Schismaticks and Separatists from the Truth and so while you bid others beware of it you hold them fast in it O ye Deceivers God will require his flock at your hands Their Redeemer is strong the Lord of Hostes is his Name he shall throughly plead their cause and deliver them out of your hands Jer. 50.33 34. Eze. 34.10 11.12 c. I pass on now to other termes which you have used against such as have pressed towards the Truth For I must fill to you in your own Cup. You call others unlearned and unstable from the words of Peter in his second Epistle Ch. 3. v. 16. And say that they wrest the Scriptures to their own destruction We will first consider these words as they are translated and afterwards as they may be more truely translated and see to whom they may most properly be applied First for the word unlearned we shall see who they are that are unlearned by taking notice what Learning is Learning is nothing else but A right understanding of things as they are in themselves an appendance whereof is Eloquence which is a clear uttering of things rightly understood to the understandings of others I have seldom heard of any learned man of any depth of Judgement that will say that Eloquence lies in dark expressions and hidden words and vainglorious sounds of words which some delight in but in a plain pertinent clear expression that comes home to the understandings of others that 's to speak the thing out that 's Eloquence I know well that there is an Eloquence which is Eloquence but onely to some to others it is an unknown tongue I am not against this if it do clearly and pertinently expresse Truth let men speak out truth as they can but yet minde what Paul said I had rather speak five words with the understanding then ten thousand words in an unknown tongue speaking home to others understanding comes nearest to the end of speaking Now here is the very End of Schooles and Universities namely To bring men to a right understanding of things as they are in themselves in truth and to profit their utterance and demonstration of that truth that is in things and for this end are disputations in Schooles about Questions Morall Philosophicall Divine c. Now he that reaches nearest home to these Ends namely to understand things as they are really in themselves and to utter forth the same to the understandings of others he is the most Learned Let his Education be what it will for he reaches that which all Universities are erected for in the right ends of them Further the top of all learning or the principal learning lies in a clear understanding of the highest things or of the things of Christ and the clear Demonstration of these things to the understandings of others by words which the spirit administers is the chiefest Eloquence If learning and Eloquence consist in any thing else let them who list declare wherein it lies Now these things being well weighed may in some measure discover to us who are learned who are unlearned Namely those who best reach these ends be it in what way soever by studie by Education or by Revelation they are the most learned If one man be brought up at an University and spend many years there another followes his employment in some outward calling walking in obedience to the light that 's in him Now let these two meet at the end of seven years and he that hath followed his calling and the light communicated to him be better instructed in the mysteries of Jesus Christ then the other and be more able to declare them with profit to the hearers then the other yea to confound the other by the Scriptures and discover his ignorance and disobedience then let any rationall man tell us which of these two men is the more Learned and which is the more unlearned in the things of Christ Now whether there be not many presidents of these afforded in this Nation of ours let the experience of these times testifie And yet the unlearned ignorant Priests cry out against others as unlearned who have more learning then themselves Now for the word unstable that which is stability they account Instability For stability is to stick close to the Lord and to follow him whithersoever he goes it is not to fix our roots into the earth and there to stick fast Suppose that when the Lord led his people out of Egypt some would sit down by the fleshpots of Egypt others would set forward but yet sit down by the way at some of those places where the cloud that led them stood still others where the tabernacle was pitched for a season others would turn back again unto Egypt but others as Caleb and Joshua followed the Lord fully removing from place to place not turning back again in their hearts but keeping intirely to the guide that led them Now tell me were Caleb and Joshua the unstable ones who could no where sit down with the rest that turned back in their hearts to Egypt or they who had motions for a time to go forward but afterwards turned back again So the Lamb may have as many removes out of Babylon and Egypt spirituall for ought I know and if so then whether are they who follow the Lamb whithersoever he goes or they who have motions forth of this Babylon but turn back again in their hearts chusing rather to sit down at ease there then to go on I say which of these are the unstable ones judge in your selves But shall I tell you that the instability of many shall be laid to the charge of you Priests You have met them and buffetted them with your terrible words and have turned away many a soul from following