account that the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance or any other Oaths injoyned by any Authority on earth are altogether unlawful because Christ hath commanded not to swear at all that no swearing is warranted by the Scripture that the dispensation of Oaths where strife was is ended by Christ who saith Swear not at all that vain Oaths and solemn Oaths are both alike forbidden by Christ See Numb 51. ARTICLE XXXIV We Q. do believe That all Holy-days are set up in the Apostacy that there is no observation of particular days that in calling the first day of the week the Lords-day or Sabbath-day people speak they know not what that the name Sunday is heathenish that every day is the Lords-day See Numb 52. ARTICLE XXXV We Q. do believe as our dear friend James Parnel hath written that they are no truly faithful Christians who do deny that there is a perfect freedom from all manner of sin to be had in this life that their faith is not the true faith if it doth not cleanse them from all their sins See Numb 53. ARTICLE XXXVI We Q. do believe That the Scripture is not the Light nor the Word nor the Life nor the Judg nor the Rule nor the Guide nor the tryer of spirits See Numb 54. ARTICLE XXXVII We Q. do believe That the people and teachers are ignorant of Christ the Light that they dote on the Scripture with their dark minds that they do like the blind Pharisees seek life in the Scripture where it is not to be found See Numb 55. ARTICLE XXXVIII We Q. do believe as our beloved James Parnel saith That the Scripture is a dead letter See Numb 56. ARTICLE XXXIX We Q. do believe That the Priests of England are the peoples leaders who cause them to err that the Scripture is their Idol to get money by that by the Scripture they do lead the people into blindness that they do in vain worship a God whom they know not that they do dethrone Christ Jesus by exalting the Scripture See Numb 57. ARTICLE XL. We Q. do still believe That the Scripture is not the Word of God nor the Light nor the Rule nor the Guide nor the Teacher nor Judg concerning matters of faith and life See Numb 58. ARTICLE XLI We Q. do believe That the Priests of England do maintain the authority of the Scripture which is their Idol only for their own ends to uphold their corrupt maintenance and deceitful Ministry See Num b. 59. ARTICLE XLII We Q. do believe That the Priests of England have nothing but the Scripture without which is a dead letter that they are without the true Light that all those are in darkness and confusion who call the Scripture their Rule and Guide and that the Priests of England are like them and that they know not the truth See Numb 60. ARTICLE XLIII We Q. do believe That they bring another Gospel into the world who call the four books Matthew Mark Luke and John the Gospel See Numb 61. ARTICLE XLIV We Q. do believe That it is a false light in any which leads them to profess the Scripture to be their Rule who do not live well See Numb 62. ARTICLE XLV We Q. do believe That all that are called Lords Ladies Knights Gentlemen and Gentlewomen Master Mistress Madam are all accursed of God and shall be cast into hell and that they are no better nor shall fare better than Lucifer Dives Haman Pharaoh Herod and the rest of their forefathers See Numb 63. ARTICLE XLVI We Q. do likewise believe That all who are called Lords Ladies Knights Gentlemen and Gentlewomen Master Mistress Madam are all very wicked that they do only make a profession of godliness that their worship is formal and imaginary that their Chaplains are wicked like themselves that they are like the worshippers of the golden Calf that they and their Chaplains are Heathens that Priest and people do live without God in the world that they are all accursed of God that their works are the works of the Devil that they serve the Devil with their hearts and actions that they are no Christians but Heathens both Priest and people See Numb 64. ARTICLE XLVII We Q. do believe still That all Lords Ladies Knights Gentlemen and Gentlewomen Master Mistress Madam young and old rich and poor and beggars men-servants and women-servants who are no Quakers are the children of the Devil fruitless trees that cumber the ground which are for the fire stubble to be burnt unrighteous persons to be cast into the lake which burns with fire and brimstone that thither they must go that there they must lye for evermore with Dives and Haman that they are all as bad as Dives Haman and the High-Priests Pharisees and Rulers were who put Christ to death that their belly is their god that they and all their earthly honour shall be laid into the fire See Numb 65. ARTICLE XLVIII We Q. do believe That the Priests of England are like Jannes and Jambres who