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truth_n	heart_n	spirit_n	word_n	8,255	5	4.2520	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64255	A few necessary questions & conclusions for the present parish-teachers of England, &c deeply to ponder and answer in God's fear, for the good of their own and the peoples souls that are under them, for the Lord is arisen to call all things into judgment.	Taylor, Thomas, 1618-1682.	1670 (1670)	Wing T573; ESTC R9060	7,076	16

of Measure covetous and so palpably out of the Doctrine of Christ and so Idolaters seeing the Apostle saith Covetousness is Idolatry Ephes. 5. 5. 5. Whether did ever any Minister of Christ's sending preach up the Tenth of Peoples of Labour or Encrease of the Earth and earthly things as a standing Gospel-maintenance for his Ministers seeing the Apostles VVritings are wholely silent in the thing And now if any of you in your high Minds think much or strange to be question'd concerning these things such may know that these are the latter Dayes spoken of by Jeremiah Chap. 23. 20 21. wherein God hath done and is doing great things for his People And in the latter Dayes saith the Prophet there you shall consider perfectly of the pouring forth of God's Wrathful Indignation upon the false Prophets and Teachers who have run and God never sent them as also throughout that whole 23d Chapter of Jeremiah is to be seen also concerning the false Prophets and Teachers you may read John 10. 1. c. Isa. 56. 9. c. Ezek. 34. 1. Mic 3. 2 Pet. 2. with divers other Scriptures which speak of the false Prophets and Teachers also of the true ones from all which these few amongst many plain necessary Conclusions following may be gathered viz. 1. The true Prophet Messenger or Teacher is sent of God as before in the Power and Spirit of God with the living VVord of God which is as a Hammer and a Fire to break the hard Hearts in sunder and to burn up the Chaff and Dros in the Minds of disobedient People who know God's VVill but do it not but hold the Truth in Unrighteousness The false Prophet or Teacher he runs in his own Will having stoll'n the Word from his Neighbour useth his Tongue to say the Lord saith when the Lord never sent him so with good Words fair Speeches deceives the Hearts of the unwary Hearers making glad the Hearts of Hypocrites crying Peace when the Lord hath not spoken it 2. The true Prophet Teacher or Minister as he hath received freely so he ministers freely but the false Teacher as he runs in his own VVill so he ministers for a Self-End and if People put into his Month he cryes Peace but if otherwise he prepares War against them out of his corrupt Heart cryes Give can never have enough 3. The true Minister hath a Mouth alwayes open for God and against Sin and Evil in every Appearance of it without Respect of Persons and like a true Watcher gives notice of the Wolf's Approach and doth not flee when the Wolf comes but opposes him in the Loss of all because Christ's Sheep are dear to him But the Hireling fleeth because he is a Hireling and careth not for the Sheep and as concerning Sin it may live in People forever for him for he cannot bark against Sin he is so full of it himself for how can he that is an unclean covetous proud Person himself with a Face stand against such Sins in others nay nay the barking of such must needs be against such as do from the Heart depart from Iniquity and so separate from such as live in it according to the Call of the Lord. 4. The true Prophet Minister or Teacher fights the good Fight of Faith and his Weapons are spiritual and not carnal and so he fights not with Flesh and Blood to destroy Mens Persons Liberties or Estates but his War is with the wicked Devil the Power of Darkness in men that separates mens minds Hearts and Souls from God and brings them into Sin 's Captivity and so under God's Wrath and so the true Minister's Work is to preach People out of that woful Condition into the Liberty of the Sons of God But the false Teacher or Minister hi● Weapons are carnal and he runs to the worldly Powers to help him against such as oppose his evil Doctrine and Practice crying Men of England c. help as the Jews cryed out against Paul Men of Israel help and so matter not though they weary the Magistrate and set all the World in an Uproar to keep themselves up in their high Places of Deceit and so prove the greatest Enemies against God's Truth and his Servants of all other as is abundantly to be seen in Scripture concerning the Priests and their Confederates who persecuted Christ to Death and raged against his Followers because of their holy Testimony for God against their Soul-destroying Wayes 5. The true Messengers and Ministers of Jesus Christ as they are powerfully sent of God so they work effectually for God for the edifying of the Body of Christ and perfecting of his People in Holiness to God But the false Teacher as he hath run without God so his Work is for strengthning that Part in man to wit the Serpents Wisdom which is against God and wars against the Simplicity of Christ and Good of the Soul in all and so they being themselves out of that heavenly Power which perfects the Soul to God and gives it perfect Victory over all Sin they cry No Perfection here no perfect Victory over Sin on this Side the Grave and so they lead about a People laden with Sin and Lust filly as Woman in the Transgression ever learning and never able by their Means to come to the Knowledge of the Truth it self which sets the Soul free from all Sin for how should People ever come to the Knowledge of the Truth by following such Teachers as are out of the Truth for if the Blind lead the Blind must they not both fall into the Ditch Also seeing you profess the Scripture and not unwritten Traditions to be your Rule and would have people to believe that what you do is according to Scripture therefore it s demanded in a few Words further 1. What Scripture have you for your Sprinkling of Infants and Signing them with the Sign of the Cross and telling people That thereby they are made Members of Christ Children of God and Inheritors of the Kingdom of Heaven when in your own Catechism in Contradiction to your practice you teach That Children by Reason of their Infancy or tender Years then cannot perform the Requests of Baptism to wit Faith and Repentance 2. And what Scripture have you for your Sureties so called which you most unscripturally call the Childrens God-fathers and God-mothers which you pretend to make up the Defect in the Infants by and for putting these Pretended Sureties upon such bold Undertakings and unadvised Promisings of that for the Child which they never yet did for themselves nor indeed have Faith to believe that so great Works can be done in any upon Earth to wit to forsake the Devil and all his Works c. seeing that such generally hold That none can live without Sin Is not Sin the Devil's Work yea yea and is there any Undertaker for man to God-ward but Christ and was there ever any Surety betwixt God and Man but