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A40227	The papists strength, principles, and doctrines (which they are sworn to preach, from the Councel of Trent, by the Popes authority, and after confirmed by the last General Assembly at Rouen, 1571, all which they have sworn to perform) answered and confuted furthermore their principles and doctrines answered and confuted, as they were laid down in two or three severall papers, by R.W. papist, lately sent from Holland : also a challenge to the pope and all his adherents to choose out of all his dominions some cardinals, fryers, or Jesuits to try their bread and wine, after consecration (by watching on their side and on our side) to prove that if afterward they have consecrated it, whether the bread and wine doth not loose its taste and savour, and so not the body and blood of Christ : also a paper to all them that fast and afflict themselves who are in the will-worship and voluntary humility : also some quæries to all the papists upon earth to be answered in writing and sent to them, which all sects upon the earth call Quakers / by George Fox.	Fox, George, 1624-1691.; Howgill, Francis, 1618-1669.	1658 (1658)	Wing F1877; ESTC R3577	83,037	105

have no such speech among you Catholicks But is without which is your bread and wine and are not all Murtherers Persecutors Prisoners Whippers Burners Inquisitioners Sectaries and Apostates from the Apostles and sacrificers from that nature Cain was in and not from the divine natu●e and the faith of the Son of God and the Apostles and Abel Have you the spirit of Christ Is any of the Church but who are of Abraham Is any of the Church of Christ but who are of the flesh of Christ Is any of Faith but who are of Abraham And is not faith a myst●ry a perfect gift of God and is not this faith held in a pure conscience And can any ones conscience which is not pure hold this faith of Gods elect wch is the mystery and doth not this faith give victory over the nature in man and woman that doth p●rtain to Idols an● Images made with mans hands and in the wills of men in Jewes Gentiles Apostates from the Apostles since their dayes come up And doth not the faith give victory over all the Jewes changeable Types Offerings Temples Tythes Priests Covenant Hath the Lord put his law into your minds that you need not say unto your neighbour and writ it in your heart that you need not say unto one another Know the Lord For from the greatest of you to the least of you ye all know the Lord Hath God commanded the light to shine out of darknesse and doth it shine in your hearts And then mark dot● that li●ht that shines in your heart mark again give you the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ Cor. 2.4 Are you them that doth take heed to the light that shines in the dark place Is the day-star risen in your hearts that Peter speaks of Is the ingrafted word which is able to save the soule felt in you And the hidden man of the heart which is with the Lord a great price Are you them that are no wearers of gold or costly array Are you them that exercise Lordship one over another like unto the Gentiles or are you like unto the Apostles which Christ said it should not be so amongst them Are you like to the Pharisees called of men M●ster laying heavy burdens upon the people and go in long Robes chiefest seats in the assemblies and loves salutations and uppermost rooms at Feasts which Christ said unto his be ye not so And where do you read Mr. Paul Mr. Titus and Mr. Timothy c. Are you the ●rue believers that are ceased from their own works as God did from his Are you come out of the law of works to the law of faith Is your consciences purged from dead works to serve the living God Are you those Children that needs no man to teach you but as the same an●inting abides in you and as it doth teach ye shall continue in the Son of God and the father Or are you the Seducers Sects and Hereticks that draws people from the anointing within and so men teachers Are you them that keep your selves from Idols that John speaks of Are you of the seed of the woman that keeps the commands of God Are you the children of the Lord that are taught of him that are farre from oppression Are you ceased from men whose breath is in their nostrils that the Prophet speaks of Are ye them that tremble at the Word of God Are you them that obey the word of faith in your hearts in your mouths and that saith the righteousnesse of faith speaks on this wise you need not say you need not fetch it from above or from beneath but what saith it The word is nigh thee in thy heart and in thy mouth to obey it and do it Is this a sectary or out of sectaries Are ye of them that make images or likenesses of Males and Females things in heaven above and earth beneath and bows down unto them wch corrupts themselves with them and corrupts the earth Are you of them that saith The kingdome of heaven is within you Have you found it in you Or are you like unto the Pharisees gazing for it abroad without you Is God the author of your faith and is it in your hearts and doth it purifie you Are the professors the greater persecutors that hath the form out of the faith out of the life of them that be of the faith and life then the Gentiles whether have been greater in all ages judge ye Have you found the pearl hid in the field Are you the Merchant man that hath made an exchange and purchased it Do you speak only as the Holy Ghost moves you as they that gave forth Scriptures Are you led by the same spirit and power that the A●ostles were Do you speak but as the spirit gives you utterance and are you them that do not quench the spirit Are you them that owns prophesies immediately as the Apostles and Revelation and Inspiration from God as they had Have you heard Gods voyce and Christs voyce immediately from heaven as the Prophets and A●ostles did What is the tree of Knowledge and what is the flaming Sword that keeps the tree of Life And what are the inwardly raveners and what is it they ravened from And what are the false Prophets and Antichrists that have got the sheeps cloathing which Christ said should come and John saw they were come And in the Revelation The world went after them And what is the Sea the Beast rose out of and what is the Beast and what is the second Beast that rose out of the earth and what is the earth he should deceive with his miracles and what are his miracles And all that dwell upon the earth should worship him because of his miracles And what are his names marks horns and heads crowns and images and what is the woman that fled into the wildernesse and what is the Whore that hath corrupted the Earth and what did she whore from which hath made the Inhabitants of the earth drunk And what are these Kings that have committed fornication with her And what is the cup of fornication that all Nations have drunk of And what is mystery-Babylon that reigns over the Kings of the earth and what is the Whore the false Prophets weapons Antichrists the Dragons that fight against the Saints withal And what are the Lambs weapons and the Saints that they fight withal and what Peoples Nations Multitudes Tongues are those that John says are waters that the Whore sits upon and what are those Saints that the Beast overcame and who are they which then the Beast had the power over all Kindreds Tongues and Nations and are not these things got up since the dayes of the Apostles And whether or no the Lamb and the Saints shall not have the victory over them all again and whether or no the Saints must not come to that which they ravened from before they have victory over all that which