withstood Moses that they do likewise withstand the truth that they are University-men with their Magick Arts and Imaginations that they do get a form of the Prophets Christs and Apostles words to trade with that they do deny the power of godliness that they are Traytors to Christ men of corrupt minds reprobates concerning the faith See Numb 66. ARTICLE XLIX We Q. do believe still That the Scripture is a dead letter that it is the husk which is usually thrown away that they are Swine feeding on husks who make the Scripture their Rule and Guide that he is a deceiver one that erreth that knoweth not the Scripture who saith the Scripture is the word of God that he puts the shadow for the substance who takes the Scripture to be the word of God that that man is without that he is a swine feeding on the husk that he is ignorant of the true light who saith that the Scripture is the rule and guide of the people of God See Numb 67. ARTICLE L. We Q. do believe That there is no other baptism but the baptism of Christ with the Holy Ghost and with fire that baptism with water is but a formal imitation and the invention of man that it is a meer delusion and that they are all heathens and no Christians who are so baptized and cannot witness the other baptism See Numb 70. ARTICLE LI. We Q. do believe That there is no such thing as Sacramental bread that it is only the bread which the world breaks that it is carnal and natural that the cup is such like that there is no such thing as the holy Communion for it is the communion of the world that communion which is natural outward carnal that that which is called the Lords-table is the table of devils that in receiving that which they call the Lords-supper they do feed upon the husk and shadow See Numb 71. ARTICLE LII We Q. do believe That the
which of the Kings sworn subjects have minded the Spirit of truth when they took those oaths By their so swearing have they not done that which comes of evil or of the Devil the evil one Is not this rare quaking-stuff according to this Quakers false doctrine it is altogether unlawful for any of the Kings subjects to swear subjection to him any more lest they fall into condemnation as for any oaths which are truly lawful they are so condemned by this Quaker as that there is no Scripture-warrant for them in this day to plead Scripture for those oaths that are in truth righteousness and judgment it 's like using an old Almanack out of date it may well be said To what end did St. Paul tell the Christian Hebrews of God swearing by himself and that an oath is to put an end to all strife for had this Quaker been in St. Pauls time he would have catechized him otherwise that he did not understand the Scriptures that St. Paul had taught other doctrine than the Lord Jesus had done for he faith Swear not at all but let your yea be yea That solemn oaths are as bad now as vain oaths That swearing was lawful under the old dispensation but unlawful now Then St. Paul might have known this new-light-doctrine That Christ ended the dispensation of oaths where strife was If all this be not ungrounded abominable doctrine delivered by this Quaker then let wise unbiassed Readers judg Q. p. 50 51. Q. Numb 52 Ch. Father inform me concerning the observation of days as holy-days and Sunday which some call Sabbath-day and some the Lords-day and whether the Lord requires that I should observe them Fa. If thou observest a day observe it to the Lord but he requires not the observing of particular days for the Seventh day was holy in which he rested from all his works and that was the Jews Sabbath and they observed it to the Lord as he commanded but Christ Jesus hath fulfilled it and ended it and those called Holy-days are set up in the Apostacy in which the Saints have been killed and martyred upon which days the Apostles rejoyced and feasted and they are called Festival days and thou art to abominate the observing of them because they were set up in the blood-thirsty spirit and for that called the Lords-day or Sabbath-day people do not understand what they say for the Sabbath is the Seventh day and the observing of that is ended in Christ and that called the Lords-day is the first day of the week and the name Sunday is from the heathens who celebrated that day to the Sun and so called it Sunday but Child every day is the Lords day and thou art to observe them all unto him and who come to Christ and believe in Christ come over the observation of days into the one day of the Lord which is as a thousand years Pr. Pr. In this Quakers long discourse the set-time for Gods publick Worship is run down at an ignorant rate from observing a day to the Lord it 's ignorantly asserted That God requires not the observing of particular