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<P>THE ABSURDITY &amp; FALSNES<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1 letter"> OF Thomas Trion's DOCTRINE MANIFESTED, IN <HI>Forbidding to Eat Fle&s;h,</HI> CONTRARY TO The Command of GOD, the Example of Angels, CHRIST JESUS, and the holy Apo&s;tles: AND <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1 letter">roved to be <HI>Doctrine of Devils,</HI> by the Te&s;timony of HOLY SCRIPTURES: <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1 word"> a few Queries thereon, as laid down in his Books,&mdash;one In|tituled, <HI>The Way to Health, long Life and Happine&s;s;</HI> the other, <HI>The Way to make all People Rich:</HI> Sub&s;cribed <HI>Phylotheos Phy&s;iologus.</HI></P>
<P>ALSO, <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1 word"> great Errour in affirming, That <HI>Killing the Creatures for Food, is from the fierce Wrath of God, and Helli&s;h Nature in Man, and a Fruit of Hell.</HI></P>
<P>AND, <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1 word"> Lawfulne&s;s of Eating both Fle&s;h of <HI>Fowls</HI> and <HI>Fi&s;h,</HI> &amp;c. in the Fear of God, being received with Thank&s;giving, proved by Scripture, and the Example of Chri&s;t and his Apo&s;tles.</P>
<P>TOGETHER WITH <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1+ letters">me Remarks on the Ver&s;es Printed as a <HI>Preface</HI> to his Book Enti<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1+ letters">led, <HI>The Way to make all People Rich,</HI> &amp;c. In which Ver&s;es it is &s;aid;</P>
<Q><L>Not He that bore the Almighty Wand could give</L>
<L>Diviner Dictates how to Eat and Live.</L></Q>
<P>Than <HI>Thomas <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1 word">.</HI></P>
<P><GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1+ letters">n, Printed for <HI>Tho. Howkins,</HI> in <HI>George-Yard<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1 span">rd-&s;treet,</HI> 1685.</P>
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<HEAD>To the READER.</HEAD>
<OPENER><SALUTE>FRIEND,</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>THe&s;e en&s;uing lines or Queries on &s;ome things in the Books intituled, the one, <HI>the Way to Health, long Life and Happine&s;s,</HI> &s;ub&s;cribed, <HI>Philotheos, Phi&s;iologus;</HI> the other, <HI>The Way to make all People rich,</HI> or <HI>Wi&s;dom</HI>'s <HI>Call,</HI> &amp;c. by the &s;ame Author, which is generally reputed to be one <HI>Thomas Trion,</HI> a per&s;on I have no per&s;onal knowledge of, nor any acquain|tance with, but by his Books: I find he is wholly again&s;t, and doth ab|&s;olutely forbid the Eating of Fle&s;h, th&ocirc; he doth direct how to Roa&s;t, Boyl, Bake, Stew, Fry and Broyl it, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> and al&s;o the Eating of Fi&s;h, and is again&s;t killing of any Creature what&s;oever, let the pretence be what it will; and al&s;o in the la&s;t named Book there are Ver&s;es printed in his prai&s;e, which calls the Plowing the Earth, <HI>Ingratitude in Man.</HI></P>
<P>Now, fir&s;t, I de&s;ire thou may&s;t do like the Noble <HI>Bereans,</HI> &s;earch the Scriptures, and &s;ee if the&s;e things are &s;o or not; for in <HI>Gen.</HI> 2. 15. and <HI>Gen.</HI> 3. 25. thou may&s;t find Man was to dre&s;s or till the Earth, by Gods own direction, before the Fall; for <HI>dre&s;s</HI> is the &s;ame word with <HI>till,</HI> th&ocirc; variou&s;ly rendred.</P>
<P>Secondly, And then we read, <HI>Abel</HI> offered the Fir&s;tling, and was accepted; and <HI>Noah</HI> offered of every clean Bea&s;t and Fowl. And then <HI>Abraham</HI> the Father of the faithful, at the command of God, <HI>Gen.</HI> 15. 9. took an Heifer of three years old, and a She-Goat, and a Ram of the like age, and a Turtle-dove, and a young Pidgeon, and divided them in pieces: Tho killing (the pretence what it will) <HI>T. T.</HI> doth af|firm from a true light and ground, as he &s;aith, proceeds from the fierce Wrath of God, and is contrary to the friendly love and Light of God in Chri&s;t; yet I read God commanded both to kill and eat: See <HI>Exo.</HI> 12. to the 9. <HI>v.</HI> and all <HI>I&s;rael</HI> did both kill and eat fle&s;h, and <HI>Mo&s;es</HI> and <HI>Aaron,</HI> and <HI>Samuel</HI> eat fle&s;h, &s;ee 1 <HI>Sam.</HI> 9. 24. And many In|&s;tances might be given of the holy Ancients; yea Chri&s;t and his Apo|&s;tles eat fle&s;h and fi&s;h; and therefore finding his Doctrine was wholly contrary to Scripture, and the practice of them mentioned before, and yet by &s;ome un&s;table People too far credited, I thought meet to make
<PB REF="3"> the en&s;uing Queries, and write what I have. For I can truely &s;ay, It's not for Contention, nor to be &s;een in Print, or any &s;ini&s;ter end, ad|vantage or profit; but only to &s;hew the folly, ab&s;urdity and incon&s;i&s;tency, and fal&s;ene&s;s of his Doctrine, and how contrary to Scripture and right Rea&s;on his Rea&s;onings and Writings are, again&s;t killing any Creature or eating fle&s;h and fi&s;h in Moderation, and the fear of God, and with Thank&s;giving, which only is the Eating that I plead for; and I do believe that fle&s;h and fi&s;h may and ought to be &s;o eaten, and every Crea|ture with thank&s;giving ought to be receiv'd; for I am again&s;t Exce&s;s and Intemperance in Eating and Drinking, and Apparel, and all other things, and de&s;ire the good Exhortation of the Apostle might be more minded and practi&s;ed, 1 <HI>Cor. 10. 31. Whether therefore you eat or drink, or what&s;oever you do, do all to the glory of God:</HI> Yet I al&s;o judge all ought to be careful (and my Advice as a friend is, that they may) that under &s;pecious pretence of <HI>Temperance</HI> and <HI>Mo|deration,</HI> &amp;c. they are not by a &s;educing Spirit led into the very Do|ctrine of Devils. There are &s;everal things in his Books I have took little notice of, as his Ob&s;cene di&s;cour&s;e about Women, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> which I judge not fit for many to read, neither to proceed from a true Light and ground, as his Phra&s;e is: He al&s;o greatly applauds and extolls Mu&s;ick, &s;aying the Bag pipes are an excellent Harmony for Shepherds to entertain their Flocks with, which &s;aith <HI>T. T.</HI> Sheep much delight in, <HI>p.</HI> 655. But how he either knows or can prove it, I &s;hall leave the Reader to judge; as al&s;o that the Organs &s;ounds are full of Maje&s;ty, &s;weetne&s;s and gravity, and &s;eem to be as much <HI>Divine</HI> as <HI>Humane;</HI> (but is it &s;o to any fearing God, and guided by his Spirit?)</P>
<P>And he &s;aith Mu&s;ick works upon the Minds and Pa&s;&s;ions of Men; but let him prove that it makes them better: for though he &s;aith the Mental and In&s;trumental Harmony of <HI>David</HI> did a&s;&s;wage or mitigate, by awakening and &s;trengthening its &s;imile, and by its friendly Influen|ces compo&s;e, and as it were by a &s;weet violence cha&s;e away Inequality, Di&s;cord and Enmity in <HI>Saul;</HI> yet the Scripture doth not &s;o &s;ay, &s;ee 1 <HI>Sam.</HI> 16. 58. and the <HI>18th</HI> Chapter, and Ver&s;e the <HI>11th,</HI> it's &s;aid, <HI>Saul ca&s;t the Javelin, and &s;aid, I will &s;mite David even to the wall with it:</HI> The Enmity was not &s;o cha&s;ed away it &s;eems, though <HI>David</HI> did then play as at other times, but that <HI>Saul</HI> therein &s;ought to
<PB REF="3"> kill <HI>David:</HI> mark, Though he played, &s;aith the Text, as at other times; from whence ob&s;erve, whether the Mu&s;ick had &s;uch powerful Influence as he doth a&s;&s;ert, (or any at all) to cha&s;e away Enmity. And I de&s;ire that it may be con&s;idered, whether the Fruit of Hell, (which he calls Killing the Creatures) doth not help him to Guts to make Mu|&s;ick with, or Fiddle-&s;trings: But if they dye of them&s;elves, would he have the works of God &s;o defaced, as to have their Guts pulled out for him to make Mu&s;ick with?&mdash;Well, I have enlarged beyond my own Expectation, but &s;hall now draw to a Conclu&s;ion; and I &s;hall by the Manife&s;tation of the Truth, commend my &s;elf herein to every Man's Con&s;cience in the &s;ight of God, de&s;iring what I have writ be no fur|ther received any, than it an&s;wers the Truth in them, and is agree|able to the Holy Scriptures. And remain,</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Thy Friend,<LB> John Field, <HI>Junior,</HI></SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<L>IF all tho&s;e things were true <HI>T. T.</HI> doth &s;ay,</L>
<L>It &s;eems like Day turn'd Night, not Night turn'd Day:</L>
<L>For if it &s;inful be on <HI>Fle&s;h</HI> to feed,</L>
<L>Of <HI>Fi&s;h,</HI> or <HI>Fowl,</HI> or <HI>Bea&s;t,</HI> I pray what need</L>
<L>The Man to teach us how to roa&s;t and boyl?</L>
<L>Do'n't his Receipts his Doctrine give the Foyl?</L>
<L>One while he builds, then down he throws again;</L>
<L>Confu&s;ed working of his rambling <HI>Brain!</HI></L>
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<L>No true <HI>Philo&s;opher,</HI> no true <HI>Divine;</HI></L>
<L>His Errour's &s;hews, his Light but dim doth &s;hine:</L>
<L>He takes upon him many things to teach</L>
<L>He knows not of, they are beyond his reach;</L>
<L>For Holy Writ if Men read and believe,</L>
<L><HI>T. Trion</HI>'s Doctrine they &s;hould not receive;</L>
<L>'Cau&s;e in the Scriptures they may plainly find</L>
<L>Chri&s;t and th' Apo&s;tles of another mind:</L>
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<L>The Son of God, whom all &s;hould hear and heed,</L>
<L>Eat <HI>Fi&s;h,</HI> and of the <HI>Pa&s;chal Lamb</HI> did feed:</L>
<L>And what is &s;old in Shambles <HI>Paul</HI> bids take,</L>
<L>And eat, not que&s;tioning for Con&s;cience &s;ake.</L>
<L>But <HI>Thomas Trion</HI> otherwi&s;e doth tell;</L>
<L>Whence Springs fal&s;e Doctrine, but from Pit of Hell?</L>
<L>To forbid Marriage, and from Meats abstain,</L>
<L>Doctrine of Devils is, appeareth plain:</L>
<L>For what&s;oever from without doth go</L>
<L>Into the Mouth, doth not defile, I know;</L>
<L>But that which from the Heart proceeds within</L>
<L>Defiles the Man, as Envy, Pride, all Sin:</L>
<L>Yet <HI>Snakes</HI> and <HI>Fleas</HI> and <HI>Lice,</HI> which do annoy,</L>
<L>Can it be &s;inful &s;uch things to de&s;troy?</L>
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<LG>
<L>And will the &s;ound of Bagg-pipes plea&s;e the Sheep;</L>
<L>Or Pastures green, where they may feed and &s;leep?</L>
<L>Did <HI>Thomas</HI> e're dumb Creatures hear complain,</L>
<L>And &s;peak as <HI>Balaam</HI>'s A&s;s? or did he feign</L>
<L>The <HI>Jack-daw</HI>'s Story, and the many cries?</L>
<L>They're either true, or el&s;e fictitious Lies.</L>
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<LG>
