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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30520	A discovery of some part of the war between the kingdom of the Lamb and the kingdom of Anti-Christ held forth in this account of several disputes and queries between a Minister of Christ (really so) and one that hath the name of a Minister, but is proved to be a Minister and member of Anti-Christ by evident testimonies : and is a short account of the covetousnesse, ignorance, envy, and the fruits of darkness brought forth by C. Fowler ... / by Edw. Burrough.	Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.	1659 (1659)	Wing B5999A; ESTC R27139	22,780	34

Scorning Lying Slandering Envy Hatred Lightnesse c. with much more of which thou art guilty are the fruits of the flesh and of the Divel hence I querie of thee VIII Whether by this rule art thou not proved to be no Ministers of Christ but of the Devil and a servant to him and a liver to the flesh and not in the spirit in whom these fruits of darknesse and of the flesh are abounding Seeing the Scripture saith the Word of God was in the begining and Christ Jesus is the foundation and no other can be laid hence I querie of thee IX Whether by this rule thou art not proved a deceiver and thy doctrine false and error and contrary to Scripture who said the Scriptures are the Word of God which were not in the begining and said that the Scriptures which are not Christ are the foundation of foundations and whether this doctrine of thine doth not deny Christ and so art proved to be Antichrist answer according to truth Seeing thou confesses thou hast hire for preaching yet saist thou preaches not for hire hence I querie of thee X. Whether any of the People of Reading would give thee so much a year if thou didst not preach to them and if no then whether they do not give thee so much and thou receive it because thou preaches unto them or did they give thee so much before thou preachedst or will they give thee any when thou doth cease to preach to them try them when thou wilt and prove thy self a true Prophet by preaching some years and receiving nothing and till then I charge thee to be a false prophet Seeing the Ministry which Christ Jesus sent by the the Apostles did bring people that they needed no man to teach them but as the anoynting within them hence I querie of thee XI Whether by this rule thy Ministry is proved not to be of Christ Iesus nor thou sent of him by which none can come to this condition that they need no man to teach them produce any one if thou canst and so a Ministry of Anti-christ and thou of the Divel Seeing they that abide not in the Doctrine of Christ have not God hence I querie of thee XII Whether by this rule thou art not proved to be without Christ and without God who abides not in Christs doctrine but are called of men master and stand Praying in the Synagogue and hast the chief seat in the Assembly and contrary to Christs Command Answer these Queries with the Spirit of Sobernesse if thou hast it and shew thy self a man if thou hast the heart of a man and repent of thy wickednesse and own thy condemnation upon thy former words and works I am a Friend unto thy Soul but a witnesse against thy deceits E. B And after which time for the space of two years I had no Communication with Christopher Fowler till this last nineth month at a place called East-Hamsted where a meeting of dispute was appointed and challenged by some of his Brethren at which place again I mett with this my adversary where we had some houres discourse and many particulars of False Doctrine fell from Christopher Fowlers mouth some few of which hereafter followeth First one of his brethren in his prayer before the dispute prayed to God to forgive them the Athesm that were in their hearts of him and his Brethren Answer now an Athest is one that denies God and Athesm is denying of God according to common reputation Athesm is so taken so that how shall such a generation of men bring people to the knowledg of God by your Ministry or how should they ever convert people or profit them who yet in their owne hearts denyed God as the man acknowledged in his prayer before the Lord and many witnesses the poor people of England had thought that the spirit of God had been in your hearts but now we know that you deny God in your hearts and you have confessed it to you ownr shame are you Ministers of Christ and yet denyes God in your hearts and in whose hearts lodges Athesm Oh! let not people be deceived by you but repent yee that know not God but with your mouths confesse him and with your hearts do deny him Christopher Fowler also affirmed that day That the Scriptures are the Glorious everlasting Foundation of Foundations Answ. And hereby it is made manifest that he hath totolly denyed Christ and so proved with his brother confest in his prayer that indeed Athesm is in their hearts and so he hath denyed Christ whom the Scriptures say is the foundation and no other foundation can any man lay and upon him were the