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A77966	Truth defended. Or, Certain accusations answered, cast upon us who are called Quakers; by the teachers of the world, and the people of this generation. With a cleare discovery, who are the false prophets, and when they came in. And who they are that deny Christ, and that preach another gospel. And who deny the scriptures, churches, ministers, and magistrates, whereby the magistrates and people of this nation may see they justifie that which the scripture condemns, and condemne that which the holy men of God justified. / By a servant of the Lord, whose name in the flesh is, Edward Burrough.	Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.; Howgill, Francis, 1618-1669.	1654 (1654)	Wing B6049; Thomason E808_3; ESTC R207519	16,445	23

TRUTH DEFENDED OR Certain Accusations answered cast upon us who are called Quakers by the Teachers of the World and the People of this Generation With a cleare discovery who are the false Prophets and when they came in And who they are that deny Christ and that Preach another Gospel And who deny the Scriptures Churches Ministers and Magistrates whereby the Magistrates and People of this Nation may see they justifie that which the Scripture condemns and condemne that which the holy Men of God justified By a Servant of the Lord whose Name in the Flesh is Edward Burrough The Epistle To all you who call your selves Ministers of the Gospel and all People in all relations under what forme of Worship soever in England or in all the World who professe your selves Christians THe mighty day of the Lord is come according as he promised of old and this day is witnessed wherein he is establishing his Mountaine and exalting it above all Mountaines and is gathering his people which have been scattered in the darke and long night of Apostacy which Christ and his Apostles saw comming into the Churches then and hath had dominion long over the World and hath raigned till now and raignes now in all the Professors in all Formes every where But now the time is come wherein the Kingdomes of the World are become the Kingdome of the Lord and of his Christ and thousands witnesse it to the prayse of his everlasting name And therefore the Nations are angry and the Princes of the Earth because Michael our Prince is arisen to pleade with all who make warre against him And now Herod and Pilate and all Ierusalem are in an uproare and Ammon and Amaleck and the Egyptians and the Philistines are joyned now against him And all you who live in Formes and know not the power doe now persecute and joyne your selves together being in the same nature as the persecuters of old which were borne after the flesh And now you sonnes of Bondage and of Hagar are to be cast out and now you are all made manifest that you are in the flesh for all your Bowes are bent and all your Arrowes are shot at a people which are counted by you as the filth of the World and as the off-scouring of all things whom the World calls Quakers in whose Foreheads is Written the name of the living God and unto you I say that make Warre against them and now take part with the Dragon against the Lambe you shall all drinke of the cup of fury and indignation of the Lord And unto the living God who is holy and jealous for his owne glory and his name which hath manifested his minde and will by his Eternall Spirit unto us shall you all bow and stoope For now the Lord hath rent the vayle of the covering which hath beene spread over all the Nations in all Professions and you are all seen by the Eternall Eye which is opened in thousands even all from the highest to the lowest who have stolen and painted your selves with other mens Words And all your Images which you have set up and all your traditions from men in which you have walked are all seene to be stubble and will not abide in the day of the Lord And all your Churches which you have gathered together by imitation from the letter shall all be scattered and there you all are for you all deny revelation and say it is ceased and so you call the letter the light and the Word but with that which was before the Scripture you are seen and judged even with that which shall endure for ever And seeing you have cast reproach upon the name of the God of Heaven and Earth whom we worship and which you call delusion For the truths sake are we moved to lay open your nakednesse that you may be judged by that which you say is your Rule Here in this little Booke thou who hast any honesty in thee or any desire of truth and wilt search the Scripture thou wilt see that all the Teachers of the World in all Formes and all professors ever cryed out who had but the Forme against them who had the life and power as you all doe now against them who Worship God in the Spirit and have no confidence in the flesh And therefore in this following Discourse which is Wretten by the same spirit that gave forth the Scripture thou shalt see who are the false Prophets and who they are that Preach another Gospel and who they are that deny the Scriptures And thou may see when the false Prophets came in and who they are clearely proved to be by their owne Rules And all you who call your selves Magistrates and Christians you may see your selves to hold up that which Christ the Prophets and Apostles cryed out against and persecute them who stand in the counsell of God and them that declare against all the deceipt as the holy men of