the Lamb. Yea I my self have not been without buffettings from some of you Others whom my soul tenderly lookes upon with much compassion have broken from you and have broken the Ice as it were pressing forward after the Truth and to finde out the way for us towards Zion Yet thorow the violence of your Tempests have been made to turn into creekes for harbour where to make their stand lest they should be overwhelmed in your Tempests and so have been slacked and taken off from their stability in following the Lamb and yet with an impudent for chead you brand that with instabilitie which is stabilitie and strength Let us now consider of the words in a better translation The words of Peter in the Greek tongue are these 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2 Pet. 3.16 And they are translated thus Which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest I desire tender spirits not to be offended that I use words here which they understand not for I speak to those that do understand the litterall sense of them and must deal with them a little with their own weapons The words which may more easily be understood if they were translated nearer to the Greek
up a golden image and cast those that would not worship it into a fiery furnace Did ever Truth stand in need of Prisons to make men fall down to it Did ever any thing in that kinde need prison or furnace to make another thing stoop to it except onely Idols Did ever Christ or any of his Apostles call to Magistrates and Constables and other Officers to take others away to prison who interrupted them or needed they any other thing to keep men silent while they spake besides the Authority and Power of their words Surely if you be their successors as you would have men beleeve and if your Preaching be like theirs you would not need any other thing to make men silent but the power of your words But it s an Idol and so needeth iron to uphold and defend it and to fasten it as it were in a wall lest it fall It may be some will say Hath not God converted souls by this manner of Preaching in Pulpits I answer if any were thereby converted it was by some words of Truth falling upon the hearts of the hearers which might have had the same effect in other manner of speaking and therefore the converson of such is not to be ascribed to that Idolized manner of Preaching Sermons in Pulpits but to the Power of Truth which ought to have liberty to be spoken in other manner but cannot for that Idol I do willingly give my Testimony that the times of ignorance God winked at and was pleased to step in and give much power sometimes to the words of some who have spoken in that way especially to such as have been under some suffering for not being fully conformable Yea Babylon it self cannot keep him out but for his chosen sake he will speak to them there even in the midst of confusion But what then now when light is breaking out and discovering things more clearly He cals upon all men to repent and forsake the Error of their doings and he that doth not follow the light shall have nothing left him to uphold but an Idol For God is departing out of that which is not his own purely and will leave it dead and dry without life without nourishment Yea he hath already withdrawn himself and where formerly some life hath been found now it is become as the blood of a dead man Again if your manner of Preaching be not an Image an Idol of your own or other mens imaginations but the pure off-spring of the Spirit then tell us how it comes to pass that you can limit that holy Spirit now by the hour doth the Spirit Order you and administer words and matter to you by the hour or you Order him and keep him to your hour O vain men is it not the Idol of your own heads the formings of your own brain your woven and carved Oration-like speeches that you have this power over to reach to what length you would have them and to stop where you would have them They who have tasted of the Spirits ministring by them can witness that they then could not be stretched out to the hour or limitted by the hour Again is not your Preaching an Idol when as you uphold it onely for Gain It s from your own mouthes Take away livings say you that is tithes and other hire and what will become of the Gospel that is of your Gospel Oh ye earthly spirited men doth the care of the Gospel lie onely upon the shoulders of Hirelings Surely surely the time was when as the truth of the Gospel was upheld by suffering the loss of all things and is it now upheld by hire It was upheld and also spread abroad by a few sufferers but now it seems its otherwise No hire no Gospel no Livings no Preaching I think so indeed Such is your care of the Gospel You are worthy to be called Gospel Preachers and Gospel Ministers and yet the want of hire will divide between you and your Gospel Take away the one and take away the other also for so you speak plain out and are not ashamed Wo is us hath God committed his Gospel to such careless ones hath he hung it upon so tickle a point and in these times when men are ready every where to withdraw their stipends but onely that they are held to it by awe No no your Gospel and your Preaching is your Diana an Idol a gainful Idol and by that craft you have your gain If you should let the magnificence of it fall to the ground your gain were lost And therefore it behoves you to cry it up as the Ephesians did their Diana Act. 19.24 25 26 27 28. Cry it up with a shout and noise of