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A28152	A word of reproof and advice to my late fellow-souldiers and officers of the English, Irish, and Scotish army with some inrhoad made upon the hireling and his mass-house, university, orders, degrees, vestments, poperies, heathenism, &c. : with a short catalogue of some of the fighting priests and ... have given them a blow in one of their eyes (pickt out of the whores head) which they call a fountain of religion but is a sink of iniquity ... / by E.B.	Billing, Edward, 1623-1686.	1659 (1659)	Wing B2903; ESTC R23695	86,580	98

or Rector when he or they begin dinner and when the Senior Doctor will have him leave off he sayes to the boy Tu autem and the boy must answer Domine miserere nostrum that is Thou Lord have pitty on us This last was practised very lately in the University but whether they are shamed out of it I cannot certainly affirm But at this day in Queens Colledge the Junior Schollers whom they call Tabitors repeat a piece of Aristotles Logick Is this Popery yea or nay and do ye think that there is so much done to the Pope himself and do not these wretches at this day set themselves in Gods room and are worshiped as Gods but indeed they are nought but belly-gods and if these Poperies and whoredoms do not stink and are rotten ripe for destruction let the simple-hearted of the whole Nation judge without book kneeling upon their bare knees to the Fellowes at dinner holding their hands a-cross which signifies in the name of the holy crosse to defend them from all danger Where is the Jesuite and Popery these brawlers talke of is he amongst the Quakers so called or amongst the Colledges and Priests in Oxford In some Colledges after dinner they drink one to another or one table to another bowing and putting off their Hats and doing their honours to each other as they call it and this they call a grace cup or cup of charity and say it was first instituted and is a good custome to maintain charity amongst them This drink is allowed to each meal gratis After Disputations are ended on Ash-wednesday the determining Batchelours make a But the supper of the Lord and the bread which came down from Heaven they know not but except ye eat his flesh and drink his blood ye have no part in him and he that eateth his flesh and drinketh his blood shall hunger no more Feast in every Colledge at night which they call Aristotles supper In some Colledges in Oxford as New-Colledge All-Souls Colledge c. the Schollars and Junior fellows must go bare-headed in the Court or Quadrangle and that if no body be there or in fight and though it rain never so much under pain of not being fellow and yet it may be this fellow will bable to others tell them that the Hat is an indifferent thing and may be put off or kept on and is but a civility but himself is so uncivil that he puts it off to stocks and stones and in obedience to a Popish Law At the place called Christs-Church Colledge the Schollars and Batchelours are not suffered to go out at the great Gate or come in that way in Honour and Reverence to the Dean and Canons Lodgings though their Coaches * and Horses Quaery Whether Coaches were not one of the greatest crimes against the late Prelacy and did not the man called Dean Owen mouth and roar against them and it 2. Quaery Is not the man called Dean Owen far more fantastick and ridiculous in his habit then any of the the old Prelates were provided he have on his ranting Band-strings his velvet Gippo with silver or gold Buttons his treble Cuffs his Gloves with gold fringe and imbroidery his Breeches with two or three setts of poynts one above the other insomuch that they make him straddle and throw his legs like a Ranter his great lawn boot-tops I say cloath him with this Harness or with that which some in Oxford calls his thanksgiving sute and set him on a Stage and let his name be obscured let sober men judge whether he be most like a Mountebank a Stage-player or a Priest but to make him more uggly let him bring in his hand his fannatique Pamphlet which he hath lately put forth against the people of God called Quakers in which scornful railing piece he calls them fannatique and being it is in the Roman tongue it may be the Pope hath given him an allowance for it Quaery Whether he did not write his Pamphlet in Latine on purpose to strengthen the Pope and the rest of his fraternity beyond the Seas he being by his name of Dean the onely El●e and Popeling left in this Nation and knowing if any maner of truth take place so as to go thorow with Reformation Deans must down in the particular as well as in the general and although he snort swagger and snuff and would be as big as Cardinal Woolsey his late Predecessor who built the Mass-house of which this man is Dean of I say quaery that in his heart However honest men bring him upon the Stage for his Deanery in the first place and let his fantastique habit serve afterwards for a player if he