is impossible in this business it had been tolerable but thus expresly fully unlimitly as fully for them whose hearts hee cannot know as for himself to call the living and eternal God to witness in this manner argues him to be one of a presumptuous spirit And for a further discovery of his Atheistical impudence in this kinde do but read the report and judgement of those who were familiarly acquainted with Hollister for whom this daring man doth thus protest hee being by mee charged in special for turning Quaker upon faction and discontent before ever I saw their book which was but lately published it is a book published by and in the name of that Church as they call themselves whereof hee was a member or rather Master till hee fell away to the Quakers and drew away from them as they say in their Epistle to the Reader eighteen or nineteen with him in the tenth and eleventh page of which book they say they did observe in what height of discontent hee came home from that thing call'd a Parliament and continued in that posture viz. of discontent till a new Religion came which was the Quakers which say they presently within few daies or weeks hee imbraced So that I can nor I think will any considering man look upon him no otherwise than as one of those Knights of the Post as they call them who will say or swear any thing and this to let you see the spirit of the man And now to proceed hee professes and as you see boldly protests his innocency in the matter of the Lord Craven and Faulconer nor hath hee used nor doth hee know of any indirect proceeding in that whole business Now that my Reader who is a stranger in this matter may go along with mee with understanding I shall as briefly as I can lay the whole business before him The Lord Craven having been for many years long before the troubles in England resident in Holland and imployed in their service having a command under the Prince of Orange the Scots King going to Breda the Lord Craven came thither in attendance upon the Prince of Orange during the Scotch Kings residence at Breda divers officers souldiers formerly in the service of the King his Father being in great distress and like to perish drew up a Petition for relief of their necessities Now Faulconer aforesaid having been a souldier a Major in the Parliament service and being as upon his death-bed hee confest in a poor desperate condition and going over to Breda as a Spy strikes in with these Cavileers as one of them and was intreated by them to draw the aforesaid Petition which hee did in drawing whereof Faulconer moved that they might Petition the Scotch King that they might bee entertained by him to fight against the Commonwealth of England by the name of barbarous and inhumane Rebels but those honest Cavaleers answered that they were souldiers of fortune and it was uncivil language and they would not have it in and so the Petition being drawn up by Faulconer according to their minde was delivered to the Scotch King who it seems promised to consider them About three weeks after the Scotch King being to depart from Breda next morning these Cavaleers not finding answerable relief according to the former Petition and the Kings promise they drew up another short Petition to put him in minde of his promise and meeting the Lord Craven there who they knew to bee a friend to souldiers they entreat him to further that their Petition hee knowing nothing of the former nor did it appear that the Lord Craven promoted this second Petition which if hee had there was not any thing offensive but the Scotch King went away next morning without giving any relief to the Petitioners as Captain Brisco one of them sweats at Faulconers tryal insomuch that Faulconer being discontented that hee got no moneys said as hee was going into the Town This is a horrid thing that wee should bee in this case to follow a thing they call a King Goddam me I will go into England and do all the mischief I can as Col. Drury another of the Petitioners informed at Faulconers tryal of which afterward Now that you may better know what a manner of person this Faulconer was and how fit for any desperate undertaking it was at his tryal sworn against him that hee drunk a health upon his knees to the devil in the open streets at Petersfield and that then hee used these words I have spent my brothers estate and my own I will never want money for whilst there is any in the Nation I will get one way or other and I will doe something of infamy to bee talkt of that the name of Faulconer shall never die One James Greham swore against him that after the siege of Exeter in a Cellar there hee the said Faulconer put into Grehams hand a two and twenty shillings piece of gold swearing Dam him blood and wounds hee would bugger his soul to hell Another swore that dam him and sink him were his usual expressions One Bradley testified that hee heard Faulconer say our Saviour Christ was a bastard and a Carpenters son and carried a basket of tools after his Father Mr Thomas Dyer of Bristol being produced as a witness did declare that Faulconer confest to him that hee had ten pound of a man by procuring one to personate Captain Bishop Thus a