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A65609	Quakery slain irrecoverably by the principal Quakers themselves, with a spiritual sword of their own forgery, whose names are here under-written their spreading spiritual murder cries up to heaven for justice, which appears clearly in this treatise ... / written in love as a fore-warning, given to all tender-hearted seeking, unsetled Christians, by Christopher Wade.	Wade, Christopher, 17th cent.	1657 (1657)	Wing W159; ESTC R33758	58,366	66

moral Law onely are the Letter which God did write with his own finger in stone on Mount Sinai Thus strongly your confounding of ●e whole Letter of the New Testament or Gospel of which the Apostles were made able Ministers with the Letter of the Law written and engraven in stone which is called the ministration of death and the ministration of condemnation verse 9. of which killing condemning Letter the Apostles were not not made Ministers promiscuously and confusedly as if the Letter of them both are the Letter that is carnal death and killeth is by the force of your own Scripture-words by you used and abused totally confounded for ever and thereby sent back to the infernal den in which it was hatched for the New Testament is there said to be the ministration of the Spirit vers 8. and the holding forth the word of life Phil. 2.16 because the very Letter of the New Testament or Gospel containeth in it the mediate inspired teaching written Word of Christ the Word that was and is God and the Letter of the Law is in comparison to the Letter of the New Testament or Gospel affirmed to be the oldness of the letter Rom. 7.6 Do you quakers ransack thorow the whole Scripture see if you can find any Scripture that is called the letter that is carnal death killeth and it is not declared therewith That it is the letter of the Law onely And how having shewed how powerfully my Lord Jesus hath torn down this your refuge and with his written Word and Sword of his Spirit hath hewed in pieces your murthering Agag that would have murthered the holy mediate teaching use of the whole Scripture-letter I shall proceed FIFTHLY I do direct my pen to discourse with Thomas Biddal quaker who also with the four former audacious quakers doth deny the Scriptures to be the Word of God for he being with me I cited to him this place And take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit which is the word of God Ephes 6.17 I then telling him That the written word of God is the sword of the Spirit but is not the Spirit it self and that the Scriptures are the Spirits word and spiritual sword also But he answered me saying That the Spirit and the sword of the Spirit are both one and the self-same thing As if he should have said A man is his sword and his sword is the man And these ridiculous shifts they are inforced to make for fear the holy Scriptures should be proved to be the Word of God but to their perpetual shame our Saviour Christ though he was furnished in himself with superabundant ability to have confuted and confounded the devil If he had but said I Jesus say unto thee Satan yet for our examples he would not conflict against the devil with his own all-sufficient spiritual power onely without his Scripture-sword but to confound the devil withal he takes up his Spirits never-failing sword his written Scriptures and therewith he enters the lists against his powerful spiritual inverate enemy the devil and overthrows him with that his Word and written sword by his saying to the devil in his perverting of Scriptuers against him Thus it is written Thus it is written Thus it is written Satan and by his confounding the devil therewith he gratiously teacheth us even by his own example by the spirit of Faith to take up his Spirits never-failing word and sword the holy Scriptures and to fight valiantly and undantedly therewith against the devil himself in his temptations and also against the deluding assaults of Thomas Biddal and all other brain-sick quakers Satans officious servants And accordingly the Apostles did lay aside all their glorious heavenly raptures and visions in case of teaching men and confirmed their sayings with our Saviours infallible word and sword the Scriptures frequently saying Thus saith the Scriptures But what saith the Scriptures It is written and such-like expressions And it is well known That the Apostles were better taught then any quaker whatsoever Again Thomas Biddal what infernal spirit taught thee to boast That thy large railing seducing letters directed to me and others were written from thee to us from the Spirit of the Lord as if thou hadst been a Messenger sent to us immediately from the Lord whereas to thy shame the same queries that thou therein makest appear in the same words and form in a printed book written by another man to thy hand before thou wrotest thy lying letters to us Thus thy Luciferian aspiring pride appeareth further even to publick view Again Thomas Biddal whither were thy giddy brains ranged when thou saidst in my hearing That Faith and Christ are one and the same thing as thou didst say That the Spirit and the sword of the Spirit are one and the same thing What now Thomas canst thou not creep out of the road-way to hell wouldst thou make people believe thy false spirit that when St. Paul said We preach Christ crucified 1 Cor. 1.23 that Paul and other Saints meant to have