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A34918	A short, but a strict account taken of Babylons merchants vvho are now forcing the sale of their old, rusty, cankered ware upon the people of these nations : and a stretching them out by their line (which as they say) is the Scriptures in the New Testament, ad they call themselves Christian ministers : also a comparing them with those that spake them forth as their examples that all people may see with whom they run paralel [sic] / by one that hath fed upon the whores flesh these many years handed to him by these merchants and their brethren, but now witnesseth it in him consumed by fire, Richard Crane.	R. C. (Richard Crane)	1660 (1660)	Wing C6815; ESTC R29281	15,800	24

say of you I have seen you I have seen you in the eternal and you are the poorest Creatures that hath Communion with the Common ayre every Creature answereth the end of his Creation but man yet notwithstanding as man is in the simplicity found there is a remedy for him but for you the worst of men Oh full of all subtilty Children generated of the seed of deceit brought forth out of the womb of wickedness nourished up at the breasts of witch-craft rocked in the cradle of Idleness wo is me for you for the day which I see is comming upon you from the Lord and all them that you have made drunk by putting your bottle of Poyson to their noses who have drunk deep and so are become one in nature with you it had been better you had never been born It had been better for you that you had been strangled in your Mothers Wombs and still births had been presented to them then Living Children into their Armes Oh what shall I say concerning you Gods everlasting decree is Sealed against you burnings burnings burnings with unquenchable fire is your portion from the Lord God of Heaven and Earth whose pure spirit you have long grieved Oh how have you been warned admonished exhorted and reproved and in true love to your souls by the Servants of the Lord of the day which is even coming upon you and you have not taken warning of them but for their love you have rewarded them with whippings stocks and imprisonments and spoyl of goods and some loss of life whose blood is treasured up against the day of your account dreadfull will it be to you for there is no covering found for you neither refuge to fly unto it is the hand of the Lord that hath searched you out and there is no resisting of it Oh it is the hand of the Lord that is strong and mighty And Oh that men that are brought forth in time stands in time and ends in time should contend with eternity did ever the lesser comprehend the greater speak and answer if not then how dare you presume to frame and invent a worship to the eternal God and under the name of Gospel-worship and Christian Ministry is he worshipped in Temples made with hands or Stone-houses falsely by you called Churches or think you your Altars and turned Pillars called Railes your Organs your Singing-Men and Boyes with Surplices Tippits Scarffs Long Garments and Girdles with your invented prayer called Common with your preaching and the best of your sacrifices enters into the ears of the eternal God nay you are highly mistaken A pure God must have pure praise God praises God his praise and worship for ever and ever is from thee unto thee now if you cannot read this let your mouths for ever be stopped and cease your Invented Instruments for worship for an evil Savour doth your sacrifices send forth even a loathing to the Lord God of Heaven and Earth but the God which you Imagine let him be worshipped according to your Imaginations and inventions and think not to mock the Eternal God by your Devices I tell you again as I have said it is Spirit and not Art except you will dare to presume to make the Lord God any thing else but a Spirit if you do you are Blasphemers in the highest degree Oh I have seen eternity I have seen eternity and a dreadfull day is very near at hand to be revealed Oh the overflowing scourge Oh the Besome of destruction Oh the plague and vengeance that is to be powred upon the wicked in this Nation both Priest and People howl howl Hireling Priests of all Orders for the Wine-Press of the wrath of God Almighty is even near to be trod into which you are to be cast for the Lord God hath spoken it and he will not repent a trebble portion a trebble portion of the Plagues of God Almighty are you to have above all others Just Holy and True Art thou God eternal that hath thus judged and thy judgements are holy just and true Praises Praises from the immortal pure seed in all thine be given unto thee for ever and for ever What more shall I say of you Oh you miserable most wretched you have been the ring-leaders to blood-shed you have been the ring-leaders to persecution your hands are full of it You have been the men that hath spurred on the Magistrate to lay violent and cruel hands on the Innocent when many times they would not have done it and you have given them no rest till they have fulfilled and satisfied your bloody minds and very few of you but have changed with every change you have served every Power have been true to none Oh most deceitful you have in all these