A BRIEF ANSWER UNTO THE CAMBRIDGE MODDEL. VVhich is to go to the two Universi­ties to be read by all the Doctors and Students, Vice-Chancellor, and Fellows, as they will answer it to GOD. And likewise this is to go to all those they call Gentle­men of the Countreys to whom this Moddel is directed, from the DOCTORS, for money to main­taine the STUDENTS. And is to go amongst all the Priests that are, and have been heretofore made Ministers by the same Doctors of Col­ledges, now planted themselves in the Countreys. And this is to go amongst all the Country-men, that they may see the fruits of the Learning from these Doctors, which Fruits is PERSECUTION. And also that they and all people might come to learn of Christ the Prophet, which is raised up, which doth enlighten every man which comes into the world, high and low, rich and poor, Bond and free, Male and Female, that all through him might believe, who is the Covenant of God, the leader of the people, whom they should hear, who reconciles in one, things in hea­ven, and things on earth, who brings into Unity, which is in the light which every man which comes into the world is light­ned withal, which is Christ, that Abraham and the Prophets, and Moses spake of, he being enjoyed, the end is seen. By E. M.

LONDON, Printed for Thomas Simmons, at the Bull and Mouth neer Aldersgate, 1658.

John Worthington, John Arrowsmith, Anthony Tuckney, Benjamin Wichcot, Ralph Cud­worth, William Dillingham, Priest Baxter, and Matthew Poole. Some of their Principles, as followeth in a Moddel for the maintaining of Students, for the making of Mini­sters, and is presented to the Gentlemen of the Countrey, whereby these Ministers when they are made, may be sent out into Ireland and Wales, and into the dark pla­ces of England.

OH shame! Cover your faces, you chief Doctors and Teachers; was this the work of the Apostles? and is this the end of your so many thousands of pounds a a year you have out of the Nation? and hundred pounds a year stipends? Doth not your gold and silver begin to burn in your flesh and your bones? Hath it not cankered your flesh yet? Is it not rusted in your flesh yet? Will you make Ministers and young Students for money? Did the Apostles go begging up and down to Gentlemen (as you call them) for mo­ney to make Students, to make Ministers? Did Christ set forth such a way? Now this is the way to make Ministers of the Let­ter, who are persecutors of the Ministers of the Spirit, for main­tenance, & the people of God: and you are more for the main­tenance, and they both, when you have made them, then for the glory of God; and you are quite out of the steps of them that Christ sent forth, that what was set before them they might eat: And the foundation of your work lyes in your naturall parts, and in your abilities, buying and selling Parishes, and begging Parishes, and changing one from another. Nay, I know you Priests, Black-coats, and Doctors, would eat up one another, who are the worst of men, and the worst of flesh, which [Page] [Page 2] is become as the carrion, fit for nothing but the wilde Beasts, and wilde Creatures, and Fowls, and your fruits in all the Gaols in the Nation, of the Ministers you have made, declares it, in prisoning, and the Courts suing and prisoning them, you do no work for; a shamelesse company of men, they are so ill bred at Oxford and Cambridge, such a place of ill breeding, that you bring a Nation and People into confusion: But prai­sed be the Lord God you are all measured, and comprehended, unlike the Ministers of the Gospel, unlike the Church; but your hearts (appears) are seared with a hot iron, when you have made your Ministers, both maker, and made destroy people for dishonest gain, who pretend to people that you are Mini­sters of Christ, and be not, which comes out of the two drosse houses, Oxford and Cambridge, and sends forth your Ministers you have made, makes a trade of the Scriptures, and sells their preaching and praying by the hour-glasse, and tells the people when the glasse is run, the time is spent. Doth not all the so­ber people in the Nation behold here your folly? and you sing Davids quaking, and Prayers, and Praises, and prophecies for money? For what Priest will come in the Steeple-house, and sing without money? Away with your abominations, is this your Moddell for money? Come sing freely, and praise the Lord freely, yea all Nations to the free God of heaven and earth: and preach freely, if yee have received freely.

