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A05113	Mr Henry Barrowes platform Which may serve, as a preparative to purge away prelatisme: with some other parts of poperie. Made ready to be sent from Miles Mickle-bound to much-beloved-England. Togither with some other memorable things. And, a familiar dialogue, in and with the which, all the severall matters conteyned in this booke, are set forth and interlaced. After the untimely death of the penman of the foresaid platforme. & his fellow prisoner; who being constant witnesses in points apperteyning to the true worship of God, and right government of his Church, sealed up their testimony with their bloud: and paciently suffred the stopping of their breath, for their love to the Lord. Anno 1593.	Barrow, Henry, 1550?-1593.	1611 (1611)	STC 1525; ESTC S122418	73,650	164

being received into the soule by faith is the true nourishment therof and salvation of the whole man For he hath redeemed us from death destructiō iustified us in the sight of God and procured us life with him All which we apprehend thorow faith But in this trueth I know you are already grounded so as I need not speak further for your instruction and as for them should I speak should I write should I doe all I can it will not profite them For without the extraordinary work of God they must still beleeve as their church beleeves For that cannot erre as they fondly suppose So that it may hold what it vvill and they must hold the same vvithout all triall or mistrust Thus by one error they are fast fettered in many must be left to their blind guides till they fall togither into the ditch For other guides they will not haue Therfore I shall now spare a labour and speake no further of this point Desiderius Thus brought I you out of the way wherin you were shewing the unlawfulnes of kneeling in the sacramēt Yet vvas it not vvithout fruit for even by that vvhich you haue sayd men may playnely see that vvee ought not to conceite or imitate those supersticious idolatrous and absurd Papists vvho are so addicted to their ovvne vvayes and are like those that cried Great is Diana of the Ephesians Act. 19.28 And great vvith these is their goddesse the false church M. Mick But vvhat say you of the Christians whose cause I pleaded for that addict themselves to the wayes and word of God Desiderius I freely acknowledge that such ought to be lovingly respected And you haue brought me to like better of them then ever I did but espetially that you so well cleared their doctrine of faith to be sound and their separation to be but from sin and such outward orders and ordinances that are unsound and sinfull which they therefore forsake that they might doe the will of God according to his written word the light of our feet and lanterne to all our pathes M. Mick You haue sayd ynough to cleare them both from heresie and schisme for he is no heretique that is sound in the faith And he is no schismatique that separates onely from disorder sin For we ought not to communicate in sin either with men or Angels Desiderius And that is the ground whereupon I my selfe neyther doe nor dare communicate in the Church of England with that sinful ordinance of man the service book or book of cōmon prayer M. Mick If you professe so much in England by your practise as you haue here confessed with your mouth you may happen to be called a Brownist if not to tast of other hard intreaty Des. Yet the truth is the truth Which as it appeareth unto me so stand I bound to obey unto it But I pray you why doe the foresayd people solemnize mariage in civil Assemblies or dwellings M. Mick Because it is a civil action and ought civilly to be performed according to the true nature of it Desiderius Why it is the judgment almost of all men to haue it done in the Church by a Minister And in England it is a common received custome to haue it so performed M. Mick I wish rather that for the proofe of it you could haue sayd Thus saith the Lord. And then to haue shewed the chapter and verse where it is so sayd But you haue done nothing lesse neither in deed it is impossible to be done there being no such thing once named or implied in all the scripture And consequently the ground whereon you stand is not rocky and firme but unsure and sandy which shall wash away with the raine every house built upon such a foundation when the flouds come and the windes blowe shall certainly fall as we may learne both by Christs own doctrine in the Gospell and reason it selfe doth shewe the same And if an Argument drawen from a common custome be good then if it be a common custome to haue the Lords holy Sabbaths profaned with Beare and Bull baiting with dicing and carding with May games and morrice dance with laciviousnes and luxurie with rifling or revelling c. then all is good and all may be done sane conscientia But I hope that both you and every childe of God truely sanctified doe defie and abhorre all such things not onely on the Sabbath dayes but every day of the week and of their whole life And is it not a common received custome in England to worship God by their book of cōmon prayer in English as the Papists by their Massebook in Latin and by their Images beades crucifixes and other the like in stead of true invocation upon the Name of God by the work of his Spirite But being all vvithout and against the vvarrant of the vvord of God your self dare neyther practise nor approve them And vvhy then doe you not minde the like in other things no less unvvarrantable