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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

giveth no discovery of the deceit but rather covers it all Answ By vertue of the pure light that proceeds from the Father we see thee live in that which thou calles light which doth not discover unto thee the abominable practises thou art in to wit pride thou dost usually call thy own Child Mr. Benjamin Skippe a proud practi●e seldom heard of the love of the world deceiving the people upholding the worship of the Beast painted over with the Saints words an enemy to the Saints life as doth now more fully appear 6. Thou writest so largely of the Devil as it thou were acquainted with all his secrets both what he is doing and what he will do Answ The things of God thou art a stranger to for they are hid from thine eyes and all such wife ones of the Devil the world and the flesh who are in the first nature as thou art 7. Thou writes of what the Devil will bring us to Answ 1. It is neither thee nor the Devil in thee that knoweth what we are much lesse what we shall be 2. If thou and the accuser of the brethren in thee have ought against us at present that we walk not up to the present discovery of the pure light as it is in measure brought forth in us then I charge thee to speak 3. Thou hypocrite first cast out the beam that is at present in thy own eye before thou go to cast the supposed mote that thou thinks may fall into our eyes hereafter In the close of this Answer I write a tender letter in lo●e to his soul now let any that live in the light compare these severall answers with that in his pag. 7 8 9. In answer to that which thou callest railing and reviling language in page 10. the Devil hath alwayes brought up his Children with so much manners that they must not tell a lier he lies nor a Thief he is a Robber or if any tell the proud of their pride or the covetous of their covetousness then this is called railing read the Scriptures cited by him this is fully cited Tit. 1.13.3.15 c. see how thou condemns the practice of Christ both in his Person and Members in pag. 11. To that which thou calles thy experience in pag. 11. I tell thee thou hast had much experience of deceit being alwayes in it but thou had never any experience of the powerful workings of God in us only thou was made by the light to see thy filthiness in some measure and then presently thou went forth from the counsel of the Lord and acted and spoke in thy own will the which was deceit indeed running before the light the which I mourned over and often complained to my friends who can witness the same page 12. The Scripture cited by thee Mal 3. they shall discern between the righteous and the wicked between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not the promise being in measure fulfilled in us we discern thee still to live in thy own will and wisdom therefore when thou halted between two opinions long at last one of our friends was made sharply to reprove thee the which thou couldest not own and therefore left us that had undergone burthens upon our own spirits for thee in condescending unto thee in tender love desiring that thou mightest be made at last to witness the work of the Lord in thee unto which thou art still a stranger and now an enemy unto In thy page 13. thou mentions a Scripture as to us 1 Tim. 6.4 5. they there are discovered by their covetousness for they suppose that gain is godliness and canst thou in the least accuse us of covetousness if thou canst spare not to speak the truth but else let shame cover thy face for so many lies and comparing us with those in this Text. Aske the light in thy own Conscience whether thou hast not looked after gain witness thy Tithes thy looking after another Parsonage to that thou hast witness thy Physical Office thy questioning what to do for more maintenance although thou hast told me that thy Lands was 10 l. per Annum 2 Tim. 3.4 that is thy own portion witness thy many Instruments of Musick in thy house page 16. thou writest of faith but thou knowest not that faith that purifieth the soul he that hath this hope purifieth himself as he is pure he that believeth is entered into his rest hath ceased from his own works as God did from his the which faith thou art a stranger unto for thou hast writ ●●y own lies and the deceit of thy own heart and thy carnal ●●oughts the which thou callest the world with whom thou art to judge witness page 9. line 11. and 7.18 and thou thinkest in pag. 16.51.56.57 Page 17. Thou sayest that we esteem The more our hearts are brought off the dealings of God and prayer and spiritual exercises the more pure and perfect the which thou knowest to be a lie witness thy own words after the meeting at Clifton where thou sayst thou saw such a spirit of prayer as thou never had seen before to which those that were there can yet testifie and we witness