RESOLVES OF THE COMMITTEE OF SAFETY. Whereunto is added the Saints Dictionary: OR, A Catalogue of some precious Books chiefly intended for the use of those that are well-affected to this good NEW CAUSE. Dulce est desipere in loco. Hor. London, Printed in the year, 1659. RESOLVES OF THE COMMITTEE OF SAFETY. I. REsolved, That the Thalmud be forthwith translated into English, by a select Committee, whereof Rabbi-Moses ben-Israel to have the Chair. II. Res. That Mr. Whitoy's house in Creed-Church Lane, be allowed for a Synagogue of Jews. And that Dr. Holms be an Assistant at their Feast of Tabernacles. III. Res. That Phillip( vulgarly called) Earl of Pembroke, and Mris Ivy. have free liberty to procreate a sanctified Generation of Quakers. IV. Res. That Sir Rich. Temple be made solicitor General to this Commonwealth, for all injurious and vexatious Law Suits, with this, That he neither spare Brother nor Sister, Uncle, nor Aunt; And that he be dispensed with from paying any of his own, or Fathers just Debts. V. Res. That Dr. Denton( his witness) may get more by being a Knight of the Post, then a quacking Saltimbanco. VI. Res. That Mris Woodcock. have the thanks of this House, for converting Sir Arthur's Daughter to the Quaking Faith. VII. Res. That the late Kings Hall at Greenwich, be allowed for a Meetingplace for the Quakers. VIII. Res. That Mr. John can be desired to give new Scripture Names to the Months and Dayes, and that the old be abolished, as Antichristian. IX. Res. That Mr. Rich. Baxter of Kederminster be authorized to writ against all Authors, and all Religions, and to establish none. X. Res. That the taking of oaths, Protestations, and Engagements directly pro and con, is pure Escobarrism. XI. Res. That Mr. Harrington's proposal for a democratical Government shall be put to the Test, according to the ancient Law of Charondas. XII. Res. That Mr. John Canne's Seasonable word be burnt by the hand of the Hangman; for having this Expression in it( Pag. 3.) my Prayer to God is, That this Parliament may do worthily in Ephrata, and be famous in Bedlam. XIII. Res. That the Word ( St.) be henceforth omitted in the Clerk of the Parliaments Name. XIV. Res. That Mr. Rich. Baxter be sequestered as a Popist Recusant, for writing himself catholic. XV. Res. That Buckinghamshire shall be henceforth accounted a very fruitful Country, for producing two honest Sir Richards. XVI. Res. That a day be set a part, for the public baiting of Th. Fuller B.D. by Peter Heylin D. D. XVII. Res. That M. Dorchester be called to the Bench at Greys-Inne, and that his moving a Bench Case be respited, in respect of his fat Venison. XVIII. Res. That Mulmurry-Mac Swine, Rory-mac-Brian-Oge-Magennis, Tirlogh-mac-Jeoffry o donneli, Brian-Modder-o Quinne, Richard-Grace-Mac Jasper, Murlogh-ne-Mart-o Flagerty, Patrick-Groom O mulcrevy, Shane-mac-Brian o'neill, and Treg-O-Cannor Sleigo, Of the Irish Nation, be proceeded against, upon the Act of Parl. of 12. August. 1652. XVIII. Res. That Dr. Holms be desired to exorcize the Lord Bradshaw's Ghost, and lay the fiend. XIX. Res. That the Lord Munsan and Mr. Martyn be remanded back to their usual place of abode, till the Common-wealth have further occasion to make use of their Service. XX. Res. That this House does recommend Mr. tombs the Anabaptist to be Preacher at the Temple Church, since the Law must be regenerated, and the Lawyers re-babtized. XXI. Res.( upon the motion of Sir H. Vane) that all Acts and Ordinances for observation of the Lords-day, stand henceforth repealed, and that every man be at liberty to keep what day he please Sabbath. XXII. Res. That no Pamphleteer do henceforth meddle any more with Alderman Atkin's Breeches, since they have been already sufficiently wiped. XXIII. Res. That John-Ben-haile-Thomas Baskervile, Huntington-Hastings Corney, Fane-patience til-the-Pope-bedown Hobbs, and trust-not-in-the-Arm of flesh Jopson; be and are constituted a Committee to examine and licence all new Books with hard names or strarge Titles. Imprimantur A logic Exercise, by that incomparable Virgin, Anna-Maria à Sihurman. The way to the Peace of the three Nations, by Peter-Cornelius Van-Zurick see. Benjamyns mess, Or, the Saints peculiar right to the Creatures: By The Lord-is-neer Fenner. 