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authority_n	apostle_n	great_a	power_n	2,075	5	4.8031	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A50441	A brief answer unto the Cambridge moddel which is to go to the two universities to be read by all the doctors and students, vice-chancellor, and fellows, as they will answer it to God : and likewise this is to go to all those they call gentlemen to the countreys to whom this moddel is directed, from the doctors, for money to maintaine the students : and is to go amongst all the priests that are, and have been heretofore made ministers by the same doctors of colledges, now planted themselves in the countreys, and this is to go amongst all the country-men, that they may see the fruits of the learning from the doctors, which fruits is persecution ... / by E.M.	E. M.; Worthington, John, 1618-1671.	1658 (1658)	Wing M15; ESTC R22561	12,527	18

men and so you must acknowledge the Pope hath more wit then you that cannot name your Houses and Colledges and days and sets you out your Tythes Easter reckonings and Midsomer dues and so you are them that destroy the pure understanding of the people and stops the way whereby the souls of the people might come up so are destroyers of the true Ministers and keeping people from the true foundation Christ Jesus the Prophet which is to be heard It is not your Languages that feeds souls and keep people from being seduced nor makes people witty in the things of the spirit of God as you simple Doctors think in the tenth page your Ministry would wear out If you should loose your Tongues and Sciences And when do we see a Priest dare to venture upon a Papist Priest without a carnall sword and confound him and stop his mouth but your and the Papists Original are your Languages so easie to be confounded by them that be in the spirit of God before Tongues was So you who are killing and prisoning one another about your sacrifices piety is lost and charity amongst you and you are unfurnished with spiritual weapons and the Quakers who are of the royal elect seed of God before the foundation of the world was hath sounded you allarm and all your fore-fathers the Papists which your fathers since the days of the Apostles the Allarm is gone out that all the Sects and Apostates and Heathen which know not God upon the earth And the Trumpet sounds out of the holy Mountain that you and all the Inhabitants of the earth should tremble and you and all you who be in the ninths and tenths of the earth and the Trumpet sounds out to you all Allarm that you may come to the battel of the great God of heaven and earth And the Lambs war is begun who will kill with the sword and slay with the sword which is the word of his mouth and the Devill and Beast and false Prophet shall be taken and cast alive into the lake of fire He that worships the Beast shall be tormented day and night And the Lamb and the Saints shall reigne and the everlasting Gospell shall be preached to all Kindreds Tongues and Nations which is the power of God And you and the Papists have been made up by the Hereticks which went forth from the Apostles as you may read in Timothy in Jude and Peter and John and the rest of the Epistles and you all dry drossie dark Doctors who are training up your poor silly ignorant sottish Students which when they come out from you will speak a few words for a cock of Barley tythe Eggs and pigs Away you poor young Students lay aside all your pretences and turn to the Lord God from your old Doctors for they are never able to make you Ministers For that which they do is but for money and you are but plain Naturalists when they have done the utmost to you and then you go forth and teach for money when as you had been better to have kept Flocks and Herds and turned Husbandmen that would bring more honour to God You see the people are prophane and you do them no good and you see that you begin to be a shame to the Nation and what uncharitable lives they have and hard hearts and seared consciences and will cast men into prison and bring them before Courts and prison them for speaking to them and yet you have been learning seven and eight years at Oxford and Cambridge and one that hath never been there shall confound 20 of them in the things of God and how unlike the Apostles are they which was in the power of God whereby their hearers sold all and laid at the Apostles feet Now you see the Apostles would not cumber themselves with it they might have set up great benefits And again you may see how you Priests and Ministers destroy the true Church amongst you and the true Authority and comforter edification and limit the holy one dispiseth prophesy and quencheth the spirit if any thing be revealed to another that sits by let the first hold his peace And this practice you get a law against take him away he disturbes me and so you are the crucifiers in the world and the world that crucifies and are not them that are crucified from the world with Christ And the Lord hath given many both rich and poor an unspeakable happiness and freely of his grace that stands for the glory of his Church which Christ is in the midst of and is the head who are come into the lively faith and the fervent love to the brethren that are persecuted by you and evilly entreated and their bodies are offered up sacrifices to the Lord and many have been sacrificed in your prisons and there died to whom the love of God hath flowed and abounded and carried through all their sufferings with joy unspeakable and love unfaigned whose Souls are in their rest Christ whose comfort is in Christ the hope the mystery whose Crown of glory fades not whose love is to the world whether they will receive it for no now you Teachers and called Ministers have impoverished many in the Nation whom you do no work for many families many fatherlesse many widows many you keep in prison to this day many hath died in prison you have kept till death is it not blood their you drink will nothing serve you but the Saints blood there bodies and their lives you have taken and caused to be taken the very bibs and the childrens clothes and plough-gear and Oxen and Horses that men should till their ground with you have taken the beds away from people and left them none to lye on taken away their corn sheep and hay and threshed their corn in their Barnes and carried it away by loads as witness Thomas Aldam you drive away their fat Beasts provided for their own families against Winter you take away the Cows from the poor people that have half a dozen children to give them milk and take the men from their wives and cast them into prison that they shall not maintain their familes Oh! lamentable cryes is entred into the Lord of the Sabbath of rest for his people and you are speaking of learning and defending of the Truth and building up the Church of Christ by your Languages you six Doctors Alas did not Pilate with his Learning Languages turne against Christ and the Church and the Greek and the Hebrew and the Latine both And so Mahomet and the Infidels fruits could not be worse then yours who will not suffer the Saints to live upon the Earth except they live in the ninths to give you the tenths and bury the seed of God in their ninths that part pertains to shadows that holds the ninths that is a mystery and they that hold you up cannot honour Christ The priests name is Cain the first birth and that sacrificer offered of the earth and wrestled with the flesh and blood of Abel and killed him which did not Abel he wrestled not with the flesh and blood of Cain the Priests and the blood of Abel cries for vengeance upon Cain THE END