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The Counterfeit Ievv
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1653
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himselfe discover him he can varnish over the greatest wickednesse with the greatest shewes of godlinesse cast sand and dust in the eyes of all that come neer him and blinde them How many such are hugged kissed embraced in the armes of Saints as once it may be Phlygellus Alexander Philetus c. was of holy Paul who shall ere long be turned into the blackest Devils in Hell Oh who can fadome hearts who knowes those mysteries of Iniquity exceeding all those wickednesses that are done in the Cloysters of Monks the Colledges of Jesuits the Conclaves of Popes A singular piece of their wickednesse was this counterfeit lew a select Commissioner of Hell In utrumque paratus seu versare dolos sau certe occumbere morti sent from the Inquisition house to try his fidelity in order to Priesthood by some notable attempt upon the State Army by Division Intelligence poyson any way to which his acting at Hexham was but the Introduction to propagate the Catholique ends being impowred by the Popes Indulgence to doe any thing sweare any thing counterfeit any thing put off put on any Religion c. Oh the blood of bodies soules that Man of sinne is guilty of who rejoyceth so much to heare of any Martyr as he calls him though he be a wicked Rogue a Blasphemous wretch suffer for the Catholique cause the Lord Iesus will judge him shortly The strange discovery of this counterfeit did exceedingly take the hearts of all there present and made them fall down and adore and blesse God in this great Providence Greatly would they have rejoyced to see any the least true compuction of spirit such as flowes from sights of Christ and sence of pardon Pray that all those Emissaries of Hell may be discovered every where Prayer had a strange influence upon the discovery of this Counterfeit it will yet find out more of those lying spirits of Devils which come forth of the mouth of the Beast and the false Prophet drunke with the blood of Saints and Martyrs of Iesus who notwithstanding all his glorious splended Troope of Cardinalls and Iesuits those Cardines Diaboli those Engines of wickednesse dayly attending him and their boasting of the Conquest of Chinah the Atlas Romanae Ecclesia shall be tumbled downe and made to drinke of the Cup of the wrath of the Lord. Let the Pope use all his cunning to divide distract as Balaam did he shall not be able to escape the Sword of the Lord which is now drawn and set to his breast and will assuredly enter into his bowels Let him look from his high Prinacle of worldly glory and scorne the Army of England mock and laugh at the glorious providences of God among us as the actings of a giddy-headed people curse all our proceedings yet let him know Christ is making great preparations against him here in England and whetting the Arrowes of his indignation to destroy him and his Adherents Christ is undermining all the mountains of his Power and greatnesse upon which he sits Babylon the great shall fall and not one stone left upon another of all her stately Structure her Ecclesiasticall pompe and civill Power which shall become a place of Iim Zim the abomination of the Earth In that day the redeemed of the Lord shall rejoyce the Saints shall sing yea even now we are begun to sing our Hallelujahs Rev. 19. The Saints of England a Land of Victories of Ordinances of all sorts of glories have first begun to set the Tune of the Songs of Zion which shall be sung through all Nations Great and marveilous are thy works Lord God Almighty just and true are thy wayes oh King of Saints Who shall not feare thee O Lord and glorifie thy Name for thou onely art holy For all Nations shall come and Worship before thee for thy Iudgement are made manifest Rev. 15. An Anabaptist can never be a Papist nor a Papist an Anabaptist He that holds Infant-Baptisme as a Papist must is no Anabaptist A Papist may take up Baptisme upon a State-designe as this Counterfeit but he is a Papist still and holds Infant-Baptisme They differ in all Points Baptisme Supper Singing Sabbath Ministerie impossible to reconcile them 23. Iune 1653.