said if they had not forgot it We preach Faith and it crucified What Thomas was Faith crucified for thee If thou saist That Faith is crucified to death in thee I shall readily believe thee Thomas though those thy sayings are to be abhorred And now to sum up together thine own begotten titles without addition to them thou hast proved thy self to be a very ignorant person a notorious lyer a proud luciferian and an audacious perverter of holy Scriptures and thereby art an enemy to God and his Truths and thereby also art a Traytor to mens souls And because you quakers do refuse the Gospel-imputation thou art not onely fallen under the eternal condemnation of God's Law but also thy brother quaker James Nayler's condemning sentence aforesaid fastens upon thee Thomas proving thou art a lyer and abides not in the truth but art of the devil and not of Christ Doubtless Thomas God had formerly given thee and others by thee a fair forewarning to avoid these delusions of the devil for thou Thomas Biddal some yeers now past was as appears inforced by the devil openly to declare That thou wert one of the two witnesses of God mentioned in the Revelations and thou didst thereupon make use of another man's new sackin-cloth which lay by him so far as to carry it to a Taylor a neighbour of thine thou knowest to whom and thou Tho. Biddal didst then lay a heavy severe charge upon that Taylor to make thee a suit of aparrel of that sack-cloth by such a day being within a little while after that it might be ready at that day for thee to put on and to prophesie in as being one of the two witnesses aforesaid then sent from God But that neighbour of thine the Taylor prudently discerning that thou wert deluded though he took the sack-cloth of thee to satisfie thy present resolute humour yet he totally neglected to make thy sackcloth-suit and

will tell thee That by thy taking out and adding to the words of that bock thou hast desperately involved thy self not onely to have thy part taken out of the book of Life but also to have all the plagues fall upon thee Leonard that are written in that book as is in full effect affirmed in Rev. 2.18 19. and not onely God's Law thus fiercely condemns thee and all such false quakers as thou hast proved thy self to be but also thy brother quaker James Naylers condemning Law aforesaid doth adjudge thee Leonard Fell by thy self manifested evil behaviour to be a lyer and so no abider in the truth but art of the Devil and not of Christ and because you quakers do refuse the gracious benefit of the Gospel-imputation that James Naylers censure of thee Leonard is true and just TWELFTHLY My twelfth Discourse is with thee Martha Simmonds and truely Martha thy folly is so apparent that I could almost have seemed to have thrown by my pen and have left thee to have been censured by thine own gross ignorance by thee published in print but yet I shall do thee this favour Martha to help thee to see how the Devil deludes thee if it may be Martha I finde in thy bock which thou callest A Lamentation for the lost Sheep amongst divers quakish errors by thee therein manifested as birds of a feather will flock together that even so thou Martha also hast perverted and wickedly falsified the cleer and plain sense of holy Scripture to serve thy master Satan where thou sayest Now Jesus Christ the second Adam who is God manifested in the flesh condemning sin in the flesh if thou live in him in thee and believe in him in thee thou shalt witness his power to the cutting down of thy will for thy will must come to death that the will of God may be done and so that Scripture comes to be fulfilled in thee which are the words of Christ Lo I come in the volume of thy book it is written of me to do thy will O God which is the book of conscience in thee there the will of God is to be done These be thy words Martha And now know thou and all quakers That Jesus Christ is before now come in his own distinct person of flesh without men but not come personally in yours nor any other mans body of flesh which is largely and firmly proved in my two last Discourses so that a man is not so to live in him in him nor so to believe in him in him as thou falsly saiest for you quakers Christ dwells in no man any other wayes but by Faith which is in plain and full effect proved in Ephes 3.17 neither is Christ abidingly in any man no not in God's sons but by his Spirit which is also proved in Gal. 4.6 and from this ground Christ's Spirit is called the Spirit of Faith 2 Cor. 4 4. and from thence the Saints are said to be the habition of God through to Spirit Eph. 2.22 but not whole Christ God and Man in men but by faith and his Spirit and therefore these Scriptures do confound that thy saying Martha And whereas thou saiest That that Scripture Lo I come in the volume of thy book it is written of me to do thy will O God Heb. 10.7 is to be fulfilled in men It is so evident That that will of God in that same Scripture mentioned is already fulfilled in Christs person onely and never was fulfilled in any other person nor never can be wrought over again in Christs person neither for that will of God was fulfilled by Christs death in his being sacrificed but Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more death hath no more dominion over him Rom. 6.9 This again proves cleerly That you quakers are not Christ as you brag you are for Christ now cannot die but it is apparent that you quakers do die as other men do therefore you quakers are not Christ and yet you are so impudent that you dare to say That as Christ is so are you in this world but shame attends upon you But to proceed it is evident That that will of God in that thy cited place mentioned Heb. 10.7 is not to be fulfilled in any mans person whatsoever but as that will of God hath been already perfectly fulfilled in Christ's person by his being personally sacrificed without men whereby he did put a total end to the vertues of all or any typical sacrifices And this is so evident a truth flying even in the very face of that thy false and lying saying Martha that it would be altogether superfluous any further to prove it then to intreat my Reader to peruse Heb. 10. from the 1 vers to the 12. In which space Martha's wickedly abused vers 7. is included And again Nartha whereas thou saiest That by the volume of the book in that place mentioned is meant of the volume of the book of mens consciences it is evident against the Devil speaking in thee Martha that by the volume of the book in that place mentioned is plainly meant to be the volume of the books of the Prophets for the same words written in thy cited vers Heb. 10.7 Lo I come in the volume of thy book it is written of me do appear plainly in the Prophet David's book in his Psalm 40.6 7 8. and in the volume of the Prophet Moses book and Esay 53. and divers other Prophets do in the volume of their books speak so clearly of Christ's death and being to be sacrificed that it would utterly be time lost any further to prove against thy quakish notorious lyes which thou hast learned by-heart by thy accustomed dancing after the Devil's pipe And hereby appears That by your quakers luciferian-like bragging as if you onely were in the light and yet by your falling down so extremely short in the understandings of such cleer and plain places of Scripture and by your delivering such eternally destructive Doctrine from them you deliver up your selves to be one of the most deluded and deluding miracles and monsters of the whole world THIRTEENTHLY My thirteenth Discourse is directed to the four and twentieth quaker the mighty writing quaker James Parnel And now comes his fearful blasphemies tumbling out of his Thraso-like boasting lying book which he calls A Shield of the Truth for observe my Reader and though it be one or more of the self-Christed quakers I care not for as it were passing by James Parnels murthering of himself in Colchester-Goal by his inordinate and by Scripture-condemned fasting as he said luciferian-like to shew himself to be a Prophet of the Lord for people to believe in him which was not to believe his words but to believe in him to whom he promised the eternal joyes of heaven as I finde recorded and said to be licensed according to order And passing by the numerous bulk of his great quakish errors his whole book being nothing else but lyes in

then the height of that luciferian pride fell and thy hot prophecying zeal as being one of those two witnesses sent from God was squashed and thy heavy charges laid upon thy neighbour the Taylor vanished away as if thy suit of sackcloth not being made did as Samsons hair being cut cut off the strength of thy prophetical witness-bearing for God from whom thou saidst thou wert then sent But yet the fickle unsettleness of thy brain for ought I do discern doth still remain with thee unto this day and this should be also a forewarning to the two lofty and false pretended witnesses of God now marching abroad in print named in the latter end of this Treatise And Thomas thou being drowned in such a fantastical fancy hast acrording to James Nayler's quakish humour belyed and slandered Thomas Moor that he would preach Christ out of his Saints whereas in that very page out of which thou chargest him pag. 32. Thomas Moor there speaking of Christ saith That person that is personally absent from the believer is dwelling note that in the believers heart by faith of and in him And thus thy lyes swarm about visibly and James Nayler's sentence of condemnation pronounced by him a-against such lying slanderers layeth also fast hold on thee Thomas for things also that thou art of the devil and not of Christ SIXTHLY John Barber quaker being as ignorant as the most foolish of them but as brisk as the most perkest of them his faith hanging on his neighbour Thomas Biddal's lips But John why dost thou run after to disperce quakish lyes for thou having gotten some of James Nayler's lying Libels by him framed against Thomas Moor his Opposer thou didst say unto one man unto whom thou didst deliver one of those lying books There thou maist read saidst thou that Thomas Moor hath told forty eight lyes but now James Nayler being firmly proved to be the lyer aad a foul-mouthed slanderer and a deluding person by and in Thomas Moor his Reply to James his lying Libels thou John Barber hast made thy giddy-headed rashness appear by casting in thy testimony maliciously to countenance lyes to deface the truth and thereby hast proved thy self to be an ignorant rash person and a close enemy to truth thou having said also to some of thy Opposers disdainfully Ho you look for Heaven out of the chimney-top as if there were no other Heaven but such as is in your quakers self-proved wicked bodies But behold how James