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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89784	The nutcracker crackt by the Nutt, and the backers cake starke dow: being the vindication of honest men, from the scandalous aspersions of Thomas Bakewell the baker in hanging-sword court neere Fleetestreete Conduite. ... in his learned book called the confutation of the Anabaptists, with a nut-cracker. The which is crackt by the nut against whom it was made, who admonisheth Bakewell to turne to his old trade of bakinge again; and mend his manners therein: ... Thus in this following discourse you shall see the slanderous lyer found out: the fool answered according to his foolishnesse, and the bakers cake starke dow: / by Thomas Nutt.	Nutt, Thomas, 17th cent.	1644 (1644)	Wing N1476; Thomason E254_11; ESTC R210056	7,691	8

THE NUT-CRACKER Crackt by the Nutt And the Backers cake starke Dow Being the Vindication of honest men from The scandalous aspersions of Thomas Bakewell the Baker in hanging-sword Court neere Fleetstreete Conduite Thomas Bakewell heretofore a Baker Yet now through want is turnd a Nut-crack maker Who for abusing much the word of God Without repentance cannot escape his rod Whose want is not of money nor of learning But poore soule 't is of spirituall discerning AS You may see in his learned book called the confutation of the Anabaptists with a Nut-cracker THE Which is Crackt by the Nut against whom it was made who admonisheth Bakewell to turne to his old trade of Baking again and mend his manners therein lest his false Wayte cause that trade to fail as his writing lyes hath spoiled his Poetrie in the which he abuseth the Word of God to proove his lyes As also he belyeth the Licencer to Authorize his book who denying the same faith he never saw it till he saw it in Print on the Exchange THUS In this following Discourse you shall see the slanderous lyer fouund out The fool answered according to his foolishnesse and the Bakers Cake starke dow By Thomas Nutt LONDON Printed in the Yeare MDCXLIV TO THE READER GEntle Reader if you defire to see his learned booke called the confutation of Anabaptists with a Nntcracker wherein he as his Father being a lyer from the beginning Ioh. 8.44 He taxeth those to be the despisers of government who most earnestly long and pray for more strict execution of justice therein in the mean time him self so resisting the Government of God and good Laws that his heart and brain his hand and pen not only unchristianly but also uncivilly plotteth mischiefe and setteth abroach lyes And judge which is easiest numbred the ounces which his bread wants of waight or the lies printed in his book of which whosoever will have a batch let them enquire for Mr. Bakewell in hanging sword Court neere Fleetestreet Conduite where I thinke you may have his booke of lies but first read over this following discourse and see if I doe not slander him with the truth And perswade him if he hath done or written truth that he would come to the light that his deeds may be made manifest that they are wrought in God Jo. 3.21 and mine if it be false by the light wil reproved and so let the evill doer undergoe the blame either before honest men godly Magistrates or Parliament which he please and if either in my Preface or following matter it shall appear I have wronged him I will acknowledge it and to my power give him satisfaction Thomas Nutt in Angel ally in Whitechappel who in regard of my selfe although he libels against me and my booke would not answer him but being against God and his people although not worth the answering yet I cannot forbeare but must answer a foole according to his foolishnesse least he be wise in his own conceit Thus if I reprove a scorner he will hate me but if a wise man hee will love me Pro. 9.8 Bakewell heretofore a baker and now turned Nut-crack maker Plaspheming the word of God in his Nutcrack Must feele his heavie rod upon his back A● Solomon saith A whip for the horse and a bridle for the asse and a rod for the fooles back The Nutcracker crackt by the Nutt being the vindication of honest men against private aspersions ALthough the people of God are commanded to render to no man evill for evill nor rebuke for rebuke nor to revenge themselves nor be overcome of evill but to overcome evill with good and although Solomon saith answer not a foole according to his foolishnesse least thou be like him yet hee saith again answer a foole according to his foolishnesse least he be wise in his own conceit and for as much as he saith hee that is wise in his own conceit there is more hope of a Foole then of him and again a foole is wiser in his own eyes then seven men that can render a reason again seeing the natural man discerneth not the things that are of God they being spiritually discerned 1 Cor. 2.14 And seeing I must answer a foole accor-to his foolishnesse least ●e be wise in his own conceit I must herein endeavour to walke circumspectly and overcome thy evill with good And yet as Paul saith 1 Tim. 5.20 Them that sinne rebuke before all that others may fear I am I confesse naturally apt to answer thee with scoffs for thy reproaches wherewith thou hast reproached God which are fallen upon me But I say to thee as Michaell the Arch Angell to Satan The Lord rebuke thee so say I to thee which art in this action his Sonne the Lord rebuke thee for Christ denominates the children of the devill by doing his lusts which was these two first a murtherer 2. a lyer John 8 44. and Paul calleth Elimas the childe of the devill because hee perverted the strait way of the Lord as thou here by lying doest in the title of thy book For thou bringest the word of God to maintain thy ly for thou callest part of thy booke a Nut cracker for an unnaturall Nutt whose shell thou saist is as hard as the scales of Leviathan and the kernel of his heart as hard as the nether milstone I pray thee Bakewell didest thou ever see my face or seeke to enforme me if not how impudent is this ly of thine which thou blasphemously bringest the sacred Word of God to prove Iob. 41.15 24. See I pray thee if that prove thy affirmation if not confesse thy ly and bee ashamed of it And further I say if by Anabaptists thou meanest Antebaptists that is opposers of the Baptisme of the Gospell let all judge whether thou be not the man for thou maintaining the sprinkeling of infants without any warrant from the Law or Gospell to be the Ordinance of Christ and neglect the dipping beleevers held out in the whole Tenour of the Gospell peculiarly to be the alone Ordinance of Christ and to keepe the poore people in ignorance the Priests being the translators of the Bible where they should have set the English word Dip that all might understand they have set the Greeke word Baptize that so they keeping the people ignorant might sprincle infants pretending it the Ordinance of Christ without any Scripture to prove the same and being ashamed of the name due to your practise namely antebaptists you cast the aspertion of that name upon them that practise the dipping beleevers according to the Ordinance of Christ in the teanour of the Gospell as a cunning thiefe being pursued cryeth among others stop thiefe stop thiefe to cause the people not to suspect him And further for as much as thou hast not one word of God to beare thee out judge thy self if thou be not exceeding audacious to say that thou hast fully answered in this they libellous booke