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A89161 The down-fall of Babylon or, The ruine of Antichrist : being that mystery of iniquity, which beginneth to worke in the children of disobedience, the Independents. / By Alexander Mingzeis minister of Gods Word. Mingzeis, Alexander. 1647 (1647) Wing M2192; Thomason E1184_6; ESTC R204875 9,425 33

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is a rule of righteousnesse and a light unto us but also as it serveth to convince the conscience and to lay it open And therefore David used it as a lampe unto his feete Psal 119.105 and a light unto his pathes And the Apostle plainely concludeth that he had not knowne sinnes Rom. 7.7 but by the Law Wherefore take away this light this lampe and this rule and our adversaries may doe what they list blow out this candle and they may goe whether they please but they must not thinke to escape in the darke or to go away in a mist for wee shall be able even by the very lanthorne of this Law to trace and finde them out And therefore they deny it lest they should be found out ruld by it Joh. 3.19 For light is come into the world and men love darkenesse rather then light because their deeds are evill Thirdly our adversaries the Independents doe not only deny Christ and the use of the morall Law but also the whole Canonicall Scriptures in calling them a dead letter and in comparing them to a fountaine scaled up Notwithstanding the Prophet Isaiah proclaimeth unto all Isay 55.1 to come freely to the waters and to buy wine and milke without money and without price And the Prophet Ezechiel compares them to the waters issuing forth under the threshold of the Sanctuary Ezech 47.5 which grew into a river and became impassible David tells us that the Law of the Lord is perfect converting the soule that the testimony of the Lord is sure Ps 19 7. making wise the simple and that the statutes of the Lord are right rejoycing the heart the commandement of the Lord is pure inlightning the eyes And Paul saith in Timothy that all Scripture is given by inspiration of God 2 Tim. ●3 16. and is profitable for doctrine reproofe for correction for instruction in righteousnesse That the man of God may be perfect throughly furnished unto all good workes In the Epistle to the Hebrewes he tells us that the word of God is quick and powerfull Heb. 4.12 and sharper then any two edged sword piercing even to the dividing of soule and spirit and of the joynts and marrow and that it is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart And in the Epistle to the Romans he plainely concludeth the Gospell to be the power of God unto salvation Ro. 1.16 And therefore if our Gospel he did saith the Apostle It is hid to them that are lost 2 Cor. 4. 34. in whom the God of this world hath blinded the minds of them that believe not lest the light of the glorious Gospel of Christ who is the Image of God should shine unto them I wonder what St. John meaneth whereas he saith Joh. 1.1 In the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was God I hope our adversaries will not say that God is a dead letter But it is not the sence or scope of Scripture will they object which they call the dead letter but the letter it selfe which is the creature I answer then the Creator with the scapegoat may passe free but take away the letter I wonder what will become of the sence and scope of Scripture Yes our new Enthusiasts and speculative Divines have found out a way to come by the sence and scope of Scripture without the letter and that is by Revelation and inditing of the spirit But what spirit is that which inditeth without Scripture Must not Gods word and spirit be one 1 Joh. 5.7 And doth not the Apostle say plainely that if wee or an Angell from Heaven preach any other Gospel then that which hath beene preached Gal. 1.8 let him be accursed And is it not a new Gospel to deny Christ to deny the Scriptures to deny Magistracie to deny Ministry and to deny the creature or that man hath a reasonable soule But seeing I have proved Independents already to be worse then Jewes Turkes or Infidels let us now see what difference there is betweene them and Papists Papists say that the Holy and Canonicall Scriptures are imperfect and obscure therefore they restraine them from the Laiety Independents say that they are but a dead letter and therefore uselesse and unprofitable and restraine them from all men The Pope arrogates the knowledge and interpretation of Scripture only to himselfe so doe Independents The Pope he saith that he is above and without all Law because he hath the Law written in the table of his breast so doe Independents Only herein is the difference if there be any that the Pope and Papists in some nature refuse not to be tryed by Scripture but our adversaries doe for so much as they notwithstanding Malechie saith Mal. 2.7 the Priests lips should preserve knowledge and they should seeke the Law at his mouth arrogate the key of knowledge and of interpreting the Scriptures only to themselves A woman in Midlesex and plainely give forth that the Scriptures are to be tryed by their spirit and not their spirit by the Scriptures Being contrary to Saint Johns rule 1 Joh. 4.1 which adviseth us not to believe every spirit but to try them whether they be of God adding the reason because many false spirits are gone forth into the world But how should wee try them whenas they have wrung the rule of truth and touchstone of Gods word out of our hands in calling it a dead letter and uselesse creature The Pope he saith he cannot sinne only out of Peters chaire he confesseth he may erre but our adversaries plainely tell us that they cannot sinne at all And why Because God sees no sinne in Jacob Num. 23.21 nor transgression in Israel And he that is borne of God sinneth not Neither indeed can he sinne because his seede abideth in him O happy people a royal Priesthood and a holy Nation 1 Pet. 2.9 I wonder they doe not also say that the showte of a King is among them How hath God sent them the spirit of delusion 2 Thes 2.11 that they might believe a lie 12. to the end that they might all be damned which beleeve not the truth For are they ignorant or do they take no notice that Israel was even then committing whooredome with the Daughters of Moab Num. 25.1 when Balaam did pronounce them without sinne And doth not the same author which saith 1 Joh. 3.9 he which is borne of God cannot sinne also to conclude 1 Joh. 1.8 that he which saith he is without sinne deceiveth himselfe and the truth is not in him Ps 32.1 I confesse the man is blest to whom the Lord doth not impute sinne But that hindreth not but that God seeeth sinne in Jacob and transgression in Israel 1 Sam. 7. 32.33 Yea and that he will punish it with the rods of men though he take not his everlasting mercies from