days when the King and Parliament made the last Act for the better observation of the Lords-day then according to this Quaker they did nothing but make a Law to establish Will-worship for as this Quaker saith the Lord requireth not the observing of any particular days it 's here confest notwithstanding what was said by this Quaker to the contrary that the Seventh day was the Jews Sabbath-day as the Lord commanded behold here was a particular day required by God to be observed by the Jews behold again how this Quakers spirit hath inspired him to write a contradiction but as for us Christians under the Gospel there is no particular day to be observed to the Lord there are no Holy-days owned by this Quaker these days are like so many brats of Babylon rejected by him these days he saith were set up in the Apostacy at that time when the Saints were killed and martyred doth not this Quakers ignorance in effect count all Holy-days to be Apostatical days Are not these the Festival days which his Child is instructed to abominate the observing of What is more plain from these Quakers words than this That Holy-days observed by the Reformed Churches abroad and the Church of England at home are abominable days not fit to be observed But why are Holy-days to be abominated This Quaker gives this reason Because they were set in the blood-thirsty spirit it 's hard to understand the meaning of these words however we have no Holy-days which this Church observes but such as were at first set up by a blood-thirsty spirit surely if this Quaker had lived in those days of old he would have faln as strangely foul upon the Jews Feast of Purim as being from another blood-thirsty spirit but this Quakers aking-tooth is at the Lords-day or Sabbath-day in this matter the Prophane and the Quakers are well agreed they do neither of them make conscience to observe this day to the Lord for that called the Lords-day or Sabbath-day this Quaker saith that the people do not well understand what they say to speak according to this Quakers own words both King and Parliament were faln low in their understandings when they made an act for the better observation of the Lords-day in their debates they said they knew not what who named it either Sunday Lords-day or Sabbath-day had this Quaker been consulted they might have known thus much that the seventh-day-Sabbath is ended in Christ that the Lords-day is the first day of the week that Sunday is from the Heathens but in truth every day is the Lords-day so that to declare this Quakers mind truly there is indeed no such day as the Lords-day to be observed by any Christians for every day of the week is to be observed as the Lords-day and this is not this Quakers single opinion for he saith that they who come to Christ and believe in Christ do which is strange come over the observation of days is not this Quakers meaning this That all real Quakers do neither observe Holy-days nor the Lords-day not Holy-days as this Church appoints nor the first day of the week as being the Lords-day which is their degenerating from the practice of the Primitive Christians to say no worse of them but whither do the Quakers come when they are gotten over the observation of days for my part I cannot tell this Quaker is of age let him speak for himself who saith that they come into the one day of the Lord which is as a thousand years and here I leave him I Shall transcribe no more out of him but proceed to some of James Parnel's Pamphlets the Book which is made use of is called Q. A Collection of the several writings given forth from the spirit of the Lord through the servant of God James Parnel who bore a faithful testimony for God and died a Prisoner
among the Stars thence will the Lord fetch you down and cast you into hell the pit as he did Lucifer Dives and Haman and Pharaoh and Herod and the rest of your fore-fathers Pr. Pr. I have exercised your patience with a long-winded discourse I have transcribed so much that this Quakers mind might be known at large his Trumpet hath sounded long but not at all like those at Mount Sinai when the Lord gave his Law to his people here is a fearful blast blown no less than the Lords wo is pronounced against all Lords Ladies Knights Gentlemen and Gentlewomen yea against all that are called Master Mistris Madam all these without exception are declared by this Quaker to be in a miserable condition to use his own words or explain more fully this Quakers mind they are like Lucifer or the Devil who is fallen as low as hell they are like Dives who is miserable in hell-torments they are like bloody Haman the enemy of the Lords people who died a cursed shameful death they are like Pharaoh who kept Gods people in hard bondage a prepared