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A64262 A testimony for the Lord, the good shepherd against all the false shepherds and hirelings of the world and more especially, or particularly those of that sort in the nation of England / by Thomas Taylor. Taylor, Thomas, 1618-1682. 1675 (1675) Wing T586; ESTC R17791 10,827 16

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Place of Bishops and Overseers of others and have not looked into your own Hearts and Souls to see what grows there O the deep Sleeps and Slumbers that you are seen to be in this Day even all you who have run and God never sent you and therefore you have not nor never can possibly in that State profit the People at all Oh all you that love to be call'd of Men Master and Doctor and Lord Bishops and Arch-Deacons and such like worldly Titles which Christ the meek Lamb and lowly in Heart did alwayes forbid and his Spirit is against forever and ever and saith It shall not be so amongst his but he that is greatest must be least and Servant of all not in feigned Words and deceitful Shews but in Deed and in Truth Glory to the Lord who is arisen to root up the false Ministry and to bring in his own as in the Beginning That the Earth may be covered with the Knowledge of G●d and Jesus Christ our Lord as the Waters cover the Sea Amen and Amen O Ye Priests and Parish Teachers when will ye consider of the Entrance of your selves into your Offices and the People into your Church you have laid another Foundation then Christ hath laid Christ said to his Messengers and Ministers As my Heavenly Father hath sent me so I send you But Christ was not made a Minister by the Law of a Carnal Commandment but by the Power of an endless Life And so you that are Ministers of the Letter and made Ministers thereof by the Law of a Carnal Commandment and your Fittedness for your Work is gathered not from the holy Spirit 's Ability but from some Worldly Endowments as natural Languages Arts and Parts which can only fit a Man for a Heathenish Oratory but could never help in this great and Heavenly Matter of Christ's Kingdom and your Bishops being made by the human Powers could never say That by the laying on of their Hands you received either the holy Ghost or any Gift of it And so you being of the World and impowered by the World how can you claim Audience or Obedience from Christ's Members who know not to follow your Voice which is the Strangers Voice and so you Men of the World are heard upheld and obeyed by the World who are ignorant of Christ's Voice from the Strangers and so being such blind Guides whether can you lead the People but into the Ditch and there you are who are alwayes doing what you ought not to do and so have no Health in you and so dangerous to joyn to and are miserable Offenders for taking the poor Peoples Money for that which is not Bread and causing them to spend their Labours for your Traditions and empty Sound of Words which are never able to satisfie their Souls and you are very miserable Offenders also in not only coming in by a wrong Door your selves but also in perswading the poor deceived Multitude that you enter them into the Pale of the Church by your baptizing or sprinkling of them when Infants for which there is no Scripture nay more as your common Custom is and as is said before that you regenerate them by it for God never regenerated any by a Means which he never ordained as this Usage of yours is manifest to be So all your Entrances being impure and your Foundations unspiritual and Unscriptural what Building must needs be builded thereupon the wise in heart do easily see So you and your Work being Mystery Babylon the Lord God of Heaven is engaged against y●u and his Vials of Wrath is he pouring forth upon you and he will not fail n●r be discouraged until his Judgments be brought forth to Victory over you And now to you the Magistrates and Powers who rule in this Nation of England Lend not your Power much less give it to this dead Image uphold not this Ministry which cannot profit you nor the People at all lest God plead with you in his Wrath for your Abuse of it for though they may perswade you that Christ is not against them yet such as God hath redeemed from amongst them know them to be no Ministers of Christ but Hirelings who have run without Christ's sending and so not going Christ's Message they cannot be content with Christ's Maintenance but cry unto you O Magistrates help help the People will not pay us their Tythes and the like lend us your Laws your Prisons c. O Rulers Consider consider what Teachers these are who instead of compelling People to Love and contribute to them by the Power of the Word are glad to run to the Worldly Magistrates Sword Is not God against them that are thus against him O leave them leave them to try and prove themselves to the Peoples Con●cien●e to be true Ministers by a free and powerful Ministry of the Word not of Man but of God unto them or never own them for Christ's ancient and true Ministers had freely received and therefore could freely give and did plant bef●re they eat and fed the Flock before they had the Milk thereof but these bay their Words and therefore sell them like Merchants of Babylon They eat the Fat and clothe with the Wool and k●ll them that are fed as the Prophet speaks but God's Flock they feed not but pers●cute them calling them Hereticks and all that 's naught as the old Jews who persecuted Christ and his Followers did But after the way that they call Heresie so worship we the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ believing his living Word which perfects us to himself the Scriptures which testifie thereof Glory to his Name forever And all ye People who are Lovers and Followers and Upholders of this false Ministry which keeps you alwayes learning and never brings you to the Knowledge of the Truth as it is in Jesus which alone perfects to God cease from it and the masterly Teachers in it and from them turn to God for what are their Dreams to the Living and Eternal Word of God which is as a Hammer and a Fire in the Hearts of all that receive it and what are their Inventions to the Ordinances of Christ The Lord loves your Souls he hath no Pleasure in your Death it is not his Will that your precious Souls should be lost for the pleasing of vain Men and answering their ungodly Lusts What is there no Balm in Gilead Is there no Christ no Physician in England that the Breach which Sin hath made betwixt God and your Souls can never be made up but the Wound must stand open still like a bloody Issue running out the very Life of your Souls so that you have no Power no Victory over Sin but Sin stands still in its Strength and perfect Dominion over you O when O when will you come to the Light that your Eyes may be opened to