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A89851	A second answer to Thomas Moore, to that which he calls, his Defence against the poyson, &c. Wherein is shewed the crooked wayes, the Serpent is forced to take to keep God and his creatures at a distance, and yet would do it under the name of a teacher. But is seen to be the same, that perswaded man out from his guide in spirit, and now would keep him so, lest his unclean wayes in the heart of man should be discovered with the spiritual light of Christ; and so man should turn to the Lord, who is that spirit, and the vail be done away, ... Here is also 54. lies gathered out from amongst a multitude more, with T.M. hath heaped up for his defence, against the truth, which he calles the poyson of Satan, which are sent him back to the 48. that I sent him before, that he may either prove them, or they root with the founder, for the truth they touch not. / Set forth to clear the truth from this froth, cast upon it by the enemy thereof, By a friend to the seed of truth, called James Naylor.	Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.	1656 (1656)	Wing N314; Thomason E868_9; ESTC R202991	29,892	39

11. 34 35. 36. that the light of the body is the eye and if it be single the whole body is full of light as the bright shining of a Candle doth give light And keep thy heart with all diligence for from thence are the Issues of life And saith Thy word have I hid in my heart that I might not sin and Commune with your own hearts and be still and the Law of God is written in the heart and the heart of the wise Prov. 4. 23 Psal 119. 11. Psal 4. Heb. 8. 10. Prov. 16. 23. Joh. 16. 13 teacheth his mouth and the spirit of truth is that which must lead into all truth Nay doth not all the Scriptures testifie to the light and spirit-teaching within and that they are none of Christs who have not the spirit of Christ and is it counted a familiar spirit now with thee Now is it seen to all the Children of the light that Antichrist is revealing as the Scriptures hath foretold and the Man of sin pleading against freedom from sin and the blinde Guids preaching against the light and he that is born of the flesh against the spirit and its teachings and the Children of darkness against the light that manifests the evill deeds and he is discovering who abode not in the truth and the spirit and light is that truth which thou would preach down to lead out into the world where the lyer is who hates the light because his deeds are evill And this is thy work in thy books and to thy Master and his work thou art faithful using thy utmost subtlety to do his work thorowly to preach Christ out of his Creatures that none should minde his light and spirit but without in another world that so the Devill may have his will in the heart in this World while any one lives and serve God and be made free when they are dead and can do their Master no more service if they would and when thou hast struck them off from looking at any light or spirit within then like the Serpent least his head should be seen thou hides thy selfe with telling of Not to lean to their own understanding and sayes thou though the word be nigh them in their hearts that it might be yet it is not received by them in their hearts or dwelling there as a light or principle to direct them while in their naturall estate when thou hast done what thou can to perswade them that the looking to it is but as to a familiar spirit But is that their own understanding which condemns their natural understanding as they are fallen from God and lets them see that all their understanding wisdom and prudence is God hid from and manifests all their deeds in that state to be evill this hath every natural man in him from the Father of Spirits which manifestation of spirit is given to every one to profit withall if it be but minded and not quenched and without this can be no knowledge of God and if this Candle be put out there is no doing the work of God till it be lighted further then to wait and there is no waiting but with the heart in spirit till it shine out of darkness again and till then all the Creature doth is but deeds of darkness and not accepted by God his prayers are abomination and his plowing sin yea though all the world should flatter such a one they could not save him nor unite him to God nor give peace of Conscience with God nor Sealing in spirit and this the Children of light know though blinde Serpents and deaf Adders oppose it who walk in crast and deceit but the Apostles who handled not the word deceitfully did commend themselves to that in every mans 2 Cor. 4. 2. Conscience in the sight of God and the Ministration of Christ is to the spiritual seed whereby the spiritual seed is quickned and raised out of darkness and death but the Ministration of the Hireling and false Prophet is to the itching eares and so the Beast and the false Prophet joynes against the seed of God to keep it in death and darkness and if it be born up then they persecute him in whom it is born And these take the letter there with to deny the light and oppose that spirit that gave it forth and whereof the letter restifies because they have not the John 5. word abiding within them and this was the work of the Pharises and Hirelings but never any one of Christs Ministers denyed the light and spirit within as thou dost yet slaidly and covertly so as if thou be taxt for it thou may have an excuse to come out of and deny thy work with a meaning and consequence but if none disproves thee then goes on with thy work to lead out simple people from the light of Christ in spirit to follow thy Imaginations without a spirit and light without which thou never saw Yet in this one thing there is not many exceeds thee for when ever thou layes down a deceit the end whereof is to deny the light or spirit or perfection or to slander any who own the truth in these things thou makes sure before thou leave it to make two or three wayes for escape least it fall upon thy head knowing before the thing to be such thou cannot stand by with Scripture and this the least Child of Light may see in thy books wherefore I shall not much need to trace thee therein the thing being so plainly evident to all that in the light read thy books and my answers thereto And when thou hast told a lie and being told thereof thou on purpose having left out a word or syllable there thou makes an escape As for instance in thy answer to the last Query which asks What that grace of God is which brings salvation and