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<HEAD>THE Prie&s;ts IGNORANCE; AND <HI>Contrary Walkings to the SCRIPTURES:</HI></HEAD>
<HEAD>OR <HI>The Practice of the Apo&s;tles, who were the true Mini&s;ters of Je&s;us Chri&s;t; Toge|ther with Thirty Seven Errours of the Prie&s;ts, Di&s;covered.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THe Teachers of this World profe&s;&s;e the Scriptures to be their Rule, and Touch&s;tone to try withall,<NOTE PLACE="marg">2 John 4.9. I&s;a. 8.20.</NOTE> and he that walks contrary to the Scriptures is a Seducer, and hath the <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">pirit of Errour.</P>
<P>That which makes a Mini&s;ter of the World,<NOTE PLACE="marg">2 Pet. 1.21. Gal. 1.12. Ezek. 3.1. Jer. 23.33. and 22.</NOTE> is <HI>Oxford</HI> and <HI>Cambridge;</HI> and they are &s;o long there, give &s;o much for their Learning, and when they have done, they have &s;o much for their preaching; the Prophets and the Apo&s;tles did not &s;o, Chri&s;t gave no &s;uch Command; and here they act contrary to the Scriptures, and have the &s;pirit of Error; And they will let none preach bur them&s;elves, and &s;uch as come from <HI>Oxford</HI> and <HI>Cambridge;</HI> here they act contrary to the Scripture: for the Scripture &s;aith, <HI>You may all prophe&s;ie one by one, and if any thing be reveal'd to him that &s;tands by let the fir&s;t hold his peace:</HI> here they limit the Holy One of <HI>I&s;rael,</HI> and &s;hew the &s;pirit of Errour.</P>
<P>The Teachers of the world have a &s;et maintenance of the world and if any man refu&s;e them, they &s;ue him at the Law:<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 6.6. <HI>Acts.</HI> 20.23. 1 Pet 5.2, Deut. 4.2. Prov. 30.32.</NOTE> the Prophets and Apo&s;tles did not &s;o; there act contrary to the Scripture, and have the &s;pirit of Errour.</P>
<P>The Teachers of the world take a Text, rai&s;e Doctrines U&s;es,
<PB N="2" REF="2">Points, Tryals, Motives, and have a Clark to &s;ay, <HI>Amen:</HI> the Apo&s;tles did not &s;o, the&s;e act contrary to the Scripture, and &s;hew the Spirit of Errour.</P>
<P>The Teachers of the world &s;ing <HI>David's</HI> Quaking,<NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 6 5 6, 7. 1 Cor. 14.15. P&s;al. 13 11.</NOTE> Trem|blings, Crying<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">, Wakings, Prai&s;es, Prayings, Prophe&s;ies, in Meeter, and ha<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">e a Gla&s;&s;e to preach an hour; and when they read the P&s;alms, Hats mu&s;t be on; when they &s;ing them, Hats mu&s;t be off, but the Prie&s;t hath one or two Caps on his head&punc; the Apo&s;tles did not &s;o when they &s;poke to the world; the&s;e act contrary to the Scriptures, and have the &s;pirit of Errour.</P>
<P>The Teachers of the world &s;ay, Let us &s;ing to the prai&s;e and glory of God, and give the ignorant prophane people words to &s;ing, as, <HI>I am not puft in m<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">nd, I have no &s;cornfull eye,</HI> when as they are puft in mind and have &s;cornful eyes, herein they di&s;honour the Lord, cau&s;ing people to lye, &s;hew|ing the &s;pirit of Errour.</P>
<P>The Teachers of the world have the chiefe&s;t places in the A&s;&s;emblies,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat. 23. 6, 7, 8.9.10.11. Mat. 6.5.7.8.</NOTE> called of men Ma&s;ters, laying heavy burthens upon the people, &s;tand praying in the Synagogues: Je&s;us Chri&s;t forbad &s;uch things. The Teachers of the world now act &s;uch things, contrary to Chri&s;ts Command and practice; &s;o &s;hewing them&s;elves Antichri&s;t, Seducers and Di&s;&s;em|blers, and have the &s;pirit of Errour.</P>
<P>The Teachers of the world holds up outward Temples,<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Cor. 8.10.</NOTE> calling them Churches; whereas the Church is in God, 1 <HI>The&s;&s;.</HI> 1.1. and calls it the Hou&s;e of God, and thus act con|trary to the Scriptures: they are Seducers, having the &s;pirit of Errour.</P>
