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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A97093	An antidote against Master Edwards his old and new poyson: intended to preserve this long distempered nation from a most dangerous relaps. Which his former, his later, and next gangrenous book is likely to occasion, if not timely prevented. by William Walwin.	Walwyn, William, 1600-1681.	1646 (1646)	Wing W680; Thomason E1184_4; ESTC R208196	8,365	23

called and unto them sadly complaine of the dayly infinite increase thereof intreat their assistance in the extirpation of them for that end desire them to collect their memories what they have heard in any discourse what they have any waies observed or knowne to proceed from such and such men naming divets that are taken and reputed to be either grand Hereticks and Schismatiques themselves or the defenders and maintainers of them by word or writing tell them you have heard that such and such hold and such blasphemous opinions at such and such a time uttered such such horrible speeches pray them to consider how exceeding necessary it is such things were knowne and made publique to all the world left through ignorance such blasphemous and hereticall persons in time get into offices of Magistracy if not into the Parliament it selfe lay before thom the danger if it should be so and intreat them for prevention that they will thrust themselves into all meetings companies and societies to provoke discourses and to take notice of what they observe or can any waies learne of any of them or any others and it shall be your care to divulge them to the world in the strongest colours your Art can give them And saith Machivel as they through eagernesse will over-heare and make things worse then they were either spoken or intended so it must be your care to make them rather wors then better then their relations you must be sure to cast durt enough upon them some will stick and a little amongst those you would pervert will suffice to blemish the clearest and most able amongst them and to deprive them of all credit and and repute for ever If you observe any man to be of a publique and active spirit though he be no Independent or Separatist he can never be friend to you in your work and therefore you are to give him out to be strongly suspected of whoredom or drunkēnesse prophanesse an irreligious person or an Atheist and that by godly and religious persons he was seen and heard blaspheming the holy Scriptures and making a mock of the Ordinaces of Christ or say he is suspected to hold inteligence with Oxford or any thing no matter what somewhat will be beleeved you cannot be ignorant how much this hath prevailed against divers able persons If you see any such man but once talking with a Papist or though not you may give out that very honest men suspect him to be a Jesuit If any one but demand of you or any others how you know the Scriptures to be the word of God give it out for certain he denieth them or if any put questions concerning God or Christ or the Trinity you have more then enough to lay accusations upon them that shall stick by them as long as they live if you will follow this my counsell throughly saith Machivel as in part you have done you cannot faile of your end you can never want matter you shall amongest ●hose you deceive be taken for a most zeaous holy and religious man you may write book upon book great and large ones and make good profit or great renowne by them and in after ages be recorded as a famous Author Moreover if you prosecute this course you may haply hereby not only hold your friends firme unto you ready upon all occasions to petition what you wold have them or to doe any thing you shall require them but you shall be sure to hold them for ever devided from your adversaries in all things they shall not regard any thing though never so just or good if they see they have but a finger therein nay if work wisely you need not dispaire of dividing your most powerfull adversaries amongst themselvs doubts jelousies being of great force And you know it is an undoubted truth a house divided within it selfe cannot stand This is Machivels way and this hath been Mr. Edwards his way and in this way hee goeth on but the way of God have they not knowne or rather have they not despised the way of the Lord. This is the Poyson by which he hath envenomed the hearts and understandings of thousands in themselves honest religious people too too easily misse-led for want of knowledge or consideration of these Machivelian courses men that being sinceare in their owne intentions are easily deluded by the least pretence of zeal and godlinesse And however his heart may be hardned that he will not regard any thing that hath been written unto him you that have been deceived by him are not so farre gone but you may yet recover become untainted with the least savour of his spirit and in time abominate his waies But surely then you must consider things more seriously then hitherto you have done you must suspect your owne waies and compare them once more with the waies of God commended to you in his holy Word That is the only Antidote that is able to expell the Poyson you have taken or shall be offered in his next book you know the word of God is mighty to the casting down of strong holds to bring into subjection all Machivelian Imaginations I shall therefore pray you in reading his next book which it is to be feared is reserved for an accursed purpose and to second some worke of Darknesse that you will with open eyes see how farre and how plaufible Machivel may go with colours of religion transforming himselfe into an Angell of light Also that you will not hastily give credit to any thing spoken by him a professed adversary lest in so doing you become guilty of bearing false witnesse against your neighbour That you will consider and marke those that cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned and avoid them Rom. 16. 17. That you will mind a speciall part of that doctrine to be expressed in the fourteenth Chapter thorow-out and the beginning of the fifteenth which I entreat you to reade without prejudice or preoccupation of judgment and then I cannot doubt but liberty of conscience will appeare more just in your eyes then it hath done and confesse that your selves cannot live without it That you will lay to heart how dangerous it may prove to the Common wealth and to the cause you have hitherto joyntly maintained God prospering you in so doing if by any policies you should stand divided from those your brethren of other judgements beleeve it the hand of Joab is in all your divisions what-ever you see or judge your common enemy is the fomenter of them and under what notion or colours soever they appeare they are a common enemie to you both that labour to divide you and in the end you will find it to be so to your cost if not to your ruine An ancient Philosopher somewhat to this purpose hath a fable That the Wolves being at long and deadly war with the sheep and not prevailing by force but contrary to their