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heart_n	conscience_n	faith_n	purify_v	2,262	5	11.5171	5	false

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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

up to the commandments of Christ in obedience and conscience and yet be found so rebellious and stiff necked neglecting and disobeying that which themselves have published to be the institutions of Christ Yea those institutions which are blessed which he in his own person practiced and left as a standing ordinance of the New Testament to all Generations c. Know ye not that rebellion is as the sin of witch-craft and to hearken is more acceptable than sacrifice and if he that knowes not his Masters will is worthy of stripes what will your portion be who profess ye know it and can admonish others for neglecting it and yet your selves be found in the utter disobedience I know in this ye will need a vail but it will never hide nor cover your shame And for me to tell such a people they are not a Church of Christ but a harlot a Synagogue of Satan c. is not to blaspheme God and his Tabernacle of both which ye are ignorant and in your blindness worship ye know not what neither is it a writing contemptuously as ye say against any who in conscience are obedient to Christ but it is for your advantage and profit if to it ye give ear And for the accompt ye can give of your faith of which ye boast I say that where true faith is it purifies the heart from lying hipocrisie and deceit and is a mistery held in a pure conscience And Thomas Ewine acknowledgeth in the 52 53 54 pages he doth very much question as I know he hath cause whether ever himself or many of you have received the spirit to establish and confirm or to open and reveal the misteries of the Kingdom or to beautifie and adorn you with gifts and grace to purge purifie cleanse and sanctifie and make you holy or to fill you with the spirit of faith and prayer and when all this is wanting amongst you ye are sure in a very bad condition such as the Church of Christ under the new Testament was never in and so might forbear boasting either of your faith or obedience till another spirit from the Lord is powred upon you And ye might forbear so much washing the outside of your vessel in rivers and brooks tel your infide comes to be cleansed sanctified and made holy In your fifth page ye seem again displeased that I call you a mingled people c. and say if some with me had been faithful to their light and practized baptism they might he mingled too and that but one of those that haue practised that Ordinance as ye call it with you are fallen away Reply It seemeth then ye acknowledge there is a light which convinceth to which people ought to be faithful how dare ye then to reproach and speak evil of it and are not obedient when by it your evil deeds are reproved And if it be the light as ye grant it is that convinceth of the need of your water Baptism how comes it to pass ye were once so near casting out of Hannah Taylor as aforesaid for embracing it and what great glory is it that but one of your Baptists are convinced of truth and turned from darkness to the light c. Know ye not that Christ Jesus the light of the world said Publicans and harlots shall enter into the Kingdom before the Hypocrites And what advantage was it to the priests and their generations when Christ came a light into the world that but few of them believed in the truth and were obedient to that which the world with themselves opposed and said it was the Devil But if ye were able truly to manifest that but few of your company were proud cocovetous envious back-biters oppressors extortioners unjust dealers c. living in the customes and manner of other Heathens but by the power of God were turned from it this had been something and so had not ye been mingled as now ye are Ye say Hath not Christ called and owned you his Church and that I can testify ye were at first rightly constituted and have profest that Christ hath manifested his presence amongst you c. To which I say That ever Christ called such a surfeited bodie as yours a Church of his is denyed and testimonie is born against it But that his presence was amongst you and manifested to many who by the power of it are drawn and separated from amongst you is granted though ye have neither known nor received him but cast him off and were not obedient but have rebelled and vexed his spirit so that by the weapons of his power is he fighting against you with whom it is but the beginning of sorrowes and if ye turn not he is whetting his glittering sword and his hand takes hold of vengeance c. And if as ye say ye were at first rightly constituted then are ye your selves not I nor others with me Apostates and backslidden from that in which at first ye were gathered For then ye did disown those called Anabaptists and their practices in which ye were so zealous that ye did often admonish and reprove and were near the casting out Hanna Taylor as I have said now called Hanna Packer because she owned it But now ye do own the Anabaptists and their practices and ye your selves become Practizers thereof as ye confesse and do admonish and reprove others who in conscience and obedience to the light of Christ cannot conform to your customes and traditions but by his power reproves them standing in that by which at first they were convinced and gathered out of the world and all its pollutions so far as to them it was made manifest And therefore all your feigned words of backsliding and back-sliders Apostatizing and Apostates both in your title page and other places in your book is clearlie turned upon your selves who are the Apostates and back-sliders of which ye speak and to whom belong all the reproofes and admonitions ye pretend to others who are obedient to the light by which the deceipt of your will-worships and inventions is made manifest and denied as was that of Parishes and other assemblies before And as for the Churches of Galatia and Asia Alas what have ye to do with them in whose life ye are not and are shut and cast out an● 〈◊〉 the cursed ground where the briars and thornes grow and the beasts of prey feed and with the persecutors of the life of God which they witnessed are ye joyned against the truth and proudly have ye laboured to trample upon and cast it to the ground but all in vain for over your heads it is exalted and life and immortality is brought to light and reigns for ever more Ye say Those who were stiled a synagogue of Satan were a company of proud boasters that said they were Jewes and Apostles and were not but did lye I answer just so are ye who boast your selves the Church of Christ but are not and his commands to observe

