truth of the scriptures are we witnesses and have their testimony for and with us And then he farther saith page 11. We blesse God that we have the Letter and that he hath given us his spirit through the Ministry and hath in any measure subjected our hearts to his Authority in the Letter c. We say let him that mentions the name of God depart from Iniquity and stop they mouth and leave boasting of being subject to his Authority until thou witnesse cleansing from and Dominion over abhominations which by thy own confession are yet reigning in thee He still goes on saying so undermining all the Ordinances of Christ and laying of them aside as vile and contemptable else what meanes not only their judging all except themselves to be carnal c and themselves Pharisees c. Thou Hypocrit be silent how hast thou judged us and called us selfe righteous Pharisees c and now sayest we judge all but our selves thou confest we profess to own Christ and press after holiness selfe-denyall and perfection and seem to be most holy selfe denying c. and that our lives seem to demonstrate that we are perfect and free from sin and yet art charging us for judging who judge according to Christs rule exprest in the Scripture to know the tree by his fruit and so because we judge thee by thy fruits and not thy profession thou art crying out against us for judging we say again behold the Lord comes in flames of fire to render vengeance against all such ungodly sinners who profess his name in words but in workes deny him Therefore cease thy talking of thy Ordinances of Christ of faith in him obedience and love to him and of making mention of his name untiâ—l thou depart from Iniquity and know Dominion over those abhominations which are now reigning in thee for our God is just and will render to every one a due reward according to their works But thou sayst its the way to make an end of all saith and profession at once this vve say of all such faith and profession vvhich thou livest in vve trample upon it in the name povver and Authority of the living God yea all that profession of God in vvords vvhere vvorks deny him as thine do by thy ovvn confession and vvhat is here proved against thee and that faith vvhich doth not purify the heart nor overcome sin vvhat is it better then the faith of Devils and is not thine short of this for the Devils believe and tremble vvhile thou art speaking against trembling And thou sayest but indeed vve are bad and vile and vvretched yea thy actions declare thee so to be hovv many years hast thou been confessing thy badnesse and vilenesse and yet continuest so hast thou never read in the Scriptures he that confesseth and forsaketh his sin shall find mercy thou sayest we believe that he hath made us accepted in the beloved and in him he doth accept our services c. He that is in him is a new Creature old things are done away and they that are Christs have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts Thou farther sayest we do not only live by grace now but we hope for the mercy of God c. The grace of God teacheth to deny ungodlynesse and wordly lust and to live righteously godlyly and soberly in this present world but what grace do you stand in whose iniquities are apparently written in your foreheads Abhominations reigning and drawing iniquity with cords of vanity and what hope is yours but the hope of the Hypocrite that perisheth for they that truly hopes for his appearing purifieth themselves as he is pure 1 Joh. 3.3 and this is far different from what appears in you who are as before exprest in Tiverton writing Farther he saith in this grace we stand poor and needy c. We say they that stand in the grace of God though they may stand poor and needy yet not wicked and ungodly for the grace of God teacheth to deny ungodlynesse c. and this in the fear and name of the Lord we utterly deny that such stand in the grace of God whose Abhominations reign and are drawing iniquitie with Cords of vanity c. What is all your sacrifices better then the offering of Swines blood or the cutting off of a dogs neck verily the Lord is so far from accepting such services as that they are ahominable unto him And thou farther sayest rejoycing that he hath accepted of such poor ones as we are to honor him in the profession of his name we say the joy of the wicked is but as the crackling of thorns under a pot and what is yours otherwise if your wickednesse be according to your own confession in Tiverton writing surely in vain do you cry the Temple of the Lord the Ordinances of Christ while thus defiled with your Abhominations against such a profession and Professors of it will the Lord appear to render vengeance whose works deny him and in this faith and profession thou sayest thou art confident that God will keep a remnant to his Kingdom and glory notwithstanding all the rage of Devils Quakers and men We say there is no unclean thing shall ever enter into the Kingdome of God and therefore vain is thy confidence that God will keep such a remnant which he by his faithful Servants declares shall never enter therein What will that God before whom the wicked cannot stand whose eyes cannot behold the thing that is evil suffer such a remnant to enter in or be kept to his Kingdome whose abhominations reignes and are drawing Iniquity with cords of vanity nay the remnant that the Lord hath and will choose shall be of an upright heart and without guile in their mouthes