Nayler's condemning Law doth lash thee also SEVENTHLY John Sparrow quaker how durst thou venture to say That Thomas Moor had told forty eight lyes whenas thou being then by one that heard thee say so required to prove but one lye of the forty eight thou durst not attempt to do that and then the same man requiring thee but to name one lye of the forty eight which thou said T. M. had told but thou couldst not do that neither what evil doomse-spirit in thee was that that did render thee up to an envious backbiter And John why didst thou with a lofty voice vapour and say You high-flown professors the time is coming and now is that you will wish that there never had been any Scriptures written or to that effect in full VVhat now John wouldst thou perswade people that God hath secretly hidden deadly spiritual poyson under his gracious Gospel published in writing Or wouldest thou declare by that thy speech That God hath mentally made a secret-snaring trap of his Scriptures to destroy mens souls and bodies for ever as men do set traps in secret places to destroy noysome vermine what desperate blasphemous poyson is wrapped up in that thy lofty speech but it appears that you maunder thus because the Scriptures will not own that mis-begotten brat of yours a third Covenant for the Scriptures will own but two Covenants one of VVorks and another of Free-grace but you quakers have carried God's first Covenant of VVorks given to Adam into the dark behinde the cloth and have there trickt and deckt it up with the titles of Christ and then you bring out that your disguised puppet a third Covenant and would have the Scriptures father it but because the Scriptures do gravely and sharply disclaim that your mis-begotten brat then as appears by your teneats and words aforesaid you would if you could murder the Scriptures and bury them in perpetual oblivion And thus John Sparrow being an envious backbiter and thereby a foul-mouthed slanderer and thereby a notorious lyer and thereby an enemy to God's Scripture-truths and thereby a traytor to mens souls and refusing the Gospel-imputation thou hast desperately thrown thy self down under not onely God's eternal condemning Law but also thy brother quaker James Nayler's condemning sentence aforesaid doth lay fast hold on thee John testifying that thou also art a lyer and so art of the devil and not of Christ EIGHTHLY Anne Blaake a principal aspiring quaker wherefore didst thou when thou wert with me and others of my Christian Frieds propound nothing nor answer nothing by Scriptures but onely with railing and hellish condemning censures why didst thou although thou saidst that the Scriptures are true yet affirm withal that the Scriptures are not thy Rule what didst thou thereby affirm less then this that thy Rule is a false Rule And when I cited this place of Scripture to thee He that believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly his faith is counted for righteousness what evil spirit provoked thee to answer wrathfully that that is a rotten foundation But Anne though that be not Christ the bottom foundation yet it is a strong doctrinal foundation that leads to build by faith on Christ's free-Grace But are the Scriptures true sayest thou and yet are some of them false or rotten in thy judgement True it is That thou hadst acknowledged that place of holy Scripture to be true and sound Doctrine then thou hadst thereby granted that you quakers must acknowledge that you have ungodliness in you or else your faith cannot be counted for righteousness but the devil taught thee to evade that to preserve your falsly supposed inherent perfection which by that Scripture is a delusion And Anne thou didst then and there say That thou art the Judge of the world not a judge or one judge of the world amongst other judges but thy luciferian spirit elevates thee to affirm That thou art the judge of the world so thou excluding not onely all other Saints but also Christ himself out of that thy Throne of judgement And George Fox doth also say That he is the judge of the world so if you were not both lyers yet one of you must needs be a great lyer and thy raging boasting behaviour was such amongst us that some did affirm That if ever they did see the devil acting in any person that he was acting in thee Anne And that thy saying not that thou shalt be but that thou art the judge of the world is

That 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 were upon the Earth and brings Scripture to prove it He that saith he hath no sin deceiveth himself and is a lyer but he to wit the Devil tells them Christ died for all and if they can but lay hold on him by Faith he will not impute their sins unto them though they sin dayly for the righteous man sins seven times a day and all the holy men of God sinned and he to wit the Devil takes Scripture to maintain his Kingdom And this he to wit the Devil delivers by the mouth of his Ministers which he to wit the Devil sends abroad to deceive the Nations These are his words onely those within the parenthesis excepted which do but lay forth his own sense which any man may easily see that reads them And now beloved note first That James Parnel doth violently strike at the very face of the Gospel of Grace for he in full effect saith that it is not onely a delusion but also it is a great delusion of the devil to teach men to know that there is no man