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A89640	The proud pharisee reproved: or, the lying orator laid open. In an examination of some passages in a book, entituled, precepts for Christian practice, or, the rule of the new creature new model'd. Written by one Edw. Reyner, who calles himself a minister of the Gospel in Lincoln; but is found a lyar / by a Child of the light, who is known to the world by the name of Martin Mason.	Mason, Martin, fl. 1650-1676.	1655 (1655)	Wing M933; Thomason E851_6; ESTC R207419	44,305	59

Tithes or other set maintenance Thy next place is 1 Cor. 9.11 But what spiritual things have ye sowne unto the people unlesse spiritual Delusions Teaching for Christs doctrine the Traditions of Men calling Sprinckling Infants the Baptisme of Christ and roaring out Lyes in the Idols Temple spiritual melody and eating a bit of bread and drinking a sup of wine feeding on the Body and Blood of Christ Is Original Sin the Doctrine of Christ Is Denying the Deity to be Communicable the Doctrine of Christ or Antichrist Is not he that denyes Jelus to be come in the flesh an Antichrist Then Edward Reyner hath no wrong done him to be called Antichrist for He denyes the Substance of the Deity to be communicable Is not Christ Jesus of the Substance of the Deity Is it not said Christ in you the Hope of Glory Paul tells us he used not this power but suffered all things lest he should hinder the Gospel of Christ If the Ministers of England were such as Paul was they would be content with Paul's Reward and what was that Verily saith he 1 Cor. 9.18 That when I preach the Gospel I may make the Gospel of Christ without charge Paul he kept under his Body and brought it into subjection lest that saith he when I have preached to others I my self should be a Cast-away 1 Cor. 9.27 O that when thou preachest Self-Denyal to others thou wouldest make Paul thy President and practise it thy self and not cry out of the difficulty thereof as thou dost page 80. and so be discouraged and never take up the Crosse but live in such pomp and pride as thou does nor call for respect to thy person as thou does like a Proud Pharisee as thou art Do either of the places in Scripture thou produces prove that the Apostles called for that respect to their persons which thou receivest Or does either of the places mention respect to their persons The Pride of thy Heart is seen in thy third proof I saiah 52.7 The words are these How beautiful upon the Mountaines are the feet of Him that bringeth good tydings that publisheth peace that bringeth good tidings of good that publisheth salvation that saith unto Sion Thy God reigneth Come down thou proud Son of Ambition that aspiring spirit in three shall be level'd with the Dust 1 Pet. 5.5 For God refuteth the proud and gives his grace to the Humble Page 174. Thou counsels Masters and Mistreffes to Make their Servants read Scriptures and Bring them to the Publique Ordinances He that dares use such lofty language now when Liberty to tender Consciences through the infinite love of the living God is allowed how would he thunder would he not prove another bloody Bonner if ever power should be put into his hands Art thou a Minister of the Gospel and thus seeks to dethrone him by taking his Golden Scepter of Loe from him and wouldst rule thy self over his Saints with thy rod of iron thy persecuting spirit Is not Christ alone King of the Conscience Away thou Traitor to the King of Saints Thy Treason is discovered against him and his Tender Lambs but it shall not prosper Page 217. Thou talks of Contempt of the World of all the Wealth Pomp and Glory in it and sayes it is Christian Magnanimity to contemn silver and gold 'T is such Magnanimity as neither thee not the Priests of England who preach for Rewards are indued with What people lives in more pomp and glory of the World than your selves according to your outward estates who coret silver and gold more then your selves Page 219. Paul thou sayes was singular in Self-Denyal 1 Cor. 9.27 O that Edward Reyner could truly say so of himself but while he preaches this to others he himself becomes a Cast-away for he like a Coward cryes out of the difficulty thereof and never yet durst deal with it Page 80. P. 225. Ah that thou hadst eyes to see who it is that rests in the Name without the thing who it is that Sardis-like hath a Name to live but is dead and who they be that are the Synagogue of Satan But this is hid from thy eyes for thou delightest in darknesse and loves not but loathes the light an infallible sign thy Deeds are evil Revelat. 3. 