the wrong c. If you walk in that wrong way wherein you miscarrie and wrong God and Men growing worse and running further therein do not the Papists the same and are not you and they therein one and so walk with them in that way whose actions proceed from one ground and Spirit though in some words and formalities you differ but in the evill and wronging God and Men c. are Joyned together and therefore may stop your mouths of condemning others for that which you are found guilty of your words as well as your actions beare witnesse against you and your bitternesse and persecuting the servants of Jesus as your Prisons and barbarous or cruel usage at Evesham and other places may witnesse for the truth and against your deceit and wrong done to men and God as you say in your agreement therefore you and the Papists goes on in one nature together the Papists you say bring all â—he people to confesse their most secret sins unto their Priests and do not you labour to bring the people to do so unto you the Parish Masters idle Shepherds and hireling Preists and then are not you and the Papists therein both one in nature and property Ezâ—k 3â— â—â— â— though differing a little in words and colourable clauses And where you tell of creeping into houses who more then you creeps into the Popes houses which you with and from them call Churches but let me aske you that run so out of them from whence you sprung wherein do you and they differ in worships and practise therein Whether in manner or matter if in manner onely you differ and not in matter then do you not agree in the maine if so then are not you and the Papists in religion and worships as well as nature and property one though differing in some words formalities c. but both in the vaine traditions and observing your fancies and braine imaginations as the Serpents seed did in all ages You resolve in your wills to set on a worke in your imaginations promising salvation upon the performance and damnation upon the refusall page 30. and so would merit Heaven by your actings in the nature from whence ariseth negligence and miscarriages page 3 4. and wrong to men and to Christ page 19. and do not the Papists hold the same thinking to merit Heaven by their own actings in that nature and spirit of deceipt which guides them to neglect the work of God and also into miscarriages and to wrong men and God like you and persecuters and seed of evill doers If so then are not you and the Papists one therein and why do you crie out against that so much in others your selves being guilty of and found in the same and doing their work onely differing here and there in words formalities some colourable glosses c. You say page 23. you have all need to joyne heart and hand to help one another safe to heaven and all little enough you say I answer yea and too little too for in that nature in will not be done which teacheth you to wrong Christ and Men for if in that nature you could do it why might not the Papist in the like nature with you do the same and are not you therein with the Papists one or if any get out of your ignorance and come from under the wrong and out of the miscarriages in obedience to the teachings of Christ the true teacher and Saviour whom you wrong that they get into Heaven before you or sit with Christ Jesus in heavenly places whilst their bodys are on the earth as the Saints at Ephesus did whil'st their bodys were there and such as are saved by grace having their souls purified in obeying the truth through the Spirit where selfe is denyed are not you through ignorance of the way that leads out of error heresie miscarriages Popery and darknesse ready to call such hereticks as are come out of that and into the glorious light and injoyments of the sons of God to worship the Father in Spirit I say are you not ready to call such hereticks who are come out of it viz the darknesse Eâ—he 1.6 Co. 1.13 1 Pet. 1.22.23 24. Reve. 21.3.23.24 Joh. 4.23.24 2 Cor. 3.16.17 Gal. 4.4 5 6 7.8 1 Cor. 4.6.7 and heresie which you live in and would rank them with the Papists under that denomination to cover and shelter your selves thinking to cast that upon them which they are freed from and you and the Papists are found in union with and guilty of being both of you out of the right way and in the wrong that are neglecters of the work of God and wronging God and men and living in the miscarriages and so in the heresies error and disobedience to the truth following your own Spirits and obeying the imagined fancy formed up in your own wills and living in the vaine traditions and customes of the Heathen as you and they do but your mist dazels the eye of none but the willfull blind and such as are in sleepy security and in sin unturned to God who are already deceived and the eye covered or blinded by which they should see both delusion and heresie in which you and they therein agree who