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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85151	A true testimony against the Popes wayes, &c. In a return to that agreement of 42. of those that call themselves ministers of Christ (but are proved to be wrongers of men and of Christ) in the county of Worcester, and some adjacent parts, who subscribe their agreement and catechisme with the names and the places where they are pastors, teachers, and rectors, &c. as they say: or as followeth: Richard Baxter teacher of the church at Kiderminster. John Boraston pastor of Ribsford and Bewdley. Richard Eades pastor of Beckford Glocestershire. ... Joh: Dedicote preacher at Abbotesley.	R. F. (Richard Farnworth), d. 1666.	1656 (1656)	Wing F509; Thomason E870_6; ESTC R202116	86,932	79

the wrong c. If you walk in that wrong way wherein you miscarrie and wrong God and Men growing worse and running further therein do not the Papists the same and are not you and they therein one and so walk with them in that way whose actions proceed from one ground and Spirit though in some words and formalities you differ but in the evill and wronging God and Men c. are Joyned together and therefore may stop your mouths of condemning others for that which you are found guilty of your words as well as your actions beare witnesse against you and your bitternesse and persecuting the servants of Jesus as your Prisons and barbarous or cruel usage at Evesham and other places may witnesse for the truth and against your deceit and wrong done to men and God as you say in your agreement therefore you and the Papists goes on in one nature together the Papists you say bring all ●he people to confesse their most secret sins unto their Priests and do not you labour to bring the people to do so unto you the Parish Masters idle Shepherds and hireling Preists and then are not you and the Papists therein both one in nature and property Ez●k 3● ●● ● though differing a little in words and colourable clauses And where you tell of creeping into houses who more then you creeps into the Popes houses which you with and from them call Churches but let me aske you that run so out of them from whence you sprung wherein do you and they differ in worships and practise therein Whether in manner or matter if in manner onely you differ and not in matter then do you not agree in the maine if so then are not you and the Papists in religion and worships as well as nature and property one though differing in some words formalities c. but both in the vaine traditions and observing your fancies and braine imaginations as the Serpents seed did in all ages You resolve in your wills to set on a worke in your imaginations promising salvation upon the performance and damnation upon the refusall page 30. and so would merit Heaven by your actings in the nature from whence ariseth negligence and miscarriages page 3 4. and wrong to men and to Christ page 19. and do not the Papists hold the same thinking to merit Heaven by their own actings in that nature and spirit of deceipt which guides them to neglect the work of God and also into miscarriages and to wrong men and God like you and persecuters and seed of evill doers If so then are not you and the Papists one therein and why do you crie out against that so much in others your selves being guilty of and found in the same and doing their work onely differing here and there in words formalities some colourable glosses c. You say page 23. you have all need to joyne heart and hand to help one another safe to heaven and all little enough you say I answer yea and too little too for in that nature in will not be done which teacheth you to wrong Christ and Men for if in that nature you could do it why might not the Papist in the like nature with you do the same and are not you therein with the Papists one or if any get out of your ignorance and come from under the wrong and out of the miscarriages in obedience to the teachings of Christ the true teacher and Saviour whom you wrong that they get into Heaven before you or sit with Christ Jesus in heavenly places whilst their bodys are on the earth as the Saints at Ephesus did whil'st their bodys were there and such as are saved by grace having their souls purified in obeying the truth through the Spirit where selfe is denyed are not you through ignorance of the way that leads out of error heresie miscarriages Popery and darknesse ready to call such hereticks as are come out of that and into the glorious light and injoyments of the sons of God to worship the Father in Spirit I say are you not ready to call such hereticks who are come out of it viz the darknesse E●he 1.6 Co. 1.13 1 Pet. 1.22.23 24. Reve. 21.3.23.24 Joh. 4.23.24 2 Cor. 3.16.17 Gal. 4.4 5 6 7.8 1 Cor. 4.6.7 and heresie which you live in and would rank them with the Papists under that denomination to cover and shelter your selves thinking to cast that upon them which they are freed from and you and the Papists are found in union with and guilty of being both of you out of the right way and in the wrong that are neglecters of the work of God and wronging God and men and living in the miscarriages and so in the heresies error and disobedience to the truth following your own Spirits and obeying the imagined fancy formed up in your own wills and living in the vaine traditions and customes of the Heathen as you and they do but your mist dazels the eye of none but the willfull blind and such as are in sleepy security and in sin unturned to God who are already deceived and the eye covered or blinded by which they should see both delusion and heresie in which you and they therein agree who grow worse and run yet further from God c. For the Papists believe they shall never be free from sin here in this life and therein they are reprobate concerning the true Gospel soul-saving and purifying faith and you believe the same viz that you shall never be freed from sin here in this life and then must not you with the Papists have a purgatory seeing that nothing which is uncleane shall in any wise enter into the holy City Rev. 21.27 and the unrighteous shall not inherit the Kingdom of God as it is said and by the Ambassadour of Christ declared 1 Cor. 6.9 10. and are not you reprobate concerning the true Gospel Gal. 5.20 21. soul-saving and purifying faith who denieth the property of it in denying purity of heart and abiding in darknesse and the nature opposite to the true light believing or saying you believe you cannot or shall not be free from sin here in this life and therefore are not you and the Papists both one and your faith and theirs in nature and property being dead and corrupt therein agreeth together but I deny the Papists and you the wrongers of Christ and Men and that faith which doth not purifie the heart witnesseth that faith and power which doth Act. 15.89 H●b 2.10.11 and as the Saints did as the Scripture witnesseth and God which searcheth the hearts beareth me witnesse as he did them who giveth the holy Ghost that purifieth the heart by faith and we know that we were not redeemed with corruptible things as silver and gold from that vaine conversation which had been received by tradition from your fore Fathers c. Who received Silver and Gold and did not the work which

