to be absolutely sinfull to heare the word preached in any false state, or assembly, whatsoever : also a postscript containing a challenge (layd down in 9. propositions) to all the Non-conformists in Old and New England, and Holland / made by N.E.	N. E.	1640 (1640)	STC 7435.5; ESTC S1911	21,219	26

more esteem then of the dirt in the kennell The most of whose Books are fit for no other use or place then to be burnt in the fire as the Books of those that used curious Arts in the § Act. 19.19 Apostles time were and so shall the word of God grow flourish and prevaile as then it did Neither let their answere be with tricks and quillets by the cunning of their deceivable humane Arts with which they can make blacke seem white just Jugler like Nor yet with their rotten and false Scholasticall distinctions as hearing the word of God from an officer and yet they doe not heare him as an Officer which is but a Sophisticall distinction serving to no purpose And all these humane devises I esteem of no more use in matters of controversie to find out the naked truth of God then pitch rosen and flax is to quench fire which will much more increase and aggravate it even so will they though things now should be very darke yet the making use of them to make them more obvious and cleare will make them more misty and obscure Therfore I desire him whosoever he be that answers me to weigh things in the ballance of the sanctuary I mean the unerring word of God and to go to the Law and the Testimony and speak according to that otherwise I shall tell him and that in the words of the Spirit of God * Isay 8.20 there is no light of truth in him Therfore let it be answered by the Authority of the Scripture for it is that which testifies of ‡ Ioh. 5.39 Christ And the want of the true knowledge of this is the ground of all errour and ‡ Mat. 22.29 ignorance which your Priests by their rotten filthy Diabolicall arts and inventions do obscure darken and ecclipse Therfore I doe verily think and beleeve that for this cause God will never honour them to doe him any speciall or singuler piece of service for he taketh the wise in their own craftinesse and disappointeth the devises of the crafty and sets up on high those that below § Ioh. 5.11.12 and maketh the wise men to perish † Isay 29.14 and frustrateth the tokens of lyars as they are and maketh diviners mad and turneth wise men backward and maketh their knowledge foolish which by dayly and large experience we see manifested and made good nor never make use of them for principall instruments to pull down and destroy the filthy black Soddomitist Babilonian Kingdome of Antichrist for as fast as any of them by the word of God doe labour to pull it down with one hand they by making use of their humane arts and learning build it up with both hands and more stregthen the enemy with these their wicked weapons then they weaken him with any other they can make use of Therfore let all Gods people that desire with all their might to pull down the whore and make her desolate and naked cry down all these wicked Arts and human-learning and all worldly wisdome to the pit of hell from whence they came and only make use of the two-edged sword of Gods word as the very chief weapon to pierce and run through the very heart of the scarlet whore and her upholders for this will pierce even to the dividing asunder of the soule and Spirit * Heb. 4.12 and of the joynts and marrow For the word of God is that two-edged sword that comes out of the mouth of the Lamb our Captain Christ Jesus who sits upon the white Horse who in righteousnesse and truth doth judge and make war and with this he goes forth conquering and to conquer and to smite the Nations and people that doe not nor will not obey his truth for he treadeth the winepresse of the fiercenes of the wrath of ‡ Rev. 19. ● Almighty God And with this spirituall overcoming unresistable conquering weapon are we his Souldiers or Armies that are in heaven or stand upon Mount Sion that is in the true Church or state of God ready to do our Fathers will and pleasure to fight couragiously against our spirituall Babilonian enemies in following the Lamb whither soever he goeth and to do him what service soever he pleaseth to call us to and not to love our lives unto the death seeing he hath redeemed us from among men and made us Kings and Priests unto God our Father Therfore O my Brethren be exhorted to courage and zeale for the Lord and his truth for this is it wherin he shall be glorified by us therfore shake off all base and carnall feare and be not afraid of the greatnes of our enemies but let us publikely in an united bond professe the purity of his truth in sincerity for we are sure by the word of his ‡ Rev. 12.12 Testimony to overcome all that do oppose us For the Lord ere long by the spirit of his mouth and the brightnes of his coming in this his glorious Kingdome before spoken of will destroy the man of sin that so long hath trampled