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A74896	The generall-good to all people: or, The Lords free love running forth freely to his own people in these latter days, according to his promises made to his people, which he is now fulfilling. With something in answer to the petition put up to the Parliament, by many of the city and county of York, even they of the priests party. / By Richard Farnworth.	R. F. (Richard Farnworth), d. 1666.; Aldam, Thomas, d. 1660. Exhortation to the magistrates.; R. F. (Richard Farnworth), d. 1666. Gods covenanting with his people.; England and Wales. Parliament.	1653 (1653)	Thomason E703_6; Thomason E703_6*	37,767	34

at them and lye heavy upon them and the sense of no other evil and danger that is the greatest and it is time for the beast to colour over himself neatly and Petition now and cry help Magistrate now or all is gone we cannot defend our selves any way else and if you fail us now we are utterly undone for ever we canot defend our selves by Scripture and our conversation testifies against us that we neither follow the example of Jesus Christ nor his Apostles who were his true Ministers and the People they begin to see it and truth it is we have no right to take tythes nor to have hire we cannot justifie our actions any wayes by Scripture and if you stand not to us now we lose all and shall be utterly undone and ruinated for ever And They think it their humble duty to present unto you the deep sense they have of some evils and dangers Petition which they apprehend very nearly to concern the truth of God and Gospel of Salvation or the prosperous course thereof whereon the glory of peace and safety of this Nation besides the eternal welfare of precious souls more worth then worlds doth depend Answ 1. Consider of it If these Petitioners be not of the same Generation of evil doers that the Scribes and Pharisees were that laboured so much and Petitioned or falsly accused the Son of God Jesus Christ and his Disciples and followers to the Counsel of the people Assembled together time after time to have destroyed not onely them in whom the truth was declared but laboured every way to have destroyed the truth it self but could not for the more that they were persecuted they more did grow and as it was then so is it now 2. But the subtilty of the Serpent that ruled in the Jews chief Priests Scribes and Pharisees then ruleth in these Petitioners now in this age as by their fruits it doth appear 3. When the Lord sent forth his messengers then to declare his truth they strucke them and put them in the stocks and stoned and railed and hated and shamefully intreated them and when they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit by which they spake as in Acts 6. then some of them they imprisoned as Peter and John and Paul and Silas and stoned Steven and sought false witness against him to put him to death and sought to the counsell to have the life of them all such blood-suckers they were yet it was under a colour or cloak or pretence of godliness and stirred up the people telling them that they were seditious fellows as Steven was Acts 6. and men that came to overturn the Law and the Statutes given forth by Moses and came to speak blasphemous things against the Temple and under that colour of Schismaticks and Hereticks Sedition and Blasphemy did the pure truth suffer and this is the same generation by which it doth suffer now and let but these wicked Priests have but their corrupt wills fulfilled and they would murder all in whom any thing of God was made manifest under colour or pretence of Papists or prophane Persons when as they are themselves the wickedst profane persons of all others and stir up many to be their Executioners to mischief that know not the right hand from the left in point of Religion in strikeing and stoning and falsly accusing the good Conversation of the righteous and shamefully entreating them and Petitioning against them But Fourthly They may justly expect the just hand of God upon them and the plagues of God to be poured forth upon them for their exceeding great wickedness for they are the peace-breakers of the Commonwealth not of England onely but of Israel also as much as in them lies And they may be sensible of it they may see themselves enemies both to the Gospel of Salvation and the prosperous course thereof every ways hindring the truth from being declared Ezek. 34.2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10. Hosea 6.9 as much as in them lies to the utmost of their power deceivers or destroyers of souls which is more worth then worlds And as a troop of robbers wait for a man so the company of Priests murder in the way by consent as it is now by their fruits made manifest Hos 6.9 Therefore O ye shepherds hear the word of the Lord Thus saith the Lord God Behold I am against the shepherds and I will require my flock at their hands and cause them to cease from feeding the flock neither shall they feed themselves any more for I will deliver my flock from them that they may not be meat for them Ezek. 34.8 9. Ezek. 34.9 10. Fifthly Shall you not be visited for these things saith the Lord Let the wicked joyn hand in hand yet they shall not go unpunished for saith the Lord I will be avenged of all mine enemies vengeance is mine and I will repay Woe to the wicked It shall go ill with them both Priests and people for the leaders of them cause them to erre Isa 9.16 Hosea 4.9 Isa 9.16 There is like Priest like people Hos 4.9 All joyn together to persecute the truth and to hinder the free