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A67324	More work for the dean in a brief answer to some scandalous reports published by Dr. Stillingfleet in his book entituled, \"An impartial account of the history, nature and pleas of the present separation from the communion of the Church of England\" against some of the Lords faithful servants, namely, Mr. Henry Barrow, Mr. John Greenwood, Mr. John Penry, who by the bishops means, after long imprisonment, were put to death, contrary to Queen Elizabeths mind; in the year 1593 ... : as likewise here is word for word the petition of those persecuted Christians, wherein is shewed the barbarous usage of the bishops to them : together with the refutation of the then esteemed Bishop of Winchester's blasphemous doctrine, by Mr. Henry Barrow, with the description of the true Church of God, according to Christs Testament, by the whole Church at London, whom the doctor calleth Brownists; with the reason why they were so nick-named by their enemies : very needful for all true Protestants to know / by Thomas Wall.	Wall, Thomas.	1681 (1681)	Wing W485; ESTC R20458	32,462	49

more of malice than of any just matter he had against him And why at this time Because the memory of Mr. Barrow Mr. Greenwood and Mr. Penry was lately revived in a Christian Warning-piece presented to the Kings Majesty last April so that if Mr. Barrows Books therein mentioned should be again sought after which doth so lively discover the abomination of that Ministry of which the Doctor is one therefore he hath endeavoured to disgrace their persons that their labours might not be regarded and therefore it will not be amiss by the way to note what Mr. Barrow hath written in one of his Books called the Discovery which the Doctor called seditious for comparing the true Ministry of Christ and the Ministry of Antichrist together that as light maketh manifest so in laying down Christs true Ministry the abomination of all other by it may be discovered of which subject in particular Mr. Barrows words are these in his Discovery page 46. The Ministry appointed by Christ unto the Government of Church be of two sorts Elders and Deacons Phil. 1. 1. 1 Tim. 3. Tit. 1. 5. Rom. 12. Acts 20. 28. 1 Tim. 5. 17. 1 Cor. 12. 7 8. Acts 6. The Elders some of them to give attendance unto the publick Ministry of the Word and Sacraments as the Pastor and Teacher the other Elders together with them to give attendance to the publick Government of the Church The Deacons office to attend to the gathering and distributing the Contribution of the Church for the maintenance of the Ministry and Poor 1 Cor. 16. Now saith Mr. Barrow to come to the Ministry of the Church of England which is so manifold and divers as I know not how to begin to describe it but let it first be divided in these three sorts 1. Reigning or governing 2. Serving and 3 Collegiate 1. Of the reigning and governing Ministers are Arch bishops Lord Bishops Arch Deacons Chancellors Commissaries all of the High Commission as likewise such Civil Doctors Proctors Registers Scribes Pursevants Sumners as attend upon their Courts of Faculties Prerogative Archees Delegates 2. Of the serving sort are Parsons Vicars Curates Hireling Lecturies Vagrant and Mercenary Preachers House priests Chaplains half priests or Catechisers Churchwardens Side men Quest-men Parish-Clarks 3. Of the ministry Collegiate are Lord Bishops Deans Sub deans Prebendaries Canons Petit Canons Gospellers Epistlers Singing-men Singing boys Vergers Sextons This division I suppose will well near suffice for their Officers But now how to divide or distinguish their Offices I know not I am so unlearned and ignorant of such great secrets and high mysteries neither yet have I skill to marshal them in their degrees of honour which I have heard say they have both in the Commonwealth and in their Schools as their Primate their Metropolitan Graces their Palatine Lord Bishops and their Barony Lordships all which I wene be Peers of the Realm and Estates of the Land Now there are also certain Doctors of Divinity and Batchellors of Divinity which have many great priviledges and prerogatives of the Cap the Scarlet Gown the Hood the Habit the Tippet the Ring the Chair the one of them being a Knights fellow the other an Esquires in any ground in England also how capable these are by Statute of how many Benefices I cannot tell Now surely this discovery doth not a little torment the Doctor to cause him to be so malicious against Mr. Barrow to disgrace him now he is dead Papist like who burnt the bones of such as they call Hereticks many years after they have murder'd them when as they did as Mr. Barrow hath done that is bear their testimony against the Rabble of Antichrists ministry as is noted out of the Book of Martyrs in the foresaid Christian Warning-piece to the King p. 23. for what comfort can those have which call themselves ministers and cannot prove their Ordination to be according to Gospel-order when at the last day they will say Lord Lord we have prophesied in thy name and cast out devils in thy name and have done many wonderous works when Christ shall say to them I know you not depart from me ye workers of iniquity For is it not iniquity for any to take upon them the name of a Dean instead of a Pastor and to be a persecutor rather than a preserver and so contrary to Gods plain Law to be a tale-bearer as it written Levit. 