like they that have a horn to call their hounds together or the Swine-heard for people to put forth Swine or hower-glasses to preach by the hower prove it by scripture else acknowledge your are in the Apostacy and have set up ●hese things by your own inventions and are them that limit the spirit 62. Where did ever the Apostles consecrate any thing or the scripture speak of Sacraments or where did the Apostles use that which you call holy Water to sprinkle people withal if you cannot shew it by scripture where the Apostles or Christ di● practise any such thing acknowledge your selves that you be in the Apostacy that have set up such things since the dayes of the Apostles and erred from the true Church in your inventions 63. Where did the Apostles when they went to preach or to pray put on white Hoods Copes Tippets white Surplisses and cornered Caps are not all these things got up since the dayes of the Apostles amongst such as are apostat●z●d from them 64. Who are the inwardly Raveners that Christ said should come which was the false Prophets which should have the Sheeps clothing but inwardly ravening Wolves an inwardly ravening Wolf worse then a dog which got the sheeps clothing is not this it that has made war against the Saints that kept the testimony of Jesus the Spirit of prophesy and has not the wolf been covered with the sheeps clothing long such as ravined from the spirit such as has inwardly ravened and would ravine and destroy all that be contrary minded 65. Have not men fallen into the flesh since the dayes of the Apostacy and ravined from the spirit that went forth from the Apostles are not they them that has set up all these outward things as Temples Tythes Priests crosses crucifixes Schooles Colledges to make them Ministers Images Idols Abbies Nunneries Candels Altars Holy waters Praying by Beads sprinkling children with the sign of the crosse and have not you gone back who are ravened from the spirit and so lost the substance and so imitating Aaron and his Sons and imitating Altars and outward things that stood in Moses which the Apostle sayes while Moses was read the veil was over their hearts 66. Was not the first Priest-hood a true tipe and the Temple a true tipe of the inward and the Sanctuary and Altar a tipe and the outward things in the Law shadowing forth the good things that were to come which were but to have their times and seasons and did not the Apostle witnesse the substance of all tipes figures and shadows and signs and similitudes and likenesses and witnessed that which gave him to see where there was no shadow nor changing Now are not all your tythes Temples Priests Altars Crosses Crucifixes Images Similitudes Beads Cloysters Abbies Nunneries set up by your own inventions which men and people has been compelled to worship are not all these lying signs and wonders and the worship of the beast that which they that inwardly ravened set up and is not this to give worship to them that inwardly ravined from the spirit of God who are the Wolves that ●an make a profession of Christs and the Apostles words the Beast and false Prophets which the world has wondred after and should deceive them with their lying signes and wonders Did not the Apostles give hints of such things before their decease did not John see such come as the whole world went after and all that dwelt upon the earth worshipped the Beast Now answer me these things and clear me them by Scripture where the Apostles did practise or act any such things before mentioned and if ye be not such that John and the Apostles speaks of and Christ that should be the inward ravening wolves and go forth from the Apostles which John saw all that dwelt upon the earth worshipped and went after and all that dwelt upon the earth drunk the cup of fornication and should deceive them that dwell upon the earth with their lying signes and wonders and miracles and if you be not them tell me who they are 67 What is the Beast and the number of his names and what are his names and what is his marke that they that would not receive should be persecuted And what is his image and what are his heads and what are his crowns and what is the mother of the harlots and what is the great whore which hath corrupted the earth and what is the cup of fornication that all Nations has drunk of and who are the Beast and false Prophets what are they that are come up since the dayes of the Apostles How to say you believe as the Church believes and you will not trouble your selves about the Scriptures because they are hard to ●e understood you are to see that you be of the Church that the Apostles were of which was the pillar and ground of truth which was without spot or wrinkle or blemish and so their belief stood in Christ and God And when any did wrong yea Peter Peter was withstood and not believed as he believed And as for saying the Scriptures are hard to be understood that is to shew you want the spi●it as was in them that gave them forth in which is the unity and the bond of peace And none comes to be a member of the Church in God the pillar and ground of truth without spot or wrinkle or blemish but who comes into the spirit that they were in that gave forth the Scriptures with which spirit every one in particular hath his particular satisfaction in the Scripture it opens it to them with which spirit he hath unity with God unity with the Scriptures of whom they learned that gave them forth and there is the bond of peace Now to tye up men to believe as others believe and to compell them by a law or a prison or an inquisition this was not in the true Church but this is a marke of the apostacy from it and is a marke that they that do so are the wresters of the Scriptures and err'd ravened from the spirit that they were in that gave them forth For it was not their worke to compell people by a Law by a prison by an Inquisition to obey their faith and to bring them into their worship and doctrine that was not the worke of them that had the spirit that gave forth the Scriptures but this shews and signifies and declares it selfe forth that you would have power over mens faith which saith the Apostles we have not but bade them look at Jesus the author of the faith And again to believe as others believe which do call themselves a Church Is not this different from the Apostles doctrine who saith he that believes hath the witnesse in himself and hast thou faith have it to thy self 68 Is your Church the body of Christ and is your bread the body of Christ after consecration and is that bread after you have consecrated it the Church

