here is say they to him the three Persons thou dreams of which thou wouldst divide out of one like a Conjurer What you foul-mouthed apostate Qâ—â—kers is the affirming that there is three Persons in the Unity of the sacred Godhead like the coâ—juration by the Devil Into what corner of Hell will you flie next for further directions do you not know that God the Father who is and ever was totally spiritual and never took upon him any Person of humanâ— nature as God the Son hath done that notwithstâ—nding God the Father is by his own Spirit in his holy Scripture set forth to be a spiritual Person where it is said in plain and full effect That God the Son is the express image of his Fathers person And if you Qâ—â—kers be not afraid that the holy Spirit doth inspire his holy servants to conjure like the Devil then you may venture upon it to read the 1 2 and 3 verses of Heb. 1. and there you may see that God the Father is affirmed to be a Person God is called Christ's Father often in Scripture And do you not know that the tide Father cannot possibly be rightly applied to a bare denomination or title onely without a Person must not any one be a Person first before he can be a Father methinks you might understand something aright And now concerning the holy Ghost Do not you know that out blessed Saviour doth often call the holy Ghost He where he saith But the Comforter which is the holy Ghost whom my Father will send in my Name He shall teach you all things John 14.26 He shall testifie of me John 15.26 And if you Quakers dare venture further then you may read John 16.13 14 15. Hah what 's that you Quakers say doth the Father send the bare name or title of the holy Ghost to teach men without a spiritual Person can the expression He be by our Saviour so often given to a bare name or title onely without a Person As for God the Son you do acknowledge that since his incarnation he is a Person but know you further That Christ is called God's Son long before he took upon him a Person of humane flesh which you may see in full effect in Psalm 2. So is proved That there was a Trinity of Spiritual Persons in the Unity of the sacred Godhead even from Eternity before Christ was born of the Virgin Mary and a bare name cannot be a Son though you Quakers blasphemously account the three Persons in blessed Unity of the sacred Godhead to be like the conjuration by the Devil And your hellâ—sh language breaketh out still more largely by your telling of Mr. Townsend in full effect therewith in the same page 10. That he is shut up with the three Persons in perpetual darkness for the lake and pit What is in this your language any less then if you said That the three Persons are shut up with Mr. Townsend in perpetual darkness for the lake and pit it can be no less Oh horrible to what blasphemous height of iniquity against the holy Trinity will you Quakers mount And yet further to avoid conjuration you do pervert the Scripture to uphold your dreamed delusions for whereas God saith Behold I am against the Prophets saith the Lord that steal my word every one from his neighbour Jer. 23.39 this place you produce as if all men that are not taught by enthusiasms without the Scriptures which with you are counted immediate Revelations from God and you cite this place as if all men that are not so taught as you are do steal their Doctrine which they teach from their neighbours onely whereas it is evident in that chap. Jer. 23. even against all contradiction that God therein reproveth the Prophets that say I have dreamed I have dreamed and then to plant in their dreamed delusions into their neighbours hearts they craftily did as you quakers do steal God's true Words from their neighbours but not to teach others therewith but to make room in their neighbours hearts to settle in their dreamed prophetical delusions and this proveth to be your diabolical conjuration And wereas you say in your first page That Moses wrote forth Scripture and not Letter but the Word Herein I have taken you in a notable lye also for could Moses write Scripture without Letters or Characters but Moses five Scripture-books written with Letters proves all your four quakers lyers Thus every way by James Naylers sentence you abide not in the truth but are of the Devil and not of Christ And as for your frequent maundring to exclude the Scriptures from being the Word of God Because say you they are not that Word which was God and because God spake to his Saints of old immediately or before Moses and the Letter was Are these good Arguments you quakers to prove that the Scriptures are not the Words or Word of God But see your wilful ignorant folly in this also for we are taught that the Scriptures are the Word of Christ who is God and that so they are the Word of God undeniably except you dare deny that Christ is God Construe this place you quakers Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs Col. 3.16 Can you not see that it is not here said Let Christ the Word God and Man dwell in you personally as you quakers falsly say in full effect that Christ doth so dwell in your bodies but contrarily the Scripture-exhortation even by the inspiration of God is this you quakers Let the word of Christ it is not Let Christ the Word dwell in you personally but Let the word of Christ dwell in you and it is in the same place of Scripture shewed what that Word of Christ is viz. psalms and hymns and spiritual songs And those spiritual songs or hymns are Scriptures and they are herein in full effect affirmed to be the Word of Christ and Christ is God therefore the Psalms or Scriptures are hereby proved to be the Word of God though the Spirit of Satan in you quakers will not say Amen to that truth because he feels that that Word of Christ the Psalms or Scriptures will and must destroy his Kingdom of deluding quakery and therefore you his servants in ordinary must though there be three sorts or several dispensation of God's minde to the sons of men in three several ages of the world that is to say First by his immediate words to his Servants until his Scriptures were written during which time his Servants declaring what God spake immediately to them was mediately their preaching of the Word of God Secondly by God's commanding Moses and his other holy Prophets to write what was his minde towards men which is the scope of Rom. 16.25 26. during all which time the Prophets declaring in writings what God spake immediately to them is the mediate Word of God Thirdly by Christ the Son
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 The Names of the twenty four Quakers who are found by their falseness to be Actors to destroy Quakery root and branch are 1. Iames Nayler 2. Iames Milner the false Christ and false Prophet 3. Richard Huberthorn 4. Christopher Atkinson 5. Iames Lancaster 6. George Witehead 7. Thomas Simmonds 8. Thomas Biddal 9. Iohn Barber 10. Iohn Sparrow 11. Anne Blake 12. George Fox 13. Francis Houghill 14. Edward Burroughs 15. Alexander Parker 16. Thomas Aldam 17. Anthony Person 18. Gervice Benson 19. Thomas Rawlinson 20. Robert Rich. 21. Robert Dring 22. Leonard Fell. 23. Martha Simmonds 24. Iames Parnel And herein is made apparent to publick view That these twenty four Quakers as a sample of the rest have manifested themselves to be amongst them notorious lyers foul-mouthed slanderers cowardly backbiters dangerous equivocating seducers palpable falsifiers of the very words of the holy Scriptures to deceive withal and in print falsifiers of their Opposers words being printed also and bold-faced perverters of holy Scriptures to deluding ends and desperate blasphemers they being undeniably tainted with these presumptuous sins even whilst they boast they have no sin in them and how they have been led to prove substantially that they themselves are of the Devil and not of Christ shewing herein also how the holy Scriptures do by apparent marks exactly set forth to view that the quakers are of those false Christs and false Prophets that shall deceive many foretold of by our blessed Saviour and how the holy Scriptures do prove that the quakers are of those that do act in the great sin against the holy Ghost their principal errors being herein also by Scriptures cleerly confuted the two false Witnesses Iohn Rove and Lodowick Muggleton whose fancies do now appear in print also who say they are taught immediately by Christ himself as the Quakers by their tenents also do but it 's shewed that their doctrines are flat contrary one to the other and yet both absolutely and horribly false and thereby also both the two Witnesses and the Quakers also are proved herein to be all of them deluding notorious lyers Written in love as a fair fore-warning given to all tender-hearted seeking unsetled Christians by Christopher Wade Then if any man shall say unto you Lo here is Christ or there believe it not for there shall arise false Christs and false prophets and shall shew great signs and wonders insomuch that if it were possible they shall deceive the very elect behold I have told you before Matth. 24.23 24 25. Take heed that no man deceive you for many shall come in my name 〈…〉 Christ and shall deceive many Matth. 