vessel for the Lords wrath who perished miserably in the Red-sea they are like Herod whom our Saviour called a Fox whose last end was miserable all these were their fore-fathers as this Quaker saith now let us see their faults for which they are thus accursed by this poor Quaker amongst them all there is not one righteous nor one that doth good as this Quaker doth vainly imagin here is indeed no respect of persons observe it well this Quaker saith all that are called Lords Ladies Knights Gentlemen and Gentlewomen Master Mistris Madam are alike all very bad hear his foul charge according to the true import of it they are the exalted of the earth proud oppressing wanton given to pleasure lustful belly-gods sensual lofty minded riding on lofty horses according to their lofty minds Dives-like sinners devourers of the Creation spiritual Idolaters such whose hearts are gone a whoring from God so unmerciful as that poor Lazarus lyes starving at their gates so proud as that they will not suffer a poor man to keep on his hat before them yea so basely proud as that their fellow-creatures may not Thou them but they themselves will Thou God and Christ Now from this Quakers lines let us see their down-fall according to this Quaker the last end of all the aforesaid persons without exception is to be destroyed for ever for as he saith though they are as high as the Heavens nested like the Edomites among the Stars yet this Quakers pretended Lord not the Lord God will fetch them thence this Quakers false Lord will cast them into hell like Lucifer Dives Haman Pharaoh Herod and the rest of their forefathers according to the true import of this quaking-scribble all that are called Lords Ladies Knights Gentlemen and Gentlewomen Master Mistris Madam shall every one of them unless they turn Quakers be damned for ever you see that they are said by this Quaker to be all alike wicked and accursed like Lucifer Dives Haman Pharaoh and Herod and the rest of their wicked miserable forefathers they shall without any exception be all cast into hell I shall say no more but this surely this quaking-doctrine is not according to the tenour of the fifth Commandment nor according to the charitable spirit of the Gospel without a new Gospel it 's unjustifiable Q. p. 31 32 33. Q. Numb 64 You make a profession of Godliness with your Prayers Praises Graces Singing formal imaginary worship and have a Chaplain or Priest to preach to you one day in a week all the week after doing as you do spending their time as you do in eating drinking and rising up to play and you have a place for him to preach to you in and all this for money but the pearl you want you say he is a Minister of Christ and he saith you are Christians when as you all are heathens both Priest and people living without God in the world and so the blind leads the blind into the ditch wo wo is coming upon you all the Lord abhors all your profession and your hypocrisie your works are the works of the Devil you serve the Devil with your hearts and actions you are strangers to the life of God no Christians but heathens both Priest and people Pr. Pr. Here is another of this Quakers ill blasts blown against all Lords Ladies Knights Gentlemen and Gentlewomen Masters Mistresses and Madams but now their Chaplains or Priests are hem'd in with them according to this Quakers mind the Religion of all these is nothing worth it 's but the profession of Godliness which is the hypocrites badg all their Prayers Praises Graces singing of Psalms do not go one step beyond a formal imaginary worship their Chaplains or Priests are as bad as themselves like those Idolaters before the Golden Calf they do all the week spend their time in eating and drinking and rising up to play their Priests are only men that design for money serving them for their money but as for the Light within the Quakers adored Pearl both they and their Chaplains do want it in this Quakers account both they and their Chaplains or Priests are clawbacks well met they call him a Minister of Christ and he faith they are Christians but according to this Quaker there is no such matter both Priest and people are all heathens such heathens as do live without God in the world the blind people are led by their blind Priests into the same ditch they are such vile miscreants as that he saith the Lords wo is coming on them they are such professors and hypocrites as the Lord abhors such whoseworks are the works of the Devil such as serve the Devil in their hearts and actions in plain English this Quaker saith both Priest and people are no Christians what then are they he saith but heathens such as are strangers to the life of God now let us review this Quakers testimony is it not hence apparent that the