grow worse and run yet further from God c. For the Papists believe they shall never be free from sin here in this life and therein they are reprobate concerning the true Gospel soul-saving and purifying faith and you believe the same viz that you shall never be freed from sin here in this life and then must not you with the Papists have a purgatory seeing that nothing which is uncleane shall in any wise enter into the holy City Rev. 21.27 and the unrighteous shall not inherit the Kingdom of God as it is said and by the Ambassadour of Christ declared 1 Cor. 6.9 10. and are not you reprobate concerning the true Gospel Gal. 5.20 21. soul-saving and purifying faith who denieth the property of it in denying purity of heart and abiding in darknesse and the nature opposite to the true light believing or saying you believe you cannot or shall not be free from sin here in this life and therefore are not you and the Papists both one and your faith and theirs in nature and property being dead and corrupt therein agreeth together but I deny the Papists and you the wrongers of Christ and Men and that faith which doth not purifie the heart witnesseth that faith and power which doth Act. 15.89 Hâ—b 2.10.11 and as the Saints did as the Scripture witnesseth and God which searcheth the hearts beareth me witnesse as he did them who giveth the holy Ghost that purifieth the heart by faith and we know that we were not redeemed with corruptible things as silver and gold from that vaine conversation which had been received by tradition from your fore Fathers c. Who received Silver and Gold and did not the work which
words are your contradictions and selfe confutations and if ignorance be the cause that thousands perish if your people perish are not you the cause of it that hath your people in such ignorance that though they can talk understandingly about the matters of the world yet they can scarce speake a word of sence about the matters of salvation as you say page 19. and upon the experience of their ignorance you have been bâ—ought to consider of your negligence and to know how you have wronged Christ and them in feare least God should require their blood at your hands though you would put off with flatteries and excuses be sure the Lord will call you to a swer before his judgment seate for it your triall is not yet past and your pardon you have not and where you say he hath wonderfully dispelled or expelled the mists of Popery I answer yea that he hath and therefore those that dwell in his light sees you in those mists undispelled that are such deceivers and wrongers of men and of Christ page 18.19 and you say many of Gods servants have laid down their lives in flames in witnesse against it I answer so they have but what is that to you that are in the miscarriages and wronging Christ and men growing worse and running as you say yet further from God c. who are casting or causing to be cast into Prison and persecuting the Lords faithfull witnesses that are sent to witnesse against your deceipts and gaainst all the Popish mists of darknesse in which mists and darknesse are such as are wrongers of God and men in the heresis and miscarriages as you are who being in that mist of darknesse and the miscarrying nature which hath taught you to lie against God and his work page 18. saying he writes his law in the hearts of his living witnesses imperfectly I say you are ignorant of the living witnesses being your selves dead branches and persecuters of his living witnesses as the filling of your Prisons cruell usage at worcester Evesham Banbury Oxford Northampton and other places may witnesse which persecution and cruelty proceeds from that Popish mist or the miscarring nature being works of darkness and are reproved by us Ephesians 5.11 and as you have showed your ignorance of the living witnesses in whose hearts the law of God is written so have you showed that you are ignorant of the writeing of the law in the heart and ignorant of the law written therein that accounteth the work of God an imperfect worke and accounteth God to be an imperfect writer of the law in the heart If he have written his law in the heart of his living witnesses imperfectly as you say who must perfect it would not you be the perfecters of it or make people beleive in you to do it who are the transgressers of it being in the miscarriages growing worse c. And as you say you are wrongers of men and of Christ so are you wrongers of God himselfe that calls his work an imperfect work and accounts God himselfe to be an imperfect worker and to do his work imperfectly when he is a perfect worker and his works are perfect and so doth he write his law perfectly in the hearts of his faithfull living witnesses as both they and the Scripture beare a true testimony though yours be false and not true therein And here I charge you 42 Priests Teachers Pastours Ministers