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A85129	Antichrists man of vvar, apprehended, and encountred withal, by a souldier of the armie of the Lamb. Otherwise, an answer to a book set forth by one that subscribes his name Edmund Skipp, preacher of the Gospel (as he saith) to a people at Bodenham in Herefordshire; but is found one that is acting Antichrists part disguised: but nakedly seen, & herein discovered in this answer to his book, called the Worlds wonder, or the Quakers blazing-starre. And in this answer he is discovered, and proved to be one that is chief in the service of the old dragon: who pretends in his book to discover the mystery of the Quakers, as he calls them, and to lay open a dangerous design: who is found out, that whilst he hath been pretending to be chief in discovering a plot, or Antichrists misterious actings, is found himself to be the chief plotter, ... / Written in Worcestershire by a servant of the Lord, the second moneth called April, 1655.	R. F. (Richard Farnworth), d. 1666.; Smith, Humphrey, d. 1663.	1655 (1655)	Wing F470; Thomason E843_9; ESTC R202123	95,493	95

what I ●n●w that it is the Lord alone that teacheth his people to profit none teacheth like he who is now my teacher indeed and will be yours if you are made willing and obedient to be tought directed and guided by him who is gathering his out of all Nations kindreds and tongues Ezek. 31.11 which is by Jesus Christ the one and only Priest who is the light of the Gentiles and the light of the world by which he hath enlightened every one that commeth into the world John 1.9 which light shineth into the darkness and the darkness comprehendeth it not verse 5. Now the world is set in the heart of man Eccles 3.11 of the which world Christ is the light and he that followeth him shall not walk in darkness but shall have the light of life John 8.12 this is that grace of God that hath appeared unto all men teaching them to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts and live soberly righteously and godly in this present world Tit. 2.11 12. this is the light of Christ who is the word of God in the heart for this word of the living God is not farre off but it is nigh thee in thy heart and in thy mouth that thou mayst hear it and see it and do●t Deut. 30.14 Now therefore friends look not forth after them that say Christ is here or there for they are all deceivers the word is nigh the light is within thee even in thy dark heart although thy darkness cannot comprehend it because thou lovest darkness rather then the light of Iesus Christ which shineth in thy Conscience and lets thee see the evil of thy wayes and calles thee to repentance and to forsake the wicked and live this is the Talent that thou art hiding in the earth for the which thou must give an account to therefore say I unto thee minde that teacher that teacheth to deny ungodliness and this is the light of Iesus Christ in thy Conscience the which light proceedeth from Christ and leadeth all that loveth it John 8.12 up to Christ who is the way the truth and the life the only way and no other way to the Father Now all of you owning this word Teacher and light in your own Consciences you will come to witness Iesus Christ in you the light of life and know him to be the way unto the Father which leads out of the darkness of all the worlds wayes worships forms and fashions and customs and words wayes and actions and come to be gathered in the light unto Iesus Christ who is the light and from the light then to come to witness the Scriptures to be true yea even fulfilled in you by the same spirit as it was in them that did write and speak forth the Scriptures and so witness with them against the same things that were witnessed against then by the Children of the light who had fellowship with the Father by the which they saw that which in measure I witnesse that there is but one way one truth one light one faith one baptisme one spirit one head one high Priest who ever liveth to make intercession for us one Church of the first-born whose names are written in Heaven one God over all who is rich unto all that call upon him in spirit and truth the which worshippers the Father seeketh to worship him who is a Spirit and all his Worships are spiritual but God heares not sinners and he that regardeth iniquity in his heart the Lord will not hear him for there are none but the pure in heart that shall see God whose presence is terrible to all the m●kers of iniquity that continue in the unfruitful workers of ●●●ness Now all of you see that you keep unto the true guid which i● Iesus Christ and follow him and see that you do not turn again to the vomit as the manner of some is who begin in the spirit and end in the flesh Oh leave all for Christ you cannot serve two Masters you cannot be of the world and of G●● you must witness a separation therefore i● love to all your somes that have been professors with me in publick in these parts of the Nation and all others flatter not your selves in your conditions promising your selves liberty whilest you are the Servants of corruption therefore forsake the wicked and live H. S. FINIS

