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A93315	The worlds wonder, or the Quakers blazing starr: with an astronomical judgment given upon the same, from 2 Cor. 11.13, 14, 15. Proving them to be altogether deluded by Satan, both in their judgments and walkings: together with a probable conjecture of the end of the world, and the estate of things in the interval. / By Edmund Skipp preacher of the Gospel unto the people at Bodenham in Herefordshire.	Skipp, Edmund.	1655 (1655)	Wing S3949; Thomason E829_4; ESTC R207389	55,821	73

The Worlds Wonder OR THE QUAKERS BLAZING STARR WITH An Astronomical Judgment given upon the same from 2 Cor. 11.13 14 15. Proving them to be altogether deluded by Satan both in their judgments and walkings Together with a probable conjecture of the end of the World and the estate of things in the interval By EDMUND SKIPP Preacher of the Gospel unto the People at Bodenham in Herefordshire Matth. 24.24 There shall arise false Christs and false Prophets and shall shew great signs and wonders in so much that if it were possible they shall deceive the very elect LONDON Printed by Henry Hills and are to be sold at the Sign of Sir John Oldcastle near Py-corner 1655. To all those who are willing to hold fast the Faith of the Gospel and to be guided by the Truth Grace Mercy and Peace from God the Father and the Lord JESUS CHRIST TWo things have much moved my affections unto this Work following 1. The one that herein I might shew an humble acknowledgment of love unto the Lord who delivered my soul from under those obscurities which would utterly have disabled me from being good to my own heart or others 2. That I might herein become a means of staying and directing many an unestablished soul to beware of those horrible Delusions and mysterious Deceits which I have in this ensuing Treatise with as much plainness and brevity as I judged convenient demonstrated for the sake of all who are unacquainted with these Apostacies and are willing to search out untill they gain an establishment in the knowledg of the truth as it is in Christ Jesus For it would have been great unworthiness in me if when I was brought so experimentally to the knowledg of these unheard-of ways of Satans deceiving the hearts of poor Creatures under fair pretences and glorious shews of righteousness and doing great signs and wonders I should have concealed from my generations such things that were never yet manifested in such a manner The writing of common experiences either of good or evil operations would neither have been an incitement to my Pen or my Readers attention but having an extraordinary understanding in an extraordinary apparition of a prodigious Comet whose beautifull scintillations make all the World to wonder what might be her fate I durst not for fear of wronging my own conscience but put my Light like a Candle upon the house-top that so it might be seen into all the Regions of Gospel-professions manifesting unto them that this Monster amongst men or this unnatural and unparalleld Planet promiseth nothing but Vae misero mihi sadness and loss of all the riches of Gods grace unto every soul that liveth under its malevolent and contagious influences My Book will expound my Allegory therefore I leave my Readers to that and rest Their Servant in the Gospel-service Edmund Skipp To the Reader COurteous Reader I have here presented thee with a little Tract as my New-years Gift unto thee and must desire thee to carry a favorable aspect in thy judgment towards it and me although thou maist finde it unpolished and void of such a method and eloquence of words as thou mightst judg would better have become me and it as well as many an acute Genius that shall honor it in the reading But give me leave to tell thee truth I have had but a fortnights time to begin and finish these lines which time I have through much difficulty borrowed from my other Studies and Employments and they are now calling upon me for a recompence with double diligence which hath been so little that I have not had time to write any one line from the first to the last twice but am necessitated to send forth these Conceptions of mine thus Embrio-like into the open view of the world and therefore I desire to receive from thee what I shall be willing to give unto thee or any other in the like ease a candid censure desiring also for thy good that thou maist have an heart more ready to receive sound judgment from it than to give a wrong judgment upon it I rest Ever willing to serve thee in the Lord Edmund Skipp From my Study at Bodenham this New-years day so called in the year 1654. The Worlds Wonder OR The QUAKERS Blazing Starr A sensible Discovery of some high and spiritual Delusions wrought by Antichrist in the hearts of of many poor Creatures and especially those that go under the notion of QUAKERS BY that power which bringeth good out of evil it cometh to pass that afflictions fallings back temptations overwhelmings of the soul with a deluge of spiritual troubles dejections and disconsolations are many times profitable and teaching to the hearts of the Lords sincere