1 9. Page 227. Priest Thou sayes Neither is that Baptisme sufficient to Salvation which is outward only of the flesh Ans Why dost thou use it then sprinckle Infants being thou hast neither precept nor president for that practice Priest Baptisme is that of the Spirit thou sayes in the Heart Ephs 4.5 If this onely be Christs Baptisme Whose is the other Paul owned but one Lord one Faith one Baptisme Page 244. Thou talks of that thou never tasted of from God in thy own not his Ordinances the Letter not the World Hebr. 4.12 for the Word is quick and powerful Sacraments Away with that Romish Word it shewes what thou art and Wouldst be Prayer Prov. 12.2 Prov. 28.9 The prayers of the Wicked are an abomination to the Lord All thy babling is but a Pharisaical Vain-glorious Boasting a meer flourishing of a Formalist Ephe. 4.12 13. Thou sayes in Heaven is perfection of grace obedience Paul is speaking of perfecting the Saints for the work of the Ministery for the edifying of the Body of Christ till we all come in the Vnity of the Faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God unto a perfect Man unto the Measure of the Stature of the fulnesse of Christ That we henceforth be no more children tossed to and fro carried about with every wind of Doctrine by the sleight of men c. Paul writes to such who had not yet attained to such a Measure But does Paul say that perfection of Grace and obedience is in Heaven as thou wouldst have it understood Does he not plainly signifie that the coming unto a perfect man unto the measure of the stature of the fulnesse of Christ is to be while we are on Earth Else what mean the following words That we Henceforth be no more children tossed to and fro c. Can the Saints in Heaven be tossed to and fro What wind of false Doctrine is there in Heaven What cunning craftinesse there Are there any in Heaven who lye in wait to deceive Heb. 12.23 Then thou tells them That in Heaven the spirits of just men are made perfect The Apostle speaking of the Administration of Moses c. Tells them that they are come unto Mount Sion and unto the City of the living God the heavenly Jerusalem and to an innumerable Company of Angels to the Assembly and Church of the first-born which are written in Heaven and to God the Judge of all and to the spirits of just men made perfect If the man were not blind he might see the Apostle sayes That they are come c. But he that 's in

the Dark may stumble And the language of Babylon is Confusion In thy 46 page thou Queries why they fetch not joy from Heaven to comfort their Hearts against all their sorrowes on Earth c. What is the joy of the Holy Ghost so weak so little that it cannot comfort the heart against Sorrowes on Earth but thou must be thus posting them to fetch joy from Heaven Hadst thou ever tasted the joy and comfort of the Holy Ghost surely thou wouldst never thus have undervalued it But however if thou wilt needs be sending them to heaven it would not be amisse for thee to direct them the way if thou knowes it so well Page 252. Speaking of the glory of heaven Thou sayes it is Great Yea an exceeding excessive eternall weight of Glory and usest them words as Scripture 2 Cor. 4.17 But is the Word excessive set down in that place why dost thou adde to the Scripture Who ever reads the verse may read thee a lyar Then thou calls these words the highest Hyperbole that can be exprest and when thou hast done thou contradicts thy self saying Nec Christus nec coelnm patitur Hyperbolen Neither Christ nor Heaven can be Hyperbolized Thou presses People to that which thou hast as much need as they to practise Obedience and Patience which thou calls the shooes of the Gospel I wish thee so well that thou wert so shod Thou bids them be content with such things as they have though they have but from hand to mouth with food and rayment though they have no more The poor it seems must be preached unto patience and contentednesse without dainties and Ornaments but the Priests and the proud Ones who live in pomp and plenty may purchase Lands and possessions 1 Cor. 9.27 without any check as the proud Priests of Lincoln do Do not these men preaching that which they themselves practise not make themselves become Cast-awayes P. 27● Thou sayes If I had More of the world what hast thou not enough yet One hundred and fifty pounds a yeare for preaching besides a pretty Land thou hast purchased it might make me worse that needs not thou art bad enough already Is it not pitty thou should have more to make thee worse And yet wouldest be counted a Minister of the Gospel O blush and be ashamed More worldly vain unsavory in my spirit Here thou confessest thy self worldly vain unsavory in thy spirit * but confession without forsaking will not obtain remission And while thou art worldly vain unsavory in thy spirit thou art no true Minister of the Gospel Thou goes on saying If I had as much as others what still gaping after more gold and silver what never satisfied Thou hast yearly coming in as much as would maintain severall Families precious Sons and Daughters of the living God It s like I might be as sinful and sensuall as proud covetous and vain glorious as others Answ Thou art as sinful as sensuall as proud as covetous and vain glorious as many of the world who pretend not to that height and growth in Christianity as thou does P. 272. Thou sayes a man may have much of the world much wealth honour pleasure and much trouble sorrow and vexation with it both Scripture and experience attest the same Answ Thou mightest have spoken more plainly and have said thy own experience attests it For much honour wealth and pleasure thou hast and I know sometimes the witness for God arises in thee preaching self-deniall to thee P. 72. The light lets thee see thou lives not like a Minister of Christ Jesus but art a Minister of Antichrist for thou denies Christ Jesus to be come in the flesh by denying the substance of the Deity to be communicable unless thou wilt say Christ Jesus is not of the substance of the