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A28152	A word of reproof and advice to my late fellow-souldiers and officers of the English, Irish, and Scotish army with some inrhoad made upon the hireling and his mass-house, university, orders, degrees, vestments, poperies, heathenism, &c. : with a short catalogue of some of the fighting priests and ... have given them a blow in one of their eyes (pickt out of the whores head) which they call a fountain of religion but is a sink of iniquity ... / by E.B.	Billing, Edward, 1623-1686.	1659 (1659)	Wing B2903; ESTC R23695	86,580	98

a reward and the great man uttereth forth his mischievous desires so they wrap it up Mich. 7. 2 3. Let no Government nor Governor so much as pretend to Liberty of Conscience whilst these evil beasts and slow-bellies are suffered to pillidge and by violence take away and make havock of true mens estates crambing of their persons in bad Prisons and there murther them for their dishonest gain which the Pope hath allowed them Oh! was ever the like rapines committed upon the godly of this Nation by any but Queen Mary Oh! bloudy unequal hath your Government been to the upright-hearted but the Lord will visit in his fierce wrath for these things and it cannot long stand nor the upholders thereof Is this like Justice or can ye look God in the face and call it so or is it in any manner seemingly equal that I should be forced to pay wages to him I neither hire hear nor set at work Do we require them or ye to pay or give any thing to any of those who Minister to us Nay they sow spirituals and want not carnals and their belly is not their God they only eat what is freely set before them asking no questions for Conscience sake they preach the Gospel and live upon him and the lambs lack not and the good thing is not with holden and the true Lilly takes no thought for to morrow what he shall eat or what he shall put on but is cloathed upon with the righteousness in which is fulness without measure where excess is not known nor want heard of but the Lyon lacks and is a beast of prey I say come to this which is equal before God and amongst men let every Society in the Nation maintain their own preachers let the Episcoparian and Presbyterian who are Ephraim against Manasseh and Manassh against Ephraim and both as one against Judah and for the most part equal enemies to this Common-wealth let them have their Tithemong●r if they will provided their hireling and his Popery be not burthensome to any of the people of God let them give him the one half of their estates if they please but let not all the honest people of the Nation be forced to give the sixth or seventh part of their estates to maintain their Popish worship Oh! that is an unreasonable ●oak to be compelled to uphold that with my outward substance which I am convinced in my Conscience to be blasphemous with my life I affirm it he or they who impose it are no Christians Let the Baptists and all the gathered and Congregational people maintain their own Teachers as I believe they do for with a mans own he may do what seems to be good in his own eye and that is truly equal and not to go like thieves and reap where they have not sown and pluck where they have not planted and eat the milk of other mens flocks c. Let the Mass-house and Bells and Parsonage houses with the Gleabe-lands be sold to pay the Impropriators and then let him that will have such men as these who now live idly upon the sweat of other mens brows set them at work hire them pay them and hear them and let him that hath stolen steal no more but labour with his own hands and that is equal and he that doth so doth equally And that Governour and Government that patronizes such equal doings may stand and be a blessing to the Nation and the people will bless God for him or them but he that feeds oppression and upholds inequality few and troublesom shall be his or their days and their short yet tedious reign shall go out like the snuff of a candle Therefore be wise O ye Rulers for who knows what one day may bring to pass or what may be brought to pass in one day And there is a smoother tongued sort amongst these deceivers that I have heard often affirm if a man would do away his reason and believe them that it is not they which persecute and imprison but the chief Magistrate the same sayes their father the Pope If any Clergy-man belonging to the whole See of Rome be but known to have a hand in blood he is for ever made ir●egular But that Prince that fills his inquisition the fullest and burns most Hereticks as they call them he shall have the largest pardon for so many sins to be committed and his name shall be had in most reputation amongst them otherwise hee shall be cursed if not excommunicated By this let the simple-hearted compare and infer c. Now my belief is that if the Priests of England have freely received and will freely give and not exact torture and murther the innocent for their bellies nor be burthensome to no man but freely give and freely receive he which preaches the Gospel to live upon it I do believe in my very heart God will be very well pleased Priest try him and trust in him and do not take the benefit of a bad Law which thou hast procured by thy sollicitous implacability For verily it quite lames thee and all reasonable men see thee and the feeble insufficiency of thy Gospel which can neither stand nor procure thee meat for thybelly