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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

Luk. 17. the 5. first ver where after the position laid down in the 2 first ver in the 3 following ver he thus applyeth Take heed to your selves as if he should say Here will be a dangerous temptation If thy brother trespass against thee rebuke him if he repent forgive him if he trespass against thee seven times in a day and seven times in a day turn again to thee and say It repenteth me thou shalt forgive him Where note that the offenders heart is not to be judged by the offended God allows thee nothing but his tongue to judge of in this case it may be his heart may more melt afterwards then at the first turning by the offended's tenderness or other means and the offended ought from bare judgment to forgive him if he do it as his duty observing Christs rule his heart may be opened with more love and tenderness to the Offender afterwards also then at the first turn However it is better to walk in self-denyal in this case and observe Christs rule then to satisfie thine own offended spirit however if thy brothers heart and tongue should not agree in his repentance God hath not made thee a judg of evil thoughts Jam. 2.4 And the Apostles answered The Lord increase our faith which answer proves they had great need of help to strengthen their faith to this purpose A sixth Caution Take heed of this Doctrine That Saints do not serve God for salvation but from the knowledge of salvation This Doctrine not being rightly divided hath been a stumbling block to many Man since Adams fall is corruptly so proud that nothing but the top of excellency will serve his turn and therefore to be as gods knowing good and evil tickled his mind You shall hardly find one in a society men are in this point so heightned by the Tempter that will acknowledge he cometh to God for salvation though it be at the first hour of the receiving into society Men under this temptation are not willing to begin to stand without till the good man of the House be risen up Luk. 13.25 but all judge themselves finders from the self-flattering conceit before they have enjoyed the Lord Christ by manifestation Few will own that there may be a condition of darkness in one that feareth God Isa 50.10 They had rather in this temptation compass themselves about with sparks ver 11 as if all had right to baptism only upon that account that is recorded in Act. 10. viz. Who should forbid water that these should not be baptised that have received the Holy Ghost as well as we And those that enquired What shall we do to be saved had no right Act. 2. Though it be certain they received the Holy Ghost after Baptism and also it is certain that at the first the Disciples served Christ as servants though after they were owned by Christ upon a more full account Joh. 15.15 There was a time when Paul knew Christ after the flesh which must needs be for self-ends or good that might come to himself thereby but after that he knew neither man nor Christ any more after the flesh but wholly having his spirit of love and delight exercised upon them to rejoyce in Christ and to serve the creature with the love of Christ shed abroad in his heart I would that all who are in Church-fellowship upon account of Faith and Repentance and have not as yet attained to assurance would with understanding own their condition it would make them give all diligence to make their calling and Election sure 2 Pet. 1.10 Therefore lest Members should split themselves upon this stumbling-block shew your selves workmen that need not be ashamed rightly dividing the word of truth 2 Tim. 2.15 Caution 7. Whereas Disputes hath been formerly viz. about that time the Ranters and Quakers first sprung up some holding it to be their Priviledg but not their Duty to serve the Lord I advise thee to abolish this Dispute from thy Societies and from your particular spirits for it is the greatest Priviledge that can be to have a heart united to fear God's Name whilst they walk in God's truth being instructed in His way Psal 86.11 Here is no liberty from Duty to walk in God's wayes and in his truth and yet a heart united by God and that to fear His Name and from this very act is David set at liberty to praise God's Name Psal 86.12 13. I demand whether it be not a Saints Priviledge to have a heart enlarged by God and yet it is then to run the way of Gods Commandments Psal 119.32 viz. enlarged and set at liberty from the pit of corruption Isa 38. from the horrible pit Psal 40.1 to be bound to Gods love and wisdom who hath provided Commandments that he knows serveth to unite thy heart to God he hath commanded nothing but righteous things which are according to the Divine Nature that thou art or art to be partaker of 2 Pet 1.4 and thou art or art to be joyned to God and one Spirit that is to say the breathings love desire delight of God is to be thine