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A34990	A description of the Church of Scotland with a word of reproofe to the priests, and teachers, and officers therein, for their many corrupt doctrines and practices, also a warning and a gentle invitation to all people, that lives under their tyrannicall government, to come to the truth ... : herein is their church made manifest ... : with an exhortation to all people to come out from amongst them ... / written in love to the simple-hearted in that nation ... by one who desires that people might be brought to the truth ... who am known among men by the name Stephen Crisp.	Crisp, Stephen, 1628-1692.	1660 (1660)	Wing C6928; ESTC R40352	17,808	15

〈◊〉 make that division as if death were more powerfull then the word of God oh ye● 〈◊〉 and ignorant Priests and people how long will yee regard lying vanities expec●●●● 〈◊〉 where it is not to be had and like the Pharisees of old think to have eternall 〈…〉 Scriptures but will not come to Chri● whose life is your light turn in your mind 〈…〉 own hearts and feele if Gods word which is as a hammer be not striking at 〈…〉 ●●ther of your sins and corruptions and wait then to feel the sharpness of it to cut and 〈◊〉 you from your sins that so you may witnesse the word in your flesh and not in a Book destroy the works of the Divell that the word in the heart yee may know which liveth 〈◊〉 abideth for ever when that by it is destroyed which cannot abide for ever which is your which hitherto hath separated you from the knowledge of God and of his powerfull w●●● 3dly Your Doctrine of faith is reprovable and you in it found contrary to the 〈◊〉 Ministers of Christ for you preach that faith cannot be without sin and you say it is h●●●sie and error in any to say that it can now this I say if ye knew the true faith whic● saving ye would see that it is contrary in all things to sin and would know that in 〈◊〉 of an impossibility to seperate them it would be impossible to unite them for faith 〈◊〉 the scriptures is the gift of God and the gift of God is perfect and God nor his gift 〈◊〉 no concord with sin but giveth the true believe victory over it But as for your faith which ye say cannot be without sin is therewith corrupted a●● not the like precious faith which the Saints obtained by which they wrought righteous● were accepted with the Lord without which it is impossible for you to please him th●● yee performe never so many performances for this faith which is mixt with sin whi●● the faith of the Church of Scotland is not that by which the just lives but among 〈◊〉 professe this faith is the just slain in your owne particulars by the sin which ye con●● in and say ye must continue in as long as yee live so yee are fur short of the Saints hope ●o brought them to purifie themselves as God is pure and your faith and hope and confi●●e which is thus mixt with sin and unrighteousnesse is excluded from leading any of you in●●e inheritance of the promise which is eternall life for it is the faigned or made faith 〈◊〉 hardens the heart and continues you in the transgression and begets in you a bold confi●●e in your dark imaginations which shortly shall faile you and yee shall be strict of 〈◊〉 saith and hope and be left naked to your perpetuall shame and confusion and ●●esore all that desire to come to the true faith which gives victory over the 〈◊〉 and that which is in the world they must first come to that which true faith is placed in 〈◊〉 is the light wherewith Christ Jesus hath enlightened every one that commeth into the 〈◊〉 and that all men through him might beleive and Christ himselfe said that they should ●●ve in the light and this is it which doth secretly make manifest and reprove the workes ●arkenesse which are done out of the faith and are displeasing to God and who beleeves in 〈◊〉 light they must beleive against sin and the power of it and so as they abide stedfast in the 〈◊〉 watchfull to that in which they have beleived then the power of this faith comes to be in the creature that as they have beleived against sin so they come to receive power a●● sin for according unto their faith so happeneth it unto them and according unto your faith 〈◊〉 ●ive you can never be made free from your sins so also will it happen unto you so long ●●●de in that beleife yee shall abide servants of sin and so free from righteousnesse ●●●bly Concerning election and herein have yee erred exceedingly from the truth and 〈◊〉 truth ought yee to be reproved and judged who holds forth in your Church that God 〈◊〉 ●●pected a certaine number of persons to himselfe without cause or quality in them scene ●sidered and that these he hath elected unto salvation by an unalterable decree that they be saved from the wrath of God and that all the rest are under an irrevocable decree of nation for when no way of salvation is left nor no effectuall meanes found for the salva●● of them that doctrine is not of God but of your Father the Devill who was a lyer from beginning if he telleth a lye it is of himselfe but if yee tell a lye it is of him and from is thy doctrine sprung who rules in the Kingdome of darknesse and desires that none might 〈◊〉 to the knowledge of the truth nor be saved and so hath set you to preach this doctrine ●●rdly unto ignorant people who generally have believed it while he in the meane time ●●relly suggesting in some of them that they are elected and so what sin soever they live in of mar their election seeing it is without condition or qualification and mans workes of alter nor change Gods decrees and many such like reasonings as this learn they from deceiver within and from the deceivers without and he also is perswading others that they not elected but are of the greater number which the Priests saith no salvation nor re●●●tion is for and so they may take their course and spend their time in pleasure for can but go to hell in the end and all their godlinesse and soberness and strickt●●● and abstinence from pleasure and whatever they can do cannot change the purpose of God concerning their damnation and so by these and such like meanes and instruments doth the devill uphold his Kingdome and keepe you from preaching him or believing on him who is the way to the Father Christ Jesus the light of the world who lighteth every man with the true light with which he may see that which was wrought in darknesse which is the reprobate state and be led out of it according to Christs words who said I am the light of the world he that believeth on me shall not abide in darknesse but shall have the light of life he said not if the elect beleive on me but he that a generall terme to every one that cometh into the world and is enlightened with this true light and this is the love of God to the Sons and Daughters of men who wills not the death of them that doe dye marke them are reprobated that doe dye but God wills it not but rather that they should turn and live but yee that preach this doctrine yee would live without turning but the Sword of the Lord is drawne against your life and shall cut it off for it stands but by an imagination of such a decree as by which sinners might be

