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A85129	Antichrists man of vvar, apprehended, and encountred withal, by a souldier of the armie of the Lamb. Otherwise, an answer to a book set forth by one that subscribes his name Edmund Skipp, preacher of the Gospel (as he saith) to a people at Bodenham in Herefordshire; but is found one that is acting Antichrists part disguised: but nakedly seen, & herein discovered in this answer to his book, called the Worlds wonder, or the Quakers blazing-starre. And in this answer he is discovered, and proved to be one that is chief in the service of the old dragon: who pretends in his book to discover the mystery of the Quakers, as he calls them, and to lay open a dangerous design: who is found out, that whilst he hath been pretending to be chief in discovering a plot, or Antichrists misterious actings, is found himself to be the chief plotter, ... / Written in Worcestershire by a servant of the Lord, the second moneth called April, 1655.	R. F. (Richard Farnworth), d. 1666.; Smith, Humphrey, d. 1663.	1655 (1655)	Wing F470; Thomason E843_9; ESTC R202123	95,493	95

seen in the light of Jesus Christ to be and in the world like a raging Sea whose waves casts up mire and dirt continually unto whom there is no peace Isa 57.20 21. a wandering Starre never setled Jude 13. but tossed up and down with every winde of Doctrine from such turn away 2. How you may know them P. 36.9 Abiding in the light that comes from Christ in that light you will see light so comprehend all the Children of darknes for he that followeth Christ who is the light of the world shall not walk in darkness but shall have the light of life to judge all the false Apostles and all the Children of the night who live in the dark minde in pride covetousness lying making a Trade of the Scriptures which were spoken forth from the light by those that witnessed it but thou that takes up their expressions and livest not in the same life thou art the false Apostle that preacheth another Gospel now besides the foregoing Scriptures thou hast declared thy self to be a false Apostle by thy own writings First in writing thy thinkings and conceivings page 50. yet my former thoughts page 53. I am but in part convinced page 16. methinks page 51. as I conceive such were the false Apostles 1 Tim. 1.7 understanding not what they say nor whereof they affirm but speak and write the imaginations of their own hearts as thou hast done in page 18. the thoughts of my own heart in the which are many devices Prov. 19.21 Secondly In being one of the world and calling thy fellow-Creatures of the world to judge what thou sayest and here thou hast manifested thy self to be a false Prophet entered into the world which the Saints of God never did page 23. and let all the world assure themselves that in page 45. here thou dost wrire thy self as thou art calles thy own to witness the world one with the world therefore we being gathered out of the world are hated and written against by thee John 15.19 I shall forbear to write what I know of thy former and yet continued practises this being sufficient to prove plainly that thou art a false Apostle whose many lies written against us I need not to mention in particular only some few in short that the simple may not be deceived by thee nor the truth suffer altogether under thy scandalls Page 48. Thou biddest the feeble Creatures of the world to judge of spiritual things though the world by wisdom knowes not God 1 Cor. 1.21 page 46. thou sayest that we do lying wonders but hast thou in all those lies and writings of thine proved that any of those which thou callest wonders are lying wonders for it is not thy saying it is a lying wonder that makes it to be so for there were such as thee that said that Christ cast out De●ils through Beelzebub but they were liers and so art thou Thou sayest our works are deceitful page 49. but thou hast no ground for it but the deceit of thy own heart page 18. the which thou callest the world to bear thee witness page 23. page 50. thou fayest we di●own the power and spirit of truth which is a lie but thou hast a form of godliness denying the power thereof 2 Tim. 3.5 Page 53. Thou sayest thou art in part convinced that peradventure the Lord would have his people walk in some way whereby they might be brought into a perfect unity in heart Oh art thou not here ashamed to let even the world whom thou callest unto so often read thy ignorance what art thou but in part convinced what way leads to unity Oh for shame for shame give over thy profession talk no longer of the Gospel thou hast made thy self manifest to all men Oh hast thou been talking of the Gospel so long and art yet ignorant of the way that leads to unity Oh let shame stop thy mouth and cover thy face for ever but if thou wouldest shift from this and say thou meanest an outward way or form I tell thee there is no way to have fellowship with the Father 1 John 1.3 but in the unity