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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65230	An equal ballance wherein the ministers and churches of the Anabaptists (so called) are truly weighed and by a just and lawful tryal ... they are fully proved and clearly manifested to be neither ministers nor churches of Jesus Christ, but in very many particulars they appear in a great measure to differ from them ... : being an answer to a libel published by (or in the behalf of) Thomas Collier, entituled The hypocrisie and falshood of Thomas Salthouse discovered ... / written by Robert Wastfield.	Wastfield, Robert, fl. 1647-1665.	1659 (1659)	Wing W1033; ESTC R25195	43,521	54

no fellowship You further say in the said Epistle The world as a Canker doth eat out your affections to the Lord Jesus Which doth also prove you to be no Church of Christ but to differ from them For the Church of Christ had their affections set on Christ and the Minister of Christ said If ye be risen with Christ seek those things which are above where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God Set your affections on things above not on things on the earth And he saith If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ let him be Anathema maranatha And such who are accursed are no Church of Christ And he said Who shall seperate us from the love of Christ And he was perswaded That neither death nor life nor Angels nor principalities nor powers nor things present nor things to come nor heighth nor depth nor any other creature should be able to seperate them from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus And the World had not eaten out their affections to Christ Jesus and this was their confidence That nothing could alienate their affections from him And Iohn said Love not the world neither the things that are in the world if any man love the world the love of the Father is not in him and he saith Every one that loveth him that begat loveth him that is begotten of him Col. 3. 1 2. 1 Cor. 16. 22. Rom. 8. 35 38 39. 1 Iohn 2. 15 1 Iohn 5. 1. But you say your affections to the Lord Jesus are eaten out by the World as by a canker therefore the love of the Father is not in you but the god of this World hath blinded your eyes and being in love with the World you are in the enmity against God for the friendship of the World is enmity to God And the World being thus set in your hearts you cannot find out the beginning nor know the end of the Work of God but are without the true sight and sence of his Majesty and without the sence of his Work in your souls and in your Churches and although you may think you are rich and encrease in goods because you call your selves Churches of Christ and because you have heaped up together a bundle of unprofitable carnal Ordinances according to your own imaginations in imitation of the Church of Christ wch you call the Ordinances of Christ which you plead for and follow yet in as much as your affections to the Lord Jesus are eaten out by the love of the World and you pluckt down from your excellency by a wretched worldly spirit you thereby appear to be no Church of Christ neither do you nor can you partake of his Ordinances which are spiritual but are upon tryal found to be miserable and wretched and poor and blind and naked Likewise you say in your said Epistle That this Iniquity hath been apparently written on your fore-heads To which I say You are thereby apparently known to be no Church of Christ but to differ from them For their Father's Name is written on their Fore-heads not Iniquity And the Lord caused his mark to be set on the fore-heads of all that did sigh cry for the abominations that were committed by them whose iniquities were exceeding great and the servants of the Lord Church of Christ did receive the seal of the living God in their Fore-heads upon them is written the Name of God and the Name of the City of God and the new Name and such see his Face and his Name is written in their Fore-heads and not Iniquity Ezek 9. 4. Rev. 7. 3. 3. 12. 22 4. And these are redeemed from iniquity and their garments washed and made white in the blood of the Lamb For where Iniquity is apparently written there the Fathers Name is not written and where the Fathers Name is not written and his mark received they are not the Church of Christ For Holy and Reverend is his Name and holiness becomes the House of the Lord which is his Church for ever and his mark is Christs righteousness with which his Church is covered and adorned and his Seal is the holy Spirit of Promise by which they are sealed to the day of Redemption But you on whose Fore-heads Iniquity is so apparently written your gathering together is not into the Name of the Lord which is a strong Tower to the righteous who run in thither and are safe neither are you covered with Christs Righteousness nor sealed with his holy Spirit neither is his mark upon you or his Name written on your Fore-heads but your iniquity is marked before the Lord and Iniquitie being your Mark thereby you are plainly known to be of that number that worship the Beast and his Image and his Name you bear and his mark is on your Fore-heads and whilst you bear this mark so apparently on your Fore-heads to wit Iniquitie you ought not to make mention of the Name of the Lord for he that nameth the Name of the Lord should depart from iniquitie else it would be said unto you Depart hence I know you not ye workers of Iniquity although you may say with them We have eaten and drunk in thy presence and we have pleaded for and followed thy Ordinances Yet I say Notwithstanding this plea if Iniquitie be your mark you must depart with the workers of iniquitie Also you say in your said Epistle That this sin eats out all the divine sweetness of regenerating and sanctifying Grace And by this also it appears that you are no church of Christ For if that be eaten out by sin which should regenerate you then are you unregenerate and if unregenerate then no church of Christ For the church of Christ are regenerated and born again not of corruptible seed but of incorruptible by the Word of God and saved by the washing of regeneration and by the renewing of the Holy Ghost and sin had not eaten out that which should regenerate them wch was the Grace of God for they were quickened together with Christ and saved by Grace Tit. 3. 5. 1 Pet. 1. 24. Eph. 2. 5. Again if that be eaten out by sin which should sanctifie you then are you unsanctified and if you are unsanctified then surely you are no church of Christ for the church of Christ were washed sanctified justified in the Name of the Lord Jesus by the Spirit of God they said they were sanctified by the will o God through the offring of the bodie of Je●us Iude did write to them that were sanctified by God the Father c. 1 Cor. 6. 11. Heb. 10. 10. Iude 1. And thus you being unregenerated unsanctified you cannot enter into Gods Kingdom for except a man be born again he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God but he which is unregenerate is not born again and therefore cannot enter into the Kingdom of God And without holiness no man can see the

