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A testimony against Jeffrey Bullock, his antichristian and foolish pamphlet stiled Antichrist's transformation within discovered by the light within wherein his perverse spirit, darkness and whimsical conceits are reprehended by the true light.
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Barnadiston, G. (Giles), d. 1680.
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his Soul and Body for Eve thou sayest was in Transgression And did his Soul and Body sin which thou sayest was the Woman's Pars which was in Transgression And in pag. 2. thou sayest The Woman is the Soul Mind and Heart of every Visible Man and Woman and so thou makest no Difference between his Soul and Body and the Soul and Heart of every Visible Man and Woman Oh gross Darkness Blasphemy and Confusion And our Testimony has alwayes had a reverend Esteem of that Precious Blood that was spilt without the Gates as being of great value in the Sight of the Lord and having a Testimony in it towards the Remission of Sin to obliege all that are sensible of the End thereof not to live unto themselves but unto him that dyed for them And as they are to be blamed that will not come to the Light but cry it down relying upon the Death and Sufferings without it so art thou who pretendest to cry up the Light to render the Loving-kindness of the Lord invalid in sending his Son to lay down his Life and Precious Blood and taste Death for Mankind and such as speak from the Light which is the Life that was in that blessed Body can never disregard regard but have an high Esteem of what he did and suffered therein And further thou sayest There is a Soul or an Invisible Woman which God did make and place in every Visible Man I never read before of an invisible Woman that God did make no that 's thy making and comes from thee who dost not write from Sight or Sense a meer Figment of thine own Conceiving being gone from the true Sense and Sight which gives a plain Understanding And Eve thou sayest conceived and brought forth the first Invisible Man the Son of Perdition which brought Death over all but thou tellest us not who she conceived by and who brought Death over her if she brought Death over all And in thy other Answer which is much to the same 'T is plain in Scripture thou sayest there 's Two Christs Christ and Antichrist And art not thou in the Transformings that wouldst make Antichrist a Christ and who 'le take the Information of this Informer can we think but Satan who would have Antichrist to be Christ and lay it upon the Scripture also but the Scriptures say There 's but One Faith and One Lord Jesus Christ and we believe them and not thy Writings from Satan's Transformings And thou dost directly oppose the Scripture who sayst Christ came not of David or Israel for in Rom. 1. 't is said He did come of the Seed of David according to the Flesh and so thy Spirit is seen and the Opposition is discerned and 't is the less for us to be Opposed by thee who art so great an Opposer of Scriptures And Antichrist thou sayest strives to bring in his Doctrine and would be Head over all those Invisible Appearances that come from God yea and Visible Appearances also which is fulfilled in thee and thy Brethren who are judging his Ministers and the Wholsom Order and Commendable Form in the Church to lay them waste nay that spirit hath not left unattempted the Scriptures themselves that so all Outward Foot-steps in the Goings forth of the Light being abolished and the Motions and Whimsies from Antichrist's Transformations set up in their place the True Light and Spirit might thereby be abolisht also and that is the Word of Truth in my Heart to that spirit whose Workings have been to that End So thy Work is seen and Judgment gone forth against that spirit which it cannot escape And the Judgment of the Quarterly-Meeting is true and will stand over thy Head forever except thou Repentest And so the Reasons of thy Disowning us are some of them answered in what has been writ And whereas thou disowns that Body or Church who look upon themselves to have Power to judge of Errors and have not Power to convince of Error c. I answer that that Power by which the Ministers and Elders amongst us do and have judged Errors the same hath convinced Thousands of their Errors and false Doctrines and I believe even thee also in Years past when thou wast little and tender There is a difference between Conscience truly tender unto God and that which is seared and hardned through Enmity which is to be judged and condemned by the Church and such as make Strife and Division to be amarkt by them that keep in the Power And how canst thou deny thy self to be a Member of any Church but the true who hast declared the World to be the Church of God and the true cannot admit of thy belief and speaking who believes and speaks contrary to the Faith of it And how shouldest thou understand the Faith and Belief of the Church that is true who art against Sight and Sense