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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39307	Rogero-Mastix A rod for William Rogers, in return for his riming scourge, &c. By Thomas Ellwood.	Ellwood, Thomas, 1639-1713.	1685 (1685)	Wing E625; ESTC R215518	17,848	31

set the Author free ●…an while so far as I thy meaning guess 〈◊〉 will Reply and readily confess ●…at ev'ry one who in the Gospel-Path ●…th walk uprightly such a Teacher hath 〈◊〉 can't into a Corner be remov'd ●…hich from the holy Scripture may be prov'd ●…hich if it be of th' inward Teacher meant ●…s I to take it here am well content ●…t do the Scriptures plainly too declare ●…d Paul himself doth Testimony bear ●…at Christ when he ascended up on high ●…e Teachers for the Work o' th' Ministry ●…d gave those Teachers Gifts to fit them to ●…e Work he had appointed them to do ●…e of those Teachers too in down-right Terms 〈◊〉 Apostle Paul himself to be affirms 〈◊〉 which we plainly see our gracious Lord 〈◊〉 outward Teachers to his Church afford ●…ough they had the inward And to them 〈◊〉 outwardly he said who do condemn 〈◊〉 me contemns who yield to you the E●…r 〈◊〉 you receive me too receive and hear I have enlarg'd because I see thou' rt bent To vilifie those Teachers Christ hath sent Thou add'st while speaking of Teacher prov'd That into Corners could not be remov'd But did not preach it up a slight to bring On holy Scriptures pen'd for our Learning What means this William Dost thou any know Amongst the Quakers who do now preach so Name if thou canst among us all one Friend That slights the Scriptures for our Learning pen'd Such dark Suggestions do from Envy ●…ow And a malicious concred Mind they show For selfish ends thou sayst some thus did se●… You see not right your Light directs not well Thy drift is here the Quakers to compare With the Worlds Teachers who in Darkness are And so art thou The cases differ quite For their Objection was against the Light But so 's not ours You see not right they said The fault whereof upon the Light they laid We see and truly that you see not right But far be 't from us to reproach the Light We never say the Light directs not well We tell you That you from the Light are fell Their case with ours doth no proportion bear But serves to make thy Envy more appear In all these Passages that I have quoted And divers others that I have not noted Of the same tendency with these thy aim Is by Insinuation to defame Gods faithful Servants and beget suspition That they have lost their primitive condition Whenas it is indeed thyself and those Who with thee joyn Truths Order to oppose That art from Truth and Godliness departed And leagu'd in War against the honest hearted Whom with malicious Mind and words untrue Thou in the following Lines dost thus pursue What Hypocrites are all such Quakers then As touching Souls concern have said Amen On the meer credit of auother's Lines That seeking Self from Scripture-Truth's declines Here 's Slander by the Lump A Whole-sale Trade Who are the Quakers thou dost thus upraid Come to Particulars leave gen'ral Work Deceit thou knowst in Generals doth Lurk Name none 'gainst whom thou darest undertake The charge thou here hast publisht good to make And make it good too I will then declare He and thy self may make an even pair Hadst thou consider'd as it thee behov'd How many things must in this Charge be prov'd Not only that the Author of those Lines Which Souls concern from Scripture Truth 's declines And seeketh self but that some Quakers do On his meer credit say Amen thereto It might perhaps have thee more wary made And the loose Ramblings of thy Pen have staid But when dark Envy once the Eye doth blind It bars Consideration from the Mind Have any told thee that they said Amen On the meer credit of another Then Prethee conceal them not disclose their Names And let them of their Follies bear the Shames But if none so have told thee prithee whence Assum'st thou to thy self the Confidence To dive mens Hearts and undertake to know The only Motive whereupon they go Thou that hast so derided inward S●…se Wilt not pretend I hope to judge from thence And if thou hast not been expresly told By themselves how dar'st thou be so bold And positive that some have said Amen On the meer credit of another when For ought thou know'st they had an inward sense The thing was right and said Amen from thence And that Amen may to another's words In Truth be said the Scripture