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A78608	The deceived, and deceiving Quakers discovered. Their damnable heresies, horrid blasphemies, mockings, railings, unparallel'd deceit, and dishonestly laid open. In the discovery of which, is made known the pure use of the holy scriptures (which by them is denyed) the true Christ, and how he justifies, his second coming proved not to be already (as the Quaker affirms) also the resurrection from the dead, and the eternal judgement, and several other particulars that saints are required to be stedfast in. / Set forth especially for the good of those that are called out of the world, into the primitive order of the Gospel, but may be usefull for all people. By Matthew Caffyn a servant of the Lord, related to the Church of Christ near Horsham in Sussex, being an eye, and ear-witnesse. As wee have heard that Antichrist shall come, even now are there many antichrists, whereby we cannot but know that this is the last of the last time. Antichrist made known. Or, The Romish vvhore of Babylon proved not to bee the Antichrist, or man of sin, in seven particulars. 1 Who is this great whore of Babylon, and where her chief seat hath been, and is. 2 Her fall, and the means how and by whom. 3 What is the spirit of Antichrist, and who hath that spirit. 4 That the Antichrist will bee a single person. 5 The manner of his rising, and when. ... 7 Lastly, his fall, when, and by whom. By William Jeffery servant of the Church of Christ. Entered into the register book, kept by the Company of Stationers.	Caffyn, Matthew, 1628-1714.; Jeffery, William, 1616-1693. Antichrist made known.	1656 (1656)	Wing C206; Wing J522; Thomason E873_2; ESTC R206563	72,973	85

but unto all that love his app●aring ● T●●● 4.6 8. and the holy men of old dyed in the faith NOT HAVING RECEIVED THE PROMISES Heb. 11.13 Another way I take notice of whereby faith in the true comming of Christ is indeavoured to be at present made void and that is by perverting the signes of his comming into mysteries and so scrues them to be signes fulfilled in them before their conceived comming of Christ but unto you that fear the Lord this I say that there is a good ground for us now to beleeve that distress and perplexity of Nations the Sea and waves roaring mens hearts sailing them for fear the powers of Heaven being shaken are signes of Christs comming as there was for the Saints of old to beleeve that Sion● King even the Lord Jesus should come riding upon an Asse and a Colt the sole of an Asse Zach. 9.9 which even so was fulfilled Matth. 21.4 5. And also as good ground for us now to beleeve that as the lightening shineth out of the East even unto the West SO the comming of the son of man shall be as there was for the people of God in the dayes of old to beleeve that the Christ which was to come should be prized at thirty peeces of silver with which should be bought the Potters field Zach. 11.12 13. which even so came to pass Matth. 27.3 7 9. Also as good ground for us now to beleeve that there shall arise many false Christs saying I am Christ shewing great signes and wonders before the comming of Christ as signes of his comming as there was for Israel to beleeve that the Christ was to be numbred with transgressors Isaiah 53.12 which even so came to pass Mark 15.28 There is also as good ground for us to beleeve that the Sun and Moon shall be darkned before the coming of Christ as signs of his coming as Israel had to beleeve that a Virgin should bear a Son whose name should be Immanuel that is God with us Isa 7.14 which even so also came to pass Mat. 1.22 23. As good ground also there is for us now to beleeve that the Stars shall fall from Heaven before the coming of Christ as Israel had to beleeve that there was a time to come wherein a voyce of lamentation and bitter weeping in Ramah should be heard Rachel weeping for her Children c. Jerem. 31.15 which you know came so to pass Mat. 2.17 18. As good ground also there is for us now to beleeve that Christ shall come in the Clouds of Heaven as Israel had to beleeve that the Prophetical words of David should be literally fulfilled viz. in my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink Psal 69.21 as evidently they were Mat. 27.48 O remember the mystery of iniquity least you dash your selves in peeces against that rock for consider would Christ yea when he made it his work to prescribe the future dangers that the Saints should not be deceived would he I say then deliver these many Signs as he did and intend that they should bee mysteriously understood and not in the least signifie it judge yee that are judicious and consider how this opinion of Christs coming only in men crosses the Scriptures for when Christ comes he comes in glory WITH his Angels and WITH ten thousand of his Saints Jud. 14. And the Lord my God saith the Prophet shall come and all the Saints WITH thee Zech. 14.5 they being first caught up to meet the Lord in the air and so shal EVER BE WITH THE LORD 1 Thess 4.17 BEFORE whom shall be GATHERED all nations and hee AS A SHEPHEARD shall divide one from another Matth. 