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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51253	An antidote against the spreading infections of the spirit of Antichrist, abounding in these last days under many vizors being a discovery of a lying and antichristian spirit in some of those called Quakers ... in relation of what passed in writing between them, and Thomas Moore, Junior, after and upon occasion of a meeting at Glentworth, with the sum of what was discoursed at that meeting also ... / by Tho. Moore, Junior.	Moore, Thomas, Junior.; Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.	1655 (1655)	Wing M2597; ESTC R6849	119,742	126

boast of we may the easilier be mistaken in it and lead to follow those that peep and mutter as Is 8. 18. 20. That tell a vision out of their own heart and not out of the mouth of the Lord Jer. 23. 16. 31. Eze. 13. 2 3. and yet say He saith That think to make Gods people forget his name by their Dreames which they tell every one to his brother or neighbour But how do they say We are wise and the Law of the Lord is with us or in us when as lo in this it appears the making of it is in vain to them The pen of the Scribe is in vain Jer. 8. 8. 4 They prohibit me to speak the word of God unless I dare insolently boast that I have any thing to speak immediately I suppose hee means unless I have that thing immediately which I would speak and doth not mean that I should so have i● as to speak it immediately too for they themselves speak not immediately but use their tongues when they say He saith as Jer. 23. 31. but against that their meaning I am strengthned and admonished by God in those instructions to Timothy Hold fast the form of sound words which thou hast heard of me c. And yet been also assured of by the Holy Ghost mediately in that hearing of faith ●● Tim. 1 13 14. and 3. 14 15. The things thou hast heard of me● among many witnesses The same commit thou to faithful men who shall be able to teach others also Chap. 2. 2. And professeth to be filled with joy when he calls to remembrance the unfeigned faith in him which dwelt first in his Grandmother then in his Mother by whom he was educated from a Child in the knowledge of the holy Scriptures which are able to make him wise to salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus And thereupon also puts him in remembrance to stir up the gift of God that was in him mediately by the putting on of his hands c. 2 Tim. 1 5 6 7 8. with chap. 3. 14 15. like to that 1 Tim. 4. 14. Neglect not the gift that is in thee which was given thee by Prophecy with the laying on of the hands of the Presbytery yea our Saviour prays for blessings on their Ministration to the worlds end and onely on theirs besides the first Apostles that received their word immediately from himself I say besides them only on theirs that through their word or doctrine should beleeve on him And by these I know he was not moved to this challenge by the Spirit of the true God God in Christ not onely the nature and end of the challenge being to try our Gods but also all the things required in it being so contrary to all his instructions and requirings whose Kingdom is not divided against it self God is one But that one onely true God that hath revealed himself in his Son so that he that seeth the Son in and according to the testimony God hath given of him he therein and so far seeth the Father Joh. 12 44 46. in whose face God hath shined in our hearts the light of the knowledge of his glory He that is our God and according to our weak measure hath been acknowledged by us is not their God or Rock themselves in this paper being witnesses as Deut. 32. 31. Tho. Moor jun. Written from Bullingbrook 7 June 1655. POSTSCRIPT ELias way of trying Baal c. we need not for trying and discovering them because God who in sundry manners spake in times past to the Fathers by the Prophets hath now spoken to us in these last daies by his Son c. And we ought to give earnest heed to the things we have heard which have been spoken by the Lord himself and confirmed by them that heard him God having born them witness with signs miracles c. which were the first and full publishers of that last Dispensation nothing more is to be added or altered therefore no sign to be looked for for th● the confirmation of that so confirmed onely the sign of the Prophet Jonas the cross of Christ and the demonstration of the Spirit in and with it left for continuance to the worlds end others signs and wonders for confirmation of what he speaks onely the spirit of Antichrist shall come with in these last daies but we are not to follow them for if they have Moses and the Prophets and will not hear them neither will they beleeve if one should rise from the dead To that of the Apostles approving themselves in necessities and fastings c. it appears they were not wilful or voluntary fastings or macerating of their bodies as in those false spirits Col. 2. 18 23. in which they so approved themselves for then they had been no necessities but such as necessarily came on them for the Gospel sake or in following after the Spirit There is in this copy of the Answer a little abbreviation in the relation of Naylors witness concerning himself as also in the explication of Luk. 17. 22 23 c. of what was sent them because the same things are more fully spoken to in the Answer to James Naylors Letter which follows James Naylors Letter as it was sent about the Country open and came to me about the latter end of June 1655 Verbatim For Thomas Moor. BY the indwelling of God and in his presence I do bear testimony against thy Antichristian Doctrine preached by thee Thomas Moor before many people which I did then bear witness against whilst I had liberty of the place and do still before all men That thou art out of the Doctrine of Christ and his Faith who deniest God in his Saints which is the promise of God and of Christ and that which the Apostles preached and witnessed to and exhorted to wait for which thou pleadedst against and wouldst bring Paul for thy proof who never preached such a Doctrine after he knew God but said Know you not that your bodies are the Temples of the living God as he hath said I will dwel in you and walk in you and you are the Temple of God and the Temple of God is holy which Temple you are and if any defile this Temple him will God destory 2 Cor. 6. 16. Joh. 14. 20. 1 Cor. 3. 16 17. c. and 6. 19 20 And Christ in us the hope of glory and Christ in you except ye be reprobates Which thou saidst was not God in us plainly shewing thou never knew him nor see him for who hath seen the Son hath seen the Father also and he that hath them not hath not life so death speak in thee who deniest the living God and the Lord that bought thee and that is the spirit of Antichrist who denies Christ to be come in the flesh as thou didst and many more of thy Disciples who when I witnessed him come again since his Ascension without sin to salvation you could not receive it

