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A44783	The beast that was, & is not, & yet is, looked upon: or, The bo-peeping beast pointed at: or, He that hideth himself hunted because of whom truth complaineth, and is spoken to by Pope and Prelate, by Presbyter, by Independent, by Quaker, by Baptist: together with her several answers to them all. Also one description of the beast. Also the coming forth and progress of the beast hitherto. Also an epistle to magistrates and law-givers, likewise, to take off prejudice if any be. Two epistles, one to the reader, and another to the Christian reader. VVith a true reproof to W.S. a Quaker, who in his book called The lying spirit in the mouth of the false prophet, wherein he endeavours to make men believe that he had answered H.H. his book, called The doctrine of the light within the natural man leading to eternal life, examined by Scripture-light.	Howet, Enoch.	1659 (1659)	Wing H3151; ESTC R215400	46,109	67

Lord and saviour Rev 15 3 if thou mean to sing his praises in heaven and thou hast no other weapons but the word of thy testimony and the blood of the Lamb and wo wil be to them that sight in Christs quarrel with any other weapons the one is to keep out subjects and spirit of Abaddon who fight with carnal weapons and provoking temptations to destroy one-another which you wil easily see if you compare the 38 of Ezek 10 with Rev 20 8 thy heart being sprinkled with the blood of the Lamb they would destroy thee too if this blood did not ke●p them out but no child of God can be destroyed though his body perish when his heart is held up in its rejoycing delight in God prisons and enemies and all persecution being but keyes to open the hear to God more abundantly and messengers to bring Gods presence into it to keep his heavenly court there then thou wilt not be provoked at thy enemies further then to pittie them and pray for them and do them good the other is the Scriptures which is the word that Christ thy Captain fought this beasts spirit with when he bare testimony against him with it is written and that is the word of the testimony it is written will find all his members out it will approve the proved perfect way of God and discover every false way and that thou and I may walk in the fear of God and comforts of his spirit with the Churches of Christ Acts 9 31. and also in the comfort of the Scripures our way being there recorded Rom. 15 4 we behaving our selves wisely in a perfect way waiting for the coming of the Lord Jesus to us Psal 101 2 may walk with a perfect heart is the desire of thy companion in the faith and under the cross of Christ H H To the Reader REader if thou hast a desire to take him in a snare that reproveth in the Gate Esa 29 21. and endeavoureth to make ie matter for thy hating or persecuting spirit to work upon that these things are written against thee as the Pharisees did against my master Christ unworthy I to call him so yet he having given me grace to be faithful and commanding his loving kindness into my heart and opening my heart to receive his father and himself and ovvned me and caused me to ovvn him I am bound to tell thee that thou mayest shevv thy self of the Pharisees spirit and as one of them by so doing But the children of truth follovving the example of their Lord and Lavv-Giver endureth contradictions of sinners Heb. 12.3 vvithout heart-rising-malice or procuring evil or persecution to them but their rule is to love their enemies pray for them that persecute them the Scripture cannot shevv any Disciple that ran to the Magistrate for help against any disputant the Disciples of Christ have all one spirit even the same that Steven had that the gain-sayers could not resist the vvisdom of it and not the Magistrates svvord at their call neither dare they lay it upon the right eye of their enemies that they neither dare look upon nor speak truth because of it Zach. 11.17 though it be the gain-sayers portion yet it is not from Christs Disciples if they should not be inslaved that are fed and maintained by the Magistrate they could not be idle shephards but vvould break through all difficulties to look upon the light though it cost them vvhatsoever harm the svvord that lieth upon their eye could do them Truth and those that are of it begotten are vvilling to come to the light to have their practises and opinions manifested for it delights to be exactly searched and examined and the more contradictions are endured and the current of them not stopped the more it shineth I advise thee to understand that this little book is not written against any persons but such as are ticntured with the spirit of that beast it is a