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A26272 A besome of truth, to sweep away the refuge of lies, or, Something in answer to one Francis Holdcraft (priest) a prisoner in Cambridge Castle ... also the ground of the difference shewed between the people (in scorn called Quakers) and some other separated people : with a few words of good councel unto all people into whose hands this may come / by a follower of the Lamb through the great tribulation, John Aynsloe. Aynsloe, John, d. 1693. 1664 (1664) Wing A4293; ESTC R11673 8,200 14

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A BESOME Of Truth To Sweep away The Refuge of LIES OR Something in Answer to one Francis Holdcraft Priest a Prisoner in Cambridge Castle who hath belyed and slandered and falsly accused an Innocent people in Twelve parcels of Paper But his Lies and false Accusations are Swept away and the Truth of their Doctrine cleared and Vindicated And his Lying confused Spirit Reproved Also the Ground of the Difference shewed between the people in scorn called Quakers and some other separated people With a few words of good Councel unto all people into whose hands this may come By a follower of the Lamb through the great Tribulation John Aynsloe London Printed in the Year 1664. A Besome of Truth to Sweep away the Refuge of Lyes MAny are the Enemies which are and have been in all Ages of Gods Truth and people And many have been the Lies Slanders and false Accusations which hath followed the Lords Appearance in all Generations for it hath been the work of false Prophets and Anti-Christs Priests to speak all manner of evil falsly without a cause thinking thereby to cover their own Deceit and Hypocrisie with Revilings and slandring of the Innocent speaking Lies in hypocrisie And Truth always suffered by that Generation of Priests under the name of Error and the Professors thereof and the walkers therein under the name of Hereticks else could they never have effected their ends to have brought them to the fire as they have done many of the precious servants of the Lord even in every age And great hath been the opposition which the appearance of God in this age in his innocent people hath met withal even from men of all Ranks and Sects but more especially from the Parish Priests as may largely be made appear As Instance A Petition from them to the then Parliament Crying out against them as Hereticks and Deceivers and crying for help from them against this poor and despised people whose Doctrine and Principle was almost every where spoken against and but then a very few in number in comparison of the multitude of Priests and their followers which was then against them yet they was not able to resist the Spirit by which they spake because they spake with Authority and not as the Scribes therefore they cryed out to the Magistrates to help them though no hand was lifted up against them though many times they have been sorely beaten stoned stockt whipped scoffed scorned and imprisoned and that by the high Priests themselves who have set on their rude people to do it Nay I may truly say most of all the persecutions that this innocent people hath met withal in this Nation hath been occasioned by the Priests who hath not only stirred up the Magistrates as being the chief weapon that ever they used but also by their Lies slanders false Accusations and Reproachful tearms which they Pamphleted abroad to raise up the rude multitude against them and also to beget a disl●ke in the hearts of all people of the way and doctrine of Truth which these people walk in and hold forth calling the Light of Christ Error and Heresie and saying they deny the man Christ his Death and Resurrection and that he is at the right hand of his Father in the Heavens and that they deny his Ordinances and Scriptures among whom I met with one Francis Holdcraft as none of the least of these Lyars and false Accusers being as a Bryer in a thorn hedge or as the Viper which came out of the fire and seized upon Pauls hand But his Bundle of Lies slanders and false accusations the Lord God will sweep away with the Besome of his destruction by which he will cleause the Land of evil doers Lyers slanderers and Backbiters and he will also clear the innocency of his own people and the Truth of their Doctrine and they also wil shake off this Viper of his as they have done many more and the minds of the people he hath deceived will be changed and instead of calling them Error they shall see them to be the Truth of God as it is in Jesus And this Francis Holdcraft shall then see and be confounded if he do not speedily repent but it is greatly to be feared that this Francis Holdcraft hath his heart hardened and his conscience seared as with a hot Iron and is accustomed to evil in that he hath so long continued opposing of the Truth of God and hath at last shewed himself in twelve parcels or Pamphlets of Paper wherein though confusedly yet very impudent wickedly hath he belyed Gods servants and laboured what in him lay to pervert the Right way of God and to turn the Truth into a lye And hath reproachfully belyed the dead which is not here to answer for himself as instance James Naylor in whose life time he nor none of his generation was able to withstand while he stood in the power of God but was confounded by the power and Spirit of God manifested in him in his day and amongst the many Lies slanders false Accusations his Papers are stuf● withal which are as the Frogs that covered the land of Egypt or as the Locusts which came out of the bottomless pit or as the smoke that darkeneth the Air this is one That our Principles doth agree with the Jew and the Turk for saith he These deny Christ come in the flesh viz. the Jew and the Turk The Quakers saith he when they first arose and spoke plainly they made Christs birth and Death but a figure herein saith he the Jew and the Turk and the Quaker doth agree Here is all of substance that I can find so far as I have read his Papers the rest this also is a heap of Confusion Lies slanders and false Reports which he hath raked up out of the unclean Channels of his corrupt heart and gathered from the mouths of that lying Spirit which is entred into and hath its seat in that Sect of which he is the head more then any other that I know of for certainly he with many more which I might mention of his Brotherhood makes it their work to bely the Truth and people of God that the Scripture might be fulfilled Because I have chosen you out of the world therefore the world hates you And all manner of evil shall they speak of you without a cause because they have not known the Father nor me And now I shall speak something in Answer to this false Accusation Wherein doth the Jew and Turk agree with us Thou saist they deny Christ come in the flesh We do not deny Christ come in the flesh let all people witness for us that hath known our Doctrine and manner of life but do confess unto all the world that he is come and coming and every eye shall see him and he shall judge thy Lying Reviling spirit as an enemy unto his appearance in this the day of his glorious arising in which he is discovering the