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A78608	The deceived, and deceiving Quakers discovered. Their damnable heresies, horrid blasphemies, mockings, railings, unparallel'd deceit, and dishonestly laid open. In the discovery of which, is made known the pure use of the holy scriptures (which by them is denyed) the true Christ, and how he justifies, his second coming proved not to be already (as the Quaker affirms) also the resurrection from the dead, and the eternal judgement, and several other particulars that saints are required to be stedfast in. / Set forth especially for the good of those that are called out of the world, into the primitive order of the Gospel, but may be usefull for all people. By Matthew Caffyn a servant of the Lord, related to the Church of Christ near Horsham in Sussex, being an eye, and ear-witnesse. As wee have heard that Antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists, whereby we cannot but know that this is the last of the last time. Antichrist made known. Or, The Romish vvhore of Babylon proved not to bee the Antichrist, or man of sin, in seven particulars. 1 Who is this great whore of Babylon, and where her chief seat hath been, and is. 2 Her fall, and the means how and by whom. 3 What is the spirit of Antichrist, and who hath that spirit. 4 That the Antichrist will bee a single person. 5 The manner of his rising, and when. ... 7 Lastly, his fall, when, and by whom. By William Jeffery servant of the Church of Christ. Entered into the register book, kept by the Company of Stationers.	Caffyn, Matthew, 1628-1714.; Jeffery, William, 1616-1693. Antichrist made known.	1656 (1656)	Wing C206; Wing J522; Thomason E873_2; ESTC R206563	72,973	85

THE Deceived and deceiving Quakers DISCOVERED Their damnable Heresies horrid blasphemies mockings railings unparallel'd Deceit and Dishonesty laid open In the discovery of which is made known the pure use of the holy Scriptures which by them is denyed the true Christ and how he justifies his second coming proved not to be already as the Quaker affirms Also the Resurrection from the dead and the Eternal JUDGMENT and several other particulars that Saints are required to be stedfast in Set forth especially for the good of those that are called out of the World into the primitive order of the Gospel but may be usefull for all people By Matthew Caffyn a servant of the Lord related to the Church of Christ near Horsham in Suffex being an eye and ear-witnesse As wee have heard that Antichrist shall come even now are there many Antichrists whereby we cannot but know that this is the last of the last time Antichrist made known OR The Romish VVhore of Babylon proved not to bee the Antichrist or Man of Sin In seven particulars 1 Who is this great Whore of Babylon and where her chief Seat hath been and is 2 Her Fall and the means how and by whom 3 What is the spirit of Antichrist and who hath that spirit 4 That the Antichrist will bee a single person 5 The manner of his rising and when 6 Some of the great things hee will do 7 Lastly His Fall when and by whom By William Jeffery Servant of the Church of Christ. Entred into the Register book kept by the Company of Stationers LONDON Printed by R. I. for Francis Smith and are to bee sold at his shop in Flying-horse-Court in Fleet street neer Chansery-Lane 1656. To the Reader REader take notice that the hour is comming and now is that Satan in a more than ordinary manner doth transform himself into an Angel of Light and shape his Ministers into the similitudes of Ministers of Righteousnesse that so he may not only take faster hold of those that are already under his dominion and blind their minds lest the Light of the glorious Gospel of Jesus Christ should in the purity thereof shine unto them but also that hee may if possible deceive the very Elect and cause them that have escaped the pollutions of the World to bee again intangled therein and overcome Therefore those exhortations so often repeated in the Scripture to take heed watch and pray c. are of great necessity by all Saints to bee in a speciall manner regarded for that Satan will endeavour to deceive such is most certain And it is as certain that the most likely way and means that he hath to effect this his design must bee by fair shewes of holinesse and excellent pretences of Piety which is figured out in Scripture under the name of Sheeps cloathing with which Christ saith the false Prophets which are Satans Ministers shall bee attired Therefore t is possible that a Christian-like outside may bee in some but a cover for an Antichristian spirit And that Satan should thus delude his Servants into such a conversation that savoreth of sobriety self-deny all and a transformity from the World in very many things which are very eminent characters of Christianity I say that the Devil should delude some into a shew of such things is no more to bee admired at than his acting forth himself in the Magicians of Egypt to work miracles much like to those