A Bermudas Preacher Proved A PERSECUTOR Being a JUST TRYAL OF Sampson Bond 's Book ENTITULED A Publick Tryal of the QUAKERS c. Fraught with Fallacies False Doctrine Slanders Railings Aspersions Perversions and other Abuses herein Detected Disproved and Wiped off And that the True Christ is Owned by the People called QUAKERS plainly Made Manifest By those that have been more particularly concerned and Eye and Ear-Witnesses in the Dispute at Bermudas and those that have had the perusal of his Book which manifests it self The Wicked has digged a Pit for others and is fallen into it himself Psal 7.15 A Lying Tongue is but for a Moment Prov. 12.19 LONDON Printed by John Bringhurst at the Sign of the Book in Grace-Church-street 1683. To the Inhabitants of these Islands BERMUDUS A Testimony for the Truth and People of God called Quakers against the Reproaches Scandals and Slanders of Sampson Bond Who calls himself a Minister or Preacher of the Everlasting Gospel in the said Islands Friends and People all COnsider seriously your condition for it is exceeding Dangerous at present for the Everlasting state of your Souls is herein nearly concerned for he only that believeth shall be saved but he that believeth not shall be damned according to the Scripture Therefore Friends and People all be advised by him who is your Friend and take the Counsel of the Apostle in the 2 Cor. 13.5 Examin your selves whether you be in the Faith c. For through Faith alone you come to have an Interest in the Salvation purchased by Christ Jesus the Eternal Son of the Father who was in the Beginning with the Father as it is in Prov. 8. from 22 to 31. read them Verses and consider and weigh them well for this is he in whom your Faith must stand and not in another this is he whose delight is with the Children of Men and through whom the Wonderful love of God came to be made manifest unto the Sons and Daughters of Men in the Restoration after Man had run into Rebellion against God and lost that glorious Likeness or Image that he had at the first when God Breathed into him the Breath of Life through which he became a living Soul and so long as he kept in faithfulness to the Lord he kept his Dominion over the Creatures and his Habitation as in the Garden of God the Garden of his delight where the Trees of God did flourish and the Tree of Life in the midst thereof The Lamb was not slain then But when Man turned aside from following the Lord and hearkened to the voice of the Serpent then Death was known then was the Lamb slain when this World of Wickedness the Foundation thereof was laid by the Enemy then was Man cast out of the Paradise of God into the Earth which was cursed for his sake where the Thornes and Thistles is brought forth and the way to the Tree of Life stopped up for the Cherubim and the flaming-Sword was there which turneth every way that Man in the old Adams state cannot come neer to Eat or Tast of the Tree of Life Oh People Behold here is your state every one in Old Adam all separate from God from the Covenant of Life without God in the World even in the World of Wickedness in Death in the Curse this is your state and condition whilest you remain here untill you come to know a coming forth till you come to witness the Seed of the Woman to Bruise the Head of the Serpent to overthrow his Power who is the Prince of Darkness and is the chief Ruler in Man in the state of Disobedience So Friends it is high time for you to return to the Lord and consider even in this your Day the things that belong to your Peace before they be hidden from your Eyes for such a time will assuredly come to pass as ever it did upon the Old World they had a day when the Lord strove with them but they would not hearken but turned aside into the Evil Imaginations then their day passed over and the Spirit of the Lord ceast striving and the Flood came and destroyed them all except eight Persons so mind your time lest it pass over your Head ere you are aware and the Flood of Gods Wrath come and sweep you all away as it did them So all People come unto Christ Jesus the Gift of God and believe in him that through him you may come to witness Salvation For as the Servant of the Lord did testifie in Ages by past so do we witness the same there is no other Name given under Heaven whereby we may be saved but by Jesus Christ alone which is not the bare Outward Visible Appearance or Body only but as he was testified of by Gods faithful Witnesses even in that Age who although they did bear witness to the Outward Man or Body yet they did not exclude the Godhead when they said Act 2. Jesus of Nazareth a Man approved of God by Miracles and Wonders c. The same Jesus which ye Crucified hath he made both Lord and Christ Friends consider well this matter for this Scripture was brought by your own Minister against us and the Truth which we profess thereby to prove if he had been able that the Body without the Godhead or Jesus of Nazareth 〈◊〉 Humane Nâ—ture as he called it without the Spirit was the only Maâ—â—◠〈…〉 To which I answer It was the chief work of that day or time to bear witness to him who had been set at nought by the Chief Priests and Rulers and by the generality of the People whom they also put to Death even to the shameful Death of the Cross as it was written by the Prophet long before He was numbred with Transgressors c. For notwithstanding all the Miracles which he had wrought among them they would not believe that this was he that should come no more then People now adays can believe in his Spiritual Appearance but they were looking out in the Carnality of their Minds for another to appear according to their Imaginations as People are in this Age and Generation and will not receive the true Christ within them therefore the Witnesses of God in that day were the more engaged to bear so strict a testimony to his Bodily Appearance that this was he that was to come and they were not to look for another And so gives them plainly to understand that the Lord had exalted him into his Kingdom for he had made him both Lord and Christ whose Kingdom was not Carnal but Spiritual as he himself said my Kingdom is not of this World But did this Testimony deny the Godhead for consider by what Power were these Miracles done was it as he was meerly Man or by a higher Power See John 14.10 The Father that dwelleth in me he doth the works saith Jesus himself he there bearing witness to the Eternal power that dwelt in him And verily People if Mans
vvhen all your Foggs and Mists of Darkness shall be driven avvay into the Pitt from vvhence it came Blessed be the Name of Christ Jesus vvho lives for Ever John Tysoe THE TRUTH OF Christ Jesus With the PROFESSORS thereof in the Island of BERMUDAS Commonly called QUAKERS Cleared from the Three Ungodly False Charges charged upon them by Samp. Bond Teacher in the said ISLAND in a BOOK Entituled The Quakers in BERMUDAS Tryed c. In which Book are found many Blasphemies Slanders false Accusations false Glosses and Interpretations herein searched and noted in their particular Pages and examined and confuted with as much brevitie as the matter could well bear By a Friend and lover of the Truth in the same Island called Francis Estlacke Psal 57.4 My Soul is among Lyons and I lye even among them that are set on fire even the Sons of Men whose teeth are Spears and Arrows and their Tongue a sharp Sword 2 Tim. 3.13 But Evil Men and Seducers shall wax worse and worse deceiving and being deceived TO THE Unprejudiced Reader FRIEND The occasion of this following Discourse is this I meeting with a Book given forth by Sampson Bond a Teacher in Pembrook-Tribe in Bermudas in which Book I see my self greatly concerned for the Truths sake which was by him exceedingly Reviled Reproached and Blasphemed the Scripture greatly wronged through false glosses or Interpretatious upon them forceing the Saints Testimony to speak another thing then was truly testified by them in plainnes of Speech besides the many Lies Abuses and Slanders cast upon Friends by this malicious Priest who as it appears by his Book cares not greatly what he speakes or writes not having respect so much as to his own credit For these causes a necessity came upon me for the Truths sake to write this following discourse Therefore who ever thou art that reads this Book I advise thee to stand single to the Truth removeing all prejudice out of thy Heart against any neither look at the weakness and meanness of the hand that writ it nor to the ruggedness of the expressions all which tend directly to darken the Truth and thereby to bring thy Soul to join in affinity with the Enemy of Gods Truth and thy Souls Peace and then being so far entangled in the Snare the next thing will be thou wilt be ingaged in the Dragons Quarrel to take up his Weapon to defend the Dragons cause against the Lamb. And if so what canst thou expect but to receive thy Portion with the Dragon his Angels under the Eternal dispeasure of the Almighty in the day of the Lambs Victory who shall certainly overcome for he is mighty that hath promised to whom be glory Everlasting Therefore Friend or Friends in Bermudas chiefly the place where I drew my first Breath and amongst whom I now dwell feeling the love of God springing in my Soul toward you you were and are chiefly in my Eye that your precious Soules may not be deceived but that ye may be recovered out of the subtil Fowlers Snare who lays wait to catch your precious Soules To you therefore is mine advise read with Soberness and sink down in the waightiness of your Spirits that you may be Enlightned with the Light of Christ Jesus in which you may be able to see and reach the thing by me intended even the Truth to stand clear and Deceit to come under the Just Judgment of God And if this I obtain then have I my desire who am a Friend to your Immortal Souls and desire your Eternal Happiness Written in Bermudas the 25th Day of the first Month 1683. F. E. The Truth of Christ Jesus cleared c. BEfore I enter upon the discourse it self I find it necessary to note a few things in the Preface to the Reader where first Sampson Bond seems to lay down the moving cause which first moved him to give forth his three Questions with their Answers stated which was he saith He was informed of a Paper that the Quakers had lefâ— with a Gentleman in this Island intimating a Challenge to the Ministers c. which Paper although slighted by him he durst not answer which Paper was by way of Challenge given forth by Stephen Bullock to try their God by fasting which was the very thing upon which that word was spoken viz That S. B. durst as soon take a Bear by the Tooth as answer it and not upon the account of any dispute and as for any other letter that was sent afterward as he saith viz between the time that this Paper was given forth as a Challenge to their Ministers and the time he sent his Questions to us I never heard of any Paper that was sent to him And whereas he saith in the said Preface That they i. e. the Quakers came the first of May following to the place assigned Mark without giving him any special notice of it As if we had come upon him unawares To which I answer that this is absolutely false for after I had received his Paper and shewed the same to Friends who considering of the same and finding his promise that he desired a regular Dispute Friends generally determined to meet him at the place appointed whereupon I writ a few lines to the said Priest to signifie our Acceptance our intents to meet him and sent the Paper by his next Neighbour who brought me back an answer Beside the matter was made every way so publick that when the day came the House was greatly filled from all parts almost of the whole Island which is not usual on their Lecture-days But when we came expecting to have a regular Disputation viz that we should have had liberty to have answered to the Charge along as he went we found it quite another thing as doth appear in his Preface For his intent was to bind us down in silence until he had quite finished his whole work intended which I perceived by the time he spent in the answer to his first Question he would have wearied out the Peoples patience so that they would hardly wait to hear any return And Secondly The Peoples Minds would have been so stuffed with his multitude of Arguments Slanders Lies and false Accusations that there would not have been room for Truth to get any entrance And lastly it tended to prevent and stop us so that we should not find where to have an entrance to make any orderly reply to any thing that he spake for which cause it was that I stopt him when he had ended his first answer for which he charges us with Unfaithfulness who never made him no such promise as to give him such liberty as he required So having noted these things from his Preface I proceed to consider his first Proposition as laid down in the first Page of his Book which is as followeth That a Quakers pretended Saviour within him is not the true Christ but the false Christ the Devil Which he saith was proved
Glory of God in the Face of Jesus Christ 2 Cor. 4. And truly Priest Bonds Book is such a pack of Nonsence and Contradictions and Tautologies that it is loathsome and noisome to the Reader and in it there is more malice than matter as any rational man may see by the foulness of his Spirit and Tongue and his filthy Language and ungracious and filthy words that his ungodly Book is stuft withal Priest Bond I would have thee to prove that the Holy-Ghost is a Person which proceeded from the Father and the Son and leads into all Truth And when the Holy-Ghost fell upon the Disciples in the time of Pentecost did it fall upon them as a Person And when it fell upon Cornelius's Family did it fall upon them as a Person And Christ tells the Disciples that the Holy-Ghost the Comforter dwells with you and shall be in you John 14. And was this a Person Acts 11. Acts 19. The Holy-Ghost fell upon c. So where ever did Christ or the Apostles call the Holy-Ghost a Person S. B. is to prove this Word by Scripture which he saith is his Rule Now concerning the Scriptures which Priest Bond calls the Word of God first doth not the Scripture signify Writings And do not you teach your Children so that Scripture signifies Writings in your Catichisme and Matthew the Book of the Generation of Jesus Christ and Christ read in the Book of the Prophet Isaiah and in the Book of the Words of Isaiah the Prophet Luke 3 and 4. and Luk. 4.17 Written in the Book of the Law Gal. 3.10 and Written in the Book of the Psalms Acts 1.20 And doth not Luke set forth a Declaration Luke 1. And so doth he not call that a Declaration which he set forth and so Daniel calls them the Scriptures of Truth Daniel 10.21 And Mark calls them the Scriptures Mark 12.10 and Luke 4.21 Christ calls them Scriptures and John 2.22 and in Acts 1.16 The Apostle calls them Scriptures Rom. 10.11 and 11.2 The Apostle calls them Scriptures 2 Tim. 3.16 James 2.8 2 Peter 1.20 Acts 17.2.11 Rom. 15.4 1 Cor. 15.3 Here in all these places and many more Christ and the Apostles calls them Scriptures which signifies Writings Now Scriptures of truth which signifies Writings they are called the Words of God God spake all these Words Exod. 20. And Christ saith John 3.34 The Words of God And John 5.47 John 6.62 And John 8.20.47 John 10.121 John 12.47 48. John 14.10.23.17.8 All these are concerning the Words And Acts 2.14.5.20 1 Tim. 4.6.6.3 The words in all these places and many more Revelations 1.3 that hear the words of this prophecy and until the Words of God shall be fulfilled Revel 17.17 These Words are true Revel 21.5 Testifie saith John to every Man the words of the Prophecy of this Book if any Man shall take away from the words of the Prophecy of this Book c. So here you may see the Scriptures are called Words Books Declarations and the Writings and Scripture and are called the Words of God and the Words of Christ but Christs Name is called the Word of God John 1.8 And again Christs Name is called the Word of God Revelations 19.13 So here the Quakers own the Scriptures as they have been called by Christ and his Apostles and the Prophets S. Bond saith The written Word of God the Scriptures are an infallible Rule of Faith and Life Page 88. The matter contained in Scriptures is the only Infallible Rule of Faith and Life Page 91. See here how Priest Bond contradicts himself Let the Word of Christ dwell in your hearts in all Wisdom Coloss 3. And what Priest Bond is this the Letter Priest Bond saith The Quakers worship cannot be acceptable to God Page 89. These are Priest Bonds Lyes for Quakers worship God in the Spirit and the Truth as Christ commanded and hath taught us John 4. And Priest Bond saith The Quakers reproach the Lord when they deny the Scriptures to be the Word of God Page 88. And yet Priest Bond contradicts himself in Page 87. and saith We do not affirm the Scriptures to be the Word of God but as the written Scriptures do declare the Mind of God to us So here Priest Bond is made to confess the Quakers principles but presently after he confounds it again and saith The Scripture is the Word of God And then contradicts himself again and saith The matter therein contained is the declaritive Word of God Page 87. Priest Bond saith the Quakers are apt to say there is no sin Charged upon Zachariahs Wife who was Righteous and blameless but saith Priest Bond Death took hold as well of her as of him which is the wages of sin Rom. 6. So what must we understand from Priest Bonds words Here they that put off the Earthen Tabernacle and dye in the Lord that natural death is the Wages of Sin Rom. 6.23 But let the Reader see how he abuses the Scripture for the Wages of sin is death But saith the Apostle Now being made free from sin and become the Servants of God This is while they were upon the Earth alive and is it not a denying of Christ that dyed for Sin to say that Death took hold of Elizabeth as well as Zachariah and so upon all other People to wit a natural death and that natural death which is the wages of sin as in Page 86. where he perverts Rom. 6. But the Saints and we tell Priest Bond Christ dyed for our Sins and is risen for our Justification and so whether we live or dye we are the Lords and if we dye we dye in the Lord and Blessed are they that dye in the Lord. Priest Bond They have a Light of direction from the Law of the Creation and this Light is clear and full enough to make them Guilty in Page 82. But Priest Bond dost not thou call this Light within an Idol Light Page 90 And where doth the Scripture call the Light of Christ a Law of the Creation or a natural Light And Priest Bond thou saist in Page 81. The Gentiles which have not the Law do by nature the things contained in the Law There is naturally in all Men as such a Light of direction or natural Light And Priest Bond dost not thou call this a Natural Light or by Generation this Law written in the Gentiles hearts as thou saist in Page 81. But who writ the Law in the Gentiles hearts and how doth this Light come by nature or generation prove this by express words in Scripture which thou callest thy rule Noah was a just and a perfect man c. Job was a good and perfect man And Priest Bond saith to infer and say that Noah or Job were perfect from all Sin in this Life would be a miserable perverting of other places of Scripture c. Page 78. And in Page 87. There is in all true believers a Cursed Root of bitterness not cast out Death only
