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A43822	Nevv lords, nevv lavvs, or, A discovery of a grand usurpation, in opposition to the Holy Laws of God and contempt of the good laws, and royal prerogative of the supream magistrate, as it hath been lately practised by the lordly Matthew Caffin, a pretended true apostle of our blessed Lord and Saviour, and ruling head of his congregation, usually meeting at Southwater near Horsham in Sussex. By R. H.	Haines, Richard, 1633-1685.	1674 (1674)	Wing H202B; ESTC R216445	62,553	67

would be so corrupt and base as to give their consents with such a Judg that a man should be executed for that which is no transgression For this reason I say let him ever lay his hand on his mouth and speak no more of others rigidness c. since he hath reason to fear that the worst of them may rise up in judgment against him another day What you think here of I know not but I do verily and upon good grounds believe That the most high King of Kings is angry and also that you may not expect mercy until you are reconciled to him whom you have thus abused with your Acts of Injustice cruelty I also do believe That the Party who hath suffered the wrong ought not to be reconciled unto his causeless yet unmerciful Adversaries until they have done their duties by acknowledging and repenting of their wickedness so as to give reasonable satisfaction which if through Grace they should do then let me tell you that if I my self am the person who have received the injury I ought readily and in love freely to forgive them when they confess their debt although they have not wherewith or cannot make satisfaction But in the mean time to give some brief answer to his late accusations 1. Whereas he hath been pleased to report that I am very angry with him I answer and declare That I have as great respect and kindness for him as I have for the greatest Ecclesiastical person in the world and know no reason for the contrary but that all good people should love them both a like For I hope no honest man will hate the Pope as he is a man but as he is an Usurper Tyrant c.. So in like manner as M. C. is a person reformed he is to be beloved and in that regard notwithstanding all his uncharitable thoughts unchristian acts and all that I have said however you may construe it yet I solemnly declare That if you my pretended friernds were ten times more my Adversaries than what your actions have shown you and He ten times worse than the worst of those that hate me most yet if you and He would but acknowledge your evil with demonstrations of godly sorrow making reasonable satisfaction I should as freely as willingly and from my Heart forgive all such persons as I would eat drink or sie●p at a time when for want of those natural refeshments I were ready to perish But otherwise know ye that it is as easie for you to perswade the Idol of Rome to come to Horsham and kiss the great Toe of him who is the Idol of Southwater as to perswade me on any other unwarrantable terms or means whatsoever to reconciliation 2. Whereas he with open mouth exclaimed against me in the Assembly at London for comparing him to the Antichristian Beast it may not be impertinent to let you know I had some reasons for so doing and I hope better than any he can produce for dooming a person to Hell for that which is no trangression 1. Because 't is said That the Beast shall forbid and prevent Persons the priviledge of buying and selling Revelations 13.17 And accordingly this new Lord with the advice and consent of his Adherents hath by usurped Authority agreed and inacted That no person that is of the Church although my Servant may buy or sell for me If it be objected that this was intended in the Case of buying and selling of Seed only I answer suppose it so But why may not he and you who have thus Decreed as well Decree the same in all other Cases whatsoever since the Law of God forbiddeth the one no more than the other 2. Because 't is said that the Beast shall forecast his devices and think to change time and Laws that so he may have the sole commanding power over all Now consider whether this new Lords principles do not look the same way For saith he contemptuously what have we to do with the Laws and Statutes of men And speaking of honest christian Brethen we do not own them c. With respect to which Texts of Scripture and other the like passages I did indeed by way of allusion and similitude compare him to the Beast beforementioned But that he is strictly and properly the Beast there intended that shall wear cut the Saints of the most High c. I was ever far enough from believing though I must acknowledge his looks to be more stout than his Fellows and am more than a little confident If he had but power as some other Usurpers have had He would be as cruel and unmerciful to those that resist his pleasure as any of those his Predecessors have been and the ground of my so believing is this to wit his sending both Soul and Body not to the Inquisition but but to Hell Torments unto all eternity For disobeying not the Law of God but the Law of himself only And yet must it be my sin because I will not conceal these things Let me tell you Sirs had it been a piece of wickedness confest and repented of or had it been a sin committed through weakness it had doubtless then been evil in me to bring it to publick view But forasmuch as I am convinced it is otherwise know ye That if I should hold my peace and pass it in silence I should be accessory to it and do assuredly believe that as I have the high displeasure