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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

and said to Abraham Walk before me and be thou perfect and said to the Children of Israel Thou shalt be perfect with the Lord thy God Christ himself did did not detest it as thou says he did for he was so far from detesting it that he highly approved of it viz. the doctrine of perfection and when he was upon the mount he so far shewed his love estimation and true approbation of it that he viz. Christ himself did preach the same and gave it forth by command upon the Mount to his Disciples saying Be ye perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect Math. 5.48 And here thou hast wronged Christ and lyed against him saying he detested it thou blind guide and false accuser of the truth behold thy absurdity If Christ had detested the doctrine of perfection as thou sayes wouldest not thou have had him to have gone against the command of the Father and to have detested his own doctrine but none will believe thee except the willfull blind and such as are wrapt up in deceipt with thee and hereby instead of ministring and maintaining the truth thou hast both ministred and maintained lies slanders and deceits and wronged Christ therefore art thou no Minister of his And if the Devill should have bred the doctrine of perfection would not he have bred a doctrine against himselfe to have rooted out his own Kingdom But are not you and the Devils disciples so much against that doctrine that you labour with all your skill to preach it out Gen. 17.1 Math. 5.48 Joh. 14.20 2 Joh. 9. Joh. 14.15 1 Joh. 5.3 4. 1 Joh. 2.3 4.5.6 Joh. 14.23.24 and keep it for taking place in the peoples hearts and is there any that are against the doctrine of perfection which is the doctrine of the Father and the Son but such as are against the Father and the Son and as you are who are wrongers of Christ and men and do not all those that deny the doctrine of perfection deny the doctrine both of God and Christ and so are neither Gospel-Ministers nor true Christians seeing they both do command it and he that loves Christ keepeth his command but such as love him not keepeth not his command and so are out of his doctrine and without God 2 Joh. 9. in the iniquity and selfe separation and in sin unturned yet to God Isa 59.1 2. and yet in the Heresies Errors and Miscarriages in the killing ignorance unkilled filthy dreamers that defile the flesh or in the sleep of security wronging Christ and men as in your Agreement you confesse you do and says you grow worse and are running yet further from God and so it appeares And as thou Richard Baxter ministers against the Father and the Son and hast wronged them so hast thou wronged the servants of God and Ministers of Christ and all the Saints and Sons of God saying the Devill thou beleives bred the doctrine of perfection saying Christ detested it when God Almighty bred or brought forth the same and both he himselfe and Christ his Son did not only bring it forth and preach it but commanded it to be obeyed and walked in and thou says thou beleives that none that had any sparke of true grace did hartily beleive in or receive the same and so hereby with thy false doctrine or reprobate faith thou would exclude all from grace that received the doctrine of perfection viz. the doctrine of God and Christ and so the doctrine of the Father and the Son but let me tell thee that such as doth not transgresse but abide in the doctrine of Christ they had and have grace for they had both the Father and the Son eternall life and the holy unction abiding in them and this the Scripture with me doth stand a witnesse against thee and thy lyes false doctrines and deceipts and let those that please read 2 John 9. 1 John 2.20 27. 1 John 5.10 11 12. and 20. verses to be witnesse for them that had grace and received the same against thy false testimony and lying Spirit by which thou art acted and guided Also several of the servants of God received the fathers doctrin in the time of old viz. the doctrin of perfection and walked in it and wouldest thou exclude them all from grace What a devilish doctrin is thine and crosse unto the Scriptures and contrary to the true Gospel ministers Therefore is both it and thee that brings it for to be holden accursed Gal. 1.8 9. Noah was not without grace and he received the doctrin of God the Father and were accounted perfect in his generation who found grace in the eyes of the Lord and being a Just and a perfect man he received the doctrin of the Father and walked with God Gen. 6.8 9. Abraham was not without grace and he received the doctrin of perfection taught him by God almighty when he appeared to him when he was 99. years old c. And God blessed him and made a covenant with him Gen. 17.1 Gen. 6.18 c. Iob 1.8 Heb. 13.20 21. as he did with Noah and they both had experience of his goodnes and found favor in the eyes of the Lord Iob 1.8 was not without grace and he were accounted a perfect and an upright man being one that feared God and eschewed evil as the Lord hath said King Hezekiah was not without grace and experience of the Lords goodnes who walked before him in truth and with a perfect heart and did that which was good in his sight 2 Kings 20.3 And David that said Marke the perfect man for the end of that man is peace Psal 37.37 was not without grace and he exhorted or rather commanded his Son Solomon to serve the Lord with a perfect heart 1 Chron. 