but took it in writing as matter of accusation against me shewing what Generation you are of such as ever sought accusation against the Son of God where hee is manifest to salvation but who are ignorant of his salvation could never bear the confession of his name And when I confessed the flesh of Christ your carnal reason stormed at it like the blind Jews saying How could I have his flesh in me which one of you after confessed too when he saw the letter declared of it so that further than your carnal reason can read in the l●tter You will not beleeve what a Generation would you have been had you lived in the times of the Apostles who preached down Circumcision Temple and Sacrifices without such things as the letter said should continue for ever yet they preached them down without and confirmed them within in spirit which is the ground and bottom of all and in which all must end And that the word which became flesh which is ascended they knew to be the Bread of life which they broke and fed on who was their Rule and Mediator But the ground of your Faith is seen and what testimony you bear who say The Scripture is the absolute rule and medium of Faith as thou Thomas Moore didst before the people And when I asked thee if God could not give Faith without it then thou wast forced to deny what thou hadst said But such Doctrine as this thou makest people beleeve who are ignorant and not able to try thy spirit Oh shame with thy preaching If the Scripture be the absolute Rule and medium then Christ is not the absolute Rule unless thou say the Scripture is Christ And thus thou not knowing Christ to rule thee thou settest the letter in his stead for the Rule of Faith But of Abrahams Faith thou are not nor knows it who had an absolute Rule before the Scripture was But this Doctrine excludes all from faith who have not the letter so thou that art a Minister of the Letter preachest another Rule and Faith than ever any of Christs Ministers preached who preached the Word and Faith in the heart of them to whom they preached and Christ in them who is the absolute Rule and ground of Faith and the Law written in their hearts and the Spirit of Truth their rule and guide into all truth and the light in their hearts which gave them the knowledge of God and his glory which never was known by the letter without and Christ saith the Kingdom of God is within you which the Pharisees durst not deny Rom. 10. 8. Hebr. 8. 10 11. Joh. 16. 13. 2 Cor. 4. 6. Luk. 17. 20 21. But thou art more brazened against the truth and wouldest exclude God out of his Kingdom and perswade all thou canst not to look for him within but without lo here lo there But Christ saith Go not forth to such Teachers and thou art found to be one of those he forewarned of and in that work he foretold of which is against him and with the same spirit thou art seen to be an enemy to his Appearance who is the eternal life of his people which is not without the knowledge of God in his Temple for death reigns in the creature where God is not present and this word of Reconciliation thou withstands and all that are led by thee will have cause to curse thee when it is too late and time is spent to no purpose and the day of visitation passed over And from the immediate call which I witness wherewith I am called I do testifie against thy false Doctrine who denies That any have been immediately called since Christ ascended onely those who saw him bodily upon earth and when I instanced Paul thou saidst he saw Christ personally with his bodily eyes when he was called And when I said then must he be come personally again since he ascended then thou saidst Paul was in Heaven and saw him there with bodily eyes when the Scripture saith he was fallen to the earth and saw no man with his bodily eyes being blind three days and such confused stuff thou utteredst forth to uphold thy lyes wherewith thou keepest blind people in Babylon but with the light thou art comprehended thy ground root off-spring and end praised be our Redeemer for ever and in thy paper thou tellest of his seeing Christ after the same manner the other Apostles did Then must it either be bodily upon earth or the other went bodily into Heaven to be called both which are yet unproved by plain Scripture And thy implying is no ground for me to beleeve that which I know is alye and here thou art found preaching another Gospel which no plain Scripture will warrant and all that know God in them sees thee acoursed and thy Antichristian Doctrine who denys the Father and the Son and fellowship with them who hath spoken to his people in all ages and does at this day where the ●ar is circumcised but the serpents seed could never hear him whose ears are open to that wisdom yet canst thou not be content to speak thy own condition but in thy busie mind wouldst exclude others and this is thy work to shut up the Kingdom and deceive the Nations that are without but we are entered and the Elect is witnessed which cannot be deceived and we know him that is in us and we in him onely they who will not own the light such are made to be deceived and over such onely hast thou dominion for a season But thy time is coming to an end that makes thy rage great And thou are forced to utter what testimony thou bearest such as none of Christs ever preached That God is not known in his people Is this thy word of Reconciliation and to what must they be reconciled if not to God And how must they all be taught of God if they must never hear his voyce more but thy Ministry begets not such children nor such sheep thou knows not but opposes who have seen him and heard him such thou callest false witnesses so thou appearest to be a witness to that which thou hast never seen and many such witnesses there are in the Nation who preach up separation instead of reconciliation which pains might be spared amongst them you preach to all having that by nature but that the Devil fears his Kingdom which is onely upholden by ignorance of God in his people whose eyes are blinded but whose eyes are open and have seen him bear witness of him and what we have seen and heard we declare against all false witnesses who have nought but by hear-say from others who have eyes and see not ears and hear not a heart that doth not understand who knows not the spiritual man his eyes and ears and so judge of God to be like themselves as thy companion did say That God had neither eye nor ear nor heart and thus with your carnal imaginations you will judge of