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A35004 A word of reproof to the teachers of the world vvhich may be of use for the tryal of t[h]eir wayes ... : with an invitation and warning to them and all people to turn from iniquity ... / written by Stephen Crisp. Crisp, Stephen, 1628-1692. 1658 (1658) Wing C6946; ESTC R28578 4,929 10

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A WORD OF REPROOF TO THE Teachers of the VVorld VVhich may be of use for the tryal of t●eir wayes and standing that all who are willing to be undeceived may come to an understanding to know what sort of men in this Nation they are who serves not the Lord Jesus Christ but their own bellies who in words professe God and the SCRIPTURES but in life deny both With an invitation and warning to them and all people to turn from iniquity and serve the living God whose service is not known but in the light neither is any service or worship accepted by him but as it is acted in obedience to his measure which is light and hath lighted every one that cometh into the WORLD Howl ye shepherds and cry and wallow your selves in the ashes ye principal of the flock for the dayes of your slaughter and of your dispersion are accomplished and ye shall fall like a pleasant vessel Jer. 25. 34. Written by a friend to all people and a lover of the light and the wayes thereof whose outward name is STEPHEN CRISP LONDON Printed for Thomas Simmons at the Bull and Mouth neer Aldersgate 1658. THis is written to go abroad amongst the Parish Teachers and their Flocks and is serviceable for them to consider of for the Lord God of heaven and earth is arising in his mighty power to plead the case of the poor and needy and to deliver the Lambs from the teeth of the Wolves and the Lyons who catch for the prey and to make a separation in the flocks of the Idol Shepherds and behold his voyce is uttered from Zion and his word goeth forth from his holy habitation who dwels in the light and in it is his voyce heard which shakes the earth and makes its inhabitants to tremble Therefore all people feare the Lord and mind that of him that reproves sin evill in the secret of your hearts which is the grace which hath appeared unto all of you but hath not yet taught all of you to deny ungodlinesse and worldly lusts but in the lusts of ignorance do remain looking at a man without you to be your Teacher and so knows not the Lord to be your Teacher And for your sakes who are simple in whom there is any honest desires is this given forth that you may see your Teachers tryed by their own rule and found too light and too narrow Therefore all be warned for time to come and in the fear of the Lord will you come to know the beginning of that wisdome which comprehends all those heaps of Teachers which feeds the itching ears S. C. A word of REPROOF TO THE Teachers of the World THIS word is unto you oh ye Priests in vain is all your coverings For the light of our God is risen and hath discovered you and his power hath rent and is rending your coverings and his controversie is proclaimed against you and he hath brought forth his little Army which is little in your eyes but is a mighty host in the power of his Spirit upon whom he is fulfilling his promise that one shall chase an hundred and ten shall put a thousand to flight And as our fore-fathers did so do we in this day of our God by faith turn to flight the armies of the aliens and stop the mouths of Lyons and obtain promises c. and you your selves are witnesses in your practices who are not able to stand but flee when ever the life of God ariseth in any to speak to you though in never so contemptible an instrument in your eyes and so have many hundreds of you been put to flight without sword or spear and then you run from your God and from your worship to the house of your Armory where you are fitted with the weapons of the Beasts warfare as whips stocks prisons and such like in whose Army you are found fighting against the Lamb and his Army by whom you shall be overcome and your carkasses cast into the open field And now is your works of darknesse and great swelling words of vanity brought to the light and there tryed and judged which is our rule to try and judge withal And seeing you say the Scripture is your rule whereby things ought to be tryed and judged you and your works shall be tryed by the Scriptures also that so you may be condemned by both First ye say ye are Minsters of Christ Nay but ye are his Ministers whom ye serve and obey and whose work ye do now sin is the work of the Devill and to destroy it in the flesh was Christ made manifest in flesh and you that deny the destruction of sin in this life you deny it in flesh for he that departeth this life goeth out of the flesh and leaveth it and so you deny the work of Christ whose Ministers you say you are and he is no servant nor Minister of Christ who denies his work Now read and consider sin and the man of it is against Christ and the Ministers of him who is against Christ always strives to keep up and to uphold that which Christ and his Ministers strives to destroy and throw down which is sin in the flesh and so here it is plain that you who strive to uphold sin uphold Anti-christ whose Ministers ye are Again Christ said to his Ministers Goe yee forth c. But where is your going forth when some of you have purchased to your selves places and some have gained by flattery and some do hold by force tyranny a certain place circuit or quarter from whence ye seek your gain and there are not ashamed to sue by title as Rector Incumbent or Lecturer of such a place Oh horrible that ever such should say they were Ministers of Christ Yea and some of you can boast and glory in your shame saying in your Declarations you have been there in such a place some 20. some 30. some 40 years Was ever such a thing heard of concerning any of the Ministers of Christ were not they approved in their Ministry by tryals by travellings by hardships and dangers both by Sea and Land in want in heavinesse c. But you have chosen the pleasures of sin and to live at ease in the flesh but destruction and misery shall overtake you in a day when you are not aware who will not be warned Again Christ said to his Ministers All power is given unto me and I am with you He did not say all power is given unto me and I will give it to the Magistrates and if any come to oppose you or your Doctrine go to him he shall defend you but they had the witnesse in themselves and the power was with them and is with them to the end of the world which stops the mouths of gainsayers which power is the power of Christ which the Ministers of Christ have according to promise and the power of Anti-christ the Ministers of Anti-christ have which is manifest