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.
deceitful Tutor hath given you the slip again and hath enforced your own tongues to betray you again and to publish your own perpetual shame for by that your saying you do acknowledge in full effect with James Parnel your brother quaker aforesaid That your own confessing and forsaking your sins if you did so are and can be no other but your own meritorious works or fruits meriting and deserving mercy for you said That by their confessing and forsaking their sin they found mercy And thus you again tender up the aforenamed ten principal quakers to be dissembling equivocating hypocrits by your affirming as being ing quakers That salvation cannot be merited by works but the devil leaves you not here neither but by that your affirmation he hath enforced you quakers most shamefully to pervert that inspired holy Scripture Prov. 28.13 for you over-stare Solomon's ground first laid for that his affirmation he first teaching men how to honour God in a right manner saying Honour the Lord thy God with thy substance and with the first fruits of thine encrease Prov. 3.9 hereby letting us know That God is not honoured except a man do first perform his Gospel-duties by God at that time established by mens obediently offering up to him typical sacrifices and oblations out of mens substance and first fruits of their encrease then typifying Christ to be sacrificed and his blood to be shed And it appears that if men then did not at first not only confess but also forsake their supreme sin against the Gospel of Grace and then obediently offer up to God in the very manner by him prescribed sacrifices oblations and offerings then typifying Christ to be offered up to God his Father and to be sacrificed for mens sins that that man neglecting that Gospel-duty was to be cut off from amongst his people according to Lev. 17.8 9. and they were also to bear their iniquity still Lev. 7.18 whatsoever their confessing and forsaking their other legal sins were And thus is proved that you quakers by your refusing the Gospel-imputation of the vertues of Christ lifted up and sacrificed without you for your sins as those typical sacrifices and Moses typically lifting up the brazen Serpent in the wilderness were all performed without men for mens healing And by your wilful persisting in the supreme Gospel-sin aforesaid you quakers confiding in your own meritorious confessing and forsaking your sin if in truth you do so as in truth you do not yet even by that performance you have cut your selves off from amongst God's people and whatsoeuer you fantastically fancy to the contrary you do bear your iniquities still even in your own self-Christed condition and by Scripture all legal exhortations in Scripture are to be subjected under the aforesaid supreme Gospel-sence for without mens confiding in the Gospel-Faith in Christ's blood shed all the quakers-Christs and all the quakers or any other man's Reformation is in Gods sight no other but noysome deformation for God himself inspiredly tells us plainly That without shedding of blood is no remission Heb. 9.22 you quakers And you quakers say That your man Christ in you is spiritual and a Spirit cannot die nor have his blood shed as when our Saviour's person was spirituallized in by and at his Resurrection it was impossible for him to die or have his blood to be shed again see Rom. 6.9 the vertues of which his blood shed you having desperately refused for your justification you having made it appear That your supposed Man Christ in you cannot possibly have his blood shed in you for your sins acted by you both before and more presumptiously now in your self Christed-quakery so that you have neither the vertues of Christ's real bloodshed without you nor within you to appear for your justification and therefore you cannot possibly confide in the vertues of any blood shed And thus you have again firmly staked down your luciferian Christs to be justified only by your own Popish works in your own confessing your legal sins and your supposed meritorious forsaking them and thereby you have rendred up again the forenamed ten quakers to be dissembling equivocating hypocrites for behold you quakers if you have but one corner of a seeing eye left you to look out of your selves by what God inspiredly saith in his Scriptures which you frequently acknowledge are true see I say how highly God doth by them advance Christ's death and bloodshed and doth totally exclude works whether wrought by men or by any spirit in men whatsoever for mens justification in Rom. 3.24 25. Or secondly for the forgiveness of mens sins Ephes 1.7 Or thirdly for the doctrinal foundation of mens faith see Ephes 2.8 Or fourthly for mens reconciliation to God see Rom. 5.10 Col. 1.19 Or fifthly for mens Redemption see Ephes 1.7 1 Pet. 1.13 Or sixthy for the onely way for mens encouragement to enter by Faith even into the holy place before God Heb. 10.19 All which places and very many more such are fastned to mens faith in Christ's death and blood shed without men and they are all confirmed by