But then scrubs the Priest, and saith, It hath cost me money, and murmurs; Come pray freely without money for the people to the Lord, then he will hear your prayers without your wrath, for your polluted hands is so full of blood and persecution for your bellies, as your Courts and Gaols may witnesse, and hou­ses of Correction, and stocks, and whipping posts, for the ser­vants of the Lord God: But I will arise and be eased of mine ad­versaries saith the Lord. And you are far off the Mount and Sions Hill, who are thus choaked up with Stipends and Augmenta­tions, Gleab Lands, Midsomer dues, and Easter reckonings, and tythe Pigs and Geese, &c. gifts and rewards, and hands so full of blood, persecution, wrath and doubting of ever overcom­ing sin and imperfection. For what good (when you have made them Ministers by money, and send them forth to preach for money) what good do they do for it? you tell your hear­ers [Page 3] they shall never be made free from the body of sin, nor im­perfection, they shall always carry the body of sin about them, while they are upon earth, and that they can never be perfect, so denies the new Covenant that blots out sin and transgressi­on, in which men have peace with God. You deny the blood of Jesus Christ which cleanseth from all sinne. You deny the one of­fering Christ Jesus, who hath perfected for ever them that are san­ctified: And so in this state you deny Christ that died at Jerusa­lem, and so you are in a worse state then the first Priest hood, which the comers to it was not made perfect, and the first Co­venant, and so you are such as are crept into houses, and have the forme of godlinesse, but denies the power, and keeps people alwayes learning, laden with sin and divers lusts, never able to come to the knowledge of truth, like unto Jannes and Jambres, that would have kept the children of Israel in temporal AEgypt, and so you keep them in spirituall AEgypt, Sodome and Gomorrah, where Christ is crucified, though it be in the Land of Canaan, and you voluptuous Professors and Teachers, and called Ministers, and makers of them, consider this, for the fire of the jealousie of the Almighty is entring into your bones, and your flesh, and the dread of the Lord God Almighty will finde you out. Take counsel never so much together against the Lords annointed, & the just, he will break you to pieces like potters vessells: And light will break forth, though you be in never such great houses of darknesse, though you swell like the Sea, and rage like the waves, and yell like the Lyons, who want their prey, and roar like the Bear bereaved of her whelps, and raven like Wolves, and carry the Lambs and Sheep into houses of Correction for your prey, because you cannot get meat of them, whom the Lord is their Shepherd, who follows Christ, and hears his voyce; who hath put his sheep forth from you to whom he hath given eternall life. Though you roar in your Pulpits, and make the ignorant people like a raging sea, all of a fire against the Lambs and little ones, the Lord will still the waves and lay the tempests, and hath put the hook in the jaws of the great Le­viathan in the Sea. Come ye Babes and little ones, and rejoyce over them in the Lord, who is causing light to break forth out of darkness.

