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A46221	Work for a cooper being an answer to a libel, written by Thomas Wynne the cooper, the ale-man, the quack, and the speaking-Quaker : with a brief account how that dissembling people differ at this day from what at first they were / by one who abundantly pities their ignorance and folly.	Jones, William, fl. 1679-1710.	1679 (1679)	Wing J1002; ESTC R12360	16,124	36

dolefully all that had either Honesty or Courage to stem or thwart the current of their Pride and Avarice They use the good things of this World with as much fondness and delight as ever other sinners did Nor does Righteousness alone serve to cloath them they wear and will do as good Cloth Silks and Camlets as the proudest of mankinde can do offering freely to stand proof that the sin lies onely in the Colour or the broadness of the Ribbon Their way of Good-fellowship is also become very fashionable and for their lasting commendation are now so conformable a people in that point that they very seldom or never shrink in the wetting not much mattering what the unsanctifi'd say of their petty deviations of their Drunkenness Fornication Adultery Anger Envy Hatred Malice Pride Covetousness Vain glory and Hypocrisie and that notwithstanding all these rare qualifications they are as pure and sufficient Saints as any the whole World affords This needs not be much wonder'd at Experience has given all people of sense sufficient knowledge of their baseness who by striving to fly far enough from all Decency and Order are yet at last become the most formal Coxcombs produceable in this age crying out wofully against all external Ornaments whilst themselves at the same time doat most wickedly upon a Quirp-Cravat copi'd from a chitterling Original The very best of them are so far from submitting to every Ordinance of man for the Lord's sake that they will no so much as do it to those of God's own appointment of which their slighting and refusal of the holy Sacraments may serve as a most sufficient proof Nor do they stop here neither but go on to a perfect hatred of all that have better moral or intellectual endowments or any more of this Worlds good than what is unfortunately fallen to their own share And yet our Thomas in very many places of his Canting Enterlude would fain be thought hugely courteous for his inviting of as many Religions as his poor Memory could hold to see some rare sight no doubt but quite forgot the Jews and the Mahometans the Greek and the Muscovian Churches 't is a wonder that these also had not been bid to his intolerable Farce wherein at once he discovers both his Malice and his Folly too knowing in his own Conscience if indeed he has any that those people which he so promiscuously heaps together are neither alike in Principles nor Life and therefore ought not to have been alike treated by him For what reason had he to herd Protestants among Beasts of prey or worry us as much as in him lay between the Lions and the Bears Are these the thanks he returns our first and best Reformers for putting the holy Scriptures into the vulgar tongue without which he undoubtedly would have been still as ignorant that the Word of God was ever given man as now he is in the meaning of it 'T was hardly possible for any but a beastly Quaker to make Ingratitude his Goddess or fall down to worship the Devil 's eldest Daughter The holy Scriptures might still have lain dormant in their sheets of Greek and Hebrew for any remedy he could help us to But if he thinks it any kindness that they are faithfully translated why should he abuse and vilifie those that did it and that laid down their lives also to justifie the truth thereof They upon whose very credit he for his part at least takes those sacred Writings if he thinks they are so at all to be the revealed Will of God They were indeed holy and learned men and therefore most certain it is they have not deceived us but sure I am 't is more than he knows nor had he ever any the least spark of divine Revelation to ascertain their integrity Yet still but for those men or some such Pious and Learned Protestants 't is more than probable he would at this day have taken as some others do the Apocryphal to have been of equal Authority with the Canonical Scriptures He therefore has done extreamly ill in putting Protestants amongst his delinquent Pupils For if he thinks us not honest why will he believe us if he does why should he think us damn'd as the inavoidable consequence of his wicked opinion does suppose If all that were not are not nor ever will be Quakers were are and will be still in darkness and in the way to Hell as fain he would have all believe then certainly he must conclude that not onely those learned and pious Protestants that translated the holy Scriptures into the vulgar Tongues but that even the holy Prophets and Apostles also all the Saints and Martyrs all the devout Confessors Virgins and Widows from the beginning of the world till James Nailor's time have their portion onely in that woful place Ah most wicked Wretch how or when hadst thou authority to exclude true Penitents from eternal life or from the benefit of that Redemption purchased for us by the bloud of the most holy Jesus We Protestants are taught and enjoyn'd by the Church of God under pain of everlasting ruine most unfeignedly to repent of all our sins past and carefully to endeavour for the future that we sin no more And that we pray to God to deliver us from all blindness of heart from Pride Vain-glory and Hypocrisie from Envy Hatred and Malice and all Vncharitableness From all Sedition privy Conspiracy and Rebellion from all false Doctrine Heresie and Schism from Hardness of heart and Contempt of his Word and Commandment That he would please to bring into the way of truth all such as have erred and are deceived and give us all increase of Grace to hear meekly his Word to receive it with pure affection and bring forth the fruit of the Spirit And with the holy Prophet that God would please to make us clean Hearts and renew right Spirits within us That he would not cast us away from his presence nor take his holy Spirit from us but mercifully give us the continual comfort of his help and establish us with his free Spirit and as a just acknowledgement of his Goodness endeavour all our days in our several stations to teach his ways unto the wicked that sinners may be converted unto him And now will such a sincere course and such humble Prayers as these stand us in no stead unless also we become Quakers God forbid Sure I am there will come a day in which 't will appear who serv'd God and who serv'd him not When our Thomas may perhaps wish to no purpose that he had never spent his time so idly in quest of nothing but incentives to Pride and Immorality nor had abus'd God's Servants and the meaning of the Holy Ghost as Saint Peter said some had done Saint Paul's Epistles In which saies he are some things hard to be understood which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest as they do also the other Scriptures to their own