hunting to discover for this spirit cannot be attributed to Presbyterian or Independant or Quaker or Baptist no not to Pope and Prelate alone or at all except they have the acts and instruments of cruelty mentioned by them which are the cognisance of the fourth beast that hath no certain creatures form Dan. 7.7 as the other of the three had but was dreadful and terrible to shew it was a persecutor it had great Iron teeth ten horns which are instruments of cruelty it brake in peices devoured and stamped the residue viz. all but it self here is acts of cruelty indeed O how like this beast is those religious people that would destroy all religions but themselves by the Magistrates hand for non-conformities sake to themselves but this beast is in every place yea in the very Temple of God 2. Thes 2.1 and wheresoever there is either power of man spirited to be Abaddon and Apollons subjects or of spirit that opposeth either spirit or form that agree together in the true witness and worship of God or wheresoever that opposing spirit maintaineth his breath there will some time or other appear the Tallands or the ten horns or the stamping power or some deceivableness of unrighteousness that is in them that perish yea though it be the very subtilty of him that can transform himself into an Angel of light and these are all members of that self hiding beast Wheresoever or among what people soever this beast hath lost his honour in one form he taketh up another yea and rather then fail of his purpose denyeth all formes so that it may be said he was and upon his hiding himself he is not there where he was as visibly and formally the same and yet is the same spirit of that beast that ruleth in the children of disobedience that alwayes either opposeth the plainness or the spiritualnesse of Christs commands one while saying they are too low or foolish or carnal as water baptism c. for those that look after spiritual light to one another while exalting a false form another while added form without either spirit or life and thus he playeth bow-peep appearing on the one side and on the other here and there when and where he is discovered changing his form or peeping out without any form and it is apparent that he ascendeth out of the bottomless pit because no rule that Christ hath given in his word can measure him he dsiclaimeth that when it would discover him and then telleth you that the place he cometh from is the movings of a spirit and in this it is bottomless because no right reason nor measuring line can declare where or what or when this spirit will make his progress or try his work that refuseth all tryal but himself These things considered let not the Clergy be enraged that this writing hunteth after this beast if it be not amongst the Clergy or Presbitery in England it may be it wil be found in Rome and some other land let them help me to

Luk. 17. the 5. first ver where after the position laid down in the 2 first ver in the 3 following ver he thus applyeth Take heed to your selves as if he should say Here will be a dangerous temptation If thy brother trespass against thee rebuke him if he repent forgive him if he trespass against thee seven times in a day and seven times in a day turn again to thee and say It repenteth me thou shalt forgive him Where note that the offenders heart is not to be judged by the offended God allows thee nothing but his tongue to judge of in this case it may be his heart may more melt afterwards then at the first turning by the offended's tenderness or other means and the offended ought from bare judgment to forgive him if he do it as his duty observing Christs rule his heart may be opened with more love and tenderness to the Offender afterwards also then at the first turn However it is better to walk in self-denyal in this case and observe Christs rule then to satisfie thine own offended spirit however if thy brothers heart and tongue should not agree in his repentance God hath not made thee a judg of evil thoughts Jam. 2.4 And the Apostles answered The Lord increase our faith which answer proves they had great need of help to strengthen their faith to this purpose A sixth Caution Take heed of this Doctrine That Saints do not serve God for salvation but from the knowledge of salvation This Doctrine not being rightly divided hath been a stumbling block to many Man since Adams fall is corruptly so proud that nothing but the top of excellency will serve his turn and therefore to be as gods knowing good and evil tickled his mind You shall hardly find one in a society men are in this point so heightned by the Tempter that will acknowledge he cometh to God for salvation though it be