A Return to the Priests ABOUT BEVERLEY For Their ADVISEMENT I Having received a printed Book which is full of untruths and lyes come out of the generation of Lyars and Serpents and full of subtilty and treachery to deceive the simple with their Witchcraft and Sorcery But God hath discovered your design and he will gather his Sheep and Lambs from your mouths and you shall no more devour them The Lord is come and coming to teach his people by his Spirit and hath poured forth his Spirit and doth pour it forth that his Sons and Daughters begin to prophecy and do which makes the Teachers of the world to rage who never heard a word from the Lord but speak a divination of their own brain which the Lord is altogether against who have lived in the form of the letter and not in the Power men of corrupt minds to resist the truth as Iannes and Iambres did 2 Tim. 3.8 When the Children of Israel were to come out of Egypt they resisted as they did in the time of the Apostles who had the form but are reprobate concerning the faith So it is now with the worldly Teachers who are made Ministers by the will of man do resist the Truth now as they did having the Form denying the Power for the Power brings out of darkness out of Egypt out of Pride and Oppression and shakes the Earth and cleaves the Rocks and throws down the Mountains and makes the seed to come forth which is the marvellous Work of the Lord which makes the Heathen to rage and full of fury to see the wondrous Works of the Lord brought forth The Title of the Book is A faithful Discovery of a treacherous Design of mystical Antichrist displaying Christs Banners but attempting to lay waste Scriptures Churches Christ Faith Hope c. and establish Paganism in England containing an Examination of many Doctrines of the People called Quakers in York-shire together with a Censure of their Way and several Items concerning the design of God Satan and Man These things recommended to the consideration of them who are in good earnest for Christ Friends Your printed Papers are considered and weighed with them that love Christ and they are found false and you to be Lyars uttering forth your unfaithful Dâ—scovery for you are the mystical Antichrist which you speak of and your design is treacherous and found false and weighed in the Ballance and found too light And as touching laying waste Scriptures it is your own condition take it to your shame for the Scripture saith Thou shalt not lye there you lay waste Scripture and are blind and cannot see but are false Accusers and accuse men falsly and found Lyars and the Scriptures are fulfilled upon you The Scriptures we own are ours and stand for and own to be fulfilled and fulfilling in us but all you that make a Trade of the Scriptures which were spoken forth freely such are slanderers of Christ and his Church and lay waste Scriptures and both establish Paganism in England and have established it who know not God nor his Church but have called a Steeplehouse a Church and sprinkling Infants their Baptism which they baptize into their Faith into their Church which there is no Scripture for Now all people see if this be not laying waste Scripture and establishing Popery which God never commanded and to the establishing of this mystical Antichrist which hath long stood but now God is coming to throw it down and unestablish it Are not those Antichrists who walk contrary to Christs Commands and term themselves to be Ministers of Christ who walk out of his steps Christ Jesus when he spoke to the multitude and to his Disciples he said By their fruits ye shall know them They are called of men Masters and have the chiefest places in the Assemblies lay heavy burdens upon the people stand praying in the Synagogues devouring widows houses But Christ forbids these things and bids his Disciples not to be so but cryed Wo against them And such are established in the Land now who would dethrone Christ if they could And you are in that same generation which was ever against Christ and as the Scribes and Pharisees who would have dethroned him and never could own him in that nature you dwell in who gave forth these printed Papers And as touching Faith and Hope we do deny that which holds up such things as Christ doth forbid which is no faith nor no hope but of the hypocrites which shall perish and all such hope was ever denyed with the Elect Faithful And the worlds Church do we deny which is a house of stone but faith which is the gift of God we own which purifies the heart which faith is but one and who are of faith are of Abraham and this we witness to be fulfilled and not denyed And Hope that purifies the heart we own but the hope of the hypocrites we deny which saith He must live in sin so long as he is here and doth not purifie that we deny The Church of God we own which is the Pillar and Ground of Truth which Christ hath purchased with his own blood which is without spot or blemish But as to call a Steeplehouse a house of stone a Church is blasphemy and you that do so lay waste Scripture for the Church is in God 1 Thes 1.1 And Christ did not come to redeem a Steeplehouse nor to hold up such things but to redeem his people from such things that be carnal which you Pagans now establish And as touching that we deny Christ it is false it is your own conditions for read Matth. 23. and there you may see your own conditions walking in their steps which Christ forbids Pharisee-like and such are Antichrists and there you shew your selves to be Antichrists in the mystery of iniquity being called of men Masters when Christ forbids to call any man Master or to be called of men Master But that Christ we own who cryed Wo unto them which were called of men Masters and had the chiefest places in the Assemblies and the uppermost rooms at Feasts and greetings and salutations in the Markets which the Lord Jesus Christ cryed Wo against and taught his Disciples not to be so But all such as hold up these things which Christ forbids we deny which he did deny Praised be the Lord God who hath given us the light to see your abominations and led us from your snares which causeth you mischievous men to vent forth your mischief against the Truth and utter forth your folly but as Solomon saith so are fools known who are at Beverley but God Almighty be praised who hath given us a sight to see your deceits and to comprehend you who are deceived and would deceive but your formal ways are layd open and your shame and nakedness doth appear and to us it is very serviceable that you have put your folly in print and do publish it abroad who are