<L>Is catching <HI>Fi&s;h,</HI> or <HI>Fowls,</HI> or killing <HI>Deer,</HI></L>
<L>To be accounted Wars and Blood-&s;hed? Here</L>
<L>I judge the Text the Preacher mi&s;applies,</L>
<L>As tho&s;e may &s;ee that will not &s;hut their Eyes.</L>
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<LG>
<L>I rest, commending all to Truth Divine,</L>
<L>God's Grace and Light which in their Hearts doth &s;hine;</L>
<L>Which teacheth Man to eat and drink, and wear</L>
<L>What's lawful, &s;anctify'd by th' Word and Prayer.</L>
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<CLOSER><SIGNED>B. A.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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<HEAD>THE <HI>Ab&s;urdity and Fal&s;ne&s;s</HI> OF <HI>T. TRION</HI>'s Doctrine Manife&s;t, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> In his BOOK <HI>The Way to Health,</HI> &amp;c. p. 513.</HEAD>
<P>IT's &s;aid, <Q>Let Man know this for a certain truth, that the groan|ing of that Creature that &s;uffereth wrong, is the beginning of Pain and Torment to him that doth it.</Q></P>
<P>Now, <HI>Gen. 4. 4. Abel</HI> (who Chri&s;t, <HI>Mat.</HI> 23. 25. called Righ|teous) brought of the Fir&s;tlings of the Flock, and of the Fat there|of, and the Lord had re&s;pect to his Offering.</P>
<P>From whence I Query,</P>
<P N="1">1. Whether that Creature &s;uffered wrong? 2. If &s;o; Whether the Killing of the Fir&s;tling was the beginning of <HI>Abel</HI>'s Pain and Torment? And in <HI>p. 342. T. T.</HI> &s;aith, <Q>There is greater Evil and Mi&s;ery attends Mankind by killing and oppre&s;&s;ing his fellow Creatures, and eating their Fle&s;h, and that without di&s;tinction, than is generally apprehen|ded, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></Q></P>
<P>From whence I Query,</P>
<P N="1">1. Whether Righteous <HI>Abel</HI> committed Evil in Killing the Fir&s;tling? 2. Whethar the Fir&s;tling was his fellow Creature? And, 3. Whe|ther every living Creature, as a Dog, a Cat, a Lamb, a Fi&s;h, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> be Man's fellow Creature? And, 4. Whether <HI>Abel</HI> was an Oppre&s;&s;or for Killing the Fir&s;tling? And the afore&s;aid 342 <HI>p. T. T.</HI> &s;aith, <Q>Had Man continued in the pure Law of God, and followed the voice and Dictates of the divine Principle which he was Created to live in, he would have been far from Oppre&s;&s;ing, Killing and Eating the Fle&s;h and Blood of Bea&s;ts.&mdash;</Q></P>
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<P>From whence I Query,</P>
<P N="1">1. What Voice, Principle and Dictates did <HI>Abel</HI> follow when he killed the Fir&s;tling, &s;eeing the Scriptures &s;ay, <HI>God had re&s;pect to Abel, and to his Offering,</HI> and Chri&s;t calleth him <HI>Righteous Abel?</HI> And, 2. Could he be Righteous, and yet departed from the pure Law of God? and if not departed from the pure Law of God, (he would have been far from Oppre&s;&s;ing and Killing, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> &s;aith <HI>T. T.</HI> And in 412 <HI>p.</HI> of the &s;aid Book, <HI>T. T.</HI> &s;aith, <Q><HI>Abel's Blood cryed unto the Lord;</HI> the very &s;ame is to be under&s;tood in all kinds of Oppre&s;&s;ion both to Man and Bea&s;ts; they all by a &s;weet &s;ympathetical Operation call for Vengeance.</Q> And in <HI>p. 413. T. T.</HI> &s;aith, <Q>Every violent Action and Oppre&s;&s;ion, let it be little or much, or offer'd unto what&s;oever Creatures, does as naturally and &s;piritually awaken in them and without them, the fierce Wrath of God and Nature, as the Blood of innocent <HI>Abel</HI> did cry, and awaken the Lord; whence <HI>Cain</HI>'s Judgment proceeded.</Q> And in <HI>p.</HI> 513, 514. he maketh the Bea&s;t &s;ay, <Q>We move the Prin|ciples of Nature by a certain &s;ympathetical Operation, which awa|kens the Wrath, and draws down Judgments on the Oppre&s;&s;or.</Q></P>
<P>From whence I Query,</P>
<P N="1">1. Seeing <HI>T. T.</HI> mo&s;tly joyns Oppre&s;&s;ing and Killing together, whe|ther the Blood of the Fir&s;tling or Lamb <HI>Abel</HI> killed, cryed to the Lord (as <HI>Abel</HI>'s did) (or by a &s;ympathetical Operation, as his term is) for Vengeance on <HI>Righteous Abel,</HI> whom <HI>T. T.</HI> acknowledgeth to be <HI>Innocent?</HI> And, 2. Whether Mans Killing of any Creature what|&s;oever, as any Bea&s;ts, Fowl, Fi&s;h, Worm, Frog or Lou&s;e, does awaken within and without them the fierce wrath of God and Nature, as the Blood of <HI>Innocent Abel</HI> did? And, 3. Whether the Lamb <HI>Abel</HI> kil|led, or Man's killing any Creature what&s;oever, did (or would &s;o) move the Principles of Nature, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> as to awaken the wrath, and draw down Judgments on <HI>Righteous Abel,</HI> or on any that &s;hall Kill any Crea|ture what&s;oever without exception. Al&s;o the like may be queryed of Righteous <HI>Noah</HI>'s Offering of every clean Bea&s;t and Fowl, <HI>Gen.</HI> 8. 20. and whether his Killing them were from the dark Root, and wrath, and doth awaken, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> as afore&s;aid. I al&s;o Query from what <HI>T. T.</HI> &s;aith in the afore-recited <HI>Page</HI> 514, and 515.</P>
<P N="1">1. Whether <HI>Abel</HI> and <HI>Noah</HI> proved di&s;obedient to the voice of <HI>Wi&s;|dom,</HI> or kept to the E&s;&s;ential Law of God by (or in) Killing the Lamb, clean Bea&s;t, &amp;c? 2. And whether <HI>Abel</HI> and <HI>Noah</HI> entred with their De&s;ires, not only into the Nature of the wild &s;avage Bea&s;ts of Prey, but awakened the fierce <HI>Wrath,</HI> and thereby deprived them&s;elves of
<PB N="3" REF="5"> the divine under&s;tanding, and did invade the Rights and Priviledges of the inferiour Creatures by killing the Fir&s;tling, clean Bea&s;t, <HI>&amp;c?</HI> 3. If &s;o, whether God will not retaliate the wrong of the Lamb, clean Bea&s;t, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> who&s;e blood <HI>Abel</HI> and <HI>Noah</HI> &s;hed, on Righteous <HI>Abel</HI> and <HI>Noah,</HI> that offered the &s;ame, or the Fat thereof? I al&s;o query the &s;ame of <HI>Abra|hams</HI> killing the Lamb caught in the thicket? And in <HI>T. T</HI>'s book, inti|tuled, <HI>The way to make all rich,</HI> or <HI>Wi&s;dom's Call,</HI> p. 45, 46. he &s;aith, That Fle&s;h and Fi&s;h cannot be eaten without violence, and doing that which a man would not be done unto, and making de&s;truction of Gods Crea|tures;&mdash;All kind of Violence, whether towards our Kind, or inferi|our Creatures, ari&s;es from the Awakened wrath in Nature, and that the &s;ame does by Simile excite the fierce, wrathful Principle in the man that kills and eats them, and renders him prompt and ready for <HI>any</HI> Acts of Cruelty or Oppre&s;&s;ion.</P>
<P>Now I read in <HI>Luk. 24. 42, 43. And they gave him</HI> (that is Chri&s;t) <HI>a piece of broiled fi&s;h, and of an Honey-comb; and he took it and did eat be|fore them. Note,</HI> This was after his Crucifixion, and Re&s;urrection.</P>
<P>From whence I Query,</P>
<P N="1">1. Whether Chri&s;t Je&s;us did commit Violence?</P>
<P N="2">2. Did he break that golden Rule he laid down, and do as he would not be done unto?</P>
<P N="3">3. Did he make de&s;truction of Gods Creatures?</P>
<P N="4">4. Did his eating Fi&s;h ari&s;e from the awakened wrath in Nature in him?</P>
<P N="5">5. Did the &s;ame by Simile excite the fierce, wrathful Principle (if I may without Bla&s;phemy &s;o &s;ay) in Chri&s;t Je&s;us, after his Crucifixion and Re&s;urrection, and render him prompt and ready for <HI>any</HI> Acts of Cruel|ty or Oppre&s;&s;ion?</P>
<P N="6">6. Did the Di&s;ciples or the 9000 men, be&s;ides Women and Children, which all eat of the Loaves and Fi&s;hes at Chri&s;ts command, commit vio|lence, and do as they would not be done to? and did they make de|&s;truction of Gods Creatures? And was their eating Fi&s;h (at Chri&s;ts com|mand or direction) from the Awakened wrath in Nature? and did their eating by Simile excite the fierce wrathful Principle, and render them prompt and ready for <HI>any</HI> Acts of Cruelty or Oppre&s;&s;ion, as Mur|der, Blood-&s;hed, and what not? And can any Chri&s;tian believe, that ever Chri&s;t would have commanded &s;uch a great multitude (as we may read <HI>Mat. 14. v.</HI> 17, 18, 19. and Chap. 15. <HI>v.</HI> 34, 35, 36, 37.) to have eat Fi&s;h, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> (and wrought &s;uch a Miracle as he did for them) if their Eating would have been of &s;uch ill con&s;equence, as <HI>T. T.</HI> affirms the <GAP DESC="missing" EXTENT="2 pages">
<PB N="6" REF="6"> were Fruits of Hell; and whether their killing was from the Origi|nal Spring and Dark Fountain of wrath and eternal <HI>Woe?</HI> 2. Whe|ther the killing (&s;eeing it's &s;aid <HI>any Creature)</HI> of a Lamb, Gudgeon, Bird, Worm, Frog, Lou&s;e or Flea, or any other Creature, proceeds from the awakened Wrath of God in man, or the Original Spring of Wrath, and is a fruit of the Kingdom of Darkne&s;s and of Hell, and will produce eternal woe to them that do it? And whether <HI>Abra|hams</HI> killing the Ram caught in the Thicket, did proceed from the Wrath of God, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> and was a Fruit of Hell, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> And &s;eeing that <HI>T. T.</HI> &s;aith, <Q>Do no violence to any Inferiour Creatures, nor in no kind Oppre&s;s, hurry or kill them; nor eat the Blood or Fle&s;h of Bea&s;ts, that &s;o they may avoid the Incorporating of the Bea&s;tial, Savage and Sen&s;ual Properties, <HI>p. 75. Wi&s;doms call.</HI></Q></P>
<P N="1">1. Query: Whether the Viper mentioned <HI>Acts</HI> 28. 3. was not an In|feriour Creature; and if &s;o, Whether <HI>Paul</HI> did in no kind hurry, oppre&s;s or kill that Creature, when he &s;hook it off into the Fire, as in <HI>ver&s;e</HI> 6. And 2^l^y, Whether his &s;o doing was any Act of Violence, in any kind, and did wholly proceed from the Wrath of God in Nature, and the very &s;ame Root Backbiting doth, <HI>&amp;c?</HI> And &s;eeing <HI>T. T.</HI> &s;aith, as before, <Q>Do no violence to <HI>any</HI> Inferiour Creatures, nor in <HI>no</HI> kind op|pre&s;s, hurry or <HI>Kill</HI> them.</Q></P>
<P>I Query:</P>
<P N="1">1. Why then doth <HI>T. T.</HI> give nine Receipts, or pre&s;cribe nine &s;e|veral ways how to kill Buggs and Fleas? Or doth <HI>T. T.</HI> account them no kind of Inferiour Creatures? If &s;o, let him prove it: but if other|wi&s;e, why doth <HI>T. T.</HI> direct to that which cannot be done, without Acting from the Spring of Wrath? and will not the killing of them, if Creatures, be &s;ome kind of Violence? And therein, and in killing (without di&s;tinction) con&s;i&s;ts (&s;aith he) the Kingdom of Satan and Wrath; and killing, and the like Enormities, &s;ays he, are the Fruits of Hell; for killing of <HI>any</HI> Creature, &s;aith he, proceeds from the Ori|ginal Spring of wrath, and in wrath doth Satans Kingdom &s;tand: Why then, &s;ay I, doth he direct People, and teach them how they &s;hall bring forth the Fruits of Hell? doth the holy Scriptures or right Rea&s;on enjoyn to this?</P>
