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A86649	The fiery darts of the divel quenched; or, Something in answer to a book called, a second beacon fired, presented to the Lord Protector, and the Parliament, and subscribed by Luke Fawne, John Rothwel, Samuel Gellibrand, Thomas Underhill, Joshua Kirton, Nathaniel Web. Wherin, their lies and slanders are made manifest against the innocent, and those books which have been published by them they call Quakers, owned and vindicated, and all the rest which is in that book disowned, and their deceite laid open; how they have perverted the truth and our words in those books which they cry out of as blasphemy, that the truth may not suffer under the reproach of the heathen. / By one who is a witnesse for the truth against Gog and Magog, called after the flesh, Francis Howgil. Also something in answer to a booke called a voice from the Word of the Lord, by one John Griffith, against us, whom the world calls Quakers, wherein his false accusations is denied, and he proved to be a slanderer, and the truth cleared from his scandals. By one who is a witnesse against the deceits of the world, called Edward Burrough.	Howgill, Francis, 1618-1669.; Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.	1654 (1654)	Wing H3159; Thomason E817_16; ESTC R207383	23,227	35

of the bookes in the Beacon fired wee disowne them but I believe you have belied them as you have done ours A Certaine Book being come forth into the world ful of lies and slanders against the innocent called A voice from the word of the Lord to those grand impostors called Quakers to the Author of which book who calls himselfe J●hn Griffith a servant of Christ and to all to whomsoever it may come I am moved to write something in Answer that his lies and slanders and false r●proaches may be made manifest and that he may proceed no further for as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses so doth he resist the truth being a man of a corrupt mind and reprobate concerning faith and is not a Servant of Christ nor a witnesse for his name but a child of disobedience in whom the Prince of the aire rules And first to the title of thy book I Answer the word of the Lord is powerful and wil cut thee down thou sensual minded man yet thou knowest not but takes the words of others declared from the word vvhich vvas in them and thou useth thy tongue and saith the Lord saith it but I say unto thee the Lord hath not spoken unto thee neither commanded thee to speak of his name and I charge it upon thee in the presence of the Lord God of life that thou art of that generation which Jeremiah was sent to cry against Jer. 23. 31. for thou speakes thy imaginations upon their words which dwelt in the life of God but the life thou knowest not and thy whole book is no more but an empty sound and voice is as the untimely fruit of the womb which wil wither and perish away and one of them I am whom thou calls Quakers to whom thou saist thou directs thy speech but that wee are grand impostors I do denie for we are gathered up into the life which the holy men of God lived and are fallen from the world and from its wayes and nature and I charge thee here to be a slanderer and from the mouth of the Lord I do declare unto thee that thou must have a slanderers reward And vvheras thou saist thou hast discovered their fleshly and filthy mindednesse together vvith the judgments of God attending them I Answer Fleshly and filthy mindednesse we have denied by the Power of the Sonne of God made manifest in us thou hast laid it to our charge but thou hast not proved it nor discovered it and here againe thou art a false accuser fleshly and filthy mindedness shal stand for thy ovvne condition for there thou art in the flesh and filth living to thy vvil in the lust of uncleanesse for you may remember thou came out of the bowling Allie to our meeting though Pharisee like thy out side is painted and made clean but thy heart is ful of enmity and lies and slanders and false reproaches to that in thy conscience I do speake which shal for ever vvitnesse me and as for the judgments of the Lord upon thy own head wil they fal and with what measure thou metes it shal be measured to thee again we are passed from judgment and from the condemnation and who art thou thon enemy of righteousnesse that shal lay any thing to the charge of Gods elect And whereas thou saiest thou art one that bears witnesse against those wandring starres I answer this shal stand for thy owne condition a wandring star thou art and hath no habitation in the heaven but speaks swelling words of vanity thou thy self being a servant of corruption we have an abinding place and an habitation in the Lord and are not wandring and here againe I charge thee to be a false accuser and a false witnesse who bears witnesse of thy selfe for the Father bears no witnesse of thee but against thee Whereas thou saist the most high God that made the heavens and the earth hath moved thee and stirred thee up to bear witnesse to the truth and to witnesse against the abmoinable fleshly mindednesse and yet spiritual pride of those grand impostors called Quakers by whose sorceries many are bewitched and drawn from the simplicity of the gospell to another gospel which is not another Gospel but the vanity of their owne minds and their owne fleshly and corrupt thoughts which they cry up as Oracles of God I answer The most high God judge between thee and us whose wrath is kindled against thee thou enemie of righteousnesse and child of wrath thou hast belied the Lord of heaven and earth for to this he moved thee not for he moves none to utter lies and slanders as thou hast done but the spirit of enmity and of the Divil hath moved thee and to the truth thou beares no witnesse but against the truth and against the innocent and charges us with fleshly mindednesse and spirituall pride O thou lier and false accuser the Lord who takes our part against thee will plead with thee and render upon thy head according to thy deedes prove what thou speaks that we are fleshly minded and spiritually proud or else let thy mouth be stopped and shame cover thee for ever sorceries and witchcraft and drawing from the simplicity of the Gospel wee doe deny but the plaine single truth wee doe declare by which the eye of the blind is opened in many to see your deceits who call your selves Churches and Preachers of the Gospel which is not the Gospel that the Apostles preached but an adding your own Imaginations upon their words who witnessed the Gospel and it shal stand for thy own condition thou art in the sorcery and witchraft who draws people to observe an outward visible thing from the light of Christ within them which leades to the simplicity of the Gospel which is inward and not outward and thou art in thy fleshly and corrupt thoughts crying up the Ordinances and Oracles of God which are but carnal and beggerly rudiments of the world which passeth away and here thou art seen and made manifest in the light of Christ to be a hypocrite who false accuses others of that which thou art guilty of thy selfe the same Gospel as ever was doe we declare and not another which wee received not from man neither was taught it by man and as the Oracles of God it shall stand for ever for a witnesse against thee and all the world who doth not believe for even the Father beares witnesse of us and therefore our witnesse is true and the righteous God will plead with thee thou lyar and false accuser and here be a witnesse against thy selfe that the Lord moved thee not but the Divil acting in thy owne imaginations and in the vanity of thy one minde and in thy one fleshly and corrupt thoughts and whereas thou sayest to us thou directs thy speech from the Lord thus saith the Lord to thee O Quaker thou art fleshly minded I answer It is not the voyce of the Lord to us that

