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A67324	More work for the dean in a brief answer to some scandalous reports published by Dr. Stillingfleet in his book entituled, \"An impartial account of the history, nature and pleas of the present separation from the communion of the Church of England\" against some of the Lords faithful servants, namely, Mr. Henry Barrow, Mr. John Greenwood, Mr. John Penry, who by the bishops means, after long imprisonment, were put to death, contrary to Queen Elizabeths mind; in the year 1593 ... : as likewise here is word for word the petition of those persecuted Christians, wherein is shewed the barbarous usage of the bishops to them : together with the refutation of the then esteemed Bishop of Winchester's blasphemous doctrine, by Mr. Henry Barrow, with the description of the true Church of God, according to Christs Testament, by the whole Church at London, whom the doctor calleth Brownists; with the reason why they were so nick-named by their enemies : very needful for all true Protestants to know / by Thomas Wall.	Wall, Thomas.	1681 (1681)	Wing W485; ESTC R20458	32,462	49

the sincerity of the Gospel let us remember that great is our reward in heaven if we endure unto the end I testifie unto you for mine own part as I shall answer before Jesus Christ and his elect Angels that I never saw any truth more clear and undoubted than this witness wherein we stand first against false Offices 2. Callings 3. Works 4 Maintenance left and retained in the Land and I thank my God I am not only ready to be bound and banished but even to dye in this cause by his strength Yea my brethren I greatly long in regard of my self to be dissolved and to live in the blessed kingdom of heaven Thus having from my heart with tears performed it may be my last duty towards you all in this life and remember to stand fat and faithful in Jesus Christ as you have received him unto your immortality and confirm and establish you to the end for the praise of his glory Amen The 24th of the 4th month April 1593. He suffer'd death May 24. next after Now if these be not with his former testimonies sufficient to clear Mr. Penry from the Doctors calumniations all written we see a little before his death I shall add a third testimony which as Solomon saith a threesold cord is not easily broken even the last words to his Wife when close prisoner looking every day to be carried to the place of Execution all in print presently after his death and yet to be seen at this day in these words To my beloved Wife Hellen or Penry partaker with me in this life of the sufferings of the Gospel in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ and resting with me in undoubted hope of the glory that shall be revealed all strength comfort with all other spiritual blessings be multiplied through Jesus Christ our Lord I see my beloved my blood is layed for so my days and testimony is drawing to an end for ought I know and therefore you so dear a sister and so loving a wife in the Lord as you have been unto me first then I beseech you stand fast in the truth which you and I profess at this present in much outward discomfort and danger let your soul and your body be far from those Assemblies which yield either known or secret submission unto the ordinance of the beast that is to receive his marks either in the right hand or in the forehead as the spirit of God saith Rev 13. 16. for this are you forbidden to do under the pain of Gods eternal wrath Rev. 14. 9 10 11. 2 Cor. 6. 14 15. 16. 1 Cor. 3. 16 17. Rev. 22 18 19. Deut. 12. 30 31 32. Again my beloved continue a member of the holy society whereof you and I are where the Lord in his Ordinances reigneth for here and in all such Assemblies the Lord dwelleth by his presence and power of his spirit Mat. 18. 2. ●●and 28. 20. and 29. 45 Lev. 26. 11 12 here he is a mighty protector and defonce ready at hand Isa 26. 1. and 4. 6. and his Ordinances you know hath he greatly commanded to be kept and observed Psal 119. 14. 1 Cor. 11. 1. 1 Tim. 6. 14. and the loving-kindness of the Eternal is for ever and ever towards them and their seed that remember to do them Psal 103. 17 18. whereas all those are accursed that err from his statutes and diminish from the obedience they owe unto his Majesty Psal 119. 2. Rev. 22. 9. Psal 119 118. I pray you work all these places with all such like in the word against those that make a slight matter either to walk in the ways of God or to be subject to small corruptions as they account them Be armed with the power of the word against all such lying delusions 2 Cor. 6. 14 15. 2 Thes 2. 