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A33498	The books and divers epistles of the faithful servant of the Lord Josiah Coale collected and published, as it was desired by him the day of his departure out of this life.	Coale, Josiah, 1632?-1668.; Coale, Josiah, 1632?-1668. Collection of the several books of Josiah Coale.; Coale, Josiah, 1632?-1668. Whore unvailed.; Coale, Josiah, 1632?-1668. Vindication of the light within.; Parker, Alexander, 1628-1689.; Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.; Penn, William, 1644-1718.	1671 (1671)	Wing C4751_PARTIAL; Wing C4760A_PARTIAL_CANCELLED; ESTC R23397	193,793	414

Performances without the Inward Leadings of the Spirit of the Lord and in this Antichristian-spirit by which they have been exercised in the aforesaid Idolatrous Abominations they have been Killing Destroying and Devouring one another about those things which are their own Inventions set up in their own Wills which they would have all to conform to and have long imposed it one upon another by Penal Laws and thereby have enforced many who fear'd Man more then God to conform contrary to what they were perswaded in their own Consciences to worship the Image set up by them yet a Remnant there was alwayes whom God preserved and rais'd up by his Power to stand faithful Witnesses against their Idolatrous Worships and Traditions whose Blood this Antichristian-spirit in the Beast and false Prophet that carries the Whore hath always drunk and many Faithful Martyrs of Jesus in times past have seal'd their Testimony against this false Church of Apostate Christians in which this Antichristian spirit rules even with their very Lives though they did not see nor understand the things that are now seen and understood by many yet blessed be the Lord they were by his Power and Spirit so furnished and sustained and so filled with Love to God and his Cause and with Zeal against the false Church and her Antichristian Impositions and Idolatries that they loved not their Lives unto death but laid down their Lives with Chearfulness as a Testimony against them and so through Faith have obtained a Good Report amongst us who are now following the Lamb in the same Foot-steps of the Flock And so my Beloved Friends Seeing that now in fulness of time God hath rais'd us up by his Power according to his Purpose and Determination and Fore-knowledge to be faithful Witnesses for his Name and Truth and to the Power of his Appearance in our Hearts and to bear Testimony against the aforesaid Superstitions and and Idolatrous Impositions which are practis'd at this day amongst them that know not the only true and living God nor Jesus Christ whom he hath sent a Light into the World I say my Friends These things are sufficient to engage our Hearts unto the Lord follow him unto the end through all Trials and Exercises of what nature or kind soever that for the future may come upon us for our Testimonies sake For my Friends We know right well that God hath not been wanting unto us in any Tryal or State whatsoever if we have not been wanting in or Obedience unto him but hath been alwayes present with us and hath oft caus'd his Love to abound unto us and in us being shed abroad in our hearts by his good Spirit so that for joy of Heart we could even sing Praises to the Name of the Lord in the midst of our Sufferings and Afflictions so that we have no Cause to be discourag'd at the Sufferings which attend us nor at the Threats and Frowns of Wicked Men who hate and persecute us without a just Cause but we have rather great Cause of encouragement to persevere and go on bearing forth our Testimony for the Lord through all Sufferings if it be Death it self knowing the Reward thereof to be so exceeding great and having this Confidence in our selves That none of these things shall be able to move us nor to seperate us from the Love of God which we have in Christ Jesus Nay but rather shall confirm us for as the Apostle said It is an evident Token to us of Salvation but to our Adversaries of Perdition and that of God And so my Beloved Friends You who are already Exil'd and sent into forreign Parts of the World for your Testimony 's sake I doubt not but you experimentally know in an especial manner the Largeness of the Extent of God's Love unto his People in a Suffering Condition you having been in measure exercis'd therein beyond many others though I doubt not but have the Testimony of God's Holy Spirit that many are as freely given up in the same Faith for the same Testimony to partake with you outwardly of the same Sufferings as they do inwardly sympathize with you therein if the Lord see it meet for the Honour of his Name so to suffer them to be exercised Yet nevertheless All who have been and are faithful to God in their Places have and do enjoy so much of the Peace and Presence of God as is fully satisfactory unto them so that in the Unity of the Spirit of Life which from God we have receiv'd and by which we are seperated from the World and its Wayes and Works of Darkness and by which we are rais'd up to be faithful and true Witnesses for God and