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<P>The Devils Bow UNSTRINGED, OR Some of <HI>Thomas Dan&s;ons</HI> Lyes made manife&s;t, which he hath Printed and put to pub|lick view in two Pamphlets, the one Intituled, <HI>The Quakers Folly made manife&s;t.</HI> And the other, <HI>The Quakers Wi&s;dom not from above.</HI></P>
<P>And in the fir&s;t page of his <HI>Narrative</HI> he calleth them <HI>&V;ndoubted Truths,</HI> But the wi&s;e in heart will not &s;o take them, but will con&s;ider better of them, for, <HI>The wi&s;e mans eye is in his head.</HI></P>
<P>By <HI>Luke Howard.</HI></P>
<P><HI>LONDON,</HI> Printed for <HI>Thomas Simmons</HI> at the <HI>Bull</HI> and <HI>Mouth</HI> near <HI>Alder&s;gate,</HI> 1659.</P>
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<P>ANd now <HI>Tho. Dan&s;on,</HI> if it be not too late, con&s;ider well what thou ha&s;t done, by &s;hooting in the Divels Bow, and making u&s;e of the Divils Weapons, as thou &s;aye&s;t thou ha&s;t done in the 50. page of thy fir&s;t Book, to the oppo&s;ing of the Truth which maketh free all which liveth in it, and &s;tirreth up <HI>Cains</HI> nature in all which liveth out of it, and as it is manife&s;t it hath done in thee, to the publi&s;hing of 2 pam|phlets again&s;t it, filled with the Old mans Dreams made up of lyes; And becau&s;e thou ha&s;t made u&s;e of my name in them both &s;everal times, as a &s;eale &s;et to thy lyes to blinde the &s;imple; and for the Truths &s;ake is it on me as a nece&s;|&s;ity to bear my te&s;timony again&s;t thee, and to prove thee &s;uch a one as thou ha&s;t both &s;aid of, and proved thy &s;elf to be, &s;hooting in the <HI>Divels Bow,</HI> and making u&s;e of his Weapons who is the Father of lyes.</P>
<P>In thy fir&s;t Book, page 49. Thou &s;aye&s;t <HI>that the Quakers came to your Town and made a challenge to the Prie&s;t to defend their Doctrines and Call;</HI> this I wit|ne&s;&s;e again&s;t as a lye, or an Arrow &s;hot out of the Divels <HI>Bow,</HI> for thou maye&s;t remember that we being met together in a place called the <HI>Vickerage-hou&s;e,</HI> thy &s;elf and many more came in and pa&s;&s;ed through our Meeting into another Room, and there &s;tayed untill thou dide&s;t hear words &s;poke in our Meeting by one of our friends, <HI>viz. Stephen Huber&s;tye,</HI> and then you ru&s;hed all in to us, and after &s;ome time did gain&s;ay what was &s;poken; but after &s;ome time of thy gain-&s;aying Di&s;cour&s;e, for the Truths &s;ake I asked thee <HI>if thou wa&s;t willing to debate the&s;e things more at large at another time;</HI> and this is what was propounded by us, which cannot ju&s;tly be called a challenge, and this thou was not at the fir&s;t willing to, but afterwards did&s;t &s;aye, that if I would engage to bring Mr. <HI>Fi&s;her</HI> (as thou calle&s;t him) thou woulde&s;t ap|point to meet, and thou maye&s;t remember this was my an&s;wer &s;everal times to thee, <HI>That I had not the command of S. F. his Spirit, and &s;o could not engage him;</HI> and be&s;ides, for ought I know, he was many &s;cores of miles from home, and if thou woulde&s;t not appoint to meet with &s;ome other, that then it might not be: So then thou dide&s;t agree to meet with &s;ome other, and the meeting to be that day moneth, witne&s;&s;e <HI>Edward Nokes.</HI></P>