〈◇〉. Or, Sparks of the Spirit: being Motives to sacred Theorems and divine Meditations; by a Reverend Father of the Church of England. A dozen of Points to tie up a true Believers Breeches; By Onesiphorus Tap. A Treatise, proving the Whore of Babylon to be the Man of sin; by Joy-again Phillips; Mount Ehal levelled, or Redemption from the Curse: By the Reverend Mr. Elk. Wales, Minister of the word. A Christmas pie spoiled in the Baking: Or, seventeen Arguments to prove there was never any such day: By Thanksgiving Fruen. A Winding-sheet for Popery, made of Kederminster stuff: By Richard Baxter, catholic. FINIS. To the much honoured Consolation Fox, Azariah Husbands, Increased Collins, Comfort Star and Reformation air, Esquires, and to Zurich Zuddai long, Doctor in physic: To my zealous Brethren, Elnathan Par, Adoniram Byfield, and Obadiah Sedgwick, Ministers of the Gospel: To his holy Sisters by the Spirits-side, Mistress Dorcas Erbury, Hannah Stranger, Tabitha Trapnel, and Susanna Sympringham: To my respected Friends, Livewel Chapman, Gravely Norton, Auran durel, Methusalah Turner and Praise-God Barbon, Gent. and to Peregrine Doe-Little, John Bide-awhile, and Thomas Un-thank, Yeomen. Beloved, I Have taken some pains to collect this Catalogue of Spiritual Books; and though haply it may not compare with those yearly ones of frankford or Paris, for greatness of volume or depth of School-Learning; yet for height of Spirit and profundity of Scriptural knowledge, it will out-do the Fathers of the Primitive times, and put the whole Christian World into amazement: And because the Books herein Catalogu'd have been Christened ( if I may so phrase it) with very strange Titles; I thought fit to select persons of as strange names to be Gossips to this my Collection, even yourselves, to whom I offer the whole endeavour, not in a carnal way, with expectation of a Minerval, but with humbleness and admiration of spirit for such Metaphysical and Supertranscendent Productions; whose heights the simplicity of former times could not reach, and whose depths the ignorance of the present cannot fathom: Thus recommended and published By one who according to the flesh was name N. N. But in the Seed of the Spirit is properly styled Grass & Hay withers. The Titles of some late Spiritual, Polemical, Metaphysical New Books. O SOssorianum, or a Bone for a Bishop to pick. St. Pauls politics, or a Sermon against Neutrality. Preached at Margarets Westminster. By Laurence Palmer, Rector of the Mediety of Gelding in the County of Nottingham, and Captain of a Troop of Horse, raised for the Service of the King and Parliament. A voice out of the thick darkness, containing in it a few words to Christians, about the late and present posture of affairs among them. Together with a Postscript about darkening the Council of God. By Isaac Pennington Junior, Esquire. Christ exalted, and alone worthy to open the Seals of the Book. And the Scriptures owned in their place, &c. By William Dewsberry. Shibboleth, or the Reformation of several places in the Translation of the Bible, &c. By John Despagne, the Huguenot-Preacher at Somerset-House. A warning piece for the slumbering Virgins; or an Alarum to the Friends of the Bridegroom, &c. By Geo. Scortreth, Preacher of the Gospel at Lincoln. Sips of sweetness, or consolation for weak Believers, &c. The Trial of a Black-Pudding, &c. showing the unlawfulness of eating Blood. By Rabbi David Kimchi The Lightless Star, &c. Against John Goodwin, a Pelagio-Socînian. ΙΠΠΟΣ ΠΥΡΡΟΣ, The Red-Horse, or the Bloodiness of War, presented in a Sermon, to persuade to Peace. By Jo. Geree. M. A The Gospel Isaac, or the holy Nations freedom; a Believers glory in point of Liberty. The Mountain of Fat things discovered, &c. crumbs of Comfort, or Godly Prayers, &c. The fortieth Edition. The Holy Ghost on the Bench, and other Spirits at the Bar, &c. A Wonderful, pleasant, and profitable Letter. Written by Mrs. Sarah Wight, to a