24.4 5. London Printed for the Author 1657. Short Notes directing to some of the chiefest things in this Treatise JAmes Nayler quaker detected in my first and second Discourse Richard Huberthorn quaker detected also in my second Discourse James Milner quaker is detected in my third Discourse Christopher Atkinson James Lancaster George Whitehead and Thomas Simmonds quakers are detected together in my fourth Discourse Thomas Biddal quaker is detected in my fifth Discouse John Barber quaker is detected in my sixth Discourse John Sparrow quaker is detected in my seventh Discourse Anne Blake quaker is detected in my eighth Discourse Geoâ—ge Fox quaker is detected in my ninth Discourse Goerge Fox again and nine more quakers with him are detected together in my tenth Discourse Leonard Fell quaker is detected in my eleventh Discourse Martha Simmonds quaker is detected in my twelfth Discourse James Parnel quaker is detected in my thirteenth Discourse quakery it self detected more in my fourteenth Discourse the two false Witnesses John Reve and Lodowick Muggleton are detected in my Postscript 1 HOw substantially the quakers do declare themselves to be of the devil and not of Christ 2 That the quakers must upon necessity prove that notorious lying slandering cowardly backbiting deluding equivocation falsifying of the very words of the holy Scripturtes to deceive people withal and fearful blasphemies they must prove that these and such-like presumptuous transgressions are no sins or else by their being so manifestly guilty in these sins they do thereby totally destroy their quakery root and branch which is proved in the whole drift of this Treatise 3 The Scriptures proved to be the Word of God though the quakers deny it 4 That there are three dispensations of Gods minde to men approved of in the Scriptures first immediately until the Scriptures were written secondly mediately by the Prophets writings thirdly mediately by the writings of Apostles though the quakers to preserve their satanical enthusiasms from Scripture-controle will acknowledge none other but immediate revelations which is proved to be false 5 That there is no Scripture that is said to be letter that is death and killeth but the letter of the moral law and that onely though the quakers to preserve their Satanical enthusiasms do say without any distinction that the letter of the Scripture is carnal and is death and killeth but that is proved to be false 6 That the quakers do say openly that they are the way the truth and the life and that they are the judge of the world and that they are equal with God and Gods fellow and do say plainly and publickly I am Christ 7 That the quakers Doctrine is such that upon necessity they must be so grown up in quakery that they must be inabled to account of and esteem of themselves to be Christ a perfect Christ without sin or else they cannot have the least quakish hope to be saved 8 How plainly the quakers do make themselves appear to be of the false Christs and false Prophets shewing deceitful signs and wonders foretold of by our Saviour 9 That neither Christs person nor the heaven it is in is in mens bodies but is without men though the quakers tenents do falsly say that they are within men 10 That the quakers do fearfully blaspheme against the Holy Ghost and his inspired written Scriptures 11 How exactly the quakers do make themselves to be of those that do act in the great sin against the Holy Ghost 12 That the grounded language of the Scriptures do not require that a man be free from all sin in his person in his inward or outward man both in this life of mortality but that in his integrity he must be free from guile and hypocrisie in his inward man heart minde and intentions or else he cannot be saved though the quakers by their tenents do affirm that a man must be totally perfect from all sin in him even in his inward and outward man both in this life or else he cannot be saved which is proved to a hellish false delusion 13 That no man hath any cause in the least
moral Law onely are the Letter which God did write with his own finger in stone on Mount Sinai Thus strongly your confounding of â—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
Declaration against all Popery and Popish Points they thereto appeal to the presence of the living God of Heaven and Earth and in their 5 and 6 pag. they do affirm That they and every of them also do believe and know that Salvation cannot be merited by Works and all Doctrines in affirmation of the said Points they and every of them we do renounce and bear witness against and do deny all equivocation mental reservation and secret evasion whatsoever speaking the words of Truth in plainness by the help of God These be their words And now I shall make trial by their Doctrines whether these ten quakers be not such dissembling Hypocrites as James Nayler their brother quaker hath shewed himself to be yea or no. To which end we are duly to observe That George Fox their fore-man being asked as appears pag. 12. of Saul's Errand whether a believer were justified by Christ's righteousness imputed yea or no. He answered saying Every beliver is born of God and he that is born of God is justified by Christ alone without imputation These be his words And hereby George Fox their fore-man to make sure work in this query against themselves hath utterly refused all or any imputation of Christ's righteousness to be applied to the quakers for their justification even all Gospel-imputation of Christ's righteousness to them whether Christ's person be in them as they falsly say he is in them God and Man or that Christ's person be without them as in truth it is all 's one with them in this great Point of mens salvation for Gerge Fox their fore-man hath made no reserve but hath desperately refused all or any imputation of Christ's righteousness to them in general And as he in the behalf of the quakers hath totally refused the help of God's gracious Gospel so he and the other nine quakers aforenamed have together totally renounced and denied all meritorious work for mens salvation and so they have refused the help of the Law also But now see beloved what their own great writing teaching-brother quaker James Parnel doth affirm to prove all those ten quakers to be dissembling equivocating hypocrites a for he shrinks not to lay forth the true Grounds of quakery without any equivocation in his 2 page of his book called A Shield of the Truth he in the behalf of himself and all quakers there saying We to wit we quakers desire to be judged according to our fruits which is no less then if he had said We quakers desire to be judged according to our own meritorious works or fruits But yet whatever thus appears to be in the mental bosome-reserves of the aforesaid ten quakers to which but for brevity sake I could produce the testimony of more quakers yet the aforesaid ten quakers have desparately refused and cast away from their use not onely all Gospel-imputation of Christ's righteousness in general whether Christ's person be in them or without them but also all legal meritorious words as being no wayes helpful to them for their salvation And hereby they have strongly barred themselves quite out from injoying any benefit from God for their salvation either by his Law or Gospel for they have totally denied all God's revealed and established wayes which he did propound legally to Adam before his fall or hath at any time since his fall declared by his Gospel for the salvation of men and though God hath declared no other way but one of these two ways for mens salvation yet the quakers have as is afore shewed desperately shut themselves quite out from injoying any benefit from God by any of them both and yet doubtless the quakers do deludedly conceit That they shall be saved Therefore in pursute for the discovery of the depths of Satan in the quakers mystery of iniquity I am now put to search out what that hidden secret way is in which the quakers do confide for their salvation but I need not search much because I do see it appear that every quaker must be enabled to account and esteem of their particular person to be Christ or else for the causes aforesaid they cannot enjoy the least right quakish hope of Salvation I say again and shall stand to maintain it so long as God gives strength That if any quaker be not enabled by their grandsire Daemon to esteem and account of their own particular persons to be Christ who needeth not any imputation of righteousness nor any meritorious works to be applied or added to his holy eternal essential perfect divine perfection that so long as they are not so enabled to esteem of their particular persons to be Christ they cannot have the least right quakish hope to strengthen them to conclude they shall be saved but to obtain in themselves this quakish comfort it is evident that they do declare themselves to be Christ totally without sin as Christ is for so they plainly say As he is so are we in this world satanically perverting that Scripture 1 John 4.17 for that doth not say As Christ is in his glorified person in heaven without sin so are we in this world but it signifieth to us That as Christ is despised of many in this world and his Doctrine refused and by many contemned in this world and especially by the quakers that so his servants are by many despised and Doctrines contemned by many in this world and especially by the quakers in this Christian world but the quakers from that place of Scripture soar up with their Antichristian wings and affirm That they are without sin in them as some of them have said of themselves in my hearing and from hence they conclude they are Christ that needeth neither imputation of righteousness nor meritorious works to be added to them and from this ground conceited they also utterly refuse both those helps both of Gospel and Law also which is afore firmly proved from their own mouths and to say as the Truth is they to uphold their self-Christed indignity must upon urgent necessity do so for if they imbrace to them as needful for their salvation the Gospel-imputation of righteousness and meritorious works by the Law or either of them both then they do destroy totally their self-constituted perfect holy Christhood by their thereby acknowledging that they have sin in them that do stand in need of those additional helps for their Salvation and then drops not onely their self-advanced Christhoods but also therewith the devils whole kingdom of quakery is thereby totally destroyed root and branch for some of the quakers have said in my hearing That if any man have not attained to a full perfection from all sin in him before his death that that man hath lost all his labour in his striving against sin And as for your quakers satanical evasion where you affirm That though some of the servants of God fell yet by their confessing and forsaking their sin they found mercy These are your quakish confirming words And hereby your
