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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86608	The devils bow unstringed, or, Some of Thomas Dansons lyes made manifest, : which he hath printed and put to publick view in two pamphlets, the one intituled, The Quakers folly made manifest. And the other, The Quakers wisdom not from above. : And in the first page of his narrative he calleth them undoubted truths, but the wise in heart will not so take them, but will consider better of them, for the wise mans eye is in his head. / By Luke Howard.	Howard, Luke, 1621-1699.	1659 (1659)	Wing H2984A; ESTC R178278	9,920	8

The Devils Bow UNSTRINGED OR Some of Thomas Dansons Lyes made manifest which he hath Printed and put to publick view in two Pamphlets the one Intituled The Quakers Folly made manifest And the other The Quakers Wisdom not from above And in the first page of his Narrative he calleth them Vndoubted Truths But the wise in heart will not so take them but will consider better of them for The wise mans eye is in his head By Luke Howard LONDON Printed for Thomas Simmons at the Bull and Mouth near Aldersgate 1659. ANd now Tho. Danson if it be not too late consider well what thou hast done by shooting in the Divels Bow and making use of the Divils Weapons as thou sayest thou hast done in the 50. page of thy first Book to the opposing of the Truth which maketh free all which liveth in it and stirreth up Cains nature in all which liveth out of it and as it is manifest it hath done in thee to the publishing of 2 pamphlets against it filled with the Old mans Dreams made up of lyes And because thou hast made use of my name in them both several times as a seale set to thy lyes to blinde the simple and for the Truths sake is it on me as a necessity to bear my testimony against thee and to prove thee such a one as thou hast both said of and proved thy self to be shooting in the Divels Bow and making use of his Weapons who is the Father of lyes In thy first Book page 49. Thou sayest that the Quakers came to your Town and made a challenge to the Priest to defend their Doctrines and Call this I witnesse against as a lye or an Arrow shot out of the Divels Bow for thou mayest remember that we being met together in a place called the Vickerage-house thy self and many more came in and passed through our Meeting into another Room and there stayed untill thou didest hear words spoke in our Meeting by one of our friends viz. Stephen Huberstye and then you rushed all in to us and after some time did gainsay what was spoken but after some time of thy gain-saying Discourse for the Truths sake I asked thee if thou wast willing to debate these things more at large at another time and this is what was propounded by us which cannot justly be called a challenge and this thou was not at the first willing to but afterwards didst saye that if I would engage to bring Mr. Fisher as thou callest him thou wouldest appoint to meet and thou mayest remember this was my answer several times to thee That I had not the command of S. F. his Spirit and so could not engage him and besides for ought I know he was many scores of miles from home and if thou wouldest not appoint to meet with some other that then it might not be So then thou didest agree to meet with some other and the meeting to be that day moneth witnesse Edward Nokes But thou being so well skild in shooting in the Divels Bow That at that instant time didest shoot out one lye to all the people viz. That I had agreed to bring Mr. S. F. the which I denied at that present time in the face of all the people the which they that will be honest can witnesse the truth of and I am sure will do yet such was thy boldnesse that thou wouldest have one shoot more in the Divels Bow in the old Masse-house falsly called St. Peters Church in Sandwitch and there didest say that the Dispute was appointed betwixt Mr. S. F. and thee the which I denied again in the face of all the people and all who are single-hearted on both sides knows to be true and thy self also if thou wilt not stifle the witnesse in thy conscience yet in thy anger thou wouldest have one great shoot more in the Divels Bow and so puts this thy lye in Print amongst many more to publick view as a witnesse against thee to the knowledge of many who dares not but speak the truth and this testimony I bear to the Truth against thy lyes that no honest mind may be deceived therewith by thy pretended fair words whereby thou liest in wait to deceive And then in thy second Book thou appearest as if thou hadst fulfilled the worlds Proverb viz. To take Hell and skim the Divel for Arrows to wit lyes to utter yet so great is thy impudency that thou dost not blush to say in the first page of thy Narrative of the last Book that they are of undoubted credit mark