course of the Gospel and to break the peace of the Commonwealth and as much as in them lies to destroy the souls of the righteous now that the Lord is sending forth his servants to cry out against the deceits of the world and the worship of the beast worshipping the works of their own hands traditions and rudiments of the world which are not after God Col. 2.20 21 22. but by the will of man Col. 2.20 21 22. and mens corrupt wills being crost and the deceits of the Priests here in Yorkshire being discovered and the Lord sending to them to testifie it to their faces they will not stand to prove themselves neither to be Ministers of the letter nor of the spirit but run away and cause that those whom the Lord sendeth to them be beaten and abused and given up into the hands of the rude multitude which is contrary both to the practise of Christ and his Apostles they never struck nor cause any to be struck but on the contrary received stripes Peter and John were beaten and put in the prison See Act. 5.26 Acts 5.26 27 28 c. 27 28 c. and threatned they should speak no more in the name of Jesus And Sixthly These Priests bear testimony to the same deeds here in Yorkshire for many have been beaten for declaring the truth as it is in Jesus and many stoned that stones have flown as fast as bullets in a battel and the dogs have been set on by their hearers and they themselves having been in the streets and being spoken to would not prove themselves but got away Are not these the fruits of the Jews who were enemies to Jesus Christ did not they stone Steven to death for witnessing the truth Act. 7.59 60. 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The Generall-Good To all PEOPLE OR The Lords free love running forth freely to his own people in these latter days according to his promises made to his people which he is now fulfilling John 15.20 21. 1 Pet 4.13 14. Luke 6.22 23. Mat. 5.10 11 12. And that is the reason why the world hateth them but it is but that the Scriptures may be fulfilled as he hath said Ye shall be hated of all men for my names sake Blessed are you when men shall hate you and revile you and say all manner of evil against you Rejoyce and be exceeding glad for great is your reward in heaven Blessed are you that suffer for righteousness sake for yours is the Kingdom of Heaven WITH Something in answer to the Petition put up to the Parliament by many of the City and County of York even they of the Priests Party By Richard Farnworth LONDON Printed for Giles Calvert and are to be sold at the sign of the Black-spread Eagle at the West-end of Pauls 1653. The Epistle to the READER Christian Friend I Was moved to write this ensuing Treatise in the behalf of a harmless and innocent People who are hated of the world but beloved of the Lord with whom my life is which the world scorneth and derideth and speaketh evil of both Prists and People but it is because they know not God for those that know him cannot but speak well of his name and are made content to suffer for his names sake as thou mayest see if thou do but read this Paper put into thy hand what suffering Objects these are that are thus reproached and reviled and are not willing only to believe but also to suffer for his name sake with whom I am made to bear the burden Therefore did I write this in the behalf of those that are the suffering Objects as well as my self and as it is my bounden duty to declare against all deceits and deceivers I cannot but discharge my duty in declaring against all unrighteousness whatsoever and am I become your Enemy because I tell you the truth If you cannot receive me receive the truth for the truths sake that you may know the truth that the truth may set you free York-shire April 1653. Richard Farnworth The general good to all People OR The Lord making known the exceeding riches of his love to his people in these latter days Friends THe Lord is now trying his people as Gold is tried in the fire Thus saith the Lord Behold I will send my messenger and he shall prepare the way before me Even the messenger of the Covenant whom ye delight in Behold he shall come to his Temple but who shall abide the day of his comming For he shall sit as a refiner and with refiners fire will he purge and purifie the sons of Levi that they may offer unto the Lord an offering in righteousness Then shall the offerings of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant and acceptable unto the Lord and at that time shall Michael stand up the great Prince which standeth for the Children of thy People and there shall be a time of trouble such as never was since there was a Nation even to that same time and at that time thy People shall be delivered Every one that shall be found written in the Book Daniel 12.1 Hear ye this O priests and hearken ye house of Israel Hosea 5.1 2 3. and give ye ear O house of the King for judgement is toward you because ye have been a Snare on Mizpah and a Net spread upon Tabor And the Revolters are profound to make slaughter though I have been a rebuker of them all yet they will not frame their doings to turn unto their God for the spirit of whoredom is in the midst of them committing Fornication with many lovers following the wayes of Balaam teaching for gifts and rewards teaching for hire and loving this present evil world and are exceeding proud and covetous and cannot be content with their wages to take such as is set before them for the workman is worthy of his meat but they are not content except they have great fat benefices to be Lords and rulers over Gods heritage