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<P>THE Serious Peoples REASONING AND SPEECH WITH THE <HI>WORLDS TEACHERS</HI> AND PROFESSORS.</P>
<P>By <HI>G. F.</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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<HEAD>The Serious Peoples Rea&s;oning and &s;peech with the worlds Teachers &amp; Profe&s;&s;ors.</HEAD>
<P>THe Worlds Teachers and Profe&s;&s;ors &s;ay, <HI>The</HI> Quakers <HI>are fools, becau&s;e they will not wear Ribbands, and Idiots, and novices becau&s;e they will not wear feathers in their caps, and great Scarfes a top of their hats, and to hang over their hat brims and &s;houlders and their backs, therefore are they like fools, Idiots and no body.</HI></P>
<P>I, But &s;ayes the &s;erious people to the&s;e profe&s;&s;ors and Teachers of the World you are more like novices, Idiots, and fools, with your Scarfes a top of the crown of your hats, hanging over their brims upon your backs, and your hearers and people with feathers in their Caps, which are no where like Chri&s;tians, but are more like the Idiots, and the fools and novices, who have lo&s;t your &s;incerity, who&s;e minds are taken up with the&s;e fooli&s;h things, which de&s;troys your &s;eriou&s;ne&s;s, and &s;o you are not like the Saints, you profe&s;&s;ors and Teachers and people, but are like the heathen in your gorgious Apparel.</P>
<P>The Prie&s;ts and profe&s;&s;ors and the worlds table talk is, <HI>The</HI> Quakers <HI>will not wear gold Lace, will not wear Ribbands in their hats, nor at their knees, nor about their wa&s;tes, nor a bunch of Ribbands before them; nor Ribbands at their Gloves, nor broad Ta&s;&s;els upon their &s;hoes, nor Ribbands at their hands, nor a bunch of Ribbands at their backs as big as ones fi&s;t, as our women and mem|bers of our Churches do, and a bunch of Ribbands at their bo&s;omes, and down their bo&s;omes; and three or four Gold Laces upon their Coats, and Petticoats; and the</HI> Quakers <HI>like a company of fools and novices cry again&s;t us, and &s;ay we are all daubed about and dre&s;t with pride: how mu&s;t the poor live if we m<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;t not wear their Lace? and gold and &s;ilver, and Ribbands on our backs?</HI></P>
<P>I, But &s;aith the &s;erious people, art not thou burthened with all this garb upon thy back, and this vanity? and doe&s;t not thou &s;pend much time in decking thy &s;elf? and doe&s;t not &s;ee thy &s;elf ill-favored with all the&s;e Ribbands ta&s;hling about thy hands, &amp; flaping upon thy hat, and great bunches as big as a hand flaping at the backs of wo|men like a Be&s;ome, and thy great things a top of thy &s;hoes &s;taring; and if you &s;ay how &s;hould the poor live if you do not wear that; Give them all that money which you be&s;tow upon all that gorgious attire &amp; needles things, to nouri&s;h them, that they may live without making vanities, and needle&s;s things, and co&s;tly Attire for you. And through that you will live, and they will live both; giving the poor all that which you lay out in needle&s;s toys and Ribbands; and then you &s;hall not be like fools and Fidlers, and the dancing leight women with all their bunches of Ribbands and toys about them, &s;aith the &s;erious people.</P>
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<P>But &s;aith the worlds Teachers and profe&s;&s;ors; <HI>The&s;e</HI> Quakers <HI>are good for nothing but to cro&s;&s;e people, and cro&s;&s;e us.</HI></P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> Your minds that live in vanities and Ribbands, and delight in &s;uch fooleries you are &s;o peevi&s;h, and &s;o fretful, and &s;o petti&s;h, if the bunch of Ribband<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> be not right as you would have them upon your backs, &amp; hang right upon your brea&s;ts, and your Laces &s;et right upon your coats and Gloves, and your dre&s;&s;ing and Ribbands right upon your heads, that through your peevi&s;hne&s;s, and bricklene&s;s of your minds that live in the&s;e earthly things, neither your men, nor your maids can tell how to plea&s;e you, nor your Taylors to &s;hape your garments right for you; and &s;o that which the <HI>Quakers</HI> cro&s;&s;e, is but your earthly minds that live in the&s;e earthly toyes, and &s;o they are more your friends then you are a|ware of, &s;aith the &s;erious people; and we know you, for abundance of of you are