Rectors in the presence of the Lord to be false witnesses and lyers against God and his work and his law which he writes perfectly in the hearts of his living witnesses as the Scripture witnesseth Jer. 31.33 Heb. 8.10.11 The Lord is a perfect worker and his law is perfect so doth he write it perfectly to do its work Give eare ô ye Heavens and I will speak saith the Lord God whose words witnesseth against you and all false witnesses that are knowne by your false testimony therefore saith he heare ô earth the words of my mouth Deut. 32.1.2 my doctrine shall drop as the raine my speech shall distill as the dew as the smal raine upon the tender hearbs and as the showers upon the grasse because I will publish the name of the Lord ascribe ye greatnesse unto our God He is the Rock his work is perfect Deut. 32.34 As for God his way and work is perfect the word of the Lord is tried he is a buckler to all those that trust in him for who is God save the Lord or who is the Rock save our God It is God that girdeth me with strength faith David and maketh my way perfect Psa 18.30 31 32. And this the living witnesses in whose hearts the law of God were perfectly written witnesseth against you 42 false witnesses that saith It is imperfect but your folly is made manifest as well as your false testimony in your Agreement But this is but like thy former writing Richard Baxter in that deceitfull booke of thine which James Nayler answered in print as I did in writing and sent to have come to thee before I knew of the printing of thine or James his answer to that called the Quakers Catechisme wherein thy deceipt was to some purpose made manifest in which thou poured forth the venome and filth out of thy old bottle And did'st thou not say that when such as you the Ministers were overtaken with a lazie fit they could preach without study as well as a woman fit for the gumble stoole and hath not the lazie fit overtaken thee and you 42 Ministers that you have declared your lazinesse or negligence and preached in your Agreement or therein declared your ignorance of God and the truth and of the law in the heart perfectly written in the heart by the true and perfect writer of the same in his faithfull witnesses who beares testimony against your deceipts and filthinesse which you daylie make manifest who as you say grow worse and are running yet further from God You say in your Agreement page 26. that repentance is a through turning from the flesh and the world to God c. then they that throughly turne from the flesh and the world to God they turne out of imperfection unto perfection and art not thou here in words become a Preacher of that which thou Richard Baxter in thy book called the Quakers Catechisme there called the doctrine of the Devil for thou called the doctrine of perfection in that booke the doctrine of the Devil and here in thy agreement thou Acknowledged covertly that which thou therein denied openly and saith in that called your Warrant that you are to present every man perfect c And if it was the Devils doctrine to preach perfection and the Papists dung to feed on as therein to wit the booke called the Quakers Catechisme thou said it was Then art not thou either denying in your agreement what in the other thou asserted and so art thy own confuter and selfe contradicter or else if
as themselves confesse both of you and Christ and because they transgresse and abide not in the doctrin of Christ they have not God 2 Joh. 9. but are under condemnation condemned by that which their dark minde cannot comprehend and whilst they and you wrong men and Christ and so regard iniquity in your hearts God will not regard your prayers Psal 66.18 And let those that use the words and say Our Father c. learn to know whether or no they yet be Children and Sons of God For if lyers and wicked ones say Our Father which art in Heaven they are in the Miscarriages and speak without understanding And if Enviers Drunkards Proud and Covetous ones such as are persecuters and in the old nature not born again say our Father which art in Heaven do not they show their Ignorance of their Father who hath begotten them into Pride Covetousnesse Drunkennesse Lying and Dissembleing Isa 28. Mal 4. Rom. 1.18 28.29 verses and into all unrighteousnesse and the perfection of wickednesse and do they not pray without understanding for saith Christ to such Ye are of your Father the Devill take notice of that also read John 8.44 And know you not that the unrighteous ones are shut out of the Kingdom of God 1 Cor. 6 9.10 And the unclean abominable and lyers shall not in any wise enter as you may read Gal. 5.19 20 21. Rev. 21.8 27. And remember that the Devill who is the King of pride and Father of the unfaithfull such as are neglecters of the work of God and they that are wrongers of men and of Christ such as are in the Miscarriages Persecuters and unrighteous and