9. In conclusion my dear wife and sister look not at any earthly thing consecrate your self wholly both body and soul husband children and whatsoever you have unto the Lord your God let them not be dearer unto you than his worship and service know it know it to be an unspeakable preferment for you that he vouchsafed to take either your self or any of yours to suffer affliction with him and his Gospel here on earth Luke 8 29 30. Mat. 19. 29. I am perswaded that you have undergone the profession of the truth set down by our Saviour Luke 14. 26 27. that is to hate all in respect of his Gospel fear not want of outward things for the Lord careth for you and yours remember what is set down Heb. 11. 5. Luk. 12. 31. the Lord is my God and yours and the God of our seed Thus with many sweet and heavenly admonitions and advice he saith I got means this day to write thus much unto you whereof no creature knoweth therefore in great haste with many tears yet in great spiritual comfort of soul your husband now for a season and your beloved brother for evermore John Penry an unworthy soldier sure of the victory in the blood of the Lamb 1 Cor. 15. 57. Rev. 12. 11. salute the whole Church from me especially those in bonds meaning those 56. members of the Church in London taken on a Lords day as they were serving God Now of the barbarous usage they sustained by the bishops I shall after herein set down word for word as themselves have declared in a Petition they presented then to the Parliament In the mean time let me beseech the Christian Reader impartially to judg by this testimony of Mr. Penry left behind him yet to be seen though printed in the year he suffered whether that Report the Doctor hath published to defame a worthy servant of Christ for no other cause but because he as well as other of the Lords servants contended against the ministry of lordly Prelates not once named in Christs testament and that Protest ants should not perswade themselves they were true worshippers of God until they had expelled out from among them the many corruptions in ministry and ordinances the neglect of which good work still calleth for the judgments of God to come on the Nation as was in a second Warning piece a few months ago proved to be the chief cause still why God is bringing his severe judgments on these three Protestant Nations presented to the late Parliament And now to add to all the former causes of Gods judgments threatned to follow Mr. Hildersham's footsteps the Doctor is not content to satisfie himself with that false report but to imitate him in publishing that scandalous name Brownist on all those people unto which scandalous name to shew the Doctor his false or rather his malicious spirit in saying Mr. Brown was one of those people I shall here for the Readers satisfaction set down what Answer to this Mr. Johnson Pastor of the people returned to Mr. Hildersham and Mr. Jacob both the Bishops ministers As for the name Brownist by which we are

form order and ordinances which shall abide to the worlds end than he was of the other which consisted but of wood and stone and was to abide but for a time being but a type and shadow of the spiritual if we think so let the New Testament convince us wherein is left unto us a most exact lively and express pattern for all things concerning the ministry ordinances maintenance time and order therefore Christ is said to be faithful Heb. 3. 6. in his own house as a Son who is the head of his body the Church Col. 1. 18. of the living God the only Lord spiritual and Archbishop of their soul 1 Pet. 2. 25. If the Dr. be as may be supposed he is of the Bishops mind by imbracing an Office not once named in Christs Testament to wit a Dean by it allowing that the Orders appointed by Christ were but temporary so that Christs Offices of Pastors Teachers Elders and Deacons is not allowed by the Doctor to remain perpetual When he hath proved it he may be believed and until then Mr. Barrows testimony herein is truth and the contrary seditious And they that own any other Ministry Order or Ordinances in Gospel-worship than Christ hath appointed is intollerable to the utter subversion of all good orders in Christs Church and precurer of the Judgments to come on that Land Now if the Doctor will not believe this to be a truth though a truth proved by Scripture because those he calleth Brownists declare it I hope he will believe it if some of the Ministers of his own Church saith it in the Admonition to the Parliament in the Thirteenth year of Queen Elizabeths Reign they in opposition to the Ministry of Arch and Lord Bishops declare in the Epistle Either we must have a right Matt 9. 37 Eph. 4. 11 12 Ministry of God a right Government of his Church Matt. 18. 