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A33498	The books and divers epistles of the faithful servant of the Lord Josiah Coale collected and published, as it was desired by him the day of his departure out of this life.	Coale, Josiah, 1632?-1668.; Coale, Josiah, 1632?-1668. Collection of the several books of Josiah Coale.; Coale, Josiah, 1632?-1668. Whore unvailed.; Coale, Josiah, 1632?-1668. Vindication of the light within.; Parker, Alexander, 1628-1689.; Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.; Penn, William, 1644-1718.	1671 (1671)	Wing C4751_PARTIAL; Wing C4760A_PARTIAL_CANCELLED; ESTC R23397	193,793	414

that in this present Visitation he taketh away the Righteous from the Earth as well as the wicked therefore the wicked cannot discern betwixt him that serveth God and him that serveth him not according to that saying of Daniel viz. None of the wicked shall understand but the wise shall understand c. But they are ready to conclude and many do conclude that the Righteous are not Righteous and that the Just and Innocent are not Just and Innocent But because they have slighted the Day of Gods love unto them in which his Hand was stretched forth to gather them he hath so brought it to pass and takes away the Just as well as the Unjust that thereby their Eyes may be blinded that they may not see a difference and that their years may be stopped left they should hear his Word and that their hearts may be hardned as Pharaoh's was lest they should understand the way of Life in which the just walketh and be converted thereunto and healed and yet in all these thing iniquity cannot he charged upon the Lord because he willed not their destruction but did strive with them long and gave them space to repent but they repented not therefore their destruction is of themselves for when he would have gathered them they would not therefore I say it s of themselves that they are left so desolation yet there is a remnant in the midst of thee Oh England whose day is not yet over and them he will spare and will gather them to himself and they shall see the path of Life and hear the voice of the Bridegroom of their souls and understand the things that belongs to their everlasting peace and shall be glad and rejoyce in his great Salvation Written by a Servant of the Lord. JOSIAH COALE The Whore Unvailed Or the Mystery of the Deceit of the CHURCH of ROME REVEALED BEING A brief Answer to a Book Entituled The Reconciler of Religions or A Decider of all Controversies in Matters of Faith Written by a professed Roman Catholick who subscribes his name A. S. in which he endeavoured to prove the Church of Rome to be the True Church But what his Arguments therein produced are worth for his purpose may here be seen in this following Treatise Also his Reflections upon the Principles of the People called Quakers Answered With a brief Discovery of the true Church in which the Doctrine of Perfection is Vindicated by sound Scripture Arguments Whereunto is added the 14th Chapter of A. S. his Book in which he declares the Protestant or Sectarian Ministers not to be true Preachers nor sent of God which I thought meet to publish herewith that the Sectarians or Episcoparians may Answer for themselves O thou that dwellest upon many Waters aboundant in Treasures thine End is come and the Measure of thy Covetousness Jer. 51.13 For out of the North there cometh up a Nation against her which shall make her land desolate and none shall dwell therein chap. 50.3 And a mighty Angel took up a great stone like a milstone and cast it into the Sea saying Thus with violence shall that great City Babylon be thrown down and shall be found no more at all Rev. 18.21 Printed in the Year 1667. To the Reader Reader ALthough the Author of the pretended Reconciler of Religions did in the conclusion thereof seem to Challenge an Answer to all Particulars therein laid down according to the Chapters and Numbers thereof yet I did not look upon his Challenge to be any Obligation to me to proceed according to his Directions neither indeed was it needfull or necessary that I should answer his desire therein for it would have required more time then I was willing to spare for that work and more labour then I was willing to bestow about it because there is an easier way which I have taken to do the Work as effectual as though I had gone through with every particular there inserted For when the Foundation of a Building is Raced the whole Building will fall as effectually as though a man should begin at the top and pull down all one Stone after another and with a great deal less labour it is done So for my commodity I have observed that Rule in answering the aforesaid Book by Racing the Foundation of the Contents thereof or answering the chief Heads by which he therein endeavoured to prove the Church of Rome to be the True Church upon which all the rest of his Book hath its dependancy and those Heads or Particulars being confuted the rest must of themselves needs fall or of necessity be of no validity and so not worth spending Ink and Paper about upon