such also as supposes gain to be godliness and those likewise that sollowes pleasures which we deny and turn them back as thou art and the Priests and Antichtistian ministers such as are proud and supposes gainto be godliness which they do not that th●u accuseth under the name of Quakers and thou thy self if thou was not blind might see that thou clears them also of that thyself in thy 30 and 31 pages where thou sayes they are made to deny their callings c. but as for giving over labouring and following of wordly business thou says thou could bedy with that and shews thy Reason as thou says ●hat when thou considered that most men are overcome and surfeited with the cares things of this life thou thought as thou sayes that the people of God should be upon the extream on the other hand those then are not they that suppose gain is Godliness c. here thou takes them also according to that saying of thine to be the people of God and yet thou calls them a misted People what confusion is here how confused thou art saying and unsaying building up and throwing down Babylonish and thou cleares them from the cares of the World and for surfeiting with that and yet in the places of Scripture before cited as in 1 Tim. 6.5 6. that is speaking of one that is Proud c. which thing they deny and abhor and also declare and testify against it as Isaiah did that said Wo to the Crown of Pride Isa 28. and by that Scripture which thou art blind in and cannor see what in darkness thou hast done thou hast Ranked them amongst a people that doates about Questions and strife of words and such as follow pleasures c. which things they deny against them testifie and they are no such thou thy self in another place hast confuted thy self therein and cleared themof that in thy 20 Pag. for thou says there they desire to become fools and to be made weak and as thou says thou knowes not what is doth appear thou says thou knowes not what that art so confuted and so consuting thy self in thy own sayings theresore let all the wise hearted take notice of that and judge by what spirit thou art guided even by a Spirit of delusion error and deceipt And to that in thy 19 Pag. where thou says they Reckon it their perfection and bappiness to be deprived of all here thou speakest thou knowest not what a divination of thy own brain and an imagination of thy heart And whereas thou says the Spirit of God doth neither so Act nor teach c. I answer the Actings and teachings of the Sparit of God we own but deny thy sayings who are ignorant both of his actings and teachings as before is proved and as thou thy self in uttering thy Confusion hast made it plainly manifest And where thou art telling of one thing that did very much stumble thee a great while and it was this thou sayes that they said the best things that ever they Received from God mentionag knowledge and faith and high enjoyments must burnt up and destroyed I Reply they that walk in the light stumble not The best things that ever we Receaved from God as Faith Heavenly-wisdom and Spirituall enjoyments is owned c. but they that disobey the light and walk contrary to it they stumble even at noon-day but thou walks not in the light and therefore thou stumbles and would aspire to know the Saints Conditions with thy vain mind but cannot for out of their life faith and enjoyments thou art shut and for destruction to suffer but thy fallacy we deny which Iles in these words of suffering losse of all that we Received of God and where thou says of faith knowledge and high-enjoyments and would charge a Lie upon us saying that we should say we should suffer losse of them thy fallacy we deny but Faith True-knowledge and what we have receaved of God that we enjoy according as his Divine Power hath given unto us all things that pertain to life and Godliness through the knowledge of him that hath called us to Glory and Vertue 2 Pet. 1.3 c. And where thou says that they desire to become fools and to he made weak and thou knowes not what Page 20. Reply Thou hast shot forth thy sting in thy tail or hinder part of thy words in that fall acy or saying where thou says thou knows not what as thou hast said how confused thou art as I said before to say thou knowes not what therefore thy judgment and sayings must needs be false and not true that as thou thy self hath said thou says thou knows not what and an in thy confusion and falshood treachery and deceipt thou hast nothing to do to judge of the wayes of God nor of the people of God And where thou says The Holy Ghost judgeth it meet that all care and diligenoe should be used hath in Reading exhorting one another c Reply What the Holy Ghost