ones who are kept by himself through faith unto salvation and they are laid in as so many several advantages and as it were Land-marks to direct the soul in the perfect paths of peace that they turn not aside either to the right hand or to the left so that it may make the children of the Most High admire his continued faithfulness in his love and watchfulness manifested in their behalf while they are run a whoring after their own inventions Satans deceivable transformings of himself into glorious appearances words and actings If a reasonable heart should but digest it self into a methodical observation of the Lords Law of Retaliation Lev. 26.14 to 34. and correspondent dealings unto the standings and fallings of his creatures it might be overcome in the apprehensions of that great patience long-suffering and gentleness of the Lord to Apostates and unstable-minded people who have itching ears carried about with every winde of Doctrine But to the end he may gain himself a name in Judah is he pleased to wait upon poor sinners to be gracious unto them and to suffer many of them to fall to be tempted to be darkned with cloudy and obscure apprehensions of the eternal being that so their weakness and his strength their nothingness and his all-sufficiency their sluggishness and his watchfulness might more clearly appear in their proper place and to make good his former word and practice in gathering his servants together out of all Lands whither they had been scattered in the dark and cloudy day And surely were it not for the hopes of some such glorious and wise end that the Lord doth now intend in the fulness of time to make known amongst the sons of men it would minister cause of most unspeakable sorrow unto such who are established in the faith of our Lord JESUS CHRIST to see so many forsaking their faith and former knowledg and profession of the truth and instead hereof believing lyes 2 Thess 2.11 1 Tim. 4.1 and giving heed unto Doctrines of Devils walking according to the suggestions of the Prince of Darkness and every foolish idle fantastical imagination of their own deceitfull hearts These things do apparently teach the world to see how vigilant that great Enemy of mankinde

rewards they judg not the fatherless neither doth the cause of the widow come before them therefore saith the Lord I will ease me of mine adversaties and avenge me of mine enemies And I would desire you to reade judiciously over most part of the second Chapter of Isaiah there you shall finde the minde of God against self-seeking and pride c. But that my counsel may appear more fully I shall desire you to give me leave to instruct you with much love and single-heartedness in these two things First that you will carefully in the fear of the Lord see to your selves and your ways that these people may not charge you justly with any coverousness pride vain-glory self-seeking oppression or injustice or profane and loose walking and in so doing you will in a most victorious manner disarm them of their offensive weapons Secondly that you would with all possible diligence seek for the armour of Christ Jesus and have your selves strengthned with that faith and knowledg which comes from him and these will be your defensive weapons and then by that time you shall have disarmed them and armed your selves in this kinde I know you will prove so able to deal with them your selves that you will never need to cry for your Sergeants and Officers to imprison them This I apprehend to be the most Gospel-like and most honourable way for Magistrates Ministers and People to take against the Quakers I have now through the good hand of the Lord attained unto the end of my thoughts and mediatations about this mysterious work and workers and have no more behinde but a few single words and then I have done Let not any wonder while I am speaking some particular words in a particular manner that I have not a word for the Quakers seeing they have been the whole object of my discourse my reason is because I finde the strongest of them to be beyond all hopes of returning or being convinced by such means for I have had some trial by reasonings with them and writings unto them and I finde it bringeth forth nothing in them but more obdurateness of heart and some railing unchristian-like expressions in their Letters so that I chuse rather to leave them to the wisdom and power of God in this thing and shall onely give these Cautions to such younglings of them who never were yet in any powerfull working of the Truth and Light of Christ and are but as it were entring into that deceitfull condition 1. With speed forsake their society wholly both in publick and private manner for although they may not prevail upon a knowing Christian yet they may easily carry away your hearts 2. Adjoyn your selves unto the societies of such people especially who walk according to the most plain and sure Rules of the Gospel and they are the Baptists so called 3. If there be any power or faculty to pray left in you I would have you use it to the utmost desiring the Lord in sincerity and with diligence from time to