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A44228	The harlots vail removed, and her lying refuge swept away by the power of truth, with which she was smitten and wounded being an answer to a book published in the name of about 60 persons of the Independent-Baptized, and mingled peo[ple] in the midst of Babylon, intit'led The church of Christ in Bristol recovering her vail ... : likewise an answer to Thomas Ewins his word, in the close of the said book, in which he acknowledgeth himself no minister ... : also a short rebuke of Ralph Farmer, for lying and dissembling in the case of constant Jessops removing from the parish of Nicholas in the city of Bristol ... : to which are added a few words manifesting the woful fall, and degenerated condition of Richard Fowler ... / by Dennis Hollister.	Hollister, Dennis, d. 1676?	1658 (1658)	Wing H2507; ESTC R13577	111,205	90

I perceive there is something in what I writ that hath discovered his deceit and he is much hurt that his works of darkness are laid open Surely there is an arrow that hath reacht the heart of the Kings enemie he saith I writ a Letter to him about a year ago and now published it to the world in such a subtile manner as that he who reads my title page would verily believe he were some dreadful Persecutor Alas poor man how is he handled and troubled that his works of darkness are made manifest and his skirts discovered Oh! Had the deceit been hid and the wicked persecuting spirit been covered he would have born it but to have it published that Passers by behold and take notice of it this he likes not but is sorely troubled and wounded at it And did he not on this consideration lest deceit should be made manifest conceal the answers to the Antiquaeries but suffered them to be printed long time after he received the answers as if no answer at all had been given to them Poor blind man he is of a large principle and can bear with those that think vain traditions sufficient and not differ from those that are thorough paced in other things But to be plainly and truly dealt withal to have the deeds of darkness reproved and manifested not to daub not to sow pillows not to cry peace to them that go on in their imaginations But to reprove sharply to lay open the skirts of the Whore to cry aloud and not to spare but declare against transgression and sin and to reprove it in the gate O this is accompted harsh the false Prophet cannot endure it it disturbs his peace This with him is not modest but Ralph Farmer who he confesseth jerks jeers quibbles and scoffs and utters such words as he look upon to be the fruits of a frothy brain and the product of a spleenish temper which he saith might better become the mouth of a Stage-player then the pen of a Minister is more modest then I. But how so Why he doth not name me one may read his words and yet not know whom he meaneth but saith he you have named me ye have laid me open ye have published only name in your Frontispiece which whoso reads will think I a 〈◊〉 a Persecutor Oh! how is he troubled at this that deceit and wickednesse should be brought to day-light and that they that go about to hide their work in the dark should be laid open And this was the condition of his generation all along they could not endure to have their deeds discovered and therefore it was that the servants of God who were sent to bear witness against them found such hard and cruel measure which he is now filling up who have all one purse he hath cast in his lot amongst them and if his councel be taken one must to the whip and another to the prison as he saith for disturbing him and hath published it to his own shame and what disturbs him he hath manifested but is not he an evil doer that hates the light and will not bring his deeds to it to be tryed least the light should reprove him but he is no Preacher of the light To which I say the day hath manifested him and others and no veil nor deceitful covering can any longer hide them from the manifestation of the light though they can bear with one another even in those things which his own words bespeak quite contrary and not differ yet they who fear the Lord cannot join with you but as the Lord calls them to it must bear witness against you all and the Lord is now gathering his people from amongst you and he is your friend that deals plainly with you and tells you the truth though ye may account me your enemy for so doing and say I have acted like Judas But what have I done Why published your deceit openly and discovered the skirts of the Whore and now her children bestir them to recover her veil but all in vain for all your veils of deceit must be pluckt off and naked must ye be and open rebuke is better then secret love and those that deal uprightly cannot cry peace to the wicked And seriously did I write and was not immodest towards him nor you though ye have all vented out your selves against me and bid●ne be ashamed and confounded but neither ashamed nor confounded am I nor shall I be for bearing witness to the truth against all your deceit and with Ralph Farmer may Thomas Ewins be yoked or coupled for he confesseth R. F. gave him the right hand of fellowship and in his steps is he found he in his light and the other in his the one straight in his principles and the other large in his yet in this ye differ not Ralph