and indignation of the Lordly Vsurper against me on the one hand so should I then be sure to incur the displeasure of my blessed Lord and Saviour whose favour is better than life on the other hand therefore durst I not omit what I have done and for as much as I have seriously endeavoured otherwise for peace and reconciliation and all is slighted together with the Christian advice of the honest peaceable Brethren I shall not value the displeasure of those that for this Cause may prove my Enemies no more than that holy man Luther did the rage of the Pope and his Idolizers when it pleased God to open his Eyes to see the Church of Romes wickedness Yet one thing more there is which I and others cannot but much admire at viz. That notwithstanding all his barbarous partial and tyrannical dealings he the said pretended Apostle would have every body believe that All that he hath done and said concerning my self is of unsained Love I do wonder faith he how any can think otherwise For I have received more profit or kindness of him than of any other person whatever and therefore none may believe I can hate him but Love him above all others To which ingenious hypocritical pretence of mighty Love which on all occasions he is pleased to enlarge upon I answer First That then certainly his love is according to his nature viz. Cross and diverse from all others for if these his dealings with me be the fruits of his Love then most true it

days The consideration of all which together with the Effects that did every day attend it to the great dishonour of the truth did after some time upon just grounds engage me to publish the matter and manner of their proceeding against me and accordingly I did make preparation for it and that long before the Publication hereof But if it demanded why I did not publish it sooner I faithfully and sincerely can answer my reason was this viz. Because I greatly feared that by this means not only the Offenders would be ill thought of as justly they may but that the way of truth it self and honest Professors might happen to be Censured by some inconsiderate people and evil reported of to the dishonour of God and prejudice or discouragement of the innocent Wherefore I did rather resolve to use all fair and safe means to prevent these ill effects and bring the matter to be heard determined and composed without such Publication To which purpose I read part of what I had written to a person pretending much kindness to me who I well knew did intend also to serve my causeless Adversary to his power yet 〈…〉 thought he ha●h been such 〈◊〉 one as 〈◊〉 he 〈◊〉 〈…〉 person after I had so shewed him the substance of what I 〈…〉 for publick view did intent me to forbear to which 〈…〉 consented upon condition I might have the matter heard by 〈◊〉 London Friends that had power to do justice and did promise that 〈…〉 were done I would totally desist 〈…〉 ways This my 〈◊〉 being made he 〈…〉 perswade me to 〈◊〉 it to some 〈…〉 Congregation by which means the matter might be com 〈…〉 but I considering that all or most of the Congregations 〈…〉 respects inferior to him and he much adored and e 〈…〉 them did 〈◊〉 refuse so to do whereupon he ac 〈…〉 undertook to perswade Mr. C. and other 〈…〉 London 〈…〉 did I apply my self to an Elder with whom only I had a little 〈…〉 for his advice and he appointed both time and place and also did speale to several Church Officers to be there because my self had little 〈◊〉 acquaintance with any of then This is that Elder that first advised me to a appeal to the General Assembly and thought it no unfit that such of the Nation as I thought meet might be present at the heating of the Cause notwithstanding they were not in Fellowship However at this meeting the matter on M. Caffins said was generally disliked of and he admonished by the persons aforesaid to wit Mr. G. Mr. W. Mr. 〈◊〉 Mr. T. Mr. C. and divers others there present To go home and call 〈…〉 together and reform the matter Accordingly home they 〈…〉 me but when I came home which was about six days after 〈◊〉 general Reports went contrary to my expectation some relating they 〈◊〉 Justified in what they had done but that being opposed as a 〈◊〉 by one that heard the matter debated Then one of them to wit the same that would have a man Damned for displeasing their Lord C. rather then for offending the most High as you may see in the ensuing Treat se replyed that they were not to regard what our London Friends did for said he VVe not own them Which indeed pr●●es to be very true for all their Grave and Pious Council and Advice for Peace and Reconiliation was rejected and contemned And since that time their pretended Apostle Mr. C. hath also declared in the Assambly of his Congregation the same thing saying As for those London friends meaning those who gave him such Admorition before named we do not own them And this was the end of my first proposal and willing endeavours in order to prevent this Publication and the ill effects if any should attend it Yet notwithstanding their obstinate persisting in their illegal practice without any 〈◊〉 President on Example for their Authority I still resolved to wait hoping in time their eyes might be opened and 〈◊〉 minds incline to Repentance But when after a long and 〈…〉 ctation I perceived no appearance or probable hope of their 〈…〉 mation I then again began to think of publishing the matter 〈…〉 still feared my so doing might tend to their greater confusion c. 