15 16 17. according to the Scriptures both which we lack or else there can be no right Religion nor yet from the contempt thereof can Gods Plagues be from us any while deferred And further they say in Page 2. We allow and like well of Popish Mass-mongers men for all seasons King Henries Priests Queen Maries Priests who of a truth if Gods Word were precisely kept should from the same be utterly removed Now to leave this to the Doctors consideration I shall in the next place better inform the Doctor what end Mr. Barrow made that so the Doctor may be ashamed to own his false report in his Book I find in a book Printed a little after Mr. Barrows death in the year 1593 Intituled Henry Barrow's Platform by reason of some things Mr. Barrow had Written was after his death Printed In which the Publisher declareth in these words A Gentleman of a good House told me that Queen Elizabeth asked the Learned Doctor Raynols what he then thought of those Two men Henry Barrow and John Greenwood he answered her Majesty that it could not avail any thing to shew his judgment concerning them seeing they were put to death and being loath to speak his mind further Her Majesty charged him upon his Allegiance to speak whereupon he answered that he was perswaded if they had lived they would have been Two as worthy Instruments for the Church of God as hath been raised up in this Age. Her Majesty sighed and said no more But after that she riding to a Park near the place where they suffered death called again to mind their suffering of death and being willing to take farther information concerning them demanded of the Earl of Cumberland who was present when they suffered What end they made He answered A very godly end and prayed for your Majesty the State moreover saith the same Author Mr. Philips a preacher famous both seeing and hearing Mr. Barrow his holy speeches and preparations for death said Barrow Barrow my soul be with thine By all which it appeareth that this report which the Doctor hath taken out of Mr. Cotton's book printed above 40. years after their death and then but that Mr. Cotten should say Mr. Dod told him so is very false and the rather to be believed it was false because Mr. Cotten though he went into New England yet could never forsake the order of his ministry received from the Bishops nor yet glorying in their vain School titles as in the title of his book afore noted he stileth himself John Cotten Batchellor in Divinity These fleshly titles Paul was ashamed of and accounted them but dung though he had as many to glory in as any man Phil. 3. all which Mr. Barrow reproved which Mr. Cotten did not like therefore could report a hearsay against Mr. Barrow though no more dishonour to Mr. Barrow nor the cause he dyed for than it was to the prophet Jeremiah Jer. 20. and the cause he suffered for both for the good old way of the Lord under the Law the other under the Gospel-worship In the next place the Doctor is pleased to publish against Mr. Penry That Mr. Hildersham should tell Mr. Cotten both ministers of the bishops order that Mr. Penry should say a little before his death That he had deserved death at the Queens hands for that he had seduced many of her loyal subjects to a separation from hearing the word of life in the Parish Churches which though himself had learned to discern the evil of yet could he never recover divers of her Majesties subjects whom he had seduced To which I answer as the wise man saith Prov. 18. 17. He that is first in his own Cause seemeth just but his neighbour cometh and searcheth him Now by search I find that report cannot in the least measure be true First being but the report of his enemy and why his enemy but as the Apostle was to some in the Church of Galatia for telling them the truth Gal. 4. 16. 1 King 22. 8. Mr. Penry as well as Mr. Barrow testified against Mr. Hildersham's ministry which testimony I shall easily prove he maintained to his death as appeareth by the consession of his faith his Letter to the Church at London he was a member of 3. His Letter to his Wife all written near that time of his death In his Confession he thus declareth himself I detest against the Pope his triple crown his usurped jurisdiction of either of both swords I detest the limbs of that body their spiritual power as Cardinals Archbishops Lord Bishops Suffragans Abbots Friers Deans this word Dean may vex the Dr. Arch deacons Commissaries Officials Monks Canons Pr●bends Priests Besides this testimony which is sufficient to prove the report false Mr. Hildersham raised against Mr. Penry let me here add what Mr. Penry wrote to the Church at London whereof he was a member in these words Beloved let us think our lot and portion more than happy or blessed that now we are vouchsafed the favour not only to know and profess but also to suffer for

