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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93646	The guilty-covered clergy-man unvailed; in a plain and candid reply unto two bundles of wrath and confusion, wrapt up in one and twenty sheets of paper. The one written by Christopher Fowler and Simon Ford of Reading; the other by William Thomas of Ubley in Somersetshire. Wherein all their malicious slanders and false accusations, which they cast upon the truth, are clean wash'd off; their weapons with which they war against the Lamb, broken over their own heads; and they, with the rest of the tyth-exacting teachers, proved to be the great incendaries, and mis-leaders of these nations. In which also there is made a brief and sober application, to the magistrates, and other inhabitants, within the city of Bristol. / By Thomas Speed, a friend to all that tremble at the Word of the Lord; but an irreconcileable enemy to the mysterious deceit, and monstrous hypocrisie of those that do teach for hire, and divine for money.	Speed, Thomas, b. 1622 or 3.	1657 (1657)	Wing S4905; Thomason E893_1; ESTC R203614	61,807	87

words and thereunto add his own imaginations and then come forth and bid the people hearken to the word of the Lord I say must this man presently be said to receive this from the Lord when as whilst he talketh of the Saints words he is a stranger to the Saints conditions and an enemy to those that witness them may not the worst of men nay the fowlest of Devils gather together the Saints words and the meanings of men imposed upon them and then talk of them to the people and will he allow that these Brats of darkness do therein speak what they receive from the Lord or that the word of the Lord cometh unto them Grant but his irrational premises and this dismal conclusion will unavoidably follow SECT 32. In this Section you shufflle off your Reader according to your usual manner of answering with a few scoffs and Queries and such also which are not at all to the thing in hand My Article spake of the people called Quakers their confident advising the Publick Teachers to preach no more to the people then the Lord hath spoken to them In answer to which you fall to querying about Prophetesses and womens teaching and others coming into your Congregations and Christs and the Apostles disputing in the Synagogues c. All which were subjects that my Article spake not of But wanting matter of just quarrel or accusation against me the Article being plain you would seek to create some To all which your filty scoffs and impertinent Queries I shall only say Three things 1. Gal. 3.28 The Spirit of the Lord is not confined to one Sex neither is there male or female in Christ Jesus but all are one Had learned Apollos been such a stubborn opinionist as you scorners are he would have disdained as you do to have received instruction from the lips of a poor Priscilla 2. Although Christ and the Apostles did preach down the whole pedagogy of the Jews and all their Temple-worship for which they were so exceeding zealous yet when they came into their Synagogues to dispute with them they found even at their hands a thousand times sairer quarter then many poor hearts finde from your Wolfish flocks in your Steeple-houses for speaking but six words among whom they are oftentimes in danger of life or limb 3. Whereas you speak of the Quakers violating that Article of the Government which alloweth liberty to all such as profess Faith in God by Jesus Christ I say that this is monstrous hypocrisie in you when as that Article of the Government is not more broken upon any order of men at this day in the Nation then upon that suffering people called Quakers and that by the hands of the Priests Disciples and their persecuting companions by coming into their peacable meetings and there railing and reviling them nay oftentimes laying violent hands on them of which there is scarce a day but doth afford an instance in some part of this Nation or other and do you as the most guilty begin to complain first SECT 33. Your Three and thirtieth Section is such a Linsy woolsey peece such a medly of confusion that there is neither head not tail in it The advice given you viz. to preach no more to the people then the Lord hath spoken to you you say were it delivered to you in a sober private Christian way I do well know you love to be honored before the people you would take well at my hands and practice accordingly Rep. Then you approve of the advice as good And why is it then that you endeavour in the remaining part of your Section to contradict it and go about to perswade your Reader that I bad mal-advised you in meaning what I did not speak It 's a strange law that when no fault can be found with a mans words being wholesom he must then be reviled and beaten for his supposed meanings You further demand of me to what purpose the Scripture is avouched to be profitable for doctrine if you may raise no doctrines from it Answ With what reason or on what ground this impertinent Query is proposed more then to spend your spare time I profess I cannot conceive for that there is nothing spoken in my Article that concerneth any such thing However since you will needs know my mind in the case I say That the holy Scriptures were given by inspiration of God 2 Tim. 3.16 and are profitable for doctrine reproof and correction is true but doth it therefore follow that the Scriptures were given forth for you by the strength of your imaginations to raise Doctrines Reasons and Vses from them and then take them sell them to the people for mony The Scriptures of truth as they were spoken forth by the holy men of God are pure but you and your Brethren to gain a livelihood thereby do spend your time to fasten your own corrupt glosses and interpretations upon them in which you are so full of confusion and contradictions each to other that that which hath in it self a sweet harmony you make to be a monstrous heap of jars and discord Your after discourse about Christs and the Apostles speaking the words of Moses and the Prophets is vain and frivolous being that which I never denied or condemned And therefore you have done but as peevish persons in a deep fit of melancholly viz. create images in your own fancies and then fight with them SECT 34. In this Section you study how to pick matter of wrangling about that advice given you To preach no more to the people then you your selves witness the life and power of within your selves But finding my expressions plain you fall according to your wonted ingenuous way to suppose meanings upon my naked expressions And my meaning must needs be supposed to be that which never came out of my lips The ground of this is because you say others of my brethren do so and so How is that proved by a discourse had you say betwixt two Quakers related by John Toldervy Rep. You appeal to Col Sidenham in your fawning Epistle touching your candor and integrity in the managery a very hard word as you term it of your answer to my Epistle And is this one of the demonstrations of your candor and integrity to charge such and such things upon the people called Quakers and then offer John Toldervy for proof this is just as if a man should have come to the Chief-Priests and Rulers of old and asked them is Christ an evil-doer and worthy to be given over to be crucified yea would they say how is that proved Why Judas saith so And then ask the people of the Jews what is this Jesus of Nazareth why would they say he is a deceiver and a blasphemer how is that proved Our Rulers and Chief-Priests say so And so betwixt you and John Toldervy the innocent shall no way escape condemnation SECT 35. Your 35th is made up of malicious slanders

