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A40738	The worlds honour detected, and, for the unprofitableness thereof, rejected, and the honour which comes from God alone, asserted, and reduced to practice, or, Some reasons why the people of God called Quakers, do deny the accustomary honour and salutations of the world ... by a friend to truth, who is no respector or regarder of persons, called a Quaker, B.F.	Furly, Benjamin, 1636-1714.	1663 (1663)	Wing F2541; ESTC R8091	54,243	70

Constable as deriving his Authority from him doth not require inferiours to be subject to the will of man in any of these relations but to have their eye in all things to the Will of God to do what they do as unto him submitting themselves in the fear of God which keepeth the heart clear upright and pure and so out of obeying in any evil thing And As these Inferior relations in their places are exhorted to Obedience so also are the Superiors charged even to do the same thing that is just good fitting and well-pleasing to the Lord as in his fear 1. Rulers Let him that ruleth over men see that he be just ruling in the fear of God hating covetousness and not greedy after gifts and rewards which blind the eye punishing and being a terror only to the evil not to the good but to them a praise even of all that do well For there is a King of Kings and Lord of Lords who rewardeth every man without respect of persons according to his works in whose hands your life and breath is 2. Parents Ye Fathers provoke not your Children lest they be discouraged for with God there is no respect of persons 3. Masters And ye Masters do the same things unto them viz. to your Servants giving unto them that which is just and equal forbearing threatning knowing that your Master also is in Heaven neither is there respect of persons with him Eph. 6.9 c. 4. Husbands Husbands love your Wives as your own bodies and be not bitter against them Yet though these should so be in their several stations this Obedience and Subjection in all good things is that which the Lord requires as well to him to be rendred not only to the good and moderate but also to the hard for the obedience is unto the Lord for his sake for conscience sake and not for their sakes and he is the reward of those that obey him in the Faith But if they go beyond these bounds in their Commands commanding things unfitting evil and not well-pleasing to the Lord but contrary to his Will it is then neither honour to God nor them to obey them actually but a dishonour to the Name of God that any should fear Men more than Him and not rather suffer for the Name of Christ and the Testimony of a good Conscience But good wise and prudent Rulers who know their Authority and fear the Lord will not require such things and such will also be satisfied with that honour which comes from God alone and be content and count it honour enough if the Power which is the Ordinance of God be but honoured with Subjection through a good and blameless Conversation well knowing that as to their persons there is no such peculiar honour due to them more than to other men Though possibly some self-willed ambitious persons may not be satisfied therewith as being too mean and plain too much like the upright world-despising and self-denying Iesus and his mean single-hearted Followers and Disciples who of old could not and yet cannot honour or reverence or prefer the Rich-man with a Gold-Ring gay Apparrel before a Poor-man in vile rayment at which such I say may be disturbed it being the chief thing which they perhaps aimed at in getting into Authority Why how saith he wherefore am I in Authority wherefore am I call'd a Duke Earl Marquess Lord Knight or Esquire c. why have I bought these Places and Titles so dear why do I put on all these gay cloaths why have I so many waiting upon me so many running by my horse or coach side as dogs why such feathers in my hat and such a fine sword by my side why do I build or purchase such stately palaces If notwithstanding all this I shall be honoured before the People no more than one of the people out of Authority no more than a common simple plain fellow in a leathern jacket or dublet what is it all worth without this unless I be honoured the more for it tush 't is not all worth twopence without it 't was for that I sought and bought all this and now to lose my cost and pains and to get nor cap nor knee nor bow nor congie nor your Grace Honour nor Worship nay not so much as good-morrow nor good-night nay to have no better language nor reverend Addresses made to me in speech than to my Foot-boy or than I my self give my Foot-boy nothing but Thou and Thee it 's intolerable it torments me I cannot I will not bear it from them I will not leave till I have rooted them out but I 'le have my will of them and prove it by the Scripture too that they must honour me am I not a good Christian then Well! if there be such a Haman yet living I say unto thee Friend stop a little run not head long to thy own destruction call thy fury a little in question examine the cause consider whence is it from Heaven or Hell who blows the fire who captivates thee thus who rageth thus in thee against a harmless people yea who tyrannizeth thus over thee Whose voice is this Surely not the Voice of God thy Creator whom thou oughtest to fear nor yet the natural genuine voice of his innocent creature but of him that possesseth thy heart and reigneth over thee Consider then who is it and whither he is leading thee And if thou wilt not be advised and nothing can satisfie thee but to have thy own will Go on but know the