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heaven_n	great_a	see_v	world_n	7,593	5	4.4143	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54917	Nil novi This years fruit, from the last years root. The souldiers posture, to the right, to the left, faces about, as yee were. The royall maxime, no bishop, no king. The first-fruits of new prelats, amounting to as much as the tythes of old bishops. All summed up in an impartial relation of the partial proceedings, and uprighteous rumors raised against Henry Pinnel, concerning his endeavouring to get a parsonage. Occasioning a sudden glance upon the true resurrection, present perfection, and perfect obedience. Written in a letter to a friend.	Pinnell, Henry.	1654 (1654)	Wing P2278A; ESTC R221490	41,685	60

ye urge me with scandal telling me from day to day that I lie as a stumbling-block block before the weak that many are ready to fall by my example that others triumph to see so great a Cedar fallen c. You provoke me to enter the List and to uncover my cause under the open Heavens of God before the World Angels and men And as the airy and empty rumors of lyes and falshood have begged audience and credit at one ear so I doubt not but with the other you will admit the true information and right state of the ease especially seeing you so much desire it which is in brief as followeth viz. That I had the offer of a Parsonage and was earnestly prest to accept it is most true and that I did at last comply and consent to the motion is also as true Hine clamor rixa joci mendacia cachinni but be not of a rash heart fama est mendax there is little truth in tales all that that is reported with truth and for truth is not so much chaffe may be mixt with the corn till the fan disperse it all that is affirmed is not presently proved si sat sit accusasse quis erit innocens by that rule Christ had been a great sinner but Judicis officium est ut res ita quaerere rerum Causas Take the ground and circumstances of the Case along with you and then I shall appear more innocent Thus When Master Dolman the last Incumbent in the Parsonage of Christian-Milford lay sick without hope of life he wrote to me desiring me to undertake the place and succeed him in the work he had labored in divers of the parish also with passionate affection importuned the same I ask therefore 1. Whether it be simply unlawful for a people or parish Quere who are destitute of a preaching Minister to desire and seek after such a one of whom upon good grounds they are sufficiently perswaded that he may be instrumental to their good and edification in the Faith And whether he that shall be so desired may accept thereof without being a stumbling-block or scandal Or 2. Whether one that is a stranger and by reason of infancy or youth hath not had time and opportunity to make full proof of his Ministry be more fit to be imposed upon a people contrary to their general consent and choice then one that is better known and approved of by the godly That I was universally desired by the parish shall appear anon nevertheless I did for a time decline an immediate compliance and suspended my resolution of acceptance upon these considerations i. e. 1. Lest as the rumor now is I should be a scandal to the weak Consid 1. and seem to build again the things that I had destroyed inasmuch as formerly I have disliked and born witness against the common corruptions and abuses concerning Tythes Parish-Parsons c. 2. Fearing lest such common customs and Parish-performances would be required of me which I had not liberty to perform 3. But there is another reason of as great weight to me though of little or no moment to some for considering that Master Still the first Proprietor and Incumbent is yet living who had Institution and Induction into the said Parsonage and had right and title thereunto by as just power and authority as you or I hold and possess any of our lands and goods this consideration had no light impression upon me and lay as no sm●ll scruple before me for I like not to rise by anothers ruine as Doctor Dodiswell the true Parson of Brinkworth can witness for me Nor doth it satisfie me in that you say Ob. Master Still and Dr. Dodiswell were sequestred either for plurality or malignancy or both For If it did become a sober man to be a Quadruplicator Sol. 1. an Apparator or Informer no doubt but there would be found some that now possess other mens Livings and eat the bread out of their mouths who have both done and said as much against that Power by which they yet injoy their Sequestrations as the Sequestred themselves who never professedly complyed