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B04886	No power but of God, and yet a power in every creature, or, A word in season, to all men not void of grace, or deprived of reason wherein is held forth that the Almighty God is not wanting to us in impowering of us, but we are wanting to him, in not improving our talent for him ... / by Robert Purnel.	Purnell, Robert, d. 1666.	1651 (1651)	Wing P4238A; ESTC R187132	119,586	280

plant●… his Spirit by vertue of which these men a●… women can pray in the Spirit rejoice 〈◊〉 the Spirit and in some measure worsh●● God who is a Spirit in spirit and in trut●… These can read and understand the letter 〈◊〉 the spirit they can discourse of spiritu●● things understandingly and feelingly b●… this power they can pull down strong hol●… cast down imaginations Read for the proof 〈◊〉 this 2 Cor. 10. 3 4 5 6 7. By this power th●… can keep down their natural or corrupt●…ble body as Paul 2 Cor. 9. 27. But I ke●● under my body and bring it unto subjection left should be found to preach that to others that should not practise my self Now this spiritual power as it was r●…ceived from God so it is to be improv●… for God which if we be faithful and di●●gent so to do then First the Lord will have the glory M●● 5. 16. Secondly it will redound to our gre●●est good Mat. 21. 22 23. And that there is a spiritual power it ●●ll further appear from the several com●…ands from the Lord to his people to be ●…ing in spiritual things which were all 〈◊〉 vain if there be no ability given forth to ●…e Creature to do that which is required ●…ight instance in as many places as there 〈◊〉 Chapters in the Bible to prove it but ●…r brevities sake I shall mention but a few ●●t 11. 23. Barnabas exhorted them all that ●●th purpose of heart they would cleave unto the ●●rd They did not answer him and say ●…at they had no power they could not doe it ●…il 2. 12. Work out your own salvation with ●…re and trembling These people did not ●…y there was Free-will in the Text. As King ●…AMES once said upon the like occasion ●…ere was Treason in the Text when a ●…inister that preached before him had taken Text of Scripture that did treat of the a●…se of Kingly power the King burst forth 〈◊〉 a passion and said There was Treason in the ●●xt But if Kings will not cast down their ●…rowns at the feet of Christ Christ will ●…uck them off and lay them at the feet of ●…en If there be no power in man Natural nor 〈◊〉 man Spiritual then away with all the ●…dmonitions Instructions Informations and so with the whole Bible cease to tea●● Man As good go teach the Sun Moon an●… Stars which way they shall go the Wind 〈◊〉 blow or the Sea to ebb and flow go tea●● the Fish to swim and the Bird to flie f●● they have power but man hath none And indeed if man regenerated if ma●… spiritualized have no power to act go an●… race out these ensuing Scriptures as requ●…ring that of man which man hath no abili●● to do Luk. 13. 24. Strive to enter in at t●● strait gate Many shall seeke to enter ●… Rom. 15. 30. Now I beseech you brethren f●● the Lord Iesus Christs sake and for the love 〈◊〉 the Spirit that you strive together with me yo●… prayers to God for me H●…b 12. 4. You have n●● yet resisted unto blood striving against si●● Heb. 12. 1. Let us lay aside every weight and t●● sinne that doth so easily beset us and let us 〈◊〉 with patience the race that is set before us 2 Pe●… 1. 5 6 7. And besides this give all diligence ad●… to your faith vertue and to vertue knowledge a●● to knowledge temperance and to temperance pa●●ence and to patience godlinesse and to godline●● brotherly kindnesse and to brotherly kindne●● charity c. 2 Pet. 1. 10. Give all diligence 〈◊〉 make your calling and election sure 2 Phil. 1●… Work out your own salvation with fear and tre●…bling Jer. 4. 14. O Ierusalem wash thine he●● 〈…〉 m wickednesse that thou mayest be saved ●●r 18. 11. Return from your evil wayes and ●…ake your wayes and doings good saith the Lord. ●…at 11. 28. Come unto me all ye that labour and ●…e heavy laden and I will give you rest J●…r 3. 13. ●●ly acknowledge thine iniquity I wil pardon it Now as many as have received this spiri●●al power are able according to its mea●●re to doe the thing required As to in●●nce The Lord said to David Seek my face ●…avid's heart being enlightened and im●●wered by God makes this answer to the ●●rds command Lord thy face will I seek ●●d sometimes God conveyes the power ●●gether with the precept to enable them 〈◊〉 do what he commands them to do And ●●en if a man do it not or do the contrary ●…e Scripture tels thee thou art slothfull ●●d dost not use thy power or covetous ●●d so abusest thy power 1 C or 9. 