Farmer denies the light and speaks and writes against it which none of the Prophets Apostles or holy men of God ever did but it was their glory even that which was prepared before the face of all people a light to lighten the Gentiles and so doth Thomas Ewins Ralph Farmer is found among that generation that preach for hire and devine for money and so is Thomas Ewins Ralph Farmer stands praying in the Synagogues which some call a Church hath the chief place in the Assembly and is called of men Master and so it is with Thomas Ewins some of those that come to bear witness against Ralph Farmer are imprisoned sent to Bridewel and cruelly whipt and many strips laid upon them being the same usage that the Messengers and witnesses of God in former ages received from the adulterous and wicked generation of ignorant soul-murthering Teachers Rulers and persecutors and one of those that came to bear witness against Thomas Ewins he confesseth is now in prison and he gives his judgement against another that it was fitter such an idle Huswife were sent to Bridewell and whipt c. But saith Thomas Ewins I did it but once upon which you conclude I am no Minister of the Gospel but a persecutor of the truth I answer And well I may for he that is a persecutor of the truth is no Preacher of the Gospel and he that lusts after a thing hath committed the thing in his heart and out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh and a clear fountain sendeth not forth such filthy stuff but by such fruits is the devouring wolfe known And for that that he pleads it was but once I say Cain killed his brother but once Herod slew the innocent children but once and Judas betrayed his Master but once and yet sin did so lye at their doors that the just judgements and vengeance of the Lord they could not escape Again Ralph Farmer speaks and writes against those people called Quakers whom he revile slanders and belies and seeks occasion to speak evil of them as was the manner of blood-thirsty persecutors and Thomas Ewins

deceit I call a testifying from the Lord And it 's apparent it reacht him and his bottome was stirred up to give forth such filthy unsavoury words more like a persecuter then a Minister of Christ so that he may well blush to write his own folly and confusion for me his words reach not But he would devise a thing of his own and make a little Logick as he calls it to shew his skill and to evade the thing in hand And when he hath uttered his abhominable lyes asks is this good Logick I say it is his own and not being good he may be ashamed of it for they that read his lines may read his folly He saith in my letter I endeavour to parallel her with Paul and her sufferings with Pauls sufferings him with Pauls persecutors All which is so notoriously false and from the father of lyes that were he not past feeling a man would marvail how without blushing he can write such plain lyes and untruths when nothing like such a thing appears in my letter to him as the Reader may see In which letter I do not so much as once mention her name much lesse do I endeavour to parallel her with Paul or her sufferings with Pauls sufferings But that which I did was to reprove Thomas Ewins for his unsavoury words and practices in opposing the truth and them that come to witnesse against his deceit whom he threatned with Bridewell with whipping c. And by his fruits I tryed him according to the Scriptures found him out of the practice of the true Ministers of Christ and directly in the steps and practices of the enemies of Christ and his Gospel and therefore plainly told him it was the Devill that cast the Saints into prison It was wretched Pilate that scourged Jesus It was those Masters whose gain came in by divination joyning with the rude multitude that carryed Paul and Silas before the Magistrates and caused them to be beaten and cast into prison It was Jesus that told his Disciples they must be so used by the world the generation of vipers c. It was Paul the able Minister of the Spirit and not of the Letter that proved himselfe the Minister of God in patience in tumults in stripes in imprisonments c. But it was Thomas Ewins a Minister of the letter and not of the Spirit that is threatning the servants of God witnesses of Jesus with stripes with whips with Bridewel Now let all that read but honestly consider hovv from these expressions and the like a man vvho hath any fear of God vvithin him can be so knovvingly wicked as to affirme in print that I endeavour to compare her with Paul and her sufferings with his And hovv vvofully it is like by vvicked art he can corrupt the Scriptures and bely the Prophets and Apostles and holy men of God that gave them forth vvho are deceased that dares to affirme things so directly false and untrue as done and published by a man vvhom he knovvs to be yet alive and able enough to see and discover his vvickednesse And hovv blinde and like to fall into the ditch are all those that vvill believe or receive for truth all that comes from so false a speaker vvho I might easily prove is far out of Pauls condition vvho vvas a Minister of Christ and Preacher of the Gospel and called to the vvork But Thomas Ewins hath denyed that he is a Minister either called constituted or ordained And therefore is he no Preacher of the Gospel Paul vvas sent to turn the Gentiles