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A92204	The fiery change: or, Almighty God, his melting and refining of his people, purging out their drosse and drossy metals, making them like unto himself and to his Son who is the pure Word. Wherein is discovered, by the comparison of metals, how the visible church is corrupted, consisting of men of all degrees and conditions and how God hath begun to refine them: which have past in the world a long time for good metal: but now is discovering by fire. / By Robert Read.	Read, Robert, fl. 1653-1656.	1656 (1656)	Wing R440; Thomason E899_3; ESTC R206741	92,260	122

being of drossy earthy substances and qualities that are not fit for his service that will be served with Gold and Silver how then can these metalls be melted and purified and be made fit vessels for the Lord They cannot melt themselves neither is it in the power of one to melt another no more can man be humbled mollified or be made capable tractable or vertible of himself by himself or by any other man bur onely by the Lord himself who saith I will melt them Behold then I say the goodnesse mercy and love of God that doth such great things for us as to melt us himself we are still in his hands we cannot do amisse no hurt shall come to us we have his presence his love his bounty although in the Furnace he owns us he will not depart from us what greater love then this to be with us when we have most need when we have the bitter cup presented to us then then is our sanctification neer then the Lord is making of us like to Himself and like to his Word to be righteous as he is righteous pure as he is pure Therefore those that have gone through this fire and have been melted humbled broken and refined sound fort the praises of God and declare as David did what the Lord hath done for your soules how he hath severed and separated you from the world and hath made you fit to have fellowship with the Father and with the Son which is a mystery to the World 1 John 1.3 and to those that have not past from death to life that have not past through the fire and known the indignation of the Lord but liveth in the vanity of their mindes serving their lusts cohering to the corrupt formes fashions and customes of the world which have no life in them but have the issues of death proceeding from a raw earthy drossy unmelted and unpurified root holding and continuing in it self no true peace nor joy but what nature or art hath Let the people who have been dead and are now alive that were darknesse and are now light in the Lord that are made conformable to the Death and Resurrection of Christ being dead to all sin and alive to all Grace who love not the world nor the things of the world but have attained the Kingdom of Grace Love Joy and Peace and have communion with their God have a reciprocall and correspondent love to God and to their brethren and eccho back everlasting thanks and praises to their God who hath freely communicated of himself unto them and hath made them as kings and priests who have not onely the fruits and effects of peace but peace it self Heb. 7.2 Ephes 2.14 Col. 1.27 for Christ in them the hope of glory he is their eternall Peace and their everlasting Light which proceeded from that fire in which they were melted and purified which hath consumed in them all their drosse and all manner of carnall lust concupiscence and self wisdom all righteousnesse invention and imagination that was in the will and carnall minde that led them into errour imitation and separation from the pure truth that comes from God the Fountain of all Truth and the very essence of all true religion and of all righteous living being derived from him and to be yeelded up to him with a pure conscience being divided and severed from the world which savours not of the things of God Eighthly and lastly The end They shall know that the Lord hath done it in his wrath in his indignation What my people Israel are they such abominable sinners as to commit such grosse sins blood-shed idolatry oppression disobedience uncharitablenesse covetousnesse and fornication I have great indignation against my people for these their great sins you may think that you are still in my favour and because your secret hiding of your sins makes the lesse cry among men you think by my silence that I am like unto you But I will reprove you and set your sins in order before you Psal 50.21 you shall know that I am angry and wrathfull against you you may apprehend in your carnall wisdoms and understandings that I still love you but you shall feel my fury I will melt you and then you shall know wherefore because you transgressed against me The Lord in the sixteenth of Ezekiel speaks much of his people how they were and what he did for them Ezek. 16. and what their behaviour was vers 48. As I live saith the Lord God Sodom thy sister hath not done neither she nor her daughters as thou hast done and thy daughters After many threats and menaces the Lord still owns them and in vers 62. saith that he will establish his covenant with them and they shall know that he is the Lord. The Lord here doth tell them that when he hath melted them they shall know that it is the Lord hath done it in his wrath they shall not say This fiery change came upon them by chance or fortune or out of the dust or by the transactions of differences that is among the Nations of the world or through the envie and malice of men against them and so blame the instruments as the ignorant world doth but they shall know that