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A85149	The Scriptures vindication against the Scotish contradictors. By one John Stalham, and as he saith, preacher of the Gospel at Edenborough in Scotland. And the other tiled [sic], A serious review of some principles of the Quakers; wherein error is discovered, and truth defended; by P.E. and written with a pen at Edenborough, printed in the year 1655, and a written name, as if it were the printer called Peter English, but no printed name; and thus they shuffle, but laid open to their shame, and truth in this short answer is defended and cleared, and their errour is discovered, and they ensnared. Who both have manifested their contradictions both to the Scriptures, and their own writings, and so have not the people which they call Quakers. / Published by a servant of the Lord Jesus, in Yorkeshire in England, known to the world by the name of Richard Farneworth.	R. F. (Richard Farnworth), d. 1666.	1655 (1655)	Wing F503; Thomason E854_9; ESTC R202120	34,303	40

saying he asserts it and the assertion is thine and not the Lords therefore thou art a lyar and false accuser of the Lord for he saith in Matthew 11.27 that no man knoweth the Son but the Father neither knoweth any man the Father save the Sonne and he to whomsoever the Son not the Scripture but the Son will reveal him here Revelation is the surer rule of knowing God witnessed also Luke 10.22 And visions are a way of God making known himselfe by as was witnessed after Moses and the Prophets and thou contradicts the Scriptures for the Lord spoke to Ananias his messenger in a vision and gave him commission to go with his message Acts 9.10 11. and that was a more sure knowlege to him then the words of Moses and the Prophets and a rule that stood firmer to him then words of other men And Paul he saw in a vision the man named Ananias come unto him ver 12. and that was more certaine then the words of others as Moses and the Prophets And Peter saw in a vision thing cleared to him which was not cleared by the writings of Moses and the Prophets Acts 10.15 16 17. and while Peter thought on the vision the spirit spoke unto him and gave him commission to go to the Gentiles ver 19 20 c. but so did not the Scriptures then the Scriptures are not a more sure or standing rule then visions and revelations by the spirit of truth are as thou sayes therefore thou art a lyar and false accuser therein for Paul knew Christ by revelation and received the Gospel by revelation as he hath certified to the brethren Ga. 1.11 12. and when Christ was revealed within him he went to preach him Gal. 1.15 16. and that was a sure rule unto him and more sure then the Scriptures for he knew much of the writings of Moses and the Prophets and letter of the Scriptures whilest he were a persecutor but then he knew not Christ revealed in him which after he did and went up to Jerusalem fourteen years after by revelation Gal. 2. and not by the Scriptures therefore the Scriptures are not so sure a rule as visions and revelations by the spirit of truth are and the Apostle knew how sure revelatitions by the spirit of truth were so he exhorted others to wait for the grace that was to be brought to them at the revelatition of Jesus Christ 1 Pet. 1.13 and the deep things of God are revealed not by the letter but by the spirit 1 Cor. 2.10 Therefore Revelations by the spirit of truth are more sure then the Letter for the righteousnesse of God is revealed from faith unto faith as faith the Scripture Rom. 1. through the Gospel and power of God unto salvation ver 16 17. Thou sayes that one saith the Scriptures are other mens words contrary to 1 Tim. 3.16 the Scripture is given by inspiration And then by a peece of logick thou wouldst raise a fals accusation against Francis Howgill and makes a false conclusion to wrest the Scriptures to serve thy own turne but cannot as for Francis Howgill saying the Scriptures are other mens words thou sets down truth defended page 6. Let the wise hearted read that Book and it clears him from thy slander which by thy logick thou wouldst cast upon him because he sayes the Scriptures are other mens words that spoke them freely and not for set wages or hundreds a year c. And further I answer Holy men of God spoke as they were moved so saith the Scripture 2 Pet. 1. and it doth not contradict the 1 Tim. 3.16 where it sayes the Scriptures are given by inspiration of God then the Scripture was inspired and that was by the spirit and spirituall men spoke forth those words Therefore they were words spoken by the men of God and so words from the spirit of truth spoken by the holy men of God other men that were holy and spoke freely and not by you that are sinfull and pleads for it and Preaches for hire the words of others as the false Prophets did therefore the Lord is against you hireling Priests in Scotland as he was against such in your nature spoken of in Scripture Read those Scriptures to be witnesse against all those Scottish Priests that Preach for hire and seeks for the fleece c. and makes a prey upon the people and seeks for their gaine from their quarter Jerem. 5.30 31. Ezek. 34. Micah 3.11 Isa 56.10 11.2 Pet. 2. Jude 11. That the Scriptures are the words of other men and not yours Read the words of the Preacher the sonne of David King in Israel Eccl. 1. Read the words also of King Lemuel and he was a man read the Prophecy that his mother taught him and she was a woman Prov. 31. The song of songs which is Solomens and he was a man Cant. 1. There is the words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah Jer. 1.1 To whom the word of the Lord came in the days of Josiah King of Judah in the 18 year of his Reigne but a Printed Bible did not come unto him neither did he nor any Prophet or Apostle that thou canst prove ever stand with a Printed Bible in his hand and say hear the word of the Lord Then the word of the Lord was declared and spoken without Printed Bibles and before Printing was invented But if Printing had not been invented what would you have Preached by that knows not the word of life which was before writing or Printing was And where thou sayes they say you have nothing to try mens Doctrine and spirit by but the letter and that your tryer is a chapter or a verse of the Scriptures no more you Scotish Preists have for thou sayes the letter is spirit or the spirit is in the letter and given by it By this thou hast manifested thy Scottish tryer and as for that saying to the Law and to the Testimony if they speak not according to it it is because there is no light in them but we speak according to it and therefore there is Light in us For God who commanded the Light to shine out of darknesse hath shined in our hearts c. 2. Cor. 4.6 7. And where thou accusest James Nayler for saying the Law of the new Covenant is written in the heart it is but to manifest thy ignorance of it and that thou art offended at James for witnessing what the Scriptures do witnes and that the Law of the new Covenant is written in the heart Jer. 31.31 c. Heb. 8 10 11. And where thou sayes for any to call the written word which is the letter of the Scripture carnall is blasphemy Here againe thou hast shewed that thou regardest not what thou sayes and art ignorant of what the Scripture it selfe faith concerning the same which speaketh of a carnall commandement but that is all one with thy other that sayes the spirit is in the letter and the letter is the word

