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A56434	A shield of the truth, or, The truth of God cleared from scandals and reproaches cast upon it by scandalous and reproachfull tongues which the devil in all ages did make use of, whereby he blasphemed the truth of God, striving to present it odious in the eyes and ears of all people, that so he might uphold his own kingdom, but the day hath made him manifest, & the Lord is come, & is coming to make war with him, and bind him, and cast him into the bottomless pit and all who bears his image, and under his dominion is written by ... Iames Parnel.	Parnell, James, 1637?-1656.	1655 (1655)	Wing P533; ESTC R20838	39,279	50

which is a meer delusion We are accused to deny the Sabboth The Sabboth of the Saints we own which is not for a day but everlasting and who dwels in Christ witnesseth this Sabboth which is the substance and the shadow without is vanished for saith Paul let no man condemn you in respect of meats and drinks or of an holy day or of New Moons or of the Saboth dayes which are but shadows of things to come and so the world hath the shadow and the Saints the substance and you who have the shadow persecute them who have substance as the Seribes and Pharisees and high Priests did who had and upheld the Types and figures of Christ and persecuted them who was the substance so they that are after the flesh persecuted them that are after the spirit but your Sabboth is a shadow of nothing for the Jews Sabboth in the time of the law was upon the seventh day which was the last day of the week but yours is the first day of the week for which you have no scripture and they were not to do their own ways nor their own pleasure nor speak their own words upon the Sabboth day and here you transgresse in the figure and walkin your own wayes and speak your own words and do your own pleasures both of that day and every day We are accused that we justifie our selves and condemn all other I Answer When we were our selves without the Spirit of God and had a form and profession of the Saints condition which we did not possess we seeked to justifie our selves in our profession and earthly wisdom and to exhalt our selves and be something in the eyes of others and here we were Pharisees and yet feigned Publicans saying we were sinfull but thought higher of our selves than others though we were in the same nature and here our justification was of our selves and not of Christ and here are all you Pharisees and feigned Publicans both Priests and Professors who are in your earthly Wisdome feeding upon the Letter but as the Light of Christ arise in us all our earthly wisdom wherein we were exalted became foolishnesse and self was judged and denyed and all that which was of self both wisdom and righteousness wherewith we covered over our filthy lustful unclean hearts and so were as painted Sepulchers and here are all Professors at this day who are feeding upon the Tree of Knowledge and as from under the Cross of Christ but all would not hide from the Light of God but as it arose it searched through all and layd open all and all our covers became rotten and fel from us and so it will be with all Professors As the Light of Christ doth arise and the Book of Conscience is layd open for no flesh must glory in his presence But now we have nothing but what we have received of the Father through death and Christ is made over unto us Wisdom Righteousness Sanctification and Redemption and though we glory we glory in the Lord for we have nothing in our selves to glory of and the Saints thought it no presumption to call themselves the Sons of God and said they were of God and all the whole world lye in wickednesse and here the same spirit would have accused them yet they were no Pharisees and Christ thought it no robbery to be equal with God yet he was no Pharisee though of the Pharisees he was judged a Blasphemer and as he is so are we saith the Saints yet they were no Pharisees and so who are made the Sons of God it is no self justification to witness it forth neither those who are made free from sin to witnesse it forth as the Apostles did and to witness forth the life and power of truth and deny them that have gotten the form notion or profession and here Christ is the witness and the justification for the way is but one and the truth is but one and they who dwel in the truth witnesse one with another for the Light of God owns its own wheresoever it is for God cannot deny himself but they that are not with us are against us and out of the truth in the state of condemnation for all who are out of the truth are under the curse in the fall and this truth we witness by the Spirit of the living God through death the same truth as ever was and there is that in every conscience shall bear us witness yea in the Heathen and condemne them that hate it 〈…〉 We are accused to be one with the Ranters I Answer it is false for we abhor their principles in our hearts and deny any liberty to the flesh or any light or loos or vain conversation which they live in or any thing which is impure or unclean for our principles are pure and clean and is at enmity with any thing that is impure or unclean for purity and