gotten up lately with your ribbands on your backs and knees, and your Feathers in your hats, and your bunches of Ribbands about your wa&s;tes, and dabling of your Gloves, and putting on gold and &s;ilver, which is contrary to the Apo&s;tles doctrine; for we have known the time when many of you did not wear &s;uch things which you have lately got up, and put on, more like fools then &s;erious people, who are out of the Apo&s;tles doctrine; who &s;aith it is not the wearing of gold nor co&s;tly apparel; and &s;o through your vanity, you have lo&s;t &s;incerity, and gone from the Apo&s;tles doctrine, and &s;o are turned into the lu&s;ts of the eye, pride of life, and lu&s;ts of the fle&s;h.</P>
<P><HI>Away with you</HI> &s;ay the profe&s;&s;ors and Teachers of the world, <HI>you are a company of mad men, you are not fit to live upon the earth.</HI></P>
<P>I, But &s;ay the &s;erious people, you are the mad men that de&s;troys the Creation and the creatures of God upon your lu&s;ts, and the lu&s;ts of your eye, the lu&s;ts of the fle&s;h, and the pride of life, which is not of the Father, but of the world, by which you de&s;troy the Fathers works, and the pri<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters"> of the creatures which were given forth to be u&s;ed by the wi&s;dom, by which they were created to the glory of the Creator.</P>
<P>Prie&s;t&punc; and profe&s;&s;ors and Teachers, &s;ay they; <HI>You are not fit to be talked to, you would have all to be fools like your &s;elves, we have freedom to plait our hair, and hang it about with Ribbands and lay it over our browes, this is our liberty, and to &s;et &s;pots on our faces of half moons, and a coatch and hor&s;es, and curl and powder our hair, and tie it up with Bibbands and Jewels.</HI></P>
<P>I, But &s;ay the &s;erious people, this is not like the Chri&s;tians fa&s;hions nor the Apo&s;tles doctrine, which &s;aith, it is not the plaiting of the hair and putting on of gold; nor like Chri&s;ts doctrine, who &s;aith they &s;hould not take thought what to eat and to drink, nor what to put on, for the <HI>Gentiles</HI> did &s;o: but you are taking thought for your gold Lace and Rib|bands and changeable &s;uits, and cannot tell what to eat, nor what to drink, not what to put on: you are more like the fools, and the heathen, &s;ay the &s;erious people, then Chri&s;tians; And you tie up your hair, and childrens hair, as the O&s;tlers ties up the hor&s;es tails, and maynes, and hang <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ib<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ands at their ears; as you do, &s;o do the Grooms and O&s;tlers in the wilde hor&s;es and Mares heads, as you do your men and women, and &s;o are a people that have forgotten God and all &s;incerity; And &s;o you are
<PB N="4" REF="3"> a people that take more plea&s;ure in the creatures then in the Creator. And as for your patches and half moones, and hor&s;es and Coaches on your faces, you are more like fools, and of <HI>Jezabels</HI> &s;tock (who be|trayed the ju&s;t) that painted Harlot, and &s;o the Ju&s;t have you betrayed in your &s;elves, and have vexed and grieved the good &s;pirit of God in you by your vanity, one vanity after another, &s;o you are more like <HI>Jezabel</HI> then Chri&s;tians; what a crinckling is here with your feet and a mincing? how &s;uit you with &s;uch as the Prophet cryed again&s;t who &s;hall be covered with a&s;hes, <HI>And in&s;tead of a &s;weet &s;mell, a &s;tink</HI></P>
<P>The Prie&s;ts and profe&s;&s;ors of the world &s;ay, <HI>The&s;e fool<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> the</HI> Quakers, <HI>cannot endure to &s;ee us with two or three Rings on our fingers, nor I<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 chunk">s in our ears, nor bracelets about our neeks, nor cuffs, nor double <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">uffs, nor g<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">eat <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">&s;hling band &s;trings, they cannot endure we &s;hould wear a <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">aced Cap of twenty &s;hillings price, or le&s;s or more, and a pair of double Cuffs u<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">n our hands, and double white Boot-hoo&s;e tops, the&s;e novice</HI> Quakers <HI>cannot endure to &s;ee us with this garb upon our backs. And how &s;hould poor people live if we &s;hould not wear them?</HI></P>
