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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93315	The worlds wonder, or the Quakers blazing starr: with an astronomical judgment given upon the same, from 2 Cor. 11.13, 14, 15. Proving them to be altogether deluded by Satan, both in their judgments and walkings: together with a probable conjecture of the end of the world, and the estate of things in the interval. / By Edmund Skipp preacher of the Gospel unto the people at Bodenham in Herefordshire.	Skipp, Edmund.	1655 (1655)	Wing S3949; Thomason E829_4; ESTC R207389	55,821	73

he in v. 12. At that time meaning this time last mentioned ye were without Christ aliens from the Common-wealth of Israel strangers from the Covenant of Promise having no hope and without God in the world O ye poor deluded creatures of the world also your spirits and persons I love and wish well unto and therefore as my brethren in the first creation I desire you all in the bowels and mercies of Christ to weigh well and consider this Scripture for here is your condition exactly and truly characterized and held forth unto you and when any of you shall finde it so give neither the Lord nor your own souls any rest untill you finde your selves in some measure washed and sanctified by the Spirit of Christ from that uncomfortable condition But to return Secondly if these poor beguiled wretches of whom we are speaking all along shall judg them to be the servants of Christ and reckon themselves the servants of Christ also why then they are brethren and if brethren and yet hate their brethren they must needs be under delusion and the words of the Apostle John will render them to be Liars and a deceived people to take the words of the Apostle before us 1 John 3.10 In this the Children of God are manifest and the Children of the Devil whosoever doth not righteousness Look to that O ye unrighteous men is not born of God neither he that loveth not his brother Vers 14. We know that we are passed from Death to Life because we love the brethren he that loveth not his brother abideth in death Vers 15. Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer and ye know no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him Chap. 4. v. 7. Beloved let us love one another for love is of God and every one that loveth is born of God and knoweth God Vers 8. He that loveth not knoweth not God for God is love Vers 12. No man hath seen God at any time if we love one another God dwelleth in us and his love is made perfect in us Vers 16. He that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God and God in him Vers 20. If any man say he loveth God and hateth his brother he is a Lyar. This testimony of John proveth all manner of envy hatred bitterness evil surmisings and the like against the servants of Christ to be none of the work of God because God is love and acteth all in love and as he doth act and as he is so are his servants in this present world 1 John 4.17 But if they shall go about to perswade further and to say that notwithstanding they speak sharp and harsh language yet it is all from a principle of love This will not agree with that operation of divine love which the Apostle Paul mentioneth 1 Cor. 13.4 5 6 7. Charity suffereth long and is kinde it envieth not it vaunteth not it self it doth not behave it self unseemly seeketh not her own is not easily provoked thinketh none evil rejoyceth not in iniquity but rejoyceth in the Truth beareth all things believeth all things hopeth all things endureth all things Now let any judicious man compare the operations of that which they call divine love and these operations which the Apostle doth here mention and see whether they are like to proceed from one author If I had used onely this one Demonstration it might have suffreed to have proved them to be under a most deceitfull power of Antichrist but while here are variety of discoveries with plain and easie Rules for manifestation thereof I suppose he must be wilfully blind that will be lead away with these people and their pernicious Errors when he shall have well weighed and compared one thing with another I do not for the present apprehend any thing more material to have been illustrated in this nature beside what I have done I will therefore proceed to what I finde next to be considered in the Apostles discoverings of them which is that as Satan transforms himself into an Angel of Light so it will be no great thing to see his ministers transformed as ministers of righteousness The second remarkable Truth from the Text is thus That such as are be guiled by Satans angelical transformings of himself in the manner as hath been shewed are likewise transformed themselves as though they were Ministers of Righteousness For if it were not so they would presently discover it themselves to be of Antichrist if such a wonderfull and extraordinary power should appear exercising and terrifying both their bodies and mindes and yet they themselves carried forth as ministers of unrighteousness they would apprehend it not to be of God and all other people for the most part would know it so likewise whereas they now stand amazed not knowing what to think of it for every one can see and say that is not quite blinde that all open profane wicked lewd unconscionable and unrighteous men are deluded of the Devil and by him lead into those wicked ways of sin and uncleanness for God never leadeth men into such courses Note this all you that go astray from the ways of holiness and sin against your own Light and being so in the ways of unrighteousness Satan findeth himself to be open and unmasked he transforms his ministers as well as himself and so maketh them act as though they were Ministers of Righteousness and that they were indeed moved thereunto of the Lord. And this is the reason why this prodigious Comet doth through these its scintillations and sparklings beget such a dreadfulness in the hearts of the beholders and to speak out I am afraid it doth prognosticate a sad destiny unto many people as I shall shew toward the end of my Book onely such who walk in the statutes and ordinances of CHRIST shall be kept by him as Lambs in his bosom but let all other wandring stars and empty clouds such who are mighty in words and expressions little or nothing in a sound experimental and lively knowledg of CHRIST look to themselves and if this cautionary word make any of them wise let them glorifie God on that behalf Did you ever know a people acted through a more glorious shew or appearance of righteousness than they are Their denying and throwing off the world and all the cares and pains thereof for Christs sake as they say and their forsaking father mother wife and children What a fair colour hath this Their enduring so much affliction opposition persecution and disgrace from men Is not this like the Cross of Christ and like the susterings of Christ and his Apostles Their running and travelling so many miles from place to place and speaking so boldly unto great men crying out against their abominations Doth not this blace abroad mightily in the eys of the world Their writing so many Letters and dealing so plainly with men carrieth a fair shew of holiness And there are hardly a people to be found that cry out more against

