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A80537	The last, and highest appeal. Or, An appeal to God, against the new-religion-makers, dresters, menders, or venders amongst us. Wherein is evidenced, amongst other things, that they have not true faith, true repentance, or true charity. Likewise, that the seven heads of sin, commonly called, the seven deadly sins, are manifestly apparent in the lifes of their preachers. / By Richard Carpenter.	Carpenter, Richard, d. 1670?	1656 (1656)	Wing C623; Thomason E1650_2; ESTC R209117	20,505	52

my Father glorified that ye bear Jo. 15. 8. much fruit so shall ye be my Disciples What corrupted and miserable fruit these dirty Saints bear God knowes and those who have eies to see see and they that have ears to hear hear And I build upon this Ground first God is more glorified by our being more his according to his Will but we are thus more his by our keeping his commandements not by the making of uncomely faces or the fashioning our waxen and pliable mouths to the misdiscerning ears of the People in a whining and phantastical Tone To this excellent purpose God himselfe sayes Now therefore if ye will obey my Exod. 19. 5. voice indeed and keep my covenant then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all People A Prince is glorified in the multitude of his obedient and faithfull Servants and in the riches and fulness of his Treasure I build secondly God is then truly glorified when we do that which he truly requires of us but he truly requires of us to bear much fruit not to spend our sap in idle and vain shows blossoms of specious Words and Professions So speaks God again And now Deut. 10. 12. Israel what doth the Lord thy God require of thee but to fear the Lord thy God to walk in all his waies and to love him and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul To keep the commandements v. 13. of the Lord and his Statutes which I command thee this day for thy good And a master is glorified in the due and ready performance of what he requires and commands I build thirdly God is most glorified by that which he prefers before all other Things but God prefers solid obedience before other Things and Faith is made acceptable in adult persons by the working of it Thus the Scripture on God's behalf And Samuel said Hath the Lord 1 Sam. 15. 22. as great delight in burnt-offerings and sacrifices as in obeying the Voice of the Lord behold to obey is better than sacrifice and to hearken than the fat of rams The words were spoken to Saul because he had reserved the fat beasts of the Amalekites for sacrifices in opposition to the divine preference and command Obedience pertains to the moral Law Sacrifice to the ceremonial and the moral Law is of all the most deeply rooted Now this apish behaviour of our blind-soul'd Hypocrites is a most wretched piece of low-born Ceremony and the sacrifice of pure Fools I build fourthly God is most especially glorified by those things which he most presses to the Heart but he most presses to the heart the serious and earnest keeping of his commandements My Son Pro. 3. 1. forget not my Law but let thine heart keep my commandements Let not mercy and v. 3. truth forsake thee binde them about thy neck write them upon the table of thine Heart Trust in the Lord with all thine v. 5. Heart Kings are greatly glorified by their having the surest and strongest Holds Forts or Cittadels and having the Tower or Castle of a City we command the whole City I build lastly God is most glorified by that which is the end of other Duties because the end as the End is more perfect noble and worthy than the Means as the end of Prayer Fasting Hearing of Sermons Receiving of Sacraments and the like is our bearing of much holy fruit and our walking more and more agreeably to God's commandements Let the Scripture speak Is not this the fast that I have chosen Is 58. 6. to loose the bands of wickedness to undo the heavy burdens and to let the oppressed go free and that ye break every yoke Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry and v. 7. that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house When thou seest the naked that thou cover him and that thou hide not thy self from thine own flesh It spake first of hypocritical Fasts destitute of agreeable and subsequent Practise Now that these Ghosts of the ancient Heretikes are a dull stupid and most block-and-beetle-headed Rout drinking horrible Sin like water and yet faintingly straining in the sight of Men at the little Gnats of Prohibition is to me and my Sense most clear most evident CHAP. IX The Sixth Matter in Question THe sixth Matter of the Appeal takes place I object That the seven great Heads of Sin recounted by the Ancients are wondrously apparent in the preaching Leaders of these Factions which have risen since the first beginning of our unhappy Differences We see but let God judge The seven great Heads are Pride Anger Envy Lust or Luxury Covetousness Gluttony and Sloth when the dangerous and painfull Works of sound Religion are to be strongly and valiantly performed These the Ancients have upon excellent Grounds set in opposition to the seven Gifts of the Holy Ghost and have found first adumbrated in the Old Testament by the seven dippings of Naaman and afterwards 2 Kings 5. 