The Testimonies.

A. Barrows Discovery, p. 26. In this estate, what communion is to be held with the Church of England? What fellowship may the children of God have with such Rebels and Apostates? Can the name of a Church, without blasphemy unto Christ, be given unto them in these sins? They then not being under Christs, protection, nor in the state of Grace, while they continue in their sin, I have often wondred how any man of sound judgement could give them the name of a Church.

Page  33Ibidem, in the Preface. Let the rest no longer tempt God, or be held under the dint of this dreadful Milstone, by any perswasion; but let them save their souls out of this accursed false Church, and joyn themselves to the faithful servants of Christ with all speed.

The Confession, Art. 31. These Assemblies standing thus in con∣fusion, cannot be said truely to have Christ their King, Priest and Pro∣phet, neither in this estate can be esteemed the true, visible, orderly, constitute Church of Christ, whereof the faithful may become or stand members, or have any spiritual Communion with them in their spiri∣tual Worship and Administrations: Therefore are all that would be saved bound by Gods Commandment with speed to come forth out of this Antichristian estate, leaving the suppression of it to the Magi∣strate, to whom it belongs.

A light for the ignorant, p. 8, 9. This Whorish Citie hath a Body of false Prophets; whosoever heareth these, or any of these, breaks the first Commandment; for in hearing and obeying these, they hear and obey the Dragon, Beast and Whore that sent them, and gave them their Authority and Office; they use some Divine Truths, to help to set a glosse on their Inventions; but both divine and invented are con∣secrated and dedicated by the Beast, and administred by his Office.

(B) Robinsons Apologie, pag. 78. Convenit nobis quatenus reformatis Ecclesiis Belgicis & aliis cum Ecclesia Anglicana in Articulis fidei hujus Ecclesiae nomine scriptis; idem in his Book of the lawfulnesse of the hearing of the Ministers of the Church of England.

Barrows Refutation of Giffard, p. 21. We never doubted but the foundation of God stood firm, the Lord having many thousands of his elect among you known to himself. Idem, in his Discovery, p. 119. The errours and fauls of Baptism being purged by Repen∣tance, it pleases God, in pardoning the faults, to reserve, and not to have repeated the outward action. Their Apologie, p. 93. We gladly embrace the common faith professed in this Land, as most holy and sound: We have a reverend estimation of sundry, and good hope of many hundred thousands in the Land. Their Confession, p. 8. We testifie by these presents to all men, That we have not forsaken any one point of the true, ancient, Apostolike Faith professed in our Land, but hold the same grounds of Christian Religion with them.

(C) Barrows Discovery, p. 26 There is no cause to doubt but any of Gods servants may avoid that Congregation which rejecteth Gods Page  34 Word presumptuously, as a wicked Assembly, and an adulterous Church▪ Ibid. p. 29. I deny these assemblies to be true Churches of Christ, seeing they have broken the Covenant, and cast off the Yoke of Christ.

(D) Barrows Refutation, p 33. We further conclude from the second Commandment, That whatsoever Worship is devised by man, and whatsoever device of man is put in the Worship of God, it is Ido∣latry: But a great part, if not the whole Worship of God in your Church, is devised by man. If God be not worshipped with this kinde of Worship: Then, to speak as the Prophets and Apostles do, the devil is worshipped thereby.

(E) Apologie, p. 54. None can submit unto, or have any spi∣ritual Communion with the Hierarchie aforesaid, but they worship the Beast and his Image, and so make themselves subject to the wrath of God. Barrows Discovery, p. 180. Here would not be forgotten the sweet Psalmodical harmony of the Vultures, Cranes, Owls, Geese; of the Leopards, Boars, Wolves, Dogs, Swine, Foxes, Goats. Por∣don me; for thus the holy Ghost termeth the profane confused multi∣tudes in false Churches.

(F) Barrows Discovery, p. 52. Disguised Hypocrites, raven∣ing Wolves, that come to us in sheeps clothing, under the glorious ti∣tles of Pastors and Teachers, Ministers of the Gospel, men of great Learning, holy Life, sighers for Reformation; these Pharisees, these Sectaries are they that mislead the people in their crooked paths of death. Ibid. p 112. No middle course can here be taken; we must either make the Tree good or evil; These Ministers of the Church of England are true or false: if false, then deliver they no true Sacra∣ments; then is all their Administration, Sacraments and Sermons accursed, how holy soever or neer the Truth in outward shew; then are they the Ministers of Satan, of Antichrist, sent by God in his wrath to deceive and destroy such as are ordained to death; then ought not the Prince to repair to their Sermons for comfort; then is all the comfort she taketh there, but delusion, even the deceit of Satan; then are they seducers who perswade her to go to them, as whereby they draw her to the wrath of God, and imminent danger and inevitable destru∣ction, except she forsake them.

(G) Vide f. also Barrows Discovery, p. 154. The comfort re∣ceived from their Preaching, their whole Ministery being accursed, is a fearful signe of the effectual working of their delusions: From their Page  35 Ministery in this estate, no comfort is to be looked for, but assured de∣struction; they being of God in his wrath sent to deceive the children of death, the Reprobates.

(H) Barrows Discovery, p. 29. I deny their Sacraments to be the Ordinances of God, seeing to them, in this estate, belong not the Sacraments and Ministery of Christ, but the curse and judgement of God. Ibid. p. 31. Such Sacraments can no ways be called the Or∣dinances of Christ, but rather sure Seals of his wrath to as many as profane his holy Ordinances, and joyn together in that ungodly and ac∣cursed action, until they repent.

(I) Vide f. also Barrows Dis. p. 43. There can be no greater allowance of joyning to them, then to make them our mouth or Mini∣sters unto God, or together with such to joyn in any action concerning the Worship of God.

