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A80537	The last, and highest appeal. Or, An appeal to God, against the new-religion-makers, dresters, menders, or venders amongst us. Wherein is evidenced, amongst other things, that they have not true faith, true repentance, or true charity. Likewise, that the seven heads of sin, commonly called, the seven deadly sins, are manifestly apparent in the lifes of their preachers. / By Richard Carpenter.	Carpenter, Richard, d. 1670?	1656 (1656)	Wing C623; Thomason E1650_2; ESTC R209117	20,505	52

hold fast Saint John writes here unto the angel of the Church in Sardis And the Reason why Scripture is so various and uses all these Helps Waies and Weapons is Because if we do not abide in the most ancient Doctrine we do not abide in the ancient of Daies who is God Which is easily deduced from these holy words Let that therefore abide 1 John 2. 24. in you which ye have heard from the beginning if that which yee have heard from the beginning shall remain in you ye also shall continue in the Son and in the Father Here is my Plea To thee O only wise God I appeal CHAP. V. The Second Matter in Question THe second Matter of the Appeal is These prodigious Christians call themselves Saints and the only-Believers I avouch That they have not Faith much lesse any kinde of Saintship And I am steered hereunto by this Description of Faith answerable to thy Word and accepted by the whole truly-Christian world Faith with respect unto the Giver is of God with relation to the manner of giving is an infused Grace and in the Exercise of it is a firm and immovable Adhesion or Assent of the Vnderstanding to the Truths revealed by God and proposed by the Church of God as the Spouse of his only-begotten Son Christ Iesus First Faith differeth from Opinion which is a pendulous or wavering Assent and easily movable Secondly Faith is a Vertue of the Understanding and by the Power of God infused into it the Understanding being the first Faculty of the Soul or Spirit and Faith being a Spiritual Grace yea the Basis and Foundation of all other true Vertues and Graces Yet Faith works not but adjunctâ Voluntate our Will concurring and moving appliably to the working of Grace Thirdly The Truths believed must be revealed Because the Power that gives a supernatural Grace or Vertue must likewise present the Matter or Object that these may be proportionable and stated in the same Order and because we cannot in any kind please God in order to Glory without God and without Faith the Apostle plainly teaching Without Faith it is impossible to please God Heb. 11. 6. and Faith hath necessary reference to it's Object Fourthly Here these religious Juglers are plainly discovered to the Sense and this was the regulated and orthodox Divinity of honest and quiet Old-England The true Church and Spouse of Christ which hath from God the promise of divine assistance and is actually assisted by the holy Ghost and guided into all Truth must propose the Truths otherwise Jo. 16. 13 how shall we know in any Church or how shall it be certain to us certitudine Fidei by the certainty of Faith that our Translators being fallible Men have done us right in their Translation of the Scriptures which we receive and believe as the word of God Selah O Meditation For Whatsoever was promised to the Apostles as principal Members of the Church must it self pertain to the Church for whose cause and sake it was promised And there is alwaies the same need of divine guidance or assistance because the holy Scriptures cannot be rightly Understood but by the assistance of the same Spirit according to whose Dictates they were first written And the Scriptures being publikely given and to all the direction likewise for the right Understanding of them must be proportionaeble that is be publike and uuiversally proposed even in the view of all to all Moreover Interpretation is a Gift given for the good of the Church as also all such Graces are and is not a Gift ending in the good of the Person to whom it is given Hence it stands upright that Faith is divine in the Cause or Author divine in the Infusion divine in the Adhesion and lastly divine in the reason of the Adhesion For therefore we must firmly assent and inviolably adhere unto the Truths of God because they were revealed by God who can not erre in himself or directly cause others to erre and proposed by his Church to the which he hath given and promised the Holy Ghost and which he certainly assisteth according to his gracious Promise all ordinate Proceedings being alwayes conformable to their Beginnings And moreover the Gospel of St Matthew ending thus And lo I am Matth. 28. 