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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

of the Lord be with his own works and labors and go thou up and down to pursue thy enemy and be vigilant for the defence of the truth and be also a reprover and rebuker of and w●rrier in the name and power of the Lord against truths enemies and adversaries and be a valiant conquerer for subduing that Army of lies and for the treading down false accusations and aspersions cast out against the innocent and the assistance of the Lord answer and go along and make the hearts of his to rejoyce and carry them glad tidings to Israel let them know that thou art come to bring them word that Antichrists man of war is encountered withal by one that is little in his own eyes and the blessing of the Almighty be with his own work and carry on his own cause against all his adversaries and his childrens fo●s that truth may triumph and the Lord make thee prosperous even to Amen Farewell and be of good cheer and all my dear friends be faithful and valiant for the truth every where And the Lord God of Power be with you now and for ever more Written onely for the clearing of the truth and for the simple ones sake by a servant of the Lord at Underwood Hill in Wotcestershire there finished and made ready to be sent forth this fifth day of the second moneth commonly called Aprill and according to the worlds Account 1655. Instead of a Postscript AN Answer to a Mittimus by which Thomas Goodaire a servant of the Lord was sent from Kederminster where Richard Baxter is cheif Priest to Worcester prison after he had been kept there a certain space and committed for no breach of any known Law but to manifest the enmity and that monster persecution brought sorth by Richard Baxter's ministry at Kederminster who is chief Priest there and accounted the chiefest Priest in Worcestershire and in persecution his ministry is chief in that shiere and begun there first in that County or Shiere to wit at the Town called Kederminster The Mittimus begins thus as followeth and the answer unto it To the Keeper of the Goal for the County of Worcester 1655. Forasmuch as Thomas Goodaire the 25. of this instant March being the Lords day came into the Parish Church of Kederminster I answer no Church it is but a Synagogue of Satan which brings sorth that monster persecution and casts into prison for speaking the truth but it is written Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer behold the Devil shall cast some of you into prison that ye may be tryed and ye shall have tribulation ten dayes be thou faithful unto death and I will give thee a Crown of life as it is written Rev. 2.8 9 10. The true Church of Christ never persecuted any but your Parish Church as you call it hath brought sorth that monster therefore a harlot and not the spouse be you ashamed thereof The true Church is in God 1 Thes 1. and 1. and doth not perish but yours is out of God and so perishing Christ is the head of his body the Church Eph. 2.22.23 but not of a Steeple-house you have told a lye to call that a Church and are found persecuters also and so not of Christs Church it were not of a persecuting nature but such as followed him the Head were of that body which were persecuted John 15.18 19 20 21. 2 Cor. 6. but you have cleared your selves o be none of that Body nor Church that persecute his and shut up in prison as you have done Mittimus At such a time as many hundred of the good people of this Common-wealth were there assembled to worship God Reply The worship of God you know not that are persecutors and lyers there you have shut your selves out of the worship of God for God is a Spirit and they that worship him worship him in Spirit and in Truth John 4.22.23 24. but you are in the lies and not in the truth and here taken with a lye in your mouth for he came in before your will-worship began or were assemb'ed and did not speak till your Priest had given over and ended and then asked him a Question and he sled and called an Officer c. and so manifested himself to be an Antichristian Minister and a deceiver and he the said Thomas Goodaire came not into your parish Church as you call it at such a time as you were assembled together as you say but was there before you were assembled or your Priest came and he walked to and fro in the room before the Priest came and then sat him down until he had done therefore that saying is a false accusation be ashamed you lyers and blush Mittimus And there misbehaved himself Answer Speaking the truth is no misbehaviour and he spoke the truth but misbehaviour he doth deny and therefore that accusation is false and you are taken venting and hath vented another lye and read who lyers are of John 8.44 and you that are such lyers of the innocent and bends your tongues like your bowes for lyes to cause them thereby to suffer imprisonment be aashamed for ever and read your reward that are such lyars Rev. 21.8 Mat. 25.41 c. But to be short I shall set down the Mittimus as it is verbatim and let the wise-hearted see if there be any breach of a known Law but only filled with lyes and thereby doth not act the part of Justice Righteousness nor Christianity and let Richard Baxter and his partakers be ashamed of what they have done and wo be unto such an Antichristian Minister and Antichristian persecuting Ministry The Copy of the Mittimus To the Keeper of the Goal for the Country of Worcester FOrasmuch as Thomas Goodaire the 25. of this instant March being the Lords day came into the Parish Church of Kederminster at such a time as many hundred of the good people of this Common-wealth were assembled to worship God Reproachful ●●●●ches is a false accusation charged upon the said Thomas Goodaire either against the Priest or Magistrate and no such thing as affront was offered by him neither by uncivil words nor gestures those are false slanders and the word disturbance of peace is but a cover and shuffle but there is no Law transgressed and there misbehaved himself not only by reproachful speeches against the Minister but also by a●ronting the chief Magistrate of this corporation by contemptuous speeches and gestures whilst he was in discharge of the duty of his place to the great disturbance of the publick peace and the grief and pertubation of the people there assembled These are therefore in the name of his Highness the Lord Protector of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions thereof to will and command you forthwith to receive the said Thomas Goodaire into your custody and him safely keep until next General Sessions for the peace to be holden for this County and hereof you are not to

