A Word of Reproof, And Advice to my late Fellow-soldiers and Officers of the English, Irish and Scotish Army; With some Inrhoad made upon the Hireling and his Mass-house, University, Orders, Degrees, Vestments, Poperies, Heathenism, etc. With a short Catalogue of some of the fight Priests, And for just cause given, have given them a blow in one of their eyes, (picked out of the whore's head) which they call, A Fountain of Religion, but is a sink of iniquity.  
Also a word to those old Creatures who are old in iniquity, and in the fallen estate, yet deny falling away.  
Likewise a word to those Magistrates and Rulers who whip, or suffer to be whipped or imprisoned the Saints of the most High as Vagabonds, amongst whom there is no Beggar.  
As also a word to that bad Generation of people, who in their reprobate minds, and with their unwholesome tongues blaspheme and belie the dreadful and just God, in saying that he hath created some men intentionally to be damned, and a particular number to be saved and damned. Wherefore then doth the Hireling preach, and for what hath he his hire? Mark, the decrees of God are yea, Amen, and unalterable.  
A word to these who are called Dukes, Marquesses, Earls, Viscounts, Lords, Barons, Bannerets, Baronet's, Knights of all sorts, Esquires and Gentlemen (so called.)  
Also let that Generation that desire a sign, read some of the Examples that have befallen the Persecutors of the Innocent.  
By a lover of good Men, good Laws, good Governments and Governors, good Judges and Ministers, as at the beginning: Who hates nor fears no man, and is a lover and honourer of all men in the Lord, but cannot give flattering Titles, or respect the person of any man. E. B.  
LONDON, Printed for Thomas Simmons, at the Bull and Mouth near Aldersgate, 1659.   
And I said, hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye Princes of the house of Israel; Is it not for you to know judgement? Who hate the good, and love the evil, who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones; Who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the cauldron, Micah 3. 1, 2, 3. 
FRIEND'S,  
I Do believe that very many among you are not unsensible of your own unfruitfulness, and unfaithful dealing to God-ward; and I know that ye may not deny, but if ye had stood in your former integrity, that is to say, when ye were little in your own eyes, when compassion was no stranger, and tenderness was well known amongst ye, than was the hireling and all his Jewish, and Popish trumpery sentenced, and liberty of conscience vowed; I say if ye had stood in that integrity, ye might have been instrumental to have saved much of the innocent blood that hath been shed, for which I know the Lords hand will be speedily and eminently revealed upon some amongst ye, who have connived at cruel murders, when as the blood of the innocent hath been laid before ye; as James Parnels in the first place was; but since him many others have drank of the same cup, even to death; And I am sure the Lord will rebuke princes for our sakes, and let the most sturdiest oak amongst ye know that the indignation and fierce wrath of the dreadful God is kindled, and his righteous judgement is nigh, even at the door, and a sudden and terrible breach will he make amongst ye, at unawares, when ye look not for his coming; for verily his righteous spirit is grieved at the cruelties that are done, & although ye hedge yourselves up with many spears and think to surround yourselves with battleaxes, yet the same spirit, which ye have many of ye like fools gone about to limit, will suddenly break through all your contrivances, and a day of mourning will overtake ye, although for the present ye are not troubled like other men; but suffer the Prophets, and messengers of the living God to be slain before your faces; yea I know the righteous have perished, and none of ye have laid it to heart, so as to remedy it, and if any of them be moved of the Lord to come among you, some of ye have even shamefully and cruelly entreated them, madly resisting the holy One in his way; but let the most surliest among ye know that the blood of the innocent hath reached heaven, and he will not spare ye.  
And now that none of ye from the General to the meanest sentinel may be ignorant what innocent blood I mean; It is the blood of such who did believe, and declare that Christ is come in the flesh, and so durst not uphold a Jewish or Popish priesthood by paying of them tithes; and some for going into a Mass-house, and desiring the hireling to fear the Lord, and turn from the evil of his ways, or ask a sober question, and for not swearing, which is the breach of an especial command of Christ, who says swear not at all; many others dragged out of their peaceable meetings, without the breach of the least Popish law whatsoever, and thrown into dungeons, and nasty holes, amongst thiefs and murderers; other being upon their knees at prayer, have been taken up by the hair of the head, & some thrown into prison without so much as a Mittimus, & there kept for many months; others have been stoned, knocked down with clubs and stones, mangled with swords, and run into the body, and abundance of such cruelties I might name, besides the exceeding great number of our friends that have been whipped as vagabonds, and committed to prison for vagabonds, and yet, be it known to the whole World, we have not a beggar amongst us.  
One and the same woman hath been committed for not coming, and coming to the Steeplehouse, although she spoke not a word to either Priest or people; others have been invited by the Magistrates in my hearing to the Steeplehouse to have a dispute, and yet afterwards was committed to prison, but the cause of the innocont which of ye have pleaded? or what Justice hath there been done to the poor Nazarenes? when any of us have been falsely, and contrary to all manner of Law, imprisoned for the space of a year more or less, there is some would have us call it a favour, when as for shame they are forced to deliver us.  
When some of the Lambs of God have been brought to the bar, the Judge hath asked the plaintiff, what he had against the Prisoner, he answered, he abused me, he abused me; wherein? why said the plaintiff, he bid me fear the Lord, and this he called an abuse; and many such ridiculous absurdities I might name, that hath been committed by the Anti-christian Romish Clergy, and those upon whom that beast rides, in these our yet bad-reformed times; but I shall wade further into that Sea anon.  
Friends, It is not unknown to me, the exceeding largeness of your borders in the earth and your being at much ease in the flesh, having more than heart can wish, many of ye not having the least sympathy with jacob's troubles, being as ye think safely wrapped up in fig-leaves, having on a phylactary of the best make, yet the dreadful God of hosts will fall in among ye at unawares on every hand, if ye speedily repent not, and lay to heart the sufferings of the innocent, and forthwith relieve the oppressed, your latter end will be worse than your beginning; where is that spirit of tenderness that was once among ye, that dearly loved mercy and justice? have ye turned the love of God backwards? Oh! ye have given him just cause utterly to forsake ye; have ye sold yourselves to do wickedly? and instead of growing from strength to strength, and from grace to grace, ye have turned the grace of God into wantonness and oppression, swearing, and for swearing, vowing and not performing, all which the Lord our God hates; and let not the most lofty Ceader of ye all be deceived, the Lords arm is not shortened, and asuredly he will visit for these things.  
What, hath victories, treasures and spoils so puffed ye up, that ye quite forget yourselves, & your poor brethren? and because ye have overcome the oppressors, do ye therefore oppress? but the same Lord lives as ever, and that's our assurance, that he will make all his enemies his footstool (appease that in yourselves which would be angry) and honestly consider if ye do not uphold the enemies of God, and God's people at this day, yea I know there was a spirit amongst ye once, that would have grieved in your very hearts, and have thought it your very shame, that the people of God should have lain rotting in Goals even to death for not swearing, or putting off a hat, and for not putting into the hirelings mouth, which ye all may, and I do believe for the most part do know that he is even your own implacable enemy; do not all go along with them like fools to the stocks, till a dart strikes sheer through your livers? I say there was a time when the hireling and his Jewish and Popish trumpery was all sentenced, and the brand of the conqueror, and other Tyrannies vowed to be taken off, but ye are for-sworn, and the Lord will not hold them guiltless, that have so often called God to witness, and not performed, as some of ye have done, although you may say in your hearts, he defers his coming; & because judgement is not speedily executed, therefore the wicked are set in their heart to do evil; and my friends, I am sure the blood of the innocent shall never cease to cry, till such time that the seed of God be delivered, and fully discharged from their deadly prisons, and nasty holes, where many of the most precious Saints of the Lord are thronged, where some already have sealed their Testimony with their blood, and several others are languishing even at the brink of death; and all this, and much more is suffered to gratify the hireling that irreclameable relic of popery.  
May not all that are wise in heart plainly see that the Priests of this Land war with flesh and blood, and for principalities, and powers, and their weapons are indeed carnal, and not spiritual, who no longer than their mouths are cramed and filled, they prepare war, and murders men for their bellies, and have had the blood of several already? Oh cruel gluttony, and most accursed appetite, that nothing can staunch or satisfy but blood! Oh, let them have blood to drink, and let the whore's cup be filled brim full with the indignation and dregs of the wrath of the Almighty God. If we were the wolves, as the hirelings says we are, and they the sheep or Lambs, I am sure all people will confess with me, that it is not the nature of sheep and Lambs to devour and kill the wolves, but the wolves did of old, as these do now, kill the sheep, and devour the innocent Lambs.  
I have read and do believe that the good Shepherd laid down his own life for the Sheep, but I do not read that he ever took away the life of any. So my dear Friends, honestly consider who ye are for, and who ye uphold; for verily, if ye lay down your lives and perish for and with their deceit, I am bold in the Lord God to declare it unto you all, from the highest to the lowest, that they are falling, and mine eye sees it; and it is impossible for ye to defend or secure them from the just name of Antichrists false prophets, deceivers, greedy dumb dogs, who can never have enough, but still seeks for his gain from his quarter; (mark that, he seeks it) as the false Prophets did of old; for there is few or none that are not forced, yea very few that brings his gain to him, but himself, or some one for him seeks all the quarters of the field till he finds the poor brow-sweating husbandman (who eats the bread of carefulness all the year long) no sooner he finds him, or his corn or hay, but he presently tells out the tenth sheaf, or tenth Cock, and so sets his thief's mark upon it, and calls it his own. Compare him to the false prophet, which is spoken of in Mich. 3. read the whole Chapter, and see if there be any more difference than there is betwixt a thief and a ravenous Lawyer, or a Judge, whose hands and affections may be full of bribery, and yet hangs a thief. Friends, lay aside prejudice, and honestly Judge.  
Ye may remember that Moses said, a Prophet shall the Lord your God raise up like unto me, him shall ye hear in all things (mark, and truly consider the word all▪) he doth not say, him shall ye hear in some things only, but him shall ye hear in all things; and it comes to pass, that he that will not hear this Prophet, shall be cut off. Now that Prophet who was the Promise, the Vow and Oath of God, commands in express words, saying, Swear not at all; though it was said by them of old, thou shalt perform thy Oaths to the Lord, but I say, swear not at all; and I am sure he that goes about to enforce any one to swear by any Oath, obeys not that Prophet, and is to be cut off; and that Prophet strictly and positively commands his Ministers, saying, Be ye not of men called Masters, without the breach of which command and title of Master, the hireling is not complete.  
For when a youngling goes first to Oxford▪ to learn the trade of Divination, they call him a freshman, and continues for three years or thereabouts by the name of an undergraduate, and then he takes the degree of Bachelor, but yet he may not preach, except it be by that which they call Ex Gratia; and in other four years' time, he commonly takes the degree of Master, and then he hath authority to say what he pleaseth, for an hour together, and calls it the Word of God; and he must not be contradicted, upon pain of six months' imprisonment, although half his discourse consists of what Ovid, Plato, Aristole and Diogenes, etc. did, which they call Heathens; and yet what he saith in that place, must pass for sound doctrine, and they call it the Word of God; for when he steps into his stall, and hath spoken some words, which he calls prayer, he bids them hearken to the Word of God, and there like a Lawyer or a Trumpeter he sells them his 
The false Prophet steals the word from his Neighbour, and boasts in other men's lines.  own breath, and the words of the forementioned heathenish Authors, with many more that he hath thieved together & stolen from his neighbour, which with his title of Master is an infallible mark of the false prophet. Yet your devilish law is such, that none must speak to him in the time of his false worship, his going to or coming from the Mass-house, and at ●is own house he will not be seen; so that as far as in you lies,) 〈◊〉 ●●use the people to perish for want of knowledge; but that w●●●h limits the Holy One, must be cut off; for he speaks where he will, and when he will, and by whom he will, although it be by the Carpenter's Son, or Peter a fisherman, who hath no Letters, and was no Orthodox man (upon your account) yet it shall break all your bonds asunder, and shatter all your contrivances to dust. Why will ye believe a swearing Priest, that desperately and wickedly breaks the absolute command of Christ, and teacheth others so to do? Christ says, Swear not at all (mark) not at all, What not a Judicial oath before a Magistrate, being called thereunto by the Authority of the Nation? Nay, Swear not at all, neither by Heaven nor by Earth nor by any other Oath (Judicial, or) whatsoever; thus said the great Prophet, the Everlasting Priest, the Son of God, the Saviour of the World; and it very shortly comes to pass that he that will not hear him, shall be cut off from amongst the people, and no swearer or liar can possible enter the Kingdom: and he that will swear will lie, and the liar is for the lake, and shall have his portion without, with dogs, witches, and sorcerers.  
Paul who was a Minister of Christ, he exhorted the people, saying, so walk as ye have me or us for an example; I leave it to all that have any soberness; and have not made a bargain with Hell and Death, if it be in the least safe for us to walk as we have the hireling for our example, that will swear, and teach others to swear, and say its lawful, and strike with his fist, and knock men down, and imprisons men to death for their bellies, as many of the Goals in England can witness▪ proud, covetous, heady and highminded undeniable they are, and are these men to be learned of? surely nay; with my very life I deny them to be of God, or Christ, who says, Learn of me, for I am meek and lowly, and He nor none of his Ministers did ever imprison any, stock, whip or murder any; but their own backs they willingly gave to the smiter, and their cheeks to have the hair plucked off, and were accounted as the offscouring of the earth, their names cast out as evil doers, and were shamefully entreated, persecuted and killed, as false, yet true, and were called pestilent fellows, subverters of the Law, and turners of the World up-side down, ringleaders of Sects, etc. So suffers the servants of the living God at this day, and as they have done unto me, so will they do unto ye, saith Christ; The servant is not greater than his Lord; and he that will live godly in Christ Jesus must suffer persecution.  
And all this was done to them of old, as is to us at this day, even by the same Generation of high-priests, high in profession, and spoke as big swelling words, and made as much ado about their New Moons, sabbath-days, Tithes, Temple, Circumcision, Bull, Goat, Ram and heifer; all which were but a shadow of good things to come; as the Priests of England do about their Masse-house, Gleabland, Tithe-sheaf, Lamb, Calf, Wool, Goose, Pig, Mortuary, Peterpences, Bread, Wine, and Baby-baptism; but as they did, these do now hate the Light, but it was, and is because their deeds were and these are evil, and did as these do now, deny to hear the prophet in all things; and it came to pass that they were cut off, and these inevitably shall be.  
And my dear friends, if ye share with their iniquities, ye shall partake with their plagues; search yourselves, and consider with that of God in your consciences, for there truth will speak; And see if many amongst ye are not run, and running headlong into the unbelieving state, seeking honour one of another; one's a Knight, and another is a Lord, and another angry because he is not a Lord; but amongst ye all the heritage of the Lord God is neglected.  
Which amongst ye, that most of all quarrels for these bubbles, that hath not said it would never be a good World so long as there was a Lord in England? and likewise swore against a house of Lords, and yet love and retain the name, the nature and the same thing, Oh! deny yourselves of these nothings, and take up the cross, which will cross nothing but your lusts, and see if it be possible for ye to be re-discipled once again; for verily at the present ye are not so much as in the way to please God; Was there any of this stuff amongst ye some years since? remember yourselves, have ye paid your ●ows, and kept your integrity? the lying lips, and the deceitful tongue the Lord hates, and think ye the Lord will not visit for these things?  
☞ Yea, His dread and terror will fall amongst ye shortly, if not suddenly, and although ye may hate to be reform, and laugh me to scorn, or persecute me to death, yet it's the truth of the living God to every individual amongst ye; there was once a praying spirit amongst ye, that would have said, Lord honour us with success and victory, and we will honour thee with doing of justice, and relieving the oppressed; and liberberty of conscience was promised with hands lifted up, with tears in your eyes erected to heaven-ward, with many a true sigh and groan which could not be uttered; and if ye did not promise to the Lord before the battle at Dunbar, that that grand Idol, and oppression of Tithes should be taken off, if the Lord delivered ye that day, then say I am a liar; The Lord hath performed, but ye have failed; and instead of giving all power, all glory, and all honour to God, ye honour one another with blaspemous titles, the hireling being your example, who writ to one another at this day by the name of reverend Brother, reverend Sir, and reverend Master, which is blasphemy; for reverend is the name of him, and only him, that made heaven and earth; may it please you● worship, may it please your Lordship, may it please your honour, etc.  
Now if all honour (mind the word, all, which will not admit of the word, some, to be joined with it in that place) doth belong to God alone, as I am sure it doth, there is not the least of Room for your fond appellations which ye give and receive one of another; How can ye believe, that receives honour one of another? Oh! Let Moab come down before she be compelled to serve, and the Lord slain all your honours in one day; for I am sure some of ye he will overtake with speed, and their memories shall rot, but the name of the just shall live for ever; therefore let every soul of ye be subject to the higher powers, which is higher and above the transgressor; and see if yet there be any remorse in ye towards your poor brethren, who as I said before are languishing in nasty holes, and several dead, most of them dead and alive, being such who have freely offered up their lives with ye, in the actual service for the Commonwealth, in the heat of 
It is the same man that was called Round head, that is called Quaker; therefore let all that are in authority, be ashamed to see us thus dealt with.  the day; and I am sure we have not forfeited our right in the least, or purchased your indignation, by either plots or rebellion against ye, although ye have sufficiently provoked us, by suffering far more to be laid upon us, then as we are men could be borne, and me thinks our peaceable, patiented, and innocent carriage cannot but smite ye to the very heart; I am sure it hath reached Heaven, and if ye were not in the deepest slumber, even the sleep of death, ye would not lame your selves to uphold the interest of a company of gormandizing Priests, who creep into the Mass-house, and there speak a divination of their own brain, or make a plot in the week days, and there discover it, and bid others keep holy upon that day, upon which they keep market; and tell the people if they do not pay their Tithes, they rob God; and it may be threateneth those that are behind to sue them, or send them to prison forthwith; so that upon that day which he exhorts others to keep holy, he doth all manner of work that tends to his quarterly gain.  
Can that be the Ministry of Christ that murder's men for their bellies? Nay, it is impossible; for the Ministers of Christ laboured with their own hands; and took by violence from no man, neither were they so much as burdensome to any, much less stocked, caused to be whipped, imprisoned, or smote with their hands, but with them laboured, and knocked down no man, nor imprisoned any man to death for their bellies, but in this some of these at this day do glory.  
And yet if any be moved of the Lord to tell any one of these cruel men that their glory is their shame, or their belly is their God, it's much if some Priestridden Justice or another do not send him to the Goal for it.  
I shall also show ye the rope of sand wherein many of these Priests have been wrapped: Henry the 8. was a Papist; the same Henry the 8 was a Protestant, and called himself Defender of the Faith. Edward the 6 a Protestant, Queen Mary a Papist, Queen Elizabeth a Protestant again. King James was both for and against Bishops. King Charles he was called a Church-Papist, yet loved Bishops and Book of Common Prayer so well, that an open war was declared against him, which hath cost an innumerable quantity of blood and treasure; he and his Bishops extirpated, swore, vowed and declared against, and others have taken possession; yet I shall seal it with my blood, That there is 1200 Priests in England that are as bad as those 12 Bishops were; so that at the best we are but where we were, after all this fight, kill, and being killed, pulling down, and setting up; and all men may plainly see, that have not done away reason, and sold themselves to the spirit of prejudce, that the best of their religion is but till further order, and the change of a King, or the change of a Queen, or the alteration of a government puts them out of order, and to seek for their religion, tell they have received further order from man, or at least till they have studied what religion the King or Chief Ruler adheres to, and there they will seemingly imitate; There they were, and there they are tell further order, and the best of their Religion will reach no further, but tell further order.  
See what the Ploughman in his complaint saith of these wicked men in the Reign of K. Edward the third; here followeth somewhat subtracted forth of his complaint, the thing being too large to insert verbatim.  
AH Lord, though that the Ploughman may not have so much silver for their prayers as other men, for 
See the ploughman's complaint in K. Ed. thirds time, Foxes Acts and Monuments, Vol. 1. p. 524.  they know not so well to prise their prayers as these other chapmen; But Lord, our hope is, our prayers be never the worse, though they be not so well sold as other men's prayers.  
They turn thy words into songs and tales, and so men do now, they sing thy words merrily, and that singing they call thy service; but Lord, I trow the best singers thou hearest not most, but he that fulfilleth thy words, he thou heareth full well, though he weep more than sing; and I trow that weeping for breaking of thy commandments be more pleasing to thee then singing of thy words, and forsaking of travel which God commands, and give their selves to idleness, that is the mother of all naughtiness. Lord, Mary thy blessed Mother, and Joseph touched often times thy body, and yet wrought with their hands, and lived in as much cleanness of soul as our Priests do now; But Lord, men make now great stonen houses full of glassen windows, and calleth them thine houses and Churches; but thou sayest those that did worship in such had been worthy of death. Lord, in thy Gospel thou sayest that true worshippers of God worship him not in the Hill beside Samaria nor in Jerusalem neither, but true worshippers of God worship him in spirit and in truth. And Lord God, what a worship is this, to build thee a Church of dead stones, and rob thy quick Churches of their bodily livelihood, to  stocks and stone with 
See pulpit  and many guilded coats, painted windows with pictures of many a monstrous beast.  silver and gold, and other good colours, and I see thine own images go in cold and in heat in clothing all to broken, without shoes & hoses, and hungered and athirst; feeding themselves and not thy flock, hiding. Thee that art our light, and those that were fed they slew, and those that were broken they knit not together, but rattled them with sternship and with power; And Lord, these hired men they nefeeden thy sheep in thy plenteous Leasow, but feeden thy sheep with sweines and false miracles, and tales; but at thy truth they ne come not. For Lord I trow thou sendest them never; And of these hired men speaks Jeremiah, and thou sayest in that word by him, I ne send them not, and they run quickly, but I ne spoke unto them. For if they had stood in my council, 
The Spiritual man is locked in Prison, by those that have the Key of Cunning.  they would have turned people from the evil of their ways, and their evil thoughts; For Lord thou sayest, thy Word is as a fire, & a hammer breaking stones, but from the least to the most, they study covetousness, and from the Priest to the Prophet, all they have done guile. And Lord, this is much mischief and matter of sorrow, and yet there is more; For if a lewd man (that is a lea-man) teach thy people truth of thy Words, as he is upholden by thy Commandment of Charity, he shall be forbidden, and put in prison if he do it. And so those that have the key of cunning, have 
Tho. Cromwell, Earl of Essex; and Sr. John Oldcastle, testified against Tithes; and it is verily believed that both were put to death for their Testimony.  locked the truth of thy teaching under many Wards, and hide it from the children; But Lord, sigh thy teaching is come from Heaven above, our hope is, that with thy Grace it shall break these Wards, and show him to thy people, to keel both the hunger and thirst of the soul; And then shall no shepherd, nor no false hired man beguile thy people no more. Lord, thou givest us a Commandment of truth, in bidding us say, yea, yea, nay, nay, and swear for nothing; and truly Lord, I trow, that if thou were now in the World, and taughtest as thou didst sometime, thou shouldest be done to death; for thy Teachings is damned for Heresy of the Wise men of the World.  
So that by this ye may plainly see, that the hireling in former ages was testified against; and the Lord was not without a witness, though oppressed then, as at this day.  
And as for the Tithes, which Antichrist the Pope vomited forth of his mouth, and was first introduced by Augustine, one of his Friars here in England; I might say something in particular of it; but being a Christian, and believing and knowing that all shadows and types whatsoever must give leave to the substance; and also, knowing that the good thing is come, and the great Prophet heard; And others who believe in Christ, having more than sufficiently refelled what is possible to be said in honour of that Idol; Therefore I set my feet upon that dunghill, being with myself by all the reasonable and unconcerned men in the Natons, trodden upon in their hearts.  
And for such as are yet unsatisfied, I refer them to Anthony Persons Book; and 
The book is sold by Giles Calvert, at the sign of the black spread Eagle, at the west end of Paul's; the price about six pence.  I do not question but it may satisfy, settle and establish all men against the very foundation, birth and bringing in of that bad thing; except I say, the greedy receiver, who is so greedy of filthy lucre that he can never have enough; and is unsatisfied, unsettled and unstable in all his ways.  
For when a Priest dies, and the Parsonage be great; Oh! how the rest will swarm about the Donator, and hunt like dogs that runs for the carcase of a dead horse; and it may be ten of them at least shall pretend a call; and if by whining, flattery, simony, or subtlety any one of them can procure it, it's much if in his very first Sermon he be not so profane as to begin with a lie in his mouth, and tell the people, being called amongst ye by the Lord, and brought into this place by his Providence; Whereas indeed it is the gain of that quarter, which its like may be much bigger than that from whence he came, and it is theirs, and not them for which he really came, or hunts; and that's his call.  
Yea, I know some of them may fitly be compared to Crows, Dogs and Rooks, that when the Beast is sick, the Ravens will pick his eyes out before the dogs shall get him; so some of them in my knowledge have been trying for the Parsonage before the incumbent hath been quite dead. Now from the bottom of my heart I do believe, that the Cutpurses and Goal-birds, are not more disingenuous towards one another (as men) than some of these men are, in case a fat Parsonage be to be parted by the teeth amongst them; so that their godliness is not great gain, but their great Parsonage is their great gain, and their quarterly gain is their God.  
And that they are very disingenuous (hear what I have farther to say of them) I have many times asked several of these hired men, why they did pillage and take away from those that did not hire them, set them awork, nor come to hear them.  
Their common answer was, and is, Their Church was open, 
