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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56434	A shield of the truth, or, The truth of God cleared from scandals and reproaches cast upon it by scandalous and reproachfull tongues which the devil in all ages did make use of, whereby he blasphemed the truth of God, striving to present it odious in the eyes and ears of all people, that so he might uphold his own kingdom, but the day hath made him manifest, & the Lord is come, & is coming to make war with him, and bind him, and cast him into the bottomless pit and all who bears his image, and under his dominion is written by ... Iames Parnel.	Parnell, James, 1637?-1656.	1655 (1655)	Wing P533; ESTC R20838	39,279	50

which is a meer delusion We are accused to deny the Sabboth The Sabboth of the Saints we own which is not for a day but everlasting and who dwels in Christ witnesseth this Sabboth which is the substance and the shadow without is vanished for saith Paul let no man condemn you in respect of meats and drinks or of an holy day or of New Moons or of the Saboth dayes which are but shadows of things to come and so the world hath the shadow and the Saints the substance and you who have the shadow persecute them who have substance as the Seribes and Pharisees and high Priests did who had and upheld the Types and figures of Christ and persecuted them who was the substance so they that are after the flesh persecuted them that are after the spirit but your Sabboth is a shadow of nothing for the Jews Sabboth in the time of the law was upon the seventh day which was the last day of the week but yours is the first day of the week for which you have no scripture and they were not to do their own ways nor their own pleasure nor speak their own words upon the Sabboth day and here you transgresse in the figure and walkin your own wayes and speak your own words and do your own pleasures both of that day and every day We are accused that we justifie our selves and condemn all other I Answer When we were our selves without the Spirit of God and had a form and profession of the Saints condition which we did not possess we seeked to justifie our selves in our profession and earthly wisdom and to exhalt our selves and be something in the eyes of others and here we were Pharisees and yet feigned Publicans saying we were sinfull but thought higher of our selves than others though we were in the same nature and here our justification was of our selves and not of Christ and here are all you Pharisees and feigned Publicans both Priests and Professors who are in your earthly Wisdome feeding upon the Letter but as the Light of Christ arise in us all our earthly wisdom wherein we were exalted became foolishnesse and self was judged and denyed and all that which was of self both wisdom and righteousness wherewith we covered over our filthy lustful unclean hearts and so were as painted Sepulchers and here are all Professors at this day who are feeding upon the Tree of Knowledge and as from under the Cross of Christ but all would not hide from the Light of God but as it arose it searched through all and layd open all and all our covers became rotten and fel from us and so it will be with all Professors As the Light of Christ doth arise and the Book of Conscience is layd open for no flesh must glory in his presence But now we have nothing but what we have received of the Father through death and Christ is made over unto us Wisdom Righteousness Sanctification and Redemption and though we glory we glory in the Lord for we have nothing in our selves to glory of and the Saints thought it no presumption to call themselves the Sons of God and said they were of God and all the whole world lye in wickednesse and here the same spirit would have accused them yet they were no Pharisees and Christ thought it no robbery to be equal with God yet he was no Pharisee though of the Pharisees he was judged a Blasphemer and as he is so are we saith the Saints yet they were no Pharisees and so who are made the Sons of God it is no self justification to witness it forth neither those who are made free from sin to witnesse it forth as the Apostles did and to witness forth the life and power of truth and deny them that have gotten the form notion or profession and here Christ is the witness and the justification for the way is but one and the truth is but one and they who dwel in the truth witnesse one with another for the Light of God owns its own wheresoever it is for God cannot deny himself but they that are not with us are against us and out of the truth in the state of condemnation for all who are out of the truth are under the curse in the fall and this truth we witness by the Spirit of the living God through death the same truth as ever was and there is that in every conscience shall bear us witness yea in the Heathen and condemne them that hate it 〈…〉 We are accused to be one with the Ranters I Answer it is false for we abhor their principles in our hearts and deny any liberty to the flesh or any light or loos or vain conversation which they live in or any thing which is impure or unclean for our principles are pure and clean and is at enmity with any thing that is impure or unclean for purity and impurity cannot agree together and it is our desires to keep our selves unspotted of the world for that which is unclean defiles and from that we are separated who are the Sons and Daughters of the living God but some of them have tasted of the love of God and grace of God and have had appearances of God but by harkning to the voice of the Serpent and giving way to the lust have turned with the dog to the vomit and the grace of God into wantonness casting his pure Law behind their backs and walking despitefully against the spirit of grace and have crucified a fresh the Lord of Life and put him to open shame therefore hath the Lord given them up to their own hearts lusts and vile affections and their consciences seared as with a hot Iron for it is writen It is impossiblo that those who were once enlightened and have tasted of the Heavenly Gift and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost and have tasted of the good word of God and the Powers of the world to come if they shall fall away to renew them again to Repentance but they have deceived many with their alluring speeches and have caused the truth of God to be evil spoken of by their pernitious lacivious ways But wo wo be to them for double shall be their reward but God is our witness we deny and abhor all things which is filthy or unclean and though all the world condemn it is without For there is no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus who walke not after the flesh but after the spirit and it is my tender desire towards all tender consciences that they may take heed of giving any liberty to the flesh least they lose the tenderness of conscience and harden it by lust and uncleanness for nothing but purity will the Lord receive for he is of purer eye then to behold iniquity We are accused that the ground of our Religion is Popery The ground of the Religion made