Citizen desiring Faulconer to get Captain Bishop to do a business for him hee promised Faulconer twenty pound ten pound in hand and ten pound afterward Faulconer got one to personate Captain Bishop and to go along with him to the Citizen which man so personating Captain Bishop promised the Citizen upon the account of Major Faulconers good services for the publike to afford him his best assistance in effecting what was desired in his Petition and so Faulconer got the ten pound It was also proved that Faulconer was committed to Goal in the County of Middlesex for suspition of felony and thence by order from the Lord Chief Justice Rolls to Newgate and that hee had been committed to Ailsbury Goal upon suspition of felony robbery and murther Now this Faulconer having been over at Breda as aforsaid and returning into England George Bishop being Clerk to the Committee for informations has to do with him from whence hee receives information of divers plots and designes of the adverse party to the Parliament But to come to the business the Lord Craven having a great Estate in England of Land besides brave houses one in particular that cost twenty thousand pound the building besides brave and gallant woods and timber being thus beyond Sea and never acted against the Parliament in armes a long time after Faulconer had been over and given in his informations of enemies actings and having said nothing of or against the Lord Craven an information is drawn up against the said Lord Craven in Faulconers name as the informant
which is as followeth Faulconers Examination Who saith THat about a Fortnight before the conclusion of the Treaty at Breda the Lord Craven the Queen of Bohemia and her two Daughters came to Breda to the Scots King Charles and went not thence till the King went to Housleidike a house of the Prince of Oranges that during that time this Informant saw the Lord Craven divers times in presence with the said King and every day with the said King at the Court there hee being there with the Queen of Bohemia and her two daughters to take their leave as they said of the King of Scots before hee went to Scotland That several Officers about thirty in number made a Petition to the said King to entertain them to fight for him against the Commonwealth of England by the name of barbarous and inhumane Rebels either in England or Scotland for the recovering of his just rights and re-instating him in his Throne and deputed this Informant and Colonel Drury to present the said Petition who indeed drew the same that when the Informant and some other Officers came to the Court at Breda intending to present the said Petition immediately to the Kings hand but finding the Lord Craven very neer to him likewise the Marquess of New-castle who presented his brother Sir Charles Cavendish to kiss the said Kings hand the evening before the said Kings departure who this Informant saw kiss the Kings hand accordingly The Lord Wilmot the Earl of Cleveland the Queen of Bohemia the Lord Gerrard c. and a great bustle of business This Informant with Colonel Drury applied themselves to the Lord Craven entreating him to present the Petition to the Queen of Bohemia to present it to the King of Scots The said Lord Craven taking the Petition and reading the same cheerfully said to Colonel Drury and this Informant there is the Queen of Bohemia deliver it to her and I will speak for you upon which they applyed themselves to the said Queen and shee presented the Petition after which the King of Scots the Lord Craven the Marquess of New-castle the Queen of Bohemia with some other Lords went into a with-drawing room where this Informant and company could not enter but the Lord Craven came forth of the with-drawing Chamber and told this Informant and company that they should receive an answer from the Queen of Bohemia to their Petition and that hee had spoken to the Queen of Bohemia in their behalf who afterward came and told this Informant and company that shee had delivered their Petition and that the King had taken order for it The next morning at three of the clock the King departed but this Informant and company had their quarters satisfied by the Princesse of Orange according to the said Kings Order upon their Petition and thereby to inable them to follow the said King in the prosecution of these wars against the Parliament of England which was the effect of their aforesaid Petition That this Informant saw the Lord Craven very often and familiar with the said King and enter with the said King into the with-drawing Chamber and staid there the last night the said King was at Breda very late Richard Faulconer To this were added these two following examinations Colonel Hugh Reyleys Examination Who saith THat during the late Treaty at Breda this Informant did oftentimes see my Lord Craven with the now King of Scots in his Bed-chamber and also walked abroad with him there being no man more conversant with the King than hee That the said Lord Craven during the said Treaty did twice go to Rotterdam and Dunhagh and back again being imployed as was commonly reported at Court there by the said King that the said Lord Craven had a charge