without the help of an outward Law and Sword which is onely to protect mens persons and not to suffer a cruel man to take away from a poor man and a faithful denizen of the same Nation a hundred pounds for a hundred shillings So do not cover thy self under the Magistrate and sneak to them and make him or them the absolute Author of thy wickedness but leave off thy filthiness and let him that hath stollen steal no more but rather restore and learn to labour with thy own hands and the labourer is worthy of his hire and the work-man of his meat and I am freely content that he which hireth any man should be forced to pay him his wages but I am sure it is not in the least equal amongst men for me to pay another mans work-man although all the work he doth may seemingly be logically or syllogistically true Ergo it may or it may not admit all that he doth to be of the best sort that is false and his divinations and immaginations almost like truth it self I hire him not I set him not at work I 'le not pay him his wages I 'le give him no meat And if for this my Testimony against the hireling which I still say could not stand nor have a being as a mercenary hireling if it were not for the Sword I say if for this my Testimony my life be called for I may not say I matter it for my Redeemer lives and I know for this very end and purpose hath he raised me up even to bear my Testimony with my life to the death against the false-hired Antichrist of this Nation even to the Gates of Rome his Original and very late Antecessor And this am I truly bold in the

name of him and onely him that made heaven and earth may it please you● worship may it please your Lordship may it please your honour c. Now if all honour mind the word all which will not admit of the word some to be joyned with it in that place doth belong to God alone as I am sure it doth there is not the least of Room for your fond appellations which ye give and receive one of another How can ye believe that receives honour one of another Oh! Let Moab come down before she be compelled to serve and the Lord stain all your honours in one day for I am sure some of ye he will overtake with speed and their memories shall rot but the name of the just shall live for ever therefore let every soul of ye be subject to the higher powers which is higher and above the transgressor and see if yet there be any remorse in ye towards your poor brethren who as I said before are languishing in nasty holes and several dead most of them dead and alive being such who have freely offered up their lives with ye in the actual service for the Common-wealth in the heat of It is the same man that was called Round head that is called Quaker therefore let all that are in authority be ashamed to see us thus dealt with the day and I am sure we have not forfeited our right in the least or purchased your indignation by either plots or rebellion against ye although ye have sufficiently provoked us by suffering far more to be laid upon us then as we are men could be borne and me thinks our peaceable patient and innocent carriage cannot but smite ye to the very heart I am sure it hath reached Heaven and if ye were not in the deepest slumber even the sleep of death ye would not lame your selves to uphold the interest of a company of gormandizing Priests who creep into the Mass-house and there speak a devination of their own brain or make a plot in the week days and there discover it and bid others keep holy upon that day upon which they keep market and tell the people if they do not pay their Tythes they rob God and it may be threateneth those that are behind to sue them or send them to prison forth-with so that upon that day which he exhorts others to keep holy he doth all manner of work that tends to his quarterly gain Can that be the Ministry of Christ that murthers men for their bellies Nay it is impossible for the Ministers of Christ laboured with their own hands and took by violence from no man neither were they so much as burthensome to any much lesse stocked caused to be whipped imprisoned or smote with their hands but with them laboured and knocked down no man nor imprisoned any man to death for their bellyes but in this some of these at this day do glory And yet if any be moved of the Lord to tell any one of these cruel men that their glory is their shame or their belly is their God it s much if some Priest-ridden Justice or another do not send him to the Goal for it I shall also shew ye the rope of sand wherein many of these Priests have been wrapt Henry the 8. was a Papist the same Henry the 8 was a Protestant and called himself Defender of the Faith Edward the 6 a Protestant Queen Mary a Papist Queen Elizabeth a Protestant again King James was both for and against Bishops King Charles he was called a Church-Papist yet loved Bishops and Book of Common Prayer so well that an open war was declared against him which hath cost an innumerable quantity of blood and treasure he and his Bishops extirpated swore vowed and declared against and others have taken possession yet I shall seal it with my blood That there is 1200 Priests in England that are as bad as those 12 Bishops were so that at the best we are but where we were after all this fighting killing and being killed pulling down and setting up and all men may plainly see that have not done away reason and sold themselves to the spirit of prejudce that the best of their