third of the fourth month 1592. about some 56. persons hearing the word of God truly taught praying and praising God for all his favours shewed unto us and unto her Majesty your Honours and the whole Land desiring our God to be merciful unto us and to our gracious Princess and Countrey being employed in these holy actions and no other as the parties who disturbed us can testifie they were taken in the very same place where the persecuted Church and martyrs were inforced to use like exercise in Q. Maries days The former number are now unbailably committed by the Prelates or bishop of London into close for the most in several prisons as Bridewell the Clink the Gatehouse the Limbo or Dungeon in Newgate the Fleet the Marshalsey the Counter the White-Lyon wherein we willingly acknowledg the lot and inheritance in this life of our forefathers and brethren and holy martyrs of the former age and the entailed Aceldema or blood succession of the See of London and that whole Lineage Well here our brethren lye how long Lord holy and true thou knowest in dungeons in hunger in cold and in nakedness with all outward distresses for these bloody men will allow them neither meat drink fire lodging nor suffer any whose hearts the Lord would stir up for their relief to have any access unto them purposing belike to imprison them unto death as they have done seventeen or eighteen others in the same noisome Gaols within these six years the wife and husband now taken by them they permit not to be in the same but have sent them to be closely kept in other Prisons what the poor Family doth at home in the mean time your Lordships may consider and justly pity Some of the Company had not one Peny about them when they were sent to Prison nor any thing being abroad which is the case of most of them if not all to procure themselves and their poor Families any maintenance save only their handy Labours and Trades whereby it is come to pass that these enemies of God do not only starve and undo a number of men in Prisons but even a lamentable company of poor Orphans and Servants abroad their unbridled slanders their lawless privy searches their violent breaking open and rifling our Houses their lamentable and barbarous usage of Women and young Children in these hostile assaults and ever robbing and taking away whatsoever they think meet from us In this Case their unappeased merciless pursuit of us from our Houses Trades Wife and Children especially from the holy Society of the Saints and Church of God we are forced to omit lest we should be over-tedious to your Lordships but their dealings this way towards us is so woful Right Honourable as we may truly demand with grief of heart whether the forreign enemy or our own Native Country men do possess and bear Rule over us in our dear and native Country Their whole dealings herein is most barbarous inhumane but especially most Antichristian and such as exceed the cruelty of Heathens and Popish professed Tyrants and persecutors The Records of the Heathen persecution under Nero Trajan Desius Gallianus Maximinian can scant afford us any examples of like cruelty and havock for the Heathen Romans would murther openly and professedly these godless men have put the blood of War about them in the Day of Peace and Truce which the whole Land professeth to hold with Christ Jesus and his Servants Bishop Bouner Story Weston dealt not after this sort for those whom they committed close they brought them in short space openly into Smithfield to end their misery and to begin their never-ending joy whereas Bishop Elmor Doctor Stanhope and Mr. Justis Yong with the rest of that persecuting and blood-thirsty faculty will do neither of these no Fellon no Murderer no Traytor in the Land are thus dealt with There are many of us by the Mercies of God still out of their hands the former exercise and profession we purpose not to leave by the assistance of God We have as good warrant to reject the ordinances of Antichrist and labour for the recovery of Christs Holy Ordinances as our Fathers in Queen Maries days If our Cause were truly known to her Majesty and your wisdoms we should find greater favour than they did whereas our state now is far more lamentable and therefore we humbly and earnestly crave of her Majesty and your Lordships both for our selves in miserable captivity but just and equal tryal according to her Majesties Laws if we prove not our Adversaries to be in a most pestilent and godless condition both in regard of their offices and their proceedings in them and our selves to be in the right way we desire not to have the benefit of her Majesties true and faithful Subjects which of all earthly favours