14. Luk. 8. 2. Mar. 16. 9. expressed in the New by our Saviour his casting seven Devils out of Mary Magdalene In evident Things Proof Ceases Was ever Pride more swelling and triumphant in any of those who never learned Christ than it is now in these seven-headed Monsters This Evil travels with the Nation Witness the Cloak-bagg-Religion'd House-Preachers superstitiously called Doctor at the Cloth market in Germany Also the blazing-ey'd and high-tongu'd Speaker in private not Black-well or black in a good sense but as false and black as Hell Was Anger ever more furious See Rev. 12. 3. 17. 3. more fierce and cruel more restless more full of Strange Pretences Devices and Stratagems more damnably lying than in these when their Evil Spirits are raised or molested Was ever Envy more mischievous than in these when they see they are out-done in the judgement of the People upon whose lips and trenchers they depend Do not these Lions most furiously roar when the Cock the Bird of the Day crows near them Was Lust ever more lustful and luxurious What manifold Examples we have had of it And now O thou new-religion'd Sin so like unto Rape I remember who committed thee and the very Place Was ever covetousnesse more exacting Go and ask All People on English Earth do dwell Was Gluttony ever more desiring and gaping after varieties of meats and sawcies And yet they preach to the lamentable people denyal of the World and Pleasures Was ever Sloth more slothful when God's work requires Christian boldness courage and Fortitude For the Nature of Heretical Spirits is such that their Vnderstandings being drawn into the faction of their Wills thy confidently and easily adhere to that from which their Livelihood arises and soon after their Understandings and Wills as it were growing together verily believe it as the Truth of God And to touch a little upon the first Head that the

is great want of a sound Principle But as the wise Physician coming to a sick-man first examines his Tongue because the Evil of the Body there quickly discovers it self so the corrupt souls of these Night-born Mushroms in Religion these Glow-worm-Lights soon appear in their foul tongues with the which they lash and beat down all that walk besides their new Adder-haunted pathes with a purpose to set up themselves and their most impure pretended Purity Yea with these their Evil Tongues which are set on fire of Hell they set on fire the course of Nature and James 3. 6. moving all Things which are in the World being the Theater of Nature out of their natural and proper Courses render the World the very Suburbs of Hell Against these I appeal to Thee O Thou who art the living God and the natural Matth. 16. 16. Coloss 2 3. Father of him in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge For his dear sake Arise and in thy Wisdom and according to thy Knowledge Plead my cause I poor Man know that we may not call thee to witness in a false Matter much less in such a Matter appeal to thee as a Judge Concerning the Matters of Faith all Antiquity thy present Church and thy own Word witness for me With reference to the Matters of Fact speak thou for me or against me and relieve my Conscience which cannot speak beyond my hearing And here I will boldly stand-up and with a Christian confidence and in the Power which I received from thee pronounce the sacred Verses with which they used in the Primitive Church to chase away the Noon-day Devils Let Psal 68. 1. ver 2. God arise let his enemies be scattered let them also that hate him flee before him As smoke is driven away so drive them away as wax melteth before the fire so let the wicked perish at the presence of God CHAP. IV. The Appeal with a finger directed to the first Matter in Question THe first Matter of the Appeal is I affirm That these our New Lights and walking Lanthorns are a notable part of the Wandring and Separating people of the last daies concerning whom the Scripture is so various and so wonderfully admonishing These bold people deny it My Reason is If these be no part of those people we shall never sufficiently know where when or how to discover such a people and all the Scripture-Lessons handed to us for that purpose shall vainly fall to the Ground and a foul aspersion be cast upon God the Author of Scripture as insufficient in his admonishments And that which animates my Reason is the most exact Conformity which these people have with the many Discoveries and characters made and given of Wanderers and Seducers in holy Scripture Here it is excellently worthy our Observation that Scripture is scarcely so various and wonderfull in any Matter as in this For first Scripture commands Thus saith the Lord Stand ye in the waies and see Jerem. 6. 16. and ask for the old paths where is the good way and walk therein and ye shall find rest for your Souls The old Latin Bible reads Vetus Interpres State super vias Stand ye upon or over and above the waies that is take a view survey of all waies that ye may discern between the old waies and the new but amongst the old paths ye shall find the good way wherein ye must walk that your Souls may rest in God as in their proper center Secondly Scripture intreats Now I Rom. 16 17. beseech you brethren mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned and avoid them For they that are such serve not our v. 18. Lord Iesus Christ but their own belly and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple Mark them that is observe them to avoid them or if ye please mark them nigro carbone with a black coal or know them for black Sheep Thirdly Scripture exclames and makes an out-cry O Timothy keep that which is committed to thy trust avoiding 1 Tim. 6. 