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A44783	The beast that was, & is not, & yet is, looked upon: or, The bo-peeping beast pointed at: or, He that hideth himself hunted because of whom truth complaineth, and is spoken to by Pope and Prelate, by Presbyter, by Independent, by Quaker, by Baptist: together with her several answers to them all. Also one description of the beast. Also the coming forth and progress of the beast hitherto. Also an epistle to magistrates and law-givers, likewise, to take off prejudice if any be. Two epistles, one to the reader, and another to the Christian reader. VVith a true reproof to W.S. a Quaker, who in his book called The lying spirit in the mouth of the false prophet, wherein he endeavours to make men believe that he had answered H.H. his book, called The doctrine of the light within the natural man leading to eternal life, examined by Scripture-light.	Howet, Enoch.	1659 (1659)	Wing H3151; ESTC R215400	46,109	67

in whom the Spirit of God doth or shall breath being a truth-evidencing and forceable constraint and cannot stay for leave of Election by man to utter it self which indeed is a gift of God or Pastoral Spirit as Marriage is another qualification wherein the spirit of government must appear fruitful both in wife and children and that from conjugal and natural love to the Yoak fellow and procreated in which affections Faith appeareth and for want of them infidelity 1 Tim. 5 8. so that children cannot be wanting to a Bishop in whose government the Royal Law Love of Gods Church is resembled Marriage being the Type of Christ and his Church and it is certain that a batchelor or one that hath no children or one whose wife and children are not qualified according to the word cannot be chosen except man will set his May-be against Gods Must-be And so I leave thee Independant warning thee to take the counsel of Christ to the Angel of the Church of Laodicea Rev. 3.17 A Speech that may be aptly spoken by these Quakers who hold forth a stupifying Spirit denying plain Truth and right Reason under the Notion of a higher Mystery and Spirit then plain Scripture and right Reason will admit of which plain Scripture they call Letter and right Reason they call Flesh in contempt notwithstanding that the Spirit of God is promised to be poured into him that turneth at Gods Reproof Prov. 1.23 which Reproof convinceth Reason or else man could not return into Reason among the rest of the Souls Members the Spirit was poured and is wrought upon to order Mans Affairs by Judgement and doth receive wise Counsels when the man of Understanding attaineth to them Prov. 1.5 Truth though we may not talk with thee we are not capable to receive directions by any that is call'd by thy name nor by the writings called Scriptures of Truth for what directions soever we have from without can be but mans teachings and the natural man understandeth not the things of God we are taught by the Light within we are to stand in the will of God and observe the movings and commands of his Spirit Truth speaketh * 〈…〉 resembling God's people 〈◊〉 great humility Psal 17. ●1 As in the vision of Esdras the Eagles heads slept until her Feathers had reigned as in 2 Esd 12 25. These are they that shall accomplish his wickedness and finish his last end even so in Babylon the great the Mother of Harlots and abominations of the whole earth the heads and subtilest and strongest of her delusions she hath kept until her last end which I hope is approaching that thou who wouldst not receive the Truth in the love thereof mightst not hear the reproof of thy walking in false forms any longer in so much that thou couldst not deny that if forms must be owned thou must come out of them and come into the form of godliness Satan hath now cozened thee another way and thy AS GOD he hath perswaded thee that all forms must be cast off and the Law of the Spirit of Life entertained O cunning and subtile but false delusions the words of the Prophets and the Commandment of the Apostles were set in opposition formerly to lusts 2 Pet. 3.1 2. but never to the way of Righteousness by any but these last members of Babylon Peter in Chap. 2. 1. 2. hath these words And many shall follow their pernitious wayes by reason of whom the way of Truth shall be evil spoken of Wherein we may perfectly see that their wayes and the wayes of Truth stands in flat opposition one to another Also in the first verse it is testified that to bring in these damnable heresies is to deny the Lord that bought them but he himself is so far from that opinion in verse 21. of the said Chapter that he chargeth the way of Righteousness and the holy commandments as the very Centre from which Apostates fall so that you may behold clearly that it is not a Righteousness they are charged for falling from for that is the secret issues which is betwixt God and the heart but the way of Righteousness which is visible to the understanding of Man Many of their Leaders whilst they were able to hold the Antichristian form they were in the esteem of godly Priests whose infants Baptism and learned specious Pastoral care so much