truth of what is contained in his oath in every particular as hee doth still insomuch that Hollister seeing hee could not prevail before hee left him threatned him that the plagues of God would or should over-take him as they had done as hee affirmed Cowlishaw for taking a false oath as hee call'd it against the Quakers formerly and this the young mans Master Mr. Stephens told mee the youth informed him of so soon as hee came from Hollisters Now my Reader must know that Mr. Cowlishaw since his oath taken as aforesaid is failed in his trade and I wish it may not bee the case of many an honest man besides him And it 's strange it should not in such times as these are of dead trade in general But mark the bold daring and uncharitable presumption of these wretched Quakers who step up into the Judgement Seat of the Almighty and assign the particular causes of his dispensation as if those upon whom the Tower of Siloa fell were greater sinners than others because of that hand of providence or as if his oath were false because of this accident No hee still owns the truth of his deposition also And divers others there are in this City who can attest much to the substance of it But see the malicious spirit of these wretches and yet further seeing they could not draw off this young man from the truth of what hee had deposed nor get any advantage by tampering with him against mee which was the thing intended for Hollister then told him hee had a hand in a book to that purpose Now not being able to compass their ends upon him Bishop by Hollisters instigation I believe for I suppose the young man is almost as much a stranger to Bishop as to my self who never spake with him but twice and that upon this occasion Bishop I say falls to reproach this young man and to stain his reputation as one of evil course and bad conversation from which hee would needs have us believe Quakerisme had restrained him and to which since hee left quaking hee affirms hee is again returned page 28. of his Pamphlet How far the young mans Father is concerned in this a person of quality Collonel Raymond a Justice of Peace in the County of Glocester I shall not inquire But for his comfort his Sons Right and the discovery of the spiteful malicious revengeful and lying spirit of these deluded and deluding wretches I do affirm that both from his Master and Neighbours persons I am sure of better credit than Hollister or Bishop I received a most ample and full Testimony of the youths most sober piously conformable and good conversation By which wee may see what spirit these Quakers are of and how ready they are to reproach all that are not with them A Generation of Vipers and Adders that when they cannot reach the head will bee biting at the heels of those who come near them and must vent their venome one way or other so that notwithstanding his cavillings the young mans Testimony stands good against him that these blasphemous words were spoken as is alledged Nor must his denyals no nor of many more pass for currant or bear weight against a positive affirmation so solemnly confirmed Nor is blaspheming language of the Quakers so strange or rare as hee would make for it is but the same which was spoken by one Simon Dring another of them as I have declared which allegation Bishop would also enervate and null because I do not name him to whom the words were spoken and from thence sayes it is of my own invention page 77. I was not I confess over-forward to mention the names of persons by whom things were related to mee because all are not willing to have their names so publikely mentioned But now for satisfaction I let him know it is one that is not ashamed to appear in the face of Captain Bishop and it is Mr. Timothy Parker whom I suppose he will not deny to bee a person of credit and who is ready to attest the truth of what I have set down concerning it And for a further discovery of the impostures prevarications deceits and juglings of this generation I 'le give one instance more from a person of whose faithfulness I am assured who himself upon London rode meeting with one with whom hee had been formerly well acquainted and knowing him to bee turn'd Quaker amongst other discourse said unto him by way of dislike of his present judgment and opinions of Quakerisme you did look and hope for righteousness or justification by Jesus Christ the Quaker answered so I do still yea but replied the other Do you look to bee justified and to have your sins pardoned for that blood which Christ shed upon the Crosse whereunto the Quaker replied What can that blood bee worth which was shed so long ago This for substance will bee made good both parties I know very well and this Quaker not one of the dull simple or sottish sort of them who know not the worst of their own opinions but one of an ingenuous education and of abilities more than ordinary in comparison of the generality of them one acquainted with the mysteries of their own iniquity and blasphemous Doctrine And this not much unlike another but a Shee Quaker yet not of the simplest rank who being confer'd with by one who had heard much of their