not mockers of God and they that comes on Mount Sion must be such whose garments are not defiled and are redeemed from the Earth not the Earthly mind standing in them and who have the Fathers Name not Iniquity apparently written in their foreheads Another lye charged on us by him is that we make God a lyer and for his proof he saith they that say they have no sin deceive themselves and what in them lyeth make God a Lyer it is the Scripture Language read your own doom 1 John 1. Now what evidence is this to prove that the people called Quakers make God a Lyer if thou canst produce that person amongst them who make God a Lyer or that have said he hath not sinned for that is the Scripture language he that saith that he hath not sinned made God a Lyar but what is this to the people called Quakers that Scripture we own but it doth not at all serve for thy purpose unless thou prove the people called Quakers say they have not sinned and so until then it must rest as a lye invented by thee and not that we are guilty of it And farther we say all have gone out of the way all shut up
the world as the Scriptures declare him or thou wilt be deceived in the day of tryal when thou lookest for salvation by him We further say we own him as the Scriptures testifie of him even the Light of the world the way to the Father the life 's the truth the mighty power of God He further goes on page 14. saying Read your confusion you blinde Quakers The Apostle saith he had not attained neither was he perfect c. We say we presse towards the mark for the price of our high calling of God in Christ Jesus And let as many as be perfect be thus minded And if Paul had attained Christ dost thou say he had not attained perfection For Christ is perfect and he saith Let as many as be perfect c. Was not he himselfe one of those many and so we say we have attained to that which is perfect and are pressing forward And mayest not thou as well charge Paul for blindnesse and confusion as we who owned and witnessed perfection and yet was pressing forward Again he saith Prove that ever any of the Saints in Scripture did like you Quakers say they were perfect here any otherwise then by faith in Christ which we own and witnesse We say do wee own it otherwise then by saith in Christ and in this faith do wee witnesse victory over sin and the World but for thee to say which we own and witness what doth it profit for this that know O vaine man that faith without workes is dead now what works or fruites doth thy faith produce who art Drawing Inquity with Cords of vanity and whose Abhominations are reigning in thee c. as wittnesse Tiverton writing what are these but fruites of Sodome and Clusters of Gomorrah therefore cease thy profession of faith untill it produce better fruits but thou thy selfe wilt own some were perfect in the Scripture why then dost thou bid us prove it that is sincere upright walking with God c. wee say wee own it no otherwise but according to the Scriptures for no workers of Inquity can stand in his presence nor walke with him now from this perfection thou art far off who while thou pretendest to wait for the Counsell of the Lord Confessest thou art Drawing Iniquity with Cords of vanity art Lukewarme formall in holy Dutyes this is far from Sincerity and uprightness pag. 15 Thou farther sayst All that Do indeed Quake and tremble at the word of the Lord will quake tremble at the Delusions of these poore blind deluded people that are deceiving and deceived here the Deceiver is talking of Deceiving and being deceived Wee say let the Hypocrite first pull the Beam out of his own Eye before hee meddle with a mote in anothers thou sayest thou knowest the Letter of Scripture is the Rule of Saints and the Spirit the Guide to that Rule wee say the Letter kills but the Spirit gives life that which the Scripture declares to be the Saints guid Rule and Leader wee own and have formerly declared but what guide and rule dost thou walke by as thy practise and Confession declare is it not the Prince of Darknesse and his Laws therefore cease talking of the Saints Rule and guide while thou art thus Ignorant of it and walking Contrary to it And so now thou concludest thy Lyes Lightness scoffes Reproaches and Slanders saying I say no more but leave them to the Lord whom I earnestly desire in mercie to looke upon them c. wee say let him that mentions the name of God depart from Iniquity for the prayers of the wicked are an abhomination to the Lord and if the Lord will not heare them that regard Iniquity in their hearts shall such be heard whose Iniquities are apparently written in their Foreheads and are Drawing of it with Cords of vanity wee farther say with the Lord wee rest in his armes are wee preserved from the wicked who bend their bowes shoot out their arrowes even bitter words yea in vaine do they plott and Imagin mischiefe their Snare is broken and wee are escaped and the Mischiefe which they causelessly devised against the Innocent is fallen upon their own heads glory to the Lord for ever As for that which hee calls Naylors exaltation in the west wee refer as formerly to George Bishops Booke in Answer to Ralph Farmer intitled the throne of truth exalted And thus have wee brought this Glass to the Light wherein whosoever impartially views it may easily observe what it represents and is contained in it it Beares the Image of the Prince of darknesse and containes many absurdities