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A34990	A description of the Church of Scotland with a word of reproofe to the priests, and teachers, and officers therein, for their many corrupt doctrines and practices, also a warning and a gentle invitation to all people, that lives under their tyrannicall government, to come to the truth ... : herein is their church made manifest ... : with an exhortation to all people to come out from amongst them ... / written in love to the simple-hearted in that nation ... by one who desires that people might be brought to the truth ... who am known among men by the name Stephen Crisp.	Crisp, Stephen, 1628-1692.	1660 (1660)	Wing C6928; ESTC R40352	17,808	15

〈◊〉 make that division as if death were more powerfull then the word of God oh ye● 〈◊〉 and ignorant Priests and people how long will yee regard lying vanities expec●●●● 〈◊〉 where it is not to be had and like the Pharisees of old think to have eternall 〈…〉 Scriptures but will not come to Chri● whose life is your light turn in your mind 〈…〉 own hearts and feele if Gods word which is as a hammer be not striking at 〈…〉 ●●ther of your sins and corruptions and wait then to feel the sharpness of it to cut and 〈◊〉 you from your sins that so you may witnesse the word in your flesh and not in a Book destroy the works of the Divell that the word in the heart yee may know which liveth 〈◊〉 abideth for ever when that by it is destroyed which cannot abide for ever which is your which hitherto hath separated you from the knowledge of God and of his powerfull w●●● 3dly Your Doctrine of faith is reprovable and you in it found contrary to the 〈◊〉 Ministers of Christ for you preach that faith cannot be without sin and you say it is h●●●sie and error in any to say that it can now this I say if ye knew the true faith whic● saving ye would see that it is contrary in all things to sin and would know that in 〈◊〉 of an impossibility to seperate them it would be impossible to unite them for faith 〈◊〉 the scriptures is the gift of God and the gift of God is perfect and God nor his gift 〈◊〉 no concord with sin but giveth the true believe victory over it But as for your faith which ye say cannot be without sin is therewith corrupted a●● not the like precious faith which the Saints obtained by which they wrought righteous● were accepted with the Lord without which it is impossible for you to please him th●● yee performe never so many performances for this faith which is mixt with sin whi●● the faith of the Church of Scotland is not that by which the just lives but among 〈◊〉 professe this faith is the just slain in your owne particulars by the sin which ye con●● in and say ye must continue in as long as yee live so yee are fur short of the Saints hope ●o brought them to purifie themselves as God is pure and your faith and hope and confi●●e which is thus mixt with sin and unrighteousnesse is excluded from leading any of you in●●e inheritance of the promise which is eternall life for it is the faigned or made faith 〈◊〉 hardens the heart and continues you in the transgression and begets in you a bold confi●●e in your dark imaginations which shortly shall faile you and yee shall be strict of 〈◊〉 saith and hope and be left naked to your perpetuall shame and confusion and ●●esore all that desire to come to the true faith which gives victory over the 〈◊〉 and that which is in the world they must first come to that which true faith is placed in 〈◊〉 is the light wherewith Christ Jesus hath enlightened every one that commeth into the 〈◊〉 and that all men through him might beleive and Christ himselfe said that they should ●●ve in the light and this is it which doth secretly make manifest and reprove the workes ●arkenesse which are done out of the faith and are displeasing to God and who beleeves in 〈◊〉 light they must beleive against sin and the power of it and so as they abide stedfast in the 〈◊〉 watchfull to that in which they have beleived then the power of this faith comes to be in the creature that as they have beleived against sin so they come to receive power a●● sin for according unto their faith so happeneth it unto them and according unto your faith 〈◊〉 ●ive you can never be made free from your sins so also will it happen unto you so long ●●●de in that beleife yee shall abide servants of sin and so free from righteousnesse ●●●bly Concerning election and herein have yee erred exceedingly from the truth and 〈◊〉 truth ought yee to be reproved and judged who holds forth in your Church that God 〈◊〉 ●●pected a certaine number of persons to himselfe without cause or quality in them scene ●sidered and that these he hath elected unto salvation by an unalterable decree that they be saved from the wrath of God and that all the rest are under an irrevocable decree of nation for when no way of salvation is left nor no effectuall meanes found for the salva●● of them that doctrine is not of God but of your Father the Devill who was a lyer from beginning if he telleth a lye it is of himselfe but if yee tell a lye it is of him and from is thy doctrine sprung who rules in the Kingdome of darknesse and desires that none might 〈◊〉 to the knowledge of the truth nor be saved and so hath set you to preach this doctrine ●●rdly unto ignorant people who generally have believed