Kingdom of your Hearts Keep the possession thereof no longer from him Will you not Reverence this Son O kisse him lest he be angry Blessed is the man that heareth This Welbeloved Son in whom Alone the Lord is well pleased Blessed Prov. 8.34 35. I say is the man that heareth Him not the false Prophets who preach for Reward watching daily at his gates waiting at the posts of his doores not at the gates of the Idols Temples or the Posts of their doores For who so findeth him findeth life and shall obtain-favour of the Lord Seek him and you shall find him but then seek right look within for there He is in every one of your Consciences bearing witnesse against all unrighteousnesse He that sinneth against it wrongeth his own soul All they that hate it love Death Prov. 8.36 Page 408. Thou sayes Aged persons are fittest to give Counsell having lived many years they have gained much experience and thou brings in Job 32.6 7. Dayes should speak and multitude of years should Teach Wisdom It s true They should do so But is it so with thee Thou hast lived many years Thou shouldst teach Wisdome but O the abundance of folly and filthinesse abounding in thy book the grosse darknesse and doating dreams thou delivers instead of sound Doctrine My soul pities thee and all that are deluded by thee Wert thou not blind thou wouldst not have brought this proof for thy Assertion for this makes against thee Job in his former Chapter spoke much of his Integrity Elihu not well pleased at Jobs Justification of himself rather than God And against his three friends was his wrath kindled because they had found no Answer yet condemned Job Now Elihu had waited till Job had spoken because they were elder then he when Elihu saw there was no Answer in the Mouth of these Three Men Then his Wrath was kindled and said I am young and ye are very old wherefore I was afraid and durst not shew my opinion I said Daies should speak and multitude of years should teach wisdome But there is a spirit in man and the inspiration of the Almighty giveth them understanding Great men are not alwayes wise neither do the Aged understand judgment Therefore I said Hearken unto me Titus 2.2 3. See thee here Elihu green in yeares was made to reprove gray haires And Titus must teach the aged Men and Women I know thy end is to make people believe Wisdome is lockt up in the lips of old men Long standing Teachers in the Pulpit but such Are Ancient in Deceit Multitude of years should teach Wisdome but the multitude of thy Eight and Twenty years Ministry hath brought forth a multitude of filthy lyes bound up in thy Babylonish Book of Doating Dreams instead of the Doctrine of Christ and his Apostles Priest pag. 409. Once more thou tells the people That experience of God and his Dealings will make men become Prophets to themselves and able to be Teachers of others This is true but thou darest not abide here for if they separate from thee thou cryes out of Faction and Delusion Ah how my soul thirsts after the Salvation of your soules who are thus drawn into the Chambers of Darknesse and Delusion by this Mans Doctrine and deluding Tongue O that I may see you withdraw from this filthy Dreamer and set forward towards the True Land of Canaan The light of Christ in your Consciences it will lead you to the Heavenly Jerusalem wherein there is no need of the dimme Candle-light of this Egyptian Priest Come out of Egypt dear Hearts do not delight to live and dye in the wild Wildernesse you at present are in The generation of Priests are the Hard-hearted proud oppressing Pharaohs that will not let the Children of Israel go free but fear them not onely be valiant and Turn to the Light And it love with all your hearts and your soules shall see Deliverance shortly and Pharaoh and his Host shall be drowned in the Red-Sea Exod. 13.27 28. Priest Page 249. In that part of thy Book called the Government of the thoughts Thou sayes Thoughts of the Vanities of the world with delight in them as fashions sports thou mightest have named Bowling and Musick Complements entertainments news jests the very froth and scum of wit and discourse these thou sayes are not worth thinking of Answ Are they then worth thy living in them Thou dost conform thy self to the fashions of the world Thou usest Bowling and Musick and livest in Complements and respect of persons Art thou not also one that givest entertainments listens after news and loves jests the very froth and scum of wit and discourse The living Principle of God within thee is my true witness and faithful Record in these particulars and shall rise up in judgement against thee for these things if thou repentest not The light will be thy condemnation if thou lovest it not P. 255. Thou sayes While you are thinking what gain you have got by such a Commodity you have fold of bargain of Land or Wares you have bought or at such a Faire or Market Think withall how little spiritual profit you have gotten for your souls at the many soul-fairs or Markets you have had as the Sabbaths Ordinances and Sacraments Let me answer for them herein Thou and thy Generation of Priests have gotten more temporall gains more Lands mony and goods by the bad Commodities and Wares and false Doctrine which you deliver at such Priest-Faires or Markets as thou calls Sabbaths and paintest over with the name of Christ Ordinances than ever their poor souls found comfort by them that bought them of you and traded with you Isa 55.2 Woe and misery will be the Portion of such Priests if they repent not who take money for that which is not bread and delude the ignorant with your insinuating Tongues calling light darkness and darkness light You are worse then Simon Magus for he would have bought the Spirit and ye sell the Letter adding thereto many lies of your own P. 375. Thou tells of the undaunted and insuperable courage of Paul whom neither bonds nor afflictions nor death could move or appale but the very thoughts of bonds imprisonment and afflictions made thee fly from thy flock in Lincoln to Norwich See what difference