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A37498	The tryal of spirits both in teachers & hearers wherein is held forth the clear discovery and certain downfal of the carnal and antichristian clergie of these nations / testified from the Word of God to the university-congregation in Cambridge by William Dell ; whereunto is added A plain and necessary confutation of divers gross errors delivered by Mr. Sydrach Simpson in a sermon preached to the same congregation at the commencement, Anno 1653 ; wherein (among other things) is declared, that the vniversities (according to their present statutes and practices) are not (as he affirmed) answerable to the schools of the prophets in the time of the law, but rather to the idolatrous high places ...	Dell, William, d. 1664.; Simpson, Sidrach, 1600?-1655. A plain and necessary confutation of divers gross and antichristian errors.	1660 (1660)	Wing D933; ESTC R219079	121,760	168

this is that Spirit of Antichrist whereof you have heard that it should come and even now already it is in the world 4. Ye are of God little Children and have overcome them because Greater is he that is in You then he that is in the World 5. They are of the World therefore speak they of the World and the World hears Them 6. We are of God he that knoweth God heareth us he that is not of God heareth not us hereby know we the Spirit of Truth and the Spirit of Error IN this Scripture we may take Notice of these Six things 1. The Apostle gives notice to the Beloved Congregation of Spirituall Christians of a Great Evil risen up in the world which if not carefully heeded might occasion some great Trouble and Danger to them Many false Prophets saith he are gone out into the world V. 1. 2. He prescribes them a sufficient Remedy against this Evil saying Believe not every spirit but try the spirits whether they be of God 3. That the Faithfull might be able to make a right Judgement of Spirits he gives them one short Rule of Tryall which yet comprehends in its self all Rules vers 2. and 3. Hereby know we the Spirit of God every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God and every Spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God c. 4. He shews them with Whom these false Prophets who have the Spirit of Antichrist should not prevail to wit with none of the true Children of God vers 4. Ye are of God little Children and have overcome them because Greater is he that is in You than he that is in the World 5. He shews them with whom the false Prophets should prevail to wit with the World and Carnal People vers 5. They are of the World therefore speak they of the World and the World heareth them The World seeking its own Things receives Antichrist and his Prophets 6. He shews how the Spirit of Truth and Error may be known in the People as well as in the Teachers to wit by the Peoples cleaving either to the Teachers of Truth or to the Teachers of Error vers 6. We are of God he that knoweth God heareth us he that is not of God heareth not us hereby know we the Spirit of Truth and the Spirit of Error These six things are held forth to us in this Scripture and they are all very Profitable and Necessary for the true Church to be acquainted withal especially in these last of the last Times I shall begin with the First which is 1. Point The Great and Dangerous Evil of which the Apostle gives notice to the Church of Believers and that is The going out of false Prophets into the World Many false Prophets are gone out into the world ANd here it is to be noted that from the very beginning of the world there have been two Seeds or Generations of Men very contrary the One to the Other as is evident in Gen. 3. 15. where God saith to the Serpent I will put enmity between Thee and the Woman and between thy Seed and her Seed so that the Serpent hath his Seed as well as the Woman her Seed and this was the Womans Curse to have her sorrows and Conceptions multiplyed and to bring forth the Serpents Seed as well as her Own that is the Children or Seed of the first Blessing and both these Contrary Seeds do partake of one and the same common Nature or Humanity And one of these Seeds are called the Sons of God the other the Sons of Man Gen. 6. 6. And Both these being the children of one Adam according to the Flesh are yet distinguished by several Spirits that dwell in them and inspire them For the Spirit of God that is the Spirit of Righteousness and Truth doth inspire the One and these are truly called the Children of God as Paul saith Rom. 8. as many as are led by the Spirit of God they are the Sons of God And the Spirit of Satan which is the Spirit of Wickedness and Error doth inspire the Other and these are truly called the sons of Men who all have sinned and are deprived of the Glory of God Now these two Different and Contrary Spirits which have dwelt in these two distinct Seeds have begun to act presently from the very beginning of the world each one according to his own Nature and to trade and traffick about Mankind and out of it to bring forth Children to Themselves like to Themselves in all things and so One hath endeavoured to beget and bring forth the Children of God and of Truth the Other the children of Men and of Error And to this end the One hath held forth the Truth of God by the true Spirit of God the Other hath held forth Error and Falshood yet as it were the Truth The One hath endeavoured to bring Man unto God through true Faith and Repentance the Other to turn Men from God through Sin The One hath sought to work Salvation in Men the Other Destruction Now the False Spirit hath been the most Common in the World and hath had the greatest Opportunities and Advantages to multiply it self seeing it finds the whole World already lying in Wickedness and fully prepared to receive it self But the true Spirit hath been found in very few and that from the beginning for there have been but few true Prophets who have had the true Spirit and have spoken the true Word as you may see all along in Scriptures especially in the times of Elijah and Micajah but Christ saith Many false Prophets shall arise and deceive Many and Peter saith in his second Epistle Chap. 2. vers 1 2. That as there were false Prophets among the People that is the Jews so there shall be false Doctors and Teachers among the Christians who should privily bring in damnable Heresies and that Many should follow their pernicious wayes So that as there have been many false Prophets from the beginning so especially in the daies of the New Testament for the more Christ hath appeared by his Spirit to lead men into Truth the more hath the Devill appeared by his Spirit to lead men into Error and this is properly called Antichrist For Flesh and Blood is not Antichrist but a Spirit contrary to Christs Spirit that dwells in Flesh and Blood and chiefly among those that profess the Christian Religion This is Antichrist No Spirit in the Jews or Gentiles is properly called Antichrist but the Spirit of Satan in false Christians appearing as an Angel of light this is Antichrist Before Christ came in the flesh the Devill was an evil Spirit and a Lyar and a Murderer and the Unclean Spirit and Prince of this world but he was not properly Antichrist because Christ was not then come in the flesh

