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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A79986	Cloathing for the naked vvoman, or The second part of the dissembling Scot, set forth in his colours, being a corection of Mr. David Brovvn his errors in his pamphlet called the naked woman, stiled to him, a rare epsitle to Mr. Sterrey Written by the minister of christ-church London, in vindication of him and his flock from those false aspersions which are case upon them, of false doctrine and discipline. Whereunto is added, the new creed, or beliefe in God.; Cloathing for the naked woman.		1652 (1652)	Wing C4736; Thomason E683_25; ESTC R206827	6,931	11

CLOATHING FOR THE Naked Woman OR The second part of THE DISSEMBLING SCOT SET FORTH IN HIS COLOVRS Being a Corection of Mr. DAVID BROVVN His errors in his Pamphlet called THE NAKED WOMAN stiled also by him A RARE EPISTLE to Mr. STERREY PROV 26.5 Answer a Foole according to his folly lest he be wise in his own Conceit Written by the Minister of CHRIST-CHVRCH London in vindication of him and his flock from those false aspersions which are cast upon them of false Doctrine and Discipline Whereunto is added THE NEW CREED or beliefe in GOD. LONDON Printed and are to be sould by Giles Calvert at the black spread Eagle at the West end of Pauls Anno Dom. 1652. CLOATHING FOR THE Naked Woman SInce the Author of the naked woman hath alleadged that Time is one of the most precious Jewels under the Sunne and that upon the well or ill spending of time dependeth Eternity either of weale or woe Much hath Mr. Brown to answer for who hath so much mispent it in making medlyes of frivilous discourses that he might amongst the rest of his tedious stuffe shufle in the old Rotten rags of his own rage against some religious persons whom he envieth and laboureth to make odious to the World But if he aymed only at the glory of God he would not have built a Scaffold upon the Dunghill of the Ranters to publish his abominable lyes against such Godly people who abhorre the practises both of them and him and if he desired from the bottom of his heart the undeceiving of those wretched miserable poore blind naked deluded and bewitched people who are conceited of the Raritie of their Ranting fooleries as he is of his rare Epistle then he would have taken a better course and instead of sounding a Trumpet about her have been so modest as to turne away the peoples eyes from beholding vanity and much more should he have sought to take away that false principle upon which the Ranters build their carnall exercises for he is a Physitian of no value who seeketh not into the cause as well as the Cure And that I may not be fruitless to the Reader I thought good to minde you that the ground wherefore the Ranters hold the sinfullest deed to be as holy as the purest act is because the whole life and power of motion both in men and Angells good and bad cometh Originally from GOD and therefore they conclude that the poore creature can do no otherwise then what it alwayes doth and may do what it listeth and is drawn forth to evill by the great power of God and the dispensation of his good Spirit who they affirme hath decreed determined commanded necessitated and drawn them forth to kill steale commit Adultery Idolatry and all manner of wickednesse which they lust to do all which they say comming from God who giveth power ability and activity to all must needs be and is still good agreeable to his will and not evill in the least manner or measure but as pure and holy as the holyest of all and that what man doth God doth and man hath no more power then a stock or a stone to move to evill or good but as God moves and that they do it not but God doth it by them and if they sinne they think they do no more then God would have them do and that they are therefore never out of his favour or Communion by any thing which they doe or can doe they think their holinesse cannot bring them nearer to God nor their prophaneness draw them further from him But herein they erre have not the knowledge of God for albeit that all power and ability comes from God so that the same hand that doth good doth evill also and the same tongue that blesseth God curseth men Iam. 3 9. yet the misaplication of that power is theirs and nothing else is or can be sin but the abusing of that ability which God hath given It s true by the power which God hath given to men they do such devilish actions But that God gave them abillities and powers purposely to misaply the same is to set himselfe against himself and to make himself the Author of sinne and like the Devill himselfe who is the Father of a Lye Iohn 8.44 Now the misaplying of mens created faculties and misgovernment of them selves is a derogation from the Creation of God Rom. 1.20 by which the invisible things of Gods power and Godhead are cleerly seen And the misaplying of the divine Ordinances of God is a swarving from his holy institutions So then God is the God of all life motion and action both in Angels and Devils good men and bad but not of the misapplication thereof and in abillity without misapplication thereof is not the essentiall cause of mens damnation If the poore creature could never have done otherwise he could not have been blamed nor left without excuse Prov. 10.22 therefore the poore creature hath or had abillity to do better once God is neither the Author of sinne nor of sorrow Ezek. 18 32. He hath no pleasure in the death of him that dyeth sinners destruction is of themselves neither sin nor temptation to sin cometh from him though sometimes he permit sinne to punish sin in his Justice Let no man say when he is tempted I am tempted of God Iam. 1 13 14 15 16 17. for God cannot be tempted with evill neither tempteth he any man But every man is tempted when he is drawn away of his own lust and entised then when Lust hath conceived it bringeth forth sinne and sinne when it is finished bringeth forth death Do not erre my b●loved Brethren Every good gift and ever● perfect gift is from above and cometh downe from the Father of lights with whom is no variableness neither shadow of changing Hence it followeth that God hath neither decreed commanded determined or drawn them forth to do such devilish actions God is only good and all good proceedeth from him as the Fountaine I am 3.11 ●ut of which there cannot proceed sweet water and bitter Evill proceedeth from the Devill that wicked one sinne is contrary to the will of God and man hath ability given him of God not to do evill but good This then is the message which we have heard of him and declare unto you that God is Light and in him is no darkness at all If we say we have Fellowship with him and walk in darkness we lye and do not the truth but if we walk in the light as he is in the light we have Fellowship one with another and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sinne 1 John 1.7 8 9. My Conclusion is that so long as men misaply the powers and faculties God hath given them they commit sin and are the servants of sin And those that do not at all apply their abillities are evill and sloathfull servants Iohn

