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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65609	Quakery slain irrecoverably by the principal Quakers themselves, with a spiritual sword of their own forgery, whose names are here under-written their spreading spiritual murder cries up to heaven for justice, which appears clearly in this treatise ... / written in love as a fore-warning, given to all tender-hearted seeking, unsetled Christians, by Christopher Wade.	Wade, Christopher, 17th cent.	1657 (1657)	Wing W159; ESTC R33758	58,366	66

evil taught quakers should do And now concerning David behold he saith Behold thou desirest truth in the inward parts and in the inward part thou shalt make me to know wisdom Psal 51.6 And this again unseparably sets forth to view an outward unteachable part to be in the same man even at one and the same time in Gods estimation And now observe how boldly and stoutly the Prophet David stood it out even with God in defending and justifying the perfection of his integrity in his inward man or minde where he dares to say even to God himelf Search me O God and know my heart try me and know my thoughts Psal 139.23 Nay see how deeply he ventuers yet further in defending the soundness of his integrity in his inward man where he boldly called upon God saying Judge me note this Judge me O Lord for I have walked in mine integrity Psal 26.1 And now who would have thought that this holy David would have cried peccavi but yet behold notwithstanding that his great height of boldness with God to defend and justifie the perfection and soundness of his integrity in his inward man or minde yet he as it were condemns his person as having in it sin in his outward man or flesh or in this respect he changes his tune and now becomes an humble Suitor to God to pardon and forgive his sins very often in the Psalms and he lamentably entreats and though in the first respect he boldly called upon God to judge him yet in respect of his justifying his person to be free from sin in it he humbly entreats the Lord not to judge him saying Enter not into judgement with thy servant for in thy sight shall no man living be justified Psal 143.2 then he could not be justified by and in himself at any time whilst he was a living man upon the earth and this he therein confesseth in full effect and yet you quakers are not ashamed not onely to say That the Prophet David was free from sin or was perfect in the time when he lived upon the earth but also luciferian-like to affirm in full effect that you are free from sin in you in your inward and outward man both though these holy Saints acknowledge the flat contrary which you unruly quakers should also do And for St. Paul his acknowledgement is so large that there is in a true Believer an obedient inward man and a rebellious outward man that I shall need only to intreat my Reader to peruse Rom. 7. chap. And thus we finde out the cause why the holy Saints that are born of God do acknowledge themselves to be ungodly and the ground also from which St. Paul doth so highly advance his Faith that believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly in Rom. 4 5 is hereby cleerly discovered And now again if you can possibly wipe your quakish eyes to any good effect here you may see God's blessed people why do you seek the living amongst the dead Here here you quakers here are they that keep the Commandments of God and the Faith of Jesus also Rev. 14.12 that are so highly commended of God therein for their so doing though you quakers keep neither of them both Here you quakers are they that though they see that they do through the infirmity of their flesh break the commandments of their God in their outward man yet they with St. Paul Rom. 7.25 do serve the Law of God and so keep the Commandments of God in their inward man or Spirit of their minde and do also in their inward man keep the Faith of Jesus to be justified thereby onely from the transgressions that like a conquered malicious thief still remaining in their outward man continually rebelling against the law of their minde or inward man Here here you quakers is the patience of the Saints commended in Rev. 14.12 though your quakers aspiring spirit will not stoop so low as to endure that the Saints holy warfare upon the earth But therefore know all you quakers that when St. Paul prayed thrice that the thorne or sin in his flesh might depart from him if God had taken that away from him and so consequently from all his Saints then all they with St. Paul had been thereby exalted above measure even as it appears manifestly by you that you quakers do exalt your selves to a Christhood diabollically far above measure by your vainly conceiting that the thorne or sin in your flesh is totally taken from you and not onely so but God had also thereby destroyed the transcendent glory of of his Gospel-free-grace granted by his especial grace to men in and by Christ for Gospel-relief even ever since Adam's legal fall but you may see that God would not grant that though it was a threefold humble Petition of his choice vessel St. Paul but onely for his comfort God then told him that his grace was sufficient for him God therewith acquainting him that his strength is made perfect in weakness all which is shewed in full effect in 2 Cor. 12.7 8 9. And thus in one answer he sheweth us how he both preserved St. Paul and doth preserve all his Saints from being exalted above measure as you quakers extremely are And also God by that thorne sin and helpful afflictions not taken away from the Saints doth preserve the glory of his Gospel free-grace to himself as most due is which is even by all men heartily to be alwayes acknowledged but you quakers whilst being quakers so exalted above measure cannot possibly taste of this sweet Gospel-cup of God's salvation by him freely set forth in Christ his Son by his death and precious blood shed without your quakers or any other mens bodies whatsoever And now whatsoever the lofty self-Christed quakers will do or will not do yet let us beloved take yet further notice of the precious esteem which God doth fasten on all such people which are free from guile and hypocrisie in their integrity in their inward man though through the infirmity of their flesh and strength of temptation there m●y be some sin found in their outward man which sin they do not with St. Paul consent to nor approve in their inner man but do even hate the same which estimation is by God inspiredly recorded in John 1.47 Psal 34.17 Prov. 11.1 1 Thes 2.3 1 Pet. 3.19 Prov. 19.1 James 3.17 Psal 51.8 and in divers other places and yet you self-proved notorious sinning quakers which largely and truely appears in this Treatise are so boldned in impudency that you dare to say in full effect that all the Holy Saints aforesaid and all such humble-confessing Saints by their so fully and truly acknowledging that they had sin in them even when they were born of God were not onely teachers of a delusion but also of a great delusion of the Devil to maintain the Devil's Kingdom Oh fearful But behold my beloved that all this already said doth not discover the full height of

will tell thee That by thy taking out and adding to the words of that bock thou hast desperately involved thy self not onely to have thy part taken out of the book of Life but also to have all the plagues fall upon thee Leonard that are written in that book as is in full effect affirmed in Rev. 2.18 19. and not onely God's Law thus fiercely condemns thee and all such false quakers as thou hast proved thy self to be but also thy brother quaker James Naylers condemning Law aforesaid doth adjudge thee Leonard Fell by thy self manifested evil behaviour to be a lyer and so no abider in the truth but art of the Devil and not of Christ and because you quakers do refuse the gracious benefit of the Gospel-imputation that James Naylers censure of thee Leonard is true and just TWELFTHLY My twelfth Discourse is with thee Martha Simmonds and truely Martha thy folly is so apparent that I could almost have seemed to have thrown by my pen and have left thee to have been censured by thine own gross ignorance by thee published in print but yet I shall do thee this favour Martha to help thee to see how the Devil deludes thee if it may be Martha I finde in thy bock which thou callest A Lamentation for the lost Sheep amongst divers quakish errors by thee therein manifested as birds of a feather will flock together that even so thou Martha also hast perverted and wickedly falsified the cleer and plain sense of holy Scripture to serve thy master Satan where thou sayest Now Jesus Christ the second Adam who is God manifested in the flesh condemning sin in the flesh if thou live in him in thee and believe in him in thee thou shalt witness his power to the cutting down of thy will for thy will must come to death that the will of God may be done and so that Scripture comes to be fulfilled in thee which are the words of Christ Lo I come in the volume of thy book it is written of me to do thy will O God which is the book of conscience in thee there the will of God is to be done These be thy words Martha And now know thou and all quakers That Jesus Christ is before now come in his own distinct person of flesh without men but not come personally in yours nor any other mans body of flesh which is largely and firmly proved in my two last Discourses so that a man is not so to live in him in him nor so to believe in him in him as thou falsly saiest for you quakers Christ dwells in no man any other wayes but by Faith which is in plain and full effect proved in Ephes 3.17 neither is Christ abidingly in any man no not in God's sons but by his Spirit which is also proved in Gal. 4.6 and from this ground Christ's Spirit is called the Spirit of Faith 2 Cor. 4 4. and from thence the Saints are said to be the habition of God through to Spirit Eph. 2.22 but not whole Christ God and Man in men but by faith and his Spirit and therefore these Scriptures do confound that thy saying Martha And whereas thou saiest That that Scripture Lo I come in the volume of thy book it is written of me to do thy will O God Heb. 10.7 is to be fulfilled in men It is so evident That that will of God in that same Scripture mentioned is already fulfilled in Christs person onely and never was fulfilled in any other person nor never can be wrought over again in Christs person neither for that will of God was fulfilled by Christs death in his being sacrificed but Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more death hath no more dominion over him Rom. 6.9 This again proves cleerly That you quakers are not Christ as you brag you are for Christ now cannot die but it is apparent that you quakers do die as other men do therefore you quakers are not Christ and yet you are so impudent that you dare to say That as Christ is so are you in this world but shame attends upon you But to proceed it is evident That that will of God in that thy cited place mentioned Heb. 10.7 is not to be fulfilled in any mans person whatsoever but as that will of God hath been already perfectly fulfilled in Christ's person by his being personally sacrificed without men whereby he did put a total end to the vertues of all or any typical sacrifices And this is so evident a truth flying even in the very face of that thy false and lying saying Martha that it would be altogether superfluous any further to prove it then to intreat my Reader to peruse Heb. 10. from the 1 vers to the 12. In which space Martha's wickedly abused vers 7. is included And again Nartha whereas thou saiest That by the volume of the book in that place mentioned is meant of the volume of the book of mens consciences it is evident against the Devil speaking in thee Martha that by the volume of the book in that place mentioned is plainly meant to be the volume of the books of the Prophets for the same words written in thy cited vers Heb. 10.7 Lo I come in the volume of thy book it is written of me do appear plainly in the Prophet David's book in his Psalm 40.6 7 8. and in the volume of the Prophet Moses book and Esay 53. and divers other Prophets do in the volume of their books speak so clearly of Christ's death and being to be sacrificed that it would utterly be time lost any further to prove against thy quakish notorious lyes which thou hast learned by-heart by thy accustomed dancing after the Devil's pipe And hereby appears That by your quakers luciferian-like bragging as if you onely were in the light and yet by your falling down so extremely short in the understandings of such cleer and plain places of Scripture and by your delivering such eternally destructive Doctrine from them you deliver up your selves to be one of the most deluded and deluding miracles and monsters of the whole world THIRTEENTHLY My thirteenth Discourse is directed to the four and twentieth quaker the mighty writing quaker James Parnel And now comes his fearful blasphemies tumbling out of his Thraso-like boasting lying book which he calls A Shield of the Truth for observe my Reader and though it be one or more of the self-Christed quakers I care not for as it were passing by James Parnels murthering of himself in Colchester-Goal by his inordinate and by Scripture-condemned fasting as he said luciferian-like to shew himself to be a Prophet of the Lord for people to believe in him which was not to believe his words but to believe in him to whom he promised the eternal joyes of heaven as I finde recorded and said to be licensed according to order And passing by the numerous bulk of his great quakish errors his whole book being nothing else but lyes in