it is he that doth it and by the power of his arm and in his wrath See here and take notice of Gods love and mercy in the midst of judgement although he be angry and full of wrath yet he will not destroy his people in the midst of judgement he remembereth mercy Psal 83.3 that what he doth bring upon them is to change them not to confound them it is to purifie not to consume them it is that they may know the Lord as in many places in Isaiah Jeremiah and Ezekiel of their prophecies you shall find that after judgements denounced it is said And they shall know that I am the Lord. The knowledge of God is that that the world is not acquainted with although they talk much of it they have none of it Hos 4.1 God complains by his Prophet Hosea that there was no knowledge of him in the Land and that his people were destroyed for want of knowledge vers 6. We are Heathens by nature and by profession we declare it for we professe outwardly what is not inwardly It is the inward living the life of grace that makes us Christians to be ingrafted into Christ truly to be as the branches to the Vine to have experience of Gods mercy and love to us to know God by our acquaintance and fellowship with him is to know him aright as Christians not as the world that sayes they are Christians and know God no otherwise but as a dreadfull Judge by the flashings that they have in their mindes living in disobedience to the light and every thing that they do in profession is heavie irksome and burdensome to them they worship God because of his great power

The Fiery Change OR ALMIGHTY GOD His Melting and Refining of his people purging out their drosse and drossy Metals making them like unto Himself and to his Son who is the pure Word Wherein is discovered by the comparison of Metals how the visible Church is corrupted consisting of men of all degrees and conditions and how God hath begun to Refine them Which have past in the world a long time for good Metal But now is discovering by fire By Robert Read When the Lord shall purge the blood of Jerusalem out of the midst thereof by the Spirit of Judgement and the Spirit of Burning Isaiah 4.4 Every mans work shall be made manifest for the day shall declare it because it shall be revealed by the fire and the fire shall try every mans work of what sort it is 1 Cor. 3.13 For even Our God is a consuming fire Heb. 12.29 LONDON Printed for the Author and are to be sold by Giles Calvert at the Black Spread-Eagle at the West end of Pauls and by Richard Moone at the Seven Stars in Pauls Church-yard neer the great North door 1656. To the right Christian Reader MAny writings have been of late in these distempered times printed published which have proceeded from the several authors desires to have all men to agree unto them which have like as streams of water run to and fro these Nations Had they come from the pure fountain there would not have been such difference but issuing from the dirty miry and dreggy puddles of art wit humane invention together with corrupt learning and imagination wherein hath been seen much Pride Passion Avarice Ambition Novelty and self conceit it cannot be otherwise but that instead of being medicinall as the pure word is those writings have proved to be killing and destructive True it is where prevaricate and prejudiciall complaints are made out of the carnall and sinister ends of vain men there can be no remedy or relief to their satisfaction But where complaints are from just discoveries of God there is a power goes along to remedy that that is is complained of Some would have the whole Orbe guided after one manner some after an other manner each man seeking chiefly his own honour interest and profit and what is corruptly seen by them to be good that they desire to be done and conclude all to be evil that seemeth against their Tenents Whence it comes to passe that they revile and persecute that truth and that good thing they see not which others purely see and do declare dealing with many as Balaam did with his Asse beating him because he stopt and would not carry him along the way where he was going contrary to the Word of God the Asse saw an Angel with his sword drawn but Balaam saw not the Angel It is even so that many who are accounted Asses Idiots see the Lord makes them see and complain against that that many wise and learned men of the world do not see for the wisdom of the world cannot see nor know God they see no Babylon but what is against their jugdement no Antichrist but that of Rome no Whore but what keeps not correspondency with the visible Church no Beast but onely the poor profane and breaker of the Civill Law They see not the impure purity the dissembled Christianity the unsavory Salt the covnterfet Diamond the drossy silver But think that the late brustring of their own Garments to be the Garment of Christ the new guilding of their base mettle to be very gold that they are sufficiently changed because Baptized and Civilized that they know the Lord if they can tell the report that they have heard of him and know themselves if they can say they are sinners Here Antichrist in the mystery exalteth himself against Christ in the mystery and persecuteth him laying stumbling blocks before the people of God loving the wages of unrighteousnesse more then the hidden treasure The consideration of this hath together with the great fire that is kindled by providence set more pens to work for they that bear good will to Sion cannot for its sake hold their peace but must declare the things that they