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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40897	The great mysteries of godlinesse and ungodlinesse the one opened from that eternall truth of the un-erring Scripture of the ever-blessed Jesus, the other discovered from the writings and speakings of a generation of deceivers, called Quakrrs [sic] : wherein their sathanicall depths, and diabolicall delusions, not hitherto so fully known, are laid open ... / by Ra. Farmer ...	Farmer, Ralph.	1655 (1655)	Wing F441; ESTC R2695	85,891	106

their excellency in the first and I shall hasten to an end And it is the Author of The brief Relation of the Irreligion of the Northern Quakers Who in his Preface professes he hath not aggravated any thing nor made a mountain of their mole-hill And he tells the● that those who are acquainted with them know that what he hath said is rather a mole-hill to their mountain And he in 24 25 pages of that Book says Many of them will be as ready to say and unsay any thing as if lying was a vertue They make no Conscience of raising false reports against those especially who do any way oppose them Witness that lying Pamphlet of Sauls errand to Damascus wherein there are a hundred untruths as may be proved by a hundred witnesses It is saith he the Testimony of a faithful Minister of Christ concerning them Not in half an hours discourse with most of those I have discoursed with but you shall finde plain and downright lies Some of them saith he have come to my house and said they had a message from God to me Upon my speedy demanding it they have point-blank almost in the same breathing time denied it When some that have been in some measure able from the Word of Truth to manifest their errors have discoursed with those Wells without Water Though themselves have stood like men inwardly convicted and ashamed utterly unable to gainsay and sometimes totally silenced and as mute as fishes Yet when these Champions of Errors have gone away they have boasted of their conquests and how gloriously they had foiled and stopt the mouthes of their adversaries Thus saith he wholly by lies lying Doctrines lying Revelations lying Wonders lying Reports they do endeavor to build up the Kingdom of the father of lies amongst us And for a close of all and for a further manifestation of the impostures juglings and prevarications of these men I propose to be considered by any rational man or woman in the world and let them satisfie me or themselves in their own consciences What may the meaning of that expression of theirs so often uttered among their Proselytes and sometimes in the hearing of others be That they have something to deliver to the world which it is not yet fit to receive I do not remember whether I have proposed this already But if I have it is worthy again to be remembred and considered And I say let any one tell me what it can mean but some such desperate and horrid opinion which should they yet publish all true Christians would abominate and avoid them Some such a one as this which they have whispered into those whom they have made sure to their party sc That they are not such fools as to hope to be saved by that Jesus Christ that was crucified at Jerusalem above sixteen hundred years ago And then let any man judge whether these be not the men the Apostle Peter prophesies of in his second Epistle and the second Chapter I have done my work It remains now for thee to do thine which is to make a wise improvement of all to thy self Of the Mystery of Godliness to make it thine own by getting an interest in it and in walking according to it Of ungodliness by avoiding and eschuing it and the fautors and abettors of it In doing whereof God will have the glory of his Free-grace and thou shalt have the comfort the benefit And my self the end my labor Onely according to promise I am here to give in the copy of certain Queries sent to the Ministers of this City by the two Quakers Howgil and Burrough To all you who call your selves Ministers in the City of Bristol and hath taken the Office upon you Query 1. WHether have you that light that lighteth every one that comes into the world which is the light of Christ yea or no And if so then why do you deny and say he hath not enlightened every one which light doth teach and guide all that love it to God and condemns them that disobey it as Christ saith who is the light 2. Whether there be any condemnation but the light which Christ saith is the condemnation of them that hate it 3. Whether they be not Antichrists that acts those things now which Christ Jesus forbad then seeing Christ forbad such things then as you uphold now did he deny them then and justifie them now or did he cry wo against them then and justifies now As have the chiefest places in the Assemblies as you have inward and outward who sits high in your imaginations and thoughts and are called of men Masters 4. Tell us what Christ that is that hath made you free who you are made free by seeing you act contrary to that Christ which gave forth the Scriptures which the Prophets and Apostles witnessed and preached the resurrection of and are in the steps of the Pharisees which the true Christ cryed wo against and are those that are called of men Master and that stand praying in the Synagouges like the Pharisees which the true Christ that made his Apostles free bid them not pray as they did which the wo was against Can you deny it 5. Whether any shall ever attain to any thing but in the way which is Christ or taking heed to the light of Christ within them yea or no 6. Whether they are not Seducers that draw people from the light within which is the light of Christ to observe the imaginations as to sprinkle Infants and to tell of Sacrament and so leads them into a carnal unity from the light of Christ 7. Whether you have the same eternal spirit which gave forth the Scriptures yea or no 8. Whether the Prophets Christ and the Apostles gave a right meaning to the Scriptures when they gave them forth or left them to you to give a meaning of them yea or no 9. Whether the Plagues be not added to them that add to the Prophesies written in the Book and whether his name be not diminished out of the book of life which diminisheth ought therefrom and whether you can witness this name yea or no 10. Whether you have an infallible judgement to judge of things eternal yea or no 11. Whether you have heard the voice of the living God of heaven and earth yea or no or whether you take not the Prophets words and the Apostles words and say he saith when as he never spake to you 12. Why do you sing Davids experiments in rhime and metre and when you read them you keep on your hats and when you sing you put them off 13. Whether any man shall so grow up under your Ministry that he need no man to teach him yea or no seeing the Apostle saith you shall not need to teach every man his brother and how many have you that have been so long teachers that have been brought up in this condition 14. Where did the Apostles baptize any and preach repentance to