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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86492	The holy sisters conspiracy against their husbands, and the city of London, designed at their last farewell of their meeting-houses in Coleman-street; together with their Psalm of mercy.		1661 (1661)	Wing H2528; Thomason E1055_20; ESTC R208030	7,106	16

men of the world use to doe with the rest of our unsanctified Sex but what they doe to us they do it with sobriety and discretion and in pure love and affection that they may raise up an holy Generation of young Saints who may onely know their Fathers after the spirit and not after the flesh as the children of the world do though there were twenty of the Brethren contributing to the begetting of one little Saint For Charity is the bond of all perfection and love is the fulfilling of the law And therefore if a Brother and Sister be spiritually moved and inclined in an holy love and charitable respect to propagate and encrease the number of the faithfull no time or place or persons ought to restrain or bar them from doing so good a work Wherefore my opinion is that the Proclamation is not binding of us in Charity Religion and Conscience nor is there any carnal power above the priviledges of us Saints And therefore I will never submit to it as long as I breath Faith Good sister I believe you to be in the right and as our sister Rebecca hath often expounded to us the word I am confirmed that we are above all principalities and Powers in the world except the powers of darknesse and shall bring them all into subjection under our feet And therefore we will meet with our beloved Brethren though it be at the Gallows rather then we will loose their brotherly communion and if any of those wicked men which call themselves our Husbands will not give us way to do as we list but shall seek to controll and require us to go along with them to their Steeple-houses and conform our selves to their Baal's Priests we will forsake and leave their wicked company and betake us to our Brethrens Copulation and Conjunction with us where and when and how the spirit shall move us to it Temperance This is very fine indeed What must we meet no more together forsooth But we will by my consent in despight of all the Train Bands of the City A Proclamation Out upon it T is but one of the Buls of the Whore of Babylon and shall we be frighted and disheartned by a little Paper-Bull that fear not nor stand in aw of the great Bulls of Bashan our husbands Come come Sisters let us make a collection and provide a stock for our religious brethren who now suffer persecution for their Conscience sake that their bonds may be made easie to them and the rigour of their Keepers taken off that since we cannot enjoy them with us here in freedome they may freely enjoy us with them in their restraints and confinements For which purpose the Fore-man of our shop hath already progged for me unknown to his wicked Master this bag of money And rather than our Brethren shall want my servants shall course it and course it over and over with me so as they will but proll from their Master secretly that which his Nabal like and churlish worldly mindednesse will not freely let me have for the relief of our poore brethren Rebecca Ah good sister Temperance you are piously disposed Hold close to that good resolution and never fall back from it with any perswasion of that evill minded man your carnal and ungodly Husband All that he hath is yours and for our common good And therefore it is no iniquity for you to do what you wil so as thereby you promote the welfare of our brethren though it tend to the breaking and bringing down the rebellious and stubborn heart of your unsanctified Husband for whom you must not reserve in the least corner of your soul any affection or love since he is a reprobate to our Faith and an enemy to the Saints and it s no matter at all what becomes of him Constance Though sisters you can ruzzle up and down in your silks and rich attire and I am but a poor footer of stockings yet my bolt may be as soon shot as yours and to as good a purpose I say this That it is best for us all to be as wary as we can For my own part I am now grown old and cannot do as I was wont the marke being quite out of my mouth as they prophanely say But if my blood was as quick and active as some of yours is and it hath been in my younger dayes I would adventure to do more than now I can or can be expected from me I tell you sisters that I conceive it will be best for us to follow the advise and exhortation of our brother Venner to cut the throats of such of our Husbands as are Kinglings for the Man in Power and Enemies to the Brethren As for my part I have an old rigid Presbyterian to my Husband who night and day calls me Scismatick and Fanatick and Whore and Jade and Bawd to the sanctified Whores meaning all you my deare sisters but for my self I value not his words if there was any great matter of truth in them onely I will be avenged upon him for your sakes whose holy names and persons he doth so wickedly slander And therefore it shall not belong ere I doe him a courtesie and send him to his long home And if you will ever be free you must all do the like that are under the Curse of such ungracious Reprobates Innocence I am fully convinced that my Sister Constance hath moved to the purpose and it will be best for us all to take her Counsel and put it in present and speedy execution that we may set up our Monarchy with all expedition All of them in a ribble-rabble Agreed agreed Wee 'l fire the City too rather then we will not have our wils And therefore let us take our Farewell of this our meeting-Meeting-place at this time onely let us sing a Psalm of mercy to the praise of our King composed by our Father Feake for our Edification and Instruction before we depart A Psalm of Mercy Usula who cry's ●nds of Gold and Silver read's and all the Sisters sing To the Tune of Now thanks to the Powers below Sing it in the Nose WHat a Reprobate Crew is here Who will not have Jesus Reign But send all our Saints To Bonds and Restraints And kill'um again and again Let 's rise in an holy fear And fight for our heavenly King We will ha' no power But Vane in the Tower To Rule us in any thing Come Sisters and sing An Hymne to our King Who sitteth on high Degree The Men at White-Hall And the wicked shall fall And hey then up go We. A Match quoth my sister Joyce Contented quoth Rachel too Quoth Abigaile yea and Faith verily And Charity let 't be so Our Monarchie is the Fift Shall last for a Thousand years O' th' wicked on earth There shall be a dearth When Jesus himself appear's And we are the Babes of Grace The fruits of an holy Seed For old Father Cann That Reverend