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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A55499	A Christian caveat to all loyal subjects, or, A looking-glass displaying the foul face of phanaticism ...	A. P.	1684 (1684)	Wing P3; ESTC R14437	11,685	23

the same time as was agreed between them Calvin comes gravely walking by and demands the cause of her Tears and Exclamations She opens her Case he answers in Gospel-Language Weep not good Woman thy Husband is not dead but sleepeth and walking in the People about him call'd together by the Woman's out-cries falls to his Prayers and after a while pronounces with great authority I say unto thee arise This being redoubled the Man stirs not the Woman wonders and after all endeavours to awake him he is found dead indeed Which made the poor Woman change her feigned Tears into real Sorrow and being almost mad at this unexpected accident detects the whole Imposture Whereby the Counterfeit is punish't Calvin disgraced and God glorified Who desires to know more of this Godly Reformer let them consult Dr. Jerome Bolsec his constant Physician who knew him perfectly and Francis Baldwin and Florimond de Remond Men justly to be credited in their Relations Moreover If you observe it Tim Fox in his Martyrology is very greedy to make every strange thing a Miracle to Canonize his Saints Tim. I shall like the Calvinists the worse for ever for their Father's sake if all be true is said of him The Sixth Lesson Of Phanatical Impurities Phil. HOliness becomes the House of God for ever Christian Religion is a holy Religion and the Catholick Church according to our Creed is a holy Church but what Prophanations and Sacriledges brought Phanaticks into the World and with what Impurities and Impieties they have continued to infect and disturb it is too notorious to be denied and much to be lamented by all good Christians There 's no Society upon the face of the Earth though endowed from Heaven with all means possible to advance Holiness but has some Members that deviate from their Profession and neglect so great a Salvation provided for them How impertinent therefore is it to rail against Religion for the wickednesses of some Men who despising her Counsels to follow their own corrupt Inclinations will not be reformed though the zealous Preachers of their own Profession thunder against their wicked Lives to reduce them to goodness And how abominable is it for the failings of some to endeavour by prodigious Lies to make the rest odious to the World who are precious indeed in the sight of God Those that are bad are justly condemn'd but the Religion is to be commended which takes such Care and Pains to bring them to Holiness And I wish I could say as much for the Carnal Impurities committed by Phanaticks who make Religion the Patroness of their Wickedness and must be Saints for all their black abominations In the days of the usurping Saints of the long Parliament when Licentiousness pass't for Christian-Liberty a holy Phanatick though married had an Inspiration from Heaven as he pretended to lye with a Gentleman's Wife who was a holy Sister and a handsom Woman she was soon taken with his pious Rhetorick for seeing he said it was the Will of God it must be lawful and done also His own wife takes them in their wickedness and he to justifie their execrable adultery tells her he could not but wonder that she being his wife so long did not yet know the priviledg of the Saints and that it was also lawful for her though his wife to lye with others who have a call from God for it and thereupon brought her a holy Brother who pretending an inspiration did ratify the new known priviledg to her content Tim. Come Phil you abuse the Godly Party this is hardly credible Phil. Beleive me Tim 't is so well known as to be discourse of the Country for a time and appear in print which the Gentleman hearing being a Parliament-Man whose Wife this white Devil had corrupted came presently home and finding it too true could not be perswaded but that this priviledg of the Saints was against the privileges of Parliament And so my holy Brother was forc't to fly to save himself from the lash of Justice A Zealous Quaking Sister at Holm in York-shire not far from the Town where then I liv'd staying too long with her holy Brother to return to her own dwelling that night was invited by him to take a bed there which she accepted and in the night time being tempted with the Devil of lust came to his bed side and calling to him said good Brother our Father bids me come and lye with thee he reply'd if it be our Fathers will I ought not to resist it And thus they make God the Patron of their wickednesses Another Quaker in those parts when the furious spirit was upon him came running out into the Streets as a man possest and crying he had a call from God to kill his Father And what other madnesses and impurities are committed among them I had rather bury in silence being a shame to Christianity then fully my paper with the relations Tim. I did not think such great seeming Saints could have been guilty of such Impieties But I see 't is high time to return to the Protestant establish'd Church and Loyalty to my Soveraign Phil. I wish you many Followers For the Phanaticks at present are so bloody minded and impatient to get all Power into their hands that if the infinite goodness of God had not detected their horrid Conspiracies against King and Kingdom all good Subjects before now had been Massacred by such cruel bloody-thirsty Rebels and the glory of England buried in Anarchy and Confusion Blessed be God for all his Mercies in delivering us from the hands of these merciless Men. And to prevent it for the future we will conclude this short Caution with this cordial Prayer From the Tyranny of furious Zealots and all their detestable Enormities from Phanatical Massacres Associations Lies and Perjuries from Wolves in Sheeps cloathing from Prophaneness and Sacriledges from a Presbyterian Zeal and an Oliverian Mercy good Lord deliver us And let every true English heart say AMEN FINIS