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A85151	A true testimony against the Popes wayes, &c. In a return to that agreement of 42. of those that call themselves ministers of Christ (but are proved to be wrongers of men and of Christ) in the county of Worcester, and some adjacent parts, who subscribe their agreement and catechisme with the names and the places where they are pastors, teachers, and rectors, &c. as they say: or as followeth: Richard Baxter teacher of the church at Kiderminster. John Boraston pastor of Ribsford and Bewdley. Richard Eades pastor of Beckford Glocestershire. ... Joh: Dedicote preacher at Abbotesley.	R. F. (Richard Farnworth), d. 1666.	1656 (1656)	Wing F509; Thomason E870_6; ESTC R202116	86,932	79

people by casting a mist before the eyes of their understanding seeking to insinuate into them by flatteries and garnishing your flatteries with colourable glosses to cause them to think that your reviving that which hath been used amongst them with out-side Matth. 23.27 28.30 31 c. will now from you receive life to do that which it could not do neither by the Pope or Bishops nor by you their off-springs And with the Light are you seen at your witts end and troubled that you cannot have your wills fulfilled who are the enemies of the Living truth and wrongers both of men and God as you also in your Agreement acknowledge and therefore all your Evasions and Colourable glosses must fall with your Image and Imaginary worships as in your fore-fathers before you and the Ministry that stands out of mans will which you are yet Ignorant of must through the crosse cut down and crucifie and kill that which your Ministry doth not nor your fore-fathers or the Pope or Bishops before you and that Ministry which comes forth from the Light and power of the Spirit of God is for the discovering and killing of the Error Heresie and Miscariages which yours hath and doth leave people in and so as it kills that and the Ignorance Gala. 3.4 5. Eph. 2. Iohn 8.12 1 Iohn 3.8 9. 1. Pet. 1.18 19 22 23 1 Iohn 4.16 17 Iohn 14.20 it quickeneth and raiseth the soul out of death destroying the Ignorance Error Heresie and Miscariages and all the works of the Devill and so bringeth soules out of death and from under the power of darknesse to live in the life of the Eternall truth in the Injoyment of the Fathers love and to Enjoy and walke in the liberty of the Sons of God And saith John We know that the Son of God is come and hath given us an understanding to know him that is true and we are in him that is true even in his Son Jesus Christ and this is true God and life eternall 1 John 5.20 Whose Ministry without your familiar personall Instruction discovereth and killeth sin Error and Miscariages which you live in unkilled and therefore out of his Minstiry who killeth that and quickeneth the other that hath suffered under it raising that and them together with it saving them by grace and causing them as they at Ephesus did to sit with Christ Jesus in the heavenly place Ephe. 2.1 2 4 5 6. For by grace were they saved ver 8th Through faith and not of themselves nor of works lest any should boast Eph 2.8 9. As Paul the Gospel-Minister doth witnesse in his Affirmation who did not as you do in your confusion set up a form of words without Spirit and Life grounded upon the Popes practice or generall Councell held at Trent or at Trull And bid people get these to say and be catechized c. And say them over to the Pope or Arch-bishops Persons Preists Rectors and Curates upon pain of damnation neither doth his words warrant you so to do Therefore are they not your warrant from God for that work Neither did Paul go and write out a few words out of the 20. Chap. of Exodus and the 6. Chap. of Matthew and set the people to get them upon pain of damnation and salvation Which words he had before you and witnessed the life in the spirit and power of Christ for the killing of Ignorannce Sin Error and Miscarriages Eph. 5.13 Eph. 6.10 11 12 13 14. Gal 2.19 20. and to quicken the mortall body Rom. 8.10 11. as well for the purifying of the heart and the soul 1 Pet. 1.22 23. Which you have shewed your Ignorance in and to be out of And therefore Pauls words is not your warrant from God who are out of that righteous life And Paul said they were delivered from the law that being dead wherein they had been held their service stood in the newnes of the Spirit and not in the oldnesse of the Letter Rom. 7.6 But your service stands in the oldnesse of the Letter and the old Law and not in the Gospel and newnesse of spirit Rom. 1.16 16. as your fruits and Agreeement doth manifest Therefore you that serve in your wills and set people to serve in theirs and in the oldnesse of the Letter without the Gospel and power of God to salvation and the newnesse of Spirit Clo. 2.21 22 23. Eph. 2.14 15 16. Rom. 1.26 you are not by Pauls words warranted from God to do it who was himself a minister not of the Letter but of the Spirit as he hath witnessed 2 Co. 3.6 c. Therefore your garnishing your selves with his words and wanting his ministery and spirit to guide in the ministration and worship of God that spirit John 4.23 24. 