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A78018	Conformitie's deformity. In a dialogue between conformity, and conscience. Wherein the main head of all the controversies in these times, concerning church-government, is asserted and maintained; as without which, all reformation is headlesse, and all reconciliation hopelesse. Dedicated by Henry Burton, to the honour of Jesus Christ, as the first-fruits of his late recovery from death to life; as a testimony of his humble and thankfull acknowledgement of so great a mercy: and published for the service of all those, that love the Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity ...	Burton, Henry, 1578-1648.	1646 (1646)	Wing B6160; Thomason E358_20; ESTC R201164	26,532	40

Gods glory suffers the least diminution And therefore Conformity now that you are about the setting forth of your Confession of Faith let not this one Article be missing That you do believe confesse and professe before all the world that JESVS CHRIST is the sole King and Law-giver to every particular visible Church of his and over every particular mans conscience So as no Power on earth may usurp authority upon what pretence soever to make and impose what laws they please to bind the Conscience or to regulate the Churches of God but ought to leave both Conscience and Churches to the only rule and law of Christ the Scripture to which alone every mans conscience must be consined all Divine worship in all things conformed and all Church-Government reduced And for a close of all I pray thee Conformity advise all thy Colleagues that they would abstain from stirring up sedition in Pulpits and great Tables against the Parliament perswading to hold the Parliament to it till you obtain your desires to retain the Scots in England till their Government be here setled which would unsettle and overthrow our fundamental lawes and liberties which you go about in thus seeking to force the Parliament but learn to be wise honest loyal good Christians true Patriots true-bred English-men lest it prove bitternesse in the latter end For God is avenger of all such And so farewell Conformity FINIS THE CONTENTS of this DIALOGVE HOW Christs kingdome is the troubler of States p. 2. How a worldly kingdome comes to be set up for Christs spirituall kingdome ibid. The Heathen Emperour a shame to Christians ib. How Conformity is a troubler of Israel ib. The opin●on we have of men no good ground for conscience to build upon p. 3. Small difference between a Papist and Protestant at large ib. How a Synod of learned Protestants may erre in some fundamentals of faith ib. Many in England under a grand heresie and what it is p. 5 Faith denied no lesse in practice then in words p. 7. The evils of practicall deniall of the truth p. 8. Conformity can finde no better proofs for it in Scripture then the Pope for his Papality p. 9. Conformity answered concerning the model wherewith Conscience is so much cast in the teeth ibid. Great difference between the pattern in the Old Testament and the model in the New ib. Conformity put to prove many particulars of his Church by Scripture p. 10. Conformitie's objection concerning some Kings of Judah answered ib. Conscience free from mens yoaks p. 11. Conformity how the mysterie of iniquity its beginning growth full stature p. 12. Conformity the sluice or inlet of all superstition and slavery ibid. Sundry fearfull examples of Gods judgements upon Conformity p. 13. Conformity a necessary introducer of Popery when a State hath a popish Prince and Parliament as England hath had and may have again for ought we know p. 14. Conformity in worship to mens Precept brings a wonderfull spirituall judgement of blindnesse and deprivation of wisdome and understanding p. 15. All sorts put to try and examine themselves in sundry weighty particulars whether that prophesie Esay 29. 13 14. fall not heavie upon them wherein Conscience severs the innocent from the guilty p. 16. How Conformity is hypocrisie and a removing of the heart far from God ib. The many bad fruits of Conformity 17. How Conformity seeks to overtop the supream power p. 19. How the Scotish Church-government so much cryed up by the English Clergie is incompatible with the fundamentall laws and liberties of our English Nation p. 20. How Church orders or disorders as Heresie or Schisme may be or not be for all the Civil power p. 23. How Conscience clears it self from any withdrawing of due obedience to the Magistrate ib. What limits God hath set to the Magistrate ib. How prone mans nature is to idolize men in setting up a State-Religion and how slothfull to search the Scripture the only rule of faith and the evill consequence hereof p. 25. The counsel that Conscience gives Conformity at their parting and what he must of necessity do to make peace and hold communion with Conscience p. 26 FINIS Job 32. 22 Honos onus 1 Sam. 6. 9. Mat. 23. 2 Sam. 6. Rev. 17. Rev. 18. Luke 23. 2 5. Euseb. Eccl. Hist. John 7. 26. 48. 1 Cor. 3. 11. * 1 Joh. 4. 3. * Thess. 2. 4. * John 2. 22. * John 8. 32. * 1 Cor. 15. * 2 Pet. 2. 1 2. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Haereses vastantes * {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} * {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} * {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} As those infamous books of Tho. Edwards and Iohn Bastwick too welknown to all Notus nimis omnib Horat. * Tit. 1. 16 Tit. 1. 14 15. * Mat. 16. 18. * Luke 22 38. John 16. 13. * Exo. 25. 30. Heb. 8. 5. * 1 Chro. 28. 12 19. Chap. 43. 10. * 2 Cor. 2. 24. * 1 Pet. 5. 3. * 1 Cor. 7 23. Mat. 23. Rom. 14. 4 2 Thess. 2 4. * 3 John Gen. 8. 9. Dan. 3. * 1 Kings 19. 18. * 1 Kings 12. 28. * Hos. 5. 11. * John 11. 48. Esa. 26. 11 * Mat. 26. 61. Luke 23. 2 2. 3. 4. Regnum Angliae Regnū Dei Polydor. Virgil Chron. * Quos perdere vult Deus hos prius dementat * 2 Tim. 3. 5. In Ordine ad Spiritual ● * And if the Reeder desire surthet satisfaction were it needfull to the wise let him read the late book entituled The Troian horse of the Presbyterial government unbowelled Iudg. 19. 15. * Joh. 19. 7 Luke 19. 14. Rom. 12. Esa. 9. 7. * Actum est de R●lig●one ubi vel m●●imum de rahitur de D●● gloria Calvin

