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A93646	The guilty-covered clergy-man unvailed; in a plain and candid reply unto two bundles of wrath and confusion, wrapt up in one and twenty sheets of paper. The one written by Christopher Fowler and Simon Ford of Reading; the other by William Thomas of Ubley in Somersetshire. Wherein all their malicious slanders and false accusations, which they cast upon the truth, are clean wash'd off; their weapons with which they war against the Lamb, broken over their own heads; and they, with the rest of the tyth-exacting teachers, proved to be the great incendaries, and mis-leaders of these nations. In which also there is made a brief and sober application, to the magistrates, and other inhabitants, within the city of Bristol. / By Thomas Speed, a friend to all that tremble at the Word of the Lord; but an irreconcileable enemy to the mysterious deceit, and monstrous hypocrisie of those that do teach for hire, and divine for money.	Speed, Thomas, b. 1622 or 3.	1657 (1657)	Wing S4905; Thomason E893_1; ESTC R203614	61,807	87

great day of the Lord. You say you are little beholding to my principles who would reduce you to the condition of Heathens Rep. Well were it for a great part of you that you were in the condition of those Heathens whose uncircumcision do fulfill the Law whilst you who bless your selves with the name of Christians Rom. 2.27 are found transgressors of it SECT 14. In your fourteenth Section you would be quarrelling with me if you durst and could you handsomly quit your selves of those Scriptures I quote about perfection you would proclaim me a Blasphemer And if that be all I hold of perfection yet those of my perswasion you say are not so modest Rep. If by those of my perswasion you intend the people called Quakers whom ye seek to devour I say that I never found any of them to preach or profess any other perfection then such as Christ exhorted to and Paul and other Saints witnessed About which you and William Thomas do distinguish with all the art you can to stop the mouth of the Scripture But when you have done all what Paul witnessed therein is still wisdom among them that are perfect 1 Cor. 2.6 And here again you are craving allowance to ask me a few questions Because you can finde no flaw in plain truth you would therefore by questoning finde some if you could William Thomas closeth his discourse about perfection Page 21. with a strange saying viz. our duty here is to be always perfecting Heb. 12.23 but our labour is in vain for it belongeth to our wisedom to know that we can never be fully perfected till the last day wherein our souls shall be among the souls of just men made perfect Rep. What a thick mist doth rage cast before the eyes of the envious Could one think that one that pretendeth himself to have been so long a Minister of the Gospel Vers 22 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ΠΡΟΣΕ ΛΗΛΥ'ΘΑΤΕ Sed ACCESSISTIS 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Τ ΕΤΕΛΕΙΩΜΕ'ΝΩΝ Ad spiritus justorum PERFECTORVM should lay down such an assertion and produce a Scripture for proof speaking point-blank contrary thereunto We cannot be fully perfected saith he untill the last day How doth he prove it Why by the words of the Author to the Hebrews who saith to the Hebrews Ye ARE come to the spirits of the just men made perfect Doth he say in the future tense they should come at the last day or doth he say they are come to those that shall be perfect doth he not say in the preterperfect tense they ARE already come to the spirits of just men ALREADY made perfect Isa 44.25 is not the Scripture fulfilled at this day which saith The Lord maketh the Diviners mad and turneth the wise men backward and maketh their knowledge foolish SECT 15. In your fifteenth Section you offer little save a threat what a severe reckoning you will have with me hereafter Against which I doubt not but to appear so armed with truth as to be able therewith to quench all the fiery darts that you and your Master have ready in your Quivers to shoot at me But William Thomas supplieth that wherein you are wanting Page 23. in passion and ignorance exceeding zealous he is in this particular for herein consisteth the life of the Priests trade in mangling tearing and confounding the Scriptures which they call Interpretations The Scripture witnesseth that none knoweth the mind of God save the Spirit of God and he to whom the Spirit shall reveal it Now observe Ten men do send each of them a Son to the University in order to their outward preferment where having spent seven or more years they are called home by them that sent them and by crouching It is the spirit not study in a University that maketh able to understand and interpret Scripture and cringing and perhaps the help of some of Simon Magus his purchase money a Benefice is gained for each of them Now these men being Ministers in William Thomas's account he asserteth it to be their imployment committed to them of God to be Messengers and Interpreters As if they had gained the Spirit and consequently the mind of God by the consumption of a few years in a University One of these readeth Augustine another Jerom a third Calvin a fourth Luther Peter Martyr c. their interpretations of Scripture and then they come forth to the people and say this is the meaning and t'other is the