is the Baptism of Christ with the Holy Ghost and with fire but we deny all other for there is but one Lord one Faith one Baptism one God and Father of all and they who would have one Baptism outward and another inward would have two Baptisms when the Scripture saith the Baptism is but one and whosoever hath the Baptism outward are the same they were before but the Baptism of Christ makes a new creature and this I witnesse for I received water upon my face as my Parents told me which they called Baptism but I grew up an heathen as all other children doe and no new creature though my parents were counted believers amongst the world and their Priests but now I witnesse the Baptism of Christ by one spirit into one body and now I witnesse a new creature old things are past away and all things become new And now I see the other to be formal imitation and the invention of man and so a meer delusion and all are heathens and no Christians who cannot witness this Baptism who can witnesse this denies all other for the Scripture saith the Baptism is but one and who can witnesse this are believers but who cannot witnesse this are no belivers and so it is that water or no water availeth nothing but a new creature for all by nature are the children of wrath and except they be born again they cannot enter and as for the Baptism of Water which the Apostles used it being a command of Christ for its time the power went along with it and the Disciples received the Holy Ghost when they were baptised but none can witnesse this who sets their selves of acting or imitating the Apostles and so takes it up by imitation and their ground is the letter and are not guided to it by the same spirit which guided the Apostles and so they are the same after water as before and so now water or no water availeth any thing but a new creature for water was but for its time though many in darknesse have now gotten the form and are groping in it for life but wants the life and power and so from such turn away We are accused to deny the Supper of the Lord The Supper of the Lord we own which is the body and blood of Christ which the Saints feed upon and this is eternal food and life and here they all feed upon one and are of one heart and minde and here is pure and eternal union and communion and this is not carnal but spiritual for Saints are spiritual and their communion is spiritual and eternal and this we witnesse who are of one heart and one minde who are in the new Covenant and herein we discerne the Lords body and here all drunkards are shut out and all lyars adulterers proud covetous lustful and envious ones and all backbiters revilers extortioners and all deceitful and unrighteous persons are shut out of the new Covenant and are without feeding upon the husk and shadow which is carnall for the bread which the world breaks is carnall and naturall and only feeds the outward carnall body and goeth into the belly and so passeth out into the dunghill and so likewise the cup which they drink and so the communion and fellowship of the world passeth away but this is no nourishment to the soul but still the soul lies in death and here is no communion but naturall outward and carnall of severall minds and hearts full of filthinesse and uncleannesse which is the table of Devils eating and drinking their own damnation not discerning the Lords body which is spirituall which the natural man discerns not And here stands the worlds communion and fellowship which is carnall and crosse but their carnall wills and it is turned into envy and for earthly trifles they will go to Law and cozen and cheat and defraud one another for earthly trifles and like people like Priest but if they lie in wait for revenge of one another then they will not take their Sacrament as they call it And here the Devill hath as great hold for he that envies is a murderer and here is the difference betwixt the worlds communion and the Saints communion life and death for to be carnally minded is death but to be spiritually minded is life and here they are without feeding upon the husk shadow without and would destroy the life and substance where it appears both Priest people and Rulers and so have a form of godliness and denies the life and power from such turn away for it is a mere delusion to take the shadow for the substance We are accused to deny all prayer The prayers of the wicked we deny and God denies for it is abominable for Cain the wicked one who was out of the commands of God who was the first birth hee offered up a sacrifice of the earth but GOD had no respect to it but Abel the second birth who was the righteous his sacrifice God had respect to so the prayers of the faithfull and righteous God doth accept they availe what comes from his own which is the second birth his own pure what comes from it is pure God who is pure doth receive that which is pure but he receivrs nothing which is polluted or unclean for he is of purer eyes then to behold iniquity for his sacrifice must be without spot or blemish and that which comes from an uncleane heaet is sported and defiled and uncleane for nothing that is pure can come forth of an unclean vessell but who can witnesse the second birth and that the seed of the woman hath bruised the serpents head which is the first promise and faith which purefieth the heart then that which comes out is pure proceeding from a pure single heart and this prayer God receives and he hath respect to it and this we own and witnesse and this comes from the second birth which is pure for the first birth is unclean and out of the command of God in the fall in the wrath in the peevishnesse and preversnesse and frowardnesse Cain like and the seed of the serpent is first in every one and rules the head but the promise is the seed of the woman shull bruise the serpents head so you who are not come to this are still in the fall and are not come to the first promise so all your self-acting and imitating thinking to merit with your prayers and praises singings and duties and worships and traditions which are all in vaine and you are sacrificing to an unknown God a sacrifice of the earth from the first nature which God hath no respect to and the flaming sword is set against that to keep from the tree of life for both drunkards and swearers liers proud coveteous and all manner of unrighteous persons are offering up sacrifices and are in their formall worships and duties thinking