from darknesse to the light But Thomas Ewins saith to bid people turn to the light vvithin is to cause them to cease from believing in the person of Christ And he is no Preacher of that namely to bid people turn to the light Therefore is he no Preacher of the Gospel Again Paul and the Ministers of Christ in meeknesse instructed those vvhich opposed themselves But Thomas Ewins vvhen one came to oppose him in his deceit said It were fitter such an idle huswife were whipt and sent to Bridewell Paul vvent into the Temple and Synagogues to declare against them that held up the Idols Temple and shadovvs from vvhence he vvas haled out imprisoned and abused But Thomas Ewins stands up in the chiefe place of the assembly and Pharisee like he stands praying in the Idols Temple and some that bear vvitnesse against him he threatneth vvith vvhips and Bridevvel and some are haled out and imprisoned for he confesseth pag. 58. in the margin that one is novv imprisoned for disturbing him Therefore Thomas Ewins and Paul are not alike Again Paul vvas not sent to baptize but to preach the Gospel and to turn to the light But Thomas Ewins doth either baptize as he calls it that is to say wash the outside of the people in brooks and rivers when the inside is full of hypocrisie deceit and wickedness not being sent or else he was sent to do it and from the light doth hee turn And of that Gospel is he no Preacher therefore no preacher of that Gospel which Paul preached Again it is the work of the Devil the god of the World to blind the minds of those that belive not in the light lest the light of the glorious Gospel of Christ should shine unto them and into their hearts to give the knowledge of the glory of God And Thomas Ewins is no Preacher of the light but lest the light which God commanded to shine out of darkness should shine into peoples hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ he labours hard to blind their minds with prejudice against the light telling them it is pernicious doctrine they that preach it shut up the Kingdom and take people from believing in the person of Christ Therefore is Thomas Ewins a Minister of Satan and a Co-worker with the Devil in blinding peoples minds and turning them from the light And now all this being considered will it be unequal for me to couple him with Ralph Farmer though he would couple me with him and say he wondred that I and they who are so different in other things can all agree to cast stones at him which is a lye for I joined not with Ralph Farmer to cast stones at him whose blood-thirsty spirit I do deny and with it have I no union but in soberness and seriousness I write the truth concerning him But he asketh me if I be not joined a brother in bitterness with him that is to say R. F. I answer nay I am no brother in bitterness with him but all brotherhood and affinity with that bitter envious bloody persecuting spirit with which ye both are acted and ruled I do utterly renounce and disclaim who in my measure have unity with that meek and gentle spirit which with God is of great price and therefore hated and persecuted by Satans instruments but

abide in its paths And in your own darknesse are joyned every one against the servants of God who bid turn to the light which is pure which lighteth every man that cometh into the world which is no pernitious but sound Doctrine for if it be good to watch and good to walk in the true light then it is good to turn men to that light And if the Lord would have all men to come to the knowledge of the truth then it is good that all men be turned to the light which shines in the heart to give the knowledge of it in the sace of Christ and to bid people to take heed to that light to walk in that light and believe in the light which lighteth every man that is sound doctrine and those that love not the light nor walk in the light nor believe in the light are left without excuse and the light come is their condemnation and by the light are they already condemned who believe not in the light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world and whatsoever the false Prophets and Ministers of unrighteousness say to the contrary is of little weight Again Robert Sympson in pag. 33. declares that that light which is in me and in all men if not put out would tell me that that thing which he there asserts is true Now here is light confest to be in me and in all men and that light to be in all men which is in me and the Scripture saith that was the true light which lighteth every man which should answer that which he affirms and minds to be truth if not put out And if so then that is a good Ministry which opens blind eyes and turns from darkness to light Then it being so what have those servants of the Lord done for which thou so highly chargest them who are sent of the Lord to bear witness of his name and to declare his truth and bids take heed to the true light and turns to it to the opening of the blind eyes that people may see the way to everlasting life and have their feet guided in the way of peace with whom the Lord of a truth is though Thomas Ewins with the rest of the deceitful workers and Ministers of Satan who love darkness and hate the light do reproach and belye them he uttering his confusion and envy against the innocent telling the world the Quakers as he calls