measure to be discouraged at the quakers sufferings nor at their miracles 14 That the quakers have had at their Meeting persons that have skreeked yelled and howled which is the conditions of Night-Owls and infernal spirits and of dogs and devouring wolves 15 That fearful and hideous howling is ordinary with the quakers My first and second Discourse against the QUAKERS In which anatomizing of the Quakers or ripping their foul spiritual intrails open to publick view I shall first speak to James Nailer FIRST JAmes Nayler why hast thou garnished the beginning of thy book which as applied to thy Doctrine thou hast rightly named it Satan's Design discovered with cowardly dissembling hypocrisie to delude the hearts of the people which doth appear plainly where thou darest to say in thy Reply to Thomas Moor thy godly Opposer The Lord be Judge betwixt me and that lying murtherous Spirit whether I own any other Righteousness then that everlasting Righteousness of God wrought in the person of Jesus Christ of Nazareth his Sufferings Resurrection and Ascension according to the Scriptures These are thy words James and herewith if no notice be taken that James Nayler doth not say That he owneth no other works or righteousness then those which were wrought in the person of Christ without his or any other mens bodies for his or their justification before God then who would think but that James by that this own good confession against Quakery were a very honest man and be ready to stand up in his defence and say Doubtless people do much wrong James to think that he is of the Qâ—akers Opinion to be saved by legal works wrought in their bodies No no James appâ—ars to be none of those deluded Quakers doth not he his own self say That he owneth no other righteousness then that everlasting righteousness of God wrought in the person of Jesus Christ of Nazareth and calls God to judge him if he means not the same things he speaks his words are to that effect in full you see Then what would you have a man to say can he speak plainlier against Quakery then he 〈◊〉 But yet notwithstanding those his hypocritical word all his Doctrine doth bâ—and him for an equivocating deluding Dissembler by his so saying but James hath hereby mentally kept open a back-door to come in with his Quakery again as Ralph Sherwine a notorious Jesuite-Papist did in Popery who was hanged at Tiburn in Anno 1581. notwithstanding his Confession of his Faith against Popery he saying That in me and of me there is nothing but sin and abomination and I trust only to be saved by the death blood-shedding of Jesus Christ And some Papists have made the same good Confession in my hearing and yet do remain as absolute Papists as ever they were as it appears that thou James Naylsr dost remain in thy Quakery still in full notwithstanding thy formerly-dissembled good Confession appearing in full opposition against Quakery And to bring in his own evidence against himself that he doth thereby dissemble to delude note That Tho. Moor his Opposer hath in his printed Epistle to his Antidote charged him That he James Nayler did say That as Christ bore sins in his own body that died at Jerusalem so he had borne sins in his body too and so that his first appearing to take away sin by the sacrifice of himself had been manifested and accomplished in him yea that death in which it was appointed men once to die was past in him and Christ's second appearing without sin unto Salvation manifested and accomplished in him And James Nayler doth not deny in his Reply to that Charge of Tho. Moor's but that those sayings are his Thus by J. N's own words appears clearly that he doth not own Christ's Righteousness wrought by him without men in Christ's own person for his justification but as it is wrought in James Nayler's own body which is in full directly contrary to his former seeming good Confession against Quâ—kery unto which he calleth God to witness But yet further to manifest his wicked dissimulation SECONDLY Richard Huberthorne his brother Quaker steps in and bears this testimony in print which shews that J. N. is a dissembling hypocrite he saying in Saul's Errand pag. 8. That Christ in Scripture Letter without men and in his flesh without men is their example or figure which are both one that the same things might be fulfilled in them that was fulfilled in Christ Jesus Now beloved what is there affirmed in this his saying less then this That men following Christ's example must have their hands and feet nailed to a Cross and have their bodies wounded and blood shed and suffer a personal death thereon as Christ did But this is but a taste of their ignorant nonsence Hah James couldst thou not finde some opportunity or other to step to Richard Huberthorne and whisper him in the ear and perswade him not thus to play the fool in print and advise him not to publish these profound secrets of Quakery that you might make more close use of them amongst your allured proselytes as they grew up able to bear them And had it not been more credit for thee James to have stood up to thy colours like a man though a deluded man and not to have so cowardly betrayed thy Profession and thy silly dependant Quakers by shrinking in thy quakish head and prostrating thy self under odious dissimulation and treacherous hypocrisie But James Nayler hath hereby proved himself to be a dangerous dissembling equivocating hypocrite And Richard Huberthorne though he hath without equivocation discovered his own and James Nayler's falshoods plainly yet for his so grossly affirming in full effect that Christ died without men for mens