Fast dayes You have taken away the superfluous excessive maintenance of the Bishops Deanes and we have many take away and cry down the necessary maintenance of the Ministers In the Bishops dayes we had singing of Psalmes taken away in some places conceived prayer preaching and in their room Anthems stinted forms and reading brought in and now we have singing of Psalms spoken against and cast out of some Churches yea all publike prayer questioned and all ministeriall preaching denyed In the Bishops times Popish Innovations were introduced as bowing at Altars c. and now we have anointing the sick with Oyle then we had Bishopping of children now we have Bishopping of men and women by strange laying on of hands as is related in this following Book In the Bishops dayes we had many unlearned Ministers and have we not now a company of Jereboams Priests In the Bishops dayes we had the fourth Commandement taken away but now we have all ten Commandements at once by the Antinomians yea all faith and the Gospell denyed as by the Seekers The worst of the Prelats in the midst of many Popish Arminian tenets and Popish Innovations held many sound doctrines and had many commendable practices yea the very Papists hold and keep to many Articles of faith and truths of God have some order among them encourage learning have certain fixed principles of truth with practises of devotion and good works but many of the Sects and Sectaries in our dayes deny all principles of Religion are enemies to all holy Duties Order Learning overthrowing all being vertiginosi spiritus whirlegigg spirits and the great opinion of an universall Toleration tends to the laying of all waste and dissolution of all Religion and good manners Now are not these Errours Heresies and Schismes spots and blots in our Reformation do they not blemish and cast a dark shadow upon all the light part are they not the dead flies in the Apothecaries ointment sending forth a stinking savour are they not the reproach and rejoycings of the common enemy the scandall of the weak the blasing star of the times and are not Sectaries strangely suffered connived at keeping open meetings in the heart of the City yea printing with License their erroneous opinions and daring to give into some of your hands such Books as 't is a shame to speak of being let so alone that they are grown up to many thousands both in City and Country Christ in Revel 2.19 highly commends the Angel of the Church of Thyatira for his works service faith patience c. but yet reproves and threatens him for suffering without punishment false doctrines to be taught and disorders to be practised in the Church But I have a few things against thee because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel which calleth her self a Prophetesse to teach and to seduce my servants And be pleased to observe what truth that Scripture holds out namely that a connivence and suffering without punishment false Doctrines and Disorders Persons to preach whom God hath not called and to preach Errours Heresies blemishes and dashes the most glorious works and provokes God to send judgements a Toleration doth eclipse and darken the glory of the most excellent Reformation God accounts all those errours heresies schismes c. committed in a land but let alone and suffered without punishment by those who have authority and power to be the sins of those who have power and he will proceed against them as if they were the authors of them A man comes to be pertaker of other mens sins by countenancing consenting and suffering withou punishment as well as by formally committing them Solomon in 1. King 11. from ver 1. to 15. is counted by God to be guilty of all the Idolatry committed by his wives and their followers and accordingly God is angry with him and threatens him because being a King he had power in his hands to hinder it not that Solomon did bring into the house of God Idols or ever commanded the people to forsake the worship of God and to worship Idols or that he did in his own persont worship Idols This only is certain that he suffered them to build Altars and sacrifice to strange gods Ephes. 5.12 't is the command of God to have no fellowship with the unfruitfull works of darknesse that is not by consenting helping imitating suffering them without reproof Now a Magistrates reproving is by using coercive power to punish and suppresse evills as is evident in the example of old Eli to his sons who though he did reprove by words yet because he punished them not he was partaker of their sins and was severely punished by God for it 1. Sam. 2.23 242 5. chap. 3.13.14 Now Right Honourable though You hold none of these Opinions practise not these wayes neither command any of these things but have put out Declarations wherin there are some passages against Anabaptists Brownists and other Sects and made Orders and Ordinances for the preventing and remedying of many of these evills as that Order of Febr. 16. 