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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A40897	The great mysteries of godlinesse and ungodlinesse the one opened from that eternall truth of the un-erring Scripture of the ever-blessed Jesus, the other discovered from the writings and speakings of a generation of deceivers, called Quakrrs [sic] : wherein their sathanicall depths, and diabolicall delusions, not hitherto so fully known, are laid open ... / by Ra. Farmer ...	Farmer, Ralph.	1655 (1655)	Wing F441; ESTC R2695	85,891	106

Heaven to the Earth Nay is not this both head and tail and body and all of that arch-enemy of Gods glory and mans everlasting salvation Is not here a deadly blow given to the whole new Creation head and members Christ and his whole body Nay is not here proud Luciferian violence and attempt made against the most high and glorious Majesty of God himself The truth is Reader Here is an Axe laid to the root of all Religion Christian and other but especially Christian Here 's God and Christ and all his Ordinances and holy Institutions laid level and over-turned Consider it a little I shall observe it to thee under these three heads They offer violence to God himself as God Secondly to Jesus Christ And thirdly to all his Ordinances and Institutions First They offer violence to God himself as he is God For whereas the Scriptures affirm that God is not man nor does or acts as man which even the witch Balaam did acknowledge Numb 23. 19. And the Lord himself asks Isa 40. 18. To whom will ye liken God or what likenesse will you compare him to having in the former verse said that all Nations before him or compared to him are as nothing and that they are counted to him lesse then nothing and vanity And whereas he says Isa 42. 8. that he will not give his glory to any other much lesse his Essence which indeed to be impossible may be evinced by many arguments And to those that know or rather being no● able to know fully do admire and adore that incomprehensible Majesty it is not needful Now these bold wretches worms of Earth Nay in this Devils and fiends of Hell for this was Satans sin to be like God they affirm themselves are God and what they are God is and what God is they are and that they are equall with God and one with him in nature And this they speak in respect of their souls and spirits upon this ground sc That there is but one spirit If this be not Devillish and Satanisme what is Nay is it not worse and more horrid pride then that of Lucifer for he did but say in his heart I will ascend into Heaven I will exalt my self above the starres of God I will ascend above the heights of the Clouds I will be like the most high But this will not be onely like but the same with the most high God I undertake not the confutation and I suppose I need not and I hope you look upon it with abomination and detestation of spirit Thus they offer violence to the Majesty of God himself of whom we are not to think but with reverence and holy fear Secondly they offer violence to Iesus Christ God over all blessed for ever they make him who was and is the great design of the Fathers glory by whom he made the world and through whom he redeemed mankind as is set forth in the mysterie of Godliness but a meere fancy but a manifestation for a time a Christ without us and but a type of them who are Christ For Christ is God and Man and their souls or spirits are God and their bodies are flesh and these two together is Christ incarnate Christ in them who are the substance or chief thing typified and intended And therefore when the substance comes and is and appears in them then the shadow the Jerusalem Christ as if both cannot stand together vanishes and ceases Do n't ye tremble Christians at this horrid blasphemie and are not these accursed And then thirdly and lastly they offer violence and this must necessarily follow to all the Ordinances and holy Institutions of Jesus Christ and the Gospel For it is fit that as Jesus Christ in his own person is but a shadow of Christ within and when this Christ appears that must give place So all the Ordinances and ways of worship outwardly are but types and shadows of the true and spiritual worship within as if they neither could stand together must cease when that outward Christ ceaseth For as Moses and Aaron and all their sacrifices were but types of that Christ and ceas'd Priests and Ministers and Services and all their Ceremonial Ordinances when that Christ appeared and died at Ierusalem So that Christ and all his Institutions are types of this spiritual Christ and when this Christ appears that Ierusalem Christ and all his Ministers and Administrations cease and are no longer useful to these Christs and Gods incarnate Now beloved Reader if thou be a Christian what saist thou Is not here a Mysterie of ungodlinesse to the purpose where was it hatcht think'st thou could any lesse then all the Devils in Hell keep a Conventicle to contrive and plot this black and Hellish treason against the Majesty of God and Christ and the Gospel Oh ye Christian Magistrates who rule for Christ or should do and to whom you shall one day give account of your Government how ye have ruled for him and how tender ye are of his honour Where is your zeal become for Christ and his glory and his Gospel Had you but so much zeal and honesty as a Jewish Magistrate you would tear your cloaths off at these blasphemies of these wretched souls that make themselves equal with the almighty God and make level with themselves nay below themselves Jesus Christ and the Gospel He and his Ordinances being but Types and Shadows and they the substance Sir honoured Sirs though God and Christ looks not that you should tear off your clothes and who can scarce forbear to manifest this indignation against these blasphemies certainly they expect that you manifest it by suppressing and stopping the mouthes and pens of the blasphemers Good Sirs if these wretched souls have such hellish liberty of conscience to think thus let them not upon pretence of liberty of conscience be so audaciously blasphemous to write and speak thus And O ye Servants of the Lord my Fathers and Brethren in the Ministry of our dear and ever-blessed Jesus you that are the Pastors of the Lords flock and the Watchmen for the sheep of his pasture lift up your voyce and spare not neither your selves nor others cry aloud to all your Congregations and fore-warn them that they be not a prey to Satans devices let the Wolves know that you are not dumb dogs cannot bark idol-shepheards that can neither hear nor see nor understand any thing and that at a time of need can say nothing Certainly certainly such as these may ill look for their gain from their quarters they deserve it not who so they may be fed care not nor care to discover what devouring beasts come to destroy the flock of Christ But you my dear ones who are set over the Lords folds and who watch for their souls as those that must give an account and that have a desire to do it with joy and for the profit of your people read and practise what Saint Paul gives in charge to the Pastors of the Church at Ephesus and let me give thee it here in his owne words what hee gave forth to his Sonne Timothy and

make us all able wise vigilant faithfull and succesfull So prayes he who is The furtherer of thy faith and the helper of thy joy RA FARMER And now Reader having laid before thee this great mysterie of Godlinesse from the un-erring truth of the eternall word revealed in the scriptures I shall discover unto thee a great mysterie of ungodlinesse a mysteric of iniquity and of abhomination even that abhomination which maketh desolate destroyeth all Christian Religion from the writings and speakings in a generation of men called Quakers And here in ●he first place I shall communicate unto thee that which I confesse was the first ground of the discovere of this my sterie unto me and that you shall finde in a beok intitl'ed A Confession of Faith of the several Congregations or Churches of Christ in London which are commonly though unjustly as they say called Anabaptists Vnto which is added Hearts-bleedings for Professors abominations Or a faithfull generall Epistle from the same Churches Presented to all who have known the way of truth forewarning them to flee security and carelesse walking under the profession of the same discovering some of Satans wiles whereby also wanton persons and their ungodly wayes are disclaimed The fifth impression Which Book is signed in the name and by the appointment of the aforesaid severall Churches meeting in London By William Kiffen John Spilsberry and twelve more of them And these men I look upon as competent for this discovery for several reasons first in respect of their residence and habitations sc London a place where if any where all Religions Opinions Professions are to be found secondly the parties themselves sc the Anabaptists a sort of men in many things many of them neer of kin I charge no man in particular but generally they have bin a sort of people much given to Enthusiasmes and immediate Calls Revelations and apt to entertain fantastick dreams and fancies And concerning them I fully concurre with that precious Servant of Christ now in heaven Mr. Cuthbert Sidenham in an Epistle of his before his excellent Book concerning Infant-Baptism and singing of Psalms where speaking of the Opinion of Anabaptists denying Infants Baptism An opinion saith he which hath been alwayes ominous and of a powerfull strange influence accompanied with the most dangerous retinue of errors since the first Embryo of it was brought forth whether by a judgement of God or from its naturall or secret connexion with other principles of darknesse I will not determin Only God hath shewed some black Characters on it in every Nation where it hath prevailed though we cannot but say many Saints are innocently under the power of it Thus farre he Now these men therefore both in respect of the conveniency of the place but especially in the likelyhood of acquaintance and familiarity with this kind of people who mostly have been Members of their Congregations and have departed from them which may be one of the black works before spoken of these Anabaptists may have probablie plowed with their heyfer and so may best unfold their riddle and discover their ungodly Mysterie within their generall Epistle before mentioned after some little Preface they do in these words To all the Churches os God sanctified in Christ Jesus called to be Saints with all that in every place professe the Name of Jesus Christ our Lord both theirs and ours Beloved Brethren HAving these many years through the grace and free-mercy of our God been kept in the profession of the Name of Christ contained in the holy Scriptures of the Prophets and Apostles and findding the exceeding benefit and comfort of walking with God in some measure suitable to what he hath made known unto us and well knowing that we are called to live in the last ages of the world wherein iniquity abounds and the love of many waxeth cold as likewise considering those peculiar times spoken of in 2 Tim. 3. 1. c. are come upon us wherein men who sometimes have made a large profession of God and godliness are turned aside to commit all manner of uncleanness with greedines having turned the grace of our Lord Jesus into lasciviousness calling darkness light and light darkness by meanes of whom the way of truth is evill spoken of and many poor souls through temptations ready to quit their professions and to be taken with their snares We thought it our duty to declare our utter dislike abhorring and detestation of all such evill persons and wayes who shall under pretence whatsoever plead for or practise any way of ungodlinesse And having been through the goodness of our God inabled to discern the secret and subtill designs and snares of Satan which he hath laid to entrap poor souls in by carrying them from step to step untill they have bin wholly captivated in his snares and fitted by him to do him service We could doe no lesse then according to that measure of light we have received from the Lord to discover his wiles and stratagems and to caution all that professe the feare of the Lord to watch over their own hearts and ways and to take heed lest they fall into the same condemnation For this we have found that that way which God in his infinite wisedome taketh to bring souls unto himself by viz. the presenting unto men his great love in giving Jesus Christ to suffer death and his great salvation to all that believe in his name Satan that old serpent through his instruments under the specious pretences of beating men off from all false rests endeavours with all his strength to oppose and make void perswading the sonnes and daughters of men that what is declared concerning the death of Christ at Jerusalem and his bearing our iniquities in his own body upon the Crosse is but a meer History and shadow the Scriptures are but a letter and the Ordinances of God but fleshly forms thereby labouring to beget in the peoples mindes a contempt and sleight esteem of Christ his Word and Ordinances and that he might cheat them to purpose tells them of a God within and a Christ within and a Word within and that God and Christ and they are one without any true distinct knowledge of the true meaning of that which is expressed whereby poor souls with great and swelling words of vanity triumph in a great mysterie of meer nothing but emptiness and confusion speaking things whereof they know not and many poor souls knowing such expressions to be Scripture phrases do greedily embrace them without a true distinct and clear understanding the sense of what is spoken having the persons of those who speak such language in great admiration as the chief tender charitable knowing high and spiritual Christians Whereas indeed although the words spoken by them are many of them true in themselves without which Satan could not so effectually deceive as that God and Christ and the Spirit dwell in us and that God and Christ and the Saints are