example only he shall lye also with his brother Quaker James Nayler in his own deluded and deluding habit And now to shew how substantially James Nayler hath proved himself to be a notorious lyer upon his own Record in print observe that he in his ninth page doth charge Thomas Moor that he would deny the infallible Spirit of God for giving the sense of the Scriptures whereas Thomas Moor having spoken of the Pope and others that took upon them to give the sense of the Scripâ—ures he then saith These â—o wit the Quakers that follow differ not much they say it must be some Spirit of or in them to wit the Quâ—kers which they suppose to be infallâ—ble Oh horrible insolency doth T. M. hereby deny the Spirit of God to give the sense of the Scrip ures doth be noâ— only deny the false Spirit that is in them the Quakers to gâ—ve the sense of the Scriptures And but for brevity sâ—ke I could and would set forth many more such horrible lyes of his And to shew how apparently James Neyler doth prove himself to be a soul-mouthed envious slâ—nderâ—â— â—â—ace Tâ—â—at James Nayler to blast Tho. Moor his Opposers true Dâ—â—â—â—â—◠〈◊〉 in his Title page affirm Tâ—at â—e T. M.
and he also sheweth us what kinde of Faith it was which he even at the very time of the finishing of his course onely gloried in and that his faith was not a believing on him that justifieth no man but such men that are free from all sin in them and so are perfectly and inherently godly men no not so neither but on the direct contrary he sheweth to us and you quakers also that his saith was his believing on him that justifieth the ungodly whose faith is counted to him for righteousness Rom. 4.5 he thereby plainly declaring that though he had sin him in his outward man or flesh even at the very time of his finishing his course yet that his faith in his inward man was even at that very time his righteousness with God by Christ and accordingly he even then gloried onely in this that by his fighting a good fight he had kept the faith even at his finishing his course and agreeable thereto the whole scope of his Gospel is the advancing of mens faith in Christ's precious blood shed without them and his totally excluding works from mens justification And hereby it is firmly proved that St Paul was not free from sin in him at the very finishng his course And as these two examples of St. David and St. Paul do set forth the true conditions of all Saints whilst they are living on earth so it again proveth that you quakers are satanical decieving lyers And whereas I do finde that James Nayler hath laid his foul fingers of quakery upon the undefiled truth of that verse Rom. 4 5. I shall wash off that soyl God willing at some other time And now to shew you quakers whom I finde to be groping in the dark the eyes of your understandings being darkened and dazeled with your inward great quakish light you boast of what is the true cause next under the devil himself your teacher why you quakers do so frantickly and wildely straggle quite away from the truth of the Scripture which is first because you frequently affirm that the Scriptures are not your Rule and truly in this I do verily believe you for I do finde it to be even so In the second place that though God hath inspiredly declared in his Scriptures that there is an inward and outward man in one and the same man in Gods account and estimation yet you are trayld away from this true Scripture-distinction so far that by your quakish Doctrine you do vainly conclude That if any man be free from the guilt of sin in God's Gospel-account that that man even upon necessity must be totally free from all tincture of the pollution of sin in him both in his inward man or minde and in his outward man or flesh also which is directly contrary to the Scriptures for St. Paul saith I delight in the law of God after the inward man Rom. 7.22 which saying of his doth unseperably set forth that there was even at that very time an outward man comprehended in St. Paul's person which he calls his members vers 23. his flesh vers 25. more cleerly to set forth his distinction he further saith With the minde I my selfe serve the law of God but with the flesh the law of sin vers 23. and he yet further cleereth this distinction where he twice affirmeth If I do that I would not it is no more I that do it but sin dwelleth in me vers 16. and vers 20. and it 's already proved that St. Paul was not free from sin in him no not at the finishing of his course And therewith he doth cleerly shew That as in him so in all other Gospel-believers an inward man or spirit of the minde wherewith and wherein they serve the Law of God as St. Paul did Rom. 7.25 without guil and hypocrisie in their integrity and this St. Paul owned to be in himself which inward man so acting is esteemed of God to be the man or that he which is born of God in every true Gospel-believers person which sinneth not neither indeed can sin in that sin which is unâ—o death though thorow the strength of temptations working upon the infirmity of their outward man or flesh there may be some sin that is not unto death sound in their persons all which St. John who was born of God yet even then acknowledgeth himself to be amongst other Saints one sinner 1 John 1.8 onely he distinguisheth betwixt that sin which is not unto death in which even that person who is born of God in his inward man may probably through infirmity be found sinning in his outward man and that sin which St. John intimates is against the holy Ghost which is unto death which he that is born of God neither doth nor can sin because he is born