have heard and seen and what will shortly be Even the fall of Babylon and the destruction of the great Whore which hath been spoken of by the Prophets by riddles and comparisons so twisted that the Clergy could not undoe as also the new Jerusalem coming down from God out of heaven Christs finall conquest and exaltation over sin death and hell the Saints spiritually and most purely refined purified and sublimed from sinfull and carnall forms and will-worship Were it not that that impurity lodgeth with purity and Antichrist found to be in the seat of Christ there would not have been such a fiery contention but when curing compositions are found to be destroying potions if vessels of truth and simplicity are changed to lies and formality what lamentation may be taken up that our guides and our counsellours are fallen in their wisdom Surely the Lord is departed from his people But thanks be to God there is a still and a soft voice that rendeth the Mountains shakes the Rocks divideth the waters and expelleth darknesse apace that true Religion and Righteousnesse that the enemies thereof or rather the seeming friends of it would extinguish and bury now beginneth to get rooting and to grow from dry Bones to an exceeding great Army Should any one then be silent whom the Lord biddeth to speak waiting on the Learned the Aged and the Honourable men to speak fearing the revilings of the Disputer and Opposer No although he be the least and the worst of his Fathers house being thereunto appointed and enabled he must do his duty knowing that the Lord is risen and doth great things by small and contemptible meanes and that out of the mouthes of babes and sucklings he ordaineth strength Upon this account was the ensuing matter presented to me by that Imperiall hand which swaieth all having no power to wave the medling with this subject that tendeth to the discoveries of a pure trim'd Whore which gloriously glittereth like the Sun that speaketh so much of righteousnesse and integrity that none without high presumption and very great affront dareth to question especially without a learned tongue and a gilded pen. What here is spoken is not to flatter any neither is it unjustly to censure but to advise from the Lord the painted face to brinish teares sad cheeks the eleoquent and Oratory tongue to silence in the glory of the flesh the raking and greedy hand to Charity Liberality and Sobriety the impotent and lame feet to walk according to their stage and strength yea and the whole man to his purging and refining change Perhaps some may ask whether this fiery Change shal be before the final Consumption of the whole world having been taught that it is not till then Most certain it is before Have you heard and

that hate you and per●ecute you and they neither blesse nor pray except they pray to have mi chief fall upon such as would shew them their blind●nesse and hypocrisie which they do discover by their converse with the poor for what is said unto the poor weak and ignorant by them is voted for good commended and applauded they speak well of them that know them not for many do live by the rule of custome and so the Minister is honoured more out of ignorance and custome or for some preingagements then any other way else but forsowing of pillowes under the●e bowes of men of higher degree Ezek. 22.28 Jer. 6.14 8 11 1 Thes 5.3 and speaking peace when they have no warrant from the Lord this makes the rich worldling also to hold with them and plead for them 3 Furthermore besides Tin mixing with metals it doth also beautifie other metalls it doth put a fairer glosse and luster upon metals then they have of themselves it becomes as a coat or a cloake on them as for example Tin covering brasse makes it very like Silver as that we call Alkemy how many have been deceived by this sort of contrived metals in vessels instruments and in coine taking it for good Silver when being Brasse it hath onely a coat of Tin upon it Thus doth the Clergy they put another hue and countenance upon the Magistracy then they have of themselves their associating with them their frequent conversing with them their discoursing with them and their advizing and counselling of them makes the world seeing their familiarity to judge them to be as they are which suppose to be the pure metall of Silver and so as in their judgement they conceive well of the Minister so do they of the men in Authority because are together often in converse and in discourse Thus the world comes to be deceived to build their confidence upon hay and stubble which the fire will consume although the praise the minister giveth makes the party the more in respect it is but of the men of the world but the Almighty God knoweth the heart and that one doth spoil and corrupt the other Esa 5.20 for the Ministers as well as the old false prophets are apt to call evil good and good evill and so there is a wo pronounced against them Again Tin it doth beautifie iron and makes it seem as Tin by which iron we understand the worldling he that is nothing but Iron that regardeth nothing but the world and the profits of it it makes him seem to be that he is not to be as the Tin is that is like his Preacher and his teacher witnesse many wretched worldlings whose intimacy with their Preachers Amos. 3.3 their resorting to him their familiar society walking and talking with them as agreed makes the people of the world to take them for no worse then their Preachers although like Iron they be never so hard and cruell lying as iron in the earth