overtures and changes which hath been wrought in these Nations of late years Kept your heads above the water and have floated along with the streams when many who have gone hand in hand with you hath sunk in every change and especially this late Oh! what shall I say my bowels my bowels I bear a burden for you which I cannot utter Oh! your deceitful flatterie Oh! how have you blasphemed God and hath ascribed to man whose breath is in his Nostrils that which belongeth not unto him especially if he stands in his unregenerated estate Had and have you not cursed ends in this Answer Are or were they so as you bespeak and do bespeak them to be One thing I assuredly know that the Powers since and the Powers present never said so of themselves whatever they thought and think as you said and say And all for the sake of your God which is your Belly Did not many of you to the Powers gone ascribe names to them that they never knew nor witnessed the Life in the least of whom you spake And do you not now ascribe to the chief Power that which I am sure he calls not himself As the expresse Image of the Heavenly Father Witnesse your Surry addresse to him signed by so many Doctors of D. St. of D. See it in the publick Intelligence given forth the 16. of the 6. Month D. D. St D. L. L. D. as you call your selves Now was ever any called the expresse Image of the Heavenly Father but Christ Jesus And think you the chief Magistrate of these Nations doth not see your ends and your flatteries in this and many other things I am perswaded when ever his mind comes truly to be turned to that which is just of God in him He will see you to be even so as I have said the greatest Sycophants and Flaterers that lives in these Nations Wo wo wo unto you for you are of that Generation upon whom all the Righteous blood from Abel even to this day have been charged Oh! dreadful God must it be so that thy decree which thou hast sealed must come to passe and be fulfilled in this Generation And must these fill up the cup of their great Grand-fathers Bonner and Gardener c. By powring out the blood of thy dear purchased Lambs in this Generation If so Thy will Infinite God be done and Glorifie thy self in what thou hast decreed Eternal God for thou art right worthy to be Feared Praised Honoured and Glorified of all thy Children and dear Lambs for ever and for ever But certainly know this it must be your bloody Sacrifice which you will offer viz. The Lambs of Jesus That will sink you into the Pit of Eternal destruction for your next fall will be as the fall of a Milstone into the Sea Read that GOD ETERNAL hath spoken it and I faithfully believe it and most of you are the men must perform it and shall see it and feel it before you go away from hence and be no more seen And as for me an object of the living mercy of the Eternal God who as a brand pluckt out of the fire and as a Fowl that narrowly escapes the Fowlers net so I even I am brought out of your confusion and sorcery Praises praises be given to the Imortal God from thy pure seed in me and all for ever and for ever And by thy pure Power am I made to stand a witnesse against all false teachers both in England and the rest of the Nations whatsoever in my measure and by whatsoever names they are called and distinguished being all out of the Life and Truth And rage not against me because of my testimony here written for I have said you to your line stretched it over you and if you fall short let that rise in you that will shew you the cause And I have compared you with your example mentioned in Scripture viz. Christian Ministers And answering not them you have reason to be silent and stop your mouths and sit down contented to be ranked and paralel'd with them that lived the same life that you are found in For to compare you with such is truth and no slander and so I finish this my Testimony concerning you THE END Errours Page 4. line 7. for know read come Page 7. l. 16. for Ministers read Ministers of Christ l. 22. for as read up

what will become of you You will desire strongly to set with it also but you shall not For there is a cup prepared for you being mixed with Plagues Woes Miseries Sorrows Torments and Eternal burnings which you shall not passe for you are found from the Lord God worthy and a treble portion is to be given unto you And so much for your unparaleld fraud of your Soul Cure which you impudently force the sale of upon people whether they will or nay for which there is no example to be found amongst all Christian Ministers mentioned in Scriptures neither amongst sober Tradsmen We have somewhat to say as to your entering into that Trade or Function which you call Soul Cure How came you thither Prove your call according to the Scripture which you say is your Rule and see with whom you run Paralel The Apostles were made Ministers by the will of God and not by the will of man You are made Ministers by the will of man and not by the will of God therefore you run not paralel with them who were Ministers of Christ And as to your Names Orders Gestures and Inventions being no example is found amongst the Ministers of Christ they are all out of the Life and Truth for Judgement You assume