As is the solemnization of mariage ecclesiastically and other such like Many abominations might be pleaded for by common custome and multitude of men in that minde But lay aside these sandy grounds and heare the vvords of the Lavve Thou shalt not follow a multitude to doe evill neyther agree in a controversie to decline after many and overthrow the truth Exod. 23.2 Beleeve it for truth That All Church actions are layd dovvne in the scriptures vvhich is the rule of truth But in them vve finde no mention of mariage to be a Church action Therefore it ought not to be so made or used And againe All the dueties of the Ministerie are expressed in the scriptures But in them there is no more mention or vvarrant for the ministers solemnizing of mariages to the living then is for their burying of the dead vvhich is just none at all Ergo they are both unlavvfull and ought not to be done And where you affirme the contrary saying it ought to be done by a Minister doe you meane a minister indefinitely without any respect whether he be true or false Desiderius No But I meane a true Minister onely For no true Christian ought to goe to false minister for any such end M. Mick Your reason is right and good But then the Ministers of England haue no right in that work they being in respect of their offices not true but false Ministers and so proved Desiderius But in respect of their guiftes they may be sayd to be the Ministers of Christ. For many of them haue excellent giftes M. M. So had Balaam likewise who yet was but a false Minister and a Southsayer And so haue many Lawyers others in our Land if they would and might be suffred to exercise their gifts who yet are no Ministers at all Gifts then doe help to make men fit for a Ministerie but doe not make them ministers much lesse true Ministers For every true Minister must not onely be

Christians Christ himself was the chiefe corner stone vvhom the builders refused yet he became the head of the corner And surely these me vvhich you and others are ready enough to refuse for helpe in this service are the most sound sufficient of any that I knowe for convicting of our common adversaries and terrible opposites the Prelates and loftie Clergy of the land Wherfore I would advise you and all never to shunne but diligently to seeke thankfully to receive their helpe when it may be had And if we see them to erre in any other thing as all men are subject to errour ●et readynes be shewed in the spirite of meeknes to helpe them Thus shall we both please God cōfort one another Desid Therein you say well But where you charge the Anabaptists with hereticall opinions true it is that such they hold I praye you how much better is it with the Brownists They condemn as the report goes not onely the best people of the land but also condemne and forsake the faith professed and mainteyned there counting it the faith of the Divils and professing another faith for themselves Now for my owne part I am not onely perswaded but fully assured through the mercie of God that the faith professed in England is the true saving faith of Gods elect and if ever they be saved themselves it must be through the same faith in Christ. Therefore if they be guilty of that report my soule shall haue no pleasure in them till they returne by repentance For to erre in that pointe is a matter of no small importance Miles That report is eyther a mere slander raised up by the Divil in his instruments for the disgrace of their cause or if ever it was spoken by any of them it must be some one very simple that erreth therin through ignorance or some that are strongly carried with zeale against the false confused order of that Church and not distinguishing b●tweene order and faith may happen through hast or incōsideratenes to call the one by the name of the other And so when they speake of the impure faith of the Church of England may intend onely the impure and corrupt order that is therin Desiderius If you had not holpen with such a lift they had lien under it for me But sure such zeal is preposterous zeale and such inconsideratenes is headie rash and undiscreet ●ar●age not agreeing with Christianitie not beseeming sobrietie Miles Be it so Yet can you not justly impute that to a whole company which is done by one or two when the rest doe not approve it but are against it And there is no religion wherein there are not some that miscarie themselves eyther through zeale or ignorance or else in headie rash and inconsiderate speech Yet such as so offend among these are liable to the rebuke of their Presbyterie and Church it self if the cafe so require And the maine difference between them and England is about outward orders and ordinances and the faith professed by both is one and the same And concerning the matter of heresie they never were not can be convicted therof And when they sent their confession of faith to the Reverend learned man M. Francis Iunius desiring him if he sawe them to erre in any thing to shewe it unto them He vouchsafed to write and send them a friendly and brotherly answer But declared no errour nor heresie in all that they wrote unto him Neyther did any of the learned in the Vniversities of L●yden Sainct andrewes H●idelberge Geneva and other like schooles of learning in the L●w countreyes Scotland Germany and France to whom they directed their Confession of Faith many yeres since And whereas the Heades and Doctors of Oxford doe carpe against them in their Answer to The humble Petition of the Ministers of the Ch● of