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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A88818	The wolf stript of his sheeps clothing or The antichristian clergy-man turn'd right side outwards. Wherein is briefly discovered and layd open their subtile and wicked wayes and practises to deceive and destroy not only private people, or particular societies, but whole nation and kingdoms, and all under the plausible vizzard of reformation, church-government, punishing of hereticks and sectaries. / By R. Lavvrance Marshal General.	Lawrence, Richard, d. 1684.	1647 (1647)	Wing L682; Thomason E386_10; ESTC R201479	19,259	30

correct the child so there is a time when he will burn the rod too I say no more but as ye are men whom Christ hath shed his blood for and thereby hath opened a way for mercy for all that come to God by him but that the Lord would be pleased to open your eyes and let you see the evill of your doings that ye may no longer go on to deceive and destroy those whom Christ hath payd so great a price for that they may be no more so hateful in your eye which are so precious in the sight of God that ye may not hereafter be so cruel to those whom God is as tender over as the apple of his own eye that ye may not be so forward to destroy and spill the blood of those whom the Lord Iesus Christ was so forward to give his own blood to save and that the Lord would give you hearts to confess to the world how they have been deceived and deluded by you tell them you are not the men they have so long taken you for that you are and ever were as subiect to erre as other men and that the more of your humane learning you have had or made use of the more you have been subject to erre and be misled If they will not beleeve you wish them to consider what is become of the consultations and results of all your learned Counsel and holy Synods that ever sat to the beginning of this Parliament and whether the most purest of them all were not determined Antichristian by the most pious and learned Assembly that ever sate And tell them again that these are but men subiect to the same infirmities the former were and then counsel them to have their thoughts pitcht upon something above Counsels and Synods for their spiritual teachings and building up in the faith of the Gospel And thus doing ye shal do but your duty So desiring your acceptance I rest as much your profest enemy as you are Iesus Chrst's and no more R L The VVolf stript of his Sheeps clothing OR The Antichristian Clergy-man turnd right-side outwards IT hath ever been the sad condition of the Church of God in all ages to suffer and receive most injuries and unkindnesses from those who have pretended greatest love and have seemed to have neerest relation to them especially when any such have had opportunity to gain place or power over them This we find began in Cain against Abel and went on in Ishmael against Isaak so in Esau against Jacob the ten Brethren against Joseph and after the Church of God came to be a corporated people and had a Temple with Ordinances and Officers then it was pestered with false Prophets wicked and idolatrous Priests thus ye find Isaiah complaining Isa 28.7 so Jeremiah Chap. 2.8 26. 5.31 26.7 to 11. so chap. 16.13 9.10 23.11 21 22. 25.26 so the Church in the Lamentations chap. 4.13 Hos 6.9 so Ezek. 22.26 and 34. the beginning and in divers other places ye finde the sad complaints of the Church and people of God against the wickednesse of their false prophets and wicked priests And as it is the practice of our false Prophets and wicked priests not only to deceive and delude the multitude and lead them into superstitious idolatrous practices and worships and take them all in to be their disciples but likewise to set up themselves and use all the interest they have in the people in opposition to the true Church of Jesus Christ to persecute and destroy them So was it of old Thus ye finde the 400 false prophets all against Micaiah and Zedekiah that false prophet smiting him on the cheek for speaking the truth to the King 1 King 22.24 This was the condition of the Church of God in Elijah's time 1 King 18.19 to 23. when there were 850. prophets in Israel and yet saith Elijah to the people ver 22. I even I only remain a prophet to the Lord so 1 King 19.10 Thus if you please to observe in Scripture where-ever ye finde the Chu●ch of God before Christs incarnation in apostacie or declining from the true worship of God to Idolatry and superstition the originall cause of it arose from the lying spirit in the mouthes of their false prophets which led them And so ye finde when the Lord Jesus Christ himself came in flesh to bring the word of Reconciliation to us to make them that were afar off nigh by his own blood and to break down the partition wall betwixt Jews and Gentiles to abolish or take away the enmity even the law of commandements contained in ordinances Ephes 2.13 14. who were then his greatest opposers were they not those whom he might have expected to have been most welcom to namely the Jewes who were then a people who had been in covenant with God for many ages a nation whom God had chosen to himself out of all the nations in the world to be his peculiar people Deut. 14.2 yet these were the people which were the most cruell persecuters of Christ in the flesh The first news that ever they heard of him put them all into an uproar Herod and all Jerusalem was troubled Matth. 2.3 and the Lord Christ the Saviour of the world was forc'd to fly into Egypt to a people that were aliens to the Common-wealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise to save himself from his own people which makes the Evangelist sadly complain Hee was in the world and the world was made by him and the world knew him not he came to his own and his own received him not Joh. 1. ver 10 11. So Christ himself sadly complains I have nourished and brought up children and they have rebelled against me the ox knoweth his owner and the asse his Masters crib but Israel doth not know me my people doth not consider Isa 1.23 It is needlesse to give you a relation of their carriage towards Christ in the flesh the four Evangelists being but a brief history of it of their persecuting him from one City to another of their cruell mockings and scourgings of their haling of him before Magistrates and at last crucifying of him and all this he suffered from them as an evill doer as a sower of sedition a destroyer of their Temple and Law as a blasphemer c. And among these poor blinde z●alous Jewes who were the chief ringleaders of them and stirrers of them up against Christ and his Apostles but the priests or according to our Popish distinction the Clergy the Learned the University-men those which were best read and most knowing in the law namely the high-priests Scribes and Pharises these ye shall find at all times and in all places indeavouring to render odious to the world the precious Gospel of Jesus Christ calling the word of Reconciliation sedition the very truth of God himself heresie and blasphemy following of Christ from place to place to stir up the

