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
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
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.
another loud lye for no Saint can be a judge of the world much less the judge of the world at any time during this their life of their mortality Thus by thy palpable luciferain pride and notorious lyes and by thy denying of a fundamental Doctrine of mens salvation denying the Gospel-imputation thou Anne Blaake hast not onely pulled the everlasting judgements of God's Law upon thee but also thy brother quaker James Nayler's condemning Law aforesaid catches fast hold on thee manifesting that thou also Anne Blaake art a lyer and abides not in the truth but art of the devil and not of Christ NINTHLY George Fox an ancient teaching quaker I finde that thou George dost not onely pervert the Scripture to destructive ends but also dost falsifie the very letter of the holy Scripture to support thy deluding quakery for I finde in a quakish book called A brief Discovery of a threefold estate of Antichrist in pag. 14. that George Fox doth agreeable to the other quakers luciferian-like affirm That he that sanctifieth and he that is sanctified is one he saith not they are both of one but is one but the Scripture saith not so but to the contrary that saith For both he that sanctifieth and they that are sanctified are both of one Heb. 2.11 which is they are all of one God or have their being from one God acceptably but are not one God as George Fox falsly saith in full effect True it is That the Saints shall be one with God and Christ in a loving acceptation on both sides and everlasting glorious community which is in full effect affirmed in John 17.21 22 23. but not one God in equality but they shall behold his glory vers 24. and they being perfect in the mutual conjunction of love with him vers 26. they shall everlastingly partake of his glory which is the chief scope of that whole chapter John 17. yet not in equality one God for God saith in a sharp reproof against such luciferian aspirers as George Fox and the quakers prove themselves to be saying I am the Lord that is my Name and my glory will I not give to another Isa 42.8 though the Creature-Saints shall be made partakers in the Creators glory in Creature-measure But George Fox affirmed and avowed he was equal with God as I finde recorded in print and to back his luciferianship he is charged That he professeth himself to be the jugde of the world not a judge but the judge But Anne Blaake saith she is the judge of the world And the Scripture proveth them both to be aspiring lyers for that doth not say That the Saints are judges of the world in this their life of mortality but that saith in the future tense The Saints shall judge the world But George Fox more fully to declare his equality with God if not his superiority he is charged in Saul's Errand pag. 7. That he said he was the way the truth the life But George know thou That he that sanctifieth and he that is sanctified is no otherwise one spirit but in that mysterious manner as the man and his wise are one flesh according to Ephes 6.31 32. neither are they any otherways of his flesh and of his bones vers 30 and 31. compared the man and his wife remaining two distinct persons still and the wife is commanded to be in subjection to her own husband 1 Pet. 3.1 but thy pretended equality destroys thy subjection to thy Sanctifier But more fully to prove his luciferianship George Fox in the 8 pag. of Saul's Errand affirmeth That he that hath the same spirit that raised up Jesus Christ is equal with God and the Saints have the same spirit in measure for God's Spirit is but one and George Fox saith in the 11 pag. That he is a Saint Thus he would again prove That he a poor wicked Creature is equal with God the Creator and if so then George Fox is the Creator of George Fox and the whole world and he intimately claimeth Christ's equality with God by his perverted citing of Phil. 2.6 7. But doubtless thou canst not be ignorant George how the devil over-powered John Gilpin to proclaim in the open street he saying I am the way the truth and the life And how he said in full effect That he was Christ And James Milner hath proved himself to be a false Christ So that by these mad frantick passages you quakers appear much like William Hacket who in the yeer 1541. eaused himself to be proclaimed in London-streets to be Jesus Christ came with his Fan in his hand to judge the world and he pretended that no body could kill him but they hanged him to death on a Gibbet in Cheap-side he uttering horrible blasphemies against the Majesty of God See Mr. Samuel Clark's book intituled A Mirror or Looking-glass pag. 225. printed 1654. Thus George Fox because of thy personal facts of notorious lying falsifying and perverting of holy Scripture and by thy luciferian pride in all these thou shewing thy self to be an enemy to God and his Truths and to mens souls and by thy desperately refusing the gracious relief of the Gospel-imputation thou George Fox also art not onely condemned by God's Law but also thy brother quaker James Nayler's law aforesaid adjudges thee that thou art a lyer and so abides not in the truth but art of the devil and not of Christ And it yet more manifestly appears That thou George Fox art of the devil and not of Christ because though God inspiredly saith in Scriptures For not onely some but all Scriptures are given by inspiration 2 Tim. 3.16 and that saith Thar even the Saints themselves are not God's Sons any other wayes but by adoption onely by Christ note that you quakers not as being Christ as you foolishly fancy but by Christ for it 's written Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ Ephes 1.5 see this confirmed Gal. 4.5 Rom. 8.23 And Creature-adopted Sons cannot be equal with their heavenly uncreated Father who vouchsafeth by free-Grace by and in his Son Christ to adopt them to be his Sons in acceptation onely Neither can any Creature-adopted Sons be equal with God's onely begotten Son the Creator of all adopted Sons and all other things both in Heaven and in Earth also therefore by thy making no reserve or distinction in thy pretended equality with God sheweth against all contradiction that thy brother quaker James Nayler is not mistaken in the least measure in his condemning censure aforesaid to adjudge all such Luciferians as thou George Fox hast proved thy self to be that you are all lyers and not abiders in the Truth but are all of the devil and not of Christ TENTHLY I shall direct my pen to speak with George Fox again and Francis Hougill Edward Burroughs Alexander Parker Thomas Aldam Anthony Peirson Gervice Benson Thomas Rawlinson Robert Rich and Robert Dring These ten principal quakers in a book intituled A
