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A67324	More work for the dean in a brief answer to some scandalous reports published by Dr. Stillingfleet in his book entituled, \"An impartial account of the history, nature and pleas of the present separation from the communion of the Church of England\" against some of the Lords faithful servants, namely, Mr. Henry Barrow, Mr. John Greenwood, Mr. John Penry, who by the bishops means, after long imprisonment, were put to death, contrary to Queen Elizabeths mind; in the year 1593 ... : as likewise here is word for word the petition of those persecuted Christians, wherein is shewed the barbarous usage of the bishops to them : together with the refutation of the then esteemed Bishop of Winchester's blasphemous doctrine, by Mr. Henry Barrow, with the description of the true Church of God, according to Christs Testament, by the whole Church at London, whom the doctor calleth Brownists; with the reason why they were so nick-named by their enemies : very needful for all true Protestants to know / by Thomas Wall.	Wall, Thomas.	1681 (1681)	Wing W485; ESTC R20458	32,462	49

to persons worship God and speak his truth as it is in Jesus But God be thanked their power hath been for many years abated and we have seen the days of peace to worship God which they whom the world was not worthy of longed to see and many of them obtained it not but were taken away to a better inheritance 1 Pet. 1. 4. These things duly weighed the Christian Reader may see what a persecuting spirit these Lordly Prelates are of and whether the Doctor is not of the same by all the symptoms of his Book as an Herald sounding before his Brethren and Reverend Fathers what he hath longed to be at were the Carpenter removed out of the way that hath frayed short Zach. 1. the Horns of their power that as yet they cannot use like cruelty in that measure their predecessours have done as hath been seen Now why the Doctor hath incouraged himself in this evil work to smite with the tongue Jer. 18. 18. or fist of wickedness Isa 58. 4. his dissenting Brethren as he calls them in this his Dragon-like War by casting out of his mouth Rev. 12. 16. with Psal 69. 14 15. floods of reproaches against Gods faithful Servants because they kept the Commandments of God John 15. 14. and have the testimony of Jesus Rev. 12. 17. unles Deog like he hopeth Psal 52. 4 7. to obtain more favour or with Baalam to gain some greater promotion Numb 22. 37. than yet he hath or rewards for his pains And is this the work of one that accounteth himself a Minister of the Gospel Surely it no whit agreeth to the word Gospel which signifieth glad tidings of peace as is the work of all true Gospel Ministers saith Christ in his first Sermon Blessed is the peace maker yea also between man and man even among brethren how good it is Psal 133. Thus ought no Christian to hate the person of his very enemy much less whom Christ calleth his friends for doing his Commandments John 15. 14. And that these Christians whom the Doctor reproachfully calleth Brownists were such is evident by their Faith and Practice in their description of the true visible Church of Christ which the suffering Christians published to the year 1589. as followeth word for word taken out of their Printed Copy A true description out of the Word of God of the visible Church AS there is but a one God and Father of all one Lord over all and one Spirit so is there but b one Truth one Faith one Salvation one Church called in one Hope joyned in one Profession guided by one c Rule even the Word of the most high a Genes 1. 1. Exod. 20. 3. b 1 Tim. 2. 4. Phil. 1. 27. Ephes 2. 18. John 8. 41. c Deut. 6. 25. Rom. 10. 8. 2 Tim. 3. 15. Joh. 8. 51. 1 Joh. 2. 3 4 c. This Church as it is universally understood containeth in it all the elect of God that have been are or shall be But being considered more particularly as it is seen in this present world it consisteth of a company and fellowship of a faithful and holy people b gathered in the name of Christ Jesus their only c King d Priest and e Prophet f worshipping him aright being g peaceably and quietly governed by his Officers and Laws h keeping the unity of faith in the bond of peace and i love unfained a Gen. 17. 1 Pet. 1. 2. Rev. 7. 9. 1 Cor. 10. 3. Joh. 17. 10 20. b Psal 111. 1. and 149. 1. Isa 62. 12. Ephes 1. 1. 1 Cor. 1. 2. Deut. 14. 2. c Deut. 12. 5. Joh. 6. 37. and 3. 14. and 12. 32. Luk. 17. 37. d Gen. 44. 10. Psal 45. 6. Zach 9. 9. Heb. 1. 8. e Rom. 8. 34. Joh. 17. Heb. 5. 9. and 8. 1. and 4. 14. f Deut. 18. 15. Matt. 17. 5. Heb. 1. 2. Gen. 14. 18. g Exod. 20. 4 5 6 7 8. Lev. 10. 5. Joh. 4. 23. h Matt. 11. 29. 1 Cor. 11. 16. Mark 13. 34. Rev. 22. 9. i Ephes 4. 3. 1 Cor. 1. 13. Mark 9. 50 John 13. 34. 1 Cor. 13. 4. 1 Pet. 1. 22. 1 John 3. 18. Most a joyful excellent and glorious things are every where in the Scriptures spoken of this Church It is called the b City c House d Temple and e Mountain of the Eternal God the f Chosen Generation the Holy Nation the peculiar Peopls the g Vineyard the h Garden enclosed the Spring shut up the sealed Fountain the Orchard of Pomgranates with sweet fruits the i heritage the k Kingdom of Christ yea his l Sister his Love his Spouse his m Queen and his n Body the joy of the whole Earth To this society is the o Covenant and all the Promises made of p Peace of Love and of q Salvation of the r Presence of God of his Graces of his Power and of his s Protection a Psal 87. 