and spirituall songs we are not against but owne and Davids prayers prophecies But your Poetry we deny and teaching people to sing lyes in hypocrisie saying they are not puft in minde when they are puft in minde and saying they have no scornfull eye when they have and much more of that nature Be ashamed lyar and give over lying Concerning Elders Ministers Maintenance Immediate calling and Immediate teaching c. Ordaining of Elders thou sayes was not by man Quoting the Discovery of the man of sinne by James Nayler Pag 38. Let the wise-hearted read that booke and it will witnesse cleare him and the truth declared in it but this I say The holy Ghost made Overseers and so Elders in the Church and that doth not contradict the Scripture but agree therewith Act. 20.28 and the holy Ghost is not such men as you are and he said Seperate mee Barnabas Saul for the worke whereunto I have appoynted them and they were sent out by the holy Ghost Act. 13. And he was not taught the Gospel which he preached of man but of God Gal 1. and so taught immediately and went after Christ was revealed in him immediately to preach the Gospel And thou sayes They say that God sends forth Immediately contrary to Gal 1. and saith there Paul speakes of a sending of man c but that Chapter may be a sufficient witnesse against thee prove thee to be a lyar of them and of that booke of the warning to Vnderbarrow by Edw Burr from which thou sayes they pretend to an Infallible Judgement to a calling not by man but Immediate as the Prophets and Apostles had whom God sends say they he sends Immediately and thou sayes that is contrary to Gal 1. here let the Scripture be a witnesse against thee that he that was Immediately called sent doth there witnesse the same and as for pretences we doe not pretend to be Immediately called and sent but we witnesse that we are and so witnesse with him that thou accusest and all thy Mediate calls sendings will not prove thee to be as Paul Timothy was that had the gift within him and the testimony by the holy Ghost as they had And for Rich Farneworth in that Booke called Light risen out of darknesse P 16. saying The Apostle had a free spirit and was chargeable to no man but preached freely he witnesseth the same and said also that he Coveted no mans silver nor gold nor apparell but preached the Gospel freely his hands ministred to his necessities That is truth and will stand as a witnesse against all proud Covetous selfe-seeking hireling Priests in Scotland elsewhere and at the Truth which witnesses against your deceit thou art offended And where thou sayes wee pretend to be Immediately taught wee doe not pretend so to be as I said before but we witnesse that we are so taught according to the promise of the Lord And thou that art not taught of him shews that thou speakes a vision of thy owne heart not from the Mouth of the Lord and for the true Prophets studying the word that is thy Imagination and contrary to Scripture for no prophecy of the Scripture came in old time by the will of man then not studied but holy men of God spoke as they were moved by the holy Ghost and the Scripture is of no private Interpretation but thou that denies immediate teachings and saith the spirit is in the letter given by it thou may well accuse us falsely that so lyes against God his Spirit to manifest to all the children of Light that thou art ignorant of him and never was called nor sent by him but ran as the false Prophets did and so doth not profit the people at all Jere 23 Chapter Concerning Questions And as for Questions The Novices shall stand for your scorners and deceivers who are puft up in Pride and Conceits And where thou sayes They deny or say Questions are of the Devill such Questions as are of the Devill we deny But we owne Questions in their place and therefore thou hast cast that out as a slaunder but it is turned backe upon thee againe receive it into thy old bottle from whence it came To that of thine concerning Civill honour c. Civillity and honour wee owne and knows to whom honour is due to whom it is not for if I honour a proud man for his pride I dishonour God in so doing for pride is one of the abominations and if I honour a covetous man and an oppressor for his covetousnesse and oppression I should offend God in so doing or if I honour the Serpent and his seed But all men that are joyned to the Lord and walke in union with him and his seed I honour love and this I speake in sincerity and yet besides all this I can love my enemies But to follow foolish idle fancies to worship men with cap and knee and flatteries as the Serpents feed doe and which thou pleads for we doe that deny against it testifie how can yee beleive that seeks honour one of another seeks not the honour that cometh of God onely Joh 5.44 and what the Scriptures doe allow we doe know without thy ranking together but where doth the Scripture say put off your hatts and flatter with your tongues as proud flesh and deceit and such as thou dost or where doth it say respect the rich and disrespect the poore Are you not partiall and of them that have mens persons in admiration because of advantage have respect to persons for selfe-ends and so are Infidells and out of the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ which is not with such respect of persons for selfe-ends and carnall considerations Concerning Oaths And where thou sayes They take up the words of Christ Math 5.34 Sweare not at all as they doe other Scriptures against his meaning as if they did absolutely exhibit all oaths before a Magistrate whereas thou sayes he forbids oaths onely by creatures heaven and earth a mans head c The same meaning thou sayes hath James Thou sayes Christ doth not forbid all oaths but by creatures onely here thou art a lyar of Christ and his words beares testimony against thee for he doth not forbid swearing by creatures onely but he forbids swearing by all things els whatsoever for he saith Sweare not at all neither by heaven for it is Gods Throne nor by earth for it is his footstoole and he that sweares not by heaven must not sweare by what is contained in it he that sweares not by earth must not sweare by what is contained in it but Christ forbids swearing by heaven and earth and so by things contained in them and likewise the Apostle James sayes Sweare not at all and if a man must not sweare at all then he must not sweare by a booke or any other thing And though thou plead against the doctrine