perish but he that hath the true living hope in him which the Apostle speaks of in John 2.3 purifieth himself even as he is pure And again Rom. 8.11 If the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the Dead dwell in you he shall also quicken your Mortal Bodies Many other places of Scripture might be brought tending to the proof of what I have before asserted but these I judge might be sufficient The last thing I find my self concerned with him in his Book is in Page 69. Where he saith I called on him to make good the third part of the Charge viz That the prime Principles of a Quaker are the same which were held and professed by the Beasts that Paul fought with at Ephesus This I own indeed that I did call upon him to make good or prove as in his paper sent to us he said he would do with the greatest plainness and clearness out of the Holy Scriptures a copy of which paper I have still by me these words to wit with the greatest plainness and clearness I find he has left out and saith in his Book from the Holy Scriptures I note it because there is a great deal of difference between proving a matter with the greatest plainness and clearnness out of Holy Scriptures and proving of it by his pretended Logical Arguments and Cousequences Because the one makes a thing perfectly appear as it is but the other as ill managed and misapplyed darkens Peoples minds as his Ergo's it is so or consequently it must be or may be so in which manner of proving a matter may be gross erring as I have already shewed where he said of me That I never had the Spirit of God in me His first Argument to prove that was thus formed Using the Apostles Words in the 1 John 5.8 where he saith There are three that bear witness in Earth the Spirit and the Water and the Blood and these three agree in me meaning himself But the Spirit that is in thee doth not agree with the Water of Baptism nor Blood of the Supper for thou hast renounced both the Sacraments therâ—fore the Spirit of God is not in thee Why should the Spirit that is in me agree with such a Popish Phrase as Blood of the Supper any moâ—e than with Sacrament of the Altar will this prove that I never had the Spirit of God in me or that the Spirit of God is not in me The like I never read in all the Scriptures of Truth that ever any of the true Ministers of Christ used thus to censure others on such occasion and terms But this was the way that this Man used to prove several of his charges against us But I minding this third Part of his Charge which was as beforemention'd That the prime Principles of a Qâ—ak r are the same which were held and professed by the Beasts Paul fought with at Ephesus And knowing it was too hard a thing for him to prove against all such as are call'd Quakers or any one as I know of I urged him to prove it if he could by plain Scripture but no such place of Scripture did he bring that could prove that charge for that the Principles of the People of God called Quakâ—rs and them Men called Beasts at Ephesus are far enough differing if they were Men the Apostle means as in point of Worship is well known to the Nation As in this particular that the People called Quakers do not Worship an Image an Idol God the Workmanship of Mans Hands which the Men at Ephesus called Beasts did as we may read in Acts 19.26 This Paul hath perswaded and turned away much People saying that they be not Gods which are made by Mens Hands and in Vers 27. So that not only our Craft is in danger to be set at nought but also that the Temple of the great Goddess Diana should be despised and her magnificence should be destroyed whom all Asia and the World Worshippeth and in the 28 Verse And when they heard these sayings they where full of Wrath and cryed out saying great is Diana of the Ephesians and in the 35 Vers Ye Men of Ephâ—sus what Man is there that knoweth not how that the City of the Ephesians is a Worshipper of the great Goddess Diana and of tht Image which fell from Jupiter But the Principles of the People called Quakers in point of Worship is to Worship the true God in Spirit and in Truth and such Worshippers Christ himself saith the Father seeketh And their prime Principle is Christ Jesus the Power of God the Light that inlightneth every Man that cometh into the World And what other erronious Principles them Beasts at Ephâ—sus held I know the People called Quakers disown sufficiently but what need have I to make that my business to search for them now this Man viz Sampson Bond having charged us so grosly and falsly as he hath and saying He would prove with the greatâ—st in plâ—inâ—â—ss and clearness out of the Holy Scriptures it was his place if he could have done it to have brought forth the Scripture to have proved both the Principles of the one and the other and so have made them appear to be as one and the same as he in his Paper to us said he would But here I have answered that false Charge of his and made it appear by plain Scripture that their Principles or at least some of their Pâ—incipâ—es was to Worship a visible Image And no such thing can be proved against he People called Quakers Now where does it appear that the Principles of the Beasts at Ephesus these being some of theirs and the Pâ—inciples of the People called Quakers agree Surely the Principles of those called Beasts at Ephesus and the Principles of the People called Quaâ—ers are far enough from agreeing as one and the same But I find in his Book that he alleadges their Principles were First That the Body of Christ was not raisâ—d from the Dead Secondâ—y That no Mans Body shall be raisâ—d from the Dead Noâ— that these â—here the Principâ—es of these Feasts that Paul fought with at Ephesus I do not find the Scripture plain for it But that their Pâ—inciples were as I have befâ—râ—mentioned the Scripture is very plain clear for that if the Apostle speak figuratively But that it was part of the Apostles Testimony to preach unto People Jesus and the Resurrection I own and truly believe as may be plainâ—y seen both to the Aâ—henians and Corinthians and it is like to many moâ—e both Jews and Greeks and that it was strange Doctrine as we may read in Acts 17. It was to the Athâ—nians to whom Paul preached at Mars-hill â—ut what is this to prove that it was the Principles of the Beasts that Paul fought with at Ephâ—sus or of the Qâ—â—kâ—rs either This Man having given fâ—om under his Haâ—d that he would prove his charge with the greâ—test plaiâ—n ss clearness from the Holy
Ditch that follow thee It is written The Dead shall hear the Voice of the Son of God and they that hear shall live Iohn 5.25 So it is by Christ Iesus the dead Soul is quickened and raised to Life who is the Saviour by the powerful working and operation of his Spirit in the Inward Man and so thy blind assertion is seen to be words without knowledge and in this and much more thou art found a false witness who wouldest wholely exclude the Spirit in the work of Salvation for saist thou Though it be the dead Souls Quickner it is not the quickned Souls Saviour who is it but the blind but sees thy confusion herein for Christ Iesus and the Spirit are one in the work of Mans Salvation And S. B. saith in his 54 Page That G. F. in his Book Great Mystery Page 49 50. hath these words ye scorn me the Light in you and ye have said that I the Light am not able to save those that believe in me and further Page the 54. That if you will believe in me the Light I will purge out all your Iniquitys c. Reply Herein thou hast spoken falsly of G. F. in thy scoffing Spirit for there is no such words in his Book therefore who should mind what thou saist who art publishing thy Lies and Blasphemy in print to the World for we do not say that every measure or operation in Man is the whole Light of Christ But in him is Life and the Life is the Light of Men who lighteth every Man that is come into the World Iohn 1.4 9. And they that believe in the Light and obey it they come to be the Children of the Light and of the Day and if the Magistrates and all the People in Bermudas did believe in the Light of Christ Iesus the would soon see what a blind Guide Priest Bond is who blasphemes and derides the Light of Christ and makes Lies his refuge and would through his malice and envy stir up the Magistrates of Bermudas to Whip and Persecute a People that lives peaceably amongst them and are believers in Christ Jesus their Saviour although falsly accused by thee Sampson Bond as in the 59 60 61. Page of thy Book where thou saist Christ whipt out the abusers of the Temple and why might not the Magistrates whip W. H But Christ Jesus did not whip such as thou art who said He was a Blasphemer and had a Devil which was worse then the Abusers of the Temple who were like thee who callest his Spiritual Appearance the Devil and what Christ Iesus did in that matter it was not only in respect of that outward Temple but also Figurative of his Spiritual cleansing of the Hearts of his People in the Gospel Day But S. B. where dost thou find the Ministers of Christ preach such Doctrine as thou hast done to the Magistrates in Bermudas in these 3 Pages more like a proud Pharisee then a Minister of the Gospel as thou would be esteemed who hast got the Sheeps cloathing but art seen to be Inwardly a Ravening Wolf thy work discovers thee And Sampson Bond saith in his 58 Page When Paul was Travelling in Birth for the Galatians Christ was not formed in them therefore saith he the Light which is in every Man is not the true Christ but a Quakers rotten Principle Reply Herein Sampson Bond hath manifest himself to be one that speaks out of thick Darkness who knows nothing of the new Birth nor travail for Christ to be formed in him but calls it The Quakers rotten Principle the Devil But in Gods Day it will grind him to Powder except he can find a place of Repentance before it be too late For thou dark Man who knowest not what thou stumblest at for although Christ Iesus hath inlightned every Man that comes into the World yet many hates the Light as thou dost and so such know not the way thereof no more then thou do'st but are in Darkness as thou art but it is they who love the Light believe in it and obey it who come to know the new Birth and Christ to be formed in them which thou knows nothing of thy Speech which is in Darkness and Blasphemy bewrays thee and hast lasht thy self and feel'st it not who art Dead in Darkness And this is written that People may see where thou art like a proud Pharisee whose Tongue is at liberty and pratest like a Perrot in thy Book which is stuft with Lies Ignorance and Blasphemy against God and Christ his Holy Angels Prophets and Apostles which thou most falsly chargest upon others in the 54 Page but art really found guilty thy self And also against Gods People whom he hath raised up by the Light of his Son Christ Jesus our Lord in this Day Who art Scoffing and Deriding at them and also the Light and gracious Appearance of Christ in their Hearts whereby its manifest thou knowest nothing hereof but by Notion and History For it is by the Spiritual Appearance of Christ that the Eye of Mans Understanding is opened to see and through the work of Regeneration Man comes to know the worth of that one Offering which for ever makes perfect them that are sanctified through the belief of the truth and in walking in obedience thereunto they come truly to know Christ to govern rule and be head in them And they are Spiritual minded Men and Women who are made sensible of that great work of Mans Salvation in Christs offering up himself in the Body of his Flesh upon the Cross whereby he put an end to the first Covenant which stood in outward Sacrifices Types and Shadows and opened a Door both for Jew Gentil to receive him who is the Second and Everlasting Covenant and they that know this Spiritual work and Christ to be formed in them as aforesaid they are made pertakers of that great benefit of what Christ wrought by his suffering without them and are sate down in Heavenly places in Christ Jesus our Lord and only Saviour Whilst thou Sampson Bond and such as thou art are foaming out your own shame who saist in the 69 Page of thy Book The Quakers deny that Christs Body is risen which is another of his Lies For we do know he is risen and to our Justification who believe in his Name and to the condemnation of such false Accusers as thou art But S. B. in the 18 Page of his Book saith Christs gracious Operation in the Heart in Scripture is called Christ in you And we who thou in scorn callest Quakers do believe it is he the Scriptures bear Testimony to be within his People who is their Saviour who in the beginning of thy Book calls him the Devil and so Pharisee like thou art calling the Master of the House Belzebub And here thou hast contradicted thy self who deridest at Christs being in his People and like a Blasphemer scoffingly Queriest Whether Christ be in our Arms Leggs and
were But what need was there of this assertion But he must fill up his Book with something and I do suppose he readily spel'd what comes upermost but how he will reconcile this later part of this Page with the rest of his confused stuff I know not it is so plain a contradiction there needs not a Scholler to interpret it But S. B. speaks like himself and many of the Priests his Brethren who can call Light Darkness and Darkness Light and Evil Good and Good Evil with their fore fathers of Old But S. B. may twist and twine and wrest the Scriptures to cover himself in this as he hath done in other things But I may say unto him what hast thou to do with perfection whose dwelling is in Darkness and to prattel and prate of things thou knows nothing of But in the blindness and enmity of thy mind thou art busying thy self to lay Stumbling-Blockes in the way of the Blind and to strengthen the wicked in their way But all who have an Eye open and loves the way that leads to Life will see thy snares of Hell and Death who aâ—t chaâ—ging the new Birth with Sin which is Blasphemy against God For he that is born of God cannot Sin 1 John 3.9 And S. B. saith 95 The Scriptures tells us divers things before they were written to wit that the word of God was manifest to Adam and his Wife and that the Word of God came to Noah and Abraham and others And then saith he Now O ye teaching seducing Quakers I would ask you this one Question Could your Light within tell you ought of all this if the written Scriptures had not told it first Reply Yes we do believe the Light could have told us this and much more for these things which were from the beginning were by the Light revealed unto Moses and all the Prophesie Exhortations Admonitions and what soever was written for our learning was from the blessed inshining of the Light made known for Holy Men spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost which is the Holy Spirit of Christ Jesus by which he hath enlightned every Man that is come into the World which thou in thy dark mind canst not discern For although Light shines in Darkness yet Darkness comprehends it not 1 John 1.5 Who in thy Ignorance and Darkness art raising Mists and Foggs in thy Book to blind the Eye which God is opening but thy work is as chaff which will be burnt in the Fire of Gods Jealousie which waxeth hot against such Babilonish-Builders as thou art And Sampson Bond in his 96 Page hath raised another great Lie to wit That the Quakers say the Soul of Man is God in part And then in his dark envious Spirit is fighting against it to the 99 Page of his Book Reply But our Belief and Doctrine is That God breathed into Man the Breath of Life and he became a living Soul Gen. 2.7 And not that the Soul was God in part as S. B. falsly insinuates and he has forged a Lie and in these 4 Pages makes a great bussel in Lies and Confusion to fight against it to no purpose but serves to manifest his Envy and Folly Who is bringing in J. Taynes belief as a proof against us as a cover to shelter his evil design for J. Tayne was never amongst us nor oâ—ned by us But any thing will serve thy turn for it is manifest by thy Book thou matterest not what thou sayest like thy forefathers who were forgers of Lies and said Report and we will Report And so it is seen where thou art and who is thy leader not Christ Jesus of Nazareth who is the Captain of our Salvation who by the Light of his blessed Spirit within us which thou like a Wicked Wretch calls the Devils hath opened our Eyes and we see where thou art and who is thy Leader And S. B. in his 4 next Pages which he or his Printer hath paged in confusion like his work in his Book he saith The Quakers Infallible Spirit within him is grounded upon the Soul being God in part and further saith he I have long thought their Infallible Light within to be no other then the Pope without and saith S. B. as the Pope saith so saith the Quakers and the Pope robs Christ of all his Offices and so doth the Quakers and saith he the Quakers deny the Trinity which is 3 distinct Persons Reply The Quakers do believe that the Spirit of Christ Jesus is Infallible But thou S. B. art so blind and envious that thou canst speak little of the Quakers but a Lie is in thy Mouth for our belief is not grounded upon the Soul being God in part It was never so spoken by us but it is thy forged lie in charging it upon us But Faith herein hath been raised and increased in us through its powerful working in our Hearts to wit the Eternal Infallible Spirit which the true Believers in Christ Jesus were always led by which thou in thy Wicked fallible and dark Spirit cals the Devil But by the Light and Power of Christ Jesus our Mouths are opened to bear a Testimony against the Idolatry and Blasphemy of the Pope and all such as thou art who are his off-spring who are not yet come out of Babilon for confusion is your dwelling place and although the Quakers do believe that the Light and â—pirit of Christ Jesus is Infallible and will lead all out of Sin up to God who believe in Christ Jesus Yet this doth not follow that therefore the Quakers and the Pope are one because he to wit the Pope doth say That his Idolatrous Principles and Traditions are Infallible But this is thy shallow Head and dark Mind which makes thee publish thy Ignorance to the World And we know the Pope is an Intruder into things which he is ignorant of and hath nothing to do with and is a Blasphemer and so art thou who ar comparing the Light and Spirit of Christ Jesus with the Pope and his Idolatrious Traditions in this Comparison But we turn it back upon thy own Head with thy Brethren the Priests of New-England where thy lying Book as thou saist was Printed which is as followeth The People sprinkle Infants and call it the Baptism of Christ and so do the Popish Priests preach for hire and so do you Presbyterians and have taken Mens Goods from them for your gain yea and took their Childrens Cloaths from their Backs and Imprisoned Men till Death for your God which is your Belly and from them you haue done no Work for what greedy Hirelings are you Who is Worst you or the Pope The Pope calls the Old Mass-House the Church and so do you But the Lord is redeeming his People out of your Ignorance and Idolatrous Inventions and from the Mouthes of such Hirelings as thou art And this may satisfie all honest minded People of the Lord in Bermudas that thou art not a Man