have a licence to marry for money as it hath been by them who be of you 75 Where did the Apostles bear about candles for the purification of Mary as you do where was this practice in the Church or how do you as the Church did or believe as the Church believes when you fordid to marry Did not the Church say it was the doctrine of Devils and how do you as the Church did when you forbid the eating of meats when the Church said it was the doctrine of Devils 76 Where did the Apostles consecrate swords and send them to one another to fight with their enemies how do you here believe as the Church believes who said we wrestle not against flesh and blood and their weapons were not carnall but spiritual 77 Where did the Apostles sell Pardons and Indulgences for money who said they were not redeemed with corruptible things and how do you believe as the Church believes when you are redeeming one another with corruptible things 78 How do you forgive one another freely as Christ hath forgiven when by your Pardons Indulgencies and Buls you get great sums of money of poor ignorant people are not you in this the covetous that makes merchandize of the people that Peter saw coming in who has the wages of unrighteousnesse whose reward must be according to your works for every man must receive a reward according to his deeds And the Apostles said they were not redeemed with corruptible things as silver and gold And how are you apostatized from the Apostles doctrine that are selling pardons for silver and gold corruptible how do you here undervalue the blood of Christ which does cleanse from all sin and believe as the Church believes who said By no other name under heaven shall we be saved but by him And how is it that yee have set up another name to pardon the Pope and sell pardons Do not you in this shew and discover you to be in the apostacy from the Apostles and true Church and not to do as they did 79 Where did the Apostles set up Stews amongst them the Christians before their decease give your example but bade them flee fornication and said no unrighteousnesse must enter into the kingdome of God and he that defiled the Temple of God God would destroy And do not you in this set up that which is naught and tollerate that which is wicked 80 Where did ever the Apostles or the Saints say prayers by beads to the Saints or to Saint Mary as you do or compell any so to do or set forth such an order that should be after them Where was any such things practised among the Apostles before their decease that they must say so many prayers numbred by so many beads before they had a pardon 81 Where did the Apostles or Saints run up and down for Reliques or Bones of dead men as you do and why do you gather up the chips of Wood and Stone and dust that flyes from the door that you break open after you have chosen a Pope and keep them as precious Reliques where did ever any of the Saints do such things and has not all these things come up since the dayes of the Apostles amongst you who from them are apostatized The Protestant and Papist are fighting and striving about Works Now because the Apostle said They were justified by faith without the works of the Law And James saith that faith without works is dead And these are the Scriptures they fight about being both Protestant and Papist found out of the faith the Apostle spoke of and are found out of the works of the Law both so neither in the works of the faith nor in the works of the Law nor in seeing the intent of the Apostles Paul and James when they was speaking of justifying by faith without the works of the Law and Faith without the works was dead Now the Apostle when he speaks to the Romans of being justified by the faith without the works of the Law for the Faith in the heart takes away the nature that hath the shadowes and tipes and figures which causeth the obedience of the Law and which the fruits goes from that the Law takes hold upon and through this Faith and by it that 's removed whereby man hath access to God now the Law the works of the Law and the obedience to that made such a provision for a command being according to the Law for the tenth to be offered up for the widdows fatherlesse and Levite that there might not be a begger among them Now who comes into the faith of Christ Jesus in which the Law ends the nature is removed that pertaines to the shadows and figures which the fruits goes from which the occasion of the law comes upon them which the faith purifies and gives power and victory over the world which hath access to God which is justified in the sight of God and pleaseth him Now who are of this Faith are of Abraham over all the Idolatrous Nations Adulterers and Fornicators and all such Now this faith nourisheth and cherisheth and saves which works doth not but follows this and they are wrought in God and such cease from their own as God did from his so if a brother or a sister be naked and destitute of dayly food he feeds him and cloaths him so this Faith is in the Wisedome of God preserver of the Creation which is the Son of Gods Faith and the faith of the Elect but then the Devils faith that believes there is a God and trembles but are out of truth that cloathes not the naked brethren and doth not give them victory and sees them destitute of dayly food and doth not feed them but lets them cry up and down for bread cloa●hes about the streets this is like the Papist and Protestant and Sectaries faith and they are not the Preservers of the Creation but out of the living faith and in the dead and when they have done all this cloathed and fed and not a beggar among them it is not by their works that they are saved but by their faith which these works followes which works by love which is a preserver of the creation for it was a great work of the Apostle to bring them to the faith and to be justified by that alone without the deeds of the Law that the seed of God might come up in them the wisdome of the creation with it to be ordered and spread over it for who are of faith are of Abraham Christ according to the flesh was of Abraham so who are of Abraham are of the flesh of Christ Now when many had gotten the faith in a form being justified by it without the deeds of the Law so they which had gotten the form of the law without the life saw not Christ the substance and there rested but when these had gotten the form of being justified without the works and their brothers and their sisters were destitute of dayly food and was naked These were like unto your Christians and Papists that hath the name and talkes of a faith but it is dead therefore so many of their brethren and Sisters goes beging up and down the streets destitute of dayly food for mark they all say they are Christians and that they are baptized into the Church and into the faith and so then they are all Brethren