<P>Say the &s;erious people, all your gold Rings, your Cuffs, your great band-&s;trings, your Lace, your Jewels, your Bracelets, your gorgious ap|parel and Attire, turn it all into money, and give it the poor to buy them bread, and I will warrant you that they and you will have all enough, and there will be no want among&s;t you, for you are alwayes wanting rings, or Ribbands, gold hat-Bands, Laces or Bracelets, you are, alwayes wanting one thing or another, if ye &s;ee another fa&s;hion, the other is old; and you want to get into it, and you envy others that are gotten into the fa&s;hion before you. And here is the Devil the king of pride, that mur|therer, that leads people to con&s;ume and de&s;troy the creatures upon their lu&s;ts, for his lu&s;ts they do; and &s;o you are more like fools that are &s;laves to the Devil, who is out of the truth that leads you to de&s;troy the works and creatures and Creation of God, and all your want is of God; for you want God and his wi&s;dom to order you.</P>
<P>The Teachers and profe&s;&s;ors of the world &s;ay, <HI>The</HI> Quakers <HI>are offended at us becau&s;e our women have a dre&s;&s;ing come down to the midle of their backs, and a great pair of Cuffs upon their bands, and how mu&s;t the poor people live if they &s;hould not do &s;o?</HI></P>
<P>The makers of the&s;e things, &s;ay the &s;erious people, let them make plain things, and do you wear plain things, and that money which you lay out of the&s;e co&s;tly things, give you to them; for who are you like in the Scriptures? you are not like the Chri&s;tians, for what &s;ervice is there in your wearing a bunch of ribbans at your womens backs? do they &s;care flies away? and at their brea&s;ts, ta&s;hling at their Arms, and a great company of Ribbands ta&s;hling at their hams and their heads, do you wear them to &s;caire flies from your hams? why do you wear that great bunch before? what is the &s;ervice of it, that you are thus dre&s;t? Are you dre&s;t for a &s;ight, and a &s;hew, that people &s;hould wonder and &s;tare at you? or are you dre&s;t according to the Scripture, and the Apo&s;tles doctrine and commands? give &s;ome example for your fruits among the Saints; &s;aith the &s;erious people, we have &s;een Bedlam people, and mad men hang Ribbans in their Caps, and at their horns ends, and mad people hang
<PB N="5" REF="3" MS="y"> about with clouts; &s;o you are more like fools and mad people then the <HI>Quakers;</HI> and it is a wonder that you profe&s;&s;ors, and Teachers, and peo|ple &s;hould be &s;o offended at the <HI>Quakers,</HI> for they &s;ee no people out-&s;trip you, except it be the Mountebancks, and &s;tage players, &amp; French Lackies; Therefore it is time for you to lay away your Ribbands, &amp; your gold and your rings, and your Bracelets, and your Lace, and your gold, and your &s;ilver Lace, and your bunch of Ribbands, and all your &s;uperfluity, and turn it into money, and give it to the poor Trade&s;-men that makes the&s;e things; &s;o that they may not labour to &s;erve your lu&s;ts &amp; wils to con&s;ume it upon your lu&s;ts, and that &s;hall bring more honour to God in giving that which you wa&s;te on &s;uperfluity to the poor Trad&s;-men that works for your con&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ming wills and lu&s;ts. Therefore con&s;ider &s;aith the &s;erious people, for God will de&s;troy the world that lies in pride and wickedne&s;s, which the Devil is the Prince of, and that &s;hall come to an end, and it mu&s;t be de&s;troyed by the word, and the glory of the world will fade away, but the glory of the Lord will not, nor his word which lives, abides and remains and endures for ever. Therefore con&s;ider all you children of pride, among&s;t whom the Devil is, who is your King and R<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ler, who is called the King of pride, who are alwayes in want, for the murthere<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> and devourer cau&s;es you to wa&s;te the Creation of God, and de&s;troy it, and &s;o your want is for want of God and his wi&s;dom. The Lord God of power and of heaven and earth, who will Rule you with his hammar, with his &s;word, with his word which is a fire for all the children of pride; and the hammer is beating, and the &s;word is go|ing, and the fire is kindling which will make all the proud to rage with a burning fire; Heark cries the Prie&s;ts and profe&s;&s;ors, and Teachers of the world, <HI>we cannot get a</HI> Quaker <HI>to the Ale hou&s;e, nor Tavern, nor to fea&s;t with us, not to dance with us, nor to hear our Fidlers, nor Mu&s;ick (a company of preci&s;e people) there is none knowes how to have them.</HI></P>
