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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85109	The phanatiques creed, or A door of safety; in answer to a bloody pamphlet intituled A door of hope: or, A call and declaration for the gathering together of the first ripe fruits unto the standard of our Lord, King Jesus. Wherein the principles, danger, malice, and designe of the sectaries, are impartially laid open.		1661 (1661)	Wing F402; Thomason E1055_14; ESTC R208007	10,041	16

THE PHANATIQUES CREED OR A Door of Safety In Answer to a bloody Pamphlet INTITULED A Door of Hope OR A CALL and DECLARATION for the gathering together of the first ripe Fruits unto the STANDARD of our Lord KING JESUS Wherein the Principles Danger Malice and Designe of the Sectaries are Impartially Laid open London Printed for Henry Brome at the Gun in Ivy-lane 1661. THE PHANATIQUES CREED OR A Door of Safety c. ALthough That Party might very justly be deny'd the common Benefits of Indulgence and Protection that Declares it self against the Common Rules of Religion and Society Yet His Majesty is rather pleas'd by a gentle Interdiction of their Private meetings for the Future to Prevent more Mischief then by a Total Extirpation of the whole Faction so Principled to Punish the Outrages they have already Committed God grant they abuse not This Mercie too as they have done That already by virtue of which they doe at this Instant enjoy their Lives and Fortunes Never was so Foul a Villany Seconded by an Equal Madnesse For a Small Poor Rash Divided Hated and Despised Party to Invade the Numerous Potent Sober and United Interests of the Nation A People that enjoy'd all the Privileges of Englishmen and Citizens without any Provocation either from Necessity or Oppression These are your Men of Tender Consciences your streight-lac'd Christians The Spirits that some Twenty years since were Raised to Call for Justice upon Delinquents and Taught to Tumult for a Gospel-Ministry The Crosse the Surplice and the Common Prayer are an Abomination but Rebellion Blasphemy Murther Sacrilege Spilling of Christian Bloud like Water Playing the Devil in the Name of Jesus This they call Following of the Lamb. Rising against the séed of the Serpent In fine they ascribe to a Divine Impulse the lewdest Actions that ever proceeded from Corrupt Nature To Reason with them were to doe too much honour to their Grosse Wilde Opinions and Time Lost to oppose Argument against pretended Revelation It shall suffice me to expose their Principles and leave the World to judge whether they favour more of Christ or Belial To that end I have extracted the summe of the Phanatique Creed from one of their own Pamphlets Intitled A Door of Hope OR A CALL and DECLARATION for the gathering together of the first ripe Fruits unto the STANDARD of our Lord KING JESUS NOw your Attention to the Language of the Saints After an Invocation of the Holy Spirit Thus doth our Libeller discourse of his late Glorious Majesty Page 1. This beginning of Reformation and the honest Party engaged in this Quarrel however by far the less number God did abundantly own and witness too from heaven by opening his Salvation and making bare his own Arm against the late King who was justly out off as a Murtherer see Decl. of Parl. 11. Feb. 1647. Tyrant and Traytor c. Soon after in the same Page he goes on Neverthelesse God hath now taken away all our bancks and permitted this old Enemy to come in upon us as a flood Isa 59.19 And now C. S. the Son of that Murtherer is Proclaimed King of England whose Throne of Iniquity is built on the Blood of precious Saints and Martyrs and on the Blood of all our Brethren in the late Wars c. Not to trouble the Reader with his Nauseous Calculations and forc'd Glosses upon Texts in favour of his Delusion my Businesse is in as Few words as may be to shew how Dangerous to the Civil Magistrate and to the Publique Peace People of this perswasion are Their Dreams of Zion and of Babel and their setting Daniel and the Revelation together by the Ears about the Number of the Beast concern not me Those tedious Fooleries omitted as beside my Purpose I passe on to his second Page where speaking of the Royal Party he proceeds in these Terms For as he raised up Pharoah so hath he them to shew his Power in them and that his Name may be declared throughout all the Earth Rom. 9.17 They are brought as Foxes into the Snare and as Birds into the Net We say when we consider these things we are so ●ar from being dejected that we cannot restrain from singing and prais● knowing that this will make much for Gods Honour our good and this Works advantage and they shall not be able to touch one hair of our head nay we were very much confirmed in our hopes of the sudden appearance of this Work by the coming in of their poor wretched King at whom as the Daughter of Zion did at that great boasting Assyrian we laugh and have them in derision And when we consider the great opinions of this year the wonderfull effects it is like to produce the sweet harmony and agreement of the Prophecies the visibility of those things therein foretold to fall in the time of the Witnesses death the great likelihood of the Witnesses Resurrection the great New Covenant-Promise of the spirit made to this Work the wonderfull undeniable signs of the times and how miraculously we have been cut out and preserved for this Work of which we shall speak in a brief Treatise by it self And also having our hearts broken with the Love of Christ and boiling over and having tasted through choice distinguishing grace the Preciousness Power and Love of a soul-endearing Jesus we are mightily awakend and stirred up and that Fire that has been hid under our Ashes will break out into Flames n●d that Fountain of the Rivers of Living Waters into Streams as the bubbling Springs that searcheth the ground and finding entrance gusheth out Our Lives and every thing else that is dear unto us upon a worldly account we despise as a mean thing in comparison of the glory of that Name which is to us as precious Oyntment and we lay all down at the feet of our Lord Jesus resolving if we perish to perish there His Zeal growes now a little warm in these words Page 3. We therefore freely of a ready mind and with a most chearfull heart accounting it an Honour too great for us poor worms who are the meanest of Men the greatest of Sinners and the least of Saints to gird on a Sword for Christ Give up our Lives and Estates unto our Lord King Jesus and to his People to become Souldiers in the Lambs Army abhorring Mercenary Principles and Interests And for this works sake we desire not to love our lives unto the death neither will we ever if we may speak so great a word with reverence in the fear of God sheath our Swords again untill Mount Zion become the joy of the whole Earth a Mountain of holynesse and a habitation of justice untill Rome be in Ashes and Babylon become a bissing and a curse the border of wickednesse and the people against whom the Lord hath indignation for ever there being left unto her neither Name nor Remnant Son or Nephew For that we are not purposed when the Lord shall have

the Writer The Princes of ●ssachar with Deborah and Barak on foot in the Valley And if Reuben will continue in his divisions and abide among the Sheepfolds to hear the bleatings of the Flocks Gilead abide beyond Jordan Dan remain in Ships and Asher continue on the Sea-shore and abide in his breaches yet Zebulon and Napthali will be a People that will jeopard their lives unto the death in the high-places of the field and Meroz shall be accursed because they came not to the help of the Lord to the help of the Lord against the mighty And our heart being towards you that among all the people offer your selves willingly to the Work we beseech you set all things in order prepare your selves and let the Rich help the Poor that with one mouth we may all say Thine are we David and on thy side thou son of Jesse Peace peace be unto thee and peace be to thine helpers for thy God helpeth thee And if any of the old Army which God hath laid aside whose hearts he hath touched do quit their Interests and come to us on this alone lasting Foundation they shall be willingly received From hence to the End of the Pamphlet no lesse then 5. full Pages I find nothing Remarquable or usefull It is a Tedious and Confused Discourse full of Wrested Applications and Evident Disagreements concerning the Two Witnesses in the Revelation The scope of it is to perswade that the Dwellers upon the Earth are as he expresses himself Page 14. the Old Carnal Cavalier Popish Party who Quarrelling with the Witnesses about the Finishing Testimony as page 6. will probably be now destroy'd by the great Day of the Witnesses Rise in this present year 1660. His great Confidence being founded upon Mr. Mede 's Clavis Apocalyptica I shall only relate one material Observation concerning that Gentleman and apply my self then to the Dispatch of what I have to say Mr. Mede otherwise an eminent person was so absolutely perswaded that the King of Swede should destroy Antichrist that so far as possible he cast all his Calculations upon That Subject to That Byasse at last he found his Errour the King was slain and the Impression of that Mistake in the Judgement of his nearest Friends cost that worthy Gentleman his Life This is enough said upon this Subject I shall Endeavour now to make some use of what I have extracted from this Hellish Libell by drawing up in Short the sum of All That done I shall discourse upon it as I see convenient Take now the Fundamentals of this Reprobated Faction with a brief View of their Design The Fanatiques Creed I Do Believe all Governours Governments Laws and Constitutions to be Antichristian save Christ himself his Deputies his Visible Kingdom with his Laws and Statutes of which Laws his Saints shall be the Administrators but without any Literal Direction for upon them shall rest the Spirit of Counsel and Wisdom I do Believe according to the Prophets that in this present year 1660. all Carnal Powers shall be Destroy'd and that the Controversie lying between Zion and Babylon I am bound to List my self a Souldier to the Lamb and called to Rise on Gods behalf to Bind Kings in Chains c. to Raze and Root out all Constitutions Antichristian whatsoever and wheresoever and never to sheath my Sword till the Beast and Whore be destroy'd till Rome lye in Ashes and Babylon become a Hissing and a Curse c. Wherefore let all that have Lives to lay down for their King and Saviour come forth against the Wicked with the Sword and execute upon them the Judgements written As for the Late King he was a Murtherer a Tyrant and a Traytor so is his Son and further an Enemy and Rebell to Christ and we owe no Subjection to that Bloudy Family CAn any Loyal Modest or Christian Ear hear this Language without Tingling Can any Sober or Politique Constitution harbour these Vipers with either Honor or Security I doe confesse if This were but the Madnesse of some Few a man might Charitably impute it either to some unhappy Distemper of Complexion or a more deplorable Delusion But These are people only Frantique in their Opinions Their Actions have a Face of better Reason in Order to the Execution of their Damn'd purposes I grant for Number and for Interest they are not considerable in the Nation and yet what Mischiefs will not Twenty Bold Rogues effect if left at Liberty that are of This Perswasion We need not look far back to see the bloudy Determination of these wretches For my own Part I have but little Interest with those that sit at the Helm If I had more I would employ much of it to These three Ends. 1. To procure a strict severity against Seditious Preachers for 't was the Pulpit first Engaged and Licensed this Rabble tho' for another Interest which having serv'd Long enough they set up for Themselves Nay come to the very point of their late Tumult 't is more then probable that Venner's Preachment blew them into so sudden Action In the next place the Press I would advise should be well Look'd to That Preaches to the Whole Nation at once 'T is True some Pamphlets with the Printers and Authors have been discover'd but there are Others of a more Dangerous though of a smoother Composion that passe as current as if they had an Imprimantur not so much as look'd after to the right End but of Those I intend to say something further ere long Now my Third Care should be to disappoint the Intended Outrages of the Phanatiques And to That Purpose I would move that such of their Principles as are Inconsistent with the Constitution of this Nation and Destructive to it and Own'd for Theirs by themselves in This their Late prodigious Libell might be summ'd up together and offer'd to all suspected Persons and whosoever should Refuse under Hand and before Witnesses to disclaim the said Opinions I would have him commanded to depart the City and upon a Penalty not to be suffered to come within Twenty Miles of London without Licence If it be objected that This would make them Desperate I answer that their Principles render them so more then any thing else can and that while they reteyn Those Principles they are not to be Trusted when they Quit them they are not to be Punished Alas with how much Ease and Safety may this be done I was about to say how hazardous may it prove to leave it undone I am perswaded that the Fear of Danger where none is produces the Greatest Dangers Can it be Imagined that among so many Prostitute Devotes as they reckon themselves there are not some Combinations as well Personal as Publique to Act what I cannot even Conceive without Horrour If so Where but in This Town by whom but by this Faction can such a Villany be Attempted It 's True their Private Meetings are forbidden Yet they meet still in spite of Authority and in contempt of the Proclamation that forbids them If any further Mischief ensue let those that are to Look to 't Answer for 't I have here opposed a Door of Safety to their Door of Hope with the Submission of my Private Thoughts to due and Fayre Correction I am no Publick Minister but one that Truly Loves his Country and that heartily sayes GOD SAVE THE KING As to Their Jewish and Vngratefull Revilings of their Lawfull Prince That Prince who to save the Lives of these Vnmannerly Rebels hath exposed his Own I shall not trouble my self to Reply upon 't His Blessed Father was ended with a Superlative and Fatal Tendernesse The Best of Men and the most Vnhappy of Kings met in the same Person That our present Soveraign may be as Little the Latter as he is Perfectly the Former shall be my Earnest and Concluding Prayer January 15. 1661. FINIS