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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93645	Christs innocency pleaded: against the cry of the chief priests. Or, a brief and plain reply unto certain papers received from William Thomas (called) Minister of the Gospel at Ubley. By Thomas Speed, a servant of the Jesus Christ, who was at the request of the bloody crew of chief priests, and teachers, crucified at Jerusalem.	Speed, Thomas, b. 1622 or 3.	1656 (1656)	Wing S4904; Thomason E865_1; ESTC R207594	52,531	75

for a poor man or a mean man to say Thou and thee to a great man and a rich man These are the horrid Blasphemies and damnable Doctrines against the Abettors of which you doe at this day discharge so much passion and rage both from Presse and Pulpit calling to the civill Powers for bonds and Prisons nay fire and fagot against all those who fearing the Lord doe fear to call darknesse light and light darknesse But stop a little and consider what you are doing whilst you are upon the full carreer posting to Damascus upon Sauls bloody errand Will you not out of your own mouths be condemned before him that cannot erre in judgement Doe ye fulfill or violate that Royall Law of Christ written in your hearts to doe unto others as you would they should doe unto you Are not you as notable Hereticks in the esteem of those whose blood you thirst after as they are in yours and would you esteem it just that were the power in their hands they should meet the same measure unto you If you shall despise it as mine yet accept of it as the counsell of Gamaliel that sober Pharisee Take heed to your selves what ye intend to doe as touching the innocent whom ye now so fiercely pursue least haply ye be found even to fight against God If it were better for him that shall offend one of Christs little ones that a milstone were hanged about his neck and he drowned in the depth of the Sea where then will you appeare in that great and notable day of the Lord who doe not onely offend but doe offer all manner of violence and cruelty to the utmost extent of your power against those of whom you dare not say but they may be of the number of Christs little ones Be not too furious least in your rage you ask Barabbas and cause Jesus to be delivered over to be crucified And although in your heat you may be content upon confidence that he is a deceiver to take his blood upon the heads of your selves and your children yet know that it will prove as to the Jewes of old a burden too heavy for you to bear Fear the Lord therefore O ye Shepheards and cease to fight against the Lamb for no weapon formed against him shall prosper Cast off all your coverings that are not of the Spirit of the Lord Say not within your selves we are Preachers of Christs name for the Scribes and Pharisees Preached the Prophets and yet did shed the blood of Christ of whom the same Prophets testified and foretold Boast not your selves in that wisdome which you have scraped together at the feet of Gamaliel for as that wisdome shall never comprehend the mysteries of the Kingdome so likewise remember that Saul who in learning and knowledge was inferiour to none of you was not onely stark ignorant but also with his learning fought against Heaven and thought he had done acceptable service unto God in washing his hands in the blood of his Son And now what is it in all the world that I who am become your enemy because I tell you the truth doe wish unto you Teachers even this that the gracious God would grant you to witnesse the same change that Saul did that the same hand of love that strook him to the Earth would likewise bring you down from all your high thoughts and lofty imaginations to stoop to the teachings of that Jesus whom you now persecute that ye may come to witnesse all the wisdome of this world to be foolishnesse with God and may be content to become fools that ye may be wise that you may cry out from the same root of life with the same Saul Lord what would'st thou have us to doe that you may not in words onely but in truth come to witnesse all your excellency but losse and your glory but as dung for the excellency of the knowledge of Jesus Christ And finally that you may be made able to comprehend with all Saints what is the breadth and length and depth and height and to know the love of Christ that passeth knowledge All which are the hearts desires of him for you who is A cordiall lover of all your soules and a servant of that Jesus who witnessed a good confession before Pontius Pilat THOMAS SPEED TO THE READER READER THou mayest understand that I writ a former Letter to my Antagonist in answer to one sent me by him from whence he raised reports touching me which were both untrue and scandalous For which cause it is principally that I have caused this Reply to come to the Presse that so all that will may read and they that fear the Lord may judge betwixt us Both his and my former I would have Printed with this but that this would thereby have encreased to too great a bulk which would have caused it to be unto thee both more tedious to read and costly to purchase Read with a single 〈◊〉 Prove all things hold fast that which is good Farewell Thomas Speed A Brief and plaine REPLY Unto certaine Papers received from WILLIAM THOMAS CALLED Minister of the Gospel at Vbley SIR I Have received your Papers bearing date May 25. which are stufft with much wrath and more confusion Plain dealing I perceive is a great stranger with you for that you give it such course entertainment when it cometh within your doors So accustomed are you to the cap and the knee to greetings in the Market-place and to be called of men Rabbi that he is presently become your enemy who durst without a complement tell you the naked truth Such smooth things as you Prophesie to the People you expect from others but to have a Lie Deceit or Hypocrisie called by their proper names must be at least rayling and reviling But be you pleased or be you more angry I must yet deal more plainly with you for terrible is the Lord to all flatterers and such as speak deceitfully to their neighbours And first I shall begin with the Proem to your Papers W. T. I am sorry that what others will think good counsell hath been so ill bestowed on you when you have got more piety and humility you will have other thoughts and when you have recovered your civility you will write other Letters T. S. That counsell that directeth my minde towards the true counsellour though from the lips of my man-servant or my maid-servant I dare not despise but counsell against truth under the affrighting notion of error I esteem not good Piety humility and civility it seems I have lost But why Because I did not swallow down what you first writ me as unquestionable Oracles of Heaven but proved what you sent me by the Scriptures of truth and from them bore my testimony against your deceit This is no judging from you presently to conclude that man a brute for so he is that hath lost piety humility and civility that doth not presently bow down and cry