of God all which truths St. Iohn sheweth in full effect in 1 Ioh. 3.9 and more fully in 1 Ioh. 5.16 17 18. but the quakers Tutor will not permit them to see the Truth But St. Paul yet further confirmeth his distinction aforesaid where he saith in plain and full effect That with his outward man or flesh he served the law of sin Rom 7.25 and this his outward man or flesh though it was even then a part of his own person yet he owned it not to be himself for he brands that his outward man or flesh to be another law in his members flesh or outward man warring against the law of his minde v. 23. which his inner man or minde he owneth to be himself v. 25. that sinned not And now behold you quakers how amongst others these three holy and with God highly esteemed Saintâ— Job David and Paul do accordingly yet further confirm this Scripture-distinction unanimously together Behold I say how stifly stoutly and boldly that holy man Job stood it out even with God himself to justifie himself in his inner man to be perfectly without guile in his integrity he desiring in that respect saying Let me be weighed in an even ballance that God may know mine integrity Job 31.6 and yet notwithstanding all this height of his boldness to justifie himself in his inner mans perfection in his integrity yet he durst not in the least measure stand to justifie himself to be free from sin in his outward man but on the flat contrary he as it were mournfully said If I justifie my self mine own mouth will condemn me if I say I am perfect it will prove me per verse Job 9.20 see also the 30 and 31 verses therein No no though he so boldly stood it out even with God to justifie the perfection of his integrity of his inward man yet he as it were cries out against the imperfection that was even then in his outward man and in this respect he soars up upon the wings of his faith and flies quite out of himself to rest in his Redeemer onely he then saying I know that my redeemer liveth c Iob 19.25 and even so you
Quakery slain irrecoverably by the principal Quakers themselves with a spiritual Sword of their own Forgery whose names are here under-written Their spreading spiritual Murder cries up to Heaven for Justice which appears clearly in this Treatise The Names of the twenty four Quakers who are found by their falseness to be Actors to destroy Quakery root and branch are 1. Iames Nayler 2. Iames Milner the false Christ and false Prophet 3. Richard Huberthorn 4. Christopher Atkinson 5. Iames Lancaster 6. George Witehead 7. Thomas Simmonds 8. Thomas Biddal 9. Iohn Barber 10. Iohn Sparrow 11. Anne Blake 12. George Fox 13. Francis Houghill 14. Edward Burroughs 15. Alexander Parker 16. Thomas Aldam 17. Anthony Person 18. Gervice Benson 19. Thomas Rawlinson 20. Robert Rich. 21. Robert Dring 22. Leonard Fell. 23. Martha Simmonds 24. Iames Parnel And herein is made apparent to publick view That these twenty four Quakers as a sample of the rest have manifested themselves to be amongst them notorious lyers foul-mouthed slanderers cowardly backbiters dangerous equivocating seducers palpable falsifiers of the very words of the holy Scriptures to deceive withal and in print falsifiers of their Opposers words being printed also and bold-faced perverters of holy Scriptures to deluding ends and desperate blasphemers they being undeniably tainted with these presumptuous sins even whilst they boast they have no sin in them and how they have been led to prove substantially that they themselves are of the Devil and not of Christ shewing herein also how the holy Scriptures do by apparent marks exactly set forth to view that the quakers are of those false Christs and false Prophets that shall deceive many foretold of by our blessed Saviour and how the holy Scriptures do prove that the quakers are of those that do act in the great sin against the holy Ghost their principal errors being herein also by Scriptures cleerly confuted the two false Witnesses Iohn Rove and Lodowick Muggleton whose fancies do now appear in print also who say they are taught immediately by Christ himself as the Quakers by their tenents also do but it 's shewed that their doctrines are flat contrary one to the other and yet both absolutely and horribly false and thereby also both the two Witnesses and the Quakers also are proved herein to be all of them deluding notorious lyers Written in love as a fair fore-warning given to all tender-hearted seeking unsetled Christians by Christopher Wade Then if any man shall say unto you Lo here is Christ or there believe it not for there shall arise false Christs and false prophets and shall shew great signs and wonders insomuch that if it were possible they shall deceive the very elect behold I have told you before Matth. 24.23 24 25. Take heed that no man deceive you for many shall come in my name 〈…〉 Christ and shall deceive many Matth. 