〈…〉 Whereupon I again said it by with resolution to make my appe●●● the next General Assembly of Church Officers at London in hope some good might be done by them and accordingly I made my pre●●● Friends acquainted therewith and not only by word of mouth 〈…〉 ral of the Confederates whom I desired to be there to 〈…〉 mony to the truth of what they knew but also by a 〈…〉 their publick Meeting and desired the messenger 〈…〉 of that Congregation to deliver and desire M. C. to 〈…〉 gregation But althought it were delivered into his 〈…〉 that he the said M.C. not only promised at other times that he 〈◊〉 by no means prevent the matter from being heard but also said he 〈◊〉 do what he could to have it determined there yet when the time came and the Church Officers assembled together I appearing amongst them with several persons that were my Witnesses Matthew Caffin himself moved the matter saying that there was present a certain person that had been dealt withall in the Country that did make his Appeal to them and sail he I perceive he is resolv'd to move the cause to you and therefore you were as good hear what he hath to say now or to that effect Whereupon I who had been before made to doubt by M. C. and other that my cause could not be heard in this Assembly because of an agreement they had made not to hear any there before it had been heard by some Neighbour Congregation first desired to know whether they would intermeddle in such case and determine a matter in controversie between a Congregation and a single person whereto it was forthwith replyed by Mr. M. we can chuse out a party six or more persons and refer the matter to them who may determine it presently before we part or to that effect Then said I I am ready for it but then Matthew Caffin how agreeably to his former promises and pretences let sincerity judge interposed saying But the matter concerns the Congregation and they are not he●e and therefore it cannot be heard now which was seconded by one of his Assistants and so the matter put off The Consideration of this acting so palpably contrary to such promise that he would no ways hinder the matter from being heard but do what he could that it might be here determined puts me in mind of that Cardinal of whom it is reported he should declare That an honest man ought not to be a Slave to his word and might make a stranger apt to imagine this high pretender endued with such Cardinal Policies 〈…〉 with the honesty of a true Apostle For nothing imaginable 〈…〉 and design to 〈◊〉 the Heating by that excuse did hinder 〈…〉 having

man offends the Pope who orders the matter so That such person shall be condemned although no known Law of God be transgressed Doth not your Lord Act the same things Nay may it not be said without injuring Truth That the Church of Rome is not altogether so cruel For they only separate the Soul from the Bodies of some persons because they will not go their way which they believe is the only way to Heaven But you my pretended loving Brethren will shut a man out of Heaven and send him to Hell Torments for ever in your own apprehensions meerly because he will not submit to a groundless boundless quarrel some humour Again hath not this pretended Innocent man as he saith of the Quakers despised Dominions and spake evil of Dignities and is not his look more stout than his Fellows since if one that is under his Authority shall obtain and accept of a favour and priviledge from a King whereby it appears he owns his Authority above himself what is it less then high Treason against the Lord Caffin seeing he will immediately declare that it is of the Devil and in effect that the person must be damn'd for the same and therefore chargeth it as a Crime against me because I said they had not any thing to do with things of that nature Object But say you Is it not a sin to offend a weak Brother Sol. To which I answer That it is so as the Case may be and that it is my Duty if I be the supposed offender to clear my self and convince my Brother of his mistake and shew him his failing if in Truth such his offence be taken without cause and upon no just grounds and that such pretended offended Brother is to blame rather than the pretended offender when he hath given no just cause of offence I do further believe That it is wickedness in him whoever he be that shall after a Lordly and insulting manner with high hand and proud look disturb and interrupt those persons who are willing to reason together in order to be reconciled one to another As I for my own part was ready to do And what I pray Sirs was lie that hindred our Reconciliation and Christian Friendship being the first time I ever had opportunity to treat with you Is he not a disturber and quareller who perpetually interrupted these our reasonings and laboured to make the Breach wider than it was before hypocritically acting under pretence of Love Innocence and Peace and yet an enemy to Peace and Peace-makers Further consider Is it not their sin also that shall take such quartellers part seeing those that will be conscientious for that which is another mans Right the Church of God hath no such Customes Lest you also be found Transgressors again God for not only allowing of disorderly Contenders but for condemning him who hath given no just cause for them to be offended as ever yet was proved as you well know and your own Consciences must testifie if not seared But this I most freely confess That suppose I have knowledge and do believe That I may eat Flesh that is offered in Sacrifice to Idolls without offence to God yet if by my so doing I cause my brother to offend and because that by my eating unknown to him that I