and meanes for sleeping therein and as you confesse have not awakened them out of the same nor yet turn'd them from darknesse to light that have them yet unturned from sin unto God as your Agreement doth witnesse therefore be not offended at others who are sent from the Lord to tell you the same and for that your work of deceiving and wronging Christ and them take you the shame and give over deceiving soules for your own ends and earthly gaines for you are those that labour in vaine being wrongers of God and Men and idle and negligent as you say in the great work of God according to his holy word and so you have proved your selves to be none of Christs Minister but enemies and cursed deceivers for it is written cursed be such as do the work of the Lord deceitfully or negligently and as you have done therefore that curse stands upon you and them that with you remaine under the same Jer. 48.10 Jer. 11.3 And now that you are discovered witnessed against and made manifest to be deceivers wrongers of God and wrongers of Men and to be idle negligent and the unprofitable servants you have also confessed since you say you were your selves awakened unto the same yet you make flatteries and excuses and false glosses to hide your deceipts under Promising amendment but doth not regard to forsake your false Ministry and worships and turne to the truth in the life of it being found out of the life in the lust and miscarriages wrongers of God and Men and hath your people asleepe in security c. But if any should have beene sent of the Lord into your market places or steeple-houses where you sell your ware and use your trade of deceipt to deceive soules and wrong Christ and them for your own ends and if they had but told you that which you have confess you would have beene all on an uproare and have had your disciples ready to fight for you with clubs and fists and after have sent the messenger of God to Prison for it as at Kidderminster and Worcester were made manifest when there was not so much spoken against you Titus 1.16 2 Tim. 3.8.9 and 12. as since in your Agreement you have confest but yet continue in and rather grow worse and worse as deceivers like you evil men and seducers in former ages did 2 Tim. 3.12 but your folly is made manifest as theirs was who professes God in words but in works deny him as such did that did so before you who were reprobate concerning the true Gospel purifying faith as you are and to every good work abominable and reprobate therefore behold your blindnesse and folly made manifest and for the time to come beare your reproofes and take shame to your selves if any be moved againe by the Lord to come into your steeple-houses and tell you that you have confessed the same and that your own mouths witnesse against you and your hearers as in your Agreement is also made manifest That you are wrongers of God and of your hearers page 19. and in the miscarriages liven formerly in page 4. unpardoned and that you are bewailing your negligence or idlenesse in the great work of God according to his word page 3. and saying you will amend and begg pardon for the same And if any be moved of the Lord to come amongst you seeing you still continue as you was and asks why you do not come out of your miscarriages and give over deceiving of souls and cease to wrong God and Men for your own ends and say unto you why do you not performe your promise but say and do not as hypocrits and the false Prophets do and aforetime did as the Scripture witnesseth or if there come any amongst you and aske you If you have yet got a pardon c. granted for your former negligence miscarriages and wrong done to Christ and to Men or to aske you seeing you go on in the same if you have any toleration or warrant from God so to do c. Will you not cause them that so do come to aske you or speak as the Lord shall more them to be haled out of your Steeple-houses and had to prison for the same as formerly some of you have done and If any be moved of the Lord to come to your Steeple-houses and ask If your hearers be awakned out of their sleepiness and to aske also If you be turned out of your Miscarriages from preaching for hire and being called of men masters and from wronging others and also from your Idle Lazy Negligence John 16 2 3. Act. 17.5.6 c. Act. 22.27 28 29 30. c. Will you not be offended at them for it as Richard Baxter was with me when I spake to him in the Steeple-house in Worcester who caused me to be haled out as Anti-Christian-Ministers afore time did and afterward the same day when he was spoken to in the Street would not stand but fled as the Hireling useth to do John the 10. And suffered the prison to be a place of security to keep truth shutt up into those bonds rather then to be at liberty to reprove his deceipts which is evident by his fruits which now also under a cover he hath confessed and is in that Agreement of his and 40. odd Priests Pastors Ministers Preachers Rectors and Curates and Teachers further made manifest And Cursed is he that doth the work of the Lord Negligently but Richard Baxter thou hast done it Negligently this many yeares and above 40. Priests with thee according to your Confession in your Agreement and therefore you are under that Curse And now O ye Priests this Commandment is for you If ye will not heare to give glory to my name saith the Lord of hosts I will even send a curse upon you and will curse your blessings yea I have cursed them already therefore will I make you contemptible and base before the people according as ye have not kept my wayes Mal. 2.1 2. and ver 9. Mal. 2.1 2 3 4.8 9. Behold saith the Lord I will corrupt your seed and spread dung upon your faces even the dung of your solemn feasts and one shall take you away with it Mal. 2.3 Your agreement in which you have confessed your wrong to Christ and to men and your former miscarriages then continued in and in which you have confessed your negligence c. It was dated the 4. of May 1655. And then you wanted your pardon both for your wrong done to God and men and your negligence in the work of God also as also for your former miscarriages c. as you have confessed and therefore are guilty and must come under condemnation for the same but To flatter and dissemble with the people you say you will resolve for the time to come to amend but doth not yet do it being still in the old nature and will-worships perfection miscarriages and doing wrong as you did