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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96113	A scribe, pharisee, hypocrite; and his letters answered, separates churched, dippers sprinkled: or, A vindication of the church and universities of England, in many orthodox tenets & righteous practices. Whereunto is added a narration of a publick dipping, June 26. 1656. In a pond of much Leighes parish in Essex, with a censure thereupon. By Jeffry Watts B.D. and Rectour of Much-Leighes.	Watts, Geoffrey, d. 1663.	1657 (1657)	Wing W1154; Thomason E921_1; Thomason E921_2; ESTC R207543	280,939	342

more so the Reader cannot know the particular here of them until he take the Bible and look farther so ready I am not to blazen abroad but rather to go backward and cover your nakedness as Cham. But What have I done I thought indeed I had done and replyed to all your Letter But I perceive that it is undone as who have omitted one of your Texts which is in your last line of all John 14.15 and in these words of Christ Jesut If you love me keep my Commandements What a bad-sighted man am I that I should take no sooner notice of these last words of your last Text in your last line words like Apples of Gold with pictures of Silver as spoken in season a Text like a bundle of Mirth worthy to be laid betwixt the breasts A line Sir I speak seriously worth all your Letter besides and had it not been for this last line it had been so far from being any Love-Letter or Message of Jonathans to David that rather it would have been as Davids Letter against Vriah or a Johnathan's Maranatha Letter writing bitter things as Marah and breathing out not onely excommunication but even damnation whose mouth I have stopped notwithstanding If you love me keep my Commandements John 14.15 saith Christ to his Disciples This is a text to purpose which few or none of the former were brcathing love at last the best thing to end a Letter with and to make some recompence for all your hateful horrid hellish and malicious calumniations of your Mother and Brethren in the beginning thereof Above all things and so in the beginning and after things and so in the end Put on love which is the Bond of perfectnesse The Law maketh nothing perfect but love doth for the end and so the perfection and fulfilling of the Commandement is Love out of a pure heart and a good Conscience and Faith unfeigned at leastwise Christ Jesus whom we love as who loved us first is the end of the Law for righteousness to every one that believeth if Christ Jesus be the end of the Law and the Commandement and love the end of the Law and Commandement Then the love which is of Christ sure or Christ who is love for God is love must needs be the end of the Law and Commandement and therefore is ye love me keep my Commandements saith Christ John 14.15 a Text worthy to be thrice mentioned and repeated This is the one onely Text that you and I shall not differ in I hope and which you have rightly applyed and both my self and all of us do take to belong unto us to love the Lord Jesus Christ and to keep his Commandements yea I adde if any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ Let him be Anathema Maranatha 1 Cor. 16.22 And in testimony of our love we walk in obedience of his Commandements but I will say to you asit is Jam. 2.8 9 If ye fulfill the royall Law according to the Scripture That shalt love thy neighbour as thy self ye do well but if ye have respect to persons ye commit sin and are convincedof sin as transgressors For he that said If y love me keep my commandements said also Thou shalt love thy neighbour or Brother and keep that Commandement also of his amongst others and this Commandement have we from him that he who loveth God loveth his brother also 1 John 4.21 If a man say as it proceedeth vers 20. If a man say I love God and Jesus Christ and hateth his brother he is a liar whosoever the man be for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen how can he love God whom he hath not seen And again Love worketh no ill to his neighbour therefore love is the fulfilling of the law also Rom. 13.10 I confess I could now much refresh my self in this sweet rosie Discourse of this point of our love of Christ and our Brethren after my wearisome travelling through other sharp and thorny Disputes but I resolve this Page now in hand shall be the last and determine both Onely I shall minde you that amongst these your Neighbors and Brethren we the Ministers of Jesus Christ are to be accounted and taken in by your leave Sir for by his leave Sir we are so accepted of to be his Neighbours and Brethren his Neighbours as whom the Lord hath brought nigh unto himselfe to do the service of the Tabernacle and Temple Number 16.9 and also his Brethren For both he that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one for which cause he is not ashamed tocall them brethren Hebrews 2.11 whether sanctified by Grace from him or by Office under him and if he called and owned the Hearers and Doers of his