fit to take the Name of the Lord into thy Mouth who has published in Print so many Lies to the World and Blasphemys against the Light and Spirit of Christ Jesus whereby thou hast strengthned the Hands of the Wicked For thy work in thy Book is to stirr up poor Ignorant People to Deride and Blaspheme God in the Appearance of his Spirit Light and Grace which thou thy self hast done which People should wait in Gods fear and in Humility for the Appearance of to cleanse their Hearts and preserve them out of Evil For it is by Grace ye are saved through Faith in Christ Jesus Ephe. 2.8 And so all that comes to this Faith which purifies the Heart will deny such as thou art and their Eye will be opened to see that the Loâ—d is come to teach his People as it is written They shall all be taught of God and such know that they are of God and the whole World lyes in Wickedness and we kâ—ow that the Son of God is come and hath given us an Vnderstanding that we know him that is true and we are in him that is true even in his Son Christ Jesus this is the true God and Eternal Life Little Children keep your selves from Idols Amen 1 John 19 20 21. And Sampson Bond saith in the last Page of his Book O let us rather burn then bow to the Idol Light within which the Roman Nabuchadnezzer hath set up in peaching Quakers O let us dye rather for the Name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth then leave the mark of the Beast in us or on us c. Reply Sampson Thou begin'st thy Book with a Lie and Blasphemy and endest with it in thy Mouth and canst not dye for the Lord Jesus Christ but the mark of the Beast is on thy Fore-head and in thy Mouth and the Persecuting Idolatrous Spirit of the Church of Rome is in thy Heart who would'st stirr up the Magistrates in Bermudas to Persecution like thy Brethren in New-England who have out-done the Pope that we read of in our day in Persecution in Rifling Houses in Spoiling of Goods Whipâ—ing cuting off ears Banishing upon Pain of Death and Murdering and Drinking the Blood of the Servants and Martyrs of Christ Jesus whereby they are become a by-word to the Nations and if you can clear your selves from the Blood of the Innocent so may the Pope whose off-spring you are in these things and in much more which is further spoken to by G. F in his â—ook New-Englands Fire-brand quenched for Cruelty and Persecution I know none that exceeds you in this Age of the World But the Light never Persecuted any but teacheth the true believers in Christ â—esus to love their Enemies And S. B. saith in his title Page his Book was Printed at Boston in New-England Reply It is very like such a Book might be acceptable in Boston in New-England amongst his Brethren the Priests and Professors in Boston who encouraged the Printing of Roger Williams Blasphemous Book who said to wit Roger Williams That Christ was a Curruptible Man and his Blood was Corruptible Fit Companions for Priest Bond and Priest Intret Madder who said He had nothing that was Good in him But miserable Sheep are they who have no better Shepheards then S. Bond and I. Madder But we do not charge the tender Hearted and moderate People in Boston but such as have been Persecutors and Enemies to the Appearance of God and his People and have besmeared themselves with the Blood of the Innocent which will not be wip'd of in Generations to come no more then Caines who slew his Brother because his works where Righteous and his Evil. But as it is Recorded concerning the Blood of Zacharias which was shed between the Temple and the Altar that all the Blood that was shed from Righteous Abel to that Day should be required at their Hands And you who are become one with that Blood thiâ—sty Persecuting Generation are Recorded with them in the sight of the Lord to be Persecuters and Shedders of Innocent â—lood which God hath and will require at your Hands except a place of Repentance can by you be found And Sampson Bond in the pride of his Heart hath cited Hes 5.2 Pro. 21.24 In the title Page of his Book in reflection upon others without a cause which I justly here turn it back upon his own Head to wit The revolter is profound to make Slaughter Proud and Haughty Scorner is his Name And further he calls himself late Preacher of the Gospel in Bermudas but his work in his Book makes him manifest to be no Preacher of the Gospel but an Enemy to it For the Sacrifice of the Wicked is Abomination how much more when he brings it with a Wicked Mind Prov. 21.27 But thou through a notion might Pâ—each up thy self with fained Words and fair Speeches whereby thou might deceive the Hearts of the simple for thy Dishonest Gain and for thy â—elly like the rest of thy Brethren But the Lord is opening the Understandings of People and will redeem them from under that great Bondage and Captivity wherein you as Instruments under the Power of the â—east hath held them for your gain to satisfy the Lust and Pride of your Hearts that you might still lord it over them But the Lord is breaking your Bonds and scattering your clouds of Darkness and Ignorance wherein you have wrapt up your selves as with a Cloak and by your Sorceries and Divinations you have kept the People under the same Ignorance and Darkness with you and as the Lord by his Spirit hath begotten a tenderness in People and opened an Eye in them in some measure to see where you are and can no longer put into your Mouths then like your fore-fathers you prepare War against them and your anger and malice doth then appear but your Torment and Sorrow will it Encrease For God hath opened a Spiritual Eye in Thousands which see you thoroughly and can buy your Merchandize no more for the Light shines and will shine more and more unto the perfect day and Thousands shall come to the brightness of its rising and we know why you are Angry and Rage and Blaspheme at the Light it is because it discovers your Kingdom of Darkness and your holes where you have hid your selves but your Rage and Fury signifies no more then the Doggs barking at the Moon for the Light vvill shine and the Day vvill dawn and your Darkness must fly avvay although you may rove and make a noise like the Sea yet your Egyptian Tongue must be dryed up and avvay hath God prepared for his ransomed and redeemed to walk in and the Wayfaring-Man though a fool to your earthly-wisdom yet he shall not err therein Glory to the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb for ever vvho sits upon the Throne vvho is and is to come from Everlasting to Everlasting vvho is the antient of Days vvho shall stand last upon the Earth
Priest Bonds mad confusion and contradiction in Page 53. Priest Bonds bad words Wickedly equivocate Idol Light within Leger-demain a Bratt hatcht in their Addle-Brain Page 53. Idol Light within p. 55. Teach a denyal of Jesus of Nazareth Lyers and False-Witnesses Page 54. Enemies Liers such Liers Seducing Quakers Cursed Liers Horrid Blasphemers aim to make the Angels of Christ Liars Again They do in their meetings and aims make the Apostles of Christ Liers and False Witnesses of God c. the Idol-light within Page 57. Here the Reader may see Priest Bonds foul Language and his ravenous blasphemous spirit and lies against the Light within And the Quakers own Christ Jesus within and without as the Prophets and the Angels and the Apostles have declared him We do witness Christ both his Birth Death and his Resurrection and Ascension Again Priest Bond saith The Light that is in every man the Quakers rotten Principle by natural generation is not the true Christ Page 58. And Page 8. in contradiction to himself saith It s true that by Light in that place of Scripture viz. John 1. That was the true Light which enlightens every Man that comes into the World the true Christ and our only Saviour is meant And yet see how often over he calls the Light of Christ an Idol Light within and now a Rotten Principle and the False Christ the Devil But how doth Priest Bond prove Christ the Light which he confesses to be the only Saviour who enlightens every one that comes into the World to be a Rotten Principle and by natural generation and that he is not the true Christ who enlightens every wan that comes into the world And yet in Page 8. Priest Bond confesses That the true Light that enlightens every man that comes into the world the true Christ and our only Saviour is meant John 1. For the Quakers never said that this Light came by natural generation which Light enlightens every man that comes into the World which is the Life in Christ our Saviour More of Priest Bonds foul words Lunatick Crafty Knave Wedding-Cloaths faced with a dissembling madness Quakers have learned their ignorant Disciples to glory in their own flesh Blasphemous contempt upon the glorified manhood Page 59. These are Priest Bonds horrid Lies and madness And yet S. B. saith in Page 21. That F. E. the Quaker did believe that Jesus of Nazareth a man approved of God among the people whom the Jews slew and God raised from the dead and raised up into Heaven is the true Christ and only Saviour Yet in Page 59. thou saist the bold and open wickedness of W. H. who did reflect blasphemous contempt upon the glorious manhood c. in Heaven above Here dost not thou abuse the Quaker who said he did believe and confess that Christ suffered in the Flesh and was received up to Heaven as thou confessest Page 21. And Page 23. S. B. saith W. H. called S. B's Christ an outside Christ which W. H. denies But Priest Bond calls the true Christ which is revealed from Heaven in his People a Devil and the Light of Christ in his People an Idol therefore what Christ is it that S. B. owns but Antichrist Priest Bond goes on in his foul words Thou art blasphemous rude ye make it your profest Religion to derogate from the true humane substance of the Lord 's Christ ignorant seduced Quakers Page 60. These are Priest Bond 's Lies and his own Blasphemies As for the word Humane he hath not proved it by Scripture Again Priest Bond 's foul words With a Brazen Forehead and seared Conscience villifying the holy thing born of Mary called the Son of God And yet Bond confesses a little before That the Quakers own Christ Jesus born of that Mary both his death and resurrection c. And in Page 61. Open Deriders and Blasphemers contemners of him Christ false Glossers These are Priest Bonds foul words which Lies he may apply to his self Priest Bond saith Page 62. F.E. shutes this Bolt to wit That the Deity was within him and saith that the Deity is in Cats and Dogs as well as in F.E. which he hath not proved by Scripture P. Bond The Legerdemain of seducing Quakers baffling prating Quakers page 63. which foul words he had better applied to himself S. B. F. Eastlacke said 'T is Christ in you c. Priest Bond scoffingly ask'd him Whether Christ was in his Lye Legs Brains or Bowels An Idol light within Blasphemer the Quakers who glory in their own flesh bitter mocking sarcastical blasphemous scorning scoffing quaffing Quakers All this ungracious filthy Language proceeds from Priest Bonds Lying Poisonous Tongue Page 64. 65. S. B. Thou saist F. E. thou hast renounced both the Sacraments Still the Idol Light within Fanciful Principles invisible Sacraments Blasphemy thy dreadful cursed Apostacy Page 66 67. These are Priest Bonds Lies and foul expressions Page 68. They deny Jesus of Nazareth the only Saviour O thou poor sinner that art deluded Visible and Invisible hand-shaking of God Page 80. Stephen saw Christs humane body in Heaven above Priest Bond with all his Lies who saith that Scripture is his Rule hath not proved such a word as Humane in Scripture Neither doth the Apostle say that Stephen mentioned a Humane Body in Acts 7. But Stephen saw the Heavens open and Jesus standing at the right hand of God being full of the Holy-Ghost And the Quakers own Christ more than Priest Bond. Here are more of Priest Bonds railing words Bruitish Disputants Bruitish Principles Lude Fellows of the more bruitish sort Seducing Quakers These are more of Priest Bonds lies and filthy Language W.W. desired Priest Bond to shew him an express Scripture which saith that the Beasts which Paul fought with at Ephesus denyed the resurrection of the dead And Priest Bond makes a great rambling in three or four Pages and when he hath been beating the Air he brings no express Scripture Priest Bond saith That the Body shall be raised spiritual as Christs Body of flesh and bones after the resurrection were spiritual Page 72. And S. Bond saith in Page 69. Stephen saw Christs humane Body in Heaven above And doth not Priest Bond nick-name the Lord's Body and call it humane over and over in his Book And is humane spiritual As in Page 50. Humane Nature How doth he prove Christs Body Humane Nature And now confesses that Christs Body of flesh and bones after the resurrection was spiritual and yet humane and also confesses with W.B. the Quaker who speaks concerning the Resurrection It is sown a natural body it is raised a spirituaâ— body And S. B. doth confess in 1 Cor. 15. that the body shall be raised sâ—iritual So Priest Bond hath granted the Apostles and the Quakers Principles and yet Priest Bond makes a great noise to no purpose in three or four Pages and at last grants the thing as in Page 72 73. Priest Bond brings John 5. Christs saying who
World and upholds it by the same Word of Power who after he had purged our sins said the Apostle sat down on the Right Hand of the Majesty on High Ephes 4.6 And this is he who fills all things and is above all and in us all So all those that desire to know their Sin purged must know Christ not at a distance only but nigh even dwelling in them else they are Reprobates which all the obedient in Heart do Witness according to his promise If a Man love me he will keep my Words and my Father will love him and we will come unto him and make our abode with him So he that believeth in Christ at a distance only never knows a fulfilling of Christs Words in them who said He and his Father would make their abode with them For it was revealed by the Holy Ghost to Old Simeon before he had seen the Lords Christ and Simeon came by the Spirit into the Temple c. And the Angel of the Lord told Ioseph that which was conceived in Maâ—y is of the Holy Ghost Now Simeon by the Spirit and Holy Ghost did see the Lords Christ which was conceived by the Holy Ghost who was revealed to him by the Holy Ghost So this was a Spiritual Sight not Natural For the Natural Man receives not the things of God they are foolishness unto him neither can he know them bâ—cause they are Spiritually discerned Mat. 1.20 Luke 2.26 27. 1 Cor. 2.14 And the Angel said to Mary that Holy Thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God And doth not Christ say That none knowes the Father nor the Son but by Revelation 3. S. B. saith farther we make the Angels Lyars who said he bore witness only to the Body or Man Luke 2.11 To which I Answer I deny that the Angels there do bear Witness meerly to the Body for in their Testimony they testifie to this Saviour as a King For unto you is Born said they in the City of David a Saviour which is Christ the Lord. Which Word Christ relates to his Kingly Power which was Spiritual as he saith My Kingdom is not of this World And the Testimony or Message the Angel brought to Mary as concerning the Son of God who was now coming to be made manifest in the Flesh said He should Reign forever and his Kingdom should have no End Luke 1.33 For the Angel said Behold a Virgin shall be with Child and shall bring forth a Son and they shall call his Name Emanuel which being Interpreted is God with us So here you may see that the Angels bore Witness more then only to the Body or Man Mat. 1.23 as Sampson Bond doth assert which he has not proved So Mary believed God and did not ascribe the Work of Salvation to him meerly as Man but to God saying My Spirit hath rejoyced in God my Saviour Vers 47. I would not have any one to think because I plead so much for the Spirit that I deny the Body of Christ but do own it in all points as the Scripture doth declare of it and so give the Honour due unto it Though I cannot believe the things declared by S. B. in his Nonscriptural expressions The last thing which is the Apostles Testimony of Christ I have sufficiently spoke to already and so shall wave it here So People may see how far short of his promise he came in proving his Three Accusations with the greatest clearness from the Holy Scripture so hath little cause to boast or glory of his Victory for the Truth stands over his Head and will do for ever The Third and last Accusation is That the prime Principles of a Quaker is the same that was held and professed by the Beasts which Paul fought with at Ephesus And to prove this he first doth endeavour to prove that those Beasts did deny the Resurrection and said so do we I answer The first was never truly proved and the second is absolutely false his Scripture to prove the first 1 Cor. 15.32 where the Apostle saith If after the manner of Men I have fought with Beasts at Ephesus what doth it avail if the Dead rise not Doth this at all argue that this was the Ephesians profest Principles or doth it not rather argue that the Saints loses their reward for all their labour if the Dead rise not as he saith in the 19th Vers If in this Life only we have hope in Christ we are of all Men most Miserable So that he hath fallen short of his proof and so his Accusation is truly overthrown But inasmuch as he did go on to charge the thing upon us viz That we do deny the Resurrection I do here testifie that it is none of our Principles to deny the Resurrertion for we own it as the Apostles own'd it Not the same Body not a Corruptible Body not a Natural Body a Natural Body hath Flesh Blood and Bones but a Spiritual Body as the Apostle saith And a Spirit hath not Flesh and Bones said Christ which before he can prove he must be fain to get new Scripture for the Old will maintain no such Doctrines So though he did stop and hinder me that time by his Mocks and Scoffs and deriding Speeches and clamorous Noise altogether unlike a Preacher of the Everlasting Gospel as he saith in his Paper be is yet now through mercy I trust as the Truth will stand over your Heads so I shall be clear of your Blood whether you will hear or forbear I am a Friend to the Seed and a Lover of your Souls The 11th of the 3d Month 1678. Francis Estlacke Some few Lines briefly Answering some Part of SAMPSON BOND 's Book Entituled The Quakers in BERMUDAS Tryed c. THat part in his Book which I find my self chiefly concerned to make Answer to is where he makes mention of my Name viz. William Wilkinson As for my part I do not know that I should have set Pen to Paper to have made him any Answer had he laid down the Matter concerning me every way Fairly and truly without Abusing me or the Truth but I finding in several places of his Book Words printed that I cannot own to be Truth besides his reviling Speeches which he hath cast at me As Prater a Baffling Quaker and one that never had the Spirit of God in me All which things in the sense he brings them if true were a great Reproach But I knowing it is too hard a thing for him to prove or plainly to make appear do find my self justly concerned to make some reply or answers both to these and several other things for the vindicating of the Truth and my self also from him whom I find in his Book hath very much strove to make his own case appear strong and ours weak c. But according to that saying in Prov. 18.17 He that is first in his own cause seemeth just but his Neighbour cometh and searcheth
