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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93926	The VViltshire rant; or A narrative wherein the most unparallel'd prophane actings, counterfeit repentings, and evil speakings of Thomas Webbe late pretended minister of Langley Buriall, are discovered; the particulars whereof are set down in the following page. Also the proceedings of those in authority against him. With a catalogue of his untruths in his Masse of malice, and replies to sundry of them. by Edw. Stokes Esq;	Stokes, Edward, Esq.	1653 (1653)	Wing S5725; Thomason E669_5; ESTC R207024	71,727	91

of malice to lay upon him he well knows that the Parson and all the fellow-creatures are acted by a power irresistible which makes them to say and swear any thing against those that hate their Ranting practices and blasphemous unclean waies yet M. Stokes cannot own Parson Webbs base born brats but must leave them to their ghostly father who is most pure in his own eyes M. Stokes though a great sinner before the Lord challengeth Parson Tho Webb and all others of his invenomed generation fellow-creatures male and female whether Ranters in judgement or practice or both to invent say swear write print publish whatsoever they know think or can imagine against him which may tend to his dishonour or disgrace for he is resolved to defie the devil and all his works knowing that it is God that justifies and therefore accounts it his greatest honour to be evil spoken of by that generation Furthermore in the same 56. page he saith what I have asserted is enough and is no more then what is truth in every particular of it Who seeth not that Tho. Webb is satisfied with his Masse of malice and that one of many acts of blasphemy is enough to record at this time What I have asserted saith he is enough to discover what the man is So that the Reader is to take it for granted that the Parson is very sparing and loth to speak his whole knowledge yet fearing his assertion will not be beleeved he saith 't is all true So that you must understand that the Parsons doings are all righteous and his sayings all true so that his word must passe without check or doubt All Parson Webbs scandals and self-intended blasphemies reviling censures and reproaches are all true you are not to question them because Thomas Webb is Author of them which M. Stokes knoweth to be true But to fasten a belief in his Reader he is fain to use all his Ecclesiasticall understanding at once for thinks the reverend Church-man if this be not believed against M Stokes all my labour is vain and my Masse of malice will not be regarded nor had in esteem amongst those that are adverse to the Ranting rout and therefore having wip't his beard and set his countenance he devoutly and demurely imitates the whores and bauds when they act the part of grave Matrons and honest women or deceiptfull Shopkeepers who with a truly put off their Tarnisht wares so the hypocriticall Parson to make men believe his lies saith To imprecate and make protestations is not my usuall manner of speaking for truly saith he I approve not of any such thing but according to my manner of speaking which is as I am taught by the Scripture Yea yea Nay nay in very truth all these things are true So that you may believe him for all his untruths are uttered by Divine right by the excellent Parson and fastened in a Scripture phrase upon Mr Stokes who doubts not but the Parson can prove the legality of his uncleannesse and blasphemous waies by the Scripture he can gain Parsonages Marry Baptize and Bury persons live disorderly in his Whoring Ranting reproaching and reviling at any who please him not and confirm himself and his deluded followers by a Scripture phrase Believe him you that list You may see his manner of speaking in his letters before mentioned that he loves neither imprecations nor protestations but withall you will conclude that he that cannot speak truth of himself nor well of his fellow-creatures can much lesse speak well of Mr Stokes though as he pretends he makes conscience of a manner of speaking which he hath learned in Scripture So Satan and all his false prophets set forth their untruths in a Scripture language not out of love to truth or Scripture but to obtain their own cursed ends viz ruine to the souls bodies or good names of those that fear the Lord and hate their hypocriticall and lascivious waies otherwise this Parson would have learnt and practised other lessons out of the Scriptures then those he makes use of to make up his Masse of malice But the Parson proceeds in his charitable way of concealment of M. Stokes his errors or blasphemies but yet makes them publique and saith in the same page I might insert his pocketting up of four pounds collected of the honest party in my Church for to defray the charges of our Bristoll friends in carrying up a Petition to London Mr Stokes might answer that this slander which the quondam Parson might insert is as true as the rest which he hath inserted which are all as like the father since he hath given himself over to