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

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

evil doers and for the lawlesse for liers and slanderers such as you are and for the praise of them that do wel and we honor such in our hearts and obeys their just commands and are not like him that said he would goe and went not but are subject for conscience sake to the powers that are of ●od and are subject to every ordinance of man for the Lords sake but we cannot flatter nor respect mens persons and deny the faith of Christ but are brought from under the power of unrighteousnesse by the mighty power of God and are subject to all just lawes which stand not nor were made in mans wil but obeys them for consciences sake and if any Law which is not just nor equal be required upon us that wee cannot do wee suffer for conscience sake and resist not at all as many of our enemies will witnesse for us and therefore you false accusers be silent they that are subject to Israels Commonwealth are righteous and walkes in righteousnesse in that which is just good and holy and wee witnesse against all the Canaanites who walk in unrighteousnesse and all who are enemies to the Commonwealth of Israel must be broken to pieces and them that strive and contend against the faith which was once delivered to the Saints and is now witnessed praysed be the Lord all such must be disturbed and broken to peices by the just even all the unjust shal be broken and as for that which thou sayest wee say we ought not to be subject to any civil Government but that which is within us oh thou lyer when wilt thou cease thy lying where is that I charge thee to prove where that is spoken yet this I say unto all Moses received the Law from the mouth of the Lord and it was revealed to him and in him and then he wrote it without and was subject to it and all who makes Laws now and doe not receive them from God they make them in their own wils and such as doe act contrary to the Law of God but that Law which is righteous which is according to that in the conscience which is holy and good and civil we are subject both within and without to it and all you your subjection which is not from a principle within is not in truth not singlenesse of heart but with flattery and your eye service and your bowing downe in hypocrisie and saying you are subject when there is no truth in the heart and so you are not subject for conscience sake And further you say in Farnworth general good to all people let every soule be subject to the higher Powers By powers is meant God the Father of Jesus Christ and by King the Lord of Hosts and that is another Blasphemy Woe unto filthy lyers I challenge you that you have perverted his words and would give meanings upon them as you do upon the Scriptures and your owne dark sottish mindes cannot comprehend and therefore you give your own imaginations and then calles it Blasphemy and let all that read that Booke see if you have not belyed the truth and perverted his words Another thing you set downe for Blasphemy that none are ministers of God and called by him who are sent forth by Authority of man and that he that is not infallible in his judgement is no Minister of Christ Answer You might have said Pauls words were Blasphemy he was made a Minister not by mens wil and all the holy men of God and apostles were not Ministers by the will of man but contrary to the wil of man and all who are made Ministers of man and by man we deny and the Scripture denies them for what they Preached they neither received it of man nor from man but by the revelation of Jesus Christ and all who have and are made Ministers by heare say and what they have formed up in their imaginations from the Scripture with their points and their doctrins which they raise in their carnall mindes all such we declare against and all such who abide not in the Doctrine of Christ and all who were made Ministers of Christ were Spiritual and infallible that which is not infallible is carnall and all who are guided by the Spirit of Christ is infallible and they that are not guided by it are none of his nor the Sons of God nor Ministers of Christ and therefore all that such can judge of is nothing but imaginary and all you who have subscribed this Booke and all such Ministers I deny Yee shamelesse men would you be trying and perscribing and set dowe what is Heresie and Blasphemy and cryes out of that for Heresie and Blasphemy which you should try with all your shame is laid open to all and now your shame I hope will appeare to the Parliament whom you Petition What cry you out against books and printing and blasphemy that cannot distinguish a lamb from a dog would you judg truth by darknesse and you are offended that there are so many Quakers met in the North parts lately two thousand yea blessed bee the Lord there are many thousands that sees you and never will bow to Baal nor worship in the house of Rimmon more and m●ny shal not only come from the North but also from the South yea in London that now sees all your deceit and they shal enter and you shal be shut out And what truth is this that cannot defend it selfe and what religion is that which cannot defend it selfe but you must have all bend to your image that you would set up And now unto you who are petitioned unto I say unto you take heed and beware how you call or suppresse any thing as error or how you meddle in the prescribing God a way to walke in for he cannot he will not