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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89640	The proud pharisee reproved: or, the lying orator laid open. In an examination of some passages in a book, entituled, precepts for Christian practice, or, the rule of the new creature new model'd. Written by one Edw. Reyner, who calles himself a minister of the Gospel in Lincoln; but is found a lyar / by a Child of the light, who is known to the world by the name of Martin Mason.	Mason, Martin, fl. 1650-1676.	1655 (1655)	Wing M933; Thomason E851_6; ESTC R207419	44,305	59

houses of Prayer that Church being nationall and so there was a certaine place appointed for that purpose but were they not unconverted do not you by imitating them therein and by your lives make it manifest you are the Jews now who are unconverted Doe you not hold up the letter * In opposition to the Spirit calling the letter your Rule and persecute Christ in spirit Have you any other than common or formal prayers before and after Sermon a meer Popish Custom And when that is done then comes a formal benediction or blessing the people a meer cheat wherewith you delude the ignorant but the light hath discovered that and all the rest or your deceits What the people are better for that blessing their lives make it manifest Acts 3 2● Did not Christ that High Priest cease this Ceremony when he blest his Disciples and afterwards came in spirit to blesse his people were not Christs and his Apostles prayers very short plain and to the purpose are not yours long vain glorious without the spirit and understanding Does that pure spirit live in you when you perform such lifeless exercises and deliver such deceitful Doctrine and is not your singing a confused noyse of lying Thou tells of Christs invitation of all poor souls to him who feele a need of him then see from henceforth thou hinder none keep none back let all that will go freely Does Christ call them and wilt thou by the ringing of a Bell call them to thy self Art thou Christ art thou the way the truth and the life Thou sayes Christ stood and cryed so does he still if any man thirst let him come unto me and drink so let him that is a thirst come But canst thou and thy fellow Priests satisfie the thirsty souls of poor sinners with the water of eternal life if thee canst not call them no longer to thee but send them to Christ the light of the world that pure Fountain and delude them no longer by letting them drink of the long standing corrupted putrified pool of mens traditions Christ sayes Come unto me all ye that labour and are heavy laden and I will ease you Can thee and thy Generation give ease to that soul that labours under the heavy load and burthen of his sins Do ye not instead of taking off the burthen lay more weight on Christ he gives ease and you sell what 's a Burthen Page 117. Thou talks of Christs cheapness of all soul Commodities as Grace Peace Spirit joy you may buy them without money or mony worth Hoe every one that thirsteth come ye to the waters and he that hath no money for coming is buying and thirsting is the price I will give to him that is a thirst of the Fountain of water of life freely Now see the difference between Christ and Antichrist Christ he gives grace peace spirit and joy freely Antichrist he sells his graceless inventions deluding deceitful Doctrines and Traditions the enioyment whereof brings no peace his dead performances wherein is neither spirit nor life his loud singing wherein is no joy nor comfort These he sells at as great rates as he can either by payment of Tithes or so much a year be it one hundred and fifty pound a year more or lesse what he can get Yet he tells you that your not comming to Christ for what ever you want is your condemnation and he bids you Take it out of Christs own mouth Ye will not come to me that ye might have life but the Serpent is so subtle He would have you take Him in your way make him your Guide but while you do so ye shall never see your Saviour Well friends the Priest hath told you plainly your not going to Christ is your condemnation Luke ●1 21 Now unlesse ye be Reprobates past reproof you may know that Christ is within you The Kingdom of God is within you therefore turn aside from your worldly Teachers and turn to the pure light of God in every one of your Consciences Take counsel of that trusly faithfull and most wise Counseller yield obedience unto him Behold to obey is better then sacrifice and to hearken better then the fat of Rams You shall never witness the life of a Saint never truly loath all manner of sin till you be in perfect love with the pure light of God within you And that will give you power over your corruptions abiding in it being obedient to it The least measure thereof if you be faithful to it shall make you experience this for truth if you say to this or that Mountain or hill of sin Be removed it shall be removed and le●ei'd Christs precept is thou sayes when thou prayest enter into