words with staves and clubs and Constables and Bayliffes and sines and Prisons for this will be your best Argument Tell the People ingeniously as Demetrius did That by this craft or Art you have your wealth and therefore it behoves you to uphold it Not that you care for the Gospel any further then it s made a gainful trade and upheld by you as an Idol to bring in your gain for take away gain and farewell your Gospel and Preaching all dies with hire if that be taken away Much more may be said to your Preaching but I pass on to your singing You have Psalms indeed but how come you by them In the Primitive Church that is in the first gathering of Saints out of the world into fellowships one with another by the Apostles they had Psalms 1 Cor. 14.26 One had a Psalm another a Revelation another an interpretation They had all these and such like gifts given them by the Spirit which ministered to every one severally as he pleased 1 Cor. 12.11 But whence have you your Psalms Doth the Spirit of the Lord minister them to you Or do not you because you want that gift set up a Clark or reader in many of your Congregations to supply the want of that gift as if he were the ministring spirit to minister a Psalm to all the Congregation what is this pure fire from the Altar or strange fire like Nadabs and Abihu's taken from the Kitchin of your smoakie imaginations Or else you have your Psalms from your Books and so all times are alike to you you can sing when you will and forbear when you will which would not be if the spirit which breathes when and where he listeth did administer them to you for he would rule you and not you him Did not Christ ascend on high and give gifts to men for the work of his ministery But you descend to make use of the invented Rimes and Metters of men to make up with your ministery I know and witness that sincerity of heart expressing and breathing forth it self in these things in the time of ignorance hath been accepted and cherished by the Lord but now when light is come to discover them to be of humane invention in respect of the form and use
A Word of Reproof TO THE PRIESTS OR MINISTERS WHO Boast of their Ministery and Ordinances and yet live in Pride Disdain Persecution c. SHEVVING What such are and how little cause they have to exclaim against those who separate from them AS ALSO A word to the Papists Discovering their Foundation to be carnal and sandie In a LETTER sent to some supposed Priests or Jesuits in the North BY WILLIAM TOMLINSON In the Cup wherein she hath filled to you fill to her double London Printed for Tho. Wayte and are to be sold at the Pavement in York 1653. A word of Reproof to the Priests or Ministers who boast of their Ministery and Ordinances and yet live in Pride disdain persecution c. O Ye Priests * I do not call you Priests out of derision I love not that though some must deride you But because most of you were ordained to your office under that very name and few or none of you have renounced that your Ordination Secondly because you conform yourselves more to the Priests under the Law then to the Ministers of the Gospel The truth is ye are not worthy of that name for it is a name peculiar to the Saints onely and to all the Saints under the ministration of the Gospel 1 Pet. 2.5 9. Revel 1.6 you call your selves the Ministers of Jesus Christ when as you do nothing resemble him You have nothing to bear you out to be so but onely great swelling words As the Jews once gloried in the Temple when the Lord was departed out of it crying The Temple of the Lord The Temple of the Lord the Temple of the Lord as if those great words had been argument enough to bear it out to be the Temple of the Lord when he had left it So you cry the Ministers of the Lord the Ministers of Lord the Ministers of Christ the Ministers of Christ the Ministers of the Gospel the Ministers of the Gospel as if those great words were enough to prove you to be so when as the Lord is departed from you and your Ministery and leaves it to become as the blood of a dead man Revel 16.3 In which no life is to be found but death and stifeling of the Spirit For that holy unction which moves upon the hearts of the Babes of Christ and weaklings in stead of being strengthened is among you strangled and rendred as delusion and fancie and a thing which they must not trust to though this testimony be given of it from above That it is Truth and is no lie and is the onely preservative against seducing and the guide or Teacher that keepes us abiding in Christ 1 Joh. 2.26.27 For that Unction is Christ moving in us and as he is according to that obeyed and yielded to so he abides with us and we abide in him By that he leads on from truth to truth and so from strength to strength from comfort to comfort from light to light untill he lead into clearness and fulness and present us perfect before God and the Father without spot and blemish before his Throne Yet dare you blaspheme this holy Spirit which is no other but Christ himselfe in flesh which you deny fighting against him in every appearance of his in flesh and thereby manifestly declare your selves to be Antichrist and not the Ministers of Jesus Christ as you proudly boast your selves to be He is Antichrist that denies the Father and the Son 1 Joh. 2.22 He that denies the Son denies the Father also for they two are one And he that denies the Spirit or Unction that moves upon the hearts of Christs Schollars and fights against it when he would come and