<P>And &s;eeing in his <HI>Call to Wi&s;dom,</HI> &s;o termed, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> p. 68. <HI>T. T.</HI> &s;aith, <Q>I am far from the Vanity or rather <HI>Wickedne&s;s</HI> of de&s;iring to Start or promote any new Sect or Party, and have no Ambition, to im|po&s;e my own Dictates on any, further than Holy Scriptures and right Rea&s;on enjoyn.</Q></P>
<PB N="7" REF="6">
<P> From whence I Query,</P>
<P N="1">1. Where doth the Holy Scriptures &s;ay, <Q>If man had kept or con|tinued in the pure Law of God, and followed the voice and di|ctates of the Divine Principle, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> he would have been far from killing or eating the Fle&s;h of the Bea&s;ts?</Q></P>
<P N="2">2. Where doth the Scripture &s;ay, <Q>That the Blood of Bea&s;ts, when they are killeed by a &s;weet &s;impathetical Operation calls for vengeance, as <HI>Abels</HI> Blood cryed to the Lord?</Q></P>
<P N="3">3. Where doth the Scripture &s;ay, <Q>Every violent Action and Op|pre&s;&s;ion, let it be little or much, or offered unto what&s;oever Crea|ture, does as naturally and &s;piritually awaken in them and without them, the fierce wrath of God and Nature, as the Blood of Inno|cent <HI>Abel</HI> did cry and awaken the Lord, whence <HI>Cains</HI> Judgments did proceed?</Q></P>
<P N="4">4. Where doth the Scripture &s;ay, <Q>The Bea&s;ts move the Principle of Nature, by a certain &s;ympathetical Operation, which awakens the wrath, and draws down Judgments on the Oppre&s;&s;ors?</Q></P>
<P N="5">5. VVhere doth the Scripture &s;ay, <Q>That Fle&s;h and Fi&s;h cannot be eaten without violence, and doing that which a man would not be done unto, and making de&s;truction of Gods Creatures?</Q></P>
<P N="6">6. Where doth the holy Scriptures &s;ay, <Q>All kind of violence, whe|ther towards our Kind, or upon Inferiour Creatures, ari&s;es from the awakened wrath in Nature, and that the &s;ame doth by <HI>Simile</HI> excite the fierce wrathful Principle, in the man that kills and eats them; and renders him prompt for any Acts of Cruelty or Oppre&s;&s;ion?</Q></P>
<P N="7">7. Where doth the Holy Scripture &s;ay, <Q>If man had kept his high and illu&s;trious State of that Dominion over the Creatures, he would have been far from killing them, or eating their Fle&s;h; nor have made his Body, which ought to have been the Temple of the Holy Spirit, a Stinking Sepulcher, or common Burial-place, for the Dead Bodies of Bea&s;ts? Or where doth it &s;ay, that the Noble Faculties of the Soul come to be depraved thereby?</Q></P>
<P N="8">8. Where doth the Holy Scripture &s;ay, <Q>When ever any man does hurt, oppre&s;s, kill, or &s;peak evil of any other Creature, it proceeds from this Original Spring of Wrath?</Q></P>
<P N="9">9. Where doth Holy Scripture &s;ay, <Q>Do no Violence to any Inferiour Creature; nor in no kind hurry, oppre&s;s or kill them, nor eat the Blood or Fle&s;h of Bea&s;ts; that &s;o they may avoid the Incorporating of the Be&s;tial Savage and Sen&s;ual Properties?</Q></P>
<P N="10">10. Where doth the Holy Scriptures &s;ay, <Q>The greate&s;t excel|lency,
<PB N="8" REF="7"> and common virtue of mens eating much Fle&s;h and Fi&s;h, is, That it makes them Surly, Robu&s;tick, Sordid, and of cruel inhumane Di&s;po&s;itions and Inclinations; it being the mo&s;t proper for Souldiers, Hunters, Mo&s;s-Troopers, and all &s;uch as would have the Bea&s;tial, Savage Nature &s;trengthen'd and encrea&s;ed; and have a mind to be Lyons and Devils, not only to their own Kind, but to all other Creatures?</Q></P>
<P>And now I &s;hall proceed to give a few In&s;tances out of the Holy Scriptures about eating of Fle&s;h, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD>The Holy Scriptures Doctrine.</HEAD>
<P><HI>Gen. 9. 1, 2, 3.</HI> And God ble&s;&s;ed Noah and his Sons, and &s;aid unto them, Be fruitfull and multiply and repleni&s;h the Earth: And the fear of you, and the dread of you &s;hall be upon every Bea&s;t of the Earth, and up|on every fowl of the Air, and upon the fi&s;hes of the Sea, into your hands are they delivered; every Moving Thing that liveth, &s;hall be Meat for you, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
<P><HI>And 1 Cor. 10. 25, 26, 27.</HI> What&s;oever is &s;old in the Shambles, Eat, making no que&s;tion for Con&s;cience &s;ake; for the Earth is the Lords, and the fullne&s;s thereof; and if any of them that believe not, bid you to a Fea&s;t, and ye be di&s;po&s;ed to go; what&s;oever is &s;et before you, eat, asking no que&s;tion for Con&s;cience &s;ake.</P>
<P><HI>And 1 Timothy 4. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.</HI> Now the Spirit &s;peaketh expre&s;ly, That in the latter times &s;ome &s;hall depart from the Faith, giving heed to &s;edu|cing Spirits, and Doctrines of Devils, &s;peaking Lyes in hypocri&s;y; having their Con&s;ciences &s;eared as with an hot Iron; forbidding to Marry, and Commanding to ab&s;tain from meats, which God hath Created to be received with Thanksgiving of them which believe and know the Truth: for every Creature of God is good, and nothing to be refu&s;ed, if it be received with Thanksgiving, for it's &s;anctified by the Word of God and Prayer.</P>
<P>And now I &s;hall collect &s;ome of <HI>T. T</HI>'s Doctrine, that the Reader may &s;ee, read, hear, try, Judge of both, and which is mo&s;t according to Truth: Al&s;o whether his Doctrine or Dictates be according to what the Holy Scripture or right Rea&s;on enjoyns.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<HEAD><HI>T. Tryons</HI> Doctrine.</HEAD>
<P><Q>Do not eat the Fle&s;h of Bea&s;ts; it's neither nece&s;&s;ary nor expe|dient, Fle&s;h and Fi&s;h cannot be eaten without violence, and doing
<PB N="9" REF="7"> that which a man would not be done unto; and violence is a Fruit of Hell, and its original Spring is from the dark Fountain of Wrath and Eternal <HI>Woe,</HI> and from the eating of Fle&s;h, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> Many Evils and Mi&s;chiefs proceed, it Excites the fierce wrathful Principle, and renders man prompt and ready for <HI>any</HI> Acts of Cruelty or oppre&s;|&s;ion: And the greate&s;t virtue of mens eating much Fle&s;h, and Fi&s;h, is, that it makes them <HI>Surly, Robu&s;tick, Sordid,</HI> and of cruel inhumane Di&s;po&s;itions and Inclinations; it being the mo&s;t proper for <HI>Souldiers, Hunters, Mo&s;s-Troopers,</HI> and all &s;uch as would have the bea&s;tial &s;a|vage nature &s;trengthened and encrea&s;ed, and have a mind to be <HI>Lyons</HI> and <HI>Devils;</HI> not only to their own kind, but all other Creatures. <HI>p.</HI> 339. Had man kept his High and Illu&s;trious &s;tate, he would have been far from eating the Creatures Fle&s;h, nor have made his Body, which ought to have been the Temple of the Holy Spirit, a &s;tink|ing Sepulcher or common Burial-place for the dead Bodies of Bea&s;ts, and &s;o avoid the Incorporating of the Bea&s;ts Savage and Sen&s;ual Pro|perties, and depraving the noble faculties of the Soul, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></Q> With more that might be collected. But take this in brief, and ob&s;erve the Difference betwixt his Doctrine and the Scriptures.</P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="comparison of doctrines">
<HEAD>A few Compari&s;ons of the Scripture and <HI>Tryons</HI> Doctrine, and a &s;hort Animadver&s;ion thereon.</HEAD>
<P><TABLE>
<ROW>
<CELL>&rindx; God &s;aith, <HI>Every moving thing &s;hall be Meat for you,</HI> &amp;c.</CELL>
<CELL>&rindx; <HI>Tryon</HI> &s;aith, <HI>Do not eat the Fle&s;h of Bea&s;ts, Fle&s;h and Fi&s;h cannot be eaten without violence,</HI> &amp;c. <HI>Many evils attends the eating of Fle&s;h,</HI> &amp;c. So <HI>T. T.</HI> contradicts <HI>God.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>&rindx; Chri&s;t &s;aith, <HI>What&s;oever thing from without entereth into the</HI> Man, <HI>it cannot defile him, and the</HI> Rea|&s;on he gives, is, <HI>becau&s;e it entereth not into his Heart.</HI></CELL>
<CELL>&rindx; <HI>Tryon</HI> &s;aith, <HI>Eating of much Fle&s;h and Fi&s;h makes &s;urly, or &s;ordid, and is mo&s;t proper for them that have a mind to be Lyons or Devils;</HI> and if their eating makes them &s;uch, &s;ure it defiles, and &s;o he contradicts Chri&s;t.</CELL>
</ROW>
<ROW>
<CELL>&rindx; <HI>Paul</HI> &s;aith, <HI>What&s;oever is &s;old in the Shambles eat,</HI> &amp;c.</CELL>
<CELL>&rindx; <HI>Tryon</HI> &s;aith, <HI>Do not eat Fle&s;h; or what's &s;old in the Shambles, in effect,</HI> and &s;o contradicts <HI>Paul</HI> as well as <HI>God</HI> and <HI>Chri&s;t.</HI></CELL>
</ROW>
</TABLE></P>
</DIV2>
<DIV2 TYPE="part">
<PB N="10" REF="8">
<HEAD>ANIMADVERSION.</HEAD>
<P>Now ob&s;erve, God hath &s;aid, <HI>Every moving thing &s;hall be Meat for you.</HI></P>
<P>And Chri&s;t &s;aith, <HI>What&s;oever goeth into a man defiles him not,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
<P>And <HI>Paul</HI> &s;aith, <HI>What&s;oever is &s;old in the Shambles, eat,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
<P><Q>And <HI>Tryon</HI> forbids the eating Fle&s;h, and &s;aith, that Fi&s;h and Fle&s;h cannot be eaten without violence; and in effect &s;aith, it defiles the Body, and depraves the faculties of the Soul; and that many Evils proceed from thence.</Q> But I &s;hall rather believe God and the Scrip|tures, and follow Chri&s;ts Example and his Apo&s;tles, than believe <HI>T. T.</HI> or follow his example, contrary to Gods &s;aying, Angels, Chri&s;t and his Apo&s;tles Example. But <HI>the Spirit &s;peaketh expre&s;ly that in the latter times &s;ome &s;hall depart from the Faith, giving heed to &s;educing Spirits,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
<P>From whence I Query:</P>
<P N="1">1. Whether <HI>Tho. Tryon,</HI> (if he ever knew or was in the true Faith, which &s;tands in Je&s;us the Author of Eternal Salvation to all them that believe) is not departed from the Faith, and is led by a &s;educing Spi|rit, thus to write?</P>
<P N="2">2. Whether he, and all they have not given heed to &s;educing Spi|rits and Doctrines of Devils, &s;peaking lyes, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> that <HI>forbid the eating of Meat,</HI> which God hath created to be received with thank&s;giving?</P>
<P>And now Ob&s;erve,</P>
