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A77966	Truth defended. Or, Certain accusations answered, cast upon us who are called Quakers; by the teachers of the world, and the people of this generation. With a cleare discovery, who are the false prophets, and when they came in. And who they are that deny Christ, and that preach another gospel. And who deny the scriptures, churches, ministers, and magistrates, whereby the magistrates and people of this nation may see they justifie that which the scripture condemns, and condemne that which the holy men of God justified. / By a servant of the Lord, whose name in the flesh is, Edward Burrough.	Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.; Howgill, Francis, 1618-1669.	1654 (1654)	Wing B6049; Thomason E808_3; ESTC R207519	16,445	23

TRUTH DEFENDED OR Certain Accusations answered cast upon us who are called Quakers by the Teachers of the World and the People of this Generation With a cleare discovery who are the false Prophets and when they came in And who they are that deny Christ and that Preach another Gospel And who deny the Scriptures Churches Ministers and Magistrates whereby the Magistrates and People of this Nation may see they justifie that which the Scripture condemns and condemne that which the holy Men of God justified By a Servant of the Lord whose Name in the Flesh is Edward Burrough The Epistle To all you who call your selves Ministers of the Gospel and all People in all relations under what forme of Worship soever in England or in all the World who professe your selves Christians THe mighty day of the Lord is come according as he promised of old and this day is witnessed wherein he is establishing his Mountaine and exalting it above all Mountaines and is gathering his people which have been scattered in the darke and long night of Apostacy which Christ and his Apostles saw comming into the Churches then and hath had dominion long over the World and hath raigned till now and raignes now in all the Professors in all Formes every where But now the time is come wherein the Kingdomes of the World are become the Kingdome of the Lord and of his Christ and thousands witnesse it to the prayse of his everlasting name And therefore the Nations are angry and the Princes of the Earth because Michael our Prince is arisen to pleade with all who make warre against him And now Herod and Pilate and all Ierusalem are in an uproare and Ammon and Amaleck and the Egyptians and the Philistines are joyned now against him And all you who live in Formes and know not the power doe now persecute and joyne your selves together being in the same nature as the persecuters of old which were borne after the flesh And now you sonnes of Bondage and of Hagar are to be cast out and now you are all made manifest that you are in the flesh for all your Bowes are bent and all your Arrowes are shot at a people which are counted by you as the filth of the World and as the off-scouring of all things whom the World calls Quakers in whose Foreheads is Written the name of the living God and unto you I say that make Warre against them and now take part with the Dragon against the Lambe you shall all drinke of the cup of fury and indignation of the Lord And unto the living God who is holy and jealous for his owne glory and his name which hath manifested his minde and will by his Eternall Spirit unto us shall you all bow and stoope For now the Lord hath rent the vayle of the covering which hath beene spread over all the Nations in all Professions and you are all seen by the Eternall Eye which is opened in thousands even all from the highest to the lowest who have stolen and painted your selves with other mens Words And all your Images which you have set up and all your traditions from men in which you have walked are all seene to be stubble and will not abide in the day of the Lord And all your Churches which you have gathered together by imitation from the letter shall all be scattered and there you all are for you all deny revelation and say it is ceased and so you call the letter the light and the Word but with that which was before the Scripture you are seen and judged even with that which shall endure for ever And seeing you have cast reproach upon the name of the God of Heaven and Earth whom we worship and which you call delusion For the truths sake are we moved to lay open your nakednesse that you may be judged by that which you say is your Rule Here in this little Booke thou who hast any honesty in thee or any desire of truth and wilt search the Scripture thou wilt see that all the Teachers of the World in all Formes and all professors ever cryed out who had but the Forme against them who had the life and power as you all doe now against them who Worship God in the Spirit and have no confidence in the flesh And therefore in this following Discourse which is Wretten by the same spirit that gave forth the Scripture thou shalt see who are the false Prophets and who they are that Preach another Gospel and who they are that deny the Scriptures And thou may see when the false Prophets came in and who they are clearely proved to be by their owne Rules And all you who call your selves Magistrates and Christians you may see your selves to hold up that which Christ the Prophets and Apostles cryed out against and persecute them who stand in the counsell of God and them that declare against all the deceipt as the holy men of God did And so you are the Beast which holds up the false prophets and th●se whom the Scripture declareth against God is arisen to dash to pieces all them who withstand him And therefore come out of Babylon and out of all your painted Formes and come to own the first principle which will change your mindes even the light of Christ which he hath enlightened every one withall and by it you shall see what you are doing Now if you deny this you deny the corner stone and you stumble and shall be broken and by that which you call naturall shall all your Image of Gold and silver and all your mixed invented Worship be dashed to peeces and be for the pit Therefore all be silent and speake not evill of th●se things you know not for now you are all seen you who say you are Iewes and are not but are of the Synagogue of Satan and your voyce is knowne for none is turned from the evill of his way and therefore is wrath comming upon you to the utmost A lover of your Soules but am a Witnesse against all your deceipt Francis Howgill WHereas we are accused by the Teachers and People of this generation That we are false Prophets and deceivers and that we deny the Christ which dyed at Ierusalem and that we Preach another Gospel then the Apostles Preached and that we deny the Scriptures and the Ordinances of Iesus Christ and that we hold Free-will and establish selfe-righteousnesse and teach people to act in their owne strength to obtaine life and that we deny Churches Ministers and Magistracy To these false accusations I answer It is no new thing nor no strange thing to the children of light who are seperated from the World and Worldly Worships and from the Works of darkenesse to be accused falsely and to be slandered by being called deceivers and seducers by the generation of chiefe Priests and Pharisees in which generation are the Teachers and Professors of this age who have a Forme of godlinesse but deny the

