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truth_n	believe_v	church_n	know_v	4,058	5	4.1423	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78117	An answer to the Essex Watchmens watchword, being 63 of them in number. Or a discovery of their ignorance, in denying liberty to tender consciences in religious worship, to be granted alike to all. Also, shewing how persecution for conscience came in. / By Edw. Barber freeman of Engl. citizen & marchant-taylor of London.	Barber, Edward, d. 1674?	1649 (1649)	Wing B692; Thomason E552_9; Thomason E561_9; ESTC R205724	17,312	22

I shall plentifully prove that to be according to the Gospel rule As 2 Tim. 2. 24. 25 26. And the servant of the Lord must not strive but be gentle towards all men apt to teach patient in meeknesse instructing the contrarie minded c. And for your distinction of Paganisme I have elsewhere proved your state Antichristian and to be farre worse and is compared to Sodom and Aegypt the vety worst of Heathens and therefore not to have given their hands and Seales to Christ nor taken upon them the profession of faith in him unlesse it be implicite to beleeve as the Church beleeves or by tradition of men And whereas you conceive there is so much zeale for God and for his truth in the people of England that did they but know the liberty intended and endeavonred after they would be so far from subscribing their hands to the Agreement that at the very hearing of it they would Rent their cloaths and cast dust upon their heads Sirs I beleeve it for as the children of Israel who had been a long time in bondage and slavery in Aegypt God sending his servant Moses to deliver them in their journey they murmered against him desiring rather to return and remain by their Flesh-pots with Onions and Leekes then to be transported into the Land of Canaan so these having drunk so deep a draught of the golden cup of the Whore from your hands that they are now in the same condition that the Jewes were to whom Paul preached the Gospel Acts 22. 22 23. Who said Away with such a fellow from the earth for it is not fit that he should live crying out casting of their cloaths and throning dust into the ayre c. Then you fall into the old strain of enveighing against Anabaptists Antinomians Arminians Arians Socinians Phocinians c. never shewing what they are much lesse confuting their doctrine to be erronious neither can you bring any part of the Gospell to prove that these men were they as erroneous as you pretend should be persecuted for their opinions and not enjoy the Liberty of their Conscience But herein you shew your selves brethren to James and John That would have had fire come down from heaven to consume the Samaritanes But as Christ said to them so say I to you Yee know not of what spirit ye are of for the Sonne of man is not come to destroy mens lives but to save them And for your feare of overthrowing the Oath of Allegiance and Supremecie your Shibboleths if they had never been but according to James his words yea Christ himself not to have sworn at all we had been far better and the sin of perjury and swearing would not have lain upon the Land as I feare it now doth The rest of the discourse is as much as in you lyes to hinder a generall Libertie of Conscience in matters of worship which is your Parenthisis your flie in the box of oyutment disabling the power of the civill Magistrate and Societies in private Families And why are you so invictive against the Papists and Prelaticall your late reverend Fathers from whom you had your Ordination being and maintenance Oh Ingratitude That children should so degenerate as to seek the death and overthrow of their Fathers that so they may get into their possessions which you have done by Papists and Prelates And whereas you say Poperie and Prelacie may have liberty by the Agreement because they make profession of faith in God by Jesus Christ do you Presbyters any more Are ye not of those the Apostle speaks of Titus 1. 16. That professe they know God but in works they deny him being abominable and disobedient and to every good work reprobate or void of judgement In which your practice you shew your woolvish nature derived from your Fathers that notwithstanding by the providence of God your rage is stopt and teeth struck out Yet like a muzled Woolfe doe you not retaine your nature of snapping and snarling making good the word of the Lord Jer. 13. 23. Can the Ethiopian change his skin on the Leopard his spots then may ye also do good that are accustomed to do evill compared with verse 22. and chapt 5. 19. For your conclusion upon your being better informed and inlightned in your minds I wish your light prove not darknesse for then how great is that darknesse and whereas you do all freely and solemnly underwrite the substance of what is there published concerning the honour of God I shall be of your mind when I see you with the Jewes and the Go●lor cry out What shall we doe to be saved Acts 2. 37. and 16. 30. Or with those that used curious Arts and burnt their books when you go and do likewise Acts 19. 1● Or according to Christs command and the Apostles rule and practice preach the Gospel freely getting that Ordinance for Tiths repealed with your tr●ble dammages or imprisonment without Bayle or Mainprice When with the D●mzell in whom was the spirit of divination Acts 16. 16. You confesse those whom you revile and persecute to be the servants of the living God that shew forth the glorious Institutions of the Gospel of Christ the way of salvation renouncing all Antichristian practice and traditions of men that you have neither precept nor example for Then and not untill then shall I judge you to be no Malignants against Christ nor Sectaries nor Schismaticks from the only rule of Christ But herein Reader take notice of two things the state of the Nationall Church of the Jewes under the Law from the world distinguished by circumcision and the Church of Christ under his government in the time of the Gospel distinguished by baptisme or dipping That being a Covenant of works made with Abraham and his carnall or naturall seed after the flesh The other being a new Covenant made with Christ beleevers Isaac and his spirituall seed being of the faith of Abraham Gal. 3. 7. 26. 28 29. compared with Rom. 9. 7. 8. Iohn 1. 12 13. and 3 4 5. 2. We hinder not men from Instructing Catechising and perswading their families either Magistrates or private persons yea and to powre out themselves with Jeremiah and Paul in prayer for them But not to use any violence or carnall weapons to force them to the worship that God requires under the Gospel by Christ it being spirituall according to that great Charter Mat. 28. 19 20. His Churches being so gathered in the Primitive times and ought to be so gathered after the Apostacie of the man of sin to wit by one and the same rule and ministrie c. being taken from the Heathens or Antichristians although you seem to make a difference for the word sets forth the state of Antichrist to be Sodom and Aegypt the worst of Heathens If you will make a difference I shall now desire to shew you what was practised under the Law as also under the Gospel concerning Liberty of Conscience with the