feeding themselves with the fat and cloathing them with the wool as the false Prophets and false shepherds did that Ezekiel was sent to cry out against which God was displeased with as he is now with all the false Priests even all the Priests in England that follow the same practise who are so covetous that they oppress poor people and do burden them so that many groan under their burden of oppression by the lustfull proud Priests and they have their wives to go in their Hoods Vails Pride and Pomp as the Mincing daughters of Israel did which forgot the Lord and he sent his true Prophet to cry out against them Isa 3. as he doth to cry out against these Hirelings Priests and proud Prelates with their Idols and Images of Clay which they set up for men to worship feet of Clay leggs of Brass and brests of Silver and head of Gold and those that will not fall down to worship the Image that they have made they rage and swell in Anger and Wrath and Revenge And now that the Lord doth discover their deceits to us and let us see them to be as Bell and the Dragon was swallowing up all upon their lusts and are never satisfied seeking altogether after the honor of the world and not after that which is of God who seek ours and not us But by the Lord we being awaked out of the sleep of carnality are as one an hungred who found no life to our souls by their imaginary fleshly fancies and conjurations who raised death out of death dead Reasons dead Uses dead Motives dead Tryalls And now that they come to the touchstone they will not abide and we were left naked and empty by them wounded and half-dead and the Lord of his bountifull goodness holds out his free love to our souls and having got a taste of it we are as little Children ever hungring and thirsting for more tasting of the Eternal love of the Lord Jesus Christ being born again nothing will satisfie our hungry souls but the good milk of the Eternal living word of God which is sweeter to our taste then the Hony-Comb and we are brought to wait upon the Beloved of our Souls the Lord Jesus Christ to take us with him into his garden of pure teachings and doctrine of life he speaks good things to our souls and his word is living and powerfull every word that he speaketh into our Souls is the word of eternal life and they kill the old nature in us and worketh a Reformation and gives life to our poor Souls and raiseth them out of the dust of the Earth to praise and glorifie his great and glorious name and we have so much light let into our Souls from the Divine power of God that it lets us

threaten and do sue and go to Law for carnal maintenance which both Jesus Christ and his true Ministers do forbid as in Mat. 5.40 1 Cor. 6. ver 1. but they do not abide in his Doctrine as is now made plain in our book of Easter Reckonings And we would reckon with them as we have there declared about the pure Doctrine by the Spirit of the Lord made known and taught to us And if they could prove themselves warrantably by Scriptures to have Rule from them which we own the Life of and make it appear to us to be Ministers of the Spirit they should have their due and if they will lay open their shamefull dealings to all men let all take notice of their folly that God may have the praise who hath laid open their deceits and taught us freely by his holy Spirit in these our dayes to him be all holy praise both now and for evermore who is worthy to be praised God blessed for ever Reader I Would have thee to peruse this ensuing Treatise or something in Answer to the Counties Petition put up to the Parliament by the Priests and many of their associates here in York-shire wherein their flatteries and subtilties and deceits are discovered and laid open and although theybe so cunning that in their Petition they have kept out themselves and put it up in the name of the People yet they were the chiefest Actors and got all as many as they could Boyes and Girles in several places that knew not their left hand from their right to set their hands to their Petition and many people that had any knowledge of God in the least measure denied to joyn with them But read it over and it will to thee their deceits more plainly manifest and fully discover Rich. Farnworth The Counties Petition To the Parliament of the Common-wealth of England THe humble Petition of many inhabitants of the County of York and City of York and County of the same City Humbly sheweth That your Petitioners who are less then the least of the Mercies they enjoy as they desire to be sensible of that good decree of peace and truth which through the good hand of God upon your Counsels and Indeavours they partake of and are therefore Petitioners to the Lord for you that he would remember you for good and spare you according to the Multitude of his mercies and so withall they think it their duty humbly to present unto you the deep sense they have of some evils and dangers which they apprehend very nearly to concern the truth of God and Gospel of Salvation or the prosperous course thereof whereon the glory of peace and safety of this Nation besides the eternal welfare of precious souls more worth then worlds do much depend 1. That many scandalous and ignorant Persons Enemies to the People and ways of God upholders and practisers of the abolished Ceremonies and no friends to the present Government and peace of this Common-wealth are continued in the work of the Ministry to the prejudice of that calling the hinderance of Reformation and danger of Immortal Souls 2. That the faithfull Ministers of Christ by whom we