Concerning ministers made by the will of man [by] M.F. Fox, Margaret Askew Fell, 1614-1702. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription A41051 of text R40213 in the English Short Title Catalog (Wing F626B). Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 4 KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2017 A41051 Wing F626B ESTC R40213 18777161 ocm 18777161 108310 This keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above is co-owned by the institutions providing financial support to the Early English Books Online Text Creation Partnership. This Phase I text is available for reuse, according to the terms of Creative Commons 0 1.0 Universal . The text can be copied, modified, distributed and performed, even for commercial purposes, all without asking permission. Early English books online. (EEBO-TCP ; phase 1, no. A41051) Transcribed from: (Early English Books Online ; image set 108310) Images scanned from microfilm: (Early English books, 1641-1700 ; 1652:14) Concerning ministers made by the will of man [by] M.F. Fox, Margaret Askew Fell, 1614-1702. 1 broadside. Printed in the 4th month 8th day for M.W., London : [April 8], 1659. First line of text: "A paper concerning such as are made ministers by the will of man ..." Reproduction of the original in the Huntington Library. eng Society of Friends -- Apologetic works. A41051 R40213 (Wing F626B). civilwar no Concerning ministers made by the will of man. Fell, Margaret 1659 738 2 0 0 0 0 0 27 C The rate of 27 defects per 10,000 words puts this text in the C category of texts with between 10 and 35 defects per 10,000 words. 2007-11 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2008-01 SPi Global Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-02 Pip Willcox Sampled and proofread 2008-02 Pip Willcox Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion Concerning Ministers made by the will of man . A Paper concerning such as are made Ministers by the will of man , and an exhortation to all sober minded people to come out from among them . What ministery is that which is upheld by a Law given forth in mans will contrary to the Law of God , if it be not Antichristian ? and whether or no their Ministery was from God that haled out of the Synogoues , o● those that were haled ? And whether Paul's Ministery was not according to what you now persecute , who went into the Synagogues to reason with them , after the same manner as wee doe novv , vvho received not his Ministery from man , neither had it by man , though he was brought up at the feet of Gamaliell , he counted that which he learned there , as dung and drosse , in comparison of the excellency of Jesus Christ ; and now with the Same light , your form of prayer , and form off preaching without the power , it is as drosse and dung to me , and to all that live in the life , who know Christ to be the high Priest over the houshold of God , whose Government is on his shoulders , who will not acquit the wicked , neither shall the evill doer escape his hand ; for the hand of the Lord is streched out , and by the bareing of his arme are we Saved from all our trangressions , which by no other means could be done ; for when I wallowing in my blood , and no eye pittied me , nor none could cure my disease , when I went through the vale of misery , in the cloudy and dark day , when no light appeared , then was I following men , but darkness was over the whole earth in me , which was my great sorrow , but sometimes hope was an anchor , that it should not be alwaies so , but when the flood came I was as one overwhelmed with sorrow , for all my actings , and my prayers returned in vain ; while I was acting for life , the living suffered in me , which groaned for deliverance , and the groans of that was heard , and not my prayers , then the Son of Righteousness appeared to me , with healing under his wings , then he rent the vail , and uncovered all that I had done , and shewed me the book wherein all my actions were set down , that I had acted against him ever since I was a childe , and indeed I could read in it , and knew what was written there , then was the acceptable yeer of the Lord God , and the day of vengeance to the ungodly in me , then was the vials of the wrath of God powred forth upon me without mixture , and indeed it was given me to drink deeply but I desired that I might be spared , but it was to let me see that I had Sinned against God , and I should be●r his indignation , untill he did plead my cause , for I was condemned , but the Blood of the Son of God ransomed me and brought me into freedom , which by no other meanes could be done ; then he shewed me his doctrine , and writ his Law in me , and placed his word in my heart , which is an everlasting witness for himself , and against all the world , that their deeds are evil , who by his power hath shaken , and caused all my bones to tremble , and to stagger like a drunken man , but the remainder of himself could not be Shaken , for he was stricken , and by his stripes were we healed , and by his light we see all hirelings , and persecutors to be out of his doctrine ; therefore we deny them ; So all people who fear God come out from among them ( least you M. F. London , Printed in the 4th . month 8th . day for M. W. 1659.