untill the earth hath turned them to earth Thus doth the Ministry for their worldly ends keep company with the men of the world as long as they live and sometimes before they die like Ravens about a beast they visit him often for their prey sake and when they are dead they put an eternall fame upon them worth sometimes five pounds This good man this just and upright man this man that loved the word a constant hearer and frequenter of the Church and the Ordinances of God and charitable to the poor as appeareth at his death he is now in Heaven after which if a monument of him pietas virtus sanctus if not sanctissimus c. must be part of his Epitaph and so the ministers doe not only vernish and colour the worldlings and the corrupt minded here while living but indeavor to perpetuate and eternize their fame and all this for the succeding expectation of the like reward Saint Paul became all things to all men that he might gain some that is some to Christ into the house of God into the Kingdom but shame it is that Ministers are become all things to all men that they might gain some of the world with them but to gain them to God to Christ if a sermon or two once or twice a week will do it well if not what care they they look for their fleece and therefore they do with their people of eminence as servants that flatter their masters fearing their frownes and that they shall be losers if they speak out their mindes really and not to their masters affection or to his gaine being asked is this well don though perhaps ill don yea say they it is well done or otherwise if they say it is best or may it be lawfull for me to do thus or thus though perhaps unlawfull saies the servant knowing his masters affection and the purpose of his minde yea you may lawfully do it if otherwise that the master be crost away then if they speak contrary to their mindes and waies Should a Minister speak against a rich world●ing and come to him as Nathan did to David and say thou art the man it is as much as his place is worth witnesse certaine places and towns that might be named where it is in the power of the chief men of the place there the preacher must be wary Lastly it doth colour and set a glosse upon the earth it makes that to shine for all the earthen vessels Matth. 6. that are shining white vessels they are made so with Tin very fair clear● and pure to the eye but the matter chiefly whereof they are made is earth The Clergy doth beautifie and colour the earth and earthly minded people who as their Disciples do follow them making them to seem that they are not for they appear to men to pray to hear to live orderly among others when they are but onely civilized there is nothing within that is changed the same that came into the world the same remains inwardly in their hearts yet honest men good men this is the Tinny approbation they give them when poor ignorant souls there is nothing in them but blindenesse of minde darknesse of understanding and clean contrary to God and his Word meer earth They are told by their Minister If they come and hear him and pray and observe their Church duly they need not be so scrupulous and so full of inquiry after things that do not concern them tradesmen should not come from off their shopboard and leap into Election and Predestination Bishop Pearce of Wells but follow their callings so holding them in the outward forme feeding cherishing and nourishing them in blinde hypocrisie they cannot percei●e what the change means Iohn 3.4 like to Nicodemus they wonder at a new birth and yet they think themselves to be as good Christians as any in the world they see themselves to be full Deut. 32.1 Isa 34.1 Jer. 6.19 22 29. and to

hammer will fashion him to any thing to this condition or to that to any forme In all the●e qualifications the poor seemeth to be the best of all Mo●t true it is that there are a sort of poor that in all the equalities do appear in the world beyond the men of the world whom our precedent discourse hath made mention of for the wisdom of Almighty God is such that he knoweth what is best for us and to some in his great and rich love doth he give a very small pittance of the outward things of this life that being hereby pinched they might be still calling to God who is the giver of all things meat and drink apparell houses and other necessaries they are gifts of God Dantur bonis quia non mala dantur malis qu●a non bona good men may be bettered by them and e ill men may be made worse however it be yet God is good and loving to Israell and to all them that are true of heart they shall want nothing that is good for them Ha●h God appointed the poor to serve the rich and are they th●s p●i●b●e ●o●t and gentle unto their earthly masters Let us by them yea let all the great ones of the world learn to be p iable to their Maker in all t ings as the poor man is to his master be willing to go to come to be easily perswaded by the Word of our God and not to live being ignorant according to our own judgements and understandings but according to the will of our God Psalm 7● David when he saw the prosperity of the wicked he was cast down and thought he had cleansed himself in vain But afterwards when he had been at the Sanctuary of God he understood c. and said Thou wilt guide me with thy counsell and after that receive me to Glory In this let us learn of the poor and be poor in spirit for they shall inherit the Kingdom of God the poor takes any impression call him what you will he is not angry neither offended so should it be