of the faith and the knowledge not a thinking of the Son of God who is the true living and only way unto the Father John 14.6 where is perfect unity even one heart and one way Ier. 32.39 which is away of holiness the Wayfaring men though fools shall not erre therein Isa 35.8 Also in page 53. thou sayest that thou art very sensible that thou hast lost thy comforts and therefore thou dost hope not to give over until thou hast found some way or means of having thy former enjoyments refreshed Why hast thou lost that thou never hadst thou saidst but now that thou was but in part convinced of the way and hadst thou the comforter long agoe and lost him now oh Babylons Merchant the way and the comforter is but one the which is Jesus Christ Iohn 14.6.17.26 Iohn 17.23 I know that if Jesus Christ had been brought forth in thee without which there is no true comfort who is the substance of all tithes types forms and shadows that thou could not unto this day have remained a Parish Priest and so uphold an Antichristian Priesthood halting between many opinions neither according to Aaron Levi nor Christ but living in thy own will and so living above Christ who lived not in his own will for saith he not my will but thine be done Iohn 6.38 And now who will regard thy writings when thou acknowledgeth that the comforter which is the spirit of truth is departed from thee now it appears thou art a lier indeed now thou hast no truth born up in thy understanding thy former injoyments as thou calls it which were indeed nothing but comprehensions got up in the wisdom of the Serpent Oh art thou not ashamed that the world which thou didst soon make up in thy writings should now read thy confusion art thou not ashamed in such a condition as this when thou confessest thy former enjoyments and comforts are departed from thee even now to write against those that thou acknowledgest to have large experiences and much of the power of truth through Christ page 50. Oh take heed least it had been better for thee that a Milstone had been hanged about thy neck and thou cast into the Sea Oh canst thou not look back on him whom thou hast thus pierced to wit the life of Christ in others now thou mayst read with shame and tears that which thy own hand hath written from thy own sinful heart look in page 5. and 8.18 which was then in the apostatized condition without the former comforts as thou calledst it page 53. now thou art found to be a false Apostle indeed Oh remember from whence thou art fallen and do thy first works yea repent ere it be too late Rev. 2.5 Oh though thou canst strive with man there is no striving with thy Maker who will come a

Antichristian ministery and speaking the Word of the Lord and reproving sin and deceit which they call railing and reviling as one of the servants of the Lord is now in prison at Worcester upon that account only and for the breach of no known Law sent from Kederminster thither by those under Richard Baxter Minister which is the chiefest Priest in Worcestershire and that Town was accounted great in profession but now like Priest like people Hosea 4.9 and Hosea 6.9 even full of envy and malice against the servante of the Lord which carrieth them forth into cruel persecution but let the wise-hearted know that the chiefest of the Priests when Christ came personally were the greatest enemies of his and did the most both stir up Rulers and people to persecute him and the greatest Professors were cruel and bitter against him And now that Christ is come and coming in the Spirits of his Saints Children and Servants to reprove the world of sin and unrighteousness and to discover the deceivableness of Antichrist and the Ant●christian min●stery the chiefest Priests and many great Professors as well as Richard Baxter Chief-Priest at Kederminster and such now labour to uphold the Kingdom of Antichrist under a dark black cover which cannot hide the baseness of their hearts but lets it break forth into cruelty and persecution but it is too manifest that they are of the bloody City in the pollutions and filthiness and hath disobeyed the voice and heardened their hearts against the truth who have haled out of their Synagogues beat abused and imprisoned such as the Lord sent unto them c. But it is but that the Scriptures may be fulfilled and that they may manifest themselves to be of that Generation of persecutors and blood-thirsty ones How dangerous a thing it is to reproach and revile the people of God that ever persecuted the righteous seed and wo from God is upon all such Teachers and People and they may read their Example Matth. 