which God shewed by his servant Moses Yea the Apostle testifies that in his dayes some did make resistance to the truth after this manner 2 Tim. 3.8 and of some also that were deluded into a voluntary humility and such things as he confesseth to have a shew of wisdome in wil-worship and humility and neglecting of the body not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh Now t is a kind of self-denyall to neglect the body and not to satisfie the desires of the flesh And also to abstain from meats which God hath created to bee received with thanksgiving as he saith 1 Tim. 4. ● 2 3. that some should do who yet were such as had departed from the faith and given heed to seducing spirits and Doctrins of Devils And thus Satan by transforming his servants into such shews doth make them the more fit to advance his deceiving design amongst the sons of men for hereby hee doth not only deceive them but also furnish them with ability to be DECEITFULL WORKERS to prevail upon others 2 Cor. 11.13 And of this sort are those people now called QVAKERS whose deceitfull and hereticall wayes in part are in this little volume presented before thee in answer to a book intituled An untaught teacher witnessed against lest thou shouldest by their subtle insinuations and fair pretences of self-deny all c. so far let out thy affections towards them as not to try them in other things which being throughly searched out will prove them to bee those deceivers which yee have heard should come in the last dayes of whose deceit O reader bee thou aware and consider that the deceiver cannot put away his brass mony but by mixing it among good silver whereby men may if not circumspect bee unawares deceived Wherefore bee CIRCV MSPECT and stable in all thy wayes And if through reading and due consideration of this ensuing treatise thou shalt bee the better fitted to discern truth from error CHRIST from ANTICHRIST and so through grace be the better enabled to stand fast the aim of mee herein is accomplished who am An unworthy servant of Christ desirous of the eternal wel-fare of thy soul MATTHEW CAFFYN The Damnable Heresies of the Quakers Discovered CHristian Friends it doth not a little concern the People of God at this time to walk circumspectly having their Lights burning as wise Virgins that they may be the approved of the Lord and so the preserved of the Lord in these last days wherein the evil is great justly may we be blamed as others have been by the Lord if we discern not this time which is and much more will be full of peril yea such a time of trouble as never was since there was a Nation Dan. 12.1 in which the Mystery of Iniquity that did in measure work in the Apostles days shall be finished and the Man of Sin revealed the Son of Perdition which then was let even till our days by the power of the Kings of the earth which withstood the liberty of mens Consciences 2 Thess 2.6 7 8. but now the Lord hath removed it in this our Nation and so we have praised be the Lord enjoyed much Liberty and Freedom by means whereof the Gospel of Jesus hath been and yet is declared among the Sons of Men whereby divers have been fully convinced of the Truth of Christ some of which have denied themselves and become obedient and other some have put from them the words of everlasting life yea notwithstanding all the goodness of God together with his

unfeigned faith and verse 13. is exhorted to hold fast the form of sound words in Faith and Love yet is this brought by Lawson to prove that they were at the end of faith Oh sad blindness how do they erre not knowing or rather slighting the Scriptures the summe of this is thus the Quaker affirms that Faith is at an end Paul affirms NOW ABIDETH FAITH 1 Cor. 13.13 another Doctrin another Spirit The Quaker also holds that they are NOW in possession of the Kingdome of Christ and have eternall life really in POSSESSION Lawsons book pag. 9.19 Oh how are the right wayes of God perverted what is it that men come not to beleeve when they leave the holy Scriptures as to be their rule these men talk much of Light but they that were in the Light indeed testified that the Saints inheritance was RESERVED in Heaven for them 1 Pet. 1.4 yet did they rejoyce with joy unspeakable and full of glory vers 8. through Faith in the Promises which the holy men of old RECEIVED NOT but died in Faith Heb. 11.13 39 what hath not Abraham Isaac and Jacob received the Promises and yet will these men say that they have oh that they had a face to blush at these things how do they in their conceptions exalt themselves above the Saints of old yea above the Apostles for hencerorth saith Paul there is LAID UP for mee a Crown of Righteousness 2 Tim. 4.8 whose confidence was that he should be preserved UNTO his heavenly Kingdome verse 18. and so they witnessed Christ to bee a Priest of good things TO COME Heb 9.11 Object This cannot be so saith Lawson because Saints are said to be delivered from the power of darkness and translated into the Kingdome of