(K) See Master Balls Confutation of the Brownists.

(L) Barr. Dis. p. 66. This Book being a publike prescript Li∣turgie, were it the best that ever was devised by mortal man; yet being brought into the Church, yea into any private house, would be an abominable sacrifice in the sight of God, even as a dead dog. Truely I am ashamed to write of so grosse and filthy abominations so generally received, even of all States of these parts of the world, who of a Po∣pish Custom and Tradition have received it one of another, without any warrant from the Word. Ibid. p. 75. Other more smoothe hypo∣crites, yet as grosse idolaters, use the Lords Prayer as a close of their own.

(M) Canns Necessity of Separation, p. 66. It is all one, whe∣ther turning on the left hand we embrace the Idolatry of Bishops, or turning on the other hand we follow the new devices of mens foolish brains; for utter destruction certainly follows both.

(N) Robinsons Apologie, p. 89. Quae nos ad Separationem solicitant, ipsam Ecclesiae materialem & formalem constitutionem ejusdemque politeiae administrationem essentialem spectant.

(O) Johns. Enquiry, p. 25. Seeing by the mercy of God we have seen and forsaken the corruptions which remain in the French and Dutch Churches, we cannot partake with them in such case, with∣out apostacie from the Truth.

(P) Johns. Plea, p. 231. Every particular Church, with their Pastors, stand immediately under Christ the Arch-Pastor, without any other strange Ecclesiastical power intervening, whether it be of Page  36 Prelates, or other unlawful usurping Synods, or of any such like, invented by man, and brought into the Church. Barrows Dis. p. 261. If we would but lightly examine these secret Classes, these or∣dinary set Synods which the Reformists would openly set up, they shall, no doubt, be found as new, strange, Antichristian, and prejudicial to the Rights of the Church, as contrary to the Gospel of Christ as the other, what shew soever of former antiquity or present necessity they can pretend. Idem Refut. of Giff•rd, p. 137. These are the anti∣ent Sects of the Pharisees and Sadduces, the one in precisenesse, out∣ward shew of holinesse, hypocrisie, vain-glory, and covetousnesse, re∣sembling, or rather exceeding the Pharisees; the other, in their whole Religion, and dissolute conversation, like to the Sadduces, looking for no Resurrection, Judgement, or life to come; the one removing from place to place for their advantage and best entertainment, in the errour of Ba'aam, for wages, seduce and distract the people of the Lord from their own Churches and Pastors. Sions Royal Prerogative, in the Preface. Whereas the Papists place the power of Christ given to the Church, in the Pope, the Protestants in the Bishops, the Reformed Churches, as they are called, in the Presbytery: Neither of them hath right in this thing, but contrarywise Christ hath given the said power of his to all his Saints, and placed it in the Body of every particular Congregation.

(Q 1.) Robinsons Apol. p 83. Personas Episcoporum vel au∣toritatem qua potiuntur civilem in rebus vel civilibus vel etiam Ecclesiasticis non aversamur.

(Q 2.) Vide supra F.

(R 1.) Bar. Dis. p. 33. Such like detestable stuff hath Master Calvin in his ignorance brought to defend his own rash and disorderly proceedings at Geneva, whiles he at the first dash made no scruple to receive the whole State into the bosome of the Church: yea, that which is worse, and more to be lamented, it became a miserable prece∣dent and pernicious example to all Europe, to fall in the like transgres∣sion, as in the confused estate of all those Regions where the Gospel is thus orderly taught, is more then plain.

(R 2.) Robins. Apol. p. 7. Profitemur coram Deo & homini∣bus adeo nobis convenire cum Ecclesus reformatis Belgicis in re Religionis, ut omnibus & singulis earundem Ecclesiarum fidei Ar∣ticulis prout habentur in harmonia Confessionum fidei, parati¦simus subscribere. Ibid. p. 11. Ecclesias reformatas pro veris & Page  37 genuinis habemus, cum iisdem in sacris Dei Communionem pro∣fitemur, & quantum in nobis est colimus; conciones publicas ab illarum pastoribus habitas ex nostris qui norunt Linguam Belgi∣cam frequentant; Sacram coenam earum membris si qua forte nostris coetibus intersint nobis cognita, participamus: Malis illa∣rum serio ingemiscimus. Apol. for the Brownists, pag. 35. We are willing and ready to subscribe those Grounds of Religion published in the Confession of Faith made by the Church of Scotland, hoping in the unity of the same Faith to be saved by Jesus Christ, being also like minded in points of greatest moment with all other Reformed Churches; and on the contrary, for Anabaptists, Familists, and all other Heretikes, new, and old, we utterly reject them, and all their Errours and Heresies. Johns. plea. p. 245. I acknowledge the Re∣formed Churches to be the true Churches of Christ, with whom I a∣gree, both in the Faith of Christ, and in many things concerning the Order and Government of the Church.

(R 3.) Johns. Inquiry, p. 57. Having declined to divers Errors of the Dutch, the Church did excommunicate him, and so still he remains. Ibid. p. 59. Yet it is false that we have excommunicate any for the hearing onely the Word preached among the Dutch or French; for these that yet we have cast out here, it hath been partly for revolting from the truth which they professed with us, to the corruptions of those Churches, and partly for other sins. (S) The Confession, p. 26. The state of the Dutch Church at Amsterdam is so confused, that the whole Church can never come together in one; they read out of a Book cer∣tain Prayers invented and imposed by man; the command of Christ Matth. 18. they neither observe, nor suffer to be observed rightly; they worship God in the Idoll-Temples of Antichrist, their Ministers have their set maintenance, their Elders change yeerly, they celebrate marriage in the Church, they use a new censure of Suspension.

