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A89640	The proud pharisee reproved: or, the lying orator laid open. In an examination of some passages in a book, entituled, precepts for Christian practice, or, the rule of the new creature new model'd. Written by one Edw. Reyner, who calles himself a minister of the Gospel in Lincoln; but is found a lyar / by a Child of the light, who is known to the world by the name of Martin Mason.	Mason, Martin, fl. 1650-1676.	1655 (1655)	Wing M933; Thomason E851_6; ESTC R207419	44,305	59

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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being willing to die for thy Saviour thou chusedst to live in thy sins shall such a cowardly Priest claim the priviledge of a Paul Thou talks of erecting Christ a Throne and giving him a Crown and Scepter in your hearts Priviledge Was it Christ or Antichrist that had a Throne erected and a Crown and Scepter in thy heart when thou fled from thy flock P. 51. Does not Antichrist reign in the Kingdom of thy heart while thou pins thy sheep on thy poor Commons and poysons them with thy corrupt Doctrine both in Pulpit and print P. 61. Thou sayes You dwell in Christ and Christ in you as a man in his house and p. 65. Christ toucheth the soul by his spirit Is not his spirit of the essence of the Deity Dost thou not say p. 72. The substance of the Deity is incommunicable P. 67. Thou queries what kind of union is this between Christ and a believer and thou answers it is a reall or substantial total and spiritual union and that it is a union of substances essences and persons Can this be true and yet the substance of the Deity be incommunicable P. 69. Thou sayes Christ is in a believer and a believer is in Christ and in-being is mutual and conformable between them and Christ and a believer are in one another really And yet thou sayes the substance of the Deity is incommunicable 2 Cor. 13.5 Col. 1.27 Thou goes on saying Christ himself is in a Believer not his graces onely so is the spirit it self in a Believer dwells in him not his fruits or operations onely yet thou sayes the substance of the Deity is incommunicable is not this to make the spirit not to be of the substance of the Deity Thou runs on saying This union of Christ and a Believer is a totall Vnion the whole person of a believer is united to the whole person of Christ both Soul and Body with his Deity And that whole Christ both his God-head Manhood is united to the whole Christian both his soul and body And yet for all this thou shames not to say The substance of the Deity is incommunicable Page 70. Then thou brings in Rom. 8.11 saying That the spirit of Christs unities the body of a Believer to Christ as well sa his soul and inhabites or dwells in his body as well as in his soul and that the Saints bodies are the Temples of the Holy Ghost And yet thou blushes not to say the substance of the Deity is communicable An infallible signe thy body was never yet the Temple wherein that pure Spirit hath lived in Certainly some of thy Hearers will not credit thee in this particular and if they will any longer be led by such a filthy Lyer and Blasphemer if they will still dote upon thee and thy Dreams I shall pitty their sad condition that they are thus given up to believe such strong delusions P. 79. A fourth obstruction in receiving Christ thou sayes is fear of suffering for Christ of bearing his Crosse that Christ may prove costly or his wayes and cause cumbersome that you may leave or lose Father Mother Wife Children House Lands Goods c. And Selfeness stands thou sayes in Diametrall opposition to Christ and must be receded from and renounced before Christ can be approached or received Deal honestly with thy own soul was not fear of suffering for Christ of bearing his Crosse the cause that made thee leave Lincoln and go to Norwich is not fear of losing House Lands Goods Gratuities yearly Revenue reproach of the world the losse of the name of a Minister of the Gospel the cause that hinders thee from taking up the Crosse of Christ Canst thou not say from thy own experience as in p. 80. O the difficulty of self-deniall and mans naturall aversness to it it is next to ceasing to be himself especially thou sayes when a man hath a great Self to deny as great parts power and wealth But what 's thy meaning to call the Idolls Temple a Church and breed and wine a Sacrament as thou dost in thy 80. page How many rest sayes thou in comming to the Church and not to Christ in receiving the Sacrament but not Christ Fond man how should they finde him where he is not Away with this Popery thou painted Priest thy Tongue is tipt with Romish poyson Thou tells of Peters prohibiting Cornelius p. 82. when he worshipped him but when dost thou forbid thy flatterers when they come bending and bowing before thee curtesing unto thee Thou wants that true humility Peter had thy counterfeit stuffe shall yield no contentment That self-pleasing Mantle called the Custom of the Nation shall contribute no comfort to thee in the time of thy Tribulatiō when the book of Conscience coms to be opened Thou often hintest to the people they should readily receive Christs Ministers and counts thy self and the Tithe-taking Priests for Christs Embassadors I am sure But that covetous griping Generation who are alwayes crying give give who love the flock meerly for the fleece are none of the Ministers of Christ Jesus Read Isa 56.10.11 and see if that place be not a pretty Representative of the Priests of our time Isa 56.10.11 worth reading Page 56. Thou tells of Christs Proclamation of himself and his Commodities free access to all commers and of all plentifull supply to all hungerers and thirsters after him and his good things wine and milk c. to come and buy of him without mony and without price Page 80. Why dost not thou and thy fellow false Ministers make Christ your pattern O the difficulty of self-denial and mens naturall aversenes to it Yea even such men who would be counted the Ministers of Christ Jesus These are so farre from calling people to take their counterfeit ware without mony or price that they think they can never get money nor price enough Are such the Ministers of Christ Priest Thou Queries whether it be not the great condemning sin that Men will not receive Jesus Christ seeing that is the great command of the Gospel and Christ sayes thou will come in flaming fire to take vengeance on them that obey not the Gospel This is the great salvation tendered to you in the Gospel which if you refuse how can you escape great damnation Joh. 3.19 This is the condemnation that light is come into the world and men love darkness rather than light because their deeds are evill What will become of thee and thy generation of teachers who doe not receive the light but reject it Who instead of yeilding up your selves to it you set your selves to preach against it Ye will neither obey it your selves nor are willing that others should Math. 23.13 Wo and misery will be the portion of such men who instead of opening shut up the Kingdom of Heaven against men and neither goe in themselves nor suffer them that are