The two places, Oxford and Cambridge, which makes Mi­nisters: [Page 4] the things which is seen concerning them is, they are like two Woods, full of black trees, which are blackned with smoke, and a few leaves hangs dropping on the Tops of them, like unto trees at the fall of the leaf, and they stand as it were in a quagmire, which is made up with the fat of the Nation, and the exacting of poor people, and wringing of them, like a great heap of myery soft earth, and when the wind blows the quagmire puffs at the bottom of it, and there is but little mosse growes on the trees, because of the smoke, and these trees bears no fruit, but a few dropping leaves as it were in the end of Summer, so they stand as the shaking off with a great winde, whose leaf fades, and so as they are carried out of that quag­mire and wood and banke, undressed, they are planted in the Countries like starved trees in the Forest, beaten with windes and weathers, dried with bark on, and some Mosse on them, and scarce leaves. Now these be the fuel for the fire, which cum­bers the ground, fruitlesse trees, and the Nations and the earth hath layen like a Wildernesse, and these trees have not born fruit, and their leaves fades and falls; And the fruitfull trees of the field begins to clap their hands who beares the fruit, whose leaf never fades nor falls, that is by the River, and the smoak of these two woods before mentioned hath almost smoaked off the barks of them, for they have scarcely the outside of them nor leaves, but they are droping down continually, and they must all drop off and appear bare, for they have not any to cover them, and all your works and the intent of your Moddel, is to get money that you might make Ministers, are you like the Apo­stles in this? have you thrust out Christ, and denyed the faith, will you let Christ have no Room, but in your mouths to talk of him? had ever Christ any place but in the manger amongst the Professors, & them that lived in lip service, their hearts far off from God? had not the great professors Hebrew, Greek and La­tin in the dayes of old, the great Talkers of Christ? and he had no place amongst them but in the manger in the stable, are not you making Ministers, and begging money of the Gentry, and frigh­ting their evil consciences if they will not give it you? and the highest when you have made them is but Hebrew, Greek and La­tin; which is but natural, and so is but a natural man, and the na­tural man receives not the things of God though he hath Hebrew, [Page 5] Greek and Latin, though he can talk of all Scripture in those lan­guages, and will put Christ in the stable and in the manger, and let him have no Room in the Synagogues as the Jewes would not, but was all full of wrath, and rose up against him, and put him out of the Synagogue; and do not you & your Ministers put him out of your Synagogues, and put him in prison? is not this the fruits of your Ministers, and your makers of them? sure people will be wise, and not spend their money for that which is not bread; where was there such degrees amongst the Apostles as is amongst you and the Papists, Batchelors and Masters of Arts, and so forth? and where did the Apostle chuse boyes, out of Schools, and send them to a place to learn Hebrew, Greek and Latine 7 or 8 years, and that such should be made Ministers, is not this by men and of men? doth not all this come out of your own names? let the wise in heart judge; so if one come in his own name, the world receives him, but who comes in the name of the Lord the world will not receive him.

And whereas you say some have been but four yeares at the Uni­versity, they are through poverty forced to go away, to enter into the Ministry while they are raw, which should have stayed four years more, having been provided for.

