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A14660	The English pharise, or religious ape Being the weekes worke of a poore vnlearned professor of the gospell of Christ, zealously and truely checking the counterfeit professor, but open persecutor of Christs true doctrine and disicpline. By Iohn Walker, dwelling at Leeds in Yorkshire.	Walker, John, dwelling at Leeds in Yorkshire.	1616 (1616)	STC 24962; ESTC S102097	38,058	238

Doe not forget but keepe in minde alwaies God to feare Let not cōceit withdraw your minds from that pure Word of God For if ye doe ye shall sure taste of his most heauie rodde To all true Christians And now at last a word or two vnto my brethren deare Who honour God and loue his Word his holy name to feare Goe on with speed and courage great your time it is but short And shew your selues in loue and each others to exhort peace Then he that bought vs deare will and meet vs in the cloudes come With Angels bright full cleare in to call vs forth of mouldes sight Then will Christ say Come blessed and stay on my right hand mine Yee lou'd me well ye sed the poore and here now ye shall stand Where wee shall raigne for euermore his glorie for to see Who hath redeem'd vs from our sins and now hath set vs free To him be praise let vs giue thankes in honour of his name Then happy we but cursed he that doth refuse the same A Prayer before meate MOst louing Father grant vs wee humbly beseech thee such patient spirits of humilitie that our bodies and soules beeing truely sanctified and fed by thy heauenly graces may be so freed f●…om that erroneous spirit of disobedience and false accusations that liuing heere in thy feare wee may hereafter depart in thy fauor and that for thy Sonne Christ Iesus sake Amen A Thanks-giuing after meate MOst mercifull Father wee yeeld thee hartie thanks for feeding our mortall bodies with these thy good creatures Lord continue thy blessings vnto vs still and so free our hearts from that high conceite of vaine glorie that our bodies and soules being continually sanctified by thy powerfull spirit of humilitie may still liue in thy fauour and heereafter depart in thy fauour for thy blessed names sake Amen LOrd protect our most gracious King and Queene and that hopefull progenie from the cruell rage of Satan and all his wicked instruments and grant wee most humbly beseech thee that his Highnes and his continuing in a godly feare may liue to praise thy most holy name vntill the comming againe of Iesus Christ and that for his owne names sake Amen To know a Puritane from a true Christian. IF any desire to know what a Puritane is looke in the second Epistle of Saint Paul to Timothie the third Chapter from the first verse vnto the ninth verse and there yee may plainly perceiue the qualities and conditions both of him and the Pope of Rome with all others of those Antichrists the which haue banded themselues against the Lord and his Anointed and although that they haue gotten themselues painted names yet Saint Paul tels vs and wee must beleeue him That they are mad men out of their wits whose madnesse saith hee is now euident vnto all men 9. verse Heere may the whole world perceiue all such which haue and doe persecute Christ Iesus in his members especially those two monstrous heads the which doe so cunningly labour in sheepes clothing the Pope and the Puritane Now if any desire to see Iesus Christ in his members which is the true Church of God looke from the ninth verse vnto the end of the Chapter and there ye may behold the true signe of the Sonne of Man where ye may perceiue all the elect faces of Gods children in that spirituall glasse of immortalitie especially his Euangelicall face of whom it may truely be said That he hath knowne the Scriptures of a child I meane our most gracious King whom the Lord of his infinite mercy for his honour and the good of his Church doth by his vnsearchable prouidence now protect amongst vs therfore most blessed hee and his who shall dwell in euerlasting peace and neuer die Farewell vnto the whole world FINIS Mat. 24. 29. Mat. 24. 21. 2. Pet. 2. 4. 2. Tim. 3. 8. Psal. 120. verse 5. Mat. 2. 9. Psal. 139. Psal 139. 21 ●…2 Matth. 7. 10 Mark 4. 24.