we account it to be one of the greatest Are we Malefactors are we anywise undutiful to our Prince maintain we any errors Let us then be judicially convicted thereof and delivered to the Civil Authority but let not these bloody men both accuse condemn and close murder us after this sort contrary to all Law Equity and Conscience where alone they are the Plaintiff the Accusers the Judges and the Executioners of their most fearful barbarous Tyranny They should not by the Laws of the Land go any further in cases of Religion than their own Ecclesiastical censures and then refer us to the Civil Powers their fore-fathers Gardener Bonner Story dealt thus equally and we crave but their equity Oh! let her excellent Majesty our Sovereign and your wisdoms consider and accord unto this our just Petition for streams of innocent blood are likely to be spilt in secret by these blood-thirsty men except her Majesty and your Honours do take order with their most cruel and inhumane proceedings We crave for all of us but liberty either to dye openly or to live openly in the Land of our Nativity if we deserve death it beseemeth the Magistrates of Justice not to see us closely murdered yea starved to death with hunger and cold and stilled in loathsom Dungeons If we be guiltless we crave but the benefit of our innocency that we may have peace to serve our God and our Prince in the place and sepulchers of our Fathers Thus protesting our Innocency complaining of Violence and Wrong and crying for Justice on the behalf and in the name of that Righteous Judge the God of Equity and Justice we continue our Prayers unto Him for her Majesty and your Honours whose hearts we beseech him to incline towards this our most equal and just suit through Jesus Christ our Lord. The condition of those poor Christians being so deplorable some may marvel the Queen so worthy a Princess did not relieve them But it is no marvel when it is considered on the other hand where the spiritual Lords so called bear sway in a Nation no pity can be expected or favour to Christs faithful Servants that without respect

perverted e every one here hath freedom and power not disturbing the peaceable order of the Church to utter his complaints and griefs and freely to reprove the transgression and errors without exception of persons a 2 Cor. 2. 17. 3 John 9. b 1 Tim. 4. 2 3. and 5. 21. and 6. 14. Gal. 6. 12. c 1 Cor ●5 d Jer. 23. 28. 1 Tim. 3. 15. e 1 Cor. 6. and 14. 30. Col. 4. 17. Here is no a intrusion or climbing up another way into the sheepfold than b by the holy and free election of the Lords holy and free people and that according to the Lords Ordinance humbling themselves by fasting and prayer before the Lord craving the direction of his holy Spirit for the trial and approving of Gifts c. a Joh. 10. 1. b Acts 1. 23. and 6. 3. and 14. 23. Thus they orderly proceed to Ordination by fasting and prayer in which a action the Apostles used laying on of hands Thus hath every one of the people interest in the election and ordination of their Officers as also in the administration of their Offices upon b transgression offence abuse c. having an especial care unto the inviolable order of the Church as is aforesaid a 1 Tim. 4. 14. and 5. 22. b Luk. 17. 3. Rom. 16. 17. Col. 4. 17. Likewise in this Church they have holy a Laws as limits and bonds which it is lawful at no hand to transgress They have Laws to direct them in the choice of every Officer what kind of men the Lord will have Their Pastour must be apt to b teach no young Schollar c able to divide the word aright d holding fast that faithful word according to Doctrine that he may be able also to exhort rebuke improve with wholfom Doctrine and to convince them that say against it● He must be e a man that loveth goodness he must be wise righteous holy temperate he must be of life unreprovable as Gods Steward he must be generally well reported of and one that ruleth his own houshould under obedience with all honesty he must be modest humble meek gentle and loving he must be a man of great f patience compassion labour and diligence he must always be careful and watchful over the flock whereof the Lord hath made him overseer with all willingness and chearfulness not holding his office in respect of persons but doing his duty to every soul as he will answer before the chief Shepherd c. a Matt. 5. 19. 1 Tim. 1. 18. b Deut. 33. 10. Mal. 2. 7. 1 Tim. 3. 1 c. c 2 Tim. 2. 15. d Tit. 1. 9. 2 Tim. 4. 2. e Tit. 1. 7 8. f Numb 12. 3 7 Isa 50. 4 5 6. Jer. 3. 15. Ezek. 34. 18. Acts 20. 1 Pet. 5. 1 2 3 4. 1 Tim. 5. 