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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26200	Two letters one from John Audland, a Quaker, to William Prynne, the other, William Prynnes answer / by the author of Hudibras.	Butler, Samuel, 1612-1680.	1672 (1672)	Wing A4199; ESTC R8812	8,071	14

Vipers See my Hidden works of darkness p. 400. A Looking glass for a blind guide p. 79. Fryers a Fry of Frogs p. 220 c. Whereas thou sayst urgest and objectest that I would have made an Act of Parliament therein thou art mistaken deceived and deluded for I would rather have marred spoyled and perverted one according to the sense judgement and opinion of the House and ejus est interpretari eujus est condere see Bra●on by putting in adding and incerting some thing or things of my own invention wit contrivance that had not passed their Votes and puting out eracing and expunging other things which had which cannot be said held or judged to be a breach of Law because it was before it was made one and if it had been so yet it would have proved no great crime fault offence for exchange thou knowest is no robbery See The foot out of the snare pag. 53. Prynnes Principles p. 200. which is more then you can say produce or alledge for your selves who are a generation Spawn Lit er of Vipers Frogs Serpents so obstinate peremptory incorrigib e that you break the Act of Parliament at the same time that it is put in Execution against you like unto a Cut purse that picks a Pocket when he is going to be hang'd for you croud thrust and intrude your selves into Prisons by shoales that you may in defyance of Law Government Authority meet more then five together although it be in the Goale See my Sword of Christian Magistracy suppressed p. 550. The Sectary dissected p. 82. Whereas thou saist I write in the stile form language of a Conveyance therein I do according to my Profession Calling Vocation and if thou hadst done so too thou hadst been but a Mechanick still and hadst not ordain'd thy self a Hedge-Sir Iohn of an Orderless Order and unruly rule the Original Rise or beginning whereof is as uncertain as the Head or Heads of Nile or the hatching of Woodcocks for no body can cell from whence it came See Truth Triumphing pag. 79. The Jesuite a lebusite p. 904. a Church or rather Chappel indeed that is built upon a Quaking Dog mark that or flat quick sand without supertor or inferior in it like the Knights of King Arthurs See the Seaven Champions of Christendome Round Table or the Serpent Amphisbaena of which see Pliny that has a head at both ends Mahomet the false Prophet of the Turks was the first Prophet Patriarch Founder of the Quakers For he had trembling trances and frantick fits of the Falling sickness in which he had Revelations dreams Visions whisper'd into his ear by a Dove Pidgeon or Widgeon that he had instructed and taught used to pick seeds out of his ear or ears which seeds are the seeds of your Church as well as his for they produce the very same fruits effects workings in both and both equally hope to be saved by him And hence it is that all your wishes longings desires are in the Turks overrunning of Christendome for as both they and you account Fooles Ideots Mad men Saints you do not doubt but to pass easily for such with them for your great abilities in those gifts And therefore as your Brethren the aforesaid Turkish Mahometan Fanaticks devote destine damne themselves to destruction meerly to tire weary make work for and put a stop to the Christians in their Wars and fill up Ditches grafts trenches with their bodies carcases outward men for their fellow Mussel men to march over even so ye also think to weary out the Officers of Justice with your numberless numbers and render your selves as hard to be cast out as Legion the Devil incorporate did of whom ye are a Type See The Stationers Beacon fired p. 1000. The Sectary in Sippets pa. 202. By all which it appears that ye have a Turk as well as a Pope in your bellies and that ye delight in Persecution in affliction Tribulation as some old extravagent fantastick fornicators find a pleasure in being whip'd and out of these sores ingender one another by aequivocal generation as Flyes blows Maggots which afterwards become Flys and blow others See my Romes Masterpiece p. 808. Settle brain for a Sectary p. 9. A siringe for a sore sinner p. 78. That you are Jesuitical Romish Franciscan Frogs Witches Sorcerers appears in that ye meet to quake tremble quiver and converse with your Spirits lmps Familiars