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A86646 Quaking principles dashed in pieces by the standing and unshaken truth. Being an examination of the tenents held forth by certain northern people, viz. 1. Slighting of the written word. 2. A speaking to that within man. 3. Denying the use of reason in the matters of God. 4. A denying of the ascension and being of the body of Christ. 5. A denying of all the ordinances of Christ. 6. A denying honour to men. 7. Affording absolute perfection at one instant. / By Henoch Howet. Howet, Enoch. 1655 (1655) Wing H3152; Thomason E821_2; ESTC R207358 15,546 20

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10. they denie the Being of it And also they denie the Lord that bought them in the fifth mistake of theirs wherein they denie all Forms or Ordinances There is nothing that Christ commanded as Lord over his inheritance that is to say the Rules of Government that he appointed to govern his chosen generation his peculiar people his royal Priesthood with but they denie it and therefore these are they that stumble at the Word 1 Pet. 2.8 9. Also they denie the love tokens that he left the one that follows repentance from dead works and faith towards God as the first act of faith building upon the foundation I mean Baptism The other the token of his death to be a remembrance of him untill he come I mean the Lords Supper And now let these that are Christs Enemies that denie both Bodie and Rule of Christ hear one loving reproof out of It is written which their Predecessors I mean the Papists would have taken from us in the English Tongue and these men would take from us the virtue of it that is to say the sharpness and sweetness of it by working upon us a dislike of it I say a reproof in love that if it be possible they may be healed the Scripture I reprove them by is Luke 19.27 But those mine Enemies which would not that I should reign over them Bring hither and slay them before me O that they would consider the written Word that they despise and examine themselves whither they were not once Citizens Luke 19 14. that is whither they were not under the Government of the Citie that had for its Charter the written Word of God when his Word and his Spirit that writ it had command of their souls It is written is enough to humble a poor soul to reprove a tender conscience to be a light to our paths and a Lantern to our feet to make known sin and to command the Devils absence and hath it no power over you Have you a spirit to guide you without a written Word It is out of Gods government then if it cannot be brought to the Law and the testimonies to see whither it speak according to that Word or no Isai 8.20 Ye may be familiar spirits for ought I know Do ye not weep and mutter as Isai 8 19. What muttering and uncouth howling is ammong ye which we cannot but impute to a spirit contrary to the Word if ye will not come to the Word to be tried we are commanded to trie the spirits whither they be of good or no and alas how shall we do it if ye denie both the written Word that is our Rule and Reason too for you appeal from both Alas alas what shall we do for you we fear you will perish eternally And now that he is ascended and gone into a far countrey Do you not send messages after him and say Ye will not have this man rule over ye for indeed ye denie both his Person and Word that is to say the written Word that was from God by Moses and the Prophets even the written Word which is the Rule of Life and Love sealed and approved of by Christ as also the Commandments of Christ that he and his Apostles ordained I mean Baptism to accompanie conversion and the whole order of communion in the Gospel of God to follow I mean those Commandments that were not before Christs time and given out by none but himself and his Apostles spoken of in John 15.10 If ye keep my Commandments ye shall abide in my love even as I have kept my Fathers Commandments and abide in his love Now I demand what distinction could Christ make here betwixt his and his Fathers Commandments but that his were the Ordinances and Laws to govern his Church by and in John 14.21 See what sweet promises follows the obedience to Christs commands And if they will cavil at them still because they are written as if it were but the Letter that which is written in 1 Cor. 14.37 If any man think himself to be a Prophet or spiritual let him acknowledg that the things that I write unto you are the Commandments of the Lord. By which Word in the Name of God I proclame that those men that disown the written Word are not spiritual men I mean have not the Spirit of Christ they may have the bewitching spirit of Antichrist that may make them denie the use of their own Reason because they have not faith in the Root as in 2 Thess 2.3 And that we may be delivered from unreasonable and wicked men for all men have not faith where the Apostle braves those men that have not the use of Reason to be wicked and void of faith Who but the spirit of Antichrist durst not onely set their posts by Christs posts but also countermand the Commandments of our Law-giver the Lord Jesus Christ There were never any men appeared in the world so like those that Peter speaketh of in his second Epistle ch 2.17 to the end of the Chapter I pray you reade those Verses considerately in v. 17. he saith They are Clouds carried with a Tempest What greater Tempest than so much spiritual violence as to carrie all down afore them without consideration either of the written Word or the use of Reason In v. 18. he chargeth them with speaking great swelling words of vanity he chargeth them also to allure through the lusts of the flesh The Flesh lusteth or desireth against the Spirit These desire to overthrow the Writngs of the Spirit of God he chargeth them likewise with much wantonness What more wantonness than to shake off all Rules that their own imaginations may have the full sway and if Mr. Pope doth not belie them they use unseeemly kissing in heir open and publique Assemblies at Glasstiers Hall and Peter in the same Verse makes the case dangerous to live in error that is for want of knowledg of the Scriptures as aforesaid although men have clean escaped the pollutions of the world through lusts In v. 19. he saith While they promise them liberty they themselves are the servants of corruption None ever promised to themselves so much libertie as these and the Ranters in being freed from the power and trial of the Word And how greatly do they serve corruption in this their libertie when they disclame the written Word which is the check and bridle of corruption being overcome by libertie and brought in bondage to that wicked libertie In v. 20. The later end is worse with them than the beginning because now they do that upon a religious account that before they did upon an ungodly account The Lord bless every one of his from the condition of Chandler who formerly was the Head of a Companie of Shakers whose condition I dread to speak of it is known to almost all persons hereabouts And in v. 21. the same Apostle chargeth them with falling from the way of righteousness and a holy Commandment given