from the King to look to one Mrs. Barlow who as is reported and he believes to bee true had a childe by the King of Scots born at Rotterdam which hee did and after the King was gone for Scotland the said Lord Craven took the childe from her for which shee went to Law with him and recovered the childe as is reported Hugh Reyley Captain Kitchingmans Examination Who saith THat the said Captain Thomas Kitchingman in April and May 1650. saw the Lord Craven several times with the King of Scots at Breda and waiting upon the said King several times at his Table at Breda This Informant also saw the Earle of Oxford at the same time with the King of Scots at Breda waiting upon the said King at his Table and saw the Lord Craven and the Earl of Oxford many times going into the withdrawing rooms after the said King This Informant also saw the Lord Craven and the Earl of Oxford in a Bowling-alley in Breda Castle with the said King Tho. Kitchingman In these two latter Examinations Reyleys was but report you see there was nothing that would render Lord Craven criminous But upon this his estate was ordered to bee confiscate and afterward sold and sold it was and is accordingly Of the endeavours of the Lord Cravens friends to prevent it and what was agitated in Parliament I shall not mention for that I refer the Reader to a printed piece entituled A true and perfect Narrative of the several proceedings in the case concerning the Lord Craven printed by R. White 1653. Now if this information of Faulconer bee the onely material testimony upon which the Lord Cravens estate was sequestred and that Faulconer in this information was perjured and forsworn and this bee a false information then this will clearly follow that there was indirect proceedings in some body in this business and that this information of Faulconers was and is false and hee perjured in it and forsworn appears by two most pregnant testimonies neither of them to be denied First by his legal tryal and conviction Secondly by his own confession on his death-bed For Faulconers tryal and conviction of perjury in and for this very information that appears by the Records thereof for the Lord Cravens friends prefer'd an Indictment of perjury against him in the County of Middlesex which Indictment was found against him one Sir Henry Blunt being foreman of the Jury Delayes were used to hinder Faulconers pleading to it notwithstanding the Prosecutors for the Lord Craven had procured a Habeas Corpus to bring him to the Bar to plead to the Indictment which hee sailing they procure another Habeas Corpus hee yet gets further time and a peremptory day assigned by the Court or else Judgement to bee entred against him And the very last day when needs must and not before when the last rule was out hee pleaded not guilty Now Faulconer having pleaded not guilty a Jury is summoned Councel appear in the Vpper Bench at Westminster Mr. Maynard Mr. Hales Mr. Twisden Mr. Philips Mr. Baldwin and Mr. Drury for the Commonwealth and the Lord Craven Mr. Windham Mr. Letch Mr. Lechmore and Mr. Haggat of Councel for Faulconer where upon five hours
you Oh horrid and dreadful not onely bee a common lyar but to forge to put in and to add words on purpose to insnare men no marvel you catcht at Faulconers words but once spoken and put them in hastily to take away ones estate when you forge and put in words many words whole lines in a short examination which were never spoken and this to take away mens lives And here ex ore tuo serve nequam out of thine own mouth from thine own words shalt thou bee judged Look back and minde thine own expressions in thine own book pages 7 and 8 where you charge mee with forgery in one word and which yet was not forgery but a mistake and that not in mee neither and yet see your outcries and loud exclamations You may here see say you of what a false and mischâ—evous spirit this Priest is and what a devillish wickedness it is to forge in such a word as for it were it truly so would take away his Foxes life What credit is to bee given to what such a one saith And again Is not hee that can do this past blushing Is there any wickednesse so great that such a one may not bee well conceived to bee ready to act Is such a one a Minister of the Gospel Words need not further to expresse such an act which in its very face is so manifestly wicked and abominable a wickednesse not found in the Roll of those evils which the Apostle mentions should make the last daies perillous I 'le say no more I need not Read the words and remember your own actions and apply But let mee ask you were these all whose blood you thirsted after Did you not write a letter to a friend of yours in Bristol from White-Hall that until Calamy and some other of the Priests were dealt withal as Love was it would never bee well I hope I shall one day get that book of yours which you writ against him mentioned before viz. A short Plea for the Commonwealth Those who have seen it tell mee it most fully sets forth the fierceness and bitterness of your spirit not only against him but that you shew your rancour and malice therein against many of the servants of Christ whose names are yet precious in the Churches and the memory of whom will live when your name shall rot and perish or if it bee mentioned or remembred it shall bee with abhorrence and detestation as infamous as poor Faulconers is I cannot but remind that passage of yours in your Throne page 34. where because I said the Magistrates had their spots and failings you say they are no Magistrates of God but men of sin and the born of the devil If spots and failings do in your judgement render them thus Oh! what are you mind that Rom. 4. beg Therefore thou art inexcuseable O man whosoever thou art Jew or Gentile Ranter or Quaker that judgest for wherein thou judgest another thou condemnest thy self for thou that judgest dost the same things nay infinitely worse But wee are sure the Judgement of God is according to truth against them which commit such things and thinkest thou this O man that judgest them who do such things and doest the same that thou shalt escape the Judgement of God But Reader in this poor wretch you see what a dreadful thing and what a heavy judgement it is for a man to bee given up of God what wickedness so abominable that hee will not then commit So Rom. 1. ver 24. to the end And see also how the Lord doth punish hatred and contempt of his Ministry and servants and Apostasie from the truth with hardnesse of heart and blindnesse of mind giving them over to believe lyes 2 Thes 2. 10 11 12. What a sottish piece is this poor man become to turn Quaker But 't is most true Shipwrack of faith and of a good conscience are seldome severed 1 Tim. 1. 19. But yet Countryman come there is hope in Israel concerning this thing there is still balm in Gilead the blood of Jesus Christ shed at Jerusalem though above sixteen hundred years ago is as efficacious as prevalent as ever Come man leave quaking don't trample upon and despise the price of thy Redemption I see thou art in the gall of bitternesse and bond of iniquity but come repent of thy wickednesse and pray to God perhaps the thoughts of thy heart and the wickedness of thy hands and the blasphemies of thy pen and tongue may bee forgiven thee Don't despise the riches of Gods goodness and forbearance and long-suffering towards thee know that the goodnesse of God in this patience of his in not cutting thee off is to lead thee to repentance Consider friend there is a day coming wherein the Lord will bring to light the hidden things of darkness and will make manifest all secret plots contrivances and under-hand counsels Repent whiles 't is called to day lest thy heart bee more and more hardened through the deceitfulness of sin treasure not up wrath by impenitence and hardness of heart one true repentant tear will avail more now than millions of yellings and howlings then our Jesus is able to save perfectly and to the uttermost all those who come unto the Father through him meet him whom thou slightest and make him thy friend And for a close know and consider that if you go on in sin wilfully and impenitently after you have received the knowledge of the truth and that you despise the blood of Christ there remains no more sacrifice for sin but a fearful looking for of judgement and of fierce indignation which shall devoure the adversaries And now from henceforth let none of these Quakers trouble mee I have done with this generation but if they will bee troubling let them know I will not bee troubled And as for any further answers replies contendings or debatings with them or him being well assured that my ground work on which my discourse and discovery is founded will stand firm I declare this as my Coronis my farewel to Quakerisme As for their doctrines or opinions in this or any other of their Pamphlets I think them not worth the reading much less the answering by any serious Christian especially that hath publick imployments indeed not of any one that hath ought else to do but to make a long voyage to Tarshish to fetch only Apes and Peacocks I conclude therefore with holy Augustine Tales judices velim c. I desire such Judges of my writings that will not alwayes require an answer when they shall finde what I have written to bee spoken against those things which being matter of fact have clear testimonies and being matters of doctrine have clear arguments and authorities It were a prejudice and disparagement to either to agitate them alwayes upon the cavils of ignorant or contentious persons therefore I end FINIS Books lately written by William Prynne Esq a Bencher of Lincolnes-Inne and sold by Edward Thomas in Green-Arbour Iâ—s Patronatus Or the Right of Patrons to present Vicars to Parish Churches c. The first and second part of a seasonable legal and historical vindication of the Fundamental Rights and Laws of England The second Edition in Quarto A Declaration and Protestation against Excize in general and Hopps a native incertain commodity in particular A PIECE WORTHY PERUSAL A Polemical Desertation of the Inchoation and Determination of the Lords Day Sabbath An old Parliamentary Prognostication for the Members there in Consultation The Quakers unmasked and clearly detected to bee the Spawn of Romish Froggs c. A new Discovery of Free-State Tyranny The first Part