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A80537	The last, and highest appeal. Or, An appeal to God, against the new-religion-makers, dresters, menders, or venders amongst us. Wherein is evidenced, amongst other things, that they have not true faith, true repentance, or true charity. Likewise, that the seven heads of sin, commonly called, the seven deadly sins, are manifestly apparent in the lifes of their preachers. / By Richard Carpenter.	Carpenter, Richard, d. 1670?	1656 (1656)	Wing C623; Thomason E1650_2; ESTC R209117	20,505	52

hold fast Saint John writes here unto the angel of the Church in Sardis And the Reason why Scripture is so various and uses all these Helps Waies and Weapons is Because if we do not abide in the most ancient Doctrine we do not abide in the ancient of Daies who is God Which is easily deduced from these holy words Let that therefore abide 1 John 2. 24. in you which ye have heard from the beginning if that which yee have heard from the beginning shall remain in you ye also shall continue in the Son and in the Father Here is my Plea To thee O only wise God I appeal CHAP. V. The Second Matter in Question THe second Matter of the Appeal is These prodigious Christians call themselves Saints and the only-Believers I avouch That they have not Faith much lesse any kinde of Saintship And I am steered hereunto by this Description of Faith answerable to thy Word and accepted by the whole truly-Christian world Faith with respect unto the Giver is of God with relation to the manner of giving is an infused Grace and in the Exercise of it is a firm and immovable Adhesion or Assent of the Vnderstanding to the Truths revealed by God and proposed by the Church of God as the Spouse of his only-begotten Son Christ Iesus First Faith differeth from Opinion which is a pendulous or wavering Assent and easily movable Secondly Faith is a Vertue of the Understanding and by the Power of God infused into it the Understanding being the first Faculty of the Soul or Spirit and Faith being a Spiritual Grace yea the Basis and Foundation of all other true Vertues and Graces Yet Faith works not but adjunctâ Voluntate our Will concurring and moving appliably to the working of Grace Thirdly The Truths believed must be revealed Because the Power that gives a supernatural Grace or Vertue must likewise present the Matter or Object that these may be proportionable and stated in the same Order and because we cannot in any kind please God in order to Glory without God and without Faith the Apostle plainly teaching Without Faith it is impossible to please God Heb. 11. 6. and Faith hath necessary reference to it's Object Fourthly Here these religious Juglers are plainly discovered to the Sense and this was the regulated and orthodox Divinity of honest and quiet Old-England The true Church and Spouse of Christ which hath from God the promise of divine assistance and is actually assisted by the holy Ghost and guided into all Truth must propose the Truths otherwise Jo. 16. 13 how shall we know in any Church or how shall it be certain to us certitudine Fidei by the certainty of Faith that our Translators being fallible Men have done us right in their Translation of the Scriptures which we receive and believe as the word of God Selah O Meditation For Whatsoever was promised to the Apostles as principal Members of the Church must it self pertain to the Church for whose cause and sake it was promised And there is alwaies the same need of divine guidance or assistance because the holy Scriptures cannot be rightly Understood but by the assistance of the same Spirit according to whose Dictates they were first written And the Scriptures being publikely given and to all the direction likewise for the right Understanding of them must be proportionaeble that is be publike and uuiversally proposed even in the view of all to all Moreover Interpretation is a Gift given for the good of the Church as also all such Graces are and is not a Gift ending in the good of the Person to whom it is given Hence it stands upright that Faith is divine in the Cause or Author divine in the Infusion divine in the Adhesion and lastly divine in the reason of the Adhesion For therefore we must firmly assent and inviolably adhere unto the Truths of God because they were revealed by God who can not erre in himself or directly cause others to erre and proposed by his Church to the which he hath given and promised the Holy Ghost and which he certainly assisteth according to his gracious Promise all ordinate Proceedings being alwayes conformable to their Beginnings And moreover the Gospel of St Matthew ending thus And lo I am Matth. 