18. Now let me ask thee O thou enlighten 〈◊〉 Christian hast thou since thou wast en●●ghtened by Christ done as much for Christ thou mightest have done Doth not thy ●…nscience tell thee thou hast been negligent ●●d slothful and left undone those things ●…hich thou oughtest to have done and done ●…ose things which thou mightest have left ●…done In a word hast thou avoided so much evil and done so much good as th●● mightest have done What thou wilt 〈◊〉 now I know not but when thou an●… shall appear before the Searcher of all hea●● at●… the last day we shall not tell the Lo●● we wanted power to obey him in his co●…mands Surely if there be no life vigor pow●● in men and women regenerate then in va●● are all those stirrings perswafions and i●… treaties in Scripture as to instance in a fe●● 2 Tim. 1. 6. Wherefore I put thee in remembra●● that thou stirre up the gift of God which is in th●… 2 Pet. 1. 13. Yea I think it meet as long as I 〈◊〉 in this tabernacle to stir you up by putting you remembrance c. 2 Pet. 3. 1. This epistle 〈◊〉 loved I now write unto you in which I sti●● up your pure minds by way of remembrance ●… Heb. 3. 13. But exhort one another daily whil●… is called to day lest any of you be hardened thro●… the deceitfulnesse of sin Heb. 10. 24. Let us 〈◊〉 sider one another to provoke one another to l●● and good works 1 Cor. 4. 16. Wherefore I seech you be ye followers of me 1 Pet. 1. 15. 〈◊〉 as he which called you is holy so be ye holy in manner of conversation 2 Tim. 2. 19. Let e●●● one that nameth the name of the Lord depart fr●● iniquity Ephes 4. 22. That you put off the 〈◊〉 man which is corrupt Mat. 5. 16. Let your l 〈…〉 ●…shine before men that they may see your good 〈…〉 s and glorifie your Father which is in heaven Tim. 4. 13. Till I come give attendance to ●●ding to exhortation to doctrine c. Now if there be no power in a man re●●wed to do what is commanded then rase ●●t all the Commands for they be all in ●…in they be worse then Pharaoh they re●…ire heavenly bricks to be made of earthly ●…aw Away with all exhortations perswasi●●s intreatings

Hope your Patience and Sel●… denyal is not the Faith Hope Patience and ●…elf-denial of the Gospel your assurance 〈…〉 r Heaven is unfound you have been daw 〈…〉 d with untempered mortar the day is al●…ost come that thou must die after death 〈…〉 me to judgment and then be judged ac●…rding to thy works Then if thou doest ●●ant Oyle in thy Lamp which is Grace in 〈…〉 e heart thou wilt be shut out it will be 〈◊〉 vaine then with Balaam to fall a praying 〈…〉 ord let me die the death of the righteous and let 〈◊〉 latter end be like his No no He that will 〈◊〉 the death of the righteous must live the life of 〈◊〉 righteous Those that he appointed for ●●ory hereafter shall have the beginning of ●●ace here for they be chosen to salvation ●…rough sanctification of the Spirit and be 〈…〉 ef of the truth and without holinesse no man ●●all see the Lord. Your Leaders have caused 〈…〉 ou to erre the blinde hath led the blinde and 〈…〉 th will fall into the ditch unlesse you be●…are in time O poore Souls I cannot blame you to ●…omplain of bad suffering times to be thus ●…heated on every side you have but a Body ●…nd a Soule and to be deceived and depri●…ed of the comfortable being of the one ●…here and to have no assurance of rest for ●…he other hereafter is a sad condition indeed Oh how be the people destroyed for want of knowledge Like Priest like People as in Hos 4. 6 9. The Prophets there of doe teach for hire and the Priests divine for money and you poore simple ones love to hav●… it so O you simple ones how long will yee lov●… simplicity and you scorners delight in scorning 〈◊〉 you are deceived and by those that you least mistrusted namely the Prophets Mich. 3. 5. Do 〈…〉 but spend a little time and tracethis Trib●● from the Prophet Isaiah's dayes untill now 〈…〉 First Isaiah complains of them in his dayes Isai 28. 7. Jeremy complains of them in hi●… dayes J●● ●…0 6. and Ezekiel the Prophe●● complain of them in his daies Ezek. 22. 26. So the Prophets Daniel Hosea Joel and Amos these also complains of the badnesse of this generation Then the Prophet Micah he complains of their sins and prophesieth of their judgements Mich. 3. from v. 5. to the end of the Chapter Then when Christ came in the flesh h●… was opposed by them and complains o 〈…〉 them Matt. 23. 13 15 16. then the Apostles themselves were continually persecuted and afflicted from time to time by them as you may read in the Acts of the Apostles And if there be any truth in Histories see what a sort of Ministry there were in Henry 〈…〉 eighth's dayes when the King denied Popes Supremacy how soon did this 〈…〉 be face about and side with the King 〈…〉 en again in the dayes of Edward the sixt ●●reason of his pious resolution though 〈◊〉 young the Clergie feared a turn and ●●esently fell a preaching against the Masse 〈…〉 ok and it was soon abolished and the ●●mmon-Prayer-book set up in its place ●●d these men zealous Common-Prayer●●ok men And then about three or foure ●…ars after that Queen Mary was made ●…ueen the Clergie bethought themselves ●●d presently the greatest part of them tur●●d about again from Common-Prayer●●ok