teacheth that we do own and also at we are guided thereby to evercising of those Graces A Sting in the tail a satit cy denyed wherewith the Lord hath endued our souls we also own and to he kept diligent in the Spint to understand the mind and will of God in the making sorth of his Love that we may be to the praise of the glory of his Grace and Reading and Prayer that we do own but thy Sting in thy tail fallacy or lying-divination that we deny Reading and Prayer and all Godly exortation according to the teachings of the Spirit of God is now witnessed amonst the people of God by the world called Quakers Which is this where thou says Those beguiled wretches pretend they must not Read or Speak a good word to one-another Reply thy saying in this is all false and thou laid a smooth-ground before it and coloured it over and layes this in the middle to stumble the simple thou subtill Serpent this fallacy we deny and the pretences shall stand for thy self and the begulied and wretches thou speaks of but Reading we own and speaking good words exhorting one another and prayer by the Spirit of Truth and speaking the Truth in Love that we may grow up in Him in all things which is the head even Christ from whom the whole body joyned together and compacted by that which every Joynt supplieth according to the effectuall working in the measure of every part maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of its self in Loves Ephes 4.15 16. And where thou says They say they have no freedom to speak admonish or discowise about heavenly things or any thing whereby they may glorifie God or do good one to another Reply Math. 5.16 This saying is altogether false and not true and thy fallacy we deny but speaking about the things of God and that which may glorifie him that we do own knowing that by obeying

reward according to thy work and all such as you may read Rev. 21.8 Rev. 20.10 c. Rev. 22.11.12 Whereas thou hast heard that some have gone from some parts of the North unto London 200. miles an end and must go with all expedition upon his command c. Reply Thou art offended that any should go to do the will of the Lord and that makes thee spew out thy venome because truth is raised up to declare against the deceit of the world and Antichristian Ministers like thee and thou cries out of their go●ng up to London f●●●● the North because thou perceives thy Kingdom to be struck at and now begins to speak but when didst thou cry out against any or many that went up to London to Petition for the advancing of the Kingdom of pride covetousness self-seeking Priests and Antichristian Ministers but now thou rages that hi● Kingdom is discovered and struck at And as for their going from the North up to London it is not denyed but the lye which thou joyns unto it and thy sting in thy tail where thou says they go with all expedition upon Satans command that is denyed and against testified If it had been so thou wouldst not have so cryed out against them as thou hast but praised be the Lord who hath put into the hearts of his servants to execute and to do his will though thou and the Devil thereat be offended and because thou art so trained up in his Antichristian School of deceit thou with all expedition obeys his command to declare his lyes and vent them abroad And where thou says the poor creatures are made to fast sometimes three days and three nights and sometimes more c. Reply Is that such a wonder as thou says that they are made to fast so from food c. here thou hast manifested thy self to be what thou art a stranger to the life of truth and to the conditions of the people of God and Ministers of the Gospel who were in labours and tumults often and also in watchings and fastings 2 Cor. 6. But thou says Satan he doth so far deprive them of natural affections and by that it may be known to be his work c. Page 30. Reply Eph. 2.3 Col. 3.1 2. 2 Pet. 1.2 3 4. The corrupt nature and all evil affections we do deny but the pure divine nature and such good affections we do own and are made to set our affections on things which are above and for Satan to teach people to fast three or four days or commanding them more to do so it is so destructive to his own Kingdom of lust gluttony riot and such excess that he will never set any to work against himself to root out a Kingdom of lust therefore in that thou hast also spoken without understanding And such as are without the pure natural affections are they that are in the corrupt nature children of wrath lyers false accusers fierce heady high-minded truce breakers and lovers of pleasures and of that nature art thou and such like therefore that saying turns backward upon you in that generation again and there to remain 2 Tim. 3.1 2 3 4.5 c. who are those that are so evil affected towards the truth and truths friends so that thou and such like doth revile them slaunder and falsly accuse out of the evil of your