the Father of lyers he is cast down out of Heaven Therefore when you that are such prayes as you say to a Father in Heaven do you not pray without knowledge of your Father Math. 25.41 to the end Psal 9.17 and so without understanding for the Devill is the Father of persecuters seed of evil doers and of lyers do you not know that he is in hell and the wicked as well as all that forgett God must be turned in thither Psal 9.17 And when you say Hallowed be thy Name such as do not sanctifie the Lord God in their hearts do not hallow his Name for to hallow is to sanctifie but liars swearers cursed speakers stoners revilers persecuters of the children of God and all covetous and malitious ones and such as are in the miscariages wrongers of Christ and of men c. that lives and acts in ungodlinesse deceit and filthinesse dishonours the Name of the Lord and therefore they do not hallow it but as James saith they blaspheme the worthy Name who have the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ with respect or persons and being out of the truth and partial Jam. 2.1 2 3 4 5 6 7. become Judges of evil thoughts who despise the poor and oppresse the saints and servants of God drawing them before the judgment-seat and blaspheming that worthy name by which they are called as it is written Jam. 2.7 And do you not know that when the name of the Lord is polluted and blasphemed that he is highly dishonoured and sore offended and Christ Jesus hath said that the sin of blasphemy against the holy Ghost shall never be forgiven neither in this world nor that which is to come therefore look to it all that are such and you that lives in persecutions and miscarriages who are wrongers of Christ and of men c. And when you say Thy kingdom come thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven I say such as are in the miscarrying nature and without the true Spirit and spiritual understanding and wrongers of the Lord Jesus how should you know it when and where it is both come and preached for it consisteth not in pride and vain glory persecution miscarriages wronging God and men and eating and drinking to satisfie the lust nor in unrighteousnesse for that is the kingdom of the devil which consisteth therein See if you know not that kingdom come and set up in your hearts though you be strangers to the other And how can you believe that seek honour one of another and doth not deny your wills and worldly honours c. to seek the honour that cometh of God only and do his will Joh. 5.44 Who instead of seeking his kingdom and doing his will are doing your own and seeking the kingdom of the world and the unrighteousnesse thereof and not the kingdom of God which consisteth in righteousnesse peace and joy in the holy Ghost and not in the miscarriages persecution and wronging men and Christ and growing worse c. And when you pray that the will of God may be done on earth as it is in heaven see that you do his will as it is of you required and bear not false witnesse against any the Lord doth forbid it nor envy in your hearts that is a killing and murdering the Lord is against it Matth. 19.18 1 Ioh. 3.12.15 and if you do the will of God persecution and lying will cease amongst you and so will the issue of slander and deceit be stopped and if you do the will of God swear not at all Iam. 5.11 then will oaths be cut off for remember that the Lord Jesus repealed oaths Matth. 5.34 And such as swear by the Lord shall be cut off Zepha 1.4.5 And lie not one to another Col. 3.9 then will truth take place Do not oppresse nor use any defraud nor deceit but do that which is altogether just for this is the will of God 1 Thes 4.3 4 5 6. And if you would have the will of God done it is his will that you should obey him and deny your selves and see that you do his will as it is required of you for he saith Let every one that names the Name of the Lord depart from iniquity and that is his will 2 Tim. 2.19 He hath so determined it in heaven left upon record in scripture and witnessed to with that in your consciences which calls for purity and equity and reproves for your miscarriages sin and iniquity but you and such as you are are ready to plead for iniquity and say they cannot depart from it here in this life c. though God requires it and command it And such as so rebelliously refuse to do the will of God are in danger of being guilty of the sin against the holy Ghost and their case is dangerous that sins wilfully after grace received who refuse to do the Will of God Heb. 10.26 27. And if you or any say Who hath resisted the will of God I say there is a question asked and it is answered that such as resists the holy Ghost resists the will of God but the uncircumcised in hearts and ears alwaies resists the holy Ghost Acts 7.51 52. Therefore they in that nature who wrong Christ and men and lives in miscarriages knowing the same
