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A85109	The phanatiques creed, or A door of safety; in answer to a bloody pamphlet intituled A door of hope: or, A call and declaration for the gathering together of the first ripe fruits unto the standard of our Lord, King Jesus. Wherein the principles, danger, malice, and designe of the sectaries, are impartially laid open.		1661 (1661)	Wing F402; Thomason E1055_14; ESTC R208007	10,041	16

THE PHANATIQUES CREED OR A Door of Safety In Answer to a bloody Pamphlet INTITULED A Door of Hope OR A CALL and DECLARATION for the gathering together of the first ripe Fruits unto the STANDARD of our Lord KING JESUS Wherein the Principles Danger Malice and Designe of the Sectaries are Impartially Laid open London Printed for Henry Brome at the Gun in Ivy-lane 1661. THE PHANATIQUES CREED OR A Door of Safety c. ALthough That Party might very justly be deny'd the common Benefits of Indulgence and Protection that Declares it self against the Common Rules of Religion and Society Yet His Majesty is rather pleas'd by a gentle Interdiction of their Private meetings for the Future to Prevent more Mischief then by a Total Extirpation of the whole Faction so Principled to Punish the Outrages they have already Committed God grant they abuse not This Mercie too as they have done That already by virtue of which they doe at this Instant enjoy their Lives and Fortunes Never was so Foul a Villany Seconded by an Equal Madnesse For a Small Poor Rash Divided Hated and Despised Party to Invade the Numerous Potent Sober and United Interests of the Nation A People that enjoy'd all the Privileges of Englishmen and Citizens without any Provocation either from Necessity or Oppression These are your Men of Tender Consciences your streight-lac'd Christians The Spirits that some Twenty years since were Raised to Call for Justice upon Delinquents and Taught to Tumult for a Gospel-Ministry The Crosse the Surplice and the Common Prayer are an Abomination but Rebellion Blasphemy Murther Sacrilege Spilling of Christian Bloud like Water Playing the Devil in the Name of Jesus This they call Following of the Lamb. Rising against the séed of the Serpent In fine they ascribe to a Divine Impulse the lewdest Actions that ever proceeded from Corrupt Nature To Reason with them were to doe too much honour to their Grosse Wilde Opinions and Time Lost to oppose Argument against pretended Revelation It shall suffice me to expose their Principles and leave the World to judge whether they favour more of Christ or Belial To that end I have extracted the summe of the Phanatique Creed from one of their own Pamphlets Intitled A Door of Hope OR A CALL and DECLARATION for the gathering together of the first ripe Fruits unto the STANDARD of our Lord KING JESUS NOw your Attention to the Language of the Saints After an Invocation of the Holy Spirit Thus doth our Libeller discourse of his late Glorious Majesty Page 1. This beginning of Reformation and the honest Party engaged in this Quarrel however by far the less number God did abundantly own and witness too from heaven by opening his Salvation and making bare his own Arm against the late King who was justly out off as a Murtherer see Decl. of Parl. 11. Feb. 1647. Tyrant and Traytor c. Soon after in the same Page he goes on Neverthelesse God hath now taken away all our bancks and permitted this old Enemy to come in upon us as a flood Isa 59.19 And now C. S. the Son of that Murtherer is Proclaimed King of England whose Throne of Iniquity is built on the Blood of precious Saints and Martyrs and on the Blood of all our Brethren in the late Wars c. Not to trouble the Reader with his Nauseous Calculations and forc'd Glosses upon Texts in favour of his Delusion my Businesse is in as Few words as may be to shew how Dangerous to the Civil Magistrate and to the Publique Peace People of this perswasion are Their Dreams of Zion and of Babel and their setting Daniel and the Revelation together by the Ears about the Number of the Beast concern not me Those tedious Fooleries omitted as beside my Purpose I passe on to his second Page where speaking of the Royal Party he proceeds in these Terms For as he raised up Pharoah so hath he them to shew his Power in them and that his Name may be declared throughout all the Earth Rom. 9.17 They are brought as Foxes into the Snare and as Birds into the Net We say when we consider these things we are so ●ar from being dejected that we cannot restrain from singing and prais● knowing that this will make much for Gods Honour our good and this Works advantage and they shall not be able to touch one hair of our head nay we were very much confirmed in our hopes of the sudden appearance of this Work by the coming in of their poor wretched King at whom as the Daughter of Zion did at that great boasting Assyrian we laugh and have them in derision And when we consider the great opinions of this year the wonderfull effects it is like to produce the sweet harmony and agreement of the Prophecies the visibility of those things therein foretold to fall in the time of the Witnesses death the great likelihood of the Witnesses Resurrection the great New Covenant-Promise of the spirit made to this Work the wonderfull undeniable signs of the times and how miraculously