at the first hour of the receiving into society Men under this temptation are not willing to begin to stand without till the good man of the House be risen up Luk. 13.25 but all judge themselves finders from the self-flattering conceit before they have enjoyed the Lord Christ by manifestation Few will own that there may be a condition of darkness in one that feareth God Isa 50.10 They had rather in this temptation compass themselves about with sparks ver 11 as if all had right to baptism only upon that account that is recorded in Act. 10. viz. Who should forbid water that these should not be baptised that have received the Holy Ghost as well as we And those that enquired What shall we do to be saved had no right Act. 2. Though it be certain they received the Holy Ghost after Baptism and also it is certain that at the first the Disciples served Christ as servants though after they were owned by Christ upon a more full account Joh. 15.15 There was a time when Paul knew Christ after the flesh which must needs be for self-ends or good that might come to himself thereby but after that he knew neither man nor Christ any more after the flesh but wholly having his spirit of love and delight exercised upon them to rejoyce in Christ and to serve the creature with the love of Christ shed abroad in his heart I would that all who are in Church-fellowship upon account of Faith and Repentance and have not as yet attained to assurance would with understanding own their condition it would make them give all diligence to make their calling and Election sure 2 Pet. 1.10 Therefore lest Members should split themselves upon this stumbling-block shew your selves workmen that need not be ashamed rightly dividing the word of truth 2 Tim. 2.15 Caution 7. Whereas Disputes hath been formerly viz. about that time the Ranters and Quakers first sprung up some holding it to be their Priviledg but not their Duty to serve the Lord I advise thee to abolish this Dispute from thy Societies and from your particular spirits for it is the greatest Priviledge that can be to have a heart united to fear God's Name whilst they walk in God's truth being instructed in His way Psal 86.11 Here is no liberty from Duty to walk in God's wayes and in his truth and yet a heart united by God and that to fear His Name and from this very act is David set at liberty to praise God's Name Psal 86.12 13. I demand whether it be not a Saints Priviledge to have a heart enlarged by God and yet it is then to run the way of Gods Commandments Psal 119.32 viz. enlarged and set at liberty from the pit of corruption Isa 38. from the horrible pit Psal 40.1 to be bound to Gods love and wisdom who hath provided Commandments that he knows serveth to unite thy heart to God he hath commanded nothing but righteous things which are according to the Divine Nature that thou art or art to be partaker of 2 Pet 1.4 and thou art or art to be joyned to God and one Spirit that is to say the breathings love desire delight of God is to be thine and thy souls delight to breath in them and thus thou art in union with God in Christ Jesus so that the same things are now commanded by the Law of the spirit of Life Rom. 8.2 which was by the Law of Sin and Death viz. it had been Sin and Death to thee if thou hadst not done those Commandments which the Law of the Spirit of Life hath enabled thee to do but they are a Law still and now having a heart set at liberty the Commandments which were before a burden is now not made grievous by love and if the love of God be a Saints Priviledge it is nothing less then to bind us to our Duties for this is the love of God that we keep his Commandments and His Commandments are not grievous to us 1 Joh. 5.3 Lo here is no freedom from Duty Christ Jesus who said If the Son make you free you are free indeed Joh. 8.36 said also If ye love me keep my Commandments Here you see that love bindeth the freest people in the world to their Duty of obedience Joh 14.15 And when Christ proclaimed his yoke to be easie and his burden light He did not alter it from being a yoke and a burden Mat. 11.30 but it is a sweet burthen when there is nothing save a constraining love upon thy heart it is a sweet yoke when thou art fastened to Christ Jesus and his Saints to tread one trace by love in keeping such Commandments as that the things commanded Christ and his Saints and thou in the unity of spirit loveth upon account of the Commanders love and wisdom how can such Commandments be grievous 1 Joh. 3.4 But if any should further still contend for liberty in this Case let them know that sin is the transgression of the Law vers 8. and whosoever committeth sin is of the Devil 1 Joh.

