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A89640	The proud pharisee reproved: or, the lying orator laid open. In an examination of some passages in a book, entituled, precepts for Christian practice, or, the rule of the new creature new model'd. Written by one Edw. Reyner, who calles himself a minister of the Gospel in Lincoln; but is found a lyar / by a Child of the light, who is known to the world by the name of Martin Mason.	Mason, Martin, fl. 1650-1676.	1655 (1655)	Wing M933; Thomason E851_6; ESTC R207419	44,305	59

houses of Prayer that Church being nationall and so there was a certaine place appointed for that purpose but were they not unconverted do not you by imitating them therein and by your lives make it manifest you are the Jews now who are unconverted Doe you not hold up the letter * In opposition to the Spirit calling the letter your Rule and persecute Christ in spirit Have you any other than common or formal prayers before and after Sermon a meer Popish Custom And when that is done then comes a formal benediction or blessing the people a meer cheat wherewith you delude the ignorant but the light hath discovered that and all the rest or your deceits What the people are better for that blessing their lives make it manifest Acts 3 2● Did not Christ that High Priest cease this Ceremony when he blest his Disciples and afterwards came in spirit to blesse his people were not Christs and his Apostles prayers very short plain and to the purpose are not yours long vain glorious without the spirit and understanding Does that pure spirit live in you when you perform such lifeless exercises and deliver such deceitful Doctrine and is not your singing a confused noyse of lying Thou tells of Christs invitation of all poor souls to him who feele a need of him then see from henceforth thou hinder none keep none back let all that will go freely Does Christ call them and wilt thou by the ringing of a Bell call them to thy self Art thou Christ art thou the way the truth and the life Thou sayes Christ stood and cryed so does he still if any man thirst let him come unto me and drink so let him that is a thirst come But canst thou and thy fellow Priests satisfie the thirsty souls of poor sinners with the water of eternal life if thee canst not call them no longer to thee but send them to Christ the light of the world that pure Fountain and delude them no longer by letting them drink of the long standing corrupted putrified pool of mens traditions Christ sayes Come unto me all ye that labour and are heavy laden and I will ease you Can thee and thy Generation give ease to that soul that labours under the heavy load and burthen of his sins Do ye not instead of taking off the burthen lay more weight on Christ he gives ease and you sell what 's a Burthen Page 117. Thou talks of Christs cheapness of all soul Commodities as Grace Peace Spirit joy you may buy them without money or mony worth Hoe every one that thirsteth come ye to the waters and he that hath no money for coming is buying and thirsting is the price I will give to him that is a thirst of the Fountain of water of life freely Now see the difference between Christ and Antichrist Christ he gives grace peace spirit and joy freely Antichrist he sells his graceless inventions deluding deceitful Doctrines and Traditions the enioyment whereof brings no peace his dead performances wherein is neither spirit nor life his loud singing wherein is no joy nor comfort These he sells at as great rates as he can either by payment of Tithes or so much a year be it one hundred and fifty pound a year more or lesse what he can get Yet he tells you that your not comming to Christ for what ever you want is your condemnation and he bids you Take it out of Christs own mouth Ye will not come to me that ye might have life but the Serpent is so subtle He would have you take Him in your way make him your Guide but while you do so ye shall never see your Saviour Well friends the Priest hath told you plainly your not going to Christ is your condemnation Luke ●1 21 Now unlesse ye be Reprobates past reproof you may know that Christ is within you The Kingdom of God is within you therefore turn aside from your worldly Teachers and turn to the pure light of God in every one of your Consciences Take counsel of that trusly faithfull and most wise Counseller yield obedience unto him Behold to obey is better then sacrifice and to hearken better then the fat of Rams You shall never witness the life of a Saint never truly loath all manner of sin till you be in perfect love with the pure light of God within you And that will give you power over your corruptions abiding in it being obedient to it The least measure thereof if you be faithful to it shall make you experience this for truth if you say to this or that Mountain or hill of sin Be removed it shall be removed and le●ei'd Christs precept is thou sayes when thou prayest enter into thy Closet and shut thy door This thou calles his Rule for private prayer Shew then his Rule for thy long vain glorious publick prayers before and after Sermon where do the Scriptures mention any Rule for private publick prayer such as thine then thou talks of praying with others c. 1 Cor. 14.15 'T is an easie matter to patter out many words but which of you prayes with the spirit and understanding Thou confesses before They that have not the spirit of Christ are none of his And they who have that spirit living in them need none of thy Rules or direction how