of Christ and saith he doth not forbid all oaths but by creatures onely yet to confute thy selfe and manifest thy contradictions thou sayes he forbids not swearing by creatures onely but all oaths and here out of confusion thou hast confest to the Truth after thou hadst contradicted it And if thou had not made swearing null and voyd by thy words in confessing that all oaths are forbidden The very expresse words of Scripture would have been a witnesse clearely in the second place against thee James 5.12 And as for this saying we take the words of Christ contrary to his meaning therein thou hast also in that cleared us and contradicted thy selfe for we take his words according to his mind and so denies oaths abides in his doctrine But the Lord hath suffered thee to lay open thy folly that by thy words thou mayest be judged knowne to be in confusion selfe contradiction and so Babylonish Take heed of uttering thy folly as thou hast done Selfe Contradictions And where thou sayes they deny the Letter of the Scriptures to be Scripture that is one of thy lyes and yet thou sayes they stick to the Letter of the Scripture Mat. 23.8 10. which saith Be not called Masters here thou hast cleared them and contradicted thy selfe againe but thou art offended that they witnesse against thy deceit and cuts of thy Mastership by thy own rule though thou wouldst cover it over yet thy covers are seen and thou art left bare And thou sayes they say he that believeth hath the witnesse in himselfe and if they say so the Scripture saith the same 1 John 5.10 herein they do not deny nor crosse the Scriptures Acknowledge thy lies error and confusion and upon them own thy condemnation for after thou hast said that they should say They deny the Letter of the Scripture to be Scripture to confute thy selfe and clear them in p. 21 thou sayes that they say the Scriptures they own to be true in themselves as they were given forth by the spirit of truth which ruled in them that gave them forth and for proof sets down Light risen out of darknesse by Richard Farneworth p. 13. here both thy own witnesse and that Book of Richard Farneworths doth witnesse aganst thee And thus thou hast cleared them from the slander that thou sought to cast upon them and art under the guilt and the pit which for others thou diggedst thou are faln in thy selfe and catcht in thy own snare and craftinesse take notice of that see how thou hast contradicted thy selfe And where thou sayes one of them saith you are ignorant of the life of the Scriptures that are ignorant of the Letter herein thou hast manifested the same therefore take thou the shame for the life from whence the Scriptures proceeded is not the Letter yet the Letter doth declare of it and such as thou art that had the Letter but were ignorant of the Life Christ said Search the Scriptures in them you think you have eternall life they testifie of me but saith he Ye will not come to me that ye might have life John 5. 39 40. And againe saith he I am the Way the Truth and the Life Joh. 14.6 And he that hath the Son hath Life but the Son is not the Letter neither is the Letter the Son yet the Letter declares of him Concerning the new Birth and the word in the heart He that believeth thay say is born of God I answer so saith the Scripture 1 John 5. and that the word of Faith is nigh in the heart is witnessed Rom. 10.8 and he that believes and is born of God knowes the seed of God within him as saith the Scripture 1 John 3.9 but he is not born of the Letter as thou wouldst have him yet he is begotten by the immortall word which endureth for ever which the Letter declares of and that doth not contradict the Scripture Therefore where thou twines about to raise a lye of them saying they say and unsay that is thy own as before is proved for thou art he that sayes and unsayes and where thou sayes take the meaning of their words that hast not the same minde knows not the meaning but wrests them as thou perverts the Scriptures and so raiseth lyes by thy imaginations to manifest also thy contradictions for thou sayes they say and say truly then they lye not neither do they say and unsay and thou sayes they say truly because the Scripture saith so then they agree with the Scripture being of God and speaking truly 1 John 4.4 5 6. and they that are of God hear his word then they crosse not the Scripture neither do they say and unsay if they say truly and as thou also say But they say truly therefore they do not say and unsay and so thou art taken with the lye againe and clears them thy self and where thou sayes they deny that in John 1.9 to be a naturall Light If we do we have warrant for it for it is the Light supernaturall John 8.12 and if one of them did say he lived in a naturall condition before his conversion is that such a strange thing such as were witnesses for God as the Apostles and others had been naturall before they were spirituall and when it pleased God to reveal his Son in them Gal. 1. he also commanded the Light to shine out of darknesse to give them the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus and they had the heavenly treasure manifested in earthen vessels 2 Cor. 4.6 7. and if it had not been there in a mystery Col. 1. 27. how could it in them have been so after manifested in them but that thou art mindfull to cavill on purpose against the work of God to shew forth the envy of thy heart against the breakings forth of Light whereby your deeds of darknesse are discoverd and against testified And where thou sayes they magnifie the Light and the Law written in the heart to judge and condemn sin then thou sayes the day of Judgment is come I answer Where Judgement is brought forth into victory sin is condemned in the flesh and there is no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit and such have boldnesse in the day of Judgement for as some mens deeds goes before hand to Judgement others they come after and therefore a day of Judgement is to come and that thou and the wicked will know to be a day of torment though the righteous may rejoyce in it Againe thou sayes They affirme that every man in his first estate may fee himse fe to be naturall but not able to judge of the things of God citing particulers concerning the Law by John Cam let that book be a witnesse to the truth against thy ignorance and sottishnes that sets thy corruptions and pleads for them the light which doth discover the naturall corruptions is not not