2 Cor. 3.17 18. you are but as founding Brasse and tinkling Cymbals being in the envy and out of love the of the Father as the false Prophets was therefore let Pauls words rest where they are 1 Cor. 13. H s 16.9 Mic. 3.11 Iude 11. till you depart from your lusts and go make restitution for the Lord is against you and all such who are yet without warrant from God for all your stealing of words to garnish your selves as your fore-fathers did But thus saith the Lord therefore behold I am against them that steal my words from his neighbour I sent them not nor commanded them Therefore they shall not profit the people at all Ier. 23.30 c. And now that you are without warrant from the Scripture being out of the life of truth and reviving your fore-fathers works taking a ground from the sixth-Generall Councell held at Trent or at Trull in the time of the Pope or Bishopps Matth. 7.15 16 17 20 22 22 26 27. ver 2. and are you not also left without warrant from them then where are you now and what ground do you stand on are you not without ground or bottom and on the Sandy foundation ready to be washed away when the floods come c. Whose fall as Christ saith therefrom is like to be great and as may be Read Math. 7.26 27. Let the Priests minde and see If they know From whence they came BEhold and see from whence you came and minde your return was not your Original I head root and foundation the Pope or Arch-bishops and Bishops amongst which was not the Bishop of Rome called the Pope Chiefe Supreame head c. Untill the time or raign of Henry the 8. Late King of England as by the Lawes of this Nation may appeare c. And the Called Arch-Bishopps and such as received Orders from them to be Priests Ministers Deacons and Clarks c. Were they not called the body Spirituall and were and are they not called the English Church c. And after the Pope was put out of Tythes and that which he had begott by Henry the 8 the Arch-Bishopps your fathers Priests Ministers Deacons Rectors Clarks

and gain-sayes the Counsel of God in refusing to deny their miscarriages but only tell of them and the wrong they do to Christ and men refusing to deny the same and to amend and make restitution to whom they have wronged and cease wronging any and refusing to forsake the evil and cease persecution to turn unto God they refuse to deny their wills that they might obey the will of God and therefore such are resisters of the will of God as your untaught teachers are and the Jews in nature like them was whom Christ would often have gathered and they would not Matth. 23.27 therefore saith he ye that depart not from Iniquity Pride Coveteousnesse Vain-talking foolish Jesting will-Worships the love and honour of the world persecution and miscarriages ye will not come to me that ye might have life Joh. 5.40.44 and saith he Why call ye me Lord and do not the things that I say Luke 6.46 And whereas you say Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our debts or trespasses as we forgive our debtors or them that trespasse against us c. I say that they that Christ teacheth to pray and them that he taught that prayer and did him obey exhorted others to do so but when your wills are crost are you not ready to destroy and devour such as crosses your wills and yet you pray sort your forgivnesse upon that account and so if you do not forgive others you pray for no forgivnesse according to that account and if you would have God to forgive you as you forgive others see that you do forgive them that trespasse against you or else if you seek revenge persecute c. and do not forgive them if they do trespasse against you do you not pray that God may take vengeance of you and not forgive you when you trespasse against him because you do not forgive them that trespasse against you and prayes for your forgivnesse of God as you forgive men and so when you do not forgive them you pray that God may not forgive you but do to you as you would do to them that offend and trespasse against you and you that do not cease your persecution and also forgive them that trespasse against you you do not act according to the will of God nor regard your own words and vowes made to God in Prayer and if instead of forgiving those that trespasse against you you rather seeke their destruction and ruine do you not pray that God may destroy and ruine you and to do by you as you think to do to them and is not all this according to your Prayer Consider well of it and If you do not forgive them that trespasse against you doth it not appeare that you are not of Gods elect that you have not yet learned the doctrine of the Apostles and of Christ for saith Christ to such as he taught if you forgive men their trespasses your Heavenly Father will forgive you your trespasses Math. 6.15 And if you would follow that you might cease persecution quarrelling and jangling and put on as the elect did