growth in grace and knowledge 2 Pet. 3.18 and walk from grace to grace leaving the first principles of the Doctrine of Christ Heb. 6.1 forgetting those things which are behind we presse forwards for man in his own wisdom cannot finde out the Lord who is a spirit John 4.24 and regardeth not the wise in heart Job 37.23.24 therefore if any man will be wise let him become a fool that so he may be found in the wisdom that is from above Jam. 3.17 Next thou sayes that we desire the perishing of the former wayes of God this is another of thy lies for all the wayes of the Lord are righteous Psal 145.17 so in page 18. Satan acts thee to call that Scripture dangerous Phil. 3.7.8 if thou call Pauls experiences dangerous it s no wonder that thou callest ours so too but we know that all Scriptures are written for our learning the which we are searching Next thou wilt show the thoughts and but the thoughts of thy own heart which is thy old sinful heart witness thy own hand page 5. line 11.12 therefore from thy wicked heart thou being ignorant of the spirit dost in page 24. even jeer at speaking by the spirit in opposition to all the holy men of God 1 Pet. 1.21 therefore thou art an enemy to prayer in the spirit Ephes 6.18 the which we witness therefore in the light of Jesus Christ thou art calling thy own company to wit the world to try thy exposition of thy own lies that thou hast cast upon us in page 23. and the last in thy second rule page 23. there thou denyest the sufferings of Christ being ignorant of it in thy own soul but we know that if we suffer with him we shall be glorified with him so we are made willing to fill up

which in thy first demonstration thou would charge the Quakers withal who says they are so clearly mistaken that they call evil good and good evil In this thou art charged to be a lyar and false accuser and thy saying is a clear mistake and altogether false therefore as thou art so is it and both evil and so of the Devil not knowing what thou says nor whereof thou affirms saying they and it is thy self and such as thou art And where thou judgeth the Quakers by thee so called with such false judgment and so falsly accuseth them thou may'st be ashamed and blush speaking so vainly and foolishly out of the envy and pride of thy heart which thou would cover with feigned pretences but they will not shelter thee It is thou that art so clearly mistaken in judgment and not they as thou falsly saith that regards not what thou sayest In saying those that thou calls Quakers do judg the wayes practices and actions of all people to be abominable Antichristian and unjust except their own and above all people do they cry out against and disown such who by the world are reproved and disowned as the Church and Disciples of Christ I answer the Church and Disciples of Christ we do not disown nor cry out against therefore in that thou hast again vented thy lie but thee and all false hearted hypocrits and such as pretend to be of the Church and disciples of Christ and are not such we disown cry out against and deny And all that walk in the way to the Father which is but one Ioh. 14.9 such we do not deny cry out against nor disown but al that walk in that way we own even all that are in Christ and walk in him in the lowest degre we do not call that way nor such actions abominable but the way of holiness which the Prophet Isaiah speaks of in Isa 53.8.9.10 and the unclean shall not pass over it but all contrary ways and act ons to puritie and holiness we disown cry out against and deny and all such as say they are Jews and are not but of the Synagogue of Satan such we cry out against deny and disown but the true and right way we own and especially all such as are in that way and all those that are reproached and disowned by the world who are of the Church and disciples of Christ therefore thy lie Edmund Skip is abominable and false and as it is so art thou an abom nable lyer and false hearted hypocrit and one that speak lyes in hypocrisie that hath so regardlesly said Secondly All actions and practises which are in righteousness is by us owned and not denyed knowing this that he that doth righteousness is of God and that is owned but he that doth not righteousness is not of God and that is by us disowned cryed out against and denyed he that doth righteousness is of God and he that doth not righteousness is not of God 1 Ioh. 3.7 and 10. Thirdly In this the children even of God are manifest and the Children of the Devil take notice of this all ye unrighteous ones and thou also who art the lyer and of thy Father the Devil and all such Ioh. 8.44 therefore see what is prepared for such Rev. 21.8 and lying slandering and false accusing is from the evil so of the Devil and that is Antichrist an but Edmund Skip in thy blazing Star thou hast vented thy lies slanders and false accusations to blaze abroad so proving thy