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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A47134	A discovery of the mystery of iniquity & hypocrisie acting and ruling in Hugh Derborough	Keith, George, 1639?-1716.	1692 (1692)	Wing K157; ESTC R14384	9,131	13

And yet I do not understand that any one in the Meeting dared to reprove him except the Person he so called I know the Scripture says That Dogs are without but I never knew that Dogs were suffered to remain within the Church if this Person be a Puppy Whelp or Dog why don't they cast him out or condemn S. Ienings for his Ungodly Reviling in this particular but that I believe they will not do seeing they have cloaked much worse Crimes than this in S Jenings But that H. D. saith They gave me little occasion if any to call them Hypocrites but the clearing themselves of these Aspersions cast upon them is a manifest Lye for there are hundreds can bear witness that they gave me great occasion as their boldly denying in publick what they have asserted in private before many Witnesses and at other times also in publick some of them have called God to Witness to manifest Lyes Falshoods whereof we have many to bear witness Nor have they ever to this day clear'd themselves of these things laid to their charge tho' they have had sufficient time and opportunity given them And the first days that the two Meetings were together I did never interrupt any of them but they did alwayes interrupt me and oft many at once speaking to me some passing me by the Arm and others by the 〈◊〉 and patricularly Arthur Cook was most abusive to me crowding close to me staring most inhumanely in my face when declaring and calling me Ranter Ranter Wicked Man Ungodly Man and interrupting me in Prayer tho' I have never interrupted any of them either in Prayer or Preaching saying Thou Pray thou ought not to pray thou art a Wicked Man and others bidding take me away And at another time A. C. in a Mens Meeting Cursing me saying Wo be to thee from the Lord which afterwards he denyed and Sam. Jenings called me Shamelss Man at another time Apostate and worse than Prophane and also they most falsly accused me with denying Magistracy and being an Enemy to the Government with many other false Charges And another of their Preachers came into the Meeting when I was sitting silent and call'd me by my Name and said I was a Roaring Lyon To most of which Passages Hugh Derborough was an Eye and Ear Witness Is it not then great Hypocrisie and Partiality in him to pass by all these great Provocations and most unchristian Usages to say nothing of the Persecution I and others of my Friends have met with from them by Fining some Imprisoning others and Taking away Goods only for Conscience sake and so boldly to affirm That I had little occasion if any given me What can I think or say of this H. D. but that he like many others among them is an Abominable Hypocrite And that I said Cut me in pieces chop me fry me if ye will c. H. D. is very dis-ingenuous wholly to conceal the occasion thereof which was that they did greatly threaten me with their outward Power saying This was intollerable this was not to be born when I called some of them Hypocrites whom I well knew and could prove to be such and tho' I was in little or no seeming danger as to the outward at that time yet I can truly say I felt the Spirit of Cain in them and they did seek occasion against me if possible to take away my natural Life by their ensnaring words and questions and charging me That I had spoke against the King as many can bear witness who had a sence of their Cain like Spirit as well as I which occasioned me to call some of them Bloody Hounds and had I called them Hell Hounds it would have been but what Fox in his Book of Martyrs called Persecutors and one time being hot by their thronging and crowding about me because I loosned some few Buttons of my Doublet to get a little Air to refresh me they raised an abominable Lye on me viz. That in a fit of Distraction I ript open my Brest and showed my Naked Skin And I can truly say God raised me up in a Spirit of Boldness to Warn them to Repent of their Lying Hypocrisie Unbelief and Persecution lest the Judgments of the Lord should break forth against them telling them I feared them not let them cut me and roast me or such like words having in my mind the bold words of Lawrance the Martyr to his Persecutor the Heathen Emperor when he was roasting on the Grid-Iron as Fox relates the Passage in the Book of Martyrs pag. 102. This side is non roasted enough turn up O Tyrant great Assay whether roasted or raw thou thinkest the better Meat Which words Fox saith he spoke in the mighty Spirit of God Also I had in mind the words of Anaxagoras when the Tyrant was causing beat him in a Morter Beat beat said he thou touchest not Anaxagoras Which Examples I gave them to be my Apology for such words and with which sober and impartial People were satisfied And tho' from this H D and some others would insinuate as if this was a wicked Saying it proceeds from their great ignorance for seeing Christ hath pronounced them blessed who suffer Persecution for Righteousness sake no judicious and sincere Christian will deny but it is desirable in the will of God and many faithful Christians have desired it yea and rushed towards it and by their sharp words that they have used towards Persecutors have procured it And our 〈◊〉 Lord Jesus Christ who became an Example in Sufferings said to the Jews Destroy the Temple meaning the Temple of his Body and after three dayes I will 〈◊〉 it up and he said to Judas What thou dost do quickly and he said further I have a Baptism wherewith to be Baptized meaning his Sufferings And how am I straitned till it be accomplished And Paul said He w●● not only ready to be bound but to dye for the Name of Jesus But it is very apparent these my Persecutors and false Accusers never found any such Spirit of Courage or Love to Truth in them that did move them to desire to suffer such things for the Lord's sake And yet to prevent all mistake and mis-construction that some through weakness may put on my words I do sincerely declare that I had no other aim or intention in such words but to express the willingness and readiness of mind that the Lord had wrought in me by his Power not only to suffer the Reproaches and false Accusations of my Adversaries but even the worst that God might permit them to inflict upon me knowing it would turn to my Reward c. As to his great Commendations of John Wilsford and Thomas Everndon from his inward sence and discerning of them These two men have sufficiently discovered themselves by their late Fruits of falsly accusing the Innocent and speaking Lyes in the Name of the Lord that they deserve no such Character as H.