<P>But thou being &s;o well skild in &s;hooting in the <HI>Divels Bow,</HI> That at that in&s;tant time dide&s;t &s;hoot out one lye to all the people, <HI>viz.</HI> That I had agreed to bring Mr. <HI>S. F.</HI> the which I denied at that pre&s;ent time in the face of all the people, the which they that will be hone&s;t can witne&s;&s;e the truth of, and I am &s;ure will do; yet &s;uch was thy boldne&s;&s;e, that thou woulde&s;t have one &s;hoot more in the Divels Bow, in the old Ma&s;&s;e-hou&s;e, fal&s;ly called St. <HI>Peters Church in Sandwitch,</HI> and there dide&s;t &s;ay that the Di&s;pute was appointed be|twixt Mr. <HI>S. F.</HI> and thee, the which I denied again in the face of all the people, and all who are &s;ingle-hearted on both &s;ides knows to be true, and thy &s;elf al&s;o, if thou wilt not &s;tifle the witne&s;&s;e in thy con&s;cience, yet in thy anger, thou woulde&s;t have one great &s;hoot more in the Divels Bow, and &s;o puts this thy lye in Print among&s;t many more to publick view, as a witne&s;&s;e again&s;t thee to the knowledge of many who dares not but &s;peak the truth; and this te&s;ti|mony I bear to the Truth again&s;t thy lyes, that no hone&s;t mind may be de|ceived therewith by thy pretended fair words, whereby thou lie&s;t in wait to deceive.</P>
<P>And then in thy &s;econd Book thou appeare&s;t as if thou had&s;t fulfilled the worlds Proverb, <HI>viz.</HI> To take Hell and skim the Divel, for Arrows, to wit,
<PB N="3" REF="2" MS="y">lyes to utter, yet &s;o great is thy impudency, that thou do&s;t not blu&s;h to &s;ay in the fir&s;t page of thy <HI>Narrative</HI> of the la&s;t Book, that they are of <HI>undoubted credit,</HI> (mark that) and that to the mo&s;t part of them there is the witne&s;&s;es names; but that is ju&s;t the Divels practice to &s;lay the Truth with a lye, and give a rea&s;on for it, and that will appear to be but thy arrogancy and impudency to abu&s;e the men in citing their names, as witne&s;&s;es to thy lyes, contrary to their knowledge, <HI>viz.</HI> Mr. <HI>Ru&s;&s;el,</HI> and Mr. <HI>Davis,</HI> as thou calle&s;t them, the one Mini&s;ter in <HI>Rumny Mar&s;h,</HI> and the other at <HI>Dover,</HI> as thou ha&s;t writ them; and by them whom we do know let us mea&s;ure all the re&s;t whom we do not know; mo&s;t of them being &s;uch as thou &s;eeme&s;t to be a&s;hamed of, or at the be&s;t loath to name them.</P>
<P>And fir&s;t concerning <HI>John Davis,</HI> whom thou &s;ites to prove that <HI>a Quaker</HI> in <HI>Dover</HI> lying &s;ick on his death-bed, being asked, by whom he thought to be ju|&s;tified, &s;hould reply, by his own righteou&s;ne&s;&s;e, and not by the righteou&s;|ne&s;&s;e of Chri&s;t; and I knowing of it to be a lye, as to that friend who died, and for the Truths &s;ake could not let it pa&s;s without going to <HI>John Davis,</HI> and demanded of him whether ever he informed <HI>Tho. Dan&s;on</HI> of <HI>&s;uch a thing,</HI> or ever &s;aw that friend in the time of his &s;ickne&s;&s;e, who&s;e an&s;wer was, that he never &s;aw him in the time of his &s;ickne&s;s, and that he &s;carce knew &s;o much as where he dwelt, and this his an&s;wer was in the pre&s;ence of <HI>John Higgins</HI> of <HI>Dover.</HI></P>
<P>And here <HI>Tho. Dan&s;on,</HI> Behold thy forwardne&s;&s;e, and read thy wickedne&s;s, who ha&s;t made u&s;e of a mans name contrary to his will, and without his know|ledge as him&s;elf &s;aith, to prove thy lyes, and with a whores forehead can&s;t call them <HI>undoubted truths,</HI> as thou ha&s;t done in thy Pamphlet, therefore lay thy hand upon thy mouth, and let &s;hame cover thy face, and never more call thy &s;elf a Mini&s;ter of the Go&s;pel, having manife&s;ted thy &s;elf to the contrary, to be a lover and a maker of lyes, and all &s;uch are &s;trangers to the Go&s;pel which is the power of God, but are &s;hut out among&s;t the dogs.</P>