Friend, expressing the joy that is to be had in God. The dark and light sides of God, &c. Milk and Honey, or a miscellaneous collation of many Christian experiences, &c. By Ralph Venning. Enoch's walk and change, in a Sermon. Stablishing against shaking, or a discovery of the Prince of darkness in the deluded people called Quakers. By Giles Firmir. Some sweet Sips of some Spiritual Wine, sweetly and freely dropping from one Cluster of Grapes, brought between two upon a Staff from Spiritual Canaan, the Land of the Living, the Living Lord. To late Egyptian and now bewildered Israelites. Judah's joy at the Oath, laid out in a Sermon. The Spiritual Pick-lock, or the Turn key of the Soul, &c. By Hezekiah Twentyman. Love to the lost, and a hand held forth to the helpless, to led them out of the dark. By one that seeks the Redemption of Sions Seed, and a lover of the Creation of God, who is called James Nailer. Bethshemesh clouded; or Animadversions on Rabbi John Rogers, his, &c. Satan at Noon, in two parts, &c. The Son of God walking in the fire, with the Servants of God, &c. In Nine Sermons. By Tho. Armitage, late Minister in Norwich. Satan enthroned in his Chair of Pestilence, or Quakerism in its Exaltation. By Ra. Earmer. Sion in the House of mourning, because of sin and suffering. By D. S. The refinement of Zion, or the old Orthodox Protestant Doctrine justified, &c. The Inheritance of Jacob discovered, after his return out of Egypt. And the leading of the Lord to the Land of Promise. By a Servant of Jesus Christ, who delighteth in his Masters work. Fran. Howgil. The Balm of Gilead; Or comforts for the distressed. By Jos. Hall, D.D. and Bishop of Norwich. apple of Gold for young men and women, and a Crown of Honor for old men and women; or the happiness of being good betimes, and the honor of being an old Disciple, clearly and fully discovered, closely and faithfully applied by Tho. Brooks. Ashdod driven out, and Ebron rooted up, or the Scotish Kirkmen defeated by a Spiritual Arm. The Spirits Touchstone, or the Teachings of Christs Spirit on the hearts of Believers, being a clear discovery, how a man may certainly know, whether he be really taught by the Spirit of God. By Job Poyre. The Horn of the He-goat broken, or an Answer to a lying Book called, The chasing the young Quaking Harlot out of the City. By a lover of Righteousness, called Rich: Huberthorn. The skirts of the Whore discovered. and the mingled people in the midst of her, in a Letter sent by Dennis Hollister. The Lip of Truth opened, against a Dawber with untempered mortar. By Tho. Lawson. A lamentation for the scattered Tribes, &c. The guilty-covered Clergy-man unveiled, in a plain and candid Reply unto two bundles of Wrath and Confusion, wrapped up in one and twenty sheets of Paper. By Tho. Speed, a Friend to all that tremble at the Word of the Lord. To the Camp of the Lord in England; an Epistle by one whom the World calls Fran. Howgil. Jacob found in a desert Land, or a Recovery of the lost out of the loss, truly manifested by a sufferer for the pure Seeds sake, who is known to the sons of men by the name of Gee. Whitehead. The boasting Baptist dismounted, and the Beast disarmed and sorely wounded without any carnal Weapon. Dagons downful, or the great Idol digged up Root and Branch. Antichrist in Man, Christs enemy, who hath been pretending for Christ in notion; but now at his appearance, stands up with all his power to deny his Light and Preach him insufficient; by a lover of the Seed of God, and one that feeks the peace of lost Souls, called James Nailer. The baiting of the Popes Bull; by Henry Burton. The Vials of the wrath of God, upon the seat of the man of sin; by him who is called Geo. Fox. Jesus Christ the same to day as yesterday, &c. Given forth for the sake of the honest hearted, and in witness of the truth, as it is in Jesus, every where spoken against, scorned and persecuted, under the reproachful name of Quaking. Kame, and I'll Kathee; by A R( who was a Popish Priest, prisoner in Newgate, and died there.) Weakness above wickedness, and truth above subtlety which is the Quakers defence