Word his Brethren sure he owneth for such also the Preachers and Doers of the same Yea see how Christ Jesus not onely owneth them for such but oneth them also as himself if I may so speak saying He that heareth you heareth me he that receiveth you receiveth me and he that despiseth you despiseth me Matthew 10.4 Luke 10.17 And truly I must tell you that when our People were let alone and left to themselves and our Ministers and before they were befooled and bewitched by you separation from us as the Galathians were by creepers in amongst them they did as the same Galathians Paul receive their learned pious and industrious Ministers as Angels of God even as Christ Jesus Galath 4.14 And will do so again I believe or hope by that time they have had a little more trial and experience of your courses and seen the difference betwixt the new light or flashings of your blazing Comets and the old light and lustre of their own fixed Stars But I give over proving against you or reproving seeing you have given over accusing of us and reviling and are fallen upon love in your last line love I say and that of Christ Jesus the most lovely Object for a fair conclusion from those foul Principles of malice in your former lines malice I say and that against the Church of England and her Ministers the least deserving hatred from you because serving you by love shewed if not saving you by faith Preached to you My advice I know will seem strange and irrational to you in the form of my words and expression Forsake your Principles and leave them hold fast your conclusion and keep it but it is good and religious in the matter of sense and my intention which is this Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamour and evil speaking be put away from you with all malice Ephes 4.31 this was your Original sin and bad Principles And again Be kindly affectioned one to another in brotherly love love as Brethren be pitifull courteous of one minde having compassion putting on the bowels of mercies Rom. 12.19 1 Peter 3.8 Goloss 3.12 And thus your latter end hath been better than your beginning and your conclusion

of Israel both Civil and Ecclesiastical such corruptions as are mentioned in those Texts at that time what reason or Religion prudence or conscience is there in this to make use and your application of them to our State both of Magistracy or Ministry until you had cleared the Doctrine and proof of the same sins to reign amongst both What Prophet do you know makes the People to erre bite with the teeth and cry peace to teach for hire and if their mouths be not filled to prepare for war do you not remember who it was that said And how like unto him you are herein doth Job serve God for nought and who said Ye are of your father the devil he is the accuser of the Brethren and a false accuser we Ministers teach not for hire and yet we labourers are worthy of our hire and if it be detained and taken out of our mouths the Law is open they may implead one another as I have largely shewed before we may flie into the arms of the Law which is no Law of Arms or War But farther the word of Micah was that which he said concerning Samaria and Hierusalem and for any thing appears the word in the Text might be concerning Samaria and not Hierusalem and then it concerns you more than us you more and your Prophets for Samaria was the head City of the separate Jeroboam and his company the ten Tribes who divided from the House of David and departed away from Hierusalem and the Temple and set up their Calves in some private stalls and houses and so ever after continued separates so that the Samaritans had no dealing with the Jews ordinarily when Christ came and lived with them but kept aloof and apart from the publick Services of the Temple 1 Kings 12. John 4. The third is Isa 3.12 15. O my people they which lead the thee cause the thee to erre and desroy destroy the way of thy paths What mean you to beat my people to pieces pieces and grind the face of the poor saith the Lord Neither here wanted you any time to write out all the words Besides here 's excellent good order in your proceedings from Esay to Micah from Micah to Esay by a new retrograde method or rather your old crab-order backward and forward forward and backward But these words are wholly and solely directed by the Prophet to the secular Powers and Civil Rulers of the People of Israel the which if you by-your bold and prophetical spirit shall as you do here or else you are quite out of your Texts revile the Temporal Rulers of our Nation with beating Gods people to pieces and grinding the face of the poor I must refer you over to their Temporal Authority and Justice to chastise your insolency and rebellion according to those Texts Exod. 22.28 Rom. 13.4 the which for want of time I have not writ out in all the words The next is Jer. 5.30 31. A wonderfull and horrible thing is committed in the land the prophets proplesie falsely talsly and the priest priests bare bear rule by there their means and my people love to