time to teach and shew you the ways that you shall chuse and then to establish and keep you in the same and undoubtedly if the Lord through his mercy will be pleased to help you to observe these three things it may be much for his glory and your comfort First a word to the Seekers so called You are that progeny of mankinde or parentage of people that have born forth unto the world that uncomfortable fraternity of Quakers and Ranters These brethren in iniquity are now in a state of desperate apostacy who were once a people of most blessed principles and great attainments for which things sake I was in my affections and judgment engaged to maintain fellowship and society with them in a special manner above and beyond all other people professing the ways of the Lord for the space of six years compleat For the worth of those principles sake which did so much affect me I shall make bold to mention three above the rest in this place 1. Was their readiness and willingness to own and receive any farther manifestations or appearances of God in power and truth that he should be pleased to shew unto them and this was no small mercy or attainment when I consider how many other poor creatures are possessed with a selfish rigid principle crying out against any farther manifestations or operations of God than what they have received as Heresie Error and the like 2. Was their chearfull owning and embracing all the workings of the grace of God in truth that did appear in the hearts of any poor creatures with much love and tender-heartedness towards them This was much compared with the frame of spirit that possesseth most professors 3. Was a greater careand seeking after a power life and spirit from the Lord to perform their worship and duty withall then standing upon the form or outward appearance of such worship or duty Which 3. Principles as I did so I do own them and judg them to be very heavenly and spiritual onely by these poor creatures sad example I hope I shall be more carefull to try well what I receive under either of them As you see these to be very high and spiritual so they ly very open to temptation and deceit And I will shew all people how Satan hath insinuated himself into the hearts of these people under every one of these principles and that with a very fair and unknowne guile First whereas they were ever ready and willing to receive all further discoveries and manifestations from the Lord he transforming himself into an Angel of Light that so he might seemingly act the part of God hath presented some new things or ways and operations un o them more seemingly spiritual than any they had before such as you have seen throughout this book and so easily engageth their hearts to receive what their principles led them unto Secondly they being very tenderly affected to all such whom they judged to be sincere although under the lowest discovery of truth Here Satan deceiving of them maketh them to become very much affected with the carnal creatures of the world and to disown such as they formerly owned and tendered under small attainments as though they were in a worse estate than meer carnal and atheistical persons Thirdly in as much as they did more look after the power of godliness than the form and more after spiritual enablings of the soule to duties than its going forth in its own strength Here the Deceiver beguileth them and carrieth them first away from that form they did use and secondly under waiting for spiritual endowments he suggesteth by fits much power of speaking and praying likewise for he can enable men to pray as well as to speak rumable words I know this to be true for when some of them have been under the greatest delusion that might be in speaking they have been carried out to pray in as ample manner and as good

of I take literally according to our computation of time The binding and chaining up of the Devil I take to be such a powerfull and blessed appearance of God in the hearts of his people who shall through the teachings of himself be brought to such an holy Conformity and Uniformity both in affection judgment and walking that Antichrist shall not be able to break in upon them to delude or entice them or the like but they through the glorious and in dwelling of God in their hearts shall be able to resist all the deceivable ways of Satan that he will be as it were no Devil at all unto them he will be as though he were tied with a Chain or cast into a I le not able to hurt or wrong any of them as now he doth Now this thousand years being taken out wherein the Church of CHRIST shall thus triumph over him and conquer him there remaineth but three hundred and fifty or there about which must likewise be divided into two parts one part must be for Satan to go about into all the corners of the earth to deceive and beguile the people again v. 7 8. at the exspiration of the thousand year after the manner as now he doth in my judgment and so to bring them into a state of apostacy which he cannot do probably under an age and a half or two ages for we see in our own experience there is no ground error or superstition