that grand Scripture-principle That without shedding of blood is no remission Heb. 9.22 and works are totally excluded Blood is blood you quakers and works are works but they are not Christ's is blood And yet you high-flown quaking Christs are so stifned in impudency that you are not ashamed to establish your Christed indignity by popish meritorious works and yet desperately to face it out and in full effect calling the living God of heaven and earth to testifie for you that you mean no such matter But know you quakers That though it is written Work out your own salvation Phil. 2.12 yet the Apostle in the very next Chapter sheweth how they should work that out he telling them that they were to work or strive for the Faith of the Gospel Phil. 1.27 through Faith in Christ's blood Rom. 3.25 but not of works Ephes 2.8 And beloved the quakers choice principle being That every believer is justified by Christ alone without Imputation There is in this also included That as Christ himself hath authority to execute judgement because he is the Son of man John 5.27 and so hath power to forgive sins on earth Matth. 9.6 that so every quaker Christ man or woman must upon necessity conclude that they have authority to judge and justifie their own particular persons to be as free from all sin in them as Christ himself is and thereby they justifie themselves to be Christ for they refuse any Christ to be without them to judge and justifie them And thus that dark speech aforesaid comes forth cleered shewing how and by what authority every believer to wit every believing quaker do justifie themselves and so every such believer is justified by a self-quaker-Christ alone without any imputation which being done then there is a quakers self-constituted Christ holy and perfect in all respects inherently without any additional imputation of
therewith and thereon attending even on his Scriptures to convey his minde therein recorded into the hearts of all tender-hearted contrite humble persons that do abidingly wait upon his teachings for Christ said to his Disciples Go ye and teach all nations baptizing them in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy Ghost though you quakers account this Doctrine to be like conjuration by the devil but Christ did then promise them saying And lo I am with you alway even to the end of the world And it is well known That Christ was with them personally but a small time and their action of verbal ministration died with their bodies therefore Christ's promise is by his Spirit to be with their Scripture-written-Ministration always even to the end of the world which teaching of Christ's Spirit in and with those sacred Scriptures is our rejoycings though you quakers to advance your enthusiasms do turn that kinde of teaching into your own everlasting destruction And now considering it is your strongest refuge to lurk in to defend your satanical immediate enthusiasms without the Scripture frequently to cry down the teaching-use of the Letter of the Scriptures to which frantick end you in the 7 pag. of Saul's Errand do affirm That the Letter of the Scripture is carnal and the Letter is death and killeth and in this your saying you make no distinction in the Scripture-Letter but that all of it is carnal and death and killeth and yet you affirm constantly that the Scriptures are true and so hereby you do affirm That the truth is carnal and is death and killeth And now what other non-sence will you spatter out next in the tail of this And in the 21 p. of your Satan's Design you to defend your lye do say the truth That the Apostles was not Ministers of the Letter but of the Spirit But why so you brain-sick quakers but onely because you are falsly given to understand out of the Air by your high immediate enthusiasms that all your affirmed true Scripture-Letter is all of it carnal-letter and is death and killeth But now with amazement do all you quakers behold even to your everlasting shame and perdition That God's own inspired Word his holy Scriptures do as it were fiercely flie at your impudent faces rebuking you and telling you plainly That there is no Scripture-Letter that is called the Letter that is carnal and death and killeth but onely and alone the letter of the moral Law which was written and engraven in stone and that Law-letter onely and none other Scripture-Letter whatsoever is called the Letter that is carnal and death and killeth See this firmly proved against you quakers even by your own chosen place of Scripture which you have cited you endeavouring thereby to prove your great hellish lye aforesaid to be true and this your pick'd place is Heb. 7.16 and is written of Christ saying in the 15 vers That after the similitude of Melchisede◠there ariseth another priest and then in v. 16. which is the verse by them cited it is said Who is made not after the law of a carnal commandment And it is further written thus For the law made nothing perfect but the bringing in of a better hope did by the which we draw nigh unto God vers 19. So herein we have set forth plainly to our view that the Law