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A77966	Truth defended. Or, Certain accusations answered, cast upon us who are called Quakers; by the teachers of the world, and the people of this generation. With a cleare discovery, who are the false prophets, and when they came in. And who they are that deny Christ, and that preach another gospel. And who deny the scriptures, churches, ministers, and magistrates, whereby the magistrates and people of this nation may see they justifie that which the scripture condemns, and condemne that which the holy men of God justified. / By a servant of the Lord, whose name in the flesh is, Edward Burrough.	Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.; Howgill, Francis, 1618-1669.	1654 (1654)	Wing B6049; Thomason E808_3; ESTC R207519	16,445	23

Balaam who loved the wages of unrighteousnesse they themselves are the servants of corruption ungodly men turning the grace of God into laciviousnesse and defile the flesh these are murmurers complainers walking after their owne lusts and their mouthes speaking great swelling words having mens persons in admiration because of advantage there be they who seperate themselves sensuall having not the spirit And here againe I charge it upon the Teachers of this age that they are of that generation vvhich came into the world then for they have brought in and doe uphold damnable Heresies telling people that sprinkling Infants with Water is the Baptisme into the Faith and that singing Davids experiences in Rime and Meeter is singing to the glory of God and that a house of stone is the Temple and Church of God these are damnable Heresies and they doe through covetousnesse make merchandise of the people if they can get more money at another place thither they will goe and thus people are their merchandise they walke after the Flesh in the lusts of uncleannesse they walke in pride and in lust and som● of ●hem will be drunke and lye and sweare and talke ●n●●●●ly and they despise the Saints Government and D 〈…〉 for they walke in the wayes of the world in the customes and traditions of men and follow their owne wills And whom the spirit of God governes and hath dominion over followes Christ for their example whose Government and Dominion they are under But they live in pride lust and vanity and according to the Flesh and herein they despise government and dominion and speake evill of this dignity and of the mysteries of God revealed in his saints which they know not nor understand not calling it error they are presumptuous and selfe-willed they have presumed to call themselves Ministers of Christ and all the Townes where they live must serve and be subject to their wills And they are adulterated from God after honour and riches and the vanities of the World and they cannot cease from sinne themselves for they say None must cease from it while they are on the Earth and herein they beguile many soules for till sin be ceased from the soule it is beguiled they have a heart exercised with covetous practises and they follow the way of Balaam and goe for gifts and rewards and love the wages of unrighteousnesse they take money of poore people for sprinkling Infants and for burying the dead which are covetous practises they take money for Henns and Eggs and for Smoake passing up the Chimney which are unrighteous wages and thus they have forsaken the right way the way of God and of all the saints which spoke forth the Scripture and in these things they are servants of corruption and are ●dgodly men and turne the grace of God which shines in their consciences which shewes them their ungodly wayes into laciviousnesse and through their lust they defile the Flesh and many of them will murmure and complaine for want of wages even to spend upon their lusts and they speake great swelling words speaking of the Fame of Christ of his Life and Death and Resurrection but cannot witnesse by the spirit of Christ within them what they speake of him and they have mens persons in admiration because of advantage some of them had the Bishops in admiration and some the King in admiration and now they have others who beare rule in admiration and thus they deceitfully have twined to admire mens persons onely because of advantage many of them have seperated themselves none who are not of their judgement must joyne with them in their worship but neither they nor their seperates have the spirit of the living God but doe deny an infallible spirit and they are sensuall in their wisedome and wayes and practises and these have deceived many even whole Nations And here you see plainely when the deceivers and false Prophets came in they were come and comming in in the Apostles dayes and then was the Prophesie of Christ fulfilling and fulfilled and the Apostles suffered under Tyrants and were put to cruell deaths and then they came in more fully for since the Apostles dayes hath been a great Apostacy and many Formes of worship and wayes of Religion have been imitated from the letter through imaginations and but one generation of Teachers though one above another in the comprehension and sensuall wisedome and at enmity one against another though all in one birth and nature But they are all discovered by the light Prayses from all that know God unto him for ever Since the Apostles dayes hath darknesse been spread over all though the Lord had some which he preserved for himselfe in the middest of Apostacy and darkenesse who the false Prophets are which Christ Prophesied of to every honest heart and single eye may be known Christ said By their fruits should they be knowne And the fruits of the