19. 16 17. Thou shalt not go up and down as a tale bearer among thy people yea to reproach the deceased Saints of the Lord calling their Books seditious not only for pleading that the ministry appointed by Christ might by Protestants be embraced but also for reproving the blasphemous Doctrine of T. C. the then esteemed Bishop of Winchester in his Book against Martin Marprelate namely this that the Orders and Ordinances which Christ hath in his Testament left unto his Church were but temporary whilst the Church was under Heathen Tyrants and that where the Gospel is embraced by a Christian Prince they are not only not necessary but inconvenient yet intollerable as bringing the utter subversion of the Land raising up rumults and uproars and withdrawing the people from obedience unto their Magistrates Unto which Mr. Barrow replieth that there ought throughout all ages and estates of the world in all places to be one and the same form of outward Government in all true Churches of Christ unto the worlds end scil that Apostolical primitive pattern left unto us in Christs Testament and none other which undoubted truth Mr. Barrow against the Bishops confirms both from the Law and Gospel in these words The Lord when he erected his Tab●rnacle among the Israelites gave them a perfect pattern in all things even to the least instrument hook or tape therein as also the whole composition of every thing belonging thereunto with all the Ordinances thereof and left nothing to the will and discretion of Moses whose commendation was that he was faithful in all his house as a servant for a testimony of these things that were to be spoken after Exod. 25. Heb. 8. 5. Heb. 3. also we read of David in the distribution of the order and functions of the Priests and Levites and likewise of Solomon and Zerubbabel in building the material Temple how perfectly the Lord set down the matter form number size place order and use of every thing belonging thereunto 1 Chron. 28. 11. as also what perfect Laws was given by God for every thing to be done and likewise how jealous the Lord was over his Sanctuary and what severe judgments was upon all them that transgressed the least of his Ordinances as is seen in Nadab Abihu Lev. 10. Corah and his company Numb 16. on Eli and his sons 1 Sam. 4. and sundry the like Now may we suppose God is less jealous careful provident over his glorious Temple of lively stones which consisteth of the bodies and souls of his Saints for the structure instruments

More Work FOR THE DEAN In a Brief Answer to some Scandalous Reports Published by Dr. STILLINGFLEET in his Book Entituled An Impartial Account of the History Nature and Pleas of the present Separation from the Communion of the Church of England against some of the Lords faithful Servants namely Mr. Henry Barrow Mr. John Greenwood Mr. John Penry who by the Bishops means after long Imprisonment were put to death contrary to Queen Elizabeths mind in the year 1593 because they refused Communion with the Church of England by reason of the many Popish Corruptions in the Ministry and Worship retained therein And also for bearing their Testimony against the same which is still the Cause many Thousand Protestants refuse Communion with the Church of England at this day As likewise here is word for word the Petition of those persecuted Christians wherein is shewed the Barbarous Usage of the Bishops to them Together with the Refutation of the then Esteemed Bishop of Winchester's Blasphemous Doctrine by Mr. Henry Barrow with the Description of the true Church of God according to Christs Testament by the whole Church at London whom the Doctor calleth Brownists with the reason why they were so Nick-named by their Enemies Very needful for all true Protestants to know By Thomas Wall Prov. 31. 8. Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such a● are appointed to destruction LONDON Printed for William Marshall at the Bible in Newgate-street 1681. To the most Noble and Sincere hearted Protestants Grace Mercy and Peace be multiplied IT may seem a thing very strange in nature for a Lamb without fear to meet a Lyon in the open field As it was in Little David when by faith he Encountered with great Goliah the Champion of the Pblistines even so it may seem strange to some that so mean an instrument shall without fear meet Dr. Stillingfleet fo great a Champion in the open field But seeing he hath with Goliah despised or desied that little flock of Christ's faithful Servants the heavenly Armies of the living God therefore I cannot keep silent having with David the Lord on my side his Truth for my Sword and Buckler therefore for the Honour of the Lord Jesus Christ and love I bear to all his Servants I shall herein defend the Rights and Prerogatives of my Lord and Saviour That he is the only Archbishop Lord Spiritual and Lawgiver to his Church in all things appertaining to the worship of his Father And shall stand by the same testimony which any of the Lords Servants have born against the Doctor and all the Canons of his Church to the contrary Secondly Among all