sucked into the hearts of a people or rooted out under an age and an half at least and therefore I think he must have such an allowance as this for to bring an universal apostacy into all the earth before its destruction and if you shall allow him but an hundred and fifty years for this then there wil be but even two hundred before that thousand which is but a short time in comparison of what he hath had ever since he first beguiled Eve with the forbidden Apple and therefore no marvel he doth so bestir himself now and finde out new and more dangerous ways This is my present apprehension concerning the ending of the World and concerning that mystery in Rev. 20. Si quid novisti rectius istis Candidus imperti si non his utere mecum Question 2. In order to the people themselves called Quakers Peradventure some are inquiring seeing they are so exceedingly deluded and such a dangerous people what course should be taken by them whether it were best to imprison them or banish them or the like In my Answer hereunto I shall direct my speech unto two sorts of people First unto the common sort of people I do hear and believe it is true that the ordinary sort of people in all Countreys and Towns whither these poor creatures come do abuse them very much and beat them and despitefully use them I do not conceive that this is the right way to deal with them neither can any good ground be given for this kinde of usage of them seeing they come to places in a peaceable manner pretending they come for the peoples good and me thinks it is great inhumanity to use any people so uncivilly that come so civilly and withall they speak nothing in that nature but what their hearers themselves must confess to be true reproving them sharply for some unjust and unrighteous actings or other or for some carnal and secure conditions wherein they live c. And therefore I would counsel all such people to whom they shall come in this kinde to take a right way of opposing them which is through a strong knowledg and understanding of the Scripture to reason with them and to prove them fairly according to the rules of the Scripture and such rules as I have here given you in my Book to be those deluders and deluded people that are spoken of by Christ and his Apostles and upon that account neither to own them nor their Doctrine This is the warrantable way of the Gosple and I think I may be bold to tell you this for your encouragment that if you shall stick up closely and unanimously to this way you will finde the Devil a very Coward according to that word of St James Resist the devil and he will fly from But if any of you shall say that you are not able to deal with them in this nature they are too full of knowledg and you are not so well acquainted with the Scriptures as they c. I fear it is too true as you say but is not the fault your own Hive not you Bibles as well as they How comes it to pass that you are so empty of knowledg in the Word of God but for want of diligent reading and meditating in the same And therefore I would counsel all men both Preachers and people to be hereafter better armed against them for I suppose you will be more troubled with them than you have been and indeed when you have done all this your natural attainments of this kinde will prove too short to deal with them by therefore by all means laber father and feek to gain the spiritual armour of Christ Jesus which you shall have from him if you will receive him John 1.12 and hearken diligently unto the voice of God calling you and do not stand still and rest your selves satisfied in your ignorant and carnal conditions but remember that word Ephes 5.14 Awake thou that sleepest and arise from the dead and Christ shall give thee light yea and power and strength also to overcome the assaults of Satan and you must pray with all your might unto the Lord to furnish your souls with his grace and holy Spirit that you may be able to stand fast in such perillous times Secondly I direct my speech unto the civil Magistrate and desire him to consider what he doth to these people I hear they are from City to City and Countrey to Countrey persecuted and imprisoned by you but by what Law of yours I know not I do not hear that they do transgress any of your Laws by sinfull and unrighteous actings if they should I shall give my consent they might have double punishment if they do not I would have you forbear them and see that they have not greater grounds to speak against your abominations than you have to punish them I fear because they tell you your own many of you they turn your Patience into Passion and from thence rather than from any Principle you have to do justice you act against them for if you were generally men possessed with a zeal to do justice we should not have such abominable and crying sins calling at the Throne of God for justice against such injusticers as many are If you will not believe the Truth because it comes from them yet I hope you will believe it as it comes from the mouth of God Isai 1.23 24. Thy Princes are rebellious and companions of Thieves every one loveth gifts and followeth after