<P>The Teachers of the world &s;prinkle Infants,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Gal. 3.1. Luc. 1. 26.36.</NOTE> telling peo|ple it's an Ordinance of God, which is contrary to the Scri|ptures, never commanded by the Lord; but the&s;e hold it up, and &s;o bewitch the people, and are &s;educers, and &s;hew forth the &s;pirit of Errour.</P>
<P>The Teachers of the world call people unto a Sacrament,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Gen. 10. Gen. 29.28.</NOTE> for the which there is no Scripture; here they act contrary to the Scriptures teaching people lyes, contrary to the Scri|pture, a Declaration of God: here they are &s;educers, and &s;hew forth the &s;pirit of Errour.</P>
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The Teachers of the world marry people, and take mo|ney for it, the Apo&s;tles did not &s;o: here they act contrary to the Scripture, &s;hewing forth the &s;pirit of Errour.</P>
<P>The Teachers of the world take mony for burying the Dead,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mar. 10 8. Mar. 8.12.</NOTE> the Apo&s;tles did not &s;o: here they act contrary to the Scripture, &s;hewing the &s;pirit of Errour.</P>
<P>The Teachers of the world take mony for Churching of Women, the Apo&s;tles did not &s;o: thus the&s;e act contrary to the Scripture, &s;hewing the &s;pirit of Errour.</P>
<P>The Teachers of the world have <HI>Ea&s;ter</HI> Reckonings, and <HI>Mid&s;ummer</HI> dues, and mony out of Servants wages, the Apo|&s;tles did not &s;o: the&s;e act contrary to the Scriptures, and &s;hew the &s;pirit of Errour.</P>
<P>The Teachers of the world preach Funeral Sermons over the Dead, and have ten &s;hillings, more or le&s;s for their pains,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mar. 10.8. 1 Cor. 16.17, 18.</NOTE> as they can get it, the Apo&s;tles did not &s;o: the&s;e act contra|ry to the Scripture, and &s;hew the &s;pirit of Errour.</P>
<P>The Teachers of the world agree with the people for &s;o much in the year for preaching,<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Joh. 2. 16, 17.</NOTE> the Prophets and Apo&s;tles did not &s;o, it's contrary to Chri&s;t's Command,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Rom. 12.2. Deut. 29.12.</NOTE> <HI>Freely ye have received, freely give:</HI> thus they act contrary to the Scrip|ture, &s;hewing the &s;pirit of Errour.</P>
<P>The Teachers of the world go in cuffs, and double Cuffs, and Boot-ho&s;e-tops, living in the lu&s;t of the fle&s;h, following the fa&s;hions of the world, which the Apo&s;tles &s;poke again&s;t: here they act contrary to the Scripture, &s;hewing the &s;pirit of Errour.</P>
<P>The Teachers of the world take Tythes,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Nehem. 10.48. Nehem. 13.13 Neh. 12.44. Neh. 11, 16.</NOTE> the tenth of mens E&s;tates: in the Old time <HI>Levi,</HI> who received Tythes, the Fatherle&s;&s;e, Widows, and &s;trangers were to come and be relieved within his gates: but the Prie&s;ts of the world do not fill the Fatherle&s;&s;e the Widow, and the &s;trangers; here they act contrary to the Scriptures, and &s;hew the &s;pirit of Errour.</P>
<P>The Teachers of the world &s;ay men &s;hall never be per|fect,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mar, 5.48. 1 Cor. 2.6. Phil. 3.15.</NOTE> when the Scripture &s;aith, <HI>Be ye perfect, even as your hea|venly Father is perfect;</HI> and we preach wi&s;dom to them that are perfect, and every one that is perfect mu&s;t be as his
<PB N="4" REF="3">Lord; as many as be perfect be thus minded, &s;tand perfect and compleat in all the Will of God: here they deny the Scripture, and &s;hew the &s;pirit of Errour.</P>
