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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56305	The church of Christ in Bristol recovering her vail out of the hands of them that have smitten and wounded her, and taken it away. Being, a just and necessary vindication, from a false and scandalous imputation cast upon her by Dennis Hollister, formerly a member of her, but now an apostate from, and an opposer of those waies, truths, and people, which once he seemed zealous for. As appears by a late pamphlet put forth by him, called, The skirts of the whore discovered. With some particular words, from some particular persons whom he hath by name abused and reproached. Likewise a word by Thomas Ewen, unto what concerns him in the said pamphlet, and also to the later part of another book, called, Satan enthroned in his chair of pestilence.	Purnell, Robert, d. 1666. aut	1657 (1657)	Wing P4232; ESTC R213966	65,602	90

godly men I did sometimes hear expressions to this effect That there was a two-fold coming of the Spirit of Christ into the hearts of Believers The first was that by which the eyes of mens understandings are opened and they turned from darkness to light Faith and Repentance wrought in the Soul conversion regeneration or the new birth effected and so he that was once a dead sinner becomes a living Saint or Believer though as yet but weak a babe in Christ c. The Second work or coming of the Spirit is that by which the Soul is sealed confirmed established filled with joy and peace in believing and fitted and furnished to every good work that God calls them whether doing or suffering c. Now this put me upon the search of the Scripture as first Ephes 1. 13. After you believed you were sealed which Scripture relates to that Acts 19. 2. Have you received the holy Spirit since you believed c. So Acts 8. 14. to 17. Samaria having received the Word of God and believed in the Lord Jesus Christ were baptized by Philip the Deacon the Church at Jerusalem or rather the Apostles sent forth Peter and John that they should pray that they might receive the holy Ghost for as yet he was not fallen upon any of them c. Another Scripture I find Joh. 7. 37 38 39. In the last day the great day of the feast Jesus stood and cryed saying If any man thirst let him come unto me and drink he that believeth on me as the Scripture hath said out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water but this spake he of the Spirit which they that believe on him should receive for the holy Ghost was not yet given because that Jesus was not yet glorified So Luke 11. 9. to 13. such as God is a Father unto are bid to pray to ask to seek and to knock c. with assurance by many Arguments that they should receive the holy Spirit So in the 14 15 16 Chapters of John our Saviour speaking to such as did believe in him love him and keep his Commandments c. he promiseth to send the Comforter unto them even the holy Spirit which the world could not receive c and to this agree many of the Prophecies both in Isa Jer. Ezek. Joel Zach. and others Now then as to the first work or coming of the Spirit namely to make a man to become a Saint a Christian a Believer a new Creature c. I never denied but alwayes affirmed that whosoever did believe in the Lord Jesus Christ or had the least beginning of a work of Grace in their Souls it was by the Spirit of God and they had the Spirit of Christ in the first sense according to Rom. 8. 9. now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ he is none of his c. But in the second or latter sense namely to seal stablish fill with joy and comfort c. with many other glorious effects which the Scripture speaks of and which the Saints in the primative times did enjoy in this sense I have often said that I did question Whether I then had or whether many others in the Church had received the Spirit and to this you did then assent c. And therefore I did often press it in the Church that we might pray more for that blessed Spirit according to the command and promise of Christ Luke 11. 9. 13. as before and this is that which I have often called the great legacie of the new Testament and as Jesus Christ was the great promise of the first or old Testament so this blessed Spirit is the great promise of the second or new Testament which all believers are to wait pray and long for as the believers under the first Testament were to wait and long for the Messiah and this was my meaning when I have sometimes said That a man may be a Christian a Believer a converted Soul or a babe in Christ and not as yet have received the Spirit I mean still in this latter sense in respect of sealing establishing c. yet I neither did nor do expect the Gift of tongues or working Miracles c. neither do I find that the great promise of the Spirit was principally to that end though that was accomplished by it when and how the Lord pleased as Heb. 2. 