<P>Say you &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">? Saith the &s;erious people, that is becau&s;e they will not to the T<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="4 letters">n with you, and have the Fidlers, and Pipes, and Pots, and you Banquetting, and Fea&s;ting, and your houting more like mad men out of your wits, then men that fears God, who thus de&s;troyes the Creation upon your lu&s;ts. The <HI>Quakers</HI> are come into the wi&s;dom of God the <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> of the Creation by which all things were Created, &s;o that if they eat, and drink, it mu&s;t be to the prai&s;e and glory of God; being in <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> fear &s;o they cannoth have fellow&s;hip with the de&s;troyers and mar<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="3 letters">s of the workman&s;hip of God; and the Creation.</P>
<P>The Prie&s;t<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> and profe&s;&s;ors &amp; Teachers of the world <HI>Say, the</HI> Quakers <HI>will not d<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">f<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter"> their hats, nor &s;crape a leg, nor make a court&s;ie (a company of Clowns.)</HI></P>
<P>Saith the &s;erious people, where do you read in Scriptures that the Apo&s;tles t<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ught any one that they &s;hould <HI>&s;crape</HI> a <HI>Leg,</HI> and make a <HI>Curt|&s;ie,</HI> or put off their hats, for great men will &s;tand with their hats on, one to another, and &s;ometimes they will bow and &s;tir them, but they will &s;eldome bow to the poor, or &s;crape a Leg to a begger; &s;o if he hath got a feather in his hat, &amp; a few Ribbands on his breeches, and hair pow|dred, and if &s;he hath gotten a bunch of Ribbens on her back, then theres your <HI>&s;ervant Madam, your &s;ervant Sir, your humble &s;ervant, Mr.</HI> then &s;crape
<PB N="6" REF="4"> and curt&s;ie and doff the hat, and <HI>you Sir,</HI> and this plea&s;eth proud fle&s;h, but to &s;ay <HI>(thou friend)</HI> makes him or her mad, which is a proper lo|ving word, and Scripture order and practice, and a &s;ound word, that cannot be condemned. Therefore &s;uch proud ones that bowes not unto poor people, and &s;crape not unto poor people, and <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 word"> them &amp; not <HI>you</HI> them, and yet they mu&s;t be Court&s;ied to, and &s;c<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">ped to, and Capt becau&s;e they have &s;ome more of the Earth and proud <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="5 letters">ell and their poor brethren mu&s;t not be &s;crapt, nor bowed unto, is not here re|&s;pecting per&s;ons? And &s;o are judged by the Law of liberty.</P>
<P>And as for your &s;aying it is your liberty, to wear Cuffs, Rings Beads, Jewels, powder your hair, gold and &s;ilver lace, bunches of r<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">bands at your backs, great &s;carfes about your hats, feathers and Ribbands, great things a top of your &s;hoos; Childrens hair tyed up (like hor&s;e maines with ribbands) Like hor&s;es tailes, Lu&s;ty great la&s;&s;es, and women full of paint, &amp; patches of hor&s;es, and half moones upon their faces; this is our liberty &s;aith the profe&s;&s;ors and teachers of the world, and all is ours, and it is the Saints liberty; Nay, this is the liberty of the fle&s;h, and the King of prides kingdom, in his dominion in the Earth de&s;troying the creatures and devouring the creatures &amp; this liberty is your own bondage who are &s;ervants of corruption, &amp; this liberty wil be your burthen, &amp; your vanity will fly you in the end, though you will not fly it in your life time, and will &s;tand you in no &s;tead, who will be found as <HI>Dives,</HI> that rich glutton, that fared &s;umptuou&s;ly every day, and the poor begger hath a greater &s;hare in the Kingdome with <HI>Abraham I&s;aac and Jacob</HI> then you; and &s;its in his bo&s;ome in that Kingdome, when the other is in the Lake. Therefore you that