we have been cut out and preserved for this Work of which we shall speak in a brief Treatise by it self And also having our hearts broken with the Love of Christ and boiling over and having tasted through choice distinguishing grace the Preciousness Power and Love of a soul-endearing Jesus we are mightily awakend and stirred up and that Fire that has been hid under our Ashes will break out into Flames n●d that Fountain of the Rivers of Living Waters into Streams as the bubbling Springs that searcheth the ground and finding entrance gusheth out Our Lives and every thing else that is dear unto us upon a worldly account we despise as a mean thing in comparison of the glory of that Name which is to us as precious Oyntment and we lay all down at the feet of our Lord Jesus resolving if we perish to perish there His Zeal growes now a little warm in these words Page 3. We therefore freely of a ready mind and with a most chearfull heart accounting it an Honour too great for us poor worms who are the meanest of Men the greatest of Sinners and the least of Saints to gird on a Sword for Christ Give up our Lives and Estates unto our Lord King Jesus and to his People to become Souldiers in the Lambs Army abhorring Mercenary Principles and Interests And for this works sake we desire not to love our lives unto the death neither will we ever if we may speak so great a word with reverence in the fear of God sheath our Swords again untill Mount Zion become the joy of the whole Earth a Mountain of holynesse and a habitation of justice untill Rome be in Ashes and Babylon become a bissing and a curse the border of wickednesse and the people against whom the Lord hath indignation for ever there being left unto her neither Name nor Remnant Son or Nephew For that we are not purposed when the Lord shall have

driven forth our Enemies here in these Nations and when we shall in a holy Triumph have led our Captivity Captive to sit down under our Vines and Fig-trees but to go on to France Spain Germany and Rome to destroy the Beast and Whore to burn her Flesh with Fire to throw her down with violence as a Milstone into the Sea that she may be found no more at all Rev. 18.21 Jer. 51.35 to bring not only these but all the Nations to the subjection of Christ that the Kingdom may be the Lords and to perfect the deliverance of all the Saints the remnant of the Waldenses and all the Children of the Free-woman who are yet groaning and crying under the Tyranny and Persecutions of Antichrist and to avenge the blood of all the Martyrs which we earnestly remember and which is an especial motive unto us the cry of which is very loud in our ears and much more in the ears of God unto whom vengeance belongeth And this is much more than a National Quarrel that which is the Test now being the interest of Christ the blood of the Butcher'd Murder'd Martyr'd and Massacred Saints the Interest of the good People the Liberties of all men and the undoing of all the sinfull oppressions and yoaks of the whole Creation The Controversie now lyes between Zion and Babylon Christ and Antichrist and therefore we assert That it is lawfull for the true spiritual Seed the legitimate Heirs of the promises and the World Rom. 4.13 To RISE UP against the carnal serpentine accursed seed who are the destroyers of the Earth Ren. 11.18 To possesse the GATE of their Enemies to bind their Kings in Chains and their Nobles in Fetters of Iron And we being called of God and cut out without hands or human contrivement in whom is shewn forth his Power RISE UP on Gods behalf free from the guilt of the breach of Oaths and Covenants upon our Consciences to conflict with this profane persecuting Spirit of the Dragon and the Worshippers of the Beast that dwell on the Earth And we Call all that have a Life to lay down for their King and Saviour to come forth against them with the Sword and execute upon them the judgements written Are you a poor despised Remnant why God has formed you for himself As Christ was a tender Plant and a Root of dry Ground so may his Kingdom arise out of a poor obscure illiterate and such as the World calls Fanatick people And out of them shall come forth the Corner the Nail and the Battel-bow we look for a righteous Spiritual Magistracy out of the new sharp threshing Instrument From hence after another Page divided betwixt Raylings against Bishops Ceremonies and Cavaliers and the Recommendation of a well-order'd Commonwealth which he sayes is Intended by his Kingdom of Christ having Called in All to his Assistance that either Hate the One or Love the Other he pronounces the King to be a Profest Enemy a Rebell and Traytor to Christ Page 5. And half a dozen Lines further Shall wee Quietly sayes he give up our Necks to the Yoke and suffer the Common Prayer Organ c. to be imposed on us Is Israel a home-born Slave that we should bore the Ears of our Souls and Bodies in their Posts What can we expect from them if we will not take their wicked Oathes of Supremacy and Allegeance that which we cannot doe though we should Dye because they are against both the Priestly and Kingly offices of our Lord Jesus c. Did but this Miserable Creature Think of Christs Doctrine while he Prates thus Impertinently of his Offices he might Remember that we are to Obey not to Destroy