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A86649	The fiery darts of the divel quenched; or, Something in answer to a book called, a second beacon fired, presented to the Lord Protector, and the Parliament, and subscribed by Luke Fawne, John Rothwel, Samuel Gellibrand, Thomas Underhill, Joshua Kirton, Nathaniel Web. Wherin, their lies and slanders are made manifest against the innocent, and those books which have been published by them they call Quakers, owned and vindicated, and all the rest which is in that book disowned, and their deceite laid open; how they have perverted the truth and our words in those books which they cry out of as blasphemy, that the truth may not suffer under the reproach of the heathen. / By one who is a witnesse for the truth against Gog and Magog, called after the flesh, Francis Howgil. Also something in answer to a booke called a voice from the Word of the Lord, by one John Griffith, against us, whom the world calls Quakers, wherein his false accusations is denied, and he proved to be a slanderer, and the truth cleared from his scandals. By one who is a witnesse against the deceits of the world, called Edward Burrough.	Howgill, Francis, 1618-1669.; Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.	1654 (1654)	Wing H3159; Thomason E817_16; ESTC R207383	23,227	35

name of the Lord the Lord will plead with thee thou unclean lying spirit and that which thou pronounces against us shal come upon thy selfe and thou saiest we through covetousnesse make merchandize of some wee challenge thee and all the City of London to prove this thou lying serpent God shall plead with thee wee are free and cleare in the sight of God of thy false accusations and have desired nor sought after no mans mony nor gold nor apparel God is our witnesse and many in this City knowes the same though thou slanderingly an enemie of God doth accuse us but I challenge thee in thy reply to this make it appear what thou assertest or lay thy hand upon thy mouth and let shame strike thee in the face for ever I charge thee that thou canst make appeare plainly in particular and do not darkly accuse us what those damnable heresies are which we bring in and wherein we deny the Lord and what our pernicious waies are which thou falsly and slanderously accuses us of and wherein wee are fleshly and despise government and are presumptuous and wherein or how wee speake evil of Dignities and wherin we are as natural bruit beasts and what these things are wee speake evil of which wee know not and what our swelling words of vanity are and whom we do allure through the lusts of the flesh and through much wantonness in the presence of the Lord I challenge thee to prove the particulars of thy accusations and not to slander in the darke though such as these there were in the Apostles daies who were turned out from the light and the Apostles which dwelt in the light saw them and such a generation there is now they are seene and known where they are by them who abides in the light but of these thy false slanders upon us we are cleare in the presence of the Lord God and that portion which thou wouldest give unto us must thou have thy self for with what measure thou hast meted it shal be measured to thee againe even the blaknesse of darknesse for ever and the day of the vengeance of God is at hand against thee And wheras thou saist we pretend to tremble it is true we pretend the example of Moses and thou saist O abominable hypocrysie and dissimulation will that justifie your shaking your hands like idiots and your raving like mad men Moses was a man in whom the fear and dread of the Lord was who kept his word but you dispise it who loved the law but you reject it I Answer We doe not only pretend to tremble but oft doe we and have we witnessed it by the mighty power and dread of the Lord upon us and we walke not by the example of the servants of the Lord without us but the same power we witnesse which was in them by which they were made to tremble vvhich thou scornes and derides at and calles it madnesse the holy men of God vvere counted by such as thou art mad men and vvere cast out of their assemblies vvhich trembled at the vvord of the Lord but that vve despise the vvord and lavv of God here thou art a lier againe and the plagues of God hang over thy head for thy lies and slanders against the innocent the same seare of God vvhich vvas in Moses vve vvitness and no other and thou vvho art vvithout it art a Heathen and Moses and Jeremiah and Habbakuk which thou speaks of were our example who walked by the same spirit and served the Lord by the same spirit but that wee served our fleshly lusts which here again thou accusest us of I do challenge thee to prove it but I know thou canst not and therefore art in the nature of the Divel accusing the Brethren and to walk by tradition wee deny which you also would lay to our charge but the same spirit by which they were acted acts us the same way according to its measure and the same light which they walked in is our light and this light is the light of Christ within us and not without us And whereas thou saiest its true if wee served the Lord and kept his word it would make us to tremble as it doth those that fear him but wee have rejected the law of the Lord and the word which hee hath spoken and the Lord when he comes to shake terribly the earth shal give us our portion in the lake that burnes I answer Let all the world here