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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

Lord to declare without fear what is possible to be done against me by them or their adherents although I know they are the onely preparers of War against the innocent And these bad men come from Oxford and Cambridge which they call the two Fountains Nurseries and Eyes of the Nation and Religion but indeed they are the two sinks of iniquity And when a youngling goes first thither to learn the trade of Preaching before he hath the authority of a Law to take away the sixth or seventh part of any mans Estate in the Nation When he comes first to Oxford before they have taintted him or made him stink with their abominations they call him a fresh man and those that are in mess with him like greedy dogs rob him of his very meat and get him in a ring and tear his cloaths off his back and make Rhimes upon him and if he complain they beat him and to cozen or steal any thing from him these cage of unclean birds think that their honour and this the World calls an Academy for the Education of young Gentlemen and a place to train up able Ministers And out of these two Fountains Oxford and Cambridge or rather sinks of iniquity uncontradictably flowes the grand grievances of this Common-wealth In the first place from thence comes that spiritual and temporal thief the most pestilent hireling from thence comes the terrible and lawless Lawyer under whose oppression the whole Nation smarts who with the Priests swallow up the one half of the land the Lawyer as well as the other according to his now ungodly practice and constitution utterly oppressive and altogether useless being the badge of the conquerour who squeese the people most grievously and utterly undoes many yea very many From thence comes the Atheistique Physician who hath authority to give what he will to men And if he poysons them it s a Doctor hath done it and there 's an end From thence comes the Conjuror Astrologer and Fortune-telling witch and all these are bad and cruel grievances and hated of God and his arm is made bare against them And was as it is now fully seen by all the honest people of England within these ten years and then all these Monsters were eve● at the pits brink ready to be cast in from whence they came Then was the good Physician nigh O ye army-men and a Chancery was setting up in every mans breast and the Witch had but little life left and the hireling with all his inchantments and what he could possibly say for his deceit was become to ye as a thing of nought and God was teaching his own people then as he doth at this day and that covetous man was thought uselesse and his brawling by ye was very little or not at all regarded and have ye seen the Son and many of ye tasted of the good word of God and the World to come and the power of an endlesse life and yet believe lying lips and cherish deceit and maintain oppression licking up that which ye once even with detestation vomited forth are ye not bewitched in running after the hireling into the Masse-house to look for the Truth where and from whom I believe in my heart most of ye know it s not possible to be found Nay verily those that believe in Christ sees him as he is nigh them in their hearts and in their mouths for he hath enlightened every man that cometh into the world and the spiritual eye sees him a Saviour nigh them and in them who saves his people from their sins and lets them see their sins and perfects them from their sins if they serve no other gods but him And why do ye yet hope for the thing seen Oh he is come a light into the World but the World founded in your hearts which slew and slayes the Lamb that receives him not but loves darknesse rather then light but it is because your deeds are evil and so doth not like to retain God in your knowledge although he hath been there ye did once know God and that grace of God which brings Salvation hath appeared unto ye and to all men but some give themselves up to a reprobate minde and to believe lies Mark they give themselves up the light being two low a thing and perfection to high and there all the wordly wise men in the World at this day perish which of the Rulers hath believed on him none but a poor people that for conscience sake cannot be subject to the cursed Popish lawes and heathenish customes not a mighty man nor a Noble man not a Lawyer nor one of them which the World calls an Orthodox man hardly among them For there is no Worldly preferment nor treasure to be desired for he hath not whereon to lay his own head and his visage is and was more mar'd then any mans a stumblingstone and a rock of offence he is but blessed are they and onely they that are not offended at him nor his little ones for verily they are to him as the apple of his eye and woe to them that despise him in his members although they are not found in the pallace nor on the throne nor in the high-places committing spiritual wickednesse making ungodly gain of the Prophets his and the Apostles words as it was of old not many mighty not many noble and although many are and may be called few are chosen for the way is streight and few there is that enters yea the way is streight and the lusts of the flesh and the pride of life cometh not there and whose life is without his portions without and in the eternal kingdom there is no room for the bending twining sycophant who hath the persons of men in admiration because of dishonest gain I say such enters not into his rest neither know they the true Sabbath although they keep a great bussle and sow pillows under one anothers elbowes and cry the ordinances the ordinances and have their set dayes times and places for their worship giving one another bread and wine once in a weak or once in a moneth eats drinks and puts on unworthily all the week and moneth besides and it may be when they have consulted and contrived before-hand a thing in their own hearts and in their own imaginations it is already done then these pretend in their own wills to fast and pray and dayes must be set apart for fasting and praying when as the jawes of the wicked in the general and in their own particulars are not broken fasting and prayer in my very soul I own But what mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces and grind the faces of the poor saith the Lord of hosts think ye that I will visit for these things yea he will vex ye in his fierce wrath and remove ye in his hot displeasure and whilest ye regard iniquity in your hearts I will not hear your prayers nor have

