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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25562	An Answer to Mr. Read's case wherein is a full discovery of his dissimulation with God and man.	Read, Joseph, d. 1713. Mr. Read's case.	1682 (1682)	Wing A3370; ESTC R16399	10,266	20

never known them but I am more than confident that they are stronger in grace than your self and will be honoured in the day of Christ when such dawbers in untemper'd Mortar as you shall hang down their heads and be ashamed Another touch of your pride we have in Page 13 where you seem to intimate that People will wonder that Mr. Read should read the Common Prayer that a man so learned for that 's the sence so able so renowned as Mr. Read that such a Star of the first Magnitude such a Pillar of the Non-conformists Cause as Mr. Read should shake or be moved from his foundation Truly Sir had you kept in your Apology those that knew you not but only heard of your sufferings and the esteem you had among the godly upon that account might perhaps be a little induced to wonder at your sudden charge But I dare say all wondring will now cease they that read your Pamphlet will no more wonder at whatever Mr. Read does no though he should wear a Surplice though he should bow at the Altar though he should at last retreat to the Mass for a refuge against the storm of Persecution That you had a faint heart we all knew by what you have done but we did not imagine you had such a weak brain till we saw what you have writ However you thought People had an high esteem of your Abilities by your supposing they would shake their heads and say I wonder at Mr. Read which does not become a man that ought to be exemplary in lowness of mind Your arrogant bragging of your being alone and leading the way as though you had done such an act sufficiently shews your vainglorious humour I will not insist upon your horrid pride in comparing your self to Jehosaphat and abusing yea profaning the Holy Scriptures what worse sin can there be to make them serve your turn though no colourable parallel can be made between your case and that upon which those precious words were spoken What could the veryest Atheist this day in England do more than wrest the Word of God to gratifie his base Lust but as if all this had not been sufficient to proclaim your sin of Pride or Sodom and to publish the haughtiness of your Spirit as the iniquity of Gomorrah you conclude more like a Ranter than a Preacher more like a Roman than a Christian and more like an hypocrite than either taking up the words of Joab in an insulting manner as though there were never a Champion for the Cause of God in England but you What Sir are you arriv'd to the impudence of the unjust Judge that neither feared God nor regarded Man You seem not to fear God in that you dare trample upon his Word and in a desperate manner wilfully break the Third Commandment as your taking up good Jehosaphats words do abundantly testifie You regard not the esteem of Man in that you rank your self with Joab when there is no likeness in your circumstances Pray let 's see how Joabs condition and yours will bear a proportion Joab was General of an Army you a Pastor of a Congregation Joab was a stout Souldier you a base Coward Joab had a lawful call to fight against his enemies you without any call set your self in opposition to all your friends in a word Joab stood in need of aid from Heaven to resist the Adversaries of the God of Israel you have succour from Hell to help you to suppress the Cause of Christ and his People in which work you are now engaging your self But stay now I think on 't there is one thing wherein you and Joab are much alike You know Joab serv'd a King that was an eminent Type of the Lord Jesus Christ and truly he himself was a Type of you for he left his Master in a day of Temptation and 't is no breach of charity to say you have forsaken yours Thirdly 'T is easily demonstrable you are guilty of the sin of falshood in what you have writ the lying Spirit that entered into Ahab's Prophets I doubt has taken possession of you Your saying Page 11. you consulted your Brethren in the Ministry and they owned the Lawfulness of using the Liturgy in the ordinary Lords days Service finds small belief amongst sober people 1st Because we have only your bare word for it and that assure you goes but for a little now 2dly Because most of them disown it and protest against it even Mr. Baxter whom you so much quote professes he knew nothing of it and has declared his dislike of it Lastly Because we have an higher esteem of the Ministers than to think them so weak to advise you to such an altogether unjustifiable and justly offensive thing to the present Government And therefore it concerns you to make this improbable story a little more evident or else not to be angry if we enrol you in the number of those that speak lies in hypocrisie For my own part I solemnly profess I believe you not nor does any other that I have spoke with or heard of Again In the same Page you say that you have consulted Lawyers and they tell you that the reading of it will prove the lawfulness of your Meeting and secure you from any farther trouble I challenge you for truths sake to name those Lawyers Will you impose upon us at this rate to have us believe Lawyers are turn'd Mad-men to tell you a thing so alien to sence and reason Produce if you can ever a learned Lawyer in England that will stand by this Position that you without Power or taking Orders from the Bishop reading Common Prayer makes thereby your Meeting a Lawful Assembly and secures you from the Lash of the Law Whereas on the contrary you have made your self a Criminal by your presumptuous boldness and contempt Nay you confess your self Page 36. that you are in the Bishops Court already for it likely to be Excommunicated and Imprisoned Amen Amen say I. Let all such Mungril Dissenters be so met with Good Lord Fourthly Your Hypocrisie and Dissimulation does grosly appear from your own mouth You confess Page 11. you were not very fond of the Common Prayer that is you did not throughly like it nor approve of it in your Conscience and yet rather than suffer the spoiling of your Goods you 'll bring it into the Worship of God and read it to your People Sir have you not read of Baalam the Son of Bozar that loved the wages of unrighteousness who was so tempted with the offers of reward which Baalac tender'd him that he would fain have acted contrary to his Conscience but was against his will prevented as you were at that time and as therefore justly called the CARNAL PROPHET And do you not tremble to think how like to him you are What does the love of the World or the fear of suffering make you do that in the Worship of God which otherwise you would not