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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86648	The common salvation contended for, and the faith which was once delivered to the saints· Or, An answer to a book called a plain answer to eighteen queries of Iohn Whitehead, put forth by William Kays, who calls himself minister of the Gospel at Stokesly; wherein he hath perverted the faith once delivered to the saints, and pleads for those things which the Scripture declares against, and so he is made manifest, not to be a minister of the everlasting Gospel, but preachesanother [sic] Gospel. The queries laid down, and the substance of his answer, with a reply to his answer. / By one who is a friend to all, who wait for the appearance of Iesus Christ without sin to salvation, known to the world by the name. Francis Howgill.	Howgill, Francis, 1618-1669.	1655 (1655)	Wing H3155; Thomason E824_3; ESTC R18577	18,636	20

was truth and no lie and it guided them into all truth and here thou wouldst divide the Spirit of Christ from the Saints and here thy spirit is made manifest not to be that spirit which was in the Saints and which was in Christ but thy spirit is fallible that saith that infallible spirit disgraces the Ministery such a Minister thou art that a fallible spirit and a spirit of error is thy glory and therefore I say that spirit is not distinct from the Saints which was in Christ but one there is one spirit by which all the Ministers of Christ were guided and they were Ministers of the Spirit which was infallible and true and eternal and bore witness of him who was true and eternal and thou calst this a Popish tenent art raised out and judged by the Scripture not to have the same and so art no Minister nor witness of the infallible eternal spirit but speaks in thy own name And thou art accusing Iohn that he did wander as Iohn did in the Revelation thou saith and so would make Iohn a wandering star like thy self which Iude speaks of who art fallen into the earth out of the firmament and so would bring reproach upon him who witnessed the Spirit and was in the spirit and dwelt in it but thy shame is made manifest and now the eternal spirit is witnessed which is infallible and they will receive thy doctrine no longer for it is not wholsome but contrary to the Scripture II. Query Whether thou know the rules of Christ and whether thou wert immediately called by him to be a Minister or Pastor of the Gospel yea or no Answ. Thou saith so often as thou hast the word rightly divided in opening of the same in any Chapter or verse so often thou hast heard the the voice of Christ and thou sayest thou dost not deny the reaching of the spirit to be an extraordinary voice of Christ and that thou hast heard and so thou witnesses an immediate call and yet thou sayest our imperfect actions being made perfect by Christ thou witnesses an immediate call Reply Thou that tells of opening Chapters or Verses by meanings thou never heard the word of Christ and I say unto thee as Christ said to the Pharisees which had Moses and the Prophets they had neither heard his voice nor seen his shape and they which have not the word abiding in them never heard his word and therefore if thou never hear of God or from Christ but what is written without thee thou never yet heard his Word the Word of God endures for ever Chapters and Verses endures not for ever but thou art made manifest when thou canst not hear what is already writ nor receive it nor understand it without meanings and therefore brings their words down to thy reason and cals that the Word of God and thou calst the teachings of the spirit the extraordinary voice of Christ where reads thou in the Scripture of an ordinary and extraordinary voice of the spirit and here be a witness against thy self in thy answer to the fourth Query the fourth page of thy book to say thou had not known the spirit nor the anointing but by the Scripture and the Scripture is not the spirit and here thy immediate call is the like that which is visible and without thee is not immediate and here thou art tryed that thou knowest nothing at all but by hearsay and so thou art a falle witness and thou saith our imperfect actions are made perfect by Christ when that which is perfect is come imperfection is done away but that which thou calls thy imperfect actions he comes not to be perfect but to destroy but to thee is a mystery III. Query Whether the Word thou preachest is the same from the beginning which thou hast heard and seen and hast been taught immediately by the Revelation of Iesus Christ yea or no Answ. The Word that thou preaches is so muth the same thou saith from the beginning as a River is the same that runs continually from the fountain and as God is pleased to appear in his outward administrators Reply He who is the fountain is eternal which was in the beginning and before all things and endures for ever and they who witness him preach him and have seen him and tasted of the water of life which they were witness of Iohn the first but the River which thou drinkest is as the brooks of Teman spoken of in Iob and shall be dried up and as Euphrates that shall be dried up and the Kings of the East shall pass over it and the time is come already blessed be the Lord for ever but thy fountain at the best is but the letter without thee that was since the beginning and thy old Authors and thy carnal wisdom which is in the curse and this is thy highest attainments and thy administrations if thou hadst not had the letter without thee thou hadst not known such a thing and then where had all thy preaching been as in the fourth page of thy book thou mayest remember that thou saidst thou hadst not known God but by that others have left upon record and therefore cease from thy divining for thou canst not witness what thou speakest but as thou stealest others words IV. Query Whether ever any shall grow up under thy Ministery that they shall that no man teach them and whether thou own the anointing or had known there had been such a thing if the Scripture had not spoken of it yea or no Answ. Concerning thy Ministery there is no such promise thou sayest made to any mans Ministery Reply Here thou hast manifested thy Ignorance of the Ministery of Christ for they turned many from darkness to light and from Satan unto God and it was and is the very end wherefore the Ministers was sent forth for the perfecting of the Saints and to lead them from imperfection to persection and a perfect man in Christ Iesus and they were sent out for this end and are now sent out to direct all minds and the Apostle laboured and travelled that he might present them without spot or wrinkle unto God and in that thou saith there is no promise to the Ministry of man in that thou sayest truly but they which were Ministers of the Gospel they neither were learned of man nor had it from man and so thou acknowledgest thy Ministry to be of man and so art not a Minister of Christ but of Anti-christ and thou saith if the anointing should onely teach there would be no flock here thou art blind and knows nothing is not Christ the anointing and Christs sheep hear his voice and he putteth them forth and goeth before them and he leadeth his flock like a shepheard but thou that preaches for hire and divinest for money and they that follow thee are not of this flock and as concerning thy knowledge of the anointing thou saith thou mayest say as Paul said of