Lord hath determined to deliver Mordecai and all his generation out of the hands of Haman and thou shalt not prosper that seekest their destruction though thou mayest be backed with the King's Command for even also the heart of the King is in the hand of our God whom alone we fear and not man and in him alone is our confidence And now all ye that profess the Name of Christ behold what a Serpent ye nourish in the bosom of the ambitious man and how by your slavish conformity ye increase and strengthen the bands of the Innocent consider also whether ye therein please God or man the flesh or the Spirit and with whom ye partake in it And thou Ambitious HaMan consider also who is thy greatest friend he that piles up fuel upon fuel upon the flame of thy ambitious spirit by satisfying it or he that refusing to feed and satiate thy amb●●ious appitite becomes as a stumbling-stone in thy way and as thorns under thy feet that thou mayest be pricked stumble and fall and return to rise and consider what thou art doing whither thou art posting and in whose service whether thou dost obey God Christ or the Spirit of God to the Salvation of thy Soul or the Devil the World and thy flesh to thy destruction Consider it I say and know that thou art warned and he not deceived for God is not mocked what thou sowest that shalt thou assuredly reap whether unto the flesh destruction or unto the Spirit life eternal B. F. Now unto THE KING Eternal Immortal Invisible only wise God alone BE all Honour and Glory Majesty Dominion and Power Praises and Thanksgiving for ever and ever And let no man from henceforth worship the Beast but fear God and give glory to him and worship him alone for the hour of his Iudgment is come THE END

whensoever the Universal Love cools to any member of the body of mankind there and then the true Honour ceaseth till the Love be again renewed and if there yet abideth a shew of honour 't is indeed but a shew a deceitful piece of hypocrisie as the worlds honour and honouring one another for the most part is who can and frequently do make a shew of honouring one another while deceit and mischief lodgeth in their hearts and is covered over with that mantle which they oft assume for that very end As their own Proverb in the Italian tongue hath it Chi ti carezza piú che no suole ò in gannato ti hà ò in gannar ti Vuole He that courteth thee more than he is wont either he hath deceived thee already or intends it Now as I have said there never was any People so dull but they have honoured or had in esteem which is all one some or other at least their Relations but to honour all men to love all men is the perfectian of a Christion 't is his work and his alone who is in the Lord none else can but such as dwell in God that is in Love which is the bond of Perfection The Heathens they loved their friends and honoured those that loved them and the Scribes Pharisees their Brethren saluting them with their self-invented and accumstomary salutations and manners but to love and honour all men belongs to the Perfection unto which Christ the Eternal Son and Love of the Father laboured to bring his Disciples that they might be like unto Him perfect as their Heavenly Father is perfect Of this true honour which comes from God the World being ignorant or at least heedless they have gone about to establish their own honour which is of the Earth comes from men from the earthly spirit of the World in men and women and so pleaseth the same spirit in all for the World receiveth its own And having now changed this true natural genuine Honour which is of God into their own artificial feigned and strained art of Complement consisting in bundles of fopperies fond Ceremonies foolish windings turnings crouchings and cringings with their bodies uncovering their heads using multitudes of frothy frivolous light vain yea and most commonly lying words in a way of Complement which being brought forth the airy light vain mind in men is so taken with it that it is set up in their minds as the most accomplish'd piece that can be imagined amongst them and ratified by a perpetual Law as unalterable as the Laws of the Medes and Persians to be the only standard by which all honour respect reverence esteem or love must be measured being so enamoured upon it that they deem it their glory and crown to be exact in it to a punctilio de cap-à-pé and he is amongst them accounted the most accomplish'd Gentleman that is most expert at it Being thus arrived to so high esteem at Court and had in such venerable reverence among the Grandees of the Earth and renowned Ones of the World it provokes the ambitious honour-seeking-spirit in its more inferior Orb each according to their ability to seek to render themselves Masters of it by a certain double-diligent observation and practice of them yea it hath such influence upon Professors of God Christ Scripture Spirit Professors that profess themselves separated from and chosen out of the World that the most sober amongst them not to mention the more light are found conforming to them so far as their gravity will admit and somewhat further too sometimes but wherein themselves fall short lest they should be too grosly guilty of levity and justly charged therewith yet is it none of their smallest cares and strenuous endeavours to use all meanes imaginable according to their ability to train up their Children in these evil manners deceitfully called good manners now a dayes and to that end send them to Schools to learn them to walk and shail their legs in Dancing to doff their Hats and wring their bodies in Congees and how