the Enemies of Gods people the most wicked'st are those that under the Visage of Christianity would be reckoned among the Lords Protestant people in word declaring they are on Christs side but in their Works and Writings manifest their hatred against him and all his faithful Servants for no other cause but by manifesting their love to Christ in keeping his Commandment in Gods Worship and bearing their testimony against all mens inventions to the contrary such an enemy hath the Doctor manifested himself to be to the Christians herein mentioned in the false Reports published against them to the Defamation of their persons their Writings and the Truth they professed and maintained as is hereafter plainly discovered concerning their Faith in the Description of the true Church of God with all her Officers and in what order Christ hath commanded in his Testament for them to walk therein with Church State Ministry together with its holy Order I desire the Doctor to compare with his Church and Ministry and then declare to the world which he believeth in his conscience is the true Church of God If God be pleased to open his eyes and carry him above all earthly Wisdom by his Spirit unto an exceeding high Mountain the height Rev. 21. 10. of Israel to behold the City filled with the glory of God and unless God doth be his Ezek. 17. 22 23. 40. 2. Rev. 21. 11. Eccl. 10. 15. help he with the Apostate Israelites will still weary himself and not know how to find the way to the City in which City by the Canon or holy Rules thereof Christ hath appointed for her Officers Pastors Teachers Elders and Deacons Ephes 4. But the 7th Canon of the Doctors Church saith Whosoever shall affirm that the Government of that Church by Archbishops Bishops Deans Archdeacons and the rest that do bear office is Antichristian or repugnant to the word of God let him be excommunicated ipso facto and so continue until he repent and publickly revoke his wicked Errors Christ Jesus hath appointed the whole form of Gospel-worship to be learned out of his Testament and that it be agreeable to the Isa 8. 20. Act. 20. 27. same upon pain of all the Curses in Gods Book to him that addeth or diminisheth to Rev. 22. 18. Prov. 30. 6. or from But the 4th Canon of the Doctors Church saith Whosoever shall affirm that the form of Gods worship established by Law and contained in the book of Common-prayer is a corrupt and superstitious or unlawful worship of God or containeth any thing in it that is repugnant to the Scriptures let him be excommunicated ipso facto and such like wherein is preferred the Traditions and Orders of men to be equal to the inspired Rules in Christs Testament Now let me ask the Doctor whether he believeth in his conscience that when he cometh to appear before the Lord Jesus the chief Judg that he shall be judged for the breach of his Church Canons or for the breach of Christs Canons in his Testament seeing the word of God telleth us that whatsoever man that hath engaged himself to be a worshipper of God and shall break the holy Rules in Worship he hath promised to keep and after Gods order by brethren used for his recovery Matth. 18. if he stand obstinate then that which the Church by the Rules of Christ doth by excommunicating him on earth is confirmed in heaven but the curse for the breach of mans Canons in worship though pretended to God in worship is the curse causeless which shall not come Prov. 26. 2. But the curse turn'd into a blessing upon all that do Rev. 22. 11. to wit the Commandments of the Lord Jesus they only have right to the Tree of life and may enter in through the gates in the City So that it is not enough for the Doctor to think it is sufficient for him or his hearers to believe verbally that Christ is the Son of God come in the flesh as the only foundation of Religion but they that do expect salvation by Christs Merits must not only believe he is the Son of God but by their obedience confess the same that as a Son was he faithful in his house or Church as Moses the Prophet like unto Moses the only Law-giver for Gospel

worship as aforesaid which the Doctor doth not obediently believe so long as he retaineth the Popish Office of a Dean for one of Christs Gospel-Ministers as though Christ was not wise enough to give Titles fit for his Ministers But as we read of the Romish Church that woman which sitteth upon a sear let coloured beast full of the names of blasphemy this name Dean proceeding from thence may be reckoned among them Rev. 13. 1. 17. 3. And lastly as every true Christian must not only believe that Christ is the Son of God come in the flesh but also they must walk in him rooted and established following Christ by the example of the Primitive Churches commended in them As when Israel had gone from the pure keeping in worship to God his Ordinances and the Cove-Hant Mal. 2. 8. of Levi the call of the Lord to them to reform their ways by the prophet Malachi was to remember the Law of Moses and not Mal. 4. 4. the Tradition or Canons of men and until this was done they that feared the Lord had separated from them and spake often one to another and a book of remembrance was Isa 42. 4. written for them that thought on his Name even his Law and partook not in the evil of the transgressors Even so when after the long Mat. 12. 