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cause_n	good_a	know_v	see_v	4,988	5	3.1452	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88036	A letter to Mr. Tho. Edwards the dedication of the letter to our much suspected friend, Mr. T. Edwards, Scavenger Generall, throughout Great-Britaine, New England, and the united Provinces, chiefly Amsterdam, and Munster, and indeed by vertue of some faire pretences, intermeddler in all the states of Christendome, principally there where any thing of the spirit of Christ in the Saints appeares, trenching upon the honour, dignity, and preferment of the old man. The grand reformer, (alias reducer) of the free born sons of God, into the chaines of the their old Babilonish captivity, under the pretence of a Jus Divinum. At his dwelling in Club Courtbetween the Pope and Prelate, a little on this side the fagot in Smithfield, (or if in his monthely Pilgrimage) in the suburbs of Canterbury, at the knowne house of Mistris Gangrena Triplex, where conscience and he (but for a time we hope) shook hands and had each other farewell. Where he was lately discovered by many eye-witnesses: and where you may be sure at any time to meet with him. Published by authority.		1647 (1647)	Wing L1721; Thomason E378_3; ESTC R201373	8,538	13

you brand him in your booke you could not deny to his face but acknowledged him to be cleare in fundamentals wherein was his charge and that he was not the man you took him for This you confest yet perhaps out of purpose to forsweare when time may serve you refused to discourse before his friend though he offered you the liberty of yours Wee would aske you what godly Minister or Gentleman or Friend that was that told you that ungodly lye of that godly Lieutenant who you say was thrown out of the Army because a godly Presbyterian when hundreds can testifie he was casheerd by a Councell of warre for drunkennesse and swearing God dam-mee c. wee could with a little paines but lesse pleasure dig up those filthy dunghils and send home your bastards to their proper parents Truly Sir our wonder is the lesse that your births are so Monstrous when we finde the contributions have been so adulterous Flectere si nequeas superos Acheronta movebis To carry on the designe you doe well to usher in a forraigne force The Netherlands have done you good service The Munster Brigade bearing the Van hath made the most desperate assault and yet through a narrow watch and diligent inspection the gust thereof is broken the Leader on and Charger being found a stranger is not an enemy However Sir be not discouraged if you dare the cause is still the same as bad as ever rally once more and bring in againe you are good at that your weather-beaten forces give not up at the first repulse you know whom fortune doth usually favour Send againe to the Reformed Churches and see if any more aid may be expected thence Search Amsterdam once more if you please with candles or any other corner of the world so farre as the Covenant by you so wyar-drawn will reach where ever you can heare of a Saint and let something be done towards so honourable a worke Go on Sir in this gallant service if conscience or prudence will give you leave and hug the world as the world seemes to hug you untill their turne be served and tell us then for then you will speak truth if ever whether's more tollerable Nick-nam'd Heresie or Malignant-Prelacy that seven headed ten horned beast which for a little time hath withdrawn and changing his form in such furious persons as you are appears again acted directly by the same spirit speaking great things against God and his Saints and differing onely in the Number of his name Sir you with your Gangrene have been waighed and are found too light and verily your expected Kingdome is departing while you are beating your fellow servants and your Sect triumphing over us and ours a third hath surprised both and all are posting into captivity againe shift for your selfe and selves as well as yee can and in your brick and no straw remember who were once the Taskmasters Wee do believe the Thumbs and Toes of Adonibezecke will one day lye before you For our parts we know whom we have believed and our feet being shod with the preparation of the Gospell we doubt not but we shal be able to tread upon the Lyon the Adder to play upon the hole of the Aspe Wee know that an Idoll is nothing in the world neither are we careful to fall down before Nebuchadnezzar or his God though the furnace be seven times hotter then ordinary cost us what it will Truth we know will pay its owne charges Every institution and truth of God though slanderously reported we honour and imbrace but for that golden calfe that nec jus humanum nec divinum neque sacrum nec politicum neque sanum nec Christianum that selfe contradicting groundlesse lifelesse spiritlesse Image of jealousie whose externall brightnesse is excellent and the forme thereof very terrible the head of gold the breast and armes of silver the belly and thighs of brasse the legs of iron the feet or foundation part of iron and part of clay this we have beheld and beholding shall expect untill that little stone cut out of the mountaine without hands shall smite head and foot and over-turning the foundation thereof it selfe shall fill the world we are thoroughly assured that not by might nor by power but by the spirit of the Lord which is both might and power which you have so desperately denyed if not despited shall Anti-Christ be unvailed and by the same spirit of burning shall every thing that is Anti-Christian be destroyed what say you Sir have you not faith enough to believe this know you not who saith the weapons of our warfare are not carnall why then as men distracted cry yee out so loud for Magisteriall externall force but mighty through God to the pulling downe of STRONG HOLDS casting down IMAGINATIONS and EVERY HIGH THING that exalteth it selfe against the knowledge of God and bringing into captivity EVERY HIGH THOVGHT or OPINION to the OBEDIENCE of CHRIST Dare you not trust God on his word but deny the Scripture not in the letter onely but in the spirit of it also who is the Sectary and the Hereticke now Sir A spirituall man would judge that the SHIELD of FAITH the SWORD of the SPIRIT the GIRDLE of TRVTH c. whose very anoyntment and ordination is to that very office might do as gallant execution in the hand of the spirituall champion a Minister of the Gospell and make as successefull an advance upon spirituall wickednesses in high places as Errours and Heresies are as all the unsutable Incongruous unapoynted provision of your carnall Artillery yee war indeed but 't is after the flesh and no wonder your conquest is no more for the spirit of the Lord we feare is departed from yee You stand quarrelling away your time and wasting your little strength in a company of frothy ulcerous Pamphlets vilifying the upright and slandering the innocent wholly neglecting your work which you would make men believe is the Ministry of Christ which you indeed either wholly wave or grossely pervert and to backe your unsound interpretations produce the authority of a company of forsooth Fathers of the Church as Bernard c. men though lights in their darke Generation and in many things sound in the faith yet in others as palpably hereticall as any of your damnable Sectaries viz. the suffrage of Saints departed prayers for the dead the reall presence in the consecrated Hosts c. Sir save your relfe this labour of searching these corrupt records wee pin not our faith on the sleeves of any though never so ancient or Authenticke with you Your suborning of witnesses makes us suspect the Scriptures are not your friends we professe except your braines be intoxicated or your naturall reason be intranc'd or which is worse then both you make it your designe with Sophistry to cheat your proselites wee know not what to thinke of your impertinent ridiculous unschollar-like argumentations a baculo ad angulum from the Jew to