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<HEAD>J. F's Reply UNTO <HI>Thomas Cri&s;p</HI>'s Rap&s;ody of Lies, Slan|ders and Defamations of <HI>J. F.</HI> and <HI>R. R.</HI> &amp;c. Entituled, <HI>The Fifth Part of Babel Builders,</HI> &amp;c.</HEAD>
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<Q><P>An unju&s;t man is an Abomination to the Ju&s;t, and he that is upright in the way, is an abomination to the wicked.</P>
<P>There is a Generation who&s;e Teeth are Swords, and their Jaw Teeth as Knives to devour the Poor from the Earth, and the needy from among men.</P></Q>
<Q><P>The Soul of the wicked de&s;ireth Evil: and his Neighbours findeth no fa|vour in his eyes,</P>
<BIBL><HI>Prov. 21.10.</HI></BIBL></Q>
<Q><P>Who whet their Tongue like a Sword, and bend their bow to &s;hoot their Arrows, even bitter words,</P>
<BIBL><HI>P&s;al.</HI> 64.3.</BIBL></Q>
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<HEAD>To the Reader, &s;hewing in brief our pre&s;ent Exerci&s;e is not new.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>Courteous READER,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P><HI>I</HI> Thought meet to remind thee how that Enmity and wroth &s;oon en|tered the Heart of <HI>Cain</HI> again&s;t his innocent Brother <HI>Abel,</HI> becau&s;e his offering was not accepted. And there was a <HI>Korah,</HI> a <HI>Dathan</HI> and <HI>Abiram</HI> that pretended to holine&s;s, tho' wicked men, and ro&s;e up again&s;t that meek man <HI>Mo&s;es, Numb. 16.</HI> And there was a <HI>Rab&s;hekeh,</HI> that was highly conceited of him&s;elf no doubt, when with vain words he &s;aid, <HI>I have Councel and Strength,</HI> &amp;c. and &s;aid, <HI>The Lord &s;aid to me, Go up again&s;t this Land and de&s;troy it, 2</HI> Kings <HI>18, 19.</HI> But the Virgin Daughter of <HI>Zion</HI> de&s;pi&s;ed him, &s;hak'd her head at him, and laughed him to &s;corn; and they that are in the &s;ame Spirit, now are his Off-&s;pring, for all their high words and pretences, of being the <HI>Chri&s;tian Quakers,</HI> &amp;c. There was al&s;o, we read, a <HI>Judas</HI> that betrayed his Ma&s;ter, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> and fal&s;e Brethren among the Apo&s;tles that
<PB N="2" REF="2">did then as <HI>T. C.</HI> doth now prate again&s;t the Truth; yea, there were &s;ome that brought in damnable Doctrines, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> and I &s;hall leave thee to Judge whether this man is not in the &s;ame Spirit, and in&s;tigated by him (out of who&s;e Mouth came the unclean Spirits like Froggs; &s;ee <HI>Rev. 16.13.</HI>) to belye, &s;lander, and mi&s;-repre&s;ent the Friends of Truth and People of the Lord in this our Age, to whom I wi&s;h Repentance, to the acknow|ledgment of his Fault, and remain thy Friend <HI>J. F.</HI></P>
<TRAILER>And now I &s;hall apply my &s;elf to <HI>T. C.</HI></TRAILER>
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<OPENER><SALUTE>Thomas Cri&s;p,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>I Have &s;een a Paper of thine, wherein it plainly appears to me, thou ha&s;t in thy pride and wrath &s;aid, <HI>viz. For</HI> J. F. <HI>and</HI> R.R. <HI>they are &s;uch incon&s;iderable Per&s;ons, that I am almo&s;t a&s;hamed that I have taken any notice of them. An&s;w.</HI> Well, <HI>Thomas,</HI> thou mai&s;t be quite and altogether a&s;hamed of thy belying, &s;lan|dering and defaming of us; but I perceive <HI>Solomon</HI> &s;aid true, <HI>A Fools mouth is his de&s;truction, and his lips the &s;nare of his Soul, and proud and haughty Scorner is his Name, that dealeth in proud wrath: for wrath killeth the fooli&s;hman, and envy &s;layeth the &s;illyone. But remember better is the poor that walketh in his uprightne&s;s; than he that is perver&s;e in his waies, though he be rich.</HI> And if thou <HI>T. C.</HI> art rich and wi&s;e in thy own conceit, them that thou accounte&s;t poor, <HI>have under&s;tanding, and have &s;earched thee, and find there is more hopes of a Fool</HI>&mdash; But as incon&s;iderable as we be, if <HI>T.C.</HI> or any other can bring the man, that can prove, that ever either of us had any thing of any but what we came hone&s;tly by (and without begging) or laboured for, or received of any one Farthing or Far|things worth, directly or indirectly for Preaching, for every Pen|ny they &s;hall have two; for though we have and do Admini&s;ter as occa&s;ion &s;erves, we do not receives. Through the Lord's ble&s;&s;ing there is no need. And truly, it thou art a rich man, it's pity thou &s;hould be &s;o malicious and fooli&s;h to turn Informer as thou do&s;t (in publick Print, and in the very Title page of thy Book) again&s;t an incon&s;iderable Per&s;on too in thy e&s;teem, &s;ure thou wa&s;t more mali|cious than wi&s;e herein, for what could&s;t thou expect to gain of &s;uch an one. Well, this is no new thing, for when the <HI>Devil</HI> could not have his will of <HI>Job,</HI> to lead him into wickedne&s;s, nor prevail up|on
