14th day at even when the Passover was eaten was the beginning of the fifteenth day as is confessed by the learned commentators Anot. Lev. 23.5 Lash p. 37. and is plain Exod. 12.18 19. and however Mr. Jenison termes it a shuffle to say the first fruits were offered the morrow of or after the Sabbath Amsworth and yet this morrow was the Sabbath it seife he termes not me but Moses if not God himselfe the shufler who plainely calls the 15 th day of the first moneth the morrow after the Passeover when they came out of Egypt yet the very same night of eating the Passeover departing out of Egypt was the beginning of the 15th day Numb 33.3 Exod. 12.18 19. If this be marvellous ignorance as Mr. Jenison termes it I am content to be so sensured by him whilst I have learned Ainsworth Diodati the English commentators Moses and God himselfe to bear me out in it lash p. 38. And that Saviour who is Lord of the Sabbath Sabbath will reckon with Mr. Ienuison for his hard speeches Lash p. 38 39. for we shall seek none other Saviour but he who commands the keeping of his Sabbath Mat. 24.20 As to the judgement of God upon the Prelates indeed it is most just for their opposing the morality of the Sabbath and let those who assert it that sleight it expect the next Vial. I have seen variety of judgements even to astonishment upon rejecters of the revived seventh day Sabbath which in my Reply to the next book which I hear is in the Press I may possibly have more leisure and just ground to particularize The Stress of the Controversie AFter this brief yet full Confutation of Mr. Iennisons inferiour Arguments I find him in my entrance upon the Apostles Pentecost which he concludes the main Stress of the Controversie labouring under two very gross mistakes Act. 2. Lash p. 3. The first is a strange conceit that the first fruits enjoyned Lev. 23.11 was to be ripe corn and upon this his mistake he renders the day of reaping uncertain p. 4. 10. according as Harvest came sooner or latter and so runs on in reckoning the fifty daies or seven weeks at randome to fasten the Apostles Pentecost to his First-day Sabbath whereas the Scripture requires not ripe corn but green ears * Lev. 2.14 Exod. 9.31 Deut. 16.12 Exod. 23.14 such as the field afforded at their going out of Egypt in Memorial whereof these first fruits were appointed and Gods Israel prohibited to eat thereof until this homage were performed This foul fault in the entrance of his account of fifty daies must needs be ill in the end His second intolerable mistake Lash p. 9. which hath nothing to save it from high blasphemy but gross ignorance is his confident assertion that the feast of first fruits was not at the end of the weeks but at the beginning yea and chargeth it as a very great mistake to say the Feast it self was not till the end of the weeks This Charge flies in the face of God himself who hath thus expressy spoken by his servant Moses Also in the day of the first fruits when ye bring a new meat-offering unto the Lord AFTER YOVR WEEKS BE OVT ye shall have an holy Convocation Numb 28.26 with Lev. 23.2.4 ye shall do no servile work This was that holy Convocation Act. 2.1 2. called in Greek Pentecost whereon the bread which was made of the Sheaf or â—nâ—er waved Let. 23.11 was to be again waved before the Lord as the first fruits Lev. 23.17 20 21. I shall not henceforth wonder at Mr. Iennisons error in his reckoning the seven weeks so as to make Pentecost fall upon his first day who can so confidently affirm that this Feast was in the beginning of the weeks and charge Moses with a very great mistake for recording it to be after the weeks were out Now touching that which he terms the main Stress of the Controversie between us Lash p. 3. we have both solemnly engaged before the world in print casting as he saith our whole cause upon it That the day whereon the Apostles Pentecost fell * Act. 2.1 was and is that glorious day which the Saints did and ought to keep as their Sabbath And I desire no more but that he which shall shrink from this clear confession may be henceforth judged and deemed a deserter and profaner of the true acknowledged Christian Sabbath The fair discovery of this Question upon what day the Apostles Pentecost fell will be fully evident in the institution of the Feast Lev. 23.10 11 15. where Jehovah required Moses to speak unto the children of Israel and say unto them when ye be come into the Land which I give unto you and shall reap the harvest thereof then ye shall bring a sheaf of the first fruits of your harvest unto the Priest and he shall wave the sheaf before the Lord 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to be accepted for you on the morrow of the Sabbath for so is the Hebrew and so Ainsworth renders it on the morrow of the Sabbath the Priest shall wave it And what ever this Sabbath was this is plain that from the morrow following they were enjoyned to begin their reckoning of seven Sabbaths Lev. 23.15 16. which is expresly called seven weeks in Deut. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Lev. 23. 16. and the Septuagint is the same in both places And ye shall count unto you from the morrow after the Sabbath from the day that ye brought the sheaf of the wave-offering seven Sabbaths shall be compleat even unto the morrow after the seventh Sabbath shall ye number fifty dayes This Sabbath from whose morrow the account began is by Ainsworth Diodat c. called the Passeover Sabbath Lash p. 4. 5. 8. and Easter But Mr. Jenison is very angry with me for so speaking and yet from the bare authority of certain obscure Informers he confidently concludes that it was the Jewes seventh-day weekly Sabbath and so boldly begins upon the first day of the week to number the 7 weeks or fifty days so to make Pentecost fall Pat as he phraseth it upon his supposed first-day Sabbath I shall not with my small skill in the Hebrew presume to contend with his unknown informers who assures him that it can be no other then the weekly Sabbath yet I suppose modesty will even constrain both him and them to submit unto the information of the most profoundly learned which the long Parliament and Assembly could find for that eminent mark of the English Annotations upon the whole Bible whose Notes upon these very words Lev. 23.11.15 On the morrow after the Sabbath are quite contrary to Mr. Ienison and his informers who say it can be no other then the weekly Sabbath Their notes are these Not the weekly Sabbath English Annot. on Lev. 23. but the first day of the Feast of unleavened
bread called say they a Sabbath vers 7. Yea and to put the seven weeks or fifty dayes out of doubt these learned men do expresly declare in the same place the punctuall day of the Feast and of the moneth which begins our account even the second day of the Feast which is say they the 16th day of the moneth Nisan from which day were reckoned the fifty dayes ended at Pentecost reckoning that second day inclusively Here 's the most clear confession that the Sabbath leading to the account of fifty dayes is not the weekly Sabbath but that the morrow following the waved sheaf is the certain fixed 16th day of the moneth and begins the number of 50 days or seven weeks and on what day this 16th of Nisan fell at the death of Christ is clear for upon the 14th day of the first moneth at even Exod. 12.18 Coll. 2.16 17. Matth. 26. did our Lord Jesus who is the true body of these shadows punctually celebrate the Passcover and upon the morrow being the 15th day and commonly called good Friday was our first fruits waved by the Priests upon the Crosse So that the 16th day being the seventh day Sabbath must unavoidably begin the seven weeks or fifty dayes and this is easily known that the same day which begins the account must needs end it and be the true day of Pentecost Though this clear confession from the Sabbaths adversaries might suffice yet through strength from on high with demonstrations of the spirit and power I shall further produce three infallible proofs that the Apostles Pentecost was none other then the sanctified seventh-day Sabbath And this will be evident by Gods institution of a Feast for he assigned a certain day from which the number of fifty dayes began That Christ was punctuall in time see Mat. 27.55 56. Luke 22.35 John 8.20 and this day was the morrow of or after a certain Sabbath which must be punctually fulfilled in and by Christ as well in the Time as in the Type or else why was the time so precisely appointed and the fifty days so exactly to be numbred The morrow after this certain Sabbath will be readily known First by the sickles first entring the Corne Deut. 16.9 Secondly by the waving of the first fruits Lev. 23.11 Thirdly by offering the same day a Lamb without spot Lev. 23.12 The time when these shadows were all punctually fulfilled in Christ the body is abundantly manifest And first the certain day when the the sickle was first put to him Isai 53.8 to cut him downe the whole world knows to be that they call good Friday Luke 23.54 55 56. that is the sixth day of the week The day of the preparation before the 7th day Sabbath from which sixth day Gods account of the seven weeks begun by his appointment Deut. 16.9 Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee begin to number the seven weeks from such