his inspiring his holy Servants his Apostles to write his minde to men during which time also even unto the worlds end those his holy Servants his Apostles declaring in writings what Christ spake immediately to them concerning men is the mediate Word of Christ the Son of God and God and so in truth are the Words or Word of God And fourthly God's book of his glorious creatures continuing even from the creation of the World to the end thereof being subservient unto all those three dispensations of God's minde to the sons of men to make up a sweet harmony in visibly declaring of God's incomprehensible Glory Majesty Power Providence Mercy and Goodness even throughout the whole World yet notwithstanding all this though the Spirit saith in Scripture Let the word of Christ dwell in you and do not say Let Christ the Word dwell in you personally and though the Psalms or Scriptures are set forth to be the Word of Christ and though it be not said as you quakers dream That Christ the Son in his established ordinary way doth now teach men by his immediate words without the Scriptures and though it be said God who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the Fathers by the Prophets hath in these last days spoken to us by his Son note it is not said God doth speak to us by his Son as your tenents falsly say he doth now speak to men immediately but it is said God hath spoken to us by his Son Heb. 1.1 2. intimating plainly thereby That the Sons immediate speaking his minde to men in his established ordinary way of teaching them is gone and past and though it be said therewith to confirm that truth That the great Salvation at the first began to be spoken by the Lord and was confirmed to us by them that heard him which can be no otherwise since the Apostles deaths but by their Scripture-writings and though our Saviour did not say Father I pray not for these alone but also for all them that shall believe on me through mine own immediate words spoken by me to them as your quakers fantastick brains imagine but not so though that false sense is the quakers killing livelihood but according to Heb. 1.1 2 3. so also Christ the Son saith in his prayer Neither pray I for these alone but for them also which shall believe on me through their words John 17.20 so not through the Sons immediate words but through theirs his Apostles or Disciples words who at first heard the Son speak immediately to them who are to confirm those the Son's words to us which did not hear the Son speak immediately to them And fifthly though it be so that if the Apostles confirming of the Son 's immediate words to us be not taken to be by their Scripture-writings left to us that then the whole world of men that have lived ever since the Apostles died are totally deprived of the Apostles confirmation of the Son's words to us who heard not the Son speak immediately to them and so those vast multitudes of people have not had nor have not any means to know the great Salvation which the Son at first began to speak or teach to them his Apostles immediately for them to confirm to us mediately by writings which considered sheweth the vanity of the quakers deluded fancies And sixthly though St. Paul who affirmeth That he did not receive his Doctrine from man but by the Revelation of Jesus Christ Gal. 1.12 and so being an Apostle that heard the Son speak immediately at first to him also and so was one of them that did confirm those the Son's words to us in writing I say Though even he that great Apostle saith to the Thessalonians For this cause thank we God without ceasing because when ye received the word of God ye heard of us then not immediately of the Son not so but the word of God ye heard of us to wit of those that heard the Son speak to them immediately ye received it not as the word of man or our words but as it is in truth the word of God 1 Thes 2.13 And seventhly though Moses that admired pen-man of God's Works for us and minde to us hath discovered in his Scripture-writings the particulars of God's wonderful Works which he wrought in his first five days-works of Creation which were all past before any man had any being or before man was and therefore could not possibly be taught to Moses by any man but onely by God's teaching of him and though all this of God's immediate teaching Moses appeareth in his recorded written Scriptures yet even yet I say notwithstanding all these and many more such-like infallible inspired Scripture-Testimonies of God which do firmly prove That the holy Scriptures are in truth the mediate Word of God to us yet say by experiences which God hath formerly for my humiliation and instruction permitted Satan to act in my body for a time even the same strong delusions in kinde which Satan acts in your quakers bodies though my heavenly Father in great mercy hath delivered me from them yet I know that your quakers diabolical spirit in you will not permit you to acknowledge that truth though he doth give you leave frequently to affirm That the Scriptures are true as the Devil of old spake some truths to usher in his manifold deceits even so he over-powers you quakers though you say the Scriptures are true yet to deny the Scriptures to be any help in saving teachings and are led to deny in that respect the second dispensation of God's minde to men declared in the writings of his holy Prophets and also God's third dispensation of his minde to men by his inspired writings manifested by his holy Apostles And as he thereby limits the supreme holy One so he over-rules you to acknowledge but one dispensation of God's minde unto the sons of men And that by this his first dispensation of his minde to men by his immediate words that so the devil the father of lyes by his servants quakers may make elbow-room for his enthusiasms to teach men crafty devices closely contrived both to deceive themselves and others also and that his freedom in this destructive way may not be disturbed by the contradiction or controle of holy Scriptures he hath taught you the â—eâ—diest way to please him and you as cheerfully imploy your selves in his business And thus you four principal quakers have made your spiritual pestilential infectious black spots appear upon you to publick view and your brother quaker James Nayler's condemning Law aforesaid looks very fiercely upon you I 'll warrant you to justifie that you all are of the devil and not of Christ And herewith know you quakers That we your Opposers do not trust to nor expect to be taught by the Letter of the Scriptures written with ink on paper as you shrawme out against your Opposites but by the Spirit of Christ
therewith and thereon attending even on his Scriptures to convey his minde therein recorded into the hearts of all tender-hearted contrite humble persons that do abidingly wait upon his teachings for Christ said to his Disciples Go ye and teach all nations baptizing them in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy Ghost though you quakers account this Doctrine to be like conjuration by the devil but Christ did then promise them saying And lo I am with you alway even to the end of the world And it is well known That Christ was with them personally but a small time and their action of verbal ministration died with their bodies therefore Christ's promise is by his Spirit to be with their Scripture-written-Ministration always even to the end of the world which teaching of Christ's Spirit in and with those sacred Scriptures is our rejoycings though you quakers to advance your enthusiasms do turn that kinde of teaching into your own everlasting destruction And now considering it is your strongest refuge to lurk in to defend your satanical immediate enthusiasms without the Scripture frequently to cry down the teaching-use of the Letter of the Scriptures to which frantick end you in the 7 pag. of Saul's Errand do affirm That the Letter of the Scripture is carnal and the Letter is death and killeth and in this your saying you make no distinction in the Scripture-Letter but that all of it is carnal and death and killeth and yet you affirm constantly that the Scriptures are true and so hereby you do affirm That the truth is carnal and is death and killeth And now what other non-sence will you spatter out next in the tail of this And in the 21 p. of your Satan's Design you to defend your lye do say the truth That the Apostles was not Ministers of the Letter but of the Spirit But why so you brain-sick quakers but onely because you are falsly given to understand out of the Air by your high immediate enthusiasms that all your affirmed true Scripture-Letter is all of it carnal-letter and is death and killeth But now with amazement do all you quakers behold even to your everlasting shame and perdition That God's own inspired Word his holy Scriptures do as it were fiercely flie at your impudent faces rebuking you and telling you plainly That there is no Scripture-Letter that is called the Letter that is carnal and death and killeth but onely and alone the letter of the moral Law which was written and engraven in stone and that Law-letter onely and none other Scripture-Letter whatsoever is called the Letter that is carnal and death and killeth See this firmly proved against you quakers even by your own chosen place of Scripture which you have cited you endeavouring thereby to prove your great hellish lye aforesaid to be true and this your pick'd place is Heb. 7.16 and is written of Christ saying in the 15 vers That after the similitude of Melchisede◠there ariseth another priest and then in v. 16. which is the verse by them cited it is said Who is made not after the law of a carnal commandment And it is further written thus For the law made nothing perfect but the bringing in of a better hope did by the which we draw nigh unto God vers 19. So herein we have set forth plainly to our view that the Law onely is there called the Commandment that is carnal and that other Scriptures is in plain and full effect said to be the bringing in of a better hope testified in the Scripture by and in the Letter of the New Testament or Gospel of which the Apostles were made able Ministers