<P N="1">1. <HI>Meat, or every Creature of God</HI> is to be received; that's po&s;itive; but how? Why, with thank&s;giving: of whom? <HI>An&s;.</HI> Of them that be|lieve and know the Truth, (and the eating of it cannot defile the man, &s;aith Chri&s;t:) Wherefore? <HI>An&s;w.</HI> Its &s;anctified, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> So that it's clear by the afore recited <HI>Scriptures</HI> and right Rea&s;on, that every Creature of God is good, and <HI>nothing</HI> to be refu&s;ed; <HI>If,</HI> mind the condition, <HI>if it be received with thanksgiving:</HI> So that this makes void that notion or conceit that <HI>T. T.</HI> &s;eems to have, That the Creatures were made for mans Admiration, and in no wi&s;e to be killed: when in <HI>p.</HI> 63. of his <HI>Way to make all Rich,</HI> &amp;c. he &s;aith, <Q>Remember, O Vain man, that the All-wi&s;e Creator formed all tho&s;e Myriads of Creatures for his Glory and thy Admiration, and not that thou &s;houlde&s;t therewith pamper thy Lu&s;t.</Q> To which I &s;ay, Th&ocirc; a man is not to &s;pend any Green
<PB N="11" REF="8"> Herb, the Fruit of any Tree, or any Bea&s;t of the Earth, Fowl of the Air, or Fi&s;h of the Sea in exce&s;s, and to pamper his ungodly Lu&s;ts; yet I Query, Whether he may not receive or eat any of them in tempe|rance, moderation and the fear of God, and with thank&s;giving? And al&s;o, whether mans &s;o eating and drinking, is not to the Glory of God, and according to the Apo&s;tles Exhortation, 1 Cor. 10. 31? Seeing al&s;o Chri&s;t &s;aith, Mat. 15. 11. <HI>Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth, but that which goeth out of the mouth, this defileth a man:</HI> and Mark 7. 18. <HI>Je&s;us &s;aith unto them,</HI> (that is, his Di&s;ciples) <HI>Are ye yet without under&s;tanding al&s;o? Do ye not perceive, that what&s;oever thing from without entreth into the man, it cannot defile him, becau&s;e it entreth not into his heart, but into the belly; and goeth out into the Draught, purging all meats?</HI> And he &s;aith, <HI>That which cometh out of a man defileth a man:</HI> See al&s;o Mat. 15. 17, 18, 19. ver&s;es; al&s;o Mark 7. 21, 22, 23. <HI>For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, Murthers, Adulteries, Fornications, Theft, Fal&s;e-witne&s;s, Bla&s;phemies; the&s;e are the things that defile a man; but to eat with unwa&s;hen hands defileth not a man:</HI> Nor that Meat which entreth into him, being received as be|fore.</P>
<P>Now having Collected &s;ome Sayings of <HI>God, Chri&s;t,</HI> the <HI>Holy Spirit,</HI> and <HI>Scriptures,</HI> concerning the Eating of Fle&s;h and Fi&s;h; &s;hewing how that both <HI>Chri&s;t Je&s;us, Angels of God,</HI> and the Holy <HI>Apo&s;tles,</HI> eat Fle&s;h:</P>
<P>Now I de&s;ire my foregoing Queries may he an&s;wered (if at all) in the words of Scripture, or &s;uch the Holy Gho&s;t teacheth; as I de&s;ire al&s;o the&s;e following Queries may: Which is,</P>
<P>Fir&s;t, Whether any that truly believe in God, and Chri&s;t Je&s;us, and the holy Spirit; can be thereby led to affirm, that the Eating Meat, Fi&s;h or Fle&s;h, in moderation, in the fear of God, and with Thank&s;giving, is &s;inful and unlawful in any Ca&s;e what&s;oever?</P>
<P>Secondly, Whether all them that Command, Teach or forbid to ab&s;tain from all Fle&s;h or Meat, as being &s;o principled, and judge the eating thereof in any wi&s;e evil, &s;inful, unlawful, and contrary to a pure Con&s;cience; do not thereby be&s;peak their own Con&s;ciences to be &s;eared therein, and departed from the Truth, and manife&s;t their ignorance of God, Chri&s;t, the Holy Spirit and Scriptures of Truth, in a very large manner?</P>
<P>And now <HI>T. T.</HI> further &s;aith, <HI>p. 350. There is no Creature in the
<PB N="12" REF="9"> world, that has</HI> any <HI>de&s;ire to eat fle&s;h,</HI> &amp;c. <HI>except tho&s;e in whom the fierce, wrathful, Savage Native does predominate.</HI></P>
<P>Now Ob&s;erve:</P>
<P>He either &s;aith true or fal&s;e, if true, he hath brought a Judgment over all them living, that de&s;ire to eat Fle&s;h, (though it be in tempe|rance, moderation and the Fear of God, and with Thanksgiving) <Q>As being &s;uch, in whom, as his Phra&s;e is, the fierce, wrathful, Savage Nature predominates; and in the &s;aid page he &s;aid, So now he is, and does exceed in uncleanne&s;s, and Cruelty the wor&s;t of Bea&s;ts, as much as a Sparrow-hawk exceeds a Titmou&s;e; and what he &s;aith are fruits of &s;uch in whom the Helli&s;h Principle &s;way, &s;ee 403.</Q> To wit, Backbiting, Hatred, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> and working all &s;orts of Impiety. So he hath at once Unchri&s;tianed (as much as he can) all <HI>Chri&s;ten|dom,</HI> and every &s;ort of People therein, how pious, virtuous and tem|perate &s;oever they are, if they de&s;ire to eat Fle&s;h, (though in mo|deration, the Fear of God, and with Thank&s;giving, for he makes no exception) they cea&s;e to be Chri&s;tians, and come under the Govern|ment of the wrathful Nature, or Helli&s;h Principle. <HI>O Monstrum Horrendum!</HI> And in p. 368. he &s;aith, <Q>Fle&s;h cannot be procured, without oppre&s;&s;ing the way of God in Nature, and cau&s;ing the Creatures to &s;igh and groan, and cry to be delivered into the Glorious Liberty of the Sons of God; and this keeps the fierce wrath in motion, and cau&s;eth it to break forth upon them in many and great Calamities.</Q> But pray where doth the Scripture &s;o &s;ay? or that Lambs, Sheep, Calves, Oxen, cry to be delivered into the Glori|ous <HI>Liberty of the Sons of God?</HI> and what are the Calamities that are brought on man, only for killing for nece&s;&s;ary Food, <HI>&amp;c.?</HI> So much for eating of Fle&s;h. Now hear what he &s;aith about Killing, in <HI>page</HI> 402. of the &s;aid Book, Intituled, <HI>The way to Health, &amp;c.</HI></P>
<P><Q>Touching all &s;ighting, oppre&s;&s;ing and killing, let it be little or much, and the pretence what it will,</Q> [Mark, <HI>what it will though for food &amp;c.</HI>] <Q>We affirm from a true light and ground, that the &s;ame do ari&s;e and proceed from the fierce wrath of God, and from the Devili&s;h Helli&s;h Nature in man; which is contrary to the Friendly Love and Light of God in Je&s;us Chri&s;t, as the Night is to the Day.</Q></P>
<P>Now Ob&s;erve:</P>
<P>So all Butchers, Poulterers, Fi&s;her-men, and all that kill, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> let the pretence be what it will, or the Creature what it will <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1 word"> killed; for there's no exception made: <HI>T. T.</HI> &s;aith, We affirm as <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1 letter">a<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1+ letters"> fore&s;aid. But pray who mu&s;t make up the <HI>We?</HI> can <HI>T. T.</HI> produce
<PB N="13" REF="9"> any other of that mind but him&s;elf; from a True light, <HI>&amp;c?</HI> But what is that he calls &s;o? Doth he not put Light for Darkne&s;s? And what <HI>Scripture</HI> proof, or found Rea&s;on &s;hall we have, that kil|ling a Lamb, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> is contrary to the Light of God in Chri&s;t, as the Night is to the Day; and that none that &s;o do, can be true Chri&s;tians, or Sons or Daughters of God, or led by his Spirit? though they live both &s;oberly, <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1+ letters">ly, and godly, in (as I in Charity believe) many Butchers and Fi&s;her-men do; yet if they kill, let the pretence be what it will, is for Food, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> their &s;o doing is contrary to the Love and Light of God in Chri&s;t, &s;aith <HI>T. T.</HI> And then &s;ure they do not walk in the Light, that act contrary to it: and <HI>John</HI> &s;aith, <HI>The Nature of <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="blotted" EXTENT="1 span"> one &s;aved, &s;hall walk in the Light of the Lamb,</HI> which is Chri&s;t Je&s;us: So the con&s;equence of his Doctrine is, No Butchers, Fi&s;her-men, or Poulterers, &s;uch that a|ny kind, and for any pretence kill, can be &s;aved, unle&s;s they leave their killing Occupations and practice therein: And how many Maid Servants then, if this were true, when they go to dre&s;s Flounders, Grigs, which are often alive, or kill Chickens, conduct contrary to the friendly Love and Light of God in Chri&s;t; but what Scripture proof and found Rea&s;on can he give for the &s;ame? or doth he think his Affirmation, or confident Say-&s;o, u&s;hered in with a <HI>We,</HI> as he often doth, mu&s;t go for proof? And &s;eeing he &s;aith (as I &s;hewed before) <Q>That he is far from the vanity, or rather wickedne&s;s, of de&s;iring to &s;tart or promote any new Sect or Party, and hath no ambiti|on to impo&s;e his own Dictates on any, further than holy Scrip|ture and right Rea&s;on enjoyns:</Q> Let's have a proof to &s;hew, right Rea&s;on and the holy Scriptures enjoyns people not to kill a Lamb, or a Chicken, nor to eat in moderation, and in the Fear of God, and receive them with Thank&s;giving: and let <HI>T. T.</HI> prove, that his Affirmation is from a true light and ground, and demon&s;trate the light and ground <HI>&s;uch</HI> by holy Scripture and right Rea&s;on. Again ob&s;erve, according to his Doctrine, all that die in this &s;avage, bruit|i&s;h &s;late, in which he concludes them that de&s;ire to eat Fle&s;h, or that kill little or much, and the pretence what it will, (if for food, <HI>&amp;c.)</HI> &s;hall in the Re&s;urrection, &s;aith he <HI>p.</HI> 444. <Q>Be inve&s;ted with a new body, attract &s;uch matter out of all things, as their Spi|rits are capable of, and have a <HI>Simile</HI> with, and &s;o appear in Forms <HI>Hideous, Frightful</HI> and <HI>Loath&s;ome.</HI></Q> But where doth the Scripture &s;o &s;ay, or &s;peak of being Cloathed with Helli&s;h &s;hapes in the next World? And in <HI>p.</HI> 445. &s;ee what compari&s;ons he
<PB N="14" REF="10"> makes about eating Fle&s;h, and killing the Bea&s;t, tho' for Food; and he there &s;aith, <Q>In a word, there is nothing that is plea&s;ant or friend|ly in the whole Bu&s;ine&s;s, nor any one Circum&s;tance that is grate-to the innocent Principle in Man.</Q> So the Killing the Creatures for Food, and eating of them as the Scripture directs, he &s;aith, is un|gratefull to the innocent Principle, or Love and Light of God in Chri&s;t, (as his Phra&s;e is) as the Night is to the Day.</P>