1643. That Ministers suffer none to preach in the places where they have charge but such as they will be answerable for as the Ordinance against the preaching of Persons not ordained in this or some other Reformed Church as the Ordinance of not printing without License yea upon complaint have questioned and troubled some Sectaries for their Errours and pernicious Practises yet notwithstanding there is a strange unheard of suffering and bearing with them and such a one as I beleeve all things considered never was there the like under any Orthodox Christian Magistrate and State How do sects and schismes increase and grow daily Sectaries doing even what they will committing insolencies and outrages not only against the truth of God and the peace of the Church but the Civill state also going up and down Countries causing riots yea tumults and disturbances in the publike Assemblies how do persons cast out of other Countries for their Errours not only live here but gather Churches preach publikely their Opinions what swarmes are there of all sorts of illiterate mechanick Preachers yea of Women and Boy Preachers what a number of meetings of Sectaries in this Citiy eleven at least in one Parish what liberty of preaching printing of all Errours or for a Toleration of all and against the Directory Covenant monethly Fast Presbyteriall Government and all Ordinances of Parliament in reference to Religion and most of these persons either never questioned at all or if questioned abusing those in a high manner who question them coming off one way or other and afterwards going on in spreading their errours more then before or if committed by some below whereby they are hindred from preaching and dipping then brought off and released by some above of which they bragg and boast yea many Sectaries countenanced imployed and preferd to speciall places both of profit honour and trust and that which is
those Articles to be burnt by the hand of the common Hang-man and the war to go on which proved their ruine and fatall destruction And for a conclusion of this Symptome I will end it with those words of the Prophet Isaiah Lord when thy hand is lifted up they will not see but they shâ—â— see and be ashamed for their envie towards thy people yea the fire of thine enemies shall devoure them Lord thou wilt ordaine peace for us for thou also hast wrought all our works for us And though it be a sad thing that men holding forth a profession of Religion should fall to those wayes and grow to such an height as I have laid open yet I am perswaded it is a good hand of God and his speciall providence and mercie to his Church in these Kingdomes to leave the Sectaries to fall into so many evils to take such strange wayes thus to discover themselves and to proceed so far that so the Kingdomes knowing them well they might in the issue be more effectually cured and perfectly delivered from them for had these men kept themselves within the compasse of a few of their opinions and carried things faire and not broke out as they have done we should have thought them good holy men been much taken with them and many would have been deceived by them yea in time they might have got such an interest and had such an influence as to have corrupted all but now having thus early discovered themselves both in matters of Church and State in opinions and practices this hath so opened the eyes of this Kingdome yea of both that it will cause them to abhor and abominate them as a wicked Faction whose principles would bring in an universall Anarchy both upon Church and State overthrowing all Ministerie setled Government and order in the Church being against Kingly Government the House of Peeres House of Commons unlesse ad placitum and so long as the common people like them and all power of Magistrates in capitall matters over Church members in the Commonwealth and who cared not to have sacrificed the Religion peace happinesse of these Kingdomes upon the ambition furie pride lust opinions of Anabaptists Libertines Seekers Brownists Independents And therefore however the Sectaries may flatter themselves in the encrease of their partie in the power they have in some places in the favour they find among some great men yet let them know notwithstanding their policies all their arms of flesh all their friends in the Armies in the House of Commons and in Committees which they so boast of yet God will overthrow them and these eight particulars are certaine symptomes of their ruine and let who will do what they can to uphold them yet God will bring them downe for when they spring as the grasse and as the Workers of iniquitie flourish then is it that they shall be destroyed for ever And therefore let us be couragious and faithfull to the cause of God contending earnestly for the faith which was once at livered to the Saints and let us be in nothing terrified by the Sectaries And to all the Symptomes I have given already being so many fore-runners of their fall let the Reader consider this That they have their deaths wound already the fatall arrow sticks in their sides and having begun to fall they shall surely fall and that besides the Citie of London and other instruments God will honour our Brethren of Scotland to make them a great means of their falling and they shall fall before the Scots whom they have so vilified and unworthily dealt with as the Prelaticall and Popish partie did and me thinks the way of Gods proceedings all along this way of Reformation and many passages of his providence hint point it out to us for the Sectaries are a Faction alike opposite to our Brethren of Scotland viz. the other extreme and all along from first to last God hath made the Scots instrumentall for the good of this Kingdome and bringing things thus far And that God will honour the Kingdome of Scotland and the Church-reformation according to their way to bring down the Sectaries let the Reader consult with M. Brightman a man of a propheticall spirit in his Exposition on the Church of Philadelphia Rev. 3. 