live wantonly upon earth, you kill the ju&s;t, and the Devil is your King, (who is unju&s;t) and your Law-giver, who teach|eth you to de&s;troy and devour, and to con&s;ume, and you that live in plea&s;ures on the Earth are dead while you live, and have denyed the faith, and are turned wanton, that eat and drink and ri&s;e up to play, and go to dancing, and are like the children of <HI>I&s;rael</HI> that danced be|fore the calfe, and like unto <HI>Herodias</HI> daughter that danced to plea&s;e that glutton &amp; gorgious man, who was reproved; who took off the head of <HI>Iohn</HI> Bapti&s;t that reproved him to &s;atisfie the lu&s;t of the dance; and there, is the end of tho&s;e that live wantonly upon Earth, that kill the ju&s;t, that are &s;porting them&s;elves, and living in plea&s;ures in the day time, &s;uch are gone out from the power of God, and are as the heathen and not as the Saints who were redeemed out of the Earth, and its va|nities and plea&s;ures to know the election before the world began.</P>
<P>The prie&s;ts and profe&s;&s;ors of the world &s;ay, <HI>The Quakers tho&s;e fools can|not indure our puppit plaies, nor our &s;tage plaies, nor our May-gaines. nor our &s;ho|v<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">l boards, nor our Tables nor Dice nor our &s;ports nor &s;howes, nor that we &s;h<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">uld make pictures of things in heaven, and things in earth, nor our lit|tle Babies that we &s;ell, nor our <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">mages, the&s;e fooles the Quakers cannot in|dure the&s;e things</HI> Are you not a&s;hamed &s;aith the &s;erious people, for &s;hame hold your tongues, do you call your &s;elves teachers, and profe&s;&s;ors, and Chri&s;tians, and name the name of Chri&s;t, and profe&s;&s;e the Apo&s;tles words? <HI>Why it is our recreation &s;ay they;</HI> Recreation? Away, away, the recreation is in the Law of God, the delight is there day and night,
<PB N="7" REF="4" MS="y"> and the exerci&s;e is there, and the glorying is in the Cro&s;&s;e of Chri&s;t that crucifies to the World. Are not you a&s;hamed to talk of Fidlers, Mountebancks and &s;tage players, &amp; Images and pictures, and &s;howes, and your &s;hovel boards, and plaies, and games and Dice? Away for &s;hame hold your tongues, for they are works of the fle&s;h, and works of vanity and delights of fools that live in their plea&s;ures and lu&s;ts of the world, who are enem<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">es to the Cro&s;&s;e of Chri&s;t, that crucifies to the world, and which is the Saints glory; who glories in the Creator, but tho&s;e that follow their plea&s;ures, glories in the Creature more then in the Crea or; who are &s;wearing almo&s;t at every word, and cur&s;ing at every word, that there is &s;uch na&s;ty &s;treets, with &s;uch na&s;ty un&s;avoury words, and &s;uch cur&s;ing and &s;wearing, that it is even a &s;hame and loath&s;ome to &s;peak of, a den of Dr<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="2 letters">ons, like as Hell were broken open; and this is your noi&s;e in your &s;treets, Tavernes and Ale-hou&s;es.</P>
<P>Ha, Ha, cries the profe&s;&s;ors and reachers of the world, <HI>what do the Quakers do&punc; They bid you mind the light of Chri&s;t within you.</HI></P>
<P>I, &s;aith the &s;erious people, if you did mind the light within you, it would never let you &s;wear nor cur&s;e, nor follow plea&s;ures nor fol|low the fa&s;hons of the world, nor the vanities, nor the fooleries, nor ima|ges nor let you de&s;troy the creation on your lu&s;ts, and creatures, &amp; &s;o ma|ny in the Nation to &s;tarve for want of food, it would bring you to put off your g<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">rgious apparel, gold and &s;ilver, and Rings and Ribbands: But the light would lead you to Chri&s;t the wi&s;dome of <HI>God</HI> from whence it comes, and that would lead you to order the creatures to the glory of <HI>God</HI> the Creator of them, which Checks you and reproves you, and brings you <GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">ut of <HI>Dives</HI> &s;tate, to poor <HI>Lazarus</HI> kingdome, but if you hate it, it will be your condemnation. And to you that is the word of the Lord <HI>God,</HI> For when men are lifted up in pride, they &s;hall not come nigh them without &s;craping and bowing the hat four or five times; and this is the honour below to fools, which is like Snow in Summer, and rain in harve&s;t, un&s;ea&s;onable; Two men and two women of the World meets the one the other, and being much offended the one at the other; For &s;aith the one, <HI>I bowed three times to him and he &s;carce bowed once to me, and &s;carce &s;tirred his hat, he is not &s;o civil and courtious as he was wont to be; I wonder what is the matter; I court&s;ied three times&punc; the fir&s;t almo&s;t to the ground, and &s;he &s;carce bowed to me, &s;he made but halfe a court&s;ie, which is not as &s;he u&s;ed to be, for &s;he u&s;ed to be more courtious.</HI></P>