meaning And is this to interpret by the Spirit May not the worst of men who have not the Spirit but hate the Spirit nay may not the worst of Devils who well understand the languages in which those Commentators writ do the same Moreover take these ten young Divines which he calleth Gods Messengers and Interpreters and give them ten difficult places of Scripture a part each from other to interpret and it may be there shall not five of them agree in one interpretation Now mind if these men have not the Spirit of God they are not fit Interpreters because they cannot know Gods mind without that Spirit If they have that Spirit The Spirit never contradicteth it self I demand whether the same spirit interpreting in one man do contradict it self giving an interpretation in another If there be but one Spirit of truth and that speaketh in every man where it is the same thing then it 's clear that these men whom he calleth Messengers and Interpreters do bring forth the fancies and vain conceptions of their own brains and not the mind of God by the Spirit of God who do so jangle and contradict one another in their interpretations And therefore his charging it as a wicked error in the same page upon those that deny their expositions and interpretations is but a Bug-bear to startle the ignorant I say to thee Reader Abide faithful in the counsel of the Lord and thou shalt know his mind Live in that Spirit that gave forth the Scriptures by the mouthes of holy men and the Scripture will be plain unto thee for it 's that Spirit that unsealeth the mystery Thy soul is most precious therefore let not the false Prophet deceive thee As I have formerly told thee so now I tell thee again in bowels of love thou must die for thy self and not thy Teacher for thee and to the Lord must thou give an account for thy self therefore look well to thy standing interpret for thy self and beleeve for thy self and let not those Dreamers that call themselves Gods Messengers and Interpreters but live in pride malice covetousness c. lead thee down hood-winck'd to the chambers of death whence there is no returning SECT 16. I now come to your sixteenth Section in which you follow your old trade of deceit viz. not daring to deny in express terms although you do in effect Christs unlimited prohibition of swearing at all you fall from that to asking me questions Before I

is a stone that every sorry thing in black to use your own expression hath to cast in his face who hath so much honesty and courage as to bear testimony against the wickedness of your Pharisaicall generation If any man doth appear with strength of truth and plainness to decry the deceit and unrighteousness of teachers and people every ignorant Priest is presently crying out a Jesuite a Jesuite thinking by that brand of reproach to render those just accusations that are brought against them less credible in the judgements of the simple But do not decieve your selves in thinking that I shall be scared from discovering your uncleanness by your great words I am as irreconcileable an Antagonist to the Antichristian principles and practices found among the Jesuites as I am to the same found among you from declaring against which I shall never be disswaded by either bribe or fear The rest of your scorns and unsavory scoffs in your Title page I pass over as being unwilling to defile my thoughts or my pen with such filthy rubbish I now pass to both your Epistles And first I cannot but take notice how you walk in the old path of begging Patronage to your deformed Pamphlet Christ Fowler and Simon Ford 's Epistle to Col. Sydenham examined You have some mire and dirt to throw upon the innocent out of the raging Sea of your inward guilt and what then that you may act your design with the more authority you must crouch and cringe to Col. Sydenham and tell him that you are his Honors affectionate Servants that under his shelter as you phrase it you might shoot out the bitter arrows of lies and slanders with which your Epistle and Book do abound with the greater hope of credit among those that live in the same spirit of wickedness with your selves Had you writ nought but truth that would not have needed the shadow of any mans wing for its shelter and patronage I once knew Colonel Sydenham dwelling in a spirit of prudence and moderation in which if he yet abideth and be not Priest-ridden into passion and prejudice against the truth which I should be sorry to understand I doubt not but he doth discern and loath that spirit of fawning and flattery upon which you offered up to him that polluted sacrifice of an Epistle You begin it with a high but a lying Accusation charging me with Apostacy to damnable doctrines To which I say That he that saith that of me which he neither doth nor can prove is a lyar and such do I charge you Two to be who have most maliciously dealt with me both in this Epistle and the Pamphlet as your Predecessors the Roman blood-suckers did with the poor innocent Christians in those days viz. cloath them with the skins of some ugly creature and then cast them to the wild beast to be devoured But I doubt not but that I shall before you and I part give the sober Reader a true representation of such Doctrines and Practices of yours and your Brethrens as will make his ears to tingle You tell Colonel Sydenham that in my Epistle I challenged all the publick Teachers