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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28152	A word of reproof and advice to my late fellow-souldiers and officers of the English, Irish, and Scotish army with some inrhoad made upon the hireling and his mass-house, university, orders, degrees, vestments, poperies, heathenism, &c. : with a short catalogue of some of the fighting priests and ... have given them a blow in one of their eyes (pickt out of the whores head) which they call a fountain of religion but is a sink of iniquity ... / by E.B.	Billing, Edward, 1623-1686.	1659 (1659)	Wing B2903; ESTC R23695	86,580	98

name of him and onely him that made heaven and earth may it please you● worship may it please your Lordship may it please your honour c. Now if all honour mind the word all which will not admit of the word some to be joyned with it in that place doth belong to God alone as I am sure it doth there is not the least of Room for your fond appellations which ye give and receive one of another How can ye believe that receives honour one of another Oh! Let Moab come down before she be compelled to serve and the Lord stain all your honours in one day for I am sure some of ye he will overtake with speed and their memories shall rot but the name of the just shall live for ever therefore let every soul of ye be subject to the higher powers which is higher and above the transgressor and see if yet there be any remorse in ye towards your poor brethren who as I said before are languishing in nasty holes and several dead most of them dead and alive being such who have freely offered up their lives with ye in the actual service for the Common-wealth in the heat of It is the same man that was called Round head that is called Quaker therefore let all that are in authority be ashamed to see us thus dealt with the day and I am sure we have not forfeited our right in the least or purchased your indignation by either plots or rebellion against ye although ye have sufficiently provoked us by suffering far more to be laid upon us then as we are men could be borne and me thinks our peaceable patient and innocent carriage cannot but smite ye to the very heart I am sure it hath reached Heaven and if ye were not in the deepest slumber even the sleep of death ye would not lame your selves to uphold the interest of a company of gormandizing Priests who creep into the Mass-house and there speak a devination of their own brain or make a plot in the week days and there discover it and bid others keep holy upon that day upon which they keep market and tell the people if they do not pay their Tythes they rob God and it may be threateneth those that are behind to sue them or send them to prison forth-with so that upon that day which he exhorts others to keep holy he doth all manner of work that tends to his quarterly gain Can that be the Ministry of Christ that murthers men for their bellies Nay it is impossible for the Ministers of Christ laboured with their own hands and took by violence from no man neither were they so much as burthensome to any much lesse stocked caused to be whipped imprisoned or smote with their hands but with them laboured and knocked down no man nor imprisoned any man to death for their bellyes but in this some of these at this day do glory And yet if any be moved of the Lord to tell any one of these cruel men that their glory is their shame or their belly is their God it s much if some Priest-ridden Justice or another do not send him to the Goal for it I shall also shew ye the rope of sand wherein many of these Priests have been wrapt Henry the 8. was a Papist the same Henry the 8 was a Protestant and called himself Defender of the Faith Edward the 6 a Protestant Queen Mary a Papist Queen Elizabeth a Protestant again King James was both for and against Bishops King Charles he was called a Church-Papist yet loved Bishops and Book of Common Prayer so well that an open war was declared against him which hath cost an innumerable quantity of blood and treasure he and his Bishops extirpated swore vowed and declared against and others have taken possession yet I shall seal it with my blood That there is 1200 Priests in England that are as bad as those 12 Bishops were so that at the best we are but where we were after all this fighting killing and being killed pulling down and setting up and all men may plainly see that have not done away reason and sold themselves to the spirit of prejudce that the best of their religion is but till further order and the change of a King or the change of a Queen or the alteration of a goverment puts them out of order and to seek for their religion tell they have received further order from man or at least till they have studied what religion the King or Chief Ruler adheres to and there they will seemingly imitate There they were and there they are tell further order and the best of their Religion will reach no further but tell further order See