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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

left in the snare which thou hast laid and the p●t which thou hast d●gged and sounder the delusions and mysterious workings of Antichrist as to the single eye will clearly appear thereby will the innocent by thee called Quakers be cleared though thou and the wicked through plotting mischief be ensnared and seared that all simple hearts may take warning and be preserved who have the living God in any measure truly seared and served by doing his will in departing from the workings of Antichrist by his own power in himself and also though his Antichristian Ministers being as thou art transformed as a Minister of righteousness beguiling the ignorant through the mysterious actings by a Satanical spirit of Antichrist in that mystery of iniquity with thy lying wonders c. 2 Thes 2.9 10 11 12. Now I shall speak to clear the truth from some of thy accusations and slanders that deceit may be cast out and truth stand clear as hereafter will appear First To that in thy tenth page where thou seeks to render the people of God odious which thou calls Quakers and one chief thing thou accusest them withal and lays as a ground to work on and that is thou says their railing and speaking ●uch languages to all sorts of people and Rulers and Magistrates c. which doth as thou says discover a spirit of delusion error c. Now if I prove that that they do not as thou says then thou wilt be found to be what thou would charge them withal and so they cleared and thou left to be known thereby to be guided by a spirit of error and in the delusions and mysterious workings of Antichrist thou speaks of But I shall prove that those thou calls Quakers are not as thou says therefore thou art the deceiver and in the delusions c. an the people thou calls Quakers redeemed from such things and stands clear To thy second Rule whereby thou says thou wilt find out where Satan doth colour over and blind this fallacy with some Scripture words and instances And that is first as thou says their rayling and says they count it not railing but a sharp rebuking and reproving men with authority c. quoting Thus 1.13 and 3.15 and those are the places thou says Satan covers himself under and that of Nathan to David when he said thou art the man and that of Christ to Peter when he called him Satan I answer Satan cannot cast out Satan and a Kingdom divided cannot stand thou deceiver and subtil serpent doth or will Satan discover and reprove his own deceivableness No he will not strike at his own Kingdom to root it out The fallacy thou speaks of that is thy own turned back upon thee again and the Scriptures which thou hast cited we witness and own the authority spoken of but they are no covers for deceit as thou says therefore in that thou art the false accuser and lyer against the truth and truths friends thou art a stranger to the life of truth and them and that which thou calls rayling is to tell thee and men of the evil of their ways for in the second place thou says they charge men with hypocrisie aod so take the example of Christ to call men hypocrites here thou shews thou art offended at truth for declaring against the deceit and so art judged out of thy own mouth and by thy own works who art in the hypocrisie and therefore an hypocrite for we cannot follow any better examples then Christ Jesus and his true Prophets and Apostles for we are required so to follow them as for our examples and we do not err●n so doing but are accepted for obeying Christ and h●s Commands and following him for our example and the e●ample of such Eph. 5.1 1 Co. 11.1 and thou art offended at that and that the seed of God should sharply reprove and rebuke the serpents seed and the man of sin and darest thou say there was sin or deceit manifested by Paul forb●dding Titus reprove and rebuke with authority or was that any rayling and reviling in him and such to obey the commands of the spirit of truth as Nathan did and such as are sent as he was from God sent to tell David he was the man and Christ Jesus himself to Peter Get thee behind me Satan And as it was no sin nor deceit in them to say so being guided thereunto by the Lords sp●r●t then it is not deceit error nor delusion for such now so to say being thereunto as they was guided by the Lords holy Spirit to say so to whom they are so sent and to say as they are by the Lord required but thou and the Serpents seed are offended at the righteous judgment and language of the Spirit of Truth therefore thy sayings against such are false and so thou judgest amiss to call it rayling and reviling speaking against sin and dece●t and to speak plainly to Teachers People Rulers and Magistrates according as their Cond●t●ons are c. As I shall prove by several Scripture e●amples and then let all the children of light judg and not the world which