Deity and that 's plain blasphemy and thou preachest for gifts and Rewards living in pomp pride and fulness of the world that thou abidest not in the Doctrine of Christ And art one with the world in its wayes fashions and Customs And then the earthly man the rebellious part which would live at ease is tormented troubled and disquieted That this is true the witness for God within thee is my faithful Record Then thou goes on saying A man may have a little in and of the world yet enjoy much quiet and content of minde and comfort but thou does not say thy own experience can attest this No thou goes farre to fetch an example but to give thee thy due thou brings a good One with thee no lesse than the Apostle Paul himself Phil. 4.10 11 12 16.17 If seems thou couldst not finde one in all thy own flock Paul knew how to be abased and how to abound both to be full and to be hungry both to abound and suffer need In the 18th verse Thou sayes Paul triumphs as if all the world was his own and this was for one gift he received of Epaphroditus How many gifts hast thou received without witnessing such a true Triumphing Nay how many considerable gifts art thou able to send for the supply of the Saints necessities who suffer for the testimony of a good Conscience How many testimonies of thy love can thy Conscience bear thee witness thou hast sent to such out of the abundance of thy Treasury P. 246. Thou was asking why you do not fetch joy from Heaven to comfort your hearts against all your sorrows on earth and now page 274. Page 274. Thou sayes if Gods presence make Heaven above for joy glory and plenty sure Gods presence with you on earth is sufficient to make any condition even the meanest comfortable to you what can be wanting while God is with you Answ Then what needed thee to have hasted the people to fetch joy from Heaven since thou confessest his presence on earth is sufficient And how this expression agrees with that place of thine where thou sayes The joyes of Heaven exceeds and swallows up the joy of the Holy Ghost as the Sea doth a handful of earth Let the wise in heart judge P. 278. Thou sayes those will be found the happiest men of all at last who have had the most affliction Answ Then thou and thy Generation will be found very miserable P. 281. Speaking of Christs poverty Thou sayes when he wanted mony to pay Tribute He was glad to work a miracle for it How many hundred pounds hast thou received for thy preaching and never payd penny of the same towards assesments O the difference between Christ and Antichrist P. 291. Thy Counsel to such as walk in darkness and see no light is let them indeavour to fear God and obey the voice of his Servants that is sayes thou they should apply themselves to their duties to believe and fear and obey God and to use the means God hath appointed for their souls as to hear the word preached that is the voice of

Isa 56.11 Mat. 23.14 Do you not seek for gain from your Quarters and use long vain glorious prayers in your Synagogues fashioning your selves Rom. 12.2 2 Tim. 1.13 according to the world not holding fast the form o● sound words suffering poor souls to commit sin in the best of their sacrifices by telling lies when they sing Davids Psalms Do they not preach against pride yet who more proud then the Priests Matth. 7.3 Do they not talk much against covetousness yet who more covetous than themselves Are not these the Pharisees of our age that can spy a mote in their Brothers eye but cannot see to pull out the beam in their own Jer. 23.21 These run and never were sent And for division and Contradiction let twenty speak all from one place of Scripture and you shall have so many men so many mindes and meanings opinions imaginations and contradictions Then for a spirit of giddiness who more giddy unsolid and more unstable then themselves Twenty or thirty pound a year more and some other conveniencies is a Call sufficient with most of them from one place to another To leave a poor flock for a richer fleece is an ordinary thing And as for bitterness and perversness let them preach where they will if their Tithes be not payd or their Doctrine be publiquely opposed let them shew patience and moderation that can The Priests have not such pleasant flowers growing up in their Gardens And as for falshood and deceit 't is too well known by some that they live in that Mystery of Iniquity and delight therein but this will be bitterness in the latter end when Conscience-Book comes to be opened Page 329. Phil. 2.16 Thou bids Be willing and ready to suffer for the Churches of Christ and Children of God as Paul was for the Philippians Not as Edward Rayner was for the Lincolners If I be offered upon the Sacrifice and service of your faith That is sayes thou if I seal my Doctrine with my blood and confirm your faith by my death I count it matter of joy both to you and me Page 330. But thou never hadst yet such Christian courage nor never wilt while thy heart dwells where it does Have not those Heathens thou tells of who suffered and dyed for the prosperity of the Publick shewed themselves better State-Martyrs as thou calles them then thou hast been a Gospel-Minister P. 333. Priest Thou complaines what a poor Account can rich men give of their goods who have done little or no good to others with them