against the Traditions of men by which they have made void God's Commandments I say in this Spirit we do sympathize and partake with you both in Suffering and in Rejoycing and have a real Sence upon our hearts and spirits of your Estate and we are not unmindful of you but do heartily pray That Grace Health Mercy and Peace together with all Spiritual Blessings in Christ our Lord may be continually multiplied and encreased amongst you that the Aboundings thereof you may know unto your great Consolation that so being thereby watered and refreshed you may grow in the Grace of God and in the Knowledge of our Lord Jesus and may feel his Life to encrease in you and so to strengthen you that you thereby may be able to teach others also and to instruct them in the Way of Life and Salvation that so your Sufferings and Exilement may make for the Furtherance of the Gospel of God and for the spreading of his Blessed Glorious Truth through the Nations and for the gathering into it them who are yet afar off from God and Strangers unto him that so the Witness of God in all Consciences being answer'd by you both in Life Conversation and Doctrine you may be a good savour unto God both in them that believe and also in them that perish that the Justification of Life in the Spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ you may all feel and witness and that will be your alone Satisfaction in all Conditions and therein my Love doth dearly salute you all And in this my Dear Friends pray one for another and walk together in Love and be of one Mind and Practice in all things that appertain to the Worship of God and to your Testimony for Him and against the World and its Wayes and Worships and live in Peace one with another and build up one another in your most precious Faith and watch over one another in the Spirit of Love and Meekness and let there be no Straightness nor Strangeness one towards another but be Open-hearted and Tender one to another And if any thing appear amongst any of you which tends to the Hurt of any Particular or to the Truth in general in the Spirit of Meekness let it be spoken to them and in the same Spirit let

men their wandering and tossings to and fro with every Wind or Tempest that hath arised in this Nation been evidently enough seen in this our Generation yea surely all who are not wilfully blind cannot but perceive how not long since they preached up the Common-Prayer-Book seemingly with a great zeal as though Salvation was not to be attained without Conformity thereunto but no sooner did the windy tempest arise which blew that away and the then Powers of the Nation by whom it was upheld and which these men swore for and prayed for c came to be subdued and the Church Faith and Directory come to be set up in its stead but presently they were turned or driven about with the tempest and wandered from the Comnon-Prayer-Book and swore against the King and House of Lords by whom it was upheld and whom before they prayed and swore for and began to swear for the Common-Wealth and to preach up the Church Faith and Directory with as much seeming zeal as before they had done the other And now again since the tempest hath risen and the wind hath blown another way and their Church Faith of which Christ was not the Author and Directory hath faln thereby and the Common-Prayer-Book again set up in its old place they are persently wandered back again to that and driven about thither preaching of it up and praying and swearing for King and house of Lords whom they formerly preached and prayed and swore against and these things they do with as impudent faces many of them as though they had never varied from it Oh hypocritical treacherous deceitful hearted Generation who shall believe them to be Messengers or Ministers of God that have no more stability with them truly their very actions in turning and tossing and wandering to and fro hath sufficiently declared them to be without any true foundation and who shall conside in them for the time to come that are so variable have we not ground to believe that they will turn to the old Mass or to the Turk's Alcharon or any thing that the Powers of the Nation shall countenance surely they who believe better then so of them will be deceived by many or most of them as many have been already in times past for although they feignedly appear as such who should take care and watch for the Soul yet we experimentally see that they seek for their own gain and indeed they serve not the Lord Jesus Christ but their own bellies for their fruits declare that they will Murder as they have done many for their Bellies And although they flatter with the King and thy Rulers Oh England as though they sought and study'd their Well-fare and Safety and would counsel them for their Establishment and Security yet they are a treacherous Generation and it is not safe for the King to trust then for they have an End unto themselves in most or all that they do and their own Interest is concern'd in most of their Enterprizes for they are Lovers of their own selves and of Pleasures more then of God as the King and his Council