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A77938	Ansvvers to severall queries put forth to the despised people called Quakers, by Philip Bennett, who cals himself a minister of Christ, but is found a deceiver; answered by them to whom they were directed. Also, ansvvers to severall other subtil queries put forth by one Iohn Reeve, who lives in the City of London, who cals himself the last messenger and witnesse unto the true God, but is found a false witnesse, and a lyar, and a perverter of the right way of God. / Answered by Edward Burrough, and Francis Howgill, who are witnesses unto the truth against this subtil serpent-like generation.	Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.; Howgill, Francis, 1618-1669.	1654 (1654)	Wing B5984; Thomason E813_4; ESTC R207330	24,422	20

doth sanctification or justification in order antecede holinesse of life or justification by faith go before or whether doth not God love man ere man loved God Answ. Here thou dark blinde hypocrite hath shut thy self out from the knowledge of God in any measure oh that ever people should be so blinde as to look for to learn any thing at such a one as thee but sin and filthinesse and what hast thou been teaching them all this while that neither knowes sanctification nor justification yet but art querying whether goes before let all people judge if thou be not a teacher of lasciviousnesse sin and uncleannesse and how darest thou mention a holy life or justification by faith which knowes neither justification nor sanctification And thee man which art Cain God doth not love nor accept thee nor thy sacrifice and for justification by faith thou knowes nothing of it which we own and witnesse 〈…〉 doth not love God 11 Quer. Whether the justice of God be not fully satisfied for all the sins of the Elect ●re Christ appear to their souls or holinesse appear in their lives Ans. Here ●hou full of all subtil●y a●t comprehended and with the Light of Christ thou art seen and with the life judged and condemned who would say sin to the charge of the Elect when the Scripture saith VVho shall ●ay any thing to the charge of Gods Elect It is God that justifieth who shall condemn The soul that sinneth shall die Thou sorcerer doth the Elect of God ●in Shall the Elect dye To that in thy conscience I speak 12 Quer. VVhether the holy lives or holy works of the Saints be not excluded from the Act of justification from the guilt of sin Ans. Thou dead beast hath made it manifest that thou art a stranger from the life of God and is excluded from the holy life of the Saints and their works who art que●ying whether this be not excluded from justification Oh that ever thou should open thy mouth or take upon thee to speak of the Scripture doth not the Apostle say 1 Pet. 1. 18. For as much as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things as silver and gold from your vain conversation but with the precious blood of Christ as of a Lamb without blemish and without spot who verily was ordained before the foundation of the world was but was manifest in these last times for you who by him do believe in God that raised him up from the dead Now let all people read this Chapter and try thee who knowes nothing of Jesus Christ but as thou hast heard of him that he was crucified at Ierusalem and so thou art unredeemed from thy vain conversation and so art not justified before God nor never shall be but those that can witnesse Redemption by the precious blood of Jesus Christ as all the Saints of God do are justified and by the same that they are justified thou art condemned into the lake for ever 13 Quer. VVhether is that righteousness which is wrought by the Saints every way answerable to the justice of God Ans. There again thy blindnesse is made manifest is there any righteousness but that of Jesus Christ and is not that every way answerable to the justice of God but such polluted filthy beasts as thou would have another righteousnesse as thou speaks plainly in thy ninth Querie but all thy righteousnesse we deny and the righteousnesse of Jesus Christ we own and witnesse whose righteousnesse shall be revealed upon thee in flames of fire 14 Quer. VVhether none be accounted righteous in Gods sight in whom there is any corruption or failing or who do not fulfill the Law and answer every demand of justice Ans. Here thou polluted beast hath made it manifest what thou hast been driving at all this while in thy queries which is that thou would have corruption and filthines to be accounted righteous in Gods sight that so thou might lye and wallow in thy sins filthinesse but Iohn saith that he that commits sin is of the divell for the divell sinneth from the beginning and for this purpose the Son of God was made manifest that he might destroy the works of the divell and thou man of sin would have it to stand but those that loves God keeps his Commandements and they are not grievous and God doth not accept anywhere there is any failing or who do not fulfill the Law and answer every demand of justice and he doth reserve the unjust unto the day of judgement to be