a childe of four yeers old can Answ Though faith be hard to the carnall sense not yet inspired yet it is easie to the mind inlightened for as Salomon saith Knowledge is easie to him that will understand Prov. 14. 6. i. if he be willing and love it so faith is easie to him that will believe not that it is in mans power but where the Spirit of God works a desire to ask seek and knock Wisdome will open the door for none that come unto me put I away saith Christ Quest Quest What is the reason then that so many never get faith for the assurance of salvation Answ Answ. 1. Because they ask amisse not in faith of the blood of the Lamb that hee hath washed them from their sins in his owne blood in Baptisme Rev. 1. 5. If they misse this mark they shoot wide of the assurance of salvation For if I wash thee not thou hast no part in me Joh. 13. 8. Secondly because they seek faith in themselves carnall reason fleshly devices by wit of mans phantasie and not in the blood of the Lamb the god of this world blindeth their minds that the glorious Gospel of the blood of the Lamb and his white raiment should not shine to them Thirdly because they oppose the doctrine of free justification by Christs blood and righteousnesse and wink at it and imbrace not the purity of that doctrine but count it an errour and receive not the love of the truth they are given over to believe an error and falsities which can give thee no assurance of salvation Fourthly because they turn to the greatest multitude which scoff at and persecute the truth God gives them over to walk in blindnesse as the Pharisees did Sleight 3 The third sleight that faith is needlesse there is more need of works many prate of faith but let me see good works a good hope is enough with good works Answ I answer that there is great need of faith for works severed from faith are abominable before God Heb. 11. 6. And if a good hope were enough why did the Apostles pray Lord increase our faith Luk. 17. 5. and Mark 9. 24. For as all things are possible to him that believeth so all things are impossible to him that believeth not Heb. 11. 6. Sleight 4 The 4th sleight Thy faith is not sound but counterfeit thou an hypocrite thy faith is mixed with imperfections sins wavering Answ I answer I prove my faith by the causes for he hath given us a mind to know him which is true and we are in him that is true in that his Son Jesus Christ the same is very God and eternall life 1 Joh. 5. 20. And this is the true Jesus that came by water and blood not by water of baptisme only but by water and blood and it is the Spirit that beareth witnesse i. to my spirit that I am a child of God Rom. 8. 16. and that Spirit is truth 1 Joh. 5. 6. therefore having my heart sprinkled with the blood of the Lamb from an evill conscience and my body washed with pure water i. in baptisme I may keep my profession without wavering Heb. 10. 23. This faith worketh by love and a desire to live honestly Heb. 13. 18. Vse 1 Is it so that the faithfull overcome the Devill by the blood of the Lamb and the word of their testimony You see Christian souldiers that love not your lives unto the death and therefore you that give up your bodies and souls living and acceptable sacrifices unto God which is your reasonable service of God and lay down your lives for the brethren and for the Gospel are to be honoured as martyrs You see that by true faith in the blood of the Lamb you shall overcome the Devill because you give testimony to the holinesse of God Let this move all you that are souldiers of Jesus Christ to give glory to the holinesse of God in keeping your bodies chast and pure and Temples for the Holy Ghost to dwell in for the Temple of God is holy which are yee 1 Cor. 3. 17. If you say you give glory to the holinesse of God give him glory in keeping your selves holy Temples of God But if any man destroy the Temple of God him shall God destroy Hee that destroyes it by whoredom for thereby thou becomest one flesh with an whore Latrina Diaboli for as the Temple of God was destroyed when it was made a Jakes so is the Temple of God destroyed when it is made the devils Jakes for he that is made one flesh with an whore which is the Devils Jakes is thereby made the Devils Jakes but all whoremongers are made one flesh with his whore that is the devils jakes Ergo they are made the devils jakes and so the Temple of God is destroyed and therefore their destiny is to be destroyed that do not repent for Whoremongers and Adulterers God will judge Heb. 13. 4. he will destroy such as destroy the Temple of God therefore you may perceive such to prove cowards for fearfulness goes before destruction and an high mind before a fall There is a conceit among souldiers that Wine will make men valiant but it is false for whoredome wine and new wine take away the heart i. whoredom drunkenness make men arrant cowards Hos. 4. 11. For whoredome drunkenness make an evill conscience and an evill conscience make men fearfull and flee where no fear is Prov. 28. 1. For an evill conscience and the curse of God runs after him and will overtake him Vse 2 Is it so that by the word of your testimony of the blood of the Lamb you overcome the Devill by giving glory to the wisdome of God then let this faith guide you to follow his wisdome and deny your own as the Psalmist said Thou shalt guide me by thy counsell and afterward receive me to glory Psal. 73. 