He do's my business bravely Needs must when the devil drives Pride Lust Hipocrysy Covetousnes WORK FOR A COOPER BEING AN ANSWER To a LIBEL Written by THOMAS WYNNE The COOPER the ALE-MAN the QUACK AND THE SPEAKING-QUAKER WITH A brief Account how that Dissembling People differ at this day from what at first they were By one who abundantly pities their Ignorance and Folly ECCLUS 22.11 Weep for the Dead for he hath lost the Light and weep for the Fool for he wants understanding make little weeping for the Dead for he 's at rest but the life of the Fool is worse than death LONDON Printed by J. C. for S. C. at the Prince of Wales's Arms neer the Royal Exchange MDCLXXIX WORK FOR A COOPER OF all the sinners in the world the Proud in Spirit seem to be in the most desperate condition and 't is implied by our divine Redeemer in that saying Blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of Heaven as if indeed the proud and the conceited of their own worth that think themselves more upright and more righteous than any body else were of all other the most unlikely to enter into that holy place The probability of which is strengthned by the hardness and difficulty of reducing such vile wretches who under a pretence of being the inspired Children of God and the onely inheritors of Life yield themselves to be hurried by the spirit of Darkness into those paths that lead to the sad and dismal Regions of eternal Death 'T is said the Devil seldom appears with his Horns and cloven Feet his game is better plaid when he comes like an Angel of Light In imitation of which his Agents assume the same way First proclaim their own sanctity and familiarity with God and then go on to despise and calumniate all that by the grace of God are better provided with the blessing of either this world or the other with Health Wealth or Honour with Faith Hope or Charity whose qualifications were seasonably discovered by St. Jude when he said These filthy dreamers defile the Flesh despise Dominion and speak evil of Dignities adding presently Who separate themselves sensual having not the Spirit Whether our Thomas and his Followers be concerned in this Description I humbly leave to those that have Honesty and Sense to judge and will onely endeavour briefly to answer his Libel and make appear what rotten and false Foundation he has built his designe upon First he saies That all the writers of holy Scripture and all the Saints of God mentioned there were Quakers Pag. 11 and 14. Secondly That the present Quakers have got the Key of David with which they and they onely can unlock all Mysteries Pag. 11. Thirdly That all Scholars especially the Priests having quite lost this Key cannot tell the meaning of the Scriptures and that their Hearers have not so much discretion as Pharaoh and Nebuchadnezzar had Pag. 12. Fourthly That the Ministers of God the Priests of this Church and those that hear them are all running headlong to destruction Pag. 14. These are the main Pillars our Quaker superstructs all his Foolery upon and most justly deserves for his pains to be rewarded with a Whipping-post that by taking of a lawful dance about that he might essay also to prove the antiquity of a Lancashire Horn-pipe Justice were Mercy and Severity but an act of the greatest Charity to him who like the Devil himself would make it his business to cheat men of their immortal Souls Had the Saints of God been ancient Quakers as he saies they were why should the modern ones think themselves scofft at by being called so Or why did not James Naylor and some others give themselves that Name Fear and trembling from whence he infers all he has the ignorance to say were ne're recorded for infallible signes of any bodie 's being in Gods favour 'T was not to our first Parents when their fear for having sinned pressed them upon an impossibility to attempt the hiding themselves from the presence of the Lord. Nor to St. Peter when his fear made him to deny his most holy Master Nay the fearful leading the van of an infernal Troop and the unbelieving the abominable and murtherers whoremongers and sorcerers idolaters and all lyars Rev. 21. shall have their part in the Lake that burneth with fire and brimstone And St. Paul saies 2 Tim. 1.7 God hath not given us the spirit of fear but of power of love and of a sound minde as if the fearful had not sound mindes that is were onely a kinde of a distracted people whose not too much but too little Learning had made stark Revelation-mad If fear and trembling were enough to prove a certainty of being beloved of God then Baalam's Ass and the Daemoniacks among the Tombes Felix the Hypocrite and Judas that hang'd himself for fear of seeing any more his Innocent and Righteous Master yes and the Devils themselves might put in for a share too for St. James does expresly say that they also believe and tremble For the Irreligious and the Prophane the Blasphemous and the Impenitent it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God but he that was filled with the Holy Ghost and did prophecie Luke 1. said That we being delivered from the hands of our enemies might serve God without fear in holiness and righteousness all the days of our life And though till we have mortified our sinful Affections and Lusts we ought to work out our salvation with fear and trembling yet when after a most hearty and profound repentance we humbly hope that all our past unrighteousness is forgiven and our sins covered we may then doubtless serve the Lord with gladness and come before his presence with a song And with St. Paul Phil. 4.4 Rejoyce in the Lord always and again I say rejoyce Or with holy David Psal. 97.11 12. There is sprung up a light for the righteous and a joyful gladness to such as are true-hearted Rejoyce in the Lord ye righteous and give thanks for a remembrance of his holiness This was the belief of those Saints that were no Quakers however disgusted by those Quakers that are no Saints who if not illuminated to a higher pitch and above the comprehension of holy David and Saint Paul might certainly humble themselves to the approbation of the same way And then quite contrary to our Quaker's understanding whenever God's Servants are said to have fear'd or trembl'd 't was because they or their people had offended the Almighty God after an amazing recollection of their former wickedness and apprehension of some most justly expected Judgement But our Quakers never do it upon this account they are too impudent to pretend it reporting themselves to be God's onely meek and most entirely beloved people That they and they onely are born of God and consequently cannot sin And say that whosoever confesses himself a sinner pleads for sin Though Saint John