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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A75767	Davids enemies discovered. VVho of him make songs, but without the Spirit and without understanding, as the drunkard did which he declares of in Psal. 69.12. Or, a true discovery of that custome and forme which the priests of this generation would make an ordinance of, to blind the eyes of the simple, as this priest Clapham: in his 6 arguments, which is here answered, / by us who suffer for the truth, whose names according to the flesh are [brace] Christopher Atkinson. George Whitehead. Also a brief reply unto Frederick Woodall's three principles and resolves; and with replies to his answers, to several queries propounded to him, that to the simple the truth may be cleared, from one who for the captivated seeds sake suffers now in outward bonds in Norwitch Castle, whose name in the flesh is Richard Hubberthorne.	Atkinson, Christopher.; Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.; Hubberthorn, Richard, 1628-1662.	1655 (1655)	Wing A4126; Thomason E830_10; ESTC R202144	16,205	23

which is not worth mentioning with them comprehended and seen with the light to be all acted in thy filthy reason and Inventions which are stuffed up with so many lies and wresting Scriptures as thou art here disproved in So let shame cover thy face and deceive people no longer with thy dreames and lying divinations and customes and outward observations which thou hast no scripture for which here is plainly laid open to them who are not altogether blind therefore make no more Merchandise of peole through thy covetousnesse nor take peoples mony any more to maintain thee in thy deceits and filthiness but make restitution to them whom thou hast deceived and led in blindness and give them their money again which dishonestly thou hast taken upon them of whom thou hast made Merchandize for the sword of the Lord is drawn against thee and that generation thou art in and wo and misery is the end of your songs and your joy and your profession of God and Christ who are found acting those things he and all the holy men of God witnessed against The day of your trouble and torment and misery is coming upon you Wo wo to you pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture saith the Lord wo to you hippocrites and dissemblers who are acting in their stepps the prophets Christ and his appostles witnessed against and are filling up the measure of your fathers Iniquities ye false prophets and scribes and pharisees therefore stop your mouthes in the dust and never say you are Ministers of Christ and his Embassadours for your bottome and foundation is seen and tryed and your Customes traditions and practises are with the light condemned and humane is all your worship there who draw near unto God with your mouthes and lipps and your hearts farre from him every ones heart after his own gain and filthy lucre who teach for doctrines the traditions of men and there you keep poor people in blindnesse and makes a prey upon them and tell them of outward ordinances and duties and customes as this Priest Clapham wherein he is disapproved in his Arguments and his folly made manifest and so shall all yours who are of his generation who live in pride and covetousness and act those things ye have no scripture for who lead captive silly women laden with sins and iniquities led away with divers lusts everlearning never able to come to the knowledge of the truth but you shall proceed no further for your folly shall be made manifest to all men From us who are sufferers for the testimony of Jesus whose names according to the flesh is Christopher Atkinson George Whitehead Something in answer to the High Priest's Paper wherein he layes down 3 Principles and severall Resolves as he calls them wherein he goes about to resolve people that the light of Christ in the conscience and that which doth enlighten every one that comes into the world which light is Christ is natural and so to resolve them that Johns testimony of Christ is not true as it is written in John 1. 9. and doth deny Christs words to be true who saith he is the Light of the world John 8. 12. John 3. 19 20 21. and in John 12. 46. But in the light of Christ he is seen and comprehended yea the depth of his subtlety and confusion is here unfolded and his Paper answered from the light of Christ which he calls naturall but by it he is proved to be naturall and not to discern the things of God though he pronfesse himself to be a Minister but here his works are brought to the light and he by it is proved to be no Minister of Ghrist but a hater of the light as John 3. 19 20 21. The Priests 1 Principle THere are two Adams from whom all men are out of whose Loynes all men do come the 1 Adam is a Fountain of all Naturall good the 2 of that which is Spirituall and thou brings Scripture to prove it 1 Cor. 15. 2 22. Ephes. 5. 30. Gen. 2. 33. 1 Cor. 15. 45 46. Answer Art thou a teacher in England and is this the principles of thy doctrine to teach people that all men come out of the Loynes of the 2 Adams without distinction and that the first Adam is the fountain of all naturall good here in the presence of the Living God I declare thee and thy principle to be false for the first man is of the earth earthly the second is the Lord from heaven from whom is the fountain of all good out of the loyns of the first thou proceeds but not from the second and thy principle proceeds from thy ear●hly wisdome which is in the fall and cursed and here again thou may read thy principle with shame and confusion of face and repent before the Lord cut thee off as a deceiver who teaches for doctrine thy one conditions The Priests 2 Principall In thy second Principall thou speaks of two seeds and that the first Adam was not the looser of mankind but his seed and the 2 Adam was not the restorer of mankind as so but as his seed Answer I answer here thou art twining like the serpent to blind the eyes of people with thy lyes and doth cross the Scripture which thou thy selfe brings in the former principle 1 Cor. 15. 22. which saith as in Adam all dy so in Christ shall all be made alive and here thou denies Christ to be the restorer of mankind and here thou art dark and blind and preaches and writes against the end for which Christ came into the world but restauration by Christ we do witnesse and life from the dead and the seed of the promise we witness brought out of captivity by Christ and all who come to witness the same shall deny thee who denies Christ to be the restorer of mankinde The Priests 3 Principall In thy third Principall thou sayest the grace of life none is partaker of but the seed Answer Here thou crossest the Scriptures which saith the grace of God which brings salvation hath appeared unto all men and some turn his grace into wantonness and walke despitefully against the spirit of grace Titus 2 12. and that is not the seed which turns it into wantonness and walkes deceitfully against it for that is the seed which by grace is taught to deny all ungodliness and worldly lusts but it hath appeared to those who abuse it as thou dost who put forth these principles and here thy principles is found lies as thy Resolves are which follow thy Principles The Priests Resolves Now to resolve people that the light of Christ in the conscience is a naturall light thou sayest that the writing upon the heart of Gentiles is not new Covenant written but old so not of grace and Life but nature Answer I answer here thou resolves them falsely for the workes of the Law being written in their hearts this is not naturall which

