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A52181	Sions enemy discovered, or the worker of iniquity rebuked and innocency cleared in a reply to seven sheets of paper published by Jonathan Johnson of Lincoln, and by him entituled, The Quaker quashed, and his quarrel queld, &c.	Mason, Martin, fl. 1650-1676.	1659 (1659)	Wing M933A; ESTC R221792	10,986	8

and all thy babbling against perfection is palpable contradiction to the doctrine of the Son of God by him and his Apostles left upon record in scriptures Thou art forced to confesse That Abraham and the rest of the holy men of God had the spirit of truth within them before the Law written by Moses And is not the Lord as good as gratious now as ever to his people I tell thee he is now in the midst of his people and thousands witnesse his kingdome come and the King of Sion sitting upon his throne in the hearts and consciences of his people though in thy dark mind thou wouldest exclude him and confine or limit him above the starrs Christ when he was in that prepared body upon earth was conversant with the Apostles i Pe. 3 19 Io. 5.25 and preached to the spirits in prison and the dead that did hear the voice of the son of God did live go learn what that meanes and prove if thou canst by Scripture that the spirit of truth is received by the letter or by believing that to be the power of God unto salvation pag. 33. Thou babblest of one Henry Nicholas and pours out the dregs of thy wrath even such bitter foame as thy vessel is filled with against the innocent lambs who deny not but do receive salvation from the same Christ that suffered without the gates at Jerusalem Therefore silence thou deceitful tongue for t is thy self and thy generation who though in words you confess him as the Pope does yet by your works of iniquity you deny him crying loe here and loe there but the saints know their saviour near them he is within them in their own bosomes though fools boast of they know not what Hadst thou never read or heard of Scriptures thou hadst never known there is a Christ or that the bodies of his people are his temple By thy pleading against the Saints judging I may judge what thou art shall not and do not the saints judge the world Is not thy heart in the world and worldly losts and vanities yea surely and the judgements of the Son of God whom now thou persecutest in his Saints thou shalt find and feel if at this repoof thou turnest not In thy 34. and 35. pages thou saies Thou judges me not and askes where thou hast judged the people called Dippers c. To which I answer if thou dost not judge me what meanes all thy foule mouthed language in these and thy former papers against me but I know him who thus judges me his name is the false accuser of the brethren and as for those called Dippers whether thou hast not judged them or no I appeale to the righteous witnesse in thine and their consciences In thy 36 page thou speakest thou knowest not what of the spirit that returnes to God that gave it I tell thee that spirit which invents and loves a lye is for the lake And t is that spirit which loves no iniquity that goes to God and it was that spirit of truth in the Apostles which loved not a lye that preached Christ and did worke miracles which spirit they never received by reading Moses or the Prophets And as for the wolfe that would worry the weak mentioned in thy 37 page he lodgeth near thee he is within thee but the pit is his portion Now because in thy 37 and 38 sides thou hast dealt so deceitfully misreporting thy own argument and then putting a deceitfull cover upon it I shall here lay down thy own words and then take off thy polluted varnish This is thy argument He that desires to be tryed by the true touch-stone the infalible Rule the living principle of God the light of Christ in the Saints consciences the spirit of truth and would not be tryed by the dead letter his spirit is of God he is guided by the spirit of promise but Jonathan Iohnson desires to be tryed as above said and not by the dead letter therefore his spirit is of God he 's guided by the spirit of promise Are not these thy own words Then wherein have I wronged thee but hath not the Lord herein confounded thy wisdome and suffered thee to utter words thou wouldest not and now to save thy head thou runs to inventions and saies by dead letter thou meanest the Quakers books the writings of M M. and his fellowes Ah Jonathan this mantle doth not cover thee this polluted garment will not shelter thee tell me Jonathan and I charge thee by the Lord thou let the voice of truth answer me was not this the ground of that and other arguments whether the Scriptures or the spirit were the rule not whether the writings of those whom thou cals Quakers or the spirit were the rule were ever such words exchanged between us O that thy eye were opened that thou mightest see thy nakednesse and be ashamed In the 40 page thou tells the people whosoever reads and observe me will see my desire to set up my selse as a wise master builder but let the discreet reader see what ground I gave thee to write so scornfully concerning me the words in my book