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A62901	A word of information to them that need it briefly opening some most weighty passages of God dispensations among the sons of men, from the beginning, and insisting a little upon the state and condition of the nations, wherein they now stand, and particularly of England : for this end, that men may remember themselves, and turn unto the Lord, and seek to be delivered from the mysteries of iniquity, to walk with God in fellowship and communion : to which (as pertinent hereunto) is annexed, An addition concerning Lord-Bishops, and Common-prayer-book : with a tender admonition to those called priests, or ministers : and also, a loving exhortation to those that have separated from their superstitions / by W.T.	Tomlinson, William.	1660 (1660)	Wing T1854; ESTC R16928	33,341	46

A Word of Information To Them that need it Briefly opening some most weighty Passages of Gods Dispensations among the Sons of Men from the beginning And insisting a little upon the State and Condition of the Nations wherein they now stand and particularly of ENGLAND For this end That Men may remember themselves and turn unto the Lord and seek to be delivered from the Mysteries of Iniquity to walk with God in Fellowship and Communion To which as pertinent hereunto is annexed An ADDITION concerning LORD-BISHOPS and COMMON-PRAYER-BOOK With a Tender ADMONITION to those called PRIESTS or MINISTERS And also A Loving EXHORTATION to those that have SEPARATED from their SUPERSTITIONS By W. T. LONDON Printed for Robert Wilson at the sign of the Black-Spread-Eagle and Windmil in Martins Le Grand 1660. A Word of Information To Them that need it c. GOD made Man at the first Upright and Innocent and Pure and Holy walking with him in his pure Nature in perfect peace and in boldness before him having his Understanding filled with Light and Knowledge from the Lord and his spirit possessed with the Spirit of the Lord. And therein he walked before the Lord in great liberty only in one thing the Lord laid a Restraint upon him Thou shalt not eat saith he of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil neither shall ye touch it for in the day thou eatest thereof dying thou shalt dye Gen. 2.17 and 3.3 Now there was no way for that old enemy Satan to rob Man of this happy peaceable innocent Condition but by getting him out of the bounds where God had set him for where no Law was there could be no transgression and where no transgression was death could not enter for death came in upon Man by sin Rom. 5.12 Therefore Satan that old Serpent sets upon Man here to allure and entice him and flatter him into a tryal of that which God had forbidden him by presenting a pleasurableness and profitableness in it Man yeelding the bound was broken that kept Man with the Lord and kept out death and misery And now Sin entering that is transgressing of Gods will and pleasure here with Sin Death entered and another spirit than before had possession in man even the spirit of the Serpent that got in and became Ruler in the Disobedience And now Death came over all in Man and over all Men. The flourishing state of his soul in Righteousness and Innocency that dyed a spirit of shame and fear that covered him and he now fled from the presence of the Lord. And death also must now come upon his body as well as upon his soul for to dust that must return Thus dying Man dyed according to the Word of the Lord. Yet now the Lord's mercies were not clean shut up from his Creature which he had made so excellent and given dominion unto over all other Creatures upon the Earth Gen. 1.28 but he leaves a way open still for Mans return unto himself thorow a promised Seed which was contrary to the seed of the Serpent and should bruise the Serpents head that enticing spirit that leads to Disobedience Gen. 3.15 So then here 's no returning now for Man back again from Death to Life but through that Seed that breaks the head of the winding disobedient spirit Now in this faln state Man lives and begets Sons and Daughters and multiplies and replenishes the Earth Thus the Earth is filled with Men and Women begotten in the faln condition And so as Men encreased and multiplied Sin also that encreased until the Lord repented that he had made Man and so drowned every living Creature wherein was the breath of life that lived and moved upon the face of the Earth Gen. 6.5 6 7 17. Yet in this sinking dying condition a Seed there was from the beginning that served and obeyed the Lord whose hearts were after him to return again unto him who wrought works of Righteousness and walked with the Lord as righteous Abel and Seth and holy Enoch who was translated that he should not see death And besides these a Generation that called upon the Name of the Lord and so were called the Sons of God Gen. 4.26 Yet these also in process of time wore out after that they began to corrupt themselves mingling themselves with the Daughters of Men Gen. 6.2 So that in the dayes of Noah only Noah was found Righteous in his Generation Gen. 6.8 9. whom the Lord therefore with his family reserved from the Flood to plant the Earth with after he had drowned the old world of the ungodly Gen. 7.1 Then again after the Flood as Men began to multiply so they corrupted their wayes again before the Lord so that in Abraham the eleventh from Noah which was about three-hundred sixty seven years after the Flood God began to gather to himself a People again out of the rest of the world who should bear his Name and so he called Abraham out from his fathers house and out of his own Country to walk with him where he would appoinc him Gen. 12.1 When Abraham was come out then the Lord blessed him and promised him to make of him a great Nation and that he would blesse him that blessed Abraham and curse him that cursed Abraham And said furthermore to him In thee shall all families of the Earth be blessed Gen. 12.2 3. So his Posterity in Isaac and Jacob were counted for the Lords Inheritance and owned by him above all the World and called his Son his First-born And by that name he required them of Pharaoh when he sent to deliver them out of the house of bondage Exod. 4.22 23. Then when the Lord had delivered them by an out-stretched Arm from under Pharaohs Bondage to lead them into the Land of Canaan which he had promised to Abraham When he had separated them from Egypt and brought them into the Wilderness of Sinai There he gave them Statutes and Ordinances a Miuistration of Laws written in Tables of Stone Of this Ministration Moses was made the Mediator between God and them and it was confirmed by many mighty Signs and Wonders The Miracles done in Egypt by the hand of Moses their passing therow the Red-Sea as on dry land Moses his fasting forty dayes and forty nights The terrible and dreadful Presence of the Lord on the Mount besides his going before them in a Pillar of Cloud by Day and in a Pillar of Fire by Night And many other Signs and Wonders all confirmed this Ministry given in the hand of Moses Notwithstanding all this and many moe great Signs and Wonders which they saw yet this People rebelled against the Lord and did not walk with him with all their heart but grieved him continually as he complained of them by Moses and afterwards by all his Prophets So that in the fulness of time God sought out another People to bear his Name and turned over the Promises made to Abraham to a spiritual Seed Children