<P>And again thou &s;aye&s;t that in <HI>May</HI> la&s;t there having been &s;ome di&s;cour&s;e be|twixt one <HI>Howard</HI> of <HI>Dover</HI> Quaker, and a Mini&s;ter in <HI>Rumney Mar&s;h, viz.</HI> Mr. <HI>Ru&s;&s;el</HI> (as thou calle&s;t him) the next day was appointed for further di&s;cour&s;e betwixt them two, but over night the &s;aid <HI>Howard</HI> &s;ent his man and his hor&s;e for Mr. <HI>Fi&s;her</HI> &s;ometime a Mini&s;ter, and now a <HI>Quaker,</HI> and &s;u&s;pected to be a Je&s;uite, and going with him to the place of Meeting, told the people, that &s;eeing <HI>S. F.</HI> came accidentally there, he would now leave the di&s;cour&s;e to him, and one &s;tanding by &s;hould &s;ay that he &s;aw <HI>Howards</HI> hor&s;e and man go over night, and that <HI>S. F.</HI> rid into the Town on the &s;ame hor&s;e the next morning: And this thou &s;aye&s;t is well enough known, that be&s;ides the lyes in their Doctrines, they have not &s;o much Moral hone&s;ty as to &s;peak truth in matter of Fact; the&s;e are thy own words in thy <HI>Narrative,</HI> page the fifth, and to prove it, thou ha&s;t &s;et Mr. <HI>Ru&s;&s;el</HI> Mini&s;ter in the <HI>Mar&s;h</HI> in the Margent as a witne&s;&s;e</P>
<P>But this I know, that thy proof is &s;o &s;hort, that its no proof at all; But an|other Arrow at large &s;hot out of the Divels <HI>Bow,</HI> in which thou art a &s;hooting throughout in both thy Pamphlets, but they will return again and &s;tick fa&s;t in thy own &s;ides, and as Darts in thy liver will they be thy burthen; and the Pit thou ha&s;t digged for the innocent, thou mu&s;t fall into thy &s;elf; for this is a lye in every part of it, for the di&s;cour&s;e was not betwixt me and <HI>William Ru&s;&s;ell,</HI> neither did I &s;end my hor&s;e and man over night for <HI>S. F.</HI> But for the
<PB N="4" REF="3">Truths &s;ake thus it was; <HI>Edward Burrough</HI> coming to <HI>Dover</HI> to get pa&s;&s;age for <HI>Dunkirk,</HI> and knowing that <HI>S. F.</HI> had &s;omething on him to go al&s;o, asked me, to let my &s;on ride down on his hor&s;e (which is a black one, and mine a ray, ea&s;ily to be di&s;tingui&s;hed by all that loves to &s;peak truth) to carry <HI>S. F.</HI> a let|ter, and <HI>E. B.</HI> &s;ent the boy away &s;o long before our meeting, that we did think that the boy might be near <HI>S. F.</HI> his hou&s;e. before <HI>William Ru&s;&s;el</HI> came into our Meeting, or we knew of any meeting to be; And be&s;ides the Di&s;pute was be|gan by a Bapti&s;t who had been convinced of the Truth, and <HI>Judas</HI> like turn|ed his back upon it, and betrayed it into the hands of the Prie&s;t, <HI>viz. William Ru&s;&s;el,</HI> who was hovering about the window where our Meeting was; and after &s;ome time he came in and intermedling with the Di&s;cour&s;e, the Bap|ti&s;t left the mannagement of it to him; &s;o time being &s;hort, <HI>E. B.</HI> and <HI>W. R.</HI> appointed to come again in the morning, which they did, and about the middle of the day; <HI>W. R.</HI> de&s;ired a little time of ea&s;e, and to meet in the after part of the day in St. <HI>James</HI>'s Church (fal&s;ly &s;o called) &s;o <HI>E. B.</HI> met him there, and then <HI>S. F.</HI> came, and knew nothing of the Di&s;pute, le&s;&s;e, or more, till he came to town, for how could he, the boy being &s;ent by <HI>E. B.</HI> the morning before the Di&s;pute began, and neither my &s;elf, nor <HI>S. F.</HI> were little con|cerned in it, but <HI>E. B.</HI> chiefly, by whom that day through the Lords &s;trength Truth was richly made manife&s;t, and the Prie&s;ts of <HI>England</HI> proved deceivers, and this is a true Relation of this matter, witne&s;&s;e <HI>John E'eins, Henry Goodis.</HI></P>