Proof affords And for that cause th' Apostle doth command To use a Tongue that People understand In thy third page thy Mouth thou open'st wide To Rail at Fox his Preachers and his Pride Thy Railing 's slighted and laid under foot And for the rest I 'll say but this unto 't George Fox is of the Truth a faithful Teacher And hath been from the first but has no Preacher That he calls his They that by thee are meant Are Preachers that as he by Christ are sent I dare thee but one Preacher to impeach That was by him commissioned to preach And as for Pride hadst thou been half so humble Thou hadst not climb'd so high to take this tumble Thou sayst He fram'd i' th' Church a Government I say not he but Christ that had him sent Christ by his Spirit first in him did move The Church the same in Spirit did approve When Deacons first were in the Church appointed By those that with the Spirit were anointed Was that appointment to be call'd their own Or Christ's whose Life and Pow'r through them was shown Paul in the Church did sundry things ordain Bear with the word the Scripture speaks it p●…in For Order sake Was therefore th' Order his No sure not his but Christ's And so in this Thou Cavil'st too that after Government Preachers approv'd by man beyond Seas went This too perhaps may serve at least is meant 〈◊〉 kindle Jealousies and Discontent ●…raw unsettled Minds Let 's therefore scan ●…e meaning of those words Approv'd by Man 〈◊〉 Man thou mean'st the Church for so I find ●…hou hast a few Lines off exprest thy Mind ●…d to approve imports to own receive ●…end or like This then no room doth leave 〈◊〉 Cavil For he must be stupid grown ●…at thinks Christ's Church should not Christs Preachers own ●…des I note that here thou hast not said ●…ose Preachers were by man ordain'd or made ●…t that that they were approv'd Now 't is most plain 〈◊〉 thing t' Approve another to Ordain ●…ey had their Ordination from above 〈◊〉 Christ Ordains his Church may well approve ●…d to receive the Churches Approbation 〈◊〉 to Christ's Servants no Dis-reputation 〈◊〉 that in Righteousness and Peace says Paul 〈◊〉 Christ and in the Spirit joy withal 〈◊〉 ●…to God acceptable and then ●…dds he Approved also is of men Thou giv'st an hint as if of them that went Beyond the Seas some by G. F. were sent How prov'st thou that I Proof thereof

whilst thou of a Paper wast a Treating The thought of B●…lls strait made thee fall a Bleating Come William whilst thou writ such Paltry Trash Ne'e wo●…der if thou sometimes get'st a Lash Thou 〈◊〉 whose Back the Wise man says The 〈◊〉 Is for Henceforth let Wisdom's Path be trod Leave thy Scurrilities cease to Revile And if thou wilt write learn a more cleanly Stile Thy Language is most Loathsom Take a tast Thereof in what thou in thy tenth page say'st Hence Sixty Six like Mercenary Iudges Or rather like Self-seeking slavish Drudges By Satan led What N●…sty Terms are these How Foul must that Mind be that this can please No question William but thou at this rate May'st all the Scolds out scold at Billings-Gate As to thy Cavil that what was prepar'd By one was past against thy Iohn unheard Thy STORY 's false He had been fully heard And faulty found as at Drawell appear'd But this same Cavil has before been brought And Answer'd fully in my Antidote To which I now refer thee not delighting On the same ANVIL to be always-smiting Thy Curtailling the Number of the Beast To make thy g●…ddy Folk a j●…lly Feast Is such a Beastly Prank as n●…'er was play'd By any that of Truth Profession made What To prophane the Text with frothy wit And sport at what the Holy Ghost hath writ He that shall dare invent such slipp'ry Tricks May shrink the Number of the Beast to six But William nothing can more plainly show How scard that Conscience is from which did flow Thy scoff than that thou therewith dost belye The Chief of Christian Vertues Charity Thy Clamour against Excommunication Shēws what thou wouldst be at A Toleration For Unclean Spirits in the Church to l●…rk And uncontroul'd to carry on their work Against the Truth that so they might effect The Mischief the●… design and not be checkt That such as in their practice do Oppose The principles of Truth as do all those That pay the Priest for preaching though they may It do in never such a covert way That these and other such who are no less Unfaithful to the Truth which they profess Might notwithstanding from Reproof be free Upon pretence they don't the Evil ●…ee That such as