be limited and I say unto you it were better a milstone were hanged about your necks then to hinder or stop or make any law to hinder the passage of the truth which is arising and consider the Lord hath thrown out all powers before this because they would needs limit the Holy one of Israel and prescribe him a way and a government how he should be worshipped and many have suffered and what hath all come to all the rules that men hath laid down hath they not beene as the untimely fruit of a woman and as corne upon the house top and for that all hath beene throwne downe and broken and the jealousie of the Lord is broken forth as fire and and woe to them that withstands him in his way and now I say unto you if you now prescribe God a way and if that in the conscience have not liberty but you wil goe about to set bounds to him and his people in the worship of God you shall be broken as a potters vessel for the government is upon his shoulders and he wil not give his glory to any other the Lord hath spoken it And for the rest

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

hear his voice and a strangerthey will not hear I answer They that are of God do owne the writings of all the servants of Christ but many may professe their words as the Pharisees did the Prophets words and as thou dost now and yet not bee of God but children to the divel but that our conceits are fleshly I do deny thee for all conceits of the flesh wee deny and beares witnesse against and it shall stand for thy owne condition and thy voice is the voice of a stranger and they that are of God will not follow it though thou bring the Saints words in thy mouth as the divel did unto Christ yet in the light of Christ thou art seene and comprehended and from the light of Christ answered and by it judged to be without the life of those scriptures which thou speaks of and they are from thee but as an empty sound And whereas thou cites many more Scriptures which are exhortations of the Apostles to the Church and exhorts thy Bretheren with them to vvhich I Ansvver as before The Scriptures I doe ovvne but to thee thou envious man they doe not belong for as in this thy vvriting thou art proved a lier and a scorner and a slanderer and a false accuser and a blasphemer out of thy ovvne mouth be a vvitnesse against thy selfe and let all thy vvhole assembly beare vvitnesse against thee that the Scriptures vvhich vvere spoken to the Saints vvho vvalked in the light and had denyed ungodliness doth not belong unto thee vvho art an hater of the light and lives in the pollutions of the vvorld but the Scriptures vvhich vvill surely be fulfilled upon thee the wicked shal be turned into hel and the lier shal have his portion in the lake and he that works abomination is to be troden in the winepresse of the wrath of God without the City and such like And now somthing in answer to something in the Epistle to the Reader whereas thou and the rest of you there say although the light hath appeared yet there is a generation of men in the world that doe hate the light and endeavour to put it out crying against the scriptures of truth it s a dead letter and against the forme of doctrine therein contained To which I answer It is true the light hath appeared Christ who is the light lightneth every one that comes into the world which light hath appeared in every mans conscience and there is a generation which hates the light and you are of that generation which say every man hath not the light and calls the light of Christ thick darknesse and endeavors to put it out and here you have read your owne condition though you make a large profession of the Scriptures which is not the light but words declared from the light as the Jewes did professe the prophets words but persecuted Christ and spoke against him who was the light and substance of the prophets words and if you know any who cries against the scripture and against the doctrine therin contained with you we cry and declare against such for the scripture we owne in its place to be a true declaration of God of Christ and of the saints conditions but they are not the light but Christ is the light as themselves bear witness nor are they the saints guide but he spirit that gave them forth as they themselves bear testimony neither was the scriptures given forth to give your own imaginations and suppositions upon but they themselves are doctrine and are as they speak he that hath the same spirit which speaks them forth reads them and understands them and none else and whereas thou saist lest that simple plaine meaning men should be kept in Babels darkness or the enlightned fall into the errour of the wicked for that reason your book came to publick view I answer Truly you are deceived who think to gaine into your form the simple plain meaning men by lies and false slanders and false accusation who are simple and plain unto God wil discern your deceits and how falsly you have accused the innocent and wil see you your selves to be in Babels darkness and who walks in the light wherwith they are lightned wil see you to be in the errour of the wicked and out of the truth and it is well for the truths sake that your book came forth that thereby your filthiness and deceitfulness and enviousness might be laid open to the simple And truly I say unto you you have and wil miss of your end in putting forth this book of yours and whereas you say you shall be willing at any time to vindicate every conclusion