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A44802 One of Antichrists voluntiers defeated, and the true light vindicated. In answer to a book called Ignis fatuus, published by one R.I. Wherein he vindicates Edward Dod and Samuell Smith (of the county of Salop) in their lyes, folly, and wickedness, and hath added more of his own, with divers of his false doctrines, lyes and slanders, &c. brought to light, and reproved: As that the law of the spirit of life, is imperfect, and not fit to be a Christian rule, and also, humane nature may be taken for the regenerate part of man, and the soul, &c. And likewise calls idolatry, civillity, and heathernish complements courtesie. His vindication made voyd, and his weapons broken, and he taken captive, and left with E.D. and S.S. among the slime pits of Siddim near Sodom, with his Ignis fatuus. / By F.H., a witnesse to the perfect law, of the spirit of life. Howgill, Francis, 1618-1669. 1660 (1660) Wing H3175; ESTC R16812 30,660 33

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ONE OF Antichrists Voluntiers DEFEATED AND THE True light vindicated IN Answer to a Book called Ignis fatuus Published by one R. I. Wherein he vindicates Edward Dod and Samuell Smith of the County of Salop in their lyes folly and wickedness and hath added more of his own with divers of his false doctrines lyes and slanders c. brought to light and reproved As That the Law of the Spirit of life is imperfect and not fit to be a Christian Rule and also humane Nature may be taken for the regenerate part of man and the Soul c. And likewise calls Idolatry Civillity and heathenish complements Courtesie His Vindication made voyd and his weapons broken and he taken Captive and left with E. D. and S. S. among the slime pits of Siddim near Sodom with his Ignis fatuus By F. H. a witnesse to the perfect Law of the Spirit of Life The wicked are estranged from the womb they goe astray assoone as they be borne speaking lies LONDON Printed for Thomas Simmons at the Bull and Mouth near Aldersgate 1660. ONE OF ANTICHRISTS VOLUNTIERS DEFEATED AND THE TRUE LIGHT VINDICATED AMongstall the opposers of the truth that yet hath appeared among the black army of the old Dragon who like the Philistims hath alwayes defied Israels God and also their camp through their ostentation and boasting and with their clamorous loud cryes in the ears of the people like Rabshekah to dishearten and dismay Israel none hath appeared more out-ragious and virulent then one who subscribes himselfe R. I. who in vindication of his brethren in iniquity Edward Dod drunkard and Samuel Smith an unprofitable talker otherwise called a Minister at Cresige who hath preached that which he calls the Gospel there divers years and yet sees no fruit at all and yet this impudent R. I. whom I beleeve to be another dreamer like him for his language do manifest him to belong to mistery Babilon the great City the mother of Harlots he saith One may minister and preach the Gospel and the people not be profited at all as Samuel Smith hath done at Cresige And he saith farther that they are barren professors yet saith R. I. that S. S. need not be abashed at it And for instance he saith Was Pauls preaching of less credit because there were many Runnagates in the end shewed themselves hypocrites yet this comparison will not excuse S. S. neither E. D. nor R. I. who would cover them with an old patched Cloak some peices he hath scraped up out of Aesop's Fables a book full of lies and altogether compacted and patched up of fictions and some out of Ovid Seneca Heathens in their own account the like frivolous stories and Plato and Diogenes they must serve for a covering if it will to the two former opposers of truth but stay R. I. Did Paul stay seven years in any place and saw no fruit And though there were many unbeleevers among the Jews notwithstanding the publication of the word and the miracles of Christ yet some beleeved and though the Apostles and Ministers of Christ laboured in the work of the Lord yet some beleeved and clave unto them but there is no fruit at Cresige at all but they are barren professors as R. I. saith but if this will not serve take another of R. I. his arguments That God sends his word sometimes for the hardning of people and upon this account S. S. teaching and Ministry must be kept in credit A sad thing for the people of Cresige that they should hire a man for seven years together and pay him wages for hardning of their hearts and for counting them barren professors yet I judge S. S. E. D. R. I. counted them fruitful and abounding in zeale and fervency to God when they came into the meeting of the Quakers some ringing Pans some Candlesticks and Frying pans and throwing water like people void of understanding and saith this R. I. these yeelded a better sound then the Quakers So that thou may see what will not this R. I. vindicate and what wickednesse as can be acted and spoken here they may look for a shelter rather then they shall want a Guardian as Pictures images crosses cuffs ribons lace and such other like things invented by the Devil to draw people from serving and worshipping