So doth ●●e gates of Hell, & who as will may enter.  and who as will may come; and it is not our faults (say they) if they come not. I answer, so is every tradesman's shop in the Nation, or very same Parish; and he may as well say to those which are not his, but another man's customers; My shop stands open, and I have as good ware as another, & thou mayest have it if thou wilt, it's my trade, and my goods are to be sold. (Answer) I like them not, I will not have them. Now I appeal to any reasonable man upon earth, if he (the said tradesman) should lay hold on me, and take away my cloak, coat, bed-cloaths, brass, pewter, , corn, etc. for his goods, which I like not, and by me refused; and by him undelivered to me. Admit him to be a seller of good books, as the Bible, and other Just men's works and writings. I say, I appeal to the whole World, whether this man that so takes away my goods, be not as real a thief in the sight of God, and good man, as him that robs upon the high way. And by this, all true men may plainly see the unjust afflictions, persecutions, bondage and oppression the seed of God lieth under at this day by the seed of the evil doers and cruel men, who lie in wait to devour widows houses, and destroy the innocent; Even as a troop of Robbers lie in wait for a man to murder in the way by consent, they hunt every man his neighbour with a net. And that they may do evil with both hands earnestly, some of us they did distrain, and sue in the Exchequer for one and the same matter, Where the greedy Lawyer asketh for a reward, and the great man uttereth forth his mischievous desires; so they wrap it up, Mich. 7. 2, 3.  
Let no Government nor Governor so much as pretend to Liberty of Conscience, whilst these evil beasts and slow-bellies are suffered to pillidge, and by violence take away and make havoc of true men's estates, crambing of their persons in bad Prisons, and there murder them for their dishonest gain, which the Pope hath allowed them. Oh! was ever the like rapines committed upon the godly of this Nation, by any but Queen Mary? Oh! bloody & unequal hath your Government been to the upright-hearted; but the Lord will visit in his fierce wrath for these things, and it cannot long stand, nor the upholders thereof; Is this like Justice, or can ye look God in the face, and call it so? or is it in any manner seemingly equal, that I should be forced to pay wages to him I neither hire, hear, nor set at work? Do we require them or ye to pay or give any thing to any of those, who Minister to us? Nay, they sow spirituals and want not carnals, and their belly is not their God; they only eat what is freely set before them, ask no questions for Conscience sake, they preach the Gospel and live upon him, and the lambs lack not, and the good thing is not with holden, and the true Lily takes no thought for to morrow, what he shall eat, or what he shall put on; but is clothed upon with the righteousness, in which is fullness without measure, where excess is not known, nor want heard of, (but the Lion lacks, and is a beast of prey.)  
I say come to this which is equal before God, and amongst men; let every Society in the Nation maintain their own preachers, let the Episcoparian and Presbyterian who are Ephraim against Manasseh, and Manassh against Ephraim, and both as one against Judah; and for the most part equal enemies to this Commonwealth; let them have their Tithemong●r if they will, provided their hireling, and his Popery be not burdensome to any of the people of God, let them give him the one half of their estates, if they please; but let not all the honest people of the Nation be forced to give the sixth or seventh part of their estates, to maintain their Popish worship. Oh! that is an unreasonable ●oak, to be compelled to uphold that with my outward substance, which I am convinced in my Conscience to be blasphemous; with my life, I affirm it, he or they who impose it, are no Christians.  
Let the Baptists, and all the gathered and Congregational people maintain their own Teachers (as I believe they do) for with a man's own he may do what seems to be good in his own eye; and that is truly equal, and not to go like thiefs, and reap where they have not sown, and pluck where they have not planted, and eat the milk of other men's flocks, etc.  
Let the Mass-house and Bells, and Parsonage houses, with the Gleabe-lands be sold, to pay the Impropriators, and then let him that will have such men as these, who now live idly, upon the sweat of other men's brows, set them at work, hire them, pay them, and hear them; and let him that hath stolen steal no more, but labour with his own hands, and that is equal; and he that doth so, doth equally. And that Governor and Government that patronizes such equal do, may stand, and be a blessing to the Nation, and the people will bless God for him or them; but he that feeds oppression, and upholds inequality, few and troublesome shall be his or their days, and their short, yet tedious reign shall go out like the snuff of a candle; Therefore be wise, O ye Rulers, for who knows what one day may bring to pass, or what may be brought to pass in one day.  
And there is a smother tongued sort, amongst these deceivers, that I have heard often affirm (if a man would do away his reason and believe them) that it is not they which persecute and imprison, but the chief Magistrate; the same says their father the Pope.  
If any Clergyman belonging to the whole See of Rome, be but known to have a hand in blood, he is for ever made irregular; But that Prince that fills his inquisition the fullest, and burns most Heretics (as they call them) he shall have the largest pardon, for so many sins to be committed, and his name shall be had in most reputation amongst them, otherwise he shall be cursed, if not excommunicated.  
By this let the simple-hearted compare and infer, etc. Now my belief is, that if the Priests of England have freely received, and will freely give, and not exact, torture and murder the innocent for their bellies, nor be burdensome to no man, but freely give, and freely receive, & he which preaches the Gospel to live upon it, I do believe in my very heart God will be very well pleased. Priest, try him and trust in him, and do not take the benefit of a bad Law which thou hast procured by thy solicitous implacability; For verily it quite lames thee, and all reasonable men see thee, and the feeble insufficiency of thy Gospel which can neither stand, nor procure thee meat for thybelly, without the help of an outward Law and Sword, which is only to protect men's persons, and not to suffer a cruel man to take away from a poor man, and a faithful denizen of the same Nation, a hundred pounds for a hundred shillings.  
So do not cover thyself under the Magistrate, and sneak to them, and make him or them the absolute Author of thy wickedness; but leave off thy filthiness, and let him that hath stolen, steal no more, but rather restore, and learn to labour with thy own hands, and the labourer is worthy of his hire, and the workman of his meat, and I am freely content that he which hireth any man should be forced to pay him his wages; but I am sure it is not in the least equal amongst men, for me to pay another man's workman, although all the work he doth may seemingly be logically or syllogistically true. Ergo, it may or it may not, admit all that he doth to be of the best sort, that is false, and his divinations, and imaginations almost like truth itself, I hire him not, I set him not at work, I'll not pay him his wages, I'll give him no meat.  
And if for this my Testimony against the hireling, which I still say, could not stand, nor have a being as a mercenary hireling, if it were not for the Sword; I say, if for this my Testimony my life be called for, I may not say, I matter it; for my Redeemer lives, and I know for this very end and purpose hath he raised me up, even to bear my Testimony with my life to the death, against the false-hired Antichrist of this Nation, even to the Gates of Rome his Original, and very late Antecessor. And this am I truly bold in the Lord to declare without fear, what is possible to be done against me, by them or their adherents, although I know they are the only preparers of War against the innocent.  
And these bad men come from Oxford and Cambridge▪ which they call the two Fountains, Nurseries and Eyes of the Nation, and Religion; but indeed they are the two sinks of iniquity.  
And when a youngling goes first thither to learn the trade of Preaching, before he hath the authority of a Law, to take away the sixth or seventh part of any man's Estate in the Nation. When he comes first to Oxford, before they have taintted him, or made him stink with their abominations, they call him a fresh man; and those that are in mess with him, like greedy dogs rob him of his very meat, and get him in a ring, and tear his  off his back, and make Rhimes upon him, and if he complain they beat him, and to cousin or steal any thing from him, these cage of unclean birds think that their honour; and this the World calls an Academy for the Education of young Gentlemen, and a place to train up able Ministers. And out of these two Fountains (Oxford and Cambridge, or rather sinks of iniquity) uncontradictably flows the grand grievances of this Commonwealth.  
In the first place, from thence comes that spiritual and temporal thief, the most pestilent hireling; from thence comes the terrible and lawless Lawyer, under whose oppression the whole Nation smarts, who with the Priests swallow up the one half of the land, the Lawyer as well as the other, according to his now ungodly practice and constitution, utterly oppressive, and altogether useless, being the badge of the conqueror; who squeeze the people most grievously, and utterly undoes many, yea, very many.  
From thence comes the Atheistique Physician, who hath authority to give what he will to men; And if he poisons them, it's a Doctor hath done it, and there's an end.  
From thence comes the Conjuror, ginger, and Fortune-telling witch; and all these are bad and cruel grievances, and hated of God, and his arm is made bare against them. And was (as it is now) fully seen by all the honest people of England, within these ten years, and then all these Monsters were eve● at the pits brink, ready to be cast in from whence they came▪ Then was the good Physician nigh, O ye army-men, and a Chancery was setting up in every man's breast, and the Witch had but little life left, and the hireling with all his enchantments, and what he could possibly say, for his deceit, was become to ye as a thing of nought, and God was teaching his own people then as he doth at this day, and that covetous man was thought useless, and his brawling by ye was very little, or not at all regarded; and have ye seen the Son, and many of ye tasted of the good word of God, and the World to come, and the power of an endless life, and yet believe lying lips, and cherish deceit, and maintain oppression, licking up that which ye once even with detestation vomited forth? & are ye not bewitched in running after the hireling into the Masse-house, to look for the Truth, where, and from whom I believe in my heart most of ye know it's not possible to be found? Nay verily, those that believe in Christ, sees him as he is nigh them in their hearts, and in their mouths, for he hath enlightened every man that cometh into the world, and the spiritual eye sees him a Saviour nigh them, and in them, who saves his people from their sins, and lets them see their sins, and perfects them from their sins, if they serve no other gods but him. And why do ye yet hope for the thing seen? Oh he is come a light into the World; but the World founded in your hearts which slew and slays the Lamb, that receives him not, but loves darkness rather than light, but it is because your deeds are evil, and so doth not like to retain God in your knowledge, although he hath been there & ye did once know God, and that grace of God which brings Salvation hath appeared unto ye, and to all men, but some give themselves up to a reprobate mind, and to believe lies (Mark) they give themselves up, the light being two low a thing, and perfection to high, and there all the worldly wise men in the World at this day perish; which of the Rulers hath believed on him? none but a poor people, that for conscience sake cannot be subject to the cursed Popish laws, and heathenish customs, not a mighty man, nor a Noble man, not a Lawyer, nor one of them which the World calls an Orthodox man hardly among them; For there is no Worldly preferment nor treasure to be desired, for he hath not whereon to lay his own head, and his visage is, and was more marred than any man's, a stumblingstone, and a rock of offence he is, but blessed are they, and only they that are not offended at him nor his little ones, for verily they are to him as the apple of his eye▪ and woe to them that despise him in his members, although they are not found in the palace, nor on the throne, nor in the high-places committing spiritual wickedness, making ungodly gain of the Prophets, his and the Apostles words, as it was of old, not many mighty, not many noble; and although many are and may be called, few are chosen for the way is straight, and few there is that enters; yea, the way is straight, and the lusts of the flesh, and the pride of life, cometh not there, and whose life is without his portions without; and in the eternal kingdom there is no room for the bending, twining, sycophant, who hath the persons of men in admiration, because of dishonest gain, I say such enters not into his rest, neither know they the true Sabbath, although they keep a great bustle and sow pillows under one another's elbows, and cry, the ordinances, the ordinances, and have their set days times, and places for their worship, giving one another bread and wine once in a weak, or once in a month, & eats, drinks, and puts on unworthily all the week and month besides; and it may be when they have consulted, and contrived beforehand a thing in their own hearts, and in their own imaginations it is already done; then these pretend (in their own wills) to fast and pray, and days must be set apart for fasting and praying, when as the jaws of the wicked, in the general, and in their own particulars are not broken; fasting and prayer in my very soul I own; But what mean ye, that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor, saith the Lord of hosts; think ye that I will visit for these things? yea, he will vex ye in his fierce wrath, and remove ye in his hot displeasure; and whilst ye regard iniquity in your hearts, I will not hear your prayers, nor have respect unto your fasts saith the Lord, (Mark) if ye regard iniquity in your hearts, or feed oppression, or suffer the witch or prisoner in your own particulars, in and amongst you to live, I will not hear your prayers saith the Lord; nay the Lord loves and hears the prayers of such as pay their vows, and keep their integrity, and tremble at his word; ●nd the broken and the contrite spirit, and the upright hearted the Lord delights in, and those that walk humbly with their God, and are not exalted above what is called God, because of this world's preferment; I say, with the single-hearted, and such who despise not the day of small things, who speaks the truth to and of their neighbour, and do to all men as they would they should do to them; Such he delights to dwell with, but the lying lips and the deceitful tongue God hates, & the prayers, fasting, fond humility and hanging down the head for a day like a bulrush are all abomination before the just and holy God; and whilst ye regard iniquity, and have respect to the workers thereof, the Lord hath no regard to your set days, services and pretended humiliations, I say, whilst ye regard iniquity, and live in uncleanness and pride of life, ye are but mockers of the righteous God who will not be mocked by ye, for his eyes are pure, and cannot behold the beholders and upholders of oppression.  
Oh my friends, how can ye pray, talk of God, conscience, and liberty of conscience, whilst ye suffer your poor brethren to be tormented and afflicted with cursed laws made in the reprobate will of a dark Pope? and do ye not augment fuel to his fire, and call it liberty of conscience? Is not his 3 months' imprisonment made six? I believe that if it should have been said to many of ye within this ten years, that these cruelties should have been acted, inflicted, and tolerated to be acted and inflicted upon the innocent, by a law, and true liberty of conscience infringed and wholly struck at, whilst some of ye had breath; I do believe that ye would have answered as one man, as the King did the Prophet, Dost thou think thy servants are dogs? that these things shall come to pass in our days; But many were deceived in ye, and so was I, and in the end ye will deceive your own precious and immortal souls.  
And the Priests, for whom ye have thus hazarded, and made yourselves enemies to God and good men, are most exquisite and absolute enemies to yourselves, Magistrates, Government, and Governors longer than they please them, and boast of their Diana; and for plotters and plot-contrivers, disturbers of governments, sowers of seditions, and causing other men to be seditious, they are at this time, and have been of old, the very pests of this Nation, and he that is, or shall be acquainted with the History of England cannot but witness with me against them, But that they are so fresh in most men's memories, I could name some of their late Tragedies, for which some few of them have felt the hand of Justice; but thus much I know is well known to most men, that those whom they bless, the people bless, and whom they curse, the people curse; also this may be taken notice of, that they never did, nor do adhere to the Rulers, but when they would have their own turns served, or are necessitated, or their false ways and worship in Jeopardy by the people of the Lord, making some inroad or other upon their deceit; at other times it's I and my King, and i'll be ruled, if he'll be ruled by me; and if the Rulers should but deny them their end, for which they only flatter them and others; I say it's well if they do not teach the people to rebel and say, to kill them is no murder, and themselves have a hand in it; and if the Rulers should but demand one or two years' revenue of these men throughout the Nation, of that which indeed is none of theirs, (and they say themselves tithes is the chief Magistrates, and he may do what he will with them) or sell but their Mass-houses with the jangling Bells, although it were to carry on a war with Rome against the very Pope himself, I say it is well if they did not thereby take occasion to prepare and hatch a War at home, and curse the Magistrates bitterly, and do what in them lieth to poison the people, and disaffect them to the present Government, notwithstanding at present they cry a loud for, and to it, (but it is for their augmentations) and bless it, but it is with the same mouths they'll curse it if crossed, and do it as much harm, as now they do it good in praying for it, which is none at all.  
Oh Friends! Why will ye join yourselves, to that unprofitable harlot, who ye long since know was deviated, and utterly whored from all that is truth; and I do believe it is fully known to many among ye they that are gone out of the way, & altogether become unprofitable, I know none of them that doth good, no not one, for the most part their throats are an open Sepulchre, and the poison of Asps is under their lips, and God's fear is not before their eyes, the best of them is but as a briar, and the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge, Micah 7. 4. For out of the evil thoughts of their 
●ee Ti●us I. ●hap. 7. to ●he end.  hearts proceeds persecution, murderers and blasphemies, and unto them in their unbelieving state and damnable doctrine of imperfection nothing is, nor indeed can be pure, but even their minds and consciences is wholly defiled, and although they may profess to know God, in their practices they absolutely deny him; for in preaching up sin term of life, which is the Devil's kingdom, they are abominable, 
●au●s Ep. ●o the Laodiceans, v. ●. 9  and unto every good work reprobate, they are hurters and doers of violence to good, sober and temperate men, i● they put not into their mouths, selfwilled, soon angry, strikers, and given to filthy lucre they are, they are highminded and 
John 5. 19 Read Rev. 20. Rev. 13. 15.  unruly, vain talkers and deceivers, whose mouths must be stopped and turned away from, although they have subverted whole houses and Nations, teaching things that are utterly false, for filthy lucre's sake, and such are liars, evil beasts and slow-bellies, and this witness is true; wherefore let them be rebuked, and their mo●ths stopped. For with the whole World they do lie in wickedness, and the number that Satan hath deceived by them is as the sand of the Sea, and they have had power to kill the Saints that would not worship the image of the beast, and hath caused all, both small and great, rich and poor, bond and free, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads; And none could buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his names, read Rev. 13. and if the present Rulers of the earth have not drunk of the whore's cup, how came these Priests by this Law? I say, is not the Popish Queen outdone, and her three months' imprisonment made six? so that these have a Law at their command, and I am sure a terrible Law hath it been to us-ward: Such a Law the Jews had, and by our Law, said they, he ought to die, for he is a blasphemer; and what was his blasphemy? Why say they, he says he is the Son of God; So as false, yet true, they put the holy One to death; and the English Priests Original, was set over the Originals head by Priestridden Pilate; Oh my dear friends! perish not with them, nor for and with their gainsaying generation; but like wise men, keep your eyes in your head, and let that woman which hath so fowlly transgressed be silent; and let not transgression plead for, and uphold transgression, and transgressors; But ask your husband at home, for the woman is not permitted to speak in the Church, nor about Church matters, but the the Daughters of the Lord, as well as his Sons, shall, and at this day do prophesy, and God is one in the Male, as in the female, and the Womb that is barren, is accursed, as well in the Male, as in the Female, but the Woman is to be silent in them both; But the seed and birth which is immortal, which sins not, doth, and may speak, if the Lord open the mouth in the Female-man, aswell as in the Male-man; and if the Lord open the lips, let the whole creation show forth his praises, but let Eve for ever be silent; And I know from the Lord God the barren womb is cursed, and such who cannot in some measure witness the marriage, are undone; but the true Virgin that hath not many lovers, is a holy state, and she which is begotten of God, as the Lord moves, may utter words, and Minister to the seed in others that all may be edified, the deaf made to hear, the blind to see, the sick healed, and the saving health made known, the dead raised, the Lame walk, and the dumb made to sing for joy, and in this Ministry and Gospel Phoebe, and Pris●illa may labour with Paul, or any other the holy Women at this day; a seal of whose Apostle-ship I am, and if you keep your eyes in your head, and behold the Original in ye, and ask that Husband at home, ye will seal to, and witness with me, that God is truth, and is one in the Male and in the Female; for it is the fools eye that is abroad, but the wise man's eye is in his head, and the head of every man is Christ Jesus; and he gives to all men and women, a measure of himself to profit withal, and all his gifts are good and perfect, and leads to no other thing but unto perfection; but no Bastard, nor the thief who steals the words from his neighbour, and boasts in the lines of other men, shall never inherit, though he be as goodly to look at, as Ishmael and as Orthodox as the high Priest, yet he is the son of the bond-wo-man within, from whence death, imagination, and brain-study speaks a divination of its own; there the merchants of spiritual Babylon trade, which is called confusion; but all this while the royal seed is in bondage, and the voice of the King is not heard within, without which the children of the Kingdom cannot live, and the voice of a stranger the sheep will not hear, and the thief or spiritual vagabond, although it be Cain or Lord Esau himself, with the Son of the free and firstborn must not cohabit; for the life of the one is the death of the other, and that must become a servant which hath caused the seed to bow; they who know the Original, know and feel what I say, and the simple hearted that are among ye may understand me right well; but for those who are withered under the name of professors, and are only old in profession and iniquity, who rise up early to contrive for self, in whom the earth hath choked the seed, by them I do not expect to be rightly understood, or justly construed, for their life at the present is not in that which discerneth and judgeth all things, and in the Lords work they have been very unfaithful; I shall not say much, but it is very much if ove● the Lord trust some of them again, but rather suffer a stranger to take and do that which was once in their possession▪ and will it not be just, if he who form them, do show them no favour, but smite them as they have suffered others to be smitten? and will it not be equal if the Lord reveal himself most eminently against them, ●uite racing down their magnificency, and for ever lay their honour in the dust.  
And if any who are in authority, be yet indeed really affected with the ways and false worship of the hireling, and offended with me for this my Testimony for the Lord, and against the false hireling; We who are called Quakers shall in the fear of the Lord be willing to meet them, or a chosen number of them face to face, before the chief Rulers, Parliament or Council, and there approve ourselves in our practice for religion by the words of the Scriptures, and the example of the holy men of God, and if we refute not the common hireling, and whatsoever he is possibly able to say for himself, or against us (proving what he says by Scriptures) let the reasonable magistrates be judge; I say, if we do it not, let us be used more bloodily and cruelly than we yet are (if possible) and we shall in that matter freely submit unto, and be convicted by the Scripture, which some of them are so impudent to say we deny, and is their own rule, though that which gave them forth is our rule, and is not contrary to the Scripture, so far as they are not polluted by false meanings put upon them, which in their purity in themselves do not own; But however there is sufficient to silence the brawling hireling, for warrant from them he hath none for his preaching for hire, or a set maintenance by a Law; I say again, let us discourse our Religion with the false hired man, before ye, and if then it be found that we hold any thing for Religion, which is contrary to sound Doctrine, or in the least derogatory to Scripture; and if our practice, faith, hope, and order be not according to the command of the Lord Jesus, the example of the Prophets, the Apostles, the holy men of God and Ministers of Christ, than countenance, or discountenance as ye shall see cause.  
And till then in the fear of the Lord God I warn you all, from him that sits upon the throne, to the meanest officer of peace or war, Soldier or Subject whatsoever, speak not evil of Dignities and Powers, and things ye know not, but at least stand still and behold the salvation of our God, and lend not your power to the slaying of the innocent Lambs of Christ; for verily if the Rock fall upon ye, or ye upon it, it will grind ye all to dust.  
Therefore my dear friends, do not presume to sin all the days of your appointed time, and clap hands with the oppressor, and uphold a bad generation to do wrong to the innocent, but be ye holy, and do equally, be ye perfect as the heavenly Father is perfect, and as he is, so be ye in this (very) evil World, that when ye come to die, ye may have nothing else to do but to die, and enter into the rest. Wherefore be wise in heart, for the Lord requireth truth in the inward parts, and that ye do unto all men as ye would be done unto.  
Nicodemus saith unto them; Doth our law judge any man before it hear him and knoweth what he doth? Jo 7. 50, 51. And I would have ye to exceed Nicodemus or at least be as noble as he was, who came to Jesus, but by night; the Officers answered, never man spoke like this man; Then answered them, the Pharisees, Are ye also deceived? have any of the Rulers, or of the Pharisees believed on him? but this people who know not the Law are accursed, John 7. 46 47 48 49 Shouldst thou help the ungodly, and love them that hate the Lord? Therefore wrath is upon thee from before the Lord; and Jehosaphat went out again thorough the people, from Beer-sheba to Mount-Ephraim, and brought them back unto the Lord God of their fathers; And he set Judges in the Land throughout, and said to the Judges, take heed what ye d●; for ye Judge not for man, but for the Lord; Wherefore now let the fear of the Lord be upon ye, take heed, and do it, for there is no iniquity with the Lord our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of gifts. And he charged them, saying, Thus shall ye do in the fear of the Lord faithfully, and with a perfect heart, 2 Chron. 19 2 4. 5 6, 7 9 And the Lord will show himself strong in the behalf of them, whose hearts are perfect towards him.  
I say Joshua went through the Land, and set Judges in every City, and brought them back unto the Lord God of their Fathers, he also overthrew the high-places, burnt up the groves, destroyed idolatry, razed down the Images, and stamped to powder the things and places which were polluted, though once commanded of God, and that it is as needful for some to go thorough England and our Cities to place and set Judges as at the beginning. I shall here lay open, and before the World, some few of the Idolatries, and heathenish customs, that are in use and practice in one of our Cities namely Oxford, which ye hirelings call one of the famous Universities, nurseries for Religion, springs, fountains, or eyes of the Nation, from whence cometh the blind guides, who leadeth the blind, and blindeth too too many; but I think if the Nation were blind of that eye, and that spring were dried up, which indeed is but a standing puddle, & that deceit might no more issue out of her, happy were it for many precious souls, which are ruined by the breath, and stink of her nostrils, And if she hath not need to be visited, read some few of her statutes, which are as followeth, and then judge her, and her tradesmen, and when thou hast read them, if she be worthy of life, let her have it, if of death, let her die, for there is thousands of witnesses against her, and her Popish offspring, in this the day of the Lord, everlasting praises be given to his Name, who hath made known, and revealed his truth to babes, and the contemptible and despised one's of the World, and hath hid it from the wise and vultrous eye.  
In the first place see what the Independants in King James his reign had against the Universities and their brood, for which they were called Brownists in the Book entitled, An Apology or defence of such true Christians as are commonly, but unjustly, called Brownists, Printed 1604.  