world to believe is true and verbatim according to the copie which in three or four pages your selves contradict manifesting your falshood at which so many of you as are not given up to hardness of heart may be ashamed and blush for if such things had been pubpublished by a diviner or a particular person amongst you that had been to your shame but for a whole company of sixty persons who call themselves a Church to agree in such works of darkness and wickedness and no one amongst you free is such a thing as hath hardly been heard before in our daies c. And notwithstanding my former answers to the three particulars mentioned in the copie stands good and not toucht by you yet I find you deceitfully nibbling at the heele and going on falsely to accuse saying I asserted that as Christ was the great light of the world so he was the great faith of the world none of which was in the copie nor I suppose spoken by me but is another lie invented among you because I then knew him not the light of the World that lighteth every one that commeth into the World while among the diviners and sorcerers I stood by whom the light is denied And I could not say he was the great faith of the World because both to you and the rest of the world who are of the world and speak of the world and believe not in the light both Christ and faith is a Mistery hid and unknown and is none of theirs who in their imaginations talk of objects c. and deny the light and know not the onely foundation but by sorcerie and wicked art would divide that which God hath joyned And so ye go on telling many words spoken by one and the other which truly I take to be but so many lies invented to serve you as a vail for if your memories are so short and your wits so confounded that ye are not able or willing to draw sixteen or twenty lines out of a copie which ye say is by you without so much falshood and untruth as is before mentioned how can a man believe ye are able and willing to remember and truly publish without forgery and falsehood so many words and passages which so many years past were spoken as ye say in several meetings And whereas in my answer to what ye say touching faith being an eternal thing ye say I alleadge 1 Tim. 1.9 and tell me I shew my weakness in abusing the words and sence of the Apostle this is another lie as the Reader may perceive who reads my book for I said faith is a mistery held in a pure conscience and unknown to all ignorant and vulturous eyes as well as to yours c. And asked whether that faith by which the Saints are justified by which they overcame the world saw him which is invisible by which their hearts are purified by which Enoch was translated that he saw not death and is the substance of things hoped for c. be eternal or carnal c. In stead of answering which ye publish a down-right lie and say I a●leadged such a scripture and abused the words and sence of the Apostle which I did not as the Reader may see so that although those who are given over to believe lies may happilie embrace what ye say yet none whose eyes are truly opened by him that is given a light to the Gentiles is like to believe what ye say though ye together joyn to frame and to publish so false an accusation which is so visible that all that read both our books may perceive it and it had been well if ye had taken my former advice and been silent till by the true light ye had been guided and known how to speak truth for though hand joyn in hand the wicked shall not go unpunished nor he that speaketh lies escape But as I said the sool will be medling c. In your sixteenth page ye labour to cover your selves the best ye are able that all beholders may not see your shame by what is charged upon you in The skirts of the Whore where it is demanded why ye had not questioned me for these things sooner and whiles I was amongst you And why ye would suffer principles contrary to truth to pass without rebuke c. To which ye reply that I was presently opposed though for a solemn dealing ye did it not till I had left the Church which ye say perhap● was your sin But considering the state of the Church ye knew not how to set about it though some saw ground enough to do it c. To which I replie O woful Church in a woful sad state and condition indeed which is worthy thy serious consideration who with thine own pen hast confest and published to the world that thou knewest thy duty and sa●est ground enough to do it but knewest not how to set about it Art not thou worthy to be beaten with many stripes Oh wicked and sloathful servant whose judgement is come and into darkness art cast and so no marvel that some amongst you did oppose some manifestations of truth whiles I was amongst you of which you speak for I know some son of Baliel was there who knew not the Lord some blind guid who leads the blind into the ditch who for the wages of iniquity hath laboured to curse the Israel of God and to make you stumble at the stumbling stone who often opposed the life and power of truth as it was made manifest and against it contradicted as I before made mention whose judgement lingers not c. But I take notice how unwilling the harlot is to confess her own guilt and therefore saith perhaps it was her sin which is but a deceitful shift from a just stroak for her hypocrisie and if ye could speak truth in this particular ye might have told the world plainly that whilest I was amongst you ye had not whereof justly to accuse me of which I know I have a witness in your consciences so that most that then were of the company loved and prized me dearly and many were sorely grieved at my departure But when nothing could prevail because into Aegypt again I could not go then and not before some Diotrepes that loved preheminence prating against the innocent with malicious words by degrees made a partie and devised those pretended accusations and with much deceit and deceivableness of unrighteousness prevailed with you to charge upon me c. which if ye had clearly manifested and not drawn this further guilt of lying c. upon your selves some had been excusable but now ye must bear your shame and judgement whatsoever ye are But now ye come to a fifth branch of that ye call an admonition though in pag 13. where ye say ye insert it verbatim ye number but four and that which here ye put as a fifth general branch ye there make a fourth particular in the fourth

