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A85152	Truth cleared of scandals, or truth lifting up its head above scandals, &c. Occasioned by the meeting of those people called Baptists, and those whom the world scornfully calleth Quakers, at Harlington in stafforthshire, upon the 27. day of the 7 month, in the year 1654. Shewing the difference betwixt the ordinances of Christ and of Antichrist, and the true worship and the false, with a discovery of the two seeds, and the New Covenant, the doctrine of baptismes, laying on of hands, the ressurectio, and eternal judgement, Heb. 6. 1, 2, 3, and Heb. 12.22, and 23. Also, the unprofitable servant and the talents, and of being caught up into paradise, the thorn in the flesh, and what it is to take pleasure in infirmities, and what those infirmities are, that is to be gloried in; also, something of perfection, and imperfection, and the glorying in the crosse largely proved, according to scripture, &c. / By one known to the world by the name of Rich. Fanrworth.	R. F. (Richard Farnworth), d. 1666.	1654 (1654)	Wing F512; Thomason E820_3; ESTC R207345	39,723	39

TRUTH Cleared of Scandals or TRUTH lifting up its head above Scandals c. Occasioned by the Meeting of those people called Baptists and those whom the world scornfully calleth Quakers at Harliston in Stafforthshire upon the 27. day of the 7. month in the year 1654. Shewing the difference betwixt the Ordinances of Christ and of Antichrist and the true worship and the false with a Discovery of the two seeds and the New Covenant the Doctrine of Baptismes laying on of hands the Resurrection and eternall judgement Heb. 6.1 2 3 and Heb. 12.22 and 23. Also The unprofitable servant and the talents and of being caught up into Paradise the Thorn in the flesh and what it is to take pleasure in infirmities and what those infirmities are that is to be gloried in Also something of Perfection and Imperfection and the glorying in the Crosse largely proved according to Scripture c. By one known to the world by the name of RICH. FARNWORTH For Christ sent me not to Baptize but to preach the Gospel not with the enticing words of mans wisdome neither lest the Crosse of Christ should be of none effect 1 Cor. 1.17 and 18. LONDON Printed Anno Dom. 1654. To the READER READER IN the Reading of this ensuing Treatise as thy understanding is kept open thou may see the difference betwixt Truth and errour that thereby thou mayest chuse the good and refuse the evill try all things and hold fast that which is good and take heed of censuring or judging the truth with evill thoughts and out of an evill heart lest judgement return upon thee again but judge Righteous judgement so shalt thou be preserved in Peace in thy Conscience The cause of my writing of this little Treatise was occasioned upon a Meeting at Harliston in Stafforth Shire upon the 27. day of the 7. month between the baptized people and those whom the world scornfully calleth Quakers to clear the Truth of many aspersions and false accusations as in the Reading thou wilt clearly see the differences betwixt Truth and errour as thou Readest with an understanding And whereas we are accused for denying the Scriptures and the Ordinances of Christ in short thou mayest see what we own according to Scripture and what we do deny that is contrary to Scripture also the tryall of the Spirits and the Doctrine of Baptismes and the laying on of hands and the Resurrection and eternall Judgement true Faith the Church of the first-born written in heaven Something of them spoken of in this Treatise which may be for the bringing down of the kingdome of Antichrist and the setting up of the Kingdome of Jesus Christ that Truth may be cleared of Scandals But I am not sent to Baptize but to Preach the Gospel as in thy Reading thou wilt more plainly see RICH. FARNWORTH THE ORDINANCES AND VVORSHIP Of GOD in the Spirit GOD is a Spirit and all his Ordinances are Spirituall now in the Gospel-Ministration and his Worship is in the Spirit as it is written John 4.23 24. And the Worship and Ordinances of God in the Spirit we own who are of the Circumcision in the heart with the Spirit who rejoice in Christ Jesus and have no confidence in the flesh Phil. 3.3 Col. 2.10 11. Now the Lord is that Spirit which we all beholding with open face as in a Glasse are changed from glory to glory into the same image and glory as by the Spirit of the Lord as it is written 2 Cor. 3.17 18. And secondly the Church of God and of Christ we own who are the houshold of Faith made all of living stones elect and precious a Spirituall house for God to dwell in whose house are we who are builded upon the Foundation of the Prophets and Apostles Christ Jesus being the Chief Corner Stone in whom all the building groweth into an holy Temple in the Lord the Church of the first-born written in heaven of which Christ Jesus is head and we are compleat in him who is the fulnesse and filleth all in all as it is written and witnessed 1 Thess 1.1 1 Pet 2.5 6 c. Heb. 3.6 Eph. 1.22 23. and Heb. 12.22 23. Eph. 