<P>The Teachers of the world &s;ay,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Rom. 6.22. Co<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">o&s;. 2.111. 2 Co<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">. h. 17.</NOTE> Men &s;hall never over|come their &s;ins as long as they are here, nor be made free from the body of &s;in, and the Scripture &s;aith, we are made free from &s;in, and have put off the body of &s;in; and they that are Chri&s;ts have crucified the fle&s;h with the affections and lu&s;ts thereof, and all things are become new; here they act contrary to the Scripture, and &s;hew the &s;pirit of Errour.</P>
<P>The Teachers of the World &s;ay&punc; that men &s;hall not be &s;anctified throughout in body,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Jude 1. 1 Joh. 3.7, 8.</NOTE> &s;oul and <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">pirit, but in part, &s;o long as they are here; herein they plead for a hold for Satan in them, and are Seducers and Deceivers, for the Scri|pture &s;aith, ye are &s;anctified throughout in body, &s;oul and &s;pirit, and <HI>he that doth righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e, is righteous, even as he is righte<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">us. Let no man dece<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ve you: He that &s;inneth is of the Dev<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ll, and never knew God.</HI> Here they go about to keep people in their &s;in, when Chri&s;t comes to take away &s;in, &s;peaking contrary to the Scripture, and &s;hewes the &s;pi|rit of Errour.</P>
<P>The Teachers of the World &s;ay, the Letter is Light,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Joh. 8.12. 2 Cor. 4.6.</NOTE> when the Letter &s;aith, Chri&s;t is the Light: and the Letter is the declaration of the light, which was in them, that &s;poke &s;orth the Scriptures: here they &s;peak contrary to the Scripture, and &s;hew the &s;pirit of Errour.</P>
<P>The Teachers of the World &s;ay,<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Joh. 1.1. Rom. 8.10.</NOTE> that the Letter is the Word, which is fal&s;e, for the Letter &s;aith that God is the Word the Letter is a declaration of the Word, which is fire, and &s;harper then a two edged &s;word; and the word is nigh thee, in thy mouth and in thy heart, and &s;o they that draw pe<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ple to the Letter, telling them it is the Word, are Di&s;&s;emblers, Seducers, no Mini&s;ters of the Word but are in an Errour.</P>
<P>The Teachers of the World &s;ay;<NOTE PLACE="marg">2 Cor. 3.6. Ezek. 13.3, 6.17.</NOTE> that the &s;pirit is the Letter and they are in&s;eperable, when the &s;pirit &s;aith the Letter killeth, and is death, and thou that woulde&s;t rai&s;e the &s;pirit out of the dead Letter, thou art a Di<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">iner and
<PB N="5" REF="3">Conju<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">er, following the imaginations of thine own brain; here thou art a &s;educer, and &s;hews the &s;pirit of Errour.</P>
<P>The Teachers of the world &s;ay,<NOTE PLACE="marg">2 Cor. 5.18, 19.</NOTE> that &s;alvation is in the Scripture, and that the power goes along with the Letter, which is death; God is the cau&s;e of mens &s;alvation: here thou art a &s;educer, and &s;hews the &s;pirit of Errour.</P>
<P>The Teachers of the world &s;ay, that the four Books,<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 The&s;&s;. 1.5. 1 Pet. 1.19, 20.</NOTE> <HI>Matthew, Mark Luke</HI> and <HI>John,</HI> is the Go&s;pel which is but the Letter, a declaration of the Go&s;pel;<NOTE PLACE="marg">Matth. 23.27, 28.</NOTE> <HI>Je&s;us Chri&s;t, the Lamb of God, which taketh away the &s;ins of the world,</HI> is glad tydings to impri&s;oned &s;ouls,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Rom. 8.14.</NOTE> 1 <HI>Pet.</HI> 4.6.</P>
<P>The Teachers of the world pretending the Scriptures to be their ru<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">e and guide to walk by, and acting contrary; they &s;hew them&s;elves to be &s;educers, di&s;&s;emblers and hypo|crites, and &s;hews the &s;pirit of Errour.</P>