that and that to the most part of them there is the witnesses names but that is just the Divels practice to slay the Truth with a lye and give a reason for it and that will appear to be but thy arrogancy and impudency to abuse the men in citing their names as witnesses to thy lyes contrary to their knowledge viz. Mr. Russel and Mr. Davis as thou callest them the one Minister in Rumny Marsh and the other at Dover as thou hast writ them and by them whom we do know let us measure all the rest whom we do not know most of them being such as thou seemest to be ashamed of or at the best loath to name them And first concerning John Davis whom thou sites to prove that a Quaker in Dover lying sick on his death-bed being asked by whom he thought to be justified should reply by his own righteousnesse and not by the righteousnesse of Christ and I knowing of it to be a lye as to that friend who died and for the Truths sake could not let it pass without going to John Davis and demanded of him whether ever he informed Tho. Danson of such a thing or ever saw that friend in the time of his sicknesse whose answer was that he never saw him in the time of his sickness and that he scarce knew so much as where he dwelt and this his answer was in the presence of John Higgins of Dover And here Tho. Danson Behold thy forwardnesse and read thy wickedness who hast made use of a mans name contrary to his will and without his knowledge as himself saith to prove thy lyes and with a whores forehead canst call them undoubted truths as thou hast done in thy Pamphlet therefore lay thy hand upon thy mouth and let shame cover thy face and never more call thy self a Minister of the Gospel having manifested thy self to the contrary to be a lover and a maker of lyes and all such are strangers to the Gospel which is the power of God but are shut out amongst the dogs And again thou sayest that in May last there having been some discourse betwixt one Howard of Dover Quaker and a Minister in Rumney Marsh viz. Mr. Russel as thou callest him the next day was appointed for further discourse betwixt them two but over night the said Howard sent his man and his horse for Mr. Fisher sometime a Minister and now a Quaker

and suspected to be a Jesuite and going with him to the place of Meeting told the people that seeing S. F. came accidentally there he would now leave the discourse to him and one standing by should say that he saw Howards horse and man go over night and that S. F. rid into the Town on the same horse the next morning And this thou sayest is well enough known that besides the lyes in their Doctrines they have not so much Moral honesty as to speak truth in matter of Fact these are thy own words in thy Narrative page the fifth and to prove it thou hast set Mr. Russel Minister in the Marsh in the Margent as a witnesse But this I know that thy proof is so short that it s no proof at all But another Arrow at large shot out of the Divels Bow in which thou art a shooting throughout in both thy Pamphlets but they will return again and stick fast in thy own sides and as Darts in thy liver will they be thy burthen and the Pit thou hast digged for the innocent thou must fall into thy self for this is a lye in every part of it for the discourse was not betwixt me and William Russell neither did I send my horse and man over night for S. F. But for the Truths sake thus it was Edward Burrough coming to Dover to get passage for Dunkirk and knowing that S. F. had something on him to go also asked me to let my son ride down on his horse which is a black one and mine a ray easily to be distinguished by all that loves to speak truth to carry S. F. a letter and E. B. sent the boy away so long before our meeting that we did think that the boy might be near S. F. his house before William Russel came into our Meeting or we knew of any meeting to be And besides the Dispute was began by a Baptist who had been convinced of the Truth and Judas like turned his back upon it and betrayed it into the hands of the Priest viz. William Russel who was hovering about the window where our Meeting was and after some time he came in and intermedling with the Discourse the Baptist left the mannagement of it to him so time being short E. B. and W. R. appointed to come again in the morning which they did and about the middle of the day W. R. desired a little time of ease and to meet in the after part of the day in St. James's Church falsly so called so E. B. met him there and then S. F. came and knew nothing of the Dispute lesse or more till he came to town for how could he the boy being sent by E. B. the morning before the Dispute began and neither my self nor S. F. were little concerned in it but E. B. chiefly by whom that day through the Lords strength Truth was richly made manifest and the Priests of