busie thy minde to run over the same things to shew forth thy folly and all that knows God they know that there is no other way nor Light to come to the Father by and to salvation but by Jesus Christ and if thou canst produce another way besides him and another Light pretended by thee to lead to salvation le ts know thy shallownes in it who hath set thy self to invent and follows inventions and conceits of thy braine but I see by thy Eight that thou as well as John Stalham would have a Letter Light a Letter word and so a Letter Saviour and calls Christ reason as he calls him naturall and common but for all the Scriptures you have ranked together not one of them saith that Christ the true Light is a naturall and common Light as John Stalham sayes who gives the Letter the preheminence and not Christ and so contradicts the Scriptures But thou hast manifested thy Rantisme and both of you you are found to be enemies to the Spirit and lyars of the Scriptures also And after thou hast winded about to cover thy selfe in the latter end of thy eight thou hast left thy selfe bare when all the Scriptures thou hast gathered together and thy reason will not nor cannot prove the Scriptures to be eternall life then not that word which endureth for ever nor the word by which the worlds were made nor the Spirit power of life nor Christ Jesus upon which the Prophets and Apostles were builded but thou sayes sayes falsly that the Scriptures which thou calls the Word is called the foundation of the Prophets and Apostles setting downe Eph 2.20 Now that very Scripture witnesseth against thee confutes thee for it calls Christ the foundation of the Prophets and Apostles and the chiefe corner stone in whom all the building fitly framed groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord not in the Letter but in the Lord in whom they was builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit and not through the Letter but through the Spirit Eph 2.20 21 22. And say they through him through Christ not the Scripture but through Christ They both had an accesse not by the Letter as thou affirmes but by the Spirit Eph 2 18. How hast thou uttered thy folly and lyed of the Spirit that called Christ the foundation of the Prophets and Apostle and thou says the Scriptures are and in that thou hast lyed of the Scriptures also for the words that are left upon record witnesses against thee and both thou and John Stalham have shewed your ignorance of Christ the foundation of the Prophets and Apostles your foundation is the words which witnesse against you and all lyars thou hast manifested the same that the Letter is your ground for thou saith it is the ground of your faith P 12. and so your faith is not upon Christ which is the Saints ground for they witnesse Jesus Christ to be the Author and finisher of their faith Heb 12.2 But the Scripture is your ground of faith thou says and so no Scripture no faith no faith no salvation and let all the wise in heart see if thou would not here have a letter Saviour but it is good that fooles utter their folly that others may learne to be wise And where thou art offended at thou and thee words of truth and the Scripture Language there thou crosseth the Scripture contradicts them for thou canst not shew one plain scripture in all the Bible that says you to one single person all thy twisting in the 9th is but to plead for deceit and 〈…〉 and Civill honour wee are not to learne that of one that is out of the counsell of Christ as thou art and knowes not the eternall Word which thou and John Stalham have shewed your selves Ignorant of and to be without the Spirit of Christ to guide you and such are not his And as for things that stands in the Counsell of Christ and agrees with his Word wee are subject unto and owne true and just Government and the authority But your lyes flattery and deceit and scraped up stuffe wee doe deny and against you and your deceitfull Spirits dee wee declare and testifie And as for that Booke which is without a printed Name that hath P E at it this shall be as a witnesse against it with the following words also as a conclusion against your delusion There is a Paper from the same spirit of errour and deceit comed out of Scotland without a name the Author being either convicted in his Conscience that hee hath belyed the Truth or els some shame to owne that for truth which hee hath published or some such like thing but though his name be hid his heart is uncovered to the single eyed and if Peter English be his name his spirit is weighed and tryed with the light that manifests his subtilty flattery deceit secret ennity and serpentine pollicy and hee and thou John Stalham are both in one mystery of Iniquity and because hee hath in effect or substance the same things scraped up that thou hast This which I have written shall be as a witnesse against you both and the Light in your Consciences as the booke of Concience is opened will remember you in the bed of torment and be a swift witnesse against you and be your Condemenation that hare it and set your selves to worke wickednesse and that Light which convinceth you of the evill of your wayes will let you see your selves as Conscience booke is opened to be the vilest and of the same spirit of wickednesse though under a refined subtilty that the vilest of men are and that Light which yon now hate and scorne will remember you of what against it and the Lord you have acted and done and the thoughts and intents of your hearts will be seene and discovered by it and you and all that hate it will by Christ the Light of the World be judged and rewarded according to the deeds done in your bodyes and in the day of the Lords fierce wrath you will know the Judge of hearts and that you cannot hide your selves from him all your covers will be too narrow in the day of wrath when you are cast into a bed of Torment remembered you will be now you are warned though with deceit your hearts will be filled and with subtilty against the Truth you be armed It is hard for you to kicke against p ickes But for the simple ones sake have I written this that they may be aware of your subtilty least they be deceived by you and partake of the plagues with you Written by a servant of the Lord knowne to the World by the name of Richard Farneworth From Balbie in Yorkeshire the 22th of the 4th Month. 