OCR Text |
Show ·il 'I f' ( ! ·I : I I I I I i I ! :; • I, i ! ., I .I I I ·; I / ,., ,. I I I= '\" .\... I . I •' ~· ! ~ ' fl ! I' 'II ,.j ' I:~! I ·::'!' . ~Jfi ' !II ~ ·~ I ~ : ;~ j,: I I ,1 ~11 1 !1~:. i.iJ: ·,·II ·~ ' ·''II ,'.1, ,;!J: 'I , '•II: I 'II' ,;, ·.:: II i•;! ·' i!'' . ·~.' i':': j! 1r H'l: :· q!l ~~· II l,i,,: .\ ;:,JI1,i I ~ i:~ ,, :I I ,,. ;·:·JJ' 'li' 't·· •' ~ i I . i'·~·..: I ,I '' ';•)!11 1 l!.fl'' ~ . ·I I 1'1."' I 1bll I 1.ii,:i:! ·r.: ''r'I!' . ..: ,;: :I'I .· · !.:~11 II ,I , I dl ~II i' I' :I 11 ' ·~ill ( ·~8) t-he point, and yet brought up, and tranfcri.~ed by him1 to help fitl his Hiftory, and fltew hts 9t:: .. ceit and Envy againfi: rhe faid People, whom he (:an alledge no Evil of, bur falOy ; and fo fet them down as Qgakers, that are nor, to Re~ · proach that fincere People, fo called, tho~ denied by them, as all Evil Works and Workers are, as af01·efaid; fo that he hath but ~he ~o~e manifefied his Deceit and Falfhood, m revtvmg the faid Stories ; and {hould I go, as I faid, to reraliate, by bringing up all rhe Srories of Presbyterians, &c. that I could mention, how blacl<i could I make them look, as well as eafily ourballance him, or any thing he can alledge ? But for the prefent, if the Reader. is minde~ to fee or read things of that nature, I Jefer htm,_ for )BOOB~ fllrther fati sfaCtion, to .'!.he firft and fecond Ce~c[ fcan..- turie.r of fc~ndalotts M1m{fers ; Tho. Ed7Vm·d ~ balott~ Gar;grtena, m threl! Parrs, Of Independents, &c. ~ateUi'S: the Book of Fighting Prieft.r, in the Year 166~. Ralph-WailiJ (or The Cobler of Gloucefier) hts Books of 1he lnormom Lives of Prieft.r, &c. Roger L' Eftrang.e's DiJ]enters· Sayings, firfi: and 2d Pans; The Grou11ds and Occafions of the Contempt of the Clergy and Defence of it ; The Scotch~Presbyteri1m Eloqae~ce, and the An[wer to it; in which he•JI find enough, and more than he can defire; and . if c. M. (or any of his Fraternity) is offendad at rhe tnencionit:lg them, let him and them blame 1hemfelves, and learn more Modefiy and Ho· nefiy for time ro come, and not charge that on the QEakers which don't belong to them. . ~ cttnba ( ~ a· 11\0tl{J tgtlU\ !~tue~ .. Yea, we need go no further than his own Htfiory, for fcandaious In fiances- enough among themfelves, faying, Book VI. p. 18. c. 1 . 'Among (. all the J udgmenrs of God, I know none more ' Tn:mendrJus., than his leaving here and the-re fome ' famo ~ ( ' ·19 ) ·", ·fa-mfco us ·pr orre 1r~t ors and Pretenders to Religion, ·: ' r~. omf hornble irreligious AClions-'Tis ~ ' t mg t 1at fomerimes does happen amon us ' Perfons r~at have been Exemplary for Pi~ry ,~ t Note , and Chanty all their Days, yet have at lall Perhap:-. 1 'grown Melancholly, and God hath fo left rhe t hore a£ 0 the Poffeilion of fome Dev'l h h h m bove that ' -laid viole l 1 , r ar r ey ave he Re· ' fiarv d h nt rclfnds upon ·themfelves, they have proac.hes ' d le t rem e vc:s, hanged themfdves, drown- us Wlth, ·e t 1emtelves, ·yea and had a p t I were ne- ' Arurt. fi ance 1· n lheir 'd · f . re ernatura ver 1r 0 ac- ' -fhall we fa omg .0 • H.-Alas ! what con ntect ' h' I h y of thofe prodigiOUS falls Unto Sin amonbrrthe ' )w . tc 1 r e t•.t v.es o f rlO me rhar were counred' ~~akers , ftrfi-rare Chnfitans have been reproached : h as \~orr·h] ' all ;)-Whar f11 11 r WU - of fuch ' Crim . a we t.ay .of r.he monftrous Chara- ' , es ~htch we have feen fome that have Cters : , ~eem d P~llars ~f Chrifiianity among us ro ,fall H?werer, mro? Thts I w1Jl.fay rh<u the bu . . ·W h th1s may ' of a R · } ' . 1 mng rar· fb nd as a , b Ignteous .and Ternble God, has newer f11ll ail[wer , S e~ n ·f9 much d~fcovered in all our ·Lolfes by to all fu.ch , _ea and Land, and in all rhe bloody cepreda- Repma· ' t{hIO ns of our Adverfaries ' as J·n ·~r h·Is' one< h'm g, ches.,. ' ar every now and Ehen, fame one or other , thtr has been much nored.for Zea-l in the way~ ' o G~d, has been found in fome damnabl~ Atl ' of W ICkednefs.~Infinirdy .beuer had it been ' for thofe vVoful Men to have died wich lVliJl .. ' ft9nes a~ouc their Necks many Years ago " than thus to .have offended and poyfoned the Souls of Muldrudes : And oh ' Wo W ; ,unto Multitudes of Souls that I; ave henc~ '_tak:n an Incurable <lnd an Everlafiing Oifenc~ agat~ft the blelfed ~vays of our Lord JefLlS ' Chrtft. f And a mongO: ot~er In fiances, p. 3 8. he rells 0 a mojl unparalletJ·d Wretl:b (at . Newha-vm) one f~tttr, that '1JNZS e~1,cuted for Ja~nabte Be~Jftial{ties R r 3 ( which • I ~~-.· .,~. ~:~ ... I~ I .,~ ' •\..\'; I ~"~'l ~I·'•!''" t~e~~.~ 'f t.( l .:,·~~ li" .\~ ~; ...-.,, ~· ·.. .• ~'"I.J i :1.; .. 1 !' ,• ' ~ ... -.... :· ' "!\ i',~.;~ i I ~~ ~,~ ~~' ·'.f.( ~ .. ~ ~.. ~ ?;·:··r 1. ~ ·li.'l l,j I t "1I ~t>~1 ir-!·;, ' \'·~·:.1 f ,· ~. ~~-' 1 v~< J (;,, ' ;. ·t' · t f) f,: V Yj / r: If : ~- ( ,,Ff I ·v~·'. f. 1, r . .. 1 . l' rf1' '~ ·,, .~ o\ - / : i' ~-·.' / 11 ['<~ j 'I I '-·· I ·, ;, .) / (i I · - l : ~ · ·.~·\' '·t"'l ~if~~ .~~~ ,, i ~~~·! ' 1,\:·! i ))j J '· . |