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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A94350	Banners of love displaied over the Church of Christ, walking in the order of the Gospel at Hexham: by the out-stretched arm of the King of Saints, against the jesuitical design lately attempted by the false Iew. Or, An answer to a narrative stuff'd with untruths, by four Newcastle gentlemen.	Tillam, Thomas.	1654 (1654)	Wing T1164; Thomason E726_8; ESTC R206787	37,383	49

BANNERS of LOVE Displaied over the Church of Christ walking in the Order of the Gospel at HEXHAM By the out-stretched Arm of the King of Saints against the Jesuitical Design lately attempted by the false IEW. OR An Answer to a Narrative stuff'd with Untruths by four Newcastle GENTLEMEN ISAIAH 4.5 And the Lord will create upon every dwelling place of Mount Sion and upon her assemblies a Cloud by day and the shining of a flaming fire by night for upon all the glory shall be a defence ISAIAH 54.17 No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgement thou shalt condemn REV. 2.2 Thou hast tryed them which say they are Apostles and are not and hast found them lyars LONDON Printed by Hen. Hills and are to be sold at his house at the sign of Sir John Old Castle in Py-Corner 1654. To the Church of Christ walking in the Order of the Gospel at HEXHAM MY DEARLY BELOVED THe Crown of my rejoicing in Christ through whom he is pleased to convey divine consolations for the sweet refreshing of my weather-beaten soul surrounded with storms on every hand from Rome from the World and which is most sad from my late familiar friends the professed servants of the same God whom we adore O my Beloved what measure have you and I met with from unreasonable and wicked men since by a separation from the world we made a visible profession of the faith of the Gospel You know the many plotted lies that have been invented and vented by Satan and his children That there were 12 persons to be baptized at Naward Castle whom I called my Apostles and said that I was their God That I have taken 12.14.20 a person for baptizing them That some have seen me drunk on the Rod● That I robbed a man neer unto Corbridge That I was sent for to Newcastle and so to London to suffer That some whom I baptized presently run mad had the Palsie were blind have been drowned have hanged themselves and many such like untruths But Deut. 33.16 Isa 43.1 2. through the good will of him that dwelt in the Bush you have been preserved in the midst of these flames so that from the first day until now you have been living Monuments of his unspeakable mercy not a hair of any of your heads perished being more than conquerours through him that loveth us his banners of l ve have been continually over us he hath drawn out the hearts and affections of his Churches to own you their gratious spiritual Epistles from London Lempster Leith Stokesley Lancashire and Cheshire have raised and exceedingly refreshed your spirits and the Lord return seven fold into the bosoms of those precious ones O what a rich stock of prayers have you going a mighty interest in the Churches of Christ who are terrible as an Army with Banners The late Jesuitical attempt to ruin you Christ discovered seasonably and blasted the Adversary yea and turned it to your singular advantage and wonderful increase in number and grace who could imagine that so many pretious souls should be added to the Church of Hexham upon this detection of the Impostor most men thought it would have been your ruin but as upon the discovery of those grand Hypocrites in the first pure Church Acts 5.14 so hath the Almighty blessed and prospered you But now alas your flourishing condition hath I fear stirred up a spirit of emulation in those congregations that differ from your judgement who under a pretence of publishing the false Jew have mightily laboured in his design to supplant you who being but a young Vine and of tender Grapes had more need of careful dressing and constant dews of consolation and instruction than such discouragements and defamations as that you readily imbrace any whether Sheep or Goats if they be but of your opinion in Baptism that you even the whole Congregation are given up of God to believe lies These and such like aspersions are sad and grievous especially from those who have pretended to build with you giving a secret stab as it were in the midst of a brotherly salute but t is your mercy that Christ deals better cherishing your souls with his most sweet and chaste imbraces as his most loving faithful Spouse carrying you in his blessed Arms and folding you in his bosome of love that Nest and Hive of sweetness taking all your reproaches affronts and indignities as done unto himself while he leads you through the green Pastures and feeds you with marrow full of fatness by the still waters hiding you in his Pavilion and in the secret of his Tabernacle from the strife of tongues thus the Eternal God is your refuge and underneath are the Everlasting Arms. Wherefore be incouraged in the Lord ye children of the most High and remember what I have sometimes taught you That the Saints trials shall end in triumph your Night of Misery will have a most glorious Morning of Victory And though it be sad to suffer by Professors yet consider that Christ suffered by his own professed people so did Paul Acts 21.20 with 28. and other pretious Saints Did you ever hear of a Church increasing as God increaseth you without great afflictions and persecutions Do not consult with flesh and blood but behold the works and wonders of the Lord how he baffles the carnal conceits of men Remember what a signal token of divine approbation was shewed but a moneth since at Muggleswick in the cheerful submission of many pretious souls to your despised Ordinance of Baptism the very same day that it was cryed down by a Boanargis who soon fell sick and so dyed the whole night following being spent in Prayer and declaring the work of grace upon their souls a Vigil to be observed and in the morning buried with Christ in Baptism Some of you have been secretly instructed and marvellously convinced of Disciple-baptism onely while you have been under the preaching of Infant-springling Live up to these mercies you pretious Saints let your holy humble walking crown Christ 1 Peter 2.12 and more and more confute the adversary So stand fast in the Lord my dearly beloved And the God of peace shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly You Phil. 4.1 Rom. 16.20 whose prayers prevailed for my life from a late extreme sickness would surely have me live Why now I live 1 Thes 3.8 2 Cor. 11.2 if you stand fast in the Lord I have espoused you to one Husband O my dearest let your shining conversation so adorn your profession that I may give up my account with joy and present you as a chaste Virgin to Christ when transported on Angels wings to the Kings Palace we shall be lovingly received into our Masters joy with Well done and Well come This is the life the joy the hope of him who intirely and unfeignedly loves you Hexham 6 mon. 20 day 1653. Your servant for

