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A86096	Doctor Hill's funeral-sermon. Or a nevv-yeers-gift to all the clergie. Daynus, the reviving feet fo the witnesses past and to come, to shew the day and yeer of the Lord, and his time accepted.	Hesselwood, Henry.	1655 (1655)	Wing H1134; Thomason E821_19; ESTC R207661	62,538	65

so pure in a heavenly shape but the Priests are as Locusts that shall fall under Armegiddon Euphrates shall dry up Oh Army Army Arme of the Lord their power shall fall under thee Priest thou sayest thy power is a spiritual power yet it is but a civil power and therefore it must down and fall before Sion The overthrow of the Bishops was for calling it a spiritual and for their spiritual courts audacious to think upon full of blasphemies set up by an Antichristial power which now is thrown down as contemptible therefore all your civil Christs must down as your Spiritual Fathers the Bishops have done if you call your power Ecclesiastial it is equal with Christs if you call it Ecclesiastical you must prove it from Christs saying Go teach whose ordination ceased after the Apostles so that your Authority of Oxford and Cambridge is void and cannot stand Ephes 1.4 and 5. He hath chosen us in himself before the foundation of the world was laid he predestinated us to the adoption of children by Christ Jesus but not by your Ministery You see the Saints were first chosen predestinated and called before your Ministery stood up and yet you say you are called to convert souls in the Pulpit You Priests must have a hand in the work of renovation though you are not called yet ye run and are not sent to do such works of wonder for it is he alone that doth abound to us in love in wisdom and in prudency Having made known to us the mystery of his will vers 6. according to his good pleasure which he had purposed in himself and not by your means Ephes 3.4 and 5. God who is rich in all mercy hath quickned us which sheweth that it is not your teaching that can do it and elsewhere he saith By his grace you are saved and not of works Then down with these working teaching Christs that can learn the people salvation for it is the gift of God not of works left any man should boast Ephes 2.9 and 10. For we are his workmanship created to good works which God hath foreordained therefore it is properly and fully the work of God freely to our souls but let no durt-dawbing Priest have any hand in thy conversion for it is Gods work Let no swineherd meddle with such a pearl as if they were outward means of mens salvation He alone is our peace who hath broke down the mid-wall of our reproach having abolished the enmity even the Law of Commandments contained in Ordinances by making in himself of twain one new man for peace that he might reconcile both into one body by his cross having slain the enmity thereby Ephes 2.17 He preached peace to you afar off and to them that are nigh so that by him we have access to the Father and not by the Priests of the second hand which have little skill in the creation of salvation it is a secret work of God Let no man say he can teach but let us all be taught of God Minister and People from the least to the greatest let us all covenant to him with one consent and betroth our selves to him that he may take pleasure in his Spouse and his beloved ones may have pleasure in him the All-teacher and come out from their fained Priests the gods of their Temples that call themselves Ministers of God saying The people must reverence them as Embassadors for the works sake as if God had not power on earth aswell as in heaven he is present in all places by his omnipotency and omnipresence and by his immensity and by his all-seeing eye and by his providence that governeth the whole creation and by his inspiration and foreknowing what shall come to pass he spiritually beholdeth all things he alone hath created the earth then doth he not see and teach all and will bring all rule and power under himself Then lay down ye high Priests and say Ye are all taught of God for he will teach us of his wayes The Law shall go out of Sion and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem which shall be Christ preaching from the Mount when the people shall give audience to him and cast off their fained Priests which are but as wood and straw whose stubble shall burn before the fire of his jealousie wangeable shall their power be when God shall give power to his two Witnesses and the Law shall preach out of Sion Revel 14. The everlasting Gospel shall preach to every language and nation when all your wrangling Priests shall be forced to lay down because they can establish nothing in order correspondent to his bright appearing therefore they must lay down and say We have spent our time in vain too long and besotted the simple people and yet we have said We were the ordained Ministers of God though we were destroyers and no builders historians that have preached this or that but what of the new work can we do it is not our talking of Peter and Paul that will serve the turn for God will make a new heaven and a new earth by a new discipline Ecclesiastical and Civil he will make all new to do away your carnal formes every form shall cease to a new formality God will make his latter temple more glorious then all the former All earthly builders shall not be found fit for the work of Gods house every flatterer shall be nonresidensed and cast out according to Gods extent and laid open to the sight of the grand Church to be excluded from the common community shut out of fellowship and society with the unsociable and rebukeable When God shall try Sion and search Jerusalem with lights when he shall purge the Sons of Levi and break the constellations that stand so high and remove the stars out of their places when the moon shall blush and be ashamed and all the stars come under his feet when this discipline that now standeth upon crutches shall be taken away then you may declare the great things of God saying He hath formed a new temple wherein all righteousness shall dwell Old things are become new and all fashions and forms are passed away but onely one which is called the formal Power and Government of Jerusalem and God and our Lord Jesus Christ is our Temple The Lord is our light within us he is our Sabbath the Sun shall not burn us by day neither shall the dark Night overshade thee thou shalt continually walk in the light of the Citie of the great King when thou shalt throw off thy fained lovers I mean thy Priests that erre in darkness and know not the true way for God will surely consume the smoak of Babylon and burn up all darkness before himself that he may dissolve the great blindeness and ignorance of the Priests that there may be light in the City that hath lain so long under darkness suspended from the truth lying under thick darkness Therefore we must all come

