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A88818	The wolf stript of his sheeps clothing or The antichristian clergy-man turn'd right side outwards. Wherein is briefly discovered and layd open their subtile and wicked wayes and practises to deceive and destroy not only private people, or particular societies, but whole nation and kingdoms, and all under the plausible vizzard of reformation, church-government, punishing of hereticks and sectaries. / By R. Lavvrance Marshal General.	Lawrence, Richard, d. 1684.	1647 (1647)	Wing L682; Thomason E386_10; ESTC R201479	19,259	30

people against him to destroy him this ye finde Matth. 26.3 16.5 21. 15.1 20.18 21. so Mark 8.11 31. 14.1 43. so Luk. 5.21 6.7 9.22 20.1 22.2 66. 23.10 And since the time of Christs finishing his work in the world which he did upon the crosse John 19.30 since the Captain of our salvation hath been made perfect through sufferings Heb. 2.10 Whereby he hath given all that are his sufficient testimony that if they will follow their Lord Christ they must take up his crosse Luk. 19 23. and All that will live godly in Jesus Christ shall suffer persecution 2 Tim. 3.12 that In the world they shall have tribulation but in him they shall have peace For saith Christ the disciple is not above his Master nor the servant above his Lord it is enough for the disciple to be as his Master and the servant as his Lord. If they have called the Master of the house Beelzebub how much more shall they call them of his houshold Matth. 10.24 25. I say since this chaste spouse of Jesus Christ the spirituall Church of God hath been left in the world as the Ark of God was among the Philistims as Daniel in the lions den or as Jonas in the whales belly void of all hope and help in the world as far as sense and reason or any thing below faith was able to apprehend the flesh the world and the Divel hath ever since proclaimed open war against Christ in his people though the gates of hell could never yet nor ever shall prevail against them Matth. 16.18 For no sooner had they done crucifying Christ but presently they began to persecute the Apostles and Saints at Jerusalem And they were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria except the Apostles Acts 8.1 and they which were scattered abroad went everywhere preaching the word and the Apostles did not go about to stir up Jerusalem to petition the Magistrate against them then but what was then the duty and practice of the Saints is now punishable by our learned Presbyters for Schism and Heresie and because they have neither precept nor practice neither Scripture nor good reason to convince their differing Brethren therefore are they procuring lawes and ordinances that then they may cry out to the Magistrate as the Jewes did to Pilate Wee have a law and by our law hee ought to die Those who are the drivers of this designe let us pray that the Lord would not lay this sin to their charge but that hee would open their eyes and let them see the evill of their doings that they may put it far from them and take this into their consideration that England hath too much innocent blood upon its score already which hath cost it very deer lately God hath given our Nation blood to drink in great measure as if he would tell us every drop of the blood of his saints which this Kingdome for many yeers hath been destroying and banishing should cost us a fountain and hath so disperst and scattered all our former persecutors as if hee were minded to let them see how good persecution and banishment were or to make them as forward to fetch those home again whom they have formerly banisht and forc'd out of the Kingdom as he did the Egyptians to thrust the Israelites out whom they did formerly force to stay in their Kingdom I shall here onely use Davids words in the very same case In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight my soul Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee which frameth mischief by a law They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous and condemn the innocent blood But the Lord is my defence and my God is the rock of my refuge And he shall bring upon them their own iniquity and shall cut them off in their own wickednesse yea the Lord our God shall cut them off Psal 94.19 20 c. It hath been the sad condition of the Church of God for above a thousand yeers last past ever since the falling away spoken of 2 Thess 2.3 to suffer by her enemies as an evill doer truth hath ever since been persecuted for errour light for darknesse Christ for Belial and therefore this last hath been the most cunning and cruellest way of persecuting that ever the adversary attained to therefore saith Christ prophesying of this last and greatest adversary to the Church Beware of false prophets which come to you in sheeps clothing but inwardly they are ravening wolves So Behold I send you forth as sheep among wolves be ye therefore wise as serpents and harmlesse as doves As much as if he should say ye have a subtle and cruell adversary to deal withall therefore arm your selves with wisdom and innocency Or thus Ye have been formerly persecuted by open enemies such as have not been ashamed to appear against you in their own likenesse but now your enemy shall be your pretented friend such as shall be in your own likenesse they will be wolves still but they will be in sheeps clothing Matth 7.15 They will still kill you but they will pretend to do God good service by it John 16.2 Christ further prophesieth of the Saints sufferings under the Gospel by this wicked cruel devouring adversary Mark 13.19 For in those dayes shall be afflictions such as were not from the beginning of the creation which God created unto this time neither shall be And then if any man shall say Lo here is Christ or lo there is Christ beleeve him not for false Christs and false prophets shall arise and shall shew signes and wonders to deceive if it were possible even the very elect And if ye will beleeve the Scripture those false Christs and great deceivers spoken of so much are not such kinde of creatures as wee are crying out against poor illiterate mechanick fellows as we call them for such were Christ and the Apostles esteemed of by the world Is not this the Carpenters son Matt. 13.55 Mar. 6.5 So in Acts 4. when the Apostles Peter and John were brought before the high priest and his kindred to be examined When they saw the boldnesse of Peter and John and perceived they were unlearned and ignorant men they marvelled and they took knowledge of them that they had been with Jesus These priests had more goodnesse in them then many of our priests for they will not take notice of any whom they call unlearned and ignorant men to have been with Jesus if they have any Christian boldnesse in them but call it audaciousnesse and out facing Authority meaning their own Antichristian power as if there were no coming to Jesus but by Rome the same way by which themselves come But those false Christs and false Apostles spoken of in Scripture are not unlearned mechanick fellowes but such as have in them all the humane learning and wisdome the world can afford not

