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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40899	The Lord Cravens case stated; and the impostor dethron'd by way of reply to Captain George Bishop, a grand Quaker in Bristoll. Wherein is briefly hinted, the rottenness of the Quakers conversion, and perfection, in general, exemplified in this busie bishop; in special instanced in his practises against the estate of the Lord Craven, life of Mr. Love. By occasion whereof, this truth is asserted, viz. if we may judge of the conscience, honesty, and perfection of Quakers in general, by this man in particular, a man may be as vile a person, as any under heaven, and yet a perfect Quaker.	Farmer, Ralph.; Bishop, George, d. 1668. aut	1660 (1660)	Wing F442; ESTC R218269	94,789	137

friends that in regard most of the inhabitants neer and about the Colledge were persons of another judgement than my self in civil matters I should have little converse or comfort among them but rather the contrary nay some did suggest to mee that my settlement there was procured by some who bore mee no good will on purpose to make mee weary and so to leave the City but that I satisfied them the matter was of my own seeking and endeavour and the other reason was that going so far out of the City I should not have any opportunity of any Church communion and Christian fellowship with any considerable number of which I was convinc'd to bee a duty although I was then unwilling to undergo the burthen of a Pastor And indeed considering that some honest-hearted Christians in Thomas Parish with whom I had there communion did still desire it and hoping that divers of Nicholas having formerly been exercised in it I should finde them more comfortably complying than those who had been a long time strangers to it I did the more willingly imbrace it but as for the advantage in removing from poor Thomas to rich Nicholas as the Calumniator phrases it let him and the world know that upon these grounds I removed from the rich Colledge to poor Nicholas nor was it the poverty of Thomas though poor enough that made mee leave them nor was it or could it bee filthy lucre or sordid covetousness that drew mee to Nicholas which could by no reasonable man bee imagined would amount to what was setled upon mee at the Colledge And since I must boast but 't is to secure the credit of my Ministery that it suffer not damage in any thing I will do it a little further having good witness of the truth on 't After I had consented to come to Nicholas and came to give them a meeting at their Vestry although I knew that with much difficulty they raised what some of them had ingaged unto by bond to M. Jessop and which as I have heard was not above eighty pound per annum yet when they ask'd mee what would content mee for my labour so far was I from seeking my self as that I told them I would not make a bargain for preaching the Gospel but that I would do my duty and leave them to do theirs and how richly it hath been performed by them I speak not of all I am asham'd to mention Sure not beyond poor Thomas nor so much by two parts in three which M. Jessop now reaps as I am informed and which place was setled upon him upon my commendations of him to M. Strong at Westminster and which M. Strong intended to let him know had hee not been prevented by death heu premature if hee hath not done it formerly But much good may it do him and much good may he do them I envy no mans gain or preferment nor will the inhabitants of Nicholas say I contend with them in that matter although I have cause enough to take notice of their neglect yea and sin in this particular For I dare say there are few handy-crafts men that work upon so small incouragement for I suppose their calling feeds their family I have been the larger in this matter because some persons are and have been as willing to take up and spread this ly and calumny as others have been to raise and make it And truth it is I should hardly have undertaken to answer his railing Pamphlet but to satisfie the world in these two last particulars and to wipe off the aspersion of base forgery which my soul abhors and to make good what I promised concerning the discovery of this Quaker to which I 'le hasten with all expedition As for his charging of several Trades upon mee it is but the lickings up of the excrements of William Erburies black pudding A book so called written by W. Erbury wherein hee would prove mee to bee a black pudding In which foolish Pamphlet most if not all of these things are whereby I see George was very hungry and wanted matter to feed upon being it seems troubled with that disease which Physitians call Caninus appetitus The dog-like appetite which makes them huge greedy and to catch at any thing but I wish his after-mess may do him more good than the Pudding it self did Erbury For a few daies after hee had publish'd it he went home and died whether hee died for shame or what it was I know not nor dare I say this was the cause or occasion of it no God forbid I should presume to meddle with the secrets of the Almighty or to judge any man But I mention this because a hare-brain'd fellow came as himself said to revenge Erburies death upon me which I no wayes promoted but probably this poor fellow might take up the thoughts upon what hee might hear some sober persons speak of it But bee it what it will George it seems having swallowed it must vomit it up again the second time that the world may see his foul stomack But see how the vapours of it whilst there had corrupted his brain and be fool'd his intellectuals Did ever any man in the world understand being a member of an Independent Church or of a Presbyterian Church to bee a trade And it is a trade when a man in the former troubles ingages for a time in some publike service as most active spirits did and then lay it aside Is this a trade How many trades has George had then And for a man living in the Country as I did to practise Physick being thereunto lawfully licens'd by the University of Cambridge upon tryal and examination I say for a man so living in the country and having a house fitted for such a purpose no other convenient house being there to bee had for a pleasant dwelling Is it a trade if a man make malt there for a time Doth not many a Gentleman many a Minister do so And did I not so soon as I could get there a more pleasant dwelling give it over And being a Physitian do men call that a trade Or is it a trade being so to apply ones self to the ingenious experiments of Chimistry in order to the inabling himself to deal in his profession with more security and understanding without which Physitians are no better than Emperic●s Or is it a trade if a man living in London as a Physitian the Earle of Berkshire keep an Office in his house for that which is not a Monopoly but a priviledge granted to him by the Law of the Nation and no man forced nor attempted to bee forced to it no nor intended to bee forced which I know and write for the honour of that Noble and ingenious Earle under whom I had no imployment in it hee having his Clerks and Registers and other Agents under him And for the other things mentioned Are they trades Are they mechanical Are any bound Apprentices to them