The Counterfeit Ievv IT would fill to much Paper to describe all the Lyes Forgeries Hypocrisies Slights of this miserable wretch who Writ himselfe Josephus Ben Israel Hebr. Mantu which part so long as he Acted he did it so handsomely and with so much exquisite hypocrisie relating the Customes Ceremonies Genealogies of the Jewes that he easily got beyond those who are Novices to those Depths of Satan He was of an accute wit an excellent Linguist spoake most Languages and Hebrew perfectly a ready Schollar a great Travellar and came from Hambrough to Newcastle calling himselfe Horseley Before his discovery he could carry himselfe very smoothly sute himselfe to any humour company discourse very accurately by his reddy subtile Wit and Tongue he could transforme himselfe easily into what shapes he pleased and act any Part he could command his Eyes his Countenance his Tongue could speake Orthodoxly Spiritually Learnedly Practically Aske him why he called himselfe Horseley Why he was a Jew and feared to be known in regard so many of their Nation have suffered in England and by their Talmud in danger of Life any thing is allowed but Idolatry and Murther He was than in Judaisme but now a Christian But why came he over into England Why He heard of the Fame of the Christians of England above all others He had seen Papists Lutherans Calvenists they were all full of Ceremonies and Traditions He had conversed with some Anabaptists in Germany and they told him of the English Christians but they held Free-will and such points and he desired to worship God in the purest way without mixtures of mens inventions therefore he came to the people of Hexham and there like a childe of the Devill full of all subtilty and guile extraordinary endued with power and art from Hell abusing all the Ordinances of God and mocking him to his face he made his Declaration and Confession of Christ in the publique Assembly before all the People and afterwards went and was Baptized so joyning himselfe to that People there but did not receive the Lords Supper with them somewhat in his Conscience starlting at that so to avoyd it he feigned on purpose indisposition discontents as he confessed afterwards all this while using in his private Devotion his Popish Prayers to Saint Benedict Crossings c. Upon the twentieth Day the fourth Moneth he came to Newcastle being thereunto formerly engaged to cleare himselfe of forme particulars whereof warning was given to some of the Magistrates and the next day appeared with some friends boldly before the Magistrates and some Ministers ready to receive all charges all which he put off with horrible impudent lying till one came who partly knew him and had lately received a Letter from his Mother at Leith This came close and moved his Countenance when he saw he was like to the unmasked he was strangely smitten with feare and amazement ready now to confesse any thing and confessed he was Master Alexander Ramsey his Sonne a Scottish Gentleman * The Inquisition-house one of the Devils highest Courts was a Papist sent over by the Inquisition those bloody monsters of men whose Hellish methods in murthering poore Protestants is most execrable fit to be abominated in all Common wealths Turks and Heathens would blush at such cruelties who imployed him as a notable Mercurized spirit an Embassadour extraordinary of the * Odi etenim seu claustra arebi c. Devill Dolis instructus Arte Pelasgâ to promote Divisions and ordered him to faine himselfe a Jew with other instructions and hearing that the Sect of Anabaptists were a very praevailing Sect his first businesse was to be Baptized and get the Testimoniall of a Church and so after he had blowne up them with Notions about Free-will c. which he intended presently to broach to make his way through to the Army where he thought he could doe well enough An Errant of Hell all along in its methods In his perplexed fits he would say Ah I have a Head fit for any purpose but what shall I doe I am afraid of the Army but notwithstanding all this my heart is not moved more than a stone When he was told he had loving Parents he professed he cared nor if he never saw their * An unnatural Son is fittest for the Devils vvorst imployment Faces When asked how he could so dissemble and be Baptized He said He laughed in his Sleeve to see how he gull'd those men He said He durst never reade the Gospel much for feare of dulling his spirit Devotion was onely for Blockeheads and dull * A State-Iesuite must have no Genius no fancy for Devotion Soules Being asked What gift in Prayer he had whether he could Pray as the Puritans he said If he had been put to that he had made mad worke But what cannot Schollarship Art Hypocrisie counterfeit At first he complained he found no remorse of spirit for any thing he had done but a feare of despaire but being afterwards put in hope to live he grew more composed and said The consideration of the Bloud of Christ did quiet his Conscience He seemes to have a Conscience full of all sorts of guilt one drop of the blood of Christ will heale all and make him repent If not some notorious spectacle of wrath he will prove at one time or other Many snares and ginns Providence hath to catch such Vipers such Incendiaries though they may long escape Desperate Heretickes and seducers that practice onely upon Churches ought onely to be cut off by the Spirituall Sword of Excommunication if they be Members of Churches and the Temporall Sword doth not at all reach them True such as are meerly devout Papists ought not to be harmed or molested But such as come to practice any wayes upon States Armies sent from any of the Seminaties or Colledges of Inquisition beyond the Seas with instructions from them to poyson pistoll stilletto and such as have any relation to the wicked bloody Inquisition house are fitted for such purposes being used to and hardened in blood and cruelties and have received the holy Oyle and Benediction of the Pone and his absolution for the perpetrating of all horred murthers c. pro propaganda fide such Jesuits and Jesuited Romanists whose Principles are Murthers Poysons c that come over and renouncing their Religion take up another for State-designes onely and creepe in to get Testimonialls that they may become Spies in Armies and worke Divisions merit to suffer as Traytors Rebels Incendiaries of the State Omitting those many inferences that are and will be made by the Vulgar from this strange Discovery as that Ergo all Anabaptists are Iesuits will turne Papists c. a new Doctrine to me though this Counterfeit confessed that onely the Anabaptists or Swinkefeldians who hold Free-will indeed were Burnt Persecuted in Germany at this time whilst Lutherans Calvenists onely had tolleration per Publicum bannum Imperatoris What worse is