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A14660	The English pharise, or religious ape Being the weekes worke of a poore vnlearned professor of the gospell of Christ, zealously and truely checking the counterfeit professor, but open persecutor of Christs true doctrine and disicpline. By Iohn Walker, dwelling at Leeds in Yorkshire.	Walker, John, dwelling at Leeds in Yorkshire.	1616 (1616)	STC 24962; ESTC S102097	38,058	238

far from a cunning Phisicion that in stead of curing he doth no lesse then kil the soule Againe thou seest him so highly conceited in himselfe that as Saint Iohn saith He is gone from vs hauing lost the fellowship of the Brethren being as S. Iude saith so separated that as Saint Paul affirmeth Hee is onely become a louer of himselfe 2. Ti. 3. 2. So that it plainly appeares that from his doctrine and life doth nothing proceede but enuie and strife Phil. 1. 15. Thou seest likewise how that these his followers do rest themselues so much in their outward obseruations that forgetting wherein they are trulyiustified do run into vncharitable iudgements with all others that doe not follow their exercises for which I doe not condemne them for their outward appearances only in the manner thereof they marre all And yet mistake me not for who is so ignorant that knoweth not that the meetings of these multitudes to become publike speakers in the Church are against the prescript rule and Canon both of God and man Now hee that vseth these and much more either affi●…th with his tongue or thinketh in his heart respecting more the outward action it selfe then those inward graces which might proceede therefrom he is no better then a plaine hypocrite and therefore according to our Sauiour Christs own words Poore despised Publicans and sinners shall goe before him into the kingdome of heauen for he that exalteth himselfe shall bee brought low and hee that humbleth himselfe shall bee exalted Luke 18. 14. For our Sauiour Christ came not to call the righteous but sinners to repentance Luke 5. 32. Againe thou seest them by their outward behauiour as though there were no deceit to be found in them and yet thou knowest as well as I can tell thee that their puritie is such that it will not permit them to speak when they meete vs and thou likewise knowest that vnder a colour and shew of fine words in their bargaines no sect vnder the cope of heauen so readie to deceiue as they are in a word they are so opposite from the example of Christ and all holy m●…n of God that there is nothing to bee found in th●…m nor without them but an inward Idoll-god of their owne imagination with an outward shew of holinesse in their life and conuersation And thus thou seest the very bottome and height of these conceited ones how ready they are to iudge oth●…rs and iustifie thēselues And here louing brother wee may learne a good lesson that seeing that fl●…sh bloud is so apt and ready to receiue and entertaine these inward Idoll-imaginations let it bee our speciall care to auoide and preuent wherein soeuer wee may be withdrawn from Iesus Christ and that we may the better preuent these and performe such duties which God requireth at our hands let vs specially be careful of this generall point that wee neuerset our affections on this world nor on any thing that is therein but only in the death and passion of our Redeemer Iesus Christ wherein onely true loue consisteth And as Saint Paul saith to count all things but losse and drosse to be found in him Phil. 3. 8 let him who hath bought vs at so deare a price neuer bee forgotten let vs loue him chiefely in the first place and in the second l●…t our loue as Saint Paul saith appeare vnto al men but especially vnto the true members of lesus Christ then shall this Iesus euē his bloud clense vs from all sinne Louing brother when I writ these words remembring the small number of faithfull Christians I could not refrain to shead teares for thee Now vpon the reading th●…reof if it please God to grant thee his grace in such measure that thou canst shead teares for thy sins then shall my sorrowes be lessened and my comforts greatly increased then shalt thou be happy heere and ten thousand times more happie in the world to come in which world I trust to meete thee where wee shall praise God more fully And heere I must leaue thee for a while for I haue something more to say to our elder brother Farewell in Christ. Brother comming behinde thee it was my chance to spy two motes vpon thy Cloake and because thou couldst not see them thy selfe I tooke occasion with a sufficient rubber to rub them off but finding thy cloake to be of Linsey Wolsey then I knew that I had spent my labor in vaine for more paines I tooke more rough became thy garment yet expecting some gratuitie I followed thee into thy house where we were no sooner entred but presently thou wentst vp into thy chamber wheras I hoped for something thou stayedst so long that my hopes were almost past but now thou art come what hast thou for mee Puri Truely I haue nothing for thee onely this if that my prayers will doe thee any good thou art welcome For as S Iames saith The prayer of the faithfull auaileth much Iam. 5. 16. Pro. Brother thou sayest well but me think thy prayers are too long for my weake stomake For when thou wast in thy chamber I could haue wished thy prayers shorter For beeing both hungry and thirstie yet no body offered mee so much as a drinke and to tell thee truely I finde my weake stomacke by thy long prayer not a whit better satisfied Pur. What doest thou finde fault with mee for my long prayers Pro. Brother thou harpest all vpon one string if thou couldst play vpon that other string named charitie as well as thou doest vpon that long string of prayer I could better indure the length thereof But seeing that charitie is so cold in thee it is a question whether thy long prayer can preuaile with God either to doe thy selfe or mee any good being not accompanied with charitie Puri I haue talked with thee but too long for thou art so full of charitie so little respectiue vnto my prayer that I am no more company for thee Pro. Stay Brother it is not I that is so much against thee it is he whose shoo-latchet as Saint Iohn saith wee are not worthy to vnloose Ioh. 1. 