generally for it as may be read in their works and account of them and their lives J. H. his view of Antiquity He seems also in all his Arguments to beg the Question of onely solely or wholely of Christ without as then manifest Ascending c. And I find it an usual fallacy with him to have more in the Conclusion then in the Premises In his Third Argument he seems to shut out Christs Mediator and Intercessorship in the Spirit as in Rom. 8. By his Word only making the Sacrifice all Câ—ytraeus p. 151. from psa 45 and 72. Jer. 23. Isa 11. Mag. sent l. 3. d. 19. excluding his Kingly and Prophetical Office which is continually And seeing the said handler of that Controversie shews by plain Testimony of Scriptures that the Son of God from the beginning of the Church made intercession for her and that she was thereby saved and quickned and both he and the School-Men deny that Christ did it according to his Divine Nature because none is an interceeder for himself who was it then that interceeded in them of Old and spoke in the Prophets Or whether he believes them held in Limbo Oecolamp ibid. till after Christs ransom by his reason page 31. I would ask him again seeing Paul saw and heard Christ after his Ascension whether he saw and heard him in Heaven or on Earth 1 Cor. 15.8 and 9.1 Act. 9.4 and 12.14 Suiting his Question to F. E. and W. H. p. 22 23. That so he may answer and please himself which he cannot do about his great stumbling-stone the Light which he is so greatly offended at and mightily confounded about that knows not what to make it Though he would have it the Devil and if any would freely grant it sometimes Antichrist the greatest Deceiver and Idol c. Yet sometimes Reason sometimes by natutal Generation sometimes as Men come into the World p. 16. Would any to return him as due the Language he unduly gives but an unreasonable Ephesian Beast reason after this manner Is the Devil by natural Generation Or is the Devil reason And if that be by natural Generation creando infunditur infundendo creatur it must be extraduce as they term it by traduction Holds he then that the reasonable part in Men is transferred by Generation contrary to the receiv'd opinion of the Schooll whose terms he so much glorys in which says it is created and infused And if the Light be reason and by natural Generation or Traduction and that be the Devil and Christ be in Men but essentially as in Dogs and Cats as he says what reason has he to glory so of p. 64. and not rather to be ashamed of the production of it his Metonymical Sarcastical Synecdochical Metaphorical Syllogistical Samsonical Monsters he produces to fight with and and Heaven Inventions to turn off the plain words of Christ and his Apostles And indeed there 's reason enough as to himself to make his reasoning one with the Devil being a Lye a Fallacy Deceit the wisdom that 's from below Devillish That which called Christ a Devil was of the Devil And he that was his professed Disciple and yet betrayed him to the Priests and so to the Magistrates was a Devil And what means his bragging so much of the Magistrates Sheriff Justices c. And prejudicing them against us as proud Levellers for not giving them proud flattering titles as you c. Is it not to press them to execution in their way as he in his by the press the utmost he can And how pittifully he pleads for it with silly shifts his own phraise shewing himself neither ingenuous nor ingenious in it it appears so plainly so designedly knavish and so absurdly foollish do but read it As for the Scriptures he brings they appear plain Hebraisms which he urges elsewhere as they and ye p. 41. or else collectives as the Language given to the Senate was after given to the Emperor and by him usurped with their Power And so came it first in use and after by slow paced degrees till now comed to the most contemptible even to a Dog For I have often heard Men say you Vile Rascal you you sawcy Cur you c. So he might have called this a brutish practice p. 42. Wher 's then his distinction he pleads for in the use of it De scribâ—â—d Epist Vossatoreâ— See Erasmus reasons with Indignation against the Youers of his time writing a whole Chapter against them comparing them to triple Bodied Monsters c. And compare them with this Mans ridiculous reasons for his ridiculous words and gestures as if they were for distinction when they are for confusion not knowing whether one or more are spoken to to one only or to all in company They that know Languages know that in them all there is a distinction in speaking to one or more But the Hebrew manner in speaking sometimes to all severally sometimes to all as one in a collective Body some times to one in name of all and so altering speaks no such confusion As in the place for instance Isa 10.1 3 4. The Prophet speaks of them and says Woe to them that decree Vnrighteous Decrees and writers that write grieveousness prescribed c. In Verse 3. he turns his speech to them What will ye do in the day of Visitation where will ye leave your glory c. Verse 4 he again says of them Without me they shall bow down under the Prisoners c. R. R. Something further in ANSWER to Priest Bond 's Lyes Ignorance and Blasphemy In his Book Entituled The Quakers in BERMUDAS Tryed Sentenced Executed c. SAMPSON BOND saith The Quakers are Tryed Sentenced and Executed This is much like his forefathers the Scribes Pharisees who were always forward in Judging and Condemning the Innocent who cryed out against Christ Jesus our Saviour and said He was a Blasphemer and had a Devil as thou dost against his Appearance in Spirit at this day who begin'st thy Book with a Lye and Blaspheming in thy Mouth but the Life in which the Quakers live is out of thy Wrath and he in whom we believe shall bruise thy Head which is the Serpent though thou Blaspheme against his Name For S. Bond saith in the beginning of his Book That the Quakers Saviour within him is not the true Christ but the false Christ the Devil Reply He in whom we have believed for Salvation is the true Christ whom the Angel said His Name should be called Jesus and by the Prophet Emanuel which being Interpreted is God with us Mat. 1.21 22 23. Whose out-goings were from of Old who said before Abraham was I am who was with the Church in the Wilderness and they drank of the Spiritual Rock which followed them which Rock was Christ 1 Cor. 10.4 And this is he in whom we have believed who comforted and preserved his People in all Ages by his
Spiritual Appearance in the Inward Man and there is none knowes him truly to be their Saviour but who knows him Spiritually in their Hearts who workes all their workes in them and for them But S. B. such as thou Blasphemous Wretch who call'st his Spiritual Appearance the Devil may get the words of the Scripture and prate in thy Imaginations and deceive poor People with a Notion who through envy and malice which the Devil workes in thee art Smiteing and Reproaching them who live in the Life or Spirit which gave forth the Scripture which thou hast raked together in thy dark mind to prove Jesus of Nazareth a man approved of God among the People to be the Saviour which is not denyed by us but assuredly believed in and witnessed to be the true and only Saviour through the work of his Eternal Power in the Inward Man which is wrought through Faith in his Name who in the days of his Flesh went about doing good and wrought Miracles and did many mighty Works yet the Priests Scribes and Pharisees Envyed and Blasphemed against him a thou dost against his Spiritual Appearance at this day And we also believe Christ Jesus suffered by that envyous Generation of Professors Scribes and Pharisees and was Crucified under Pontus Pilate the Roman Governour and that he rose again the third day according to the Scriptures and appeared to his Disciples and ascended into Heaven where he sits at the right hand of the Father in Majesty on High who is the Mediator between God and Man who is ascended above all Heavens and by whom all things do consist who said I and my Father are one and he that hath seen me hath seen the Father Iohn 14.7 9 10. Who said I am in the Father and the Father in me the words that I speak unto you I speak not of my self but the Father that dwelleth in me he doth the work and so Christ Iesus hath taught us by his blessed Spiritual Appearance in our Hearts not to separate his Man-hood from the God-head As thou S. B. hast done in thy ignorant dark Spirit who hast heapt up many Scriptures together in thy Book to prove the Man-hood only the Saviour which is no more proved by thee then if thou had said nothing for these Scriptures do severally prove and hold forth the power of the God-head which dwelt in that Holy Body whereby it was carryed forth and enabled in suffering and doing good healing the Sick raising the Dead as it is written and through the Eternal Spirit offered up himself a Sacrifice for the Sin of the World So not the Man-hood without the God-head was the Saviour as thou Ignorantly Blasphemously seeks to prove against the work and power of the God-head in the Man Christ Iesus and also against his Spiritual Appearance in his People Pharaoh like hast given these wicked Epithetes to wit The Quakers Idol Glow-worm and the Devil with much more Blasphemous stuff for which God will judge thee thou Hypocrite And S. B. in the 7th and 8th Page of his Book saith He doth acknowledge with Francis Estlacke that the Word took Flesh and suffered without the Gates of Jerusalem howbeit saith S. B. as it come from a teaching Quaker it is undoubtedly no other then a deceitfull shift but saith he Alas how many Turks and Jews believe this But the Quakers attribute no more Soul-saving merit in the Body of Christ then in the Body of a Turk or a Jew Reply In this thou hast falsly accused us and seekes to make Lies thy refuge and to render us odious to the People but the Lord is opening the Understandings of Men and many know us better then to believe thy Lies and Slanders which we turn back upon thy own Head with thy story of Turks and Jews believing Christ died by History which is thy own state who art scoffing at the work of Salvation by Christ in the Hearts of his People who knowest little but by History and therefore thou knowest not the vertue of the Body of Christ Iesus but art falsly accusing others whose tongue is at liberty and thy Heart filled with malice and thou throwest out Lies at random Who that is moderate and fears God will believe thee but it may serve with the rest of thy Lies and Blasphemous stuff to make thee manifest to the People For since we have been turned from Darkness to Light and believed therein we have known Salvation and Redemption by the pretious Blood of Christ Iesus which cleanseth our Hearts from Sin And so the Quakers do not make these effects within them to be Christ their only Saviour as thou falsly chargest them but we know the Operation of his Heavenly Arm and Power within us to work these good effects for us who hath opened a Spiritual Eye in us which sees where thou art and the true Light shines although thou in the dark Blasphemes which will yet make thy Folly and Darkness manifest to them that see it not Who art pleading in thy Notion and Historical belief of Christ without thee which Drunkards and Profane Persons have as well as thee who art dividing and scoffing at his Spiritual Appearance in Man without which there is no Salvation but all are in the curse where thou art in thy Notion of Christ only without thee with the Drunkards profane Turks and Jews to receive thy person except thou find a place of Repentance for thy Faith can be no better then a Notion profess what thou wilt who scoffs and derides at the blessed Appearance of Christ Jesus in the Hearts of his People for it is that which gives life unto the Soul as Christ Jesus said Except ye eat the Flesh of the Son of Man and drink his Blood ye have no life in you Iohn 6.53 And he that eateth my Flesh and drinketh my Blood dwelleth in me and I in him Iohn 6.56 But this is a Riddle to thee and such as thou art who knowest little but what thou knowest naturally like a Beast wherein thou corrupts thy self and such as thou art in all Ages opposed the breaking forth of the blessed Invisible Life and Power of Christ Iesus who redeems Man to God out of Death and Darkness where thou art gnashing thy Teeth but the redeemed of the Lord whom thou scoffest at they rejoyce in Christ Iesus their Lord and only Saviour over thee and thy Head which is the Devil for he is a Lyar from the beginning and is the Father of all Lyars and Blasphemers in whose work thou art found and do not say this is railing for it is thy due as Christ Iesus said to thy forefathers of old Ye Generation of Vipers how can you escape the Damnation of Hell And Samuel Bond saith in the Six and Twentyeth Page of his Book Though the Spirit be the Dead Souls Quickner yet it is not the Quickned Souls Saviour Reply Where hast thou learnt this Doctrine thou Blind guide who leads all into the
Guts c. But this wicked heathenish work may make thee manifest to poor People who have been deceived by thee But it is no strange thing to us whose Eyes God hath opened for we know the wisdom of this World cannot perceive the things of God for they are Spiritually discerned and by his Spiritual Appearance in this latter Age of the World God hath raised contemptible Instruments to perfect his praise and to confound the Haughty Scoffer who is glorying in his own shame As Priest Bound doth with his little Schollarship who is tanting and huffing in the Air against an Innocent People yet let him know they are learned in the School of Christ Jesus and are his Disciples though derided by him the Lord hath made them so wise as to see over such blind guides as S. B. is though many of them never learnt Hebrew Greek nor Latin which you Night-Watch-Men glory in which Pilate set over the head of Christ Jesus our Saviour and in this night of Darkness and Idolatry you blind Watch-men have been calling it your Original and none have been counted fit by you to Preach Christ but such as have your Original to wit the Tongues But God hath opened an Eye that sees you and is redeeming his People from under your Bondage at which you are angry and your sorrow and torment will yet increase And S. B. saith in the 94 Page of his Book That useful Instructions may be drawn from Iudases words and the Devils Reply With whom thou mighst have joyned thy self with thy wicked Book for I never read of such Lies and Blasphemys uttered by Judas as thou hast in thy ungodly Book from whence we may draw these useful conclusions that it was Gods great love and mercy to us in gathering us to himself from the Mouths of such blind Hirelings as thou art Who in the same Page saith The Scripture doth not bear witness to the Light within for if the Scriptures of God should bear witness to that gross piece of foollery called Light within it would witness it self to be no word of God Reply Here thou Blasphemest against God and beliest the Scriptures which saith God is Light and in him is no Darkness at all 1 John 1.5 And also he hath shined in our Hearts to give us the Light of the Knowledge of the Glory of God in the Face of Christ Jesus 2 Cor. 4.6 And S. B. in the same Page of his Book hath published these lines against us to wit 1. That the Quakers say the Light in every Man by natural Generation is the true Christ and only Saviour 2. And that the Lord Jesus Christ is not the Son of God the Saviour of the World 3. That we say Christ is not in Heaven 4. And that it is Blasphemy to affirm he is there 5. And that we say the Light in Man is the Scriptures Reply All these Lies we turn back upon thy own Head whose dwelling is in Darkness and all thy Blasphemy and derision against the Light of Christ Iesus the Son of the living God our only Saviour in these several places in this