God did And so you are the Beast which holds up the false prophets and th●se whom the Scripture declareth against God is arisen to dash to pieces all them who withstand him And therefore come out of Babylon and out of all your painted Formes and come to own the first principle which will change your mindes even the light of Christ which he hath enlightened every one withall and by it you shall see what you are doing Now if you deny this you deny the corner stone and you stumble and shall be broken and by that which you call naturall shall all your Image of Gold and silver and all your mixed invented Worship be dashed to peeces and be for the pit Therefore all be silent and speake not evill of th●se things you know not for now you are all seen you who say you are Iewes and are not but are of the Synagogue of Satan and your voyce is knowne for none is turned from the evill of his way and therefore is wrath comming upon you to the utmost A lover of your Soules but am a Witnesse against all your deceipt Francis Howgill WHereas we are accused by the Teachers and People of this generation That we are false Prophets and deceivers and that we deny the Christ which dyed at Ierusalem and that we Preach another Gospel then the Apostles Preached and that we deny the Scriptures and the Ordinances of Iesus Christ and that we hold Free-will and establish selfe-righteousnesse and teach people to act in their owne strength to obtaine life and that we deny Churches Ministers and Magistracy To these false accusations I answer It is no new thing nor no strange thing to the children of light who are seperated from the World and Worldly Worships and from the Works of darkenesse to be accused falsely and to be slandered by being called deceivers and seducers by the generation of chiefe Priests and Pharisees in which generation are the Teachers and Professors of this age who have a Forme of godlinesse but deny the

Balaam who loved the wages of unrighteousnesse they themselves are the servants of corruption ungodly men turning the grace of God into laciviousnesse and defile the flesh these are murmurers complainers walking after their owne lusts and their mouthes speaking great swelling words having mens persons in admiration because of advantage there be they who seperate themselves sensuall having not the spirit And here againe I charge it upon the Teachers of this age that they are of that generation vvhich came into the world then for they have brought in and doe uphold damnable Heresies telling people that sprinkling Infants with Water is the Baptisme into the Faith and that singing Davids experiences in Rime and Meeter is singing to the glory of God and that a house of stone is the Temple and Church of God these are damnable Heresies and they doe through covetousnesse make merchandise of the people if they can get more money at another place thither they will goe and thus people are their merchandise they walke after the Flesh in the lusts of uncleannesse they walke in pride and in lust and som● of ●hem will be drunke and lye and sweare and talke ●n●●●●ly and they despise the Saints Government and D 〈…〉 for they walke in the wayes of the world in the customes and traditions of men and follow their owne wills And whom the spirit of God governes and hath dominion over followes Christ for their example whose Government and Dominion they are under But they live in pride lust and vanity and according to the Flesh and herein they despise government and dominion and speake evill of this dignity and of the mysteries of God revealed in his saints which they know not nor understand not calling it error they are presumptuous and selfe-willed they have presumed to call themselves Ministers of Christ and all the Townes where they live must serve and be subject to their wills And they are adulterated from God after honour and riches and the vanities of the World and they cannot cease from sinne themselves for they say None must cease from it while they are on the Earth and herein they beguile many soules for till sin be ceased from the soule it is beguiled they have a heart exercised with covetous practises and they follow the way of Balaam and goe for gifts and rewards and love the wages of unrighteousnesse they take money of poore people for sprinkling Infants and for burying the dead which are covetous practises they take money for Henns and Eggs and for Smoake passing up the Chimney which are unrighteous wages and thus they have forsaken the right way the way of God and of all the saints which spoke forth the Scripture and in these things they are servants of corruption and are ●dgodly men and turne the grace of God which shines in their consciences which shewes them their ungodly wayes into laciviousnesse and through their lust they defile the Flesh and many of them will murmure and complaine for want of wages even to spend upon their lusts and they speake great swelling words speaking of the Fame of Christ of his Life and Death and Resurrection but cannot witnesse by the spirit of Christ within them what they speake of him and they have mens persons in admiration because of advantage some of them had the Bishops in admiration and some the King in admiration and now they have others who beare rule in admiration and thus they deceitfully have twined to admire mens persons onely because of advantage many of them have seperated themselves none who are not of their judgement must