and art gotten into another Principle viz. the Darkness which cannot comprehend the Light and the things that are therein which are only seen in its Priâ—ciple truly And thou preferrest Rome before us and so they may take thee for thou hast been a Shame to us who hast manifested so much Sottishness and Hypocrisie a to be twenty Years and more amongst us and be called after our Name and yet all this while remain ignorant of our Faith and Belief touching Doctrine And thou art for our marrying with the Nations for thou sayest The Lord made all Nations of one Blood but the Nations have poluted themselves and are gone from God's make and the Lord hath gathered us out from the Nations and Kindreds and thou wouldest have us mix with them again and put that together which God hath disjoyned and this is the Informer's work against God and his Christ's work And when Naomy's Sons married thou didst not see where they were who writes not from any Sight for there waâ— a Famine in the Land of Israel and they were gotten into the Land of Moab amongst the Moabites where the Lord cut them off and made Naomy return empty but when Ruth returned into the Land of Israel with her she then match'd with Boaz of the Tribes of Israel and so we are Witnesses to the Matches in the Land of Israel even of such as return from Moab And the Law was not given forth when Moses took the Ethiopian Woman so where there was no Law there was no Transgression God justified him thou sayest contrary to his Commend as thy ranting Spirit judgeth but the Apostle commanded not to be unequally yoakt for what part hath a Believer with an Infidel and so thou art for the linsey-woolsey Garment and expects to be justified and for bringing Confusion into the Churches of God who is the God of Order and not of Confusion as in all the Churches who hath set Watch men upon her Walls so they have not set themselves not assumed Authority but he hath raised and is raising Judges as at first and Councellors as at the Beginning Men fearing him and hating Covetousness who judge for him alone and bear not the spiritual Sword in vain And in thy first Query where thou askest What is the Fruit the Tree of Knowledge bears in thy Book thou sayest It was and is the Scriptures And was not the Tree and Fruit of it before they were written And in thy 21 Query thou sayest again Such as are feeding upon the Tree of Knowledge or the Scriptures so I perceive thou understandest not thy own Queries and thou art not like to know more of them for me who imployest thy Knowledge so ill in which thou hast shewn us what Swine do with Pearls And to thy Postscript I refer the Reader to Geo. Whitehead's Answer to Will Mucklow's Queries and take only notice of that where thou sayest That which came as from thee in thy Book was either from a Mcasure of the Spirit in thee or from Satan in thee transformed into an Angel of Light it seems thou well knowest not but the Universal Spirit and Light thereof in all Consciences does by which thou art judged and thy Work manifested And sâ— though thou hast born the Name of a Quaker long yet what an one thou hast been thy Work has declared and thou art no Priest no but the Lord makes his Priests nor Teacher mark that and teach no more seeing thou art none c. but an Informer and so take thy Place amongst the Informers who art Fellow-Worker with them and must have their Wages except thou Repent G. BARNARDISTON Many other Gross Absurdities Confusions and Follies in J. B's Pamphlet are here omitted THE END
the Word of Life so his Senses were exercised therein and from the Sense he wrote but thou who hast lost thy Sense and Feeling cryest out against Sensible Ministers and Elders and so People may see what stuff they have and are like to have from thee which is full of Senslesness and 't is much if thou canst put it off with giving it away for it is not worth buying So thou run'st on in thy sensless Stuff and sayest The Woman is the Soul Heart and Mind of every Visible Man And whence hast thou this who art crying out against us for not holding the Form of Sound Words hast not thou presumed herein above what is written where does the Scripture say so or where can it be so much as inferred from thence and dost thou think to recover thy self with writing such stuff as this or hurt us thereby or will it not make thy Folly more manifest that it might proceed no further And the following part concerns thy self whose Mind the Adversary has stoln from the Light that would have kept humble out of the Headiness and spirit of Exaltation in which thou standst feeding upon the Tree of Knowledge that has puft thee up who has made use of thy Knâ—â—ledge to serve Lucifer's Interest who is now become thy Teacher and Leader in the Work of Opposition against the Light and his Teachings Leadings and Formings of his People And thy not owning the Judgment and Superiority of the Ministers who say He that is not justified by the Witness of God in Friends is condemned of it in himself does not make it