Christ Col. 1.13 Answ Men before conversion are under the power of darkness which is the broad way that leads to destruction but being converted are on the contrary under the power of Christ and so are in the ready way to the possession of the Kingdome for unto that very people that Paul testifies thus to be translated into the Kingdome he speaking of their hope said that it was LAID UP for them in Heaven vers 5. and to them also he saith ye know that of the Lord ye SHALL receive the reward of the inheritance Col. 3.24 not HAVE received therefore not in the possession of the Kingdome which is Saints reward which they have now by promise wherefore saith the Apostle God hath chosen the poor of this world rich in faith and HEIRS not possessors of the Kingdome which he hath PROMISED to them that love him Jam. 2.5 this little will serve for them that owns the resurrection for the apprehension of present possession of eternall life which is Saints reward destroyes the truth of that wherefore let us give diligence to make our calling and election SURE and so an enterance shall be ministred unto us abundantly into the Kingdome of Jesus Christ 2 Pet. 1.11 The Quaker also fully denieth the Resurrection of the body which they have often to me acknowledged and Thomas Lawson John Slee Quaker-teachers gave me their understandings thereof in writing namely that NOTHING that goes into the Grave shall rise again I speak the truth in Christ I lye not Many are the shifts of them concerning this particular insomuch that sometimes they do by their DOUBLE-MEANING expressions perswade enquiring Souls that they own the Resurrection sometimes also they endeavour to shew persons their weakness in searching after the Resurrection it being a deep mystery shewing them that they ought first to wait upon the light within and that will reveal such things unto them in due season and indeed hereby they shew that they have a spirit like Bala●ms who being willing to answer the desire of Balack but could not because Israel was obedient according to the Scriptures at length taught Balack to lay a stumbling-block before Israel and when they forsook their God in committing Whoredom c. THEN Israel was subject to the Curse so likewise doth the Quaker endeavouring first to take off people from observing the Scriptures as their rule perswading them to wait upon their light within as the ONLY teacher and when they have herein prevailed then oh then the poor souls are subject to swallow in errors apace yea though most plain in opposition to the Scriptures for otherwise they would not slight that cloud of Witnesses concerning the resurrection from the dead but though Israel play the harlot yet let not Judah offend but fear ye the Lord who is Almighty and can as well raise up man again after he is returned to dust as he did at first form him of the dust of the earth and withall search yee the Scriptures remembring that men formerly erred concerning the Resurrection not KNOWING THE SCRIPTURES nor the POWER of God Matth. 22.29 Consider Christ is said to be the first fruits of them that sleep 1 Cor. 15.20 the FIRST that should rise from the dead Acts 26.23 and the Quakers mystery may not here show its self for Christ never was dead in sin but bodily dead he was and the same body which was laid in the Sepulchre God raised as is evident Luke 24.3 5 6 12. who being raised testified that he had flesh and bones vers 39. but yet in a glorious manner thus was Christ the first that rose from the dead now if the fleshly bodies of men shall not also arise and be made glorious consider how Christ can be said to be the FIRST that rose from the dead for where there is not a second there cannot be a first wherefore it follows that the Sons of Men shall be raised in the likeness of his Resurrection wherefore the Apostle makes the Resurrection of Christ his first and great Argument to satisfie the Corinthians that staggered about the Resurrection concluding that men must needs rise because Christ was risen to which agrees the words of Christ Joh. 5.28 29. the hour is COMING in the which all that are in the Graves shall hear his voyce and shall come forth they that have done good unto the Resurrection of Life and they which have done evil unto the Resurrection of Damnation but when I have produced this to these men they slight the pure intention thereof and tell me that I am NOW in the grave there spoken of meaning the grave of sin O remember the mystery of iniquity that is to be revealed in the last dayes which hath here no place though it shrouds its self in with his fig-leaved garments but truth discovers its nakednesse for by graves cannot be meant graves of sin in this place first because Christ had spoken before in the 25. verse of men dead in sin whom the Quaker supposes are in their graves saying the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God and they that hear shall live secondly because of the time mentioned by Christ when this rising again from the grave should