joyne with them in their worship but neither they nor their seperates have the spirit of the living God but doe deny an infallible spirit and they are sensuall in their wisedome and wayes and practises and these have deceived many even whole Nations And here you see plainely when the deceivers and false Prophets came in they were come and comming in in the Apostles dayes and then was the Prophesie of Christ fulfilling and fulfilled and the Apostles suffered under Tyrants and were put to cruell deaths and then they came in more fully for since the Apostles dayes hath been a great Apostacy and many Formes of worship and wayes of Religion have been imitated from the letter through imaginations and but one generation of Teachers though one above another in the comprehension and sensuall wisedome and at enmity one against another though all in one birth and nature But they are all discovered by the light Prayses from all that know God unto him for ever Since the Apostles dayes hath darknesse been spread over all though the Lord had some which he preserved for himselfe in the middest of Apostacy and darkenesse who the false Prophets are which Christ Prophesied of to every honest heart and single eye may be known Christ said By their fruits should they be knowne And the fruits of the Teachers of the world are plainely made appeare to be the fruits of deceivers and not of the Ministers of Christ none have gathered Grapes nor Figgs from them And thus I have cleared my conscience in the presence of God concerning the false slander and accusation which the Teachers and people of the World doe cast upon us and to that in every ones conscience it is made appeare who they are to whom this accusation justly belongs Woe unto all you who strive against the Lord and justifie that which the holy men of God which spoke forth the Scripture in the Scripture declared against and which condemne that which the holy men of God in the Scripture justified and witnessed for you who live in pride in covetousnesse in double-dealing and in hypocrysie and in the lusts of the Flesh you strive against the Lord God and against the light of God which is in your consciences which shewes you these things to be sinne you resist the drawings of the Father which would draw you by the light to follow the sound Woe and desolation is to come upon all you who will not be taught by the light of Christ which he hath lightened you withall which light all the holy men of God were taught by who gave forth the Scriptures but doe set up Teachers without you such as all the holy men of God the Prophets Christ and his Apostles declared against Oh blinded stiffe-necked people which are not ashamed to call such Ministers of Christ and of the Gospel and by your corrupt wills and Laws to defend them which seeke for their gaine from their Quarter and which feed themselves with the Fat and cloathe themselves with the Wooll and which Preach for hire and divine for money and prepare Warre against them that put not into their mouthes here you justifie such as the Prophets of the Lord were sent to cry against and deny Isayah Ezechiel and Micha to be true Prophets for if you did beleeve that they spoke from the mouth of the Lord the word of the Lord

power Christ was called a deceiver and a blasphemer and the Apostles were called Movers of Sedition Heretiques and turners of the World upside downe by them who professed in word what Christ was in substance and what the Apostles witnessed and so it is now We who are scornefully called Quakers doe live in and declare forth no other thing but the substance of what the Priests have Preached upon and the Professors have talked upon in their carnall mindes by their imaginations He is a false Prophet and a deceiver which hath not the Word from the mouth of the Lord but takes that which the Lord spoke to another and calls it his and useth his Tongue and saith The Lord saith it when the Lord never spoke to him And here are the Teachers of the World themselves guilty of that whereof they falsely accuse us for they take the Prophets words Christs and the Apostles Words to talke upon but have not received the Word from the mouth of the Lord and their Prophesie and Preaching would soon be ended if they had not the Scripture which is other mens Words and that which was spoken to others to speake their imaginations from And these are the false Prophets and Deceivers which runne and are not sent which speake to others pretending to be sent of God but walking contrary to all that ever God sent to declare his Name in former generations and so are knowne to us by their fruits having no example from the Prophets Christ nor his Apostles for their practice but doe walke in the example of the false Prophets of Israel of the Scribes and Pharisces and of the false brethren O foolish people which have eyes and see not which have hearts and doe not understand Is the Lord changed from what he was Were they false Prophets and deceivers in Isayahs time which he was sent to cry out against which sought for their gaine from their quarter and are not your Teachers false Prophets now which act the same things Were they false Prophets and deceivers in Ezekiels time which he was sent to cry against that Fed themselves with the Fat and cloathed themselves with the wooll and made a prey upon the people and are not your Teachers false Prophets and deceivers now which act the same thing Were they false