eat without respect to the Idol he not haying such a degree of knowledge Is by me imboldened to eat thereof as sacrificed to Idolls and so this my weak brother becomes an offender and Idolater For me thus I say to make or occasion my Brother to trangress the Laws of God is sin and that I deserve in such a case to be publickly blamed if I do obstinately persist therein Again If my brother being a Jew newly converted to the Faith and whilst he is yet young and weak dares not eat Swines Flesh and therefore will have no Communion with those whom he knows to eat thereof Because the Mosaical Law forbids it shall I therefore eat Swines Flesh or the like that hath been forbidden whereby to offend this weak Brother God forbid I with the holy Apostle will say That I will eat no meat whilst the world stands rather than he for whom Christ dyed should perish through my means and doubtless in all such cases as it hath relation to matters of Religion and worship the strong ought to bear the Infirmities of the weak according to the Apostles Doctrine For whoeverdoth otherwise becomes an offender but in matters and things meerly Civil and never by any Law forbidden as there can be no Real Ground for any such offence so doth there not lye any such obligation As suppose pardoning the lightness of the comparison which yet is suitable enough to some persons childish dealings one of you should meet me at a Fair and cry for a Fairing and nothing would give satisfaction but a Romance or a Ballad and if my weak brother will not be satisfied without it will you say I am bound in duty to gratifie his fansie But if I do not he may complain that he is offended and I may according to your rule incur an Excommunication for denying him But if you shall seriously reply That these things do not destroy the Faith of a weak Brother nor may he perish because of such my crossing his desire I answer the very same may be said for Legal Patents they are quite of another nature and in no wise to be construed as a means to cause any honest impartial man that is in the truth to deny our Lord Christ and adore Idols or the like But the Truth is as touching Letters Patents to be an offence to weak Brethren and that his design was to do them a kindness in defending their Priviledge I know very well the same was but a meer pretence and suggestion neither had any of you been offended if it had not FIRST offended him Bur the main thing hereby intended was to bring about his own vain Glory and make himself famous above all his Brethren and to be admired by those that do adore him For as he hath often to boasted of great things he hath done how he hath corrected and rebuked great persons and cast them out of the Church so might he by this means have had an occasion to boast of far greater things than ever For now he hath corrected the Kings Royal Prerogative and Authority and that with such an high hand that those who are under him dare not upon pain of Excommunication justifie what is thereby granted when his Lordship pleases to call it in question This I believe verily was one great thing he aimed at Oh! what wickedness will not be practised to gratifie an ambitious Heart under pretence of love and innoceney what send a man to Hell for not satissying a proud Majestical quarrelsome boundless humour for so I must call it because there is no Scripture Authority for his practice and doth he now complain that I design to betray

that which is no less than a Damnable Erroneous Principle For if it be true as you have in words said That the Church of Rome he become a Harlot which once was the Spouse of Christ Then Vsurpation is a Damnable Error For if she had not Usurped Authority to Compel Persons to do and practise more or less then what is by their Supream Lord and Master required and appointed for Discipline and. Government of the Church according to the Holy Scriptures then no doubt but she had continued a true Church unto this day Again If the Church Officers had not through Usurpation been corrupted but had governed the Church according to the Will of our Lord and Saviour revealed in Scripture and not mixt their own Inventions with Christs Institutions Then doubtless the Officers of the Church of Rome had still deserved the Honour to be stiled The Holy Successors of the Holy Apostles But if as you say by usurpation she be now come a VVhore and her Officers none of Christs Ministers Then I infer that Usurpation is a Damnable Sin For ever since such Usurpation her Officers are ceased to be the holy Successors of the Apostles and are become the Antichristian Successors of Usurpers Tyran●s and Murtherers and notorious Enemies to all true Christian Emperours Kings and Princes Whence 't is evident that Usurpation is a Damnable destroying Sin and most dangerous to Church and State But you may possibly say That Usurpation cannot be the greatest and most damnable Sin since it is the Sin of the Holy Ghost that is the greatest Sin and never to be forgiven To which I answer That the Sin committed against the Holy Ghost in my opinion is that Sin only which is committed under the highest degree of saving means to wit God by his holy Spirit and Word opposing and the person persevering in his intended wickedness so that whether it be the Sin of Usurpation Rebellion Tyranny Hypocriste Idolatry c. any of these may thus be committed against the Holy Ghost and so become impardonable And therefore my Brethren look to your Consciences if Baal be God serve him but if the Lord be God how dare you go beyond his Word and unerring Rule