Nobility and Gentry of this Kingdom are both abominable and accursed are not their Chaplains and Priests worse than any pitiful Quaker are they not the scum of the world the filth of the place where they live behold the Religion of the Nobility Gentry and Priests of this Kingdom what is it in a Quakers eye are not they and Priests declared by this Quaker to be no Christians but heathens Is it not lamentable that such rake-shame doctrine as this is should be accounted the Lords testimony is not this the ready way to make Religion ridiculous surely Quakerism exalted is but a pretended religious foolery Q. p. 34 35 36. Q. Numb 65 All you high and lofty ones Haman-like be you silent away with all your profession tremble before the Lord you children of the Devil howl in sackcloth and ashes for the Lord is coming to burn you up as stubble you are the fruitless trees that cumber
the ground who are for the sire all unrighteous persons must be cast into the Lake which burns with fire and brimstone for ever now read your selves and your portions all you lofty ones for thither you must go there you must lye for evermore the Lord of Hosts hath spoken it with Dives and Haman you are enemies and persecutors of all those that enter in at the strait-gate as Haman and Dives and the high Priests Pharisees and Rulers were all you proud ones remember your father Dives his end for you must go into the everlasting burnings as he did whose belly was his god as yours is young and old rich and poor Lord and Lady and beggars shall all be turned into hell without respect of persons then shall it be with the Mistris so with the maid as with the servant so with the master as with the people so with the Priest then Lord and Lady Master and Mistris and all the earthly honour shall be laid into the sire Pr. Pr. This Quakers terrible blast is still blown against Lords and Ladies Masters and Mistresses old and young rich and poor Masters and servants Mistresses and maids Priests and people that none may escape the number is increased there is no way but one with them all because they are not trembling Quakers they must all to hell mind this melancholy Quaker how he hath packt them up for hell you may take him more fully thus Because they are proud like wicked Haman they must be silent like their father the Devil they must tremble before the Lord instead of their rich attire Lords and Ladies Gentlemen and Gentlewomen Masters and Mistresses must howl like dogs in sackcloth and ashes as for their profession this Quaker saith cast it away as if it were a menstruous filthy cloth as for themselves this Quaker counts them but so many fruitless trees a burden to the earth that bears them sit fuel for hell-fire as for their dwelling-place the Lake which burns with fire and brimstone for ever is the fit place to receive them all thus this Quaker hath helpt them to read themselves and their portions hither to this Lake he saith they must all go here they must lye for evermore but how doth this Quaker know all this he saith the Lord of Hosts hath spoken it behold here is a lying divination of his own brain delivered in the name of the Lord but what company shall they have this divining-Quaker saith they shall lye for evermore in the Lake with Dives and Haman is not this this Quakers plain meaning that all Lords and Ladies Knights Gentlemen and Gentlewomen Masters Mistresses and Madams shall like Dives and Haman be surely damned for evermore like proud bloody Haman like unmerciful proud sensual Dives like the high Priests that put Christ to death like the Pharisees and Rulers that had their hands deep in his blood this Quaker saith that Lords and Ladies c. are the enemies and persecutors of God people who have proud merciless cursed Dives for their father whose end they should remember for as he saith they must go into everlasting burnings as he did Quakerism you see sits heavily upon the skirts of the Nobility and Gentry of this Land it proclaims their last end to be no better than that of Dives they must all to hell at the last with Dives they must be tormented in the same hell-flames Dives and they are both alike bad they do both serve the same God both belly-gods alike without respect of persons they shall all be turned into hell with their father Dives hear this Quakers bead-roll he saith old and young rich and poor Lord and Lady Mistris and maid Master and servant people and Priest shall all go thus paired by him to the Devil they shall all be turned into hell without respect of persons thus Lord and Lady Master and Mistris with all their earthly honour shall be laid into the sire of hell behold where was this Quakers Christianity what Old or New-Testament-rule had he for thus dooming uncharitably