20. prophane and vain bablings and oppositions of Science falsely so called which some v. 21. professing have erred concerning the faith The Apostle cries out as men do when they warn a Friend that is near the mouth of a deep pit or in some other great danger of Destruction Fourthly Scripture gives warning concerning future Times and Prophesies In the last daies perillous times shall 2 Tim. 3. 1. v. 2. v. 3. v. 4. come For men shall be lovers of their own selves boasters proud blasphemers Without natural affection truce-breakers false accusers O the divine Truth of sacred Scripture heady high-minded Having a form of godliness but denying the v. 5. power thereof from such turn away For v. 6. of this sort are they which creep into houses and lead captive silly women laden with sins led away with divers lusts ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of v. 7. the truth Behold a most lively Picture of our captive-silly-sin-laden-led-away-lustful-everlearning-ignorant women Again For the time will come when they will 2 Tim. 4. 3. not endure sound doctrine but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers having itching ears And they shall v. 4. turn away their ears from the truth and shall be turned unto fables This Prophecy is made History amongst us Also S. Jude Jude v. 17. But beloved remember ye the words which were spoken before of the Apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ How that they told you v. 18. there should be mockers in the last time who should walk after their own ungodly lusts These be they who separate themselves sensual v. 19. having not the Spirit These mockers and Separates pretend that they have the Spirit but St. Iude declares that they are sensual and have it not Fifthly The Scripture exhorts Ye therefore beloved seeing ye know these 2 Pet. 3. 17. things before beware lest ye also being led away with the errour of the wicked fall from your own stedfastness But grow in v. 18. grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ to him be glory both now and for ever Amen The Apostles commonly end their Epistles with this Matter that they may imprint it the more into the Hearts of those unto whom they write And St. Jude But Jude v. 20. ye beloved building up your selves on your most holy faith praying in the Holy Ghost Keep your selves in the love of God looking v. 21. for the mercie of our Lord Iesus Christ unto Eternal life This Faith must be the first and most ancient in it's Order or it cannot be the most holy Faith Sixthly The Scripture awakes our memory which applies it self to past Things Remember therefore how thou hast Revelat. 3. 3. received and heard and

Reader may in like manner comment upon the rest These last-Ag'd Prophets professe themselves to bee the Teachers of Christian Religion And Christ proposing himself as an Example invites us by his Example to Humility as to the most proper badge of Christians Take my yoke upon you and learn of Matth. 11. 29. me for I am meek and lowly in heart and ye shall find rest into your Souls It is in the Latin Bible humilis corde humble in heart And having washed his Disciples Vetus Interp. feet which was an Act of profound Humility he speaks thus I have given you an example that ye should do as I have done to Jo. 13. 15. you An humble man will throw himself at the very feet even of the lowest and humblest of People And the Degrees of Christ's Humility and of his descending still beneath himself are superlatively admirable He first descends from Heaven into the womb of a Virgin our Mothers womb being the place of Men. Then is he born in a Stable being the place of Beasts because he came to seek men changed into Beasts Afterwards he humbled himself Philip. 2. 8. and became obedient unto death even the death of the Cross and the Cross was the place of wicked men as being worse than beasts After this he is put into a Sepulchre being the place of dead men yet still worse if they die wicked because they cannot repent Lastly he descends into Hell which the Apostle calls the lower parts of the earth Eph. 4. 9. The Truth is Heathens and Heretikes are altogether uncapable of true Charity and of true Humility as all Ages have testified the one after the other CHAP. X. The seventh Matter in Question THe seventh Matter of the Appeal calls for entrance I charge upon these new-vaumpt Walkers That they are the most High and Mighty Scandalizers of others and the greatest Blasphemers and Blemishers of Reputation that were ever known amongst Men. Others are very sensible of it and know it But I have had a large portion of Experience in this kinde Witness a Cursed Paper which these false-mouth'd and rabid Preachers have dispatcht after me in all places wheresoever I desired to sit down and which contains most horrible Slanders Some whereof they have at last withdrawn for their apparent and most devilish falshood others they keep on foot As that I own'd and hid a Box of Crucifixes whereas I appeal to God my King and Judge I have not been the owner of a Crucifix these twenty years neither have I had a Crucifix in my hands or possession And which is a most deplorable Business and a sadding-Heart Ulcer of these Times I am demonstratively certain that the two persons whom they suborned to swear to it wherof the first Mover was the troubled Husband of my Child's Nurse which She had most unchristianly abus'd and almost starv'd and was therefore taken from her for their Accusations are the lamentable Effects of blind mad and unrighteous Passion the wrath of man working not the righteonsness James 1. 