to Masse-Book for say they the diffe●●nce is not great Then after Queen Mary was dead and Queen Elizabeth had the Crown●… pre●…ently the whole tribe of them except some ●●w turned Protestants again under which shape and in which visage they have ●…ontinued untill the beginning of this pre●…ent Parliament Well the Parliament had not sate long but the Wolfe covered with Sheeps cloathing was discovered and after a little consideration it was put to the Vote and suddenly after tumbled down the Prelatical discipline root and branch Wel what follows why our Clergie for 〈◊〉 most part threw aside their Surplisse Hoods and Tippets Organs and Altar●● Bowings and Cringings Tapers and Ca●…dles and perk up into the Pulpit an●… lifts up their voices and preach again those things and so became the reveren●● laborious zealous Ministers of England thou desirest a fuller discovery of this look into what I have written before ca●…led A word to the pretended Minister and neither of these will _____ satisfie thee if thou wil●… see the Wolfe stript of his Sheeps cloathing indeed then look into the Chronicles 〈◊〉 England Scotland and Ireland Mr. Fox hi●… book of Acts and Monuments of th●… Church and his History of Martyrs c. O then take heed how you hear Luke 8. 18●… take heed whom you heare Jer. 27. 9. take hee●… what you hear Mark 4. 24. Beloved I have not written these things to take off your affections from the true Ministers of the Gospel but to disengage your hearts affections from the ravening Wolves that the Lord Christ hath commanded me and you to beware of Matt. 7. 15 and Acts 20. 29. and Joh. 10. 12. Again Believe not every spirit but try the spirits whether they be of God 1 Joh. 4. 1. For many deceivers are entred into the ●…orld 2 Joh. 7. These things have I written ●…nto you concerning them that seduce you 1 Joh. 〈◊〉 26. Now that you might take heed whom you hear how you hear and what ●…ou hear and that you might not believe ●…very spirit but try the spirits whether ●…hey be of God I shall under correction ●…nd with submission to better judgements ●…ive my thought of the one of the other ●…nd endeavour to put a difference between 〈◊〉 Prelate and a Pilate a Feeder and a Flee●…er a Blinde-beetle and a Seer a Butcher ●…nd a Shepheard a Destroyer and an Instru●…ter a Tyrant and a Father a Thief and a Keeper a Seducer and a Leader a ravening Wolf and a moderate Shepheard that so ●…ou might cast off the one and embrace the other and truly herein I cannot speak in ●…allibly but give my thoughts at a distance ●…or Satan hath transformed himself into an Angel of light and his works are more my●…terious then ever the Lord cannot have ●…is Church but the Devil will have his Chappel if they will have Ordinances he will have them too if they will congregate themselves together by uniting in one spirit Sathan and his company will unite together in one form of communion and afterwards teach union If the true Church of Christ will teach first the Doctrinal par 〈…〉 and then the practical part Sathan wi 〈…〉 allow his Ministers to preach the same on●…ly with this difference he will put the●● upon building before they have laid th●● foundation if the true Chruch will buil●… upon the rock Sathan and his compan●… will build too but his foundation must 〈◊〉 laid on sand I shall now endeavour 〈◊〉 give my judgement of the pretended Min●…ster first and then of the true Minist●● next that so you might hold to the o 〈…〉 and forsake the

And then fo 〈…〉 our Judges and Priests did not the o●● judge for reward and the other teach fo 〈…〉 hire Mic. 3. 11. And then for the lesse 〈…〉 Lawyers and Journy-men Priests ho●… fast would the one ride and the other run 〈…〉 the one to cheat you in temporals the other in spirituals Then the Constables Church-wardens and Overseers if yo●● come not to Church to hear their refin●● Masse then they give in your names to th●● Chancellor and Proctor and by vertue of a Spiritual warrant from their reverend Lord and Master the Apparitor must be imployed to summon you to appeare before them and if they have no witnesses against you then you must take an oath to accuse your self and then the very meanest Officer as the Clark Sexton and Tithingman if there be ever a Puritan or Round-head in the whole Parish they will mischief him as much as in them lies But the measure of their iniquity being full and their day of calamity dawning these men are in part ●…lready laid aside and shortly will be fully rejected both of God and man And the Kingdom and the Dominion and the greatnesse of the Kingdom under the whole heavens shall be given to the Saints of the most High whose Kingdome is an everlast●…ng Kingdome and then the Nations shall ●…ecome the Nations of Christ and the go●…ernment shall be in the hands of the Saints and the Nations and Kingdomes that will not serve thee to wit Christ in the Saints shall perish Isa 60. 12. 