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A54006 Arrowes against Babylon, or, Certaine quæries serving to a cleere discovery of the mystery of iniquity whereunto are added endeavours for reformation in saints apparrell : with some quæries for the people called Quakers / by John Pendarves. Pendarves, John, 1622-1656. 1656 (1656) Wing P1136; ESTC R27463 44,087 53

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4.3 the substance of the Legall shaddowes is come in the flesh See Quae the third And whether the pretended reformed Church of England retaining the old Romish Church-state and confused mixtures maintaining the same things in substance with them be not to be esteemed as a painted Jezebel 16. Whether the Mystery of iniquity which wrought in Pauls time were not the same which now workes in the Church of Rome and her Daughter-Churches Did it not then worke mainely to bring the Saints back under the bondage of Moses his killing doctrine and his rudiments and shaddowes And whether the Apostle as a faithfull Witnesse and Watchman did not bend his doctrines and discourses in his Epistles especially to the Romans Corinthians and Galatians against this way of confounding the grace of God with mans works in justification and confounding Moses his old Lawes with Christs New Testament Ordinances The same mystery being at worke now not onely in Rome but in this Nationall Church Is it not the duty of Gods faithfull Ministers and Watchmen to warre against it by preaching and discourse with the sharp sword of Christs Word warning Gods people to beware of being seduced with this iniquity which being discovered in many things more grosse putts on a new dresse and works most mysteriously so that the workmen say who seeth us Isa 29.15 The mystery of 〈◊〉 is now 〈◊〉 with a 〈…〉 17. Whether the Mystery of iniquity that now workes be not founded upon the will of man confederate with Satan And is it not promoted and upheld by humane and Serpentine wisdome with worldly power and pollicy opposing and counter-working the Gospel-graces of God and Spirit of Christ exalting the creature above the Creator And whether the Abettors and promoters of this Mystery may not be discovered and discerned in our dayes by their prizing men much more for their naturall and acquired parts and abilities then for the anointing looking more at a mans learning and prudence then at the teachings of the Spirit minding excellency of speech more then the power of godlinesse seeking more after their owne honour from men then to bring honour and glory to God 18. If so then May wee not well expect that God who hath laid by so many instruments whose designe is to exalt his owne grace his Son and Spirit will choose and use most unlikely instruments in mens account as the weake and foolish in respect of worldly wisdome even the younger brethren even as David amongst the sons of Jesse spiriting them through faith and prayer to bring to passe those things which by humane power and pollicy could not be effected Whether then are not many and some good men like to be deceived who looke as did Samuel on Eliah on some wise expert prudent men to be the onely prime instruments for Gods great and strange worke 1 Cor. 1.26 27 28. which will not be done by power or might but by the Spirit of God Zach 4.6 19. Whether the faith and prayers of Gods people were not once as the Chariot-wheeles to the great worke of God in this Nation but now of late since our enemies have been subdued have not many good men slacked their hands to those duties and by looking and leaning to mans wisdome power and pollicy turned aside to crooked wayes and so have lost the footsteps of the Lord in his worke And whether can they come to a cleere sight of them againe except they humble themselves and returne to a diligent exercise of faith and prayer And if they will not be otherwise provoked thereunto may it not be just for God to reduce them unto sore straites that so they may learne to seeke him early Hos 5.15 20. Whether the continuance of divers godly men in Babylon and pertaking with her be not one great occasion of stumbling many weake Christians with some other enquirers after truth And ought not such then in the feare of God to consider and examine their standing and to lay to heart how great service they doe to Antichrist and disservice to Christ and his cause And doth not the deceiver suck no small advantage from godly men serving his designe which puts a faire face thereon though they doe it ignorantly or inconsiderately May we not observe that since godlinesse is in some request Satan puts on such a dresse as may most take with the godly to seduce them And if these should flee out of Babylon would shee not soone appeare to all good men to be what shee is and the judgements of God would they not come suddainly upon her as did the fire and brimstone upon Sodome the day that Lot came out Whether that which hinders many from comming out be not a slavish feare of man and the flattery and friendship of this world Whether such onely will not be found fit to follow the Lambe even whither soever he goeth who first sit downe and count the cost and so build the Tower of their profession upon Gods grace alone as held out in his Covenant trusting him with all their concernments If they onely are said to overcome who loved not their lives unto the death as Revel 12. What becomes of all the other professors Remember the hand of God against the rebellious Scots at Dunbar the fearefull and unbeleeving c If Gods servants shall abide there notwithstanding all the warnings they have had and all Gods patience towards them may he not justly slay them with the wicked though he save their soules at the last 21. Whether the Antichristian Ministry in the Nations which derive their Church-state from Rome are not found committing fornication with the Kings of the earth No Bishop No King And whether this fornication be not by interweaving their interests for the upholding one another thus by flatteries and by force bringing the people and keeping them in bondage to their wills enslaving their bodyes and insnaring their soules 22. Whether seeing the greatest judgements belong to Babylon may not God in justice to aggravate their sins who receive not the love of truth lend them so much light as that many of them shall be found willfull Apostates after all their other persecutions at length persecuting the Spirit of Christ so bringing upon themselves swift destruction Are not many found persecuting that light which they once profest Is not that word made good in them They shall goe and fall backward and be broken and snared and taken and if it be so is it not high time to bid them take heede lest they sin willfully after they have received the knowledge of the truth 23. Whether by that sure rule of justice that all the blood from Abel should come upon the persecuting generation in Christs time Math. 23.34 35. And that in the Revel 18.24 that in Babylon was found the blood of all the Saints shed from the foundation of the earth Doth there not lye a heavy load of blood-guilt upon the Antichristian faction