doth bear witness in the conscience and either accuse or excuse but is one in the covenant spoken of in Jer. 31. 33. Heb. 8. 2. and here thou puts in Light for darknesse and darkness for light Priest Again thou speaks of two Images the Image of God and Image of Christ and saith something of the Image of God remains after the fall and brings Cer. 6. 9. to witness it when as there is no such thing spoken of there and thou sayest nothing of the Image of Christ is found before calling Answer Here thou would make God and Christ two images and so utters forth one lye after another and denies the Scripture which saith he is the express Image of the Father and thou sayest the first Image is naturall the second is spirituall and here let all behold thy blasphemy who would make the Image of God naturall and the Image of Christ spirituall and calls them two Images stop thy mouth and be ashamed for ever for being a Teacher who seeks to resolve people of such things as to deny God and Christ and make them two Images the one naturall and the other spirituall and saith something of the image of God is found in man after the fall but nothing of the Image of Christ O blinde guide that ever England should be deceived by such but the Lord is now making you manifest and in the light thou art comprehended and thy subtlety is seen and thou art now met withall who hath long blinded the eyes of poor people with thy fained words and subtle pretences but here thou art discovered to be an enemy to that which in word thou professes and so thy words will cover thee no longer for the life hath found thee out and by it thy spirit is tryed to be the spirit of errour and voice to be the voice a stranger Priest Again thou speaks of a naturall light and sayes naturall Light puffs up and quotes 1 Cor. 8. 1●2 Answer Here out of thy own mouth thou art proved to be a perverter of the scriptures for that scripture saith knowledge puffs up but the Scripture speaks of no naturall light Priest Again thou sayst naturall light discovers the blessing of the first Covenant Answer This is false for all the blessings is to the seed which is in the Covenant and is the Covenant but nature is out of the Covenant and out of the blessing of all thy resolves and light is contrary to nature for light is spirituall but thou art naturall who saith the light is naturall Priest Again thou sayest naturall light may convince of evill Answer This is false and here thou art a Blasphemer to call Christ naturall for it is Christ that convinceth the world of sin and the light which Christ Jesus hath enlighted every one with all which convinceth them of evill and thou that sayest this is naturall did never yet owne that which doth convince of sin the Light which will condemn thee who hates it and calls it naturall A Reply to the Priests Answers to the Queries propounded to him The 1 Querie How is Christ the light of the world and how doth he enlighten every one that comes into the world if it be not in the Conscience John 1. 9. Priests Answer Jesus Christ enlighteneth every man with the light he hath he is indeed the enlightening light and not John but it will not prove because Christ quickeneth that therefore with the same life or there is no naturall life for Christ Saints light is the light of life sinners not so not their life Reply In the light of Christ thou art seen and comprehended for thy dark words cannot hide thy confusion who in thy answer saith Christ doth enlighten every man that comes into the world and then would make the light of Christ which enlightens the sinner not to be the same light which is in the saints and here all who ownes light in any measure may see thy confusion for the light of Christ is but one and it is through the obedience to the light in which they come to witness sanctification from sin which now many do witness to the praise and glory of God who is their teacher what hast thou Frederick Woodall taught the people all this while who art a blind guide for he that knowes not the light of Christ is blind for darkness hath blinded his eyes The 2 Querie How doth the spirit of Christ guide unto all truth and shew things to come if it be not within the conscience Priests Answer This endeavours the removall of the Ancient Bonds making common the priviledges of the Saints and brings that Scripture Jer. 24. 7. Reply This Scripture Jer. 24. 7. shall stand to bear witness against thy self where the Lord saith I will give them an heart to know me that I am the Lord and they shall be my people and I will be their God and the promise of Christ wherein he hath promised the spirit to guide them into all truth and to shew them things to come and this thou sayest endeavours the removing of the Ancient bonds I answer It is to remove all such doctrine and such teaching as thine and the priests of the world under which the seed of God is kept in bondage and under the chains of darknesse and these thy bonds which thou layest upon the seed is as Ancient as since the fall and hath kept people ever learning and never brought them to the knowledge of God and now when God hath promised to give them an heart to know him without such teachers as thou art and this is thy torment but let this tormen thee for ever till thy mouth be stopped for it is so we witnesse it The 3 Query How doth the spirit of Christ reprove the world of sin of righteousness and of judgement if it be not in thy conscience Priests Answer It is not the spirit in the world that reproves the world of sin John 14. 17. but the spirit in the saints who are to Judge the world 1 Corinth 6. 2. the spirit in the saints by the light of truth Reply This thy answer and these Scriptures do witness against thy self and here thou art made to confess the truth out of thy own mouth thou may be judged as all who hate the light are and here by the spirit of God in the saints and the light of truth art thou judged and here if thou wilt owne thy own words owne thy Judgement for the saints do now judge the world under which judgement thou art The 4 Querie How are the children of God taught of God if it be not by the light of God in the conscience Priests Answer This is absurd as the second this is the strength you shall be all taught of God Reply It is thou that art dark and blind and obsurd who would keep the people from the teachings of God calling that absurd that thy own teaching might be continued and people be kept still in