you that can teach the holy Ghost saying ye have begotten souls and have power to convert souls truely in that ye are the greatest deceivers in the world Conversion is not from the letter of history it is a work of great mystery beyond mens prating Yet some of you will say you have begotten many souls to Christ which if ye can do so ye may set up Meriting-houses to please the people It is not your much teaching that can do it you be but Historians all upon the literal history not discerning the mystery of Gods work which is called Conversion It is Gods work let no dirt-danber meddle with converting of souls But some of you Historian Priests will say Did not Paul the great Doctor of the Gentiles convert souls I answer No. But did not Peter convert 3000 at one Sermon Yes he did so but it was but to an outward conformity of Religion as you train the people up to and all is but in the outward that ye can do for ye are not the very Christ to do it Then lay down for renovation is a work of God and not of man to do and Ministers stand for a cypher and the men of Galilee stand gazing upon them I am but a fool yet not the son of folly if I erre I erre for Christ He that giveth honour to m●n can never truely honour God Silly people have your Ministers perswaded you all this while saying they can convert souls and cannot O down with their power as lowe as Doctor Hills bones Let their power be utterly dissolved for in Gods account they be no more then other men and shall fall more contemptibly then the Bishops for they have hid the mystery of iniquity and kept it as a sweet morsel under their tongues and seduced the people These Merit-mongers Legators that keep the people under their bonds meriting Christs mediators betwixt God and the people as if the history of the Bible could convert souls Alas no it is not done by the history of mens works neither can it be done by the example of Historian Fatherly Authors it is not a work of history but Gods work of mystery to convert to salvation Therefore Priest lay down thy power and let the people speak from the heavenly University and as they be taught of God so let them speak from the All-speaker that shall teach both Minister and People Ye Mediators Ministers as ye call your selves ye seduce many souls and keep them under your yoke from that freedom they have or might have in God being free and yet not free by your bonds O down with all such yoke-Ministers if Christ hath made thee free thou art free indeed come no more under their yoke but walk so as thou mayst be judged by the law of liberty John bids thee buy eye-salve but not of men which is an outward and vain ostentation it is not an outward knowing that can do it it is by a spiritual inward knowing that we live You say that we receive faith by hearing or the preaching of faith I confess outward faith may come by the letter preached but saving faith is of the gift from above Then salvation is onely of God and not from the letter Then how hard a thing is it for a Priest to convert souls Even as to create the whole creation Therefore Doctor Priest thou must surely lay down thy power for thou hast taken upon thee a work of renovation which is beyond Ministers art and skill for Christ is the souls solempnicy and the first moving cause of our salvation he is our Minister and sollicitor and ye dissembling Christs that say ye have been means of mens salvation and have begotten souls to God and call your selves soul-saving Ministers Ye false tongues stop your mouthes for shame ye Wise-men Counsellors Priests and Legators Definators Merit-mongers that call your selves the Seers in Israel or Watch-men over poor souls Alas Doctors your sorrow is at hand Mic. 3. saith The seer shall be ashamed and the diviner confounded they shall cover their mouth for there is no answer of God You call your selves soul-savers but we may call you Wise-men that beguile the people whose counsel shall stand but a while for the Prophet Isaih saith Your counsellors shall be as at the first taught of God as Abraham and Noah were Christ and the Spirit of God is our great Counsellor and shall be as Law and Testimony in us that shall lead us in all truth and those be the two Witnesses of the great Jehovah dwelling in us which will confound every Ministerial power and every ordained power of man For now is the time of the Elijah and the Witnesses prophecie If ye be soul-saving Ministers then change the course of the rain if you can You say you can and have converted souls then you may as well change the course of drought which is now a judgement upon the earth for three yeers and a half But the Lord will make the heavens as brass and the clouds as iron And under this three yeers and a half the Witnesses shall prophesie in sackcloth though not utterly killed as they have been before the Law and under the Law and since Christ came in the flesh until now the opening of the sixth Seal which produceth life to the two Witnesses though by prisonment and sackcloth under this seventh Vial. Noble Pulpittian thou must lay down four high titles and give them up to Christ Thy Ministery Thy Priesthood Thy Power and thy Teaching for all this belongs to Christ But thou sayst thou art an instrument I doubt not but ye are some of those instruments spoken of by the Prophet Zechariah saying What are those instruments in thy hand he said to me These were they that wounded me in the house of my friends And the Lord saith he was wounded by such instruments You Ministers may be outward Ministers and yet come short of converting souls to God but what ye can do outwardly by a conformity and no more Thou art an instrument but not instrumental that is too high for man seeing thou art but a creature so I finde that there is no power in thy hand thy instrument cannot do it for he is instrumental and not thou Thou art haven but he is havencial Thou art a petty Priest but he is an eternal Priest Then become a fool as I am and throw down that thou mayst be made wise For he is the Priesthood-power and glory renovation is of God and not of men Doctor thou tellest me thou art instrumental and so far thou speakest an untruth for it 's proper onely to God And thou art but star but he is starrestial He is unmoveable and thou art changeable He is Minister and thou but Star Thou art an Angel but he is Angelical Thou art Man but he is God Christ is the Minister and Mediator of our souls and therefore lay down thy care and charge of mens souls and look to thy