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A60630	The faithful witness, or, A hand of love reached forth, that the blind may be guided, and the scattered gathered also, mans sinne and rebellion declared and the long-suffering of the Lord shewed: with a true call unto all people to meet the Lord by speedy repentance ..., also the state of professors plainly manifested ..., with a warning unto all the tender hearted amongst them to arise, and receive the hand of love ... : also, truth defended and cleared from the lyes and slanders declared by Ionathan Iohnson of Lincoln, a Baptist in profession / from one who bears no evil will to any man, but wisheth well to all men, and am known to many by the name of William Smith.	Smith, William.	1659 (1659)	Wing S4300; ESTC R38932	32,830	41

loveth and will stand above thee and all thy deceit though thou hast blasphemed him 4 Partic. That they steat Scriptures to deck their false Harlots with Proof Is proved in first calling the Scriptures dead and liveless to bring their false Harlot called light within into osteem and then fills their mouths with it to seem spiritualized and to make the world believe 't is from themselves and not from Scripture and this was proved against thes in thy Title Page of thy Book to H. H. Reply The light within is already proved from plain Scripture to be Christ the light of the world and the eternal truth and power of God and the Scriptures are dead and liveless unto thee who art at enmity with the light and life from which they were declared and unto which they bear testimony and therefore we deny thee though thy mouth may be somtimes filled with Scripture expressions and of which it is now empty but the Scriptures we own and have unity with them in the same Spirit from which they were given forth and knows them to be fulfilled in us who walk after the Spirit and what thou sayest was proved before to this matter against me is a proof which was of thy own inventions as these are which thou hast now offered to thy shame for ever not giving a Scripture expression nor naming a Scripture for what thou hast said but thy mouth is filled with Lyes instead of Scripture and that thou calls a proof 5. Partic. That they labour to have the Scriptures dead in m●ns est●mation Proof Is proved plain●y in telling men the Scriptures are a dead Letter and a liveless Book and saying it is a damnable Doctrine to say the Spirit is received by the hearing of Faith preached and beleeving according to the Scriptures and in calling the Doctrine and Ordinances of Christ in the Scriptures outward Forms and liveless Reply That which hath not life in it self is dead and thou cannot deny it and the Book hath not life in it self neither can the Letter thereof give life to any though they may read it and hear it all their life time and if ever thou come to know the Scriptures and the true use of them thou must come to the light which is the life of men without whom all things are dead and it is a damnable Doctrine to preach the Letter for Christ and set it above him which is not according to the Doctrine of those who were Ministers of the Spirit and not of the Letter and this doth the Letter declare and the Spirit is not received by hearing or reading the Letter but by the hearing of Faith preached in the heart by the Spirit that quickneth and the Doctrine of Christ and the Apostles which the Scriptures do declare and beleeving according to that Doctrine we own and in it walk by the same spirit which doth not lead any contrary who by it are guided but leads into the fulfilling of all and into the life where living vertue is received which from the beginning was ordained which is not dead nor formal but life and power but thou can sit down in thy own time to eat and drink in immitation of what thy imagination comprehends by reading the Scriptures that the Saints did and so thou glories in appearance and not in heart 6. Partic. That they deny the Scriptures Proof Is proved afore in which they are manifested to be the most audacious denyers of Scripture that ever hath been of all the Antich istian party Reply That which thou hast proved afore thou hast manifested thy self in to be a servant unto him who is an enemy to truth and every appearance of Righteousness which by the light is brought forth in the Children of Obedience that strikes at every work of darkness having no Communion with it and this makes him rage in Wrath and Fury in thee to speak great swelling words of vanity and offer them for a Proof that his Lyes might have a likeness of truth put upon them by which many are at this day deceived for the scriptures are owned and beleeved in and the Doctrine of Christ is obeyed and the light is walked in which gives us fellowship with the Father and with the Son where we have Communion with the life but Antichrist denyeth the Father and the Son and is at enmity with the divine Nature and fighting against every appearance of godliness which from the living vertue thereof is brought forth which thou makes thy great business to oppose and contend against 7. Partic. ●hat they are not guided by that light and spirit that gave forth the Scriptures Proof Is proved both by their denyal of those Scriptures and Commands g●v●n forth by the light and spirit of God in the Scriptures and also in their se●ting up a pretended light within contrary to any teachings of the spirit of God in the Scriptures Reply Thou art proved a Lyar by plain scripture in the Third Reply where it is proved