there is friends between Paul and your Priest Then thou brings in that of Nehemiah chap. 6. vers 11. shall such a man as I flee Hadst thou been as true a Minister of Christ as Paul was thou wouldest not have wantted Pauls insuperable courage but when the slavish fear was arising in thee Thou wouldest have said as Nehemiah did shall such a man as I flee But the Tree was known by its fruit shame cover thee thou cowardly Priest Mat. 12.33 Heb. 11. What dost thou talking of those Worthies in that little Book of Martyrs as thou calls it of whom the world was not worthy who subdued Kingdoms stopped the mouths of Lyons quenched the violence of fire escaped the edge of the sword Thou wouldst fain be ranked amongst those conquering Christians but it must be then in some unknown Land for here thy Cowardise is so well discovered thou canst not be counted such a Champion as those were P. 384. Thou bids the people As they have frequented Ordinances c. so do it still and hold on even till death and if these and the like things make you vile he would have you be more vile still P. 339. Is it not this mans design to keep you in darkness does he not deal deceitfully with you one while telling you That observing the soul and the affairs of it and Gods dealings with it will make a man a Divine to himself P. 409. and observing a mans course well and how God hath led him will make a man under God a guid to himself But he dares not centre here This Doctrine he sees would unroost him and all his Romish Generation Root Branch And though they may keep aloft for a little season yet they are not of the Lords planting and therefore shall be rooted up and so shall all other Formalists who stumble at the light Every knee shall bow unto my Jesus Here the man speaks plain English That unless you wilfully hood-wink your understandings you may easily discover The man is convinced That if you will but be so wise and wary as to watch over your own souls minding that principle of God within you which checks and convinces you of sin when no eye sees you nor eare heares you this will be a Divine a Teacher a true Prophet to every one of you This will speak truth when the false Prophet flatters you The light of Christ in your Consciences is the pure Divine The true Prophet the never erring Guid unto all goodness if you will yield obedience thereunto 'T is the desire of my soul you may no longer make this Dreamer nor any of this stamp your Darling Draw back from him for he is but a painted Sepulchre what good soever he promises you shall never be performed so long as his life is in the Letter he feeds on death Delight in that which draws out of sin unto holiness without which no man shall ever see God Feed no longer upon the Husks like Swine The Pearl of great price is set before you Christ Jesus the light of the world He is the way the truth and the life He is that bread from Heaven which who so feeds on shall never hunger He is that pure water of life which who so drinks of shall never thirst The light in your Consciences if you love it will preserve you pure and spotless and stablish you in that pure Religion which is undefiled But if you love Babylon and loath the light my Soul shall weep for you in secret Yet remember you have warning in your life-time prize it Much more of his filthy Rubbish might be gathered up but here is enough presented to the ignorant for whose sake this work was undertaken which may sufficiently render this Romish Orator an Antichristian Minister M. 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take heed least he fall 1 Cor. 10.12 When he proves his Call to be from God And that those People had power to make him a Minister of the Gospel He may then be believed Paul was an Apostle not of Men neither by Man but by Jesus Christ and God the Father Gal. 1.1 but Eaward Reyner is a Minister of Men and by Man for he abides not in the Doctrine of Christ Jesus not by Jesus Christ and God the Father Mat. 12.33 The Tree is known by its fruit Paul was filled with the Holy Ghost is this Man so that makes lies his refuge Isa 28.15 Paul sayes Ye remember Brethren our Labour and Travel labouring night and day because we would not be chargeable to any of you 1 Thes 2.9 And even to this present houre we both hunger and thirst are naked and buffetted and have no certain dwelling place and labour working with our own hands being reviled persecuted made as the filth of the World and the off-scouring of all things to this day 1 Cor. 4.11.12 Canst thou Edward Reyner or any of thy Generation who preach for Rewards witness such a condition How often have ye laboured with your own hands night and day that you might not be chargeable to your Hearers Have you not certain dwelling places Instead of suffering hunger and thirst being naked and persecuted do you not live in plenty and pomp never yet tasting of such persecution as the Apostles suffered What contrariety between you and Christs Ministers The Ministers of Christ Jesus have the spirit of Christ Canst thou and thy fellow Priests witness that holy Spirit living within you James 2.9 Nay for then you would not pamper your selves and satisfie your lusts with the lofty and unrighteous wages ye receive nor live in respect of persons and so commit sin complementing the rich with hat and knee Sir Forsooth but not doing so to the poor are not such partial Hadst thou the spirit of Christ living in thee and he that hath not is none of his thou wouldest not have sent thy Sonne to the old Popish Plantation in Cambridge there to be trained up in the Serpentine subtlety of Romish Sophistry Rom. 8.9 Would not that expences thy Son there puts thee to have been better bestowed in putting forth some poor fatherless Children to honest Trades 2 John 9. Hadst thou the Spirit of Christ living in thee thou wouldest abide in his Doctrine and not instead thereof teach the Traditions of Men nor suffer Drunkards swearers lyers proud persons and such like to sing Davids Psalms in thy Assembly as they do and thou never reprove that sinful practice