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A77938	Ansvvers to severall queries put forth to the despised people called Quakers, by Philip Bennett, who cals himself a minister of Christ, but is found a deceiver; answered by them to whom they were directed. Also, ansvvers to severall other subtil queries put forth by one Iohn Reeve, who lives in the City of London, who cals himself the last messenger and witnesse unto the true God, but is found a false witnesse, and a lyar, and a perverter of the right way of God. / Answered by Edward Burrough, and Francis Howgill, who are witnesses unto the truth against this subtil serpent-like generation.	Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.; Howgill, Francis, 1618-1669.	1654 (1654)	Wing B5984; Thomason E813_4; ESTC R207330	24,422	20

is unknown if ever thou know it it must be through death the nature and glory of the Elect differs not from the Nature and glory of the Creator for the Elect are one with the Creator in his nature enjoying his glory which was from eternity unto eternity he that reads let him understand thy word distinct Essence I deny for the Elect is not distinct from the Creator but lives by the dwelling of the Son in him and with the Son the Father dwels also if thou hast an ear thou mayest hear 3 Quer. In thy third particular thou queries What that angelicall serpent was in his creation which the Scripture speaks of and how he came to be cast out of his glory and how he overcame innocent Eve and how he entered into her wombe and changed her pure seed into his nature of unclean reason And thou askes What think you Was not that man Cain the first murdering lying devill that ever was And is there any devill but proud vain-glorions unmercifull men and women Ans. That same which speaks in thee is that same serpent which the Scripture speaks of and if thou have the spirit of Moses thou knowes what he was in the creation for Moses saw his creation by that spirit which was before he was and if thou know his creation in thy self then thou may know him without thee but yet he lies under his vail deceiving thee and is not deceived by thee and by the same which thou lives in he was cast out of his glory even disobedience and he overcame inocent Eve even as he overcomes thee by promising what he fulfilled not and by presenting that which was visible and so her minde was led out as thine is and by her consenting he entered and got power and set up his habitation which is now standing in thee and so she became the likenesse of himself her minde and lust st●ayed into the visibles out from the Creator who is invisible and spirituall and she now lives under the curse and brings forth cursed children such as thou art who puts forth these queries and this child was begotten by him who deceived her and he is the father and prince of all you who are wells without water clouds without rain and wandering starres having no habitations in the heavens the blackness of darknesse is reserved unto you for ever ye who speaks great swelling words of vanity that ye are the last witnesses and Messengers c. but you your selves are servants of corruption and to the last part of thy querie I answer before Cain who is a lying devill was a child he was a father and if thou hast an ear thou mayest hear the proud vain-glorious unmercifull men and women who bears his image must with him be tormented in the lake which burneth by the kindling of the breath of the Almighty for ever and ever and here thou art answered though not to the feeding of thy wisdome but in the light by which thou art comprehended which light will eternally condemn thee who hates it 4 Quer. Thou queries What condition Adam was formed in and how he came to fall from his estate and what sin it was they committed Adam and Eve and whereby the Elect and Reprobate are defiled Ans. Adam was created in the image of God and God breathed into him the breath of life and he became a living soul but eating of the tree of the knowledge of good and evill therein he turned from the Command of God and did dye if thou hast an ear thou mayest hear and thou that queries hast eaten of that tree and thou shalt never know in what condition he was created in but through the death for a sword is set at Edens gate to keep the tree of life which will cut thee down before ever thou know or can witnesse his estate and as for the Elect being defiled here thou makest thy self manifest that thou never knew what the Elect was for the Elect is born of God and he that is born of God sins not and the promises of God are to the Elect and election obtains it and the Elect was never defiled if thou hast an ear thou mayest hear that which is defiled shall not enter into the holy City and here thou hast manifest thy ignorance and art that reprobate thou speaks which is ordained of old for condemnation which is the transgresser which is cast out thou hast no communion with the Elect for thou art defiled and art without the gate to be trodden in the wine-presse 5 Quer. What that heavenly glory is and where it is