25.31 32. Moreover then Saints shall bee free from death from sorrow from tears yea from all manner of pain saith the Lord Revel 21.4 yea Saints vile bodies shall then be made like unto the glorious body of Christ Phil. 3.20.21 and they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the Firmament and as the Stars for ever and ever Dan. 12.3 yet saith Fox Christ is come and he looks for him to come no otherwise but how where and in whom do these things appear O the nakedness of this Dream Moreover when he comes he shall rebuke strong Nations and they shall bear their Swords into Plow shares and their Spears into Pruning-hooks Nation shall not lift up sword against Nation neither shall they learn Warre any more Mich. 4.3 yea he maketh Wars to cease unto the end of the earth Psal 46 9. But doth this O Friends appear and not rather Nation against Nation and Kingdom against Kingdom even as Christ foretold should come wherefore he that shall come will come and will not tarry Obj. Saints are the Temple of God and God dwels in them and know you not that Christ is in you except yee be reprobates and Christ is in you the hope of glory Ans Most true it is that Saints are the Temple of God and God doth now as well as heretofore dwell in his people but Paul that spake these words also saith that Saints are an habitation of God THROVGH THE SPIRIT Ephes 2.22 which saith he yee have OF God and your Body is the Temple of the holy Spirit 1 Cor. 6.19 And know yee not that yee are the Temple of God and that the SPIRIT OF GOD dwelleth in you 1 Cor. 3.16 yet we finde that these WAITED FOR THE COMING of the Lord Jesus 1 Cor. 1.7 and unto that very Church unto which Paul said Christ in you the hope of glory He also saith When Christ who is our life SHALL APPEAR then shall we appear with him in glory Col. 3.4 even when the Lord Jesus SHALL be revealed FROM HEAVEN 2 Thess 1.7 wherefore Stephen though filled with the Spirit yet testified to death that he looking UP into Heaven saw Jesus standing on the right hand of God yet if any man have not the Spirit of Christ he is none of his Rom. 8.9 which saith Christ will not come unto you except I GO AWAY Joh. 16.7 which Spirit the Saints receiving did not declare him to bee their only inheritance but saith Paul the EARNEST of our inheritance UNTIL the redemption of the purchased possession Eph. 1.14 Christ dwelt in them by faith the hope of glory he saith not as the possession of glory yet saith the Quaker Christ is come already in their flesh and hath given them eternal life in possession and is not afraid to say that by preaching of a Christ in Heaven the Devil gets his work done on earth though a Cloud of Witnesses from the Saints of old that witnesseth their faith in Christ that was in Heaven yet did they the work of the Lord opposing the Antichristian spirits though the Quaker to the great abuse of the Scriptures say that such are the Antichrists that cannot confess Christ come in THEIR flesh but of this you shall hear in the next particular The men of God said that Christ Jesus

espoused Christ the Lord and so came to change the Ordinances and yet she pretends to be the Spouse of Christ and so hath a shew of all the Ordinances or the names of them for Beleevers Baptism she hath Infants baptism or sprinkling and for laying on of hands she hath Confirmation or Bishopping but the Presbyters have left this out and in this they are neerer Antichrist than the Lord Bishops and for breaking of Bread or the Lords Suppor that is in Part ministred to the People or Parish and so to the wrong subject being not penitent nor Baptised persons and instead of the true Call of her Ministry she hath a Human way as hath been shewed which is not mentioned in Scripture and so Tithes and forced maintenance instead of that which is to be by free gift and instead of singing with the spirit and with the understanding also 1 Cor. 14. 15. they have singing in Rime in a Carnal formal way many together without understanding the Psalms being collected into English Meeter by Thomas Sternhold John Hopkins and others and so she hath a glorious Show and a golden Cup and through the Popes Supremacy and the Peter-pence and Prayer to Saints and false Doctrin of Purgatory and such like trumpery the Clergy is very rich and proud and covetous and so all may see the way of the Whore which is National Generational Fleshly Carnal Human after mens Traditions making voyd the Commandements of God through her Traditions thus she goeth a whoring after her own inventions and so you have a brief discovery of the Whore of Babylon which is the Mother of abominations of the earth and is drunken with the blood of Saints and with the blood of the Martyrs of Jesus Rev. 17 5 6. and that is and will be the cause of her Fall and that brings mee to the second thing even the Fall of this Whore of Babylon and the manner how and by whom And for the clearing up of this First Consider that this woman sits upon a scarlet-coloured beast full of the names of Blasphemy which had seven heads and ten horns Reve. 17.3 now note that five of them heads or Kings were faln when John wrote the Revelation and the sixt was then in being vers 9 10. now this woman the Harlot was to sit upon the sixt head and hath so done a long time and so the beast that had seven heads carrieth her and beareth her up for the Magistrates have supported her all along understand also that the sixth head of the beast hath reigned ever since the writing of the Revelation but now is partly strong and partly broken and that the sixt head is not fallen is plain if you note well for the seventh head when he cometh he must continue a short space now that head of the Roman Monarchy which is in being hath coutinued long even from before the birth of Christ and this the Scripture clea●eth Rev. 17.10 five are fallen and one is and another is not yet come and when hee cometque hee must continue a short space the power of the Pope and his Clergy cannot be the seventh head for that hath continued long Secondly The Whore cannot bee any of the heads of the beast because she sits upon and is carried by the beast that hath seven heads and ten horns So she causeth the beast to serve her and maketh the beasts and the Kings of the earth slaves to her to do her will so then the sixth head of the Roman power is not fallen though it be in part and the seventh head is now arising which will take away the sixth and doth will and must give some liberty to preach the Gospel and to administer the Ordinances in the old way thereof and so the Lord God will bring things to passe for not one jot or tittle of his word shall fall and