to your selves names of Bishops Deacons c. There is such names mentioned in Scripture but what is that to you are you ever the more to be reverenced because of these names Nay except you were found in the Life of those the Scriptures speaks of You are never the better for the 〈◊〉 but much the worse except you be found in the Life of Bishops and Deacons spoken of Timothy 3.2 3 4 5. c. I own the name Bishop and likewise Deacon if they be as is there spoken of viz. Vnreproveable the husband of one Wife Watching Sober Modest given to Hospitality apt to Teach not given to Wine no Stricker not given to filthy Lucre but Gentle no fighter not Coveteous Let me ask of you are you so in all or any of these things Let that which is just of God in all your Consciences Judge and Answer if you be not blame us not for denying of you for we cannot own any to be a Bishop or Deacon over us except the name and Life go together These Bishops and Deacons mentioned in Scripture had not only the names but they had the Life from which the name proceeds You have the name and want the Life and so stands in a Lye And when we come to compare you with those that were in the Life of Righteousnesse which is so in deed and not in name you are found utterly false and to be denyed of all that fear the Lord. You have many old Names whereby you distinguish your Orders and Places which the Scriptures of Truth neither knows nor owns as Deans Arch-deacons Prebends Countrey Deanes Bishops called Suffragans and several other Whence had you or who gave you those Names Came not these from Rome I am sure the Ministers of Christ left them not upon record in Scripture so you cannot flie thither for shelter and refuge neither can you cover your selves with their words for the Light of Christ Jesus which is the Life is arisen which doeth divide betwixt the Words and the Life and hath ript up the false coverings and so you stand quite naked and wo is to him that is covered and not with the Spirit of the Lord. You likewise rage if any call you Priest and swell and take that to be ignominious but know Priest was a good Name in its time such as were once ordained of God But seeing you are angry at that we grudge not the name of Minister unto you for the prodigal Son was once a Minister yea and an Hireling too as some Translators renders it read Luke 15.15 as you are Read what he Ministred and to whom but the Lord received him again after true Repentance and then he left off serving of husks And where is your example in Scripture among the Ministers of Christ For your running to the powers of Earth and crying unto them for help to setle you in your livings and to get your false maintenance called Tythes With whom run you paralel Can you answer and seeing Christs Ministers did not so you must needs be Antichrists For there are but two sorts of Ministers as I have said And where as you have said and say you are Christ Ministers and upon true search it appeareth no such thing neither by your rule nor example Yet you run paralel with some mentioned in Scripture though not Christians and because you rank your selves amongst such as were Christian Ministers we will not go about to find out your paralel in the Old Testament Though we might mention the orders of Priests there for Aarons Order you have nothing to do with for it was appointed of the Lord Now there were other Orders of the Priests besides Aarons as Baals Priests Priests of the Grove and Jezebels Chaplins which drew the same brests as you do But because you say you are Christian Ministers we shall say little more to them But to those which Christ and his Ministers cried wo against for they were in the same life you were in The Scriptures of Truth make mention of such as loved greetings in the Markets and the uppermost Roomes at Feasts and in the Synagogues and Assemblies and loved to be called of men Master And do you not these things Is it not so that you love greetings in the Markets and the uppermost Rooms in your Synagogues and Assemblies and at Feasts especially and you dearly love to be called of men Master I will give you an instance of one of your Brethren of the confused Function though not of your Order as he accounted himself I met with him in the street and he had some words with me and I did call him by his Name being known to me very wel for he had often wrot his name as I called him but the proud devil got up in him which would be called Master which was a name not for me to call him except I had been his servant and truly he denyed his name and said his name was Master such a one before such a Generation as I was got up I asked him how he came by the name Master for I told him I had assuredly seen him write his name otherwise He told me he had served for it at the Vniversity and would be so called And I told him that he that went by two names was reckoned a cheat Now you that loves to be called Master do not call this man a fool in this though truly he was so except you your selves be clear of his folly least another may call you all fooles for you as dearly love to be called so as he I am sure though I never saw any man of that Coat manifest his folly so much but as to his art he