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A81396	Christ exalted, and alone worthy to open the seals of the book. And the scriptures owned in their place. A true testimony of him, as is manifest, in answer to a book, intituled, The Quakers apostacy, from the perfect rule of scriptures. Given forth by John Timson, of Great Bowden in Leicestershire. And the deceits and blasphemies he charges upon the Quakers, is turned upon his own head, and he found guilty of what he reproaches them with, in what is written for the simples sake, and truth to clear from false accusations and lyes cast upon it. And the ten queries he saith he vindicateth, and would print but foure of them, they are all published, with the answers that he charges to be confused, dark and deceitfull, that the answers may witnesse for themselves against what is charged upon them. He that hath an understanding in the light, read and judge. / William Dewsberry.	Dewsbury, William, 1621-1688.	1656 (1656)	Wing D1258; Thomason E891_6; ESTC R206512	24,367	32

not any can be saved by what they doe in their own wills all that is done in that nature is abomination to God as is plain in the Answer to what thou hast writ in the 70 Page It is not of him that willeth nor of him that runneth but of God that shewes mercy Rom. 9. 16. which he makes manifest in the riches of his grace in Christ the light who leads all that obey him in the strait way of self-deniall and the daily crosse in obedience to the will of God which is our sanctification And he that sanctifieth and they that are sanctified are one Heb. 2. 4. 1 Thess 4. 31. He that can receive it let him For the truths sake that the simple be not turned out of the way by the false accusations reproaches and aspersions thou hast cast upon it what is before written in Answer to thee the truth doth clear and the Answer to thy ten Questions which thou charges to be deceitfull that they may witnesse for themselves against what thou hast cast upon them that all that desire to know the truth may them read The Questions and Answers are as followeth 1 Qu. Whether the writings of the Scriptures are a declaration of the Holy will and mind of God that necessarily oblige the servants of God that professe them to believe and observe whatever is revealed therein to be believed and done and whether the Scripture alone be a perfect Rule of faith and life unto all of years amongst us yea or nay Ans The Scriptures is a true declaration of the things believed amongst the Saints and a true testimony of Jesus Christ but not any doth them know neither can believe what is written therein by the outward declaration and testimony of Scripture but by the word of Faith which is in the heart and in the mouth which is the word of Faith which we Preach Rom. 10. 7 8. 2 Qu. Whether any other Revelations and Observations not to be found in the Scripture be binding to the consciences of those persons that have the benefit of the Scripture or whether such revelations or dictates within a mans heart and soul be as binding to the conscience and to be urged to a mans self or others as the Scriptures are Ans The revelations of Jesus Christ is according to Scripture which Revelations binds up the Testimony and seals the Law in the hearts of his Disciples and what dictates is in the conscience or heart of man contrary to the Law and Testimony is not to be regarded but disowned and judged with the light which comes from Christ the Saints life who guides them in a pure life and holy conversation according to Scripture Isa 8. 20. 3 Qu. Whether any thing besides the Scripture is constituted of the blessed God to reveal Christ as Redeemer and Saviour to the spirit of miserable lost man to bring man unto happinesse or whether corrupt man without the knowledge of Scripture may ordinarily attain unto salvation yea or nay Ans No man can come to the Son any other way but whom the Father draweth by the power of his unlimited Spirit and never any shall know the Father but he to whom the Son reveals him and he that thinks to attain the way to eternall life by reading the letter of the Scripture and regards not the light that comes from Christ that witnesseth for God in the secret of the heart and conscience he deceives himself for the mystery of eternall life is sealed up in the sealed Book from all the Sons and Daughters of men and none shall ever know it by the outward testimony of Scripture but by the inspiration of the Spirit of Jesus Christ the Lyon of the Tribe of Judah who is found worthy to open the seals of the Book and is the way the truth and the life to all that in his light wait his power them to guide in faithfull obedience to the righteous and perfect Law of God written in the heart for the exercise of the conscience which keeps them void of offence towards God and towards men according to testimony of Scripture Acts 24. 16. 23. 1. 