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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34987	A backslider reproved and his folly made manifest and his confusions and contradictions discovered in a short reply to a book lately published by Robert Cobbet called A word to the upright, who being turned from the light now makes it his work to war against it and them that walk in it; but his weapons are broken and in his own snare is he taken / written for the Truths sake by a servant thereof known by the name Stephen Crisp ; unto which is added a brief answer to a pamphelet [sic] stiled A brief discovery of the labourers in mystery Babylon.	Crisp, Stephen, 1628-1692.; Atkinson, Elizabeth. Breif and plain discovery of the labourers in mistery, Babilon, generally called by the name of Quakers.; Travers, Anne. Harlots vail rent and her impudency rebuked.; Coleman, Elisabeth. Harlots vail rent and her impudency rebuked.	1669 (1669)	Wing C6925; ESTC R29284	17,630	26

in thy Conscience which he further affirms in the 21 page thus The Word that was God by which all things was made in him was Life and that Life was the Light of men and he it is that lighteth every man that cometh into the world I say if thou dost come to be settled thus in these erring dayes as he calls them and dost come to have an esteem of the Light according as R.C. hath written my Counsel is unto thee that if R. C. or any else shall deny this Doctrine again and write or speak against it that thou believe them not but keep single to this truth and thou shalt find the good effects of it beyond what he hath or can declare yet thus far R. C. hath against his will witnessed to the truth Now mark what follows as to this Doctrine that R. C. may sufficiently appear to confute himself He saith in the 22 page The Light in the Conscience cannot lead the followers of its dictates further than its own centre which is the centre of nature and its power felt but the power of the centre of nature and that man's internal Light hath no more power to give Salvation than the Soul hath to save its self as in the same page and that the sinking down into it for a manifestation of the Salvation that came by grace in Christ is a Doctrine that turns away the Creature from Christ the Redeemer to a property of nature wherein can be no saving health as in page 10. And again in the same page he saith The Light in the Conscience being a property in man as man is a creature its office in the Soul is not appointed to give Salvation And in the 21 page he saith Christ the Word that maketh all things is not the Light and although he be goodness it self and sends forth his love to wit his life which shed in the heart is a Light which he calls his Spirit which Light is not Christ though of his nature And in the 5 page saith That the spirit of man is of the principle of light and is a spark of that nature which having lost its life by the transgression of the man to God is dead c. Now by this time where is the settlements for the young sprouts of the Nation who must if they will believe R. C. believe that the Light in Conscience is to lead to Christ and yet can lead no further than the centre of Nature and that it is Salvation and hath power to minister wo and peace to justifie or condemn and now must believe it can do neither it being but a property of Nature and dead to God and must believe that the Light of men is the Life and Christ and now must believe that though this Light is his Life and is his Spirit and of his Nature yet it is not He. Oh horrible blindness and sottishness Is this the way to settle People for such double-minded and double-tongued Hypocrites to take in hand to doctrinate them thus backward and forward to believe and deny the same thing and all in one hours time But one thing more I have to note which R. C. goes about to settle us in in these erring times about what we should and ought to believe of Christ and what he is that is the Saviour in which mark First he affirms in the 3d page That Christ is everlasting as he is the Word and in the 16 page saith The Seed is Christ to whom the Covenant was made by God as written My Covenant shall be with thee and with thy seed and he is Lord and Saviour And in pag. 17. he quotes the saying of Christ They have believed that I came down from thee So here thou mayst see who R.C. acknowledgeth to be the Saviour even the Seed of Promise with which God's Covenant stands for ever which Seed came down from God c. So this is good sound Doctrine according to Scripture but that thou mayst be unsettled again from this R. C. saith again in the 18 page That the Saviour is in Nature and Creaturality like him and that the Seed that broke the Serpents head is not something that this R.C. is not as he is nature and creature but is the off spring of Adam consisting as he