so in the rising and reign of the seventh head and of the ten horns the Angel shall flye in the midst of Heaven having the everlasting Gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth and to every Nation and kindred and tongue and people saying with a loud voice fear God and give glory to him for the hour of his Judgement is come and worship him that made Heaven and Earth the Sea and the fountains of waters Rev. 14.6 7. so the Gospel and the way thereof being preached the Nations will bee enlightened and so God will put it into the hearts of the ten horns or Kings to hate the Whore and shall make her desolate and naked and shall eat her flesh and burn her with fire Rev. 17.12 16. so through the preaching of the Gospel in the pure way thereof the great Whore of Babylon falleth and so the hour of her Judgement is come and to this agreeth that in Rev. 14.6 7 8. which sheweth that after the Gospel is preached to the Nations then shall follow another Angel saying it is fallen it is fallen Babylon the great City for she made all Nations to drink of the Wine of the wrath of her fornication verse 8. much more might bee spoken to this but let this suffice as touching what the Whore is and her fall the manner how and by whom In the next place note diligently what the spirit of Antichrist is and who have that spirit now John in his first Epistle chap. 4. and verse 3. doth declare what the spirit of Antichrist is namely every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God and this is that spirit of Antichrist whereof you have heard that he should come and even now already is in the World Also understand that John did not intend simply the Heathen that never did beleeve nor the unbeleeving Jews which never did acknowledge Christ come in the flesh but those have the spirit of Antichrist that went out from the Churth of Christ chap. 2.18 19. John sheweth them that it is the last time and as ye have heard that Antichrist shall come even now are there many Antichrists whereby wee know that it is the last time THEY WENT OUT FROM US c. so that the spirit of Antichrist is that spirit that is found in them that have been enlightened and have known the truth and go out from the Church of Christ and in a mystery deny Christ come in the flesh and so Paul speaking of the Antichrist or man of sin 2 Thes 2.7 saith the MYSTERY of iniquity doth already work c. and Peter speaking to the Saints saith in his second Epistle 2.1 there shall be false teachers among you who PRIVILY shall bring in damnable Heresies even denying THE LORD THAT BOUGHT THEM and bring upon themselves swift destruction So the spirit of Antichrist denies Christ come in the flesh secretly and they that have this spirit say Christ is come in their flesh and so say the light within them is Christ when at the best it is but the light

Beast that the Image of the Beast should both speak and cause that as many as would not worship the Image of the Beast should be killed and he causeth all both small and great rich and poor free and bond to give a mark in their right hands or in their foreheads and that no man might buy or sell save hee that had the mark or the name of the Beast or the number of his name Rev. 13.11 to 18. so the Beast that had a wound with a sword that is one of his seven heads was slain to death yet ye having another which is of the Seven or one of the seven and is the eight and so liveth and so it is the Beast that was and is not and yet is and so the false Prophets shall by miracles cause the World to worship the Beast the man of sin the Antichrist as God sitting in the Temple of God shewing himself that he is God 2 Thes 2.4 and cause as many as will not worship the Beast or his Image to bee killed and so the fallen Star before mentioned which is the Beast the Antichrist ascendeth out of the bottomless Pit the key of the bottomless Pit being given him he openeth the bottomless Pit and then ariseth a smoak out of the Pit as the smoak of a great furnace and the Sun and the air will be darkened by reason of the smoak of the Pit Rev. 11.7 chap. 9.1 2. and neer the end of his reign when the sixth viall is poured or pouring out then shall come three unclean spirits like frogs out of the mouth of the Dragon and out of the mouth of the Beast and out of the mouth of the false Prophet for they are the spirits of Devils working miracles which go forth unto the Kings of the earth and of the whole World to gather them to battel of that great day of God Almighty and hee gathered them together to a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon Rev. 16.12 13 14 16. which is into the Land of Canaan according to Joel 3.9 10 11 12 13 14. Multitudes Multitudes in the Valley of Decision or threshing for the day of the Lord is neer in the valley of decision and so I come to the seventh particular which is the fall of the Beast or man of sin and when and by whom Now Paul saith that the Lord will consume him with the Spirit of his mouth and shall destroy him with the brightnesse of his comming 2 Thes 2.8 so when the enemy shall come in as a flood the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him Isa 59.19 and so when the Lord himself shall descend from Heaven with ten thousand of his Saints to execute Judgement upon all and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds and of their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him Jud. 15. then the Sun and the Moon shall bee darkened and the Stars shall withdraw their shining the Lord also shall roar out of Sion and utter his voice from Jerusalem and the Heavens and the earth shall SHAKE but the Lord will be the hope of his people and the ftrength of the Children of Israel Joel 3.15 16. and in that day will the Lord make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all People all that burden themselves with it shall bee cut in peeces though