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A60170	A new naked truth, or, The sandy foundation of the Sacramental test shaken, by a warning-piece discharged from heaven against all sorts of persecutors wherein you may hold Christ crucified mystically and sacramentally, upon the cross of the sacramental penal test, with all the rest of the penal laws and tests attending thereon, and contributing thereunto / by Giles Shute ...	Shute, Giles, b. 1650 or 51.	1688 (1688)	Wing S3709; ESTC R11222	67,483	56

is an old trick of the Devil And thirdly and lastly binding over Persons for Worshipping God is a very ancient thing also A Persecutor is one that must abandon all moral Honesty he must do as he would not be done by he must sacrifiee his Conscience and pawn his Soul in the Hands of the Devil for he must persecute Christ Acts 9.4 5. and fight against God Acts 5.38 39. A Persecuter is one that bids Defiance to Heaven and is in open Hostility and Rebellion against the Almighty and he is striking at the Apple of God's Eye Zech. 2.8 For thus saith the Lord of Hosts after the Glory hath he sent me unto the Nations which spoised you do you hear you persecuting Spoilers of the Nation for he that toucheth you toucheth the Apple of his Eye that is of God's Eye Again A Persecuter is worse than the Devil in some Respects for the Devil cannot force a man to sin he can but tempt and suggest to Sin but the Persecutor does both he tempts them to conform to a Religion or Worship that they are convinc'd in their Consciences is not right because it has none of the Sanction of God's Authority upon it and if they refuse then he does what he can to force them by Indictments and Fines and Excommunications and Plundering and Imprisoning them and the like Now this the Devil cannot do himself personally therefore they are worse then the Devil Again Fourthly A Persecutor or one that hath this Cain-like Spirit in him every time he saith the Lord's Prayer he speaks Blasphemy for he does blaspheme the Name of God the Father the first Person in order in the Blessed and Glorious Trinity for he begins it in Blasphemy for he saith Our Father which art in Heaven And the holy Word of God saith That no man can call God Father but by his Spirit for let him that taketh the Name of the Lord in his Mouth Depart from Iniquity and the Apostle saith Know ye not that the Spirit of Christ is in ye except ye be Reprobate And our Lord Jesus Christ told the old Sect of Scribes and Pharisees that were Persecuters as our New-Gospel-Sect of the same Leven are in John 8.44 Ye are of your Father the Devil and the Lusts of your Father ye will do He was a Murtherer from the beginning and abode not in the Truth Why So all his Children departs from the Truth when they turn Persecuters they do not do as they would be done by they depart from that Truth which the very light of Nature doth teach us as well as the Word of God. Now can it ever be possible that a Child of the Devil can call God Father without being guilty of Blasphemy at the same time for he saith Our Father which art in Heaven when as his Father is the Devil so that by his Lye he does tacitly and consequentially pull God out of his Throne of Mercy and place his Father the Devil in his room upon the Mercy Seat in Heaven and puts up his Petition to the Devil instead of Praying unto God his Maker And is not this a dreadful Case Nay further in the fifth place for I have not done with ye yet When a Persecuter doth say the Lord's-Prayer he doth say Thy Kingdom come thy Will be done in Earth as it is in Heaven And no Persons are so great Opposers of Christ's Gospel-Kingdom coming as the Persecuters are and none does oppose the doing of God's Will in Earth as it is in Heaven like them of a persecuting Spirit for in Heaven there God's Will is done uninterruptedly by Angels and all other Glorified Spirits there they Praise God in perfect Peace Love and Union there is no Persecuter there nor none to disturb nor make them afraid for there they are all of one Heart and of one Mind But so it cannot be done in Earth by the Persecuters who cannot sleep unless they do Mischief and they do hinder others from doing the Will of God in Earth as it is done in Heaven therefore a Persecuter cannot be sincere and in good earnest when he saith Thy Kingdom come thy Will be done in Earth as it is in Heaven Therefore all they of a persecuting Spirit do but dissemble and mock God and tell him a parcel of Lies to his very Face for they do say in Words that God's Will must be done in Earth as it is in Heaven but in Works they do utterly deny it for they Dethrone the Almighty who is King of Kings and Lord of Lords as much as in them lyes And the proud Persecuters do mount God's Throne here on Earth namely the Souls and Consciences of men and say to their Souls Bow down that we may go over They do rob God of his Sovereignty and become spiritual Legislators to make Laws and give Laws unto their Fellow-creatures to Worship God by as they pretend and so do wrest the Government out of God's Hand over the Souls and Consciences of men which is peculiarly belonging to the Great and Dread Sovereign Majesty of Heaven and Earth which is to do their Father the Devil's will on Earth as it is done in Hell And not to do God's Will in Earth as it is in Heaven Again Sixthly A Persecuter as often as he saith the Lord's Prayer does in Effect Pray that God would not forgive him his Sins for he saith Forgive us our Trespasses as we forgive them their Trespasses against us Now a Persecuter cannot say this heartily and sincerely because that instead of praying to God he does imprecate the forest of Judgments upon himself for he saith Forgive us our Trespasses as we forgive them their Trespasses against us and the Persecuter did not nor yet does not forgive the Dissenters though but pretended Trespasses against them when some Persons have fallen into their hands by their Nonconformity in the matter of Worshipping of God when they have desired them to be favourable unto them and have told them if they did proceed to the Rigour of their Law they would ruine them and their Wife and Children they would not hearken unto them unless they would bow down their Soul unto them that they might go over namely to Conform so that they must Trespass against God or else they would not forgive them their pretended Trespasses against them which made the Remedy infinitely worse than the Disease and so they chose rather to lay their Bodies with the Ground and as the Street for them to go over then that they would sin against God by conforming which was passive Obedience of the right kind therefore the Persecuters do Pray that God would not forgive them their Sins for Christ hath said But if ye forgive not men their Trespasset neither will your Father forgive you your Trespasses Mat. 6.15 Now if the Persecuters did run their Hatred and Malice to the very uttermost Extent of the Persecuting Laws and further too and are now contending to keep the

