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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15110	A discoverie of Brownisme: or, a brief declaration of some of the errors and abhominations daily practiced and increased among the English company of the seperation remayning for the present at Amsterdam in Holland. By Thomas White	White, Thomas, fl. 1605.	1605 (1605)	STC 25408; ESTC S101313	15,645	36

other particulars whereof some shall be after mencioned An angry man stirreth vp strife and a furious man aboundeth intransgression 2. The Pasto● of the true Church must be louing cōpassionate but their Pastor vnnatural vnmerciful that to his own father yea for the time which his Father was with his Brother G. I. hee would not so much as once see him or relieue his necessitie though he were not yet excommunicated frō thē This I heard iustified to his face before many witnesses and he could not deny it so true it is that he that begetteth a foole begetteth himselfe sorrow as the wise man speaketh For the teacher 1. The teacher of a true Church is sincere their teacher steined with Hypocrisie as in his dealing concerning G. I M. Sl 2. The teacher of a true Church must bee vnreprooueable but their teacher is spotted againe and againe with Apostasie in their account as before hath beene noted 3 The teacher of the true Church must take diligent care to keepe the Church from errors their teacher hath beene a meanes to bring in and defend false Doctrines as the latter of those two before mencioned and others that may bee alleaged For the Elders 1. The Elders of a true Church must bee indued with the spirit of God their Elder Da St with the spirit of vncleanes 2. The Elders of a true church must see the lawes of God kept their Elder would defend the transgressing of them in himselfe and others 3. The Elders of a true church doe gouerne their owne houses orderly but the Elders mencioned most disorderly as else where is cited 4. The Elders aforesaid must bee louing their Elder D St cruell and tyranicall in so much that some of their owne mēbers haue complained that if they had a matter as cleare as the sunne against him yet durst they not deale with him for it 5. The elders of a true church must be vnreprooueable but their Elder St Mer hath as their teacher beene noted for Apostasie For the Deacons 1. The Deacons of the true Church of Christ must haue a pure conscience must not bee giuen to filthy lucre But their Deacon Christoph Bow for his deceiuing of many poore euē of their owne companye of halfe that which the Magistrates of Narden had giuen them weekelye was thereupon when it came to light through widdow Colgates meanes called Iudas the purse-bearer in Narden for so doing Not to speake of many such like instances that by him may be giuen And for the Elders ioyntly 1. The church of Christ doe priuately admonish a priuate sin of a holy louing affection but their Elders could call R W before thē in the first place for a priuate thing threatē her excōmunication for that which after ward for shame they let fall And for the peoples vncleanes cousning disgracing backe-biting vndermining one of another amongst themselues it is a thing so common and well knowne of them at home and abroad that I neede not in this place to speake further of it heauen and earth can beare me witnesse against thē in those things oh that they would apply vnto themselues and their practise that which the Prophet Ieremie speakes Will they steale murther and commit adulterie c. And yet crie the temple of the Lord the temple of the Lord Are these then this beautifull yea moste wonderful church rauishing the sences to conceiue of it are these the Saints then marching in such a heauenly and gracious aray where euery stone hath his beauty his burthen and his order where no law is wrongfully wrested or wilfully neglected no truth hid or peruerted or rather haue they not deluded many poore soules with such sweete wordes who when they haue seene their estate and their expectations so frustrated haue vsed these wordes They neede neuer seperate themselues if they liue thus for any Godly societie will quickely thrust them out from them so practising as they doe Certainely this their description of a visible Church is as cleare a testimony and as pregnant a sentence of condemnation against themselues and their practise as may be possible But yet that their hypocrisie may further appeare let me giue the reader a taste also of their dealing in condemning others euen in those things that they would and doe practise themselues that in these particulers 1. They condemne others for communicating with open offenders and yet practise it themselues as is before shewed 2. For making men to sweare to accuse themselues yet M. Ih. practised the same to one I. L and it is moreouer a common practise among them both publikely and priuately so to doe yet would their Elder Dan Studly neuer so much as denye the matter of incest with his wiues Daughter for the clearing of himselfe though hee were requested for the satisfying of weake Btetheren so to doe 3. They condemne the Dutch churches for baptising the seede of those that are not members of their church and yet M. Iohnson with the rest could offer to receiue M. Deuksberies childe to Baptisme and were offended at G I for witstanding it and yet he neyther was nor would ioyne himselfe as a member vnto them 4. In like manner doe they deale with the Dutch churches of Amsterdam for hauing but one church in the Cittie And yet M. Iohnson to vrge others to ioyne to them which for diuers disorders amongst them would not so doe could alleadge that there was no warrant for two seuerall churches to be in one city in the scriptures 5. In the place aboue quoted they giue the like sentence against the Dutch and French Churches for deciding matters by the elders without the body of the church and not suffring in this respect the 18. of Mat rightly to be obserued amōgst them and yet their Elders viz M. Fr Ih. and his fellowes could decide one T. Canadyes matter who had accused himselfe to be rid of his wife and this without their knowledge or consent But the said Canady not resting in the Elders determination brought it to their Church alleadging that he had iniury done to him in that W H could bee seperate frō his wife on his owne accusation of himselfe of adultery he could not And further to iustify the bringing of matters in the third place to their Elders for so they practise before the matter bee brought to the whole church they could alleadge the very same reasons against M. P. that they had before condemned in the Dutch And for the 18 of Mat. how it is made a matter of partialitie and enuie yea a cloake to couer filthines withal at eueuery pinch amōgst them would grieue ones heart to consider 6. They condemne the Dutch French aforesaid for worshipping God in the Idoll Temples of Antichrist yet themselues suffer their poore to receiue the almes of the Dutch which is a Sacrifice Phil 4. 18. in the same