against the boaster and his deceitful slanders; seen in an Answer to a Book called Quakers quaking; by one who is called James Nailer. Beaten oil, for the Lamps of the Sanctuary. A Fool answered according to his folly; or Judas in joining to the chief Priests to betray the Lamb, hath hanged himself; plainly seen in an Answer to Geo. Emmot of Durham, and his Northern blast; by James Nailer. A stay in trouble, or the Saints rest in the evil day, shortly digested, as the Saints Manual in the worst of times. Wickedness weighed, in an Answer to a Book called, &c. By a Friend to the work of God, but an enemy to the Devils work, where it is found and pleaded for. James Nailer. A hot Caudle for a lukewarm Politician: to heat him to holiness, from his temporizing Neutralities and frothy Formalities. Rev. 3.16. Because thou art neither hot nor could, I will spew thee out. The pouring out of the Seven Vials. One blow more at Babylon. The Throne of Truth exalted over the power of darkness( in behalf of James Nailer) by G. Bishop( Secretary to the late Council at Whitehal. Aim at an upshot for Infant Baptism, by the good will of Christ, as Priest, Prophet, and King, to fill the Earth with his glory; by Henry Whistler, B. D. Printed for Thomas Paybody at— The great Whore made bare and naked, before she be judged and her flesh burnt with fire. Revel 27.16. Proving that none indeed deny the Ordinances of Christ, but present Churches not being in a Gospel order. By Will. Erbery. The Babe of glory, breaking forth in the broken flesh of the Saints, breathing out the life of God( hide in their flesh) now to be revealed and raised, Isa. 40.5, 6. By Will. Erbery. A Cluster of Canaans Grapes: being several experimental truths, received through private Communion with God, by his Spirit; grounded on Scripture, and presented to open view for public edification. By the right honourable Sir Robert Titchbourn, Lord mayor of the City of London. A Testimony of the light within; a glorious truth, which all the holy men of God did bear testimony unto, and from which they spake-forth the Scriptures, &c. Also a Testimony of the dawning of the glorious day of the Lord, and his appearing in power, in the hearts of his people, which makes the world to wonder, and Formal-Professors to rage and persecute the appearance of Christ in power, &c. Also an Exhortation to all people to cease from man, and all their carnal and dead observations without them, &c. With a few words to those dear ones; who are torn to see the deadness of the Formal-Profession, who are waiting upon God, whose faces are turned Sion wards. Given forth from Christ the Light within, in love to the Souls of all people, who are groping in the dark without; that out of death and darkness they may be brought and turned to the true Light, that they may have union with me in my Fathers love, who am redeemed and brought forth of Pharoahs Court; and do count it greater riches to suffer affliction with the despised people of God, rather than enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season. Whose name according to the flesh is Alexander Parker. An Easter reckoning, or a free-will offering, rendering the Calves of my Lips, and offering up my Service to the Lord. Sauls Errand to Damascus, with his packet of Letters from the High Priests against the Disciples of the Lord. A discovery of the first wisdom from beneath, and the second wisdom from above; or the difference betwixt the two Seeds, the one of the flesh, the other after the Spirit. Several Letters written to the Saints of the Most High, to build them up in the truth, as it is in Jesus. The Anabaptists Meribab, or Waters of strife; by Mr. Price, one of John Goodwins Congregation. A salutation to the Seed of God, and a call out of Babylon and Egypt. from among the Magicians, where the house of bondage is, &c. Written in love to all your Souls, by him who is called James Nailer. Antichrists man of war apprehended, and encountered with by a Soldier of the Army of the Lamb, &c. Goliahs head cut off with his own Sword, in a combat betwixt little David, the young stripling