one Page of thy filthy Book which will be thy Burthen in the Day of Account And in Page 31. S. B. saith Francis Estlacke speaks of his being washed and justified in measure but sayes S. B. I demanded of him whether it were from Theft Drunkenness Oaths or Adultery which it seems thou queri'st in derision For saith S. B. I more seriously requested the Assembly to take notice of his want of knowledge in the Scripture inasmuch as that he makes justification from Sin not only a work within him but to be daily wrought in him by measure which assertion saith S. B. is directly contrary to the manifold Scriptures of Truth but brings not one to prove it but in a few lines after grosly contradicts himself and saith Washing and Justification from Sin is to be received and wrought not at once but by degrees and in measure by the working and operation of the Spirit of God in us which the Quakers do witness and bear testimony to which thou Blasphemously calls the Devil And again in the same Page S. B. scoffingly saith This Doctors new Divinity to wit that he is washed and justified from his Sins in measure is most false and dangerous Doctrine Reply So S. B. For all thy great Notion of Christ without thee and this pretence of the Scriptures being thy rule yet thou wantest Light Grace to teach thee to speak truth and not to belie the Scriptures and to contradict thy self as thou hast done over and again in this one Page of thy Book For notwithstanding this great work of Christ offering up himself upon the Cross a Sacrifice for the Sins of the World yet Sanctification and Iustification is imputed to no Man but through Faith in his Blood which is the gift of God through the operation of his Spirit in the Heart of Man whereby this work of Sanctification and Iustification comes gradually to be wrought in Man and no further is Man truly justified in the sight of God then he is truly Sanctified which work is assuredly known in the Hearts of all that are redeemed to God through the precious Blood of Christ Iesus the Lamb of God which takes away the Sins of the World And so there is a dying to Sin and his Baptism is known which is with Fire and the Holy Ghost and such are created anew in Christ Iesus And he is formed in them and he is mighty and powerful in them and they can truly say greater is he that is in us then he that is in the World and so Christ Iesus is precious to them and they can speak of his workes of Salvation which he hath wrought in them to the praise and glory of his great and worthy Name And not like S. B's Blasphemous Confused Unsavoury talk who is not fit to take the Holy Name of Christ Iesus into his Mouth until it be washt and his wicked Heart cleansed and then he may know better how to speak of the things of Gods Kingdom which at present he is ignorant of and and an Enemy to And in the 90 Page Sampson Bond saith That the Holy Spirit in respect special help and asistance is subsequent to the Scriptural Gospel Preached Reply Where hast thou learnt this Doctrine The Scriptures speaks but of one Gospel and saith It is the Power of God Rom. 1.16 thou that brings another art under the curse who art preferring the Scripture before the Spirit for aid and assistance like a blind guide for the Scripture will Witness against thee and thy abuse thereof for the Scripture saith There is none knows the things of God but by the Spirit of God 1 Cor. 2.11 12. Nor do we know how to pray as we ought but by the Assistance of the Spirit of Christ Rom. 8.26 And it is the Spirit must lead us into all Truth and it is
by 4 Apostolical Arguments First Because Jesus Christ of Nazareth a Man approved of God among the People was and is the true Christ and our only Saviour for to prove which he notes many Scriptures Acts 2.21 22 23 24. Acts 4.10 11 12. Acts 10.38 39 40 42 43. From these Scriptures mentioned S. B. draws this Argument If Jesus Christ of Nazareth a man approved of God among the People of Israel be the true Christ and only Saviour then a Quakers pretended Saviour within him is not the true Christ But Jesus Christ of Nazareth a Man approved of God among the People was and is the true Christ and our only Saviour therâ—fore a Quakers pretended Saviour within him is not the true but the false Christ Reply The Apostles Testimony we believe that this Jesus of Nazareth was he that was to come of whom Moses and the Prophets wrote and of whom the Apostles bore so strict a testimony especially before the Jews under the Name of Jesus of Nazareth Because they having read of the glory of this Saviour did expect it to be outward and visible and that he should have come with the Pomp and Glory of this World and that the Redemption which should have been wrought by him should have been outward and that he should have sat upon the Throne of David as an outward and visible King and when contrary to this their expectation he was raised up of so mean a place as Galilee and Nazareth and of so mean Parentage they slighted him saying Is not this the Carpenter the Son of Joseph His Father we kâ—ow and his Brethren are with us we know whence he is But when Christ cometh wâ— know not whence he is search and see say they for out of Gallilee ariseth no Prophet So they slighted and scorned him and put him to Death therefore the Apostle did bear so strict a Testimony to this Man and we do believe that this vvas he that was to come and we look not for another But that the Apostle by this Testimony did deny the Godhead or Invisible Power that dwelt in Jesus of Nazareth by which he became a Saviour we do not believe Neither do we believe that the Man Jesus of Nazareth only as Man was the Saviour of the World For in him dwells the fullness of the God-head Bodily Coll. â— 9 And Christ himself testifies that he was in the Father and the Father in him John 14.10 11. And in the same place he testifies That the Words he spake and the Works he did were done by the Father that dwelt in Him Now if the whole work of Mans Salvation had been wrought by the Body or visible Man only then must our Faith and Hope have stood there but the same Apostle saith 1 Pet. 1.21 Our Faith and Hope must stand in God By which Scripture with many more that might be named it appears that the Salvation of Mankind was wrought by the vvhole entire Christ of God vvho vvas truly God and Man And the Apostle saith That God was in Christ reconciling the World unto himself 2 Cor. 5.19 So that it was the Word the invisible Power that dwelt and wrought in the Body that gave the value of the worâ— done in and by the Man by which the work of Mans Salvation was effectually wrought So after the work was performed in by the Body in order to Mans Redemption yet there remains a large work to be performed in such as believe For there is a power of Darkness in Man to be overcome the Antichristian Spirit â—s to be cast out the Body of Sin and Death is to be destroyed the captivating Spirit that captivates the Members and keeps the Members in subjection to the Law of Sin and Deaâ—h to be redeemed from yea the Regeneration is to be witnessed that begets again unto God and the new-born â—abe must be known which is born of God that cannot Sin which only is Heir to the Kingdom which is brought forth in the Image and Likeness of the Invisible God which Image stands in Holiness and Righteousness And all this is formed in the Saints through the powerful working of Jesus Christ the Lamb of God that taketh away the Sins of the World and destroys the work of the Devil in us and for us and so becomes a perfect Saviour saving to the uttermost those that come unto God by him and all this is purchased through the one offering even perfect Salvation for his People even for all those that do truly and effectually believe in him who through faith lay hold on the invisible Power so that they thereby feel the inward operation or the working of the Spirit within to wash and cleanse the Heart not only from the Guilt or Condemnation as ye say but also from the defilement of Sin So is Christ Jesus become the Author of Eternal Salvation to all that through Faith are brought into obedience unto him But these things I judge are a mystery to S. B. who is ignorant of the work of Salvation of the Grace Hope and Faith within by Christ for if he had been acquainted with the inward forming of Christ he could never have formed such an Argument as this That because Jesus Christ of Nazareth a Man approved of God among the People in whom dwelt the fulness of the God-head which was the Creator of all things was the true Christ and only Saviour that therefore the Saviour cannot be within although the Saints did witness that Christ in them was their Hope of glory But to leave this and to take a view of his 2d Argument as laid down in the second Page of his Book which is grounded upon this Because the Saints of God by the direction of his Spirit have alwayes acknowledged the Man Jesus Christ to be the true and only Saviour Upon which ground he brings forth the same conclusion viz That Christ within Man which he calls the Quakers pretended Saviour within is not the true but the false Christ Reply This Argument is also false being one with the other grounded upon a foundation as to me it appears hid in his own Breast not truly laid down in express Words yet truly intended by him which is this that Christ Jesus only as Man without the Godhead was by the direction of the Spirit always acknowledged to be their true and only Saviour if this be not the ground of his Aâ—gument then could he not have formed such an Argument as this because Christ as God is a Spirit and so within as well as without Now for the proof of his Argument he brings the words of Simeon Luke 2. from Verse 25 to Verse 31. by which words it doth not at all appear that the Man or visible Body only of it self is the only Saviour for he declares of him as a Light to go before the face of all People a Light to lighten the Gentiles and John bore witness to him and saith John 1.9
now having had so many stroakes at this Heavenly and Glorious appearance of Christ in Man and not yet sensible of the stroak of Gods Divine Justice against him he sets forward in his ungodly course and proceeds to call it an accursed Gospel within which saith he The Lord hath Cursed with a Reiterated Curse But I say unto thee who art thou that Cursest that which the Lord hath Blessed Yea and it is and shall be Blessed for evermore in which thou hast no part nor portion who art found Cursing Shimei like who Cursed David the Lords Anointed so art thou found Cursing Christ Jesus the Light and power of God within and his Gospel which as Paul witnesseth is the power of God to Salvation But tell me Sampson how many hast thou by thy Preaching turned from Satan to God although thou hast sold it at a very dear Rate taking for it after the Rates of 250 l. a year as thy self said thou wert put by a Benifice of 250 l. a year upon the Kings coming in and yet are not the People to whom thou Preachest and of whom thou takest Wages still in their sins and is this according to the Doctrine which Christ taught his Disciples freely you have received freely give but thou art Erred from that having not received freely thou canst not give freely and so people pay dear for that by which they have no profit and indeed they have little encouragement to give thee any more Wages who said in the Audience of many People in my hearing that sin must live in them as long as they live and so have no encouragement to follow thee who hast no other Gospel to Preach to them then that which cannot save them out of sin and so dost plainly appear to be none of Christs Minister neither hast thou received thy Gift from Christ for the Gifts that he when he Ascended up on High gave unto Men it was for the perfection of the Saints for the Edifying of the Body of Christ till they were grown up to a perfect Man to the Measure of the Stature of the fulness of Christ in whom there was no sin found But to proceed In the same Page 20. this false accuser undertakes to charge upon us the sin against the Holy Ghost from the 6th of the Hebrews where he charges us with falling away or wilfully going back again from Faith and Repentance and further he saith that we whom he calls Quakers have Trodden under Foot the Son of God and have counted the Blood of the Covenant wherewith we were Sanctified that is saith he Externally or as to the opinion once of Men an unholy thing Answer Then it appears by thy words that we were never truly or inwardly Sanctified but Men had only such an opinion of us If this be all then it appears by thy Judgment that we cannot be accounted among the Number of those spoken of in Heb. 6th for they were made pertakers of the Holy Ghost and had a Tast of the Power of the World to come Now the Apostle saith If such fall away it is impossible to renew them again c. besides it was such as were Sanctified not such as were only so in Mens opinions and were not so indeed But I demand what the ground is of this exceeding great charge thou hast laid against us for as I have said before in Effect if not in plain Words that we whom thou in scorn calls Quakers do believe in no other Jesus then that very Jesus who was Born of the Virgin who suffered without the Gates of Jerusalem whom God raised from the Dead by his Power and shewed him openly to many who became witnesses of his Resurrection of which Jesus we have received a Measure even of that fulness which in him dwelt i. e. of his Spirit by which we are Sanctified and cleansed even from the defilement of sin in measure and do feel as we are giving up to Obey the Spirit I say we feel a daily growth and Increase of the same And now S. B. what is become of the charge thou hast laid against us for which thou hast doomed us with no less then Eternal Judgment is it for any thing else then that thou hast thus Judged us but because we own the appearance of Christ Jesus within us by which he doth perform many great and mighty works in us and for us even to the overthrowing of the Man of sin and power of Darkness and casting him out of our hearts and also doth set up his Throne in our Consciences and so is become our King who hath purchased us through his Blood to be a peculiar people unto himself Therefore if thou hast any thing farther to accuse us of whereby thou canst prove against us such a dreadful charge as the Treading under our Feet the Blood of the Covenant c. Bring it forth against us or otherwise thou by this wilt be farther manifested to be a false Accuser and so shame will take hold of thee who has gone about this Island in divers places accusing us with Mallicious accusations viz. That we had committed the unpardonable sin even the sin against the Holy Ghost and now hast not been ashamed to bring it to the Publick view in Print and yet had nothing Justly to lay to our charge of any Evil but a heap of lies and false Accusations And thou thy self in the 21st Page of thy Book said I did confess to the same Jesus whom the Jews Slew and God raised again from the Dead where he saith by this confession I did openly declare my self a Christian and no Quaker And yet this pleases him not but immediately saith that by this confusion I had contradicted what I contended for before who never denyed the Man Christ Jesus no more then the Saints of old who confess to his inward manifestation or Spiritual appearance within But still this false Accuser S. B. goes on with his false charges against me takeing up a report from one Bethel who said in publick that I told his Wife that if she believed in any other Christ then that which was within Her she was Damn'd This Accusation I denyed as thus declared which now in his Book he makes a large report of the same and saith that I know they were worthy to be believed before me Answer What their Reputation is I leave at present only this I declare was false as then declared farther it was said that I charged Her with Blasphemy The truth is I do not remember I spoke one Word to Her at that time as to charge Her with Blasphemy But I being discoursing with Her and speaking something about the inward appearance of Christ in Man she was ready I perceived to Judge as this Her teacher doth that I had denyed the Body or Man Jesus and declared of another Christ whereupon she immediately started up clapping Her hands together expressing these words I pray God I may never be saved