(T) Robins. apol. p. 81. Ecclesiae Anglicanae constitutio mate∣rialis est ex hominum flagitiosorum colluvie, paucis si cum reli∣quis piis admistis conferantur.

(V) Canns necessity, p. 167. He is to come himself into the pub∣like Assembly, all looking on him with love and joy, as one that comes to be married, and there he is to make publike Confession of his Faith, to answer divers questions; being found worthy by the consent of the whole, he is to be taken into the Communion.

(X) Bar. dis. p. 34. I have shewed, that the known and suffered Page  38 sin of any Member, is contagious to all that communicate with them in that estate, and maketh them which communicate in Prayers or Sacraments with such an obstinate offender, as guilty in Gods sight as he himself is.

(Y) Bar. dis. p. 34. I have shewed that the whole Church hath no power to dispence with the breach of the least Commandment, and that such obstinate sin in the whole Church breaketh the Covenant with God, and maketh it cease to be a Church, or in Gods favour, till it repent.

(Z) Vide supra. X, Y.

(AA) Bar. dis. p. 157. They make this part of Gods Word sub∣stantial, that of Form; this Fundamental, that Accidental; this necessary to Salvation, that needlesse; but if the whole Word of God be holy▪ pure, and true, then is this deep learning of theirs, devillish and blasphemous. Ibid. They thus to colour their wickednesse, make some part of Gods Word Fundamental, Substantial, necessary; other Ac∣cidental, Superficial, needlesse, which makes some sins openly and mani∣festly convinced, yet obstinately persisted in without any repentance in this life, not to be mortal as the Papists do.

Barrows refut. p. 24. We have learned to put difference betwixt Errour and Heresie. Obstinacy joyned to Errour after it is duely con∣vinced, maketh Heresie: And further we say, that any Errour being obstinately holden and taught, after it is duely convinced and reproved, maketh an Heretike; and Heresie in that party, and in that Congre∣gation that so holdeth and teacheth, doth separate from the Faith and Communion of Christ. Ibid. p. 27. It is his Scholastical, or rather Sophistical distinction of Errours Fundamental, &c. They who ob∣stinately hold any Errour or Transgression, and will not by repentance be purged, there from lose Christ, and so hold not the Foundation.

(BB) Bar. dis. p. 33. Such like detestable stuff hath Master Calvin in his ignorance, partly to confute that damnable sect of Ana∣baptists, which fantastically dream to themselves of a Church in this life without spot, and for every Transgression that ariseth, are ready to forsake the fellowship of the Church, without due and orderly re∣proof.

(CC) Rob. Apol. p. 81. Formalis ecclesiae constitutio est ex fidei & resipiscentiae confessione orali per adultos facta consociatio in particulares coetus.

(DD) Confession of faith, p. 34. Being come forth of this Antichristi∣an Page  39 estate, to the true profession of Christ, beside the instructing of their own Families, they are willingly to come together in Christian com∣munion, and orderly to Covenant and unite themselves in visible Congregations. A light for the ignorant. p. 12. This voluntary uni∣ting, is the form and being of the politick and visible Ʋnion and Communion.

(EE) Robins. Just. p. 107. This we hold and affirm, that a company consisting, though but of two or three gathered by a covenant made to walk in all the ways of God, known unto them, is a Church, and so hath the whole power of Christ. Ibid. p. 111. Two or three thus gathered together, have the same right with two or three thousand; neither the smallnesse of the number, nor meanesse of the persons can prejudice their rights.

(FF) Johns. plea. p. 250. The constitution of every particular Church should be such that each of them may ordinarily come toge∣ther in one place for the worship of God and all other duties belong∣ing to them, by the Word of God. Rob. Apol. p. 12. Statu•mus non debere ecclesias particulares ambitu suo plura membra complecti quam quae in unum locum simul coire possunt.

(GG) Vide supra. X, Y.

(HH) Bar. dis. p. 190. They suite to bring Christ in by the Arm of Flesh, by suiting and supplicating to his vassals and servants▪ If so be they can imagine them Christians, that will not suffer Christ to reign over them by his Laws and Ordinances. If they judge them no Christians, then they suite and stay on his enemies, till they will suffer Christ to reign and rule over his own Church.

(II) Confession. p. 34. Beside the instruction of their Families, they are willingly to come together, and unite themselves in visible Congregations: Then such to whom God hath given gifts to interpret the Scriptures, may, and ought by the appointment of the Congrega∣tion, to prophecy, and so to teach publikely the Word of God, untill such time as God manifest men with able gifts to such Offices as Christ hath appointed for the publike Ministery of the Church, but no Sa∣crament to be administred untill the Pastors or Teachers be chosen, and ordained to their Office.

(KK) Barr. dis. pag. 34. Which people thus gathered are to be esteemed an holy Church, and hath power to receive into and cast out of their fellowship, although they have attained to have yet among them neither a Ministery nor Sacraments, providing it be not by any Page  40 default in them that they be wanting. Ibid. It is manifest, that all the Members of the Church have alike interest in Christ, in his Word, in the Faith; That all the affairs of the Church belong to the Body together; That all the actions of the Church, Prayers, Sacraments, Censures, Faith, be the action of them all joyntly, and of every one severally, although the Body to divers actions uses divers Members which it knows most fit for the same; all the charged to watch, ad∣monish, reprove, and hereunto have the power of the Lord, the Keyes of the Kingdom, even the Word of the most High, whereby to binde the Rulers in chains, and their Nobles in fetters, to admonish the greatest, even Archippus, to look to his Ministery, and if need be, to plead with their Mother.