20. of God know not what a Crucifix is Likewise that I used fordid words with an Oath concerning a neer Friend of mine which I appeal to God I never did and such-like And all my Friends know that my mouth is not set or tun'd to Oaths Now again Certain Reliques of this Viperous Brood have taken from the mouth of a Water-man's discontented Wise having been by the Report of the People where she lives high and low a lewd-liv'd woman it is well known where her Heart was and having an impudent face and a rotten Heart and Body That I never say my Prayers And this now stands up to face me I am heartily sorry that I must give a publike Account of my Prayers and private Devotions But the present Business importunes it Wherefore that these conceited phantastical blockish stock and block-retaining beetle-headed wooden-brow'd Busy-bodies in Reliligion may know that our appealing to God and our calling of God to witness in these circumstances is not unholy nor deserves their affected composing of their mouths and crying fie fie but Apostolical I shall begin with St. Paul The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ 2 Cor. 11. 31. which is blessed for evermore knoweth that I lie not I never miss to pray at the least twice a Day likewise to exercise Acts of Sorrow for Sin seconded with the Wish Abomination and Purpose before-mentioned and of the Love of God as often likewise to unfold before God in manner of Thanksgiving a Catalogue of the chief Blessings and Deliverances wherewith he hath most graciously assisted me both by Sea and Land Also to sacrifice my self to God and to sing Scripture-hymns of his Praises Moreover I endeavour every day to pray continually or without ceasing by using Aspirations 1 Thess 5. 17. thus Mystical Divinity names them upon emergent or occurrent occasions Which I shall here deposit for the use of others As when I awake from sleep in the morning My voice shalt thou hear in the Psal 5. 3. morning O Lord in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee and will look up For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in v. 4. wickedness In the beginning of a good work I delight to do thy will O my God Psal 40. 8. yea thy law is within my Heart After I am subdued by a Sin Hide thy face from Psal 51. 9. my sins and blot out all mine inquities Create in me a clean heart O God and renew v. 10. a right Spirit within me Cast me not v. 11. away from thy presence and take not thy holy Spirit from me Restore unto me the joy v. 12. of thy salvation and uphold me with thy free Spirit In my entrance into the house of God How amiable are thy Tabernacles ô Psal 84. 1. Psal 27. 4. Lord of Hosts Or One thing have I desired of the Lord that will I seek after that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the dayes of my life to behold the beauty of the Lord and to enquire in his temple Before the reading of Scripture or any other pious Book Speak Lord for thy servant 1 Sam 3. 9. Ps 119. 18. heareth Or Open thou mine eyes that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law At the sight of meat The eyes of all wait Ps 145. 15. upon thee and thou givest them their meat in due season Thou openest thy hand and v 16. satisfiest the desire of every living thing In Prosperity If I do not remember thee let Psal 137. 6 my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth if prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy In Adversity The Lord killeth and maketh alive 1 Sam. 2 6 he bringeth down to the grave and bringeth up The Lord maketh poor and maketh v. 7. rich he bringeth low and lifteth up Or What Shall

we receive good at the Job 2. 10. hand of God and shall we not receive evil When I am reproached by men for the doing of good Do I seek to please men Gal. 1. 10 for if I yet pleased men I should not be the servant of Christ In the hearing of praises Not unto us ô Lord not unto us but Psa 115. 1. unto thy Name give glory for thy mercy and for thy truth's sake In the heat of a Temptation Yea though I walk thorow Psal 23. 4. the valley of the shadow of death I will fear no evil for thou art with me thy rod and thy staff they comfort me When I looke upwards The Heavens declare the glory Psal 19. 1. of God the Firmament sheweth his handy work Or Clouds they are without water Jude v. 12. carried about of winds he means false teachers When I behold the Earth One Eccles 1. 4. generation passeth away and another generation cometh but the Earth abideth for ever At the sight of a Tree Trees whose fruit withereth without fruit twice dead Jude v. 12 plucked up by the roots Seeing a Flower The flowers appear on the Earth the time of Cant. 2. 