The third Petition, pag. 58, 59   

The seventh Position.  
That the due maintenance of Ministers should be of voluntary and free Contribution and not by Popish Lordship and Live, or Jewish Tithes and offerings; And that therefore the Lands and like Revenues of the Prelates and Clergy yet remaining, may be taken away, and converted to better use, as those of the Abbeys and Nunneries have been heretofore, to the honour of God, and great good of the Realm.  
Whereunto are subjoined the proofs of the Scripture, and several Arguments deduced from Scripture, to prove the unlawfulness of them.   

The twelfth Position, pag. 75, 76.  
That all Monuments of Idolatry in garments, or any other things invented or dedicated heretofore by the Heathens or Antichristians, to their false worship, aught to be razed and abolished, and not suffered to remain, to nourish superstition, much less employed to the Worship of God.  
Whereunto are added proofs of Scripture to enforce it.   

The thirteenth Position, pag. 77.  
That Popish degrees in Divinity, and the studying of profane, Heathen writers, with other like corruptions should be removed.  
With proofs of Scripture, and several reasons to confirm the same.  
And if any now say what are Idolatrous, Popish ceremonies and degrees to us of England? I answer, There are the same now in use, which were of old. For instance in Oxford, all the formalities and habits which were formerly counted superstitious by all the then called Puritans, are now again, not only in fashion and credit amongst them of the University, but also accounted necessary; so that if any Scholar of the University, for Conscience sake cannot wear them, he must lose his vote and privilege, and not take any degree.  
'tis true, that while the Army continued in Action, it was thought necessary to lay them aside (at least for a time) for fear of scandal, and provoking tender conscienees, but since the Army have forgot to look after them, they are a licking up their old vomit, and all the vestments and formalities appointed them by their father the Pope in use and credit, defended in their speeches at the Act, and those men counted factious who witness against them, though of their own fraternity.  
And if any one will compare the Oxford statutes with the description of theirs in other Anti-christian Popish Universities beyond Seas, he may see that there are not only the same superstitious ceremonies, and Idolatrous habits, but far more in number and greater in pomp then there are in the very greatest Seats of Antichrist beyond Sea.  
And for their sakes who cannot come to see them, or it may be never heard of them, I have subjoined a little Catalogue of them (which are yet in practice) to omit the more notorious (which are not observed since the Wars) to satisfy the World what Reformation we are to expect from such men.   

A faithful and short Relation of some few of the Statutes, 
Stat. A●ad. Oxon.  yet in force, and other customs and affairs of the University of Oxford, the Colleges and Governors of them.  
THE form of creating Sophisters is thus, A Master 
Tit. 6. sect. 1 par. 4.  makes a speech in a high desk, in the praise of Aristotle's * Logic, and then after comes 

See the Judgement of Melan●htho●, in his Apology for Luther, in his 2 Tom. pag▪ 193. What is that to us what Aristotle an unholy man said, but this belongs to Christians, to learn first how not to sin; but now as of old, Christ's Doctrine is vitiated with humane disputations, which is mixed with their Philosophy; but he that is born again, knoweth that which they called Theology to be profane.  
2. Also read Hieron. first book, contra Pelag. What is Aristotle to Paul, or Plato to Peter, and in his Epistle 22 ad. Estoch. p. 62. What communion hath light with darkness, or consent gives Christ to Belial, the Psalms with Horas, or the Evangelists with Maro, or the Apostles with Cicero; we must not drink of the Cup of Christ and the cup of Devils; and he that learns these things, and says, he is a Christian, the Spirit of God, the true Judge says, he lies, thou mayest be a Ciceronian, but no Christian.  
See Tertullian in his book, to preserve from Hersiees, Chapt. 7. forewarns them, that all Heresies take their rise from Philosophy, out of which ariseth all fables, genealogies, unfruitful and endless questions, and serpentine words that eat as a canker; from which saith he, the Apostle Paul naming Philosophy, that engenders strife, they must needs shun; but tells them that they are to preach the Lord in simplicity of their hearts, who is to be s●ught after in simplicity, and not in curiosity by Stoic and Platoniq●e Dialects; these things being short of Christ, and shut out of the Gospel.  
4 And Libinus laments in his book, Tom. 2. pag. 51. The great contempt that was come upon the Greek tongue by reason of the Christians; and says, that he is afraid that all learning, not only Rhetoric, but also the Gr. tongue should be suppressed by a Law. And did not the Christians burn their books of curious Learning and Arts, to the value of fifty thousand pieces of silver? so mightily grew the Word of God Mark, the Word of God grew, when the books of Arts were burnt, and prevailed, see Acts chap. 19 v, 19, 20.  
5. Machiv. in Leu. disput. de Repub. lib. 2. cap. 5. So far I commend the diligency of the first Christians, the Institutors and Moderators in their Religion, in that they did extirpate all Ethnics, superstitions, with all Poets and Histories, all Idols, and suppressing all that might bring those doleful superstitions again to their memory.  
6. And Celsus objected it to Orig. in his third book, Adversus Celsum; That the Christian Teachers, such as propagated the Gospel, were Weavers (or Combers of wool) Fuller's, and illiterate, and exceeding rustic.   down one or two stairs, and gives him that is created the book of Aristotle's logic into his hand, than a plain hood, which he puts about his neck, and without this ceremony none may take his next Degree.  
After Disputations are ended 
Tit. 6. sect. 2 par. 6  on Ash-wednesday in every School, the Senior of each company of determining Bachelors, in the name of the rest standing about him, must kneel down on his knees before all the company in every School, and give thanks to the Dean, him that presented him, and all the Signior Bachelors, in these words:  
I give thanks to the Chancellor and Proctors of this famous University, and to the Master that disputed, and the Bachelor that answered, by whose means I have undertaken this work, and intent, (God willing) to perfect it this Lent.  
This Ceremony is so fare from being neglected, that they rather take a pride to do it every year.  
The Inceptors in Divinity, 
Tit. 7. sect. 1. par. 2.  Physic and Law, must at the Act solemnly beg of each of their Professors their fatherly blessing, and each Professor must give his fatherly blessing to the Inceptors of each Faculty; but the Prefessor of Divinity must bless all of each Faculty. Oh unblessed, flat, dark, black Popery.  
The formalities of determining Bachelors are, A square cap, a black stuff hood, tipped or edged with cats-skin, and over that a hood of lambskin, But are in the nature of that that will kill a Lamb.  
The habits of Masters at the Act are, a four-corner-cap, a large taffeta hood of any light colour to cast over their shoulders, Goloshoes in stead of slippers; by which slippers or goloshoes is signified that they are to stay at home and study longer, and that they are not yet fit to go into the Country to preach.  
Doctors of Divinity wear a scarlet gown, a black saten hood 
par. 5●  over that, a square cap, boots 
But in all these abominations they are out, yea quite out from all that is called God, and for all their pretended preparations, they'll not stir from their monastery or present quarter, except for a great personage, or a better quarterly gain.  pulled up, with spurs, by which is signified, as themselves confess, that they are then fit to go out into the Ministry; but rather this Popish Ceremony is deduced from Christ's saying, Be ye shod with the preparation of the Gospel As that of a Lambskin hood, to intimate The Prophets and Apostles who wandered about in sheep's skins, and goat's skins.  
When any man is made a Bachelor of Divinity, it is done 
Tit. 9 sect. 3. par. 4. sect. 4. par. 18.  with these words, I admit you to read any of Saint Paul's Epistles &c  
After the Act there is a dispensation proposed that the Doctors may have leave to put off their boots, and the Masters their slippers, till which time they may not do it by the Statutes; and at other times it may be are drunk and cannot do it.  
When any Master is to take his degree, he is bound a day 
sect. 5: par. 1.  before (rain or shine) to go bare headed from the Schools to the Vicechancellor, from him to the Signior Proctor, from thence to the Junior Proctor, however so far distant by reason of their several Colleges, with a Beadle and a Master going before him in their formalities; and the Master must speak for him to the aforesaid Chancellor and Professors in these words Supplicamus Dominationi vestrae, etc. That is, We supplicate or beg your Lordships, or at least your Worships, to be pleased to be at congregation on the morrow.  
If a Doctor takes his degree, he is likewise to go bare headed after his Professor to both the Proctors, and the Proctors accompanying him to the Vicechancellor, must speak for him in these words, Supplicamus Reverentiis vestris, etc. That is, We 
Holy and Reverend is the Name of him that made heaven and earth, and only him, who abhors your blasphemy.  do supplicate, or humbly beg your Reverence to be present at congregation on the morrow And then the Vicechancellor must answer, Interer●, That is, I will be present.  
The Masters and Doctors are bound to wear their formalities as long as they stay in the University.  
A Doctor of Sacred and holy Theology, as they call it, for 
sect. 6. par. 2.  his degree is to preach a Latin Sermon, dispute in the Divinity School, and to read six Lectures, expound any part of the Scripture, or any of the Apostolical Epistles.  
'tis ordered that all Doctors, heads of Colleges, Fellows, Studients, Scholars, and all that are initiated into Orders, 
Tit. 14 par. 1.  do wear black or sad coloured , as it becomes those of the Clergy to do. 
Their outside is a true figure of their inside.   
That no Scholar go to a Conventicle under pain of expulsion. (Mark that.)  
That none swear (but when he is lawfully required to it) under the pain of paying four pence; So that there they may swear cheaper than any where else in England.  
When any one goes out Doctor of Divinity, he hath the Bible given to him, and a Ring of gold put on his finger, and after that the Professor must give him * a kiss before the whole 

The kiss is in imitation of the Patriarches, who fell upon one another's necks and kissed, and Paul's saying (to the Church of Corinth) Greet ye one another with a Holy kiss; (mark) it was to be a Holy kiss.  
The square cap which is worn by this Popish brood, signifieth the helmet of Salvation, which they wear against the enemies of Christ.  
The Ring which the Doctors give in the University, signifies with what inviolable infidelity they kept the Spirit of Christ.  
The Gloves signify, that they are to keep their hands undefiled from all worldly matters; but it is most evident, that they are the worldlings of this world; and for cruel hearts, and bloody hands, who may be compared with them?  
Oh mankind! consider them, and be not deceived by them; for verily they are not of God.  
Much of their orders, and now practised fopperies are related by Hospinian in his Book, concerning Monks, and other Popish orders, page 270.   University.  
The Signior Master of the Act who represents the rest, does receive a book of Aristotle and a kiss from the Proctor, as 

Clemens Roman, in his 1 Book, cap. 6. It's said, Abstain from all books of the Gentilts; what hast thou to do with other men's sayings, and Laws, or false Prophets? which truly, turns weak men from the true faith; and in the council of carthage, a Cannon said, that a Christian shall not read a Heathen or Gentiles Book.  
Gratian saith, the Priests of God, we see have omitted the Evangelists, and Prophets reading comedies, and love, or lust books, and have turned them into singing verses.  
Gregory Magnus, prohibited all prelacy in general from reading heathen Authors.  
Gaud. de mor. Sec: Just. part 2. c. 26. page 90. True Christians we never read they learned Philosophy in Schools, but rather turned all from it.  
Scip. Amirat. Dissertat Pollit. Lib. 3. p. 92. After Constantine, etc. had taken off the persecution from the Christians, he left it simply to every man's choice, what form of Religion he would be gathered in, the same Eusebius teache● in his ● book, cap. 59 that none may be burdened: Tertul. ad Sca●ulam, saith, the law of man hath power only upon the natural part, but every man is to fear that which himself knoweth: and not another man's Religion, neither is it Religion to think on Religion, to take up the form, and not the life, as also saith Lactant. Oper. Lib. 5. de just. pag. 353. Oh! What an honest mind these sufferers had, and felt, even that nothing humane was to be weighed, or valued with their religion, and they choosed in it rather to die, then to kill others to defend it; see likewise Themistius his 12 oration made to Jovinian the Emperor, all which oration, was in commending him and exhorting him to continue to give toleration in religion.  
Also see Julian the Emperor, as bad as he is made, what he did for the Christians, very justly (said he) I have statured in favour of all the galileans, that none bring a matter against them, neither draw them into the Temple, nor from any other thing; but let them have their own liberty, and they that wrong them, or contems this law let him die, for I would have none forced, or drawn beyond their own Rock: Therefore again, I often admonish that none do injury to the galileans; but suffer them to use their own Religion in the truth according to their own mind, rather using them with mercy, then with hatred for they are worthy who have so exceedingly endured calamity with patience.   pledges of his being admitted Master.  
The Doctors of Physic and Law do receive a Ring, a kiss and a Book of Justinian or Galen.  
Besides, when any Master or Doctor takes his degree, he must first kneel down to the Vicechancellor, than afterwards, rise, and kiss him, and he must kiss both the Proctors, and the Dean who presented him, and this is done before the whole University in the Congregation.  
When any one gives testimony that such a man is worthy of a degree, (without which none can proceed) he must kneel down before the Vicechancellor, and Proctors and speak, Bachelors for Bachelors, Masters for Masters, Doctors for Doctors, all kneel on a cushion, in their formalities before the Vicechancellor.  
The three Esquire Beadles at the Act, and upon any solemn occasion, besides their round velvet caps and guilded staffs, have each of them a chain of gold about their necks, which reaches four double below their middles.  
The other three Yeomen Beadles go more plain, with Prunello, or Calimancho, round caps and silver staves.  
When any preaches at the place called (Saint Mary's Church) one of the esquire Beadles who is called the Divinity Bedle) 
Was there any of this foppery when Christ or his Apostles went into the Temple or Synagogue? and I am sure he that is a Christian is like Christ, and he that is at this day his Minister, is found in their steps, out of all these inventions, imitations, sorceries and witchcrafts: Take with ye neither staff, nor scrip, nor money, and go and teach all Nations, and when they come back, lacked they any thing? and lo he is with his Ministers, to the end of the World, and doth not change, but is the same yesterday as to day and for ever.  with his gilded staff, is to fetch him that preaches from his chamber, and wait on him to the pulpit, and so back again.  
Tuesdays and Thursdays in Lent (by reason they dispute then, only tell eleven) are called gracious days.  
In some Colleges the Beadle-clerk do●h read (by virtue of his office) a piece of a chapter in one of the Gospels to the Doctors or Rector when he or they begin dinner, and when the Signior Doctor will have him leave off, he says to the boy, Tu autem, and the boy must answer, Domine miserere nostrum, that is, Thou Lord have pity on us: This last was practised very lately in the University, but whether they are shamed out of it, I cannot certainly affirm.  
But at this day in Queen's College the Junior Scholars, (whom they call Tabitors) repeat a piece of Aristotle's Logic 
Is this Popery yea or nay? and do ye think that there is so much done to the Pope himself? and do not these wretches at this day set themselves in God's room, and are worshipped as Gods, but indeed, they are nought but belly-gods; and if these Poperies and whoredoms do not stink and are rotten ripe for destruction, let the simple-hearted of the whole Nation judge.  without book, kneeling upon their bare knees to the Fellows at dinner, holding their hands , which signifies in the name of the holy cross to defend them from all danger. Where is the Jesuit and Popery these brawlers talk of? is he amongst the Quakers (so called) or amongst the Colleges, and Priests in Oxford?  
In some Colleges after dinner they drink one to another, or one table to another, bowing and putting off their Hats, and doing their honours to each other, as they call it, and this they call a grace cup, or cup of charity, and say it was first instituted, and is a good custom, to maintain charity amongst them.  
This drink is allowed to each, meal gratis.  
After Disputations are ended on Ash-wednesday, the determining Bachelors make a 
But the supper of the Lord, and the bread which came down from Heaven, they know not; but except ye eat his flesh, and drink his blood, ye have no part in him; and he that eateth his flesh, and drinketh his blood, shall hunger no more.  Feast in every College at night, which they call Aristotle's supper.  
In some Colleges in Oxford, as New-Colledge, All-Souls College, etc. the Scholars and Junior fellows must go bareheaded in the Court or Quadrangle, and that if no body be there or in fight, and though it rain never so much, under pain of not being fellow, and yet it may be this fellow will babble to others, & tell them that the Hat is an indifferent thing, and may be put off or kept on, and is but a civility, but himself is so uncivil, that he puts it off to stocks and stones, and in obedience to a Popish Law.  
At the place called Christs-Church College, the Scholars and Bachelors are not suffered to go out at the great Gate, or come in that way, in Honour and Reverence to the Dean and Canons Lodgings, though their Coaches * and Horses 