<P>Now &s;eeing according to <HI>T. T</HI>'s Doctrine, no Creature can be Killed, but by them in whom the wrathful Nature is predominate, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> and that Killing is a Fruit of Hell; and &s;uch that live and dye in the &s;avage bruiti&s;h State, are like to be cloathed with helli&s;h &s;hapes in the Re&s;urrection, or next World: And &s;eeing he in the <HI>Cow</HI>'s and <HI>Oxen</HI>'s <HI>Complaint,</HI> makes them &s;ay to <HI>cruel</HI> and <HI>hard-hearted Man,</HI> (as he phra|&s;es it) who he makes the Bea&s;ts call, a <HI>De&s;troyer,</HI> a <HI>Killer,</HI> a <HI>daily Pra|cticer of Cruelty,</HI> &amp;c. in <HI>p.</HI> 496. And in <HI>p.</HI> 501. he maketh them &s;ay of Man, <Q>How they are beat without Pity or Humanity; and at la&s;t, when we are able to do their Drudgery no longer, they being not yet &s;atisfyed with our Labours, will fatten us up for the Slaugh|ter, and fea&s;t them&s;elves with our Carka&s;&s;es, and accommodate them|&s;elves with our Skins for Leather, to make them Shoes, Boots, and other Nece&s;&s;aries.</Q></P>
<P>Now I Query, Whether <HI>T. T.</HI> doth not &s;o accommodate him&s;elf, and wear Shoes and Boots made of their Skins? and whether he hath not &s;everal Nece&s;&s;aries made thereof, and of the Skins of other Crea|tures? And whether he doth not wear the Skins of the innocent Sheep and Lambs, or of Calves, over his Skin, to keep his hands warm in Winter, and from the &s;corching heat in Summer, and his feet from the wet Dirt, and hard Stones? And whether he doth not Trade, Mer|chandize, or deal in the Skins of Bea&s;ts, and get Gain and Money by the &s;ame, tho' &s;lain by the wrathful Nature, (as he &s;aith,) which is a Fruit of Hell? And whether his &s;o doing, as afore&s;aid, is from the friendly Principle of Love? Or whether he is not guilty of that he makes the Bea&s;ts complain of? And whether the Bea&s;ts will not &s;end up their Complaints again&s;t him in a &s;ilent Eloquence to Heaven? From whence can he expect any Return, but Showers of Judgments upon his Head, (as he makes the Bea&s;t &s;ay in <HI>p.</HI> 503.) for his wearing their Skins, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> And what &s;hape mu&s;t he have in the other World for &s;o accommodating him&s;elf, and trading in their Skins?</P>
<PB N="15" REF="10">
<P>But to draw to a Conclu&s;ion, and to pa&s;s by many things that I have forborn &s;peaking to, I &s;hall now take Notice of one Pa&s;&s;age more in his <HI>Way to Health, &amp;c.</HI> (as he calls it,) <HI>p.</HI> 669, or la&s;t Page, it being, he &s;aith, the &s;cope of his whole Treati&s;e: <HI>Viz.</HI></P>
<P><Q>It is highly nece&s;&s;ary for every one to &s;tudy the Knowledge of <HI>him&s;elf,</HI> that he may under&s;tand the differences of Spirits, and from what Fountain or Property every Thought, Word and Work does proceed; and to recommend and promote &s;uch &s;elf-&s;tudy and Heart-knowledge, is the &s;cope of this whole Treati&s;e.</Q></P>
<P>Now how far <HI>T. T.</HI> hath an&s;wered that which he &s;aith is the whole &s;cope of his Treati&s;e, I &s;hall leave to tho&s;e who by rea&s;on of u&s;e, have their Sen&s;es exerci&s;ed to di&s;cern both good and evil: Only I de&s;ire all may truly and duly weigh, and &s;eriou&s;ly con&s;ider of his Doctrine, (which I have in &s;ome mea&s;ure collected, and made &s;ome few Que|ries on;) that &s;o none may any further receive his Doctrine, than it an&s;wers unto the Truth, that's one in all, and the holy Spirit of God, (a mea&s;ure of which is given to every one to profit with) and is agreeable to the Holy Scriptures, which are able to <HI>make the man of God wi&s;e unto Salvation, through Faith which is in Chri&s;t Je&s;us,</HI> and were written by holy Men of God, as they were moved by the Holy Gho&s;t; which Holy Gho&s;t or Spirit, God in the&s;e Go&s;pel-dayes hath <HI>poured forth</HI> according to his Promi&s;e, <HI>Joel 2. upon all Fle&s;h;</HI> with which therefore every one that comes to have their minds truly exerci&s;ed towards God, do and may di&s;cern from what Fountain <HI>T. T</HI>'s words and works pro|ceeds, and &s;ee the Difference of the true Spirit and the fal&s;e; tho' the fal&s;e may, as it mo&s;tly hath, many fair Pretences, and Fig-leave like Coverings, &s;uch that will &s;oon &s;ail, and prove too narrow; for they are like the Covering of tho&s;e Rebellious Children that <HI>took Coun|&s;el, and not of the Lord;</HI> &s;ee <HI>I&s;aiah</HI> 30. 1. And tho' they who are gui|ded by this fal&s;e Spirit, may, and often do, (like the Doctors by their bitter Pills, gild them over, that they may be the ea&s;ilyer ta|ken;) &s;o <HI>T. T.</HI> under a &s;pecious pretence of Temperance, and call|ing her the <HI>Offspring of Heaven,</HI> and twenty plau&s;ible Names; may there|by, and his fair Speeches, deceive the Hearts of the &s;imple, and &s;uch that are lyable to be <HI>to&s;&s;ed with every wind of Doctrine:</HI> But tho&s;e that have re|ceived the <HI>true Annointing,</HI> and keep thereto, need not go to <HI>T. T.</HI> to learn Piety, Temperance, Moderation, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> for the &s;ame <HI>Anointing</HI> which they have received, is able to teach them both how to Eat and Drink,
<PB N="16" REF="11"> even to the Glory of God; and to be &s;ober, temperate, tender, com|pa&s;&s;ionate, and merciful even to the Bea&s;ts; and <HI>hath &s;o taught many <GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 word"> before his Book was extant:</HI> In a word, it <HI>teacheth them</HI> (that keep to it) <HI>all things,</HI> as the Apo&s;tle &s;aid to the Believers, 1 <HI>Joh. 2. 27. The Anointing which ye have received of him, abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you, but as the &s;ame Anointing teacheth you of</HI> all things, <HI>and is truth, and is no Lie; and even as it hath taught you, ye &s;hall abide in him:</HI> And ble&s;&s;ed are they that &s;o do, that is, <HI>abide in him, even as he hath taught them:</HI> and tho&s;e will never follow the idle Conceits and vain Imaginations of <HI>T. T.</HI> who manife&s;ts him&s;elf not to be taught by the <HI>Anointing,</HI> in forbidding the Eating of Fle&s;h, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> and is therein out of the Practice and Doctrine of Chri&s;t and his Ho|ly Apo&s;tles, and goes contrary to the Te&s;timony of the Holy Scrip|tures: But let every one con&s;ider this, e&s;pecially &s;uch that under a pretence of Con&s;cience, and being led thereto by the Spirit; eat no Fle&s;h, and command to <HI>ab&s;tain from Meats,</HI> Whether the Spirit of God doth lead into that which is wholly incon&s;i&s;tent with, and contrary to the holy Scriptures of Truth; and what the holy Ancients, Chri&s;t Je&s;us, and his Apo&s;tles and Followers practi&s;ed: <HI>T. T.</HI> &s;aith al&s;o, <Q>It is highly nece&s;&s;ary for every one to &s;tudy the Knowledge of him|&s;elf; and to recommend and promote &s;uch &s;elf-&s;tudy and Heart-Knowledge, is the &s;cope of his whole Treati&s;e:</Q> But pray what Relation to the Knowledge of a man's &s;elf, and the true heart-&s;aving Knowledge of God, which is Eternal Life, is the <HI>Di&s;cour&s;es of Bea&s;ts, and their Di&s;ea&s;es; and what Virtues and Vices they are &s;ubject to; and of Mangie Di&s;ea&s;es, the Complexion of Oxen, and other Bea&s;ts; the Excellency of Butter, Chee&s;e, and Milk-Pottage, and the proper and mo&s;t natural way of boyling, roa&s;t|ing, baking, &s;tewing, frying and broiling</HI> that, which (if <HI>T. T.</HI> &s;aith true) he that rightly knows him&s;elf, and is under the friendly Principle of Love and Light, cannot de&s;ire to eat, to wit, Fle&s;h; <HI>and when they may eat it with lea&s;t danger;</HI> (whenas they could not eat it at all, &s;aith he, if the <HI>fierce</HI> wrathful Nature did not predominate)? Again, he tells of <HI>Cloath|ing Hor&s;es, and Beds; of Plumb-Cakes, Bread-Puddings, and Mince-Pyes; of Women, their Nature, Complexions, and Intemperances; the A&s;trological gathering of Herbs, the Deceitfulne&s;s of Doctors, their Bills: Of Bugs; and from what Matter or Aliment they do proc<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1 letter">ed; how to kill them: Of Pain in the Teeth, and how to cure Wounds:</HI> The&s;e, I believe, and forty &s;uch like &s;tories, is the Scope of his Book; and yet he &s;aith, the Scope of his whole Book, or Treati&s;e, is to promote &s;elf and Heart-know|ledge: But whether it be any more than his empty <HI>Say &s;o,</HI> I &s;hall
<PB N="17" REF="11"> leave the truely wi&s;e to judge, that have or may &s;ee or read his Book. Al&s;o, if it is not rather his Scope, or Tendency of his Book, to beget un&s;table People into Whim&s;ies and Conceits, and to draw their Minds and Hearts by his windy empty Doctrine and Popperies, from that In&s;piration of the Almighty that will give them Under&s;tanding, and the Knowledge of them&s;elves, and of God, and Chri&s;t; the <HI>most</HI> excellente&s;t Knowledge, the mo&s;t pure, &s;ound and &s;olid Knowledge, that which doth not <HI>puff up,</HI> nor make any, like Fools, wi&s;e in their own Conceits: They that have this Knowledge, and are endued there|with, they will <HI>For&s;ake the fooli&s;h, and live, and go in the way of &V;nder|standing;</HI> as &s;aith <HI>Solomon, Prov.</HI> 9. 6. which is the way Wi&s;dom leads in, who &s;aith, <HI>I lead in the way of Righteou&s;ne&s;s, and in the mid&s;t of the Paths of Judgment:</HI> And they that follow her here, and judge down all idle and vain Imaginations with the Spirit of Wi&s;dom, and love her, them &s;he will cau&s;e to <HI>inherit Sub&s;tance,</HI> and will <HI>fill their Trea|&s;ures.</HI> And this is the Wi&s;dom which is profitable to direct, and is <HI>ju&s;tifi|ed of her Children:</HI> And tho' Death, and they that are therein may &s;peak of the Fame thereof, yet they are ignorant of her; for it's the <HI>Righ|teous the Lord layeth up &s;ound Wi&s;dom for, and he is a Buckler to them that walk uprightly: He keepeth the paths of Judgment, and pre&s;erveth the way of his Saints:</HI> and tho' the <HI>Simple inherit Folly,</HI> yet the <HI>Prudent are Crowned with Know|ledge,</HI> which the <HI>Fear of the Lord is the Beginning</HI> of: Therefore ble&s;&s;ed are they that are come thereto, and that live therein: The Scriptures abound with the Promi&s;e of Ble&s;&s;ings on &s;uch; and, <HI>that man that fear|eth the Lord, him will the Lord lead in the way that he &s;hall choo&s;e:</HI> And, <HI>his Soul &s;hall be at ea&s;e, and his Seed &s;hall inherit the Earth:</HI> And the&s;e will re&s;rain their feet from every evil way, that they may keep Gods Word, and will not be led away into vain Conceits, and whim&s;ical Ima|ginations, like them that know not God, Chri&s;t Je&s;us, the Holy Spirit, nor Scriptures of Truth; but are like them Chri&s;t &s;poke to, &s;aying, <HI>Ye Err, not knowing the Scriptures, nor the power of God,</HI> Mat. 22. 29. As it may be truly &s;aid of <HI>T. T</HI>'s. Doctrine, which is again&s;t kill|ing the Creatures, and Eating their fle&s;h, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> of which it may be &s;aid as followeth</P>