that Christ is the light and it was in their hearts and this doth the teachings of Gods spirit in the scripture witness and we neither deny the teachings nor Commands given forth by the light and spirit of God in the scriptures but have unity with them and the s●me light and spirit teacheth us and unto the Commands thereof we wait to yield obedience but it is thy business to make Lyes thy Refuge and adds one to another without shame neither shewing what the Teachings and Commands are which thou sayest the scriptures teacheth and commandeth and what we deny nor what the light and spirit is nor where to be waited for which thou sayest we are not guided by but thou passeth all for Proof because thou sayest it 8. Par That they are evil dealers and fighters against God Proof Is proved in their evil dealing and fighting against the spirit of God speaking in the Scriptures and denying obedience thereunto and rayling against those that d● obey to exalt their lying spirit against it Reply What shall be done unto thee O thou false tongue who without fear uttereth such Lyes against the innocent who are guided by the spirit of truth out of all evil dealing or wrong doing but thou art in the depth of the bottomless pit and from thence foaming out thy own shame not fearing to speak any thing which the lying spirit puts into thy mouth and calls it a Proof when thou hast neither scripture ground nor reason to shew for what thou sayest but as the Devil hatcheth mischief in thy heart so with a ready mind thou serves him in what he will have thee to do and so falsely accuses the innocent who in all obedience serves the Lord and walks-after the spirit and yields all obedience to it and yet thou sayest they deny the spirit of God speaking in the scriptures but hast not shewed what those speakings are nor who they are that do obey that they rail against nor what

you your portion with hypocrites Consider all you vain people of the World who live in rioting and drunkenness chambering and wantonness strife and envying what will you do And what account will you make unto the righteous God who is Judge of all the Earth and will re●ard every man according to his deeds Run not so headily in the exercise of Wickedness but stand still and hearken to the still Voice in your conscience which tells you that is not the Way for death and destruction is before you and the pit is near unto you and many of you are come to the brink thereof be stayed in time before you fall therein from whence there will be no recovery and let the time past of your lives suffice that you have spent and lived so many years together in the lusts of the flesh against the light and love of God Therefore all in Gods fear stand and feel it placed in your hearts that from iniquity you may depart and ●in no more but all come into obedience to that of God in you which makes ●in manifest and there Gods power know to sanctifie and cleanse you by the washing of Water through the Word that a new life you may come into and walk in the regeneration He that hath an ear to hear let him hear For the love of Christ constraineth me to bear testimony of what is made manifest unto me in the light that you may all come to the knowledge of the truth and be saved and likewise knowing the terror of the Lord I cannot but perswade men to depart from the evil of their Ways which the Wrath of the Lord is revealed against and that you may all come to know that the long-suffering of the Lord is salvation and that his saving-strength is near at hand to help in the needful time and here you will find power to preserve you from the temptations which the enemy casts in and then labours to draw your minds to join unto for as obedience is given unto the light power is received that destroys the Devils Work and weakens his kingdom and then the Hand of Love is reached forth to take hold of you and to lead you out of darkness and from under his Government into the new and living Way and there gently guides you and order● you and keepes you from all the assaults which the Enemy doth pursue withall and he who hath life in himself will give life unto you and make you able to stand and ●ight the good fight of Faith and here the Divine nature is felt and the glory of the onely begotten of the Father is beheld And this is the testimony of the Faithful Witness which from the Fathers Love is made manifest in the conscience of every man that you might believe in it and know the saving-strength of it working redemption for you and putting an end to sin and overturning the powers of darkness and bringing in everlasting righteousness and this is the Hand of Love reached forth unto you all to lead you out of the House of Bondag● into the glorious liberty of the ●ons of God where your understandings will be opened to know the Scriptures and the power of God for as you give obedience to the reachings of the Spirit so will the things of God be made known unto you and no man can know the things of God by any e●her way either by Art Study Learning or any industry of the natural part but as the spirit of God makes them known in the children of obedience who give up themselves to the teachings of it and by it are guided to know the Scriptures fulfilled in themselves this vvil bring you to a right understanding of the Scriptures as you receive the same spirit of Faith and walks in it as they received and walked in by whom the Scriptures were declared for he that was then light life and power unto all that did believe in him and