consideration of which I doubt not but the Reader will find as good satisfaction in what I have hear written concerning the Church of Rome as though I had answered all his particulars particularly And so to the Grace of God do I commend thee J. C. The VVhore Unvail'd c. GReat is the controversie at this day throughout Christendom concerning the way of Worship and Salvation and great is the confusion that is about Faith and Religion c. even amongst all professing Christianity and many and cruel are the murthers that have been acted by them one against another about Faith and Worship since the Apostacy began and since people forsook the right way and went in Cains way and in Balàams Jude ver 11. For then persecution began amongst the profest Christians and not before and when the right way was forsaken then people went into Envy and then they withstood the truth even as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses and then they began to be scattered from the holy Mountain of the Lord where nothings hurts nor destroys to the barren mountains where they have been destroying one another and there in the dark and cloudy day of Antichrist's reign they have been worshipping the many headed Beast that then arose and also the Dragon that gave power to the Beast to make War with the Saints and they who have been worshipping upon one mountain they have cryed salvation is here And they who have been worshipping another head or upon another hill they have cried that salvation was to be found there For the seven Heads of the Beast are seven Mountains upon which the Whore sits that drinks the Blood of the Saints And so they fell out one with another about the way of Salvation upon these barren Mountains unto which people are in looking for Salvation the strife and the envy hath been And there people hath been killing one another about the way and themselves all out of the way in an Antichristian destroying persecuting spirit as their fruits declare for the Spirit of Christ never led the true Christians to persecute any about Religion neither doth any who are in the right way kill and destroy mens lives about Religion Nay they that do so are not true Christians but of an Antichristian spirit for I testifie in

upon the blind persecuting Professors in New-England these Professors were in as much Unbelief as ever they were before as it may appear more at large in the Record of New-England's Persecutions And also this Josiah Coale's Labour and Travels in Holland and in the Low Countries concerning the Gospel of God and his Truth where ever he came he did bear his Testimony against that spirit that did oppose the Truth and he did live to see much of it over-thrown And also when this Josiah Coale was weak the Power of the Lord was fresh in him and a little before he died I spoke to him that the Friends that were with him might go forth of the Room for I had something to say to him and when they were gone I asked him if that he was clear or whether any thing did lie upon him to write to Friend in England or any other Parts of the World beyond the Seas to Friends and he said that he was clear of writing to them and how that the Lord by his Power and Majesty had carried him through England and other Nations and so he had nothing to write but desired his love might be remembred to all the Friends and said that one thing did lie upon him He did understand that I had a Book in answer to Muggleton and that when he was gone Muggleton and his Company would boast against him wherefore he desired that I would put a few words of his last Testimony against Muggleton in my Book and I bade him to write them out for I was to go to see a Friend hard by and would come to him presently again and at that time as he was sitting in his Chair by the fire he spoke them forth in the Power of the Lord God as fresh as if he had ayled nothing and a Friend took it in writing which Testimony is inserted in the latter Part of this Book as is before noted After this was done Josiah Coale desired me to pray that he might have an easie passage and when I came to him again he was sitting by the fire as before in the Power of the Lord and full of it and after seeing him to begin to be haevy I bade him to go and lie on the Bed which he did and with Friends help rose up again and sate on the side of the Bed and Friends sate about him and heal'd him and I went to him and heal'd him and he was full of the Power of the Lord and his Seed and Life that was over all and so in that he departed away in the Arms of Friends as he sate on the side of his Bed and had a very easie passage through the Life in which he remaines His Age when he died was 35. Years and two Moneths and he was in the Service of the Lord preaching his Gospel about twelve Years and did convince many to the Lord's Truth and brought many from the vain Rudiments of the World to the Gospel You may see some of his Epistles and Writings in this following Book which he left in writing being carefully copied out and placed together which is but some of what he hath written and spoken Gorge Fox A few Lines