<LG>
<PB N="18" REF="12">
<L>What God to Man Commandment gave to doe, <NOTE PLACE="marg">See Exod. 12. <HI>ver&s;.</HI> 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6.</NOTE></L>
<L>Proceeds from Wrath, and from Eternal Woe,</L>
<L>If <HI>Trion</HI> we believe; for he doth tell,</L>
<L>To kill a Lamb, it is a fruit of Hell:</L>
<L>Eat not the fle&s;h of Fi&s;h, nor Bea&s;t, &s;aith he,</L>
<L>For that an Act of Violence will be.</L>
<L>But Chri&s;t eat both, in Holy Writ we read; <NOTE PLACE="marg">Luk. 24. 42, 43. &amp; 22. 14, 15. Matth. 26. 21.</NOTE></L>
<L><HI>Trion</HI>'s forbidding then, let no man heed.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>'Tis God to man divine Dictates doth give,</L>
<L>And teach him, how to Eat, and how to Live,</L>
<L>By that which comes from Chri&s;t, the &V;nction true, <NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Joh. 2. 20. 27.</NOTE></L>
<L>Receiv'd within, which all things plain will &s;hew:</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>Ble&s;s'd is the man that doth its teachings keep, <NOTE PLACE="marg">2 Tim. 4. 3.</NOTE></L>
<L>He ne'r &s;uch Teachers to him&s;elf will heap,</L>
<L>That doth command from Meats for to ab&s;tain, <NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Tim. 4. 1, 2, 3, 4.</NOTE></L>
<L>And from what God ordained to refrain;</L>
<L>Whieh with Thanksgiving all ought to receive</L>
<L>That know the Truth, and in the Truth believe.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>What's then the Cau&s;e? and what's the Rea&s;on why,</L>
<L>Eating of Fle&s;h he doth &s;o much decry?</L>
<L>The Rea&s;on's plain, the matter lieth here,</L>
<L>Becau&s;e he wants an under&s;tanding clear;</L>
<L>Which that he may obtain, to God I pray, <NOTE PLACE="marg">1 Tim. 2. 1, 2, 3.</NOTE></L>
<L>That he may know the Truth, and it obey.</L>
</LG>
<LG>
<L>And he that &s;eeks for Truth, and doth it find,</L>
<L>Should in it daily exerci&s;e his mind, <NOTE PLACE="marg">Eph. 4. 14, 15.</NOTE></L>
<L>And not be to&s;s'd, and hurried to and fro</L>
<L>With every wind of Doctrine that doth blow;</L>
<L>But like the Wheat, that weighty is and &s;ound, <NOTE PLACE="marg">Matth. 3. 12.</NOTE></L>
<L>Should in Chri&s;t's Garner day by day be found; <NOTE PLACE="marg">Luke 3. 17.</NOTE></L>
<L>And live, and walk and keep in him that's true,</L>
<L>And to &s;uch idle Fictions bid adieu.</L>
</LG>
<P>And now I query of <HI>T. T.</HI> about the Ver&s;es printed and prefixed be|fore his Book, intituled, <HI>The way to make all people Rich,</HI> &amp;c. made, as it's
<PB N="19" REF="12"> &s;aid, on the Author of that Excellent and Learned Book, Entituled, <HI>The Way to Health, long Life and Happine&s;s.</HI></P>
<P N="1">1. It's &s;aid thus;&mdash;</P>
<LG>
<L>E're that Ingratitude in Man was found,</L>
<L>His Mother Earth with Iron Plows to wound.</L>
</LG>
<P>Now I Query, Whether <HI>T. T.</HI> accounts it Ingratitude in Man, and a-wounding of the Earth, to Plow, Dre&s;s or Till the Earth; &s;eeing God both before and after the Fall, gave Man Direction &s;o to do, and put him into the Garden for that end? See <HI>Gen.</HI> 2. 15. and 3. 23.</P>
<P N="2">2. Is the <HI>Way to make all People Rich,</HI> to leave off Plowing, <HI>&amp;c?</HI></P>
<P N="3">3. If the Earth is not plowed, or wounded, (as the Phra&s;e is) how &s;hall we have Corn to make Bread, or Water-Gruel?</P>
<P>Again it's &s;aid;&mdash;</P>
<LG>
<L>When unconfin'd, the &s;pacious Plains produc'd</L>
<L>What Nature crav'd, and more than Nature us'd.</L>
</LG>
<P><HI>Query.</HI> Did the Plains, without Plowing or Tilling, produce what Nature craved, and more than Nature u&s;ed; as Bread-Corn, Oats, <HI>&amp;c?</HI></P>
<P>Again;&mdash;</P>
<LG>
<L>What are the Plagues that o're this Nation reign,</L>
<L>That has &s;o many three&s;core thou&s;ands &s;lain?</L>
</LG>
<P>Is it the eating Fle&s;h and Fi&s;h in Moderation, and in the Fear of God, and with Thank&s;giving, and the killing them for that end? are the&s;e the Plagues that reign over this I&s;land, that have &s;lain &s;o many three&s;core thou&s;ands.</P>
<P>Again,&mdash;</P>
<LG>
<L>Till <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">That's <HI>Th. Tryon.</HI></NOTE> You, the &s;aving Angel who&s;e ble&s;t Hand</L>
<L>Has &s;heath'd the Sword that threaten'd half the Land.</L>
</LG>
<P><HI>Query.</HI> Is <HI>T. Trion</HI> this &s;aving Angel? And will he own that his Hand is ble&s;t, and hath &s;heathed the Sword that threatened half the Land? If not, why did he &s;uffer the&s;e things to be printed of him?</P>
<P>Again the Ver&s;es go on, prai&s;ing him thus:</P>
<LG>
<L>More than a Parent, <HI>Sir,</HI> we you mu&s;t own;</L>
<L>They give long Life, but you prolong it on.</L>
</LG>
<P><HI>Query</HI> 1. What! will <HI>T. T.</HI> own he is more than a Parent? And who are the <HI>We</HI> that mu&s;t &s;o own him?</P>
<P N="2">2. Doth <HI>T. T.</HI> prolong Life on?</P>
<P>Again;&mdash;</P>
<LG>
<L><NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">That is <HI>Tho. Trion.</HI></NOTE> You an Innocent Power with Heaven do &s;hew,</L>
<L>Give us long Life, and la&s;ting Vertue too.</L>
</LG>
<P><HI>Query</HI> 1. What is the innocent Power <HI>T. T.</HI> &s;hews with Heaven? And who mu&s;t &s;ay, Give us long Life, and la&s;ting Vertue too? And to whom mu&s;t they &s;o &s;ay? to <HI>T. T?</HI></P>
<P>Again;&mdash;</P>
<LG>
<L>Such were the Mighty Patriarchs of old,</L>
<L>Who God in all his Glory did behold.</L>
</LG>
<PB N="20" REF="13">
<P><HI>Query.</HI> Is <HI>T. T.</HI> &s;uch as the Mighty Patrlarchs were, who beheld God in all his Glory? And hath <HI>T. T.</HI> &s;o beheld him?</P>
<P>Again;&mdash;</P>
<LG>
<L>In&s;pir'd like <NOTE N="*" PLACE="marg">Trion.</NOTE> You, they Heaven's In&s;tructions &s;how'd,</L>
<L>And were as Gods amid&s;t the wondering Crowd.</L>
</LG>
<P><HI>Query.</HI> Is <HI>T. T.</HI> In&s;pired like the Mighty Patriarchs of old? And hath he &s;hewed Heaven's In&s;tructions like them? And is he as a God Among the wondering Crowd?</P>
<P>Again;&mdash;</P>
<LG>
<L>Not he that bore th' Almighty Wand could give</L>
<L>Diviner Dictates how to Eat and Live.</L>
</LG>
<P><HI>Query</HI> 1. Who was this that bore the <HI>Almighty Wand,</HI> and that could not give Diviner Dictates than <HI>T. T.</HI> how to Eat and Live?</P>
<P N="2">2. Can <HI>T. T.</HI> admit of &s;uch matters to be printed in his prai&s;e? It &s;eems he hath.</P>
</DIV2>
</DIV1>
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<P>THere is another Book by the &s;ame Author, or <HI>Thomas Trion,</HI> Entituled, <HI>The Country-man's Companion,</HI> &amp;c. Sub&s;cribed, <HI>Phi|lotheos Phy&s;iologus;</HI> and &s;aid to be printed and &s;old by <HI>An|drew So<GAP DESC="illegible" REASON="faint" EXTENT="1+ letters">le, &amp;c.</HI> which, I conceive, hath been a great means to promote the Sale of his Books; as a good Name many times helps off with that which is not really good; and a &s;mart or &s;mooth Ti|tle &s;ometimes makes a Book &s;ell, when the Matter or Subject is &s;carce worth reading: And I have good ground in Charity to think, that had <HI>A. S:</HI> &s;een, and been truly &s;en&s;ible of <HI>T. Trion</HI>'s Errours and Ab|&s;urdities, and ill tendency of his Books, he would not have printed and expo&s;ed them as he did: As al&s;o of his Reflections upon the Chri|&s;tians
<PB N="21" REF="13"> in his feigned or fictious Complaint of the Birds to their Cre|ator; particularly again&s;t the People called Chri&s;tians, lately &s;ettled in &s;everal Provinces in <HI>America;</HI> who he charges with bringing En|gins of War, Cruelty and Blood-&s;hed; as <HI>Guns, Swords, Powder,</HI> &amp;c. And in <HI>p.</HI> 143. and 144. of the above&s;aid Book, where he makes them &s;ay, or rather feigns their &s;aying,&mdash;Thus:</P>
<P><Q>[We are more e&s;pecially a&s;toni&s;ht, to meet with the&s;e U&s;ages from tho&s;e that call them&s;elves Chri&s;tians; who of late years have found out, and &s;ettled them&s;elves in the Regions and Countries of <HI>America,</HI> where before their Arrival we lived in a very great de|gree of Freedom and Security: But now by this new Neighbour|hood of tho&s;e from who&s;e Profe&s;&s;ion we might promi&s;e our &s;elves nothing but Love and good Will, our Condition is much alter'd for the wor&s;e; our Danger and De&s;truction is daily encrea&s;ed, and to kill and murder us is become an Occupation and a Trade; for which purpo&s;e the&s;e <HI>Peaceable Chri&s;tians,</HI> as they would be counted, have brought with them all kinds of Snares, and Engines of War and Violence, which never had before been &s;een, nor their fright|ful helli&s;h noi&s;es heard in our Coa&s;ts. Now how ab&s;urd is it for tho&s;e who fly from Violence in one place, to begin it them&s;elves on the innocent in tho&s;e places where they take &s;helter? How much below the Dignity of a Man are tho&s;e Cruel and in&s;idious Practi|ces? How forreign from, and contrary to the Doctrine of that Chri|&s;tianity which you profe&s;s? where it's expre&s;ly declared, that <HI>Who|&s;oever u&s;eth the Sword, &s;hall peri&s;h by it:</HI> That is to &s;ay, He that by any kind of Violence doth awaken the Center of Wrath in him|&s;elf, &s;hall be precipitated into it. And therefore your mo&s;t holy Prophet, the <HI>fir&s;t-born of the Sons of God,</HI> &amp;c. &s;aith, <HI>My Kingdom is not of this World, for then would my Servants &s;ight:</HI> That is, My Kingdom, and that State whereunto I bring my Di&s;ciples, does not con&s;i&s;t in Wrath, Violence or Oppre&s;&s;ion, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></Q> Thus far <HI>T. T.</HI> or <HI>Philotheos Phy&s;iologus.</HI></P>
<P>Now pray let me Query, Whether he doth not reflect upon the peaceable Chri&s;tians therein?</P>
<P N="1">1. In &s;aying, <Q>Tho&s;e that call them&s;elves Chri&s;tians.</Q></P>
<P N="2">2. Whether he doth not thereby &s;ugge&s;t they are not Chri&s;tians in Truth and Reality?</P>
<P N="3">3. In &s;aying, <Q>Tho&s;e from who&s;e Profe&s;&s;ion we might promi&s;e our
<PB N="22" REF="14"> &s;elves nothing but Love and good Will;</Q> whether he doth not there|by render them void of both to their new Neighbour-hood (as his Phra&s;e is)?</P>
<P N="4">4. Doth he not render them De&s;troyers and Murtherers; and &s;uch that make an Occupation thereof? <Q>For which purpo&s;e, &s;aith he, the&s;e <HI>peaceable Chri&s;tians,</HI> as they would be counted;</Q> [mark,] as they would be counted.</P>