3. b Ibid. c 1 Tim. 3. 15. Heb. 3. 6. d 1 Cor. 3. 17. e Isa 2. 2. Micah 4. 1. Zach. 8. 3. f 1 Pet. 2. 9. g Isa 5. 1. and 27. 2 h Song 4. 12. Isa 51. 3. i Isa 19. 25. k Micha 5. 2. Matt. 3. 2. Joh. 3. 5. l Song 5. 2. m Psal 45. 9. n 1 Cor. 22. 27 Ephes 1. 23. o Gal. 4. 28. Rom. 9. 24. p Psal 147. 14. 2 Thes 3. 16. q Isa 46. 13. Zach. 14. 17. r Isa 60. Ezech. 47. Zach. 4. 12. s Ezech. 48. 35 Matt. 28. 20. Isa 62. And surely if this Church be considered in her parts it shall appear most beautiful yea most wonderful and even a ravishing the senses to conceive much more to behold what then to enjoy so blessed a Communion For behold her b King and Lord is the King of Peace and Lord himself of all Glory She enjoyeth most holy and heavenly c Laws most faithful and vigilant d Pastors most sincere and pure e Teachers most careful and upright f Governors most diligent and trusty g Deacons most loving and sober h Relievers and a most i humble meek obedient faithful and loving people every k stone living elect and precious every stone hath his beauty his l burden and his m order All bound to n edifie one another exhort reprove and comfort one another o lovingly as to their own members p faithful as in the eyes of God a Song 6. 4 9. b Isa 62. 11. Joh. 12. 15. Heb. 2. 7 8. c Matt. 11. 30. 1 John 5. 3 d Ephes 4. 11. Acts 20. e Rom. 12. 7. f 1 Cor. 12. 21. Rom 12. 8. g Acts 6. h Rom 12. 8. i Matt. 15. 5 Ezek. 36. 38. Isa 60. 8. Deut. 18. 9 13. k 1 Pet. 2. 5. 1 King 7. 9. Zach. 14. 21. l Gal. 6 2. m 1 Cor. 12. Rom. 12. 3 c. n Heb. 10. 24. o Lev. 19. 17. 1 Thes 4. 9. p Col. 3. 23. 1 John 3. 20. No a Office here is ambitiously affected no b Law wrong fully wrested or c wilfully neglected no d Truth hid or

more of malice than of any just matter he had against him And why at this time Because the memory of Mr. Barrow Mr. Greenwood and Mr. Penry was lately revived in a Christian Warning-piece presented to the Kings Majesty last April so that if Mr. Barrows Books therein mentioned should be again sought after which doth so lively discover the abomination of that Ministry of which the Doctor is one therefore he hath endeavoured to disgrace their persons that their labours might not be regarded and therefore it will not be amiss by the way to note what Mr. Barrow hath written in one of his Books called the Discovery which the Doctor called seditious for comparing the true Ministry of Christ and the Ministry of Antichrist together that as light maketh manifest so in laying down Christs true Ministry the abomination of all other by it may be discovered of which subject in particular Mr. Barrows words are these in his Discovery page 46. The Ministry appointed by Christ unto the Government of Church be of two sorts Elders and Deacons Phil. 1. 1. 1 Tim. 3. Tit. 1. 5. Rom. 12. Acts 20. 28. 1 Tim. 5. 17. 1 Cor. 12. 7 8. Acts 6. The Elders some of them to give attendance unto the publick Ministry of the Word and Sacraments as the Pastor and Teacher the other Elders together with them to give attendance to the publick Government of the Church The Deacons office to attend to the gathering and distributing the Contribution of the Church for the maintenance of the Ministry and Poor 1 Cor. 16. Now saith Mr. Barrow to come to the Ministry of the Church of England which is so manifold and divers as I know not how to begin to describe it but let it first be divided in these three sorts 1. Reigning or governing 2. Serving and 3 Collegiate 1. Of the reigning and governing Ministers are Arch bishops Lord Bishops Arch Deacons Chancellors Commissaries all of the High Commission as likewise such Civil Doctors Proctors Registers Scribes Pursevants Sumners as attend upon their Courts of Faculties Prerogative Archees Delegates 2. Of the serving sort are Parsons Vicars Curates Hireling Lecturies Vagrant and Mercenary Preachers House priests Chaplains half priests or Catechisers Churchwardens Side men Quest-men Parish-Clarks 3. Of the ministry Collegiate are Lord Bishops Deans Sub deans Prebendaries Canons Petit Canons Gospellers Epistlers Singing-men Singing boys Vergers Sextons This division I suppose will well near suffice for their Officers But now how to divide or distinguish their Offices I know not I am so unlearned and ignorant of such great secrets and high mysteries neither yet have I skill to marshal them in their degrees of honour which I have heard say they have both in the Commonwealth and in their Schools as their Primate their Metropolitan Graces their Palatine Lord Bishops and their Barony Lordships all which I wene be Peers of the Realm and Estates of the Land Now there are also certain Doctors of Divinity and Batchellors of Divinity which have many great priviledges and prerogatives of the Cap the Scarlet Gown the Hood the Habit the Tippet the Ring the Chair the one