applauded by wise sober rich silken-coated Professors then I say not being able to resist the clear evidence that the true form of Godliness hath because they did not love to be disquieted out of the woman Jezabels bed Rov 2.22 where they lay in pleasure of imagined Godliness amongst a company of wise sober Professors they were then so far from receiving the love of the truth that they grew into disquietness of mind and hatred of that form of Godliness that Christ and His Apostles and their Disciples walked in for many years even till the time that Antichrist grew popular in so high a measure Satan being ready with this Temptation that they struck hands with this strong delusion and so believed the lies thereof 2 Thes 2.11 that they cryed down all forms that they might be shut of yea and avenged of that form the thoughts whereof so much troubled them if they knew their own hearts they would ingeniously confess this Therefore whosoever desireth further satisfaction in this matter is referred to a Book that the Author hath written called The Doctrine of the Light within the natural man leading to eternal Life examined by Scripture Light Baptist speaketh The Spirit of God having instructed me by the Scripture I fell into a course of reasoning which though Mystery Babylon cryeth down in this her last dispensation being the very thing that Isaiah cryeth up and reproveth the neglect of Isa 44. on this manner There is no word for baptizing Infants in Scripture not no regular account from which that invention can arise it is the very door that the god of this world makes all this part of the world called Christendom of one supposed Faith by leaving no man at liberty to chuse his Religion but maketh the instruments of his generation to be that which giveth him right to the Instruments of his Regeneration and as for the new birth he will have his to presume that from imagination and all this to be done when the party supposed to be baptized could neither assent by understanding to what was done nor dissent by doing any thing but crying which he would have done if they had gone about to kill him as to have christened him as they call it Also herein those err that have schism'd from Popery and Prelacy but hold their baptism of Infants saying That Infants of godly Parents may be baptized by which words they acknowledge in effect that the fleshly copulation of godly Parents giveth right to the children of their natural Body to be instruments of Regeneration so that it must needs follow that

one body Made ere they knew in infancie But Scripture Baptist doth them all deny For the good old way that Jesus walked in e Ier. 7.16 And the Apostles taught repenters to begin f Acts 2.38 Hereupon the spirit of the beast rouzeth up himself again Yea thinks the Quakers spirit then will I All that is called God or worshiped deny g 2 Thes 2. For where by order * by making false order I can have no place I must exalt my self to the disgrace * viz. in his deceived ones who exalt the sound of name but have being ignorant of the nature of the law of God and Christ Of God opposing order of his face Though God be the God of order Plainness of truth opposite to the beasts mysticall pretences GOD sent his son in flesh to come True naturall blood to shed And did ordain his death to be In simple man bake't bread And Vine fruit wine that men do drink Which God and man doth chear When in his ord'nance spirit joynd The price of Christs blood dear Shown to hold forth his death for sin Until he come again That is gone up true advocate Our cause for to maintain Where holy God and sinful man By Christ a treaty hold Who takes our prayers and there to God Our miseries doth unfold And doth return into our hearts The fruits of his blood shed True pordon strength comfort and joy By spirit witnessed Who doth with blood and water joyn One witness manifested a Iohn 1.5 8. In Gods one way whil'st men obey Repent and be baptised And then expect pardon of sin And holy spirit Gods gift b 2. Acts 38 Whil'st that our loves is prov'd to Christ In making it our stri●t For to keep all Gods commandments Where Scripture comfort dwells c Rom. 15.4 With Son and Father manifest Where men are not Rebels a Iohn 14 21. Hereupon the spirit of the beast proceedeth Thinks disobedient spirit I have No share in this strong Saviour I l'e cry down Lawes and holier be Then all that formes do favour In the eyes of those that have the love Of simple truth denyde I l'e serve their lusts and them perswade They need not to be ti'd I strong delusion can command Affections into tears b Ezek. 8 14 And cause men for to lean on God And so free them from fears c Mica 5.11 And cause men to protest to God That they 'l obedient be d Ier. 42.6 Yet his commandments to deny And say it is not he e Ier. 43. i 2 For in right steps of humbleness f Ps 17 11 They shall seem after God to press And though by Christs knowledge they scape Through lusts the worlds pollution g 2 Pet 2 20 Yet Gods commandments turning from They 're fast in my possession Although that they his way forsake They holiness may hold * The strength of delusion lieth in