Quaery, Whether Coaches were not one of the greatest crimes against the late Prelacy, and did not the man called Dean Owen, mouth and roar against them and it?  
2. Quaery, Is not the man called Dean Owen far more fantastic and ridiculous in his habit, than any of the the old Prelates were? provided, he have on his ranting Bandstrings, his velvet Gippo with silver or gold Buttons, his triple Cuffs, his Gloves with gold fringe and embroidery, his Breeches with two or three sets of points, one above the other, insomuch that they make him straddle, and throw his legs like a Ranter, his great lawn boot-tops; I say, cloth him with this Harness, or with that which some in Oxford calls his thanksgiving suit, and set him on a Stage, and let his name be obscured; let sober men judge, whether he be most like a Mountebank, a Stage-player, or a Priest; but to make him more uggly, let him bring in his hand his fannatique Pamphlet, which he hath lately put forth against the people of God, called Quakers; in which scornful railing piece he calls them fannatique, and being it is in the Roman tongue, it may be the Pope hath given him an allowance for it.  
Quaery, Whether he did not write his Pamphlet in Latin on purpose to strengthen the Pope, and the rest of his fraternity beyond the Seas, he being by his name of Dean, the only El●e and Popeling left in this Nation; and knowing if any manner of truth take place, so as to go thorough with Reformation▪ Deans must down in the particular as well as in the general, and although he snort, swagger and snuff, and would be as big as Cardinal Woolsey, his late Predecessor (who built the Mass-house of which this man is Dean of) I say, query that in his heart. However, honest men bring him upon the Stage for his Deanery in the first place, and let his fantastic habit serve afterwards for a player if he will not work, though at the present he have the Pope's allowance and is more than full of scorn and derision against the innocent; but the ha●d of the Lord is against him, and the hurter of Israel shall not want his reward.  
Quaery, If that Dean Owen, and the rest of the fatlings with and about him, be not idle drones; Why do not he and they go among the Infidels, and there preach the Gospel (if that which they preach be Gospel?) I am sure, it is lemma ourself, chargeable, nor tied to a place; and saith the Apostle, so have I strove to preach the Gospel, where Christ hath not been named; but this man is so far from stirring out of his Popish den, that he hath done what in him lieth, to hinder those that freely receive and freely declare the Word of the Lord, and the Gospel of Jesus Christ, where he is not known, or at least forgotten, since and in the dark night of Apostasy, when Danes and all the Popish Priests who preach for hire, were set up. Oh! let their names be cast out as evil-doers, even so be it, Lord God most Holy, Just and True.   pass through it, and it is a common high way through it at this day for the Town; and this is always put in execution.  
The Doctors besides the distinction of facing of their Gowns with velvet, do constantly every first day and more (especially when they preach) wear many yards of black silk scarcenet about their necks, over their Gowns, which besides the great breadth of it, reaches down to the very ground, on both sides.  
And some of them preach with great triple Cuffs, French Bandstrings of 6 or 7 s. a pair, half Shirts ruffled out, velvet Gippoes' plain, or with silver Buttons, great sets of points round their knees, diamond Rings, Gloves with rich gold fringe, and embroidery, Canonical Coats; and much more such trumpery, which I believe, few that lives in Oxford can be ignorant of.  
As also, their wifes gorgeous apparel, the whole City takes notice of to be very excessive.  

Concerning their Preaching, and paying their first fruits, etc.  
WHen any Parsonage falls to the gift of the University, it is conferred on him who hath or can get most votes amongst the Masters; but if the Parsonage be not good, there is none of them will stand for it.  
When any benefice falls to any private College in the University, it is proffered by the Rector or his Deputy, at the meeting of the Fellows, or else at dinner or supper, to the Fellows according to their seniority, and they presently ask what it is worth a year; which if it be two hundred pound or thereabouts per annum, the Senior most commonly accepts of it. If but four score pound a year, or very far off from his Friends, or in a factious place, as they call it, amongst Anabaptists, Quakers, Army, Independants, or the like; then they accept not of it, but say, send it down; and so when none of the fatlings in the College accepts of it, some serviture or other, whose friends or allowance cannot maintain him longer in the University, is necessitated to accept of it; and hence it is a common Observation, that they that have good Friends or good fellowships, seldom go out into the Country, unless he get a very fat benefice.  
They who intent to get a personage, learn to write short hand, to furnish themselves with Sermons, go to hear all that preach, buy good store of practical Divines, conform themselves in their habit, sit in a place in the Mass-house, where they are sure to be seen by the great ones, which by way of jeer, some amongst them call, being of the Visable Church; and all this they do to get the Doctor's hands to their certificate, without which they cannot pass the Commissioners; but I never read of any but the Pope, and his offspring here in England, that did so much as pretend to know God, that used any of these practices, to make their Ministers; but these are of man and by man, and not of the Lord Jesus, and they (infallibly) run when he never sends them, and as themselves are, so are their converts, for at the best, they can but beget their own image, which may plainly be seen to be the very quintensence of the mystery of iniquity.  
They who desire rather to be chaplains to great persons, and Ladies, learn to dance and sing, and do their honours handsomely, study polite and humane learning, the better to please their Masters with fine words and elegant expressions, and these things they presume will make them acceptable, and these are not called (by them) plain Priests, but Gentlemen of Divinity.  
At the Act and Commencement, most of the bookseller's in town writes upon a great piece of board, a catalogue of the 
In London the Priest's works are stuck upon the posts and pissing places, the Reverend, D. W. works. And next to it, sticks a paper intimating where is a stage play, interlude or opera; under it the works of Mr. such a ones, direction for prayer or preaching, with such ribaldry, etc. and on the side hand of that sticks, the paper of a wide-mouthed Montebanck, who says he'll cure all the World of all diseases, but he deceives, and kills more than he cures, as doth the Priest who murders for his belly.  names and titles, of all such Sermons, preached at Funerals, on thanksgiving days, fast days, and the like occasions, also all tracts, treatises, meditations, controversies, translations out of other Authors, also all Catechisms, and the like which have been lately published, imprinted, or reprinted, which the Country Priests buy off, and carry home, so that thereby they may be prepared, and ready to preach almost upon any subject or occasion in a short times warning, three or four years after.  
Nay, are not there some Country Priests who allow stipends to their Friends in the City, who writ short hand; to take such men's Sermons who are counted best preachers, and every week to send them down by the post or Carrier into the Country against the next first day; Let every Priest exaamine his conscience; for this hath been practised in some places.  
It was used not long since in the Mass-house which is called Saint Mary's; for him that preached to say in his prayer, good Lord bless the right honourable the Chancellor, the revered, the Vice-chancellors, all the Doctors, both the proctor's, &c. and this was done to the Vice-chancellors face, for he is not to be absent, but this profane custom the Independents did nibble at about a year or two since, by which some of the most Popish did begin to imitate, but whether it be left, or at this day practised, I cannot Justly tell.  
At the Act on the day called 

Hen. 8 as soon as he had renounced the Pope, took to himself the Priests first fruits, which before were payable as an offering to the Pope: From Whence all the Kings, Queens and chief Magistrates have, and do at this day assume the same.  
And the office where these first-fruits are received, and by the Priest at this day paid, or offered, is kept in a house belonging to the Palace in Westminster, called by the name of Hell; I say in Hell the hirelings offer their first popish fruits: But from the eternal Hell there is no redemption: Therefore beware offerer and receiver, for that offering was, and is Popish and Hellish.   Saturnday, a profane fellow, (whom they call a Terrae filius) makes a profane Atheistique, obcoene filthy speech, in the Mass-house, where the next day the Drs. preach, and the day after again another Terrae filius comes up and does like his predecessor, and this is the fruit of them called Ministers.  
And although this cursed practice is constantly performed with, as much filthiness as it is possible any one thing can be of that nature, yet the University will not consent to lay it away; so that the next year the same abominations are like to be committed.  
Whereas reading of Homilies (which were the Sermons of the Fathers translated into English) was cried out against in King James, and Charles' reign by the then called Puritans.  
Now they writ the same out in paper (which is cut according to the bigness of their Bible, and put into the midst of their book) and this they read to the people, and is called the Ministers notes or expounding.  
All the Colleges in Oxford, except two or three at most, keep up their painted windows and 
* Martial. Bristol. Brevia●orbi. in his Apologetical History, Bertius and others, have seemed to justify the Romish Church, by saying that it was an evident sign that the rulers of England did in their consciences like the Romish Religion, because they liked and maintained their pictures and ceremonies.  wainscot, with the pictures of the Patriarches, Prophets, Apostles and Martyrs; so that it is said by Travellers, they are not inferior to them in the Jesuits Chapel in Antwerp.  
And although in some colleges, a piece of a window was taken down; yet in most Colleges they are not touched, under pretence it would be very chargeable to put up new glass, and that now, none did reverence them, etc. Besides, I do● believe they cannot space so much of their pride, and out of their bellies.  
But the Idolatrous Jews might have said far more for their calf which was made of gold, that it was of exceeding great value, and we are loath to burn it, or have it burnt, and lose the good gold, though it offended the Holy God; or might they no● have said, their groves were pleasant shades in so hot a Country as theirs, or might serve to build houses, or at least for fuel in the Winter? but since once abused, the Lord commanded that they should be burnt, (Mark) since they had been once abused, and Idolatry had been there committed, and they were set apart, and dedicated for a wrong end, they must be thrown down and burnt; and if the Scripture be your rule; by what rule stands your Mass-houses, which were erected, consecrated, and dedicated by the Pope, where sacrifices to Devils hath been offered, and the Name of the pure and Holy God been blasphemed, and thousands of poor souls have been deceived? But the Lord raised up himself, a Josuah, in our day, here; as heretofore, to have executed his commands upon the Idolatrous high places in England which were built for Idolatry, and they, and their Images, and Priest's should have been thrown down.  
For the neglect whereof the Lord is angry, and our Joshuah hath been unfaithful, or at least too too long defered it; for down they must, and if they were as high as the mount besides Samaria, they shall become a heap, or if they were as deep as jacths well, because their water stinks, and is not bought without money and without prize, but is a standing puddle, therefore they shall be dried up; or if they were as ancient as jerusalem itself, where the Lord of life was crucified by a cursed Law, (as bad as that which upholds the Priest and his Mass-house) I say if they were as high as the mount, or as deep as the Well, or as ancient as jerusalem; or as tall as Babylon the tower of confusion; yet they shall become an utter Chaos, and a confused heap, and the confusion which is preached in them is their figure; and although there were in them a brazen Serpent of Moses own making; having been once polluted, it must be broken in pieces, and he that stands for them cannot stand, and he that stamps them not to dust, shall be broken to pieces. Come up Priest with all thy trash, parts, 
Read these Scriptures. Micah 1. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, Deut. 12. 2. 3. 2 Kings 18. 4. and 23. 6. Leu. 18. 3, 4. 25. 27. Exod. 23, 24. Deut. 12. 4. 2 Corin. 5. 17. Rev. 18. 4. Gen. 35 4. Num 33. 52. Deut. 12. 2, 3, 4. Isa. 27. 9 Zeph. 1. 4. Rev. 2. 14. Deut. 7. 25. 26. 9 21. Zech. 13. 2. Hos. 2. 16. 17. Isa. 1. 29. and 2. 20, 21, 22. Jug. 2. 13, 14. Isa. 30. 22. 23  and parcels, thy Jewish Tithes and Popish vestments, bring all the Orders the Pope hath left thee, fetch with thee thy canonical weeds, bring all thy stuff upon thy back if thou comest (which God hates) Bring all thy dark deceit under thy black long robe, and put all thy bloody persecution into the Scale, and yet thou art to light, and by and in the light seen to be lighter than vanity itself, show thy Masse-house inside and out, with all her christened bells which jangled the Papists to her, to hear their Mass; and now you called Protestants, to hear the hireling speak a divination of his own brain, who killeth men for his belly.  
Bring all the Popish crosses upon her top, and sides with all her painted windows & whited walls (thine own image) leave no part of her fair outside behind thee; And although she hath been salted, blessed & consecrated by thy Antecessor, and many a goodly monument is in her, and very many pounds thou gets yearly by her; yet be not grieved to see her fall, or made a dung-house your their mother Church, Grandum Paul's; the temple of Diana of whom these whelps were born, wherein the hireling preaches, trades, & gets vast sums, by boasting in the Saints, Prophets, Christ, the Apostles and holy men's words, which were not given forth to be traded in, in the idolatrous Mass-houses, by these hired men.  
I might also ask the Priest, why that so many of the Scriptures are left out of the Bible? or whether the Pope did give him the same authority to tithe the Scriptures (and keep them to himself) as well as men's estates? and whether they are not wilfully omitted, because they make against the Hireling? or which of the copies we are to believe, since there is fifteen of the New-Testament? Or what translation we are to give most credit to, since that of the Genevah differeth from that of King Jame●? and Br●ughton the great Linguist, says that the translation of the old Testament, is perverted in eight hundred forty eight places? so that it's plain we must neither believe Priest of England, nor Pope of Rome for the interpretation of Scriptures, but even that which gave it forth, which was before they were, which is the interpretator one of a thousand.  