impurity cannot agree together and it is our desires to keep our selves unspotted of the world for that which is unclean defiles and from that we are separated who are the Sons and Daughters of the living God but some of them have tasted of the love of God and grace of God and have had appearances of God but by harkning to the voice of the Serpent and giving way to the lust have turned with the dog to the vomit and the grace of God into wantonness casting his pure Law behind their backs and walking despitefully against the spirit of grace and have crucified a fresh the Lord of Life and put him to open shame therefore hath the Lord given them up to their own hearts lusts and vile affections and their consciences seared as with a hot Iron for it is writen It is impossiblo that those who were once enlightened and have tasted of the Heavenly Gift and were made partakers of the Holy Ghost and have tasted of the good word of God and the Powers of the world to come if they shall fall away to renew them again to Repentance but they have deceived many with their alluring speeches and have caused the truth of God to be evil spoken of by their pernitious lacivious ways But wo wo be to them for double shall be their reward but God is our witness we deny and abhor all things which is filthy or unclean and though all the world condemn it is without For there is no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus who walke not after the flesh but after the spirit and it is my tender desire towards all tender consciences that they may take heed of giving any liberty to the flesh least they lose the tenderness of conscience and harden it by lust and uncleanness for nothing but purity will the Lord receive for he is of purer eye then to behold iniquity We are accused that the ground of our Religion is Popery The ground of the Religion made

ordained by their parents or some other and their meanes are imediate and the Apostles imediate and the way is but one saith Christ he that hath an ear to hear let him hear and see if they be not Blasphemers who say they are the Ministers of Christ and some of them drunkards some proud some covetous and are evil examples to all that follows them contraty to Christ or his Apostles who said walk as you have us for examples and here they abide not in the doctrine of Christ and so hath not God as in 2 John 9. and this is blasphemy to say they are the mouth of the Lord but are the mouth of the Devil teaching lyes and blasphemies telling the people that are of their flock they are Christians and of the flock of Christ when as they are all manner of unrighteous persons who live without God in the World and tels them their children are the flock of Christ when they are sprinkled on the face with a little water when as they grow up in all manner of ungodlinesse without the fear of God or the knowledge of God and they are heathen that know not God and this is blasphemy to say Christ is the head of heathens for he is the head of his flock and they tell people that a house of Lime and Stone is the Church when as the Church is the body of Christ and this is blasphemy now see whether we or your teachers be more like deceivers lyars and blasphemers and let every ones life preach him forth and judge him and see if they be not lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God who delight in Musick in bowling in carding and diceing and hawking and hunting and all manner of pleasures and delights now see whether they or we be like Apostles who never used any such thing but all their delight was in the work of Christ but they that are of the flesh mind the things of the flesh and they that are of the spirit the things of the spirit Now see if they have not a form of godlinesse but deny the power and life which the Apostles lived in therefore from such turn away and if you finde that our lives be contrary to what we profess from us turn away also but of this sort are they who creep into houses and leads silly people captive now see if they doe not creep into steeple-houses and say that 's the place and no where else and leads silly people captive laden with sinnes and divers lusts ever learning and never come to the knowledge of the truth some learns thirty some sity some sixty yeares and above and still full of sin and as dark and blind and ignorant of the things of God as ever and they will teach you shall never be made free from sinne so long as ●● are upon the earth and here they set up their rest in the Devils kingdom And if you doe alledge we creep into houses I answer the Apostle witnessed the same where he sayd I have taught you publikely from house to house and our meetings are publike to any who will come amongst us sometimes in no house but in the fields or commons as the Apostles witnessed and we finde the Lord amongst us being gathered in his Name according to his promise now see by their fruits if your teachers be not the deceivers which are foretold of in the Scriptures who as Jannes and Jambres withstood Moses so doe they withstand the truth by all the wayes they can as it is before proved for Jannes and Jambres were the Magitians of Aegypt that imitated Moses so those University men by their