you please these or those t is utter untruth to utter any such thing as that infancy have the holy spirit much more that believers infants have it more then others neither is there any strength in any one thing you have presented the world with to prove either one of these or yet the other and howbeit I say suppositively that all appear to have it if any at all by what you have here produc'd in proof on 't yet I 'le positively prove and partly by way of answer to your own argument that neither â—…ll infants have the holy spirit nor any at all in such non-age as you falsly supposing they have it do thereupon baptize in to this end I would I wist what you mean by the holy Ghost as you call him but I all along the holy spirit I am in doubt you scarcely well know your selves oâ—… else you would not predicate him to be in infants in such wise as here you do I 'le indeavour therefore to search out what your meaning may be by á serious survey of the senses which the holy spirit seems to be taken in in the word of which I am confident if you know what you mean you must mean one The spirit which is but one and the self same in substance where ere he is is yet spoken of in Scripture in two and but two different senses in general so far as I find and that answerably to two different offices which he exercises towards two different kinds of men in the world viz. godly and wicked believers and unbelievers Saints and sinners these two several offices which that one holy spirit is found in towards these severall sorts of men are either more common or more special general or peculiar the common or general office of the spirit is to convince and inlightes draw move perswade strive with men to bring them into the way of obedience to God and of their own good and this he executes universally to all men and in this sense is in all men and women good and bad godly and wicked Saints and sinners Jews and Gentiles Christians and heathens but not in the one day old infants of any of all these that I know of The will of man even every man so soon as he comes to such capacity as to be able to discern between good and evill stands ever after even all the daies of his life between two wooers that sollicit him and seek to win him to their service and which ere wins him finally to its service will everlastingly and accordingly reward him with life or death Rom. 6. 17. to v. 23. Gal. 6. 7 8. And these two are mans flesh and Gods spirit which are evermore lusting in him one against the other and between them perswading him each in their kind in this sense he is in the blindest heathens that breath on earth natural fools and infants onely excepted of whom as far as nothing is required because nothing revealed so far they have nothing to answer for yea the very Gentiles which have not any law in an outward letter as we have are said Rom. 2. 14 15. to be a law unto themselves and to shew the work of the law written in their hearts and to have their conscience and thoughts witnessing within accusing and excusing one another which can be no other though commonly call'd the light of nature then a light from God and Christ who is said to enlighten every man that cometh into the world and so doth more or less even such as never yet knew his person as the Sun sends some light in some corners of the earth where the body of it is not at all discerned yea the very spirit of God shining and striving in them answerably to which Gods spirit is said Gen. 6. to strive with man even those evill men of the old world that rebell'd against it by which spirit Christ himself is said to have preacht to those disobedient persons while the long suffering of God waited on them in the daies of Noah whose outward ministry he also used while the Ark was preparing 1 Pet. 3. 19 20 the same spirit is said Ioh. 16. to be sent to convince the very world of sin righteousness and judgement yea the stiff-necked and uncircumcised Iews both in heart and ears are said Act. 7. alwayes to have resisted the holy spirit which they could not have done had he not wrestled with them yea within them thus farre all men have him even ill men the worst in the world at some time or other by which spirit the Son of righteousness is the light of the Microcosme or inward world of mans heart as the Sun by the beams that stream from the body of it is the light of the Megacosme or outward universe In this sense I cannot conceive you take the holy spirit here or if you do you mistake not a little if you say infants have him thus for howbeit in these ordinary wayes of his acting all persons male and female may be said to have him at the years of capacity to distinguish yet infants of one day old have him not in this sense or if they had 't will make no more for the baptism of them then of all men and women in the world much less have they him in those special waies of acting in which he acts in the Saints till at least they come to be so far past that minority as to be sensible of his acting towards them Which speciall and more eminent acts and offices of the spirit are on this wise viz. special assisting in doing good when by common strivings with them men are perswaded and prevaild with to set about it and when in his first motions he is obey'd also comforting supporting in and under troubles trials sufferings temptations persecutions which will assuredly light on those that do obey him assuring souls more and more clearly of Gods love and favour witnessing to their spirits that they are