in the Nation and you in particular Rep. Now whether this be true or like the former Col. Sydenham and all honest readers may determine upon perusal of my Epistle in which there is not a word of any challenge or any thing like it But how doth it appear that I did challenge you your proof is because you say I sent you each a Book by name To which I shall onely say That the person that delivered you a book from me utterly mistook me For why I should particularly direct a book to either of you whose faces to my knowledge I never saw nor ever exchanged word with you let the reader judge This is the pretended ground of your undertaking but I rather judge the real rise to be from a mixture of your guilt and ambition that you might at once give the world a proof of your abilities both in painting and sophistry But your coverings are too short and to the most weak-fighted of the children of light is your nakedness manifest The next thing you suggest to Colonel Sydenham as a motive to your undertaking is that you dared not to betray the truth and the glory of the Lord Jesus nor the precious souls of the people Rep. Did not your hypocrisie stare in your faces when you were penning these fained motives Are you not known to live in a professed enmity to the truth of Christ appearing in his Saints and yet pretend a zeal for it Are not your conversations a stain to the very profession of hi●●●me by living in pride covetousness by your persecution nay what in you lieth drawing his blood in his innocent Lambs and yet you tender of his glory Besides how can you absolve your selves from being betrayers of precious soul who cry peace peace where the Lord hath spoken no peace Jer. 6.14 and do slay the souls that should not die who do reach for doctrine Ezek. 13 19. the traditions of men drawing poor souls from their true guide to listen to your corrupt dreams and divinations and keeping them fast in the snares of Satan do lead them down hood winck'd into the chambers of death I shall pass from yours to William Thomas his Epistle Will. Thomas his Epistle to his friends c. in and about the City of Bristol scan'd in which he maketh a great cry to little purpose He directeth it to his well beloved Friends and Neighbors in and about the City of Bristol those in particular of his own charge and in special those that have sadly and dangerously declined from the Scripture path Rep. I will not quarrel at the sence or rather the of this inscription I shall speak to the thing intended It seemeth that William Thomas hath those of his own charge that have sadly and dangerously declined from the Scripture path And do they not therein demonstrate themselves to be teachable Disciples in following their Pastors practise Sure I am he is far wide from the Scripture-path both in his principles and practice and if you call to him for Scripture to prove what he saith or doeth as I have sufficiently done he will give you one of his own meanings or wild deductions instead of Scripture which if you refuse to accept then an out-cry is presently made here is one that denieth Scripture an Heretick an Heretick He telleth his friends in Bristol among many other notorious untruths that I will needs bee his adversary Reply As if from a busie minde I had been the beginner of the present contest betwixt us VVill. Thomas the beginner of the present Contest Whereas I was quietly abiding in my calling not designing to write or print any thing to him or touching him Neither can I say but that I might have gone to my grave in silence without writing or printing ought that

and false accusations where are those lazie Lurdens or Drones as you call them who eat the fat and drink the sweet For mine own part I know none such but the Priests who yet are wiser for themselves then those you accuse of walking up and down the Land for that instead of travelling through heat and cold drouth and wet they love to keep close in one parish to eat the fat and drink the sweet But where are those that do eat their wives and families out of doors name any man that 's called a Quaker that hath done so and if you can were recrimination any excuse I doubt not but for every such one to name you twenty Priests that are deeply guilty of the same crime SECT 36. In your 36th Section you accuse me of setting up the revelation of the Spirit in opposition to all humane studies and why Because my Twelfth Article said That the mind of God is not to be known by study in a Vniversity but by revelation of the Spirit who alone knoweth his mind 1 Cor. 2.11 12 And is not this plain truth SECT 37. Why is it then that you make such a great noise about Vniversity learning endeavouring to make Paul and Peter to be Advocates for you in the case The first of whom viz Paul did with all his learning fight against Christ and drew his blood as you and many others at this day do that pretend highly to it And although he came afterwards to know and receive that Jesus whom he before persecuted yet I deny it was at all by the power of his humane learning but by the revelation of the Spirit of life And as for Peter how could you but blush were you not past all shame to abuse and belie him as you do in bringing him for testimony to the usefulness of Vniversity learning in this way making him to say that in the reading of the Scriptures it may keep a man from wresting them to destruction