with nor publikely acknowledged that Power by which they were then Sequestred Which think you is the greatest and most dangerous enemy the open or secret But I shall rest in the Act of Oblivion and do believe that Master Still Doctor Dodiswell and Sir John Leuthall may be accounted fellow-subjects and enjoy as much of their places and estates as the present Power shall think fit I leave Master Still to plead his own cause and to vindicate himself Sol. 2. if any shall implead him for delinquency or as no Minister of the Gospel I have onely to do with him so far as I am concerned in the Parsonage If as some say he was Sequestred as a Pluralist yet why was he not left to his choice which Parsonage to leave as others have been in the like case But further was it unlawful for him to hold two Benefices or was not that Power just which gave him title to them If it was not unlawful why was he Sequestred as a Pluralist if it was not lawful why then hath it been practiced by some and connived at by others even such as would be accounted the zealous Reformers of our times one of which could at once hold Westminster Martins Assembly Trinity Titmarsh Michael Procan sede vacante Marie Something I might interrogate concerning the Kings Power under which Master Still was invested and something concerning the Parliaments power under which he was devested and something more all tending to my particular satisfaction in this case but sticking to my private resolution silendo nemo peccat 't is good to keep the teeth in the head and the tongue within the teeth 't is not safe coming too neer the heels of time Besides conscience is a nice and tender thing and therefore inasmuch as there is a civil right and property acknowledged to belong to every one by that National Law and Power under which they live blame me not if I am scrupulous and critically examine every part as I pass in matters of this moment I love not to set my foot over another mans threshold nor do I think it possible to enjoy that comfortably which cannot be got conscionably I delight not in Sequestrations so much evil and offence ariseth from them Sol. 3. I see some of swoln and accumulated titles great Rabbies Mandamus-Doctors who to the scandal and spotting of their cloth can forsake their first love cast off their parish and people for no other cause that I could ever hear but only there was a better Living of another mans to be had by the help of some drunken Committee friend And when they have once got footing the key in their hand and the bell-rope by the end they forget their place and duty De male quasitis non gaudet tertius bares Tit. 1.8 1 Tim. 3.4

2.20 1 Cor. 15.10 or ascribe any thing to our selves as they Mat. 25.44 Act. 3.12 13.16 As Christ our Lord Phil. 2.7 submitted to an exinanimation of himself to come down to us 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mat. 16.24 25. so should we suffer an annihilation of our selves to go up to him lose our lives to save them Our lives are safer out of sight in Christ and neerer unto heaven then in never so great appearance in us or a name that we are alive While we behold the face of our Cherub we vanish out of our own sight 2 Cor. 3.18 As our head Christ had wings to flye up unto his head which is God Joh. 17.1.5 so have we wings to fly up to our head Rev. 12.14 Isa 40.31 we have the creation and the Scriptures in them Law and Gospel Letter and Spirit History for the rational and Mystery for the spiritual man which as the Armes and wings of the body are placed in contraposition though they be of opposite dispensation yet in service use and end they are concentrick and meet in one in Angels and Cherubims in body and head in Christ and the Saints The Cherubims were set one directly against the other each looking on other Exod. 25.19 20 37.8 9. and both upon the mercy-seat the Law and Gospel those two great configurations of Heaven have a mutual aspect both centring in Christ their body head substance and truth Joh. 1.17 Col. 2.17 The Gospel is a mystery hid from us under veiles and coverings of figures and shadows in the former ages of our fleshly life Col. 1.26 while we are under tutors and governors Gal. 4.1 2. And then the spirit of prophesie in the Saints is enquiring and searching diligently after the time of Grace promised 1 Pet. 1.10 11 12. and the Angels of the first tabernacle who walked in the worldly Sanctuary whose feet touched the earthly things Joh. 3.13 they desired to pry into this mystery but when Christ is revealed in us Gal. 1.16 as the hope of glory Col. 1.27 then are the Law and Prophets fulfilled and all promises