the children of God enabling them with boldness to cry Abba father sealing them up to the day of Redemption confirming them as an earnest in their present confidence of a future inheritance kingdom glory revealing to them more plainly the things freely given of God so that they rejoice mainly therein whilst others to whom these things are foolishness rejoice in the things of the world lusts of the flesh and of the eye and of the pride of life lusting strongly against the flesh delivering from the law of sin and death warring against the law of the members effectually which else would carry captive to the law of sin mortifying the deeds of the body teaching all things leading into all truth guiding and gifting persons for the Churches service severally as he will bringing all things to remembrance which Christ spake which are subject to be forgotten manifesting the Father the Son and many more things to them that love Christ and keep his commandements which he will not
Religion then your children are unclean and this is truth for so the children are in this civil sense if begotten and born out of matrimony whether the parents be believers or no buâ—… the other is not truth for whether both or but one or none of the parents believe the infants for that cause alone and without respect to matrimony are in no sense ere the more holy or unclean Thirdly and this will yet appear more plainly if you consider that faith alone in either one or both the parents begetting out of wedlock cannot sanctifie the seed so begotten with this civil holiness here meant no nor with that faederall holiness you plead for nor could it do so even then when that holinesse or birth priviledge you talk of was in force as now it is not viz. in the daies of the law for if two believers came together then out of marriage their seed were not onely base born and so unclean in this our sense but also to the tenth generation uncapable to be admitted into the congregation and so consequently unclean even in your own Deut. 32. 2. whereupon how Pharez and Zarah were dealt with it matters not sith they were born before the law was given Ieptha was exempted from any inheritance with his brethren because he was the son of a strange woman Iudg. 11. 2. and Davids unclean issue by Bathsheba that in the wisdome of God was taken away by death on the seventh day might not surely without breach of the law have been accounted holy and of the congregation if he had lived beyond the eighth whereupon your selves also are much fumbled about the holinesse of bastards and the baptism of base-begotten babies so that you scarcely know how to behave your selves about it though the parents sinning be believers at least en-churched in your Churches yea it s generally known saith Mr Cotton that our best Divines do not allow the baptism of bastards and though he is pleased to say they allow it not sine sponsoribus without Sureties yet I wonder sith Deut. 23 〈◊〉 2. Gods denial of such of old is made the ground of their denial of such now to enter into the Congregation as unholy that our Divines dare take on them to admit cum sponsoribus and so to go besides their own Rule viz. the order of things under the law wherein God gave no such allowance but to let that tolleration pass which they take to themselves you may learn thus much of your selves if you will that though wedlock without faith make a holy seed in our sense yet faith without wedlock in the parents can make a holy seed neither in our sense nor in your own nor any at all for the infants of the married are holy but believers bastards are both civilly and federally unclean inso much that your selves see cause to refuse as federally holy the spurious seed euen of those whose lawfull issue you unlawfully sprinkle Fourthly if you more seriously consider that the holinesse in the Infant here must needs be the fruit and result of that and that must needs be the cause of the holiness here spoken of in the infant quo posito ponitur sanctitas sublato tollitur which being in the parents a holinesse must necessarily be thereupon which not being in the parents a holinesse cannot be in the seed for positâ causà ponitur effect us sublata tollitur abstract the cause and the effect cannot be suppose the cause and the effect cannot but be now that which if it be not in the parents the holiness is not but being in them the holinesse is consequently in the infants 't is not the faith but the conjugal or marriage Relation of the parents for as for the first of these viz. faith it may be in one yea in both of the parents and yet no federal holinesse at all be in the infants witness Ishmael the seed of Abraham the father of the faithful and his Sons by Keturah also born of him after Co venant made with him and his seed in Isaac and Iacob and yet neither of them in that Covenant witnesse the base born children of true believers among the Jews suppose David and Baâ—…hsheba which for all the parents faith could not by the law be admitted in thâ—… Congregation nor have that birth-priviledge to be reputed holy which from the parents faith you universally intail to the infants moreover this birth-priviledge and Covenant-holiness by generation which did inright to Church ordinances which once was but now is a non-entity and out of date might be then when it was in being in children in whose parents faith was not found at all for most of the Iews were unbeiievers yet all their legitimate children were holy federally therefore faith in the parent cannot be the cause of such a thing yea if you will believe Mr Blake himself the strictest pleader for a birth-priviledge of federal holiness in Infants that ever I met with and that from this very place he condescends so far as to contribute one contradiction to himself toward the helping of the truth in this case viz. That faith in the parâ—…nt is not the cause of this holinesse whilst making the holinesse in this text to be a birth priviledge or Church-Covenant holinesse and to be the fruit and result of the faith of the believing parents and consequently their faith to be the sole and proper cause of the same he confesses flatly elsewhere page 4. that a loose life in the parent and mis-belief which is as bad in some cases worse then unbelief for which is worse to believe false things or not to believe true yea Apostacy from the faith which all if they be not inconsistent with faith I know not what is do not divest nor debar the issue from having that holiness which himself saies is meant in this text Babist Perhaps he means not by faith strictly the parents true believing but in generall his being in the covenant and faederally holy himself and so a cause of this federal holiness in the issue Baptist. First Paul means true believing here in 1 Cor. 7. 14. whether Mâ—… Blake do or no. Secondly what will he get as to the point in hand by his Synonamizing faith and faederall holiness for still neither the one nor the other is made here the cause of the holiness of the seed for the holiness here spoken of may be where neither of them is and may not be in the seed even where they are both in the parent as for example in Ezras time Ezra 10 3. we find abundance of the Jews both Priests and people that were in the faith or at least in faederall holiness yet the children were put away as unholy as well faederally as otherwise because their marriage was unlawfull and that bed adulterous wherein they lay with strange wives Ezra 10. 3. and that both parents possibly may be faithful and faederally holy and yet their seed be in all
Christs Burial but his own practise confutes him clearly in this for as the Ministers hand with which Dr. Featley resembles Christs burial is not dipt three daies together under water so the infusion of water upon the face of the infant which why may it not represent the burial as well as dipping quoth Mr. C. p. 17. doth not last for three daies together neither Thus you see how well Mr. Baxter and Mr. Cook have quitted themselves in their proof of our practise to be murder and against the sixth commandement and what high and mighty reason Mr. Baxter hath to accuse us to the magistrate as murderers and to suggest it his duty to him out of Mr. Craddock to restrain us to save the lives of his subjects and not to suffer but to destroy us Rantist But if you give way to Mr. Baxter to answer for himself he clears himself of moving the magistrates to destroy you I never moved Magistrate or people saith he p. 246. either to drive them out of the Land or to destroy them Baptist. What an egregious untruth is there doth he not say here if those that make it Religion to Murder themselves and urge it on their consciences as their duty are not to be suffered in a common-wealth any more then High-way Murderers then judg how these Anabaptists that teach the necessity of such dipping are to be suffered Is not this to tell men that we are no more to be suffered in a Common-wealth then high way Murderers which high way Murderers Mr. Baxters conscience I dare say desires that they may not be suffered but may suffer no lesse then hanging and yet dares he say he stirs not up the Magistrate against us I know not what is to excite the Magistrate against persons if this be not to charge them to be as guilty as high way Murderers which if he judges us to be indeed he is bouâ—…d both in law and conscience to prosecute us to the very death but if he in his conscience judges us not to be such as oh how after to the contradiction of himself in this doth he judge more charitable of us then so e. g. p. 310. where he saith who dare think their error to be such and yet such is high way murder when lived and died in as concludeth them from grace then Imarvel how he dare charge us so high as to rank us with and represent us as bad and as unworthy to be suffered in a Commonwealth as high way Murderers themselves especially since it remains yet on his part unproved that ever any disciple dyed in the time of dipping or by occasion of submission to that dispensation Rantist If there be not such danger of death to the Baptized yet the Baptizers may be murderers of themselves for it is evident that if the Minister must go into the water with the party it will certainly tend to his death saies Mr. Baxter p. 137 though they may scape that go in but once for weak Students to make a frequent practise of going into the water it will cure their ich after novelties and allay the heat of their intemperate zeal therefore me thinks saies Mr. Baxter the Ministers should have regard to themselves Baptist. Me thinks so too or else they are not like their wonted selves for self was ever yet for ought I see regarded by most Nationall Ministers much more then truth But I pray Sirs how certainly will it tend to your Ministers death any more then it doth to the death of our Ministers that do dispense it among whom I have known men full as sickly though not half so selfish as you that have often dipped men in the sharpest seasons and yet never lay by it so much as once but your ministers are weak students indeed that are studyed no further in common sense and reason and experienced no more in cold and other Gospel hardships which Paul was skilled in then to think that genum tenus must certainly and unavoidably make an end of them unless the Lord by a miracle deliver them and such as are fitter to make Curates of for Gentlemens chappels of ease then to take care of the poor afflicted Church of Christ. Rantist Well if it do not prove to be murder and so against the eighth commandement yet I am sure it will prove to be adultery to dip naked as they say you do and so flatly against the seventh for either you dip naked or you do not if you do not then you cannot dip the whole body but if you do if that be not so shame fully sinful as is scarce fit to be named among Christians I know not what is and this Mr. Cook and Mr. Baxter doth intimate to us whose words I shall also intimate to you at the present I would know with these new dippers saith Mr. Cook whether the parties to be doused and dipped may be baptized in a garment or no if they may then happily the garment may keep the water from some part of the body and then they are not rightly â—…baptized for the whole man say they must be dipped Again I would ask what warrand they have for dipping or baptizing garments more then the Papists have for baptizing bells therefore belike the party must be naked and multitudes present as at Johns baptism and the parties men and women at ripe years being able to make confession of their faith and repentance yet though they both sin against the sixth commandement indangering life and against all common honesty and civility and Christian modesty required in the seventh commandement they must have this way observed because they fancy it the onely baptism shall we think saith he this was the baptism of John Christ and his Apostles thus he And saies Mr. Baxter Another wickednesse in their manner of baptizing is their dipping persons naked as is very usuall with many of them or next to naked which is usuall with the modestest that I have heard of against which I argue thus If it be a breach of the seventh commandement thou shalt not commit adultery ordinarily to baptize the naked then it is intollerable wickednesse and not Gods ordinance but so it is therefore The Minor is thus evident saith he that commandement forbids all incitements to uncleannesse and all immodest actions but to baptize women naked is an immodest action and an incitement to uncleanness therefore and to this he saies Mr. Tombes answered it was thought no immodesty in former times but though it may seem no immodesty in Countries where they still go naked yet among such as are not savages me thinks it should saith Mr. Baxter if Mr. T. could baptize naked all the Maids in Bewdly and think it no immodesty he hath lost his common ingenuity and modesty with the truth Thirdly every good man is to watch over his heart and to pray that he be not led into temptation and would it be no snare and temptation to Mr. T. to be
the Gods of the earth to judge all men that are under you whether in the Church or of the world in earthly cases and matters of meer secular concernment that you are not the Gods of heaven that is the Church so far as to meddle at all as earthly judges to correct in those meer heavenly cases and though the PPPriests perswade you t is a piece of acceptable service to God to let your whole Nations be by law from you compelled to be their Churches that as you civilly so they uncivilly may go hand in hand Moses Aron like share with you in subjecting violently all souls your selves too to their SSSacer dot all suggestion in soul cases that you may lawfully punish Hereticks into the hearing of them banish them into a blind obedience to their directions yet I am bold in the Lord to assure you that as you should have little thank from him should you force men to such a worship as for the matter of it is according to Christs will against their own so will he once check you in wrath if you repent not in time for forcing all men to worship after the CCClergies will against Christs for as the first is at best but a piece of honest ignorance so this last is at least no lesse then a piece of divellish darknese Rev. 13. 7. 8. Hearken no more therefore O ye the Magistrates as you respect the true good of your Republiques to the clamors of your CCClergy when they cry out to you to hunt out Hereticks i. e. such as after the way they call heresie so worship God where by they run you unavoidably if you run after them upon certain ruine and on the hazard of fighting against God and then wo be you of rooting the wheat his Saints out of the Field the world in which it ought to stand and the tares too even till the harvest and of infinit cumbrances inconveniences and brangles about Church matters wherein as Magistrates you are not so immediately concâ—…rned as they dictate to you who are such a contentious sect of men both with all others and each with other about one Church businesse or other continually that t is impossible now specially since truth is returning home which they have so long driven from her own border but that the nations will be imbrued in their own and one anothers blood in defence of their fopperies if you engage as oft as they would egge you to it on their behalfs What animosities have ever been between the Temporalty and these Lords Spiritual What quarrels and jarres between the Fryers of several orders what whole Countrey clashes and consumptions have been made in Germany between the Calvinists and Lutherans what inveteracy between the CCClergy of the severall FFFormes of Government which though they can agree all against the true Clergy or heritage of God yet hate each other unto the death yea oh the infinite wrangâ—…gs and little lesse then divellish dissentions wherewith as with a sire they have wasted all corners of their CCâ—…Christendomes that they have been more like the places of burying dead bodies then like the houses of Christs flock yea they have consumed themselves in their miserable burning whilest in their holy wars they have called 〈◊〉 â—…everally the civil sword to the ultimate determining of their spiritual controversiâ—…s and made carnal weapons the instruments of their churches warfare as if the best way to coâ—…vert the nations to Christ were to convert them to dust and ashes how have they sâ—…amed upon occasion of different opinions so as to tear and rend people to pieces and engage them their princes at swords point for their lusts and wills sake how have they cast the people from one element to another one falie way unto another till they have made whole Countreys Cities and their own Academies Aâ—…aes feild of blood and like foaming and â—…aging waves of the Sea shâ—…ving together for the dictates of that kind of Clergy still that they are the Sâ—…ries of insomuch that some observant spirits have wisht to dy and depart this life among other ends for this that they might be delivered from the sight of the implacable hatred of Divines all which thiâ—…gs also do take off the Magistracy from a tendance to their main businesse of relieving the oppressed judging the fatherlâ—…sse pleading for thâ—… widâ—…w and the works of justice and mercy among their people which God will have and noâ—… sacrifice and take beâ—…ter from them then the improvement of themselves to set up either the Pâ—…pe the Prelate or the Prâ—…yier or establish any form of Religion whatsoever by a law On the eâ—…re that the Powers would consider it though I fear me mâ—…st nations in Châ—…e will not till they pay dear for theiâ—… learning and leave their people free to clâ—…use what God they will serve and which way they will serve the true God by suffering all waies to stand before them in the world and be objected fairly to their tryall then shâ—…ll truth be sure to be told them as well as errour and leave them without excuse that shall rejectâ—… Mean while as to the civil interest of the whâ—…e and each pâ—…re of heir Commonweaâ—…s to see strictly to it that they atâ—…end contiâ—…lly on 〈◊〉 very thing for which they are when once the ordâ—…nence of men by their election the ordinance and ministers of God and to be â—…red to as both the ordinance of God and man and that for both conscience sâ—…ke and the Lords that they attend upon the protection of all people from being injâ—…d one by â—…er in any cases pertaining to externalls and the maintaining â—…f outwaâ—… peace civilâ—…ty and good mâ—…ners in all men to the whole and to each other by punishâ—…g â—…vil dâ—…s of such a nature and rewarding of such as do well without parâ—…ality or respect to any persons or parties in which cases Reguâ—… est parâ—… subâ—…is â—…t deâ—…llare superboâ—… thus doing they must necessarily maintain true Religâ—…n too so far as they are called as Magistrates to maintain it whilst when all states â—…ave trod it down under pretence of maintaining it that supprest all as Schism that suited not with the Monarchiall minds of the men called CCClergy this state sets it up as far as men may or can set it up that suffers it to live and thrive among the false If there be any matter of wrong or wicked lewdness done by any as well members of the true Church as any other reason wills and therefore no Christians but CCClergy man and their creatures whose way is against reason will be against it that such should suffer according to the law in that behalf whether unto bonds or unto banishment or unto confiscation or unto death without benefit of the Clergy who have benedicted all benefits to themselves and not be favoured because members or because Ministers of such Churches neither is it fit
Popes â—…oins the two P Priesthoods of the Protestant party might have lorded it longer like their father who will never be dead as long as they are alive had they not been as iron and steel against truth and true worshippers whom God makes as hard as slint against their faces that by their concussions against it he may the more fully fetch it forth the oppositions and imprisonments which Paul met with from the adverse party whereby they intended to smoother it in his daies fell out rather to the furtherance of the Gospel for it came to be the more manifest in all places by means of errors so earnest appearance against it 1 Phil. 12. to 19. Thus truth hath gained ground not a little in these latter daies by the ominous onsets wherewith falsehood fights it and would fain fright and force it to hide its head and wisdome works out it self not a little to light by follies flying so furiously at the face of it 3. That the truth might be better loved and more price set upon it we prize light the more by our knowledge of darkness health by our sense of sicknesse errour is a foil to a Diamond truth looks more lovely being compared with it The lilly looks most lovely and beautifull when it stands among black thornes 2 Cant. 