not come yet so far as Balaam who the dumb Ass reproved and the Angel of the Lord is coming to stop your way though for a while you may rage and lye but I say the Lord will rebuke that lying spirit for a lying spirit the Lord doth abhor for it is an abomination to him it would make discord but the Spirit of Truth doth discover it and hath found you out to be of your father the Devil who was a Lyar from the beginning and for shame blush and never make a profession of Christ of Faith or of Hope who openly have shewed your selves to be Lyars and Slanderers of the only people of God who live in hope and faith and in the fear of God but it is that the Scripture may be fulfilled Lyars cursed children evil beasts and slow bellies who serve not the Lord Jesus Christ but their own bellies such are they who cause the Truth to be evil spoken of who are Enemies to the Cross of Christ glory in their shame and mind earthly things as ye may see England at this present time is full of such Teachers and Prophets which walk contrary to all the Commands of Christ and his Apostles which go after the ways of Cain to envy and run greedily after the error of Balaam for gifts and rewards who perished in the gain-saying of Corah And there is your portions and conditions of the English Church held up by you the English Teachers who gave forth this Book who are made by the will of man and those who are come to the Church of God which you call Quakers deny such Moses did fear and quake and the Apostle brought him as an Example to the Hebrews who were come to the general Assembly and the Church of the first born which is written in Heaven and to God the Iudg of all whose voyce shook the Earth whose voyce now shakes the Earth which makes you wonder and rage you earthly minded men who never heard the voyce of God Moses did tremble Habakkuk did tremble Iob did tremble David did tremble and quake and the Son of man was to eat his bread with quaking and Paul did tremble that their faith might stand in the power of God and not in the wisdom of words and Daniel did tremble and his strength and breath was gone and they who were with him did quake These Scriptures being fulfilled in the people of God now such you wonder at now as they in the former ages who spoke forth the Scriptures were wondered at And here you lay waste Scriptures and deny the fulfilling of the Scriptures making a scorn of them and a derision who are come to tremble as they did Friends you sit as Judges to censure of their way whom you call Quakers who are a people taught of God you who are making bonds and snares to limit the Power of the holy One in your own snares you are taken and God will burst them asunder for the Doctrine of Christ you know not which is the Doctrine of the Quakers which you scornfully nickname but that Word they own else they should lay waste Scripture as you do But Moses who did tremble fear and quake did account it great riches to be reproached and so do we with you in the same generation who witness quaking as Moses did and Paul did and so it is you that lay waste Scriptures and so you busie minded fellows are censuring of the doctrine of the Quakers shewing your selves to be those busie bodies who are spoken of in the Scripture who have but a Censure and no infallible Judgment and so those who have an infallible Judgment will cry out against you to see your folly and slander Whereas concerning the Designs of God Satan and Men and the dominion of Satan There you are who gave forth these Papers for Lyars you are of them which are of God As you have uttered it forth shamefully as in saying they lay waste Scripture Christ Church Faith Hope and in your conclusion you have but a Censure of the way and doctrine Now all friends who have a love to Christ may discern and see your censorious ways and give Judgment upon you who have no infalliable Judgment neither have Faith Church Christ nor Hope which the Saints do enjoy but are without God in the world in their imitations and likeness blaspheming God and his Temple and those tender Lambs and harmless ones in York-shire who have been imprisoned and persecuted to death who witness the fulfilling of the Scripture as they did who gave forth the Scripture but the true God you know nothing of nor the men who are of God for you shew your selves forth to be Lyars of them who worship the true and living God And this is to the stile of your Book which is all false and comes out of a false mind and a false heart whose throats are an open sepulchre drinking up iniquity as the Ox drinks up water who are of them who are the Deceivers of the Nation But the witness of the Lord is gone out against you and you are taken and to Judgment you must come for the Judgment of the great Whore is come and you Lyars must into the fire and lake that burns eternally you shall witness what I speak to be the Word of the Lord And here I charge you in the presence of the Lord to be no Ministers of the Gospel who are not able to give an infallbile Judgment but only a Censure which the Apostles had Whereas you say If in any age the Devil hath transformed himself into an Angel of light or his Apostles and Ministers have transformed themselves into the Apostles and Ministers of Christ they have done so in this Apostatizing age in which we live yea they have been more cunning subtil and seemingly spiritual in transforming themselves in this age then ever they were in any foregoing Generation Satan is now acting his part upon the Stage with all deceivableness of unrighteousness and shall continue to act like unto himself and beyond his former actings until the Angel cast him into the bottomless pit and shut him up and set a seal upon him that he may deceive the Nations no more for by how much he shall perceive his Kingdom neerer unto a period by so much more every day he and his factors will shew themselves politickly active for the supporting and exalting his hellish and tottering Kingdom And as God hath doth and will enlighten his Saints and witnesses more towards the end of Antichrists reign and the beginning of the calling of the Jews to Christ so the Dragon that old Serpent hath doth and will more and more fill his Agents and Instruments with a Diabolical spirit of madness and delusions This shall stand for your selves who have but a censure of their ways who are called Quakers and not an infallible Judgment as the Apostles had and it 's true Satans Ministers you are who have transformed your selves to