55. 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The SCRIPTURES VINDICATION Against the Scotish Contradictors By one JOHN STALHAM and as he saith Preacher of the Gospel at Edenborough in Scotland And the other tiled A serious review of some Principles of the QVAKERS wherein error is discovered and truth defended By P. E. and written with a pen at Edenborough Printed in the year 1655 and a written name as if it were the Printer called Peter English but no Printed name and thus they shuffle but laid open to their shame and truth in this short answer is defended and cleared and their errour is discovered and they ensnared Who both have manifested their Contradictions both to the Scriptures and their own writings and so have not the people which they call Quakers For the wisdome of this World is foolishnesse with God and as it is written the Lord taketh the wise in their own craftinesse And againe the Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise that they are vaine 1 Cor 3.19 20. Published by a servant of the Lord Jesus in Yorkeshire in England known to the world by the name of RICHARD FARNEWORTH LONDON Printed for Giles Calvert at the black spread Eagle at the West end of Pauls 1655. To the honest Godly conscientious READER READER If thou would shew thy diligence so far as to take the paines to enquire and get the Books which John Stalham hath quoted in the margent of his Booke and in reading them and his and also this it will let thee see how he hath wronged them and taken here a word or two and there a word or two and mixed his deceite amongst them but however the books of themselves are clear and clears themselves of his slanders and this for the simple ones sake have I written that they may beware of his deceits and also that they may see and take notice how his imaginations though the spirit of deceit hath darkned his understanding and misinformed his minde and through the working of the spirit of deceit is his heart given over to lye slander and falsly accuse and much stuffe there in his Epistle which is made use of as a slander but it stands off from us and that with the rest of his lyes slanders and false accusations is back upon him returned And where he saith Light without Scripture in his 8 page is no light to them It is but as the rest of his sayings from that deceitful spirit that guides him And if Light without Scripture or letter be no Light to them then he knowes not the Light that was before Scripture or letter was and so is ignorant of Christ the true Light and it is no marvell that he so much opposeth the truth and the work of God that would not have God to be God and Christ to be Christ without the letter of the Scripture and if the Scriptures should be lost he would have no God nor Christ that would have none without them to wit the Scriptures And he saith Christ teacheth them not to receive salvation nor the word of life without the letter of the Scripture and because one said he spoke the word of the Lord to them as he sayes and spoke not Scripture though he spoke not contrary to Scripture as in Edward Burroughs Booke to Underbarrow yet they could not receive it and saith without Scripture the word of the Lord could not be spoken or to that effect here he would limit the spirit of God And if Samuel and the rest of the Prophets might have spoken nothing to the people but what was in Moses writings before them they might not many times have spoken the word of the Lord to the people because they spoke that which Moses had not written and if Christ and the Apostles might have spoken nothing but what they found written in Moses and the Prophets writings they might not have spoken much of what they did speak besides much which is not recorded neither in writing much that they spoke as the Scriptures witnesseth and if John in the Revelation might not have spoken any thing but what was written before he might not have spoken much of what he did but God was not to be limited neither is he now so to be limited as vaine men would have him but he reveals the deep things by his spirit and teaches by his spirit and sends forth his messengers by his spirit and guides by his spirit into all truth such as obey his Light and follow him which light is perfect in its least measure according to the manifestation and manifests the deceits of the heart and is the condemnation of those that hate it and act contrary to it and it the guide out of darknesse into the Light of life to such as follow and obey it and the spirit and power of God is the saints ground of acting now as it was both in the Prophets and Apostles which the Scriptures declares of and the Lord God and his spirit sent them to witnes his truth and not the letter Isaiah said The Lord God and his spirit sent him and that was the ground of his acting Isa 48.16 17. The spirit of Christ which was in the Prophets did teach them and by it were they acted and it did signifie to them and testified in them before hand of the sufferings of Christ and the glory that should follow 1 Pet. 10 11. and Christ gave command to his Disciples before he ascended to wait at Jerusalem till they received power from on high and then should they witnesse him to the ends of the earth and they had the letter before but the spirit was more sure and the perfect rule in the Church Acts 1. John 16 13. Rom. 8.14 And the holy Ghost sent forth workmen so did not the letter Acts 13. And the holy Ghost made ever seers in the Church of Christ so did not the letter though the letter declare of it Acts 20.28 and they that preached the Gospel preached it with the holy Ghost sent down from heaven 1 Pet. 1.14 and Christ Jesus was both the Saints ground of acting and the foundation of the Prophets and Apostles and not the letter as they in Scotland affirme yet the letter declares of it and contradicts their affirmation witnessed in Eph. 2.18 19 20. c. and Christ is the true light and lightneth every one that comes into the world and it not natural as they in Scotland affirme But the spirituall saving light to all that obey him as the Scriptures witnes contrary to their affirmitive witnessed in Joh. 1.9 Joh. 8.12 Heb. 5.8 9. and the Scriptures in the letter onely are not the true ground of the believers faith as they in Scotland affirme but Christ is the true groud of faith as the Scriptures say contrary to their affirmative witnessed in Heb. 12.2 and they have faith in God and are upheld by his power that abide in the true faith and the Spirit is not in the letter nor given by it as the Scots affirme

