the wrong c. If you walk in that wrong way wherein you miscarrie and wrong God and Men growing worse and running further therein do not the Papists the same and are not you and they therein one and so walk with them in that way whose actions proceed from one ground and Spirit though in some words and formalities you differ but in the evill and wronging God and Men c. are Joyned together and therefore may stop your mouths of condemning others for that which you are found guilty of your words as well as your actions beare witnesse against you and your bitternesse and persecuting the servants of Jesus as your Prisons and barbarous or cruel usage at Evesham and other places may witnesse for the truth and against your deceit and wrong done to men and God as you say in your agreement therefore you and the Papists goes on in one nature together the Papists you say bring all â—he people to confesse their most secret sins unto their Priests and do not you labour to bring the people to do so unto you the Parish Masters idle Shepherds and hireling Preists and then are not you and the Papists therein both one in nature and property Ezâ—k 3â— â—â— â— though differing a little in words and colourable clauses And where you tell of creeping into houses who more then you creeps into the Popes houses which you with and from them call Churches but let me aske you that run so out of them from whence you sprung wherein do you and they differ in worships and practise therein Whether in manner or matter if in manner onely you differ and not in matter then do you not agree in the maine if so then are not you and the Papists in religion and worships as well as nature and property one though differing in some words formalities c. but both in the vaine traditions and observing your fancies and braine imaginations as the Serpents seed did in all ages You resolve in your wills to set on a worke in your imaginations promising salvation upon the performance and damnation upon the refusall page 30. and so would merit Heaven by your actings in the nature from whence ariseth negligence and miscarriages page 3 4. and wrong to men and to Christ page 19. and do not the Papists hold the same thinking to merit Heaven by their own actings in that nature and spirit of deceipt which guides them to neglect the work of God and also into miscarriages and to wrong men and God like you and persecuters and seed of evill doers If so then are not you and the Papists one therein and why do you crie out against that so much in others your selves being guilty of and found in the same and doing their work onely differing here and there in words formalities some colourable glosses c. You say page 23. you have all need to joyne heart and hand to help one another safe to heaven and all little enough you say I answer yea and too little too for in that nature in will not be done which teacheth you to wrong Christ and Men for if in that nature you could do it why might not the Papist in the like nature with you do the same and are not you therein with the Papists one or if any get out of your ignorance and come from under the wrong and out of the miscarriages in obedience to the teachings of Christ the true teacher and Saviour whom you wrong that they get into Heaven before you or sit with Christ Jesus in heavenly places whilst their bodys are on the earth as the Saints at Ephesus did whil'st their bodys were there and such as are saved by grace having their souls purified in obeying the truth through the Spirit where selfe is denyed are not you through ignorance of the way that leads out of error heresie miscarriages Popery and darknesse ready to call such hereticks as are come out of that and into the glorious light and injoyments of the sons of God to worship the Father in Spirit I say are you not ready to call such hereticks who are come out of it viz the darknesse Eâ—he 1.6 Co. 1.13 1 Pet. 1.22.23 24. Reve. 21.3.23.24 Joh. 4.23.24 2 Cor. 3.16.17 Gal. 4.4 5 6 7.8 1 Cor. 4.6.7 and heresie which you live in and would rank them with the Papists under that denomination to cover and shelter your selves thinking to cast that upon them which they are freed from and you and the Papists are found in union with and guilty of being both of you out of the right way and in the wrong that are neglecters of the work of God and wronging God and men and living in the miscarriages and so in the heresies error and disobedience to the truth following your own Spirits and obeying the imagined fancy formed up in your own wills and living in the vaine traditions and customes of the Heathen as you and they do but your mist dazels the eye of none but the willfull blind and such as are in sleepy security and in sin unturned to God who are already deceived and the eye covered or blinded by which they should see both delusion and heresie in which you and they therein agree who grow worse and run yet further from God c. For the Papists believe they shall never be free from sin here in this life and therein they are reprobate concerning the true Gospel soul-saving and purifying faith and you believe the same viz that you shall never be freed from sin here in this life and then must not you with the Papists have a purgatory seeing that nothing which is uncleane shall in any wise enter into the holy City Rev. 21.27 and the unrighteous shall not inherit the Kingdom of God as it is said and by the Ambassadour of Christ declared 1 Cor. 6.9 10. and are not you reprobate concerning the true Gospel Gal. 5.20 21. soul-saving and purifying faith who denieth the property of it in denying purity of heart and abiding in darknesse and the nature opposite to the true light believing or saying you believe you cannot or shall not be free from sin here in this life and therefore are not you and the Papists both one and your faith and theirs in nature and property being dead and corrupt therein agreeth together but I deny the Papists and you the wrongers of Christ and Men and that faith which doth not purifie the heart witnesseth that faith and power which doth Act. 15.89 Hâ—b 2.10.11 and as the Saints did as the Scripture witnesseth and God which searcheth the hearts beareth me witnesse as he did them who giveth the holy Ghost that purifieth the heart by faith and we know that we were not redeemed with corruptible things as silver and gold from that vaine conversation which had been received by tradition from your fore Fathers c. Who received Silver and Gold and did not the work which
are Satanical for all their colourable glosses being in the miscarriages charging God with an Imperfect work page 18.19 of their Agreement wrongers of him of men and of Christ his Son but they are seen and made manifest and wo will be your portion that knowingly in their deceits joynes with them doth uphold them and did not the cheif Priests or the Devill in them and in the Scribes and Pharisees preach the letter of the Scriptures Isa 9.15 16. Isa 3.11 Hos 6.9 Joh. 5.39 40. Isa 2.12 Luke 20.12.19 20 21 23 27 28 45 46 47. verses but wanted the life of them as your Priests do who are wrongers of Christ and of you as they say and made use of it to tempt Christ withall but they and such like were and are for the greater condemnation as Christ hath said Marke 12.38 39 40. And doth not the Devill now in the chief Priests Persecuters Proud Covetous Envious ones and their disciples preach the letter of the Scripture and are out of the life of them seeking honour one of another as the enemies of Christ did that had the letter but wanted the life Joh. 5.39 40 41 42 43 44 And do not they make use of the letter that are out of the life make use of it to oppose the naked truth withall Do not Proude ones preach the letter of the Scripture yet live in Pride and Coveteousnesse or in union with the life of the Devill who is the King of Pride and enemy of all unrighteousnesse c. And doth not the Devill in Proud and Covetous ones as well as Envious and persecuters c. teach them to wrest the Scriptures for their own ends and to plead for pride c under such covers which are not with the spirit of the Lord though the woe from God be against them denounced Isa 3.11 Isa 20 Isa 30. 2 Pet. 3.16 Isa 30.1 c. And doth not the Devill in Covetous ones teach them to break the command of God which forbids covetousnesse And doth not the Devill in Covetous ones and self-seekers c. 2 Tim. 3.1 2. c. now in these latter dayes teach them for their own ends to make use of and preach the letter of the Scripture when they are transgressors of the commands of God and persecuting and killing the Innocent for he that persecutes and Envies the righteous seed he is a murtherer and is out of the life of the Spirit of God as faith the Scriptures 1 Joh. 3.22 15 And so in the lust of the Devill Joh. 8.44 And in union with the Image of Pride in proud flesh and bowing to it with capp and knee as well as worship an Imaginary and false worship and transgresseth the commands of God and therefore must drink deep of his wrath Rev. 14.9 10 11. And if covetousnesse is Idolatry then both Covetous Priests and People are Idolaters and therefore are they and all false worshippers and bowers to the Image of Pride one in another who are persecuters of the righteous seed both transgressors of the commands of God and out of the new bath new nature and out of the new Covenant and life of God and in old envy Wrath Lust Self-Love pride vain glory and then are they not still in union with the life of the Devill which evill fruits floweth there from and doth not the Devil in Pope Papist as well as in prelates persecuting self-seeking Priests Pastors Vicars Rectors and Proud painted Antichristian Ministers make use of and preach the Letter of the Scripture being without the life of truth and in the nature of the Devill and are not you that are wrongers of Christ and in Miscarriages c. and they guided by an evil spirit Joh. 8.39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48.52 verses and in union with that evil nature as the Jews and cheif Priests and such was that persecuted Christ Jesus yet they preached the letter and spake of Moses and the prophets for their own ends by the Spirit of the Devill Joh. 8.39 and would not receive the truth nor forsake their Sins Pride Will-worship Self-love Covetousnesse Self-righteousnesse vain glory and honour of the world but refused to deny self take up the daily crosse and come unto the life and power of truth so that Christ complained against them Joh. 5.40 and letting their visitation slip he wept over them Joh. 5.40 41 42 43 44. and therefore that you may come to understand the truth learn to pray and preach aright minde to be obedient to the Light of Christ in your consciences which reproves in secret for evil and doth convince you of sin self righteousnesse unbeliefe Pride Covetousnesse Persecution