opinions and asking her by whom she hoped to bee saved she answered by Jesus Christ By what Jesus Christ said hee By that Jesus Christ that died at Jerusalem said shee What replied hee by that Jesus Christ that died at Jerusalem and that is now in heaven Yea said shee Whereat hee something wondring and yet suspecting some equivocation or mental reservation Where said hee is that heaven In mee said shee and so discovered the juggle Now who but one who knowes them throughly but would have been satisfied with her first answers And who would have thought it needful to have carried on the question any further And so in the former any honest simple well meaning heart that is not acquainted with their collusions would have been satisfied with the first answer But you see how hard a matter it is for every one to discover them and how loth they are that what they hold should bee fully known lest it should as it deserves render them abhorred by all honest Christians And hence also you see how little they are to bee believed in what they say having reserved meanings to themselves and speaking contrary to the sense of those expressions which are commonly used amongst Christians And now as the rest of his niblings at my Narrative and observations thereupon I shall leave the truth to bee determined by the examinations themselves which hee cannot impeach nor will his affirmations negations or wrestings any way impair And for matter of fact in the rise growth and setling of these people among us I appeal to those
by translation they use to call an unprofitable and empty fellow a Fungus which is a Mushrom He that will be informed of them let them read Gerhards Herbal where among other evil qualities of them you shall finde some of them for there are of several kindes made use of to kill and smother Bees to drive them out of their Hives and bereave the poor Bees of their meat houses and lives And in some places they serve sayes he to carry fire from place to place and which being open'd send forth a thin powder like to smoak This of the Puck foists which is one kinde of Mushrom which is very noysome and hurtful to the eyes causing a kinde of blindnesse which is called Pur-blinde or Sand-blinde and they grow saith he some of them where old rusty iron lies or rotten clouts or neer to Serpents Dens or roots of trees that bring forth venemous fruit In sum they are a slimy excrementitious matter suddenly arising out of the earth having no root and so of no continuance tending as suddenly to putrifaction and rottenness whence they had their original And how this doth quadrare and almost run upon all four and fully suit to hypocritical productions is easie to discern For a little to apply and but a little for an ordinary capacity may carry it on Is it not strange and is it not that which makes the wonder now a-daies that sots drunkards wheres whoremongers covetous persons and oppressors persons stupid and ignorant of no brains or knowledge in morality less in Religion silly clownes and simple women whose capacities reach not beyond their breeding and imployment persons fanatical vertiginous factious of unstable and unsetled spirits and indeed almost all sorts of vile persons that these should be the matter of which the Quakers are gendred Doth not the world wonder at this as it did after the beast which arose out of the Sea Rev. 13. But alas friends cease your wondering Is it such a strange thing to see old rusty iron dirty clouts and rotten trees bring forth dainty Mushroms Is not this the mode of the ungrounded unrooted Professor Know you not or have you not heard of the Parable of the Sower There are a sort of Professors which quickly suddenly take but not having depth of earth not well rooted they dry away and wither Matth. 13. And it 's observable what Matthew hath Mark 4. ver 5. concerning them Luke 8. and Mark also ver 5. That forthwith immediately 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 all of a sudden it sprung up And why Because they had no depth of earth slight and ungrounded Professors start up suddenly and for the same reason they suddenly wither as in the following verses Ill weeds we say grow apace not so good herbs and fruit-bearing plants they bring forth with patience they must have time to perfect them And here let me not be mistaken I do not any way judge or limit the Almighty in his operations upon souls to be converted either for the matter the persons to be converted or the manner the suddenness of it for he is a most free and a most powerful Agent and in my soul I bless and do adore him But let it be considered his workings are not ordinarily so sudden violent and so general especially with such as have been grosly ignorant and scandalous he doth not usually bring souls from the lowest condition of darknesse ignorance and stupidity both natural and spiritual and of profane and ungodly conversation to the heights of light knowledge and holiness even to perfection at an instant in a moment within a few daies or weeks or moneths as these pretend to be These sudden violent and hasty progressions are not usually well grounded or perpetual for indeed they have no bottome no stable foundation and argues that though there be a change 't is not true conversion every turning every change is not conversion The Scripture tells us of some who turn aside after Satan 1 Tim. 1. 