thou hast contradicted the Scripture which calls Christ the alone Saviour or perfect Saviour being able to save all that come unto God by him not by the Scripture but by Christ the alone and perfect Saviour of such Acts 4.11 12. Heb. 7.25 which the Scripture declareth of and he that hath the Son hath life 1 John 5.12 if he have not the letter but he that hath not the Son hath not life though he may have all the Letter And where thou sayes that Edward Burrough calls the common light the corner stone c. Thou lyes of Edward Burrough and his Book to Vnderbarrow p. 7. for there is not such a word as a common Light there stop thy mouth lyar for thou art taken with the lye in thy mouth and lyars are for the Lake Rev. 21.8 But the Scripture saith Christ is the Light and Christ is the chief corner stone Act 4.11 1 Pet. 2.6 7. and so saith Edward Burrough therefore he agrees with the Scripture and his saying as thou sayes is not contrary to Eph. 2 20. but agree therewith there againe thou art taken with another lye in thy mouth lyar be ashamed and blush And where thou wouldst slander Richard Farneworth for saying the Light is pure standing out of corruption thy slander hath no weight nor doth not harm for God is Light 1 John 1.5 and he is pure and discovers corruptions and hath no union with them therefore his Light is pure and stands out of them and what communion hath Light with darknesse as saith the Scripture 2 Cor. 6.14 And thou brings that Scripture and sayes if you beleivers say you have no sin you deceive your selves and the truth is not in you 1 John 1.8 But I say and so doth the Scripture that he that abideth in Christ sinneth not 1 John 3.6 But you Scotchmen abide not in Christ that thou calls beleivers who plead for the Devil and therefore are sinners and such as commit sin are of the Devil take notice of that 1 John 3.6 7 8 9 10. but thou commits sin and so art a servant of the Devil for thou goes on with thy lies and sayes James Nayler saith that the common Light of every man which thou calls naturall Light being followed and obeyed will lead out of the fall I charge thee here in the presence of the Lord to be a lyar of James Nayler and his Book for the words in it are not as thou sayes thou lyar and false accuser be ashamed of thy lyes but James Nayler witnesseth with Christ who is the true Light and such as obey the Light and follow Christ they are led thereby out of the fall and are saved by him and that is not contrary to Scripture but witnessed with it which thou contradicts and so sins against Scripture and against Christ that calls him a naturall Light and to manifest thy blindnesse and ignorance of the Scriptures thou sayes Where is there any Promise in Scripture of spirituall saving Light to lead man out of the fall and out of his naturall estate but a threatning thou sayes there is c. I answer If there were no Promise of spirituall saving Light to lead out of the fall man might continue in it and under the curse but there is Promises of saving Light and saving grace anexed to it and such as follow and obey the same are saved by it and led out of the fall for by grace are we saved through faith and not of our selves it is the gift of God as saith the Scripture Eph. 2. Not of works least any man should boast Eph. 2.8 9. That there is promises of saving Light in Scripture as God hath said I will give thee for a Covenant of the people for a Light to the Gentiles and this Light hath grace anexed that is a covenanting Light and salvation to the ends of the earth the Light of the Gentiles and the glory of the people Israel Isa 42.6 7. Isa 49.6 Isa 60.19 20. Luke 2.22 23. Eph. 2. Concerning the Law To that touching the Law and first Covenant of works that the Mosaicall and Leviticall Law was under that Covenant of works and all thy twisting and wresting cannot disprove it and for thy saying Adam was under a Covenant of works and the same thou canst not prove it nor Peter English to help thee but manifests your confusion therein for Peter English in his serious reveiw saith that God made Adam upright p. 7. and in a state of perfection for he saith Adam was made in a state of perfection without sin and yet to contradict himselfe and shew his confusion in p. 10 he saith that through coveteousnesse the root of all evill a breach of the 10 commandedement he fell or brake and transgressing dyed see here how Peter English hath befooled himselfe first saith he man was perfect and without sin then saith he he was coveteous and in the root of all evill what contradictions is here to himselfe and to the Scripture that saith before he so fell he knew no evill and the said Peter English a Scotchman saith further to confute himselfe and the rest with him that it cannot be said that Adam in a state of innocency was under a covenant of works p. 9. for where there is no Law there is no transgression Rom. 4.15 and the Law is not for the righteous but for the rebellions 1 Tim. 1.9 and so he saith in a sence Nayler spoke true but Peter English going about to accuse Nayler and after when he hath cleared him he confutes himselfe saying Adam was not under a covenant of works as under a Law and yet saith through a breach of the 10 commandement he broke the covenant and transgressing of which he died here he hath comed poorly off and lyed of himself and of the Scriptures and of Adam also for he said where no Law was there was no trasgression but Adam had not the Law in which the 10 commandments were given therefore he did not transgress the 10th and dye for that for it were written the Law with the 10 commandements several hundred years after Adam and not given to him in the Paradice therefore he was not under that Law and Covenant of works Lyars stop your mouths Concerning Sinne. That all the children of Light are called to judg them Priests and such as you that say the children of God are found groaning under the burden of sinne all their life time those are the words though thou wrest them that is warranted and not arroganted for groaning under sinne whilest it is working out that may be but to say that the children of God they groane under it all their life time it contradicts the Scriptures and the arrogant assertion is thy own contrary to Rom. 8. c. 1 John 3. Rev. 14. for thou sayes Paul all along in Rom. 7. from v. 14. speaks in the name of the regenerate to the end of the chapter and groans and sighs it out Oh

