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A46221	Work for a cooper being an answer to a libel, written by Thomas Wynne the cooper, the ale-man, the quack, and the speaking-Quaker : with a brief account how that dissembling people differ at this day from what at first they were / by one who abundantly pities their ignorance and folly.	Jones, William, fl. 1679-1710.	1679 (1679)	Wing J1002; ESTC R12360	16,124	36

He do's my business bravely Needs must when the devil drives Pride Lust Hipocrysy Covetousnes WORK FOR A COOPER BEING AN ANSWER To a LIBEL Written by THOMAS WYNNE The COOPER the ALE-MAN the QUACK AND THE SPEAKING-QUAKER WITH A brief Account how that Dissembling People differ at this day from what at first they were By one who abundantly pities their Ignorance and Folly ECCLUS 22.11 Weep for the Dead for he hath lost the Light and weep for the Fool for he wants understanding make little weeping for the Dead for he 's at rest but the life of the Fool is worse than death LONDON Printed by J. C. for S. C. at the Prince of Wales's Arms neer the Royal Exchange MDCLXXIX WORK FOR A COOPER OF all the sinners in the world the Proud in Spirit seem to be in the most desperate condition and 't is implied by our divine Redeemer in that saying Blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of Heaven as if indeed the proud and the conceited of their own worth that think themselves more upright and more righteous than any body else were of all other the most unlikely to enter into that holy place The probability of which is strengthned by the hardness and difficulty of reducing such vile wretches who under a pretence of being the inspired Children of God and the onely inheritors of Life yield themselves to be hurried by the spirit of Darkness into those paths that lead to the sad and dismal Regions of eternal Death 'T is said the Devil seldom appears with his Horns and cloven Feet his game is better plaid when he comes like an Angel of Light In imitation of which his Agents assume the same way First proclaim their own sanctity and familiarity with God and then go on to despise and calumniate all that by the grace of God are better provided with the blessing of either this world or the other with Health Wealth or Honour with Faith Hope or Charity whose qualifications were seasonably discovered by St. Jude when he said These filthy dreamers defile the Flesh despise Dominion and speak evil of Dignities adding presently Who separate themselves sensual having not the Spirit Whether our Thomas and his Followers be concerned in this Description I humbly leave to those that have Honesty and Sense to judge and will onely endeavour briefly to answer his Libel and make appear what rotten and false Foundation he has built his designe upon First he saies That all the writers of holy Scripture and all the Saints of God mentioned there were Quakers Pag. 11 and 14. Secondly That the present Quakers have got the Key of David with which they and they onely can unlock all Mysteries Pag. 11. Thirdly That all Scholars especially the Priests having quite lost this Key cannot tell the meaning of the Scriptures and that their Hearers have not so much discretion as Pharaoh and Nebuchadnezzar had Pag. 12. Fourthly That the Ministers of God the Priests of this Church and those that hear them are all running headlong to destruction Pag. 14. These are the main Pillars our Quaker superstructs all his Foolery upon and most justly deserves for his pains to be rewarded with a Whipping-post that by taking of a lawful dance about that he might essay also to prove the antiquity of a Lancashire Horn-pipe Justice were Mercy and Severity but an act of the greatest Charity to him who like the Devil himself would make it his business to cheat men of their immortal Souls Had the Saints of God been ancient Quakers as he saies they were why should the modern ones think themselves scofft at by being called so Or why did not James Naylor and some others give themselves that Name Fear and trembling from whence he infers all he has the ignorance to say were ne're recorded for infallible signes of any bodie 's being in Gods favour 'T was not to our first Parents when their fear for having sinned pressed them upon an impossibility to attempt the hiding themselves from the presence of the Lord. Nor to St. Peter when his fear made him to deny his most holy Master Nay the fearful leading the van of an infernal Troop and the unbelieving the abominable and murtherers whoremongers and sorcerers idolaters and all lyars Rev. 21. shall have their part in the Lake that burneth with fire and brimstone And St. Paul saies 2 Tim. 1.7 God hath not given us the spirit of fear but of power of love and of a sound minde as if the fearful had not sound mindes that is were onely a kinde of a distracted people whose not too much but too little Learning had made stark Revelation-mad If fear and trembling were enough to prove a certainty of being beloved of God then Baalam's Ass and the Daemoniacks among the Tombes Felix the Hypocrite and Judas that hang'd himself for fear of seeing any more his Innocent and Righteous Master yes and the Devils themselves might put in for a share too for St. James does expresly say that they also believe and tremble For the Irreligious and the Prophane the Blasphemous and the Impenitent it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God