Can learned men give of their gifts Can Magistrates give of their power who have born the sword in vain who have taken to themselves the honour but not performed to others the duty of their place Should any of the Saints have spoken this language Thou wouldst presently have branded them with the Name of Busie-bodies and Contempt of Authority should have been cast upon them P. 318. A little before thou was muttering out and hinting That Authority was trampled upon that men sleight and hate him that rebuketh or judgeth justly in the Gate and here thou complaines of his bearing the sword in vain But no better can be expected from thee than thy bottles be fill'd with P. 335. Thou sayes it's a Mark of dishonour and a Brand of infamy to be a Self-seeker to be like a Hogg that does no good till he dyes and scarce then with his good-will Search and see how many such Hogs thou hast in thy Herd and thou shalt find more such Cattle than thou canst truly call Christians P. 339. Thou tells of Dorcas dying full of good Works and Paul full of Ministeriall Labours not full of filthy lyes Blasphemies and contradictions as thou art and of good successe or Gospel-fruits full of the Seales of his Ministery How many such Dorcasses hast thou in this City Wert thou now on thy Death-bed instead of good successe of thy Ministry mightst thou not justly complain as thou did a little before What a poor Account can rich men give of their goods learned men of their gifts and Magistrates of their power A vast difference between Paul's successe and thine And indeed it must Needs be so Paul was fill'd with the Holy Ghost and thou with the spirit of Deceit and Delusion Pag. 350. Speaking of the Return of Gods presence and his favour thou usest those words In giving you the Liberties of his House Acts 7.47 48. Act. 17.24 25. 1 Cor. 6.19 Thy end is seen in the use of that Language But the Lord dwells not in Temples made with hands The Saints Bodies are the Temples of the Holy Ghost Then thou talks of tasting the sweetnesse A fine expression if there were Truth in it and feel the power and efficacy rather the Flatness deadness and dulness the Beauty and Glory the uncomeliness and raggedness of all his holy Ordinances thy filthy Dreams and Traditions Rags of the Romish Whore and of the Assemblies of his people a mixed multitude of Presbyterians Independents and Cavaleers so called O that I could truly call you an Assembly of Gods people O that your hearts were upright before the Lord My soul pities all such who are thus led and nuzzled up in ignorance by a painted Pharisee who will neither enter into the Kingdome of God himself nor suffer them that would Matth. 23.13 And I hope ere long their Eyes shall be opened and they shall see his deceits discovered and escape them P. 356. Thou tells thou hast heard some say God hath used to resolve their doubts by the Ministry of the Word thy meaning is by such Priests as thy self And then thou Presumptuously and Blasphemously boastest saying Thus God fulfills this promise Isaiah 20.21 Thine Eares shall hear a voice behind thee saying This is the way walk in it when thou turnest to the right hand or to the left hand P. 399. Observing the Soul the affaires of it and Gods dealings with it will make a man thou sayes A Divine to Himself and observing a mans course well and how God hath led him will make a man under God a Guide to himself Ah Friends Be your selves and dote no longer upon this filthy Dreamer when every one of you by his own Doctrine may be a Divine to Himself and a Guide to Himself Will you be so foolish to be led any longer by such a false Prophet Exod. 21.5 6. Will you have your Eares bored through with an Awle in token of perpetual bondage Do not inslave your soules for ever Mind that Divine Principle of God within you and if you be willing to obey that faithful Counsellor it will be a True Guide to you it will be whispering the pure Counsel and Will of God unto you Ah yield up your selves to the light of Christ in all your Consciences Love it I beseech you Ezek. 21.26 27. This is the Right Heir give him the

Book James 1.26 therefore thy Religion is vain After Edmond Calamies Approbation and thy Preface follows a beg'd letter of commendation from one Thomas Manton witness his own words towards the latter end of that Epistle which are these Having thus signified and that upon Request the pleasure I took in this undertaking I take my leave c. Is it the property of a Minister of the Gospel to use such left-handed courses for a commendation Did ever any of the Apostles use such a practice But if thou hadst ten thousand such hands to thy Book as his they might dazle the eyes of the weak but not adde one grain of true worth to thy Book when it comes to be weighed in the ballance The Flatterer begins in a soothing strain Good Reader and tells of intimations in Scripture of a libertine spirit that shall prevail in the latter dayes That 's true And how this is accomplished by thee Manton and thy Genetation all honest hearts do see to their sorrow Who takes more licentious liberty to live in pride oppression and satisfying the lusts of the flesh then the Ministers of England and their Favorites that maintain them He talks of a Note found in Luthers study after his death wherein was written That