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A77966	Truth defended. Or, Certain accusations answered, cast upon us who are called Quakers; by the teachers of the world, and the people of this generation. With a cleare discovery, who are the false prophets, and when they came in. And who they are that deny Christ, and that preach another gospel. And who deny the scriptures, churches, ministers, and magistrates, whereby the magistrates and people of this nation may see they justifie that which the scripture condemns, and condemne that which the holy men of God justified. / By a servant of the Lord, whose name in the flesh is, Edward Burrough.	Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.; Howgill, Francis, 1618-1669.	1654 (1654)	Wing B6049; Thomason E808_3; ESTC R207519	16,445	23

TRUTH DEFENDED OR Certain Accusations answered cast upon us who are called Quakers by the Teachers of the World and the People of this Generation With a cleare discovery who are the false Prophets and when they came in And who they are that deny Christ and that Preach another Gospel And who deny the Scriptures Churches Ministers and Magistrates whereby the Magistrates and People of this Nation may see they justifie that which the Scripture condemns and condemne that which the holy Men of God justified By a Servant of the Lord whose Name in the Flesh is Edward Burrough The Epistle To all you who call your selves Ministers of the Gospel and all People in all relations under what forme of Worship soever in England or in all the World who professe your selves Christians THe mighty day of the Lord is come according as he promised of old and this day is witnessed wherein he is establishing his Mountaine and exalting it above all Mountaines and is gathering his people which have been scattered in the darke and long night of Apostacy which Christ and his Apostles saw comming into the Churches then and hath had dominion long over the World and hath raigned till now and raignes now in all the Professors in all Formes every where But now the time is come wherein the Kingdomes of the World are become the Kingdome of the Lord and of his Christ and thousands witnesse it to the prayse of his everlasting name And therefore the Nations are angry and the Princes of the Earth because Michael our Prince is arisen to pleade with all who make warre against him And now Herod and Pilate and all Ierusalem are in an uproare and Ammon and Amaleck and the Egyptians and the Philistines are joyned now against him And all you who live in Formes and know not the power doe now persecute and joyne your selves together being in the same nature as the persecuters of old which were borne after the flesh And now you sonnes of Bondage and of Hagar are to be cast out and now you are all made manifest that you are in the flesh for all your Bowes are bent and all your Arrowes are shot at a people which are counted by you as the filth of the World and as the off-scouring of all things whom the World calls Quakers in whose Foreheads is Written the name of the living God and unto you I say that make Warre against them and now take part with the Dragon against the Lambe you shall all drinke of the cup of fury and indignation of the Lord And unto the living God who is holy and jealous for his owne glory and his name which hath manifested his minde and will by his Eternall Spirit unto us shall you all bow and stoope For now the Lord hath rent the vayle of the covering which hath beene spread over all the Nations in all Professions and you are all seen by the Eternall Eye which is opened in thousands even all from the highest to the lowest who have stolen and painted your selves with other mens Words And all your Images which you have set up and all your traditions from men in which you have walked are all seene to be stubble and will not abide in the day of the Lord And all your Churches which you have gathered together by imitation from the letter shall all be scattered and there you all are for you all deny revelation and say it is ceased and so you call the letter the light and the Word but with that which was before the Scripture you are seen and judged even with that which shall endure for ever And seeing you have cast reproach upon the name of the God of Heaven and Earth whom we worship and which you call delusion For the truths sake are we moved to lay open your nakednesse that you may be judged by that which you say is your Rule Here in this little Booke thou who hast any honesty in thee or any desire of truth and wilt search the Scripture thou wilt see that all the Teachers of the World in all Formes and all professors ever cryed out who had but the Forme against them who had the life and power as you all doe now against them who Worship God in the Spirit and have no confidence in the flesh And therefore in this following Discourse which is Wretten by the same spirit that gave forth the Scripture thou shalt see who are the false Prophets and who they are that Preach another Gospel and who they are that deny the Scriptures And thou may see when the false Prophets came in and who they are clearely proved to be by their owne Rules And all you who call your selves Magistrates and Christians you may see your selves to hold up that which Christ the Prophets and Apostles cryed out against and persecute them who stand in the counsell of God and them that declare against all the deceipt as the holy men of God did And so you are the Beast which holds up the false prophets and th●se whom the Scripture declareth against God is arisen to dash to pieces all them who withstand him And therefore come out of Babylon and out of all your painted Formes and come to own the first principle which will change your mindes even the light of Christ which he hath enlightened every one withall and by it you shall see what you are doing Now if you deny this you deny the corner stone and you stumble and shall be broken and by that which you call naturall shall all your Image of Gold and silver and all your mixed invented Worship be dashed to peeces and be for the pit Therefore all be silent and speake not evill of th●se things you know not for now you are all seen you who say you are Iewes and are not but are of the Synagogue of Satan and your voyce is knowne for none is turned from the evill of his way and therefore is wrath comming upon you to the utmost A lover of your Soules but am a Witnesse against all your deceipt Francis Howgill WHereas we are accused by the Teachers and People of this generation That we are false Prophets and deceivers and that we deny the Christ which dyed at Ierusalem and that we Preach another Gospel then the Apostles Preached and that we deny the Scriptures and the Ordinances of Iesus Christ and that we hold Free-will and establish selfe-righteousnesse and teach people to act in their owne strength to obtaine life and that we deny Churches Ministers and Magistracy To these false accusations I answer It is no new thing nor no strange thing to the children of light who are seperated from the World and Worldly Worships and from the Works of darkenesse to be accused falsely and to be slandered by being called deceivers and seducers by the generation of chiefe Priests and Pharisees in which generation are the Teachers and Professors of this age who have a Forme of godlinesse but deny the