15. and that some shall turn away their ears from the truth 2 Tim. 4. 4. and shall be turned unto fables which is the third thing considerable in the Quakers conversion and will evidence their imperfection for perfection stands in these two things to be perfectly fully informed and established in truth of doctrine and faith and to be absolutely fully compleated in holinesse and if a person come short in either he is not absolutely compleatly perfect And now if a man turn from prophaneness to heresie from an ungodly conversation in point of practise to an un-christian or anti-christian perswasion in point of doctrine he cannot be said to be truly converted much lesse absolutely perfect The greatest Heretickes have been sober and serious persons and I do sadly seriously and with respect to the welfare of peoples soules propose it to be weighed by honest yet simple hearts and so easie to be seduced And let them tell me Is there not as great danger and doth it not bring upon the soul as certain perdition and damnation to be under the devils dominion by heresie and false doctrine as by a wicked conversation If not What matter is it whither a man be a Christian or no or what Religion he be of so he be otherwise an honest man and of a good conversation Doth not the Word tell us of damnable heresies which bring swift destruction and that the damnation of such as imbrace them 2 Pet. 2. 1 2 3. slumbers not 1 Tim. 4. 1 2. And of some that depart from the faith i.e. true doctrine and give heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils vented by such as speak lies in hypocrisie and that some are thereby in the devils snare 2 Tim. 2. 25 26. and led captive by him at his will Much more might be and hath been elswhere spoken and written to this purpose not to be denied If then the Quakers do turn from one ungodly way to another as certainly destructive and deadly we cannot account them perfect Nor will their own sayings boasting pretendings avail them for he is not just who acquits himself but he whom God acquitteth And now as for the Anti-christian doctrines of the Quakers they have been sufficiently discovered and whether they acknowledge their heresies or no makes not to the matter 2 Cor. 4. 3 4. for Satans captives are blinded by him and the Lord in judgement gives some men over to the efficacy of errour 2 Thes 2. 10 11 12. to believe lies to their condemnation And let it here again be minded to evince the unsoundnesse of the Quakers conversion aad thence their imperfection the effect or end of Gospel conversion is to change and alter men both in minde and manners and to bring them to that Gospel temper prophecied of and promised Isa 11. 6. 7. 8. The Wolfe shall dwell with the Lamb and the Leopard shall lie down with the Kid and the
Calf and the young Lion and the Fatling together and a little childe shall lead them c. So tame and gentle shall they be walking lowly and meekly under the sense of former vileness with humble acknowledgements of their own unworthinesse of such grace they have received not boasting exalting or Pharisee like lifting up themselves above others with a stand further off I am more holy then thou Whereas the Quakers change is of a quite contrary temper whatever they were before How meek how milde how gentle soever they now become fierce and heady and raging running up and down like mad dogs and tygers barking biting suarling raving and railing at all others nay even women and maidens the ornament of whose sex is a meek and quiet spirit changing their natural temper 1 Pet. 3. 4. become not spiritual but unnatural uncivil and immodest lifting up their voices in the very streets and publike Congregations So that had that conceit of those Phylosophers of Transmigration of the souls of men and women into beasts been true we might have thence fancied another and that is that the souls of beasts had transmigrated and shifted themselves into the bodies of women and maidens and informed them it being otherwise almost impossible sure not imaginable that that more modest and milder sex should so far forget themselves but not to seek after such uncertain light indeed false for the ground of this miscarriage The true light of Scripture tells us Rom. 1. 25. 