as is shewed in full effect in the 2 Cor. 3.6 and not of the Letter of the Law or carnal Commandment aforesaid For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof Heb. 7.18 which is the very next verse but one to the quakers cited verse So that hereby the devil your Tutor as it appeareth after he hath hoodwink'd you then according to his own habitual deceitful tricks he hath led you as it were by the nose to spie out that place Heb. 7.16 and to make use of it to shew against your selves to your perpetual shame that the Letter of the Law onely includes the Commandment which is in Scripture called carnal Thus far concerning your affirming That the Letter of the Scripture without distinction is a carnal Letter which by your own proof is proved to be a hellish lye And now again you quakers concerning your other false words affirming That the Scripture-Letter is death and killeth and to prove these to be as false also I shall further note what is written where it 's said Who also hath made us able ministers of the New Testament not of the letter of the law of a carnal commandment as before but of the spirit for the letter the law of the carnal commandment killeth but the Spirit giveth life 2 Cor. 3.6 And now here again that saying of yours you quakers is brought upon the tenter-hooks where though you say That the Apostles were not Ministers of the Letter but of the Spirit and that 's true But here 's your torment augmented by your tormenting the truth of that verse by your thereby signifying That the Apostles were Ministers to teach men onely to look for the immediate speakings of the Spirit to and in them and so you would repeat over again your old satanical superstitious Beads to destroy the third dispensation of God's minde by his inspired Scriptures written for mens mediate teachings by his Apostles which their writings do contain in them literally the Letter and Letters of the New Testament or Gospel of which the Apostles were able Ministers and upon which the Apostles written Testimonies Christ by his Spirit by his own promise is alwayes with them even to the end of the World to convey the benefit of that written New Testament unto all humble waiters upon him therein which is before lately proved and your old hellish long now repeated against God's third written dispensation is also in this my fourth Discourse by Scripture-truths totally confounded And now to prove even against all denial That the Devil your Tutor befools your understandings to make use of that saying Not of the letter for the letter killeth as if thereby were declared That the whole Letter of the Scriptures is carnal and death and killeth but to confound that also it is proved plainly and firmly that next after it is said God hath made us able ministers of the New Testament not of the letter for the letter killeth then to shew even to publick view distinctly and apparently what that letter is that is death it is written immediately thereto in the very next verse thus But if the ministration of death written and engraven in stone was gloriou◠〈◊〉 And it is well known you silly quakers That the Letter of the
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
another loud lye for no Saint can be a judge of the world much less the judge of the world at any time during this their life of their mortality Thus by thy palpable luciferain pride and notorious lyes and by thy denying of a fundamental Doctrine of mens salvation denying the Gospel-imputation thou Anne Blaake hast not onely pulled the everlasting judgements of God's Law upon thee but also thy brother quaker James Nayler's condemning Law aforesaid catches fast hold on thee manifesting that thou also Anne Blaake art a lyer and abides not in the truth but art of the devil and not of Christ NINTHLY George Fox an ancient teaching quaker I finde that thou George dost not onely pervert the Scripture to destructive ends but also dost falsifie the very letter of the holy Scripture to support thy deluding quakery for I finde in a quakish book called A brief Discovery of a threefold estate of Antichrist in pag. 14. that George Fox doth agreeable to the other quakers luciferian-like affirm That he that sanctifieth and he that is sanctified is one he saith not they are both of one but is one but the Scripture saith not so but to the contrary that saith For both he that sanctifieth and they that are sanctified are both of one Heb. 2.11 which is they are all of one God or have their being from one God acceptably but are not one God as George Fox falsly saith in full effect True it is That the Saints shall be one with God and Christ in a loving acceptation on both sides and everlasting glorious community which is in full effect affirmed in John 17.21 22 23. but not one God in equality but they shall behold his glory vers 24. and they being perfect in the mutual conjunction of love with him vers 26. they shall everlastingly partake of his glory which is the chief scope of that whole chapter John 17. yet not in equality one God for God saith in a sharp reproof against such luciferian aspirers as George Fox and the quakers prove themselves to be saying I am the Lord that is my Name and my glory will I not give to another Isa 42.8 though the Creature-Saints shall be made partakers in the Creators glory in Creature-measure But George Fox affirmed and avowed he was equal with God as I finde recorded in print and to back his luciferianship he is charged That he professeth himself to be the jugde of the world not a judge but the judge But Anne Blaake saith she is the judge of the world And the Scripture proveth them both to be aspiring lyers for that doth not say That the Saints are judges of the world in this their life of mortality but that saith in the future tense The Saints shall judge the world But George Fox more fully to declare his equality with God if not his superiority he is charged in Saul's Errand pag. 7. That he said he was the way the truth the life But George know thou That he that sanctifieth and he that is sanctified is no otherwise one spirit but in that mysterious manner as the man and his wise are one flesh according to Ephes 6.31 32. neither are they any otherways of his flesh and of his bones vers 30 and 31. compared the man and his wife remaining two distinct persons still and the wife is commanded to be in subjection to her own husband 1 Pet. 3.1 but thy pretended equality destroys thy subjection to thy Sanctifier But more fully to prove his luciferianship George Fox in the 8 pag. of Saul's Errand affirmeth That he that hath the same spirit that raised up Jesus Christ is equal with God and the Saints have the same spirit in measure for God's Spirit is but one and George Fox saith in the 11 pag. That he is a Saint Thus he would again prove That he a poor wicked Creature is equal with God the Creator and if so then George Fox is the Creator of George Fox and the whole world and he intimately claimeth Christ's equality with God by his perverted citing of Phil. 2.6 7. But doubtless thou canst not be ignorant George how the devil over-powered John Gilpin to proclaim in the open street he saying I am the way the truth and the life And how he said in full effect That he was Christ And James Milner hath proved himself to be a false Christ So that by these mad frantick passages you quakers appear much like William Hacket who in the yeer 1541. eaused himself to be proclaimed in London-streets to be Jesus Christ came with his Fan in his hand to judge the world and he pretended that no body could kill him but they hanged him to death on a Gibbet in Cheap-side he uttering horrible blasphemies against the Majesty of God See Mr. Samuel Clark's book intituled A Mirror or Looking-glass pag. 225. printed 1654. Thus George Fox because of thy personal facts of notorious lying falsifying and perverting of holy Scripture and by thy luciferian pride in all these thou shewing thy self to be an enemy to God and his Truths and to mens souls and by thy desperately refusing the gracious relief of the Gospel-imputation thou George Fox also art not onely condemned by God's Law but also thy brother quaker James Nayler's law aforesaid adjudges thee that thou art a lyer and so abides not in the truth but art of the devil and not of Christ And it yet more manifestly appears That thou George Fox art of the devil and not of Christ because though God inspiredly saith in Scriptures For not onely some but all Scriptures are given by inspiration 2 Tim. 3.16 and that saith Thar even the Saints themselves are not God's Sons any other wayes but by adoption onely by Christ note that you quakers not as being Christ as you foolishly fancy but by Christ for it 's written Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ Ephes 1.5 see this confirmed Gal. 4.5 Rom. 8.23 And Creature-adopted Sons cannot be equal with their heavenly uncreated Father who vouchsafeth by free-Grace by and in his Son Christ to adopt them to be his Sons in acceptation onely Neither can any Creature-adopted Sons be equal with God's onely begotten Son the Creator of all adopted Sons and all other things both in Heaven and in Earth also therefore by thy making no reserve or distinction in thy pretended equality with God sheweth against all contradiction that thy brother quaker James Nayler is not mistaken in the least measure in his condemning censure aforesaid to adjudge all such Luciferians as thou George Fox hast proved thy self to be that you are all lyers and not abiders in the Truth but are all of the devil and not of Christ TENTHLY I shall direct my pen to speak with George Fox again and Francis Hougill Edward Burroughs Alexander Parker Thomas Aldam Anthony Peirson Gervice Benson Thomas Rawlinson Robert Rich and Robert Dring These ten principal quakers in a book intituled A