Are you not ashamed, doth money make your Ministers? was it not money that made all the false Prophets and the selfish ends? how are you like Ravens, and the Lilies, and the grasse, are you not all comprehended here amongst the Heathen? and your rawness both Ministers and Makers hath sufficiently appeared, and declared it selfe to the whole Nation, and when you have made them at 8 yeares standing and 7 and 4, and has gotten all his learning, Hebrew, Greek and Latine, and other Languages which the Gentry of the Country must maintain them, and poor people besides, when he hath gotten all his carnal weapons, and armed himself with them, and got up into his steeple-house, one of them, the poor dispised people, a woman, a lad, or a girle, come and but look this Priest in the face, as he is in his pulpit with all his Goliahs weapons, carnal languages, he falls before them, him or her the said Quaker, and cryes take them away, they disturb me, to the house of correction with them, to the Prison; and thus the Student and Minister shames both Coun­t [...]y and Gentry, and they are ashamed of him; have wee given [Page 6] our money, cry they, and hath he had fifteen pounds and 20l. and 30l. a year for 7. or 8. yeares together, and now there comes a poor simple Quaker, and bids him fear God, and his mouth is stopped; he would have them prisoned, surely cryes the Gentry and the Country, these fellows minde nothing but their bellies, and have made a prey of us, and it is true what Quakers sayes, we have spent our money for that which is not bread, and we will even turn to Christ who is that bread which comes down from above, and know the Mi­nisters that are made by his will, which he and the Father sends forth, for these are all below, and are made by men, and by learning, and serve Apprentiships like Prentise▪ boys, and we have given our money to them, and now they are not able to stand before such as cannot read letters, but will have them to be prisoned, and we have been partakers with them, and so up­hold the Priest, which some have smarted for, Let others take warning. And you say, your aime is to bring up Schollers with parts and learning to supply the Church with choice Mini­sters, that they may be pillars of the Church. Was ever they made pillars of the Church that came in their own names? are not the Heathen and Papists and Jesuites your example in this, and will they not over-wit you in this? were not they the first Authors of it of making Ministers by their learning? and did e­ver that in all ages do good, to make a Minister of Christ Jesus, to give him the spirit, to give him the gift of God? was not all the earth of one language before Babel? and did not Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord, who came out of cursed Cams stock, begin to build Babel whom God did confound into many languages? and is not that the confounded language your Ori­ginal? was not all this from the spirit, did God confound his spirit? and had not Pilate which crucified Christ Hebrew, Greek and Latine? did not he set this up a top of Christ when he cru­cified him? so Babel is the beginning of it, a top of Christ it stands, Pilate set it a top of Him, a top of life, a top of Truth, and could Pilate open the scripture or the Jews that had Hebrew Greek and Latine, and not the life? did not they prison and persecute and kill as you do, and could not open scripture? no more cannot you without the life of Christ: did not the false Prophets, Antichrist inwardly ravening, who got the sheeps cloathing, that Christ said should come, Mat. 7. and 24. which [Page 7] John said was come, in his first Epistle, Chap. 2. & Chap. 4. which went forth from them, which in the Revelations, All that dwelt upon the earth went after them. Which after a while they killed the Saints that kept the testimony of Jesus the spirit of prophecy. They inwardly ravened from the spirit of God: and when they had killed the Saints, power was given unto them, the Beast and false Prophet over all Kindreds, Tongues, & Nations. Now hath the Beast power over Tongues? what, the Orthodox men? what, Tongues which is the original? as you may read, Rev. 13. And must these open Christs words the Beast hath power over? Is that the Originall which the Beast hath power over? Are those the Orthodox men the Beast hath power over, which hath got the Tongues? Oh shame! you may deceive the Nations, but you can­not the Elect: And the whore which inwardly ravened from the spirit of God, all Nations have drunk the cup of fornication, before they could come to Christ the husband; And she hath corrupted the earth, and made the Inhabitants of it drunk: and the Kings of the earth hath committed fornication with her, who hath ravened from the spirit of God: So the Kings of the earth hath made the Nations to bend before ever they could come to the husband, and here Nations have had the form from her which ravened from the spirit of God, before ever they could come to the power, with that they have been drunk, and so the whore sits upon the Nati­ons, and Multitudes, and People, and Tongues, and these are wa­ters on whom the whore sits. Now what is the whore, or the O­riginal, and Orthodox men? and is the Original waters? and the Orthodox men waters? and Schools? Is the whore on them? Read the Scriptures, Rev. 18. 