commit uncleannesse with greedinesse and hath followed the spirit of error as ever they can look Mr Stokes knows not what the learned Parson in wickednesse means by his Church in which he saith the four pound was collected unlesse it be the Parish-Church of Langley Burhill if so Mr Stokes affirms that in Parson Webbs Church he never received a penny for any such use as he mentions in his Masse of malice M. Stokes acknowledgeth that in the year 1647. on a Lords day after evening Sermon there was a collection of monies in the Parsonage house of Langley And further M. Stokes affirms that he received the moneys there collected to the use aforesaid which amounted to the just summe of 29t 11d and no more as the note yet remaining will demonstrate who paid it in the particulars and how much the summe is in grosse which is just 29● 11d towards which summe the accomptant Parson Webb paid not one farthing Now 25s M. Stokes paid of the said summ to one William Coller appointed to receive the same so that the whole summe M. Stokes stands charged withall is 4s 11d which the Parson hath scrued to 4l the better to build a Masse of malice This very Parson when he saw that for his high crimes and misdemeanors he was outed of his Parsonage within a few dayes after writ letters to his fellow-creatures in the Country and among the rest one to M. B. row in the custody of M. Stokes where he tels of his ejectment and promiseth to print against Mr Stokes the very particulars now publisht in his Masse of malice in which he chargeth M. Stokes with 3I but in the Masse of his malice hath stretcht it to 4l as you have seen before M. Stokes affirms that the payment of the twenty five shillings before mentioned to W. Coller according to order was a work of supererrogation in him and that he might justly have retained it in his own hands to this day and given a good account thereof to a wiser man then Parson Webb whom it principally concerned for it no way concerned him but to fill up his Masse of malice Another blasphemy or crime which the Parson pleaseth is the pocketting up of twenty pound to buy Trumpets and Banners this was paid he said by the Committee of Wilts about two years

and with the spirit of meeknesse restore me wherein I am fallen Oh how glad would my heart be to see you While you were at London I longed for your coming home because to you I would unbosome my self but I was cast off by you to my great grief and sorrow c. Now Reader if Parson Webb in Aug. 1650. took M. Stokes to be a cordiall and a true friend to the Saints and truth of Christ how can he justly charge M. Stokes as in his Masse of malice with such abhorred crimes of an elder date Neither can it be imagined that he would have unbosomed himself to a blaspheamer deceiver c. So M. Stokes is acquitted by his accuser before the accusation received any being Let it be considered whether Webb had not better thoughts of M. Stokes but a very little time before his triall for about the time Lieutenant Gen. Ludlow went into Ireland the said Webb being then in Goal drew with his own hand a Petition to the Parliament that Edw. Stokes Esq might command the Regiment of Horse for Wilts in the place and absence of Col. Ludlow and this Petition he promoted by his Agents then at liberty untill M. Stokes himself put a period to that design Quaere Whether then he took M. Stokes to be the man as now he hath printed him to be in his Masse of malice Yet the crimes charged are of a far elder date by his own accompt But besides all this M. Stokes is acquitted in his own conscience which is better to him then 10000 witnesses and therefore can boldly say Who art thou that condemnest it is God that justifies who will clear up the innocency of his servants and finde out to their shame all such as make lies their refuge and become false accusers of others as the ridiculous Author of the Masse of malice hath done who having made himself drunk with the much bibing at the Ranting cup behaves himself like a mad Bedlam striking those that are next him In his repentings you have seen him striking and wounding his own dear fellow-creatures charging them through and through with malice and wickednesse And so soon as he is reconciled to them he Raves and Rants like a most furious frantick against all other that could not dandle or flatter him in his wicked and unclean waies So that the Parliament it self the Committee of Plundred Ministers the Judge and the Justices of Peace for the County of Wilts amongst which M. Stokes acknowledgeth he is not worthy to be named these are the object of Webbs Masse of malice and are more or lesse abused by the filthy Libell so called And well may the mock-Parson charge M. Stokes with blasphemy in his Masse of malice being himself a blasphemer upon publique Record All delinquents delight to fasten their own titles and actions upon the most innocent persons so the delinquent Parson having been discovered and convicted to be a blasphemer he gives away his own title and imputes his own abhorred actions to M. Stokes That the said Parson is a blasphemer himself