all Lords and Ladies Knights Gentlemen and Gentlewomen Masters and servants Mistresses and maids old and young rich and poor Priest and people all without exception to the fire of hell if this quaking-doctrine be not a bold piece of unchristian censoriousness then what is except a Quaker whose heart was ever so hardened as to say that all Lords and Ladies all Knights all Gentlemen and Gentlewomen that all Masters and servants Priests and people old and young rich and poor are so unrighteous so proud as that they shall be turned into hell they shall go into the everlasting burnings and there they must lye for evermore amongst all the Prophets of the Old Testament amongst all the Apostles of the New Testament there is no president to be found for this cursed doctrine Q. Q. The next Pamphlet of this James Parnel is called A Shield of the Truth Pr. Pr. I may more truly say it is no shield of that faith which was delivered to the primitive Saints which faith is to be contended for Let me spake without just offence to any this Pamphlet may more truly be called Rabshakey revived for it is a gross piece of railery against all lawfully ordained Ministers of the Gospel That I may not be too tedious I shall but touch here and there Q. p. 66. Q. Numb 66 As Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses so do they withstand the Truth all the ways they can for Jannes and Jambres were the Magicians of Egypt that imitated Moses so those University-men by their Magick-arts inventions and imaginations and studying old Authors have gotten the form of the Prophets Christ and his Apostles Words to trade with but deny the power and so are Traytors to Christ men of corrupt minds reprobates concerning the faith Pr. Pr. This Quakers Shield is no Armour of proof for any true Gospel Ministers according to these quaking-lines the Church of England is in a very bad condition her Teachers are deceivers this Quaker gives us plainly to understand thus much That they are like to Jannes and Jambres no better than those Magicians were they withstood Moses these he saith do withstand the truth all the ways they can In this Quakers account her Teachers are but bare University-men beholding to Magick-arts inventions imaginations and old Authors for their skill in Divinity by this Quaker they are lookt upon as a sort of petty-chapmen that have gotten a form of words to trade for Money with like Judas they are Traytors to Christ like those false Teachers of old they are men of corrupt minds men of no right judgment concerning the doctrine of faith Thus you see how this Quaker hath declared all Priests to be a base generation of men worthy to be regarded as men do the dirt under their feet Q. p. 70 71. Q. Numb 67 He that hath the Letter let him speak the Letter he that hath the Life let him speak the Life
thee execute his vengeance on those generations Pr. Pr. In these lines you may behold this Quaker crying up Oliver Cromwel as being not unlike the man Christ Jesus for he saith that Oliver Cromwel was the man who did bear as upon a common shoulder the sufferings of the oppressed but what tender consciences many of them had it hath been better understood since that time their tender consciences had no feeling of Rebellion Treason and other mens estates To go on with this Quakers comparing tacitely Oliver Cromwel and Christ together he saith that their sufferings went to his heart that he felt their sufferings on his shoulder that he could have laid down his life for one of them that his heart was tender that his bowels did sound that the hearts of his sufferers flowed in to him that in them and him there was but one spirit and one heart but in all the time of his Rebellion and High-treason whose servant whose instrument was whose work did Oliver Cromwel Behold what this Quaker saith of him the Lord did call and raise him up to head his Armies he made him his Sword and the Lord did execute by this Oliver Cromwell his vengeance on those generations Doth not this Quaker plainly tell us that the Rebel-Army under Cromwells command was Gods Army that called and raised this Traytor to be the head of his Army that God made Cromwell his Sword that God by Cromwell did execute vengeance onthose generations who these generations were the Reader must judg Q. p. 9 10. Q. Num. 115 Charles Stuart could have put off from himself the sufferings of the Puritans upon the Bishops and have alledged that they were a nonconformable factious generation and did contrary to the Law but that could not excuse him nor his standing still whilst he had power to remedy it but did not nor that those Laws were of long standing nor the disaffection of great men and nobles and rulers and bishops and priests and the generality