but he that was filled with the Holy Ghost and did prophecie Luke 1. said That we being delivered from the hands of our enemies might serve God without fear in holiness and righteousness all the days of our life And though till we have mortified our sinful Affections and Lusts we ought to work out our salvation with fear and trembling yet when after a most hearty and profound repentance we humbly hope that all our past unrighteousness is forgiven and our sins covered we may then doubtless serve the Lord with gladness and come before his presence with a song And with St. Paul Phil. 4.4 Rejoyce in the Lord always and again I say rejoyce Or with holy David Psal. 97.11 12. There is sprung up a light for the righteous and a joyful gladness to such as are true-hearted Rejoyce in the Lord ye righteous and give thanks for a remembrance of his holiness This was the belief of those Saints that were no Quakers however disgusted by those Quakers that are no Saints who if not illuminated to a higher pitch and above the comprehension of holy David and Saint Paul might certainly humble themselves to the approbation of the same way And then quite contrary to our Quaker's understanding whenever God's Servants are said to have fear'd or trembl'd 't was because they or their people had offended the Almighty God after an amazing recollection of their former wickedness and apprehension of some most justly expected Judgement But our Quakers never do it upon this account they are too impudent to pretend it reporting themselves to be God's onely meek and most entirely beloved people That they and they onely are born of God and consequently cannot sin And say that whosoever confesses himself a sinner pleads for sin Though Saint John

alteration this How dares he venture to call us so whom in another place he proclaims to be the Enemies of Christ Our blessed Redeemer said Ye are my friends if ye do what I command you but our Thomas not being willing to do that pay Tribute to whom Tribute Custom to whom Custom or Honour to whom Honour's due cannot be Christ's friend and therefore not fit to be suppos'd ours Yet in Christian Charity I 'll most heartily recommend Saint Paul's advice Heb. 3.12 not to him or to the Quakers onely but likewise to all those other unhappy wretches who from the bosom of God's Church run greedily upon their own ruine Take heed brethren lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief in departing from the living God 'T is not making of a great noise or speaking loud and long to no purpose nor repeating the same words a hundred times over in the same Speech an impertinent Harangue of the Light and of the Spirit in a confused uncouth and most incoherent manner which really and truly is the whole business of a Preaching-Quaker this I say is not the way to make our Calling and Election sure But the certain and safe course is truely and most earnestly to repent us of all our sins to be in love and charity with our Neighbours leading a new life following the Commandments of God and walking from henceforth in his holy ways for without holiness no man shall see the Lord This I say is what most certainly will stand us in good stead at the Hour of Death and Day of Judgement This is the Law and the Testimony Isa. 8.20 according to which whosoever speaks not it is because there is no LIGHT in them Atteb i'r COWPER O GAERWYS o'i Lythyr anraslon at y CYMRU YSpys oeddem er ystalm fod y Bendro arnat ond nis gwybuom dy fod o' th gôf nes gweled dy bappyr anhirion Tydi a wyddit fod y Cymru wedi eu dyscu yn Ffydd a Ffyrdd yr Arglwydd lawer cant o flynyddoedd cyn i'r Wiber ddodwy yn dy Siolyn na bod crioed sôn am Gwaceriaeth yn y byd ac a wyddit ma'i nad Cyscu yr oeddem pan beraist ti inni Ddeffro Pa bryd y clowaist nyni'n gwadu fod dydd yr ARGLWYDD wedi gwawrio Ma'i nad CRIST yw goleini'r byd Neu ma'i nad Ei YSPRYD bendigedig Ef sy'n Towys yn Cyfrwyddo ac yn Cynghori Ei holl ufydd wasanaethwyr A phwy o Honom trwy holl Wynedd a wyddost yn disgwil llwyddiant Corphorol nag Ysprydol yn y byd hwn nag yn y byd a ddaw heb wir Edifeirwch ac nes ufudd grefu gan Dduw faddeuant o'n holl bechodau a'n camweddau i'r mwyn grasusol Haeddedigaethau'r JESU Onid ydys eusys yn Ein dyscu yn yr EGLWYSI a chan Lyfrau da Ein BUGEILIAID CYFREITHLON Ein hunain beth a Gredwn a pheth a Wnawn Ma'i nad Ffydd yn unig onid hefyd fod yn anghenrhaid Weithredoedd da tuag at feddianu bywyd tragwyddol A elli di ddyscu ffordd well a nês i'r Nef na hon Os medri Dysc onide Taw. Yn dy holl Rigwm nid oes un gair mewn Trefn na Rhôl na Rheswn A diammeu mae dianghenrhaid a fuasse myned i ddywedyd i'r mwyn llês i'r eneidiau fod dwrf yn HAFREN a DOWRFDWY a'i fod yn ymdowallt o'r rheini i'r môr fod Sêr a Lleuad fod Codiad a Machlud Haul a dymyno ar bobl goelio fod hyn yn wir ac etto roedd dy daith ynfyd ti o efrydd yn oferach Ond ymhellach i egluro dy ffolineb tydi a fynit inni gymeryd dy air ma'i CYFLOGWYR yw'r EGLWYSWYR ac ma'i ffô a wnânt pan ddelo'r BLAIDD i blîth Eu Defeidiau BLAIDD diffaith distrowys wyt ti yn Ein mysc er Stalm yn ceisio gwenwyno'r Meusydd a Sathru'r Corlennydd tan dy draed etto pa sawl un o'r CYFLOGWYR rheini a redasant o'r Wlâd o herwydd dy fod ti ynddi Dos gofyn i Dduw faddeuant am dy holl bechodau a' th anwireddau cyn i'r DDRAIG Gythreilig o'r Carchardy tanllyd dy lysco i' th losci yn dragwyddol FINIS