have it so and what will ye do in the end thereof Falsly written and falsly applied is all this Text. In what and which of our Prophets for so and such you make us and must grant us or all your Applications of the Prophets to us out of prophets is vain impertinent and inconsistent I say which of our Prophets and wherein do they prophesie falsly we neither foretell or reveal hidden particular things to come some of your Prophets do as Christs coming to reign temporally and gloriously upon earth for a thousand years together with the very year of the beginning of his Reign and have herein prophesied falsly for the year is passed of late wherein some of them said it should begin Or if you mean by prophecying expounding and interpreting of Scripture I will go no farther than your self for a false prophet at the next door because I am weary with travelling thus far than whom if there be a more false Expounder and Interpreter of Scripture as I have abundantly declared throughout this whole Tractate I will forfeit all my Commentaries upon the Bible into his hands if he will reade them and take them so into his head thereby by such help to make himself a true Expounder and Interpreter of the Scriptures afterwards As for our Priests bearing rule by their means your own eyes looking about you may serve to give your tongue I will not say the lie an answer to the contrary And for our People love to have it so I thought you had been better acquainted with the People than so or to say so of them for the People love to have it otherwise than so that Priests should bear rule by any means And if you love the People no better than so to say they love to have it so they may likely begin not to love you so as they have done to make you a Father or Son of the People and Vox Populi I think you understand that word a Preacher of the Peoples making and a voice of a Crier in the Wilderness against John the Baptist though your name-sake and their Childrens Baptism And for the last Clause And what will ye do in the end Here 's a Quaere indeed I who have answered so many of your Quaeres before will not stand out for this one at last but will tell you what I will do in the end let others tell you what they will do in the end I will now in the end pray to God and I do so that he would give unto you a better understanding of his Word into your head and a greater love of his Ministers into your heart For to end with that you began the Text with a wonderfull and horrible thing is committed in the Land and by you for one and a chief one some prophets but they are onely so called by some expound the Word of God falsly and revile the Ministers of God falsly and the Priests and Jesuites bear rule by their means and some people love to have it so and what will you do in the end I hope you will have doen in the end and hold your peace at last as you promised even now by your Sarety Job in your first Text which you have cause to do lest Job minde you of it and say as he doth Job 18.2 How long will it be ere you make an end of words words indeed and little else besides I hope you will do so anon for I perceive the next Text is your last you end with Matth. 23.4 Foor for they bind heavie burdens and grievous to be bourne born and lay them on mens shoulders but they themselves will not move them with one of there their fingers in vain do they worship me teaching for doctrines the commandements of men Matth. 15.19 And if ye love me keep my commandements John

your last line lovely and amiable though the first leaf was hatefull and detestable I embrace you in your last line so also in your Subscription speak it again and write or subscribe again your self that in the hand of two witnesses or the double witness of your hand this word may stand and be more confirmed To be the Lord Jesus's devoted Servant as also mine and the rest the meanest of Christs Servants and Ministers Servants for Jesus sake which I take onely according to the Apostles limitation Galath 5.13 in or by love for which also I thank you being ready also to serve you in and by love for Jesus sake but with another of the same Apostles limitations 2 Thess 2.10 by an in love of the truth the which because some have not received God hath sent them strong delusions that they should believe a lye as it followeth in the Apostle ver 10 11. But we are bound to give God thanks for you Brethren and N●ighbours and Parishioners and your selves are boundmuch more to do the same to God for that he hath called you unto the belief of the truth by our Gospel and something also by this my Answer to you 2 Thessalonians 2. verse 14. Therefore Brethren and Neighbours stand fast and hold the Traditions which ye have been taught whether by word or our Epistle verse 15. Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God even our Father which hath loved us and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace comfort and ●stablish you in every good word and work verses 16 17 And now also Brethren I commend you to God and to the word of his grace which is able to build you up Acts 20.32 Consider what I say and have said and the Lord give you understanding in all things 2 Tim. 2.7 Let every soul that is understanding be subject to the higher powers of the word and captivate every thought to the obedience of the truth Let every Saul who is ignorant admit of the light of the Word and Truth to shine round about him that the scales by the Ministry of Ananias may fall away from their eyes that in seeing they may see and understand the truth of all the matters and mysteries of Salvation Acts 9.15 But if any man be ignorant and will be ignorant let him be ignorant and still be ignorant 1 Cor. 14.38 Or Let them hear and say reade and see It is truth Isa 43. verse 9. And so Sir because I will be answerable to you in all things I do now subscribe my self as in relation to my Master and Lord Jesus Christ His the least of his Servants and Ministers not worthy to be called a Servant and Minister of Christ so in reference unto you my Antagonist and Opponent Your the greatest of your friends worthy to be called a friend of yours for am I therefore become your enemy because I tell you the truth Gal. 4.16 When you have tried all your Brethren and Friends Truth will be your best Friend and your best Brother will be Jeffry Watts From Muchleigh's Parsonage July the 1. 1656. Now I proceed from a Scribe and his Letter answered and a Pharisce or Separate churched to a hypocrite or Dipper sprinkled but first of all to be questioned and catechised and so to the Narration of a dipping to be censured according to my Promise in the Title and Frontispiece of this Treatise Onely first Courteous Reader I Must desire of thee that in the reading over if so thou art intended this Narration of a Dippping with a Censure thereupon which followeth now Thou wouldst not mind a Passage or Paragraph of the Former Epistle to thee which goeth before the Answer and Instruction of a Scribe and his Letter as wherein I apologized for my omitting to cite and call into the several Points I handled the venerable Testimonies of the ancient Doctors and Fathers of the Church in their own learned Languages This I excused unto thee partly because I was confined and tyed up by the Scribe and his queres onely to Scripture Commands and Examples for my Answer and partly for that I intended my Answer should go no farther then in a reciprocal and interchangeable Letter returned unto him who first occasioned and provoked it Though afterwards by reason of the larger extent of my Answer then I expected The Desk refusing a transcription of it to which I had offered it I was even compelled to make my refuge unto the Presse for an Impression of the same otherwise all the labour must be lost on both sides the Queres and Letter unanswered the Scribe uninstructed the Pharisee uncharged and Truth unvindicated as to and by my self This beingdone the Answer finished dismissed and sent away for the aforesaid prupose There fell out and was practised in my Parish and it may be for the more affront to me at a house of mine there This Dipping of two new Sisters in a Pond of the Yard The which being in publick upon the Lords-day and betwixt the Morning and Evening Worships drew away much people thither and was discoursed of by many mouthes and so famed about in these parts that I resolved and could do no less to get a full Narration of the business and to pass my censure upon the same And so having first preach it down in my Pulpit to my own Parish as a New business of ill consequence I next have written it down in my Study to thee the Reader and have sent up also this my censure after the former my Answer to be Impressed or Imprinted together into the same Tractate as handling both of them matters very agreeable and consonant So then here intending the Presse and having now no confinements or restraints upon me I have taken my full Liberty to produce and bring in much of the Learned Antiquity and to write out and transcribe their weighty Words and Speeches in their own Languages as many of them as I had by me for the fuller Confirmation and firmer Attestation of this my censure upon that Dipping that it was and is as I have said a New business and a very Novelty Yea this I have done as for the convincing the Anabaptists their Dipping and Immerging Baptism so called to be of Novelty so for the Confirming the Orthodox their Sprinkling and Aspersing Baptism as it is to be of Antiquity by the evidences of the ancient Fathers and Doctors brought forth and shewed on both sides and farther I have ascended up to the Highest Antiquity of all even to the Ancient of dayes and the Primogenit of every Creature and have probably at least shewed that Christ Jesus himself manifested in the flesh was but Aspersed or Superfused with water and not Dipped and Immerged under the water certainly not in their way and manner at his Baptism by S. John the Prime baptist nor other Christians after him by S. Peter and the other Primitive Baptizers And as to ra●fi