gave them an understanding to know the things that were true he is the same now and changeth not but wicked men have changed his glory into shame and mindes earthly things yet is his light life and power the same unto all that believe and comes to have the spirit of their minds renewed by him and so the Scripture is truly owned and witnessed being fulfilled in all that walk after the Spirit and have the spirit of their mindes renewed by it as they had who hath declared it in Words which are written and so the same Spirit guiding brings into unity with the same Words which was given forth from its own movings in the hearts of those who by it was constrained to declare them and thus the children of obedience owns the Scriptures and hath unity with them in the same Spirit that gave them forth knows them fulfilled in themselves walking after the same Spirit Let this be wel weighed by you who are wise in your own eyes prudent in your own sight and in that Wisdom talks so much of what is written and gets the Words thereof and with them contend in your Wills and fights against the Lord and every appearance of righteousness brought forth in the motion of the Spirit which is the mysterie hid from your eyes and revealed unto the Babes who walk in the light which reveals secrets and makes them to be of understanding hearts to know the true God and eternal life and here is the door of hope for all you tender ones who are breathing after God come walk in the light that an entrance you may feel ministred unto you and ●n enjoyment of the possession of that which in the door of hope is opened for you where the Rivers of Gods good pleasure runneth freely with which he doth satisfie the poor of the flock who vvaits to be refreshed thereby vvhich he doth renevv their strength in to follovv him in the narrovv vvay in vvhich flesh and blood cannot walk nor no unclean thing must enter Therefore do not you hew broken Cisterns nor feed upon husks any longer but to the streams of life all come and feel how good the Lord is so all wait to know the hand of Love to lead you and the Spirit of truth to teach you which will not deceive you bnt teach you right things though such vvho are at enmity with it speak unadvisedly of it yet it is truth in it self and abides the same for ever and will overturn all who in the height of envy and fury do pursue it with swelling Words of vanity Therefore let all things be tryed and proved in the light and in it search your selves that you may come to the bottom and have all the dross purged out and the tinn taken away that your hearts may be purified in the light that so you may stand approved in the sight of the pure God And here is the right Way of the Lord opened and a Hand of Love reached forth to guide you out

reason with him which he would not receive but put it by under false pretences false Accusations which in Writing he sent unto me again then the boaster was got up and told me I stood spechless and was silent and had nothing to answer and seeing he would not be brought to any way by which his false accusations might come to light and his deceit discovered I was moved to return unto him in Writing some of his lyes and slanders with which he falsly accused the truth and the righteous generation whom his scornful spirit calls the generation of Quak●s whom he had also accused with many other things which I did not return unto him with the rest because he said I might ere long hear him make them manifest in print and in that Writing he sent me some queries to answer though he had plainly denied to answer mine therefore I laid it upon him That what he had in private papers written and charged upon the truth he might prove and print them and his queries also with the rest which he had said he would make manifest in Print but he not being willing to make all his lyes and deceit so publick as in Print he writes unto me again and therein offers Proof to what was Returned unto him and laid upon him to prove publickly and saith he had proved them all before as his Writings made manifest and it was but shifting and dissembling to call for new Proof yet he saith That both I and others may see his readiness to prove what he had said he had sent plain Proofs of the 20 Particulars which he said I might have drawn into 12 or 14 seeing 6 or 8 of them all concerned one and the same thing but he said The Quakers loves to be numerous Let the simple-minded here observe and the spiritual judge what thick darkness is upon him to say We love to be numerous when all the Particulars which I returned unto him were invented by him or some other for him and sent with his ovvn Name unto them vvhich novv he saith might have been dravvn into fevver did not he first make them numerous by multiplying of them vvithout need and I did but vvrite vvhat I received from him vvhich he novv condemns as numerous and so out of his ovvn mouth is judged to be a transgressor allovving that in himself vvhich he condemns in another And that some of his deceit may come to vievv and that it may be seen vvhat Proof he offers and of vvhat nature they are and thereby it may be judged hovv he proved his Lyes before vvhich he saith his Writings vvill make manifest I shall here therefore give forth the Particulars vvhich unto him I returned and the Proofs vvhich he hath offered vvith a short Reply unto them severally in vvhich he is unveiled Particular The first is That the quakers observes the Worlds Form Proof This Charge was to thy self in observing