this his holy City under foot for the prosperity and flourishing of which we are bound in duty to strain for and hazard all we have Therfore if I forget thee ô Ierusalem let my right hand forget her cunning and if I doe not remember thee ô Sion let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth yea if I prefer not § Psal 137.6 7. Ierusalem above my chief joy For my soule longs yea exceedingly with earnest desires to see Ierusalem become as I am sure when Antichrist is destroyed she shall be the prayse of the whole earth Therfore all ye choice Speare-men of the Lord be as valiant for your God now in the dayes of Babels tottering as † 2 Sam. 23.16 17. Davids worthies was for him and stoutly break through the Hoasts of the Babilonians those spirituall Phylistims and fetch and take the water of life from out of their polluted hands which they theevishly have stolen and usurpedly make use of that the Lords weake ones may freely drink of it without feare of being poysoned and let us all yea every one of us that stand upon Mount Sion with our Fathers name written in our “ Iere. 50. 51. Reve. 18. foreheads according to our duty Let us put our selvs in array against Babilon round about and call together the Lords valiant Spearmen and Archers against her Therfore all ye that bend the Bow Camp against her round about and let none that belong unto her escape but recompence her according to her worke according to all that she hath done let us do unto her for she hath been proud against the Lord even against the holy one of Israel Therfore let us cause her young men to fall in the streets and all her men of war let us as much as we are able cut off Now her choice men of war are her officers whose offices is that great River

false states that is there is the same connextion and communion betwixt the things themselves that is the state depends upon the Lord of it and owner of the same as afterwards may be seen and the institution depend on the state and the ordinances depend on the state and institutions So that without the state no institutions and without institutions no ordinances and so no worship So also is the matter dependant on the forme and the forme or state on the author of it so that the matter and forme are relatives and the forme and author are relatives also that is to say they cannot be separated So the receit or partaking of such ordinances that are to be partaked of in a state the partakers to have communion with the state and King of it as this example doth shew So that the matter is dependent on the sacrifice the sacrifice dependant on the Altar the Altar on the state the state on the owner of it and so cometh in here If this were any thing to reprove the judgement or practise of the Corinthians then it sheweth that by their generall communion in eating instituted meat in that instituted state and Temple they did partake of it even of that diabolicall state and institutions though they were not of that body but were of the Church of Corinth and come to the Idols Temple but on occasion yet saith the Apostle those that eat of the sacrifice of the Altar partake of the Altar for it is the Altar that sanctifieth the guift to the receiver Mat. 23.19 20 21. and it is the pollution of it that is to say of the Altar that pollutes the guift or sacrifice and those that offer it Hos 9.1 2.4 Eating is used for receiving and for feeding and so for all religious communion as Act. 10.13 14. and in this Verse for partaking of the Altar as well as of the sacrifices shewing that he that partakes of any administration in a state doth partake of the power or institution by vertue of which it is administrated 5. The Fift Observation is out of Verse the 19. where the Apostle as he doth mention the ground that their judgement was built upon Chapter the 8 verse the 4. so he also useth their own grounds in their own phrases that so he might both reprove their errour and also that he might shew the contrary Now in that the Apostle speaks question-wise it is not because he made doubt of the unlawfullnesse of their practise but to shew the vanity of the ground of it and to shew that when it is compared to the truth and brought to the true touchstone the revealed will of God it vanisheth away though it might seem colourable and strong yet it being but the beame of a Spiders webbe in regard of the truth it selfe he shews it hath no force norstrength in it therfore he inclusively affirmeth that the Idol is somthing and that that which is offered to Idols is somthing because it alters its property to that which it was before being now set apart for Religious uses and is not to be understood that he held as they did but the contrary namely that it was unlawfull for them to goe to the Idols Temple to eate of their meat or sacrifice 6. The Sixth Observation is out of Verse the 20. where the Apostle comes to a full answere affirmatively to their objection layd down Chap. 8.4 that there is