of the Nation to that way from the judgment of God which hath taken hold on him and his children and his party whom he hath made a dreadful example of his vengeance and that by thy Sword as an instrument Pr. Pr. These lines of this quaking Bishop are abominable not to point at every base passage in them this is plainly the mind of this wild inspirado that the judgment of God to use his own words hath taken hold on Charles Stuart and his Children and his party that the Lord hath made the King his Children his party a dreadful example of his vengeance and that Oliver Cromwell's sword was the Lords instrument of this judgment and of the vengeance executed on the late King and his Children and his party that I may not be looked upon as a bloody Priest I shall squeeze these lines no further only let me say without offence that no man of any common sense dare justifie what this Quaker hath written to be the moving of Gods spirit without question these are such traytorous lines as were never seen in print from the eternal God before Q. p. 14. Q. Num. 116 Who wa st the Lords battel-axe and weapon of war to the cutting dovvn of him Pr. Pr. This traytorly Quaker goes on still to tell Oliver Cromwell that he was once the Lords battel-axe his weapon of war to the cutting down of the King behold how this Quaker in print doth justifie the basest of murthers as if it had been the Lords doing by Cromwell as his battel-axe as the Lords weapon of war for this bloody work Thus I have done with this Quakers Letter to Oliver Cromwell which was dated from Bristol the 16 of the fifth Month 1656. Subscribed thus George Bishop Surely this lamentable Quaker was strongly huffed up by his rebellious and traytorous spirit when he took himself to be moved of the Lord to publish them again in the year 1660 he that desires to know more of this Quakers pretended warnings of the Lord or to see how a Quakers light within him can act the part of disloyalty rebellion and high Treason against the Kings Sacred Majesty may peruse this quaking-Pamphlet more at large THE next book which might be transcribed is called A comparison between the true and false Ministers by Nicholas Knight printed 1675. Pr. By the late Impression of this Quakers scribble it 's evident against which Ministers this quaking-author writes that they are the Ministers of the Church of England that are the false Ministers here meant to ease my Readers patience and consult my own ease I shall contract his whole book thus Q. p. 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13. Q. Num. 117 Pr. Pr. In this quaking-book the false Ministers of England are thus described They are false Teachers who go and are not sent they go forth in their own names without any commission from God only in the will of man they call themselves the Ministers of Christ but are not their doctrine is false and traditional it 's not from heaven but men below they do teach for doctrine the traditions of men they are the false Teachers they preach a divination of their own brains they come not in at the door they climb up another way they speak in the wisdom of mens words they are men-pleasers by inticing and feigned words they are deceivers seekers of their own praise they seek more the fleece than the flock they preach for hire and divine for money they expect gain from their quarters like the Scribes and Pharisees they make long prayers and under that pretence devour widows houses such as say and do not they limit the Church of Christ to a Nation they are blind leaders of the blind and both fall into the ditch they hold the truth in hypocrisie and unrighteousness they take the words of God into their mouths when they hate to be reformed they have a form of godliness and deny the power they are deceivers and being deceived cause the Name of God to be blasphemed and evil spoken of they observe months and days and consecrated places their preaching is limited to days hours and hour-glasses and to the wills of men to outward observations traditions and ceremonies by their fruits these trees may be known out of the evil treasure of their hearts they bring forth evil things they are an ill savour clouds that hold no water they are sounding-brass and tinkling cymbals they do not profit the people at all being weighed they are still found too light they do neither believe nor understand what they preach they have no experience of the word of life like those silly women they are always learning but never able to come to the knowledg of the truth they flee the cross they are not willing to forsake all for Christ they chuse rather to be subject to the corrupt laws and wills of men than to obey Christ in denying themselves they lay heavy burthens on mens