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Both in TEACHERS and HEARERS. Wherein is held forth the clear Discovery and certain Downfal of the Carnal and Anti-chriftian Clergy of these Nations. Testified from the Word of God to the University Gongregations in Cambridge.

By William Dell, Minister of the Gospel, and Mafter of Convil and Caius College in Cambridge.

Whereunto is added,

A Plain and Neceflary Confutation of divers Grofs Errors Deliver'd by Mr. Sydrach Sympfon, in a Sermon Preach'd to the fame Congregation at the COMMENCEMENT, Anno MDCLIII. Wherein (among other things) is declared That the Universities (according to their prefent Statutes and Practifes) are not (as he affirmed) answerable to the Schools of the Prophets in the time of the Law; but rather to the Idolatrous High Places.

And that Humane Learning, is not a Preparation appointed by Chrift, either for the Right Understanding, or Right Teaching the Gospel.

With a Brief Teftimony against Divinity-Degrees in the Universities.

As alfo Luther's Teftimony at large upon the whole Matter. And laftly, The Right Reformation of Learning, Schools and Univerfities, according to the State of the Gospel, and the Light that shines therein.

AH neceffary for the Inftruction and Direction of the
Faithful in these laft Times.

LONDON:

First Printed in the Year, 1666.

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To all the Truly Faithful the Sons of God, and Brethren of Chrift; whether in prefent Authority, or otherwise wherefoever in thefe Nations; Grace be multiplied unto you, and Peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jefus Christ our Head and Hope.

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Could not chufe but diftinguish You thús, from all the rest of the People of thefe Nations of what Condition or Quality foever, feeing God Himself hath firft done it, having chofen you to Himself in Chrift, and fet you apart for Himself, as a Peculiar People, Zealous of Good Works. And I have chofen to speak this only to You, because You are all taught of God, and have heard and learned from Him the Truth as it is in Jefits; and because You have an inward. Unation from God, whereby You know the Truth from Error, though it be never so much reproached by Carnal Chriftians and whereby You know Error from Truth, though it be never fo much exalted and magnified by Them. You are those Spiritual Men who judge All Things, because you have received the Word and Spirit of Judgment in Chrift, from the Father. Befides, You are the Men, whom God will ufe in his Greatest and moft Glorious Works, which he hath yet to do in the World, to wit, in the Destruction of the Kingdom of Anti-Chrift, and in the ferring up, and inlarging the Kingdom of Chrift; which Things, are not to be done by the Might and Power of Worldly Magiftrates, (which it may be you have Gg 4

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not received, and if you had, it would not be helpful here) but by the Spirit of the Lord, which You all have received in fome measure. Yea farther, none but You, will be contented to live by Faith, and to follow Chrift in Untrodden Paths, and to undertake Impoffible Works to Flesh and Blood; and none but You will be willing to have the refidue of Christ's Life and Works. And of his Sufferings and Death, fulfilled in your Mortal Bodies.

It grieves me much to fee fo many Men as I have known once hopeful in the Army, and elsewhere, to be now fo full gorged with the Flesh of Kings, and Nobles and Captains, and Mighty Men, that is, with their Eftates, Mannors, Houfes, Parks, Lands, &c. That they can now be contented to take their cafe, and to comply with the World and worldly Church, and the Teachers thereof, and can perfwade themselves, that there is enough done for their time, after it hath fared thus well with them; and can leave the Remainder, to Men that are as plain and mean as Themselves were at first, forgetting Him who remembred them, when they were in Low condition. But they that were indeed Righteous among them, are Righteous ftill, and they that were indeed Holy, are Holy ftill; and Profperity hath only flain the Fools, as the Scriptures fpeak, But You Chriftians are Called, Chofen and Faithful. and You will ftill be found with the Lamb on Mount Sion, and with the reft who have his Name, and his Fathers Name, written in their Foreheads; and you dare still own the Ancient Truth, Cause and work of Chrift, how great disadvantage foever is for the prefent rifen up against it, through the Apoftafic of Carnal Chriftians, the Lovers of this World. And You all know, that all that hath been done hitherto by the Sword, is but the Preparation of Chrifts way to his Work, and that the Work it felf is still behind, and to be done by thofe Worthies of the

Lord,

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