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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77072	The spirit of prelacie, yet working. Or, Truth from under a cloud, in a relation, of that great, and publike contestation had in Glocester, July, 1644. Written then, and now published, as it were of necessity. Together, with a postscript, containing some generall and perticular observations, upon Master Edwards his Gangræna. / By Robert Bacon, M.A. minister of the Gospel.	Bacon, Robert, M.A.	1646 (1646)	Wing B370; Thomason E334_5; ESTC R9476	30,348	42

others of your minde 1 The Kingdoms Wealo 2 The Churches peace 3 Your own and others settlement But for the first consider Is not Christ King of Nations doth not he uphold the worlds by the word of his power is not the Kingdom His and at His disposall he sits at the sterne and guides it who hath redeemed it with his bloud Oh that you and all the Kingdom could see him taking care of it as hitherto he hath done And for the Churches peace is it not durable like it selfe and him that gives it an everlasting peace extended to it like a river even the peace of God which passeth the understanding of either men or Angels effectually to perturbe Christ gives peace not as the world giveth to take it away again wherefore it is a true position where men have not peace with God and one with another they are rather out of then in the Church for the Church is a Kingdom cannot be shaken and for your selves if Christians are you not upon a Rock why then like Ahaz and his people are you moved as the trees of the wood are mooved with the wind and not rather are at rest in Christ and in him by faith quiet from fear of evill he that wavereth is like a wave of the Sea driven with the winde and tossed The Advice then is have faith in God for Kingdom Church your selves he that beleeveth shall not be ashamed A beleeving Kingdom a beleeving Church a beleeving man shall not be moved but distrust the arme of flesh your wisdom zeal government you so contend about the weapons of that warfare must not be carnall that must take down those strong holds of Satan Errour and false worship but such as are mighty through God thinke not as Uzzah did of whom men speak so much at this day though without knowledge that the Arke will fall unlesse you put to your hand in an un-due manner to support it and know you not t is true alone of Christ the government is upon his shoulders he that puts to his hand as thinking he supports it profanes it dishonours the High-priest that is entrusted with the care of it more commit the sin of Uzzah then men at this day are aware of the spiritualty as they speake that would keep up the distinction still more then the temporalty run upon this rock and have done so of a long time who have taken all into their own hands if as Christ were not King and the inheritance not His but theirs and therefore have divided it as the Jews did among themselves let us then remit the care of these things so far as we are concerned in them to Christ that careth for us according to the Apostles rule be carefull for a Phil. 4 6. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 nothing c. but will you neglect to doe what you can to preserve the Kingdomes weale the Churches peace our owne and others settlement in the truth God forbid provided yet we observe these three cautions 1 That we in the use of means keep within our Spheare as many doe not 2 That what wee doe we doe in truth for means used without faith is like fire painted on the wall it makes a blaze but gives no heat 3 That the remedy be proportioned to the distemper For it doth appeare exceeding strange and unchristian that I say not Antichristian and it will doe so more and more that Errour Schisme Heresie which is the Gangrene you pretend so excedingly to feare being in the very nature of it a spirituall and soule distemper the temporall sword according to the Popish tenent should be thought the onely and the most effectuall means for the cure of whether this be not to pretend onely to be a Physitian a soule Physitian and yet to have recourse wholy to anothers box for ointment to do the cure Hence it is that so many are proclaimed Schismaticks Hereticks in the Pulpit to provoke and engage the Magistrate before there is any argument or Scripture sufficient brought for the proving of them to be such even to this day well nigh all hath been taken in for Oracle that some few men pretending piety and zeale for holy Church hath suggested to the Rulers of the earth to the shedding of the bloud of Saints and turning Kingdoms upside down But all praise be given to God and Hallelujahs sung to him that sits on the Throne this Book of deceit begins to be opened and the Kingdoms learn of Christ to read it that the Nations for this cause we hope may learn war no more ● It is no Paradox to affirm that self-confidence is haunted with exceeding fear The Scriptures Emblem Character Of an unbelieving self-confident man is Magor missabib Feare round about He fears where no fear is a fear hath tormēt Again The Scriptures Emblem Character Of him that hath Faith in God is Noah in the Arke or Moses in the clift of the rock He is not afraid of any evill tydings he fears nor the losse of life estate least of all the losse of his Religion His heart is established with grace and not with meats outward things To the Reader line 21. r. Apostles advice FINIS