Here followeth a Catalogue of those Scriptures which are mentioned, but not inserted in the Bible.  
The prophecy of Enoch mentioned, Judas 14.  
The book of Jehu mentioned, 2 Chron. 20. 34.  
The book of the battles of the Lord, mentioned, Numbers 21. 14.  
The book of Nathan the Prophet,  
the book of Iddo,  
The Prophecy of Ahijah mentioned, 2 Chron. 9 29.  
the book of Hosai conserning Manasses, 2. Chron. 33. 19  
the book of Shemajah the Prophet mentined. 2 Chron. 12. 15.  
the book of Jasher mentioned, 2 Sam. 1. 18.  
the book of Gad, 1 Chron, 29. 29.  
The first Epistle to the Corinthians mentioned, 1 Cor. 5. 9  
The first Epistle to the Ephesians mentioned Ephes. 3. 3.  
The Epistle to the Laodiceans mentioneded Colos. 4. 16.  
The books of Henoch mentioned in the Epistle of Thaedeus Origen and Tertullian,  
The Books of Solomon's three thousand Proverbs, and one thousand songs, with his Books of the nature of Trees, Plants, Beasts, and Fishes mentioned, 1 Kings 4. 32. 33.  
The Epistle fathered upon Barnabas;  
the revelation of Peter;  
the Doctrine called the Apostles, mentioned in Eusebius, Lib. 3. cham 22.   
So that I say it is very possible that what did not make for the Pope, and the advantage of his hirelings, was, and is on purpose left out; for it is like the first Cannon that warranted the books of the New Testament to us, was made by a council at Carthage which was subservient to Popery several hundred years; after the death of Christ, many parts of the New Testamant, which are now allowed, being till then in dispute and denied, as Eusebius says, namely the revelation of John, the Epistle of Judas, the last Epistle of Peter, the second and third Epistles of John the Epistle of james; See Eusebius. Lib. 3. chap. ●2.  
So that if the Council of Carthage did not distinguish those Scriptures which were written by divine inspiration, from those which were not, the Priests of England may yet go to Carthage or the Pope, the Priests Original, to know the truth, but I believe that neither council of Carthage, Pope of Rome, or assembly of Priests in England, with the help of their two Universities, (which are their two eyes picked out of the Whore's head) can interpret Scripture aright, but for the most part are, and have been doers of wrong, and that knows not the Scriptures nor that which gave them forth.  
Therefore Countrymen consider these men; wise men believe them not, for as sure as the Lord lives, they are a lie; Princes be not deceived by them, lest ye perish in the gainsaying with them. Men of War once again, draw out your spiritual weapons, and defend yourselves, and rid your hands of that Popish, Jewish and Anti-christian power, which in this the Lords day could not stand, but by your consents.  
Some of ye had bread in your own houses, and have ye spent all your former estates, and quite lost your possession? and will ye spendthrifts go to buy of a Bankrupt Priest the fag-ends of Popery, such as preach in Mass-houses, and compass the whole earth for their gain, from their quarters? Oh! believe them not, their best deeds are Forgery, their assureances are naught, their words are canceled; the Law giver hath viewed their filthy statutes, the mighty-Councellor hath broke their bonds asunder; their best seals is but a waffer, and what they sell, is stolen from their Neighbour; and their gatherings are crumbling, and molders, like the very dust which is their meat, an● there they are; and for that they murder.  
Friends, I know you see the thief; Oh! Consent not with him; if ye do, ye perish.  
I say, there was that among ye, and in ye once, that was for God, & utterly against the Popish brawling Hireling; & verily that which is for him in this the day of the Lamb's persecution, is absolutely against the true and living God; who covered your heads in the day of battle. When I am sure it was not unknown to many of ye, that the Tithe-mongers were (as one man) your implacable enemies.  
My dear Friends whom, the Lord witnesseth, I love, and my soul truly traveleth for; Consider what ye were ten years since, and what year now; feel in yourselves, and speak with the witness of God in your Consciences, for that's it which I speak to, and let us be upon a search, in the cool of the day, laying aside rage, fury and preferment, and see who they are, and what they are, that ye are growing to, and who grows to ye, and who grows from ye.  
The people of God ye have shamefully persecuted, and thrust out of your Army, recruiting yourselves (in my knowledge) in their rooms with very vicious and wicked men; and doth the Hireling tell ye that this is a good way to prevent Heresies factions and rents in your Army? Repent of these deal, lest the Lord forthwith rend ye all to pieces, and there be not one of ye left that hath a hand in these wickednesses, to pi●h against the Wall. Therefore my Friends, in time consider what ye are growing to, and what ye are growing from, thus much I may justly tell ye, that vice is not punished, or in the least looked after, as it hath been heretofore; Nor indeed is it like, when as ye put honest men from among ye, for no other cause, but for bearing their Testimonies against vice; for the breach of any manner of Law whatsoever, either military or civil, was not so much as laid to mine, and many others charges, who were most shamefully entreated and thrust out from among ye.  
And I may farther tell ye, if ye proceed in these cruelties; ye will in a very short time be as unfit to fight the Lords battles, as those were, who fell by your sword; for from the Lord God I declare it unto ye all, That for the present the sword of the living God is against ye both; and although the Hireling may (I say) seemingly fortify ye, and tell ye that persecution is a good way to preserve from rents; Yet in dear love to ye all, I declare that if ye do not speedily repent, whilst the power is in your hands, and once again become little in your own eyes, and repair the cruel breaches that ye have made, and suffered to be made upon the innocent; Verily ye shall be rend, and with the Hireling fall, and perish like your own dung▪  
How can this Army look the Nation in the face, and put men out from among them for their inoffensive conscience, the very thing which drew all men to ye? and have ye like Machevillians served your own turns, and have ye nothing else to do, but to revenge yourselves upon yourselves, and make a prey upon your brethren? but such do the Lord hates, and it cannot possibly long stand, for oppression is one of the wo●st foundations that ever was laid; and if ye had been faithful, the wicked Priest had never been suffered to have murdered any for his belly, or have destroyed any man for not paying Jewish or Popish Tithes; and the blood of one innocent man is able to subvert a Government and overthrow a Nation; but that evil should fall upon one of ye, is far from my heart (although your cruel and unjust deal to meward, and many of us hath given cause enough for us to have cursed ye in the bitterness of our spirits) Yet the Lord who knows the secrets of all men's hearts bears me witness I do not only freely forgive ye, but have a dear and unexpressibly love to every soul among ye, and as for O. P. the Lord witnesseth for me, with what integrity, and simplicity of soul I loved him above any man upon the face of the whole earth, whilst he served the Lord, and stood in his council, and to this minute, I have done him no ill. Now therefore be wise, O ye Kings, and be instructed ye Judges of the earth, seek ye the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling, kiss the Son, lest he be angry & ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled, but a little, blessed are all they that put their trust in him; let not the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thought although the Kings of the earth may set themselves, and the Rulers take council together against the Lord and against his anointed, saying, let us break their bonds asunder, and cast away their cords from us; but he that siteth in Heaven shall laugh, and the Lord shall have them in derision, then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure.  
And friends, the truth is now declared as it was of old, by the stammering tongue, and it is the illiterate that have the gift of tongues, and though his visage be marred, and his shape uncomely to the vultrous eye; yet the deaf hear him, the dumb sing, and the lame leap for joy; and that which was, and hath for a long time been slain, is made alive; and the mighty God of the oppressed is arisen in great strength, so, as he will slay all that live in pleasure, fullness and wantonness; and very many shall the slain of the Lord be; and those who refuse to hear the Prophet in all things, shall be cut off; and terrible will our God be to all the workers of iniquity, for assuredly the wicked and all those that forget God, shall be turned into Hell.  
And I looked, and lo a Lamb stood on the Mount Zion, and with him ●n hundred forty and four thousand, having his Fathers Name written in their foreheads, and they sung as it were a new song before the Throne, and before the four beasts, and the Elders, and no man could learn that song, but the hundred and forty four thousand, Which were Redeemed from the earth.  
These are they which were not defiled with women, for they are Virgins: These are they which follow the Lamb, whethersoever he goeth: These were Redeemed from among men, being the first fruits unto God. and to the Lamb.  
And in them there was found no guile; for they are without fault before the Throne of God.  
And I saw another Angel fly in the midst of Heaven, having the Everlasting Gospel, to preach unto them that dwell on the Earth, and to every Nation, and Kindred, and Tongue, and people, saying, with a loud voice, Fear God, and give Glory to Him, for the hour of his Judgement is come, & worship Him that made Heaven and Earth, & the Sea, and the Fountains of waters.  
And there followed another Angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great City, because she made all Nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her Fornication.  
And the third Angel followed them, saying, with a loud voice; If any man worship the Beast and his Image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand; The same shall drink the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation, and he sha●l be tormented with fire and brimstone, in the presence of the Holy Angels, and in the presence of the Lamb.  
And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up, for ever and ever; and they shall have no rest day nor night, who worship the Beast and his Image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.  
And I heard the Angel of the waters say, Thou art Righteous, O Lord which art, and waste, and shalt be, because thou hast Judged thus; For they have shed the blood of the Saints and Prophets, and thou hast given them, blood to drink; for they are worthy. And I heard another out of the Altar say, Even so, Lord God Almighty, true and Righteous are thy Judgements; for they are the spirits of Devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the Kings of the earth; and of the whole World; to gather them to the battle of the great day of God Almighty. And I saw as it were a Sea of glass mingled with fire, and them that had gotten the Victory over the Beast, and over his Image, and over his mark, and over the number of his names, stand on the Sea of glass, having the harps of God; and they sung the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb; saying, Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; Just and True are thy ways, thou King of Saints. Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and give glory to thy Name? For thou only art Holy, for all Nations shall come and worship before thee; for thy Judgements are made manifest. (Even so be it, Amen; Come Lord). Rev. 14. 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11. Rev. 16. 5, 6, 7. and 14. Rev 15. 2, 3.    
Given forth in the 4th. Month, 16●8. Bianca E B.  
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A WORD  
To those old Creatures, who are old in iniquity, and in the fallen state, yet deny falling away; who say, once in Christ, and ever in Christ, when as it may be, they are at the very same time in a very great rage, disputing and pleading for sin, Term-of-life.  
I Say to such unprofitable talkers, who are willing, and by their own consent do contract with Hell and Death, who stretch themselves forth in big swelling words, and think themselves, it may be, much better, because they are crowded into gathered Churches (as they call them) and it may be of a truth can say something of an ancient, and past experience, moving, or appearance of God, to and in them, whereupon their big word and wide-mouthed-boast is; when the poor Souls, or rather proud Pharisees, are at the very top of their vaunting to wit) once in Christ, and ever in Christ; such I many times am moved, ask, Whether they are obeying the Command, doing the Work & Will of Christ, at this time, now, and ever? (Mark) Once in Christ and ever in Christ; and I am sure, he that for ever abides in Christ, must now and ever do the Will and Commands of Christ, and they are not grievous, nor unholy, neither can that man which is impure, imperfect or unholy, observe, obey or do them in the love and belief of them; and He now and ever Redeems, and saves his people from their sins (note that) for he which sinneth is of the ●evil; Yea, though he be but proud and covetous, and as full of persecution as too too many professors are, which is of the old creature, and such are not new creatures, nor in Christ Jesus▪ now and ever; neither are they purified, as he is pure, who is the substance, the one only one thing needful, who is the beginning and end of all things, himself without beginning or end, who is not afar of, but nigh at hand, and a ready helper unto all them who fear him; wh● is the root oneness ●esse, the Promise come, the Truth, the Oath and admits not of any swearing whatsoever; that's his Command, and it is not grievous for his yoke is easy, and his burden is light, in, and by whom I see light who says, Swear not at all; And he doth not reap, where he hath not first sown; For he doth enlighten every man that cometh into the World, Male and Female, Bond and Free, Scythian and Barbarian; and a measure of himself is given to every man continually, to profit with all, note, to every man; He was not so selfish as many of ye are, who are in this, and that, and the other form (I do not say all) who do seclude al● that are not with ye in your set days, bread, wine and Baby Baptism, out of the Everlasting Kingdom, which was before your fables were But he that is in Christ i● a new creature; (Mark) he is, he doth not say, he was, or he shall be, and so warm himself by his own coals, by only saying, the Righteousness of Chri●t, the Righteousness of Christ, is sufficient. But I say, he which confesseth and forsaketh his sins shall find mercy; (Mark that) and forsaketh his sins, coming to see the exc●eding sinfulness of ●●n and confesseth and forsaketh with repentance, never to be repent of; That is it which is ever in Christ, and shall find mercy▪ and as many as are led by the Spirit of God, are now, and ever, the sons of God; Such are new Creatures, and only they; So he who is proud, heady, high minded, covetous, envious, voluptuous, seditious, a r●●ler, brawler, striker, liar, persecutor etc. is not in, but out of Christ Jesus, is no new creature, is not led by the Spirit of God. For that which is in, & of Christ Jesus, is equal & doth not hurt the creature, the handy work of God the Creator; but strikes at the power which captivates the creature, and turns men from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to the Power of God; and that weapon which convinceth and coverts men and women in any measure to God-ward, is not carnal but Spiritual, but the outward sword in its place I own, which only is to be laid upon the evildoer, let it be exactly done; but to touch no man for his Conscience or principle in Religion, provided it be not bloody, so let the bloody hearted Priest look into himself, who murders men for his belly; How much better is that then the Romish Jesuit, who kills a Protestant for a Heritck; and I am sure, those who do so, are not in Christ Jesus nor new creatures, nor in the Spiri●; but of the flesh of old Cain, and in the condemnation; For the Son came not to destroy, but to save men's lives; And he and his Ministers struck at, & at this day do strike at the power only, which captivates the creature [to wit] the spiritual wickedness which lodgeth within; Which the carnal weapon cannot reach, and they struck only at the Heresy, and the error, and that which lead into the error and Heresy, and not at the creature; neither strove they with flesh and blood, (nor for earthly benefit) Nay, they were full of patience, gentleness, long-suffering, forbearing, forgiving all and suffered all things, Yea, themselves to be defrauded, and laboured with their own hands, and were burdensome to no man.  
But there is no condemnation to those that are in Christ Jesus (note) that are in him; and who are in him? Those that walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit; for those who walk after the flesh, cannot please God, and to be but so so much as carnally minded, is death, and the death is not in the Life, which Life, is the Light of men.  
But some there were who did taste of the power of an endless life, & yet fell away; and some there were who were grafted into the Vine, and yet became degenerate plants, and the the righteous man may forsake his righteousness; for some were washed, others cleansed or emptied, and yet returned like the sow to the mire, and the dog to the vomit; so that it is plain that a man may fall away, as Lucifer did, and to the same place; for although they once knew God, and have tasted, indeed of the power of God, & the endless Life, yet if they turn that grace of God into wantonness, oppression, pride and excess, & live above the witness of God, which is a forgetting of God, they shall with the wicked at last be turned into Hell. Then it will not be a saying, Once in Christ and ever in Christ; but dying in pride, oppression, persecution and covetousness, which is the root of all evil; I say to such, Once in Hell and ever i● Hell. Therefore on this side, time and the grave, whilst ye have time prise it, for the time present is all that is yours, and the days past ye cannot recall, and who knows what one day may bring to pass? Wherefore in the fear of the Lord, lay aside your empty drowsy, and only professing his Name, and being in him, whose Life ye are out of; And turn into him the Light, the Life, who doth enlighten every man that comeeth into the World, and that Life and no other, is the Light of men; him it is by whom the World was made, before it was made, which is, which was, and is to come, and is already come, who is the Word of God, the Original, and first born of every creature, the Everlasting Gospel, which hath been preached to every creature, who shows, reproves & checks in secret, for all your evil deeds done openly and secretly, and is as secret, as your most beloved secrets. Oh! wait upon him, and believe in him, for he that knows, obeys and abides in the Life, is a cohire, and hath Life, and shall live for ever; but if ye know him, and obey him not, he is your condemnation; wherefore let him that knows the Lord, fear him, stand in awe and sin not, And that is, once in Christ, and ever in Christ.  
So blessed is that servant, whom his Lord when he cometh, shall find doing his Will, he shall make him Ruler over all his goods; but if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My Lord deferreth his coming, and in the mean space be a companion with drunkards; the Lord of that servant shall come in a day, when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not ware of, and shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with hypocrites, where there is weeping, wailing, and knashing of teeth. Therefore, watch continually, and pray without ceasing, for you know not what hour the Lord, cometh, and he that is not upon his guard will be taken, and made a perpetual prisoner.  
But it may be alleged, and to me it hath been by the highest professor that I yet ever met with, either preacher or hea●er, hath affirmed it come as his doctrine, and belief, that the be●t of men, & Saints do, & will sin and have their failings whilst they are in the body, & the best of men, that ever were, had their failings to their dying day; to which I positively answer, that which is in the least faileable cannot be sanctified for that which sanctifieth is infallible, and it is impossible that sin and fallibility can be joined to, or with him who is infallible, and hath not union with any manner of sin, though but a sinful thought; for all manner of sin is evil, and cometh of evil, and is of the evil one, who is as faileable as the faileable accursed doctrine of imperfection, and it, as him; for he is in it, and it in him, and he is the only Minister and Father of it; but every gift of God is perfect; So that imperfection is the Devil's gift, but every good and perfect gift, cometh from and is of God (Mark) but imperfections, sin and failings and all that fails whatsoever, though but an evil thought, cometh from, and is of the imperfect and faileable Devil who abode not in the infallibility; Wherefore he fails to be saved, but is a Devil although he believe, and they are but poor, or rather no Saints that are not cleansed, purged, washed, and sanctified throughout, ye are cleansed, ye are washed ye are sanctified throughout; and as he is, so are we in this present World, and he that fails to witness this condition, on this side the grave, though he may be covinced of the very truth itself, he may be called, but never chosen.  
Friends, it is a high state, yea the very highest on this side the grave, I do not say its impossible not to fail, and alone, to live, move, and do all to, and for the praise and glory of God, and to live and abide in the infallible and not to fail; but, as the Lords witness I declare it, He who lives and dies in his sins, imperfections and failings doth fail, and falls short of that Kingdom, where the imperfect or impure cannot enter; for its the pure in heart that sees God, but the wicked he beholds a far off; and the sinner cannot stand before the righteous God in judgement; wherefore as many as be perfectly minded, work out your salvation with fear and trembling, for the night cometh, wherein no man can work.  
And there is another sort of idle people, who say Christ hath taken away the guilt of sin, but not the presents of sin, (Oh! seared conscience that hath no guilt for sin) I do not say he hath taken the Devil out of Hell, or J●das from his own place, neither do I say or think the Devil doth at this day cease to seek whom he may devour; Nay I know he is the Prince of the power of the air, and the Kingdom of darkness is his; Sodom is his throne, and Egypt, and the dwellers there are altogether within his Dominion, Mystery-Babylon & her Merchants are his own, & all the children of disobedience, to & all who live in the mystery of iniquity he is a Lawmaker; also I say he is a roaring Lion, and continually seeketh whom he may devour, and the most upright that is, or ever was upon the earth, he may tempt, yea, Christ himself, as the words of the Devil recorded in Scripture do testify, but it's no sin to be tempted, but the sin is to yield to, and do the will of the temptor, and commit the sin; but blessed are they who stand in the power and fear of the Lord▪ and endure the temptation, Adam was never accursed until he had yielded, taken and eaten; so its sin acted, and the purpose of your corrupt hearts to sin, if not gross yet little sins, and at least to have your failings term of life, and that's it which hinders the union, keeps ye in the unbelief and separates betwixt ye and your maker, and the wages of s●n is death, and such as ye sow, such shall ye reap, and if with the hands which are defiled (and not in the pure hope which is perfect) ye blow and sow corruption; What can ye expect to reap, or be in the harvest or day of the Lord, when he makes up his jewels, but tares, corruption or reprobate silver; and of failings and imperfection, ye can reap no other thing; for according to your faith so will it be unto ye, and failings will fail to be saved, or enter into the rest of him that is unfallible and without fail saves all those that come unto him by faith and a good conscience void of offence towards God and man, (mark) a good conscience towards God, and void of offence towards man, not striking, spilling of blood, or reaping carnals where they have sow●, neither spiritual nor carnal.  
And although imperfection is the practice, and general preached and received doctrine (of the Church of England so called) I utterly deny it; neither do I trust to be saved as they believe; but I believe they will take it ill, if I should say, they who believe th●y may live and die in some failings should not go to Heaven; or if I should say, that is the Hypocrites hope, and will fail; But I do say, if they say its the true hope or living faith which is of God in & by which the Just lives or if that he which lives and intends to die in some failings, says the Lord lives with Jeremiah, I say, he, or they swear falsely.  
But if we continue faithful, or full of faith in our measures to the end, we shall be saved without fail▪ for he that is in us is greater than he that is in the World, and he that abides in him is pure without failings, and the wicked one cannot touch him though he may attempt it hourly, for a stronger than he keeps the house, and he cannot enter but by our consents, otherwise the whole creation of mankind would be the Devils; for he is the enemy of mankind and his nature is to devour; but the true light which doth enlighten every man that cometh into the World, and the light with which every man is enlightened, comprehends the darkness; but the Devil and darkness cannot comprehend the light; for he that is in us is far greater than he, and is quick and powerful, and divides betwixt the precious thoughts and the vile, before they come to actions; I say if the watch be kept, and the light believed in, which is in ye, & infallibly is the l●fe of men and shows man all his sins and failings, I say it will discern the thoughts, and dash the brains of Babylon's children against the wall; Yea that brain which invents and deviseth evil, and break the cockatrice egg before it is an egg, and mischief shall not be hatched or prod●cted; and the same is the sure word of prophecy, which if ye take heed unto, ye may infallibly do well, though it be as a light shining in a dark place, tell the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts, for which, wait that ye may be delivered from all your sins and failings, and become the Sons of God.  
For as much then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind, for he that hath suffered in the flesh, hath ceased from sin 1 Pet. 4. 1.  
Therefore let the time p●st be si ficient, for the end of all things is at hand▪ and to be carnally minded is death.  
And if any man have not the spirit of Christ, he is none of his, and if Christ be in ye, the bod●●s dead because of sin.  
By a Friend to perfection, and a believer in that unfallible Jesus, who saves his people from their sins, failings, and imperfections, but a professed enemy to that Hellish doctrine of imperfection.  
E. B.  
THE END   

A WORD  
To such Rulers and Magistrates who Whip, cause or suffer to be whipped the Saints of the most High, for Vagabonds (among whom there are no Beggars) and sends them to Prison for not Swearing, and not taking an Oath, to abjure that which themselves may be found in, and requires Bonds of the upright in heart, for the good behaviour, a thing which themselves are not truly in; for that is no good behaviour, that oppresseth the oppressed, and doth violence to the afflicted, adds grief to him that is a man of sorrows, and grinds him to dust that is by all men already trodden upon, as the very mire in the streets, mocks and derides him that is already the byword of the Fool, and song of the Drunkard; and imprisons him who is the Lord's Feee-man, and in the Lord are we made Free, and more than Conquerors over what its possible for cruel men to do, or suffer to be done unto Us.  
To such I say,  
IN stead of executing, and making just Laws which should reach that of God in every man's conscience, and be a hook in the nose of the evil doer, and break the jaws of the wicked, I say, in stead of that ye break the hearts of the righteous, many of ye, by exercising only your own wills; others by straining the too many grievous acts, and cruel Edicts lately made, by virtue whereof, together with your insolency, and tyrannical wills, ye snatch up the people of God, as they travel up and down about their lawful occasions, and this is common with some of ye to do; when the man is not above ten, fifteen, or twenty miles from his outward home, nor out of the same County, wherein he, or they were born; going to, coming from, or being in a meeting with the Lords people.  
The inferior Magistrate, who for the most part are made drunk with rage, and the zeal-drunk Prosolytes who lie in wait as a Troop of evil-doers in every corner, hales the friend of the Lord before that Magistrate and if he be good for no other thing, he'll serve to swear, and to bear false witness for the Beast, and against the innocent; and to cause him to be whipped for a Vagabond, and committed to a bad prison among thiefs and murderers, under whose commitment, and cruel usages several of the precious Lambs and servants of the Lord, have laid down the outward man, and finished their testimony with their blood. But let all such Magistrates know from the highest to the lowest, that blood will pursue the vagabond; and let all such swearers know that the curse of God is entailed upon the h●use of the swearer, and let all the heathen round about know, that he which whips stocks, prisons & tortures the creature for his religion, shall never turn any from darkness to light; nor from the power of Satan to the power of God, although he may mangle and kill the creature, and wholly mar the workmanship of the Creator; But the true weapon which converts, is not a carnal whip, but a spiritual sword which will slay the persecutor, and eats up the habitation of the evil doer, and drives out the transgressor; who from the beginning was a fugitive, and a Vagabond; who slew his righteous brother, as ye do now, because he was righteous, and for the same cause; and the flesh always persecuted the spirit, but the spiritual man never persecuted any (mark) that, not any, so be certain ye are wrong, and doing of wrong, and the wages of unrighteousness if ye repent not ye shall receive.  
And it may be, some others according to the example of Jesus our Lord, are moved of him to visit those who are so imprisoned by ye, as is before expressed, and to Minister to their necessities as need requireth; but your in humanity is such that ye have oftentimes taken them up as Vagabonds 
* But the wholesome Act made by Queen Elizabeth was to whip Vagabonds, and sturdy beggars, mark, and sturdy beggars, and if the richest heathen in the Nation can make it appear that any one that's called a Quaker, & is so owned by us, hath asked a morsel of his bread or a draught of his drink, he shall have a hundred fold requital, for a beggar we deny, as a thief, for that which begs covets and desireth that which is none of his own, and that which covets will steal; but the Queen who made a good Act, and is said to be one of our best Princes, her's ye have most wickedly perverted; and wretched Queen Mary who was bloodier than the Boar of York, and made a cursed Act against the Protestants of 3. month's imprisonment her's ye have made 6. so compare yourselves with the best of Princes and the worst of Tyrants, and see who ye are most like.  and whipped them also, of the very same cup many of the most dear and precious Ministers and messengers of the Lord have drank and tasted; being moved of the Law, to pass from City to City, and from Country to country to visit the seed of God as the holy men of God did of old; and did not sit down in a personage house and so became the hireling of a Parish (constituted and appointed by the 
¶ Pope Dionysius was the first that caused the division of Parishes in England, and Augustine a Monk▪ the first that preached up tithes, to Edelbert, King of Kent.  Pope, against whom ye would force others to swear) And there Simon Magus-like, pretend to sell that which cannot be bought for tenths nor fi●ts; but let their money and Ministry (or rather mystery of iniquity) perish. I say they did not creep into a Mass-house: with four or five jangling bells in it; and there sing David's Psalms in Rhyme, and meeter, step from the Pew to the Pulpit: and there tell the people a story by the glass, and exact the tenth prt of their labours, and estates for it; and these brawlers are upheld by an Act of Parliament, by which ye called Justices, & Judges with the composition of your own wills, pretend to Act, and imprison, stock and whip true men as Vagabonds, but it's because yourselves are out of the council, and dwell not in the habitation of God, and are real wanderers, although ye may have a house called after your own names as Cain had: a City after his sons; and yet was a Vagabond.  
And as for the oath of objuration me thinks ye need not be so busy to administer to others to swear against the Pope, and all Popery when your Mass-houses stinks so much of Popery. Your laws your Terms, your Courts, your Universities, your Colleges, your Orders, your Christened Bells j●ngling to the Mass-house, with the Pope's Cross on the top of her; your Lammas, Michaelmas, Christmas, and Candlemas, your Tithes, your Gleab Land, your parsonage-houses, your Mass-houses standing East and West, your mortuaries, your burial of your dead.  
Your manner of mourning for 