with us take all manner of wrongs and injuries patiently not seeking revenge but be Mal eable under the hammer of God to be beaten and fashioned to what he will have us to be Again Lead is waighty and in that quality it is like Gold for that is the weightiest of all metals But this lead being a waighty and heavie metall it serveth in the world to make weights wherewith most commodities that are sold by weight are weighed and ballanced So are they the poor of the world they are as the weights wherewith the dealings of men one with another and towards themselves are by them weighed and considered all their unjust actions their oppressions fraud injuries and hard dealing is by them seen and felt and known more then to others for by such means men are made poor and kept so and therefore the pressure of it lying on them chiefly it is by them weighed and considered and also by them judged censured and execrated Lead also is waighty in another respect and that is in respect of the poor themselves being heavie and burdensome to the places they are and do remain in some of them being aged lame impotent and blind and destitute these poor are chargeable and burdensome and such as these are alwaies in the world and to be provided for Thete is also poor that are vagarants rogues theeves and poor prisoners the which are troublesome to the Common Wealth and burdensome where they are these the civil Magistrate should take in hand to restrain punish and suppresse Here we see that the poor here understood by the metall Lead are of two kindes the one are very flexible and tractable and doth resemble the silver that is in the Lead as it lies in the drossy body unseen The other poor is as the drossey body of the Lead which must by refining be brought to a separation forth from the Silver and so the one makes a vessell for the refiner and the other is as a weighty and burdensome people in the world Take Lead as it is in the originall and ye cannot perceive any Silver to be in it So the poor they are such that have some graces and discoveries of God unto them but they cannot shew it they are so trampled on by the men the world and kept low in a despised forlorne and mean condition that they cannot exercise their graces as they should it lies inwardly in the heart and doth not appear outwardly This is the condition of many and yet the rich justifie themselves very much by the carriages of the poor being contrary to them for they frequent publike preaching and use long prayers pay their dues speak the truth without avowing and do acts of charity being sober and chast outwardly whereby it comes to passe that the rich man in his demeanor and carriage blesseth himself that he is not such a one as the poor like the proud Pharisee that did thank God he was not as other men he did fast twise a week c. whereas there is a great difference between them the rich can very well spare the time to be seen of men and spend much in the outward visible matter of service and nothing troubles him all things is in store for his use without seeking after it But the poor man he must get his bread and be imployed at all seasons for that end to have to sustain nature but seeing the difference he crieth to the Lord from his heart God be mercifull to me a sinner and so getteth inward comfort and solace though outwardly he cannot shew it to the world Other poor that is signified by Lead being parted from the Silver is that fort of poor that are wicked of these there are that are mockers raylers revilers and verbal persecutours slanderers of men in high places for good acts of Justice Piety and Charity having nor the fear of God before their eyes they are ready to do any evill as coadjutors to others being thereunto engaged wherein men of eminence outwardly civil forbear in their own persons and force and compell those poor whom they can command And thus the designes of evil men are brought to passe and executed as in these dayes against the pure people of God who are drawn from the the common practice of the world to live more neerer with God and to commune with him out of the worlds ordinances these are much abused and mocked Some of these poor are such that are discontented that they are poor falling from one wickednesse to another and most rudely do abuse the Name of God his people his creatures and all the things of God impatient passionate and charging of God for aflicting them some as it hath been heard say said Could God do more to me then he hath done some also that were before A poor man at Cardiffe of some ability and means having lost it

I had been undone Consider how fit this resemblance is Man is as drossy metall that must be melted refined and purified These metalls are all generated and bread in the earth and they are no way usefull or serviceable as they come forth of the earth but must passe through a strong blowing fire before they can be made perfect or usefull for the Artificer Even so it is with man being brought forth into this world he is not fit for any thing nor to have to do with his Maker untill he hath past through the fire that all the earthy disposition and incapable substance of drosse that fixeth to him be clean taken away A man canno● commune with his Maker nor offer any sacrifice to him as he is in nature untill he is new born he cannot enter all that earthinesse and drossinesse that is in the internall part must by fire be scummed cleared and utterly taken away and consumed hence it is that Saint John the Baptist saith John 3.3 I Baptise you with water but there is one that cometh after me who will baptize you with the Holy Ghost Matth. 