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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93575	An epistle to the churches of the Anabaptists so called. Written by a member of the church, and sent abroad in pursuance of a printed paper from Tiverton, directed to all the churches of Jesus Christ.	Salthouse, Thomas, 1630-1691.	1657 (1657)	Wing S472; ESTC R183213	7,256	8

AN EPISTLE TO THE CHURCHES OF THE ANABAPTISTS SO CALLED Written by a Member of the CHVRCH and sent abroad in pursuance of a printed paper from TIVERTON directed to all the CHVRCHES of JESUS CHRIST Friends I Am constrained with compassion to the opprossed seed in you which groans to be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the liberty of the sons of God and likewise injoyned as a member of the Church of Christ in bowels of love and tenderness to write unto you which I hope will be profitable to such as are earnestly coveting after the best things though for the present many of you are scattered upon the barren mountains as sheep without a Shepherd and wandering in the wilderness in a darke and solitary way He that hath an care to hear let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the Churches and to the Pastors and Teachers of your Churches write I these things in the name and fear of the Lord before whom your works have not been found perfect for you have had a name to live while death hath reigned over many of you the day is far spent and the shadows of the evening are stretched forth and the night cometh wherein no man can work therefore repent and while you have the light believe in the light and bring all your deeds to the light to be proved and tryed that they may be wrought in God and neglect not the great salvation which now is begun to be spoken of in these last dayes wherein iniquity hath abounded and the man of sin hath been exalted and the love of many hath waxen cold who in words professe they know God and in works deny him the Spirit of the Lord strives with you as it did with the children of disobedience in the dayes of Noah and the baptism that now saves us is not onely the putting away of the filth of the flesh and carnal washings but the answer of a good conscience towards God by the resurrection of Jesus Christ who is come a Light into the world and by the brightnesse of his rising in the hearts of his people doth he reveal the man of sin and the mysterie of iniquity with the abomination that was spoken of by the Prophet which hath been exalted among you and yet stands where it ought not And now the Law is changed and the Priesthood changed and the carnal Ordinances are to cease and the Covenant which made not the comers thereunto perfect for the weaknesse and unprofitablenesse of it is done away and the Hand-writing of Ordinances blotted out and Christ Jesus the Mediator of the new Covenant witnessed who is the Head of the Church the everlasting Teacher of his people the High-Priest and Apostle of our profession the chief Shepherd and Bishop of our souls and they that are with him are called and chosen and faithful and circumcised with the circumcision made without hands by the putting off the body of the sinnes of the flesh buryed with him in baptism and quickned together with him by the faith of the opperation of that eternal Spirit that raised up Jesus from the dead And they onely are Members of his Church that are thus made conformable to him in his death and quickned together with him and raised up by the power of his resurrection and such cannot be subject to the worlds worships customs and fashions nor to its Ordinances as those are who lives in the world Therefore touch not taste not handle not those things which perisheth with the using and doth not make the comers thereunto perfect Seeke not the living among the dead and carnal Ordinances and bodily-exercises which are altogether unprofitable and according to the tradition received from men for the kingdom of God cometh not with observations Arise arise for this is not your rest because it is poluted God who commanded light to shine out of darknesse hath shined in our hearts to give us the knowledge of his glorious Gospel in the face of Jesus Christ whom he hath sent forth in these last dayes for a light unto the Gentiles a Leader of his people and for salvation to all the ends of the earth who comes to be glorified in his Saints and who 〈◊〉 to be worshipped in the spirit and in the truth and they that do not worship him in the spirit and in the truth they worship they know not what even the unknown God ignorantly and such are not the Church of Christ what ever they professe Lately I saw printed Epistle signed by Thomas Collier and others wherein your condition in some measure was expressed and confessed and truly mine eye affects my heart at the consideration thereof I cannot but bewaile those great abominations by which the Lord God Almighry of power and purity is provoked to jealousie and even to give you up to strong delusions to observe lying vanities because you like not to retain God in your knowledge since that which may be known of him is manifested in you as hath both in word and writing been freely declared to many of you and yet this seat of the Image of jealousie remains among you and the accursed thing which makes you fall before your enemies and renders you uncomely in the sight of men as you have confest Now friends I must deal plainly with you that a separation may be made between the precious and the vile the holy and the prophane that they who are of the Synagogue of Satan may be delivered unto Satan for as their blasphemy was known that said they were Iewes and were not so their presumption is now seen that calls themselves the Church of Christ and are not Being moved of the Lord I cannot but give in my Testimony as a Mite into his everlasting treasury by declaring plainly unto you That you are not in reality and truth what you professe to be and as the Direction or Preface to that Epistle bespeak● you for the Church is as a Lilly among Thorns in relation to your condition therein exprest or as an Apple-Tree among the Trees of the Wood and is builded upon the foundation of many Generations being living Stones elect and precious and with the love of Christ who is the Head of his Church his members are constrained to follow him as the Captain of their salvation in honor and dishonor in good report and evil report liberty and bonds persecutions and tribulations and because of the savour of his good Oyntments the Virgins his followers loves him dearly yea above all the worlds glory and friendship and the love of the world hath not nor never can be able like a Canker to eat out their affections to the Lord Iesus as you have confessed in your Epistle concerning them to whom it was sent with whom you say it is on your hearts to live and dye You say you have been arraigning the abominations of Zion before the Bar of the Most high But upon search it is found to be your