all the people of the EARTH bee gathered together against it Zech. 12.1 2 3 4. then the Lord Jesus that DYED and ROSE again himself shall descend from Heaven with a shout and with the voice of the Arch Angel and with the Trumpe of God and the dead in Christ shall arise first then wee which are alive and remain shall bee caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air and so shall wee ever bee with the Lord 1 Thes 4.14 15 16 17. and so as Zechary hath it the Lord my God shall come and all the Saints with him chap. 14.5 and then the ten horns which received power as Kings in one hour with the Beast the man of sin THESE have one mind and shall give their power and strength unto the Beast THESE shall make war with the Lamb and the Lamb shall overcome them for hee is LORD OF LORDS and KING OF KINGS and they that are with him are called and chosen and faithfull and so according to Rev. 19. the Lord Jesus the KING OF KINGS and LORD OF LORDS with his armies which were in Heaven following him upon white horses cloathed in fine linnen white and clean descends from Heaven against the Beast the man of sin and the Kings of the earth and their armies gathered together to make war against him that sate on the horse the MAN Christ and against his armies and the Beast was taken and with him the false Prophet that wrought miracles before him with which hee deceived them that had received the marke of the Beast and them that worshipped his Image these both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone and the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sate upon the horse which sword proceeded out of his mouth and all foules were filled with their flesh so the Beast the Antichrist the man of sin and the false Prophet which did work miracles before him shall bee taken alive and cast into a lake of fire burning with brimstone and so Tophet is ordained of old yea for the King it is prepared hee hath made it deep and large the pile thereof is fire and much wood the breath of the Lord like a stream of brimstone doth kindle it Isa 30.33 and so as men are threatned in Rev. 14.9 10. that if they worship the Beast or his Image and receive his mark in their foreheads or in their hand the same shall drink of the Wine of the wrath of God which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation and hee shall bee tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy Angels and in the presence of the Lamb. SO it shall come to pass when the Lord Jesus shall appear and therefore take the 11 verse and the smoak of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever and they have no rest day nor night who worship the Beast and his Image and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name for this purpose read Isa 14. ●8 19. and cha 66.24 Ezek. 38.22 23. THUS the Lord will magnifie himself and sanctifie himself and hee will bee known in the ●yes of many nations and they shall know that he is THE LORD and then in that day shall his Servants say THIS IS THE LORD WE HAVE WAITED FOR HIM WE WILL BE GLAD IN HIS SALVATION Isa 25.9 So then you may see that the Whore is not the Antichrist that the Scripture speaks of for the Whore is set out in Scripture thus As a Woman a Harlot A false Church As a

the Quaker cryeth who hath waited upon the light within the light within another report wherefore another Spirit Though we may not deny but that through the report of the Prophets they were inlightened within from whence they were to act so faith commeth by hearing and hearing by the word of God now the Quaker may not say that word is Christ the light within because Paul affirms that in order to that Faith which comes by hearing their sound went into all the earth and THEIR words unto the ENDS of the world Rom. 10.18 now THEIR cannot be ascribed to one Preacher singly therefore is not such a light within which is but one and if the Quaker slight this he is more inexcusable than other men since he hath so far searched as to find that you relates not to a single person also by this saying of Paul we may consider that the Gentiles also were inlightened by the Gospel-preaching Prophets who sometimes were to go unto the Heathen to minister unto them as witnesseth Jonahs going to Nineveh and most evident it is that there were some proselited out of every Nation under Heaven to the way of the Lord which the Jews professed Act. 2.5 yet the Jew had a priviledge in this but where much is given much is required moreover if we look yet farther back I say as I said before that there is not to be found such an admonition no not from the very beginning as that men should wholly depend upon a teacher within this I find Judg. 7.14 that Enoch the seventh from Adam prophesied of the Lords comming WITH he saith not in ten thousand of his Saints as the Quaker pleads Noah also is said to be a Preacher of Righteousnesse 2 Pet. 2.5 and through his obedience in preparing the ark hee is said thereby to condemn the world Heb. 11.7 also it appears that the Lord shewed his wrath and made his power known upon Pharaoh and his mighty Hoast that his name through that memorable act might be declared throughout all the earth Exod. 9.16 also we find that God did speak unto Moses out of a cloudy pillar which descended in the sight of the people unto Abraham he spake by an Angel from Heaven and the common expression in Scripture to signify the way of Gods speaking is this the Lord said unto Abraham unto Isaac unto Moses but I find not where it is said that God did speak in his people his whole will and counsel as the Quaker affirms Object That which may bee known of God is manifest in man saith Lawson Answ As Paul informs us that which may be known of God is manifest in or to man saith the Notes so also he informs us how it comes there and by that we find him to have a spirit differing from Lawsons for Paul tells