their profession After such a people I especially enquired 1. the Lord having convinced me that there was no way of becomming a visible Disciple of the Lord Jesus but by Baptism and that Faith was necessarily to precede the administration of it The Scripture through which the Lord was pleased to break in with a conviction in this particular upon my spirit was that of Mark 16.16 confirmed by the constant practice of the Disciples in the History of the New Testament neither did I ever meet with any plain Scripture thwarting this light but many concurring to confirm me in the truth I had received So that Hic sisto pedem till they who walk by a rule preposterous to this can shew me a clear and plain Scripture for such their walkings To bottom Ordinances upon mens inferences how rationally soever deduced is not to me consistent with the faithfulness of the Messiah who was the great Apostle and Prophet of his Church and left not his houshold without plain directions how he would have them to go in and out before him in all wel-pleasing and not to depend upon the extracts of the wisest of Mens Reasonings For Moses who was but a Servant in whose House from my youth up I have been educated was so faithful as in plain terms to lay down every Ordinance which God would have us to make the Rule of our obedience And shall we suspect his Master would be less faithful or deficient No in no wise But secondly I did the rather enquire after such a People because their manner of Administring of Baptism is very clear to me to be most consentaneous to the mind of the Lord Christs institution which is by a total immersion of the Party baptized under water When I consulted with the best Phylologists in the Greek tongue whether Sacred or Prophane I found all Vno Ore profess That 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to dip or put over head as the Dyar doth his Cloath into his Liquors which is confessed to be the genuine meaning of the word even by those who are professed Adversaries to the carrying on of Baptism by immersion Let me give you one instead of many and that an eminent one it is learned Spanhemius in his Dubia Evangelica Dub. 24. Partis tertiae Thus much the Gent. had in print which they willingly concealed ad calcem where having discussed ex professo quid 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifie concludes that this exposition is to use his very terms Syncera conformis significationi verbi communi Christianorum immo omnium Graecè doctorum calculo comprobata And this sense of the word is received and retained by the learned Translators in the most eminent Languages of West Christendome The Italian and the Spanish retain the Greek word Baptesimo The High and Low Dutch render it Doop and Tauff which signifie a total immersion and Eu tauffen to baptize as is well known to those that are knowing and acquainted in these Languages Add hereunto the conformity between the Greek Word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and tebilah in our Language which is a total Immersion as appears by that expression our Nation gives concerning a Woman going to purifie her self in Water after the daies of her separation because of her uncleanness she is said to go lattevillah to be hid over Head and Ears I shall only add this one Testimony of our Rabbines which when I found comformable to the practice of the Disciples of the Messiah in the carrying on of this Ordinance of Baptism as it is held forth in the Scriptures by immersion of the Parties to be baptized it was of great weight and authority with me and it is this In sepher Jalkut O nitzachon set out by R. Mulhusino argel letalmidei talui lalechet litvilah it is a custome of the Disciples of the hanged man for my Nation in mentioning of Christ Periphrase him by contempt talui the hang'd man to go to the place of Immersion to be hid over head and ears in Water And thus the Lord having made plain my way before me and bringing me to a people walking according to the light which through the Scriptures confirmed by the Testimony both of the learned in my own and other Nations who was I that I should resist God and turn away from those whom God had discovered to my poor wandring soul to be a people walking in the way of his own appointment and according to those convictions that were upon my spirit For whose Communion I do exceedingly bless God and wherein I greatly rejoice The Lord Christ having given into my spirit abundance of joy and refreshing as a signal token of his good liking and gratious approbation of this my undertaking warming my heart under the full discovery of that Promise made good to me both in the union of my soul to himself and giving me into the imbraces of and communion with his People Him that commeth to me I will in no wise cast out John 6.37 Now to God onely wise who hath shewed me these grear things the God of my Fathers keeping Covenant for ever who hath not taken his mercy from me nor suffered his Truth to fail but hath taken one of the out-casts of his antient Israel and brought it home to himself To him be glory and Dominion throughout all Ages Amen Amen Tamvenishlam tehillah leel barach Josephus Ben Israel ex Judaeo Christianus The Administrators Animadversions upon this Declaration and Confession wherein the glorious Order and Method of the Highest shines forth 1. IT is observable that the Lord Jesus Christ was pleased to manifest himself to this poor soul that asked not after him to advance him as a living Monument of free grace and mercy like as the Woman of Sychar comming to Jacobs well to draw water for her bodies comfort met unexpectedly with a living Fountain of distinguishing grace freely streaming out to her soul So was the Lord pleased while this Jew was pumping the water of Philosophy for the accomplishment of the outward man to open the glorious Fountain of the Divine Nature for the blessed information and to the great admiration of his Spirit until that happy season blinded with the Traditions of his Fathers O the distinguishing love of God! Rom. 11.7 2. The Gospel-like order of this great work deserves our most serious thoughts that high and wonderful doctrine which the Almighty laies for a sure Foundation in his heart is it whereon eternal blessedness depends And this is life eternal That they might know thee the onely true God and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent Joh. 17.3 He is first awakened as it were by Esays Vision the discovery of that glorious infinite blessed Three in One Holy Father Esa The Lords antient people the Jews have ever accounted it great blasphemy to call God a Person 6.3 Holy Son John 12.41 Holy Spirit Acts 28.26 and other Foundation can no