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A80537	The last, and highest appeal. Or, An appeal to God, against the new-religion-makers, dresters, menders, or venders amongst us. Wherein is evidenced, amongst other things, that they have not true faith, true repentance, or true charity. Likewise, that the seven heads of sin, commonly called, the seven deadly sins, are manifestly apparent in the lifes of their preachers. / By Richard Carpenter.	Carpenter, Richard, d. 1670?	1656 (1656)	Wing C623; Thomason E1650_2; ESTC R209117	20,505	52

privately reproved another for Adultery And shall I my self commit the same or the like Sin How then could I do this great wickedness and sin against God Gen. 39. 9. And which is transcendently wicked they commissionated a very Child of Belial who was publikely known guilty of bastard-begetting to debase and vilify me under this Title And furthermore one of the chief Actors in this Villany had been formerly seen and sound Not a word more at this Time upon a Friendly consideration CHAP. XII The Ninth Matter in Question THe Ninth Matter of the Appeal breaks forth These Children of the Serpent which cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman in the Revel 12. 15. Revelation that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood Spew out of their filthy mouths that I am a Drunkard I appeal to God And I humbly desire all that know me to consider of this most known Slander and if they be so pleased to weigh the other not-so-much appearing Slanders by the most apparent lightness and falshood of this Of a truth if I be a Drunkard or any way inclinable to be so I must needs be the vilest of Hypocrites For no Man hath Preached more earnestly against Drunkenness than my self Yea I am so far transported and bended the other way that I can hardly fasten my affection upon a man after I have seen him drunk I have preached that a Man drunk is not a man but a vile Beast yea worse than a Beast yea worse than the wosst of Beasts yea that no Creature is so much removed and placed out of the circle and capacity of all Good no not the Devil For the Devils believe and tremble James 2. 19. Psal 148 10. And Beasts and all Cattel creeping things and flying fowl are invited to praise God The Asse Toad Owl Woodcock praise God but the drunk Woodcock Owl Toad Asse cannot praise him Men are drunk also with Anger Malice Heresie c. I have preached that a Drunkard is the most horrid Profaner of the best of Cups and that every Cup which he receives above measure reflects dishonour upon that sacred Cup whereof the Apostle The cup of blessing which we bless is 1 Cor. 10 16. it not the communion of the blood of Christ For according to the Logical Rule Primum in unoquoque genere est mensura reliquorum The first and most noble in every kinde is the measure of the rest and if it measureth not it is rejected and dishonored as an appointed measure I have preached that He who delightfully makes others drunk knowing moreover that a man dying in Drunkennes is irrecoverable Some way participates of the Sin against the holy Ghost who for his 1 Tim. 2 4. abundant goodness will have all men to be saved At which time I declared that a Sin of Infirmity is against the Father because Power is his proper Attribute that a Sin of Ignorance is against the Son because his proper Attribute is Wisdom and that a Sin of Malice is against the holy Ghost because Goodness is his proper Attribute and yet not a Sin of every malice but of a certain malice by the which we desiringly contrive the destruction of Souls I yield without pulling that many Preachers contradict their Preaching by their Practise But this is a Sin which cannot be committed except in the view of Men and they who know me must free me And therefore I have often ruminated in my thoughts that these ditch-and-dunghil Saints could not so much harden their faces and consciences unlesse they were actually possessed or obsessed with Devils especially our Saviour saying to the Jews and Pharisees Ye are of your Father the Devil and the lusts Jo. 8. 44. of your Father ye will do he was a murderer from the beginning And while I am full of these thoughts and cite other circumstances to make their appearance I cannot but judg it a singular and peerless piece of heroical charity to command and disengage these Swinish and Dirt-loving Devils from these dirty-throated People though God hath in his Justice suffered their entrance as Christ suffered the devils to enter into the herd of Swine Matt. 8. 31. The good women that joyn'd their Charity in the giving of a Pig cried out afterwards upon sad experience of wildehoggishnesse that the Devil entred with the Pig and why might not I charitably shape the dispossession or ejectiō of him Now let these impious Professours know that Sin is either such as presently discovers it's malice in the very Act of which foul stamp is Drunkennesse Swearing Murder or such as discovers not its malice presently of which kind is Lying Deceit Slander these being not discovered ordinarily but after a Turn of Time and as it were at the second rebound and perhaps never And that he who refrains himself only from the first desires to please man those being exposed to the Sense but he that abstains from all studies to please God and is conformed to him O thou Searcher of Searchers Search these dark-hearted and fearless though trembling Lyars with candles punish these Zeph. 1. 