us that God hath shewed it unto man by the things that are made whereby is clearly understood his eternall power and God-head from the Creation for day unto day night unto night it sheweth knowledge Psal 19.2 and so is man without excuse Rom. 1.20 that is in respect of knowing there is a God all which shews that there is not such a light within as he speaks of because mans inexcusablenesse is ascribed to his neglect of due respect to outward means wherefore Lawson that talks so much of the tongue of the learned is found unlearned himself by wresting the Scriptures Consider also I pray you from the dayes of John the baptist hither wards and you shall find all the Scriptures unanimously contradict this Principle of theirs John is said to be a burning and a shining light being appointed of God to GIVE KNOWLEDGE of salvation unto his people Luk. 1.77 and to prepare his wayes before the Lord which had been uselesse had the people a knowledge of all his wayes by an internal light yea John himself though none greater than he born of women depended not upon such a light thereby to know all things for he sent two of his Disciples to Christ to know whether he were the Christ that should come or that they should look for another having a sign given him before that on whomsoever he saw the Spirit descending and remaining was the baptiser with the Spirit John 1.33 and this depending upon outward discoveries Christ-himself established by sending back a message consisting only of externals the blind receiving sight the lame walking the lepers cleansed c. which the two Discipies saw and heard these things Christ returned for Johns satisfaction Mat. 11.5 in the dayes of John Christ testified that he was the light of the World not the Spirit in him only but HE as he was the son of man the intended Sacrifice of God for to dye for the life of the World HE thus considered went from place to place preaching the Gospel of the Kingdome informing persons particularly of their duties Mat. 5.6.7 chap. not commending them to a Teacher within neither John the preparer of his way when the publicans and souldiers came to him and asked him what they should do but taught them their duties Luk. 3.11 12 13. and as Christ personally taught his Disciples and the people so also he confirmed what he declared by outward miracles which many seeing beleeved on him John 11.45 and others which heard and saw such works done by him which no other man did and beleeved not Christ pronounceth inexcusable having no cloak for their sin John 15.22 24. being such as John admires at John 12.37 saying THOUGH he had done so many miracles before them YET they beleeved not on him Some Christ said were cleansed by what hee as the son of man said unto them John 15.3 other some were without excuse subject to the Judgement because they received not his words which he spake unto them John 12.48 what less oh friends can these things import than that the words of Christ thus considered did work convincements within men of the truth considering that the rejecting thereof rendred them inexcusable if a light within in their sense be the only Revealer then John had no cause to admire in reference to the many miracles but rather in respect of the Light being rejected which Christ set up within them without such outward manifestations nay indeed he had no cause to admire at them more than others all having as they say a Light within leading in all the wayes of God but most evident it is that Christ hath otherwise appointed to make known the Gospel as appears by his similitude about the sower who saith Christ went FORTH to sow Mat. 13.3 went OUT to sow Mar. 4.3 contradicting the Quaker who saith the sower is dwelling in all godly and ungodly though the Sower be said to be the SON OF MAN Matth. 13.37 wherefore when Christ sent his twelve Apostles to the lost sheep of Israel he said that it should be more tollerable for Sodom in the day of Judgement than for that City that should not receive

is to be discerned from the wicked according to that Mal. 3.17 18.1 Cor. 3.13 and therefore saith hee not the Scriptures but alass the more he endeavours to avoid the tryal thereby the more thereby he is manifested for by this he is found unlearned though he hath so much spoken of the tongue of the learned by wresting the Scriptures for the Prophet there speaks of a day wherein all that are proud and all that DO wickedly shall be destroyed leaving neither root nor branch Mal. 4.1 which the opened eyes sees clearly is not now of which day Paul speaks in that place instanced by Lawson wherefore he saith the day SHALL declare it from whence these men conclude that that day then did and now doth but Paul had the Spirit of Truth whom we find even as a dying man expecting a Crown of Righteousness which saith he the Lord SHALL give mee at THAT DAY 2 Tim. 4.6 8. wherefore let us prize the Law and Testimony to which if men speak not according it is because they have no Light in them though they may speak much of Light The Quaker saith that Christ is already come the Second time and George Fox affirmed in plain words before many witnesses that hee knew him come within him and he looked for him to come NO OTHERWISE and James Parnel affirmeth that they that confess not Christ come in THEIR flesh are the Antichrist and also affirmeth that by preaching of a Christ in heaven the Devil gets his work done on earth as appears in his Book called Satans Design discovered p. 19.25 This being well considered is the ready way to fulfill that which is written concerning those that shall come saying I am Christ deceiving many before the comming of Christ indeed which cannot be till first the true Faith of his comming be made void which these men indeavour to do by saying that the comming of the Spirit which Christ said he would send was that second comming of Christ which the Scripture so much speaks of but evidently it appears otherwise because the Spirit by Christ is called ANOTHER COMFORTER John 14.16 which saith he will not come except I go away but if I depart I will send him unto you John 16. 