hath appeared to all men thy lie is that indeed we believe no such thing as the grace of God appearing to men which I finding this to be as answer to the Query I tell thee Thou answers with a slander saying that indeed we believe no such thing as the grace of God appearing to all men now thou having left out the word all for escape which is in the Query and in the Scripture also In thy defence sayes thou my words are They believe no such thing as the grace of God appearing to men and this thou would charge upon me to be a lie when the lie is thy own and hath both abused the Query and the Scripture on which the Query is grounded leaving out the word all to make it and such holes as this thou creeps out of to hide the lyer from being seen And in other places where thou hast gone a crooked way to fetch a compasse to make a lie for otherwise thou could not which when I come to answer and takes the sum of the thing in brief which otherwise might fill a volume then thy escape

is because I tell not all the lying story over again after thee and in these and such like crooked wayes thou goes about to avoid the truth and winde out thy head least it should be bruised therewith and this shall any see who in the light doth but read thy books and my answer wherein I might trace thee into every particular were it needful or dark to the least simplicity Also in other places where thy escape will not serve thee with a seeming shew of truth before thou stick thou wilt forge an absolute lie As for instance page 9. where thou mentionest my charging thee to say that none have yet ceased from their own works To which thou sayes thy Tayings are that none here have yet so ceased from their own works c. To prove which words thou quotes Antepage 44. which all that read that page shall read thee a lyer thereby to accuse the truth for these words are not so there nor any where else that I have yet seen and so according to the Doctrine to thee it is who hast not yet ceased from thy own works who art yet a lyer and covering one lie with another carping at words when I speak the sence to make me a lier when thou canst not hit thy own words but he that is come to Christ is ceased from his own works who is become Gods workmanship but the Serpent hath no portion here and so would exclude all others who knowes no better but to believe him but where God works all our work in us he ordains peace there and such are entred into the Rest the Serpent knowes not Isay 26. 52. Phil. 2. 13. but they which did believe were entred into rest Heb. 4. 3. but thy Sophistry is to keep people from looking for any rest from their own works till they be cut off by death and can serve the Devil no longer and so art one of those who will neither enter thy selfe nor suffer those that would like the rest of thy Fathers who art seeking to overthrow the faith by thy lying Divination For the Devil knowes unbelief is that which keeps from entring into rest so he strikes off Faith But many are entred in who have heard his voice and such will believe thee no longer for thou casts out thy flood after such as is out of thy reach Another way thou hast that when I tell thee of thy lies and deceits in thy book lest people should find them thou sets them to seek in another page where thou hast made some cover for that deceit and not in the place in which it is spoken and thus thou shuffles to hide thy selfe lest thou should be discovered in plainness to the simple Instance that about the Resurrection Another way thou hast with thy Divination to turn a thing quite contrary to what I both speak and intend and this is usuall to thee in most places of thy book Instance thy 55. page thou having in thy first book seemed to deny any other manner of preaching then which was left by the Apostles to which I answer Then you may spare your pains you Steeple-house-Teachers who are out of the manner yea and matter also and with thy divination thou turns this that I would set up a new manner of teaching of two or three years standing when both my words and end is to establish the old way and therefore deny your Idoll-worship which is out of it your preaching and Printing And in some of these wayes or some other such like crooked way hast thou cast a mist over the truths wherewith I have laid open thy deceits yet canst thou blinde none therewith but thy own Generation who are blinde already and as any of them mindes the light in spirit which thou so much opposest they shall see thee and thy deceit also And now having a little opened the way to all who desires to know the truth that they thereby may see all the rest of thy rotten Covers I shall not much contend about words but leave the truth to manifest it selfe to all who in the principle of truth reads our books and enquires after it and they who will be filthy and loves deceit in thy book may cover themselves therewith Thou goes on saying We come to give some Instances of his false charges and you mention some perticular things To which I say how many that we is thou speaks on you know not further then that there is Legions against the Lamb but to that I have said I shall make it appear to be true as to the true intent of thy Doctrine without the least desire to aggravate as follows First As to thy seeking to exclude God and Christ the spirit and light out of the world and that he should no more dwell in his people till dooms-day and so on to all the rest To which I say thy words are that it cannot be properly said that in a full and absolute sense God was or is manifest in the flesh of any naturall Son of Adam in the time of his Mortality where it is plain thou excludes all Mortality with all the time till Dooms-day If not let the wise judge as for thy word naturall thou hast thrust into blinde people with it is of no force in that place unless thou prove that all men must be in their naturall estate during the time of their Mortality which indeed best suits thy end and condition and as for the spirit thou calls it as Popery to confess a spirit within to open the Scriptures and the light within thou compares to a familiar spirit In another place thou sayes God was not God is manifest in the flesh which words not God is is as absolute a deny all as can be made and so preaches him not onely out of the world but out of all the Saints and thy self thou sayst also the Word Christ is personally absent from us while in these bodies And in another place speaking of the manifestation of God thou sayes in that one person not in divers and this is to deny the Father and the Son for he that hath not the Father hath not the Son and he that hath not the Son hath not life and so this preaches an eternall separation between the Creature and the Creator and keeps God out of his dwelling-place denies him present to judge rule and guid and this preaches him out of the heart and not to be manifest in the flesh and the whole is herein proved upon thee which I have said out of thy own mouth and whereas thou would shuffle out by saying thou dost but uphold that Scripture Paul speaks to Timothy Isay Paul sayes no such words as that God is not manifest in flesh that 's thy own therewith to deny God in the flesh for Paul saith Great is the Mystery and speaks of what Timothy should wait for then in him that so by God manifest in him he might know how to behave himself