8 9 10. where he shews that Church to whom so many promises are made to be the reformed Churches of Geneva France Scotland and those who are according to that way of Reformation in Doctrine and Church Government and among many things observed by M. Brightman on that place I shall only point at two 1. That Philadelphia the type of Geneva Scotland and the Churches of that Reformation is most famous for truth of Doctrine As for truth of Doctrine where is there any place in the whole world chaster and sounder Here the whole Papacie is destroyed Anabaptists Antitrinitarians Arrians and such monsters raised again from Hell partly in Germany partly in Transylvania never found a sharper enemy 2. By those who say they are Jewes and are not vers 9. in the Antitype are all those who holding errours do arrogate alone to themselves truth faith salvation the promises of God boasting nothing else but the Temple such were the Arrians under Constantine Constantius Valens and such are at this day the Papists glorying in Peters Chaire these will be accounted the only Catholikes and their Church the only Church of Christ c. Now if wee consider well of these two things 1. We shall find no Church sounder for Doctrine than the Church of Scotland nor greater enemies not only against Papacie and Prelacie but against Anabaptists Seekers and all kind of Sectaries than they are 2. Wee shall not among all Heretikes and Sectaries that have been since the writing of this Epistle find any that have more resembled the Jewes in boasting themselves to be the only people of God than the Sectaries of our times the Anabaptists Independents who extoll themselves for the only Saints calling themselves the Saints the people of God the Church and their way is called by them the Church-way Church-fellowship Christs way and that all who are not of their way are without c. so that these words do most fully agree to them who say they are Iewes and are not but do lye and therefore to conclude this Corallarie all the promises made to Philadelphia do belong in a speciall manner to our Brethren of Scotland as First That God will make them come viz. those who are the Antitype to those Jews the Sectaries Anabaptists Independents that whole Faction and worship before their feet and to know that God hath loved them that is they shall overcome and triumph over these Sectaries and however they have been hitherto abused and scorned by them neither have these unthankfull men acknowledged my love from that singular gift of zeale pietie which I bestowed upon thee yet I will adorn thee with those things which are in great
Lords Supper though beleevers and Saints nor their children to be baptized but onely they who are members in a Church-way 110. There is no Scripture against a mans being often baptized neither is it more unlawfull to be baptized often then to receive the Lords Supper often 111. That Christs words in the Institution of his Supper This is my body and This is my bloud are to be understood literally 112. That Christians in receiving the Lords Supper should receive with their hats on with their heads covered but the Ministers should administer it with their hats off uncovered 113. That 't is as necessary to be joyned in Church-fellowship as with Christ the Head and there 's such a necessity of entring into a Church-way as there is no expectation of salvation without it 114. That the Church of England and the Ministery thereof is Antichristian yea of the Devill and that 't is absolutely sinfull and unlawfull to hear any of their Ministers preach in their Assemblâ—es 115. That the Church of Rome was once a true Church but so was the Church of England never therefore 't is likelier the Church of Rome should be in the right in the Doctrines of Free-will universall Redemption Originall sin c. then the Church of England 116. That the calling and making of Ministers of the Word and Sacraments are not jure Divino but a Minister comes to be so as a Meâ—chant Bookseller Tailor and such like 117. That all setled certaine maintenance for Ministers of the Gospel especially that which is called Tyths is unlawfull Jewish and Antichristian 118. That Ministers of the Gospel in these dayes ought to work with their hands and to follow some calling that they may not be chargeable to the Church 119 That there ought to be no distinct order of Ministers nor no such calling of some persons distinct and separated from the people but that all men who have gifts are in their turns and courses by the appointment of the rest of the company to preach pray baptize and they are for that turn in stead of Ministers and as Ministers 120. That all dayes are a like to Christians under the new Testament and they are bound no more to the observation of the Lords day or first day of the week then to any other 121. That the Jewish Sabbath or Saturday is still to be kept by Christians for their Sabbath 122. That Christians are not bound to meet one day in seven constantly according to the manner of the Nations nor to pray and preach thus long and in this manner two or three houres according to the custome of the Nations 123. No man hath more to do to preach the Gospel then another but every man may preach the Gospel as well as any 124. That 't is lawfull for women to preach and why should they not having gifts as well as men and some of them do actually preach having great resort to them 125. 