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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86489	The skirts of the whore discovered, and the mingled people in the midst of her. In a letter sent by Denys Hollister to the independent baptiz'd people, who call themselves a Church of Christ in Bristol, but are found to be a synagogue of Satan, in answer to a charge brought to him from them by some of their members, and by him ... published. Together with another letter written by him to Thomas Ewens, a teacher among them, ... referring to his speaking among his people of having Sarah Latchet a servant of Jesus, once a member among the Baptists, sent to Bridewell, and whipt for testifying to them in the name of the Lord in their meeting the second day of the ninth moneth. 1655. And likewise an answer to 16 antiqueries directed to the people called Quakers, which answer was sent to Thomas Ewens, from whom the antiqueries were received, though Iohn Pendarviss a long time after published the antiqueries by the name of Queries, without the answer to them, or taking the least notice of it in a book entituled Arrows against Babylon which hath occasiond the presenting of the one, and the other, now to the view of those who read, and understand, to judge of the whole, and of their unfaire and deceitfull dealing.	Hollister, Dennis, d. 1676?	1656 (1656)	Wing H2508; Thomason E896_3; ESTC R202571	35,627	37

s true I said the thing called the Body of Divinity by the Wizards of this world was a plague to the Land and doe still affirme it to be so Although I perceive some among you are so blinded by the god of this world that they know not how to put a difference between the spirit of Witchcrafts which acts in the Diana called Divinity and the pure Spirit of Christ by which the Scriptures were given forth And whereas you accuse me for saying the Scriptures were a blinding or a veil I demand where are your eyes Hath the god of this world indeed so blinded it that you cannot read plain words of Scripture but lay that to my charge as sinne which is according to that which came out of the mouth of him whom you pretend to honour Doth not Christ Jesus the Light of the world and the wisedome of God say Mdrk 4.11 12. Vnto you it is given to know the Mysteries of the Kingdom but to them that are without all these things are done in Parables that seeing they might see and not perceive and hearing they might hear but not understand c. And the like words in Luke 8.10 Was not Isaiah sent to this purpose to make the peoples hearts fat and their eares heavy and to shut their eyes And to say unto them hear ye indeed but understand not and see ye indeed but perceive not Isa 6. Doe ye not understand that the Letter killeth and the Spirit quickneth besides many other Scriptures manifesting the same thing Oh my Friends were you not wholly given over and become past feeling without any sence of the life and spirit of God how can these things be especially at such a time when the night is so far spent and the day so much appeared and the true Light come and the glory of the Lord risen and the children of the Lord walking in the light of the Lord and calling each other thereinto according to the Scriptures were it not your way to be silent and not manifest your ignorance and folly in accusing others for speaking upon the matter the very words of Scripture when it is your own ignorance even of the very Letter of Scripture that is the cause of it And whereas you accuse me for affirming in the Church that the Scriptures were not the Word of God and Rule of Life when I only propounded it among you to consider whether it was so or not In this you manifest your ignorance as well as in the former And therefore I demand of you where doth the Scripture call it selfe the Word of God and to whom was it the rule of life It is true the Holy Scriptures of Truth declare of the Word and that Word of which it declares was God and took flesh and by that Word was the world made and by the same Word it is reserved to the judgement of the great day And if you can find the Scriptures declaring of any other Word of God let me know it and till then be silent and adde not your imaginations which are onely Evill and that continually to the Scriptures Thus having answered what you sent to me I shall further adde that I take notice that God hath granted me that mercy that in all studied accusations raked up together against me you cannot finde one particular thing to lay to my charge condemned by the spirit of Christ to be contrary to the Scriptures of Truth and that all or most part of what you seem to gather up is of that which was done or spoken whilest I was among you and not then reproved and so your own evill is manifested and not mine But to conclude for my heart is moved after some of you why would you stone or otherwise harm me what evill have I done Why doe ye wait for my Halting and lay snares for him that reproved you in times past by words and now by silence Why are your spirits imbitter'd against him that thought nothing deare to doe you service Have I not served you freely many years together and been a keeper of your Vineyard In which all my reward from you was to beare and be broken under your backbitings murmurings formality and unfruitfulness and other evils not a few then in being and still is among you Is it not time now for me to look to my own Vineyard and to mind my Eternal Habitation Have I ever made a gain of you or any of you Surely I have been servant to you neer as long as Iacob was to Laban for both his wives And may I not now be permitted to mind mine own but you must pursue like Laban after poor Iacob when God bid him return I know and am perswaded that the most embitter'd spirit among you cannot but say I have been more righteous then you more discerning more faithful and diligent then you though I am not thereby justified neither have I whereof to glory And may I not say to you as sometimes the poor Ass abused by the blind Prophet said to his Master what have I done Have I not been your servant these many yeares was I wont to doe as now Surely if ever the Lord take pleasure in you and open your eyes you will soon see the Angel in the way and that the poor Ass hath more discerning then the wilfull angry and passionate Prophet You are my Witnesses that some manifestations of truth was breaking forth in me some yeares past and was sometimes manifested among you at which some of your hearts burn'd some trembled some were offended and contradicted c. My selfe in all was groaning after power spirit and life without which no satisfaction came to my soul from whence I ceased not to warn you from day to day of your danger in the state where you stood short of the life But you not being warned how often hath mine heart lamented in your hearing in these and the like words To whom shall I speak and give warning you will not hear your hearts are uncircumcised and you cannot hearken The word of the Lord is a reproach so you and you have no delight in it O that my head were water and mine eyes a fountain of tears c. Oh that I had in the Wildernesse a lodging-place of Wayfaring men that I might leave my people and goe away from them for they are Adulterers an Assembly of treacherous men and bend their tongues like bowes for lyes but are not valiant for the Truth upon Earth c. But this seemed as idle words yet was I made to proceed and to warne you of the mighty day of the Lord now at the doore in which you could never stand I told you your foundation was on the sand short of the life your profession was in words not in power and that your mountaines must be brought low and your valleys exalted before the Lord come to your Temple and at last that your Church was but an Harlot and the spirit

