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A67324	More work for the dean in a brief answer to some scandalous reports published by Dr. Stillingfleet in his book entituled, \"An impartial account of the history, nature and pleas of the present separation from the communion of the Church of England\" against some of the Lords faithful servants, namely, Mr. Henry Barrow, Mr. John Greenwood, Mr. John Penry, who by the bishops means, after long imprisonment, were put to death, contrary to Queen Elizabeths mind; in the year 1593 ... : as likewise here is word for word the petition of those persecuted Christians, wherein is shewed the barbarous usage of the bishops to them : together with the refutation of the then esteemed Bishop of Winchester's blasphemous doctrine, by Mr. Henry Barrow, with the description of the true Church of God, according to Christs Testament, by the whole Church at London, whom the doctor calleth Brownists; with the reason why they were so nick-named by their enemies : very needful for all true Protestants to know / by Thomas Wall.	Wall, Thomas.	1681 (1681)	Wing W485; ESTC R20458	32,462	49

they must be carefully done with prayer going before they must be seasoned with truth gravity love and peace Mat. 18. 15. and 26. 8. Gal. 6. 1 2. 2 Tim. 2. 24. Mark 9. 50. Ephes 4. 29 James 5. 15 19 20. Moreover in this Church is an especial care had by every member thereof of offences the strong ought not to offend the weak nor the weak to judge the strong but all graces here are given to the service and edification of each other in love and long suffering Luke 17. 1. Prov. 10. 12. Rom. 14. 13 19. Gal. 6. 2. In this Church is the Truth purely taught and surely kept here is the Covenant the Sacraments and Promises the Graces the Glory the Presence the Worship of God c. Gen. 17. Lev. 26. 11 12. Isa 44. 3. Gal. 4. 28. and 6. 16. Isa 60. 15. Deut. 4. 12 13. Isa 56. 7. 1 Tim. 3. 15. Isa 12. 8. Into this Temple entreth no unclean thing neither whatsoever worketh abominations or lies but they which are written in the Lambs Book of life Isa 62. 1. Ezek. 44. 9. Isa 35. 8. Zach. 14. 21. Rev. 21. 27. But without this CHURCH shall be Dogs and Enchanters and Whoremongers and Murderers and Idolaters and whosoever loveth and maketh lies Rom. 2. 9. Rev 22. 15. Now I leave the prudent to judge whether the Doctor be a friend or an enemy to Christs Truth and holy order of worship and also to his Servants by calling their Books or Writings seditious therefore it is high time for the Doctors followers to beware of such a guide for their souls Yea and whether such a man can be reputed a Christian that calleth the way of Gods Worship so agreable to Christ's last Will and Testament seditious Yea I say it is time as they tender their Souls eternal happiness to examine their present state in worship to God and measure the same by the golden seed of Gods Word Rev. 11. 1. to see if it agree to the description of the visible Church aforesaid collected out of the holy Scripture both in the Ministry Ordinances and Order as Christ Jesus hath appointed and for the better observation in every particular and fundamental grounds therein to note these four things 1st As every building must have a foundation so every true Church must have Christ for the foundation thereof 1 Cor. 3. 11. Mat. 16. 18. 2dly The instrument in this building must be the written Word of God to wit the Doctrine of the Apostles and Prophets 2. 20. 3dly The matter in this building must be visible Saints 1 Cor. 1. 2. 4thly The way to begin this building must be answerable to the figurative building of Tabernacle and Temple that were built of the choicest things and costly 1 Kings 5. 17. Even so answerable hereunto the spiritual Temple was built of elect precious living stones 1 Pet. 2. 5. as was foretold in the Prophets I will lay thy stones with fair colours and thy foundation with saphire and all thy borders with pleasant stones Isa 54. 11. 6. 17 21. 2. As the materials of the Temple and Tabernacle were all made fit before they were joyned together so that there may be neither Hammer 1 Kings 6. 7. nor any tool of Iron heard in the building Even so in the spiritual John first preached in the Wilderness fitting and squaring a people by the Ax of Gods Word so that the crookedness by nature in Gods Elect was made straight and the rough places plain Isa 40 3. Mat. 3. 3. by being made new creatures 2 Cor. 5. 17. born again so made fit for the Kingdom of God John 3. 5. And this was Gods way in Grace and Nature in all the Apostles the wise Master-builder first in the Wilderness of the wold by the Preaching the Word to convince and by it the Lord converting and then by voluntary profession not by might or power of man Zach 4. 