of them being a Knights fellow the other an Esquires in any ground in England also how capable these are by Statute of how many Benefices I cannot tell Now surely this discovery doth not a little torment the Doctor to cause him to be so malicious against Mr. Barrow to disgrace him now he is dead Papist like who burnt the bones of such as they call Hereticks many years after they have murder'd them when as they did as Mr. Barrow hath done that is bear their testimony against the Rabble of Antichrists ministry as is noted out of the Book of Martyrs in the foresaid Christian Warning-piece to the King p. 23. for what comfort can those have which call themselves ministers and cannot prove their Ordination to be according to Gospel-order when at the last day they will say Lord Lord we have prophesied in thy name and cast out devils in thy name and have done many wonderous works when Christ shall say to them I know you not depart from me ye workers of iniquity For is it not iniquity for any to take upon them the name of a Dean instead of a Pastor and to be a persecutor rather than a preserver and so contrary to Gods plain Law to be a tale-bearer as it written Levit. 19. 16 17. Thou shalt not go up and down as a tale bearer among thy people yea to reproach the deceased Saints of the Lord calling their Books seditious not only for pleading that the ministry appointed by Christ might by Protestants be embraced but also for reproving the blasphemous Doctrine of T. C. the then esteemed Bishop of Winchester in his Book against Martin Marprelate namely this that the Orders and Ordinances which Christ hath in his Testament left unto his Church were but temporary whilst the Church was under Heathen Tyrants and that where the Gospel is embraced by a Christian Prince they are not only not necessary but inconvenient yet intollerable as bringing the utter subversion of the Land raising up rumults and uproars and withdrawing the people from obedience unto their Magistrates Unto which Mr. Barrow replieth that there ought throughout all ages and estates of the world in all places to be one and the same form of outward Government in all true Churches of Christ unto the worlds end scil that Apostolical primitive pattern left unto us in Christs Testament and none other which undoubted truth Mr. Barrow against the Bishops confirms both from the Law and Gospel in these words The Lord when he erected his Tab●rnacle among the Israelites gave them a perfect pattern in all things even to the least instrument hook or tape therein as also the whole composition of every thing belonging thereunto with all the Ordinances thereof and left nothing to the will and discretion of Moses whose commendation was that he was faithful in all his house as a servant for a testimony of these things that were to be spoken after Exod. 25. Heb. 8. 5. Heb. 3. also we read of David in the distribution of the order and functions of the Priests and Levites and likewise of Solomon and Zerubbabel in building the material Temple how perfectly the Lord set down the matter form number size place order and use of every thing belonging thereunto 1 Chron. 28. 11. as also what perfect Laws was given by God for every thing to be done and likewise how jealous the Lord was over his Sanctuary and what severe judgments was upon all them that transgressed the least of his Ordinances as is seen in Nadab Abihu Lev. 10. Corah and his company Numb 16. on Eli and his sons 1 Sam. 4. and sundry the like Now may we suppose God is less jealous careful provident over his glorious Temple of lively stones which consisteth of the bodies and souls of his Saints for the structure instruments

reproached the primitive Christians were by the Priests and Pharisees called a Sect of Nazarens Acts 24. 5. every where spoken against Acts the 28. 22. as at this day Protestants are by the Papists called Calvinists Zuinglians Heugonots 2dly Mr. Brown from whom this by-word was taken is Minister of Mr. Jacob's Church and so of Mr. Hildershams all Ministers of the Church of England and not of ours yet holding as we hear in his Judgment the truth we profess but for his practice in Worship rem●ineth still in Apostacy wherein they are So then not we but Mr. Jacob and Mr. Hildersham may if any be called Brownists See Francis Johnson's Answer to Mr. Jacob Intituled A Treatise of the Church of England page 2. And A Treatise of the Ministry of England in Answer to Mr. Hildersham page 94. Moreover because Doctor Stilling fleet durst not in his Conscience fight against the Cause of God these Servants of Christ maintained after the way of plain dealing therefore fighteth covertly under the Banner of other men yet of the same mind with himself and among the many Mr. Gifford another Minister of the Bishops making whom he maketh one of his chief Armor-bearers in this railing fight Dragon like with floods of reproaches against Gods Servants which keeps the Commandments of God and have in their Writings the Testimony of Jesus Rev. 12. 16. And it was not so bitter then but it would be as bad now if the earth did not by more than by an ordinary providence help the Church the Woman Rev. 12. 