have believed whose labors have been so profitable and yet so necessary to the Church of God and whose reputations and incouragement ought to be so dear unto us are daily loaden with contempt and reproach disturbed in the diligent and peaceable execution of their office by evil and unreasonable men and also undermined in their calling and maintenance whereby the course of the Gospel is much hindred and the Spirit of Gods people nay we doubt not to say the Spirit of God himself grieved and vexed the precious Ordinances of Christ trodden under foot and consequently the welfare of this tossed distracted common-wealth very much endangered For if the just Lord who is in the midst of us spared not his ancient people the Tribes of his inheritance when once they began to mock his Messengers and deal injuriously with those that are sent to preach the glad tidings of the Gospel whereby they filled up the measure of their sins and brought upon themselves wrath without remedy even wrath to the utmost and we see no reason why the unchangeable God should not proceed by the same measure against gentile Churches as of such you have had also nearer instance in the fall of those persons whom the Lord cast out before you the rock of whose ruine was their opposition to a Godly and conscientious Ministry Lastly They take boldness to represent that the liberty granted by the Parliament in matters of Religion and the worship of God is very much abused to the increase of Popery and prophaness contrary to your intentions in the same Your Petitioners seriously considering and laying to heart these things think it their further duty earnestly to beseech you by the glorious and fearfull name of God which is every day blasphemed by the precious Gospel of Jesus Christ which is much dishonored and despised and by whatsoever is dear unto us which by these and such like evils we believe to be much endangered That you would take these particulars into serious and speedy consideration 1. That you would take a more effectual course for removing of scandalous and unworthy Ministers from the office and work of the Ministry then yet is or can be taken by the Committee for plundred Ministers sitting at Westminster in regard of the great distance of this County that so the Parliament may not be charged not so much as by neglect to build again those things they have destroyed 2. That you would speak comfortably to those that teach the good knowledge of the Lord seeing that God himself hath given notwithstanding manifold infirmities testimonial seals to many of them and take care that they may have a comfortable subsistance that you would support the honor and reverence of the Universities necessary to the supply of able Ministers and bear witness against those who daily discover their enmity to the Office and Ordinances of the Gospel whereby life will be given to your well established Laws and inferior Magistrates encouraged to vindicate and further the Gospel in their several stations and much danger of the Common-wealth prevented which cannot but be feared For the oppressers of the Ministry whose Principles are full of confusion and lead to casting off the Rulings as well as the teachings of men wherewith they have given much cause of suspition in this and full evidence in other Nations Lastly That you would take care to build such battlements about your grants of liberty in matters of Religion that Popish and prophane Persons may not take advantage thereby to dishonor God despise his Ordinances pollute his Sabboths and so the land be filled with Atheism Ignorance and Idolatry So shall the Lord who hitherto hath been a wall of fire round about us be also for glory in the midst amongst us and your Petitioners be further engaged to

my flesh trembles when they lye and lying is dishonour to the Lord and they say O Lord my righteousness when they themselves are the servants of Sin and plead for it and teach the people to lye calling that the service of God but lying is of the Devil and he is the Father of lyes and they teach the People to sing and say O Lord I am not puft in minde I have no scornful eye when they are puft in scorn and derision and so sing lyes to the dishonour of God all lyes howling and lying when they read Davids conditions they read them with hats on and when they turn them into rime and meeter they put their hats off and lye singing and setting that nature on singing and to rejoyce which is for the curse and so worship the works of their own hands following the Imaginations of their own hearrs and take a glass and speak an hour by their old Author studyed spirit and their glass standing by as if the word of the Lord was to be bound to an hour 1 Cor. 14.15 Rev. 14.1 2 3. day or place see if this be not errour or Popery and hold it not up be not deceived God will not be mocked Let him that sings sing with the Spirit and the Vnderstanding to know what he sings They that are redeemed from the Earth shall sing new Songs which none can sing but those that are redeemed out of the Fall up to the Lord God and to the Lamb to Praise him for ever Let not your Priests deceive you and destroy your souls any longer and keep you under Popery Atheism and Ignorance of the Spiritual Ministry Christ is a Mysterie and none know him but they to whom he is revealed put out all your Priests they all deceive you every one And that you may know the truth wait upon the Lord for teaching who is the Teacher of all his by his Spirit and the ministration is powerful to redeem the soul out of the Fal up to God and to