A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many useful questions and cases of conscience are…A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many usefull questions and cases of conscience are…

This Doctrine, 1. Is destructive to the solemn League and Covenant of the three Kingdoms, obliging them to endeavour the Reformation of Religion in Doctrine, Worship, Discipline, and Government. 2. 'Tis destructive to the Reformation begun by Luther, continued and prosecuted by all the reformed Churches, and by the Independent Churches as well as others. 3. 'Tis contrary to the example of the Apostles themselves, and condemneth them as well as us, for they did not only teach and commend to the Churches, that Reformation which Mr. Dell calls the mortifying, or destroying of corruption and lust, or Christ dwelling and living in us, but likewise an external Ecclesiastical Reformation, and ⟨p. 166⟩several Canons concerning the Reformation of external abuses▪ and scandals in the Church: as for instance, that the Churches should abstain from blood, and things strangled; that two or three at most should prophesy in the Church at one meeting; that the men should pray with their heads uncovered, the women covered; that young widows should be no longer admitted to serve the Church in attending the sick▪ and that such widows must be at least 60. years old, and the like▪ 4. This Doctrine puts Jesus Christ himself in the wrong, because he challenged the Churches of Pergamus▪ and Thyatira, for suffering and having amongst them these that taught the Doctrine of Balaam. •5. Mr. Dell, his doctrine openeth a wide door to the toleration of the grossest and most horrid Idolatries, Blasphemies, Abominations. I• thousands in the Kingdom should set up the Mass, and bread Worship, or should worship the Sun, or should publicly maintain that there is no God, nor any judgement to come, nor Heaven, nor Hell, the Parliament ought not, may not, (by his doctrine) endeavour the reducing and reforming of such people, or the suppressing of such abominations: these offenders must be let alone till Christ reform them, & mortify sin in them, which is to him the only Reformation now under the Gospel. 6. And while he appropriateth this Reformation to the time of the Gospel since Christ came in the flesh, he doeth by necessary consequence hold, that there was no godly or mortified person in the old Testament, and that we must not take Abraham, Moses, David, Job, &c. for examples of a personal Reformation, or of true holiness and mortification.