and thy souls delight to breath in them and thus thou art in union with God in Christ Jesus so that the same things are now commanded by the Law of the spirit of Life Rom. 8.2 which was by the Law of Sin and Death viz. it had been Sin and Death to thee if thou hadst not done those Commandments which the Law of the Spirit of Life hath enabled thee to do but they are a Law still and now having a heart set at liberty the Commandments which were before a burden is now not made grievous by love and if the love of God be a Saints Priviledge it is nothing less then to bind us to our Duties for this is the love of God that we keep his Commandments and His Commandments are not grievous to us 1 Joh. 5.3 Lo here is no freedom from Duty Christ Jesus who said If the Son make you free you are free indeed Joh. 8.36 said also If ye love me keep my Commandments Here you see that love bindeth the freest people in the world to their Duty of obedience Joh 14.15 And when Christ proclaimed his yoke to be easie and his burden light He did not alter it from being a yoke and a burden Mat. 11.30 but it is a sweet burthen when there is nothing save a constraining love upon thy heart it is a sweet yoke when thou art fastened to Christ Jesus and his Saints to tread one trace by love in keeping such Commandments as that the things commanded Christ and his Saints and thou in the unity of spirit loveth upon account of the Commanders love and wisdom how can such Commandments be grievous 1 Joh. 3.4 But if any should further still contend for liberty in this Case let them know that sin is the transgression of the Law vers 8. and whosoever committeth sin is of the Devil 1 Joh.

which the natural eye seeth as to amend what Christ and his Apostles left for his church government throughout all ages to the end of the world O ye Law-Givers and Magistrates as my soul is a pittying your inevitable and dolorous danger whilest you or any of you are meddling with the apples of Gods eyes or whilest you are tempted to endeavour to mend the perfect Law of God Psalm 19 knowing the tempter is so hidden under Christs name hath so prevailed with former Magistrates as that they by the then Clergies present perswasions have been as it were the slaughter men of Christ his Apostles and all his suffering Saints to this day it being the word of Christ to take away trouble from the sufferers hearts when they know whilest they are under your hands they are under the alsupporting and comforting power of God also who least that these things should come upon them at unawares foretold them that they should be had before Kings for his names sake and whosoever killeth them shall think he doth God service Iohn 16.4 Loe here is not here a prophesy sutable to a seeming godly Clergie for Gods service sake to bring to pass by temptations take heed Magistrate and know that it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God and for your help in this case consider that there are many and sweet directions in that new Testament that is sealed with Christs Blood how sufferers should behave themselves but not one how persecutors of Christ Laws should behave themselves in bringing either the body or estate of any Heretick to distress for Christs sake which proves that there is no Plaintiffes but all Defendants or rather Passives for Christs sake in Christs flock the sheep have no means nor strength to commence one action against the Wolfe Also consider how it would please you if your servants should for their honour riches and wealths sake by their inventions only bring forth as your mind another rule to govern your house by and that stated only upon arguments then you had left by plain express commands in writing without any difficulty and the Lord make the dutiful and loving endeavors of this poor servant to be one means amongst many others to hold you in a sweet apprehension of Christ and his Laws that you may receive the blessing that is pronounced out of Christs mouth viz Blessed are they that are not offended in me To the Christian Reader CHristian Reader thy relation to our Lord and Master Jesus Christ rendereth thee chosen and called Rev. 17.4 and faithful * so that wheresoever thou behold this subtil beast that creepeth under the pretence of God and Christ and so hide himself it is thy duty to hunt him for it is possible thou may hunt out some members of Christ out of him Ier. 16.16 that are set down in his riches and pleasures and there hidden from the feeling of Christs life in his commands and bring them forth to be wayfaring men that they may travel in the high way and the way that is called holy where the blessing is not more entailed or not so much upon the man learned as upon simple ones children and fooles viz. in the worlds account Mat. 11.25 Esa 35 8. Prov. 1.4 being that discovering is death to him so thou hast nothing to fight with but the lip of truth which shining upon him will