yet you say you and all the adjacent-churches will set apart a day publickly to fast and pray for a pardon c. I say the church in God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ 1 Thes 1.1 Which is the pillar ground of Truth 1 Tim. 3.15 doth deny you and all wrongers of God and men and persecuters of the Innocent and such as are called of men masters professing themselves Christs-Ministers and all such as deceive souls for dishonest gain and lives in perfection and such and the like miscarriages as you and your generation do and the prayers of the wicked are sin such as turneth their care from hearing the Law in the heart and of God Jer. 31.33 their prayer is an abomination to the Lord God Pro. 28. and 9. ver And such as you that neglect the work of God and lives in persecution the work of the Devill and in the miscarriages wronging God and men as you do they are those that turnes their care from hearing the law and their hearts from receiving the truth standing in opposition aganst it as you do and therefore their prayers are abomination to the Lord as yours and all that work such wickedness as you do is for thus faith the Lord unto such Isa 1.15 when ye spread forth your hands I will hâ—de mine eyes from you yea when you make many prayers I will not heare your hands are full of blood and hearts as well as houses are full of deceit and over passeth the deeds of the wicked Ier. 5.26 27. and such like and they that neglect the work of the Lord are cursed children having hearts exercised with covetuous practices 2 Pet. 2.3 13 14. And what Churches are you and you that are such who are in the cursed nature and wicked practices in sin and unturned to God Isa 59.2 What is your fasts worth that lives in strife and debate persecution and wickednesse behold in the day of your fasts do you not find pleasure And are you not bringing forth persecution as in this Nation is manifest as well as you exact all your labours Isa 58.3 behold do not ye fast as hypocrites and persecuters do that fast for strife and debate Matth. 23.4 5. c. who smite with the fists of wickednesse causing your voice to be heard on high afflicting the soul for a day and hanging down the head as a bullrush and instead of loosing the bands of witkedness you strengthen the hands of evil doers instead of undoing the heavy burthens you bind them Pharise-like upon mens shoulders and will not your selves touch them with one of your singers sueing some for Tythes and taking treble dammages c. And instead of letting the oppressed go free you and your generation cast the Innocent into prisons-holes and dungeons as your prisons in these parts against you may sufficiently witnesse and are not these the fruits of Jezabel and of the Hypocrites fast and not that which the Lord doth require Isa 58.3 5 6 7. Wherefore be ye witnesses against your selves that you walk in the false Prophets and Pharisees your fore-fathers steps as your fruits make you manifest and as you may read Math. 23.31 32 33 34. c and you have under a cover confessed the same who wants a pardon for your negligence in the work of God as you say for your former miscarriages which was before the 4. day of May as aforesaid and therefore you want a pardon for your perfecting and imprisoning of Tho. Goodaire once in Kiderminster twice in Worcester before that time and some others hath been imprisoned at Worcester and in Worcest Anne Himing Richard Keâ—bey for Tyths c. and many at Evesham since your hypocriticall false hearted and deceitfull confession promising amendement and rather growes worse and worse so manifesting your hypocrisie and filling up your measure of iniquity as your forefathers did leaving both your words and actions to be standing witnesses against you as they did that it may appeare for all your Evasions and Colourable glosses that you are their off-spring and beareth their marks by which you are known Maâ—th 7.20 Matth. 7.15 c. And seeing that your ministry takes little place in working any good effect in your hearers but leaves them ignorant in matters of salvation page 19. of your Agreement you are resolving in your wills and miscarrying wombe or nature and Spirit from whence your continued miscarriages proceeds to revive your fore-Fathers worke and set up a forme of words for them to get to say over to you as was used to be done to the Bishops at Trent or at Trull and you promise salvation upon the performance and threatens damnation upon the refusall Pope-like saying that that way of using Cathechising familiar and personall instruction and to have the people to get the Creed the Lords prayer and ten commandements or any other * And is not those which you call any other Orthodox Catechisme such as were set out by he old Bishops and their off-spring that were in the miscarriages as you also are c. And confesse page the 4. of your Agreement Orthodox Catechisme and your expositions