<PB N="3" REF="2">on him to make him An&s;wer his mind, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> he turned <HI>Informer</HI> again&s;t him: &s;o thou mai&s;t &s;ee and read who is the father of all mercenary and ungodly, malicious <HI>Informers;</HI> and what became of Rich <HI>Haman</HI> that inform'd again&s;t poor <HI>Mordecai</HI> (and &s;ought the de&s;truction of the people he belonged to, and told lies to effect it) though a better man than him&s;elf, though not &s;o <HI>Rich.</HI> Thou calle&s;t thy Book, <HI>A Reply to &s;everal Lies, Slanders, fal&s;e and wick|ed In&s;inuations of</HI> R. Richard&s;on, <HI>and</HI> J. Field<HI>'s Inhabitant and Preacher,</HI> (and then tells where, and the place of his abode) and adds, <HI>of</HI> G. F's <HI>Party.</HI> Pray ob&s;erve the <HI>Informers</HI> Information, and mark his Enmity, for his Book, I may &s;ay, is &s;tuffed with that he fal&s;ly pretends it's a Reply unto, <HI>viz.</HI> Lies, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> and with &s;ome <HI>Billing&s;gate</HI> (as thou &s;ai&s;t, <HI>pag.</HI> 17.) manners, for thee calls names, as <HI>Drudges, Arrogant Prater, Inqui&s;itor to the Bull and Mouth, like a lazy begging Fryar, fal&s;e Accu&s;er, like Mercenary Reformado's, Black Fryer like Fellow; He,</HI> viz. J. F. <HI>may have an Eye to an Appa|ritor or Informers place.</HI> Well, <HI>Thomas,</HI> but what ever eye thou mai&s;t maliciou&s;ly &s;ugge&s;t I may have, thou ha&s;t taken the <HI>Infor|mers</HI> place before me; but I will not here tell where thou live&s;t, le&s;t others &s;hould hear of this thy new Undertaking. Be&s;ides, I wi&s;h thou mai&s;t grow wi&s;er, tho' I am of the wi&s;e Man's mind, <HI>That there is more hopes of a Fool, than a man wi&s;e in his own conceit: for the fooli&s;hman perverteth his way, and his heart fretteth again&s;t the Lord;</HI> yea, and his People to, I may &s;ay, proving <HI>That evil men and Seducers wax wor&s;e and wor&s;e, deceiving and being <HI>deceived.</HI></HI> Thou charge&s;t me with a Lie in thy 18 <HI>pag.</HI> for &s;peaking of Friends, and &s;aying, <HI>Their &V;nity is in the eternal Spi|rit:</HI> Sure <HI>Thomas</HI> if thee Believes there be any Friends to God and Chri&s;t, thou mu&s;t grant their Unity is there, or el&s;e inform me where it is (indeed <HI>pag.</HI> 3. thou &s;ai&s;t, there (quoting <HI>John</HI>) <HI>Their fellow&s;hip is in the Light;</HI> and what difference is there between the Light (<HI>John</HI> there &s;poke of) and the eternal Spirit. But prethee <HI>Thomas</HI> hear thy &s;elf a little further how egregiou&s;ly thou contra|dicts thy &s;elf, and Preaches the &s;ame Doctrine, which thou art an|gry with me for, <HI>&amp;c. page</HI> 6. thou &s;ai&s;t, <HI>I own all faithful Friends and People of God, their &V;nity is in the eternal Spirit:</HI> Very well, <HI>Thomas,</HI> and are not they that are faithful to the Spirit of God, faithful Friends, I will a&s;&s;ure thee I never meant nor &s;aid that un|faithful Friends, or Ranters, and them that be not the People of God, were of one mind, or that their Unity was in the Eternal
<PB N="4" REF="3">Spirlt. And &s;eeing thou &s;ai&s;t, <HI>p.</HI> 3. <HI>Take this A&s;&s;ertion not &s;trictly but to the Church or People of God, it &s;eems contrary to Scripture,</HI> &amp;c. though thou in the 6. <HI>pag&punc;</HI> &s;ays, thou <HI>owns the People of Gods uni|ty is in the eternal Spirit.</HI> I &s;hall here &s;hew that the Apo&s;tles exhorted the <HI>Corinthians</HI> to be of the &s;ame mind, and Judgment though <HI>T. C.</HI> &s;aith, <HI>It &s;eems contrary to the Scripture,</HI> and quotes <HI>Rom.</HI> 14.5. &amp;c. as if the Apo&s;tles contradicted him&s;elf, which would be wicked to A&s;&s;ert or in&s;inuate. Now the 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 10. its &s;aid <HI>Now I be&s;eech you Brethren, by the name of the Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t, that ye all &s;peak the &s;ame thing, and that there be no Divi&s;ions</HI> (or <HI>Schi&s;ms</HI>) <HI>among you; but that ye be perfectly joyned together in the &s;ame mind, and in the &s;ame Judgment:</HI> And <HI>Rom.</HI> 15.5, 6. the Apo&s;tle &s;aid, <HI>Now the God of patience and con&s;olation, grant you to be like minded one towards another, according to Chri&s;t Je&s;us;</HI> [or after the Example of him who did wear the &s;eamle&s;s Coat] <HI>That ye may with one mind, and one mouth glorifie God, even the Father of our Lord Je&s;us Chri&s;t;</HI> &s;ee 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 12.12, 13, 14, 25. yea, the whole Chapter. I think I may &s;ay if thou was not a Novice (as thou terme&s;t me) in the Scripture, thou would never have made &s;uch a noi&s;e as thou ha&s;t about this Po&s;ition, but I &s;hall leave my Reader to judge whether thou art one of them that thinks to be heard for thy much babling, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> or whether for this Doctrine thus agreeing with Scripture, and own'd by <HI>T. C.</HI> I (have proved my &s;elf <HI>like the wicked Athei&s;t, a Lyar, wicked and fal&s;e Accu|&s;ers and proud <HI>Boa&s;ter</HI></HI>) or <HI>T. C.</HI></P>
<P>Another Lie (in the 18 <HI>pag.</HI>) thou charge&s;t me with, is for &s;aying, <HI>Thou prate&s;t again&s;t the Truth.</HI> But if all what thou ha&s;t writ be true, I might acknowledge it &s;o, but its not, therefore re|member <HI>a fal&s;e Witne&s;s &s;hall not be unpuni&s;hed; and he that &s;peaketh Lies &s;hall peri&s;h;</HI> &s;o read thy portion if thou repent not, <HI>For the prating Fool &s;hall fall,</HI> &s;aid <HI>Solomon.</HI> And, <HI>Thomas,</HI> I will a&s;&s;ure thee it's not thy thinking this or that, that's any proof, tho' it's thy practice in &s;everal Pages of thy Book &s;o to &s;ay, as rich as thou art, thy word will not be taken herein, I doubt thou art a little pufft up in thy mind with the conceit of thy Riches; well remember its &s;aid, <HI>It makes it &s;elf wings and flies away;</HI> and therefore do not becau&s;e of it, a&s;&s;ume to tell my meaning, and what I think, as in the 13 <HI>page, &amp;c.</HI> for that thou knowe&s;t not; and therefore in &s;o &s;aying, thou a&s;&s;umes God's Prerogative, who according to <HI>Amos</HI> 4. la&s;t, &s;hews what the thoughts are, and manife&s;te&s;t thy &s;elf a Lyar as well as
