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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89634	The boasting Baptist dismounted, and the Beast disarmed and sorely wounded without any carnal weapon. In a reply to some papers, written by Jonathan Iohnson, of Lincolne, as an answer to a letter, sent him by Martin Mason, concerning some exceptions against several truths. / Published by a faithfull minister, not of the letter, but of the everlasting Gospel.	Mason, Martin, fl. 1650-1676.	1656 (1656)	Wing M924; Thomason E877_2; ESTC R202884	14,536	17

so The Lord rebuke thee for the delight of my soul is in the Light of the world Christ Jesus wouldst thou have me now that I am washed to return again to my wallowing in the myre When thou writes again if that be thy meaning say so man The Leopard cannot change his spots and 't is hard for thee to leave thy lying Thou sayes I kill the Scriptures Yet the Scriptures I own for they are serviceable can that which is dead be killed Dost not thou in two severall places call the Scriptures a dead Letter and still runs on in thy lying saying I am forced to run for shelter to those I account my enemies who knows thou sayes no other buriall with Christ but buriall in water calling them the chief Princes of M●shech and Tuball As for the men thou means viz. those called Dippers they are of age let them answer for themselves if they be not enemies to the Cross of Jesus Christ I shall not count them enemies to me but how canst thou prove that I run to them for shelter is it because I speak of thy sprinckling I never made any of them my Oracle therein Thou sayes I bid thee prove whether Christ commanded baptism to his Disciples yea or nay and did the Lord require it of his people to this day What an abominable lye besides Non-sence hast thou vented in two lines My words are these Is thy sprintling with water the baptism of Christ Iesus yea or nay Did the Lord command that to his Disciples yea or nay And does the Lord require it of his people to this day I did never read nor know of one that pretends to more Piety then thou does that ever excell'd or equall'd thee in thy devillish art of lying a notable Servant thou art to thy Master and sure thou art to receive thy Wages Rev. 21.8 For the simples sake I shall peruse those Scriptures thy Father sends thee with to fight for his Kingdom Matt. 28.19 20. Act. 2.38.41 42. but I finde not sprinckling with water there nor so much as the word water Nor does Acts 22.16 make for thy purpose where 't is said Arise and be baptized and wash away thy sins calling on the Name of the Lord Is sprinckling with water once mentioned in this place Or did Ananias bid him be baptized with outward Water Or could outward Water wash away Sauls sins Answer those quaeries without a lye if thou canst As for Acts 10.47 48 is it not clear the Holy Ghost was received without outward Water then where 's the necessity of sprinckling or dipping Does not thy next Acts 8.36 37. intimate that it is but a thing indifferent if thou beleevest saith Philip thou mayest as much as if he had said if thou beleeves outward water to be necessary to salvation thou mayest be baptized did he not rather choose to cherish then destroy the weak faith of the Eunuch The last Proof thou claps in is no better then the rest They were all baptized both men and women but Water is wanting Therefore cease vain Jangler for without adding to the Letter these places are not for thy purpose Iohn was a Prophet therefore his Ministration must end in Christ Jesus who is the fulfilling of the Law and the Prophets Some of the Apostles used circumcision in the flesh had they a command from Christ for so doing or was it not upon permission why dost thou not as well plead for and practise the one as the other is not their authority of an equall purity both by permission not by precept In thy Reply to the 7th Position I finde thee so puzled touchig Perfection that thou gives me no Answer to what I sent thee but would shuffle me off bringing Iam. 3.2 But does he plead against Perfection as thou dost does he not say in the same verse if any man offend not in words the same is a perfect man the Scriptures were never writ that the Devill by them should plead for sin Thou brings in Rom. 7.18 where Paul sayes I know that in me that is in my flesh dwells no good thing From hence thou would infer that in Paul there dwelt nothing that was good But wilt thou say the Holy Ghost is not good was not Paul filled with the Holy Ghost if it were as thou would infer then away with Pauls Epistles and by consequence with the rest of the Scriptures for they were all writ from one Spirit If there was nothing good in Paul then Paul must needs be a Seducer of the people VVhen we were in the flesh sayes Paul in the unregenerate condition the motions of sin did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death but now we are delivered from the Law that we should serve in newness of Spirit not in the oldness of the Letter And Rom. 8.8 9. They that are in the Flesh cannot please God but ye are not in the Flesh yet they were alive upon earth but in the Spirit That of Phil. 3. is to thee a mystery therefore Babler be silent the Tree thou feeds on is accursed Thy piece of Lodgick shews what a Pagan thou art That which is subject to mortality loss and change and mistakes is not perfect thou sayes But mans humane state in it self is subject c. therefore mans humane state is not perfect Where dost thou read this language of mans humane state in all the Scripture Consider of this in the cool of the day that which is born of the Flesh is Flesh but that which is born of the Spirit is Spirit is that subject to mortality loss and change that which is born not of blood nor of the will of man but of God that doth not commit sin that cannot sin because 't is born of God 1 Ioh. 3.9 Now because thou art so silent to what I sent thee concerning Perfection I here return thee some few things which my Letter mentions as to that Must the devill have power over thee while thou lives to make thee his vessel to do his will and work here on earth and dost thou hope to have Heaven for thy wages when thou dyes Knows thou not as the tree falls so it lyes and the wages of sin is death And is not the tabernacle of God with men Rev. 21. Does not the Lord say I wil dwel in them and walk in them c. is not this done upon earth Does not the Lord delight to save his people from their sins Does he justifie and not sanctifie his people does he forgive sins and not give power over sins what is the end of the Lords being present with his people and in his people but sheild them from sin and Satan and to keep them pure without spot or wrinckle who are willing to be guided by him And when thou writes again either confess or deny the Truth in thy Answer to those Quaeries But why dost thou deny that to be the true Spirit or that to