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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26198	The schoolmaster disciplin'd, or, A reply to a lying paper, entitull'd, The gadding tribe reproved, put foeth [sic] under the name of George Willington ... also, An answer to a scandalous paper, put forth by William Prynne, entitulled The Quakers unmasked ... : whereunto is added A reply to an additional paper, put forth by William Prynne, in his lying, inlarged edition of his scandalous paper aforementioned ... / by John Audland.	Audland, John, 1630-1664.	1655 (1655)	Wing A4197; ESTC R23357	14,236	15

God and the Holy Ghost spoke to them no voice of that is heard in thy mediate cal or mans ministry therefore denied by them who are guided by the Spirit o● the Lord who receives not the ministry of man but by the revelation of Iesus Christ and that 's not mans ministry The third is that we are to salute no man Reply This is thy own and in thy confutation thou answerest thy self for the Saints Salvation we own and honors all men in the Lord which is more than the heathen do but we have learned not to fashion our selves according to the world and to deny the customs of the heathen and their flattering titles and vain fashions which is without the fear of God who have mens persons in admiration because of advantage and respects mens persons and commits sin and a difference do we put betwixt the Saints salvation and the vain fashions and customs of the heathen which Israel was not to observe The fourth is that the Scripture ought not to be expounded and that expounding of Scripture is an adding to Scripture and if we add then God wil add to us all the plagues that are written therein and in thy confutation saith Christ expounded Scriptures Reply He that adds the plagues is to be added to him as it is written but thy other words is false and thy own it is your own imagination of the Scripture which we deny wresting it as thou hast done and adding with thy Envious spirit against the truth but that Christ expounded the Scriptures was neuer denied by us and that he opened their understandings to understand the Scriptures we own and witness and the Spirit of Christ is one in all his Saints and for the ly let it return upon thy own head Thy Fift is that it is not lawfull to use the title of Master to any and in thy confutation thou saith Christ was called Master and where it is said Be ye not called Master for one is your Master even Christ thou sayest the meaning is not that it is unlawful to be called Master Reply thou shews thy self to be none of Christs servant who pleads against his command and saith he bad them avoid a thing which was not unlawful if it be not unlawful its lawful thou hast forgotten now to make Scripture thy rule as for Christ being called Master he was and is so and whom hee made Ministers he made them not Masters for they had one Master and him we own to be master and in this thou art a Lyar and of the Devill who saith we say it is not lawfull to use the title of Master to any and we likewise say and exhort thereto that servants should be obedient to their owne Masters not as men-pleasers with eye-service but serving the Lord Thy sixt is that Infant-Baptism is no Ordinance of Christ and therefore of no use in the Church of God and thou saith an express command thou grants is not to be found but thou saith infants were circumcised and Baptism is ordained in the room of that Reply VVe deny it to be an Ordinance of Christ or that it came in the room of Circumcision the Scripture speaks of no such thing as infant-Baptism and til thou prove it came in the room of Circumcision thy saying proves nothing the male-children were circumcised in room of what came in your female children to be sprinkled thou speaks thou knows not what he is a Jew who is one inwardly and Baptism is by the spirit and circumcision is that of the heart he that is in Christ is a new creature born again of water and not of the spirit such are partakers of the Ordinance and are members of the Church and that which is no Ordinance of Christ is of no use in the Church of God but is by the children of light denyed Thy seventh head is That we say that the Lords supper is of no use in the Church of God since the resurrection of Christ Reply This is an absolute lie never spoken or owned by us I charge thee to prove it either by our words or writings or let shame cover thy lips lyer for the lake and own thy condemnation for thy slandring lying and false accusing Thou saith it was not thy purpose to have writ a treatise of this subject till of late finding that none answered the book before mentioned Reply Thy treatise is lyes and rayling language against the servants of God but the book is yet unanswered thy filthy silly lying paper is not taken for an answer to that book and of late thou beginnest to vent out thy mischief and thy ignorance old rotten dul stuff it is like the evil treasure it proceeded from and they who reads thy paper whose understanding is opened will discern thy ignorance and malice and deny thy unclean spirit for among the children of light thy unfruitful works of darkness is denyed and cast out and thy formed weapon cannot prosper but the Lord will wound the head of the wicked he will bruise thee as with a rod of Iron and dash thee in pieces like a potters vessel this is answered not because it was particularly against me but for the truths sake that the lies which he had raised against it may return upon his own head I. A. An answer to a Scandalous Paper Entitu●ed The quakers unmasked Put sorth by William Prynne wherein his slanders are made to appear and he is found with a lye in his mouth I Meeting with a Paper Entituled The quakers unmasked and clearly Detected Put sorth by VVilliam Prynne wherein he slanders and falsly accuseth those people scornfully called quakers and saith they are sent from Rome to seduce the intoxicated giddy headded English Nation his ground being an information he saith taken upon oath in the City of Bristol which he sets down as followeth The Information of George Cowlishaw of the City of Bristol aforesaid Iron-monger taken the two and twentieth day of Ianuary 1654. who informeth upon his oath that in the Month of September last this Informant had some discourse in Bristol with one he calls Mr. Coppinger an Irish man formerly a School-fellow of his that came thither purposely for his passage into Ireland who told this Informant that he had lived in Rome and Italy eight or nine years and had taken upon him the order of a Fryer of the Franciscan Company and he told this Informant that he had been at London lately for some months and whilest he was there he had been at all the Churches and meetings publike and private that he could hear of and that none came so neer him as the quakers and being at a meeting of the quakers he there met with two of his acquaintance in Rome the which two persons were of the same Franciscan order and company that were now become chiefe Speakers amongst the quakers and he himself had spoken amongst the quakers in London about thirty times and was wel approved of

