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conscience_n	faith_n	pure_a	purify_v	1,417	5	11.8558	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54931	Truth vindicated and the lyars refuge swept away being an answer to a book set forth by Thomas Collier called A looking-glasse for Quakers, and also to some particulars in a book of his called A dialogue &c. : wherein the truth is cleared from those slanders ... : also an answer to his queries in the end of the book ... : together with an epistle to the people called Baptists ... / published by ... John Pitman, Jasper Batt.	Pitman, John, d. 1658?; Batt, Jasper, d. 1702.	1658 (1658)	Wing P2299; ESTC R28442	57,250	71

opposing that work for which such were sent Here thou fully manifests thy self for whom thou Ministrest And further art crying out You self-righteous Pharisees pretend your selves free and condemn the generation of the righteous who maintain the spirituall warfare that dare be so audaciously impudent and wicked c. That because we say perfection is not to be attained till Christ comes from heaven that therefore we deny perfection T. C. The Pharisees may rise up in judgement and condemn thee for they made clean the outside which thou confesses to be so defiled as to draw iniquity with cords of vanity c. and hast thy abhominations reigning in thee and yet darest to be so audaciously arrogant impudent and wicked as to say thou art set for the defence of the Gospell as in thy Epistle before thy Dialogue Consider further what spirituall warfare dost thou maintain while the strength of sin hath wrested all thy weapons out of thy hands And thy abhominations and not Christ reign in thee whose being in thee thou denyedst at Glastonbury in our hearing before many witnesses and so according to the Scripture art a Reprobate Now whose servant thou art is evident thy owne confession in Tiverton writing testifies against thee Art not thou one of Satans slaves while thy abhominations reign and yet dost thou talk of maintaining the spiritual warfare Now observe is it likely that one that the strength of sin hath wrested all weapons out of his hands should stand in the warfare against sin how can it be but that abhominations should reign in such a one and yet he saith he is set for defence of the Gospell Surely he hath badly discharged his trust to suffer the enemy to wrest all his weapons out of his hand It 's against the Lamb that thou art engaged as by thy own confession and practice appears Did ever any one of us say that perfection was to be attained before the coming of Christ But this is it we say The Son is come of whose coming we are witnesses and this the Saints in Scripture witnessed 2 John 5.20 And here thou art found to be of the spirit of Antichrist who art denying his coming in whose strength and power we presse hard towards perfection believing we shall attain it but thou sayest pag. 10. It s your duty to oppose sin and live by faith in Christ We say so too rather then to live in lying and in his strength onely do what we say Now mark thy saying and practice how do they oppose sin where abhominations reign and drawing iniquity with cords of vanity and have iniquity apparently written in their fore-heads verily they are Satans slaves and servants of sin and what faith is that which these live in the faith of Saints purified their hearts in it they witnessed victory over sin and world the mystery whereof is held in a pure conscience and where sin reigns they know it not but are strangers to it though they may talk of living in Christ He that is in Christ is a new creature all old things are done away and they are no longer servants of sin to obey it in the lust thereof but servants unto rigteousnesse and have their fruit unto holinesse and the end everlasting life And as many as walke according to this rule peace be on them but woe to them that are drawing iniquity with the cords of vanity have abhominations reigning and iniquities apparently written in their fore-heads who declare their sins as Sodome and hide them not We say it is well to confesse and forsake sin and to bring them forth to judgement and not to hide them from the light but to be so many years confessing of sin and not onely still live in them but draw iniquity with cords of vanity what do these but declare their sins as Sodome or at least as the Jewes who would lye and commit abhominations and yet cry The Temple of the Lord or lean upon the Lord and say Is not the Lord amongst us They who have ears to hear let them hear Page 10. Another lye by him charged on us is That we shut up the Kingdome of heaven and will not enter therein our selves nor suffer them that would For proof of this he saith This likewise is true and clear for the way that God hath ordained to enter into the Kingdome is by faith in Christ crucified but you will not enter as hath been cleared but we say falsly charged never yet cleared But consider how dost thou know that this is the way Is it not because the Saints left it upon record in the Scriptures and so the wickedest man in England may know it but thy confession and practice declares thee not to be in it and so thou knowest it but by report of those who were witnesses of it and walked in it Now how vain a thing it is for any to talk of the way to the Kingdome of God while they walk in the way that leads to the kingdome of Satan This we say and know The way to the kingdome of God is by faith in Christ crucified the same that preacht himselfe the light of the world and there is none beside it Now this faith where it 's witnessed purifies the heart gives victory over sin overcomes the world and is held in a pure conscience which all are ignorant of and far from whose Iniquities are apparently written in their fore-heads have abhominations reigning and are drawing Iniquity with cords of vanity for no unclean thing shall ever enter into this Kingdome nor he that loveth or maketh a lye what ever is profest We further say It 's vain for any to talk of Christ crucified while strangers to his Crosse which we witnesse to be the great power of God to salvation and choose rather then our liberty wherein we rejoyce being daily called to take it up Now there is a generation who professe to be Christs Disciples that take not up his Crosse but say they will when called thereunto What professe to be Christs Disciples and not take up his daily Crosse this profession is vain and such by Christ are denyed to be his Disciples who saith Whosoever will be his Disciple must take up his Crosse daily and follow him For the way to the Kingdome is straight through many tribulations and an entrance thereinto is freely administred unto us and the same as the Lord moves us do we freely declare unto others and so far from shutting up the Kingdom of heaven as by T. C. is falsely charged on us But to prove that which can never be he goes on saying You own no flesh of Christ but all spirit therefore you shut up the way to the Kingdome But we say The flesh of Christ do we own therefore T. C. belies us And what Christ is we have firmly declared even the same that the Scriptures testifies of whose flesh is meat indeed which he gives for the life of the world John 6.51

