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A28152	A word of reproof and advice to my late fellow-souldiers and officers of the English, Irish, and Scotish army with some inrhoad made upon the hireling and his mass-house, university, orders, degrees, vestments, poperies, heathenism, &c. : with a short catalogue of some of the fighting priests and ... have given them a blow in one of their eyes (pickt out of the whores head) which they call a fountain of religion but is a sink of iniquity ... / by E.B.	Billing, Edward, 1623-1686.	1659 (1659)	Wing B2903; ESTC R23695	86,580	98

respect unto your fasts saith the Lord Mark if ye regard iniquity in your hearts or feed oppression or suffer the witch or prisoner in your own particulars in and amongst you to live I will not hear your prayers saith the Lord nay the Lord loves and hears the prayers of such as pay their vowes and keep their integrity and tremble at his word ●nd the broken and the contrite spirit and the upright hearted the Lord delights in and those that walk humbly with their God and are not exalted above what is called God because of this worlds preferment I say with the single-hearted and such who dispise not the day of small things who speaks the truth to and of their neighbour and do to all men as they would they should do to them Such he delights to dwell with but the lying lips and the deceitful tongue God hates the prayers fasting fond humility and hanging down the head for a day like a bul-rush are all abomination before the just and holy God and whilest ye regard iniquity and have respect to the workers thereof the Lord hath no regard to your set dayes services and prete●ded humiliations I say whilst ye regard iniquity and live in uncleannesse and pride of life ye are but mockers of the righteous God who will not be mocked by ye for his eyes are pure and cannot behold the beholders and upholders of oppression Oh my friends how can ye pray talk of God conscience and liberty of conscience whilest ye suffer your poor brethren to be tormented and afflicted with cursed laws made in the reprobate will of a dark Pope and do ye not augment fuel to his fire and call it liberty of conscience Is not his 3 months imprisonment made six I believe that if it should have been said to many of ye within this ten years that these cruelties should have been acted inflicted and tollerated to be acted and inflicted upon the innocent by a law and true liberty of conscience infringed and wholly struck at whilest some of ye had breath I do believe that ye would have answered as one man as the King did the Prophet Dost thou think thy servants are dogs that these things shall come to passe in our dayes But many were deceived in ye and so was I and in the end ye will deceive your own precious and immortal souls And the Priests for whom ye have thus ha●arded and made your selves enemies to God and good men are most exquisite and absolute enemies to your selves Magistrates Government and Governours longer then they please them and boast of their Diana and for plotters and plot-contrivers disturbers of governments sowers of seditions and causing other men to be seditious they are at this time and have been of old the very pests of this Nation and he that is or shall be acquainted with the History of England cannot but witness with me against them But that they are so fresh in most mens memories I could name some of their late Tragedies for which some few of them have felt the hand of Justice but thus much I know is well known to most men that those whom they blesse the people bless and whom they curse the people curse also this may be taken notice of that they never did nor do adhere to the Rulers but when they would have their own turnes served or are necessitated or their false wayes and worship in Jeopardy by the people of the Lord making some in-rode or other upon their deceit at other times it 's I and my King and I l'e be rul'd if hee 'l be rul'd by me and if the Rulers should but deny them their end for which they onely flatter them and others I say it 's well if they do not teach the people to rebel and say to kill them is no murther and themselves have a hand in it and if the Rulers should but demand one or two years revenue of these men throughout the Nation of that which indeed is none of their's and they say themselves tythes is the chief Magistrates and he may do what he will with them or sell but their Mass-houses with the jangling Bells although it were to carry on a war with Rome against the very Pope himself I say it is well if they did not thereby take occasion to prepare and hatch a War at home and curse the Magistrates bitterly and do what in them lyeth to poyson the people and disaffect them to the present Goverment notwithstanding at present they cry a loud for and to it but it is for their augmentations and blesse it but it is with the same mouths they 'l curse it if crost and do it as much harm as now they do it good in praying for it which is none at all Oh Friends Why will ye joyn your selves to that unprofitable harlot who ye long since know was deviated and utterly whored from all that is truth and I do believe it is fully known to many among ye they that are gone out of the way altogether become unprofitable I know none of them that doth good no not one for the most part their throats are an open Sepulchre and the poyson of Asps is under their lips and Gods fear is not before their eyes the best of them is but as a bryar and the most upright is sharper then a thorn hedge Micah 7. 4. For out of the evil thoughts of their ●ee Ti●us I. ●hap 7. to ●he end hearts proceeds persecution murtherers and blasphemies and unto them in their unbelieving state and damnable doctrine of imperfection nothing is nor indeed can be pure but even their mindes and consciences is wholly defiled and although they may professe to know God in their practises they absolutely deny him for in preaching up sin tearm of life which is the Devils kingdom they are abominable ●au●s Ep. ●o the Lao●iceans v. ● 9. and unto every good work reprobate they are hurters and doers of violence to good sober and temperate men i● they put not into their mouths self-willed soon angry strikers and given to filthy lucre they are they are high-minded and John 5. 19. Read Rev. 20. Rev. 13. 15. unruly vain talkers and deceivers whose mouths must be stopped and turned away from although they have subverted whole houses and Nations teaching things that are utterly false for filthy lucres sake and such are lyars evil beasts and slow-bellies and this witness is true wherefore let them be rebuked and their mo●ths stopped For with the whole World they do lie in wickedness and the number that Satan hath deceived by them is as the sand of the Sea and they have had power to kill the Saints that would not worship the image of the beast and hath caused all both small and great rich and poor bond and free to receive a mark in their right hand or in their fore-heads And none could buy or sell save he that had the mark or the