6. but by the Spirit of God were they joyned together by the Covenant of Grace in Christ with him their Lord spiritual Head and Husband of the Body the Church For so it is written As a young man marrieth a virgin so shall thy sons marry thee Isa 62. 5. 2 Cor. 11. 2. Acts 2. 45. And thus saith the Scriptures Prepare thy work without make it fit for thy self in the field and after build thine house Prov. 24. 27. But how contrary to this heavenly pattern was the Doctors Church constituted in every part the examiner may see if it were not too long here to insert but I refer the Reader to Henry Ainsworth's Counterpoison page 205. 127. comparing therewith Mr. Fox's Acts and Monuments Edit 5. page 1187. 1190. 1184. and for noting these and such-like things of the Doctors Church and Ministry the Doctor bespattereth Mr. Ainsworth in his Book with Words so that like Ishmael his hand is against every good Christian Gen. 16. 12. Moreover though the beginning of this spiritual building aforesaid it is but small compared to a grain of Mustard-seed Mat. 13. 31. the day of small things Zech. 4. 10. yet not to be despised if but two or three are gathered together in Christs name which is his Law Isa 42. 4. Mat. 12. 21. in the holy order of his Gospel to worship God by Christs direction they have the promise of Gods presence to be with them Mat. 18. 20. so waiting on the Lord until he multiply them to be not a few Jer. 30. 19. even like the flock of his pasture Ezek. 34. 31. Acts 2. 47. So that then out of themselves the Lord hath given them direction to chuse some into the office of Pastor and Teacher with Elders and Deacons as aforeshewed in the description of the true Church unto which Assembly thus gathered together in holy order Christ Jesus is their Prophet represented in the offices of Pastor and Teacher together with the membral right of the men-members in Prophesie by the word taught among them that they may discern sin Rom. 7. 7. and righteousness Phil. 3. 9. 2dly Christ is a Priest unto them working upon the will and affections killing them a sacrifices Heb. 9. 11. Rom. 12. 1. that so a reasonable creature by the operation of true faith may be given up to God in his service Joh. 4. 23. 3dly Christ is a King to them Psal 2. 6. by his power Phil. 2. 5. that the word taught by prophecy and applied by priesthood may be walked in Col. 2. 6. by a holy life and conversation 1 Pet. 1. 1 5. and the whole Church preserved from all adverse power of Sin the World and the Devil and after this manner seeing Christs Kingdom is not of this world John 18. 36. must he reign in the Church until he hath put all his enemies under his feet Rev. 19. 16. 1 Cor. 15. 25. Now it is evident that the Communion in the Doctors Church is not in this way and order of God the men of his Clergy will answer him in

setting aside the care of souls not esteeming nor regarding what became of them study most how to climb high and to satisfie their ambitious desires of honour raking together Livings cove● ously and greedily not caring who feed the flock so they may come by the fleece Moreover the door hath been opened also to let into the Church a rout and swarm of such as are more like the priests of Jeroboam than ministers of the Gospel not only unlearned Idols which have mouths and speak not which being weary of their occupation and covet to live easily and to that end entred but also riotous dicers gamesters quaffers quarrellers adulterers and such like if the matter were secret I should do amiss to make it manifest but when it is open in the sight and view of all men who can complain justly Now let the Reader observe thus saith the Apostle If one of themselves even a prophet of their own saith it therefore this witness is true Tit. 1. 12 13. and indeed what have many of their ministers said less in the first and second admonition to the Parliament in the 13. year of Q. Elizabeth's reign 1530. p. 49. in these words What encouragement and favour have they shewed the Papists when the Papists have been complained upon how have they opened their ears meaning the Bishops to their complaints against the ministers and shut their ears when the Papists have been complained upon yea some have said that conformable Papists were more tollerable than these Precisians and godly men that seek for Reformation Who be their Chancellors but most suspected Papists And where have they their most countenance but of the Bishops I hear not of one of them but is a briber Who be their Sumners but very Varlets What are their Canonists but suspected Papists They wring their brethren if they be Gods children and let the papists go scot-free or be punished but lightly And what more is expresly forbidden in the Scriptures than those names and offices which Christ hath forbidden his ministers to be called gracious Lords Luke 21. 