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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26412	A fannaticks mite cast into the Kings treasury being a sermon printed to the King because not preach'd before the King / by Henry Adis.	Adis, Henry.	1660 (1660)	Wing A581; ESTC R28080	68,628	81

answer from him than a Proclamation of our Worship to be a vain Worship as once he declared against the Jews Matth. 15. 9. And therefore if miscarriages rise amongst us we are to bring such miscarriages to the the touch-stone of Gods word and so weigh them in the ballance of the Sanctuary and finding them either too heavy or too light that is either adding or diminishing from or to the mind of Christ we are the●… to repair to those wholsome Lawes left us in Scripture record for the regulating of such miscarriages according to the 〈◊〉 of them as they are private or publick or more or less in their several agravations and as they are committed by persons standing in such o●… such relations We say the more of this because most persons think and many do not stick to say that we live and act in things Ecclesiastical as Libertines and without Church-Government because we withdraw our selves from the publick Assemblies But did such persons rightly consider what the Discipline of the Ministry of the Nation is in their Parochial Assemblies who professe themselves to be the true Spouse and Church of Christ and compare it with the mind of Christ revealed in the Scriptures of Truth who gives Law●… to his Church which is that body of which he himself is the head Ephes. 4. 15. 21. 22. Col. 1. 18. 2. 19. They would then finde themselves to be the Libertines and not we and therefore we shall earnestly desire all that are unacquainted with the true Discipline of the Church of Christ well to weigh and seriously to consider these Statute Laws of Christ in that case provided 2 Tim. 3. 16. 2 Tim. 4. 1 2. Ephes. 5. 11. Matth. 18. 15. 1 Tim. 5. 12 19 20. 1 Tim. 6. 5. 1 Tim. 1. 20. Tit. 3. 10. 2 Thes. 2. 15. 2 Thes. 3. 10. 1 Cor. 5. 4 9 11. The which as we will answer the contrary at the great Day of account we dare not in the least wilfully violate or neglect But if by miscarriage●… in things Ecclesiastical they mean that we endeavour a Tolleration of all miscarriages amongst them in their Assemblies we shall in the presence of God clear our selves and say we have nothing at all to do with them in such matters for we say they are without as to us 1 Cor. 5. 12 13. And so we look upon our selves to be as to them And if any one shall seem to be troubled at this term Without and object and say that we are all the Creation of God and what need these expressions of Stand at a distance I am more holy than you To such ●…e shall answer in the Spirit of Love and Meeknesse and God is our Witnesse without OSTENTATION that it is true all the Sons and Daughters of Adam are the Sons and Daughters of God by Creation but few by Regeneration and Adoption for Many are called but few are chosen Matth 20. 16. for not the hear●…rs of the Law but the doors shall be justified Rom. 2. 13. And not every one that saith Lord Lord shall enter into the Kingdome of Heaven but he that doth the will of the Father Matth. 7. 21. We well know that many will say these are hard sayings and cannot well bear them But to such we shall give a direction in our Post-s●…ript where from one of us they may expect and we hope also find good satisfaction as to the tearm Without That we own Liberty of Conscience we confesse but under that or any other pretence to endeavour a Toleration of any Miscarriages either in things Ecclesiastical or Civil we have given we hope full satisfaction for seeing it is the will of our Master to have the Tares and the Wheat grow together till the Harvest Matth. 13. 30. And that our Heavenly Father doth exercise his long-suffering to the whole bulk of man-kind not willing that any should perish but that all should come to Repentance 2 Pet. 3. 9. We look upon it to be our Duty to follow God as Dear Children and thus to walk in love Ephes. 5. 1 2. and therefore are like-minded having the same love Phil. 2. 2. And therefore do further declare that we are as free that all others should enjoy their Liberties as we our selves of what Judgment soever they be we well knowing that some are called at the eleve●…th hour as well as at the first and third Matth. 20. 1 6. And had the Apostle Paul been plucked up whilst he was a Tare a Persecutor a Blasphemer 1 Tim. 1. 13. and the chief of sinners v. 15 he had never been such choyce Wheat to Satisfie Refresh Enable Enliven Inlighten Encourage build up and Instruct Correct and Reprove the Building of God 1 Cor. 3. 9. the House of God Heb 3. 6. the Houshold of God Ephes. 2. 19. the Sons and Daughters of God 2 Cor. 6. 18. Nor that body of which Christ is the head Col. 1. 18. and therefore we cannot but say again that we are as free that all others should enjoy their Liberties in the things of God as we our selves We well knowing that every one must give an account of himself to God Rom. 14. 12. for every one shall receive the things done in the body according to what they have done whether it be good or bad 2 Cor. 5. 10. Matth. 25. 34 41. But either to procure or maintain our own or others Liberties by force of Armes or the least violence we can find no warrant from the Scriptures of truth in the least which is that only and alone Rule that we walk by for all the remedy that we find there recorded is that if they persecute us in one City we may flee into another and this we see acted by our Saviour himself John 7. 1. and by his Parents Matth. 2. 14. and the Apostle Peter Acts 12. 17. and Saint Paul Acts 9. 25 26. 1 Cor. 11. 33. And to follow our Master and to tread in the footsteps of the Flock of God gone before us we judge it very safe but to resist by force of Armes or use the least violence we judge unwarrantable To the fift and last particular That we would murther and destroy those that differ from us in Matters of Religion To this we cannot but answer that so to do we judge were not so much as common Humanity much less Religion or Christianity but our Religion is pure and undefiled before God and our Father which is to visit the Fatherless and widdows not to make fatherless widdows and to visit them in their afflictions not to murther and destroy their Relations to bring them under Afflictions But to this we further answer that this and the 4th Particular we judg seem to contradict one another for murthering and destroying for difference in matters of Religion and Liberty of Conscience cannot stand together nor in the eye of Reason can they be charged against one and the same persons for murthering and destroying