2.18 19 20 21 22. Col. 2.9 And thirdly the Ministery of Christ in the Spirit we own and the new Covenant and the Law of God written in the heart and we witnesse the teachings of the Lord as he hath promised and said which promises of the Father we witnesse fulfilling and fulfilled and we witnesse Christ Jesus who is the Saints high Priest and the everlasting Sacrifice we witnesse and own the Fathers teachings according to his Promise and we witness Christ Jesus to be our Passover and that he is able to save to the utermost all those that come unto God by him Heb. 8.10 11. Jer. 31.31 to the 35. Isa 54.13 14. John 6.45 John 14.15 16 17. and 26. Heb. 7.25 Fourthly The Baptism of Christ which is in the Spirit we own and all who are Baptized into the Name of the Father Son and holy Ghost and are made partakers of the Name nature and properties of God for he that hath the Son hath life and he that hath the Son hath the Father also as Christ hath said All mine are thine and thine are mine and I am glorified in them and by one Spirit are we baptized into one body and made to drink in one Spirit where there is one Faith one Lord one Baptisme one God and Father of us all who are of the righteous seed who are Baptized into Christ and have put on Christ as it is written and witnessed 2 Pet. 1.3 4 5 6 7 8. 1 Pet. 3.18 19 20 21. 1 John 5.10 11 12 13. John 17.10 2 John 9. 1 Cor. 12.12 13. Eph. 4.4 5. Gal. 3.26 27 28 29. Fifthly Prayer we own Praying by the Spirit of Christ and if any man be in Christ Jesus he is a new creature 2 Cor. 5.16 17. and walks not after the flesh but after the Spirit and the same Spirit which raised up Jesus Christ from the dead we witnesse dwelling in us by which Spirit we are quickened even by the Spirit of Christ that dwelleth in us Rom. 8.10 11. And we know that all that are born again of water and the Spirit and are led by the Spirit of God they are the Sons of God and we have received the Spirit of Adoption whereby we cry Abba Father the Spirit it self bearing witnes with our spirits that we are the children of God Rom 8.14 15 16. Likewise the Spirit helpeth us and teacheth us to pray for it maketh intercession for us and he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the minde of the Spirit because he maketh intercession for us according to the minde and will of God Rom. 8.26 27. Mat. 6.5 6 7 8. Eph. 1.18 Sixthly the holy Communion in the Spirit of love that we witnesse for God is love and they that dwell in God dwell in love and they that dwell in love

are not of the Letter but of the Spirit not made by the will of man but by the 〈◊〉 ill of God which is sanctification and Paul was made a Minister of the New Covenant in the Gospel Ministration not by the will of man but by the will of God and by the Revelation of Jesus Christ as he certified to the brethren by the Spirit Gal. 1.11 12 and Christ was revealed in him Gal. 1.15 16 and he did preach Christ by the Spirit in them that he preached unto and they were able Ministers not of the Letter but of the Spirit 2 Cor. 4.5 6 7. Col. 1.25 26 27. and 28. 2 Cor 3. to the 7 verse And thou Pallard who art a great teacher to the baptized people at that time said that the Spirit and the Letter were inseparable c. Ans Herein thou openly laid out thy ignorance of God and of Christ and the Spirit and the Gospel and the New Covenant and thy nakedness is bare thy covers will not hide thee to say the Letter and the Spirit is inseparable God is a Spirit but God is not the Letter neither is the Letter God Christ is the New Covenant but Christ is not the Letter neither is the Letter Christ and the Gospel is the power of God unto salvation but the Letter is neither the Gospel nor the power but declareth of it and if our Gospel be hid it is hid to them that are lost in whom the God of this world hath blinded their mindes 2 Cor. 4.3 4. But the Letter is not hid it is open to all to read or get read but the Gospel is yet hid to thee Pallard and all in thy nature and thou hast made thy self a Minister of the Letter by thy own will and never was made a Minister of the Gospel of grace nor of the New Covenant yet in the blood or life of Jesus according to the will of God the Father that saith the Letter and the Spirit are one and inseparable as if the Spirit of God were lockt up and confined in the Letter which is death and if so all the world would have the Spirit and buy and sell it if it were in the Letter and at an easie rate they might buy it for three or four shillings for so may they buy the Letter but the Spirit cannot be bought therefore it is not in the Letter if that the Spirit had been so easily come to or if it could have been bought Simon Magus proffered money for it but could not thereby gain it And when he saw that through laying on of the Apostles hands the holy Ghost was given he offered them mony for it now the holy Ghost is not in the Letter but the Holy Ghost is the Spirit of God in the Bloud or Life of Christ but the Letter is not the Spirit Printed in Paper and bound up in Lether that a man