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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

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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
doth sanctification or justification in order antecede holinesse of life or justification by faith go before or whether doth not God love man ere man loved God Answ. Here thou dark blinde hypocrite hath shut thy self out from the knowledge of God in any measure oh that ever people should be so blinde as to look for to learn any thing at such a one as thee but sin and filthinesse and what hast thou been teaching them all this while that neither knowes sanctification nor justification yet but art querying whether goes before let all people judge if thou be not a teacher of lasciviousnesse sin and uncleannesse and how darest thou mention a holy life or justification by faith which knowes neither justification nor sanctification And thee man which art Cain God doth not love nor accept thee nor thy sacrifice and for justification by faith thou knowes nothing of it which we own and witnesse 〈…〉 doth not love God 11 Quer. Whether the justice of God be not fully satisfied for all the sins of the Elect ●re Christ appear to their souls or holinesse appear in their lives Ans. Here ●hou full of all subtil●y a●t comprehended and with the Light of Christ thou art seen and with the life judged and condemned who would say sin to the charge of the Elect when the Scripture saith VVho shall ●ay any thing to the charge of Gods Elect It is God that justifieth who shall condemn The soul that sinneth shall die Thou sorcerer doth the Elect of God ●in Shall the Elect dye To that in thy conscience I speak 12 Quer. VVhether the holy lives or holy works of the Saints be not excluded from the Act of justification from the guilt of sin Ans. Thou dead beast hath made it manifest that thou art a stranger from the life of God and is excluded from the holy life of the Saints and their works who art que●ying whether this be not excluded from justification Oh that ever thou should open thy mouth or take upon thee to speak of the Scripture doth not the Apostle say 1 Pet. 1. 18. For as much as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things as silver and gold from your vain conversation but with the precious blood of Christ as of a Lamb without blemish and without spot who verily was ordained before the foundation of the world was but was manifest in these last times for you who by him do believe in God that raised him up from the dead Now let all people read this Chapter and try thee who knowes nothing of Jesus Christ but as thou hast heard of him that he was crucified at Ierusalem and so thou art unredeemed from thy vain conversation and so art not justified before God nor never shall be but those that can witnesse Redemption by the precious blood of Jesus Christ as all the Saints of God do are justified and by the same that they are justified thou art condemned into the lake for ever 13 Quer. VVhether is that righteousness which is wrought by the Saints every way answerable to the justice of God Ans. There again thy blindnesse is made manifest is there any righteousness but that of Jesus Christ and is not that every way answerable to the justice of God but such polluted filthy beasts as thou would have another righteousnesse as thou speaks plainly in thy ninth Querie but all thy righteousnesse we deny and the righteousnesse of Jesus Christ we own and witnesse whose righteousnesse shall be revealed upon thee in flames of fire 14 Quer. VVhether none be accounted righteous in Gods sight in whom there is any corruption or failing or who do not fulfill the Law and answer every demand of justice Ans. Here thou polluted beast hath made it manifest what thou hast been driving at all this while in thy queries which is that thou would have corruption and filthines to be accounted righteous in Gods sight that so thou might lye and wallow in thy sins filthinesse but Iohn saith that he that commits sin is of the divell for the divell sinneth from the beginning and for this purpose the Son of God was made manifest that he might destroy the works of the divell and thou man of sin would have it to stand but those that loves God keeps his Commandements and they are not grievous and God doth not accept anywhere there is any failing or who do not fulfill the Law and answer every demand of justice and he doth reserve the unjust unto the day of judgement to be punished 2 Pet. 2 9. and chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleannesse and there thou art 15 Quer. VVhether a soul be justified before God by the non-imputation of sin and the imputation of the righteousness of the Person of Christ to his Faith or by a righteousness wrought by Christ in the Person justified or to be justified Ans. Here stop thy mouth thou sorcerer which art gathering up here a heap of confusion which is fit for nothing but to be turned with thee into the bottomlesse pit from whence it comes wherein thou talkes of imputation and non-imputation and of a person justified and to be justified thy language is of Aegyt and in the mystery of iniquity thou speaks it which is condemned into the lake of perdition by the Light of Christ and in the light thou and it art seen and comprehended and as I told thee before I own no righteousnesse but what is of Christ and wrought by thee which Righteousnesse shall confound thee and all thy unrighteousnesse and conjuration and the same that justifies us shall condemn thee eternally 16 Quer. VVhether Christ be in his Saints in respect of that nature wherein he suffered at Jerusalem Ans. Here thou enemy of Christ would know how the Saints injoy Christ here the Scripture is fulfilled upon thee the light shines in darknesse and darknesse comprehends it not when thou comes to own thy condemnation the light in thy conscience it will let thee see thy evill deeds it will lead thee up to Christ from whence it comes and then thou wilt know that nature that he suffered in but now thou art in that nature that Iudas was in that betrayed him and that they were in that crucified him 17 Quer. How and after what manner Christ who in respect of his Divine nature is infinite and in all places may be said to be in a Saint and not in Reprobate Ans. What hast thou to do to Qu●rie after the Divine Nature who art the naturall man that knowes nothing of God but what thou knowes naturally as a bruite beast and knowes not the things that be of God because they are spiritually discerned and the manner of Christs Divine nature which is infinite is hid from thy eyes for of that eye that thou should see that with thou art blinde and the manner of his being in a Saint thou knowes not who art a Reprobate and thou