party at the beginning of this war that in some Garrisons as Oxford Newark York and several others there were whole Troops and Companies of black-coats and where ever the greatest flocks of these learned Deceivers were resident there were the people most disaffected to the Parliament as witness the Universities and Cathedrals which appeared to be the very nests and cages of unclean birds If the Parliament should have forborne to have given them the tenth of the Kingdom till such time as the tenth of the Clergy had been of their sides the Ordinance for Tithes might yet have been unpast If I should go on to particulars of their Malignant speeches and actions which they have spoken and done against the Parliament and their proceedings since this war begun you would not have the patience to read them of their villifying the Parliament and all that adhered to them under the names of Rebels and Traytors frequently charging them of sacriledge and robbing the Church of her ancient Rites and Ceremonies extolling the Book of Common-prayer calling it the Divine Service of God thereby to render the Parliament odious for taking away such holy things with abundance more of this nature so that all these things well considered and laid together I wonder who will appear the great Sectaries the grand Heretikes the factious Fellows the sowers of Sedition and destroyers of Religion in the Kingdom whether the Laity or the Clergy and who we have now most cause to stand in fear of whether those which are now discovering the superstitious blindness and wicked practises of the Clergy or the Clergy themselves which are driving on their old designes in a new shape that are building a new Babel out of the old rubbish that are giving that great skarlet whore a new dress thereby to make the world once more wonder after her that they may once more hear that voice Great is Diana of the Ephesians but let me perswade thee not to fear them neither it is enough for their servants their vassals such as stand and fall with them to live in fear of them But if thou best one of those which follow the Lamb wheresoever he goeth Rev. 14 4. that art willing to carry the cross of Christ as well as wear his Crown that art willing to suff●r with him as well as raign in the day of their great calamity When they shall drink the wine of the wrath of God which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his Indignation and shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and of the Lamb Revel 14.10 Then shalt thou stand with the Lamb upon mount Sion verse the first Then shalt thou sing a new song before the throne Verse 7. Then shall you sing A●leluia salvation honor and power unto the Lord our God for true and righteous are his judgements for he hath judged the great whore which did corrupt the earth with her fornication and hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand Revel 19.1 2. Therefore be not now at all troubled when thou seest the day begin to grow dark it is but a cloud that is arising it will be no more night with the Church if they have a dark hour the sun will shine through the cloud For lo the winter is past the rain is over-gone the flowers begin to appear on the earth Cant. 2.11 It is now spring-time with the Church and though there may be many a cold blast and stormy showre yet they are rather to be desired then feared They will cause the fig-tree to put forth her green-figs and the vine with the tender grape to give a good smell Cant. 2.13 What though Truth be yet called Error and Light darkness the Saints and faithful servants of God Schismatikes and Heretikes c. let not this trouble thee it is no new thing that hath befaln thee they never were called by other names yet by this generation of men called Clergy and Paul was not ashamed to confess to Felix that after the way they call Heresie he worshiped the God of his Fathers and if thou best ashamed to confess that now thou mayest come to be ashamed of Christ and Truth and so deny both Therefore do not thou minde so much what men cry up for truth and tread down for error for all is not error that is voted so It hath been the lot of truth in most counsels if not in all to have the fewest voices and thou mayest be sure they themselves that put truth upon vote are not themselves satisfied what truth is till they have done voting But if they were the sons of truth or had any love to or high esteem of truth if they had ever tasted of that word of truth and righteousness if they had ever received the truth in the love of it it would be more precious to them then to be ventured at one stake But this doth fully declare to us they hold the truth in unrighteousness Romans 1.18 These are such as Isaiah speaketh off Isaiah 48.1 Which are called by the name of Israel and are come forth out of the waters of Judah which swear by the name of the Lord and make mention of the God of Israel but not in truth nor in righteousness These men never followed Christ for the love of Truth it is the loaves more then the miracles that they minde These Simon Magus's which have purchased their Apostleships by their money love their wages better then they do their work The first thing they minde is how to get a Gospel-maintenance and then they never fear a Gospel Ministery they know by experience the former begets the latter These are not of the race of that true Shepherd for his work was to save mens lives Luke 9.56 But the business of these hath been to destroy mens lives He came to lay down his life for the sheep John 10.15 These come to take away the lives of the sheep John 10.10 His work was to feed the flock John 10.9 These take the fleece and starve the flock Ezekiel 34.2 His disposition and expression to the flock are full of love and tender bowels He shall feed his flock like a shepherd he shall gather the Lambs in his arms and carry them in his bosom and shall gently lead those that are with young Isaiah 40.11 But these like those wicked cruel shepherds are on the contrary nature The diseased have you not strengthned neither have you healed that which was sick neither have you bound up that which was broken neither have you brought again that which was driven away neither have you sought that which was lost but with force and with cruelty have you ruled them Ezek. 34.4 These are of those theeves Christ speaks off John 10.10 that come not but for to steal to kill and destroy but I am come that ye might have life saith Christ and that you might have it more abundantly These are not