take notice of thy confusion and ignorance which utters forth it selfe through thee thou before was scorning trembling and now thou art approving of it and if it be they that tremble which serve the Lord here be a witnesse against thy selfe thou serves him not who art not yet come to tremble but art in thy high nature above the fear of the Lord and here againe thou art found a false accuser for wee reject not the Law of the Lord nor the word which hee hath spoken but live in it and rejoyces in it daily for in it is our hearts delight and here againe as thou hast measured to us it shall be measured unto thee when the Lord God arises to recompence his enemies thy portion will bee the same as thou hast said in the lake which burnes with fire and brimstone And now a few words in answer to that which thou calls a Caution to all that are called Saints in the Nation which may concerne all people I Answer They who are Saints who dwell in the light and walkes in the light doth discerne thee to be no Saint neither wil receive any caution from thee but will testifie against thee for thy lies and slanders and false accusations which thy booke is filled withall and herein it may concerne all people that thy lies and slanders be reproved and laid open lest they receive lies for thy truth and be deceived by thy subtil speeches who brings the Prophets words and the Apostles words wresting them and f●lsely applying them to make thy lies to be received but all people who love the light wherewith Christ hath enlightened them will see thee and deny thee and turne away from thee as having the forme of Godlinesse without the power And whereas thou saiest ye may rejoyce that you live to see not only the mystery of godlynesse but also the working of the mystery of iniquity in the fleshly corrupt and sensual minded men called Quakers I Answer That name Quakers was cast upon us by the Heathen through their scorne and derision as the name Christians was upon the Disciples though quaking wee own for all the holy men of God witnessed it and the Holy Scriptures declares of it and here againe thou enviously and maliciously hast cast a slander upon us fleshly corrupt and sensual mindednesse and the working of the mystery of iniquity is destroyed in us by the mighty power of God made manifest in Jesus Christ which takes away sin to the praise of the

weightier matters of the law nor the law nor teach any so to do all that ever heard us wil bear witnesse against thee and they though our enemies shal witnesse for us and against thee in this thing for we declare the everlasting Gospel which is the fulfilling of the law and this we declare that the law must have its operation through before the Gospel be witnessed and one of thy owne society said to us wee had preached the law and brought men to understand it from grace now let all take notice of the confusion you live in and let your owne hearts condemne you and the light in your owne consciences convince you that you are in Babylon and in confusion and are no true Church of Christ where all are of one heart and one mind and this againe I affi●me as before I did in thy hearing that the Scripture is not the Saints rule but the Spirit which gave forth the Scripture as the Scripture it self witnesses Rom. 8. Faith was before the Scripture was and therfore the Scripture is not the ground of it but a declaration of it and no other faith we owne but the faith which Abel had and which Moses had which was when no Scripture was written and that we own to be the rule of our conversation which they walked by the immediate spirit of God which was before the Scripture was written and all you who professe the Scripture to be your rule your own rule shal testifie against you when the eternal God judges you and they vvho vvitness that to bee their rule which gave forth the Scripture walkes up in the life of the Scripture more then you all and you are proved to be but the Jew outward who bosts of the Ordinances from the letter but persecutes them by slanders and false reproaches who witnesse the substance and your praise is only of men and not of God and the same woe which thou pronounces upon us wil fall upon thy owne head for this thy grievous slander that we neglect the law and teach men so to do and whereas thou brings many Scriptures and saith thus saith the Lord I answer the Scriptures we owne and by that spirit which speaks them forth wee witnesse them to be true and they are ours and though you say they are the savour of death to us that perish yet thou art found a lier for wee are saved out of the perishing state and death is destroyed through death and thou hast diminished through faith from that Scripture 2 Tim. 3. 15. false prophet like againe and so art both an adder and a diminisher and thou maist read thy portion in Rev. 22. 