(LL) Canns Necessity of Sep p. 29. None may hear, or joyn in spiritual Communion with that Ministery which hath not a true Vocation and Calling, by Election, Approbation, and Ordination of that faithful People whereto he is a Minister. Ibid. p. 46. So neces∣sary is a right election, and calling, to every Ecclesiastike Office; that without the same, it cannot possibly be true or lawful. Barr. Refut. p. 30. The Minister must not onely be called to a true Office, but must have a lawful calling to that Office; otherwise he is but an in∣truder, a theef, and a murderer: Every particular Congregation ought to make choice of their own Pastors.

(MM) A Light for, p. 17. In the false Church, the particular Congregations have no Authority to produce or raise Officers out of themselves; for the Clergy is a distinct Body, and sent by their Ec∣clesiastical Heads, and bring their Office and Authority with them.

(NN) Bar. Refut. p. 19. This power of Ordination is not as the unruly Clergy of these dayes suppose, derived from the Apostles and Evangelists, under the permanent ministery of Pastors and Elders. Ibid. p. 130. Ordination is but a publishing of that former contract and agreement, betwixt the whole Church and these elected Officers, the Church giving, and the Elect receiving their Offices, as by the Commandment of God, with mutual vow to each other in all duties. Canns Necessity of Separ. p. 29. None may joyn with that Ministery which hath not a true calling, by Election and Ordination of that faithful people to whom he is to administer.

(OO) Johns. Plea. p. 316. It is to be understood according to Ainsworth, Robinson, and Smith, of men, women, and children, in Page  41 their own persons, who are bo••d in their own persons to be present, to hear and judge controversies.

(PP) Rob. Justifi. p. 9. also p. 111.

(QQ) Light for the ignorant, p. 17. These Officers have not onely their Authority from particular Congregations, but do arise originally and naturally out of the same.

(RR) Vide supra. KK. Also Bar. Dis▪ p. 125. The least of the Church hath as much power by the Word of God, to binde the Sin of the Pastor; and upon his Repentance, to pronounce comfort and peace to him, as he hath to binde or loose the sins of the least.

(SS) Confess. p. 23. As every Congregation hath power to elect and ordain their own Ministery, so also have they power, when any such default in Life, Doctrine, or Administration breaks out, as by the rule of the Word deprives them of their Ministery, by due order to depose them; yea, if the case so require, if they remain obstinate, orderly to cut them off by Excommunication.

Canns Necessity, p. 155. If they shall sin scandalously, the Con∣gregation that chose them freely, hath free power to depose them, and put another in their room.

(TT) Johns. Inquir. p. 7. We have in our Church the use of the exercise of Prophecy spoken of, 1 Cor. 14. In which, some of the Brethren, such as for Gifts are best able, though not in Office of the Ministery, deliver from some portion of Scripture, Doctrine, Ex∣hortation, Comfort; sometimes two at a time, sometimes more.

(VV) Bar. Disc. p. 26. Their is no cause to doubt but any of Gods servants may censure, judge, and avoid that Congregation which rejecteth Gods Word, breaketh Gods Law, despiseth his Reproof and Mercy, as a wicked Assembly, and an Adulterous Church. Ibid. p. 38. Who can deny but that every particular Member hath power, yea and ought to examine the manner of administrating the Sacraments; as also, the Estate, Disorder, and Transgressions of the whole Church, and to call them all to Repentance; and if he finde them obstinate in their Sin, rather to leave their Fellowship, then to partake with them in wickednesse?

(XX) Vide supra. MM.

(YY) Vide supra. ll.

(ZZ) Smiths Differences, p. 56. It may be a question whe∣ther the Church may not administer the Sacraments before there be any Officers among them.

Page  42(AAA) Bar. Disc. p. 121. I have alwayes found it the Parents office to provide marriage for their children; and that the parties them∣selves should affiance and betroath one another in the fear of God, and in the presence of such witnesses as are present; and that in their Pa∣rents or other private houses, without turning to the Church or to the Priest.

Confess. pag. 45. The Dutch Church at Amsterdam celebrates marriage in the Church, as if it were a part of the Ecclesiastick Ad∣ministration, while as it is in the nature of it meerly Civil.

(BBB) Vide supra AAA.

(CCC) Vide supra AAA.

(DDD) Johns. Inqui. p. 33. These of our Members that you censure, they avow that they accused themselves of adultery, not for that end to be quit of their wives, but being perswaded in their minde that they ought not to continue with their wives, having by their adultery broken the bond of marriage. Ibid. This indeed we held the most of us heretofore, and some of us are so perswaded still; and while we were generally so minded, we thought it our duty to walk according∣ly (he means to excommunicate even the innocent party who was pleased to dwel with her Husband after he had sinned) taking the in∣nocent party that retained such offenders, though upon repentance, yet to be defiled and live in sin.

(EEE) Johns. Plea, p. 231. Every particular Church with the Pastor, doth stand immediately under Jesus Christ the Arch-Pastor, without any other strange Ecclesiastical power intervening, &c.

Vide supra P. Also Robinsons Apol. p. 17. Non magis erat Petrus & Paulus homo integer & perfectus ex partibus suis essen∣tialibus & integralibus constans, sine relatione ad alios homines, quàm est •oetus particularis recte institutus & ordinatus tota in∣tegra & perfecta ecclesia, ex suis partibus constans immediate & independenter quòad alias ecclesias sub solo Christo; non itaque movendi sub humanae prudentiae, antiquitatis, unitatis, aut alio ullo colore ecclesiae visibilis seu Ministerialis termini antiqui quos posuerunt Apostoli.

(FFF) Canns guide to Sion, about the midst. It is sure that Christ hath not subjected any Congregation of his to any superiour Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction then to that which is within it self; So that if the whole Church shall erre in a matter of Faith or Religion, no other Church or Church-Officer hath any warrant from the Word of God, or Page  43 power to censure, punish, or controle the same, but are onely to advise them, and so to leave their souls to the immediate judgement of Christ.