21. Their Doctor or Teacher must be a man apt to teach able to divide the Word of God aright and to deliver sound and wholesom Doctrine from the same still building upon that sound ground work he must be mighty in the Scriptures able to convince the gainsayers and careful to deliver his Doctrine pure sound and plain not with curiosity or affectation but so that it may edifie the most simple approving it to every mans Conscience he must be of life unreprovable one that can govern his own houshould he must be of manners sober temperate modest gentle and loving c. 1. Tim. 3. Titus 1. 2 Tim. 2. 15. 1 Cor. 17. and 2 4. Their Elders must be of wisdom and judgment endued with the Spirit of God able to discern between cause and cause between plea and plea and accordingly to prevent and redress evils always vigilant and intending to see the Statutes Ordinances and Laws of God kept in the Church and that not only by the people in obedience but to see the Officers do their duties These men must be of life likewise unreprovable governing their own families orderly they must be also of manners sober gentle modest loving temperate c. Numb 11. 24 25. 2 Chron. 19. 8. Acts 15. 1 Tim. 3. and 5. chap. Their Deacons must be men of honest report having the mystery of the saith in a pure conscience endued with the Holy Ghost they must be grave temperate not given to excess nor to filthy lucre Acts 6. 3. 1 Tim. 3. 8 9. Their Relievers or Widows must be women of Sixty years of age at the least for avoiding of inconveniences they must be well reported of for good works such as have nourished their Children such as have not been harbarous to Strangers diligent and service able to the Saints compassionate and helpful to them in adversity given to every good work continuing in supplications and prayers night and day 1 Tim. 5. 9 10. These Officers must first be duely proved then if they be found blameless administer c. 1 Tim. 3. 10. Now as the persons gifts conditions manners life and proof of these Officers is set down by the Holy Ghost so are their Offices limited severed and divers 1 Cor. 12. 12 18 28. The Pastours office is to feed the sheep of Christ in green and wholesom pastures of his Word and lead them to the still waters even to the pure Fountain and River of life He must guide and keep those sheep by that heavenly sheephook and pastoral staff of the Word thereby drawing them to him thereby looking into their souls even into their most secret thoughts Thereby discerning their diseases and thereby curing them applying to every disease a fit and convenient medicine and according to the quality and danger of the disease give warning to the Church that they may orderly proceed to excommunication Further he must by this his sheephook watch over and defend his flock from ravenous beasts and the Wolf and take the little Foxes c. Psal 23. Lev. 10. 10 11. Numb 18. 1. Ezek 44. 23 and 33 and 34. Joh. 21. 15. Acts 20. 28. 1 Pet. 5 1. 4 Zach. 11. 7. Rev. 22. 2. Luk. 12. 42. 2 Cor. 10. 4 5. Heb. 4. 12. John 10. 11 12. Song 2. 15. The Doctors Office is already set down in his description His special care must be to build upon the only true groundw●ork gold silver and precious stones that his work may endure the trial of the fire and by the light of the same fire reveal the Timber Hay and Stubble of false Teachers he must take diligent heed to keep the Church from errors And further he must deliver his Doctrine so plainly simply and purely that the Church may increase with the increasing of God and grow up unto him which is the Head Christ Jesus 1 Cor. 3. 11 12. Levit. 10. 10. Ezek. 33. 1 2 c. and 44. 24. Mal. 2. 6. 1 Cor. 3. 11. 1 Cor. 1. 17. 1 Tim. 4. 16. and 6. 20. Ephes 2. 20. Heb. 6. 1. 2 Pet. 2. 2. The Office of the Ancients is expressed in their description Their especial care must be to see the

their second admonition to the Parliament page 40. in the 13th year of Queen Elizabeths Reign in the year 1570. who have thus written We are so scarce come to the outward face of a Church rightly reformed that although some truths be taught by some Preachers yet no Preachers may without danger of the Laws utter all the Truths comprised in the Book of God it is so circumvented and wrapt within the compass of such Statutes such Penalties such Advertisements such Articles such Canons such sober Caveats and such manifold Pamphlets that in a manner if it doth bat peep out behind the skreen the Laws of the Land the Book of Common-prayer the Commissioners Advertisements the Bishops Canons Linwood's Provincials every Bishops Articles in his Diocess my Lord of Canterbury ' s sober Caveats his Licenses to Preachers his high Court of Prerogatives or grave fatherly faculties these together or the worst of them as some of them be too bad may not be broken or offended against but with more danger than to offend against the Bible To these subscribing and subscribing again and the third time subscribing are required for these Preachers and others are indicted are fined are imprisoned are excommunicated are banished or have some worse things threatned them and the Bible that must have no further scope than by these it is assigned Is this to profess Gods Word Is this Reformation Thus was fulfilled what was written under the names of Four evil Angels who should hinder the winds of Gods Spirit so much as in them lay that the true Preaching of the Gospel-should not blow upon any Tree Mat. 3. 