doth not the Scripture bear witness of Peter that he himself was unlearned and will you make Peter to condemn Peter Act 4.13 and implicitly conclude that he himself was a wrester of Scripture having not that learning which you say will keep men from wresting them Moreover do not the Pope his Cardinals the Jesuits and the rest of your Romish fraternity abound in Vniversity learning notwithstanding which do not you and the rest in England accuse all those learned ones for wresting the Scriptures to their own destruction SECT 38. In what confusion do your next Section shew you to live in which you begin with as full an acknowledgment of the impotency of humane learning to give the knowledge of the mysteries of the Kingdom as I my self have at any time or could have made Your words are these We acknowledge that all the learning of the world will not bring saving truth effectually home to the understanding and consciences of men nay carnal reason back'd with LEARNING will dispute the light of the most glorious doctrinal truths of the Gospel out of mens judgements and the most glorious practical truths of of the Gospel out of mens consciences as appears daily in those whose learning Satan makes use of as he doth of yours and others to defend and patronize their lusts So that there needs another kind of learning to settle these truths savingly in the minds and hearts of men which the Scripture calls the revelation and demonstration of the Spirit Thus are you constrained in words whatever your hearts are to give testimony to the insufficiency of your Idol Vniversity learning and to the efficacy of the revelation and demonstration of the Spirit And yet in the close of the same Section you cannot but call Schools of learning no small props of Christian Religion Are not they very sure props of Christian Religion in which men learn that which joyned with carnal reason will dispute the most glorious truths of the Gospel out of mens judgements and consciences Here is just the image of Babel As your brethren do use to preach so do you print who oftentimes in their Sermons do very zealously assert a thing for truth and before they close their discourse do cross the same thing and contradict it I could tell the Reader at large what precious Plants the Vniversities and Schools of learning do oftentimes nurse up but I shall reserve that untill another season Onely for close of this you being now crying Hosanna to your Universities let me ask you this question How came it to pass that Simon Ford was a very few years since expelled the University of Oxford Simon Ford turned out of the University of Oxford Was the Mother unrighteous or was the Son wicked If for a good deed he was driven thence then that prop of Christian Religion was a persecuter of the innocent if for evil-doing then let the Reader judge how well this man behaved himself there that the University which I am sure heretofore did rarely administer expulsion to any but for a very great crime thought good to vomit him up as a corrupt member SECT 40 41 42 43. In the next place I cannot but take notice how much stir both you and William Thomas do make about that expression of mine in the Twelfth Article viz. that Paul and Peter preach'd that Gospel which Christ by his Spirit revealed in them 1 Cor. 2 10. Gal. 1.16 And here you follow your old trade of making meanings upon my plain words And you doubt another Snake in the grass of this fair expression Rep. Are you Ministers of Jesus Christ and know not to this day what it is to preach the Gospel which he hath revealed in you Are there two Gospels or did Paul and Peter preach two viz. one revealed in them and another without them 〈◊〉 there any other way of knowing the glorious mysteries of the Gospel but by revelation made by the Spirit of Iesus within William Thomas confesseth that Paul and Peter were instructed by immediate revelation Page 44. which saith he We are not so presumptuous as to expect Rep. Poor blind man The Lord is my witness that my bea rt was moved with pitty towards him at the reading of this expession and could even weep over him thus drowned in ignorance What hath he been preaching these thirty and nine years for so long it seems he hath been a Teacher who is so far from having received Pag. 8. confessed that he never expected instruction by immediate revelation Hath he only taught the history of that which others did and spake If so what hath he done more then the Devils and many now damned spirits can do and have done Cannot those soul spirits talk of what others have said and done in the Scriptures nay Mark 5.7 do we not find an unclean spirit preaching Christ in words to be the Son of the most high God Have not the Pope his Cardinals and Jesuites the