would not give way in the least Degree to Unbelief and Slavish Fears Brethren let us all do so too for Nehemiah had God and the King on his side and so have we And when they cog and flatter ye then hearken to what is said in Jer 12.6 For even thy Brethren and the House of thy Father even they have dealt treacherously with thee yea they have called a multitude after thee Believe them not though they speak fair Words unto thee Sixthly and Lastly My last Advice and Counsel unto you all shall be this Cast all your Care upon God for he hath promised to take Care of you God is never wanting on his part to them that put their trust in him God hath made it our Duty to cast our Care upon him and he hath made it his own Work and Business to take Care of us 1 Pet. 5.7 Psal 55.22 But we are very apt and prone to take Gods Work out of his All-sufficient Hand and to be Pestering our selves with Anxious Cares and so destroy the very Vital Comforts of a Life of Faith by Slavish Fears and Jealousies for the Counsel of the Lord that shall stand and cannot be altered by all the Powers in the World and God is never at a loss in his Work nor out of his way in his Providence the Lord hath his way in the Whirl-wind and in the Storm and the Clouds are the Dust of his Feet Nahum 1.3 O trust in the Lord For in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength Make God your Rock and Refuge put your trust in him alone and Bless and Praise God for putting it into his Majesty's Heart to give and grant unto us this Christian Liberty and make a Sanctified improvement of it for Gods Glory and our own Souls Good and be thankful to his Majesty and shew it by your endeavouring what in you lies to contribute to the Establishing and Fixing of it into a firm Magna Charta Thus you have seen That this Sacramental Test hath had a fair Tryal by the plain Written Word of God it has been weighed in the Ballance of the Sanctuary and it is found lighter then Vanity and it has been tryed by the Law of the Land and that has found it Guilty of being Repugnant to the Law of God And also it has been tryed by the 19th Article of the Church of England and that condemus it also which saith That the Sacranents must be duly ministred and that only to a Congregation of Faithful Men in a Religious way and manner And this Test you see is Arraigned Cast and Condemned by them all and wants only a good Parliament to do Execution upon it and make better Security in the room of these Sinful Penal Laws and Tests which I Humbly leave to the Great God the Soveraign Majesty of Heaven and Earth to direct his Majesty and the great Council of the Land when he shall see it convenient to call and convene them together and also to all Sober People to be Careful and Wise in choosing their Representatives to choose Sober Wise Discreet Men of Honest Principles and good Estates that we may be freed from the Dreadful Spiritual Plagues and Judgments which the Nation lieth under and is Ingulfed into and the dreadful Wrath of God that hangeth over our Heads God of his Mercy Awaken England to Repent before it be too late I shall Conclude with these two Scriptures 1 Pet. 2.17 Honour all Men. Love the Brotherhood Fear God. Honour the King. The other shall be with the Wise mans Conclusion of the Book of Ecclesiastes 12.13 Let us hear the Conclusion of the whole matter Fear God and keep his Commandments for this is the whole Duty of Man for God shall bring every work into Judgment with every Secret thing whether it be good or whether it be evil POSTSCRIPT BUT some will Object and say Why should such Illiterate Mean Contemptible Persons meddle with such Great and Publick Affairs as these are Such things as these are fit for none but the Learned Rabbies such as have long Heads and well-furnished with a suitable stock of Brains to undertake such things as these are It is fitter for such as you to meddle with your own private Affairs than to meddle with Matters of State. To this I shall Answer and give you my Reasons for this my Proceeding in Eleven Particulars First of all my first Reason is from that Holy Text in 1 Cor. 1.26 27 28 29. For you see your Calling Brethren how that not many Wise Men after the Flesh not many Mighty not many Noble are called But God hath chosen the Foolish things of the World to confound the Wise and God hath chose the weak things of the World to confound the things that are Mighty and base things of the World and things which are Despised hath God chosen Yea and things which are not to bring to nought things that are And the Holy Ghost gives the Reason of this his Sovereign way of Dispensation viz. That no Flesh should Glory in his Presence Now it is no where said in Scripture Not many Unlearned not many Poor Mean Despicable Persons nor weak that are nothing in the Eye and Esteem of the World that God hath not chosen But it is said God hath Chosen the Poor in this World Rich in Faith Our Saviour Christ did not go to the Universities to pick and cull out Scholars to make Apostles on but he went to the Fisher-Boats and chose poor Fisher-Men and made them Fishers of Men. Therefore I will challenge all the Objectors against this my Proceeding to shew me in all the whole Book of God from Genesis to Revelations where there is any one peculiar Promise made to the humane learned Men above their Fellows not that I despise Learning it is good in its place but the over-valuing of it has broached almost all the Errors and Heresies that are in the World The Apostle Paul saith in 1 Thess 5.19 20. Quench not the Spirit Despise not Prophecying And 1 Cor. 14.30 31. If any thing be revealed to another that sitteth by let the first hold his Peace For ye may all Prophesie one by one that all may learn and all may be comforted How few do ever mind these Scriptures They are commonly neglected and men's Gifts and Parts despised at this day and that by the learned too For when do the People of God all Prophesie one by one No forsooth none but the Learned must do that and if any one do attempt any such thing why presently there is Buckets of scornful Water thrown upon it to quench the Spirit and the Gift is despised and so the Spirit is quenched Prophesying is despised for many will say What Call have you to this or that either to Speaking or Writing Though it is said Many shall run to and fro and Knowledge shall be increased and in Amos 3 8. They deal by the unlearned as David's Brethren dealt by him