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A78218	[Baʻal-samz] or, Soveraigne balsome, gently applied in a few weighty considerations (by way of quærie) for healing the distempers of such professors of religion as Satan hath wounded and drawn aside (under the notion of living in God) to the utter renouncing and casting off the use of divine ordinances, and Gospel-institutions of worship. With an apendix by way of postscript to such professors, wherein the most principall grounds upon which they build their practise, are fully answered and removed. And a catalogue of the errors that many of them hold since they left the ordinances, discovered. As also a true relation of Gods extraordinary working upon one of this way very lately in Plimouth, to the sight of his error, for the good of others published. / By Will. Bartlet, an unworthy minister of the Gospel, and lecturer at Bytheford in Devonshire.	Bartlet, William, 1609 or 10-1682.; M. P.	1649 (1649)	Wing B987; Thomason E549_19; ESTC R209139	79,502	81

this way of leaving Ordinances and casting off duties before they are out of this world especially on their Death-beds when they may bewaile it with teares of blood if it were possible so sad may their condition be as I heard a gracious woman in London once to speake of one of her Sex whom she knew well that was brought into such a dreadfull condition when she was on her Death-bed for her wilfull slighting and casting off Ordinances and Duties of Gods worship and pretending onely to Christs doing of all for her and she to do nothing but look to him x Foelix quem faciunt aliena pericula cautum that she was brought to the very gates of hell and desperation Those happy are that others harmes Against like evils strongly armes 45. Whether Apostasie and falling away of Professors from the holy wayes of Gods worship which once they profest and practised be not a grievous judgement in it selfe that God justly inflicts upon persons for their unthankfulnesse and for unfruitfulnesse under Gospel-dispensations and Administration receiving not the truth in the love of it 2 Thess 2.11 12. And whether this evill be not a cause of many other evils to the Kingdome provoking the Lord to lengthen out the miseries of this Nation 46. Whether Anarchy or the rejecting of all Civill government in a State be not eminently destructive to that State and Common-wealth where it once prevails And whether rejecting of Christs spirituall Government Ordinances and Lawes of worship be not to introduce a spirituall Anarchy into his Church-state and Kingdome which he hath in the world and is daily more and more advancing and consequently an endeavouring according to what lies in the power of creatures to subvert and overthrow the glorious Kingdome of Jesus Christ and to lay his honour in the dust And whether those that shall persist and persevere in such ondeavours deserve not to be branded for enemies to the glory and dignity of him whom the Eternall God hath exalted to be the King of Kings and Lord of Lords and to whom whosoever shall refuse to yeeld subjection be he Prince or Peasant shall be broken in peeces as a Potters vessell according as the mouth of the Lord hath spoken Psal 2.9 10 11 12. 47. Lastly to adde no more Whether the Kingdom of Glory hereafter to be enjoyed in Heaven be not the proper State in which God hath appointed the Saints to live immediatly in Himselfe without the use of Ordinances and not the Kingdome of Grace here on earth in which the Saints are imperfect and see the Lord for the most part through a glasse darkly knowing but in part and prophesying but in part till that which is perfect be come according to 1 Cor. 13.9 10 11 12. and the Apostles owne judgement of himselfe Phil 3.13 14. And whether to hold the contrary be not to confound those two States of Grace and Glory which the Scriptures doe distinguish so that the casting off the use of Divine Institutions and Gospel-ordinances and Duties of Worship appointed for beleevers to walk in the practise of till the Lord Jesus Christs comming again must of necessity be lookt upon as having no bottome on the sacred Scriptures but a vision of mens own brains and deceitfull hearts directly contrary to the Faith once delivered to the Saints Epist Jude v. 3 4. and therefore of all those that love the Lord Jesus in sincerity justly to be condemned and exploded AN APPENDIX By way of Post-script To all those whom the former Considerations doe more especially concerne SIRS YOU have seen or may see what that Balm is which I have as a weak instrument in the hands of Christ the great Physitian of Souls endeavoured to powre forth in the former Considerations for the healing of your wounded soules And you have also seen or may see in my Epistle to the Reader what my grounds and ends have been in so doing so that I doubt not but you will look upon me as one that hath had nothing in my eye but the honour of Christ and welfare of your soules If the busines I have undertaken had not been of great importance and concernment I had not I assure you put pen to paper but when I saw the sad effects were like to attend this