The Tryal of Spirits Both in TEACHERS HEARERS Wherein is held forth The clear Discovery and certain Downfal OF THE Carnal and Antichristian Clergie of These NATIONS Testified from the Word of God to the University-Congregation in Cambridge By WILLIAM DELL Whereunto is added A plain and necessary Confutation of divers gross Errors DELIVERED BY Mr SYDRACH SIMPSON In a Sermon preached to the same Congregation at the COMMENCEMENT Anno 1653. Wherein among other things is declared That the Universities according to their present Statutes and Practices are not as he affirmed answerable to the Schools of the Prophets in the time of the Law but rather to the Idolatrous High Places And that Humane Learning is not a Preparation appointed by Christ either for the Right Understanding or Right Teaching the Gospel With a brief Testimony against Divinity-Degrees in the Universities As also Luthers Testimony at large upon the whole Matter And lastly The right Reformation of Learning Schools and Universities according to the state of the Gospel and the Light that shines therein All necessary for the Instruction and Direction of the faithful in these last times London Printed for Giles Calvert at the Black spread-Eagle at the West-end of Pauls 1660. To all the truly Faithfull the very little Flock of Christ in these Nations now despised and almost worn out according to the Prophesies for the Word of God and Testimony which they hold Grace be multiplyed unto you and Peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Head and Hope I Could not choose but distinguish You thus from all the rest of the People of these Nations of what Condition or Quality soever seeing God Himself hath first done it having chosen you to Himself in Christ and set you apart for Himself as a Peculiar People zealous of good works And I have chosen to speak this only to You because You are all taught of God and have heard and learned from Him the Truth as it is in Jesus and because You have an inward Unction from God whereby You know the Truth from Error though it be never so much reproached by Carnal Christians and whereby you know Error from the Truth though it be never so much exalted and magnified by them You are those Spiritual Men who judge All things because you have received the Word and Spirit of Judgement in Christ from the Father Besides You are the Men whom God will use in his Greatest and most Glorious Works which he hath yet to do in the World to wit in the Destruction of the Kingdom of Antichrist and in the Setting up and inlarging the Kingdom of Christ which Things are not to be done by the Might and Power of worldly Magistrates which it may be you have not received and if you had it would not be helpful here but by the Spirit of the Lord which You all have received in some measure Yea farther none but You will be contented to live only by Faith and to follow Christ in Untrodden Paths and to undertake impossible Works to flesh and blood and none but You will be willing to have the residue of Christs Life and Works and of his Sufferings and Death fulfilled in your mortal bodies It grieves me much to see so Many Men as I have known once hopeful in the Army and elsewhere to be now so full gorged with the flesh of Kings and Nobles and Captains and Mighty Men that is with their Estates Mannors Houses Parks Lands c. that they can now be contented to take their ease and to comply with the World and worldly Church and the Teachers thereof and can perswade themselves that there is enough done for their time after it hath fared thus well with them and can leave the Remainder to Men that are as plain and mean as Themselves were at first forgetting Him who remembred Them when they were in Low Condition But they that were indeed Righteous among them are Righteous still and they that were indeed Holy are Holy still and Prosperity hath only slain the Fools as the Scriptures speak But You Christians are Called Chosen and Faithful and You will still be found with the Lamb on mount Sion and with the rest who have his Name and his Fathers Name written in their Foreheads and you dare still own the Ancient Truth Cause and Work of Christ how great disadvantage soever is for the present risen up against it through the Apostasie of Carnal Christians the Lovers of this World And You all know that all that hath been done hitherto by the Sword is but the Preparation of Christs way to his Work and that the Work it self is still behind and to be done by those Worthies of the Lord who love Jesus Christ and his Kingdom and Coming a thousand times better then the present World and all the best things of it yea then their own Lives Wherefore I advise You all to whom now I speak to take heed that you neither drink nor sip of the Clergies Cup which carries in it the Wine of the wrath of the fornication of Antichrist lest having drunk thereof you fall asleep through the strength of their Inchantments and so are rendred unable to follow Christ any farther For many Powers and Magistrates of the world once hopeful have been thus overcome and seduced into Antichrists cause against Christ to their utter ruine in the end And how have the present Clergy with their most Plausible Men attempted some of this Present Power yea some of the very Chiefest and most Godly in the Army and have put them into some that I say not great Danger Wherefore remember you that word of the Lord spoken by his Angel Rev. 14. 9 10. If any man worship the Beast and his Image and receive his Mark in his forehead or in his hand the same shall drink of the Wine of the Wrath of God which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation c. IF ANY MAN WORSHIP THE BEAST that is the Antichristian Church of the Pope and his Prelates and Clergy which is called the Beast because of its Fierceness and Cruelty against the Saints Or HIS IMAGE that is the Church of the Bishops and Presbyters which in a lesser Volume and less Letters doth answer the Other and is directly like it Whoever shall WORSHIP THESE that is highly esteem them for their Humane Learning and School-Divinity and Sacredness of their Orders and count them worthy all Honour and Respect and worldly Maintenance and also to have Power in matters of Religion to allow and determine of Doctrine and to appoint and institute in matters of Government and being Worldly Powers do subject Themselves and all the worldly People under them to these mens Religion Authority Doctrine Discipline c. Whoever shall thus worship them Or SHALL RECEIVE HIS MARK that is this Principle that It is lawful to punish and persecute men in Matters that meerly relate to Faith