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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B09776	The Anabaptists meribah: or, VVaters of strife. Being a reply to a late insulting pamphlet, written by Thomas Lamb, merchant, intitulled, Truth prevailing against the fiercest opposition; or, An answer to Mr. John Goodwins Water-dipping, no firm footing for church-communion. Wherein the impertinency of M. Lamb's answer, and the validity of M. Goodwin's Water-dipping, &c. are manifested by I. Price a member of the Church of Christ, whereof the said Mr. Goodwin is pastor.	Price, J., fl. 1656.	1656 (1656)	Wing P3332A; ESTC R182056	87,699	107

you have too long been a Discontinuant Gods gifts groan under dis-use or misuse Well Remember your own Law we shal have occasion to use it Thus you give it out HE who spotteth the beautifull face of Truth Mr. Lamb to the Reader tho ignorantly much more if presumptuously must expect a stain in his own credit and be content to suffer so much as to make the Truth whole SECT XII I Hope you wil not deny to undergo the Doom and Sentence of your own law Reply but accept of the punishment of your sin and transgression thereof if found guilty Whether you have not bespotted the beautifull face of truth I am sure very arrogantly tho ignorantly especially in some things ascerted by you concerning Mr. Goodwin yea and in and about the controversie beetween us will appear in due season THe same person may des●ve at the same time both Thanks Mr. Lamb to the Reader and Reproof To return the one is a point of gratitude to administer the other in love and in the Majesty of Gods word a point of Faithfulness SECT XIII TO that of Gratitude Reply it well becomes you to be thankfull to Mr. Goodwin To that of Reproof it doth as ill become you to reprove him as you do to lash him with the Scourge of your Pen as a puny-Boy to jerk him as the Bishops and their shavelings did Henry the second Mr. Lamb conceited of his majestick Pen. of England until they made him bleed But whereas you presume that your pen is cloathed with the Majesty of Gods VVord as if it dwelt in Light and were like the bright Morning-Star or rather the Sun at Noon in his Majesty Consider Pride is a piece of maduess and many poor creatures cloath'd in Rags being distempered in their heads have conceited themselves Kings and Queens and their Rags to be Robes I have heard of a Merchant at Athens who being distracted by great Losses at Sea and undone thought that all the goods that came to the City were his and busie was he from day to day at the water-side to look after his Goods And severall Merchants agreeing together to use the best means they could to have him made whole again it was at last accomplished and then the poor man seeing his poverty and feeling the smart thereof wish't the Merchants had not undertook his cure For then said he I had all things every mans Goods were mine but now I see I have nothing at all but am a poor miserable man Thou knowest not thou art poor blind and naked said God to the Church of Laodicea IF in this Contest thou findest any passages savouring of too much sharpness Mr. Lamb to the Reader though in Answer to Mr. Goodwins Highest Provocations look upon me as disowning them and minde the Reason of the place SECT IV. VVHat is the meaning of this Reply Mr. Lamb at contest with his Conscience What strivings and contendings were there between your pen and your conscience in writing this Book Why did you suffer your self to he overcome of your own evill and did not rather strive to overcome your evill with good Was not Conscience and concupisence hard at combeate in your thoughts Did not the Flesh lust against the Spirit and the Spirit against the Flesh Did not your heart smight you when you began to dip your inconsiderate pen in the blood of Mr. Goodwins Reputation Did not your hands tremble when like Mezentius the Tyrant that did use to tye the living with the dead you bound Mr. Goodwin and Mr. Edwards together with the same Cord of dishonour and snacie when you chained him with the dis-ingenious and froward six Book-sellers in the Postscript Will you not own those sharp Passages Who must own them But it is worth our observation The highest provocation that ever Mr. Goodwin gave Mr. Lamb. that Mr. Goodwins VVater-Dipping c. the Book of your quarrell you confess to be the highest Provocation that ever he gave you wherein notwithstanding you are not so much as once named no not so much as with the two first Letters of your name The Provocation only was because he cannot bow to your Baptism but writes against it Nebuchadnezers heart was hotter than his Oven against those Worthies that would not bow down to his Image Remember He that is soon angry dealeth foolishly Alexander in his hot blood stew'd his dearest friends whom he would have revived again with his heart blood if he could To be angry with a Brother without a cause is dangerous Is it a Provocation of the highest nature to write against your way and shew unto the world the undue behaviour of the Professors thereof without the least whisper of your Name therein Is this like that meek that mortified temper and disposition which appeared in you when you walked with us Is not here a fearfull Metamorphosis CHrists Counsell is not to resist evil Mr. Lamb to the Reader but whosoever will smight me on the right Cheek to turn the other to him But besides it becommeth me to hear much evill from that hand by which I have received so much good SECT XV. HOw easie is it to preach and hard to practise truth Mr. Lamb acteth contrary to his knowledge of Christs command Have not you endeavoured to buffet Mr. Goodwin on both his cheeks who hath not so much as lifted up his little finger against either of yours Have you taken two blows for one Nay have you not given ten for none Do you know your Masters will and practise it no better Is not the knowledg of Christs will a great dispositum a rich Talent and do you improve it thus You confess you have received much good from him and it becommeth you to bear much evill from him Have not you requited the good you have received very unkindly Much good you have received from him for which of those good works have you thus written against him I know you will be ready to say with those Iews for the good he hath done me I have not written against him but because he hath blasphemed the Doctrine of Baptism and the professors thereof Those Iews were holy persecutors in pretence at least Maximinian thought the blood of Christians an acceptable sacrifice to his Gods And so did the Popish persecutors hold the same Opinion of the blood of the Protestants in all times since the name of Protestantism was heard amongst them Do you think such a sacrifice as the spoyles of Mr. Goodwins reputation God will be so well pleased with that the first fruits of your Pen being so bitter against your great Benefactor in the things of Iesus Christ should be so acceptable unto him Do not you think in your conscience that God will call many to account for the injury that they have done that man in his name and reputation for his service in the Gospel And will not you be ashamed of your self to be found