and yet here is their Brethren up and down the streets destitute and naked and yet they will say depart in peace and be you warmed and filled and yet give them not these things which is good for them but may be make houses of correction to whip them and beat them is this like unto Christians that was amongst the Apostles or like unto the Law who had the Tythes for the service that there need not be a begger among them is not this the faith which James rebukes which is dead and all these are the Christians that hath a name but are dead from the life and doth not this dead faith carry you to beleeve that there is a God and a Christ and so the Devil doth that is the murderer and you will murder one another about Religion and faith Church and Profession and Idols and Ministery like the Heathen who will destroy one another about their Images often envied the Jews because they broke down their Images and that Faith which leads to murther the creatures about Religion Ministry and Church the same Faith will no● preserve the creation as to cloath the naked feed the hungry Now though the Apostle brought them out of the works of the Law being justified by them into the faith of Christ Jesus who brought them into the wisdome of the creation and the love of the creation the love of God which faith works by which faith God is the Author of it and this faith leads people to be preservers of the Creation feed the hungry and cloath the naked and these be the least things ye can do for these are but things that pertain to this life who are of faith as I said before are of Abraham Christ according to the flesh heirs of salvation of the world that hath no end He that believes hath entered into his rest and ceased from his owne works as God did from his and shall not come into condemnation but is passed from death to life and so loves the brethren And he it is that abides in the house of God for ever the Son of God the Son of God abides in the house for ever Cains faith and Cains sacrifice is now made manifest out of the faith of Abraham and Abel and Gods elect and the Son of God THE END ERRORS PAge 5. l. 20. for mortall r. immortall p. 14. l. 10. for then that r. then you that p. 34. l. 20. for filled r. killed p. 38. l. 20. for did not r did p. 43. l. 19. for for r. forth p. 50. l. 20. for a God r. and God p. 57. l. 33. for learning r. worrying p. 62. l. 27 r. from that p. 65. l. 18. for them r. then p. 82. l. 34. for cut r. out p. 85 l. 28. for our r. your p. 87. l. 10. for that r. what p. 91. l. 21. for toe r. to be

Spirit of God And are the wolves in sheeps clothing worrying the Lambs that comes to witness Christ in them the substance and hath proved and examined themselves and found him and so there people sticking in that they call the sign and keeping people from the substance receiving Christ Jesus in them for these things was to be done in remembrance of Christ until he came now if bread and wine be the body of Christ and his bloud then he is come how do you that in remembrance of him untill he come was they to eate his body and drink his bloud till he come did he go away in the Spirit and leave his body behind answer this whether or no his body did not rise and whether his body be elementary there was a Protestant against you that said the body of Christ was corruptible and you said the bread and wine is the body and bloud of Christ and that will corrupt and so we see you all in the error Pr. He saith the bare form of bread and wine doth change And though the light lead up to Christ they see nothing but that which doth change namely bread and wine Answ. Hear thou hast confounded thy self and all the Papists the whole body of them and confounded your own wisdom and knowledge and your own faith in things you do professe fo● the body of Christ and his bloud doth not change and yet you say that bread and wine after consecration is the very body and bloud of Christ and hear you say doth change which is not comparable to the body and bloud of Christ that corrupts not nor changes not in this you have confounded your selves and blinded your souls in looking at things which are seen which the Divel and wicked ones out of the light do run into which you poor Creatures are captivated under his power things that are not seen are invisible but things that are seen as bread and wine are visible Pr. Our faith and doctrine is that Jesus Christ hath but one body and that the same body which is in that Sacrament shall come at last to judge us all Answ. The body of Christ which you call the bread after consecration which thou hast confessed is a changeable thing the ●orm of bread that which is changeable is not a judge Christ and his body is not changeable so therefore to judge and shall remain his body when bread and wine ceases So in this thou hast overthrown your own doctrine and faith and foundation and proved your selves to be stones of Babylon who with them builds up and throwes down again Pr. Whereas thou Queriest whether God is able to make one body to be in two or two thousand places at once Answ. The body of Christ is his flesh which he gives for the life of the world which they that eat it and feed upon it are of his flesh and lives for ever and are in more places then one comes to be of his flesh and of his bone and at this the Jewes stumbled that followed him for temporal bread and if temporal bread had been the body of Christ why would he bid them labour not for the meat that perisheth and that he said well in saying this is may body this is my bloud and except ye eat my flesh and drink my b●●ud ye have no life in you but he did not tell the people after they had consecrated bread and wine that it was his body and bloud and he would drink with them in the Kingdom and did Christ eate his own body and drink his own bloud answer these Queries we see that the body of Christ is hid from you all Papists and Protestants and his flesh and his bloud and his word● are spirit and life and that remains and bread and wine it is the elements did it come down from above from heaven after you have consecrated it is it not the wine that came of the grapes and the bread which was baked Christs body which is the bread is above the Manna which is given from heaven much more far above the bread of man Christ the true bread far above Angles-food is the body of Christ which who eates it lives for ever they that eated the Manna the Angels-food perished in the wildernesse many of them and far above mans bread that 's temporal and drink which they may eate and drink and hunger and thurst again and perish and which will perish Which they that decernes the Lords body decernes him that gives every creature its being the word of God by which all things was made and none of the figures nor shadowes nor types are the body of Christ but that which ends them all to you that is the word of the Lord which body was before they were which body is the Church the Piller and ground of truth and bread is not the Church after consecration