may easily see if they consider it and take an inspection into it And let me tell the King and his Council this by the way together with the rest of thy Rulers Oh England That if they hearken to the Counsel of these Self-seeking and Time serving-men who are Wandring Stars and Clouds driven with Tempests as afore is declar'd I say if they follow these Blind Guides and hearken to their Counsel so as to be sway'd by them and become their Vassels to fulfil their Blood-thirsty Desires in Prosecuting Banishing and making Havock of the People of God then in the end they will certainly fall into the Ditch of Everlasting Destruction and Perpetual Shame and Contempt out of which there is no recovery and then shall they know that God hath spoken by me and that a Prophet of the Lord hath been amongst them Wherefore Oh Nation and you Inhabitants thereof let my Counsel be acceptable unto you at this time that if possible so many of you who have not quite sinn'd out your Day and have yet any Tenderness of Heart left in you towards God may come to find a Hiding-place from the Wrath to come For if the aforesaid crying Sins and Abominations which your Teachers are a great Cause of as afore-shew'd are continu'd in then utter Destruction and Desolation must and will unavoidably come upon you Wherefore hearken not to them who tell you that you cannot be made free from Sin while you remain in this Body but hearken to the Voice of God who is Light and who searcheth your Hearts and declareth the Secrets thereof unto you by his Faithful and True Witness which he hath placed in your Consciences and which calls out of Sin and Transgression for if you are in the Light and walk in the Light wherewith you are enlightened the Blood of Jesus Christ will clense you from all Sin and Wash you from all Iniquity as the Apostle testified Neither lend an Ear to them who stir you up to Persecute the Innocent for the exercise of their Consciences towards God in his Worship for they cause you to Err and to Transgress the Royal Law of God which saith Whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you even so do ye unto them and thereby you will purchase the displeasure of the Lord against your selves as many have already done which will not easily be appeased Wherefore save your selves from this untoward Generation of false Prophets who cause you to Err and who make a prey upon you and Come out from amongst them and be seperate from them and Touch not the unclean thing or any thing whatsoever that will defile the Conscience but break off your Sins and all kind of Iniquities by speedy Repentance and by true submission to Gods faithfull Witness his Spirit of Grace in your inward parts which will Teach you as it did the Saints of Old and as it doth us that denying Ungodliness and Worldly Lusts you should live Soberly Righteously and Godly in this present World for there is not another way to escape the Righteous and Dreadful Judgments of the Lord which are already begun to be Revealed upon thy Inhabitants Oh England but only by turning to the Lord with their whole hearts and by truly humbling themselves before him and by learning obedience to the Gift of his Spirit which hath long strived with them for it is not an out-side Profession that will serve turn the Lord hath been long grieved therewith already and many have soared aloft above the Measure of the Gift of the Spirit of God into an airy Profession of high things but have not had the Life of what they have Professed only have made their Profession a Cloak for their Wickedness many of them and thereby the Spirit of the Lord is and hath been grieved and he is now arisen to lay open their Madness

forementioned Scripture by which it is plain that he condemns himself in the things he is doing 5. Again Fifthly he saith That the Spirit of God saith Hear the Church but the spirit of the Devil contradicts and saith Hear not the Church but Christ alone for of Christ saith he it s written This is my beloved Son him hear ye behold the Devil pleads for Christ of purpose to deceive Christions c. Answ To which I answer That I think I need not say much to convince all that reads but A. S. his own words that he is either grosly ignorant or else abominably wilful and wicked for who can believe that the Devil will plead for Christ or perswade people to hear Christ and disswade them from hearing of the Church certainly if he would perswade people to hear the greater he would not disswade them from hearing the lesser And how can people possibly be deceived that hears Christ and obeys him I cannot believe that its the spirit of the Devil that perswades people to hear Christ but rather that its the drawings of the Spirit of the Father that invites them to come unto the Son and to hear him for Christ said None cometh unto me except my Father who hath sent me draw him Joh. 6.44 But A. S. contrariwise in effect saith That the Devil draws people to come unto Christ and to hear him By which he hath manifestly shewed that he is of a contrary spirit unto Christ Therefore A. S. is an Antichrist and one that puts Light for darkness and