20. with you alway even unto the end of the World also this promise being then made when our Lord Christ commanded his Disciples in the same Verse that they should teach all Nations to observe all Things commanded by him Which evidences that his efficacious assistance was promised as necessary to the observation of all those Things My Appeal is at thy Bar O God give Sentence CHAP. VI. The Third Matter in Question THe third Matter of the Appeal is I maintain That as these disfigur'd-fac'd and unlucky-look't Hypocrites neither Preach nor have true Faith so they neither have nor Preach true Repentance And I am so tongu'd and faith'd Because these devout Mountebanks have not the least knowledge of or acquaintance with true Evangelical Repentance or with the true Conditions and Properties of it as it is manifest by the Consideration of Repentance thus represented in it's own and proper Colours Repentance is a gracious Gift of God being a most hearty sorrow for our Sins past which hath for it's motive the pure love of God and is joyned with a firm Purpose of not sinning hereafter The Sorrow Repentance hath à se ex suâ naturâ as it is Repentance and the purpose Repentance hath as Repentance is connexed with Prudence whose genuine and proper work is to beware of Evils which may come hereafter The Sorrow discovers it self inwardly and outwardly inwardly to the Person in whom it is and outwardly to all people scandalized or farther injured by our Sins that our Repentance may in some sort adequately answer to and even our Transgressions The Sorrow discovers it self inwardly first by a most hearty Wish that we never had sinned against our most good God whereby as far as in us lies we unravel and cancel our Sin yea revoke and in a manner render undone the Act of it this being the most eminent reason that Repentance is accepted and required as the reconciling Vertue and secondly the Sorrow discovers it self inwardly by a most vehement Hatred and abomination of sin according to the Scripture-Psalmist Psa 119. 163. Text Hebr. I hate and abhor lying but thy Law do I love The Original word here translated lying is aven and signifies lying not as such a sin distinguished from others by that name but as Sin in common and as all kinds of Sin are a kind of lying against God who is Primum Ens prima Veritas prima Bonitas the first Thing the first Truth the first Goodness And therefore the Vulgar Latin unsheaths it Edit Lat. Iniquitatem odio habui abominatus sum I hated and abominated iniquity And as a man abominates a Toad as contrary to his

privately reproved another for Adultery And shall I my self commit the same or the like Sin How then could I do this great wickedness and sin against God Gen. 39. 9. And which is transcendently wicked they commissionated a very Child of Belial who was publikely known guilty of bastard-begetting to debase and vilify me under this Title And furthermore one of the chief Actors in this Villany had been formerly seen and sound Not a word more at this Time upon a Friendly consideration CHAP. XII The Ninth Matter in Question THe Ninth Matter of the Appeal breaks forth These Children of the Serpent which cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman in the Revel 12. 15. Revelation that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood Spew out of their filthy mouths that I am a Drunkard I appeal to God And I humbly desire all that know me to consider of this most known Slander and if they be so pleased to weigh the other not-so-much appearing Slanders by the most apparent lightness and falshood of this Of a truth if I be a Drunkard or any way inclinable to be so I must needs be the vilest of Hypocrites For no Man hath Preached more earnestly against Drunkenness than my self Yea I am so far transported and bended the other way that I can hardly fasten my affection upon a man after I have seen him drunk I have preached that a Man drunk is not a man but a vile Beast yea worse than a Beast yea worse than the wosst of Beasts yea that no Creature is so much removed and placed out of the circle and capacity of all Good no not the Devil For the Devils believe and tremble James 2. 19. Psal 148 10. And Beasts and all Cattel creeping things and flying fowl are invited to praise God The Asse Toad Owl Woodcock praise God but the drunk Woodcock Owl Toad Asse cannot praise him Men are drunk also with Anger Malice Heresie c. I have preached that a Drunkard is the most horrid Profaner of the best of Cups and that every Cup which he receives above measure reflects dishonour upon that sacred Cup whereof the Apostle The cup of blessing which we bless is 1 Cor. 10 16. it not the communion of the blood of Christ For according to the Logical Rule Primum in unoquoque genere est mensura reliquorum The first and most noble in every kinde is the measure of the rest and if it measureth not it is rejected and dishonored as an appointed measure I have preached that He who delightfully makes others drunk knowing moreover that a man dying in Drunkennes is irrecoverable Some way participates of the Sin against the holy Ghost who for his 1 Tim. 2 4. abundant goodness will have all men to be saved At which time I declared that a Sin of Infirmity is against the Father because Power is his proper Attribute that a Sin of Ignorance is against the Son because his proper Attribute is Wisdom and that a Sin of Malice is against the holy Ghost because Goodness is his proper Attribute and yet not a Sin of every malice but of a certain malice by the which we desiringly contrive the destruction of Souls I yield without pulling that many Preachers contradict their Preaching by their Practise But this is a Sin which cannot be committed except in the view of Men and they who know me must free me And therefore I have often ruminated in my thoughts that these ditch-and-dunghil Saints could not so much harden their faces and consciences unlesse they were actually possessed or obsessed with Devils especially our Saviour saying to the Jews and Pharisees Ye are of your Father the Devil and the lusts Jo. 8. 