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truth_n	apostle_n	believe_v	scripture_n	1,763	5	5.6732	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49109	The case of persecution, charg'd on the Church of England, consider'd and discharg'd, in order to her justification, and a desired union of Protestant dissenters	Long, Thomas, 1621-1707.	1689 (1689)	Wing L2961; ESTC R6944	61,317	83

down Fire and Brimstone on them before night Object These are terrible Judgments but where are those false Prophets to whom they belong Answ I know not any party though there be very many among us whose Leaders do not accuse the Guides of the other Parties as false Prophets as either not having a lawful Ordination but run before they are sent or being lawfully Ordained do preach such Doctrines as are not agreeable to the written word which is the only Canon or Rule of Faith and Manners As to the first viz. The lawfulness of Ordination it hath been sufficiently evidenced against the Papists that the Ministers of the Established Church of England are lawfully Ordained and by the Concessions of the most sober Diffenters it is granted who never required any other Ordination of such as went over to the opposite Parties nor doth the Church of England deny the validity of Ordinations in the Church of Rome though it doth deny the same to those separate Factions which heap up Teachers to themselves having itching Ears for the Primitive Church hath never approved of such Ordinations wherein a Bishop did not preside and joyn with his Presbyters But supposing the Ordination to be valid we are to consider the truth of those Doctrines by the correspondency they bare to the Canon of the Holy Scriptures for whoever shall preach any other Doctrine as an Article of Faith necessarily to be received and believed in order to Salvation though it be an Angel from Heaven 't is the Apostles Sentence that he be accursed Gal. 2.8 i. e. we may have no Communion with him by this rule therefore we are to try the Doctrines and Spirits of those false Prophets which are abroad in the World and by these Characters we may discern them if there be any that do deny that Jesus Christ is come into the World or that he is indeed the Son of God of one and the same substance with the Father if any reject the Doctrines taught by him and his Apostles resisting the Truth and Faith once deliver'd to the Saints being ashamed of Christ and his Words if any reject the Institutions of Christ's Ministers and Sacraments or add new Precepts and Commandments requiring the like observance of them as of his Word and Ordinance if any shall publickly preach such Opinions and Practises as are not according to Godliness but tend directly to Profaneness Uncleanness Disorder and Division if any forbid what God Commands or command what God forbids teaching for Doctrines the Commandments of Men such men will be found false Prophets and whether the Socinians that deny the equality of the Son of God with the Father in one Substance whether they that set up other Mediators between God and Man or command Divine Worship to be given to the Creatures and the work of Mens hands or that to colour this Impiety expunge the second Commandment that add to the number of Sacraments more than Christ Ordained and take from those which he instituted an Essential part such as the Cup in the Lord's Supper with a Non-obstante to Christ's Institution or such as wholly deny the use and efficacy of Baptism that prefer their own Prayers to that of our Saviour and their own Dreams and Delusions to the Revelation of Christ and his Apostles whether they that teach Disobedience to Magistrates and speaking evil of Dignities and stir up Seditions and Divisions from whence come Wars and Confusions and every evil thing whether these have not the Characters of false Prophets the Scriptures and Primitive Councils have determined And if the Established Church teach no other Doctrine than what is consonant to the Holy Scriptures and approved as well by Papists as by Presbyterians and Independents for as for the other Sectaries Anabaptists Quakers c. who reject the Authority of Scriptures we are not much concerned for their Objections if we worship the only true God and own Christ Jesus God and Man to be the only Mediator between God and Man observing all and only the Doctrines of Christ for rendring unto Caesar the things that are Caesars and unto God the things that are Gods The Character of a false Prophet cannot justly be imputed to any of her Ministers the great Crime objected to the Church by the Romanists is our separation from their Communion to which it is Answered That we have no otherwise left them than they have deserted the Doctrines and Communion of the Scriptures and the Primitive Church for the first four hundred Years to which if they shall return we are ready to give them the right hand of Fellowship But then it will be objected by some modern Dissenters in the words of Optatus Paces credemus uno sigillo sigillati sumus nec aliter baptizati nec aliter ordinati quam vos testamentum Divinum legimus pariter c. We believe in the same God and Saviour we are Baptized and Ordained as you and read the same Divine Testament but they are answered in the words of the same Father Hoc solo nomine quod a Christi Ecclesia separati estis vitam non habelitis for this only Crime of forsaking the Communion of Christ's Church you may come short of Eternal Life To which agreeth that of St. Augustin Extra Ecclaesiam Omnia possint habere praeter salutem possunt habere honorem possint habere sacramentum possunt cantare Hallelujah possunt respondere Amen possunt Evangelium tenere predicare possunt in nomine patris filii spiritus sancti fidem habere predicare sed nusquam nisi in Ecclesiâ Catholica possunt salutem invenire And therefore we are told That Schism is as studiously to be avoided as Idolatry Non minor est gloria Martyrium sustinere ne seinditur Ecclesia quare ne Idolis sacrificetur By denying the one we consult for our private Salvation by the other for the publick safety of the Church And if indeed we are agreed in the Essentials of Religion what cause can be given why by our Dissention in some Circumstances we should expose our selves and the People to all those Mischiefs which will inevitably follow on our Divisions For on the same grounds that they who agree with us in Doctrinals do deny to hold Communion with us in Worship others that have not so great an agreement with them may forsake their Communion and so our Divisions may be perpetuated and multiplied Inter licet nostrum non licet vestrum nutant animae Christianorum nemo vobis credit nemo nobis omnes contentiosi homines sumus saith Optatus p. 84. The People will not believe we have the same Faith when they see we agree not in the same Worship But if we have indeed the same Faith why do we separate It is doubtless a Sin to separate from that Church in whose Communion we may remain without Sin and it is a real Imputation of somewhat that is sinful in our Communion when we separate