<P>Al&s;o here followeth a true Relation taken from the mouth of <HI>William Ru&s;&s;el.</HI> (whom he hath &s;et in the Margent to cover his lyes) and to make them ap|pear as truth unto the world, by which he manife&s;ted his inveterate wicked|ne&s;&s;e and rage again&s;t the Truth, which appeareth to be very great by his raking together &s;uch groundle&s;&s;e &s;tuffe, and confirming them with &s;uch &s;wel|ling words, &s;aying that they are <HI>undoubted Truths,</HI> and that to the mo&s;t of them there is the witne&s;&s;es names, but this will be al&s;o unto thy &s;hame) for this is <HI>William Ru&s;&s;els</HI> own te&s;timony that he hath neither &s;poken, nor writ, nor &s;ent any manner of way any thing to <HI>Tho. Dan&s;on</HI> about that Di&s;pute, witne&s;&s;e hereunto <HI>John Higgins, John Philley.</HI></P>
<P>So al&s;o he hath made u&s;e of <HI>William Ru&s;&s;els</HI> name, contrary to his will, and without his knowledge to be a fal&s;e witne&s;&s;e to his Lies, which is abomination to the Lord. But <HI>Wil. Ru&s;&s;el</HI> &s;aid that <HI>Nath. Barry</HI> told him that he did inform <HI>Tho. Dan&s;on</HI> of it: Now this <HI>Nath, Barry</HI> is a Prie&s;t in <HI>Dover,</HI> and Preacheth at the old Ma&s;&s;e hou&s;e, fal&s;ely called St. <HI>Maries</HI> Church; And I a&s;ked him whe|ther he did Report it to <HI>Tho Dan&s;on,</HI> and he at the fir&s;t was very loth to tell me, as being con&s;cious of evil in him&s;elf as I judged; But in his an&s;wer to me thus he ordered his &s;peech, &s;aying <HI>That he heard &s;uch a Report, and onely &s;pake of it at a Gentlemans hou&s;e where</HI> Tho. Dan&s;on <HI>was, and that he did not think he would have printed it.</HI> And thus they report lyes one to another even as brethren therein, and &s;trengthen them&s;elves in darkne&s;s by making lyes their Refuge, and under fal&s;hood hides them&s;elves, but are afraid to bring or have them brought to the light which is the truth, for that is their condemnation: And thus they fulfill the Scriptures upon them&s;elves, as the fal&s;e prophets of old did, who watched for evil, and for the halting of the Righteous, and &s;aid, Come Report and we will report it: But why do the Heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing again&s;t the Lord and again&s;t his Annointed, for &s;urely in vain is the &s;nare laid in the &s;ight of any bird, for though the prie&s;ts dig as deep as Hell to hide their coun&s;el, and to make a covenant with hell and death, yet
<PB N="5" REF="3" MS="y">Truth will di&s;anull it all, and the overflowing &s;courge will and mu&s;t overtake them in their works of darkne&s;s, and he that &s;itteth in heaven will laugh them to &s;corn, &amp; &s;hall have them in deri&s;ion, for now is the Lord a making their folly known unto all men, and they &s;hall proceed no further, but &s;hall go back|ward and be &s;nared and fall and be taken by the traps which they lay, and the pits which they digg for the innocent, in which they &s;hall fall in the bowels of their mother the great Whore My&s;tery <HI>Babylon,</HI> as a mil&s;tone into the Sea, never to ri&s;e any more, and the day is near at hand wherein it will be &s;een per|fectly, even the fullfilling of that which was prophe&s;ied of in ages pa&s;t, for the Lord alone will do it for his own name &s;ake, which the Prie&s;ts have pol|luted, and by their lightne&s;s and by their lying have cau&s;ed the people &s;o to do al&s;o, &s;o that from them prophane&s;s is gone forth among&s;t all people in this pre&s;ent age as much as in any, but wo and mi&s;ery will be the end of all &s;uch, the workers of iniquity.</P>