to hold their hands heads necks and make fine Courtesies backwards with such like things as young Women learn at such places that so they may not lose one grain hair nor jot of that honour renown fame respect and worship among men which their Parents can purchase them by their money And thus the Fathers having eaten lowre Grapes the Childrens teeth are commonly set on edge and such as are not of themselves so are oft-times made to eat and so this kind of honour is instilled into them in their tender age that it may as it were grow up with them and through custom and the esteem it hath in the world become natural to them that so the true Honour which should take place is by this bastard honour supplanted suppressed and as it were ejected This is the case and thus it stands with the World Professors and Prophane and many know it well but will not see And therefore those whom the Lord hath in mercy redeemed out of these vanities and stopped many in their full career that they cannot run into the same excess of vanity with them because they forsake all this mock-honour are though found in the more excellent in the Honour which comes from God towards all men despised mocked rendered strange Monsters Wonders gazing stocks Spectacles to all Nations Countries and Cities where these things are made the standard or touchstone of all Civility and Good-manners Yet this is no more then was of old for there is no new thing under the Sun as the Prophet of the Lord said Behold I and the Children thou hast given me are for signs and wonders in Israel So it may be said now for so it is at this day Therefore ye despisers wonder not at us that we have forsaken and denied all these things root and branch but turn your eyes into and among your selves and see what strange and antick manners you have among you see what baubles and toyes you are pleased with what pittiful sorry things you are delighted in seek after covet and love and wonder that Man whom God made upright and planted a noble Plant in his own Image to love and take his delight in him alone should ever come to be so degenerated and faln in love with such vanities as these things more light than feathers at this I say rather wonder for here is true matter of wonder of wonder indeed Wherefore let every man of sobriety and moderation weigh the thing ponder it and tell me which of you cannot think in his heart much less is convinced there that this is the Honour which comes from God alone which he requireth that men should yield to each other who of you all hath faith therein Object But some may say we do not say that these things are the honour it self which comes FROM GOD we pretend it not they are but a kind of civil Worship honour and

eyes and to be desired To get honour to be worshipped what more pleasant what more desirable though indeed there is no honour nor worship at all in it nor ever was it so accounted by the people of God to put off the hat but a shame and reproach rather as may be seen by the Priests being forbidden to uncover their heads Levit. 10.6 21. 10. But seeing the frothy minds of people have imagined to themselves an honour in it why should we add unto any mans temptation by this vain thing nay rather let us leave off this thing Object But say some again it is their due and we must not detain from any man his due lest he should abuse it and much less from him that is not likely to abuse himself with it because others do for the Apostle saith Give unto every man his due honour to whom honour is due c. Answ. True honour is due to the honourable but then we must see to give them the honour which is due and not a strange far-fetcht device instead of it in which is no honour at al as where is it written that puting off the hat bidding good-morrow and good-night saying though a lie I kiss your hands Sir your Humble Servant Madam and such like is the honour due or that there is any honour real true honour in any of these things that there is honour so called so esteemed a pretence and shew of honour in these and every of these things I know but to what mind doth it so seem by what spirit are these things accounted honour but by that mind which delighteth it self in vanity and by that spirit and generation which calleth light darkness and darkness light Now doth the Apostle recommend Christians to follow this mind to be instructed from it to count that honour which it might esteem so and accordingly to give it them as their due or doth he not rather refer them to the Spirit of the Lord which teacheth all things honorable and is the Author of all true honour and to render that to every man in the Lord and not an empty shew the former we deny nor can't be proved and this we assert therefore What the Apostle saith we willingly own and acknowledge neither would we upon any pretence withhold from any man his due but as for your common-far-fetcht-fine-spun consequences you must give us leave to deny them till you can better prove them If you be so willing to be deceived we are not willing to deceive you to put you off with Cap and Knee a few fine ●awning words shaddowy scrapes and cringes when a better substance is your due Object But it 's said again you give offence to the weak Now the Apostle saith Judge this rather that ye give no occasion or offence to the Iews nor Gentiles nor to the Church of God 1 Cor. 10.32 Answ. This is a meer shift and blind subterfuge for ignorance and deceit both a something though nothing to the purpose for the Apostle speaks here of things that offended the week Consciences of some in those dayes and so plainly speaks