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A88109	Yperaspistes or a buckler for the Church of England against certaine queries propounded by Mr Pendarvis (late lecturer of Wanting) called Arrowes against Babylon. By way of reply to the most remarkable passages contained in them, and an addition of severall anti-queries in the close. / By William Ley Minister of the Gospell at Wanting in Bark-shire.	Ley, William, b. 1620 or 21.	1656 (1656)	Wing L1888; Thomason E882_1; ESTC R207277	27,478	28

there any Salt Creame Spittle exorcismes used or doe we administer it to Bells or any irrationall creatures Tell me Sir when you call it Romish doe you meane a Baptisme by the Common Prayer booke and formes This in England is penall and perillous Or doe you meane Infant Baptisme if you doe I can assure you it was in use while Romane Pastors suffered Maryrdome for Christ and I intreat you if you can to name Century of yeares from Christs time to this one wherein it was not administred to them 8. To the eighth objection whereby you enquire whether the Characters forementioned in the second Querie do not in like manner appeare upon the Daughter the Nationall Church of England I say perhaps you had forgotten the second Querie before you wrote the third for where I beseech you shall a man find your markes the Popes Cardinalls Arch-Bishops Bishops in England where any blood of Saints that dyed formally as Saints and not rather upon a civill account If you know any other markes as Jesuites Fryers Masses Indulgences c. either at New Castle or in the West or any other place it would be reputed good service to the State to discover them we know none we blesse God we find none if this be the body of Antichrist it is a body without a member and so a contradiction in the adject If you had a minde to save Babylon mysticall from the fury of the Nations and to doe Rome some speciall service you might have done well to have consulted with Bellarmine and he would have directed you rather to Germany then England by the name 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 wherein by our Learning if you are a good Arithmetician you might have found out the number 666 but this is but a slender stick to reare Babylon upon without a generall concurrance of all other characters Q. 4. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Whether it is not the duty of all Gods people in the nationall Church and in the Parochiall pretended Churches together with their Church Ministry to come out of Babylon and to separate c. A. Candid Reader be pleased to referre these opprobrious termes Parochiall pretended Church State whensoever they shall againe accurre unto their proper place Q. 3. To separate separation implys a guilt either in our selves or others If you say the fault be in our Church then it is either corrupt in circumstantialls or substantialls if in circumstantialls the Church is still a true Church if in Substantialls either in Doctrine or in Worship but ours failes not in either of these And therefore M. Perkins justly reproves such as depart from us as Schismaticall Church Ministry where would you have Ministers to be but in the Church where Christ hath placed them 1 Cor. 12. Ephes 4. If you mean a Nationall Church Gildas will tell you they were erected before Popery began And as for the Ministry there are Commissioners chosen in every County that may sit to refine the Sonnes of Levi if this worke were done throughly and no cloud of discontent raised against active spirits I believe the face of the Church would shine like the Spouse of Christ and not be disfigured like the Daughter of Antichrist Come out of Babylon Revel 18. Isa 52. Jerem. 51. did ever any Prophet serve the Jewish State as M. Pendarvis serves us bid them come out of Babylon at that time when they were not in it and tell them they were in Babylon when they were already out of it Acts 5.22 23 your warrant here resembles that of the High Priest to the a Officers that were sent to fetch the Apostles out of prison whereas indeed they were out before There was much false worship and Idolatry in Israel yet a good Prince was still an effectuall organ and instrument of reformation our Godly Josiah and victorious Deborah did cast out Antichrist with all most all his trumpery so that like Dagon like Jezabell there was nothing left but some few monuments of his ruine And let none thinke that Queen Elizabeths reformation was Hipocriticall for though some state consciences did wheele about with the times yet there was abundance of Gods precious people in England in King Edward and Queen Maries dayes for besides all those that were burnt all that were imprisoned all those that submitted with Peter for feare all those that fled into corners there was no lesse then 30000 banished as b Strada de Bell. Belg. l. 2. p. 71. Strada relates in his History of the Belgick Warres adde to this what our grand Parliament hath done and see whether we have not cause to sing that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Revel 2.3 Q. 5. Whether the strange and wonderfull providences of