that hath no sin in him which Gospel-Doctrine is maintained in plain and full effect in 1 Joh. 1.8 and to teach men to know That Christ died for all which are the Gospel-words of 2 Cor. 5.13 and to tell men That if they lay hold on Christ by Faith he will not impute their trespasses to them which saying is in plain and full effect maintained to be true Gospel-Faith in Rom 4.5 but James Parnel affirmeth in full effect That to teach men to know these Gospel-truths and words unaltered is no other but a great delusion of the Devil Doubtless some men do make evil of the Gospel of Grace by the Devils perverting of it to false deluding ends to them and so they are led to take liberty therefrom to continue in sin but it appears cleerly in that his aforesaid speech that this is not the mark which Iames Parnal shoots the Devils fiery darts at for he doth not finde fault that the Devil and his ministers do alter and falsifie the words of the Scripture and then use the Scripture so altered to decieve the Nations with but he luciferian-like affirmeth in full effect that it is a great delusion of the Devil to teach men by and with the plain Scripture-words unaltered and unfalsified which their toad-like venome being by them spat in the face of the Gospel of Grace appears evidently in that aforesaid speech of James Parnel's and the cause of all that their devil-like malice appears to be this because the infallible truth of the holy Gospel of Grace doth cry down their diabolically conceited-Christed Salvation by holy legal works wrought perfectly in mens bodies which is largely and firmly proved by Scriptures in this Treatise But the great and holy Apostle St. Paul that Gospel-Champion meets with them and he draws out Christs word and sword the Scriptures and therewith he strikes off the very head of that their imagined legal Christ in them at one Gospel-blow where he telleth both us and them also That he was set for the defence of the Gospel Phil. 1.17 and he saith thereto For necessity is laid upon me yea wo is unto me if preach not the Gospel 1 Cor. 9.16 Yet this their spite against the plain words of the holy Gospel-Scriptures is not the height of their malice against Gospel-truths for in that their speech aforesaid they do in full effect accuse all the holy Saints for their so freely and fully and truely acknowledging that they had sin in them which is to be seen 1 John 1.8 Eccles 7.20 1 Kings 8.46 2. Chron. 6.36 Psal 143.2 James 3.2 James 5.17 Phil. 13.12 13. 1 Cor. 4 4. and in many other places of the Scriptures but the quakers in that their aforesaid speech said in full effect that all those and all other such humble confessing Saints do teach not onely a delusion but also a great delusion of the Devil to keep people in sin and to maintain the devils kingdom by their so humbly and faithfully acknowledging that they had sin in them But now as they do vainly alledge against this in their records so methinks I hear the quakers yelling out and saying Ho Wade though St. David and St. Paul did once complain of sin in them yet after that they attained to full perfection and then they complained no more of their sin But you ignorant quakers see your folly in this also for the Prophet David doth rebuke you he saying Enter not into judgement with thy servant for in thy sight shall no man living be justified Psal 143.2 And now you quakers may see that by his affirming in full That no man living shall be justified in God's sight that the Prophet David doth even thereby acknowledge as fully that he himself could not either in or of himself in his own person be any ways justified in God's sight at any time so long as he was a living man upon the earth and this his humble and faithful plain acknowledgement doth firmly prove even against all contradiction that the Prophet David was not free from sin in him at any time whilst he live upon the earth and therefore he knowing that sin was in him that made him so affirm he did not say Blessed is the man that hath no sin nor iniquity in him but on the contrary to that he said Blessed is the man to whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity whose sin is covered Psal 32.1 2. So sin not being totally taken away but by Gospel-Grace not imputed or covered under the vertues of the precious blood of Jesus by his Gospel-Faith in Jesus And thus is fully proved that the Prophet David was never at any time free from having sin in him at any time whilst he was a living man upon the earth and thereby it is fully proved that you quakers are hellish seducing lyers And now concerning St. Paul he acknowledged that he was not free from sin even at the finishing of his course for as he affirmed he had sin in him Rom. 7. and acnowledged that he was not perfect in Phil. 3.12 13. even so along he further said I am now ready to be offered and the time of my departure is at hand I have fought a good fight I have finished my course I have kept the faith 2 Tim. 4.5 6. Now behold you quakers that St. Paul did not then even at the very finishing of his course glory that he was free from all sin in him No not one word so but he rejoycing in this onely when he had finished his course that he had kept the faith in his inward man intimating to releive him from his sin that even at the finishing of his course remained in his outward man or flesh which fully agrees to his saying in Rom. 7.25