to say over to you and so that will be a meanes you say to kill ignorance But the same meanes hath been used by the Bishops and Prelates and yet it hath not done that which you would have it to do and do you think that if it did not do it by your fore-Fathers applying that it receives any more vertue or power from you to do it by your revieing their work and useing the same meanes and with the same miscarrying nature and wrongfull Spirit which they did make use of it with all but your covers are too narrow and leaves you bare and ignorance remaines still amongst your hearers Math. 11.27.28.29 Act 4.11.12 Heb. 7.25 and the miscarriages amongst you their untaught teachers as it did with your fore-Fathers And you say the diligence of Papists and Sectaries will condemne you if you will not do halfe so much in a right way to save mens soules Math. 6.24 Math. 7.13.14 â—5 16.17.18 â—9 28 as they will do in a wrong way to pervert them would you not here have people to set you up as their saviour and so cause them to neglect coming from you to look unto Christ for teaching who is a true Saviour and teacher of his people and perfectly able to save all that come unto God by him without you but your designe is seeme and all your covers will not hide you who seeks to cast that off from you to the Papist and Sectaries which your selves are guilty of and found in for if the way of neglecting the work of God and living in miscarriages wronging Christ and Men growing worse and running yet further from God as you do and have done be not the wrong way and destructive to mens souls what is for there is but two waves the right and
was they not both wrongers of men and of Christ and cut off or turned out for their Miscarriages c And by the late Parliment they were dis-annulled and rendered uselesse and they are cryed down and their mouthes stopt viz. the Arch-Bishops and Bishops c. who cryed themselves up with as wide a mouth as you can do saying they was the Ministers of Christ and Jure divino c. and were ready to call all hereticks and the like that dissented from them and witnessed against their deceits and how did they punish afflict them for the same And have not you learned to walk in their steps And did not the Episcopals and Prelates those that were branches of the Bishops as you are â—o as you do and cryed up themselves by the name of the Ministers of Christ and counted others Hereticks and were ready to rank them with Papists as you do But was not the Prelates and Episcopals sound to be in the Miscarriages and wrongers of God and Men as you are and was not they cut off and turned out for their Miscarriages c And are not they silent and their mouths stopt and cryed down though they were forward to cry up themselves as you do and to call others Sectaries and Hereticks that are not so as you are but though you now open your mouthes wide to cry up your selves as your fore-fathers did being a bough or branch from them yet with the Light you are now seen and if they was cut off or turned out for their miscarriages and wrong done to Christ and to men do you deserve to stand who are found in and confessing the same But when you have filled up your measures and comes by all to be seen in the same must not you then descend and turn back from whence you came and be as you are men in miscarriages and neglecters of the great work of God wronging men and Christ as you say and your fruirs with your Agreement stands witnesse against you but in patience let all that see your deceits possese their soules and praise God for the riches of his love that hath led them out of your miscarriages and from under your mist or popish darknesse into the pure and glorious light and teaching of Christ wherein they are growing in grace Col. 2.3 4 5 6. Eph. 3.17.18 19 Col 2.7 8 9. Col 3.12 13 14 15. Ephe. 5.11 Rev. 3.9 being rooted and grounded in the true Gospel soul-saving purifying faith in which their soules are purifyed whose loves runs out unto the bretheren from a pure heart being of the new birth 1 Pet. 22.23 and denying your deceits and dead doctrin who witnesse against the works of darknesse and all that which proceeds from your Miscarrying nature and from the popish root and that spirit of deceit by which you wrong men and Christ and are neglecters of his work and without pardon for the same c. Rev. 14.9 10 11. Growing worse and runing yet further from God as you also say And you say page 19 It astonished you many times when you have occasion to talke with your hearers page 19. to perceive that they know very little of the doctrin which you say you have been preaching to them so many yeares there The people may take notice of the unprofitablenesse of your preaching and ministry and that they have spent their money upon you for that which is no bread and doth not after long time hearing and living under little or not at all profit