believed or received in others thou hast sufficiently manifested herein if thou hadst said no more nor did the Apostle speak of them that minded the light or spirit within but of them that minded earthly things minding your bellies more then the work of God as thou and thy Companions did at the dispute who broke it up because it was an hour past dinner time such are belly Gods and not they who minde the light or spirit of Christ within them And let all honest people judge what it is thy deceitful lips will not make the Scriptures speak who would make the sence of the Apostles words to intend against minding a spirituall light within whose words is of such as minde earthly things yet in this as in all other of thy deceits which thou darst not plainly a vouch thou so layes down the thing as to leave thy self a way to escape if thou be taxed for thy falshood as by thy words some pretended light opposed to Christ when any may see thy envy is at the light of Christ and his spirit within for no other do we pretend and this is not opposire to Christ as he is in Heaven but the only thing that revealeth him in spirit And thou layest down two Reasons to prove thy deceits which no Scripture will the first opposing that the Apostle did mean Earth-worms in a grosse and carnall sence and in thy second thou sayst they were walkers Brethren they had not such a form of godliness as stood in talking only but in walking also In the first whereof thou strikest at the Apostles words who said they minded earthly things but thou sayst not Earth-worms and in thy second thou strikes at uptight walking yet doth neither of them prove any thing for the further then thy confusion And thou wouldst prove me to be one whose God is my belly and the thing thou wouldst prove it withall is because I say the Apostles preached the spirit and light within shining in their hearts to give the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus and this Treasure they had in Earthen Vessels but if angred 2 Cor. 4. 6 7. they may see that instead of proving me one whose God is my belly thou hast proved thy self one whose Father is the Devill who saith the Apostle saith no such thing but saith it s my spirit of Antichrist so let plain Scripture judge which is good reason that it should be believed before thy lying spirit who goeth on to deny the spirit and light to shine into their hearts as though God would shine into their hearts without his spirit and light and such dark stuffe thou utters who knowest not his spirit and light mangling thy confusions to darken the truth as though I had said their hearts should give them the glory of God without his light and spirit when my words are with the Apostle and all the Servants of God who witness the light and spirit to give the knowledge of God without which there can be no knowledge of God which Treasure is in the Earthen Vessels which words thou leavest out lest they should have spoyled thy design in perverting the words and deceiving the simple And thou makest much adoe in thy Book to drive a believers light far distant without as far from them as to the place where Christ was crucified saying he that was crucified on the Tree was the fountain of Believers light which though he be the fountain to those who have him in them yet is he known to none but by hear-say who have him not to such the fountain is sealed therefore dost thou blind utter forth so much of thy folly who imagineth a fountain without thee but darkness within which cannot comprehend the light though in the darkness it shine and the Devill himself knowes what was done upon Mount Calvary and the wickedst men in the Nation as well as thee who hast it not in thee so you believe in a Tradition who have not the Revelation And thou makes a babling to blinde people with as that the Apostle preached not the Earthen Vessels or themselves I say those are thy own words for none else I know that intends them or mentions them but the most of thy bustling in thy Book is to wrest my words or to add to them thy own and so start a lye out of thy own bosom and when thou hast done much to do thou makes to conflite it and this pleaseth thy fancy as though thou hadst done some great thing when thou hast but confuted thy self and laid open thy solly And thou goest creeping about to make people believe that Christ is not a spirit but darst not deny it yet as thy manner is casts a mist before it Christ in spirit being that thou seeks most to oppose for nothing else discovereth the 2 Cor. 5 16. Devills seat in man and therefore said the Apostle I know him no more after the flesh and When they shall turn to the Lord the vail shall be taken away now the Lord is that spirit and where the spirit of the Lord is there is liberty 2 Cor. 3. 16 17 but this liberty breaketh the Devills Kingdom therefore his Ministers he sets to keep people without in the letter imagining a thing at a distance but to believe the appearance of Christ in spirit that is death to him and his Ministry and whereas thou tells of Christ being glorified in Heaven in your nature I say Christ was never of the nature of the lyer neither in Heaven nor on Earth though he was flesh yet it was not that which lusteth against the spirit none knowes his flesh nor nature but who knowes the word in them which thou opposeth which art full of the old Leaven and thou askestance a question of the Scriptures say the same so take thy Question back and apply it to thy self In thy first Book thou made an objection Can flesh and blood enter into the Kingdom of Heaven and thou answers No yet the same flesh and bones may the blood being powred out and gone to which answer what confused stuffe is this that proceeds from thy imaginations Is Christ ascended without blood or is it onely the blood of people that keeps the in from ascending which they must leave behinde them taking the same flesh and bones but not the same blood and in this Book thou excuses the matter with saying he is ascended without material blood and yet with the vertues of that blood I say again hath he materiall flesh and bones and not materiall blood then is he not the same that he was when he was upon earth But why dost thou not make some answer to thy other clause how people must do to get shut of their blood seeing thy faith is they cannot ascend till their blood be poured forth This being a new Doctrine which the Scripture doth not declare of it stands in need of better grounds then yet thou hast

