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england_n	henry_n	king_n	pope_n	16,586	5	6.9376	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89680	Truths defence against lies. In a brief answer to a book, intituled the Worcestershire petition defended; set forth by one (of Englands blind guides) who calles himself a minister of Christ, yet pleads altogether, that the friars, abbots, bishops, deans and chapters lands, which the papists set forth to maintain their idolatrous worship, are of divine right and institution, and were given to the maintaining of the Church of England, which he calles the Church of Christ, and complains of the sin of sacriledge, against those who have, or shall take any of the aforesaid lands or tithes, from the clergy, which he calles the Church, &c.	Nicholson, Benjamin.	1655 (1655)	Wing N1107; Thomason E843_1; ESTC R202142	4,373	7

face to plead for temporalls but that you are brazened when by your own confession you have no spiritualls to administer to them or seed of God to sowe in them Thou sayst and I have heard many of thy fellows say that the new birth is not in this life but the Scriptures witness that the Saints of God had passed from death to life and they witnessed their turning from darkness to light and their translating into the Kingdom of Christ Col. 1.10.13 14. and all who are called to be Saints now in the measures witness the same Thou sayst if we so far prevailed as to take away the establisht maintenance of the Ministry you are resolved to preach never a Sermon the lesse But none who knowes thee will believe thee or any of thy Generation for if your mouths be not filled you will not nor cannot bark for your barking consisteth in the bit as in Isa 56.10 11. and as thou thy self saith in thy 11th Query of thy Book that if the publick maintenance be taken away there is but little likelihood of a Ministry longer her To thy face thy lies are laid open as all that read in thy book may see Oh shameless and filthy Generation lying deceiving and being deceived how long will ye resist the power of the holy one and yet profess your selves to be the Ministers of Christ be ashamed and confounded come down thou Daughter of Babylon and sit in the dust and humble thy self if it may be the Lord may take pitty upon thee and spare thee for the hand of the Lord is stretched out over Babylon to destroy it and none shall hold it And for answer to the rest of thy Book all who read it may see if they be not blind thy shame and nakedness laid open by thy selfe and needs no other to unmask thee but thy selfe all which strives to prove that the maintenance which was given to Friars Abbots Bishops c. by the Pope are of divine right and institution and was given to the Vniversities as thou calles them and to the rest of the Churches in England calling it the Church of Christ In thy fifth Query laying open thy folly to all eyes who will see thou sayes is it not a fearful hardning to the Papists when they shall observe that those of their Religion give to the Church and that these of ours take it away so here thou and thy Church and the Pope Rapists and their Church are all one by thy own words and further thou complains against King Henry for taking away part of the means and against this present Power for taking another part of the Churches means And thou saist we will not leave any All who knows what part Henry King in England sould of the Churches means knowes what he sould was of the Friars and Abbots Lands O see thy shame and filthiness thou Beast who dare so plead for the Popes right to be thine and the Church of Englands right but all who in the light dwell sees thee and the Church of England that thou pleads for and the Pope and his partakers to be Members of the body of Antichrist and with the breath of Christ and his bright appearance in his Saints shall be consumed Thou likewise sooths up the ignorant and poor people and sayes the common people may easily be perswaded that the Religion which teacheth men to rob God counting it a robbing of God to fell the Fryars Abbots Bishops Deans and Chapters Lands is not so good as that which teacheth them to give to him and his worship But wo is all your portions you cannot escape the hands of the Lord and though you hide your selves never so secretly you are found out and all your lights and subtle devices whereby you lay in waight to deceive the simple are uncovered and with the light are to be condemned And so Reader read but the Worcestershire Petition defended which this man who calles himself a Minister of Christ writ in answer to certain Queries which was put forth to those who put forth the Worcestershire Petition to be answered by them and thou shalt see himself laying open his own folly and nakedness and making his own shame to appear and lastly how he confesseth that they he and his brethren have been too much mindfull of the things of this life and preferring their own rights more then the rights of Jesus Christ thus out of thy own mouth are they condemned with thy brethren you sloathful Servants weeping and wailing shall be your portion without you speedily repent and turn to the Lord for with the light you are found out and by the light you are condemned and cast out from God and from the fellowship and Communion of the Saints in God with the abhominable and defiled to have your portion in the lake which cannot be quenched without you make haste to meet the Lord Repent therefore and come out of Babylon for he who in her abides shall pertake of her plagues take warning by one who your soul loves and desires to see your welfare in God and return from Babylon BEN NICHOLSON And many more unsavory words there is in thy book which be not worth mentioning But this is given forth that the fool should not boast himself in his folly amongst the ignorant for the ignorants sake this book was written and sent forth FINIS