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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

vpon thistles Againe And leade vs not into temptation but deliuer vs from all euill Here wee desire that God would not suffer Satan and our naturall corruptions to tempt vs aboue our strength and because out greatest strength is too weake to resist wee desire in the second place so to assist vs that by his speciall power he would deliuer vs from all euill Now whereas thou hast refused to pray vnto God in Christ in this most perfect prayer it is no maruaile that God in his iust iudgement hath giuen thee ouer vnto Satan and thy owne corruptions letting thee swimme in that sinfull sea of thy owne imaginations And thus may the world see how contrarie thou art to Iesus Christ and his prayer refusing the God of light betaking thy selfe to an Idol god of darknesse Our blessed Sauiour Christ saith And when thou prayest be not like the Hypocrite for they loue to stand and pray in the Synagogues Matth. 6. 5. and Saint Paul saith praving for the Ephesians I bow my knees vnto the Father of our Lord Iesus Christ Eph. 3. 14. Now as thou hast shewed thy selfe a contradicted spirit against both God and good men so now especially lest the world should not take more full notice of thy folly thou hast gotten thy selfe into the verie height of shame and as thy deformed conditions of disobedience haue burst out of thy in ward parts so now at last thou shewest likewise what a deformed creature thou art in thy outward parts for whē other are at their praiers vpon their knees thou and thy followers stand vp like May-poles amongst vs as though ye had no knees at all Now how true this is it cannot bee denied for both thy selfe and infinit multitudes of thy followers in all places of this Land doe manifest the same And as this is true in thy publike prayers in the Church where specially it is forbidden so likewise at the receiuing of the Sacrament although Iesus Christ be as truly there by the eie of faith after a spirituall manner as though we did beholde him and touch him as Saint Thomas did yet thou who neither fearest God nor reuerencest man as thou hast shewed thy selfe a deformed fellow from the beginning doest not blush to stand in receiuing this holy Sacrament when others are vpon their knees Now if the Officers of the Church come to reproue these thy followers because they are an offence vnto their brethren then must their vsurping guide say Sirra let them alone and thus are almost al the places of this Land abused with this disobedient Sect and that this is true wofull experience doth manifest the same If I should aske thee this question why thou wilt not pray kneeling thou wilt answer me It is not because thou thinkest it vnlawfull but thy reason is that thou canst pray with as good a deuotion standing as I can doe kneeling I doe not deny but that one may pray standing going riding sitting or lying But whereas our Sauiour Christ cōmands that we should not stand praying in the Synagogues or Churches Why wilt thou hauing conuenient roome not yeelde thy selfe vnto Christs command I did once make answere for thee before and because thou hast no good reason for thy selfe I will second an answere for thee once againe Because thou wouldest make the world beleeue that thou art better then thy neighbours in shew of thy outward actions therefore thou hast separated thy selfe from others and rather then the world should not take notice that thou art singular as Salomon saith of such in thy owne eyes still Prou. 16. 2. Thou now standest streight vp when others are kneeling that all men may now behold that thou art but a plaine Hypocrite Againe for thy behauiour both at thy first sitting down in the Church and likewise at thy appearance in the Pulpit thou art so far frō submitting thy selfe vnto God that without either priuate prayer or seeming to sing with vs there thou standest looking about th●…e as though thou wert come from that Indian Countrie whose prai●…rs thou imitat●…st Now seeing thou doest but intrude thy self prefuming too boldly into that place of sanctitìe if thou wilt neither pray nor sing with vs couer thy face or come there no more and bewaile these sinfull times wherein we liue as being the principall instrument for Satan thereof and be sure of this one thing that ifthou dost not feele a touch for thy sinnes vpon the sight heereof thou maiest perswade thy selfe that thou art in a most fearefull and lamentable case and be aduised how thou presumest into that holy place any more for assure thy sel●…e that Christ whom thou hast so grieuously offended in his members will one day and that verie shortly without present repentance require their blood at thy hands and will auenge their cause in that place where all Hypocrites shall haue their portion which burneth with fire and brimstone for euer One thing more I remember which I would not willingly haue omitted how that a reformed Minister submitting himselfe at his approch into the Pulpit as his maner is one of thy chiefest followers being a Ring-leader of this crue most shamefully burst forth into a scornefull laughter This is one of thy brood that being hatcht vnder such a Cockatrice no better fruit can come therof Now seeing that all thy outward actions are but flourisht like painted sepulchres and that from all thy actions both inward and outward nothing doth proceede but enuy and strife pride and vaine-glory hatred and malice and most cruel reuenge why dost thou not begin to tremble quake for feare seeing that the axe is alreadie laid to the roote of the tree and that euery tree which bringeth not soorth good fruite must be hewne downe and cast into the fire Mat. 7. 19 Our blessed Sauiour saith Hee that is not with me is against me Ma. 12. 30 Now who is he that seeth not how that thou opposest thy selfe against Christ and therefore as Saint Iohn saith an Antichrist of whom it is said That there are many gone out into the world whereby wee know that it is the last time I. Iohn 2. 18. Againe who knoweth not that thou art a starre fallen from heauen who by thy accusing iudgements in condemning both the quicke and the dead seeming to pull that peculiar rod foorth of Gods owne hands who therewith hauing condemned the members of Iesus Christ maketh the very powers of heauen to shake Mat. 24. 29 And againe who seeth not that by the frui●…s of thy life doctrine thou hast caused the Sunne to be darkened and the Moone to lose her light the Ministery of the Gospell to be bee e●…ill spoken of and loue and charitie to bee smothered And who is hee that doth but looke about and seeth not how that thou with the Pope of Rome are those two speciall false prophets which goe in sheepes clothing but inwardly are rauening wolues Mat. 7. 15. Whose qualities and conditions