contradictions Lyes slanders and reproaches yet affirmed and published with as much impudency as falsness as if the Author neither feared God nor regarded man so this Day the Scripture is fullfilled in our Eyes and Eares that the Enemies of God have consulted together with one consent and are confederate against the Lord the tabernacles of Edom and the Ishmaelites of Moab and the Hagarius Geball and Amon and Amalick the Philistians with the inhabitants of Tyre The Lord having now appeared in great Love power and Magesty to gather a remnant out off and from all kindreds tongues Nations and families of the Earth to beare Testimony against all the unrighteous Deeds of the World all Nations kinreds formes sects and professions are now consulting and taking counsell together against this Remenant and are drawing up their forces against the holy City Ashur also is joyned with them hee that hath an eare to heare let him heare but this Mount Sion can never be moved for God is in the midest of her and though her gates stand upon by Day yet no uncleane thing can ever enter therein neither any that worketh abhomination or that loveth maketh a lye but only they whose names are written in the Lambs booke of life And therefore why do the heathen rage and the people imagine Mischiefe for ye shall bee slain all the sort of you as a broken wall and a sa tottering sence shall ye be whose fall comes suddenly without remedy for he that sits in the heavens laughs yea the Lord hath you exceedingly in derision hee hath set his King upon his holy hill of Sion Who doth and shall reigne till all his Enimies be made his foot stool the mouth of the Lord of hosts hath spoken it A few words in Answer to Thomas Colliers Queries Query 1. Whether ever the Prophets Christ or the Apostles did teach a Doctrin as you have amongst you viz to look to the Light within for salvation but rather to Jesus Christ without and what he had done for finners without them Act. 13.38.39 and 16.31 Answ We answer Moses directed to the Word nigh in the heart and in the mouth which Paul saith was Christ and if in the heart then within and Paul saith that this was the Mistery that God would make known to the Gentiles Christ in us the hope of glory and Christ himselfe saith except
opposing that work for which such were sent Here thou fully manifests thy self for whom thou Ministrest And further art crying out You self-righteous Pharisees pretend your selves free and condemn the generation of the righteous who maintain the spirituall warfare that dare be so audaciously impudent and wicked c. That because we say perfection is not to be attained till Christ comes from heaven that therefore we deny perfection T. C. The Pharisees may rise up in judgement and condemn thee for they made clean the outside which thou confesses to be so defiled as to draw iniquity with cords of vanity c. and hast thy abhominations reigning in thee and yet darest to be so audaciously arrogant impudent and wicked as to say thou art set for the defence of the Gospell as in thy Epistle before thy Dialogue Consider further what spirituall warfare dost thou maintain while the strength of sin hath wrested all thy weapons out of thy hands And thy abhominations and not Christ reign in thee whose being in thee thou denyedst at Glastonbury in our hearing before many witnesses and so according to the Scripture art a Reprobate Now whose servant thou art is evident thy owne confession in Tiverton writing testifies against thee Art not thou one of Satans slaves while thy abhominations reign and yet dost thou talk of maintaining the spiritual warfare Now observe is it likely that one that the strength of sin hath wrested all weapons out of his hands should stand in the warfare against sin how can it be but that abhominations should reign in such a one and yet he saith he is set for defence of the Gospell Surely he hath badly discharged his trust to suffer the enemy to wrest all his weapons out of his hand It 's against the Lamb that thou art engaged as by thy own confession and practice appears Did ever any one of us say that perfection was to be attained before the coming of Christ But this is it we say The Son is come of whose coming we are witnesses and this the Saints in Scripture witnessed 2 John 5.20 And here thou art found to be of the spirit of Antichrist who art denying his coming in whose strength and power we presse hard towards perfection believing we shall attain it but thou sayest pag. 10. It s your duty to oppose sin and live by faith in Christ We say so too rather then to live in lying and in his strength onely do what we say Now mark thy saying and practice how do they oppose sin where abhominations reign and drawing iniquity with cords of vanity and have iniquity apparently written in their fore-heads verily they are Satans slaves and servants of sin and what faith is that which these live in the faith of Saints purified their hearts in it they witnessed victory over sin and world the mystery whereof is held in a pure conscience and where sin reigns they know it not but are strangers to it though they may talk of living in Christ He that is in Christ is a new creature all old things are done away and they are no longer servants of sin to obey it in the lust thereof but servants unto rigteousnesse and have their fruit unto holinesse and the end everlasting life And as many as walke according to this rule peace be on them but