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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66530	The lying spirit and false aspertions turned home again, or, An answer to two reviling letters about the peoples right to tythes sent to the people call'd Quakers in the Vail of Bellvier by Clement Nedham, a Presbyterian, who writes himself, a farmer in the county of Leicester : wherein I have shew'd according to scriptures, what spirit it was that brought up tythes among the Christians, so call'd : and that those that brought them up since Christ put an end to them were not in their right senses, but were made drunk by drinking of that spirit of error that made them do they knew not what, and consequently their examples not to be followed : with an addition, shewing, that the impropriator hath less right to tythes then the poor or priest, if less can be : with a few words in love to all those that send their sons to those places called universities, with an intent to make them ministers : also a copy of a letter sent to G.N. in manuscript, wherein his unhansom and unchristian-like dealings may be seen : with a short postcript to the reader / by J.W. ...	Willsford, John.	1673 (1673)	Wing W2872; ESTC R40124	16,433	28

now it is in my Heart to put thee in mind of thy Unhansome and Unchristian-like Dealings towards us First The Time thou didst send thy Letter to us was when Friends of Clauson where thou didst direct thy Letter were under Sufferings and grievous Threatnings by John Reay Propriator of the same Town whose Envy was and is beyond the Bounds of Christianity And here thou seemest to add Affliction to the Afflicted and to strengthen the Hands of Evil-Doers Again After thou hadst sent thy first Letter I sent one in Love to thee for that End that thy Understanding might be opened to see the Rice and Ground of Tythes and what Spirit brought them up hoping a Word to the Wise might have been sufficient But instead of accepting my Love thou vilifiedst me with Reviling Words as one that seemed to have neither common Sense nor Reason and saidst Thou wast unwilling that the Nakedness of our Pretence to Truth should be exposed to Censures through the Ignorance Folly and Confidence of soweak a Defendent And here thou didst manifest thy Pride as if thou thought scorn to meddle with me much like Goliah the Philistine who defyed Israel and disdained David and then brought forth another Monster more Odious then the first and we being silent a while thou didst put them all in Print and for no other End as I can see but to render us Odious to the whole Nation and to open a Gap for further Persecution For consider After thy many Arguments and pleading Popish Laws thou drawest thy Conclusions That if Ignorance will not nothing else can excuse us before God or Man from being more Criminal then Common Notorious Thieves Further Thou sayest Malefactors do or may suffer Death by Law for stealing things of small account but your Robbery sayest thou is of great Value and consequently the Laws are very favourable towards you A sad Consequence Were ever such Conclusions drawn against an Innocent People Truly when I read them I could not but say There was a Snare laid for our Lives and it brought to my Remembrance the Cruelty of New-England's Persecutors But how Just thy Charge is I hope is or will in due time be made manifest From thy True Friend John Wilsford Who could be glad to see a persecuting Saul become a Preaching Paul I have something further to say in answer to thy Book which if I do hear thou art not satisfied in due time it may come forth seeing thou hast made my Name publick to the Nation Broughton the 3d of the 8th Moneth 1673. J. W. These words above written were delivered into the hands of C. N. the 5th Day of the 8th Moneth A Postscript READER FOr thy better Satisfaction or lest thou shouldst think I have not done fairly in mentioning some things that are done and past do but consider C. N's Wicked Charge and Unhansome Dealings towards me and the rest of my Friends weight them in the Ballance of Equity and then see if I could do any less then I have done or whether I have done any more then to lay the Load on the Right Horse Further consider That notwithstanding Christ Jesus so loved the World as that he laid down his Life for it yet when the Jews rose up in Envy against him he told them how they killed the Prophets and stoned them that were sent unto them as may be seen at large Mat. 23. And likewise when the Jews rose up in Envy against Peter he told them how they crucified and slew the Lord of Life as thou mayst see at large in the Acts Chap. 2 3 4. And John said Rev. 18.6 7. Reward her even as she rewarded you double unto her double according to her Works Some may say Art thou pleading for a Carnal Weapon I answer Nay the Saints Weapons are not Carnal but Spiritual the Lamb's Sword proceedeth out of his Mouth if any man have an Ear to hear let him hear here is the Wisdom and Patience of Saints He that killeth with the Sword must with the Sword be killed And so I leave desiring every one to mind the Light of Christ Jesus which gives a true Understanding of the Mysteries of his Kingdom J. W. THE END