18 19. and whereas thou saiest know this thou perverter of the right way of God thou shalt bee judged by the word of Christ spoke I answer here thou sets the Scripture in the roome of Christ and art the perverter of the right way of God thy selfe for the Scripture saith all judgement is commited to the Sonn and the Scripture is not the Sonne and thou didst say and now againe writes that the Scripture shall judge the vvorld and so I charge it upon thee that thou art a blasphemer vvho exalts the Scripture above the Sonne of God and shalt be judged by the Sonne into utter drrknesse and into the pit from vvhence thou art come yet this I testifie he that receives the Sonne rejecteth not those vvords vvhich vvas spoken by him though thou and thy generation Pharisee like may make a profession of the vvords vvhich Christ spoke and yet reject the Sonne and all to vvhom Christ speaks vvhich receives him not shall be judged by the vvord vvhich he speaks for he speaks eternally which shal stand eternally but when did he speake to thee for this I doe declare thou maist have those words which he spoke and yet never have heard his word nor voice as the Pharisees had those words which God spake by the Prophets but never had heard his word nor seen his shape John 5. and thou saist quake and tremble at this that word which you reject and dispise shall judge you at the last day and saith thus saith the Lord and brings Christs words and the Apostles words I Answer the Lord rebuke thee thou scorner here thou hast made the filthynesse of thy heart knowne for out of the abundance thereof thy mouth speaks here thou art seen to be a scorner quaking and trembling we own it is that which the holy men of God witnessed but here be a witnesse against thy self that thou art a scorner of their conditions what hast thou to doe to talk of the Scrip●ure who art scorning that which it declares of here thou art made manifest to be one that hath the form but denies the power and scornes at it God scornes thee thou scornful one and let all that feare the Lord depart from thee and see thy filthinesse and search the Scripture whether it testifies not of that which thou scornes at and makes a mock upon And that we reject and despise the Scripture and the words which Christ spake which thou accusest us of this is another lie and a false slander for the scriptures vve ovvne in their place and by the Spirit of God sets to seale that they are true but that they shall judge the vvorld vvee doe deny and herein thy ignorance doth appear and that thou art blinded by the God of this vorld which thou vvould cast upon us and Christs vvords and the vvords of the Apostles shall fall upon thy own head for vengeance in flames of fire will the Lord render upon thee thou lier and slanderer and false accuser who art in disobedience to the Gospel of God And whereas thou saist the Lord hath spoken it and it shall surely come to passe and bringst many Scriptures I Ansvver The Scriptures vve ovvn and vvhat is spoken in them shall be fulfiled but thou lier when did God speake this to thee the judgements pronounced in them shall fall upon thy ovvn head because thou art guilty of the same iniquities as they vvere of against vvhom these Scriptures vvas declared and wheras thou saist we are those that the Lord before hath spoken of in his vvord and therefore no marvel vve vvould not have men to reade it and cites the 2. of Peter 2. Chap. I Ansvver I doe in the presence of the living God deny thee thy false assertion but it shal stand for thy owne condition thou art one in the generation which Christ spake of and that vvas in the Apostles dayes which hath the forme but denies the power as they had and I charge thee againe with a lie in thy mouth who saith we would not have men to read the Scriptures they who have heard us shall witnesse against thee that wee do direct to search the Scripture whether our doctrine be not true and by the Scripture shal our doctrine be tried how long wilt thou utter thy lies in the

evil doers and for the lawlesse for liers and slanderers such as you are and for the praise of them that do wel and we honor such in our hearts and obeys their just commands and are not like him that said he would goe and went not but are subject for conscience sake to the powers that are of ●od and are subject to every ordinance of man for the Lords sake but we cannot flatter nor respect mens persons and deny the faith of Christ but are brought from under the power of unrighteousnesse by the mighty power of God and are subject to all just lawes which stand not nor were made in mans wil but obeys them for consciences sake and if any Law which is not just nor equal be required upon us that wee cannot do wee suffer for conscience sake and resist not at all as many of our enemies will witnesse for us and therefore you false accusers be silent they that are subject to Israels Commonwealth are righteous and walkes in righteousnesse in that which is just good and holy and wee witnesse against all the Canaanites who walk in unrighteousnesse and all who are enemies to the Commonwealth of Israel must be broken to pieces and them that strive and contend against the faith which was once delivered to the Saints and is now witnessed praysed be the Lord all such must be disturbed and broken to peices by the just even all the unjust shal be broken and as for that which thou sayest wee say we ought not to be subject to any civil Government but that which is within us oh thou lyer when wilt thou cease thy lying where is that I charge thee to prove where that is spoken yet this I say unto all Moses received the Law from the mouth of the Lord and it was revealed to him and in him and then he wrote it without and was subject to it and all who makes Laws now and doe not receive them from God they make them in their own wils and such as doe act contrary to the Law of God but that Law which is righteous which is according to that in the conscience which is holy and good and civil we are subject both within and without to it and all you