24. And therefore as David did so do you ask counsell of the Lord for every battell at the Oracle of Gods Word i. whether God doth allow it or no as Jehosaphat said 1 King 22. 5. Ask counsell I pray thee of the Lord of day for there can be no war or battell lawfull but that wee may finde some warrant out of the Word of God that doth warrant it to be lawfull so shall you be sure both to overcome your spirituall enemy the Devill by the blood of the Lamb and the word of your testimony and also your temporall enemies by faith in that blood and by the word of your testimony for should not a people inquire at their God signifying yes they should to the Law and to the testimony if they speak or fight not according to this word it is because there is no light in them Isa. 8. 20. So shall you say Thou hast made me wiser then mine enemies by thy commandments for they are ever with me Psal. 119. 98 my delight and counsels Vse 3 Is it so that
fight with infidelitie and armed with lies the justified must fight by faith in the bloud of the Lamb that he hath loved you and washed you from your sinnes in his own bloud to make you without spot or wrinkle or any such thing Eph. 5. 26. and made you Kings and Priests to God his Father and prove it by the Word Rev. 1. 5. Col. 1. 22. That he hath throwne upon Christ the iniquities of us all i. e. guilt and punishment The other fight by infidelitie which doe not beleeve this but by hatred lies and sword persecute them that beleeve so for the Devill was a lyer from the beginning and a murtherer as his children are Ver. 8. But they prevailed not Here is comfort for all you faithfull Souldiers they shall not prevaile against you for the gates of bell shall not prevaile against the faith of your free justification by Christ Mat. 16. His place was no more found in heaven i. The Devill was cast out of heaven that accused the Saints before God day and night by the victory of Christ upon the Crosse saith Elton And the Heathen Emperour a Dragon was cast out of the heaven of the Church by Constantine saith Brightman and the Beast and the false Prophet must be cast out of the heaven of the Church by our Michael i. Christ and his Souldiers which all you are that are faithfull For by our Michael he is cast out of the hearts of the Elect as the Apostles saw Satan fall like lightening from heaven Luk. 10. 18. as Meyer For now is the Judgement of this world now shall the Prince of this world be cast out so now shall Antichrist be cast out of the Church of England not so much for the sword as by the Word preached For where the death of Christ is preached and by faith received that he bare all our sinnes in his body upon the tree 1 Pet. 2. 24. That we being dead to sinne should live in righteousnesse by whose stripes yee were healed the Devill must needs be cast out saith Marlorat So that here is the cause why Satan dwells in the hearts of the wicked they beleeve not that the bloud of the Lamb hath purged their hearts from all sinne therefore Satan an uncleane spirit will dwell in that heart that is not washed by faith in the bloud of the Lambe But where the heart is washed by faith in that bloud Christ dwells there as Eph. 3. 17. For where Christ is received into the heart for Idolatry and superstition true Religion and piety comes in for carnall reason the Spirit of God comes in which illuminates the minde and changeth the will to God from uncleannesse to sanctitie as Marlorat Ver. 9. And the great Dragon the old Serpent c. The Devill is called the old Serpent saith Pignetius because he hath alwayes deadly poyson prepared to infect men Secondly He is the same that labours by all meanes to hinder you from Paradise as he caused our first parents to be cast out and therefore so much the rather to be taken heed of in his practise to bring thee to sinne for if he did thus to our first parents when they were pure from all spot of inherent sinnes what will he doe against thee that art inherently uncleane by sinne if thou hast not the bloud of the Lambe Which is called the Devill {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} i. Calumniator a Caviller or an Accuser so that you see that cavillers against the faithfull and accusers of the Brethren for the true faith in Christs bloud and righteousnesse change names with the Devill called Satanas i. adversarius an adversary i. because he is such an enemie as his children are and adversary to the professors of free Justification that by the bloud of Christ and his righteousnesse men should be saved and be made without spot before the Throne of God Rev. 14. 5. Satan cannot abide that doctrine Which deceiveth all the world Because he perswadeth men contrary to the Word of God as Bullenger and Musculus i. the Reprobate by his fallacies and lies as Paul saith to feare lest as Satan seduced Eve so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicitie that is in Christ 2 Cor. 11. 3. He was cast downe to the Earth even to be troden under foote of men as Psal. 91. 13. Thou shalt goe upon the Lion and the Aspe the young Lion and the Dragon shalt thou tread under thy feet as Luk. 10. 