the living God R. I. will patronize them all being brought forth and when they are not brought forth he will reach forth his hand to help to elevate iniquity and to under-prop the Devils kingdom which is exalted in the children of disobedience as all along may be seen in his Fabulous Scrole called Ignis Fatuus when like his two brethren before him he goes about to vindicate Idolatry Images Hirelings Mass-houses Cuffs and Ribons Tithes Flattering Titles and vain Customs and Popish practices Pride Persecution and lying all those things he pleads for and hath used many vain arguments and false interpretations of Scripture so that the two former it may truly be said they have done wickedly but this R. I. exceeds them all who is so stout hearted against the truth and power of God that whatsoever he can invent in his corrupt heart against it and gathers up the rest of the Priests lies that they have vomited up before and cast in the face of truth and tenders them as good proof and some Scriptures perverted with Aesop's Fables and Ovid and Diogenes stories and upon such materials he hath framed his book called Ignus Fatuus which he hath writ in vindication of E. D. his book called A pair of Spectacles for a dark-sighted Quaker and S. S. Malice striped and whipt three Pamphlets whole Title will discover what the substance of their matter is and whose work they drive on so that I need not say much some of them vindicating persecution and incouraging the rude behaviour of the people another mocking at innocency and scorneth them who trembles at the word of the Lord and last of all R. I. who hath made a Fortresse for both the other and hath cast up a heap of confused darknesse to guard his brethren he mocks at the light within and calls it Ignis Fatuus and the law which is light which God hath promised to write in his peoples hearts this he calls an imperfect thing and therefore to be ruled and not fit to be a rule of the Saints as may be seen in the 55 page of his book and so ha●h spoken contrary to the Spirit and Scripture of truth Prov 6. and the law of the Lord which is the law that endureth for ever this saith R. I. is imperfect and the letter or law without written is perfect and is a standard as R. I. saith for all controversies then if it be so perfect and so fit to decide all controversies why doth R. I. borrow his proofs and raise his arguments from Aesop's Fables Ovids stories Plato and Diogenes discourses and to omit Seneca because R. I. saith Ambrose hath
puft up in his fleshly mind I said unto E. D. that Christ was the seed of David according to the flesh and according to the Spirit the son of God And furthermore said and new saith that Christ is glorified in a spiritual body and incorruptible body and so by incorruptible body and spiritual body according to R. I. his dark understanding must also be understood humane nature and again humane nature may be understood of the soul O dark and fortish man what art thou like to confute who saith the humane nature may be taken for the soul and also it may be taken for flesh and also it may be taken for the regenerate part and thus like a blind man hath lost all aime thou runnest rambling up and down in every by-path but how should thou doe otherwise seeing thou hast denyed that Spirit that doth not erre and also would have all others to deny it and saith that none may lay claime to it although God hath promised it to give the spirit of truth to lead his people into all truth and if into all truth then out of all error but this doctrine of Christ comes too neer perfection for R. I to own which is a doctrine so offensive to him that he cannot endure to hear of it or that ought should be perfect and therefore he hath condemned the law of the spirit of life and saith it is imperfect as may be seen in the 55 page of his book and if flesh and the regenerate part of man and the soul may all be understood by humane nature then they are all one and then the soul is humane and earthly but the soul is spiritual and immortal and flesh and blood inherits not the kingdome of God and the regenerate part is that which is begotten and brought forth by the immortal word of life and that which is born of the spirit is spirit and so the ignorance of this man is made manifest and so R. I. may take his lye home unto himselfe as that F. H. denyes the reall body of Christ for F. H. hath said and now saith againe and that according to knowledge that Christ hath an incorruptible body and a glorious body and a spiritual body and in this body is Christ glorified with the Father and humane nature is no where taken for a spiritual and incorruptible body in the Scriptures account as this R. I. and his blind tribe doth imagine and yet the flesh of Christ is owned and the word that was made flesh the Saints know and doth feed on by which they are nourished up into everlasting life and so I say unto thee as I did to E. D. when thou writes again speak plainly if by humane nature thou intend a carnal body or the same flesh thou art on thou would devide the flesh of Christ from his Spirit would devide Christ Christ is not divided and thus he