17 18. For brasse I will bring gold and for iron I will bring silver and for wood brasse and for stones iron I will also make thine officers peace and thine exactors righteousnesse violence shall no more be heard in thy land wasting nor destruction within thy borders but thou shalt call thy walls salvation and thy gates praise Jer. 30. 21. And their Nobles shall be of themselves and their Governors shall proceed cut of the midst of them and so the Lord will punish all those that oppresse you Even now is the Lord begining to restore Magistracie and Ministery to it●… primitive institution This work is begun in England Ireland and Scotland will follow●… and if I mistake not France Holland and Spain will come after and so all other parts untill that be fulfilled Dan. 2. 35. Dan. 7. 27. Rev. 11. 15. In Dan. 2. we read of a little stone cut out of the mountaines without hands and it became so big as to fill the whole earth And that in Dan. 7. 27. The greatnesse of the Kingdome under the whole heaven shall be given to the people of the Saints Rev. 11. 15. And the kingdomes of this world shall become the kingdomes of our Lord and of his Christ and so all his enemies shall be made his foot stool The houre of temptation is begun and will not end till it hath gone over all the earth O England England thou was first in misery thou shalt also be first in thy delivery Oh that thou didst now know what thou shalt shortly enjoy Thou hast been rough-hewed already thou wantest nothing but plaining and so thou wilt be made fit for the spiritual building thou hast been rough-hewed by the open prophane but now thou shalt be plained by the most zealous Pharisees those that will fast twice a week and give tythe of all they possesse and pray in the corners of the streets and say Lo here is Christ In a word the greatest formall professors will be thy greatest persecuters herein is the devils last and most subtle design he will now come with fair words and specious pretences and if you look upon his habit he is in sheeps cloathing and if he hath feet like a beast he will have hornes like a lamb and although under another garb he will execute the power of the first beast in persecuting thee as Rev. 13. 12. But God will bring these proud opposers down unto the dust See Isa 24. 19 20 21 22 23. Then the Lord God shall reign in mount Sion and in Jerusalem gloriously Therefore with Peter let us expect a new heaven and a new earth wherein dwelleth righteousnesse 2 Pet. 3. 13. Behold I create ●…ew heavens and a new earth Isa 65. 17. And you shall sing for joy of heart and that whiles your enemies doe weep for sorrow of heart and howl for vexation of spirit Isa 65. 1●… 〈◊〉 14. For the Lord is now turning to his people a pure language and they shall sho●…tly serve him with one consent Zeph. 3. 9. The eyes of the blinde begin to be opened and the ears of the deaf to be unstopped the lame man begins to leap as an Hart and the tongue of the dumb to sing for in the wildernesse do waters break out an●… streams in the desart The brightnesse of Christ doth begin to appear which doth not onely discover but also destroy Antichrist 2 Thess 2. 8. Yea unto all you that fear his name is the Son of righteousnesse arising with healing in his wings Mal. 4. 2. The light of the Moon shall be as the light of the Sun and the light of the Sun shall be sevenfold Isa 30. 26. And so he will destroy i●… this mountain the face of the covering cast over people and the vail that is spread over all nations and the rebuke of his people he will take away Isa 25. 7. And so we shall all know him from the least to the greatest Jer. 31. 34. And the Lord shall be one and his name one and as for 〈◊〉 we shall all have one heart and one way Jer. 32. 39. Isa 11. 6 7 8 9. And this he will do for light is sown for the righteous and gladnesse ●…or the upright in heart Therefore rejoyce in the Lord ye righteous and give thanks at the remem●●ance of hi●… holinesse Gird up the loyns of you●… ●…inde be sober and hope to the end for the grace ●●at is to be brought unto you at the revelation of ●…esus Christ 1 Pet. 1. 13. Now above half of the sons and daugh●…ers of men are of a contrary judgement ●…aying of these and the like Scriptures ●…hat they be either fulfilled already or else ●…ay they there is some other meaning in ●…hese Scriptures which might be easily an●…wered Then for those men that do see ●…learly that these things are yet to be ful●●lled they do vary and differ in their judgements 1. The first saith It is true glorious ●…imes are at hand Sathan shall be chained ●●p and Christ shall reign personally on the earth for a thousand years Rev. 20. 2 3 4 5 6 7. 2. A second party of men stands up opposing the first saying It is true Christ shall reign upon the earth in the midst of his people but when not till after the judgement is past and this old earth burnt up and then he will create a new heaven and a new earth when the first heaven and the first earth