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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77780	Antichrists transformations within, discovered by the light within.	Bullock, Jeffery, of Sudbury.; Manning, Thomas, The Baptist.	1678 (1678)	Wing B5424A; ESTC R170865	29,654	36

Bullock in Sudbury I do disown my self to be a Member of the visible Church called Quakers for these particular reasons and causes following neither do I desire to have unity nor to seek to have peace with the Church in those actions wherein they set up themselves as Judges among or above their Brethren as the Eleven Elders called Quakers have done First I disown all superiority of men Ministers or Elders in the Churches called Quakers or any who assume Authority to themselves above the rest of the Members to judge and determine things in matters of conscience the which thing only belongs to God in every one 's own particular 2. I disown my self to be a member of that Body or Church which saith He that is not justified by the witness of God in Friends is condemn'd by it in himself 3. Which saith That none are to Minister or Preach but such as are reconciled to the Church and have the approbation of the Elders and Members 4. Again I do disown both the censures and judgement of that body or Church who look upon themselves that they have both a right and power to judge of errours and yet have not power to convince the parties of their errors before they pass judgement upon them for those things which they call errors for Christ he convinceth both man and woman of their evils before he either judgeth them or condemneth them for their evils 5. Again I do disown my self to be a Member of that Church who will not admit me to take the liberty of my Conscience in matters of Doctrine and Principles in the Worship of God the outward life and conversation that being blameless and I being satisfied in my own conscience that the thing is both right and true which I do own 6. I disown my self to be a Member of that Church who will not admit me to believe and speak what God by his Spirit makes manifest in me for the Articles of your Church Faith and Belief they are concealed from me so that in plain English words with sense I cannot them neither read nor understand so that I question whether this practice of the Church doth not surpass plain Popery for they have given forth the Articles of their Faith as concerning Doctrine 7. I disown the resurrection of the power or the arising of the Seed or God in man or that ever the Seed or God was either in Captivity or Bondage or that it was ever lost or that the Light in man was ever blinded or the Image of God defaced or that the Seed hath been under the corrupt heart of man or that ever Darkness were over it or that ever God lost his Kingdom in man as he was in himself 8. Again I disown that to be any true Ministry for God who in their declaration do exhort both Friends and other people to come to a sense and to wait in a sense and to abide in a sense and continue in a sense for God is not a sense neither is his spirit a sense for the senses are things that were made by the power of God and in the power which made them they are to be exercised and so such Doctrine it is not only unsound but it is contrary to the Scriptures and also the spirit of truth and form of sound words for it is old Antichrists Doctrine the which Sathan brought in among his Ministers in this long night of Apostacy among the Gentiles when the Churches lost the injoyment of the Grace Manifestation or Revelation of the Spirit of God then they preached from a light and a sense for the Beasts of the Field they have both senses and knowledge and what preheminence hath a man above a Beast if he be not in God that made him for all things the which a man enjoys below the Light they are accompanied both with vanity and also vexation of Spirit for there is no other God Saviour Angel nor Spirit to be known in and amongst the Sons of Men but the Light that shews unto man his thoughts besides the Spirit and Power of Darkness and what God made in man in the day of his first Creation 9. Also I disown my self to be a Member of that Church who are gone from Christ the Light of the world within them the power which God revealed from Heaven in this our age and generation wherein alone Life and Salvation Justification and Condemnation is to be known and are returned back again to the professors Christ and Saviour who dyed without the Gates of Jerusalem who make it their work to declare against all salvation both by God and Christ the Light within the which the professors of this our age and time do 10. I disown all yoaks of bondage dictates or impositions whatsoever I disown your printing of several Books and imposing them upon all Friends Meetings throughout this Nation and enjoyning them to take them off a thing that I never heard of before amongst any people 11. I disown your enjoyning one Friend to match with another Friend or else you will not admit them to come together whenas God hath made all Nations of one blood and so remember that Moses took an Ethiopian woman to wife contrary to the command of God and yet God justified him for it and he also condemned both Aaron and Miriam for speaking against Moses for so doing Again the two Sons of Naomy they either of them took a Moabitish woman to wife and I never read they were reproved for their so doing and Ruth she proved a good woman So Friends I leave you to the witness of God that is in you for I little thought that ever Antichrist would have appeared with such an old Vizard as to raise up a body of Judges among us Quakers in matters of Religion and Conscience whenas we had suffered so much already by outward Judges because we made use of the liberty of our Consciences in the things of God Friends a thing which was never practiced among the primitive Christians Friends 1. What is the Tree of knowledge as it is in it self and what is the fruit it bears and from whence doth the fruit come and what is that which feeds upon it seeing it is desirable to make one wise and whether the fruit be all the same now as it was in the beginning 2. What was the Eden wherein the first man Adam was placed and what was the Garden wherein God walked after Transgression entred when he spake to Adam in the cool of the day 3. What is the Enmity which God put between the Woman and the Serpent and between his Seed and her Seed and what was or is the Woman 4. What was the Man that was drove out from God into the Earth because of Transgression seeing the visible body did remain in the visible Creation after his transgression as visible as it did before 5. What is the Image of God or what is the Soul of Man for there