Prophets in Michas time which he was sent to cry out against which Preached for hire and devined for money and cryed peace to them that put into their mouthes but prepared war against them that did not and are not your Priests false Priests and Prophets which act the same things Were they deceivers of the people in Christs time which he cryed woe against which were called of men Masters and which had the chiefe place in the Assemblyes and which stood Praying in the Synagogues and which went in long robes and which loved greetings in the Markets and are not your Teachers deceivers of the people now which are found acting the same things Were they false Teachers and false Brethren in the Apostles time which they declared against which through covetousnesse with fained words made merchandise of the people and went in the way of Balaam for gifts and rewards and Preached for filthy lucre and which Paul saw come comming in his dayes which were proud men coveteous men selfe-willed and fierce men heady high minded men having a Forme of godlinesse but denying the power which alwayes taught people but none were able to come to the knowledge of the truth under their teaching and are not your Teachers false Teachers now which are walking in the same steps To the light in all consciences I doe speake which will witnes the truth A sottish and ignorant people which cannot discerne who the false Prophets and deceivers and false Teachers are the Lord is the same as ever he was and his spirit is no whi● changed Was it once an abomination to the Lord in the false Priests and Prophets of Israel to seek for their gaine from their quarter and to Feed themselves with the Fat and cloathe themselves with the wooll and make a prey upon the people and to Preach for hire and to divine for money and are not these things and they that uphold them abomination to him now Did the spirit of the Lord in his servants declare against these things then and against them that upheld them then and must not the same spirit where it is made manifest declare against these things and against them that uphold them now Was it once an abomination in the sight of Christ in them to be called of men Master and to have the chiefe places in the Assemblyes and to stand praying in the Synagogues c. and are not these things an abomination to him now in whom they are upheld Did Christ cry woe against such things and against them that upheld them then and must not the spirit of Christ where it is made manifest cry woe against such things and against them that uphold them now were these markes of false Teachers then to make merchandise of the people and to goe in the way of Balaam for gifts and rewards and for filthy lucre and to be proud coveteous heady high-minded selfe-willed and fierce men and are not they false Teachers now which beare these markes Did the Apostles give warning to beware of such and to turne away from such then and must not the same spirit where it is made manifest give warning to beware of such and to turne away from such now We witnes to have received according to measure the spirit of the Prophets from which they spoke and the spirit of the Apostles from which they spoke which is Christ made manifest in us and happy are all they that receive our testimony For by the same spirit of Christ doe we declare against these abominations now as the holy men of God did then For God and his spirit is the same as ever was and what he once hated he hates for ever and no other Christ doe we declare forth which we witnes to be made manifest within but that Christ which dyed at Jerusalem which suffered by the Chiefe Priests and Elders of the people he was and is the true Christ which said He was the light of the world and was the light which had enlightened every one that comes into the world and which said Except a man would deny the world and take up his dayly Crosse and follow him he could not be his Disciple and which cryed woe against them which were called of men Masters and that had the chiefe places in the Assemblyes and that stood praying in the Synagogues c. and they who denyed him to be the light of the world and which took not up the Crosse and which were called of men Masters and had the chiefest places in the Assemblyes and stood praying in the Synagogues and went in long robes these were Anti-Christs and were acted by a contrary spirit then the true

tradition from the Scripture without us And we deny all such who have taken up these things in their owne wills by conforming the outward man to the outward letter and have not entered in at the doore True Preaching we owne and doe witnesse it which is the Crosse of Christ and in the power of God and it is foolishnesse to the World and its wisedome now as ever it was and we deny all speaking of imaginations from Scripture which is in the wisedome of the World and which stands in the will of man limitted to a set time or day or place Prayer by the spirit and in the spirit we owne and witnesse whi●h is not limitted to a time and place And we deny all the worlds formall customary Preaching and Praying for a pretence Baptisme we owne and witnesse wich is with one spirit into one body into the death of Christ And we deny all Baptismes which are imagined and immitated by conforming the outward man to the outward letter which is but a likenesse of the true Baptisme Communion we live in which is in the light by the spirit which will endure Eternally