it while he in the meane time ●●relly suggesting in some of them that they are elected and so what sin soever they live in of mar their election seeing it is without condition or qualification and mans workes of alter nor change Gods decrees and many such like reasonings as this learn they from deceiver within and from the deceivers without and he also is perswading others that they not elected but are of the greater number which the Priests saith no salvation nor re●●●tion is for and so they may take their course and spend their time in pleasure for can but go to hell in the end and all their godlinesse and soberness and strickt●●● and abstinence from pleasure and whatever they can do cannot change the purpose of God concerning their damnation and so by these and such like meanes and instruments doth the devill uphold his Kingdome and keepe you from preaching him or believing on him who is the way to the Father Christ Jesus the light of the world who lighteth every man with the true light with which he may see that which was wrought in darknesse which is the reprobate state and be led out of it according to Christs words who said I am the light of the world he that believeth on me shall not abide in darknesse but shall have the light of life he said not if the elect beleive on me but he that a generall terme to every one that cometh into the world and is enlightened with this true light and this is the love of God to the Sons and Daughters of men who wills not the death of them that doe dye marke them are reprobated that doe dye but God wills it not but rather that they should turn and live but yee that preach this doctrine yee would live without turning but the Sword of the Lord is drawne against your life and shall cut it off for it stands but by an imagination of such a decree as by which sinners might be

Christ the Son of the living God who is the light of the world and lighteth every man that commeth into the world with the true light and let that be the beginning and foundation of your building and that will stand for ever this was before transgression was and before will worship was against this the gates of hell cannot prevaile This is the corner-stone which ye builders have rejected and doe still reject the light and so refecting it are building Babylon as it were which is now confounding and yee are put to a stop and can proceed no farther for the people sees your confusion in many parts of the Nation and begins to love and imbrace them whom you have cast out of your Church who have the light for their foundation which answereth the witnesse of God in all and who soever builds and not on this their building shall come to naught and the builders shall be ashamed for that which should uphold them will come a top of them and breake them to peices The next thing reprovable in your Scottish Church is the matter whereof it is composed and in this also are you contrary to the true Church the Spouse of Christ for your Church is composed of evill and ungodly men and women whose hearts is delighting in ungocly practices as wearing and lying and cousening and dissembling and scoffing and scorning yea in striking and beating the innocent such is your Church made up of dead stones whose h●arts are as an Adamant their mouths filled with cursing and their tongues filled with venome and their hands filled with violence these is your materialls with which ye have builded but the Lord God of light and power is making you bare and manifest and by his power is throwing you down where shame shall cover your Church where the scorner shall be scorned in the day of their calamity and the strikers shall be st ucken with a rod that will breake them to peices the sword of the almighty is drawn and shall wound them in their inward parts that have wounded his Children in their outward bodyes and greived his holy spirit and then shall howling and lamentation come upon your Church but there shall be none to pitty for the double reward of your doings to Gods Children shall shortly come upon you and that is the word of the Lord to you But if you demand how is all this proved that our Church is compassed and made up of such persons as these I answer I prove it thus not only by the hearing of the ear nor by what I have seen of you in the eternall light of the Son of God before my comming among you but also being an eye witnesse of your behaviour fowards me who when I have in obedience to God and love to your souls but proclarmed the fear of God amongst you in one of your Masse-houses or Markets what an offence hath it been counted by you who are of the Scottish Fresbiterian Church some crying kick him kick him knock him down and such like language and usage have I and many of my brethren and sist rs found amongst you as in particular the behaviour of the people of Dalkieth on the 13th of the 9th month 59. may witness where had not the Soldiers appeared as a stop to your murderous purposes against me your works of mischief had more appeared but your spirit is seen and known to be of one nature with the scarlet colored where whothirsteth after and is drunk with the blood of the Saints besides there needs no greater proofe of this charge against your Church but what hath and doth proceed out of your own mouths who are dayly confessing