<P>Why how now &s;aith the &s;erious people, you were finding fault with the Quakers before? Who now cannot plea&s;e one another with your cour|t&s;ies, and &s;crapes, and your hats &s;ome does it too little, &s;ome too much; for I &s;aw one of the World, a great profe&s;&s;or, &amp; a Teacher, and he came to another that had been a Teacher, and they bowed one to the other till they out-bowed one another, and this the one &s;aid to the other, a|way with the&s;e complements, So the mo&s;t of your time is &s;pent &s;aith the &s;erious people in capping one to the other, and court&s;ying, and thinking what you &s;hall eat, and what you &s;hall drink, and your comple|ments and fa&s;hons. And this takes you off the &s;ervice of <HI>God,</HI> and the civilitie which is in the truth, that is out of all that; for true civilitie
<PB N="8" REF="5"> &s;tand in truth and love that envies not, but the love of the world will envie and be envious at others that will not give them their fa&s;hion, their complement, their court&s;ie, their Cap, and their &s;crape, which they call civilitie, and that is not civilitie which will envie, for civili|tie &s;tands out of envie, in truth and love that envies not.</P>
<P>Prie&s;ts and profe&s;&s;ors of the World &s;ay they, <HI>The&s;e clowni&s;h</HI> Quakers <HI>will not drink in one, neither &s;ay good morrow, or good Evening, but &s;ay</HI> thou <HI>to every one; Let him be great or &s;male, they will</HI> thou <HI>him, a company of clowns and ill-bred people, they are not fit to dwell upon the earth.</HI></P>
<P>How now? Saith the &s;erious people, why do you &s;ay &s;o? why do you thus rage? For it is a temptation in drinking one to an other, it is more civility to &s;et down the cup, let every one take the creatures in their &s;ervice, and drink as he needs, they &s;tand to &s;erve, and not to tempt one another to drink more then doth him good,</P>
<P>I, I, <HI>We thought ye would de&s;troy all good fellow&s;hip,</HI> cries the Teach|ers and profe&s;&s;ors of the world.</P>
<P>Nay cries the &s;erious people, the good fellow&s;hip is in the &s;pirit, which gives an under&s;tanding and a good wi&s;dome, that is pure and gen|tle from above; with that to order the creatures, to the glory of the Creator, and the morning is good, and the evening is good, for all things that God made were good; But bad people &s;ay the morning is bad, &amp; the evening is bad, when it doth not plea&s;e them: And &s;o to &s;uch we tell them it is a good morning and a good Evening, which they call bad; And them that do not know all things that God made to be good, we tell them that they are; And them that &s;ay the morning and the evening is bad, we tell them it is good, but the night of darkne&s;&s;e is bad, where all the works of darkne&s;&s;e are done. And the morning of judgement is good; but he will think it is bad, that his works and him mu&s;t be tryed by fire which cannot be quenched. And tho&s;e are the clownes that do not know the Morning good, and the Evening good, but mu&s;t be &s;aying the words to one another all their life time. And they that &s;ay <HI>thou</HI> to a particular are not clownes, for it is &s;ound Scripture language; <HI>David</HI> was not a clowne, nor the prophets, nor Chri&s;t, nor the Apo&s;tles that <HI>thou'd</HI> particulars; and <HI>you'd</HI> generalls (or many) but tho&s;e be clownes that be out of the &s;ound &s;peech; and &s;urely the&s;e Teachers and Profe&s;&s;ors might have known, ere now, and have taught the World &s;in|gular and plural numbers, and have learned their <HI>Accedente</HI> and their Grammar ere now, and not have called them clownes that come into the practice of the &s;ingular and plural; a clown is untaught and one that hath learned and doth not practice.</P>
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