<PB N="5" REF="3">Conceited; I don't &s;ay like <HI>Iri&s;h</HI>&mdash;as thou &s;peaks of, <HI>page</HI> 12. And in thy 4th <HI>Ba. p.</HI> 12. thou &s;ai&s;t, I judge not nor condemn any per&s;on for their Judgment and practice, that differs from me that is not a breach of the Revealed Will of God, and have often cer|tified as much. Then pray prove my Doctrine, <HI>viz.</HI> that Friends Unity <HI>(viz.)</HI> faithful ones, is in that eternal Spirit that leads all them, that are faithful thereunto, to be of one mind (prove I &s;ay this contrary to the Revealed Will of God if thou can&s;t) and if their Unity is in it, as thou owne&s;t, then they are one in it, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> if it be not thus proved the contrary by the Revealed Will of God, without thy thinkings and &s;ay-&s;o's! for alas that won't do, indeed <HI>Tho.</HI> it wont, al&s;o prove that the names thou call'&s;t me and <HI>R.R.</HI> thy &s;coffing Lies and Raylery, in thy Book, is according to the Re|vealed Will of God, which if it be the Scripture thou call'&s;t the Revealed Will of God, pray let me have Chapter and Ver&s;e, as thou &s;ai&s;t, <HI>p.</HI> 8.) and as al&s;o <HI>F. Bugg,</HI> in his confu&s;ed Book) well, <HI>Thomas,</HI> don't think I have here pickt out all thy Lies, Slan|ders, Nick-names, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> in thy Rabble of Railery, thou call&s;t <HI>Ba|bels Builders,</HI> &amp;c. no, no, for I que&s;tion whether all the Paper I have here writ will hold them; but if thou per&s;i&s;t, may be I may give a Catalogue of them. But thy Tongue to me doth not ap|pear to be that, which is &s;aid to be a <HI>Tree of Life,</HI> but rather to be &s;et on fire of Hell. So I think I may conclude, and &s;ay with <HI>So|lomon, A poor man is better than a Lyar; and he that hath a froward heart findeth no good; and he that hath a perver&s;e Tongue falleth into mi&s;chief, yea, the fools lips enter into contention, and his mouth cal|leth for &s;trokes;</HI> So, <HI>Thomas,</HI> do thou make right application hereof, And take a large mea&s;ure or quantity of unfeigned Repentance, Humility, and the fear of the Lord, and lie &s;till therein until thou ha&s;t felt the righteous Judgments of God brought forth into victo|ry over that Conceitedne&s;s, Pride and Wrath, which hath &s;o much filled thy heart, that it hath bred, as I may &s;ay, an evil di&s;ea&s;e that &s;ticks fa&s;t unto thy Soul, yea, and the very Scab of Contention; and if this means the Lord inclines thy heart unto, thou mai&s;t thereby ob|tain Cure: Which that thou mai&s;t, is my real de&s;ire, if it be God's Will, for I find, through the goodne&s;s of the Lord, the Spirit of forgivene&s;s in my Heart towards thee.</P>
<P>But if you &s;till remain angry, I am of <HI>Solomon</HI>'s mind, who &s;aith, <HI>Make no Friend&s;hip with an Angry man; and with a furious man thou &s;halt not go.</HI></P>
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And <HI>Thomas,</HI> thou &s;ai&s;t, <HI>pag.</HI> 9. &s;omething about my having a high conceit of my &s;elf, for which thou &s;ai&s;t, thou &s;ee&s;t no cau&s;e for it, except it's my high living at&mdash;where &s;ai&s;t thou, I think thou ha&s;t no cau&s;e to complain of thy high Rent. Well, <HI>Thomas,</HI> I perceive thou make&s;t the Proverb good, <HI>That every Fool will be meddling,</HI> (tho' this concerns thee not) but I would have thee know that I have, and do as hone&s;tly pay my Rent as thee; and for ought I know, thy dwelling and mine con&s;idered as much as thou do&s;t. Well, Du&s;t it's &s;aid is the Serpents meat who creeps upon his Belly, and makes his Followers Back-biters, Lyars, and Creepers like him&s;elf, and his Children loves the &s;ame meat, and as greedily feed thereof, when they get it, as is manife&s;ted by thy collecting the Letters of divers per&s;ons names in thy fourth Page, which, if true, manife&s;t thy &s;elf, to be one of cur&s;ed <HI>Ham</HI>'s brood, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
<P>And I ob&s;erve that thou maliciou&s;ly &s;peaks in thy 5 <HI>page</HI> of &s;ome, <HI>That have been guilty of evil words and actions, and yet have been owned as God's faithful Servants&mdash;and in the Power of God, and adds our &V;nity is in forms. An&s;w.</HI> Ob&s;erve his words (have been.) But I affirm no per&s;on in the eternal power of God can be found in evil words and actions, neither can tho&s;e that are therein, have Unity with &s;uch, for all that goes into evil words and actions, goes from the power of God, and are by the &s;ame power Judged and Condemned; and them that keep in the eternal power of God cannot have Unity with them therein, but if any have gone from the power of God, and they Return and Repent, they may find mercy with God, and have Unity with his faithful people which we de&s;ire, and if thou &s;hould &s;o do we &s;hould greatly re|joyce. And I would have thee con&s;ider, whether thy expo&s;ing the Letters of the Names of tho&s;e Per&s;ons in <HI>page</HI> 4. doth not prove that thou ha&s;t <HI>in thy Fore-head, the more certain and legible Chara|cter of that thou calle&s;t the Bea&s;ts mark,</HI> viz. <HI>Hatred and Strife.</HI></P>
<P>Thou take&s;t little or no notice, as I ob&s;erve, in thy Book of our 20, and 21 Pages of <HI>T. C</HI>'s <HI>Envy Detected,</HI> &amp;c. which &s;hews how the <HI>Barbados</HI> Friends have been abu&s;ed by &s;ome (for ought I know of Party with thee, who got a wrong Copy, not according to the &s;ence of the Meeting; &s;ee our Book afore&s;aid. Do them Ju&s;tice, and do not abu&s;e them in Print any more, but if thou do&s;t, read what they &s;ay for them&s;elves, and publi&s;h it too.</P>