place in the Kingdom of that Mystery as full Friends and Examples but as Enemies and Devourers and Scatterers And so it hath been ever since this Mystery of Iniquity got up The Lambs have been scattered and devoured and trampled upon by that spirit that loves the Preheminence And hereof there hath been sufficient proof For though those Wolves have gloried in the Church the Church as the Masters of Assemblies and Provinces yet the Church hath been trod in the dirt by them And therefore if any one would look back upon the Church of Christ and view the state of it for many hundreds of years past they must not look upon the National Episcopal Churches to think to see it there but upon them who have been devoured scattered persecuted slain kept under and trod upon by those Episcopal and National Churches If you would see the true Church where it hath been in these times past See it there under Persecution by the Bishops and by others that loved to have the Preheminence or else you cannot see it at all For the Bishops Churches and such as theirs have been but the Outward Court given to the Gentiles which have troden the holy City under foot Revel 11.2 And so the Dominion and Greatness and Lordship such as the Lords of the Gentiles use which was forbidden by Christ among his Disciples Matth. 20.25 26. This they could bring into the Outward Court which is given to the Gentiles because it 's answeable to the Gentiles and their nature And so the Outward Court hath had the manner of the Gentiles Government in it and it hath been sutable to them But whosoever comes to be a little Child in the Kingdom of Christ Jesus he will find it unsutable to his spirit and that he must lye down as a Sufferer under it as his fellow-servants have done who have suffered great Tribulation under it and have been trampled under foot by it for hundreds of years And here hath been the state of the Church of Christ the holy City It hath been sore shot at by Words Revilings Reproaches Blasphemies several Nick-names Persecutions Tribulations which it hath endured under the great prevailing Mystery of Iniquity which hath prevailed over Multitudes Nations Kings Tongues Peoples But yet though it hath had the strength of the Gates of Hell it could not prevail against this Little Flock of the Lambs of Christ according as Christ promised to Peter who have still risen though troden under foot and have been made to witnesse against it in some part of it or other Nor shall it ever prevail against the Lambs the true Church to root them out as it desires The time is near for the tumbling down of those Mysteries again and then Wo Wo and Wailing will be the portion of them that are found therein And so now you may see whither they are gone that seek Preheminence and Greatness and Lordship in the Kingdom of Christ They are gone out from the Doctrine of Christ they are gone out from the Faith of Christ and so from the Fellowship of God 2 Joh. 9. For God dwels not with the high and lofty but with the lowly in heart with him that is of an humble and contrite heart such as the Doctrine of Christ teacheth us to be From all these things they are gone out who exalt themselves as Lords over Gods Heritage Whither then are they gone Even into the World and so into the Enmity with God for he that will be the Friend of the World by loving the things of it he makes himself the Enemy of God And so they stand in the Enmity not in Amity with God in the World not in the Church of Christ For it 's in the World where the gods many and lords many are There be faith Paul gods many and lords many but to us who are in the Church and of the Church of Christ there is but one God the Father and one Lord namely Iesus Christ 1 Cor. 8.6 Eph. 4.5 Now if to us there be but one Lord who is Iesus Christ as the Apostle affirms Then where is there any place among us for the many Lords If any other will be Lord must be not go out into the World to receive his Lordship there seeing there can be no more Lords admitted of among us but One who is the Lord JESUS CHRIST And therefore that was a common phrase of speech among the Apostles and Disciples of Christ to say Our Lord JESUS CHRIST or CHRIST JESUS our Lord acknowledging and ascribing that peculiar Prerogative over them to him alone And therefore the Apostles did forbid others to be Lords or as Lords over Gods Heritage and bid them be Ensamples to the Flock 1 Pet. 5.3 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Impressions as it were or Footsteps for them to walk in Now how can they be Examples and leave Impressions for the Lambs of CHRIST'S Kingdome to walk in of Meeknesse and Lowly-mindedness who get up into Greamess and High-mindedness who love the World and seek to be great in it Can these be Examples to the Flock of CHRIST teaching them by their Example to walk humbly with God and lowly in heart not loving this present evil world nor the Pomp and Glory of it who get into the Pomp and Glory and Greatnesse of it themselves If this be to be Ensamples to go a quite contrary way then may we as well say That a Coward that runs from his Colours is an example of Courage or that a Drunkard or Glutton is an example of Temperance or that those who turned back in their hearts to Egypt were examples of perseverance in the journey to Canaan whom God slew in the Wildernesse that they never saw the borders of Canaan And it were well if all the backsliders in heart who for the Love of this present evil World do turn their backs of the Spiritual Kingdom of God would consider this and call to mind the hand of the Lord against them and fear before him for his hand is not shortned And confider seriously with your selves in coolnesse of spirit If you think in your consetences that the righteous and holy God will be thus mocked by them that shall pretend to be his Servants namely to have them to thrust themselves into those places and under those names where they should be examples of humility to teach his little Flock by their examples to be humble and lowly in heart and then to lead them a quite contrary way by their example Yea to enjoyn others by words before they admit them into the Congregation of Christs Flock as they expresse it in their Common-Prayer-Book I say before they admit them to enjoyn them to promise and vow to forsake the Devil and all his Works and in particular the vain pomp and glory of the World and all the covetous desires of the same and then by their example teach them the contrary and set a pattern before them of embracing this present