are these according to the grace of God that is given unto me as a wise master builder I have laid the foundation saith Paul 1 Cor. 3.10 He built upon the rock now I say upon the same rock which was Christ the light whom Paul preached my building is and upon no other which was in Paul ' before he preached him and so by the same grace I am what I am but who can escape the reproach of the envyous In thy 41 page speaking as to some words I used in my book That which lay dead did at the hearing of the voice of the Son of God live Thou answers That which here lay dead is but I never told thee so that which before I called the Christ in all the Royal seed the unction the Lord of glory crucified in them so that by my doctrine saist thou The Royal seed the unction the Lord of glory and Christ in all lay dead till it did at the hearing of the voice of the Son of God live and then aske● what greater confused nonsence can be delivered then to say Christ the Son of God lyeth dead until he hear the voice of Christ the Son of God and live can such babbling be without blasphemy saist thou To all which Jonathan I reply let the honest hearted reader peruse my book and Wisdome will be justified of her children my words are these If there had not been a Royal seed of God left in every man and woman to have answered owned and received the Testimony of the Apostles they might have wandred all the World over and have spent all their life time and not have gayned one convert but there was a witnesse for God in all and that which lay dead did at the hearing of the voice of the Son of God live Here I have affirmed that there was a witnesse for God in all which cannot honestly be denyed and I have affirmed also and so do the Scriptures that that which lay dead did at the hearing of the voice of the Son of God live but did I ever affirme or say that the Royal Seed the unction the Lord of glory and Christ in all lay dead till it did at the hearing of the voice of the Son of God live or that Christ the Son of God lyeth dead till he hear the voice of Christ the Son of God and live But it appears thou knowes not what that was which lay dead to which the Gospel was preached so in thy darke imagination thou ignorantly concludes thou knowes not what and casts a lye upon the innocent for I never did affirme these things thou reportest of me so there thou art found with a lye in thy mouth and to be a false accuser of the innocent and the confused nonsence and blasphemy is turned back into thy own bosome To that which remaines thy vnsavoury riming excepted this I write that the answer of a good conscience is wanting in you notwithstanding your imagined water baptisme here I speak to thee and those in fellowship with thee and do appeal to Gods witnesse in all your consciences whether your yea be yea and your nay nay in all things and whether you be not in the respect of persons or vain customes and fashions of the heathen and whether the true bridling of the tongue be witnessed by you As for Peter I know he baptized with outward water upon permission not by precept And Paul did see that Ordinance or practice idolized in his daies and so laid it a side saying He was not sent to baptize but to preach the Gospel And surely if that eye in you that should see were not blinded you might see the hand of the Lord is held forth against you and that his glory is departed from you is there nothing amisse among you that the Lord thus scatters you and breakes you in peeces like a potters vessel let his witnesse search you have you not lost your first love have you kept your garments pure have you abstained from idoles and as for your outward water I shall now say no more to that but this 2. Kngs 18 4. Remember the brazen serpent Written by a lover of your Souls Martin Mason Lincoln 28. Day 5. Moneth 1659. THE END

SIONS ENEMY DISCOVERED OR The Worker of iniquity rebuked AND INNOCENCY CLEARED In a Reply to seven sheets of Paper Published by Jonathan Johnson of Lincoln and by him Entituled The Quaker quasht and his quarrel queld c. JONATHAN I shall not here take notice of every polluted stream coming from the Fountain of thy corrupt heart which in thy papers thou hast published Thou runs on at a high rate as if there were not a righteous God that takes notice of and registers all the wrongs done unto his people abide thou no longer in the dark habitation of the Hipocrite for though thou hast told the World thou expectedst my acknowledgment of my evil in writing against thee as if that were the cause thou kept thy papers almost these two years by thee yet thy fig leaves cannot cover thee the light of Israel doth discern thee and thou shalt one day know they were sober lines wch then were sent thee wh●n thou writst last to me and happy hadst thou been if thou wouldst have been warned by me Thou tells me page 1 That I Bragadot●-like said I will not give one inch of ground or turn my back off the uncircumcised Philistine Let the sober Reader peruse my book and he may see that in answer to thy charge of the weaknesse and disarmed condition of those I am encamped with and that our weapon is but