Believe not trust not the best of men in matters of Religion in any thing that is not according to the Word of the Lord remember that a man of God was torn in pieces by a Lyon because he believed one who was not as then a Prophet an Example worthy the observation of those that incline to trust any private man rather than the Word of God Be no longer deluded Oh ye my Beloved although unkind Friends and bear with me for endeavoring at once to defend my own Innocent Just Cause and shew you your Delusions and how you are Betray'd For hath he not corrupted your Authority and Government so as to render it to be Lordly Arbitrary and Tyrannical contrary to the Will and Mind of Christ whom you suppose is the Head of your Church Yea and I do also believe That you think that you Act under Christ by vertue of Authority and Commission received from Him only and not otherwise which if really true then are you the true Church or part of the true Church and so ought to go no further than the Lords Commission which so long as you observe you are undoubtedly his beloved Children and true Subjects to him here and such as shall Reign with him in his Kingdom forever which I also believe is your hope and expectation And to this you are often encouraged by your pretended true Apostle and to believe that the Order of his present Government will bring you to this happy estate But if like a pretended Angel or Light he with smooth Words and hypocritical Speeches and Pretences of Tender Love to you and Honour to the Church have led you out of this good way and order in which you might stand and remain in safety and hath inveigled you into a Government under which you are become Servants to another Master and Rebels to Him whom you conceit you serve and honour like those grievous Transgressors of whom the Lord complains Isaiah 58. 2. Yet they seek me daily and delight to know my ways as a Nation that did Righteousness and forsook not the Ordinance of their God They ask of me the Ordinance of Justice they take delight in approaching to God What I pray have you done more than they Oh! that you would lay it to heart and consider Whether you are not as much deluded as they were Which if so Then beware of vain Confidence and be sure that you are in danger wherefore for your Reformation I pray consider First That you ought to do nothing in obedience to your true Lord and Master but what you believe is your duty because Whatsoever is not of Faith is Sin Secondly That your Faith and Belief hath a firm and sure Foundation for what you do and especially for what you do compel in matter of Religion otherwise your Building may come to sudden ruine Add not therefore sin to sin but haste haste for Reformation apply yourselves to the Law and to the Testimonies In case he compells person to submit to his or your Wills without that Authority then know It is because his pretended Holiness is turned into VVickedness Haste then I say and do Justice when by the Lord it is required of you although it be to the cutting off of your right hand when by reason of a Gangrening malignant distemper it is destructive to the whole Body But if notwithstanding all that I have said you are so strongly deluded that he cannot appear in your Judgments a Rebel and an Usurper Then tell me I pray who it is gave him Commission and Authority to Accuse Condemn Judge and pass sentence against a member of the Church for that which is no Transgression and not suffer him to plead his Cause with the Congregation whom in words you declare are the proper Judges or reason with those that were offended in order to give them Satisfaction But contrary to the way of peace and peace-makers perpetually to Interpose with malicious Agravations So that we were not suffered to propose any Terms of Reconciliation each to other Do you verily believe Christ gave him Commission to Exercise this Arbitrary Government If you do shew me good grounds for such your faith and I will believe it also otherwise remember the Popes Acts of Tyranny are of as good Authority as yours and he as honest as your Apostle and not half so much an Hypocrite Secondly Who requires you to be so Slavishly at the dispose of this pretended Apostle as through his Instigation to Condemn a member before ever it was proved that he had Transgressed any known Law wronged Man Woman or Child or ever dispised any Admonition or indeed that he was ever so much as Admonished at all by any Two persons or that there ever was any occasion

be severely dealt with If he who is Infallible command you to approve of a Usurped Authority and disown all other Government to make himself only your Confessor to murther and destroy Kings Emperors or Princes or any other Persons to believe that the Bread and Wine after Consecration is really and substantially the Body and Blood of our blessed Saviour Believe and perform it you must or else be Damn'd And all the Congregation must say Amen But if some of the Services are too hard if you can but purchase as much kindness of him as your New Lord hath for his Kinswoman you then may have Pardon or Indulgence without Penance Obj. But now I suppose you will say although He nor we had no Scripture Authority for what he and we have done yet we do not pretend that he is Iafallible for if you remember you were accused because by the Patent you did offend the weak Brethren and you may call to mind That our dear Brother did prove that whatever did offend the weak Brethren If the Offender persist in justifying the thing although in it self lawful and honest and no way relating