from the Law of Sin and Death he saith that the Apostle doth not mean that the Spirit did so free him from Sin and Death as that he was simply delivered from either but so that it should not Dominere over us nor Damn us Suppose it were so that we could grant him this yet still the Scripture stands on the Spirits side and so consequently on our side against this Priest for if he doth save but from the Dominion of sin that is no small degree of Salvation so by Right and good Reason the Spirit was in Paul as a Saviour and made him free which if this could be proved that the Spirit of Christ was ever in any Man as a Saviour thou saidst thou wouldst give up the Cudgels But it is plain that Paul became Dead with Christ Crucified to the World Dead to Sin and Alive to Righteousness and all this through the inward working of the Spirit of Christ Jesus Farther he Ignorantly affirms that the Death Paul was Delivered from was nothing else but the Power of a Natural Death here People may behold the Ignorance of the Man was it a Natural Death that Paul so much complained of Rom. 7.24 Was it not the Body of Death the Old corrupt Nature which was not yet quite overcome yet the Law or Power of this Body of Death was strong in his Members and this was it that he cryed for deliverance from and that was it from which that Law of the Spirit of life set him free In Page 34. S. B. saith F. E. stept again and said I in thee and thou in me I Answer The end for which I made use of the Scripture was to Testifie to the indwelling of Christ in the Saints against his wicked charge that the Quakers Saviour within was the false Christ which perhaps the word might be mistaken in uttering yet it stands firm in the Record of the Scripture for Truths advantage in plain Scripture Words I in them and thou in me and is part of Christ Prayer to the Father who heard him always although S. B. by his Interpretation seeks to hide the true sence thereof and to give a meaning that may answer his own End In pag 36. S. B. saith Mrs. Bullock asked him whether he did make our Christ within us to be the Devil to whom he saith he made answer viz. That he did Solemnly with much Reverence in the presence of God to whom I must shortly be accountable for my Words declare that I do most assuredly know that a Quakers pretended Christ within him Mark who Sam. Bond said that was page 29. The Graces effects and opperations of the Spirit within them whom here he calleth the false Christ the Devil with whom he saith We shall be Damned in Hell if we Repent not Damnable Doctrine indeed no wonder he put such a Blasphemous question to Will. Wilkinson viz. Whether our God were in Hell Sav'd or Damn'd such abominacle vapours assends out of his Bottomless Pit many times But of this foregoing answer his own Pen hath accused him for had not he accused himself I know not any that could but as Christ said Nothing is Hid that shaâ—l not be uncovered And for his Warrant to confirm this Sentence he urgeth Joh. 8.24 I said therefore ye shaâ—l die in your Sins which Scripture with the 21st verse to which it relates I turn back again upon himself as his own Portion for it is the Doctrine that he Preaches to the People that they cannot be free from sin while they live who can otherwise Judge if so but that both he and all that Dies in the Faith of his Lies can escape Damnation except with the Papist thou canst find a Purgatory for into the Holy City nothing must Enter that defileth or worketh abomination Rev. 21.27 Farther this Bond after his usual manner of wresting the Scripture goes on to comment upon another Scripture alledged by one of the Friends Eph. 5.13 But all things that are Reproved are made manifest by the Light c. Which by Light he saith we are to understand a sin Reproving Light which he farther saith is the Light of the Scripture But where dost thou find the Scripture called a sin reproving Light we read indeed in Timothy that it is profitable for Reproof and Instruction to make the Man of God perfect and to Furnish him throughly to every good work but though it be serviceable to reprove the Actual Sinner what is this to the manifestation of sin in the Heart before it breaks forth into Action which only is made manifest by the Light or Spirit of Christ as in Joh. 16.8 and whereas he saith the Scripture is frequently described by Light alledging for proof Psal 119.105 Thy Word is a Light unto my Steps To this I answer that Scripture is not there mentioned If he say it is the Word to this I farther give answer that the Scripture in no place calls it self the Word though S. B. without any Scripture ground calls it the Written Word but it saith God is the Word and Christ is the Word and Ezekiel saith often The Word of the Lord came unto me saying so that it notes the Word and the sayings which sayings are many of them Recorded in the Scriptures of Truth and are properly the true sayings of God who is the Word Joh. 1.1 He farther to confirm the Scripture to be the Light doth Note Joh. 3.16 Every one that doeth Evil hateth the Light But experience tells us that every Evil Man doth not hate the Scripture but delight many of them to Read it and Teach it their Children but their Enmity is against the Light that makes manifest sin and Iniquity in the Heart which is the Righteous Principle of God in the Heart the sure Word of Prophesie to which the Saints of Old did take heed which is prefer'd before the sound of Words without for the Words without may be falsly Translated and the true sense of them may be changed and falsly Interpreted or written in another Tongue or the Scripture being made up of several Creaters it is possible it may be destroyed but the Invisible Word the Light Christ Jesus could no Man destroy whom the Apostle Paul saith speaketh from Heaven Gods beloved Son whom we are to hear not rejecting the Scripture as it is truly Read for it bears witness to the Light Christ Jesus Several more Lies and false accusations I meet with in his Book as page 38. he saith the Teaching Quakers saith Christ is manifest in their real Flesh but the Flesh of Christ was only in shew and appearance And in page 38. he charges William Harriot for saying he denyed their out-side Christ which words I do not remember in the least neither do any Friend or other People that I have spoke withal witness any such word spoken by him And in page 40. he Proceeds farther with his false charges saying The Quakers deny that Christ was true Man consisting of
their Hats a practice never used by the Christians in former Ages that ever we Read off and to bow and scrape and such like this its like would please thee well and for want of this I judge thou art so filled with Envy against the Innocent who cannot bow to thy proud Spirit nor cannot respect persons knowing that it is contrary to the Faith of the Lord Jesus and contrary to the Doctrine of the Apostle James who saith He that respects persons commits sin and is Judged of the Law as a Transgressor Jam. 2.1.9 And because we cannot thus stoop to the proud Spirit and bow to the Exalted will who lovest to have the preminence therefore it is that thou are so filled with madness against us calling us a proud People a People of a surely Dumb Scurvy Sneaking Deportment and Carriage making us to appear to thy hearers or at least to as to many of them as will believe thee that we were the worst of Men but this is no new thing to be reviled for the Christians in the Primitive times were accounted by the World as the off-scowring of all things so we are contented to bear thy Reproaches Railing and Reviling Speeches knowing we are not above our Lord whom thou hast Reproached with as Reproachful Terms as thou canst find to cast upon us his Servants So I leave thee it this particular to the Lord to Judge thee who will reward every one according to their Works And Proceed to the Scripture mentioned by S. B. in page 46. where he saith I brought in the behalf of my Clyant the false Christ thus Doubling and redoubling his Blasphemies to the filling up the measure of his iniquity the Scripture is Joh 1.7 The Blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all unrighteâ—â—sness and because these Words seem to him too like a Quaker therefore after his usual manner because he cannot alter the words he will make his interpretation thereof to serve his turn and so turns all only outward Christ outward and Blood outward and Cleansing outward viz. from the Pain or punishment of Sin as is clear page 47. so perswading poor Innocent People that the Word of Life which made the World and preserves all things by the Word of his Power is such a thing or Person that might be seen with a visible Eye and whose voice might be heard with the outward Ear contrary to the Words of Christ to the Jews who did see the Body and heard the outward voice yet the same Jesus doth Testifie they neither had heard the voice of God nor seen his shape and farther he saith that God was manifest to three of the outward sences and so Lodowick Mugleton's God is S. Bs. God who said his God had Arms and Shoulders as he had and this appears to be S. B's Faith that the God head was manifest Flesh real Mankind Flesh as in page 41. so that he would have the Efficacy of the Blood extend no farther at the utmost then to take off the Punishment of Sin which is contrary to the Apostle in Heb. 9.14 Where he saith The Blood of Christ purgeth the Conscience from Dead works to serve the living God And whereas S. B. would make his interpretation seem good by the following Words if we say we have no sin we are Lyers by this he would make People believe that notwithstanding all the cleansing there spoken of yet sin remains and they are Lyers that deny it to which I give answer I do not so understand the Words but rather if any shall deny that they have any sin and so consequently that they have no need of cleansing they are Lyers and I have just reason so to Judge after the Apostle had farther Enlarged his Testimony concerning Cleansing in the last verse he speaketh thus if we say we have not sinned speaking of the time past and not of any present being of sin For indeed if there were no sin there were no need of a Saviour no need of a Sacrifice but this we do believe by Nature all are Sinners defiled with sin and children of wrath having the Heart and Soul defiled with Works of unrighteousness but now being washed and Cleansed from all unrighteousness what doeth or can remain when all is taken away then the Soul must needs confess to the Truth that he hath sinned and this must needs be the meaning otherwise the Apostle would be found contradicting his own Doctrine Chap. 3.9 He that is Born of God doth not commit sin and saith farther He cannot sin because born of God In page 48. S. B. saith he asked me a question viz. whether the Saints was cleansed from all sin by the water of regeneration or by the Blood of Justification To the which he saith I answered by the Water which he saith caused many People to Laugh Answer Of this Question I remember not one Word nor of the answer thereto annexed only this I very well remember that when I spoke of the opperation of the Blood of Cleansing he looking to the People said it was never known that ever the Blood of Christ ever cleansed any Man from Sin but he said it was the Water and said we deny the Water But having here an opportunity I do bear forth my Testimony according to the Scripture 1 Joh 5.8 There are three that bear Record on Earth the Spirit the Water and the Blood and these three agree in one so that this I believe that the Spirit Water and Blood do agree in one in their operation in Washing and cleansing the Soul from sin and there is three that bear Record in Heaven the Father the Word and the Holy Ghost The next Scripture Alledged he saith was Heb. 10.15 But a Body hast thou prepared me to which Scripture several of us strictly urged an answer viz. who that me was for whom the Body was prepared although in his Book he said he answered that it was the God head of the Son yet I remember very well how he was at that time greviously confounded about it and no other answer could we receive from him at that time so far as I remember but this viz. by me was meant the Body though urged over and over though now after better consideration he hath brought forth a smoother answer in his Book And whereas in page 49. he saith that the Leading Quakers hath brought forth in Print that this prepared Body was prepared in Heaven and brought with him into the Virgins Womb which Body he saith that they the Leading Quakers calls a mistical Invisible Spiritual Heavenly Body of Flesh and Blood and that the mistical Invisible Body is the true and only Saviour whose Birth Death Resurrection and Glorification is only Mistical and Invisible Reply I am perswaded if this Priest had known any Quaker that had so written as concerning that prepared Body of the Son of God he had not so little Enmity in him but he would have brought forth his
B's Book Entituled The Quakers in Burmondas Tryed c. In vvhich Book I have noted some of the many Lies Slanders Blasphemies c. and have openly detected them that Truth may be cleared from the many Slanders cast upon it and the Professors thereof that such as are not vvilfully blind may see but the rest shall be hardened Fran. Eastlack A Postscript HAving gone through that part of Sampson Bonds Book which concerned the Dispute upon the first day of the third Month 1678. and answered the matter chiefly as I found his words laid down by himself I shall now shew how that many things were spoken by him in his house of Worship in the Audience of all the People in Devon-shire Tribe so called on the dry above mentioned which words I writ while they were fresh in memory and divers Friends signified Truth of the same The first thing that I noted which he spoke in plain Words was this That Jesus of Nazareth as man barely considered is the only material Saviour grounded upon the Words of Simeon Luk. 2. and the Testimony of the Apostle Acts 2. c. Secondly That the Spirit of Christ was never in any man as a Saviour Thirdly That Sin doth live in all Men while they are in the Body Fourthly The Priest after an ugodly manner demanded in what part of our Guts Christ was For saiad he If he be in you he must be in your Legs Brains or Guts and if he were in your Brains he would teach you more wit Fifthly That Christ was not the Son of God but as he is Man grounded upon Christ his Words to the Blind Man when he demanded of Christ who the Son of God was Jesus answered I that speak unto thee am he which this Priest said was only the Man Sixthly That in the Resurrection vve shall rise again the same Body for substance Flesh Blood and Bones But the Quallities shall be Changed so that he that dyes a Fool shall rise a Wise Man and he that dyes Crooked shall be raised Straight This was an Imagination of his own Brain For there is no Scripture for it And Lastly He Demanded after an ungodly manner of Will. Wilkinson if God vvere in Hell vvhether he vvas their Saved or Damned These Wicked Erroneous and Ungodly Expressions were uttered by him that day by which the Wise in Heart may Judge what Spirit this Priest is of who is also a Teacher of others in Burmudus Fran. Eastlack Appendix SAmpson Bond thou saist in Page 14. That if any Man seek to be Justified by the righteousness of the Law as most of the Quakers do c. This horrid Lye and Forgery S. B. hath not proved as in Page 14. for we being Justified freely by his Grace through Redemption that is in Christ Jesus who dyed for our Sins and is risen for our Justification Rom. 3. and we are Justified by Faith in his Blood And as by the offence of one judgement came upon all men to condemnation even so by the righteousness of one to wit Christ the free gift came upon all men to the justification of life Rom. 5.18 and a great rabble of this he hath pack'd together in three or four Pages as though We should deny Jesus Christ of Nazareth his Death and Resurrection because we are Witnesses to the Apostles Doctrine who saith That Christ is in you except ye be reprobates 2 Cor. 13. And again the Apostle saith That Christ may dwell in your hearts by Faith and as you have received Christ Jesus the Lord so walk in him Col. 2.6 And again the Apostle saith Christ in you the hope of glory whom we preach c. Col. 1.27 Now this is the true Christ Jesus which we own which the Apostle Preach't IN people as well as WITHOUT and Christ Jesus who came according to the Promise and Prophets of God and how he died for our sins according to the Scripture and that he was buried and rose again the third day according to the Scripture and is ascended at the right hand of God and manifest and dwells in the hearts of his people and he that hath the Son of God hath Life and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life 1 John 5.12 And thus we and the Apostles do own Christ within and we do abhor that lying poysonous Tongue of S. B. who saith We deny Jesus of Nazareth who was crucified dead and buried and rose again and sitteth at the right hand of God and yet dwells in his people by Faith and if Priest Bond do not know Christ in him then he is a reprobate and then let him consider who dwells in him if it be not the Devil and Satan whom he hath so often in his mouth And was not Saul persecuting Jesus of Nazareth in his Members when he said Saul Saul why persecutest thou me as in Acts 9.4 and Saul said who art thou Lord and he said I am Jesus of Nazareth whom thou persecutest Acts 9.5 and Acts 22.8 Priest Bond could Saul get into Heaven to persecute Jesus of Nazareth but in his Members as thou dost now in us and callest him a false Christ and a Devil as he is in us And Priest Bond all those Scriptures that thou hast brought or perverted and misapplied in thy 1 2 3 4 Pages which we say he hath brought to prove his false Charge against us That Jesus Christ of Nazareth a Man approved of God c. who is the true Christ and Saviour who died for our Sins and is risen again for our Justification who is at the right hand of God and is the one Mediator betwixt God and Man even the Man Christ Jesus we say this true Lord Jesus Christ who is revealed in us as he was in the Apostles and Saints he hath not proved to be a false Christ a Deceiver the Devil and an Antichrist as he wickedly and blaphemously saith who hath sold himself to work wickedness and made lies his refuge to corrupt and defile peoples minds withal and all these Scriptures Acts 2. and 4 and 10. Chap. Luke 2. John 4. Heb. 10.1.2 Chap. Col. 1. Ephes 2. 1 Pet. 2. Heb. 9. Luke 24. Mark 6. Acts 1.3.7 chap. and many other Scriptures may be brought to witness against his false slanderous Charge and his second Charge and all the rest is as false and stuft full with a rabble of Lies as the first So Priest Bond hath brought all these Scriptures to prove Jesus Christ the true Saviour which no Quaker doth deny But how doth S.B. own the true Lord Jesus Christ without if he doth not own the true Lord Jesus Christ revealed within who is the Saviour As the Apostles and the true Christians in scorn called Quakers do For doth not Antichrist and Deceivers confess Christ without as S. Bond doth and call the true Christ within Antichrist a Deceiver and a Devil within his people and so persecutes Christ in his Members like Saul So Priest