but one God And in it are sundry things to be observed As First the thing implyed in the former Verse to wit it was not as it was thought but as he plainly affirmeth in this 20th Verse to wit that the Gentiles did sacrifice to Devils in which he shews what a neare relation there is between the worship and the worshippers the neare conjunction between the authour of their worship namely the Devil and the worshipers who had communion with him And if it be here objected this is meant of none but the Idols worship and not of those that worship God and that with some glorious shew of truth as is done in the Antichristian state it must be remembred that if we will worship God it must be tendered up to him in his own house and by his own rules and ordinances or else it is not his neither doth he accept it neither can men truly be sayd to do it to him if it be done in any false state whatsoever he being any the author of it but some other for he never instituted no state for his people to worship and serve him in but only one namely this heavenly Ierusalem which is the mother of us all Gal. 4.26 therfore though men that walke in false states do pretend that they worship God even the true God yet the truth is otherwise and this I apprehend to be cleare in this Verse for the Corinths would never have frequented a worship that they had knowledge of it was done to the Devil neither had the Apostle said any thing to the purpose in so saying had it not been so that they did not know that it was so for they did plead for it upon other tearms even upon morall grounds as the Professours doe for hearing in the Assemblies So then it follows undeniably that men may pretend to worship the true God though the matter and manner of worship be false So also that men in religious communion cannot sever at their pleasure and put difference between the office and administration and the ordinance and thing administred that is they can as they pretend heare the word and partake of the exercise of the guift and yet not partake of the office for they doe not they say heare him as a man in office but as a man indued with a guift to preach the word If these persons are so skilled in this division let them shew their wisdome herein and compare it with the wisdome of God which saith that there is no dividing of them so that as any partakes of the one that is of the administration they doe partake of the other that is of the power or office by vertue of which it is administred For we must remember that an office and an administration is the Charriot wherin the thing administred doth ride and were it not for the office neither person nor guift nor ordinance nor administration cou'd be there to exercise his guift so that the power puts into office the office into administration and they both put forth the ordinance or thing administred Here also if any think that those that are not joyned into followship that they are more tollerated in this particular then others that are in a state The Apostle overthroweth that whilest he sheweth that those of Corinth that went to the Idols Temple went as those that were not in fellowship with them for that was not all their sin that they for the present left their society but that they had taken up a sinfull communion both with persons and with

institutions and manner of administrations having all administeriall power within themselves depending upon none but onely upon Christ their onely and alone spirituall and visible head 2 Cor. 11.2 Ephes 1.22 23. and the 5.23 Col. 1.18.24 2.19 who though he be spirituall as the Subjects Lawes government worship ordinances and administrations are yet is he visible Esay 9.6 7. Psal 110.12 Act. 7.55 56. as well as his Kingdome and all the Laws ordinances and administrations therof And that it is altogether sinfull and unlawfull for any whatsoever to inflict any bodily or corporall punishment upon any for spirituall things or matters of conscience seeing excommunication or casting out into the world is now in the Gospell put in the place of killing the body under the Law which wicked practise notwithstanding is not only used by the Diabolicall and Satanicall Prelats here in England but also by the Magistrates and Priests in New England who ungodly wickedly and sinfully unprison banish and take away mens goods and that even for Conscience sake 4. That it is the duty of all those that will approve their hearts unto God and declare unto his people that they are his Jam. 2 18 to walke in a spirituall totall Separation from the men of the world by joyning themselves freely and voluntarily to a true visible Church there publikely to worship and serve the Lord according to his own Laws ordinances and appointment seeing the Lord never promised his presence blessing peace nor protection to any persons whatsoever but onely these that walke in this State City or Kingdome into which all his people are bound in Conscience to enter into it Esa 26.20 