TESTIMONY O F VVilliam Erbery, LEFT UPON RECORD FOR The Saints of fuceeding Ages. BEING A Collection of the Writings of the Whereunto is added, The Honeft Heretick, Being his Tryal ac NOT LONDON, Printed for Giles Calvert, and are to be fold at the Sign of Hat Speech of the Pfalmift is much commended (perhaps) by those who through misunderstanding do pervert and abuse it; The zeal of thine house harle eaten me up: which Scripture hath been urged by Pope, Prelate, and all other Factions and Parties in the worldly Church, for the justifying of their impe-. tuousness and fury, in carrying on and maintaining all their Ceremo nies, formalities, and outfide Appendixes to their Fleshly Religion, against the true fpiritual Worshippers, who in all ages have appeared as Witnesses against Them: Not but that there is an House of God, and a Zeal for it; yea, the Lord's Houfe is One of those good things mentioned Gal. 4. in which it is good for a Christian to be zealously affected; But the Formal Church doth both misinterpret this House, and mistake in its zeal about it. For, 1. The Houfe of God are his Saints, for the protecting whereof, the good man watches left it should be broken up, and the wise servant gives all the houshold meat in due feafon, Matth. 24.43,45. 2. The true zeal of the spiritual Christian in order to this House, is not that kindled from a Legal spirit, which calls down Fire from heaven, Luke 9.54. (of which nature and kind much of the zeal now appearing feems to be) but an inward, Spiritual, and fervent defire to fever the precious from the vile; and to discover, and witness against all the cleaving defilements to the Spirits, Confciences, and Worfhips of Profeffing Christians. Zeal of this nature, is an Evangelicall grace. The Administration of the Gospel, as it wrought fome alteration in the Faith and worship, for which read John 4.20,21, and John 14. 1. So likewife it hath made a great change in the zeal of the Saints, qualifying and feftning their spirits, and rendring of them more cicure, and tender one towards another, and towards the |