23.31 32 33 34.35 But to come to the matter in hand That City which the Prophet Zephaniah speaks of and Rulers Teachers Priests and people And again the servants of the Lord that speaks truth against deceit do not revile but such as speak evil of them and salsly accuse them are the revilers as such was that reproached the people of God and maga●●fied themselvs against them as the Priests and their party do now by and against those the Lords people whom they scornfully call Quakers which obeyed not the voice as in Zeph. 3. Chap. and see what the Lord by his Prophet saith in Zeph. 2. How he cries wo to such a people as are there spoken of verse 5. c. Likewise he tells a wicked people there what the Lord will do unto them and see the cause why Zeph. 2.8 9. This saith he shall they have for their pride because they have reproached and magn●fied themselves against the people of the Lord of h●sis therefore saith the Lord by His Prophet I will be terrible unto them c. Zeph. 2.10 11. c. Then take heed what you do and consider of this all ye unrighteous ones who reproaches and reviles the people of God under the Nick-name of Quakers The Prophet Zephaniah did not raid nor revile when he spoke to that City when he cried wo unto in and called the Princes within it Roaring Lyons and the Judges Evening Wolves and the Prophets light and ●eche●ous persons and said the Priests had po●uted the Sanctuary c. Zeph. 3. because it was so and they had done so yet to the eye of reason a natural man that knows not the things of the Spirit of God 1 Cor. 2.24 he would have been ready to say it had been harsh language and rayling as now in th●s generation they call the Spirits language railing and reviling when it tells people of their sins and transgressions but though the natural man say so it is not so for he that so saith and accuseth falsly is the railer and reviler but Edm●●● Skip and the Priests and Antichristian Ministers and such as are prophane proud and wicked they speak evil of the Spirits language and accuseth falsly and cannot prove their false accusations therefore they are the railers and revilers and not the people which they reproachfully call Quakers and the natural man is not to judg the spir●tual man but the spiritual man may judg the natural man it is his Prerogative for he that is spiritual judgeth all things yet he himself is judged of no man and this priviledge have all the Saints and Brethren of Christ Praised be the Lord for the riches of his love 1 Cor. 2.14 15,16 Heb. 2.11 1 Cor. 6.2 But thou art offended The seed of God may judg the seed of the Serpent but the seed of the Serpent is not to judg the seed of God that the righteousseed should judg the seed of the Serpent and thou art offended to have a hypocrite called a hypocrite but Christ gave them that name and called them so them such as are guided by his Spirit may but we and the righteous seed are so taught and guided therefore we may and so follow him for our example Ma● 23.27 28 29. and we know we are of the righteous seed For God hath sent the. Spirit of His Son-into our hearts whereby we cry Abba Father c. Gal. 4.6 7 and Rom. 8.14 And we are to call a lyar a lyar for the Scripture calleth them so and the Spirit of truth spoke it forth 2 Pet. 1.20 21. and we being guided by the Spirit Rom. 8.14 and 1 Ioh. 3.2.4 as such was that called lyars by the name of lyars therefore by the same Spirit may and do we call them so for that is the name which the holy Spirit gave them to call lyars by the name of lyars For be that saith he loveth God and keepeth not his Commandements is a lyar 1 Ioh. 2.4 Kev 21.8 Rev. 22.15 And thou and all such as are offended to have liars called liars seeing the Spirit calleth them so and gave them that name thou and all such art offended at the Spirits teachings therefore judg your folly and the pride of your hearts And thou and all such who are offended Serpents were called Serpents by the Spirit of truth to have a Serpent called a Serpent though they appear like men in the truth but full of hypocrisie and deceit thou and all such are offended at the language of Christ in the Gospel-ministration for he called such Serpents and Vipers As by the Spirit of truth such were so called then with the same Spirit they may be called so that are so now and that is not un-Gospel like but agreeing thereunto Mat. 23.28 29 30 31 32 33. And if thou and the Serpents seed be offended Children of the Devil are called by their Fathers same the Holy-ghost calleth them so to be called by your name your burden you must

did not walk after the flesh but after the spirit and though there be no condemnation to them that are in Christ who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit who witnesse the Law fulfilled in them and so are led by the Spirit and made more then Conquerers through him that loved them who are sons and heirs of God Rom. 38. Chap. and 1 Iohn 1 22 9. and Gal. 3.29 Gal. 4.6.7 1 Iohn 2.20.27 Yet such as are not sons but bastards The unrighteous who walk in the flesh and fulfi●l the lusts hereof are out of Christ and under a state of condemnation lu● they are now warned and left without excuse happy a●e they if th●y return to the Lord by forsaking the evill of their wayes but if they do not ●wo c. who walk not after the spirit but after the flesh such as