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A42134 The doctrine of the asse, or, A brief account of their principles and practice in whose behalf the complaint was written that it may serve for advice to others : whereunto is added the asse's complaint, Balaam's reply, and the authors apology / by Lewis Griffin. Griffin, Lewis. 1661 (1661) Wing G1982; ESTC R28049 18,183 44

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Masters known will than to search into his secret Counsels it becomes not Men presumptuously to enquire into that which is hidden from the very Angels We read how Iob was posed concerning Hail Snow and other Questions in the book of Nature Now tell me shallow Man since thou canst not give a true account of what is done but in the Clouds and Firmament which are only the out-houses of Heaven how wilt thou presume to give Intelligence of the Affairs of Jehovahs Closet and of the Transactions of his Counsel-Table Praedestination is a fitter Subject for wonder than dispute It is a mysterious Euripus in the bloud of Christ And it would be better for thee like Aristotle to cast thy Soul in with the Tide than in vain to study the cause of the flowing 11. That thou mayst have a right Judgment and Apprehension both of Men and things learn to distinguish betwixt Good and Evill which is the great Dico tomy of the intellectual world and the two terms in thy conversion The Devill perhaps hath taught thee at other lesson only to make thee forget this that is to distinguish betwixt Papist and Protestant Praelat and Presbyterian Independant Anabaptist Quaker and other Sects whereof if every one should have a particular Station at the day of Judgement we might imagine our Saviour to be Centemanus as the Poets feig● Briareus having an hundred hands But know these are distinctions of Passion rather than Reason and a strange kind of Language which our Babel-Builders have learned since their late Confusion for there are but two wayes Men are not Saved or Condemned for being called by this or that name but through Faith or Unbelief a Devout Papist is better than a Hypocritical Protestant a Godly Presbyterian than a Debauched Conformist and there is Room in Heaven for Religious Anabaptists and Well-meaning Quakers Let not therefore thy Tempter so far impose upon thy Iudgement as to make thee abhor the Harmlesse and Decent Ceremonies of the Church because they are said to be Popery nor to dissent from any Orthodox truths because some may call them Arminian Tenents nor to Persecute any of thy Bretheren because they differ from thee in Notions and Speculations In a word as thou art not to believe every mans Opinion so thou oughtest not to hate any mans Person for the one would show thou hadst too much Faith and the other would argue thou hadst too little Charity 12. Think not that it is enough to make thee a Christian that thou wert once Baptized with water in thy Infancy perhaps thy sowish Soul hath been a thousand times in the Mire of natural pollution since that sprinkling We commonly say to Dirty Children that the Gardener will sow Leeks in their faces we may more truly tell our Bruckled Professours that the Devill will sow Tares in their Souls to prevent this Baptize thy Soul in the Blood of Christ and Rebaptize thy Face in thine own Tears The Baptism of Iohn was a Baptism unto Repentance and therefore he that hath been Baptized but not unto Repentance shall have cause to Repent that ever he were Baptized 13. As for thy Prayers lei them be frequent and fervent Let not thy Tongue out-run thy Heart but be such inwardly to God as thou wouldst willingly appear outwardly to Men Let there be no incongruity betwixt thy voice and hands neither let thy Soul study the Phrase of Ashdod whilest thy Lips speak the language of Canaan Make use of thy own gifts in private of the Common-Prayer in publick of the Lords Prayer in both But tell me Zealous Brother art thou offended at the noise of the Organs And therefore hugely taken with their Doctrine who make it their Businesse to rail against them Oh how grosse is thy Ignorance to run from that Musick which is so highly commended by the Psalmist and yet to follow the Lectures of those scolding Seducers who the Apostle tells thee are but as sounding brass and as a Tinkling Cymball It is unwholesome for thy Soul to sit in the wind of such Doctrine which may make thy Charity to get cold and blow dust into the eyes of thy understanding 14. Think it not strange concerning the Fiery Tryall The Lord hath promised to purge away our Drosse and to take away our Tin the Drosse is grosse Prophanesse the Tin is glittering Hypocrisie Now till we find our selves freed from these we must expect the Refiners fire in the Furnace of Affliction Sustine Abstine was Epectetus his Philosophy The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away was Jobs Divinity study therefore to understand the one and labour to practice the other for if thou canst abstinere when the Lord gives thou maist sustinere when he takes away Consider the Example of the Holy Jesus Remember his Sufferings With what an unwilling willingnesse did he take off his bitter draught It therefore Providence should put the same Cup into thy Hand wouldst thou refuse to pledge that health which thy Master first began to thy own Soul He that well understands the Glory of the Crosse will never complain of its weight there is in it plus honoris quam oneris How canst thou expect greater preferment in this world than to be Standard-bearer to him who is the Captain of thy Salvation 15. If thou are stung with fiery Serpents that is calumniating tongues run presently to the Brazen Serpent which thou maist find lifted up in the Gospel Blessed are yee when men Revile yee and Persecute yee for My names sake c. If thou art a Common Drunkard Prophane Swearer or base Whoremonger whilst thou continuest so thou shalt be called a good fellow an honest Cavalier and a well bred Gentleman But when thou changest Saul into Paul and reprovest those Sins which thou didst once commit what canst thou then expect but that the Devill who was before leading thee to Presumption should now attempt to drive thee to dispair and cast into thy face both the iniquities of thy Childhood and the follies of thy Youth and if these fail thy Poverty and natural Deformity shall be charged as Crimes against thee But be not discouraged at these things There will one day be honour for thee as well as comfort for the mourner for amongst the people of God there will be both a wiping of Tears from the Eyes and a washing of Dirt from the Faces 16. Be not discouraged from walking in the ways of God because of the scandal and miscarriages of some professour The best things being corrupted become the worst Mercy may be abused Grace turned into wantonesse and Christ himself be made a stumbling-block Shall we therefore have no Mercy no Grace no Christ God forbid The wolvish nature of a few Hypocrites shall not make Sheeps-cloathing become odious neither will we lay down the Profession of Religion because some who took it up proved Rebels and Traytors The Scribes and Pharisees had not been condemned for their Long-Prayers