you shall finde upon diligent inquiry that he stood charged about the year 1644. before the then house of Lords to be a Blasphemer one that had delivered many blasphemous principles to the people whereupon he was by the said House committed and stood so for some time yet afterwards he pretended a repentance of those errors subscribing a form of Recantation with his own hand and afterwards gave thanks to a Minister of the Assembly for being a means to draw him off from those errors and blessed God for his mercies to him for he was in the ready way as he said to Atheism and many of his companions in those opinions were turned Atheists Notwithstanding all this he both preached and practised as before holding forth many things against the glory and truth of Jesus Christ and Scripture and not long after came into Wilts as transformed into an Angel of Light upon which stage he hath acted the Ranting part as is before expressed The last thing concerning Tho. Webb the Author of the Masse of malice is this he comes lately viz about March last into Wilts to visit the honest party and disperse his malitious Masse Well he visits his friends and amongst the rest to colour the businesse he gives his poor wife a visit only by way of complement but durst neither to stay with her nor in any wise to keep her company as men usually do c. but hastens away to visit his man-wife J. O. and others so to Langley he comes where he was received with all alacrity amongst his honest party where divers met to whom he declared that he lately Preached upon that Text The spiritual man is mad and now resolved to dissemble no more viz. never to receive Parsonage nor Preach more nor yet to conceal his principles from the world as he had done But being asked by one what he would do if his Mistress should cast him off said that he should be the most miserable man living and thought he should make away with himself So to put it out of doubt that he would dissemble his principles no more he takes the childe which he said he begot on the body of another mans wife yet never went to see his own childe born in lawfull Matrimony though he rode by the house where it was kept by the mothers friends and himself became a convoy riding by the Waggon in which the childe was carried through the Country towards London and for part of the way afterwards sends back the party that did attend it and himself plaies the part of not only a loving father but a nurse till it met the mother and her husband where the joy was compleated And this the impudent mock-Parson performed as if he had done it in the height of contempt against both Religion and Magistracy So I have done with the mock-Parson and his Masse of malice Many things I have omitted because I would not be over-tedious and the Narration being of too great a bulk already I forbear to add If in any particulars I seem to offend let it be thy glory courteous Reader to passe it by I was forc't to the work which I never sought after nor do not delight in yet what I have done I have done it publiquely and truly that truth may be manifest and falshood discovered that the righteous waies and people of God may be justified and the wicked waies and works of ungodly men may be condemned Wherefore as I wish all that respect the health of their bodies to take heed of Empericks and Mounte-banks so I advise all that respect the health of their souls and peace of their spirits to take heed of mock Parsons and counterfeit Preachers who though they appear in sheeps cloathing yet inwardly are ravening wolves I mean such as make themselves Preachers and Parish-Parsons to gain Parsonages or filthy lucre for their Preaching amongst which number you may finde T. W. From whom that God may deliver thee and all that fear his great Name within the Commonwealth of England is the daily prayer of this Author FINIS T. W. appears like an Angel of light T. W. obtains a Parsonage T. W. refuseth tithes T. W. burieth his second wife T. W. makes himself sure to another mans wife T. W. commits adultery by his own confession T. W. marrieth his third wife T. W. a kinde of Pander to his own wife T. W. his man wife discover'd T. W. fals at variance with Mistress M. W. T. W. accused by Mistress W. and others T. W. confesseth his unclean life T. W. his first Letter to M. Stokes confessing his uncleannesse T. W. second Letter to M. Stokes and M. Shute confessing his unclean life T. W. his third Letter to Mr Shute T. W. preacheth against whorish women c. T W. scorns those to whom he confest his uncleanness T. W. becomes friends wth M●s W. T. W. his companions His study Songs T. W. a lover of Musick and mixt dancing T. W. seeks the ruine of his own fellow-creatures T. W. charged to have been taken in the act of adultery T. W. committed to Goal T. W. pretends a second repentance in Goal T. W. his deliverāce and return from Goal I. 6. 8. 9. 1. 2. 2. 2. 2. 4 5. 8. 9. 9. 8. 9. T. W. his Ejectment from his Parsonage of L. B. Untruth Untruth Untruth Masse Wilts. Ord. T. W. his blasphemy upon Record T. W. his late progress into and return from Wilts.