England and these defending themselves in their Apology calling upon thē by many reasons for proofe of their accusations they reply to Puritans Papists but doe let these alone unanswered for what cause wise men may easily conjecture And now Desiderius that you may the better perceive that they hold the same faith with us in Engl. what their difference from us in other things is heare what themselves haue professed and printed In the Preface of their Confessiō of Faith thus they write And further we testifie by these presents unto all men and desire them to take knowledge hereof that we have not forsaken any one point of the true Auncient Catholike Apostolike faith professed in our land but hold the same grounds of Christian religion with them still agreeing likewise herein with the Dutch Scottish Germane Frēch Helvetian and all other Christian reformed Churches round about us whose Confessions published we call to witnes our agreement with them in matters of greatest moment being conferred with these Articles of our Faith following The things then onely against which we contend and which we mislike in the English parish assemblies are many reliques of the man of synne whom they pretend to have abandoned yet reteyned among them and with a high hand mainteyned upholden and impos●d c. And Mr Henry Barrowe one of their writers in a letter of his sent unto a Right honourable Lady published in their Apology concerning this pointe sayth That he did gadly imbrace and beleeve the common faith received and professed in the land as most holy and s●und And that he had reverend estimation of sundry good hope of many hundred thowsands in the land though he misliked the present constitution of this Church in the present communion ministerie ministration worship government and ordinances ecclesiasticall of these Cathedrall and parishionall assemblies Desiderius If the rest of them be like him then are they not so uncharitable in their judging of our people as some men say they are Miles They generally put difference betweene all good mens Church estate as they are under the ordinances of Antichrist and their personall estate indued with many heavenly and holy graces Therefore open not your eares too wide in hearing reports for many that are giuen out against them are surely false But heare a litle further vvhat themselves doe professe Mr Barrow in his writing intituled a fewe observations to the reader of M. Giffords last reply s. 4. saith thus Haue we not commended the faith of the English Martyrs and deemed them saved notwithstanding the false offices and great corruptions in the worship they exercised not doubting but the mercy of God through their sincere faith to Iesus Christ extended and superabounded all their sinnes seen and vnseene And what now should let that we should not haue the same hope where the same precious faith in sinceritie and simplicity is found So that they neyther neglect to search out the truth nor despise the truth when they see it c. And this he further cleareth in the same section Mr Iohn Penrie likevvise in his

Examinatiō hath these vvords For I know the doctrine touching the holy Trinitie Nature and Offices of the Lord Iesus Free justification by him both the sacraments c. published by her Majesties authoritie and commanded by her lawes to be the Lords blessed and undoubted truthes without the knowledg and profession wherof no salvation is to be had And sheweth the things that he disliketh and for vvhat cause he durst not partake in the publik assemblies of our land notwithstanding the former truthes there taught and professed And againe in his Confession of faith he sayth The trueth of doctrine touching the holy Trinitie touching the natures and Offices of Christ Iustifying faith Sacraments and Eternall life and the rest established by her Majesties Lawes and professed by her self their Honours and such as have knowledge in the assemblies of this land I acknowledge from my heart to be such as if I mainteyned not the unitie and held not the communion of the same doctrine with them in these points I could not possibly be saved For out of the communion of the true profession which her Majestie hath established in these and the like truthes there is no hope of salvation left But ioyne notwithstanding in the publike assembles of this Land I dare not for the former causes I doe moreover willingly confesse that many both of the Teachers and also of the Professors within these Parish assemblies haue so imbraced this trueth of doctrine established and professed in this Land as the Lord of his infinite goodnes hath granted them the favour to show outwardly many tokens wherby in regard of the Lords election I professe before men and Angels that I judge them to be mēbers of that body whereof the sonne of God Christ Iesus 〈◊〉 the head Onely herein the Lord be merciful unto them as to my self in regard of my synnes that they are not under that outward form of govermēt which Christ hath left c. And whereas Mr Iacob would father upon this people that they hold every person in England which holdeth the publick faith is no true Christian. Mr Iohnson in his answer pag. 7. sayth thus Touching this point I minde the state of their people two wayes the one concerning their severall persons considered a part from the constitution of your Church the other concerning their estate and standing in that constitution Concerning the former of these that is considering them a part from the cōstitution I acknowledge