selfe to be such a one therefore thy actions are Antichristian actions and thou art an Antichrist and of thy Father as aforesaid and such there are many 1 Iohn 2.18 Then thou and all such are to be cryed against disowned and utterly denyed and though thou may'st be offended because I tell thee the truth but the Spirit of truth doth judg the deceit of thy base heart our own is accepted and the unjust rejected and the way of truth true Church and Disciples of Christ we own and all false ways self-pretended Churches and unrighteous actions we deny against them cry and altogether disown 1. To that which thou calls thy first charge pag. 7. If thou was charged for hypocrisie though thou seek to justifie thy self thy self-justification will not stand good but is null and void therefore of no effect for I have already proved thee to be a lyar slanderer and false accuser of the truth and of the innocent one also that regards not what thou falsly against the truth saith and hast said so a lyar in hypocrisie as before is proved therefore upon thee who art in the hypocrisie and deceit the charge shall stand and as Conscience-Book is opened the light which changeth not though thou alter and change yet the light will then answer upon thee Gods judgments to be just and the woes that are due unto hypocrites to be due unto thee as well as to them spoken of in Ma. 23 who art in the nature turned from the light of which hypocisie doth arise as well as false accusations slanders and lyes Secondly Something now to that which thou calls thy second charge when thou says Thou art charg'd for acting against thy Conscience c. I Answer though thy Conscience may be seared as such that make shipwrack of faith and a good Conscience and now a fleshly confidence be got up in thee and thereby a lying false accusing spirit doth possess thee as the issue of thy heart hath made it manifest and the light in thy Conscience thou art an enemy unto and acts contrary to that which should exercise thy Conscience towards God that is evidently demonstrated to any single eye and in secret the light in thy Conscience which thou art an enemy to it will here for the truth witness the same and also against thy deceit Though thou seek to resist the Cryer it will cry and in thy Conscience against thee testifie and be as a dart at thy heart when Conscience-Book doth open and the light which changeth not will stand firm and be thy condemnat on from God that hates it and walks contrary to it It saith thou should not lye but thou doth lye and art here proved a lyar then thou acts contrary to that within thy Conscience therefore contrary to thy Conscience And the light in thy Conscience saith thou should not falsly accuse any nor judg with unrighteous judgment c. but thou doth accuse falsly and hath accused falsly those thou calls Quakers falsly and also judged and doth judg with false judgment c. which will not abide the tryal nor stand before the judgment seat of Christ but both thou and it are for judgment and in thy condemnation remembered thou will also be of what against the truth thou hast acted and done and acting against the truth and light the light in thy Conscience thou actest contrary to thy Conscience and though thou say thou do not thou art proved a lyar before

seen in the light of Jesus Christ to be and in the world like a raging Sea whose waves casts up mire and dirt continually unto whom there is no peace Isa 57.20 21. a wandering Starre never setled Jude 13. but tossed up and down with every winde of Doctrine from such turn away 2. How you may know them P. 36.9 Abiding in the light that comes from Christ in that light you will see light so comprehend all the Children of darknes for he that followeth Christ who is the light of the world shall not walk in darkness but shall have the light of life to judge all the false Apostles and all the Children of the night who live in the dark minde in pride covetousness lying making a Trade of the Scriptures which were spoken forth from the light by those that witnessed it but thou that takes up their expressions and livest not in the same life thou art the false Apostle that preacheth another Gospel now besides the foregoing Scriptures thou hast declared thy self to be a false Apostle by thy own writings First in writing thy thinkings and conceivings page 50. yet my former thoughts page 53. I am but in part convinced page 16. methinks page 51. as I conceive such were the false Apostles 1 Tim. 1.7 understanding not what they say nor whereof they affirm but speak and write the imaginations of their own hearts as thou hast done in page 18. the thoughts of my own heart in the which are many devices Prov. 19.21 Secondly In being one of the world and calling thy fellow-Creatures of the world to judge what thou sayest and here thou hast manifested thy self to be a false Prophet entered into the world