hearts and evil affections towards it and them and so that you are known to be thereunto acted and guided by the working of Antichrist John 8.44 and manifesteth your selves to be of your fa●●● the Devil 1. Where thou says Col. 2.6 7. They are made to deny their Callings Reply That is false for such as are called out of corruptions into purity and out of a state of nature into grace abiding therein they do not deny their Callings but every one as he abideth in the measure of the grace of God into which he is called he abides in that Calling wherein he is called of the Lord We do abide in our Calling and so it agrees with the former practise of the Saints and Children of God in the time of old where the Apostle saith to such as were called saith he as ye have received Christ Jesus the Lord so walk ye in him as obedient children not fashioning your selves according to your former lusts in your ignorance but as he that hath called you is holy so be ye holy for I am holy 1 Pet. 1.14 15 16. 2. Where as thou says they are made to give over their callings Pet. 1.3 4 5. Coloss 1 22 23 24 25 26 27 28. professions and honest imployments many or most of them Rep●● 〈◊〉 at is also false for as we are called in one hope of our Calling 〈◊〉 we abide many or most of us professing the same and ho●●●●●mploying our selves therein being diligent and faithfull to th●●●●rd who hath so called us We are faithfull in our calling Profession and honest imployment for the discovery and laying open the mystery of iniquity as it is to us made manifest and also we are faithfull many or most of us in our honest imployment declaring against the false-Antichristian ministry and reproving the man of sin at such thou art offended for our faithfulness in our Calling and honest imployment in the same but we know in whom we beleeve and whose Name we Professe in the faith and obeying in our Calling into the Unity we receave the vertue and so we are made fruitfull in him who hath so called Chosen us that we should be to the praise of the glory of his Grace Iohn 15.3 4 5 14 15 16 c. verses 27 2. Iohn 17.14 16 and 16 Eph. 12 0. And where thou accuseth and saith they neglect and disregard their families The family is not neglected disregarded but Respected and Regarded Reply that Accusation is false families they regard and respect and this fallacy lies in those words Disregard and Neglect take it again it is denied turned back upon thee to remain But the family we do not so disregard as thou says therefore thou art a lier and false accuser take thy accusation again and stop thy mouth with it and where thou says They say it is the language of Antichrist that biddeth a man take care for his own houshold and familie Reply we deny that fallacy also it is the language of Antichrist in thee that so standerously saith and falsly accuseth Now Truth slands clear and is freed from those slanders and false accusations Blessed and praised be the Lord God of Principalities and Powers who maketh us to see what is the Riches of his Grace and fellowship of the mystery which from the beginning of the World hath been hid in God who created all things by Jesus Christ Eph. 3.0.9 to the intent that now unto the Principalities and Powers in Heavenly places might be known by the Church the manifold Wisdom of God Eph. 3.10

and forsaking Father and Mother Wife and Children for Christs sake what a fair colour is this Reply Thy colour we do deny but to the Truth of Christ we witnesse and own and thy Satanicall spirit will not let thee throw off nor deny the World c. for there Antichrist keeps his hold who hurries the hearts of such out after the world to seek the glory love and praise thereof and to deny it is so directly opposite to Antichrist and against his Kingdom that he will not lead creatures out of it and herein thou art discovered in thy colours to be of Antichrist and the world but we are taught first to seek the Kingdom of God and his righteousness and all other things shall he added as he hath said Matth. 6. Chapter and art thou so much offended that any should so love Christ above all as to follow him in the cross whereby they become crucified to the world and the world unto them and he that loveth father or mother son or daughter more then me saith Christ is not worthy of me Take notice of that Math. 10.37.38 Galat. 