A DESCRIPTION of the CHVRCH OF SCOTLAND WITH A Word of Reproofe to the Priests and Teachers and Officers therein for their many corrupt Doctrines and Practises also a warning and gentle invitation to all People that lives under their Tyrannicall Government to come to the Truth which will free them from the Bondage they have long laine under and to the light which will shew them the way to escape being longer Partakers of their sins and so they shall escape being Partakers of the Plagues which shall shortly be poured forth without mixture upon them which continue in their ungodly Deedes and Workes of darknesse in Rebellions against the light that makes them manifest Herein is their Church made manifest 1 In its Foundation 2 In its Members wherewith it is builded 3 In its Officers 4 In its Doctrines of God of Gods Word of Faith and of Election 5 In its Ordinances of Baptisme and the Lords Supper as they call them 6 In its Discipline With an Exhortation to all People to come out from amongst them to that which makes them manifest which is the true Light that lighteth every Man that cometh into the World Written in love to the simple-hearted in that Nation and in witnesse of the T●uth and in Testimony against the false Teachers and their false Doctrines Way●s and Worships by One who desires that people might be brought to the Truth in their inward parts to worship God in that by the leading of his own spirit that so they might be accepted _____ who am known among Men by the name Stephen Crisp. Printed for M. W. in the first Moneth 1660. A Description of the Church of Scotland c. TO the severall Presbetryes in Scotland and to every Member of them and to the Scottish Church in generall is this directed and sent as a word of reproofe and warning from him who is the head of the true Church which is pure and underfiled and sent by and given thorough his Servant who being a Member of that Church and participating of the power and wisedome of the Head according to the proportion of 〈◊〉 Member doe thereby comprehend your Church of which I am not a Member and in obedience to the Lord Jesus Christ the true Head doe hereby reprove you of your adultery and hypocrisie and severall other spots and wrinckles that are in and upon your Church which now with the light are made manifest And in the feare and name of the Lord doe warne you to returne and come to that which maketh manifest and maketh cleane before yee be cast upon the bed of misery and perpetuall sorrow with Babilon your Mother and Jezebell your Prophetesse by the power of whose sorceries and inchantments in and among her Merchants and Disciples many p or people in thi● Nation are seduced and deceived and kept from the anoynting which teacheth freely the truth which no lye is of nor springs from and they whom you keep from this which teacheth freely that so they might buy or hire teaching of you among whom they are ever learning and never learned nor brought to know the truth which makes them fre● that abides in it These I say can never know the true Church which is the ground o● truth in which none can be Pillars but such as overcome sin and transgression and death which entred thereby and came over all Men in which state Gods Church is not and there is but two states namely the state of sin and transgression the wages whereof i● death and the state of redemption from sin which is thorow the power of the resurrection from the dead which is the state of the Church between which two states is an absolute antipathy for they that are in the transgression are not in the Church for then i● would be spotted and they that are in the Church are not in the transgression because the Church is in God where transgression cannot be and they that are holden in sin and death are not risen from the dead and they who are made partakers of the resurrection and life which is Christ they are not holden in sin but the same power that raised 〈◊〉 Jesus from the dead raised them from the power of sin and death and being thus raised makes them Members of the Church which is pure and undefiled which is separate from the sinners and from the sin by the mighty operation of the crosse which is th● power of God by which we are translated from death to life from sin to righteousnesse from being Members of the Harlot and her Church to be Members of Christ and h●● Church and this is the Church which we owne and witnesse Now as concerning your Church I have not a few things against it but even many where in you are to be reprooved and must be amended or rather changed before you can justly b● called and accounted the Church of Christ or any part thereof Therefore listen a while and give attention ye Priests and Presbetryes of Scotland who hath a long time beene talking of reforming and amending and purging and making cleane your Church and I will declare unto you your way which ye ought to take to accomplish that which you so much pretend for and cannot yet accomplish nor indeed never can till that be removed which hath and doth hinder a right and thorow reformation Now the first thing in your Church that is presented to my understanding to be repoved is the foundation thereof upon which it is builded it not being the same which the Church of Christ was and is builded upon as will thus appeare The foundation of your Church is that which stands in the fleshly part of man namely formes and names of the things the Saints wrought off without the power which are attainable by the fleshly wisedome of this world by which God is not known nor the body which is the Church discerned but he that can get the Saints words to speake although he be out of their life yet such are accounted fit members of your Church and of such members and upon this foundation is your Church builded the Saints words being the chiefe corner stone therof but Christ said be would build his Church upon that which the knowledge of came not by flesh nor blood but revelation from God his Father which is in heaven as you may read in the 16. Math. 17.18 And this is the rock which is now made manifest by revelation thorow the spirit which thing you deny to be in these dayes and so are not builded upon what comes to be known so but upon that which the knowledge of comes by flesh and blood and you that have laid another foundation for your Church then what is by revelation your foundation must be raised and your Church must fall the Pillars whereof are already shaken and shall shortly be removed Therefore come all to the true foundation which was and is the foundation of the true Church which is