24.4 5. London Printed for the Author 1657. Short Notes directing to some of the chiefest things in this Treatise JAmes Nayler quaker detected in my first and second Discourse Richard Huberthorn quaker detected also in my second Discourse James Milner quaker is detected in my third Discourse Christopher Atkinson James Lancaster George Whitehead and Thomas Simmonds quakers are detected together in my fourth Discourse Thomas Biddal quaker is detected in my fifth Discouse John Barber quaker is detected in my sixth Discourse John Sparrow quaker is detected in my seventh Discourse Anne Blake quaker is detected in my eighth Discourse Geoâ—ge Fox quaker is detected in my ninth Discourse Goerge Fox again and nine more quakers with him are detected together in my tenth Discourse Leonard Fell quaker is detected in my eleventh Discourse Martha Simmonds quaker is detected in my twelfth Discourse James Parnel quaker is detected in my thirteenth Discourse quakery it self detected more in my fourteenth Discourse the two false Witnesses John Reve and Lodowick Muggleton are detected in my Postscript 1 HOw substantially the quakers do declare themselves to be of the devil and not of Christ 2 That the quakers must upon necessity prove that notorious lying slandering cowardly backbiting deluding equivocation falsifying of the very words of the holy Scripturtes to deceive people withal and fearful blasphemies they must prove that these and such-like presumptuous transgressions are no sins or else by their being so manifestly guilty in these sins they do thereby totally destroy their quakery root and branch which is proved in the whole drift of this Treatise 3 The Scriptures proved to be the Word of God though the quakers deny it 4 That there are three dispensations of Gods minde to men approved of in the Scriptures first immediately until the Scriptures were written secondly mediately by the Prophets writings thirdly mediately by the writings of Apostles though the quakers to preserve their satanical enthusiasms from Scripture-controle will acknowledge none other but immediate revelations which is proved to be false 5 That there is no Scripture that is said to be letter that is death and killeth but the letter of the moral law and that onely though the quakers to preserve their Satanical enthusiasms do say without any distinction that the letter of the Scripture is carnal and is death and killeth but that is proved to be false 6 That the quakers do say openly that they are the way the truth and the life and that they are the judge of the world and that they are equal with God and Gods fellow and do say plainly and publickly I am Christ 7 That the quakers Doctrine is such that upon necessity they must be so grown up in quakery that they must be inabled to account of and esteem of themselves to be Christ a perfect Christ without sin or else they cannot have the least quakish hope to be saved 8 How plainly the quakers do make themselves appear to be of the false Christs and false Prophets shewing deceitful signs and wonders foretold of by our Saviour 9 That neither Christs person nor the heaven it is in is in mens bodies but is without men though the quakers tenents do falsly say that they are within men 10 That the quakers do fearfully blaspheme against the Holy Ghost and his inspired written Scriptures 11 How exactly the quakers do make themselves to be of those that do act in the great sin against the Holy Ghost 12 That the grounded language of the Scriptures do not require that a man be free from all sin in his person in his inward or outward man both in this life of mortality but that in his integrity he must be free from guile and hypocrisie in his inward man heart minde and intentions or else he cannot be saved though the quakers by their tenents do affirm that a man must be totally perfect from all sin in him even in his inward and outward man both in this life or else he cannot be saved which is proved to a hellish false delusion 13 That no man hath any cause in the least
after the Devil found that my merciful heavenly Father would not permit any of his quakish luciferian exaltations to rest in me to work my eternal destruction then the Devil with great violence flew at my person and would at two several times have strangled me in my throat to death so that it appears the Devil intended that I should never speak more in this world for had not my gracious God rescued me out of the Devils claws my body had then perished for my life was very neer lost at both those his violent assâ—ults upon my person and at his departure from me he stroke me within my brest so that it smarted about a quarter of an hour after and also the Devil did therewith cast into me a strange foul noysome taste and smell which continued in me about a quarter of an hour also but the particulars at large of the Devils other manifold strong quakish delusions wrought in me are too many here to recite and although it hath pleased my heavenly Father out of his abundant mercy notwithstanding my great unworthiness totally and cleerly to deliver me not onely out of the devils priding quakish exaltations but also to rescue my person out of the devils devouring jaws yet still by those my former inward experiences in those the Devils subtil flattering powerful and destructive quakish delusions now by him exercised in you quakers I am by meer Grace inabled to know your quakers conditions and that by Satans spirit speaking in you as he hath formerly done in me you are over-powered deluded and hellishly snared notwithstanding the Devils false glistering varnish glittering on you And now I neither care nor fear in the least neither your quakers curses nor what any other man will censure of me for this my short Relation because my heavenly Fathers approbation in my conscience is contentedly in me sound satisfaction in full And now I am by the means aforesaid and other gracious helps so sensible of mine own unability and am so confident in my Lord Christ his gracious assistance whose person is in heaven without you and me that I could wish that thou James Nayler couldst if thou hast a stomack to it exercise thy pen to declare what thou canst do against me that am directly against all quakery for notwithstanding this my experimental warning fairly and faithfully given you yet I do conjecture that you