'T is a part of Christian liberty of Christians not to hear their own Ministers but to go and heare where they will and whom they think they may profit most by 126. That 't is unlawfull to worship God in places consecrated and in places where Superstition and Idolatry have been practised as in our Churches 127. That men ought to preach and exercise their gifts without study and premeditation and not to think of what they are to say till they speak because it shall be given them in that hour and the Spirit shall teach them 128. That there is no need of humane learning nor of reading Authors for Preachers but all books and learning must go down it comes from the want of the Spirit that men writ such great volumes and make such adoe of learning 129. There are some women ten or eleven in one Town or vicinity who hold it unlawfull to hear any man preach either publikely or privately because they must not be like those women in Timothy ever learning and never comming to the knowledg of the truth 2. Tim. 3.6.7 130. That t is unlawfull to preach at all sent or not sent out as in a Church-state but only thus a man may preach as a waiting Disciple that is Christians may not preach in a way of positive asserting and declaring things but all they may do is to confer reason together and dispute out things 131. That t is unlawfull for the Saints to joyn in receiving the Lords supper where any wicked men are present and that such mixt Communion doth pollute and defile them 132 'T is unlawfull for the Saints to joyn in prayer where wicked men are or to pray with any of the wicked 133. That 't is unlawfull for Christians to pray so much as privately with those though godly that are not members of a true Church but are members of the Church of England and the Assemblies thereof 134 That however conference and discourse may be had with all yet t is not lawfull to joyn in prayer or giving of thanks no not before meat with those though otherwise acknowledged Saints and godly and are members of Churches in the Church-way that aâ—e not of the same judgement and way 135. That t is not lawfull for Christians to pray at all with any others either as being the mouth in prayer or as joyning in prayer though never so godly and of their own judgements either in the publike Assemblies or in their Families unlesse such persons who prayed had an infallible spirit as the Apostles 136. That Christians are not bound to pray constantly every day at set times as morning and evening but only at such times as the Spirit moves them to it and if they finde not themselves so moved in many dayes and weeks together they ought not to pray 137. That wicked and unregenerate men ought not to pray unto God at all 138. That all singing of Psalmes as Davids or any other holy songs of Scripture is unlawfull and not to be joyned with 139. That the singing which Christians should use is that of Hymns and spirituall songs framed by themselves composed by their own gifts and that upon speciall occasions as deliverances c. sung in the Congreation by one of the Assembly all the rest being silent 140. That love-feasts or feasts of love with which the Lords Supper is to be administred also is a perpetuall ordinance of Christ at which only Church-members are to be present and to partake 141. That there is no distinction concerning Government of Ecclesiasticall and civil for all that Government which concernes the Church ought to be civill but the maintaining of that distinction is for maintaining the interests of Church-men 142. That a few private Christians as six or seven gathering themselves into a Covenant and Church-fellowship have an absolute entire power of the Keyes and all Government within themselves and are not under any authoritative power of any Classes Synods or generall Councels whatsoever they
up himself a sacrifice of full satisfaction not for all men only but for all that by man was lost even the whole creation of God 172. That a Directory or order to help in the way of worship is a breach of the second Commandement and there is no word of God to warrant the making of that Directory book more then Ieroboam had for the making of Calves of gold which he set upon two high places one at Dan the other at Betâ—el to the confusion of himself and his posterity 173. No man is yet in hell neither shall any be there untill the judgement for God doth not hang first and judge after 174. Men say that Faith is supernaturall but how can it be above nature to beleeve that which we see sufficient ground to beleeve and to beleeve any thing of which we have no plaine ground and reason is so far from being above nature that it is below it and proper to fools and not to reasonable men 175. The Law doth not pronounce eternall death in hell fire on those that obey it not nor were men to have perished in hell fire in relation to the Law or Adams sin but the Gospel pronounceth eternall death in hell fire on those that obey it not and if we had been to suffer hell in relation to Adam or the Law then Christ also should have suffered in hell for us to have redeemed us from thence which he did not 176. It is not sutable to God to pick and chuse amongst men in shewing mercy if the love of God be manifested to a few it is far from being infinite if God shew not mercy to all to ascribe it to his will or pleasure is to blaspheme his excellent name and nature Now unto these many more might be added that I know of and are commonly known to others which have been preached and printed within these four last years in England as the necessity of dipping and burying under water all persons to be baptized as the necessity of a Church-Covenant as that Ministers may not lawfully baptize or administer the Lords Supper out of their own particular Congregations neither preach Ministerially but as gifted brethren out of their own Church with many such errours of the Church-way but because they are but light in comparison