that the Elect wheat of Christ shall eternally enjoy who are the seed of Adam and not of Cain Answ. What that glory which the Elect which thou spoke of in thy fourth querie shal inherit which was and is defiled it is to be in hell in utter darknesse for ever and ever where all the unclean are and thou would know where it is it is without the gate of the City among the dogs and whoremongers and lyars and deceivers and whatsoever is defiled shall be trodden in the wine-presse of the wrath of God for ever and ever where is weeping wailing and gnashing of teeth But as for the Elect wheat of Christ which thou sayest is the children of Adam thou speakest thou knowes not what the first man is of the earth earthly and he begate his image and that which is earthly shall never inherit but are to have their portion with Cain where thou art that hath uncovered thy nakednesse but the Elect and the wheat shall be gathered into the barn and they are not nor ever were they defiled but shall reign with the Lamb in the new Jerusalem for ever and ever where no unclean thing can enter nor nothing that destroyes or defiles in that holy mountain of the Lord if thou have an ear thou may hear 6 Quer. VVhat that painfull and shamefull death in utter darknesse and where it is that is reserved for the reprobate who are the seed of Cain and not of Adam or blessed Abr●ham Answ. Thou that queries shalt surely know it is Tophet prepared of old even for the King the burning of it is as fire the breath of the Lord doth kindle it it shall be destruction for ever and ever to that which hath given forth these queries and it is to be separated from God for ever among all idolaters and adulterers and liars the unbelieving the abominable and the fearful in the lake of fire where the worm dieth not nor the fire goeth not out as for Adam thou knows nothing of him the first birth that he begate was Cain who slew his brother who hath his portion with Cain and not with Abraham the promise was not to the transgresser nor to Adam who eat of the tree of knowledge the promise came upon in the day thou eatest thou shalt dye he was driven from the presence of the Lord into the earth in the

ANSVVERS TO SEVERALL QUERIES Put forth to the despised people called QUAKERS by Philip Bennett who cals himself a Minister of Christ but is found a Deceiver Answered by them to whom they were directed ALSO ANSVVERS To Severall other subtil QVERIES Put forth by one Iohn Reeve who lives in the City of LONDON who cals himself the last Messenger and witnesse unto the true God but is found a false witnesse and a lyar and a perverter of the right way of God Answered by Edward Burrough and Francis Howgill who are Witnesses unto the Truth against this subtil serpent-like generation London Printed for Giles Calvert at the black-spread-Eagle at 〈…〉 ANSWERS to severall QUERIES put forth to the diepised People called Quakers We having received a Paper which was directed to Rich. Roper and to his quaking friend which words comes from the dark carnall mind quaking and trembling which the Saints and holy men of God witnessed we own and witnesse therefore do we deny thee and all thy dark Divinations WHereas thou Philip Benett in thy Note which thou hast writen to Roper in Answer to a Letter which he wrote to thee wherein he charges thee to be a Lyar and a false accuser and charges thee to bring any man to witnesse what thou hast spoken by them whom thou sayes denyed that Christ that dyed at Jerusalem and who they were that denyed that Christ that suffered at Jerusalem or else acknowledge thy self to be a slanderer and in thy Paper thou gives no Answer at all to these words but sayes thou called the Congregation to witnesse but doth not mention one in all the Congregation that will witnesse it whereupon the lye rests upon thy head and thou found to be the lyar and the slanderer and the false accuser And whereas thou sayes thou hast sent Queries concerning that matter thy Queries makes thee manifest what thou art many of thy own Tribe and generation if they saw thy Queries would be ashamed both of thee and of thy Queries for hundereds there are in the world that knowes nothing of the true and living God and yet would see thee and thy Queries not to be worth answering yet lest thou should boast in thy filthy ignorance and darknesse and for clearing of the Truth to the simple Something in answer to them 1 Quer. Whether was the VVord made flesh or the Son of God made of a Woman more or oftner then once Answ. In this first Querie thou hast manifested what thou art to all the children of Light and where thou art and what Spirit thou art of a reprobate a child of darknesse thou art thou might have spared the other nineteen Queries for in this Querie thy spirit is tryed and in the eternall Light seen and known Thou askes whether the Word was made flesh any more or oftner then once which makes it plainly manifest that thou knowes not what thou askes and that thou dost not know nor cannot witnesse the Word to be made flesh once but art one of the Antichrists and deceivers