that in divers of them there appeareth such knowledge and faith of the Gospell with the fruits thereof as they may well be thought in regard of Gods election in Christ to be heires of salvation and in that respect to be true Christians God pardoning unto them their standing under Antichrist which they doe not see or minde But I seare least many more were heretofore partaker of this grace then be now since your Antichristian estate and the unlawfulnes to a●ide therein hath been discovered Concerning the latter that is in respect of their estate standing in that constitution of your Church I am perswaded whosoever so stand holding your publik● faith and multitude of Antichristian abhominations withall they cannot by the word of God be judged true Christians as touching their outward estate in that Church of yours but stand all subject to wrath God imputing this their sinne unto them And that all therfore whosoever will be assured of Gods mercie and salvation ought with speed to goe out of your Church it still remayning in Antichristian estate c. Thus Desiderius I haue shewed you what divers of them haue written and professed in and about the point by you objected if it be not sufficient I will shew you more Desiderius You may spare that labour for I am fully satisfied Miles And for that cause I was the more large As also that when these things are published others at home abroad may likevvise receive satisfaction And if any of the people themselves have been so overseen as to speak according to the report that you heard they may by this meanes be againe brought to their owne grounds which some through simplenes rashnes or incōsideratenes may forget offend against the same But the more circumspect and wise are more considerate and wary Thus being somewhat weary I will rest from discoursing a while and in the meane time you may read these three writings which will be worth your paines and the printing And they also will cleare that people and the truth from such clamours as you haue heard concerning thē The first is a letter which one of them in Ireland wrote unto a Scottish preacher there Ao. 1594. wherein is layd downe sundrie grounds of their separation The other are two Petitions the first whereof was vvritten by Mr Henry Barrovve in the daies of Q. Elizabeth of famous memorie the secōd by another of their vvriters 〈◊〉 the time of the first Parliament holden in the happy raign of our now Soveraigne King Iames. To Mr Wood. Wisdome and grace from God most high WHereas you seemed very desirous to haue us set downe in writing our faith and profession concerning the true Church togither with the causes of our separation from the English and Irish parish assemblies promising your self either to assēt unto us or shew sufficient cause of your dislike by writing also with defece of your churches estate c We as willing to render an account of our beleefe and practise unto all men that shall demand the same and desirous of your salvation and fellowship in the holy faith if such be the will of God our selves of further instruction and light by any that can enform us from the word haue condiscended unto your request beleeving confessing concerning this part of the Gospel as followeth That the true Church of God on earth is communion and fellowship of righteous men and women whose harts God hath pu●ified by saith calling and gathering them ●nto himself and under his true obedience by the scepter of his word and spirit sepa●ating them from the world of Infidels Turks ●ewes and false Christians to live togither under his holy covenant obeying and wo●●shiping him in spirit and truth keeping th● unitie of the Spirit in the band of peace an● love and unfeighned That this Church although dispersed amōg many natiōs over the face of the earth is one as God is one hath one faith Lord religion law and goverment in all places unto it the scriptures and written word o● God is given for the direction thereof and edification in all thinges whereunto each member is bound as well Prince as people to observe inviolably whatsoever is therein commanded unto the worlds end and that no man nor the vvhole church it self hath authority to alter change inovate breake abrogate or superordeyne any thing unto or from this Lawe of the Most high neither may the church

or any member thereof receive or obey other constitutions and traditions of men or Angels without incurring the wrath of God That this Church is the bride and body of Christ the citie house of the great King whereinto may enter no profane person o● impenitent sinner but onely such as by faith and ●●pentance have washed away the guilt of their synnes in the blood of the lambe are borne a new by the seed of the word by a willing covenant made with the Lord are under his goverment scepter of grace and so doe lead godly and christian lives That in this House every servant and member hath a like inter●st and libertie in the word of God by the power thereof to reprove cōdemne slay sin in themselves ●●l other men and are all bound to watch o●●er exhort and admonish one another even their shepherds leaders if need so require That this Church hath power from Christ to censure reprove and cast out of their fellowship all obstinate offenders and wicked men lest by any such the whole body should be infected and perish That they also haue authoritie to elect call and set over them watchmen and shepherds of their soules to break unto them the bread of life whom they are bound again to susteyne with