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power_n	deny_v	form_n	godliness_n	5,889	5	9.5542	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A97098	The fountain of slaunder discovered. By William Walwyn, merchant. With some passages concerning his present imprisonment in the Tower of London. Published for satisfaction of friends and enemies.	Walwyn, William, 1600-1681.	1649 (1649)	Wing W682; Thomason E557_4; ESTC R204437	31,569	29

Prince of Devils And who were they that so asperst him but the great and learned Politicians of the times who with the Scribes and Pharisees set themselves against him and his doctrines because he gave knowledge to the poor and simple by which their delusion pride oppression and corrupt interests were plainly discovered So that let no man look to escape aspersions that sets himself to promote any publique good or to remove any old or new setled evil but let him resolve according to the good he endeavoureth so shall his aspersion be Nor let him thinke when time and his constant actings have worn out one or two or ten aspersions that he is therfore free but if he continue to mind more good he shall be sure to find new aspersions such as he never dream'd of or could imagine Luther opposeth the delusions and oppressions of the Pope and his Clergy and the ruine of Emperours Kings and great ones of the world laies them all open and naked to the view of all men and who was ever more asperst then he Cornelius Agrippa sets forth a Treatise entituled The vanity of Arts and Sciences and is reputed a Conjurer for his labour How falsly and vilely were our Martyrs reproached and cruelly used in Queen Maries daies for opposing the wickednesse of the great ones of that time And how unjustly Mr Geeenwood Mr Penry and Mr Barrow suffered in Queen Elizabeths daies for publishing unwelcome truths is yet sadly remembred Yet how odious did the Bishops set forth those that pretended for the Discipline of Presbyterie all along comparing them to the Anabaptists of Munster affirming that whatever they pretended they aimed to destroy all Magistracy and Government to have plurality of mines and all things common saying any thing of them to render them odious to the people In like manner the Court reproached Parliaments upon their least shew of redresse of grievances or abatement of Prerogative calling them a factious sedi●ious viperous brood that intended to bring all to Anarchy parity and con●usion And even so divers Presbyters of late have dealt with the Independents Brownists Anabaptists Antinomians and the like stiling them Heretiques Blasphemers Sectaries and compared the Army and their Leaders to Jack Cade Wat Tyler and John of Leydon And so about that time dealt the Parliament with many well-minded people that petitioned them for removall of long setled and new imposed grievances tearming them factious and seditious Sectaries and burnt their just Petitions most reproach●ully by the common hangman And just so now deal some most unworthy Independents with many the present A●●●ters of common ●reedom ●●iling them Levellers Anti-scripturists Ath●●sts and devise such scandalous false aspersions against them and pulleth the same with so much bitternesse ●nd vilenesse of expression as if they resolved of all that went before them 〈◊〉 Ra●shekah to the unhappy daies of Mr Edwards and his Contempo●●●ies ●●ne should come ●igh them for invention or calumniation and that upon no cause except for opposing the present corruption and corrupt interests of the t●mes wherein it should seem many of them are now engaged and taking pleasure therein are as impatient as ever Demetrius and the Cra●●s men were with Paul for preaching against the Goddesse Dian● by making of whose Shrines they lived t is like very plenteously And although nothing be more evident then that Aspersers are ever deceivers and asperse for no other end but for their own interest and advantage yet are not men sufficien●●y cautious to avoid their wiles but are ensnared perpetually for let a man with never so much discretion and fidelity make known a publique grievance or an imminent danger and propose never so effectuall means for redresse and prevention yet if one of these subtil Politicians or their Agents can have opportunity to buz into the ears of those that are concerned thou the proposer art an Heretique a Blasphemer an Atheist a de●ier of God and Scriptures or which is worse to most rich men that he is a Leveller and would have all things common then out upon him away with such a fellow from off the earth better perish then be preserved by so prophane a person and in the mean time who so seemingly pious meek and religious as the asperser Whose councel so readily hearkned to as his which yet leadeth to a certain bondage or destruction never feared till felt And truly but for these deceits in Politicians and these weaknesses in the people it had been impossible but these times must necessarily have produced much more good to the Common wealth and it is wounderfull to consider how powerfully this delusion proves in all times no warning or experience being gua●d enough against it though to a reasonable judgment no deceit be more palpable For generally the asperser is really guilty of what he unjustly brands another withall So the false Prophets accuse the true of ●alsnesse In like manner the ●alse Apostles accuse the true The Scribes and Pharisees were indeed friends of Publicans and Sinners reall friends of Beelzebub as being the chief of Hypocrites The Pope and his Clergie really guilty of all they fained against Luther Emperours and Great ones of the world cry out of perfidiousnesse and breach of Oath who have broken so frequently as they or make so little of it when 't is done Those who cry out against Community Parity and Levelling in the mean time enforce all to their own wils both Persons Estates and Consciences and if res●sted fire and sword halters axes and prisons must be their Executioners The persecutor is for the most part the most desperate heretick and those that cry out so much against blasphemy neither regard man nor honour God pretending Godlinesse onely for by and base respects Those who make so great a noise against Atheists are they not such as say in their hearts there is no God denying him in their actions and conversations back biting covetousnesse pride and usury being no sinnes amongst them men that have a meer specious forme of Godlinesse but no power at all Those that raise ●ames of denying the Scriptures you shall have them do it so as if they did it purposely to bring the Scriptures in question and write so in defence of them as if they bent all their endeavours though subtilly and obscurely to weaken the credit and belief thereof and have the impudence to call their uncertaine doubtfull preaching and sermons the word of God preach for filthy lucre and take money for that which is not bread so that if people had but any consideration in them they would easily discover the fraud policy and malice of asspersors and be armed against their stratagems And although the people for some time may be deceived by their delusions and do not perceive their devises yet God in the end discovers them to their shame setling their nakednesse and the shame of their nakednesse open in the sight of all men and that garment of hypocriticall