their seeming to themselves others to hold forth their formal holiness For I will spirit them my self Whil'st they 're fearless and bold I can my self transforme Into an Angels light And there maintain the light within The disobedient wight a 2 Cor. 11 14 2 Thes 2. Truth speaketh As righteous they must sure appear Whilst they can have the Skill To seem as Christs Apostles right And preachers of his Will b 2 Cor. 11 13.15 These were so far convinc't As to disclaim prophaneness But love of truth did not receive To bring them to obed'ence c 2 Thes 2 Self-love did them provoke Lest they should damned be Or of salvation be deny'd Prophaneness for to flee Doth it avail saith they To save us let us see All other Scriptures they throw by As useless for to bee Delusion speaks Therefore to them I me sent d 2 Thes 2 11. compared with 10 Verse Such lies they shall believe As me their inward Teacher to Prefer though God they grieve e Gen. 6.6 Before that simple Christ That Scripture-writing gave That men might read know his law And sure instructions have f 2 Pet. 1 19 20 2 Tim 3.17 Truth speaks The Man of God to make perfect And furnish him throughout There is a rule to know Gods will None need of it to doubt Delusion speaketh In mans imagination I le frame a lawless Christ And set my selfe up there as God And in his name be hi'st I le cause these to ascribe to me What ere to God is due And to my inward motions To flye from Scripture-view Remember Ahabs case 1 King 21.23 Truth doth and will conclude When beauteous holiness appears In sweetned-soul the dew of youth to bring Psalm 110 In morning womb it never fears To own its Jesus Lord and King That God-begotten Virgin-born That crosfide flesh was crown'd with thorn Hath saving power and law-giving In person place and time No true man can deny this thing And say he 's without crime That doth salvation to himself apply Whilst that obedience he doth clean deny Though faith and bapti'm in one book be writ Yea in one Chapter and in one Verse too Delusion saith he can the faith out pick And leave the bapti'm for some else to do Thus self-love his salvation minds Whil'st love of righteousnesse thinks fit To hate iniquity betimes The Oyle of gladness with his Christ to get a Psal 45.7 And thinks nothing for himself to imbrace To be too low carnal or base That his Jesus to his Apostles gave For Church direction but will tread the trace With Christ and his Disciples to his grave And knowes when 's left his body then that he From 's bodyes worship not before is free If our great God by such a lowly thing As blew in fringe would Israel mind Of their obedience to their Lord and King b Num 15 38 That they might not to their own heart Nor to their eyes be seeking With spirit of disobedience dark Though light calld go a-whoring Then think not baptism breaking bread Mean Lawes by Christ b'ing uttered Flying to holier spirit they think then Christ That doth and will exalt himself the high'st Within the disobedient child That is by spirit but not by God beguil'd To all Law-givers and Magistrates WIth the submission of a poor worm that is under your feet that you may behold what God hath given to my heart to write a warning to men and that you may avoid all provocations to that horrid sin of building up Sim with blood Micah 3.10 I tender this treatise to your view hoping that you will not despise the words of him that is as much your underling as any maid-servant to her Master though they may Contend with some of you Iob 11.13 Being I am heartily engaged by Christ Jesus my master to disswade all men from adhering to mans inventions or devices in and about the worship of God because they are so dangerous

Lord and saviour Rev 15 3 if thou mean to sing his praises in heaven and thou hast no other weapons but the word of thy testimony and the blood of the Lamb and wo wil be to them that sight in Christs quarrel with any other weapons the one is to keep out subjects and spirit of Abaddon who fight with carnal weapons and provoking temptations to destroy one-another which you wil easily see if you compare the 38 of Ezek 10 with Rev 20 8 thy heart being sprinkled with the blood of the Lamb they would destroy thee too if this blood did not ke●p them out but no child of God can be destroyed though his body perish when his heart is held up in its rejoycing delight in God prisons and enemies and all persecution being but keyes to open the hear to God more abundantly and messengers to bring Gods presence into it to keep his heavenly court there then thou wilt not be provoked at thy enemies further then to pittie them and pray for them and do them good the other is the Scriptures which is the word that Christ thy Captain fought this beasts spirit with when he bare testimony against him with it is written and that is the word of the testimony it is written will find all his members out it will approve the proved perfect way of God and discover every false way and that thou and I may walk in the fear of God and comforts of his spirit with the Churches of Christ Acts 9 31. and also in the comfort of the Scripures our way being there recorded