which John speakes of that are entered into the world which cannot confesse Jesus Christ come in the flesh and therefore thou queries whether the Word was made flesh any more or oftner than once which Querie comes from thy dark polluted minde who is out of the Light and a stranger to the life and without God in the world amongst the false Prophets Antichrists and deceivers which are in the world and in the Light of Christ which condemnes the world yea are all seen known and made manifest and are turned away from by these who dwell in the Light which Light condemnes thee and all thy generation eternally and the Word made flesh we witnesse which dwells amongst us and we behold his glory as the glory of the only begotten of the Father according to the Scripture whereby we witnesse thee and all thy generation to be in the sorcery and in the witchcraft deceiving and betraying the souls of the simple the Light of Christ in thy conscience will tell thee so for that thou must be obedient to and witnesse before thou witnesse the Word to be made flesh once for thou art darknesse it self and the light in thy conscience if thou would let it rise will be thy condemnation and when thou can witnesse the Word to be made flesh once then thou wilt know whether the Son of God was made of a Woman any more or oftner than once But thou art the Dragon that would devour the Manchild which the Woman hath brought forth who shall rule all Nations with a rod of iron and her child is caught up to God and to his Throne thou the Dragon and thy Angels is cast out into the earth and therefore dost thou persecute the Woman which hath brought forth the Manchild but thou art overcome by the blood of the Lamb and the word of his Testimony and for thy other nineteen Queries thou hast conjured them up in thy black Art out of the bottomlesse pit which is to be turned into perdition if thou had an ear thou might hear or an eye thou might read but thou art blind 2 Quer. Whether did the Man Christ Jesus the Son of God slain in respect of Gods Decree and Efficacie of his death from the foundation of the world really and indeed suffer death or dissolution of soul and body as upon the Crosse at Jerusalem more or oftner than once Answ. Here in this Querie thou Diviner is found adding to the Scripture thy divinations of thy own brain whereupon the plagues of God is to be added unto thee and poured upon thee for as thou sayes the Man Christ Jesus the Lamb of God slain in respect of Gods Decree and efficacie of his Death from the foundation of the world Oh thou lyar let all people see where there is such a Scripture that speakes as thou speakes here but in the sight of Christ thou art seen and in the life comprehended and art for condemnation The man Christ Jesus we own and witness and the Lambs book of life which was slain from the foundation of the world we witnesse the Lamb of God which takes away the sins of the world we witnesse according to the Scripture praises praises eternal praises be to the Lord God for ever and thee to be the beast that makes war with the Lamb we witnesse and thou Anti-Christ which looks at Christs death at Jerusalem alone and cannot confesse him no otherwise but without thee here thou art but equall with the Pope of Rome for he confesses Christ dyed at Jerusalem as well as thou so let all thy Congregation see what they hold up that followes thee 3 Querie Whether did the man Christ ever really and indeed suffer in his own person for that end and after that manner which he did once upon the Crosse at Jerusalem before the time or since the time Answ. Here thou full of all subtilty hath made manifest thy Poison and enmity

but with the Light of Christ thou art seen and known and with it condemned for ever Christ Jesus in his own Person doth and ever did suffer by thee and such as thou art and by thy Generation he did suffer at Jerusalem and doth suffer where he is made manifest by you after the same manner and thou blind Pharisee and blasphemer would thou have Christ to have more ends in suffering than one 4 Quer. Whether was not that death which the man Christ suffered once and but once upon the Crosse at Jerusalem so satisfactory for all the sins of the Elect as that the Justice of God did not doth not since require any suffering or working upon that account either from sinner or from Saint Ans. Here thou Jesuite art pleading again for a Christ farre off thee according as thy father doth at Rome That Christ that dyed at Jerusalem did not satisfie for thee who art an enemy to him and doth not abide in his Doctrine but acts contrary to his Commands and art under the wo which he cryed against them that were in the same stops where thou art and from that wo thou shalt never fly The death of the man Christ Jesus which suffered at Jerusalem we own and witnesse the same Christ that suffered at Jerusalem we witnesse made manifest and the one God and the one Mediator we witnesse and know betwixt God and man the Man Christ Jesus according to the Scripture And here thou lyar art made manifest to all thy Congregation to be a lyar who said amongst them that we denyed that Christ that died at Jerusalem so let them all be witnesses of thy lyes let thy mouth be stopt thou lyer who art for the lake and whereas thou queries whether the justice of God be not satisfied for the sins of the Elect here let shame strike thee in the face that ever thou should take upon thee to speak to any people and knowes not the Scripture where dost thou read in all the Scripture that God doth require satisfaction for the sins of the Elect or laid any thing to their charge let all people try thee here by the Scripture and see whether thou be not a blind ignorant Sott who doth not know what the justice of God requires neither from sinner nor from Saint Isa. 42. 