which the Saints of God never did page 23. and let all the world assure themselves that in page 45. here thou dost wrire thy self as thou art calles thy own to witness the world one with the world therefore we being gathered out of the world are hated and written against by thee John 15.19 I shall forbear to write what I know of thy former and yet continued practises this being sufficient to prove plainly that thou art a false Apostle whose many lies written against us I need not to mention in particular only some few in short that the simple may not be deceived by thee nor the truth suffer altogether under thy scandalls Page 48. Thou biddest the feeble Creatures of the world to judge of spiritual things though the world by wisdom knowes not God 1 Cor. 1.21 page 46. thou sayest that we do lying wonders but hast thou in all those lies and writings of thine proved that any of those which thou callest wonders are lying wonders for it is not thy saying it is a lying wonder that makes it to be so for there were such as thee that said that Christ cast out De●ils through Beelzebub but they were liers and so art thou Thou sayest our works are deceitful page 49. but thou hast no ground for it but the deceit of thy own heart page 18. the which thou callest the world to bear thee witness page 23. page 50. thou fayest we di●own the power and spirit of truth which is a lie but thou hast a form of godliness denying the power thereof 2 Tim. 3.5 Page 53. Thou sayest thou art in part convinced that peradventure the Lord would have his people walk in some way whereby they might be brought into a perfect unity in heart Oh art thou not here ashamed to let even the world whom thou callest unto so often read thy ignorance what art thou but in part convinced what way leads to unity Oh for shame for shame give over thy profession talk no longer of the Gospel thou hast made thy self manifest to all men Oh hast thou been talking of the Gospel so long and art yet ignorant of the way that leads to unity Oh let shame stop thy mouth and cover thy face for ever but if thou wouldest shift from this and say thou meanest an outward way or form I tell thee there is no way to have fellowship with the Father 1 John 1.3 but in the unity of the faith and the knowledge not a thinking of the Son of God who is the true living and only way unto the Father John 14.6 where is perfect unity even one heart and one way Ier. 32.39 which is away of holiness the Wayfaring men though fools shall not erre therein Isa 35.8 Also in page 53. thou sayest that thou art very sensible that thou hast lost thy comforts and therefore thou dost hope not to give over until thou hast found some way or means of having thy former enjoyments refreshed Why hast thou lost that thou never hadst thou saidst but now that thou was but in part convinced of the way and hadst thou the comforter long agoe and lost him now oh Babylons Merchant the way and the comforter is but one the which is Jesus Christ Iohn 14.6.17.26 Iohn 17.23 I know that if Jesus Christ had been brought forth in thee without which there is no true comfort who is the substance of all tithes types forms and shadows that thou could not unto this day have remained a Parish Priest and so uphold an Antichristian Priesthood halting between many opinions neither according to Aaron Levi nor Christ but living in thy own will and so living above Christ who lived not in his own will for saith he not my will but thine be done Iohn 6.38 And now who will regard thy writings when thou acknowledgeth that the comforter which is the spirit of truth is departed from thee now it appears thou art a lier indeed now thou hast no truth born up in thy understanding thy former injoyments as thou calls it which were indeed nothing but comprehensions got up in the wisdom of the Serpent Oh art thou not ashamed that the world which thou didst soon make up in thy writings should now read thy confusion art thou not ashamed in such a condition as this when thou confessest thy former enjoyments and comforts are departed from thee even now to write against those that thou acknowledgest to have large experiences and much of the power of truth through Christ page 50. Oh take heed least it had been better for thee that a Milstone had been hanged about thy neck and thou cast into the Sea Oh canst thou not look back on him whom thou hast thus pierced to wit the life of Christ in others now thou mayst read with shame and tears that which thy own hand hath written from thy own sinful heart look in page 5. and 8.18 which was then in the apostatized condition without the former comforts as thou calledst it page 53. now thou art found to be a false Apostle indeed Oh remember from whence thou art fallen and do thy first works yea repent ere it be too late Rev. 2.5 Oh though thou canst strive with man there is no striving with thy Maker who will come a