your selves to be such kind of people and so are judged out of your own mouths as all such slothful servants ever was doth not your Priest say that ye are all going astray every one after the lusts of his own heart and have forsaken God the fountaine of living waters and digged to your selves Cysterns that can hold no water and that your hearts are estranged from God regarding lying vanityes and many such like things might be mentioned from your owne mouths the breath whereof as fire shall devoure you now if it benot so why do you say so lying against your own souls and if it be so how can your Church be the Church of God pure and undefiled unspotted and without wrinkle or any such thing answer for your selves or cease from deceiving your selves and others with the name Church of God for with him dwelleth no iniquity Now if the light were the foundation then would none be counted fit members of your Church but such as walked in it and so your fellowship would stand in the light as the true Church-fellowship did and doth but evill doers as Scoffers Lyers Proud Covetous Persons Strikers fierce D spisers Railers and Persecutors such hates the light and denyes and rejects it and so may be continued in your Church-fellowship which is in sin for terme of your lives and shall be continued in the inheritance of utter darknesse in the end where shall-weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth for ever Another thing reprovable in your Church is the officers thereof they being in all thing contrary to the qualifications signified by the scripture of truth as ye might well see if t●● God of this world the Prince of darknesse had not blinded your eyes a little of the disproportion betweene them and the officers spoken of in the Scriptures for the simples sake wh● desires to be informed I shall instance and first of all concerning your Presbitries for th● Presbitry which the Scriptures speaks of who laid their hands on Timothy 1 Tim. 4.14 We such with whom was the power of God as was manifest by Timothyes receiving a gift by th● laying on of their hands who had rec●ived the gift of God themselves and had also receive power to communicate the same but you who are proud men and covetous men who usurp Authority and presumes to be called by the name and deny that power to be extant with you or any else or that any can be immediately called or gifted for the ministry you are of th●● sort mentioned in the 1 Titus 16. Who professe yee know God but in wo ks deny him b●ing abominable and disobedient and to every good work reprobates for these qualificatio● doth belong to such men as yee professe your selves to be which I shall set down and then let 〈◊〉 sober people judge whether yee be reprobate unto them yea or nay 1 They ought to be blamelesse and whether yee be so or nay be your own Judges who 〈◊〉 none can live without sin and so consequently not without blame for all sin is blameabl● 〈…〉 this particular yee have excluded your selves then watchfull but what doe yee watch fo●●●cept it be opportunity to promote your corrupt honour or to augment and exact your 〈◊〉 gaine then of good behaviour that is not

Christ was as your answers would doe if yee were asked but your Idolls shall be broken and their names shall you be ashamed off as they were ashamed of the Groves and the greene Trees under which they had worshipped their Idolls whom God confounded before you and then your Water and Wine and Cakes and such like things which you call Sacraments and your Masse-houses which you call Churches signed with the Popes Grosse your predecessors these things will but all adde to your shame and sorrow Therefore whilst you have time lay aside these carnall and foolish traditions and come to the light which lets people see over them all to the one Baptisme it selfe and to the Supper and Table of the Lord it selfe and to the Church it selfe which is in God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ as you may read 1 Thess 1.2 And lastly the Discipline of your Church doth appeare contrary to the Discipline of the true Church and in this particular yee have so far proceeded already within these few yeares that yee have thereby much manifested your selves even to many who did not before see you for this many hath looked upon as a taile of a Scorpion with which yee have sought to bend that sting and venome which lodged in your hearts against the true Church which yee could not vent with your tongue nor hands but this also will the Lord cut off that the Scorpions shall hurt no more your sting begins to decay and your force to faile you and people begins to walke safely in the path of peace and in the way of righteousnesse notwithstanding your taile or your tongue to the greife of your hearts which is filled with mischeife against the righteous in the Land But the Lord is their deliverer and according to the evil of your desires against the innocent even so shall your reward be Now the true Church they did observe that if any that was called a Brother should be a Fornicator a Railer and Extortioner a Covetous person an Idolater or a Drunkard with such a one not to eat now if you would observe this in your brother-hood yee would quickly be scattered one from another your Preists suspended for their Coveteousnesse and Drunkennesse