will not work though at the present he have the Popes allowance and is more then full of scorn and dirision against the innocent but the ha●d of the Lord is against him and the hurter of Israel shall not want his reward Quaery If that Dean Owen and the rest of the fatlings with and about him be not idle droans Why do not he and they go among the Infidels and there preach the Gospel if that which they preach be Gospel I am sure it is not selfish chargeable nor tyed to a place and saith the Apostle so have I strived to preach the Gospel where Christ hath not been named but this man is so far from stirring out of his Popish den that he hath done what in him lyeth to hinder those that freely receive and freely declare the Word of the Lord and the Gospel of Jesus Christ where he is not known or at least forgotten since and in the dark night of Apostacy when Danes and all the Popish Priests who preach for hire were set up Oh! let their names be cast out as evil-doers even so be it Lord God most Holy Just and True pass through it and it is a common high way through it at this day for the Town and this is alwayes put in execution The Doctors besides the distinction of facing of their Gowns with velvet do constantly every first day and more especially when they preach wear many yards of black silk scarcenet about their necks over their Gowns which besides the great breadth of it reaches down to the very ground on both sides And some of them preach with great treble Cuffs French Band-strings of 6 or 7 s. a pair half Shirts ruffled out velvet Gippoes plain or with silver Buttons great sets of poynts round their knees diamond Rings Gloves with rich gold fringe and embroidery Canonical Coats and much more such trumpery which I believe few that lives in Oxford can be ignorant of As also their wife 's gorgious apparel the whole City takes notice of to be very excessive Concerning their Preaching and paying their first fruits c. WHen any Parsonage falls to the gift of the University it is conferred on him who hath or can get most votes amongst the Masters but if the Parsonage be not good there

and sends no man to prison nor keeps any in bonds without signifying the cause and having a just Law from the Lord for his or their detention that 's equal and just which the Lord help yee to know and obey for its the just which suffers in yee and the seed is oppressed and kept in bondage in your own particulars So wait upon the Lord in his fear which is the beginning of wisedom and yee shall hear a voyce behind yee saying this is the way oh walk in it and if ye be obedient ye shall eat the good of the Land and obedience is better then sacrifice and to hearken then the fat of rams although your sins be as scarlet and for number as the sand upon the Sea shore yet if ye believe in the Light and love the Light and bring all your deeds to the Light and see if they are wrought in God I● so it s a good deed do it and that Light is truth and is no lie oh dig deep for it for its within though the Inne be thronged with other guests and a vast quantity of iniquity is above the seed and the whole lump is sowred with the wrong leaven But the grain the seed or lost groat is there therefore seek diligently and ye shall find and having found it sell all and buy the Pearl and follow the L●mb whether soever he goes thorow good report and bad Oh! believe in and love the truth and abide in the truth and the truth shall make ye free and purge away all your drosse and Tynne then are you free indeed and the blood of Jesus shall cleanse ye from all sin and filthiness both of flesh and spirit and if you forsake your sins he is faithful and just to forgive ye your sins and your transgressions he will remember no more And ye who are called Dukes Lords Knights Gentlemen c. for the most part have your Education at the same fountain from whence comes the hireling and there have them for your Tutor Teacher and as yet few or none of ye exceed or are much wiser then your Teachers to salvation Neither indeed are ye like to learn of him who receives the wages of unrighteousness and stands not himself in the councel of the Lord For if they had stood in my Councel saith the Lord they would have turned many from their evil wayes and had they been the Ministers of Christ the World had not been so full of wickedness as at this day it is but indeed their converts are like themselves proud covetous high-minded and guilty of all manner of evil as the best of them will confess themselves to be and that their best doings is sinful and full of sin and if so which indeed they are it is impossible they shall convert one Soul to God for the prayers of the wicked are abomination to the Lord and the very best sacrifice that can be offered by the hands of an unclean persecutor who hurts or envies his Brother or imprisons for his belly is but as the cutting off a dogs neck for he that envies is a murtherer and it is natural for every father to