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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85149	The Scriptures vindication against the Scotish contradictors. By one John Stalham, and as he saith, preacher of the Gospel at Edenborough in Scotland. And the other tiled [sic], A serious review of some principles of the Quakers; wherein error is discovered, and truth defended; by P.E. and written with a pen at Edenborough, printed in the year 1655, and a written name, as if it were the printer called Peter English, but no printed name; and thus they shuffle, but laid open to their shame, and truth in this short answer is defended and cleared, and their errour is discovered, and they ensnared. Who both have manifested their contradictions both to the Scriptures, and their own writings, and so have not the people which they call Quakers. / Published by a servant of the Lord Jesus, in Yorkeshire in England, known to the world by the name of Richard Farneworth.	R. F. (Richard Farnworth), d. 1666.	1655 (1655)	Wing F503; Thomason E854_9; ESTC R202120	34,303	40

but the letter declares of the spirit and it was before the letter was and given by the Lord it is his gift and not the gift of the letter yet the letter declares of it but God is the giver contrary to their affirmation witnessed in John 14.16 17. John 14.26 John 16.13 Acts 2. Gal. 4.6 1 John 3.24 There it no spirit and life in outward bread and wine neither is Christ spiritually in it at the institution as the Papists and Scots affirme Therefore they contradicts the Scriptures and the late Act of Abjuration that so affirme For Christ it the bread of life John 6. 〈◊〉 such as eate that bread live in him and he in them Ver. 57 58. A VINDICATION OF THE SCRIPTURES In Answer to the Scottish Contradictors I Received a Printed Paper that came out of Scotland into York and Yorkeshire in England published by one John Stalham and as he calls himselfe Preacher of the Gospel at Edenborough in the said Scotland but he hath manifested himselfe and his subtile and serpentine spirit by his lies and slanders for all his glosses and covers to be a Minister of deceit and so of Antichrist as hereafter will more appear who falsly accuses the people of the Lord and shewes forth a bitter spirit of envy against them and the truth which doth manifest his deceit and though he be painted and deckt with his notions implications and contra distinctions and gilded coloured and borrowed and form'd up imagined expressions yet with the Light which is not common reason as he calls it but the true Light which discovereth errour and deceit and leads out of darknesse into the light of life John 8.12 such as obey it with the Light John 1.9 is he seen and known to be one that hates it and also bears record of himself against Christ and his Apostles and therefore he must needs be an antichristian and a deceiver and so to be denyed and holden accursed Gal. 1.8 9. For he calls the true Light the light of nature and the common light of reason but cannot prove what he hath therein said Therefore he is a lyar a false accuser and lyars and false accusers are antichristian so is he Therefore let him be an Anathema Maranatha and all such as he is 1 Cor. 16.22 To that which thou calls touching the Scriptures themselves John Stalham Thou calls thy Pamphlet or Book of lyes The Quakers Contradictions to the Scriptures and to that which thou begins with and calls it Touching the Scriptures themselves First thou sayes They say the Scriptures are not the word of truth I answer That the Scriptures are words that proceeded from the spirit of truth we doe not deny but own and so they are words of truth and therefore thy saying is false and in that thou art charged to be a lyar and false accuser of the truth but that the Scriptures are the Word God and eternal Life as thou wouldst have them thou canst not prove nor all the Magicians to help thee and that thou wouldst have them to be and thou art seen to be a lyar of them and the truth and such as witnes to the word and Gods power they witnesse against thee And where thou Queries and sayes How can the Scriptures be Gods witnesse if not true I answer That the spirit of truth in the Prophets were Gods witnesse and testified before-hand of the sufferings of Christ and declared of in the Scriptures by words that proceeded from that spirit of Christ that in them did signifie those things 1 Pet. 1. And the spirit of Christ in the Apostles of Christ Gal. 4.6 did carry them forth after they had received power from on high to witnes him forth Acts 1. But the spirit is not in the letter as thou in thy 22 page hath said neither is the spirit giby the letter but by God and Christ of whom the letter doth declare being words of truth that proceeded from the spirit of truth Luke 11. 1 John 13. The letter proceeded from the spirit but the spirit did not proceed from the letter and therein thou hast erred not knowing the spirit nor power of God declared of in the Scriptures Thou saith Another saith the Scripture is not a standing rule to you who cannot believe contrary to Luke 16.29 They have Moses and the Prophets for a standing rule thou sayes Here let all the honest hearted judge of thy deceite who hath perverted that Scripture for thy own ends Luke 16.29 from it raising a false doctrine saying You have Moses and the Prophets for a standing rule when the ver saith not so here I charge thee in the presence of the Lord to be a lyar of the Scriptures and so contradicts them for if Moses and the Prophets had been left to all and for ever for a standing rule as thou asserts then Christ and the Apostles might not have been after Moses and the Prophets for following examples or rules and therein thou brings the old Covenant to contradict the new and crosseth that Scripture where it saith Be ye followers of God as dear children Eph. 5.1 And they that follow him in the Gospel are led by his Spirit and that is not the letter though the letter declare of it Rom. 8.14 c. For God is that spirit as saith the Scripture 2 Cor. 3.17 But we follow God who are guided by the Spirit as such did and that is our guide and rule to wit the Spirit of truth as Christ hath since he promised it appointed it to be the rule and guide into all truth John 16.13 But thou that would have the letter to be the rule and Moses and the Prophets onely then thou wouldst not have Christ and the Apostles followed after and so contradicts the Scripture also which was spoken after Moses and the Prophets after the Law under the Gospel by a minister of the same who in his godly exhortation said Be ye followers of me even as I am of Christ 1 Cor. 11.1 And that was not Moses and the Prophets but Christ and his Apostles there spoken of Seeing then we are not under the Law but under Grace the spirit of Christ is our rule and guide and even unto this day when Moses is read the vaile is upon their heart as saith the Scripture 2 Cor. 3.15 But thou art reading and pleading for Moses to be a standing rule and so sets up the Law in stead of the Gospel therefore the vaile is upon thy heart but we witnesse the glory that exceeds for if the ministration of condemnation were glorious much more the ministration of glory exceeds but thou art ignorant of that and where thou hast pleaded for Moses and the Prophets to be a standing rule saying they have Moses and the Prophets let them heart them Luke 16.31 Here thou sayes the Scriptures are asserted by our Lord to be a more standing rule then Visions and Revelations thou hast here raised a fals assertion of the Lord