onely is there called the Commandment that is carnal and that other Scriptures is in plain and full effect said to be the bringing in of a better hope testified in the Scripture by and in the Letter of the New Testament or Gospel of which the Apostles were made able Ministers as is shewed in full effect in the 2 Cor. 3.6 and not of the Letter of the Law or carnal Commandment aforesaid For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof Heb. 7.18 which is the very next verse but one to the quakers cited verse So that hereby the devil your Tutor as it appeareth after he hath hoodwink'd you then according to his own habitual deceitful tricks he hath led you as it were by the nose to spie out that place Heb. 7.16 and to make use of it to shew against your selves to your perpetual shame that the Letter of the Law onely includes the Commandment which is in Scripture called carnal Thus far concerning your affirming That the Letter of the Scripture without distinction is a carnal Letter which by your own proof is proved to be a hellish lye And now again you quakers concerning your other false words affirming That the Scripture-Letter is death and killeth and to prove these to be as false also I shall further note what is written where it 's said Who also hath made us able ministers of the New Testament not of the letter of the law of a carnal commandment as before but of the spirit for the letter the law of the carnal commandment killeth but the Spirit giveth life 2 Cor. 3.6 And now here again that saying of yours you quakers is brought upon the tenter-hooks where though you say That the Apostles were not Ministers of the Letter but of the Spirit and that 's true But here 's your torment augmented by your tormenting the truth of that verse by your thereby signifying That the Apostles were Ministers to teach men onely to look for the immediate speakings of the Spirit to and in them and so you would repeat over again your old satanical superstitious Beads to destroy the third dispensation of God's minde by his inspired Scriptures written for mens mediate teachings by his Apostles which their writings do contain in them literally the Letter and Letters of the New Testament or Gospel of which the Apostles were able Ministers and upon which the Apostles written Testimonies Christ by his Spirit by his own promise is alwayes with them even to the end of the World to convey the benefit of that written New Testament unto all humble waiters upon him therein which is before lately proved and your old hellish long now repeated against God's third written dispensation is also in this my fourth Discourse by Scripture-truths totally confounded And now to prove even against all denial That the Devil your Tutor befools your understandings to make use of that saying Not of the letter for the letter killeth as if thereby were declared That the whole Letter of the Scriptures is carnal and death and killeth but to confound that also it is proved plainly and firmly that next after it is said God hath made us able ministers of the New Testament not of the letter for the letter killeth then to shew even to publick view distinctly and apparently what that letter is that is death it is written immediately thereto in the very next verse thus But if the ministration of death written and engraven in stone was gloriou◠〈◊〉 And it is well known you silly quakers That the Letter of the
moral Law onely are the Letter which God did write with his own finger in stone on Mount Sinai Thus strongly your confounding of â—e whole Letter of the New Testament or Gospel of which the Apostles were made able Ministers with the Letter of the Law written and engraven in stone which is called the ministration of death and the ministration of condemnation verse 9. of which killing condemning Letter the Apostles were not not made Ministers promiscuously and confusedly as if the Letter of them both are the Letter that is carnal death and killeth is by the force of your own Scripture-words by you used and abused totally confounded for ever and thereby sent back to the infernal den in which it was hatched for the New Testament is there said to be the ministration of the Spirit vers 8. and the holding forth the word of life Phil. 2.16 because the very Letter of the New Testament or Gospel containeth in it the mediate inspired teaching written Word of Christ the Word that was and is God and the Letter of the Law is in comparison to the Letter of the New Testament or Gospel affirmed to be the oldness of the letter Rom. 7.6 Do you quakers ransack thorow the whole Scripture see if you can find any Scripture that is called the letter that is carnal death killeth and it is not declared therewith That it is the letter of the Law onely And how having shewed how powerfully my Lord Jesus hath torn down this your refuge and with his written Word and Sword of his Spirit hath hewed in pieces your murthering Agag that would have murthered the holy mediate teaching use of the whole Scripture-letter I shall proceed FIFTHLY I do direct my pen to discourse with Thomas Biddal quaker