27. It is he whom thou hast opposed thy selfe against both in thy disobedience to man and likewise in thy rash iudgements against both God Man And as I haue in loue reprehended thy errours in these two so likewise I am ready by Gods assistance to reproue thee in thy prayer wherin thou deseruest And first for the length of thy prayer Secōdly thy behauior whē thou prayest with a touch likewise of thy behauior at the receit of the Sacrament And for this purpose our blessed Sauiour lest his Disciples should imitate the Heathen in their idle repetitions he giues them a prescription forme of prayer giuing them a special warning to direct and frame all their prayers after the manner of the prayer Mat. 8. 9. And hereupon I gather that all long prayers are absolutely for

ordinance is quoted in some Bibles onely of ciuill gouernement but I appeale vnto the iudicial censure of the learned whether that Caesar hath his whole right herein or not I hope there is not any that hath the Spirit of God but they wil confesse that our gracious King is as well supreme Head and Gouernor ouer all causes Ecclesiasticall as Ciuill Now this word ordinance being guarded with these two words all manner I see no reason in my iudgement of any lesse importance then both spirituall and temporall and I thinke I haue also the spirit of God But now to the point our gracious King hauing commanded many things to bee obserued in this Church of England and yet as Saint Paul saith nothing but that which is agreeable vnto the Word of God being both decent and comely I would very gladly know thy reason why thou shouldest shew thy selfe thus disobedient Salomon saith A diuine sentence shall be in the lippes of the King his mouth shall not transgresse in iudgement Prou. 16. 10. Brother heere thou standest in thy owne conceit and thinkest that no King in the world is so wise as thy selfe Ergo thou wilt refuse gouernment which doth inferre that thou despisest the Gouernour Wilt thou see a samiliar example by a plaine cōparison how contrary thou art to Christs command who saith Giue vnto Caesar that which is Caesars Mat. 22. 21 Amongst the temporall Lawes of this Land it is commanded that the poore therein shall bee k●…pt maintained within their seuerall Parishes Now som sturdy beggers there be which will not submit themselues vnto this command but being guided by their own conceit wander abroad making themselues no better then Rogues by the Statute of which sort Saint Paul saith If they will not worke they must not eate 2. Thes. 3. 10. Brother what sayst thou of this disobedient begger or how likest thou of Saint Pauls prescription of this sturdy Rogues diet or what dost thou thinke of this example by thy s●…lfe Thou canst not deny how disobedient thou art vnto the Lawes and ordinances which our gracious King hath command●…d thee therfore as this sturdie begger is become a rogue by the statute of this land so thou being a conceited obstinate hast made thy selfe by the statute of God no better as S. Iude saith then a wandering starre whose dyet without repentance S. Paul hath likewise set downe in the 13. to the Rom. and 2. verse If thou bee put to silence as to be feared thou art not then thou beginn●…st to cry out as the conceited Iewes did The Temple of the Lord the Temple of the Lord Ier. 7. 4. Thou criest the Lords anointed Anointed of the Lord. Now this is such a crie as may become a wonder vnto the world who seeth thee in the very height of disobedience shall a father command his childe that thing which he may very easily doe without any danger at all and shal this childe refuse his fathers command pleade not worthie correction because hee is his childe this thou wilt confesse is very absurd how canst thou then excuse thy selfe dost thou think that thy disobedience vnto our gracious King being contrary vnto CHRIST himself his command to pleade the Lords anointed because thou preachest Christ therfore worthy no correction nor punishment why this is too absurd nay Brother flatter not thy selfe for before we part I feare me that thou wilt proou●… no better a Preacher then as Saint Paul saith of enuie and strife Phi. 1. 15. Therfore bee aduised by the Prophet Ieremy Amend your waies and your workes and no doubt as he saith there ye may dwel in this place Ier. 7. 3. Otherwise what may bee expected but a casting away of your selues as of the whole seede of Ephraim Ier. 7. 15 If our gracious King had denied vs any fundamentall point of Religion the which thou wilt confesse he doth not or decr●…d any thing which as the Prophet Esay saith had been grieuous in keeping backe the poore from iudgement or any such like things which wicked Kings doe Esai 10 1 2. then mightest thou haue had iust cause to complaine and we al cause to lament But seeing hee is so merciful and so louing vnto all his subiects commāding nothing but that which is agreeable vnto the word of God who art thou and what a contradicted spirit art thou of that in stead of loyall dutie and loue art become thus disobedient vnto so louing and gracious a King But alas what hast thou done Hast thou not with all those disobedient spirits in the old Testament transgressed most fearefully against both God and good men nay further thou hast swerued from the cōmandement of Christ Matth. 22. 21. and as Saint Paul saith resisted the ordinance ordained of God Rom. 13. 