about their increasings and if it shall stumble any one to see a few drawn in by them while they act but as Ministers of Righteousness hardly come up to that perfection of deceit to be either Apostles or false Christs then when they are come to this it may be a stumbling unto many and they may draw whole multitudes of unstable wretches for ought I know into their damnable ways But you have a fair warning therefore take heed I am now come to the last thing in the Text 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 whose end shall be according to their works The very thoughts of this already do begin to sadden my spirits but according to my former method I will proceed The Doctrine from the whole is thus Such as Satan shall beguile by transforming himself into an Angel of Light unto them untill they transform themselves as Ministers of Righteousness and then as false Apostles shall come to an end suitable to their works now let us examine their works and then we shall know their end 1. Their works are deceitfull so their end will be for whereas they themselves have sometimes thought whatsoever they do now I know not and others likewise concerning them that they might have ended this their earthly being with a great deal of comfort peace and joy to themselves and others I am afraid they and others will be deceivers 2. Their works are railing and disowning the power and Spirit of Truth so I am afraid their end will be a railing and speaking against the pure and holy being of God 3. Their works are cruel torturings and perplexities both of body and minde so it is to be doubted their consciences will be in their dissolution However if any of them shall escape this that the word of the Apostle may be true and receive no prejudice by any private interpretation their end at the best must be according to their works for as their works are odious and shamefull unto all that know of what nature they are because they are brought forth through the power of Antichrist so their end must be if they are brought from under that power for it will be a great deal of shame and trouble to them to see how they are beguiled by their Enemy as it is unto my self when I consider thereof although there was no more in me but an approbation thereof and a desire after it and the like the power thereof was through the Lords goodness to my soul kept from me Yet my former thoughts and expressions upon their end have a strong confirmation from that place of Paul Heb. 6.4 5 6. It is impossible for those who who were first enlightned and have tasted of the heavenly gift and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost and have tasted the good Word of God and the powers of the world to come if they shall fall away to renew them again unto repentance seeing they crucifie to themselves the Son of God afresh and put him to open shame Now these people as far as I am or ever was able to discern them were endued and that in a large measure with those things the Apostle mentioneth I mean many of them that I know whom I took in my former intimacy and communion with them to have received much of the power of Truth through Christ and to have much communion with God and large experiments of his love but as for many others of them they were never judged by me or the rest to be any more than a willing people to inquire after the ways of the Lord and as for such this Scripture doth not touch him But yet let us examine this Scripture a little farther for I know it is a very mysterious one and hath much puzled the thoughts of many good men and in my apprehension there are two wrong judgments given upon it by most men The one is they generally take this Scripture to speak forth nothing but eternal death and damnation to all such who shall sin and fail as the Apostle doth there speak whereas the Apostle saith not any such thing but onely it is impossible to renew them unto repentance and although it be true of men in general without repentance there can be no salvation yet Paul doth not here speak of men that never had received CHRIST but of men that had fallen away from and lost what they had received and therefore I hold good in the speaking upon this Scripture to look distinctly upon the two conditions of inegeneration and apostacy A second wrong judgment given upon this Scripture as I conceive is that this sin here spoken is the sin against the Holy Ghost which I do not so apprehend and me thinks it will appear not to be so from the last words in that place for the utmost the Apostle reckons it unto is but the crucifying the Son of God afresh that is the crucifying of a Christ without or as he is in the heart of another not his own that doth it and we know that Christ himself saith All manner of blasphemy and sin against the Son of man shall be forgiven Matth. 12.31 32. Here CHRIST himself doth not make any sin against himself that is as he is not living and dwelling in the soul to make a man without all conditions utterly uncapable of salvation for ever for then all the world were uncapable of life because they sin against that CHRIST which liveth and dwelleth in the hearts of his servants But he maketh onely the sin against the Holy Ghost that is as I apprehend Discovery of the sin against the Holy Ghost a wilful sinning against the present operation and power of Christ or his Spirit against a living Christ within not a Christ without to render a man beyond and without all conditions whatsoever utterly uncapable of salvation and this is the sin which the Apostle John saith is unto death and therefore ought not to be prayed for 1 John 5.16 So that I cannot finde that the Apostle doth in these words point out any thing but such a desperate and dangerous Kinde of apostacy as that he who shall be so qualified as there he speaketh and yet fall away cannot possibly be brought to repentance or out of that condition of apostacy while he continueth this being and under this kinde of apostacy I finde many of these poor deluded creatures as for those that never received the grace of God in power and truth they cannot be said to fall from that they never had and so their condition is not the same but for the rest of them I am afraid they will never be brought from under that delusion while they live in their earthly tabernacles for I see the presence and Spirit of CHRIST is wholly with drawn from them and Satan he hath afterwards stollen away out of their hearts all those blessed operations of his presence as faith knowledg sobriety and enjoyments and the like and hath given them