God in the late Warres in England Scotland and Ireland 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 have they not cleared the call to the Saints to come out of Babylon c. Ans 5. David lays it down as a marke of prophanesse and a signall of ruine when men regard not the workes of the Lord nor the operation of his hands Psal 28.5 wicked men looke upon Providence by parcells the Godly joyne past and present together and make a golden chaine of them as it is with words in a sentence if we disjoyne them and forget precedent and subsequent we can make nothing of them so in Providence except all passages be match't together we loose the beauty benefit of all Scottish Presbyter eminently overthrown what have you to do with Presbyter is Presbytery over thrown did God as eminently appeare against Presbytery as Royalty and Episcopacy poore men if they had not adhered more to a King then Christ more to Royalty then Presbitery I believe they might have been as happy as our selves but what say you to Independency is not that a Horne of Babylon for had Independency been beaten as well as Presbytery I doubt you would have been of Gallios mind not to have cared for any such thing but what though the Scottish Presbiter act no lesse remisly for his Goverment then many of your Profession for no goverment yet is he to be acknowledged for the first opposer of superstition and Episcopacy for when King a Jacobus Rex Brittauiae An. 1609. conformat ecclesias Scotia cum Anglicanis praeficiendo iis Episcopos contra intentibus plerisque Scotorum Theolog. Andreas Melvinus eruditissimus Scotorum in arce Londinensi detinetur Buchol Chronol p. 778. James intended to conforme the Scottish Church to the English by imposing Bishops upon them in the yeare 1609 the Scots opposed it whereby some endured banishment others imprisonment and now they appeared the first in Charles his dayes to oppose both Tyranny and Antichristianisme The heart of Cyrus is to give liberty to build Gods House and to his people to walke in their light it is well he gave them not liberty to build Castles in the ayre or to cook up a b Archimagirus emnis generis edulia

hath not bowed to Baal every mouth that hath not kissed him Fly out Privation presupposeth a habit would you have those fly out that are not in Q. 21. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Whether the Antichristian Ministry in the Nation which derive their Church state from Rome are not found committing fornication with the Kings of the Earth A. Christ signifies anoynted Those that would pull down Magistracy and Ministry are Antichrists because they oppose the Lords Anoynted not with a Materiall but with a Spirituall Vnction I seldome find any persons murmuring against Aaron but they murmure against Moses also Give me leave to quote here a Passage of Buxtorfes Epistle before his Hebrew a Substraxit Judaeis immorigeris Pastotes Prophetas animarum sustulit Reges Tutores Corporum conservatores Tran uillitatis publicae Iude res ipsorum Caeperunt magis magisque pessum Ire Religio Concidere Sectae irrumpere Tunc nulla pax domi sed Horribilis Vastatio c. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lexicon When the People of Israel saith he were refractory and Perfidious God resolved to cast them off and to ingraffe the Gentiles He then takes from the disobedient Jewes the Prophets who were the Pastors of their Soules and Kings the Protectors of their Common-wealth and conservators of publique Tranquility After that all things were worse with them Religion fell and Sects and Schismes broke in upon them there was no peace at Home but horrible Confusions c. Q. 22. Many found willfull Apostates A. Apostacy is a Retrograde motion from Religion it is either Totall or Partiall of Malice with Julian or of Infirmity who these be I leave to you to determine I think many Anabaptists persecute that light which first they professed and oppose that Ministry that brought them to a state of Grace if they have any more then the gracelesse Commonalty 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Qu 23. In Babylon was found all the Blood of Saints A. I am sure if Anabaptists be Saints there is not a drop of their blood yet spilt amongst us there is as yet no violent Persecution thanks to the Powers above Austin tells us of Three sorts of Persecutions that shall befall the Church the first Violent the second Fraudulent the third both Violent and Fraudulent Men will sow the Lyons skinne and the Foxes tayle together to act their Part against Christ and his cause But then the Ministers of Christ shall as Luther saith be either in Heaven or under Heaven In which place I would willingly leave you and sublimate your thoughts as Christ did the Sonnes of Zebedee from puzling themselves about a Temporall Kingdome Thus Sir as multiplicity of businesse would allow me besides personall infirmities I have endeavoured to give satisfaction to your Queries If hence either you or others may be admonished I am sufficiently rewarded True friendship saith a Vera amicitia monet monetur Cujus Aures Clausae sunt Veritati ejus