goes quarrelling on and heaps lye upon lye and saith that F. H. saith Christ hath no real body but his mystical body which thing is thy own and never affirmed by me either in word or writing and so repent of thy lyes and for shame call in thy Book least the judgements and plagues of God be multiplyed upon thee And further saith R. I. How do the Quakers condemn themselves when they so proudly boast themselves as the Pharisees did to be clear from sin who needs not Christs righteousness for their justification how then can they say that Christs righteousness is their justification when they are so righteous in their own eyes for Christ hath not promised to justifie any but those that confess their sins Answ. We have confest our sins and also departed from them and not like you feigned hypocrites who are confessing from year to year with your feigned lips and your hearts never turned to the Lord from iniquity and takes the name of Christs righteousnesse to be a cloak to cover your iniquity withall and we do not say that we have no need of Christs righteousnesse for our justification for if we should say so we should be lyars like thy self for we have need of Christs righteousnesse for he is our life who is called The Lord our righteousness he is our justifier and who art thou that condemns any but the false accuser of the brethren for Christs righteousnesse is our covering and we are not righteous in our own eyes but in the eyes of him who hath made us so and we never said that we have not sinned and so we have not made God a lyar as this vile slanderer would make men beleeve through his false aspertions for we say we were once darknesse but now are we light in the Lord and he who is our light and life is our justification and righteousnesse and his blood cleanseth from all sin and the power of God keepeth us that the evil one toucheth us not and yet all boasting is excluded And the further R. I. goes on the lower he sinks towards the bottomlesse pit and there we shall find him at last before we have done with his book and speaks out of thick darknesse like a man that never saw the Sun who hath altogether taken up his dwelling place in Deaths Region and as though that were the Land of his nativity and thou shalt see Reader by what ensues R. I. saith Though it be said He that commits sin is of the Devill not that the Devill can claime him for his own or that he is in his possession but he is captivated of the Devill and everpowered And for his proof he brings Peter was cryed up to be a Saint and at that same time when he was cryed up to be a Saint Christ called Peter a devill and that must be understood a Saint had sinned Answer He that is captivated by the Devil hath gone from the power of God and he that commits sin doth the Devils work and he may claime him for his workman and he that is overpowered is brought into captivity and he that carryes into captivity hath the Captive in his possession as it is written his servants you are to whom you obey and he that commits sin is the servant of sin And these black confused distinctions R. I. maketh to make people beleeve that they are Saints of God when they are the Devils captives and that they are in the possession of Christ who yet doe the works of the Devill who is an enemy to Christ and thou knows no more of a Saint then thou knows of a devill who saith that Peter at the same time that Christ called him a Saint called him a devil for thou must know that Matthew recorded many things it may be in one Chapter which was acted and done and spoken in many dayes and weeks for when Peter confessed Christ to be the Son of God he was in the faith and Christ said flesh and blood had not revealed that to him but at this time had spoken little
reckoned him in the Bead-row of Saints it may be wich Saint Dominick and Saint Patricke Saint Francis and some others of the Popes Canonizing but however I shall set many of his envious and frivolous and impertinent arguments passe as things of no validity or worth being they have been answered over and over by mony hands all the fortresses strong holds thrown down so that to any judicious man they will appear to be but rubbish however R. I. would be gathering together the rubbish again and would make it appear as goodly a fabrick as he can when indeed there is nothing in it all so thou may see Reader in R. I. his vindication of this mouldey cankered ware of Babylon which he would hold up his own folly ignorance and error made manifest in the ensuing discourse of his doctrines and most of his principles thou may view and see which I have taken up and answered and his confusion and blindnesse thou may see and also view the Spirit that acts this man and how this man is like to convince any who hath not power over his tongue but lets it run to utter forth the deceit that proceeds out of his own corrupt heart thinking thereby to blind peoples eyes that they should not see how ignorant and light vain and treacherous these Priests are who would monopolize all into their own hand nay though God command and move by his Spirit yet this must not speak nor declare the mind of God except these