those things 18 That we are in greatest rage against those that plainly preach Jesus to be the very Christ 19 That at the Dispute we did stoutly despise trade underfoot and marre the visage of the Lord. 20 That I say I justifie no such thing as if any strike us on the one Check to turn the other 21 That my usuall way of asserting Christs personall appearance is in my own name 22 That we contemn Authority and deny Honour and respect civill and natural where due 23 That Christ or his light in us is darknesse it self 24 That we use Christ in us and the light as a Cloak of maliciousness and pride 25 That all our sufferings are occasioned as defiling the flesh or as evill doers 26 That we are as the Papists who suffer much for their principles sake 27 That our Principle leads us to follow our own spirit in contempt of all Commands of superiours even such as might be obeyed in the Lord and for his sake 28 That our Principle leads us in contempt of all Principles of Honesty Justice and Equity 29 That we desire to provoke wrath in others against such as are in places of Trust 30 That we desire to rush our selves into petty sufferings that we may glory in them 31 That I said that as Christ bore sins in that his own body that died at Jerusalem so he had born sins in my body 32 That I confound Christs forbearance of sin done in our bodies with his bearing sin in the imputation of sin and strokes in his own body to satisfie justice c. 33 That I acknowledge no such thing as Christs bearing sin himself in his own body in any other sence then he may be said still to bear them in us 34 That I reject the Testimony of Christ having suffered the just for the unjust bearing their sins in his body c. 35 That I fully signifie that the sufferings left behinde are to be suffered in divers persons as propitiatory 36 That my meaning is not that Christ so suffered for sin in that his own body prepared for him according to Scripture 37 That I hold forth Christ bearing sin as the propitiatory Sacrifice in us 38 That I say that the name of God as in Christ and in and by him declared and as precious Oyntment powred out is litteral teaching 39 That I destroy the distinct consideration of the Fathers work in laying our Iniquitles on his Son and renders it as the work of my fancied Christ in the Creature 40 That I take away from you the personall sufferings of Christ in his own body and put in the room my imaginary or fancied Christ 41 That I wholly pervert every thing of Gods name that I meddle with and turns it contrary to its scope and end 42 That I render the great things of the Law to be carnall letter 43 That I reproach thee for not believing Christ bearing sin in thee as the propitiatory Sacrifice 44 That my sence is that Gods righteousness wrought in the person of Christ was but at most as a pattern of what should be wrought over again in our particular persons c. 45 That I justifie Christ being offering himself daily to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself 46 That we imagine that the Death and Resurrection of our light in us is the foundation of our salvation 47 That I intend not the lifting up of Christ but exalting my self in his room 48 That my excellency lyeth in using craftinesse and hidden things of dishonesty 49 That indeed our spirits rejoyce in our likenesse to Sathan 50 That our inside tends directly to marre the visage of Christ 51 That I deny thy saying That the word is not a Principle of men 52 That I reject the Name of God as declared in Christ and brought to light through the Gospel as carnall and litterall Teaching 53 That I affirm that all that receives the word suffers and satisfies the whole will of God for all the world in them 54 That we render the light and spirit to be naturally in men as of them These 54 Lies have I taken out as I told thee in thy last book from three times so many these with the 48. in thy last book make up the number of one hundred and two I should not have troubled my self to reckon them up had not the Lyar gone about to seek to lay them on the truth and slander the Quakers for Lyers so let the Lyer be known by his fruits who must be revealed by the Spirit of Truth And when thou writest again either prove what thou hast said or stop thy mouth for calling Lyar for ever And one thing more I warn thee of that thou do'st not as thou did'st in thy last book who because I reckoned up but part of thy Lies goes about to make people believe I own all the rest For I tell thee again there is above three times as many more in both thy books as false as these which I am not guilty of though I reckon them not here Neither say thou I have wronged thee in setting down these in that I have not set down all thy words for it is plain to every Reader that I have set down the substance of thy slander as it sounds in the ears of the Reader though in the most of them thou hast before-hand made thy way of escape knowing them to be what thou canst not prove Yea this shall any see in thee who are in the light and do but observe thee that in this art thou exceeds I must confess of all that ever I had to do withall thou art the Master of this Craft of Lying for not the clearest truth that ever I can speak but if it be in thy way thou wilt take into pieces and mangle it with thy own and turn it all into Lies which is the Master-piece in thy Bookes as I have shewed in particulars And as boldly and impudently wilt thou let them fly having but made a way to creep out and deny them if thou be charged therewith and if not then thou holds it out for truth that all is owned that is not denied in particular which should I have done in these thy two Books for one sheet of Paper five would not contain an Answer But they being most of them so gross and the Truth it self arising against them a living Testimony in most parts of the Nations It will clear it self better then Paper and Ink to the confusion of Antichrist the Lyar and his Father FINIS