them Luke 16 15. but how should it profit Them when it hath not taught You to come out of your miscarriages and that cursed nature from which your wrong to Christ and men doth proceed in which wrongfull and miscarrying nature your ministry stands and therefore is not like to profit the people But you speak in your own behalf as self justifyers Pharisies false Prophets and Hypocrits use to do and you say you know that they must understand it or perish yet though they have made use of you and spend their time and money upon you you have not nor doth not bring them to understand it and then with you their miscarrying and untaught teachers them to understand it and then with you their miscarrying and untaught teachers they accordingly as you say are like to perish yet you cry up your own way at a very high rate for your own ends and sets the price of a perishing condition without the understanding of your brain Imaginations which you call your preachings or your humane Inventions and poor people your hearers c. that after they have spent their labour and meanes or money upon you this many years yet want their understanding and benefit from you therefore it is high time for them to cease from you and hearken to the light of Christ in their conscience that calls to repentance that it they may obey and thereby come into the teaching of God Isa 54.13 Joh. 6.46 which causeth all to profit 1 Cor. 12.7 that obey the true light and follow the same Ioh. 8.11 Heb. 5.8 9. But people have many yeares heard you and are yet little or nothing at all as you say benefited by you for they remain yet in Ignorance c. you say and are like to do so for you I say Whose ministry stands in your wills and not in the will of God and can alter and change as times and mens wills alter and change but now that you see your ministry doth not kill Ignorance c. you are using the same meanes which your fore-fathers did to do it but left undone and is found with you in the Error Heresies and Miscarriages but you say that Catecthisme and personall Instruction is a great meanes to overcome that killing Ignorance c. page 9. If so how was it that the same meanes viz. personall Catechizing and familiar Instruction from the same spirit that led into miscarriages and to wrong men and Christ as you do did not kill that killing Ignorance in the time of the Pope Prelates Episcopalls and old out-cast or rooted out Bishops whose branches from that body are you and did not they set people on the same work and to use the same meanes as you do which did not kill it c. they set them to get the Creed as you call it and the same Creed as you do and the Lords prayer ten Commandements and those Catechismes which they as well as you call Orthodox Catechismes and their old Expositers as you do and yet the killing Ignorance is unkilled amongst you their off-spring that growes a little more into subtilty and gets words to talk of and sets people to get a few words by you summed together to talk of but are out of the life of them and are in pride coveteousnesse vain glory self conceitednesse Error and Heresies persecution and commiting abomination in as high a degree as your fore-fathers did though under a
yet taught or have not submitted to the teachings of Christ your selves and your bare sayings that you are Ministers of Christ is not sufficient to prove you to be so when your fruits witnesse the contrary against you as well as your words and self-accusations who sayes you are wrongers of Christ and are growing worse and running further from God and as you run further from God you run further from grace and goodnesse into persecution wickednesse and your Miscarriages which is by your fruits daily made and will be more and more Manifest There was no necessity that you should have told us of it for we knew it before and the tree on which that evill fruit growes but seeing you have done so and also accused and confuted as well as contradicted your selves your words will serve to witnesse to succeeding ages against you with your fruits as they are left upon record c And in your tenth answer of your Catechisme you tell of secret duties of holinesse but you make it manifest that you are out of them and so are sayers and not doers and therefore hypocrits and they serve you to talk of but still lives and goes on in your miscarriages as well as in hardnesse of heart Pride worldly mindednesse flesh-pleaseing and hypocrisie which you speak of in that answer and so have laid open some of your fruits therein arising from that evill nature in which you grow worse who are the flesh-pleases will-worshippers and time servers And where you tell of watching against temptations instead thereof do you not for the love of money fall into temptation and so watch for large augmentations and how to ensnare and imprison such as are sent to tell you of your miscarriages which you