26. that those who change the truth of God into a lie the Lord in justice gives them up to vile affections and passions so that even women change the order of nature into that which is contrary to nature as this people do So that from the manner of the Quakers conversion the matter and the end and term we may well conclude their change is not true conversion but unsound and rotten and then they are not perfect Thus of the Quakers in general And now to deal with my quaking friend in particular And first as for the person of the man I profess I do not hate him and should the Lord be pleased to humble him to give him a sight of his sins and the grace of true repentance that so he might be truly converted I shall notwithstanding all his unworthy dealings with me gladly receive him into my bosome but for the present and as yet he appears to be I look upon him with a heart full of trembling and beg of God that he would never leave mee or any good man to fall into the like condition For truly as I look upon Francis Spira as a dreadful instance of a poor despairing creature so I look upon George Bishop as a fearful example of a poor wretch whose heart is judicially hardened and his conscience seared and both for sinning against the light of the Gospel revealed to them for the Lord hath several wayes to deal with Gospel-despisers and contemners who receive not the truth with a love of it When I read my opponents Pamphlet oculo currente as we say Throne of Truth page 100. and with a superficial eye I met with his Protestation concerning the matter of the Lord Craven with the iniquity whereof I knew he had been highly charged I made a stand and seriously observed it and I do confess I was somewhat astonished at that bold and daring Appeal which he therein makes unto the all-discerning eye of the Almighty of his innocency and integrity which made me considering the notoriousnesse of the fact and of his being charged with it to read again and to consider whether there might not be some equivocation in the language and expression which not appearing to me I then began to think that possibly he might not be guilty this being an age wherein many things are charged upon many men very slightly and ungroundedly and sometimes very falsly But when I more closely and with a more observant eye read again his writings and took notice of his practises and devices his juglings wrestlings prevarications and pervertings of my plain sense and meaning his putting of blindes and fallacies upon his Reader which artifice possibly he learned of his Master the Jesuite whom he served till he was discovered And when I observed his railing and reviling language with his malicious and revengeful tendencies I then saw that as he had dealt with a shameless forehead in this matter so he had done in that also and that he was a person of a profligate spirit and that there was some mental reservation in his protestation or that which I most incline to believe he is a man of a most supernaturally and God-forsaken-harden'd heart and seared conscience And I affirme that if we may judge and take an estimate of the Conscience honesty and perfection of the Quakers in general by this man in particular we may safely say that one may be as vile a person as any under heaven and yet be a perfect Quaker For certainly he that shall dare to make such an appeal to the all-seeing eye of God of his innocence and shall be guilty will dare to do any thing But the Proverb is verified She that will dare to play the Whore will dare to deny it Custome is a second nature So that in what a man is accustomed unto it is a hard matter for him to do otherwise Can the Ethiopian change his skin Jer. 13. 23. or the Leopard his spots then may ye also do good that are accustomed to do evil Frequent and reiterated acts beget a habit and hard and much working doth not more harden the hand than often sinning hardens the heart 2 Pet. 2. from 10. to the end So that as S. Peter sayes they cannot cease from sin who as S. Paul describes them Eph. 4. 18 19. through the darkness of their mindes and the blindness of their hearts being past feeling give themselves over to work all manner of wickednesse even with greedinesse 1 Kin. 21. 20. And with Ahab who by wicked practises got away Naboth's vineyard sell themselves to work evil even in the sight of the Lord. And when they have perpetrated their leudness with the Whore in the Proverbs eat and wipe their mouthes Pro. 30. 20. and say I have done no wickednesse Nay so prevalent is Satan with such persons that they will pretend to God Religion and the publick interest to promote their evil practises So did Ahab but the devil is never a worse devil than when a Saint Dissimulata Sanctitas est duplex iniquitas Dissembled counterfeited Sanctity is double iniquity none so dangerously tempting and taking 2 Cor 11. 14. and therefore doth Satan himself transform himself sometimes into an Angel of light 1 Thes 2 9. coming with greater power than ordinary and more specious shewes of holinesse he comes as an immediate messenger an Angel from heaven with great light when 't is but a new Gospel if it be