truth as to censure or restrain either heresie or schisme or apostacie And Christs government is sufficient in all Church-cases whatsoever Conf. But who in a Christian civil State do not acknowledge Christ as superior Consc This is sufficiently resolved before Such as conform to a State religion or a State church-government make that the supreme law and lord over their conscience and so exclude Christs supremacie Enough is said of that But you cut me off from what I was about to adde Mans nature is too prone to idolize the Power so as to make it as the shadow of the bramble in Jothams parable under which to ease themselves of the labour to search into the Scriptures and so to come to know what they believe most men pinning their Religion upon the sleeve either of the Priest as the Papists do or also of the Magistrate as our common Protestants do wrapping all up in an implicite faith and blind obedience according to your Remonstrance that urgeth conformity to the religion and government of Christ already established or which shall be set up Thus it was enough for the Pharisees to say * We have a law and by that law Christ ought to dye Thus Christ must not be God because the Roman Senate according to their law formerly made had not first motion'd it or passed their vote for it before Tiberius Caesar had commended it to them namely to admit of Christ into their Pantheon to take place among their gods And is it not even so with us Must not Christ be King of the Jews only because by an act of State as before they will not have this man to reign over them And Christ must not be God because the Roman Senate had not pre-resolved it And so Christ must not be sole Lord over the conscience nor sole Law giver of his Church nor his Word the sole rule of worship of Christs Kingly government of his spiritual kingdom in the conscience and Churches of the Saints nor indeed Christs kingdom spiritual because the Sate hath made a law which must rule the conscience in point of forms of worship and of Church-government that Christs kingdom must be worldly perpetually entaild to a whole Nation making up one Nationall Church the form whereof worldly and the materials worldly as either no Saints at all or else all Saints because all nominall Christians and all this and much more because the civill State by the instigation of men Ecclesiasticall or Civill domesticall or forein hath so ordaind it Conf. Well Conscieuce I now perceive that fame is no lyar I have now heard thee my self and much more then ever I heard before and such things as my stomack is no way able to digest but that I must needs go ease it by acquainting those whom it specially concerns with what thou hast here delivered And so farewell Consc Nay stay Conformity and this withall take with thee First I would have thee know that speaking so freely to thee I was not so simple as not to imagine thou wouldst divulge all nay in truth I have spoken all this to thee to that very purpose that thou shouldst communicate it if possible so far as the Sun shines but first to thine at home as thou sayest But thus much let me intreat of thee 1. That thou wouldst not do any thing this way in malice lest thou adde to thy sin Secondly that thou wouldst speak nothing but truth and the whole truth and that without aggravations whereof there is no need especially when thou speakest to thy friends of Conscience and much more of things of this nature too harsh for delicate ears And thirdly assure them from Conscience that what I have here spoken to thee it is out of pure zeale for the honour of Christ out of pure charity to the persons concerned out of pure piety to see my native country in such a perishing estate and the honour of England to lie in the dust out of pure hatred of hypocrisie idolatry pride covetousnes ambition treachery and treason walking up and down in long robes And in a word to deliver if no more yet mine own soul in discharge of my duty to God and my country as a poor Minister of Christ by witnessing the truth and convincing error And for a close of all Conformity If thou desirest Peace with Truth as we all should do If thou wouldest have me to hold correspondence with thee and to give thee the right hand of fellowship If thou desirest that desirable reconciliation of our differences First renounce thy name of Conformity in thy sense and conform not to this world but to Gods word let that be the Cynosure or Pole-star of that Vniformity of Churches ACCORDING TO THE WORD OF GOD as in our late Covenant And this thou shalt do if I say not if thou dost shake off the fear and favour of men the love of the world of honours pleasures riches preferments ambition of greatnesse of domination over Gods people Nor if thou castest out that old spirit of bondage under the Prelates lest it turn into a more dangerous tyrannie then that of the Prelacie as being more refined and going under the plausible name of Reformation Nor do I say if thou becommest a self denying man taking up thy crosse daily to follow Christ without all which notwithstanding thou canst not be his true disciple follower or enjoy true fellowship with him But this I say and urge as being the main Fundamental and Essential of a true right visible church of Christ If thou confessest Christ in all that he is If thou givest him his due honour in submitting thy conscience only and wholly to him with profession thereof and not to any humane power and as to the only Lawgiver of his church and kingdom to order and establish it with judgement and justice for ever and to his Word as the only law and rule of the government of that kingdom and the only Judge to appeale unto in all doubts and controversies of faith And if thou shalt confesse every church and congregation of Christ to be only and immediately under Christs jurisdiction and not subject to any other church or churches which are so many Sisters not Mistresses lest otherwise we set up the Spouse above or in stead of her husband Christ If I say thou wilt confesse and hold forth this in thy publike profession preaching and practice of it Then though thy Churches have many other defects yet if they have the beeing and constitution of true churches of Christ for matter and form I shall not scruple to hold communion with thee But otherwise so long as thou walkest not up to Christ in not acknowledging and avowing all that he is in not giving him his due honour in all things and especially in not setting him up in his Royal throne without a consort How can we entertain communion with you For * Farewell Religion where