Teachers of the world are plainely made appeare to be the fruits of deceivers and not of the Ministers of Christ none have gathered Grapes nor Figgs from them And thus I have cleared my conscience in the presence of God concerning the false slander and accusation which the Teachers and people of the World doe cast upon us and to that in every ones conscience it is made appeare who they are to whom this accusation justly belongs Woe unto all you who strive against the Lord and justifie that which the holy men of God which spoke forth the Scripture in the Scripture declared against and which condemne that which the holy men of God in the Scripture justified and witnessed for you who live in pride in covetousnesse in double-dealing and in hypocrysie and in the lusts of the Flesh you strive against the Lord God and against the light of God which is in your consciences which shewes you these things to be sinne you resist the drawings of the Father which would draw you by the light to follow the sound Woe and desolation is to come upon all you who will not be taught by the light of Christ which he hath lightened you withall which light all the holy men of God were taught by who gave forth the Scriptures but doe set up Teachers without you such as all the holy men of God the Prophets Christ and his Apostles declared against Oh blinded stiffe-necked people which are not ashamed to call such Ministers of Christ and of the Gospel and by your corrupt wills and Laws to defend them which seeke for their gaine from their Quarter and which feed themselves with the Fat and cloathe themselves with the Wooll and which Preach for hire and divine for money and prepare Warre against them that put not into their mouthes here you justifie such as the Prophets of the Lord were sent to cry against and deny Isayah Ezechiel and Micha to be true Prophets for if you did beleeve that they spoke from the mouth of the Lord the word of the Lord

Christ And here againe I charge all the Teachers and people in the presence of the Lord God who doe deny Christ to be the light in every one which reproves for sin and who are called of men Masters and stand Praying in the Synagogues and goe in long robes and who uphold such things and who take not up the dayly Crosse of Christ but live at liberty in their wills and desires that they are Anti-Christs and that their spirit is not the spirit of the true Christ which dyed at Jerusalem but the spirit of a false Christ and so they are guilty of that themselves whereof they falsely accuse us and the same Christ doe we witnes which the saints of old witnessed whose blood cleansed them from all sin and in whose power they had power over sin death and hell And here again I charge the Teachers and people who say that the saints must not be cleansed from sin nor cease to commit sin while they are on the Earth that the Christ which they possesse is not the Christ which dyed at Jerusalem but a spirit contrary and not the Christ which the saints witnessed and all the people are blinde which cannot see these things Did the true Christ once say He was the light of the World of every man that comes into the World and is that his spirit in the Teachers and Professors now which saith Every man hath not the light of Christ in them Was that the true Christ which said Except you take up my Crosse dayly you cannot be my Disciple and is that his spirit in the Teachers and people that hath its liberty and live in pride in lust and in vanity and their own vvills Was that the true Christ which cryed woe against them that were called of men Master and that had the chiefe place in the Assemblyes and stood praying in the Synagogues c. and is that his spirit in the Teachers and people which act and uphold those things Was that the true Christ which the saints witnessed by whose blood they were cleansed from sin and had power over sin and is that his spirit in the Teachers and people which saith the saints must not be cleansed from sin nor cease to commit sin while they are on Earth Oh blinde and ignorant people who cannot discerne between the true Christ and Anti-christ which is contrary to Christ and which leades now to act and speak contrary to what the true Christ once acted and spoake And no other Gospel do we Preach but that which the Apostle Preached which they received not from nor by man but by the revelation of Jesus Christ which was contrary to man and which suffered by man for the Preaching of it who Preached to the spirit in prison to redeeme the captives and by which the fleshly man was judged in the flesh that man might live according to God in spirit And this Gospel we witnes to have received not from man but by the revelation of Iesus Christ which is contrary to man for which we are persecuted and suffer by man neither doe we speake to the wisedome and reason but we preach to the spirits in prison that the fleshly man may be judged in the flesh that man may live according to God in the spirit this will many witnes with us that by the preaching of our Gospel liberty is brought to the captives and the fleshly man is judged and the spirit which was in prison is set free And here again I charge the teachers of this generation that their Gospel which they Preach is not the Gospel which the saints preached but another Gospel and they are guilty of that themselves whereof they falsely accuse us for they have received their Gospel from man and by man from the Printers and Stationers and are made Ministers of it by the will of man at Schooles and Vniversities and their Preaching is in the will of man a limited time and place neither doe they