17. ch. And can these waters which are Tongues, which the whore is upon, which drinks the blood of the Saints, can these open the Scriptures that are waters? is the Orthodox men waters? and is the originall waters? Now if these could have opened Scripture, how chance they are no bet­ter then waters? These tongues John calls them waters, and saith, The beast hath power over them, and Pilato sets them on top of Christ, and Babel is the beginning of them. Are you pillars of the Church, or of Antichrist? of the Beast, of the Whore, and Baby­lon, and members of fallen Babylon? here begins your originall; and when they crucified Christ, they set your Original a top of Him which the Beast and Whore hath power over that sits upon [Page 8] them, and John calls them waters. And you will go make pillars of waters for the Church, and you call that the Originall, for tongues are waters: oh shamelesse Babylon! who are setting your Tongues a top of Christ like Pilate, and denyes the light; for the light is risen, and hath discovered you all, and Christ is risen, which was before Babell was, which Pilate set the many Langua­ges over him, when he crucified him: He is risen over that which was set over him, and over them that set it over him; and you that have ravened from the spirit of God which sets up your Tongues to be the originall, and by it your Orthodox men made at your Schools and Colledges, came up by the Papists since the dayes of the Apostles, which tongues the beasts power was gi­ven unto him over, and the whore sits upon them, which John in the Revelation calls them waters, and these are them which hath established your Church, and the Pope which hath been your pil­lar, which he calls waters: so you and the Papists, which be your. Tongues and Originall, have set up your false Church, and kild the life, and set up your Tongues over it, as Pilate did, and so have drunk the blood of the Martyrs, and the Prophets, and the Saints, which are made by the will of God, and then sets your many Languages and Original over them amongst the ignorant and simple people: but the life is risen, Christ Jesus the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world over you and your Original, who will be avenged of you all his enemies, who is the foundati­on of God, and the originall himselfe, and he will stain your pride, and deface your glory and beauty; You have had a glory, and a beauty, and a pride, the naturall Tongues which John calls waters, which you call your original; for the life is risen, which was before Babel was, and remains when Pilate is not, and when Babylon is not neither, who is risen to confound it: He who had your Originall set over him which makes your Orthodox men, which have killed the Prophets & Saints which had the originall, that you might reign with your false conceptions; but the Pro­phets, and the Saints, and the Lamb now reigns over you, and it is in vain now for you to set up your waters, to make pillars of your Church, for Tongues are waters, saith John, that had the Ori­ginal, and was in it, and so all that be in the Original, sees you, & is a top of your waters and Tongues, and is come to the Rock, and tramples upon all your Buildings and Tongues, which at the [Page 9] best makes men but naturall men; for tongues are natural, and not spiritual: and your sending out your Lads, after admitted in writing, to Wales and Ireland, and other places. This is like unto them that Jeremiah cries out against, that run when the Lord never sent them, that are using their tongues, and speak when the Lord never spoke to them, and these are them that runs from you Wa­ters; And them that be friends of Christ and of the Gospel, and love their Countrey, the souls and good of people, will see that you have not the bread to feed the hungry, and you do not bind up, but you make rents, and you do not visit in prison, but you cast into prison them that will not put into your mouths; and you do not bring people from under the law, but bring people under the law into Courts, and Sessions, and Assizes, and you cast them into prison for tythes, and tenths, and so you are unlike the Mini­sters of the Gospel, which brought people out of ninths and tenths both, redeemed out of the earth up to God, but you are gone a­mongst the Papists, inwardly ravenous, into the earth, and there sets up tenths, and keeps people in the ninths of the earth, unlike the Ministers of the Gospel, which is the power of God, which opens the hearts of the people, whereby they come out of the ninths and tenths both, to Christ, who redeems out of the earth to God, whereby they come to reign upon the earth. Doth the tenths serve all the widows, fatherlesse, and strangers, and the Priest? Doth it give them all enough? Now man transgressing, and being drove from God into the earth, Abraham before the Law paid the tenths of the spoile to Melchisedech King of Righteousness, in the Law of the Lord, required the tenths of the earth, and he made these tenths to serve widows, fatherlesse, strangers, and Levi, that there might not be a beggar amongst them. Now Christ the end of the Law, and of Wars, the Redeemer and the Saviour out of the earth, brings from out of the ninths and tenths, and so comes to reign upon the earth, and these are of the royal Priesthood, and the family of the faithful, which was of Abraham, of which Christ came according to the flesh, which lives out of ninths and tenths both of the earth up to God, whose the earth is. Now apostatized Papists and sects since the dayes of the Apostles, & false Prophets, and Antichrist that had the sheeps cloathing, that ravened from the spirit of God into the earth, drew the world after them, set up ninths and tenths: so they get tenths of the earth, and keep peo­ple [Page 10] in the ninths of it. Oh! how unlike the Ministers of the Go­spel are you, that brought people out of the ninth and tenth both to God to reign a top of it, glory to the highest: And such brought back that which was driven away; but you that keeps in the ninths and tenths, keeps people under the curse, there to labour for you in the sweat of their brows, toyling and tugging for you in the transgression: But some are redeemed from you, and cannot put into your mouths, and such you have your dens for, you that be in the transgression, that be under the curse, and keep people under the curse with ninths and tenths of the earth, which now many is coming out of: and woe will be your portion and misery, and all them that be come into the life of the Prophets of Christ.