and many men how I have endevoured by all means to further the cause of the Parliament against them 4 By this Order it cannot othervvise appeare but that I am put out of the City as a Malignant vvhich if I am apprehended so to be I am infinitely vvronged for I never entertained the least thought of disrespect against the Parliament 5 I have behav'd my self both before and since I came to the City vvith all good conscience both tovvards God and men saying no other thing but vvitnessing both to small and great vvhat Christ the Apostles and Martyrs and our first Reformers vvitnessed and all the Protestant Churches at this day 6 I am not such a stranger but I am knowne to many of good report in the City besides I have lived till after Bristoll vvas taken a publike Preacher in and about that City vvhich is not far from this eight or nine yeers 7 Whether it be not an infringing of the liberty of the subject to thrust mee out of the City for matters of Religion especially when all that have been spoken or written by me is in appearance truth as is confessed no errour proved against mee though many suspected my heart and thoughts being judged when my actions are vvithout offence 8 Whether mercy be not to be mingled with justice that I be not forced to depart from my deare and loving wife a woman of good birth and quality especially now shee is neere that perillous time of child-birth-bearing grief by reason of my forced departure she being but a vveak vvoman may hasten her death especially in such a case 9 Whether there be not an offence taken and not given by my preaching and conversation as is usuall at the power and truth of the Gospel 10 Yet if I must be put out of towne I humbly beg a Copy of the Order that I may have to shew the reasons why and that I may have some longer time to prepare for so long a journey for whether to goe but to the City of London I know not and that I may take the next opportunity for company Lastly for the justification of my innocency person doctrine I refer my self to the tribunall of Gods justice and this most Honorable Parliament desiring God to forgive the malice and ignorance of mine enemies And thus I humbly take my leave and rest Your Honours servant in the blessed Gospel R. BACON A Copy of the Order sent me after the giving in this Petition WE the Gentlemen of the Committee gave out our Order upon a serious debate not by our selues as according to our instructions we might have done but with the ingredients and consult of many godly and learned Ministers by both parties and upon emergent reasons our votes were concluded and in a more civill manner then Master Bacon deserved were sent unto him yet although he hath rather arraigned then entreated the Committee for an alteration of our judgments we are resolved not to alter our commands as rather engaged to gratifie so many Orthodox Divines in this businesse then his fancie the passages we have received from his hands we hold more sit to be transmitted to the Parliament as a greater abuse to their Ordinance then an offence to our persons and therefore desire Master Bacon will be obedient to our former Order rather then put us upon a second course which wee not so much desire as he deserves What affinity some passages in this Order have with that in the Revel 17.13 those that have wisdome from above may consider Besides who to judge the most godly and orthodox Ministers in these days of Controversie is doubtlesse somewhat more difficult then is by most supposed otherwise these glorious that I say not vain-glorious titles as godly learned orthodox would not have been so confidently put upon these Ministers whose doctrinall assertion is most Heterodox to name but that under their own hands that by good works we obtein salvation and whose practice in this was far enough from being godly to undermine their brother and seeke his ruine to establish themselves not rendring him no not the Magistrate himself a just reason why I shall here insert as an acknowledgment of the sympathy of a faithfull Friend and Minister of the Gospell these few lines which he in verse sent my wife to support her in her solitarines and my forced departure POssesse your soule in patience Christ doth reigne His r●d shall feed his staffe shall you susteine Is husband gon do friends begin to hind Let not your heart be sad God will provide Life livelihood friends husband and withall Increase of honour shall succeed your fall Passe by the frowns of men contemne their scorn Be not dismaid with bonds you are free born All things are subject unto Christ and hee Commands them at his pleasure therefore wee Of safety may be sure Christ for us is No power or hate can hurt those that are his The spark that was blown up into so great a flame against mee was my publike reprehension of a certain pretended playster for a Sin-sick Soule as being in it self contradictory and repugnant to that of the Lords own prescribing of which I spake from Jeremy the 32.6 which is made up of those two sweet and saving salves Truth and Peace both which as the Psalmist speaks but in a little different language kisse each other in Christ as also in them that are Christs but because I mentioned faith and repentance which are two of those more then twenty other ingredients in this Mountebanke medicine some whether inconsideratly or enviously or both I will not determine reported that I denied Faith and Repentance but let the Assembly or others judge whether the Authour of this Medicine speak not rather the language of Rome then Canaan vvhether he be not rather a stranger then a home-bred Protestant deceiving the people feeding them vvith husks under the specious names of the Crums of Comfort there being evidently in it not only that vvhich is popish false and erroneous but that vvhich renders Religion and the Mystery of God ridiculous a copy of which that all may judge is here inscribed A speciall Remedy for a Sin-sick Soule FIrst 1 Fast and Pray In a book calld the Crums of Comfort 2 and then take a quart of Repentance of Nineve and 3 put in two handfuls of faith 4 in the bloud of Christ with as much 5 Hope and 6 Charity as you can get and put it into a Vessell of 7 a clean Conscience 8 then boyle it in the fire of love 9 so long till you see by the Eyes of Faith the black foam of the love of this World stinke in your stomacke 10 then scum it off cleane with the Spoone of faithfull Prayers when this is done 11 put in the Powder of Patience and 12 take the Cloth of Christs Innocency 13 and strain altogether in his Cup 14 then drink it burning hot next thy heart 15 and cover