woe to them that are drawing iniquity with the cords of vanity have abhominations reigning and iniquities apparently written in their fore-heads who declare their sins as Sodome and hide them not We say it is well to confesse and forsake sin and to bring them forth to judgement and not to hide them from the light but to be so many years confessing of sin and not onely still live in them but draw iniquity with cords of vanity what do these but declare their sins as Sodome or at least as the Jewes who would lye and commit abhominations and yet cry The Temple of the Lord or lean upon the Lord and say Is not the Lord amongst us They who have ears to hear let them hear Page 10. Another lye by him charged on us is That we shut up the Kingdome of heaven and will not enter therein our selves nor suffer them that would For proof of this he saith This likewise is true and clear for the way that God hath ordained to enter into the Kingdome is by faith in Christ crucified but you will not enter as hath been cleared but we say falsly charged never yet cleared But consider how dost thou know that this is the way Is it not because the Saints left it upon record in the Scriptures and so the wickedest man in England may know it but thy confession and practice declares thee not to be in it and so thou knowest it but by report of those who were witnesses of it and walked in it Now how vain a thing it is for any to talk of the way to the Kingdome of God while they walk in the way that leads to the kingdome of Satan This we say and know The way to the kingdome of God is by faith in Christ crucified the same that preacht himselfe the light of the world and there is none beside it Now this faith where it 's witnessed purifies the heart gives victory over sin overcomes the world and is held in a pure conscience which all are ignorant of and far from whose Iniquities are apparently written in their fore-heads have abhominations reigning and are drawing Iniquity with cords of vanity for no unclean thing shall ever enter into this Kingdome nor he that loveth or maketh a lye what ever is profest We further say It 's vain for any to talk of Christ crucified while strangers to his Crosse which we witnesse to be the great power of God to salvation and choose rather then our liberty wherein we rejoyce being daily called to take it up Now there is a generation who professe to be Christs Disciples that take not up his Crosse but say they will when called thereunto What professe to be Christs Disciples and not take up his daily Crosse this profession is vain and such by Christ are denyed to be his Disciples who saith Whosoever will be his Disciple must take up his Crosse daily and follow him For the way to the Kingdome is straight through many tribulations and an entrance thereinto is freely administred unto us and the same as the Lord moves us do we freely declare unto others and so far from shutting up the Kingdom of heaven as by T. C. is falsely charged on us But to prove that which can never be he goes on saying You own no flesh of Christ but all spirit therefore you shut up the way to the Kingdome But we say The flesh of Christ do we own therefore T. C. belies us And what Christ is we have firmly declared even the same that the Scriptures testifies of whose flesh is meat indeed which he gives for the life of the world John 6.51
of Christ we own them so but to raile at any we deny unlesse you will call such Language as Peter spoke to Simon Magus spoken by the same spirit to be railing and with them have we unity but against thee and such as thou art do we bear testimony for severall reasons they were redeemed from all Iniquity but ye are drawing iniquity with cords of vanity The grace of God had taught them to deny ungodlinesse c. Your abhominations reigne they were saved by the vvashing of Regeneration but your sin hath eaten out all the Divine svveetnesse of regenerating and sanctifying grace and so by their fruits of holinesse were known to be what they profest but your works of wickednesse deny God though in words you confesse him witnesse Tiverton writing and Paul bids Timothy stir up the gift that was in him Query 10. Why is it not lawfull for Saints now to be raised on in the way of holinesse by imitation or example and as a meanes or a help as well as in the Primitive times according to these Scriptures Mat. 11.29 John 13.14,15 Phil. 3.17 2 Thes 3 9. Answ Christ is given for an example and is a perfect pattern for his to follow and the Saints are to be followed while they walk so as they have him for example but the word Imitation we finde not in the Scripture nor the practice as we take it unlesse the Magicians of Aegypt the sons of Sceva and such like and the Scriptures beforementioned we own Query 11. Whether it be not a cunning device of Satan to judge and condemn all the Saints to be formall and without the spirit of Christ that walke in the Ordinances of Christ on purpose to cause contempt and reproach upon both Christ and his Ordinances Answ Yea it is and as cunning a device likewise of Satan to perswade persons in a form that they are Saints walk in the Ordinances of Christ are set for the defence of the Gospel and yet abhominations reign in them iniquities apparently written in their fore-heads and are drawing iniquity with cords of vanity while they confesse to wait for the counsell of the Lord. Now such as come to the Light of the world and follow it are led out of both into the practice of the true Ordinance and worship whch is in Spirit and Truth Query 12. Whether as the Ministry of the legall Ministration was to open the law of that Ministration Nehem. 