thou dost not gather thy charge against me that I preach down the person and work of Christ in one body for us c. from my letter because I witnessed the flesh of Christ the food of the inner Man But from my comparing my Confession of the flesh of Christ in me with the Apostles preaching down Circumcision c. Wherein all that ever reads my letter in thy book may be witness against thee if in any part of my letter I have compared these two together nor ever did it enter into my heart so to do But the end of my letter is this to let you see your selves more blinde as to the knowledge of the spirit and its reaching and revelation then the Jews was as much as if I had said if you oppose my Testimony when I confessed the flesh of Christ which the letter doth declare of what a Generation would you have been had you lived in the time of the Apostles who preached down Circumcision which the letter said should continue So the comparison stands betwixt your opposing the testimony of the spirit in me which is according to the letter and the Jews opposing the Apostles Testimony in spirit which disannulled the Letter wherein you are found double to them in blindnesse Now how this preaches down the person of Christ or whether I made that comparison thou sayes I did let any judge who all may see thou hast made it thy selfe to slander withall without the least ground from me and then sayes I made it O thou shamelesse man how dost thou bend thy tongue for lies and slanders Also having in thy book called perfection a devilish Doctrine and being told of it and confounded in it by Scripture now thou covers it as though thou call'd our Doctrine of perfection devilish and sayes thou no where findes Christ gave gifts to perfect men in lying c. I say When didst thou read of any other Doctrine of perfection preacht by us but the Doctrine of Christ and his Light and Spirit for perfecting the Saints and this is it thou callest divelish and for thy lies our Doctrine layes thee open therein else we should not be so much opposed by the●● and the Generation of lyers who deny the light of truth within as thou Child of darkness dost who sayes the grace of God that brings salvation to all men instructs them not to look to any light or spirit in them for direction herein shewing thy selfe wholly ignorant of the spirit of Christ and his light for all who have the spirit of Christ they have it within them and his light in them which thou denies for direction and so art Antichrist opposing the spirituall light and teaching without which none can come to know God or themselves and that is the cause of all thy lies thou hast told in thy books for who denies the spirit of truth which is appointed of God to lead into all truth must needs be led with the contrary who are sensuall not having the spirit nor light in them and if thou hadst said no more in thy books this had been enough to have shewed thy selfe a blinde Guide who denies the teachings of the spirit and light within to be from the grace of God for none can have the grace of God to appear with its light and teachings and salvation but within for the grace of God is spirituall and that which is spiritual is within else no Creature can have it to salvation wherefore Christ saith the Kingdom of God is within you Not lo here lo there as you Luk. 17 20. 21. Rom 10. 8 Pharisees would have it And saith he Go not forth and the Apostles preached the word of Faith that was in peoples hearts to whom they preached and they came to the knowledge of God and his glory by the light that 2 Cor. 4. 6. Col. 3. 16. Hob. 13. 9. Gal. 4. 6. Eph. 4. 18 19. shined in their hearts and the Saints had their grace in their hearts and the word of God dwelt in them richly yea God himself dwelt in their hearts by his spirit and yet thou sayes the grace of God teaches not to look to any light within and here thou art clearly manifest to be heart-blind and would have all in thy State for herein your Kingdom would fall and you could no longer raign over peoples Consciences and Estates if they come once to know Gods grace in their hearts and the teachings of the spirit within them they would soon see your Idoll-worship and high place-preaching to be out of both form and power of that which the Saints liv'd in and practised and no longer would they give their money for that which is no bread and their labours for that which doth not profit and then could you no longer ride upon the Nations 2 Cor. 3. as Masters and the Whore would fall so thou and the rest do what you can to keep people spiritually blind from looking within that so they may come to you for teaching and so be ever learning but never able to come to the knowledge of the truth ever loadened with sin but never set free being led out by you and kept from entering in where freedom is for the vail must be over the heart till they turn to the spirit Now the Lord is that spirit and where the spirit is there is liberty from sin from glory to glory by the spirit which no litteral Ministration Luk. 17. 20 21. Isa 51. 7. Psal 119. 11. Jer. 20. 9. 2 Cor 6. 16. can ever come to though the Letter be read every day and so you deny both Letter and Spirit also for saith the Letter you shall be all taught of God and none can be taught of God but by the light of Christ within in spirit and thou that denies this art against Christ and his Kingdom is in the heart and his Law in the heart and his word in the heart and he himself in the heart therefore thou his enemy would not have his people to look there for teaching so let all who desires to be united unto Christ avoid thee and thy Antichristian Doctrine and it is no matter what thou sayes as touching the things of God who art heart-blinde and hast not thy teaching from the light and spirit of Christ-within thee All that comes out must needs be of the Devill and so it is in all who hath it not from the light and spirit of Christ within them for he that speaks of himself is the lyer and the Father of it and so it is seen of thee in thy books and also thy blasphemy who sayes to direct to look to the light within is the lame as directing men to seek to a Familiar spirit and of that brood thou art who ever called Christ Beelzebub and light darkness O thou blasphemer did Christ direct to a familiar spirit when he told them The Kingdom was within them and Luk. 17. 21 Luk.