of a Short Demurrer to the Jewes long discontinued Remitter into England The second Part of the Short Demurrer c. A Legal Resolution of two important Queries concerning Ministers giving of the Sacrament to their Parishioners A new Discovery of Romish Emissaries Pendennis and all other standing Garrisons dismantled Also all the former works of Mr. William Prynne both before during and since his Imprisonments are sold by Edward Thomas in Green-Arbour More Books printed and sold by Edward Thomas in Green-Arbour REynolds Of Gods Revenge against Murther Folio Festivous Notes on Don Quixot Folio Phioravants Three Pieces in Quarto A Rich Closet of Physical Secrets in Quarto Bakers Arithmetick in Octavo Crumbs of Comfort in twenty fours Private Devotions by D. Valentine in twenty fours Lillies Grammar in English by R. Robinson The School of Complements in Twelves A Little Handful of Cordial Comforts by Rich. Stardfast Master of Arts the third Edition in Twelves Railing Rebuked or A Defence of the Ministers of the Nation against the Quaker by William Thomas Minister of the Gospel at Ubley in Quarto A Vindication of the Scripture and Ministery by William Thomas Minister of Ubley in Quarto Practical Husbandry Improved by G. Platts in Quarto c. Satan Inthroned in his Chair of Pestilence wherein the whole business of Ja. Nayler his coming into Bristol and his Examination is related by Ralph Farmer Minister of the Gospel in Quarto A so the Life of James Nayler with his Parents Birth Education Actions and Blasphemies is exactly set forth by William Deacon in Quarto Hypocrisie Unmasked or the Definition and Characters of the Natural Moral Civil Praying Hypocrite and how they differ from the sincere Christian by Mr. Samuel Crook late Rector of Wrington in Sommersetshire The true Christ falsly applyed discovered 1. How far his person 2. The expectation of receiving Christ in the Spirit 3. The operation of Christ received 4. The Predestination And 5. His Merits and Free-grace are not truly apprehended from whence some conclude to cast off all Ordinances pretend and expect to Prophesie and work Miracles all which with twenty more false Applications of the true Christ are discovered by W. Kaye Minister at Stokesley
without am not I am told to take upon mee to enquire into All the hope is the smoke of Gun-powder being by Gods goodness dissipated the noyse of Drums and Trumpets and clattering of Armour ceased and those imbroilments which hurried your estate into sequestration abated and the confessions and so the guilt of your adversaries discovered the great Judicatory of the Nation will bee the better able to discern and judge of your case with serene judgement and imperturb'd affections and accordingly resolve upon and execute such signal justice as shall deliver the land from the guilt of oppression if any such there bee in this particular which is and shall bee the prayer of him who is My Lord The Commonwealths and your Honours servant so far as your Honour is the servant of the Commonwealth RA. FARMER To the Christian and understanding Reader Reader I Think it requisite by way of Preface to give an account why I sit not down in a retired and desirable silence I met with one who tells mee that As hee that impaireth the good name and fame of another is cruel to that other so hee who neglects his own is cruel to himself And that it concernes Ministers of the Gospel in a special manner to preserve their reputation because the contempt of their persons redounds to the prejudice of their work and calling How I have been reproached and charged by my quaking Adversary in his railing and reviling Pamphlet is obvious to all who read it and how falsly appears in the discourse ensuing as for his foul language I leave it to the men and women of their generation but as for the imputation of forgery and under-hand practises my soul so much abhors them that I should think it my sin to sit still in silence under them but rather conceive it my duty to return them whence they came there being so just and real a lodging for them of which Reader I constitute thee a Judge between us As for those vulgar bubbles that take winde and rise with every light and foolish story which they receive from the men and women only of their own perswasion and judge of things and persons by the rule of their affections I dismiss them to Anticyra for a purge of Hellebor taking up the resolution of the Apostle in cases where I appeal not to them with mee it is a very small thing to bee judged by them 1 Cor. 4. 3. or by mans judgement for what more false uncertain and inconstant than the popular ayr who cry Hosanna to day and Crucifie to morrow No Reader I 'le dwell at home and so long as I maintain peace between God and my own conscience I 'le rest there But some may say for wee live in a querulous age wherein every one even women will bee quarrelling why did you at all appear in publick I answer to maintain the peace of my own conscience for I say with David 1 Sam. 17. 29. was there not a cause Shall the uncircumcised Philistines defie the Hosts and Armies of the living God And shall David though a stripling stand still and bear it No Curse yee Meroz Judg. 5. 