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A35698
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Some remarks recommended unto ecclesiasticks of all perswasions
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Denton, William, 1605-1691.
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Psalm hath a Dodrine ver 26. If any Man speak ver 27. let the Prophets speak two or three and let the other judge ver 29. If any thing be revealed to another that sitteth by let the first bold his peace ver 30. for ye may all prophesie one by one that all may learn and all be comforted v. 31. and the Spirits of the Prophets are subject to the Prophets v. 32. let the women keep silence ver 31. wherefore bretheren covet to prophesie ver 39. Now if the words or terms of the whole Church all every one any Man the other another Bretheren be words and terms of universality and differencing then certainly the Words Prophets and Prophecying in this Chapter are most especially applicable to the Bretheren to the Auditors In this Chapter also are Instructions given that Women in these Conventicles do hold their peace ver 31. let all prophesie one by one that all may learn and be comforted and all things be done decently and in order all which are Commandments of the Lord ver 37. If these be no Divine Oracles and Precepts to all the Faithful to congregate for the ends and purposes aforesaid then I understand neither plain Scripture nor plain English But if any Men will understand God otherwise than he will be understood and distinguish Scriptures and model them to their own humour and accept or reject his truth as will best consist with their own resolutions and by oblique Arts think to trick us out of our just Rights I leave them to the just Judgment of God who will judge Righteously The Primitive and puest Churches were so gathered and so propagated Moreover the same Apostle re-inforceth the same Doctrine in his Epistle to the Hebrews ch 10. ver 23 24 25. to hold fast the profession of Faith without wavering to consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works not forsaking the assembling of your selves together as the manner of some is Heb. 10.23 24 25. who fearing the Breath of Fools and that thereby their designs of Honours and Preferments and other wretched Ends would be defeated dare not assemble to husband the precious moments of thier lives to the advantage of their Master what is this else but to bespatter and to have scornful and mean conceits of the humility of the ways of Christ and of the simplicity of his Gospel Do they not rather betray much luke-warmness and indifferency and walk in a Neutrality and Adiaphorism between God and Baal nay much hellishness and devillish Antipathy to Christ and his strictest service For in truth it is unbeseeming nor Priest nor Prelate but a duty incumbent upon them to counenance and encourage Conventicles or Assemblies guilty of nothing maugre all the false Aspersions and Calumnies laid upon them by Men carried away with the stream of this wicked World and the common prejudices and presumptions of foolish Men but of great Zeal to worship God and save their own Souls by besieging and besetting the Throne of heaven with more ardent and retired Prayers and Conferences Why do they thus mock God as one mocketh another Job 13.9 Certainly it would better become them to be zealous son Piety and good Lives because vicious Habits are worse than false Opinions And it is not only a duty incumbent on Prelate Priest and People but their glory also to countenance every thing that is done to gain Souls to Christ whether in pretence or in truth Phil. 1.15 16 17 18. and nothing is unseemly but vice Christians indeed ought to abstain from those things which are repugnant to Christian Profession which are Sins but whatsoever may be done without sin is lawful for every man to do and therefore may assemble Besides nothing ought to be condemned or spoken ill of that is capable of a good construction of which nature are our Conventicles and yet are reviled and evil spoken of by some who have the poyson of Asps under their Lips and whose Throats are as open Sepulchers because it is not only humanity but a Gospel Principle to make the most favourable and charitable construction of all Actions capable of a good and bad interpretation for charity thinketh no evil and we are commanded above all things to have fervent Charity for that shall cover a multitude of sins 1 Pet. 4.8 and envieth not is kind doth not behave it self unseemly as they do that decry Conventicles thereby giving great jealousie that in good earnest they esteem that Ordinance foolishness of Preaching desperately contemning the Purity and Simplicity of the Gospel thinketh no evil believeth all things hopeth all things 1 Cor. 13. and I fear that they that have not this Charity towards such Conventicles their Charity is but as sounding Brass or a tinkling Cymbal and you know that Revilers are in the black Catalogue of the damned Crew mentioned 1 Cor. 6.9 10. and by so judging they prescribe for themselves and prejudge themselves Judge not that ye be not judged for with what judgment ye judge ye shall be judged Why beholdest thou the moat that 's in thy Brether's eye but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye Matth. 7.1 2 3. Who art thou that judgest another man's servant to his own Master he standeth or falleth Yea he shall be holden up for God is able to make him stand Rom. 14.4 and God alone is Judge of erring Persons Besides I know no Power on Earth that hath lawful Authority to forbid any Man to Preach the Gospel or that they that are called to Preach are obliged to ask leave of any other to Preach the Gospel either publickly or privately Christ and his Apostles notwithstanding all Threatnings and Imprisonments Prohibitings Scourgings what not yet preached the Gospel o th openly in their Synagogues and in the Temple and also privately by stealth even at midnight breaking Bread from House to House till they lost their lives for so doing which they would not have done had it been unlawful so to have done For my part I am of Opinion That our love to the Bretheren is the best and most manifest evidence of our love to God and the best Rule whereby to measure our love to him and I hope I shall never eminently see the Image of Christ in any Man Conventicler or not Conventicler but shall love him more dearly for it and abhor my self for being so much unlike him Why dost thou judge thy Brother or why dost thou set at naught by Brother for we shall all stand before the judgment-seat of Christ Rom. 14.10 And God will measure us by his own Line and by his own Plummet Deus bone unto what then doth all this Gall of Asps these I breats as wide as open Sepulchers decrying Conventicles and persecuting of them tend out of Zeal to the more strict and pure ways of serving God not possible it rather gives more occasions of greater Fears and Jealousies of more rancourous constitution of Hearts against