deceitful Tutor hath given you the slip again and hath enforced your own tongues to betray you again and to publish your own perpetual shame for by that your saying you do acknowledge in full effect with James Parnel your brother quaker aforesaid That your own confessing and forsaking your sins if you did so are and can be no other but your own meritorious works or fruits meriting and deserving mercy for you said That by their confessing and forsaking their sin they found mercy And thus you again tender up the aforenamed ten principal quakers to be dissembling equivocating hypocrits by your affirming as being ing quakers That salvation cannot be merited by works but the devil leaves you not here neither but by that your affirmation he hath enforced you quakers most shamefully to pervert that inspired holy Scripture Prov. 28.13 for you over-stare Solomon's ground first laid for that his affirmation he first teaching men how to honour God in a right manner saying Honour the Lord thy God with thy substance and with the first fruits of thine encrease Prov. 3.9 hereby letting us know That God is not honoured except a man do first perform his Gospel-duties by God at that time established by mens obediently offering up to him typical sacrifices and oblations out of mens substance and first fruits of their encrease then typifying Christ to be sacrificed and his blood to be shed And it appears that if men then did not at first not only confess but also forsake their supreme sin against the Gospel of Grace and then obediently offer up to God in the very manner by him prescribed sacrifices oblations and offerings then typifying Christ to be offered up to God his Father and to be sacrificed for mens sins that that man neglecting that Gospel-duty was to be cut off from amongst his people according to Lev. 17.8 9. and they were also to bear their iniquity still Lev. 7.18 whatsoever their confessing and forsaking their other legal sins were And thus is proved that you quakers by your refusing the Gospel-imputation of the vertues of Christ lifted up and sacrificed without you for your sins as those typical sacrifices and Moses typically lifting up the brazen Serpent in the wilderness were all performed without men for mens healing And by your wilful persisting in the supreme Gospel-sin aforesaid you quakers confiding in your own meritorious confessing and forsaking your sin if in truth you do so as in truth you do not yet even by that performance you have cut your selves off from amongst God's people and whatsoeuer you fantastically fancy to the contrary you do bear your iniquities still even in your own self-Christed condition and by Scripture all legal exhortations in Scripture are to be subjected under the aforesaid supreme Gospel-sence for without mens confiding in the Gospel-Faith in Christ's blood shed all the quakers-Christs and all the quakers or any other man's Reformation is in Gods sight no other but noysome deformation for God himself inspiredly tells us plainly That without shedding of blood is no remission Heb. 9.22 you quakers And you quakers say That your man Christ in you is spiritual and a Spirit cannot die nor have his blood shed as when our Saviour's person was spirituallized in by and at his Resurrection it was impossible for him to die or have his blood to be shed again see Rom. 6.9 the vertues of which his blood shed you having desperately refused for your justification you having made it appear That your supposed Man Christ in you cannot possibly have his blood shed in you for your sins acted by you both before and more presumptiously now in your self Christed-quakery so that you have neither the vertues of Christ's real bloodshed without you nor within you to appear for your justification and therefore you cannot possibly confide in the vertues of any blood shed And thus you have again firmly staked down your luciferian Christs to be justified only by your own Popish works in your own confessing your legal sins and your supposed meritorious forsaking them and thereby you have rendred up again the forenamed ten quakers to be dissembling equivocating hypocrites for behold you quakers if you have but one corner of a seeing eye left you to look out of your selves by what God inspiredly saith in his Scriptures which you frequently acknowledge are true see I say how highly God doth by them advance Christ's death and bloodshed and doth totally exclude works whether wrought by men or by any spirit in men whatsoever for mens justification in Rom. 3.24 25. Or secondly for the forgiveness of mens sins Ephes 1.7 Or thirdly for the doctrinal foundation of mens faith see Ephes 2.8 Or fourthly for mens reconciliation to God see Rom. 5.10 Col. 1.19 Or fifthly for mens Redemption see Ephes 1.7 1 Pet. 1.13 Or sixthy for the onely way for mens encouragement to enter by Faith even into the holy place before God Heb. 10.19 All which places and very many more such are fastned to mens faith in Christ's death and blood shed without men and they are all confirmed by that grand Scripture-principle That without shedding of blood is no remission Heb. 9.22 and works are totally excluded Blood is blood you quakers and works are works but they are not Christ's is blood And yet you high-flown quaking Christs are so stifned in impudency that you are not ashamed to establish your Christed indignity by popish meritorious works and yet desperately to face it out and in full effect calling the living God of heaven and earth to testifie for you that you mean no such matter But know you quakers That though it is written Work out your own salvation Phil. 2.12 yet the Apostle in the very next Chapter sheweth how they should work that out he telling them that they were to work or strive for the Faith of the Gospel Phil. 1.27 through Faith in Christ's blood Rom. 3.25 but not of works Ephes 2.8 And beloved the quakers choice principle being That every believer is justified by Christ alone without Imputation There is in this also included That as Christ himself hath authority to execute judgement because he is the Son of man John 5.27 and so hath power to forgive sins on earth Matth. 9.6 that so every quaker Christ man or woman must upon necessity conclude that they have authority to judge and justifie their own particular persons to be as free from all sin in them as Christ himself is and thereby they justifie themselves to be Christ for they refuse any Christ to be without them to judge and justifie them And thus that dark speech aforesaid comes forth cleered shewing how and by what authority every believer to wit every believing quaker do justifie themselves and so every such believer is justified by a self-quaker-Christ alone without any imputation which being done then there is a quakers self-constituted Christ holy and perfect in all respects inherently without any additional imputation of
any others righteousness to their imagined perfect perfection And thus they make themselves to be bran-new coyned glistering Christs without meritorious works also for they new being Christ assume to themselves authority to justifie their own Christhoods without merit or forgiveness from any God or Christ without or besides their own now Christes selves And further to confirm all this they affirm That Christ had no Body but his Church which is shewed in my next Discourse And now to shew that their own actions and words do confirm all this to be true which hath been said of them observe that they the quakers though some of them being not yet ripe quakers are something mealy mouthed yet that there are many bold-faced quakers that speak out and declare openly saying I am the way the truth and the life I am the judge of the world I am equal with God I am God's fellow I am God And as I have shewed That divers quakers have been upon evidence charged that they have thus spoken openly in full effect So I shall passing by James Milner and John Gilpin while he was a quaker though all their sayings are no less then if they did say I am Christ yet now I will for brevity sake onely produce one quaker from amongst the rest that did very lately proclaim openly in divers place in Cambridge-Market upon a Market-day which Town is about 3 miles from me the quaker then and there declared publickly with a loud voice saying I am Christ take my yoke upon you learn of me for I am meek and lowly of heart The quaker taking up Christ's own words by him spoken as in Mat. 11.29 and by that quakers saying directly I am Christ it being suitable to the other quakers affirmations it appears there are many quaker-Christs and how they come to be so in their own estimation is before herein laid open even to publick view Some of them having also undertaken to save souls as Christ did And now it is worthy to be treasured up in the memory of all honest hearts how agreeable all these the quakers publick behaviours and declarations are to our Saviour's loving forewarning by him given and left to the world for men to take heed of such deceivers which he then said should arise in the world where he saith Let no man deceive you for many shall come in my Name saying as it is proved they say I am Christ those being the very same words which these deceivers apply to themselves and shall deceive many Matth. â—4 4 5. And further to prove that the quakers are deceivers note that they say they have no sin in them and they say also by their tenents That a man must be totally perfect from all sin in him or else he cannot be saved But now behold how flat contrary and against the Scriptures these their sayings are where it is said There is no man that sinneth not 1 Kings 8.46 There is no man that sinneth not 2 Chron. 