is before shewed to speak the truth That in truth the quakers are of the very same many false Christs and false Prophets shewing signs and wonders for setting the quakers aside where is to be found in all the whole world any people professing Christianity as the quakers in a false way do that do declare themselves to be Christ and do apply to themselves Christ's titles and do take upon them to save souls and do declare themselves to be Prophets and do show signs and wonders as the quakers and no other people besides them in the whole Christian world do All which as it confirmeth the quakers censure That the quakers are of the Devil and not of Christ so is further still discovered that the ten forenamed quakers are lying dissembling equivocating deluding hypocrites And I will add nothing to their own begotten titles ELEVENTHLY I say to thee Leonard Fell That whereas thou art charged in the 9 pag. of Saul's Errand that thou Leonard Fell didst say That Christ had no Body but his Church and thou ownest those words to be thy words by thy thereto stifly endeavouring to prove those same words to be true and rather then fail thou hast wickedly falsified the very words of holy Scripture to prove that thy false saying to be true for where the Scripture saith God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself not imputing their trespasses unto them 2 Cor. 5.19 and though thou citest that place for thy proof yet thy deluding Tutor hath overcome thee to maintain his false quakery to render that place to be thus Thou having first said Christ came to redeem his Church which is a truth and as the Devil doth sometime say the truth the more easily thereby to deceive even so thou dost Leonard for closely following that truth thou trailest in thy falshood affirming That God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself for his body sake which is his 〈◊〉 And thus as if thy fingers were lime-twigs thou hast dragged these true words not imputing their trespasses to them out of that place which words concern the world and then thou hast Daemon-like craftily added unto that place in the room of those words which thou hast stollen out these words for his Bodies sake which is his Church which is flat contrary to that Text for those words by thee foysted into that place concerns his Church onely but the Text concerns the world But had Christ no Body but his Church sayst thou Leonard Why Leonard you quakers say That Christ is in your bodies God and Man Now Leonard hath Christ as you say he is Man in you no Body of his own in you but your bodies how can he then possibly be Christ-Man in you or within your bodies Again Leonard you quakers do frequently acknowledge both in writings and verbal words That Christ did personally at Jerusalem though you say as Christ-flesh is without men he is their example onely But had Christ no Body but his Church when he died at Jerusalem then if that saying of yours were true That Christ had no Body but his Church it could be no other but that his Church being his onely Body was slain and put to death on the cross at Jerusalem Fie fie you quakers when will you leave off your ridiculous foolishness But note my beloved that by their saying That they have Christ God and man in them and by their saying That Christ had no Body but his Church which is no other but this That Christ had no Body but his Saints bodies for his Saints are his Church and they say That they are his Saints and every ripe quaker doth say That Christ is in them as their tenents do declare Now these their sayings being compared together doth make manifest That every ripe quaker in their particular bodies are Christ for they plainly affirm That Christ had no body but his Church to wit in full effect he had no body but theirs his Saints bodies and so they would prove their own bodies to be Christ or else Christ had no body at all And this Logick of theirs doth so fully again discover that which is said of them in my last Discourse concerning their proclaiming themselves to be Christ their attributing to themselves Christs power and titles that it is worthy of much observation But know all you quakers That God's inspired Word his holy Scriptures are so far contrary to your satanical enthusemiated teachings that they do not onely deny that your bodies are Christ's body but they also do deny that Christ's person or body is in your bodies which to your shame and utter confusion you may behold where it is said plainly by two Messengers as it appears sent from Heaven in white apaâ—â—â— which also said Ye men of Galilee why stand ye gazing up into heaven this same Jesus which is taken up from you into heaven shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven Acts 1.10 11. And this place alone is altogether sufficient utterly to destroy your vainly conceited personal Man-Christ in you and also to pull down your spacious heaven which by your devil like perverting the holy Scripture you besotted quakers do imagine to be in your self-proved wicked bodies and to the very same end do you a spiring quakers vouchsafe to look down into these Scriptures Mat. 24.30 and 26.64 Mark 13.26 1 Thes 4 17. Rev. 1.7 1 Pet. 3.23 Phil. 3.20 Titus 3.13 1 John 3.2 And also know all you quakers That your betters and better taught even of God though you are taught of the Devil do say The holy Ghost is sent down from heaven 1 Pet. 1.12 and that Jesus Christ is gone into heaven and is on the right hand of God 1 Pet. 3.22 then neither God's essence nor the heaven in which God's essence is nor Christs person was in Peters holy body though your tenents brag that all these are in your bodies Again you quakers holy St. Paul said Our conversation is in heaven from whence also we look for the Saviour the Lord Jesus Christ Phil. 3.20 then Christ's person nor the heaven which it is in was not in St. Pauls body Again you quakers St. Paul doth yet strike more fiercely at that your conceited Man-Christ in you where he saith Whilst we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord 2 Cor. 5.6 and he explaineth what he means by the word body he calling it Our earthly house of this tabernacle vers 1. And by the bright and warm Scripture sun-beams your quakers Heaven and God and Man-Christ in you are vanished away into a noysome and stinking hellish fog and the Devil is laid open speaking in thee Leonard Fell by thy saying That Christ had no body but his Church and by thy so Daemon-like falsifying the words of the holy Scripture to face out thy lyes to be as if they were truth so fathering thy lyes upon God himself But Leonard I
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