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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44228	The harlots vail removed, and her lying refuge swept away by the power of truth, with which she was smitten and wounded being an answer to a book published in the name of about 60 persons of the Independent-Baptized, and mingled peo[ple] in the midst of Babylon, intit'led The church of Christ in Bristol recovering her vail ... : likewise an answer to Thomas Ewins his word, in the close of the said book, in which he acknowledgeth himself no minister ... : also a short rebuke of Ralph Farmer, for lying and dissembling in the case of constant Jessops removing from the parish of Nicholas in the city of Bristol ... : to which are added a few words manifesting the woful fall, and degenerated condition of Richard Fowler ... / by Dennis Hollister.	Hollister, Dennis, d. 1676?	1658 (1658)	Wing H2507; ESTC R13577	111,205	90

I perceive there is something in what I writ that hath discovered his deceit and he is much hurt that his works of darkness are laid open Surely there is an arrow that hath reacht the heart of the Kings enemie he saith I writ a Letter to him about a year ago and now published it to the world in such a subtile manner as that he who reads my title page would verily believe he were some dreadful Persecutor Alas poor man how is he handled and troubled that his works of darkness are made manifest and his skirts discovered Oh! Had the deceit been hid and the wicked persecuting spirit been covered he would have born it but to have it published that Passers by behold and take notice of it this he likes not but is sorely troubled and wounded at it And did he not on this consideration lest deceit should be made manifest conceal the answers to the Antiquaeries but suffered them to be printed long time after he received the answers as if no answer at all had been given to them Poor blind man he is of a large principle and can bear with those that think vain traditions sufficient and not differ from those that are thorough paced in other things But to be plainly and truly dealt withal to have the deeds of darkness reproved and manifested not to daub not to sow pillows not to cry peace to them that go on in their imaginations But to reprove sharply to lay open the skirts of the Whore to cry aloud and not to spare but declare against transgression and sin and to reprove it in the gate O this is accompted harsh the false Prophet cannot endure it it disturbs his peace This with him is not modest but Ralph Farmer who he confesseth jerks jeers quibbles and scoffs and utters such words as he look upon to be the fruits of a frothy brain and the product of a spleenish temper which he saith might better become the mouth of a Stage-player then the pen of a Minister is more modest then I. But how so Why he doth not name me one may read his words and yet not know whom he meaneth but saith he you have named me ye have laid me open ye have published only name in your Frontispiece which whoso reads will think I a 〈◊〉 a Persecutor Oh! how is he troubled at this that deceit and wickednesse should be brought to day-light and that they that go about to hide their work in the dark should be laid open And this was the condition of his generation all along they could not endure to have their deeds discovered and therefore it was that the servants of God who were sent to bear witness against them found such hard and cruel measure which he is now filling up who have all one purse he hath cast in his lot amongst them and if his councel be taken one must to the whip and another to the prison as he saith for disturbing him and hath published it to his own shame and what disturbs him he hath manifested but is not he an evil doer that hates the light and will not bring his deeds to it to be tryed least the light should reprove him but he is no Preacher of the light To which I say the day hath manifested him and others and no veil nor deceitful covering can any longer hide them from the manifestation of the light though they can bear with one another even in those things which his own words bespeak quite contrary and not differ yet they who fear the Lord cannot join with you but as the Lord calls them to it must bear witness against you all and the Lord is now gathering his people from amongst you and he is your friend that deals plainly with you and tells you the truth though ye may account me your enemy for so doing and say I have acted like Judas But what have I done Why published your deceit openly and discovered the skirts of the Whore and now her children bestir them to recover her veil but all in vain for all your veils of deceit must be pluckt off and naked must ye be and open rebuke is better then secret love and those that deal uprightly cannot cry peace to the wicked And seriously did I write and was not immodest towards him nor you though ye have all vented out your selves against me and bid●ne be ashamed and confounded but neither ashamed nor confounded am I nor shall I be for bearing witness to the truth against all your deceit and with Ralph Farmer may Thomas Ewins be yoked or coupled for he confesseth R. F. gave him the right hand of fellowship and in his steps is he found he in his light and the other in his the one straight in his principles and the other large in his yet in this ye differ not Ralph Farmer denies the light and speaks and writes against it which none of the Prophets Apostles or holy men of God ever did but it was their glory even that which was prepared before the face of all people a light to lighten the Gentiles and so doth Thomas Ewins Ralph Farmer is found among that generation that preach for hire and devine for money and so is Thomas Ewins Ralph Farmer stands praying in the Synagogues which some call a Church hath the chief place in the Assembly and is called of men Master and so it is with Thomas Ewins some of those that come to bear witness against Ralph Farmer are imprisoned sent to Bridewel and cruelly whipt and many strips laid upon them being the same usage that the Messengers and witnesses of God in former ages received from the adulterous and wicked generation of ignorant soul-murthering Teachers Rulers and persecutors and one of those that came to bear witness against Thomas Ewins he confesseth is now in prison and he gives his judgement against another that it was fitter such an idle Huswife were sent to Bridewell and whipt c. But saith Thomas Ewins I did it but once upon which you conclude I am no Minister of the Gospel but a persecutor of the truth I answer And well I may for he that is a persecutor of the truth is no Preacher of the Gospel and he that lusts after a thing hath committed the thing in his heart and out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh and a clear fountain sendeth not forth such filthy stuff but by such fruits is the devouring wolfe known And for that that he pleads it was but once I say Cain killed his brother but once Herod slew the innocent children but once and Judas betrayed his Master but once and yet sin did so lye at their doors that the just judgements and vengeance of the Lord they could not escape Again Ralph Farmer speaks and writes against those people called Quakers whom he revile slanders and belies and seeks occasion to speak evil of them as was the manner of blood-thirsty persecutors and Thomas Ewins