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

and to 〈◊〉 righteously soberly and godly in this p●ese●● evil world as the people of God ●●●●ime were therefore the people of G●d 〈◊〉 the 〈…〉 Quakers are ●ot delu●ed not delu●ers b●● children and servants of God and may c●y alo●d and ●ell the people of their sin● and transgressions as the Lords Prophet d●d who was n●t deluded nor no deluder Isa 58. and as the true Apostle said so do it Know you not that the unrighteous and such like shall not 〈…〉 the kingdom of God 1 Cor. 6.9 ●●o and wo to the ●●o●n o● of p●●●e Isa 28. and to the wicked ●t shall go ●ll with them Isa ● 11 Take notice of that and cease to do evil and s●●ve not the devil These people thou sayes if they be observed well are such 〈◊〉 people that would seem to be very ●●●m●eless in their whole carriage taking away thy cause or fallacy that they will 〈◊〉 speak words that be evil The people of God are of a blameless carriage and conversation Page 41. Reply Thy cause or fallacy being taken away these people tho● would accuse upon a false ground they are so blameless a people in their whole carriage that they will not speak an evil word then they are not guided by an evil principle but a good and it is to be observed that when they speak their words are altogether good take notice of that for thy fallacy I deny and set truth in its place and so the whole carriage of those people thou calls Quakers are according to the carriage of the people of God in fornier ages recorded in Scripture who was to let no evil word● nor corrupt Communication proceed out of their mouths but that which was good Eph. 4.29 30 31 32. and why art thou offended at them for practising that which the Minister of the Gospel did exhort unto in his doctrine here thou hast manifested them to be Christians and thou thy self Antichristian and hath learned thy Antichrist●an doctrine in the School of Antichrist being taught by his subtilty in that methodicall way and his gradations thou speaks of who by thy fallacies would conjure and so raise up as thou hast done gradually first slanders then aspersions and lies and after that many false accusations thy master old Antichrist and thee his Scholar and all thy fallacies lies slanders and false accusations we deny though thou have learned a deceitful work methodically in Antichrists School being taught by his subtilty in his gradations And again thy cause and fallacy being denied thou sayes They will not use labour pains or care that shall be evil pag. 41. Reply Thy cause and fallacy being there denied as in the other then not neglecting but doing that which is honest Just and good we are not in a vain shew of will-worship nor neglecting our bodies where thou wrests that Scripture which speaketh of the body in another manner and order Col. 2.23 neither do we seem to go beyond the servants and Ministers of Christ but witness with them Take notice what thou hast written and behold thy folly But we do not neglect doing that which is honest good and just but do that which is right and just in the sight of God and also speak to the edifying of the Body in love and so speak that which is good that speaking the truth in love we may grow up into him in all things which is the head even Christ from whom the whole body fitly joyned together and compacted by that which every joynt supplieth unto the effectual working of the measure in every part maketh encrease of the body unto the edifying of it self in love Eph. 4.15 16. And so now it is made manifest that the bulk of thy hitherto actings declares thee to be beguiled by Satan in this nature being deceitful transformed like himself and art carried on to lie slander and salsly accuse as thy master Antichrist doth who is cast down for he is the salse accuser of the brethren and in his School thou hast ●eamed the same and where thou sayes thou hast n●t any thing more of concernment to amplifie c. he ashamed of what thou hast done and if thou be pricked at thy heart remembered of what against the truth Satan hath taught thee to do then thou art and be sure thou shalt be as thy works is so will thy reward be who treasurest up wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgements of God who will render to thee and to every one in thy deceivableness according to your deeds Rom. 2.5 6 and 8. And not knowing any thing more of that deceit thou art in that thou shouldst Amplifie thou sayes thou will hasten to a period onely thou sayes this master peece is yet behinde A Reply to that called Satans Philosophical maxime of E.S. in pag. 41. 42. which thou calls Satans learned Philosophical maxime by which thou art ready to blaspheme for thou saies this master peece of work is yet behinde thou means thou sayes of making those creatures mechanical able to do deceitful works with their hands as the Apostles did by laying their hands on the sick c. page 42. How darest thou say the Apostles did deceitful works by laying on of their hands or darest thou call that which was the great power of God Satans Philosophical maxime and if the Lord so manifest or have manifested his power through and by his servants laying on of their hands as he hath done but how darest thou call that power Satans Philosophical maxime and that he should make any able to lay hands on the sick and recover them as the Apostles did and as Christ said should be done Mar. 16.16 17 18 19 20. If thou dare call this power mechanical or the great power of the divel and if thou darest say that the Apostles laid their hands on the sick to recover them and if thou dare say that such as by that power do lay their hands on the sick and work a healing and loving effect as that power by the laying of the Apostles hands did and now I say if thou do call this Satans Philosophical maxime and that it is his mechanical power or in short the great power of the devil to do so and that hath by the Apostles done so if thou call this power that wrought and worketh its effect by healing through laying on of hands the great power of the devil I say thou art then the greatest blasphemer that Satan hath or one with them that blasphemes the holy Ghost spoken of Mat. 12 31 32. in in that high measure And I demand charge and ●emmand thee in the presence of the Lord or any that dare say so to shew by plain Scripture where ever it saith that any by the great power of the devil or through Satans learned Philosophical maxime did ever receive from him such a power as to lay their hands on the sick and recover them c. or