suffer by man but are set up with man and seed the wisedome and reason of man and the fleshly man is not judged nor the captives redeemed by their Gospel which they Preach here they are accursed which Preach another Gospel according to the Scripture And ye are a blinde and ignorant people which cannot see these things Did they that Preached the true Gospel receive it contrary to the will of man and can it now be received by the will of man Did they which Preached it suffer for it by man and can they now who Preach it be set up by man who lives in the same persecuting nature Did the true Gospel once judge the fleshly man and leade to live according to God in the spirit and do●h it now give liberty to the fleshly man to live after the Flesh in the lusts of it as the Teachers and professors of this generation doe who profes the Gospel but are discovered not to be come to the Law And the Scriptures we own to be a true Declaration of the life which they lived in which spoke them forth and by the same spirit from which they were spoken which we have received doe we set to our Seales that they are true and the Scripture is ours who walke in the life of it proud men spoke it not forth nor they that sought for their gaine from their quarter nor they that Preached for hire nor they that were called of men Master but persecuted them that spoke it forth and denyed it And here againe I charge it upon the Teachers and professors of this generation that they deny the Scripture and are guilty of that themselves whereof they falsely accuse us For they say None must be perfect upon the Earth when as the Scripture declares of such as were perfect And they say None must be free from sinne when as the Scripture declares of such as were free from sinne and were the servants of righteousnesse They say Christ hath not enlightened every one The Scripture saith He is the light of the World and hath lightened every one c. Can they now who live in the same persecuting nature and walke in the same steps as they did which persecuted them who spoke forth the Scripture as the Teachers and people doe owne the Scriptures in truth Their professing of the Scripture is as theirs was which made a great profession of it in the outward appearance but put him to death who had the life and was the substance of it They then as the Teachers of the world doe now denyed the spirit and life which gave forth the Scriptures And the Ordinances of Jesus Christ we owne and witnesse Preaching Praying Baptisme Communion Singing and whatsoever was ordained for his Saints to practice in life and power we witnesse these things in the Eternall substance having passed through the Earthly figures which was but to stand for its time by the Eternall have we been led by the command of it within us and not by

TRUTH DEFENDED OR Certain Accusations answered cast upon us who are called Quakers by the Teachers of the World and the People of this Generation With a cleare discovery who are the false Prophets and when they came in And who they are that deny Christ and that Preach another Gospel And who deny the Scriptures Churches Ministers and Magistrates whereby the Magistrates and People of this Nation may see they justifie that which the Scripture condemns and condemne that which the holy Men of God justified By a Servant of the Lord whose Name in the Flesh is Edward Burrough The Epistle To all you who call your selves Ministers of the Gospel and all People in all relations under what forme of Worship soever in England or in all the World who professe your selves Christians THe mighty day of the Lord is come according as he promised of old and this day is witnessed wherein he is establishing his Mountaine and exalting it above all Mountaines and is gathering his people which have been scattered in the darke and long night of Apostacy which Christ and his Apostles saw comming into the Churches then and hath had dominion long over the World and hath raigned till now and raignes now in all the Professors in all Formes every where But now the time is come wherein the Kingdomes of the World are become the Kingdome of the Lord and of his Christ and thousands witnesse it to the prayse of his everlasting name And therefore the Nations are angry and the Princes of the Earth because Michael our Prince is arisen to pleade with all who make warre against him And now Herod and Pilate and all Ierusalem are in an uproare and Ammon and Amaleck and the Egyptians and the Philistines are joyned now against him And all you who live in Formes and know not the power doe now persecute and joyne your selves together being in the same nature as the persecuters of old which were borne after the flesh And now you sonnes of Bondage and of Hagar are to be cast out and now you are all made manifest that you are in the flesh for all your Bowes are bent and all your Arrowes are shot at a people which are counted by you as the filth of the World and as the off-scouring of all things whom the World calls Quakers in whose Foreheads is Written the name of the living God and unto you I say that make Warre against them and now take part with the Dragon against the Lambe you shall all drinke of the cup of fury and indignation of the Lord And unto the living God who is holy and jealous for his owne glory and his name which hath manifested his minde and will by his Eternall Spirit unto us shall you all bow and stoope For now the Lord hath rent the vayle of the covering which hath beene spread over all the Nations in all Professions and you are all seen by the Eternall Eye which is opened in thousands even all from the highest to