Mat. 28.20 Cant. 1.6 that desire according to their duty to glorifie him in the eyes of the world by holding forth the publick profession of the purity of his truth as so many burning and shining lamps in the midst of a perverse and crooked generation Mat. 5.26 Phil. 2.15 That it savours of a muddy earthly carnall base and unsanctified heart for any man or woman whatsoever be they high or low rich or poore to plead that the people of God may lawfully walke in a stragling spirituall way though they joyne not themselves to a visible Church 1 Sam. 15.22 23. Mat. 13.44 45 46.6.33 Mark 10.22 23. for the servants of God in former ages made no cavils against neither needed they any pressing to this duty who with loning desires desired to come before God and meet with him in this his Sion Psal 42.1 2 3. and 84.10 and who have taken this Kingdome of God by violence Mat. 11.12 Act. 2.41 and that such pleading doth declare that the chiefe treasure of such persons are the empty huskes and base things of this evill world and that their hearts are possessed with selfe-seeking and selfe ends and covetousnesse which is Idolatry Col. 3.5 Ephes 5.5 and have no regard to Gods glory or honour for which sin he will plague them 1 Sam. 2.30 Psal 2.12 especially in their inward man 2 Thess 2.11.12 that they shall not excell in being famous amongst the true children of Sion for being eminent in the knowledge of the true wayes and mysteries of God and godlinesse Esa 19. 13 14. and 59 9 10 11 12. Mal. 2 2. 1 Cor. 1.19 3.19 That Iesus Christ did redeem and save his people from the wrath to come mainly and principally for this end that they should glorifie him both in their soules and bodies without feare Luk. 1.74 Joh. 14.21 23. 15.8.10.14 1 Cor. 6.19 20. Rom. 12.1 which is done when they walke unblameably and uprightly without any selfe-respects in his publike wayes which it is their duty so to doe Mark 10.30.33 in the worst of times and amongst the greatest oppositions whatsoever Reve. 12.11 14.1.4 though it be to the spoyling of their goods and the losing of their lives Mat. 10. 37 38 39. seeing Iesus Christ will have his full and whole price of all those that will truly imbrace and entertain him Zeche 11.12 which is to part with all for his sake and glory with willingnesse and contentednes Mat. 16.24 25. Mark 8.34 35.38 Luk. 9.23 24 14 16. whose praise and glory ought to be more precious and deare unto them then all they have are or shall be 1 Sam. 4.21 22. Dan. 3.16 17 18. that is to say then their own eternall happines and welfare And that it is impossible for any of Gods people to glorifie him aright as they should and ought to doe till they be entered into and joyned as fellow Citizens with the Saints Ephe. 2.19 in this heavenly State City or Kingdome which he instituted and appointed principally for the perfecting and building up of the Saints Ephe. 4.10.12 13 14. out of which they cannot possibly worship him aright nor come to the true knowledge of the naked and pure wayes of God seeing this City cannot be measured by any but those that are within it Therfore the peole of God according to his promise Psal 110.3 Jere. 50.4 5. ought with all willingnesse with longing and striving desires without any compulcion to come to worship God within this his Sion Tabernacle and dwelling place Psal 68.16 as his Saints in old time did Psa 84.1 2. 120.5 seeing here and no where else he hath promised his presence with the increase and growth in grace Psal 9.11 84.7 92.13 14. 133.3 Zeche 8.3.12 and hath tyed all his worship therto Joh. 4.23 24. Lev. 17.1.2 3 4. 9. Therfore blessed are they that dwell in this his house that they may be still praysing of him Psal 84.4 That it is as easie to prove that woman to be an honest woman that hath had twenty Bastards as it is to prove the Nationall or Parishionall Church or Churches in England to be Christs true Spouse Reve. 13.16 17. 16.19 And that they who by reason of blind and ignorant zeale offered their Children through the fire to the Devil and Molech Psal 101.37 Jer. 32.35 had as much ground and warrant for their so doing as the members in the Church of England have for their worship and service which they publikely tender up to God Reve. 9.20 21. 13.2.4 And that in the worship and service of God there is nothing indifferent but his commands doth strictly tye us to punctuall obedience in all times ages and places and that we must not in the least have any respect to a misinformed Conscience 2 Thess 1.7 8 9 10. which so farre as it falleth short of the word of God is faithfull seeing it is to be guided by the revealed will of God Deut. 29.29 Esa 8.20 2 Chro. 5.15 16 17. and to be measured by it and not it by a misguided or erronious Conscience Mat. 22.29 That though hearing in it selfe be a morrall thing and though a false administration cannot destroy nor annihilate any ordinance of God seeing the ordinance Maker is the onely and alone ordinance destroyer and