time as thou beginnest to put the sickle to the Corne. Is it possible for any truth to shine more clearly Now either Mr. Jenison must deny what he grants pag. 38. That Christ was by the sickle of death cut down upon the sixth day of the week or else he must give glory to God by beginning to number the fifty dayes or 7 weeks from that time the sickle first entred our corn and cut him down by death from which day the holy Sabbath is the very first of the account and at the end of seven full weeks the same blessed seventh day Sabbath that began must needs end the fifty daies exactly upon the Apostles Pentecost Heb. 10.1 although the Law was not the very image of good things to come yet certainly this Sickle was a notable shadow in many particulars 1. It was put to the corn Deut. 16.9 which the Jews performed the night following the Passeover with great solemnity and just so was it fulfilled in Christ Ioh. 18.3 2. They were to cut down green ears Lev. 2.14 Hos 14.3 And even so our Saviour expounds himself the very day of his suffering Luke 23.31 when our green fir-tree was cut down 3. The green corn was bound as the Hebrew signifies Lev. 23.10 and brought to the Priests and so was our green plant Ioh. 18.12 13. 4. The green corn was to be dried by the fire Lev. 2.14 neither was this wanting to our first fruits Luk. 22.54 55. 5. It was to be beaten out of full ears Lev. 2.14 and just so was our Saviour served at full age Matth. 26.67 68. and 27.26.30 After the first fruits were thus fitted as the English Annotations shew on Levit. 23.10 they were upon the morrow of that Sabbath to be waved by the Priest Lev. 23.11 And this is the second infallible token what that Sabbath was namely the Passeover on the morrow of which Sabbath it was exactly accomplished in Christ by the crucifying Priest who waved him between heaven and earth upon the sixth day of the week from which day began the count of the Apostles Pentecost punctually beginning and ending upon the seventh day Sabbath The third infallible mark by which that Sabbath Lev. 23.11 15. is more then fully found was the Lamb without spot appointed to be offered the very same morrow of the Sabbath but this was such an infallible token to know the undoubted day wherein it was accomplished in Christ that Mr. Jeunison hath wholly and I doubt deceitfully omitted it And indeed it is impossible that any thing but wilful blindness should obscure the glory and stupendious eminency of that sixth day of the week whereon our Lamb without spot or blemish was offered Heb. 9.14 1 Pet. 1.19 from which sixth day begun the account of the Apostles Pentecost and as it began so it exactly ended on the seventh day Sabbath to its everlasting glory and the glory of him that sanctified it God blessed for ever Amen And thus while Mr. Jennison and his Informers affirm without one word of Scripture that the Sabbath from whence our reckoning arises Lev. 23.11 15. was the Jews weekly seventh day Sabbath I affirm with the most learned of this Age that it was not the weekly Sabbath but the first day of the Passeover Feast and I have fully proved by three infallible Scripture marks that the fifty dayes did at the death of our Redeemer most exactly begin and end upon the seventh day Sabbath Why blessed be Jehovah the Institutor of this Sabbath and glorified be Jesus the professed Lord of this Sabbath and for ever honoured be that excellent spirit who at the Apostles Pentecost most wonderfully owned and approved this same seventh day Sabbath as hath been convincingly proved by 1. The Sickles first entring our Corn. 2. The waving of our sheaf of first fruits and 3. The offering of our Lamb without spot And now unless Mr. Jennison can confute this precious point which I am sure is utterly impossible I must expect the speedy performance of his promise
time of the Ambassadors Residence in England One day I took the boldness to ask his Excellency why he gave that Allowance to the said Monson to which he was pleased to answer because he had been his Chaplaine fifteen Years before when he was but Envoy Extraordinary to the King of England from the King of Portugal to which when I replyed that I supposed his Excellency did not allow it him for that reason only but that I belived he was concerned in the Plot his Excellency returned this Answer why Francis do you think that if you were taken upon Suspicion that I and all of us were not bound to assist you with our Lives and Fortunes as we do particularly this Mr. Munson and all others in his Condition lest they should discover the Plot And at the same time among the rest of the Contributors his Excellency named the Lady