the love and honour of the world unrighteousnesse and your Miscarriages and of the wrong you do to Christ and men and as your duty is to depart from iniquity so you are to yield unto the light and follow the same that you may come out of your miscarriages and cease doing wrong to Christ men forsake the evil of your wayes by the light discovered cease to do evil and learn of that which is good for to do well which reproves you for the evil that you may come out of the wrong way unto the right and know the power of truth manifested and Christ at work in your hearts and soules destroying the Pride Lust Covetousnesse Self-love vain glory unbeliefe and so all unrighteousnesse as it is discovered to you and also beget you obeying and following the light into righteousnesse pure unfained love and out of the Hypocrisie into the faith unfained and true patience perfecting his work that it may possesâ— your soules and dispossess impatience and distrust that your soules may come into joy and peace through the working of the power of God killing sin and quickening you by his spirit begetting and bringing forth that which is pure holy just and good to be your rule and guide as in such it is where the birth is known that is of the spirit of Gods then might you call him Father by divine right and so in truth and righteousnesse with the spirit and true spirituall understanding might you pray with such a right as of Christ are taught and are guided by the Spirit of God c. to say Our Father which art in Heaven Hallowed be thy name and then would you hallow and so Sanctify the name of the Lord God in your hearts and be ready thereby without your Miscarrying priests to give an answer to every man that shall aske you a reason of the hope that is in you with meeknes and fear 1 Pet. 3.15 having a good conscience as the Saints and Children of God the Father hath and aforetime had 1 Pet. 3.16 in which the mystery of faith is held 1 Tim. 3.9 and not in your Miscarrying nature or a piece of paper from your untaught teachers that know not God nor his eternall Living word but are wrongers
you live in and have confessed in your Agreement and say 1 Joh. 2.4 Math. 23.27 Math. 23.24 1 Joh. 1.18 16. Phil. 3.2 Acts 10.29 Luke 3.7 Math. 23.33 it is Censorious and un Gospel-like yet notwithstanding the Spirit of truth and they that were guided by it called the Serpents seed by names proper to their nature as Lyers Hypocrites blind-guides Seducers and Antichrists as well as Doggs Wolys Foxes Serpents and Vipers and if it were not un Gospel-like in them so to do being thereunto guided by a Gospel-Spirit and how comes it to be more un Gospel-like now in them that are thereunto guided so to say by the Gospel-Spirit or was not the Serpents seed then as well as now offended at it and raised persecution against them that witnessed by the Spirit of truth against their deceits as the Serpents seed now doth consider of it and Judge your selves for the tree is known by its fruits And in your sixth answer you are telling how Christ proved his doctrine but I say you do not prove by your fruits that you are in the same but out of it and confesseth as well as proveth that you are none of his Ministers but wrongers of him as your words and actions against you witnesseth and therefore you should first by your fruits and practise have proved your selves to have been following his example and the practise of the Gospel Ministers and then you had done something for both he and his to wit true Prophets and Apostles have sufficiently thereby proved theirs without you whose lives and the Spirit by which they were enspired stands to witnesse against you Joh. 14.6 Heb. 7.25 Heb. 5.8 9. 1 Tim. 3.15 Joh. 14.17 Job 1.6 Gal. 4.6 Rom. 8.14 1 Joh. 2.14 20 27 and such as are out of the way of truth and running yet further from God who through ignorance sets up the letter and your Catechisme as the way into the truth and knoweth not that Christ is the way to the Father and to salvation without you and wrongers of him c. as the letter witnesseth and so is his light Joh. 8.12 and Spirit the way out of darkesse and guide into all truth Joh. 16.13 and is the standing rule in his Church the piller and ground of truth and that the holy Spirit doth enlighten mens hearts is true but the letter doth not so nor your Catechisme as in your 7th answer it seemes you would have it neither hath it yet turned you from Sathan unto God who are in miscarriages growing worse and as you say continually prone to do evill and are running yet further from God and therefore you are neither in the faith nor joyned to Christ that are running from God and turned wrongers both of men and of Christ neither are you justified therein but are unpardoned for the same as your selves confesse and so are not made the Sons of God that are not borne of him nor quickened by grace but dead in sin and living in your former and present miscarriages growing worse and worse and so are neither sanctified nor that peculiar people you speak of in Answer the seventh in that called your Catechisme For you say The peculier people are made the Sons of God and sanctified unto him overcoming the world the flesh and the Devill and are Zealous of good works serving God in holynesse and righteousnesse c. But I say you make it manifest that you are not sanctified nor justified then according to your sayings you are not made the Sons of God nor that