our Governours for the Lords sake Does not our Blessed Saviour say himself My Kingdom is not of this world But why do I contest with Whirlwinds or with Shadowes with a Phantôme that is nothing but Fury and Delusion To Follow him through All his wandrings he runs himself Quite out of Breath in the next Leaf against Popery and the Design of Crushing the Reformed Interest He tells us further of Massacres design'd by the Jesuites but whether by Those of the Society of Jesus or These of the Kingdom of Jesus may be another Question Upon the Whole he concludes the Necessitie of Taking Armes and here followes his Christian Invitation to that Purpose Page 8. Who so loveth God his Country or his own Rights which Christ purchased for him by his Blood and cannot sell his Body Soul and Conscience to the Devil to wicked men and their lusts to commit sin with greedinesse and run with them to the same excesse of all manner of filthinesse and wickednesse must now take up the Sword against this Beastly crew as the last remedy God has left us for such is the unparallel'd iniquity of this day we hope the Devil is playing his last game in England that a man that hath but Sobrietie in his looks can scarcely passe without the brand of Fanatick And these men themselves have set us free from the Bonds of Subjection for we have no benefit by the Government of this bloody Family neither are we comprehended within the Verge of their Protection Wherefore they cannot justly challenge any obedience from us by the Law of Nature or Nations For a man is not bound to pay him Subjection who seeks his Destruction But although The Children are brought to the birth there is no strength to bring forth the hour is now come and we are travelling in pain to be delivered for the Name of our God the Noble and Precious Interest of his Christ and the Deliverance of his Saints and People and O how are we straitned till it be done We have been with much fear and trembling in this Work and much wrestling have we had with the Lord for so far as he has revealed our selves unto us we had rather suffer all things not only to the losse of our Names and Estates but even our very Lives for his sake who since we believed is made precious to us then dishonour his great and holy Name and our Souls are sweetly quieted in the Lord and abundantly satisfied in the time and certainly if we be deceived God has deceived us And now the Love of Christ has constrained us in the face of the greatest perils and dangers none of which move us so we may finish our course with joy and serve our Generation in the works which God has committed to us according to his will And we professe we have nothing but the naked Arm of the Lord to trust in and if we perish we 'll perish in believing his promises in serving and promoting his Cause in cont●nding for this Noble Truth of the Kingdom of his dear Son And this is our joy that our God has bound himself by his Promises in his fear we speak it and with reverence to appear for his People And if God should not appear for his poor Remnant of

the Writer The Princes of ●ssachar with Deborah and Barak on foot in the Valley And if Reuben will continue in his divisions and abide among the Sheepfolds to hear the bleatings of the Flocks Gilead abide beyond Jordan Dan remain in Ships and Asher continue on the Sea-shore and abide in his breaches yet Zebulon and Napthali will be a People that will jeopard their lives unto the death in the high-places of the field and Meroz shall be accursed because they came not to the help of the Lord to the help of the Lord against the mighty And our heart being towards you that among all the people offer your selves willingly to the Work we beseech you set all things in order prepare your selves and let the Rich help the Poor that with one mouth we may all say Thine are we David and on thy side thou son of Jesse Peace peace be unto thee and peace be to thine helpers for thy God helpeth thee And if any of the old Army which God hath laid aside whose hearts he hath touched do quit their Interests and come to us on this alone lasting Foundation they shall be willingly received From hence to the End of the Pamphlet no lesse then 5. full Pages I find nothing Remarquable or usefull It is a Tedious and Confused Discourse full of Wrested Applications and Evident Disagreements concerning the Two Witnesses in the Revelation The scope of it is to perswade that the Dwellers upon the Earth are as he expresses himself Page 14. the Old Carnal Cavalier Popish Party who Quarrelling with the Witnesses about the Finishing Testimony as page 6. will probably be now destroy'd by the great Day of the Witnesses Rise in this present year 1660. His great Confidence being founded upon Mr. Mede 's Clavis Apocalyptica I shall only relate one material Observation concerning that Gentleman and apply my self then to the Dispatch of what I have to say Mr. Mede otherwise an eminent person was so absolutely perswaded that the King of Swede should destroy Antichrist that so far as possible he cast all his Calculations upon That Subject to That Byasse at last he found his Errour the King was slain and the Impression of that Mistake in the Judgement of his nearest Friends cost that worthy Gentleman his Life This is enough said upon this Subject