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<Q>For they are the Sons of God, that are guided by the Spirit of God, to live the life that they did, <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">hat gave forth the Scrip|tures.</Q>
<BIBL>Richard Farneworth.</BIBL>
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<Q>Cea&s;e from your Idol Shepherds, for they are the Bea&s;ts that all the world wor&s;hips, and wonders after; hold them not up,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Rev. 13.</NOTE> the Lord is again&s;t them. Chri&s;t is the true Shepherd, and his Sheep hear his voyce, but the voice of &s;trangers they will not hear.</Q>
<BIBL>Tho. Aldam.</BIBL>
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<P>THe Teachers of the world told us that <HI>Hebrew, Greek,</HI> and <HI>Latin</HI> was the Originall, and &s;uch might open the Scriptures who had that originall, and we do &s;ee that <HI>Pilate</HI> had that originall and could not open the Scriptures but crucified Chri&s;t,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Luk. 23.38. Joh. 1.1.</NOTE> and when he had &s;o done, he wrote in <HI>Hebrew, Greek</HI> and <HI>Latin,</HI> and &s;et it over Chri&s;t, and thus they are contrary to the original &s;hewing the Spirit of errour, for in the beginning the word was.</P>
<P>And <HI>Luke</HI> a Mini&s;ter of the word &s;aid, that they that was Mini&s;ters of the word took in hand to &s;et forth in order,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Luk. 1.</NOTE> a declaration, and thus they are contrary to the Scriptures &s;hewing the Spirit of errour, and goe about with a forme of godline&s;&s;e to blind people.</P>
<P>And the Apo&s;tle &s;aith that the Go&s;pel was preached by <HI>Abraham,</HI><NOTE PLACE="marg">Rom. 1.16. Gala. 3.8.</NOTE> before the letter was written, and this Go&s;pel are they a&s;haimed of, which is the power, &s;hewing that Spirit which is erred from it.</P>
<P>And the Teachers of the world &s;aith that Chri&s;t hath not enlightened every man that is come into the world,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Joh. 1.</NOTE> when as the Scripture &s;aith he doth, and <HI>John</HI> bare witn&s;&s;e to it that he did, and thus they are erred from the Spirit that gave forth the Scriptures, &s;hewing the contrary, a &s;pirit of errour.</P>
<P>And the Teachers of the world have told us that the &s;tee|ple-hou&s;e is the Church, which was in the daies of Qu. <HI>Mary</HI> a place for all her <HI>Je&s;uit</HI> Prie&s;ts, and &s;he made a decree that who&s;oever did di&s;turbe any of her Prie&s;ts in the time of their &s;ervice, whil&s;t they was at their Ma&s;&s;e or Mini&s;tring, as they call it, in their Church or Church|yard, or did deface any Cro&s;&s;e or Crucifix, they was to &s;uffer three months impri&s;onment, and &s;he was called a defender of the faith who gave forth this decree, which is quite contrary to Scripture and faith,<NOTE PLACE="marg">2 The&s;&s;e. 1.</NOTE> as you may read 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 14. which &s;aith, you may all prophe&s;y one by one, that all may learne, that all may be comforted; and thus the Papi&s;ts and the Prie&s;ts now are contrary to the faith, and contrary to the Scriptures, and the Church, &s;hewing the
<PB N="7" REF="4">Spirit of errour: for the Scripture &s;aith,<NOTE PLACE="marg">1 The&s;&s;e. 1.1. 1 Cor. 14.3 0.</NOTE> the Church is in God; And the Mini&s;ter of God &s;aith, if any thing be re|veiled to another that &s;its by, let the fir&s;t hold his peace. And the practi<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">e of the Mini&s;ters of God and the Church di&s;turbs the Mini&s;ters of the world, now in our daies, as it did the Papi&s;ts Prie&s;ts, which makes them pri&s;on and per&s;ecute, manife&s;ting the Spirit of errour.</P>
