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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64773	The devil the greatest sinner in the world, or, A reply to Thomas Powel, who calls himself a minister of the Gospel, yet affirms, Jesus Christ was the greatest sinner in the world by John Vaughton ...	Vaughton, John, 1644-1712.	1676 (1676)	Wing V158; ESTC R1102	20,220	28

shall take a little notice of his Passage wherein he tells his Reader He shall make him Smile by which those that are serious may see what Spirit this Man is of who scoffs at Revelation and makes ado about my going as he saith into the Country when he was at London and there was neither Preacher nor People Now I declare and that in Truth That at that time I went into the Country to a Meeting of our Friends and I being told that it was T. P's Day to be there according to his usunl manner and having Time enough before our Meeting to go to his Meeting I did go not upon Revelation after that manner as he would insinnate but upon the Information as I had before and when I came to his Meeting I was told that he altered his Day on that day I was there before whether it was to prevent my meeting with him or not I shall leave I do say that we do not place our going to enquire for a Place or Person upon Immediate Revelation And I shall refer my Reader to that Passage of his to his Reader that saith They made us who were a great People to desert our Place whether we met with him and his People or no So that I have good Cause still to trust in the Revelation of God's Power which did not only confound and drive him away from disturbing ‖ Note T. P. came into his Meeting when I was speaking to the People in the Fear of God and the People were generally still and after he came in he endeavoured to stir up the Bad but the Lord's Power was with us and T. P. went away and took the roughest of the People with him then we had a Peaceable and a Quiet Meeting for about Three Hours and though he tells his Reader That we were so rude that one would have thought that we came out of a Bear-Garden Yet I say this is a great Vntruth for such Behaviour was not on our Parts who were sober and kept in God's Fear and to Scriptural Expressions but on thine whose saying to one of us when at thy Meeting was Sirrah come down which I am sure savours more of a Bear Garden Expression then of a Minister's of Christ Jesus And thou further saidst at that time and in thy Book since avouchest That we deserve to be whiped scourged and put in the Stocks by which people may see was thy Power as great as thy Will that Whipping Scourging and putting us in the Stocks should be the Weapons or Arguments that thou wouldst use instead of the Sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God and true Ministers Weapons So that its manifest that a Measure of the old persecuting spirit that ever was a Mark of the false Church and her Ministers hath entred thee but thy Horn is too short We were sober and kept in God's Fear and the Rudeness was with him and those that followed him of whom I do say Except they come to Repent and turn from the Evil of their Doings they cannot lay down their Heads in Peace For it is not every one that cryes Lord Lord shall enter the Kingdom of Heaven but he that doth the Will of my Father which is in Heaven of us and hindring the Testimony which God had put into our Hearts that day but also setled the minds of the greatest number of the people and the Hearts of many were tendered and I hope the Sense that a Remnant had of God's immediate Power will be as an Engagement for them to wait daily for to feel the same that so their Hearts may be engaged unto the Lord and that his Fear may be ever placed in their Hearts that they may know him to be to them as a Fountain of Life to keep them from the Snares of Death And for Thomas Powell's Railing against me and calling me False Prophet and pronouncing me accursed and such like Expressions comes from the Heat of his Spirit and so may justly be reckoned amongst his Bed-ridden Performances and his Fly-blown Duties as he calls them which Phrases he sayes Christians understand very well I would have T. P. to tell me Whether the Spirit of God leads to such Performances and Duties or the spirit of Satan And mayst not thou be ashamed to take Money of People for such Duties and Performances Well God's Hand is against thee and thy Practice and it had been better for thee to have stood still as I have formerly told thee and to have known God's Salvation and his Power to have kept thee from venting forth such Bed-ridden and Fly blown Stuff and if thy best Performances be such what is the worst And T. P. in his 5th Page saith He shall first consider the Title of my Book which is this A Vindication of Jesus Christ the Immaculate Lamb of God Note He leaves out what I vindicate him from which was from the Foul and Blasphemous Imputation of one Thomas Powell a Preacher among the Independ●nts who affirmed * Note It was not a Position as he would insinuate but it was an Affirmation That Jesus Christ was the Greatest Sinner in the World he takes no notice of it as though it concerned him not and yet he calls his Book an Answer to mine furely he still persists in Lying notwithstanding I warned him to the contrary But he goes on and sayes He admires at my Confidence to stile my Book A Vindication of Christ Jesus if I had not been a Quaker he sayes it had been something What! is it nothing now or is it become a Crime for a Quaker to vindicate Christ Jesus from such foul and blasphemous Expressions as he hath uttered and is his admiring at it and his saying He cannot believe it and calling my Title but a Pretence and a Bait to catch poor Souls a sufficient thing to prove it so But it is no Wonder why the Man is grown to such a Degree of Incredulity as to believe after this rate seeing he excludes having any Dependency on Christ within as the Quakers own him and how do the Quakers own him as to his inward Appearance To be the True Light that Lighteth every man that cometh into the World And T. P. sayes We say we own every Principle of the Christian-Religion Is that become a Crime in this pretended Minister's Account It s very probable it is so for he tells his Reader That our owning Christ or any other Principle of Religion to be a meer Mystical Romance and that we own such a Christ as Vnchrist's Christ such kind of Stuff and Matter as its like he has learned from Thomas Hicks the Forger and the rest of his Brethren he communicates to his Reader instead of bringing plain Scripture to clear himself from his soul and blasphemous Charge of Sin to Christ I need not much enlarge to prove we own Christ Jesus or our selves Christians seeing it never entred into the Hearts nor