19. He is cast downe to the earth i. to hurt earthly minded men onely for woe to the inhabitants of the earth and of the sea because the Devill is come down amongst you that hath great wrath because his time is but short So you shall finde that these warres shall be wofull to the Inhabitants of the earth and Sea by the Devils meanes but it shall not hurt the true Church For Satan departing from them that are faithfull and overcoming him by the bloud of the Lambe he shall hurt onely earthly-minded men that preferre earthly things before heavenly and contemne the truth as Erasmus And they are cast into the earth in respect of any power to doe hurt to you the children of God but shall hurt earthly men by Sea and Land Ver. 10. Then I heard a loud voyce in heaven For the faithfull cannot but praise God for the confusion of Satan their deadly enemy saith Pignetius Hic ergo {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} a song of triumph of the Church triumphing over the Devill that is overcome which shews the cause why many men doe not praise the Lord with a loud voyce they beleeve not the Devill is overcome therefore they are afraid of him In Heaven i. In the Church which dwels in the large heaven of remission of sinnes and in the kingdome of heaven which is righteousnesse and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost as Luther And hath her conversation in heaven Phil. 3. 2â— Now is salvation For where sinne reigned there perdition had a place but where the Gospel reignes i. the glad tydings that Christ hath purged your sinnes in his own person and is set downe at the right hand of God Heb. 1. 3. there is life and salvation And strength Not of men but of God for the right hand of the Lord hath the preheminence and therefore he will give his Church the victory And the Kingdome of our God wherein the Devill reigned saith Musculus by Idolatry And the power of his Christ for his power appeares especially in converting men to his righteousnesse For the accuser of the Brethren is cast down for this is the property of the Devill and his Instruments and if he can to lay open to damnation those that he suspects shall be heirs of heaven and ascend to that place from which hee fell which he doth most commonly by Scripture as to Christ wherefore I have laboured in these fourteen differences to disarm Satan against the
righteous but sinners to repentance therefore I repent and the bloud of the Lamb by faith purgeth me from all sinne I have read in Luthers every dayes Sacrifice p. 59. who reporteth of a poore man in Friburge in Misnia being distressed for his sinnes and crying out of the greatnesse of his sinnes the Devill appeared unto him with a writers Inkhorne and bad him he should repeate all his sinnes and he would write them down for him the man perceiving it was the Devill bad him write The seed of the woman shall crush the Serpents head and with that the Devill fled and left such a stinke as if he would have choaked them all so if thou shalt tell Satan of the bloud of the Lamb thou doest thereby declare that the seed of the woman hath broken his head he will flee Secondly Doth he tell thee of the curse of the Law and come against thee with that armour take this sword of the bloud of the Lamb you may reade of David when he asked for the sword of Ahimelech they told him there was none but the sword of Goliah O said David there is none to that so if thou desire a sword to goe disarme the Devill with take the bloud of the Lamb 't is like the sword of Goliah for his head was cut off with it so take the bloud of the Lamb for the Devils head was broken with it doth he cast the curses of the Law upon thee cast on him the bloud of the Lambe Thirdly Doth Satan fight against thee with the feare of death and hell shew unto him the bloud of the Lamb bid him read Here 's thy victory O Death O Hell I have victory by the bloud of the Lamb I have an eternall redemption through his bloud the forgivenesse of my sinnes and I am a conquerer over death and hell But as we reade of men that have committed wilfull murder the bloud of the slaine will hang upon them that although they rub and wipe yet still the bloud will hang upon them and discover them they cannot get it off especially not from their consciences that tels them of death and hell so when thou doest tell Satan of the bloud of the Lamb thy faithfull deare husband he cannot wipe nor rub off the cry of that innocent bloud it will hang about him especially upon his conscience and tell him of death and hell Now when Satan heares thee testifie the greatnesse of his sinnes by the bloud of the Lamb he will be gone for he is like a meere civill honest man that can be content to heare of any thing rather then his owne sinnes he can be content to heare of other mens sinnes and laugh at them for fooles make a sport of sinne they rejoyce at other mens sinnes especially of professors if they fall but once the Devill and all civilians will rejoyce at it but tell them of their owne sinnes and they will be gone and so will Satan not indure to see the terriblenesse of his sinnes in the bloud of the Lambe Vse Is it so that by the bloud of the Lamb you are conquerers already because you have victory already given unto you and are saved already see Deut. 33. 