do bowels of mercy humblenesse of minde long suffering forbeareance forgiving one another and if any have a quarell against any even as Christ forgiveth learne of him and do ye so for the elect and such as are taught of him and abideth in his doctrine doth so Col. 3.12 13 and exhorts others to do the same but it appeares that you or such as do not so viz. forgive them that trespasse against you in obedience to the will of God and doctrine of Christ and his Apostles you show thereby that you resist the will of God and are not of the elect but out of both the doctrine of Christ and his Apostles and doth it not plainly appeare that you and persecuters that wrongs God and Christ and are not yet forgiven and therefore you do not forgive nor regard what you pray for as to performe your vowes c. Therefore doth your hypocrisie more appeare and so you make use of the Scriptures only to talke of and garnish your selves withall as the Scribes and Pharises did that you may oppose the truth and paint your selves with the words as they did but comes not to the life of truth to walk in but are shut out as they was and now it is manifest for the light is risen and sprung up in the hearts of many praised be the Lord and your deceits and deeds of darknesse must be found out and laid open the Lord hath his fanners and he will fift the Nations and the day declareth every mans work of what sort it is and now the Lord looks for fruits for that tree is cursed that makes a great show in leaves and brings forth no fruit unto Christ as the figg-tree was read and understand if you can I desire of the Lord for you that you may and to your soul's profit but let the Serpent be famished dust is his meate but the Father Almighty feedeth his Children and their soules doth taste of his Manna and knowes the daily bread and the sacrifice which is offered up and is the living sanctified soul's nourishment and daily food for which he is not only prayed unto but also praised for glory and honour be to him for evermore And when you say Lead us not into Temptation but deliver us from evill for thine is the Kingdom the power and the glory for ever Amen Concerning Temptation c. I say God doth not lead into Temptation neither doth he tempt any with evill Jam. 1.13 but he suffereth Temptations to come that he may try his Joh. 1.12 and blessed is he that endureth Temptation for when he is tried he shall receive the Crown of life which the Lord hath promised to them that love him but you are hardly sensible of a Temptation who are asleepe in security and ignorance that can scarce speak a word of sense in matters of salvation as your teachers say and in carnality deepe in the iniquity or in sin unturned to God c. but such as are convinced with the light of Christ in their consciences and are awakened out of security having their minds turned with the light from darknesse and sin towards God to wait upon him who are taught by Christ the true Teacher of his they are by him supported and taught from a true sense how to pray and they know that he whose the Kingdoms true power and glory is Math. 11.27 28. who giveth them rest doth teach them to watch and to pray that they by his power may be kept for entering into Temptation as they take his Counsel and abide therein Heb. 2.18 who himselfe was Tempted Luke 22.28 but did overcome and did not enter into the same Math. 4. who is the way to lead out such as him follow Joh. 14.6 Joh. 8.12 and obey Heb. 5.8.9 and it is no sin to be Tempted but to enter into the Temptation which

the rich fall into and are snared for the love of money is the roote of all evil and whilst you are coveting after that you are in danger of peirceing your soules through with many sorrowes and to fall into perdition as such did that erred from the faith 1 Tim. 6.9.10 therefore beware any one that have set their faces Sion-ward where-ever you are of that and give not way to that which enclines to the Temptation for the enemie both knows what to work upon and how as well as he knoweth what will receive him therefore with the light that lets you see the Temptation let your minds be gi●t up and stand in the crosse to that inclination which would entertaine the Temptation and abide in the measure and proportion of faith Rom. 12.3.6 Rom. 12.3.6 and stand stedfast without wavering in that which supplies the faith as well as discovereth Temptations and there is the gift known and power given to resist the Devil and judge the evil and the encrease both of faith and patience will through the Crosse and Judgment which crucifyeth the lust be at work in your soules and be support to you in time of triall that you may stand and be kept as you in the Counsell of the pure light of Christ waite and abide for he is faithfull who will not suffer you to be Tempted above your measure as you therein stand but doth and will with the Temptation make away to escape 1 Cor. 10.13 who is the deliver for many are the troubles of the righteous but the Lord delivereth him out of them all as he