Bond hath proved himself to be in the Spirit of the Scribes and Pharisees who profest Christ to come and when he was come they said he had a Devil and by the Prince of Devils cast out Devils And now the true Christ is come that dyed and rose again and ascended at the right hand of God and is revealed in his people as he was in the Apostles and now this true Lord Jesus Christ who dwells in his people who are no Reprobates Priest Bond in his false wicked blasphemous Charge to prove this true Lord Jesus Christ in his people a false Christ an Antichrist a Deceiver a Devil in this he hath proved himself a Deceiver and a Reprobate and no true Christian but hath manifested his folly and madness to all that read his Book Sampson Bond who stiles himself late Preacher of the Gospel in Burmoudas who saith he had a Dispute with the Quakers in Burmoudas and they did say in Joh. 1.9 That that was the true light which enlightens ever man that comes into the world and this Scripture F. E. he more especially insisted on S. B. saith to prove Christ to be the true Light and that Light to be the only Saviour which is in every Man that comes into the World whence saith S. B. F. E. Argued That the Quakers pretended Saviour within is the true and not the false Christ And S. B. answers and saith It is true that by the Light in that place of Scripture the true Christ and only Saviour is meant Here S. B. makes a publick confession in Print and saith It is true that by Light in that place of Scripture Joh. 1. the true Christ and only Saviour is meant So then here S. Bond doth confess that it was the true Christ whose Name is called the Word of God by whom all things was made and in him was Life and this Life is the Light of men and this was the true Light which is the Life in Christ the Word that was made Flesh who enlightens every man that comes into the World John 1.9 as in Page 8. And in Page 10. thou saist As for your Idol Light-Christ c. and scoffingly saist Did ever the Jews Crucifie your feigned God-head-Light within Here thou hast overthrown thy confession as before in Page 8. who saist It 's true that by Light in that place of Scripture John 1.29 the true Christ and our only Saviour is meant c. and now thou callest him our Idol Light-Christ in Page 10. But we tell Priest Bond That Christ did not dye as he was God or his Godhead but he was Crucified in the Flesh and as he was Man whom we believe and confess according to the Scripture Jesus of Nazareth was born of the Virgin who dyed for our Sins and is risen for our Justification who is ascended at the right hand of God and is revealed in us his people Priest Bond thou saist in Page 12. 13. These Scriptures Rom. 10. c. the Word is nigh thee even in thy mouth and heart that is the Word of Faith which we Preach And further saist I do not apprehend how these Scriptures answer the Arguments which proveth a Quakers pretended Saviour within him to be the false Christ the Devil nor how they prove their pretended Saviour within to be the true Christ In this Priest Bond thou hast shewed thy malice and blasphemy against our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ who dyed for our sins and is risen for our Justification c. and is revealed in us by his Spirit and rules in our hearts by Faith yea he whose Name is called the Word of God and we are not of them who say Who shall ascend into Heaven to bring Christ down from thence or who shall descend into the deep to bring Christ again from the dead but the Word is nigh us even in our hearts and mouths according to the Apostles Doctrine And so we do believe in our hearts and confess with our mouths the Lord Jesus Christ whom God hath raised from the dead by whom we are justified and saved Here the Reader may see some of Priest Bond 's filthy lying blasphemous Language that he hath Printed against the people of God called Quakers Your Idol Light-Christ Page 10. Quakers are filled with envy and speak against those things which were spoken by Paul O seducing Quakers twice over In Page 12. hath S. B. uttered these horrid Lies Did ever Paul Preach Christ Jesus till God had revealed his Son in him Again S. B. saith A Quakers pretended Saviour within to be the false Christ the Devil Page 13. S. B. We believe thou art nearer the Devil than thou art the true Christ the Saviour who rules in the hearts of his people by Faith who through death destroys Death the Devil the Power of Death and the false Christ also S. B. saith A Quakers c. Saviour within is not the true but false Christ Page 14. These are Lies without proof and this Lying Spirit that rules in S. B. may as well falsly accuse the Apostles as the Quakers who said to the Church of Corinth Know ye not your own selves how that Jesus Christ is in you except you be reprobates And again the Apostle saith Christ in you the hope of glory whom we Preach c. 2 Cor. 13. 1. Col. 27.28 and yet S.B. saith If thou confessest with thy mouth the Lord Jesus Christ and shall believe in thy heart that God raised him from the dead thou shalt be saved But S. B. did Paul confess Christ till he was revealed in him And can Reprobates confess Christ to their Salvation in whom Christ is not S. B. Thou saist in Page 15. Where do you Quakers search for your Gospel Word of Faith surely not in the Scriptures without but at your Oracle that Idol-Light c. O! thou Idol-Light within c. But Priest Bond Is not the Wâ—rd of Faith in the heart Gospel Dost not thou say it is true in that place of Scripture John 1 By that Light which enlightens every man that comes into the World the true Christ and our only Saviour is meant and in Page 15. thou calls the Light of Christ within an Idol-Light and saist O thou Idol-Light within What mad confusion art thou in And then thou saist That Idol-Light tender-part within which you falsly call the everlasting Gospel and Eternal Word as in Page 15. and yet thou confessest in Page 8. that every man that comes into the world is enlightned by Christ the Son of God as he is the Eternal Word And is not the Gospel the Power of God And is not that Eternal or Everlasting Rom. 1. Rev. 14. Is not the Light called the Light of the glorious Gospel of Christ who is the Image of God c And God who commanded Light to shine out of Darkness hath shined in our hearts to give the Light of the knowledge of the Glory of God in the Face of Jesus
than he or any of the persecuting Priests in New-England who make a Trade of them and keep people always under Teaching that they may be always paying of them And Priest Bond saith The spirits are to be tryed by the Scriptures and not the Scriptures by the Spirit page 92. And in page 93. He contradicts himself and confounds all again The Holy and Blessed Spirit of God is above all Tryal Priest Bond saith We deny the written Scripture to be a witness-bearer to your Light within See how Ignorant he is of the Scripture 2 Cor. 4. God who commanded the Light to shine out of darkness hath shined in our hearts to give us the Light of the knowledge of the Glory of God in the face of Christ Jesus Mark the Light that shines in the heart that is the Light within that the Scriptures bear witness too But I perceive the God of this World hath blinded Priest Bond 's eye And how can any man come to the knowledge of God and Christ without the Light of Christ within shining in their hearts And Priest Bond falls on rayling Idol light within page 94. Seducing Quakers Idol light of your own addle brains Soul-deceivers ye would lay a foundation of your own humane inventions And yet Priest Bond calls Christs Body humane which is his own Invention and not Scripture And unbloody Light within Idolized light hath no more real blood in it than there is in the Transubstantiated blood of your Popish Brethren Here the Reader may see what a rage and madness Priest Bond is in against the Light of Christ And as for Popish Brethren Priest Bond 's language bewrays him he is nearer to them than the Quakers And S. B. confesses in page 95. That the Word of God was manifest through Adam and to Cain and to Noah Our Light within is the Light of Christ the Word by which all things were made and created and in him was Life and that Life was the Light of men And this the Scriptures witness But Priest Bond saith The whimsey called Light within is the new devised ground of Faith Christ who doth inlighten every man that cometh into the World saith Believe in the Light that you may become Children of the Light And Christ is the author and finisher of our Faith and the Light of Christ that he bids us believe in is no Whimsey which Priest Bond blasphemes against And in Page 96. Priest Bond makes a great pudder about the Soul of Man and he saith That the Quakers say the Soul of Man is God in part which are not the Quakers words And then he saith the Soul cannot be God No Quakers ever said so S. B. saith The Soul of Man was made after Gods Image It is a true Image it is a very near and likely Image which appears not only in the spiritual and immortal nature of it c. All pure and righteous conformed to Gods will the Soul is a Spirit c. page 98. And when Priest Bond hath rambled over a great deal of Pages about the Soul this he is made to confess and the Quakers say God breathed into Man the Breath of Life and he became a living soul And so is not the Soul part of his Breath And Priest Bond confesses the Soul is a Spirit and then is it not part of Gods Spirit from him And the Light in Man which is the Life of Christ the Word by whom all things are made Priest Bond saith must be the Principle of true Religion in the Devils and damned Oh hellish Divinity and Doctrine for even the Devils and damned live and move c. page 96. These are Priest Bond 's false conclusions The Light which is the Life in Christ the Word they that hate the Light their deeds are evil and the Light is their condemnation for it condemns the Devil who abode not in the Truth in whom there is no Truth S. Bond saith That the Quaker doth conclude that the invisible and Infinite Godhead is divided into parts Then he cries thus senseless are they of the gross absurdities But we charge S. B. to quote the Book or the Man that ever said the Godhead is devided into parts Then S. B. falls a railing in page 99. The Idol light within And in page 90. he makes many Comparisons with his railing words betwixt the Quakers and the Papists Quakers light within Quakers light within infallible Light within infallible Spirit within erroneous high blasphemy Thus Priest Bond is in a rage and a fury against the Light of Christ and his Infallible Spirit within But I ask Priest Bond and all his fellow Priests whether the Light of Christ and his Spirit within and his Holy Ghost be infallible yea or nay And whether he can call Jesus Lord without the Holy-Ghost and whether he that hath not the Spirit of Christ is Christs yea or nay And what Brightman said of the Pope Priest Bond may take it home to himself And in page 98. The Quakers Light within his Pope without These are scornful expressions and his Lies In page 99 and an 100. Priest Bond saith the Quakers denying of the Trinity or Three persons in one Deity Three persons in one Godhead Gen. 1. Let us make man c. But hath not Priest Bond made Four here Three persons in one Deity and one Godhead S. Bond saith No Man hath seen â—od at any time Then how can he tell he is a Person then and Christ saith He is a Spirit He saith The Father the Son and the Holy Ghost are declared three Witnesses c. And why cannot Priest Bond own them so but give other names to them Bu◠〈◊〉 all these Pages Priest Bond hath not proved his word Trinity nor Three Persâ—ns The Scripture mentions Christs Person but it doth not say a Trinity in Three Persons Is not Priest Bond ashamed to say That Scripture is his Rules and cannot prove his word Trinity or Three Persons by Scripture or in the Scripture But the Quakers according to the Scripture do believe that there is Three that bear Record in Heaven the Father the Word and the Holy-Ghost and these three are one mark are one which we own And there are three that bear witness in the earth the Spirit the Water and the Blood and these three agree in one which we own in 1 John 5.8 And Priest Bond goes on in his course of railing Atheistical and Idol light within which the Romish Nebuchadnezzar set up in teaching Quakers the Devil hath inspired S. B. Thus to blaspheme against the Light of Christ in his people and yet he makes people believe that he would dye for the Name of Jesus and dye like the glorious Martirs of Jesus whereas he is persecuting the true Lord Jesus of Nazareth in his people like Saul and blaspheming against the Light of Christ within his people which they believe in which shines in their hearts to give them the light of the knowledge of the
she had not had something more than her outward eyes and ears she would not have left her Water Pots And Priest Bond goes often over in his Book telling the Quakers of the spiritual heavenly man and of eternal flesh and blood and their everlasting Gospel and this thou calls the Quakers Idol light within page 57. And in page 56. Invisible flesh and blood And again spiritual inside Christ Here the Reader may see how Priest Bond utters forth his own folly for he confesses Christ to be the heavenly spiritual man himself and immortal flesh and bone page 75. And the Apostle saith Christ is in you except you be Reprobates But it seems Priest Bond 's Gospel is not everlasting The Apostle saith it was everlasting and so do the Quakers And Priest Bond one while he saith the Flesh is Humane and another while it is spiritual but whether or no doth Priest Bond eat and drink Christs Humane Flesh and Blood as he calls it And Priest Bond saith to teach a denyal of Jesus Christ of Nazareth a man approved of God to be the true Christ and our only Saviour This the Quakers never did nor never was in their thoughts to deny the Lord knows and therefore Priest Bond cannot charge it upon the Quakers as in page 54. Priest Bond thou saist page 53. that Christ is the true Jacobs Ladder John 1.51 But let the Reader read John 1.51 there is no such saying in that Verse And thou saist the bottom of which to wit the Ladder there is his humanity or vail of flesh and blood and the top reaches to Heaven and there is his Divinity But where must we find these words of Priest Bonds in Scripture which he saith is his Rule And where doth the Scripture call the Blood of Christ a Vail which cleanseth from all sin and sprinkles the Conscience from dead works c Priest Bond saith The visible material body of Jesus Christ is not the Saviour c. page 52. This he charges upon some of the Quakers but he hath not quoted the Page where we shall find it So we believe he hath wronged their words But is the visible material Body of Christ the only Saviour without God And Priest Bond saith in page 72. Christs Flesh and Bones after the Resurrection was spiritual and immortal Flesh and Bones page 75. And he saith visible and material in page 52. And Priest Bond saith in page 53. I have often heard some of them to affirm that the Quakers do believe in Christs Body of Flesh and Blood and that he dyed for sin and rose again and that he is mans only Saviour Yes say we the Quakers never believed otherwise and can praise God through Jesus Christ who is our Saviour and way to God for the Quakers always affirm that Christ as he was Man dyed and tasted death for every Man once for all and rose again and sat down at the right hand of God And yet Priest Bond confesses That very offering of Jesus Christ could not save us but by the will and ordination of the Father Here he is made to confess the Quakers Principles according to the Scripture Priest Bond saith this Blood of Christ cleanseth all right believers from all sin and yet he saith None can be made free from sin in this Life and there is in all true Believers a cursed root of bitterness not cast out Death only makes conquest over Sin page 87. And page 47. The Blood of Christ cleanseth all right Believers from all sin What contradiction is this And again he saith And Christ c. washed us from our sin in his own Blood And Priest Bond saith again The cleansing or washing cannot be within but without us But this Priest Bond hath not proved in so many Scripture words and though Christ was a Sacrifice and his Flesh and Blood suffered without upon the Cross yet Christ tells Priest Bond If he do not eat his Flesh and drink his Blood he hath no life in him and if Christ be not in him he is a reprobate And doth Christ justify Reprobates And is not the Sin within a Man And must not the Blood sprinkle the Conscience from dead works c And Priest Bond saith to be cleansed from all sin by the Blood of Jesus Christ So here Priest Bond he hath left out his Son And in page 47. and 46. he is finding falt with F. E. for leaving out his Son But Priest Bond saith is to be understood for a cleansing from all the guilt c. But hath Priest Bond no guilt when he commits sin But where doth the Scripture say that Christ cleanseth from the guilt of sin only and that we must have sin while we be in the world and in all true Believers there is a cursed root of bitterness not cast out Death only makes a conquest over Sin And Priest Bond what doth this cursed root of bitterness bring no guilt of Sin But we say Christ who hath taken away the Curse and redeemed us from under the Curse of the Law cleanseth from all sin Priest Bond saith page 46. The Pharisees took Divine honour to themselves and thereby received honour one of another Christ said ye receive honour one of another and seek not the honour that comes from God only John 5. But thou wrongs the Scriptures for Christ doth not say the Pharisees received Divine honour to themselves thou adds that to the Scriptures But what is the honour thou would have from the Quakers thou would have them to say you to thee and put off their Hats to thee c. would thou And if so prove such a practice by Scripture which thou calls thy Rule And S. Bond saith He that made Heaven and Earth Angels Principalities and Powers that hath a name above every name that is named King of Kings and Lord of Lords the Prince and only Saviour that gives repentance and remission of sins is in each of your vile bodies to wit you Quakers Then Priest Bond falls a railing and saith Is it not to be wondred at that they are so possest with the infernal sulfer of pride against Jesus of Nazareth These base words Priest Bond may apply to himself But we are not ashamed to confess Christ Jesus who is our only Saviour who is King of Kings and Lord of Lords who rules in our hearts by Faith who is ascended above all Principalities and Powers by whom all things were made whom the Angels worships I say this Christ Jesus of Nazareth rules in our hearts and is revealed in us and the Son of God is come and we are in him as John witnessed and therefore all Priest Bonds scoffing lying words are returned back again upon himself and so we know that our Bodies are Members of Christ and Temples of the Holy-Ghost 1 Cor. 6. And the Apostle said Ye are the Temples of the living God who saith I will dwell in them and walk in them and I will be