6.26 and that there is not a just man upon the earth that doeth good and sinneth not Eccles 7.20 I could produce many other Testimonies from the Saints words they frequently confessing they were sinners but if we will believe God's own inspired Word before we give credence to such luciferian and as we have before proved dissembling equivocating hypocrites falsifiers of Scripture-words and notorious lying quakers then shall we apparently know That they are the very same deceivers which our Saviour forewarns us to take heed of for he saith they shall deceive many and accordingly it is very evident that they do deceive many And our Saviour goeth on and saith Then if any man say to you Lo here is Christ as they say I am Christ or lo he is there believe it not for false Christs shall arise and false Prophets and shall shew signs and wonders to deceive if it were possible the very elect but take ye heed behold I have shewed you all things before Mar. 13.21 22 23. Now the quakers many Christs being proved by holy Scripture to be false Christs let us apply to that truth the quakers proving themselves to be false Prophets also which is proved in my third Discourse and their striving to be accounted the Prophets of the Lord which appears in my thirteenth Discourse and adding thereto their Scripture-condemning signs and wonders which are shewed at the quakers meetings and preachings which is shewed by complaints made against them related in a printed book called Saul's Errand those tormenting signs and wonders being acted upon the bodies not onely of elder people but also upon and in the bodies of little children which the quakers do not deny And considering their astonishing signs and wonders shewed at their meeting which appears in my fourteenth Discourse These things being viewed together it will appear cleerly That all those three marks by which our Saviour discovers these deceivers he speaks of that is to say False Christs secondly false Prophets thirdly shewing signs and wonders are all firmly fixed by the quakers behaviours upon themselves That they are false Christs and false Prophets shewing deceitful signs and wonders And now if we do take notice in John Gilpin's printed book before named in my third Discourse That he therein affirmeth that the Devil did declare to him John Gilpin when he was a quaker in divers sorts of discoveries confirmed by a voice in him that he the devil was Christ in him and how that when the Devil did finde that John Gilpin did distrust it was he spake in him and not Christ as that voice in him pretended and that thereupon John Gilpin declined from the Devil and the quakers that then the Devil to draw John Gilpin into utter desparation on the other hand did acknowledge plainly that he was the Devil that had taught him and that he had been serving him the Devil and not Christ and that the Devil did tell him in full effect therewith that now it was too late for him to repent there was no mercy for him But John Gilpin in that book giveth God thanks for his great mercy in delivering him from the Devil and quakery And thus we have the Devils own testimony That it was he the Devil and not Christ that so powerfully acted in John Gilpin whilst he was a quaker And so in this discovery we have the Devils own testimony against the quakers Again calling to minde that James Nayler a principal teaching quaker hath so firmly proved by his own behaviour and divers other quakers and thereby hath adjudged himself and them also to be lyers and so not abiders in the truth and so are of the Devil and not of Christ by this we have the quakers own confession condemning themselves also So that now we have first Christ's own testimony pointed forth by three several marks secondly the consent of the Scriptures thirdly the quakers own confession and self-adjudgment and fourthly the testimony of the devil himself enforced as
is before shewed to speak the truth That in truth the quakers are of the very same many false Christs and false Prophets shewing signs and wonders for setting the quakers aside where is to be found in all the whole world any people professing Christianity as the quakers in a false way do that do declare themselves to be Christ and do apply to themselves Christ's titles and do take upon them to save souls and do declare themselves to be Prophets and do show signs and wonders as the quakers and no other people besides them in the whole Christian world do All which as it confirmeth the quakers censure That the quakers are of the Devil and not of Christ so is further still discovered that the ten forenamed quakers are lying dissembling equivocating deluding hypocrites And I will add nothing to their own begotten titles ELEVENTHLY I say to thee Leonard Fell That whereas thou art charged in the 9 pag. of Saul's Errand that thou Leonard Fell didst say That Christ had no Body but his Church and thou ownest those words to be thy words by thy thereto stifly endeavouring to prove those same words to be true and rather then fail thou hast wickedly falsified the very words of holy Scripture to prove that thy false saying to be true for where the Scripture saith God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself not imputing their trespasses unto them 2 Cor. 5.19 and though thou citest that place for thy proof yet thy deluding Tutor hath overcome thee to maintain his false quakery to render that place to be thus Thou having first said Christ came to redeem his Church which is a truth and as the Devil doth sometime say the truth the more easily thereby to deceive even so thou dost Leonard for closely following that truth thou trailest in thy falshood affirming That God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself for his body sake which is his 〈◊〉 And thus as if thy fingers were lime-twigs thou hast dragged these true words not imputing their trespasses to them out of that place which words concern the world and then thou hast Daemon-like craftily added unto that place in the room of those words which thou hast stollen out these words for his Bodies sake which is his Church which is flat contrary to that Text for those words by thee foysted into that place concerns his Church onely but the Text concerns the world But had Christ no Body but his Church sayst thou Leonard Why Leonard you quakers say That Christ is in your bodies God and Man Now Leonard hath Christ as you say he is Man in you no Body of his own in you but your bodies how can he then possibly be Christ-Man in you or within your bodies Again Leonard you quakers do frequently acknowledge both in writings and verbal words That Christ did personally at Jerusalem though you say as Christ-flesh is without men he is their example onely But had Christ no Body but his Church when he died at Jerusalem then if that saying of yours were true That Christ had no Body but his Church it could be no other but that his Church being his onely Body was slain and put to death on the cross at Jerusalem Fie fie you quakers when will you leave off your ridiculous foolishness But note my beloved that by their saying That they have Christ God and man in them and by their saying That Christ had no Body but his Church which is no other but this That Christ had no Body but his Saints bodies for his Saints are his Church and they say That they are his Saints and every ripe quaker doth say That Christ is in them as their tenents do declare Now these their sayings being compared together doth make manifest That every ripe quaker in their particular bodies are Christ for they plainly affirm That Christ had no body but his Church to wit in full effect he had no body but theirs his Saints bodies and so they would prove their own bodies to be Christ or else Christ had no body at all And this Logick of theirs doth so fully again discover that which is said of them in my last Discourse concerning their proclaiming themselves to be Christ their attributing to themselves Christs power and titles that it is worthy of much observation But know all you quakers That God's inspired Word his holy Scriptures are so far contrary to your satanical enthusemiated teachings that they do not onely deny that your bodies are Christ's body but they also do deny that Christ's person or body is in your bodies which to your shame and utter confusion you may behold where it is said plainly by two Messengers as it appears sent from Heaven in white apaâ—â—â— which also said Ye men of Galilee why stand ye gazing up into heaven this same Jesus which is taken up from you into heaven shall so come in like manner as ye have seen him go into heaven Acts 1.10 11. And this place alone is altogether sufficient utterly to destroy your vainly conceited personal Man-Christ in you and also to pull down your spacious heaven which by your devil like perverting the holy Scripture you besotted quakers do imagine to be in your self-proved wicked bodies and to the very same end do you a spiring quakers vouchsafe to look down into these Scriptures Mat. 24.30 and 26.64 Mark 13.26 1 Thes 4 17. Rev. 1.7 1 Pet. 3.23 Phil. 3.20 Titus 3.13 1 John 3.2 And also know all you quakers That your betters and better taught even of God though you are taught of the Devil do say The holy Ghost is sent down from heaven 1 Pet. 1.12 and that Jesus Christ is gone into heaven and is on the right hand of God 1 Pet. 3.22 then neither God's essence nor the heaven in which God's essence is nor Christs person was in Peters holy body though your tenents brag that all these are in your bodies Again you quakers holy St. Paul said Our conversation is in heaven from whence also we look for the Saviour the Lord Jesus Christ Phil. 3.20 then Christ's person nor the heaven which it is in was not in St. Pauls body Again you quakers St. Paul doth yet strike more fiercely at that your conceited Man-Christ in you where he saith Whilst we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord 2 Cor. 5.6 and he explaineth what he means by the word body he calling it Our earthly house of this tabernacle vers 1. And by the bright and warm Scripture sun-beams your quakers Heaven and God and Man-Christ in you are vanished away into a noysome and stinking hellish fog and the Devil is laid open speaking in thee Leonard Fell by thy saying That Christ had no body but his Church and by thy so Daemon-like falsifying the words of the holy Scripture to face out thy lyes to be as if they were truth so fathering thy lyes upon God himself But Leonard I
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
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-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