of whoredomes acted therein All which with much more not being believed nor received but entertained with offence and prejudice What could I doe but shake off the dust of my feet and stand as a Witness against your deceit and so betake my self into the Wilderness as before I had said in which the Lord speaks comfortably And give me leave without offence to tel you that in all this I understood and knew what I spake Yea when I profess'd among you my ignorance of Christ I wel knew what I did for mine eies began to be opened by him that was given for a covenant to open blind eies And therefore do bear testimony that that knowledg also which you had then of Christ shall profit you nothing and that your habitation is in the midst of deceit and through deceit ye refuse to know the Lord but are feeding on ashes not on bread and so are a people robbed and spoiled yea all of you snared in holes and hid in Prison-houses and are for a prey and for a spoil And this shall ye know and witness eternally when happily no place for repentance may be found but the things belonging to your peace be hid from your eyes But who among you will give ear to this who will hearken and hear for the time to come But when I consider both your danger and your confidence and see but little probability of escape How am I wounded at the heart and made as it were to cry out My bowels my bowels I am pained at the heart I have labored in vain and spent my strength for nought for the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously and so you proceed from evil to evil as appeareth this day though the God of this world hath so blinded your eyes that you cannot see it I told you also whiles I was with you that as many desired and seemed to delight in the day of Christs first appearance in flesh could not stand when he appeared but became his Betrayers and Murderers so in his second appearance in Spirit Power and Life many of those that expected him seemed to desire and earnestly pray for that day of Christ would be found the greatest Enemies to him and told you some of you would betray him and how sadly it is already fulfilled in you and made good by you Let all to whom God hath given any measure of true discerning judge and see if in envy wrath and rage some of you exceed not the Heathen yea all your Fathers who in envy wrath and rage persecuted the Prophets and holy men of God that witnessed the truth in their generations But my Friends Against whom do ye sport your selves against whom make ye a wide mouth and draw out the tongue yea and the hand also Are you not children of transgression a seed of falshood Are your actions the actions of Isaac the true seed to whom the promise is made or of Ishmael that scoffed or mocked and must be cast out of righteous Abel or wrathful Cain by your fruits are ye known and the Harvest is come in which the wheat is gathering and the tares and chaff is scattering and burning and your saying Lord Lord will not serve turn Your saying and imagining you have Faith will not save you when your works are contrary and proceed not from above but from beneath Why do ye rage and imagine vain things why do ye set your selves and take counsel together against the anointed one why will ye break all his bonds and cast his cords from you by which he would draw and gather you to himself in this day of his mighty power The Lord hath set his King upon his holy Hill of Sion Who from thence declares the decrees the Law is gone forth of Sion and the word of the Lord from Ierusalem thousands are witnesses thereof although it be your lot to be of that number that despise and wonder and must perish according to the Scripture except ye repent And therefore be wise and kiss the Son lest he be angry c. For truly you may associate your selves and take counsel of the enemies of the Lord you may strike in confederacy with the enemies of our God but you must be broken to pieces for the Lord of Hosts is with us and the shout of a King is among us though we are as signs and wonders in Israel But to be plain from whence comes Wars and Fightings that are among you why do ye beat in your meetings likewise Enemies of Christ in their Synagogues as some of you did the tenth day of the seventh moneth at Richard Moons if you had there met to call on the Father who without respect of persons judgeth righteously why had you not past your time in fear but if you have bitter envyings and strife in your hearts as it is evident you then and at other times had glory not and lie not against the truth for this comes not from above but is carnal sensual and devilish and where strife and envy is there is confusion and every evil work Therefore cleanse your hands ye sinners and purifie your hearts ye double-minded be afflicted and mourn and weep let your laughter be turned into mourning and your joy into heaviness for God accepts not your sacrifice but his wrath and fury is to be revealed against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who hold the truth in unrighteousness as you do this day And therefore the sinners in Sion are afraid great fear hath surprized the Hypocrites I beseech you read uprightly without prejudice or deceit the 83. Psalm from end to end and see if it contains not both your practice and portion I advise you to stand still if you will see the salvation the Lord of a truth is working for his people But if you will stand on the other side reioycing over the children of Iudah in the day of their calamity and speak proudly in the day of her distress and be like one of her enemies Know that the day of the Lord is near upon all the Heathen her enemies and as you have done it shall be done unto you as the Prophet witnesses Obadiah 11.12 13 14 15. And if you will be one with the enemies of the Lord in sin must ye not be one in plagues And if you although ignorantly will be lifting at the burthen some stone and fighting against Ierusalem must ye not be broken and receive the plague from the Lord God that must be poured out upon all that fight against it Zach. 14.12 Can any pretence whatsoever cover you Consider this all ye that put faraway the evil day and cause the seat of violence to come near who beat and abuse the servants of the living God which in his Name he sends among you for your good so that they bear your marks in their bodies as of old they did from your Fathers and whether it be not an evident token of your perdition