what the Ploughman in his complaint saith of these wicked men in the Reign of K. Edward the third here followeth somewhat subtracted forth of his complaint the thing being too large to insert verbatim AH Lord though that the Plowman may not have so much silver for their prayers as other men for See the plowmans complaint in K. Ed. thirds time Foxes Acts and Monuments Vol. 1. p. 524. they know not so well to prize their prayers as these other chapmen But Lord our hope is our prayers be never the worse though they be not so well sold as other mens prayers They turn thy words into songs and tales and so men do now they sing thy words merrily and that singing they call thy service but Lord I trow the best singers thou hearest not most but he that fulfilleth thy words he thou heareth full well though he weep more then sing and I trow that weeping for breaking of thy commandements be more pleasing to thee then singing of thy words and forsaking of travel which God commands and give their selves to idleness that is the mother of all naughtinesse Lord Mary thy blessed Mother and Joseph touched often times thy body and yet wrought with their hands and lived in as much cleannesse of soul as our Priests do now But Lord men make now great stonen houses full of glassen windows and calleth them thine houses and Churches but thou saist those that did worship in such had been worthy of death Lord in thy Gospel thou sayest that true worshipers of God worship him not in the Hill beside Samaria nor in Jerusalem neither but true worshippers of God worship him in spirit and in truth And Lord God what a worship is this to build thee a Church of dead stones and rob thy quick Churches of their bodily livelyhood to cloath stocks and stone with See pulpit cloaths and many guilded coats painted windows with pictures of many a monstrous beast silver and gold and other good colours and I see thine own images go in cold and in heat in cloathing all to broken without shoon hosen and hungred and athirst feeding themselves and not thy flock hiding Thee that art our light and those that were fed they slew and

which was and hath for a long time been slain is made alive and the mighty God of the oppressed is arisen in great strength so as he will slay all that live in pleasure fulness and wantonness and very many shall the slain of the Lord be and those who refuse to hear the Prophet in all things shall be cut off and terrible will our God be to all the workers of iniquity for assuredly the wicked and all those that forget God shall be turned into Hell And I looked and lo a Lamb stood on the Mount Sion and with him ●n hundred forty and four thousand having his Fathers Name written in their fore-heads and they sung as it were a new song before the Throne and before the four beasts and the Elders and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty four thousand Which were Redeemed from the earth These are they which were not defiled with women for they are Virgins These are they which follow the Lamb whethersoever he goeth These were Redeemed from among men being the first fruits unto God and to the Lamb. And in them there was found no guile for they are without fault before the Throne of God And I saw another Angel flie in the midst of Heaven having the Everlasting Gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the Earth and to every Nation and Kindred and Tongue and people saying with a loud voice Fear God and give Glory to Him for the hour of his Judgment is come worship Him that made Heaven and Earth the Sea and the Fountains of waters And there followed another Angel saying Babylon is fallen is fallen that great City because she made all Nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her Fornication And the third Angel followed them saying with a loud voice If any man worship the Beast and his Image and receive his mark in his fore-head or in his hand The same shall drink the wine of the wrath of God which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation and he sha●l be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the Holy Angels and in the presence of the Lamb. And the smoak of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever and they shall have no rest day nor night who worship the Beast and his Image and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name And I heard the Angel of the waters say Thou art Righteous O Lord which art and wast and shalt be because thou hast Judged thus For they have shed the blood of the Saints and Prophets and thou hast given them blood to drink for they are worthy And I heard another out of the Altar say Even so Lord God Almighty true and Righteous are thy Judgements for they are the spirits of Devils working miracles which go forth unto the Kings of the earth and of the whole World to gather them to the battel of the great day of God Almighty And I saw as it were a Sea of glass mingled with fire and them that had gotten the Victory over the Beast and over his Image and over his mark and over the number of his names stand on the Sea of glass having the harps of God and they sung the song of Moses the servant of God and the song of the Lamb saying Great and marvellous are thy works Lord God Almighty Just and True are thy wayes thou King of Saints Who shall not fear thee O Lord and give glory to thy Name For thou only art Holy for all Nations shall come and worship before thee for thy Judgements are made manifest Even so be it Amen Come Lord Rev. 14. 