23. saith the Angel of the Lord curse yee bitterly the inhabitants thereof because they came not to the help of the Lord to the help of the Lord against the mighty I writ not this as blaming all who have not appeared with mee in the like manner But this I judge that if in such a case as this is the Lord suggest it to any man especially a Watchman and make his spirit willing and hee withdraw upon selfish considerations hee cannot maintain that peace true Christians look for For my part in plain English I am not I cannot bee an Universalist There is an opinion or at least a practise taken up by some of universal respect and compliance with all persons of whatever opinion or perswasion which is not less prejudicial to truth than the Doctrine of the universal and equal love of God to all is prejudâ—cial to grace I know they are both plausible things winning and taking as much suiting to and complying with every mans interest and affections but how agreeing with Gods minde with some men sub judicelis est but is with mee determined And for the former I have taken some notice of the insinuations and subtilties of it in our last generation for what more usual Plea with those who lay in wait to deceive than love and sweetness and meekness and gentleness and mutual forbearance indeed in difference in matters of Religion as if it were a vertue to Scepticks ever doubting querying and questioning never resolving that either this or that were the undoubted minde of God and the true Religion And how skilfully did the Prince of Darkness play his Game in his black Regiments by branding all those with the scandal and reproach of passion and bitterness of spirit who would not answer his ends in a luke-warm neutrality Or at least in such a sweetness of spirit as they call it as should give equal incouragement But whether the Word of Christ warrant such a deportment would easily bee concluded if men would not consult their ease and worldly advantages and I propose it to bee considered whether one or both of these bee not the temper of this kinde of people Let which side will bee uppermost they will loose nothing I could not but smile but yet with a kinde of indignation when I took notice of a Letter heretofore written from London to one in this City in the behalf of blaspheming Nayler when the punishment adjudged by the Parliament to bee inflicted upon him in this City was to bee executed the Author of that Letter takes an occasion from information of some of his fellow Saints of the new modell that there were some here of bitter spirits forsooth and fearing rigorous execution writes for a mitigation giving high expressions of what super-excellencies hee found in that adorable creature when as this Epistoler himself is a Saint of so milde and sweet a temper in Religion that hee will never bee branded for a Puritane for Sabbath dayes were his fittest seasons to look over his accounts or to go to his house in the Country Truly Reader I must tell you wee are fallen into those times wherein most peoples Religion I mean the wise ones lies in making faces and courting the rising interest at least waiting an opportunity so to do In the mean while the question growes high and Romes interest by the subtilties of the Jesuites working amongst us is very much promoted and that by our own hands men pretending which is strange to the Protestant perswasion for now the question is not as among the Separatists whether our Parishes are true Churches but whether wee have had any true Churches at all in England till these late years that they were brought in by the Sword in the late Army or those who accompanied them and it
's very like if the Lord prevent not Magisterially and Dictator-like almost in Cathedra to bee resolved That wee neither have nor had true Churches or Ministers among us and that wee must renounce our Ordination take it up from the people and so make all new after a mode which yet our eyes nor the eyes of our Fore-fathers have ever seen or their eares ever heard of To effect this have those Emissaries of the Roman Faction no doubt stirred up and set on foot these obstreporous Quakers though the generality of them suspect no such matter to cry down our Churches Ministers and Ordinances to whom they have now drawn in heads and pens more subtil and able who aliud agentes as it were do that for them which they themselves in their own persons openly were not able to effect or accomplish who doth not with fear and sadness that doth consider foresee that lamentable result that 's like to follow upon the contests raised and encreasing between our brethren of the Presbyterian and Independent perswasion and which by the heat and opposition of persons of ability on both sides are like to grow more high than ever But if my poor low voice might bee heard between them and Oh that the Lord would perswade them to hear I should say as Abraham to Lot Let there bee no strife between you for you are Brethren and I should beseech them in Josephs language to his Brethren Fall not out by the way But if I cannot bee heard I make this protestation disclaimer and prayer Lord let not my soul come into the secrets