28.8 9. And as David said The way of God was and is perfect Psal 18.30 So Solomon saith that the path of the Just is as a shining light that shineth more and more unto the perfect day and they are not without grace that walk therein Pro. 4.18 Christ the way to the Father Joh. 14.6 and to salvation to all that obey him Heb. 5.8 9. he commands to be perfect Math. 5.48 And his command ought to obeyed his ministry is to lead to a perfect man Eph. 4.12 13. The ministers of the Gospel preached wisdom amongst them that were perfect 1 Cor. 2.6 And as many as are perfect be thus minded Phil. 3. ●5 that the man of God may be perfect 2 Tim. 3.17 to presse others on to perfection Heb. 6.1 that they may attain Heb. 12.22 23. And the God of peace make you perfect saith the minister of the Gospel to them he ministred unto and exhorted to go on unto it And another of the Gospel ministers said to them he ministred unto The God of grace make you perfect 1 Pet 5.10 Go on to perfection Heb. 6. finally my brethren farewell and be perfect 2 Cor. 13.11 saith the Embassad or of Christ Having

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

you and their off spring from that succession now do when they was carnally minded c. as you are And Tythes by a decretall epistle of Pope Innocent the 3. dated at Lateran directed to the Arch-Bishop of Canterbury c. in or about the yeare 1200. It is said by Cook that then Tythes became lex terrae and the subject became bound to pay them c. Cook saiths that of Antient time before a new Constitution made by the Pope the patron of one Church might grant his Tythes to another parish and saith Cook second part Institutes thus began portion of Tythes that the parson of one parish hath in another vide Concilium Leteran Anno Domini 12 15.17 of Jo. regis So that Tythes it seems were free for any man to give c. till the time of Pope Innocent and were they not then divided into portions to the Priests and Rectors c. from Pope Innocent the 3 For since saith Cook that which is called parochiall right of Tythes were established c. And Pope Innocent by his Bull discharged those of the order of Praemonstratenses of the payment of Tythes of such lands as were of their own manurance or other Improvement and Pope Adrian the 4. said all Orders should pay tythes c. And so it appeares Tythes sprang up the second time by one Pope and so from one to another and did not they spring from the Popes to the Bishops Rectors and those parish Priests Consider well of it and see if you know your succession And had not the Popes the ordering and rule amongst Tythes and other things till the time of King Henry 2 Hen. 4.28 Hen. 8. Chap. 16 for saith Cook by the statute of Henry 4. not only Cisterciences but all other religious and seculars which put any of the Popes bulls in execution for discharge of Tythes of their lands in the hands of their farmers should be in danger of a praemunire as saith Cook second part Institures And by the statute of the 28. of Henry the 8. Chap. 16. saith Cook there it is Enacted that all Bulls Brieffes Faculties Dispensations of what names natures or qualities whatsoever they be of had or obtained from the Pope or Bishop of Rome or any of his predecessors or by authority of the See of Rome c. should from thence forth by that Act be clearly void and never after that to be used admitted or pleaded in any places or Courts of this Realm as they had been c. or any other the Kings Dominions upon pain contained in the statute of praemunire c. See Cookes second part Institute Fol. 641. and 652. c. And doth it not appeare hereby that the Pope c. that had begot Tythes by his constitution to be distributed into parishes by his decretall epistle and councell c. were himself thrust out of those Parochiall rights of tythes as he called them which he had begot and by his constitution and councell brought forth c. And as the Pope was thrust out of Tythes c. in England did not the Bishops Priests Pastors Teachers Rectors c. their off-spring from that root enter in their stead and was not they let into the same And being grafted or let in did not they take the Popes places and rewards at the hands of him that disinherited them viz the Popes c. Consider and see where you are