Magick Arts inventions and imaginations and studying old Authors hath gotten the form of the Prophets Christ and his Apostles words to trade with but denies the life and power and so are Traytors to Christ who are men of corrupt minds and reprobates concerning the faith but they shall proceed no further for their folly shall be made manifest to all men now he that desires to see may see and let all who are wise hearted judge But if you do alledge they have been long and have reigned long and we are now come up and it is a new way and we come to breed divisions and dis●ention I answer the more is their shame and by that the more they are seen to be those that run and the Lord never sent them therefore they profit not the people at all who have reigned so long and wrought no better reformation in the land but it flows as much in iniquity and all manner of ungodlinesse as ever and the people that are taught by them as ignorant and as dark to the things of God as ever and here they would keep them by an outvvard power but the day hath made them manifest and the Scripture fulfilled which the Apostle spoke of who said it was the last times then and since they have continued you may know them by their frnits they profess Christ in words but in life deny him and the mystery of iniquity hath reigned a long time and there hath been a time of cruel darknesse and all the World hath wondered after and worshipped the beast and his Image and he hath reigned and by him the false Prophet hath reigned which hath deceived the Nations but now light is risen out of darkness and shines forth now in these latter daies in the sons and daughters of men according to the promise of God whereby the wiles of Sathan are made manifest to the glory of God and now is the separation the Sheep from the Gorts the Wheat from the tares and Christ is come to set at varience father against son and son against father and wife against the man and the man against the wife and to turn the world upside downe and this is the cause why the world rages and this is the condemnation of the world light is come into the world and they love darknesse rather than light because their deeds are evil and so to those who are in darkness it is new but we witness it is no new way but the same which was is and is to be for ever and the same signs follow but the adulterous generation cannot see it but they that believe shall see and be healed and though the beast and false prophet and those that bear the mark of the beast doth now make war with the Lamb and the Saints for to uphold their kingdome yet the Lamb the King of the Saints shall overcome and to him the Nations shall bow and the beast and false prophet and all that bear the mark of the beast into the lake for them prepared of old shall goe and for this end we are come out of our countries and outward habitations and possessions to preach to every conscience the eternal truth as it is in Jesus the everlasting Gospel as we have received it

Devil whereby he exalts himself in man but James the Apostle of Jesus Christ witnessed against it as in Jam. 2. 1 2 3 4 5. and so on and said He that respects persons commits sin for there is no respect of persons with God and therefore saith James Howle ye rich men and here your professed Ministers abides not in the doctrine of Christ and so hath not God but the Devil and his Ministers they are whom they exalt And now you shall see the partiality of the names in this your breeding and manners First from a poor man to a rich man it is called honour and due respect and manners from a rich man to a poor man it is called curtesie and humility but amongst the Rich and Nobles of the earth it is called courtlike breeding but of those of lower degree it is called country breeding and amongst the lower sort of the world it is called neighbourhood and civil respect one to another and so the Devil hath covers for all his deceit and so he is honoured and exalted both in Court and Country but the highest in the Court and therefore they have the highest title But wo unto them that hides their sinne and covers with a covering and not of the spirit of the Lord But this is the riches of the world the devil that makes so many degrees as between Dives and Lazarus and Hamon and Mordechai for the Lord hath made all the Nations of the earth of one mold and one blood but we who are redeemed out of his kingdom he cals us clowns and fools and saith our Religion is built upon such smal and frivolous things stumbles at straws and leaps over blocks this saith his wisdom but it is even death to him to bear these straws especially where he is the highest exalted for it puls down all his honour and therefore doe Rich men and Great ones of the earth and Rulers and Priests and Pharisees persecute and oppresse us and draw us before judgement seats and would root us out of the Nation as Hamon would have done by Mordechai and the scattered Jews because they cannot bear those straws but I say whatsoever it is that comes to be forbidden in the Conscience it becomes a weight and a burden though it be never so small a thing in the eye of a Pharisee so set none despise the day of small things but some will call it stubbornness obstinacy pride and presumption but the same nature would have called so in Mordechai who could not bow to Hamon as the rest did that sate by and so let every one take heed of speaking evill of that you know not lest you call good evill and evil good for the woe is pronounced against such but they that were after the Flesh alwaies in all Ages persecuted them that were after the Spirit And so it is not many mighty nor many noble nor many wise after the flesh are called but God hath chosen the foolish things of this world to confound the wise and the weak to confound those that are mighty that no flesh should glory in his presence 1 Cor. 1. 