opinion and practice of yours by introducing a spirituall Anarchy and Confusion in the Kingdome of Christ and threatning Ruine to all the true and right constituted Churches in the world I could not but a Principiis obsta serò medicina paratur Cum mala per longa● convaluere moras make haste according to the b Ephes 4.7 measure of the gift of Christ vouchsafed to me towards the preventing of them If I have spoken or written none other then the words of Truth and Sobernesse I shall desire you in the name of him who is Truth it selfe our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ to subscribe thereunto If otherwise I trust by the same grace received I shall be ready to see it and acknowledge it whensoever it shall be made out unto me onely I shall desire that the same c Apud Ecclesiae Alumnos non ad humanas rationes cogitationes dirigendae sunt res divinae sed ad sensum voluntatem doctrinae spiritus oratio interpretatioque accommodanda Just Mart. Neque te quoque disserentem sustinuissemus nisi cuncta ad seripturas refcrres inde enim demonstrationes adducere studio tibi est id ibid. Dial. cum Triphon medium viz. the holy Scriptures of God contained in the old and new Testament which I have endeavoured to use in the former considerations may be used by such as shall attempt such a work But because I may save that labour in order to your further and greater satisfaction I have thought it requisite to doe something by way of answering those objections or removing those grounds upon which I suppose all of you or at least many of you doe build your practice of renouncing and casting off the use of Ordinances and religious Duties Now I suppose the grounds upon which you build the casting off the use of Ordinances may be reduced to these eight Heads 1. That a person may doe well enough and comfortably enjoy himselfe without the use of Ordinances as hearing the Word Prayer breaking of bread in a communion of Saints c. 2. That the successe of things doth not depend upon the performance of Duties and Ordinances but on Gods eternall purpose and decree 3. That God knowes our wants and stands not in need of any of our performances to move him to the helping and satisfying of us 4. That many have used Ordinances and performed Duties but to small purpose and those that doe use them are little the better 5. That Ordinances are but poore low Dispensations and not so consistent with a Beleevers living in God that is altogether above Ordinances and that God doth use to lead his people from Gospel-formes

of God never dictates any thing but what is agreeable unto may be resolved into the Scriptures or t written word of God but the other not e.g. When a man is perswaded that Christ is not God as well as Man that there is no resurrection of the body nor reward nor punishment after this life that sin and grace are both equally of God c. with a thousand such like abominations how shall a person discern that the perswasions he hath of these things are not from the Spirit of God but from Satan and his owne wicked heart but this because they are directly against what is revealed to us in the Scriptures l the Spirit of God never per swading any to such things as he hath himself spoken against in the Word written 5. Moreover to what purpose did the holy Ghost make use of those holy men of God as the Prophets and Apostles are stiled to be his Amanuenses or Scribes to write down and commit to paper what the minde of the eternall God was which he would have made known to the children of men concerning their faith and obedience if the Scriptures are of no more use to beleevers Doubtlesse the workes of God are not in vain he made the two great lights in Heaven the Sunne and Moon the one to rule the Day and the other the Night now would it not be a weake if nota wicked thing for any to say what need we any more the use of the Sunne or Moone is not God himselfe sufficient so here is it not as weake if not as wicked a thing to soy What need is there of the Scriptures when wee have the Spirit himselfe to teach us Besides doth not the Apostle affirme in the first to Timothy that the Scriptures are exceeding usefull and profitable for Doctrine for reproofe for correction for instruction in righteousnesse that the man of God may be perfect throughly furnished unto all good workes 2 Tim. 3.16 17. And then to the Romans That whatsoever is written is written for our instruction that we through patience and comfore of the Scriptures might have hope Rom. 15.4 And doth not Christ himself say that one chiefe cause why men erre from the truth is because they are ignorant of the Scriptures Matth. 