knowledge of the history of the Prophets Christ and the Apostles and do preach them in words Had not the Priests Scribes and Pharisees the knowledge of the letter of Scriptures and yet slew Christ Could not Paul have preached the history of Scriptures that spake of Christ even then when with all his learning he drew his blood and persecuted him from City to City Now what hath William Thomas done more then all these unless besides the knowledge of the History gained by reading and hearing he hath received instruction by the immediate revelation of the Spirit in the mystery as Paul afterwards did and so come to know the same made manifest which hath been hid from ages Col. 1.26 27. viz. Christ in him the hope of glory From the manifestation of his ignorance Page 45. he proceedeth in the next page to cast up a loathsom morsel of his prophaneness calling that expression of witnessing the Saints conditions by the reproachful name of gibberish But let the scorner and the scoffer know that though he preach and talk of the Saints words which the evil Angels themselves can do until he drop into his grave if he live and die a stranger to the Saints conditions he will be found to be but a lyar before the Lord in the great day of his account He may go up in his Pulpit and make many guilded Orations about Pauls being crucified with Christ and Christs living in him if he will yet acknowledge that to be a truth and yet if he come not to witness the same condition of Pauls to be his let me tell him that when the Lamb cometh to judgement he shall wish with tears that he might indeed know that which his scornful pen now trampleth upon as gibberish Miserable souls who pass away their daies and so sink into eternity under such mens teachings who neither have nor expect to have instruction from the immediate revelation of the Spirit and scornfully spurn at those that witness the Saints conditions SECT 43. You also have a stone to throw at this expression calling it odd and uncouth Rep. To those that are ignorant of it even the pearl of great price is of little value and so it is to you who live in blindness your selves and do strive to keep others bound in the same chain And whereas you charge me in the close of this Section with speaking scornfully of the righteousness of Christ I say you are a couple of impudent liars who dare print that as mine which never was in my heart to think nor upon my lips to express Are you Ministers of Christ who can scarce write a leaf without a lie Beside the witness of God in my own conscience Christs innocency pleaded against the cry of the Chief-Priests Page 55. the honest Reader may see that I have my own expression as a witness for me also in my book against your filthy stander in which I spake of such as did talk of a righteousness beyond the stars and they in the mean time live in filthiness and pollution and is this to speak scornfully of the righteousness of Christ when as it was not so much as mentioned They that witness Christ in them do not witness his righteousness to be a far off from them unless you suppose that Christ can be separated from his righteousness SECT 44. Your next Section containeth little worthy of notice because you say that if I mean as I say then you mean and say as I do And yet you cannot forbear to multiply words and make a confession of your faith telling me that you do not make your mortification of sin or resurrection to newness of life any part of your righteousness in the presence of God Rep. You have little reason so to do for that would be a strange polluted righteousness to appear in the presence of the Lord with which is made up of such mock-mortification of sin and resurrection to life as yours is who by your unclean fruits do make it manifest that you are alive to sin and dead unto newness of life SECT 45. You cannot forbear being accustomed to it to add another gross lie to the former in the beginning of this Section also averting that in my fourteenth Article I do confess that I do both publish and practise an unmannerly disrespect of all persons Rep. Why sirs is the dread and fear of the Lord quite removed from before your eyes that you are thus audacious in printing and publishing such notorious untruths unto the world did I by my recital of the words of the Apostle James he that respecteth persons doth commit sin confess James 2.9 that I did both publish and practice an unmannerly disrespect of all persons Do you not lay the innocent Apostle under the same condemnation since the words recited out of that Scripture were originally his and not mine as you have before pleaded hard for your backs and your bellies so in this and your following Section you do for your honour being loth to lose the cap and the knee and greetings in the Markets And having here as formerly laid a lie for your foundation you proceed to tell me that you will dispute it with me whether Religion doth destroy civility and good manners A thing which I never asserted and therefore is out of all question with me True Religion is the Nurse not the destroyer of good manners which good manners do consist in doing the things that are honest both in the sight of God and men not in an Apish fantastical pulling off the hat and crying Your humble servant Sir when as oftentimes whilst that complement is upon the lip there is so much malice in the heart as would cut the throat of the person saluted were there but an opportunity presented You proceed on and say that you do humbly conceive that the fifth Commandment is not yet repealed Rep. Did I ever say it was What always create images in your own corrupt fancies and then contend about them I say according to the Scriptures that children ought to obey their q Eph. 6.1 parents and servants their masters and all people the r Vers 5. Tit. 3.1 magistrates in the Lord. Which obedience consisteth in doing all things just and well pleasing in the sight of God Neither do I deny to call persons or things noble excellent or honourable which indeed are so But what is this to your crouching and cringing and capping and kneeing it to the man wearing the gold ring and the gay raiment passing by the poor man in vile apparrel without any notice or regard And whereas you justifie your selves as such who do prefer a godly poor man before any wealthy man that is not so I say how doth this appear Is it by your insulting and lording it over all those in the Town of Redding that refuse to be Vassals to your corrupt wills and lusts Let those that are the godly poor in and