is enlightening and hath enlightened his with the glorious Gospel which light was before the letter was and the Lord is coming to make your Kingdom dark who have set us Queens and seen no sorrow Now your desolation is coming therefore your folly and madness you are venting forth And as you say Wherefore Solomon did apply his hearts to know Wisdom and the Wickedness of folly and madness so Christians are not to be discommended who do endeavor to know mistical errour of the New Antichristians which are risen up amongst us This wisdom is made manifest to the Church of God whereas Solomon did apply his heart to know Wisdom we do witness Solomons word and the wickedness of your folly and madness to us is discovered so such Christians are not to be discommended who have put on Christ and stand armed against your wills and deceits who do endeavor to know and do know the mistical error of your new Antichristian Religion which is the old Antichrist which is risen up amongst us that they may avoyd them God hath enlightened his Saints so that the true light shines in them that your spirit is known to be the mistical spirit of error being in the way of Balaam you come to be denyed with them whom God hath raised and such you blaspheme who are the Temples of God and so the Scripture is fulfilled The Beast shall blaspheme God and his Temple And you who have written your complaint abroad and put it in print and say Some are risen up amongst you God hath raised up a feed those ways which you cannot destroy with all your bestical power And as you desire That they may be furnished with abilities to declare against them and the pains and labors of such are worthy commendations who by their Tongues and Pens do endeavor to lay open the Ridles and misteries of Satan and his Instruments Here you deceivers have contradicted your selves instead of giving commendations you give railing false Accusations upon them who are furnished with abilities to declare against you and the pains and labors of such who lay open your Ridles and the mystery of Satan which rules you and his Instruments unto discovery and hath discovered you to be both in Babylon and confusion that you may see it in papers and shall see it more and more amongst you Some write some speak some print according as they are furnished with the abilities which God hath given them to testifie against you who have long deceived the Nation and have been the Instruments of Satan standing up for his Kingdom but now the glorious light shines by which you are discovered And as you say Among whom these Brethren are to be justly and deservedly honored who have pithily solidly and Christianly discovered some of the Serpentine errors and delusions and mysteries of the Familists and Quakers In this here you Pharisees have justified your selves and would be honored for your pithiness solidity and Christianity as you call it but your madness and folly and unjust dealing is discovered and your Serpentine errors and delusions and mysteries which you accuse some of the Quakers of take it home and judg your selves for there you shall find it it is your own condition portion and condemnation all who are in the Light witness it with me And as you say These Brethren are to be justly honored Brethren you are but in the generation of the Pharisees which was ever against Christ as you have shewed by your consulting together against his Spirit where it is as the chief Priests Scribes and Pharisees did but all the righteous blood which hath been shed was by that generation wherein you live but wo is upon you who put light for darkness darkness for lâ—ght and evil for good but wo is upon you and upon all such who are covered but not with the Spirit of the Lord and stand not in his Counsel but follow after your own imaginations therefore have you uttered forth your lyes And as you say The blessing of him that dwelt in the Bush be upon the endeavors of these brethren and prosper this small Book which hath much in it for the battering of errour and the maintaining of truth according to Scripture which is the prayers of us who can subscribe our selves friends to all Saints whose names are these I find subscribed to this Advertisement Christopher Feaks Iohn Simpson George Cokain Lawrance Wise Whereas you speak The blessing of him who dwelt in the Bush to be upon the endeavors of these brethren and prosper their small Book Him ye know not who is the living God Moses which saw him was a Quaker and you scornfully deride such who are brought into his condition now and Judg with your dark minds and evil thoughts them to be in error so would ye do with Moses So the curses and plagâ—… and vengeance of God will fall upon these Brethren as you call 〈◊〉 who have uttered forth their lyes and their errors and that will come upon it in stead of prospering it which you say hath much in it for the beating down of Error and maintaining of Truth In it you have set up the spirit of lying and the spirit of Error as in saying we deny Christ and so in maintaining of that which is contrary to Truth which is a lying spirit According to Scriptures I have proved you for as the Scripture saith Lyars are without God And as you say which is the prayers of us who can subscribe our selves friends to all Saints The prayers of you Lyars are the prayers of the wicked which are an abomination to God And whereas you mention Saints They are ashamed of your practises of your lyes errors and blasphemies nor cannot subscribe to you nor none of your friends Friends the Saints may call you as Christ did Iudas and him that had not the wedding garment who must go into utter darkness and thither you are to go who are false accusers and slanderers so the Scripture is fulfilled upon you who have wrested and perverted them And so much for your Advisement FINIS