28. 20. with you alway even unto the end of the World also this promise being then made when our Lord Christ commanded his Disciples in the same Verse that they should teach all Nations to observe all Things commanded by him Which evidences that his efficacious assistance was promised as necessary to the observation of all those Things My Appeal is at thy Bar O God give Sentence CHAP. VI. The Third Matter in Question THe third Matter of the Appeal is I maintain That as these disfigur'd-fac'd and unlucky-look't Hypocrites neither Preach nor have true Faith so they neither have nor Preach true Repentance And I am so tongu'd and faith'd Because these devout Mountebanks have not the least knowledge of or acquaintance with true Evangelical Repentance or with the true Conditions and Properties of it as it is manifest by the Consideration of Repentance thus represented in it's own and proper Colours Repentance is a gracious Gift of God being a most hearty sorrow for our Sins past which hath for it's motive the pure love of God and is joyned with a firm Purpose of not sinning hereafter The Sorrow Repentance hath à se ex suâ naturâ as it is Repentance and the purpose Repentance hath as Repentance is connexed with Prudence whose genuine and proper work is to beware of Evils which may come hereafter The Sorrow discovers it self inwardly and outwardly inwardly to the Person in whom it is and outwardly to all people scandalized or farther injured by our Sins that our Repentance may in some sort adequately answer to and even our Transgressions The Sorrow discovers it self inwardly first by a most hearty Wish that we never had sinned against our most good God whereby as far as in us lies we unravel and cancel our Sin yea revoke and in a manner render undone the Act of it this being the most eminent reason that Repentance is accepted and required as the reconciling Vertue and secondly the Sorrow discovers it self inwardly by a most vehement Hatred and abomination of sin according to the Scripture-Psalmist Psa 119. 163. Text Hebr. I hate and abhor lying but thy Law do I love The Original word here translated lying is aven and signifies lying not as such a sin distinguished from others by that name but as Sin in common and as all kinds of Sin are a kind of lying against God who is Primum Ens prima Veritas prima Bonitas the first Thing the first Truth the first Goodness And therefore the Vulgar Latin unsheaths it Edit Lat. Iniquitatem odio habui abominatus sum I hated and abominated iniquity And as a man abominates a Toad as contrary to his

my Father glorified that ye bear Jo. 15. 8. much fruit so shall ye be my Disciples What corrupted and miserable fruit these dirty Saints bear God knowes and those who have eies to see see and they that have ears to hear hear And I build upon this Ground first God is more glorified by our being more his according to his Will but we are thus more his by our keeping his commandements not by the making of uncomely faces or the fashioning our waxen and pliable mouths to the misdiscerning ears of the People in a whining and phantastical Tone To this excellent purpose God himselfe sayes Now therefore if ye will obey my Exod. 19. 5. voice indeed and keep my covenant then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all People A Prince is glorified in the multitude of his obedient and faithfull Servants and in the riches and fulness of his Treasure I build secondly God is then truly glorified when we do that which he truly requires of us but he truly requires of us to bear much fruit not to spend our sap in idle and vain shows blossoms of specious Words and Professions So speaks God again And now Deut. 10. 12. Israel what doth the Lord thy God require of thee but to fear the Lord thy God to walk in all his waies and to love him and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul To keep the commandements v. 13. of the Lord and his Statutes which I command thee this day for thy good And a master is glorified in the due and ready performance of what he requires and commands I build thirdly God is most glorified by that which he prefers before all other Things but God prefers solid obedience before other Things and Faith is made acceptable in adult persons by the working of it Thus the Scripture on God's behalf And Samuel said Hath the Lord 1 Sam. 15. 