Epistle To the after part thereof wherein you rather seek matter of quarrel with me then answer ought that concerned you I shall not be wanting in making a particular return in case I hear not further from William Thomas whom that do more especially concern In the mean while return into your selves and consider what you are now doing and whose errand you are posting upon And know that neither you not your weapons formed against the Lamb shall prosper before the Lord. Consider whether Satan doth not make the same use of your learning In your 38. Section which you confess he doth of some mens viz. To defend and patronize your lusts You may for a season with fair words and specious pretences deceive the simple perswading them that you are Ministers of Christ because you preach and profess him in words though you persecute and crucifie him where he appeareth in power But though men may be deceived yet God will not be mocked As you sow so shall you also reap Whilst you sow to the flesh bringing forth the corrupt fruits of Pride Envy Covetousness Oppression c. It is not your guilded profession that will cover you over in the presence of the most high God In the pure light of Christ that despised light that light which you so furiously decry and trample upon search and prove your selves For I bear record to it and you shall one day witness the same to be true that a swift and dreadful witness will it be against all transgressors in the great and terrible day of the Lord. It will then assuredly speak by no gift will it be bribed nor by the tongue of an Orator will it be enjoyned silence but an impartial cry will it make before the Lord for justice upon the the evil doer and he himself shall put his seal to it that the cry thereof is just I am A Friend to your Souls but an unalterable Enemy to your deceit THOMAS SPEED A TESTIMONY FOR TRUTH AND A Caution to all that profess it TO live in the fear of the Lord is the beginning of true Wisdom from which whosoever departeth doth at once lose both his Rock his glory Whilst the earthen vessel is made the habitation of the Lord it is all beautiful and in him and for his sake to be honored among the Saints but he being withdrawn what is man but a dark temple of clay whence the glory is departed Man abiding in the truth shineth as a Star in the Firmament but turning his back upon that he becometh an unsavory snuff whose light is extinguished Whilst Aaron listneth to the Lord I will hearken unto him but when he giveth ear to the seducing charms of the people to make new Gods I will leave both him and them to worship the molten Calf which he hath set up How illustrious is the Throne of Solomon while he abideth faithful with the God of his Fathers but forsaking him and turning unto strange women his wisdom becometh foolishness his strength weakness and is brought by the subtilty of the Tempter to bow his knee to those dead Idols Ashteroth and Milcom But the true God whom Aaron once served is not to be blasphemed because he is now found sacrificing to an Idol Neither will the wholesom words given forth by the mouth of Solomon from the Spirit of the Lord cease to be truth throughout all generations though Solomons heart be turned from his God and he prevailed upon to worship those things that are no Gods Cursed be that lip that speaketh evil of the pure light of the Lord because some starting from it are found wandring in the perillous paths of darkness They that abide in the light walk safely but who so turneth from it walketh among the rocks Who is he that despiseth the light of a candle in a dark night because another who turneth from it stumbleth and falleth Or where is he among all the Sons of men that will refuse to walk in a clean path because some straying from it are found having their feet stock'd in the mire and clay Look well therefore to your standing all ye that fear the Lord and whilst ye think ye stand take heed least ye fall Let not your faith stand in the wisdom or excellency of man but in the power of the Lord Walk humbly with your God so will you walk safely Forsake not the blessed fruit of the tree of life to eat of the shining fruit of the tree of Knowledge Stumble not because another falleth but be the more watchful over your own steps And to all you that rejoyce at anothers swerving from the truth I say beware how you condemn Christ for a deceiver or his doctrine for deceit because Peter denied him If Peter return to himself and repent his will be the joy but yours the shame What gain will it be to you O ye men unwise if over one that is fallen you your selves stumble and fall to your own destruction He may be raised by power of the Lord to praise him in the Land of the living when as you being hardned by the sliding of his feet will be sealed up under the chains of eternal darkness FINIS