4 Qu. Whether that light of conscience which is more or lesse in all since the fall be the remains or some reliques left of the first Adam in reference to the Covenant of works or whether common to all from the redemption of the second Adam as flowing from the Covenant of grace or how else I desire you would clearly expresse your thoughts in this Ans Man in the fallen estate hath not any light remains in him to guide him to doe any thing well pleasing to God as he stands in the state of corrupt nature for all his righteousnesse is as filthy rags and as a menstruous cloth the light that convinceth man and woman of the evill of their hearts and discovers the filthinesse of all their own righteousnesse is the light that comes from Christ the true light that lighteth every man that comes into the world John 1. 9. And this light is not common to man by nature it is the great gift of God his grace that hath appeared and teacheth all that are guided by it to deny all ungodlinesse and worldly lusts and to live godily and soberly in this present evill world and all that walk contrary to the light this is their condemnation the light John 3. 19. 5 Qu. Whether the end of God in giving and continuing this kind of light to all men in the world was not to be a restraint and curb to the exorbitant lusts of so corrupt a creature as man and so made subservant to God in the Government of the world in order to the peace and continuance of the same and to leave all without excuse Or what besides this the end of God was that this kind of light should be minded and improved according to the power of man by what he is from creation or universall grace or redemption in order to eternall happinesse and the not heeding this light in all men shall be the only condemnation of the world Or whether this light be the Gospel or Christ or his Spirit or whether it be a light either equall with or inferiour to or of a different kind with the Scriptures Ans The light which comes from Christ is given of God to guide the creature out of its own strength and power to Christ the mighty power and wisedome of God the creature to guide with moderation in the use of all creatures and to order and govern the creation to the praise and glory of God And this light is of the pure nature of God and leads to Christ the everlasting Gospel And this is the condemnation of the world that hates the light which comes from Christ because they believe not in him John 3. 18. 6. Qu. Whether the light of Conscience the light of Scripture the light of providence the light of grace ought not to be prest upon all

witnesse against thy false accusations and revileings which thou hast filled thy Book withall As in the 14. and 15. Pa Speaking to them thou calls friends whom thou sayst is seduced and thou declares that those whom thou charges with seducing them doth teach them to cease from all religious duties of commanded worship without scruple or checke of Conscience before they can enjoy God or be taught immediately what to do first put out the true light and power of Conscience to do his office by de spising the means of enlightning and convincing it to act in the soul and then resolves to follow the immediate commands of Conscience without questioning the Author of those Lawes at all Reply Thy accusation is fals we do not teach any to cease from all religious duties of commanded worship neither put out the true light we teach all to be obedient to the commands of God who saith this is my beloved Son in whom I am wel-pleased hear him Mat. 17. 5. And we bear testimony of him that he is the true light that lighteth every one that comes into the world Joh. 1. 9. and convinces the world of sin Righteousnesse and Judgement Joh. 16. 8. and he alone commands in the Conscience for God and is the Author of the perfect Law handed in the hand of a mediator to whom we exhort all to be subject and in whom all the Children of light walk Col. 2. 6. And for thy expressing a depth of deceit and delusion which thou charges upon us which is found in thy self who hath made lyes thy refuge to slander the innocent which is further manifest in thy 16. Pa. Thou sayst we take no notice of Scripture authority as if they were altogether out of date which false accusation is witnessed against in what is returned in answer to the preface of thy Book And in the 17. and 18. Pa. thou charges us with impudent foreheads to make a shew of one thing and intend another purposely minded to deceive and yet they tell us often that as they write so they meane and speak the truth in plainesse most horrible hypocrisy and deceit which nothing but a lying and a knavish head dare goe about to excuse c. And all those unsavory words as before written wherein thou sayst we have discovered to purpose the deceit of our answer in saying the revelations of Christ are according to Scripture and where the new Covenant is witnest the law is written in the heart and the witnesse and testimony of Jesus within bearing witnesse with our spirits that we are the Sons of God Reply Doing any thing of purpose to deceive through hypocrisye or knavish heads we deny and in the presence of God we speak the truth in plainesse and doe witnesse there is no deceit in saying the revelations of Christ are according to Scripture and all in the new Covenant do know the law of God written in their hearts and the witnesse or testimony of Jesus within 1 Jo. 5. 