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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A84945	The accuser sham'd: or, A pair of bellows to blow off that dust cast upon John Fry, a Member of Parliament, by Col: John Downs, likewise a Member of Parliament, who by the confederacy and instigation of some, charged the said John Fry of blasphemy & error to the Honorable House of Commons. Whereunto is annexed, a word to the priests, lawyers, Royalists, self-seekers, and rigid-Presbyterians. Also a brief ventilation of that chaffie and absurd opinion, of three persons or subsistences in the Godhead. / By the accused John Fry.	Fry, John, 1609-1657.	1648 (1648)	Wing F2254; Thomason E544_7; Thomason E624_2; ESTC R32440	13,180	23

Preachers of the Gospel Matth. 10. 7. commands them Go preach saying The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand Verse 8. Freely ye have received freely give Verse 14. Whosoever shall not receive you nor hear your words when you depart out of that house or City shake off the dust of your feet Luke 9. 5. saith Shake off the dust of your feet for a testimony against them This was practiced by Paul and Barnabas Acts. 13. 51. They shook off the dust of their feet against them and came to Iconium But is this the practice of these Gospel-Preachers would be called nay will they not rather shake off the dust of their feet and be gone from the Saints where the maintenance is not great and go among men that scorn both them and the Gospel for a good fat Parsonage and there cast the Gospel in the best maner they can which is the pearl mentioned Mat. 6. 7. unto a company of Swine contrary to the command How eager are many of them for a Goose or a Tythe egg at Easter with their Neighbors if they conceive they have not that which they call their Due it shall make a breach between them that they will never love one another again if these be Gospel-Preachers or if these do not sell the Gospel I confess I know nothing Enter Lawyer Who would think that a Gentleman of so demure a garb had so much I had almost said knavery craft under his Sattin-Cap and long Robe put him what Case you will he wil tell you 't is good and perchance he speaks truth but the silly Clyent knoweth not the meaning he thinks that his Cause is good but there is another meaning in it which is this it is good for the Lawyers for they shall get money by it Doth not too much experience manifest this There is a disease called Caninus-appetitus let us see whether they are not sick of this especially those that are any thing eminent and have the priviledge to plead within the Bar Do not many finde their appetites are so great that whereas heretofore ten or twenty shillings would serve their turn now you must give them five or ten pounds and yet their panches hardly satisfied Nay do not many of them take a mans money and not do his work Doth it not many times fall out that while the Lawyer is pleading in one Court for one Clyent another of his Clyents Cause is hearing in another And when it is the Lawyers fault to entertain so many Causes that he cannot give attendance to them all Do they restore the Fees they have taken though the man be undone for depending upon him if there be any such for my part I neither know them nor have I heard of them but it may be there are black Swans A word to the Cavies How these have endeavored to sell their own and their Neighbors Freedoms for a mess of pottage I mean the Kings favor is so apparent and obvious in every eye that I need not use arguments to prove it and therefore I shall onely say this to them Sithence what they have reaped of all their labor is but scorn and contempt of all honest true-hearted English men and a Sequestration to boot I hope they will take warning for the future by what is past In the next place comes the Self-seeker This Gentleman notwithstanding his false vizard of zeal to the publike interest which mask is likewise put on by all that I have to do with now is easily discovered Do they think that those which have raised handsome Estates out of nothing and vast Estates out of mean Estates since our general calamity upon the ruine of many as well friend as foe can deserve any other title then Self-seekers and though they bless themselves in their mis-gotten goods that any honest hearts can but condemn them for their unseasonable building their nests so high let them read what the Prophet Haggai saith ch 1. v. 4. Is it time for ye O ye to dwell in your ceiled houses and this house lie waste So may I say Is it a time for you O ye Self-seekers to ceil and raise up your houses when the Nation lies waste Is not this a preposterous way to raise your Estates upon your Brethrens ruine I speak to those chiefly that contrary to the Self-denying Ordinance still keep the Offices of the Commonwealth the profit of which especially in such a time as this is ought allowing a competent Sallery to those that execute them to be converted to the publike use And though I speak principally to such yet I condemn all those new made Officers too that have enriched themselves whiles others better affected to the Nation have been undone by the Excize Sequestrations c. In the next place a word to Rigid Sir John Presbyter How zealous this Gentleman is in his way would be needless to hold forth because he is so wel known but the blindeness of his zeal is not as generally known and therefore I shall say something to that I shall propound two Questions First Whether a man may be questioned in matters Divine onely Secondly If so How and upon what grounds he challengeth this Jurisdiction more then a man of a different judgement To the first I answer I am altogether unsatisfied that the Magistrate can take Cognizance upon Gospel-Rules which we ought to walk by or call any man to an account for any thing but what is really prejudicial to his Neighbor in his person estate or good Name because it is said Who art thou that condemnest another he either standeth or falleth to his own master And I challenge any one to shew me a Text in all the New Testament for such a practice if they cannot and yet will practice it do they not condemn the New Testament of imperfection in matters of Rules or else usurp this authority because they will and have no other Reason but their will for it But to the second Suppose such a thing yet I am not convinced by any thing I ever heard or read that he hath right to assume this power If Fire and Faggot be an Argument or the destroving of men in Prisons what do they less then justifie all the persecutions that ever were made upon the Saints If this Gentleman could but demonstrate to me his infallibility I should be much staggered nay they are so far from this that they dare not say so much and if so what is it but the begging of the Question I wish they would remember that saying of God He that toucheth you toucheth the apple of mine eye and consider whether that Prophesie in the Gospel may not concern them The days shall come when they shall put you to death and think they do God good service And for that Argument They that have the power may do it and the majority of Voyces ought to carry all matters I shall answer it with that place of the Evangelist Matth. 7. 13