thou calls to judg of thy sayings who are in deceit as thou art and cannot judg aright but therein thy folly and enmity is discovered and for colouring delusion error and deceits with pretences and seemingly from the Scriptures by-fallacies c. none more guilty of that sin than thou art and the Hireling and Tything-Priests and such false Antichristian Ministers that are in union with Antichrist as thou art being so acted and guided by a Satanical spirit in all his mysterious actings being turned back and according to thy sayings in thy 11. page and the judgments woes c. against Kendal in the North shall stand But that which proceeds from the Spirit of truth and the true Power of the living God in His Sons and Daughters which thou calls rayling is not as thou says but are words of truth therefore thy second Rule for the discovery of the mystery thou tells of is false a lying fallacy so error and deceit therefore thou art a false Judg and so guided by an erronious spirit of delusion to judg amiss of the Saints practice by thy delusion error and deceit Example 1. To speak truth in plainness by the spirit of truth to Priests People Rulers or Magistrates is no railing but according to the Scriptures and practise of the Peop of God as is here by these Examples proved to be a witness for the truth and against E. S. lies error and all decei For first When the Lord sent the Prophet his servant Isaiah to speak to the bl●nd watch-men and greedy Sheapherds of Israel who had transgressed the first Covenant c. he called them beasts and said All ye Beasts of the field come to devoure His Watch-men are blind they are ignorant they are all dumb-dogs yea they are greedy dogs which have never enough they all look to their own way

his spirit in the hearts of his children and servants and in that which thou hast been pretending to discover to others thou art found chief in Antichrists design and deep in his mysterious actings thy self and let all the wife heatted take notice thereof And where thou art slanderously reproaching and accusing the servants of Christ that follows Christ in the sufferings calling them their Quaking fits roarings transings swoundings passions and Agonies and exercitations of body and ex●team tortures c. that it maketh them roar out for very bitterness thou cl●erly judges thou sayes if the Lord did not limit the devil in their behalf as he did for Iob saying thou shalt not touch his life it would be impossible for their concaves to hold their internals in those violent motions for they are made under those Agonies to tremble and Quake as though their flesh must part from their bones and ligatures like unto men in the strongest fits of an Ague as though they had seen Belshazzars vision Dan. 10. that made his knees smite one against another in those strong passions they are thou sayes exercised with so much heat of what sort thou sayes thou knows not c. Reply Thou hast reckoned up many names and been busying thy minde about setting forth a peoples condition whereby thou would render them odious to the world but the people of God was ever so in the worlds account and Isaiah and those people that trembled at the word of the Lord Trembling Quaking and shaking the Scriptures witnesseth which is also witnessed by the holy men of God as in Isa 66.2 5. they were signs and wonders then Isa 8.18 and so are the people of God now to thee and such like and thou hast been so much bysying thy self about them to set them forth by thy gethered words and expressions the inventions and divinations of thy brain and in the latter end confesseth thou knows not of what sort it is therefore thou art ignorant of what thou hast been busying thy minde about and falsly accusing them withall thy gathered and vain expressions and vain repetitions I deny but the power of God which causeth Quaking trembling and shaking which thou calls cruel torturings c. I own and witness or else I should deny the authority of the Scriptures and the conditions of the holy men of God who witnessed Quaking trembling and shaking as Moses David Daniel and the men that were with him roared trembled and Quaked and Habakkuk whose belly shook and lipps quivered and Paul and the Corinthians that trembled and the Philippians that was to work out their salvation with fear and trembling this the Scriptures witnesseth unto and the same power and workings of the Spirit of God I witness unto but if thou who watcheth with an evil eye had seen Moses when he said he did exceedingly fear and Quake Act. 7.31 3● Ezek. 12.18 Psal 38.8 Psal 119.120 Iob 21.5 6 37 1. Isa 66.2 5. and David when be roared by reason of the disquietness of his heart and when his flesh did tremble and Daniel when he trembled and fell down to the ground that his breath and strength went from him and seen the men that were with him when such a Quaking fell upon them that they went to hide themselves for fear and Habakkuk when his belly shook and his lips quivered and Ioh when his flesh did shake and tremble Dan. 10.7 8 11. Ior. 23.9 Ier. 30.5 6. Hab. 3.16 Act. 9.4 5 6. 