did Paul c 2 Tim. 3.10.11 12. though the unrighteous and persecuters evil men and seducers be ignorant of it yet we know and are sure that as the Lord delivered just Lot vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked and punished them condemning them with an overthrow makeing them an ensample unto those like you the wicked and persecuters seed of evil doers now and such that after should live ungodly but the Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of Temptations and afflictions and how to reserve persecuters seed of evil doers wrongers of Christ and of men be they Priests and their followers that lives in such miscarriages and all the unjust unto the day of Judgment for to be punished 2 Pet. 2.4 5 6 7 8 9. Therefore all that are not hardened and seared in sin and iniquitie give eare to the cry of the just and depart from the evil of your Preists and your selves and waite to receive the teachings of God that you may profit seare the living dreadfull Lord God stand in awe of him and sin not for the Lord hath set apart him that is godly for himselfe Psa 4.3.4 but the transgressors shall be destroyed together the end of the wicked shall be cut off Psa 37.38 And you that are wrongers of God and men in your miscarriages unpardoned for the same that sets people to get that which you call the Creed you say you beleive in God the Father Almighty in Jesus Christ his Son who suffered under Pontius Pilate c. I say that such as beleives in him loves him and doth not him wrong it was Pilate and the Jews that did him wrong who loved him nor and are not you found in their nature persecuting him in his Saints as Pilate and Herod did that are in the miscarriages as they was wronging Christ and men and therefore it is manifest how little you beleive in him or love him such as are wrongers of him and liers against him are out of the love and faith towards him but you confesse you are wrongers of him and therefore out of the love and the faith he that loves him keeps his sayings but you neglect and keepe them not and therefore you love him not that are as you say neglecters of his work and wrongers of him in the miscarriages growing worse and therefore you are out of his faith and doing the worke of your Father as Pilate and Herod did And thou Richard Baxter art a grevious slanderer of him as before is proved that saith he detested his own doctrine viz. the doctrine of sinlesse perfection Math. 5.48 blush with your deeds of darknesse made manifest who are out of the faith and doctrine of Christ and turned persecuters of his and wrongers of him but it is given to us and them in his faith not to persecute his and wrong him as you and infidels do to suffer for his names-sake as well as beleive in his name as the Saints and faithfull in Christ-Jesus did Phil. 1.29.30 and are nothing terrified by you and our adversaries Phil. 1 28. though we have the same conflict as our brethren had that suffered under Pilate the Jewes and cheife Preists that crucified the just and as the sufferings of Christ abound in us so our consolation aboundeth by Christ 1 Cor. 1.5 knowing also that such as you persecute and cause to suffer for his name-sake whom you confesse you wrong they shall partake of the consolation as of the sufferings they have done 2 Cor. 1.7 that are stedfast unto him but woe unto the wicked and you painted Tombes and all the false worshippers as well as persecuters of his and wrongers of him it shall goe ill with you and them Isa 3.11 and all your guilding and painting flatteries and Colourable glosses will not save you and such from the wrath of the Lambe the cup is prepared as you may read for all such Reve. 14.9 10.11 and great will be their torment as well as yours who are out of his faith in the old birth and miscarriages growing worse as you say who are persecuters of his and wrongers of him but you are seen and your designe is known and are left naked and bare that to the single eyed you may appeare and that others may see your deceipts and of them and you be aware least they with you come under the same condemnation they are warned and I am cleared though by your generation falsely accused to be Popishly affected but have left my Testimony against the Pope and his brood and stands to witnesse against that and all other deceipt and hath not the least affection to it but stands a witnesse through the strength of my God against it and therefore that accusation is proved false and left co returne from whence it came till it returne into the Popes brest or where it first had its rise And though the author being in outward bonds have outward helps taken from him and kept from him yet truth is not bound but stands free and leaves against the deceipt from a servant of the Lord this same testimony and returnes praise to the Lord for the riches of his love and remaines therein A faithfull witnesse against Pope and Papists and all deceivers but a lover of all the honest hearted such as are not wrongers but lovers of the Lord Jesus The 8th