desperanda salus Cicero Cicero doth admonish and is admonished If we will be the Sonnes of Truth we must consider what it speaketh and trample upon our own credit yea and other mens too if either be any way an impediment unto it Had I not feared the Insolency of some of your own party and the Proximitie of the danger to some of my own flock I should not have put forth this defensive Armour And as for the end I proposed to my selfe in entring the Lists of Controversy with you I solemnely Professe I never aimed at Victory but the Truth and rather at the Conversion of your Person then the Subversion of your Queries ΤΕΛΟΣ Anti Queries proposed to the Author of the Queries Q. 1. WHether you do not revive old Heresies specially those of the Donatists in severall branches which they held 1. That the Church was only in a corner of the Nation 2. That it was fit to Rebaptize such as were orthodoxly Baptized 3. That they had a Church without spot or blemish 4. That the efficacy of the Sacrament depends upon the Minister 5. That the Magistrate hath no authority in matter of Religion 6. That all other Assemblyes were prophane except their own Q. 2. Whether you are not one of the least of those that follow the Lambe not in your fained 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 but in regard of your bitter expressions against the Church of God calling it Antichristian Babylon Jezabell c. whereby you have made your Arrowes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Eph. 6.16 Q. 3. Whether you have not pleased the Papist in this booke as much as displeased the Orthodoxe and so made sad the heart of the righteous whom God hath not made sad and strengthened the hand of the wicked that they should not turne from their wickednesse Q. 4. Whether M. Lat mer in his fourth Sermon did know what an Heretick was when he calls the Anabaptist by that name as such that oppose verity as well as unity And whether also the Martyr Philpot did well to say in the Book of Martyrs that the Anabaptists were a sort of men stirred up to hinder the reformation of the Gospell And if so whether God will not remove every pricking Bryer as well as every grieving thorne from the house of Israell Q. 5. Whether had the Anabaptists enjoyed the same liberty in the Kings time as they doe now it would not have been looked upon as an unspeakeable favour Q. 6. Whether Auxentius one of the Arrian Sect were not the first that opposed Poedobaptisme And whether Agrippine of Carthage were the first of mortalls that brought in rebaptization Q. 7. Whether it becomes Anabaptists to pull down publike places of worship and to disturbe a Godly Ministry and so to draw upon themselves the guilt of other mens sinnes Q. 8. Whether disputation be a convenient way to determine differences of this nature Except authorized and managed by the publique Magistrate For faith Luther Heresie is the scourage of divine wrath as a carnall sword in their coasts was the plague of a carnall people so is the Spirituall sword amongst Christians therefore it is not to be overcome saith he by wit and learning but by prayer and fasting Q. 9. Whether Christ did ever authorize any to Baptize but a Minister or one extraordinarily qualifyed And whether you concurre not with the Papists in suffering others to Baptize Q. 10. What shall become of Infants under the New Testament seeing according to your tenets they neither believe nor are to be Baptized Mark 16.16 Q. 11. Whether you hold it unfit that such pious Ministers as preach the Gospell should live of the Gospell Q. 12. Whether it be lawfull for a Pastor to be circumforaneous And to take care of severall Churches at a remote distance except he can shew Apostolicall institution And whether this doth not justifie the Popish and Prelaticall Clergy in their large Commenda's of one man to plurality of Benefices Q. 13. Whether Davenants question mutatis mutandis An Iesuit pontificii possunt esse boni subditi may not as pertinently be demanded concerning some others of your party that are of the same bitter subtile and implacable spirit Q. 15. Whether those that seem to desire the comming in of the Jewes doe not only erre in Politicks but also in Piety The eares of some men being more open to novelty then truth and the spirit of men more prone in this present juncture of time to sedition then subjection Q. 15. Whether Saint Austin were not a man of incomparable meeknesse of a Lamb-like spirit indeed who did often intercede with the Magistrates in behalfe of the Donatists though bitter Enemies to him and the truth Q. 16. Whether those men that talke so much against Babylon would not do well to fight against it I meane Babylon mysticall not phantasticall and whether it be not madnesse for us that have so many enemies abroad to spend our time in darting one against another at home The words of Lucan are not impertinent to unfold our case Cumque superba foret Babylon spolianda tropheis Bella geri placuit nullos habitura triumphos FINIS Reader take notice that in p. 9. l. 27 28. The heart of Cyrus c. are M. P's words l. 30. for Rhetorick read Rhetorius