and great goliath, the proud boaster, &c. Given forth from the Spirit of the Lord, in the behalf of Israel, &c. By one who is known to the world by the name of James Parnel. Davids enemies discovered, who make Songs of him, but without the Spirit, and without understanding, as the Drunkard did; which he declares of, Psal. 69.12. A Call into the way to the Kingdom: This is written to go abroad into the World, for the good of poor Souls, that they may know the way to their Souls rest. Written by Tho Stubbs, one whom the people of the world scornfully call Quaker, which word Quaking I willingly own, else I should deny the Scriptures: For Moses and the holy men of God quaked and trembled at the presence of the Lord. Heb. 12. An Easter reckoning; or a Freewil-offering, rendering the Calves of my Lips and offering up my service to the Lord, &c. The whirlwind of the Lord, gone forth as a fiery flying Roll; with an Alarm sounded against the Inhabitants of the North. The Male of the Flock: A Sermon Preached before the Lord mayor, out of the Fourth of Malachi. By Mr. Haggas, Minister of China. An Alarm to the Jews. Warning them that the dawning of that great and remarkable day of the Lord is come, &c. Written in French by inhabit Sion; And now like to be translated. The Monster of sinful self-seeking, anatomised, a Sermon Preached at Pauls, &c. By Edm. Calamy. The Rib restored, or the honor of Marriage; a Sermon Preached by Rich. Maggot. Christ and his Saints, spending their time day and night; or, Christ and his Saints. 1. Walking together in the fields by day. 2. Lodging in the village by night. 3. Early rising together, for heavenly regards, every morning. Zarubbabel to Samballat and Tobiah; or the First part of the Duply to M. S. alias, two Brethren. Vox Turturis; vel Columba alba Albionis. The voice of the Turtle, or Englands white Dove, In the Deluge of Division, the second time sent forth from Gods Ark, to present a Peace-offering upon the Altar of Jehovah Shalom. Per E. M. Arm. Christi Servorum minimo minorem. The snare on Mizpah, or, The net spread upon Tabor; being the happy discovery of a Hellish Plot against the Parliament and godly people of the Nation, &c. Church-Members set in joint. By Filedexter Transilvanus. The Cornet blown in Gibeah, and the Trumpet in Ramah; or an Invitation for all the welaffected to take up arms in the Lords Cause, &c. By James Sixhouses. The healing of Israels breeches, &c. The Moth of Ephraim, and the rottenness of the House of Judah; or, The self-exalting Presbyterian levelled; by Francis Brass-girdle. Parliament physic, for a sin-sick Nation. Wherein thou mayst see, as in an Urinal-Glass, the dangerous state of thy English Mother, &c. Ephraims Cake not turned, or the Dow-baked Presbyterian heated in an Oven. Nehemiahs Tears and Prayers for Judahs afflictions, and the ruins and repair of Jerusalem. Innocency and truth justified; Dedicated to all the Lambs, redeemed Ones, standing on Mount Zion, having their Fathers names written on their foreheads, &c. Spiritual Exercise to procure a true appetite unto, and a good digestion of the Lords Supper; dedicated to the Right Worshipful Company of the Fishmongers, the Master and Wardens, Assistants, and Livery, with the rest of the Brethren of that worthy Society. By William Chibald. Bullocks sacrificed in Gilgal; or an utter defeat of the Popish Communion Table. Truth with time; or certain Reasons, proving, That none of the Seven last Plagues or Vials are yet poured out, neither will the time of their pouring out begin, till after the rising of the Two Witnesses, and the Forty two moneths of the Beasts reign be expired; by John can, Minister of the Gospel. An Epistle to all people on the Earth; and the ignorance of all the World, both Professors and Teachers, of the birth that must be silent, and of the birth that is to speak, which declares God; and the difference betwixt silence and speaking. showing that it was the practise of many to wait in silence upon God, to hear his Word and know his Voice; by G. F. The 〈◇〉, or 〈◇〉; or, The Vision of Eternity, held forth in Answer to some