12. the singing of birds is come and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land Or I am the rose of Sharon and the Lilie of the valleys v. 1. When I am on the way in a journey I am the Way and the Truth and the Life Jo. 14. 6. no man cometh to the Father but by me Or Prepare ye the way of the Lord make his Mat. 3. 3. paths straight When I hear of a Lion Be sober be vigilant because your adversary 1 Pet. 5. 8 the Devil as a roaring Lion walketh about seeking whom he may devour When a Bear is in the Discourse And there came forth two she-bears out of the Wood and 2 Kings 2. 24 tare forty and two children of them The she-bear licketh her young into right shape and order of parts When the Cock croweth And immediately the Cock crew Mat. 26. 74. v. 75. And Peter remembred the words of Jesus which said unto him Before the Cock crow thou shalt deny me thrice and he went out and wept bitterly When the Sea is before me Raging waves of the Sea foming out Jude v. 13. Psal 4. 8. their own shame When I lay me down to sleep I will both lay me down in peace and sleep for thou Lord only makest me dwell in safety I have many more in my Quiver But I will not glut my Reader It is granted that I use no Prayers of my own composure my experience doth so daily confute the common use of them For example The other day I came into a Church where the Minister wearying his Auditory with his long Prayer before his Sermon and seeing me in my entrance threw down the blessed Name of God took it up again and again and yet again then varied the Name as Boys do phrases then went backward to his past Matter and catcht here and there after stood mute awhile and lastly being unable to go forward chang'd the whole Business and pray'd God to deliver him from Jesuitical plots These Vile Dirt-flingers have defiled and besmeared me with many other slanders with which I shall not here cumber my self and over which my Soul stands and looks with an incomparable chearfulness but with two especially which I set apart for the two next Chapters CHAP. XI The eighth Matter in Question THe eighth Matter of the Appeal is admitted These Babylonish Satyrs Is 13. 21. that dance upon the Ruins of good Report report that I begot a Bastard the second Edition sayes three the third five and thus the Devil's market rises although the Devil's Cryer in the market did only pass when he cried the News and is himself cried after with a loud cry of his near Acquaintance by the Names of a Common Liar a Fool a Knave a Beggar and a vicious person I shall conceal their Names because some of them are in Office and in State-service though I believe it is expected that they should be otherwise busied Yet I cannot suppress the Name of Davis Fry a Twinchild To thee O Lord Iehovah I appeal My Children begot after Matrimony perfectly agreeable to the Laws of England of my Wife I set aside And if ever I had other child or children I deserve to feel the weight of thy Justice without Mercy in all Eternity both in regard of that foul wickednes and of this presumptuous Appeal But if no such Thing ever was nor any the least Appearance thou know'st there was not To thee I cry aloud for Justice O thou that dwellest in the Heavens send thy Angels to execute Psa 123. 1. it Behold they stand with much obstinacy in their Credulity and have not made me any kinde of Satisfaction Of Thee I require it according to the Rights of my creation which were given by Thee and in which Thou hast bound thy self to conserve me answerably to thy Mercy or Iustice They cry out Of what worth is all this Preaching of the Bastard-begetter They curiously seekingly and joyfully heard it they proudly maintain it and they triumph and tripudiate in their wickedness To Thee the sole Fountain of all Power I hold up the Hand which thou hast enabled Answer them out of Job 38. 1 the Whirlwinde I have learned in thy word If any man 1 Cor. 3. 17. defile the Temple of God him shall God destroy for the Temple of God is holy which Temple ye are One of the Ancients expounds it If any man shall vitiate by unchastity And the Greek Text consents Text. Gr. Gen. 1. 26. I know that thou madest us after thy likenes and thy Son according to his human Nature in our likenes St. Paul speaks it of him and was made in the likeness of Philip. 2. 7. men I know that Men and Angels having fallen he took upon him only our nature and body For verily he took not on Heb. 2. 16 him the nature of Angels but he took on him the seed of Abraham I know that the Son of God in the flesh was made a most pure and acceptable Holocaust for us He spared not his own Son but delivered him up Rom. 8. 32. for us all And consequently I know that our Sins of the flesh after the Incarnation and passion of Christ are much more hainous than before And shall any impure Woman come near my Body to the begetting of a Bastard God forbid I confesse before God and the World I am so very far from bastard-begetting that I am deeply sorry I ever toucht a woman beyond the Modesty of a Batchelour And now I smite upon my brest and Luke 18. 13. say God be mercifull to me a Sinner Thou knowest O God that I was stab'd with a Dagger in the face because I