wretched man that I am who shall deliver me from this body of death here though Paul did cry out of the body of death he did not always groan and sigh as dissemblers and Scots doe neither did he doe it in the name of all the regenerate as thou sayes but spoke his owne condition there therefore thou hast lyed grosly therein and so art an impudent lyar And Paul did not alwayes groan under that body of sin and Law in his members but witnessed a redemption from it for which he thanked God that made him more then a conqueror and others as well as he and such did not commit sin 1 John 3.9 and then not alwayes groaning under that were delivered from it 1 John 3.1 5 6 And to manifest thy confusion thou sayes the children of God from their new birth puts of the body of sin as to guilt and reigning power and yet sin easily besets them and presseth down by the remnants of filth thou sayes and that is thy condition where it so easily besets and presseth down it reigns but it easily besets and presseth thee and you Scotchmen down that are in the filth of it and therefore you let it reigne in your mortall bodies contrary to Rom. 6. and the new birth you are ignorant of and the hope that purifieth even as he is pure as such witnessed that witnessed and witnesse that birth and are Sons 1 John 3.1 2 3 Concerning Justification and the end of the Righteous and wicked or unrighteous They deny that God Justifieth a beleiving sinner thou sayes I answer That such as are born of God doe truly beleive and faith in God purifieth their hearts and giveth them victory over the World and so frees them from sin 1 John 5. And such beleivers are Justified from sin and ungodlinesse and not in sin and ungodliness for by Christ such as are so born and beleive are Justified from all sins and such like things from which they could not be Justified by the Law of Moses and so Christ is their Justification who are Sanctified and from sin by him redeemed which sin thou art pleading for and so art an unbeleiver and not redeemed that sayes It cannot be routed out till body and soule part and faith then is sin pluckt up by the roots as the root of a wilde Figtree rooted in the joynts of a stone wall is rooted our when the wall is taken down but hath no proof for thy saying but thy pollicy and that is contrary to Scripture for it is said Mark the perfect man and behold the upright for the end of that man is peace Psal 37.37 But the wicked shall be cut off and the transgressors shall be destroyed together at their end Psal 37.38 And you that plead for sin till your latter end continueth in wickednesse and so are unregenerated and the end of the wicked shall be cut off you that continue in sin to your end are wicked transgressors and such shall be cut off destroyed together as their works are so will their end be But such as are sinners and transgressors to their end their deeds are evill so will their end be and the wicked and such like shall be turned into hell Psal 9.17 and the unclean and unrighteous shall hot inherit the Kingdome of Heaven ye unrighteous Scots look to it and read 1 Cor. 6 9.10 Rev. 21.27 And for that saying of the Priests of New-Castle that said Peter when he denyed Christ was in a state of Justification and that a man denying Christ is in a state of Justification both thy blindnesse and theirs is there seen and that Scripture which thou brings to prove Peters being in a state of Justification when he denied Christ is Luke 22.33 which speaks no such thing but of the Descipies enquirery among themselves who it should be that should betray Christ see how blinde thou art was Judas in a state of Justification when he denied Christ and betrayed him no more then Peter was when Christ called him Satan but after Peter had repented of his deniall of Christ and wept bitterly upon his return and after he were united to the Faith then Christ prayed for him And where James Nayler in the discovery of the man of sin page 29 where he askes the Priests of New-Castle if pleading for sin be a discovering of the man of sinne to strengthen the Devils Kingdome and plead for an upholding of sinne and seeking to make a cover for thy sins and theirs Thou wiests James words in thy 12 page and art ignorant also of that which discovers the man of sinne that art making covers for him and by thy pollicy thou goest about to make Christ a sinner but in that thy folly is seene and contradiction to the Scripture that saith He was make unto us sin excepted and such as are in him are redeemed out of sin and abiding in him they sinne not whosoever sinneth hath not seene him neither knowne him 1 Joh. 3.4.5.6 and sin cannot be reconciled to God nor any such imperfect thing and that doth not contradict the Scripture Revel 21.27 And as for our meaning thou speakes of thou art without our minde and so knowest not our meaning by thy Imagining therein thou shewes a spirit of errour And where thou sayest they say he that beleiveth is borne of God without Scripture and yet witnessed in Scripture is contrary to James 1.17 where it saith Of his owne will begot he us by the word of Truth and to Peter where it sayes Being borne againe by the word of God which liveth and abideth for ever 1 Pet. 1.22 23. But if thou was not blinde thou would see that thou Contradicts the Scripture and not them that attributes the worke of regeneration and the new birth to the Letter which thou cals the word and so therein denyes God who begets by his owne will by that word which liveth and abideth for ever which was in the beginning with God and was God And where thou sayes they say sin dwelleth not in act where Christ reigneth that is true for where Christ raignes the body is dead to the acts of unrighteousnesse because of sin being destroyed and the Spirit is Life because of righteousnesse Living and ruling and here thou art contradicting the Scriptures and opposing the worke of Christ which is to take away sin and such as abides in him sinnes not then sin acts not he that acts sin commits sin and there Christ raignes not but Antichrist under whose Dominion thou art that pleads for him and his worke but hee that is begotten of God keepeth himselfe and that wicked one toucheth him not and hee that acteth and doth righteousnesse is of God but hee that acteth and doth unrighteousnesse is not of God as saith the Scripture And where thou sayes they say perfection of holinesse is not reserved till after death nothing is added after death and sets downe James Naylers booke called The Discovery of the man

