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A80537	The last, and highest appeal. Or, An appeal to God, against the new-religion-makers, dresters, menders, or venders amongst us. Wherein is evidenced, amongst other things, that they have not true faith, true repentance, or true charity. Likewise, that the seven heads of sin, commonly called, the seven deadly sins, are manifestly apparent in the lifes of their preachers. / By Richard Carpenter.	Carpenter, Richard, d. 1670?	1656 (1656)	Wing C623; Thomason E1650_2; ESTC R209117	20,505	52

Reader may in like manner comment upon the rest These last-Ag'd Prophets professe themselves to bee the Teachers of Christian Religion And Christ proposing himself as an Example invites us by his Example to Humility as to the most proper badge of Christians Take my yoke upon you and learn of Matth. 11. 29. me for I am meek and lowly in heart and ye shall find rest into your Souls It is in the Latin Bible humilis corde humble in heart And having washed his Disciples Vetus Interp. feet which was an Act of profound Humility he speaks thus I have given you an example that ye should do as I have done to Jo. 13. 15. you An humble man will throw himself at the very feet even of the lowest and humblest of People And the Degrees of Christ's Humility and of his descending still beneath himself are superlatively admirable He first descends from Heaven into the womb of a Virgin our Mothers womb being the place of Men. Then is he born in a Stable being the place of Beasts because he came to seek men changed into Beasts Afterwards he humbled himself Philip. 2. 8. and became obedient unto death even the death of the Cross and the Cross was the place of wicked men as being worse than beasts After this he is put into a Sepulchre being the place of dead men yet still worse if they die wicked because they cannot repent Lastly he descends into Hell which the Apostle calls the lower parts of the earth Eph. 4. 9. The Truth is Heathens and Heretikes are altogether uncapable of true Charity and of true Humility as all Ages have testified the one after the other CHAP. X. The seventh Matter in Question THe seventh Matter of the Appeal calls for entrance I charge upon these new-vaumpt Walkers That they are the most High and Mighty Scandalizers of others and the greatest Blasphemers and Blemishers of Reputation that were ever known amongst Men. Others are very sensible of it and know it But I have had a large portion of Experience in this kinde Witness a Cursed Paper which these false-mouth'd and rabid Preachers have dispatcht after me in all places wheresoever I desired to sit down and which contains most horrible Slanders Some whereof they have at last withdrawn for their apparent and most devilish falshood others they keep on foot As that I own'd and hid a Box of Crucifixes whereas I appeal to God my King and Judge I have not been the owner of a Crucifix these twenty years neither have I had a Crucifix in my hands or possession And which is a most deplorable Business and a sadding-Heart Ulcer of these Times I am demonstratively certain that the two persons whom they suborned to swear to it wherof the first Mover was the troubled Husband of my Child's Nurse which She had most unchristianly abus'd and almost starv'd and was therefore taken from her for their Accusations are the lamentable Effects of blind mad and unrighteous Passion the wrath of man working not the righteonsness James 1. 20. of God know not what a Crucifix is Likewise that I used fordid words with an Oath concerning a neer Friend of mine which I appeal to God I never did and such-like And all my Friends know that my mouth is not set or tun'd to Oaths Now again Certain Reliques of this Viperous Brood have taken from the mouth of a Water-man's discontented Wise having been by the Report of the People where she lives high and low a lewd-liv'd woman it is well known where her Heart was and having an impudent face and a rotten Heart and Body That I never say my Prayers And this now stands up to face me I am heartily sorry that I must give a publike Account of my Prayers and private Devotions But the present Business importunes it Wherefore that these conceited phantastical blockish stock and block-retaining beetle-headed wooden-brow'd Busy-bodies in Reliligion may know that our appealing to God and our calling of God to witness in these circumstances is not unholy nor deserves their affected composing of their mouths and crying fie fie but Apostolical I shall begin with St. Paul The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ 2 Cor. 11. 31. which is blessed for evermore knoweth that I lie not I never miss to pray at the least twice a Day likewise to exercise Acts of Sorrow for Sin seconded with the Wish Abomination and Purpose before-mentioned and of the Love of God as often likewise to unfold before God in manner of Thanksgiving a Catalogue of the chief Blessings and Deliverances wherewith he hath most graciously assisted me both by Sea and Land Also to sacrifice my self to God and to sing Scripture-hymns of his Praises Moreover I endeavour every day to pray continually or without ceasing by using Aspirations 1 Thess 5. 