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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54235	Truth exalted, in a short, but sure testimony against all those religions, faiths, and vvorships that have been formed and followed in the darkness of apostacy ... by William Penn the Younger ...	Penn, William, 1644-1718.	1668 (1668)	Wing P1389; ESTC R23056	10,092	20

the darkness and gross Idolatry of the Popish Antichrist were directed thereto and supported therein by the mighty Power of God is not denyed and that the Seals of blood they set to recommend their Testimonies to posterity are with us in high esteem I openly affirm and declare But that you of the Church of England have any more to do with them who now persecute us than had the Jews and Pharisees with Abraham Moses and the Prophets who crucified the Lord of Life is as positively disowned for as they were out of the Life and Spirit of those Holy Men though building and garnishing their Sepulchres and making great profession with their words insomuch as that they slew those whom God sent in the same Spirit to preach a farther Glory and to discover a more excellent way so are you out of the Power and Spirit your fore-Fathers lived and died in professing their words but persecuting the same Spirit in others and crucifying it in your selves No wonder therefore you have made so little progress since the first dawning of Reformation being not yet got out of the Borders of Babylons form and altogether in her lustful proud persecuting and wicked Nature For have not you Protestant Princes condemned that in others which you have and do allow in your selves contrary to your fore-Fathers Protestations Did you not return severe Persecutions not onely upon the heads of the Roman Catholicks in Queen Elizabeth's time who esteemed it Antichristian in them but even your fellow Protestants who through zeal for God declared against your back-slidings witness her severity and what followed in the Reigns of James and the deceased Charles but more particularly the many thousands now of late that have been club'd bruised imprisoned exiled poisened to death by stinking Dungeons and ruined in their outward Estates contrary to Laws Christian or Humane Therefore well may I take up the lamentation and reproof that was of old Ye make men offenders for a word and lay a snare for him that reproveth in the Gate Ye turn aside the Just for a thing of nought and lay burthens upon the backs of the Righteous whilst evil doers pass unpunished You store up violence in your Pallaces and many are the oppressed that are amongst you Yet do not your Priests prophesie smooth things that sew Pillows under your Arms and cry Peace who provoke you to slay those by executing cruel acts that should not die and preach safety to them that should not live like greedy Dogs Shepherds that cannot understand they all look for gain from their Quarters they teach for hire they divine for money and You all judge for rewards for all which abominations God is departed Vision is ceased the Sun is gone down over you and your day is turned into thick darkness Therefore it is you deny the necessity as well as the present enjoyment of Revelation to any though without it as Christ saith No man can know God whom to know is Life Eternal and place the ground of Divine Knowledge in humane Arts and Sciences that thereby you may ingross a Function to your selves and keep up your Trade of yearly gain upon the poor people preaching sin for tearm of life thereby rendring invalid the glorious Power of the second Adam and indulging people in transgression though be that sins is of the Devil and without Holiness none shall see God Ministers he never sent but were commissionated by men void of the Holy Ghost and therefore ye profit not the people 's a badge inseparable to lying prophets who run in their own name Come and tell me now ye of the Church of England that say the Scriptures are your Rule where do they own such Persecutors false Prophets Tythmongers denyers of Revelation Opposers of Perfection Men-pleasers Time-servers unprofitable Teachers witness the abominations of the Land Extollers of humane Learning as the only way to know God Admirers of Universities signal places for idleness looseness prophaneness prodigality and gross ignorance and where do we find the Prophets Apostles and Servants of the Lord to live in worldly pomp possess hundreds and thousands a year be called Lords of their Brethren and exercise Civil and Spiritual Jurisdiction over the Bodies and Souls of Christians in their dayes Whence came your Forms of Prayers and Church-Government from the Scriptures of Truth and the practice of the Primitive Christians or the mass-Mass-Book and Popish Canons Where is it that Mass-Houses are called Churches and what president do you find for Litanies Responses Singing Queristers Organs Altars Bowings Surplices square Caps Hoods Rockets Fonts Baby-Baptism Holy Dayes as you call them with much more such like dirty trash and foul Superstition Are these your Scripture Doctrines and this the Spiritual Worship of Holy Jesus his Apostles and the Antient Christians Stand up and answer me ye Members of the Church of England but are they not the off-spring of that Idolatrous Popish Generation amounting at best to will-Worship which is abominable to the God of Heaven who is now breaking forth in vengeance to thunder down and consume all the fair Buildings and pleasant Pictures of Babylonish Inventions Therefore from you may I expect an Answer to the Question I ask'd the Romanists In what Nature and Spirit is i● O Princes Priests and People you hold and profess Religion and Worship towards God Is it the Divine and Heavenly One which is pure and perfect Are you Baptized by the Holy Ghost and with Fire Crucified through the daily Cross to the World born again and your affections set on things above But alas poor Souls are you not at Have mercy upon us miserable sinners there is no health in us from seven to seventy And as in truth it is to the shame of Religion and destruction of humane Society How do you abound in evil Equalizing if not outstripping Papists Heathens against whom you protest in words in all kinds of impiety Therefore woe unto you Protestants that are mighty to drink strong drink that give your Neighbours drink and put the bottle to them that they may be drunk that put far away the evil day and cause the seat of Violence to come near that lie upon Beds of Ivory and stretch your selves upon your Couches that eat the fat of the Flock and drink the sweet of the Vine that anoint your selves with the chief Ointments that chant to the sound of the Viol and invent to your selves Instruments of Musick but consider not the afflictions of Joseph How sport you away your precious time as if ye were born not to die at least never to be judged O what Swearing what Uncleanness what Drunkenness what Prophanation what Vanity what Pride what Expence what Patching what Painting what lascivious Intrigues what wanton Appointments what publick unclean Houses what merry Masks what lustful insinuating Treats at your Playes Parks Mulberry and Spring-Gardens with whatsoever else may please the