quakers will roar for I see by your books that you quakers can can scould tantara against the Truth but I care not at all for that neither for these three evident causes first because you have behaved your selves so falsly already that your foul tongues are no slander although you would yet further slander with them Secondly because I do see that you quakers have your own selves set the antichristian brand so hard on and so fiery-hot upon your selves that that mark will remain to be seen fairly upon you quakers when you have done roaring Thirdly because I see that the more you write the more you discover your own shame and foolishness and that thereby you do give your Opposers more and more advantage to point out your quakers manifold quakish stumblings even quite out of all saving truths Again whereas you quakers do by your tenents affirm constanly in full effect that Christ in his flesh without men did not die at Jerusalem for any mans Gospel-justification before God the Father but that Christ did die in his person of flesh without men at Jerusalem for mens examples onely for men to learn and work in themselves by that his outward example patience meekness temperance and such-like holiness And secondly by your affirming in your tenents in full effect That men cannot work in themselves any perfect holy saving works by any outward example whatsoever set before them no saith your Doctrine men themselves cannot so work no say you therein it must be Christ onely that must work perfect holy saving works in men by his spiritual power alone or else men cannot be saved Now from these your sayings being compared together I do stand to maintain against you quakers that you must prove I say again if you will endeavor to support your rotten quakery you must prove by Scripture That Christ the Son of God and Creator of Heaven and Earth and all things which are therein was and is not able by his spiri ual power onely to work perfect holy saving works in men although â—e had never suffered in his tormenting death and blood shed even as perfectly by his spiritual power in men if that could have satisfied his Fathers justice for mens sins as if he had died for mens outward example onely a thousand times over as he established all the holy elect Angels by his spiritual power onely without any relation to the vertues of his personal death and dloodshed Therefore I say again if you quakers cannot prove by plain Scriptures That Christ the Son of God he being God was and is not able by his spiritual power alone to work saving perfect holy works in men although he had never suffered in his tormenting death and blood shed onely to purchase an outward example for men to look on and learn by onely to make themselves savingly holy you do not onely confute your selves in your aforesaid Doctrine which is that no man can do that but you do also therewith shew evidently that your quakery doth maintain that Christ did die absolutely and in all respects totally in vain I do acknowledge you quakers that Christ by his meekness patience and holiness shewed forth by him in his sufferings and death is our example and that he doth say Be ye holy for I am holy but it is firmly proved by Scriptures and the holy Saints in their inward man and yet confessing that they had sin remaining in their rebellious outward man even when they were born of God and that they were not free from sin in them at any time in this their life upon earth no not at their finishing their course and that it is God's permission that so it should be even in the Saints outward man or flesh for their humiliation and the preservation of the glory of his Gospel-free-grace to himself all which is proved so largely in my thirteenth Discourse by Scriptures that thereby it is evident that that exhortation Be ye holy for I am holy and all such places are directed to the inward man in men inlightned according to John 1.7 8. and not to the outward man or flesh for it is also firmely proved that that is so rebellious in it self that it cannot receive any holy exhortations therefore your quakers affirming in full effect that Christ died for mens examples onely that men might work in themselves by that outward pattern perfect holy saving works both in their inward and outward man also I affirm yet once again That if you quakers cannot prove that Christ was and is unable by his Spirit alone to work
those works in man although he never died for mens outward example onely that then you do evidently maintain that Christ did suffer in his bitter and terrible tormenting death absolutely and in all respects totally in vain and so it appears that you quakers are to eat up you former words and then affirm That there never was any Christ that died at Jerusalem and so that there never was any Christ in the world that ever had or hath any person of flesh saving onely your own personal quaking Christs now come into the world in your flesh And by your affirming That Christ had no Body but his Church which is firmly proved against you in my eleventh Discourse it doth appear that the last sense is your choice mark And now do you quakers lay your heads together and see what you can pick out of this bone Again you quakers whereas you do affirm in your Doctrines in full effect that if any man have the least sin or any sin remaining in his person that that man cannot then be possibly saved because that man whilst he hath any sin in him is of the Devil and not of Christ And in this respect I do also stand to maintain against all you quakers that if you will endeavor to support your quaking reputation you must even