29. Blessed art thou O Israel who is like unto thee O people saved by the Lord the shield of thine help and which is the sword of thy glory therefore thine enemies shall be in subjection unto thee and thou shalt tread upon their high places Here is admirable comfort for you that are the faithfull Souldiers of Jesus Christ to incourage you to the warre against all your spirituall enemies because you are sure of victory for what is the reason that many are so loath to goe to warre because they know not whether they shall have victory or no but if you could assure every one of victory of a crowne and of a kingdome you should have Souldiers enough I tell thee that art a faithfull Souldier of Jesus Christ fight valiantly with the bloud of the Lambe till death against the world the flesh and the Devill and thou shalt be sure of victory for Christ having overcome already his victory is thine Be thou faithfull unto the death and I will give thee a crowne of life Rev. 2. 10. And feare not little flocke i. that fight by the bloud of the Lamb for it is your Fathers pleasure to give you a kingdome Luk. 12. You have conquered the world by faith 1 Joh. 5. 4. conquer your selves for so shall you be wiser then he that conquers a Citie be an enemy to the world be an enemy to the Devill but especially to thine owne flesh as a Martyr wrote to his wife fight by the bloud of the Lambe and feare none of these Object Object O may some say I am not afraid of the Devill but I am afraid of the Papists and Rebels of Ireland that they will cut our throats and take all they are Devils incarnate they do more harme then the Devils to the Protestants Ans. Ans. I answer as the Lord said to Jacob Thou hast prevailed with God thou shalt also prevaile with men though his brother Esau came against him with foure hundred men so I say to thee thou hast prevailed with the bloud of the Lamb over the God of this world the Devill thou shalt also by the bloud of the Lamb prevaile with men Therefore feare not thou Jacob my servant and Israel whom I have chosen Thus saith the Lord that redeemed thee feare not he will helpe thee as Isa. 44. 1 2. 44. Thou hast overcome the Devill the Prince of the world shouldest thou feare men Object Object O they are wonderfull strong for they have great brasse and iron Ordnance Ans. Ans. I answer thee as Joshua did the Children of Joseph when they objected that the Canaanites had chariots of iron He said unto the house of Joseph Thou art a great people and hast great power and thou shalt cast out the Canaanites though they have chariots of iron and be strong Thou shalt not have one lot Therefore the mountaine shall be thine for it is a wood and thou shalt cut it downe and the ends of it shall be thine and thou shalt cast out the Canaanites Josh. 17. 18. For the blessing of Joshua and his telling them of victory made them valiant in battell so when the Protestants understand what the Lord saith to them in that place of Joshua and in the 25. of Numbers 17. 18. and learne to fight against them by the bloud of the Lamb they shall vex those Midianities and Canaanites and smite them that have beguiled them with their wiles concerning Idolatry and as concerning their sister Cozbi the daughter of a Prince of Midian By these two wiles are England and Ireland beguiled and the plague is come of a civill warre you shall overcome them by the bloud of the Lamb It followeth And by that word of their testimony This is added saith
Angels of England out of his mouth And some have a little hope to remaine and yet you cannot tell whether Christ will spue them out also they fall to strife for a Church-Government when you doe not know whether Christ will spue out the lukewarme Church of England out of his mouth as well as the Angels And you reasoned so faire both that you have divided your Citie and Armies as you remember lately at Dunnington Castle If you goe on with this Controversie the kite is at hand to catch both at strife See another place of Scripture Rev. 16. 15. Behold I come as a theefe blessed is he that watcheth and keepeth his garments that he may not walke naked and they see his filthinesse I would faine know why this Scripture is not fulfilled in our dayes This place troubled Theodore Beza as if it had come into a place unmeet but I gather this is the Reason that it might not be knowne at what time Christ would come upon all the world whether under the fourth fift or sixt Viall and therefore you see it comes in by a parenthesis that it might not be knowne for Christ said to Sardis he would come on them as a theefe and thou shalt not know what houre I will come upon thee as a theefe So this generall coming of Christ as a theefe by a civill warre on all the world is so brought in that it might not be knowne untill he came which now it appeares is come upon England and upon all the world For when the fourth Angel had powred out his Viall on the Sunne Rev. 16. 8. here in England and it was given him to torment men with heate of fire and men have boyled in great heat and blasphemed the Name of God i. by rayling on the truth and the Children of God as Brightman therefore behold Christ is come as a theefe upon England and on all the world Now he saith Blessed is he that keepeth his garments which are neither an Episcopacie nor Presbytery nor Independent but they are the white wedding garment of Christs righteousnesse that is bright and shining the righteousnesse of the Saints which make us trimme and ready for our bridegroome which was put on at Baptisme by the Father Sonne and Holy Ghost when shee was baptized into Christ and put on Christ Gal. 3. 