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A14660	The English pharise, or religious ape Being the weekes worke of a poore vnlearned professor of the gospell of Christ, zealously and truely checking the counterfeit professor, but open persecutor of Christs true doctrine and disicpline. By Iohn Walker, dwelling at Leeds in Yorkshire.	Walker, John, dwelling at Leeds in Yorkshire.	1616 (1616)	STC 24962; ESTC S102097	38,058	238

contrary thou art to Icsus Christ and to his followers doth appeare by the fruits of thy doctrin who by thy accusing and condemning iudgemēts hast not only caused many to fall from Christ vnto desperation which is most fearefull but likewise for all the rest which take liking to the same which are infinite in multitudes are becom such deadly haters of their Brethren euen vnto that height of sinne that they blush not to make good their hateful minds by the Scripture the place they alleage where Dauid by a most prophetical spirit against the enemies of God being bloud-thirsty men desired God not only to slay those wicked people but h●…e goeth on further in the sincerity of his hart as prophesying of them what should become of such saying Do not I hate them O God that hate thee yes O Lord I hate them with ●…n unfa●…ed hatred This exposition of this place of scripture which both thy self and those thy followers doe thus interpret is hatcht and fetcht frō the deuill and thy deuillish conceit for seeing thou canst neuer proue thy self to be of that Spirit which D●…uid had nor likewise canst neuer proue vs thy Brethren to deserue such imputation which those manslaiers the 〈◊〉 of God did how impudent and cruell art thou aboue measure to censure and iudge thus vncharitably against the members of Iesus Christ Again many of thy followers goe further and say that of their owne Parents being Protestants that they are already damned and that this is too true by wofull experience many places of this Land with the place where Idwell doe manifest the same That blessed Apostle S. Paul saith Let your patient mind be knowne vnto all men the Lord is at hand Phil. 4. 5. But thou by a contrarie spirit sayst vnto thy followers Let your hatred and malice bee knowne vnto all men and therefore thou hast iust cause to thinke that the Deuill is at hand This thy hatred hath so spred it selfe throughout the whole land that it cannot bee denied without a brazen face and that this is true I can shew thee an instance of experience offered against my selfe for taking occasion being moued by the Spirit of God as now to write this little booke I writ my letter vnto a principall man of thy sect and although reproouing him after a friendly manner his rage was so kindled thereat that his answere was that if he liued hee would reuenge it but if hee died let GOD reuenge it Againe another of thy Sect standing by did giue mee such cruell and disgracefull wordes that nothing did appeare but hatred and malice And amongst the rest of his speeches for writing that Letter hee iudged mee worthy to die some sodaine death I haue noted these words that the world may see what spirits the Diuell doth hatch in these very last times and likewise to let all men see how contrarie thou and thy Sect are vnto Iesus Christ and his followers who from the spirit of humilitie doth teach with patiēce beeing so farre off from reuenge that they are alwaies ready to forgiue their enemies Saint Iude speaking against disobedient spirits of authoritie saith That their rage is such that they fome out their owne shame Iude the thirteenth verse And that this is true of thy Sect one of thy Brothers hath alreadie spoken his malice against one of the chiefest pillars of this Land and I will tell thee how taking exception against a poore man but for a supposed fault got him bound ouer vnto the Sessions where his proofe failed but being not satisfied the poore man was troubled further where thy brothers proofe failing the second time to satisfie his reuenge further another Iustice warrant was sent for Now the poore man being in the fire twice before beeing driuen into great distresse he bethought him of a friend at London therefore he went trudging vnto him made his case knowne and beeing truely perceiued appearing more malice thē matter his friend procured a Supersed●…as for him vpon bayle giuen for his good behauiour as the vsuall manner is so that hee tooke his leaue and came trudging home againe and he no sooner approched but intelligence was giuen and needelesse to bid thy brother prosecute this warrant must presently be serued But the Constable perceiuing seeing a Supersedeas made it knowne