And we deny the Worlds imitation which is in word and declaration and visible carnall things which will passe away Singing which is with the spirit and with understanding of the Redeemed of the Lord we owne and Witnesse but the Worlds singing in Rime and Meeter proud men singing That they are not pufe in minde and prophane men singing That the Law of God is deare to them this singing we deny for it must be turned into howling the Lord hath said it And here againe I charge it upon the Teachers of the World That they deny the substance and power of what Christ commands his saints to practice by upholding their owne imitations and so deceiving the simple but where the substance is witnessed the figure is indeed and the false imitations are discovered and denyed And mans free-will we doe deny for the will of man shall never enter to God but leades out from God into the lust and into the Flesh and keeps in the power of the Devill And man hath free will unto that which is evill but not to that which is good and all who follow Christ the light of the World must deny their owne wills and take up the crosse of Christ which is to the will and walke in the light contrary to the will in the straite way which leades unto life which is out of the will of man in the will of God which the will of man doth resist and oppose And I charge it upon the Teachers and professors who doe not witnesse the dayly Crosse of Christ that they live in their owne free-will and holds it up and are led by it into pride and covetousnesse and the lusts of the Flesh which stand in the will And here they are guilty of that themselves whereof they falsely accuse us living in their owne free-will and walke not in the dayly Crosse of Christ And selfe-righteousnesse we have denyed and have seen it in the same light which Isayah did to be as filthy raggs and we declare against it and against them which live in it for selfe must not be saved it is accursed from God it is wholly unrighteous and makes the best of actions so and is and must be cast out from God Christ Jesus made manifest and revealed in us is our righteousnesse and selfe is judged and condemned by him who is made unto us righteousnesse nei●her doe we teach people to labour in their owne strength to obtaine life but doe direct people to the light of Christ within them which walking in will be strength to them to leade them to life the light which is of Christ to which we direct all to waite in to be taught by it will leade out of selfe-righteousnesse and from under the power of selfe to witnesse the power of God to leade and to act and to witnesse Christ Jesus revealed the righteousnesse of God And the Church which is in God which is the body of Christ whereof Christ is head we witnesse and are members of it gathered and joyned by the Eternall spirit and not by tradition in the wisedome of man And we deny all the VVorlds Churches whereof they were made members by by visible things without and were gathered by tradition whereof the serpent is head and not Christ and which is the body of Anti-Christ some of whom commit Idolatry in an Idols Temple And the Ministry of this Church we deny for it stands in the will of man and the Ministers of it are such as all the servants of the Lord witnessed against the Churches the Ministry and the Ministers are contrary to God but the Ministry which is to the seed which is out of the will of man we owne and witnesse which ministers life unto life and death unto death and divides the word aright judgement to the fat and to the strong and feeds the hungry and looseth the bands of wickednesse and breaks not the bruised reed nor quenches the smoaking flax this Ministry we deny not but are friends unto it and who are Ministers here we have union withall but proud men and such as are called of men Master are cast out of this Ministry and are Ministers to the body of Anti-Christ and know not the Ministery of the Ministry of Jesus Christ as this to the spirit in prison Magistrates and Magistracy we deny not but doe give respect unto for conscience sake for who beares the sword of justice who use their power to be a terror to the wicked and for the prayse of them that doe well are Ministers of God and we desire that there were more Magistracy here and that the Magistrate would more use his power to be a terror to lyers to swearers to drunkards to raylers to false accusers and to proud men and oppressors this we are friends unto but to such as act by their owne wills in corrupt Lawes and doe thereby violence to the Innocent and strengthens the hands of evill doers we cannot be subject but choose rather then to transgresse the Law of God which is written in our hearts by submitting to such mens wills and Lawes to suffer by the corrupt wills of men under corrupt Lawes And thus I have answered those false accusations which are cast upon us and doe declare it be the same spirit in the Teachers and people of this generation which accuseth us as it was in the Scribes and Pharisees which accused Christ and his Disciples And this the Scripture witnesseth unto as they did unto him so would they doe unto us A further Answer to that Accusation of being false Prophets and Deceivers JEsus Christ Prophesied and said That in the last dayes should many false Prophets arise and should deceive many if it were possible the very Elect. Now the Teachers and people of this generation doe say That we who by the world are called