of matters of Conscience But our Adversaries generally with one mouth cry out and think it an invincible Argument against us There is nothing of Religion in these things they are no matters of Conscience they are things of Civil concern indifferent may be left or done Now these two Pleas or Shifts are diametrically opposite and cannot stand together onely if you cleave to the first as I think all do to call them civil indifferent things no matters of Conscience then your Plea is good against your selves in that ye are found offending us so far as in you lies by doing that which we in Conscience to the Lord cannot do and your selves may leave undone if you will But besides 't is granted the good and humble the meek lowly are not offended at it matter it not whether they have it or not and evil-minded men we are not to please in their Haughty Proud Ambitious Minds The Apostles were not men-pleasers and warned the Christians not to become such nor to be subject to the Ordinances or Rudiments of the world Object T is true the good and meek are not offended for their own sakes because they are not honoured c. But for your sakes who thereby seem to them Proud High-minded Obstinate Self-willed Self-conceited men and of a Contentious Spirit c. Answ. Let it all come out And then know that if any judge us with a rash false judgement according to outward appearance to their forward froward minds we appeal from their judgement to him that cannot err in judgement and knows the inmost frame of our hearts and Spirits and judgeth us with Righteous Judgement Have therefore but a little patience to observe our conversations and if the rest of our converse doth not plainly demonstrate the contrary let your judgement stand upon that person till it doth But withal Friends who are more proud than those that are ready at giving and receiving this thread-bare honour who are so handy in it that they have every jot thereof at their fingers and tongues ends as it were Oh! that ye were indeed enemies to Pride and offended at it then would ye suspect your selves and your own manners more then us and ours and then ye would abstain from that whole bundle of aiery manners which are as Oyl poured into the fire of Ambition to increase the flame and burning thirst thereof Yea commonly those that are so expert in this mannerly trade do willingly receive again what they give with encrease and so do often give the more liberally that they may receive their returns in more abundance as the Germane Proverb saith Ehr wil geehrt sein Honour would be honoured but both the giver and the receiver are out of the Truth Way and Faith of Christ in that matter for he received not honour of men So it is not true Humility nor morigerosness to be exact in the Academy of Complements nor yet in a self-pleasing-way of simply putting off the hat and bidding good-morrow and good-even which some hope to excuse themselves with as not being conformable to the worlds abused customs Nay nay these are not the right badges of true Honour Humility or good manners but rather of feignedness vanity and custom But he that joyns himself to those of low degree going before them in honour as a good example honouring and serving all men in that which is good and serviceable in his place as well the poor as the rich the mean as the mighty without respect of persons he bears the badges of Humility and shews his good breeding and manners But alas how empty are our modern mannerly Ones of these things when shall we see these things in our streets in which of our Cities shall we see a great man or a rich man proffering his service and lending his helping hand to a mean despicable man

hurries you into wrath and fury and to offer violence to any Innocent man for his Conscience to God-wards in such a thing of nought as a few pittiful dead dull groundless Ceremonies ye will be thereby found fighters against God and justifie the violence offered to your selves for your Consciences by your Enemies when they had power over you and not onely so but also contract the guilt of all the Innocent Blood shed from Righteous Abel to this day by all the Persecutors that ever were for whosoever is found in the Persecuting Nature and Spirit is a Member of that Body let his profession now differ never so much from many of the old Persecutors in other ages and agree with the greatest and meekest of Sufferers it matters not 't is not a few Words or Articles that changeth the Nature or Spirit The Murtherer is the Murtherer still though got into a peaceable mans Habit He that was a Lyar from the beginning is so still though he may change his garbe The Wolf retains his Nature though in the Sheeps cloathing Therefore upon you will lie the guilt of all and where the guilt lies there the wrath abides and the stroak of God's Vengeance will assuredly follow and not tarry and heavy and dreadful will it be when it comes So Awake awake take heed I say beware what ye do and it is for your sakes that we thus call unto you more then our own for as for us we are nothing careful nothing Solicitous in these matters but are freely given up to the Lord our God patiently and rejoycingly to suffer whatsoever ye shall have power to inflict upon us for ye are limited though ye may be apt to think it is not so as hath often been manifest both in our Native Country at Rome and other places under the Pope's Dominions and amongst the New England Persecutors If any deem themselves in the Truth and believe us to be in the wrong and because their Bishops Pastors Teachers Priests c. tell them they may without any more adoe use