and touched our lips, and put his words into our Mouths, and in this day hath made us a defenced City, and an Iron Pillar, and a Brazen Wall against the whole Land, even all both Priests and People, who deny the Light of the Lord, to be the way of life, and not only against those gross Priests of the Nation, who in their covetousness after money, piercing th••mselves through with many hurtful lusts, having erred from the faith, and having exceeded the false Prophets in other generations, for their ill savour is so come up before the Lord, that he will cause even their own breath to devour them, and their own confusions to make them ashamed. But we have also to war against spiritual wickedness in high places, and the powers of darkness under the form of godliness, and the Beast which is risen out of the Earth, which hath Horns like a Lamb, but is as a Lyon; but with one Light are they seen, and with one Power are they judged, and the secret counsel of the Lord is the strength of them that fear him, in which we reign over all the ways of unrighteousness, and works of darkness, in what appearance soever they come.
And now to thee Jonathan Clapham, and the rest of thy company, art thou not ashamed to go under the Name of a Minister of Christ, and take Tythes, and sue men for Tythes; and thou to number thy self, and take hand with them that are persecuting and casting slanders upon the innocent? And dost thou set forth thy Refuge of lyes, and dost not thou think that all people that read thy book made up with lyes, will not see it, that fear God, and know that will return upon thy pate, had there been no Reply to it? The day hath d••clared thee; a witness shall rise up in thee against thee and thy lyes; that is the Word of the Lord God to thee: What, you that be call'd Independents, now should be setting up your Re∣fuge of lyes, and publish them to the chief Magistrates of the Nation, they will not refuge under them, who be under the shadow of the Almigh∣ty, who do believe and obey the Truth, and fear God! And what, you that be called Independents, sue men for Tythes, cast men in prison for tythes! O shame! cover your lips and faces; and you are they, the wicked Seeds-men, to sow your lyes abroad, and to proclaim thy self a lyar to all the Nation, to say that the Quakers deny prayer; dost thou not think all the Nation will see thee and you to be lyars, who have pro∣cla••med your selves to be lyars, in saying the Quakers be Enemies ••o prayer. We are satisfied, and a thousand of people, concerning you, your lyes and slanders, and do see into what you run, and do beseech the Lord to forgive you, for you have a lamentable cup to drink; for you do n••t know what you have done in this great day of the Lord, and what you