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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A82020	A publick discovery of a secret deceit. Or, the man of sin unmasked, his sheeps-clothing of glorious pretences pulled off; and his wolvish inside set forth in its colours. Where may easily be discerned Satan transformed into the resemblance of an angel of light, in that sect or society commonly called Quakers. Being nineteen quæries, directed to their speakers at the Bull and Mouth neer Aldersgate: and answered by that grand fomenter of heresie, James Nayler. With a reply thereunto, and fourteen queries more returned by him unto me, fully answered: and twenty four more proposed. / By me John Deacon.	Deacon, John, 17th cent.	1656 (1656)	Wing D487; Thomason E884_6; ESTC R207313	47,188	67

but there must be meeter for so the word signifies and therefore take them as songs our practice is justified And if you look for more I refer you to them who have writ largely on this subject And for prayer I wonder you should cavil about it when your society so much abominates the exercise but it seems you look on the posture of the body more then the sincerity of the heart and for your Lordly commands send them to them that will be commanded by you if it be a Bull it is likely sooner to be baited then feared by any unlesse your Papistical Fraternity or some of Romes Society all which and whom we abominate but as was the beginning of thy first so is the end of this thy Query a lye in saying none of Christs Ministers worshipped so Quere 14. Are you wiser then the Jewes was or stricter in your profession or more able to search the Scriptures or are you fuller in your wisedome and prudence for that work any of you who deny the light of Christ And was not they ignorant of the voices of the Prophets though they was read every Sabbath day and so fulfilled in condemning him And are not you in the same work as to the word of Christ though you have them every first day beating in your Synagogues and haling before Rulers and think that you doe God the best service when you are greatest opposers And so fulfilling the measure of wickednesse as they did and how can you escape their end Mark 13.9 Acts 13.27 Matth. 24.9 John 16.2 3. 1 Cor. 10.2 And are not they who are in envy in Cain's way out of Christ hath God any respect to their sacrifice yea or no An Answer to the fourteenth Query What the natural wisdome of the Jewes was and how profound I care not to enquire and what the strictness of their profession or rather superstition was you know best who so far know as to imitate their Pharisaical precisenesse not of sacred devotion but rather secular hypocrisie but to search the Scriptures and the Mysteries therein comprised and for wisedome and prudence to that worke wee are fuller then they were though you having eyes see not for Christ having opened our eyes with the eye-salve of his grace to pry into the mystery of Gods word which hath been hid from generations Col. 1.26 Acts 4.12 and from you I fear also but is revealed unto us by faith in him we can see that he even Jesus is the Christ the Son of the living God and that in him and his name onely is eternal Redemption to be found or preached and salvation in no other under the Sunne that he is bodily ascended unto glory and sitteth at the right hand of God making intercession for us and this they could not see though we see this and much more by faith in him and wee can see the way wherein we must run to attain the end of our race even eternal rest which neither they nor you their successors could or can see But since with a parenthesis of nonsence you seem to direct your latter part of his Query To any who deny the light of Christ finde them out and let them answer it for it concerns not me and so I have ended my Answer And if you please you may begin your progresse to your ghostly father Pope Alexander the 11th and implore a blessing for better fortune in your future undertakings that so the fruits of your future policy may have more prosperous fruition that so he may have cause to rejoyce with singing Te Deum when his sheepskin of glorious pretences shall better hide his wolvish inside then thus to be unmasked Having accomplished what you and others of your Faction so much bawled for to wit an Answer to your Queries I hope I may claim it as a debt rather then a courtesie that you also answer what I here propose afresh that so a discovery of the truth may be further made and I doubt not but that truth will discover your falshood Query 1. WHether your quaking and trembling be not the effects and tokens of those curses 1 Sam. 14 15. Deut. 28.65 Psal 69.23 And whether the Lord hath not given you eyes that you should not see And whether the god of this world hath not blinded your minds And whether the Lord hath not given you over to a spirit of delusion to believe lyes And whether you slumber not in that self-pleasing trance of Security and whether it be a blessing or a curse that you know not your sins and whether Satan drill you not to himselfe with the lure of present perfection and whether all this be not inflicted on you as judgements for your Apostacy Qu. 2. Whether there ought not to be a special distinction made betwixt the dictates of the spirit of God and the spirit of man and whether it be not of the latter that proceeds from you if not worse and whether you erre not in laying it on Christ Gal. 1.2 Qu. 3. Whether that expression of Paul quoted by you That he was an Apostle not of man nor by man was spoke of officiating that Office as being an Apostle and therefore a Teacher of Christ not of man or the manner of his choice and election to that Office or is that a warrant to assure any that there can none be Ministers of Christ but who are immediately called and chosen by Christ himselfe as was Paul and then are not such Apostles of Christ as well as Paul and whether hereby you intend not to claim equal authority with Paul both in your preaching and writing and so set your selfe free from obedience to any of his Epistles and injoyn others to observe yours as well as his and whether we may not smell the Pope in this your practice as well as in many others and is not this spiritual pride Act. 15.40 Act. 1.23 Tit. 1.5 Qu. 4. And since Paul chose Silas was not Paul a man or was Silas no Minister and was not Matthias who succeeded Judas chose by man or was he not an Apostle or was it by usurpation that Paul took unto himselfe that authority to transmit power to others to ordaine Elders in every City or did he erre when he gave instructions to Timothy whom to make Bishops and whether were they of Paul false or of Christ true Ministers so chosen and since Timothy received the gift of Prophesie by the laying on of the hands of the Presbyter 1 Tim. 4.14 was that Presbyter a man or no man if a man was it not then by man though not of man if no man what then was he and what hinders that there should not be the same power in man now the state of man being the same still that it was then Qu. 5. And since you say there is a light in every man and woman that comes into the world sufficient if minded to lead out of all the wayes