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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A79481	Good counsell, to the petitioners for Presbyterian government, that they may declare their faith before they build their church.	Chidley, Katherine.	1645 (1645)	Wing C3831; Thomason 669.f.10[39]; ESTC R210414	3,972	1

Good Counsell to the Petitioners for Presbyterian Government That they may declare their Faith before they build their Church THe Saints of God being separated from Idolatry and joyned together in the fellowship of the Gospel have ever enjoyed commission from Christ to practise all the parts of Gods true Religion and also to keep the Ordinances of God from contempt or profanation amongst themselves And this power they have from God though with persecution now in this time of Parliament Persecution I say not from the Parliament further then they neglect to preserve their peace according to the Law of God but persecution as it arose from the Pope and Bishops in former time primarily so would it do now from their sons who call themselves Divines yea even in the height of it if they might have their wils as appeareth by their late Petition for which there was a publick calling out for hands Well was it with the Kings of Israel when they took the counsell of Gods true Prophets though few in number but such a Clergy which is naturally addicted to persecution cannot be a blessing to any Parliament or Nation as appeareth by the Scripture And therefore my desire is that the Parliament may submit to God for direction and counsell even to beware of men especially of false Prophets or any evill workers whatever they be And that all persons fearing God in the City of London or elsewhere may blesse God for fulfilling his promises unto them that their eyes enjoy their Teachers though in an upper roome as Christ and his Apostles met But for the City of Londons Ministery which is so much commended in the Petition I think their readinesse is as the rest of that generation in the countreys of the Land even to find out where their maintenance lieth And so far are they from keeping Gods Ordinances from pollution and contempt that to enjoy their pay they will walk contrary to a known rule and expresse command Cast not holy things unto dogs yet these men I say rather then they will want their patrimony they will constrain all men to partake of the Ordinances of God They bewail that the children should come so neer to the birth and that there is no strength to bring forth But I think the children are sufficiently brought forth unto them If their means be established upon them by the Parliament as I am informed it is for a certain time for I know no other Children they mean but two viz MAINTENANCE and POWER The one they have as Saul had the fat cattell contrary to Gods commandment The other they shall never have for God will fight against such as fight for them as it appears at this day for they by usurped power ever shed the blood of the Saints and Martyrs of Jesus and now God is making inquisition for the blood which hath been spilt and the more fiercely they go on to build up a Babel with blood the more speedily will God come down to see their wickednes and to confound them And though they say it is in fervour of spirit for the house of their God and although the Parliament may bear with them at their entreaty yet God will in his own time deal with sinners They further complain that there are damnable errors broached amongst them that is to say amongst the Presbyterians for amongst the people of God none can so soon deliver any point of false doctrine but he shall be severely dealt with according to the rule of Christ but the Presbyters practise is to preach what they list without controll therefore errors may be broached by them privilegio But they say divers are fallen off within these few yeers But me thinks they do not speak pertinently for men cannot be said to fall off which were never on or from a government that was never setled and they themselves say their Government is not yet established And these that fly out from amongst them separating themselves from them and incorporate themselves into separated Assemblies are not as they say they be such as hold damnable heresies but such abide still amongst the Presbyterians themselves and therefore the Lords people are constrained by the power of the Word of truth to separate themselves from such persons that are retained in the Church of England godlesse in their lives and blasphemous in their judgements yet such persons notstithstanding are in matters of worship one with the whole body of the Land and these be the vessels that the houses of their Gods are yet filled withall But it is not so with those that separate themselves from them for they admit not in their societies any that hold blasphemous errors neither do they set up illeterate persons among them for their Pastors as the Presbyterians unjustly accuse them True it is they manage their meetings with boldnesse because they have some ground to beleeve that the Parliament will not suffer them to be wronged for performing the true worship to the true God in a peaceable manner under their protection as also correction in case they should walk as the Presbyterians in their Petition have falsly accused them saying they manage their meetings with insolencie which is an unjust accusation And in contempt of all Authority which is also untrue To the disturbance of the City which is another falshood Every one doing that which is right in his own eyes which is an unjust affirmation as the rest for they order their walkings according to the rule of Gods Word But these Petitioners accuse not onely the people but also the Parliament for they say every one doth that which is right in his own eyes and there is no controll or course to reclaim them whereby it is evident they render the Parliament very infirm or carelesse And the people of God plead not any such priviledge to be without controll but alwayes submitted themselves in duty to the Magistrates power which is set up by God as well for the punishment of evill doers as for the praise of those that do well Therefore all these Petitioners inferences against the people of God be slanders And the Religion of God doth not breed division either in Kingdom City or family in any civill respect for Religion teacheth men submission to their duty But this hath been a false accusation of Mr. T. E. long ago which hath been disproved at large Religion I say breeds no difference then what was from the beginning the wicked envying the godly that their sacrifices are accepted and theirs rejected and that 's the emnity which Christ hath put between the two seeds and it shall be as Christ saith five in a house two against three and three against two But the cause is envy and not Religion And whereas these Presbyterians affirm in their Petition that the Separates set up illeterate men to be their Pastors let that come to the triall for we desire not to be led by blind guides Therefore I could wish