44. of your Father ye will do he was a murderer from the beginning And while I am full of these thoughts and cite other circumstances to make their appearance I cannot but judg it a singular and peerless piece of heroical charity to command and disengage these Swinish and Dirt-loving Devils from these dirty-throated People though God hath in his Justice suffered their entrance as Christ suffered the devils to enter into the herd of Swine Matt. 8. 31. The good women that joyn'd their Charity in the giving of a Pig cried out afterwards upon sad experience of wildehoggishnesse that the Devil entred with the Pig and why might not I charitably shape the dispossession or ejectiō of him Now let these impious Professours know that Sin is either such as presently discovers it's malice in the very Act of which foul stamp is Drunkennesse Swearing Murder or such as discovers not its malice presently of which kind is Lying Deceit Slander these being not discovered ordinarily but after a Turn of Time and as it were at the second rebound and perhaps never And that he who refrains himself only from the first desires to please man those being exposed to the Sense but he that abstains from all studies to please God and is conformed to him O thou Searcher of Searchers Search these dark-hearted and fearless though trembling Lyars with candles punish these Zeph. 1. 12. proud yet ignorant contemners of Truth and Learning that are setled on the lees of Herefie and Passion The Conclusion REader I have liv'd here to hear the most sacred Trinity denyed the Incarnation of Christ most sordidly vilified the holy Ghost rejected the holy Scriptures trod upon as fabulous the Immortality of the Soul abandoned Heaven and Hell thrust out of the world little innocent Infants exil'd from the Covenant and almost all helps of divine Worship like the Goods of the House called the Agrigentine Gally ejected I have heard it asserted by some that all Things come by Nature and by others that when they being Saints pray for a supply of their wants mony is presently brought by a miraculous Hand and found by them on their Tables These are Seekers I have seen the Turkish Alcoran Englished and a Book which is called Prae-Adamitae and affirms that there were many Generations of people before our Adam though burned at Paris yet here taught to speak English and held forth to the People I have had some conference with a Man in white that pretended he came down from Heaven and spake the Language used there I have met with two Womens-taylors who professed themselves to be the two witnesses in the Revelation Rev. 11. 3. I have heard most contradictory Untruths preached in every place against other Churches and the proceedings have been agreeable and of purpose contradictory And I have found the Ministers most childishly and most grosly ignorant of transmarine wayes and Doctrines I have beheld a most horrible Inundation of Hell it self vomiting up all the old loathed and abominable heresies amongst us the Devil not fighting singly now as in the Dayes before us against the sacred Articles of the Creed in order as they have place but acting a most dolefull Tragedy of Confusion and making a most fierce Assault and a most terrible Onset upon all the said Articles together and in one bold Adventure heaving at the whole Fabrick of Christ's blessed Name and Religion as if the Plot of Hell were wholly to devest the Royal and Celestial Maid of her Dowry I have seen even the very first-born of all the rest and the truly-masculine Spirits smother'd in these Waters of Affliction And I fear that all the Plagues of Egypt are coming My desire and appetite is great and I am hungry beyond expression But I cannot fill my belly with these hogs-husks Luk 15. 16. I have born the shock of a thousand slanders thrown upon me by the Dregs of People even such as were lately broken and are in the confusion of these Times newly souldred and set up again I have been miserably wrought upon as a meer Scholar and fallaciously entangled in obligations against my self by a Brother who presents a godly shew to the people and builds upon my Blood and Ruins Behold how good and how pleasant it is for Psal 133 1. Brethren to dwell together in Vnity This is the first part of the last Gradual Psalm or Song of Degrees saving one The last sings thus Behold bless ye the Lord all ye servants Psal 134 1. v. 2. of the Lord which by night stand in the house of the Lord. Lift up your hands in the Sanctuary and bless the Lord. This is the last highest perfection upon earth wherewith I would be gladly perfected that my last and highest Appeal may be freely fully answer'd from heaven these Gradual Psalms as they keep their ranks and Order teaching more and more perfection My last English words in this Treatise shall be the text of my first Sermon preached in England Come out of her my People Rev. 18. 3. that ye be not partakers of her sins and that ye receive not of her plagues Vivat Dominus PROTECTOR noster FINIS