the lowest who have stolen and painted your selves with other mens Words And all your Images which you have set up and all your traditions from men in which you have walked are all seene to be stubble and will not abide in the day of the Lord And all your Churches which you have gathered together by imitation from the letter shall all be scattered and there you all are for you all deny revelation and say it is ceased and so you call the letter the light and the Word but with that which was before the Scripture you are seen and judged even with that which shall endure for ever And seeing you have cast reproach upon the name of the God of Heaven and Earth whom we worship and which you call delusion For the truths sake are we moved to lay open your nakednesse that you may be judged by that which you say is your Rule Here in this little Booke thou who hast any honesty in thee or any desire of truth and wilt search the Scripture thou wilt see that all the Teachers of the World in all Formes and all professors ever cryed out who had but the Forme against them who had the life and power as you all doe now against them who Worship God in the Spirit and have no confidence in the flesh And therefore in this following Discourse which is Wretten by the same spirit that gave forth the Scripture thou shalt see who are the false Prophets and who they are that Preach another Gospel and who they are that deny the Scriptures And thou may see when the false Prophets came in and who they are clearely proved to be by their owne Rules And all you who call your selves Magistrates and Christians you may see your selves to hold up that which Christ the Prophets and Apostles cryed out against and persecute them who stand in the counsell of God and them that declare against all the deceipt as the holy men of God did And so you are the Beast which holds up the false prophets and th●se whom the Scripture declareth against God is arisen to dash to pieces all them who withstand him And therefore come out of Babylon and out of all your painted Formes and come to own the first principle which will change your mindes even the light of Christ which he hath enlightened every one withall and by it you shall see what you are doing Now if you deny this you deny the corner stone and you stumble and shall be broken and by that which you call naturall shall all your Image of Gold and silver and all your mixed invented Worship be dashed to peeces and be for the pit Therefore all be silent and speake not evill of th●se things you know not for now you are all seen you who say you are Iewes and are not but are of the Synagogue of Satan and your voyce is knowne for none is turned from the evill of his way and therefore is wrath comming upon you to the utmost A lover of your Soules but am a Witnesse against all your deceipt Francis Howgill WHereas we are accused by the Teachers and People of this generation That we are false Prophets and deceivers and that we deny the Christ which dyed at Ierusalem and that we Preach another Gospel then the Apostles Preached and that we deny the Scriptures and the Ordinances of Iesus Christ and that we hold Free-will and establish selfe-righteousnesse and teach people to act in their owne strength to obtaine life and that we deny Churches Ministers and Magistracy To these false accusations I answer It is no new thing nor no strange thing to the children of light who are seperated from the World and Worldly Worships and from the Works of darkenesse to be accused falsely and to be slandered by being called deceivers and seducers by the generation of chiefe Priests and Pharisees in which generation are the Teachers and Professors of this age who have a Forme of godlinesse but deny the

tradition from the Scripture without us And we deny all such who have taken up these things in their owne wills by conforming the outward man to the outward letter and have not entered in at the doore True Preaching we owne and doe witnesse it which is the Crosse of Christ and in the power of God and it is foolishnesse to the World and its wisedome now as ever it was and we deny all speaking of imaginations from Scripture which is in the wisedome of the World and which stands in the will of man limitted to a set time or day or place Prayer by the spirit and in the spirit we owne and witnesse whi●h is not limitted to a time and place And we deny all the worlds formall customary Preaching and Praying for a pretence Baptisme we owne and witnesse wich is with one spirit into one body into the death of Christ And we deny all Baptismes which are imagined and immitated by conforming the outward man to the outward letter which is but a likenesse of the true Baptisme Communion we live in which is in the light by the spirit which will endure Eternally And we deny the Worlds imitation which is in word and declaration and visible carnall things which will passe away Singing which is with the spirit and with understanding of the Redeemed of the Lord we owne and Witnesse but the Worlds singing in Rime and Meeter proud men singing That they are not pufe in minde and prophane men singing That the Law of God is deare to them this singing we deny for it must be turned into howling the Lord hath said it And here againe I charge it upon the Teachers of the World That they deny the substance and power of what Christ commands his saints to practice by upholding their owne imitations and so deceiving the simple but where the substance is witnessed the figure is indeed and the false imitations are discovered and denyed And mans free-will we doe deny for the will of man shall never enter