when or with whom to pray The spirit he helpeth our Rom. ● 26 infirmities for we know not what we should pray for as we ought but the spirit it self maketh intercession for us with groans which cannot be uttered P. 124. Thou plainly shewes thy self a Son of the Church of Rome Houses thou sayes as well as Temples were and are to be dedicated to God Thou sayes the Jewes were commanded to do it Hee 's as blind as thy self who knowes not that but what of this After the Destruction of the Temple was there ever any other commanded to be set up Acts 7.47.48 Acts 17.24.25 John 4.23.24 Prove this if thou canst God dwells not in Temples made with mens hands And ye that worship in the Idols Temple ye worship ye know not what for God is a Spirit and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth 1 Kings 18.27.29 Should I say to you concerning your worshipping in your Steeple-houses as Elijah did would you not be angry Cry aloud for he is a God either he is talking or he is pursuing Or he is in a journey or peradventure he sleepeth and must be awakened But is there any voice any to answer or any that regardeth Anos 6.1 Rom. 12.2 Where is the man or woman amongst you that turneth from the evil of his wayes that ceaseth to do evil and learns to do well that lives not at ease and woe be to them that live at ease that fashions not himself according to the World that can truly witness self-deniall that takes up his daily Crosse and follows Christ

Kingdom of your Hearts Keep the possession thereof no longer from him Will you not Reverence this Son O kisse him lest he be angry Blessed is the man that heareth This Welbeloved Son in whom Alone the Lord is well pleased Blessed Prov. 8.34 35. I say is the man that heareth Him not the false Prophets who preach for Reward watching daily at his gates waiting at the posts of his doores not at the gates of the Idols Temples or the Posts of their doores For who so findeth him findeth life and shall obtain-favour of the Lord Seek him and you shall find him but then seek right look within for there He is in every one of your Consciences bearing witnesse against all unrighteousnesse He that sinneth against it wrongeth his own soul All they that hate it love Death Prov. 8.36 Page 408. Thou sayes Aged persons are fittest to give Counsell having lived many years they have gained much experience and thou brings in Job 32.6 7. Dayes should speak and multitude of years should Teach Wisdom It s true They should do so But is it so with thee Thou hast lived many years Thou shouldst teach Wisdome but O the abundance of folly and filthinesse abounding in thy book the grosse darknesse and doating dreams thou delivers instead of sound Doctrine My soul pities thee and all that are deluded by thee Wert thou not blind thou wouldst not have brought this proof for thy Assertion for this makes against thee Job in his former Chapter spoke much of his Integrity Elihu not well pleased at Jobs Justification of himself rather than God And against his three friends was his wrath kindled because they had found no Answer yet condemned Job Now Elihu had waited till Job had spoken because they were elder then he when Elihu saw there was no Answer in the Mouth of these Three Men Then his Wrath was kindled and said I am young and ye are very old wherefore I was afraid and durst not shew my opinion I said Daies should speak and multitude of years should teach wisdome But there is a spirit in man and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding Great men are not alwayes wise neither do the Aged understand judgment Therefore I said Hearken unto me Titus 2.2 3. See thee here Elihu green in yeares was made to reprove gray haires And Titus must teach the aged Men and Women I know thy end is to make people believe Wisdome is lockt up in the lips of old men Long standing Teachers in the Pulpit but such Are Ancient in Deceit Multitude of years should teach Wisdome but the multitude of thy Eight and Twenty years Ministry hath brought forth a multitude of filthy lyes bound up in thy Babylonish Book of Doating Dreams instead of the Doctrine of Christ and his Apostles Priest pag. 409. Once more thou tells the people That experience of God and his Dealings will make men become Prophets to themselves and able to be Teachers of others This is true but thou darest not abide here for if they separate from thee thou cryes out of Faction and Delusion Ah how my soul thirsts after the Salvation of your soules who are thus drawn into the Chambers of Darknesse and Delusion by this Mans Doctrine and deluding Tongue O that I may see you withdraw from this filthy Dreamer and set forward towards the True Land of Canaan The light of Christ in your Consciences it will lead you to the Heavenly Jerusalem wherein there is no need of the dimme Candle-light of this Egyptian Priest Come out of Egypt dear Hearts do not delight to live and dye in the wild Wildernesse you at present are in The generation of Priests are the Hard-hearted proud oppressing Pharaohs that will not let the Children of Israel go free but fear them not onely be valiant and Turn to the Light And it love with all your hearts and your soules shall see Deliverance shortly and Pharaoh and his Host shall be drowned in the Red-Sea Exod. 13.27 28. Priest Page 249. In that part of thy Book called the Government of the thoughts Thou sayes Thoughts of the Vanities of the world with delight in them as fashions sports thou mightest have named Bowling and Musick Complements