27. And what say you to this Scripture Sonne of man prophesie and say A sword a sword both sharp and furbushed It is sharpned to make a sore slaughter Ezek. 21. 9. I will overtune overturne overturne it and it shall be no more untill he come ver. 27. A kingdome divided cannot stand The reason why Because thou remainest in thy filthinesse and wickednesse Because I would have purged thee and thou wast not purged thou shalt not be purged from thy filthinesse till I have caused my wrath to light upon thee I the Lord have spoken it it shall come to passe and I will doe it I will not goe back neither will I spare neither will I repent according to thy wayes and works shall they judge thee Ezek. 24. 13 14. But God hath purged the lukewarm Angels and Church of England by Baptisme but they will not beleeve it and I have counselled thee and thou wilt not be counselled Rev. 3. 18. to buy of me gold white raiment and eye-salve for thou wilt not beleeve that I have purged thee from thy sinnes in Baptisme and clothed thee with white raiment that no filthinesse of sinne should appeare Ergo Thou shalt not be purged from thy filthinesse till I have caused my wrath to seise upon thee I the Lord have spoken it it shall come to passe and I will doe it I will not goe backe neither will I spare neither will I repent I will spue thee out of my mouth Rev. 3. 16. And here is one cause why the lukewarme Hierarchie is spued out of Christs mouth and when God can lie they shall be in hope to remaine there still Tell me you that strive for a Presbyteriall or Independent garment whether you be sure that Christ is not come in now to see his guests that have been a bidding to the Marriage of the Kings Sonne of Heaven by faith and Baptisme these 1600. yeares for no question those by the hedges and high wayes are the Gentiles which were called by faith and Baptisme to be married to Christ When the Jewes refused and would not come saith Brightman his servants have called the Gentiles to the marriage and the marriage is furnished with guests of good and bad Mat. 22. 10. Then the King came in to see the guests signifying not before it was furnished with guests which is now accomplished For Christ is now come as a theefe unexpected to view all the guests of the Churches of Christendome whether they have a wedding garment or no not whether they have an Episcopall or a Presbyteriall or an Independent but white raiment of the righteousnesse of the Saints which is Christs wherein no sinne appeares such as have none shall be bound hand and foote and cast into hell as Mat. 22. 13. And such as have defiled their garments shall be spoyled by a civill warre Rev. 3. 3. 4. And so the Jewes shall be called and that bride shall make her selfe ready and trimme for her bridegroome by faith and Baptisme for the word {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} in the Parable signifieth that there shall be two marriages the one of the Gentiles the last called was first married and the other of the Jewes the first called shall be the last married for there shall be an Hallelujah sung in heaven for the marriage of the Church of the Jewes unto Christ Rev. 19. 6. 7. Well Christ is come as a theefe by a civill warre and to view his guests you must make account he will not returne untill he have put them all out of the marriage-chamber that have not on a wedding garment and he be married to the bride of the Jewes Now he saith Blessed is he that keepeth his garments that he may not walke naked in sinne before God That Church or people is blessed and shall have a Government given them of my Father For they keepe the word of my patience which is the faith in the merits of Christs death in baptisme and Christs blood therefore I will deliver them from the hour of tentation that is come upon all the world to try them that are upon the earth Rev. 2. 10. Now let any man shew that there shall come another hour of tentation i. a more generall judgement of a civill war upon all the world but this which is now come For my part I look not for another but that this civill war begun shall last till Rome be burnt and the Jewes called and therefore is it time now to strive for a Presbyterie or Independent in such an hurly-burly of a civill war where no face of a Church shall scarce remain
when it is more needfull to strive for a wedding garment for to him that overcometh and keepeth his garments Rev. 16. 15. will I give saith Christ to sit with me in my Throne Rev. 3. 21. signifying that shall be the conquering and raigning people whom Christ hath loved and washed from their sins in his own blood and made Kings and Priests to God his Father and they shall raign upon earth Rev. 1. 5. and 5. 10. Let England consider Christs words Rev. 3. 18. I counsell thee to buy of mee gold tried in the fire that thou mayest be made rich which is the lively faith in the merits of Christs death in baptisme which make men rich that were poor by Adam and white raiment that thou mayest be cloathed that the filthinesse of the wickeness of sin may not appeare which is the white wedding garment of justification which makes a Christian know hee is ready for Christ when he hath it and eye-salve of the spirit of Christ that we may see how to walk by the Spirit and in discipline of the Word for untill this counsell of Christ be taken in England both of the Angels and Church this war will not cease for untill a mans wayes or Churches wayes please the Lord he will not make all his enemies to be at peace with him Prov. 16. 