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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B05933	The line of true judgment: laid to an imperfect piece published by Thomas Collier, which he calls An answer to an epistle written to the churches of the Anabaptists, &c. : A reply herein is published in order to the exaltation of the spiritual man, with his ordinances and administrations, above the man of sin, with the weak and unprofitable ordices [sic] that doth not make the comers thereunto perfect. / By Thomas Salthouse.	Salthouse, Thomas, 1630-1691.	1658 (1658)	Wing S474; ESTC R183214	22,424	33

it which was not written by me to the intent of strife or contention about words but in the feare of the Lord by way of exhortation to repentance after I had deliberatly read over and considered the state of their Church under their hands in print and although I did write in love and tenderness and in plainness of speech and in English yet T. C. pretends to interpret it to make it speake another thing then is intended and when he hath set down his own false constructions and interpretations he calls it our Logick and so sports himselfe in his own deceivings and then saith he I trust that every tender and faithfull soul that trembles at the word of the Lord will tremble at the thoughts of the reception of such divinity as this is which is nothing but a false divination of his own heart for those that trembles at the word of the Lord doth little approve of his divinitie it s more pleasing among and more delightful to them that cannot indure sound Doctrine and they can well agree with and approve of such teachers as will countenance sin and plead for the being and living in sin whilst in this mortall Estate But to press after holiness perfection and obedience to the light of Christ Within Oh this is a hard saying the land cannot beare such language away with such a fellow it s not fit hee should breathe in the ayr or live upon the earth he brings certain strange things to our eares this is a new Doctrine he us of a light within us but this is a naturall light say they this is not the light of Christ for when Christ cometh no man knoweth whence he is but we know of this light in us let us heare of something that we know not and tell not us of a light within us that reproves for sin and convinces of sin and thus the day of small things is dispised and the reproofs of instruction set at nought and the first principle of pure Religion slighted as too meane and too low things for such high spirits to stoop to in these dayes And because out of a true sence of their miserable Estate and condition expressed in their Epistle I said to the simple hearted come out from among them and be ye separated least you perish in their gainsaying he saith this is the great worke of all Pharisee-like to compass sea and land to make one proselyte now let the understanding and wise hearted judge if I have offended herein and whether it be not safe to come out from among them that are formall in holy duties and without the terrour of Gods Majesty c. as they are by their own Confession Was it Pharisee-like when the true Prophet called to a people to come out from among them that lived in sin and not pertake with them any longer therein least they also should pertake of their punnishment and is it an offence now to call the simple hearted to come out from among them that lives in sin and pleads for the continuance of it so long as they remaine in this world Tim. 35. and the Minister of Christ saith g that those who had the forme of godliness and not the power was to be turned away from for what concord hath Christ with Beliall or what communion hath light with Darknesse or what agreement hath the temple of God with Idolls for ye are the temple of the living God as God hath said I will dwell in them and walk in them wherefore come out from among them and be seperate and touch no unclean thing and I will receive you and ye shall be my sons and daughters saith the Lord Almighty 2 Cor. 6. and this was not Pharisee-like to make a prosylite and he saith but why must they come out from amongst us to which I shall here answer in plaine English and so save him labour to interpret first because they have not profited by your Ministry as you Confess you have laboured in vain and that which hath been brought forth hath been to little purpose Secondly because you have h 2 Tim. 3.5 the forme of godliness and not the power thereof and doth impose such ordinances upon them as doth not make the commers thereunto perfect Thirdly because of your coldness and deadness that indifferency and Laodicean spirit that is fallen in upon you Fourthly because you have been drawing iniquity with cords of vanity whilst you have said Let the Counsell of the Lord come that we may know it in a word because your Church hath sin remaining in it and you believe it will never be otherwise whilst you are in this mortall Estate so that your Ministry is not for the perfecting of the saints i Eph. 4. the ends for which Christ gave Giftes to his Ministers and again he saith whether must they come doubtless to them a pure perfect people without sin I say yea unto a people k Deut. 33.29 saved by the Lord saved from their sins saved from the untoward generation with a great and mighty salvation to such a people are they called to come to the generally assembly to the Church which is in God to a pure people l Heb. 12.23 to the spirits of just men made perfect that they may be the Lords in the day m Mal. 3.7 when he makes up his jewells for now he is bringing in the desire of all nations who saith to the sea give up and the light is risen out of obscurity and we have seene it and now the Lord is gathering his seed from the cast and from the west n I say 43. who saith to the north give up and to the south keep not back bring my sons from far and my daughters from the ends of the earth bring forth the blind people that have eyes and the deaf that have eares and let the nations be assembled for now is salvation and strength come and we cannot be silent but freely invite and exhort the simple hearted to come up with us to the house of the Lord. And therefore I say again o I say 2.5 Come let us walk in the light of the Lord come with me from Lebanon in vain is salvation hoped for from the hills or from the multitude of mountains arise and come away look from the top of Amana come from the Lions den and from the mountains of Leopards come up out of Egypt and Babylon enquire the way to Sion seek the Lord while he may be found and call upon him while he is near come up hither to worship God in the spirit and in the truth and seek not the living among the dead p Rev. 22.17 The spirit and the bride saith come and whosoever will come let him come to the waters freely and drink without money and without price This word is to you that are athirst and to you that are tender-hearted in plainness to your understandings and not the