10. bearing witnesse with their spirits that they are the Children of God Ro. 8. 16. and this declared is neither deceitfull nor knavish which is the unsavory words thou charges on us let the truth of God in all Consciences judge to whom they belong the Scriptures we are not against they bear testimony of Christ the light whom we witnesse the way to the father Mat. 1. 27. None knows the father but the Son and he to whom the Son will reveale him by the revelation of the Spirit of God is the things of God knowne to his people 1 Cor. 2. 9. 10. 13. Ro. 8. 11. 16. according as is recorded we witnesse the Scriptures fulfilled in Christ the light who is our life Col. 3. 3. 4. And whereas thou queries did ever any read of the law and testimony in the heart and that the law and testimony in the heart is the law of the new Covenant Reply Who hath read the Scripture in the fear of God hath read what the Lord hath promised as declared Isa 8. 16. Bind up the testimony seal the law among my Disciples and Jer. 31. 33. This shall be the Covenant I will make with the house of Israel in those daies saith the Lord I will put my Lawes in their inward parts and write it in their hearts Heb. 8. 10 11 12. and the law written in the heart we witnesse and the Lord faithful in performing according to his Promise in the new Covenant And thou goes on in the 19. and 20. Pa calling us impostors and pervertors of the new Covenant and to be in Idle proud fancyes and itching humors of our owne brains in our Apostate Condition Reply We in the light can bear thy reproach and have witnessed the truth that it may stand a witnesse against thy revileings and in the Lord we rest who will make manifest whether thou or we be the perverters of the new Covenant and guilty of what thou charges us with And whereas thou in the 22. Pa. sayes that W. Dewesberry tells us that the mighty day of the Lord is appeared in the North of England and is riseing towards the South and shall overspread this Nation and all the Natious of the world c. what the mans fancy and designe is in bruiting and makeing such a noise of the appearance of the mighty day of the Lord judge ye I am sure he hath sufficiently discovered his owne folly in blazing abroad such dreams of his owne lying heart c. Reply In thy 2. Pa. thou hath enlarged thy self concerning that Book calling it a lying paper c. and the truth is witnessed in answer to thy charge and this in answer to what is here written fancies bruitishnesse folly dreams and lyes W. Deusberry denys the truth he hath declared as the Lord hath him moved in faithfullnesse to the souls of all people that they be not found the sloathfull servants putting the day of the Lord a farr off in this his day wherein the houre of his righteous judgement is come Rev. 14. 7. to all that wait on him the truth is declared that all men may prepare in the light the Lord to meet and no longer in sloathfulnesse remain least he come upon them as a theife in the night and if the day of the Lord do not arise over all the world and the kingdoms of the world become the kingdomes of our Lord and his Christ and the Lord performe not as is declared then say the Lord harh not spoken by me who is known to the world by name William Dewsberry And in the 22. Pa. thou says we have set our selves in the Throne of Christ judging the whole world Reply Thy accusation is false self we deny to Christ we are snbject who sits on his Throne and is come and comeing in his Saints to judge the world Jude 14 15. 1 Cor. 6. 2. and 2. 5. And in the 23. Pa. thou sayst why do not we command the dead to rise

and appear before us and many other unsavory words are there exprest Reply A wicked and adultrous generation shall seek after a signe and there shall no signe be given it but the signe of the Prophet Jona Mat. 16. 4. And whereas thou charges Howgill and Burrough as thou calls them with pernitious blasphemous opinions Reply Thy accusation is false they are faithfull men serveing their generation in the light Ministers of Christ in whom is witnessed the God head dwelling bodily Coll. 2. 9. and in him were one in God they that joyne to the Lord are one spirit 1 Cor. 6. 17. he that can receive it let him And whereas thou in the 29. Pa. saith that the Revelations of Christ that are according to Scripture are either texts of Scripture expressed or rationall deductions consequences and conclusions that naturally flow from particular passages of Scriptures and not any other revelations can be pleaded for as rule Reply Thy dark minde is shut out from knowing the revelations of Christ and though thou say that answer that was returned to these words was not to purpose it stands a witnesse against thee and will be found to purpose in the light when thy reward thou shalt have for all thy unsavory words exprest in thy Book And in the 33. Pa. where thou falsely accuses us that we will allow of no Laws of God nor Scripture but the Revelations and edicts of our owne bewitched hearts c. And when thou hast