religion is but till further order and the change of a King or the change of a Queen or the alteration of a goverment puts them out of order and to seek for their religion tell they have received further order from man or at least till they have studied what religion the King or Chief Ruler adheres to and there they will seemingly imitate There they were and there they are tell further order and the best of their Religion will reach no further but tell further order See what the Ploughman in his complaint saith of these wicked men in the Reign of K. Edward the third here followeth somewhat subtracted forth of his complaint the thing being too large to insert verbatim AH Lord though that the Plowman may not have so much silver for their prayers as other men for See the plowmans complaint in K. Ed. thirds time Foxes Acts and Monuments Vol. 1. p. 524. they know not so well to prize their prayers as these other chapmen But Lord our hope is our prayers be never the worse though they be not so well sold as other mens prayers They turn thy words into songs and tales and so men do now they sing thy words merrily and that singing they call thy service but Lord I trow the best singers thou hearest not most but he that fulfilleth thy words he thou heareth full well though he weep more then sing and I trow that weeping for breaking of thy commandements be more pleasing to thee then singing of thy words and forsaking of travel which God commands and give their selves to idleness that is the mother of all naughtinesse Lord Mary thy blessed Mother and Joseph touched often times thy body and yet wrought with their hands and lived in as much cleannesse of soul as our Priests do now But Lord men make now great stonen houses full of glassen windows and calleth them thine houses and Churches but thou saist those that did worship in such had been worthy of death Lord in thy Gospel thou sayest that true worshipers of God worship him not in the Hill beside Samaria nor in Jerusalem neither but true worshippers of God worship him in spirit and in truth And Lord God what a worship is this to build thee a Church of dead stones and rob thy quick Churches of their bodily livelyhood to cloath stocks and stone with See pulpit cloaths and many guilded coats painted windows with pictures of many a monstrous beast silver and gold and other good colours and I see thine own images go in cold and in heat in cloathing all to broken without shoon hosen and hungred and athirst feeding themselves and not thy flock hiding Thee that art our light and those that were fed they slew and

name of the beast or the number of his names read Rev. 13. and if the present Rulers of the earth have not drunk of the whores cup how came these Priests by this Law I say is not the Popish Queen out-done and her three months imprisonment made six so that these have a Law at their command and I am sure a terrible Law hath it been to us-ward Such a Law the Jews had and by our Law said they he ought to die for he is a blasphemer and what was his blasphemy Why say they he sayes he is the Son of God So as false yet true they put the holy One to death and the English Priests Original was set over the Originals head by Priest-ridden Pilate Oh my dear friends perish not with them nor for and with their gain-saying generation but like wise men keep your eyes in your head and let that woman which hath so fowlly transgressed be silent and let not transgression plead for and uphold transgression and transgressors But ask your husband at home for the wo-man is not permitted to speak in the Church nor about Church matters but the the Daughters of the Lord as well as his Sons shall and at this day do prophesie and God is one in the Male as in the female and the Womb that is barren is accursed as well in the Male as in the Female but the Woman is to be silent in them both But the seed and birth which is immortal which sins not doth and may speak if the Lord open the mouth in the Female-man as-well as in the Male-man and if the Lord open the lips let the whole creation shew forth his prayses but let Eve for ever be silent And I know from the Lord God the barren womb is cursed and such who cannot in some measure witness the marriage are undone but the true Virgin that hath not many lovers is a holy state and she which is begotten of God as the Lord moves may utter words and Minister to the seed in others that all may be edified the deaf made to hear the blind to see the sick healed and the saving health made known the dead raised the Lame walk and the dumb made to sing for joy and in this Ministry and Gospel Phaebe and Pris●illa may labour with Paul or any other the holy Women at this day a seal of whose Apostle-ship I am and if you keep your eyes in your head and behold the Original in ye and ask that Husband at home ye will seal to and witnesse with me that God is truth and is one in the Male and in the Female for it is the fools eye that is abroad but the wise mans eye is in his head and the head of every man is Christ Jesus and he gives to all men and women a measure of himself to profit withall and all his gifts are good and perfect and leads to no other thing but unto perfection but no Bastard nor the thief who steals the words from his neighbour and boasts in the lines of other men shall never inherit though he be as goodly to look at as Ishmael and as Orthod●x as the high Priest yet he is the son