<P N="5">5. Doth he not hereby, as before, plainly demon&s;trate, that he doth not &s;o account them; or that they are not &s;uch as accounted? For indeed, according to his Principle and Doctrine, they are <HI>Mur|derers;</HI> and the Scripture &s;aith, <HI>No Murderer hath Eternal Life abiding in him:</HI> Neither can enter into God's Kingdom as <HI>&s;uch;</HI> neither in|deed can be a Chri&s;tian while <HI>&s;o.</HI></P>
<P N="6">6. According to his Account they commit Violence, which is a Fruit of Hell, &s;aith he: They kill al&s;o; and that he affirms proceeds from the fierce Wrath of God, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> and is contrary to the Love and Light of God in Je&s;us Chri&s;t, as the Night is to the Day, (tho' but a Fi&s;h or Bird; <HI>&amp;c.)</HI> and therefore it will follow, &s;uch that act &s;o contrary to the Love and Light of God in Chri&s;t, can't be Chri&s;ti|ans while they &s;o do. And,</P>
<P N="7">7. He goeth on in his Complaint, &s;aying, <Q>They (that is, the&s;e peaceable Chri&s;tians, as they would be counted) have brought with them <HI>all</HI> kind of Snares and Engines of War and Violence, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></Q> That is, to catch and kill Birds, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> for nece&s;&s;ary Food.</P>
<P>Note, and then he &s;aith, <Q>How ab&s;urd is it for tho&s;e that fly from Violence in one place?</Q> [mark,] he here renders them as &s;uch that fly from Violence.</P>
<P N="8">8. He charges them with <Q>Beginning it on the Innocent in tho&s;e places where they take &s;helter. How much below the Dignity of a Man are tho&s;e cruel and in&s;idious Practices! &s;aith he; how for|reign from, and contrary to the Doctrine of that Chri&s;tianity which you profe&s;s!</Q> where it is expre&s;ly declared, That <HI>whoever u&s;eth the Sword &s;hall peri&s;h with it.</HI></P>
<P>Now Reader, ob&s;erve, how well, truly and excellently, or rather, illy, untruly and ignorantly <HI>T. Trion</HI> hath applyed, or gro&s;ly mi&s;ap|plyed the Text: For <HI>Gen.</HI> 9. 6. it's &s;aid, <HI>Who&s;o &s;heddeth Man's Blood, by Man &s;hall his blood be &s;hed; for in the Image of God made he Man:</HI> And, <HI>Mat. 26. 52. Then Je&s;us &s;aid unto him,</HI> (that is, <HI>Peter,</HI> who with his Sword had &s;mote off the High-Prie&s;t's Servant's Ear,) <HI>put up again thy Sword into his place; for all that take the Sword, &s;hall peri&s;h with the Sword.</HI></P>
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<P>Now mind: It doth not &s;ay, he that kills a Fi&s;h, a Bird, or Bea&s;t, that by Man his Blood &s;hall be &s;hed; neither doth the Scripture &s;ay, Fi&s;hes, Birds and Bea&s;ts, were made in the Image of God; which &s;eems to be the rea&s;on of that Precept: And again, <HI>All that take the Sword &s;hall peri&s;h with it;</HI> that is, take it to de&s;troy, kill, murder Man, that was made in the Image of God; the&s;e &s;hall peri&s;h with it: But doth T. T. believe, that if a Man with a Sword or Gun &s;hall kill a Bird or Deer for nece&s;&s;ary Food, that he ought to peri&s;h by or with the Sword for &s;o doing? And how ab&s;urd is it for T. T. that takes up|on him to teach &s;o many things, and to be &s;o knowing, thus mi&s;e|rably to mi&s;apply the Text, and wre&s;t the Holy Scriptures. But &s;ome &s;uch there were formerly that <HI>erred,</HI> (Mat. 22. 29.) <HI>not knowing the Scrip|tures, nor the power of God,</HI> and <HI>wre&s;ted the holy Scriptures to their own de&s;tru|ction;</HI> &s;ee 2 <HI>Pet.</HI> 3. 16, 17, 18. Of whom <HI>Peter</HI> warns the Believers, &s;ay|ing, <HI>Ye therefore, beloved, &s;eeing ye know the&s;e things before, beware, le&s;t ye al&s;o being led away with the Errour of the wicked, fall from your own &s;tedfa&s;t|ne&s;s:</HI> And <HI>grow in Grace, and in the Knowledge of our Lord and Savi|our Je&s;us Christ; to him be Glory both now and for ever.</HI> Amen. And had T. T. made it more his bu&s;ine&s;s to have an&s;wered this Exhortation, than it appears by his Books he hath, and kept from wre&s;ting the Scrip|tures to make them vindicate his Doctrine, Whim&s;ies, Imaginations and Conceits; it would have been more like a Chri&s;tian, and be&s;poke him to be one that had regard to the Te&s;timony thereof, and good Exhortations therein: For tho Chri&s;t forbad doing Violence to any Man, can T. T. prove he forbid to kill Fi&s;h, Fowl, or Bea&s;ts? or did account his Di&s;ciples and Apo&s;tles Murderers; and tell them that they &s;hould <HI>peri&s;h with the Sword,</HI> becau&s;e they with their Nets caught the Fi&s;h, and al&s;o ate them? or did he blame them for it, or for their &s;o u&s;ing of the Fi&s;hes? or did the Fi&s;h &s;ay, as T. T. makes the Birds &s;ay; <Q>They were a&s;toni&s;ht to meet with &s;uch u&s;ages from tho&s;e that called them&s;elves Chri&s;tians,</Q> (or were Di&s;ciples of him who &s;aid, Do no violence?) or did they complain, and &s;ay, <Q>They liv'd in a great deal of Freedom and Security, till the&s;e Di&s;ciples, from who&s;e Profe&s;&s;ion they might promi&s;e them&s;elves nothing but Love and good Will, came with their Nets to catch, kill and murder them? or did they &s;ay, The&s;e peaceable Di&s;ciples Occupation, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> was to kill, murder, and do violence upon them?</Q> or did they &s;ay as T. T. makes the Birds &s;ay (or &s;ayes for them) in <HI>p.</HI> 146. of <HI>Country-man's Companion,</HI> &amp;c. <Q>We have not taken away their Privi|ledges, nor laid Cities and Countries wa&s;te: We are not guilty of
<PB N="24" REF="15"> burning of Towns, nor deflowring of Virgins, nor ravi&s;hing Matrons, nor of &s;laying old Men, nor of carrying away Captive the young: We do not gather our &s;elves into Troops to de&s;troy tho&s;e of our kind; nor have we at any time plundred them, or haled them in|to loath&s;om Pri&s;ons.</Q></P>
<P>But pray by the way, let me Query, Whether many Fi&s;h and Fowl don't prey one upon another? as al&s;o Bea&s;ts? And, Whether the All-wi&s;e Creator hath not given them Paws, Bills, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> with an In&s;tinct in Nature &s;o to do? But this by the way.</P>
<P>Now I Query, Whether the Fi&s;h the Di&s;ciples caught, had not as much Cau&s;e and rea&s;on to complain again&s;t the Di&s;ciples, as the Birds have again&s;t the Peaceable Chri&s;tians in <HI>Pen&s;ilvania</HI> in <HI>America,</HI> of cruel and in&s;idious Practices, if they had but &s;uch an Advocate as <HI>T. T.</HI> or &s;uch a Scribbler to &s;cribble over a Remon&s;trance, or draw up a Com|plaint for them again&s;t cruel, hard-hearted Man, (as his Phra&s;e is) whom he calls a <HI>Setter,</HI> a <HI>Trepan,</HI> a <HI>Snare,</HI> a <HI>Plague</HI> and <HI>Torment to all the In|habitants of the four Worlds?</HI> But if he did not expect to get Mo|ney by his fictious Stories, <HI>(the love of which is the root of all evil)</HI> I am per&s;waded he would never have &s;o mi&s;pent his time, and mar|red Paper, and troubled the Pre&s;s: for tho' right words are forcible, yet what does his arguing prove le&s;s than the words of the Preach|er true on him&s;elf, <HI>Eccle&s;. 10. Chap. 11. v. 12, 13. Surely the Serpent will bite without Enchantment; and a Babler is no better: For tho' the words of the wi&s;e man's mouth are gracious, yet the lips of a fool will &s;wal|low up him&s;elf. The beginning of the words of his mouth is fooli&s;hne&s;s, and the end of his talk is mi&s;chievous madne&s;s.</HI> And true al&s;o it is, that <HI>the fool is full of words;</HI> and had not T. T. been &s;o, (or his head full of &s;en&s;le&s;s matter) we &s;hould never have had Book after Book, or, to &s;peak in the Mu&s;icians Phra&s;e, the fir&s;t, &s;econd, third and fourth part to the &s;ame tune; and &s;tories of the Sheeps language, and Sheep's, Cow's, Ox|en, Hor&s;es and Birds Complaints; and &s;uch like idle Fictions, that &s;eem rather to come from a giddy Head, than a Heart truly &s;ea&s;on'd with Grace: Yea, I may &s;ay, How much below the Dignity of a man is &s;uch fictious <HI>Little-tattle!</HI> and more abundantly below a Chri|&s;tian, and remote from the &s;ound and &s;olid Doctrine of true Chri&s;ti|anity, to make the Birds &s;ay, (becau&s;e a Chri&s;tian Man &s;hoots them for food) <Q>Why do&s;t thou with this Engine of War murder me, and fight with me? Do&s;t not know that thy great Prophet Chri&s;t
<PB N="25" REF="15"> hath &s;aid, <HI>My Kingdom is not of this World, for then would my Servants fight?</HI></Q>&mdash;Oh idle, fooli&s;h, vain and ignorant Man! as if the &s;hooting of Birds was fighting, and contrary to the Practice of Chri&s;t's Servants! Away with the&s;e idle Conceits: What Scripture is there for this? &s;ee|ing thou &s;ay'&s;t thou de&s;ir'&s;t not to impo&s;e thy Dictates any further than Scripture and right Rea&s;on enjoyns: Let me have Scripture for it, or right Rea&s;on.</P>
<P>I al&s;o ob&s;erve, that thou many times flatteringly &s;ay'&s;t to them, Thou &s;o heavily complains again&s;t <HI>my dear Friends,</HI> and <HI>my Friends,</HI> &amp;c. and &s;aith, <Q>I mu&s;t, becau&s;e it is my Duty, nominate &s;ome particu|lars for us to ob&s;erve,</Q> <HI>p.</HI> 105.&mdash;Pray what <HI>&V;s</HI> is that thou art one of? Or what People do&s;t thee joyn to? Or what Profe&s;&s;ion of Religion art thee of? Or what Denomination do&s;t thou go under? And what are the Particulars the <HI>&V;s</HI> mu&s;t ob&s;erve? Is it, that nei|ther Fi&s;h, Fowl, nor Bea&s;t, &s;hould be either kill'd or eaten; tho' (as I have often &s;aid) in Moderation, the Fear of God, and received with Thanksgiving? Oh &s;trange! that a Man pretending to be &s;o know|ing, &s;hould plead &s;uch a nece&s;&s;ity and Duty for that which is neither required by the Lord, nor laid as an ab&s;olute Nece&s;&s;ity on Man, neither wholly nece&s;&s;ary for every Man to follow, much le&s;s their Chri&s;tian Duty! What Doctrine would this be?</P>
<P>Well, to take notice of all his Errours, Ab&s;urdities, fal&s;e Doctrine, idle Fictions, Contradictions, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> would take up more time and Pa|per than I am willing to &s;pend, and &s;well my Book to more Sheets than there is now Pages.</P>
<P>I therefore pa&s;s by this Book; and &s;hall give a little Sample out of another Book of his, to &s;hew what Stuff it's made on, or to reli&s;h what Root or Spirit it comes from.</P>
<P>It's called (or mi&s;called, like his other Books,) The <HI>Good Hou&s;e|wife made Doctor;</HI> or, <HI>Health's Choice and &s;ure Friend,</HI> &amp;c.</P>
<P><HI>Pag.</HI> 185. he &s;aith, <Q>Mens Coveting Fle&s;h and Blood is a true &s;ign and te&s;timony of their mi&s;erable Fall, and that they live under the power of the dark fierce Wrath.</Q></P>
<P>Now whether this is not a true &s;ign and Te&s;timony of his fal&s;e