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 peoin the midst of Babylon intit'led The Church of Christ in Bristol recovering her Vail But is manifested to be a bundle of falshood and hypocrisie a refuge of lies and deceit under which they labour to hide themselves as with a vail Likewise an Answer to Thomas Ewins his word in the close of the said book in which he acknowledgeth himself no Minister and is proved no preacher of the Gospel but in confusion and a Minister of Satan and Robert Purnel a false prophet c. 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 in which he the said Farmer was a chief solliciter though being got into his place he would excuse himself by lying in print To which are added A few words manifesting the woful fall and degenerated condition of Richard Fowler who in a late declaration put in to the Court of Exchequer against 15. persons for Tithes is stiled the lawful Vicar of the Parish Church of Westerleigh in the County of Glocester And for hire is become a Lecturer in Bristol Who hath occasioned several men that fear the Lord to be cast into prison for refusing through tendernesse of conscience to swear how many Colts Calves Lambs Pigs Geese Hens Ducks Aples Eggs Oblations Offerings c. they possest in several years that of it he might have Tithes Which monstrous practice he once so much disowned that he declared himself burthened to receive voluntary contribution from those that gave it not freely By Dennis Hollister They are all grievous revolters walking with slanders they are brasse and iron and are all corrupters reprobate silver shall men call them because the Lord hath rejected them As a cage is full of birds so are their houses full of deceit As a fountain casteth out her waters so she casteth out her wickednesse Violence and spoil is heard in her From the least of them even unto the greatest every one is given to covetousnesse and from the Prophet even unto the Priest every one dealeth falsly And as Troops of Robber wait for a man So the company of Priests murther in the way by consent for they work lewdnesse LONDON Printed for the Author 1658. THE HARLOTS VAIL REMOVED Friends AFter I received your feigned accusations from the the mouths of your Messengers and under one of their hands I did with much faithfulness and plainness return you an answer which if you had read amongst you and observed I intended no further contest But when through deceit and hypocrisie it was not permited to be read I began to pre●●●● for the presse and to lay open your deceipt which so far exceeded yet with so much tenderness did I proceed that for your sakes I delayed the printing of it about a year waiting if God would give you the sight of your evil and repentance for the same But perceiving you to wax worse and worse deceiving and being deceived setting your mouths against heaven and in your deceit to glory I gave order for its Printing but not to be made publick till my further order Neither did I suffer m● books being printed to be published in Bristol no not in my own family nor among my near relations till by the hand of a faithful Messenger I had conveyed them amongst your selves and into the hands of many amongst you to whom of a truth my love was hoping that upon the perusal thereof your consciences might be awakened and the witness of God therein raised and so your hearts not being hardened his voice ye had heard and to repentance had you been brought by him who is come and calleth unto it and so your sin had been covered and by him forgiven and by me not permitted to be published but in oblivion had it been buried for ever But after I had waited several dayes and found that notwithstanding anguish and torment were upon you who in your consciences were smitten and wounded so that some durst not read my book but presently returned it others beginning to read could not but laid it aside others reading it shed more tears then they read lines as themselves have said and yet against it hardened themselves and repented not And others reading it and reproved by it fell into much rage and fury and therein publishing it themselves amongst their rude companions endeavouring to raise lies and falsehood against it I say when these and such like effects appeared and not till then I consented to the making my books publick by which I perceive the sence of guilt and so of torment being encreased you grew exceeding angry and wrathful But if ye had stood in that which convinced its like I had no longer in publick view contested because I do neither desire nor endeavour your destruction but your salvation God is witness Neither in a spirit of anger and bitterness am I dealing with you whose welfare I am seeking not your hurt But in the fear of the Lord am I faithfully dealing with you of whose state and condition I am not ignorant not daring to use flattering and deceitful speeches as others do crying peace and safety to that against which I know the wrath and righteous judgement of God is near to be revealed but in much plainness in a spirit of soberness and moderation do I tell you the truth and whether ye will hear or forbear the time is at hand in which ye must witness it notwithstanding to hide your selves and cover your shame ye are striving to recover your Vail and vindicate your selves And having given heed to many false seducing and lying spirits ye have writen a book for that purpose which I received from you by the hand of a stranger supposing the conscience ye had of the deceit and falshood ye therein used so far prevailed that none among your selves could appear to deliver it But your Book I have perused and do find that your business therein is not to answer mine entituled The skirits of the Whore discovered But by subtilty and deceit the spirit of falshood and lying to cover and vail your selves from the stroak of that truth which by demonstration and plainnesse is therein declared and manifested against you So that although I had much rather be quiet waiting on the Lord than to be thus contending yet for the sake of truth and further manifesting of the deceit and hypocresie which abounds among you I am once more by you constrained to appear in the publick war which in this mighty day of the Lords power is begun between the Beast the fals-Prophet and the Lamb. 1. And first I must tell you that notwithstanding 1 advised and warned you in my former book