12. proud yet ignorant contemners of Truth and Learning that are setled on the lees of Herefie and Passion The Conclusion REader I have liv'd here to hear the most sacred Trinity denyed the Incarnation of Christ most sordidly vilified the holy Ghost rejected the holy Scriptures trod upon as fabulous the Immortality of the Soul abandoned Heaven and Hell thrust out of the world little innocent Infants exil'd from the Covenant and almost all helps of divine Worship like the Goods of the House called the Agrigentine Gally ejected I have heard it asserted by some that all Things come by Nature and by others that when they being Saints pray for a supply of their wants mony is presently brought by a miraculous Hand and found by them on their Tables These are Seekers I have seen the Turkish Alcoran Englished and a Book which is called Prae-Adamitae and affirms that there were many Generations of people before our Adam though burned at Paris yet here taught to speak English and held forth to the People I have had some conference with a Man in white that pretended he came down from Heaven and spake the Language used there I have met with two Womens-taylors who professed themselves to be the two witnesses in the Revelation Rev. 11. 3. I have heard most contradictory Untruths preached in every place against other Churches and the proceedings have been agreeable and of purpose contradictory And I have found the Ministers most childishly and most grosly ignorant of transmarine wayes and Doctrines I have beheld a most horrible Inundation of Hell it self vomiting up all the old loathed and abominable heresies amongst us the Devil not fighting singly now as in the Dayes before us against the sacred Articles of the Creed in order as they have place but acting a most dolefull Tragedy of Confusion and making a most fierce Assault and a most terrible Onset upon all the said Articles together and in one bold Adventure heaving at the whole Fabrick of Christ's blessed Name and Religion as if the Plot of Hell were wholly to devest the Royal and Celestial Maid of her Dowry I have seen even the very first-born of all the rest and the truly-masculine Spirits smother'd in these Waters of Affliction And I fear that all the Plagues of Egypt are coming My desire and appetite is great and I am hungry beyond expression But I cannot fill my belly with these hogs-husks Luk 15. 16. I have born the shock of a thousand slanders thrown upon me by the Dregs of People even such as were lately broken and are in the confusion of these Times newly souldred and set up again I have been miserably wrought upon as a meer Scholar and fallaciously entangled in obligations against my self by a Brother who presents a godly shew to the people and builds upon my Blood and Ruins Behold how good and how pleasant it is for Psal 133 1. Brethren to dwell together in Vnity This is the first part of the last Gradual Psalm or Song of Degrees saving one The last sings thus Behold bless ye the Lord all ye servants Psal 134 1. v. 2. of the Lord which by night stand in the house of the Lord. Lift up your hands in the Sanctuary and bless the Lord. This is the last highest perfection upon earth wherewith I would be gladly perfected that my last and highest Appeal may be freely fully answer'd from heaven these Gradual Psalms as they keep their ranks and Order teaching more and more perfection My last English words in this Treatise shall be the text of my first Sermon preached in England Come out of her my People Rev. 18. 3. that ye be not partakers of her sins and that ye receive not of her plagues Vivat Dominus PROTECTOR noster FINIS

is great want of a sound Principle But as the wise Physician coming to a sick-man first examines his Tongue because the Evil of the Body there quickly discovers it self so the corrupt souls of these Night-born Mushroms in Religion these Glow-worm-Lights soon appear in their foul tongues with the which they lash and beat down all that walk besides their new Adder-haunted pathes with a purpose to set up themselves and their most impure pretended Purity Yea with these their Evil Tongues which are set on fire of Hell they set on fire the course of Nature and James 3. 6. moving all Things which are in the World being the Theater of Nature out of their natural and proper Courses render the World the very Suburbs of Hell Against these I appeal to Thee O Thou who art the living God and the natural Matth. 16. 16. Coloss 2 3. Father of him in whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge For his dear sake Arise and in thy Wisdom and according to thy Knowledge Plead my cause I poor Man know that we may not call thee to witness in a false Matter much less in such a Matter appeal to thee as a Judge Concerning the Matters of Faith all Antiquity thy present Church and thy own Word witness for me With reference to the Matters of Fact speak thou for me or against me and relieve my Conscience which cannot speak beyond my hearing And here I will boldly stand-up and with a Christian confidence and in the Power which I received from thee pronounce the sacred Verses with which they used in the Primitive Church to chase away the Noon-day Devils Let Psal 68. 