who were eare and eye-witnesses of these things And for his atheological cavillings and Scripture wresting and misapplyings I refer to those who are judicious in such matters to conclude between us onely there are some few things wherein I must observe unto my Reader the malicious and revengeful temper of this man in his dealing with mee I confess neither the person of my Opponent or the things are in themselves worthy of the thoughts of any serious man and I should therefore have past it over but that I minde my ingagement and promise which is to let the world see in the instance of my adversary that the conversion and perfection of a Quaker if to bee estimated by this mans is very unsound imperfect and rotten notwithstanding all their outward shewes and specious pretences any man even with half an eye as the saying is my easily discern by the matter and manner of his language that his design all along and throughout his whole Pamphlet is to render mee all the wayes hee can obnoxious to danger and the displeasure of others that are above mee wherein besides his malice his impotence is discerned in that being not able to revenge himself upon mee hee would bring mee within the reach of others who might do it for him And see how hee goes out of the wayes of truth and honesty to do it so revengeful is hee yea out of the way of his own profession so impetuously is hee hurried in his rage and passion for but minde his Courtship giving flattering titles and having respect to persons as they call our due tenders of reverence and honour to our Superiours in page 27. Justice Fell a discreet grave man one of the Judges of the Nation and Chancellour of the Dutchy of Lancaster Well what of all this Why sayes George to mee Art thou assured hee will put up all this Oh sayes hee the instance is so foul and odious and so fill'd with scoffs and jeers that thy wickednesse therein is hard to bee exprest Thus hee there Oh lamentable Is it not pitty that any man much more a Minister of the Gospel and if you will a Priest should commit so great a crime Surely it can be no less than betraying Mr. Love to death or ruining some great mans estate by base practises perjury bribery or some such thing No but 't is as bad Why what is it Oh hearken and wonder In page 31. of my Narrative I produc'd Judge Fells wife as one bearing witness in the behalf of James Naylor and here 's my sin which hath rais'd all this out-cry I said such discerning folks cannot easily bee mistaken Ah poor impotent creature how hath rage and malice and hatred and envy besotted him Is not this man guilty of having mens persons in admiration for advantage that hee might have advantage against mee Or doth hee mock the Judge in giving him these titles so much contrary to their quaking principle The Lord help him to see the baseness of his Spirit But yet why doth hee add an c. to the criminous words quoted by himself Why surely to let the world see that his malice out-bid and out-brib'd his conscience for being convinced in himself that the words quoted would not bear so high a charge against mee as of a crime so great the wickedness whereof can hardly bee exprest hee would have it understood that the danger lay in the word c. which if it do 't is none of mine And let any one in the world read my book and say whether they can finde any thing else in that whole matter to bee charged as an offence upon mee And is this such an offence so heinous so grievous to say ironically that such discerning folk as Judge Fells wife cannot easily bee mistaken What 's this to the Judge May not a wise man a good man have a simple a perverse or a quaking wife which is not in his power to remedy further than to restrain her from their assemblies hee cannot change her judgment As for the Judge himself I meddle not I do not know him I have not heard to my remembrance other than well of him Well the Lord forgive my adversary and humble and alter him Sure I am this is far from that simplicity charity goodness that was and is in Christ Jesus Hence ex ungue leonem by this paw of the Lion or rather hoof of some more silly creature judge of the man or if you will you may take him both wayes A Lion or a Bear for his rage and fierceness and a more sottish beast for his silliness I have discovered the venom of his teeth in this the more fully to save my self and thee Reader some labour in being as brief as possibly I may in the following particulars and the next is his endeavour to traduce mee with traducing the Magistrates of our City And whereas I plead their excuse in that by their lenity at first over and above what other places in the Nation exercised towards these croaking frogs they gave them too much incouragement to nestle amongst us imputing this as just cause I had to their too much fearfulness and having been formerly over-topt and over-born by an over-swaying power by the usurpation of inferiour Officers exercised upon them and looking upon this as a part of their weakness and infirmities which because of the common frailty incident to all men even the best I did as being in the body and sensible of the same frailties Christianly and soberly alleviate not justifie how does hee most Pharisaically and proudly fall both upon mee and them in it And because I say and say now that the best Magistrates have their spots defects and failings hee concludes them to bee no Magistrates of God but men of sin evil doers and the born of the devil page 34. But because this nor any thing in my Narrative would afford matter to incense them hee runs abroad licking up the vomit of every malicious and venomous Spider to belch it out against mee and this lyingly too more suo for hee sayes that I endeavoured in the Pulpit to render them vile and