which is not to the prayse and glory of God Didst thou speak from that pure Spirit thou wouldest not use such long vain glorious Prayers as thou dost nor limit that holy One to thy Houre-glasse 2 Tim. 1 1â— I deny not the Relation of Master and Servant but that in Men which would be called Master by those that â—â—ve them not is of the Serpent and accursed Nor call sprinkling Infants the Baptisme of Christ or a peece of bread and a little wine Sacraments where is the precept or precedent in all the Bible for that practice of sprinkling Children where dost thou read that unsavory word Sacrament in all the Scriptures Art thou a Minister of Christ who holdest not fast the form of sound words who calles men Masters whom thou servest not and art so called by others contrary to the Commands of Christ if thou art one of Christ Disciples that of Math. 23.10 is a Command to thee When did Christ repeal that precept after he commanded it and when didst thou refuse that word Now whether thou art a Minister of the Gospel yea or nay let all who love and live in the Gospel judge I cannot passe by another peece of notable Policy of this painted Preacher he hath playd the Thief and robbed Paul very smoothly who in Gal. 6.16 sayes As many as walk according to this Rule Peace be on them and Mercy and upon the Israel of God This Proof the Man pâ—ts into the Title Page of his Book As who should say His Book was as perfect a Rule for people to walk by as Pauls was A presumptuous Pharisee verily he is yet let him take this along with him Mat. 5.20 Except his Righteousness exceed the Righteousness of the Scribes and Pharisees He shall not enter into the Kingdom of God Pauls Rule was no Book or Writing with Pen and Inck but the Holy Ghost Till thou ownest the light Post thou compare thy Babel Bundle thy Babylonish Book to the Spirit of Christ which was Pauls Rule Neither thou nor any of thy Hearers while they give such preheminence to thy Papers and believe thy lies shall ever wirness nor shall ever finde that peace and mercy which Paul pronounced in that Epistle And now I come to thy Epistle Dedicatory wherein thy Language discovers thee what Nation thou art of Is not bending and bowing of the body a worshipping with the body Joh. 5.41 42. Psal 4.4 All Authority that is of God I own him that does Justice my heart loves â—â—â—ugh I give him not the Worlds flattering Language A Roman thou art though an Englishman born for thou writes thus To the right Worshipful the Mayor and Aldermen c. He that runs may read thee a Babylonian Is not all Honour Glory and Worship due to God alone what Worship is then left for thy Mayor and Aldermen Is not God only to be worshipped where is thy warrant in the Scriptures for giving them or any one such a Title Did ever any of the Prophets or Apostles give that Title unto any person Did not Christ himself a true pattern for all the pure in heart say I receive not Honour from men and How can ye believe that receive Honour one of another and seek not the Honour that is of God onely But thy heart is corrupted with flattery and therefore canst not follow Christ Commune with thy own Heart and see the end of thy giving that Title to that People Is it not to flatter and please proud flesh that delights therein I know it is and that thou knowes it would cross proud flesh to want such proud titles and thou dares not take up the cross therein and the Principle of God within thee is my witness in this particular Solomon saies t is not good to have respect of persons for for a peece of bread that man will transgress Prov. 28 21. Iames. 2.9 Rom. 2.11 I honour him in my heart whose love is to the Lord be he rich or poore in Authority or not though my hand move not my hat Iob 32.21.22 And Iames saies It ye have respect to persons ye commit sin and Paul saies There is no respect of persons with God Yet I honour all men in the Lord and out of him I honour
no man Doth true honour consist in such hollow deceitfull unwarrantable titles inventions of the beast as are given by the world one to another * Is not your Lordship your Honour your Worship and the like a flattering Title Ester 3.2 How contrary art thou to Elihu who said Let me not accept of any mans person neither let me give flattering titles unto man for I may not give flattering titles unto man in so doing my Maker would soone take me away And Mordecai he would not bow unto Haman though the Darling of a King * Mind that you idolatrous and dissembling complementers who are bowing to and sawning on one another when in your hearts you are fit to murdâ—r one another Psal 2. But while thou feeds thy Magistrates with such food as their crazie carnall stomacks gape after while thou feasts them with such fare I say thou fattens the enemie and pines the pure but read thy reward and take it with thee The Lord shall cut off all flattering lips and the tongue that speaketh proud things Psal 123. Thou tells them Full 28 years are run out since thou was called to this City by the general vote of all the godly in it It seems this was all the call thou had'st the vote of men Thy confession makes it manifest thou had'st no call from God How hast thou proved thy generall vote of all the godly in this Citty Must thy bare word be taken when thou hast already been proved a lier Was there not one whose heart was towards the Lord not one Child of God in all the Citty but those that gave their vote to thee The Baptized people will not credit thee in this thing but look upon it as an uncharitable censure a presumptuous Boast and will ranck it amongst the rest of thy Lies Full 28 yeares are run out c. all which time together with my spirits and strength I have pent amongst you and upon you but for about 2 yeares in the heat of the late unhappy broyles when the good hand of providence removed me to a Citty of Refuge to wit Norwich Thou art Master of thy Trade A smooth tongue oylie words thou wantest not But this will not doe thy varnish must be washt off under this painted stufflies Poyson Hast thou spent 26 yeares