tradition from the Scripture without us And we deny all such who have taken up these things in their owne wills by conforming the outward man to the outward letter and have not entered in at the doore True Preaching we owne and doe witnesse it which is the Crosse of Christ and in the power of God and it is foolishnesse to the World and its wisedome now as ever it was and we deny all speaking of imaginations from Scripture which is in the wisedome of the World and which stands in the will of man limitted to a set time or day or place Prayer by the spirit and in the spirit we owne and witnesse whi●h is not limitted to a time and place And we deny all the worlds formall customary Preaching and Praying for a pretence Baptisme we owne and witnesse wich is with one spirit into one body into the death of Christ And we deny all Baptismes which are imagined and immitated by conforming the outward man to the outward letter which is but a likenesse of the true Baptisme Communion we live in which is in the light by the spirit which will endure Eternally And we deny the Worlds imitation which is in word and declaration and visible carnall things which will passe away Singing which is with the spirit and with understanding of the Redeemed of the Lord we owne and Witnesse but the Worlds singing in Rime and Meeter proud men singing That they are not pufe in minde and prophane men singing That the Law of God is deare to them this singing we deny for it must be turned into howling the Lord hath said it And here againe I charge it upon the Teachers of the World That they deny the substance and power of what Christ commands his saints to practice by upholding their owne imitations and so deceiving the simple but where the substance is witnessed the figure is indeed and the false imitations are discovered and denyed And mans free-will we doe deny for the will of man shall never enter to God but leades out from God into the lust and into the Flesh and keeps in the power of the Devill And man hath free will unto that which is evill but not to that which is good and all who follow Christ the light of the World must deny their owne wills and take up the crosse of Christ which is to the will and walke in the light contrary to the will in the straite way which leades unto life which is out of the will of man in the will of God which the will of man doth resist and oppose And I charge it upon the Teachers and professors who doe not witnesse the dayly Crosse of Christ that they live in their owne free-will and holds it up and are led by it into pride and covetousnesse and the lusts of the Flesh which stand in the will And here they are guilty of that themselves whereof they falsely accuse us living in their owne free-will and walke not in the dayly Crosse of Christ And selfe-righteousnesse we have denyed and have seen it in the same light which Isayah did to be as filthy raggs and we declare against it and against them which live in it for selfe must not be saved it is accursed from God it is wholly unrighteous and makes the best of actions so and is and must be cast out from God Christ Jesus made manifest and revealed in us is our righteousnesse and selfe is judged and condemned by him who is made unto us righteousnesse nei●her doe we teach people to labour in their owne strength to obtaine life but doe direct people to the light of Christ within them which walking in will be strength to them to leade them to life the light which is of Christ to which we direct all to waite in to be taught by it will leade out of selfe-righteousnesse and from under the power of selfe to witnesse the power of God to leade and to act and to witnesse Christ Jesus revealed the righteousnesse of God And the Church which is in God which is the body of Christ whereof Christ is head we witnesse and are members of it gathered and joyned by the Eternall spirit and not by tradition in the wisedome of man And we deny all the VVorlds Churches whereof they were made members by by visible things without and were gathered by tradition whereof the serpent is head and not Christ and which is the body of Anti-Christ some of whom commit Idolatry in an Idols Temple And the Ministry of this Church we deny for it stands in the will of man and the Ministers of it are such as all the servants of the Lord witnessed against the Churches the Ministry and the Ministers are contrary to God but the Ministry which is to the seed which is out of the will of man we owne and witnesse which ministers life unto life and death unto death and divides the word aright judgement to the fat and to the strong and feeds the hungry and looseth the bands of wickednesse and breaks not the bruised reed nor quenches the smoaking flax this Ministry we deny not but are friends unto it and who are Ministers here we have union withall but proud men and such as are called of men Master are cast out of this Ministry and are Ministers to the body of Anti-Christ and know not the Ministery of the Ministry of Jesus Christ as this to the spirit in prison Magistrates and Magistracy we deny not but doe give respect unto for conscience sake for who beares the sword of justice who use their power to be a terror to the wicked and for the prayse of them that doe well are Ministers of God and we desire that there were more Magistracy here and that the Magistrate would more use his power to be a terror to lyers to swearers to drunkards to raylers to false accusers and to proud men and oppressors this we are friends unto but to such as act by their owne wills in corrupt Lawes and doe thereby violence to the Innocent and strengthens the hands of evill doers we cannot be subject but choose rather then to transgresse the Law of God which is written in our hearts by submitting to such mens wills and Lawes to suffer by the corrupt wills of men under corrupt Lawes And thus I have answered those false accusations which are cast upon us and doe declare it be the same spirit in the Teachers and people of this generation which accuseth us as it was in the Scribes and Pharisees which accused Christ and his Disciples And this the Scripture witnesseth unto as they did unto him so would they doe unto us A further Answer to that Accusation of being false Prophets and Deceivers JEsus Christ Prophesied and said That in the last dayes should many false Prophets arise and should deceive many if it were possible the very Elect. Now the Teachers and people of this generation doe say That we who by the world are called