the quakers malicious iniquity for in that their speech aforesaid they have in a high manner blasphemously seized upon the Holy Ghost himself also for they in that their speech have in full effect charged upon the Holy Ghost that he is the chiefest supreme Teacher not onely of a delusion but also of a great delusion of the Devil to maintain the Devils Kingdom by his the Holy Ghosts inspiring and thereby teaching all the Holy Saints aforesaid and all other such so humbly and faithfully to acknowledge that they had sin in them even when they were born of God and by his inspiredly teaching them to affirm that there is no man that sinneth not 1 King 8.46 2 Cor. 6.36 and also that there is not a just man upon earth that doth good and sinneth not Eccles 7.20 And now this their fearful blasphemy against the Holy Ghost himself being considered on and how fearfully the quakers I say the quakers because it is evident that they do highly esteem of that blasphemous book of James Parnel's now considering that therein they have also fearfully blasphemed against the Holy Ghosts teachings in the Scriptures they in full effect counting those Gospel-Scriptures not to be fitted by the Holy Ghost for any mans benefit but for the devil to take up unâ—â—ered to maintain his the Devils kingdom and also noting that they have therein so horribly blasphemed against the Gospel precious vertues of Christ's death and blood shed and observing that they have audaciously affronted if not blasphemed against the whole Trinity which appears in full effect in my fourth Discourse and considering how they are proved to be of those false Christs and false Prophets shewing false signs and wonders in my tenth Discourse and also considering that they have made it manifest in their Doctrines which are in the Treatise detected That they have trodden under foot the Son of God and do count the blood of the Covenant an unholy thing and that they do despite the Spirit of Grace these being the three marks appropriated to discover the sin against the Holy Ghost which is in full effect shewed in Heb. 10.29 and noting therewith how the quakers have from their own presumptuous wicked personal facts in full effect adjudged themselves to be of the Devil and not of Christ which appears evidently in my second Discourse and considering also that it is very well known that very many of them if not all of them have not onely received the knowledge of the Truth but have also been professors of the same before they were quakers but now they be fallen away from the Truth see how apparently all those destructive marks are found upon them that are mentioned in Heb. 10. from the 26 to the 31 vers It appears by and in all these respects and many other in this Treatise appearing that they the quakers are not onely of the false Christs and false Prophets aforesaid but also they the quakers are acting in the great and unpardonable sin against the Holy Ghost and that they so persisting will run themselves unpardonably into the everlasting fearful curses thereto belonging notwithstanding whatsoever they are over-powered to conceit of themselves to the contrary And now thou James Nayler hast stopped thine own mouth from ever again uttering forth such a proud Goliah-like challenge as thou hast done where thou in the 23 pag. of thy Satan's Design discovered sayest And though we be counted the greatest offenders that ever was in the whole world by the heads of Sects yet is there not one of you that is able nor willing to judge us and our practice and judgement with the practice of the Saints in which they walked and plain Scriptures without meanings This is thy haughty challenge Iames. But now do you note That you quakers your own selves have even totally spared your Opposers that labour to judge you by the practice of the Saints which they have walked in for by your undeniable numerous presumptuous sins of your personal facts and false Doctrines you quakers have made it so manifest even against your own selves that you do walk in such notorious presumptuous sins which the Saints practised not which appears fully and truly in this Treatise that there is no need at all no not in the least measure for your Opposers to bring Scriptures neither with meanings nor without meanings to prove that over again which you have already so cleerly and firmly proved against your own selves that you quakers do walk in many notorious wicked practices even in a full affronting direct opposition against and quite contrary to the Saints practice and yet to make more sure work totally to spare your Opposers that labour Satan thy Master James hath exalted thee to be the Judge James in this cause and by thine own and the other quakers notorious presumptious sins though lurking under your outward glistering varnish yet judiciously to condemn thy self James and all them also to be lyers and so not abiders in the truth and so that thou and they also are of the devil and not of Christ which appears by thine own just law James by me related in thine own words in my second Discourse And thus thou thy self James hast made that thy aforesaid vaunting challenge not onely frivilous but ridiculous also And now considering that you sinful quakers do refuse the gracious help of the Gospel imputation I am constrained to leave you all under the justness of your brother quaker James Naylers fiery condemnation aforesaid And as for your thundring out severe charges and threatning fearful curses in print in full effect against all men that do oppose your quakery know all you quakers that I do set them all as light as levity it self even to be as ayry as your quakish legal couzen ing German the Popes roaring bulls and cursings with Bell Book and Candle for in the presence of my God who knoweth the truth hereof I do affirm as is before somewhat touched That he my heavenly Father for my humiliation and instruction hath formerly permitted the Devil to exercise his enthusiasms and seeming heavenly joys and speaking-voyces in me and to work his powerful quakish temptations in me distinctly as it were step by step even in the same manner that he the Devil doth now act and speak in you quakers and doth thereby teach you and over-rule you and deceive you quakers and doth also by permission thereby enable you to deceive others also And but for brevity sake I would relate at large the particular quakish gradations of the Devils former works in me how he would have perswaded me that I was Christ and he falling in that how he would have over-power me to believe that I should be a great admired Prophet and many other quakish luciferian exaltations he would have powerfully-fastned on me and in me sutably to the same order without Scripture-warrant even as he doth now work in all deceiveableness in you quakers and how that
after the Devil found that my merciful heavenly Father would not permit any of his quakish luciferian exaltations to rest in me to work my eternal destruction then the Devil with great violence flew at my person and would at two several times have strangled me in my throat to death so that it appears the Devil intended that I should never speak more in this world for had not my gracious God rescued me out of the Devils claws my body had then perished for my life was very neer lost at both those his violent assâ—ults upon my person and at his departure from me he stroke me within my brest so that it smarted about a quarter of an hour after and also the Devil did therewith cast into me a strange foul noysome taste and smell which continued in me about a quarter of an hour also but the particulars at large of the Devils other manifold strong quakish delusions wrought in me are too many here to recite and although it hath pleased my heavenly Father out of his abundant mercy notwithstanding my great unworthiness totally and cleerly to deliver me not onely out of the devils priding quakish exaltations but also to rescue my person out of the devils devouring jaws yet still by those my former inward experiences in those the Devils subtil flattering powerful and destructive quakish delusions now by him exercised in you quakers I am by meer Grace inabled to know your quakers conditions and that by Satans spirit speaking in you as he hath formerly done in me you are over-powered deluded and hellishly snared notwithstanding the Devils false glistering varnish glittering on you And now I neither care nor fear in the least neither your quakers curses nor what any other man will censure of me for this my short Relation because my heavenly Fathers approbation in my conscience is contentedly in me sound satisfaction in full And now I am by the means aforesaid and other gracious helps so sensible of mine own unability and am so confident in my Lord Christ his gracious assistance whose person is in heaven without you and me that I could wish that thou James Nayler couldst if thou hast a stomack to it exercise thy pen to declare what thou canst do against me that am directly against all quakery for notwithstanding this my experimental warning fairly and faithfully given you yet I do conjecture that you quakers will roar for I see by your books that you quakers can can scould tantara against the Truth but I care not at all for that neither for these three evident causes first because you have behaved your selves so falsly already that your foul tongues are no slander although you would yet further slander with them Secondly because I do see that you quakers have your own selves set the antichristian brand so hard on and so fiery-hot upon your selves that that mark will remain to be seen fairly upon you quakers when you have done roaring Thirdly because I see that the more you write the more you discover your own shame and foolishness and that thereby you do give your Opposers more and more advantage to point out your quakers manifold quakish stumblings even quite out of all saving truths Again whereas you quakers do by your tenents affirm constanly in full effect that Christ in his flesh without men did not die at Jerusalem for any mans Gospel-justification before God the Father but that Christ did die in his person of flesh without men at Jerusalem for mens examples onely for men to learn and work in