17. thus Mystical Divinity names them upon emergent or occurrent occasions Which I shall here deposit for the use of others As when I awake from sleep in the morning My voice shalt thou hear in the Psal 5. 3. morning O Lord in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee and will look up For thou art not a God that hath pleasure in v. 4. wickedness In the beginning of a good work I delight to do thy will O my God Psal 40. 8. yea thy law is within my Heart After I am subdued by a Sin Hide thy face from Psal 51. 9. my sins and blot out all mine inquities Create in me a clean heart O God and renew v. 10. a right Spirit within me Cast me not v. 11. away from thy presence and take not thy holy Spirit from me Restore unto me the joy v. 12. of thy salvation and uphold me with thy free Spirit In my entrance into the house of God How amiable are thy Tabernacles ô Psal 84. 1. Psal 27. 4. Lord of Hosts Or One thing have I desired of the Lord that will I seek after that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the dayes of my life to behold the beauty of the Lord and to enquire in his temple Before the reading of Scripture or any other pious Book Speak Lord for thy servant 1 Sam 3. 9. Ps 119. 18. heareth Or Open thou mine eyes that I may behold wondrous things out of thy law At the sight of meat The eyes of all wait Ps 145. 15. upon thee and thou givest them their meat in due season Thou openest thy hand and v 16. satisfiest the desire of every living thing In Prosperity If I do not remember thee let Psal 137. 6 my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth if prefer not Jerusalem above my chief joy In Adversity The Lord killeth and maketh alive 1 Sam. 2 6 he bringeth down to the grave and bringeth up The Lord maketh poor and maketh v. 7. rich he bringeth low and lifteth up Or What Shall

privately reproved another for Adultery And shall I my self commit the same or the like Sin How then could I do this great wickedness and sin against God Gen. 39. 9. And which is transcendently wicked they commissionated a very Child of Belial who was publikely known guilty of bastard-begetting to debase and vilify me under this Title And furthermore one of the chief Actors in this Villany had been formerly seen and sound Not a word more at this Time upon a Friendly consideration CHAP. XII The Ninth Matter in Question THe Ninth Matter of the Appeal breaks forth These Children of the Serpent which cast out of his mouth water as a flood after the woman in the Revel 12. 15. Revelation that he might cause her to be carried away of the flood Spew out of their filthy mouths that I am a Drunkard I appeal to God And I humbly desire all that know me to consider of this most known Slander and if they be so pleased to weigh the other not-so-much appearing Slanders by the most apparent lightness and falshood of this Of a truth if I be a Drunkard or any way inclinable to be so I must needs be the vilest of Hypocrites For no Man hath Preached more earnestly against Drunkenness than my self Yea I am so far transported and bended the other way that I can hardly fasten my affection upon a man after I have seen him drunk I have preached that a Man drunk is not a man but a vile Beast yea worse than a Beast yea worse than the wosst of Beasts yea that no Creature is so much removed and placed out of the circle and capacity of all Good no not the Devil For the Devils believe and tremble James 2. 19. Psal 148 10. And Beasts and all Cattel creeping things and flying fowl are invited to praise God The Asse Toad Owl Woodcock praise God but the drunk Woodcock Owl Toad Asse cannot praise him Men are drunk also with Anger Malice Heresie c. I have preached that a Drunkard is the most horrid Profaner of the best of Cups and that every Cup which he receives above measure reflects dishonour upon that sacred Cup whereof the Apostle The cup of blessing which we bless is 1 Cor. 10 16. it not the communion of the blood of Christ For according to the Logical Rule Primum in unoquoque genere est mensura reliquorum The first and most noble in every kinde is the measure of the rest and if it measureth not it is rejected and dishonored as an appointed measure I have preached that He who delightfully makes others drunk knowing moreover that a man dying in Drunkennes is irrecoverable Some way participates of the Sin against the holy Ghost who for his 1 Tim. 2 4. abundant goodness will have all men to be saved At which time I declared that a Sin of Infirmity is against the Father because Power is his proper Attribute that a Sin of Ignorance is against the Son because his proper Attribute is Wisdom and that a Sin of Malice is against the holy Ghost because Goodness is his proper Attribute and yet not a Sin of every malice but of a certain malice by the which we desiringly contrive the destruction of Souls I yield without pulling that many Preachers contradict their Preaching by their Practise But this is a Sin which cannot be committed except in the view of Men and they who know me must free me And therefore I have often ruminated in my thoughts that these ditch-and-dunghil Saints could not so much harden their faces and consciences unlesse they were actually possessed or obsessed with Devils especially our Saviour saying to the Jews and Pharisees Ye are of your Father the Devil and the lusts Jo. 8. 