odious one while likening them to Jupiters log and to George on horseback and reproaching them with the abilities of Tom Pain which hee puts in great letters as if I had mentioned his name in the Pulpit But what a bold and daring wretch is this to judge of my intentions and endeavours as if they were to render the Magistrates vile and odious When being call'd to preach unto them upon a publike occasion for administration of Justice The Lord knows my heart my endeavour was to render them honourable and precious by â—â—â—ssing them to discharge their duty and to that purpose I told them that Magistrates should not bee as Jupiters log which by lying still and doing nothing made the frogs bold with it and to leap upon and make sport with and that they should not bee as the picture
you Oh horrid and dreadful not onely bee a common lyar but to forge to put in and to add words on purpose to insnare men no marvel you catcht at Faulconers words but once spoken and put them in hastily to take away ones estate when you forge and put in words many words whole lines in a short examination which were never spoken and this to take away mens lives And here ex ore tuo serve nequam out of thine own mouth from thine own words shalt thou bee judged Look back and minde thine own expressions in thine own book pages 7 and 8 where you charge mee with forgery in one word and which yet was not forgery but a mistake and that not in mee neither and yet see your outcries and loud exclamations You may here see say you of what a false and mischâ—evous spirit this Priest is and what a devillish wickedness it is to forge in such a word as for it were it truly so would take away his Foxes life What credit is to bee given to what such a one saith And again Is not hee that can do this past blushing Is there any wickednesse so great that such a one may not bee well conceived to bee ready to act Is such a one a Minister of the Gospel Words need not further to expresse such an act which in its very face is so manifestly wicked and abominable a wickednesse not found in the Roll of those evils which the Apostle mentions should make the last daies perillous I 'le say no more I need not Read the words and remember your own actions and apply But let mee ask you were these all whose blood you thirsted after Did you not write a letter to a friend of yours in Bristol from White-Hall that until Calamy and some other of the Priests were dealt withal as Love was it would never bee well I hope I shall one day get that book of yours which you writ against him mentioned before viz. A short Plea for the Commonwealth Those who have seen it tell mee it most fully sets forth the fierceness and bitterness of your spirit not only against him but that you shew your rancour and malice therein against many of the servants of Christ whose names are yet precious in the Churches and the memory of whom will live when your name shall rot and perish or if it bee mentioned or remembred it shall bee with abhorrence and detestation as infamous as poor Faulconers is I cannot but remind that passage of yours in your Throne page 34. where because I said the Magistrates had their spots and failings you say they are no Magistrates of God but men of sin and the born of the devil If spots and failings do in your judgement render them thus Oh! what are you mind that Rom. 4. beg Therefore thou art inexcuseable O man whosoever thou art Jew or Gentile Ranter or Quaker that judgest for wherein thou judgest another thou condemnest thy self for thou that judgest dost the same things nay infinitely worse But wee are sure the Judgement of God is according to truth against them which commit such things and thinkest thou this O man that judgest them who do such things and doest the same that thou shalt escape the Judgement of God But Reader in this poor wretch you see what a dreadful thing and what a heavy judgement it is for a man to bee given up of God what wickedness so abominable that hee will not then commit So Rom. 1. ver 24. to the end And see also how the Lord doth punish hatred and contempt of his Ministry and servants and Apostasie from the truth with hardnesse of heart and blindnesse of mind giving them over to believe lyes 2 Thes 2. 10 11 12. What a sottish piece is this poor man become to turn Quaker But 't is most true Shipwrack of faith and of a good conscience are seldome severed 1 Tim. 1. 