to God but leades out from God into the lust and into the Flesh and keeps in the power of the Devill And man hath free will unto that which is evill but not to that which is good and all who follow Christ the light of the World must deny their owne wills and take up the crosse of Christ which is to the will and walke in the light contrary to the will in the straite way which leades unto life which is out of the will of man in the will of God which the will of man doth resist and oppose And I charge it upon the Teachers and professors who doe not witnesse the dayly Crosse of Christ that they live in their owne free-will and holds it up and are led by it into pride and covetousnesse and the lusts of the Flesh which stand in the will And here they are guilty of that themselves whereof they falsely accuse us living in their owne free-will and walke not in the dayly Crosse of Christ And selfe-righteousnesse we have denyed and have seen it in the same light which Isayah did to be as filthy raggs and we declare against it and against them which live in it for selfe must not be saved it is accursed from God it is wholly unrighteous and makes the best of actions so and is and must be cast out from God Christ Jesus made manifest and revealed in us is our righteousnesse and selfe is judged and condemned by him who is made unto us righteousnesse nei●her doe we teach people to labour in their owne strength to obtaine life but doe direct people to the light of Christ within them which walking in will be strength to them to leade them to life the light which is of Christ to which we direct all to waite in to be taught by it will leade out of selfe-righteousnesse and from under the power of selfe to witnesse the power of God to leade and to act and to witnesse Christ Jesus revealed the righteousnesse of God And the Church which is in God which is the body of Christ whereof Christ is head we witnesse and are members of it gathered and joyned by the Eternall spirit and not by tradition in the wisedome of man And we deny all the VVorlds Churches whereof they were made members by by visible things without and were gathered by tradition whereof the serpent is head and not Christ and which is the body of Anti-Christ some of whom commit Idolatry in an Idols Temple And the Ministry of this Church we deny for it stands in the will of man and the Ministers of it are such as all the servants of the Lord witnessed against the Churches the Ministry and the Ministers are contrary to God but the Ministry which is to the seed which is out of the will of man we owne and witnesse which ministers life unto life and death unto death and divides the word aright judgement to the fat and to the strong and feeds the hungry and looseth the bands of wickednesse and breaks not the bruised reed nor quenches the smoaking flax this Ministry we deny not but are friends unto it and who are Ministers here we have union withall but proud men and such as are called of men Master are cast out of this Ministry and are Ministers to the body of Anti-Christ and know not the Ministery of the Ministry of Jesus Christ as this to the spirit in prison Magistrates and Magistracy we deny not but doe give respect unto for conscience sake for who beares the sword of justice who use their power to be a terror to the wicked and for the prayse of them that doe well are Ministers of God and we desire that there were more Magistracy here and that the Magistrate would more use his power to be a terror to lyers to swearers to drunkards to raylers to false accusers and to proud men and oppressors this we are friends unto but to such as act by their owne wills in corrupt Lawes and doe thereby violence to the Innocent and strengthens the hands of evill doers we cannot be subject but choose rather then to transgresse the Law of God which is written in our hearts by submitting to such mens wills and Lawes to suffer by the corrupt wills of men under corrupt Lawes And thus I have answered those false accusations which are cast upon us and doe declare it be the same spirit in the Teachers and people of this generation which accuseth us as it was in the Scribes and Pharisees which accused Christ and his Disciples And this the Scripture witnesseth unto as they did unto him so would they doe unto us A further Answer to that Accusation of being false Prophets and Deceivers JEsus Christ Prophesied and said That in the last dayes should many false Prophets arise and should deceive many if it were possible the very Elect. Now the Teachers and people of this generation doe say That we who by the world are called

Quakers are those false Prophets and Deceivers which Christ Prophefied of Of this their false accusation have they drunkards lyars swearers and all the ungodly people in every profession to witnesse them But their accusation and their witnesses we doe deny though they preach it among the people for doctrine And now in answer to this false accusation and slander I am moved to write a little and shall to that principle of God in every mans conscience cleare my conscience and declare what I know from God concerning those false Prophets who they are when they came in and how they may be knowne and shall leave it to every honest heart to consider of The Apostles and Ministers of Jesus Christ saw the same false Prophets which Christ Prophesied of to be come and comming in in their dayes Iohn said by that they knew it was the last time For said he Even now are there many Anti-Christs and false Prophets gone out into the World such vvere they who confessed not Christ to be come in the Flesh and they were of the