your subjection which is not from a principle within is not in truth not singlenesse of heart but with flattery and your eye service and your bowing downe in hypocrisie and saying you are subject when there is no truth in the heart and so you are not subject for conscience sake And further you say in Farnworth general good to all people let every soule be subject to the higher Powers By powers is meant God the Father of Jesus Christ and by King the Lord of Hosts and that is another Blasphemy Woe unto filthy lyers I challenge you that you have perverted his words and would give meanings upon them as you do upon the Scriptures and your owne dark sottish mindes cannot comprehend and therefore you give your own imaginations and then calles it Blasphemy and let all that read that Booke see if you have not belyed the truth and perverted his words Another thing you set downe for Blasphemy that none are ministers of God and called by him who are sent forth by Authority of man and that he that is not infallible in his judgement is no Minister of Christ Answer You might have said Pauls words were Blasphemy he was made a Minister not by mens wil and all the holy men of God and apostles were not Ministers by the will of man but contrary to the wil of man and all who are made Ministers of man and by man we deny and the Scripture denies them for what they Preached they neither received it of man nor from man but by the revelation of Jesus Christ and all who have and are made Ministers by heare say and what they have formed up in their imaginations from the Scripture with their points and their doctrins which they raise in their carnall mindes all such we declare against and all such who abide not in the Doctrine of Christ and all who were made Ministers of Christ were Spiritual and infallible that which is not infallible is carnall and all who are guided by the Spirit of Christ is infallible and they that are not guided by it are none of his nor the Sons of God nor Ministers of Christ and therefore all that such can judge of is nothing but imaginary and all you who have subscribed this Booke and all such Ministers I deny Yee shamelesse men would you be trying and perscribing and set dowe what is Heresie and Blasphemy and cryes out of that for Heresie and Blasphemy which you should try with all your shame is laid open to all and now your shame I hope will appeare to the Parliament whom you Petition What cry you out against books and printing and blasphemy that cannot distinguish a lamb from a dog would you judg truth by darknesse and you are offended that there are so many Quakers met in the North parts lately two thousand yea blessed bee the Lord there are many thousands that sees you and never will bow to Baal nor worship in the house of Rimmon more and m●ny shal not only come from the North but also from the South yea in London that now sees all your deceit and they shal enter and you shal be shut out And what truth is this that cannot defend it selfe and what religion is that which cannot defend it selfe but you must have all bend to your image that you would set up And now unto you who are petitioned unto I say unto you take heed and beware how you call or suppresse any thing as error or how you meddle in the prescribing God a way to walke in for he cannot he will not be limited and I say unto you it were better a milstone were hanged about your necks then to hinder or stop or make any law to hinder the passage of the truth which is arising and consider the Lord hath thrown out all powers before this because they would needs limit the Holy one of Israel and prescribe him a way and a government how he should be worshipped and many have suffered and what hath all come to all the rules that men hath laid down hath they not beene as the untimely fruit of a woman and as corne upon the house top and for that all hath beene throwne downe and broken and the jealousie of the Lord is broken forth as fire and and woe to them that withstands him in his way and now I say unto you if you now prescribe God a way and if that in the conscience have not liberty but you wil goe about to set bounds to him and his people in the worship of God you shall be broken as a potters vessel for the government is upon his shoulders and he wil not give his glory to any other the Lord hath spoken it And for the rest

of the bookes in the Beacon fired wee disowne them but I believe you have belied them as you have done ours A Certaine Book being come forth into the world ful of lies and slanders against the innocent called A voice from the word of the Lord to those grand impostors called Quakers to the Author of which book who calls himselfe J●hn Griffith a servant of Christ and to all to whomsoever it may come I am moved to write something in Answer that his lies and slanders and false r●proaches may be made manifest and that he may proceed no further for as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses so doth he resist the truth being a man of a corrupt mind and reprobate concerning faith and is not a Servant of Christ nor a witnesse for his name but a child of disobedience in whom the Prince of the aire rules And first to the title of thy book I Answer the word of the Lord is powerful and wil cut thee down thou sensual minded man yet thou knowest not but takes the words of others declared from the word vvhich vvas in them and thou useth thy tongue and saith the Lord saith it but I say unto thee the Lord hath not spoken unto thee neither commanded thee to speak of his name and I charge it upon thee in the presence of the Lord God of life that thou art of that generation which Jeremiah was sent to cry against Jer. 23. 