reviled us with false accusation as before written thou beseeches those thou call thy dear friends to be serious in their thoughts of what thou hast written in discovering our deceits and blasphemies denying the rule that all things are to be tryed by and make themselves the absolute rule and we must not question what they say though it be never so insolent and to be abhorred of all sober Christians c. Reply Thou hath brazned thy face to slander the truth of God with lyes and blasphemies which is the foundation of all heresy and there thou art found and thy accusation is false Christ the rule that all things is to be tryed by we owne and our selves deny and to the light of Christ in all Consciences we appeale whether thou or we deny the rule thou that sayst the revelations of Christ are either texts of Scripture expressed or rationall deductions consequences c. as before written or we who witnesse Christ the true light revealed by the father and none knows the father but the Son and he to whom the Son will reveale him Mat. 11. 27. Luke 10. 22 Let all that are in Christ with sobriety in the light judge And for the rest of thy slanders in the 37. and 38. Pa. where thou says these miserable worms uncovenant themselves and un-Christ themselves as if they cared not for grace and mercy in standing before God denying the Scripture c. and in the 40. Pa. thou sayst of those in scorne called Quakers thou can safely say they deny the benefit that comes to the Church by Christ suffering in that flesh ●hat he received from the Virgin Mary or else deny it to be are all body of flesh and so make it but a tipe and a figure of Christ in the Saints who are his true real body which he now suffers in and by his suffering makes satisfaction for them makeing the death of the Crosse of none effect Reply The miserable worms that uncovenant themselves and un-Christ themselves who denys Christ the light thou art found to be one whom thy dark minde art working abomination and makeing lies which thou hast published to the world in thy Books and thy place thou may read as is recorded Rev. 21. 27. and the rest of thy accusations recorded in 40. Pa. we witnesse against and for the Simple sake declare as followeth that benefit came to the Church by Christ suffering in that body God gave which was born of the Virgin Mary and with one offering hath Christ perfected for ever them that are sanctified Heb. 10. 14. and these are his Saints in whom he is now revealed who are his body Eph. 1. 23. which now suffered by thee and all that are of the murdering generation who bore false witnesse against Christ when he was in that body which they crucified at Jerusalem and thou hast manifest thy self to be of the same murdering generation who hath published to the world the false witnesse against the innocent to perfect thy evill intent towards the body of Christ if the Lord prevent thee not but thou shalt know the Lord faithfull that thou and all that formes your tongues against him shall fall in judgement Isa 54. 17. And what is charged upon thee in answer to thy reply to the answer to the third question that thou sets at nought the corner stone and prefers the testimony of him before him limitting the eternall son of God as thou hath in what is Printed in the 55. Pa. where thou speaks of the Scripture that they are designed of God to be the only instrument and vessel of his spirit to convey the knowledge of Christ as Redeemer to lost man and without them Christ is not knowne at all to any saveing ends Reply Who art thou that dare thus utter words without knowledge Christ is knowne where the Father reveales him to be the souls life whether they have the Scripture yea or nay according to the will of God he makes knowne his minde of his people who wait upon him in his feare and the secrets of the Lord are with those that fear him Psal 25. 14. And the spirit of the Lord is witnesse with our spirits that we are the children of God O man repent least the Lord cut thee off and thou perish in thy gainsayings And further what thou hath written in Reply to what was returned in answer to the question before mentioned the most of the false accusations is answered in what was returned to the former part of the Book and all thy false accusations and reproaches denyed with the light and for the Simples sake there is returned in answer to thy questions which thou hast propounded 1. Qu. Where we read of a perfect law of God in the heart and where it is made the Rule and Ground of the Saints obedience Ans The Law of God is perfect Psal 19. 7. and is the rule to which the Saints are to walke in obedience to and to be guided by Psal 119. 12. and the Law to be in the heart is proved Psal 40. 8. I delight to do thy will O God yea thy law is within my heart 2. Qu. Whether the law in the heart be under another Covenant distinct from the perfect law of God declared in Scripture 3. Qu. What were to understand by the law of God i n the heart which is the same with Scripture whether the 10. Commandements written in Tables of stone onely or all those positive Precepts of Gospel worship and