The 'Retractation' of Robert Browne, Father of Congregationalism: Being 'A Reproofe of Certeine Schismatical Persons [i.e. Henry Barrowe, John Greenwood, & Their Congregation] & Their Doctrine Touching the Hearing & Preaching of the Word of God'. Written Probably Early in the Year 1588, Since Lost, & Now First Published with a Brief Account of Its DiscoveryH. Hart, 1907 - 65 pages |
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Page 49 - Or which take vnlawfull ministers vnto them in mans name, by dispensation against Gods word, & nether will refuse them, nether thinck it lawfull because of popish inhibition onelie/. 30. Or which geiue ouer & lose their libertie of testimonie, accusation, or making exception, or right of their voice of speaking, of iudging the trueth & true religion, of standing for, defending & labouring for the same, so that greuous abuses grow incurable thereby «*• . 31. They which deale extremely & cruelly...
Page 22 - Idolater, was . . ra. 1. blessed in commaunding & permitting the law[.] How much more blessed are they that preach the whole ghospel & that purelie, I meane truelie, as do soe manie at this day. Yea so far truelie as you your selues would haue them, saue that for hearing they agree not with you.
Page 21 - Namely in makinge one qusestion of manie. For you dispute you say about hearinge the preachers, & we conclude the imbrasing of the word & ghospell /-^-. Read ouer our conclusions againe, and you shall fynd their lawfull preaching of the word concluded / Secondlie their sending and calling concluded. Thirdlie the blessing liking or allowing of their bringing of the ghospel/ Allso we sent you first the platforme ; transforme it not, least it be a new matter of your owne, and you send vs home a straunge...
Page 45 - ... preachers haue not, & do not most vsually preach & you learned that knowledg of them. For though some preach some things corruptlie, & the same men do some tymes stand with and against one & the same abuse /. Yet the better sort & greatest number haue left no abuse vntouched, but with much zeale & great patience haue cried out against them in this age & suffered persecution for them in former ages as some by fleing their contrie, some by losing their liuings, place & standings, some by imprisonment,...
Page 2 - I know not what loue or good counsel hath kept back, & denied me the sight thereof. Well it walcking abroad, now a long tyme as I heare in other mens hands, & gathering strength to it selfe, because it hath had no full nor due check, I tooke in hand this present Wednesday, in the name & feare of God, If it may be by his grace & fauour, to stop the euill course thereof The Lord set our hartes and penns as sanctified means, & appointed to beleiue & testifie his trueth onelye. Amen.
Page 65 - And the same grace, & spirit of discerning & triing, which you wish & pray for to vs, do we wish & pray for to you / & that to come from God our Father for his Christs sake. 'Wo to them that are wise in their owne eies, & prudent in their owne conceit. 'lie that iustifieth the wicked & he that condemneth the righteous are both [a?] like abominable/^-.
Page 56 - Magistrate into contempt & despite of the multitude /. Also we doubt not but that a forme of Praier may be prescribed, so that still the libertie of vsing or appliing those praiers bring not a bondage, So that the minister and people do vse them wel as they haue iust & lawfull occasion: And herein the Magistrat must iudge as wel as the minister, and if the minister vse his forme of Praier amisse, the Magistrate may call him to accounts & punish him...
Page 56 - ... if we speake amisse, read the statute & you shall fynd such like words / yea and experience will teach you, that of late & allso long ago both at Pauls Crosse & in the Court some preachers haue bouldlie condemned abuses in the state, & speaking vnder correction of the magistrate, haue not onely bene suffered but commended of the Queen Maiestie hir self /no of late D.
Page 55 - ... or plea, etc. which ought not to be spiritual, or is not determined by the diuine & spiritual right, law & word of God /. And therefore the...
Page 46 - And though by weakenes or hypocrisie they should some some [sic] of them turne backe from their former ze&le / & do hurt, as before they did good, yet that good & grace they haue wrought standeth stedfast in the better or constant receiuers, nether may those receiuers alledge saying, we are turned away from our first teachers & preachers, for they are naught, & what good did we euer take by them / ? Esa.