<P>And now <HI>Thomas Dan&s;on,</HI> if we may mea&s;ure all the re&s;t of thy bitter Arrows &s;hot out of the Devils Bow by the&s;e thy two great witne&s;&s;es, we may &s;afely con|clude them to be &s;uch like, and this we have &s;ufficient ground to do, and that they (to wit) thy Arrowes will never &s;lay the Dragon nor brui&s;e the head of the old Serpent, which is the Devil, who ruleth in the hearts of all the children of di&s;obedience, and &s;o in thee <HI>Thomas Dan&s;on.</HI></P>
<P>Another thing thou ha&s;t to &s;ay of me from one of thy brethren, like thy &s;elf that met me near <HI>Dover</HI> Ca&s;tle, at which time he had much to &s;ay of friends and truth, but refu&s;ed to tell me his name or the place where he lived, or to meet me in a more publick place to make good his charge; but now thou having raked him up to &s;hoot his lye out of thy Bow, he appeareth (or thee for him) who calle&s;t him the Mini&s;ter of <HI>Word</HI> near <HI>Sandwich,</HI> and &s;aying that I &s;hould &s;ay that it was revealed to me by the eternal God that the Prie&s;ts &s;hould be de&s;troyed, and that by the <HI>Quakers,</HI> and this thou bringe&s;t as all thy proof to evidence three lyes, be&s;ides this, to wit, that a <HI>Quuker</HI> in <HI>Su&s;&s;ex</HI> (who as thou &s;aye&s;t had taken upon him to be &s;peaker in that meeting) called our to a Mini&s;ter of the Pari&s;h as he pa&s;&s;ed by, &s;aying, we will have you all down, for now our day is come; which Practi&s;e we deny.</P>
<P>And that another in the &s;ame County &s;hould &s;ay, <HI>that he no more cared to kill a Prie&s;t then he cared to kill a Dogg.</HI></P>
<P>And that another &s;hould Ju&s;tell a man on the way, having his Wife behind him, and drew out his &s;word half way, which was a &s;u&s;pition that he would have killed him [a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter"> thou in thy &s;u&s;picious minde &s;aith] had he not been pre|vented; but the&s;e three men thou do&s;t not name, &s;o thy proof in the&s;e three thou ha&s;t not yet raked up, and except they be &s;uch as will &s;hoot in the De|vils Bow with thee, thou wilt be troubled to make them enter into &s;ober peoples under&s;tandings, they are &s;o groundle&s;s, and all this groundle&s;s &s;tuff, the lye which thou ha&s;t laid on me is all the evidence thou ha&s;t produced, as if we were a people in who&s;e hearts were blood, of which we are clear, and not like that bloody generation of Prie&s;ts, who lately made an in&s;urrecti|on with <HI>George Booth</HI> and you their brethren, which were loth to read the Proclamation again&s;t them, here read thy &s;elf.</P>
<P>And if &s;uch kind of proof may be taken to brand the innocent, then thy lyes may pa&s;s; but to the contrary, can I bring many witne&s;&s;es, and that the&s;e were my words to the Prie&s;t I met be&s;ide the Ca&s;tle, or to this pur|po&s;e, to wit, <HI>That the decree of the Lord was gone out and &s;ealed again&s;t the Prie&s;ts
<PB N="6" REF="4">to pluck them up by the roots for their wickedne&s;s,</HI> witne&s;s John Hummerdien, of <HI>Dover.</HI> John Mar&s;h, He&s;ter Warry.</P>
<P><HI>And that I believe will certainly come to pa&s;s, as truly as ever your Fathers the Bi|&s;hops and</HI> Love <HI>your brothers, who lo&s;t their Heads on</HI> Tower hill <HI>for their wickedne&s;s, which may be looked upon as true figures of the downfal of your whole body of oppo&s;ers of the truth, for now is the Lord a &s;earching out your hidden things of</HI> E&s;au, <HI>and bring|ing of them to publick view:</HI></P>