and Railing the people suspended for their Fornication and Idolatry and Extortion and Railing and Fighting and many other misdemeanors your Communion would soone fall but you who are a body or Church so called made up of such as these yee take another course to uphold your fellowship for if any who hath beene one with you in these things before mentioned doth come to see with the light wherewith Christ hath lighted them that these things are displeasing to God and so dares not goe on with you any longer in them but declares against your Idolatry your covetousnesse your railing and it is with such a one that you will not eat nor drinke nor buy nor sell Oh abominable depth of Satan this is the way you have found out to keep people from believing in the truth and from departing from your corrupt and cursed practices In short this is as your Fathers the Jewes did who were the crucifiers of the Lord of life if any then did confesse him to be the Christ that said I am the light of the world who lighteth every man that cometh into the world they must be cast out of their Synagogue marke out of the Synagogues of the unbelievers and crucifiers such as yee who cannot nor will not have any fellowship with them that beleives in the light that they may be made Children of the light your latter end shall not be like unto theirs Furthermore the Apostle exhorted the Corinthians to deliver the incesteous persons to Satan for the destruction of the flesh that his soule might be saved in the day of the Lord but he did not intend the destruction of his body as yee wickedly doe who thirsts after blood to asswage the flame of your envy but the Lord will quench that flame and yee that desires blood yee shall have blood to drinke but the Apostle fought not with flesh and blood but against spirituall wickednesse and against incestion and fornication and Idolatry but yee make war against the flesh and blood and seekes the destruction of the outward bodyes as much as in you lyes but those who believes in the light and trusts in the Lord the God of our salvation the power that saveth out of sin and unrighteousnesse them will he deliver out of your bloody hands and from your cruell teeth and from the reach and venome of your hurtfull taile but it may be you will say although we have no criminall fact to lay to their charge whom we have cast out of our Church of whom you speake yet they are Heretickes and it was Pauls councell that one that is an Heretick after the first and second admonition Reject I answer if this were observed among you there would be none found to reject for all would be found to be rejected and this is the reason that whosoever comes to be members of the true Church doth reject you because of your Heresie in doctrine and corruption in conversation but after that way which you call Heresie worship we the God of our Fathers who wrought the holy Scriptures by inspiration of the holy spirit and according thereunto we believe in the true light that lighteth every man that commeth into the world which our beleife you call Heresie and we beleive that this light wherewith every man is enlightened is a sufficient light to lead all that follow and obey it to eternall life and this you call Heresie and that this light is the perfect and beavenly gift of God and whosoever yeilds himselfe into the obedience of it shall thereby be translated from darknesse and the workes thereof which is sin and be brought to live righteously and holyly in this life and this also you call Heresie and many more things which in the Scriptures are declared and by us believed and witnessed doe you call Heresie as may appeare in a booke lately published by the Presbitery at Edenborough to their shame called a testimony against the petition for tolleration wherein your envious and bloody spirit is sufficiently set forth to every judicious Reader against the life of the Scriptures and whomsoever into it is come But your cainish spirit is seene and your end is at hand and your reward shall be according to your workes And now all yee people of Scotland in whom is sincerity and simplicity unto whom this shall come consider in the feare of the Lord where you are and who you are joyned with and against whom yee take part while yee abide in this Church and search the Scriptures your selves and see whether these things be so or nay and come out from amongst them and partake no longer of their sins least you partake also of their plagues which is neare comming upon them and praise the Lord who hath spared you untill now and caused his light to breake forth to discover their wayes and workes of darknesse before yee are overwhelmed by his judgements and as in sincerity yee come to try these things with the light in it yee will see more light and by it an understanding will be opened in you to see into their abominations and deceits beyond what is heare declared but if yee reject this the day of your visitation then shall yee be shut up in darknesse and your ignorance shall increase and your hearts shall be heardened and yee made fit for the indignation and wrath of God to be powered forth upon when the measure of your iniquityes shall be fulfilled While you have time prise it and while you have light love it and beleive in it that you may be made Children of it S. C.