England proved deceivers and this is a true Relation of this matter witnesse John E'eins Henry Goodis Also here followeth a true Relation taken from the mouth of William Russel whom he hath set in the Margent to cover his lyes and to make them appear as truth unto the world by which he manifested his inveterate wickednesse and rage against the Truth which appeareth to be very great by his raking together such groundlesse stuffe and confirming them with such swelling words saying that they are undoubted Truths and that to the most of them there is the witnesses names but this will be also unto thy shame for this is William Russels own testimony that he hath neither spoken nor writ nor sent any manner of way any thing to Tho. Danson about that Dispute witnesse hereunto John Higgins John Philley So also he hath made use of William Russels name contrary to his will and without his knowledge to be a false witnesse to his Lies which is abomination to the Lord. But Wil. Russel said that Nath. Barry told him that he did inform Tho. Danson of it Now this Nath Barry is a Priest in Dover and Preacheth at the old Masse house falsely called St. Maries Church And I asked him whether he did Report it to Tho Danson and he at the first was very loth to tell me as being conscious of evil in himself as I judged But in his answer to me thus he ordered his speech saying That he heard such a Report and onely spake of it at a Gentlemans house where Tho. Danson was and that he did not think he would have printed it And thus they report lyes one to another even as brethren therein and strengthen themselves in darkness by making lyes their Refuge and under falshood hides themselves but are afraid to bring or have them brought to the light which is the truth for that is their condemnation And thus they fulfill the Scriptures upon themselves as the false prophets of old did who watched for evil and for the halting of the Righteous and said Come Report and we will report it But why do the Heathen rage and the people imagine a vain thing against the Lord and against his Annointed for surely in vain is the snare laid in the sight of any bird for though the priests dig as deep as Hell to hide their counsel and to make a covenant with hell and death yet Truth will disanull it all and the overflowing scourge will and must overtake them in their works of darkness and he that sitteth in heaven will laugh them to scorn shall have them in derision for now is the Lord a making their folly known unto all men and they shall proceed no further but shall go backward and be snared and fall and be taken by the traps which they lay and the pits which they digg for the innocent in which they shall fall in the bowels of their mother the great Whore Mystery Babylon as a milstone into the Sea never to rise any more and the day is near at hand wherein it will be seen perfectly even the fullfilling of that which was prophesied of in ages past for the Lord alone will do it for his own name sake which the Priests have polluted and by their lightness and by their lying have caused the people so to do also so that from them prophaness is gone forth amongst all people in this present age as much as in any but wo and misery will be the end of all such the workers of iniquity And now Thomas Danson if we may measure all the rest of thy bitter Arrows shot out of the Devils Bow by these thy two great witnesses we may safely conclude them to be such like and this we have sufficient ground to do and that they to wit thy Arrowes will never slay the Dragon nor bruise the head of the old Serpent which is the Devil who ruleth in the hearts of all the children of disobedience and so in thee Thomas Danson Another thing thou hast to say of me from one

this let the witnesse of God in all Consciences answer that this readeth and I know it will do in all where it is suffered to speak that knoweth any thing as eye-witnesse of the matter which occasions these Lines to be written to thee T. D. by which thou art put by thy trust which thou in thy Preface speakest of and trustest to to beget in people a bad opinion of the Quakers except it be in such as thy self is who makest lyes thy refuge and under falsehood hideth thy self But this know that thou and all such that to speak the truth is alwayes best every man to his neighbour the which if thou hadst learned it within thee as plain and as well as thou canst read it without thee then thou wouldst have known a bridle to thy Tongue before this time and never have been raking abroad for lyes but for want of that thy Religion is vaine as saith the Scriptures of truth which we believe and shews the life of as a witness against thee and all the vain talkers and disputers of this World about the husks which is the letter on which the Swines do feed who rent and