peculiar people which are persecuted by you who live in the miscarriages growing worse and worse your deeds proves your sayings therein against you that are yet running further from God and turned wrongers of Christ and of men but his peculiar people that are justified and sanctified they do not so but witnesseth against those that live in miscarriages that are wrongers of Christ and his whose blind Zeale carries them forth into persecution and unrighteousnesse and therefore are Zealous in an evill work like you as both your writeing casting the innocent into Prisons and your actions against you declare And where you tell of the end of the righteous and wicked in Answer the eighth of your Catechisme In reply thereunto Let me tell you that you have sufficiently proved your selves to be the wicked and therefore expect their reward or that which is due for the same for there is no respect of persons with God who will render to every man according to his deeds even Indignation and wrath unto them that are contentious and obey not the tâ—uth but obey unrighteousnesse as you do that live in Miscarriages and grow worse and worse Rom. 2.6 8 9 10 11. verses like such who after their hardnesse and Impenitent heart are running further from God are treasureing up unto themselves wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous Judgment of God and as you may read Rom. 2.20 And you say in your Ninth answer of your Catechisme that Christ hath appointed that fit men should be Ordained his Ministers to disciple the undiscipled but I say you are out of that Royall ordination and are not those fit men therefore are not appointed to be his Ministers for those that are chosen by Christ and so fitted and appointed they are his freinds and do his commands and he hath ordained that they should go and bring forth fruit that their fruit should remain and because they are not of the world but chosen out of the world to witness against the evil of it Joh. 15.14 15 16 19 20. Joh. 7.7 therefore are they hated of the World as Christ himself was but instead of being hated of the World and suffering for Christ bringing forth fruit to God you are beloved of the World and in your Miscarriages are growing worse and bringing forth fruit to the flesh who are running yet further from God and turned persecuters also of his who are wrongers of Christ and them and therefore you have made it manifest that you are neither fitted nor appointed of him whom you so wrong and run further from and therefore are you unfit to disciple or teach others to walk in the right way your selves being still in the wrong continuing therein and are yet running further on that are running from God and so run unsent and therefore are out of the Royall Ordination and Gospel appointment who are yet dead in sin continually prone to do evil and therein growing worse and so under a state of Condemnation your painting and garnishing your selves with the Saints words and living out of their practice in your continued Miscarriages and growing therein worse makes it manifest that you have not learned the lesson of self deniall to come out of them that you might follow Christ through the daily crosse and Minister in the same and so you have proved that you are very unfit to teach others who are not
yet you say you and all the adjacent-churches will set apart a day publickly to fast and pray for a pardon c. I say the church in God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ 1 Thes 1.1 Which is the pillar ground of Truth 1 Tim. 3.15 doth deny you and all wrongers of God and men and persecuters of the Innocent and such as are called of men masters professing themselves Christs-Ministers and all such as deceive souls for dishonest gain and lives in perfection and such and the like miscarriages as you and your generation do and the prayers of the wicked are sin such as turneth their care from hearing the Law in the heart and of God Jer. 31.33 their prayer is an abomination to the Lord God Pro. 28. and 9. ver And such as you that neglect the work of God and lives in persecution the work of the Devill and in the miscarriages wronging God and men as you do they are those that turnes their care from hearing the law and their hearts from receiving the truth standing in opposition aganst it as you do and therefore their prayers are abomination to the Lord as yours and all that work such wickedness as you do is for thus faith the Lord unto such Isa 1.15 when ye spread forth your hands I will hâ—de mine eyes from you yea when you make many prayers I will not heare your hands are full of blood and hearts as well as houses are full of deceit and over passeth the deeds of the wicked Ier. 5.26 27. and such like and they that neglect the work of the Lord are cursed children having hearts exercised with covetuous practices 2 Pet. 2.3 13 14. And what Churches are you and you that are such who are in the cursed nature and wicked practices in sin and unturned to God Isa 59.2 What is your fasts worth that lives in strife and debate persecution and wickednesse behold in the day of your fasts do you not find pleasure And are you not bringing forth persecution as in this Nation is manifest as well as you exact all your labours Isa 58.3 behold do not ye fast as hypocrites and persecuters do that fast for strife and debate Matth. 