reform and change your natures and dispositions which will guide you and lead you into the way of peace to know the Lord to gather out of all the ways and works of darkness Atheism and Popery Covetousness and Prophaness which all are given to Preists and People that live in their first nature and know not God who is a spirit and of purer eyes then to behold Iniquity who is a consuming fire and is both the heart-searcher and tryer Petition and will burn up the wicked in the indignation of his Ire That the Faithful Ministers of Christ by whom we have believed whose labours have been so profitable and are yet so necessary to the Church of God and whose reputations and encouragements ought to be so dear unto us are daily laden with contempt and reproach disturbed in the diligent and peaceable execution of their office by evil and unreasonable men and also undermined in their calling and maintenance whereby the course of the Gospel is much hindered and the spirit of Gods people nay we doubt not to say the Spirit of God himself is grieved and vexed to see the precious Ordinances of Christ trodden under foot c. That the Faithful Ministers of Christ by whom we have believed c. That the Ministers of Yorkshire or the Ministers of the World are the Ministers of Antichrist Answ 1. The Priests Practise as their fruits do make them manifest and their Ministry is of man and not of God and the Faith that is spoken of is corrupt for it doth not purifie but worketh into Pride Covetousness oppression and persecution lust and revenge hatred backbiting scornfulness cruelty malice debate deceit malignity and envy drunkenness lying and swearing because of oaths the Land mourns and pride swels and Covetousness and oppression and grinding the faces of the poor and these are the fruits of the reprobate and are Ordinances of Antichrist and not of Christ and they are all gone out of the way both Priests and people and the people are destroyed for lack of knowledge because thou hast rejected knowledge saith the Lord I will also reject thee that thou shalt be no Priest to me seeing thou hast forgotten the Law of thy God I will also forget thy children as they were increased so they sinned against me saith the Lord and as it was then so it is now therefore thus saith the Lord I will change their glory into shame for they eat up the sin of my people and they set their heart to do wickedly it is not now made manifest by their fruits for there is like Priest like people Hosea 4 6 7 8 9. I will punish them for their wayes and reward them their doings saith the Lord. Hos 4.6 7 8 9. 2. It is with the Priests now as it was with the false Priests and false Prophets and the people now as it was with the children of Israel after they had backslid and broken the Covenant of the Lord their sins testifie against them to their faces now as theirs did then Hos 5.5 They call the proud happy and they that work wickedness are set up and they that tempt God are even delivered Mal. 3.15 Mal. 3.15 as it was then so it is now in this generation and the Priests of the World are contrary to Jesus Christ and his Apostles who were his true Ministers in all things 1. They are exceeding proud and are called of men Masters which Jesus Christ hath taught his to deny Mat. 23.8 and herein they walk contrary to the Scripture and the command of Jesus Christ and shew the spirit of errour and are no Ministers of Christ that do not abide in his Doctrine but are of Antichrist and are Lords over Gods heritage Mat. 23.1 2 3 4 5 6 7. Proud Pharisees they are and sit in the same seat and act the same things as they did they have the chiefest places in the Assemblies as the Scribes and Pharisees had which were enemies to Iesus Christ they love the greetings in markets as they did and to be called of men Masters as they were and suffer men to worship them with cap and knee and are enemies to Iesus Christ as the Scribes and Pharisees were and hold up that which he came to throw down and so walk contrary to Iesus Christ herein they shew themselves to be Antichrists and of the sa●…e generation that persecuted Christ when he came in the flesh as they do now that he is appearing in Spirit and the chief Priests were the greatest persecuters of him then as the Priests of Yorkshire are now who follow their steps 3. They are exceeding covetous and burden and oppress poor people Acts 20.33 34 35. 1 Cor. 4.11 12 13. 1 Cor. 9.15 16 17 18. Gal. 1.10 Jam. 2.1 2. and are light and wanton living in pleasures and wantoness upon earth which the true Ministers of Christ did forbid as in all things they were good

hearts and that is the good that they believe in them for all feeding daily on the forbidden fruit for both Pride and Covetousness is forbidden and those that live in it both Priests and People are in the broad way in the fall and under the curse 3. The Priests live in rayling and lying and speaking evil of that which they know not and they live in pleasures and wantonness and heady-high-mindedness Lust and revenge to persecution oppression and grinding the faces of the poor and see if these be not fruits of darkness and whether they do not live in them and the tree is known by its fruits and if this be not Atheism Ignorance Blindness Delusion and Herresie and errs from the truth for they are no fruits of the Spirit but of the flesh and of the seed of the Serpent whose head is yet unbruised in them that act those things And the People they follow the example of the Priests and believe that if they do such things that are teachers and leaders of them