THE WOLF STRIPT of his SHEEPS CLOTHING OR The Antichristian Clergy-man turn'd right side outwards Wherein is briefly discovered and layd open their subtile and wicked wayes and practises to deceive and destroy not only private people or particular Societies but whole Nation and Kingdoms and all under the plausible vizzard of Reformation Church-Government punishing of Hereticks and Sectaries By R. LAVVRANCE Marshal General JEREMIAH 23.16 Thus saith the Lord of hostes hearken not unto the words of the Prophets that prophesy unto you They make you vain they speak a vision of their own heart and not out of the mouth of the Lord. LONDON Printed in the year 1647. TO The cruel wicked Antichristian blood-thirsty Clergy by what name or title soever dignified or distinguished SIRS AS ye are men or as ye are learned men I have no prejudice against you but if that were the worst fault ye had I could both love and honour you the one bearing the image of God and the other being the cheif natural excellency of that image but as you do exalt your humane natural excellencies and set them up above and against the divine and spiritual excellencies of Jesus Christ And have brought in all your humane learning and wisdom so varnisht and coloured over into the Church of God that the world hath taken it for spiritual and thereby have deceived and deluded millions of poor souls for this many ages Who thought when they had attained to read and say their Catechism Creed and the Lords-prayer by heart they had been Christians good enough because it was all their Parsons were able to teach them so that all they have learned from you hath been only the history of Christ and both you and they have been altogether ignorant of the mystery of Christ which hath been hid from ages and generations which the wisdom and learning of this world in you have alwayes been at enmity against So with that faith which gives life they lived and dyed ignorant of and so perisht in their sins whose blood will be required at your hands which led them on in their ignorance and told them they were Christians and had faith when there was no such matter And as you have thus been and still are the profest enemies of Jesus Christ in his people the great dark black cloud which hath shadowed those glorious spiritual shinings of that sun of righteousness in the Gospel upon the world which have not only been at enmity against it in your selves but have indeauoured with all your Antichristian power to suppresse it wheresoever you have found the least glimmerings of it in others under the name of Heresie and Schism So that Christ himself hath pronounced a wo against you Math. 23.13 But woe unto you Scribes and Pharisees Hypocrites for you shut up the Kingdom of heaven against men for ye neither go in your selves neither suffer you them that are entring to go in So thus considering of you as the great subtil wicked cruel adversary to the glorious spiritual power of Jesus Christ in his people therein I must declare to you I am your profest enemy and shal say unto you as the Prophet said in the same case Shal I not hate them which hate the Lord and am I not grieved with them that rise up against thee yes I hate them with a perfect hatred I count them mine enemies Psalm 139.22 And let me tell you what all your trade is almost at the best your work is almost at an end you may continue some years but not many ages For if Antichrist be once down in the world whose destruction draweth nigh you wil not be up If once Antichrist be thrown out of the Church with all his humane traditions I am sure you must not be in it And truly his time is very short he is breathing his last gasp the stormy night of afflictions is almost past with the Church the flowers begin to appear on the earth the time of the singing of birds is come and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land Though you like bloody wretches are telling the powers of the world that these turtles are birds of prey to the end they might set you awork to shoot at them and destroy them but let me tell you the hairs of their head are all numbred they are of more value then many sparrows You may shoot your bolts at them but ye shal not hurt one of them further then their heavenly Father shall see it good for them Ye may do as your bloody predecessors did in the Marian dayes overcome and destroy the bodies of some thousands of them for the devil having but a short time will have great wrath but they have an eternal spirit in them you shal never overcome they have learned not to fear them which can but kill the body and then can do no more nay you shal destroy your selves instead of destroying them The little stone cut out of the mountain without hand cannot be broken in peeces with your hands Christ in his people shal only be a stone of stumbling to you and a rock of offence till you have filled up the measure of your iniquity and then the stone which you builders have refused shall become the head of the corner Then shal you see and be ashamed of all the ungodly deeds which you have ungodlily committed against the poor Saints of God And let me tell you they can suffer with more rejoycing then you can persecute and this shall be the increase of your present torment to see that all you can do against them will be but like pitch thrown on the fire it will make them shine the brighter and your selves the more odious Many a precious spirit which sits silent in the dark corners of this Kingdom when once stirred up by your journey-men-persecutors which begin already in many parts of this Kingdom to dance after your pipes will then hold forth the glory of God by witnessing a good confession They will then tell of the loving kindness of the Lord in the land of the living that the dead may hear the voice of the sonne of God and live They will then come to know what it was that made Paul and Silas sing in prison that made Stephen when he was a stoning say he saw the heaven open and the Son of man standing at the right hand of God That made Paul say he was not only ready to be bound but to dye at Jerusalem that the sufferings of this life is not worthy to be compared to the glory that shal be revealed that he desired to be dissolved and to be with Christ These breathings have been but slow and cold in the Saints of God for many years especially these five or six last years since their persecutors have had no leasure to look after them Persecutors are as usefull to the Saints as the rod is for the child but as there is a time for the father to