darkness for light against whom the woe is pronounced Isa 5.20 And although A. S. so much pleads for the Church whom I know all will hear that hears Christ yet upon serious consideration I find its of purpose to deceive Christians and so he hath shewed himself as bad as the Devil he speaks of being found doing the same work of which he seems to accuse the Devil for in his sixth Chapter I find him as afore declared in effect perswading people Not to adhere to the motions of the Spirit of Christ under pretence that they cannot tell whence from God or the Devil it comes or whither to Heaven or Hell it goeth c. And as above he is again perswading people That its a dangerous thing to hear that Spirit that invites them to hear Christ calling it the Devil because it doth not invite them to hear the Church of Rome also But I never read or heard before that any spirit did invite people to hear Christ but the Spirit of the Father and his Spirit said This is my beloved Son him hear ye Mat. 17.5 Therefore that Spirit that invites people to hear the Son of God is not the Devil but the Spirit of the Father and ought to be heard and obeyed by all Sixtly Again S. A. affirmeth that the Spirit of God saith That Carpenters Smiths Masons and other Tradesmen must not meddle with Ecclesiastical things as to Preach or Teach c. But saith he the evil spirit affirmeth the quite contrary by perswading them they may all prophesie one by one But alas then saith A. S. He deceiveth for that place is understood of the real and True Prophets of whose number all the Devils in Hell cannot prove all Tradesmen to be Answ Here A. S. seems to oppose that which for my part I know none affirms for who is there that saith all Tradesmen have the Spirit of Prophesie I know none Yet although all Tradesmen have it not it doth not therefore follow that no Tradesmen have it neither did I ever read that the Spirit of God did forbid Tradesmen to meddle with those things nor doth that Scripture which A. S. quotes confirm any such thing which he affirmes but rather the contrary And we do read in the Scriptures of Truth that Christ did call some of several Tradesmen to Teach the Way of God and to Preach the everlasting Gospel witness St Peter a Fisher-man St Paul a Tent-maker with divers others that might be mentioned so that though all Tradesmen have not the Spirit of Prophesie yet we see that some had and they were not forbidden but commanded to Preach and Teach and therefore they who have the Testimony of Jesus which is the Spirit of Prophesie although they be Tradesmen they may Preach and Teach according to the Gift thereof received for the Apostle said Every one as he hath received the Gift of the Spirit so let him administer 1 Pet. 4.10 Seventhly And saith A. S. the Apostle said Women must not speak in the Church but the Devil saith they may For the Scripture averreth saith he That your Sons and Daughters shall Prophesie this Devil deceiveth the Women-Quakers But alas that Scripture was fulfilled in the Apostles and in the true Prophetesses in their times as Anna Luke 2.28 and now is in such as have the True Spirit of Prophesie which Quakers Wives and Daughters can never prove themselves to have Answ Here A. S. hath confessed that there was Prophetesses in the Apostles dayes and that there now is at this day also and the Apostle spake of Women that were helpers with him in the Gospel Phil. 4.3 So then its undeniable that Women did speak and Prophesie and now may though the Apostles did not Permit Busie-bodies and Tattlers to be asking Questions in the Church but said they should ask their Husbands at Home So the thing disputable is whether or no Quakers Wives and Daughters have the true Spirit of Prophesie concerning which I say this The Testimony of Jesus is the Spirit of Prophesie and many Wives and Daughters of the people called Quakers have received the Testimony of Jesus and knows the Life of Jesus manifested in them as by their fruits of Love Meekness Gentleness Patience Long-suffering c. which are fruits of the Spirit doth appear unto those who have a knowledg of them Therefore they have the Spirit of Prophesie And further several of the Wives and Daughters amongst the people called Quakers have Prophesied of the desolation of the great Whore the Church of Rome and when that comes to pass it will be thereby proved that they have the true Spirit of Prophesie and then shall every Tongue confess to it and in the mean time let none speak evil of the things they know not lest they be found fighters against God Eightly Again A. S. saith That the good Spirit saith It is a Religious Act to Swear by God in a Just Cause but the Evil-spirit contradicts for it s written saith he Sware not at all Behold the Puritanism of this impure spirit but alas he deludeth for God expresly commands Jer. 4.2 Thou shalt Swear the Lord liveth in Truth in Judgment and in justice c. Answ I answer although in the Law and Prophets people were commanded to Swear in Truth and Righteousness and to perform their Oaths to the Lord yet Christ the new Covnant whom God promised should not be according to the