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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77638	The naked vvoman, or a rare epistle sent to Mr. Peter Sterry minister at Whitehall; desiring him to shew the causes or reasons of his silence, in that he neither by his ministeriall office, charged the magistrates that were present to redresse, nor so much as shewd any sign of grief or detestation, as became a sincere Christian; against that most strange ans shamefull late act of an impudent woman, in the midst of his sermon on a Lords day at Whitehall chapell, concerning the resurrection, before the chief states of this nation. A satisfactory answer he returned; which with a lving acceptance thereof, are here also printed; very worthy the observation of all, both sexes and degrees of people in these nations.	Brown, David, fl. 1650-1652.; Sterry, Peter, 1613-1672.	1652 (1652)	Wing B5014; Thomason E681_20; ESTC R206796	18,211	23

quite discharged and also that great Timber barn in the Palace of Whitehall it self demolished which was erected for the vile exercises of masks and playes and those to be alwayes in the night season even crossing the Ordinance of God which he hath appointed for people to rest and in the day to travell yea and the deluge of Gods temporall judgements were so abundantly powred out in these bloody cruell durable and destructive Wars throughout all the three Nations for the great abominations and crying sins thereof even when they were ripe for the sickle and by which the former State being quite overthrown there remained no more excuses of any intestine opposition to hinder a thorough and full Reformation both in matters spirituall and temporall so that long before any forraign troubles began there might and should have been far better seed proceeding from a godly sorrow not only sowed but sprung up that there might have been a joyfull reaping before this time than any more such of the Enemies tares though of other kinds as he wanteth not a magazine of temptations as God hath of judgements to have been either in our own days or the posterities which now do begin of fresh so to spring up and flourish that if they and their blossoms be permitted to bear seed and ripen untill another harvest then doubtless the last error will be worse than the first for that will highly provoke God in his justice to powr out both more remarkable and inevitable judgements than the former We have upon holy record for our learning or at least for rendering us the more inexcusable abundance of examples whereof for avoyding prolixity I will only mention two of the most pregnant and pertinent as both times do change and we also change in them some being advanced to the skyes and others humbled to the ashes the First is That because the people of Sodom and Gomorrah who being overcom by four Kings and through Gods providence in using Abraham and his Family as his instruments both to destroy those Kings and bring back the prisoners and spoil of those Cities did not walk answerable unto such undeserved favors but did wax much worse in all kind of voluptuousness and wickedness afterwards than ever they themselves or those their friends and neighbours who were destroyed before their eyes did not the same righteous God then punish them to the full even by an extraordinary extirpation of them all saving one Family from off the face of the earth at last as both he did the whole world in the dayes of Noah and the Amalekites for their cruelty to his own own people in their distress which wonderfull visitatious are sufficient enough to terrify us and all posterities from following those wicked people in their most hainous sins if our hearts were not hardned I much fear as both theirs and and King Pharao's were unto the day of destruction So that the Sodomites slight punishment at first by so many thousands who doubtless were as guilty as the rest being freed according to the Lords usuall remembring mercy in the midst of his judgments and yet that so great and undeserved mercy to those who so much enjoyed it not being in any the least measure regarded but rather their hearts so much the more hardened presuming if such another visitation should come again that they should have the like escape and upon that false ground they most ungratefully and undutifully not at all considering the goodnesse of God towards them both increased and multiplyed all their former abominable wickednesses and therefore it may be justly said that that gentle visitation by so many thousands of as guilty people as the rest escaping which at first in much mercy they had was no preservation and far lesse any allowance of them either in their former or latter abominations whereby in the least either so suddenly or at all to have grown secure and much lesse to have proceeded in wickednesse neither was the victory which God gave them over their enemies any sure token of his favour to them above their brethren in evil whom he had destroyed but it was rather a reservation of them unto a more generall inevitable compleat remarkable and extraordinary judgment And the second Example is that when certain men told our blessed Saviour of the Galileans whose blood P●lat had mingled with their sacrifices he answered and said unto them Suppose ye that those Galileans were greater sinners than all other Galileans I tell you Nay but except ye repent ye shall all likewise perish Or think ye that those 18. men upon whom the Tower in Shilo fell and slew them were sinners above all that were in Jerusalem I tell you Nay but except ye amend your lives ye shall all likewise perish Sir I could even in this most rare accident as well as in other matters which are frequent much enlarge my self both from the word of truth and occurrences in our own dayes yea and besides the dear buying of some experience in other kinds I have not been at small both charges and travels besides other great losses and troubles of persecution in being driven by wicked men with my Family oftentimes from our habitations and possessions even from one Nation to another whereby to gain some experience also in this kind For I have not only been divers times Excommunicated in Nationall Churches by the Priests of the high places and their Lords the late Bishops even for witnessing against their manifold evils either by word writing not countenancing their antichristian worship or refusing to maintain them in such indirect courses by paying Tythes or other exactions which they call duties they neither being Christs servants nor content with his wages although I was not a member of any National Church these 35 years which is about the half of my few and evill dayes but likewise I was once Excommunicated in a Church in London where I was a Member indeed in obedience to Gods Word which I esteemed to be of totall separation from all kind of such evills and to walk in the order and purity of the Gospell even because I protested first against the owners of a disorderly boy between 3. and 4. year old whom both they and all other their confederat members saving one allowed as it seemed to trouble the exercise both on first days fast days and other days of weekly meetings for the space of divers moneths I being the oldest in years of any Member saving one Woman who had no liberty to speak and for which as I heard by one of themselves that if I insisted to have such peace silence and order observed that they had resolved I should be Excommunicated Secondly because I witnessed against the evils of divers false doctrines which were by Samuel Chidley one of their Teachers delivered and by the ignorant members received And Thirdly because I both discovered and after privat dealing with him brought famous Witnesses to prove many haynous