Antiqueries which were given forth from Egypt by one of Babels Builders, a pretended Minister of Christ, living in Worcestershire at Bewdly, that is called Mr. Henry Osland. By one whose name is known to God by these three Jews Letters in the Sequel 〈◇〉, but to men by John Humphreys. The Cry of a ston, or a relation of something spoken in Whitehal by Anna Trapnel, being in the Visions of God. In the Eleventh month called January, 1653. The comings forth of Christ, in the power of his death: In a Sermon, &c. Englands Eben Ezer, or ston of help, set up in a thankful acknowledgement of the Lords having helped us hitherto more especially: In a Sermon preached to both the honourable Houses of Parliament, the Lord mayor and Aldermen, &c. By John Arrowsmith, B. D. The Reviler rebuked; or a Re-inforcement of the charge against the Quakers: by John Stalham, a Servant of the Great Bishop and Shepherd of Souls, appointed to watch his little flock at Terling in Essex Spiritual Thrift; or Meditations, &c. By Eliz. Warren, a lover of truth and peace. Three Treatises Religiously handled, The Mourning Weed; the Mornings Joy; the Kings rejoicing: By Radford Manerick. JESUS CHRIST the Mystical, or Gospel Sun: Sometimes seemingly eclipsed, yet never going down from his people: Or Eclipses spiritualized, opened in a Sermon at Pauls, before the Right honourable, the Lord mayor, Aldermen, &c. By Fulk Bellers, Preacher of the Gospel in the City of London. Calebs inheritance in Canaan, by Grace not Works. By E. W. a Member of the Army in Ireland. ΙΣRΑΗΛ ΑΓΧΙΘΑΝΗΣ, Deaths Alarum, given in a Funeral Sermon, for the Right reverend Jos. Hall, who upon the eighth day of September, 1656. was gathered to the Spirits of the Just, that are made perfect. The Shield of the Righteous: or the 95 Psalm expounded, with the addition of Doctrines and Uses; by Robert Horn, Trumpeter of Gods Word. Menaphon, Cavillars Alarum to slumbering Eupheus, in his melancholy Cell at Silexedra. Cum bono Deo, Rain from the Glouds, upon a Choick Angel; or a returned Answer to that common Quaeritur of our Adversaries, Where was your Church before Luther? Extorted of the Author, for stilling the incessant and no less clamorous coaxation of some Patmick Frogs against the lawfulness of our Calling. A Handkerchieif for a disconsolate Soul; to wipe away his sins, &c. By Sam Spincks, Minister of Gods Word. 〈◇〉, or a Scriptural discourse of the apostasy, and the Antichrist; dedicated to the Right Reverend and Profound Textmen of England. A small Map of the many Protestants and few Christians in England; showing, That the last differ not more in faces and voices, then the first do in judgement and practise, &c. 〈◇〉, Baby- Baptism mere Babism; or an Answer to no Body in Five words, to every Body who finds himself concerned in it. I. Anti-diabolism, or the true account of a dispute at Ashford, proved a true counterfeit. II. Anti-babism, or the Babish disputings of the Priests for Baby-baptism, disproved. III. Antirantism, or Christendom Unchristen'd. IV. Antiranterism, or Christendom new Christened. V. Anti-sacerdotism, the deep dotage of the DDDivines discovered, or the Antichristian CCClergy cleared to be that themselves, which they have ever charged Christs Clergy to be. By Sam. Fisher, an unworthy Servant of Jesus Christ, and his poor PPPriest-belied Church and People. In Folio. A Rod discovered, found and set forth to whip the Idolaters, till they leave off their Idolatry, which remains in the Rulers of England, their Ministers, and the people who follow their ways; which doth consist in the Houses of High-places, falsely called Churches, the two Universities, &c. By a Friend to the suffering Seed of God, B. T. The exceeding riches of Grace, advanced by the Spirit of Grace in an empty nothing Creature, Mrs. Sarah Wight. Published for the refreshing of poor Souls, by an eye and ear-witness of a good part thereof, Henry Jessey a Servant of Jesus Christ. FINIS. ERRATA. page. 7, line 6 for Gelding red Gedling. P. 17. l. 13. for China r. Chinis. P. 18. l. 21. for breeches r. breaches. P. 22. l. 1. for Trumpeter r. Minister.