a bull rush I told thee It was not th●● nor thy Fathers legion could make one Souldier in the camp of the Lord give one inch of ground or turn his back off the uncircumcised Philistine Judge honest Reader hath not the wicked one wrested my words but when will he learn to speak truth say Jonathan dost thou not see thy bold presumption that wouldst have thy engagement to be compared with David See his book p. 1.2 and my words with Goltan Come down son of ambition David was a man after Gods own heart but thy hearr is not circumcised therefore blush and be ashamed I asked thee this question Hath every one that cometh into the world heard and read the preaching of Christ and his Apostles as they are transcribed in the Bible to which thou didst positively answer They have all heard and yet like a son of impudence in thy book thou deniest it and chargest me that I have dealt falsly with thy answer To which I reply the Lord of heaven and earth be judge betwixt us whether them were thy words or nay And because thou art so confident in thy darknesse I tell thee millions of men and women may witnesse against thee that they never read the preachings of Christ and his Apostles as they are transcribed in the Bible To my other question How is the Gospel preached to every creature under heaven which is the power of God if not by that principle of light in the conscience In thy book thou answerest thus In the preaching of Christ and his Apostles which worketh the principle of light in the conscience and whatsoever is not enlightned from thence t is darknesse and not light Be not these thy own words Art thou an elder Jonathan or head or leader of a separated people and so sottish to make the letter the author of the light of Christ in the conscience which was before the letter was given forth as if a man gave being to his maker Sure if thy Church were in God the Father of lights they would see thy nakednesse and be ashamed Thou multiplyest many words about the sound of accusing or excusing in all consciences I am satisfied that thou diddst confess that the sound of accusing or excusing is in all consciences and knowes it is accusing not excusing thee in thy conscience for several sins thou commits against it And thy dark assertion that it comes only by the hearing of faith preached by the Apostles doth more manifest thy miserable nakedness and thy grosse ignorance of Christ the power of God and of his kingdome where it is and what pag. 5. Thou confesseth there was a principle of light in the people before Moses writ the letter and subtilly speaks of Christs sending the people to Moses and the Prophets to hear them Iob. 5 46. I grant thee he did so and I give thee this reason recorded in scripture Had they believed Moses they would have believed Christ for Moses writ of Christ So now we desire people would wisely read and search the scriptures for they do testifie of the light of Christ in the conscience but many read them foolishly as thou dost and think in them to have eternal life but come not to be guided by the light of Christ in the conscience and so fall short of eternal life Charge me no more with useing this phrase the light of conscience 2 Pet. 1.19 for thou never receivedst it from me Conscience is dark untill it be awaked untill the light of Christ in the conscience arise and shine in the heart nor do the children of the day or true Ministers of the light direct the hearts or consciences of the people to any other thing then that sure word of Prophesie the light of Christ in the conscience who is the seed of the woman the word of God though such as thou believes not in it and that 's the reason you are not saved by it so sin hath dominion over you Rom. 1.16 because you believe not in the light of Christ in the conscience which is the power of God unto salvation to all that believe therein and while thy carnal minde is gazing after a Christ without as the Jewes did thou art not like to find him within thee but as a condemner of thee and know this also I am not ashamed to assirme unto thee that the grace of God which brings salvation hath appeared unto all men though all do not receive salvation by it because they believe not in it no more dost thou while thus thou persecutes it and smites the innocent Lambs with the fist of wickednesse Isa 58.4 Wherefore hast thou dealt thus unworthyly with me in thy ninth p. with thy save only c thus boldly to assirme that I granted to thee that the light in the conscience comes by the hearing of faith preached by the Apostles as if the letter were the author of the light How hast thou polluted thy garment with a lye but no better dealing do I look for from thee while blindnesse of heart thus rests upon thee Eph 4.18 I own that which Paul and Peter preached from to be the spirit of the living God and what they spake from the mouth of the Lord I own to be the winde or words of the Lord Io. 8.12 Rev. 19.13 But still afirming as as I did before that Christ the light of the world is the word of God from whom the words proceeded by whom the world was made and so the letter must give place to the spirit the servant is