that if ye returned an answer ye take care it be to some purpose and not a parcel of weakness and confusion c. yet I find the conception and birth which by you who call your selves a Church of Christ is brought forth into the world is the same in which you have given so much advantage to lay open your shame and discover your skirts beyond and above others yea many of the Parish Assemblies of which you speak that I know not how to let it pass without rebuke 2. I take notice that that little book entituled The skirts of the Whore discovered hath been made effectuall through the power of the mighty God of Jacob so that the dart is struck through the liver and the arrowes of the Almighty stick fast in the hearts of the Kings enemy and torment is upon you on every side because your skirts are discovered that passers by see the shame of your nakedness and that instead of turning unto the Lord who hath smitten and wounded you whose tender mercies are towards you and therefore hath often warned you with foolish Ephraim of old you are running to the Assrians for help and into Aegypts land a place of darkness are ye gone seeking to recover a vail to hide your selves from the face of the Lamb who is the Light of the World and of the Temple in whose light ye are seen and comprehended and the deceit of your Religion and powerless profession known and manifested against which the hand of the Lord is lifted up though ye see it not nor are ashamed but under your traditional and deceitful forms and waies seek to hide and cover your selves as with a vail making lies your refuge and under falshood hiding your selves bringing the wo and the wrath more and more upon your selves who cover with a covering but not of Gods spirit rebeling against the light not knowing its wais nor abiding in its paths 3. That notwithstanding according to the prophesies that went before the true light is now come and the glory of the Lord is arisen and the children of the Lord are walking in the light of the Lord and calling others thereinto yet darkness hath covered the earth and gross darkness the people and therefore thorow the blindness of your minds whilest ye go about to vindicate your selves from the stroak of that which was justly and truly declared of you in The skirts of the Whore discovered ye manifest and prove your selves to be the same that is to say no Church of Christ but an harlot c. And this ye do in the very Title of your book which is The Church of Christ in Bristol recovering her vail out of the hands of them that have smitten and wounded her and taken it away a practise never heard of among those that were the Churches of Christ in whom the vail is done away Col. 2.19 for the Churches of Christ were all baptized by one spirit into one body and united to one head even Christ from which all the body by joynts and bands having nourishment ministred encreaseth with the encrease of God And where Christ is witnessed the vail is removed and done away I Cor. 3.13 14 15 16 17.18 yea though it was over the heart in the reading of the old Testament that the people could not see to the end of that which is abolishëd yet in Christ it is done away and his Church who witness him their head and from him have nourishment ministred comes with open face to behold the glory of the Lord and by it are changed into the same image c. But to this are you strangers and aliens who are recovering the vail out of his hands that hath taken it away that with it ye may be covered Gen. 38.14 like Tamar the harlot sitting by the way whiles the witnesses of Christ and Ministers of the new Testament do not as Moses cover their face with a vail that the people may not see to the end of that which is abolished but use great plainness of speech directing the minds of the people to the light to the annointing to the unction which is in them which guideth them into all truth shewing the father and things which are to come to which agreeth the Prophet Isay who speak as he was moved of the Lord and said The mountain of the Lords house shall be exalted above the mountains c. and in this mountain the Lord will destroy the face of the covering cast over all people and the vail which is spread over all Nations c. and to this also do agree those that speak as they were moved of the holy Ghost Isa 25.7 But ye who know not that one spirit nor the Baptism nor the body nor the unity nor ever came to witness the head from which nourishment is ministred to the body and in which the vail is removed and taken away but are recovering it out of his hands who hath smitten and wounded you I s●y ye are hereby manifested and proved no Church of Christ but an harlot a Synagogue of Satan a cage of unclean spit it s upon whom the Lord hath stretched forth the lines of confusion and stones of emptiness and made you an habitation for dragons and a Court for owles in which the wild and cruel beasts of the earth who have no habitation in God inhabit 4. That notwithstanding you would seem to reprove me for vain boasting c. though ye know in your own Consciences I speak very soberly of my self without boasting and far beneath what I was in yours and centers account till I told you the truth yet have ye published a book and a pretty big one too mostly to commend your selves and on the other And although ye seem among other things to boast of your stability c. yet let me tell you I well remember the time when but few amongst you stood stable to your own principles of Churches and ordinances as ye call it but were like children tost to and fro with winds of doctrine embracing a Religion which consisted in great swelling words of vanity without power At which time Robert Purnel as stable as he is undertook to prophesie the down-fall of Independency Anabaptism c. and said by faith he saw it full by the comming of Christ in spirit and this he published in his book entitled Good tydings for sinners Great joy for Saints And besides if ye were indeed so stable as ye would have the world believe how commeth it to pass that at this day ye are so rossed with blasts and winds and know no stability but so many of you are of late turned Anabaptists which formerly was so odious and so sad a principle that Hannah Taylor was near casting cut from amongst you for entertaining it But it is true ye hold fast deceit and refuse to return in which ye are as stable as most that I ever knew and equal with those Parish Assemblies