concerning Josiah Coale IS dear Josiah gone yes he is gone He 's gone from us in the Eternal One Where he from all his Labour is at Rest I' th Bosom of the Father who is forever Blest Ah Valiant Champion for God's Truth so pure Thy Name 's as precious Oyntment thy Memory shall dure In upright Hearts from them nothing can hide Thy Worth thy Faithfulness shall still abide To their Refreshment though thy Body 's laid I' th Bowels of the Earth yet as thou said God's Majesty was with thee and the Crown Of Immortal Life is on thee and that will renown Thy Name to Generations yet unborn When they shall hear Josiah did adorn The Gospel of our Lord by Doctrine that was sound Within his Native Land ye he was found In forraign Islands spreading forth the Fame Of his beloved Lord and that his Name Might be advanced thought no Travel long Let God be Magnified that was his Song His Travels they were sore within and eke without His Recompence was large yes there 's no doubt Now he shines as a Star of no small magnitude Who by the Power of God hath convinc'd a Multitude Many are the Children he hath gathered To the Knowledge of the Lord and Christ their Head He rightly did divide the Word of God Gave Milk to Babes but Fools are for the Rod He sweetly comforted the Meek Ah he was strength unto the Weak But terrible he was to the Stout-hearted Who verily was smote before they parted The Workers of Iniquity by him Were trampled under foot the man of sin Was sorely wounded by his powerful Hand The Hypocrites before him could not stand But by the Power of God he did them slay But now alas he 's gone he 's gone away And we who lov'd him though our Loss is great Yet being fix'd in God we are compleat There meet we with his Spirit who gather'd is Into the Mansion of Eternal Bliss Praised be God and Magnified be He Who never waxeth old nor chang'd can be M. F. THE CONTENTS OF HIS EPISTLES 1 AN Epistle to Friends in the Prisons of London Hartford c. pag. 33. 2 An Epistle to Friends Exiled or sentenced to Exilement p. 37 3 An Epistle to Friends in Holland p. 44 4 An Epistle to all People in Jamaica p. 47 5 The 1st Epistle to Friends in New-England p. 51 6 The 2d Epistle to Friends in New-England p. 54 7 The 1st Epistle to Friends in the Province of Maryland p. 57 8 The 2d Epistle to Friends in the Province of Maryland p. 63 9 An Epistle to the Flock of God p. 71 10 The first general Epistle to Friends p. 80 11 The second general Epistle to Friends p. 85 12 The third general Epistle to Friends p. 90 13 The fourth general Epistle to Friends p. 95 THE CONTENTS OF THE BOOKS 1 AN Invitation of Love to the Hungry and Thirsty p. 3 2 A Salutation to the Suffering Seed p. 7 3 To all the Babes in Christ c. p. 15 4 A Warning to the King and both Houses of Parliament p. 21 5 England's Sad Estate Lamented and her Abominations Discovered p. 28 6 The Whore Vnvail'd or the Mystery of the Deceit of the Church of Rome reveal'd p. 53 7 A Testimony concerning that faithful Servant of the Lord Richard Farnsworth p. 117 8 A Song of the Judgments and Mercies of the Lord p. 131 9 A Vindication of the Light Within against the Darkness Error and Blasphemy of John Newman in his Book entituled The Light Within c. p. 369 10 A Testimony concerning Lodowick Muggleton p. 343 11 What he spoke a little before his death p. 344 To all Dear Friends OF TRUTH Who are Sufferers at this day for their TESTIMONY to the TRUTH And for

Purity and Self-denial through the Sanctifying operation of the same I had intimacy with him above many but so mixt was his kindness with seriousness and his familiarity with a stay'd and examplary Behaviour as he was ever an honour to the Truth and therein a confirmer of his holy Testimony and weaker Brethren He was an incessant Labourer in the Gospel and Few more spent in its Service his Soul seem'd wholly bent to the Renowning of it and its Enemies he ever accounted his His Declaration was to the Ungodly World like an Ax an Hammer or a Sword sharp and piercing being mostly attended with an eminent appearance of the dreadful Power of the Lord to the cutting down of many a tall Cedar and to the making of many lofty Oaks to bow but to the Faithful and diligent who mind the things of Christ more then their own O the soft and pleasant Streams of Life Immortal that have run through him to the refreshing of those the Lord's Heritage yea 't was his life and joy to be speaking the Word of the Lord and not his own And many thousands doubtless rest behind who are living Testimonies to the Power Vertue and Efficacy of his Ministry but above all terrible was he to the Sowers of Strife secret Back-biters and such as rend the holy Body and separate from the Life Love and Fellowship of the Blessed Truth Who in their own selfish spirit set themselves over the holy Brethren by feignedness and deceitful appearances to the betraying of the Simple-hearted and ketching the Innocent in their Snares Yet was he ready to reach out an helping Hand to save the upright Hearted whose desires were to the Lord and the Fellowship of the Faithful He was Hardy Valiant and fixt