THE Fiery darts of the Divel quenched OR Something in Answer to a Book called a Second Beacon fired presented to the Lord PROTECTOR and the Parliament and subscribed by Luke Fawne John Rothwel Samuel Gellibrand Thomas Vnderhill Joshua Kirton Nathaniel Web Wherin their lies and slanders are made manifest against the innocent and those books which have been published by them they call Quakers owned and vindicated and all the rest which is in that book disowned and their deceite laid open how they have perverted the truth and our words in those books which they cry out of as blasphemy that the truth may not suffer under the reproach of the Heathen By one who is a witnesse for the truth against Gog and Magog called after the flesh FRANCIS HOWGIL Also something in answer to a booke called a voice from the Word of the Lord by one John Griffith against us whom the world calls Quakers wherein his false accusations is denied and he proved to be a slanderer and the truth cleared from his Scandals By one who is a witnesse against the deceits of the world called Edward Burrough London Printed for Giles Calvert at the black-spread Eagle at the West end of Pauls 1654. FIrst of all you go about and flatter the powers and the Magistrates and tells them they ought to have a care of their peoples souls in keeping them from infection of idolatry and blasphemy and you say you are to informe them of the dangerousnesse of great meeting in London of Quakers whose opinions are blasphemous Paganish Antiscriptural and Anti-Christian even as the former And further the greatest thing that troubles you is Printing and publishing books many thousands you say concerning blasphemous and heretical and antimagistratical opinions tending to unchristian people and disorder the people of the Nations and to bring in paganisme and libertinisme and this you say you present unto them to provoke their zeale against them Oh you blood thirsty minded men all the care that you would have the Magistrates to take of the people is to destroy them and to have them shut up in holes and caves and dens and prisons and the truth ever suffered by your generation and your generation hath ever pressed the Magistrates that they might abuse their power and if they will but hearken to you instead of healing the people they will be destroyers and in stead of making up breaches they will make desolate and so you would drive them on hastily to satisfie your corrupt wil and to uphold your Diana and your craft that you may make merchandize of that which hath been long enough sold and printed by you and what hath it done who is turned from darknesse to light and you that makes a trade of others writings and words to maintain you in your lusts and deceive this you would have them to uphold but as for the care of peoples soules it s far enough from you and all along your filthy lying slanderous booke you are made manifest to bee of those that would have fire to come down from heaven in your wils to destroy all those that withstand you and your imaginations And therfore let all magistrates in whom the fear of the Lord is take heed how they take things from the hands and mouthes of them who hath alwaies persecuted the power of truth and called truth errour and light darknesse and darknesse light and in a blind zeale for God destroy them whom the power of the Lord is manifest in for so Paul persecuted Christ and the Saints and so the Jewes crucified Christ and all the Saints have suffered And you are offended at our meeting in London while wee have beene here in the City wee have not been in a corner and wee challenge you and all the City in the name of the Lord who is dreadfull to all liers and slanderers to show what are those blasphemies that you speake of you backbiters shall have your portion with the rest of hypocrites opinions we deny for the light of Jesus Christ which is spirituall which appears and declares against all sects and opinions and blasphemies and all you who hates it are in contention and in opinions and blaspheme the truth and here I charge it upon you in the presence of the living God that you are blasphemers who calls the light naturall and paganisme and the Lord wil plead with you you filthy corrupt minds who calls the light of Christ Antichristian for here in the presence of the Lord of hosts I speake it no other light doe wee owne to walk by but that which is spiritual and eternal the light of Christ which he hath enlightned every one that comes into the world withal and this is not Anti-scriptural as thou cals it for the Scriptures witness the same and Christ bears witness of it and no other light do we own but the same that ever was which was in the beginning and which convinceth the world of sin and the same that led up the Saints to know the Father and the Son and you that cal this paganisme and heretical and blasphemous and Antichristian let all who have any light in them judg and let shame cover your faces and fear take hold upon you for your words stinke and come out of the mouth of the dragon ye filthy unclean frogs which hath poison under your tongues And as for the bookes which wee have Printed wee owne them and are ready to lay downe our lives for the testimonie of Jesus and the truth of them and seale them with our blood and what are written in them through the eternal power of God which is made manifest and that wee have published any thing against any just Magistracie let all our writings and all who reade them judge and if bearing witnesse to Jesus Christ unchristians people let all judge for no other do wee owne but the same Christ to day and yesterday and for ever and here all your petitioning is made manifest from whence it did arise and proceed and your shame and nakednesse and envie appears And the Sacraments which you say you use which is appointed in the Scripture and Farnworth in Answer to a petition did deny them Answer His answer we owne and I challenge you to bee perverters of the Scripture where read you of Sacraments in the Scripture here I charge you to be liers and slanderers and deniers of the Scripture and adders to it and the plagues shall be added to you and as for that which you use among you is traditional and imitatory Yet the bread which wee break is the Communion of the body of Christ and the cup wee drink is the Communion of the blood of Christ and this is that which Paul received from him and Baptisme by one spirit into one body we owne the baptisme is but one and this wee owne and here you liers and slanderers are seen and denied Another thing you call heresie and blasphemy is that wee say