to Religion or Religious Worship ought to be punisht and because you did persist we therefore at his Request gave our Consents that you should be Damn'd except you submit although you might not know who those weak Brethren were To which I answer That by what hath been pretended and practised you would have me believe that it is the weak Brethren that are Infallible for otherwise you would not send a man to Hell for offending them that are subject to a quarrelsome boundless humour What your Apostle said I remember pretty well but that he proved his groundless Affertions I cannot so easily grant for let me tell you this is one of his Popeships New cheats by which his Police is Improved the better to seduce you so as to give him occasion to boast and rejoyce in his unlimited Power and admirable Greatness For now it is So that his and his weak Brethrens Power and Authority is equal with the Usurped Power and Authority of his pretended Infallible Brethren at Rome For now he and they may Damn whom they please and for what they please except they submit for what they please shall offend them But I knowing that many of you notwithstanding all his new Devices Tricks and Deceits do really believe that still his design is good and his heart towards God perfect and upright I therefore in Love to regain you am as it were constrained to shew you what great dangers this groundless Belief is attended with The best of those who was Seduced by Pope Innocent John the Taylor King of Leyden that pretended holy man Hacket or any other the greatest Deceivers that ever were in the Church were drawn in by this Bait viz. A Belief that although they might Act strangely and practise things without Scripture Authority yet their design was to promote Gods Glory and that his heart was upright Be wise now therefore and remember that the most Vnerring and Infallible Rule is without him not within him by that try his heart bring the counterfeit Gold to the Touchstone and whatever out of fondness or excess of Charity you may have Believed compare the same with that of Solomon and who knows but you may find it appear so after all his pious pretences and solemn Protestations viz. That his Heart is deceitful above all things and desperately wicked who can know it But if you will shut your eyes and be still seduced to Believe that whatever he does is for Gods glory c. What may he not allure and draw you unto having already brought you meerly on his request to commit spiritual Murther and most uncharitably and unjustly Damn a man without the least Authority from Scripture Dare any of you my Beloved though most unmerciful Brethren say that his Precepts and your Practises are Authorized by the most High Do they not rather look like the hair-brain'd Proclamations of John of Leyden or the Extravagancies of a Popish Bull Do you own the holy Scriptures for the only and Infallible rule for Church Government Worship and Religious Exercises search then I pray peruse them diligently and if you find not his Commission for what he hath done therein Recorded you have too much cause to believe that you are Betrayed and if so look to your selves delays are dangerous Hast to the work keep close to your unerring Rule and eber remember that Councel of Christ Beware of false Prophets which come in Sheeps Cloathing but inwardly are ravenous Wolves Te shall know them by their Fruits Therefore see his Commission But suppose he should solemnly Protest That he is led by the Spirit yet as I wish the worst of you well let me beg of you to remember That the Spirit of the Lord doth not contradict his own will and mind revealed in Scrip●ure Be not too confident consider that others like himself and his Confederates did in their wickednss lean upon the Lord and say Is not the Lord amongst us No evil can come upon us Is not the Case plain hath he not deceived and abused you at his pleasure through and by reason of his pretences to an extraordinary Zeal and unheard of Love And may not all good people whose eyes are not blinded with partiality easily see his Commissions and Authoritie by which he acted as aforesaid proceeds from the Devil the Father of Usurpers Rebels and Tyrants the Authorizer of all wickedness whereby he may destroy Christian Peace both of Church and State and will you condemn the Pope as his only darling Child for putting in Execution his devises and yet justifie him that doth the same thing at Home are they not Brethren serving one Master both Usurping Tyrants and will you separate from one here and yet receive your Portion with them both hereafter If so Then I say Adieu to you my unkind friends Adieu to you for ever But to prevent the worst I would yet in Love with all plainness further admonish you in hopes that you will hear as your Apostle said VVhat have we to do with the Laws and Statutes of Men So let me intreat you seriously to say Oh! what have we to do any more with Idolls Consider and lay to heart what an exquisite peice of Cruelty you have committed even offered up a Soul as a Sacrifice to your Idol for since you cannot prove your doings therein were required by or pleasing unto the most high God Is not the thing evident that it was wholly performed to the Solemne Adoration of your Idol who alone commanded and is well pleased with your Actions And further to convince you that he is no true Apostle do but observe I pray what manner of Persons they were he makes choise of above all others to attend his Person and help to defend his Acts of Tyranny when called to London to give an account thereof for