Moondeag from the Idol of the Moon.  
Tuescodeag from the Idol Tuesco a goddess.  
Wooden'sdeag from the Idol Woodden one of the Saxon gods.  
Thorsdeag from the Idol Thor. now called Jupiter.  
Frydeag from the Idol Friga another of the Saxons gods now called Diana or Venus.  
Saterdeag from the Idol of Saturn.   them; etc. the names of your months, your weeks, and days of your w●ek; naming and sprinkling of your children, your wha● not which pertains to your worship, and is not all this and very many other things which ye use, Popish, Jewish and heathenish? and yet ye would force the innocent whom ye know for conscience cannot swear at all; to take an oath to abjure the Pope, which would be to swear against yourselves, but because of oaths the Land mourns.  
And if I hear a wicked wretch swear, and many times blaspheam the name of the dreadful and living God with bloody oaths, and if I complain of that wicked man to a Magistrate that he hath, in my hearing, sworn many oaths, to the grief of my very soul, and dishonour of my maker, but except I will also swear and enter into the same sin, & the guiltless make himself guilty, he which did in the first place offend the pure God, shall not be punished; but on the contrary if the true man do but speak to this man called Justice in plainness of speech; such as the servants used to the Lord of li●e: and the same Lord to his servants, or do not put of my hat to him, and bow which I dare not do le●st my Maker should take me away, I say its much if I go not to prison myself, or at least exceedingly rebuked, which I myself am a witnessed off, and this is turning of Justice backward, so that except a man will break a positive command of the Lord Jesus, the sword will not be laid upon the evil doer; but is born in vain, and not for the praise of them which do well; the wicked Magistrate bids me ●wear, and says I may swear, or take a judicial oath; the Papists he says bow down to an image, and wear a crucifix or an agnus dei about thy neck, it's but to put thee in mind and for a remembrance; but Christ the oath and hope in me, who was before judicial oaths or images were, says swear not at all, and above all things my brethren says James swear not; and I had rather be accounted as one of his brethren, by keeping the commands of the Lord Jesus by not swearing, then by swearing to be made a friend to Caesar or a companion to the Prince & the command of the most high God is, thou shalt not make to thyself any graven image nor bow down to them, and so let the Papists and ye, part this matter between ye, for ye are a like guilty, the one breaks the command of God, the other of Christ; and he that breaks one is guilty of all.  
The King bid or commanded that all should bow to his image which he had set up, the three children refused, and obeyed God rather than the accursed Edicts of a King, the King gave command that they should be thrown into the fire, and into the fire they were cast with their hats on; were they Rebels, yea or nay? and whether is it better to obey God or men judge ye? But except I will rebel against the Lord, and make myself a transgressor of the royal Law; I shall not have the benefit of your Law, and except I will swear▪ I cannot descend or come by my own, nor hardly keep myself out of a Goal, So vile are your Laws, and many the Ministers of them; and the guilty do go free, and the heart of the righteous is grieved, and the righteous man doth perish; and few or none lays it to heart; but the Lord our God, treasureth up all these things with many more of your iniquities, and if ye think he will not visit for these things, ye deceive yourselves, and are deceived because the truth doth not guide ye●.  
The good Magistrate is worthy of double honour but it consisteth not in my hat; for that waxeth old, as doth my o●her garments, and may be burnt, and turned to ashes, and become dung, or I may throw my hat upon the ground and set my feet upon i●, is then the Magistrates honour in the dust? & do I tread upon his honour when I tread upon mine own hat? Nay, the good Magistrate is still worthy of double honour, and for a good man some will dare to die, and so I dare for the good Magistracy; ●ut to sawn & c●ing to any man's person, I may not; It is the good Magistrate that's worthy of double honour, the office (good Magistrate) in the man, not the bad man because he is in the office; and to every ordinance of man I submit & am no rebel, therefore let me (and all God's people) have the benefit of your best Laws. And your worst doth not require me to put of my hat, swear, or appear by an Attourny, myself being in the Nation and willing to appear, but admit ye had a corrupt Law, or an act for every violence which is acted; I believe some of ye heretofore when ye lived under the oppression of wicked Magistrates and unrighteous Laws, (which are yet standing) would have said that the welfare of the people was above the 
Salus populi suprema lex.  Law.  
Paul says that an oath is for the end of strife among men, (mark) but the same Paul says walk not as men but as Saints; and although they of old time swore to the Lord and performed their oaths to the Lord, and the Lord performed THE substance to them which oaths was a type of, and the oath and vow is come in the flesh, who says swear not at all; but if Paul or John who was the greatest born among women should should affirm or had affirmed it to be lawful to swear, i'll not believe John but rather choose to hear, believe and obey the great & mighty Prophet in all things, but the persecutor, and he that will not hear this Prophet, and bring all his deeds to the light, and to the witness of God in him, and there try if they be wrought in God, shall be cut off; Notwithstanding he may pretend to have an Edict or a law from man, for what he doth. And if he commit murder, and all manner of wickedness most greedily, man can pardon one another by an Act, or call it chance-medley, man slaughter, petti-laseny, etc. and Hang another man for the fame fault because he cannot read, and this amongst the rest is persecution, and is not equal nor doing as a man would be done unto.  
And like a naked and simple hearted man, I shall hear declare unto all the world the words of the living God to me when I was but only able to die for the truth, and not able to write, dispute or controvert for it, when as heretofore I have met with an able skilful cunning deceiver.  
This was the word of the Lord, and thus said the Lord unto me, If an Angel should pretend to come from heaven and should affirm unto thee, that that Ministry is of God or Christ, which in the least persecutes, stocks, whips imprisons, strikes or causeth to be strucken, swears or causeth others to swear for his dishonest gain believe him not; For they obey not the great Prophet and they shall be cut off.  
But we, as the holy men did, gladly suffer all wrongs, and our selves to be defrauded, freely giving up our outward man and substance without resisting to death, to the merciless persecutor; but the mercenary hireling who is the only cause of our persecution, is so far from being found in these the holy men and Ministers of Christ's practices, that they wrong all men, and all men are defrauded by them, most cruelly exacting where they never lent, pulling where they never planted, clothing with the fleece they never wrought for, feeding with the fat and sweet they never sweat for, in short by force they exact and reap all manner of carnals, where they have not sown spirituals, nor carnals; And them who are called teachers have and do exceedingly Err, and greater injustice and crueler rapeness were never committed by men, than there hath been by this Legion of evil doers, but for their labours if they repent not, they shall be called the least in the Kingdom 
* Isaiah said they were all blind and ignorant and dumb dogs that never had enough, and Jeyemiah; said that the Prophets prophesied falsely, and the Priests did bear rule by their means, and Ezekiel said they fed themselves, and not the flock; Micha said they Preached for hire, and Divined for money, and Hosea said they were as a Troop of robbers that did wait for a man, so the company of Priests did murder in the way by consent; Reader I pray thee read Isai. 56. 10. 11. Jer. 5. Ezek. 34. Mich. 2. 11. Hosea 6. 9 and compare the English Priest and see if there be any more difference than there is betwixt a Monk, and a Monk and a Pope, and a Pope. .  
And the Rulers that suffer these things, are become blind and in a deep sleep, yea, a very deep sleep, even the sleep of death, but let all such know that their Rewarder slumbereth not, neither can his vengeance tarry long, and the despised light within, if they repent not, shall be their sure condemation; for the righteous Spirit of the holy One is grieved, and it shall not always strive, and woe be to them who set him at nought, and persecute whips, terrifies or suffers them to be persecuted, whiped or terrified, who speak in his Name, thrusting, causing or suffering to be thrust into dungeons, Bridewells, and bad places, amongst bad people there to be kept in bonds under the hands of cruel men till death, for the testimony of Jesus? Oh! bloody and great, yea very great cruelty, was ever the like done by any who did but so much as profess liberty of conscience. But let all such know from the highest to the lowest, yea to him that sits upon the Throne, to him that grinds at the Mill, they do resist the mighty Prophet whom the Lord our God hath raised up, and he is come, and they shall be cut off, and mine eye sees it; and then the condition of poor Lazarus who is hardly thought worthy to live, will far transcend Dives and all his fellow Gluttons, and these that are at ease in the fl●sh, and are not troubled like other men; and lie rolling upon their b●ds of pleasure, spending that which was their day in madness, mirth, and folly and making merry over the humble witness o● God, saying to themselves tush no eye sees us, but let all such know they are seen, and he that beholds them is not afar off, and a day cometh shortly if not suddenly; when the very highest among them shall be disrobed and utterly made bare, and the greatest that is born among women, shall not hid himself from the vengeance of my God; who is the avenger, and revenger of the righteous, and vengeance is mine saith the Lord and I will repay it 
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Blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted.  
Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of heaven.  
Blessed are they who hunger and thirst, after righteousness.  
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.  
Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.  
Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness sake for theirs is the Kingdom of heaven.  
Blessed are ye when men shall revile ye and persecute ye, and shall say all manner of evil against ye falsely: rejoice and be exceeding glad for great is your reward in heaven.  
And the Devil shall cast some of ye into prison, and ye shall have tribulation for ten days.  
How long Lord, how long, holy, just, and true.  .  
By an owner of the sword in its place, true Majestracy, true Ministry, Justice and sound Judgement (Oh! let it flow down like a mighty torrent) but an enemy to Tyranny, Truce-breakers, Rapines, Swearers, Liars and false prophets, who preach for hire, and Divine for money. E. B.  
THE END.   

A few WORDS  
To that bad Generation of people, who in their reprobate minds, blaspheme and belie the dreadful and Just God, In saying, That he hath made and created some men to be damned, or that a set number are ordained from all Eternity to be saved, and a set number to be damned.  
BUT let all such know, that the liar is for the lake; for the Just God, who is equal in all his ways, hath not made any man to be damned, nor created any to that intent, and the destruction of every man is of himself; for God made man after his own image and likeness, and those that are godly are like God, but man hath sought out many inventions, and the heart of man is deceitful and desperately wicked, and that continually, but God is now and always upright in all his wa●es▪ and his Name is Love, and his Nature is Love, and he is a God of Love, and all the works of his hands are good, and he loves them, and he is a loving Father; and he who says, the Father decrees a Soul to Hell from all Eternity, before the creature hath transgressed, or that he was created to do wickedly, he accuses the Just God falsely; but the same Soul that sins, as Adam did, shall die; for transgression brings death, and then, and not till then he becomes a vessel of dishonour. But he was not intended so by the Holy God in his Creation; 
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And if from all Eternity, a certain and set number be created, predestinated, and fore-ordained to be saved, and damned; for what doth the Hireling preach, and for what hath he his hire? I am sure, the decrees of God are yea, Amen, and unalterable; (Mark that) Judicious Reader, and do not be so ignorant, as to give thy money to that Priest, who holds or preaches that doctrine; for under one of the two decrees thou already art.  
And I do believe, there is hardly a Hireling in England, that will deny it as his belief; but that there is and was from all Eternity, a certain and a set number predestinated to be damned and saved.  
Oh! how hath and doth this deceiver stand, and is upholden and maintained in idleness, to make Merchandizes of precious Souls for his dishonest gain.  
Oh! who is able to reckon up their deceits, or the number of the innocent that hath and are at this day deceived by them.   but the Soul which sins, shall die the death; for the potter hath power over the clay, and though he hid himself in the remotest part of the Garden, he will find him out, and a vessel of dishonour he shall be; and yet after they have sinned, he desireth not the death of a sinner, although he be dead in sins and trespasses, but rather that he should turn from his wickedness, and live. For, as I live, saith the Lord, I will not the death of a sinner. (Mark) of a sinner; but the persecutor, and he whose tongue is at liberty, who defileth his body, which is the Temple of the Lord, him will God destroy, although he be the fattest Bull in Basan, or the mightiest Cedar in all Lebanon, he is but clay in the hands of the Potter, and a vessel of dishonour he will make him. But he that liveth in his fear, and standeth in his council, and is obedient to the Father's Commands, which are all possible, and in no wise grievous, him, he makes a vessel of honour, and he is to him as the apple of his eye. Be Holy, be Perfect, be Just in all your do, all men, and let all (Mark all) that are athirst come, and buy milk freely, and take of the water of Life without money, and without price. Oh! Come all; and it is in vain to invite them that are predestinated from all Eternity to be damned. What I say unto one, I say unto all, watch; and those that are decreed to Hell, need not watch; but the Lord willeth that all men should be saved, and come to the knowledge of the truth; and he is not like Pharaoh, who willed the people to make brick without straw. Oh! the Creator doth not so, for a measure of himself, he hath given to every man to profit withal. (Mark) to all, so that if he require the full tale of brick, he doth Justly, and his do are Just, and he is equal in all his ways; and let not him that is form, though a subject or a King, say to him that hath form, Why hast thou made me so? But come unto him, or look unto him all the ends of the earth, and be saved; and the Gospel hath been preached to every creature under Heaven, and it is he that knows the Father's Will and doth it not, which shall be beaten, but it is impossible that he can do it who never knew it; but knowledge is a delicious fruit, and pleasant to the eye, upon which the reprobate feeds, and whom I will, I ha●den; but first he willeth that all men should be saved, or else he might have said, except Judas, except Pharaoh, except Esau, except Pilate the Priest's friend, but God's enemy; Christ knew from the beginning who should betray him. (Mark) he knew it, but he did not will him to do it, for if he had, it could not have been called treachery in Judas; Nay, he willeth not the death of a sinner, but he willeth that all the ends of the earth should look unto him, and be saved; that is his Will and purpose, for which purpose he hath and doth enlighten every man that cometh into the World, that all men through him might believe and be saved; (Mark and note that) he willeth all men, I say, he did not except Judas, Pilate and Pharaoh, if they were alive, and had not sold themselves to do wickedly, for which cause they were given up to a reprobate mind; but there is and was some that will not come unto him that they may have life; Wherefore such are ordained to condemnation of old; but they that come unto him, he will in no wise cast off, and whom he loves, he loves to the end, and he that loves him keeps his Commands, and he that keeps them not, is of the Devil, and he that is of the Devil, hath no part in him; for God and Belial are not one in any one thing, neither do they live together; and where Jerusalem is, Babylon cannot stand, and where the Light with which every man is enlightened bears Rule, there is no darkness at all, and when it is disobeyed, if heeded, the darkness may be felt.  
Jacob have I loved, and Esau have I hated, before either of those two children had done good or evil. Yea the thing Jacob he loved, and the thing Esau he hated, before either of those two children were begotten or born after the flesh; and those two seeds he only loves, and hates at this day, and see that there be not a Cain, nor an Esau be among ye, but let the worm Jacob be cherished; for it loves the Light, and is the heritage of God; but let murderous Cain, although he hath been Prince of the whole City, and all hath been called by his son's name, and Lord Esau of the mount come under; for though there was a time when the seed bowed, Jacob's got past; and let the elder serve the younger; for he sold his Birthright for his belly. Mark, he had it. A Birthright, or a Right-birth, but he sold it, and afterwards sought it with tears; It was not the earth he wept for, although he sold his Birthright or Right-birth, which was immortal, for that which was earthly, devilish and sensual.  
The great God who created Heaven and Earth, willeth that all mankind should come to the knowledge of the truth, and be saved, and willeth not the death of one soul of his whole handiwork, and the work of his own hands he cannot destroy, and that is the infallible and true light, the Son of the Father, who enlighteneth every individual man and woman that cometh into the World, that all through him may believe and be saved, & it is the particular sins of every particular man and woman that is the cause of death, reprobation and condemnation; and that soul which sins shall die; but for the word Original fin, I do not find it in the whole Scriptures, but is a contrivance of the false Prophets, like unto their baby-baptism; but he that believes in the Light of Christ which he is enlightened with, and brings all his deeds to the light, and dwells and abides in the light, and hath the hope in him; He purifieth himself as he is pure, and the wicked one cannot touch him.  
Again and again, I say, if a certain, and set number from all eternity be predestinated to be saved and damned, What doth the hireling preach for? or for what hath he his hire? I am sure the decrees of the living God, are yea, and Amen, and unalterable.  
And there is another vain sort of people who are as ignorant as they who say that the Scriptures is the word of God, and Matthew Mark, Luke and John the Gospel, and that the Latin, Greek and Hebrew is the Original; as for the word which the Scriptures of truth truly declares of, he was in the beginning, before the Scriptures began, and Heaven and Earth may pass away, with which the Scriptures must pass, but the Word lives▪ and abides for ever, the Letter killeth, but the Word gives Life and is quick and powerful, and sharper than any two edged-sword, and divides asunder betwixt the joints and marrow, and he that hath the word, hath life; and Simon Magus could not buy the Word for money, but ● man may buy, learn and have the Scriptures, and be a Judas, and quote them as the Devil did to Christ, and yet be a devil; and the Word became flesh, and dwelled amongst us, and His Name is the word of God, and his vesture is dipped in blood, and the Word is the Light, the Hope, the Way, the Gospel, the Door, the Vine, the Shepherd, the fairest of Millions, the Original, the Kin● and Kingdom, the way to the Kingdom; and this Way, this Word, this Door, this Hope, this King and Kingdom, this Christ, this Original is above a●, and all in all, and in ye all, except ye be reprobates; for the Kingdom of Heaven is within ye, and that which may be known of God is manifest in ye, and these manifestations within doth the Scriptures of truth truly declare o●, the same is the Original, and not the Lat. Gr. and Heb. neither is it so much as a help to know the true and Living God, for a man may have the tongues of men and Angels, and yet be without God in the World, and P●●ate may understand the Latin, Greek and Hebrew full well, and set it over the Originals head, and go to hell with his understanding, and those that have the tongues may be mad, and at this day do wrest the Scriptures to their own destructions, for want of learning; as Peter said, they did of old, calling the book-learnt men an unlearned generation; and himself had no letters; and it is like Christ spoke to none of the meanest letter-men, when he said, they had at no time seen the shape of God, nor heard his voice; and I am su●●●● was because they were not good Scholars, n●r willing to learn for I am the Lords witness that he is found of all that truly learn to seek him, and learned of all those that fear him, for his very secrets are with them that fear him, and to know and believe in him, and Jesus Christ whom he hath sent is absolute life eternal, and he that believes not is condemned already, and to day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts, for it is the same voice within, that calls to ye for equity and truth in your inner parts, as did to them of old, it is not another then what the Scriptures truly declareth of, and let him that preaches, or brings a Gospel contrary to that which they declare of, be an athema maranatha; so it is not sufficient to have the Latin, Greek, and Hebrew, and be accounted Orthodox and an able Diviner, when the womb is barren, and the eye not kept in the head, and that which brought the wo-to-man, or the woman prevail, which is not permitted to speak in the Church, but is to be silent, and ask the husband at home (whether they be married, or unmarried according to the flesh) and happy, and only happy are they who are espoused to the Lamb, and can witness the eternal marriage, the unseparable tye, which neither heights nor breadths nor depths, nor lengths, nor tribulation, persecution, principalities, or powers whatsoever can separate.  
And he that hath the word of God abiding in him which was in the beginning (before the Scriptures, Prophets, holy men and Apostles were) by whom the World was made before it was made, He deserneth all things, judgeth all things, (Mark) all things, Orthodox, and non- Orthodox, Pilate and his Original, and himself is judged of no man.  
And the grace of God which brings salvation hath appeared to all men, and that is the true light that doth enlighten every man that cometh into the World.  
And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the World, and men love darkness rather than light, because their deeds are evil, for every one that doth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved; but he that doth truth, cometh to the light, that his deeds might be manifest that they are wrought in God, John 3.  
And this is my testimony for the Original, the Lord Jesus, and is according to the word, that Original which was in the beginning before the Scriptures began, to and against all Babylonians, from whence came, and is derived all confusion and diversity of tongues, but in the beginning, it was not so; for God was the Word, and the Word is God.  
E. B.  
THE END.   