called July I received by the hands of a Friend a Pamphlet with a scoffing inscription written upon it subscribed with both your hands and directed to my self which I have perused and seriously weighed and do find it to be a monstrous birth begotten by the Prince of darkness conceived in the womb of your own guilt and brought forth by the vigorous assistance of that great Red Dragon Rev. 12.4 5. which stood before the Woman ready to be delivered to devour her man child as soon as it was born Since which time I have met with another heap of anger and confusion come forth under the name of WILLIAM THOMAS of Vbley a piece which is found having on it the same stamp of enmity with yours onely with this difference that whereas you have subtilly couche and covered your malice under the deceitful paint of smooth words he hath thrown out his scorn and disdain both against the truth and mine own person under a thinner covering in the view of all men To both these Pamphlets I shall now apply my self in a way of Reply not thereby to gratifie either of your wills or lusts nor to vindicate my self who could the Lord is my witness gladly sit down in silence wearing your reproaches as a crown upon my head and through the power of his grace who hath saved me esteem it my honour not onely to suffer affliction but to die bearing testimony against their wickedness under the merciless hands of your bloody generation But for the truths sake which you so prophanely trample upon and for the innocents sake whose blood you so eagerly thirst after and for the simples sake whom you so miserably delude I may not keep silence But before I speak either to the Title or the Contents of either of your Papers I shall premise these five things 1. In my Reply I shall principally direct my Speech to you two yet so as that I shall in passing on take notice of what ever William Thomas hath spoken * Which is but very little worthy of an Answer Who in his Epistle directed to the Reader and prefixed to his Pamphlet declareth his resolutions to have no further to do with me although in his following Book there be scarce a Page in which he doth not mention me with scorn and contempt ☞ A rare demonstration of his truth and ingenuity to throw as many stones at me as the hand of his rage could well lay hold on having but just before told his Reader that he would have no more to do with me 2 Take notice that I shall not make it my business to trace you in every unsavory and impertinent expression throughout your Books I esteem my time more precious then to squander it away in raking into all that mire and dirt that 's closed up in those one and twenty sheets of paper However you may esteem of time who live by the sweat of other mens brows eating the fat and drinking the sweet with me I must let you know it 's more precious then plenty 3 What ever of dung or filth you have cast on the truth or my self I shall quietly wipe off not lifting it back again upon your own faces but let it fall into the Channel whence you may perhaps spend your spare hours to take it again to bespatter the innocent with in you next 4 Whether it may prove an irritation or an allay to your fury I am not solicitous but from me you may not expect flattering language As the Scripture doth so shall I study to give every thing its true denomination by calling a lie deceit hypocrifie by their proper names which I prefume you will judge railing but I according to the Scripture plainness 5 Whereas throughout that Epistle which sticks so sorely as an arrow in your guilty breasts I did speak to those of your Function under the name of Teachers waving that of Priests being willing to cut off every shadow of a just exception now I shall occasionally make use thereof in this my following Reply and that for these two Reasons First Because your selves do own the name and do call your selves and your Brethren thereby in page 13. at the close of the 12 Section of your Book So that you cannot rationally take it ill that I give you what you take to your selves Secondly Because you lay confident claim to their maintenance viz. Tythes which the Ministers of the Gospel sent out by Jesus never claimed and therefore it 's but reasonable that a distinction should be kept betwixt you and them as well in your names as practices These things being premised I shall pass on to your Books To both which I must justly charge you with prefixing lying Titles You say A sober Answer to an angry Epistle whereas neither was my Epistle angry nor your Answer sober as all that live in lobriety will upon perusal of both truly judge You had shewed some honesty in speaking truth if you had vice versâ said An angry Answer to a sober Epistle William Thomas is more notorious in his transgressing the limits both of truth and honesty calling his bundle of ignorance and passion by the name of Railing rebuked A swelling Title thinking thereby to beget his reader into a beleif that he had to do with some monster of a man What a furious peice is a guilty Priest when his sore is rubbed Let truth hit him but upon the seat of his guilt and you rouse a Lyon from his sleep In what a strange Region of flattery and filthy complements do those men breath with whom truth in plainness of speech is railing and the express language of the Scripture reviling You proceed in your Title page to charge me with revolting from being a publick Teacher to merchandize To which I reply that the understanding Reader may easily conclude how far your Book is from being a sober Answer when as you have the confidence to prefix so egregious a lie in the very front of it For that those that know my manner of life can testifie that for many years together whilst I was a Publick teacher as you stile me I did merchandize and therefore did not revolt from the one to the other That I am still a Merchant is true in which calling I esteem it my duty to abide faithful not making my self burthensom unto others as your troublesome generation are to the whole Nation at this day So far am I from esteeming the name of a Merchant a term of reproach to me that I do in heart prefer one honest Merchant before a legion of Tithe-exacting Priests and must withall tell you that did the Commonwealth reap no greater yeatly advantage from the industrious Merchant then it doth from the devouring Priests they that sit at Helm might at each years end write down their names in the books of their greatest accompts in worthless Cyphers You charge me further with using Jesuitical equivocations c. Rep. This