And was not the Bishops Priest Pastors Teachers and Rectors c. adorned or endowed by Hen. the 8 c. with honours and possessions or with the Popes ornaments viz. Tythes oblations obventions c. And was they not said to be given to God and holy Church c. and to keep them from corruption and sinister affection c. 24. of Henry the 8.12 Cap. And seeing that Tythes c. by the lawes and statutes of this Nation were said to be given to God and holy Church c. And being that both by God the holy Church Tythes are denied as the Scripture under the Gospel dispensation doth witnesse And seeing that the called Church of England the body spirituall as they call it and by them called the spirituality who receive Tythes are now found to be unholy and not being free from corruption but pleads for sin and so for corrption for tearm of life c. and sinister affection and stands in need of the worlds honours and possessions to keep them which rather corupts them the more and cannot nor doth not keep them from corruption and sinister affection for which end they viz. Tythes c. are said to be given as by the statute of Henry the 8. it appeareth therefore by the lawes and statutes of England it is cleare to me that the called Priests Ministers Preachers Rectors c. which names you bear who are unholy and corrupt c. have no right to Tythes c. for by the lawes of the Nation they are said to be given to holy Church c. and you are unholy that are in miscarriages and neglecters of the great work of God as you say and are mongers both of men and of Christ growing worse and running yet further from God therefore you are unholy and corrupt and are not running for God that runnes further from him as you say and so are cut out of Tythes his ministry by your own rule and confessions c. And now stop your mouthes and do not cry up your selves to be ministers of Christ and neither pleade for old Levi his right that neglects his work Nor for any of the Saints priviledges Nor for Tythes from the law of the land till you come out of Miscarriages and give over wronging Christ and men and become holy free from corruption and sinister affection 2 Tim. 3.11 12. Heb. 11.36 37 38. c. And as you come off from the old rotten root and out of the old nature and be born again c. when you are made Christs Ministers you will deny your Tythes and maisteries and be content with what he sees meet for you and instead of persecuting be persecuted and suffer of the world and that generation which you are yet in union with as the Ministers of Christ do now and aforetime did Whose approbation c. was not of the men of the world but of God 2 Cor. 6.1 2 3 4 5 6. 2. Cor. 11.23 24 25. c. And as you are neglecters of the work of God page 3. and your selves in the Miscarriages unpardoned page 4. your hearers can scarce speake a word of sence about the matters of salvation 1. Thes 1.1 1 Thes 1.1 and you are wrongers both of them and of Christ page 19. So you say there are many untaught Children and families page 29. Therefore you make it manifest that you are unholy and corrupt and that you are not the holy Church who are unholy and profain teachers and people and therefore have no right to that which is

against you with these words or do his messengers delight more in these words in repeating these abominations then formerly Or which of the Prophets Christ or the Apostles that could be silent in the sight of such wickednesse Mica 3.5 11. Hos 6.9 and will this excuse you to say you love not these things and yet live in them and contend for them and imprison your brethren as you have called them and spoiled their goods if you have them not are ye seeking their souled while you are casting them into Prisons Had Christ ever such a ministry and yet your hearts be filled with rage and madnesse that you cannot beare it to be told of it Joh. 15.18 19 20. Math. 6.24 25. c. John 16.1 2 3. Heb. 11.36 37.38 1 Cor. 9.16.17 18 19. 2 Cor. 1.4.5.6 2 Tim. 3.10.11 1 Pet. 3.18 19 1 Pet. 4. by such as seeke your returne and not your destruction And all the returne you make is to complaine to the magistrates that you are disturbed and that they must protect you in your peace which is not in the doctrine of Christ nor way of his Ministers but if any of you be Christs Ministers come forth in his life and power and do his worke and receive of him what is meete and not from the world and so make proofe of Christ in you by his fruits and then let him be accursed that railes against you come out of your stately houses your tithes and great parsonages and with Christ and his Ministers wander in the desolate places of the Nations and preach to the people that sit in darknesse who have souls but no parsonage leave your master-ships and come to be servants to such for Christs sake cease bearing rule by your means and rule by the spirit of the lambe seeke the souls and not the gaine cloth your selves with Christs suffering and not with the wooll cease to hale their bodies into Prison and minister to the soules in Prison to the opening that eye your Fathers have blinded with their daubing and to the quickening that which they have quenched and slaine that you may present them living to God Ephe. 5.4.5 6. 