Penalua Sister to Don Franciso de Melo who died Ambassador in Ordinary in England in the Year 1678. A certain Sign that the Ambassador was deeply concerned who was so profuse of his Life and Fortune to Strangers in a Forreign Country where if it had been otherwise neither his Life nor his Fortune had been in the least danger or Jeopardy The further INFORMATION of Francisco de Faria upon Oath before me Edmund Warcupp Esq Mid. and West one of his Majesties Justices of the Peace in the said County and City this Day of December 1680. THis Informant being duely Sworn and Examined saith that in the Month of July 1679 when Sir George Wakeman Baronet William Marshal and William Rumley Gentlemen and James Corker the Priest were Tryed in the Old Bayly he employed one Mr. Cooper by Order of his Master Gasper de Abreu de Frietas Ambassador in Ordinary from the Crown of Portugal to take in Writing the said Tryals which he did and the said Trials were transcribed and afterwards read and interpreted unto the said Ambassador who seemed to be exceedingly displeased with Mr. Marshal for so over-doing his Defence in regard said he the said Mr. Marshal was well assured before hand he should not be Condemn'd and in these long Speeches said he he hath too much reflected on the Innocency of them that had already Suffered and took too much No tice of the Blood already shed by which he endanger'd the spoiling of the whole Business by exasperating the Court and Jury against them all That some time after the said Trials there was a report about the Court and City that Articles were coming out against the Lord Chief Justice Scroggs upon which the said Ambassador told this Informant he would give fifty Guinneys to have a Copy of them before they were made publick That some time before the Ambassador acquainted this Informant that he intended to send to Portugal for his Lady and that this Informant should be her Gentleman Usher and also continue in his present Capacity of Secretary and Interpreter That the said Ambassador did in order thereto furnish his House and one Day being very intent upon Work Men who were putting up some Tapestry Hangings a very large Pacquet of Letters was brought his Excellency by Doctor Mendex one of the Queens Majesties Physitians which he had no sooner read but he acquainted this Informant that he must forthwith go for Portugal to which this Informant answered that he much wondred at it and was not a little surprised to hear it especially in regard that his Excellency being Ambassador in Ordinary must then leave the Ambassadage Extraordinary behind him a thing unusual But his Excellency answered this Informant that he must go and that immediately and would leave Orders to sell his Coach and Horses and other things after he was gone This Informant still pressing the Reasons of so sudden a Departure was by the said Ambassador answered that otherwise he thought he should be called before the King and Counsel upon the Lord Scroggs his account and added Francis you must then go also but I charge you not to say that you went to the said Lord Scroggs from me that Fryday on which Sir George Wakeman was Tried but that you went on your own head and that you went to him from me on the Saturday after only for God above knows what we do is for the Catholick Cause and that God below pointing to his Chappel which was under his Chamber in which we then were will pardon us and justify us in what we do At which time there being a remour that the Earl of Offory was to go for Madrid to complement that King upon his Marriage and that he would Embarque for Lisbon and go thence by Land to Madrid the Ambassador said he would go with him But he then again further charged this Informant to say if he should happen to be examined before the Council that the Ambassador sent him and went himself to the Lord Chief Justice Scroggs by a Mistake as looking on him to be a publick Minister of State Whereupon this Informant having alwayes great Freedom of Discourse with the said Ambassador asked his Lordship his reasons and why his Lordship did direct him to say in that manner touching the Lord Chief Justice Scroggs and his Lordship thereupon answered him in the Portuguese Language with a Proverb of that Countrey in these words Chenes muy curioso novive muto which in English is He that is overcurious never liveth long Whereupon this Informant thought fit to forbear any further Questions in that Matter promising to obey his Lordships Command about the said Lord Chief Justice Scroggs And this Informant saith that he well remembers that this Discourse was on the last Lord Mayors Day was twelve Months And this Informant