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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78129	The crafts-mens craft. Or The wiles of the discoverers. In abusing and incensing authority and the people against innocent and harmlesse men, by false accusations, and sophistical suggestions: viz. because they are not formalists they are atheists: because not superstitious, therefore irreligious: because they are against tyranny and oppression, therefore they are against government, magistracy, and laws: because for good and equal laws, therefore for no order or distinctions, and for equalling mens estates, &c. and these delusions are here cleerly manifested. / By H.B.	H. B.	1649 (1649)	Wing B73; Thomason E561_11; ESTC R206018	15,340	15

prof●t himself No Law holds him no Promises no Engagements where they may safely and for his commodity be broken He saies not onely in his Heart but ●n all his Actions There is no God And according to this Descr●ption which certainly comes neer the matter The greatest Atheists are Politicians Not such as out of singleness of heart do the●r Countrey Service and for that end expose themselves to all hazards neglect the Pomp and Van●ty of the Wor●d and count it better to suffer affliction for a good Cause than to enjoy the pleasures of Sin for a season You have words no question and fine stories and can by a cuning contexture thereof make any thing of ●ny thing but when a right judgement is made and matters cloe●ly lookt into without the Spectacles of Prejudice and the false Opticks of your Imagination we doubt not to stand right in the opinion of all good people that take things as they are not as they are gloss'd and painted over with such colours as your ends and interests engage you to set upon them But you have one nail more to fasten Atheisme upon us and that is That in all our Agreement there is not one thing proposed for the holding forth and furtherance of Gods Worship and Service whereas in all other Platforms you say though drawn up by Heathens Religion alwaies had the first place and pre-eminence And the implied conclusion from hence must be That we are men of no Religion for that you are undertaking to prove Answ. 1. That the same complaint lies against the Agreement of the Army in this particular as against us For Religion had neither the first place there nor was there any plat-form for the holding forth of Gods Worship and Service more there than in ours So that mutatis nominibus de Vobis Fabula narratur His Excellency and the Officers of the Army by the same inference must be his Atheists The Parliament has already established a Form and Method of Religion which as they have power to do so is there no Restriction in the Agreement but that they may at all times have the like For where they are not restrain'd there they are impowred When are we like to have an Agreement if there must be in it a Plat-form for Religion Considering the un●versal difference and discord●ncie in mens sp●rits about matters of Religion We have done as much we think in that particular as is necessary in making necessary Cautions and Reserves against Compuls●on and En●orcement Further we could not go w●thout the hazard of having no Agreement at all if we had put that into it to which before-hand we were certa●n the people could not agree For the Parishoners chusing their own Ministers 't is no more but what in most places they may do already and where Patrons are that impose is there not the same likely h●o● that they may impose a Turk or a Jew upon a Parish as that the Parishoners should chuse one Will a Patron think you be more careful of them than they are of themselves Every straw I see must be brought to your Building Note also what your Inference must be hereupon We would have the People chuse their own Ministers therefore are we Atheists and would have no Religion And to itch up this pitiful Argument the Anabaptists of Munster Levellers you now call them must be brought in The old trick of the Bishops and of every body else that have Designes on foot Where Proof is wanting there Resemblances are insinuated in their stead and Comparisons made either in such things as are true of neither or e●se the Party that is to be made odious is likened to such as are alre●dy odious in some particulars not material and yet thereby is suggested a similitude in all the rest You have their proofs that we are Atheists which though they promised you should be cleer and certain out of our own Books yet you see when touched they fall to dust like the fair seeming Apples of Sodome and remain rather as proofs of their rancor and spleen against us or else of their Stratagems and Designs upon us Non ut Probant loquntur sed ut Decipiant They speak not to prove but to deceive Their next work is to make us Levellers In order whereunto they cite two passages in the Manifestation page 4. As First We profess we never had it in our thoughts to level Mens Estates it bring the uttermost of our aime that the Common wealth be reduced to such a pass that every man may with as much security as may be enjoy his Propriety And Secondly Vnderstanding by levelling an Equalling of mens Estates and taking away that Right and Title that every man hath to what 's his own To attempt an enducing the same is most injurious unless there did precede an Vniversal Assent thereunto from all and every one of the People Thus far the Manifestation From whence they make this Paraphrase Disc As if they should say the thing is good onely wanting means and power at present it must be left till there be further opportunity to do it What is in these mens brain or what in their hearts that they can so confidently abuse us and the World yea and themselves most of all For apparent falshood are like Arrows shot upright that fall down upon the head of the Shooter What Bars and Bolts have we put against levelling in our Petitions Agreement and all our Writings How have we declared it to be without the Power of Parliament it self to do it answered the Objections concerning the Primitive Christians Community Every thing we have brought to light our Proposals Articles and Provisions do all cleerly and evidently imply and relate to Propriety and yet to see when it concerns men that the World should believe us to be Levellers how against all light and apparent certainty of the contrary they can urge it upon us But they have further proofs viz. Expressions our of our Writings that do imply it as cleer as day I confess the Citations they have brought there do not onely imply but express it But the Expressions cited and the Books out of which they cite them are no more ours or owned by us then by them that cited them And what dealing I pray is this to lay other mens infirmities upon our shoulders His Inference is West●s horses came into Gladmens Grounds therefore Fields Cattel shall be pounded This is such a way to make men guilty as was never heard of before I think A sure way for allowing it no man can be innocent This is so far from taking doubtful actions in the best sense and to make the Fairest and Noblest construction in things dubious which is the Discoverers rule p. 27. that instead thereof where Actions and Words are plain and no waies dubious he puts a contrary sense upon them and will force upon us things which we utterly disclaim Two leaves he has spent in