the Worlds Form in thy Title Page of thy Book in which thou hast laid down thy Weapons of Defence Reply That by vvhich every thing is proved to be truth is truth but no lye is of the truth therefore thou hast but added sin to sin offering one lye to prove another for in thy Writing these vvere thy vvords I do not say that writing Scripture phrases in a title page is against the truth but against your own Principle as you are Quakers who cry out against ●thers for following the Worlds Form and yet your selves do observe it therefore thou art found guilty of making Lyes thy Kefuge and would in thy ignorance perswade others that it is a proof of the matter Let the wise in heart consider and that of God in all Consciences judge if this be a proof of what thou hast falsely accused the Righteous with or if this Charge was only to my self or in general from thy own words be thou judged which I have here truly set down that all honest minds may be truly informed and thou may be convinced by that of God in thy own Conscience to be a false accuser and that is my Weapon in which I stand to defend the truth from thy lyes and it will cut thee down and there shall be none to hold thee up 2. Partic. That they maintain their device of formal quaking Proof That they labour to maintain their formal quaking is laid open in their Books and Writings Reply Such a Proof may shame a formal Professor to reproach the Saints Condition and call it formal when the Lord by his power makes the Earth to tremble and melt at his presence of which Condition Moses David Habakknk and many others were true VVitnesses which Condition we own and on the Lord do wait that by the power of his Spirit it may be wrought in the inner man and it is the work of the Lord who is unlimited in his power and what he doth who shall say unto him VVhat doest thou vvho VVorks vvhen and vvhere he pleaseth as the vvind blovveth vvhere it listeth vvhich is in no formal practice bound up or limitted neither do we so maintain it either in Book or Writing but thou hast added sin to sin again and manifested thy envie to all moderate Spirits and no way that thou canst find out to help thy self but by making Lyes thy Refuge for a Lyar thou art proved and therefore hast no cause to think why thy words should pass for proof in any matter against which thou contendest without thou canstbring plain Scripture to manifest that what thou contendest against is contrary to the Leadings and Guidings and Work of the Spirit of truth and the Doctrine of Christ and the Apostles in the Scriptures declared but what thou hast done doth manifest thy folly and en●ity against the truth and those who walk therein 3. Pa●●ic That their light within is a false Harlot Proof Their light within is their false Religion being against the light and teachings of the Scriptures and false Religion is known of all who knows any thing to be a false Harlot Reply Who comes to the knowledge of Gods glory comes to know him in the light which shines in their hearts which light shines within and brings to know God where the pure Religion is witnessed which the Scripture declares of but thouknowest nothing as thou ought to know and so puts the true light for darkness and calls pure Religion a false Harlot for the true light which lighteth every man that comes into the world is Christ Joh. 1. 9. and he is the truth John 14. 6. and they that follow him comes to the light of life Joh. 8. 12. and they examine themselves and knows Christ to be in them according to the Scripture 2 Cor. 13. 5. and he is in them the hope of Glory Col. 1. 27. and this Christ we preach and this Grace of God we declare which we know to be in us and is truth in the inward parts which the Lord

Titles thereof blasphemous but in this thou hast served thy Master to the full and to all moderate Spirits art manifest to bear the Image of him who was a lyar from the beginning and thou hast neither shewed what they deny the Scriptures in not what Titles their Books bears nor how they are blasphemous neither hast given any Scripture-proof or expression for what thou hast said but as thou hatcheth mischief in thy heart so thou utters it without fear 20. Partic. That they perswade themselves and others of a light within without against any testimony of Scripture Proof Is proved in all their teachings by word and writing which chiefly consists in this to te●● men who are not in the faith That they must look onely to the light within them and not to the Scriptures light which is without and against all Scripture-teaching Rep. The beast hath been sore troubled for any defence against the Lambs power for thou hast had thy proofs so far to seek that if thou hadst not gone down into the pit of darkness where lyes are invented thou might'st have stood silent which had been better for thee then to make lyes thy refuge and with them accuse the truth and rise up against the Lamb and his followers to make War rather then thou wilt stand stil thou wilt add lye to lye speak them over and over as is manifest in the particulars and what thou hast offered to prove them by and it is a true Doctrine and hath before been plainly proved That all men are to look unto Christ who is the light of the World that in his light they may walk and know him to be the Author of Faith and to work it in their hearts with power and no unbeliever is to look unto any other thing but Christ the true light and the Author of Faith and the Teacher and there is not another neither doth the Scriptures