1 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11. Rev. 16. 5 6 7. and 14. Rev 15. 2 3. Given forth in the 4th Month 16●8 By E B. THE END A VVORD To those old Creatures who are old in iniquity and in the fallen state yet deny falling away who say once in Christ and ever in Christ when as it may be they are at the very same time in a very great rage disputing and pleading for sin Term-of-life I Say to such unprofitable talkers who are willing and by their own consent do contract with Hell and Death who stretch themselves forth in big swelling words and think themselves it may be much better because they are crowded into gathered Churches as they call them and it may be of a truth can say something of an antient and past experience moving or appearance of God to and in them whereupon their big word and wide-mouthed-boast is when the poor Souls or rather proud Pharisees are at the very top of their vaunting to wit once in Christ and ever in Christ such I many times am moved ask Whether they are obeying the Command doing the Work Will of Christ at this time now and ever Mark Once in Christ and ever in Christ and I am sure he that for ever abides in Christ must now and ever do the Will and Commands of Christ and they are not grievous nor unholy neither can that man which is impure imperfect or unholy observe obey or do them in the love and belief of them and He now and ever Redeems and saves his people from their sins note that for he which sinneth is of the ●evil Yea though he be but proud and covetous and as full of persecution as too too many professors are which is of the old creature and such are not new creatures nor in Christ Jesus now and ever neither are they purified as he is pure who is the substance the one onely one thing needful who is the beginning and end of all things himself without beginning or end who is not afar of but nigh at hand and a ready helper unto all them who fear him wh● is the root o● ●esse the Promise come the Truth the Oath and admits not of any swearing whatsoever that 's his Command and it is not grievous for his yoke is easie and his burthen is light in and by whom I see light who sayes Swear not at all And he doth not reap where he hath not first sowen For he doth enlighten every man that cometh into the World Male and Female Bond and Free Scythian and Barbarian and a measure of himself is given to every man continually to profit with all note to every man He was not so selfish as many of ye are who are in this and that and the other form I do not say all who do seclude al● that are not with ye in your set dayes bread wine and Baby Baptism out of the Everlasting Kingdom which was before your fables were But he that is in Christ i● a new creature Mark he is he doth not say he was or he shall be and so warm himself by his own coals by onely saying the Righ●eousness of Chri●t the Righteousness of Christ is sufficient But I say he which confesseth and forsaketh his sins shall find mercy Mark that

off But we as the holy men did gladly suffer all wrongs and our selves to be defrauded freely giving up our outward man and substance without resisting to death to the merciless persecutor but the mercen●ry hireling who is the only cause of our persecution is so far from being found in these the holy men and Ministers of Christs practices that they wrong all men and all men are defrauded by them most cruelly exacting where they never lent pulling where they never planted cloathing with the fleece they never wrought for feeding with the fat and sweet they never sweat for in short by force they exact and reap all manner of carnals where they have not sown spirituals nor carnals And them who are called teachers have and do exceedingly Erre and greater injustice and crueller rapeness were never commited by men then there hath been by this Legion of evil doers but for their labours if they repent not they shall be called the least in the Kingdom * Isaiah said they were all blind and ignorant and dumb dogs that never had enough and Jeyemiah said that the Prophets prophesied falsly and the Priests did bear rule by their means and Ezekiel said they fed themselves and not the flock Micha said they Preached for hire and Divined for money and Hosea said they were as a Troop of robbers that did waite for a man so the company of Priests did murther in the way by consent Reader I pray thee read Isai 56. 10. 11. Jer. 5. Ezek. 34. Mich. 2. 11. Hosea 6. 