saith that at the time when his Majesty was ill at Windsor this Informant being in Discourse with the said Ambassador did ask his Lordship what should be done with the Queen in Case his Majesty should then die which God forbid he should who answered that so soon as his Majesties Eyes were closed the Marquess de Aronches Extraordinary Ambassador or else himself would immediately go with her Majesty to Calais and her Majesty being by one of them thus secured the other should stay here and then England should be treated with to restore Tangeir and the rest of her Majesties Dowry vvhich he said was the reason that two Ambassadors were here at one time for said he should the King die the Queen would be imprisoned and punished or made a Slave in England and we come not hither to repeat his own words Nos non vimus para ensilar perlos to thread Pearl but to take care of her Safety Frantisco de Faria And this Informant further saith That the Ambassador one day asked him if he knew Dugdale To which he answered That he knew none of the Witnesses Then the Ambassador said Dugdale is a Rogue because he would not accept the money that was offered him by a Chambermaid For if he had taken the
Flanders and in other Parts since they well knew that if they were found in England they were to be punished with Death by the Laws of the Kingdom and the Ambassador did also say that Coleman had suffered only for endeavouring to bring the Roman Catholick Religion again into England and the Informant also sayeth that the Paper annexed to which he has put his Hand is the same Paper of Memorandums before mentioned which the said Francisco de Faria brought to the House of this Informant SIGNED John de Faria Translated out of Portuguese TO take care to Kill Oates To Kill Bedlow To take care to Kill Lord Shaftsbury To take care to Kill the Justice of Peace that lives in the Country A Complement to the Queens Doctor A Complement to the Lord Scroggs The Letter that I was to send to Flanders by a man About Friar Paulino the Letter he wrote and sent to Portugal About Madam Abergavenny and what she said to the Ambassador The Porter of Summerset-House To take care to Kill Oats and Bedlow To take care to Kill Lord Shaftsbury Madam Abergavenny what she said The following INFORMATION being Sworn unto at the same time and the Matter therein contained relating to part of my Information in Page 29 I have with leave Inserted it at the End of this my Information December 15th 1680. Francisco de Faria I Thomas Buss of the Parish of St. Margerets Westminister Cook and Servant to his Majesty in the Office of a Cook in his own Kitchin as third Cook called by the Name of Groom of the Kitchin and being Master-Cook to their Graces the Duke and Dutchess of Monmouch and in the Year of our Lord Christ 1678 when his Majesty was then in the Month of September at Windsor I the said Thomas Buss then waiting on their Graces as abovesaid was on the 13th or 14th of September being on a Fryday about seven of the Clock in the Morning to buy in such Provisions as was needful for his Graces Family his Grace being then returned from the Battle of Montz I by chance espyed Four of my Acquaintance talking together viz. three Portugals and one of them an English Man and I having not seen the English Man of three or four Years before then Saluted him by the Name of Father Hankinson not knowing his Christian Name in these Words of Father Hankinson May I say by or to you as God Almighty sayd to the Devil Whence came you or how shall I say to you for he and I being acquainted ever since her Majesties first Arrival into England at Portsmouth he the said Hankinson made me no other Answer but You will never leave your Old Drolling but I having him by the Hand all this while said Well then come prethee from whence came you indeed Why I came from Italy and then two of the three Portugals left him and one Portugal with me and did ask him he saying he came from Italy if he had brought over any Bulls or Pardons from his Holiness the Pope whereunto he did reply You will never leave your drolling and I did ask him when he arrived at the City of London and then the other Portugal named Segnior Anthonio Fernandez turned from our Company over to the Fishermen that sate in the Market which was not above a yard and a half distance from the place where we two then stood still talking their Majesties both being then at the Castle of Windsor I there ask't the said Father Hankison if he did arrive at Windsor on the said Wedensday Night or no and he told me No his Horse did tire and it was late so he stayed in Town all Night and came for Windsor on Thursday the 