44. of your Father ye will do he was a murderer from the beginning And while I am full of these thoughts and cite other circumstances to make their appearance I cannot but judg it a singular and peerless piece of heroical charity to command and disengage these Swinish and Dirt-loving Devils from these dirty-throated People though God hath in his Justice suffered their entrance as Christ suffered the devils to enter into the herd of Swine Matt. 8. 31. The good women that joyn'd their Charity in the giving of a Pig cried out afterwards upon sad experience of wildehoggishnesse that the Devil entred with the Pig and why might not I charitably shape the dispossession or ejectiō of him Now let these impious Professours know that Sin is either such as presently discovers it's malice in the very Act of which foul stamp is Drunkennesse Swearing Murder or such as discovers not its malice presently of which kind is Lying Deceit Slander these being not discovered ordinarily but after a Turn of Time and as it were at the second rebound and perhaps never And that he who refrains himself only from the first desires to please man those being exposed to the Sense but he that abstains from all studies to please God and is conformed to him O thou Searcher of Searchers Search these dark-hearted and fearless though trembling Lyars with candles punish these Zeph. 1. 12. proud yet ignorant contemners of Truth and Learning that are setled on the lees of Herefie and Passion The Conclusion REader I have liv'd here to hear the most sacred Trinity denyed the Incarnation of Christ most sordidly vilified the holy Ghost rejected the holy Scriptures trod upon as fabulous the Immortality of the Soul abandoned Heaven and Hell thrust out of the world little innocent Infants exil'd from the Covenant and almost all helps of divine Worship like the Goods of the House called the Agrigentine Gally ejected I have heard it asserted by some that all Things come by Nature and by others that when they being Saints pray for a supply of their wants mony is presently brought by a miraculous Hand and found by them on their Tables These are Seekers I have seen the Turkish Alcoran Englished and a Book which is called Prae-Adamitae and affirms that there were many Generations of people before our Adam though burned at Paris yet here taught to speak English and held forth to the People I have had some conference with a Man in white that pretended he came down from Heaven and spake the Language used there I have met with two Womens-taylors who professed themselves to be the two witnesses in the Revelation Rev. 11. 3. I have heard most contradictory Untruths preached in every place against other Churches and the proceedings have been agreeable and of purpose contradictory And I have found the Ministers most childishly and most grosly ignorant of transmarine wayes and Doctrines I have beheld a most horrible Inundation of Hell it self vomiting up all the old loathed and abominable heresies amongst us the Devil not fighting singly now as in the Dayes before us against the sacred Articles of the Creed in order as they have place but acting a most dolefull Tragedy of Confusion and making a most fierce Assault and a most terrible Onset upon all the said Articles together and in one bold Adventure heaving at the whole Fabrick of Christ's blessed Name and Religion as if the Plot of Hell were wholly to devest the Royal and Celestial Maid of her Dowry I have seen even the very first-born of all the rest and the truly-masculine Spirits smother'd in these Waters of Affliction And I fear that all the Plagues of Egypt are coming My desire and appetite is great and I am hungry beyond expression But I cannot fill my belly with these hogs-husks Luk 15. 16. I have born the shock of a thousand slanders thrown upon me by the Dregs of People even such as were lately broken and are in the confusion of these Times newly souldred and set up again I have been miserably wrought upon as a meer Scholar and fallaciously entangled in obligations against my self by a Brother who presents a godly shew to the people and builds upon my Blood and Ruins Behold how good and how pleasant it is for Psal 133 1. Brethren to dwell together in Vnity This is the first part of the last Gradual Psalm or Song of Degrees saving one The last sings thus Behold bless ye the Lord all ye servants Psal 134 1. v. 2. of the Lord which by night stand in the house of the Lord. Lift up your hands in the Sanctuary and bless the Lord. This is the last highest perfection upon earth wherewith I would be gladly perfected that my last and highest Appeal may be freely fully answer'd from heaven these Gradual Psalms as they keep their ranks and Order teaching more and more perfection My last English words in this Treatise shall be the text of my first Sermon preached in England Come out of her my People Rev. 18. 3. that ye be not partakers of her sins and that ye receive not of her plagues Vivat Dominus PROTECTOR noster FINIS