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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A84945	The accuser sham'd: or, A pair of bellows to blow off that dust cast upon John Fry, a Member of Parliament, by Col: John Downs, likewise a Member of Parliament, who by the confederacy and instigation of some, charged the said John Fry of blasphemy & error to the Honorable House of Commons. Whereunto is annexed, a word to the priests, lawyers, Royalists, self-seekers, and rigid-Presbyterians. Also a brief ventilation of that chaffie and absurd opinion, of three persons or subsistences in the Godhead. / By the accused John Fry.	Fry, John, 1609-1657.	1648 (1648)	Wing F2254; Thomason E544_7; Thomason E624_2; ESTC R32440	13,180	23

14. Wide is the gate and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction and many there be that go therein But strait is the gate and narrow the way that leadeth to life and few there be that finde it I could say much more but I study brevity There is a saying amongst Physitians That when diseases are discovered they are half cured and that I may not do my work to halves I shall bestow the best skill I can For the Priest I would leave him to the people so as the Disciples and Apostles of Christ were and if they are his Messengers he will surely pay them their wages though men wil not certainly as they have freely received so they ought freely to give and if once I saw them of that disposition I doubt not but God would stir up the hearts of men to be as free towards them in their Carnal things as they are towards the people in Spiritual things For a Gospel-people will be a free-people For the Lawyers cure I would have the Parliament to stint him in his Fee and if he exceeded or took more Causes then he could manage so that any man were undone by it I would have him suspended from practising and his Gown pulled over his ears And for the Cavies I would take them short enough for ever being able to abuse themselves and countrymen by any power they should be trusted with I would never put a Sword into his hands that had formerly used it to the enslaving of himself and country and if he will be troublesom and not take such fair warning as he hath had I would send him to a New Plantation for it is pity and dangerous to have any more of the Breed of him here As for the Self-seeker I would be sure to trust him so far as I could see him and no farther And to stop this Leaprous disease I would not onely give him a Vomit that he might disgorge those filthy Morsels he hath so greedily swallowed to the prejudice of the Body Politique but also have a special care and exact eye upon all the Money-vangers for the future and not let pass more then a moneth for the calling of those to an account who weekly nay almost daily receive money in some places as your Treasurers in Counties who receive money for the Army and money for Sequestred goods and Rents and after this proportion of time according as moneys comes in to all the several money-takers for the Commonwealth I would deal with them Rigid Sir John Presbyter is as desperately sick as any of the rest and therefore it will require more art then mine I fear but yet I will do my best and what is wanting let it be supplyed by an abler Artist By my casting of his state his disease seems to be somewhat of kin to Mr. Cavies and therefore I shall prescribe much of what I did to him I would almost as soon put a Sword into the hands of a mad-man as into the hands of a high-flying Presbyter certainly the forcing of a mans conscience by civil Power is a note beyond the Apostles Ela But what do I speak of the Apostles and Disciples of Christ they were puisns and lived in the nonage of time they never saw such an Assembly of Divines and a gallant Book called The Annotations upon the Bible which cost them many years travel Truly this Book cost me Twenty five shillings and if any one will give me but twenty for it again I will give him thanks though it be not two pence the worse for my using of it he that can or will afford time to read it over hath more leisure and liking to it then I. Happily the Pen-men of the New Testament writ at a venture as King James did his Book entituled Demonalogy and as old Mr. Allen of New-Inn Hall in Oxford a reputed Conjurer understood King James his Book better then himself so these Gentlemen may the New Testament then the writers of it If these Gentlemen will needs be doing I would make them Masters over all the Bedlams in England and if that be not work enough let them go into America and try their newfound experiment there in my opinion it is not fit for Europe except as afore We read Heb. 11. 6. That without faith it is impossible to please God c. And that faith comes by hearing and hearing by the word of God Rom. 10. 17. And that faith is a gift Ephesians 2. 8. 'T is true that at Rome where this new first discovery was made the Civil Sword hath been used to drive men to Heaven whither they would or no but whether it ever wrought that effect or was at first intended for that end I very much doubt whatsoever was pretended And since this Opinion was forged there I wish the Parliament of England would send it from whence it came and quite banish it our Land These diseases are grown Epidemical otherwise I should have spared this labor A true Narrative according to the best scrutiny I can make into my thoughts of what past between Col Downs and my self upon which he accused me IN January last past about the fifteenth day I was with many other Gentlemen of the House of Commons in the afternoon in the Committee-Chamber above the Parliament-House by a fire there one Cornelius Holland Esq a worthy Parliament man and true Patriot to his Countrey who Moses-like chose rather to suffer with the people of God then to be one in the Kings Court and enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season as manifestly appears by his taking part with the Parliament and good people of this Island against the King and his God-dam-me blades came to me and desired me to go to the Committee of plundered Ministers to help free a Minister that had lyen in Prison two or three years for denying the personality of Christ to which I gave my ready concurrence being one of that Committee Col Downs standing by and hearing our discourse brake out into passionate Language saying He deserved to lye by it and to have far greater punishment I would be loath to abuse the Gentleman as he hath done me but I take it he said he deserved to be hanged to which I reply'd I do not see any ground for such a hard censure for I did think that according to the common acceptation of that word it could hardly be defended by Scripture and for my part I was altogether dis-satisfied with those expressions of three distinct Persons or Subsistences in the God-head to which he reply'd I do not care for the word personality but said Jesus Christ was God which I did not apprehend to be the question before us and this was all that past at that time About two or three days after I met the said Col Downs in the Painted-chamber at Westminster whether we came as Members of the High Court of Justice for the Tryal of the King but being somewhat