15. Moreover this man the Doctor as I remember maketh no less than Eight times mention of Mr. Gifford in Twelve Leaves of his Book against the forenamed Christians Now if he would have the world believe that what Mr. Gifford hath wrote against them to be as Oracles undeniable truths surely I may by the same Rule desire all men likewise to believe that to be a truth what Mr. Gifford hath wrote against the Doctors Church and Ministry and the rather to believe in the latter because who can tell better the evil of their ways than he who was a Bird in the same Cage of confusion with them Rev. 18. 2. Mr. Giffords words are these Through want and absence of a sincere Ministry there is a flood of ignorance and darkness overflowing the Land for the most part the fear of God is banished from the greatest part The wonderful heaps and piles of sin which should be washed away by the Word do undoubtedly cry aloud in the ears of the Lord for vengeance upon the whole Realm The Devil saith he is content those Preachers should ride upon his back because he is sure they will spur-gaul him but a little they be very gentle Riders Do you not think if they should set forth Gods word as they ought and spread the Light that all wicked men of which their Parishes be full would storm and fret against them The Devil himself would fisk about if they spur gaul him but a little but they can tell a smooth tail in the Pulpit garnished with some merry Story for to make the people merry or else some old rotten Allegory or some far-set matter out of some great Writer that their people might be at their wits end to admire them A man would think to see the people come out of the Church blowing that they were fed as full as ticks when they go home with empty Bellies This I dare warrant you if it be not so let me lose both my ears go through the Parishes of these Learned Divines and except such as fetch their Victuals otherwhere ye shall not find Five among Five-score able to understand the necessary grounds and principles of Religion y●a the people will say they be excellent deep men but I love not those Wells that a man can draw no Water out of them See Mr. Giffords Book Intituled Country Divinity noted by Henry Ainsworth in his Counterpoyson page 101. Thus it is to be hoped if the Doctor cannot refute this Testimony he will never hereafter speak against the forenamed Christians Testimony which in this particular said no other thing in effect concerning the Doctors Church and Ministry than Mr. Gifford did Moreover the Doctor is not satisfied to shoot his Arrows of bitter words against the Ancient Seperation but through their sides against all the Nonconformists in this day envying at their due birthrights and priviledges given them of God and man in freedom to serve the Lord as they are inlightened and if in any thing as doubtless none but cometh short in a perfect understanding in all things how they ought to walk with God the Doctors duty was then to have by the evidence of Gods written Word wherein they failed in the spirit of Love to have better informed their understandings and not as an enemy to his dissenting brethren as he calleth them to infinuate into the Magistrates minds by publishing to the world that Liberty of Concience hath occasioned the growth of Poperty in this Nation but how greatly hath the Doctors heart deceived him in this as in the former is not my judgment only that the occasion of the growth of Popery is by reason of so many corruptions retained in his Ministry and Worship in his Church as is noted in the Two Christian Warning pieces one to the King the other to the late Parliament but it is confirmed by his Right hand man and chief Armor bearer in this Battel against the Lords Servants Mr. Gifford in a Dialogue between a Papist and a Protestant in the Epistle Dedicatory word for word thus set down by Henry Ainsworth in his Counterpoyson page 19. Some do wonder how it should come to pass that among us there should be so many which being born since the Gospel was restored in this Land are so zealously addicted to Popery which they never did know and so utter enemies to the Gospel which they hear but if they weigh the cause of this deadly mischief they would cease wondering and rather wonder that there be no more For how can it be so long as there be so many abuses in the Ministry but that many shall stumble and loath the Gospel for from hence as it is manifest the chief cause of this evil doth spring True it is that our ministry doth fight against them but in such sort that it doth greatly encrease them seeming and pretending to tread upon these Cockatrice eggs for to break them and to destroy utterly the Viperous generation when as indeed they sit upon them and so hatch the brood of this evil kind and bring them forth in great plenty for behold a number cry out against Popery and proclaim utter defiance in speech but their doings are such that for every one they convert to the Gospel they cause an hundred to revolt to be hardned in their errors or to fall into flat Atheism while many contrary to the profession which they made when they entred