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A37498	The tryal of spirits both in teachers & hearers wherein is held forth the clear discovery and certain downfal of the carnal and antichristian clergie of these nations / testified from the Word of God to the university-congregation in Cambridge by William Dell ; whereunto is added A plain and necessary confutation of divers gross errors delivered by Mr. Sydrach Simpson in a sermon preached to the same congregation at the commencement, Anno 1653 ; wherein (among other things) is declared, that the vniversities (according to their present statutes and practices) are not (as he affirmed) answerable to the schools of the prophets in the time of the law, but rather to the idolatrous high places ...	Dell, William, d. 1664.; Simpson, Sidrach, 1600?-1655. A plain and necessary confutation of divers gross and antichristian errors.	1660 (1660)	Wing D933; ESTC R219079	121,760	168

out that Youth lose as much by Idleness as they gain by Study And they being only brought up to read Books and such Books as only contain wrangling jangling foolish and unprofitable Philosophy when they have continued any long time in the University in these unwarranted courses by God they are commonly in the end fit for no Worthy Imployment either in the World or among the Faithful To remedy which Great Evil Colledges being as hath been spoken dispersed through the great Cities and Towns of the Commonwealth it may be so ordered that the Youth according to Luthers counsel may spend some part of the day in Learning or Study and the other part of the day in some Lawful Calling or one day in Study and another in Business as necessity or occasion shall require And thus shall Youth be delivered from that Ease and Idleness which fills the Hearts of University-Students with many corruptions and noisome lusts whilst they fill their Heads only with empty Knowledge and foolish Notions whereby neither can God be glorified nor their Neighbour profited 9. And if this course were taken in the disposing and ordering Colledges and Studies it would come to pass that twenty would learn then where one learns now and also by degrees many men on whom God shall please to pour forth his Spirit may grow up to teach the people whilst yet they live in an honest Calling and Imployment as the Apostles did And this would give them great efficacy and power in teaching whilst they lived by faith through their honest Labour and were delivered from the mischief of Idleness But and if the faithful shall desire any one that is more apt to teach and hath received a greater measure of the annointing then his Brethren to spend more of his time in the Word and Prayer then his Calling will afford at such times They ought to supply him and the Law of Love in the hearts of the Faithful will be Law enough in this matter without calling in the aide of the Magistrate And by this means may the chargeable and burdensome maintenance of the carnal Clergy by degrees be taken away and the Church of Christ and the very Nations Themselves be supplyed with a more Faithful Christian and Spiritual Ministry then now it hath at a far less rate For God hath promised in the last dayes to pour out his Spirit on all flesh and the sons and daughters and servants and handmaids shall prophesie and then shall Knowledge cover the Earth as waters the Seas Now for conclusion I do conceive that none of the Faithful and Wise have any just cause to be offended for speaking for the Use of Humane Learning in this reformed way which the Gospel will permit seeing by this means these two Errors of Antichrist would be dissolved among us the one of making Universities the fountain of the Ministery which One Thing is and will be more and more as Christs Kingdom shall rise up and prevail in the World a Milstone about their necks and the other of making the Clergy a distinct Sect or Order or Tribe from other Christians contrary to the simplicity of the Gospel 2. Let the faithful consider that this reformed use of Tongues and Arts justly hath its place in the World For if all men cannot be Christians as Paul saith all men have not faith yet let them be Men and improved in the use of Reason and sober Learning whereby they may be serviceable to the Commonwealth in their age whilst the Church of Christ hath its own Members and Officers through the Call of God and Unction of his Spirit only For Humane Learning hath it's place and use among Humane Things but hath no place nor use in Christs Kingdom as hath been sufficiently proved And thus have I freely offered my advice for mending things that are amiss and making strait the things that are crooked in this matter FINIS ☜ Six observable things in this Scripture 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. ☞ 6. 