planted together with Christ in the likenesse of his death which is unto sin verse 10. and such also come to partake of the resurrection and life which is in Christ Jesus and in that they live they live unto God and not unto themselves having crucified the old Man with his deeds and hath the body of sin destroyed and henceforth being dead unto sin they serve it not but witnesseth the Baptisme which now saveth makeing cleane the conscience in the sight of God by the washing of Regeneration Now all people that desire farther to know of this one Baptisme which is a dyin●● unto sin and a cleansing or washing from the filthinesse both of flesh and spirit you must turn your mindes to the manifestation of Gods spirit within which is given freely of God for you to profit withall and with it will you see the spots that remaines upon you notwithstanding your outward traditionall Baptisme of what sort or manner so ever it be and also it will give you to understand that the Baptisme which is the answer of a good conscience and which is the similitude of Christ death which is unto sin is yet wanting and so by waiting in that which maketh manifest those things which yee should dye unto then will yee feele the name of God revealed in you which is the strength and power which only is able to kill sin and trusting and believing in this the true faith comes first to be witnessed and then the one Baptisme which cleanseth and purifieth will be witnessed which bringeth into the everlasting Covenant which God is makeing with his holy Seed which he is now gathering from ●●●der all the shaddowes and also from among all the inventions of Men to serve him in meeknesse and feare in that worship which is inward in the spirit and in the truth 2dly The next thing is your imitable custome of eating and drinking Bread and Wine which you call a Sacrament of the Lords Supper and in this imitation stands much of your darke fellowship and communion but no warrant from Scripture have you for any such practise for Christ nor his Apostles never commanded Swearer and Lyers and covetous Persons and Fighters and Persecutors that they should observe any such thing at any time such as yee are for when ever yee eat or drinke it is unworthily as yee your selves sometimes confesse and so your damnation must needs be the greater Notwithstanding Christ the same night he was betrayed gave his Disciples his flesh to eat and his blood to drinke who afterward was to partake and injoy him in that which was signified by the Bread and the Cup when he tooke Bread and blessed it and said take eat this is my body which they tooke and eat and discerned his body of which they were Members and as oft as they did this they remembred him who said I goe away but I come againe and so also the cup he said was the new Testament in his blood which they then participating of and keeping in remembrance him who dyed who was to be raised up from the dead through faith and patience they came to have the new covenant in their hearts which was the substance of the figure in the blood they being first therwith sprinkled from an evill conscience and washed in their bodyes with pure water which is one with the blood but ●ow far yee are from this state let Gods witnesse in your consciences and your owne mouthes beare witnesse Now notwithstanding Christ did institute such a thing as this among his Disciples who had followed him in the regeneration and had continued with him in his temptations this was nothing to them who believed not on him neither is it any thing to you who are cursing them that beare witnesse to him that he is come a light into the world and hath lighted every man that cometh into the world and that witnesse he is come againe the second time without sin unto salvation according to his promise these you curse and persecute so your cup is not the cup of blessing which the Apostle speakes of 1 Cor. 10.16 Which is the Communion of the blood of Christ which cleanseth from all sin neither is that bread which they breake the Communion of the body of Christ for Paul saith they them selves were the bread and the body which is but one but this he said he spake to wise men and if any have an eare let them heare but as for your part yee are so foolish and unwise that the bread yee breake is carnall loaves which feedes nothing but the carnall body which is no part of Christs body that is hid from your carnall eyes and sealed from your carnall imaginations and his second comming which is without sin yee cannot believe and so his first comming will do you no good and your carnall bread and wine will never bring any of you to know nor remember his death nor to shew it forth for in that he dyed he dyed unto sin neither will his comming be unto salvation when he appears again unto you but unto damnation who discer●●●●ot his body but curseth and persecuteth his members but all that desires to know the Supper of the Lord in sincerity they must come to the light in the heart which cometh from Christ and that will shew them that which hath crucified Christ and slaine the Lambe and opprest the just in their own particulars and then the fear of God being placed in the heart and the want of Christ being felt who by sin and through transgression is crucified then shall you secretly come to feele a hope of his resurrection and so then as oft as yee eate and drink it will be in the fear of God and in remembrance of your own unworthinesse and also in rememberance of him who is to come to sanctifie the creatures which as he comes to be raised to life which hath been slaine in you this appearance is the second appearance which is without sin unto salvation and till yee witnesse this as oft as yee eat and drink doe it in the fear of God and in remembrance of Christ so shewing forth his death till he comes who when he comes will shew forth his owne life who is God over all blessed for ever Amen And these two you call Sacraments which you have as little ground for out of the Scripture as you have to practice them but are delighting your selves in the workes of your owne hands and giving names to your Idolls like the Heathens and Idolators before you But if you say they are obliging misteries I answer how comes it to passe that you who have beene so long exercised therein is no nearer obliged to God but remaines in the alienation of your mindes such strangers to him that one of your owne Preists said to a company of you in my hearing that the lowing of Oxen and the blee●ing of Sheepe would give as good an account of what God and