Rom. 15 4 we behaving our selves wisely in a perfect way waiting for the coming of the Lord Jesus to us Psal 101 2 may walk with a perfect heart is the desire of thy companion in the faith and under the cross of Christ H H To the Reader REader if thou hast a desire to take him in a snare that reproveth in the Gate Esa 29 21. and endeavoureth to make ie matter for thy hating or persecuting spirit to work upon that these things are written against thee as the Pharisees did against my master Christ unworthy I to call him so yet he having given me grace to be faithful and commanding his loving kindness into my heart and opening my heart to receive his father and himself and ovvned me and caused me to ovvn him I am bound to tell thee that thou mayest shevv thy self of the Pharisees spirit and as one of them by so doing But the children of truth follovving the example of their Lord and Lavv-Giver endureth contradictions of sinners Heb. 12.3 vvithout heart-rising-malice or procuring evil or persecution to them but their rule is to love their enemies pray for them that persecute them the Scripture cannot shevv any Disciple that ran to the Magistrate for help against any disputant the Disciples of Christ have all one spirit even the same that Steven had that the gain-sayers could not resist the vvisdom of it and not the Magistrates svvord at their call neither dare they lay it upon the right eye of their enemies that they neither dare look upon nor speak truth because of it Zach. 11.17 though it be the gain-sayers portion yet it is not from Christs Disciples if they should not be inslaved that are fed and maintained by the Magistrate they could not be idle shephards but vvould break through all difficulties to look upon the light though it cost them vvhatsoever harm the svvord that lieth upon their eye could do them Truth and those that are of it begotten are vvilling to come to the light to have their practises and opinions manifested for it delights to be exactly searched and examined and the more contradictions are endured and the current of them not stopped the more it shineth I advise thee to understand that this little book is not written against any persons but such as are ticntured with the spirit of that beast it is a hunting to discover for this spirit cannot be attributed to Presbyterian or Independant or Quaker or Baptist no not to Pope and Prelate alone or at all except they have the acts and instruments of cruelty mentioned by them which are the cognisance of the fourth beast that hath no certain creatures form Dan. 7.7 as the other of the three had but was dreadful and terrible to shew it was a persecutor it had great Iron teeth ten horns which are instruments of cruelty it brake in peices devoured and stamped the residue viz. all but it self here is acts of cruelty indeed O how like this beast is those religious people that would destroy all religions but themselves by the Magistrates hand for non-conformities sake to themselves but this beast is in every place yea in the very Temple of God 2. Thes 2.1 and wheresoever there is either power of man spirited to be Abaddon and Apollons subjects or of spirit that opposeth either spirit or form that agree together in the true witness and worship of God or wheresoever that opposing spirit maintaineth his breath there will some time or other appear the Tallands or the ten horns or the stamping power or some deceivableness of unrighteousness that is in them that perish yea though it be the very subtilty of him that can transform himself into an Angel of light and these are all members of that self hiding beast Wheresoever or among what people soever this beast hath lost his honour in one form he taketh up another yea and rather then fail of his purpose denyeth all formes so that it may be said he was and upon his hiding himself he is not there where he was as visibly and formally the same and yet is the same spirit of that beast that ruleth in the children of disobedience that alwayes either opposeth the plainness or the spiritualnesse of Christs commands one while saying they are too low or foolish or carnal as water baptism c. for those that look after spiritual light to one another while exalting a false form another while added form without either spirit or life and thus he playeth bow-peep appearing on the one side and on the other here and there when and where he is discovered changing his form or peeping out without any form and it is apparent that he ascendeth out of the bottomless pit because no rule that Christ hath given in his word can measure him he dsiclaimeth that when it would discover him and then telleth you that the place he cometh from is the movings of a spirit and in this it is bottomless because no right reason nor measuring line can declare where or what or when this spirit will make his progress or try his work that refuseth all tryal but himself These things considered let not the Clergy be enraged that this writing hunteth after this beast if it be not amongst the Clergy or Presbitery in England it may be it wil be found in Rome and some other land let them help me to