upon those to whom thy book is dedicated with thy Spirits and strength what 's that which speaks so lustily in the Pulpit and walks so lively in the streets Is it not Edward Reyner his own self Hath the Mayor and divers more to whom thou dedicates thy book lived 26 yeares in Lincolne If they have not and I am sure t is so how hast thou spent thy spirits and strength amongst them and upon them all that time Besides hast thou had no journeys out of the Citty in all these 26 yeares Hast thou spent none of that time in bowling musick feasting at home or abroad If thou confessest then that time was not spent upon thy freinds for the good of their Souls whilst thou was Pampering thy own body Dives like with dainty fare and carnall pastimes not becoming a Minister of the Gospell But if thou denies this many in Lincoln can witness against thee So that turne which way thou wilt the hand of the Lord is against thee thou art found out a lyer in this particular also Wee to the Idoll Shepheard that leaves the Flock c. 11 Zecha 17. verse Then thou talks of the good hand of providence c. Deale honestly with thy own heart was it the good hand of Providence or the left hand of slavish feare and self ends that made the Hireling leave his Flock when the Wolf came What an unkind requitall did'st thou make them for their generall vote to preach amongst them Was thou so honest or so hardy to stay and desire their generall vote to leave them Was there not many a Soul in that Citty who thought well of thee yet knew not of thy flight till the Bird was flowne Hee 's blind that sees not this to be Blasphemy Thou goes on calling an Abridgment of thy Doctrine heart renewing life reforming soule saving truths Here 's three lies in a little roome canst thou prove that the Bible much less thy Babell book can renew the heart reforme the life and save the soule of any sinner Is it not the living God alone can do these things The leaest Child in the Schoole of Christ that reads this stuff of thine sees thy sottish error but 't is just that thy lying spirit should be laid open O that ever such a lying man as thou art should take upon him the name of a Minister of the Gospel What a Saviour is it which thou trustest in cannot he renew the heart reforme the life and save the soule Then surely thou art in a sad condition being so great a sinner and hast so lame a Saviour But if he can then see what wrong hast thou done him to make a meere useless Cypher of him and place salvation in printed leaves and abominable lies But this makes it manifest thy heart is not renewed nor thy life reformed nor thy soule saved were it so thou would'st not have printed such dark Popish stuff in such a time as this when light breaks forth in aboundance Soone after thou begs leave of them to leave that little Peice of thine in their hands as a light to guide them c. John 8.12 John 19. Christ Jesus is the light of the world does not he inlighten every one that comes into the world is he a perfect light or not wilt thou say there is imperfection in Christ Jesus Luke 1. 79. John 16.13 2 Pet. 1.19 What need is there of thy dark Lanthorne when the glorious Sun it self shines so comfortably doth not Christ give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death and guide their feet into the way of Peace And John saith when the spirit of truth is come he will guide you into all truth and Peter saies we have a more sure word of Prophecy whereunto ye do well that ye take heed as unto a light that shineth in a dark place untill the day dawne and the day star arise in your hearts Away thou blind guide that book which thou begs leave to leave with them as a light to guide them will lead all such as are guided by it into the ditch there 's a multitude of lies contradictions false doctrine and blasphemies in it of the Serpents invention mixt and interwoven with severall places of Scripture which thou wrests and pervertest explicating of them according to that deceitfull principle that is predominant within thee thereby hoping more plausibly to put off thy counterfeit ware and false doctrine for current truth but the light hath discovered thy delusions and thou art seene and judged Is thy book able to preserve from errors in opinion and looseness in conversation as
abominated Thou saies A Scriptum est Thou begins with that which thou calls the word of God viz. the Scriptures Thou bids heare it read it As it is written will put sin and Satan to flight and hide it in your hearts There are words many but the Word is but one Iohn 1.1 The Scriptures I own more truely than thou does or any tithe taking Preist in England yet I deny it to be that which thou callest it but protest not In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God Are the Scriptures God Were they in the beginning Was not Moses the first Man that writ Scripture Is it not Christ that 's clothed with a vesture dipt in blood is not his name called the Word of God Are the Scriptures Christ Rev. 19 13. 2 Pet. 3.5 Doth not Paul say the Word of God is quick and powerfull sharper than any two edged sword peircing even to the dividing a sunder of Soule and Spirit and of the joynts and Marrow and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart Can the dead doe all this Is the letter quick and powerfull Hath it the vertue force and operation written in that verse Or is it the work of a God Is any printed book a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart Peter saies by the Word of God the Heavens were of Old and the earth standing out of the water and in the water Were the Heavens and the earth made by the Scriptures or by God Paul saies every creature of God is good and nothing is to be refused if it be received with thanksgiving for it is sanctified by the Word of God Luke 1.1 Can any thing sanctify a creature but the Omnipotent God and Creator of all things 2 Iet 1 2â— Whether does he owne the Scripture who calls it his rule and lives contrary to it or he that calls it not soe yet lives according to it Yet I own the Scriptures