appear in flesh he denies both the Father and the Son for these three are one 1 Joh. 4.3 Every Spirit that confesses not Jesus Christ come in flesh is not of God and this is that Spirit of Antichrist whereof you have heard that it should come and even now already is it in the world I say every Spirit that confesses not Christ come in the flesh for so the words are more truely rendred as some of you know And so rendred they hold forth a constant Character or mark of that Spirit of Antichrist It doth not confess Christ come that is when he comes or appears in flesh or in his servants To say as it is translated in the English every Spirit that confesses not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh To say thus is not a full Character of Antichrist For the Papists themselves and the Pope whom you all say is Antichrist He doth not deny but that Jesus Christ is come that is once came in flesh Therefore in that sence it discovers not Antichrist But both He and They and You do all deny and fight against Christ come in flesh of his servants that is when he comes and appears in them Therefore in the same sence wherein it discovers him I mean the Pope to be Antichrist in the same it discovers you also to be Antichrist For as he fights against the Appearances of the Lord and confesses not Christ in those commings of his in flesh whereby he leads his people out of his mystery so no more do you confess Christ in those commings of his in flesh now whereby he would lead his people out from under your mystery So that I say the Spirit of Antichrist manifests it self in you and yet are you bold to cry up your selves The Ministers of Christ The Ministers of the Gospel as if you were able by these words to strike dead all Reasons to the contrary You do wisely in your generation to keep you there and so to fear and dazle the minds of men with those great words keeping them off as far as you can from reasoning about it making them by your great words of Gospel Ministers and I know not what to fear even to question whether you be so or not Oh ye Opposers will you always strive against the Truth how many of you who stand in the publique Ministery as you call it have been leaders of the People out of Error How many of you have lighted the People by your examples to forsake and renounce the world and the things thereof yea I may say The Relliques of the Romish trash that Idol service Book and all the trumpery of it Nay have not the People therein rather taught you are they first in the obedience do not you stick to it untill the stream of the People shame you from it and the fear of loosing of your livings as you call them make you to part with it Is it not thus with you also in other appearances of Christ when he comes in flesh in weakness in his servants to consume the mystery of iniquity do you not stand out striving and opposing untill the last If you can espie failings and weaknesses in that weak flesh in which Christ comes those you use as instruments to fight withall against
seeming affections and such like you hereby deceive the hearts of the simple But these will not serve your turnes now your Covering is too narrow it will not hide your nakednes You are brought to the touch stone Your work Your works they are your discovery Your workes are the works of Sodom pride idelnes fulnes of bread covetousnes wrath malice backbiting persecution disdainfulnes Oh the proud disdainfull spirit that is among you Is it not just so with you as it was with the Pharisees What dost thou teach us said they and is not the same in your hearts also against all that say any thing against you if they appear not to be brought up in your Schooles But by such as you so scornfully disdain even by such shall you be overthrown and confounded You have clamoured against others calling them wandring Stars and falling Stars as if the region of your traditions and humain inventions had been the firmament of truth and as if all that fell from these things had falne from Heaven and from grace But it will be made manifest to all men that you are falne from the firmament of truth from the wayes and from the words of the Apostles and are found wandring in the foggy mists of humain inventions You have had a whores forehead impudent and bold to cast those names upon others which do most properly belong to your selves Whether are they the falling Stars who arise in their spirits casting off every weight that bindes down to the earth that they may walk up closer to the example of their Lord Christ and his holy Apostles or they who fall downwards towards the earth with Demas loving this present world but forsaking the footsteps of the Apostles fixing their roots into the earth being held fast with the allurements thereof You have called every one Deceivers and Seducers who have stepped forth from you groping after the truth But consider well whether you your selves shall not be found Grand Seducers First consider the Multitude of Deceivers how many they are whom this whorish spirit of fornication seducing doth possess It sitteth upon many waters Rev. 17.1 And those waters are Peoples and Multitude and Nations and tongues v. 15. And again it s said all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication Rev. 18.3 And again By thy sorceries were all nations deceived v. 23. Now at whose hands do all nations receive this cup of fornication but at the hands of the nationall ministeries and who are the sorcerers who deceive all