against the Innocent confesses himself guilty of reigning abhominations in his soul and to be drawing iniquity with the cords of vanity c. witness Tiverton writing Let the rationall Reader judge whose principles are neerest like the Ranters his or ours Another is No heaven nor glory but here This we say that if our hope were only in this life we were of all men most miserable but we believe expect and wait for a Crown that 's immortall a Kingdome which is eternall reserved for us in the highest heavens which none can deprive us of Another is No sin but what men fancy to be so But we say the breach of the righteous Law of God is sin what ever men fancy and the reward thereof must they receive And whatsoever is not of faith is sin Another is No condemnation for sin but in the consciences of ignorant ones Here he goes on still charging without proof Now T. C. affirmed in our hearing at Glastonbury before many witnesses that persons may be freed from guilt and condemnation while motion and action of sin remains Surely this is the Ranters or Libertines principle to commit sinne and not be condemned for it what 's this but a seared conscience And herein he declares himselfe worse then the Ranters whom he saith owns condemnation for sin c. We say that Jesus Christ is made manifest to condemn sin in the flesh and happy are they who are hereof made witnesses Here judgement and mercy meets together and righteousness and peace kisses each other But at last he saith They smooth it over with an austere carriage before men but within are full of filthiness pride and abhominations Thou hypocrite first pull the beam out of thine owne eye before thou go about to take a mote out of anothers Dost thou accuse us for abhominations and filthinesse within while thy abhominations reign and art drawing iniquity with the cords of vanity Slavish fear hath stopt thy mouth c. as by thy own confession in Tiverton writing appears The Pharisees will rise up in judgement with thee and such as thou art who make the out-side clean while your abhominations are manifest within and without for the root must be as the branches the tree as the fruit therefore let shame and silence cover thee And now our consciences unto whose judgement T. C. hath appealed doth clearly acquit us and condemn him for a Lyar. Another of his particulars charged upon us is That Satan blinding us with the apprehension of the goodness of our cause or else a sence of its badness that he hath hemmed them in with a pretence of their own infallibility and the ignorance of all others that they will admit of no sober discourse nor bring their principles to the tryal of Scriptures c. but give railing accusations hard termes and hiddeous names and this is the strength of their arguments c. This is the substance of their charge in the Dialogue where no proof is offered as other particulars before and in his Glass he saith that this is truth he that runs may read if to call Persons Lucifer Devil Beast c. Let the understanding judg and their pretence of infallibility carrying all in a mistery pretending all in the dark but themselves witnesse Naylors pretended answer to my assertations in the Dialogue concerning them Now mind this Proof and see where there be any other but his own affirmation first as in many others before invent and make a lye and then for proof when called to it affirm it over again and say that this is true he that runs may read or this is so clear I need not prove and so instead of evidence here is impudency surely more honesty would have appeared in it for him to have confest his lyes then thus to add impudency thereunto but at last he brings J. Ns. answer to his Assertions a strange proof to bring the answer to the Assertions for proof of the Assertions it is strange T. C. is not ashamed of his absurdity what is this but an implicet confession that the assertions were laid down without proof and so if they had not been answered he yet had had no proof but at first intended a lye for if the things asserted had been true which is denyed yet he not knowing it were a lye for him to assert what he knows not as they swore falsly who said the Lord liveth Jer. 5. besides Thomas collier confest that be had a sober discourse with a friend at Bristol Contrary to what he here affirms and what hideous names are there in J. Ns. answer Is it a hideous name to call a lyer a lyer or to tell one that opposeth himself against Christ and Truth that he is of Antichrist and one of Gogs army one whose lyes lightness impudencies and false accusations appeares as T. C. doth it is not against scripture rules to tell him that he is of his father the Devil and shall know the judgements of the Lord against him one day for it for this know we are not of those that cry peace to the wicked like C. T. and the Authors of that writing from Tiverton but as we receive from the Lord so must give to every one his due portion Judgment to whom is belongs and this we likewise say that all that are not turned to the light are in the dark and are not turned to Christ who is the light of the world and was given for a Covenant of light and may not we justly say they are in the dark who are disputing against it though they say we judg them in saying so they are such to whom it belongs and Childrens bread is not for such he that can receive it let him and that Spirit whom we follow is the Spirit of Truth which we witness according to the promise of Christ which is infallible and so far as any are guided by it they are infallible and all others are in the dark let them profess what they will but here we leave him And come to other of his lyes viz. That amongst all the falfe wayes of Sathan there is none more pernicious and dangerous c. undermines the whole body of Truth makes an end of Christ in his person offices power and being as man all at once and so makes an end of justification and salvation all at once makes an end of the authority of the Scriptures c. at once What a heap of lyes are here at once surely as a fountain easteth out her waters so dost thou thy wickedness but now examine his evidence this as others is affirmed in his Dialogue without offering any and in his Glass he saith that this is all true is manifestly cleared for none rootes up all at once like this the person of Christ see Naylor in his love to the lost Concerning Christ he humbled himselfe and became obedient to the death that he might become a living example to all Generations which no creature