1. Point The great evil endangering the Church Note Two contrary Seeds from the beginning of the World The two Seeds distinguished by the Spirits that dwell in them They act differently about mankind The false Spirit the most common in the world The true Spirit more scarce 2. Point The Remedy against false Prophets Note Christians have right power to try Spirits It concerns the faithfull to try the Spirits for two causes First Secondly The Clergy have usurped to themselves this power of trying Spirits By this usurpation the Clergy have made themselves Masters in the Church of God The Gift of Trying and Discerning Spirits is a Common Grace in the true Church ☞ ☞ Objection Answer False Prophets not easily discerned Because of their several Vailes under which they lye hid First Secondly Thirdly Fourthly 2. Difficulty in trying false Prophets 3. Difficulty 4. Difficulty Third Point The Rule of Tryall A twofold understanding of this Scripture 1. Of a right knowledge of Christ. 1. That true God 2. That true Man 3. That both are united in Him in one Person 4. The End wherefore this excellent Person came into the world whence flows the Knowledge of his Offices 2. Of a right receiving of Christ. Objection Answer Signs whereby the true Prophets are discerned from the false The true Prophets speak the true Word of God Thus did Christ And his Disciples The false Prophets speak not the Word of God but their own or other Mens Word 2. They speak it by the true Spirit of God And so in the right sence of it The false speak without the Spirit And so do mistake the mind of Christ. Objection Whether a man destitute of the Spirit may not be a profitable Preacher Answer 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. The second general Rule of the Tryall of Spirits The true Prophets are known by the truth of the Life of Christ. 1. Sign The true Prophets are sent of Christ. ☞ God hath not committed the choise of his Ministers to any sort of men He sends them himself The proof of his sending them ☜ The false Prophets run without sending 2. True Prophets take all their warrant from God in what they teach The Learned i. e. they who are taught of God and have heard learned of the Father who are the learnedest Men in the world whatever the foolish and ignorant world saith to the contrary False Teachers take all their Authority from Man ☜ 3. True Prophets they only preach Jesus Christ. Non dixit Christus suo primo Caetui Ite praedicate mundo Nugas sed verum illis dedit Fundamentum illud tantum sonuit in ore Ipsorum Dante 's The false preach nothing less than Christ. 4. The true Prophets Preach Christ for love and not for gain The false Preach for gain and not for love of Christ. 5. The true Prophets Teach for the Glory of Christ and not for vain glory The false seek their own glory neglecting Christs 6.

Ministers of Antichrist The Seventh Sign The true Prophets and Ministers of Christ do not force any body to hear them and obey their Doctrine against their Wils neither do they vex and trouble them with Secular Power who will not obey them and be subject to them but they leave all such People as they found them lest they should seem by their Doctrine to seek any Worldly thing Thus Christ when he taught the Gospel still cryed out He that hath ears to hear let him hear and he that had not ears to hear he did not punish him and again saith Christ If any man Will be my Disciple let him deny Himself and take up his cross and follow Me and still left men to their own Freedom whether they would be his Disciples or no. And as Christ did thus Himself so he left the same thing in command with all his true Disciples and when he sent them forth to Preach Matth. 10. he charged them saying Whoever will not receive You nor hear Your Words when you depart out of that house or City shake off the dust of your feet as a Testimony against them he doth not bid them if they be refused to betake themselves to the Secular Power to get Authority from thence to stay and abide there whether they will or no or otherwise to punish them but bids them only to shake off the dust of their feet that they might know they came not to them for the Love of Earthly things And when the Apostles out of a false zeal would have had Christ to have commanded fire to have come down from Heaven to have destroyed them that would not receive Him he plainly reproved them saying Ye know not of what Spirit ye are for the Son of Man is not come to destroy mens Lives but to save them It is recorded in the life of Simon and Jude the Apostles as both Gulielmus de sancto Amore and John Hus relate That when the Chief Ruler was very angry with those who defamed the Doctrine of those Apostles and in great zeal commanded a great Fire to be made that such Opposers might be cast into it The Apostles fell down before the Emperour saying We beseech you Sir let not Us be the Authors or Causers of this Destruction who are come to publish the Doctrine of eternal Salvation neither let Us who are sent to Revive those who are Dead through sin become the Killers of those who are Alive Wherefore those Teachers who for Worldly Advantage sake will force Themselves upon those men against their Wills who will not Willingly receive them and will provoke the Worldly Powers and Magistrates to punish those who will not hear and receive Them and their Doctrine they all are false Prophets and Ministers of Antichrist The Eighth Sign The true Teachers are content that Others should teach as well as They and would not make a Monopoly of the Ministry to themselves alone for Worldly Advantage sake Thus our Lord Jesus Christ did not content Himself to preach the Gospel alone but he sent forth Others as his Father sent forth him yea he pours forth his Spirit on all flesh that sons and daughters and servants and handmaids may prophesie and so Knowledge may cover the Earth as Waters the Seas and to make the world willing to receive such Teachers he saith He that receiveth You receiveth Me and he that receiveth Me receiveth Him that sent Me. And when Eldad and Medad upon whom the Spirit of the Lord did rest did prophesie in the Camp of Israel without asking any License from Moses and one told Moses of it in great displeasure and Joshua thereupon wished Moses to forbid them to Prophesie then Moses the meek servant of the Lord replied Enviest thou for my sake would God saith he that all the Lords people were Prophets and that the Lord would put his Spirit upon them All Numb 11. 29. And so the Godly mind of any faithful Teacher desireth to be helped in the work of the Word that the pretious Truth of the Gospel which he himself alone cannot sufficiently express all mens tongues might declare And so they do not envy in Others those Spiritual Gifts which God hath given them but do wish that Every man had a Mouth and Wisdom given him to declare the Mysterie of the Gospel and the infinite Love Mercy Wisdom Truth Power Redemption and Salvation of God by Jesus Christ which cannot by all mens Tongues be sufficiently published in the World Farther as no worldly Prince or Magistrate hath such unlimited Power over the Goods of the people as to forbid them to give corporal Alms to them that stand in need as occasion is ministred no more hath any Power whether Ecclesiastical or Civil such Dominion over the Word and Truth of God written by the Spirit in the hearts of Believers but that they may at all times and upon all occasions minister spiritual Alms to them who stand in need by the teaching of the Gospel Wherefore those Teachers who are envious that any should preach the Word but Themselves and their own Tribe as they call it because they get great Worldly Advantage thereby whereas otherwise they would be contented that any should preach and so would have the civil Magistrate only to License Them to be Preachers because of their Degrees and Orders and to forbid all Others they all are false Teachers and Ministers of Antichrist The Ninth Sign The true Teachers do not only teach the Word but are also ready to seal to the Truth of it with their Estates Liberties and Lives Thus did Jesus Christ as was foretold by Isaiah Chap. 50. 5. where Christ saith by his Spirit The Lord hath opened mine ear and I was not rebellious neither turned away back I gave my back to the smiters and my cheeks to them who plucked off the hair I hid not my face from shame and spitting And in the dayes of his flesh how willingly did he seal to the Truth of his New Testament Doctrine with his Suffering and suffered himself to be apprehended by the hands of men and to be crucified when he could have commanded Legions of Angels for his succor if he had pleased and would not have made use of his own infinite and almighty Power And this submission and willingness to suffer for the Truth Christ hath commanded all his Disciples saying He that will save his life shall lose it and he that will lose his life for my sake shall save it And if any man will be my Desciple let him deny himself take up the cross and follow me And again I send you forth as sheep among wolves and ye shall be brought before Kings and Rulers for my Names sake that is for the true and Spiritual Teaching of the Gospel Now as nothing will procure us more enmity than the spiritual holding forth of the Gospel which will cause the worldly Church to cast