<P>Witne&s;s the late Proclamation, by which many of you were proclaimed Rebells and Traytors to the peace of your Countrey. The day is come, and a coming which &s;hall declare every mans works, and that all &s;hall be tryed by fire, and there is nothing which will &s;tand in Covenant with the Lord, but what will indure the fire, therefore let none be deceived, profe&s;&s;ors or not profe&s;&s;ors, covered or not covered with names of Saints or Churches, God will not be mocked, but &s;uch as every man &s;ows, &s;uch &s;hall he reap; if they &s;ow to the fle&s;h, they mu&s;t of the fle&s;h reap corruption, but if they &s;ow to the &s;pirit, <HI>viz.</HI> That which reproveth them for &s;in, they &s;hall of the Spirit reap life everla&s;ting, for its reproofs of in&s;truction are the way to life, and al&s;o he that liveth after the fle&s;h &s;hall dye, but he that through the &s;pirit (which reproveth the World of &s;in, righteou&s;ne&s;s &amp; of Judgment) mortifieth the deeds of the fle&s;h, he &s;hall live; for in every nation, and among&s;t all people, he that feareth God and worketh righteou&s;ne&s;s is accepted of him, and the fear of the Lord is to depart from iniquity, and a fountain of life to depart from the wayes of death, and the fear of the Lord keepeth the heart clean, &s;o all people feel that which keepeth the heart clean, for it is the pure in heart onely &s;hall &s;ee God, and there is none that can &s;ee his face with peace, and live in the fir&s;t nature, but as a con&s;uming fire will his appearance be to all &s;uch who have a life in the tran&s;gre&s;&s;ion, or tre&s;pa&s;&s;ing again&s;t that which &s;hews them &s;in and iniquity.</P>
<P>And now to thy two Que&s;tions which thou make&s;t in thy Title page, <HI>viz. If it be not &s;o now, who will make thee a lyer, and make thy &s;peech nothing worth, and what thou ha&s;t done, is there not a cau&s;e, &s;aye&s;t thou.</HI> (No cau&s;e to lye, &s;ay I) And all this thou ha&s;t done to confirm people in a bad opinion of the <HI>Quakers,</HI> and thou tru&s;te&s;t that it will do it, as thou &s;aye&s;t in thy confu&s;ed preface, in the beginning of which thou &s;aye&s;t, <HI>thou art come once more upon the Stage</HI> (and its true, more like a &s;tage Player then a Mini&s;ter of the Go&s;|pel) <HI>not without a blu&s;h;</HI> and truly according to the Worlds proverb, thou maye&s;t indeed blu&s;h for &s;hame to utter &s;o many lyes in the face of the Son, which is right &s;tage player like, who&s;e life and trade is to lye, and this thou ha&s;t done, by which the hands of the wicked are &s;trengthned, that he &s;hould not return from his wickedne&s;s, but rejoyce in his iniquity, and Joyneth him&s;elf with thee again&s;t the truth, and &s;o thou maye&s;t have thy prayer an|&s;wered, which thou make&s;t in the end of this preface, <HI>viz. That the Reader may hold fa&s;t that Doctrine which he hath already learned;</HI> and if thou meane&s;t &s;uch Doctrines as are to be learned of thee (as no doubt thou doe&s;t) which is to plead for &s;in as long as he liveth in the body, Then where and when mu&s;t he glorifie God, with his &s;pirit and with his body, &s;eeing in the Grave there is no remembrance of him, and he who&s;e conver&s;ation is not ordered aright while&s;t he is in the body doth not glorifie him, and al&s;o none glorifi|eth God but &s;uch as bringeth forth fruit to his Spirit, which reproveth man for all &s;in, and leadeth all out of &s;in which hearkens to and obeys its reproofs,