mee is against mee Mat. 12. 30. And Saint Iohn saith There are many Antichris●…s whereby we know that it is the last time I. Ioh. 2. 18. in the beginning of the next verse he saith They went from vs but they were not of vs. Now if any would know who these specially are which are against CHRIST and so as Saint Iohn saith become Antichrists Saint Paul Saint Peter and Saint Iude prophesying of these last times plainely describe and haue set them down by their qualities and conditions all agreeing as it were with one consent saying that they are spirits of disobedience as appeareth in the thirteenth to the Romans and second verse and in the second of Peter the second Chapter and the tenth verse And in Iudes Epistle the eighth Verse Now Saint Iude goeth on farther agreeing with Saint Iohns words and saith in the nineteenth verse that they haue separated themselues vpon which words of these two blessed Apostles Saint Iohn and Saint Iude I gather and finde that there is no sect vnder the whole cope of heauen which can so iustly deserue the title of this seuered imputation as this Sect now resident amongst vs commonly called Puritanes For although the Pope of Rome is not onely a disobedient spirit but likewise deserueth the highest roome amongst the Antichrists yet to say properly hee is gone from vs would but proue an improper speech because hee neuer was of vs now for this our elder brother it may truely and properly bee said how that hee is gone from vs for agreeing in this word onely in Christ may truely be said that he was of vs. Now the question is how and why he is gone from vs but the question is needelesse For who seeth not how that vaine glory and the very darknesse of his owne conceite hath so bewitched him that as Saint Paul saith hee hath but a shew of godlinesse denying the power therof 2. Tim. 3. 5. that as the dogge who had the substance but in his mouth seeing the shaddow in the water snatcht thereat and solost both euen so hath he done for hauing the substance no lowersettled then in his mouth spying some outward obseruations in that waterie ayre of his owne conceit hath leaped thereat so farre from Christ that according to the Prophet Esayes speech who saith They come neere mee with their mouth and honour mee with their lips but their heart is farre from mee Esai 29. 13. So that like hatefull Esau hauing sold his birth-right for meere vanitie Gen. 25. ●…4 is now become such a disobedient spirit and so fleshly minded as Saint Peter and Saint Iude saith 2. Pet. 2. 10. that he is not afraid to speake euil of dignities and despise Dominion Iude the eight verse who resisting power as Saint Paul saith resisteth the ordinance ordained of God Rom. 13. 2. So that it may be gathered by these blessed Apostles and finding it true by wofull experience that as Saint Iohn and Saint Iude say he being gone from vs in separating himselfe is now become such a sect that who seeth not how that both by his life doctrine hee doth nothing else but breake that vnion which ought to bee betwixt the members of Christ so that it may most truely bee said of him and al the rest of this sect especially that according to S. Iudes words They are become but wandring Starres Iude verse 13. being as our blessed Sauiour saith Starres fallen from heauen Mat. 24. 29. who resting themselues in their owne imaginations may truely be said to fall from Christ. Who hath by their disobedient practice euill conuersation darkened the Gospel ment by the Sunne and likewise smothered loue ment by the Moone who with their accusing and condemning Iudgements in their doctrin against the wounded members of Christ cause the very powers of Heauen to shake This interpretation was reueiled vnto mee by the Spirit of God I am no Scholler at all as your Honour knoweth and therefore not fit to diue into these secret mysteries I am only a poore man but yet not destitute of Gods Spirit euen on whom that old prouerbe is fallen None so w●…e begone As first a man and then none And therefore being in my priuate chamber musing of the causes of the sinfulnesse of this age many things came into my minde and amongst the rest I was induced to write and yet not knowing what to write the spirit suggested these things vnto mee the which I haue presumed to offer vnto your Honours view and although vnworthy to present such a weake thing vnto your iudicious eye yet for his cause who hath emboldned me I humbly intreat and craue your honourable fauor but to cast your eye thereon wherein nothing can bee found but the instruments of Sathan stil prosecuting their owne imaginations in persecuting the poore and despised members of IESVS CHRIST who by their life doctrine Gods Name is so greatly dishonored and loue and charitie so smothered that the Kingdome of Christ is hindered both in particular and in general but as that worthy Apostle Saint Paul faith Their madnesse beeing now euidently knowne vnto all men I hope they shal preuaile no longer 2. Tim. 3. 9. And thus may your Honour see and the whole world perceiue how that God who sitteth aboue hath alreadie decreed that in despite of Pope Puritan and all the rest which withstand Iesus Christ his Anointed that his Maiestie who loueth peace shall by Gods protection liue a peaceable time amongst vs and as he hath protected and deliuered him from many dangers will continue his loue vnto him and his and keepe them safe vnder the shaddow of his wings and hereafter will that God of peace carrie him by his blessed Angels into euerlasting peace vnto which peace God of his infinite mercie bring both you and yours for his honour and blessed names sake Amen I most humbly take my leaue and rest at your Honors command IOHN WALKER TO THE CHRISTIAN READER GENTLE or vngentle Reader I am to tell thee no strange thing onely to tell thee of that which hath been from the beginning which is now at this present and which shall be vnto the worlds end how that as Esau hated his brother Iacob in the beginning of the world how that the Israel of God is hated still and that the members of Christ shall be hated so long as the Sunne and Moone indureth Faithfull Christian I was enboldened by the Spirit of G O D to write this little Booke for thy good it was intended chiefly for thy profit and so many as l●…ve the peace of Sion And whereas by Gods goodnesse wee are liuing in the very latter ende of the world and left here by Gods prouidence as a very few Sheepe amongst many Woolues I haue onely by the helpe of Gods Spi●… it set down vnto thy view not only what great danger thou art in but likewise let thee see how that thou mayest escape the same And