are unrighteous and unrighteousness is transgression of the Spiritual Law Read 1 Iohn 3.4 and verse 10. such are under a state of condemnation take notice of that all the proud and lofty ones al the covetous oppressors lyers swearers false-accusers haters back-biters scoffers scorners coseners cheaters envious and malicious ones Rom. 1.27 29 30 c. and take notice of it all you unrighteous ones of what sort soever and you that plead for a continuance insin yet walk after the flesh Remember you are under a state of Condemnation are transgressors of the Righteous Law ye unrighteous ones therefore return from your unrighteousnesse or else you shall in no wise inherit the Kingdom of God and this I testifie unto you from the Spirit of the Lord say not but that you are warned I am clear from your blood now that I have warned you from the Lord and if you will not take warning to turn from your unrighteousnesse your blood be upon your own head and in your condemnation from God the light of God in your consciences that reproves you for sin will also be a swift witnesse against you and upon you Answer it will the Judgments of God to be just therefore take warning now whilest you have time least you die in your sins and perish and be shut out from God and cast into everlasting burnings and eternall torment also Read and Consider of those Scriptures Rev. 20.10 15 2 Th●s 1.8 9. 1 Cor. 5.9.10 Gal. 5.19 20 21. Rev. 14.9.10.11 Mal. 4.1 Rev. 21.8 27. Read Ezek. 33.11 12 13 c. Ezek. 3.17 18 19 c. you may see before the Reward of the unrighteous and now you are warned And where thou says It is a most devillishire and delusion to conceave that any who are one with God in●●●●ist shall undergo the wrath of God in that manner they speak of by this they make the death of Christ of none effect citing Hebrews the 9. They that are one with God in Ch●●sta●e freed from si● ●●d ●o from wrath Reply The death of Christ we witnesse to be of great effect and as before is proved also according to the 9 of the Hebr which witnesseth what before is said but thy conceaving fallacy we deny which lies in these words That any who are one with God in Christ shall undergo the wrath of God in such manner c. we deny the conceit and thy fallacy both and we charge thee to be a lier and false accuser for we do not say that such as are one with God in Christ shall suffer the wrath of God in such a manner there is no condemnation to them that are in Christ as before is said and that we witnesse and who walk in the light Christ is light and such as walk in him receaves the Light of life I●hn 1.9 Iohn 8.12 and he leads to God the Father of Lights and in him there is the love perfected 1 Iohn 4.16 17. and he that walks in the light as he is in the light hath fellowship with the Father and Son and there is a cleansing from all unrighteousnesse and a dwelling in the divine Love and so the Unity is witnessed as Christ hath said Iohn 14.30 and he that abideth in him sinneth not 1 Iohn 3.6 neither can he sin verse the 9. and there is a freedom from sin and unrighteousnesse the cause of wrath and so a freedom from sin A freedom also from wrath to such as are one with God in Christ so this conceit and fallacy being denied and truth set in its Right place the people thou calls Quakers are not in the delusion because not within the compass of thy saying whereby they would prove them so then thy ground being ript up thy fallacy taken away Truth is cleared and thou art ensnared or in the delusion thy self that art in the lies and false-accusaions take notice of this The Serpent and his seed are shut out from God under the wrath and vengeance 2 Thess 1.6 7 8. But ye the Serpent and his seed are in the unrighteousnesse and not in God for there is no fellowship agreement nor concord betwixt them 2 Cor. 6.14.15 but enmity is placed betwixt the two Seeds and such as are of the Serpents seed as thou art must know the wrath and vengeance of God for the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodlines and unrighteousnes of men who hold the Truth in righteousns Rom. 1.18 take notice of that all ye unrighteous ones as is said before for it is a Righteousness things for God to Recompence to tribulation to the unrighteous and such as trouble his 2 Thess 1.6 7. And where thou says When you have weighed it see whether it can stand with the Lords Justice to call any of his servants to bear so in their bodies and spirits as they do his Iust and exact Judgment untill he have wrought out of them his own Satisfaction and Recompence in that nature The World are not to Judge the Laints but the Saints shall Judge the the World Reply The naturall man knows not the things and teachings nor workings of the Spirit of God because they are spiritually discerned 1 Cor. 2.14 and such thou calls to judge and trie c. For thou calls upon the World to judge and the World trie thy expositions and tenents and the World are not to judge the Saints nor the Spirits workings teachings and actings yet the Saints must judge the World 1 Cor. 6.2 1 Cor. 2.15 therefore thou and the Judges in the carnall are with the Spirit of Truth judged through the eternal with that which sets up Judgment and Justice in the new Creation and we are the wormanship of God in Christ Jesus created again and changed by the operation of his spirit into the pure Image again 2 Cor. 3.17.18 and so we are out of the unrighteousness in the Righteous where the true Justice is set up through the Judgment therefore you cannot Judg us who are in the life of Truth with your earthly carnall mindes which is shut out not being