THE SCHOOL-MASTER DISCIPLIN'D OR A REPLY To a Lying Paper Entitull'd The Gadding Tribe reproved Put foeth under the name of George Willington School-Master in the City of Bristol in which he is proved to be the gadder and lyar which with the Light is for condemnation ALSO An Answer to a Scandalous PAPER put forth by VVilliam Prynne entitulled The quakers unmasked and clearly detected Where in his slanders are made to appear and he clearly detected being taken with a lye in his mouth Whereunto is added a Reply to an additionall Paper put forth by VVilliam Prynne in his lying inlarged Edition of his scandalous paper aforementioned in which he is more unmasked and proved to be spawned from the father of Lies whose refuge is sweeping away By one who is a VVitness against the prophaneness of Priests and People called JOHN AUDLAND Luke 11. 52 VVoe unto you Lawyers for ye have taken away the key of Knowledge yee entred not in your selves and them that were entring in ye hindred LONDON Printed for Giles Calvert at the Black-Spread-Eagle neer the West end of Pauls 1655. The SCOOL-MASTER disciplin'd OR A Reply to a lying Paper entitulled The gadding tribe reproved c. WHereas there is a paper lately put forth intitul'd The gadding Tribe reproved by the light of the Scriptures by one who writes himself George VVillington School-master in the City of Bristol whose book is very filly and vain but that sools love to bee medling and in it there is much railing lying and false accusing against those people called by the scorners Quakers I shal say something as to it for the truths sake that the lies may rest upon his own head from whence they came Whereas thou sayest A word from the VVord to the Serpent-generation called Quakers especially to the conniving seducer John Andland and the rest of his brethren in iniquity who have of late set forth a malicious Pamphlet against our godly Magistrates and faithful Ministers intituled The innocent delivered out of the snare and the blinde guide sallen into the pit Reply The innocent delivered out of the snare is not malicious and in this thou art a false accuser and in saying I am a seducer thou art a slanderer I charge thee to prove it and in what which thou hast not yet done though thou rail upon me and I did not write maliciously against any much less against Godly Magistrates and faithful Ministers but godly Magistrates I own and honor in the Lord and faithful Ministers I have unity withal and brethren in iniquity is denied thesefore thee I do deny who a worker of iniquity art found and from the presence of the Lord shut among the serpent-generation who in scorn calls us Quakers and the word is against thee who art feeding upon dust and going upon thy belly and the word of the Lord even the word of truth is against thee who art an accuser of the brethren and rewarded must thou be according to thy deeds and though thou hast named that book the innocent delivered yet let all take notice who reads thy filthy paper that thou hast not answered any one thing there demanded neither confuted any one answer in that Book so the snare remains broken and the innocent is delivered and he that digged a pit into it himself falls and the Scripturo is fulfilled they that help and hee that is holpen hoth falls together And whereas thou s●ts down many Scriptures as of blind guides Serpents scribes Pharisces Hypocrites whited Sepulchres and writest Ye serpents yee vipers how can ye escape the damnation of hell ye are they that justifie your selves before men but that which is highly esteemed amongst men is an abomination to the Lord Reply In that which is an abomination to the Lord thou art which is eesteemed amongst men and these Scriptures were spoken to thy Generation and upon thy own head they are returned for we seek not the praise of men neither have we the praise of men and therefore it is that the ●linde guides Vipers Serpents gather themselves together against the truth which by the power of God is now spreading a witness against all deceit and deceivers Thou sayest thou writest directly to thee John Audland and usest these words thou hypocrite why hath satan filled thy heart to lye against the Holy Ghost why b●astest thou thy selfe in mischief O mighty man thy tongue deviseth mischief like a sharp Rasor thou lovest evil more then good thou lovest all devouring words O thou deceitsul tongue God shal destroy thee for ever And sayest Paul set his eyes on Elimas the sorcerer and said as I may say to thee John Audland O ful of subtilty and all mischief thou child of the Devil and sayest repent of this thy wickedness for I perceive thou art in the gall of bitterness and in the bond of iniquity and many such words thou writest Reply Take it to thy self who art of the Generation to which it was spoken for home to thee do I return it who art in the bitterness and in the gall loving all devouring words these things comes not neer me but over thy head do I rejoyce the misery wil fall upon thy self and thy unclean spirit the Lord rebuke a false accuser thou art and a slanderer I do not love evil more than good if I had I should not have become thine enemy neither am I the gall of bitterness or bond of iniquity thou hast uttered that which thou knowest not for if thou hadst known what this means I wil have mercy and not sacrifice thou wouldst not have condemned the innocent And