7. plainly shewing that the Spiritis the comforter of the Lords people in Christs personal absence for when Christ spake of his own comming he said on this wise I will come again yea as the SON OF MAN Matth 24.37 John 14.3 but speaking of the Spirit saies I will send HIM unto you which when the Apostles had received they went forth testifying the Lord Jesus not come within them but as Peter said whom the HEAVEN must reveive till the times of restitution of all things Act. 3.21 yet at this time had Peter the Spirit but lest there should be room for the Quakers to say that that Heaven was within them consider also the relation of Stephen who stedfastly looking UP into Heaven saw the HEAVENS OPENED and the SON OF MAN standing on the right hand of God yet was he FILLED with the Spirit but his wisdome was to distinguish between him sent and the sender and in this Faith he DYED and a long season afterwards we find Peter remaining the same confidently affirming that Christ was gone into Heaven 1 Pet. 3.22 signifying to the Elders that when the chief Shepheard SHALL APPEAR ye saith he shall receive a Crown of glory 1 Pet. 5.4 to which agrees the Faith of Paul and Timotheus also who looked for the Saviour Christ FROM HEAVEN Phil. 3.20 what from the fleshly hearts of men judge ye that are wise these also at that time had the Spirit to which agrees also the Faith of the Apostle John who said when he SHALL appear we shall be like him 1 John 3.2 yet then it was the Spirit appeared unto him the Church of the Thessalonians was of the same Faith waiting for Christ FROM HEAVEN 1 Thes 1.10 yet then were they the Elect of God vers 4. the Corinthians also being inriched by him in all utterance and in all knowledge comming behind in no gift yet were waiting for the comming of Christ 1 Cor. 1.5 7. the Church of Thiatyra was to hold fast that which they already had till he come Rev. 2.25 judge nothing before the time untill the Lord come 1 Cor 4.5 yet saith Thomas Laucock where is the promise of his comming is he asleep but Peter tells such scoffers that the Lord is not slack concerning his promise but is long-suffering towards men not willing that any should perish 2 Pet. 3.9 wherefore be patient UNTO THE COMMING of the Lord Jam. 5.7 for this is the true Grace wherein we stand even that which brings salvation for saith Paul the Grace of God that bringeth salvation teacheth us to live godil●y in this world and to LOOK FOR the glorious appearing of Jesus Christ Titus 2.11 12 13. Object The Saints waiting for the comming of Christ was but for a greater measure of Christ Answ That which is spoken elsewhere concerning their denyal of the Lord Jesus will shew the emptiness of this objection yet consider Christ was not taken up into Heaven by measures and at times but while he blessed them he was parted from them Luk. 24.51 and he shall SO COME IN LIKE MANNER as the Disciples did SEE him go into Heaven Act. 1.11 wherefore the usual expression in Scripture is the COMMING not COMMINGS of Christ where it is spoken of him since his ascension wherefore saith Paul to the Saints be ye not soon shaken in mind or troubled neither by Spirit nor by Word nor by Letter as from us as that the day of Christ is at hand for that day shall not come except there be a falling away first c. 2 Thes 2.2 3. yet saith the Quaker it was in a great measure come but thereby he is found to be led by that Spirit which then troubled the Saints pretending the day of Christ to be before it was to be which Paul afterwards calls a mystery of iniquity then working verse 7. by this also he makes void the use of Christs parables concerning his comming which himself sets out by a man taking a far journey giving authority to his servants Mar. 13.34 who after a long time commeth and reckoneth with them Mat. 25.19 in what manner he is capable to come judge ye and remember that Christ saith HE IS AS A MAN as abovesaid that is in respect of his suddain comming at a time wherefore he saith watch and pray for ye know not when the TIME is Mar. ●3 33 moreover consider that Peter even when hee was ready to DYE witnessed not the day of the Lord come but saith the day of the Lord WILL ●OME 2 Pet. 3.10 1.14 in like manner Paul when he was r●ady to DYE said that there was laid UP for him a Crown of Righteousness which saith he the Lord SHALL give mee at THAT DAY and not only to mee

Swine feeding upon husks thou Cain killing thy brother Abel thou Drunkard thou Thief thou Murtherer thou Serpent the Curses Plagues and Vengeance of God is thy portion and saith Lawson in his Book against me Thou Image-maker thou Cockatrice hatching Eggs Vultures eye and this because I said Christ was ascended with that body that God raised from the dead thou Heathen because I said the will of Christ was made known by the Scriptures thou Lyar bundle of Lyes thou Esau selling thy Birth-right a Mate for the Night-birds Cormorants Bitterns Owls Ravens Dragons wild Beasts Satyrs Vultures Scritch-owles and this because I said that the Saints had not the Kingdom by possession but by promise and when they thus with fury and loftiness of spirit have pronounced Judgements I have endeavoured to moderate these raging waves but presently it is replied KNOW YEE NOT THAT THE SAINTS SHALL JVDGE THE WORLD sometimes also they endeavour to shelter themselves with the expressions of Christ and the Apostles but consider did ever Christ or any of his Apostles use such expressions to men for preaching up the Kingdom which is Saints reward as by promise nay himself did so and his Apostles also Luke 12.32 Jam. 2.5 or did they because men searched the Scriptures thereby to know the will of