I will not name them I could relate also to you other errours that have been reported to me and others by honest understanding men to have been vented and 't is likely enough they may be true as that 't is lawfull for wives to give without their husbands consents something out of their husbands estates for the maintenance of the Church and Ministers whereunto they belong as that the Lords Prayer called and cryed up by many to be so it could not be the Lords Prayer in regard there was a petition for pardon of sins which Christ would not have taught or words to that purpose as also that if a man were strongly moved by the spirit to kill to commit adultery c. and upon praying against it again and again it continued and yet was still strongly pressed he should then do it but because I have not these upon so good grounds nor such a concurrence of circumstances or further confirmation upon enquiry I therefore forbear to put them down particularly in the Catalogue of Errours or to assert them with that authority I might here also annex to all these Errours many Expositions of Scripture given by the Sectaries in their Sermons and private meetings but I will only give two 1. That of Rom. 8.2 The law of the Spirit of life hath freed me from the law of sin and death that is as was expounded from the morall Law 2. That of Ioh. 5 39. Seaâ—ch the Scriptures for in them ye think ye have eternall life you thinke to have that was their thought and mistake not that Christ approved it that eternall life was to be had in the Scriptures A Catalogue of the Blasphemies of the Sectaries NOw besides these Errours and Heresies laid down many of them being Blasphemies as the Reader cannot but have observed in perusing their Catalogue there have been many blasphemies and blasphemous speeches vented by Sectaries severall wayes both by writing preaching conference and discoursing and some so horrid and abominable in such a dispitefull scoffing fearfull way that I tremble to think of them and shall forbear to name them And indeed within these four last years in England there have been blasphemies uttered of the Scriptures the Trinity each person of the Trinity both of Father Son and holy Ghost of Gods eternall election of the Virgin Mary the Apostles and holy Penmen of Scripture of Baptisme Prayer the ministery of the Word and the Ministers of all the Reformed Churches of the Government of the Church and of the Christian Magistrates In some books printed and dispersed up and down there are fearfull blasphemies as in the Arraignment of persecution The Sacred Synodycall Decretall Martins Eccho c. profaning and abusing the holy and dreadfull Name of God in a most fearfull manner scoffing at the holy Ghost sent in a Cloak-bagg from Scotland making a most blasphemous Prayer wherein the Passion Death Resurrection and Ascension of Christ are in a scoffing way alluded unto with many others which I will not foul paper with transcribing In some Manuscripts of one Paul Best there are most horrid blasphemies of the Trinity of Christ and of the holy Ghost calling the Doctrine of the Trinity a mystery of iniquity the three headed Cerberus a fiction a Tradition of Rome Monstrâ—m biforme triforme with other horrid expressions borowed from hell not fit to be mentioned There was a fearfull blasphemous scoffing speech of God the Father Son and holy Ghost spoken by one Clarke as I remember the name given in to a Committee of Parliament in way of complaint in writing with a hand subscribed and one witnessed it before the Committee but I forbear to relate it Mr Paget in his Heresiography Epistle Dedicatory speakes of one committed for mocking at Christs Incarnation the particulars whereof though I have been told from Master Paget yet I judge it best to conceal There have been many blaspheming speeches in a way of derision of the holy Ghost calling it flabile numen and asking what kinde of bird it was whether but I dare not speak it The holy Scriptures are by many in these times sleighted and scoffed at that growes and spreades much called the golden Calfe that there are many contradictions and lyes in them that they are no better then a Ballad that they can make as good Scriptures that place in Genesis 6.6 where 't is said God repented that be made man was untrue so other places of Scripture The Doctrine of Gods Eternall Election and Praedestination hath been call'd a damnable Errour The Virgin Mary hath been called a the Apostles have been called and they could write
shall bespeak them in those words Cant. 6.13 Return return O Shulamite return return that wee may look upon thee in the exhortation of the Apostle Peter Save your selves from this untoward generation and in that call from Heaven Come out of her my people that yee be not partakers of her sinnes and that yee receive not of her plagues I know there are many in the way who are not of the way that know not the depths of Satan who are meerly deceived out of their high opinion of some of the men and of the way as a most holy people and as a way wherein they should enjoy an heaven upon earth a great deale of love holinesse sweetnesse comfort c. Now I have good hopes that all such upon the discovering to them the dangerous Errours Heresies pernicious practices that attend that way will be recovered and blesse God for delivering them from such a dangerous snare and I am perswaded that all those who are fallen from us upon mistakes that are not Dogmatists nor engaged to the Sectarian partie upon points of credit profit interest of relations c. and shall in the feare of God and