themselves by that his outward example patience meekness temperance and such-like holiness And secondly by your affirming in your tenents in full effect That men cannot work in themselves any perfect holy saving works by any outward example whatsoever set before them no saith your Doctrine men themselves cannot so work no say you therein it must be Christ onely that must work perfect holy saving works in men by his spiritual power alone or else men cannot be saved Now from these your sayings being compared together I do stand to maintain against you quakers that you must prove I say again if you will endeavor to support your rotten quakery you must prove by Scripture That Christ the Son of God and Creator of Heaven and Earth and all things which are therein was and is not able by his spiri ual power onely to work perfect holy saving works in men although â—e had never suffered in his tormenting death and blood shed even as perfectly by his spiritual power in men if that could have satisfied his Fathers justice for mens sins as if he had died for mens outward example onely a thousand times over as he established all the holy elect Angels by his spiritual power onely without any relation to the vertues of his personal death and dloodshed Therefore I say again if you quakers cannot prove by plain Scriptures That Christ the Son of God he being God was and is not able by his spiritual power alone to work saving perfect holy works in men although he had never suffered in his tormenting death and blood shed onely to purchase an outward example for men to look on and learn by onely to make themselves savingly holy you do not onely confute your selves in your aforesaid Doctrine which is that no man can do that but you do also therewith shew evidently that your quakery doth maintain that Christ did die absolutely and in all respects totally in vain I do acknowledge you quakers that Christ by his meekness patience and holiness shewed forth by him in his sufferings and death is our example and that he doth say Be ye holy for I am holy but it is firmly proved by Scriptures and the holy Saints in their inward man and yet confessing that they had sin remaining in their rebellious outward man even when they were born of God and that they were not free from sin in them at any time in this their life upon earth no not at their finishing their course and that it is God's permission that so it should be even in the Saints outward man or flesh for their humiliation and the preservation of the glory of his Gospel-free-grace to himself all which is proved so largely in my thirteenth Discourse by Scriptures that thereby it is evident that that exhortation Be ye holy for I am holy and all such places are directed to the inward man in men inlightned according to John 1.7 8. and not to the outward man or flesh for it is also firmely proved that that is so rebellious in it self that it cannot receive any holy exhortations therefore your quakers affirming in full effect that Christ died for mens examples onely that men might work in themselves by that outward pattern perfect holy saving works both in their inward and outward man also I affirm yet once again That if you quakers cannot prove that Christ was and is unable by his Spirit alone to work
those works in man although he never died for mens outward example onely that then you do evidently maintain that Christ did suffer in his bitter and terrible tormenting death absolutely and in all respects totally in vain and so it appears that you quakers are to eat up you former words and then affirm That there never was any Christ that died at Jerusalem and so that there never was any Christ in the world that ever had or hath any person of flesh saving onely your own personal quaking Christs now come into the world in your flesh And by your affirming That Christ had no Body but his Church which is firmly proved against you in my eleventh Discourse it doth appear that the last sense is your choice mark And now do you quakers lay your heads together and see what you can pick out of this bone Again you quakers whereas you do affirm in your Doctrines in full effect that if any man have the least sin or any sin remaining in his person that that man cannot then be possibly saved because that man whilst he hath any sin in him is of the Devil and not of Christ And in this respect I do also stand to maintain against all you quakers that if you will endeavor to support your quaking reputation you must even upon necessity prove by plain Scripture that your notorious lying foul-mouthed slandering cowardly backbiting dissembling equivocating falsifying in print of the very words of holy Scriptures to deceive people withal falsifying in print your Opposers words they being printed also your perverting of the plain and true sense of the holy Scriptures destructively to delude people withal and your fearful blasphemies I say again That if you quakers do not prove by plain Scriptures unfalsified that those your self-proved manifold high presumptuous transgressions both against God and man also are nor any sins and are no sins in you quakers then I affirm that you your own selves by your own apparent practices in those high presumptuous transgressions aforesaid both against God and man also do render up your own selves by reason of those high presumptious sins in your persons to be utterly and totally uncapable of Salvation and you by your own judgement by you passed upon your selves are of the Devil and not of Christ for you quakers have made it so manifestly apparent that you do stand guilty before God in those notorious high presumptious sins aforesaid which appears by your own evil behaviours so firmly proved in this Treatise that it cannot be any ways stronglier proved then to shew your books and your Opposers and Scripture falsified by you especially because you sinful quakers do totally refuse the gracious help of the Gospel gracious imputation Therefore I advise you quakers to look about you quickly and to lay your heads together again to study it out how to prove by plain Scriptures unfalsified that those your notorious high presumptious self-proved transgressions aforesaid are not any sins and are no sins in you even upon your everlasting peril aforesaid And as for your â—ooking in the word faith for a fashion into your quakers language it is evident by Scripture-doctrine that faith can be no other in your legal profession nor no other ways but a false gloss and a useless superfluous hang by if you do make light use of any kinde of â—â—ith at all for by your considing to be saved by moral works wrought in you you do thereby make your pretended faith for a gloss vain frivilous void and of none effect And my beloved tender-hearted seeking unsetled ones you have no cause to be dismaded in the least measure at the quakers suffering for their quakery for as there is a spirit of Truth so there is a spirit of error also according to 1 John 4.6 and that man or woman that is by grace pofessed in them with God's Spirit of Truth is inabled by that holy Spirit working powerfully in them when occasion for God's cause requires it to suffer even death it self for the Truths sake witness the terrible sufferings of all the holy Saints and Martyrs in all ages and on the contrary that man or woman that is by Gods just punishment possessed in them with the devils spirit of error is enabled by that wicked spirit working powerfully in them when occasion for the Devils cause requires it to suffer even death it self for their errors sake witness the sufferrings of all erronious wicked Hereticks in all ages But those people that contentedly remain onely in their natural wilful ignorance and blindness and not being possessed with one of those two powerful spirits in them cannot possibly suffer neither for truth nor error witness those vast multitudes of unstable weak-minded men and women that were professors for Popery in some part of King Henry the 8 his raign and yet easily turned for Protestants and directly against Popery in King Edward's raign and yet did all readily turn again directly against Protestants and for Popery in Queen Mary's raign And doubtless very many of the very same persons did live in Queen Elizabeth's raign who then as readily turned again directly against Popery and for Protestants again Therefore my beloved ones consider well both of the powerfulness of the Spirit of Truth and spirit of error in them that are possessed in them with any of those two powerful spirits and how unable all the rest of the people of the world are to suffer either for God's Truth or the Devils inspired error Neither you my beloved tender-hearted seeking unsettled ones have any cause at all to be discouraged in the least measure at the quakers miraculous signs and wonders first because our blessed Saviour hath foretold us that the false Christs and false Prophets which should come into the world should shew such deceivable signs and wonders and because the quakers do say that they are Christ and because our blessed Saviour hath so lovingly given us such punctual warning to take heed and beware of such deceivers of which sort of deceivers the quakers have made themselves manifestly appear to be which is proved in my tenth Dâ—scourse And secondly because the erronious Theadas and Judas of Galilee did draw much people after them even as the self-proved erronious quakers do now and because Simon Magus by his having bewitched the people with his Sorceries along time the people said This man is the great power of God even as much people now being bewitched with quakish Sorceries do magnifie the quakers even unto a luciferian height and because the Inchanters and satanical Magicians of Egypt did by permission work some of those miraculous signs and wonders by the power of the Devil in Egypt which Moses and Aaron did work in Egypt by the powerful finger of God which appears in Exod. 10 11 chap. and because it is written That there are some whose coming is after the working of the power of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders