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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

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

those that were broken they knit not together but rattled them with sternship and with power And Lord these hired men they nefeeden thy sheep in thy plenteous Leasow but feeden thy sheep with sweines and false miracles and tales but at thy truth they ne come not For Lord I trow thou sendest them never And of these hired men speaks Jeremiah and thou saiest in that word by him I ne send them not and they run quickly but I ne spake unto them For if they had stood in my councel The Spiritual man is locked in Prison by those that have the Key of Cunning. they would have turned people from the evil of their wayes and their evil thoughts For Lord thou saiest thy Word is as a fire a hammer breaking stones but from the least to the most they study covetousness and from the Priest to the Prophet all they have done guile And Lord this is much mischief and matter of sorrow and yet there is more For if a lewd man that is a lea-man teach thy people truth of thy Words as he is upholden by thy Commandment of Charity he shall be forbidden and put in prison if he do it And so those that have the key of cunning have Tho. Cromwell Earl of Essex and Sr. John Old-castle testified against Tithes and it is verily believed that both were put to death for their Testimony locked the truth of thy teaching under many Wards and hid it from the children But Lord sith thy teaching is come from Heaven above our hope is that with thy Grace it shall break these Wards and shew him to thy people to keel both the hunger and thirst of the soul And then shall no shepheard nor no false hired man beguile thy people no more Lord thou givest us a Commandment of truth in bidding us say yea yea nay nay and swear for nothing and truly Lord I trow that if thou were now in the World and taughtest as thou didst sometime thou shouldest be done to death for thy Teachings is damned for Heresie of the Wise men of the World So that by this ye may plainly see that the hireling in former ages was testified against and the Lord was not without a witness though oppressed then as at this day And as for the Tithes which Antichrist the Pope vomited forth of his mouth and was first introduced by Augustine one of his Fryers here in England I might say something in particular of it but being a Christian and believing and knowing that all shadows and types whatsoever must give leave to the substance and also knowing that the good thing is come and the great Prophet heard And others who believe in Christ having more then sufficiently refell'd what is possible to be said in honour of that Idol Therefore I set my feet upon that dunghill being with my self by all the reasonable and unconcerned men in the Natons troden upon in their hearts And for such as are yet unsatisfied I refer them to Anthony Persons Book and The book is sold by Giles Calvert at the sign of the black spread Eagle at the west end of Pauls the price about six pence I do not question but it may satisfie settle and establish all men against the very foundation birth and bringing in of that bad thing except I say the greedy receiver who is so greedy of filthy lucre that he can never have enough and is unsatisfied unsetled and unstable in all his wayes For when a Priest dyes and the Parsonage be great Oh! how the rest will swarm about the Donator and hunt like dogs that runs for the carcase of a dead horse and it may be ten of them at least shall pretend a call and if by whining flattery symony or subtility any one of them can procure it it s much if in his very first Sermon he be not so prophane as to begin with a lye in his mouth and tell the people being called amongst ye by the Lord and brought into this place by his Providence Whereas indeed it is the gain of that quarter which its like may be much bigger then that from whence he came and it is theirs and not them for which he really came or hunts and that 's his call Yea I know some of them may fitly be compared to Crows Dogs and Rooks that when the Beast is sick the Ravens will pick his eyes out before the dogs shall get him so some of them in my knowledge have been trying for the Parsonage before the incumbent hath been quite dead Now from the bottom of my heart I do believe that the Cut-purses and Goal-birds are not more disingenious towards one another as men then some of these men are in case a fat Parsonage be to be parted by the teeth amongst them so that their godliness is not great gain but their great Parsonage is their great gain and their quarterly gain is their God And that they are very disingenious hear what I have farther to say of them I have many times asked several of these hired men why they did pillage and take away from those that did not hire them set them a-work nor come to hear them Their common answer was and is Their Church was open So doth ●●e gates of Hell who as will may enter and who as will may come and it is not our faults say they if they come not I answer so is every trades-mans shop in the Nation or very same Parish and he may as well say to those which are not his but another mans customers My shop stands open and I have as good ware as another thou mayest have it if thou wilt it s my trade and my goods are to be sold Answer I like them not I will not have them Now I appeal to any reasonable man upon earth if he the said trades-man should lay hold on me and take away my cloak coat bed-cloaths brass pewter cattel corn c. for his goods which I like not and by me refused and by him undelivered to me Admit him to be a seller of good books as the Bible and other Just mens works and writings I say I appeal to the whole World whether this man that so takes away my goods be not as real a thief in the sight of God and good man as him that robs upon the high way And by this all true men may plainly see the unjust afflictions persecutions bondage and oppression the seed of God lyeth under at this day by the seed of the evil doers and cruel men who lye in wait to devour widows houses and destroy the innocent Even as a troop of Robbers lie in wait for a man to murther in the way by consent they hunt every man his neighbour with a net And that they may do evil with both hands earnestly some of us they did distrain and sue in the Exchequer for one and the same matter Where the greedy Lawyer asketh for

Dignities and Powers and things ye know not but at least stand still and behold the salvation of our God and lend not your power to the slaying of the innocent Lambs of Christ for verily if the Rock fall upon ye or ye upon it it will grinde ye all to dust Therefore my dear friends do not presume to sin all the dayes of your appointed time and clap hands with the oppressor and uphold a bad generation to do wrong to the innocent but be ye holy and do equally be ye perfect as the heavenly Father is perfect and as he is so be ye in this very evil World that when ye come to die ye may have nothing else to do but to die and enter into the rest Wherefore be wise in heart for the Lord requireth truth in the inward parts and that ye do unto all men as ye would be done unto Nicodemus saith unto them Doth our law judge any man before it hear him and knoweth what he doth Jo 7. 50 51. And I would have ye to exceed Nicodemus or at least be as noble as he was who came to Jesus but by night the Officers answered never man spake like this man Then answered them the Pharisees Are ye also deceived have any of the Rulers or of the Pharisees believed on him but this people who know not the Law are accursed John 7. 46 47 48 49 Shouldst thou help the ungodly and love them that hate the Lord Therefore wrath is upon thee from before the Lord and Jehosaphat went out again thorow the people from Beer-sheba to Mount-Ephraim and brought them back unto the Lord God of their fathers And he set Judges in the Land thorowout and said to the Judges take heed what ye d● for ye Judge not for man but for the Lord Wherefore now let the fear of the Lord be upon ye take heed and do it for there is no iniquity with the Lord our God nor respect of persons nor taking of gifts And he charged them saying Thus shall ye do in the fear of the Lord faithfully and with a perfect heart 2 Chron. 19. 2 4. 5 6 7 9. And the Lord will shew himself strong in the behalfe of them whose hearts are perfect towards him I say Joshua went through the Land and set Judges in every City and brought them back unto the Lord God of their Fathers he also overthrew the high-places burnt up the groves destroyed idolatry raced down the Images and stamped to powder the things and places which were polluted though once commanded of God and that it is as needfull for some to go thorow England and our Cities to place and set Judges as at the beginning I shall here lay open and before the World some few of the Idolatries and heathenish customs that are in use and practice in one of our Cities namely Oxford which ye hirelings call one of the famous Universities nurceries for Religion springs fountains or eyes of the Nation from whence cometh the blind guides who leadeth the blind and blindeth too too many but I think if the Nation were blind of that eye and that spring were dryed up which indeed is but a standing puddle that deceit might no more issue out of her happy were it for many pretious souls which are ruined by the breath and stinke of her nostrils And if she hath not need to be visited read some few of her statutes which are as followeth and then judge her and her trades-men and when thou hast read them if she be worthy of life let her have it if of death let her die for there is thousands of witnesses against her and her Popish off-spring in this the day of the Lord everlasting praises be given to his Name who hath made known and revealed his truth to babes and the contemptible and despised ones of the World and hath hid it from the wise and vultrous eye In the first place see what the Independants in King James his reign had against the Universities and their brood for which they were called Brownists in the Book entituled An Apologie or defence of such true Christians as are commonly but unjustly called Brownists Printed 1604. The third Petition pag. 58 59. The seventh Position That the due maintenance of Ministers should be of voluntary and free Contribution and not by Popish Lordship and Livings or Jewish Tithes and offerings And that therefore the Lands and like Revenues of the Prelates and Clergy yet remaining may be taken away and converted to better use as those of the Abbies and Nunneries have been heretofore to the honour of God and great good of the Realm Whereunto are subjoined the proofs of the Scripture and several Arguments deduced from Scripture to prove the unlawfulness of them The twelfth Position pag. 75 76. That all Monuments of Idolatry in garments or any other things invented or dedicated heretofore by the Heathens or Anti-Christians to their false worship ought to be raced and abolished and not suffered to remain to nourish superstition much less imployed to the Worship of God Whereunto are added proofs of Scripture to enforce it The thirteenth Position pag. 77. That Popish degrees in Divinity and the studying of prophane Heathen writers with other lik● corruptions should be removed With proofs of Scripture and several reasons to confirm the same And if any now say what are Idolatrous Popish ceremonies and degrees to us of England I answer There are the same now in use which were of old For instance in Oxford all the formalities and habits which were formerly counted superstitious by all the then called Puritans are now again not only in fashion and credit amongst them of the University but also accounted necessary so that if any Schollar of the University for Conscience sake cannot wear them he must loose his vote and priviledge and not take any degree T is true that while the Army continued in Action it was thought necessary to lay them aside at least for a time for fear of scandal and provoking tender conscienees but since the Army have forgot to look after them they are a licking up their old vomit and all the vestments and formalities appointed them by their father the Pope in use and credit defended in their speeches at the Act and those men counted factious who witness against them though of their own fraternity And if any one will compare the Oxford statutes with the discription of theirs in other Anti-christian Popish Universities beyond Seas he may see that there are not onely the same superstitious ceremonies and Idolatrous habits but far more in number and greater in pomp then there are in the very greatest Seats of Antichrist beyond Sea And for their sakes who cannot come to see them or it may be never heard of them I have subjoined a little Catalogue of them which are yet in practice to omit the more notorious which are not observed since the Wars to satisfie the World what Reformation