10. Luk. 6. 43 44 45. contrary to Cant. 4. 16. yet as the Word of God cannot be bound Isa 55. 11. there still was by the breathing thereof John 3. 8. a remnant of sanctified ones Trees of righteousness who lived and reigned with Christ by faith over Sin the World and the Devil all the time of the beasts reign Rev. 20. 4. Therefore what an evil hath the Doctor done in desaming such that desired to walk with Christ in his Commands in worship and refused only the inventions of men therein If he hath done this in blind zeal in ignorance as did Saul If with him he belong to Gods election Rom. 11 7. there may be hopes that as God did change Saul's heart from the symptoms of the Letters in his name which signified mortal so persecuted he the Saints to death Acts 7. 58. and 9. 1 2. Likewise Pontius Pilate the first part of his name signified cruel or inhumane the other part Pilate signifying a man Armed with a Roman Dart so was his nature Christ suffering under the Roman power was killed by the Dart of Pilates sentence he being Judge So likewise the drawn Swords of bitter words Psal 55. 2. against Mr. Barrow and others then Prisoners in the Fleet is the first part of the Doctor 's name through whose sides the Doctor still shooteth them against all the Nonconformists to the end he might have them Still-in-fleet the natural sense of almost every letter of his name which suiteth with the fruits of his nature until God giveth him a heart of true repentance 2 Tim. 2. 25 26. that so he no longer halt between two opinions holding the Popish office of a Dean and so fight against all true Protestants that shall bear their testimony against it and all such like Titles with mens Traditions in Protestant Churches and on the other hand would seem to fight against the Papists Surely this man is no Caleb nor Joshua in following the Lord fully but like the man in the Gospel that desireth to know what he should do to inherit eternal life yet can go no further than he can keep his revenues of great possessions Now if Balaam cold not cozen the Lord to prevail by his Altar and Sacrifices against Gods people no more shall the Doctor with all his bowing as some of his Clergy have been said to have done and so think thereby to prevail against the Lords people no sure Now who may without partiality be accounted the most truest Protestants but those that walk with Christ the most nearest to the Rules of his Gospel And is it not for so doing that these Christians aforenamed are hated by the Doctor I 'll leave the prudent to judge and the Doctor to shew the contrary if he can And wherefore are the Judgments of God threatned against this Protestant Nation but for the persecuting and so make a prey of those that depart from iniquity and bearing their testimony against all mans inventions in worship as was signified in a Warning-piece to the King last April 1680 and another to the late Parliament both to be had where this is sold published by the same Author Moreover is this a day for the Doctor to give incouragement to the Magistrate to persecute their loyal Subjects for matters of Religion No sure he should have looked to the state of his flock and see how it is commingled with all sorts of people as Mr. Gifford aforesaid hath testified when as God hath shew'd his Ministers that their Work was to put a difference between the holy and prophane the clean and the unclean and for the neglect thereof they were charged with violating Gods Law Ezek. 22. 26. unless the Doctor think there is no unclean visible wicked liver in his Parish Again saith the Lord to the Prophet Jeremiah If thou take the precious from the vile thou shalt be as my mouth let them return to thee but return not thou to them Jer. 15 19. Even so under the Gospel are the godly forbidden to partake with other mens sins 1 Tim. 2. 22. because in speritual Communion a little Leaven leaveneth the whole lump 1 Cor. 5. 6. Gal. 5 9. Numb 19. 22. So one sinner suffered unpunished not only destroyeth much good Prov. 8. 9. but bringeth that City or Church into a snare Eccles 9. 18. As Joshuah said to Israel If ye rebel the Lord will be wrath with the whole congregation Joshua 22. 