2.4 and let all who think they know God whilst they despise that which He and His Disciples commanded and practised let them remember this word written in 1 Joh. 2.4 He that saith he knoweth God and keepeth not His Commandments is a Lyar. As from this opinion that was sometimes in the Church I desire it lurk not secretly there yet the Ranters and Quakers sprung so also do now those who are zealous in decking their bed of Love which they poor deceived ones under pretence of peace-offerings and reconcilement to God in performing the very Vows of their souls Prov. 7.14 seek to draw Proselites in a bed of solace with love being so enabled as they think and covered sufficiently and beautified as with gifts and graces vers 16. that they can hide themselves and others from the reproof of Truth whilst they are workers of iniquity though they say they preach and cast out devils in Christs Name c. He that knoweth their works will call them so Mat. 7.22 23. And also they have perfumed their bed with divers spices Prov. 7.17 and it is too too true they hold forth the likeness of some of those spices but not all that Jesus Christ in his Visitation of His Spouse cometh perfumed unto His Spouse-Bed Cant. 3.6 7. and these in the good Mans absence will have other pleasures and lusts then to obey their Lord they have contracted a hatred in His absence to his Rule and Government and will not have it Luk. 19.14 and thus these poor deceived ones will be cut off for making a perfume and smelling to it in other places then where God and his People meet Exod. 30.35 to 38. which is in God's wayes while they rejoyce in working Righteousness Isa 64.5 viz. in ruleful obedience where love to Christ is proved by keeping his Commandments and the love of God and Christ together with their manifestation is promised These Libertines tell them of walking in the wayes that Christ and His Disciples walked in and they will reply If God let them see it they will obey May not Solomon's harlots say as well when the good Man of the house is come home who will instruct her for that is Christs practise with His Spouse Psal 32 8. she will forsake all her wooed Proselites and cease to heal defend and cover them and will no more counterfeit a perfume to perswade them that Christs favour of his oyntments is amongst them but but will come to the good man and walk with Him in obedience to His Commandments and abide in His love is He hath kept His Fathers Commandments and abides in His love Joh 15.10 So that if it be truth as surely it is they refuse to obey when the good Man of the house is come home they must then see it though they shut their eyes and blame his absence for their disobedience whose presence would let them see and with this excuse fall fast asleep in the arms of him who rules in the children of disobedience whilst he furnisheth them with all counterfeit evidences of good as if God were in their hearts all this while 2 Thes 2.4 the words are these So that he AS GOD sitteth in the temple of God shewing himself that he is God And the first evidence that he furnisheth them with may be this viz. That Christ hath put His beauty upon them for the beauty of Christ may be put on one and that by Christ and yet they play the harlot with it Ezek 16.14 here is the work of the Prince of the air in a disobedient heart to find wayes for Israel to disobey God and give up a soul to Lust and so play the harlot even as if she were opening her heart or her legs for Christ to take His pleasure in her and she in Him A second evidence of him who rules in the hearts of the children of disobedience is in the pleasure of the Plant which is but a strange slip It must needs be a strange slip if your wayes be not those wayes which Christ and His Disciples walked in for three hundred years after Him your wayes must then be your own and of your own chusing and strange from Christs Isa 36.34 viz. The teacher with pleasure to thee and himself may plant in thy heart with thy consent or with thy soul a disobedient slip strange to Gods word it being not there to be found and for all thy delight thy portion will be desperate sorrow in the end Isa 17.11 12. here is a deceitful work of the ruler in the heart of the children of disobedience 3. He can make you lean upon the Lord and say Is not the Lord amongst us no evil can come to us Mic. 3.11 he can make thee bless thy self in the name of God with confidence of freedom from evil 4. Whilst thou art asleep he can furnish thee with a flattering spirit that causeth thee to dream and healeth thee in thy disobedience and so in your preaching and hearing one another you have nothing but healing and pleasure and love to tell one to another in disobedience whereas he who hath Gods word will preach it faithfully Jer. 23.28 and for his pains shall be cast out of your Societies so unwelcome is the thoughts of obedience to Christs Commandment