Souldiers came unto Christ and askt him Master what shall we do Be content with your wages and do violence to no man accuse no man falsly But for the whole rabble of Duke Marquesse Lord Knight Gentleman by patents I find no room place or example or allowance for in Scripture but that onely declares of as I do believe one Lord one God over all blessed for ever amen who made all kindreds tongues and Nations of one blood and all these earthly Lords and who exercise unjust dominion are come up since and in the Apostacy for in the beginning it was not so and those who are rede●med from the earth and risen with Christ and onely seeks the things above Fathoms and comprehends all these things and are come to the beginning are in that which was before false Prophets Anti-chri●● Babylon Pope or Whores cup was of which the Kings of the earth have drank and been made drunk in which drunken fi● and when all the Nations reeled under the persecution of the beast and false Prophet and the Saints and Martyres blood was swallowed down as other cups of pleasure and the woman was fle● into the Wildernesse and the man-child was caught up to God I say in that black dark night of Apostacy when none was able to make war with the beast when the Kings of the earth fought for the earth was created and by the beasts power at this day is created Lords Knights c. and having lost the Cross of Christ the power of God within a painted cross is borne in your ensign without and that is the sign of your Christianity and so into sects and opinions and the Irreligious have and do kill one another about Religion precedency names titles and the earth and all this is earthly Devilish and sensual THE END Here followeth a relation of some signs examples and judgements for the accursed Generation who desire a sign for many to my face have temptingly said shew us a sign but they are miracles to those that believe and let such reach hither their hands and with me feel and see the wounds that the Lord of life hath received in his members by this unnatural and unparaleld Generation to whom and upon whom these examples are and have been shewen as it is written the wicked shall not live out half their dayes but let the despisers behold and wonder and perish for the work is wrought in their dayes although they cannot believe EXAMPLES ESSEX John Clerk Priest for 20. l. Tythes by him demanded of Robert Nicol of Coln-Engain by warrant from Dio●ysius Wakering and William Harlackenden Justices so called took and drove away from him Cattel worth 50 l. and his greedy mind not therewith satisfied sought after his body to but those his persecutors aforesaid being at London at that time he threatened to go to London to get a Warrant from them to put him in prison but the Lord prevented him for he came home and died in few dayes after SUFFOLK Robert Newton Goaler of Edmund-bury and his wife who had been very cruel to George Fox in the 55 weeks imprisonment he suffered under him by beating him very often and taking from him his bed cloaths and a coat and after his release detained him twenty eight weeks more for as he pretended a years sufficient lodging both the goaler and his wife not long after was cut off by death SUSSEX Priest Cussin● who caused Thomas Leycock to be imprisoned a whole year in Horsham Goal for speaking a few words to the people in love to their souls after he the said priest had done soon after this persecution he was cut off by death John Chatfield Priest of Horsham who caused Thomas Leycock and Bryan Wilkinson to be imprisoned and caused Thomas Patchins Cattel to be drove away soon after fell into a dropsie and remained in a miserable condition half a year and then died Priest Cuffly of Arundel who was a chief instrument in Thomas Leycocks persecution and did strive with the Magistrates of Arundel to have had Joseph Fuse who had faithfully served the Parliament in the wars 11 years sent over Sea as a bond-slave suddenly after this he died The Priest of Green who caused Alice West to be sent to prison for speaking some few words in the Steeple-house suddenly after died Edward Haughton Priest of Nuthurst who was the first in this county that caused friends to be robbed for Tythes was soon after cut off by death Priest Channel called a Doctor one of the chiefest high Priests so counted in this Nation a great opposer of truth was striken with madnesse and is out of his natural senses A Tythe-monger in the Parish of Beding who wickedly and malitiously trod out the corn of Minion Brocket making havock of the same within a week after was cut off by death John Gurden a Justice so called an eminent persecutor of the innocent people of God in this county whose name hath spread to New England among his brethren of the inquisition there hath been smitten by the Lord in a great weaknesse of body and dimnesse of eye-sight and hath appeared as one likely to pine away under the hand of the Lord which is evidently turned against him since he became such a cruel persecutor Roger Gratick a Magistrate and Priest Snelling consenters to much of the persecution of this county both slain with a thunder bolt in one day NORFOLK John Benton being one of Priest Claphams witnesses of Wramplingham whom he procured to swear against Benjamin Lynes in a matter concerning Tythes who was so evidently forsworn and his partner with him that the Justices themselves would not accept of their testimony and soon after which time the said John Benton got into the Steeple-house of Wramplingham and there hanged himself in a Bel-rope Edw. Humt keeper of the prison of Norwich who after Geo-Whit●head was discharged at the Sessions brought his action against him for 4 d. a night and although he had layn on the floor most part of the time yet was by him unjustly detained but the Goaler was soon after cut off by death HARTFORD-SHIRE Geo-Fage an unmerciful Bayliff who for 5 s. Tithe took away goods worth 4 l. from Richard North and entered into his house none being within but two poor children ransacked the poor mans house and took the very covering from off the bed of the children and exposed them to sufferings in the midst of winter for which the Lord God visited him and cut him off suddenly before he had made sale of the goods GLOUCESTER-SHIRE The first three friends that were committed in the County of Gloucester the two Justice of peace which did commit them the one called by the name of Justice Webly the other called by the name of justice Raymond these three friends did all live in or about Thornbury and were called to the Bar that Assi●e next holden for the County of Gloucester one of these Justices which did commit