punished 2 Pet. 2 9. and chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleannesse and there thou art 15 Quer. VVhether a soul be justified before God by the non-imputation of sin and the imputation of the righteousness of the Person of Christ to his Faith or by a righteousness wrought by Christ in the Person justified or to be justified Ans. Here stop thy mouth thou sorcerer which art gathering up here a heap of confusion which is fit for nothing but to be turned with thee into the bottomlesse pit from whence it comes wherein thou talkes of imputation and non-imputation and of a person justified and to be justified thy language is of Aegyt and in the mystery of iniquity thou speaks it which is condemned into the lake of perdition by the Light of Christ and in the light thou and it art seen and comprehended and as I told thee before I own no righteousnesse but what is of Christ and wrought by thee which Righteousnesse shall confound thee and all thy unrighteousnesse and conjuration and the same that justifies us shall condemn thee eternally 16 Quer. VVhether Christ be in his Saints in respect of that nature wherein he suffered at Jerusalem Ans. Here thou enemy of Christ would know how the Saints injoy Christ here the Scripture is fulfilled upon thee the light shines in darknesse and darknesse comprehends it not when thou comes to own thy condemnation the light in thy conscience it will let thee see thy evill deeds it will lead thee up to Christ from whence it comes and then thou wilt know that nature that he suffered in but now thou art in that nature that Iudas was in that betrayed him and that they were in that crucified him 17 Quer. How and after what manner Christ who in respect of his Divine nature is infinite and in all places may be said to be in a Saint and not in Reprobate Ans. What hast thou to do to Qu●rie after the Divine Nature who art the naturall man that knowes nothing of God but what thou knowes naturally as a bruite beast and knowes not the things that be of God because they are spiritually discerned and the manner of Christs Divine nature which is infinite is hid from thy eyes for of that eye that thou should see that with thou art blinde and the manner of his being in a Saint thou knowes not who art a Reprobate and thou

curse the promise was to Abraham in Isaack is the blessing not in Ishmael and here thou sh●ws thy ignorance but it is but like the former when thou joynes the Elect and reprobate together light and darknesse and in Babylon thou art but in that which was before Babylon was thou art seen and as for those dark spirits thou ●peaks of who minde nothing but their lusts condemning the glorious things of eternity because their carnall reason cannot comprehend them see at home for in the light of Christ thou art seen that thou knowes nothing of eternity but by thy dark imaginations and naturally as a bruite to the light of Christ in thy conscience I speak which will let thee see it is so 7 Quer. Are there not deceived persons and utterly ignorant of the true God who judge men and women in darknesse if they a●k them Questions about the needfull things of eternity is it not because they went before they were sent and so are of a bitter spirit for want of spirituall light to satisfie the ●ender Christian querier Ans. All who dwell not in this light which is pure and eternall are ignorant of God and never knew God such judging shall be judged and by the light which sees and comprehends all darknesse thou art seen but the spirituall man judgeth all things and he is judged of none and all judgement is committed to the Son and where he i●made manifest he speaks and judgeth righteously and those men and women who would be asking questions of eternity and never came to the first principle to be guided by it the light which leads to eternity all such men and women are in darknesse and that minde which is in the earth and in the naturals shall never know and therefore they are judged to be in darknesse and darknesse cannot comprehend the light Christ and his Disciples answered and judged that spirit which would have had a sign and called them adulterers and which spirit we witnesse to the praise of God and to thee that put forth the queries I speak to thee in the presence of God whether thou put them forth in simplicity and art ignorant or would know or in the pride of thy heart and subtilty to tempt the light of Christ will let thee see but thou art rich and full therefore thou must be sent empty away all who queries from that nature that would know but never come to obedience that is to be judged judgment must thou witness and for a bitter spirit of envy that shall stand for thy self and that thou wants spiritual light is made manifest which curses that which God hath blessed as I have seen under thy own hand far remote from this City and that thou hast cursed them soul and body to all eternity which thou never heard nor saw let shame strike thee in the face and stop thy mouth for thou cannot put a difference betwixt the precious and the vile but curses thou knows not what and speaks