melt him as the Sun melteth Ice and is a Cordiall heart rejoycing life and creating presence of Christ in thee whilest thou beleivest in God and uttereth his praises to his and thy enemies confusion who is made up of a lump of lies frozen as it were together by Satans cruelty Psal 35 25 when he is made manifest he must needs be slain for then no man will as God or godly believe or receive a known enemy of God and godliness Thou must not follow him with carnal weapons as clubs provoking mutenies against him and whips and prisons and spoiling of goods those are his weapons but thou must be so far from rendering evil for evil that when any member of this beast striketh thee on the one cheek thou must turn to him the other also 2 Cor 10 3.4 yet the weapons of thy warfare are mighty through God as prayer tears sword of the spirit blood of the covenant the whole armour of God spoken on in the 6 Eph 11 and in as much as he calls it the whole armour of God it proves that God hath never a peice of armour but that for thee to use in whose name then can prisons c. be used by thee I know thy heart and thy labour goeth both together thou hast a tender regard to thy Christs honour therefore if thou discover any countertfeit coming forth in his name thou with heart and pen and tongue wilt cry out of him according to the measure of the Talent thou hast received and because the love of God is shed abroad in thy heart thou wilt be an eye of discovery to and a hand pointing at this beast for thy weak brethren that they fall not into his pits and snares and as God loved the world so thou being God-like wil use the love of God shed in thy heart to love it also yea thy very enemies in it that thou knowing the terror of the Lord viz. against this beast wilt perswade men to look to their doings and standing for we must all appear before God least they perish with this beast and false Prophet which false Prophet must needs be a supposed but not godly Clergy which defendeth them that receive the mark of the beast The perfect love that Moses had was to work all the means of salvation by prayer to God and instructing the people yea when they were in acts of rebellion against God reviling himself and Aaron who was but a figure of our Lord Jesus who was upon the act of the Jews eternal salvation and Gentiles when they were in the act of crucifying him they scoffed and peirced him he prayed for them and of the like mind must thou be Christan Reader to those that are taken Captive of the Devil to do his will thou art to recover out of his snares 2 Tim. 2.26 though their hearts be enraged against thee they make ready their hearts as an oven Hosea 7.6 when the darts that comes out of their souls viz. terrible words and devouring actions though poysoned with Asps envy and rage and self-tormenting agonies they being shot at thee fall into thy soul thou receiving them by faith all quench Eph. 6.16 by the love that faith worketh by thy quieted mind returns prayer for them and glory to God rejoyceing that thou art counted worthy to receive the rage of men which in thy soul turneth to Gods praise but can do thee no further harm Psal 76.10 be encouraged for thou must overcome thy heart must not be inslaved thou must hear thy testimony for thy

the Apostle We beseech you to be reconciled to God and not opposite to his gracious pardoning mercy in going about to take from man or to make useless the forgiveness of that blasphemy against the Father and the Son by the lips of Christ now in the dispensation of his Gospel granted and proclaimed Mat. 12.31 for without repentance there is no forgiveness and how can any repent when the sword of the Magistrate hath cut him off Concerning this there hath been something in a former Parliament Paul took not that course he did not flie to the Magistrate to have Hymenus and Alexander cut off but he took a course that made them capable of learning to amend 1 Tim. 1.10 which had not been lawful for Paul to have done had not Christ in his Gospel taken away the rigor of that Law which is written in the 24 of Leviticus and the 16. And upon this Gospel account Christ told James and John they knew not of what manner of spirit they were of For the Son of man is not come to destroy mens lives but to save them Luke 9.55 56. when they of Samaria would not receive Christ therefore if any sort of men like these companie of Priests that murder ●n the way by consent that are spoken of in Hos 6.9 for it cannot be thought these Priests took away temporal lives by temporal weapons should tempt you to mend those Lawes that Christ and his Apostles left for Church-government and give punishment for breaking them exceeding the severitie of the merciful Law-givers Edicts which tend to the peoples destruction when Christ the wiser then Solomon and therefore wiser then any prince or Synod that ever was or will be in this world gave only such punishment for breaking