doth and saith in his 12 page the body was Christ and in his 6 page Behold I shew you a Mystery you men in the clouds Christ being the product of the Holy Ghost to a coagulated substance from the properties of Man in Mary And in the 18 page saith Being out of doubt that the Soul of Christ was of and from the properties of nature and creature made by generation of the properties of Mary is that Seed God promised to break the Serpents head and in the 19 page Is it not the Body of Christ by which we are reconciled unto God yes verily So now let all People see if this man be like to settle any and to keep the young sprouts from being deceived who is thus confused himself one while telling it is the Seed that is the Saviour and the everlasting Word of God and he which came down from God c. and then presently saying it is a thing produced a thing formed of the properties of man a body that reconciles a coagulated substance a thing in nature like him himself consisting as he doth both in kind and substance and much such-like as may be seen more at large in his Book Well if R. C. had known Christ Jesus and the Power of his Death and Resurrection he had not written so confusedly for then he had known the virtue of the Seed and the service of Body and Soul too and had known the offering to be made by the eternal Spirit and then he would not have said that it was the body only that reconciled or that the body only was Christ seeing that the Body without the Spirit is dead and that could not give life but the Son of God that took the body hath life in himself and can give life to them that believe and was and is and is to come and he is in the Faithful and they are in him and in his body bone of it and flesh of it and the life which they live is by faith in him and not by talk of him But these things R.C. is a stranger to and so imagines about him and intrudes into things which he hath not seen and is vainly puft up in a fleshly mind and fleshly knowledge which is for judgment for this jumble and confusion is the only way to bring into Atheism indeed if there were no better Asserters of the Doctrine of Christianity then he is But let all sober People wait to feel a measure of that life and fulness that dwelt in that Body of Jesus for which it was prepared that so they may by the power of that Life be settled in the knowledge of the Saviour Jesus and may

God Psal 46.4 And surely seeing the Light gives the knowledge of our duty shews sin and evil if the Light be obeyed or truly improved it will lead out of evil and guide man in his duty to God so preserve him from the punishment And by this Light we were first called and are in it and need not thy Exhortation who art a treacherous Backslider from it P. 5 6 7. And if hearkning diligently to the Voice of Christ be the the condition joyned to the Covenant and that the Law is manifesst within and we must wait upon him that has called us with earnest prayers c. and that experience is to be had in the Mystery and Life and Salvation not in the Scripture and that the Creature is to retire it self in stillness and not to take part with the Enemy c. as thou hast largely confest What must we wait in hearken in receive Life and Salvation in or experience the Mystery And to what must we retire And by what shall we know the Voice of Christ and pray if not in and by his Light within For thou hast confessed that the spirit of the Wicked one worketh in the Children of Disobedience to do evil so the Spirit of Christ doth work in the Believer to do well which is Trurh but against thy self As also those that have been faithful to their Captain though never so little were committed to their trust shall enter into the possession And p. 8. thou tells us of some that were deceived by not keeping humble and low to follow the Lord and how hard it will be for these to be renewed except they hearken to the Voice of the Lord behind them and O that we may never forget to wait upon the Fountain of Wisdom c. Thou art one of those that art exalted thou hast not kept in humility thou hast not followed the Lord thou hast grown wanton and kick'd against his Light within thou hast not waited for his Counsel as thou oughtest but hast lusted after evil till leanness is entred into thy Soul till gross darkness is come over thee and confusion is thy snare thou hast made lies and falsehood thy refuge like an impudent immodest hard-hearted Woman Who did help thee to compose and word thy lying Pamphlet We hear Ro. Co. commends it Was he thy Patron An angry dark conceited man who glories in his folly and yet thinks he is wise though he is as full of nonsence and confusion as thou art but his and thy clamorous lying Tongues God will cut off and stop your Mouths In p. 4. thou tellst us That the Disciples whom Christ called Brethren did not call themselves the Seed This