A WORD  
To those who are called Dukes, Marquesses, Earls, Viscounts, Lords, Barons, Bannerets, Baronet's, Knights of all sorts, Esquires, Gentlemen, and to the women who are called these men's Ladies, upon which rabble of appellations depends and hangs most of the bad people of this Nation; And who is the deboicher and vitiator of womenkind, I leave it to that of God in the Conscience of these who are called Lords and Ladies, Gentlemen and Gentlewomen to judge.  
AH! Poor men and women, repent, repent, repent, for the Lords righteous Judgement is nigh, even at the door, to be poured forth against many of you, who even hate to be reform; but like evil men and deceivers, wax worse and worse, being as it were riveted to all manner of sin, & grown old in iniquity; And although you are called Lords, Ladies, Gentlemen and Women, yet for the most part ye are ungentle, untame & without the yoke, your tongues at liberty to blaspheme the Name of the dreadful, pure and living God, and Ishmael-like, scoff and speak evil of dignities and things ye know not, cursers, swearers, fighters and killers one of another, fierce despisers of them that are good many of you are, and yet calls yourselves Gentlemen, etc. When as patience and long suffering is the thing ye truly know not, and soberness with many of ye makes no long tarrying, and with your lusts ye are led captive at the Devils will, and amongst many, yea, very many of ye, oppression is your constant inmate, envy, cruelty, lust, exaltation and pride, the very beloved of your bosoms; and in your own particulars ye hurt the innocent, ye grieve that which would be righteous, ye slay and make merry over the witness, swallowing down the cups of pleasure and iniquity, as the Ox drinketh water, ye oppress the seed, ye put the Lord of Life to open shame, ye crucify him afresh, and that continually; In spiritual ●●●ne and Egypt all the day long ye are content to dwell, and in the night season lie down in your beastialities, and in the morning ye rise up early to drink wine, take pleasure, and commit sin with greediness, boiling in your own lusts, overwhelmed in gluttony, & wholly swallowed up in all manner of worldly delight, being dead whilst ye seemingly live, & thus doth many of you consume yourselves, substance and precious time; And do ye think to live Dives his live, and not die his death? Can ye think to sow to the flesh all manner of corruption all the days of your lives, and not reap the same in the day of the Lord? And do ye think as the tree falls it will not lie, and as death leaves, Judgement will not find? (and from Hell there is no Redemption) Oh friends! I can truly say, my bowels ernes for ye, who are called Nobles, and are great in the earth, above any sort of people that are without. Also I know and feel, that the witness of God lieth near in very many of ye, although the lofty and surly nature is not willing to bow, nor sink down and become one with the witness, which is meek and ●owly, and calls upon ye in secret for purity in your inner parts. Oh! let the consideration of Eternal Life constrain, and even necessitate ye to turn in the eye of your mind to within, and consider what ye shall do to be saved, for verily the eye of the Lord is pure and runs to and fro thorough the whole earth, and all that's earthly, and cannot behold your present iniquities. Wherefore in the fear of the Lord, cease to do evil, and learn to do well, and let the time passed be sufficient, lest the Lord forthwith dash ye in pieces, and sweep ye from the face of the earth, and your memories utterly rot. Therefore seek the Lord with all your hearts, whilst he may be found, for this is the day of your visitation; but your day passeth away, and the night swiftly cometh wherein no man can work, yet a little while and the Light is with ye; I say, common with your own hearts, and be still, and in the cool of the day, when your lust's boil● not, sink down willingly, join and adhere to the measure of God in your consciences which is given to man to profit withal; Oh take it for a leader for it is the true Light which doth enlighten every man that cometh into the World, that all men through Him might believe, the same is a swift witness; for the Lord against all the evil of your do, and cannot nor ever did consent to sin; the same is truth, & leads into all truth, & was before the man of sin, the house of Ham, the stock of Nimrod the cunning hunter, Ishmael the scoffer, Lord Esau of the Mount, bloody Cain, or the Dukes of Edom were, and is before all invention, or the ridiculous Tithes, about which many of you fight, kill, boast and rend many a bloody oath, and when ye have all done, it may be, prove your ancester an ancient murderer, come into England with William of Normandy, killed an English man, and took his possession; and as yourselves sprang from blood, rage and cruelty, so in the same many of ye continue, but beware that your latter end be not worse than your beginning; great quantities of earth ye have, and the Lords hand is in no ways shortened towards ye; But verily very many of ye spend it wholly upon your lusts, and that's not the end for which it was given; but ye are to honour God with your substance and whatsoever he hath given ye, & he that defiles his body, defiles the Temple of the Lord, and him will God destroy; Therefore whether ye eat or drink, or whatsoever ye do, learn to do all to the praise and glory of God, and do not Lord it over God's heritage in the General nor in your own particulars, for Christ is in ye, except ye are reprobates; and this know, that no man was, or ever shall be heir of two Kingdoms, and God and Mammon ye cannot please, and if ye truly serve the one, the other with all his lusts ye must deny (Mark) all his lusts ye must deny, and a death ye must feel upon your present lives, & that ye may come to know the birth which is immortal; seek to know the Lord, if it be but as a consuming fire, to burn up and consume your lusts which separates between ye and your maker, for he that envies is a murderer, 
‖ For love is of God, and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. If we love one another God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us: God is love, and he that dwelleth in love, dwelleth in God, and God in him. Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of Judgement, because as he is so are we in this (present) world: there is no fear in love, but perfect love casteth out fear, because fear hath torment: he that feareth is not made perfect in love. If any man say, I love God, and hate his Brother, he is a lvar. For he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen? And this Commandment have we from him, that he who loveth God, loves his Brother also, 1 John 4. 7, 12, 16, 18, 20.  and he that lusts after a woman, hath committed adultery; and I say unto ye all above men and all things, swear not.  
And to see a great man a good man, is a rare thing, even an ornament in his Country, a strength to the righteous, a sinew to the feeble, a nerve to the oppressed, a help to the helpless; and of all men, if ye could but see and trust in the truth, as it is in Jesus, how transcendently happy might ye be, even in this life, beloved of God and good men, and all evil men manned to fear ye; And I do believe many of ye cannot but see the hireling and his covetousness, deficiency and deceit, and in some measure see the truth, and the vessel to be good; but to sea in it ye dare not go, for if the greatest of ye deny the hireling his ungodly gain, a war he will prepare, and the waves will beat, the billows boil, and the storms arise; But help us Lord and we cannot perish, although the greedy man may toss us from one Goal and Dungeon to another, and if there in faithfulness to the Lord we lay down or lives, yet we live for ever and have life Eternal; And that's much better than the airy title of Duke, Lords, Knights, etc. which put them all together, will not buy a morsel of bread in this very life, and in the life to come the Beggar as the King, and his Nobles, and Tophet is not prepared in vain; and it is well if some of ye who are called Noblemen, and calls yourselves Christians, be not found in the day of the Lord more ignoble to the now despised Christians than Festus, Agrippa, or Claudius Lycias were to Paul (who were called heathens) but were truly Noble to Paul, and such Nobility I own who puts no man to death, nor hurts no man tell the accuser, and the accused comes face to face, and sends no man to prison, nor keeps any in bonds without signifying the cause, and having a just Law from the Lord for his or their detention, that's equal and just, which the Lord help ye to know and obey, for its the just which suffers in ye, and the seed is oppressed and kept in bondage in your own particulars; So wait upon the Lord in his fear, which is the beginning of wisdom, and ye shall hear a voice behind ye, saying, this is the way, oh! walk in it; and if ye be obedient, ye shall eat the good of the Land, and obedience is better than sacrifice, and to hearken then the fat of rams; & although your sins be as scarlet, and for number as the sand upon the Sea shore, yet if ye believe in the Light, and love the Light, and bring all your deeds to the Light▪ and see if they are wrought in God, (I● so, it's a good deed, do it,) and that Light is truth and is no lie, oh! dig deep for it, for its within, though the Inn be thronged with other guests and a vast quantity of iniquity is above the seed, and the whole lump is soured with the wrong leaven, But the grain, the seed, or lost groat is there, therefore seek diligently and ye shall find, and having found it, sell all and buy the Pearl, and follow the L●mb whether soever he goes, thorough good report and bad; Oh! believe in and love the truth, and abide in the truth, and the truth shall make ye free, and purge away all your dross and Tin, then are you free indeed and the blood of Jesus shall cleanse ye from all sin and filthiness both of flesh and spirit and if you forsake your sins, he is faithful and just to forgive ye your sins, and your transgressions he will remember no more.  
And ye who are called Dukes, Lords, Knights, Gentlemen, etc. for the most part have your Education at the same fountain from whence comes the hireling and there have them for your Tutor, & Teacher, and as yet few or none of ye exceed or are much wiser than your Teachers to salvation; Neither indeed are ye like to learn of him who receives the wages of unrighteousness, and stands not himself in the council of the Lord; For if they had stood in my Council, saith the Lord, they would have turned many from their evil ways; and had they been the Ministers of Christ, the World had not been so full of wickedness, as at this day it is; but indeed their converts are like themselves, proud, covetous, highminded, and guilty of all manner of evil, as the best of them will confess themselves to be, and that their best do is sinful, and full of sin; and if so, which indeed they are, it is impossible they shall convert one Soul to God; for the prayers of the wicked are abomination to the Lord, and the very best sacrifice that can be offered by the hands of an unclean persecutor, who hurts or envies his Brother, or imprisons for his belly, is but as the cutting off a dog's neck, for he that envies is a murderer; and it is natural for every father to beget a child after his own image; and to speak to the very rational part in ye all, If a man were to teach another man a science or a trade, he cannot, neither is it possible for him to teach another to do that which himself cannot do, neither thinks possible to be done, (Mark) the best of the Priests prayers and teaching are sinful, as themselves confess, and their imperfect prayers, may beget imperfection, lust and uncleanness, which shall never en●●r the Kingdom, nor dwell with the holy true God.  
So if ye exceed not the wisdom of your tutors and Teachers; and learn of the light, and believe in the Light, which was before Pope, College or Priest was, although every man of ye could preach and pray as well as they can, which is not hard to do; I say, both ye and your prayers are abominable in the sight of the pure God, who hath no regard to the preaching and prophesying of sinful Prophets, and themselves as well as their hearers may be castaways.  
And this is a great evil among ye who are called lords, knights, etc. who have great estates, upon which account poor men oftentimes lends ye great sums of money, and those great estates for the most part ye entail or pass away by some private dispossession, and by wicked fraudulent ways, (and in this the wretched Lawyer befriends ye) undoes many poor men, and at your deaths your heirs takes the benefit of the wicked Laws, and says to their father's creditors, he possesseth nothing but what he was born to; but the Lords curse is upon that birth and heir-ship, so that when ye die, your names stink, and generations curse ye, and the child that is unborn is occasioned to speak evil of ye; and in defence of this birthright as they call it, to be sure the wretched Lawyer will take your heirs part although he knows the whole matter to be unjust, and it may be himself had the greatest hand in the former cheat; so they do not help your sons to heir your estates only, but your iniquities also.  
And if I should be accounted a sour of sedition, or a subverter of the Laws, a turner of the World up-side down, a pestilent fellow, or a Ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes, and thought not worthy to live, and should be put to death for it; Yet I freely declare, that I trust in, and steadfastly believe and hope in my God, that he will assuage the pride, alloy the malice, quite confound, for ever entinguish, and utterly make rotten & blot out the name of Pope at Rome Tithe-monger or Hireling in England, with his Mass-houses and all that is Popery whatsoever, devouring Lawyer, Dukes, Lords, Knights, Courts of honour, and the thing that is now called Gentility. But a Nobleman, or a Gentleman I truly love, who are truly so?  
By a true lover of a True, Just, Meek, Gentle, Nobleman, who hates nor fears no man, and cannot give flattering titles, or respects the person of any man. E. B.   

POSTSCRIPT.  
Duke's and Marquis' I deny, but the Military chief or inferior Captain or leader I own, Earls I deny, but when we have a King like David or Moses, let that king have his companions; but let not an evil doer live in the Court, and such companions will need no Esquires, neither desire their sons to be lifted up with the title of Lords or Barons, where the whole household serves the Lord, and are believers, such seeks no honour one of another; Viscounts I deny; but let there be many good Governors in every County, for they are very much wanting, notwithstanding there may be a Vis-count two or three; Bannerets, Baronet's, Knights of all sorts I deny, but the just Soldier whether he be horse or foot, I own in his place, a place for whom I find, for when the Soldiers came unto Christ, and asked him, Master, what shall we do? Be content with your wages, and do violence to no man, accuse no man falsely.  
But for the whole rabble of Duke, marquis, Lord, Knight Gentleman by patents; I find no room, place or example or allowance for in Scripture; but that only declares of, (as I do believe) one Lord, one God over all, blessed for ever, amen, who made all kindreds, tongues and Nations of one blood; and all these earthly Lords, and who exercise unjust dominion are come up since, and in the Apostasy, for in the beginning it was not so; and those who are redeemed from the earth, and risen with Christ, and only seeks the things above, Fathoms and comprehends all these things, and are come to the beginning, are in that which was before false Prophets, Antichrist, Babylon, Pope or Whore's cup was, of which the Kings of the earth have drank, and been made drunk, in which drunken fi●, and when all the Nations reeled under the persecution of the beast and false Prophet, and the Saints and Martyrs' blood was swallowed down as other cups of pleasure, and the woman was fle● into the Wilderness, and the manchild was caught up to God; I say in that black dark night of Apostasy, when none was able to make war with the beast, when the Kings of the earth fought for the earth was created, and by the beasts power, at this day is created, Lords, Knights, etc. and having lost the Cross of Christ, the power of God within, a painted cross is borne in your ensign without, and that is the sign of your Christianity, and so into sects and opinions, and the Irreligious have, and do kill one another about Religion, precedency names, titles, and the earth, and all this is earthly Devilish and sensual.  
THE END.   

Here followeth a relation of some signs, examples, and judgements, for the accursed Generation, who desire a sign (for many to my face have temptingly said, show us a sign) but they are miracles to those that believe, and let such reach hither their hands, and with me feel, and see the wounds that the Lord of life hath received in his members, by this unnatural, and unparaleld Generation, to whom and upon whom these examples are, and have been shown, as it is written, the wicked shall not live out half their days; but let the despisers behold, and wonder, and perish, for the work is wrought in their days, although they cannot believe.  

EXAMPLES.  
ESSEX, John Clerk Priest, for 20. l. Tithes by him demanded of Robert Nicol of Coln-Engain, by warrant from Dio●ysius Wakering, and William Harlackenden, Justices so called, took and drove away from him  worth 50 l. and his greedy mind not therewith satisfied, sought after his body to; but those his persecutors aforesaid being at London at that time, he threatened to go to London to get a Warrant from them to put him in prison, but the Lord prevented him, for he came home, and died in few days after.  
SUFFOLK, Robert Newton Gaoler of Edmundbury and his wife, who had been very cruel to George Fox in the 55 week's imprisonment he suffered under him, by beating him very often, and taking from him his bed, , and a coat, and after his release, detained him twenty eight weeks more, for (as he pretended) a years sufficient lodging, both the gaoler and his wife not long after was cut off by death.  
SUSSEX, Priest Cussin●, who caused Thomas Leycock to be imprisoned a whole year in Horsham Goal, for speaking a few words to the people in love to their souls, after he, the said priest had done, soon after this persecution, he was cut off by death.  
John Chatfield Priest of Horsham, who caused Thomas Leycock and Bryan Wilkinson to be imprisoned, and caused Thomas Patchins  to be driven away; soon after fell into a dropsy, and remained in a miserable condition half a year, and then died.  
Priest Cuffly of Arundel, who was a chief instrument in Thomas Leycocks persecution, and did strive with the Magistrates of Arundel, to have had Joseph Fuse (who had faithfully served the Parliament in the wars 11 years) sent over Sea as a bondslave, suddenly after this he died.  
The Priest of Green, who caused Alice West to be sent to prison, for speaking some few words in the Steeplehouse, suddenly after died.  
Edward Haughton Priest of Nuthurst who was the first in this county, that caused friends to be rob for Tithes, was soon after cut off by death.  
Priest Channel called a Doctor, one of the chiefest high Priests so counted in this Nation, a great opposer of truth, was stricken with madness, and is out of his natural senses.  
A Tythe-monger in the Parish of Beding, who wickedly and maliciously trod out the corn of Minion Brocket, making havoc of the same, within a week after was cut off by death.  
John Gurden a Justice so called, an eminent persecutor of the innocent people of God in this county, whose name hath spread to New England among his brethren of the inquisition there, hath been smitten by the Lord in a great weakness of body, and dimness of eyesight, and hath appeared as one likely to pine away under the hand of the Lord, which is evidently turned against him, since he became such a cruel persecutor.  
Roger Gratick a Magistrate, and Priest Snelling consenters to much of the persecution of this county, both slain with a thunder bolt in one day.  
NORFOLK, John Benton, being one of Priest Claphams, witnesses of Wramplingham, whom he procured to swear against Benjamin Lynes, in a matter concerning Tithes, who was so evidently forsworn, and his partner with him, that the Justices themselves would not accept of their testimony; and soon after which time, the said John Benton got into the Steeplehouse of Wramplingham, and there hanged himself in a Bel-rope.  
Edw. Humt keeper of the prison of Norwich, who after Geo-Whit●head was discharged at the Sessions, brought his action against him for 4 d. a night; and although he had lain on the floor most part of the time, yet was by him unjustly detained; but the Gaoler was soon after cut off by death.  
HARTFORD-SHIRE, Geo-Fage an unmerciful Bailiff, who for 5 s. Tithe, took away goods worth 4 l. from Richard North, and entered into his house, none being within but two poor children, ransacked the poor man's house, and took the very covering from off the bed of the children, and exposed them to sufferings in the midst of winter; for which the Lord God visited him, and cut him off suddenly, before he had made sale of the goods.  
GLOUCESTER-SHIRE, The first three friends that were committed in the County of Gloucester the two Justice of peace which did commit them, the one called by the name of Justice Webly, & the other called by the name of justice Raymond; these three friends did all live in or about Thornbury, and were called to the Bar that Assi●e next holden for the County of Gloucester, one of these Justices which did commit them, being come into the Town that morning when the Assize did begin, was struck with the hand of God so that he was speechless for many days, and faint to lie in the Town before they could get him to his own house, and since is dead, never coming to Assizes or Sessions more; and the other Justice which committed them, was suddenly after put out of Commission, and since is dead.  
And likewise at the first coming of Friends into the County of Gloucester, there was a man called by the name of a Captain, that did send to a Justice of the Peace, wishing him to take a course with these people called Quakers, and with some bitterness said, else he would take a course with them himself; but within a few days after near his own dwelling at an Alehouse, he fell out with a Ragman, and killed him, insomuch that the said Captain was tried for his life the next Assi●e following.  
There were three young Women that were friends coming from a meeting, and in the way as they came, there were people setting of Beanes, and amongst them there was a man and a great Boy, which Boy laid himself down over the footpath, and laying hold on one of the young women, did abuse her in such an unseemly manner, as with modesty cannot be expressed, until the other two did pull her from him; and afterwards did set dogs on them, and both the man and the boy did follow them with clods and stones for a great way; and within a short time after, the same man and boy being together, so fell out that the boy was wounded by the man, and within 24 hours after, died; and the man was tried at the Bar for his life this last Assi●e held for the County of Gloucester.  
Richard Hobbs▪ who had sworn in behalf of Priest Davis of Frampton, for Tithes against John Tyler to the value of 16 or 20 s. for which the said Tyler was ordered to pay ●0 l. 1● s. besides 3 l. 10 s. charges; The aforesaid Rich. Hobbs being thatching a Rick of Wheat, was questioned by the man he wrought for about his swearing, and shown what error he had run himself into: he seemed to be troubled for it, and said, if he had known so much before as he did since, he would not have done it; & in a little space after the man was gone, the said Rich. Hobb● saw on his hand and on the Rick of Wheat the appearance of fire, & being troubled thereat, left off his work, and went to his Master, and told him of it, who would have persuaded him it was not so, but he affirmed it to be so; and not many days after, the said Rich Hobbs (he being Clerk of a Parish, and as he was Ringing a Bell) was taken up with the Bel-rope; and tossed up and down, that the scull of his head was broken, and his body sore bruised, that he lay for dead in the place; but being recovered again, he was carried to his house, where he lay senseless 2 or 3 days, and so died.  
HEREFORD-SHIRE, Henry Davis of little Ducburch, a Persecutor of many friends; who meeting James Merrick of Ross, and because the said James did not speak to him, turned his Gun after him, and threatened to shoot him; and in a short time after, the said Henry Davis fell off from his horse, and broke his neck.  
WORCESTER-SHIRE, EVISHAM; George Kemp Mayor of ●visham, being the first, and also an eminent Persecutor of the Innocent people of God in Evisham; shortly after the heat of his persecution, was out off by death.  
Rich. Martin, another of the persecuting Justices, was shortly after sued at the Law by his only Son, and thereby being forced to leave his habitation, soon after died.  
Edwa●d Youn●, Mayor of Evisham aforesaid, who exceeded all his Brethren in persecution; not long after he was out of his Maiorality, he also was cut off by death.  
Samuel Gardner, one of the persecuting Justices of Evisham aforesaid, not long after his persecuting the people of God, he fell distracted, so that he was kept tied in his bed.  
Thomas Ordway, one of their Council, a great professor of the Scriptures; a friend to truth lent him a book, which was in answer to a Catechism set forth by 42 Priests, and after he had looked over it, he wrote on the backside of the book, It is pity but all such books were burned, and them that made them, and set his name to it; but very suddenly after was he cut off by death.  
, Thomas Laurence Priest, who had sued 4 of the Parish of Coln in the Exchequer, and one of the 3 friends meeting him on the way, asked him what he sued him for; the Priest very wrathfully and churlishly answered him, I will speak with you another time; but within 10 days he was cut off, and his body laid in the earth.  
LINCOLNSHIRE, Francis Ball of Sibsey, who sued and cast into Prison Edmund Woolsey, for Tithes, and the said Francis had told several people, that he was persuaded, that if Edmund Woolsey did believe in his Conscience that he the said Francis Ball had right unto the Tithes, he would have paid it him; and yet for all that he the said Francis Ball kept him in Prison. But the Just indignation of the Lord is since fallen upon the Family of the said Francis Ball, for his Wife presently after died, and two more of that Family, the Daughter, and her Child; and the people hereabout concluded it to be a just Judgement from the Lord.  
DERBYSHIRE, One Brittlin of Thorncloft, a Steward of a hundred Court, who had Judged Thomas Boyer to pay about 4 times what the principal of the Tithe came too; soon after the Lord did cut him off by death.  
SHROP-SHIRE, Edw. Dod, who wrote a false accusation against Friends, and is a great Proselyte of Sam. Smith Priest of Cresit, who caused many Friends to suffer; fell off from a Bridge and broke his leg; and the Priest came to visit him, and said, one step further, and into Hell; and he said, his people were a damned Crew, and he had preached 7 years to them, and not one brought to the knowledge of God.  
HAMP-SHIRE, Justice Cobb who had been a great Persecutor of Friends in Winchester Goal, and would not suffer Stephen Bevi● Prisoner, to work in the Prison on his own Calling; and he being Judge at another Sessions, would no● do any thing towards the releasement of the Servants of God in Prison, though their unjust imprisoment was laid before him, but gave order to restrain other Friends from coming to them; & several papers being sent to him for Justice, the last of which was, that being six men and one women in Prison, that the women or any one of them might have the liberty to go forth and provide necessaries for the rest, to bring them in work, and carry out work, and bring in food and such things as were necessary, which reasonable and righteous thing was by him denied; and within a few days after the said Justice Cobb went to his bed, not appearing to be sick, and in the Morning was found a dead Corpse.  
Pistor Hid a Councillor, who sometimes sat as Judge where Friends have been tried, who refused to do them Justice, and several times acted unjustly against them, went forth in the streets at Winchester, (being the place of his residence) where were dogs fight, which he did strive to part, and presently afterwards went into his house, and sat down, and was suddenly struck dead:  
Martin Miller, being Clerk to William Whither Justice, who committed James Potter, being at Harrow was struck down by the horses, and the harrows drawn on him, and he was sorely bruised and torn, and lived a few days after, and was by this accident much troubled in conscience for what he had sworn against James Potter.  
A labouring man being at work in harvest upon the abovesaid Justice Withers land, was suddenly struck dead in a tempest of thunder and lightning.  
WIL●SHIRE. William Stompton Priest, who for seven shillings tithes caused to be taken from Richard Hawkins eleven sheep, worth fifty five shillings at five shillings a sheep, and sold them at two s. and six pence a sheep; But Jeremy Wig who bought the sheep died presently after; and the said Priest also soon after was fain to have his leg sawn off, and said he would forgive any one that would knock him on the head, and died a miserable death.  
SOMERCET-●HIRE. Thomas Dowlesse who had much abused two friends, John Dandee and Peter Walter; As Peter Walter was speaking to the people, this Dowless did often swear he would stop his mouth with his staff, and did often strike the said Peter Walter, endeavouring to hit him on the month, and in a short time after the said Dowless being at work (and he having but one eye before) a stick stroke in that eye, and put it out, and so remains blind.  
Thomas-edwards' Priest of Kingston-Seymor who caused Edmund Beeks of Bl●●kwel, to be committed to prison, the said Priest being at the Town of Axbridg, and being drunk, fell off from his horse, and broke his neck, by which means Edward Beeks was freed out of prison.  
William Cole of Naylsey called Justice, who before had sent Edith Michael, and William Willey to prison only for going to the Steeplehouse, and the one of them did not at all speak to the Priest; shortly after a man was brought before him for stealing of Sheep, the said Justice Cole, told him that he would send him to the Goal to the Quakers, and he and they should be sent altogether to the Gallows; soon after the said William Cole being providing to ride abroad, was suddenly taken ill, and died the same day.  
Nathaniel Sanders, and John Langley, called Churchward ens of Keynsham, who had taken goods from friends, for their Steeplehouse, died both in the forepart of their year; John Laungley upon his deathbed said, he was persuaded the Quakers were an honest people, and whereas he and Nathaniel had taken goods from them, he had paid the sums of money charged on them, and gave a charge to his Servant, that if he died, those goods should be restored to them again, and he took his servant-maid by the hand, and made her promise him to do it.  
Robert Allen of Bath, who had very much abused Thomas Morford in the street, and had beat him with a great staff, this Robert Allen had a fine lusty young boy that was able to go up and down, miserably scalded to death.  
John Boyse Mayor of Bath aforesaid, who had committed the above said Thomas Morford to Prison for declaring against the deceit of the Priest, by which he remained in prison near two years, this John Boyse Mayor, was smitten with a sore disease in his legs and limbs, for the most part of his Majorality, also the Gaoler was smitten with the same lameness; so as he was fain to leave the Prison, and then came another, who Tyranized over the said Thomas Morford, and forced him out of his room, and from his bed, and other abuses, and the Hand of the Lord fell also on him, and cut him off by death suddenly.  
Thomas Hurlstone of Milbury Osmond a common disturber of Friends in their meetings, and at one time climbed upon a wall behind John Scaff while he was speaking to the people in a meeting at Evershot, and fell down upon him, and struck him down to the ground, from the place whereon he stood, and when he had so done, went his way, and received six pence in strong drink for his wickedness.  
And at another meeting in the same Town of Evershot, as John Scaff was speaking to the people, the said Thomas Hurlstone came into the street, without the door of the said house, in a very rude and brutish manner, with a bull hid about him, and the horns on his head, sporting among the rude people, endeavouring to make a disturbance; the said Hurlstone would often mock, and scoff, and deride the people of God, and as he met them, would be thrusting out his tongue at them.  
And at another meeting at the same Town, on the same day there was to be a Bull-baiting, not far from the said Evershot, unto which the said Thomas Hurlstone was going, and as he was passing through Edminster, he told some people that he should have been to day at the Quakers meeting, but that he was going to the Bull-baiting, and was boasting how he had served John Scaff, and being at the Bull-baiting, the Bull broke forth, and came full at the said Thomas Hurlstone, and struck one of his horns under his chin near his throat, up into his head, into or near his brain, and he falling down, yet risen up again, and with his tongue hanging out of his mouth, and presently sunk down and died.   

