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R13858 1 NONE [unknown] SOme that pretend most Faith, have least, who say, / That their Beliefe is pure, yet will not pray Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. : THE BROWNISTS FAITH AND / BELIEFE OPENED. THE BROWNIST'S FAITH AND BELIEF OPENED. 1641-1641 T.W.

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SOme that pretend most Faith, have least, who say, That their Beliefe is pure, yet will not pray I beleeve This illegitimate Sect is neither just In their owne way, nor will impose their trust In God, A Spirit, which can guide them, they have got, They'l grant no other conduct, who know not The Father Almighty They'l make a Chaos of the Church, to see, (Their errours being compos'd) whether he be Maker of Heaven Thus they tempt their Creator, and dare say, They are more holy, and not made of Clay, And Earth, They are inspir'd from Heaven, and thus they flout The holy Scriptures, and with it play both out and in They'l grant no worship to our Lord, nor show Any (though decent) reverence unto Jesus They will derive their names from Browne and Tom, Nor doe they so care to extract it from Christ Pluto laughs at them, promising that he Who will persist thus in that way, shall be his only son But (O!) illuminate their errours now Father of Heaven, and Earth, and still be thou our Lord, What is not theirs, is Romes, and popish drosse, Hence came the tumult about Cheapside Crosse which was Thus is our Church condemned without hope To be reform'd, for 'twas (they say) by th' Pope conceived They've bin so long from Church, that they've forgot, But barnes and stables sure conceiv'd were not by the Holy Ghost, They hate the nomination of Masse, Nor will they observe the rules of him that was borne of the Virgin They'l have no Brothers name be called Dave Nor Sisters Mal, cause of the Romish Ave Mary, They're charitable, the naked they will see Cover'd, and none (unlesse a Sister) now shall be suffered under Some will reforme religion, and some To crucifie Christs Church, would even become Pontius Pilate, Some preach in tubs, that scarce become a chaire, The Bishops primacie in Lambeth Faire was crucified, The publike Liturgie is condemn'd by most, The Book of Common prayer is almost dead and buried, When Prophet Hunt did in the Gallery prate, In Christ Church, and sent to Counter gate, he descended These Amsterdamian tunes which they doe sing In Conventicles, will them shortly bring into hell, When Spencer preacht, and did his word fulfill, He in his text continued untill the third day
When Hunt came from the Counter, went agen To the Old Exchange, and Westminster, O then he rose againe These speake by inspiration, and are wise, Their Doctrin's dull, as if it did arise from the dead, When How rose from his Coblers bulke, and teacht His fond opinions in the Pulpit preacht, he as[c]ended Those that will thus their soules health rashly venter, To rob abused Levi, shall not enter into heaven, They are as fierce as Hercules with his Club, The chiefe among them's placed in a tub, and there he sitteth At the left hand there sits a holy mother, And there is likewise plac'd a purer brother at the right hand Thus are their new assemblies all abhorr'd, And thus they doe prophane the sacred word of God, We live and move by him that sits on high, Whom I acknowledge seriously to be the Father Almighty, Marler for preaching a Brownisticke text, Was sent to th'Gatehouse, and to Tyburne next, from thence he shall come, But stay disturbers of the time, I know Your manners, but who authorised you to Judge Retract your foolish rage, I humbly crave, Doe not proceed to censure and deprave both the quick and the dead Why doe you nourish th'Amsterdamian brat, For (loe) tis not your sect confusive that I beleeve in Thou Brownianisme that our religion mainst, Thou often dost protect the sinne against the holy Ghost, He that can teach five houres inspir'd from high, Denying Common-prayer Booke shall be the holy Most words of popish Monuments are fram'd, Religions Romish too, if it be nam'd Catholike A Church to them's Apocrypha, a tree, A Barne, or Stable they esteeme to be, Church When the brethren, sisters, and brownistick Elves Doe meet together, they then call themselves The Communion of Saints They'l not confesse, nor yet absolve, they'l be Competitors for the truth, and so deny the forgiveness of sinnes When they should exercise their talent, and do move By the Spirit to a sister, oh then they love the resurrection of the body, Since they such obscure places will inherit, Denying all good workes, they cannot merit the life everlasting. And since they'r led by the Spirit, oh then withall, May th'Spirit lead them unto Tyburne all. Amen.
London, printed for T.W. 1641.