Christ Nay search the Scriptures saith Christ but indeed to the Jews and to Elimas the Sorcerer who had a long time before kicked against the counsel of the Lord and would not CEASE to pervert the righteous wayes of God to them they did SOMETIMES use some of those expressions which might be with a low Spirit delivered but what is this to justifie the Quakers raging against men that hold forth the counsel of God yea and that at the first dislike of their wayes yea and at all times when opposed nay rather is hee found to bee of that number that the Apostle prophesied of saying In the last dayes perillous times shall come for men shall be FIERCE 2 Tim. 3.3 their look being more STOUT THAN HIS FELLOWS Dan. 7.20 but render YE not evill for evill railing for railing but contrariwise be ye temperate of a good behaviour and HOLY IN ALL YOVR WAYES The Abominable Deceit of the Quaker discovered HOw far off the Ministry of the Quakers are from the Apostolicall Ministry who renounced the hidden things of dishonesty not walking in craftinesse nor handling the Word of God deceitfully 2 Cor. 4.2 judge ye by these following lines though I question not but that many have experience of their deceit as well as I if you ask them whether they own the resurrection from the dead they will I say will except they be changed readily answer you that they do but means a present rising from a dead condition in sin whether they own a resurrection from the grave yea will they say we do but mean a rising from the grave of sin wherein living men now are whether they own a resurrection to come yea will they say we do but mean a rising from sin to come to OTHERS but when I have asked them whether they own a resurrection to come unto THEM then SILENT FLESH SILENT moreover as I said before so I say again that Thomas Lawson plainly said that all that goes into the grave shall never rise again which was written by his consent at my house yet notwithstanding in his book tells people that he owns the resurrection both of the just and unjust and calls mee slanderer for saying that hee denyed the Resurrection Now hee knows that wee and the major part of men own the resurrection of the bodyes of just and unjust men which are commtited to the graves of the earth but their meaning is the rising and being of the old corrupt nature in man which they call the resurrection of the unjust and the rising of Christ the Light in man as they say is the resurrection of the just which the Scripture speaks of and so they NOW witnesse both this have I been plainly told by one of them I speak the Truth in Christ O shamefull deceit If you ask them whether they own the coming of Christ they will answer you that they do but they mean his coming to others but when I have asked them whether they own Christ to come to THEM then SILENT FLESH SILENT but through importunity George Fox said that HE looked for him to come no otherwise the like will they say concerning the eternal judgement likewise when we speak of the Righteousnesse of God wrought through the person of Jesus as it was offered up they will say as Nayler hath said * Satans design diseovered pag. 4. that they own no other righteousnesse than that which was wrought IN the person of Jesus of Nazareth his suffering resurrection and ascension but they mean Righteousnesse wrought BY the Spirit IN that person and the sufferings of that Spirit IN that person whose resurrection is now within THEM * Naylers book called a salutation to the feed of God pa. 21. excluding all this while the effect wrought BY the Person of Christ offered up to death If you ask them whether they own justification by the blood of Christ they will answer yea but they mean blood mysteriously Whether hee died yea or nay they will say yea also to that but they mean death in a mystery for he that suffered saith Nayler * Satans design c. pa. 25. is NOW in his people leading them through sufferings himself now suffering with them If you ask them whether they beleeve that Christ hath now a body they will say yea but they mean his Church Whether he ascended into Heaven yea or nay they will say yea but saith Laucock Christ is ascended into Heaven WITHIN MEE At a certain time having reasoned with Lawson concerning Gods making of the earth on which we went and the Heaven above I asked him whether Gods presence was not more in Heaven than on earth to which he said yea but being suspicious of his deceit asked him whether he did not mean that he was more in heavenly-minded men than in earthly-minded men O then how did he shuffle consider ye that fear God whether this be not deceit for men to answer plain-meaning questions with such double-meaning expressions as may seem to agree with the judgement of him that asks and YET by the same words intend the contrary what is this the language of Canaan which they speak of nay surely deceit is of the deceiver TOUCH not the unclean thing for blessed are the PVRE in heart they shall see God The Dishonesty of the Quaker in contending for his Principles discovered IF dishonesty in and about the things of this life be odious in the sight of God and godly men what may bee said of men that shall defend yea unsound principles with impure dishonest indeavours and not only so but in the mean time advance themselves by their supposed pleaded-for perfection above the Saints

