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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39307	Rogero-Mastix A rod for William Rogers, in return for his riming scourge, &c. By Thomas Ellwood.	Ellwood, Thomas, 1639-1713.	1685 (1685)	Wing E625; ESTC R215518	17,848	31

a Muster-Roll to make Of all who from without in hand did take To Battel against Truth and shake their Spears At Israel's Camp within these twenty years Nor do I purpose to enum'rate all Who in that time themselves did Quakers call That through Misguided Zeal or Discontent Their Bows against their Brethren have bent But since some few of late appear to be With Rage and Envy fill'd to that degree That with more Bitterness than all the rest Their Malice against Truth they have exprest My purpose is to single out from these Him that appears as their Diotrephes And that is ROGERS For though Crisp and Bug With other some do at the same Oare Tug And Toil hard at it too with all their Might Yet can they do no more but shew their Spite And for the rest that lie behind the Skreen And move the Wheels but like not to be seen Although they help to carry on the Work I take less notice of them while they Lurk Them therefore leaving I return again To view Will. Rogers his Poetick strain Who having been too often foil'd in Prose To try his Fortain now in Verse hath chose If Verse without Offence that may be call'd Which is delivered in Rhimes so bald So flat so dull so rough so void of Grace Where Symphony and Cadence have no place So full of Chasmes stuck with Prosie Pegs Whereon his Tired Muse might rest her Legs Not having Wings and take new breath that then She might with much a doe hop on agen His Words to that effect Why so How so Hence I observe Hence I conclude do show His Pu●…sy Muse was often out of Wind And glad when she a perching place could find What drew thee William to this Rhiming fit Having no more p●…opensity to it Could'st think such hobling and unequal Rhimes That make a Iangling like disorder'd Chimes Could of a Poem e'er deserve the Name Or e'er be read without the Author's Shame What Clouds of Darkness in thy Lines appear How is thy Stile perplext how far from clear Thy Muse is wrapt in thickest Fogs of Night Which shews thou art departed from the Light Nor Sun nor Moon nor Star throughout thy Book Is to be seen No Spring nor Christal Brook Glides through thy Margin No thy Waters run Black like the Streams of Styx or Phlegeton I will not William take the pains to trace The Snakey Windings of thy crooked Race Nor do I mean to give my self the trouble To hunt thee foot by foot through ev'ry double Nor do I purpose here to spend my time To sweep away the stinking Mud and Slime The Sanious matter of a Putrid Brain Which doth well nigh each page of thine distain Which in base Terms and for the basest Ends Thou belchest forth against those worthy Friends Who maugre all thy foul Calumniation Have in the Church an honourable Station I hold it needless now to make Defence Against plain Envy for plain Innocence Besides they are more able far I know Thy Vomit back upon thy face to throw 〈◊〉 they think fit or with a noble Scorn ●…nd silent set their feet upon thy Horn. ●…oiding therefore that Scurrility ●…herewith upon some Persons thou dost fly ●…purpose more especially to look ●…to those envious Parcels of thy Book ●…hich seem to have a more extenc●… relation To all the faithful Friends in ev'ry Nation ●…ot only those whom God hath call'd to be ●…is Servants in a publick Ministry ●…t even all beneath the Cope of Heaven Now living who their Names to Christ have given And in this Search I make no doubt to find And manifest that with malicious Mind Like Sanballat Tobiah and the rest Whose envious workings are before exprest ●…ou either chargest Friends with what 's not true 〈◊〉 blam'st their doing what they ought to do After thou hast in Misty Phrases told What those call'd Quakers us'd to preach of old Which yet thou dost in Language so unclear That common sense doth not therein appear Thou slily dost suggest That Friends are gon From that great Truth they first insisted on But thy Suggestion's false We firmly hold The sure Foundation that was laid of old Quakers thou sayst in Christ's Name thus did preach Christ's Light 's our Guide it fallen Man doth teach And Quakers still say I do preach the same Christ's Light 's our Guide and preach it in Christ's Name And that it fallen man Would teach if he Would be perswaded by it taught to be ●…ut fallen man rebels and often kicks Against this inward Teacher when it pricks And that 's the soundest Reason can be brought Why thou being fall'n from Truth remain'st untaught Christ's Teaching by his Spirit few deny'd Thou say'st Why Few Let Truth the case decide If few relates to Friends there was not any If to the World not few but very many Christ's Teachings by his Spirit did deny And 'gainst immediate inward Teachings cry Now take which course thou wilt 't is plain in view That what thou hast asserted is Untrue Thus run'st thou on till thou thy way hast lost And run'st thy heedless head against a Post. Look not said they to us 't is our concern That you from th' Light within your duty learn So thou report'st The same concern remains Upon Friends still say I Their Care their P●…ns Is exercis'd in this that all may learn From Light within their Duty and discern The Light 's true Voice which never did oppose In some what from the same in others rose And if some said Look not to us which yet I ne'er saw prov'd in aught that thou hast writ It cannot well in other sence be took That they would not others so should look To them as thereby to neglect or slight The inward Teachings of the heav'nly Light And that all faithful Friends at this day are As careful to prevent as e'er they were But that Friends ever ●…eemed it unright To look to one another in the Light To help encourage comfort any Brother Be good Examples one unto another To stir the pure Mind up provoke to Love And to good Works ●…s God thereto doth move That ever this by Friends condemned was I never heard ●…or to believe see cause We read that the Apostles chiefly Paul On the believing Christians oft did call To follow them as they themselves were found The followers of Christ Was this unsound In them If not how comes it now to be Exclaim'd on as so high a Crime by thee But of this Subject William thou hast writ Before and I at large have answer'd it What in thy Book comes next is very dark And as it stands seems quite besides the Mark. From th' Scriptures they Light such a Teacher prov'd As into Corners could not be remov'd These are the words If Printer be in fault Which I to know have the Errata sought ●…t find no mention of it there then he The blame must bear and