beget a child after his own image and to speak to the very rational part in ye all If a man were to teach another man a science or a trade he cannot neither is it possible for him to teach another to do that which himself cannot do neither thinks possible to be done Mark the best of the Priests prayers and teaching are sinful as themselves confesse and their imperfect prayers may beget imperfection lust and uncleannesse which shall never en●●r the Kingdom nor dwell with the holy true God So if ye exceed not the wisdom of your tutors and Teachers and learn of the light and believe in the Light which was before Pope Colledge or Priest was although every man of yee could preach and pray as well as they can which is not hard to do I say both ye and your prayers are abominable in the sight of the pure God who hath no regard to the preaching and prophecying of sinful Prophets and themselves as well as their hearers may be cast-awayes And this is a great evil among ye who are called lords knights c. who have great estates upon which account poor men oftentimes lends ye great sums of money and those great estates for the most part ye entail or passe away by some private dispossession and by wicked fraudulent wayes and in this the wretched Lawyer befriends ye undoes many poor men and at your deaths your heirs takes the benefit of the wicked Laws and sayes to their fathers creditors he possesseth nothing but what he was born to but the Lords curse is upon that birth and heir-ship so that when ye dye your names stink and generations curse ye and the childe that is unborn is occasioned to speak evil of ye and in defence of this birth-right as they call it to be sure the wretched Lawyer will take your heirs part although he knows the whole matter to be unjust and it may be himself had the greatest hand in the former cheat so they do not help your sons to heir your estates onely but your iniquities also And if I should be accounted a sower of sedition or a subverter of the Laws a turner of the World up-side down a pestilent fellow or a Ring-leader of the sect of the Nazarenes and thought not worthy to live and should be put to death for it Yet I freely declare that I trust in and steadfastly believe and hope in my God that he will asswage the pride allay the malice quite confound for ever entinguish and utterly make rotten blot out the name of Pope at Rome Tithe-monger or Hireling in England with his Mass-houses and all that is Popery whatsoever devouring Lawyer Dukes Lords Knights Courts of honour and the thing that is now called Gentility But a Noble-man or a Gentle-man I truly love who are truly so By a true lover of a True Just Meek Gentle Noble-man who hates nor fears no man and cannot give flattering titles or respects the person of any man E. B. POST-SCRIPT DVkes and Marquesses I deny but the Millitary chief or inferiour Captain or leader I own Earls I deny but when we have a King like David or Moses let that king have his companions but let not an evil doer live in the Court and such companions will need no Esquires neither desire their sons to be lifted up with the title of Lords or Barons where the whole houshold serves the Lord and are believers such seeks no honour one of another Viscounts I deny but let there be many good Governours in every County for they are very much wanting notwithstanding there may be a Vis-count two or three Bannerets Baronets Knights of all sorts I deny but the just Souldier whether he be horse or foot I own in his place a place for whom I find for when the

which was and hath for a long time been slain is made alive and the mighty God of the oppressed is arisen in great strength so as he will slay all that live in pleasure fulness and wantonness and very many shall the slain of the Lord be and those who refuse to hear the Prophet in all things shall be cut off and terrible will our God be to all the workers of iniquity for assuredly the wicked and all those that forget God shall be turned into Hell And I looked and lo a Lamb stood on the Mount Sion and with him ●n hundred forty and four thousand having his Fathers Name written in their fore-heads and they sung as it were a new song before the Throne and before the four beasts and the Elders and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty four thousand Which were Redeemed from the earth These are they which were not defiled with women for they are Virgins These are they which follow the Lamb whethersoever he goeth These were Redeemed from among men being the first fruits unto God and to the Lamb. And in them there was found no guile for they are without fault before the Throne of God And I saw another Angel flie in the midst of Heaven having the Everlasting Gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the Earth and to every Nation and Kindred and Tongue and people saying with a loud voice Fear God and give Glory to Him for the hour of his Judgment is come worship Him that made