for the Apostles never told us of that doctrine no vvhere in the Scriptures but you that of the body of Christ be ignorant the Top-stone is laid on your heads and the body of Christ makes us free from the Lavv Pr. We do not teach that bread after the consecration is the flesh of Christ but we say that after Christ had uttered these words this is my body or after the Priests according to Christs command do this in remembrance of me do utter the same words which we call consecration then the substance of bread vanisheth and is no more there but the body of Christ commeth in its place Answ. This again is confusion and you are confused and confounded in your own principles if the bread and wine which you say is not the flesh of Christ after consecration how is his body there and how can you say it is his body And thus you confound your selves Pr. Thou saist thou dost not find any expresse command of the Apostle in Scripture for observing of dayes nor meats nor none of these things as meats or crosses but what the Church shall command and saith but the Church hath commanded us to observe dayes and meats and that a crosse should be made in remembrance of Christs passion and the Images of Christ and his Saints may be set up and honored and that we should invoke the Saints c. and whatsoever the Church commandeth us And this is the sure and unmoveable ground upon which our Catholique faith even to the very least circumstance and ceremony is built c. And the contrary ground is the ground of all Hereticks Answ. We do believe you that all these observing of meats dayes and crosses is set up by your Churches command and all your Tythes Priests Pulpits and Temples amongst you and the Protestants which hath been set up by your Church command which is offended if they be not observed which is set up since the dayes of the Apostles which is Apostatized from the Apostles and the true Church in the Apostacy and are fallen into schisms and

hath reigned since the days of the Apostles and whether or no the spirits of people hath not separated from since the dayes of the Apostles which they were in and is not that the cause that all Nations are brought into Sects and heaps and lost their unity with God and the Scriptures with which spirit they learned of God the Father of spirits that gave forth Scripture are you come unto the spirits of just men made perfect to the Church in God the Father the Judge of all What Scripture have you for taking Tythes and where did the Apostles take tythes so that denyed the first Priest-hood and witnessed Christ the sum the change of the Law by which the Priesthood was made And the disannulling of the commandement that gave tythes and are not you transgressors and made your selves transgressors that have set up these things the Apostles threw down And where did the Apostle take tythes and what is the first principle of pure Religion and what is the soul of man And have you not lost the Crosse of Christ which the Scripture saith is the power of God and hath set up Crosse● of wood and stone on the end of your Steeple-houses and do take bread and wine on the day-time which Christ took at night What is the light what is the word what is the Gospel what Scripture have you for sprinkling Infants Are you them that have heard and learned of God which Christ saith them that have heard and learned of God comes to the Son Have you seen the shape of God are you them that God speaks to by his Son who is heir of all things upholding all things by his word and power Is your Church the Church that is in God have you heard of the Father seeing it is written ye shall all be taught of God Are you not them that looks at things that are seen for things that are seen are temporall the things that are not seen are eternall Are not Images Idols Pictures Reliques Bones pieces of Cloath things that are ●een and temporall Answer these Queries in writing and send them to the people who are scornfully called Quakers in England by all the sects of the earth Shall a man whiles he is upon the earth be made free from sin and be made perfect and the body of sin put off And what Scripture have you for consecrating bread and wine and where did the Apostles so Will you try your Church by the Scripture of truth and measure your selves by the Apostles Declaration and venture your selves to be tryed and judged by them that the spirit of truth led them to speak forth And what is the Wine-presse that was troden without the City and whether you bid every man examine himselfe whether Christ be in him except he be a reprobate And whether or no you are as the Apostles who preached Christ in them the hope of glory warning every man that you may present every man perfect in him in Christ Jesus To prove the Papists Church to be a false Church contrary to the Apostles and that they are wolves which Christ said should come which are inwardly ravening Ye have the sheeps cloathing and are the false Prophets that should arise according to Christs words that should shew lying signes wonders which if it were possible should deceive the very elect and should say Loe Christ is here and loe Christ is there Do not you tell people that he is in the bread and that he is in the wine and tell them that he is in the chamber and that he is in the desert where you put the bread and the wine is not there Christ cannot you put him in the cup-board and in the chamber and in the desert cannot you put and tell people he is there And have you not the sheeps cloathing but are you not ravening wolves inwardly ravening from the spirit of God So doth not your fruits appear contrary to the Church of God For have not you fulfilled the Scriptures having the sheeps cloathing but inwardly are the ravening wolves Have not you ravened wearied and destroyed and killed many hundreds and have you not your holes and Gaols which you call Inquisitions which you put them in are you like the Church in this Did ever Lambs and the sheep weary and tear them to pieces and then carry them into dens and make wracks and tortures for poor creatures or for the wolves either Did ever the sheep destroy the wolves Now which doth your fruits make you appear to be the sheep or the wolves judge your selves by the Scriptures Now let all people judge you all that be in the wolvish nature that are not sheep no more then you So Christ calls them wolves inwardly ravening from the spirit of God these Christ said should come and they have come up since the dayes that Christ said they should come And the Apostle saith in Acts 20. That after his departure grievous wolves should enter in among them not sparing the flocke which should arise from among themselves speaking perverse things drawing many Disciples after them Now have not you Papists risen since the dayes of the Apostles and you know the Apostles did not prison persecute devour any but the wolves should do it Now these rise among the Saints that should not spare the flock mark make havock of the flock to devour and destroy the flock