performed 2 Cor. 1.20 The Jew bewailes her little sister Cant. 8.8 the Gentiles condole her divorced the Jew groans after the Gentiles conversion the Gentile longs for the Jews recovery and return the Jew grieves to see the Gentile lie in heathenisme and Atheism as without God in the world the Gentile would be glad to see the Jew cast off their whorish habit and attire of an harlot to forsake the traditions of men and ceremonies of Moses and imbrace the faith of the Gospel the Law longs for the liberty of the Gospel Rom. 8.19 c. the Gospel mourns for want of obedience to the Law the Law desires the manifestation of the sons of God the Gospel requires the adoption to be obedient to the Law Relations cannot be void of mutual affections To conclude Christ appears as a Cherub that is as a master over-mastering over-coming and over-ruling all principality and power sin curse and death Col. 2.14 15. As an Angel or Ministering spirit he walked with us on his own feet and washed ours Joh. 13.5.10 15.3 then like an Archangel he is cut off Isa 53.8 from the natural life and walking with men in the flesh lifted up a little higher from the earth upon the cross where like Michael he fought with and overcame the Dragon and his Angels Heb. 2.14 15. then he flyes upward in his resurrection and ascension and like the Cherubims spreads both his wings of divinity and humanity Law and Gospel Letter and Spirit both united in him over the Mercy-seat Rom. 8.1 that there might be no more condemnation to us but that we should have boldness at the throne of grace and finde help in time of our need Heb. 4.16 because our Cherub our Christ appears in the presence of God for us Heb. 9.24 this our Angel doth alwayes behold the face of our Father in heaven Mat. 18.10 whose face is the mercy-seat Psal 4.6 17.15 John 14.8 for like his name Exod. 34.6.7 it is merciful gracious pardoning c. Forasmuch then as all things work together for our good and that by the Creation Law Gospel Letter Spirit c. God intendeth to draw us nearer to himself let us not neglect his great Salvation God gave thy soul brave wings Mr. G. H. P●●●●hant put not those feathers Into a Bed to sleep out all ill weathers 4. Lastly Christ is as a Seraph a fiery flame without any imaginary fashion or forged Idea of the shadow and finite reason and thought of man Though in the dayes of his flesh and after his resurrection he appeared in many forms yet he left all and forsook them at his ascension to the Father by his reduction and resolution into the Godhead disappearing and deserting all visibilities when he delivered up the Kingdome to the Father that God might be all in all Now all Ministrations Ordinances Christ himself our life 1 Cor. 15.24.28 the word of truth by which we were begotten all return into God this is the perfect state of Christ and in this state we are perfected with him Now are we dead indeed unto all that is self and alive onely in and unto God Col. 3.3 this is pure and perfect salvation salvation by fire 1 Cor. 3.15 Heb. 12.28 29. of which none but hypocrites and carnal Gospellers are afraid Isa 33.14 2 Thes 1.8 In this state Christ our Saviour is an everlasting Father Isa 9.6 Fire is the generating and productive principle of all things without fire no prolifical vertue fire also is the consuming and destructive power of all things so Christ is Alpha and Omega the first and the last the beginning and end of all things he will never rest till he burn devour all intermediates Psal 90.2 From everlasting to everlasting he is God everlasting à parte ante a parte post whatsoever is interposed between these two everlastings is but temporal and must pass away meats for the belly and the belly for meat but God will destroy both it and them Compare Gal. 4.3 2 Pet. 3 10. in Greek God will not spare the work of his own hands even the heavens shall wax old and the firmament melt away Those 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 those Elements and rudiments of the Law by which we were disciplined and taught in our non-age shall be dissolved by the conflagration of the Seraphical or fiery dispensation Gal. 3.19 We read that the Law was ordained by Angels 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 I had rather read it Disposed by Angels as it is Acts 7.53 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by the disposition of Angels To ordaine implies a magisterial supremacy and Legislative authority which pertaineth onely to Christ in matters of the Church but to dispose of what is ordained is the office of a Steward or Minister appointed thereunto thus the Angels of the lower