13th about four or five of the Clock in the Afternoon Then I did ask of him if he and I and three or four more of his old Acquaintance should not drink together before his Departure for he was then in a travelling Posture He told me by no means for he was in great hast for he was going about ten or twelve Miles to a Lords House naming the Lords Name to me but truly I did forget his Lords Name but he told me If he could dispatch betimes to get to Windsor by four or five of the Clock in the Afternoon then his other Acquaintances and I should Drink together and then the said Father Hankison called over to the aforesaid Segnior Antonio Fernandez the Portugal aloud and prayed him for Gods Sake to have a care of those four worthy Gentlemen the Strangers and then I hearing him tell me that he came from Italy thinking they might be four of the Gentlemen of Italy come over to see the Court of England ask't him what these Gentlemen were and he told me they were four Irish Gentlemen and called to the afore mentioned Segnior Antonio Fernandez saying aloud as he did before Segnior Antonio Segnior Antonio for Gods Sake have a great care of those four Gentlemen worthy Gentlemen the Irish Men for they will do our Business in the Grace of God and the said Segnior Antonio answered And Grace of God I will have a great Care of them in the Grace of God fear nothing And so he the said Father Hankison being about to be gone well said I to him if I shall see you no more pray when do you leave England Tomorrow And then said I whether then For Paris and then for Italy again And then I bid him remember me to his Holiness the Pope at which he did laugh and told me you will never leave your Drolling and so we parted and have not seen each other never since nor thinking nothing of it more till I reading Coleman's Papers wherein I heard the Names of four Irish Ruffians named should kill his Majesty and I being his said Sworn Servant and bound by my Oath as his Majesties Servant not to hear any Secret or publick Mischief nor Treason against his most Sacred Majesty but the same to reveal to some of his Majesties Officers the which I did by Name to Sir Steven Fox and he did order me to acquaint the Committee of Secrecy with it and likewise I did acquaint Mr. Vernon as Secretary and Steward to their Graces the Duke and Dutchess of Monmouth and my Superior Officer in their Family and he liked it very well and told me he would inform some of the Committee of Secrecy of it and so he did and I went before them at Serjeants Inn in Fleet-Street and they did like the Information very well for then they did want some to second Dr. Oats's Depositions and at the Tryal of Councellor Langhorn I was fetched by the under Sheriff from dressing their Graces Dinner to give Evidence against the said Prisoner at the Bar the which Evidence was after Oath taken highly approved on there and this aforenamed Segnior Antonio Fernandez sent for to the Court at the Old-Baily by the Under-Sheriff with to the Earl of Ossory to Speak to their Majesties that the said Segnior Antonio Fernandez might be brought before the Court at the Old-Bayly and he being brought before the Court the Court ordered Sir George Jefferys to take his Defence for himself he making so weak a one he then being the Recorder of London sent the said Antonio by and with the Keepers to Newgate for the Matter of High Treason against his Majesty where he lay till the end of the next Term and then was Bailed out and I was bound by Sir George Jefferys to prosecute and did Appear on Summons from Windfor at Sir George Wakemans Tryal and never was once so much as called nor a great many more near seventeen or eighteen and when the Court of Justice did rise I asked Dr. Oats whether he or the Court had any other Business with me and he told me no so I returned to Windsor the same Night and never heard more of it till this Sessions of Parliament Thomas Buss Sworn by Order of the Lords Committees for Examinations c. the 10th of December 1680 before me Edmund Warcupp Esqu And now Reader give me leave to admire the Providence of God that I Francisco de Faria should be brought from almost the utmost Parts of the far distant habitable World to be an Instrument here in England to detect or at least more convincingly to prove the truth of those Horrid Treasons and Conspiracies that have been for so long time as wickedly denyed as impiously perpetrated but I am answered when I consider that the Judgements of God are Unsearchable and that there is no Craft or Subtilty of Man can hide or conceale those Impieties and foul Conspiracies which God will bring to Light Francisco de Faria FINIS