them have done such mischief and their doctrine is pernicious they bid all men turn to the light thereby to draw them from believing in the person of Christ and he is no Preacher of that thing they call Gospel and calls them miserable deluded people Oh vain man who boastest thy self in thine evil way how is night come upon thee and darkness overshadoweth thee And how art thou reeling and staggering like a drunken man who hast spoken and written so of the light thy self as is before mentioned yet art not ashamed to belie and reproach the servants of the living God as thou hast done for labouring to turn people from darknes to the light who having received a Ministery from the Lord as all the Ministers of Christ did not from men as the false Apostles and deceitful workers and Ministers of Satan did they labour not accompting their liberties nor lives dear unto them so that they may finish their course with joy and the Ministry which of the Lord Jesus they have received and therfore in much patience in afflictions in necessities in distresses in stripes in imprisonments in tumults in labours by knowledge by long suffering by kindness by the holy Ghost by love unfeigned by the Word of truth by the power of God by the armour of righteousness by honour and dishonour by evil report and good report as deceivers and yet true c. do they approve themselves the Ministers of Christ and witnessed it is in the consciences of men And Thomas Ewins words being honestly considered with what is replyed thereunto may not his own sayings be justly turned upon his head pag. 49. may he not blush to speak or write such things Will Jehovah the great and glorious God ever own such railings and revilings to which I add lying and deceiving to be a testifying from him Or will he ever justifie him in what he hath written and published Oh! be ashamed and confounded poor deluded man for how hath he manifested himself a blind guide They that is the Anabaptists think he is too large in his principles and he thinks them too straight in theirs and yet they do not differ but can bear with each other in love Truly the Devil may love his own work which is to lead people in darkness and blindness and there have his instruments fellowship But will any man that fears God and weighs his words believe or own him in what he saith How can it be that they should think one thing and he another he have large principles and they streight they in their light and he in his and yet not differ And may not he be justly reproved as well as the Authour of Satan enthroned in his Chair of Pestilence in that they both agree to charge mischief done in Bristol on those called Quakers And Tho. Ewins is in that joyned with R. F. one walking in his light and the other in his yet they differ not but are both opposers of the true light and the children thereof who in the same do walk as were their fathers in all generations But in it are they both discovered to be out of the right way and the children of light who walk in the light stand witnesses for the Lord against them both and that principle of darknesse blindenesse and deceit in which they walk and from which their corrupted works of reviling and persecuting the innocent without a cause proceeds But the day is come in which the Lord is gathering his people from such to give T. E. his own words an ignorant ungodly lazy proud scandalous soul-murdering ministry who deny the light and with the God of the World are joyned to blinde the eyes of peoples mindes least the light of the glorious Gospel should shine unto them I say least the light which God commands to shine out of darknesse should shine into the heart to give the knowledge of the glory of God of which light and no other the servants of God declare and your folly is manifesting apace glory to the Lord for evermore for although he that preacheth the Gospel witnesseth the new covenant where the law is written in the heart and the spirit put into the inward parts and although the scripture witnesseth that the law is light and written in the heart and that the word is within in the heart and in the mouth Prov. 6.23 Rom. 10.8 Deut. 30.14 the anointing which is true and is no lye and teacheth all things so that the saints need no other teacher abideth with in the

but why doth he call it his Lecture but because for hire he preacheth it and so the hire of about 24 l. a year being his he calls it his Lecture But was it not good counsel she gave the people namely to beware of him that by him they might not be deceived Let the Reader but consider and justly weigh what himself gives forth from pag. 51. to pag. 55. and he may easily see how needful and necessary it was for her that knew him well to give such warning being thereunto moved for if a man will take upon him to be a Preacher and a leader of others who hath not received the Spirit of God to open and reveal the mysteries of the kingdom of God nor to comfort refresh drooping souls nor to strengthen and encourage them with boldness to do and suffer for God to purge purifie cleanse sanctifie and make them holy and fruitful and grow in grace and fill them with meekness and love and make them spiritual and unite them together and to adorn them with spiritual gifts and grace nor to fill them with a spirit of faith and prayer yea if he hath not received that