31. for thou speakes thy imaginations upon their words which dwelt in the life of God but the life thou knowest not and thy whole book is no more but an empty sound and voice is as the untimely fruit of the womb which wil wither and perish away and one of them I am whom thou calls Quakers to whom thou saist thou directs thy speech but that wee are grand impostors I do denie for we are gathered up into the life which the holy men of God lived and are fallen from the world and from its wayes and nature and I charge thee here to be a slanderer and from the mouth of the Lord I do declare unto thee that thou must have a slanderers reward And vvheras thou saist thou hast discovered their fleshly and filthy mindednesse together vvith the judgments of God attending them I Answer Fleshly and filthy mindednesse we have denied by the Power of the Sonne of God made manifest in us thou hast laid it to our charge but thou hast not proved it nor discovered it and here againe thou art a false accuser fleshly and filthy mindedness shal stand for thy ovvne condition for there thou art in the flesh and filth living to thy vvil in the lust of uncleanesse for you may remember thou came out of the bowling Allie to our meeting though Pharisee like thy out side is painted and made clean but thy heart is ful of enmity and lies and slanders and false reproaches to that in thy conscience I do speake which shal for ever vvitnesse me and as for the judgments of the Lord upon thy own head wil they fal and with what measure thou metes it shal be measured to thee again we are passed from judgment and from the condemnation and who art thou thon enemy of righteousnesse that shal lay any thing to the charge of Gods elect And whereas thou saiest thou art one that bears witnesse against those wandring starres I answer this shal stand for thy owne condition a wandring star thou art and hath no habitation in the heaven but speaks swelling words of vanity thou thy self being a servant of corruption we have an abinding place and an habitation in the Lord and are not wandring and here againe I charge thee to be a false accuser and a false witnesse who bears witnesse of thy selfe for the Father bears no witnesse of thee but against thee Whereas thou saist the most high God that made the heavens and the earth hath moved thee and stirred thee up to bear witnesse to the truth and to witnesse against the abmoinable fleshly mindednesse and yet spiritual pride of those grand impostors called Quakers by whose sorceries many are bewitched and drawn from the simplicity of the gospell to another gospel which is not another Gospel but the vanity of their owne minds and their owne fleshly and corrupt thoughts which they cry up as Oracles of God I answer The most high God judge between thee and us whose wrath is kindled against thee thou enemie of righteousnesse and child of wrath thou hast belied the Lord of heaven and earth for to this he moved thee not for he moves none to utter lies and slanders as thou hast done but the spirit of enmity and of the Divil hath moved thee and to the truth thou beares no witnesse but against the truth and against the innocent and charges us with fleshly mindednesse and spirituall pride O thou lier and false accuser the Lord who takes our part against thee will plead with thee and render upon thy head according to thy deedes prove what thou speaks that we are fleshly minded and spiritually proud or else let thy mouth be stopped and shame cover thee for ever sorceries and witchcraft and drawing from the simplicity of the Gospel wee doe deny but the plaine single truth wee doe declare by which the eye of the blind is opened in many to see your deceits who call your selves Churches and Preachers of the Gospel which is not the Gospel that the Apostles preached but an adding your own Imaginations upon their words who witnessed the Gospel and it shal stand for thy own condition thou art in the sorcery and witchraft who draws people to observe an outward visible thing from the light of Christ within them which leades to the simplicity of the Gospel which is inward and not outward and thou art in thy fleshly and corrupt thoughts crying up the Ordinances and Oracles of God which are but carnal and beggerly rudiments of the world which passeth away and here thou art seen and made manifest in the light of Christ to be a hypocrite who false accuses others of that which thou art guilty of thy selfe the same Gospel as ever was doe we declare and not another which wee received not from man neither was taught it by man and as the Oracles of God it shall stand for ever for a witnesse against thee and all the world who doth not believe for even the Father beares witnesse of us and therefore our witnesse is true and the righteous God will plead with thee thou lyar and false accuser and here be a witnesse against thy selfe that the Lord moved thee not but the Divil acting in thy owne imaginations and in the vanity of thy one minde and in thy one fleshly and corrupt thoughts and whereas thou sayest to us thou directs thy speech from the Lord thus saith the Lord to thee O Quaker thou art fleshly minded I answer It is not the voyce of the Lord to us that