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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A81728	A plain and faithfull discovery of a beame in Master Edwards his eye. Or A moderate ansvver to the substance of the first and second part of Gangrena. Especially to his prophesie; wherein some of his stories are refuted; the manner of his comming by them questioned. His double dealing detected. Capt. Paul Hobson with some others, vindicated. Mr. Josiah Rycraft examined. Mr. Edwards unparalleld partiality, is impartially declared, and his prophesie truly reflected. / By Edward Drapes.	Drapes, Edward.	1646 (1646)	Wing D2140; Thomason E350_22; ESTC R201053	39,173	35

desire he would sit down a little while and consider what the Words of our Saviour meaneth and faithfully apply the same Math 7. ver 1.2 3 4 5. and see whether there is not spirituall abominations set up in high places amongst them Whether there is not darknes that may be felt amongst them Whether a spirit of Pride and Prelacy rules not even in them who love the name oh that they had the nature of Di●ines Who extols themselves more then the Presbyterians Who makes so much ●oast of their wit wisdome pyety learning reading writing reasoning as they esteeming all Ideots Dunces and Fooles but themselves as if with and in them and not in Iesus was the treasures of wisdome and knowledge centred If this be not true let some man if he can tell me what the meaning is of their strange Petitions invective Sermons rancorus Discourses mal●ciou● Tre●tises bitter threats and endeavours to silence the mouthes of Lay men as they term them from declaring the sweet injoyments of the transcendant excellencies of their beloved of their God of their King and of their Iesus communicated to them rayling against them with reviling villifying speeches calling them disgracefully illiterate mechanicke Taylors Pedlers Tinkers Coblers and the like carnally supposing so far as I am able to spell their meaning the gifts of the spirit to be centred in and confined to the members of an Vn●versity to humane learning naturall education acquired parts the like forgetting that it is the usuall method of God to invite the simple into Wisdomes Palaces and to cause the weake and despised things of this world to confound the wise even shutting it out of their thoughts or at least out of their mouthes that God hath chosen the weake things of the world to confound the things which are mighty and base things of the world and things wh●ch are d●spised and things which are not to bring to nought things that are that no flesh should glory in his presence 1. Cor. 1.25 26 27 28 29. Surely did they consider it they would not so glory in the flesh as they do in their parts learning abilities but rather in the Lord. Who can see their spirits and not see arrogancy in its heigth Who endeavours plots studies to be reverenced of all to have the chiefe place at Feasts the highest place in their Churches and to be called Rabbies Doctors Divines like unto them If a spirit of pride may be seen in endeavouring to b●ing all People high and low rich and pore Rulers and ruled under the yokes of their own opinions in pain of Anathema Maranatha savours of Pride how will they free themselves from such a spirit If they imagine they can let them tell me what they mean by prescribing Lawes Ordinances Censures for them over whom Christ hath given them no power What do they intend by their pronouncing judgement and vengeance upon those that dissent from them By their exclaiming upon the Parliament for not heati●g a furnace seven times with hot scorching persecution to destroy many of Christs tender L●mbes For not being their executioners If to incense a Parliament against an honest People their tryed Servants if to be jealous of speake against and cunningly insinuate a disaffection in many against a Parliament and the faithfull instruments of Englands present deliverance If to sit down in the throne of Christ if to take his Scepter out out of his hands his Crown off his head If to despise trample upon and abase his membe●s savours of pride and arroggancy and pride and arrogancy is a certaine symptom of present distinction as M. Edwards sayth Oh then what a condition are ●he Pre●by●erians in But I passe to his second Symptome 2. The second Symp ome of the Sectaryes ruin and destruction for so he feares not to call the wor shippers of the living ●od is their v olent presecution of their wayes and causes What he may meane by their wayes and causes it is very ambiguous If by wayes and causes he mean their constant endeavours of subduing the Kingdoms Enemies In which Cause he makes the world believe so many of them are interested then I confesse they have made haste though not more haste then good speed through the power of God have done that in a few Monthes which others have not done in yeares Now if their violence in promoting the Kingdomes peace in purchasing the liberty of free born Subjects in hasting an end to the warres and heavy taxes that for the present are necessarily imposed upon the Kingdome be the violence he meanes which portends their destruction then am I verily perswaded there is some cunning underhand plotting contriving and conspiring their speedy ruin which himselfe is an agent or factor in which he assumes to himselfe as the ground of his Prophesy But is there no remedy but they must dye who under God have been the instruments that he and his bretheren live Pore souldiers that have adventured their lives lest their estates hazarded their utter ruin for them even to the expence of much treasure and the losse of much precious bloud when they might justly expect to be received and entertained in great triumph M. Edwards himselfe singing before them and blessing God for them they can hope for little else then a bloudy reward of all their labours Or if he mean their Cause to be their contending for the speedy solemnization of a happy marriage between Truth and Peace that these Kingdomes may be blessed in their sweet embraceings each of other their praying for it their preach ng writing and contending for it by no other Sword then that of the Spirit to be their violence I acknowledge such a cause and such a violence I am willing to own who ever condemnes me for it But if he meane by their wayes error Heresie schisme as it is probable and by their violence their constant endeavours to prosec●te their errors c. I will not deny but some may stand up for errour in stead of truth but that he should charge all thus is unreasonable I wish he would deale ingeniously and tell me whether he believeth they know those things to be error heresie and schisme which they prosecute or not if they doe not will nothing expiate a crime of ignorance but by the absolute ruine of the offender If it be so who could remain alive If the Independants are guilty of their thousand errors sure I am the Presbyters are guilty of their ten thousands and for the manner of he prosecution of these wayes if the Independants use Wh ps I am sure the Pr sbyterians use Scorpions I could tell the world of many wayes and designes of heirs of their great huge vast endeavours to set themselves on high I could tell how l ke Diotrephes they seeke preheminence above their Bretheren I could al 's decla e how violently they carry on this their Design like Iehu they d v●f rio●sly wi h