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Al&s;o in thy 14. <HI>p.</HI> I find thee angry about my &s;aying its thy <HI>Prin|ciple to Pay Tithes and be Married by a Prie&s;t,</HI> &s;aying herein <HI>(as his u&s;ual manner is) Lies be his Refuge,</HI> and in the &s;ame Page thou &s;ay&s;t, I fal&s;ly in&s;ert that it was thy Principle to Marry by a Prie&s;t and pay Tythes, and yet in the &s;ame Page <HI>thou &s;ay&s;t thou asked</HI> J. B. <HI>and my &s;elf, whether thy &s;elf or another might not Marry by a Prie&s;t, and pay Tythes,</HI> and to which &s;ay&s;t thou <HI>J. B.</HI> &s;aid he believed it was my (<HI>viz. T.C</HI>'s.) Principle, to which thou <HI>T. C.</HI> An&s;wers, it was, <HI>viz.</HI> that one might Marry by a Prie&s;t and pay Tythes, and be a Chri|&s;tian. Well if this be not thy Principle, why was it thy Practice, was it to manife&s;t thy &s;elf an Hypocrite, or one that acts contrary to thy Principle? I think if that was all, thou might have &s;pared thy pains, at lea&s;t to many, who have and do know thee: thou aske&s;t me in the 8. <HI>p. What warrant from Scripture I have to term thy Marriage an Evil?</HI> &amp;c. I an&s;wer, that when thou according to thy A&s;&s;ertion in the 19. <HI>p.</HI> of thy fourth <HI>Babel,</HI> &amp;c. hath proved that there is Pre&s;ident and Command in Scripture for what thou did&s;t in that matter, and for having a Ring, and &s;aying after the Prie&s;t: I &s;ay when thou ha&s;t proved this, thou may&s;t expect to hear more from me. But this I may add, that in the 13. <HI>p.</HI> thou &s;ay'&s;t, <HI>But in ca&s;e I had &s;o &s;aid,</HI> (<HI>viz.</HI> that to pay Tythes and Marry by a Prie&s;t, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> was my Principle) <HI>it doth not follow, that I therefore mu&s;t &s;o do.</HI> Well, <HI>Tho.</HI> it &s;eems then thou do&s;t not look upon thy &s;elf bound to Act according to what thou &s;ay'&s;t; nay, nay, I am of the mind that's little enough regarded by thee, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> But who is the Quibbler now, which by long, practice is grown expert? Oh, <HI>Tho.</HI> I tell thee, I for ever de&s;ire rather to be a Dunce in &s;aying one thing, and doing another, than Expert, except the &s;aying hath relation, to &s;lander, fal&s;hood and untruth, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> it would be better not to pra|ctice &s;uch &s;ayings, though it's too much thy practice in thy confu&s;ed <HI>Babels</HI> &s;o to &s;ay. And in the 13.<HI>p.</HI> thou &s;ay'&s;t, I am angry that thou &s;aid'&s;t, That Submitting to the Magi&s;trates for Con&s;cience &s;ake, is accounted Submitting to the Pope. And here <HI>Tho.</HI> thou ha&s;t done wor&s;e than Quibble, thus maliciou&s;ly to in&s;inuate, as if we accounted Submitting to the Magi&s;trate for Con&s;cience &s;ake, was a Submitting to the Pope, which is a lying, fal&s;e and wicked In&s;inuation, that tends to &s;tir up and in&s;ence the Magi&s;trate again&s;t our Friends; and it's &s;o much the wor&s;e, at this time, because many lyes under severe and grievous Sufferings, by Impri&s;onment, and &s;poil of Goods, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> which ungodly and unchri&s;tian In&s;inuation thou u&s;hers in thus,
<PB N="8" REF="5">15 <HI>p.</HI> 4 <HI>Bab.</HI> It's a wonder to me, when I con&s;ider how many have been incouraged to deny or refu&s;e Submi&s;&s;ion to Authority, on pre|tence of Con&s;cience: and &s;uch accounted faithful and valiant Friends, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> but for being &s;ubject to the Magi&s;trate for Con&s;cience &s;ake is accounted &s;ubmitting to the Pope. <HI>An&s;w.</HI> But if I did not by thy Scribling find, that the Spirit of Enmity had enter'd thee, and that thou art thereby in&s;tigated thus to write, I might wonder, that <HI>T.C.</HI> &s;hould thus fal&s;ly and maliciou&s;ly Inform again&s;t &s;uch ac|counted faithful and hone&s;t Friends, and in&s;inuate that they were incouraged to deny or refu&s;e &s;ubmi&s;&s;ion to Authority, under (or on) pretence of Con&s;cience. And do not the malicious Informers give &s;uch like Evidence again&s;t our peaceable Meetings in the Sp. of Chri&s;t, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> as that they are on pretence or under colour, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> when the Lord knows it's no truer than what <HI>T. C.</HI> enviou&s;ly &s;aith, <HI>viz.</HI> notoriou&s;ly fal&s;e, for we refu&s;e not &s;ubmi&s;&s;ion to Authority in any thing on pretence, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> but in reality, and we are &s;ubject to Authority either in Active or Pa&s;&s;ive obedience for Con&s;cience &s;ake, de&s;iring <HI>to lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godline&s;s and hone&s;ty, making our Pray|ers and Supplications,</HI> &amp;c. <HI>for all men, for Kings, and them that are in Authority, knowing that it's good and acceptable in the &s;ight of God our Saviour, who would have all men &s;aved, and come to the knowledge of the Truth.</HI> And now, <HI>Thomas,</HI> con&s;ider who is the <HI>Forger, In|former, Maker of Lies, and thy Ma&s;ter</HI> (as thou mentions in the 10, and the 13 <HI>pag.</HI>) And whether thou art not in the very practice of <HI>Forging, Informing, and making Lies,</HI> for thy Ma&s;ter and Father of Lies; I &s;ay, Con&s;ider of it, and Repent thereof before it's too late, for <HI>he that &s;oweth iniquity &s;hall reap vanity, and the Rod of his anger &s;hall fail.</HI></P>