9. and compare the English Priest and see if there be any more difference then there is betwixt a Monk and a Monk and a Pope and a Pope And the Rulers that suffer these things are become blind and in a deep sleep yea a very deep sleep even the sleep of death but let all such know that their Rewarder slumbereth not neither can his vengeance tarry long and the despised light within if they repent not shall be their sure condemation for the righteous Spirit of the holy One is grieved and it shall not alwayes strive and wo be to them who set him at nought and persecute whips terrifies or suffers them to be persecuted whiped or terrified who speak in his Name thrusting causing or suffering to be thrust into dungeons Bridewells and bad places amongst bad people there to be kept in bonds under the hands of cruel men till death for the testimony of Jesus Oh! bloody and great yea very great cruelty was ever the like done by any who did but so much as profess liberty of conscience But let all such know from the highest to the lowest yea to him that sits upon the Throne to him that grinds at the Mill they do resist the mighty Prophet whom the Lord our God hath raised up and he is come and they shall be cut off and mine eye sees it and then the condition of poor Lazarus who is hardly thought worthy to live will far transcend Dives and all his fellow Gluttons and these that are at ease in the fl●sh and are not troubled like other men and lie roleing upon their b●ds of pleasure spending that which was their day in madness mirth and folly and making merry over the humble witness o● God saying to themselves tush no eye sees us but let all such know they are seen and he that beholds them is not afar off and a day cometh shortly if not suddenly when the very highest among them shall be disrobed and utterly made bare and the greatest that is born among women shall not hide himself from the vengeance of my God who is the avenger and revenger of the righteous and vengeance is mine saith the Lord and I will repay it * Blessed are they that mourn for they shall be comforted Blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the Kingdom of heaven Blessed are they who hunger and thirst after righteousness Blessed are the pure in heart for they shall see God Blessed are the merciful for they shall obtain mercy Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness sake for theirs is the Kingdom of heaven Blessed are ye when men shall revile ye and persecute yee and shall say all manner of evil against ye falsly rejoyce and be exceeding glad for great is your reward in heaven And the Devil shall cast some of ye into prison and ye shall have tribulation for ten dayes How long Lord how long holy just and true By an owner of the sword in its place true Majestracy true Ministry Justice and sound Judgement Oh! let it flow down like a mighty torrent but an enemy to Tyranny Truce-breakers Rapines Swearers Lyers and false prophets who preach for hire and Divine for money E. B. THE END A few VVORDS To that bad Generation of people who in their reprobate minds blaspheme and belye the dreadful and Just God In saying That he hath made and created some men to be damned or that a set number are ordained from all Eternity to be saved and a set number to be damned BUT let all such know that the lyar is for the lake for the Just God who is equal in all his wayes hath not made any man to be damned nor created any to that intent and the destruction of every man is of himself for God made man after his own image and likeness and those that are godly are like God but man hath sought out many inventions and the heart of man is deceitful and desperately wicked and that continually but God is now and alwayes upright in all his wa●es and his Name is Love and his Nature is Love and he is a God of Love and all the works of his hands are good and he loves them and he is a loving Father and he who sayes the Father decrees a Soul to Hell from all Eternity before the creature hath transgressed or that he was created to do wickedly he accuses the Just God falsly but the same Soul that sins as Adam did shall dye for transgression brings death and then and not till then he becomes a vessel of dishonour But he was not intended so by the Holy God in his Creation ‖ And if from all Eternity a certain and set number be created predestinated and fore-ordained to be saved and damned for what doth the Hireling preach and for what hath he his hire I am sure the decrees of God are yea Amen and unalterable Mark that Judicious Reader and do not be so ignorant as to give thy money to that Priest who holds or preaches that doctrine for under one of the two decrees thou already art And I do believe there is hardly a Hireling in England that will deny it as his belief but that there is and was from all Eternity a certain and a set number predestinated to be damned and saved Oh! how hath and doth this deceiver stand and is upholden and maintained in idleness to make Merchandizes of pretious