a great shame to expresse Only upon the 17th day of the 5th moneth called Iuly 1652. being the first day of the week a bold woman of about 30 years old sober in her speech came in a most Strumpet-like posture mocking you and that your Sermon of the Resurrection and all that honourable Congregation consisting of the chief States of this Land who were conveened neither to hear nor behold any sports masks playes shewes yea nor to fulfill sinfull lusts as multitudes both of inferiour Souldiers and others doe frequently in carnall Whore-houses yea nor to hear the word of man but as it is indeed the blessed and good word of the almighty great dreadfull and onely wise God howsoever by the means of Sathan and his great Deputie that man of sin and child of perdition to the great offence of his divine Majesty and all that love the Lord Iesus in sincerity it be for the most part delivered both in unseasoned earthen vessels like King Ieroboam's Priests and high places also like his yea and most of all the ordinances administred as well to the profane as other both ignorant and unfit persons who onely make a meer shew but quite deny the power of godlinesse It is yet more seriously to be considered by occasion of this lewd-like womans escape through your not being so zealous even in word as Phineas was in deed for God and his people in getting her punished if you be not of her mind and that she came thither by consent as I hope your answer will clear the rest of that diabolicall sect are not only since that time much more hardened strengthened and encouraged to proceed in their professed wickednesse both of renting constituted Churches and making Gods word of none effect by their infernall inventions but likewise their arrogancie and presumption do reach now unto such a height and so much the higher by thus escaping and mocking Gods Ordinances his solemn day and both mans authority and presence in keeping thereof in that they have begun to beat Ministers out of their pulpits in London even on that solemn day which he hath sanctifyed and appointed for his divine worship Thus by your negligence and deficiency in using the means to have had justice done in due time which I verily beleeve the State or Magistrates would not have refused upon that Strumpet-like woman who durst be so bold in out-facing shame even on the Lords day in the forenoon and midst of your Sermon to come in such a posture which is a shame to expresse and publickly offer such a vile disgrace provocation contempt yea and as it were a defyance to God his ordinances and people you so far as I can learn untill I see your answer and which is also the opinion doubtlesse of multitudes who never heard of you before are by your silence and negligence the instrumentall cause that all of her mind and faction are not only waxed both more audacious outragious and numerous but likewise doe think themselves to be more confirmed and allowed thus by outfacing Authority to proceed in their wickednesse than ever since we heard that there was any such miscreants in this valley of tears according to that worthy saying of Solomon Eccles. 8. 11. Because sentence against an evill work is not speedidily executed therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evill But in order to a redresse I am confident that if those wanton people who almost like those of old that sate down to eat and drink and then rose up to play were as scarce both of food and rayment as many of Gods dear children are in these long and toylsom days of affliction to them howsoever they be prosperous to others and not only they put to work and labour with exact overseers to take a strict accompt of them daily and that in such sure places as Bridewell in all the Counties of these united Nations but likewise all Thieves that cannot be proved murtherers who usually boast even which is too evidently true that they care far lesse for a quarter of an hours hanging than to work and labour a moneths time and so the putting of such to death is so far from proving to be warrantable or good that not only the practice thereof offendeth the Majesty of God in that it crosseth his sacred word but it never cometh to any successfull period for is there not constantly notwithstanding all such indirect means using a number of both sexes executed both every moneth at London and at every Sessions and Assizes in the Countries throughout all the three Nations so that there is no amendment by using that most unwarrantable and uncharitable means of mans devising Therefore if the remedie before mentioned of both these evils for recovering those parties in their respective degrees and demerits were wisely and discreetly used in all these united Nations doubtless it might prove very effectuall both to abandon the lasciviousnesse of the one sort and besides the obedience in that respect to Gods revealed will it would save the pretious lives of the other which though one Iudge can take who perchance is guilty himself of a thousand times greater offences yet those lives cannot be restored by all the Iudges of the world as the stoln goods may in some considerable time by work and labour be to the owner recovered and so the party released And if this most charitable easie profitable needfull vertuous and commendable means were thus tryed there would not only much glory redound thereby to God by obeying his word and great advantage by their industry to the whole Commonwealth but likewise there might be an Army of above an hundred thousand men alwaies trained prepared and in readinesse upon all occasions for whatsomever either Sea or Land services throughout all the three Nations either against forreign Invasions or intestine Insurrections and that by chusing out all the best affected and trained from among them at all needfull times who after they have been broken off from their wonted both associates idlenesse and practices might in some considerable time prove as good souldiers under discreet and expert Commanders as any who are at present in those services of the three Nations so that neither any more pressing of housholders nor sound of drum for voluntiers should be used but those prisoners happily reduced from being malefactors to be both manufactors and souldiers yea and many of them to be also well informed in the sincere wayes of God from which like lost Sheep they have far strayed thus should these Nations be patterns of such godly and vertuous works to all other Nations who have not already the use and practice thereof which yet we want Verily all honest men who are most subject to be deceived they charitable judging the best of others to be like them as I have dearly bought some experience both in that and other kinds did expect that when all the Playhouses in London were