<P>Thou ha&s;t not made a litttle Clamour about the Paper writ into the Country, in which it was &s;aid at the Conclu&s;ion, <HI>viz. and have no &V;nity with</HI> T. C. this thou calle&s;t my Bull of Excommuni|cation, tho' the words were u&s;ed in a private Letter, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> But, <HI>Thomas,</HI> if it be a Bull of Excommunication for me to &s;ay, <HI>I have no &V;nity with thee;</HI> what is it for thee to &s;ay <HI>I am of the Synagogue of Satan,</HI> and to compare me to them <HI>Paul</HI> fought with at <HI>Ephe&s;us;</HI> be&s;ides the names mentioned before; nay, in the 13<HI>p.</HI> to render me wor&s;e than a <HI>Cheat, Pick-pocket,</HI> or <HI>Mercenary Reformado,</HI> as thy terms are, for I &s;uppo&s;e thou wilt grant the&s;e may be defamed as bad as they be; but thy Enmity is &s;o great again&s;t me, that thou &s;ai&s;t, <HI>I cannot defame thee.</HI> To which I An&s;wer, <HI>The Lord Re|buke
<PB N="9" REF="5">thee thou fal&s;e and lying Tongue,</HI> and mai&s;t not be &s;aid unto thee, if thou Repent not, <HI>Thou love&s;t all devouring words, Oh thou deceitful Tongue, God &s;hall likewi&s;e de&s;troy thee for ever, he &s;hall take thee away, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling place; and root thee out of the Land of the living; the Righteous al&s;o &s;hall &s;ee, and fear, and &s;hall laugh at him. Lo, this is the man that made not God his &s;trength; but tru&s;ted in the abundance of his Riches, and &s;trengthned him&s;elf in his wickedne&s;s.</HI> But to return, may not thy calling me of the <HI>Synagogue of Satan,</HI> be termed thy Bull of Excommunication again&s;t me as well as my &s;aying, <HI>I have no &V;nity with thee,</HI> Is termed (by thee) my Bull of Excommunication again&s;t thee. <HI>Who art thou that Judge&s;t another and do&s;t the &s;ame things?</HI> Well, <HI>he that devi&s;eth to do evil, &s;hall be call'd a mi&s;chievous per&s;on, and the thought of wick|edne&s;s</HI> (it's &s;aid) <HI>is &s;in, and the &s;corner is an abomination to men,</HI> and in that &s;tate I &s;hall leave my Reader to view and pity thee. In &s;everal <HI>pages,</HI> as the 1, 4, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> thou prate&s;t of <HI>G. F</HI>'s Party, to which I An&s;wer, we di&s;own all Parties out of Truth, for Truth leads not into Sects, or to be Sect Ma&s;ters, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> Thou al&s;o in many pages terme&s;t <HI>G. F.</HI> mine, and <HI>R.R.</HI> Ma&s;ter, to which I &s;ay, I own no Ma&s;ter, but Chri&s;t (according to Scripture) <HI>Mat.</HI> 23.10. tho' I own and e&s;teem <HI>G. F.</HI> as an ancient faithful Friend and Labourer in the Go&s;pel of Peace, yea, a Father in the Truth to many, and matter not what <HI>T. C.</HI> in his rage and Enmity may &s;ay, becau&s;e thereof, who is manife&s;ting him&s;elf to be like a raging Wave of the Sea, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> and void of Charity, as he &s;peaks in his 4<HI>p.</HI> by con|cluding me and many more (for no other cau&s;e but owning <HI>G. F</HI>'s Spirit) as none of God's Children, and &s;o no Chri&s;tians, tho' I have told him I own <HI>G. F</HI>'s <HI>Spirit,</HI> as govern'd by the Spirit of God; and I am well and fully &s;atisfied that <HI>G. F.</HI> &s;erves <HI>God with his Spirit in the Go&s;pel of his Son; and in his wi&s;dom Acts to the prai&s;e of his Grace, who is over all, ble&s;&s;ed for ever.</HI></P>
<P>In <HI>p.</HI> 7. thou &s;ai&s;t, <HI>I prove not the ob&s;erving any Command of God according to the Scripture, only the impo&s;ing the Imaginations of</HI> G. F. <HI>&amp;c. on People.</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> Here thou woulde&s;t maliciou&s;ly in&s;inuate, as if the Ima+ginations of <HI>G. F. &amp;c.</HI> was impo&s;ed on People, which I deny and charge it upon thee as a wicked &s;lander, al&s;o that any thing con|trary to the Holy Scriptures is de&s;ired by us to be practiced by any. Oh, <HI>Thomas,</HI> remember the Lord hath &s;aid, <HI>He that &s;peaketh Lies &s;hall not dwell in his Hou&s;e,</HI> which thou do&s;t in <HI>p.</HI> 8. where thou &s;peake&s;t of many black Characters given tho&s;e that&mdash;only <HI>for
<PB N="10" REF="6">di&s;obedience or Non-conformity to</HI> G. F's <HI>Imaginations or forms,</HI> as if our Unity &s;tood in Forms or Imaginations, I tell thee it's not, but in that Eternal Spirit in which all faithful Friends and People of God's Unity &s;tands, as thou owne&s;t, <HI>p.</HI> 6. and it's not thy bare (tho' confident denying us to be &s;uch is any proof thereof) or as thou there &s;ai&s;t of our being <HI>Lyars, wicked and fal&s;e Accu&s;ers and proud Boa&s;ters,</HI> but it may &s;erve for a proof of the contrary, and of thy Malice and enmity, which that Spirit that lu&s;teth to Envy, hath brought forth in thee; &s;o that in <HI>p.</HI> 19. thou art at it again, &s;aving, <HI>You be the Authors of Confu&s;ion and Bla&s;phemy, by contra|dicting the Scriptures, and your own former Te&s;timonies in impo&s;ing your own con&s;titutions, on your Brethren, contrary to the Light, in their Con&s;ciences, and therein &s;etting the Spirit in Oppo&s;ition to it &s;elf. An&s;w.</HI> Alas, <HI>Thomas,</HI> would&s;t fa&s;ten that upon us, which thou art &s;o apparently Guilty of in thy Po&s;ition, that the Spirit of God did or might allow one to pay Tithes or Marry by a Prie&s;t, and that by the &s;ame Spirit of God another might be required not pay them, or not do the &s;ame thing; but this Sham won't do, for it's no truer than we are the Authors of Confu&s;ion and Bla&s;phemy, and impo&s;e our own Con&s;titutions, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> which is notoriou&s;ly fal&s;e. Thou &s;ai&s;t in thy 18 <HI>p.</HI> J. F. &s;aith, <HI>He hath not griped, nor over|reached any man. To which thou An&s;were&s;t, I think he hath little op|portunity to do it, having &s;o little dealing with men, but I believe he gets or gripes (that is more than covet) as much by</HI> 20 <HI><ABBR>s.