entertainments news jests the very froth and scum of wit and discourse these thou sayes are not worth thinking of Answ Are they then worth thy living in them Thou dost conform thy self to the fashions of the world Thou usest Bowling and Musick and livest in Complements and respect of persons Art thou not also one that givest entertainments listens after news and loves jests the very froth and scum of wit and discourse The living Principle of God within thee is my true witness and faithful Record in these particulars and shall rise up in judgement against thee for these things if thou repentest not The light will be thy condemnation if thou lovest it not P. 255. Thou sayes While you are thinking what gain you have got by such a Commodity you have fold of bargain of Land or Wares you have bought or at such a Faire or Market Think withall how little spiritual profit you have gotten for your souls at the many soul-fairs or Markets you have had as the Sabbaths Ordinances and Sacraments Let me answer for them herein Thou and thy Generation of Priests have gotten more temporall gains more Lands mony and goods by the bad Commodities and Wares and false Doctrine which you deliver at such Priest-Faires or Markets as thou calls Sabbaths and paintest over with the name of Christ Ordinances than ever their poor souls found comfort by them that bought them of you and traded with you Isa 55.2 Woe and misery will be the Portion of such Priests if they repent not who take money for that which is not bread and delude the ignorant with your insinuating Tongues calling light darkness and darkness light You are worse then Simon Magus for he would have bought the Spirit and ye sell the Letter adding thereto many lies of your own P. 375. Thou tells of the undaunted and insuperable courage of Paul whom neither bonds nor afflictions nor death could move or appale but the very thoughts of bonds imprisonment and afflictions made thee fly from thy flock in Lincoln to Norwich See what difference there is friends between Paul and your Priest Then thou brings in that of Nehemiah chap. 6. vers 11. shall such a man as I flee Hadst thou been as true a Minister of Christ as Paul was thou wouldest not have wantted Pauls insuperable courage but when the slavish fear was arising in thee Thou wouldest have said as Nehemiah did shall such a man as I flee But the Tree was known by its fruit shame cover thee thou cowardly Priest Mat. 12.33 Heb. 11. What dost thou talking of those Worthies in that little Book of Martyrs as thou calls it of whom the world was not worthy who subdued Kingdoms stopped the mouths of Lyons quenched the violence of fire escaped the edge of the sword Thou wouldst fain be ranked amongst those conquering Christians but it must be then in some unknown Land for here thy Cowardise is so well discovered thou canst not be counted such a Champion as those were P. 384. Thou bids the people As they have frequented Ordinances c. so do it still and hold on even till death and if these and the like things make you vile he would have you be more vile still P. 339. Is it not this mans design to keep you in darkness does he not deal deceitfully with you one while telling you That observing the soul and the affairs of it and Gods dealings with it will make a man a Divine to himself P. 409. and observing a mans course well and how God hath led him will make a man under God a guid to himself But he dares not centre here This Doctrine he sees would unroost him and all his Romish Generation Root Branch And though they may keep aloft for a little season yet they are not of the Lords planting and therefore shall be rooted up and so shall all other Formalists who stumble at the light Every knee shall bow unto my Jesus Here the man speaks plain English That unless you wilfully hood-wink your understandings you may easily discover The man is convinced That if you will but be so wise and wary as to watch over your own souls minding that principle of God within you which checks and convinces you of sin when no eye sees you nor eare heares you this will be a Divine a Teacher a true Prophet to every one of you This will speak truth when the false Prophet flatters you The light of Christ in your Consciences is the pure Divine The true Prophet the never erring Guid unto all goodness if you will yield obedience thereunto 'T is the desire of my soul you may no longer make this Dreamer nor any of this stamp your Darling Draw back from him for he is but a painted Sepulchre what good soever he promises you shall never be performed so long as his life is in the Letter he feeds on death Delight in that which draws out of sin unto holiness without which no man shall ever see God Feed no longer upon the Husks like Swine The Pearl of great price is set before you Christ Jesus the light of the world He is the way the truth and the life He is that bread from Heaven which who so feeds on shall never hunger He is that pure water of life which who so drinks of shall never thirst The light in your Consciences if you love it will preserve you pure and spotless and stablish you in that pure Religion which is undefiled But if you love Babylon and loath the light my Soul shall weep for you in secret Yet remember you have warning in your life-time prize it Much more of his filthy Rubbish might be gathered up but here is enough presented to the ignorant for whose sake this work was undertaken which may sufficiently render this Romish Orator an Antichristian Minister M. M. An end