thy Closet and shut thy door This thou calles his Rule for private prayer Shew then his Rule for thy long vain glorious publick prayers before and after Sermon where do the Scriptures mention any Rule for private publick prayer such as thine then thou talks of praying with others c. 1 Cor. 14.15 'T is an easie matter to patter out many words but which of you prayes with the spirit and understanding Thou confesses before They that have not the spirit of Christ are none of his And they who have that spirit living in them need none of thy Rules or direction how when or with whom to pray The spirit he helpeth our Rom. ● 26 infirmities for we know not what we should pray for as we ought but the spirit it self maketh intercession for us with groans which cannot be uttered P. 124. Thou plainly shewes thy self a Son of the Church of Rome Houses thou sayes as well as Temples were and are to be dedicated to God Thou sayes the Jewes were commanded to do it Hee 's as blind as thy self who knowes not that but what of this After the Destruction of the Temple was there ever any other commanded to be set up Acts 7.47.48 Acts 17.24.25 John 4.23.24 Prove this if thou canst God dwells not in Temples made with mens hands And ye that worship in the Idols Temple ye worship ye know not what for God is a Spirit and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth 1 Kings 18.27.29 Should I say to you concerning your worshipping in your Steeple-houses as Elijah did would you not be angry Cry aloud for he is a God either he is talking or he is pursuing Or he is in a journey or peradventure he sleepeth and must be awakened But is there any voice any to answer or any that regardeth Anos 6.1 Rom. 12.2 Where is the man or woman amongst you that turneth from the evil of his wayes that ceaseth to do evil and learns to do well that lives not at ease and woe be to them that live at ease that fashions not himself according to the World that can truly witness self-deniall that takes up his daily Crosse and follows Christ

no man Doth true honour consist in such hollow deceitfull unwarrantable titles inventions of the beast as are given by the world one to another * Is not your Lordship your Honour your Worship and the like a flattering Title Ester 3.2 How contrary art thou to Elihu who said Let me not accept of any mans person neither let me give flattering titles unto man for I may not give flattering titles unto man in so doing my Maker would soone take me away And Mordecai he would not bow unto Haman though the Darling of a King * Mind that you idolatrous and dissembling complementers who are bowing to and sawning on one another when in your hearts you are fit to murd●r one another Psal 2. But while thou feeds thy Magistrates with such food as their crazie carnall stomacks gape after while thou feasts them with such fare I say thou fattens the enemie and pines the pure but read thy reward and take it with thee The Lord shall cut off all flattering lips and the tongue that speaketh proud things Psal 123. Thou tells them Full 28 years are run out since thou was called to this City by the general vote of all the godly in it It seems this was all the call thou had'st the vote of men Thy confession makes it manifest thou had'st no call from God How hast thou proved thy generall vote of all the godly in this Citty Must thy bare word be taken when thou hast already been proved a lier Was there not one whose heart was towards the Lord not one Child of God in all the Citty but those that gave their vote to thee The Baptized people will not credit thee in this thing but look upon it as an uncharitable censure a presumptuous Boast and will ranck it amongst the rest of thy Lies Full 28 yeares are run out c. all which time together with my spirits and strength I have pent amongst you and upon you but for about 2 yeares in the heat of the late unhappy broyles when the good hand of providence removed me to a Citty of Refuge to wit Norwich Thou art Master of thy Trade A smooth tongue oylie words thou wantest not But this will not doe thy varnish must be washt off under this painted stufflies Poyson Hast thou spent 26 yeares upon those to whom thy book is dedicated with thy Spirits and strength what 's that which speaks so lustily in the Pulpit and walks so lively in the streets Is it not Edward Reyner his own self Hath the Mayor and divers more to whom thou dedicates thy book lived 26 yeares in Lincolne If they have not and I am sure t is so how hast thou spent thy spirits and strength amongst them and upon them all that time Besides hast thou had no journeys out of the Citty in all these 26 yeares Hast thou spent none of that time in bowling musick feasting at home or abroad If thou confessest then that time was not spent upon thy freinds for the good of their Souls whilst thou was Pampering thy own body Dives like with dainty fare and carnall pastimes not becoming a Minister of the Gospell But if thou denies this many in Lincoln can witness against