</ABBR> worth that he &s;ells, as I do by</HI> 10 <HI><ABBR>l.</ABBR> worth. An&s;w.</HI> Well, <HI>Thomas, I &s;ee</HI> it's true <HI>that the ungodly man diggeth up evil, and in his lips there is a burning Fire; and a Hypocrite with his mouth de&s;troyeth his Neighbour:</HI> &mdash;but <HI>de&s;truction &s;hall be to the workers of Iniquity, for the man that wandereth out of the way of under&s;tanding, &s;hall remain in the Con|gregation of the Dead,</HI> &s;o read thy Station, for I intend to follow the wi&s;e man's advice, who &s;aith, <HI>Let not thy heart Envy &s;inners, but be thou in the fear of the Lord all the day long.</HI> But I perceive thou woulde&s;t be willing to publi&s;h me if thou coulde&s;t prove that I had griped or over-reached any man, which &s;ai&s;t thou, for want of proof, I think he hath little opportunity (for he tells his belief in the matter) which is, he gets or gripes more by 20 <ABBR><HI>s.</HI></ABBR> &amp;c. than I by 10 <ABBR><HI>l.</HI></ABBR> (which he affirms is more than Covet) &s;o that he would in&s;inuate (with his malicious thought and fal&s;e belief) that I did more than break that Commandment, which &s;aith, <HI>Thou &s;halt not Covet,</HI> &amp;c. but by his thus writing, he puts me upon thinking,
<PB N="11" REF="6">that this came a little near him; for when the &s;ore place is touched, there is apt to be a winching: But thy <HI>Tongue,</HI> I may &s;ay, <HI>devi&s;eth mi&s;chief like a &s;harp Ra&s;or, working deceitfully, thou love&s;t evil more than good; and Lying rather than to &s;peak Righteou&s;ne&s;s.</HI> And <HI>Thomas,</HI> thou ha&s;t mentioned <HI>G.F</HI>'s Name (again&s;t whom thy En|mity &s;eems to be great) 85. times in thy 2 &s;heets and &frac12; and mine 74. But know, <HI>That every Tongue that ri&s;es up in Judgment again&s;t the Lord,</HI> in him and his Children (<HI>viz.</HI> the Lords) <HI>God hath given Power to Condemn,</HI> but thy Old Bottle cannot hold no New, but Sower Wine, which the Children of the Lord cannot Drink, for it's no better than the Wine of Fornication, which the Whores Cup was filled withal, who&s;e Name was <HI>My&s;tery</HI> Babylon, <HI>the great, the Mother of Harlots,</HI> in who&s;e Womb of uncleanne&s;s thy <HI>Ba|bels</HI> were conceived, and by the &s;trength of her Power brought forth; in who&s;e Spirit thou Scoffingly &s;peaks of <HI>G. F</HI>'s Laws and Orders, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> But never yet (though often called upon) produced a Catalogue of them, thou &s;o clamoure&s;t again&s;t and rages at, which if thou dare&s;t, &s;ure thou woulde&s;t by this time; but, may be thou may con&s;ider if thou &s;hould&s;t, thy weakne&s;s, folly and madne&s;s, would be more manife&s;t, for crying, railing and clamouring again&s;t that which is &s;o con&s;onant to, and agreeable with the Scripture, and Chri&s;tians commendable practice.</P>
<P>And in his 1 <HI>page</HI> he &s;aith: <HI>But &s;eeing its my lot to be be&s;et with &s;uch as</HI> Paul <HI>Fought with at</HI> Ephe&s;us, J. F. <HI>and</HI> R. R. <HI>and I &s;hall en|deavour to acquit my &s;elf of them, and their Lyes,</HI> &amp;c. <HI>and then they are their own, &s;eeing they love them &s;o well</HI> (viz. <HI>Lyes</HI>) &amp;c. <HI>as to make them their Refuge.</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;wer,</HI> Well <HI>Thomas,</HI> pa&s;&s;ing by thy Compari&s;on, which &s;hews thy Envy more than thy Hone&s;ty: I &s;hall tell thee, that thy en|deavours indeed is, and will be in vain, as to the acquitting thy &s;elf of them Untruths and Lyes, which in our former we Charged thee with; for it's not thy laying thy Lyes at our doors will acquit thee from being the Father or Publi&s;her thereof, nor make them ours, but thou In&s;inuates as if we <HI>Loved Lyes,</HI> &amp;c. <HI>So well as to make them our Refuge:</HI> Nay, nay, if we loved Lyes, I am per|&s;waded we &s;hould be better Loved by thee; and as for making them our Refuge, I deny it, for ble&s;&s;ed be the Lord, we have a better Refuge; even him (that &s;hall &s;weep away the Refuge of Lyes) who we believe will hide us, <HI>From the &s;ecret Councel of the wicked, from the In&s;urrection of the workers of Iniquity, who make
<PB N="12" REF="7">their own Tongue to fall upon them&s;elves; and all that &s;ee them &s;hall flee away,</HI> P&s;al. 64.2, 8.</P>
<P>Again in his 5 <HI>pag.</HI> he &s;aith, <HI>I &s;hall An&s;wer &s;ome Lyes</HI> J. F. <HI>charges me with,</HI> viz. <HI>In the</HI> 9 <HI>pag. he &s;aith, I dealt by him like a wicked Athei&s;t,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Here I ob&s;erve thou make&s;t &s;ome do, becau&s;e the words <HI>(there is)</HI> were taken into the Parenthe&s;is; and &s;aith, there then remains only the&s;e words, <HI>viz. no God:</HI> True, but this Phra&s;e of Scripture I made u&s;e of only to &s;hew thy abu&s;e, in leaving out a Material Sentence of mine, that &s;hould explain the re&s;t, as the&s;e words, <HI>viz. (The Fool hath &s;aid in his heart)</HI> explains the following, <HI>viz. there is no God:</HI> Now to leave out the former (as thou did&s;t by me) would make the <HI>P&s;almi&s;t</HI> &s;ay, <HI>there is no God:</HI> So this will not yet prove <HI>I. F. a Lyer, nor like the wicked Athei&s;t;</HI> the other Lye is, that I &s;aid, <HI>Friends &V;nity is in the Eternal Spirit,</HI> which <HI>T.C.</HI> &s;aith in the the 5 <HI>pag. Is fal&s;e:</HI> But I do again affirm it's a Lye for thee to &s;ay, <HI>Our &V;nity is not in the Eternal Spirit, and thou ha&s;t proved to the contrary.</HI></P>