1. ver 2. God arise let his enemies be scattered let them also that hate him flee before him As smoke is driven away so drive them away as wax melteth before the fire so let the wicked perish at the presence of God CHAP. IV. The Appeal with a finger directed to the first Matter in Question THe first Matter of the Appeal is I affirm That these our New Lights and walking Lanthorns are a notable part of the Wandring and Separating people of the last daies concerning whom the Scripture is so various and so wonderfully admonishing These bold people deny it My Reason is If these be no part of those people we shall never sufficiently know where when or how to discover such a people and all the Scripture-Lessons handed to us for that purpose shall vainly fall to the Ground and a foul aspersion be cast upon God the Author of Scripture as insufficient in his admonishments And that which animates my Reason is the most exact Conformity which these people have with the many Discoveries and characters made and given of Wanderers and Seducers in holy Scripture Here it is excellently worthy our Observation that Scripture is scarcely so various and wonderfull in any Matter as in this For first Scripture commands Thus saith the Lord Stand ye in the waies and see Jerem. 6. 16. and ask for the old paths where is the good way and walk therein and ye shall find rest for your Souls The old Latin Bible reads Vetus Interpres State super vias Stand ye upon or over and above the waies that is take a view survey of all waies that ye may discern between the old waies and the new but amongst the old paths ye shall find the good way wherein ye must walk that your Souls may rest in God as in their proper center Secondly Scripture intreats Now I Rom. 16 17. beseech you brethren mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned and avoid them For they that are such serve not our v. 18. Lord Iesus Christ but their own belly and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple Mark them that is observe them to avoid them or if ye please mark them nigro carbone with a black coal or know them for black Sheep Thirdly Scripture exclames and makes an out-cry O Timothy keep that which is committed to thy trust avoiding 1 Tim. 6. 20. prophane and vain bablings and oppositions of Science falsely so called which some v. 21. professing have erred concerning the faith The Apostle cries out as men do when they warn a Friend that is near the mouth of a deep pit or in some other great danger of Destruction Fourthly Scripture gives warning concerning future Times and Prophesies In the last daies perillous times shall 2 Tim. 3. 1. v. 2. v. 3. v. 4. come For men shall be lovers of their own selves boasters proud blasphemers Without natural affection truce-breakers false accusers O the divine Truth of sacred Scripture heady high-minded Having a form of godliness but denying the v. 5. power thereof from such turn away For v. 6. of this sort are they which creep into houses and lead captive silly women laden with sins led away with divers lusts ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of v. 7. the truth Behold a most lively Picture of our captive-silly-sin-laden-led-away-lustful-everlearning-ignorant women Again For the time will come when they will 2 Tim. 4. 3. not endure sound doctrine but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers having itching ears And they shall v. 4. turn away their ears from the truth and shall be turned unto fables This Prophecy is made History amongst us Also S. Jude Jude v. 17. But beloved remember ye the words which were spoken before of the Apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ How that they told you v. 18. there should be mockers in the last time who should walk after their own ungodly lusts These be they who separate themselves sensual v. 19. having not the Spirit These mockers and Separates pretend that they have the Spirit but St. Iude declares that they are sensual and have it not Fifthly The Scripture exhorts Ye therefore beloved seeing ye know these 2 Pet. 3. 17. things before beware lest ye also being led away with the errour of the wicked fall from your own stedfastness But grow in v. 18. grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ to him be glory both now and for ever Amen The Apostles commonly end their Epistles with this Matter that they may imprint it the more into the Hearts of those unto whom they write And St. Jude But Jude v. 20. ye beloved building up your selves on your most holy faith praying in the Holy Ghost Keep your selves in the love of God looking v. 21. for the mercie of our Lord Iesus Christ unto Eternal life This Faith must be the first and most ancient in it's Order or it cannot be the most holy Faith Sixthly The Scripture awakes our memory which applies it self to past Things Remember therefore how thou hast Revelat. 3. 3. received and heard and