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truth_n	father_n	john_n	worship_v	3,267	5	9.5375	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78218	[Baʻal-samz] or, Soveraigne balsome, gently applied in a few weighty considerations (by way of quærie) for healing the distempers of such professors of religion as Satan hath wounded and drawn aside (under the notion of living in God) to the utter renouncing and casting off the use of divine ordinances, and Gospel-institutions of worship. With an apendix by way of postscript to such professors, wherein the most principall grounds upon which they build their practise, are fully answered and removed. And a catalogue of the errors that many of them hold since they left the ordinances, discovered. As also a true relation of Gods extraordinary working upon one of this way very lately in Plimouth, to the sight of his error, for the good of others published. / By Will. Bartlet, an unworthy minister of the Gospel, and lecturer at Bytheford in Devonshire.	Bartlet, William, 1609 or 10-1682.; M. P.	1649 (1649)	Wing B987; Thomason E549_19; ESTC R209139	79,502	81

in the use of those duties and Ordinances of worship which the eternall God himselfe doth not refuse to own and to act in and work by to the end of the world d The word is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 rendred by Hen. Stepb Consummatio Matth. 13.39.49 Matth. 28. 0 And whether that place of our Saviour in * Exhortatio hinc sumatur ut nos verae Ecclesiae adjungamus sententia voluntate confessione cultut 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sejungamus nos ab illis coetibue qui vel in totam doctrinam Ecclesiae abjiciunt u Mahometistae vel fundamentum hoc est doctrinam articulos fidei verum Dei cultum subruunt quovis modo ut Papistae Heming in loc Iohn 4 22 23 24. doth not hold forth thus much unto us in that he saith to the Woman of Samaria that the Father seeketh after such to worship him as worship him in Spirit and in Truth 16. Whether the clearest demonstration that can possibly be given of a persons living in God be not his holy walking with God and living to and for God as the Saints have done in former ages and as the Scripture is cleare for Gen. 17.1 Rom. 14.8 2 Cor. 5.15 Gal. 2.19 And whether to walk with God and live to God be not to deny our selves and all that is ours in opinion or practise and to subject our selves to the obedience of all that is his that in all things he may be honoured by us according as he is worthy And whether the subjecting of our selves to all that the Lord hath made known to be His in his Word touching matters of Doctrine and Worship be not the next way to honour and exalt his great Name before the world Mat. 5.16 1 Pet. 2.9 17. Whether a person as he is a Beleever and a Christian hath not a generall calling to walk in in which he is in a more immediate and speciall manner * 1 Cor. 7.24 to walk with God and doe him service in the duties of his worship publickly and privatly as well as a particular calling as they are men in which they have more immediate commerse with the creature And whether the duties of their generall callings as they are beleevers are not of as great a consequence and as much to be lookt after in order to the honour and glory of God and their own spirituall welfare as the duties of their particular callings for the good of the Common-wealth in which they live and their own temporall welfare and if that a persons living so highly in God as the casters off of holy duties and Ordinances speak so much of doe not take us from nor destroy the performance of the duties of our particular callings as we are men which are the lesse how can they or why should they take us from or destroy the performance of the duties of our generall callings which are the greater 18. Whether there be not sinnes of omission as well as sins of commission mentioned in the Scriptures which Christians may become guilty of And whether the rejecting and casting off the duties of Gods Worship either in publique or private or both be not a sinne of this Nature in a high degree And whether such a sinne of omission reigning in a person that pretends to godlinesse doth not declare him to be e The wicked in Scripture are characteriz'd by such kindes of sinnes as the sinne of omission Jerem. 10.25 Psalm 10.4 Hosea 4.1 Eccles. 9.2 Malach. 3.18 Matth. 25.41 42 43. Vide Reig. vol. 2. p. 297. Vid. Quaest 26. out of Christ and the state of grace seeing that no reigning sinne can possibly stand with a persons being in Christ according to Rom. 6.6 7 11 12 13 14. 19. Whether there be not a marvellous slighting and undervaluing of the f Pro. 9. ● 2 3. Wisdome bath built her House i. Christ who is the wisdome of the Father in whom are hid 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. All the treasures of wisdome and knowledge Coloss 2.3 wisdome and faithfulnesse of Jesus Christ to cast his holy g Heb. 3.2 5 6. If Moses the servant was no couseuing Merchant but faithfull to him that intrusted him in appointing the ordinances of legall service how much more faithfull was Christ the Sonne in appointing the ordinances of Evangelicall service Ordinances of divine worship which he himselfe hath instituted and given a Being unto in his kingdome behind our backes And whether it be little lesse then blasphemy to speake disgracefully of the sacred things of his House h The word signifieth to speake disgracefully or to take away the fame credit or good name of another from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 famam alterius laedere Vide the workes of Mr. Sedgwick Mr. Saltmarsh Mr. Wilk Mr. Avery c. and the Scriptures in which they are recorded calling them poore low dispensations childish things gold and silver Idols empty formes and such like ignominious speech●s if not a great deale worse though the least of them doth not become any much lesse those that pretend to live in God to utter and make use of And yet further whether such practises of casting off and reviling the Ordinances and Churches of Christ if willingly and knowingly done be not a high step to that i Commendat igitur nobis c. He therefore commendeth to us love and reverence to the Ministery of the Church and the study of frequenting Church-Assemblies from the danger of those who neglecting them doe wander away and tempt God Paraeus in loc And then sheweth what the particular steps to the unpardonable sinne are 1. A defection from the Assemblies of the Saints or Church-communion 2. A voluntary abnegation of the truth formerly acknowledged 3. A malicious opposing and persecuting it 4. A defection joyned with scorning and deriding 5. A finall persisting and persevering in such a defection c. id ibid. unpardonable sinne against the Holy Ghost according to Heb. 10.25 26. 20. Whether such persons as cast off and contend against the use of divine Ordinances doe not ex diametro i. directly crosse and goe against not onely others but their own former experiences if ever they had any of those inexpressable Incomes of the Spirit and discoveries of Divine love and favour which they have enjoyed both in publique ordinances and private duties of worship which time was they would not have given nor parted with for all the treasure and pleasure of the whole world though now they judge lightly of them and look upon as delusions of their own hearts or things of no account or value 21. Whether casting off of Divine Ordinances and forsaking the Assemblies of the Saints that have fellowship together in the worship of God be not so farre from living in God as 't is rather in the Scripture sence a living * 2 Cron. 15.3 Eph. 2.12 without God yea a departing from him according to that of the Apostle Heb.