nations but their nationall teachers who in some things imitate the true messengers of the Lord but thereby take advantage to oppose them the more strongly in other things and even in such things as wherein their removing out of Egipt spirituall lyes and so keep them as fast lockt up in the house of Bondage as they can Even as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses to keep Israel after the flesh still in Pharaohs house of Bondage A few that start aside out of these generall Delusions cannot be they who thus deceive and seduce all nations Again look upon the spirit of Persecution the Bloody spirit stained with blood and where find we that Who are the persecuters and who the persecuted Are not those whom the nationall teachers call seducers the Persecuted and are not the nationall teachers themselves the Persecuters Judge by this where to find the seducers for this is none of the least Characters It s not the nature of the lamb to persecute nor of them that follow the lamb No they come out of great tribulation They are nailed to the Cross of Christ and for his sake are slain all the day long and are as sheep appointed to the slaughter But on the other side the Seducers and Deceivers drink blood They thirst after and procure the blood of saints not under the notion of saints that was never known but under the notion of Deceivers and Blasphemers and Hereticks and such like And so in her is found Blood Blood Blood even all the blood of any that are slain upon the earth Blood of Prophets Blood of Saints Blood of the witnesses of Jesus Rev. 17.6 Chap. 18.24 Again we may guesse at the Seducers and Deceivers by the worldly pompe and Riches which they fall down to and deck themselves withall for the whorish spirit which seduceth is an earthly spirit and so delighteth in an earthly kingdom in the pretious things of the earth Rev. 17.4 They are every one for their gain from their quarter they can remove from worse quarters to better for a little more mony at their pleasure and this is usually their call from one place to another There be few of them but one may hire them from one place to another for forty pounds more per annum if there be but equall honor and other accommodations in both places and thus are they the hirelings of men bought and sold for earthly riches even as bruit beasts in a market and they that give most get them Thus they press after the waies of Balaam tempting the Lord untill he give them up to the swinge of their own hearts as he did Balaam But it is otherwise with the true messengers of the Lord. They prophesie in sackcloth and the nearer that any one comes to the truth the more he is made to die to this world and to the things thereof You call others Hereticks Schismaticks Sectaries and Separatists which are termes that signify a separation and division from the truth from the saints who stand in the truth and from Christ You are full of names of Blasphemy and that 's one character of the deluding spirit your mouthes I say are full of such names but which of you shewes the people how they come to be worthy of such names to whom you apply them and why you call them so as you do It s an easy thing to call any one by any name or odious terme falsly and as you do without ground for it That we may therefore understand better who they are that are hereticks and schismaticks indeed let us mind where is the knot of all true union the center in which all must meet who do not separate and make schisme Is it not in Christ who is the Truth Suppose that Christ were here in person upon earth and a few despised men break off from the body of the Jews as once they did and follow him all the rest cleaving fast still to their Judaisme tell me now whether are these few who forsake the body of the Jews their rites and ceremonies to follow Christ or they who stick still in them the Hereticks and Schismaticks So when Christs comes in Spirit and calls a People out of Babylon from the confusion of mens inventions which hath overspread the Earth and wherewith all nations are made drunk a few in comparison of the rest come out by degrees the rest stick still in the Confusion Which of these
words thus Which they that are undiscipled and unfixed wrest for by unlearned is meant undiscipled here in this place and by unstable is meant such as are unfixed in their hearts to Jesus Christ and to his Crosse Now a man cannot be a Disciple of Christ except he deny himself and take up his Crosse daily and follow Christ So that the meaning is this plainly which they who are undiscipled not taking up their Crosse to follow Christ who are unfixed to Christ in their hearts halting between him and the world do wrest For such as these are the wresters of the Scriptures to their own destruction These because there is an edge of Scripture against them therefore they turn aside the edge of it with their slippery and misty interpretations that so they may sit at their ease enjoying the pleasures of this world and avoiding the Crosse rather then put their necks under the yoke of Christ That these are the unlearned ones spoken off in this place is plain by the very word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifies one undiscipled for when men unlearned in another sense are spoken of the word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is used which signifies illiterate and in that sence indeed Peter and John were unlearned that is they were illiterate or ungrammerd men Act. 4.13 