in the Church of the living God the Pillar and ground of truth which Church was in God and God in them who did dwell in them and walk in them and they knew that what God was in Christ he was in them as they had received Christ according to these Scriptures John 14. 20 21. 23. John 17. 23. and they knew that they was the Temples of God which Temples was holy in which God was known and manifest to dwell and walk 1 Cor. 3. 16 17. 2 Cor. 6. 16. And if any had not the Father and the Son in them they was warned Nnot to receive them into their houses 2 John 9. 10. And therefore they was to try all Antichrists who denyed Christ in their flesh as thou dost and so all Idoll-Shepheards and Hirelings who had not God in them they denyed and those that was without God they saw them to be in the world and so the world would hear them but them in whom God was they knew not but as thou dost now to envy and reproach 1 John 4. 3 4 5 6. 12 13 15 16 17. So that which I have said of thee is no slander being proved out of thy own mouth afterward contradicted by plain Scripture and thou proved to be that Antichrist who art without God in the world denying Christ now in the flesh and God also and knowes not the great mystery of God manifest in flesh which was great and is great though thou know it not now no more then the blinde guides did then And thy cover is that that word Christ is personally absent from us while we are in these bodies upon earth I say thou may stop thy mouth for any knowledge thou hast of Christ personall or spirituall he was never known to the Idoll-Teachers and Hirelings and blinde Guides and such as preacht for gifts and rewards such never knew his person nor appeanance Had there not been a letter we should have little talk of Christ or his appearance with thy Generation of Chemerims who have alwayes put his appearance into another Generation wherein thou exceeds all thy Predecessors who would binde him in Heaven while he is and while any man lives which seeing thou goes about to deny I shall repeat thy words which are these in thy first book page 36. That he remains in the Heavens as opposed to the Earth and where while he is he is personally absent from us while we are in these bodies on Earth and yet with the same shameless mouth Jer. 4. 22. am I accused as a lyer for telling thou hast limitted his person from the Earth till Dooms-day as it is call'd when thy words reaches further even to while he is which is as much as to say for ever thou blinde Sot wilt thou limit the Lord in Heaven who fills Heaven and Earth who after he had descended into the lower parts of the Earth ascended far above all Heavens that he might fill all things And was not this the person of Christ Ephes 4. 9 10. which descended and ascended and that above all Heavens which now filleth all things which thou would limit in Heaven Art not thou blinde as to the letter it selfe was he personally absent from any of his dear Lambs in their sufferings though but once in the likeness of sinful flesh to growe from a Child to a mans state that in himself alone he might work Redemption and leave a living example of faith and obedience temptings and sufferings to all Generations that believe and for that end was he lifted up that through him all might believe yet hath he appeared in divers forms both before his sufferings and since Mark 16. 12. wherein he is not personally absent was he personally absent from the three Children in the Furnace Dan. 3. 25 Was he personally absent from John in the I le of Patmos Reveb 1 Was he personally absent from Paul who confesseth his personall presence 2 Cor. 2. 10 Nay thy selfe sayes page 2. of thy first book that Paul with his bodily eyes did behold the person of Christ after his asscention and this thou could make use on in thy dispute to plead against any immediate Call from God and now thou would limit him to a place while he is Cease thy Imaginations about the person of Christ the Serpent is as blinde about the person of Christ as he was about the body of Moses yet will he be disputing to see if he can get in Christ is revealed in the light whose person is before the world was and by whom the world was made which light thou calls a familiar Spirit as thy Fathers called him Beelzebub so much knowes the carnall Imaginations of his person or his light wherein he leads out of the world to reveal his person to them that follow it Is not Christ whereever the right hand of God is though the blinde see him not Col. 1. 15. 16 17. was not the person of Christ with him when he made the World and by him he made it was not he at the right hand of God in Davids time Psal 110. 1. And is not he at the right hand of God in the New Creation And is not be in Christ reconciling the world unto himself whereby they become of his flesh and his bone Was it not the person of Christ that came in amongst his Disciples the doors being shut And was it not the person of Christ that said he would come again to them though he had yet to ascend Which Joh. 14. 18 23. till then the work he had to do was not wholly done and wilt thou now bind him as a man in a Chair who fills Heaven and Earth yea who is fat above all Heavens yea Ephes 4. 10. where ever the right hand of God reaches he is there and without him present he doth nothing Cease vain man thou knows not whom thou would limit who limits the word to be personally absent from Believers All the Devils in Hell cannot limit him absent from his Lambs in their greatest straits who though he be to be preacht in Heaven yet is he not to be limited from the Earth whom the Heaven of Heavens cannot contain Ephes 4. 9 10. Nor doth that place Act. the 3. limit him though it say the Heavens must receive him which the world will not but saith upon their repentance God will send him whom the Heavens hath received As in many other places his appearance is promised waiting for and received as he is in himself not in imagination and in this book thou denies him as Mediator to be in Man because the Letter sayes between God and Man thou sayes not in man thou may as well say not in God so much thou knows of him in thee Read Christs words Joh. 14. 20. if he be not in God and in Man And whereas thou would accuse me for asking thee if thou dost not deny the Resurrection of the Body in saying No man as