may carry it in his hand or pocket and buy it and sell it for mony so can he not do the holy Ghost many may be baptized with water and want the Spirit as thou dost and many of you water baptizers do that as yet knowes no holy Ghost that sayes the Letter and the Spirit are inseparable there you water Baptizers are out of the Doctrine and life of the Apostles and they that baptized with water who had power to give the holy Ghost which you have not Read Acts 8.12 to the 18. And when Simon saw that through the laying on of the Apostles hands the holy Ghost was given he offered them mony saying Give me also that power Simon did acknowledge the holy Ghost to be the power and not the Letter here he was beyond you but because the Spirit and Power is separated from the Letter Simons money and he was like to peish that thought to have bought the Spirit and power of God had it been in the Letter he might have bought and sold it but he could not attain to it and all that trades with the Letter are as ignorant of the Spirit as Simon was and all that thinks to buy it for money and raise the Spirit out of the Letter are sorcerers and in nature like to Simon Magus and Simon the Sorcerer spoken of in Scripture that were in the Apostles times and now there are many Maguses and Elimases without the Spirit and hath the Letter but labours to keep people out of the Faith and power of Truth and seeks to shut up the Kingdome of Heaven from men as the Pharisees did and keep people in outside formes without the holy Ghost or the Power as thou Pallard and all in that nature doth that saith the Letter and the Spirit are inseparable there thou art out of the Faith and out of the power of the Spirit and wants the holy Ghost and art in that generation which had the Letter but persecuted the Spirit and art baptized but wants the holy Ghost as Simon did Acts 8.18 19 to the 24. Acts 13.6 7 8 to the 11. Mat. 23.12 13 15 25 28 33. And thou Pallard when thou stood to oppose the truth and to keep people out of the Faith in a dead water form which neither washeth within nor cleanseth from sin as thou said yet Elimas-like thou would withstand the Trnth and laboured to keep out of the Faith with thy sorceries and said that the Letter and the Spirit was inseparable but thou herein was nakedly seen insomuch that the people many of them would not be deluded by thee but cryed out of thy folly as they might well that said the Letter and the Spirit were inseparable then said the people if so the Spirit might be bought for three or four shillings and many would have the Spirit for they might buy a Bible for 3 or 4 s. Here Pallard thou great water Baptizer thy folly did exceedingly appear and thy ignorance of God and the Spirit was thereby discovered and that thou art a meer formall hypocrite in the form and the Letter without the Spirit and here I charge thee in the presence of the Lord to be no Minister of Christ nor the Gospel nor of the New Covenant but without the Spirit and knowes not the power nor the holy Ghost and thou and all in thy nature hath no more power to lay on hands than Simon Magus had who was baptized in the water but had not the holy Ghost and thy laying on of hands will work no more effect than Simons would have done for the power thou hast not nor none in thy nature that saith the Letter and the Spirit are inseparable and thou art no minister of the Spirit but of the Letter and ran but never was sent of the Lord therefore he is against thee and all in thy nature that steals words from others to speak as the false Prophets did read Jer. 23.21 22 30 31 2. verse Thou Pallard water Baptizer that art a Minister of the Letter and not the Spirit that saith the

passages and grouth which thou could not do Eph. 2.2 3 4 5 6 7. 2 Cor. 3.17 18. 2 Cor. 5.16 17. And the Apostle said give a reason of the hope that is in you to any man that shall ask you and withall be ready to do it that you may be able to comprehend with all Saints what is the heighth and depth and breadth and length of the love of God And thou Pallard who art the great water baptizer and all you outward dippers and outside washers who maketh clean the outside of the body or vessel as the Scribes and the Pharisees did and are hard bound up in a dead form your ground is yet fallow and to be ript up And thou Pallard and you dippers sprinklers with water and outward baptizers teachers and people pastors deacons and elders and all and every one of you from the highest to the lowest that cannot give account of the inward Ministrations and passages through the Crosse from death unto eternall life and sayes the Letter and the Spirit is inseparable you are yet out of the Saints conditions and out of their life and are in darknesse and deaths dominion doing things by imitation in your wills and are in that nature which acteth contrary to the light and you set up formes contrary to the Light and according to your carnall apprehensions and are as a body without the Spirit that say the Bible is a History and that sayes the Letter and the Spirit are