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A62481 The three countrey-mens English answers to the clergy-mens Latine charges. Or, the lay-mens plain English, in answer to the unknown language of the pretended spiritual court at Winton Unto which is added a short relation of the dealings of Iohn Hayes priest with two of them after they were excommunicated. Also twenty four queries propounded to be answered by those that call themselves spiritual men. Gearle, Edmund, d. 1672. 1664 (1664) Wing T1085; ESTC R222199 12,394 16

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tottering hedge and remove your seats though you have set your nests on high and exalted your selves above the stars of God like those that act spiritual wickednesse in high places from the which when the Lord God brings you down and rewards you according to your works which he will surely do then shall you know that this is true and manifest 6. Also that in the year and moneths and in the year of our Lord 1659. aforesaid and in the moneths of the same year in the time of the rate and tax making the aforesaid Henry Burret and Alexander Faithful guardians c. had not within their hands or possessions neither were to receive or have any rents or lands or tenements to the same Church belonging or appertaining or any other means to repair or amend the same parish Church otherwise then by m●king and imposing a rate and tax on themselves and other Parishioners and inhabitants of the same Parish limits and precincts of the same Parish and that this is true and manifest c. Answ There you have as it was told a large story how a rate or tax was made but here is not one word of the Law of God nor of the Gospel of his Son nor so much as three words of Scripture language but non-sence put in the stead thereof as though there were both years and moneths in the year 1659. and if you have neither Rents Lands Tenements nor any other means to uphold your Church walls from going down nor to repair the ruinations thereof but what you get by force and violence like Hophni and Phinias then that is the ready way to make all people weary both of you and your Church too and this is true and may come at last to be manifefl 7. Also that in the aforesaid year 1659. in the moneths in the same year or in one of them c. the Guardians Parishoners and Inhabitants of the Parish of lower Wallop aforesaid according to forewarning at certain dayes or a certain day and place c. or the greatest part of them came together and with unanimous assent and consent did tax and impose Rates and Taxes in and upon all Parishoners Inhabitants and other Messages Lands or Tenements within the Parish aforesaid and within the limits and precincts of the same Parish the holders and occupiers of the same according to the value of the Messages Lands and Tenements of every person for and toward the repairation and amendment of the defects of the faid Church and ornaments and other things belonging to the same Church and amongst other Parishoners and Inhabitants of the said Parish thee the aforesaid Edmond Gearle for a Message or Tenement and Lands by thee within the Parish aforesaid limits and precincts c. in the year and moneths c. held possessed and occupied and according to the quantity quality and value of the same did rightfully and lawfully tax the summe of two shillings and two pence to be paid to the Guardians aforesaid for and towards the repairation and amendment of the defects of the said Church and ornaments and other appurtenances to the said Church belonging and this is true and manifested c. Answ Herein you shew again in what year but very doubtfully what moneth the Tax was made and how it came to be but not the least example thereof from any of the Ministers of Christ though you do mention it is for and towards the repairations and amendments of the defects of your Church and the ornaments belonging to the same whereby it seems your called spiritual men are seeking to repair the defects of a temporal Church for your Church and the ornaments thereof are things that are seen and the Apostle saith the things that are seen are temporal such things will wax old decay and at last may vanish away as better things then them did and it seems your Church ornaments are defective and the Church it self defective and it may be the upholders thereof defective and the worship defective and the faith vain and then what shall we do there or why should we pay mony to have such defective stuffe renewed and it may be your upholding such defective stuffe is not only defective but also to us destructive or hurtful both in body soul and state which nothing can be so to us that is truely spiritual of God but that this Tax of two shillings two pence to be paid by me towards the repairing of the defective Church is rightfully according to any Gospel order imposed upon me or lawfully according to any Levitical Law assessed upon the Lands I then held according to any Scripture direction I do deny neither do I believe that most of the Parishioners were together at the seasing of this Tax neither can you prove the same and therefore this is false and not manifest 8. Also that after the rate made Tax or Imposition as abovesaid c. all the Parishioners and Inhabitants of the Parish aforesaid and other Proprietours Possessours and Occupiers of Messages Lands and Tenements within the said Parish limits and precincts or the major part of them have paid or are ready to pay the foresaid Guardians the Rates and Taxes upon them Imposed notwithstanding they have been disswaded from paying the same by thee and others c. Answ As for the major part paying the said rates or tax the major part go the broad way which leads to destruction who being in the worlds nature follow their blind leaders like weary horses under their heavy burthens notwithstanding they see their Teachers reel to and fro in the matter of their worship like the waves of the Sea and stagger about the manner thereof like drunken men and cast off their professions like serpents and change themselves in other habits like Taylors and into other colours shews and fashions like Camelions and turn with the times like the wind and change every season like the Moon and conform to any thing like time-servers yet not so much as transform themselves into the likenesse of the true Apostles of Christ neither do they bear the image or shadow thereof but if most of the Parishioners aforesaid have paid your Tax I question not but they had rather kept their money some of them to relieve their Families and some out of saving or covetousnesse and it may be some of them had as willingly have gone to the Ale-house with it so little zeal may fome of this major part have towards your defective Church and some that did pay it might pay because you rule with such force and cruelty over them that they dare not do otherwise and so those are not chearful givers nor willing payers and so you have not much to boast therein and their souls having so little benefit by that decayed and defective Church that they have several sufficient reasons in themselves to disswade them not to pay without being perswaded thereunto by me and others 9. Also that