the Power they have to Oppress Suppress and Ruine us and ours or any for their tender Consciences and exercise of their Religion which is every mans due and no man de jure doth hold at the Will or Pleasure of any earthly Ruler whatsoever but immediately from the God of Heaven whose immediate Subjects they ought to be in all such things I say If any hereupon shall begin attempt or undertake such a thing they will thereby manifest themselves to be no Christians in that they do unto others that which they would not that others should do unto them under which Law Christ Jesus hath indispencably concluded all his Disciples that are ever were or ever shall be so from the Prince to the Peasant none excepted whether in or out of Authority And that man or company of men will be found in the Great and Notable day of their Account and Tryal before the judgement of Jesus Christ the King of Kings and Lord of Lords Arch Rebbels and Traytors to Invaders and Subverters of so far as in them lies his Kingdom Rule and Government and Oppressors Tormentors and cruel Murtherers of his Innocent Peaceable harmless Subjects Therefore again I say Beware and look to the end sit first down and reckon the Charge the Trouble the Cost and the Reward and further know That it is in vain to attempt such a thing its impossible to effect such a thing it demonstrates weakness want of understanding in him that shall begin it for the work is endless it will be alwayes doing and alwayes to do and never have an end besides the Curse of God attending such an enterprize If it were but to Banish Ship off Imprison Impoverish Ruine or cut off a certain number of men now visible admit it were five or ten hundred thousand in a Nation Male and Female Old and Young perhaps some Tyrannical men might perswade a Prince this might be done and perhaps some bloody Tyrant might think it could be effected and say in himself Well! I 'le rid my Land of all these Sects and Schismaticks of all these Hereticks and Seducers and then I shall be quiet in my Land I shall have Peace and no Division c. this hath a fair shew all to tempt But alas a wise man will see that these men are all absolutely deceived and seduced in themselves these Counsellors are besotted and hastening to their own destruction for no man can see a day nor hour before him in this wretched work for when thus this number now seems ruined or rather while it is doing the number is doubled yea seven times doubled And this is evident to every ingenious man that hath but been observant and taken notice of the Histories that he hath read of old and things he hath seen of late years that the blood of the Persecuted the Oppressions of the Oppressed are as Seed cast into the ground which brings forth increase thirty sixty and a hundred fold and thus the work hath alwayes and alwayes will swell under their hands and the guilt of innocent blood increaseth and the measure of their iniquity is filling up till at length the Cry the strong and vehement Cry of innocent blood pierceth the Heavens and enters the Ears of the Lord of Hosts who ariseth to render vengeance upon these Cains and mighty Nimrods of the earth and deliver the remnant of his people out of their Iaws and then their torment will be great yea greater than they shall be able to bear though they should have many Kingdoms under their Dominions and as much variety of Pleasures as their vain hearts can invent for their diversion yet a little contemptible worm from our God shall gnaw at the root of it all and cause it to wither and take away their peace and terror and dismayedness shall be their inseperable Companion paleness shall cover their Faces and the true and faithful Witness and Rewarder shall open the Books and produce the Records that are written against them and the works of their Hands and Counsels of their Hearts shall be their perpetual torment for Suum invidia torquet auctorem Mischief brings torment upon him that deviseth it And in that day it will appear that we had more ground to deny these things then you had to keep them up when the Lord had by us his People brought forth a Testimony against them and endeavoured the removal of them meerly because it was your custom and ye would have it so and the contrary would breed disorder and confusion amongst you and for no other ground at all indeed whereas we have forsaken and denyed them in our own practice and testified against them in others for these several weighty Reasons 1. Forsaken them in our own Practice because we have not found the Spirit of the Lord leading us unto them nor saw any ground in the same for them which yet ought to be and is

Lord in that day I rather leave to the Lord than determine Object But some perhaps may say They were not reproved for it therefore it was not evil Answ. As it is not written that they were reproved so neither is it recorded that they were approved Besides we find not that Abraham was by the Lord reproved for saying that Sarah was his Sister nor Isaac in the like case for fearing the people of the Land nor Ioseph for swearing by the Life of Pharaoh the Custom of the Court and Country where he dwelt no dout nor lastly any of the Patriarks for having more wives than one Yet who believes not these things to be unlawful much less doth any man look upon it to be his duty to do so though these Worthies did so so that it is not their example without command Warrant or Approbation nay nor yet their approved Actions that must be our ground or rule to act by in this dispensation unless the same things should of us be required in this Dispensation Nay 't