25. 28. and many such things worth the observing by all those that have the Book by them Thus I hope it is sufficiently proved that it is not liberty of conscience that is the cause Popery hath increased in this land but the gross abuses in the Doctors Church and Ministry Moreover if the Lord of old was not against liberty of conscience in things spiritual who compelled not the Gibeonites Hittites Gergashistes or unclean Israelites that lived in the Lords Land to keep his Fast or Feast or to do any part of his worship by the Civil Sword no more it is the mind of God under the Gospel Josh 16. 10. Lev. 15. 44. 2 Cor. 7. 8. neither could the Doctor have been so ignorant of that or so plain a Gospel doctrine if his study were spent as much in the book of God as in History for as much as Christ Jesus Creator and Lord of the whole earth hath divided it freely to all Nations under the whole heavens to dwell therein and appointed the bounds of their habitations Gen. 10. 32. Acts 17. 26. and accordingly Christ hath expounded the parable that the field is the world Mat. 13. 38. wherein the good seed children of the kingdom and the tares children of the wicked one are allowed by Christ to grow together though not in the Church Mat. 18. 17. 1 Cor. 5. Prov. 25. 4 5. Gen. 4. 6. Gal. 4. 30. but in the field unless the Doctor thinks the whole world be the Church until the Harvest or end of the world for the Lord doth cause his Sun to shine on the evil and the good and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust how then dare mortal man by persecution debar his fellow creatures from the liberty given them of God so long as they do to all men as they would have others do to them but when they do otherwise contrary to the second table of Gods law the Magistrate beareth not the sword in vain Rom. 13. 4. For he is the minister of God a revenger to execute wrath upon him that doth evil surely then it may be said to such that seek to have their brethren persecuted they do therein as it were call for fire to come down from heaven to destroy them Luke 9. 54. unto such Christ saith they know not what spirit they are of for who is he O man that maketh thee to differ from another 1 Cor. 4. 7. or hast thou any good in thee since thy fall that thou hast not received therefore man ought to know that it is God only which perswadeth Japhet to dwell in the tents of Shem Gen. 9 27. so that to force men to be religious before God giveth them faith is to make a Church of hypocrites such as all persecuting spirits are and this spirit was ever seen in Lordly Prelates and their accomplices as by woful experience the fore-named Christians felt whom the Dr. hath reproached as it is to be seen in a Petition in Q. Elizabeths days they presented to the Parliament aforementioned seasonable in this day for all Protestants to be acquainted with concerning the Bishops cruelty to the Nonconformists then that would neither touch tast nor handle any popish tradition or corruption either in Ministry or Worship The Petition word for word as followeth The humble most earnest and lamentable Complaint and Supplication of the persecuted Church and Servants of Christ called Brownists THE most high God possessor of heaven and earth bringeth at this present before your Lordships and Wisdoms Right Honourable his own cause his own people and his own sworn and most treacherous enemies together with the most shameful usage of his truth and servants that ever hath been heard of in the days of Sions professed peace and tranquility His cause and people he offereth unto your consideration and defence in our profession and persons his enemies and their outrage against his truth and servants in the persons and bloody proceedings of the Prelates of the Land and their Complices We profess the same faith and truth of the Gospel which her Majesty and your Honours the whole Land and all the Reformed Churches under heaven this day do hold and maintain we go beyond them being our only fault even in the judgments of our tyrannical and most savage enemies in the detestation of all Popery that most fearful Antichristian Religion and draw nearer in some points by our practice unto Christs holy order and institution this is our faith this is our cause in our sinful hands and for the profession and maintenance of which faith the forenamed enemies of God detain in their hands within the prisons about London not to speak of other Gaols throughout the Land about threescore and twelve persons men and women young and old lying in cold in hunger in dungeons in irons of which number they have taken the Lords day last past being the