not of those that shun the Cross or sell their Birth-right for a Mess of Pottage He baulkt no Danger for the sake of his blessed Testimony but ever met in the Lord's Armour by which he has many times overcome in England Holland Barbadoes Virginia New-England Mary-Land c. where through many difficulties he boldly preached the everlasting Gospel Christ in him the Hope of Glory He was a good Example as well for his Liberality as Faithfulness for as I am a Witness that the prosperity of God's Truth and dear Friends was above all things most in his Eye so was he alwayes cautious of making the Gospel chargeable to any but having some Estate of his own he freely imploy'd it in the Lord's Service counting nothing too dear for the Name and Service of the Lord. And thus having laboured his natural strength away in this heavenly Warfare for the promotion of the glorious Truth of the Lord and the advancment of its Interest and Dominion in the World for about twelve Years together he did with perfect understanding and in an extraordinary enjoyment of the Lord's Life Majesty and Presence to the refreshment of the Beholders on the 15th of the 11th Moneth 1668. he chearfully laid down his Mortal Body it being in the five and thirtieth Year of his Age that he might be perfectly cloathed on with Blessed Immortallity which is the Wages of the Work and the Eternal Recompence of his Temporal Tribulations And now is he truely ascended above and beyond every Trouble and Temptation where all Tears are wip'd away from his Eyes and upon Mount Zion does he stand amongst the rest of our holy Brethren and those Martyrs who kept the Testimony of Jesus in their day singing the Song of the Lamb for evermore Therefore shall his Memorial remain as a sweet Oyntment with the Righteous and time shall never blot him out of their remembrance for amongst the Worthies shall he be reckoned in the Generations to come because he loved not his Life unto Death but chos'd to pass through the many Tribulations which have given him an enterance into the Everlasting Rest where his spirit lives and remains with God for ever My Soul is often heavy and bowed down in the sence of the loss of these Valiants at this time of the day but herein am I satisfied that our God that raised them will fill up their places and daily bring forth by his Eternal Arm many noble Champions for his Glory who shall sound forth his Wonders to the Ends of the Earth and stand as Saviours upon Mount Zion to the Nations And therefore woes to the dark hellish sin-pleasing persecuting Priests Professors and Prophane of the whole Earth for the Lord God Omnipotent is taking to himself his great Power and he will Reign whose Kingdom stands in Righteousness and is an Everlasting Kingdom and of whose Government and Dominion there shall be no end W. Penn. AN EPISTLE TO THE READER As Concerning Josiah Coale HE did labour much in the Power of the Lord and did stand in the Power of the Lord against the spirit of the World and against all the Opposers of the Truth to his dying day yea within one Hour and a half of his death see his Testimony against the dark blasphemous spirit of Muggleton in the latter end of this Book and besides the several Opposers of the Truth of the several Sects in New-England Barbadoes Virginia Mary-Land and other Islands and the several Cruel and Inhumane Sufferings and Imprisonments by the chief Priests Professors and Rulers which would be to large to mention and would make a great Volumn that he suffered amongst them And also his sore Travels among the Heathen in America concerning the Truth and preaching the Gospel and when the cruel murdering Priests and Professors of New-England which Murdered and Martyr'd and Spoyled so many of the Goods of our Friends and burned some of them with their hot Irons and cut off the Ears of some of our Friends for the Truth and Gospel's sake These New-England persecuting Professors said to some that they did persecute Why did not our Friends come thorow the Heathen by Land from Virginia to New-England thorow the Wilderness on foot for they looked for Miracles but Josiah Coale and another was that very Time passing thorow the Heathen and the Wilderness from Virginia to New-England and the persecuting Professors of New-England then did not think that they were so near them that did pass thorow the Woods and Wildernesses which immediately came among them having passed thorow the Woods and wilde Wildernesses and thorow the danger of the Men-Eaters and wilde Beasts and venomous Creatures but when they came through much Hunger and Cold and Weariness through the Bogs and Waters into New-England they found worss entertainment among the New-England persecuting Priests and Professers then they had found among the wilde and venomous Beasts and Men-eaters yea they were worss to them and others of the Disciples of Christ as I said then the Heathen and Men-eaters who had passed thorow much danger of their lives and oft times were fain to cut down Chest-Nut-Trees for the Nuts for Food when they were hungry And nevertheless when these came immediatly