reward according to thy work and all such as you may read Rev. 21.8 Rev. 20.10 c. Rev. 22.11.12 Whereas thou hast heard that some have gone from some parts of the North unto London 200. miles an end and must go with all expedition upon his command c. Reply Thou art offended that any should go to do the will of the Lord and that makes thee spew out thy venome because truth is raised up to declare against the deceit of the world and Antichristian Ministers like thee and thou cries out of their go●ng up to London f●●●● the North because thou perceives thy Kingdom to be struck at and now begins to speak but when didst thou cry out against any or many that went up to London to Petition for the advancing of the Kingdom of pride covetousness self-seeking Priests and Antichristian Ministers but now thou rages that hi● Kingdom is discovered and struck at And as for their going from the North up to London it is not denyed but the lye which thou joyns unto it and thy sting in thy tail where thou says they go with all expedition upon Satans command that is denyed and against testified If it had been so thou wouldst not have so cryed out against them as thou hast but praised be the Lord who hath put into the hearts of his servants to execute and to do his will though thou and the Devil thereat be offended and because thou art so trained up in his Antichristian School of deceit thou with all expedition obeys his command to declare his lyes and vent them abroad And where thou says the poor creatures are made to fast sometimes three days and three nights and sometimes more c. Reply Is that such a wonder as thou says that they are made to fast so from food c. here thou hast manifested thy self to be what thou art a stranger to the life of truth and to the conditions of the people of God and Ministers of the Gospel who were in labours and tumults often and also in watchings and fastings 2 Cor. 6. But thou says Satan he doth so far deprive them of natural affections and by that it may be known to be his work c. Page 30. Reply Eph. 2.3 Col. 3.1 2. 2 Pet. 1.2 3 4. The corrupt nature and all evil affections we do deny but the pure divine nature and such good affections we do own and are made to set our affections on things which are above and for Satan to teach people to fast three or four days or commanding them more to do so it is so destructive to his own Kingdom of lust gluttony riot and such excess that he will never set any to work against himself to root out a Kingdom of lust therefore in that thou hast also spoken without understanding And such as are without the pure natural affections are they that are in the corrupt nature children of wrath lyers false accusers fierce heady high-minded truce breakers and lovers of pleasures and of that nature art thou and such like therefore that saying turns backward upon you in that generation again and there to remain 2 Tim. 3.1 2 3 4.5 c. who are those that are so evil affected towards the truth and truths friends so that thou and such like doth revile them slaunder and falsly accuse out of the evil of your hearts and evil affections towards it and them and so that you are known to be thereunto acted and guided by the working of Antichrist John 8.44 and manifesteth your selves to be of your fa●●● the Devil 1. Where thou says Col. 2.6 7. They are made to deny their Callings Reply That is false for such as are called out of corruptions into purity and out of a state of nature into grace abiding therein they do not deny their Callings but every one as he abideth in the measure of the grace of God into which he is called he abides in that Calling wherein he is called of the Lord We do abide in our Calling and so it agrees with the former practise of the Saints and Children of God in the time of old where the Apostle saith to such as were called saith he as ye have received Christ Jesus the Lord so walk ye in him as obedient children not fashioning your selves according to your former lusts in your ignorance but as he that hath called you is holy so be ye holy for I am holy 1 Pet. 1.14 15 16. 2. Where as thou says they are made to give over their callings Pet. 1.3 4 5. Coloss 1 22 23 24 25 26 27 28. professions and honest imployments many or most of them Rep●● 〈◊〉 at is also false for as we are called in one hope of our Calling 〈◊〉 we abide many or most of us professing the same and ho●●●●●mploying our selves therein being diligent and faithfull to th●●●●rd who hath so called us We are faithfull in our calling Profession and honest imployment for the discovery and laying open the mystery of iniquity as it is to us made manifest and also we are faithfull many or most of us in our honest imployment declaring against the false-Antichristian ministry and reproving the man of sin at such thou art offended for our faithfulness in our Calling and honest imployment in the same but we know in whom we beleeve and whose Name we Professe in the faith and obeying in our Calling into the Unity we receave the vertue and so we are made fruitfull in him who hath so called Chosen us that we should be to the praise of the glory of his Grace Iohn 15.3 4 5 14 15 16 c. verses 27 2. Iohn 17.14 16 and 16 Eph. 12 0. And where thou accuseth and saith they neglect and disregard their families The family is not neglected disregarded but Respected and Regarded Reply that Accusation is false families they regard and respect and this fallacy lies in those words Disregard and Neglect take it again it is denied turned back upon thee to remain But the family we do not so disregard as thou says therefore thou art a lier and false accuser take thy accusation again and stop thy mouth with it and where thou says They say it is the language of Antichrist that biddeth a man take care for his own houshold and familie Reply we deny that fallacy also it is the language of Antichrist in thee that so standerously saith and falsly accuseth Now Truth slands clear and is freed from those slanders and false accusations Blessed and praised be the Lord God of Principalities and Powers who maketh us to see what is the Riches of his Grace and fellowship of the mystery which from the beginning of the World hath been hid in God who created all things by Jesus Christ Eph. 3.0.9 to the intent that now unto the Principalities and Powers in Heavenly places might be known by the Church the manifold Wisdom of God Eph. 3.10

giveth no discovery of the deceit but rather covers it all Answ By vertue of the pure light that proceeds from the Father we see thee live in that which thou calles light which doth not discover unto thee the abominable practises thou art in to wit pride thou dost usually call thy own Child Mr. Benjamin Skippe a proud practi●e seldom heard of the love of the world deceiving the people upholding the worship of the Beast painted over with the Saints words an enemy to the Saints life as doth now more fully appear 6. Thou writest so largely of the Devil as it thou were acquainted with all his secrets both what he is doing and what he will do Answ The things of God thou art a stranger to for they are hid from thine eyes and all such wife ones of the Devil the world and the flesh who are in the first nature as thou art 7. Thou writes of what the Devil will bring us to Answ 1. It is neither thee nor the Devil in thee that knoweth what we are much lesse what we shall be 2. If thou and the accuser of the brethren in thee have ought against us at present that we walk not up to the present discovery of the pure light as it is in measure brought forth in us then I charge thee to speak 3. Thou hypocrite first cast out the beam that is at present in thy own eye before thou go to cast the supposed mote that thou thinks may fall into our eyes hereafter In the close of this Answer I write a tender letter in lo●e to his soul now let any that live in the light compare these severall answers with that in his pag. 7 8 9. In answer to that which thou callest railing and reviling language in page 10. the Devil hath alwayes brought up his Children with so much manners that they must not tell a lier he lies nor a Thief he is a Robber or if any tell the proud of their pride or the covetous of their covetousness then this is called railing read the Scriptures cited by him this is fully cited Tit. 1.13.3.15 c. see how thou condemns the practice of Christ both in his Person and Members in pag. 11. To that which thou calles thy experience in pag. 11. I tell thee thou hast had much experience of deceit being alwayes in it but thou had never any experience of the powerful workings of God in us only thou was made by the light to see thy filthiness in some measure and then presently thou went forth from the counsel of the Lord and acted and spoke in thy own will the which was deceit indeed running before the light the which I mourned over and often complained to my friends who can witness the same page 12. The Scripture cited by thee Mal 3. they shall discern between the righteous and the wicked between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not the promise being in measure fulfilled in us we discern thee still to live in thy own will and wisdom therefore when thou halted between two opinions long at last one of our friends was made sharply to reprove thee the which thou couldest not own and therefore left us that had undergone burthens upon our own spirits for thee in condescending unto thee in tender love desiring that thou mightest be made at last to witness the work of the Lord in thee unto which thou art still a stranger and now an enemy unto In thy page 13. thou mentions a Scripture as to us 1 Tim. 6.4 5. they there are discovered by their covetousness for they suppose that gain is godliness and canst thou in the least accuse us of covetousness if thou canst spare not to speak the truth but else let shame cover thy face for so many lies and comparing us with those in this Text. Aske the light in thy own Conscience whether thou hast not looked after gain witness thy Tithes thy looking after another Parsonage to that thou hast witness thy Physical Office thy questioning what to do for more maintenance although thou hast told me that thy Lands was 10 l. per Annum 2 Tim. 3.4 that is thy own portion witness thy many Instruments of Musick in thy house page 16. thou writest of faith but thou knowest not that faith that purifieth the soul he that hath this hope purifieth himself as he is pure he that believeth is entered into his rest hath ceased from his own works as God did from his the which faith thou art a stranger unto for thou hast writ ●●y own lies and the deceit of thy own heart and thy carnal ●●oughts the which thou callest the world with whom thou art to judge witness page 9. line 11. and 7.18 and thou thinkest in pag. 16.51.56.57 Page 17. Thou sayest that we esteem The more our hearts are brought off the dealings of God and prayer and spiritual exercises the more pure and perfect the which thou knowest to be a lie witness thy own words after the meeting at Clifton where thou sayst thou saw such a spirit of prayer as thou never had seen before to which those that were there can yet testifie and we witness growth in grace and knowledge 2 Pet. 3.18 and walk from grace to grace leaving the first principles of the Doctrine of Christ Heb. 6.1 forgetting those things which are behind we presse forwards for man in his own wisdom cannot finde out the Lord who is a spirit John 4.24 and regardeth not the wise in heart Job 37.23.24 therefore if any man will be wise let him become a fool that so he may be found in the wisdom that is from above Jam. 3.17 Next thou sayes that we desire the perishing of the former wayes of God this is another of thy lies for all the wayes of the Lord are righteous Psal 145.17 so in page 18. Satan acts thee to call that Scripture dangerous Phil. 3.7.8 if thou call Pauls experiences dangerous it s no wonder that thou callest ours so too but we know that all Scriptures are written for our learning the which we are searching Next thou wilt show the thoughts and but the thoughts of thy own heart which is thy old sinful heart witness thy own hand page 5. line 11.12 therefore from thy wicked heart thou being ignorant of the spirit dost in page 24. even jeer at speaking by the spirit in opposition to all the holy men of God 1 Pet. 1.21 therefore thou art an enemy to prayer in the spirit Ephes 6.18 the which we witness therefore in the light of Jesus Christ thou art calling thy own company to wit the world to try thy exposition of thy own lies that thou hast cast upon us in page 23. and the last in thy second rule page 23. there thou denyest the sufferings of Christ being ignorant of it in thy own soul but we know that if we suffer with him we shall be glorified with him so we are made willing to fill up

the measure of the sufferings of Christ and those that have thus suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin 1 Pet. 4.1.2 Thy second where thou mentions quaking thy lies there we deny but quaking and trembling we witness to be the Saints conditions fulfilled in us who witness the same power of God as they did Jer. 5.22 Isa 66.2 Psal 2.12 In the third thou speakest thy own lies at random In the fourth thou hast declared thy self to be an enemy to the sufferings of Christ calling it a delusion Oh let shame stop thy mouth for ever thou enemy of the Crosse of Christ and thy own soul for although Isaiah prophesied of what Christ in his own person hath fulfilled yet the Members of Christ are to take up his Crosse and follow him and it is written and witnessed 2 Cor. 1.5 for as the sufferings of Christ abound in us so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ 1 Pet. 4.13 2 Cor. 4.10 That which thou and the rest of the world doth call our bondage and slavery pag. 18. that was the Saints and is our joy and liberty by which the righteous seed is brought forth in obedience to the living God but it is no wonder that the world hate us for they know us not if we were of the world the world would love his own Iohn 15.18.19 Mat. 5.11 12. In answer to that in page 29. Iesus Christ is unto us the bread of life Iohn 6.33.35.48 and he is unto us the water of life Iohn 4.14 7.37 In page 30. thy lies are made manifest