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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

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

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

flattered them and told them they would stand by them and lay down all for that which they asserted and called one of them Joshuah and the other Moses and said They committed the keeping of the Faith of our Lord Jesus Christ unto them and such like Blasphemies but as soon as the wheele turned about in the next month calls them Traitors Tyrants and Usurpers and these were your stinking Addresses and your fained Supplications which all sober and understanding people were ashamed of and thy Priests which thou calls Ministers and their Confederates which thou calls Christians have flattered them and bowed under every deceit turned with every wind instance in the dayes of Edw. 6 Hen. 8. Eliz. and Mary and Charles and when these were overthrown which you used to call Gods annointed then you strike in with what thing soever arises ●s instance one Parliament after another and then for Protectors and then no Protectors but a Parliament and thus have you flattered each of the Rulers though never so unjust till the wrath of God hath sunk the most of them because they have hearkened to flattery and deceit and had not their ears open to them with whom the Counsel of God is we have Counselled them oft and have forwarned them in all plainness and nakedness of heart though our Counsel hath been rejected yet God hath fulfilled our Testimony thus far upon them all And as for the Quaker in Hartfordshire who thou saith swore against some who did abuse him and the Quakers I do believe he was one of thy own generation and lately one of your Popish Parochial Congregations instituted first by Pope Dionysius although the man was more moderate then the rest and did grieve to see his Neighbours abused and sober people disturbed and the house broken down blood shed that by the Justification of thy Sir T. H. the man not being convinced of the unlawfulness of an Oath did give Testimony against the riotous persons and evil-doers and against him who incouraged them in it And shall he be condemned by thee who acteth the same thing was it evil in him and is it Righteous in thee Although I do not justifie the thing for it is known to many thousands in the Nation that the Quakers will not swear upon any account least they should fall into condemnation but there is none can escape thy slanderous pen who loves uprightness and truth but all thy smitings in the dark will at last fall upon thy own pate Further thou goes on and saith We cry up Liberty of Conscience but are not willing to give it to others because thou saith Many thousand times some Ministers hath been disturbed by them in their Religious exercises That Liberty which we would enjoy our selves the same we can and will allow unto all men which is most equitable and though we have gone into the Steeple-houses and old Mass-houses and declared against Idolatry and deceit formality feignedness and hypocrisie or spoken the words of truth and soberness either in exhortation admonition or reproof this was the manner of the Apostles of Christ whose Consciences were exercised in purity towards God but that which was order in the Churches of Christ is counted disturbance by you Mass-house-worshippers and yet you would arrogate unto your selves the name of a Church and yet are out of Gospel Order you are for the liberty of the flesh and not for the Liberty of a pure Conscience Thou saith The Quakers are grievous lyars and thy proof is that Richard Hub berthorn said That the wicked are not to read the Scriptures and E. Burrough saith The wicked and ungodly are to read the Scriptures and not the godly and thou sayes In this they have not both spoken truth We know no lye is of the truth but of the Devil who abode not in the truth and we are redeemed out of lying by the truth which hath set us free and thou art found the lyar thy self for the words both of R. H. and of E. B. thou hast perverted and not spoken the truth as afterwards may be made more manifest In the 35th page of thy lying story thou saith The Quakers hath succeeded much and hath prevailed in these Nations and beyond the Seas but thou hopes where ever thy Book shall arrive before them the people will so well know them as to abhor any further acquaintance with them Here thou hast manifested thy spirit to be like the envious Jews who crucified the Lord of Life and persecuted the Apostles from City to City sometimes running before them with their lyes and sometimes after to oppose them to stir up the Vagabond-fellows the ruder sort of people to oppose and abuse them yet notwithstanding the truth prevailed and many believed on the Name of Christ thorow their words which they published unto them we have found the like opposition not onely from strangers but also of our own Countrey-men and have had many such lying stories as thine sent before us and spread over the Nations and yet God hath carried on his work notwithstanding all rage opposition and cruelty it hath prevailed and shall prevail for so is the Purpose and Will of God and they who shall see thy book who are but reasonable men will abhor and detest thy envious spirit and truth shall be more advanced and that shall be fulfilled the remainder of the wrath of man shall turn to the praise of God Thou sayes They are a very cruel bloody people if we may Judge the Lyon by his paw or what is abundantly in their hearts God Will confound thy lying lips and thy deceitful tongue whose blood have we shed can we not say and that of a truth and have our Testimony by Gods witness in every man that we are clear of the blood of all men Nay on the contrary hath not our blood been spilt in your places of worship which you account holy and hath not many suffered in bonds until death by the reason of the oppression of the blood-thirsty Priests of this Nation and thou might well have been silent if thou hadst not had an impudent face have not we much to lay to your charge and that truly what dost thou Judge of thy godly Ministers in Lancashire and Cheshire whom thou calls the valiant Captains of Christs Army which preached up the people into Rebellion upon pain of Damnation And others said except they went to the Randevous it was much if they were saved And others said the Nations must be purged with blood to shed the blood of all those that withstood them And others said if God would stand as a Newter they had men enough such Blasphemous words and doctrines were uttered which are too tedious to relate and all this quarrel they said was against the Quakers Now let the Reader Judge the Lyon by his paw and what is in these mens hearts by their words and actions before mentioned And now to conclude this