19. But yet Countryman come there is hope in Israel concerning this thing there is still balm in Gilead the blood of Jesus Christ shed at Jerusalem though above sixteen hundred years ago is as efficacious as prevalent as ever Come man leave quaking don't trample upon and despise the price of thy Redemption I see thou art in the gall of bitternesse and bond of iniquity but come repent of thy wickednesse and pray to God perhaps the thoughts of thy heart and the wickedness of thy hands and the blasphemies of thy pen and tongue may bee forgiven thee Don't despise the riches of Gods goodness and forbearance and long-suffering towards thee know that the goodnesse of God in this patience of his in not cutting thee off is to lead thee to repentance Consider friend there is a day coming wherein the Lord will bring to light the hidden things of darkness and will make manifest all secret plots contrivances and under-hand counsels Repent whiles 't is called to day lest thy heart bee more and more hardened through the deceitfulness of sin treasure not up wrath by impenitence and hardness of heart one true repentant tear will avail more now than millions of yellings and howlings then our Jesus is able to save perfectly and to the uttermost all those who come unto the Father through him meet him whom thou slightest and make him thy friend And for a close know and consider that if you go on in sin wilfully and impenitently after you have received the knowledge of the truth and that you despise the blood of Christ there remains no more sacrifice for sin but a fearful looking for of judgement and of fierce indignation which shall devoure the adversaries And now from henceforth let none of these Quakers trouble mee I have done with this generation but if they will bee troubling let them know I will not bee troubled And as for any further answers replies contendings or debatings with them or him being well assured that my ground work on which my discourse and discovery is founded will stand firm I declare this as my Coronis my farewel to Quakerisme As for their doctrines or opinions in this or any other of their Pamphlets I think them not worth the reading much less the answering by any serious Christian especially that hath publick imployments indeed not of any one that hath ought else to do but to make a long voyage to Tarshish to fetch only Apes and Peacocks I conclude therefore with holy Augustine Tales judices velim c. I desire such Judges of my writings that will not alwayes require an answer when they shall finde what I have written to bee spoken against those things which being matter of fact have clear testimonies and being matters of doctrine have clear arguments and authorities It were a prejudice and disparagement to either to agitate them alwayes upon the cavils of ignorant or contentious persons therefore I end FINIS Books lately written by William Prynne Esq a Bencher of Lincolnes-Inne and sold by Edward Thomas in Green-Arbour Iâ—s Patronatus Or the Right of Patrons to present Vicars to Parish Churches c. The first and second part of a seasonable legal and historical vindication of the Fundamental Rights and Laws of England The second Edition in Quarto A Declaration and Protestation against Excize in general and Hopps a native incertain commodity in particular A PIECE WORTHY PERUSAL A Polemical Desertation of the Inchoation and Determination of the Lords Day Sabbath An old Parliamentary Prognostication for the Members there in Consultation The Quakers unmasked and clearly detected to bee the Spawn of Romish Froggs c. A new Discovery of Free-State Tyranny The first Part of a Short Demurrer to the Jewes long discontinued Remitter into England The second Part of the Short Demurrer c. A Legal Resolution of two important Queries concerning Ministers giving of the Sacrament to their Parishioners A new Discovery of Romish Emissaries Pendennis and all other standing Garrisons dismantled Also all the former works of Mr. William Prynne both before during and since his Imprisonments are sold by Edward Thomas in Green-Arbour More Books printed and sold by Edward Thomas in Green-Arbour REynolds Of Gods Revenge against Murther Folio Festivous Notes on Don Quixot Folio Phioravants Three Pieces in Quarto A Rich Closet of Physical Secrets in Quarto Bakers Arithmetick in Octavo Crumbs of Comfort in twenty fours Private Devotions by D. Valentine in twenty fours Lillies Grammar in English by R. Robinson The School of Complements in Twelves A Little Handful of Cordial Comforts by Rich. Stardfast Master of Arts the third Edition in Twelves Railing Rebuked or A Defence of the Ministers of the Nation against the Quaker by William Thomas Minister of the Gospel at Ubley in Quarto A Vindication of the Scripture and Ministery by William Thomas Minister of Ubley in Quarto Practical Husbandry Improved by G. Platts in Quarto c. Satan Inthroned in his Chair of Pestilence wherein the whole business of Ja. Nayler his coming into Bristol and his Examination is related by Ralph Farmer Minister of the Gospel in Quarto A so the Life of James Nayler with his Parents Birth Education Actions and Blasphemies is exactly set forth by William Deacon in Quarto Hypocrisie Unmasked or the Definition and Characters of the Natural Moral Civil Praying Hypocrite and how they differ from the sincere Christian by Mr. Samuel Crook late Rector of Wrington in Sommersetshire The true Christ falsly applyed discovered 1. How far his person 2. The expectation of receiving Christ in the Spirit 3. The operation of Christ received 4. The Predestination And 5. His Merits and Free-grace are not truly apprehended from whence some conclude to cast off all Ordinances pretend and expect to Prophesie and work Miracles all which with twenty more false Applications of the true Christ are discovered by W. Kaye Minister at Stokesley