21. Apostacy of Christians the Lord called them to come out of Babylon and to reform their Rev. 18. 4. ways but not by the Canons of men but by the everlasting Gospel taught by the Servants of God in King Edward Queen Elizazabeth King James and in King Charles the 1st and 2d to this day and until this work be done all that fear the Lord do separate themselves and speak often one to another for which they are and were still persecuted reproached and defamed but by whom but by the Devil called the Dragon and Serpent Rev. 2. 10. in his servants out of whose mouths comes floods of teproaches to destroy the woman Rev. 12. 15. had not the earth then and still doth by more than an ordinary Providence help the woman in drinking up or rather hindering the work Verse 16. of persecution Thus hoping the Doctor will lay these things to heart and who knoweth seeing among Adams Sons some men for their malice and fury are compared to Lions 2 Tim. 4. 17. but God in his mercy may give him grace to the changing of his fierce nature If the Lord by the Arrows of his Truth prick his heart Psal 45. 5. Acts 2. 37. Heb. 4. 12. that so he may yield obedience to Christ Jesus and lie down with the Lambs in the Lords holy Mountain even Sion his true Church Isa 11. 7. Heb. 12. 22. where it is said the Lords people shall be all Righteous Isa 60. wise as Serpents harmless as Doves men in understanding children in malice 1 Cor. 14. for such only can have right to enter into the Kingdom of God Mat. 18. 3. that so he may for the time to come see himself in the glass of Gods word new born all his fleshly glory and honour fading away by the Spirit of God blowing on him so shall he beat his sword of bitter words into plough-sheares that by the word of God the fallow ground of his uncircumcised heart be broken up the seed of Gods truth sowed therein watred by the heavenly dew of his grace that he may bring forth the fruits of righteousness Jam. 3. 18. Heb. 12. 14. which is peace with all men and holiness without which no man shall see the face of God which is and shall be the prayers for the very enemies of him who is the Lords unworthy servant Tho. Wall More Work FOR THE DEAN Or A brief ANSWER To some Scandalous Reports published by Dr. Stillingfleet c. THerefore among the many sore Travels King Solomon beheld among the Sons of men this saith he is one That for every right work a man is envied of his neighbour Eccles 4. 4. Psal 106. 16. Numb 11. 29. Matt. 26. 7 8 9 10. Now if that were a right work in the Lords Servants of old in calling the Lords people out of the temporal Babylon to separate themselves from all the filthiness of those Heathens Ezra 6. 21. that they might enter into Covenant with the Lord to serve or worship him as he had given commandment by the hand of Mose's both in Ministry Ordinances and Order for which work they were envied of their Neighbours Nehem. 4 and 5 Chapters even so it was a-like right work in these latter days for the Lords Servants to call his elected ones out of the Romish Sodomy Egyptian and Spiritual Babylon Rev. 11. 8. and 18. 4. that they might separate themselves from their abominable filthiness in worship and nature that so with the Lord they might enter into the Covenant of the Gospel Acts 2. 47. 2 Cor. 11. 2. Isa 62. 5. Ezek. 16 8. to worship him as the Son of God Christ Jesus had appointed in his last Will and Testament both in Ministry Ordinances Time and Order and for this right work among others was Mr. Barrow Mr. Greenwood and Mr. Penry envied then to death by their Neighbours and now again after their death envied by Dr. Stillingfleet to the desamation of the memory Prov. 10. 7. of those whom God had blessed and are now at rest in the Lord Rev. 14. 13. 2dly The evil way this Doctor hath taken to vent his envy against these Servants of God is first in calling their Books seditious and therefore because he could not prove it he is driven to make use of the false reports of their Enemies such as never disclaimed against the succession of their Ministry received from the Bishops nor yet their vain School Titles of Batchelor in Divinity a Title not found in Christs Testament set in the front of that Book called the Bloody Tenet out of which Book the Doctor tells us that Mr. Cotton said Mr. Dod told him that when Mr. Barrow was under the Gibbet he lift up his eyes and said If I be deceived thou hast deceived me To which I answer If Mr. Barrow did say those words it might be draw̄n from him upon the same occasion the like words were drawn from the Prophet Jeremiah when the Priests and false Prophets seeing his constancy and faithfulness in the Lords message against their evil doings Jer. 20. 8 10. derided him which occasioned him to say O Lord thou hast deceived me and I was deceived thou art stronger than I and hast prevailed I am in derision dayly every one mocketh me Even so some of the Clergy being present when Mr. Barrow suffered death seeing his constant testimony against their evil doings might deride him and so might occasion those words from him Surely if the Doctor had had any thing worth noting against this man a few Pages in his Book should not have contained it Thus all may see it is