within a small space of time the temper of the world should be for breaking yoaks what does that trouble thee thou shews what thou art insomuch that they should not only cast off the Canons and Traditions of men but the very Lawes and Ordinances of God And that a sort of men should arise that would be under no other Law and Rule but their own lusts and interests It seems Manton and Edward Reyner are sory Luthers words prove so true concerning the casting off the Canons and Traditions of men And no marvel-great is your Diana the Tithes of England or other set maintenance instead thereof But it must down for it s not a Plant of my Heavenly Fathers planting and therefore shall be rooted up Heb. 8.10 Now who is it that casts off the Law of God written in the Heart that slights the pure Counsel of the living God the light in the Conscience but the Ministers of the World and Men of that Generation pretending to walk by the Scriptures calling them their rule yet walk clear contrary to them and live under no other Law so far as they dare but their own lusts and interests I know they that are Libertines in opinion are in the road way to turn Libertines in practice if there be not something to restrain them But 't is seen who they are that be Libertines both in Opinions and practice an untoward Generation of deluding Priests and their flatterers countenanced at present by some great Ones in the world who throwe the Odium upon the Innocent But this is no new thing for Christ himself was counted Belzebub Mat. 12.24 Order and Rule I own and all such who walk contrary to the Law of God or any just Law made by man such I utterly disown be they Priest or People Dan. 4.30.31 Rev. 18.2 Isa 1.20 Thus having past the Porch I am entred into the Palace Babylon or building which this Nebuchadnezer hath built by the might of his Power for the honour of his Majesty as he vain gloriously hath conceited But this mans Kingdom is departed from him Babylon is fallen is fallen The mouth of the Lord hath spoken it His first Rule is Be sensible of Original corruption whereby you are deprived of the Image of God and of Communion with him and wholly defiled and depraved in all the powers and parts of soul body with a proneness to all evil and averseness to all good continually and made subject to the wrath of God to bondage unto sin and Satan and to all Gods judgements here and hereafter A sad sentence if it were as thou sayes but he that runs in the dark may stumble Dost thou teach another man not to steal and wilt thou play the Thief Dost thou preach and perswade others to walk by Rule and wilt thou walk without where hast thou brought one proof out of Scripture for any one of thy expressions above mentioned Is there such a word as Original Corruption in all the Bible How dares thou thus impudently blaspheme the infinite goodness of the living God as to set him forth so severe a God as to make man subject to his wrath to bondage to sin and Satan and to all Gods judgements here and hereafter before he actually commit sin How many millions of sweet innocent Children would this mans Doctrine damn to all eternity O thou bloody minded blasphemous man blush and be ashamed of this detestable Tenet Ezek. 33.11 Is it not written As I live saith the Lord God I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked but that the wicked turn from his way and live Turn ye turn ye from your evil wayes for why will ye die O house of Israel Is there one syllable of original sin mentioned in this place Wilt thou make God a lier like thy self and forsworn too Ezek. 13.20 O the height of blasphemy Is it not elsewhere said the Son shall not bear the Iniquity of his Father And again the soul that sinneth it shall die Rom. 4.15 And where there is no Law there is no transgression Do not these places throwe down the Babel of thy soul-destroying God-blaspheming Doctrine of original sin Is not that place fulfilled in thee Prov. 10.19 In the multitude of words there wants not sin who but a foolish man like thy self would have brought in that Ephes 2.12.13 for the proof of original sin Paul in that Chapter sayes thus You hath he quickened who were dead in trespasses and sins wherein in time past ye walked according to the Prince of the power of the Aire the spirit that now worketh in the Children of disobedience Amongst whom also we had our con●ersation in times past in the lusts of our flesh Does not he all this time speak of actual sin is there one word of original corruption verse 11. Remember saith he That ye being in times past Gentiles in the flesh c. at that time ye were without Christ being Aliens from the Common-wealth of Israel having no hope and without God in the World But does Paul say this was because of Original sin does not the Chapter make it manifest it was their sinful lives Thou sayes Paul calles this corruption of Nature which thou countest Original sin the old man and body of sin Rom. 6.6 Is the corruption of Nature named in that verse why dost thou adde to the Scriptures He sayes indeed thus Knowing this that our old man is crucified with him that the body of sin might be destroyed that henceforth we should not serve sin This place speaks of a body of sin but does it not imply a living in and a serving sin Does it once mention Original sin for