4. with divers miracles and gifts or distributions of the holy Ghost according to his own will but I find rather that the great promise of the Spirit is for such glorious ends as these c. 1. To open and reveal the hidden Mysteries of the kingdome of heaven as Matth. 13. 11. to you it is given to know the Mysteries of the kingdom of Heaven c. So 1 Cor. 2. 9. to the 14. we read that those things which the eyes of men as men have not seen neither can the natural man perceive yet God doth reveal by his Spirit c. So it is promised in John to lead and guide into all truth therefore Eph. 1. 17. the Apostle prayes for believers that they might receive the Spirit of wisdom and revelation c. 2. To comfort and chear up poor drooping believers filling them with all joy and peace consolation and refreshment which is one main end for which it is promised as in 14 15 16 Chapters of John to which agree many of the sayings of the Prophets c. 3. To heighten and strengthen the Saints with boldness courage constancy and resolution in their Spirits to do or to suffer for God as Acts 4 8. Then Peter filled with the Holy Ghost said c. so to the 19. vers So Acts 5. 41. And they rejoyced that they were counted worthy to suffer c. which thing neither they nor Peter could do a little before as Mark 14. 50 66 to 71. But observe they had not then received the Spirit so Acts 16. 25. Paul and Silas sang in prison 4. To purge and purifie clense and sanctifie believers and make them holy as Isa 4. 3 4. so Ezek. 36. 25. to 29. Joel 3. 17. then shall Jerusalem be holy that is when the Mountains shall drop new wine and the hills flow with milk as vers 18. And the fountain come forth of the house of the Lord to water the valley of Shittim 5. To make poor dry barren empty souls to become fruitful to God and to grow in grace Isa 32. 5. until the Spirit be poured from on high and the wilderness become a fruitful field Isa 44. 3 4. I will pour my Spirt upon thy seed c. and they shall spring up c. so Hos 14. 5. I will be as the dew unto Israel and he shall grow c. 6. To fill the Saints with meekness and love yea with end cared love towards Christ and bowels of pity towards men as we see it was with the Saints in the primitive times but is much wanting now 7. To unite

reference to that seriously consider these places 2 Thes 2. 1 to 13. Rom. 14. 4 9 10 11 12 13. The Lord give you to see your wickedness in your bitter censorious spirit which sure is not small though you Ezek. 16. 1 2. Isal 30. 1. seem not to discern it but cover it with a covering that is not of Gods Spirit and so add sin to sin and the good Lord give you repentance for it you have not hurt or injured me at all by it though your self you do God hath of his infinite goodness made your hard false speeches and censorious judgings of me of good use to me though no thanks at all to you for it nor any thing but what is sad to think on can you reap from it As I have said to you somtimes upon the like occasion when you affirmed unto me that some men to wit such as then you had in admiration though for that in which they exceeded or God owns above others I never saw nor yet heard but this you affirmed to me concerning them that when they were in the light they could see what mens inward states was before God some of which as you said they saw you named to me though such as they never saw Matth. 7. 16. 19 20 1 Cor. 4. 5. Deut. 29. 22. nor yet heard of any thing visibly apparently evill by them by which man by the blessed Rule of the Scriptures of truth is to judge otherwise our rule is to judge nothing before the time until the Lord come who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness and will make manifest the counsels of the hearts and then shal every man have praise of God My answer then to you in that affirmation concerning Isai 8. 20. 1 Cor. 4 4. Job 10 15. 2 Cor. 10. 17 18. 2 Cor. 5. 9. them was this in words or to the same effect that as I could give no credence to such assertions groundedly but contrarily had more than ground of jealousie to be suspitious they were delusions as all such things and pretended revelations be which have not the Law and the Testimony to warrant them So what if all the men in the world did approve me what is that in order to certain ground of holding up my head before God in reference to it So if all did disapprove me yet upon from such a ground as that I have a sure word certain witness of Gods approving of me I should not flagg in my Spirit nor hang down in reference to that That use besides others as to my self I have endeavoured to make of those great charges you lay upon me and if your considerations Were otherwise of me as sometimes it hath been and also of others I would not in Phil 3. 3. the least heed or give any regard to it so as to flesh my self from it Phil. 3. 