1. Isa. 65. 9. 22. Luk. 18. 7. Rom. 8. 33. 5 Quer. Whether you be reconciled to God by any other obedience than that particular obedience which Christ performed in his own Person and is mentioned in the Scripture or by any other suffering or death than that which Christ once suffered upon the Crosse at Jerusalem Ans. Silence flesh would thou who art an enemy to God and a child of disobedience in whom the Prince of the air rules know how we are reconciled to God and by what obedience first own the Light in thy conscience which condemnes thee and be obedient to that and then thou shalt know by what obedience it is that reconciles to God for yet thou knowes no obedience nor the death which Christ suffered upon the Crosse thou dost not know but art an enemy to the Cross of Christ and in the mistery of iniquity and in the dark power and man of sin what hast thou to do to talk of obedience who art reconciled to thy lust and sin reigns in thee and thou art blind in the broad way that leads to death as thy fruits makes it manifest who lives in strife and envy 6 Quer. Whether did not the Man Christ suffer as a publick Person in the Elects stead or in their behalf and for that end that none who believed in him might dye eternally Ans. There thou blinde guide makes many replyes but still one and the same thing but thou makes it manifest that thou dost not know the man Christ at all nor his sufferings for death reigns in thee yet that hath passed over all men that askes this Querie for a publick Person Christ is not to ●●ee but a mistery which thou knowes nothing of and for the redeeming of the Elect from under such mouths as thine did and doth Christ suffer and those that are brought to believe denyes such dumb Idoll shepherds as thee who as yet doth not believe and therefore shall dye eternally 7 Quer. Whether the sufferings of Christ now in his Saints be all the satisfaction that is made to or which the justice of God looks for for sins past present and to come Ans. There thou blasphemer askes thou knowes not wha● is not Christ the same now as ever and is not the sufferings of Christ satisfactory where ever What wilt thou have to satisfie if the sufferings of Christ do not satisfie let all people take notice what a blasphemer thou art or what they can learn of such a one as thee who knowes neither the justice of God nor the sufferings of Christ in his Saints 8 Quer. Whether was not that body of Jesus which consisted of flesh blood and bone and which was offered upon the Crosse at Jerusalem the one and onely sacrifice for sin God accepted and to which alone exclusively the Saints before under the Law and the Saints since under the Gospel did and do look to be justified by without any other works Answ. Here again thou art replying thy former sottish Queries which rises out of thy dark mind concerning the body of Jesus as the devill did about the body of Moses let thy mouth be stopt here for the body of Jesus thou knowes not nor what it consists on and the offering of it up thou knowes nothing of but what thou knowes and heares by the outward Letter that it was offered up at Jerusalem and the sacrifice for sin thou knowes not and thou art none of the Saints neither under the Law nor under the Gospell but art without in the world in the broad way blind leading the blind into the ditch and for thee the body of Christ is no satisfaction and thou Reprobate what hast thou to do to talk of believing for that is the condition of the Saints they do believe and are justified and their works thou knowes not thou disobedient one upon whom God will render vengeance in flaming fire 9 Quer. Whether there be not another righteousness by which the Saints are justified in the sight of God than that which Christ works in them and by them Answ. There thou accursed art made manifest who preaches another Gospell and would have another righteousnesse than that of Christ here thou beast to whom the plagues of God is due and upon whom his wrath must be accomplished here thou hast made thy self manifest thou who would have another righteousnesse than the righteousnesse of Christ which he works in the Saints and by them and so thou would be justified and live in thy sin but thou art shut out from God for ever and we witnesse justification by faith and the just shall live by his Faith 10 Quer. Whether