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A44799	The mouth of the pit stopped and the smoke that hath arisen out of it scattered by the breath of truth in answer to a lying story called Hell broken loose, or, The history of the Quakers, published by Thomas Underhill, a seller of the whores merchandize otherwise called a book-seller : his lyes returned upon him, his accusations answered and his envie decleared and truth cleared from all his reproaches / by one that waits to see death and hell cast into the lake of fire, with the beast and false-prophet, Francis Howgil.	Howgill, Francis, 1618-1669.	1659 (1659)	Wing H3172; ESTC R6601	19,385	26

improvement and your intrust which you have in God and in Christ will but amount to a small dram you all of you hitherto as you have said have improved your intrust and hath sought God as you have said by your prayers and humiliations for the suppressing of that which you call heresie and yet you have had no answer neither hath he listned nor will he listen nor bow down his ear unto you because your hearts is full of abominations and as for relapsing into Popery you never came out of it witness the Priests Popish Ordination their Popish Attire your Popish Mass-houses your Cross and Bells your Popish Tithes Easter-reckonings and Mid-summer dues your Popish Colledges your Popish Crosses and your Popish Images in and about your Idols Temple and because of the holding up of these things the hearts of many of Gods people are made sad and because you would hold up your Religion by swords and clubs and persecute others who discent from you in this you are one with the Papists And is this all thy Reformation that thy godly Ministry can bring forth You have travelled in vain spent your strength for nought and because of these things the hand of God is against all in the Nation who hold them up and who is he that can alter the Councel of the Lord and God will not be reconciled to the Nation till these things be done away because of these things and many more grievous oppressions which hath been holden up therefore God hath broken them in the midst of their Councels and confounded them in the midst of their devices and will confound and overthrow all deceitful workers and unprofitable talkers such as thou art and one hill shall fall after another till there shall be a great plain that the ransomed of the Lord may walk over and worship the Lord together in spirit and love and truth in joy and gladness of heart even as when Israel kept the feast of Tabernacles And now I shall come to let the Reader see how thou hast falsified our words which thou hast added thy own imaginations to and then hath quoted our Books to make people believe they are our words when as they are thy own forged lies the which I shall return upon thee First Thou sayes George Fox In truth defended saith that Preaching the Word Praying and singing are no appointments of Christ when as he saith no such thing but the hireling Priests divination and feigned Prayers and other mens words in rhime and Meeter are the inventions of men and not the Ordinances of Christ Secondly Thou saith E. B. In truth defended saith The Priest taking Tythes in the time of the Law was evil and proved them to be false Prophets and deceivers When as he saith quite contrary that the Priests took Tythes under the Law according to the command of God but ●ow the Priesthood was changed and the Law was changed and them that Preach for hire and seek for their gain from their quarter or take Tythes are in the steps of false Prophets and deceivers and no Ministers of Christ Thirdly That its dangerous for the ignorant and unlearned to read the Scripture and the Ministers of it are the Ministers of death Now thou hast detracted from the words There it is said that it is dangerous for thee to take the Scripture to War against the Saints withal and to make a trade with it and give carnal Exposition and then sell them for money Fourthly Thou tells of one Master Kellet in Lancashire and his queries Whether did not Christ Institute his last Supper with bread and wine and R. H. saith The bread which Christ called his body is his Church which words thou hast mangled and perverted as thou hast done the most thou hath medled with there is no such man as Master Kellet the words are these in Truths Defence 103. Christ did not speak of bread and wine but he took bread and brake it and said This is my body and we witness the breaking of the bread which is his body and in this answer there is not one word of Church Fiftly E. B. In answer to Firmin his words thou hast perverted and would bring this as a contradiction of R. H. thou saith he allowes onely the wicked and ungodly to read the Scripture such as the Scribes and Pharisees and not the godly And not the godly is thy own adition he spoke concerning the Scribes and Pharisees who thought to have Eternal Life in the Scripture he saith this was spoken to the Pharisees and not to believers yet believers is not excluded from reading the Scripture for them it pertains to and they understand it but thou are like the Spider where the Bee gathers honey gathers that which is corrupt and in thy conclusion of thy story thou takes in hand to supplicate God and thou saith it is for the help of them that need it this thou might have spared till the old Prelates had come up again it may be some Synod of them will add to the Book of Common-Prayer thy late service and worship dost thou think the Lord will hear thy hypocrisie lies without returning his judgment on thy head Thou tells of some that sets light of Christ and his blood and Word thou art one of them that sets light of Christ and counts his blood as a vain thing as thy own words in thy Book shall testifie where the Reader may observe when we have testified of the true light wch lighteth every man that comes into the world who is the way to the Father thou hath set down our words for blasphemy and errour when divers of them are the words of Scripture and none of them but the Scripture will testifie unto against thee And as for the blood of Christ and the blood of the everlasting Covenant thou accounts a vain thing and an unholy thing even which cleanseth from sin and and bears witness against it and subdues it and makes them that receive it conquerers over sin but thou that cries out against perfection or freedom from sin and counts this errour and blasphemy ●hou denyes that which sanctifies and cleanseth from sin and counts it unholy and vain and so if the Lord should hear thee and grant that thou prayes for destruction would come upon thee and thou art one of the formal professors that had need to repent of thy deceit before thou can pray unto God either for thy self or others but enmity and wickedness lodges in thy heart against the Lord and the way of truth and thou hast resisted the Counsel of the Lord against thy self and therefore woes plagues thunders and storms is truely thy portion and nothing else must thou expect which undoubtedly will come upon thee except thou repent and it will be hard for thee to find a place of repentance for it is yet hid from thine eyes So I have answered thy lying History by which thou would inchant peoples minds