of the bond-wo-man within from whence death immagination and brain-study speaks a devination of its own there the merchants of spiritual Babylon trade wch is called confusion but all this while the royal seed is in bondage and the voice of the King is not heard within without which the children of the Kingdom cannot live and the voice of a stranger the sheep will not hear and the thief or spiritual vagabond although it be Cain or Lord Esau himself with the Son of the free and first-born must not co-habit for the life of the one is the death of the other and that must become a servant which hath caused the seed to bow they who know the Original know and feel what I say and the simple hearted that are among ye may understand me right well but for those who are withered under the name of professors and are onely old in profession and iniquity who rise up early to contrive for self in whom the earth hath choaked the seed by them I do not expect to be rightly understood or justly construed for their life at the present is not in that wch discerneth and judgeth all things and in the Lords work they have been very unfaithful I shall not say much but it is very much if ove● the Lord trust some of them again but rather suffer a stranger to take and do that which was once in their posession and will it not be just if he who formed them doe shew them no favour but smite them as they have suffered others to be smitten and will it not be equal if the Lord reveal himself most eminently against them ●uite racing down their magnificency and for ever lay their honour in the dust And if any who are in authority be yet indeed really affected with the wayes and false worship of the hireling and offended with me for this my Testimony for the Lord and against the false hireling We who are called Quakers shall in the fear of the Lord be willing to meet them or a chosen number of them face to face before the chief Rulers Parliament or Councel and there approve our selves in our practise for religion by the words of the Scriptures and the example of the holy men of God and if we refute not the common hireling and whatsoever he is possibly able to say for himself or against us proving what he saies by Scriptures let the reasonable magistrates be judge I say if we do it not let us be used more bloodily and cruelly then we yet are if possible and we shall in that matter freely submit unto and be convicted by the Scripture which some of them are so impudent to say we deny and is their own rule though that which gave them forth is our rule and is not contrary to the Scripture so far as they are not polluted by false meanings put upon them which in their purity in themselves do not own But however there is sufficient to silence the brawling hireling for warrant from them he hath none for his preaching for hire or a set maintenance by a Law I say again let us discourse our Religion with the false hired man before ye and if then it be found that we hold any thing for Religion which is contrary to sound Doctrine or in the least derogatory to Scripture and if our practice faith hope and order be not according to the command of the Lord Jesus the example of the Prophets the Apostles the holy men of God and Ministers of Christ then countenance or discountenance as ye shal see cause And till then in the fear of the Lord God I warn you all from him that sits upon the throne to the meanest officer of peace or war Souldier or Subject whatsoever speak not evil of

Souls for his dishonest gain Oh! who is able to reckon up their deceipts or the number of the innocent that hath and are at this day deceived by them but the Soul which sins shall dye the death for the potter hath power over the clay and though he hide himself in the remotest part of the Garden he will find him out and a vessel of dishonour he shall be and yet after they have sinned he desireth not the death of a sinner although he be dead in sins and trespasses but rather that he should turn from his wickedness and live For as I live saith the Lord I will not the death of a sinner Mark of a sinner but the persecutor and he whose tongue is at liberty who defileth his body which is the Temple of the Lord him will God destroy although he be the fattest Bull in Basan or the mightiest Cedar in all Lebanon he is but clay in the hands of the Potter and a vessel of dishonour he will make him But he that liveth in his fear and standeth in his councel and is obedient to the Fathers Commands which are all possible and in no wise grievous him he makes a vessel of honour and he is to him as the apple of his eye Be Holy be Perfect be Just in all your doings all men and let all Mark all that are athirst come and buy milk freely and take of the water of Life without money and without price Oh! Come all and it is in vain to invite them that are predestinated from all Eternity to be damned What I say unto one I say unto all watch and those that are decreed to Hell need not watch but the Lord willeth that all men should be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth and he is not like Pharaoh who willed the people to make brick without straw Oh! the Creator doth not so for a measure of himself he hath given to every man to profit withal Mark to all so that if he require the full tale of brick he doth Justly and his doings are Just and he is equal in all his wayes and let not him that is formed though a subject or a King