their God and they shall be my people And we have the comfort of the Scripture 2 Cor. 6. And if this Christ which we own be not in Priest Bond then he is a Reprobate Priest Bond saith In all Places and Countries the generality of Quakers do purposely use these words THEE and THOU and deny all reverential respect to all sorts of men these things the unmannerly Quakers will do but the Scriptures do command all men to pray for Rulers and to submit unto them and to give the honour that 's due unto them And therefore saith Priest Bond over and over The Light of the Scriptures doth reprove them Page 41. 42 43 44 45. He makes a great pudder about THOU and THEE but to no purpose Doth THOU and THEE dishonour Magistrates and to say YOU to them is that the true honour and reverence that belongs to them If so let Priest Bond prove it by Scripture which thou saist is thy Rule And thou saist The Quakers seeming Sanctity consists in thee and thou That is false for Christ is our Sanctification and thee and thou is according to the Scripture c. And three times over in the fortieth Page Priest Bond saith That we deny Jesus Christ of Nazereth born of the Virgin Mary which are all horrid lies in Page 40. and 41. For we own Christ Jesus more than he Priest Bond saith that John Crook said it was the Light within that was Crucified without the Gates of Jerusalem These are more Lies for Christ suffered in the Flesh without the Gates of Jerusalem who enlightens every Man that comes into the World and was quickned by the Spirit Bond runs into his wicked words and tells of an Inside Christ but he hath not proved such a word in Scripture Page 39. And Priest Bond saith The inspired Scriptures of God are against the feigned Light of Christ within them But Priest Bond hath brought no Scripture against the Light of Chirst shining in our Hearts which gives us the knowledge of the Glory of God in the Face of Christ our Saviour And so it was the Apostles Doctrine and reaching to bring People to the Light of Chirst which shined in their Hearts which Light of Christ thou callest an Idol and a feigned Light Christ within Page 38. which thou hast not proved by Scripture which thou callest thy Rule and by it thou art reproved And Christ is manifest in us by his Spirit Priest Bond But all things reproved are made manifest by the Light of the Scripture Scripture Light Then how chanced it the Jews were not reporved by Scripture Light And what reproved before Scripture was written or them that have not nor had not the Scripture Had people no Light to reprove before the Scripture was written And Priest Bond saith Every one that doth evil hates the Light c. By the Light Christ Understand the Doctrinal Light contained in the written Scripture of the New-Testament But Priest Bond prove that the New-Testament was written when Christ Preacht that Doctrine in John 3. And every one that doth evil hates the Light and will not come to it Hath every one the Scriptures that doth evil in the World Prove that Priest Bond who saist that Scripture is the Light for do not the Scriptures declare that Christ enlightens every one that comes into the World Priest Bond saith That the True Christ hath stopped F. E's Mouth and yet F. E. and he disputes over and over in his Book afterwards And then Priest Bond goes to his Lies and Blasphemous Language False Christ the Devil Christ within is the false Christ the Devil Page 36. And yet Priest Bond is made to confess in Page 21. 23. that F. E. the Quaker did confess the word took Flesh and in that Flesh dyed for all Men and further F. E. did believe that Jesus Christ of Nazareth a Man approved of God amongst the People whom the Jews hanged and slew and God raised from the dead and also received up into Heaven was the true Christ and only Saviour And yet Priest Bond saith in the same 21. Page That the Scriptures of Truth doth plainly charge the generality of Quakers with the guilt of the Sin against the Holy-Ghost because they have sinned willfully after a Profession openly made of Faith in the Lord Christ born of the Virgin Mary c. See the Priests contradictions here in F. E's confession as Priest Bond prints them But these are all horrid Lies for we are in the same Faith which Christ Jesus is the Author and Finisher of and the Scripture charges us with no such thing which he falsly perverts and misapplies they are better applied to himself in sinning against the Holy-Ghost who calls Christ within a Devil and an Idol-Light which will be his own Condemnation Then he is making a pudder about Christs humane nature and yet cannot give a Scripture to prove it as in Page 55. And yet he saith Christs Body of flesh and bones after the Resurrection was spiritual Page 72. And in Page 69. He saith Stephen saw Christs Humane Body above Are not these contradictions And the Apostle saith All things were made by Jesus Christ and all things were made by the Word and Christs Name is called the Word of God Priest Bond saith to F. E. It is strange that thou wilt produce a Christ for Evidence in whom thou dost not believe Page 34. And in Page 40. They deny that Jesus Christ was come into the Flesh And in Page 21. 23. They confess Christs coming into the Flesh Thou saist and here thou contradicts thy self and saith and unsaith and belies the Quakers Priest Bond thou brings Christs Words I in them and thou in me that they may be perfect in me to wit Christ i. e. that is in oneness of Affections but affections he hath added and what Affections them are he hath not declared Page 34. Yet thou saist The Saints must have sin in them as long as they live and shall not be made free from Sin in this Life and there is a Cursed Root of Bitterness in all true Believers and not Cast out Death only makes Conquest over Sin Page 87. So it is not Christ that makes an end of Sin and his Blood that cleanseth from Sin and make their Garments white and gives Victory and Conquest but it is death according to Priest Bonds Doctrine that Conquers Sin And thou saist If the Man Christ Jesus had not first given himself a Ransome for our Sins c. Page 32. And then thou saist You must not be free from Sin in this Life What contradictions are here And how art thou reconciled to God and pleads thou shalt not be made free from Sin in this Life which is of the Devil And Christ enlightens every Man that comes into the World who is the Redeemer which Light thou callest an Idol Light within The Quakers say thou that hates the Light of Christ and calls it an Idol thou hates
say That the Word took Flesh of the Virgin and that he suffered without the Gates of Jerusalen c. And therefore Priest Bond is to prove who ever said That the Body of Christ attributes no more Soul saving Merit than to the Body of a Turk or a Jew And again Priest Bond saith I do acknowledge with him to wit the Quaker that the effects of Christs death and sufferings are to be inwardly Witnessed within us Page 8. And yet Chirst within is a Devil his Light an Idol within How agrees the Blasphemy with the Confession And who is it that works Doth not Christ work inwardly in his People by his Faith Light and Spirit And Priest Bond hath made a great stir in three or four Pages about the False Christ and he may apply all these Pages to himself for they do not at all concern the Quakers And all his Lies and Slanders and filthy calumnies and his ungracious filthy Language in his Book doth manifest him to be no Minister of the Gospel but a Minister of soul Language and Lies neither hath he proved the Quakers principles to be erroneous but hath manifested his own erroneous Principles 75 times over Priest Bond saith The Quakers in Burmoudos Tryed found guilty Sentenced and Executed But Priest Bond here is both False-witness False Accusor and Flase Judge and Party and yet accuses Francis Eastlack and saith He that was the Party made himself the determinating Judge Page 6. But the Quakers are clear of all his Slanders and he is found Guilty of all the false Charges that he would falsly Charge upon the Quakers in Burmoudas and others that he hath mentioned and wronged in his wicked Lying Book and therefore he may take them home for they are fittest for him and his Condemnation with the Light of Christ Priest Bond saith As I was about to read some of G. F 's Doctrine they grew impatient and by no means would have it read thereupon I did forbear But I have here inserted it to wit G. Fox in his Boook entituled the Mystery Page 49. 50. Hath these words Ye scorn me the Light in you they have disobeyed it and called it a natural Light and ye have said that I the Light am not able to save these that believe in me Furthermore Page 54. that if ye would believe and wait on me the Light I will purge out all your iniquity and forgive all your Trespasses and I shall change your natures if you hearken to me and obey the Light within These are the words I would have read but being hindred c. Answer These are Priest Bonds horrid Lies for there is not one of these words in all the Pages of G. F's Book which Priest Bond brings S. Bond thou brings G. F's query which any that reads G. F's Book may see which he queries of the Priest F. Higinson Where doth the Scripture speak of Humane the word Humane where is it written tell us that we may search for it S. B. forger of these Lies Now we do not deny that Christ according to the Flesh was of Abraham but not the word Humane and Christs Nature is not Humane which is Earthly for that is the first Adam And this is G. F's answer to Higinson who said That Christs Nature was Humane c. And S. Bond in Page 50. makes a great pudder about it but instead of proving of it which he hath not by Scripture but hath made the matter worse and saith G. F. puts no difference betwixt Humane and Humane which S. Bond hath proved neither of these words by Scripture which he calls his Rule And when he hath been beating the Air he confesses We have not such a Word And yet S. B. saith Having the thing who contradicts himself but he hath not proved it And again S. Bond saith Christ is also said to be from Heaven Page 50. and yet Humane And again Page 69. S. Bond saith Stephen saw Christs humane Body in Heaven Acts 7. Here thou wrongest the Scripture and Stephen for there is not the word Humame in Acts 7. But Stephen being full of the Holy-Ghost looked up stedfastly into Heaven and saw the Glory of God and Jesus standing on the Right Hand of God and said behold I saw the Heavens opened and the Son of Man standing at the Right Hand of G d So he saw Christ being full of the Holy-Ghost And yet Priest Bond saith Chirsts Flesh and Bones was Spiritual after he was Risen Page 72. And the Quakers say The Word of God is nigh thee even in thy Mouth and in thy Heart which is the Word of Faith that we and the Apostle preacht And S. Bond saith c. I do not apprehend in Rom. 10.6 c. How these verses do answer the argument of any one of them which proves a Quakers pretended Saviour within to be a false Christ the Devil Page 13. Or how they preve the pretended Saviour within to be the true Christ and yet Priest Bond saith As the righteousness of Faith is the Redeemer against all doubts of Salvation c. But Priest Bond is not this Righteousness of Faith within the Hearts of Gods people And hi Page 15. S. Bond contradicts himself and saith That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus Christ and shall believe in thy heart that God hath raised him from the dead thou shalt be saved that is to say the word of Faith Preacht is nigh in our Mouths We have received Christ whom God hath revealed in our hearts and hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into our hearts crying Aba Father Gal. 4. this we witness 2. Cor. 13. Now S. Bond finds fault with G. F. for using the word their for our as in Page 51. and saith It is contrary to the Apostle But in page 15. Priest Bond uses the word is nigh in our Mouths instead of saying The word is nigh thee even in thy Mouth And so doth not he himself abuse the Apostles words as in Rom. 10. And I bring but this for him to see his own folly who is Straining at Gnats and swallowing Camels though G. F's word our to us and their to the Apostles is proper enough and the word of Faith is nigh us in our hearts and mouths as well as in thy as the Apostle said but Priest Bond who cavils at Words may see how he mistakes himself and utters forth his own Folly S. Bond brings Thomas Moors saying in Page 51. That Christ was absent from us while we were in this Mortal Body And G. F. answers contrary to the Apostle who said The Life of Christ is manifest in their Mortal Flesh yes and we say again that the Life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our Mortal Flesh and Christ is in us the hope of Glory But Bond makes a great pudder that the Life of Christ Jesus might not is but be made manifest in not their but our mortal Flesh But
SB How foolishly thou strains at Gnats and swallows Camels for G. F. when he saith their he means the Apostles and the Church and thou saist not is but dost not thou contadict the Apostle who said The Son of God was reyealed in him c. So we say theirs to wit the Apostles and the Church in their days and we say ours in our days to wit for we which Live are always delivered unto Death for Jesus sake that the Life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal Bodies And so here it is plain in their mortal Flesh and in our mortal Flesh And doth S. B. say that the Life of Jesus was not manifest in the Apostles mortal Flesh and the Churches and them that hear it too and will not S. B. have the Life of Christ to be made manifest in our mortal Flesh because he makes such a pudder about our c. And because G. F. saith the Life of Christ is manifest in their mortal Bodies And doth not S. B. when he writes of others say theirs But the Apostles writes of themselves and the Church when they said ours But S. B. Thou hast wrong quoted the Scripture 2 Cor. 5.11 And there is no such saying in that Text of Scripture That the Life of Jesus might be made manifest in their mortal Flesh I query of S. Bond whether this was not while they were upon the Earth that thou makâ—s such a pudder about And whether the Apostles were not made partakers of the Glory while they were upon the Earth And is not the Light called the Life John 1. in Christs Word And doth not the Light shine in our Hearts 2 Cor. 4.6 And thou saist Page 51. That Fox endeavours as much as in him lies to choak the Lamb of God But Priest Bond Can Christ the Lamb of God which hath all power in Heaven and Earth given to him be Choaked Dost not thou herein shew thy Foolishness and Silliness And as for his railing against J. Pennington he hath not Quoted the Page where to find what he saith against him neither hath he named John Chanlers Book which he rails at against him And therefore it is like he hath belied them as he hath done G. F. and others And therefore Priest Bond had better Repent if he can find a place of Repentance for all his Lying Blasphemies and studdy to be quiet for he hath given forth his Book to his Shame And S. Bond to bring in with the rest of your cruelty and inhumane Practises I query of thee Wast not thou the man who instigated and stur'd up the Magistrates in Burmudus to take up John Tysoe with a Warrant and carried him from Constable to Constable through great part of the Island to your Town-Prison where he was kept till Banished off your Island a Man whom you had nothing to lay to his charge worthy of Bonds but for coming upon your Island to visit his Friends and people of the Lord who were gathred from your persecuting Spirit and thy Idolatrous Worships to wait upon the Lord in the Spirit of Truth and Righteousness at which Cain like you were angry and thou in thy malice wast stirr'd up to cry out against this Inocent man like thy Brethren of old Help men of Israel the turners of the World upside down are come hither also who as aforesaid came with the Love of God in his heart to visit his Friends and did desire the well-being of you all which is Sixteen years ago and how thou hast behaved thy self since it is known to some but now thou hast made thy self manifest in a large measure in thy ungodly Blasphemous Book which I hope will be a means to open the Eyes of some that yet see thee not And now we understanding that Sam. Bond 's Book was Printed at Boston in New-England by Sam. Green upon the Assignment of S. Sewall and we being sensible how forward the New-England Priests and Professors are to tolerate and Print such lying and slanderous Books against us the people of God in scorn called Quakers to cover their Wickedness in their persecuting of us who Hanged four of the said people called Quakers Cut of the Ears of others Branded with an Hot-Iron Banished many upon pain of Death and Imprisoned Beat and Cruelly Whipt many yea one William Brend till his body was like a Gelly and besides the spoiling of Friends Goods who promoted the Printing and tolerated Roger Williams's silthy slanderous Book of Lies against us We have brought forth and added some of R. Williams's one of their old Priests in N. E. false and Blasphemous Doctrines concerning Christs Body and Blood which he asserted and maintained openly at the dispute at Rhode-Island in N. England to the shame of true Christianity as follows These are four Pages taken out of G. F's and S. B's answer to Roger Williams Entituled A New-England Fire-Brand quenched part 2. Page 508. and seq Printed in the year 1679. And Roger Williams thou and the people know'st that thou brought'st G. F's Fol. 56. at the dispute at Nuport to prove that G. F. said The Blood of Christ was corruptable and that it was like the Blood of another Man and from thence thou didst endeavour to prove That our Christ was not the true Christ and G. F. a Blasphemer But when the place was read in G. F's Book it was found to be the Priests sayings and not G F's to wit That the Blood of Christ was corruptible and so like the Blood of another Man For G. F's answer to the Priest is That the Blood of Christ which cleanseth from all Sin is Incorruptible as the Reader may read Fol. 56. And so R. W. Seing it were the Priests words and not G. F's which he brought to Condemn G. F. and us withal in the Face of the Country and to prove that our Christ was not the true Christ he seeing it was proved to be the Priests words out of G. F's Book and not G. F's he turned about to maintain the Priests words to wit That Christs Blood was Corruptible and asserted as followeth which was taken then in Characters and we do not question but that the sober-minded unprejudic'd people then there may remember the Words Viz. 1st R. W. said I affirm that the Blood of Christ that he shed was material as another Mans and was corruptible 2d R. W. said I say that the Blood from hence he might as well argue that the Flesh of Christ being material was therefore Corruptible which is contrary to the Apostles Doctrine Acts 2.31 Neither did his Flesh see corruptiion Yet in another place in his Book R. W. doth affirm That he is Redeemed by the Blood of God which blood he saith is Corruptible of Christ was Corruptible and Corrupted With many other unsavory words John Stubs answered Take heed Roger what tâ—ou saist we do not deny but Blood came out of his Side but we say That the Blood of Christ