<P>And the Teachers of the world told us that <HI>Cambridge,</HI> and <HI>Oxford</HI> is the two Fountaines, and tho&s;e was the Mi|ni&s;ters of Chri&s;t that came from thence,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Gala. 1.</NOTE> which we &s;ee through the mercy of the Lord, that they are the Mini&s;ters of the world, made by the will of man, and &s;o are con|trary to the Scriptures, &s;hewing the Spirit of errour.</P>
<P>And the Teachers of the world told us that they was Mi|ni&s;ters of God, and they was to open the Scriptures, and yet they told us they had not that Spirit that gave forth the Scriptures; &s;o then another, the Spirit of errour.</P>
<P>The Teachers of the world told us, they was Mini&s;ters of Chri&s;t, and they do take Tyches of men,<NOTE PLACE="marg">2 Pet. 3.3. Jude. 11. Gen. 4.</NOTE> and if they will not give it them, they &s;ue them at the law, and take tre|ble, but we do not read in the Scriptures that the fal&s;e Prophets, fal&s;e Shepherds, fal&s;e Apo&s;tles, and fal&s;e Tea|chers, and the per&s;ecuting Magi&s;trates, that they ever did u&s;e &s;uch oppre&s;&s;ion: and here the&s;e Teachers are contrary to the fal&s;e, and contrary to the true, &s;hewing the Spirit of errour; therefore you that feare the Lord God, be a|wakened.</P>
<P>The Teachers of the world do manife&s;t them&s;elves to be in the errour, for how many Goales in the Nation are the Servants of God ca&s;t in, by and through their means, which &s;hews that they are the Teachers that goes in <HI>Cains</HI> way and <HI>Balaams</HI> way, and &s;o in the Spirit of errour which their fruits makes appeare out of the faith of <HI>Abel</HI> the &s;ufferer.</P>
<P>Did ever any per&s;ecute that was in <HI>Abels</HI> faith, whom God hath re<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">pect to, but &s;uch Teachers as goes in <HI>Cains</HI> way, and <HI>Balaams</HI> way, as you may read in <HI>Jude</HI> and <HI>Pe|ter,</HI> and is not here marks of the worlds Teachers, that all
<PB N="8" REF="5">the hone&s;t hearted may &s;ee, that feare God, by their fruits and marks which they them&s;elves do manife&s;t. And do not they manife&s;t them&s;elves to be the bryars and the thornes where the Grapes and Figs growes not? And do not the Teachers of the world manife&s;t them&s;elves to be the ravening Wolves, which have gotten the &s;heeps clothing and by their meanes many of Chri&s;t &s;heepe are ca&s;t into pri|&s;ons, and there almo&s;t murdered, and they have made many of their Magi&s;trates without the feare of God to be their Executioners, to ca&s;t the Lambs of Chri&s;t into pri|&s;on, but &s;uch as feare God &s;ee their folly, and the errours of the wicked Teachers are to many too mention.</P>
<P>Againe, &s;uch Prei&s;ts as preached for hire, and Prophets that divined for mony, and heads that judged for rewards, the&s;e built up <HI>Zion</HI> with blood, and <HI>Jeru&s;alem</HI> with iniqui|ty, therefore &s;hall <HI>Zion</HI> for your &s;akes be laid wa&s;t, and plowed as a field, and <HI>Jeru&s;alem</HI> &s;hall become as heaps, and the Mountaine of the hou&s;e &s;hall be as the forre&s;t: And all con&s;ider that be in the light, if this Nation be not brought to the &s;ame pa&s;&s;e by the&s;e builder (which are now cryed again&s;t with the) light that <HI>Micah</HI> was in,<NOTE PLACE="marg">Mich. 3.9.10.11.</NOTE> but them which be in the errour hold up them which be in the er|rour: but them which be in the light cannot hold up them which be in the errour, neither ever could in all ages, but the light did them judge and condemne; in which light the Saints have their unity, both with the Son and the Fa|ther: and this was given forth, that all may take warning in their life-time what they hold up.</P>
<P>The wicked plotteth again&s;t the ju&s;t, and gna&s;heth upon him with his teeth,<NOTE PLACE="marg">P&s;al. 37.12.12.14.</NOTE> the Lord &s;hall laugh at him, for he &s;eeth that his day is coming. The wicked have drawn out the &s;word, and have bent their bow to ca&s;f down the poore and needie, and to &s;lay &s;uch as be of upright conver&s;ation.</P>
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