3. and with fire the baptisme of fire is that that will be hereafter for the Whore sits upon the many waters and she is in discovering What is there in the world that is fit for use and service as it is brought forth Children are apt and prone to all evill and disobedience and do whatsoever is contrary to right if they be not educated taught corrected and instructed the naturall disposition must be subdued and kept under that the direction to a good demeanour may work upon them and they grow up into it Survey the whole creation and see where there is any thing that is fit in its body naturall by reason of its afaffixes to make use of before there is a change Corne canot be made into bread before it be threshed winnowed ground sifted and baked no flesh can be fit to nourish before it hath been ordered dressed by fire Trees cannot serve for building but they must be squared sawed and fitted stones must be hewed and so must all things that doth belong to meate and drink apparell and manufactory there must be a change of them or an abatement from them the earth it self canot yeeld forth fruits before it be tilled and manured Canst thou then Oh unbeleeving man conceive although thou art lord of the Creatures that thou art cleaner then other creatures canst thou approach neer to canst thou serve and obey thy Creatour in that nature of thine thou wast brought forth in before thou art cleansed purified purged melted plowed winnowed and sifted before thy self thy will wisdome understanding desires Psal 51.8 and all in that nature be dead and a new birth be witnessed that the broken bones may rejoyce over the dead body of sin which is called the old man because it is as old as thy self having all the parts of a man a head to imagine mischief and vanity to plot and contrive against his Maker a stiffe neck arms and hands full of oppression and guile and stretched out against the innocent feet swift to shed blood heels to kick against the law of God eares to hear folly eyes to behold vanity if this old man be not dead in thee and thou art not a new creature nothing that thou doest can be accepted thou mayest dream of a happinesse to be had when thou hast gotten an artificiall tongue like a newborne creature and art through education and thine own wisdome Esa 1. civilized in the outward garbe but if thy heart b● not changed thou art farre off from happinesse Judgement must passe over thee yea the fire of the Lord must burn out thy drosse or else thou wilt be miserable poor blinde and naked Thou must yeeld and submit thy self to thy God bring thy cursed nature to him there to be slain come willing y Psal 10. humble thy self under the mighty hand of God and he will exalt thee learn of thy Maker to know him and to beleeve in him that for the love of the world gave his onely begotten Son that they should not perish but obtaine through him everlasting life Thinke on this O man of the great love of God to thee what satifaction could the whole world give for the Redemption of one soul and hath Christ Jesus equall to God his Father purchased Redemption for the whole world and art thou so far from prising it that thou wilt not accept of it but think to live happie without change in thy naturall unclean unpurified and unrefined condition Consider in thy hought it to minde did thy Saviour Jesus Christ that be no robbery to be equall to God as it were un-God himself becomming man and suffering a shameful death to recover and Redeem thee and art thou so desperately wicked and so fool-hardy that thou wilt not unman thy self to be like God that is to say to put off thy will wisdome righteousnesse thy pride lust and carnall minde to be invested into a kingdom of righteousnesse peace and holinesse and to be made like unto Christ in whom all fulnesse dwels and to be in union and communion with the Father Let him that hath ears to hear hear what the Lord hath said Know ye not that Christ is in you except ye be reprobates and except your righteousnesse exceed the righteousnesse of the Scribes and Pharisees you cannot enter if you are the servants of sin your wages is death if you live after the flesh you shall die for they that are in flesh cannot please God for the wisdome of the flesh is death but the wisdom of the spirit is life and peace all that you can do in the raw unquoth earthy rough drossy vain darke uncircumcised unprepared and dead condition of nature though never so much beautified and adorned with art learning and outward wisdom and glory it is but hypocrisie we are onely Christians portraied and as it with a diamond if not right it is worth nothing and as in a picture if it be not to the life then it hath no regard so except we are really changed and metamorphosed from that we were borne in and are made like the Son of God we are not free from the law of sin and death but it hath power over us to eternall death Will the almighty God melt his people let them be of what sort soever in their outward callings either men of authority men of the world teaching men or mean men Then here Behold the great love of God unto you he will will melt you he will make you pliable tractable and vertible that what you cannot do your selves he will do for you Can the Leopard change his spots or the Blackmore his skin no more can a man change his nature of himself or by any power within himself but God onely is the changer of all Are his people Brasse Tin Iron and Lead such metalls