23.4 5. c. who smite with the fists of wickednesse causing your voice to be heard on high afflicting the soul for a day and hanging down the head as a bullrush and instead of loosing the bands of witkedness you strengthen the hands of evil doers instead of undoing the heavy burthens you bind them Pharise-like upon mens shoulders and will not your selves touch them with one of your singers sueing some for Tythes and taking treble dammages c. And instead of letting the oppressed go free you and your generation cast the Innocent into prisons-holes and dungeons as your prisons in these parts against you may sufficiently witnesse and are not these the fruits of Jezabel and of the Hypocrites fast and not that which the Lord doth require Isa 58.3 5 6 7. Wherefore be ye witnesses against your selves that you walk in the false Prophets and Pharisees your fore-fathers steps as your fruits make you manifest and as you may read Math. 23.31 32 33 34. c and you have under a cover confessed the same who wants a pardon for your negligence in the work of God as you say for your former miscarriages which was before the 4. day of May as aforesaid and therefore you want a pardon for your perfecting and imprisoning of Tho. Goodaire once in Kiderminster twice in Worcester before that time and some others hath been imprisoned at Worcester and in Worcest Anne Himing Richard Keâ—bey for Tyths c. and many at Evesham since your hypocriticall false hearted and deceitfull confession promising amendement and rather growes worse and worse so manifesting your hypocrisie and filling up your measure of iniquity as your forefathers did leaving both your words and actions to be standing witnesses against you as they did that it may appeare for all your Evasions and Colourable glosses that you are their off-spring and beareth their marks by which you are known Maâ—th 7.20 Matth. 7.15 c. And seeing that your ministry takes little place in working any good effect in your hearers but leaves them ignorant in matters of salvation page 19. of your Agreement you are resolving in your wills and miscarrying wombe or nature and Spirit from whence your continued miscarriages proceeds to revive your fore-Fathers worke and set up a forme of words for them to get to say over to you as was used to be done to the Bishops at Trent or at Trull and you promise salvation upon the performance and threatens damnation upon the refusall Pope-like saying that that way of using Cathechising familiar and personall instruction and to have the people to get the Creed the Lords prayer and ten commandements or any other * And is not those which you call any other Orthodox Catechisme such as were set out by he old Bishops and their off-spring that were in the miscarriages as you also are c. And confesse page the 4. of your Agreement Orthodox Catechisme and your expositions to say over to you and so that will be a meanes you say to kill ignorance But the same meanes hath been used by the Bishops and Prelates and yet it hath not done that which you would have it to do and do you think that if it did not do it by your fore-Fathers applying that it receives any more vertue or power from you to do it by your revieing their work and useing the same meanes and with the same miscarrying nature and wrongfull Spirit which they did make use of it with all but your covers are too narrow and leaves you bare and ignorance remaines still amongst your hearers Math. 11.27.28.29 Act 4.11.12 Heb. 7.25 and the miscarriages amongst you their untaught teachers as it did with your fore-Fathers And you say the diligence of Papists and Sectaries will condemne you if you will not do halfe so much in a right way to save mens soules Math. 6.24 Math. 7.13.14 â—5 16.17.18 â—9 28 as they will do in a wrong way to pervert them would you not here have people to set you up as their saviour and so cause them to neglect coming from you to look unto Christ for teaching who is a true Saviour and teacher of his people and perfectly able to save all that come unto God by him without you but your designe is seeme and all your covers will not hide you who seeks to cast that off from you to the Papist and Sectaries which your selves are guilty of and found in for if the way of neglecting the work of God and living in miscarriages wronging Christ and Men growing worse and running yet further from God as you do and have done be not the wrong way and destructive to mens souls what is for there is but two waves the right and
and said to Abraham Walk before me and be thou perfect and said to the Children of Israel Thou shalt be perfect with the Lord thy God Christ himself did did not detest it as thou says he did for he was so far from detesting it that he highly approved of it viz. the doctrine of perfection and when he was upon the mount he so far shewed his love estimation and true approbation of it that he viz. Christ himself did preach the same and gave it forth by command upon the Mount to his Disciples saying Be ye perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect Math. 5.48 And here thou hast wronged Christ and lyed against him saying he detested it thou blind guide and false accuser of the truth behold thy absurdity If Christ had detested the doctrine of perfection as thou sayes wouldest not thou have had him to have gone against the command of the Father and to have detested his own doctrine but none will believe thee except the willfull blind and such as are wrapt up in deceipt with thee and hereby instead of ministring and maintaining the truth thou hast both ministred and maintained lies slanders and deceits and wronged Christ therefore art thou no Minister of his And if the Devill should have bred the doctrine of perfection would not he have bred a doctrine against himselfe to have rooted out his own Kingdom But are not you and the Devils disciples so much against that doctrine that you labour with all your skill to preach it out Gen. 17.1 Math. 5.48 Joh. 14.20 2 Joh. 9. Joh. 14.15 1 Joh. 5.3 4. 