and of the Resurrection of the dead and of eternal judgement Heb. 5.12 chap. 6.1 2. now these principles of the teachings of Christ came in being by and through Christ being manifest in flesh his death and Resurrection as hath been shewed before therefore whosoever transgresseth and abideth not in the Doctrin of Christ hath not God for he denyes Christ come in the flesh and so hee hath the spirit of Antichrist 2 Joh. 6.7 8 9 10 11 and so having in part declared what is the spirit of Antichrist and who hath that spirit I come now to the fourth thing which is that the Antichrist will bee a single person And for the proof of this first consider how the Antichrist is set out in Scripture in the singular number not in the plural as the MAN of sin 2 Thes 2.3 not men and Isa 14.16 is this the MAN that made the earth to tremble and did shake the Kingdomes the SON of the morning and SON of Perdition not Sons the vile person not persons Dan. 11.21 Isa 14.12 there fell a great Star from Heaven Rev. 8.10 chap. 9.1 not Stars Obj. This in Isa 14. was fulfilled in Nebuchadnezzar King of Babel of Chaldee Answer That cannot be for after this power that is there spoken of is faln the whole World is at rest and is quiet they sing for joy yea the Firre-trees rejoyce at thee and the Cedars of Lebanon saying Since thou art layd down no feller is come up against us vers 7 8. now the World did not injoy such a rest as is there spoken of so as that no Feller came up against the people of God no more for since the time of Nebuchadnezzar and that Monarchies fall there hath come up many fellers or destroyers of the Jews and the beleeving Gentiles as is clear that Antiochus and the Romans against the Jews and the Whore of Babylon against the Christians and again the Apostle in 2 Thoss 2. takes up the same words in substance and applies them to the Man of Sin which is the Antichrist therefore that in Isaiah cannot be fulfilled in Nebuchadnezzar for this compare Isa 14.13 14. with 2 Thess 2.4 though he might be a type of Antichrist 2 It appears that the Antichrist will bee but one man though many have his Spirit because it will suit best with his way of delusion for he will pretend he is the very Christ and will cause fire to come down from heaven on earth in the sight of men Rev. 13.13 and so he will indeavour to imitate Christ in all things for as the Lord Christ shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty Angels in flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God and that OBEY not the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ so the Antichrist will make fire come down from heaven in the sight of men so he will endeavour to make all the Scriptures that speak of Christs coming and of his reign to meet upon him SO his coming will be after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish because they receive not the love of the truth that they might be saved 2 Thess 2. 9 10. so as there is the MAN Jesus the Christ the Son of the living God which came in his Fathers Name Mat. 16.16 Joh. 5.43 without sin 1 Pet. 2.22 so there will be the MAN of Sin the Antichrist which will come in his own name and profess to be the Christ but will be directly an enemy against Christ and his people And so I come to the Fifth thing which is the manner of Antichrists rising and by what means for the clearing up of this First consider that the Gospel and the way thereof is to be purely preached and the Ordinances rightly administred and so the Angel is to fly in the midst of Heaven having the everlasting Gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth and to every Nation and Kindred and Tongue and People Rev. 14.6 and so the Gospel being preached to the Nations and the Ordinances administred in the good old way according to the Scriptures men come to be inlightned as many are in these Nations where the Kingly power is fallen that did support the Whore and would not give Liberty of Conscience so I say as the Gospel comes to be ministred in the old way thereof men come to bee inlightned the power of the Whore falleth and men slighting and rejecting the truth and also many of them that do receive and obey the truth fall and depart from the Faith and so receiving not the love of the truth that they might be saved for this cause God doth and will send them strong delusion that they should beleeve a lye 2 Thess 2.10 11. and so are given up to the Spirit of Antichrist and so as the Apostle Paul sheweth that the day of Christs coming shall not come except there come a falling away first and that Man of Sin be revealed the Son of perdition 2 Thess 1.7.8 chap. 2 3. and so the Spirit speaking expresly that in latter times some shall depart from the faith giving heed to seducing Spirits and Doctrins of Devils speaking Lyes in Hypocrisie having their Conscience seared with a hot Iron forbidding to marry c. as in 1 Tim. 4.1 2 3. and the Apostle Peter writing to the ●aints in his Second Epist chap. 2.1 2. sheweth that there shall be false Teachers among you who privily shall bring in damnable Heresies even denying the Lord that bought them and bring upon themselves swift destruction and many shall follow their pernicious wicked ways by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of and chap. 3.3 4. he saith that there should bee Scoffers walking after their own lusts saving Where is the promise of his coming c and so men transgressing and abiding not in the Doctrin of Christ fall from the faith of the Gospel and so the Spirit of God departeth from them and an evil spirit is sent unto them which is the spirit of Antichrist so out from them that thus fall away and go out from the Church 1 Joh. 2.19 and so separate themselves sensual having not the Spirit as Jude hath it verse 19. and also from them that have been enlightened and have neglected to walk up in truth and so reject the Counsel of God as the Pharisees and Lawyers did Luk. 7.30 so I say from them that so fall away and neglect to hear and obey the Gospel from them ariseth the Antichrist or man of sin Again the sixth head of the Roman Monarchy which is the Imperiall or kingly power hath and doth by the guidance of the Pope and the Nationall Ministry which rides upon the beast as hath been shewed alwaies persecuted men for their consciences and so hath let and hindred the Gospel from being preached and the Ordinances from being rightly administred and so the