26 27 29. We are accused that we say we are perfect without sin I answer Man was perfect without sin before the Fall or else he could not have been the Image of God for God is pure and perfect and he made man after his own Image pure and perfect without sin but when he sinned he defaced his Image and lost his pure estate and was drove out of Paradice and became the Image of the Devil for sin is the Image of the Devil and here all sin is in the Fall and who are in the Fall are in the Devils kingdome which is impure and imperfect and unclean but God promised the seed of the woman shall bruise the Serpents head and Christ the seed sayd he was come to preach deliverance to the captive and to heale the broken hearted and to seek that which was lost and to bring againe that which was driven away and this was his work to redeem to man that which man had lost Now consider what man hath lost and I shall leave this as Querie with all both Priests and People who deny perfection from sinne here whether Christ is but a p●rt of Redeemer or a perfect and full Redeemer and which is the place betwixt heaven and earth where man shall be made free or cleansed from sin if not upon the earth seeing that no unholy nor unclean thing can enter the kingdome of God But who can witnesse this hath passed through death and that hath none who plead for sin neither can they witnesse Christ come but for some simple ones sake I shall speake more clearly of this for it is a great delusion of the Devil to keep people in sin to tell them they shall never be made free from sin so long as they are upon the earth and brings this Scripture to maintain it He that saith he hath no sin deceiveth himself and is a lyar but he tels them Christ dyed for all and if they can but lay hold on him by Faith he will not impute their sins unto them though they sin daily for the righteous man sins seven times a day and all the holy men of God sinned and so he takes Scripture to maintaine his kingdome and this he delivers by the mouth of his Ministers which he sends abroad to deceive the Nations leading people in blindness ful of sin and corruption ever learning and never comes to the knowledge of the Truth nor never shall doe for them and here he carries them to an easie delightsome way to the Flesh but the end is death and so heals them up in their sin with a feigned formed faith which perisheth and here they settle upon the Lees and set up a rest in the Devils Kingdom which is sin and here many are meerly blinded and hardned and all tenderness of Conscience is done away But you shall finde that he that sooths you up in this Faith is the greatest enemy of your soules and whosoever witnesseth Christ their Redeemer shal witness that he is come to destroy the works of the Devil which is sin and to redeem out of the fall out of sin and out of the Devils kingdome which is sin and all sin is in the Devils kingdome which is in the fall but for this end Christ is manifested to destroy the works of the Devil and to redeem out of the fall out of the Devils kingdome into his own kingdom and no unclean thing can enter therein but none can witnesse this Redemption but through the death and through the Crosse which Paul rejoyced in by which he was crucified to the world and the world to him and had put off the body of sin and was made free from the Law of sin which once warred against his mind which once he complained of which Scripture

the unlearned which are strangers from his conditions who reads them with the carnal eye now perverts and wrests to their own destruction and this we witness who through the Lamb our Saviour do reign above the World Death Hel and the Devil but none can witness this whose eye is outward looking at a Redeemer a farre off and still live in sin but who cannot witnesse this Redemption here must never witnesse it for as the tree falls so it lies and sin is the mark of the Beast and who lives in sin hath the mark of the Beast and bears his Image and it is written that the Beast and false Prophets and all that have his Mark or Image must be cast into the Lake that burneth and must drink of the wine of the wrath of the Almighty powred out without mixture But as for that Scripture that saith If we say we have no sin we deceive our selves and the truth is not in us All have sinned and fallen from the Lord and he that hath sin and saith he hath no sinne deceiveth himself and is a lyar but if he confesse and forsake his sin God is faithful and just to forgive him his sin and to cleanse him from all unrighteousness and this John