to that thou knows not But as for them who have a desire to know the way to the Father we are ready to give an answer and to impart of the gift we have received and doth not break a bruised reed but the fat we f●ed with judgement and there thou art answered 8 Quer. It is not an infallible demonstration unto them who have a discerning spirit that tha● man hath no commission from the true Spirit to preach or speak to a people when for fear of his ignorance being discovered or for fear of losing his hearers he shall counsell them to strike close to the Word of God or to hearken to the light within them in their consciences without what that is in the conscience or what will be the issue of it if men be obedient to it or disobedient to it and to beware of false Prophets and not thinking in the least himself to be that false prophet and thus borrowing Scripture language which we are the true Messengers of the Gospel doth he not in his power hinder his hearers from reading the glorious things revealed unto the two last witnesses and so thou saith it is clear that the Spirit is not in them which was in Paul who gave them leave to try all Ans. Here thy infallible demonstration is made manifest to be fallible and lying when thou laies that down to be a sign of them that have no commission from the Spirit and not to have the Spirit because they exhort them to cleave close to the Word of God and to minde the light which shines into the conscience of every man which is the light of Christ here thy Spirit is tryed that thou hast not the same commission as they had who spoke forth the Scripture and so thou Preaches another Gospel for the Word of God endures for ever and by the Word which is eternall and which was in the beginning who tryes all things who searches all things comprehends all things and judges all things he that cleaves not close unto that builds upon another foundation and by the Word which endures for ever thou art seen not to have that word neither knowes what nor where it is neither hath cleaved to it and so art raced out from the life from the foundation and the Apostle who had his Commission not from man nor by man he exhorted those he had preached to and wrote to to take heed to the sure word of Prophesie as unto a light that shined in a dark place and to wait in it till the day did dawn and the day Star did arise and for distinguishing of that in the conscience what it is he that is not separate from the darknesse knows not how to do it But this I say unto thee as we declare unto all the Light which shines into the conscience is the light of Christ which he hath enlightned every one withall and it is spirituall like himself and eternall and it leads out of sin and declares against all iniquity and he that comes to own it and to be guided by it it leads out of sin to know the Crosse of Christ which is a Mistery to thee and it leads to the eternall Word which was in the beginning before sin was and it will judge all thy imaginations and vain conceivings and it leads to the inheritance incorruptible out of corruptible if thou have an ear to hear thou may hear it is that which will let thee see thy vain frothy imaginations which thou hath of God and will condemn all thy vain imaginations and hating it it will be thy condemnation and there is the issue of it and all such as steals other mens words and the true Prophets words and never knew the life that was in them all such we deny and shut them up within utter darknesse where they thou and both are and for the glorious things that thou and thy partner which call your selves the two last witnesses it is manifest that your

ANSVVERS TO SEVERALL QUERIES Put forth to the despised people called QUAKERS by Philip Bennett who cals himself a Minister of Christ but is found a Deceiver Answered by them to whom they were directed ALSO ANSVVERS To Severall other subtil QVERIES Put forth by one Iohn Reeve who lives in the City of LONDON who cals himself the last Messenger and witnesse unto the true God but is found a false witnesse and a lyar and a perverter of the right way of God Answered by Edward Burrough and Francis Howgill who are Witnesses unto the Truth against this subtil serpent-like generation London Printed for Giles Calvert at the black-spread-Eagle at 〈…〉 ANSWERS to severall QUERIES put forth to the diepised People called Quakers We having received a Paper which was directed to Rich. Roper and to his quaking friend which words comes from the dark carnall mind quaking and trembling which the Saints and holy men of God witnessed we own and witnesse therefore do we deny thee and all thy dark Divinations WHereas thou Philip Benett in thy Note which thou hast writen to Roper in Answer to a Letter which he wrote to thee wherein he charges thee to be a Lyar and a false accuser and charges thee to bring any man to witnesse what thou hast spoken by them whom thou sayes denyed that Christ that dyed at Jerusalem and who they were that denyed that Christ that suffered at Jerusalem or else acknowledge thy self to be a slanderer and in thy Paper thou gives no Answer