8.4.8 So the Ministers of the Gospel are not to have respect to the written rule of the Gospel and to open and apply the same rightly dividing the word of truth according to 2 Tim. 3.15,16,17 Answ The true Ministers of the Gospel are not Ministers of the Letter but of the Spirit and they know the Law written in the heart and have the anointing dwelling in them whose teaching they are to follow and speak as the spirit gives them utterance and then they rightly divide the word of truth Query 13. Whether if any speak not according to the Law and the Testimony it is not because there is no light in them Isa 8.20 Answ They that speak not according to the Law and the Testimony are turned from the light for the Law is light and the Testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy 14. Qu. If all have the true light in them which leads to God why doth the Apostle say Ephes 5.8 Ye were sometimes darknesse but now are ye light in the Lord Answ The true light lighteth every man that cometh into the world He was in the world and the world knew him not but unto as many as received him unto them he gave power to become the sons of God and the light shined in the darknesse when the darkness comprehends it not but a time is witnessed that God commands the light to shine out of darknesse Qu. 15. Whether Christs ascending into heaven when he was taken up in a clond Acts 1.10 be meant that he ascended into the hearts of men Answ It is meant as it is spoken and the Saints have their conversation in heaven and are in Christ and Christ in them John 17. 16 Qu Whether his sitting at the right hand of God making intercession for the Saints be in the hearts of Saints or in heaven Answ The glorious God at whose right hand Christ sits fils heaven and earth and dwells in the Saints whose conversation is in heaven as the Scriptures witnesse 17 Query Whether the Scriptures do not make a reall distinction between Jesus Christ and the Spâ—…t John 16.13,14 Chap. 14.26 Chap. 5.39 Answ The Scriptures testifie that Christ is the Word and that the Father Word and Spirit are one 18 Query Whether God or the Spirit be at all called man or the Son of man the seed of David as Christ is and whether you own Christ to be indeed truly a man of flesh and blood as we are according to Heb. 2.14 Answ Christ is called the Son of Man and he saith I and the Father are one And unto us a Son is borne his name is the mighty God c. And unto the Son he saith Thy throne O God c. And the man Christ Jesus do we own and his flesh and blood do we witnesse which is meat indeed and drink indeed Yea him we own according to Heb. 2.14 but not as you are for he was perfect without spot without sin but ye are wicked your abhominations reigne are drawing Iniquity with cords of vanity Iniquity apparently written in your foreheads as by your own confession appears in Tiverton writing but in his mouth was found no guile Now the wicked think that God is like unto them but he will reprove them and set their sins in order before them 19 Qu. Why the Saints if perfest as you pretend were so much in the sense of sin and confession of it as we finde they were Ps 32.5 Isa 6.5 Rom. 7.24 25. Answ The Saints as they declared a sense of sin so also a purging healing and deliverance from sin as Isa David Paul and others whom the Scriptures witnesse and as they confessed so they forsook and found mercy 20 Qu. Whether a lowly self denying frame of the spirit sensible of finne and corruption and warring against it be not the frame of spirit that most of all becomes the Saints and is most approved of God in Scripture as Isa 57.15 Mat. 5.3 Rom 7.24,25 Answ We know that the Lord dwells with him that is of a contrite spirit and an humble heart and the poor in spirit are blessed and are approved of God even they and onely they that deny selfe daily but there is no peace to the wicked and they do not war against sin whose abhominations reign but they war against Christ who are drawing iniquity with cords of vanity 21 Query Whether this temper of spirit be found in you yea or nay Answ Yea lowly self-denying and truly poor For we suffer the losse of our
own that we might gain Christ in whom all our sufficiency is both to will and to do And though tempted to sin and warring with the enemies of our soules yet are not overcome but are more then Conquerours through him that hath loved us We choosing his Crosse rather then our own liberty which Crosse we have found to be the great power of God to salvation Let him have the glory of all And after all this he saith that he hath briefly run through many things c. through redeeming of time which is precious and called for in other employments We answer how didst thou redeem time when thou inventedst thy Dialogue and so many Lies and Slanders therein against the Innocent What was it moved thee thus to reproach the Lords people who art passing through the Wildernesse towards the Land of Promise and neither eat of thy Bread nor meddle of thy Waters Was it any other ground then what moved Amaleck to fight against Israel Surely hadst thou known the preciousnesse of time and what it is to redeem it thou wouldst not have employed it thus to invent Slanders and Reproaches Yea such things