say to him that hath formed Why hast thou made me so But come unto him or look unto him all the ends of the earth and be saved and the Gospel hath been preached to every creature under Heaven and it is he that knowes the Fathers Will and doth it not which shall be beaten but it is impossible that he can do it who never knew it but knowledge is a delitious fruit and pleasant to the eye upon which the reprobate feeds and whom I will I ha●den but first he willeth that all men should be saved or else he might have said except Judas except Pharaoh except Esau except Pilate the Priests friend but Gods enemy Christ knew from the beginning who should betray him Mark he knew it but he did not wil him to do it for if he had it could not have been called treachery in Judas Nay he willeth not the death of a sinner but he willeth that all the ends of the earth should look unto him and be saved that is his Will and purpose for which purpose he hath and doth enlighten every man that cometh into the World that all men through him might believe and be saved Mark and note that he willeth all men I say he did not except Judas Pilate and Pharaoh if they were alive and had not sold themselves to do wickedly for which cause they were given up to a reprobate minde but there is and was some that will not come unto him that they may have life Wherefore such are ordained to condemnation of old but they that come unto him he will in no wise cast off and whom he loves he loves to the end and he that loves him keeps his Commands and he that keeps them not is of the Devil and he that is of the Devil hath no part in him for God and Belial are not one in any one thing neither do they live together and where Jerusalem is Babylon cannot stand and where the Light with which every man is enlightened bears Rule there is no darkness at all and when it is disobeyed if heeded the darkness may be felt Jacob have I loved and Esau have I hated before either of those two children had done good or evil Yea the thing Jacob he loved and the thing Esau he hated before either of those two children were begotten or born after the flesh and those two seeds he onely loves and hates at this day and see that there be not a Cain nor an Esau be among ye but let the worm Jacob be cherished for it loves the Light and is the heritage of God but let murtherous Cain although he hath been Prince of the whole City and all hath been called by his sons name and Lord Esau of the mount come under for though there was a time when the seed bowed Jacob's got past and let the elder serve the younger for he sold his Birth-right for his belly Mark he had it A Birth-right or a Right-birth but he sold it and afterwards sought it with tears It was not the earth he wept for although he sold his Birth-right or Right-birth which was immortal for that which was earthly divelish and sensual The great God who created Heaven and Earth willeth that all man-kind should come to the knowledge of the truth and be saved and willeth not the death of one soul of his whole handy-work and the work of his own hands he cannot destroy and that is the infallible and true light the Son of the Father who enlighteneth every individual man and woman that commeth into the World that all through him may believe and be saved it is the particular sins of every particular man and woman that is the cause of death reprobation and c●nd●●n●tion and that soul which sins shall die but for the word Original fin I do not find it in the whole Scriptures but is a contrivance of the false Prophets like unto their baby-baptism but he that believes in the Light of Christ which he is enlightened with and brings all his deeds to the light and dwells and abides in the light and hath the hope in him He purifieth himself as he is pure and the wicked one cannot touch him Again and again I say if a certain and set number from all eternity be predestinated to be saved and damned What doth the hireling preach for or for what hath he his hire I am sure the decrees of the living God are yea and Amen and unalterable And there is another vaine sort of people who are as ignorant as they who say that the Scriptures is the word of God and Mathew Mark Luke and John the Gospel and that the Latin Greek and Hebrew is the Original as for the word which the Scriptures of truth truly declares of he was in the

the next day contrary to all Law committed him to the common Goal and there he hath continued 42 weeks and never any accuser appeared against him And it was observed that just forty weeks after as it was accounted it being the just account of women his Wife brought forth a man-child into the World so deformed in many parts of the body many of the members being out of order as hardly ever any was seen to be the like and as soon as it was born he would not let it be seen by Neighbours but by those that were there at her delivery and so keeps it priprivate to this day and it is observed that he used all the members of his body to act wickedness against the innocent so the Lord visited his sin upon his child which that night might be begotten This Brown called Justice committed Marmaduke Storr and one John Whitehead one week after the committing of the other because they could not for Conscience sake swear to the Oath of Objuration though they denied what was contained in it and kept them 41 weeks in Prison And another time he and one Robert Buyclrek of the Peace