18. What need then have all that have taken charge of the Souls of a Flock or People that if they neglect to put Gods Order Mat. 18. 1 Cor. 5. Lev. 19. 19. in practice to punish by the Church censures all obstinate sinners God will not only requite it at their hands Ezekiel 3. 17. 18. and 33. 7 Heb. 13. 17. Act. 30. but for the neglect hereof he will renounce that Churches Candlestick Rev. 2. 5. so fight against them v. 16. and cast them into a bed of great tribulation Job 33. 19 Rev 2. 2. and spue them utterly from him so that the remnant of Gods marked sealed ones known to be such by their departing from iniquity shall walk with Christ in white for they are worthy Rev. 3. 4. 2 Tim. 2. 19. Ezek. 9. 4. Rev. 7. 3. when the other that will not be admonished the Lord saith to them I have left my heritage

I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hands of her enemies Jer. 11. 15. and 12. 7. For their inventions have I cast them out of my house Hosea 9. 5. and have abhorred the excellency of Jacob and hate all his palaces Amos 6. 8. for the Lord is of purer eyes than to have fellowship with the throne of iniquity he hath chosen Zion for his dwelling Psal 132. 13 14. Heb. 12. 22. Rev. 14. 1. his way is holy in all the parts of his service so that the polluted must not knowingly dwell there Isa 35. 8. because they defile the holy things of God Lev. 22 3. therefore God will be sanctified in all that draw near to him in his Lev. 10. 3. for as much as holiness becometh his house for ever Psal 93. 5. Now if the Doctor cannot see these things and what a confusion there is which hath caused a great many to separate from his Church for want of Gods Order in it let him not despise counsel seeing he that refuseth instruction despiseth his own Soul Prov. 15. 32. And lastly Seeing we are fallen into the last and perilous times what man of them that hath any thing in him of the Spirit of a Christian but would make it his greatest work to use the uttermost of his endeavours to unite the hearts of one Protestant to another in the many difference in point of Religion that so as brethren they may withstand the common Enemy even Gog and Magog the Turk and Papists the last enemies of Gods people who like unto the apostate and heathen Nations Psal 8. say Come let us cut them off from being a nation that the name of Israel may be had no more in remembrance And is not this the signs of the times when the Turk and Papist are by sea and land compassing the camp of the Saints about in number like the Canaanites Army Joshua 11. 4. as the sand on the shore whom God may suffer to prevail for the sins of his people until he hath refin'd them through the fire of affliction Zach. 13. 9. so melting the drofs from the silver yet in the end the rod shall be broken Isa 10. 5 24 25. Psal 125. 3. that so they that lead into captivity shall go into captivity and they that kill with the sword shall be killed with the sword Rev. 13. 10. and be mad with sorrow enough to say with that Heathen King Adonibezeck who caused threescore and ten Kings to gather meat under his Table having their right thumbs and toes cut off As I have done God hvth requited me Judg. 1. 7. If not this way because the time draweth nigh of Christs coming to judgment then fire shall come down from heaven and devour them Rev. 20. 9. yea so shall Christ come in flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God and that obey not the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ 1 Thes 1. 8 9 10. in the mean time let all persecutors read their portion Matt. 25. 41. Rev. 14. 9 10 11. and 19. 20. and 21. 8. And lastly If this way of plain dealing liketh not the Doctor I cannot help it for with Elihu I have learned not to flatter Job 32. 22. nor as some men desire to be smoothed in their sinful ways Isa 30. 10. but as the wise man saith open rebuke is better than secret love Prov. 27. 5. for who could sleep silent to see his brethren that are now at rest in the Lord desamed when as the Lord saith the memory of the just is blessed Prov. 10. 7. and they shall be had in everlasting remembrance Psal 112. 6. whose labours shine in the world as a comfort to the Lords people when revived though the same be a terror to their enemies as is seen in the Doctor and such like John speaketh of to see more Seths raised up to maintain the faith faithful Abels dyed for Rev. 16. 11. Ezek. 37. Rev. 20. 5. Now the Lord in his infinite mercy bless this small mite cast into the Treasury of all the Lords true Protestant people and also to the Doctor do I desire it may be for his everlasting comfort that so the Lord may have the glory honour and praise in and through our Lord Jesus Christ Amen FINIS