Robins. Apol. p. 18. Licet imò incumbit Pastori unjus eccle∣siae ut & reliquis membris quod donum accepit sive spirituale sive temporale prout datur occasio, id aliis ecclesiis & earum membris impertiri, ex charitatis vinculo quo illis adunatur, non autem exequi in iis munus publicum ex authoritatis prerogativa quam in suos solos habet.

(GGG) Johns. Plea, pag. 251. To this end, and in this manner may be had a profitable use of Synods, Classes, and Assemblies for mutual help and advice in cases of question, controversie, and difficulty about Religion, so that they do not challenge or usurpe any unlawful ju∣risdiction or power over the particular Churches, and their Governours.

(HHH) Bar. Disc. p. 261. These secret Classes, these ordinary set Synods which the Reformists would set up.

(III) Bar. Refut. p. 81. In a Christian Synod no Christian ought to be shut out, but all have equal power to speak, assent or dissent, without disturbing the Order of the Holy Church, by presuming to speak before the Ancients, or against any thing said by them without just cause; who so doth, is reproved of all, judged of all as a disturber.

(KKK) Vide supra. III.

(LLL) Bar. Disc. p. 261. In their Synods the matters being de∣bated, the greatest part prevaileth, and carrieth the judgement.

Ibid. p. 78. This balloting by suffrage or pluralty of voices, might well be a custom among the Heathen in their popular Govern∣ment, but it is unheard of, and unsufferable in the Church of Christ.

(MMM) Ibid. p. 261. The order and manner of these Counsel•▪ is, first to chuse a Prolocutor, Moderator, or Judge to govern, and or∣der the action, who, and when they shall speak, and when cease.

Ibid. p. 191. Not here to speak of their solemn Order observed in these Counsels and Synods, as their choice by suffrages among themselves of their Archisynagogos or Rectorchori, their President as they call him.

(NNN) Vide supra. FFF.

(OOO) Bar. Disc. p. 38. Every Member of his Church is to pronounce upon them the judgements that are written, and to throw upon them the Stone of his judgement and consent: Therefore hath the Lord raised up the Thrones of David in his Church, and set his Saints in seats round about his Throne. A Light for the Ignorant, pag. 10. The true power which Christ our King hath received of Page  44 the Father, and communicated to his Saints; and these onely is that do∣minion which the Ancient of days hath given to his Saints, Dan. 7.19.

(PPP) Johns. Plea. p. 321. The Lord hath promised to raise up his Church again to the former integrity, and to set up the new and heavenly Jerusalem in the Ancient beauty thereof.

(QQQ) Bar. Disc. p. 139. Their Churches stand in their old Idolatrous shapes, and can never be purged till they be laid on heaps as their youngest Sisters, the Abbacies were.

Confess. p. 39. It is the Office of the Magistrate to destroy all Idol-Temples: The Dutch Church of Amsterdam worships God in the Idol-Temples of Antichrist.

(RRR) Bar. Dis. p. 133. Some of their old Relicts are yet in use, as their Bells, Surplices, &c. We may resolutely detest all such as abominable Idols, such as by the Law of God are devoted to utter destruction; the very Gold of them, Deut. 7. is to be destroyed; in such detestation ought Idolatry to be. God hath such Idol places, and all their furniture in detestation, so that he hath commanded the Ma∣gistrate to raze and deface them; so that, neither they can be used to the worship of God, nor we have any civil use of them, seeing they are execrable and devoted to destruction; if the most precious matters be forbidden, how much more the baser Iron, Brasse, &c.

Canns Necessity, p. 122. He that ordained first Bells, was Sa∣binian the Pope, in the yeer 603. Whatsoever cometh from Antichrist, cometh from the devil and out of the bottomlesse Pit.

(SSS) Bar. Refut. p. 38. Where learned you to buried in hal∣lowed Churches and Church-yards, as though ye had no Fields to bury in. Idem. Disc. p. 126. Me thinks the Church-yards of all other places should be not the convenientest for burial; it was a thing never used till Popery began: It is neither comely, convenient, nor wholesom•.

(TTT) Confess. p. 39. It is the Office of the Magistrate to de∣stroy all Idol-Temples, and to convert to their civil Ʋses not onely the benefit of all such Idolatrous buildings and monuments, but also all the Revenues, Possessions, Glebes and Maintenance of any false Mi∣nistry within their own Dominions.

(VVV) Vide supra, TTT, also Bar. Disc. p. 61. Being given to the maintenance of a Popish Ministry, they ought to be put to civil Ʋses, and not to the maintenance of Christs Ministry.

(XXX) Confess. p. 19. Christ having instituted and ratified to continue to the worlds end, the Ministery of Pastors, Teachers, Elders, Page  45 Deacons, Helpers for Instruction and Government of his Church.

YYY. Johns. Plea, 316. Whether it be not the duty of all Churches, and of the members thereof, every one according to their abi∣lity, to give maintenance unto their Ministers, and as there is occasion, to the Elders also that rule the Church, and to the Deacons and Dea∣conesses that serve and minister therein.

ZZZ. Bar. Disc. p. 5. Parsonages and Vicarages, in Name and Office, are Popish and Antichristian. Ibid. p. 61. Here also by the way, the unlawfulnesse of their Glebes is well noted.

AAAA. Those men, whether Priest or People, which either pay or receive the Tythes, still keep the Levitical Laws for the maintenance of the Ministery, and thereby abolish the Gospel, and are abolished from Christ, whom we deny to be dead, risen, or ascended, while we maintain the shadow or any part of the Ceremonial Law to be revi∣ved. Ibid. p. 91. The Prince demandeth my goods; I am ready and willing to depart with all to him, without all enquiry: But if he command me to give my goods to such an Idol, or after such a wicked manner as by way of Tythes to a Minister, or by way of Pension to an Antichristian Minister; I may not obey, but rather suffer his indignation, yea death.