22. as great delight in burnt-offerings and sacrifices as in obeying the Voice of the Lord behold to obey is better than sacrifice and to hearken than the fat of rams The words were spoken to Saul because he had reserved the fat beasts of the Amalekites for sacrifices in opposition to the divine preference and command Obedience pertains to the moral Law Sacrifice to the ceremonial and the moral Law is of all the most deeply rooted Now this apish behaviour of our blind-soul'd Hypocrites is a most wretched piece of low-born Ceremony and the sacrifice of pure Fools I build fourthly God is most especially glorified by those things which he most presses to the Heart but he most presses to the heart the serious and earnest keeping of his commandements My Son Pro. 3. 1. forget not my Law but let thine heart keep my commandements Let not mercy and v. 3. truth forsake thee binde them about thy neck write them upon the table of thine Heart Trust in the Lord with all thine v. 5. Heart Kings are greatly glorified by their having the surest and strongest Holds Forts or Cittadels and having the Tower or Castle of a City we command the whole City I build lastly God is most glorified by that which is the end of other Duties because the end as the End is more perfect noble and worthy than the Means as the end of Prayer Fasting Hearing of Sermons Receiving of Sacraments and the like is our bearing of much holy fruit and our walking more and more agreeably to God's commandements Let the Scripture speak Is not this the fast that I have chosen Is 58. 6. to loose the bands of wickedness to undo the heavy burdens and to let the oppressed go free and that ye break every yoke Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry and v. 7. that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house When thou seest the naked that thou cover him and that thou hide not thy self from thine own flesh It spake first of hypocritical Fasts destitute of agreeable and subsequent Practise Now that these Ghosts of the ancient Heretikes are a dull stupid and most block-and-beetle-headed Rout drinking horrible Sin like water and yet faintingly straining in the sight of Men at the little Gnats of Prohibition is to me and my Sense most clear most evident CHAP. IX The Sixth Matter in Question THe sixth Matter of the Appeal takes place I object That the seven great Heads of Sin recounted by the Ancients are wondrously apparent in the preaching Leaders of these Factions which have risen since the first beginning of our unhappy Differences We see but let God judge The seven great Heads are Pride Anger Envy Lust or Luxury Covetousness Gluttony and Sloth when the dangerous and painfull Works of sound Religion are to be strongly and valiantly performed These the Ancients have upon excellent Grounds set in opposition to the seven Gifts of the Holy Ghost and have found first adumbrated in the Old Testament by the seven dippings of Naaman and afterwards 2 Kings 5. 14. Luk. 8. 2. Mar. 16. 9. expressed in the New by our Saviour his casting seven Devils out of Mary Magdalene In evident Things Proof Ceases Was ever Pride more swelling and triumphant in any of those who never learned Christ than it is now in these seven-headed Monsters This Evil travels with the Nation Witness the Cloak-bagg-Religion'd House-Preachers superstitiously called Doctor at the Cloth market in Germany Also the blazing-ey'd and high-tongu'd Speaker in private not Black-well or black in a good sense but as false and black as Hell Was Anger ever more furious See Rev. 12. 3. 17. 3. more fierce and cruel more restless more full of Strange Pretences Devices and Stratagems more damnably lying than in these when their Evil Spirits are raised or molested Was ever Envy more mischievous than in these when they see they are out-done in the judgement of the People upon whose lips and trenchers they depend Do not these Lions most furiously roar when the Cock the Bird of the Day crows near them Was Lust ever more lustful and luxurious What manifold Examples we have had of it And now O thou new-religion'd Sin so like unto Rape I remember who committed thee and the very Place Was ever covetousnesse more exacting Go and ask All People on English Earth do dwell Was Gluttony ever more desiring and gaping after varieties of meats and sawcies And yet they preach to the lamentable people denyal of the World and Pleasures Was ever Sloth more slothful when God's work requires Christian boldness courage and Fortitude For the Nature of Heretical Spirits is such that their Vnderstandings being drawn into the faction of their Wills thy confidently and easily adhere to that from which their Livelihood arises and soon after their Understandings and Wills as it were growing together verily believe it as the Truth of God And to touch a little upon the first Head that the