6.13 16. but thou art offended that any should love Christ above al their Neighbours as themselves so manifests that thou art an enemy to those that walk according to the Gospell Rule through the Cross who are of the Israel of God who witnesse grace and mercy which is the Priviledge of the Israel of God that walk according to that Rule in the Gospel Gal. 6. v. 16 which thou art offended at them that walk according to the Rule in the Gospell who love Christ above all and their neighbour as themselves and fulfill the Royall Law by doing the will of God and walking in the Light Life and Power of Truth Therefore let all the children of Light that dwell in the divine Love light life power of the eternall Truth judge of thy deceipt Antichrist will not destroy his own kingdom and now he is offended that the Kingdom of Christ in the souls of his Saints is set and setting up which foretells the destruction and downfall of thine and the downfall of the Priests of the World and their Antichristian ministry at which thou art sore moved and like a troubled Sea froming out thy own shame but thou art discovered and thy deceiptfull works laid open and made manifest therefore stop thy mouth who art of the World and the old S●●pents seed and also Prognosticating Astronomer like but this Astronom call judgment is falss and not true as is proved and laid open to the Publick view Again thou says They endure much affliction opposition and persecution from the World c. Reply Then let all that fears God take notice of that for the World loves its own but the Quakers Reproachfully called and persecuted by the World are not of the World but being in Christ and so Christians they do suffer by the World and men of nature contrary to Christ for Christians did not nor do not afflict one another nor persecute but were so done by informer Ages Hebr. 11. and here thou hast cleared thy self to be no Christian but of the World and so Antichristian and those called Quakers to be Christians and not of the World who are as thou says so persecuted and reproached by the men of the World and thou art one that doth so shamefully reproach Christ Encourageth his to bear the Persecution of the World and speak evill of them and the wayes and workings of God in them c. Yet they being Christians and suffers by thee and the men of the World the Christians aforetime did so suffer and were persecuted by the World as they are now and their Conditions is not contrary but agreeing to the Conditions of Christians friends and servants of Christ before them being compared with Hebr. 11.36 37 38. 2 Cor. 6.4 5 9 7.8 2 Tim. 3.10.11 12. and also compared with that saying of Christ to his where he encourageth them to bear the Reproaches and Persecutions from the men of the World where he saith A warning from the Lord to such as Reproach and persecute under the nick name of Quakers or such as are of the divine nature made partakers if the World hate you it hated me before it hated you if you were of the World the World would love his own but because I have chosen you out of the World therefore the World hateth you c. John 15.16 17 18 19. Here Christ hath a chosen People that suffers affliction from the men of the World for his Names sake But the People whom the World reproachfully calleth Quakers they suffer reproaches afflictions and persecutions from the men of the World for Christs sake therefore they are the People that Christ hath Chosen out of the World Take notice both thou and all you that so slander and reproach and also such as persecute Christs Chosen-people whom you scornfull call Quakers and beware what you do against the Innocent be you sure that the Lord Jesus Christ will cal you to answer before him for it consider also of that 25 Chapter of Ma●h ●● vers 41 42 43. and so on to 〈◊〉 an●●●e what you can ●earn out of it and cease your cruelty ●●ult persec●●●● and reproach not the people of Christ so as you do sco●●●●tly by you called Quakers no● any that ●●e of the divine n●●●re ●●●de p●rtakers 2 Pet. 1.3 4 c. Again thou saye● There●re 〈◊〉 a p●●ple to be sound that cry out more against Antichristi●● all apprea●●●es of sin and ●●●ghteousness then they do c. Page 40. Reply Also here again thou do●st more fully clear th●●●o be the people of God for they are to have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness b●t rather reprove them 〈◊〉 5 11. and that they do according to thy say●ng The people of God may repove sin and cry out against unrighteousness and ●●ey a●●●●g in righteousness being taught by the g●●●e of God to deny ungodliness and worldly lus●● and to live righteously soberly and godly in th●s present evil w●●ld T●l 2.11 12. they may ●●st●y cry out against sin in all appearances and also against ●l●might ●●s●ess whatsoever for the people of God did so b●●ore them that were so taught by the grace of God before them and they that did so cry out against sin in all appearances and unrighteousness of what sort soever were the p●●ple of God and were not del●●ed and they that in the spirit and power of truth do cry out against sin in all appearances and against unrighteousness of what sort soever such are the people of God now and are not del●●●ed but the people whom the world doth scornfully call Quakers they do so to w●● as the people of God ●for●●●me did ●●●●g out against sin in all appearances and all unrighteousness w●●●soever being themselves taught by the grace of God ●●o deny ungodli●ess and worldly luste