world and spoke of the world and the world heard them Now here I charge it upon the Teachers of the world that they are of that generetion which went out into the world then for as they then confessed not Christ to be come in the Flesh so these uphold those things vvhich vvere under the Law vvhich vvas before Christ came in the Flesh outwardly and so confesse him not to be come in the Flesh and so they are Anti-Christ They uphold an outward Temple and an outward Worship and take Tythes as the Priests under the Law did as a Type and Figure of Christ but when he vvas come and sacrificed these things which were to stand for a time were put to an end And none who witnessed Christ come and were sent by him to Preach the Gospel did uphold those things but witnessed forth the substance and denyed the figure they denyed the outward Temple and witnessed they were the Temples of God and that God dwelt in them and denyed the outward worship and witnessed the worship of God in spirit and in truth within them for they who worshipped without worshipped they knew not what as they doe now And they desired to take Tythes and lived of the Gospel and said they that Preached it should live of it but the Teachers of this generation are of the world living in its pride lusts and vanities and they who live in the same worldly nature uphold them and heare them Iohn also said Every spirit that confesseth not Christ to be come in the Flesh is Anti-christ And here I charge it upon the Teachers of the world that their spirit of pride and covetousnesse and envy and hypocrisie which rules in them is the spirit of Anti-Christ and confesseth not Christ to be come in the Flesh for where he is made manifest and come in the Flesh this spirit is destroyed For as saith the Scripture he was made manifest to destroy the workes of the Devill Paul was also a vvitnesse of the false prophets and deceivers which Christ Prophefied of in his time For he gave warning to beware of such and to turne away from such whom he saw then come and comming in but came more fully in after his dayes he said of this sort They were lovers of themselves covetous proud heady high-minded fierce men and despisers of those that were good given to filthy lucre and to pleasure and were false accusers and blasphemers and without naturall affection and unthankefull and unholy and taught filly Women who were led with divers lusts but were not able to come to the knowledge of the truth by their teaching they were men of corrupt minds and reprobate concerning Faith And here againe I charge it upon the Teachers of the vvorld that they are of that generation which came in then For they are lovers of themselves they take money of poore people to whom they are more able to give and they are proud and covetous men they goe in their Ribbons and Cuffes and gaudy attire and they Preach to them vvhere they can get most money and some takes money of them and sues them at the Law to vvhom they Preach not at all they are heady and high-minded men for poore people bow to them in the streets and call them Masters they are fierce men and despise those that are good if any speake against them of the truth they are fierce against and despise such and they are given to filthy lucre and are lovers of pleasure for vvhere they can have most money there they will abide and they live in pleasure in idlenesse and lust and vanity they are false accusers they vvill call them deceivers which are not and that blasphemy which is not and they are blasphemers and vvithout naturall affection They say the Letter is the Word and the Scripture the light vvhich is blasphemy for God is the Word and Christ is the light and they vvill suffer the rude multitude and some vvill set them upon it to haile beate and strike out of their Assemblyes vvhich is vvithout naturall affection they are unthankefull and unholy they have great summes of money from the people and are not thankefull but compell them by a Law to pay them and herein they are unholy by their actions vvhich are declared and they Teach alwayes but men and vvomen are ignorant still and none able to come to the knowledge of the truth by them and they have a Forme of godlinesse they professe the Scriptures that the children of the Lord are taught of the Lord and that Christ said Take no thought what to eate nor what to drinke nor wherewith to be cloathed But vvho vvitnesse themselves taught of God and that they need no man to teach them and that take no care vvhat to eate nor vvhat to drinke nor vvhat to put on and so vvitnesse the promise of God and abide in the Doctrine of Christ these you call deceivers and idle and carelesse persons and thus deny the power of vvhat they have professed and herein their minds are corrupt and reprobate concerning Faith for Faith is the substance and purifies the heart from these things vvhich they are guilty of And Peter and jude also vvere vvitnesses of those deceivers and false Prophets vvhich Christ prophefied of in their time for they saw such vvere come and comming in which should bring in damnable Heresies and through covetousnesse with faigned words make merchandise of the people they walke after the flesh in the lust of uncleannesse and despise Government and Dominion Presumptuous are they selfe willed they are not afraid to speake evill of Dignities 〈◊〉 they speake evill of the things that they understand not they have eyes full of adultery and that cannot cease from sinne begniling unstable soules an heart they have exercised with covetous practises cursed children which have forsaken the right way and are gone astray following the way of