from Adam can approach or see the Lords Throne in Heaven I say had I not good ground to ask question yea and rebuke that Lie also as I did telling thee John and Steven was men from Adam and yet did see Gods Throne and Christ Promises to such as overcome to sit on his Throne And dost thou call this a slander to tell thee of it then keep in thy false doctrine if thou would not hear it reproved and think not to hide thee under Johns words which saith No man hath seen God for John saith The onely begotten Son hath revealed him John did not speak these words to deny the sight of God and so make himself a lyar who had seen him but to declare the true way to come to see him which is by Revelation which thou denies and so would wrest John's words against what he did witness and declare of And whereas thou would accuse me as slandering thee amongst the Parish-Masters I said not that thou was a Parish-Master but thou art one with them in the same Spirit for gifts and rewards though yet thou hast not got a Parsonage suitable to thy will But art thou not a Master-Teacher and in their way also of Parish-Steeple-houses and then what wrong have I done thee in reckoning thee amongst Parish-Teachers and Masters also But thou wants something to accuse me that thou might make me like thy self and so thou seeks all along in thy book Instance thy accusing me for saying thou tells of some abatement of Persecution c. I say let any but read thy Epistle to the first book pa. 2. line 1. and they may see the Lyer and so in many other things not worth mentioning after thee wherein going to prove me a Lyar thou proves thy self one But if any who have the least measure of Christ in them read but thy 28. and 29. pages of this last book of thine they may see what spirit is in thee as to persecution of us and how thou goes about with thy lies and slanders to add to our sufferings which one day thou shalt know thou should not have done rendring to us to all the world as though it could not stand with the security of any Common-wealth to suffer us wherein it is plainly seen what shall become of us if thou get power or if such as are in Power will but give ear to what thou hast published to them but to the Lord we appear in these things and if he do suffer your Generation of Murderers to get power we may read by what hath been done what mercy we map expect from thee and the rest of that Generation who art shewing thy teeth before thou have power rendring us in as vile a manner as thou canst as Papists and would lay the blood they have shed upon us who art in the state of their Papist-Priests thy self incensing and in most notorious slandering too the Earthly Powers against us all thou can by thy false accusations too many to mention and when thou hast done to cover thy self thou sayes thou would have to have us liberty that thou may fairly deal with us with other weapons O full of all subtilty can these words cover thee It hath been always known what weapons is of most use in the hands of the Idol-Shepheards which Weapons thou art sharpning before-hand in There are many more besides thee who thinks our susferings are not great enough but your day is coming on apace this thy book in which thou renders us as not fit to be suffered to live in any Common-wealth heaping up thy Accusations upon us of which we are clear and rendring the sufferings of hundreds of innocent Ones as evill-doers and justifying there in the bloudy cruelty acted upon many of them saying It is not so great as we pretend nor as it was in the bodily and bloody Persecution and then would cover thy self with feigned words But the Lord who despises not the sufferings of the Poor shall find thee out and the Children of Light sees thee and thy opening a door to Murder and Persecution And whereas thou after thy usuall manner casts a slander upon me and when thou hast done aggravates it again in thy second book where in thou would make people believe that I own no sufferings nor satisfaction of Christ for the world but what was in me and much such like conjur'd stuff thou raises out of the bottomless Pit and calls it my fancy which is but thy forgery for I know the Offering of Christ for the sinne of the whole world in his own person as I have hinted in page 56. of my Answer which might have stopt thy mouth of this Lye but more at large in that book called A Salutation to the Seed of God and divers others which all remains as so many Witnesses against thy false slander Yet did I never know his Reconciliation Sufferings not Satisfaction as I ought to do but by hearfay untill I knew Christ revealed in me with his Sufferings Satisfaction and Reconciliation though I could have talked much of a thing without me as thou dost yet had alwayes such a feeling within me as kept me from such a common road of lying as thou delighrest in and dost exercise as a Trade beyond all that ever I read or heard Surely dost thou think that people are all as blind as those thou hast in guiding Dost not thou blush to tell such abominable Lies as thou dost in thy books that he that runs may read rhee so to be What a Lye hast thou framed to excuse thy brother as thou rightly calls him about lifting his Rod to have struck me on the head in the yard at your departure which thou knows in thy heart is a lye and so many people Eye-witnesses against thee Did not John Frey himself say concerning it Now is the Devil up Whereupon Richard Farnsworth bad him go and reprove him then To which he said If he was called to it of God he should And yet thou hast co●ered over the thing as though he was but reaching to me with his Rod to speak to me yea so smooth hast thou made it that any who knows not thy spirit or saw the thing would believe thee therein Was there ever such an impudent spirit How art thou brazened in thy wickedness as though thou should never account for thy tongue And when thou hast done being conscious of thy deceit and that it could not be hid so many being present then thou would make me the Offender for telling of it and sayes what ever it was I am not guided by the Spirit of Christ who opened not his mouth in such sufferings c. I say Christ opened his mouth and told the Murderers Lyers Serpents and Vipers what they were though there was a time when he opened not his mouth but if the Chief Priests may be Judge Jesus is the Offendor and Barabbas cleared which if thou be not acting in this