7. And when shall that be in England think you when they will be guided by his counsell i. Rev. 3. 18. he will then receive them to glory Psal. 73. Now many men dote so much about Discipline that they think to make a rare Church by it but are greatly deceived For if a man should take a company of Vipers to make them Nightingals do you think he can make them such by Discipline all the orders and skil let him order them how he can will not make them become Nightingals but if he can make them new creatures they may be made Nightingalls as well as any other creature There were two Pharisees which were the generation of Vipers Matth. 3. which were made sweet Nightingals by baptisme wherein they were made new creatures and sang sweetly in the night as Nicodemus that having learn'd the doctrine of regeneration of water and the Spirit in baptisme he was so changed that in the night when the other Pharisees as Vipers would have condemned Christ sang for him thus Doth our law condemn any man before it heare him and hee sweetly buried him with sweet odors And another notorious Viper that was a murtherer and a blasphemer Saul was so changed by baptisme when he did arise and was baptized he washed away his sins in calling on the name of the Lord that of a murtherer and blasphemer he became a sweet Preacher of the Gospel by night and till the dawning of the day and sang Psalmes in the night so sweetly that the Lord heard him and sent an earthquake Acts 16. Wherefore if you would make a good Church it must be by faith in our baptisme into Christ when wee were little children and by the white raiment of Christs righteousnesse applyed by faith Discipline may order a childe in good manners but he must have a soul and body first Now Baptisme and the white raiment is as the soul and body of all Christianity he that wants faith in this cannot tell whether hee be in Christ or no Discipline may order a Church but cannot make one Truly I never look to see a pure Discipline untill the Jewes be called which I wish all the faithfull to pray for except the woman clothed with the Sun begin to make one which hath the bright morning Star which are that chast and holy Congregation as Mr. Brightman calls them which are the place of Gods pleasures and the hill of his delights wherein God taketh more delight then in any thing of the world as Rev. 19. 17. which Church is now arising out of the corruption of the Church of Laodicea Corruptio unius est generatio alterius for though he will spue the luke-warm out yet there is a few names in Laodicea that shall sit with Christ in his Throne wherefore if you be brethren and going to the new Jerusalem remember Josephs words to his brethren Fall not out by the way for a Discipline who shall have the preeminence Let not him that putteth on the armour boast as he that putteth it off for as victory is of the Lord so is government If you look for government before wee have peace the gift of God you reckon without your hoast wherefore I command you from the Lord study to be quiet and do your own busines and work out your salvation with fear and trembling and perswade Euodius of the Presbyters and beseech Syntiche of the Independents to be of one accord in the Lord and labour all to overcome the Devill by the bloud of the Lamb as this Sermon shews you who would set you together by the ears to kill one another that he might get both I have writ of the miseries of England and of the remedies of the same and have shewen at least forty causes how the Bishops have brought the sword upon the land and therefore are justly put down of the Lord and his Parliament which I purpose to set in print if Satan hinder it not Let it not be said that the Presbyters and Independents have set dissention in the Parliament and City and in the Armies and brought the sword into their own bowells to make the Papists sport wherefore let no man speak any more of any government in the Church of England except by Parliament untill the wars cease those that shall remain shall pray unto the Lord to shew them such a Discipline out of Gods Word as shall be pleasing unto him Men may imagine that there may be a smiling shew of peace but they shall finde that Male sarta gratia nequicquam coit there is so much blood in the morter that it will not daub love will not grow within there is so much blood without and yet for my part I desire if the Lord will and pray for the peace of Jerusalem that peace may be within our walls and plenteousnesse within our palaces for no peace no plenty for where wars and sedition remain wee must look for earthquakes famine and pestilence Luke 21. 9 10 11. you shall have little pleasure in a Presbyterie or Independencie before these warres cease for there is a flood of Gods judgements coming now on all the world there shall none escape but those that get into the Ark of the faith of their baptisme into Christ 1 Pet. 3. 21. and such as take Christs counsell Rev. 3. 18. which are the blessed people that keep Christs garments unto them that their filthy nakednesse may not be seen Rev. 16. 15. and such as keep the word of his patience Rev. 3. 10. these shall be delivered from this hour of tentation Question 2 Now there is another Question also among many