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heart_n	believe_v	confess_v	salvation_n	2,765	5	7.0764	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44783	The beast that was, & is not, & yet is, looked upon: or, The bo-peeping beast pointed at: or, He that hideth himself hunted because of whom truth complaineth, and is spoken to by Pope and Prelate, by Presbyter, by Independent, by Quaker, by Baptist: together with her several answers to them all. Also one description of the beast. Also the coming forth and progress of the beast hitherto. Also an epistle to magistrates and law-givers, likewise, to take off prejudice if any be. Two epistles, one to the reader, and another to the Christian reader. VVith a true reproof to W.S. a Quaker, who in his book called The lying spirit in the mouth of the false prophet, wherein he endeavours to make men believe that he had answered H.H. his book, called The doctrine of the light within the natural man leading to eternal life, examined by Scripture-light.	Howet, Enoch.	1659 (1659)	Wing H3151; ESTC R215400	46,109	67

hath provided for me an example viz. to flee to the Authority of Fathers which though they will not clearly serve my turn yet my Rhetorick and Learning together with the help of my brother Lawyer who is my Companion in Learning and a good Orator both in Courts and Countrey yea before Princes he will plead for me The Scribes and Pharisees viz. Priests and Lawyers were ever Companions and Enemies to Christ and his poor Flock However in these two particulars my Brother Lawyer and I differ they though as Learned as I let down themselves to speak as plainly and homely as may be that the Country Juries may understand them and so do justice But I for maintaining my Livings Dignities and esteem amongst men am constrained to hide my self in the words of Art and abstruse Phrases as Divinity and Habits of Grace c. that I may be as slippery as an Eel when plain Country understanding would catch me and have a hole to creep out when the plain simple wisdom and the truth of these Nazaerites hath inclosed me The second thing wherein my Brother Lawyer and I differ They may be in their callings and Disciples of Christ too provided they be not instruments of cruelty but use honest Laws honestly as Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus was c. but I if I should be of the Sect of the Nazarites every where spoken against must lose both my Honour and Greatness what great men purchased by flattery and by silence at their vanities and all my fat Livings and let the World judge whether it were wisdom so to do 〈…〉 And the truth is though I be not altogether so honourable in name as my Mother yet I think my self stronger among Hypocrites and self-seeking Professors for by how much I am esteemed Godly by so much those are esteemed ugly that cannot joyn with me And upon this account I have more reason in the eyes of all our Fraternity that seek honour one of another to persecute any saucy Jack that upon pretence of Scripture-plainness is dare reprove us or cast contempt upon our Rhetorical Tropes or figures which are as silk Gowns to honour us before an ignorant Multitude especially if we can foi● out a little Latin which though this our learning together with Mans Ordination maketh us to stand to it that we are to be preferred before Mechanicks and so are holier then they Isa 65.5 though we be a stink in Gods Nose and a fire that burneth a● the day maketh us a sweet sent in the nose of an ignorant multitude for because we are Learned they think they may be hold to trust us and so by this very means they think they need not rave into what we say as the Bereans did but take all upon trust and so are kept ignorant and dwell at ease still And now tell me Truth if thou canst approve of these things I shall live bravely both here and hereafter Truth speaketh As I say to thy Mother Prelate so I say to thee Except thy Image or superscription be found in the Scriptures of Truth thou art but of mans invention which God hateth Isa 66.3 and also the refuge of lies which must be swept away Thy Mothers name is MYSTERY BABYLON THE GREAT THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE VVHOLE EARTH Rev. 17.1 It is notorious that she beareth her name in her forehead which proveth 1. She is ashamed of nothing 2. That every one may apparently behold her Abominations in her Forehead And now let us see how like thy Mother thou art 1. Thou and thy Mother have all one baptism which pass from one to another by the Proclamation of Princes but not by Gods word which proveth you both to be of Mans Generation and Maintenance whereas a Proclamation had power to make you both the Religious legitimate Children one of another All thy Children were made thy Mothers by Queen Maries Proclamation