all their temporall goods so farte as their abilities extend and the Ministers duetie shall require That whensoever the whole Church or any member therof wilfully transgresseth the law of the Lord and persisteth obstinate and incorrigible in any sin refusing to heare the voice of Christ they will cease to be the people and servants of God neither can be so esteemed untill they repent That all that wil be saved must joyne themselves to some particular Church of Christ to live therwith in faithful obedience peace order and love forsaking all false and adulterate synagogues of which sort we affirme the ordinarie parish assemblies of our woesull countrie to be and therfore haue abandoned them for these weighty causes 1. They are not a cōmunion of Saints called and severed from the world but doe consist of all sorts of men reteyning a multitude of irreligious profane Atheists Blasphemers Idolaters whoremongers and all manner wicked persons within her Majesties dominions 2. They haue not been wonne unto th● faith by the preaching of the gospell ney●ther ever made willing covenāt to walk up rightly before the Lord but were drawen by civil force in the beginning of her Majestie reigne 3. Their publick worship of God in thei● assemblies is false and idolatrous translate● out of the Popes blasphemous Masse book the cursed inventiō of the man of Sinne imposed both upon the Lord and them 4. The Ministery of Lordly Lord Arch bishops Bishops Deanes Arch Deacons c Parsons Vicars Curates c is not the true Ministery of Christ in his testament neithe● accordeth thereto in name office calling entrance administration or maintenance bu● is the same which was found and left in the Popes Church 5. Their Church is in bondage bea●eth the yoke of Antichrist the burdenou● traditions ceremonies injunctions of their Lords the Bishops their courts and canons 6. They are obsti●ate and incorrigible in these and other their transgressions and wil● not be brought unto the true obedience o● Christ and practise of his lawes but speake●vil of the trueth and witnesses of the same and of them some they haue killed many imprisoned all persecuted banished and blasphemed Therfore this people in this fearful estate cannot in any just intendement be estemed the childrē or church of God Neverthelesse the firme foundation of God standeth having this 〈◊〉 seate the Lord knoweth those that a●● his and let every one 〈◊〉 naming the name of the Lord depart frō iniqu●y● 2 Tim. 2.19 Delivered to Mr Wood a Scottish preacher in Ireland anno 1594. The humble most earnest and lamentable Complaint Supplication of the persecuted proscribed Church and servants of CHRIST falsely called Brownists Vnto the high Court of Parliament THe most high GOD possessor of heaven and earth bringeth at this present before your Lordships and Wisdomes Right Honourable his owne Cause his owne People his owne sworne and most trecherous Enemies togither with the most shamefull usage of his truth and servants that ever hath been heard of in the dayes of Sions professed peace and tranquility His Cause and People he offereth unto your confideration and defence in our Profession and Persons His Enimies and their outrage against his truth and servants in the persons bloody proceedings of the Prelates of this Land and their Complices Wee profosse the same faith and truth of the Gospell which her Majestie which your Honours this whole Land and all the reformed Churches under Heaven this day doe holde and mainteyne Wee goe beyond them being our onely fault even in the judgement of our tyrannicall and most savage Enimies in the detestation of all Popery that most fearfull Antichristian Religion and draw nearer in some pointsby our practise unto CHRISTS holy order and institution This is our Faith this is our Cause right Honourable yea the Lords Cause in our sinfull hands For the profession maintenance of which Faith the forenamed Enemies of GOD deteyne in their hands within the Prisons about London not to speak of other Gaoles throughout the Land about three score twelve persons Men woemen yong and old lying in cold in hunger in dungeons and in yrons Of which number they haue taken the Lords day last being the 3. of this 4. Moneth 1592. about some 56. persons hearing the word of God truly taught praying praysing God for his favors shewed unto us unto her Majestie your Honours and this whole Land and desiring our God to be mercyfull to us unto our gracious Prince countrey Being imployed in these holy actions and no other as the parties who disturbed them can testifie they were taken in the very place where the persecuted Church and Martyrs were enforced to use the like exercises in Queene Maries dayes The former number are now unbaleably cōmitted by the Prelate or Bishop of London unto close for the most part severall prysons As Bryde-well the Lymboe or Dungeon in Newgate the Feete the Marshalsee the Counters the Clyncke the Gatehouse the Wotte-Lyon c. Wherein wee willingly acknowledge the lott and inheritance in this life of our Fore-Fathers and Brethren the holy Martyres of the former age and the entayled A●eldama or bloody succession of the See of London and that whole lynage Well heere our brethren lye how long Lord holy and true thou knowest in Dungeons in hunger in colde in nakednes and all outward distresse For these bloody men will allow them neyther meat drink fyre lodging nor suffer any whose harts the Lord would stirre up for their releife to haue any accesse unto them purposing belike