his Lawes as tended only to mans salvation neither hurting their persons estates nor liberties The Lord strengthen your hearts and give you courage to resist them who care not that much people perish by you● hands yea and by war and bloodshed rather then their Honor and easie fatt-conditions should go down and they should miss to be Lords over mens consciences and Gods inheritance Witness Love's treason There is no fore-sight like Christs nor nothing shall come to pass even to the end of the World which he fore-knew not and upon this account he left sufficient provision for the being and wel-being of his Church The very seed of the Devil when it sprang up Christ would not have his Disciples pull it up lest they should pull up the Wheat also thinking it safer to let manie wicked Imps grow then to venture the destruction of anie poor childe of God Then be not overcome to let anie be destroyed for Christs sake by the petitioners for destruction though those they vvould have destroyed are preseneed unto you for the Devils Ims being you have Christs directions in the case Matt. 13.28 29. I do hereby earnestly supplicate you to consider that England is not more dear in Gods eyes then sometime Israel vvas and may come to be if it bee not alreadie as far falne from grace as Israel vvas vvhen there was four hundred prophets for one Micah 1 King 22.6 When the zeal of Jezabel was such that she maintained four hundred and fifty prophets and four hundred prophets at her table all at once 1 Kings 18 19. and these false prophets that would flatter face-painting Jezabels and wicked Ahabs bare all the sway in Israel at that time when as prisons and threatnings of death for the truths sake was the portion of all the Micah's and Eliah's and to be hid in a Caves and fed with bread and water it is good to have such a holy jealousie as may provoke all that fear God to pray for the Land and the Rulers thereof and to warn our great ones that are Preist-feeders to look to it least their zeal deceive them not and that they be not found of that number that prepare a table for that troope and furnish a drink-offering for that number that are spoken of in Esa 65.11 to 16. and when Christ makes this great discovery their zeal be found no better then Jezabels was it must needs be thought that her Preists were confident else they durst never have joyned issue with Elias about the tryal of their God and his God therefore let the truth advise you not to trust for there is both learned Papists and learned Protestants and one or both of them must needs be in an error but bring all to the law and to the testimonies Esa 8.20 and if they deviate one jot from Scripture and give an invented may be in the room of it beleive them not but take notice that the Scripture is able to furnish a man of God throughly 2. Tim. 3.1.6 and there is no need of mans invented may be to be joyned with it and least our great ones way and their Preists way or peoples way should be a way of wickedness they are intreated to follow Davids example who was as right as any King or great man can come to be now adayes yet he was earnest with God to try him least his way was a way of wickedness Psalm 129.23 It is undoubtedly true that when the Prophets cry out to the Magistrates for harms to their neighbours for religion sake they are not of that spirit of Christ Jesus that came not to destroy but to save mens lives and if poor England or the rulers thereof be willing to hear this complaint then those sad words may bespoken of it as was spoken of Israel Ier. 5.31 viz. The Prophets prophesy falsly and the Priests bear rule by their means and my people love to have it so but what will you do in the end thereof And so it is that we being under another spirit then Elias was desire no harm to those destroyers from the Magistrate No no he might be quiet in his civil imployment if our enemies would trouble him about matters of religion no more then we do but we desire that none may be welcome to you that tempt you to keep us from the free plain use of the Scriptures of Christ in the simplicity thereof without spoyling us by Phylosophy or learned troops of figures which are vain deceit when they are used against the truth Iob 2.8 to which Scriptures we appeal utterly and that by the help of the same spirit that wrote them from all inventions of men whether brought forth by Synods or Assemblies of Divines or any others and according to my duty in the name of Christ my Master I warn you in the love of God who is love that you suffer the word of God to run and be glorified in the same uncompoundedness that Christ and his Apostles left it without changing the Laws thereof or giving any other punishment for breaking the Laws thereof then Christ and his Apostles left order for in the Scriptures man can as harmlesly endeavour to change the Orgins and light by

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