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A56305	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. Being, a just and necessary vindication, from a false and scandalous imputation cast upon her by Dennis Hollister, formerly a member of her, but now an apostate from, and an opposer of those waies, truths, and people, which once he seemed zealous for. As appears by a late pamphlet put forth by him, called, The skirts of the whore discovered. With some particular words, from some particular persons whom he hath by name abused and reproached. Likewise a word by Thomas Ewen, unto what concerns him in the said pamphlet, and also to the later part of another book, called, Satan enthroned in his chair of pestilence.	Purnell, Robert, d. 1666. aut	1657 (1657)	Wing P4232; ESTC R213966	65,602	90

their righteousness as the light and their just dealing as the noon day in the mean time we rest and remain Reader thy friends if thou be one that art grieved for the afflictions of Joseph and art sensible of this day of Jacobs trouble and art longing for the welfare of Sion and walking in the Faith of the Gospel Then are we thy companions in tribulation for the Faith and Testimony of Jesus The Brethren of the Church in BRISTOL R.P. T.E. I.A. R.M. R.S. B.H. READER THou art desired further to take notice that Separation from a true Church of Christ and Communion of Gods People is a dangerous thing First it is sharply threatned by God Heb. 10. 38 39. Secondly severely punished 2 Pet. 2. 20 21 22. Thirdly by this they discover themselves both to the Church with whom they walked and also to those that are without that they are the men and women who have not a true foundation but onely have received some large measures of illumination and common gifts and graces of the Holy Ghost and so fall away and by their Apostacy evidence their hypocrisie Let no man think that the good can depart from the Church wind blows not away the Wheat but the vain Chaff 1 John 2. 19. They went out from us but they were not of us for if they had been of us they would no doubt have continued with us but they went out that they might be made manifest that they were not of us Now to prevent the spreadings of the spirit of Anti-christ and his subtil endeavours to draw more from Jesus Christ ought not the Church from whom these persons are departed in obedience to the Command of God and out of love to the souls of those that have cast the Ordinances of God behind their backs send two or three of their Members in the Name of the Lord Jesus and in the tender bowels of pity to beseech admonish and warn them to repent of their sins and refrain from their evil waies and return to the Truth Faith and waies of the Lord Jesus Christ recorded in the Gospel 2 Tim. 2. 25 26. and so in meekness instruct those that oppose themselves if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the Devil who are taken captive by him at his will c. Let the Reader seriously consider whether the Church is not engaged by her Head and Husband Jesus Christ Mat. 18. from 15. to 20. vers compared with Titus 3. 10. c. thus to admonish and warn her deluded back-slidden Members although perhaps some of them will not hear as in Prov 10 17. Others reject both the Reproof and the Reprovers Prov 15 10 12. And lastly perhaps another laies open his folly to the whole Nation in casting dirt in the face not only of the Reprovers but on the whole Church it self that sent them and so endeavour to shame them both see Prov 9 7. compared with Prov 15 12. Our Saviour tels us Mat 11 19. that Wisdom is justified of none but of her Children and therefore his Church may not expect justification but rather condemnation from those that are gone out from her as the snuff of a Candle If it be sufficient to be accused who can be found innocent it is the crown of those that remain stedfast in their substantial Principles to be reproached by those that did once seemingly own them and afterwards for want of grace backslid from them c. An ANSWER of a Church of Christ in Bristol who desireth and endeavoureth according to the measure of light and strength that they have received from Christ their Head to comply with him in waiting upon him in all the Ordinances of the Gospel which many cast behind their backs unto Dennis Hollister once a visible Member but now a professed Quaker c. Dennis Hollister DId you never read that the Church of Christ in Scripture is resembled to a natural Body wherein are many Members united each to other and most of them to one Head and by one Spirit now as in the natural Body there may be many infirmities so also in the mistical Body sometimes it may be subject to distempers by undigested humors the want of through closing with divine truths or the receiving in of untruths may occasion a surfeit sometimes windy humors pride high mindedness and giving heed to lying Spirits by some of its Members may distemper it sometimes feverish heats of violent headiness instead of well tempered zeal for God and godliness may inflame it so that many parts of it are sorely laid open to infections from divers that seem to be of it or converse with it Art not thou the man or at least one of them oh who hath his eyes in his head and doth not see who hath his ears open and doth not hear who hath his tongue untyed and doth not speak to vindicate the undeceived's innocency as well as to publish your folly in answer to a little Pamphlet called The Shirts of the Whore discoveyed c. containing in it many things too low and beneath a serious Christians perusing or reading much more the answering it being in the middle and both ends stuft with so many unsavoury and unchristian like expressions yet we shall take the Lords connsel Prov. 26 5. and so answer the Author lest he should be wise in his own conceit in which Answer we shall not recite all the Absurdities and vain hoastings and untruths c. yet being as before beneath a Christian much more a whole Church to spend pretious time either to read or answer c. neither shall we at present so lay open your folly in all things that we have heard or seen lest our Answer should be seven times as big as your charge Now to proceed consider that as every word of God is true so hath it some more special time of fulfilling now we read Acts 20. 30. Also of your own selves shall men arise speaking perverse things to draw away disciples after them O how truly is this Scripture fulfilled this day upon us and you first in your departing from us and now in those perverse things written and spoken by you to draw away disciples after you as is clear in many of those expressions in your Letter We have of late met with a little Book put forth by you the Title of which when we had read and seriously considered the People included and intended by you in those expressions we could not but even stand amazed to think unto what a height of Impudency and Malignity you are already come and whither may not a poor fallen creature run if God stop him not Is it not a high degree of Luciferian pride for a poor creature to set his foot upon the necks of all the Assemblies and Churches of the Saints this day in England and Wales calling them the Whore as your