2 Cor. 7.5 Phil. 2.11 12 13. that his heart thereby was removed out of its place and Ieremiah when he reeled to and fro and all his bones did shake and Paul when he fell down and trembled and when the Corinibians trembled and the Philippians wrought out their salvation with fear and trembling who witnessed the power which I have written to more fully and cleered by Scripture in a Book called the Brazen Serdent to take away that stumbling block from the mindes of the simple and such as are troubled about it let them have recourse to the book called the Brazen Serpent lifted up and because I have written so largly to this in that I shall now pass on but if thou who watcheth with an evil eye and seeks to raise grounds to raise slanders and aspersions to cast upon the people of God to render them odious to the world if thou hadst seen these servants of the Lord before mentioned in those conditions thou would have been ready to have called them their Quaking fits Roarings cruel torturings c. and thou that labors to raise such aspersions upon the people of God Psal 21.1 Ier. 5.22 Isa 2.11 12 17 19 20 21. who witness his power as such did thou mightest as well have accused them and have spoken against them that witnessed the sanie conditions before as speak evil of the people wayes and works of God now who speaks evil of them and the power of God but it is too manifest to all the children of light that thou art a false accuser of the people of God and one that speaks evil of his power and thereby hast also cleared thy self to be one that art ignorant of the wayes workings and teachings of the Spirit of God and a stranger to the condition of the holy men of God that spoke forth the Scriptures and ignorant of the conditions of these now who witness to the life of the Scriptures and knows not the manner of the work of the Spirit of God as in thy 22 Page thou confesseth thou knows not of what sort it is that maketh them cry out c. And in that let all the wise hearted take notice that thou hast also said thou knows not what and art Ignorant of their conditions that thou hast been slandering and upon them casting accusations and false aspersisions And here I charge thee to be a slanderer of the innocent and a busie body in other mens matters and knows nor of what sort their work is as thou hast said therefore silence deceit and stop thy mouth be ashamed and blush And in thy 25. Page where thou sayes By this thou clearly sees thou art delivered out of the temptations of Satan and they are befooled with Antichrist wherein thou art also telling thy generation thy lies c. Reply The children of light that dwells in the pure power of God which thou speaks evil of and art delivered from they dwelling in the pure discovery of Divine light and life they see thee the boaster excluded out of Gods Kingdom which stands not in word but in power righteousness peace and joy in the holy Ghost and such in the power are kept out of Satans snares and for being befooled by him and so chargeth thee to be a liar and denies thy fallacy and with the pure divine light they that in the life of it dwelleth such sees thee in the snare thy self though exalted Lucifer-like yet befooled with the delusion of

reward according to thy work and all such as you may read Rev. 21.8 Rev. 20.10 c. Rev. 22.11.12 Whereas thou hast heard that some have gone from some parts of the North unto London 200. miles an end and must go with all expedition upon his command c. Reply Thou art offended that any should go to do the will of the Lord and that makes thee spew out thy venome because truth is raised up to declare against the deceit of the world and Antichristian Ministers like thee and thou cries out of their go●ng up to London f●●●● the North because thou perceives thy Kingdom to be struck at and now begins to speak but when didst thou cry out against any or many that went up to London to Petition for the advancing of the Kingdom of pride covetousness self-seeking Priests and Antichristian Ministers but now thou rages that hi● Kingdom is discovered and struck at And as for their going from the North up to London it is not denyed but the lye which thou joyns unto it and thy sting in thy tail where thou says they go with all expedition upon Satans command that is denyed and against testified If it had been so thou wouldst not have so cryed out against them as thou hast but praised be the Lord who hath put into the hearts of his servants to execute and to do his will though thou and the Devil thereat be offended and because thou art so trained up in his Antichristian School of deceit thou with all expedition obeys his command to declare his lyes and vent them abroad And where thou says the poor creatures are made to fast sometimes three days and three nights and sometimes more c. Reply Is that such a wonder as thou says that they are made to fast so from food c. here thou hast manifested thy self to be what thou art a stranger to the life of truth and to the conditions of the people of God and Ministers of the Gospel who were in labours and tumults often and also in watchings and fastings 2 Cor. 6. But thou says Satan he doth so far deprive them of natural affections and by that it may be known to be his work c. Page 30. Reply Eph. 2.3 Col. 3.1 2. 