at all to these words but sayes thou called the Congregation to witnesse but doth not mention one in all the Congregation that will witnesse it whereupon the lye rests upon thy head and thou found to be the lyar and the slanderer and the false accuser And whereas thou sayes thou hast sent Queries concerning that matter thy Queries makes thee manifest what thou art many of thy own Tribe and generation if they saw thy Queries would be ashamed both of thee and of thy Queries for hundereds there are in the world that knowes nothing of the true and living God and yet would see thee and thy Queries not to be worth answering yet lest thou should boast in thy filthy ignorance and darknesse and for clearing of the Truth to the simple Something in answer to them 1 Quer. Whether was the VVord made flesh or the Son of God made of a Woman more or oftner then once Answ. In this first Querie thou hast manifested what thou art to all the children of Light and where thou art and what Spirit thou art of a reprobate a child of darknesse thou art thou might have spared the other nineteen Queries for in this Querie thy spirit is tryed and in the eternall Light seen and known Thou askes whether the Word was made flesh any more or oftner then once which makes it plainly manifest that thou knowes not what thou askes and that thou dost not know nor cannot witnesse the Word to be made flesh once but art one of the Antichrists and deceivers which John speakes of that are entered into the world which cannot confesse Jesus Christ come in the flesh and therefore thou queries whether the Word was made flesh any more or oftner than once which Querie comes from thy dark polluted minde who is out of the Light and a stranger to the life and without God in the world amongst the false Prophets Antichrists and deceivers which are in the world and in the Light of Christ which condemnes the world yea are all seen known and made manifest and are turned away from by these who dwell in the Light which Light condemnes thee and all thy generation eternally and the Word made flesh we witnesse which dwells amongst us and we behold his glory as the glory of the only begotten of the Father according to the Scripture whereby we witnesse thee and all thy generation to be in the sorcery and in the witchcraft deceiving and betraying the souls of the simple the Light of Christ in thy conscience will tell thee so for that thou must be obedient to and witnesse before thou witnesse the Word to be made flesh once for thou art darknesse it self and the light in thy conscience if thou would let it rise will be thy condemnation and when thou can witnesse the Word to be made flesh once then thou wilt know whether the Son of God was made of a Woman any more or oftner than once But thou art the Dragon that would devour the Manchild which the Woman hath brought forth who shall rule all Nations with a rod of iron and her child is caught up to God and to his Throne thou the Dragon and thy Angels is cast out into the earth and therefore dost thou persecute the Woman which hath brought forth the Manchild but thou art overcome by the blood of the Lamb and the word of his Testimony and for thy other nineteen Queries thou hast conjured them up in thy black Art out of the bottomlesse pit which is to be turned into perdition if thou had an ear thou might hear or an eye thou might read but thou art blind 2 Quer. Whether did the Man Christ Jesus the Son of God slain in respect of Gods Decree and Efficacie of his death from the foundation of the world really and indeed suffer death or dissolution of soul and body as upon the Crosse at Jerusalem more or oftner than once Answ. Here in this Querie thou Diviner is found adding to the Scripture thy divinations of thy own brain whereupon the plagues of God is to be added unto thee and poured upon thee for as thou sayes the Man Christ Jesus the Lamb of God slain in respect of Gods Decree and efficacie of his Death from the foundation of the world Oh thou lyar let all people see where there is such a Scripture that speakes as thou speakes here but in the sight of Christ thou art seen and in the life comprehended and art for condemnation The man Christ Jesus we own and witness and the Lambs book of life which was slain from the foundation of the world we witnesse the Lamb of God which takes away the sins of the world we witnesse according to the Scripture praises praises eternal praises be to the Lord God for ever and thee to be the beast that makes war with the Lamb we witnesse and thou Anti-Christ which looks at Christs death at Jerusalem alone and cannot confesse him no otherwise but without thee here thou art but equall with the Pope of Rome for he confesses Christ dyed at Jerusalem as well as thou so let all thy Congregation see what they hold up that followes thee 3 Querie Whether did the man Christ ever really and indeed suffer in his own person for that end and after that manner which he did once upon the Crosse at Jerusalem before the time or since the time Answ. Here thou full of all subtilty hath made manifest thy Poison and enmity