<P>Again, in the 6 <HI>pag.</HI> thou &s;ay&s;t, J. F. <HI>Charges in the</HI> 11 <HI>pag. with Lyes, in &s;aying, That they,</HI> viz. S. E. C. T. <HI>&amp;c. have Adored or Wor&s;hipped</HI> G. F. <HI>and his Laws, and that they</HI> (G. F. <HI>his Party</HI>) <HI>do make that the obeying</HI> G. F. <HI>his Laws, can acquit in Gods &s;ight,</HI> &amp;c. <HI>which</HI> (thou &s;aye&s;t) <HI>thou &s;halt leave to the Truth in all to Judge.</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> The Truth in me, and many more, judgeth thee a Lyer, and a fal&s;e Accu&s;er therein, from under which, with all thy Shuffling and wrangling, thou can&s;t never get, for we utterly di&s;own all Adoration or Wor&s;hip; to any Creature or Created thing, it (<HI>viz.</HI> Wor&s;hip) being only due to God and Chri&s;t, and is only per|formed by man and woman in the Holy Spirit.</P>
<P>And in the 14 <HI>pag. T. C.</HI> &s;aith, <HI>I fear the wicked one was &s;o great with you, to In&s;tigate you to the publication of this, in hope thereby to make a difference between us, that &s;o you might have your de&s;ire on us: But I ble&s;s God I fear not</HI> G. F<HI>'s whole Black-Guard of Lyars,</HI> R. R. J. F. <HI>and</HI> C. T. <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> That which he here &s;aith, he fears the wicked one In&s;ti|gated us to the publication of, was a Paper or private Letter, which was &s;ent to a per&s;on in the Country only to give an Account of him: What he had done, and what he was, and how that he &s;till remains a per&s;on with whom Friends have not Unity; and to do his Wife Ju&s;tice, Intimated therein, that &s;he had condemned
<PB N="13" REF="7">it, (<HI>viz.</HI> her being Married by a Prie&s;t, <HI>&amp;c.</HI>) But this Account hath greatly Angryed the man, that though he pretends to <HI>&V;n|mask others,</HI> would not be <HI>&V;nmask'd him&s;elf,</HI> and therefore calls this Letter or Paper, <HI>A Bull of Excommunication,</HI> &amp;c. and now pretends a &s;ear which is altogether groundle&s;s and fal&s;e, <HI>viz. That the wicked one In&s;tigated us thereto,</HI> &amp;c. For if we had our de&s;ires, it's only your Eternal well being, and in order thereto, de|&s;ire thou <HI>T.C.</HI> may come to a &s;ight of thy evil, thou did&s;t in that Concern, &s;o as thou may Judge it, as &s;he did, and that you both may be truly &s;en&s;ible of what&s;oever el&s;e you have done that is offen&s;ive to the Lord, and condemn it, that &s;o you may come to know Forgivene&s;s at the hand of God, and Peace with him, and have Love unto his People, and &s;o bear the mark of the Di&s;|ciples of Chri&s;t; and now I &s;hall leave my Reader to Con&s;ider who belongs to the <HI>Black-guard of Lyars,</HI> &amp;c. (as thy Phra&s;e is.) And of the Incivility of this man, and how full of Enmity he is, thus to expo&s;e his own Wife, and render <HI>her deceived,</HI> &amp;c. <HI>pag.</HI> 9. for her giving out that Paper, which I am per&s;waded was from &s;ome Inward Sen&s;e &s;he had of that evil &s;he had done, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> And thou &s;aye&s;t (Scoffingly) <HI>Take a view of all the wicked Crew of Confe&s;&s;ors,</HI> &amp;c. But had&s;t thou &s;aid, take a view of all the wicked Crew or fal&s;e Accu&s;ers, I think thy Wife might have found thee among them, notwith&s;tanding my de&s;ire is you may live in that Amity as becomes Man and Wife.</P>
<P>Again, I find <HI>T. C.</HI> offended at what was Charged upon him in my la&s;t, (though true) from the&s;e words of his, <HI>viz. But one Rea&s;on why I paid that &s;o often mentioned as Tythes, was as a witne&s;s that I was not taught my fear by the Precept of</HI> G. F. <HI>&amp;c. nor receive his Traditions for Doctrines, and that I had not Sacrificed all my Faith, Con&s;cience and Judgment to his Orders, your Idol to Wor|&s;hip, that as too many both &s;mall and great do: But as a Te&s;timony again&s;t your Impo&s;ition,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
<P>To which I Replyed, <HI>Is not this an ungodly In&s;inuation is if all faith|ful Friends had &s;acrificed all their Faith, Con&s;cience and Judgment,</HI> &amp;c. and this Query he calls my A&s;&s;ertion, but takes no notice, that I call'd upon him (and now do again) to prove any of the many, both &s;mall and great that &s;o do. And I would have the Reader ob&s;erve he grants he paid (that &s;o often mentioned) as Tythes, and tells his rea&s;on for it, though in his 19 <HI>page</HI> he &s;aith contrary. And you further evidence your not doing as you would be done
<PB N="14" REF="8">by, by your Printing in the three &s;everal Books, <HI>viz. T. C.</HI> &s;aid he paid Tythes lately, notwith&s;tanding it was an&s;wered to the contra|ry before in Print. <HI>An&s;.</HI> hereby I &s;uppo&s;e he would have it thought that he did not pay Tythes, though he &s;aid to me in the pre&s;ence of <HI>P. E.</HI> that he had lately paid Tythes, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> and con&s;ented to have it writ and Printed, and took a Copy thereof with him; doth not this man manife&s;t him&s;elf a <HI>Babel Builder, And like the fooli&s;h woman that pulls down her Hou&s;e with her own Hands.</HI> I remember a Saying of <HI>Solomon,</HI> concerning which I think may be in a great mea&s;ure apply'd to <HI>T. C.</HI> which is, <HI>The fooli&s;h Woman &s;he is clamo|rous, &s;he is &s;imple and knoweth nothing;</HI> and if <HI>T. C.</HI> knoweth any thing as he ought to know, he practiceth little thereof in his Scrib|ble again&s;t Friends, which al&s;o brings to my remembrance the &s;ay|ing of the Prophet to the &s;otti&s;h Children, <HI>They are wi&s;e to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.</HI> And in the 12 <HI>page</HI> &s;aith <HI>T. C J. F.