22.29 And doth he not also requite men to search the Scriptures upon this ground because they testifie of him Mark that well They testifie not simply the Spirit but the Scriptures also they beare witnesse to Christs being the true and onely Messiah that should come into the world with many other pretious ends and uses to which the sacred Scriptures are usefull and profitable as were easie to produce if need were 7. But lastly to say no more how doth this open a doore to all manner of abominations both in opinion and practice for if every man must be left to the private teachings of the Spirit and have no recourse at all any longer to the sacred Canon of the Scriptures what abominations will men and women stick to admit of and beare off all with this The Spirit leads me hereunto I am taught by the Spirit and perswaded by the Spirit so that if a man should be stirred up to lay violent hands upon his neighbour as I have heard a drunkard once did on one that was of this opinion and basted him to some tune and being demanded by the party why he did so he answered him in his own language hee could not help it the Spirit moved him thereunto and take away his purse or his life from him or a vile wretch should attempt the deflouring of a virgin or committing of any other abomination and put all off with this that the Spirit dictates such things to him he is under no law but that of the Spirit would not this be dreadfull both to God and Man and so for any damnable errors in judgement that the Scriptures condemne to the pit of hell and warn us to take heed of as we defire to escape damnation doth not this opinion make way to the entertaining of them when people shall be perswaded there is no use of the Scriptures to bee as a Rule to them to walk by but they are to trust onely to the inward dictates of the Spirit Besides if this should be allowed of that the Scriptures are of no luse but we must trust to the Spirit in all what certainty then can there be in any point of Religion and faith for every one will beleeve as the Spint dictates to him and as many men so there will be almost as many mindes Nay further what bottome will men and women have to build the foundnesse of their opinions upon and that it 's not their meere fancie if they cast away the Scriptures seeing what they conceive to day to be the right to morrow they may be perswaded to be otherwise if they trust to what is spoken and dictated secretly to them and where will your soules end and fix a period in matters of opinion when they once begin to take this course of casting off the Scriptures Doubtlesse they cannot tell themselves there being a fathomlesse depth in the pit of error out of which poore creatures can never extricate themselves being once shut up in it Blessed are those soules that are so taught of God in the Ministery of his Word and Spirit as to feare comming nigh the brink of that pit THus Sirs I have dispatcht the Answers to the forementioned grounds what remaineth in the close of all leaving the successe and issue of all to the Lord Jesus but that I adde one word to perswade you in the bowels of Christ to consider from whence you are fallen and repent and doe your first workes Rev. 2.4 before the Lord Jesus be revealed from heaven against you I cannot but apprehend your condition as very sad not only in respect of your sin but of your sorrow that is like to overtake you For as sure as the Lord liveth all those that refuse to kisse the Sonne and will not have him to rule over them but doe what in them lies to break his * By bonds and cords is meant the discipline and government of Christ in his Church kingdome as the words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signify Psal 2.3 Now the lawes and ordinances of Christ or his discipliue and government are called bonds cords not that they are so in themselves but because the wicked so judge of them looking upon them as so many fetters manacles that keep them from the enjoyment of their lusts and carnall liberty which is the main cause of their enmitie against them and rejecting of them bonds and cast his cords from them shall perish in the way of their rebellion Psal 2.12 and be brought forth and slain before him Luke 19.27 You cannot be ignorant how jealous the eternall God is of the honour of his Christ and that he is

as Psal 14.4 Job 27.10 b Est emm hoc mortalium animis insitum ut Deo offerendū c. Musc in Joh. the law of Nature teaching men to worship and serve that God whom they acknowledge as we see in the practice of the meere Heathens Rom. 1. and 2. chap. and the law of Grace teaching men to delight in that God and his worship whom they so draw nigh unto by faith in Jesus Christ Psal 119.97.103 1 John 5.3 Acts 2 46 47. And whether that place in c This is evident from the Apostles quoting this Text in Acts 4.25 26 27. against the Rulers Elders Scribes c that sate in counsell against them and made open opposition against Christ in them refusing to bow to his Scepter and Government held forth both in the Doctrine and practice of the Apostles And to this agree Expositors generally Psal 2.1 2 3. be not meant of those wicked men more especially that cast off all Divine Ordinances and Lawes of Christs Kingdome and Government under the Gospel 27. Whether the Face of Christ in which the Glory of God the Father doth shine forth d Non loquitur autem de corporea Christi facie sed de ea quae salutis nostrae dispensationem spectandam proponit Musc in loc 2 Cor. 4.6 be not to be understood of Gospel-ordinances and Institutions Christ himselfe personally being now sate down at the right hand of the Majesty on high Heb. 1.3 In