is not what others now do by the infallible leading of the Spirit of God even in this day that must be a ground for me to do the same thing but my Ground Rule and Guide must be in my self from the Lord Nay further it is not what the Lord led me to do yesterday by his infallible and unerring Life and Spirit in my own particular that must be my ground for doing the same thing this day without the same movings leadings and guidings also this day yea at that instant of time when I go about the thing And herein we differ from all Sects who are set down in a form either of what they take up by Tradition written or unwritten it 's all one to the Lord of which they have felt nothing from the Lord in themselves or at the best having found something of God stirring in them and leading them to it in dayes past are setled down in their Form and going on in the Practice satisfied with what they have felt whether they feel the same still or not and so are withered and offer up a dead Sacrifice to the Living God But we plainly say That he that goeth one Day or Hour or Moment before the Power or Life of God in the Worship of God is a will-worshiper and his worship is not accepted for I may do that this Day this Hour in the motion of the Spirit of God in which I may be justified of the Lord in my obedience to him which to morrow if I should go to do again I might do it in my own will and so instead of being approved and justified being not covered in the Action with the Spirit of the Lord shame before the Lord though not before men who only see the outside would cover my face And thus the Lord hath led his people out of many things never to return unto them again as Warring Killing Slaying Fighting for outward Possessions Lands and Inheritances Worshiping in Temples made with hands and upon Mountains as Holy Places with all the whole Body of the Iewish Worship Ceremonies and observing Dayes Sabbaths Months and Years once Commands of the Lord but long since rejected and done away for the abuse weakness and unprofitableness of them yea abhorred of the Lord and unlawful for his people to touch Object If any say these things are unlawful now because the Scripture testifies against them but shew us where the Scripture forbids to honour men by bowing putting off the Hat c. Answ. These things were unlawful because Paul testified against them but Paul therefore testified against them as in the Case of Circumcision because they were become unprofitable yea abominable and so unlawful else Paul had testified against that which was lawful that so he might render it unlawful for the future which is ridiculous to imagine And as for doffing the Hat bidding Good-morrow and such like stuff they are meer upstart Novelties which in those dayes no man once dreamed of but those things which were then practised as instead of these things were forbidden and reproved by Christ and particularly Greetings and Salutations in the Market places or upon the wayes calling men Master and Bowing whether before Men or Angels though formerly practised by divers Friends of God Before Angels though Abraham Lot and others bowed themselves before them yet Iohn was forbidden so to do see Rev. 9. See thou do it not for I am thy fellow Servant Worship God and Before Men though many have bowed themselves to the earth yet Cornelius was by Peter reproved for so doing when he fell at his feet with a stand up I my self am also a man as it is written at the Name of Iesus not of any man every knee shall bow Again Christ saith I receive not honour of men and testified against this very kind of honour these ceremonial toys and evil manners in the Scribes and Pharisees and publickly reproved them for being called of men Rabbi or Master and for these Crooked Market-street-Salutations and therefore certainly did not give them himself Object It s said Christ did not reprove the thing it self but only such men as loved desired and sought for that honour and those Salutations in publick and to be called of men Master c. Answ. This cover is too narrow and pretence too short for it is apparent that Christ reproved them simply for receiving those things saying How can ye believe that receive not only ye that seek but also ye that receive honour from men and seek not the honour that comes from God alone Mark that honour alone and sets himself as an example before them I receive not honour of men he saith not I seek it not I desire it not love it not take no pleasure in it but simply I receive it not and forbade his Disciples strictly to be called Master or Rabbi And in this Doctrine all his Disciples abode and all the Apostles as may be seen in their Writings Epistles and Letters which they occasionally wrote to each other in none of which is any mention made of Mr. Paul Mr. Peter Mr. Matthew Iohn or Iames neither are any of Paul's Letters To the Right Reverend Father in God his Grace Timothy Arch-Bishop or Bishop of Ephesus nor subscribed Your Honours most Humble and Devoted Servant nor to the Reverend and very Learned Mr. Titus Minister of the Word of God or Minister of the Gospel at Crete As the Bold and Irreverend Bishops and Pragmatick Priests of our times do without blushing bedaub each other with the Illustrious Titles of Reverend Right Reverend Divines Fathers Doctors or Masters while they at the same time make profession of being Ministers or Servants of Christ and his Flock And in their Prayers cry out no less Hypocritically then Audatiously To thee O Lord to thee alone belongs all Honour Glory Reverence Thansgiving and Dominion for thou alone art worthy c. And yet so