<PB N="7" REF="4" MS="y">and as many as are led by the &s;pirit of God, they are the Sons of God, and none el&s;e, and they glorifie their Father which is in Heaven, by there conver&s;a|tions which is al&s;o in Heaven, which is without covetou&s;ne&s;s, pride, or any thing which worketh an abomination or maketh a lye, all which fruits is &s;hut out of the Kingdom; here read thy own &s;tate and be not deceived with vain hopes, but read within thee, that the hope of the hypocrite &s;hall peri&s;h, and that without remedy; and &s;o in truth and in the fear of the Lord, I have proved thee a lyer, and &s;o thy &s;peech to be nothing worth, and this &s;hall &s;tand over thy head a full an&s;wer to thy que&s;tions, and to this let the wit|ne&s;&s;e of God in all Con&s;ciences an&s;wer that this readeth, and I know it will do in all where it is &s;uffered to &s;peak, that knoweth any thing as eye-wit|ne&s;&s;e of the matter which occa&s;ions the&s;e Lines to be written to thee <HI>T. D.</HI> by which thou art put by thy tru&s;t, which thou in thy Preface &s;peake&s;t of and tru&s;te&s;t to, to beget in people a bad opinion of the <HI>Quakers,</HI> except it be in &s;uch as thy &s;elf is, who make&s;t lyes thy refuge, and under fal&s;ehood hideth thy &s;elf: But this know, that thou and all &s;uch, that to &s;peak the truth is alwayes be&s;t, every man to his neighbour, the which if thou had&s;t learned it within thee, as plain and as well as thou can&s;t read it without thee, then thou would&s;t have known a bridle to thy Tongue before this time, and never have been raking abroad for lyes, but for want of that thy Religion is vaine, as &s;aith the Scriptures of truth, which we believe, and &s;hews the life of as a witne&s;s again&s;t thee and all the vain talkers and di&s;puters of this World, about the hu&s;ks, which is the letter, on which the Swines do feed, who rent and tear the Lambs and lives in the liberty of the fle&s;h, out of the life of them wherein the Worlds friend&s;hip &s;tandeth, which is enmity again&s;t God, &s;ee|king honour one of another, and not the honour which is of God alone, which is to live in his fear, and how can &s;uch believe or know the faith which giveth victory over the world, and in this &s;tate thou ha&s;t manife&s;ted thy &s;elf to be in a large mea&s;ure, by thy lying and flattery with tho&s;e worthy per&s;ons which thou in thy Pamphlets &s;peaks of, and this will appear to all that have but moral hone&s;ty in them, and &s;o much &s;obriety as to ponder thy lines and the weight of thy words, and the grounds thou &s;peake&s;t them from, the which to him who liveth and walketh in the light of the Lord, will appear to be from the bottomle&s;s pit, wherein they mu&s;t go again with the lyar, the bea&s;t, and the fal&s;e Prophet, which is the proper and the appointed place for them all.</P>
<P>And this I have writ for the clearing of my own Con&s;cience and the truth, which is my life, &s;o far as in brief it might be done, and I concerned &s;o to do, &amp; have laid the lys on the lyars head, &amp; turned the Devils fiery darts back into his own Quiver again, and in this I have cleared my Con&s;cience, which is a true and faithfull te&s;timony born by me, who am a knower and a lover of the <HI>Quakers</HI> principles, becau&s;e I know and feel that they lead out of &s;in, and al&s;o out of the nature which pleadeth for &s;in; for he that believeth hath the witne&s;&s;e in him&s;elf, in which I re&s;t in peace, and remain a true friend and a lover of the Seed of God in all men, but an enemy to the &s;eed of the Serpent, in all without re&s;pect to the per&s;ons of any; and this te&s;timony is true, born by me <HI>Luke Howard</HI> again&s;t <HI>Thomas Dan&s;ons</HI> lyes.</P>