Priests will allow of it in whom the welfare of all people lyes if thou wilt beleeve R. I. in the 11 page of his book yet if these count it disorderly for any to speak as he hath received of the Lord from his Spirit it must go for such and be accounted such as disorderly In the Epistle to the Reader R. I. saith Such Schismaticks as these Quakers hath torn the Church in peeces and its authority condemned and the Ministry slighted and false Religion advanced Answ. It seems that the Church that R. I. is of is none of the true Church which is built upon the rock Christ which the gates of hell prevaileth not against neither any weapon that is formed against it can prosper but R. I. his Church is torne in pieces and may be prevailed against sure it is but Babylon whose stones must be scattered and whole building must be thrown down and it is but the whores attire which is renting off that her nakednesse may appear and her deceit made manifest and the authority which is condemned and reproved is no authority but the authority of the beast upon which the false Church hath ridden and hath call'd it by the name of higher power and the Ministry is but such as traffick with the whores sorceries by which she hath deceived the Nations and this indeed and those Ministers indeed are slighted by us because we know him who is the Minister of the everlasting Covenant whose Spirit is manifest according to his promise to lead his people into all truth and so the Religion which standeth only in the traditions of men and in idolatry such things as R. I. goes about to maintaine as Images Crosses and Picture Mass-houses Hirelings Priests Popish tythes and Popish-ceremonies which R. I. so much pleads for all these are slighted as not to be consistant with the true Religion or the true Church of Christ Yet neverthelesse saith R. I. in his Epistle I have adventured voluntarily to side with those that contend for the truth against the Quakers and yet in the same Epistle saith He was moved of the Lord thus to declare Answ. What confusion and lying and blasphemy is here hath R. I. adventured voluntarily in his own willfulnesse and perversnesse to take part with those contenders against the truth in which the Quakers live and worship and God must be made as the author of this and all the heap of lyes and confusion which is declared and uttered forth in his Ignis fatuus which if no more were said then hath been were answer enough unto his railing discourse and yet what impudency this man hath to say he was moved of the Lord when as he hath confest he hath voluntarily took part with the contenders so that it is manifest to all reasonable men who set thee awork and whose work thou hast been doing for which thou shalt be sure to receive a reward in the mighty day of the Lord And R. I. saith Forasmuch as their counterfeit coin hath been offered to me for good silver I thought it fit to nail it to the Market-Post that it might not deceive others and instead thereof I have here made a tender of other Money viz this ensuing Treatise which I doubt not but that it may passe with truths approbation Answ. That which R. I. calls counterfeit coin was made publick by our selves and it hath been and shall be received by them that know Gods Image and the inscription of the Spirit and though R. I. hath denyed it when it was proffered to him the value and worth of that which hath been proffered is no worse For though a price be put into the hand of a fool he regards it not And now Reader thou shalt see what kind of Coin he hath tendered and how thou judges it may pass with truths approbation as hereafter will be made manifest in his further discourse Wherefore Reader saith R. I. Have not so great regard to the authority of the Writer as the truth of the matter written by him who was moved of the Lord as thus to declare against those who are adversaries to truth Answ. Indeed the authority of a writer or of that which is written is of no great moment seeing he is but one of Antichrists Voluntiers who hath not only belyed them that feared the Lord but also hath uttered forth many damnable doctrines and yet would fasten all these upon the Lord so that his deceit might be of more authority and none might question the matter thereof because the Lord allwayes moveth to truth and righteousnesse and so R. I. is one of them that hath taken the name of the Lord in vain which will not be holden guiltlesse but will be found guilty when the searcher of all hearts shall make all things manifest And then R. I. further saith That sprinkling of infants is commanded by the Scriptures and is a seale of the Covenant and baptisme of infants is that which answers to circumcision for mortification of the flesh and remission of sins and admission into the Church are sealed unto infants by sprinkling or that which R. I. calls baptizing I say Baptisme of infants is a Popish-Tradition as hath been proved by divers so that of it I need not say much but where it is commanded in the Scripture as R. I. saith Coll. 2. 11 12. is but a bad proof for R. I. for the Colossians were circumcised with the circumcision made without hands and they