BBBB. Bar. Disc. p. 53. This Shepherd is not limited, nor the sheep constrained to a tent or any stinted portion, but according to the present want of the one, and the state of the other, they together relie∣ving him, and he together bearing the burden of their common poverty; every one that is taught, freely imparting of all his goods to the compe∣tent maintenance of such as instruct them, not unto excesse, but suffi∣ciency: Which contribution, as it is the duty of the Saints, so the man∣ner of it, it is a free offering of their benevolence, an holy Alms unto the Lord; by contribution and alms, our Saviour Christ, and his Apostles, and all the Officers of the Church, were and are to be maintained. Ibid. p. 61. They are not by rated proportions, as Tenths or Third, but in love to make him partaker of that little or much the Lord sendeth, according to his present wants and necessary uses; who, if he have but food and raiment, ought to be therewith con∣tent. Confess. p. 45. At Amsterdam their Ministers have their set-maintenance in another manner then Christ hath ordained.

BBBB 2. Rob. Ap. p. 36. Omnia etiam bona corporalia suo modo communia habenda, prout cuíque opus aequissimum vi∣detur.

Page  46(CCCC) Bar. Disc. p. 132. The dayes of their week still are devoted to the gods of the Heathen, having utterly lost the name and order of their Creator: As the first, second, third day of such a week; the first, second, third moneth of such a yeer. Idem. Refut. p. 34. If Luke should call it Mars-street, speaking in his own name, and for him∣self, he should commit idolatry by naming the creature of God after an Idol. David said he would not take the names of their Idols in his lips, but Luke recordeth onely the story, and the vulgar name of the place.

(DDDD) See the Preface of the Confession.

(EEEE) Bar. Disc. p. 180. They have a prescript place like a Tub, called the Pulpit. Ibid. p. 138. In that his priviledged Tub be may Preach what he list.

(FFFF) Ibid. p. 180. They are prescribed the time when they begin, they dispute to the Hour-Glasse. Ibid. p. 54. He must Preach a Sermon an hour long.

(GGGG) Bar. Disc. p. 232. He may peradventure do his pen∣nance before all the Sodomites of the Parish in white sheets.

(HHHH) Johns. Plea, p. 245. Book-Prayer being mens in∣vention, in the worship of God, is a breach of the second command. These Books and stinted Prayers, become indeed to be Idols, supplying the place of the Word and Spirit of God; in which respect such manner of worship becometh Idolatrous and Superstitious, and not to be commu∣nicate with; for what agreement hath the Temple of God with Idols?

Vide supra. D. L.

(IIII) Rob. Apol. p. 20. Non dubito quin rite & pie usur∣pari possit haec ipsa forma in precando Deum, modo absit opinio necessitatis & perfectionis.

(KKKK) Bar. Disc. p. 180. Here would not be forgotten the sweet Psalmodical harmony of the Vulturs, Cranes, &c. All these t•∣gether with one accord sing some pleasant Ballad, or else to Davids me∣lodious Harp some Psalm in rythme, well concinnate to the ear, though never a whit to the sense, purpose, or true use of the Psalm. Idem. Refut. p. 254. I have not spoken against that most comfortable and heavenly harmony of singing Psalms, but against rhyming and pa∣raphrasing the Psalms as in your Church, and against Apocrypha and Erroneous Ballads in rythme, sung commonly in your Church instead of the Psalms, and other Songs of holy Scripture.

(LLLL) Rob. Apo•. p. 20. Nego eandem esse rationem pre∣cationis & cantionis; ipsi Psalmi quorum materia precatione aut Page  47 gratulatione constat, in hunc finem proprie & primo formantur a prophetis in cantiones & Psalmos spirituales, ut nos edoceant, & quae vota illi in angustiis constituti ad Deum fuderint, quasque liberati eidem Deo gratias retulerint, ut nos eosdem Psalmos sive psallentes sive legentes, institueremus nos ipsos sive publice sive privatim sive docendo sive commone faciendo sive consolando ad Dei gloriam in cordibus nostris promovendam.

(MMMM) Smiths Diff. p. 4. That the reading out of a Book is no part of spiritual worship, but the invention of the man of sin; that Books and writings are in the nature of Pictures and Images; that it is unlawful to have the Book before the eyes in singing of a Psalm.

(NNNN) Smiths differences. Vide supra, cap. 1. E.

(OOOO) Confess. p. 34. Such to whom God hath given gifts to interpret the Scriptures, ought by the appointment of the Congrega∣tion to prophecy, and so to teach publikely the Word of God, until such time as God manifests men with able gifts to such Offices as Christ hath appointed to the publike Ministry.

(PPPP) Bar. Disc. p. 116. Shall I speak according to the times and say, Be no true Sacrament? or rather leave that traditional word which ingendreth strife rather then godly edifying, and say, Be no true Seal of the Covenant?

(QQQQ) Vide supra. F.

(RRRR) Johns. Plea, p. 291. Whether it be not best to cele∣brate the Lords Supper where it can be every Lords day; this the A∣postles used to do; by so doing we shall return to the intire practise of the Churches in former ages.

(SSSS) How corrupt is the signe of the Crosse, kneeling and un∣covering of the head at the Lords Supper, and such things which Scri∣pture prescribes not, but men have taken upon themselves, thus break∣ing the second command, and joyning their Posts and Thresholds with the Lords. Men are thus drawn away from the simplicity of the pra∣ctise used by Christ and his Apostles, who sat when they ate and drank and did no more discover then before.