12. 1 Pet. 1.4 5 6 7 8 9. Act. 17.16 17 c. Act 17.24 25. Act. 7.47 48 49. Math. 6.25 26. spirituall men and women that you may become makers up of the breach that is made by the lying divinations of those that went before you let us see you in the streets of your Townes and Citties declaring against wickednesse who are not ashamed to act abominations before the Sun come out to witnesse against your stage plaies and curious arts which you call pastimes and recreation the Devils invention to steale away the minds of people from their God come into your markets and concourse of people and witnesse against all sweareing lyin● idle words and foolish jesting which to heare doth vex the soule of the righteous and all that know the condemnation that must come upon such things this was the Ministry of Christ in Prophets and Apostles which if you were called to and faithfull in you would cease to lay snares for him that doth reprove sin in the gate nor will you then coun●●● breaking the peace cease casting one another out of your livings to put your freinds or some of your forme in their stead and goe forth and declare against all the Idols worship performed in the Idols Temple and all formes crept in by the man of sin since the Apostles and lead to the same forme and foundation without adding diminishing or wresting that the Saints were who were led out of the Idols Temple to cry out against them and the hirelings therein then will you cease to beate in your Synagogues and hale before rulers and partake with them that are so used then the Scriptures will justifie your practise and preaching without meanings and the life will answer the words which came from it and when the sheeps clothing is on the sheeps back and the nature of the sheepe guiding in the inward parts then such as call you wolves your practise will prove them liers and the Scriptures will to you witnesse and you to them without meanings then may you lay by your Heathenish expositers and commentators and imitaters too when with the same Spirit you are acted in the same way and so become examples to the people in somthing of selfe-deniall besides your words you have long told your hearers of your faith and beleiving God for your soules but let them see how farr you have learned to trust God for your bellies and that you have some faith at present and not all in another world for that faith which leadeth not to cast all care upon God for the body ill but do little good for the soule in time of need for the body is more then rayment and the life more then meate Math. 6.25 26 so that which will not carry above the carnall will never bring you to the eternall and little do they know of faith who take that for it and now let your faith be tried in the life before the world to whom you preach for the truth is come and tried you must be and that faith which wil not over ballance the world wil be found too light in the sealed ballance and so will that practise that will not hold with the Scriptures without wresting for the evill tree cannot bring forth the good fruit Math. 7.15.16.17 18. nor will that which was spoken by the Spirit of Christ beare witnesse to the waies worships and works of Antichrist and herewith are you tried all you Parish Masters Teachers of the Nation your doctrines your meanings your means your maintenance your preaching and profiting of the people and how the Scriptures is your standing rule to walke by and whether you be of the unchangeable Preist-hood that changeth not as the times change according to the preferment and estates politique or you be of those who have no other rule for your way of worship then people have for the forme of their habit and so you are rightly called nationall Ministers as every Nation hath its severall kinde so this also and all pretend Scripture and by wresting it can make them all lawfull in their account and count all heretiques that speaks against them so long as the eatthly powers takes their part but when they change the face of that Ministry falls and thus it is with all sorts whose Ministry the Scriptures will not own both in matter and forme and maintenance without the least adding diminishing or w●esting Reve. 22.18.19 for the Ministry of the Gospel changeth not and whosoever God appointeth to rule in the Nations or what lawes ever they set up the law of Christ stands in his servants who have received the law giver in Spirit so when the wicked raigne such rather suffer then change from the truth who worship and serve the Creatour more then