I shall Endeavour now to make some use of what I have extracted from this Hellish Libell by drawing up in Short the sum of All That done I shall discourse upon it as I see convenient Take now the Fundamentals of this Reprobated Faction with a brief View of their Design The Fanatiques Creed I Do Believe all Governours Governments Laws and Constitutions to be Antichristian save Christ himself his Deputies his Visible Kingdom with his Laws and Statutes of which Laws his Saints shall be the Administrators but without any Literal Direction for upon them shall rest the Spirit of Counsel and Wisdom I do Believe according to the Prophets that in this present year 1660. all Carnal Powers shall be Destroy'd and that the Controversie lying between Zion and Babylon I am bound to List my self a Souldier to the Lamb and called to Rise on Gods behalf to Bind Kings in Chains c. to Raze and Root out all Constitutions Antichristian whatsoever and wheresoever and never to sheath my Sword till the Beast and Whore be destroy'd till Rome lye in Ashes and Babylon become a Hissing and a Curse c. Wherefore let all that have Lives to lay down for their King and Saviour come forth against the Wicked with the Sword and execute upon them the Judgements written As for the Late King he was a Murtherer a Tyrant and a Traytor so is his Son and further an Enemy and Rebell to Christ and we owe no Subjection to that Bloudy Family CAn any Loyal Modest or Christian Ear hear this Language without Tingling Can any Sober or Politique Constitution harbour these Vipers with either Honor or Security I doe confesse if This were but the Madnesse of some Few a man might Charitably impute it either to some unhappy Distemper of Complexion or a more deplorable Delusion But These are people only Frantique in their Opinions Their Actions have a Face of better Reason in Order to the Execution of their Damn'd purposes I grant for Number and for Interest they are not considerable in the Nation and yet what Mischiefs will not Twenty Bold Rogues effect if left at Liberty that are of This Perswasion We need not look far back to see the bloudy Determination of these wretches For my own Part I have but little Interest with those that sit at the Helm If I had more I would employ much of it to These three Ends. 1. To procure a strict severity against Seditious Preachers for 't was the Pulpit first Engaged and Licensed this Rabble tho' for another Interest which having serv'd Long enough they set up for Themselves Nay come to the very point of their late Tumult 't is more then probable that Venner's Preachment blew them into so sudden Action In the next place the Press I would advise should be well Look'd to That Preaches to the Whole Nation at once 'T is True some Pamphlets with the Printers and Authors have been discover'd but there are Others of a more Dangerous though of a smoother Composion that passe as current as if they had an Imprimantur not so much as look'd after to the right End but of Those I intend to say something further ere long Now my Third Care should be to disappoint the Intended Outrages of the Phanatiques And to That Purpose I would move that such of their Principles as are Inconsistent with the Constitution of this Nation and Destructive to it and Own'd for Theirs by themselves in This their Late prodigious Libell might be summ'd up together and offer'd to all suspected Persons and whosoever should Refuse under Hand and before Witnesses to disclaim the said Opinions I would have him commanded to depart the City and upon a Penalty not to be suffered to come within Twenty Miles of London without Licence If it be objected that This would make them Desperate I answer that their Principles render them so more then any thing else can and that while they reteyn Those Principles they are not to be Trusted when they Quit them they are not to be Punished Alas with how much Ease and Safety may this be done I was about to say how hazardous may it prove to leave it undone I am perswaded that the Fear of Danger where none is produces the Greatest Dangers Can it be Imagined that among so many Prostitute Devotes as they reckon themselves there are not some Combinations as well Personal as Publique to Act what I cannot even Conceive without Horrour If so Where but in This Town by whom but by this Faction can such a Villany be Attempted It 's True their Private Meetings are forbidden Yet they meet still in spite of Authority and in contempt of the Proclamation that forbids them If any further Mischief ensue let those that are to Look to 't Answer for 't I have here opposed a Door of Safety to their Door of Hope with the Submission of my Private Thoughts to due and Fayre Correction I am no Publick Minister but one that Truly Loves his Country and that heartily sayes GOD SAVE THE KING As to Their Jewish and Vngratefull Revilings of their Lawfull Prince That Prince who to save the Lives of these Vnmannerly Rebels hath exposed his Own I shall not trouble my self to Reply upon 't His Blessed Father was ended with a Superlative and Fatal Tendernesse The Best of Men and the most Vnhappy of Kings met in the same Person That our present Soveraign may be as Little the Latter as he is Perfectly the Former shall be my Earnest and Concluding Prayer January 15. 1661. FINIS