all thy Mothers Children were made thine by King Edward's and Queen Elizabeth's Proclamations The truth is you are of such a Brood and so neer of Kin that you cannot be converted one to another by preaching Faith Repentance and Baptism but being both of a nature and depending both upon Man a Proclamation can command the one to be a Christian Protestant upon the Papists Baptism and the other to be a Christian Papist upon the Protestants Baptism In your Infancy when you were Cozened instead of Christened as you call it you were proclaimed Regenerate and born again made a Child of God and an Inheritor of the Kingdom of Heaven when you could neither understand Doctrine with your hearts whereby Man believeth unto Righteousness nor with your Mouthes confess unto Salvation Rom 10.10 for you could not speak to confess any thing Is any of your Laws like the Law of God in this which proclaimeth Faith comes by hearing How shall they believe on whom they have not heard and how shall they hear without a Preacher The aforesaid brazen-fac'd Act standeth by thy Mothers Canon-Law and all thy oldest Priests that took Degrees in the Universitie though godly in thy esteem are sworn to observe all the Rights and Ceremonies of holy Church which Canon Law intendeth the Church of Rome then consider whose sworn servants thy priests are And now consider I pray thee whether thou hast not a brow of Brass in not being ashamed though all the world that are not Members with thee behold thy Whoredoms and thy Abominations written in thy forehead Now out with thy Learning thy Rhetorical Tropes and Figures call for thy brother Lawyer and all the power of the Magistrate and all the lustful Multitude that loveth to hear and believe lies thou hast nothing else to feed them with but what is mix'd with lies and indeed Truth would be so bitter that neither thou nor they could bear it if you did not sweeten it or rather fit it to your palate with lies and see if they all can cover from reproof out of Gods word by the mouth of poor mechanick despised Christ and his poor mechanick despised Apostles and Disciples Also thou forcest thy maintenance by mans Law from those that thou sowest no spiritual seed in their hearts if there were spiritual things betwixt Priest and People it would make such a product of love that the Royal Law of Heaven Christs Church Saints Angels Christ and God the Father as would procure the Priests maintenance from their Converts they need not go to mans Law to get it if thou hadst some few Converts Thou dost like him that soweth two or three Lands in a field onely and yet challengeth the whole field though there be hundreds of Lands upon which none of thy seed is sown and suest and undoest thy poor neighbours if they will not yeild thee their increase out of the whole field Dost thou look for fruit when all thy seed is rotten under the Clods and bringeth up none Is not this thy Mothers name

in whom the Spirit of God doth or shall breath being a truth-evidencing and forceable constraint and cannot stay for leave of Election by man to utter it self which indeed is a gift of God or Pastoral Spirit as Marriage is another qualification wherein the spirit of government must appear fruitful both in wife and children and that from conjugal and natural love to the Yoak fellow and procreated in which affections Faith appeareth and for want of them infidelity 1 Tim. 5 8. so that children cannot be wanting to a Bishop in whose government the Royal Law Love of Gods Church is resembled Marriage being the Type of Christ and his Church and it is certain that a batchelor or one that hath no children or one whose wife and children are not qualified according to the word cannot be chosen except man will set his May-be against Gods Must-be And so I leave thee Independant warning thee to take the counsel of Christ to the Angel of the Church of Laodicea Rev. 3.17 A Speech that may be aptly spoken by these Quakers who hold forth a stupifying Spirit denying plain Truth and right Reason under the Notion of a higher Mystery and Spirit then plain Scripture and right Reason will admit of which plain Scripture they call Letter and right Reason they call Flesh in contempt notwithstanding that the Spirit of God is promised to be poured into him that turneth at Gods Reproof Prov. 1.23 which Reproof convinceth Reason or else man could not return into Reason among the rest of the Souls Members the Spirit was poured and is wrought upon to order Mans Affairs by Judgement and doth receive wise Counsels when the man of Understanding attaineth to them Prov. 1.5 Truth though we may not talk with thee we are not capable to receive directions by any that is call'd by thy name nor by the writings called Scriptures of Truth for what directions soever we have from without can be