3. The charges indeed that you lay upon me and send me cloathed with before the world if so indeed how sad were my condition well might my countenance be changed and my thoughts be troublesome unto me and the joynts of my loyns be loosed and my knees smite one against another as if I did inhabit deceit and devise wicked imaginations and speak lies to you and that in the name of the Lord and the like Sore charges they be wickedness of the highest degree and of the dangerousest attendance that can be But truly it is sufficient to me that under all the charges you load me with that I have alwayes a witness in heaven Rom. 8. 33 34. Psal 3. 3 4 5. Job 34. 29. and brought into my own heart from thence and confirmed unto me by the Spirit of truth which proceedeth from the Father and the Son by which I am cleared of your charges and so by that means they take no hold upon me God To wit your own private spirit and consideration 2 Pet. 1. 20 21. gives me much case under all your clamors Truly it is a very small matter to me to be judged of you I say of you who are more than apt to judg all both persons and things to be light that bears no weight in your Ballance By which Ballance I know you must not your self be weighed at the great day and appearing of the Lord Iesus but by that Ballance or Rule that who ever walk according to it peace and mercy shal be upon them the Word that John 12. 48. Christ hath spoken must judge all at that day But truly Dennis Hollister I pitie thee me thinks I could even mourn over thee in the consideration of thy being in Rev. 12 10. Luke 3. 14. Mat 12 43 44 the Divels work and imployment to wit an accuser of the brethren as I am sure thou art in thy printed Papers And for that false charge as it is altogether of my speaking lies to you in the name of the Lord. That charge of yours I know hath reference to my being as you slightly say the mouth of three Messengers sent to you by the Church to admonish you of your sins which sins of yours I am sure was obvious visible and clear Truly in order to that I knew well what I spake Mat. 28. 18. Mat. 18. 16 17 18. when I spake on that rate I did unto you I with my brethren that came with me had a Warrant sealed and given forth to us from him who hath all power given unto him in Heaven and Earth for what we did And if I may speak it without boasting as I trust I do so we did attempt it as those that God had vouchsafed that grace unto to take up into the Mount with him to confer with his Majesty by Christ about it before we did dare to attempt upon it his Majesty being pleased graciously to incline our hearts in some measure of holy reverence feare and trembling and in faith to wait upon his Majesty by Christ our Mediator and Iutercessor and we had a gracious answer from him by Christ to our very hearts about it And so we are strenthened to that work of the Lord which otherwise we had rather any had been Exod. 3. 11. Jer 6. 7 8 9 sent about than we And then we went not staggeringly nor yet ignorantly but knowingly and understandingly about it God having in some measure fitted us for it and left us not without some sure witness that he was with us in it And not any reluctancie have I or my brethren had for what we did but are fully satisfied that what ever was set upon you and laid at your door as your sin to a tittle Isal 28 17. is true and will be so found when the Lord shall lay Judgment to the Line and Righteousnesse to the Plummet and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies and the waters shall overflow the hiding-place And whereas you say in the first line of your Letter to me that it

a Christian but as for your ends in so publishing I shall leave to him by whom Actions and Spirits are weighed who will preserve the faithful and plentifully reward the proud doer I shall therefore with all plainness soberness and faithfulness declare both unto your self and also to the world upon what grounds and in what sense I have sometimes denied to be called Minister though I never denied my self a Preacher of the Gospel But the first ground upon which I denied the title of Minister was this When you with many others as I shall farther shew had prevailed with me to come to Bristol I gave it under my Hand to the Mayor Aldermen and Commissioners That I should not come as a Parish Minister to take any Parochial Charge upon me but rather as a Publike Preacher of the Gospel in the City by way of Lecture and so I have sometimes by word sometimes by writing as I had occasion denied my self to be a Minister of any Parish in Bristol so that I never did nor I hope never shall own my self a Minister of any Parish c. so that this is the first ground and this you know in your Conscience to be true and that I did it in tenderness of Conscience though now you make it matter of reproach Secondly I have sometimes as it is like in your hearing and some others denied my self a Minister in Office I having not then been Called Constituted or Ordained to any Office in any Church otherwise than by the unanimous Consent Approbation and Request of this Church of Bristol to serve them in the Lord as that other godly man who left the City at