(TTTT) Johns. Plea, p. 294. To have love feasts on the dayes of the Lords Supper, it is a thing indifferent to keep or leave them, as they shall be used or abused, or as every Church shall finde them to be most expedient for their estate.

(VVVV) Bar. Refut. p. 43. Not here to mention the binding of the Faith of the Church to an Apocrypha Catechism. Idem. Disc. p. 142. They are not ashamed to Preach and publikely Expound in their Church, their fond Apocrypha Catechisms.

Page  48XXXX. Bar. Disc. p. 76. Their forged patchery, commonly called The Apostles Creed.

YYYY. His Refut. p. 48. What Scripture can you bring for the blasphemous Article of Christs descent into hell?

ZZZZ. Cans Necessity, p. 44. Bare reading of the Word, and single Service-saying, is an English Popery; and far be it from the Lords people to hear it; for if they would do so, they would offer to the Lord a corrupt thing, and so incur that curse of Malachi.

AAAAA. Johns. Enquiry, p. 7. We have in our Church the use of the exercise of Prophecie, spoken of, 1 Cor. 14. in which some of the Brethren which are for gifts best able, though not in Office of the Ministery, deliver from some portion of Scripture, Doctrine, Ex∣hortation, Comfort; sometimes Two at a time, sometimes more.

BBBBB. Johns. Enquiry, p. 7. Then, if there be occasion, upon the Scriptures treated, or questions propounded and answers made. Bar. Disc. p. 139. In that his priviledged Tub, he may speak of what be list; none of his auditory have power to call in question, correct, or refuse the same presently or publikely.

CCCCC. Rob. Apol. p. 38. Prorsus inauditum ante haec nostra saecula sive inter gentes, sive inter Judaeos, sive inter Christianos ut Judicia publica aliive actus naturae publicae privatim aut seclusa plebe exercerentur. Ibid. p. 51. Per plebem cujus Libertatem & Jus suffragandi in negotiis vere publicis asserimus, non intelligimus pueros & mulieres, sed solos viros eosque adultos.

DDDDD. Browns Life and manners of all true Christians, in the Preface, or Treatise of Reformation without tarrying for any; and of the wickednesse of those Preachers which will not reform till the Magistrate command or compel them, p. 8. Know ye not that they which have their full and sufficient authority and calling, are not to care for a further authority? And hath not every lawful Pastor his full authority? Ibid. p. 8. The Lord did not onely shew them the Tabernacle, but bade them make it: But these men will not make it at all, because they will tarry for the Magistrate. Ibid. p. 10. They could not force Religion, as you would have the Magistrate to do: And it was forbidden to the Apostles to preach to the unworthy, or to force a planting or government in the Church. The Lords King∣dom is not by force, neither durst Moses nor any of the Kings of Ju∣dah force the people, by Law or by power, to receive the Church-Go∣vernment: But after they received it, if then they fell away, and Page  49 sought not the Lord, they might put them to death. They do cry Dis∣cipline, Discipline, that is, for a civil forcing to imprison the people, or otherwise, by violence to handle and beat them, if they would not obey them. Ibid. p. 11. The Lords people is of the willing sort, they shall come unto Sion, and inquire the way unto Jerusalem, not by force nor compulsion, but with their faces thitherward: And p. 12. Be∣cause the Church is in a Common-wealth, it is of the Magistrates charge, that is, concerning the outward Provision and outward Justice they are to look; but to compel Religion, to plant Churches by power, and to force a submission to Ecclesiastical Government, by Laws and Penalties, belongeth not to them, neither yet to the Church.

EEEEE. Confess. p. 32. Leaving the suppression of this An∣tichristian estate to the Magistrate, to whom it belongeth.

FFFFF. Bar. Refut. In the Preface. We acknowledge the Prince ought to compel all his Subjects to the hearing of Gods Word, in the publike exercises of the Church; yet cannot the Prince command any to be a member of the Church, or the Church to receive any without assurance by their publike Profession of their own Faith, or to retain any longer then they continue to walk orderly in the Faith.

GGGGG. Bar. Disc. p. 245. When Princes depart from the Faith, and will not be reduced by admonition or reproof, they are no longer to be held in the Faith of the Church, but are to receive the censure of Christ, as any other, and to be cut off as withred branches: The Church cannot, neither hath in her power to defer the sentence of Excommunication any longer, on hope of further tryal, because they have had already that tryal which God alloweth; it is a Leaden rule to proceed to the sentence of Excommunication with a Leaden-heel, when the sin is ripe. Ibid. p. 15. Which censures, if the Prince con∣temn, he contemneth them against his own soul; and is thereupon, by the power of the Church disfranchised out of the Church, and to be de∣livered over to Satan, as well as any other offender.

HHHHH. Johns. Inqui. p. 70. We hold it Antichristian to entertain or admit any appeal from one Church to another; the highest ordained by the Lord for all sinners, is that Church whereof the sinner is a member. And therefore, in urging our Church to submit to ano∣ther Church, they sought to draw it to Antichristian bondage.

IIIII. Bar. Dis. p. 84. I am perswaded, that the Magistrate ought not to make permanent Laws of that the Lord hath left in our Liberty. Ibid. p. 255. We approve all the Laws of God, to be most Page  50 holy and inviolable, and all-sufficient both for Church and Common-wealth, and the perfit instruction of every Member and Officer of the same, in their several duties, so that nothing is now left to any mortal man of what high dignitie and calling so ever, but to execute the Will of God according to his Word.