8.34 Mat. 25.26 But if they rightly apply their powers and faculties to observe the Statutes of God that is righteousness But the power is one and the same Deut. 6.25 Act. 17.28 though it be not alwayes applyed that way which God would have it applyed Object But thou wilt say Hath not God power to restrain all men from sinning and why will he not compell them to make right applications of their abilities seeing God hath all power and is infinite in strength Answ I Answer God hath determined to let man be a creature free and Gods determinations must stand sure I know that what soever God doth it shall be for ever Eccles 3.14 nothing can be put unto it nor any thing taken from it and God doth it that men should fear before him Let this deterre you from the abusing of your received abilities Lest God power contempt upon you and harden your hearts from his feare that ye can never be rec overed out of the Grave of Apostacy Thus having written somewhat to convince the sect of the Libertines of their abominable sinnes and to deterre them there from I shall proceed to answer D B. in those matters concerning my selfe wherein I referre him and the Reader first of all to the book which I set forth in vindication of Leiutenant Col. LILBURNE and Mr. MUSGRAVE and others from David Brownes false aspersions And I deny that he ever procured any place for me in the Common-wealth or that he ever kept me in it as he falsely alleageth or that I was so much as suspended from it unless it were in private and I have nothing to do with any thing that is done in Hugger-mugger I also challenge all persons to shew wherein I have done the least wrong to the Commonwealth or to any particular person because D. B. who seemeth to be rhe Committees and their Clerks advocate though he be none of the wisest unless in his own conceit would make men believe he is a great looser by me but he lies for I never had any thing from him and what I my Friends have done suffered in our estates for him is well known my promise never budded but it blosomed after in performance but his accusations are generall and I know not where to find him therefore I will not trouble my self nor the Reader to follow him because he is as a fish in the water And indeed I expected that he would have set forth something more perticuler concerning Worcester house but because he saith he hath it yet to divulge I shall cease troubling my selfe any further to untwist Bryars and Thorns before I be intangled therewith I know its more sutable to the Rules of the Gospell to be Defendant then Plaintiffe And I feare not the face of any man though Belzebub the Prince of the Devills and all his Train be set in battell-array against me to make thousands of people more wretched then they be by hindring my progress concerning the satisfaction of THE PUBLIQVE FAITH out of all discoveries of Lands concealed from and which doth Justly appertaine unto the Common-wealth and also out of all monyes in Treasurers and Collectors hands which they have concealed from THE COMMON-WEALTH as also all the estates of Convicted Papists and Delinquents undisposed of making this proviso that every mans Just right and legall interest should be preserved and industry considered and so It is desired that the Mynes and Lands under high-water-mark and Forrest Lands may be improved and Popish Cathedralls demolished and sold and that the overplus may be for THE RELIEF OF THE POORE and satisfaction of the LOSSES and other Just debts of the Nation according as the PARLIAMENT shall appoint Which some private men who seek their own mercenary ends more then the glory of GOD or THE PUBLIQVE GOOD do labor to oppose the Devill being alwayes at their elboes to stir them up thereunto And as touching Mr. Brown I confess ingeniously that although the Church hath excommunicated him justly Rev. 8.10 yet he houldeth forth many truths which he held and received when he was a Member with us But he is like the blazing Starre which Saint John saw fall from Heaven to the Earth burning He professeth totall seperation to cloake his abominable Hipocrisie disimulation as shall be made to appear shortly for he hath a burning zeale against these Ranters he professeth for totall seperation from the false Assemblies standeth for Common Justice imputting male factors to work who ought not by the Lawes of God to suffer death and that THEY ARE MVRDERERS WHO KILL THEM he is for the quite plucking down of the Idolatrous high places and yet he is a sinner against his own soule though he with Belz●bub confess that Christ is the Son of the blessed But his confessing Christ is of envy thinking to adde affliction to the poor Saints who have cast him out from amongst them for his wickedness for after he had brought in those persons whom he in his rare Epistle calleth famous Witnesses to prove his Charge D. Brown the Plaintiff after I had made my defence confessed that he was heartily sorry for charging me with Lying and Cheating and that he knew in his own conscience I was bonest and Just But that the Devill provoked him to accuse me and thereupon he prayed the Church to forgive him and urged the speech of Christ to Saint Peter to forgive often 70 times 7 times but when he saw that the Church would have a little more experience of him before they would admit him to the SACRAMENT from which he was suspended because he had so often played fast and loose with them in a dissembling way and desired him to Certifie under his hand the wrong that he had done that those that are without may be satisfied to whom he had caryed his lyes he then fell to justifie himselfe and to undo all his repentance and to charge the Church with sinne wherefore the Church seeing his wickednesse and obstinacy called upon me to discharge my duty and to pronounce the sentence and so he was cast out as a lyer and false accuser of the Brethren and as a hatefull person before God and man because of his sowing discord amongst them and persisting in his obstinacy Since which time he hath proceeded from evill to worse as if he were given up to a reprobate sence And whereas he saith he witnessed against the evills of divers false Doctrines which were by Samuell Chidley one of their Teachers delivered I shall declare the Doctrine what it is and leave the same to wise men to Judge of The Text from whence the Doctrine was raised is Isaiah 63.9 Surely they are my people Children that will not lye so he was their Saviour The Doctrine which was raised from the word will in that place Children that will not lye he accepted against And as a preparative to the Doctrine I noted many things And after