is thy blindness for were not the Children of the Kingdom called the good Seed and the Children of the Promise counted for the Seed Were they not of one holy Seed and off-spring seeing he that sanctifieth and they that are sanctified are all of one And were not they a Royal Seed a holy Priesthood And who were the Remnant of the Seed of the Woman that kept the Commands of God And it is remarkable that though thou hast often belied us yet in p. 1. hast confessed That we the people called Quakers of a truth God hath called us out of the broad way of wickedness and many Jewels were we adorned with So then we were a people called and adorned of the Lord and not with the Jewels of the Egyptians which falsly thou hast instanced in the Case Besides we are in the same Way Truth and Principles which God at first called us into though such perfidious Backsliders and Apostates as thou thy self and some others are have abused the Truth rejected his Call and cast his Law behind your backs to your own condemnation and destruction if you do not return and repent Here follows a Collection of some of thy Lyes and Slanders in thy Book against the Chosen people of God called Quakers which are rejected and returned back upon thee Lye 1. That they are Labourers in Mystery Babylon 2. That the subtile Serpent deceived them and made them become proud Boasters 3. That they call the Tower of Babel Mount Zion 4. That they are building it in their Imaginations 5. That he hath confounded their Language 6. That they call good evil and evil good saying It was the Enemy when it was the Lord. 7. That they conclude themselves to be saved by their works 8. That they subtilly perswade you to rest under a Covenant of works VVhich are gross slanders for it 's Christ who is our Saviour It is God that works all our works in us and good works as the fruits of the Spirit and true Faith God hath ordained 9. That they are turned Deceivers and Adulterers 10. That they content themselves with the works of their own imaginations 11. That they trust in their own Righteousness as the Pharisees c. 12. That pride of imagined Knowledge hath puft them up 13. That they being deceived labour to deceive others 14. That they say they see and desire to know no more A palpable slander against Quakers 15. That thou knowest many of them to be grievous Hypocrites 16. That they slight the Scriptures 17. That they are full of all subtilties far from the real Innocency 18. That they are strong Builders in Mystery Babylon 19. That they to shelter themselves many times bring Scripture in a confused manner onely to maintain imaginations 20. That when they are confuted by plain Scripture they will put it off by Evasions These with several more Lyes in thy Pamphlet intended against the Quakers we return back upon thee E.A. as one that hast impudently slandered Gods people called Quakers And though thou art back-slidden and turned into lyes and lightness yet thou art fain to make use of many words and expressions thou hast learned amongst the Quakers to make thy false Coin go the more currant But the Lord hath made thee and that Reviler Ro. Co. sufficiently manifest and your wickedness will sink you down into the pit if you do not return to the Light within which you have abused and repent Thou tellest If the Lord shall call thee out of this Tabernacle of Clay That will be a sad day if thou goest on in this wickedness and impudency a sad end and terrible death will seiz upon thee if thou doest not repent in time VVhen thou art on thy Death-Bed remember thou wert warned in thy Life-time Thy vain light mind and spirit which hath brought forth Lyes against the Innocent will not be able to contend with the mighty God in that day wherein he will judge the Secrets of thee and all other Transgressors and Revolters according to the Gospel and that Light within which thou hast so much slighted and opposed Thou upbraidest some with a Common Belief of being saved by the Merits of Jesus Christ as not having Faith when we see not the Fruits of it brought forth p. 5. But what fruits hast thou brought forth and what are those Saints thou speakest of being Companions with p. 6 VVhat Saints can own thee in thy Lyes and Slanders VVhere are the Fruits of thy Faith that hast thus reviled an innocent People in general making some particular disobedient persons thy Cloak in what thou hast done But this Covering will be too narrow for thee and all such Back-●●iders who hast been forced to confess to the Principle of Truth amongst us after thou hast essayed to declare against it VVhereas thy chiefest colour is the back-sliding or transgression of some disobedient persons like thy self And not any Truth or Reason that thou canst produce against our Principles We are Witnesses to the Truth against Deceit and Impudency ANNE TRAVERS ELIZ. COLEMAN THE END