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A34990	A description of the Church of Scotland with a word of reproofe to the priests, and teachers, and officers therein, for their many corrupt doctrines and practices, also a warning and a gentle invitation to all people, that lives under their tyrannicall government, to come to the truth ... : herein is their church made manifest ... : with an exhortation to all people to come out from amongst them ... / written in love to the simple-hearted in that nation ... by one who desires that people might be brought to the truth ... who am known among men by the name Stephen Crisp.	Crisp, Stephen, 1628-1692.	1660 (1660)	Wing C6928; ESTC R40352	17,808	15

A DESCRIPTION of the CHVRCH OF SCOTLAND WITH A Word of Reproofe to the Priests and Teachers and Officers therein for their many corrupt Doctrines and Practises also a warning and gentle invitation to all People that lives under their Tyrannicall Government to come to the Truth which will free them from the Bondage they have long laine under and to the light which will shew them the way to escape being longer Partakers of their sins and so they shall escape being Partakers of the Plagues which shall shortly be poured forth without mixture upon them which continue in their ungodly Deedes and Workes of darknesse in Rebellions against the light that makes them manifest Herein is their Church made manifest 1 In its Foundation 2 In its Members wherewith it is builded 3 In its Officers 4 In its Doctrines of God of Gods Word of Faith and of Election 5 In its Ordinances of Baptisme and the Lords Supper as they call them 6 In its Discipline With an Exhortation to all People to come out from amongst them to that which makes them manifest which is the true Light that lighteth every Man that cometh into the World Written in love to the simple-hearted in that Nation and in witnesse of the T●uth and in Testimony against the false Teachers and their false Doctrines Way●s and Worships by One who desires that people might be brought to the Truth in their inward parts to worship God in that by the leading of his own spirit that so they might be accepted _____ who am known among Men by the name Stephen Crisp. Printed for M. W. in the first Moneth 1660. A Description of the Church of Scotland c. TO the severall Presbetryes in Scotland and to every Member of them and to the Scottish Church in generall is this directed and sent as a word of reproofe and warning from him who is the head of the true Church which is pure and underfiled and sent by and given thorough his Servant who being a Member of that Church and participating of the power and wisedome of the Head according to the proportion of 〈◊〉 Member doe thereby comprehend your Church of which I am not a Member and in obedience to the Lord Jesus Christ the true Head doe hereby reprove you of your adultery and hypocrisie and severall other spots and wrinckles that are in and upon your Church which now with the light are made manifest And in the feare and name of the Lord doe warne you to returne and come to that which maketh manifest and maketh cleane before yee be cast upon the bed of misery and perpetuall sorrow with Babilon your Mother and Jezebell your Prophetesse by the power of whose sorceries and inchantments in and among her Merchants and Disciples many p or people in thi● Nation are seduced and deceived and kept from the anoynting which teacheth freely the truth which no lye is of nor springs from and they whom you keep from this which teacheth freely that so they might buy or hire teaching of you among whom they are ever learning and never learned nor brought to know the truth which makes them fre● that abides in it These I say can never know the true Church which is the ground o● truth in which none can be Pillars but such as overcome sin and transgression and death which entred thereby and came over all Men in which state Gods Church is not and there is but two states namely the state of sin and transgression the wages whereof i● death and the state of redemption from sin which is thorow the power of the resurrection from the dead which is the state of the Church between which two states is an absolute antipathy for they that are in the transgression are not in the Church for then i● would be spotted and they that are in the Church are not in the transgression because the Church is in God where transgression cannot be and they that are holden in sin and death are not risen from the dead and they who are made partakers of the resurrection and life which is Christ they are not holden in sin but the same power that raised 〈◊〉 Jesus from the dead raised them from the power of sin and death and being thus raised makes them Members of the Church which is pure and undefiled which is separate from the sinners and from the sin by the mighty operation of the crosse which is th● power of God by which we are translated from death to life from sin to righteousnesse from being Members of the Harlot and her Church to be Members of Christ and h●● Church and this is the Church which we owne and witnesse Now as concerning your Church I have not a few things against it but even many where in you are to be reprooved and must be amended or rather changed before you can justly b● called and accounted the Church of Christ or any part thereof Therefore listen a while and give attention ye Priests and Presbetryes of Scotland who hath a long time beene talking of reforming and amending and purging and making cleane your Church and I will declare unto you your way which ye ought to take to accomplish that which you so much pretend for and cannot yet accomplish nor indeed never can till that be removed which hath and doth hinder a right and thorow reformation Now the first thing in your Church that is presented to my understanding to be repoved is the foundation thereof upon which it is builded it not being the same which the Church of Christ was and is builded upon as will thus appeare The foundation of your Church is that which stands in the fleshly part of man namely formes and names of the things the Saints wrought off without the power which are attainable by the fleshly wisedome of this world by which God is not known nor the body which is the Church discerned but he that can get the Saints words to speake although he be out of their life yet such are accounted fit members of your Church and of such members and upon this foundation is your Church builded the Saints words being the chiefe corner stone therof but Christ said be would build his Church upon that which the knowledge of came not by flesh nor blood but revelation from God his Father which is in heaven as you may read in the 16. Math. 17.18 And this is the rock which is now made manifest by revelation thorow the spirit which thing you deny to be in these dayes and so are not builded upon what comes to be known so but upon that which the knowledge of comes by flesh and blood and you that have laid another foundation for your Church then what is by revelation your foundation must be raised and your Church must fall the Pillars whereof are already shaken and shall shortly be removed Therefore come all to the true foundation which was and is the foundation of the true Church which is

