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A28152	A word of reproof and advice to my late fellow-souldiers 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, &c. : with a short catalogue of some of the fighting priests and ... have given them a blow in one of their eyes (pickt out of the whores head) which they call a fountain of religion but is a sink of iniquity ... / by E.B.	Billing, Edward, 1623-1686.	1659 (1659)	Wing B2903; ESTC R23695	86,580	98

name of him and onely him that made heaven and earth may it please you● worship may it please your Lordship may it please your honour c. Now if all honour mind the word all which will not admit of the word some to be joyned 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 stain 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 Common-wealth 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 patient 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 devination 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 Tythes they rob God and it may be threateneth those that are behind to sue them or send them to prison forth-with 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 murthers 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 burthensome to any much lesse 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 bellyes 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 Priest-ridden Justice or another do not send him to the Goal for it I shall also shew ye the rope of sand wherein many of these Priests have been wrapt 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 fighting killing 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 goverment 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 Plowman may not have so much silver for their prayers as other men for See the plowmans complaint in K. Ed. thirds time Foxes Acts and Monuments Vol. 1. p. 524. they know not so well to prize 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 mens 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 then sing and I trow that weeping for breaking of thy commandements 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 naughtinesse Lord Mary thy blessed Mother and Joseph touched often times thy body and yet wrought with their hands and lived in as much cleannesse 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 saist those that did worship in such had been worthy of death Lord in thy Gospel thou sayest that true worshipers 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 livelyhood to cloath stocks and stone with See pulpit cloaths 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 cloathing all to broken without shoon hosen and hungred and athirst feeding themselves and not thy flock hiding Thee that art our light and those that were fed they slew and

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 vallue and we are loath to burn it or have it burnt and loose 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 their's 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 Divels 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 Prie●ts 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 Iacths 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 Ierusalem it self 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 Wel or as ancient as Ierusalem or as tall as Babilon 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 brasen 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. Lev. 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 Tythes and Popish vestments bring all the Orders the Pope hath left thee fetch with thee thy cannonical 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 then vanity it self shew 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 devination of his own brain who killeth men for his belly Bring all the Popish crosses upon her top and sides with all her painted windowes 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 Pauls the temple of Diana of whom these whelps were born wherein the hireling preaches trades gets vast summes by boasting in the Saints Prophets Christ the Apostles and holy mens 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 tythe the Scriptures and keep them to himself as well as mens 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 Lingui●t sayes 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 prophesie of Enoch mentioned Jude 14. The book of Jehu mentioned 2 Chron. 20. 34. The book of the battels of the Lord mentioned Numbers 21. 14. The book of Nathan the Prophet the book of Iddo The Prophesie 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 Solomons 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. cha 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 councel 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 denyed as Eusebius sayes namely the revelation of John the Epistle of Jude the last Epistle of Peter the second and third Epistles of John the Epistle of Iames See Eusebius Lib. 3. chap. ●2 So that if the Councel of Carthage did not distinguish those Scriptures which were written by devine inspiration from