to those who dream they shall be saved without it Although the true Saint be not only moved to obedience for salvation sake but for loves sake and thus by maintaining that which Christ neither taught nor practised in his worship or at least by gathering of what Christ taught by pieces and snatches and leaving the rest viz. by taking that which will and leaving that which will not serve the lusts of a proud Society that thou mayest hold some union with them thou fightest against the Lyon of God and at the best in this thy dream dost but think thou eatest when Truth it self shall awake thee and thou be convinced of thy disobedience thou wilt find thy self hungry Isa 29.7 8. And if any strive to awake them out of this their dream wherein they have neither Truth nor Reason for their practise they will say Let me alone with my Religion and I will let you alone with yours Whereas if they would not thus harden their hearts but let Judgement come forth to Victory what violent wrestling would there be in them what asking and enquiring would their hearts be filled with what weeping with their faces towards God and his wayes would melt their souls Jer. 50.5 and not asking as now they do with their hearts set against Gods ways to see if they can find any word which if it do meet them it must be by the spirit of delusion mis-interpreted to defend them from obedience to God and his ways Is it not just that these should have strong delusions that they may believe lies 2 Thes 2.11 Will not this properly one day be said unto them Bring forth the blind people that have eyes Isa

compelled maintenance though some of us think our selves happy for having a Levite to our Priest viz. one of those the Clergy were wont to pray for viz. the whole Tribe of Levi by what name or title soever they were dignified or distinguished Judg. 17.13 But because we would not be too far separated from our Mother we love her a little she may strengthen us and we her we would have a little of her worldly esteem though the rude Multitude own us not in time we may be as much honoured for Godliness as our Grandmother and Mother is for their ability to prefer to setled honour and riches and for their flattery ease and lusts but we doubt we have a little of our Mothers pride and willingness to save our skins therefore we will be modestly Godly and that with so much wisdom as may keep as much of our mothers love and our Mothers friends as we can Also we have Pastors of our own chusing and some of us have Pastors that have no Authority from man nor descent from mans Authority yet we have our Grandmother and our Mothers baptism by vertue of the Popes Decree it was given to our Mothers Mother and so we have that from Antiquity and Succession If we should by denyal of that tear our selves from our Ancient Worship and deny the worlds Baptism and unchristian them all at once 〈…〉 we should lose all at once our relation and hopes of worldly promotion Truth speaketh To have a neer Relation to me onely in similitude will not make thee in Union with me to be almost a Christian like Agrippa is to be no Christian Act. 26.28 To be almost in heaven and go no further is never to come there there is many who undertake to counterfeit me but there is no likeness in all things of me but my self but the Counterfeits are in something lame or in something superfluous I agree with all and every command of God in Scripture and there is room for nothing else in me but what Scripture will own The Scriptures of Truth doth not clearly own you the Scripture clearly owneth that upon believing men and women ought to be and were baptized and walk together in Church-order of this there is many witnesses throughout the new Testament as Act. 8. and Act. 2 c. but not one witness that unbaptized persons walked in Church order or that Infants was commanded to be or was baptized of the first there is certainty neither thou nor all the Learned Rabbies in the world can deny it of the second there is but a May-be and that from mans inventions I charge you all and all that reads this writing as you fear God to search the Scripture and see if in this particular you can attain to a better proof then a May-be if thou canst not be ashamed and repent for I look at thee to have more shame in thee then either thy Grandmother or thy Mother and presume not above what is written you need do no more then Scripture warranteth you it hath enough in it if observed in Letter and Spirit to furnish the man of God throughly to perfection and all good works 2 Tim. 3.17 then lay aside all your Ordinances that are grounded upon May-be though the wisest men that ever were in the world invented them O consider God will take Vengeance on inventions though they be of Moses Aaron and Samuel Psal 99.6 to vers 8. Consider also that mans inventions diverteth him from his Uprightness Eccles 7.29 And whereas yon tell me of chusing