they may do the same and follow them as Examples and because those things are delightsome to the flesh they love them and believe in them for good and would not leave the evil of their doings but cry out against those that speaks against them for their ungodly deeds And because they cannot but declare against their deceits in speaking the truth they cry out saying that they lade them with contempt and reproach and disturb them c. But the time is come that they cannot endure sound Doctrine The Priests cannot endure sound Doctrine are not the Priests here in York-shire in the same state and condition that the false Priests and false Prophets were in whom the Lord sent his true Prophets to cry out against then as he sendeth to cry out against these now Isaiah was sent to cry out against them and called them dumb dogs yea greedy dogs shepherds that could not understand that never had enough for they did every one look for their gain from their quarter Isaiah 56.10 11. and because he spoke the truth he was hated of them as those do hate the Servants of the Lord now that testifie against their deceits and disturb them breaking their carnall peace and false rest and now they cry out against it Jeremiah he was sent to cry out against them and said that they held up a filthy and a horrible thing for they preached for hire and did bear rule over the people by their means Jer. 5.30 and do they not so now was not Jeremy lade with contempt for declaring the truth and put in the Prison and in the Dungeon and am I become your Enemy because I tell you the truth doth that lade you and disturb you or do not you lade the servants of the Lord that are sent to tell you of your deceits and deceiveableness and render them odious to the People but the Lord will clear up the Innocency of his People and take away the names of reproach from them and give you the cup of his fury that you may drink the dreggs of it and be ashamed of the evil of your doings Malachi He was sent to the Priests to tell them that their blessings were curst Mal. 2. and you are now found in the same state and condition doth truth lade you and disturb you and break your peace It must be so for God is against you and you are those that cause the truth to suffer and lade it by reproaches and revilings and persecutions as your fruits make it manifest and so you must drink the cup of trembling and astonishment for Jerusalem shall be a burdensome stone to all Nations for the Spirit of God is grieved by you that burden and oppress poor creatures and are never satisfied crying out for means for your bellies making your bellies your Gods seeking after earth and earthly things Whose God is their belly whose glory is their shame who mind earthly things persecuting and imprisoning and shamefully entreating those that are sent to preach the glad tidings of the Gospel and you fill up the measure of your fathers Iniquities as your fruits do witness against you that you are they that stay the righteous and persecute the Innocent and are drawing upon your heads wrath without remedy even wrath to the utmost for he will plague the Beast and the false Prophet and burn the whore with fire and confound the wisdom of the wise and bring to nought the counsel of the prudent that he may reveale himself to babes and teach them the knowledge of his truth for he will rule all Nations with his Iron-rod who is King of Kings and Lord of Lords the Lord God omnipotent ever praised be his name Petition Lastly They take boldness to represent that the liberty granted by the Parliament in matters of Religion and the worship of God is much abused to the increase of Popery and prophaneness contrary to your intentions in the same c. Answ It grieveth these persecuting Priests that any liberty should be granted for the Truth to be declared lest that their deceits should be laid open and are troubled that the Parliament should see beyond them to give some liberty that truth may not alwayes be bound under the powers of darkness ruling in the proud Priests but light is rising in Parliament and people to see the deceits of the Priests though they would be giving meanings by their old-author studied spirit got out of old Authors at the University where the fountain is corrupted full of dead mens bones and now it stinks now that their deceit is discovered how they have deceived the people in the night time the time of darkness whilst the Mysterie of iniquity bore rule in man now light is risen and is arising to see how they have a long time blinded the people in giving meanings to the Scriptures which are true as they speak who do come to see them fulfilled can witness it as there are many in those parts can bear testimony to the same and now that the subtile Foxes are beaten out of that hole they would make the Parliament believe that there stands need of a meaning to be given to their late act or grant for liberty in matters of Religion as if they knew not what they did intend in the thing without they give them a meaning to their intentions but because it is contrary to their intention that is the reason that they would not have any to know any thing but what they suggest or put into their brain but brain knowledge is dying and now the Priests are crying to Magistrates to help to uphold them but as light doth arise in the hearts of the Parliament they will be ready to put out their dim lights and give such grants for liberty of Conscience that truth may be declared in every place that which is revealed in secret shall be declared on the house top and that will make