and let mee never partake of the delicacies of those men who make Schismatical separation destroying those Churches and Ministery wherein and by whom blessed be God thousands have been converted and saved and who are willing to reform and conform according to what is revealed in the Scripture Sure I am and experience the Mistress even of fools hath made it good unto the world that Discipline and Government in the Church hath ever since the reformation from Popery kept the Reformed Churches free from Heresie and Blasphemy getting head among them and if there were danger of an inrode and an incursion by the abuse of Government hee shall come little short of an Ideot and wise men will easily acknowledge it that doth not perceive that no Government at all every one being left to his own fancy will much more do it It 's a strange piece of madness not to put a difference between inforcing men to Religion and tolerating all Religions to the hazzarding of the true Or if putting a difference Matchivilianisme shall so far prevail with any as that so they can secure their own interests they care not for the concernments of Jesus Christ and his Gospel As for my own former undertakings by the help of the Press I have but endeavoured to discover these upstart enemies and adversaries to the truth who privily brought in damnable Heresies even denying the Lord that bought them By occasion whereof I have raised up this home-bred Adversary my own Countryman by hinting only at whose impostures in this kinde the impostume is broken and much filth and quitture hath been vomited forth from it in most unchristian railings lyings and reproachings who yet withal pretends to higher measures of Saintship and perfection than ordinary which considering and well knowing the man and his practises I concluded this with my self that if wee might judge of the conscience honesty and perfection of the Quakers in general by this man in particular wee may well assert this viz. A man may bee as vile a person as any under heaven and yet a perfect Quaker which after a brief discourse of the conversion and perfection of Quakers in general I have endeavoured to demonstrate from the practises and doings of him in special and this in his dealings in the matters of the Lord Craven and Mr. Love the ones Estate and the others Life The materials I have built my discourse with in the matter of the Lord Craven are two printed pieces the one entituled A true and perfect Narrative of the several proceedings in the case concerning the Lord Craven wherein are set forth the whole proceedings together with the Indictment Tryal and Conviction of Faulconer of Perjury in that information upon which the Lord Cravens Estate was sequestred which piece was printed and published by the friends of the Lord Craven the other is a piece entituled The Lord Cravens Case c. with a short examination of that former Narrative and this latter was written by Bishop himself in excuse and defence of himself and Faulconer of which book hee printed so few and so disposed of them as that I could not get one either here or at London until by providence I was directed to send to himself to borrow it And this I did because in his Pamphlet against mee hee quotes it and refers to it for clearing as hee thought of his innocency which if hee had refused to lend mee I intended to acquaint the world that hee had quoted his book to clear himself which could not bee come by which it may bee hee feared and therefore sent it mee or otherwise by the disposing of Divine Providence the time being come for the discovery of his deep hypocrisie hee was over-ruled so to send it For his own Confessions therein contained and Faulconers Confession upon his death-bed of that perjury which Bishop would in his book free him from being conferred and compared the whole practise and whence it arose and how it was carried on is manifestly discovered as in the discourse following to which I have added a little of his dealings against Mr. Love to let him and the world see whether hee bee not also a blood-sucker Could I have gotten his other book called A Short Plea c. which hee also published against Mr. Love I doubt not but thence I should have made a further discovery of him but hee dealt as subtilly in this as in the former printed so few as that they cannot bee gotten But I suppose what I have done is sufficient the improvement I make of the whole is this to let the world see how deeply and closely wickedness may lye lurking in our natures and what a desperate evil Hypocrisie is that a man may continue in such wickedness unrepented of and yet think himself a Saint and to have attained to perfection If by what I have herein done I may bee instrumental to bring him to repentance or his case may bee as a Pillar of Salt to season and caution others I shall bee abundantly satisfied in my labour and shall when I know it give God the glory In the mean time I rest Reader Thine and the Churches Servant RA. FARMER THE IMPOSTOR DE THROND OR The Quakers Throne of Truth Detected to be Satans Seat of LIES IT 's the great Criterion and distinguishing Character of the Generation of Quakers among us that