thee So that turne which way thou wilt the hand of the Lord is against thee thou art found out a lyer in this particular also Wee to the Idoll Shepheard that leaves the Flock c. 11 Zecha 17. verse Then thou talks of the good hand of providence c. Deale honestly with thy own heart was it the good hand of Providence or the left hand of slavish feare and self ends that made the Hireling leave his Flock when the Wolf came What an unkind requitall did'st thou make them for their generall vote to preach amongst them Was thou so honest or so hardy to stay and desire their generall vote to leave them Was there not many a Soul in that Citty who thought well of thee yet knew not of thy flight till the Bird was flowne Hee 's blind that sees not this to be Blasphemy Thou goes on calling an Abridgment of thy Doctrine heart renewing life reforming soule saving truths Here 's three lies in a little roome canst thou prove that the Bible much less thy Babell book can renew the heart reforme the life and save the soule of any sinner Is it not the living God alone can do these things The leaest Child in the Schoole of Christ that reads this stuff of thine sees thy sottish error but 't is just that thy lying spirit should be laid open O that ever such a lying man as thou art should take upon him the name of a Minister of the Gospel What a Saviour is it which thou trustest in cannot he renew the heart reforme the life and save the soule Then surely thou art in a sad condition being so great a sinner and hast so lame a Saviour But if he can then see what wrong hast thou done him to make a meere useless Cypher of him and place salvation in printed leaves and abominable lies But this makes it manifest thy heart is not renewed nor thy life reformed nor thy soule saved were it so thou would'st not have printed such dark Popish stuff in such a time as this when light breaks forth in aboundance Soone after thou begs leave of them to leave that little Peice of thine in their hands as a light to guide them c. John 8.12 John 19. Christ Jesus is the light of the world does not he inlighten every one that comes into the world is he a perfect light or not wilt thou say there is imperfection in Christ Jesus Luke 1. 79. John 16.13 2 Pet. 1.19 What need is there of thy dark Lanthorne when the glorious Sun it self shines so comfortably doth not Christ give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death and guide their feet into the way of Peace And John saith when the spirit of truth is come he will guide you into all truth and Peter saies we have a more sure word of Prophecy whereunto ye do well that ye take heed as unto a light that shineth in a dark place untill the day dawne and the day star arise in your hearts Away thou blind guide that book which thou begs leave to leave with them as a light to guide them will lead all such as are guided by it into the ditch there 's a multitude of lies contradictions false doctrine and blasphemies in it of the Serpents invention mixt and interwoven with severall places of Scripture which thou wrests and pervertest explicating of them according to that deceitfull principle that is predominant within thee thereby hoping more plausibly to put off thy counterfeit ware and false doctrine for current truth but the light hath discovered thy delusions and thou art seene and judged Is thy book able to preserve from errors in opinion and looseness in conversation as

thou hintest does not that which guides into all truth preserve from all errors in opinion and loosness in conversation John 16.13 and is it not the spirit of Christ that guides into all truth O the impudency of this Antichristian Minister Would be not fain be counted infallible that dares thus arrogate and assume that to him and his lying Legend which is onely due to the infinite God of life and love does not this clearly demonstrate that the Papall honour is eagerly pursued by this purblind Preist Children of the night may be misled but the Children of the day do discern them But this doting Dreamer is through the goodness of God discovered to be a twig sprung from the root of old Antichrist and there 's none but Bats and Owles will beleive the lies and blasphemies which he hath written in his book At last he concludes his Epistle with a lying complement I am your servant Hypocrisy is spun with a fine thred and yet thou suffers them to call thee Master thou paintest thy self with Pauls language as if thou had'st been and still wert desirous to seek them not theirs and willing to spend and to be spent for them blush and be ashamed of thy deceitfull mystery art thou guided by that pure principle that unerring spirit which Paul was That of God in thee knowes thou lyest hast thou that pure love to thy Auditory which he had to his Corinthians be ashamed thou Hypocriticall lying blasphemous man repent repent Hints that Now I am come to Edm Calamies Epistle or approbation commendation of this mans doctrine who hints that Edw Reyner is