therein contained against any that shall oppose I answer I challenge you all in this particular to prove those accusations which you have laid to our charge whom you call Quakers in many particulars which before I have demanded what they are is before spoken of and whereas you say you account that light within not witnessed by the scripture without which some so much talke of to be deep darkness I answer if you know any who speake of any light which the Scripture doth not witnesse of we with you freely declares against such and such a light is darkness but the light of Christ which we speak of which hath lightned every one that cometh into the world I hope you are not so impudent but you wil acknowledge that the scriptures speaks of this light and dare not deny but that the scripture witnesses that Christ is the light of the world for as I said we freely give way and desires that all might search the scripture whether these things be not so as we declare And whereas you say and exhort to let the Scripture be the rule of faith and practice I Answ Here you would alwaies keep people in darkeness under your teaching and would make void the new Covenant which is the Law written in the heart and the spirit of the Lord put in the inward parts to be the rule and guide of the Saints for who walkes by the rule without them and teaches men so to do would make void the Covenant of life and peace where the teacher is not removed into a corner which teacher all that have faith and an holy conversation do witnesse which teaches not contrary to what the Scripture speaks but is a teaching fulfilling of the Scripture and an establishing of it though thou and many may professe the teaching of the Scripture and may in your own wills conform unto it in the outward appearance as the Pharisees did and yet be but Hypocrites and deceived as they were and I say againe that faith was before the Scripture was written which faith is declared of in the Scripture which faith comes as is manifested by hearing of the word Preached which word is even in the mouth and in the heart if you have an ear you may hear now I advise you all in the name of the Lord to cease striving and contending against the truth for verily the stone which is cut out of the mountain without hands will dash your image of many mixtures to peices and it falling upon you wil grinde you to powder and your conforming the outward man to an outward thing and teaching men so to doe and limiting and tying the Holy one to a visible thing wil not cover you in the day of the Lord nay verily though concerning the Scripture without you may walk blamelesse yet one thing will be found lacking even the crosse of Jesus Christ by which all sin is crucified in them who walks in it and I say unto you that your covering is too narrow and it will not hide your secret parts for in the eternall light of Christ you are seen and comprehended your beginning your time and your end for though you have the Scriptures and Jewish like walkes up in the outward appearance of them crying the ordinances and Churches are ye yet your praise is of men and not of God for you are enemies to the life of the Scriptures as is made appear by your many lies and slanders against us which you have uttered and I say returen your minds every one within to that in your own consciences which reproves you in secret for your secret iniquities it wil let you see where your hearts are and how far they are mortified to the world and the love of it and this light wherewith every one of you is lightned is the light of Christ and it is the Lords true witnesse and shall witnesse for him eternally against all whose deeds are evil who walk in disobedience of it and all who love it and walk in it it leads unto Christ and into all purity and holinesse and uprightness of heart towards God and man and this light leads unto justification all them who are taught by it and here is your teacher loving it and your condemnation eternally continuing to hate it And thus I have answered your booke and the truth is witnessed and many false lies and false accusations denied and testified against and thus I rest waiting for an answer to clear your self if you be able of those things which I have denied from you which you have charged upon us for God is my witnesse this I do desire that truth may be made manifest and imbraced and deceit and errour discovered and denied

that Christ hath enlightned all men but I shal lay downe your own words and prove you liers out of that booke called the General good to all people and you say the light of God that is in all men that is to wit natural conscience that it is sufficient if wee give heed unto it to discover sinne and and turne our minds towards God and that this light within is the grace of God and that it is Christ in us Answer Let all that reades that booke see if you bee not liers and slanderers and perverters and are in the generation of those false witnesses which bore witnesse against Christ and here I charge you to be liers Where in all the bookdoth he say that the light of a natural conscience is sufficient to guide to God if it be taken heed to or where doth it say it discovers sin there is another lie and where doth hee say that natural conscience is the grace of God there is a third lie and where doth hee say that natural conscience is Christ in us there is a fourth lie bee ashamed that ever you should goe and present so many filthy lies to authority