Congregation for I had never met them formerly which was seconded thus by Mistress Nethway Aye Mr. Farmer if you would bee one of our Congregation you may bee chosen Pastor afterwards which words the very thoughts of the matter being strange to mee I do professe made mee wonder which produc'd this reply from mee Chosen Pastor Mistress Nethway What mean you To which after some other words shee said shee was told that if I might bee chosen Pastor I would joyn with them which I denying and shee affirming again that shee was told so but would not tell mee by whom but 't is easily supposeable I then presently appealed to Mr. Purnill then present to witness for mee to the contrary to whom formerly in discourse I had declared several times that I could not joyn with them which hee at that time witnessed and this to bee a truth I appeal to that light and truth of God that shines in his and their consciences and which I hope they will not dare to stifle notwithstanding that distance which is now between us And the reasons why I would not joyn with them were because they performed their Lords day duties in private houses to the prejudice of the publike which I ever honoured as I shall declare in another discourse Christ assisting mee And for that they had no lawfully constituted Pastor to take the charge of them True it is I should likely have joyned with them had those two hinderances been removed And to this purpose I did divers times solicite Master N. I. a rightly constituted and able Preacher to take the charge of them promising my self to sit down as a private member only exercising my publike Ministery by way of preaching which hee refused and this I doubt not hee will testifie And further to make it appear that I desired not to bee their Pastor being conscious to my self of the weight of that work and my unfitness in divers respects I did in an occasional discourse with some of them declare my unfitness which is so true that one of them now a Quaker did since by way of reproach upbraid mee with my own acknowledgment so that then I had no intention of joyning with them and since that I gaining further light in matter of Churches and their appendant questions and they drawing more and more towards Anabaptisme I more and more declined and disowned them And whereas hee sayes I became an adversary to separated Churches when the state of things were changed I ask to what were the times changed or from what Not from that way of separated Churches but more to it If I did it then then I did it not to serve the times but to secure my conscience But wherein did I or did I ever appear an enemy to separated Churches Why doth hee not shew wherein But of this more in another discourse And so much in answer to that ly of George and his Master Dennis Another there is of the same Forge I am sure and that hee speaks to page 59.60 And again being chafed with the business of the Lord Craven page 109. where hee joynes them both together The charge is this from both places That I earnestly solicited some then in power for turning out of Nicholas one of my brethren Constant Jessop by name for his differing in judgement in some particulars urging as an argument for this purpose that till then the City would not bee in quiet into whose place by diligent seeking I did climbe and domineered ever since over his people and him as the issue of that prosecution and that I forced my self upon his people to this day by procuring an order from above and that thereby I got my self out of poor Thomas into rich Nicholas Now this whole story is a most wilful mistake as it s grounded upon what Furge page 49. of my Narrative and in this I appeal to his light within for that person and thing which hee cannot but know I meant was this that Hollister and his company then domineering threatened the Magistrates and the rest of the Committee who were not of their faction that if they might not have him whom they sent for out of Wales to bee their Teacher one of no breeding and that hath since often denied himself to bee a Minister and is now turned Anabaptist to bee one of the publick Lecturers in the City they would turn out of the City a godly and Orthodox Minister who had been imprisoned and suffered much more than any of them for his good affection to the Parliament hee differing that time in judgement in some particulars and so they had their end which as is well known hath proved a reproach and scandal to this City from many strangers that come hither and take notice of it Now this person hee knowes very well was Master Paul for as for Mr. Jessop hee was never committed to prison upon my occasion Is this man now a true Convert Is hee not a manifest prevaricator And did hee it not on purpose to bring in that ly and malicious slander of his fellow Hollister The Church of Christ in Bristol recevering her vail Whom to bee a lyar a piece lately published by those who were his fellow-members with his Teacher aforesaid doth amply testifie and which I my self also have had sufficient experience of oftentimes insomuch that I desired one a Minister of this City who was then wont sometimes to visit him to tell him from mee that his shop was a forge of lies And for the matter of Mr. Jessop I shall give a true and full account of it so far as concernes my self thereby to discover these lyars to the world It 's well known upon the death of the late King what endeavours there were by the then Parliament for setling the Nation in peace In order whereunto there was an engagement drawn up and required to bee subscribed by all persons And it is as well known in this City how opposite Master Jessop aforesaid together with that other Brother was thereunto and what expressions concerning that matter were used by them both in prayer and preaching I need not mention By which means there was much aversenesse in many of this City to this settlement they being honest men and having a great influence upon the people At this I thirsting for a setted peace was much offended and did endeavour with themselves privately to take off their opposition and publikely to settle the people declaring my dislike of their doings With this and the like expressions that if they the Preachers did apprehend those actions of State whereby they endeavoured a settlement as evil they should go up to Westminster and declare it to those who had the power and not trouble the people with those things which they had no ability to amend or power to withstand and for that their doings would but raise an impotent disgust and opposition with the publike prejudice further telling them of an evil which