in humilitie read my first and second Part of Gangraena by the blessing and grace of God they will be a means to convert and bring them back to us and I the rather insist upon this exhortation because I find both in Histories and in the experience of our owne times that many Sectaries have been regained Iohannes Denkius an Anabaptist and a great Schollar was converted by Oecolampadius * Obbo Philippus a famous Anabaptist yet recanted and by an ingenuous and free confession laid open the impostures of his companions and Theodor. Philippus out of the perswasion of Obbo afterwards repented Many Anabaptists were reclaimed by learned Musculus and among the rest one who was a Schollar afterwards being made a Minister of the Church spent a great deale of pains in converting the Anabaptists And now in these times in mine owne and other Ministers experience some who have been of that way told us they thought the Anabaptists a most holy people which made them to joyne with them but now seeing their errours and their loose practices what a wicked people they are that hath caused them to leave them And among the Independents I know some who have forsaken the Church-way and are returned to our publike Assemblies A Minister of that way and a Pastour of an Independent Church for some years upon re-examination of his former grounds and holding them up to the light by the word of God and the writings of some Presbyterians giving grounds out of the word of God saw the Independent way to be a garment full of holes and from the factions divisions hee saw in that way and the strange opinions and errours that the members of his Church run into hee is turned Presbyterian a Minister of one of our Congregations in England and hath publikely in his Parish Church given God glorie recanted professed his being humbled for being in the Independent way and is a great Zealot for Presbyterie and against Independencie Another of that way a good Schollar Fellow of a Colledge member of an Independent Church in London upon reading some books against Independencie and other things he found in that way left his Church and is a profest Presbyterian I could tell also of a School-master member of a Church in New-England who is of our Churches now since his coming over but I must hasten and unto all these examples for to cause you to returne consider these following particulars 1. Stay no longer in the way of Schisme and Separation wherein thou art but upon all these discoveries of the Errours Heresies Blasphemies c. of the Sectaries leave them left God be provoked to leave thee to go a great way further then yet thou art from Independency and Anabaptisme to a Seeker to Arrianisme Antiscripturisme yea Blasphemy and Atheisme 2. The Independent Church-way is a way of errour confusion division a way that God never shined upon nor blessed spiritually with the blessing of edification onenesse of heart and peace in their Churches but hath been a bitter root of division contentions errours in all places of the world where ever such Churches have been set up as in New-England Holland Iland of Providence the Summer Ilands Old England 3. Come out from these Sectaries this Babell lest being partakers of their sins you be partakers of their plagues also for these Sects as I have shewed you in the second Corallary must be destroyed and cast out and not onely out of this Church but out of all the Christian world and that either as the lesser Antichrists the fore-runners of the great Antichrist or together with him as a part of Antichrist the tail of the Beast and then all the friends and lovers of Sectaries the merchants who were made rich and traded in the commodities of the Sectaries shall cast dust upon their heads and weep and waile when they see all that is come upon them And for a conclusion of this Corallary I shall wind it up with that sad and patheticall exhortation of M. Brightman to the Separatists of his time applying it to our Sectaries now There is in the Church of England a twofold great good the preaching of the Word and the administration of the Sacraments in either of which Christ imparts himselfe celebrating a mutuall feast with them hee is first received of us by the hearing of the Word then he doth againe receive us in the Supper of his body O we most base and unworthy as often as we fly away from hearing the Word I for we refuse Christ our Ghuest O we wicked despisers as often as in the Sacrament with our brethren wee with-dâ—aw our selves I for we despise Christ calling us to the Supper But these things are added for the singular comfort of the godly For who would not feare and with all speed thinke of flying from this Church when they should heare the condition of these Ministers to be so hatefull to Christ as that in a shorte time unlesse they repent he would spue them out of his mouâ—h unlâ—sse that in the words of Christ himselfe they had been assured of communion and fellowship with Christ in that Church Praise therefore to thee O most meeke Lamb who finding the doores shut against thee dost not being stird up with fury presently withdraw thy selfe and deprive us according to our deserts of salvation but still leavest a plentifull store of thy selfe to all them who open to the knocking by thy word and do not contemn thy most gracious invitation by the Sacraments Therefore it is a wicked and blasphemous errour of them who do so forsake our Church as if Christ were wholly gone from hence neither could there be any hope of salvation to them who staid in it ☜ Let them think that Christ is here supping with his Is it