untrue who contendest against the Truth and its Ministers for God's Witness is one and its Judgment one and as his Name is one so is his People though such as are got into Hardness above the Fear would divide them and make their Judgment differ wherefore it will hold true forever That such as are unreconciled to the Church are no Ministers to the Church for God's Church and He are in Unity which thou art insensible of being divided from it and the Church is in God so they that are unreconciled to the Church are unreconciled to God and so can be no Ministers unto it and he gives his Power to the Church that is in him and they that will not hear the Church let them be as Publicans saith Christ and such unchurch themselves that receive not the Judgment of the Church that is in God the Pillar and Ground of Truth and though the False Church may and does bring Snares yet will the True Church of God never bring Snares upon her Members And thy Testimony against the Practice of Imposing Books as thou deemest it favours more of Malice then Truth for thou knowest there were none imposed upon thee nor any in the Meeting and thou hast dealt Enviously and Treacherously in the Relation thereof and when it was mentioned at Sudbury where J. B. opposed it it was left to Friends Freedoms who all besides him then and there consented without the least Contradiction But he â—as more gratified his own Enmity then shown his care for the Poor And so J. B. thou hast lost the sense of the Light that saves and art got into that which destroyes and darkens and vails as they that read thy Book may feel the Darkness it is so thick And thy crying up the Light to cry down the Messengers and Labourers it has sent forth is not from the Light but from the Transformings of Satan who informs against its Messengers and Ministers for the Light said of such You are the Salt of the Earth and that salts the Earth and he calls them The Light of the World and has not excluded them from being Fellow-Workers together with him nor yet ashamed to call them Brethren So thou and thy Work are discerned and there 's Thousands can never forget the Day of their Convincement who would have even pluckt out their Eyes for them that were made instrumental in the Power and Spirit of the Lord to beget them to God having them in Esteem for their Works sake accounting them worthy of double Honour though thou hast lost thy First Love and Sense of the Heavenly Visitation that reached through them unto thee which they can't forget who have kept their Habitation but must highly esteem them by whom they were begotten to the Lord as Fathers and such as have believed through their Word and abide therein can't think sleightly of their Authority and that Power which hath effectually wrought for the breaking all Impositions and Yoaks of Bondage from off their Souls and those are found Witnesses for them they are no Imposers of such Yoaks and so thy Arguments fall of themselves And thou who denyest the Resurrection of the Power or the arising of the Seed or God in Man hast therein shewn the Effect of the Power of Darkness and Seed of Enmity risen in thy self Jesus Christ humbled himself and made himself of no Reputation but descended that he might bring man up out of the Fall and in this Respect he is truly said to â—uffer the Just for the Unjust that he might bring again to God who in the pouring forth his Soul unto Death comes to see his Seed and so thou art a Stranger to the Sufferings of Jesus and knows not the Fellowship of them who never wert baptized into his Death with him who art denying the Extent and Effect of his Sufferings thou being out of the Sense and Feeling And if that which God made in Man be in Bondage and Captivity as thou sayest then must he descend thither to fetch it out and this is according to Scripture which sayes I looked and there was none to help and my own Arm brought Salvation And so 't is thou must come into Silence and sit in the Dust who art an Inhabitant of Kir of Moab and thy Ranting Spirit is discerned who talkest of the World 's being the Church of God and what needst thou make such a do about Error in Principles and Practices they can but lead into the World and so into the Church of God and if he be above in all the Sons and Daughters of men he is then in his proper â—lace and the Devil is in his and so thou might'st have spared thy Painâ— but the Scripture sayes His Soul is prâ—ssed as a Cart is pressâ—d with Sheaves and are not the Sheaves above the Cart it presses And doth not David say Let God arise and his Enemies shall be scattered And though God in his Soveraignity be over Man to his Condemnation yet he delights not in the Death and Condemnation of Man but so great is his Love towards him that he would rather have him under the Power of his Love and Mercy which can't be as Man is in the Fall but by sending his Son to suffer which Man being truly sensible of through the Participation thereof câ—mes to attain to the Power of his Resurrection and so by