now have confessed but are running yet further on in them and thosâ— private duties you say is in your 11 Ans that Masters Parents must teach their Children Servants the word and feare of God hinder them from sin the which if they could do I say it were well but before they do that they must know another spirit guiding to teacth and hinder them from sin who are yet without the feare of God that are yet asleepe in security and in sin unturned to God and untaught as you are who lives in miscarriages therein growing worse c. And how should they teach that to wit the word and feare of God to others whil'st they are untaught yet themselves as well as you their untaught teachers And in your last answer you tell of the necessarie duties of righteousnesse but it appeares that you are out of them that are in miscarriages growing worse and therefore are servants of sin and unrighteousnesse 1 Tim. 6.9.10 ver Rom. 13.3 4. Isa 56.9 10 11. ver But you say superiors must rule for God so say I and then they will feare God and hate covetousnesse as saith the Scripture Exod. 18.20 21 22. and also be ready to relieve the oppressed and punish evil doers and then how should you escape the punnishment that are in the miscarriages and doing wrong to others and you say it is your duty to love your neighbour as your selves but I say such as are wrongers of them are not lovers of them no more then for their own ends but you are wrongers of them according to your sayings as well as your doings and therefore it is manifest that instead of loving them you are wronging their soul's and from your quarters are seeking your own ends and earthly gaines as your brethren the false Prophets the blind watch-men and greedy dumb doggs as well as both the beasts of the field and the forest that came to devour did and do wrong to others then in their times as you do now in yours that are in the miscarriages wronging Christ and men who neglects that necessary duty you speak of and therefore be conviced that you leave undone that which you say is your duty as well as necessary and needfull and ought for to be done and so according to your own sayings you leave that undone which you ought to do and so you say it is your necessary duty to do as you would be done by then I say if you did your duty which you say is needfull to be done you would not perfecute and cause the innocent causelessy to be cast into Prisons and Dungeons nor to suffer such hard usage by your meanes as they do for you would not be so done unto your selves and not doing to them and others as you would be done unto your selves you both transgresse the royall law and also neglects and leaves undone that necessary duty you speak of but it serves you to talk of hypocrit-like though you leave it undone and regard not at all to performe the same as by your fruits is now largely made mâ—nifest and you say it is your duty to behave your selves towards all men in lowlinesse then I say you must forsake your miscarriages and lay aside envy pride and haughtinesse if you intend to performe your sâ—yings who also saith It is your duty soberly to behave your selves in meeknesse and harmelesly not wronging any in their bodies c. Then I say you must come out of your suttlety if you come into harmelessenesse and you must come out of your wrath and passion before you learne meeknesse and if it be your duty not to wrong any in their bodies then you leave it undone by filling of your Prisons who instead of being lowly and meeke are proâ—de covetous and haughty filled with envy and cruelty as your fruits doth demonstrate who instead of being harmelesse are wrongfull and growing worse in the miscarriages and instead of not wronging any in their bodies you both wrong their bodies that without cause by your meanes are made to suffer in Holes Prisons and Dungeons as well as to be beaten stoned and abused in your streets that in obedience to the Lord are sent to witnesse against your deceipts and as you cause wrong to be done to the Saints bodies according to your sayings in your Agreement and as you do wrong to them in their bodies so likewise do you wrong to the soules you deceive under your unprofitable ministry that saies you are not wrongers of them only but of Christ himselfe also Therefore you leave undone that necessary duty who leaveth that undone which you say you should do and instead of doing that necessary duty you make it your businesse to wrong Christ and men so doing that which you ought not to do according to your own sayings and therefore do you act against the Scripture as well as neglect your necessary duty you tell of makeing it your work to live in flatteries and miscarriages growing worse therein as well as to run further from God and do wrong to Christ and men as your fruits with your words against you do witnesse and also in a large measure doth shew forth the same Take notice