that there is no truth in at all Oh yee darke mindes would you be judging and prescribing what is heresie and blasphemie and cals the light of Christ paganisme and heresie but I am bold in the Name of the Lord to declare unto you and unto all the world that Christ is the true light that hath enlightned every one that comes into the world and that this light is spiritual and not natural and it convinceth of all sinne hee shal convince the world of sinne and whoso obey this light which shines into the conscience it leads up to Christ and out of sinne and it turns the mind towards God and it shines in darknesse but you dark sottish children know it not yea you that hate it have it and it shal condemne you and when the book of conscience shall be opened you shall be judged for all your hard speeches against the truth Another thing you present to be blasphemie and heresie is that the worship that is performed in England with those Ministers that sing Davids Psalms baptize infants weare double cuffes boot hose tops take tithes say men shal never be perfect in this world and that say the letter is the light and the letter is the word and that salvation is in the Scripture and that cals Matthew Mark Luke John the Gospel are seducers and no Ministers of the word but shew forth the Spirit of error Answer All those Ministers in England which abide not in the Doctrine of Christ all those worshippers and worships which is contrary to the Scripture are Heathenish and they worship they know not what and all such worship is an abomination to the true God and I charge you and all those that would be counted Ministers in England to prove from the Scripture where the Saints sung Davids conditions and Psalms in rimes and meter and where is there any Scripture for baptizing of Infants and whether any of the Ministers of Christ lived in pride and lusts of the flesh and where any Ministers of Christ took tithes which belonged to the first Priesthod and the first covenant and so they that uphold the first denie the second and the one everlasting offering which perfects for ever them that are sanctified and where doth the Scripture say that the letter is the word and the light but it witnesses against you and saith God is the word and Christ is the light and Christ is the Gospel yea the everlasting Gospel and Mathew Marke Luke and John declared of him and heare be you a witnesse against your self ye dark minded men and I charge you that you deny the Scripture and all those who upholds those things are in the heathenish nature without God in the world in the earth where the Divil dwels who is an accuser of the Bretheren and doth not the Scripture and they declare it who were Ministers of Christ that there were that ran after the errour of Balaam and their hearts was exercised with covetous practises and were there not such that was raylers and false accusers and blind watchmen and greedy dumb dogs and such as sought for their gaine from their quarter and such as lead into wichcraft and Antichrists deceivers you might as wel have called Christ and Paul and Peter and Jude Blasphemers and Hereticks but you are made manifest just to be them and in the same nature that called Christ a blasphemer and Paul a pestilent fellow and a setter forth of strange Gods and the Ministers of Christ seditious and thou might as wel say Christ despised a Governor when he called Herod a fox and now blessed be the Lord the houre of his Judgments is come and we freely declare against all deceit both in Magistrates Priests and people as they did that wrote forth the Scripture and beare witnesse to his name as they did in our measure and we have suffered and do suffer dayly by slanderous tongues such as you have and imprisonments and cruel mockings and stripes and bonds and can truly say to the praise of his name we beare in our bodies the markes of the Lord Jesus but we must passe through good report and evil report and it is our Crown and rejoycing to suffer for his name and now Gog and Magog and all the powers of the earth bends themselves and are angry even the nations that professe Christ in words and say the Scripture is their rule but walke not according to it and against all such hypocrisie are we witnesses to the fulfilling our testimony and the laying down of our lives that he alone may be honored who sits upon the throne of David and of whose Government there is no end to whom be praise for ever who shall breake all your combinations and plots and you shall be ground to powder who set your selves against him and be dashed to pieces as a Potters vessel And now to that which you call Antimagistratical errors that the magistrates are not to have titles of worshipful or right worshipful and that the Subjects of a Common Wealth which is not Israels Common wealth are to be disturbed and that no civil Government is to be acknowledged but the government of the Law within us Answer Where reads thou or any that any Magistrate was called worshipful or right worshipful or ever any of the Saints of God did so he that is righteousnesse and truth unto whom all honor and worship belongs God blessed for ever we owne and worship he is no respecter of persons And you filty flaterers who are in the curse respect mens persons and so you are rased out for ever from the faith of Christ and from the faith which all the holy men of God lived in that you know it not but you false accusers Magistrates we know and they are for the punishment of