entring to go in how can such escape the damnation of Hell Prov. 28.13 John 8.12 Not without confessing and forsaking their sins and receiving the light of the world Christ Jesus P. pa. 89. In t●e 89 page thou tells of a fulness of force and efficacy in the death of Christ to crucify the Old Man and destroy the whole body of sin and page 90 Thou brings in this Scripture 5 Iohn 18. He that is begotten of God keeps himself and that wicked one that is Satan who is the worst of all bad ones toucheth him not This keeping of Satan and his temptations out of the Soul thou saies conforms a Christian unto Christ who said the Prince of this world that is Satan comes and hath nothing in mee he cannot tempt me to sin I have no dry tinder of corruption within me to kindle with the sparks of his tentations all this is thy owne language thou hast here said enough to shake thy own Kingdom and confound all the Preists in England who preach against perfection Prov. 25.13 Jer. 2.13 Be your selves O people darken not your understandings by doating any longer upon these dreaming Preists who are Clouds and Winds without raine Cisterns that hold no water Judge O ye wise in heart whether he that is begotten of God that keeps himself and that wicked one the Devill cannot tempt or overcome him to commit sin whether that man be not perfect and free from sin yea or nay Was not Christ perfect and without sin Whether he that is conformed unto Christ be not perfect yea or nay and without sin whether he that hath no dry tinder of corruption within him to kindle with the sparks of Satans temptations be not perfect and free from sin yea or nay whether such a Soul I say hath not attained to that perfection which Christ commanded and Paul perswaded the Hebrews to press after Math. 5.48 6 Hebr. 1. Hebr. 12.23 4. Ephes 13. Is not the spirit of that just man made perfect Is not he then come unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ Read this without prejudice and consider that as the tree falls so it lies And 1 Iohn 4.17 As he is so are we in this world Was not Christ Jesus perfect Was not he without sin In the 91 page thou bids others not set their affection on things below nor to love the world or the things of it Learne this lesson thy self then preach it to others page 93. Thou talks of patient suffering the evills of the world to overcome them as persecution famine Nakedness Perill sword c. Is not he a cowardly Captaine that bids his Souldiers adventure further than he dares goe himself should not such a commander be Cashierd p. 94. 95. Thou bids them goe to Christ for his spirit to dwell in them to lead them as a guide in all their waies and into all truth To teach you all things as a Master bring al things as a Monitor into your remembrance What need is there then for thy defective and imperfect rules Why didst thou beg leave of thy Mayor and Aldermen and freinds to leave thy book with them as a light to guide them as a staff to stay and strengthen them If thou wouldst have them goe to Christ for his spirit to dwell in them to lead them as a guide in all their waies and into all truth to teach them all things as a Master and bring all things as a Monitor into their remembrance Is not this confused stuff But Babylons Brats can work no better Thou talks of self emptying and sense of emptiness makes Souls hungry and thirsty after the spirit Why then dost thou fill them with so many filthy-lies and contradictions as be in thy book The bottle that is full of bad liquor thou saies must be emptied to the bottom before it can be filled with the good Is not thy bottell full of the airy windy stuff of Popular applause of the filthy muddy waters of pride covertousness and self conceit of thy humane parts empty it soone that thy bottle may be fill'd with the sweet water of life for as thou saies if Laodicea do not know she is poore blind and naked her vessell is neither empty nor open but full and stopt or corkt up Now thou presses people to the conduit-pipes of the ordinances as thou calls them Especially word Sacraments and communion of Saints Thou maiest blush and be ashamed to call thy self-invented lifeless performances the ordinances of Christ Jesus where dost thou read in the Scriptures that the two Testaments as thou calls them are the two breasts of Christian consolation Are not the Saints bodys the Temples of the Holy Ghost Tell me does not a man draw and receive his consolation from the in-dwelling and living of the holy Ghost within his Body Is not this to rob God of his honour to attribute that to the letter which is due to the living God Thou saies Christ is a well of living Water didst thou live upon that living water thou couldst not delight in these dirty pudles of false doctrine and deceitfull devices of mans Braine as thou does Then thou comes to the Word which thou calls the Scriptures and bids them waite on God therein for the blessing of regeneration and growth in grace Both Priest and people have the Scriptures yet which of you can witness in your selves the blessing of regeneration and growth in grace He that 's borne of God doth not commit sin for his seed remaineth in him and he cannot commit sin because he is borne of God And dost thou not acknowledge that he that is begotten of God keeps himself and that wicked one toucheth him not 1 Joh. 3.9 Dost thou not goe on saying This keeping out of Satan and his tentations out of the Soul conforms a Christian unto Christ Art thou or any of thy hearers able to witness the new birth that you commit not sin that the wicked one toucheth you not that his tentations are kept out of your Soul and that you are conformed unto Christ Then thou goes to thy Sacraments and brings a peece of Scripture for thy sprinckling infants which plainly confounds the practice of thee and all thy generation of Preists He that believeth is and is baptized shall be saved Does not beleiving goe before baptizing Can a new borne Child beleive Produce either precept or president in the Scriptures for thy practice of sprinkling Infants or be ashamed Did the primitive Church when they brake bread receive a bit of Bread and a sup of Wine as the people in fellow-ship with thee and all those who live in formes do from the Preists Is not this a Popish invention they brake bread from house to house eating their meet with singleness of heart Was not this a full meale Did ever Christs Apostles use Prayer with preaching as you doe The Jews indeed had certaine