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world_n	love_n	love_v	lover_n	2,071	5	9.6421	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94750	A vvord of reproof to the priests or ministers, who boast of their ministery and ordinances, and yet live in pride, disdain, persecution, &c. Shevving what such are; and how little cause they have to exclaim against those who separate from them. As also a word to the papists discovering their foundation to be carnal and sandie. In a letter sent to some supposed priests or Jesuites in the north, by William Tomlinson.	Tomlinson, William.	1653 (1653)	Wing T1855; Thomason E691_9; ESTC R206966	29,084	49

fit to be feeders of the flock of Christ at all appears clearly by their lives You shall know them by their fruits or works saith Christ speaking of false Prophets do men gather grapes of thorns or figgs of thistles No they are so far from being discovered by their fruits to be Peters spirituall successors that their fruits discover them to be false Prophets yea and such as have the preheminence among those who have deceived the Nations This stands in great Characters upon their foreheads that all may run and read Mistery Babylon the great the mother of Harlots and abominations of the Earth For what abominations be there that are not among them committed As for persecution they excell being drunk with the blood of Saints and with the blood of the Martyrs of Jesus Rev. 17.5 6. They are arayed in purple and scarlet colour and decked with gold and pretious stone and pearls having a golden cup in their hand full of abominations and filthiness of their fornication vers 4. How far are these things differing from the spirit that was in Peter But to speak a little more particularly that they are not Peters spirituall successors appears in this because they are the least conformable or like to Peter of any men For Peter did really in life deny himself take up his crosse and follow Christ they do not so but are exalted like Princes in the earth possessing an earthly Kingdom They have indeed many images of crosses they glory in the shadow but deny the practise the life of the crosse which is that which Christ called for and Peter lived in but they are far from Again as they have not the life of Peter so they have not the spirit of Peter in them and therefore are not his successors and so are not a Rock for the Church of Christ to be built upon It was not Peters outside that was called a Rock but that spirit of life that was in him which could flow into the spirits of others and so cement many living stones into one spirituall house with him Now that they have not the spirit of Peter in them appears also by their fruits their lives their fruits are the fruits of Sodom and not the fruits of the spirit for they live in pride fulness of bread abundance of idleness covetousness Persecution and such like They seek the honor of this world and heap up to themselves the riches of this world and therefore cannot be Beleevers much less Rocks for the Church to stand on Joh. 5.44 How can ye beleeve who receive honor one of another and seek not the honor that cometh from God onely Now none receive greater honor among men then they do therefore none are further off from beleeving in Christ aright then they are Again they have not the true love of God in them 1 Joh. 2.15 If any man love the world the love of the Father is not in him And who are greater lovers of the world then the Bishops of Rome are Again they are not fit to teach others This also appears by their lives For what have they to do to take the word of God into their mouthes who hate to be reformed themselves and to live as Christ and his Apostles did How can they build up the Church of Christ by their Doctrine who live contrary to the Doctrine of Christ How can they teach men to take up the crosse and follow Christ who are enemies to the crosse of Christ whose God is their Belly who glory in that which will be their shame who minde earthly things Phil. 3.18 19. Thus I say their lives discover them to be nothing conformable to Peter to have none of that spirit in them which dwelt in him to be unbeleevers to want the love of the Father in them to be unfit to teach others All these I say appear clearly by their lives by their fruits by their works the Character that Christs gives to know false Prophets day Mat. 7.15 16.20 And shall any man then look upon these men as Peters as Rocks on which the Church stands as feeders of the sheep of the Lambs of Christ as the head of the Church and patterns for the Church of Christ to follow Friends it is love to you and the Truth which makes me to represent these things to you And I desire that you may well consider where you stand and on what you hang whether you stand on the Rock Christ or on the sands of an outward succession whether you hang on a sure naile or on a weak slippery pin It behoves all to consider well their foundation for the Lord is comming to discover the foundations of the Earth and to shake them till all the buildings raised up upon the sands do fall though never so glorious W. Tomlinson FINIS