saved in their sins and then you shall know that the way of salvation was set open to you in that the light shined in your hearts but yee rejecting that way and seeking to establish a way of your owne so yee became excluded and shut out of the Kingdome after long talking of it And therefore all yee people of Scotland and to whomsoever this shall come of wh●● people or country soever yee be consider in the feare of God whether yee be lighted 〈◊〉 a light that doth make manifest your evill deeds and words and purposes in the secret 〈◊〉 your hearts yea or nay and if yee find such a thing then mind diligently its working in you for in it is reproofes of instruction which the Scriptures saith is the way of life and the way of life is but one and having found it every one in your owne particulars then no longer follow nor harken to the deceivers who for a long time hath beguiled you leading you from the light the way the truth and the life of men and so kept you in death and darknesse where salvation is not to be found and these have told you that they have preached the Gospell to you for the salvation of your soules and yet tells you also that as many of you as ever shall be saved were saved before you were borne then to what purpose is all their preaching to you if they cannot convert a reprobate nor an elect person cannot sin unto condemnation where then is the use of their ministry which they have so many thousands of marks and hundreds of pounds a yeare for if they answer and say this is the meanes to gather in them that are elected I answer God will not loose any for want of meanes and therefore he hath afforded the meanes freely without mony or prise to all the sons of men who bath so loved the world that he hath given his onely begotten Son a meanes and a way of salvation for as many as believe on him and he is the grace by which the Saints were and are saved which appeareth to all men and bringeth salvation nere unto all without respect of person who are taught by him to deny ungodlynesse and wordly lusts and to live soberly and righteously in this present World but if yee still continue to be taught by them that turne the grace of God into wantonnesse and despise that which shines in the heart to lead out of sin which it makes manifest then shall you perish in your gainsaying and in the day of your calamity and misery yee shall know and confesse to your unspeakable sorrow and torment that a prise was put into your hands and a way of life was declared and made manifest but yee loving your sins and iniquitys your delights and pleasures which the light and way of life appeared against were unworthy of this free salvation and so your condemnation yee shall confesse to be of your selves in that day when God the righteous Judge will be cleare of all your blood and then saying God is partly too blame and man is partly too blame that Men goe to Hell will not serve turne which one of the chiefe Priests of your Scottish Church affirmed Henry Foreside Priest of Lingich but his folly and many such blinde guides is now made manifest with the light which they are risen up against but they shall not proceed much farther for their skirts are discovered to their shame Many more of the Doctrines of your Church are reprovable and for condemnation with the light which light as the diligent Readers comes to mind in its working and breaking forth they shall see and be able to measure and to trye your Doctrines therewith and will be able to comprehend your deceipt in many other of your Doctrines which now I am not free to insist upon As of sanctification in which yee allow an 〈◊〉 sanctified part to remaine and so never brings people to know nor to hope for the ●●●row cleansing which the Saints witnessed except it be after death when no such ●●rke can be wrought and also your Doctrine of justification in sin will be seene ●nd Gods righteousnesse will be cleared against your lying and deceipt and so of Adoption and Resurrection and Glorification and what else is preached amongst you will be seen with the light by them that loves it to which I commend them in whom is sincerity of heart and shall proceed a little further to your Ordinances 1st And first concerning that rotten tradition which you call an Ordinance or Baptisme namely your casting a few drops of water upon the face of an Infant of about eight dayes old this you call an Ordinance but could never yet finde out the institution thereof by Christ nor his Disciples for any signe or signification whatsoever much lesse can you prove it to be the one Baptisme neither can you prove that ever any such thing was done by any of them so yee have neither precident nor precept from the holy men of God and therefore well may I call it a rotten tradition that hath not so much as a president to support it except it be a Popish one from whence it was derived from the Whorish Church of Rome your Mother whome you raile against in words and obey in her unwarrantable practises and with her shall you have your portion now this conceited charme or tricke of casting a few drops of water upon Childrens faces you call Baptisme wherein you have proclaimed to all understanding people that from the greatest of you to the least you are all ignorant of the Baptismes the Scriptures speakes of which had a time and service and ended it that which abides for euer and so being ignorant of them have in their roome set up a conceit and tradition which hath not so much as the least ground in the Scriptures of truth neither is mentioned therein nor was it invented many yeares after and th●● was it instituted by the Pope obeyed by the Papists and since continued and observed in your Scottish Church which from thence is sprung but the true Baptisme is that which was instituted by Christ and is owned and witnessed by the Saints and denyed by the Romish and Scottish which Baptisme is into the name of the Father Son and Holy Spirit which name is a strong Tower and all that are baptised into it find strength in it and help against temptations and in the time of trouble findes deliverance by it and this the Saints witnessed who witnessed the one Baptisme by one spirit into one body for saith the Apostle in the 6 Rom. 3 4. for so many of us as were Baptised into Jesus Christ were baptised into his death that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father even so we also should walke in newnesse of life now in that he dyed he dyed unto s●n and they that are baptised with the one Baptisme they are