will when Persecution shall Arise may let Truth 's Testimony fall Forsake their Meeting Places Skulk and hide And closely into Obscure Places glide Meet now and then by stealth in pit or Gill And set a Lad to watch upon an Hill Or Hireling like into a Cock loft creep Themselves to save what e're befals the Sheep And though by such Unfaithfulness they break The strength of Others and make many Weak Though they Examples so pernicious show Yet should f●…r Friends and Preachers blameless go That such as hav●… in Truth 's Profession stood May now as ●…me such did before the Flood In Marriages with Unbelievers link And yet expect the Church at least should wink That Zimri might his Cozbi without fear Of being peirced by a Phineas-Spear From Mid●…an fetch And with her as befell Of old the Plague bring upon Israel That by such Mixtures They the Holy seed Might Stain and introduce a Mungrel Breed Which half the Language should of Ashdod speak And make God's Warth against his People reak That such as list might in their Discontent The seamless Garment of our Saviour rent Make Breaches in the Church D●…ssention sow And cause Divisions amongst Friends to grow And that they might although they Guilty be Of All these Crimes from all Reproof be free Nor only so but to be own'd expect Ev'n by that Church whose Power they reject This pleases wondrous well the Libertine The loose Licentiats think it very fine And to be loose and yet retain their Station They baul amain at Excommunication But blest be God our Saviour hath not left His Church so void of power nor her bereft Thereof to be will suffer but that shee Hath in her self full pow'r her self to free From such Pretenders who unto her cling Only that they may Scandall on her bring Our Saviour his Disciples hath directed That such as private Warnings had neglected Should to the Churches Censure be refer'd Which plainly shews The Church is to be heard And ●…whoso Her neglects to hear saith He Let him be as an Heathen Man to th●…e And that the Church did such Cut off declare From her Communion as unruly were In the Apostles days the Texts here set Sufficient are a Credence to beget This is a Principle that hath a place Even in Nature too as well as Grace In living Bodies how doth Nature strive The foul and penant Humours out to drive And reason good for why should that remain Which would corrupt the Health or Beauty stain All Liquors that have life by defectation ●…urge out their Dregs and make a separation And shall Christs Church alone less power have Than unto natural Bodies Nature gave That she must to Communion those receive Who her of Life and Honour would bereave No no our Saviour hath his Church indu'd With pow'r from her Communion to exclude ●…ruly spirits Evil Workers Those That Christian Order in Christs Church oppose That which to other Churches is a stain 〈◊〉 that they don 't within due Bounds contain Themselves but outward paenalties impose ●…n Body or Estate or both on those They Excommunicate which doth not stand With Christian Practice or with Christ's Command But William no such things can charged be On Friends Nay that they from such things are free Thy Self hast own'd than whom where's any more sparing To own a Truth or to Asperse more daring That which of Persecuting thou dost tell us 〈◊〉 but what Hymeneus or Phygellus Dimas Her●…ogenes Philetus with ●…rim Alexander to●… the Copper-Smith ●…ight have Objected to th' Apostle Paul ●…ad they as Envious been and apt to braul ●…or Two of these th' Apostle doth declare ●…or their bold ●…lasphemies deliver'd were ●…y him to Satan And of all the rest ●…ome Evil Note or other is exprest These thought no doubt St Paul was much to blame For casting such a Blemish on their name 'T is like They took it for a Defamation As thou a Wounding of their Reputation And might against St Paul have learnt to prate Had they but had thee for their Advocate But William One short Answer may Suffice To stop the Clamour of thy causless Cries All they that into such disorders run As cause the Church their Fellowship to shun And to the World ev'n-force Her to declare That they in her Communion have no share These on themselves do that Discredit bring Which thou so fain upon the Church would'st fling 'T is They themselves their Reputation wound The Church is only in Her duty found But O the Impudence that Friends should be With Persecution tax't and that by thee By thee who with some others did combine At Bristol and