Christ And here againe I charge all the Teachers and people in the presence of the Lord God who doe deny Christ to be the light in every one which reproves for sin and who are called of men Masters and stand Praying in the Synagogues and goe in long robes and who uphold such things and who take not up the dayly Crosse of Christ but live at liberty in their wills and desires that they are Anti-Christs and that their spirit is not the spirit of the true Christ which dyed at Jerusalem but the spirit of a false Christ and so they are guilty of that themselves whereof they falsely accuse us and the same Christ doe we witnes which the saints of old witnessed whose blood cleansed them from all sin and in whose power they had power over sin death and hell And here again I charge the Teachers and people who say that the saints must not be cleansed from sin nor cease to commit sin while they are on the Earth that the Christ which they possesse is not the Christ which dyed at Jerusalem but a spirit contrary and not the Christ which the saints witnessed and all the people are blinde which cannot see these things Did the true Christ once say He was the light of the World of every man that comes into the World and is that his spirit in the Teachers and Professors now which saith Every man hath not the light of Christ in them Was that the true Christ which said Except you take up my Crosse dayly you cannot be my Disciple and is that his spirit in the Teachers and people that hath its liberty and live in pride in lust and in vanity and their own vvills Was that the true Christ which cryed woe against them that were called of men Master and that had the chiefe place in the Assemblyes and stood praying in the Synagogues c. and is that his spirit in the Teachers and people which act and uphold those things Was that the true Christ which the saints witnessed by whose blood they were cleansed from sin and had power over sin and is that his spirit in the Teachers and people which saith the saints must not be cleansed from sin nor cease to commit sin while they are on Earth Oh blinde and ignorant people who cannot discerne between the true Christ and Anti-christ which is contrary to Christ and which leades now to act and speak contrary to what the true Christ once acted and spoake And no other Gospel do we Preach but that which the Apostle Preached which they received not from nor by man but by the revelation of Jesus Christ which was contrary to man and which suffered by man for the Preaching of it who Preached to the spirit in prison to redeeme the captives and by which the fleshly man was judged in the flesh that man might live according to God in spirit And this Gospel we witnes to have received not from man but by the revelation of Iesus Christ which is contrary to man for which we are persecuted and suffer by man neither doe we speake to the wisedome and reason but we preach to the spirits in prison that the fleshly man may be judged in the flesh that man may live according to God in the spirit this will many witnes with us that by the preaching of our Gospel liberty is brought to the captives and the fleshly man is judged and the spirit which was in prison is set free And here again I charge the teachers of this generation that their Gospel which they Preach is not the Gospel which the saints preached but another Gospel and they are guilty of that themselves whereof they falsely accuse us for they have received their Gospel from man and by man from the Printers and Stationers and are made Ministers of it by the will of man at Schooles and Vniversities and their Preaching is in the will of man a limited time and place neither doe they suffer by man but are set up with man and seed the wisedome and reason of man and the fleshly man is not judged nor the captives redeemed by their Gospel which they Preach here they are accursed which Preach another Gospel according to the Scripture And ye are a blinde and ignorant people which cannot see these things Did they that Preached the true Gospel receive it contrary to the will of man and can it now be received by the will of man Did they which Preached it suffer for it by man and can they now who Preach it be set up by man who lives in the same persecuting nature Did the true Gospel once judge the fleshly man and leade to live according to God in the spirit and do●h it now give liberty to the fleshly man to live after the Flesh in the lusts of it as the Teachers and professors of this generation doe who profes the Gospel but are discovered not to be come to the Law And the Scriptures we own to be a true Declaration of the life which they lived in which spoke them forth and by the same spirit from which they were spoken which we have received doe we set to our Seales that they are true and the Scripture is ours who walke in the life of it proud men spoke it not forth nor they that sought for their gaine from their quarter nor they that Preached for hire nor they that were called of men Master but persecuted them that spoke it forth and denyed it And here againe I charge it upon the Teachers and professors of this generation that they deny the Scripture and are guilty of that themselves whereof they falsely accuse us For they say None must be perfect upon the Earth when as the Scripture declares of such as were perfect And they say None must be free from sinne when as the Scripture declares of such as were free from sinne and were the servants of righteousnesse They say Christ hath not enlightened every one The Scripture saith He is the light of the World and hath lightened every one c. Can they now who live in the same persecuting nature and walke in the same steps as they did which persecuted them who spoke forth the Scripture as the Teachers and people doe owne the Scriptures in truth Their professing of the Scripture is as theirs was which made a great profession of it in the outward appearance but put him to death who had the life and was the substance of it They then as the Teachers of the world doe now denyed the spirit and life which gave forth the Scriptures And the Ordinances of Jesus Christ we owne and witnesse Preaching Praying Baptisme Communion Singing and whatsoever was ordained for his Saints to practice in life and power we witnesse these things in the Eternall substance having passed through the Earthly figures which was but to stand for its time by the Eternall have we been led by the command of it within us and not by