whereas thou sayest judge not that thou he not judged and judge nothing before the time and with what measure thou meetest it shall be measured to thee again and writest against others for rayling and judging Reply Thou art inexcusable who judgest another and doest the same thing thy mouth is ful of railing lying false accusing which proceeds out of the aboundance of thy heart as in thy book appears out of thy own mouth thou art condemned and this I demand whether calling others Serpents Vipers full of all mischiefe children of the devil be not judging and if this be not then shew the difference between this and judging thou hast gone about to confute that the Saints is not to judge and that confutes thee who yet knows not a Saints life and art so blinde thou cannot behold that thou alloweth thy self in the thing which thou condemneth and with what measure thou measurest it shal be measured to thee again good weight shalt thou receive from the hand of the Lord who art weighed and found as chaff which the wind drives to and fro In thy 7 pag thou beseecheth all who shall read thy book upon consideration of the premises which is these things before mentioned to avoid and abandon the meetings books erroneous doctrines and hellish blasphemies of this new upstart impious Generation Reply All who knows the

own answer to it justifieth it to be true Reply This is a double ly for plainness of speech I use and gives a lye the name of a lye first I am not convinced that he is slandered for the oath is proved to be false in affirming that which he knew not and that which was not and that the answer justifies it to be true is false again for the Answer proves it absolutely untrue S●condly thou saith in averring that he and his Companions were moved by the Lord and his eternal Spirit to leave their own Habitations and Callings in the North to come to seduce the People of Bristol Reply Let shame cover thy lips if thy heart be not hardned thou wilt blush are these my words or thy own I charge thee to be a slanderer and a false accuser of the Brethren these words was never uttered by me all seducers and seducing by the Spirit of God is denyed and witnessed against and thou art witnessed against by the Spirit of God that thou art ful of venome froth and filth which is not worth raking up after thee thy Heart is overcome with it let it return into the Pit from whence it came where the Frogs lodges who are thy companions Again that which is spoken as touching the breach of the Law in not discovering Coppinger but concealing him and letting him depart is true according to the Law and thy evading it by seeming to cover it by Coppingers hasty departure and the suspension of the Lawes thou saith to that purpose doth no whit prove the contrary and had not your envy transported you beyond the bounds of equity you would be ashamed to publish such a thing but it 's clearly seen whom you shout at and whom you would devour though you pretend the Jusuits they are so near of kin to you you can let them go and after conference with them as thou saith Cowlishaw had with Coppinger who confess themselves to be such thou concealest them and bring in their words to slander the innocent and truth ever suffered under reproachful names and tongues in which thou hast not a little share thou fils up thy measure and accordingly shal thou be rewarded Thou saith I except against thee for averring that the quakers are but the spawn of Romish frogs Jesuits and Franciscan Fryers and to deny this is alledged that they came out of the North and thou saith to come out of the North is a shrew'd signe of their badness for the Scriptures speaks that out of the North an evil shall break forth Reply To prove that we came out of the Nort and had never been out of Nation and of our birth and habitations doth sufficiently confute thee who made that thy ground to have proved by the information that we were Coppingers acquaintance in Rome for saist thou those two persons which came to Bristol was most likely his two fellow Franciscan Fryers and here thy likeness is another lye and the Scripture doth not prove thy shrew'd signe neither doth it cover thee nor hide thee but upon thee will evill break forth who the evil hast committed a grievour storm and whitlwind will fall upon the wicked and sweep away the refuge of lyes and lyars into the Lake read thy portion and put it not from thee Secondly Thou saith for affirming that the quakers use inchanted potions Bracelets Ribban●s Sorcery and witchcraft to intoxicate their disciples and thou saist this is evidenced in the Pr●mises and apparent in most places where they ramble and thou shalt prove it no farther but close up all with two Scripture exhortations Reply I demanded of thee before to prove any such thing by us or let thy mouth be stopt and as touching proving any such thing thy mouth is stopt and thy premises proves it not by us but is made up of lyes and slanders and false reports which thou hast gathered where thou hast rambled up and down in thy imaginations sending out a pack of filthy lyes spawned out from the old Serpent the Devil and Satan out of whose mouth proceeds the frogs and there may thou read thy selfe apparently his disciple intoxicated and thee with all the rest of the spawn of Romish Frogs Jesuites and Franciscan Fryers is denyed and cast out from amongst the people of God scorn-called quakers and if thou can prove no better then to close up as thou doth the lyes wil rest upon thy own head but wilt thou turn back a little and take one exhortation where thou art giving two if there be any spark of honesty in thee or any remembrance of thy latter end or any consideration that lyars must be cast into the Lake repent of the evil of thy doings and cease lying and slandering the innocent which thou canst not prove to be offenders and lay thy mouth in the dust if so be there may be hope so here in plainness thy lyes is turned upon thy own head and the former answer is just and stands a witness against thee and thou art more unmasked and clearly detected and til thou can begin upon better evidence silence best becomes thee Remember again thou art warned cease thy gainsaying lest ton perish in thy rebellion and go down alive into the Pit I. A. FINIS