Now we remember that Christ told of you and of these things and the Apostle tells of these things 1 John 2. said it was the last time then Whereas they had heard that Antichrist should come even now there are many Antichrists and false prophets come into the world 2 Cor. 11.13 14 15. Paul speaking there of cutting off occasion For as much as false prophets deceitful workers transforming themselves into the Apostles of Christ no marvel for Satan himself transformed himselfe and his Ministers transforming as the Ministers of righteousness Now this the Apostle saw come up among the Corinthians before his decease So now again you may see Satans Ministers they are murtherers and his Angels they are murtherers Now the Apostle said he out off the occasion he did not cut off the outward bodies of people as you do and the Apostles were persecuted whipped and beat now you see that you are whippers persecutors and beaters and though you persecute one another which have the name of Christians yet are not the sheep nor the Ministers or true Apostles nor the true Church And when the true Ministers and Apostles saw that these false Apostles should come and Ministers of Satan should tran●form themselves into Angels of light he brings them to the light that shined in their hearts them that would give them the knowledge of God in the face of Jesus Christ 2 Cor. 4. And are not you as bad as the Jews who killed the Lord Jesus Christ and their own Prophets who kill the Prophets that are sent among you 2 Thes. 2. And

lusts and so into the wars that brought forth sin and so death and fighting and wars that hath brought forth among you and so out of that which takes away the occasion of wars and out of the faith that works by love and so in the dead faith which is Cains which will murder and kill them that sacrifices that are contrary to you so are not you stepped into Cains way from the true Church Moreover are not you those that hold the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ with respect of persons and so are transgressors committers of sin who breaks in that point as respecting of persons is guilty of all and drawing before your judgment-seats and killing You great and rich men whose time of weeping and howling is come and so are turned to be the blasphemers your Church is made up of blasphemers respecters of persons transgressors committers of sin convicted by the Law that goes out of Sion Now the fruit of your faith is not the works of charity for you 'l kill and murther like Cain so that faith is without the true works and the true charity but the belief is like the Devils and Cains who is not justified by that faith though you pretend faith and works to people but the ●ruits thereof declares you to be wolves and so erred from the truth Are not you swearers which James saith Above all things my brethren swear not at all lest ye fall into condemnation So are not you the false brethren the false Church the false Ministers fallen into the condemnation contrary to James who taught in the true Church and the true brethren that above all things they should not swear neither by heaven nor by earth nor by any other oath So is not your Church made up of Hereticks apostates that are given to fables and rudiments of the world and things below forbidding meats and marriages and reprobates concerning the true faith and belief which are found in the dead without the works but in the works of Cain and the Devill murtherers doing his works as the Jews did against Christ and the Apostles and Prophets Again the Apostle Peter bids beware of false teachers who said there are false prophets among the people even so there shall be false teachers among you who should bring in the damnable heresies which should bring upon themselves swift destruction even denying the Lord Jesus that bought them which are like to Sodome which are in their filthiness fulness and like unto Core turning away from the truth and Balaam and Cain Now is not Corah's Cains and Balaams marks found among you and h●●h not these made up your Church these which went forth from the Apostles Doth not your Inquisitions your Gaols and dens and persecutions and murthers of the Saints shew Cains marks before mentioned So let Corah's Cains and Balaams marks in your forheads testifi● which had the high words and spoke them in hypocrisie and beguiled the unstable souls who are the cursed children and contrary to the Apostles and just Lot and Noah the 8th person Who are the wells without the water trees without the fruit who having escaped the pollutions of the world by whom many is again overcome is brought in●o bondage by you so ●r●th hath been lost troden under your feet who ha●h born Corah's Cains Balaams image 2 Pet. 2. But your damnation slumbers not for you have denied the Lord in turning from the light which he hath lightned you withal going from the spirit as Cain Core Balaam did And then John wrote to little children said it was the last time whereof Antichrist should come even now there are many Antichrists come into the world whereby we know it is the last time which Christ said should come Matth. 7. And told them again Mat. 24. and said he had told them before concerning false Prophets and Antichrists should come inwardly ravening wolves devourers which John saw should come and went forth from them into the world and in the Revelation The whole world that dwelt upon the earth went after them So these that Christ said should come John saw was come inwardly ravening Wolves false Prophets false Teachers which the world is gone after hath made up your Church which went forth from the Apostles and Christ he said they should come bid them they should not go● after them and John who saw they was come bids them keep to the anointing in them They need no man to teach them but as the same anointing teacheth them and as they continue in this they continue in the Son and in the Father And from this are you all gone so that which Christ said should come John saw was come even the Antichrist and the false Prophets and how they should try the spirits that was gone forth into the world Again they should love one another and not as Cain slew his brother Why did he slay him because his sacrifice was accepted his was not Cains was not Now doth not the fruits of your Church shew you to be Cains your love which the Apostle saith not as Cains so are you not apostatized from the true Church the true love into Cains love so no true brethren and your love stands but in the word not in the deed and Iohn saith Little children keep your selves from Idols He saw the false Prophets Antichrists then come wch should run into those things Now here are not you apostatized again from the true Church and run into Idols who profess your selves to be men and teachers and so run in that that John bids the elect keep from 1 John So have proved your selves to be the false Apostles that run after Idols which Christ said should come and the Apostle saw was come that should if it we●e