tear the Lambs and lives in the liberty of the flesh out of the life of them wherein the Worlds friendship standeth which is enmity against God seeking honour one of another and not the honour which is of God alone which is to live in his fear and how can such believe or know the faith which giveth victory over the world and in this state thou hast manifested thy self to be in a large measure by thy lying and flattery with those worthy persons which thou in thy Pamphlets speaks of and this will appear to all that have but moral honesty in them and so much sobriety as to ponder thy lines and the weight of thy words and the grounds thou speakest them from the which to him who liveth and walketh in the light of the Lord will appear to be from the bottomless pit wherein they must go again with the lyar the beast and the false Prophet which is the proper and the appointed place for them all And this I have writ for the clearing of my own Conscience and the truth which is my life so far as in brief it might be done and I concerned so to do have laid the lys on the lyars head turned the Devils fiery darts back into his own Quiver again and in this I have cleared my Conscience which is a true and faithfull testimony born by me who am a knower and a lover of the Quakers principles because I know and feel that they lead out of sin and also out of the nature which pleadeth for sin for he that believeth hath the witnesse in himself in which I rest in peace and remain a true friend and a lover of the Seed of God in all men but an enemy to the seed of the Serpent in all without respect to the persons of any and this testimony is true born by me Luke Howard against Thomas Dansons lyes Dover the 15th of the 10th Moneth 1659. L. H. A Postscript THis my testimony to the truth is true and also thine T. D. is false which thou hast Printed against the truth my self and others and if thou wouldest be ●o honest as to speak the truth thou knowest it is so but if in thy hardness of heart and boldness of face shouldest yet say to the contrary let not thy speech of it at a rich mans Table which you Priests love to frequent to serve your God to wit your bellies serve the turn but let the truth appear in the face of the Son and if thou darest affirm that thou hast Printed nought but truth then make thy self strong and gather together thy witnesses to wit the four Priests mentioned in thy pamphlet to prove thy lyes and meet me publickly in Dover or Sandwich Market place and let timely notice be given that much people may hear of it and meet with us and I may be ready to meet thee in the fear of the Lord with witnesses also to prove the truth outwardly besides the Testimony of my own Conscience within which is more to me then a thousand witnesses without and let the lyar bear his own burden and if this be refused by thee I say again cease using of thy Tongue at Rich mens Tables for that will be thy shame to boast in lyes for the day is so far come on that many of them see through the deceit of the Priests though they have not so much yet born up in them as to deny you but your folly doth appear to many of them and it will to all men to the fulfilling of the Scriptures so that I say again and again that the decree of the Lord is to pluck you up by the roots for your wickedness your pride lightness lying and covetousness and for these things will ye stink as a dung-hill against the Sun and that all the strength of Egypt shall not help you for the Scripture will be fulfilled upon you viz. Cursed be the man that trusteth in man and maketh flesh his arm when all whose confidence is in the Lord and not in Princes shall be as Mount Sion which shall never be moved and herein lyeth our strength and in him is our joy full and if it had not been so we had long since been overwhelmed to the rejoycing of you Priests who have long looked for it who in your hearts say against the appearance of the heir of all things in this age as your murthering Brethren of old did against the appearance of him in ages past viz. This is the heir come let us kill him that the inheriance may be ours But the work is in the hand of the Lord now as ever it was and by him carried on who is bringing great things to pass out of your reach and sight but this is your inheritance and due reward from the Lord to be filled with the fruit of your own doings and that will be a burden heavy enough and too heavy for you to bear I am sure of it who am one that understandeth well and feeleth what I say and therefore cannot but pity you yea I can truly say pity you all though abused by you and hated of you and your Generation yet dare not render to you evil for evil but contrary wise good to you and all men by which I desire to be made manifest to you and to the witnesse of God in you otherwise by name THE END