2 Pet. 1.2 3 4. The corrupt nature and all evil affections we do deny but the pure divine nature and such good affections we do own and are made to set our affections on things which are above and for Satan to teach people to fast three or four days or commanding them more to do so it is so destructive to his own Kingdom of lust gluttony riot and such excess that he will never set any to work against himself to root out a Kingdom of lust therefore in that thou hast also spoken without understanding And such as are without the pure natural affections are they that are in the corrupt nature children of wrath lyers false accusers fierce heady high-minded truce breakers and lovers of pleasures and of that nature art thou and such like therefore that saying turns backward upon you in that generation again and there to remain 2 Tim. 3.1 2 3 4.5 c. who are those that are so evil affected towards the truth and truths friends so that thou and such like doth revile them slaunder and falsly accuse out of the evil of your hearts and evil affections towards it and them and so that you are known to be thereunto acted and guided by the working of Antichrist John 8.44 and manifesteth your selves to be of your fa●●● the Devil 1. Where thou says Col. 2.6 7. They are made to deny their Callings Reply That is false for such as are called out of corruptions into purity and out of a state of nature into grace abiding therein they do not deny their Callings but every one as he abideth in the measure of the grace of God into which he is called he abides in that Calling wherein he is called of the Lord We do abide in our Calling and so it agrees with the former practise of the Saints and Children of God in the time of old where the Apostle saith to such as were called saith he as ye have received Christ Jesus the Lord so walk ye in him as obedient children not fashioning your selves according to your former lusts in your ignorance but as he that hath called you is holy so be ye holy for I am holy 1 Pet. 1.14 15 16. 2. Where as thou says they are made to give over their callings Pet. 1.3 4 5. Coloss 1 22 23 24 25 26 27 28. professions and honest imployments many or most of them Rep●● 〈◊〉 at is also false for as we are called in one hope of our Calling 〈◊〉 we abide many or most of us professing the same and ho●●●●●mploying our selves therein being diligent and faithfull to th●●●●rd who hath so called us We are faithfull in our calling Profession and honest imployment for the discovery and laying open the mystery of iniquity as it is to us made manifest and also we are faithfull many or most of us in our honest imployment declaring against the false-Antichristian ministry and reproving the man of sin at such thou art offended for our faithfulness in our Calling and honest imployment in the same but we know in whom we beleeve and whose Name we Professe in the faith and obeying in our Calling into the Unity we receave the vertue and so we are made fruitfull in him who hath so called Chosen us that we should be to the praise of the glory of his Grace Iohn 15.3 4 5 14 15 16 c. verses 27 2. Iohn 17.14 16 and 16 Eph. 12 0. And where thou accuseth and saith they neglect and disregard their families The family is not neglected disregarded but Respected and Regarded Reply that Accusation is false families they regard and respect and this fallacy lies in those words Disregard and Neglect take it again it is denied turned back upon thee to remain But the family we do not so disregard as thou says therefore thou art a lier and false accuser take thy accusation again and stop thy mouth with it and where thou says They say it is the language of Antichrist that biddeth a man take care for his own houshold and familie Reply we deny that fallacy also it is the language of Antichrist in thee that so standerously saith and falsly accuseth Now Truth slands clear and is freed from those slanders and false accusations Blessed and praised be the Lord God of Principalities and Powers who maketh us to see what is the Riches of his Grace and fellowship of the mystery which from the beginning of the World hath been hid in God who created all things by Jesus Christ Eph. 3.0.9 to the intent that now unto the Principalities and Powers in Heavenly places might be known by the Church the manifold Wisdom of God Eph. 3.10