excellent in picking out choyce subjects to write upon are lies contradictions blasphemies such choyce subjects to write on to write much in a little the man indeed hath writ three grosse lies in three lines in his Epistle Dedicatory where he calls an abridgment of his doctrine Heart-renewing life-reforming soule saving truths there is much Antichristian deceit discovered in that little Letter He goes on saying The subjects he viz Edward Reyner treats on are very usefull seasonable and spirituall but t is in advancing of Antichrist and his Kingdom And his manner of handling them very solid substantiall accurate and succinct and calls it much plaineness and much satisfaction to the godly learned But babes and sucklings in Christianity discerne this Orator to be a lying wretch He saies I have read it considered it and approved it more shame for thee but Simeon and Levi will take part one with another and so he hopes will every juditious and pious Reader But the hope of an hypocrite shall perish See how one Preist paints another with flattering commendations he saies Edward Reyner will appeare like Bezaliell and Aholiab who were fill'd with wisdom of heart to work all manner of work of the cunning workman c. Were they fil'd with more wisdom of heart than this Fox is with deceitfullness A cunning workman he is seene to be but the Mystery of his iniquity is laying open Read it saith Edmond Calamy and it will make thee very holy here and perfectly happy hereafter Is not this a Chicken of the Serpents hatching can lies contradictions and blasphemous Doctrine make very holy here and perfectly happy hereafter And now he concludes with an old Sacerdotal Complement Your Servant in the work of the Ministry Your Teacher thou mightest more truly have said in the Mystery of Iniquity His Letter is short but I cannot say sweet yet he hath a notable faculty of writing much in a little many filthy lies are laid down in his little letter Babylon he loves Babylon he lives in and in Babylon I leave him The God of life and love be merciful unto him The next thing I meet with is Edward Reyners Preface to the Reader where he sayes After serious consideration and consultation with flesh and blood what consult with flesh and blood about the things of God Did Paul so Gal. 1.16 Nay he conferred not with flesh and blood but it seems thou didst whether Paul or thee better deserves the Name of a Minister of the Gospel in this particular let the wise man judge Yet thou sayes thou found thy heart inclined thou hopes by the good hand of God to take those ten Rules into second thoughts upon two grounds especially That in the review of them they appeared to thee too short and defective The other was that notwithstanding the tenuity and imperfection of them God hath as thou was informed its likely by such flatterers as Calamy made them instrumental for the good of others But it is the good hand of God to make it clear thy hope was the hope of an Hypocrite desiring to seem what thou wert not a Minister of the Gospel Hadst thou been a true Minister of the Gospel thou wouldest not have consulted with flesh and blood Thou couldest not have preached that which was defective and imperfect did ever any of the Apostles deliver such Doctrine as thou hast done How wert thou guided by what Rule not by that Rule which Paul was Could the Holy Ghost give out that which was defective and imperfect Wilt thou make that pure spirit the Authour of that filthy Book He that is so weak as to believe thee or thy Dreams is not guided by wisdom so I pitty him Thou beseeches the Reader to take thy ten Rules out of thy Book into his bosom Thy meaning is to believe and practise them What believe lies contradictions and blasphemies live and die in ignorance They have little reason to answer thy request otherwise than Get thee behind me Satan John 16.13 1 John 3.9 What if a man could repeat all the Bible that 's larger and better then thy Book yet if the Vnction within the spirit of Christ live not in him all will avail him nothing If that seed remain not in him how can he be guided into all truth how can he keep himself and not sin Pen and Inck shall never make a sinner become a Saint Calling it a Delusion and they that are guided by it thou countest deluded The true Rule but not thy ten Rules will if observed keep from wandring stumbling falling and halting But thou art not yet in the way to Heaven for Christ is the way He is the light and him thou lovest not but to thy power dost persecute him both in print and Pulpit He is the Guide into all truth and him thou followest not but flyest from He is the Rule and him thou walks not by but delightest in the dark Dungeon of self-inventions Luke 13.24 The way seems to thee so narrow and strait thou dares not Amos 1.6 strive to enter in but takes pleasure in the broad way because its easie to the flesh But woe be to them that are at ease in the flesh Thou art not come to the brideling of the Tongue witness the many lies in thy