witnessed and he that can witness this is no lyar if he say he is cleansed from all unrighteousness but witness forth the truth and a perfect Redemption and the same John sayd He that is born of God sins not neither can he sin because his seed remaineth in him and he that sinnes is of the Devil and n●ver knew God By this are the children of God and the children of the Devil made manifest this John witnessed he was no lyar neither did deceive himself but spoke the truth and the same John said God is light and in him is no darkness at all If we say we have fellowship with God and walk in darknesse we lye and doe not the truth but if we walk in the light we have fellowship one with another and the blood of Christ cleanseth us from all sin this John witnessed he was no lyar neither did deceive himself and this John sayd He that hath hope in him purifieth himself even as he is pure and faith in God purifieth the heart Now try your Faith and hope who plead for sin for sin lodgeth in the heart and while there is sin the heart is unclean now here you may see al your faith is vain your hope which doth not purifie the heart and so it is feigned hypocrites faith not faith in God and so perisheth and who can witness Christ died for them have passed through death for none can live with him but those who dye with him and this is the true Baptism to be baptized into his death by one spirit into one body and how can they that are dead to sin live any longer therein and who can witnesse this hath faith in him which purifieth the heart and removes mountains and the pure in heart sees God and this the Apostles witnessed that he was made free from sin and more than Conqueror through Faith in Christ Jesus he was no lyar and said that Christ was come to redeem unto himself a pure Church not having spot or wrinkle and though once they were sinners like the world but they were washed and cleansed by the blood of the Lord Jesus and the spirit of our God and had put off the Old man and put on the New which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness but this you are strangers from who plead for sin are such as call your selves a Church and are not but the synagogue of Sathan in whom the Prince of darknesse reigns which ruleth in the children of disobedience and as for that which blinde people calls Scripture who sayes The righteous man that is sins seven times a day there is no such Scripture for it is false but though the righteous fall he riseth again by repentance and this the holy men of God witnessed and though David through lust disobeyed the Lord and forgot his God yet he rose again by repentance and after witnessed that he walked in the midst of his house in the purenesse of his spirit and though Peter sinned through weaknesse yet he rose againe by repentance and afterward exhorted the Church to be holy as God is holy but this you cannot witness who plead for sin and are not yet come to repentance but denies Christ daily and are convinced but doth not repent but they who dwel in the righteousness of Christ sin not for they that are alive in righteousness are dead to sin and they that live in sinne are dead to righteousness but how can they that are dead to sin live any longer therein and this is the Devil which pleads for sin the enemy of the soul for by sin did he obtain his kingdome and so his kingdome stands in sin and your Teachers which tels you you can never get out of sin nor be cleansed from sin here erres not knowing the Scripture nor the power of God but denies the end of Christs coming and brings another doctrine which they have from their Father the Devil and so are the deceivers which Paul speakes of who creep into Steeple-houses leads silly people captive full of sin and corruption ever learning and never come to the knowledge of truth and so are not to be received but held as accursed for they daub you up with untempered mortar seeing vanity and divining lyes who saith the Lord saith when he never spoke to them they have healed the hurt of the people slightly and have sowed pillows under their armholes crying peace when there is no peace because they put into their mouthes and they are not ashamed neither doe they blush therefore they shall fall amongst them that fall in the day that I visit them saith the Lord And these are your Teachers that makes you habitation in your sin while you are upon the earth and so your Leaders cause you to erre but when the day of account comes wherein the bookes must be opened and every one judged out of the books according to their works by him who sits upon the white Throne and all must be cast into the Lake that burneth but those whose names are written in the book of life and then you will finde those the utter enemies of your soules who perswades your hearts in sins and he that hath no sin will be in the best condition and here all your feigned formed faith is unbottomed and all your Priests found lyars deceivers and Anti-christs in whom the false Prophet rules which deceives the Nations who must be cast also into the Lake that burneth and there tormented for ever and all that uphold him We are accused to deny Christ come in the flesh We witness the same Christ which ever was