Wherupon thy brothers rage beeing kindled to please the pride of his humour writ his Letter vnto the Iustices Clarke after this manner Friend whereas a warrant was directed from your Master against such a one it wil take no place for hee hath gotten a Su●…ersedeas I thinke hee hath beene at the Pope and gotten a Pardon for his sinnes past and to come And that this is true there is sufficient testimonie to proue the same I haue noted this First to discharge my conscience who ought not to keepe such words secret Secondly that the world may perceiue how that pride vaine-glory with an inuetered malice doth so raigne in the children of disobedience thatthey are ready likewise to burst forth into cursed speeches against Principalities and Powers O wick●…d generation aboue measure what may bee expected at thy hands if thou shouldst be suffred and mightst but haue thy owne will that from thy disloyall disobedience and rash accusing Iudgements such fruits as these doe spring there doth nothing appeare in thee but disobedience rash accusing Iudgements hatred and malice and cruell reuenge and all against the poore members of Iesus Christ whose number by thy inchanted doctrine thou hast so diminished that those of thy hatefull sect are growne infinite in multitudes Thou hinderest the fruits of the Gospel Thou causest the Ministerie to be euill spoken of thou resistest the truth by setting vp an Idol of thy owne imagination thou art so deepely plunged in the depth of thy owne conceit that as Salomon saith There is more hope in a foole then in him that is conceited Prou. 26. 12. Thouhast giuen vs great cause to complaine as Saint Paul did of Alexander the Copper-Smith Thou hast done vs much hurt But as he said I trust the Lord will reward thee thereafter 2. Tim. 4. 14. And yet for al this although thou hast caused Gods Name greatly to be dishonoured and loue and charitie smothered notwithstanding all this thou art still readie with those conceited Iewes who cryed The Temple of the Lord to excuse thy selfe and say The Lords Anointed the Lords Anointed Now if it were not that the god of this world had bewitcht thy thoughts thou wouldst blnsh for shame to make such a cry amongst them which know thee better then thou knowst thy selfe Suppose thou couldst speak as S. Paul saith with the tong of men Angels haue not loue thou art no better then sounding brasse or a tinckling Cimbal 1. Cor. 13. 1. Thou saiest thou preachest Christ it is true And as Saint Paul saith I reioyce thereat But what of this seeing that thou hast not onely

vnderstand that both the true Church and the false is in this little Iland called England and as there are many false Churches in the world and but onely one true The world may likewise perceiue that as the true Church of GOD is alwaies accompanied as Saint Paul saith with some heresies for the better triall thereof 1. Cor. 11. 19. So now especially is it at this present time for there are three sorts of Teachers amongst vs whereof one of these is the true Church of Christ and the other two with all the rest doe but oppose themselues Now of these two latter being both false the one of them doth teach in priuate the other doth preach in publike Now for this priuate teacher it is needelesse to speake any thing of him seeing that the Church of God doth know him sufficiently how that he degrading Christ of his Offices challengeth such prerogatiues vnto himselfe as are onely peculiar vnto Christ and therefore no true member thereof And as this priuate teacher is a knowne enemie vnto Iesus Christ so likewise I am readie to prooue by the Word of God that thou who restest in thy owne conceit hauing separated thy selfe from thy brethren being become a rash accusing iudger of them that thou art so farre off from being either a teacher or a scholer in the Schoole of Christ that thou art an enemie thereunto teaching onely in the vanitie of thy owne imagination And that this is true our blessed Sauiour seeming to teach the whole world the way vnto the Kingdome of heauen hath erected vnto the view of the whole world a large free Schoole wherein he teacheth that whosoeuer would bee a teacher or a scholler therein must learne this lesson of meekenesse and lowlinesse Matth. 11. 29. And lest his children should swerue or goe astray from this his milde Commandement hee giues a speciall warning in the sixth Chapter of Saint Lukes Gospell and thirtie seuenth verse in these words Iudge not that yee bee not iudged condemne not and yee shall not be condemned forgiue and yee shall be forgiuen Luk. 6. 