Pastors your selves let me tell you Pastors and Teachers are given by God and not chosen by men and except it be found in Scriptures of Truth that man is directed to chuse any such Officers take heed lest thou erect an Idol of thine own invention in so doing instead of following Gods direction God knoweth well thou canst nor chuse as God chuseth for man looketh at the outward appearance viz. a man that delivereth well-composed words but the Lord knoweth the heart take heed lest those that thou hast chosen building upon their choice silence those Pastors which God hath given and that are gifted by God Thou art no more able to chuse a Pastor for thy self then a company of School-boyes are to chuse a wise learned Master therefore God no where in Scripture put the choice of Pastor into thy hands I advise thee take it not It is true that a company of men who have followed Christ in the Regeneration in Faith Repentance Baptism and in the Form have the Spirit and Life have heard and learned of the Father and have the Son revealed in them even as the outward skin of the body and the inwards as Heart Mind Members are all imbodied and presented to our Understanding in one Body so Form and Power living Faith and Repentance and prevailing Prayer which makes us as Israel viz a Prince prevailing with God like as the Tree and Fruit the Sap and the Rinde so Gods Order and Life are not to be separated but are one in another brought forth The Form obeyed being the Creatures Duty Life in the Form being Gods owning or acceptance in the Creature like a golden Sceptre stretched forth by God and like a seal of God set upon the creatures heart which maketh his heart merry the joy of the Lord being his strength Ephes 1.13 Eccles 8.10 A company of such men I say that so have entrance into the Kingdom of God viz. that have submitted to his Government receiving the new birth of water and the Spirit in baptism and all the following commands recorded in the written word that great Charter being their Law without mixture of mans inventions and thereby owning Christ to be their Lord and themselves to be inchartered Citizens he ruling over them not like those recorded in Luke 19.14 by the same Charter have authority to chuse two sorts of Officers for ordering of the outward man but a Pastor is a higher thing it is a gift of God a heart-feeding gift viz Bishops and Deacons the one to keep the Church in order the other to take care of the poors necessities to relieve them whose bowels of tender-heartedness have appeared to their natural Relations whose wisdom hath been fruitful in governing by love these may be chosen by mans Election if there be any that have the qualification the Scripture layeth down not else as in Tit. 1.6 If any be blameless c. There is no haste in chusing what God hath not marked out If God hath not given thee men of such qualifications as he approveth on thou hadst better be without Governors longer then to set up Antichrist in Christs chair In this sense He that believeth maketh not haste Isa 28.16 viz. to act without his Guiders rule The name of a Bishop hath the nature of his Office included into it which is ruling and oversight aptness to teach is but a qualification that any other Member may have

slaughter Zach. 11.3 4. where the howling of the shepherds and the roaring of Lyons are mentioned both together where Israels Clergy are reputed pitiless slayers and fellers of the flock and hold themselves not guilty saying Blessed be the Lord for I am rich ah poor England how dangerous are acts of cruelty amongst thy shepherds when they are labourers for license to destroy for Religions sake this was the condition of poor Israel who was sometimes as dear in Gods sight as England when it was at the best Isa 22.25 There is a conspiracy amongst her prophets in the midst thereof like a roaring Lyon they have devoured souls they have taken the treasures of their pretious things they have made many widdows in the midst thereof VVe may also look upon our Clergy how they band together to get if it were possible such Parliament-men as might be as teeth in their heads Christ takes no such care to exalt His Gospel by worldly Magistrates it is apparent that these Priests took no care how many widdows they made or of devouring souls witness our Pulpit-VVar to maintain liberty for themselves to lead soules blindly that were blind to destruction but the pretious things they will bave or else they will sue and distress him that dare not for conscience sake pay them for devouring souls and many poor labouring men and widdows and children that are constrained to fit with bread and water pottage whilst their labours and profits are required to feed them and cloath them with the pretious things of our Nation Is this love and pity the Law of Heaven where the servants in the Gospel should live upon giving and receiving no no it is the contending