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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62481	The three countrey-mens English answers to the clergy-mens Latine charges. Or, the lay-mens plain English, in answer to the unknown language of the pretended spiritual court at Winton Unto which is added a short relation of the dealings of Iohn Hayes priest with two of them after they were excommunicated. Also twenty four queries propounded to be answered by those that call themselves spiritual men.	Gearle, Edmund, d. 1672.	1664 (1664)	Wing T1085; ESTC R222199	12,394	16

three shillings Here followeth a short Relation of the actions and dealings of the Priest of the Parish unto which we belong with us after we were excommunicated by them AFter that we had delivered into the Court these our Answers having been abused in words and our hats taken from our heads and thrown from us and also one of the Parators cursing of us which is of the spirit of the wicked one whom they obey and having thrust us forth of their Court could not be satisfied but proceeded to excommunication or cursing of us from out of fellowship with them whom we dare not to have union with we say the Priest of the defective Church he proceeded to sentence of excommunication and cursed us from amongst them with the which we rested well satisfied and had peace with the Lord whom we obey though detected and rejected by those whose actions shew by what spirit they are guided as may be seen in open view Now after they had thus dealt with us in summoning us from time to time to our great hinderance who are husbandmen and got our bread by our labour telling us divers times that we should have our articles or in writing that which they alledged against us wherein also they proved liars and so to be of their father the Devil for when we came according to appointment they shuffled us off and would bid us come another time and so we did several times before we had it But to come to the thing this Priest after he had proc●eded to excommunication in publick before his hearers then he came to us and demanded tithe and coming to Iosiah Wickhams house he asked him how many sheep he had shorn he being but Vicar having the tithe of wooll lambs calves apples plumbs c. unto which he gave him answer that it mattered not how many sheep he had shorn for they were none but his own at the which he raged also his wife said unto him that she thought he would not have offered to come to them for wages seeing he had before cursed them forth of his Church unto which the Priest like a dumb dog was silent and afterward like a fox he went far about to bite and sub poena'd us to appear at the Exchequer on such a day it being nominated and then we went to the Priest to speak with him about it but he put us by and told us that he would speak with us another time and likewise he having before dep●ived us of the benefit of Law he then sued us at the Law which is double wickednesse in the sight of God and will appear odious in the sight of any reasonable man and seems ridiculous according to that Proverb First cut off their legs then bid them go And then for Non-appearance we were served with a processe by a Bayliffe and at that time also we went to speak with the Priest to know what he intended to do with us and he said we must go to prison if we would not pay him whom before he had renounced as Hereticks Mark people this man who professes himself a Minister of Christ would be maintained by us whom he hath cursed some of his Church hath also told us that they must not buy or sell with us yet this Priest would have maintenance from us Surely he and his brethren are not to be parallel'd nay the false Prophets of old of whom we read were not found in such actions Would not Hophni and Phineas wicked men who took the offerings by force have been ashamed to have acted as this man hath done who though they did take the offerings by force it was of them who were of Israel and not of the heathen But these Priests manifest themselves yea they are already manifest to us that can see hear or understand to be absolute wolves whose sheeps cloathing though now it s but narrow by these and such like actions will be wholly stripped off and appear they shall even as they are before the eyes of all But to proceed this Priest perceiving that we were resolved to go to Prison rather then to uphold or maintain his belly which is his God he then began to fawn and to wipe his eyes Crockadile like pretending he was sorry and bid us we should not go with other words which he used yet our minds he could not alter who had faith in our God and did trust in his name who hath been a tower of refuge unto us and so we were brought to this prison where we have been kept about twenty five weeks from our honest labours yea this serpent was so subtil that he chose as he thought the best time throughout the year for his purpose and so by that thought to get over us it being then the beginning of harvest and we had not any man-servant to take care for our corn and so to outward appearance it was in danger or some of it of being spoiled But the God whom we serve and for whose cause and testimony we this day suffer provided for us beyond our expectation and even raised some that were our enemies that they profred to assist our wives and chilbren So our harvest was brought in though it was something more charge to us in seasonable time praises to him that ruleth over all since we were brought ●ither some of his flock hath spoken with him about us and as we hear he gave one of them this answer That if he should let us alone others would serve him so likewise and none would pay him and so he might starve Mark how far this man is from that Spirit which ruled in the Apostle Paul who said They laboured day and night because they would not be chargeable 1 Thes 11. 9. But this Priest Iohn Hayes he is so far from purposing to work with his own hands that he intends to make others maintain him whether they are willing or not and so little love hath his hearers towards him that if there were not a law he might starve as appears by his own words Oh what a flock hath this man gathered and what a vineyard hath this man planted and what fruitlesse trees that cumbers the ground hath this man set who would yield him no fruit to satisfie his belly what unruly flocks but more like herds hath these Priests of England gathered who would give no milk Surely they are carelesse shepherds they gather not they heal not they bind not up the wounds of the sheep they seek not the lost nor regard those that die in pollution They eat of the fat and cloath themselves with the wooll sitting at ease in their houses and fill themselves with wine at their pleasures they waste the creation on their lusts and rule over people with rigour their wives sit as Ladies at their feasts and they have the uppermost room in the Synagogues the people labour in the earth and God gives the increase and these Caterpillers eat the