but mans teachings and the natural man understandeth not the things of God we are taught by the Light within we are to stand in the will of God and observe the movings and commands of his Spirit Truth speaketh * 〈…〉 resembling God's people 〈◊〉 great humility Psal 17. ●1 As in the vision of Esdras the Eagles heads slept until her Feathers had reigned as in 2 Esd 12 25. These are they that shall accomplish his wickedness and finish his last end even so in Babylon the great the Mother of Harlots and abominations of the whole earth the heads and subtilest and strongest of her delusions she hath kept until her last end which I hope is approaching that thou who wouldst not receive the Truth in the love thereof mightst not hear the reproof of thy walking in false forms any longer in so much that thou couldst not deny that if forms must be owned thou must come out of them and come into the form of godliness Satan hath now cozened thee another way and thy AS GOD he hath perswaded thee that all forms must be cast off and the Law of the Spirit of Life entertained O cunning and subtile but false delusions the words of the Prophets and the Commandment of the Apostles were set in opposition formerly to lusts 2 Pet. 3.1 2. but never to the way of Righteousness by any but these last members of Babylon Peter in Chap. 2. 1. 2. hath these words And many shall follow their pernitious wayes by reason of whom the way of Truth shall be evil spoken of Wherein we may perfectly see that their wayes and the wayes of Truth stands in flat opposition one to another Also in the first verse it is testified that to bring in these damnable heresies is to deny the Lord that bought them but he himself is so far from that opinion in verse 21. of the said Chapter that he chargeth the way of Righteousness and the holy commandments as the very Centre from which Apostates fall so that you may behold clearly that it is not a Righteousness they are charged for falling from for that is the secret issues which is betwixt God and the heart but the way of Righteousness which is visible to the understanding of Man Many of their Leaders whilst they were able to hold the Antichristian form they were in the esteem of godly Priests whose infants Baptism and learned specious Pastoral care so much applauded by wise sober rich silken-coated Professors then I say not being able to resist the clear evidence that the true form of Godliness hath because they did not love to be disquieted out of the woman Jezabels bed Rov 2.22 where they lay in pleasure of imagined Godliness amongst a company of wise sober Professors they were then so far from receiving the love of the truth that they grew into disquietness of mind and hatred of that form of Godliness that Christ and His Apostles and their Disciples walked in for many years even till the time that Antichrist grew popular in so high a measure Satan being ready with this Temptation that they struck hands with this strong delusion and so believed the lies thereof 2 Thes 2.11 that they cryed down all forms that they might be shut of yea and avenged of that form the thoughts whereof so much troubled them if they knew their own hearts they would ingeniously confess this Therefore whosoever desireth further satisfaction in this matter is referred to a Book that the Author hath written called The Doctrine of the Light within the natural man leading to eternal Life examined by Scripture Light Baptist speaketh The Spirit of God having instructed me by the Scripture I fell into a course of reasoning which though Mystery Babylon cryeth down in this her last dispensation being the very thing that Isaiah cryeth up and reproveth the neglect of Isa 44. on this manner There is no word for baptizing Infants in Scripture not no regular account from which that invention can arise it is the very door that the god of this world makes all this part of the world called Christendom of one supposed Faith by leaving no man at liberty to chuse his Religion but maketh the instruments of his generation to be that which giveth him right to the Instruments of his Regeneration and as for the new birth he will have his to presume that from imagination and all this to be done when the party supposed to be baptized could neither assent by understanding to what was done nor dissent by doing any thing but crying which he would have done if they had gone about to kill him as to have christened him as they call it Also herein those err that have schism'd from Popery and Prelacy but hold their baptism of Infants saying That Infants of godly Parents may be baptized by which words they acknowledge in effect that the fleshly copulation of godly Parents giveth right to the children of their natural Body to be instruments of Regeneration so that it must needs follow that