Now herein is the foul Error of the Priests who have altogether applied that in Peter to illiterate men such as Peter himself was who spoke them whereas the words there are onely proper to undiscipled men unlearned in the Truths of Christ disobedient to him in their hearts These are the wresters of Scripture to their own destruction I apeal to your selvs whether the very words do not fairly lead to this interpretation or rather hold out this very sense without any further interpretation And so Peters unlearned ones that wrest the Scriptures are very applicable to the greatest Doctors in the world The most learned Rabbies and Commentators and Disputants in the world may be and for the most part are 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is undiscipled unsubdued to the yoke of Christ and so most fit to wrest the Scriptures to their own destruction Again let us leave the bare words and consider of the dealings of the Lord with men and from thence take notice who are most likely to wrest the Scriptures How come we to understand the Truth is it not a thing given Now to whom is it given Onely to learned men brought up at Universities noe the Lord chuses few of those to entrust with the Knowledg of his Truth 1 Cor. 1.26 27 28. verses Not many wise and so on But God hath chosen the foolish things and weak things and base things and despised things to do his works by that no flesh should glory vers 29. Now if he will chuse such for his works who dare contradict or say unto him why dost thou so or clamor against his instruments calling them unleamed except onely such as dare say any thing Did not Christ thank his Father for hiding the mysteries of his Kingdom from the wise and prudent and revealing them to babes Mat. 11.25 And yet you would arrogate to your selves a priviledge of right understanding the Truth by vertue of your acquired wisdom by humane learning and vilifie all others that want that learning as wresters of the Scriptures to their own destruction when as often times that which you call wrested is the very Truth lying in plain words in the letter The true Knowledge of the Doctrine of Christ is not given to Humane Learning but to obedience to the will of God Joh. 7.17 If any man will do his will he shall know of the Doctrine whither it be of God It s plain therefore that the most self-denying persons are most likely to know the Doctrine of Christ best to them its promised Every degree of self deniall done in obedience to God removes a vail from off the Creatures understanding and so he going on therein hath an abundant entrance opened unto him into the everlasting Kingdom of our Lord and the want of Humane learning cannot rob the Obedient of this Entrance into the Kingdom of light whereas on the contrary Disobedience though accompanied with never so much humane learning and wisdom folds up a man under blindness and strong delusions even to beleeve lies 2 Thes 2.11 And yet by you all truth must be ascribed to Universities and Humane learning though God regard them not and nothing taken notice of from such as want that Humane learning though God make use of such for the most part as his fittest instruments Lastly you have not been sparing in calling others Blasphemers but what Blasphemy is one shall seldom hear from you To Blaspheme is to speak evil of one falsely to slander to reproach to revile to strike thorow ones name with reproaches Thus to revile the actings of the holy Spirit is to Blaspheme the holy Spirit as some of the Pharisees did revile the words and actions of Christ when that Spirit put forth it self eminently in him in mighty works they said spitefully and revilingly that he did it by Beelzebub the Prince of the Devils Paul himself while he was Saul a Persecuter was also guilty in part of Blasphemy against that holy name speaking evil thereof and he looked upon it as a great thing that he obtained mercy He did it ignorantly in unbelief Thus also Paul himself and others were Blasphemed afterwards Rom. 3.8 As we be slanderously reported c. now the word slanderously reported is in the Greek tongue 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is as we be blasphemed In the same sense it is said 1 Cor. 4.13 being defamed we intreat the Greek word is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is being blasphemed we intreat Again Tit. 3.2 we are bid to speak evil of no man falsly the word is to Blaspheme no man revile no man slander no man Now you O Priests are full of slandering reviling names and so full of names of Blasphemy You Blaspheme Christ and his holy Spirit at every motion or step whereby he moves forward in his people Every motion that leads forward from under the great mystery of iniquity towards Zion that you prosecute and dog with revilings which is nothing else but absolute Blasphemy You Blaspheme both God that leads forth calling him delusion and Devill and fancie and also his Tabernacle that is his people in motion out of Egypt spirituall calling them Hereticks Schismaticks Separatists Blasphemers and such like when as in Truth you your selves are the things you so call O fools and blind when will you see that the Tabernacle of God dwels under the cloud while its in the wilderness and is to come forth of great tribulation that 's the Character of the Saints under which they must stand one day But you by your Blasphemies by your slanders and revilings by odious termes and other means are great causers and promoters of that