inseparable as Pallard the great water baptizer did Now the Lord is that Spirit as is spoken of in the new Covenant and glorious ministration but the Lord is not the Letter but he is the Spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord is there is Liberty and we all with open face beholding as in a glasse the glory of the Lord are changed into the same image from glory to glory even by the Spirit of the Lord and not by the Letter 2 Cor. 3.17 18. You Dippers sprinklers and water baptizers that sayes the Letter is the Spirit or the Spirit and the Letter are inseparable as Pallard did you are as a body without the Spirit that are in that nature which acteth contrary to the Light Where is the gift of the holy Ghost amongst you dippers and outside sprinklers and water baptizers Where have any of you sold your possessions yet and laid down the price at your Apostles feet as the water baptizers did Acts 4. And where are you filled with the holy Ghost that sayes the Letter and the Spirit are inseparable and cals it a History as Pallard did Oh what hypocrites are you and how far short are you of that mistery when were ever the place shaken where you were assembled together when they had prayed the place was shaken where they were assembled together and they were all filled with the holy Ghost and spoke the word of God boldly as the Spirit gave them utterance and not the Letter Acts 4.31 Acts 2.4 Acts 7.55 Wherefore brethren say they look ye out seven men full of the holy Ghost whom we may appoint over you but we will give our selves to the Ministery of the Word and to prayer but they did not bid them to chuse out self conceated proud men full of fleshly wisedome and vain-glory like unto you watermen that are in this generation neither did they choose men full of the Letter and brain-conceats as you do but they choose men full of the holy Ghost for the holy Ghost had all the Rule in the Church of God and they choose Stephen a man full of Faith and the holy Ghost and Philip and Prochorus and Nicanor and Timon and Parmenus and Nicolas a Proselite of Antioch full of Faith and the holy Ghost was those and of good report and they who were in the power of the Lord and full of the wisdome of God and were endued with the holy Ghost who had given themselves up to serve God in the ministery of the word and not in the Ministry of the Letter those who were in the power of God prayed and laid their hands on those that were sent forth and they were filled with the heavenly wisdom and with the holy Ghost that none were able to resist them that stood in the power of the Spirit and they were annointed by the Spirit and the holy Ghost sent them forth about the work of God in the Ministery of the Word and the Word of God increased which is not the Letter as you baptizers say but it is the Spirit which yet you are ignorant of and as the Word of God increased so the number of the Disciples increased and were multiplyed and Stephen were full of Faith and power that the wise men of the world and great Disputers of the Synagogue of the Libertines and Cyrenians and Alexandrians and them of Silicia and of Asia disputing with Stephen and they were not able to resist the wisdom and the Spirit by which he spake and not the Letter which wisdom and Spirit and laying on of hands and sending by the holy Ghost and Ministry of the Word of eternall Life Church and Church Officers that were made by the holy Ghost and is which you Dippers Sprinklers and water baptizers are ignorant and know nothing of though you have an outward form you have not the power nor the Spirit nor the Gifts as they had but are as a Bell without a Clapper or a body without the Spirit that saith the Letter is the Word and the Letter is the Spirit and the Letter is a History and saith the Letter and the Spirit are inseparable as Thomas Pallard great water Baptizer did and it is evident you have not the gifts nor the holy Ghost amongst you as the water baptizers spoken of in Scripture had therefore are you but Pharisees that have not the Spirit and the holy Ghost as they had that spoke forth the Scriptures and as they now have that liveth in the life of the Spirit but you that say the Letter is the Word and the Letter is the Spirit and the Letter and the Spirit is inseparable You Baptizers with Water are out of the Divine Nature and that faith spoken of and out of the life and power of the holy Ghost by which they did both preach pray and minister the Word and lay on hands and send forth 1 Pet. 1.3 4. to the 9. Mark 16.16 17 18. 1 John 5.1 2 3 4 5. Mat. 5. Luke 6. 1 John 3.9 1 John 5.18 John 7.38 Iohn 11.25 26. 1 Iohn 2.20 27 Acts 6.3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Acts 4.31 Acts 8 17. Acts 19.6 13 2 3 4. Acts 4.32 33 34. Acts 20 25 26 27 28 29. Hebrews 12.22 23.28 29. Read those Scriptures and let all who have a discerning given them in the eternall Truth see whether the Dippers Sprinklers and water-Baptizers be not out of the life of them and without the Falth spoken of with the fruits and effects spoken of in