may they not boldly conclude from many promises to beleevers that their soules are in a safe condition But it may now be said they have laid by that Catechisme and now they preach to them a necessitie of regeneration But seeing they have been trained up from their infancy in this beleife which they have by heart as wee say that they were regenerate in their Baptisme long wnce Is it probable that the old evill sent which hath remained in the vessell for so many yeares will be removed by telling them now and then they must be borne againe Although many declare this to them in the Pulpit and so wound them a little for the present time yet doe they not quickly heale them againe at the Font or Bason Is not this to justifie the wicked that evill condemned Prov. 24.24 accepting them there for beleevers by administring that to the children of all or most of them that which they declare to be the priviledge of the Children of godly beleeving Parents Doth not this easily help them to conclude that whatsoever they say in preaching their Ministers by their practise declare them to be beleevers And have their Ministers notwithstanding so much talke of reformation at any time plainely solemnly and openly declared their repentance for this their sin or the sin of their predecessors in this thing whereby they have deluded thousands of soules Have they declared it so that the common people might run and read their meaning should not the playster be made as broad as the soare If so then 13. Would it not be a praise-worthy deed and that which would much tend to free the present Parish-Ministry from being guilty of the blood of their people for them to confesse openly the great sin of their predecessors and their sin so far as they have partaken with them in declaring the people to be borne againe in Baptisme and made inheritors of the kingdome of heaven discovering the danger of this horrid delusion giving them plainly to understand that they the generality among them who say they are Christians are not such but are of the world as appeares by their hatred of those whom God hath chosen out of the world And should they not doe well to informe the godly among them that they are in no visible orderly Church-state provoking them to arise and measure the patterne and sending them forth by the footsteps of the flocks in the primitive times and would it not well become them having thus borne their testimony in word against the aforesaid evill to back the same in their practise with a plaine deniall to administer any Ordinance of Christ to the common multitude more then such as are for conversion which belong to Heathen and Publicans Luk. 6.44 till they see them bring forth fruits meet for repentance Good and bad men must be knowne by their fruit Luk 6.44 The Parish people are a people of mans forming by such meanes whereby a man may probably know and warrantably judge them to be converted and brought to the most holy faith of Christ And as for their present profession taught them by the tradition of fathers and by the customes and precepts of men not by the mighty power of God through the Word what solid satisfaction can it administer whereon to ground a probable judgement that they are in the faith Considering that in this Land there is now no persecution as in the Apostles dayes but on the contrary many worldly advantages attending the common profession of Christ And except some such effectuall course be taken as is before commended in this Quaery can the Ministers of such a people by all their faire glosses and subtill arguings acquitt themselves from the blood of soules Is it not their duty to take up the stumbling blocks out of the way of their people Are not many thousands of poore ignorant soules by looking at such things as these their supposed Christning and Church-state together with their dead saith hindered from receiving Christ and strongly armed against the sight and sence of a lost estate to their eternall undoing Shall God make inquisition for the blood of mens bodies and shall he not one day make inquisition for the blood of soules and require it of those who have holpen them to and strengthened them in such delusions Woe to them that call evill good Isay 5.20 If that old saying Quod fieri non debet factum valet will justifie such an unlawfull act why may it not justifie any other act of will-worship when it is done 14. And if so Whether the Ministry and people in some Congregations seperated from the Parish way may not doe well to consider whether they be not found accessary to the aforesaid great transgression of the Parochiall Ministry in justifying the sprinckling of ungodly prophane and Popish Parents Children as a sufficient obedience to Christs command of Baptisme doctrinally discharging from the obligation of that command the consciences of such of their Members as have no other visible Baptisme Is not this to call evill good will-worship service to Christ and by mans tradition to make a command of God of none effect Doe they not by such a practise though themselves refuse to sprinckle such Children yet strengthen the hands of those who doe And whether this be not more then a touching even the retaining an unclean thing forbidden to those who come out of Babylon the command requiring to destroy her utterly Let nothing of her be left Jer. 50.26 Whilest this unlawfull sprinckling of the seed of the ungodly is thus set up may it not stand in their way as an obstruction to the sight and acknowledgement of the truth concerning the true visible Baptisme Can it be true Baptisme according to rule without a right visible subject And whether all their arguing to prove that sprinckling before spoken of which themselves say hath not warrant for it to be sufficient obedience to the command be not that which will be found wood hay and stubble when every mans worke shall be tryed by fire 15. Whether the unwarrantable mixture of Legall and Gospel-worship and worshippers accounting this Nation a Church after the likenesse of the Jewish Nation not by regeneration Antichrists device to forme a false Church but by fleshly generation gathering together into a pretended Church-body the visibly Godly with the ungodly withall promoting againe tythes offerings consecrated places Altars with many other such like Jewish Ceremonies which were typicall The Priesthood being changed there is made of necessitie a charge also of the Law Heb. 7.12 and to cease in Gospel-dayes the joyning with all these a shew of the Ordinance of breaking bread and Baptisme Whether I say may not such a mixt worship and the worshippers be fitly termed Babylon or confusion And whether to establish such a worship be not to deny in a Mystery as doth Antichrist Christs greatest professed friend that Christ 1 Joh.