2. the stars though ever obvious to us would never shine if there were no night contraria juxta se posita maxime eluâ—…scant contraries set together discover each other more lively in their severall loathsome or lovely formes the light of the Sun shewes brightest seemes sweetest when it breaks from under a dark cloud so does the Sun of righteousnesse now arising appear the more lovely by how much it hath been hid from the earth now of long time by that dismall darknesse and smoak of Heresies erroneous false worships and foolish figments with which the CCClergy hath filled all parishes throughout CCChristendome 4 For the punishment of hypocrites nominall Christians curious Minds such as have itching eares and heap unto themselves teachers stragling sheep fall into the wolves clutches such as will not keep the steps of the flock but go after the flocks of the Companions ever fall into most dangers of seducement all which is most plain by too woful experience in all Nations of CCChristendome for while Christianity and the Gospel was professed sincerely as it was saving some remote beginnings of mens traditions to take place against the commands of Christ in the first three hundred years wherein t was evidenced by the ten bloody persecutions that Christians served Christ for love then and not for loaves nor for lives sake neither for they loved not their lives unto the death there were not half so many Hereticks or Heresies as have been since but when once after Constantine Christianity comming into credit and being not onely owned by the Emperors themselves but established by their edicts in all things according to the pattern shewed them in the word not of Christ but of the Catholique Clergy convened in Councels as the Religion sub paena to be submitted to men turned Christians upon such sleight grounds and were born to that Name of Christianity without the Nature no otherwise then of the will of man and were no more then nomine tenus professors of it the Lord in his just and 〈◊〉 judgement to these nominal Christians permitted those Spiritual plagues that we â—…e Rev. 8. Rev. 9. seconded the sounding of the trumpets to fall thick and three fold upon the world suffered the Clergy to fall to contentions jars and janglings about their ambitious interests viz. primacy and universallity c and to Apostatize more and more from the plain primitive truth and to degenerate be degrees into darknesse till they came at last to be totally blinded in things of God and blind leaders of the blind Princes and people that implicitly gâ—…ve up themselves to be guided by them that both might drop together into the ditch yea he suffered that great star the Bishop of Rome that sometime shone very bright to fall as wormwood upon the third part of the waters the pure doctrine of the Gospel i. e. to foist in his heresies to the poisoning and imbittering of the doctrine so that many died even all that drank thereof because it was bitter and unwholsome and he suffered the third part of the Sun and Moon and Stars all the means and waies of Christs own institution and appointment to give light unto men by to be smitten and darkned corrupted covered with false glosses depraved with heaps of heresies and traditions c. crept in and authorized by the Pope and his Ecclesiastical Dâ—…ctors so that what with the damnable and horribly devillish heresies by means of Mahomet and his Alcoran infecting the Orientall Christians through all Asia and these Papisticall errors of those Arch-Hereticks the Pope and CCClergy and Scholastick Rabbies who with vain deceit seduced the Occidental part of the world from the simplicity that is in Christ the day shone not for a third part of it the might likewise i. e. the third part of that pure and pretious truth of Christ which shined in the primitive Churches was now exclipsed and extinguisht neither had men by the third part so much of that clear light of Christs Gospel that they were wont to have in former dayes yea further in way of plague and punishment to hypocrites and meer nominal Christians the Lord at last suffered that star which fell before or angel of the Church of Rome when he was fallen from all his heavenlinesse and love of truth to earthlinesse and love of money and honour from beneath to open the bottomlesse pit i. e. the way to the very depth of hellish darknes and to raise up a smoak or thick fog of errors and heresies lies traditions which as the smoak of some great furnace darkened the sun and air i. e. totally put out the light of Scripture and pure administrations which were but 〈◊〉 part ecclipsed before so that now nothing could be seen as it were but Popish legends and such stuff by the advantage of which smoother the Locuâ—…s came out i. e. the Clergy that swarmed all over the earth in every parish one at least stinging hurting wounding to eternal death by their poisonous doctrines propounded under pretence of the word of Christ all persons save such as have the seal of God in their foreheads even a few witnesses to the truth that withstood their doctrins which locusts are said to be scorpions i. e. carrying a fair face but stings in their tailes and to have crowns because of their great power for under their great King Apollyon they rule all and reign ore the Kings of the earth These are they that outwardly wear the sheeps cloathing i. e. cloth themselves with the denominations of Clergy Gods heritage Spiritual men Priests men of God which are the true titles of the sheep but