which Face or Ministery and Ordinances of Christ the admirable and illustrious beauty of the eternall God his infinite wisdome power and love which is hid from the world doth so shine forth oftentimes through the Spirit of Christ to the hearts of the Saints that they seem to be out of the body and in heaven before they are in heaven and in glory on this side glory as it was with Paul 2 Cor. 12.1 2. And whether a Beleever be not bound to be in the use of these Gospel-ordinances and administrations where he may * Psal 27.4 behold this beauty and glory of the Lord it being the Lords own way he hath appointed to reveale himselfe by and not trust to other wayes of our own making for the sight of this glory having not a warrant for it in the Scriptures 28. Whether a Beleever in this life whiles he is cloathed with his earthly Tabernacle can see Spirituall things especially God Himselfe who is an infinite and incomprehensible Spirit so as to have fellowship and communion with him and to live in him otherwise then by an eye of faith in the e We cannot see Divine things othewise then in a glasse that sight of God which wee shall have immediatly in heaven without the Word and Sacraments is of a higher nature when we shall be perfect but while we live here we cannot see God but in Christ and we cannot see Christ but in the Word and Sacraments such is the imperfection of our fight Dr. Sibs Excel of the Gospel above the Law p. 280 281 286 287 c. glasse of Gospel-ordinances as the works of God and the word of God but especially Iesus Christ who is God incarnate God manifest in the flesh and this Jesus in the mystery of the Gospel and Seales according to 2 Cor. 3. ult And whether the Lord doth not as a great testimony of his love to us in Christ very much condescend and stoop to the weake and imperfect condition of his people while they are here below to make known the glory of his Wisdome Mercy Power and Love to their soules by his Spirit in the Ordinances 29. Whether the Commandements of Christ so much spoken of and mentioned in the Scriptures doe not extend to the obedience of the outward man as well as the inward and to the externals of worship as well as the internals of faith And whether a person can upon Iust grounds number himselfe among the friends of Christ that doth not make conscience of f Nota igitur verae amicitiae est observantia voluntatis amicivoluntas Christi est in illius praeceptis illis obedtre est voluntati Christi este conformem Amici Christi non sunt qui Christi praecepta susque deque facientes doctrinis mandatis hominum subjiciuntur Musc in loc keeping those commandements of Christ according to that of our Saviour Iohn 15.14 Yea whether any one can say upon just grounds that he loves or knowes Christ that doth not keep his commandements seeing the Scriptures speak directly against it and renders such for lyers that pretend to know Christ and love him but yet keep not his commandements g Necessario igitur consequi quicunque jactant sidem sen studium pietatis et interim studium servandae legis Dei negligunt eos impudentissimc mentiri Zanch in loc 1 Iohn 3 4. Iohn 14 15. 30. Whether the end of Christs comming into the world were not rather to fulfill and confirme then to disanull and make void the law of God ingraven in our hearts and revealed in the Scriptures whereby he calls for the obedience of the whole man inward and outward in the service of Christ And whether such as break the least of these lawes and shall teach others to doe so likewise doe not bring themselves under that penalty of Matth. 5.15 to be counted h 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e minimi fiet imò nihili fiet vult enim dicere illos exclusum iri è regno coelorum Piscat in loc least in the Kingdome of heaven that is to have no part nor portion in the Church of Christ here on earth or the Kingdome of glory hereafter 31. Whether those that enter on the actions and workes of their particular callings or upon the use of the creature especially at the accustomed times of refreshing Nature as at Dinner Supper c. without seeking to God by prayer for praises through faith in Christ can expect a blessing upon them or a sanctified and comfortable use of them And whether they doe not transgresse the revealed will of God expresly manisested herein and discover a loose i Let us never come to the table without calling upon Gods name let us never rise from the table without giving thāks for it is certain that all they that eat so and doe not pray to God are for the most part worse then bruit beasts Calv Serm. in 1 Tim. 4.3 4. brutish and prophane frame of Spirit herein Phil. 4.6 Be carefull for nothing but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thankesgiving let your requests bee made knowne to God So 1 Thess 5.17 Pray without ceasing and the 18. verse In every thing give thankes for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you So 1 Tim. 4.3 4.5 speaking of meats that seducing Teachers should in the latter times endeavour in a k As on Fridayes in Lent in Embring dayes and fasting dayes c. 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