2. striuing against principalities and powers Titus 3. 1. speaking as S. Peter saith against dignities 2. Peter 2. 10. despising dominion lude the 8. verse boasting thy selfe as Salomon saith before the King Pro. 25. 6. in a word thou hast in the very height of pride transcended thy selfe aboue all power exalting thy selte aboue measure And now what may be expected thinkest thou without a speedie and sodain repentance but such a most fearefull fall for this thy disobedience as Saint Iude hath alreadie prescribed euen blacknesse and darknesse for euer Iude the 13. verse Brother I will shew thee such an ensample of obedience that if there be but one spark of grace in thee thou wilt neuer deny to follow him For behold our blessed Sauiour himselfe although a free-man frō all Subsidies or Taxes or what else which was due vnto Caesar by strangers yet rather then he would seeme to disturbe a common peace or become an example of offence in the least degree he commanded Peter to cast his angle into the water and the first Fish saith hee thou takest open his mouth wherein thou shalt finde a piece of Siluer of twenty pence take it and pay for mee and thee Mat. 17. 25 26. verses Thou seest heere how willing and ready our blessed Sauiour was in Obedience in his owne person thou seest him pay tribute vnto Caesar although a free-man nay further rather then hee would becom an ensāple of the least offence thou maist perceiue him yeelding vnto a base Publican Now if our Sauiour Christ did not think that ciuill policie was taken away by the Gospell what may the whole world thinke of thee in denving obedience refusing but rites and ceremonies which are seemly in the Church beeing lawfully commanded I am sory to see thee moūt thy selfe into this verie height of pride thou art become little inferiour vnto those disobedient spirits that for their pride fell from Heauen to Hel. Thou hast as the Prophet D●…uid saith banded and io●…ned thy selfe with the wicked of this world against the Lord and his Anointed Psal. 2. 2. Nay thou hast done much more then I haue yet spoken of For thou hast

Doe not forget but keepe in minde alwaies God to feare Let not cōceit withdraw your minds from that pure Word of God For if ye doe ye shall sure taste of his most heauie rodde To all true Christians And now at last a word or two vnto my brethren deare Who honour God and loue his Word his holy name to feare Goe on with speed and courage great your time it is but short And shew your selues in loue and each others to exhort peace Then he that bought vs deare will and meet vs in the cloudes come With Angels bright full cleare in to call vs forth of mouldes sight Then will Christ say Come blessed and stay on my right hand mine Yee lou'd me well ye sed the poore and here now ye shall stand Where wee shall raigne for euermore his glorie for to see Who hath redeem'd vs from our sins and now hath set vs free To him be praise let vs giue thankes in honour of his name Then happy we but cursed he that doth refuse the same A Prayer before meate MOst louing Father grant vs wee humbly beseech thee such patient spirits of humilitie that our bodies and soules beeing truely sanctified and fed by thy heauenly graces may be so freed f●…om that erroneous spirit of disobedience and false accusations that liuing heere in thy feare wee may hereafter depart in thy fauor and that for thy Sonne Christ Iesus sake Amen A Thanks-giuing after meate MOst mercifull Father wee yeeld thee hartie thanks for feeding our mortall bodies with these thy good creatures Lord continue thy blessings vnto vs still and so free our hearts from that high conceite of vaine glorie that our bodies and soules being continually sanctified by thy powerfull spirit of humilitie may still liue in thy fauour and heereafter depart in thy fauour for thy blessed names sake Amen LOrd protect our most gracious King and Queene and that hopefull progenie from the cruell rage of Satan and all his wicked instruments and grant wee most humbly beseech thee that his Highnes and his continuing in a godly feare may liue to praise thy most holy name vntill the comming againe of Iesus Christ and that for his owne names sake Amen To know a Puritane from a true Christian. IF any desire to know what a Puritane is looke in the second Epistle of Saint Paul to Timothie the third Chapter from the first verse vnto the ninth verse and there yee may plainly perceiue the qualities and conditions both of him and the Pope of Rome with all others of those Antichrists the which haue banded themselues against the Lord and his Anointed and although that they haue gotten themselues painted names yet Saint Paul tels vs and wee must beleeue him That they are mad men out of their wits whose madnesse saith hee is now euident vnto all men 9. verse Heere may the whole world perceiue all such which haue and doe persecute Christ Iesus in his members especially those two monstrous heads the which doe so cunningly labour in sheepes clothing the Pope and the Puritane Now if any desire to see Iesus Christ in his members which is the true Church of God looke from the ninth verse vnto the end of the Chapter and there ye may behold the true signe of the Sonne of Man where ye may perceiue all the elect faces of Gods children in that spirituall glasse of immortalitie especially his Euangelicall face of whom it may truely be said That he hath knowne the Scriptures of a child I meane our most gracious King whom the Lord of his infinite mercy for his honour and the good of his Church doth by his vnsearchable prouidence now protect amongst vs therfore most blessed hee and his who shall dwell in euerlasting peace and neuer die Farewell vnto the whole world FINIS Mat. 24. 29. Mat. 24. 21. 2. Pet. 2. 4. 2. Tim. 3. 8. Psal. 120. verse 5. Mat. 2. 9. Psal. 139. Psal 139. 21 ●…2 Matth. 7. 10 Mark 4. 24.