laid down if thou intends any to believe thee therein and this is like the rest of thy stuffe out of the dark bottle fit for such a believer to receive then grounds● of whose faith are other mens words from their Imaginations where the word of God is personally absent and know neither light nor spirit of God within them And much adoe thou makes and many crooked wayes thou takes to preach Jerusalem out of this world and that must be alwayes to come and that yet it came not from God to any and to disprove that which John spoke in Rev. 21. 2. 10. who saw the new Jerusalem thou sayst that was but a Vision and from that thou conjurest up a deal of thy own filth to cast upon me not worth mentioning after thee but this I say to thee thou must first see thy self in Babylon yea and the slandeous mouth slopt ere thou knowest the new Jerusalem the City of God or his dwelling place the lyars and 〈◊〉 are with one and now it is seen in the Mount of God asking of Vision seen by others but the strong man keeping the house and thou joyned with him so bring forth his works opposing thy self an enemy of Sion and her Children who are come and comming to their rest which thou would destroy the faith concerning God Christ the word their In-dwelling in the Saints as in thy first Book who would deny that the Apostles preached the word and faith in the hearr And when I instanced that place Rom. 10. 8 9. where the Apostle saith The word of faith is migh in the heart In this book thou would'st cast a mist before it least any should look for it there saying he saith not the word and faith but the word of faith And sayst thou he saith not simply in their hearts but nigh them in their hearts What shifts is the Devil put to to keep Creatures from looking what God hath placed in their hearts where God hath written his Law and placed his word a guide to all that minde it what shameful shifts art thou put to lest the Devil should be discovered in the heart and his Kingdom fall Is not the word and faith where the word of faith is if ever that Creature come to faith or can any have either of them but in their hearts And doth not the Apostle say they are in their hearts because he saith they are nigh them in their hearts But from the word nigh if thy divination fail not thou wilt attempt to preach them clear out of the heart so that which the Apostle saith nigh in the heart by thy will must never come near the heart but would put word and faith as far off as thou hast put Grace and Light who saith The Grace of God that bringeth salvation teacheth not to look to any light within for direction And as thou dealest concerning God Christ The word Faith and light so dost thou with the City of the living God being blinde thy self would keep all at a distance from others such are thy Visions such as thy Imaginations But seeing thou would put that Jerusalem John saw out of the expectations of any whilest the world stands Read Heb. 12. 22. And judge if thou canst of that Heavenly Jerusalem whether that was a Vision also and whether the Apostle spoke truth when he said the Hebrews was come to the City of the living God to the Heavenly Jerusalem salem but they had denyed Babels Builders and the Idoll-Priests and their Idoll-worship else could not they have seen an entrance into Sion a City which thou hast sufficiently cleared thy self to be ignorant of And thou askest where did James read of its being taken away after its comming down from Heaven I say in thee I read it and thy Generation whose work is to deny it present I need go no further for proof then thy own Books As for the rest of thy heap of confusion thy lies thy slanders and thy threatnings be they to thy self for me they touch not but seeing thou denyest Jerusalem what City was that the Ephesians was Citizens of with the Saints which was builded upon the foundation of the Apostles and Prophers Jesus Christ himself being the chief Corner-stone in whom they was builded a habitation of God Ephes 2. 19. 20 21 22. was not this the City of the living God the new Jerusalem but this makes ill for thy Doctrine whose work is to preach God out of his people yet when thou writest again let us see what a shift the Serpent hath to avoid this for he must be discovered in all his holes and thou canst not hide him Yet didst thou but declare thy own experience I should not contend with thee knowing thou canst declare no more of God his word his light his faith his dwelling place then thou knowest But seeing thou goes about to limit God out of his dwelling in the hearts of his people in faithfulness to God and love to souls I can do no lesse then bear testimony against thee and thy work which is contrary to the Ministers of Christ who preached reconciliation to God and God in his people but thou preaches division and separation and thy work is against any believing reconciliation And because I tell thee of thy shuffling in thy Answer to thy third Query which asks Where the Covenant of God is having respect to the manifestation of it to the Creature for so is the intent of the Query And because I tell thee thou shuffles and answers not to the Question thou tells me therein I have crodden undersoot the Son of God and put him to open shame and that there is no more sacrifice for sin I say it is thy deceit I tread upon and puts to open shame which is for open shame before the Son of God who is the Sacrifice and remains a Witness against thy confusion The fourth Query thou pretended to answer asks What and where that anointing is c. And because I tell thee thou would'st put that to literal teaching thou rakes up a Seal of thy own Imaginations out of thy own bosome to cast upon me as though I had said That the name of God in Christ Jesus is no better then literal Teaching when my Answer is to reprove thee for setting litteral-teaching instead of the Unction and Name of Christ And that thou do'st thrust out from the Spirit within to the Litteral-teaching thy Answer doth clearly manifest though first to cover it with thou makes a Confession to the person of Christ and such like words to blind the eye lest thy intent should be seen Afterward thou comes to tell what the summe of this Anointing is the sum of the Gospel concerning Christ which thou saist is meant the things heard from the beginning called the Anointing which after thou brings to the writings of Paul to Timothy And following it a little further thou brings it to be the same to this day which is