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<P>THis my te&s;timony to the truth is true, and al&s;o thine <HI>T. D.</HI> is fal&s;e, which thou ha&s;t Printed again&s;t the truth, my &s;elf, and others, and if thou woulde&s;t be <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="UOM" EXTENT="1 letter">o hone&s;t as to &s;peak the truth, thou knowe&s;t it is &s;o; but if in thy hardne&s;s of heart and boldne&s;s of face, &s;houlde&s;t yet &s;ay to the contrary, let not thy &s;peech of it at a rich mans Table (which you Prie&s;ts love to fre|quent to &s;erve your God, to wit, your bellies) &s;erve the turn, but let the truth ap|pear in the face of the Son, and if thou dare&s;t affirm that thou ha&s;t Printed nought but truth, then make thy &s;elf &s;trong, and gather together thy witne&s;&s;es, to wit, the four Prie&s;ts mentioned in thy pamphlet to prove thy lyes, and meet me publickly in <HI>Dover</HI> or <HI>Sandwich</HI> Market place, and let timely notice be given, that much people may hear of it and meet with us, and I may be ready to meet thee in the fear of the Lord, with witne&s;&s;es al&s;o to prove the truth outwardly be&s;ides the Te&s;timony of my own Con&s;cience within, which is more to me then a thou&s;and witne&s;&s;es without, and let the lyar bear his own burden, and if this be refu&s;ed by thee, I &s;ay again, cea&s;e u&s;ing of thy Tongue at <HI>Rich mens Tables,</HI> for that will be thy &s;hame to boa&s;t in lyes, for the day is &s;o far come on that many of them &s;ee through the deceit of the Prie&s;ts, though they have not &s;o much yet born up in them as to deny you, but your folly doth appear to many of them and it will to all men, to the fulfilling of the Scriptures; &s;o that I &s;ay again and again, that the decree of the Lord is to pluck you up by the roots for your wickedne&s;s, your pride, lightne&s;s, lying and covetou&s;ne&s;s, and for the&s;e things will ye &s;tink as a dung-hill again&s;t the Sun, and that all the &s;trength of <HI>Egypt</HI> &s;hall not help you, for the Scripture will be fulfilled upon you, <HI>viz.</HI> Cur&s;ed be the man that tru&s;teth in man, and maketh fle&s;h his arm, when all who&s;e confidence is in the Lord, and not in Princes, &s;hall be as Mount <HI>Sion,</HI> which &s;hall never be moved, and herein lyeth our &s;trength, and in him is our joy full, and if it had not been &s;o we had long &s;ince been o|verwhelmed, to the rejoycing of you Prie&s;ts who have long looked for it, who in your hearts &s;ay again&s;t the appearance of the heir of all things in this age, as your murthering Brethren of old did again&s;t the appearance of him in ages pa&s;t, <HI>viz.</HI> This is the heir, come let us kill him that the inheriance may be ours But the work is in the hand of the Lord now, as ever it was, and by him carried on, who is bringing great things to pa&s;s out of your reach and &s;ight, but this is your inheritance and due reward from the Lord to be filled with the fruit of your own doings, and that will be a burden heavy e|nough, and too heavy for you to bear, I am &s;ure of it, who am one that under&s;tandeth well, and feeleth what I &s;ay, and therefore cannot but pity you, yea I can truly &s;ay pity you all, though <HI>abu&s;ed by you and hated of you and your Generation,</HI> yet dare not render to you evil for evil, but contrary wi&s;e good to you and all men, by which I de|&s;ire to be made manife&s;t to you and to the witne&s;&s;e of God in you, otherwi&s;e by name,</P>
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