1 Joh. 2.3 4.5.6 Joh. 14.23.24 and keep it for taking place in the peoples hearts and is there any that are against the doctrine of perfection which is the doctrine of the Father and the Son but such as are against the Father and the Son and as you are who are wrongers of Christ and men and do not all those that deny the doctrine of perfection deny the doctrine both of God and Christ and so are neither Gospel-Ministers nor true Christians seeing they both do command it and he that loves Christ keepeth his command but such as love him not keepeth not his command and so are out of his doctrine and without God 2 Joh. 9. in the iniquity and selfe separation and in sin unturned yet to God Isa 59.1 2. and yet in the Heresies Errors and Miscarriages in the killing ignorance unkilled filthy dreamers that defile the flesh or in the sleep of security wronging Christ and men as in your Agreement you confesse you do and says you grow worse and are running yet further from God and so it appeares And as thou Richard Baxter ministers against the Father and the Son and hast wronged them so hast thou wronged the servants of God and Ministers of Christ and all the Saints and Sons of God saying the Devill thou beleives bred the doctrine of perfection saying Christ detested it when God Almighty bred or brought forth the same and both he himselfe and Christ his Son did not only bring it forth and preach it but commanded it to be obeyed and walked in and thou says thou beleives that none that had any sparke of true grace did hartily beleive in or receive the same and so hereby with thy false doctrine or reprobate faith thou would exclude all from grace that received the doctrine of perfection viz. the doctrine of God and Christ and so the doctrine of the Father and the Son but let me tell thee that such as doth not transgresse but abide in the doctrine of Christ they had and have grace for they had both the Father and the Son eternall life and the holy unction abiding in them and this the Scripture with me doth stand a witnesse against thee and thy lyes false doctrines and deceipts and let those that please read 2 John 9. 1 John 2.20 27. 1 John 5.10 11 12. and 20. verses to be witnesse for them that had grace and received the same against thy false testimony and lying Spirit by which thou art acted and guided Also several of the servants of God received the fathers doctrin in the time of old viz. the doctrin of perfection and walked in it and wouldest thou exclude them all from grace What a devilish doctrin is thine and crosse unto the Scriptures and contrary to the true Gospel ministers Therefore is both it and thee that brings it for to be holden accursed Gal. 1.8 9. Noah was not without grace and he received the doctrin of God the Father and were accounted perfect in his generation who found grace in the eyes of the Lord and being a Just and a perfect man he received the doctrin of the Father and walked with God Gen. 6.8 9. Abraham was not without grace and he received the doctrin of perfection taught him by God almighty when he appeared to him when he was 99. years old c. And God blessed him and made a covenant with him Gen. 17.1 Gen. 6.18 c. Iob 1.8 Heb. 13.20 21. as he did with Noah and they both had experience of his goodnes and found favor in the eyes of the Lord Iob 1.8 was not without grace and he were accounted a perfect and an upright man being one that feared God and eschewed evil as the Lord hath said King Hezekiah was not without grace and experience of the Lords goodnes who walked before him in truth and with a perfect heart and did that which was good in his sight 2 Kings 20.3 And David that said Marke the perfect man for the end of that man is peace Psal 37.37 was not without grace and he exhorted or rather commanded his Son Solomon to serve the Lord with a perfect heart 1 Chron. 28.8 9. And as David said The way of God was and is perfect Psal 18.30 So Solomon saith that the path of the Just is as a shining light that shineth more and more unto the perfect day and they are not without grace that walk therein Pro. 4.18 Christ the way to the Father Joh. 14.6 and to salvation to all that obey him Heb. 5.8 9. he commands to be perfect Math. 5.48 And his command ought to obeyed his ministry is to lead to a perfect man Eph. 4.12 13. The ministers of the Gospel preached wisdom amongst them that were perfect 1 Cor. 2.6 And as many as are perfect be thus minded Phil. 3. â—5 that the man of God may be perfect 2 Tim. 3.17 to presse others on to perfection Heb. 6.1 that they may attain Heb. 12.22 23. And the God of peace make you perfect saith the minister of the Gospel to them he ministred unto and exhorted to go on unto it And another of the Gospel ministers said to them he ministred unto The God of grace make you perfect 1 Pet 5.10 Go on to perfection Heb. 6. finally my brethren farewell and be perfect 2 Cor. 13.11 saith the Embassad or of Christ Having