and distressing Law of hell rather take heed good People of such shepherds if you once come to have a glimpse of them search and look farther for if you delight in such hear and observe that he that loveth as well as he that maketh a lie is without the City of Salvation Rev. 22.15 Of the enmity of a Spirit something like this Beast I found in the mouthes of some of our Lincolnshire Clergy who though they had not forty shillings a yeer according to the Statute of Free-hold were swarming to chuse the Knights of the Shire I desire that any of the rest when Truth provoketh them and will not be found to serve their turns be of a better spirit for these could better digest lying then to be reproved for lying About thirty years agon when I was persecuted by the Bishops wandring from my dwelling place I came to Spalding where I did remain a little time where being in the company of two or three Christians I had occasion to look upon the 139 Psal we being only talking together I did read I am wonderfully and fearfully mad instead of I am wonderfully made I not at all being preaching then as the Lyar did report some that failed in their Duty of taking things in the best part reported it notwithstanding at the same time I did correct my self and own the true reading and this report being gotten into the nest of the Clergy and there hatched by hatred scorn brought forth this enlargement that I should preach it as a Doctrine But I know not what It came to pass at the chusing the Knights of the Shire upon Jan. 10. a great company of Priests being got together in Lincoln Castle I coming neer where they were one of them comes by me with a boy-like behavior and cryeth I am wonderfully and fearfully mad to which I said nothing and he past into the crowd of them and another either a Priest or one of their dear Berns seeing the first did not provoke me to speak accused me by the name of this fellow for preaching of that Doctrine but what I could not gather his words were so confusedly uttered onely wonderfully and fearfully mad for there is none of them agreeth in words what the Doctrine was and so turned his back to whom I answered Art thou not ashamed to maintain the Priests lies and then turn thy back when thou hast spoken the words but he turning his face and averting the same the Synod of them turned to me with out-facing countenance to whom I said I stand here to maintain the Truth against the whole Synod of you And whereas I might expect something to be said that might make that which they said probably appear first one of them and then another of them cryed Hout him Boyes hout him all the rest standing silent approving for they did not reprove what the two spake Also Mr. Wood Merchant of Boston told me That one that he looked at to be a godly Minister told him That when some cryed a Hall a Hall I cryed a Halter a Halter which here by my pen and heart in the presence of God I deny for I did not speak those words nor any words to the contempt of Mr. Hall nor had ever in my Life an offended thought at the man Observe if the supposed godly of them bend their tongue like a Bow for lies Jer. 9.3 and the active men among them be so inclined to mutiny as the Reader may judge how dangerous such words were at such a time and place Are they not like to be Members of the aforesaid Beast and like that company of Priests aforesaid that muther in the way by consent for these sought my undoing either by Mr. Hall's hands or the multitudes and to stain my repute according to the interpretation of Christ Mat. 5.21 and also guilty of slander Psal 50.20 and making a man an offender for a word Isa 29.20 21. and shall according to that word be brought to nought consumed and cut off if they repent not H. H. The coming forth and Progress of the Beast hitherto THe holy Scriptures foreseeing Devourers for to grow Amongst out of church of Christ a Eph. 2.2 12 Acts 20.30 Doth truly stile such so As Lyon Bore and Wolfe And dumb and greedy dogs That selfness honors beast-like wealth Doth wallow in like hogs In mire yet still fild with fears Their only loved prey By strength of day-spring valiant truth Should taken be away Their Lepord-like with Lyons mouth do grin b Rev. 13.2 And paw of Bear with Dragons strength stretcht out A child of truth in the act of covering Their worrying paw least men should spie Their naked shameless beastial cruelty With Christ sheeps cloathing whil'st they can deceive c Mat. v 15. With that when not they Magistrate ask leave That they may use his sword and then they 'r bold Though inside wolvish nature men behold To tel truth's children that they must not prate But put into their mouths else they will make d Mica 3.5 War against them whom God doth love they hate From somtimes Church of Christ Did Pope and Prelate spring From Pope and Prelate did This Presbyter begin From Presbyter did Independant fly Yet members still of