Heaven and Earth the Sea and the Fountains of waters And there followed another Angel saying Babylon is fallen is fallen that great City because she made all Nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her Fornication And the third Angel followed them saying with a loud voice If any man worship the Beast and his Image and receive his mark in his fore-head or in his hand The same shall drink the wine of the wrath of God which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation and he sha●l be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the Holy Angels and in the presence of the Lamb. And the smoak of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever and they shall have no rest day nor night who worship the Beast and his Image and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name And I heard the Angel of the waters say Thou art Righteous O Lord which art and wast and shalt be because thou hast Judged thus For they have shed the blood of the Saints and Prophets and thou hast given them blood to drink for they are worthy And I heard another out of the Altar say Even so Lord God Almighty true and Righteous are thy Judgements for they are the spirits of Devils working miracles which go forth unto the Kings of the earth and of the whole World to gather them to the battel of the great day of God Almighty And I saw as it were a Sea of glass mingled with fire and them that had gotten the Victory over the Beast and over his Image and over his mark and over the number of his names stand on the Sea of glass having the harps of God and they sung the song of Moses the servant of God and the song of the Lamb saying Great and marvellous are thy works Lord God Almighty Just and True are thy wayes thou King of Saints Who shall not fear thee O Lord and give glory to thy Name For thou only art Holy for all Nations shall come and worship before thee for thy Judgements are made manifest Even so be it Amen Come Lord Rev. 14. 1 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11. Rev. 16. 5 6 7. and 14. Rev 15. 2 3. Given forth in the 4th Month 16●8 By E B. THE END A VVORD To those old Creatures who are old in iniquity and in the fallen state yet deny falling away who say once in Christ and ever in Christ when as it may be they are at the very same time in a very great rage disputing and pleading for sin Term-of-life I Say to such unprofitable talkers who are willing and by their own consent do contract with Hell and Death who stretch themselves forth in big swelling words and think themselves it may be much better because they are crowded into gathered Churches as they call them and it may be of a truth can say something of an antient and past experience moving or appearance of God to and in them whereupon their big word and wide-mouthed-boast is when the poor Souls or rather proud Pharisees are at the very top of their vaunting to wit once in Christ and ever in Christ such I many times am moved ask Whether they are obeying the Command doing the Work Will of Christ at this time now and ever Mark Once in Christ and ever in Christ and I am sure he that for ever abides in Christ must now and ever do the Will and Commands of Christ and they are not grievous nor unholy neither can that man which is impure imperfect or unholy observe obey or do them in the love and belief of them and He now and ever Redeems and saves his people from their sins note that for he which sinneth is of the ●evil Yea though he be but proud and covetous and as full of persecution as too too many professors are which is of the old creature and such are not new creatures nor in Christ Jesus now and ever neither are they purified as he is pure who is the substance the one onely one thing needful who is the beginning and end of all things himself without beginning or end who is not afar of but nigh at hand and a ready helper unto all them who fear him wh● is the root o● ●esse the Promise come the Truth the Oath and admits not of any swearing whatsoever that 's his Command and it is not grievous for his yoke is easie and his burthen is light in and by whom I see light who sayes Swear not at all And he doth not reap where he hath not first sowen For he doth enlighten every man that cometh into the World Male and Female Bond and Free Scythian and Barbarian and a measure of himself is given to every man continually to profit with all note to every man He was not so selfish as many of ye are who are in this and that and the other form I do not say all who do seclude al● that are not with ye in your set dayes bread wine and Baby Baptism out of the Everlasting Kingdom which was before your fables were But he that is in Christ i● a new creature Mark he is he doth not say he was or he shall be and so warm himself by his own coals by onely saying the Righ●eousness of Chri●t the Righteousness of Christ is sufficient But I say he which confesseth and forsaketh his sins shall find mercy Mark that