as the Lord knows never came into our hearts but are detested by us And yet thou art found mispending more time to vindicate what thou hadst thus unjustly done Thou mightest well say it was called for to be spent in other employments and the more thou hast to account for For he that knows his Masters will and doth it not shall be beaten with many stripes And then thou sayest It is for the Lord what and yet called for to be spent in other employments what confusion is here But the work shews that it is not for the Lord for will a man lye for God Nay If some that preach in his name must depart as workers of iniquity much more they that speak lyes in his Name He further saith He hath faith given him to believe that God will speedily set a stop to those things and principles that are so dishonourable to him and ruining to souls Verily thy fruits declare what thy faith is no better then a vain hope which shall perish And woe to them which call evill good and good evill We know that the Lord hath wrought for the glory of his name in thus carrying on his truth against all ooposition and sets a stop to the rage of the wicked who had swallowed us up quicke had not the Lord been on our side Yea he puts a bridle in their jawes and a hook in their noses and turns them backward and snares them in the work of their owne hands but delivers those that trust in him praises to his name for ever And then at last he sets down severall particulars about Perfection which we have spoken to already in what goes before and therefore here need not answer but warn thee speedily to repent and fear before the living God who suddenly appears to render to every man a due reward according to his works whether they be good or evill For our God is a God of knowledg and by him are actions weighed Some Queries for Thomas Collier 1 Qu. WHether ever any Minister of the Gospel or one that was set for the defence thereof had at the same time abominations reigning in his soul and was drawing iniquity with cords of vanity 2 Query Whether that be not a false Teacher Deceiver or Lyar and not a true Minister of Christ who cry peace to the wicked even to such whose iniquities are apparently written in their fore-heads since the Lord saith there is no peace to the wicked 3 Qu. Whether the woe of the Lord be not against such who now pretend to wait for the counsell of the Lord that they may know it and yet are drawing iniquity with cords of vanity as it was in the dayes of Isaiah 4 Qu. Whether ever the mouth of a true Minister of Christ were stopt with a slavish fear 5 Qu. Whether he be not an hypocrite who reproves others for their sins while his owne abominations reign in his soul and is drawing iniquity with cords of vanity 6 Qu. Whether Christ words may not well be spoken to such a one viz. Thou hypocrite pull the beame out of thine own eye before thou go about to take a mote out of anothers 7 Qu. Whether they are true Ministers of â—hrist who daily complain and make addresses for maintenance 8 Qu. Whether such might not rather be called greedy dogs which can never have enough 9 Qu. Whether any unclean thing shall ever enter into the new Jerusalem 10 Qu. Whether they that dye in their fins shall not receive the wages thereof 11 Qu. Whether there be a time of cleansing from â—in after the dissolution of the body 12 Qu. Whether the tree doth not lye as it falls 13 Qu. Whether many shall not come at the last day and say Lord Lord in thy Name have we preached cast out Devils and done many wonderfull works To whom Christ will then say Depart ye workers of iniquity c 17 Que. Whether such whose Abominations reign are drawing iniquity with cords of vanity and slavish feare hath stopt their mouths be workers of Iniquity yea or nay 15 Qu. Whether such must not receive the same sentence that Christ pronounces against workers of Iniquity what ever their profession be 16 Query Whether God be not just to render vengeance against all such who in words professe him but in deeds deny him 17 Query Whether he that commits sinne be not of the Devill 18 Qu. Whether they stand in the warfare against sin and the Devill who are drawing iniquity with cords of vanity or whether they are not joyning with Sin and the Devill against Christ 19 Qu. Whether any whose Iniquities are apparently written in their fore-heads and are mockers of God are joyned to the Lord yea or nay 20 Qu. Whether they that are joyned to the Lord are not one Spirit 21 Qu Whether any truly know Christ their Saviour while their Abhominations reigne and are drawing iniquity with cords of vanity 22 Quer. Whether they that are without the sense of Gods Majesty in whom the world hath eaten out all the Divine sweetnesse of regenerating and sanctifying grace who are formall in holy duties and whose Iniquities are apparently written in their fore-heads are built up through that one everlasting Spirit a holy Tabernacle for the living God yea or nay 23 Qu. Whether such as have the forme of godlinesse and are without the power must not be turned from yea or nay 24 Qu. Whether such must not be denyed who are without both form and power 25 Query Whether any of the Ministers of Christ did ever plead for sin and against perfection but for perfection and against sin 26 Qu. Whether Jesus Christ be not the same to day as yesterday and for ever 27 Query Whether they are not Reprobates who do not know Christ within them 28 Qu. Whether ever a Minister of