the wicked one knowes the father and are strong because they have overcome and are in union with him that giveth them victory and the word of God abideth in them that have so overcome 1 Joh 2.13 14. which thou art ignorant of and knowest not that pleads for sin and so for the Devill therefore his servant thou art expect his reward for doing his worke Concerning Repentance They Question that Implyeth a deniall of Repentance in such as make a trade of sinne take heed and looke to thy selfe that art so hardened in thy sins and pleads so strongly for them least thou be given over to hardnesse of heart and Repentance be hid from thee as from Esau it was for wee know that the goodnesse of God leadeth to repentance and the Scripture witnesseth the same with us therefore wee contradict it not but agree therewith and witnesse the gift from the Goodnesse Rom 2.4 But take heed that thou harden not thine heart and treasure up unto thy selfe wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous Judgement of God ver 5. And where thou sayes wee disclaime a Godly sorrow which thou calls remorse there thou hast uttered another lye but thou art accustomed to it and it is hard for thee to leave it Concerning Reading Singings and Prayer Baptisme and the Lords Suffer c. Thou would raise a slander and cast it upon us from some words which thou hast wrested in the Booke called the Standard of the Lord by C Athinson Pag 22. as if wee should deny the way and the meanes that God useth to reveale himselfe to his people by and through but that is but further to manifest thy lying and deceitful Spirit of errour and deceit for Christ is the Light to lead out of errour and deceit such as follow him into the Light of Life Joh 8.2 And he is the way to the Father and that wee owne and none can come to the Father without him and hee reveales his secrets by his Spirit even the deepe things of God 1 Cor 2.10 and no man knowes the father but the sonne and he to whosoever the sonne will reveale him And this doth not contradict the Scriptures but are witnessed by them Math 11.27 Luke 10.22 But the Scriptures are not Christ then they are not the Spirit that reveales the deepe things of God But God hath sent the Spirit of his sonne into our hearts whereby we cry Abba father Gal 4.6 and by his Spirit hee tcacheth us to profit 1 Cor 12.7 and to understand 1 Joh 5.20 and teacheth us how to read with an understanding and how to pray as wee ought Rom 8.26 1 Cor 14.15 and that doth not contradict the 2 Tim 3.15 nor Rom 10.17 nor Luke 11.13 nor James 1 6. for wee know that faith is Given by the ministry of Christ in the Spirit and that God giveth us his holy Spirit 1 John 3 24. and the wisdome which is pure peaceable Gentle and easie to be entreated James 3.17 and the fruite of righteousnesse is sowne in peace of them that make peace James 3.18 for which wee praise God and owne hearing reading and prayer and the teachings of God according to his promises Therefore thy slaunder and accusation harmeth us not But your braine Imaginations wee deny and sprinkling Infants with water which thou calls Sacramentall water but canst thou prove it yet the Baptisme by one Spirit we owne 1 Cor 12.12 13. into one body where there is one faith one Lord one Baptisme Ephes 4.4 5. and such as are baptized into Christ have put on Christ and that wee witnesse as doth the Scripture which is not Contradiction Gal 3.27 But sprinkling Infants is an Invention and none of Christs Institution But thou perverts the Scripture Act. 2.38 39. saying Be baptized every one of you you and your Children Here thou art a lyar It doth not Command Children to be baptized with water neither did they ever so baptize them that thou canst prove by one plaine Scripture and where thou sayes that one of them sayes The Lords Supper is a carnall Invention I charge thee in that to be a grosse lyar I said that your Imagination was a carnall Invention but the Lords Supper I owne and witnesse that he is come in to supp with mee Rev 3.20 And the bread which we breake it is the communion of the body of Christ and the Cup which we drinke it is the communion of the blood of Christ and as Paul said so say I Let those that are spirituall Judge what is said but thou canst not prove that Paul broke outward bread and drunke outward wine with the Corinthians nor the manner how and therefore it is thy reason that is so weake that saith The bread which you breake although it be bread in the nature and substance yet it is Spirit in the Institution c. What blasphemy is this to say that the Spirit is in the bread which is naturall in the substance here is a Papisticall tricke indeed and thy reason is very weak to carry thee out to utter thy shallownesse and emptinesse of the body and blood of Christ that would make that bread which is naturall in the substance as thou sayes the Spirit and Life of Christ and so substantiall in the Institution by yon deceivers oh Horrible delusion The Kingdome of God consists not in meate and drinke but righteousnesse peace Joy in the holy Ghost and in that kingdome wheat bread and red wine is not soules food but the pretious blood of Christ such as eate him they live on hum and dwells in him he is my meate and drinke and food for my soule to feed on and for such as are in him John 6. Who is the bread of Life And where thou sayest wee are against publique prayer these thon sayes are their very expresse words in Answer to Samuell Eaton P 26. contrary to the order 1 Cor 14 14. Here thou hast manifested thy deceitfull spirit and wronged the words in that Booke by turning them into a wrong sense by thy filthy minde to manifest thy mischeife against the Truth that is harboured in thy deceitfull heart for the words in that page thou hast cited is that wee are against a publique prayer which is in the state of the Pharisee which Christ forbids and that doth not contradict Scripture nor the counsell of Christ but agree therewith Math 6.5 but the praying with the Spirit we owne and those are the following words in that booke agrees with the saying of Christ in Math 6.6 and with the order of the Spirit in the 1 Cor 14. which is to pray with the spirit and the understanding ver 15. Therefore thy lyes and slanders harmes us not And thou sayes wee are against all Davids prayers and prophesies and singing contrary to Scripture and cites the Answer to Sam Eaton P 26. Let that Book witnesse for the truth against thy deceit singing of Psalmes and hymns