and that ye came from Rome out of the North from whence evil and destruction cometh as I have proved cleared demonstrated and evinced in my Quaker unmask'd p. 84. Lights Darkness p. 26. For as the Needle in the Marriners Compass Trembles mark that and points to the North even so do ye ye trembling Quivering Shivering Quakers And as Witches are most frequent in me North and the colder a Climate is the apter are the Inhabitants thereof see my first answer to thyself to quake c. It follows that Quakers and Witches are of the growth of the same place and both of the same Nature quality and condition For as Witches swim upon the water like light scum even so are Quakers the scum of the earth that shake themselves like water-dogs when they come out of a Pond see my Popish Royal Favorite p. 800. Sweet sips of Soul-Savingness p. 53. Lastly as witches liquor their staves and fly through the Air even so do Quakers liquor their throats with inchanted Potions and gape to suck in the air that it may fly through them blow the light within them see Emmot and Gilpin pa. 7. Aldermanbury bottle opened p. 20. at their Exorcisms rather then Exercises of Devotion Whereas thou saist I was branded burnt or Stigmatiz'd in the Cheeks t is true I was so nor am I at all asham'd of sorry for or abashed thereat but rather set a greater value on my self therefore as I beleive I have very good reason cause consideration to do for I was only us'd like a sealed measure burnt branded for being true See my Verses written on this occasion in the Tower of London in haec verba Of this Opinion William Prynn was the Sixt day of March six hundred thirty three Nor was it improper unfit or unbecoming a man of my Profession cloath vocation that is to measure equal Law right Justice between man and man See Truth Triumphing p. 10. The Pricking Provender of P●●lacy p. 907. As for the Jesuites who thou faist made use of the scraps of my Ears to bewitch the Quakers c. If they did so it was no fault of mine nor am I bound to answer for it for when the aforesaid parings scraps shred were sever'd from my freehold they were no longer mine nor am I to be accountable for the evil administration of them when they were out of my power charge cuition But if they had been in my own possession and the Jesuites had stollen them to bewitch the Quakers to listen to their enchantments It is not Just that I should answer for their Ears and my own too See Speculum Iesact p. 95. I be frantick Franciscan p. 700. A hole pick'd in the Popes coat p. 30. Whereas thou saist the Brethren Godly c rode out with the sisters helpers c. I do confess thank acknowledge their loving kindness therein And if they did evil in sticking Rosemary and Bayes upon their Vessels bodyes outward Folkes as thou saist against the doctrine and discipline of the Presbyterian Church It is no more then the Members Tooles Limbs of the Devil and thy Synagouge did to the Pa●●iarch Patron and Founder of their Order Iames Nayler whom they exalted above his brethren upon an Ass and ran bare before both against the Fundamental known establish'd Rule Canon Constitution of their disorderly Order See The Buckle of the Canonical Girdle turn'd behind p. 63. The Quaker Quash'd p. 4. Whereas thou saist my works are bound up in Hatcases c. If thou wouldst but buy one of those and put thy hat therein it would operate upon and instill into thy Noddle sconce Logger head more se se reason understanding and teach thee better manners then to keep iron before a Court of Justice by which thou dost but shew declare demonstrate that thou hast a Crack Flaw soft place in thy Scull and in that respect art very careful to keep it warm least thy sickly brains if thou hast any should take cold And as for those Chandlers and Haberdashers of small wares c. which thou saist have undertaken to oppose answer confute me Verily they will find it a harder task then they are aware of for I have already written Printed published 160 odd Works Books Labours and before they have done with those do not doubt to have as many more in a readiness and to find imployment work business enough for them all as long a Church and State can furnish store supply me with subject matter Provided I may have process enough to carry on the work and can but procure induce engage our Presbyterian brethren the Nonconformists to help aid and assist me which it being so much for their ow advantage interest concernment and they having at present nothing else to do I do not doubt to obtain Will. Prynne