<PB N="26" REF="16"> Doctrine, and mi&s;erable fall from the Divine Knowledge, (if he was ever acquainted with it) let the Reader judge? And whether he doth not live under the Power of Darkne&s;s, that hath no clearer Under|&s;tanding? and whether the Prince thereof is not the Author of this his mo&s;t dreadful cen&s;orious A&s;&s;ertion; <HI>i. e.</HI> <Q>That Mens de&s;iring or coveting Fle&s;h</Q> (without exception, as only to eat in Moderati|on, and the Fear of God, and to receive it with thank&s;giving, <HI>&amp;c.)</HI> <Q>is a &s;ign and Te&s;timony that they are no <HI>Chri&s;tians,</HI> or live under the power of the dark Wrath,</Q> (which implys as much,) and &s;o not un|der the Power of God, and Government of the holy Spirit of Chri&s;t, which they that have not are none of his; neither are they God's Sons which are not led by his Spirit:&mdash;And will T. T. &s;ay, they are led by God's Spirit in whom the fierce Wrath predominates, or that de&s;ire or covet to eat Fle&s;h as afore&s;aid?</P>
<P>Take this, as I &s;aid, for a Sample, with a few In&s;tances more out of his &s;aid Book, which are to &s;hew how T. T. (like the clamorous Woman) pulls down his Hou&s;e with his own hands, or &s;tabs his own e&s;pou&s;ed Cau&s;e to the Heart, and gives the overthrow to his great|ly applauded and beloved Doctrine of <HI>Eating</HI> no <HI>Fle&s;h,</HI> becau&s;e of the many Evils and Mi&s;eries that attend it, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> &s;aith he: The In&s;tance is this, <HI>p.</HI> 192 of his Book entituled, The <HI>Good Hou&s;ewife, &amp;c.</HI> He tells what brave food <HI>Reddock, Dandelion, Comefrey</HI> is, and the like, (which grows in the Fields as he &s;aith) boyled as he pre&s;cribes, dre&s;|&s;ed as he directs, butter'd as he orders, and &s;alted as he would have it, and eaten as he advi&s;es.</P>
<P>But how is that, &s;ome may &s;ay? He gives &s;o many Pre&s;cripti|ons, Directions and Rules, it's needful to be well inform'd how it mu&s;t be eaten; and e&s;pecially becau&s;e he puts this Empha&s;is upon it, &s;aying, it's <HI>A brave whole&s;ome Food.</HI></P>
<P>Well, I now will give his Receipt, as I find it in <HI>p.</HI> 193. thus: <Q>Then <HI>Eaten</HI> with Bread, or Bread and <HI>Fle&s;h,</HI> makes a <HI>Brave whole|&s;ome food.</HI> And in <HI>p.</HI> 186. tells of Sallet, of <HI>Spinnage, Par&s;ley, Sor|rel, Lettice,</HI> and a few Onions, and Vinegar, and Salt, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></Q> with &s;uch a Sallet, &s;aith he, you <HI>may eat Fle&s;h.</HI></P>
<P>And now if he have not writ to the purpo&s;e, let the Reader judge; for that which in all his four Books he hath preached again&s;t
<PB N="27" REF="16"> the <HI>Killing</HI> and <HI>Eating</HI> of, to wit, <HI>Fle&s;h;</HI> and told how many Evils and Mi&s;eries attend the Eating of it, which he al&s;o &s;aith, can't be eaten without Violence, and exciting the fierce Wrath, and rendring a Man ready and prompt for any Acts of Cruelty and Op|pre&s;&s;ion, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> And in the Book called, The <HI>Good-Hou&s;wife,</HI> &amp;c. he &s;aith, <Q>From the common <HI>Eating of Fle&s;h,</HI> without di&s;tinction, proceeds Pti&s;icks, Stoppages of the Brea&s;t, makes the Spirits dull and im|pure; whence do ari&s;e heavy, lumpi&s;h Di&s;po&s;itions, with ravenous fierce Inclinations, and cruel Pa&s;&s;ions, which <HI>Cau&s;es</HI> many to u&s;e evil words; demon&s;trating that the dark Center of Wrath is awakened;&mdash;wicked and helli&s;h Speeches, Cur&s;ing, and not only impiou&s;ly prophaning the Name of God, but even challenging, and as it were, daring his tremendous Maje&s;ty (who&s;e Wrath is a <HI>Con|&s;uming Fire)</HI> to Damn and Confound them, and calling their fel|low Creatures, Dogs, Whelps, Sons of Whores, and an hundred of the like Names, <HI>p.</HI> 217, and 218.</Q> And tho' he &s;aith, all this comes of, or proceeds from the <HI>Common Eating of Fle&s;h;</HI> (how true or fal&s;e it is, let the Reader judge) yet eaten with <HI>Reddock, Dandelion, Comfrey,</HI> it is <HI>A brave whole&s;ome Food,</HI> &s;aith he; (if boyled, buttered and &s;alted as he directs;) But in contradiction again to this, and that the Reader may &s;ee how he goes round, in <HI>p.</HI> 75. of his Book term|ed <HI>Wi&s;dom</HI>'s <HI>Call,</HI> &amp;c. he &s;aith, <HI>Do not eat Fle&s;h nor Fi&s;h:</HI> And in <HI>p.</HI> 45. of the &s;ame Book, he &s;aith, <HI>It can't be eaten without Violence,</HI> &amp;c. But in <HI>p.</HI> 186. of his <HI>Good Hou&s;ewife,</HI> &amp;c. he &s;aith, <HI>With Spinnage, Sorrel, Lettice, and a few Onions, Vinegar and Salt, you may eat Meat:</HI> So he forbids the eating of it, and yet allows it; he greatly di&s;commends it, and commends it for a <HI>brave whol&s;ome Food:</HI> But how brave a Phi|lo&s;opher or Divine he is herein, let them that have received a Di|vine Under&s;tanding judge; and let T. T. prove, if he can, that the common eating of Fle&s;h in Moderation, and the Fear of God, and re|ceiving it with Thank&s;giving, makes any Mans Spirit impure, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> or makes them u&s;e evil Words, wicked and helli&s;h Speeches, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> and, as it were challenge God to Damn them, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> And al&s;o let him prove, that <HI>Reddock, Dandelion, Comfrey,</HI> hath &s;uch properties in them to make that whole&s;ome, which (if eaten without them) would be of &s;uch ill tendency, and breed Pti&s;icks, Stoppages of the Brea&s;t, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></P>
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<P>So wi&s;hing he may have a more clear Under&s;tanding, e&s;pe|cially in tho&s;e things that are Divine; I &s;hall conclude, de|&s;iring none may be like Children that are <HI>to&s;&s;ed to and fro with every Wind of Doctrine, by the Sleight of Men, and cunning Craftine&s;s, whereby they lye in wait to deceive;</HI> but through Obedience to the Truth and Spirit of it in their own Hearts, may Day by Day know a growing into him in all things, in <HI>whom the Father is well-plea&s;ed,</HI> that they may come to be <HI>accepted in the Beloved;</HI> through whom, to God only wi&s;e be Glory, for ever. <HI>Amen.</HI></P>
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<P>AN u&s;eful Book is now publi&s;hed, Entituled, <HI>The Young mans Com|panion;</HI> containing, plain and ea&s;ie directions for Spelling and Reading <HI>Engli&s;h;</HI> and Engli&s;hing the Latin Bible without a Teacher: With ea&s;ie Rules for Writing and Arithmetick, and to plot and mea|&s;ure Land, Globes, Steeples, Walls, Barrels, Timber, Stone, Boards, Gla&s;s: of Surveying, A&s;tronomy, Dialling, Glazing, A&s;trology, Geometry, of the Weather; &s;ome &s;ecrets in Navigation, Draw|ing, Geography, colouring of Globes, with a Map of <HI>England;</HI> and a brief Hi&s;tory of the Kings thereof. Remarques on the late great Fro&s;t, and other prodigious accidents, with an account of the Commodities of &s;everal Countries, Receipts to make Red and Black Ink, and Green, Red and Black Wax, al&s;o to dye Cloath, Stuffs, Thread, either Green, Yellow, Red, Purple, or &s;ad colour; together with the nature of Herbs, Druggs, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> Rules for Bakers, Taylors, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> Husbandry, Mea&s;ures, Weights, and Numbers, Account of Time, Days and Months under their various Denominations. All forreign Coin reduced to Engli&s;h money, &s;ale of Goods, Exchange of Wares, phy&s;ical Receipts, to purge Phlegm, Melancholy, Cholour, and for the Cure of Cold, Coughs, Stone, Sciatica, Swelling, &s;ore Throats, Brea&s;t, or Mouth, Scurvy, &s;hortne&s;s of Breath, Rickets, Rupture. Madne&s;s, Feaver, and Ague, Fundament pained, Wind, Worms, Shingles, Rheum in the Eyes, Teeth-Ache, Drop&s;ie, Pleuri&s;ie, with the &s;igns of many of tho&s;e Di&s;tempers. Of Chyrurgery, Husbandry, and ordering of Bees; Purcha&s;e of Annuities, Lea&s;es, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> With an Explanation of hard words in Law, and a Rela|tion of the ancient Inhabitants of <HI>England,</HI> and of all the Fairs, High|ways, Roads and Havens thereof; al&s;o a Regi&s;ter of the &s;ufferings of the Prophets and Apo&s;tles; and many more u&s;eful things. Together with an Alphabetical Table, for the ready finding any matter therein contained. By <HI>William Mather.</HI></P>
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<P>The <HI>Artle&s;s Midnight Thoughts</HI> of a Gentleman at Court, who for many years built on the <HI>Sand,</HI> which every Bla&s;t of cro&s;s Fortune has defaced; but now he has laid new Foundations on the <HI>Rock of his Salvation,</HI> which no <HI>Storms</HI> can &s;hake; and will out-la&s;t the <HI>Conflagra|tion</HI> of the <HI>World,</HI> when <HI>Time</HI> &s;hall melt into <HI>Eternity.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Trigonometry made ea&s;ie;</HI> fitted to the meane&s;t Capacity: It being the Foundation of <HI>A&s;tronomy, Navigation, Dyalling, Surveying, Geogra|phy, Per&s;pective</HI> and <HI>Gunnery.</HI> By <HI>John Holwell</HI> Philomath.</P>
<P>The <HI>Royal Catholick Engli&s;h School;</HI> containing a Catalogue of all the Words in the Bible, beginning with one Syllable, and proceeding by degrees to eight; divided and not divided: Together with a brief and compleat Table of the mo&s;t u&s;ual and common <HI>Engli&s;h</HI> Words. The Fifth Edition, much Enlarged and Corrected. By <HI>Tobias Ellis,</HI> Mini&s;ter of the Go&s;pel.</P>
<P><HI>Mellificium Men&s;ionis;</HI> or, The <HI>Marrow of Mea&s;uring:</HI> Wherein a new and ready way is &s;hewn how to mea&s;ure <HI>Glazing, Painting, Pla|&s;tering Ma&s;onry, Joyner</HI>'s <HI>Carpenter</HI>'s and <HI>Brick-layer</HI>'s Works. The Se|cond Edition Corrected. By <HI>Venterus Mandey.</HI></P>
<P><HI>Divine Immediate Revelation</HI> and In&s;piration continued in the true Church, Second Part; in two Treati&s;es: The fir&s;t being an An&s;wer to <HI>Jo. W. Bajer,</HI> Doctor and Profe&s;&s;or of Divinity, &s;o called, at <HI>Jena,</HI> in <HI>Germany;</HI> Publi&s;hed fir&s;t in <HI>Latin,</HI> and now in <HI>Engli&s;h.</HI> The &s;e|cond being an An&s;wer to <HI>George Hicks,</HI> &s;tiled Doctor of Divinity, his Sermon Preached at <HI>Oxford,</HI> 1681. and Printed with the Title of, <HI>The Spirit of Enthu&s;ia&s;m Exorci&s;ed;</HI> where this pretended Exorci&s;t is de|tected. Together with &s;ome Te&s;timonies of Truth, Collected out of divers Antient Writers, or Fathers, &s;o called. <HI>G. K.</HI></P>
<P>Dr. <HI>Everard</HI>'s Works, in <HI>Octavo.</HI></P>
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