possible deceive the very elect with your Idols which the elect before the foundation of the world was made keeps from wch Idols your Church is full of Again Jude saw it crept up before his decease at unawares and he bids the Saints contend for the faith once delivered to them the common salvation So these that crept up in the days of Jude hath made up your Church again and separated themselves from the Apostle● sensual not having the spirit speaking the great high swelling words admiring the persons of men for advantage which are as Sodom and Gomorah and Corah offering strange fire you are offering the strange sacrifice who are like clouds winds raging waves of the Sea speaking great swelling words having mens persons in admiration going in the way of Cain Corah Balaam Now the marks of all these are found in your Church and found in your foreheads Cains sword is among you do not you rage do not you fome do not you kill do not you speak the high swelling words But Enochs prophecy is come to passe in ten thousands of his Saints is the Lord come to judgement and to convince you of your ungodly deeds and of

such which Peter speakes of to be in Corahs Cains Balaams way so your fruits declares and thus you are contrary to Christ and the Apostles and true Church separated from them and such as the Apostle declares against hath made up your Church Have not you been the first birth of the Devil since the dayes of the Apostles Murderers and killers about formes and traditions and Images and outward Churches and Ministers made by mens wills is not Cains fruits the vagabond from God appeared among you murderers destroyers Did the Apostles kill slay and burn had they their Inquisitions like you and do not you all wear Cains mark and Balaams mark on your foreheads and the Devils colours the murderer that is out of Truth has not his flagge been hung out among you All that denies your Religion and worshipping your Images Crosses and all your Ministers made by the will of men and Temples made with mens hands its death by fire Inquisition or Wracks and the devil is he that destroyes the creatures but the power of God destroyes him lets up the soul and brings the creature into liberty Christ saith My body I will give for the life of the World And Christ saith He is from above and he is not earthly The first man is of the earth earthly So after you have consecrated your bread and wine if you will come to an open tryall and proof that may openly bee proved and seen whether or no your bread and wine is not below after consecration and will waste and consume which Christ his flesh sees no corruption his body is the Church and is bread and wine after you have consecrated it the Church or do you call your selves the Church at Rome or do you call your selves the body of Christ do you call the very bread and wine the very body and blood of Christ after you have consecrated i● and so the very Church and then where are you the Church and have you not set bread and wine over you and you s●y Christs body was humane that 's the first Adam earthly the second is the Lord from heaven and after you have consecrated Bread and Wine if it be humane that signifies earthly that shews the creatures as they were before your consecration and so not the body of Christ and as oft as you do eat this bread and drink this cup y● do shew forth the Lords death till he come That signifies that he and his body was not present for where his body is there needs no representation for it was in the night in which he was betrayed that he gave them the cup for remembrance and do you take it in the night and follow the practise of Christ and his Disciples which is in remembrance of him which is the cup of the New Testament in his blood This do as oft as ye do it in remembrance of me This was in the night Now the Apostle bid the Corinthians that the end of the world was come to examine themselves and prove their own selves that they might know their own selves how that Jesus Christ was in them except they were reprobates and if Christ was in them what need they to have bread and wine to put them in Remembrance of him Friend 1 WHo was the first Author or setter forth of all your Pictures your Crosses your Crucifixes your Images and what was their names seeing that the Apostles and Teachers and Ministers did not set forth such things in the Church but witnessed against Idols and that they might keep themselves from Idols and that they were not to look at things that were seen as in the Epistles of John and to the Corinthians And are not images pictures crucifixes crosses things that be seen And the things that are seen are temporall but the things that are not seen are eternall and is not it which set up these things that which denyed the power of God 2 How is it that you set up Tythes seeing that the Apostle witnessed against the Priest-hood that took tythes and said the Law was changed and the commandement disannulled that gave them And though Abraham gave tythes to Melchisedeck the similitude the son of God is come the end of the similitude and likenesse and who was the first beginner of them amongst you 3 Who was the first Author that gave ye the commands for the observing of dayes holy dayes Saints dayes seeing the Apopostle and the Saints which were in the true Church brought the Saints off days yea the days which God had commanded to Christ the substance and said there was not any name under heaven by which a man should be saved but his name and what they were to do they were to do in the name of Christ And when they cryed Paul Apollo or Cephas he rebuked them are not all you come under rebuke now that are crying up names days meats drinks which the Kingdom of Heaven stands not in and so has lost the power and the substance 4 Where did Christ or the Apostles command in the Scripture or the Church practiced that such things forementioned should be done or come after them shew me by Scripture Now if you say that Solomon had a Temple and there were images and an Ark and an Altar those were but figures they were not the substance and when the substance came they ceased Now what does all your dayes crosses crucifixes tythes type forth and who commanded them shew by Scripture where ever Christ or the Apostles commanded any such thing as a Crucifix as a Crosse as Tythes as a Temple as an Altar outward or to pray by Beads shew by the Scriptures where ever the true Apostles true Church or Christians practised any such things or that any such things were amongst them or said that any such things should come after them answer me by plain Scriptures 5 May not a man give all his goods away to the poor and his body to be burned and what will that profit him if he have not love yea love to enemies And how can you love them when you bring them to your Inquisitions or burn or imprison them kill or banish them Now mark are not you of that sect that the Apostle speaks of that may give all your goods away to the poor and your bodies to be burned and yet nothing not having love And what differs your love from that love that may give your goods away and bodies to be burned and yet not have true love And do not you think that you gain by that now and do inherit some righteousness for it and is not that all out of the true righteousnesse which is out of the true love Now the love of God and Christ which was in the Apostles was to love enemies Now if you love your sect and them that be of your worship and observes your customes and burn and prison and kill others that be not of your sect and judgement and observes your customes