spirit without which he can do nothing well how exceeding needful is it that people be warned thereof and how great is the love of the Lord in giving them warning in time for what can any soul receive from such a blind unholy unsanctified Ministry that can do nothing well except it be by it to be led into the ditch and caused to wander in the dark and blind paths of deceit and delusion towards death and destruction which is your own words to the Reader And if Thomas Ewins be not the man whose condition this is and hath published himself so under his own hand let the sober Reader judg and so Mary Prince is clear of the blood of them that received not warning and Thomas Ewins his accusations turn heavily on his own head but her they cannot reach who hath delivered her own soul by giving them warning And whereas he saith I tell in my Letter I was warned from invisible lights to beware of him and that by visible light he discerned his speaking was but little acceptable to me and others after he began to oppose though before he was the excellentest man that ever I met with I say what high and excellent thoughts he had of himself may be perceived and because he accounted himself so excellent 't is like he perswades himself that I accounted him so too in which he is mistaken for I was so far from it that himself declares that his speaking had so little acceptation with me and others that we were observed often to go out of the meeting when he was to speak which is an absolute lye too though by reason of his flattering daubing and deceit there might be cause enough and grief it is to see men of corrupt minds to oppose the truth And for several years his preaching and devining to me appeared so dry and empty like other of the worlds Teachers that is was truly a grief and burthen to me to sit under it And for what he speaks of my saying I was warned from invisible lights to beware of him it is a visible lye in which he is too much exercised and no such word was published by me but that I was long since warned from invisible sights or manifestations to beware of him is true something of whose woful condition was then manifested and may be accomplished towards which he hastens apace But his enmity and hatred against the light which is the glory of Gods Israel is such that he cannot but belye it And to him I say that which God hath prepared before the face of all people a light to lighten the Gentiles hath discovered and manifested him no Preacher nor Minister of Christ but a persecutor of the life and power of God And in the day of his distress and anguish which is coming from afar in which the men of war shall not find their hands but weep bitterly in which the strong shall be as tow and all hands be weak and all knees be feeble and all faces gather paleness in which our God shall roar out of Sion and utter his terrible voice from his holy Temple before which all the earth shall tremble in which the Lords salvation shall be manifested for his people in the destruction of all his enemies I say in that day which is at hand and as a destruction from the Almighty cometh shall he see and know that by the same spirit of Prophesie which was of old in the Prophets and holy men and promised in this day to be poured out upon sons and daughters is hi● condition seen and known and of it hath he been truly warned And that it is not for nought that the Lord hath sent his servants in his dread and power to warn the wicked though they turn not from their wicked wayes And also that it is not for nought that those servants of the Lord that stands in his counsel and receive his will from whom God hides not the things he is about to do in the world have not loved their lives unto the death but given their backs to the smiters and their cheeks to them that pull of the hair nor hid themselves from shame and suffering for their reward is before them and their God is with them whose acceptable day to them is manifested though the Aegyptians cannot see it glory to his name for evermore And whereas he tells of his success and prosperousness in his work and the large room he hath got in the peoples hearts since I left him and the use he is of to the desolate Church I say in his work of deceiving souls doth he prosper among you more then whilst I was there to withstand his daubing work who now leads captive a company of silly people laden with sins and lusts enough who hath none to withstand him or tell how long and woe for you was the day in which the Lord left you to such a guide in whose hearts that which makes desolate hath room enough and is of use to lead on towards perdition which is the work of that which is neither called constituted nor ordained to minister for God And now Thomas Ewins whereas in thy conclusion thou sayest thou expectest many sharp arrows of bitter words to be shot at thee both by me and others and that thou matterest it not much having written in plainness words of truth and soberness rather for vindication of the truth then of thy self c. I say Thou hast sorely mist in both and hast written lyes falshood and confusion as is plainly proved to thy own shame and for it must thou come to judgement and no veil of deceit can hide or cover thee And that which I do is plainly to lay it open and manifest it that thou mayest blush and be asha●ed without shooting