Saints builded in their faith and all their practices of Religion for he is the corner stone as it is written and thus he hath dishonoured Christ in setting the Scriptures above him and taking the Honnor from him and giving it to the Scriptures and I shall leave this his doctrine to be considered with a querie to these people of his Church in Reading whether he is worth hearing or giving money to for preaching that holds forth such doctrine and whether it is possible he should bring them to Christ who hath in effect denyed him to be the foundation and held forth that the Scriptures are the Glorious everlasting Foundation of Foundations much I need not say to uncover the error of such a doctrine Again he affirmed That a man at one and the self same time might be a Minister of Christ and a deceiver Answ. And here all may see the weaknesse and Ignorance of this strange paradox and indeed which is contrary to the Scriptures which saith No man can serve two maststers it s very certaine that he that serves the Divel doth not serve Christ at the same time and he that serves Christ doth not serve the Devil and so his doctrine is Anti-christan which would make people believe that though they serve the Devil yet they are the servants of God and this is as much as he hath said that one may be a Minister of Christ and yet a deceiver now a deceiver is one that followes the spirit of the Devil and a Minister of Christ is one that followes the Spirit of Christ and these two spirits are contrary and not both ruling in one man at one time but then to helpe the matter he said a man might serve Christ in office but not in love to which my answer was let him say whether he and the Priests of England did serve Christ by way of office or love both or either and I should prove the contrary but that wee prosecuted no further some other things were affirmed by him that day not now remembred He said That Christ was a sinner from this argument laid down by him all that dies are sinners Christ died therefore c. These and such things he held forth all that day besides the unsobernesse of his words and carriages towards me who called

folly and madnesse as understanding men may discern and further for him yet to raile behind our backs against us in his pulpit and to charge us as if we refused to meet him this is his hypocrisy and the deceitfulness of his heart whereby he thinks to keep the people in blindness but the light is now arising in the hearts of people whereby such deceits and deceivers are fully discovered and they cannot now be hid And though for many ages deceivers and false prophets have hid themselves under the profession of Ministers and fine names yet the day of the Lord is dawned which hath made them fully manifest and now their sheeps clothing will not hide them though they cover themselves therewith and have deceived the world thereby and these Babylons Merchants they have made great gain upon people and traded with the souls of men and souls have been murthered even for dishonest gain but the plagues of God is coming upon the earth which the Whore the false Church hath corrupted through her sorceries and witch-crafts and as she hath done unto others in causing them to drink her cup of abominations and false principles doctrines and practices which the beast and his power hath imposed upon the Nations and Nations have been made drunk thereby and in particular this C. Fowler with whom I am now dealing is made manifest to be one of these Merchants of Babylon who hath made merchandize of people for gain to himself and such are his covetous cursed practices having a heart excercised with covetousnesse and oppression as is well known in the Town of Reading as for instance First It was charged upon him and confessed by him that he sued at Law twelve poor men of Reading for the tythe of their Turneeps and with much malice and greediness did prosecute the twelve poor men and put himself and them to great charges and trouble only he confessed he took but twenty Nobles of them and thought he did favourably with them Now this was acknowledged by his own mouth which is a clear demonstration of the covetousness and oppression of this man and that he is a grinder of the faces of the poor and exceeds in unmercifulness and cruelty the very worst of the false Prophets that ever we read of in Scripture Oh! abominable practise which shames Christianity and the profession of Christ that ever such a fellow should have the name of a Gospel-Minister and that ever people should be so blind as to receive this man for a Messenger of God who hath a heart filled with such cursed g●inding practises who is in the way of Bala●●● and exceeding him in covetousness Secondly He said he did not Preach for hire but confessed that he had hire for Preaching Answ. With this kind of foolish Paradox he would deceive and blind the people for if he have hire for Preaching for sheweth a reason and it is the same he hath hire because he preacheth that is the reason wherefore he hath hire and so he is