Is this the love of Christ Is this the love of God Is this the love that was in the Apostles Did the Apostles do so did Christ do so that had all power c. to all that were not of their minde yea or nay answer 6 What differs your works from the works of the Pharisees for that which they did they did to be seen of men And the young man boasted of his works yet when it came that he should have sold all and followed Jesus the beloved of God there was the hard thing whereby he might have had treasure in heaven And how differs your giving almes from the Pharisees seeing the Pharisees were in your state to murther and murthered the just and you give almes and are found in the same nature that will and do murther them that be contrary minded to you wherein do you here differ from the Pharisees And Ch●ist saith love enemies and you have your Inquisitions and Fagots here his love differed from the Pharisees and yours And saith John Let us love in deed not in word not as Cain the wicked one who slew his brother because his works were righteous the others were evill And saith John He that killeth with the sword must perish with the sword here is the faith and patience of the Saints Now where is your patience that are killing and prisonin● And we wrestle not against flesh and blood saith the Apostle but against principalities and powers and spiritual wickednesses in high places How do you wrestle against principalities and powers and spiritual wickednesses in high places Does it not shew that your weapons are carnall and not spiritual while you are prisoning burning making inquisitions for the bodies of people that are contrary to your minde Do not you wrestle against flesh and blood Is not this to wrestle against flesh and blood to prison to burn to kill creatures are not you apostatized from the true Apostles and true Church which is the pillar and ground of truth who said We wrestle not against flesh and blood answer these things by Scripture 7 Do you own the Law and Prophets which is to do as you would be done by would you have all that be contrary to your minde do unto you as you do unto others to make Inquisition● and to burn and to kill them that be contrary to their minde as you have your Inquisitions Fagots Fires for such that be contrary to your minde not observing your customes would you have others do so unto you and serve you so that will not observe your customes Is not to do as you would be done by the Law and the Prophets 8 Did ever Christ or the Apostles give any command that any should be put to death touching worship touching Religion shew me a command in Scripture from Christs or the Apostles mouths Are not they that murther slay and make war the Beast and the false Prophets under the dominion of the mother of Harlots and in the steps of Cain and Jezebel out of the steps of Christ and the Apostles 9 What is will-worship Does any worship God in the spirit truth but who be in that which the Devil is out of Can any being in the spirit and in the truth which the Devil is out of the Murtherer slay any concerning Religion or worship but on the cōtrary if they be in the evil overcome it with good Now if you kill murther slay make Inquisitions burn where is patience where is long suffering where is stopping the mouths of gain-sayers concerning gain saying if you cannot you have a fagot for them or a prison or an Inquisition are you not here like unto them that rose against Stephen that were not able to resist his spirit but stoned him to death wherein differs your nature and spirits from these did Stephen do so to others the Apostles were stoned did they do so to others Now this is Christs command he sent them forth as sheep amongst Wolves he sent out Prophets and Wisemen and said some they should kill and some they should thrust out of their Synagogues some they should persecute from City to City and said they should be hated of all men for his names sake and they should speak all manner of evil of them and were these to do so again to others kill hate hale out of Synagogues persecute Nay did not Christ say love enemies blesse them that curse now are not they that are contrary to this out of this Anti-christs and false Apostles 10. Has not the true Ministery true Spirit true Power true Church the true crosse been lost since the dayes of the Apostles and the false Ministery false Prophets false Apostles Antichrists Synagogues of Satan has appeared since which all your Crosses your names your pictures your Images your praying by beads has come up have not you lost the true spirit the Image of the Father and his name by which men are saved and so since run into other names run into Images lost the true Image run into Crosses lost the true Cross the power of God run into praying by beads and lost the true praying in the spirit and is not the Candle put out within and so ye have set up your lights burning without you defiled the Temple of God within and so set up Temples without are they not set up by that which defiles the inward Temple and is not that it which will murther slay prison and bring before Inquisitions which defiles the Temple of God seeing they that witnessed the Temple of God said love enemies and does not it shew that the love of God was there if love enemies which was a command of Christ who are them that are to be persecuted and hated and who are they that you are to slay and kill answer 11 Have you heard the voyce of God immediately from heaven as the Prophets Apostles did have you the same spirit wch Christ and the Apostles had which gave forth the Scriptures which was before they were given forth yea or nay 12. Is that the blood of Christ that is your wine which was shed upon the Cross when Christ was crucified alter you have consecrated it 13. Is that the body of Christ that is your bread after you have consecrated that said Lo a body hast thou prepared me to do the will of God and will not your bread corrupt and let it lye after you have consecrated it and does the body the flesh of Christ see corruption answer 14. What is the ground and cause of all the destractions amongst the called Christians is it not because they have the words of Christ the Prophets and Apostles but be cut of the life of them 15. What is that thing wch four men do carry on staves that all men must bow before it when you carry it in the streets and what do you do it for and where did Christ or the Apostels do any such thing 16. Why do