Now it is not their work to put in the mouths of the false Pro­phets, but they that did so was the ignorant and foolish people, and foolish Gentry of the countrey, which they were deceived by; and the Saints know that the love of the false Prophets was all after money, and themselves and such blinds the eye of the mind of many both great and small, and they are them that cries give, give, and they that will not put into their mouths, they prepare war against them: And you wrest many Scriptures which is spoken of for gi­ving to the poor, for your own ends, which poor it is manifest you do not regard, therefore is there so many widows and fa­therlesse begging abroad in your streets, and at your Steeple-houses, and at your doors, and cast so many widows and poor men into prison that have many children, because they cannot give you tythes, and put into your mouths.

And whereas you say in the ninth page, He is likest to God that doth good, you shew your selves the most unlike to God, as the Courts, Gaols, Prisons, and houses of Correction witnesse, and death, persecuting till death; so shews you your selves are repro­bate concerning the faith, and the Ministers of Christ, and hath not learned the lesson of Christ, to learn mercy and not sacrifice, for your sacrifice is Cains, for you kill and murther, and are in en­vying your brethren, and so you have forgotten to do good, and so lost the blessing, and lost the savour of rest where the mercy is, which is to shew mercy; but you will give people Sermons, and pray, and sing to them, and tell them letter is light, and Matthew, Marke, Luke, & John is the Gospel, and Hebrew, Greek, and La­tine is the Originall, and Letter is the Word, and it is the ground [Page 11] of mens faith, and the old Mass-house, with the crosse at the end of it is the Church; stop into your mouths, you will give them as much talk as you can speak by the glasse, till the glasse be run, then time is past Neighbours. If a Quaker comes and look at you, he disturbs me, take him away. Now the Scripture sayes, The power of God is the Gospel, and the power of God the crosse of Christ, and Christ is the Author of Faith, who is the Original, and the Scri­ptures of truth are the words of God, and Christ is the Word, before the Scriptures was given forth, who comes to fulfill the words, in whom they end. Christ, the Word, and the Church is in God, and your old Mass-houses and Sacraments, the Papists was the Author of them, and they gave to them their names, and your Schools, as Trinity Colledge, and Christs Colledge, and Je­sus, and Emanuel, &c. And St. Pauls, and St. Peters, & St. Johns, and All▪ souls, and St. Gregory, and St. Austins the old Monk. What Jesuits are wiser men then you, fain to name your houses for you? Here is popes marks and names, and most of the old Masse-houses of England, there stands the Crosse on the end of them, or hath been, which is the Popes mark, who sets up all your tythes, and Easter reckonings, Midsommer dues, and gleab lands, and your bells and glasses, and your naming Saints dayes, your Christmas, and Candlemas, and Michaelmas. Now if you did not love Popery, and hold up Popery, you would deny his authority, and deny his Doctrine. Alack for you poor striplings, Catterpil­lars, crawling Frogs; talk of souldiers of Christ! it is nothing but your Bellies you fight for; for you are casting into prison, you have not Christs souldiers weapons, you are made by men; and so you must acknowledge the Pope hath more wit then you, that cannot name your Houses and Colledges, and days, and sets you out your Tythes, Easter reckonings, and Midsomer dues▪ and so you are them that destroy the pure understanding of the people, and stops the way whereby the souls of the people might come up, & so are destroyers of the true Ministers, and keeping people from the true foundation Christ Jesus the Prophet, which is to be heard. It is not your Languages that feeds souls, and keep people from be­ing seduced, nor makes people witty in the things of the spirit of God, as you simple Doctors think in the tenth page. your Mi­nistry would wear out If you should loose your Tongues and Sci­ences: And when do we see a Priest dare to venture upon a Papist [Page 12] Priest without a carnall sword, and confound him, and stop his mouth; but your and the Papists Original, are your Languages, so easie to be confounded by them that be in the spirit of God, be­fore Tongues was. So you who are killing and prisoning one an­other about your sacrifices, piety is lost and charity amongst you, and you are unfurnished with spiritual weapons; and the Quakers who are of the royal elect seed of God, before the foundation of the world was, hath sounded you allarm, and all your fore-fathers the Papists, which your fathers since the days of the Apostles, the All­arm is gone out, that all the Sects and Apostates, and Heathen which know not God, upon the earth: And the Trumpet sounds out of the holy Mountain, that you and all the Inhabitants of the earth should tremble; and you, and all you who be in the ninths and tenths of the earth, and the Trumpet sounds out to you all, Allarm, that you may come to the battel of the great God of hea­ven and earth. And the Lambs war is begun, who will kill with the sword, and slay with the sword, which is the word of his mouth; and the Devill, and Beast, and false Prophet shall be taken and cast a­live into the lake of fire. He that worships the Beast shall be tormen­ted day and night; And the Lamb and the Saints shall reigne, and the everlasting Gospell shall be preached to all Kindreds, Tongues, and Nations, which is the power of God.

And you and the Papists have been made up by the Hereticks, which went forth from the Apostles, as you may read in Timothy, in Jude, and Peter, and John, and the rest of the Epistles: and you all dry, drossie, dark Doctors, who are training up your poor silly ignorant sottish Students; which when they come out from you, will speak a few words for a cock of Barley, tythe Eggs and pigs. Away you poor young Students, lay aside all your pretences, and turn to the Lord God from your old Doctors, for they are never able to make you Ministers: For that which they do is but for money, and you are but plain Naturalists when they have done the utmost to you, and then you go forth and teach for money, when as you had been better to have kept Flocks and Herds, and turned Husbandmen, that would bring more honour to God. You see the people are prophane, and you do them no good, and you see that you begin to be a shame to the Nation; and what unchari­table lives they have, and hard hearts, and seared consciences, and will cast men into prison, and bring them before Courts, and pri­son [Page 13] them for speaking to them; and yet you have been learning seven and eight years at Oxford and Cambridge, and one that hath never been there shall confound 20 of them in the things of God; and how unlike the Apostles are they which was in the power of God, whereby their hearers sold all, and laid at the Apostles feet. Now you see the Apostles would not cumber themselves with it, they might have set up great benefits.

And again you may see how you Priests and Ministers destroy the true Church amongst you, and the true Authority and com­forter & edification and limit the holy one, & dispiseth prophesy, and quencheth the spirit, if any thing be revealed to another that sits by, let the first hold his peace: And this practice you get a law against, take him away he disturbes me; and so you are the cru­cifiers in the world, and the world that crucifies, and are not them that are crucified from the world with Christ.

And the Lord hath given many both rich and poor, an unspeakable happiness and freely of his grace, that stands for the glory of his Church, which Christ is in the midst of, and is the head who are come into the lively faith and the fervent love to the brethren that are persecuted by you, and evilly entreated, and their bodies are offered up sacrifices to the Lord, and many have been sacrificed in your prisons, and there died, to whom the love of God hath flowed and abounded, and carried through all their sufferings, with joy unspeakable and love unfaigned, whose Souls are in their rest, (Christ) whose comfort is in Christ the hope, the mystery, whose Crown of glory fades not, whose love is to the world, whether they will receive it for no; now you Teachers and called Ministers have impoverished many in the Na­tion, whom you do no work for, many families, many father­lesse, many widows, many you keep in prison to this day, many hath died in prison; you have kept till death; is it not blood their you drink? will nothing serve you, but the Saints blood, there bodies, and their lives? you have taken and caused to be taken the very bibs and the childrens clothes, and plough-gear and Oxen and Horses that men should till their ground with, you have taken the beds away from people, and left them none to lye on; taken away their corn, sheep and hay, and threshed their corn in their Barnes, and carried it away by loads, as witness Thomas Al­dam; [Page 14] you drive away their fat Beasts, provided for their own fa­milies against Winter; you take away the Cows from the poor people that have half a dozen children to give them milk, and take the men from their wives, and cast them into prison, that they shall not maintain their familes, Oh! lamentable cryes is entred into the Lord of the Sabbath of rest for his people; and you are speaking of learning, and defending of the Truth, and buil­ding up the Church of Christ by your Languages; you six Doctors, Alas, did not Pilate with his Learning & Languages turne against Christ and the Church, and the Greek, and the Hebrew, and the Latine both? And so Mahomet and the Infidels fruits could not be worse then yours, who will not suffer the Saints to live upon the Earth, except they live in the ninths to give you the tenths, and bury the seed of God in their ninths, that part pertains to shadows that holds the ninths, that is a mystery, and they that hold you up cannot honour Christ▪ The priests name is Cain, the first birth, and that sacrificer offered of the earth, and wrestled with the flesh and blood of Abel, and killed him, which did not Abel, he wrestled not with the flesh and blood of Cain the Priests, and the blood of Abel cries for vengeance upon Cain.

THE END▪

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