</HI> &s;aies, <HI>A Remnant are taught not to buy, or receive any of the&s;e mens corrupt Doctrines, (viz. Books) hereby in&s;inuating Friends &s;hould not read what was writ in detection of them,</HI> &amp;c. To which I An&s;wer, I did (and do) &s;ay that God hath &s;o pre&s;erved a Rem|nant in his fear, that from him they have received wi&s;dom, and thereby are taught not to buy or receive any of the&s;e mens corrupt words and fal&s;e Doctrines, but I did not &s;ay Books, that's a piece of Forgery, or &s;omething like it, of <HI>T.C</HI>'s to annex Books, which when he hath &s;lyly foi&s;ted in, he &s;aith, <HI>Therefore if you will try all things, and &s;ee for your &s;elves, and not give up all to them, then you are not of one mind, and &s;o not of the faithful</HI>&mdash;<HI>&amp;c.</HI> and <HI>charges us with Impudence. An&s;w.</HI> Well, it's &s;aid, <HI>The wicked worketh a deceitful work;</HI> and I &s;hall leave my Reader to judge whether <HI>T. C.</HI> hath not &s;o done herein, by adding the word <HI>Books,</HI> and then like a man fighting with his &s;haddow, or one that Beats the Air, he talks or writes; but it's like had he not &s;tuffed in or added that word he would have wanted matter to have quarrelled with, but at adding and patching, curtailing, tran&s;po&s;ing, and mangling, and mi&s;chievou&s;ly mi&s;placing, he is more ready than hone&s;t; &s;ee his Collection of Te&s;timonies, and call'd the third Edition, deliver|ed at <HI>Grace-Church-&s;treet</HI> the 26th of the Fifth Month 82. in his 11 <HI>page,</HI> where he cites <HI>E. B</HI>'s Works, and how gro&s;ly he abu&s;es him (let the Reader &s;ee and judge) by taking a few words in one place, <HI>viz.</HI> the 852. <HI>p.</HI> and leaving off at a Comma, and then go back thirteen or fourteen lines, and begin at a Semicolon, and
<PB N="15" REF="8">leave off at a Semicolon, and then go forward about 63 <HI>pages</HI> in Folio, to the 889. and takes a few lines more; and then back again about 215 <HI>page</HI> to 594. and all to patch &s;omething together, to make it &s;peak as he would have it, by all which he manife&s;t him|&s;elf, to be notwith&s;tanding his pretences, in that Spirit the <HI>Jews</HI> were in, that cryed up the Prophets, garni&s;hed their Sepulchers and &s;hew him that was the Life of the Prophets, &s;o <HI>T. C.</HI> cryes up <HI>J. P. E. B.</HI> &amp;c. and is in that Spirit that would murder the Life that was in them, and is now in and among Friends.</P>
<P>But I thought not to have &s;pent &s;o much time about his Railing Book, neither have I taken notice of all I ju&s;tly might; nor par|ticularly An&s;wered to all them A&s;&s;ertions, as he (fal&s;ly) calls fal&s;e, but leave them to the unprejudiced with the Truth and Spirit of it to Judge, who all them Names, he calls me and <HI>R. R.</HI> if rightly applyed belong to.</P>
<P>And la&s;tly ob&s;erve in his la&s;t page, he &s;eems to Apologize, (as it con&s;cious to him&s;elf) for his har&s;h or &s;harp Writing and Expre&s;&s;ions, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> and &s;aith, <HI>They are our Weapons, and ground at our Grind|&s;tone, and &s;harpened by our &s;elves, and as unea&s;ie as</HI> Saul<HI>'s Armour to</HI> David, <HI>and no more delightful to him than a Wife and Children of Fornication,</HI> &amp;c. To all which I in &s;hort An&s;wer, If it was true that they were ours, as it's fal&s;e, it might mitigate his fault; but let him prove, if he can, we ever call'd him the Names afore&s;aid, <HI>Mercinary Reformado's, Inqui&s;itor, Black Guard of Lyars,</HI> and many more, and therefore I advi&s;e him to do by this Old man, with his evil deeds of Lying <HI>&amp;c. As</HI> David <HI>did by</HI> Saul's <HI>Armour, al&s;o no longer to delight in a Wife and Children of Fornication,</HI> &amp;c. For the Lord hath determined to Plague her, <HI>Who&s;e Cup is full of Abomi|nation and Filthine&s;s of Fornication, and to da&s;h her Children and Bratts again&s;t that Stone, which many now are &s;tumbling at, for</HI> Ba|bylon <HI>is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of Devils, and the hold of every foul Spirit, and Cage of every unclean and hateful Bird,</HI> Rev. 18.2. <HI>Yea her Plagues &s;hall come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and &s;he &s;hall be utterly burnt with fire; there|fore the voice from Heaven is, come out of her my People, that ye be not partakers of her &s;ins, and that ye receive not of her Plagues, for her &s;ins hath reached unto Heaven, and God hath remembred her Iniquities,</HI> (and therefore wo be unto all <HI>Babel</HI> builders) for &s;trong is the Lord that judgeth her, who will not regard the weeping, the Mourn|ing nor Lamentation of her Merchants, becau&s;e no man buyeth her Merchandize any more.</P>
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And <HI>Thomas,</HI> I under&s;tand thy Books were given away at the Meeting-hou&s;e-doors at <HI>Bull and Mouth</HI> the 14th of the 5th. Month 1682. which to me is one proof more of thy great Enmity as well as Folly, in &s;o publickly manife&s;ting thy Belying and Slande|ring <HI>&amp;c.</HI> of me and Friends. So that in the words of the Prophet I may conclude, <HI>Jer.</HI> 2.19. <HI>Thine own wickedne&s;s &s;hall correct thee, and thy back-&s;lidings</HI> [and Lyes, <HI>&amp;c.</HI>] <HI>&s;hall reprove thee; know there|fore and &s;ee that it's an evil thing and bitter, that thou ha&s;t for|&s;aken the Lord thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, &s;aith the Lord God of Ho&s;ts.</HI></P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED><HI>Thou may&s;t take this at pre&s;ent, as an An&s;wer to thy Railing Book, from thy Belyed and Slandered Friend,</HI> J. Feild, <HI>Junior.</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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