was a lyer from the beginning is now cast out of heaven into the earth and he hath great wrath with the woman and the remnant of her seed who keep the word of God and testimony of Jesus but the arm of the Lord is stretched out over us and in his fear are we preserved from the rage of our enemies yea a pillar of fire to give us light goeth before us which is a cloud and darkness to our Egyptian like enemies that follow after us Truly my soul pitties you and my bowels hath even yerned on you for many dayes oh that you had an ear that you could hear and an heart that you could understand you have played the harlot and are departed from God and you have joyned your selves to another besides the Lord you have run a whoreing after your own Inventions and you have worshipped the works of your hands and your Pastours hath deceived you for the Lord doth not smile upon you but his jealousy burneth against you as a fire yet return and he may have mercy and whilst the Spirit of the Lord strives answer with obedience for he hath said his spirit shall not alwayes strive with man and while you have the light believe in the light and bring all your deeds unto the light that they may be proved and tryed whether they be wrought in God And now friends in the fear of the Lord deal honestly with your own selves and let us reason together and in the light of Christ Jesus weigh and try all things and see with the light which will deal plainly with you whether you are indeed such as you profess your selves and whether the ordinances you so much talk of be indeed the ordinances of Christ or but shadowes whether water baptism or the baptism of the spirit be the baptism of Christ since there is but one baptism whether you have heard the voice of Christ or seen his shape at any time that hath commanded you in the particular to take up those ordinances or a perswasion in your own minds from the letter when as the letter killeth or whether such a thing as water be commanded in the letter or your own Imaginations from the letter Whether the bread you break be the body of Christ or the cup you drink be his blood since it doth not cleanse you from sin whether the prayers you make be in the spirit and you can say in the presence of the Lord you lift up holy hands have them that teach among you the spirit of infalibility and revelation of the mind of Christ or they speak a devination of their own brain and hath not received the word of the Lord from his mouth but boast in anothers line and what themselves have invented and whether this be the spirit of God or the spirit of errour which is not of God and whether the Covenant and ordinances which doth not make the commers thereunto perfect be not that which is to be done away as weake and unprofitable whether your faith and preaching be not also vain forasmuch as you believe you shall never overcome sin while you live and your faith doth not purifie your hearts and since that as a tree falleth so it lyeth and as death leaves you judgment finds you and that there is no repentance in the grave whether you must goe and that nothing that is unclean or that worketh abomination or that maketh a lye shall ever enter the City of our God Therefore once more in the name of the Lord I warn you come out from among them all ye that are tender-hearted and that desires salvation to your soules come out from among them and be ye seperate and touch no unclean thing and I will receive you saith the Lord for whosoever cannot witnesse Christ Jesus a Saviour from sin in the particular shall never witness him a Saviour from condemnation refuse not to walk with a pure perfect people as T.C. saith we be and follow us no farther then as we follow Christ for we have the mind of Christ therfore own the light which convinceth you of sin for as living witnesses for the name of our God do we stand that the light which convinceth of sin is the true light that leadeth out of sin all them that walks in the light as he is in the light they witness the blood of Christ to cleanse from all sin which joyns us to Christ as members of his body whereby we receive the spirit of the Father to lead and guide us to do his will which is our sanctification which spirit revealeth the Son Christ Jesus the light who worketh all our works in us and for us whose work is perfect for we are no more our own but bought with a price so are we baptized by one spirit into one body and made conformable to his death who hath raised us to life glory be to his name for ever here is the Church in God the Father where the true Church Ordinances and fellowship is known and the true worship in spirit and in truth in which onely the father is worshipped lived in yea and we bear testimony according to the Scriptures that there is no other name given under heaven by which men can be saved but by Christ Jesus who is revealed in us our hope of glory this is he that hath told us all that ever we have done is not this the very Christ who was in the beginning with God whose day Abraham saw whom the professing Jews when made manifest who had the Scriptures of the Prophets who prophesied of him read every Sabbath day yet their voices they knew not but crucified the Lord of Life and put him to open shame as it is at this day Him hath God raised and given him a name above every name that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow this is he whom we bear testimony to Christ Jesus the same yesterday to day and for ever therefore take heed least ye be found fighters against God and no longer believe lyes but cast out the lyar from amongst you for the lyar is of the Devil and whilst you join with him you are one with him and must partake of his plagues Therefore hear and fear before the Lord for the Lord will rain snares upon the wicked and pour out shame and contempt upon his adversaries and go on speedily with your promise which you have promised the Lord in your Epistle That you will cast out sin or sinners out of the house of God so may the Lord have a Church free from sin upon the earth for he is come whose right it is and the Kingdom and the Government shall be his who will rule the Heathen with a rod of iron and break them in pieces like a Potters vessel And now have I eased my spirit and cleared my conscience towards you whether you will hear or forbear and the Lord will be clear of you when he cometh in ten thousands of his Saints to execute the judgements written this honour hath all the saints From him who was once owned as a Brother amongst you and since owned a brother by you whilst walking in the vanity of my mind running to the same excess of riot with you but since the Lord in mercy visited me and called me out of darkness into his marvellous light I have been hated and despightfully used by some of you who am known to many of you by the name of I. 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