unto all men that knowes us for which of us doth deny to labour with his hands and which of us is it that liveth in idleness nay it is Satan the Father of lies that acts thee to say that we should say It is the language of Antichrist that bids men take care for their Families for we do take care for our Families with all diligence in the sight of God but our Conversation is without covetousness Heb. 13.5 What is mentioned in the third Rule pag. 31.32 33 34. to that I an●wer the same spirit that ruled in the Children of disobedience then even in the dayes of the Apostles the same spirit ruleth in thee and others now they stumble at both Prophets Christ and his Apostles and now the same Generation are stumbling at Christ in his Members so all they that stumble stumble at the light and at the corner stone as for the Prophesiers that thou mentions in page 36. I tell thee and them that all Prophesiers that are enemies to possession we do deny to be any Members of Christs Church which is in God 2 Thes 1. Page 37. is another lie yea more then one plainly in saying that we rank our selves with the sinful men of the world who are indeed all under the power of Antichrist from the which thou was never yet redeemed by Christ in thee for thou art astr anger to his life See what thou raisest from supposition or thy if in page 37. see what thou canst witness from those Scriptures fulfilled in thee thou art a Theif and a Robber stealing the Apostles words stealling the word from thy Neighbour thou confesseth that we walk like as the Apostles did in many things as in conversation words and writings in page 40. and 41. thou sayest that the whole bulk of our actions hitherto as far as thou hast either known or heard do declare us to be carried forth as Ministers of righteousness oh let all take notice of this the Devil speaks some truth but in the latter end of page 40. thou art thinking that Satans Kingdom is divided oh filthy conclusion oh meer Babel canst thou open thy mouth and let thy pen run against such a harmless people of whom thou thy self art made to confess such excellent things I shall now leave a little in following of thee in thy confused and deceitful lines and shall turn to that Scripture 2 Cor. 11.13.14 15. for such were false Apostles deceitful workers c. In page 41. elsewhere thou raiseth thy own conceivings as of other things of the Scripture and then amplifie or illustrate upon thy own Imaginations so giving private interpretations of the Scriptures for thy own private ends whereas no Scripture is of any private interpretation 2 Pet. 1.20 I shall lay down by plain Scripture who those false Apostles are 1. They are such as preach another Jesus 2 Cor. 11.4 now Jesus is a Saviour Thou shalt call his name Jesus for he shall save his people from their sins Mat. 1.21 he maketh an end of sin Dan. 9.24 being dead with Christ Rom. 6.8 the body of sin is destroyed v. 6. he that is dead with Christis freed from sin verse 7. compared with 1 Pet. 4.1 by the which we are made free from sin Rom. 6.18.22 and become the Servants of God so that the blood of this Jesus who is the son of the living God cleanseth us from all sin 1 John 1.7.2.12 because your sins are forgiven for his names sake which name is Jesus a Saviour from sin and we know that he is manifested to take away our sins and he that abideth in him sinneth not 1 John 3.5.6 Rev. 1.5 Now whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God 1 John 5.1 Now Jesus is a Saviour Christ is God in flesh or the anointing of the true Teacher 1 John ● 17 Now he that can witness a Saviour is brought forth in flesh he is born of God and can witness Christ in him the hope of glory which is Immanuel God with us and those dwell in God and God in them 1 John 4.16 2 Cor. 6.16 now sin is the unfruitful work of darkness God is light 1 John 1.5 Now he that saith he can witness Jesus and is born of God and yrt lives in darkness to wit sin he is a lier now Jesus is one with the Father and dwelleth in the Father now he that dwelleth in the Father hath this hope or faith that purifieth himself even as he is pure 1 John 3.3 and 5.1 and he that abideth in him sinneth not this is Jesus the son of the living God that saveth his people from their sins whom Paul witnessed revealed in him Gal. 1.16 by the which he preached grace and peace to the Corinthians 1 Cor. 1.3.30 22.16 now there is no other name given under Heaven by which men shall be saved therefore all those that cannot witness this Jesus this Son of God they are false Apostles that speak of a Jesus that they know not like those that went to cast out De●ils in the name of Jesus whom Paul preached Acts 19.13.14.15 16. those were not vagabond-Jewes only but chief of the Priests that did so now all that cannot witness this Christ this Jesus revealed and brought forth in them as the true Apostles did that spoke from the life of Christ in them even all others are false Apostles among whom thou art