set themselves in that place but bear witness unto him unto whom all power is given who by his own living voice calls all to come unto him and they that come he doth not cast off neither sends them to the Scriptures not any thing else for life or salvation but opens the fresh springs where satisfaction and pure refreshment is received and eternal life witnessed and the Scripture-testimony owned and so by the light are thy lies and false accusations condemned Then thou saist Th●● reminds me of what I ought to prove against 〈◊〉 which is That thou goes upon thy belly and feeds upon the dust Thou didst confess in thy Writing that it was the Lords Sentence against the Serpent then look into the 23. of Matthew and there see what sort of people they were that Christ calls Serpents though there be not thy name yet thou hast the nature and in that is working the same wickedness and filling up the measure of thy fathers And here thou maist read thy self and thy portion and this is a plain proof to all the children of light unto whom I offer it who hath unity wi●h that which proveth all things Then thou bids me labour to have my mind enlarged though my body be in prison then askest If the light within hath taught me to deny Tythes without the Scriptures and if I will say my cause is good being for the non-payment of Tythes and if the light within hath taught me that without the Scriptures then thou sayest he who throws me in prison may pretend as good a light within to demand them as I to deny them but if I deny to pay because the Scripture hath taught me otherwise thou askest Why I will not as well obey them in what they command me in other things as in the non-payment of money and then askest Why I will call them dead and lifeless and yet call them for my defence when I am in need Then thou bids me consider well of this and be not deceived It is not my own labour that can enlarge my mind unto God neither is it the imprisonment of my body that can keep my mind bound but in the Lords power my heart is enlarged and I made willing to run the way of his Commands who is near unto me and in the midst of my sufferings his comforts delight my soul and his right hand upholds me and my cause is good being for the non-payment of tythes and thou canst not overthrow it and by the light of Christ in my conscience I am taught to deny them and in the light I have unity with the Scriptures and am made to stand a Witness against all deceit and oppression as they did who gave forth the Scriptures knowing Christ the end of all types figures tythes temples made with hands who is the unchangeable life But this Gate is too straight for thee to enter in at and the way to narrow for thee to walk in and so thou lightly esteems of those that are truly called by the Lord to walk therein and unto all things which by the Doctrine of Christ in the Scriptures I am commanded I desire to wait that I may perform them with a ready mind and that I may as a good servant do the will of God who is my helper in the 〈◊〉 ful time and doth defend me from all false tongues neither 〈…〉 own or call any thing for my defence in the truth but he 〈◊〉 who is my life in whom I trust that doth not fail me but 〈◊〉 wrought great things for me by his own arm and I trust will 〈◊〉 deliver me when the good pleasure of his will he hath performed So thy secret parts are unveiled thou art manifested where 〈◊〉 goes and upon what thou feeds for it is the Serpents poyson whi●● out of thy mouth is cast who would give him that casts me into ●●●●on as good right to demand Tythes by a pretended light as I to deny them from the true light so by thy rule would make the thing pretended to be of equal weight with that which in the truth is ●●●●blished for all that receives the spirit which is of God knows the things that are freely given of God and the light of Christ which enlighteneth every man that comes into the world doth not give unto any man as good a right to demand any part of the substance which the Lord gives and encreases unto me as it doth unto me 〈◊〉 deny that ●an of his demand to receive my own which the Lord hath encreased unto me And he who pretends such a light to ●●mand that which is not his nor which no man can in the truth giv● him any interest in he errs from the true light his pretence 〈◊〉 not make his demand neither equal nor warrantable for the 〈◊〉 light doth not lead any man to covet or to desire that which is 〈◊〉 his but brings all that are guided by it to be satisfied contented with the Lords free-gift and encrease unto them and so the tenth Cock of Hey or Corn or other encrease is as truly my own as the nine being the same encrease unto me from the Lord and I 〈◊〉 challenge it as the Lords blessing and so receives it as my own ●●●●ly from the Lord without yeilding any account to any man 〈◊〉 have the answer of a good conscience in it and peace with God in suffering for it who receives tythes denies Christ the true light and who payes tythes are not guided by him who is the end 〈◊〉 Tythes and of that Covenant under which Tythes were paid Therefore look over thy self again and be covered with shame and let thy 〈◊〉 tongue be forever silent who hath so proudly scornfully and disdainfully spoken 〈◊〉 the right way of the Lord and those that walk therein So I have considered thee 〈…〉 light in which all things are considered wel● and sees thee to be a blasph●●●e● a 〈◊〉 a lyar and a slanderer a●d so hath proved thee Therefore the Doctrine of 〈◊〉 is prea●ed unto thee W. S. THE END