thy shop is filled with books of curious Arts and made up in the Imaginations of men of corrupt minds many of which is good for nothing but for the fire which hath bewitched people from the simplicity of the Gospel and hath darkned peoples understandings and brought a mist and a cloud over peoples hearts so that the Son of Righteousness could not be seen to arise in the hearts of people and now thou with the rest of Babylons Merchants which have long traffickt with their sorceries art angry because thou hast had a share in her Merchandize and hath gotten gain by selling of such traffick which is as unsavoury salt good for nothing but to be troden under foot of men thou cryes like Demetrius for his shrines great is the goddess Diana and thou with others who have got a gain and trade by the aforesaid inchantments of the Harlot and her Merchants thou cryes The Church the Church the Ministry the Ministry and Religion the National Ministry which when the matter is enquired into what the Church is it is found to be no other then the Mother of Harlots who hath sitten upon the waters this many hundred years and the Ministry is no other but them that are in Balaams way and such whose hearts are exercised with covetous practices and such as the Prophets and Apostles declared against who sought for their gain from their Quarter and who taught those things they ought not for filthy lucre And for Religion it is nothing but a profession in words at best without the life or else some old traditions humane inventions and innovated customs which hath been brought in since the Apostacy but I say because of thy gainful craft thou art now busied as thou hath been diverse years not onely against the Quakers but against others who have separated from your hypocritical worships and deceitful formalities and for this end thou hast bended thy tongue to tell lyes and thy ear is open to mischief that thou might get any thing to accuse the truth withal and to set up and promote thy long trading with deceit what hath not the Hills and the Mountains Parliaments Protectors formerly gratified thee that thou art so covetous and greedy of persecution and blood-shed Though thy insatiable desire hath not yet been satisfied neither I believe ever shall yet thou shalt not go unpunished and when Judgement comes upon thee then may thou call to the Rocks and to the Hills to cover thee and hide thee from the wrath of the Lamb and from the presence of his holy Host but they shall not be able to save thee What hath not all the Beacons that thou hast fired given sufficient warning to all the Dragons host to all the Beasts Army and to all the Harlots Merchants and to all Babylons children that they might come out all to battel they have been fired these five years hast thou not gotten all thy host up together by thy Books which formerly thou calledst so to withstand the Lamb his followers that thou art come on again with a fresh on-set to see if thou canst stop the way of Truth that people might not receive it for that is thy end in writing this lying History as thou thy self hath confest alas poor man is this all thy strength that thou art able to make up and are these all the weapons of thy warfare a company of vain Arguments out of the Priests Books which have written as thou hast done against the Truth and old stories which thou hast received out of our adversaries writings which thou hast heaped up together to fill peoples minds which prejudice that they might not receive the Truth dost thou think this is like to prevail a company of broken bowes and shattered spears and lame Chariots whose wheels have been often taken off which we have over run and trampled down that few will have any trust to these or this is but to set bryars and thorns in battel against the Lord Thy Book thou calls Hell broken loose or a History of the Quakers published to preserve Christians against formality of Religion and Apostacy and to the intent that thy Book might not grow old nor stick upon thy hands as such other mouldy stuff hath done thou saith London Printed in the year 1660. and so hath Printed a lie in the Frontize-piece of thy Book thy Book by that time thou may hang up with old Almanacks or sell for waste Paper and if thou begin with a lie and scorn how dost thou think that this will be an Antidote as thou calls it against formality and Apostacy Is not a lyar an Apostate is not he that pleads for Popish Trumpery a formalist in Religion without the Power he that reads but thy Title page may see what thy Book is within if he go no further the Covenant of death is not yet broken in thee and the agreement with Hell is not yet disannulled and therefore all this smoak is come out of the pit in which thou delights to dwell And is this such a worthy piece in thy account that thou must needs shelter it under the wings of the Officers of the Army of England Scotland and Ireland art thou so great a friend to them and in thy Book tells them they were the in-let of Heresie and blasphemy who art but yet an Episcopal stem or at best a Presbyteral branch I believe many amongst them will favour thy spirit and know what uniformity and unity thou art for which may be more properly called deformity and enmity and so thy flattering Epistle when they see thy spirit will hardly merit thanks and so that wicked spirit which could not be satisfied in the time of the former Parliaments and Protectors still persists in the unfatiable desire to see if the Army will gratifie thee and turn persecutors but thou hast mist it far in crying a confederacy to the reverend Pastors or Priests of Scotland the Army knows right well or at least might do that the Priests of Scotland whom thou so reverencest have been alwayes hinderers and obstructors of the way of God and of his work these divers years instance two or three hundred of them before the fight at Dunbar who prophesied all like Zedekiah for the poor Scots against the English Army to go up and prosper and cursed them and Excommunicated them and gave them up to Satan and for distruction but such Prophets were made fools and their divinations was madness and God gave a sufficient testimony against them and their deceived followers wch I hope the English Army hath not yet forgotten and for the Scotch Priests and their Doctrine and practice 't is so grosly ignorant and abominably prophane as I believe many of the Army do right well know but such as are not satisfied I refer them to a Book called the Doctrines and Principles of the Priests of Scotland wherein may be seen their deceit and how some of them hath said they had