my coming hither had done before me I alwayes distinguishing between a Person sent forth to preach the Gospel to the World and a Person Called set apart and Ordained to Office in a Church whether this distinction were right or no I shall not now dispute but this was your judgement then and therefore in this you deal unworthily in publishing this to the world to my reproach whereas you know in your Conscience that I never denied my self to be a Preacher of the Gospel nor a Minister or Servant to this Church but only that I was not a Minister by Office at least by an actual and solemn Ordination Thirdly There is yet another ground as the Lord only who is the searcher of hearts knows upon which I have often put off that honour and dignity when you and others have put that stile or title upon me my heart hath secretly answered What am I that I should be called so I being a poor inconsiderable worm the least in my fathers house which have often brought those words to my mind Amos 7. 14 I was no Prophet neither the Son of a Prophet c. and this did arise from the sense I had of the honour and dignity weight and excellency of that high Calling and the great unworthiness and unfitness that I saw in my self of so glorious an employment and this also I am perswaded you know in your Conscience that I have often hinted unto you in private discourse and when you have spoken of me and to me more indeed than was fit for any wise man to speak to the face of any Christian namely what God had done in Bristol by me since I came hither c. But that I have been and am through the grace of Christ though the unworthiest upon earth yet a Preacher and publisher of the glorious Gospel of the grace of God both in Wales and now in Bristol I have no need to seek a proof of you nor of any other man I having had First The approbation and recommendation of a Church of judicious Saints in London where I had been for some time a Member and unto whom my Principles as to matters of Religion my Gift as to the work of Preaching and my manner of life was well known Secondly I having been solemnly sent forth by a Church of Christ in Wales with Prayer and Supplication recommending me to the Work and Grace of God appointing me to Preach the Gospel in Wales where though I was accompanied with manifold weaknesses and temptations yet the Lord was pleased to give me some Seal of my Ministry the lawfulness of which Call and sending forth to my work of Preaching I could sufficiently prove both from Scripture and from the practises of the Churches of Christ but of that more hereafter Now having continued Preaching in Wales about the space of three years it came to pass that some Overtures were made by the people of this City for my coming hither and your self with a Minister then of this City came as Messengers to treat with the Church of Lannachas in Wales to spare me to this place which though at first they denied yet the importunity of many here and as some have said the incessancy of Prayer prevailed so that that Church did consent that I should come and ordered that a Letter should be written to acquaint the City and Commissioners That if they could prevail with me I should come unto them c. Whereupon as you know there was two Letters sent unto me the one from the City signed by the then Major some Aldermen one of which was then a Parliament man with divers others of the Council and Commissioners of the City of Bristol your self being then one Some of the words of which Letter I shall here insert c. We being met together to consider and advise of able and godly men to Preach the Gospel in Bristol and having experience and much assurance of your faithfulness and sufficiency for that Work do desire you Sir that you will please to come unto us And they adding farther their care of my maintainance c. Another large Letter I then received from divers godly people the inhabitants of the City some of which words I shall also here insert Dearly beloved since after much waiting upon the Lord the hearts of the People generally throughout the City is so much set upon you desiring to enjoy you in the service of the Gospel c. And since our Motion formerly made by our Messengers hath been so much prospered by the Lord in the hearts of our Brethren there c. We do therefore earnestly and very seriously beseech you in the Name of our Lord Jesus that you will with all convenient speed come to Bristol and help us c. Upon the receipt of which two Letters and some advise had with godly friends I resolved in the strength and garce of Christ That I would come though I had much fear and trembling in my own heart from the apprehension I had of the greatness of the Work of Christ in Bristol and the insufficiency I saw in my self so that it was not Riches nor Honours that drew me hither but meer Conscience and Obedience to that Call which I judged was of and from the Lord the thing having never been

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