now manifested in the flesh and is appeared in the likeness of sinfull flesh to condemn sin in the flesh which is the Word which became flesh and dwelt amongst the Apostles this Christ we witness no more after the Flesh but after the Spirit and before we knew him after the Spirit we had no profit by him but was in the state of Reprobation and so is all now who profess him in words and know nothing of him but by the Letter without them and such deny Christ come in the flesh who plead for sin who live in sin and doe not witness him come but those who are crucified with him doe live with him and he in them and none are Christians of the flock of Christ but who are baptized into his death by one spirit into one body and he that can witness this is crucified to the world and the world to him but who talks of Christ to be their Saviour and are still alive in the worlds nature must first witness him a condemner for his first appearance is with sword and breakes the peace and makes the war and ends the war and makes the peace and this peace endures for ever and so he is a Condemner before he is a Saviour and he is a peace-breaker before he is a peace-maker but who are at peace in their sin the Serpent is head and the strong man keeps the house and Christ they doe not witness come in the flesh but who endures the war shall enjoy this peace and he that can witness Christ his Saviour can witness this but silence all flesh before the Lord and let him that nameth the name of God depart from iniquity for he that saith he knoweth God and keepeth not his Comandements is a lyar For saith Christ why call ye me Lord and do not things which I say And none can call Jesus Lord but by the Holy Ghost so it is plain you know not God who cannot keep his Commands then how can you believe in him whom you do not know We are accused that we judge people It is written the Saints shall judge the world and for judgement I am come into the world saith Christ that those which see not might see and that they which see might be made blind and where Christ rules in his Saints he judges the world as Paul witnessed It is no more I but Christ in me and he is come to reprove the world of sin of righteousness and of judgement of judgement because the Prince of the air is judged who rules in the children of this world and they cannot bear the righteous judgement of Christ but kicks against it and calls him Devil and so they kick against the prick which will the more torment them and this is the spirit of truth which come into the world which the world cannot receive because he testifies of it that the deeds thereof are evil and this is the condemnation of the world light is come into the world and men love darkness rather than life because their deeds are evil and every one that doth evil hateth the light and will not come into the light lest it should reprove them yet they will say Christ is meek love and lowly It is so but not to ungodlinesse but he is meek to the meek and lowly to the lowly and love to the Seed of God and his Saints are meek and lowly and bears all both scandals reproaches persecutions and imprisonments but to the Seed of the Serpent Christ is judgment and wo and a sword to that which is for the sword and a condemner to the wicked and our God is a consuming fire and terrible to the wicked to consume the proud and haughty in their imaginations and here Christ is a Lyon and he is a Lamb he is a Condemner and he is a Saviour he that can receive him let him the hungry and thirsty he feeds with live food but the fat he feeds with judgement and that which would not bear his judgement must never know his peace but is for judgement and cryes out as the Devil did who said he was come to torment them before the time but the Teachers of the world have deceived the people long crying peace to them because they put into their mouthes and healing them up in their sin with a feigned formed faith which works no reformation so sewing pillows under their armholes and here the Devil hath reigned in peace and now Christ is come with the sword to break his peace with plague and judgement and now he rages and stands up for his life in all both Priest and People and now the Beast makes war with the Lamb but it is hard for him to kick against the prick for he must be bound and cast into the pit and there be tormented quick and the false Prophet and all who bears his Image We are accused to deny the Church I answer the true Church which is in God we own and witness through death but the worlds Church we deny for the true Church is the Body of Christ made of tried stones elect and precious washed and cleansed by his blood and spirit that he might present it a glorious Church not having spot or wrinkle but this is not a house of Lime and dead stones nor the people that meets in it for all manner of unrighteous persons meets there which is the synagogue of Sathan and a Cage of unclean Birds and like people like Priest but who comes to be elected into the Church of Christ which is spiritual denies the worlds Church which is carnal and the worlds Teacher who is carnal selling the carnal for carnal mony and earth for Christ himself is the Teacher of his Church who feeds it with living eternal food freely and it needs no other Teacher and this Church we own and witness but all other Churches we deny for the Church is but one the Temple of God we own which is at new Jerusalem the City of the living God but all other Idol-Temples we deny which is the inyention and imaginations of man though God commanded Solomon to build him a Temple nevertheless God that made the world dwels not in Temples made with hands when Christ the substance came he prophesied against it also Stephen was stoned to death when he prophecied against it this we witnesse whose bodies are the Temples of the Holy Ghost who are now stoned and persecuted by such as know not the living God but worship Idols because we speak against their Idols Temple which God never commanded to be built but was set up by the imagining Idolizing Papists and upheld by the blind Protestant so called and so they cast out the Papists and uphold their Idols and so the inchanters Diviners and Sorcerers of England leads silly people in blindnesse to worship Idols telling them they are the houses and Temples of God