nothing was able to seperate them from the love of God in Christ Jesus And they had known and believed the love that God had to them John 16. 27. Rom. 5. 5. Rom. 8. 39. 1 John 1. 3. 1 John 4. 16. And thus you in whom abomination reigns are proved to be no church of Christ for where abomination doth reign there Christ doth not reign but such were they who sent a Message after him saying We will not have this man to reign over us who must be brought and slain before his face And where Christ doth not reign there his Statutes and his Ordinances are not known but every one walketh and worshippeth according to the imagination of his own heart and every one doth that which is right in his own eyes even as they did when there vvas no King in Israel and the Statutes and Ordinances vvhich you follow and plead for are the dictates of the man of sin vvhich bears rule in you yea even from the abomination vvhich is set up where it ought not to stand vvhich makes desolate do you receive them and not from Christ vvho is the Head King and Law-giver to his Church and People and in this state vvhilst abomination reigns and is head in you vvhat ever you profess or vvhat ever you practise it is all abomination to the Lord For the prayers of the wicked or those in vvhom abomination reigns are abomination to the Lord and vvhilest that vvhich is abominable in the sight of the Lord rules and is head in you all that proceeds from you yea even your best performances though they may in outward appearance seem to be the same vvith the people of God or Church of Christ and like that vvhich the people of God and Church of Christ did practise according to Scripture-Testimony yet it all stinks in the nostrils of the Lord and is an abomination in his sight for who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean not one And surely you in whom abomination reigns are unclean in the eyes of our God for he is of purer eyes then to behold iniquity And therefore vvhilst abomination reigns in your Churches and in your souls call not your selves Ministers of Christ nor Churches of Christ nor do not say you plead for and follow his Ordinances for the Church of Christ hath an Altar whereof you have no right to eat neither can you taste of the Supper of the Lord neither have you any part or lot in this matter for your hearts are not upright before the Lord neither into the City of our Solemnity may you enter for into that City can in no wise enter any thing that defiles or worketh abomination or loves or makes a lye You complain in your Epistle of a light Spirit living short of the true sight and sence of Gods Majesty in his Churches and among his Saints By vvhich also it appears you are not the Church of Christ neither is that light Spirit of vvhich you complain the Spirit of God but it was otherwise vvith the Church of Christ of vvhich the Scriptures declares for they had received the Spirit of Truth vvhich vvas not a light spirit by which they were led into all truth and had the true sight and sence of Gods Majesty amongst them and did not live short thereof but beheld his glory and were made glad with the favor of his countenance which was lifted up upon them Psal. 89 15. Psal 21. 6 Acts 2. 28. John 14. 16 17. 1 Cor. 2 12. Gal. 4. 6. 1 Ioh. 3. 24. your spirit is a spirit of blindnes by your own confession so that you cannot perceive the things that pertain to the Kingdom of God but you are without the true sight sence thereof so you are walking in the dark paths and going on in the broad way which leadeth to destruction but the church of Christ did walk in the light of the Lord the spirit by which they were led and guided led them out of darkness into the marvelous light of the Lord and guided their feet into the paths of peace as the Scriptures doth witness 2 Cor. 4. 6. Ephes. 5 8. 1 Thess. 5. 4 5. 1 Pet. 2 9. And thus you who are led and guided by a light spirit that lives short of the true sight and sence of Gods Majesty in his Churches and among his Saints are not the Church of Christ but are under chains of darkness and the god of this world hath blinded your eyes Now you seem to confess that Gods Majesty is to be seen in his Churches and his presence to be enjoyed by his people and among his Saints and if so then you who live short of the true sight and sence of his Majesty which is seen in his Church and do not behold the glory of his presence which his Saints doth see and behold and which is amongst them I say Then you are not of that number who are indeed his Church and Saints but you live short of the true sight and sence of that glory and excellency which they behold and are made partakers of and in this state of ignorance and blindness you are groping but cannot find the door and you call evil good and good evil you put darkness for light and light for darkness you call your own fancies and imaginations Ordinances of Christ and the light of Christ which is spiritual and shines in the hearts of his people by which they have the true sight and sence of Gods Majesty amongst them this you call fancy and imagination and your own inventions you set up as an Altar to the unknown God and you worship you know not what but of the true God and his Worship you are ignorant for his voice at any time you have not heard nor his shape you have not seen and of the true Christ and his Ordinances you are unsensible and his body which is spiritual you cannot discern and therefore though you boast that it is the Ordinances of Christ you plead for and follow as Church-fellowship in breaking of Bread and Prayers c. yet you are discovered to be of that number that are unworthy to partake of the Supper of the Lord and of the Ordinances of Christ for you being out of the true sight and sence of Gods Majesty in his Churches and amongst his Saints you are out of the discerning of the Lords body which is spiritual and therefore instead of partaking of the Ordinances of Christ you eat and drink to your selves damnation not discerning the Lords body Again you complain in the said Epistle of a wretched wor●●y spirit which plucks the Saints down from their excellency and leaves blackness upon you which renders you uncomely c. Which doth also manifest you to be no Church of Christ for the spirit which is in them doth build them up and not pluck them down and doth beautifie them and not render them uncomely and it causeth them to excel