came with armed Souldiers where there was divers of the people of the Lord assembled at a meeting in Isham on a first day and came violently into the house and haled the people forth of doors and struck some of them and said they would break up their meetings and committed one Thomas Stubs to the house of Correction from the Meeting with a strickt charge that he should be severely whipped which was done and since hath committed divers other friends to Prison and said to one Iohn Garret that he hoped to have a place in Heaven at Gods right hand for his punishing of the Quakers and wished he had more power in his hand this deformed child of his is never able to go while it lives and all his other children were very sickly and this hath been healthful and lusty and is above three years of age and kept privately One Peter Whaley Mayor of Northampton who was mad to persecute Friends in the year of his Maiorality did many wicked actions as committing some Friends to Prison and much abusing Friends that came to visit Friends that were in Prison he making them passes and sending them from Constable to Constable and in the middle of his year he went forth of the Town and the Lord struck him off of his horse and he died and one that lay in Prison for speaking to a Priest that he had formerly committed was as soon as he was dead immediately released One William Somes a Carpenter in Willingborrow a lusty young man was at the Towns end a sawing with another one evening as William Dewsberry and Francis Ellington and another Friend was passing to a Meeting William Dewsberry seeing him spoke these words to him Fear God and repent and give heed to the Light of Christ in your Consciences or else you perish eternally with some other words to this effect the said William Somes began much to laugh and to jear at him but William not regarding that passed away and immediately he was struck with lameness and pains that instant and so hath continued near ● years and can hardly speak any plain words and hath lost the use of his limbs of the one side One Oliver ●letsoe ● Draper in Wellinborrow having much enmity against Friends as Friends have passed by his shop to Meetings he would encourage his son about 12 years of age to abu●e them by throwing dirt and stones at them as they passed by presently after the house that he lived in being a stone built house one morning about eight in the morning the house over his shop fell down to the ground and his son that formerly abused Friends with his servant was accidentally in the street not knowing any thing that the house fell down to the ground and one of the stones fell upon the boys head and had very nigh slain him much wounding him and great loss came to his father the house falling upon all his goods and much of the goods were buried so under the rubbish that they were never found until they were rotten One Squire Willmor so called of Sywe●l having one Richard Brown Tenant to him and Rented a farm of him and his predecessors 30 or ●0 years the said Richard owning truth and having meetings kept at his house in Sywell the rich man sent to him and told him that if he would not give over having meetings kept at his house he should not stay any longer then until his year was up he saying to him that he co●ld find no other fault with him in any thing but the said Richard would not yield to him to deny meetings he put him forth of his farm and immediatly after this great man having but one son and heir the Lord struck him with death and that as he would not suffer an Heir of Heaven to dwell in one of his houses except he would deny his God so his son and heir should not live in any of his fathers possessions but in the house of darkness was shut up to the great grief of his father One Robert Guy who is Clerk of the Peace who hath been one of the greatest enemies to the people of God in this County and hath dealt subtilly with the servants of the Lord and have stirred up the Magistrates against Friends when they have been brought to Sessions before them did say to Francis Ellington one day that the false prophets that Elija slew might as well plead they were persecuted then as the Quakers in England The said Francis was brought to the Sessions and there two wicked men did falsly swear against him and say That he did curse and deny the true God that made Heaven and Earth at a Meeting and though they swore this yet as soon as the Jury-men were gone forth they did in the presence of the Court one of them deny it again and confessed the truth and yet Robert Guy would take no notice of it neither would he suffer one of the said Francis Ellingtons witnesses to declare what he did speak being 5 of them except they would first swear which he knew they could not and so suffered the innocent to be committed in Prison and he himself did afterwards charge the Goaler privately to whip him once in two weeks or else he told the Goaler he should loose his place which the Goaler confessed to the said Francis but this was observed that the said Francis one day meeting with the said Guy upon the road was moved of the Lord to speak to him and bid him give over persecuting the people of God otherwise the Judgement of the Lord would suddenly overtake him and this was three dayes before the Sessions and he not believing but suffered the said Francis to be cast into Prison and there to be by his private order whipped once a fortnight and to