37. Now there are diuers and sundrie sorts of people which doe perswade themselues that they are true teachers in this schoole of Christ which indeed are not and therfore to resolue a doubt which may either arise in th●…●…gnorant or in such w●…ich do●… mis●… 〈◊〉 a●… the Papi●… and diu●…rs doe I will therefore make plaine one place of S●…ripture that the ignorant may not onely be better satisfied but likewise that their vnderstādings may be more apt to conceiue of things afterwards And for this purpose Saint Iohn saith Trie the Spirits whether they bee of God or not 1. Ioh. 4. 1. and in the next verse he saith Heereby shall yee know the Spirit of God Euery spirit which confesseth that Iesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God 1. Ioh. 4. 2. Now heere thou must take heede how thou vnderstandest these words if thou take them litterally as the Papists doe in the sixt Chapter of Saint Iohns Gospell concerning the Sacrament then thou art in an errour for thē not only the Papists but specially the Puritan with diuers other sects should receiue benefit by Christs death which being rightly vnderstood thou maist plainly perceiue that they haue no right nor interest therein For they that degrade Christ of his offices as the Papists doe or seeme to to seuer that vnion betwixt Christs members as the Puritan doth doe separate themselues both from Iesus Christ and h●…s members And therfore to cleare this point before I proceede the Prophet Esay saith This people come neere me with their mouth and honour me with their lippes but their heart is farre from me Esa. 29. 13 And our blessed Sauiour saith Not euery one that saith vnto me Lord Lord shall enter into the Kingdom of heauē but he that doth the will of my father which is in heauen Mat. 7. 21. And to make this more plaine our Sauiour Christ saith further Many will say vnto mee in that day that is the day of Doome Haue wee not prophesied by thy name and by thy name cast out deuils and by thy name done many great workes yet for all these outward actions wanting loue and charitie vnto the members of Christ thy answer shall be Depart from me thou worker of iniquitie I know thee not Mat. 7. 2 3. So that wee see by these proofes that it is not an outward profession only which God requireth but likewise an answerable conuersation But now to the purpose And whereas thou perswadest thy selfe to bee a Teacher in the Schole of Christ the world shall plainly see that thou dost but flatter thy self in thy owne imagination being quite contrarie minded to the true teachers therin And that this is true I will first set down a true disciple and a follower of Christ who according to our blessed Sauiours commaund approouing himselfe both in his life and doctrine teacheth with the spirit of humilitie and patience as appeareth by that blessed Apostle Saint Paul who speaking of himselfe and all true Teachers in this Schole of Christ saith in these words Wee giue no occasion of offence that our Ministerie should not be repreh●…nded 2. Cor. 6. 3. but in all things wee approue our selues as the Ministers of Christ in much patience 2. Cor. 6. 4. And lest others should mistake thēselues who are to deale sometimes with such an aduersarie as doth oppose himselfe against the truth he likewise aduiseth Timothie To instruct such with the words of meekenes and hee hath set downe a reason why for per aduenture God may give them repentance 2. Tim. 2. 25. Now Brother whether thou art a Teacher after this manner or but a Teacher after thine owne conceit I appeale vnto such words as flow from thy fierie spirit of accusing Iudgements and likewise from such fruit as doth appeare by thy general doctrines for powring forth the Wine of Gods iustice in such fearefull manner against the wounded members of Christ as thou doest reseruing the oyle of Gods mercies without due consideration vnto thy selfe what is this but to feede thy own idle and most absurd conceit making beames in thy brothers eyes and but motes in thy owne Heerein thou makest thy selfe no better then a plaine hypocrite as appeareth by our Sauiour Christ saying in these words Hypocrite first cas●… out that beame which is in thine owne eye and then shalt thou see more clearely to cast out the mote that is in thy brothers eie Matth. 7. 5. Here mayst thou see how opposit thou art to Christ and his followers but that as Saint Iohn saith darkenesse hath blinded thy eyes 1. Iohn 2. 11. Againe our bl●…ssed Sauiour saith Iudge not that yee bee not iudged Mat. 7. 1. and Saint Paul as a true disciple of Christ doth giue a sufficient reason wh●… we should not iudge of others For saith hee thou that iudgest others thou condemnest thy selfe Rom. 2. 1. Now how