KKKKK. Bar. Disc. p. 108. God will have his Laws and Statutes kept, and not altered according to the State and Policy of times; for these Laws were made, not for the Jews estate, as Master Calvin teaches; but for all mankinde, especially for all the Israel of God, from which Laws it is not lawful in judgement to decline to the right hand, or to the left. By the neglect of these Laws, the whole world overflows with sin. Ibid. p. 212. In the Common-wealth they have abrogated all Gods Judicial Laws, and cut them off at one blow, as made for the Common-wealth of the Jews onely, as if God had no regard of the conversation of other Christians, or had left the Gentiles in greater liberty to make Laws and Customes to themselves.

LLLLL. Ibid. Hereby it cometh to passe that so many ungodly Laws are decreed, and the whole course of Justice perverted, that so many capital mischiefs as God punisheth by death, such as blaspheme the Name of the Lord, open Idolatry, Disobedience to Parents, are not by Law punished at all: Incest and Adultery, are either past over, or punished by some light or triffling punishment. Ibid. p. 155. The High-Commission punishes the most execrable Idolatries but with prisons or forfeitures, making it a pecuniary matter, contrary to Gods Word.

MMMMM. 1. Vide HHHH.

MMMMM. 2. Bar. Dis. p. 211. Theft, if above thirteen pence, is punished by death.

NNNNN. Bar. Dis. p. 55. The Ʋniversity of Oxford and Cambridge have the same Popish and Idolatrous beginning with the Colledges of Monks, Fryers and Nuns; and these Vermin had, and still do retain the same insufferable and incurable abuses; therefore Queen Elizabeth ought by good right to abolish them as her Progenitors did the Abbeys.

OOOOO. Ibid. p. 177. They repair to the Ʋniversities to be instructed in Heathen and vain Arts: The Churches of Christ have not such Heathenish and Idolatrous customes; they have no such pro∣phane Arts, vain Education and Literature. Ibid. p. 56. We finde them all generally the Seed of Ʋnbeleevers, nourished in all manner of Page  51 Prophanenesse, Heathenism, vain and ungodly Sciences; their Edu∣cation from their cradle is ungodly in the common Schools, where they must learn their Greek and Latin from lascivious Poets or Heathenish Philosophers: With this Liquor are their Pitchers at first seasoned; there are they trained up in Logick, Rhetorick and Philosophy; which Learning they draw from Aristotle, Cicero, and such like; there they learn to speak by Art Syllogisms and Tropes.

Idem. Refut. p. 89. This I dare affirm, that from the Book of God, they never derived these their Colledges, Schools, Halls, Orders, and Degrees; that I may not say Arts, Authors, Exercise, use of Learn∣ing, Disputations, Commencements. They fight with their School-Learning, vain Arts, Philosophy, Rhetorick, Logick, against the Truth and Servants of God.

PPPPP. Vide supra. N, O.

QQQQQ. Vide RRRRR 2.

RRRRR 1. Bar. Dis. p. 179. In the Church of Christ, the name and offices of Chancelor, Vice-Chancelor, Dean of Faculty, Masters of Colledges, Fellows, Beadels, Bursours, and all their se∣veral Statutes and Customes are strange; as also, their manner of Degrees, Disputing for their Degrees, and Order of Teaching: Nei∣ther have any such Ʋniversities, Colledges, Society of Schollers, any ground of the Word of God. I see not why they should have any more toleration then their elder Brethren, the Monks, who every way had as great colour of Holinesse, and shew of Ʋtility to the Church, as they: They have all one and the same Hellish Original they had; and these still retain the same blasphemous incurable abuses, which can no ways be reformed but by their utter dissolution.

RRRRR 2. Bar. Dis. p. 177. The English of Christian Re∣ligion, and Profession of the Gospel, I can well away with; but this English Romish abstract of Divinity, I am assured, came forth of this same Forge that the Title of the supreme Head of the Church; and cannot by all the glosses they can devise, be made other then most high blasphemy against the person of Christ, who is the onely Ʋniversal Doctor of all his Disciples. Ibid. p. 56. If they continue still, and give their minde to the study of Divinity as they call it, which is as much as to say, The reading of mens writings; with these Feathers they flee, with these eyes they see; which Books being taken from them, they are as mute as fish, as blinde as moles. Ibid. Their Divinity is traditional, wholly derived from other mens Books and Writings, both Page  52 for the understanding, dividing, and interpretation of all Scripture; as also for all Questions, Doctrines, and Doubts that arise; and not springing from the Fountain of Gods Spirit in themselves, according to the measure of Knowledge, Faith and Grace given unto them.

SSSSS. Bar. Disc. p. 146. It were much better for the whole Church, that for Prophecy and Doctrine, Preachers would lay aside all Authors, and be take themselves wholly to the Book of God: So should that Book be more soundly understood, so should they see with their own eyes, and not other mens.

TTTTT. Bar. Disc. p. 56. These Questions, as also the whole Scripture, must in these their Schools and Disputations, be insuffer∣ably corrupted, wrested, blasphemed, according to the lusts of these Philosophical and Heathen Disputers, which here must handle, divide, discusse according to their vain affected Arts of Logick and Rhetorick: All these prizes must be played in Latin, that the Learning may the more, and the Folly the lesse be perceived, least even the common people should hisse them off the Stage if they spoke in English. Ibid. p. 52. They give liberty to their wits in their learning to deface, strive, and dispute against the holy known Truth of God, tossing it as a Tenice Ball amongst them, both publikely in their Schools, and privately in their Colledges amongst them.

VVVVV. Bar. Refut. p. 124. I would not here that any should think we condemn any lawful Art, or any necessary Science, or any Holy Exercise, or Schools of Institution. Let their Arts and Sci∣ences be necessary and Godly, not vain, curious, unlawful: Let them be taught, not in a vain-glorious or superstitious manner, but in all sobriety, and the fear of God; If their Ʋniversities were framed to these Rules, it were good.