A Transient view of a curats letter sent to a pretended Presbyterian minister dated 4. March 1689.

A Transient view of a curats letter sent to a pretended Presbyterian minister dated 4. March 1689.

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A Transient View of a CURATS LETTER Sent to a Pretended PRESBYTERIAN MINISTER. Dated 4. March 1689.

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A Transient View of a CURATS LETTER Sent to a Pretended PRESBYTERIAN MINISTER.
Dated 4. March 1689.

ASSES ride with Golden Bridles, when Princes walk on Foot: And thunder out their ille dixit, (so I say; and so ye shall believe) yet the Bible teaches us, to set assunder Linsey Woolsey work, mingled Seed, the Plough of an Ox and an Asse: Yea, the Old worm eaten Garment of Bishop Lightons Accommodation, under the pretext of Indifferency. And if so, Presbytry be Indifferent, what bloody Butchers are you? To shed the Blood of 2000 Innocent: Upon this head only, a GOD daring, and Heaven provoking Generation. But GODS Remnant knew better the Word of GODS Patience. You cry Union, why not, but with whom? with Laymen, or an Organized Church of Ministers, and People? The Latter you cannot be: Since you are no lawful Succession of Ministers: having neither Immediate, Mediate, nor Mixt Call. The Application of the Authority to the Person, being from GOD? and of the Person to the Authority from the Presbytries in Clastical Appeals. Now your Commission is only from Saul, and if he may Commissionate to Preach and Baptize, so may a Souldier, and he himself more Virtually? Thus you are an Hotch Potch, of a Homogenions Civil Body: over whom the Mediator is neither Head, Lord, nor Saviour. Had you the Spirit of the XC. Priests, who shut Ʋzziah from the House of the Lord, and GOD smot him with Leprosie; but GOD Fetches a Fo [...]raign Prince to do his Work; Mic. 5. 5. Thus you are neither true Ministers, not truly Ministers: For the Scribes and Pharisees, be a Lawful Succession, tho' sinned the very sin against the Holy Ghost. You vainly assert the ends of the Covenant: Do not bind to root out your Herarchy: When the Nation has abjured Popery, Prelacy, Toleration, betraying the Mediatory Glory of Christ into the hands of Tyrrany, and lawless Liberty: Yet are they 44 Ministers who did not accept it. As to the sourse and rise of your Prelacy from the Old Pagan Priests? The Testimony of the Church of Scotland fully relates. Printed in the 79. And Conveyance of Presbytry for 1600 years in the 81. To what, and how far the Covenant is Obligatory. Peruse a Sheet Entituled, Noahs Dove printed in March 1689. If ye will open your Windows with the visible Judgement of GOD, on six Forraign Kings for Perjury, but I follow you? Where do you hide your Serpents Eggs? Is it under Jupiters Wings: GOD is of Purer Eyes then to behold Perjury in Ministry and Magistracy. Sin is the Soul sickness, Confession the Souls vomit. Confess and forsake your Paganism and Arminianism. Had not the Dust of Defection blown out your Eyes, ye had not denyed the Divine Right of Presbytry; Tim. 4. 4. And your bloody and sinful Imposition of Oaths, and bands occasioned a Lawful Separation. As to your Assisting Presbyters to whom of old, the hallowed Bread was sent, from the Deanry Churches, its meer Popish. And as to the Petitions of the Ministers of England? I heard Baxter confess his Precipitancy and others also. The Conference betwixt Henderson and the Royal Martyr confute your vain Conjuncture, of a 1000 years Reformation; in a Curats Noddle? who worse than Judas, made a Covenant, and yet betrayed his Lord, and Master. Jer. 15. 19. Let them return unto thee, but return not thou unto them! You boast of your external Priviledges, so had the Philistinss the Ark and Bible, and all in captivity, 1 Sam. 6. and the heavy curse of GOD with them, 5000 died of the Emmerhods: true Faith is quick sighted, knows Christ lying in a manger; Yea, the object of a Believers faith, tho with poor fisher Men at His back; no lazie Drons were they riding in coaches.

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A Transient view of a curats letter sent to a pretended Presbyterian minister dated 4. March 1689.

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1689

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— A Transient view of a curats letter sent to a pretended Presbyterian minister dated 4. March 1689.,

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s.n.,. [Edinburgh :: 1689]. (Place of publication from Wing (2nd ed.).) (Reproduction of original in: Newberry Library.)

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