who also with the four former audacious quakers doth deny the Scriptures to be the Word of God for he being with me I cited to him this place And take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit which is the word of God Ephes 6.17 I then telling him That the written word of God is the sword of the Spirit but is not the Spirit it self and that the Scriptures are the Spirits word and spiritual sword also But he answered me saying That the Spirit and the sword of the Spirit are both one and the self-same thing As if he should have said A man is his sword and his sword is the man And these ridiculous shifts they are inforced to make for fear the holy Scriptures should be proved to be the Word of God but to their perpetual shame our Saviour Christ though he was furnished in himself with superabundant ability to have confuted and confounded the devil If he had but said I Jesus say unto thee Satan yet for our examples he would not conflict against the devil with his own all-sufficient spiritual power onely without his Scripture-sword but to confound the devil withal he takes up his Spirits never-failing sword his written Scriptures and therewith he enters the lists against his powerful spiritual inverate enemy the devil and overthrows him with that his Word and written sword by his saying to the devil in his perverting of Scriptuers against him Thus it is written Thus it is written Thus it is written Satan and by his confounding the devil therewith he gratiously teacheth us even by his own example by the spirit of Faith to take up his Spirits never-failing word and sword the holy Scriptures and to fight valiantly and undantedly therewith against the devil himself in his temptations and also against the deluding assaults of Thomas Biddal and all other brain-sick quakers Satans officious servants And accordingly the Apostles did lay aside all their glorious heavenly raptures and visions in case of teaching men and confirmed their sayings with our Saviours infallible word and sword the Scriptures frequently saying Thus saith the Scriptures But what saith the Scriptures It is written and such-like expressions And it is well known That the Apostles were better taught then any quaker whatsoever Again Thomas Biddal what infernal spirit taught thee to boast That thy large railing seducing letters directed to me and others were written from thee to us from the Spirit of the Lord as if thou hadst been a Messenger sent to us immediately from the Lord whereas to thy shame the same queries that thou therein makest appear in the same words and form in a printed book written by another man to thy hand before thou wrotest thy lying letters to us Thus thy Luciferian aspiring pride appeareth further even to publick view Again Thomas Biddal whither were thy giddy brains ranged when thou saidst in my hearing That Faith and Christ are one and the same thing as thou didst say That the Spirit and the sword of the Spirit are one and the same thing What now Thomas canst thou not creep out of the road-way to hell wouldst thou make people believe thy false spirit that when St. Paul said We preach Christ crucified 1 Cor. 1.23 that Paul and other Saints meant to have said if they had not forgot it We preach Faith and it crucified What Thomas was Faith crucified for thee If thou saist That Faith is crucified to death in thee I shall readily believe thee Thomas though those thy sayings are to be abhorred And now to sum up together thine own begotten titles without addition to them thou hast proved thy self to be a very ignorant person a notorious lyer a proud luciferian and an audacious perverter of holy Scriptures and thereby art an enemy to God and his Truths and thereby also art a Traytor to mens souls And because you quakers do refuse the Gospel-imputation thou art not onely fallen under the eternal condemnation of God's Law but also thy brother quaker James Nayler's condemning sentence aforesaid fastens upon thee Thomas proving thou art a lyer and abides not in the truth but art of the devil and not of Christ Doubtless Thomas God had formerly given thee and others by thee a fair forewarning to avoid these delusions of the devil for thou Thomas Biddal some yeers now past was as appears inforced by the devil openly to declare That thou wert one of the two witnesses of God mentioned in the Revelations and thou didst thereupon make use of another man's new sackin-cloth which lay by him so far as to carry it to a Taylor a neighbour of thine thou knowest to whom and thou Tho. Biddal didst then lay a heavy severe charge upon that Taylor to make thee a suit of aparrel of that sack-cloth by such a day being within a little while after that it might be ready at that day for thee to put on and to prophesie in as being one of the two witnesses aforesaid then sent from God But that neighbour of thine the Taylor prudently discerning that thou wert deluded though he took the sack-cloth of thee to satisfie thy present resolute humour yet he totally neglected to make thy sackcloth-suit and
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