as they are a declaration a record the writings of the holy Men of God who spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost But I dare not Deifie or equall them with God nor pretend to make them my rule and walk contrary to them as thou and all thy generation doe Thy second Antidote thou calls the Sacraments A word of an old stamp coyned by thy Fore-Fathers at the Romish-Mint which it seems thou reservest as a holy Relique for its Antiquity not for any Sanctity that is in it I am sure Art thou not ashamed to use such rusty dark language at this time of the day P. 28.29 Thou saies Sacraments are instituted to be instruments for conveyance of vertue from Christs death into your Soules to mortifie your sins How many sins can the people truely say are mortified in them by thy Sacraments If thou wilt not answer for them say for thy self speak and lye not Channels through which streams of blood flow from the sides and heart of Christ into your hearts to carry away your sins Name what sins thou canst witness either of thy owne or the peoples that are carried away by those pretended streams flowing through the Sacraments Then thou bids make use of Sacraments against sins as men doe of Assizes against Malefactors get them condemned and cut off He that drinks at the pure Fountaine savours thy muddy language to streame from the corrupted Sea of Rome But all this while thou hast been talking of Sacraments thou hast lost thy Scriptum est What old Authors hast thou been ransaking up for this Sacrament all stuff Dares thou come into the feild thus to fight against the Lamb and his Saints and not bring one weapon out of thy Scripture Magazin to defend thee How canst thou hope to return a live to thy Camp Is the name of a Minister Armour of Proof to secure thee Dost thou not say the Word is a sheild to defend you against all the assaults of Sin and Satan or Batteries of Yentations The heart fenced with it thou saies is Cannon Proof I know thy meaning is the Scriptures Thou counts it the Word Ah silly blind Soul that art thus groping in the dark when the Sun of righteousness shines so gloriously Art not thou and the people provided of Bibles How are you defended against the assaults of Sin and Satan t is seene how open you are to the Batteries of tentation And for all thy flourishes thy heart is not fenced with one Scripture for all this folly thy tongue hath uttered concerning thy second Antidote Therefore thou art neither sword nor pistoll-proofe much less Cannon-proofe by thy owne confession Prov. 12.22 Pro. 28.9 Thy third Antidore is Prayer to God of the wicked are an abomination to the Lord. To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me saith the Lord when ye come to appeare before me who hath required this at your hand the calling of Assemblies I cannot away with * It is iniquity even the solemne meeting when ye spread your hands I will hide my eyes from you yea when you make many Prayers I will not heare Isaiah 1. and what 's the reason of this your uncleaneness Wash ye make ye cleane put away the evill of your doings from before mine eyes cease to do evill learne to do well seeke judgement Releive the oppressed judge the Fatherless Plead for the Widdow Loe here 's work for thee and thy Mayor and Aldermen O that you would set your hearts to doe it till then all your Prayers are but vaine babling till then there is no reasoning with God If ye be willing and obedient yee shall eate the Fat of the Land but if ye rebell ye shall be devoured with the sword for the Mouth of the Lord hath spoken it page 30. Speaking of the spirituall combat thou saies The life or exercise of grace puts sin to death in the duell betweene Flesh and Spirit as humility doth Pride and sincerity doth hypocrisy Ah poore Soul that it were so with thee and where there is no opposition there is no restraint where there is no contrary Principle of grace to cross and curb sin there sin overflows like a River without Bancks Grace thou saies will drive out sin as one pin doth another yet for all this page 28 thou calls Duties and Ordinances Weapons edgewise to cut and kill lusts Antidotes to expell the Poyson of sin especially the Word that is saies thou Scriptures Sacraments and Prayer for dost thou not say a Scriptum est As it is written will put sin and Satan to flight Here thou laies all the weight and power of killing sin upon duties ordinances and the letter and page 30. thou saies 'T is the life of grace puts sin to death and grace will drive out sin but what that grace is thou hast not mentioned 1 Cer. 12.9 The Lord saies to Paul my grace is sufficient for thee
And Paul said when Iames Cephas and Iohn who seemed to be Pillars perceived the grace that was given unto me they gave unto me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship 2 Gala. 2.9 And by the grace of God I am what I am And his grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vaine but I laboured more abundantly than they all yet not I but the grace of God which was with me 2 Titus 12. And the same Apostle saith that the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men teaching us that denying ungodliness and worldly lusts we should live soberly righteously and godly in this present World a Scriptum est 2 Cor. 13.3 You seek a proof of Christ speaking in me 1 Iohn 9. Know ye not that Christ is in you If not you are Reprobates Hebr. 13.5 1 Tim. 6.9 The seed of singularity is Is this grace any duties or ordinances Scripture or a Scriptum est as thou calls it or Sacraments Is not this grace Christ Iesus himself The light that inlightens every one that comes into the world even the Mystery which hath beene hid from ages and generations but now is made manifest to his Saints Thou goes on using many good expressions in the Scriptures I should rejoyce to see thee live the life of those that writ them then would thy conversation be without covetousness Thou wouldst see he that will be rich falls into temptation and a snare and into many hurtfull and foolish lusts which drown men in perdition and that the love of mony is the root of all evill Ah friend love thy own soul and set thy heart no longer upon silver and gold that lofty Salary thou receivest for thy lying Oratory Do not for the love of money delude the souls of so many as thou dost any longer If thou does it will be bitterness unto thee at the latter end Thou art discovered by the light of God and condemned by that pure principle of himself within thee As yet thou art rich in thy own conceit thou hast built thy nest high in the Airy wisdom of the world which is foolishness with God therefore art thou sent empty away Luke 1.53 Read James 4.6 Psal 138.6 Page 34. As for Verbosity whether that be not a weed in thy own Garden an error thy self art deeply guilty of the very babes and sucklings in Christ can witness against thee In the multitude of words there wanteth not sin Thy vain glorious Prayers and Houre-glasse Oratory do confirm it but he that refraineth his lips is wise Prov. 10.19 Page 35. Thou bids Furnish and fortifie your selves with spirituall weapons out of Gods Armory against your speciall corruptions every morning Dost thou not here set up the Scriptures to be Gods Armory and spiritual Weapons Where are they called so in the Bible Thou would seem to be religious but how short thou comes of brideling the tongue thy Verbosity in thy Book and thy Tautologies in thy Pulpit exercises clearly manifest And therefore is thy Religion vain James 1.26 Let the tender spirits feare with me herein I must deal with him a little in his own Weapon In the 41. page thou playes the Critick with the Greek word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 John 3.9 where John sayes He that 's born of God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 doth not commit sin that is sayes Thou He does not work sin as a man on his Trade c. What 's thy meaning to carp at the Translators rendering of that word Scapula's lexicon approves the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 committere peccatum He shews it to be a word of a various signification as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Servare legem and divers others But thy end is seen and thou art judged herein to be under-propping that which the pure and powerful God of Heaven and Earth is throwing down So thou canst not prosper Read Ephes 4.32 The English runs As God for Christs sake but see if it be not in the Greek As God in Christ 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Is The Sophister would not cavill at this place it was not for his purpose this truly translated But this blind Guid strains at a gnat and swallows a Camel Mat. 23.24 Page 49. Thou directs them to receive Christ as held forth in an Ordinance to wit in the Ministry of the word and in the Sacraments Thou mightest have done well to have shewne who are the true Ministers and what the word is But I know thy meaning and do deny thee and thy Generation who run before you be sent Jer. 23.21 to be Ministers of Christ John 2.9 All his Ministers abide in his Doctrine but so do not you and therefore the Ministers of Antichrist you all are Where dost thou finde the word Sacrament in the Scriptures Thou holdest not fast the form of sound words 2 Tim. 1.13 Prove thy Traditions to be the Ordinances of Christ if thou canst and that they are appointed as means to convey Christ as thou affirmest Or else thou art so well known thou mayst not be trusted Thou hast an itching desire to be counted and received as an Apostle and be esteemed amongst thy unbelieving Jews as Peter was amongst the faithful and as Paul was amongst the Colossians For thou abidest not in his Doctrine 2 John 9.10 witness thy preaching of Original sin c. For thou sayes He that receives Christs Ministers receiveth him But then they must not receive thee for thou art no Minister of Christ Thou wouldest fain weare the Crown but cannot carry the Crosse yet thou sayes They must take Christ as Wives do their Husbands for better or worse for richer or poorer Does not this expression favour of the Popish Service-Book P. 50. Does it not argue thou still hast an affection to the Traditions of thy Romish Fore-Fathers but secretly for fear of thy Jews Mat. 19.27 Dost thou deserve to be received as a Minister of Christ like Peter and Paul for this Canst thou witness thy willingness to lose for Christ as well as to gain to suffer with him as well as to reign with him Peter could say Loe we have left all and followed thee Canst thou say so Thy Norwich journey will rise up in judgement against thee Peter was imprisoned with two Chains Acts 12.6 Pauls sufferings was foreshewed him and when some heard those things they wept and besought him not to go up to Jerusalem But Paul answered what mean ye to weep and to break my heart for I am ready not to be bound onely but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus O valiant Champion for Christ and his Cause Hadst thou been with Paul not ready onely to be bound but to die for the Doctrine thou hadst delivered thou wouldst have had more colour to have pleaded for Pauls Reception but instead of being ready to be bound thou runs away instead of
Tithes or other set maintenance Thy next place is 1 Cor. 9.11 But what spiritual things have ye sowne unto the people unlesse spiritual Delusions Teaching for Christs doctrine the Traditions of Men calling Sprinckling Infants the Baptisme of Christ and roaring out Lyes in the Idols Temple spiritual melody and eating a bit of bread and drinking a sup of wine feeding on the Body and Blood of Christ Is Original Sin the Doctrine of Christ Is Denying the Deity to be Communicable the Doctrine of Christ or Antichrist Is not he that denyes Jelus to be come in the flesh an Antichrist Then Edward Reyner hath no wrong done him to be called Antichrist for He denyes the Substance of the Deity to be communicable Is not Christ Jesus of the Substance of the Deity Is it not said Christ in you the Hope of Glory Paul tells us he used not this power but suffered all things lest he should hinder the Gospel of Christ If the Ministers of England were such as Paul was they would be content with Paul's Reward and what was that Verily saith he 1 Cor. 9.18 That when I preach the Gospel I may make the Gospel of Christ without charge Paul he kept under his Body and brought it into subjection lest that saith he when I have preached to others I my self should be a Cast-away 1 Cor. 9.27 O that when thou preachest Self-Denyal to others thou wouldest make Paul thy President and practise it thy self and not cry out of the difficulty thereof as thou dost page 80. and so be discouraged and never take up the Crosse but live in such pomp and pride as thou does nor call for respect to thy person as thou does like a Proud Pharisee as thou art Do either of the places in Scripture thou produces prove that the Apostles called for that respect to their persons which thou receivest Or does either of the places mention respect to their persons The Pride of thy Heart is seen in thy third proof I saiah 52.7 The words are these How beautiful upon the Mountaines are the feet of Him that bringeth good tydings that publisheth peace that bringeth good tidings of good that publisheth salvation that saith unto Sion Thy God reigneth Come down thou proud Son of Ambition that aspiring spirit in three shall be level'd with the Dust 1 Pet. 5.5 For God refuteth the proud and gives his grace to the Humble Page 174. Thou counsels Masters and Mistreffes to Make their Servants read Scriptures and Bring them to the Publique Ordinances He that dares use such lofty language now when Liberty to tender Consciences through the infinite love of the living God is allowed how would he thunder would he not prove another bloody Bonner if ever power should be put into his hands Art thou a Minister of the Gospel and thus seeks to dethrone him by taking his Golden Scepter of Loe from him and wouldst rule thy self over his Saints with thy rod of iron thy persecuting spirit Is not Christ alone King of the Conscience Away thou Traitor to the King of Saints Thy Treason is discovered against him and his Tender Lambs but it shall not prosper Page 217. Thou talks of Contempt of the World of all the Wealth Pomp and Glory in it and sayes it is Christian Magnanimity to contemn silver and gold 'T is such Magnanimity as neither thee not the Priests of England who preach for Rewards are indued with What people lives in more pomp and glory of the World than your selves according to your outward estates who coret silver and gold more then your selves Page 219. Paul thou sayes was singular in Self-Denyal 1 Cor. 9.27 O that Edward Reyner could truly say so of himself but while he preaches this to others he himself becomes a Cast-away for he like a Coward cryes out of the difficulty thereof and never yet durst deal with it Page 80. P. 225. Ah that thou hadst eyes to see who it is that rests in the Name without the thing who it is that Sardis-like hath a Name to live but is dead and who they be that are the Synagogue of Satan But this is hid from thy eyes for thou delightest in darknesse and loves not but loathes the light an infallible sign thy Deeds are evil Revelat. 3. 1 9. Page 227. Priest Thou sayes Neither is that Baptisme sufficient to Salvation which is outward only of the flesh Ans Why dost thou use it then sprinckle Infants being thou hast neither precept nor president for that practice Priest Baptisme is that of the Spirit thou sayes in the Heart Ephs 4.5 If this onely be Christs Baptisme Whose is the other Paul owned but one Lord one Faith one Baptisme Page 244. Thou talks of that thou never tasted of from God in thy own not his Ordinances the Letter not the World Hebr. 4.12 for the Word is quick and powerful Sacraments Away with that Romish Word it shewes what thou art and Wouldst be Prayer Prov. 12.2 Prov. 28.9 The prayers of the Wicked are an abomination to the Lord All thy babling is but a Pharisaical Vain-glorious Boasting a meer flourishing of a Formalist Ephe. 4.12 13. Thou sayes in Heaven is perfection of grace obedience Paul is speaking of perfecting the Saints for the work of the Ministery for the edifying of the Body of Christ till we all come in the Vnity of the Faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God unto a perfect Man unto the Measure of the Stature of the fulnesse of Christ That we henceforth be no more children tossed to and fro carried about with every wind of Doctrine by the sleight of men c. Paul writes to such who had not yet attained to such a Measure But does Paul say that perfection of Grace and obedience is in Heaven as thou wouldst have it understood Does he not plainly signifie that the coming unto a perfect man unto the measure of the stature of the fulnesse of Christ is to be while we are on Earth Else what mean the following words That we Henceforth be no more children tossed to and fro c. Can the Saints in Heaven be tossed to and fro What wind of false Doctrine is there in Heaven What cunning craftinesse there Are there any in Heaven who lye in wait to deceive Heb. 12.23 Then thou tells them That in Heaven the spirits of just men are made perfect The Apostle speaking of the Administration of Moses c. Tells them that they are come unto Mount Sion and unto the City of the living God the heavenly Jerusalem and to an innumerable Company of Angels to the Assembly and Church of the first-born which are written in Heaven and to God the Judge of all and to the spirits of just men made perfect If the man were not blind he might see the Apostle sayes That they are come c. But he that 's in
Isa 56.11 Mat. 23.14 Do you not seek for gain from your Quarters and use long vain glorious prayers in your Synagogues fashioning your selves Rom. 12.2 2 Tim. 1.13 according to the world not holding fast the form oâ— sound words suffering poor souls to commit sin in the best of their sacrifices by telling lies when they sing Davids Psalms Do they not preach against pride yet who more proud then the Priests Matth. 7.3 Do they not talk much against covetousness yet who more covetous than themselves Are not these the Pharisees of our age that can spy a mote in their Brothers eye but cannot see to pull out the beam in their own Jer. 23.21 These run and never were sent And for division and Contradiction let twenty speak all from one place of Scripture and you shall have so many men so many mindes and meanings opinions imaginations and contradictions Then for a spirit of giddiness who more giddy unsolid and more unstable then themselves Twenty or thirty pound a year more and some other conveniencies is a Call sufficient with most of them from one place to another To leave a poor flock for a richer fleece is an ordinary thing And as for bitterness and perversness let them preach where they will if their Tithes be not payd or their Doctrine be publiquely opposed let them shew patience and moderation that can The Priests have not such pleasant flowers growing up in their Gardens And as for falshood and deceit 't is too well known by some that they live in that Mystery of Iniquity and delight therein but this will be bitterness in the latter end when Conscience-Book comes to be opened Page 329. Phil. 2.16 Thou bids Be willing and ready to suffer for the Churches of Christ and Children of God as Paul was for the Philippians Not as Edward Rayner was for the Lincolners If I be offered upon the Sacrifice and service of your faith That is sayes thou if I seal my Doctrine with my blood and confirm your faith by my death I count it matter of joy both to you and me Page 330. But thou never hadst yet such Christian courage nor never wilt while thy heart dwells where it does Have not those Heathens thou tells of who suffered and dyed for the prosperity of the Publick shewed themselves better State-Martyrs as thou calles them then thou hast been a Gospel-Minister P. 333. Priest Thou complaines what a poor Account can rich men give of their goods who have done little or no good to others with them Can learned men give of their gifts Can Magistrates give of their power who have born the sword in vain who have taken to themselves the honour but not performed to others the duty of their place Should any of the Saints have spoken this language Thou wouldst presently have branded them with the Name of Busie-bodies and Contempt of Authority should have been cast upon them P. 318. A little before thou was muttering out and hinting That Authority was trampled upon that men sleight and hate him that rebuketh or judgeth justly in the Gate and here thou complaines of his bearing the sword in vain But no better can be expected from thee than thy bottles be fill'd with P. 335. Thou sayes it's a Mark of dishonour and a Brand of infamy to be a Self-seeker to be like a Hogg that does no good till he dyes and scarce then with his good-will Search and see how many such Hogs thou hast in thy Herd and thou shalt find more such Cattle than thou canst truly call Christians P. 339. Thou tells of Dorcas dying full of good Works and Paul full of Ministeriall Labours not full of filthy lyes Blasphemies and contradictions as thou art and of good successe or Gospel-fruits full of the Seales of his Ministery How many such Dorcasses hast thou in this City Wert thou now on thy Death-bed instead of good successe of thy Ministry mightst thou not justly complain as thou did a little before What a poor Account can rich men give of their goods learned men of their gifts and Magistrates of their power A vast difference between Paul's successe and thine And indeed it must Needs be so Paul was fill'd with the Holy Ghost and thou with the spirit of Deceit and Delusion Pag. 350. Speaking of the Return of Gods presence and his favour thou usest those words In giving you the Liberties of his House Acts 7.47 48. Act. 17.24 25. 1 Cor. 6.19 Thy end is seen in the use of that Language But the Lord dwells not in Temples made with hands The Saints Bodies are the Temples of the Holy Ghost Then thou talks of tasting the sweetnesse A fine expression if there were Truth in it and feel the power and efficacy rather the Flatness deadness and dulness the Beauty and Glory the uncomeliness and raggedness of all his holy Ordinances thy filthy Dreams and Traditions Rags of the Romish Whore and of the Assemblies of his people a mixed multitude of Presbyterians Independents and Cavaleers so called O that I could truly call you an Assembly of Gods people O that your hearts were upright before the Lord My soul pities all such who are thus led and nuzzled up in ignorance by a painted Pharisee who will neither enter into the Kingdome of God himself nor suffer them that would Matth. 23.13 And I hope ere long their Eyes shall be opened and they shall see his deceits discovered and escape them P. 356. Thou tells thou hast heard some say God hath used to resolve their doubts by the Ministry of the Word thy meaning is by such Priests as thy self And then thou Presumptuously and Blasphemously boastest saying Thus God fulfills this promise Isaiah 20.21 Thine Eares shall hear a voice behind thee saying This is the way walk in it when thou turnest to the right hand or to the left hand P. 399. Observing the Soul the affaires of it and Gods dealings with it will make a man thou sayes A Divine to Himself and observing a mans course well and how God hath led him will make a man under God a Guide to himself Ah Friends Be your selves and dote no longer upon this filthy Dreamer when every one of you by his own Doctrine may be a Divine to Himself and a Guide to Himself Will you be so foolish to be led any longer by such a false Prophet Exod. 21.5 6. Will you have your Eares bored through with an Awle in token of perpetual bondage Do not inslave your soules for ever Mind that Divine Principle of God within you and if you be willing to obey that faithful Counsellor it will be a True Guide to you it will be whispering the pure Counsel and Will of God unto you Ah yield up your selves to the light of Christ in all your Consciences Love it I beseech you Ezek. 21.26 27. This is the Right Heir give him the