no Saints that are not cleansed purged washed and sanctified throughout ye are cleansed ye are washed ye are sanctified throughout and as he is so are we in this present World and he that fails to witness this condition on this side the grave though he may be covinced of the very truth it self he may be called but never chosen Friends it is a high state yea the very highest on this side the grave I do not say its impossible not to faile and alone to live move and do all to and for the praise and glory of God and to live and abide in the infallible and not to fail but as the Lords witnesse I declare it He who lives and dies in his sins imperfections and failings doth fail and falls short of that Kingdom where the imperfect or impure cannot enter for its the pure in heart that sees God but the wicked he beholds a far off and the sinner cannot stand before the righteous God in judgement wherefore as many as be perfectly minded work out your salvation with fear and trembling for the night cometh wherein no man can work And there is another sort of idle people who say Christ hath taken away the guilt of sin but not the presents of sin Oh! seared conscience that hath no guilt for sin I do not say he hath taken the Devil out of Hell or J●das from his own place neither do I say or think the Devil doth at this day cease to seek whom he may devour Nay I know he is the Prince of the power of the air and the Kingdom of darkness is his Sodom is his throne and Egypt and the dwellers there are altogether within his Dominion Mystery-Babylon her Merchants are his own all the children of disobedience to all who live in the mistery of iniquity he is a Law-maker also I say he is a roaring Lion and continually seeketh whom he may devour and the most upright that is or ever was upon the earth he may tempt yea Christ himself as the words of the Divel recorded in Scripture do testifie but it s no sin to be tempted but the sin is to yeeld to and do the will of the temptor and commit the sin but blessed are they who stand in the power and fear of the Lord and endure the temptation Adam was never accursed until he had yeelded taken and eaten so its sin acted and the purpose of your corrupt hearts to sin if not grose yet little sins and at least to have your failings tearm of life and that 's it which hinders the union keeps ye in the unbelief and separates betwixt ye and your maker and the wages of s●n is death and such as ye sow such shall ye reap and if with the hands which are defiled and not in the pure hope which is perfect ye plow and sow corruption What can ye expect to reap or be in the harvest or day of the Lord when he makes up his jewels but tares corruption or reprobate silver and of failings and imperfection ye can reap no other thing for according to your faith so will it be unto ye and failings will fail to be saved or enter into the rest of him that is unfallible and without fail saves all those that come unto him by faith and a good conscience void of offence towards God and man mark a good conscience towards God and void of offence towards man not striking spilling of blood or reaping ca●nals where they have sow● neither spiritual nor carnal And although imperfection is the practice and general preached and received doctrine of the Church of England so called I utterly deny it neither do I trust to be saved as they believe but I believe they will take it ill if I should say they who believe th●y may live and die in some failings should not go to Heaven or if I should say that is the Hypocrites hope and will fail But I do say if they say its the true hope or living faith which is of God in by which the Just lives or if that he which lives and intends to die in some failings sayes the Lord lives with Jeremiah I say he or they swear falsly But if we continue faithful or full of faith in our measures to the end we shall be saved without fail for he that is in us is greater then he that is in the World and he that abides in him is pure without failings and the wicked one cannot touch him though he may attempt it hourly for a stronger then he keeps the house and he cannot enter but by our consents otherwise the whole creation of mankind would be the Divels for he is the enemy of mankind and his nature is to devour but the true light which doth enlighten every man that cometh into the World and the ligh● with which every man is enlightened comprehends the darknesse but the Divel and darknesse cannot comprehend the light for he that is in us is far greater then he and is quick and powerful and divides betwixt the pretious thoughts and the vile before they come to actions I say if the watch be kept and the light believed in which is in ye infallibly is the l●fe of men and shewes man all his sins and failings I say it will discern the thoughts and dash the brains of Babylons children against the wall Yea that brain which invents and deviseth evil and break the cockatrice egg before it is an egg and mischief shall not be hatched or prod●cted and the same is the sure word of prophesie which if ye take heed unto ye may infallibly do well though it be as a light shining in a dark place tell the day dawn and the day star arise in your hearts for which wait that ye may be delivered from all your sins and failings and become the Sons of God For as much then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh arm your selves likewise with the same mind for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin 1 Pet. 4. 1. Therefore let the time p●st be si ficient for the end of all things is at hand and to be carnally minded is death And if any man have not the spirit of Christ he is none of his and if Christ be in ye the bod●●s dead because of sin By a Friend to perfection and a believer in that unfallible Jesus who saves his p●ople from their sins failings and imperfections but a professed enemy to that Hellish doctrine of imperfection E. B. THE END A VVORD To such Rulers and Magistrates who Whip cause or suffer to be whipped the Saints of the most High for Vagabonds among whom there are no Beggers and sends them to Prison for not Swearing and not taking an Oath to abjure that which themselves may be found in and requires Bonds of the upright in heart for the good behaviour a thing which themselves are not truly in for that is no good