upon necessity prove by plain Scripture that your notorious lying foul-mouthed slandering cowardly backbiting dissembling equivocating falsifying in print of the very words of holy Scriptures to deceive people withal falsifying in print your Opposers words they being printed also your perverting of the plain and true sense of the holy Scriptures destructively to delude people withal and your fearful blasphemies I say again That if you quakers do not prove by plain Scriptures unfalsified that those your self-proved manifold high presumptuous transgressions both against God and man also are nor any sins and are no sins in you quakers then I affirm that you your own selves by your own apparent practices in those high presumptuous transgressions aforesaid both against God and man also do render up your own selves by reason of those high presumptious sins in your persons to be utterly and totally uncapable of Salvation and you by your own judgement by you passed upon your selves are of the Devil and not of Christ for you quakers have made it so manifestly apparent that you do stand guilty before God in those notorious high presumptious sins aforesaid which appears by your own evil behaviours so firmly proved in this Treatise that it cannot be any ways stronglier proved then to shew your books and your Opposers and Scripture falsified by you especially because you sinful quakers do totally refuse the gracious help of the Gospel gracious imputation Therefore I advise you quakers to look about you quickly and to lay your heads together again to study it out how to prove by plain Scriptures unfalsified that those your notorious high presumptious self-proved transgressions aforesaid are not any sins and are no sins in you even upon your everlasting peril aforesaid And as for your â—ooking in the word faith for a fashion into your quakers language it is evident by Scripture-doctrine that faith can be no other in your legal profession nor no other ways but a false gloss and a useless superfluous hang by if you do make light use of any kinde of â—â—ith at all for by your considing to be saved by moral works wrought in you you do thereby make your pretended faith for a gloss vain frivilous void and of none effect And my beloved tender-hearted seeking unsetled ones you have no cause to be dismaded in the least measure at the quakers suffering for their quakery for as there is a spirit of Truth so there is a spirit of error also according to 1 John 4.6 and that man or woman that is by grace pofessed in them with God's Spirit of Truth is inabled by that holy Spirit working powerfully in them when occasion for God's cause requires it to suffer even death it self for the Truths sake witness the terrible sufferings of all the holy Saints and Martyrs in all ages and on the contrary that man or woman that is by Gods just punishment possessed in them with the devils spirit of error is enabled by that wicked spirit working powerfully in them when occasion for the Devils cause requires it to suffer even death it self for their errors sake witness the sufferrings of all erronious wicked Hereticks in all ages But those people that contentedly remain onely in their natural wilful ignorance and blindness and not being possessed with one of those two powerful spirits in them cannot possibly suffer neither for truth nor error witness those vast multitudes of unstable weak-minded men and women that were professors for Popery in some part of King Henry the 8 his raign and yet easily turned for Protestants and directly against Popery in King Edward's raign and yet did all readily turn again directly against Protestants and for Popery in Queen Mary's raign And doubtless very many of the very same persons did live in Queen Elizabeth's raign who then as readily turned again directly against Popery and for Protestants again Therefore my beloved ones consider well both of the powerfulness of the Spirit of Truth and spirit of error in them that are possessed in them with any of those two powerful spirits and how unable all the rest of the people of the world are to suffer either for God's Truth or the Devils inspired error Neither you my beloved tender-hearted seeking unsettled ones have any cause at all to be discouraged in the least measure at the quakers miraculous signs and wonders first because our blessed Saviour hath foretold us that the false Christs and false Prophets which should come into the world should shew such deceivable signs and wonders and because the quakers do say that they are Christ and because our blessed Saviour hath so lovingly given us such punctual warning to take heed and beware of such deceivers of which sort of deceivers the quakers have made themselves manifestly appear to be which is proved in my tenth Dâ—scourse And secondly because the erronious Theadas and Judas of Galilee did draw much people after them even as the self-proved erronious quakers do now and because Simon Magus by his having bewitched the people with his Sorceries along time the people said This man is the great power of God even as much people now being bewitched with quakish Sorceries do magnifie the quakers even unto a luciferian height and because the Inchanters and satanical Magicians of Egypt did by permission work some of those miraculous signs and wonders by the power of the Devil in Egypt which Moses and Aaron did work in Egypt by the powerful finger of God which appears in Exod. 10 11 chap. and because it is written That there are some whose coming is after the working of the power of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders