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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40076	Dirt wipt off, or, A manifest discovery of the gross ignorance, erroneousness and most unchristian and wicked spirit of one John Bunyan ... which he hath shewed in a vile pamphlet publish'd by him, against The design of Christianity ...	Fowler, Edward, 1632-1714.	1672 (1672)	Wing F1701; ESTC R8698	59,846	88

God and the Idolizing of man's own Righteousness And that he falls in with Quakers and Romanists against the Articles of the Church of England 2. He tells Mr. F. that he hath vilely exposed the rottenness of his heart in Principles Diametrically opposite to the simplicity of the Gospel and calls the Doctrine of his Book open Blasphemy Page 1. 3. With the graces of the Spirit of God you have nothing to do p. 3. 4. Here are pure dictates of a brutish beastly man that neither knows himself nor one tittle of the word of God p. 5. 5. Whatsoever is brought in your book and urged for the proof of this your description of holiness it is but the abuse of Christ c. p. 17. 6. Why should this Thief c. p. 29. 7. How far off this mans Doctrine is of Sinning against the Holy Ghost let him that is wise consider ibid. 8. Spit your intended venome at Christ. p. 31. 9. In all you have yet asserted you have shewed no other wisdom than of a Heathen or of one that is short even of a novice of the Gospel p. 35. 10. Sundry and damnable errors that like Venome drop from your pen. ibid. 11. You have in this your discourse put an unsufferable affront upon the Son of God in making all his life and conversation to center and terminate in the holiness we had lost p. 43. 12. About all these things you are heathenishly dark there hath not in these 150. pages one Gospel Truth been Christianly handled by you 13. What man that ever had read or assented to the Gospel but would have spoken more honourably of Christ than you have done ibid. 14. All this Villany against I suppose it is the Son of God the rest is torn out p. 77. 15. This is no other than barbarous Quakerism ibid. 16. All others like your self being fearful and unbelieving despise it and wonder and perish Rev. 20. 8. Acts 13. 40 41. p. 80. 17. Having broken the Head of your Leviathan p. 85. 18. Your great Question by which you would have all men make judgment of their Saveable or damnable estate p. 236. is according to your description of things most Devilish and destructive p. 88. Reader this is Mr. Fowlers great Question he refers to Am I sincerely willing to obey my Creator and Redeemer in all things Do I entertain no lust in my breast Do I heartily endeavour to have a right understanding of the holy Scriptures and chiefly of the Gospel in order to the bettering of my soul by them and the direction of my life and actions according to them 19. He calls the Ministers of the Church of England The whole Gang of our Rabling Counterfeit Clergy who generally like the Ape ly blowing up the glory and applause of our Trumpery and like the Tail with foolish and sophistical arguings cover the filthy parts thereof See also p. 73. p. 90. I now appeal to Authority whether this man ought to enjoy any interest in his Majesties Toleration who is so far from being satisfied with his own liberty that he falls thus fouly upon not only one Minister of the Church of England and a Book licensed by Authority but also upon all the Ministers of the Church together and likewise the Discipline and Rites establish't And whether the letting such Fire-brands and most impudent malicious Schismaticks go unpunish't doth not tend to the subversion of all Government I say let our Superiours judge of this 20. But to proceed he saith thus of the Design of Christianity From the beginning to the end from the top to the bottom it is a cursed blasphemous book a book that more vilifies Iesus Christ than many of the Quakers themselves p. 92. 21. Had you joyned here with such as vilifie and trample upon the bloud of the Lord Iesus preferring the Snivel of their own Brains before him you had herein but drawn your own picture and given your Reader an Emblem of your self p. 93. 22. I tell you again that your self is one of them that have closely privily and Devilishly by your book turned the Grace of our God into a lascivious Doctrine bespattering it with giving liberty to loosness and the hardning of the ungodly in wickedness wherein if you persist I shall not fail may I live and know it and be helped of God he should have said of the Devil to do it to discover yet farther the rottenness of your Doctrine with the accursed tendencies thereof p. 90. Here 's a Rabshakeh But with what brow can this wicked man thus accuse Mr. F's book when his own Conscience must needs tell him that the only thing that makes him thus Spit his venome at it is that it's design is to take away all shadow of pretence for his filthy libertinism and mad licentious principles And as to his Threat I will only say Do thy worst thou fierce and fiery Bedlam and persist in treasuring up to thy self wrath against the day of wrath and the revelation of the Righteous judgment of God But know that all thy wicked attempts against that Book that all good men have a most hearty and affectionate kindness for or against the Author of it and such like books and men can be no more regarded by people of but common sense and honesty than are the Ravings of a perfect mad man But I have not yet done with his Raylings though I shall present the Reader but with a few in comparison of those I can 23. He calls Mr. F's doctrines his filthy errors compiled and foisted into the world by his devilish design to promote Paganism against Christianity p. 265 266. p. 96. 24. No man proceeds he is more brutish or Heathenish nor so void of satisfaction about it that is the truth of the Gospel nor more involved in error concerning it than your self being 1. Grosly ignorant 2. Too highly opinionate 3. Proud in affection 4. Licourish 5. A self-lover 6. And for your blasphemy under the just judgment of God p. 102. 25. To Mr. Fowlers calling these the Divine perfections viz. Iustice and Righteousness universal Charity Goodness Mercy Patience and all kinds of Purity He saith To call these the divine perfections when they are only your own humane virtues bespeaks you Fond impious and Idolatrous c. p. 104. 26. He saith The way of Salvation or the Design of Christianity as prescribed by you is none other than the errors of your own Brain the way of death the sum and heart of Papistical Quakerism and is quite denied by the Lord Iesus and by his Blessed Testament p. 109. Once more he saith 27. I admonish my Reader to tremble at the blasphemy of your book and account the whole design therein to be none other but that of an enemy to the Son of God and salvation of the world p. 110. And I admonish my Reader to tremble at that Religion that incourageth such a most Hellish and Devillish Spirit that gives mens Pens

fulfil or perfect the law and the prophets by giving more and higher instances of moral duties than were before expresly given This would have been but the lading of men with heavy burthens p. 46. Observe that those words and the Prophets are of his own adding But whereas he saith that our Saviours giving more and higher instances of moral duties c. would be but the lading of men with heavy burthens he should have said it would have been the lading of Hypocrites such as himself with heavy burthens none but such can think them so 16. Christs Exposition he saith of the Law was more to shew thee the perfection of his own obedience than to drive thee back to the holiness thou hadst lost p. 47 Can any Ranter talk at a madder rate Read but Matth. 5. and then believe this wretched assertion if you can could S. Paul be of his mind when he said Rom. 2. 13. not the hearers of the Law are just before God but the Doers of the Law shall be justified 17. He saith that in Heaven there shall not be in us only a likeness to but the very nature of God p. 63 For this he cites as hath been shewed that of the Apostle Heirs of God That is Heirs of his nature or substance Here is Blasphemy with a witness 18. He saith the dictates of humane nature are never urged in the New Testament but in order to shew men they have forgotten to act as men p. 72. That is they are not urged that they may be obeyed and yet almost all the precepts of the Gospel are dictates of humane nature He himself saith somewhere that trust in God is one and so are love to God and our neighbour humility meekness patience purity c. all such as we are told are our duty by the dictates of nature Never did wicked creature more industriously set himself to make the Gospel precepts mere insignificant and vain things 19. Whereas Christ is called a Prince and a Saviour he thus interprets it that is a Prince as a Saviour because the righteousness by which he saves beareth rule in Heaven and Earth p. 77 I want words to express my amazement at and detestation of his as senseless as wicked perverting this place to make it favour his Ranting doctrine Thus Reader thou seest he is as good at abusing and wresting of Scripture as of Mr. F's words God grant that his timely repentance may prevent his doing it to his own destruction 20. He saith that the obedience or inclination to obedience that is before faith or the understanding of the Gospel is so far from being an excellent preparative or good qualification for faith and the knowledge of the Gospel that in its own nature which is more than in its consequences it is a great obstruction thereunto p. 96 Still like himself a blessed faith that must be in the mean time that is obstructed by a readiness to obey whatsoever God reveals and would the Reader see what his Faith is let him go back to page 17. of his book there as hath been shewn 21. He saith God hath forgiven him that is enabled to believe and what is it with him to believe he tells you in the next words that is to trust to and venture the Eternal concerns of his Soul upon the righteousness that is no where to be found but in the person of the son of God p. 17 This is all and as much as any one can expect from him 22. He saith that for a man to confine himself only to the life of the Lord Iesus for an example or to think it enough to make him in his life a pattern for us to follow leaveth us through our shortness in the end with the Devil and his Angels for want of faith in the doctrine of Remission of Sins p. 108 1. How sottish is this Ranter For faith in Christ and his whole Gospel is enjoyned as a means to bring us to the blessed state of likeness to him as is fully proved in the Design of Christianity and we may not once suppose that we can obtain this likeness without that Faith 2. But how desperately wicked is it likewise as if a man may be damned that is exactly like Christ and hath all that done in him for the sake of which Faith in Christ is required That is is enabled from holy principles to perform all holy obedience But this is another discovery of his wickedness in contemning moral Righteousness and advancing only imputative and I never knew a brutish creature do it like him Nay he cannot forbear somewhere in his book to speak contemptuously of our Saviours life in asserting that Mr. F. hath given a mere heathenish account of it where he as is to be seen in the beginning of this Pamphlet gives the four Evangelists account of it I do assure the Reader that this I have read in his Book but I do not now remember the page Observe that I do not call these two and twenty doctrines nor yet distinct assertions for I have not nor will I so much trouble my self about them as to consider to how many or few heads they may be reduced the mere transcribing them must needs be trouble and discomposure enough to any man that hath the least affection for the Gospel of Christ and true goodness I could present not a few more but never was horse more tired at a mill than I am at this work and I assure the Reader as I shall answer it at the great day that I have been most severely just to him in this Catalogue as he may quickly see so far have I been from dealing with his Sayings as 't is shewn he hath dealt with Mr. Fowlers And now I conjure the followers of him and his Brethren as they have any the least regard for their Souls that for the future they abandon them as those that feed their hearers with the deadliest poison instead of the sincere milk of the word and the most wholesome food of the Gospel of Christ I say I conjure them to avoid such as they will Answer it at the dreadful day of our Saviours appearing with ten thousand of his Saints to execute judgment upon all and to convince all that are ungodly of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodlily committed and of all the hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him against the blessed doctrines of his Glorious Gospel and his faithful ministers And now I will present you with another Catalogue of the hard speeches of this man of whom whether he be one of St. Iudes ungodly Sinners or no the Reader is by this time well able to judge or at least will be anon A Catalogue of some of John Bunyan's horrible Revilings and most Abominable Scurrilities 1. IN the Title page he tells us that the design of Mr. F's Book is proved to be nothing more than to trample under foot the blood of the Son of