a hireling And it may easily be proved that he will not preach if he have not so much money tythes or such things and his own example before-mentioned in suing at Law twelve poor men for the very tythe of Turneeps in the garden doth demonstrate him sufficiently to be a hireling as also a third particular which is He demanded money of a certain man in Reading for marrying the said man whe●●as the man was married by another yet notwithstanding the said Fowler forced the said man to give him seven shillings and six pence because he pretended he was a man of his Parish to wit within his quarter where he seeks his gain Answ. And thus it is fully manifest more and more that he is one that seeks for his gain from his quarter and is a compleat man in the very nature and steps of the false Prophets of Israel whose example he doth follow and not the example of any of the Ministers of Jesus Christ Was not this a piece of griping covetousness to demand money of the man which he married not Oh abominable What wouldst thou have wages without any work this is a degree beyond preaching for hire to claim and receive money of a man having no manner of due nor title thereunto Well people cannot be so blind but they must needs see thy folly wickedness and covetousness Fourthly Christopher Fowler at a certain time did give a poor Minister so called five shillings and afterwards there happened to be a Collection for the poor Irish and he snatched five shillings of that money away which was gathered and said he gave five shillings awhile ago to a poor Minister This was his pretence and thus he defrauded the poor Irish people Answ. Was not this also a foul covetous practise and hypocrisie too in pretending to give a poor man some money and afterwards as it were to rob others to pay himself Here is a double iniquity and unmeasurable covetousness which the Lord will judge And the like of this manner of greediness is seldome to be found so foul and so extreme deceitful and covetous But all these things are but a further testimony of his naughtiness and this I do in order that all men may beware and take heed of the mouths of Wolves in sheeps cloathing which tears the flocks and devoures both souls and bodies of men such a one as this man with which I am now dealing let all men beware of him least they become his prey Fifthly Another covetous practise of Christopher Fowlers was he sold one Load of Straw twice and the man that bought it first did sue him at Law and it was prosecuted and Fowler was Cast to his great shame and this the people of Reading very well knows Answ. Nothing need be said as to discover the wickedness and covetousness of this practise the worst of men seldome ever is found in such a practise Is not this an unfit person to mention the Name of Christ or to take it into his month Oh deceitful man who art unfit to be called a Christian much less a Minister of Christ These and divers others such like covetous practises is C.F. highly guilty of as many good people very well knows Divers other things I could mention but these for present are sufficient for the end that they are produced which is to lay Christopher ●●●lers wic●edness upon him that he may feel the weigh● of it upon his conscience and that all sober people may be warned of such men that they have not to do with them ●●t however if Christopher Fowler shall answer my Queries propounded to him and shall seek to clear himself from what I have said he shall hear further from me however in the mean time let him stop his boasting and vaunting and vapouring Challenges till he hath answered what is charged against him in this book But and if Christopher Fowler doth go on with his railing accusations and presumptuous boasts against us then let him appoint any time that he shall please and in the Lords Power I shall ingage that he shall be met at what time he will appoint in any place in Reading Reading I do appoint for the place let him appoint what time he please for to dispute of any such thing or things as we may agree upon at our meeting and though he is unwilling to dispute in Reading yet there is no other place so suitable as that Town is for many reasons as may be shewed and I suppose justly that his unwillingness to dispute at Reading ariseth least he should be discovered among his own Hearers and therefore would evade the matter by seeming to be willing to dispute at other places which is not so suitable nor yet so reasonable but if he will at Reading let him appoint time at his pleasure and he shall be answered if God permit Now C. Fowler hold up thy hand Guilty or not Guilty whether a Minister of Christ or a Deceiver come to the Bar and receive the sentence thou that hast long been accounted by some as an Oracle thy glory is fallen and thou art brought into contempt How have they been deceived that have looked upon thee as an Oracle thy Language is sentenced to be of Babylon and the Beast and False Prophet must be taken alive and cast into the Lake of burning The Day of the Lord is come The End