Humphrey smith's Testimony of some Examples, as he was an eyewitness of.  
, When I was Prisoner in Dorchester, the hand of the Lord was havy upon them, like as his hand was heavy upon Ashdod and the Philistines, who had taken and kept the Ark of God, for about twenty or more died in that time I was there, that were in the Goal, and prisoners in it, and great was the cry concerning it, so that the report was, the plague was there, and Judge Nicholas, who cannot stand in God's Judgement, durst not come near for fear of the hand of God, but had a place set up in the field, to keep the Assizes in.  
And also in Dorchester Prison, a most wicked man being condemned to die, came a beging to our Chamber door, and being not spoken to, was filled with envy, and came into the chamber, and shut the door, having murder in his heart; the which I perceiving, I risen up in the strength of the Lord, by which he was overcome, without any outward resistance, and though I afterwards laid his murderous intentions to his charge several times, yet he never denied it; and shortly after the heavy Judgements of the Lord came upon him, that for many days and nights, he could not forbear quaking and trembling (the Devils trembled, I ●n. ●) in most dreadful horror, that many people wondered at him, who though he had food, looked as if he had been almost famished, and could not die, until his flesh rotten away in many places, and he most ghastly to behold; he often uttered horrible words from the pit of darkness, at last dying in a sad and miserable manner, terrible to the beholders.  
James Munden Priest of Burton, having some Queries delivered to him by Francis Taylor, he said he would go and fetch a warrant to have him before a Justice that day, but the Justice not granting it, he sent the Queries back to Francis Taylor, and when his wife came unto him, she in a rage tore the paper of Queries, and said to him, that as she did tear that paper, so the Devils should tear his soul in hell hereafter, (a bad answer to the Queries) and other times she abused friends in their meetings, and her children threw stones at them. Not long after, this Priest was suddenly struck dead, and never spoke word more, though he had been preaching two several times that day, (or rather deceiving the people words) and the wages of unrighteousness being cursed to him, he died in debt, and left his wife and children in poverty and misery.  
Also a young man of the same Parish, and a follower of the same Priest, being very bitter to friends, and sought occasion against his own brother; Upon him also the Judgements of the Lord came, and after he had been speechless for a time, he roared and howled in a loud and hideous manner, being in a distracted condition, and had many to hold him; he shortly after died, and many were amazed at him.  
Edward Ireland a tithing-man, dwelling in South Periot, who scoffed at friends, and persecuted them with much cruelty, and took some out of there houses, and carried them before some called Justices, and in the eleventh month, 58. he went to Blanford Sessions with Jeremiah French the Priest of South Periot, who went there to lay in false information against John Gundry, who was cast into prison by Jeremiah French, the said Ireland also having a hand in it, and at that Sessions I●hn Gundry was brought forth and so fined, forty shillings to the Protector, and forty shillings to the Priest; but jeremiah French and Edward Ireland, road away from Blanford, towards South Periot, before those called Justices had really fined john Gundry, or remanded him to prison again, and yet as they road homeward through Evershot, Edward Ireland boasted that john Gundry would be sent to prison again; who came home to his house, but within two days the Lord struck him dead suddenly in his house, which struck a dread in many which had a hand in persecuting the Lords people, but especially one Richard Farnham who had also been a great persecuter of the Lords people in that place, who came in to see Edward Ireland at the cry of the people, and when he came into the house, he fell down as dead, and many of the people there ran about him, and did shake him up, and did strive much about him; so he recovered life again, but the dread of the Lord lay upon him, that he was sick for a time after, and then for a short season the Lords people had rest from their persecutors.  
D●VO●. When I was prisoner at EXETER, a Murderer being condemned to die, was brought into the Chamber to us, and his hands unbolted, and a naked knife in his hand, and so left with us; but the Lord preserved us from any hurt by him, and he was afterwards hanged for killing a man with a knife.  
The Mayor of Tiverton in Devon-shire, by whose order many friends had their goods spoiled and taken from them, and many were put into prison, was about the fourth or fifth month in the year 1658, cut off by the hand of God in a miserable manner, his bowels consuming within him; and as one Fowler of the same Congregation and fellowship with him, and of the same Town told a friend, it lay upon him to go to see the Priest, and to acquaint him that it was the hand of God upon him for his cruel usage of those people called Quakers.  
One of the Constables of EXETER, a notorious Professor, hanged himself in his own house.  
The Bridewel-keeper who had done very much wrong to friends who were under his custody, and to others that came to visit them in prison, making several lies against them, soon after hanged himself by his bed side.  
It is reported that many of the Professors in Exon have hanged and drowned themselves since first that place begun to persecute the people of God.  
As Thomas Salthouse and Miles Halhead were travelling towards Plymouth, in obedience to the Lord, were apprehended at Honington, and sent to EXETER by a guard of Musqueteers & from thence to TA●NTON with a sealed letter & a guard, to Colonel Buffet, who as he was enjoined by the said letter, wrote another to send them from Tything to Tything until they came to their own Countries; but the officer that had the pass, and was to be their convoy to the next Tything had not gone above a mile, until he fell down in the mire, and could not stand upon his feet, although they lefted him up; thus the Lord made way for their enlargements, and manifested his Righteous Judgements upon the Persecutors of the innocent; so the Justice, seeing the hand of the Lord against their form weapons and instruments employed against the servants of the Lord, released them.  
The first that risen up against the people of God in this County, was one Thomas Pentlow, called Justice, that in two years' space committed 9 of the servants of the Lord to Prison, and not one of them was proved transgressors, either of the Law of God, nor the Nation, and some of them kept above a whole year in Prison, and immediately after the beginning of his persecution, the Lord smote him with an incurable disease in his body, that he never went forth, as formerly he did many times, but lay roaring night and day, near two years; and when he lay thus in torment, he committed every one of the people of the Lord to Prison that was brought before him, though not any Law was transgressed; and never repent to the day of his death.  
Next one John Brown called Justice, committed one Henry Williamson to Prison, for going into Kettering Steeplehouse, though he never spoke one word, but stood peaceably all the time; and as soon as the Priest had done, the people dragged him forth by the hair of the head, & struck him on the head & face with their Bibles, and he never speaking one word; and John Brewa was an eye witness to this barbarous usage of him, and never reproved the rude people for it; but committed him to an Alehouse, with a charge that none of his friends should come near him; and the next day, contrary to all Law, committed him to the common Goal, and there he hath continued 42 weeks, and never any accuser appeared against him. And it was observed, that just forty weeks after, as it was accounted, it being the just account of women, his Wife brought forth a manchild into the World, so deformed in many parts of the body, many of the members being out of order, as hardly ever any was seen to be the like; and as soon as it was born, he would not let it be seen by Neighbours, but by those that were there at her delivery, and so keeps it priprivate to this day; and it is observed, that he used all the members of his body to act wickedness against the innocent, so the Lord visited his sin upon his child, which that night might be begotten.  
This Brown called Justice, committed Marmaduke Storr, and one John Whitehead, one week after the committing of the other, because they could not for Conscience sake swear to the Oath of Objuration, though they denied what was contained in it, and kept them 41 weeks in Prison; And another time he and one Robert Buyclrek of the Peace, came with armed Soldiers where there was divers of the people of the Lord assembled at a meeting in Isham on a first day, and came violently into the house, and haled the people forth of doors, and struck some of them, and said, they would break up their meetings; and committed one Thomas Stubs to the house of Correction from the Meeting, with a strict charge that he should be severely whipped, which was done; and since hath committed divers other friends to Prison; and said to one john Garret, that he hoped to have a place in Heaven at God's right hand, for his punishing of the Quakers, and wished he had more power in his hand; this deformed child of his is never able to go while it lives, and all his other children were very sickly, and this hath been healthful and lusty, and is above three years of age, and kept privately.  
One Peter Whaley Mayor of Northampton, who was mad to persecute Friends, in the year of his Maiorality did many wicked actions, as committing some Friends to Prison, and much abusing Friends that came to visit Friends that were in Prison, he making them passes, and sending them from Constable to Constable; and in the middle of his year he went forth of the Town, and the Lord struck him off of his horse, and he died; and one that lay in Prison, for speaking to a Priest that he had formerly committed, was as soon as he was dead, immediately released.  
One William Somes a Carpenter in Willingborrow, a lusty young man, was at the Towns end a sawing with another, one evening as William Dewsberry and Francis Ellington, and another Friend was passing to a Meeting, William Dewsberry seeing him, spoke these words to him, Fear God and repent, and give heed to the Light of Christ in your Consciences, or else you perish eternally, with some other words to this effect; the said William Somes began much to laugh and to jeer at him, but William not regarding that, passed away; and immediately he was struck with lameness and pains that instant, and so hath continued near ● years', and can hardly speak any plain words, and hath lost the use of his limbs of the one side.  
One Oliver ●letsoe ● Draper in Wellinborrow▪ having much enmity against Friends, as Friends have passed by his shop to Meetings, he would encourage his son about 12 years of age, to abu●e them by throwing dirt and stones at them as they passed by; presently after, the house that he lived in, being a stone built house, one morning about eight in the morning, the house over his shop fell down to the ground: and his son that formerly abused Friends with his servant was accidentally in the street, not knowing any thing, that the house fell down to the ground, and one of the stones fell upon the boys head, and had very nigh slain him, much wounding him, and great loss came to his father, the house falling upon all his goods, and much of the goods were buried so under the rubbish, that they were never found until they were rotten.  
One Squire Willmor so called, of Sywe●l, having one Richard Brown Tenant to him, and Rent a farm of him and his predecessors 30 or ●0 years; the said Richard owning truth, and having meetings kept at his house in Sywell, the rich man sent to him, and told him that if he would not give over having meetings kept at his house, he should not stay any longer than until his year was up, he saying to him that he co●ld find no other fault with him in any thing; but the said Richard would not yield to him to deny meetings, he put him forth of his farm; and immediately after, this great man having but one son and heir, the Lord struck him with death; and that as he would not suffer an Heir of Heaven to dwell in one of his houses, except he would deny his God; so his son and heir should not live in any of his father's possessions, but in the house of darkness was shut up, to the great grief of his father.  
One Robert Guy who is Clerk of the Peace, who hath been one of the greatest enemies to the people of God in this County, and hath dealt subtly with the servants of the Lord, and have stirred up the Magistrates against Friends, when they have been brought to Sessions before them; did say to Francis Ellington one day, that the false prophets that Elija slew might as well plead they were persecuted then, as the Quakers in England. The said Francis was brought to the Sessions, and there two wicked men did falsely swear against him, and say, That he did curse and deny the true God that made Heaven and Earth, at a Meeting; and though they swore this, yet as soon as the Jurymen were gone forth, they did in the presence of the Court, one of them, deny it again, and confessed the truth; and yet Robert Guy would take no notice of it, neither would he suffer one of the said Francis Ellingtons witnesses to declare what he did speak, being 5 of them, except they would first swear, which he knew they could not, and so suffered the innocent to be committed in Prison; and he himself did afterwards charge the Gaoler privately to whip him, once in two weeks, or else (he told the Gaoler) he should lose his place, which the Gaoler confessed to the said Francis; but this was observed, that the said Francis one day meeting with the said Guy upon the road, was moved of the Lord to speak to him, and bid him give over persecuting the people of God, otherwise the Judgement of the Lord would suddenly overtake him; and this was three days before the Sessions, and he not believing, but suffered the said Francis to be cast into Prison, and there to be by his private order whipped once a fortnight, and to be kept from his Wife and six small children, and from his trade and employment, to the ruining of him and his Family; Just seven days after, the Lord struck his Wife with death, & made 7 or 8 children of his motherless, and in one week his Family were all dispersed, and his children put forth, and his house left desolate to this day. So our God is known by his executing Judgement, and the wicked are trapped in the works of their own hands, and thus in all ages hath the Lord been known, and it is left upon record, and in this age all the children of the light see the Lords footsteps, praises be to him for ever.  
Also one Wyatt living at bugbrook, a great professor for many years, hearing that a Neighbour living in the same Town owned Truth, and began to go to Friends Meetings, he wrote a whole sheet of paper against the Truth of God, and most blasphemously belied the people of God, which he in scorn called Quakers, and sent this his Letter to his Neighbour aforesaid, and challenged him or any of his Friends to give him an answer unto it; but in a few weeks after before a friend could return him an answer; the Lord answered him by taking away his life.  
Also one John Palmer, whom the World calls Quaker, sent a book which was set forth by a friend to a Priest living three miles from Harborrow, and desired him to read it, the Priest was troubled at what was written in the book, and said that he would write another to confute it: and while he was writing against the truth, the Lord struck him with death suddenly, that he died, and never finished that work.  
Also one Thomas Hensman, one who was Warden, so called, of Willingborrow, and when any friends were moved to go to the Steeplehouse, he would be always ready at the command of the Priest, there to hale them forth of the Steeplehouse; and he did once at the desire of the Priest swear falsely against one Elihu Hunt, that she disturbed the Priest, when she did out ask him one question after he had done; and by his swearing Thomas Pentlow committed her to Prison; presently after, the Lord smo●e the said Thomas with an uncurable disease, and when he lay upon his deathbed he declared to Neighbours, that nothing troubled him so much as swearing and persecuting the said Elihu, and wished that he had never had a hand in it, and at the same time died.  
Henry Wood of Bury in Lancaster, riding to Manchester market, Priest Bradsham rod up to him, and called him knave, and took away his hat. At Bo●ton the said H. Wood was much misused, & had his hair pulled off his face, by T. Tislesly.  
Dol Hodgkin, was struck by the Priest of Wakefield, and had like to have been killed with a hammer, by a blacksmith.  
YORK. Priest of Warsworth struck and punched G. Fox. The same Priest took away Thomas Rawlinsons hat.  
LONDON. Priest Griffin of Bred-street, struck Robert Ingram sorely over the head with a Cane many blows.  
The Priest of Heburn, struck Jo. Slay several times over the breast.  
And those things have happened for the Admonition of the children of those who have persecuted the innocent without cause, and are written for the encouragement of such as may hereafter be persecuted for the testimony of Jesus, that they may look unto him and be saved, who hath delivered us out of six troubles, and in seven he will not forsake us.    

A Catalogue of some few of the fight Priests.  
PRiest Shaw of Aldingham beat Anna Clater.  
Priest Roulands of Areloth, beat Robert Cooper, because he would not speak to him.  
Priest Willon of Kerby, struck Luke Benson, till he broke a thick cane therewith.  
Priest Bennet of Cartmel, came out of an Alehouse being in drink, beat Richard Raper, and boasted, that he beat him, and struck up his heels.  
Priest Brook of Cartmelfell, came drunk into the house, where Thomas Rollison dwelled, beat him, violently would have cast him into the fire.  
Priest Wait of Gargrave stood by, while his wife burned eighteen sheets of paper, holding it to the face of William Wa●kinson, to burn him with, but the Priest never so much as reproved her, or restrained her.  
Priest Dorton of Shape being drunk, drew his Tuck at Daniel Tompson, in the street as he passed, but being horsed, he fled and escaped, he beat Richard and William Stray, pulled them by the hair, luged his ears, and came to William Strays house with his tuck to seek him, and threatened his wife therewith.  
Priest rippling of Crosby, came riding into the meeting▪ where the people of God was meet, and rid through them with violence.  
Priest Nichols of Acton, beat James Parnel, and broke his head against a stall.  
Priest Warwick of Aspeater, beat John Grave and his wife, and shed the blood of Jonah Person, at a meeting.  
Priest Burton of Sedburg, beat John Blackling, and pulled him by the hair of his head in his high place.  
He also beat Richard Speight, and John Hall as is said at Huperam Chappel.  
Priest Cowleden of Langsterdale beat Edward Edward's, and shed his blood upon the high way; Also he beat james Tenart.  
Priest Atkinson of Granton beat Bernard Addisom in the highway, and broke his staff over his face.  
Priest of Marrick beat Christop. More, and also he beat joseph Longsdale in Richmond marketplace for reproving him for it.  
Priest More of Richmond beat Christoph. More with a flail, insomuch that its like he had killed him if help had not come.  
Priest Confit of Barton beat Dor. Tod for coming to visit his wife.  
I Christo. Iron upon a first day, was coming from a meeting of Friends, and coming along the Highway, I lighted of one Parson Feak of Standrop, in the county of Durham, who did rageingly fall upon me, and did beat me, and so passing along the way, and my mouth never opened, nor one word said, he came again, and gave me a great blow, and made me stagger, and struck off my hat, and had a Rapier-staff that he had at Steeplehouse, which he drew a part forth of the Scabbard, but put it up again, and thus the Parson did to me, and not one word, and thus we parted.  
This same Feak beat Thomas Taylor, Christopher Atkinson, and Thomas A●ery, coming along the high way, coming from Ravensworth Castle.  
Priest Feak of Staindrop, beat Christo. Atkinson, trailed him at the horse side by the hair of the head, by the highway, and his wife behind him, bunched him on the face.  
Lewis Floid Priest of Otteringam did tear William Dewsbu●ies hair off his head, and struck him as they passed together near Oteringam in much rage and fury.  
Thomas Andrews Priest of Wellingborow laid violent hands on Anne Ellington, and drew her to the fire to have caused her to have burned a letter she carried to him, and bruised the sinnew of her arm.  
Priest Tho. Shaw of Aldingham, beat James Lancaster for speaking to him in private, he also beat Miles Falhead, and shed his blood.  
Linc. Fletcher Priest of Dean in Cum bad the people fight for the Gospel▪ and caused Thomas Stubs to be extremely beaten.  
Matthew Bake● a great High Priest, who said that Adam before he fell, had a dark light of nature in him that shown him sin, etc. A friend in the truth bid him prove it, but he could not, his lies being laid upon him, he got up in a great rage, and struck F. Ellington.  
As Rob. Chintin was going to a meeting, Priest Fortrey asked him why he run after other men's wives, (there being a woman or two before, going towards the meeting) and with many other obscene unclean words, railed at him, and beat him with his staff, so that for a month or more his han● was jame.  
Thomas Curtis of reading being in the Steeplehouse there, ask Priest Web a question, was sorely pulled by the hair of the head, by the priests adherents.  
The aforesaid Curtis was also abused, and smote by the priest of Causham, until the Mayor himself came and took him forth of the Steeplehouse.  
Priest Feak of Stanethrop, beat Christopher Jones of Barnard Castle.  
Priest Jenkins with four men, to whom he gave bond to save harmless for whatsoever they did, who by false warrant seized upon, and drove away 100 sheep, and other  from Captain John eliot; his shepherd's wife owning one sheep, and desiring to have it, one of this priests men knocked her down, and broke her head in two places, and for some time she lay for dead, continuing deaf unto this day; the aforesaid Captain eliot's wife being there also, the priest bid one of his men knock her down, and kill her▪ and he would bear him out; at which command one of them struck her on the breast with a great staff which might have killed her, but she having a young child which did suck, preserved her, but the child sucking the putrified milk, took a vomiting and died; and this is murder in the sight of God and men.  
And no murderer, nor striker shall inherit the Kingdom.  
THE END.