and have discovered thy deceit and thy poison which thou hast put in that thou calls an Antidote that so the simple may not be deceived with thy lies and cheats neither the innocent betrayed only I shall return a few of thy lies upon thy own head which thou hath forged up against the Quakers out of thy corrupt heart and out of the lying stories of the Priests with whom thou art in league but he that sits in Heaven laughs you to scorn and all whose eyes the Lord hath opened will have thy lying History in derision and lothe thy enmity and testifie against thy spirit as not to be of God And because thou hast said in thy advertisment to the Reader that thou hath not knowingly wronged the Quakers in the least I say thou hath either knowing or ignorantly wronged them and both thou must repent before thou find mercy and because thou tells the Reader thou will make good every thing thou hast charged against them to any who require it I do require thee to make these ensuing things good 1. That the Quakers deny the death and Ascension of Christ 2. That we deny the Divinity of Christ 3. That the Priests under the Law that take Tythes did evil and for it were counted false prophets and deceivers 4. That a man is justified by the merits of his own good works 5. That the ignorant may not read the Scriptures 6. The Quakers are a carnal and bloody people 7. That the Quakers are bewitched and possessed by the Devil 8. That Christians are worse then Beasts 9. That the body of Christ is not in Heaven 10. That Christ as man had his failings 11. That man is not reconciled to God until he can stand by his own power perfect 12. That Christ was a single man true man and died for us 13. That without the grace of God a man may keep the Commands of God 14. That they deny the relation of a father a brother or a wife 15. That all that the Quakers have suffered is for evil doing being Malefactors These amongst many others thou art required to prove and to make good as thou hast promised or else for ever stop thy lying lips and own thy condemnation for thy envy and false aspersions and these things I lay at thy door as lyes see how thou wilt clear thy self in the fight of them unto whom thou hath written thy story many filthy and ungodly stories is besides in thy Book which I shall not trouble the Reader or cumber his mind with thy filthy stuff but in what is already declared thy deceit will be made manifest and laid open and truth cleared from thy lies and that will be satisfaction to him who desires that all who love the Lord may be kept out of the snares and temptations of the Devil who goes about seeking whom he may devour like a roaring Lion and thou may see whose foot-stepts Thomas Underhill hath trode who hath ranged up and down from age to age from Nation to Nation from one region to another to fetch up lies and fabulous stories to resist the truth withall whose reward will be according to his works London 29. of 9. Mon. 1659. FRiend Consider what thou hast done O how hast thou brought a vail of bad Report upon thy Name amongst all that fear God And how hast thou hurt and wounded thy self by thy own wickednesse and the Scripture is fulfilled upon thee The wickednesse of the wicked shall slay him What hast thou no better use to make of thy time then to spend it with inventing Mischief against a despised people that seek not the hurt of any one but thirsteth and waiteth for the glorious Appearance of the Son of God and what thou hast sought to do against them shall be the weight upon thy own Conscience in the dreadful day of God whose heavy Judgments thou canst not escape Alas for thee poor man thou feeble Child of Babylon whose strength is weaknesse whose wisdom is meer folly in the sight of the Lord The Children of Zion do not fear thee neither do they regard thy Revilings for they dwell in a safe Habitation and are at perfect Rest and are above all the fiery darts which in thy envy thou shootest against them and thy reward shall be according to thy Works and the multitude of men shall not be able to deliver thee from the wrath that cometh against thee from the Lord and all the false Prophets and Wolves in Sheeps cloathing with whom thou hast taken part against the Lamb and his followers they shall be a broken Reed for thee to lean upon for why Alas the determination of the Lord is against them and the day of their Sorrow is approaching and hadst thou been wise for God and for thy own Soul thou wouldst not have indangered thy own Soul on their defence And though we have no Goals Prisons Stocks nor Whips nor yet any unjust or cruel way of dealing towards you as you have had against us yet we have the Lord to be our Armour and he is the only Rock of our Defence and he is stronger then man and in him we trust And what are all thy Lyes and Slanders unto us And what though Baalam for a Gift may seek Enchantment against us yet there is no Divination found against the Elect Seed and seeing thou hast gone in Baalams path thou shalt reap his Reward who art an enemy of Righteousnesse and a perverter of the right way of God whose end will be We and Misery Wherefore consider O thou vain mortal man that must die and come to nothing Wherefore hast thou set thy self against God and heaped up thy multitude of envious Words Lyes and Slanders against his people What is the Fruit of such a Work but eternal Vengeance from the righteous God And though thou art come in the end of the Battel and hast helped Gog and Magog according to thy strength yet Friend our City cannot be shaken its Foundation cannot be removed And what art thou vain ignorant Creature that hast sought against God and his People THE END